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a Selection of itemS on DiSplay in BootH 61045tH california international antiquarian Book fair

feBruary 10-12, 2012

With One Hundred Hand-Colored Engraved Plates1. ALBIN, Eleazar. A Natural History of Insects. Illustrated with A Hundred Copper Plates, Curiously Engraven from Life: And (for those who desire it) Exactly Coloured by the Author London: Printed for the Author: And Sold by William and John Innys, 1720. First edition. Complete with one hundred hand-colored engraved plates of insects. Plates colored by watercolors. Plate number eighty-four with one butterfly heightened in gold. Original decorative red morocco, rebacked and recornered. HBS 65679. $7,500

The Majestic Arion Press “Moby-Dick” in an Exquisite Binding2. [ARION PRESS]. [MOSER, Barry, illustrator]. [MIURA, Kerstin Tini, binder] MELVILLE,Herman. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1979. Limited to 265 copies. Chemised in a dark blue morocco folder, Housed in a blue morocco edged slipcase made of blue marbled paper, and housed inside the original publisher’s blue cloth slipcase. HBS 65509 $18,000

The Ashendene Press “Don Quixote”3. [ASHENDENE PRESS]. [CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de]. The First[-Second] Partof the History of the Valors and Wittie Knight-Errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. Translated out of the Spanish by Thomas Shelton, MDCXII. Chelsea: The AshendenePress, 1927-1928.One of 225 copies on Batchelor paper, out of a total edition of 245 copies. Bound in full white pigskin. HBS 65514. $7,500

One of the Last Books Issued by the Ashendene Press4. [ASHENDENE PRESS]. THUCYDIDES. [History of the Peloponnesian War]. Translatedinto English by Benjamin Jowett…Chelsea: Printed at the Ashendene Press, 1930. One of 260 copies on paper (240 copies for sale). Publisher’s white pigskin HBS 65519 $4,000

The Elegant Ashendene Boccaccio,Uncut in the Original Boards5. [ASHENDENE PRESS]. BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. Il Libro di Messer Giovanni BoccaccioCittadino Fiorentino Chiamato Il Decameron. Cognominato prencipe Galeotto nel quale sicontengono cento novelle in dieci di dette da sette donne e da tre Giovani Uomini.Chelsea: Ashendene Press, 1920. HBS 65520. $5,000

First Edition of “Northanger Abbey” and “Persuasion”6. [AUSTEN, Jane]. Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion. By the Author of “Pride andPrejudice,” “Mansfield-Park” With Biographical Notice of the Author. In FourVolumes. London: 1818. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, rebacked. HBS 65654 $12,500

First Edition of “The Story of Little Black Sambo”7. BANNERMAN, Helen. The Story of Little Black Sambo. London: 1899. In a green cloth clamshell case HBS 64922. $12,500

First Edition Of Baudelaire’s “Les Fleurs Du Mal”In the Original Wrappers8. BAUDELAIRE, Charles. Les fleurs du mal. Paris: Poulet-Malassis et De Broisse, 1857. First edition, first printing with the six suppressed poems. In second state wrappers,with the back wrapper announcing Les Fleurs du Mal. Octavo. [4], [1]-248, [4, table] pp. Title printed in black and red. In glassine dust jacket and with a custom full morocco clamshell. HBS 65197. $40,000

First Collected Edition of Beaumont and Fletcher’s Comedies and Tragedies with the Frontispiece in the First State

9. BEAUMONT, Francis, and John Fletcher. Comedies and Tragedies Written by FrancisBeaumont and John Fletcher Gentlemen. Never printed before, And now published by the Authours Originall Copies. London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, and for Humphrey Moseley, 1647. Twentieth-century crimson levant morocco by Riviere and Son. HBS 65258. $7,500

“One of the Most Valuable of Modern Voyages”10. BEECHEY, Captain F[rederick] W[illiam]. Narrative of a Voyage to the Pacific and Beering’sStrait, to Co-Operate with the Polar Expeditions: Performed in His Majesty’s Ship Blossom,under the Command of Captain F.W. Beechey, R.N.…in the Years 1825, 26, 27, 28. Published by Authority of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. London: 1831. First quarto edition. Two volumes HBS 64975. $8,500

The Mazarinæa Copy of the Gutenberg Bible, in Facsimile11. [BIBLE IN LATIN]. [GUTENBERG, Johann]. Biblia Sacra Mazarinæa. [Gutenberg BibleFacsimile] Paris:Les Editions des incunables, 1985. Limited edition. Facsimile copied from the first located Gutenberg bible, the Mazarinæa copy. Two folio volumes. [together with] Two volumes of History, Transcription and Translation in English. Two bible volumes bound in full red morocco HBS 65582. $5,500

The First Edition of “The best history of English law”With the Rare Eight-Page Supplement12. BLACKSTONE, [Sir] William. Commentaries on the Laws of England. Oxford: Printed atthe Clarendon Press, 1765, 1766, 1768, 1769.With the engraved “Table of Consanguinity” andfolding “Table of Descents” in Volume II. Uniformly bound in contemporary speckled calf, rebacked in morocco. HBS 64944. $20,000

One of the Finest Eighteenth-Century Engraved Books13. [BLAKE, William, illustrator]. YOUNG, Edward. The Complaint, and the Consolation; or,Night Thoughts. London: Printed by R. Noble, for R. Edwards, 1797. First edition. Folio. viii, 95, [1, blank], [2,explanation] pp. With forty-three copperplate engravings by William Blake surrounding the letterpress text. With the “Explanation of the Engravings” leaf at the end, perhaps by Fuseli (often lacking). Full tree-calf, with an old rebacking, to style. HBS 65633. $12,500

“Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion”Item. 6

The Ashendene Press “Don Quixote” Item. 3

The “Gutenberg Bible”, in Facsimile

Item. 11

Blake’s “Night Thoughts”Item. 13

“A Natural History of Insects”Item 1.

