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F e a t u r e d I t e m s 4 “The Greatest Work In The History Of Science”: First Edition In English Of Newton’s Principia 1. NEWTON, Isaac. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Translated into English by Andrew Motte. To which are added, the Laws of the Moon’s Motion, according to Gravity. London, 1729. Two volumes. Octavo, modern full paneled brown calf gilt. $125,000. First edition in English of Newton’s Principia, published two years after his death, with 49 folding plates and tables. This copy with the scarce engraved frontispieces (in Volume II bound opposite page 148, as sometimes found). First published in Latin in 1687, “the Principia is generally described as the greatest work in the history of science. Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler had certainly shown the way; but where they described the phenomena they observed, Newton explained the underlying universal laws. The Principia provided the greatest synthesis of the cosmos, proving finally its physical unity. Newton showed that the important and dramatic aspects of nature that were subject to the universal lawof gravitation could be explained, in mathematical terms, with a single physical theory. With him the separation of the natural and supernatural, of sublunar and superlunar worlds disappeared. The same laws of gravitation and motion rule everywhere; for the first time a single mathematical law could explain the motion of objects on earth as well as the phenomena of the heavens. The whole cosmos is composed of inter-connecting parts influencing each other according to these laws. It was this grand conception that produced a general revolution in human thought, equaled perhaps only by that following Darwin’s Origin of Species… [Newton] is generally regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time and the founder of mathematical physics” (PMM 161). With scarce copper-engraved frontispieces and three headpieces by the translator Andrew Motte. Bound without half titles, as usual. Babson 20. Gray 23. Norman 1587. Two leaves with marginal paper repair, one leaf in Volume I (C3) with corner tear with loss affecting a few words, plates and text otherwise exceptionally crisp and fine. A very handsome, complete copy. Featured Items
5 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s “The Greatest Historical Work Ever Written”: Rare Full First Edition Set Of Gibbon’s Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire 2. GIBBON, Edward. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. London, 1776. Six volumes. Quarto, contemporary full tan calf expertly and sympathetically rebacked. $37,500. First edition set, with portrait of Gibbon by Joseph Hall after Sir Joshua Reynolds and three engraved folding maps of the Western and Eastern Roman Empire and of Constantinople by Kitchin, in nicely restored contemporary calf. “This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works… Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equaled to this day; and the result was clothed in inimitable prose” (PMM 222). The Decline and Fall “is still entitled to be esteemed as the greatest historical work ever written” (Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, 146-7). Volume I is the second state of the first edition, as often, with X4 and a4 unsigned and the errata corrected up to page 228 (while in the process of printing the first edition of 500 copies, the printer increased the order to 1000 copies; certain corrections were made in the first two hundred or so pages of the book in the second 500 copies, the remainder of the text being the same in all 1000 copies—all copies were offered for sale the same day, and the point is regarded by most as not of great significance—see Norton, 38-9). The map of Constantinople (which is full-sized and folding, rather than trimmed to fit as sometimes found) and map of the Eastern Roman Empire bound in Volume II; map of the Western Roman Empire bound at the beginning of Volume III. With errata pages in Volumes I, II, III, and VI (for Vols. IV, V, and VI); bound with all half titles. Norton 20. Rothschild 942. Grolier 100. Old ink shelf markings on front pastedown of each volume. Only occasional faint foxing to generally clean text, folding map in Volume II with split along fold expertly repaired on verso, expert restoration to corners. A rare full first edition set of Gibbon’s classic work, in excellent condition. “I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all.”— Winston Churchill
F e a t u r e d I t e m s 6 “The Clearest Of All Expositions Of The Basic Principles Of Democracy” (PMM) 3. PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke’s Attack on the French Revolution. Second Edition. BOUND WITH: Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. London, 1791, 1792. Octavo, modern half brown calf, custom clamshell box. $25,000. Extremely rare 1791-1792 editions of Paine’s revolutionary classic, containing the scarce second edition of Rights of Man (Part I), issued within days of the first edition, together in one volume with the rarely found first edition, first issue of Part the Second. Written “with a force and clarity unequalled even by Burke, Paine laid down those principles of fundamental human rights which must stand, no matter what excesses are committed to obtain them… Rights of Man was an immediate success… The government tried to suppress it, but it circulated the more briskly. Those who bought it as the work of an inflamed revolutionary were surprised by its dignity and moderation: even Pitt could say that he was quite in the right—‘but what am I to do? As things are, if I were to encourage Tom Paine’s opinions we should have a bloody revolution’… [Rights of Man is] the textbook of radical thought and the clearest of all expositions of the basic principles of democracy” (PMM 241). “Paine’s attack on the monarchy went farther than he had attempted on Common Sense or the Crisis series… Rights of Man was one of the most ardent and clear defenses of human rights, liberty and equality in any language… Rights of free speech, opinion, conscience, association (in America those rights became embodied in the first amendment to the Constitution in the same year the first part of the Rights of Man appeared) were all part of the natural rights which a properly constituted government must protect” (Fruchtman, 225). The first edition, first issue, of Part I (with Johnson’s title page imprint) is historically so rare that it has been considered virtually unacquirable. The first edition, second issue, with Johnson’s text sheets and Jordan’s title page and preface, is exceptionally rare. This stated second edition, issued by Jordan only three days later, is one of the earliest obtainable. First issue, variant a with press figures: 38(none), 39(1), 42(1), 71(1), 74(4), 84(1), 114(1), 126(none), 133(4), 138(1), 146(4), 159(none), 165(none) (Gimbel-Paine, 88). Containing Paine’s “Preface to the English Edition”; dedication to George Washington. First edition of Part the Second, with the following variant points, no priority determined: uncorrected catchword “Anothe” (vii); “CHAP. IV” corrected (instead of “CAAP. IV”); press figure 105-5. Both parts bound without half titles; Part II bound without two rear leaves of publisher’s advertisements. Scattered light foxing, title page of Part I restored along inner margin. A very good copy.
