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Catalog Two: 17 Books for 2017

We are kicking off 2017 with a catalog of 17 selected items from our current stock. Examples include works from Atelier Didier Mutel,

Literature, Bibliography, Photobooks, and Travel. For more images or to place an order please contact us at [email protected]

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Catalog Two: 17 Books for 2017

Travel

1. Jacotin, Pierre. Carte topographique de l’Egypte et de plusieurs partis des pays limitrophes, levée pendant l’expédition de l’armée française, par les ingéniuers-géographes, les officiers du génie militaire et les ingénieurs des ponts et chausées ; assujettie aux observations des astronomes, construite par M. Jacotin ... Publiée par ordre du gouvernement. Paris: 1818. Folio: 50 plates. (70 x 110 cm)

An unbound and unfolded copy of the topographic maps made after Napoleon’s expedition in Egypt. Complete with the plate listing the engineers, and all maps present (41 plates showing 47 maps). Edges of sheets show some minor splits, chips, outer edges of margins toned and slightly soiled, not affecting the printed maps. Housed in a custom-made cloth covered box by John Demerritt. First printing of this monumental map, one of the most important French cartographic publications of the nineteenth century, serving as the primary atlas for Description de l'Égypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Egypte pendant l'expédition de l'armée française (1809-1813); 1817-[1830]. Pierre Jacotin, the chief engineer of the military force led by Napoleon, used modern methods of triangulation to survey and map Egypt during the Emperor’s campaign. The map was ready by 1807, but strategic reasons prevented its publication under the Empire. (139) $13,500 2. Contarini, Ambrogio. Il Viazo del Clarissimo Messer Ambrosio Contarini Ambasciator della Illustrissima Signoria di Venetia al Signor Vxuncassan Re de Persia. Venice: s.n. (“Stampato nella inclita Citta di Vinegia”), 1543. Third Edition. 8°: A-E8; $4 signed, missigning B2 as ‘Q2’, and C2 as ‘C iij’. Foliated [1] 2-40. Bound in later (19th cen.?) vellum over boards, showing light soiling and traces of ruling from previous use; some browning to the title page and early manuscript in ink on the final verso. Very near fine to fine copy of the rare and important third edition of Contarini’s celebrated travel narrative documenting a trip across the Orient, Persia, and the first description of Moscow made by a foreigner. Contorini (1429 – 1499), a Venetian nobleman, diplomat and merchant, first published his travel account in 1478, nine years before the first Italian edition of Marco Polo’s voyages. Both the first edition, and the


second edition of 1524 (published under the title Itinerario del magnifico e clarissimo messer Ambrosio Contarini), are exceedingly rare (only a single copy of the 1524 edition is recorded at auction in the last 40 years).

The diplomatic mission Contorini undertook in February 1473 was aimed at creating an alliance with Persia against the Ottoman Empire. The arduous journey obliged Contorini to avoid Ottoman territory by traveling north through Poland, Kiev, Crimea, and Armenia before diplomatic meetings at Tabriz and finally with Sultan Uzun Hassan at his capital of Isfahan. The return voyage to Venice was no less dangerous and Contorini spent a winter on the Caspian Sea among poor fishermen before departing for Astrakhan in April 1475. In September 1475, after struggling under fatigue and food shortages, he finally arrived in Moscow under the protection of a Russian ambassador. In Moscow Tzar Ivan III—Ivan the Great—welcomed Contorini, and the two established trade agreements between the two states. Ivan also provided Conotrini with the means for his return journey to Venice. The narrative records the earliest communication between Venice and Persia, and although the context is one aimed at political goals, it is a significant account of both the history of travel and the development of modern civilization. Contorini’s account facilitated westerners’ understanding of unknown regions and brought together populations who seemed perhaps forever separated, as well as shining a passing light on the geography of regions that were up to that point poorly understood. An outstanding copy of an important and rare book. Adams C2557; Brunet II, 243 Near fine to Fine. Vellum over boards. (137) $11,250

