TAVISTOCK BOOKSHoliday Catalogue 2019

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catalogue begins with a strong selection from Mr Christmas himself, Charles Dickens. Those are followed by other divers

works, all united in offering either a bit of color, some shelf appeal or other attractive attribute.

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1. A CHRISTMAS CAROL in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Yule-Tide. By Charles Dickens [1812 - 1870]. Published by Elbert Hubbard [1856 - 1915].

East Aurora NY: The Roycroft Shop, 1902. 1st edition thus (McKenna 75). #84 / 100 cc, SIGNED by Elbert Hubbard. [14], 141, [7] pp. Printed on Japanese Vellum. Frontis of Charles Dickens. Title page decorations, headbands & tailpieces by Samuel Warner. 8vo. 8-5/8” x 5-3/4”. Half blue morocco binding with marbled paper boards & endpapers. Spine with elaborate gilt decoration. TEG. Some light wear, otherwise a handsome, Very Good+ copy. [Inventory Number: 36805]

Price: $1,500.00

2. SKETCHES By BOZ. Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People. By Chalres Dickens [1812 - 1870].

Philadelphia: Lea and Blanchard, 1839. 1st edition thus (Edgar & Vail, p. 16; Gimbel A13; Smith AMERICAN, 1 [pp 18 - 20]). 268 pp (double column). llustrated with 20 plates after George Cruikshank. 4to. 24 cm x 15.5 cm. Modern tan half leather, in a period style, with marbled boards & black leather spine label. Binding is Near Fine. Text block is Very Good (usual bit of browning & foxing to paper, nothing really obtrusive). [Inventory Number: 8718]

This is the first US illustrated volume edition, and the first complete edition, i.e., containing ‘The Public Life of Mr Tulrumble’ and ‘The Pantomime of Life’.

Price: $625.00

3. MASTER HUMPHREY’S CLOCK. By Charles Dickens [1812 - 1870].

London: Chapman & Hall, 1840-41. 1st edition (Eckel, pp. 67- 70; Smith I, p. 47). 3 volumes (306; 306; 426 pp). Frontis in each volume & 195 intratextual woodcut illustrations [primarily] by Phiz and George Cattermole. Bound in 6s. 10-3/8” x 6-3/4”. Original publisher’s brown cloth with Smith’s primary binding design, i.e., a gilt clock motif (to upper boards) with the hands pointing to the time that corresponds to the volume number. Volumes I & III professionally rebacked. Volume II slightly cocked. With bookplate, and usual bit of foxing & average wear; overall a Very Good copy. [Inventory Number: 2134.5]

Contains first appearance of Dickens’ popular ‘Old Curiosity Shop’ & his first historical work, ‘Barnaby Rudge’.

Price: $725.00

4. BLEAK HOUSE. By Charles Dickens [1812 - 1870].

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. 1st book edition. xvi, 624 pp. Frontis, engraved title & 38 inserted plates by Hablot K. Browne. 8vo. Modern full tan morocco, by Byzantium, with gilt decorated spine, gilt decorated boards & marbled endpapers. Text is Very Good+ (plates exhibit only light foxing & browning, and are uncommon thus). Binding is Fine. A handsome volume. [Inventory Number: 634.17]

Price: $1,375.00

6. DEALINGS With The FIRM Of DOMBEY And SON, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation. By Charles Dickens [1812 - 1870].

London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. 1st one-volume edition (BFTP). xvi, 624 pp. 40 steel engraved plates by Phiz [Hablot K. Browne]. 8vo. Modern brown half-leather binding executed in a period style, with elaborate gilt decorated spine, red morocco title label in the second spine compartment & marbled paper boards. AEG. Binding is Fine. Textblock is Very Good (usual foxing to plates). [Inventory Number: 1142.7]

Price: $750.00

5. A CURIOUS DANCE AROUND A CURIOUS TREE. By Charles Dickens [1812 - 1870].

[London]: [St. Luke’s Hospital], [1860]. 1st separate edition, second issue (Eckel, pp. 188-191; Gimbel B-216; VanderPoel B-465). 19, [1] pp. Binders blanks before & after the pamphlet. 7-1/4” x 4-3/4”. Full deep maroon morocco binding with gilt spine stamping & elaborate gilt dentelles. TEG. Original pink printed wrappers bound-in. Typographical border surrounding title lettering on front wrapper. Light extremity wear to binding, with front joint a bit tender. Pamphlet with faint vertical fold line. With bookplate. A Near Fine copy. [Inventory Number: 27986.1]

This short piece by Dickens, on St. Luke’s Hospital, originally published in the January 17 1852 issue of HOUSEHOLD WORDS. With Dickens’ consent, it was reissued in this pamphlet form by the Hospital management as a fund-raising mechanism. The first issue had purple wrappers, in which the ‘appeal’ was not highlighted from the remainder of the text and, evidently, donations suffered accordingly... in this second issue, the wrappers are pink, the ‘appeal’ is boldly printed, and it was accompanied by an easy-to-use return envelope [much as we see today in the solicitations we receive... make it easy on the mark!].

This copy from the Dickens collection of Capt J. F. Hinckley, whose holdings were dispersed byauction in 1912.

Price: $1,250.00

7. CHARLES DICKENS’S DRAMATIC READINGS As Read in America. Little Dombey; Bob Sawyer’s Party; Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn; Bardell and Pickwick; David Copperfield; Doctor Marigold; Nicholas Nickleby at the Yorkshire School; Mrs. Gamp; Christmas Carol. By Charles Dickens [1812 - 1870].

Boston: Lee & Shepard, Publishers., 1879 / 1882. Later edition [Carol is an 1882 printing], deriving from the 1868 Ticknor & Fields publications. Cf. Wilkins p. 34; Gimbel B117 for this 1879 imprint of Mrs Gamp. 9 (of 10 advertised) parts. Divers paginations. 12mo. All 9 bound-in a late 19th C / early 20th C. maroon half-leather binding, by Riviere, with elaborate gilt decorated spine. TEG. Blue-grey endpapers. Original pale-orange printed [front] wrappers bound-in, which depict Dickens at the podium. Some extremity wear to binding, with front joint rubbed. Dickens centennial stamp to front free endpaper. Prior owner has written titles to front wrappers [which only have printed series title]. A Very Good to Very Good+ copy. [Inventory Numbers: 11575.1]

Price: $750.00

8. OLIVER TWIST; Or, The PARISH BOY’S PROGRESS. Part First, with Twelve Illustrations, from Designs by George Cruikshank. By Charles Dickens [1812 - 1870].

Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1838 [1839]. 1st edition thus (Gimbel A31; cf Smith AMERICAN 3, pp. 88 - 98). [vi] - xii, 13 - 212 pp. Text double column, and from the 1839 edition. 24 inserted plates. 9-3/8” x 6”. Recently rebound in quarter-bound brown leather spine with gilt stamped lettering and design, with marbled paper covered boards. Light chipping and creasing to title page and preliminary pages, with 1838 title leaf beginning to detach along gutter. Light age toning and foxing to leaves. Period previous owner signature of ‘Sarah P DuBois’ to top margin of page 13. Illustrations in Very Good+ condition, with the exception of p. 143, which has evidence of previous tape repair. Binding is Fine; Text is Very Good. [Inventory Number: 13941.3]

Includes two title pages, from the 1838 edition as well as the 1839 edition, with this latter having the Lea & Blanchard imprint. Please note, printed text conforms to the 1839 edition.

Price: $650.00

9. A STRAY LEAF From The CORRESPONDENCE Of WASHINGTON IRVING And CHARLES DICKENS. William Loring Andrews [1837 - 1920].[Charles Dickens. 1812 - 1870]. [Washington Irving. 1783 - 1859].

New York: Printed at the De Vinne Press, 1894. 1st edition (BAL Vol 5, p. 195; Miller, p. 31). Not in Gimbel. Copy #14, of 15 cc, with 3 states of the frontis, with a total publication limitation of 77 copies. 39, [3] pp. Printed on Japanese paper. Page 39 mis-numbered ‘3’. Copperplate frontis, engraved by Edwin Davis French, of the Steamship Brittania, in 3 states, after an engraving of the drawing by Clarkson Stanfield, formerly in the possession of Charles Dickens. 12mo. 7-1/8” x 5”. Original publisher’s steel-blue cloth stamped in gilt. Extremity wear. Previous owner pencil annotations under limitation statement. Magazine excerpt tipped in [telling of Dickens’ LoOL mss donation to FLP]. A Very Good to Very Good+ copy. [Inventory Number: 29177.1]

Andrews an active bookman most of his life, who, beginning in 1865, published 36 volumes of taste & distinction, of which 26 sprang from his pen, all of which can be counted as rather uncommon if not down right scarce. Furthermore, Andrews, along with DeVinne [acknowledged as one of the most accomplished & admired printers of the day] plus 7 others, founded, in 1884, the famous New York society of bibliophiles, the Grolier Club.

Price: $1,450.00

10. INFELICIA. By Adah Issacs Menken [1835 - 1868].[Charles Dickens. 1812 - 1870].

London - Paris - New York: 1868. 1st edition thus (Gimbel B295), i.e., with the lithographic plate reproducing Dicken’s letter. This copy is SIGNED by Dickens, in blue ink, on the original front free endpaper, “Faithfully yours / Charles Dickens [flourish]”. [5], v, 141, [1] pp. Binder’s blanks at front & rear. Frontispiece of Menken. Facsimile of Dickens’ “letter”, which is actually comprised of portions from 2 letters Dickens sent to Menken [cf. LETTERS, v. 11]. Cuts as head - tailpieces. Sq. 12mo. 5-1/2” x 4-1/4”. Early 20th C. 3/4 green morocco binding with marbled paper boards & endpapers. TEG. Original publisher’s green cloth binding bound-in at rear. Spine sunned to a mellow golden tan. A handsome, Very Good+ copy. [Inventory Number: 33231.1]

Dickens knew Menken through her 1864 performances at Astley’s, during which time she was accepted by the London Bohemian crowd, holding ‘literary salons’ at her suite at the Westminster Palace Hotel. Her aspirations toward literature resulted in this modest volume of poetry, which she decicated to “Charles Dickens”, a gesture the Inimitable accepted with ‘great pleasure’.

This particular copy comes from a prominent Detroit businessman’s collection, gathered in the 1920s, and only now, 90 years later, coming onto the market.

Price: $35,000.00

11. WUTHERING HEIGHTS: A Novel. By the Author of “Jane Eyre.” [Emily Brontë. 1818 - 1848].

New York: Coolidge & Wiley, Publishers, 12 Water Street, 1848. 1st US Edition thus, i.e., by this publisher (Smith, pp 76 - 79). 112 pp. Text double column. 8vo. Modern deep burgundy quarter calf binding with complementary marbled paper boards. Black leather spine labels. New endpapers [with period bookseller ticket (“J. I. Williams, Bookseller, Worcester, Mass”) reaffixed to front free endpaper]. Binding is Fine. Textblock is Very Good+ (small discrete paper repair to title leaf left margin, next to gutter/edge offset to the terminal leaves/1923 pencil previous owner inscription to rear blank). [Inventory Number: 44458]

Rare 1848 US edition of this classic, with OCLC showing only two holding institutions: Yale & AAS. (at the time of cataloging).

Price: $3,950.00

12. PHYSICAL THEORY Of ANOTHER LIFE. By the Author of Natural History of Enthusiasm. [Issac Taylor 1787 - 1865]. Frances Mary Richardson Currer [1785 - 1861] - Former Owner.

London: William Pickering, 1836. 1st Edition (NCBEL III, 1595). ix, [1], 321, [1 (blank)] pp. 8vo. 8-3/4” x 5-1/4”. Later tan full polished calf binding with gilt spine stamping. Gilt denteles. Speckled edges. Modest shelfwear with joints a trifle weak. Currer bookplate. A handsome, Very Good+ copy of this work from the library of a renowned 19th C. lady book collector. [Inventory Number: 47089]

Currer “was born shortly after the death of her father, Richard Richardson Currer in 1785. Shortly before he died, he had added the surname Currer to his own name. This was a condition of a substantial inheritance from Sarah Currer, the grand daughter of Matthew Wilson who had built Eshton Hall. Frances received two substantial inheritances which included her grandfather’s library. She had always had an interest in books and now she owned her grandfather’s extensive and valuable library. In 1820 she had a catalogue prepared and privately printed and in 1833 she had Thomas Hartwell Horne prepare a second edition which was printed to reflect further changes. Thomas Frognall Dibdin wrote in 1838 that her library was one of the best in the country. Althorpe, Chatsworth and Stowe were the only libraries he thought more extensive. Dibdin is still quoted for calling her the ‘head of all female book collectors in Europe.’ He estimated that the library contained 20,000 books, but Currer was one of his patrons. Dibdin also spoke well of the book collections of Richard Heber which were larger than Currer’s. Heber and Currer had a close relationship and Heber was bailed out by Currer when he had financial difficulties. It has been speculated that Currer was a benefactor of the Brontë sisters and this is the reason that Charlotte Brontë chose the nom de plume of “Currer Bell” for her novel Jane Eyre. It is thought that she gave the Brontë sisters’ father £50 to assist them when he became a widower. Currer did donate money to the Clergy Daughter’s School that the Brontë sisters attended as well as funding the local mechanics institute.” [Wiki]

Price: $950.00

13. FABLES: Consisting of Select Parts from Dante, Berni, Chaucer, and Ariosto. Imitated in English Heroic Verse. [bound with] FABLES: Vol. II. Containing Cambuscan, An Heroic Poem, In Six Books: Founded Upon and Comprizing a Free Imitation of Chaucer’s Fragment on that Subject. By Richard Wharton [ca 1774 - 1828].

