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She had been a woman of ill-repute and had been repeatedly run out of town on charges of illicit consorting in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. Avery was acquitted after a long trial with 196 witnesses. This report on the examination of Avery includes exerpts from significant other testimony. It also includes an Appendix. This issue corresponds with that described in the note to McDade 43, with additional material added to the text and the appendix beginning on p. 62. Owner's signature on cover: Wm. F. Mercer / Baltimore / Md. Lacks rear wrap. Else, Very Good Price: $295.00 11030 [Broadside]. [Jacob Bigelow].- Harvard University.- Harvard College Order of Exercises for Commencement, August 27, 1806. Cambridge, MA. Wiliam Hilliard, Printer. 1806. First Edition. 1 p. 11-1/2” W x 18-1/4” H. As issued. DAB (for Bigelow). The program for Harvard University commencement, August, 1806. The order of exercises lists 13 orations by candidates (1–4 each) for the degree of Bachelor of Arts and 2 by candidates (1 each) for the degree of Master of Arts. There was to have been another degree candidate to have delivered an essay on “Originality”, but it is recorded on this program that “the melancholy event of his death prevented“ [”the discussion]. Penciled comments by the auditor express his approbation for 4 of the speakers. Among the latter is Jacob Bigelow, candidate for Bachelor of Arts, who delivered an English poem on “The Passions”, which the auditor criticized as being “a good poem too formally delivered-”. Bigelow (1787–1879) went on to become the distinguished Boston physician and botanist, who collected and systematically organized the flora of New England thoroughly. He authored “Florula Bostoniensis” in 1814, the standard manual for New England flora for over 30 years, “American Medical Botany“ (1817–20), the first “American Pharmacopoeia” (1820) and “Treatise on the Materia Medica” (1822). He was Professor of Materia Medica at Harvard from 1815 to 1855. Bigelow argued against excessive use of drugs and blood letting and lectured brilliantly on “Discourse on Self-Limited Diseases” (1835), much praised by Oliver Wendell Holmes. He also lectured on technology, served many public and professional roles, helped to found the Mount Auburn Cemetery and translated Mother Goose into Latin, which he published privately as “Chenodia”. His son, Dr. Henry Jacob Bigelow, himself a distinguished surgeon, reported in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal on the first general surgical procedure under ether anesthesia, the surgery carried out by Dr. John Collins Warren under anesthesia administered by William T. G. Morton. A tear along the left margin resulted in a small loss of the printed border and encroachment of a closed tear on two lines of the text. Two small spots of foxing. Penciled contemporary notations, as noted above. Else Very Good. Price: $400.00 11028 Anonymous [? Gabriel Alexander.- The First Step to Crime: or, The Bottle. Complete. Illustrated by [George] Cruikshank. New York. Burgess, Stringer & Co. 1848. Eight full page wood engravings, including frontispiece + engraved cover, by George Cruikshank. A few signed “E. Lloyd, London”. First American Edition. 84 pp. Publisher’s ads on reverse of cover.. 8vo. Green prnted and illustrated paper wraps. Stab-sewn. Double column text with full page plates. R. Patten, “George Cruikshank’s Life, Times and Art”, Vol II, pp.229–62. Not in Cohn. Probably a piracy, a short novel, illustrated after Cruikshank’s Hogarthian Temperance series, “the Bottle”, published in 1847, and its sequels. The narrative here is a history of a seemingly upstanding man, who, under the influence of friends takes to the bottle, and because of that enters a course of degeneracy, leading to loss of job, social standing, possessions, etc. ultimately to the death of his family members and to crime. It ends with his execution. The illustrations appear to be by E. Lloyd (not listed in Groce and Wallace), after Cruikshank’s on the same subject, as shown in Patten, Vol. II, pp. 239–42. Publication of “The Bottle” in 1847 led to a form of Bottle-mania with much imitation, transfer of the plate images to table-ware, tea sets lantern-slides, waxworks, cotton cloth and silk. “Gabriel Alexander turned “The Bottle’ pictures into a penny parts-issue novel” (Patten, II, p. 250), similar to this item. Whether this item is identical to Alexander’s cannot be confirmed. The text here is clearly English rather than American. Lloyd may have been the same person, who published a parody of Dickens’s “Pickwick Papers” as “Posthumous Papers of the Cadgers’ Club” in 1837 (see, James Cook, “Bibliography of the Writings of Charles Dickens with Many Curious.and Interesting Particulars Relating to His Work”, 1879, p. 82). Cruikshank’s preoccupation with temperance and “The Bottle’ contributed to the rupture of his friendship with Charles Dickens, whose views on temperance were moderate. Lacks rear cover and head of spine. Front cover repaired with archival tape on verso. Chips lost from edges of front cover without loss of text or image. Toning of text, worse at rear. Else, Good+. Price: $175.00 11025 Krogh, August.- The Anatomy and Physiology of the Capillaries. New Haven, CT. Yale University Press. 1922. First Edition. xvii, 276 pp. 8vo. Original black publsher’s cloth. Titled in gilt on spine. G-M 793. Nobel Lectures, Physiology or Medicine 1901–1921, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1967 (for Krogh).David G. Cogan, Trans. Am. Ophthalmol. Soc. 1987; 85, 13–15.(for Trygve Gunderson). August Krogh’s (1874–1949) major published work. A very distingushed physiologist, he studied gas exchange in living organisms, the effect of carbon dioxide on oxyhemoglobin dissociation in the blood, the quantitation of blood flow, the exchange of gases in the tissues and the structure and function of the capillaries. He won the Nobel Prize in Physiology in 1920. many consider his major work to be on the physiology of the capillaries. To allhis aras of investigation he contributed major ideas, experimental skill and technological innovation.This copy belonged to Dr. Trygve Gunderson, a noted Harvard ophthalmologist (ca. 1900–87) Slight wear at ends of spine. Owner’s stamp at head and tail of text block and on front free end paper. Front hinge starting internally. Rear hinge slightly loose. Toning of endpapers and edges of text block. Else, Very Good. Price: $225.00 11023 Dickens, Charles.