Literature

UNIFORM SET OF CARACCIOLI’S WORKS ON POPE CLEMENT XIV 3. Caraccioli, Louis-Antoine de. La Vie du Pape Clément XIV (Ganganelli), vol 1; and Lettres intéressantes du Pape Clément XIV (Ganganelli), vols 2-3. Amsterdam: Barthelemi Vlam, 1776. 3 volumes; 12°: *6 A-G12 H4; *10 A-L12 M2; π2 A-L12 M4. xii, 175; xx, 268; [4], 270 pp. Uniformly bound in contemporary full tree calf, spines decorated in gilt with volume numbers and "GANGAN". Volume one includes frontis plate of Clement XIV, and volume two (the first volume of the Lettres) includes an allegorical plate honoring the departed Pope. Bookplates in all three volumes of Alexander Speirs (1714-


1782), a Glasgow tobacco merchant whose large library at Eldersley was well known. The bookplate bears the image of a ship, perhaps the Bowman, the Speirs' company vessel that recorded more than a dozen journeys between Scotland and Virginia. The Amsterdam editions are uncommon.

Caraccioli's edition of Pope Clement XIV's letters first appeared in 1775, controversy and subsequent editions appeared shortly thereafter. The Pope's letters were the work of Caraccioli himself--Voltaire denounced the publication as apocryphal shortly after their publication, which did not undermine their popularity. Included among the letters is one addressed to Caraccioli himself (letter CXXII), in which the Pope exhorts him to continue his literary productions, as they are of great value to the reading public. Included here as volume one of the three-volume set is Caraccioli's "La Vie du Pape Clément XIV" another popular work, but this one attributed to Caraccioli on the title page. Fine. Tree calf. (127) $750 4. Conrad, Joseph. The Rescue. London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1920. First Edition. 416 pp. First edition, first binding (in green cloth).


Slight sunning to spine, minor soiling and edge-wear to the extremities, head of spine shows some rubbing to the cloth and some chips to the dust-jacket, else near fine in a very good plus to near fine dust-jacket. The Rescue is the last published novel in the Lingard Trilogy, although the action in the narrative precedes that of the other two, Almayer’s Folly (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896).

(75) $1,750

HAND-COLORED PLATES IN A MORRELL BINDING

5. Dickens, Charles. Oliver Twist; or the Parish Boy’s Progress. By Boz. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First Edition, first Impression. Three volumes. Frontis, [4], 331, [4 pp. ads], 8 plates; frontis, [4], 307 pp, 6 plates; frontis, [4], 315 pp. 7 plates--complete with 26 engraved plates in all, including both the rejected “Fireside” plate and its replacement, the “Church” plate, and an extra-illustrated additional hand-colored engraving of the R.A. Maclise portrait of Dickens. All plates appear in 2 versions of each, one of which is colored, with the exception of the rejected “Fireside” plate which is uncolored.


Bound in purple morocco, spines with five raised bands adorned with gold rules and mosaic frames of green and red morocco; the matching front and back boards are framed with gold tooling, and an inner frame decorated with gold tooled and inlaid green and red morocco; while the inner boards are decorated with gold tooling and small florets of red morocco, purple silk linings and endpapers, untrimmed, and gilt topedges, all expertly done by William Turner Morrell of London, c. 1880. The volumes are housed in purple cloth covered slipcases with green morocco spine labels by James MacDonald of New York.

The extra-illustrated portrait

The addition of the extra plates in this copy help remind us of the significant role that illustration played in many English novels of the nineteenth century. Cruikshank claimed, many years after author’s death in 1870, the paternity of Oliver Twist, asserting that Dickens had composed his text according to his drawings and ideas he had suggested. The illustrator defended this idea in The Artist and the Author, a thin pamphlet published in 1872. We shall leave the scholar to determine Oliver’s precise parentage, but the great bookman Percy Muir observed “It was for Oliver Twist that Cruikshank surpassed anything he had previously done. It is neither appropriate nor necessary to comment on the text of this great novel, but the illustrations may almost be said to belong to our folklore”--thus making author and illustrator inseparable.