“Blake’s Most Widely Known Achievement”14. BLAKE, William. Illustrations of the Book of Job. Invented & engraved by William Blake,1825. [London: Published by the Author, and Mr. J. Linnell, 1874]. One of 100 sets printed on india paper. Folio HBS 65634. $32,500

First Edition Of This Milestone In The History Of Science15. BOYLE, Robert. The Sceptical Chymist: or, Chymico-Physical Doubts and Paradoxes.London: J. Caldwell for J. Crooke, 1661. Second title-page printed in red and black and bound as title. Contemporary English speckled calf. HBS 65254. $75,000

First Edition “Jane Eyre”16. BRONTË, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. Edited by Currer Bell. In ThreeVolumes. Vol. I. [II. III.] London: Smith, Elder, and Co., 1847. Grolier, 100 English, 83. Rebound in half blue morocco over blue cloth HBS 65653. $35,000

One of the Most Ambitious Early Ornithological Works17. [BUFFON, Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de]. Histoire naturelle des oiseaux. Paris: Del’Imprimerie Royale, 1770[-1786]. First separate edition, ordinary paper issue. Ten small folio volumes. 1008 plates, including the thirty-five non-ornithological plates, these plates, are tipped-in throughout the volumes from a shorter set. Contemporary French mottled calf, HBS 65558. $175,000

First Edition in Original Cloth18. BURTON, Sir Richard Francis. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to El-Madinah & Meccah. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. First edition. Three octavo volumes. HBS 65537. $11,500

First Edition in Original Cloth19. BURTON, Sir Richard Francis. CAMERON, Verney Lovett. To The Gold Coast For Gold. A Personal Narrative. London: Chatto & Windus, 1883. With two colored folding maps in volume I and a colored frontispiece involume II. HBS 64998. $5,500

The Magnificent Tonson Caesar, Complete with Eighty-Seven Full-Page Engravings20. CAESAR, Gaius Julius. C. Julii Cæsaris quæ extant. Accuratissimè cum libris editis & MSSoptimis collata, recognita & correcta. Accesserunt annotationes Samuelis Clarke S.T.P. Itemindices locorum, rerumque & verborum utilissimæ. Tabulis Æneis ornata. London: Sumptibus &Typis Jacobi Tonson, 1712. With the double-page plate of the bison, usually lacking. HBS 65193. $15,000

First Edition of Cain’s Most Significant Title, in Dust Jacket21. CAIN, James M. The Postman Always Rings Twice. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. HBS 65641. $3,000

Capturing the French Revolution22. CARLYLE, Thomas. The French Revolution. A History. In Three Volumes. London:James Fraser, 1837. Publisher’s brown boards, expertly rebacked to style and with original printed spine, housed in a blue cloth clamshell case. HBS 65348. $5,000

A Superb Copy of the First Issue of Catlin’s North American Indians23. CATLIN, George. Catlin’s North American Indian Portfolio. Hunting Scenes andAmusements of the Rocky Mountains and Prairies of North America London: C. & J. Adlard for George Catlin, Egyptian Hall, 1844. Expertly bound to style in dark brown half morocco using the original cloth boards, Housed in a cloth box with gilt morocco lettering label. HBS 65266. $160,000

The First Edition of this Classic Epistolary Collection24. CHESTERFIELD, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of. Letters Written by the Late RightHonourable Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield, to His Son, Philip Stanhope Esq; London: 1774. Early full tan calf boards, rebacked to style. HBS 65607. $1,500

First Edition in Dust Jacket25. CHESTERTON, G.K.. The Incredulity of Father Brown. London: Cassell and Company,[1926]. HBS 65579. $1,750

The Most Important Collection of Furniture Designs to be Published in 18th-Century England26. CHIPPENDALE, Thomas. The Gentleman and the Cabinet-Maker’s Director. London: Printed for the Author, and sold at his House in St. Martin’s-Lane, 1754. Bound in full dark green morocco. Elaboratly tooled in gilt on front and back boards. HBS 64829. $12,500

The Best Edition of the First Great Eighteenth Century Voyage Compilation27. CHURCHILL, Awnsham. A Collection of Voyages and Travels;. some now printed from original manuscripts, others now fist published in English [With] A Collection of Voayges and Travels... from the curious library of the Earl of Oxford. London: Lintot & Osborne, 1744-1746 & 1752. Contemporary Scottish binding of full calf with twining gilt borders, superbly rebacked in the late 18th century HBS 65328. $35,000

The Caxton Cicero The Fine Berkeley - Sion College Copy28. [CICERO, Marcus Tullius.] [CAXTON, William, printer.] Here begynneth the prohemyeupon the reducynge both out of latyn as of frensshe in to our englyssh tongue of the polytyquebook named Tullius de senectute… [“Of Old Age” and “Of Friendship”] Westminster:William Caxton, 1481. An outstanding, textually complete, fully signed and dated book by England’s first printer, printed in his most astonishingly beautiful and complicated type. This book is also the earliest printed translation of any Latin Classic into English.

HBS 65287. $1,500,000

The Caxton “Cicero”Item. 28

Burton’s “Pilgrimage”

Item. 18

Blake’s “Illustrations of the Book of Job”Item. 14

“The French Revolution”Item. 22

First Edition “Jane Eyre”

“The Gentleman and the Cabinet-Maker’s Director” Item. 26

Item. 16

Rare in a Contemporary Binding, in an Unrestored State29. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. Poems on Various Subjects. London: G.G. and J. Robinson,1796. First edition of Coleridge’s first published book of poetry. HBS 65106. $7,500

First Edition in English30. [COMMINES, Philippe de]. [DANETT, Thomas, translator]. The Historie of Philip de Commines Knight, Lord of Argenton. London: Ar[nold]. Hatfield, for I.[ohn] Norton, 1596. Folio in sixes With sixteen charts of genealogy even though the table of contents only calls

for fifteen. Without the final errata leaf. Beautifully bound to style in 1913 in full calf. HBS 65665. $5,000

The Important Third Edition of “De Revolutionibus” and the First with Commentary31. COPERNICUS, Nicolaus. Astronomia instaurata libris sex conprehensa qui de revolutionibus orbiumcalestium inscribuntur. Amsterdam: Wilhelm Janson, 1617. The important third edition, was published to commemorate the seventy-fifth anniversary of Copernicus’s death in 1543. Bound to style in modern speckled calf. HBS 65532. $38,500

“A Highly Esteemed Work”-Sabin32. CORTÉS, Hernan. LORENZANA, Francisco Antonio. Historia de Nueva-Espana. Escrita por suConquistador Hernan Cortes aumentada con otros documentos, y notas. Mexico: Joseph Antonio de Hogel, 1770. First edition of one of the seminal works on the early civilization of Mexico and its conquest. Contemporary vellum with brown morocco spine label. HBS 65456. $22,500

A Superb Example with a Miniature on Ivory by Miss C.B. Currie33. [COSWAY BINDING]. [SHAKESPEARE, William]. LEE, Sidney. A Life of WilliamShakespeare. With portraits and facsimiles. Second edition. London: Smith, Elder, & Co.,1898. Housed in a tan cloth slipcase. HBS 65595. $13,500