- Little Dorrit. With Fifty-Eight Illustrations by J. Mahoney. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1873. First Edition of Harper’s Miscellaneous Popular Novels. 354 pp. + 6 pp. publisher’s ads. 4to. Green illustrated publisher's paper wraps. Double column format. Podeschi D68 and D66(English issue). Wilkins, pp.46–7 (American issue). Jarndyce CXIII. Dickens’s great novel in the rare wraps issue, derived from The Household Edition, which was issued in 22 volumes (with Forster's "Life"), published in the period 1871–1879; it was the first edition after Dickens' death and had new illustrations by Barnard and others. In America, this edition was published by Harper & Brothers (in 1872–1877) in a new typesetting and, a bit earlier, as a local issue of the English (Chapman & Hall) edition, by D. Appleton. Harpers did not use all the illustrations of the English edition, substituting in some volumes illustrations by American artists Here the illustrations are by Mahoney, an English artist of the mid-19th century. Mahoney was “an uneducated London waif [who] was accepted in the world of illustration for a time because of his gift as a draftsman, but his objectionable habits kept him always on the edge of disaster. The very somberness of his life made logical the Dalziels’ choice of Mahoney as their illustrator in the Household Edition for those novels in which the darker side of London life was Dickens’s primary concern…He is in far closer harmony with Dickens’s text than is Phiz in [”Little Dorrit”]” (Gordon N. Ray, ”The Illustrator and the Book in England from 1790 to 1914” Dover, p. 137). Rare in wraps. Owner’s names at head of front cover. Wear at head, tail and edges of spine and at corners. Mild soiling of covers. Front cover detached, with a few small chips not encroaching on text or images. Else, Very Good . Price: $150.00 11022 Goddard, William G[iles].- An Address to the People of Rhode-Island, Delivered in Newport, on Wednesday, May 3, 1843, in Presence of the General Assembly, on the Occasion of the Change in the Civil Government of Rhode-Island, by Adoption of the Constitution, Which Superseded the Charter of 1663. Providence, RI. Knowles and Vose. 1843. First Edition. 80 pp. 8vo. Brown printed paper wraps. Sabin 27647. Am Imp 43-2120. Gettleman, 45n, 117n. DiSimone & Schofield, Broadsides of the Dorr Rebellion, 183. DAB (for Gardiner) A defense of the Constitutional Convention and the new “Freemen’s” constitution of Rhode Island against the People’s Convention (the Dorr Rebellion) by a professor of moral philosophy at Brown University (also a legislator and journalist). He bases his argument on a respect for the rule of law. Goddard elsewhere ridiculed the People’s Convention and Constitution in Providence Journal articles under the pseudonym “Town Born”. Goddard, along with President (of Brown) Francis Wayland, was a vigorous anti-Dorrite. This copy bears the notation: ”R. H. Gardiner, Esq. / With the Author’s respects”. Robert Hallowell Gardiner (1782–1864), was a distinguished resident of Maine, after whom the town of Gardiner, ME is named. He inherited a large estate on the Kennebec River from a maternal uncle, whose surname he adopted. A graduate of Harvard (1801), Gardiner became a scientific farmer and animal husbandman, founding a Lyceum to study and teach these skills, a precursor for A & M technical schools to come later. His maternal family was prominent in Aquidneck, Rhode Island, deeply involved in its public affairs. Gardiner, a trustee of Bowdoin College, was also president of the Maine Historical Society, from which this item was withdrawn. An error on p.77 is corrected in the author’s hand. Ex libris with withdrawal stamp. Spine reinforced with linen library tape. Mild soilingElse, Withdrawal stamp and two library numbers. Very Good. Price: $175.00 11020 [Broadside Verse].- Bob-Tailed Nag. [Philadelphia, PA] T. M. Scroggy. N.D. [1852–57] First Edition. 1 p. 5-1/8” W x 9-7/16”H. Broadside. Foster’s Plantation Melodies (Baltimore, F. D. Benteen; New Orleans, W. T. Mayo, 1850). Whittlesee & Sonneck, p. 100. Wolf, Lib. Company, American Song Sheets, 239b. A comic song in Afro-American Dialect, written in 1850 by Stephen Foster (1826–64). Its official title was “Gwine to Run All Night”. The text is enclosed in a decorative border. The “Camptown” of Foster’s experience was a ramshackle tent city for migrant workmen in Pennsylvania. The Camptown Races were a popular form of entertainment in the Camp. The song soon worked its way into popular culture. Scroggy was a Philadelphia publisher of broadside song sheets, similar to, but rarer than the prolific H. De Marsan of New York. Scroggy was listed at the address on the broadside in the period 1852–57 (AAS on-line catalogue). Right lower corner chipped off, far from text. Mild browning of edges. Else, Very Good. Price: $95.00 11007 [Sheet Music]. The Duncan Sisters(Words and Music).- Rememb’ring. Thomas Wilkes Presents the Duncan Sisters (By Arrangement wth Sam H. Harris). In “Topsy and Eva”. Book by Catherine C. Cushing (Suggested by “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” - Harriet Beecher Stowe). New York. Irving Berlin, Inc. 1923. Illustrated cover with front image of the Duncan Sisters, one in blackface (Topsy), kneeling behind a seated Eva. First Edition. 5 pp. !2 1/4 ” H X 9 1/4” W. Illustrated cover. Ad for “Do Re Mi” with music on rear cover. http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/sitemap.html A song from an early 20th century musical comedy version of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, called “Topsy and Eva”, with the songs written by the Duncan Sisters, who starred in the production. Topsy, as expected, is in blackface. The White Sisters took over the roles when the play moved from its original venue in San Francisco to Los Angeles. The production was a big hit and the songs recorded by Victor. There was a revival in Los Angeles, again with the Duncan Sisters in 1942. Catherine Cushing (1874–1952) was a songwriter as well as a playwright and librettist. Some of her work was produced in film. She was a collaborator with Rudolf Friml, among others. The film of “Topsy and Eva” was released in Finland in 1927, directed by Del Lord with additional scenes by D. W. Griffith, starring Rosetta (1894–1959) (as Topsy) and Vivian (1897–1986) (as Eva) Duncan. The Duncan Sisters had a prominent vaudevillian career, beginning in 1911, as well as their many stage appearances, movies (quite comedic. but with only modest box-office success) and night club appearances. They even lived to appear on TV. Very Good. Price: $125.00 11004 [Sheet Music]. The Duncan Sisters(Words and Music).