A fresh, bright and elegant copy of one of the iconic novels of modern times. Fine. Full morocco. The Pierre Bergé copy. (138) $20,000


STUNNING COPY OF THE WASTE LAND

FROM THE PRESS OF THE OFFICINA BODONI 6. Eliot, T.S. The Waste Land. London: Officina Bodoni for Faber & Faber, 1961. 51, [3] pp. One of 300 signed copies.

Fine copy in original slipcase invisibly conserved at top edge. Hand printed in Verona by Giovanni Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni and signed by Eliot on the colophon. Original quarter vellum over marbled boards, top edge gilt, in publisher’s marbled card slipcase--a beautifully preserved copy. Fine. (103) $4,250

THE FIRST BOOK IN THE SNOPES TRILOGY 7. Faulkner, William. The Hamlet. New York: Random House, 1940. First Edition. 421 pp. The first book in the Snopes trilogy. A fantastic copy, soild and bright in a first state dust-jacket with a price of $2.50 and the list of available titles from Random House on the rear flap. Fine in fine dust-jacket. Cloth.

(48) $4,250


EXTRA ILLUSTRATED DR. JOHNSON, with 3pp ALS from GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL

8. Hill, George Birkbeck. Dr. Johnson, His Friends and His Critics. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1878. First Edition. 2 volumes. xii, [2], 170; [1], 171-345. Extra-illustrated with 172 plates, with a manuscript index in each volume indicating the subject and page number of each extra plate. Bound in half burgundy morocco over marbled-paper boards and matching marbled endpapers. The verso of the front marbled end leaf in each volume is signed by the binder Little Brown & Co., presumably the Boston binder. Spine with six compartments including title, author, place and date of publication stamped in gilt. Top edge gilt. Fine. Laid in is a 3pp. ALS from Hill on his Oxford stationery to the noted autograph collector Dr. J. S. H. Fogg of Boston, dated July 20, 1890; faint sign of an early fold, otherwise fine.

First edition of Hill’s study of Samuel Johnson expanded to two volumes and extra-illustrated with engraved plates and photographs of the places and persons mentioned in Hill’s text. The compiler has included in each volume an alphabetic manuscript index of each plate, the majority of which are full-page engravings or photographic reproductions; the smaller format plates are expertly inlaid. Volume two includes a uniform letterpress title page that reproduces the typeface and lay out of the publisher’s original title page. Fine to near fine. Half morocco over marbled paper boards. (125) $1,750


Bibliography 9. [Coutelle]. [Manuscript] Catalogue de Mes Livres. Paris: 1780. 4°: Title page, 1 leaf blank, 126 pp (41 of which are written on, the others having columns and frames in ink), 6 leaves, 1 p. (table of contents). Contemporary calf binding, spine stamped in gold, title label in red morocco; restored. Contents in careful manuscript hand in black ink. Signed on the title page “Coutelle.” The organization of the books is classical, common to the libraries of “honnetes hommes” of the period influenced by the age of enlightenment, yet some sections reveal more refined taste, or forward thinking; the sections include: theology, jurisprudence, moral and political philosophy (perhaps the most thoughtful section of this catalog), natural history, botany, anatomy, chemistry & medicine, mathematics and astronomy, geography, history, travel, mythologies, epistolary works, belles-lettres, grammar and dictionaries, poetry in French, as well as in translation (Greek, Latin, German, Italian, English), theater, opera, novels, and heraldry. Among the authors referenced: Montesquieu, Rousseau, Montaigne, Raynal, Addison (The Spectator), Voltaire, Milton, Locke, Samuel Johnson, Brissot de Warville, Mably, Diderot, Condorcet, Volta, Buffon, l’Abbé Rozier, Lalande, Bailly, Brydone, Cook, Arthur Young, Gluck (four operas, including “Orphee and Eurydice”), etc.