First Edition in Dust Jacket34. DAHL, Roald. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Illustrated by Joseph Schindelman. NewYork: Alfred A. Knopf, [1964]. The true first edition (preceding the UK edition by three years), first issue, with six lines of printing information on the final page. HBS 65479. $2,750

With One Hundred Woodcuts35. DANTE ALIGHIERI. La Comedia. [Commentary by Christoforo Landino, edited by Pieroda Figino]. Venice: Petrusde Plasiis, Cremonensis, dictus Veronensis, 18 November, 1491. Early twentieth-century full dark green, crushed morocco. HBS 65430. $37,500

An Exeptional First Edition, First Issue of Darwin’s “Descent of Man”36. DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. With illustrations. London: John Murray, 1871. The word ‘evolution’ occurs, for the first time in any of Darwin’s works, on page 2 of the first volume of the first edition, that is to say before its appearance in the sixth edition of The Origin of Species in the following year. Housed in a green cloth clamshell. HBS 65518. $10,500

The Effects of Taking Opium37. [DE QUINCEY, Thomas]. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. London: Printed forTaylor and Hessey, 1822. First edition of De Quincey’s masterpiece. Early twentieth-century full green morocco. HBS 65157. $1,850

With 100 Beautiful Contemporary Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates38. DEMIDOFF, Anatole de. [RAFFET, Auguste, illustrator]. Voyage dans la Russieméridonale & la Crimée, par la Hongrie, la Valachie & la Moldavie exécuté en 1837, sousla direction de M. Anatole de Demidoff, par MM. de Sainson, Le Play, Huot, Léveillé, deNordmann, Rousseau et du Ponceau. Dédié a Sa Majesté Nicolas Premier, Empereur detoutes les Russies. Dessiné d’après nature et lithographié par Raffet. Paris: Publié par Gihaut Frères, [1838-1848]. First edition. Large folio. Contemporary half red morocco over marbled boards. HBS 65221. $45,000

First Edition, First Issue With the Rare “Fireside” Plate39. [DICKENS, Charles]. Oliver Twist; Or the Parish Boy’s Progress. By “Boz.” In Three Volumes. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition, first state, containing the rare “Fireside” plate, and “Boz “ on the titles. Original publisher’s variant binding, moderate reddish brown horizontally-ribbed cloth All three volumes housed together in a full red morocco clamshell. HBS 65189. $7,500

Exceptionally Rare in Parts40. DICKENS, Charles. The Adventures of Oliver Twist: or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. ... With Twenty- Four Illustrations on Steel, By George Cruikshank. A New Edition, Revised and Corrected. London: Published for the Author, by Bradbury and Evans, [January - October] 1846. Housed in a blue quarter morocco slipcase and chemise. HBS 65570. $25,000

Beautiful First Issue in the Original Red Cloth41. DICKENS, Charles. A Tale of Two Cities. With Illustrations by H.K. Browne. London: Chapman and Hall, 1859. First edition, first issue in the primary binding. All eight of Smith’s internal flaws necessary for the first issue present, including page 213 misnumbered 113. Housed in a quarter red morocco clamshell case. HBS 65107. $22,500

The Scarce Thick Paper Issue of Dixon’s “Voyage,” with the Natural History Plates Hand-Colored42. DIXON, Captain George. A Voyage Round the World; but More Particularly to the North-West Coast of America: Performed in 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788,... London: Geo. Goulding, 1789. First edition, second and best issue. HBS 65337. $15,000

“A Tale of Two Cities”Item. 41

“Oliver Twist” in partsItem. 40

First Issue of “Descent OF Man”Item. 36

“The Historie of Philip de Commines”

Item. 30

“Historia de Nueva-Espana”

Item. 32

The First Edition of Donne’s “Poems” and “Juvenilia”43. D[ONNE], J[ohn]. Poems, by J. D. With Elegies on the Authors Death. London: Printed byM[iles] F[lesher] for John Marriot, 1633. [together with]: DONNE, J. Juvenilia, or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes. London: E.P. [Elizabeth Purslowe] 1633. 19th century full brown calf, rebacked with spine laid down HBS 65464. $30,000

The Adventures and Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes44. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. London: George Newnes, 1892. First edition, first impression. [together with]: DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Illustrations by Sidney Paget. London: George Newnes, 1894. Both volumes housed together in an open-end slipcase. HBS 65591. $4,500

First Edition In Book Form in the Original Dark Red Cloth45. DOYLE, A[rthur] Conan. The Sign of Four. London: Spencer Blackett, 1890. First edition in book form, second issue, with foot of spine

reading “Griffith Farran & Cos Standard Library.” HBS 65675. $7,500

In the Original Pictorial Cloth46. [DULAC, Edmund, illustrator]. [ARABIAN NIGHTS]. Princess Badoura. A Tale from theArabian Nights. Retold by Laurence Housman. Illustrated by Edmund Dulac. [London]: Hodder and Stoughton, [n.d., 1913]. Limited to 750 numbered copies, signed by the artist. Chemised and housed in a custom red cloth clamshell. HBS 64817. $1,850

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity in Original Offprint Wrappers47. EINSTEIN, Albert. Die Grundlage der allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. [Sonderdruck ausden Annalen der Physik, Band 49, 1916]. Leipzig: Verlag von Johann Ambrosius Barth,1916. HBS 65248. $8,500

The Most Famous Poem of the Twentieth Century48. ELIOT, T.S.. The Waste Land. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1922. First edition, first issue. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, this being number 134. HBS 65471. $8,500

In the Unrestored Rare First Issue Dust Jacket49. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tender Is the Night. New York: Scribner’s & Sons, 1934. The first issue jacket, having quotes from T.S. Eliot, H.L. Mencken, and Paul Rosenfeld on the front flap, and $2.50 price not clipped. Housed in a red morocco clamshell. HBS 65615. $17,500

With Ninety-Four Engraved Plates50. FORBES, James. Oriental Memoirs: Selected and Abridges from a Series of familiar Letters Written during Seventeen Years Residence in India: Including Observations on parts of Africa and South America, and a Narrative of Occurrences in Four India Voyages. Illustrated by engravings from original drawings. London: Printed for the author by T. Bensley. Published by White, Cochrane, and Co, 1813. First edition. Four large quarto volumes. HBS 65554. $8,000

First Edition, First Issue of Flaubert’s Masterpiece, “Madame Bovary” In The Original Wrappers

51. FLAUBERT, Gustave. Madame Bovary. Moeurs de Province. Paris: Michel Levy Freres,Libraires-Editeurs, 1857. First issue, with the misspelling “Senart” on the dedication leaf. Both volumes chemised together in a quarter red morocco slipcase. HBS 65282. $17,500