London: Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, for Payne & Mackinlay, 1804 / 1805. 1st edition. PRESENTATION inscription from Mrs. Wharton to J. [?] W. Phipps, at top of title page, dated March 18, 1812. 2 volumes in 1 ([2], 142; xvi, 199, [1 (blank)] pp). 8vo: [A]1 B - K^8 [-K8, presumed a blank], [A]^8, B - N^8 O^4. Period blue morocco-style sheep binding with gilt decorated spine. AEG. Overall, modest wear. A Very Good copy. [Inventory Number: 30860]

Price: $750.00

14. AFTER DARK. In Two Volumes. By Wilkie Collins [1824 - 1889].

London: Smith Elder and Co., 1856. 1st book edition (Bleiler, p. 46; Locke, p. 56; NCBEL III, 924; Parrish, pp. 26-28; Sadleir 587; Wolff 1343). viii, 315, [1 (blank)]; [4], 322 pp. 8vo. 7-3/4” x 4-7/8”. Riviere & Son full brown calf bindings, with elaborate gilt decorated spine, gilt edge tooling, gilt dentelles & marbled paper endpapers. TEG. Later maroon leather title labels to spine. Original green cloth covers bound-in at rear. Some minor rubbing to binding extremities. A Very Good+ set. [Inventory Number: 36167]

Six stories of the “weird and supernatural” [Locke], with connecting narrative, of which five originally appeared in Dickens’ Household Words. Volume II leads with the first publication of “The Angler’s Story of the Lady of Glenwith Grange”.

Price: $2,750.00

15. FREE EXAMINATION Of The SOCINIAN EXPOSITION Of The PREFATORY VERSES Of St. JOHN’s GOSPEL. [including] Appendix, Containing Observations on the Argument Advanced ... by Mr. Lindsey, Against the Doctrine of the Pre-existence of Christ. By Rev. Richard Shepherd [1732? - 1809]. Theophilus Lindsey [1723 - 1808] - Subject.

London: Printed for W. Flexney, Bookseller, opposite Grey’s-Inn-Gate, Holburn., 1781. 1st edition. OCLC records 8 institutional holdings. [2], xviii, [19] - 115, [1 (blank)] pp. ‘Appendix’ with drop title, p. 97. 16mo, gathered in 8s. 7-3/16” x 4-5/8”. Period bindings of full light brown spotted calf with elaborate gilt decorated spine; dentelles & marbled paper endpapers. Pale yellow edge stain. Light binding wear. Prior owner bookplate/signature. Overal, an attractive Very Good+ copy. [Inventory Number: 37013]

Shepherd was a “Church of England clergyman and theological writer, ... who matriculated from Corpus Christi College, Oxford, on 1 December 1749 at the age of seventeen. ... After considering a military career he took orders in the Church of England and eventually was appointed chaplain to Thomas Thurlow, bishop of Lincoln and later of Durham; Thurlow’s nomination gained Shepherd the archdeaconry of Bedford in July 1783. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in May 1781, and in 1788 he was Bampton lecturer at Oxford. In 1792 he was instituted to the rectory of Wetherden and Helmingham in Suffolk by Lord Chancellor Thurlow, brother of the bishop, and he held these preferments until his death.

Shepherd published a wide selection of writings, including poetry and drama, although he came to concentrate on theology. His poetry was not unsuccessful: his Ode to Love (1755?) was reprinted in 1760 and The Nuptials (1761) went into three editions. Most of his poetic and dramatic pieces were included in the two-volume Miscellanies (1775). Several of Shepherd’s theological works went into two or more editions, including his response to Soame Jenyns in The Review of a Free Enquiry (1759), The Requisition of Subscription to the Thirty-Nine Articles (1771), and Reflec-tions on the Doctrine of Materialism (1779), addressed to Joseph Priestley. Shepherd published regularly throughout his life; his last piece was No False Alarm, or, A Sequel to Religious Union (1808). He died at the parsonage at Wetherden on 3 January 1809.” [ODNB].

Shepherd’s works are now uncommon in the trade. This work is offered with 2 other Shepherd titles, Tavistock Books Inventory Numbers 37011 & 37012. The price is for all 4 volumes.

Price: $1,350.00

{Item No. 16}

16. COLLECTION Of BEAUTIFUL MINIATURES Reproduced in Facsimile from Original Paintings Chiefly of the 14th and 15th Centuries... By Lewis Lott.

Vienna: (n. d.). 1st Edition in English (indicated), c. 1860s. OCLC records just 6 holding institutions of this edition. Engraved title page. 1 page of text: List of Contents. 70 chromolithographed images, one per leaf recto, with imprint of ‘Chromo -Typographic & Kunstverlag von Ludwig Lott’, replicating those “from the period when the great Masters of Miniature Painting flourished, and whose works are now preserved in the celebrated Ecclesiastical and public Libraries of Germany, where they are seen and admired by multitudes.”8-3/4” x 6-1/8”. Deep brown full calf binding with elaborate blindstamping to spine & boards, with gilt dentelles & marbled paper endpapers. AEG. Binding professionally refurbished, with front joint strengthened. Few odd spots of foxing. Withal, a pleasing Very Good+ copy. [Inventory Number: 37297]

Price: $750.00

17. POEMS. By Marietta Stanley Case [1845 - 1900].

Boston, Mass: Privately Printed [by the Stanhope Press], 1901. 1st printing. xii, [2 (blank)], 131, [3 (blank)] pp. Unopened. Illustrated with special drawings, on inserted plates, by William F. Kingman and Sears Gallager [1865 - 1955]. 8vo. Original green cloth binding with elaborate gilt stamping to front board. TEG. Original onion-skin wrapper. Original white box. A Near Fine copy in a Very Good box.[Inventory Number: 36336]

Price: $175.00

18. The BRIGHT ISLAND. [Fine Press].By Arnold Bennett.

London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. 1st edition. SIGNED. Copy #113/200. 128 pp. Hand printed in red & black on Kelscott hand-made paper. 8vo. Bound in full vellum. A Near Fine copy. [Inventory Number: 7793]

Fifth in the series of ‘Vine’ Books issued to the subscribers of the Bookman’s Journal.