- Do Re Mi. Thomas Wilkes Presents the Duncan Sisters (By Arrangement wth Sam H. Harris). In “Topsy and Eva”. Book by Catherine C. Cushing (Suggested by “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” - Harriet Beecher Stowe). New York. Irving Berlin, Inc. 1923. Illustrated cover with front image of the Duncan Sisters, one in blackface (Topsy), kneeling behind a seated Eva. First Edition. 5 pp. !2 1/4 ” H X 9 1/4” W. Illustrated cover. Ad for “Rememb’ring” with music on rear cover. http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/sitemap.html A song from an early 20th century musical comedy version of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, called “Topsy and Eva”, with the songs written by the Duncan Sisters, who starred in the production. Topsy, as expected, is in blackface. The White Sisters took over the roles when the play moved from its original venue in San Francisco to Los Angeles. The production was a big hit and the songs recorded by Victor. There was a revival in Los Angeles, again with the Duncan Sisters in 1942. Catherine Cushing (1874–1952) was a songwriter as well as a playwright and librettist. Some of her work was produced in film. She was a collaborator with Rudolf Friml, among others. The film of “Topsy and Eva” was released in Finland in 1927, directed by Del Lord with additional scenes by D. W. Griffith, starring Rosetta (1894–1959) (as Topsy) and Vivian (1897–1986) (as Eva) Duncan. The Duncan Sisters had a prominent vaudevillian career, beginning in 1911, as well as their many stage appearances, movies (quite comedic. but with only modest box-office success) and night club appearances. They even appeared on TV. Edges lightly chipped, with minor loss, not involving text or image. Few closed tears at edges. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 11003 [Sheet Music]. The Duncan Sisters(Words and Music).- I Never Had a Mammy. Thomas Wilkes Presents the Duncan Sisters (By Arrangement wth Sam H. Harris). In “Topsy and Eva”. Book by Catherine C. Cushing (Suggested by “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” - Harriet Beecher Stowe). New York. Irving Berlin, Inc. 1923. Illustrated cover with front image of the Duncan Sisters, one in blackface (Topsy), kneeling behind a seated Eva. First Edition. 5 pp. !2 1/4 ” H X 9 1/4” W. Illustrated cover. Ad for “Rememb’ring” with music on rear cover. http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/sitemap.html A song from an early 20th century musical comedy version of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”, called “Topsy and Eva”, with the songs written by the Duncan Sisters, who starred in the production. Topsy, as expected, is in blackface. The White Sisters took over the roles when the play moved from its original venue in San Francisco to Los Angeles. The production was a big hit and the songs recorded by Victor. There was a revival in Los Angeles, again with the Duncan Sisters in 1942. Catherine Cushing (1874–1952) was a songwriter as well as a playwright and librettist. Some of her work was produced in film. She was a collaborator with Rudolf Friml, among others. The film of “Topsy and Eva” was released in Finland in 1927, directed by Del Lord with additional scenes by D. W. Griffith, starring Rosetta (1894–1959) (as Topsy) and Vivian (1897–1986) (as Eva) Duncan. The Duncan Sisters had a prominent vaudevillian career, beginning in 1911, as well as their many stage appearances, movies (quite comedic. but with only modest box-office success) and night club appearances. They even appeared on TV. Lower right corner chipped, with minor loss, not involving text or image. Hinge separating. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 10998 Gemelli Careri, [Giovanni Francesco].- Voyage du Tour du Monde, Traduit de l’Italien de Gemelli Careri, par L. M. N. Enrichi d’un Grand Nombre de Figures, Tome Sixieme [only]. De la Nouvelle Espagne. Paris. Etienne Ganeau 1719. Illustrated. Wood engravings of various plants, including avocado, vanilla, cacao, etc. and a folding map of the environs of Mexico City and Teotihuacan. First Edition in French. A translation of the 1699 Italian edition (First Edition). 512 pp. 12mo. Full contemporary calf binding on 5 bands. Elaborate gilt decoration in each compartment. Titling on spine in gilt. French marbled end papers (see on-line copy from Ashmolean Library for similar marbling). All edges marbled. Sabin 26850–51. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik/Gemelli_Careri. Giovanni Francesco Gamelli Careri (1651–1725) was a 17th century Italian adventurer and traveler.A lawyer and judge he was among the first Europeans to tour the world using a form of public transportation. A globe-trotting “Ulysses of the XVII Century” (Angela Amuso Maccarone, Gangemi, 2000), in 1685–87, he toured Europe and was wounded by the Turks in their siege of Buda. Not of aristocratic origin and as a consequence frustrated in his profession, he undertook a five year tour of the world 1693–98. He visited, seriatim, Egypt, Constantinople and the Holy Land, Persia, Armenia, India, China, where he was thought to be a spy for the Pope. Accordingly he was given royal treatment in Beijing. From Macao, he went to the Phillipines before taking a six-month horrendous journey to Acapulco, New Spain. The entire five year journey was described in his 6 volume “Giro Intorno al Mondo” (1699), of which this is the sixth volume of its 1719 French translation. Gemelli was a celebrity. He carefully studied much of contemporary Mexico, including the flora, silver mines and the archaeological site of Teotihuacan. He comments on Peru, Jamaica, etc . The author found his way to Vera Cruz and then to Havana, from there returning to Spain and ultimately to Italy via a treasure fleet. His treatise was originally thought by some to be a fabrication, but the authenticity of these volumes has been confirmed. This sixth volume on Mexico, a “rediscovery” of the country and so entertaining and informative to Europeans, was considered the best volume on that country until Humboldt’s 19th century scientific report (Ernest J. Burris, S.J.). Humboldt, himself, emphasized the authenticity of this volume. (An English translation appears in Churchill’s “Compendium of Authentic Voyages”, 1756). Mild wear at edges and ends of spine, edges and corners of boards. (? Worm-) hole near head of spine. Else, Very Good. Price: $650.00 10997 Morison, Samuel Eliot.