7 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s Majestic Large Folio Volume Of 84 Of Holbein’s Beautiful Color Portraits Of The Court Of Henry VIII, With The Very Rare Extra Suite Of 8 Plates Of The Court Of Francis II 4. (HOLBEIN, Hans) CHAMBERLAINE, John. Imitations of Original Drawings by Hans Holbein, In the Collection of His Majesty, For the Portraits of Illustrious Persons of the Court of Henry VIII. London, 1792-1800. Large folio (17-1/2 by 22-1/2 inches), 19th-century full dark green morocco gilt. $38,000. First edition of Chamberlaine’s magnificent volume of 84 color stipple-engraved plates, rarely found complete, an impressive collection of fullpage engravings after Holbein’s legendary portraits of Jane Seymour, Anne Boleyn, Sir Thomas More, a young Edward VI, Anne of Cleves, and other court figures, with color frontispiece portraits of Holbein and his wife, with all but four portraits engraved by the great Bartolozzi. With the very rare extra suite of eight Holbein portraits of the court of Francis II, only included with some copies. Beautifully bound. The majestic portraiture of Holbein, who died in London in 1543, “remains unsurpassed for sureness and economy of statement, penetration into character, and a combined richness and purity of style” (Waterhouse). At the end of the 18th century, John Chamberlaine, in the court of George III, sought to bring together a work to pay tribute to Holbein’s magnificent artistry. As the king’s Keeper of the Drawings, he assembled 84 splendid color stipple-engraved full-page portraits of Edward VI, Anne Boleyn, Thomas More, Jane Seymour, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Anne of Cleves, and other major figures of the age. “One of the most magnificent books that we have ever seen, and, whether we consider the genius of the painter or the talents of the engravers, reflects high honor on the age and nation which produced it” (London Monthly Review). Color-inked on the plates, these intricate stipple-engraved portraits comprise “inestimable examples of English color printing at its best” (Joan Friedman). “This magnificent work is surely the finest early example of English color printing” (Ray, English 19). “In every way a splendid book” (Abbey, Life 205). Initially issued serially in 14 parts from 1792-1800. This volume’s 84 beautiful portraits, some printed on pink paper, were achieved with techniques that admirably succeed in honoring Holbein’s portraiture. The plates were etched or engraved in gray or sepia ink, with additional colored inks applied a la poupee, two hand-colored. Text by Edmund Lodge. The suite of eight additional portraits of the court of Francis II is all that was published of “an intended continuation to Chamberlaine’s Imitations. It will be noticed that all eight are without dated imprints, and it is therefore probable that no copies were issued to the public until the stock was acquired many years later by Messrs. Bohn, who added them as a Supplement to copies of the earlier work” (Abbey, Life 206). Some plates mounted. One plate with repaired tear, plates exceptionally clean and fresh, binding beautiful. A stunning production.
F e a t u r e d I t e m s 8 “A Just Portrait Of The Enchanting Features Of India”: With 24 Large Splendid Hand-Colored Views Of Indian Scenery 5. (INDIA) FORREST, Charles Ramus. A Picturesque Tour along the Rivers Ganges and Jumna in India: Consisting of Twenty-four Highly Finished and Coloured Views… from Original Drawings Made on the Spot. London, 1824. Large quarto (10-1/2 by 13 inches), late 19th-century three-quarter red morocco gilt. $20,000. First edition of this renowned India color-plate book, boasting 24 splendidly hand-colored aquatint views after original drawings by Forrest and large folding map showing the Ganges and the Jumna, handsomely bound by J. Adams. A spectacular series of views made by Forrest during a voyage along the Ganges and its tributary the Jumna, including plates of Benares, Allahabad, Lucknow, Delhi and the Taj Mahal in Agra. With folding engraved map, hand-colored vignette title page and vignette tailpiece, and 122-page history of India. Plates watermarked 1825; Abbey notes watermarks of 1824. Tooley 227. Abbey, Travel 441. Occasional inoffensive foxing, usual light offsetting, binding handsome. A near-fine copy of an impressive production.