Price: $375.00

19. AUCASSIN And NICOLETE. Translated by Andrew Lang.

London: David Nutt, 1887. 1st thus. 1/550cc. 70 pp. 12mo. Original buff printed wrappers. Printed at the Chiswick Press. A Very Good+ copy. (some minor edgewear & light soiling). Housed in a custom box. [Inventory Number: 6257.1]

The work a 13th c. ‘loving pastiche of the excesses of courtly-love romances.’ [OCEL].

Price: $100.00

20. The POETICAL WORKS Of MR. JOHN MILTON. By John Milton [1608 - 1674].

London: Printed for Jacob Tonson, at Shakespear’s Head in the Strand, 1720. 2 volumes. 590, [14]; 527, [1 (blank)] pp. Frontispiece of Milton in each volume. Internal copperplate vignettes. 4to. 11-1/2” x 9-3/8”. Modern speckled brown quarter calf bindings, with marbled paper boards. Deep maroon & black leather spine labels. Bindings are Fine (bookplates). Textblocks are Very Good (age-toning & some foxing). [Inventory Number: 46609]

Price: $1,500.00

21. ILIAS Et VLYSSEA, cum Interpretatione. Variae lectionis in utroq[ue] opere, annotatio. Edited by Leonicerus J. Homer.

Basileae: Apud Io. Heruagium, 1535. 1st edition thus, i.e., this publisher. Cf. Adams H-748. [8], 410, [2], 284, [4] pp. Numerous mispaginations, including p. 410 misnumbered 394. Text in Greek, with commentary. “Odyssey” has individual, dated title page. Printer’s device to each title page. Decorative initial capitalletters. Folio, primarily in 6s [collation per Adams]. 10-1/2” x 6-3/4”. Modern tan quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards. Red leather title label to second compartment. Binding is Near Fine. Text block is Very Good+. [Inventory Number: 32892]

A reimpression of the editions of Strasbourg, 1525 to 1535; edited by J. Leonicerus.

Price: $2,750.00

22. The WHOLE DUTY Of MAN, Laid Down In a Plain and Familiar Way, for the Use of All, but Especially the Meanest Reader. Divided into XVII Chapters; One Whereof Being Read Every Lord’s-Day, the Whole may be read over Thrice in the Year. Necessary for All Families. Attributed to Richard Allestree [1619 - 1681].

London: Printed for John Eyres [sic], Thomas Page, and William Mount, 1731. 1st edition thus [ESTC T26176]. [4], xii, 503, [9] pp. Printed glosses. Frontispiece & engraved title page. 8vo. 8” x 5”. Modern full brown calf binding executed in a period style, with black leather title label in the second spine compartment. Period endpapers retained. Binding is Fine. Three prior owner singnatures to front free endpaper [one of ‘Arthur Vaughan, St John’s Coll, Cambridge / 1733’]. Margin hole to engraved title leaf. Text is Very Good. [Inventory Number: 37307]

ESTC shows no copies of this edition as being held by US institutions.(at the time of cataloging)

Price: $500.00

23. The LIFE And POSTHUMOUS WORKS Of RICHARD CLARIDGE, Being Memoirs and Manuscripts relating to his experiences and progress in religion: His Changes in Opinion, and Reasons for them. With essays in defence of several principles and Practices of the People call’d Quakers. Collected by Joseph Besse. [Richard Claridge 1649 - 1723].Collected by Joseph Besse [1683 - 1757].Lindley Murray [1745 - 1826] - Previous owner.

London: Printed and Sold by the Assigns of J. Sowle, 1726. 1st Edition (Smith FRIENDS 1.414). [24], 576, [12] pp. An essay on baptism and the supper [separate, dated title page., p. 335]; Tractatus de Trinitate, or, An essay on the doctrine of the trinity [separate, dated title page., p. 388]; An essay on the doctrine of Christ’s satisfaction for the sins of mankind [separate, dated title page., p. 420]; An essay on Tithes [drop title, p. 456]; An essay on Liberty of Conscience [drop title, p. 491]; An essay on Evangelical Purity [drop title, p. 456]. 8vo: A^8 a^4 B - 2O^8 2P^4 2Q^2. Modern full speckled calf binding, decorated in blind in a period style. Binding is Fine. Text: previous owners’ bookplates to front pastedown, ink names to front free endpaper; small binder’s label to rear paste-down. Light soiling and foxing, faint damp-staining to head/foot margins of beginning and end leaves. Fore-edge of one leaf shows minor loss. Prior owner inked marginal annotation, p. 449. Overall, a Very Good copy. [Inventory Number: 40531]

With the bookplate and ownership signature of noted Quaker and grammarian Lindley Murray to the front paste-down and front free endpaper, respectively.

Price: $950.00

24. LONDON. Its Celebrated Characters and Remarkable Places. By J. Heneage Jesse.

London: Richard Bentley, 1871. 1st edition thus. ‘Special Copy Extra Illustrated’ [so printed on the title page]. 6 volumes. Extra illustrated [frontis to Vol I professionally reattached]. Some plates are hand-coloured. 8vo. Boundin later full leather. AEG. A Near Fine copy. [Inventory Number: 12680]

An amalgamation, and updating, of his two works from 1847/50.

Price: $1,500.00

25. VOYAGE En CALIFORNIE Par EDOUARD AUGER (1852 - 1853). [California Gold Rush]. By Edouard Auger.

Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette et Cte, 1854. 1st edition (Cowan, p. 23; Howes A-393; Kurutz 24; Rocq 15679; Sabin 2376). INSCRIBED by the author on the title page. [4], 238 pp. 12mo. 6-7/8” x 4-1/4”. Modern green quarter calf binding with marbled paper boards & endpapers. Original green printed wrappers bound-in. Binding is Fine. Textblock is Very Good (repairs to front wrapper/bit of minor staining to first few leaves). [Inventory Number: 30068]

Price: $750.00

26. TRAVELS In BOLIVIA; with a Tour Across the Pampas to Buenos Ayres, &c. By L. Hugh De Bonelli.

London: Hurst and Blacket, Publishers, Successors to Henry Colburn, 1854. 1st edition (Sabin 19111). [2], 315, [3], 23, [1]; [2], 328, 8 pp. Publisher catalogue concludes each volume. 8vo. 7-3/4” x 4-1/2”. Modern green half-morocco Morrell bindings, with marbled boards & endpapers. TEG. Bindings are Fine. Text block is Very Good+ (with and occasional spot of foxing, publisher catalogue in Vol I with paper repair to one leaf). [Inventory Number: 38087]

Fairly rare work on the subject, with ABPC / AmEx showing just 3 copies to auction since 1978, the last in 2009.