The Most Important Scientific Book of Eighteenth-Century America and The Most Complete Edition of Benjamin Franklin’s Electrical Papers

52. FRANKLIN, Benjamin. Experiments and Observations on Electricity, Made at Philadelphiain America…To which are added, Letters and Papers on Philosophical Subjects. Thewhole corrected, methodized, improved, and now first collected into one volume, andillustrated with copper plates. London: Printed for F. Newberry, 1774. Fifth and most complete edition. Contemporary full calf, rebacked to style. HBS 64589. $6,750

First Edition in a Contemporary Binding53. FRYER, John. A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine YearsTravels, Begun 1672, and Finished 1681. London: Ri[chard] Chiswell, 1698. Full period paneled calf. HBS 65188. $5,000

First Separate Edition in English in a Contemparary Full Calf Binding54. GALILEI, Galileo. Mathematical Discourses concerning Two New Sciences relating toMechanicks and Local Motion, in Four Dialogues. I. Of the Resistance of Solids againstFraction. II. Of the Cause of their Coherence. III. Of Local Motion, viz. Equable, andnaturally Accelerate. IV. Of Violent Motion, or of Projects. With an Appendix concerning the Center of Gravity of Solid Bodies. London: 1730. HBS 65439. $18,500

Most Complete Edition With Over 2,600 Woodcuts in a Contemporary Calf Binding55. GERARD, John. The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes. Gathered by John Gerarde ...Very much enlarged and amended by Thomas Johnson ... London: Printed for AdamIslip, Joice Norton and Richard Whitakers, 1636. Third and most complete edition. HBS 65463. $5,000

Rare First English Edition of “Dead Souls”56. [GOGOL, Nikolai]. Home Life in Russia. By a Russian Nobel. Revised by the Editor of “Revelations of Siberia.” In Two Volumes. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1854. First edition in English. A “translation” of Dead Souls by Gogol. Original green cloth. HBS 64929. $16,500

Forbe’s “Oriental Memoirs” Item. 50

A pair of Sherlock Holmes first impressions

Item. 44

First Edition First Impression of “The Waste Land”

Item. 48

The First Edition of Donne’s “Poems” and “Juvenilia”Item. 43

A Near Fine Copy57. [GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. Troilus and Criseyde. Edited byArundell del Re and with wood engravings by Eric Gill. Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerell Press, 1927. HBS 65281. $9,000

Fifty Beautiful Full-Page Hand-Colored Lithographic Plate58. [GOULD, John, artist]. Birds of Asia [Composite of 50 plates]. London: [Taylor and Francis for the Author, 1850-1883]. A composite of fifty beautiful full-page hand-colored lithographic plate from Gould’s the Birds of Asia set. HBS 65652. $15,000

One of 300 Copies59. [GRABHORN PRESS]. The Santa Fe Trail to California 1849-1852. The Journal and Drawings of H.M.T. Powell. Edited by Douglas S. Watson. San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1931. HBS 65525. $1,500

A Lovely Copy of the Gregynog Xenophon60. [GREGYNOG PRESS]. XENOPHON. Cyrupædia: The Institution and Life of Cyrus, the Firstof that Name, King of the Persians. Eight bookes treating of noble education, of princelyexercises, military discipline, warlike stratagems, preparations & expeditions....Translated out of Greeke into English, and Conferred with the Latine and FrenchTranslations, by Philemon Holland....First printed by J.L. for Robert Allot...and nowfully reprinted from the 1632 edition. Newtown, Mont.: The Gregynog Press, 1936. HBS 65538. $2,750

One of the Most Impressive Books from the Gregynog Press61. [GREGYNOG PRESS].[JOINVILLE, Jean, Sieur de]. The History of Saint Louis by John, Lord of Joinville, Seneschal of Champagne Translated from the French text edited byNatalis de Wailly by Joan Evans. [Newtown,]: The Gregynog Press, 1937. HBS 65522. $2,750

First Edition in Original Dust Jacket62. HAMMETT, Dashiell. The Thin Man. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1934. First edition, first state with the word “seep” for “sleep” on page 209, line 17. HBS 65640. $4,000

A Complete Set of Twelve Hammett Short Story Paperback Originals63. HAMMETT, Dashiell. [A Complete Set of Twelve Hammett Short Story Paperback Originals]. New York: Spivak-Bestseller Mystery, Mercury Mystery, [1943-1962]. First editions of a complete set of twelve digest-sized paperbound originals published in the Bestseller Mystery,

Jonathan Press & Mercury Mystery Series. Housed in a custom quarter morocco clamshell. HBS 65666. $2,000

A Bright, Fine Copy in a Fine Jacket64. HEMINGWAY, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1952. First edition, first issue (with photograph of Hemingway on the rear panel in blue ink.) HBS 65656. $3,500

Editio Princeps Of The Father Of History65. HERODOTUS. Herodoti libri novem, quibus Musarum indita sunt nomina [edited by Aldus Manutius]. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1502. Editio princeps, one of the most important to have been edited bythe great scholar printer-publisher himself. Eighteenth-century black calf. An excellent copy, in a quarter morocco clamshell case. HBS 65436. $45,000

The Foundation for the Most Tragic Episode in the History of Man66. HITLER, Adolf. Mein Kampf eine Abrechnung. Munich:Franz Eher, 1925 & 1927. First edition. Two octavo volumes Original white vellum with yapp edges, spine lettered in black, top edges stained red. Housed in a cloth open-end parchment slipcase. HBS 65302 $12,500

A Beautiful Copy of the First Guide to Yosemite, With Twenty Photographs by Muybridge.67. HITTELL, John S.. [MUYBRIDGE, E.J.]. Yosemite: Its Wonders and Its Beauties. With Information Adapted to the Wants of Tourists About to Visit the Valley...Illustrated with Twenty Photographic Views Taken by “Helios,” [Edweard J. Muybridge] and a Map of the Valley. San Francisco: H. H. Bancroft and Company, 1868. Publisher’s original green cloth over beveled boards. HBS 64813. $32,500

First Edition in Dust Jacket, Inscribed with a Full-Page Original Painting by Hockney68. HOCKNEY, David, [artist]. That’s the way I see it. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., [1993]. First edition. Dust jacket. Inscribed by the author with an original painting on the half-title. With 365 additional illustrations, 315 in color. HBS 65660. $6,000

“One of the Finest Books on Fruit Ever Issued”With Seventy-Seven Beautiful Color-Plates