9 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s “One Of The Most Durable Works In American Literature”: First Edition, First State, Of Tom Sawyer, One Of Only A Few Hundred Copies In Scarce Publisher’s Morocco-Gilt 6. TWAIN, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Hartford, 1876. Square octavo, publisher’s three-quarter brown morocco gilt, custom slipcase. $46,000. First American edition, first state, of one of the uncontested, great masterpieces of American literature—and “one of the few books enjoyed by readers of every age… The captivating myth of the little town of long ago on the bank of the Great River” (LeMaster & Wilson)—in scarce handsome publisher’s morocco-gilt. “The first novel Mark Twain wrote without a co-author, Tom Sawyer is also his most clearly autobiographical novel… Enlivened by extraordinary and melodramatic events, it is otherwise a realistic depiction of the experiences, people and places that Mark Twain knew as a child” (Rasmussen, 459). Originally published in England (without illustrations), Tom Sawyer arrived at a momentous point in American history: Custer had recently lost the battle at Little Big Horn and America was celebrating its centennial. “Publication of Tom Sawyer was little noticed… The book has, however, proved to be one of the most durable works in American literature. By the time of Twain’s death, it was his top-selling book. It has been in print continuously since 1876, and has outsold all other Mark Twain works” (Rasmussen, 459). “This was a true boys book, and surviving copies are proof of how rough little boys can be on books” (MacDonnell, 40). First printing, first state (with “THE” on half title in 10-point rather than 14-point type), printed on wove paper, with preliminary matter paginated [I]-XVI. This copy with no flyleaves at front and one flyleaf at rear: “The number [of flyleaves] varies and thus far no study of the book reveals a preferred state. It would appear that the number of leaves was dependent wholly upon the whim of the individual binder, a questionable quantity that cannot be analyzed” (Peter Parley to Penrod, 43). The endpapers have been renewed to secure the text block in its original binding. As noted above, commercial success came slowly for the title: “The first and second printings were only 5000 copies each, and one month after publication only 9378 copies had been bound,” only 200 of which were bound as here, in the publisher’s three-quarter morocco-gilt; “by the end of 1879 the number of copies sold was just 28,959,” only 300 of which were bound in the publisher’s three-quarter morocco (MacDonnell, 39). BAL 3369. Johnson, 27-30. MacBride, 40. Interior generally clean, endpapers renewed, with faint traces of original peach endpapers present, minor color restoration to corners. An extremely attractive copy, most rare and desirable in the scarce publisher’s morocco-gilt. “Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a longhandled brush…
F e a t u r e d I t e m s 10 16-Volume Set Of Strickland’s Lives Of The Queens Of England, With Hand-Painted Portraits Inset Into The Front Cover Of Each Volume: One Of Only Seven Sets With The 250 Illustrations In Quadruple Suite, One Suite Hand-Colored 7. STRICKLAND, Agnes. Lives of the Queens of England, From the Norman Conquest. Philadelphia, 1902-03. Sixteen volumes. Octavo, publisher’s deluxe full navy morocco gilt, morocco doublures with inset hand-painted portraits and inlays, custom slipcases. $22,000. Beautifully bound and richly illustrated “Alexandra Edition” of Strickland’s detailed history, one of only 7 sets copies printed on Japan vellum, with each of the approximately 250 illustrations printed in quadruple suite: one on Holland handmade paper and handcolored, on on India paper, one on papier de Chine, and one on Japanese vellum, including portraits, scenes and views. Each volume bound in full morocco, with a hand-painted portrait of one of the queens set into the full morocco doublure inside the front cover. “Miss Strickland’s fame as anauthor andhistorian rests on the Lives of the Queens of England, which was the joint work of herself and her sister Elizabeth… In her extracts from contemporary authorities she amassed much valuable material, and her works contain pictures of the court, of society and of domestic life not to be found elsewhere” (DNB). The illustrations in each volume are presented in four suites: one on Holland handmade paper and finely finished by hand in watercolors, one on India proof paper and tipped in, one on papier de Chine, and one on Japanese vellum. First published 1840-48. A duplicate set of the plates printed on satin (presumably in a separate case) is mentioned on the limitation page, but not present. This set was printed for subscriber Agnes Carey, as stated on the limitation page. Interiors clean and fine, a few volumes with minor color restoration, spines without red morocco floral onlays, expert reinforcement to some joints and to two text blocks, as well as to some slipcases. An exceptionally good example of this splendidly illustrated and bound set. Quite scarce.
11 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s Signed By Albert Einstein: Two Important Early Scientific Papers, Including His Doctoral Dissertation 8. EINSTEIN, Albert. Annalen der Physik. Vierte Folge. Band 19. No. 2. Leipzig, 1906. Octavo, later drab paper wrappers, custom clamshell box. $52,000. First printing of two early and important Einstein papers: a revised edition of his doctoral dissertation, and his paper on Brownian motion, signed by Einstein in 1950 (“A. Einstein (50)”) on page 289, the first page of his dissertation. Einstein’s doctoral dissertation, “Eine Neue Bestimmung der Molekueldimensionen” [A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions] appears on pp. 289-306, while his follow-up treatise, “Zur Theorie der Brownschen Bewegung” [On the Theory of Brownian Motion] appears on pp. 371-81. Einstein’s biographer, physicist Abraham Pais, observed that “it is not sufficiently realized that Einstein’s doctoral thesis is one of his most fundamental papers,” and historian of science John Stachel, in his monograph “Einstein’s Miraculous Year: Five Papers that Changed the Face of Physics” (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998), argued that Einstein’s doctoral thesis was a landmark work. According to Stachel, Einstein’s doctoral thesis “combined the techniques of classical hydrodynamics with those of the theory of diffusion to create a new method for the determination of molecular sizes and of Avogadro’s number… Einstein’s concerns extended beyond this particular question to more general problems of the foundations of the theory of radiation and the existence of atoms. [Einstein] later emphasized… ‘A precise determination of the size of molecules seems to me of the highest importance because Planck’s radiation formula can be tested more precisely through such a determination through measurements on radiation.’ The dissertation also marked the first major success in Einstein’s effort to find further evidence for the atomic hypothesis, an effort that culminated in his explanation of Brownian motion. By the end of 1905 he had published three independent methods for determining molecular dimensions.” Einstein’s dissertationwas first published in Bern, byWyss, in 1905, in a very small edition, largely for Einstein’s own use to secure his doctorate and to apply for jobs. “The judges at the university in Zurich were satisfied with Einstein’s results, but Paul Drude, the editor of Annalen, was not. Einstein had submitted his treatise to Drude in August 1905, after the conclusion of the degree procedure; however, it was published not within the customary eight weeks, but only about six months later. This had never before happened with any of Einstein’s papers, nor did it ever happen afterward. Drude evidently knew of better data for sugar solutions and must have asked for a small addendum. Einstein supplied it at the beginning of the following year, with a substantially improved result for the Avogadro constant” (Fölsing, 127). With folding plate at rear depicting several tables. Weil 7a, 11. This volume was signed by Einstein for Lewis Strauss, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Interior clean, closed tears to wrappers along spine, binding sound. A very good copy, very rare and desirable signed by Einstein.