Price: $1,500.00

27. YOSEMITE LEGENDS. By Bertha H. Smith

San Francisco: Paul Elder and Company at the Tomoyé Press, 1904. 1st edition (Mostardi 375). [6], 64, [4] pp. Binder’s blanks at beginning & end of volume. Drawings by Florence Lundborg. 8vo. 9-1/2” x 6-3/8”. Publisher’s deluxe leather presentation binding by Root & Son, London: full brown morocco with 5 raised bands, 4 compartments with gilt stamped motif as found in the book. TEG. Marbled endpapers. Minor extremity wear, a pleasing Very Good+ copy. [Inventory Number: 46953]

To the rear paste-down is gilt-stamped, “Paul Elder & Company, San Francisco & New York” giving rise to our belief the binding was commissioned by the publisher for presentation.

NB. We have seen no other bindings like this on this work, nor has the few colleagues we queried on the subject.

Price: $1,250.00

{Item No. 28}

28. TRAVELS THROUGH The STATES Of NORTH AMERICA, And The PROVINCES Of UPPER And LOWER CANADA, During the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797. Illustrated and Embellished with Sixteen Plates. By Issac Weld, Jr.

London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1799. 1st edition (Howes W-235; Sabin 102541). Very early issue, without the erratum & with the ‘Patowmac’ plate still facing p. 52. xxiv, 464, [8] pp. 8 page catalogue at rear. Illustrated with 3 maps (one folding), 2 plans, & 11 plates [from sketches by the author]; 16 total. Tissue guards present for some plates. 4to: A4 a - b4 B - 3O4. 28 cm x 22 cm. Modern brown quarter-calf with marbled boards & gilt decorated spine. Maroon leather spine label. Marbled edges. New endpapers. Binding is Near Fine (spine a bit sunned). Text is Very Good (modest bit of foxing and usual light tanning to some paper). Ex-library, with the occasional internal stamp. Overall, a quite handsome volume with wide, ample margins to the text. [Inventory Number: 20076.1]

Weld a long time member (56 years) of the Royal Society of Dublin, rising to the office of Vice President. His extensive travels on the continent, here reported, prompted many of his countrymen to emigrate to these shores. His book enjoyed a wide popularity, being “received with great favor”, reaching many editions, and being translated into Dutch, German & French shortly after its English publication. Weld’s account, a valuable one in that it renders an educated man’s account of late 18th Century America, and includes his recording of visits with important US citizens of the day, e.g., Washingon & Jefferson, as well as the many pages on his perception of the Native American Indians encountered while touring.

Price: $1,500.00

30. The ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. Illustrated by Robert Dudley. By W. H. Russell.

London: Day & Son Limited, [1866]. 1st Edition. vi, 117, [5]. Adverts last 4 pages. Includes tipped-in bifolium at front, a Cyrus Field invitation to a “private view of a series of pictures by Mr Robert Dudley of London”. 26 plates, complete. Imperial 8vo. 11-5/8” x 8-1/4”. Original publisher’s green cloth binding with elaborate gilt stamping. Green patterned paper endpapers. AEG. A slight lean and some shelfwear, with board showing at tips. Light cloth wear at spine ends. Withal, a solid Very Good copy. [Inventory Number: 47264]

Price: $500.00

29. With NAPOLOEON At ST. HELENA: Being the Memoirs of Dr. John Stokoe, Naval Surgeon. Paul Frémeaux; Edith S. Stokoe - Translator

London and New York: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1902. 1st Edition. vi, [2], 257, [1], [6, ads] pp. Black & white frontispiece of John Stokoe, plus four facsimiles of letters. 7-3/4” x 5”. Red cloth with decorative pattern of gilt bees stamped to front board, gilt decoration and lettering to spine, TEG. Mild extremity wear; spine lightly sunned; faint spotting to rear board; small San Francisco bookseller label to rear pastedown. Very occasional minor soil to margins. Else clean, binding sound. A Very Good+ copy. [Inventory Number: 43922]

Price: $225.00

31. The LASTING FLORY [sic] Of The NOGI ARMY. [Russo-Japanese War].By Nogi Maresuke [1849 - 1912].

(n. p.): (n. d.). Ca 1914. Unpaginated, though 118 pages, with text in English & Japanese. Illustrated, with 11 black & white image from photographs & 25 color illustrations. 8-3/4” x 11-3/4”. Scrapbook style binding of gold silk moire boards, with purple cord ties. AEG. General binding wear, with spine cloth becoming detached at base. Dampstain along board upper edges. An About Very Good copy. [Invnetory Number: 30271]

An eye-witness pictorial record, by this unknown author & soldier, of Nogi’s 1904 assualt on Port Arthur on the southern tip of Liaodong Peninsula, Manchuria. Evidently quite rare, as we find no copies listed on OCLC, nor in the British Library. (at the time of cataloging)

Price: $1,250.00

32. The IMPERIAL PALACE.

[Date & Place Unknown]. [3], I - VII, 16 - 9, [8]; Unpaginated. The smaller book has several black & white photopgraphic images. The large book is profusely illustrated with photographic images in color. 15-1/2” x 12”. Purple paper wrappers with gilt title lettrering stamped to front wrapper. Purple cloth binding with Chinese characters stamped to spine. A Fine copy in a Fine slipcase. [Inventory Number: 35007]

Price: $1,500.00

33. The LOST SOLAR SYSTEM Of The ANCIENTS DISCOVERED. In Two Volumes. By John Wilson.

London: Longman Brown Green Longmans & Roberts, 1856 / 1858. 1st edition. 2 volumes (viii, 486; viii, eratta slip, 475, [1], 26 pp). 1858 Appendix concludes Volume II. Illustrated with figures. 8vo. Modern brown quarter leather bindings with marbled paper boards. Bindings are Fine. Text block is Very Good.(ex-library, with the occasional stamp, etc). [Inventory Number: 32291]

A rather comprehensive analysis of astronomical calculations in the ancient Near East, Asia, Britain, and Central America.