69. HOGG, Robert & BULL, Henry Graves, [editors]. The Herefordshire Pomona. Containing Coloured Figures and Descriptions of the Most Esteemed Kinds of Apples and Pears. With illustrations drawn and coloured from nature by Miss Ellis and Miss Bull. Hereford and London: Jakeman and Carver. 1876-1885. Contemporary half black morocco over black pebbled cloth boards. HBS 65201. $8,500

One of the Most Influential Books in American and English Jurisprudence70. HOLMES, O[liver] W[endell], Jr. The Common Law. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1881. First edition. HBS 65377. $1,750

First edition of “That’s the way I see it” with an original painting by Hockney

Item. 68

“The Herefordshire Pomona”

Item. 69

“Lone Cowboy: My Life Story”Item. 73

John Gould’s “Birds of Asia” Item. 58

First American Edition Victor Hugo’s Gothic Masterpiece71. HUGO, Victor. The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. With a Sketch of the Life and Writings of the Author: By Frederick Shoberl. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. [II.] Philadelphia: Carey, Lea and Blanchard, 1834. Original blue cloth housed in quarter morocco clamshell. HBS 64520. $5,000

Victor Hugo’s Gothic Masterpiece72. HUGO, Victor. Notre-Dame de Paris. Quatrième édition. Paris: Charles Gosselin, Libraire, 1831. First edition, first printing, fourth issue (“Quatrieme édition”), of Hugo’s gothic masterpiece. It is generally accepted that the publisher indiscriminately printed different editions on the title-page of all copies to make the book seem as if it was now in four editions, however the text is all identical. Contemporary drab boards with green calf spine labels. HBS 65480. $9,500

With an Original Drawing by James73. JAMES, Will. Lone Cowboy: My Life Story. Illustrated by the Author. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1930. First edition. One of 250 copies with an original James drawing bound in on thicker stock. In green cloth slipcase. HBS 64965. $4,750

First Edition of Both Volumes of Johnson’s History of Pyrates74. JOHNSON, Charles. A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the most notorious Pyrates and Also Their Policies, Discipline, and Government... [together with] The History of the Pyrates... London: C. Rivington/ T. Woodward, 1724- [1728]. Uniformly bound in modern paneled, speckled calf. HBS 65580. $5,500

“The Most Amazing, Enduring and Endearing One-Man Featin the Field of Lexicography”

75. JOHNSON, Samuel. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar. London: Printed by W. Strahan, for J. and P. Knapton…, 1755. Full brown calf, rebacked to style with original two calf spine labels. HBS 65682. $20,000

First Edition76. KAFKA, Franz. Die Verwandlung [The Metamorphosis]. Leipzig: Kurt Wolff, [1915]. “In his critical hierarchy of the great prose works ofthe Twentieth Century, Vladimir Nabokov rates Die Verwandlung second behind only James Joyce’s Ulysses” Publisher’s quarter parchment over printed blue boards, housed in a full cloth clamshell. Overall a very good copy. HBS 65383. $5,000

The First English Editions of Kant’s Metaphysical Works in the Original cloth77. KANT, Immanuel. Metaphysical Works of the Celebrated Immanuel Kant, Translated from German, with Sketch of his Life and Writings, by John Richardson, Many Years a Student of the Kantian Philosophy. London: Printed for W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1819. HBS 64481. $3,000

The Magnificent Kelmscott Chaucer78. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CHAUCER, Geoffrey. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer now newly imprinted. [Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1896]. One of 425 copies on paper, out of a total edition of 438 copies. With eighty-seven woodcut illustrations. Original holland-backed blue paper boards. Printed paper label on spine. In a full brown morocco slipcase. HBS 65487. $85,000

The Kelmscott Edition of the First Book Printed in English79. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. CAXTON, William, [translator]. [LEFEVRE, Raoul]. The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. [Hammersmith, London: Kelmscott Press, Sold by Bernard Quaritch, 1892]. One of 300 paper copies printed by William Morris at the Kelmscott Press. Publisher’s full limp vellum with yapp edges. HBS 65521. $8,500

The Kelmscott Press “Utopia”80. [KELMSCOTT PRESS]. MORE, Sir Thomas. Utopia. Written by Sir Thomas More. [London: Sold by Reeves & Turner, 1893]. One of 300 copies on paper, out of a total edition of 308 copies. Original full limp vellum with yapp edges. HBS 65286. $4,500

Warmly Inscribed By Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. To First Major Black Woman On-Camera Newscaster, Joan Murray

81. KING, Martin Luther, Jr. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? New York: Harper & Row Publishers, [1967]. First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Dr. King on the front free endpaper: In an about fine Dust Jacket. HBS 65589. $10,000

The First English Edition of the Second Russian Pacific Voyage82. KOTZEBUE, Otto von. A Voyage of Discovery, into the South Sea and Beering’s Straits, For the purpose of exploring a north-east passage, undertaken in the years 1815-1818, at the expense of His Highness the Chancellor of the Empire, Count Romanzoff, in the ship Rurick, under the command of the Lieutenant in the Russian Imperial Navy, Otto von Kotzebue. Illustrated with numerous plates and maps. London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1821. Three octavo volumes bound in Contemporary half red calf HBS 64735. $8,500

The Egremont Copy of the First Russian Circumnavigation83. KRUSENSTERN, Adam Johann von. Voyage round the World, in the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, & 1806, by Order of His Imperial Majesty Alexander the First, on Board the Ships Nadeshda and Neva, under the Command of Captain A.J. Krusenstern, of the Imperial Navy. In Two Volumes. Translated from the Original German by Richard Belgrave Hoppner, Esq. London: Printed by C. Roworth [Volume II Printed by T. Davison]; for John Murray, 1813. First edition in English. Contemporary green half calf morocco over marbled boards. HBS 65272. $20,000

Kafkas “Metamorphosis”Item. 76

The Kelmscott “Chaucer” Item. 78

Johnson’s “History of Pyrates”

Item. 74

Kotzebue’s “A Voyage of Discovery”Item. 82

The First English Edition, From the Library of Sir Robert Peel’s First Lord of the Admiralty84. LANGSDORFF, Georg Heinrich von. Voyages and Travels in Various Parts of the World, During the Years 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806, and 1807... Illustrated by Engravings from Original Drawings. London: Printed for Henry Colburn, 1813. Contemporary half calf HBS 65273. $20,000

First Edition in German with 213 Large Woodcuts85. LIVIUS, Titus. Romische Historie usz Tito livio gezogen. Mainz: Schoeffer: 1505. 18th century German vellum HBS 65474. $8,500