F e a t u r e d I t e m s 12 “They Are Calling From The Wilderness, The Vast And Godlike Spaces/ The Stern And Sullen Solitudes That Sentinel The Pole”: 1909 First Edition Of The Heart Of The Antarctic, Boldly Inscribed By Shackleton In The Year Of Publication With Four Lines Of Verse 9. SHACKLETON, Ernest. The Heart of the Antarctic. Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909. London, 1909. Two volumes. Large octavo, original silver-stamped blue cloth. $25,000. First trade edition of Shackleton’s account of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1907-09, profusely illustrated with photographs, plans, diagrams, and three folding maps and a folding panorama, boldly inscribed and signed by the explorer in Volume I, with four lines of verse from Robert Service’s poem “The Lure of Little Voices”: “To Catherine Eckstein from her friend Ernest Shackleton the author. Dec 1909. ‘They are wanting me they’re calling me/ They are whining and they’re whimpering as if each one had a soul/ They are calling from the wilderness, the vast and godlike spaces/ The stern and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole.’” Shackleton first gained fame as a member of Scott’s expedition of 1901-02. Here he recounts his 1907-09 expedition which came within 100 miles of the South Pole—a record-before being forced to return due to lack of supplies (Amundsen, taking a much shorter route, reached the Pole in 1911). This was the first expedition to reach the Magnetic South Pole and the first to ascend the active volcano Mt. Erebus. Beneath his presentation inscription Shackleton has written out the third stanza of Robert W. Service’s poem “The Lure of Little Voices”—at least as well as the explorer was able to recall it. The first line in Service’s poem actually reads “Yes, they’re wanting me, they’re haunting me, the awful lonely places.” The recipient of this copy, Catherine Eckstein, was the wife of Sir Frederick Eckstein, the de Beers diamond magnate, and two days after Shackleton’s return to London she was the first to host a dinner for the explorer. It took place at their house on Park Lane on 14 June 1909, and was a lavish affair: “A green and blue gauze were put together, to look like the sea, and between the folds fishes were placed. On the top of this a large sheet of plate glass was laid, edged around with seaweed. In the center was a model of the Nimrod made entirely of flowers, the ropes done with white heather and a Union jack flying from the topmast” (The Morning Post, 17 June 1909, quoted by Roland Huntford, Shackleton, 1985). Without scarce dust jackets. Conrad, 148. Renard 1446. Some foxing to edges of text block, text and plates generally clean and fine. Spine mildly toned, gilt lettering and pictorial silver-gilt bright, cloth clean and fresh. Very nearly fine condition, a splendid inscribed copy.
13 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s “Pour F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Well-Known Author”: Tales Of The Jazz Age, Inscribed By Fitzgerald 10. FITZGERALD, F. Scott. Tales of the Jazz Age. New York, 1922. Octavo, original dark green cloth, custom clamshell box. $35,000. First edition, presentation copy inscribed: “For Jeannette Baker, pour F. Scott Fitzgerald, the well-known author.” Fitzgerald’s second collection of stories includes his masterpieces “A Diamond as Big as the Ritz” and “May Day.” It was Fitzgerald’s claim that he had coined the term “Jazz Age.” Always retaining his affection for this era, Fitzgerald would later write, “It is the custom now to look back on the boom days with a disapproval that approaches horror. But it had its virtues, that old boom: Life was a great deal larger and gayer for most people and the stampede to the Spartan virtues in time of war and famine should not make us too dizzy to remember its hilarious glory” (Turnbull, 225). “Scribners’ records show three printings of The Jazz Age in 1922.” The printings were not differentiated by the publisher, however the textual correction of “and” to “an” on page 232, line 6, “was probably made in the third printing” (Bruccoli), indicating that this copy is from either the first or the second printing. Without original dust jacket. Bruccoli A9.I.a. The recipient, Jeannette Baker, has presented this copy with an ink inscription beneath Fitzgerald’s: “To Jennifer Lee Blair (?), on her birthday, Oct 1, 1964, from her mama, Jeanette Baker Lee, in remembrance of innocent fun of the jazz age 42 years ago.” Upper corner of “A Table of Contents” clipped, just touching letterpress on page [viii], front inner paper hinge expertly reinforced, spine head pulled, very faint discoloration to front board. A very good copy, inscription and signature large and clear. Scarce and desirable inscribed. “At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me…”