Price: $950.00

34. RESEARCHES On The EVOLUTION Of The STELLAR SYSTEMS. Volume I on the Universality of the Law of Gravitation and on the Orbits and General Characteristics of Binary Stars. By T[homas]. J[efferson]. J[ackson]. See [1866-1962]., A.M., Ph.D.

Lynn, Mass. The Nichols Press, 1896. 1st edition. vii, [1], 258 pp. Illustrated with 50 inserted plates [complete], 6 intratextual figures, numerous charts & tables. 4to. 12” x 9-3/8”. Modern brown quarter-calf with marbled boards, executed in a period style. Binding is Fine. Textblock is Very Good; Ex-library, with the occasional stamp, ink & perforated, though with little signs of other use. [Inventory Number: 33164]

A second volume was issued in 1910.

Price: $450.00

35. A SHORT TREATISE On The GAME Of WHIST. [with] GAME Of QUADRILLE. [with] GAME Of PIQUET, To Which are Added, Some Rules ... for Playing Well at Chess. [with] TREATISE On .. BACK-GAMMON. By Edmond Hoyle [1672 - 1769].

London: Printed for T. Osborne, at Gray’s-Inn., 1750 / 1748. Whist, a stated “10th Edition with great Additions”. SIGNED by Hoyle & Osborne. Quadrille: 2nd Edition, 1748. Piquet: 3rd Edition, 1748. Back-Gammon: 3rd Edition, 1748. [2], 84, 24, 121 - 224, [16] pp. Page 63 misnumbered as 61. 3 pages of adverts at rear; last page blank. Title page cuts. 12mo: [A^2, -A1 (Half title)] B - D^12 E^6; A^12 G - L^12. Modern full calf binding, executed in a period style, with extra gilt spine. Binding is Fine. Textblock is Very Good. [Inventory Number: 39965]

This collected edition not found on ESTC, the closet being T87519, which is recorded as having a slightly different pagination, i.e.: [2], 84, [3], 100 - 224, [16] pp.

Price: $1,250.00

36. MELISSELOGIA: or, The FEMALE MONARCHY. Being an Inquiry into the Nature, Order, and Government Of BEES, Those Admirable, Instructive, and Useful Insects. With a New, Easy, and Effectual Method to preserve them, not only in Colonies, but common Hives, from that cruel Death, to which their Ignorant, Injurious, and most Ingrateful Owners so commonly condemn them. A Secret unknown to past Ages, and now Published for the Benefit of Mankind. Written upon Forty Years Observation and Experience. By John Thorley [1671 - 1759].

London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by N. Thorley, and J. Davidson., 1744. 1st edition (Harding et al, BRITISH BEE BOOKS, 97). xliii, [3], 206, [2] pp. Frontispiece. 4 inserted copperplate engravings, one folding. 8vo: a - b^8 c - d^4 [-d4, = frontis?] B - O^8. 7-3/4” x 4-7/8”. Handsome modern dark tan half-calf binding, skillfully executed in a period style, with muted green marbled paper boards. Binding is Fine. Text-block is Very Good. (Ex-library, with 2 library stamps.) Period prior owner signature & notes, dated 1744, to preliminary blank. Overall, a Very Good+ copy. [Inventory Number: 34510]

“Of English writers, Thorley was the first to mention having found wax scales in the pockets of worker bees. The frontispiece is a copy of Cesi’s three bees - the first drawing of bees made with the aid of a microscope, 1625.” [Harding, et al].

Price: $1,250.00

{Item No. 37}

37. QUEEN VICTORIA. By Richard R. Holmes.

London: Boussod, Valadon & Co., 1897. 1st edition. 200, [2] pp. Illustrated. Folio. 13” x 9-5/8”. Period deep maroon three-quarter morcco binding, with elaborate gilt decorated spine & red cloth boards. TEG. Marbled endpapers. Professionally reinforced front joint. Bookplate for “Sir Robert Jones / Liverpool”. Occasional foxing. All-in-all, a pleasing Very Good+ copy. [Inventory Number: 37471]

Price: $750.00

38. CROMWELLIANA. A Chronological Detail of Events in Which OLIVER CROMWELL Was Engaged; From the Year 1642 to His Death 1658: With a Continuation of Other Transactions to the Restoration. [Oliver Cromwell. 1599 - 1658].

Westminster: Printed for Machell Stace, 1810. 1st edition. [4], 196, [2] pp (including index). Title printed in red & black. “List of Books” advert last 2 pages. Untrimmed. 5 copperplate illustrations. Folio. Dark brown quarter leather binding with marbled paper boards, executed in a period style. Binding is Fine. Textblock is Very Good; with some soiling to leaves/half-title & title leaf with edge restoration/some tanning/foxing. [Inventory Number: 19713.1]

A collection of extracts from various authorities, letters, etc. Per Abbott: “Invaluable collection of Cromwell material.”

Price: $675.00

39. AUTOGRAPH NOTE [ANs], Signed. To Mrs Fulkes. Dated 16 July 1878. [accompanied by ]. Carte de Visite. Florence Nightingale [1820 - 1910].

[London?]: 1878. Single sheet of stationery, with black border, mounted, along with a Lenthall [successor to Mr. Kilburn] CDV of Nightingale. The CDV portrays Nightingale as she looked shortly after the Crimean War, c. late 1850s. Stationery: 4-7/16” x 7”. CDV: 4-1/8” x 2-1/2”. Frame: 11-1/8” x 17-1/4”. Matted, and now housed in a lovely gold wooden frame. A nice 9 line ANs from this Champion of the Nursing profession, which shows a hint of aging & 3 vertical fold lines. CDV clear & sharp. Frame is as New. [Inventory Number: 33402.4]

“Please get me a soap - box...” So begins this note from Nightingale to Mrs. Fulkes, wherein she also inquires about a ‘pattern’, saying if you can get it, “I would take order 3 doz.”

Price: $2,500.00

40. The LIFE Of SAMUEL JOHNSON Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order... In Two Volumes. [bound with] The PRINCIPAL CORRECTIONS And ADDITIONS to the First Edition of Mr. Boswell’s Life of DR. JOHNSON. [Samuel Johnson. 1709 - 1784]. By James Boswell [1740 - 1795]. James Bonar [1757 - 1821] - Former Owner (?).