The First Modern Attempt to Analyze Human Knowledge86. [LOCKE, John]. An Essay Concerning Humane [Human] Understanding. In Four Books. London: Printed [by Elizabeth Holt] for Tho. Basset, and sold by Edw. Mory, 1690. First edition, second issue, with a cancel title-page containing the inverted “SS” of “Essay,” the type ornament composed of twenty-three pieces, and without Elizabeth Holt’s name in the imprint, with the dedication undated, and with the errata uncorrected. Contemporary brown mottled calf. HBS 64538. $32,500

First Edition of “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”87. [MALCOLM X]. HALEY, Alex. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. With the Assistance of Alex Haley. Introduction by M.S. Handler. Epilogue by Alex Haley. New York: Grove Press, Inc., [1965]. In a minimal worn price-clipped jacket. HBS 65680. $850

The Economics of Population88. [MALTHUS, T[homas] R[obert]. An Essay on the Principle of Population; Or, a view of its past and present effects on Human Happiness; With an Inquiry into our prospects respecting the future removal or mitigation of the evils which it occasions. A new edition, very much enlarged. London: Printed for J. Johnson... by T. Bensley, 1803. Contemporary calf, skillfully rebacked to style. HBS 65276. $8,500

The Modern Age of British Economics89. MARSHALL, Alfred. Principles of Economics. Vol. I. [all published]. London: Macmillan and Co. 1890,. Original cloth HBS 64509. $7,500

With Scarce Original Front Wrapper Bound In90. MARX, Karl. Das Kapital. Kritik der politischen Oekonomie. Erster Band. Buch I: Der Produktionsprocess des Kapitals. Hamburg: Verlag von Otto Meissner, 1872. Second edition. Modern full red morocco. HBS 65427. $4,500

First Edition Complete With One Hundred And Twenty Hand-Colored Plates91. MCKENNEY, Thomas L.. HALL, James. History of the Indian Tribes of North America. With Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs Embellished With One Hundred and Twenty Portraits. From the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. Philadelphia: 1836 (Volume I). 1838 (Volume II), 1844 (Volume III). First edition, first issue. Complete with one hundred and twenty hand-colored plates.each volume with title-page in State A. Nineteenth-century three-quarter red morocco, Housed in three full red morocco gilt clamshell cases. HBS 65411. $165,000

The Foundation of the Metric System, From the Library of Frank S. Streeter92. MÉCHAIN, Pierre François André. DELAMBRE, Jean Baptiste Joseph. Base du système mètrique décimal, ou Mesure de l’arc du méridien compris entre les parallèles de Dunkerque et Barcelone, exécutée en 1792 et années suivantes…Paris: Baudoin, Imprimeur de l’Institut National [et] Garnery, 1806-1810. Contemporary French tree calf, with gilt borders. HBS 65393. $35,000

A First Edition, First Issue of “Gone with the Wind”In Dust Jacket93. [MITCHELL, Margaret. Gone with the Wind. New York: The MacMillan Co. 1936. This novel won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1937, and was the basis of the legendary film starring Clark Gable and Vivian Leigh. In an about fine jacket HBS 65601 $10,000

Newton’s “Principia”- Large Paper Copy Bound in Contemporary Full Vellum94. NEWTON, Sir Isaac. Philosophiæ naturalis principia mathematica. Editio tertia aucta & emendata. London: Apud Guil. & Joh. Innys, 1726.Third edition. One of 200 Large-Paper copies on “General Royal paper with the “CC” watermark. “This edition was the last published during the author’s lifetime and the basis of all subsequent editions. in an open ended cloth slipcase. HBS 64483. $55,000

A Complete Set of All of Parry’s Voyages With the Supplements and Appendixes95. PARRY, William E.. [Works]. London: John Murray, 1821-1828. Seven works in five quarto volumes (10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches). Eighty-five plates, charts and maps, three folding letterpress tables, occasional illustrations. Uniform contemporary calf expertly rebacked to style (vols.II-V) or expertly bound to style in modern calf (vol.I), the spines uniform throughout: HBS 65412. $12,500

All the Knowledge of the Ancients, from the Library of theFamous American Naturalist, William Beebe

96. [PLINY, the Elder]. HOLLAND, Philemon, [translator]. The Historie of the World. Commonly called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius Secundus. The First [Second] Tome. London: 1601. Half polished calf over marbled boards. Rebacked. HBS 65204. $7,500

Eighteen Individually Matted Chromolithographs97. PRANG, Louis. [The Complete Set of Civil War Chromolithographs]. Boston: Prang & Co., 1886. In a clamshell case.HBS 65293. $15,000

Pliny’s “The Historie of the World”Item. 96

“Indian Tribes of North America”With One Hundred and Twenty Hand-Colored Plates

Item. 91

Langsdorff’s “Voyages and Travels in

Various Parts of the World”

Item. 84

The Foundation of the Metric SystemItem. 92

The Nouvelle Edition of the Works of Rabelais98. RABELAIS, François. Oeuvres de Maitre François Rabelais, avec des Remarques Historiques et Critiques de Mr. Le Duchat. Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1741. Contemporary tan polished calf. HBS 65592. $3,500

The Signed, Limited Tenth Anniversary Edition99. RAND, Ayn. Atlas Shrugged. New York: Random House, 1967. Tenth Anniversary edition, limited to 2,000 copies signed by the author. This being copy number 1299. With original mylar jacket and blue paper slipcase. HBS 65604. $2,750

Inscribed By Man Ray to Dancer and Artist Corinne Chochem100. RAY, Man. Photographs 1920-1934 Paris. With a Portrait by Picasso - Texts by André Breton Paul Eluard Rrose Sélavy [a.k.a. Marcel Duchamp], Tristan Tzara - Preface by Man Ray. Harford Connecticut/ New York: James Thrall Soby/Random House, [1934]. First edition with the cancel title with the fictitious “second edition”statement. HBS 65586. $7,500

A Beautiful Copy of the First Quarto Edition101. [ROBERTS, David, illustrator]. The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, & Nubia, after Lithographs by Louis Haghe from Drawings made on the spot by David Roberts, R.A. With Historical Descriptions by the Revd. George Croly, L.L.D. [and William Brockedon, F.R.S.]. London: Lithographed, Printed and Published by Day & Son, 1855-1856. Contemporary full red hard-grain morocco HBS 65262. $15,000

First Edition in Original Printed Wrappers102. ROSTAND, Edmond. Cyrano de Bergerac. Comédie Héroïque en Cinq Actes en Vers. Paris: 1898. Housed in a cloth case. HBS65235. $2,500