- Admiral of the Ocean Sea. A Life of Christopher Columbus. Maps by Erwin Raisz. Drawings by Bertram Green. Boston, MA. An Atlantic Monthly Press Book. Little, Brown and Co. 1942. Frontispiece portrait of Columbus. Maps, charts and illustrations Reprint Edition, First Printing. One Volume Edition 680 pp. 8vo. Reddish publisher’s cloth, titled on spine. Image of a compass rose on front cover. Top edge stained blue. End papers a map of the Carribean Sea area, with lands discovered by Columbus heavily outlined. Title page printed in red and black. No D.J. The first printing of the Atlantic Monthly book club edition of this great historical examination and recreation of Columbus’s voyages to the Caribbean and Americas. Identical to the original two-volume edition, except for the omission of the notes and heavily navigational data and an abrigement of the chapters on Ships and Sailing and the origin and spread of syphilis, As noted in the Preface, otherwise the two issues are identical. Complete with Book Club notes tucked in. Spine slightly sunned. Minimal bumping of corners. Else, Very Good +. Price: $60.00 10991 Sanders, Andrew.- The Companion to A Tsle of Two Cities. London. Unwin Hyman 1988. First Edition. 176 pp. 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth. Titled in gilt on spine, illustrated in gilt on front cover.. D.J. One of the on-going series of volumes annotating the major works of Charles Dickens. Each volume is dedicated to a single novel, this one to "A Tale of Two Cities" The notes are principally factual, rather than critical. They tell much about Victorian culture, Dickens in his times, his associations and the cultural context of the novels. Near Fine in Near Fine D.J. Price: $175.00 10992 Mill, John Stuart.- A System of Logic Ratiocinative and Inductive. Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation. London. Longmans, Green and Co. 1930. New Impression of a Later Edition. 622 pp., Double column format. Small 8vo. Blue-black publisher’s cloth, titled in gilt on the spine and in the blind on front cover. Mill explains his approach to inductive reasoning and reveals his major forms of analysis of these methodoligies. He further explains several common logical fallacies. While skeptical of a perfect system, he finds enough practical consistency to justify historical analysis and moral relevance. He finds justification of laws of social behavior as a form of scientific inference. Mild wear at edges and ends of spine and at corners. Owner’s signature on front free endpaper. Notations of page numbers on rear free endpaper. Else, Very Good. Price: $45.00 10985 Author of The American Chesterfield (pseudonym).- The American Jest Book, Being a Chaste Collection of Anecdotes, Bon Mots, and Epigrams, Original and Selected, for the Amusement of the Young and Old of Both Sexes: by the Author of The American Chesterfield. Philadelphia. Stereotyped by J[edidiah] Howe (1791–1834), who also held the copyright. 1832. Later edition. 216 pp. Small 12mo., in 6’s. Brown publisher’s cloth AmImp 10910. For earlier issues, see Shipton and Mooney, Short Title Evans, #29970, 47699 and others. Originally published in 1789 (see catalogue of AAS) in Philadelphia by M. Carey and W. Spotswood and in 1796, in Boston, by W. Spotswood, alone. A popular collection of jests, epigrams, etc., this book was issued several times from late 18th century until 1833. A second part, entitled the Merry Fellow’s Companion, has also been published intermittently in that period. Owner’s signature on front pastedown: “Hiram Q. S[?L]evarr”. A classic in early American humor. Quite uncommon. Covers detached. Lacks front free end paper. Spine chipped with loss of upper 1 3/4“ Price: $700.00 10981 [Theatrical Broadside]. Stowe, Harriet Beecher and William Cowell.- Boston Museum. Dred!. Triumphant Success. Third Week of the New American Drama. Founded on the Celebrated Novel by Mrs H. B. Stowe. Dramatised Expressly for the Boston Museum, by William Cowell, Esq. This Afternoon at 2 1/2 O’clock, Will be Presented the New American Drama in 5 Parts (Interspersed with Tableaux, Songs, Choruses, Dances, &c.) Called Dred! Or The Dismal Swamp. Boston. Boston Museum. Hooton’s Press, –No. 4 Howard Street. [1856]. First Edition. 1 p. 18” H x 6 1/8“ W. Broadside sheet. A wonderful theatrical broadside for an adaptation of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s second anti-slavery novel,” Dred! Or The Dismal Swamp”. Contains a list of characters and the actors who portray them. There follows a detailed “programme of scenery and incidents, summarizing the action for each of the five parts, ending with “Contentment! Liberty! Happiness! Finale!” At foot is an ad by the publisher of the novel, Philips, Sampson & Co. for the novel in 2 volumes, with nearly one hundred thousand c opies sold. Small stain in topmost margin with minor creasing. Else, Very Good. Price: $350.00 10980 [Sheet Music]. Billings, Jonas Mrs. Billing’s [sic!].- Baby. Dedicated to Mrs. Billings. Comic Song with Chorus. Got up by Jonas Billings, Esq. New York. J. L. Peters. 1869. First Edition. 5 pp. Fo. Disbound. Decorated and illustrated cover. In Lester Levy Collection of Sheet Music at Johns Hopkins. Not in BAL, Dichter Handbook, Dichter & Shapiro. A comic song about a baby, probably newborn, to the composer, dedicated to his wife. The relationship, if any, of Jonas Billings to Josh Billings (Henry Wheeler Shaw, 1818–85, American Humorist) is uncertain, but stylistically there seems to be a similarity. Disbound edge slightly ragged. Foxing. Stain on front cover on background of image. Small closed tears at lower margin of p.3. Else, Very Good. Price: $150.00 10971 Dickens, Charles.