F e a t u r e d I t e m s 14 “For Jonathan Daniels Christmastide 1944 From Franklin D. Roosevelt”: Exceedingly Rare Limited Edition Of FDR’s Moving June 6, 1944 D-Day Prayer, One Of Only 100 Copies, Inscribed To His Future White House Press Secretary 11. ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. D-Day Prayer by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House. June 6, 1944. Washington, December, 1944. Slim quarto, original half ivory vellum, slipcase. $25,000. Limited edition, one of only 100 copies, President Roosevelt’s final Christmas Book, inscribed by FDR for presentation to close friends and family (as in this copy to his administrative assistant and future press secretary): “For Jonathan Daniels Christmastide 1944 From Franklin D. Roosevelt” with his penned “61” on the colophon page. Roosevelt died in office less than four months later. Especially “difficult to obtain today… FDR’s Christmas Books are prime collector’s items… nearly all of them were distributed exclusively to close friends of the family” (Halter, 194). On June 6, 1944, Roosevelt went on the radio “to address the nation for the first time about the Normandy invasion. His speech took the form of a prayer. The date and timing of the Normandy invasion had been top secret. During a national radio broadcast on June 5 about the Allied liberation of Rome, Roosevelt had made no mention of the Normandy operation, already underway at that time. When he spoke to the country on June 6, the President felt the need to explain his earlier silence. Shortly before he went on the air, he added several handwritten lines to the opening of his speech that addressed that point. They read: “Last night, when I spoke to you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel” (Presidential Library). The June 6, 1944 edition of The Christian Science Monitor reported that President Roosevelt wrote this prayer “in his study during the night as the news of the invasion began to reach the White House.” With nearly 100 million listening, FDR’s “D-Day Prayer was an extraordinary event in U.S. religious history” (Malcolm). Limited edition, one of only 100 copies issued: “privately printed… and at his own expense.” This was the President’s final Christmas Book; “FDR Christmas Books are prime collector’s items… nearly all of them were distributed exclusively to close friends of the family… difficult to obtain today” (Halter, 193-4). Precedes the 1945 printing of the D-Day Prayer in a monograph with the speech’s original title, Let Our Hearts Be Stout. Without scarce acetate. See Halter T796. This copy is inscribed to Jonathan Daniels, the son of Josephus Daniels who served as Secretary of the Navy during World War I. Roosevelt worked under Josephus Daniels as Assistant Secretary. The two were close friends. Jonathan Daniels flirted with journalism and law, before he settled on a career in government. His father’s relationship with Roosevelt allowed for an easy entry into the field. Daniels was initially named Assistant Director of the Office of Civilian Defense and later became one of President Roosevelt’s six administrative assistants. Less than one month before his death, Roosevelt named Daniels as Press Secretary. Although Daniels temporarily carried on past Roosevelt’s death, his 37-day term in the role remains one of the shortest. Today, he is perhaps best known for the book, The Time Between the Wars, which revealed the affair between Roosevelt and Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd (Eleanor Roosevelt’s former social secretary). Book with only faint foxing to spine. Mild rubbing and toning to slipcase extremities. A handsome near-fine copy with interesting provenance.
15 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s Wonderful Original Drawing Of Mickey Mouse, Inscribed By Maurice Sendak To A Close Friend 12. SENDAK, Maurice. Original drawing inscribed [Mickey Mouse]. Ridgefield, Connecticut, 1975. Pen-and-ink illustration, measuring 5-1/4 by 6-3/4 inches; handsomely matted and framed, entire piece measures 8-3/4 by 103/4 inches. $9500. Beautiful original drawing of Mickey Mouse— who shared Maurice Sendak’s birthday— with a speech balloon reading: “One Mickey Mouse Birthday deserves another!”, additionally inscribed to a close friend and neighbor: “For Betty—All best wishes to you! Maurice Sendak. July 12, 75.” Sendak and Mickey Mouse were both “born” in 1928 and Sendak maintained a deep affinity for his cartoon counterpart. “Sendak credited his decision to become an illustrator to watching the Walt Disney film ‘Fantasia’ when he was 12” (Penn Live Patriot News). He was also an enthusiastic Mickey collector for much of his life and his impressive and valuable collection was sold at auction after his death. The former owner of this drawing was Maurice Sendak’s neighbor, Andrew, from Ridgefield, Connecticut. Sendak bought a home and studio in Ridgefield in 1972 with his longtime partner, Eugene Glynn, and lived there until his death. Andrew first encountered Sendak in 1975 during one of his daily dog walks. (Sendak owned many dogs throughout his life, and they often starred in his books.) Andrew was immediately taken with Sendak, who reminded him of his recently deceased father. One day, Andrew called Sendak at home and asked if he could join him on his walks. Andrew and Sendak thus embarked on a 37-year friendship that also included the Andrew’s mother, Betty, as well as Andrew’s brother. Sendak went on long walks and hikes with Andrew and his family regularly, discussing general life events, opera, and books. He also invited them into his studio to show off works in progress. Andrew’s mother, Betty, was an avid reader and collector and she and Sendak would talk late into the night about books. Sendak offered Betty advice about how to find and authenticate rare children’s books, which she used to build her collection. Additionally, he frequently bartered for autographs (i.e. a cake for an inscribed drawing). Sendak often referred to Betty as “Elizabeth” in inscriptions as he felt that “Betty” was too common a name. The many inscribed drawings, along with first editions, signed books, and other valuable items grew into one of the country’s premier Sendak collections. Fine condition.. For more Sendak books from this collection, please see page 46.