London: Printed by Henry Baldwin, for Charles Dilly, in the Poultry., 1791. 1st edition, 1st issue (Grolier 100 ENGLISH, #65; Pottle 79). Two volumes: xii, [16], 516, [2 (blank)]; [4], 586, [2], 42 pp. Vol II, page 585 misnumbered as 587; 586 as 588. Other mispaginations [see Pottle]. Vol I, p. 135 with ‘gve’. Volume I with stipple-engraved frontis of Johnson, by James Heath, after the 1756 painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Vol II with two engraved facsimiles [bound in per Pottle]. 4to. Vol I: 2M4 & 2N1 cancels. Vol II: 5 cancelled leaves, as per Pottle. 11-1/4” x 8-3/4”. Period full marbled calf bindings, with later respining to style. Marbled endpapers. Yellow edge stain. Modest binding wear. Two bookplates [one of James Bonar, Scottish lawyer?] to front paste-down. Occasional foxing throughout. Withal, a handsome Very Good+ set. [Inventory Number: 38111.1]

Volume II bound with the uncommon 1793 pamphlet of corrections stemming from Boswell’s fussiness... “So bad were these errors, indeed, that it was found necessary to issue a small quarto volume of forty-two pages to correct them.” [Grolier 100, #65].

Price: $7,500.00

{Item No. 41}

41. UNIVERSITE De BERKELEY, San Francisco (Californie). CONCOURS PHOEBE A. HEARST Pour Les Plans de Reconstruction de l’Université. 1er PRIX projet de E. Bénard. Émile Bénard [1844 - 1929]. Phoebe Hearst [1842 - 1919].

Paris: Librairie Generale de L’Architecture et Des Arts Decoratifs Charles Schmid, Editeur., [1899]. 1st Edition. 2 laid-in leaves of text [in French]. 12 lithographed plates laid-in. Elephant folio. 26-1/4” x 20’. Black cloth spine over printed card stock boards. General wear & rubs to portfolio. A Very Good copy. [Inventory Number: 46733]

“Phoebe Hearst was a major benefactor of the University of California, Berkeley and its first woman Regent, serving on the board from 1897 until her death.”

In 1896, Ms. Hearst proposed a capital improvement to the University, which she would fund. In 1897, the Prospectus for the improvement plan was published, in 3 languages: English, French & German. Subsequently,”on December 3, 1897, the Programme for an International Competition for the Phoebe A. Hearst Architectural Plan was published in English, French and German, and distributed in such manner as to come into the hands of architects in all parts of the world.” Monsieur Benard entered the contest, and advanced to the final competition, held in September 1899, with his proposal here published. Monsieur Benard took home first prize.

Price: $1,500.00

42. ‘CHIVALRY’ & ‘VOICES Of The PAST’ [in] PICTORIAL NATIONAL LIBRARY. A Miscellany of Science, Art, and Literature. Volume I. July to December, 1848. Volume II. January to July, 1849. Horatio Alger Jr. [1832 - 1899].

Boston: William Simonds, 1848 - 1849. 1st appearance of Alger in print & Alger’s first published poem (Bennett, pp. 258, 261; Gardner, pp. 481, 486). 1st volume edition of the PICTORIAL NATIONAL LIBRARY. 2 volumes in 1: iv, [7] - 308; iv, [9] - 312, [2 (blank)] pp. Alger’s work: ‘Chivalry’, pp 123-124 [March ‘49) & ‘Voices’, p. 275 [June ‘49]. Text printed double column. Volume ilustrated with cuts & plates. Tall 8vo. 10” x 6-1/2”. Dark brown cloth binding with gilt stamped spine & gilt device to each board. AEG. Gilt is bright. Square & tight. Light wear at the tips. Period prior owner inscription [dated Sept 1849] to front free endpaper. A Very Good+ copy. [Inventory Number: 30966]

Alger an icon of the influential 19th C Rags-to-Riches tale, who authored over 100 novels, achieving over 20,000,000 copies published, who is perhaps best remembered today by his ‘Peter Parley to Penrod’ story, Ragged Dick, which was first published in 1867.

These two pieces herein constitute Alger’s first 2 appearances in print, when but a lad of 17.

Price: $750.00

43. The HISTORY And ANTIQUITIES Of CIRENCESTER. Including the Civil and Military Affairs of that Atnient Town; with Some Account of the Abbey and Abbats; and of the Descent of the Manor and Hunder of Cirencester, From the Conquest to the Present Time. Samuel Rudder [1726 - 1801].

Cirencester. Printed and Sold by S. Rudder, 1780. 1st Edition. vii, [1], [3] - 105, [1 (blank)], viii pp. Appendix last 8 pages. Two folding copperplate engravings. 8vo. Period speckled tan half-calf binding with marbled paper boards [modern respining to style]. Red leather spine label with gilt stamped lettering. Binding is Very Good+. Text & engravings are Very Good. A quite respectable copy. [Inventory Number: 47456]

Rare in the US, with ESTC showing only a copy at the Huntington. OCLC adds Rice.

Price: $495.00

44. NUT-BROWN BEER NUT-BROWN. Being a Very Careful Analysis of Life’s Major Joy. George Arnold [1834 - 1865]. Harry Ward Ritchie [1905 - 1996] - Printer.

[South Pasadena]: Printed by H. [Ward] Ritchie at the Flame Press, 1930. 1st printing thus. 4 leaves. Unopened. Printed by Ritchie at the Abbey of San Encino Press. 6-1/2” x 4-1/8”. Age-toning to paper. A Very Good+ copy of this fragile item. [Inventory Number: 42317]

“Beer. A poem”, originally published in the author’s Drift and other poems [1866].

A very early item by this master printer, who states “24 copies on Incudine paper and many more on newsprint” in his The Ward Ritchie Press and Anderson, Ritchie & Simon [1961], p. 128.