Modern handwritten note on the first blank flyleaf: “Ce catalogue est fort interessant en ce sens qu’il donne une note [sic] très exacte de la formation de la bibliotheque d’un philosophe-precurseur du mouvement revolutionnaire qui allait suivre 10 ans après la confection du present recueil. Livres d’une haute portée morale philosophique et politique qui elèvent et fortifient l’ame. 800 volumes environs” ”This catalog is highly interesting in that it gives a very exact note [sic] of the formation of the library of a philosopher—a precursor of the revolutionary movement that would follow 10 years after the preparation of the present collection. Books of a highly philosophical and political moral scope, which elevate and fortify the soul. Approximately 800 volumes.”


A beautifully preserved manuscript and testament to the history of library formation and private collecting prior to the French Revolution. (202) $8,500 10. [Hoym, Charles-Henry, comte d’] - Martin, Gabriel. Catalogus Librorum Bibliothecae Illustrissimi Caroli Henrici comitis de Hoym, olim Regis Poloniae Augusti II. apud regem Christianissimum legati extraordinarii. Paris: G. et Cl. Martin, 1738. First Edition. 8°: π1 à2 e4 i4 o2 A-4D4 (the Morgan copy describes π as a 2 leaf gathering with π1 blank; absent in this copy). [6], xx, 528, [58] pp. Quarter sheep over paste paper boards, with spine label stamped in gold, and marbled endpapers. Some minor scuffs to the sheep, and chipping to the edges of the first few pages of text without loss. The binding is contemporary but perhaps bound after the volume was annotated, some close trimming of the manuscript notes at the margins.


A fully priced and annotated sale catalog of 4,785 lots from the impressive library of the celebrated bibliophile Charles-Henry comte de Hoym, ambassador to France from Saxony under Auguste II. Hoym’s wide-ranging collection of history, literature, philosophy, rhetoric, etc., was formed beginning in 1717, notably by important acquisitions from the sales of Du Fay (1725) and Colbert (1728). The catalog is particularly strong in Italian and French literature. The margins include manuscript prices realized for all lots, and numerous annotations commenting on the grouping of various lots and the condition and other bibliographical details of the books from a first-hand witness to the sale.

Brunet III, 1497; VI, 1819. A lovely, solid copy of one of the great collections of the early eighteenth century. Near fine. Quarter sheep over paste paper boards. (140) $2,250

RARE ALDINE WITH PUBLISHER’S PRICE LIST 11. [Aldus the Younger]. Epitome orthographiae Aldi. Manutii Paulli. F. Aldi. N.: Ex libris antiquis grammaticis etymologia graeca consuetudine . Reliqua 6 pagella indicabit. Venetiis: Aldus Manutius, 1590. Second Edition. 8°: †8 A-R8 (-R8, blank?) [$4 signed]; 144 leaves; [16] 1-268 [4].


Contemporary vellum over stiff board, end papers perhaps renewed since the 16th century. Manuscript title to the spine, which shows some wear and repair. Text block is foxed and shows some staining and paper repair with minor loss of text in gatherings Q and R near the lower portion of the gutter. Leaf R7, which contains the Aldine price list of currently available books (Libri di stampa d’Aldo), shows small repair with some minor loss of text, also repair to the fore edge without loss of text. Renouard 1590.3. Very good.

(133) $650

Photobooks 12. DOISNEAU, Robert (photographer). Blaise CENDRARS (text). La Banlieue de Paris. Paris: Pierre Seghers, 1949. First Edition. 8vo. (233 x 172 mm). Original cream paper-covered boards, the upper board and spine title in black letters, photo-illustrated dustjacket, photo-illustrated endpapers; pp. 54, [2], 130 b/w photographs numbered 1-135, (including 5 double-page); very light wear to the extremities of the dust-jacket, very small tear to the lower margin of the front flap of the dust-jacket, expertly repaired, otherwise a lovely copy. First French (preferred) edition.