L i t e r a t u r e 16 Sumptuously Bound And Illustrated Set Of Horace’s Odes And Epodes, With Etchings Pencil-Signed By Howard Pyle And Others 13. HORACE. Odes and Epodes. Boston, 1901-04. Eight volumes bound as ten. Octavo, contemporary full blue morocco gilt, with red morocco floral onlays. $6800. Limited illustrated edition, one of 467 sets, with title page decoration by Howard Pyle and 12 double-suite etchings by W.H.W. Bicknell, James Fagan and Edmund H. Garrett, signed in pencil by the respective artist on one impression, including a Bicknell etching after a Pyle painting, signed in pencil by Pyle, beautifully bound and in fine condition. Latin text edited by Clement Lawrence Smith of Harvard University, who also provides a life of the Roman poet. Translations are provided as “versions, paraphrases and explanatory notes by eminent scholars, statesmen and poets.” Each poem is additionally decoratedwith numerous woodcut vignettes, borders and ornamented capitals. Volume VII, Bibliography, includes 21 facsimiles of title pages of editions of Horace. Volume II, Part II and Volume IV, Part II issued without the limitation page or Pyle title page. Volume VII also without limitation page. A splendid illustrated set, beautifully bound and in fine condition. LITERATURE “The Play’s The Thing”: Superb Type-Facsimile Of Shakespeare’s First Folio, Beautifully Bound And Illustrated 14. SHAKESPEARE, William. The National Shakespeare. A Facsimile of the Text of the First Folio of 1623. Illustrated by Sir J. Noel Paton. London, 1888-89. Three volumes. Large folio, original full dark green morocco gilt. $4200. First edition, “special” issue, of this handsome illustrated type-facsimile of Shakespeare’s First Folio in three large volumes: Comedies, Histories and Tragedies. The fabled First Folio of Shakespeare’s plays appeared in 1623. This “Special Edition” type-facsimile is beautifully printed on handmade paper, bound in publisher’s full morocco and illustrated with “India-proof impressions” of 20 splendid photo-engraved plates by Sir Joseph Noel Paton, who was “immensely successful” as not only a painter but also a sculptor and poet (Houfe, 253). Each volume with frontispiece reproducing a known portrait of Shakespeare; “Histories” volume also contains a view of Holy Trinity Church in Stratford-upon-Avon. Prospectus bound into “Comedies” volume. Jaggard, 551. Fine condition.
17 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s “A Milestone Of Romantic Art”: Scarce 1786 First Edition Of Vathek, Beautifully Bound By Riviere & Son 15. BECKFORD, William. An Arabian Tale, from an Unpublished Manuscript: with Notes Critical and Explanatory [Vathek]. London, 1786. Octavo, 20th-century full red morocco gilt. $4900. First edition of Beckford’s one-of-a-kind Gothic/Orientalist fantasy Vathek, beautifully bound by Riviere & Son. Beckford, known in his day as the wealthiest commoner in England with a penchant for collecting art and building extravagant follies such as Fonthill Abbey and Lansdown Tower, originally composed this tale in French in 1782. His friend, the Reverend Samuel Henley, translated the manuscript into English and contributed the more than 100 pages of scholarly endnotes. Though Beckford desired his French original to be published before the English version, Henley’s translation appeared first. “Vathek is undoubtedly the finest European imitation of the Arabian Nights” (Sullivan, 26-7). “A work of great beauty, ingenuity, and imaginative perception, Beckford’s Vathek is a milestone of Romantic art and a tower to be climbed by all who wish to discover the outer limits of fantasy” (Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature IV, 2023-28). Issued simultaneously with a large-paper issue, this copy is on ordinary paper. Bound without half title, as often. Fine condition. Extra-Illustrated Aldine Edition Of Burns’ Poems, Exquisitely Bound 16. BURNS, Robert. The Poetical Works. New York and London, 1893. Three volumes. 12mo, contemporary full crimson morocco gilt, blue, green and white morocco floral inlays. $3500. Later Aldine edition of the poems of Burns, with portrait of the poet and extra-illustrated with 15 window-mounted engravings, six hand-colored, splendidly bound in full morocco-gilt with multicolored morocco inlays in floral designs. This three-volume set brings together the hundreds of poems, ballads and songs by the 18th-century Scottish poet. His poetical works, including the major poems “Tam o’ Shanter” and “The Jolly Beggars,” were first collected in 1800, edited by James Currie, a Liverpool physician, in order to raise funds for Burns’ family. “As a poet Burns stands in the front rank… He is the poet of freedom as well as beauty” (Allibone I:303). The “Aldine” edition of British poets, first brought out by the publisher William Pickering beginning in 1830, aimed to introduce scholarly editions of the classics in a smaller, more affordable format. A splendidly bound, extra-illustrated set in fine condition.
L i t e r a t u r e 18 Exquisitely Bound And Illustrated “Artists’ Water Color And Hand Illuminated Edition” Of The Complete Works Of John Keats, With Beautiful Hand-Colored Plates Signed By The Artist, One Of Only 26 Lettered Copies 17. KEATS, John. The Complete Works… Edited by Nathan Haskell Dole. London and Boston, 1904-05. Four volumes. Royal octavo, contemporary full blue morocco gilt, floral red morocco inlays. $9500. Extraordinary, deluxe “Artists’ Water Color and Hand Illuminated Edition,” one of only 26 large-paper lettered copies (this copy unlettered), sumptuously bound and splendidly illustrated with tissue-guarded plates in three states, one of which is expertly hand-colored; all of the scenes are signed in pencil by the artist, Frank T. Merrill. Additionally illustrated with vividly hand-colored and illuminated initials, head- and tailpieces. Includes Keats’ complete works, edited by Nathan Haskell Dole, and based with some revisions upon the edition of H. Buxton-Forman. This beautiful edition was created to be the first “edition de luxe” of Keats’ works, beautifully printed on fine paper with wide margins. “No expense has been spared to make this… in every respect perfect.” Frank Thayer Merrill was a popular and prolific American illustrator whose designs adorned many books around the turn of the past century. Occasional foxing (chiefly to tissue guards). A splendid set in fine condition.