Price: $500.00

45. The “QUEEN” COOKERY BOOKS. Set of 14 Titles (Complete). S. Pownall Beatty - Compiler & Editor.

London: Horace Cox, 1902 - 1911. Mixed set, 1st - 3rd [4th] editions. The set not in Bitting, though see p. 31, for the 3rd title, PICKLES. Divers paginations of each volume, from ~ 140 pp to ~ 250 pp. Illustrated with cuts. Books: 12mo, 6-5/8” x 4-1/8”. Creme-colored linen cloth bindings printed in orange & blue. Original publisher’s brown cloth solander box, with “Cabinet ‘Queen’ Cookery Books” gilt stamed to front drop-down. Books, generally Near Fine, with a few volumes having some dust soiling to their top edge. Publisher’s box - two lid seams separated, otherwise Very Good. [Inventory Number: 38806]

The set is comprise of: No. 1 - SOUPS, 3rd edition [Driver 64.3, 1904]; No. 2 - ICES, 3rd Editon [Driver 60.3, 1911]; No. 3 - PICKLES And PRESERVES, 2nd Editon [Driver 62.3; Reprinted, 1908]; No. 4 - ENTREES, 3rd [4th] Edition [Driver 57.4, 1911]; No. 5 - MEAT And GAME, 2nd Edition [Driver 61.2, 1902]; No. 6 - SWEETS (Part I), 3rd [4th] Edition [Driver 65.4, 1911]; No. 7 - SWEETS (Part II), 2nd Edition [Driver 66.2, 1904]; No. 8 - BREAKFAST And LUNCH DISHES, 2nd Edition [Driver 56.2, 1904]; No. 9 - SALADS, SANDWICHES, And SAVOURIES, 2nd Edition [Driver 63.2, 1905]; No. 10 - VEGETABLES, 1st Edition [Driver 67.1, 1902]; No. 11 - BREAD, CAKES And BISQUITS, 2nd Editon [Driver 55.2, 1906]; No. 12 - FISH (Part I), 1st Edition [Driver 58.1, 1903]; No. 13 - FISH (Part II, Cold Fish), 1st Edition [Driver 59.1, 1903]; No. 14 - HOUSEHOLD HINTS, 2nd Edition [1910].

Price: $1,250.00

46. The JOY Of COOKING. A Compilation of Reliable Recipes with a Casual Culinary Chat. Illustrations. Marion Rombauer. By Irma S[tarklof] Rombauer. [1877 - 1962].

St. Louis, Mo. Printed by A. C. Clayton Printing Co., (1931). 1st edition (Axford, p. 234; Bitting, p. 403; Cagle 653). [32], 395, [5 (blank)] pp. Illustrated with silhouettes at chapter heads. 8” x 5-1/4”. Original publisher’s pebbled green cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board (professionally rebacked). Age-toning to paper. Signs of use throughout, including some staining & occasional chipped leaf edge. Withal, a Very Good copy. [Inventory Number: 44590]

Price: $2,500.00

47. A COLLECTION Of ABOVE THREE HUNDRED RECEIPTS In COOKERY, PHYSICK And SURGERY; For the Use of all Good Wives, Tender Mothers, and Careful Nurses. To Which is Added, A SECOND PART, Containing a great Number of Excellent Receipts, for Preserving and Conserving Sweet-Meats, &c. ‘By Several Hands’. Kettilby, Mary - Compiler.

London: Printed for Mary Kettilby, and Sold by Richard Wilkin, at the King’s-Head in St. Paul’s Church-Yard., 1728. 4th Edition, of the 1st part (Cagle 391; McLean, p 82; Oxford, p. 54n; Wheaton & Kelly 3273). 272, [4] pp. Part 2 has separate titlepage, and is of the 3rd edition; it’s imprint reads: ‘Printed for Richard Wilkin’. Continuous pagination & registration throughout the volume. Each part with an Index. Head- tail pieces. Decorative initial capital letters. 8vo: A - R^8 S^2. Early boards, with exposed cords. Now chemised, and housed in a custom brown quarter-leather slipcase with marbled paper boards. Slipcase is Fine. The volume is an About Very Good copy, with front board detached. [Inventory Number: 33915]

NB. McLean states, in her Note 3 for this title’s entry, “The 2nd and all subsequent editions were published as two volumes bound as one, but with each volume having its own title-page and its own pagination.” From our copy, this last obviously needs be readdressed.

Price: $950.00

{Item No. 48}

48. BUSY WORK For LITTLE FINGERS. “Cut the figures out but leave the squares at bottom to fold under for the figures to stand upon.” [Children’s Toy Sheet / Sperry’s Flour Promotional Literature].

San Francisco: Lith H. S. Crocker Co., (n. d.). 1st printing (presumed), ca mid-to-late 1880s. Broadside, printed in full color. 57 cut-out images (many featuring Sperry Flour) including adults & children [20], cats [2], bakery goods [9], a stove, a table, etc., etc. 11-3/4” x 19-1/8”. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. General wear & soiling. Pin-hole in lower left margin. Withal, a Very Good copy. [Inventory Number: 47865]

Sperry Flour Co., founded in mid-1850s, became the second largest flour milling company in California. We find no record of any institutional holdings of this item, so here offered an extremely rare promotional piece published by this prominent California firm.

Price: $850.00

49. RED ROCK. A Chronicle of Reconstruction. [Margaret Armstrong 1867 - 1944]. By Thomas Nelson Page

New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1898. 1st ed., 1st printing. INSCRIBED (BAL 15381; Gullans & Espey 187). 584 pp,. Illustrated by B. West Clinedinst,. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt spine lettering and colored device on front board (signed). A nice, Near Fine copy. [Inventory Number: 3595]

Inscribed by Page on the recto of the frontis. Book housed in a custom qaurter-leather case.

Price: $100.00

50. LOT Of 13 CHRISTMAS BOOKLETS.[plus] ‘Thank You for Expression of Sympathy’ Printed Notecard [inscribed by (?) Newton].A. Edward Newton[1864 - 1940]. Robert William Chapman [1881 - 1960] - Recipient of 4 Inscribed Christmas Booklets.

‘Oak Knoll’: Privately Printed, 1921 - 1940. 1st edition(s). Cf Fleck, Catalogue 86, B.15 - B.32. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copies [4] to R. W. Chapman, presumed to be Newton’s fellow Johnsonian, Robert William Chapman. Divers paginations. A few booklets are illustrated. 12mo. Blue paper wrappers. Cord tie. Housed in a custom blue quarter morocco clam-shell case. Lot’s range from Very Good [1921] - Near Fine [1940]. Case is Very Good. [Inventory Number: 34434]

The 13 Christmas booklets are: ‘Madame Thrale Piozzi’ [1921, inscribed], ‘Leech Drawing’ [1923], ‘John Mytton’ [inscribed, 1924], ‘My Library’ [1926], ‘Reprimand’ [1927], ‘Nelson’ [1928], ‘I Want!’ [inscribed, 1932], ‘Ascot’ [inscribed, 1933], ‘Trollope Society’ [1934], ‘Pope, Poetry & Portrait’ [1936], ‘Christmas Greetings’ [1937], ‘George Dyer’ [1938, including printed note, on orange paper, regarding coming year (1939)] & ‘A Letter From England’ [1940].

Price: $750.00

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