- A Christmas Carol. Facsimile Edition. New York. Columbia University Press. 1956. Colored and black and white illustrations by John Leech. Facsimile Edition. 166 pp. + 2 pp.publisher’s ads + bibliographc note at rear. Small 12mo. Brown cloth spine and paper covered boards. Titling and decorations in gilt on spine and front cover. Half title in blue; title page in blue and red. Original slip case covered in decorative paper with red label on front cover. Podeschi B146. Facsimile of the First Edition of 1843 including Illustrations of John Leech; Introduction and Bibliographic Note by Edgar Johnson. Slip case toned at edges and on spine, with wear at edges and opening. Book Fine in Good+ original slip case. Price: $175.00 10970 [Alcott, William Andrus] (Pseudonym: An Old Physician ).- The Physiology of Marriage. Boston. John P. Jewett & Co. 1856. First Edition. Tenth Thousand. 259 pp. 12mo. Brown publsher’s cloth, with gilt titling on spine. Decorated and titled in the blind on both covers. Yellow end papers. An attempt to bring logic and reason to the issues of man’s sociability and notions of kinship and marriage. Despite some typical 19th century misconceptions about issues like masturbation, the author presents a reasoned view about many issues surrounding marriage, such as the appropriate age for the experience (he arrives at the same notions as Plato), the frequency of intercourse, the centrality of menstruation in regulating female sexual propensity and, thus, the frequency of sexual intercourse. The author regularly resorts to the emotions and behavioral issues in his analysis of the physiology of marriage, appearing, thus, very modern. This volume is by William Andrus Alcott (1798–1859), cousin of A. Bronson Alcott and of Louisa May Alcott. He studied medicine at Yale, advocated preventive medicine and moral education, and wrote often, completing about 100 works, mostly on education, hygiene and dietary matters. An active vegetarian and homeopath, he was the first president of the American Vegetarian Society and in 1837 he founded The American Physiological Society, still active as the world’s oldest physiological society. Wear at ends of spine, corners and edges of boards. Mildly shaken. Minimal foxing. Else, Very Good. Price: $90.00 10683 Davis, A[ndrew] J[ackson].- Lectures on Clairmativeness, or Human Magnetism. By A. J. Davis, The Poughkeepsie Seer, or Clairvoyant. With an Appendix. by Rev. Gibson Smith. New York. Printed by Searing & Prall. Wilson & Co., Publishers. 1848. ? Second Edition (first copyright 1845 by Gibson Smith). 40 pp. 8vo. Illustrated and printed tan paper wraps, with previous owner’s notations on cover illustration. Publisher’s ads (Wilson and Company) on rear cover. AmImp 45-5982. Slater Brown, The Heyday of Spiritualism. Arthur Conan Doyle, History of Spiritualism. On copyright page, it claims, “All the Mysteries of Human Magnetism and Clairvoyance explained by the celebrated [Andrew] Jackson Davis [1826–1910] of Poughkeepsie.” This is a series of four lectures delivered by an allegedly clairvoyant, though unschooled (shoemaker by trade), 18 year old from Poughkeepsie, [Andrew] Jackson Davis, and recorded word for word by the Rev Gibson Smith. Davis was an important American Spiritualist and professional clairvoyant, much influenced by Swedenborg and the Shakers and a prolific author, known to A. Conan Doyle and Slater Brown. Smith confesses himself to have been a believer in mesmerism, but a skeptic toward clairvoyance. In the introduction, To the Reader, Smith claims that Davis had been engaged in Mesmerism and Clairvoyance over a period of 18 months and subjected to careful scrutiny and experimentation on his powers over that period, witnessed by the Reverend himself. In his lectures, which Smith assures us were recorded precisely as delivered, the young man revealed important new facts on Astronomy helpful to the experts and a new explanation of the laws of motion, particularly, the motion of the heavenly bodies. Errors in Smith’s recordings of the lectures, the manuscripts of which had been locked in his study, were detected at a distance by the Clairvoyant and ordered corrected. Lecture I begins to deal with Human Magnetism, or Mesmerism. The Clairvoyant claims that Mesmerism is not the result of Satanic interventions, but is based on “physiological truths” and is recommended to Physicians for their use and study by scientific methodologies.. The lecture continues with a consideration of the brain, the nervous innervation of tissues, tissue repair, the senses and their relation to the brain, the notion of the mind as reflecting the effects of the senses on the brain, and with it experience and learning as formative of the mind. The duality of the mind, with the cerebellum controlling motion under the Will imposed by the cerebrum and its associated Mind, which is responsible for thought, contemplation, investigation, comparison and arrangement. He reveals that the activity of Mind functions in sleep, as evidenced by dreaming. In Lecture II, the Clairvoyant develops the notion of lack of recall by the Mind in sleep and in mesmeric state, evidence that the mind is active even without consciousness. In an analogy with the rotation of the heavenly bodies, which are controlled by the force of gravitation, human behavior, as in mesmerism, can be controlled by electric and magnetic fluids, a Galvanic force. For involuntary actions and sensation, the force is Animal Heat (Magnetism); for voluntary actions it is Electric. Mesmerism consists of the extraction of the magnetic force from the object. In Lecture III, it is explained how planets orbit the sun, maintaining a balance of centrifugal and centripetal forces derived from the heat, electricity and magnetism emitted by the sun. The path of comets is similarly explained. Lecture IV explains Animal Magnetism, Clairmativeness and Clairvoyance. Animal electricity, postulated to be the intermediary force between the mind and volition in motion, is proven by the function of the electric eel, which turns electricity into motion. Magnetic fluid transmits autonomic and sensory influences beyond the person, leading to higher orders of knowledge. The higher state leads to clairmativeness, a state of being “clearly reversed”. In mesmerism the Subject is, as asleep, under the complete control of the Operator. In the highest state of mesmerism, perfect vision returns to the Subject, no longer under the control of the Operator and the Subject enters the transic, or Clairvoyant state, the Mind expands to fill the universe becoming a Great Positive Mind that “knows” all, rather than “sees” all. This state will bring blessings to all mankind. In the Appendix, Smith details how he tested Davis as a Clairvoyant and describes his success, further attested to by witnesses from Maine and elsewhere. An extraordinary pamphlet, very rare and central to 19th century notions of mesmerism, Spiritualism, clairvoyance and physiology. Mild tanning of pages. Folded front cover. Two small damp stains on cover. Else, Very Good. Price: $375.00 10083 [Marryat, Captain Frederick] By the Author of "Jacob Faithful," "Peter Simple," &c.