19 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s “Never Was A Book Received With More Rapturous Enthusiasm Than That Which Greeted The Pickwick Papers” 18. DICKENS, Charles. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club. London, 1836-37. One volume bound in two. Thick octavo, early 20th-century full navy morocco gilt. $7200. First book edition of one of Dickens’ greatest works, with 43 illustrations by Seymour and Phiz, extra-illustrated with multiple copies of most of the plates displaying almost all of the known states, additionally extra-illustrated with a complete suite of 32 engraved plates, most by Thomas Onwyn (who has signed many of the plates as “SamWeller”), for a total of over 140 engraved plates. Handsomely bound in full morocco-gilt by Riviere. “From a literary standpoint the supremacy of this book has been… firmly established… It is quite probable that only Shakespeare’s Works, the Bible and perhaps the English Prayer Book, exceed “Pickwick Papers” in circulation” (Eckel, 17). “Never was a book received withmore rapturous enthusiasm than that which greeted the Pickwick Papers!” (Allibone I:500). Pickwick would be the first volume in which Dickens was acknowledged as the author, rather than using his pen name, “Boz.” With 43 illustrations by R. Seymour and Phiz, including frontispiece and vignette title page, almost all in multiple states, and the scarce suppressed plates by Buss (at pages 69 and 74 in Volume I—the only plates not in multiple states). Text with six of seven first-issue points. Originally issued in 20 parts from April 1836 to November 1837. Smith I:3. Gimbel A15. “Pickwick Papers has a long and complex illustration history” (University of Washington). This copy testifies to the book’s popularity among artists; it contains the suite of 32 extra illustrations (with 21 by Thomas Onwyn) that were issued in eight monthly parts in 1837. Most plates fresh and fine, binding very handsome with expert repairs to joints. “Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.”
L i t e r a t u r e 20 “How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways”: First Appearance Of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets From The Portuguese 19. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Poems. New Edition. London, 1850. Two volumes. Small octavo, contemporary full crimson morocco gilt, custom chemise and clamshell box. $15,000. Important and preferred second edition of Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poems, containing the first appearance of her famous love poems to her husband, Sonnets from the Portuguese, which did not appear in the 1844 first edition of Poems. A lovely copy in fine contemporary bindings. This enlarged edition of Browning’s Poems is rightly considered an entirely separate work from the 1844 first edition. It includes, in addition to the Sonnets from the Portuguese, a number of poems here printed or collected for the first time. “The strange courtship of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, morally chained to a monstrous father, and their subsequent elopement, is one of the most romantic stories in 19th-century literature. What Browning did not know is that while Elizabeth was lying on that famous sofa in her father’s house on Wimpole Street she was pouring out her heart in some of the most remarkable love poetry ever written by a woman. One morning some time later, when they were living in Pisa, Elizabeth Browning pushed a packet under her husband’s arm, asked him to read the sonnets it contained and, should he disapprove, destroy them. Then she rushed from the room. Browning sat there and read with evergrowing wonder. Even before he had finished he hurried to his wife and demanded their publication. To shelter her feelings it was pretended that the sonnets had been translated from the Portuguese” (Great Books and Book Collectors, 239). Bound without half titles. Second state, as usual, with publisher’s address of “193, Piccadilly” on title pages (only four copies are known in the first state, and the title page is presumed to have been reset prior to publication). Barnes A6. Wise 7. A lovely and desirable copy in contemporary morocco-gilt bindings in fine condition.
21 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s “Glows With The Fire Of A Suppressed, Secret, Feverish Excitement” (Allibone): First Edition Of The Scarlet Letter In Original Cloth 20. HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter, a Romance. Boston, 1850. Octavo, original blind-tooled brown cloth, custom chemise and clamshell box. $12,800. First edition of Hawthorne’s American classic, one of only 2500 copies printed, in original cloth. “Since 1837, when he had written [the short story] ‘Endicott and the Red Cross,’ he had often been tormented by a symbol—a scarlet ‘A,’ worn by an adulteress in that tale—which had, at last, worked its way into a full-length book” (Kunitz & Haycraft, 349). The first edition of The Scarlet Letter sold out in ten days and “made Hawthorne’s fame, changed his fortune and gave to our literature its first symbolic novel a year before the appearance of Melville’s Moby-Dick” (Bradley, et al., 652). Clark’s typesetting states x2 and a2, no priority established. With four pages of publisher’s advertisements dated in March 1850 (the month of publication) inserted between the front endpapers. Wakeman 308. Bookplate. Interior generally clean (some offsetting from bookplate to ad leaves only), expert restoration to spine ends only, corners gently rubbed, some very faint discoloration to cloth. An extremely good copy. “The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.”