The first book publication by Doisneau with the important collaboration of the writer Blaise Cendrars, an early and influential supporter of the photographer. (186) $1,600 13. MORIYAMA, Daido. Shashin yo sayonara [Bye, bye photography]. Tokyo: Shashin Hyoron-sha, 1972. First Edition. Large 8vo. (230 x 185 mm). Original printed card wrappers, original card dust-jacket; 137 double-page photos; light spotting to the dust-jacket, otherwise a very good copy. Presentation copy inscribed by Moriyama to Shigeru Wakabayashi and dated 30 May 1972 in the year of publication.

First edition of one of the most important photobooks of the last fifty years. Moriyama broke with all previous photographic conventions resulting in a visual tour-de-force that is at once chaotic and poetic. (161) $6,500

120 ALBUMEN VIEWS AND FAMILY PORTRAITS 14. [Riddell-Blount, Edward Francis]. Photographic Album of around 120 albumen views and family portraits. [c. 1872-1894].

Oblong 4to. (300 x 390 mm). Album bound in contemporary burgundy diced morocco, single gilt rule border to the upper and lower boards, decorative gilt turn-ins, gilt stamped monogram “ER”--very likely

Edward Riddell (see below)--to the center of the upper board, all edges gilt, moiré silk endpapers; 46 card leaves with around 120 photographs, the majority albumen prints of various sizes (c.100 x 140 mm. to 190 x 300 mm.). Along with a small number of studio portraits and cartes-de-visite (some of these loose) by Walery, Regent Street, London, and W.D. Downey, London, and J.P. Gibson, Hexham, Northumberland relating to the Riddell and Blount families; the boards to the album rather rubbed at the extremities.


A well preserved album of photographs relating to the Riddell family of Cheeseburn Grange and Thornburgh, both in Northumberland and the Blount family of Mapledurham, south Oxfordshire. The Riddell and Blount families were related through marriage, and in 1881, the Mapledurham estate passed first to John Darell-Blount (1833-1908), and then to Edward Francis Riddell (c.1865-1920), the grandson of John Darell-Blount's youngest sister who added the name of Blount to his own at that time. The album overlaps this period in the 19th century when the Riddell's and Blount's were closely associated--Edward Francis Riddell-Blount was born at Cheeseburn Grange and died at Mapledurham. The portrait of Edward's younger brother Frederic appears in the album, and the mongram "ER" on the upper board stongly suggests that this was Edward's album.

With views of Leyburn, Wensleydale, Askrigg and Aysgarth (Yorks.); Magdalene and Corpus Christi Colleges (Oxford); Carisbrooke Castle; Lindisfarne; Sweetheart Abbey (nr. Dumfries); and Linlithgow Palace.

(201) $1,800


15. [SUDEK, Josef]. LINHART, Lubomir (text) Vladimir HOLAN and Jaroslav SEIFERT (poems). Josef Sudek: Fotografie. Prague: The State Press for Belles-Lettres, Music and Art, 1956. First Edition. 8vo. (237 x 167 mm). Original cloth, the upper board and spine lettered in relief, dust jacket with a small area of loss to the upper edge of the rear of the same; 232 black and white photographs on 113 sheets, of which 6 are folding; a fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. First edition. Signed by Sudek, “J. Sudek/ Praha 24 XII 56”.

Josef Sudek (1896-1976) the Czechoslovakian photographer trained initially as a bookbinder before taking up the camera. His early subjects were Prague and its environs. In 1915 he was called up and served in Italy where he lost his right arm in action. After the war he enrolled in the State School of Graphic Arts and came under the influence of Jaromir Funke and the work of the Czech-born American amateur photographer, Drahomir Ruzicka. From 1927 he rented a studio at the foot of the Hradcany Castle from where he rapidly established a reputation for his lyrical photographs of still-lifes and landscapes. It was, however his extraordinary photographs of the interior of St. Vitus’ Cathedral that sealed his reputation as a visual poet. The cathedral had been under construction for 900 years and was only completed in Sudek’s lifetime. His images of blocks of cut stone, construction equipment and statuary only serve to underscore the antiquity of the building. A selection of these photographs along with portraits, landscapes and still-life, as well as examples of Sudek’s experimental photography comprises the present volume. (178) $3,500