- Diary of a Blasé. Philadelphia. E. L. Carey and A. Hart. 1836 First American Edition (The first edition in book form), First Issue (Sept., 1836). 197 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's catalogue(dated September 1, 1836) and half-title in front. 12mo. Later black cloth spine and original tan paper covered boards. Modern printed paper label on spine. (Extra printed paper spine label tucked in). T.e.g. Foredges untrimmed. Sadleir I, 1577 (this issue). Wolff II, 4516. Brussel, Anglo-Am. First Ed, East to West, p.117. AmImp 38739. Marryat (1792–1848), a onetime friend of Charles Dickens, was famous for his nautical stories and novels. He also, like Dickens, was a critical visitor to America. According to Sadleir, this is the first book issue of material published in the Metropolitan Magazine to July 1836. It was not issued in book form in England until 1840 ("Olla Podrida"). Spine replaced with later cloth. Rear cover had been detached. Rear pastedown mostly gone. Boards soiled. Edges of boards and corners slightly worn. Mild foxing. Else, Very Good. Price: $85.00 9999 Marryat, Capt. [Frederick].- Capt. Marryat's New Novel. Percival Keene; A Tale of the Sea. In a Complete Edition of "Brother Jonathan," Extra. No. X. September 21, 1842. New York. Wilson Company. 1842. First American Edition. 63 pp 4to (12 " x 9") Yellow printed decorative paper wraps. Double column format. Groce & Wallace, p. 539–40. Hamilton. Not in Sadleir, nor in Wolff. A nice copy of an extremely fragile item, the first American edition of a novel by Capt. Marryat (1792–1848), Percival Keene. It was here first published in "Brother Jonathan," a magazine famous for its piracies of work by Charles Dickens and others. This, too, is likely a piracy. The text was taken from the first London edition in 3 volumes. The illustration was engraved on wood by Robert Roberts (1821–?), who, born in Wales, was active in New York from 1841 to 1850. As Sadleir notes: "Nowadays several of Marryat's 'firsts' are almost indiscoverable in any state" (Sadleir,I, p. 230). Covers detached and frayed at the edges. Transverse closed tear in middle of front cover.Page edges browned at corners and flaking. Else, Very Good. Price: $350.00 9849 Marryat, Captain Frederick.- Marryatt's (sic!) Novels. Two Volumes, Bound Together. N.P. [? Philadelphia]. N.Pu. [? Carey & Hart]. N.D. [? 1841]. Frontispiece, "Hard A Lee," painted by J. P. Ellis, engraved by H. Dawe. 767 pp. , 644 pp. 8vo. Modern red buckram with gilt titling on spine. Modern end papers with taping of hinges internally. All edges marbled (old; ? original). CBEL, III, 385–6. Sadleir I, 230–246. (both for first, separate editions). NUC, NM #0241539 (?). Marryat (1792–1848), a onetime friend of Charles Dickens, was famous for his nautical stories and novels. He also, like Dickens, was a critical visitor to America. Here are collected 13 of his works in a single double-columned volume (actually two volumes bound together) with continuous pagination. These are his complete novels up through 1839. Included are the following novels: "Peter Simple " (1834) , Jacob Faithful (1834), "The Pirate" (1836), "The Three Cutters" (1836), "Moonshine" (1836), "Japhet, in Search of a Father" (1836), "Mr. Midshipman Easy" (1836), "The Phantom Ship" (1839), "Frank Mildmay, or The Naval Officer" (1829), "The King's Own" (1830), "Newton Forster; or, The Merchant Service" (1832), "The Pacha of Many Tales" (1835), "Snarleyvow; or, The Dog Fiend" (1837). Marryat wrote much more up to his death in 1848. Inscription in ink in a very early 19th Century hand on front free flyleaf: "Presented to Ralph by his brother Morris on his 21st Birthday / M Moss." The title pages are missing from the rebound volume. The striking frontispiece with glassine protector is preserved. From the table of contents of Volume II (bound before Volume I, and identified by the footnotes for the signatures), this edition appears to be the first American edition of the Works of Captain Marryat, published in 1841 by Carey & Hart of Philadelphia. NUC identifies only 2 copies. NUC does not give enough information on the 1843 Exeter (NH) edition by J. & B. Williams (NM #0241540) to distinguish it. In 1857, R. Marsh of New York published the Complete Works of Captain F. Marryatt (NM #0241544) in a double column edition with the same running title, "Marryatt's Novels," but the table of contents is different from this volume. Discreet owner's stamp on rear free end paper. Lacks all title pages, including volume title page. Frontispiece and front free end paper reinforced with old transparent tape. Else, Very Good +. Price: $525.00 8608 Seymour, Robert.- Seymour's Humorous Sketches Comprising Eighty-Six Caricature Etchings Illustrated in Prose and Verse by Alfred Crowquill. With a Descriptive List of the Plates and a Biographical Notice of Robert Seymour, including an Account of His Connexion with The Pickwick Papers by Henry G. Bohn. London. T. Miles and Co. N.D. [1866] 86 engravings from the original steel plates by Henry Wallis done from lithographs by Seymour. Third Edition. 