Holiday 2020 Catalogue

H o l i d a y G i f t s 84 With 123 Lovely Hand-Colored Flower Lithographs 110. HARRISON, Joseph. Floricultural Cabinet, and Florist’s Magazine. London, 1833. Nine volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green calf gilt. $3000. First nine volumes of the most popular horticultural periodical in 19th-century England, with 123 hand-colored lithographs (two folding) and occasional in-text illustrations and garden plans. Interiors near-fine, with only light foxing (mostly to the first and last few leaves). Handsome and rare. “The Aspect Of The Venerable Mansion Has Always Affected Me Like A Human Countenance” 111. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The House of the Seven Gables, A Romance. Boston, 1851. Octavo, original brown cloth rebacked with original spine laid down. $1800. First edition, second printing, of this tale of an early 19th-century household, “solitary, declining, haunted by an ancestral curse,” one of 1969 copies published in April 1851, the same month as the first printing. Text with occasional faint dampstaining, mild soiling; original cloth skillfully rebacked with original spine laid down and new endpapers. Scarce and very good. Hazlitt’s Life Of Napoleon , Richly Extra-Illustrated 112. HAZLITT, William. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Paris and Boston, 1895. Six volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter red morocco gilt. $3100. Limited “Edition de Grand Luxe” of Hazlitt’s important biography of Napoleon, one of 500 sets produced, with 39 engraved portraits and scenes—this set richly extra- illustrated with 157 additional plates, in six volumes handsomely bound by Bayntun. Morocco bookplates of Julia Parker Wightman, who amassed an extraordinary library primarily composed of fine bindings, children’s books, miniatures, and illustrated books, most of which she bequeathed to the Morgan Library. Expert repair to a few joints. Very handsome and richly extra-illustrated. Inscribed By Jim Henson (And Bert And Ernie) 113. (HENSON, Jim) FORD, B.G. Don’t Forget the Oatmeal! A Supermarket Word Book. New York, 1980. Slim quarto, original pictorial paper boards. $1600. First edition of this combined story and pictorial dictionary of supermarket words featuring Jim Henson’s Sesame Street muppets, illustrated by Jean Chandler, inscribed by muppetmaster Jim Henson: “from Jim Henson & Bert & Ernie.” Small auction house label and pen notation. Only light rubbing and soiling to boards. Extremely good.