Didier Mutel

16. Mutel, Didier. La Pierre Rosette (or the Rosetta Stone). Orchamps: Atelier Didier Mutel, 2015. One large broadside (108 x 87.5 cm) Eau forte etching in copper and printed in black, in an edition of 50 copies, plus one copy on Japanese paper adhered to a translucent concrete slab, mounted on an oak pedestal. In 1799 a Napoleonic expedition to Egypt discovered the famous trilingual artifact near the town of Rosetta on the Nile Delta. The discovery marked the first bilingual example of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics—or in this case trilingual, namely: Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, a middle portion in Demotic script, and finally Ancient Greek. In 1822, Jean-François Champollion was able to transliterate the three scripts and thus decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics for the first time. Shortly after its discovery plaster casts and lithographic reproductions began circulating among museums and scholars. An engraving printed on three large sheets (70 x 110 cm) appeared in “Description de l’Égypte ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l’expédition de l’armée française. Antiquités” (t. 5, pl. 54-56), 1822 by Atelier Rémond in Paris, the founding studio of Atelier Didier Mutel.

Mutel’s Rosetta Stone is printed in 1:1 scale with its ancient precursor and contains three original alphabets designed by Mutel—a typographic transposition of sypathetic letterforms. The new scripts are arranged as follows: in the upper section Metamorphosis, listing the names of engravers; followed in the middle section by MAB (Mutel Art Books), which identifies the representative works by those artists named in the upper section, and finally a faux-Greek script, hand drawn directly on the copper plate by Mutel, in which he articulates his acid etching ethics: comprendre, aimer, partager (understand, love, share)—the first three words of the lower text. The Metamorphosis and MAB scripts were created by Mutel on a Mac, while the third was drawn directly on the plate. (144) $4,250 17. Mutel, Didier and Andrea Dotti . La Gradiva. [Rome]: [Didier Mutel], 1999. First Edition. 46 pp. 38 cm x 56 cm. First edition of an original composition by Andrea Dotti and 21 original double-page engravings by Didier Mutel published in 1999 at l’Académie de France, Villa Médicis in Rome. The entire text was photoengraved then reworked with aquatint engraving and drypoint etching on copper, then printed as large two-page spreads from a single plate, by Didier Mutel on the press of the Villa Médicis in Rome on 160 gram Velin d’Arches paper, in an edition of 30 copies signed and numbered by Mutel. Bound


in rough “toile de jute” painted grey blue.

In Gradiva Mutel once again engages his viewers and readers on multiple levels, primary among them: reinterpretation of classical literary works and traditions—as also seen in his editions of the Alice books and Jekyll and Hyde—, psychological inquiry into alternate identities and realities, and of course the art of acid engraving and etching, which in La Gradiva is powerfully and expertly presented. Mutel’s work takes its name from Wilhelm Jensen’s 1903, novella, Gradiva: A Pompeiian Fancy, in which the protagonist, Norbert Hanold, a young archeologist, is so fascinated with an ancient Roman bas relief sculpture of a walking woman that he has a plaster-cast copy made for his own study, which he names Gradiva, “the woman splendid in walking.” So captivated is Norbert by the figure that he is driven to visit Pompeii in search of her origins. Jensen’s dreamlike tale juxtaposes Norbert’s deepest intellectual and psychological preoccupations with considerations of art, desire, dream, and reality. The original novella has endured in part due to the interest of Sigmund Freud, who made Gradiva the subject of full-length psychoanalytical and literary study, Der Wahn und die Träume in W. Jensens Gradiva (1908). This book marks the first time Mutel collaborated with a living author, Andrea Dotti, a well known Italian psychiatrist, whose essay for this edition is presented in its Italian original; the text has not otherwise been reprinted. Dotti makes his own analysis of Jensen and Freud as well as “the woman who walks”, i.e., Gradiva. Integrated within the text are Mutel’s fantastical engraved images, which themselves serve as psychological interpretations that cross the border between dream and nightmare. (25) $4,450

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