173 pp. 4to. Red publisher's cloth illustrated in gilt and black on spine and front cover. Seymour, a popular artist-humorist of the early 19th century, was the initiator of the project which became "The Pickwick Papers" and which was so instrumental in launching the career of Charles Dickens as a novelist. Seymour published many series of sporting prints, the "Humorous Sketches", of which this volume is composed, being among his most popular when they were first issued as detached lithographic prints about 1834–1836 by Carlisle, the publisher of Thomas Paine's "Age of Reason." The stones were sold in 1836 to Henry Wallis, a noted engraver and picture dealer. Wallis transferred the drawings to steel with great skill and published them in 1838 with an associated text in prose and verse by Alfred Crowquill, himself a noted humorist and artist. A second edition of this was published in 1842 by Henry G. Bohn, who added a descriptive list of the plates. Because of the demand, this third edition, identical to the second and with illustrations from the original steel plates, was published in 1866. Bohn's introduction recounts the story of the origin of "The Pickwick Papers" from the point of view of both Seymour's wife (Seymour having famously committed suicide in 1836 before even the second of "Pickwick's" 20 parts was issued) and Dickens. Mrs. Seymour was angry at Dickens, blaming him for her husband's suicide and for her economic decline. It is generally held that Dickens, while ambitious and opinionated about the proposed publication, was innocent of Mrs. Seymour's charges. This volume displays Seymour's great talents well and is clearly a forerunner of Seymour's conception of what the adventures of the Nimrod (to be Pickwick) Club were to be like. Professionally rebacked with original spine laid down. New end papers. Else, Very Good. Price: $350.00 8158 Cather, Willa.- Death Comes for the Archbishop. New York. Alfred A Knopf. 1927. First Trade Edition, First Issue. 303 pp. 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth with paper labels on spine and front cover. A First Trade Edition of Cather’s masterpiece of the Southwest. Perhaps her most famous novel and her best. First Issue, with error on l.16 of p 20, “happned”. No Dust Jacket. Wear at ends and edges of spine and at corners. Spine label mildly abraded at top. Small stain near foot of front cover. Hinges cracked internally. Foxing, very mild at front edge of text block, which is otherwise Good +. Price: $225.00 7891 Edgeworth, Maria.- The Parent's Assistant; or, Stories for Children. Philadelphia. J. W. Bradley. 1859. Illustrated with wood engravings by W. Croom. New Illustrated Edition, Complete. 535 pp. 8vo. Red publisher's cloth, embossed in the blind on the covers with publisher’s logo. Titled in gilt on spine. Spine of old homemade D.J. tucked in at rear. Camb. Bibliog. Eng. Lit., Vol. III, 366-8. Sadleir 779. Duane H. Hurd, History of Bristol County, Massachussetts, pp. 505–6 (for A. N. Medbery). Groce & Wallace, p. 155 Moralistic tales, with the principles and precepts of each tale laid out in the Preface. The tales seem hardly for children. Bookplate of Andrew N. Medbery, Private Library. Seekonk, Mass. Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849), an English social novelist, was much admired in America where her tales were reissued widely from about 1802, on. "The Parent's Assistant" was first published (England) anonymously in 1795, but no copies of this issue survive. It was reissued in 1796 and frequently thereafter in various formats. According to Sadleir, it is the rarest of Edgeworth's works in early editions. There is an 1800 illustrated edition in Sadleir's collection. A son of Viall Medbery, a founder and selectman of Seekonk, MA, active in the early Baptist church , Andrew N. Medbery (1824–? 1906) was a schoolteacher, merchant and selectman as well as Representative in the Massachusetts Legislature. William Croome (1790–1860) was a noted Boston and Philadelphia illustrator and engraver. Spine and corners worn. Some staining and foxing. Pastedowns abraded Price: $150.00 7225 Stowe, Harriet Beecher.- Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. In Two Volumes. Boston. Phillips, Sampson and Company. 1856. First Edition, First Issue: Volume I, p. 88, line 3, the ascender of the “d” in “dictatorial” is almost directly below the vertical stroke in the final “r” of “rather” just above it. Volume II, p.370, 9th line from bottom reads” “the Dicksons are fewer, and have…”. Battered type in last 3 lines of p. 209, Vol. I, as in only some copies of First State. Also has the Preface by Stowe, present in English copies, but rare in American issues. 329, 370 pp. 6 pp. publisher’s ads at rear of Vol. I. 12mo. Brown-black publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Covers embossed in the blind with frame of branches and holly leaves and 20 dots. Binding A. Plain unprinted yellow end papers. Wright II, 2391. BAL 19389. Has 2 pp. Preface in Volume I and Appendices. Owner’s signature on front free end paper of both volumes (”Fanny H. Stratton”). Inscribed on front free end paper of Vol. II (”The christian secret of a happy life, H. W. S.”). This is the second anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, told from the perspective of Black life in a time of slavery with reflections on the lives of the White characters. Inspired in part by Nat Turner’s rebellion, ”Dred” sold over 100,000 copies in less than a month. Mild wear at ends of spine and minimal at corners. Scant abrasion of covers. Mild scattered toning and tidal mark. Else, Very Good +. Price: $295.00 7105 Sartre, Jean-Paul.- L’Imaginaire. Psychologie Phénoménologique de l’Imagination. Paris. NRF. Librairie Gallimard. 1948. First Edition in this format. 246 pp. 8vo. Paper wraps printed in black and reddish brown. Pages uncut. Originally copyright in 1940, this 1948 edition is Sartre’s important contribution to this series of volumes on then contemporary English and Continental philosophy. Here, Sartre argues for the independence of morality and aesthetics: they cannot be confounded, especially in the face of the absurdity of reality and of existence. The aesthetic exists in the imagination, rather than in reality. Pages browned. Few small closed tears. Owner’s signature in pencil on front free endpaper. Front hinge starting at both ends. Else, Very Good. Price: $35.00 7066 Reade, Charles.- “Love Me Little, Love Me Long” New York. Harper & Brothers. 