An Exquisite Copy of the First Edition of Rousseau’s “Confessions”103. ROUSSEAU, J[ean]-J[acques]. Les Confessions de J.J. Rousseau, suivies des Rêveries du promeneur solitaire. Geneva: [no publisher,] 1782.First edition of the first six books of the Confessions and first edition of all of the Reveries of a Solitary Walker. Contemporary full marbled calf. HBS 65349. $6,500

Rousseau’s Seminal Work On Education.104. ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques. Emile ou De l’éducation. The Hague [i.e. Paris]: Chez Jean Néaulme, 1762. First edition, octavo issue (priority still subject to discussion). Contemporary French mottled calf. HBS 65295. $7,500

First Edition in Original Wrappers105. [SAGE, Rufus B.] Scenes in the Rocky Mountains, and in Oregon, California, New Mexico, Texas, and the Grand Prairies; or Notes by the Way, During an Excursion of Three Years, with a Description of the Countries Passed Through, Including their Geography, Geology, Resources, Present Condition, and the Different Nations Inhabitind Them.Philadelphia: 1846. Chemised and housed in a slipcase. HBS 65224. $16,500

A Beautiful Sangorski Illuminated Manuscript In a Jeweled Binding106. SANGORSKI, Alberto, [illuminator]. MOORE, Thomas. SANGORSKI, Alberto, [calligrapher]. Paradise and the Peri. [London: 1909]. HBS 64809. $30,000

The Birth of the Cell Theory107. SCHWANN, Theodor. Mikroskopische Untersuchungen uber die . . . Thiere und Pflanzen. Berlin: G. E. Reimer, 1839. First edition. With all four folding plates at the rear. PMM 307b. Contemporary German speckled boards HBS 65372. $30,000

First Edition, First Issue in Boards, Uncut108. [SCOTT, Sir Walter]. Ivanhoe; A Romance. By “The Author of Waverley,” &c. In Three Volumes. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. Edinburgh; and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., London, 1820. HBS 65268. $10,000

Shakespeare’s Rare ‘Pericles’109. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Late, and much admired Play, called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. With the True Relation of the Whole History, Adventures and Fortunes of the Said Prince. London: Thomas Cotes, 1635. Sixth edition.HBS 65236 $75,000

The Exceedingly Rare Second Quarto Edition of ‘Macbeth’110. SHAKESPEARE, William. [DAVENANT, Sir William, editor]. Macbeth, a Tragedy. With all the Alterations, Amendments, Additions, and New Songs. As it’s now Acted at the Dukes Theatre. London: Printed for P. Chetwin, and are to be Sold by most Booksellers, 1674. First edition of Davenant’s version, and second quarto edition overall. HBS 65242. $37,500

The True First American Editions of ‘Poems’, ‘Romeo and Juliet’, and ‘Othello’111. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare. Corrected From the Latest and Best London Editions, with Notes, by Samuel Johnson, L.L.D. ...First American Edition...Vol. VIII. Philadelphia: Bioren & Madan, 1796. HBS 65089. $5,000

Restoration Actor Thomas Betterton’s Annotated Prompt Copy of ‘Hamlet’ in the Original Wrappers

112. SHAKESPEARE, William. The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark. As it is now Acted at his Highness the Duke of York’s Theatre. London: Printed for H. Heringman and R. Bentley, 1683. An exceptionally large copy in the original marbled wrappers. HBS 65241. $125,000

Item. 100

First Edition, Inscribed By Man RayThe First Edition of Rousseau’s “Confessions”

Item. 103

Prang’s “The Complete Set of Civil War Chromolithographs” Item. 97

“The Holy Land”Item. 101

From the Fourth Folio113. [SHAKESPEARE, William]. The Tragedy of Troilus and Cressida [together with] The Tragedy of Coriolanus [London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685]. HBS 65598. $2,500

First Edition of “Frankenstein”114. SHELLEY, Mary Wollstonecraft. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. In three volumes. London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, 1818. While considered by some as the first science fiction novel, it is credited by most as one of the great novels of English literature. Half 19th century calf over marbled boards, Housed in a full morocco clamshell.HBS 65583. $110,000

One of 250 Copies, Signed by the Author115. STANLEY, Henry M[orton]. In Darkest Africa or The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria. With six etchings and one hundred and fifty woodcut illustrations and maps. London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivinfton, 1890. Edition de Luxe. Two large quarto volumes. HBS 65667. $6,750

A Near Fine Copy of a Great American Novel116. STEINBECK, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: The Viking Press, [1939]. This novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Literature in 1940, and remains one of the most beloved American novels of all time. In Aa very good, price clipped Jacket. HBS 65637. $5,000

First Edition of Stendhal’s Most Celebrated Work117. STENDHAL (Marie Henri Beyle). Le Rouge et le noir. Chronique du XIXe siècle. Paris: A. Levavasseur, 1831. Extremely scarce first edition of Stendhal’s most celebrated work. Contemporary or early half green morocco over marbled endpapers . HBS 65501. $30,000

Stevenson’s Very Rare First Book in Original Printed Green Wrappers,118. [STEVENSON, Robert Louis]. Pentland Rising: A Page of History, 1666. Edinburgh: Andrew Elliot, 1866. First edition of Stevenson’s first work, published when he was only sixteen years old. Chemised in a quarter red morocco slipcase. HBS 64892. $5,000

First Edition of Jekyll and Hyde in the Original Wrappers119. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1886. In a custom full morocco clamshell. HBS 65129. $4,500

Stoeffler’s Compendium of Astronomical, Cosmographical, Medical, and Historical Writings120. STOEFFLER, Johann. Calendarium Romanum magnum, Cæsaree maiestati dicatum…[Oppenheim: Per Jacobum Köbel, 1518]. First edition. Folio. Calendar and tables printed in red and black. Contemporary full brown calf. HBS 65428. $25,000

First Edition, First Printing in Original Cloth,121. STOWE, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom’s Cabin. or, Life Among the Lowly. Boston: John Jewett & Company, 1852. With a note written and signed by the author tipped in on the front free endpaper of volume I. Housed in a quarter morocco slipcase. HBS 65651. $8,500

First Edition of “Gulliver’s Travels”122. [SWIFT, Jonathan]. Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726. Contemporary full calf, with an early rebacking. HBS 65620. $5,000

With Fifteen Original Lithographs123. TAMAYO, Rufino, [artist]. Apocalypse de Saint Jean. Monaco: Club International de Bibliophilie Jaspard, Polus & Cie, 1959. This book is considered Tamayo’s most beautiful and ambitious book. Housed in a chemise and custom cloth clamshell. HBS 65573. $4,500