L i t e r a t u r e 22 “…Man Is Not Truly One, But Truly Two”: First English Edition Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde 21. STEVENSON, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. London, 1886. Octavo, early 20th-century threequarter crimson morocco gilt; original wrappers bound in. $7500. Scarce first English edition of Stevenson’s “Faustian moral fable,” with fragile original wrappers bound in, beautifully bound in threequarter crimson morocco. “If [Bram Stoker’s] Dracula leaves one with the sensation of having been struck down by a massive, 400-page wall of horror, then Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is like the sudden, mortal jab of an ice pick” (Stephen King). “Published as a ‘shilling shocker,’ a form at that time in fashion, it became instantly popular” (DNB). “The date on the front cover was originally 1885, but the last figure was altered by pen into 6. It had been intended to publish the book in December 1885, ‘but when it was ready the bookstalls were already full of Christmas numbers, etc., and the trade would not look at it’… The publication was therefore postponed till January 1886” (Prideaux 17). With fragile original wrappers, rear leaf of advertisements (K8) often not present, text complete. The New York edition preceded the London by only four days. Beinecke 349. Gerstley 30A. Horror 100 Best, 60-62. Bookseller ticket. Text very fresh, title page with faint soiling, tiny bit of expert paper repair to gutter edge not affecting text. A splendid near-fine copy handsomely bound. “All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil.”
23 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s “But Truth Is Simple, And Will Not Be Antique: Is Ever Present, And Insists On Being Of This Age, And Of This Moment”: Emerson’s Illustrated Complete Works, Finely Bound With Signed Autograph Note 22. EMERSON, Ralph Waldo. Complete Works. WITH: Journals. Cambridge, 1903-04. Together, twenty-two volumes. Octavo, contemporary three-quarter green morocco gilt. $9800. “Autograph Centenary” edition of Emerson’s Works, together with his Journals, each one of 600 copies, illustrated with 56 photogravures, with an autograph note tipped in Volume I of the Works requesting volumes by the French philosopher de Gerando. This edition includes all of Emerson’s poems, lectures, biographical sketches, letters, and his famous essays, several of which are here printed for the first time. Tipped into Volume I of the Works is a section of a signed autograph letter, reading, “Degerando—Ananyse Compare des Systemes de Philosophie / Degerando On Moral Perfection__ / If there by any other metaphysical [struck out] philosophical works of this writer, I should like to have them sent. R.W.E. London July 21, 18__. RW Emerson.” The date of this letter is unclear: Emerson was known to have read de Gerando in 1830—it was a significant influence on his seminal “Nature”—but did not visit London until 1833. Owner inkstamps. Spines evenly toned to brown, just a few joints lightly rubbed. A beautiful set.
L i t e r a t u r e 24 “All Modern Literature Comes From One Book By Mark Twain. It’s The Best Book We’ve Had” (Hemingway) 23. TWAIN, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade). New York, 1885. Octavo, original gilt- and black-stamped pictorial green cloth, custom clamshell box. $22,500. First edition, first issue, of “the most praised and most condemned 19th-century American work of fiction” (Legacies of Genius, 47), with 174 illustrations by Edward Kemble. Written over an eight-year period, Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn endured critical attacks, standing accused of “blood-curdling humor,” immorality, coarseness and profanity. The book nevertheless emerged as one of the defining novels of American literature. This copy has all of the commonly identified first-issue points (the printer assembled copies haphazardly; bibliographers do not yet agree as to the priority of many points). First-issue points: page [9] with “Decided” remaining uncorrected (to “Decides”); page [13], illustration captioned “Him and another Man” listed as on page 88; page 57, 11th line from bottom reads “with the was.” Debate continues over the priority of other points of issue and state. BAL 3415. MacDonnell, 29-35. Owner ink signature; bookseller label. Occasional light foxing, especially to first few and last few leaves, expert reinforcement to inner paper hinges, very minor rubbing to spine ends, cloth clean and fresh, gilt exceptionally bright. A beautiful copy.
25 B a u m a n R a r e B o o k s Liber Scriptorum, Signed By Mark Twain, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie And Numerous Other Authors 24. (TWAIN, Mark, ROOSEVELT, Theodore, et al.). Liber Scriptorum. The First Book of the Authors Club. New York, 1893. Thick folio, publisher’s full dark brown morocco gilt. $13,500. First edition, one of only 251 numbered copies signed by each of the 109 contributors, the most prominent being Mark Twain (“The Californian’s Tale,” page 161—the first appearance of this story), Theodore Roosevelt (“A Shot at a Bull Elk,” page 487) and Andrew Carnegie (“Genius Illustrated from Burns,” page 99). An altogether impressive collection of the works and signatures of leading late-19th century literary figures, a beautiful copy in original publisher’s morocco-gilt binding. “The Authors Club of New York, organized in 1882, was a social club for like-minded men and a support group for younger writers. In 1891, club members conceived Liber Scriptorum as a means to raise money for a suitable permanent home. Each member contributed an original essay, story or poem that would never be published elsewhere. Each author signed 251 copies of his entry, and the books were then bound. The book, published and printed by club member Theodore Low De Vinne, sold for $100—almost $2000 in 2002 dollars. De Vinne donated the work at cost, and the club enjoyed a profit of $10,500. By the time the book was finished and the profit realized, Andrew Carnegie had given the club a suite of rooms in his building at 57th and Seventh Avenue, and the publication proceeds were used to furnish the rooms” (Carnegie Mellon University). Liber Scriptorum marks the first appearance in print of Twain’s tale about anunfortunateman’s undying devotion to his wife; contrary to the club’s original plans, this story was later included in The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories (1906). Other contributors include De Vinne, William Dean Howells, Henry Van Dyke and Frank R. Stockton. Though “there are presumed to be 251 copies of the book; actually, over 30 of these were not bound but were sold as separate articles” (Johnson, 128). BAL 3438. A beautiful copy of an impressive production, in unusually fine condition.
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