First Edition, Second Issue in Original Cloth124. THOREAU, Henry David. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1862. HBS 65483. $3,000

First Edition in Original Publisher’s Binding and the First Book Appearance of ‘Civil Disobedience’

125. THOREAU, Henry D[avid]. A Yankee in Canada, with Anti-Slavery and Reform Papers. Boston: 1866. HBS 65494. $1,500

“One of the Most Important Texts in Political Literature”126. TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. De la démocratie en Amérique, par Alexis de Tocqueville, avocat à lacour royale de Paris, l’un des auteurs du livre intitulé: Du système penitentiaire aux États-Unis.... . Paris: 1835 Contemporary quarter tan calf HBS 65585. $15,000

With a Presentation Inscription by the Author127. TOCQUEVILLE, Alexis de. De la démocratie en Amérique, par Alexis de Tocqueville, avocat à la cour royale de Paris, l’un des auteurs du livre intitulé: Du système penitentiaire aux États-Unis. Orné d’une carte d’Amérique. Paris: 1835-1840. Uniformly bound in contemporary quarter dark blue calf, chemised and housed together in a cardboard slipcase with red morocco tips. HBS 65329. $65,000

“Democracy In America” Item. 126

Tamayo’s “Apocalypse de Saint Jean.” Item. 123

Item. 110

The Second Quarto “Macbeth”

Rare Twain Ephemera “Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1894.”

Item: 132

Item. 130

Earliest issue of “Huckleberry Finn” Item. 131 First Edition “Huckleberry Finn”

First Edition of“Frankenstein”Item. 114

First Edition First Printing Of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

Item. 123

First Edition of “Gulliver’s Travels”

Item. 122

“The Red and the Black”

Item. 117

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First Edition of “War and Peace”128. TOLSTOY, Leo. Voina i Mir [War and Peace]. Moscow: 1868-1869. Seven parts in six octavo volumes, Contemporary Russian green pebble-grain cloth boards, recent black morocco spine HBS 64925. $37,500

First Edition in English of “War and Peace” in the Original Cloth129. TOLSTOY, Leo. War and Peace. A Historical Novel. Translated into French by a Russian Lady and from the French by Clara Bell. Revised and Corrected in the United States. New York: William S. Gottsberger, 1886-1887. Mixed issue. HBS 65176. $5,000

A Lovely First Edition early issue of Huckleberry Finn in the Original Cloth130. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885. HBS 65655. $8,500

The First Edition, Earliest Issue with the Earliest State of Page 283and Bound in the Rare Half-Morocco Publisher’s Binding

131. TWAIN, Mark. KEMBLE, E.W., [illustrator]. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). Scene: The Mississippi Valley. Time: Forty to Fifty Years Ago…New York: Charles L. Webster and Co., 1885. Housed in a half-morocco clamshell. HBS 65544. $13,500

A Rare Piece Of Twain Ephemera132. TWAIN, Mark. Pudd’nhead Wilson’s Calendar for 1894. New York: The Century Company, 1893. First edition, BAL variant C, with thumb-print illustration. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell. HBS 65624. $2,250

A Special Copy With More Photos Than Any Other Known Copy133. VISCHER, [Edward]. Pictorial of California. Landscape. Trees and Forest Scene. Grand Features of California Scenery, Life, Traffic and Customs. San Francisco: Joseph Winterburn & Co., 1870-1872. First edition, later and best issue with nearly double the amounts of plates of the firstissue. Three Volume set including the scarce mission supplement. HBS 64760. $35,000

First Paperback Photoplay Edition In The Rare Original Wrappers134. VON HARBOU, Thea. Metropolis. Berlin: August Scherl, [1926]. First paperback photoplay edition. HBS 65545. $2,500

First Edition Signed by the Author135. VONNEGUT, Kurt. Cat’s Cradle. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1963]. In a very good jacket. HBS 65165. $4,500

An Early Manuscript of the Most Popular Dominican Work, with a Provenance from a Great Dominican Convent

136. VORAGINE, Jacobus de. Legenda aurea. Italy (Venice?): 1300. Illuminated manuscript on vellum. Two columns of thirty-four lines. Written by two Italian scribes in black ink in gothic bookhands between four verticals and thirtyfive horizontals ruled in faint brown, the verticals extending across the margins HBS 65438. $185,000

A Collaborative Work between Andy Warhol and his Mother with a Presentation in Her Hand137. [WARHOL, Andy]. Holy Cats By Andy Warhol’s Mother. [New York: Privately Printed, 1957]. In a cloth clamshell HBS 65603. $6,000

First Edition of the First Major Dictionary Published in America138. WEBSTER, Noah. An American Dictionary of the English Language…New York: Published by S. Converse, 1828. The file copy from Merriam Webster Co., with their label on both front free endpapers. Original reversed calf, in a cloth slipcase. HBS 65559. $20,000

A First Edition of West’s Classic, in Dust Jacket139. WEST, Nathanael. The Day of the Locust. New York: Random House, [1939]. HBS 65644. $4,500

Limited Edition, Signed By Virginia Woolf140. WOOLF, Virginia. Orlando. A Biography New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.First edition, limited to 861 copies, one of 800 numbered copies signed by the author in her signature color. This being number 818. HBS 65642. $2,250

A Beautiful Copy of Her Landmark Work, In Original Dust Jacket141. WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929. First edition. HBS 65643. $6,500

The Shakespeare Head Yeats142. [SHAKESPEARE HEAD PRESS]. YEATS, William Butler. The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats. Imprinted at the Shakespeare Head Press, Stratford-on-Avon. London: Chapman & Hall, 1908. HBS 64999. $4,500

First Edition of Zuallart’s Journey to Jerusalem With Fifty-One Engravings143. ZUALLARDO, Giovanni. Il Devotissimo Viaggio Di Gerusalemme. Fatto, & descritto in sei libri dal Sigr. Giovanni Zuallardo, Cavaliero del Santiss Sepolcro di N.S. l’anno 1586. Aggiontovi i disegni di varii di varii luoghi di Terra Santa & altri paesi ntagliati da Natale Bonifacio Dalmata. Rome: F. Zanetti & Gia Ruffinelli, 1587. HBS 65681. $8,500

Front Cover Image: A hand-colored plate from “The Herefordshire Pomona.” Item number 69. Back Cover Image: Ten Modern first editions. Item numbers 87, 81, 141, 21, 93, 64, 62, 139, 49, 116.

“Orlando”

Item. 140

“Metropolis” In the rare Original wrappersItem. 134

A Collaborative Work between Andy Warhol and his Mother Item. 137