1859. First American Edition 435 pp. + 8 pp. publisher’s ads. 12mo. Brown publisher’s cloth, embossed in the blind. Gilt titling on spine. T.e.g. Yellow end papers. Parrish, p.203. (Sadleir 2010 and Wolff 5710 for First English Edition). http://www.george-orwell.org/Charles_Reade/0.html Charles Reade (1814–84) was a noted 19th Century novelist, but it was as a dramatist that he wanted to be known. His most famous novel was “The Cloister and the Hearth”, an historical novel about the adventures of the father of Erasmus. Well-educated (Oxford), financially comfortable, Reade became a lawyer, a fellow and later Vice President at Oxford. He adopted social causes in his novels, much like Charles Dickens, but less successfully. George Orwell summed up Reade as “…a man of what one might call penny-encyclopedic learning. He possessed vast stocks of disconnected information which a lively narrative gift allowed him to cram into books which would at any rate pass as novels. If you have the sort of mind that takes pleasure in dates, lists, catalogues, concrete details, description of processes, junk-shop windows…, the sort of mind that likes knowing exactly how a medieval catapult worked or just what objects a prison cell of the eighteen-forties contained, then you can hardly help enjoying Reade “(op cit). While Orwell saw Reade as possessing the ”charm of useless knowledge”, Reade did tend to use factual stories as a basis of his work; he did his own research on prisons for his effective early novel, “It Is Never Too Late to Mend”. He was never popular with the critics, but his public was large. He did have a somewhat loose concept of permissible borrowing from other authors and was accused of plagiarism. Owner’s bookplate on front pastedown. Signed on front free end paper by earlier owner: “K A./May.6th./’[18]59”. Wear at ends and edges of spine and at corners. Hinges starting. Small. chip from covers. Very tight and clean text. mild foxing at rear. Else, Very Good -. Price: $150.00 7025 [Curtis, Willaim Fuller] Parley Peter (pseudonym for S. G. Goodrich). (Editor).- The Balloon Travels of Robert Merry and His Young Friends, over Various Countries in Europe. Illustrated by Engravings from Original Designs. New York Derby and Jackson 1860 Illustrated with engravings by Elias James Whitney and Albert H. Jocelyn. ? Second Edition 312 pp. 12mo, in 6’s. Original publisher’s cloth elaborately embossed in the blind. Gilt decoration, illustration and titling on spine. Yellow end papers Pflieger, Pat, A Visit to Merry’s Museum; or, Social Values in a 19th Century Periodical for Children, Ph.D. Thesis, Univ. Minn. 1987. Groce & Wallace, pp. 351, 683 and Hamilton, pp. 209–20, 496–97 (for Whitney & Jocelyn) Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1793–1860), alias Peter Parley, the son of a minister, a bookseller and publisher, became the author of or contributor to many works, often for the young, books of history, science geography biography and fictional stories. His annual , The Token, published Hawthorne, Longfellow, Child et al from 1828 to 1842. He edited Merry’s Museum from 1841 to 1854. A Massachusetts Legislator in 1836–37, he became American Consul in Paris 1851–3., returning to America in 1855. This volume, originally published in 1856, is a series of geography and history lessons, published serially first in Merry’s Museum, describing the travels over the world in a balloon and the dialogue of a group of children with Robert Merry. Writing as Robert Merry, Goodrich often addressed his readers - collectively and individually - and thus quickly established a bond between them and the imaginary editor (Pflieger, op cit). The illustrations, here complete, are grand engravings by the firm of Whitney and Jocelyn. Signed in pencil on front free end paper by William Fuller Curtis, likely the noted pyrographic artist (1873–1938) of the Arts & Crafts Movement in America. Mild wear at ends of spine. Gilt fading. Very mild foxing Price: $100.00 6904 James, Henry.- The Letters of Henry James. 2 Volumes. Selected and Edited by Percy Lubbock, (Editor), New York. Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1920. First Edition. 434, 511 pp. 8vo. Black publisher’s cloth, lettered in orange on spine. front edges untrimmed Text of Introduction and Prefaces by Lubbock. Mild wear to ends of spine. fading of lettering on spine. Mild wear to corners of Vol. I and to cover of Vol. II. Else, Very Good. Price: $135.00 6858 Lawrence, D. H.- Sea and Sardinia. New York. Thomas Seltzer. 1921. Illustrated with eight color plates (with tissue guards) by Jan Juta and a full-page map. First Edition. 355 pp. 8vo. Green paper covered boards with yellow cloth spine. T.e.g. Other edges untrimmed Pages uncut. Printed paper label on spine. Travel memoirs by Lawrence in the First Edition, First Issue (line 3 on p. 127 printed upside down). Jan Juta (1895–1990) was a painter and muralist, close to D. H. Lawrence. Besides illustrating this book, Juta painted a portrait of Lawrence now in the National Portrait Gallery. Water stain, not encroaching on images. Pages lightly wrinkled. Hinges cracked internally. Corners bumped. Else, Good. Price: $185.00 6784 Huxley, Aldous.- Those Barren Leaves. New York. George H. Doran Company. 1925. First American Edition. Doran device on title and copyright pages. 400 pp. 8vo. Blue publisher's cloth with printed paper label on spine. T.e. stained red. The third novel by Aldous Huxley. Spotting of covers. End papers browning a bit. Minor bumping of ends of spine and corners. Else, Very Good. Price: $50.00 6687 Hardy, Thomas.- Human Shows Far Phantasies. Songs and Trifles. London.. Macmillan and Co. 1925. First Edition. 280 pp. + 3 pp. publisher's ads at rear. Green publisher's cloth with gilt titling and decorations on cover and spine. D.J. T.e.g. Purdy, pp. 234–48. The later poems of Thomas Hardy in their first edition. His last work published in his lifetime. Uncut pages. Minor wear at edges and corner of D.J. Else, Near Fine. Price: $300.00 6664 Graves, Robert.- Lawrence and the Arabs. London. Jonathan Cape. 1937. Reprinting of Concise Edition. 288 pp. + Publisher's Ads. Small 8vo. Grey Linen with Decorative D.J. Graves' book on Lawrence was originally published in 1927 and reissued in this Concise Edition in 1934. For this edition, Graves had permission from Lawrence (then known as T. E. Shaw) to use copyright material not available to him for the earlier editions. Ex Libris. Modest library stamp and unobtrusive owner's blind stamp. Else, Very Good in Very Good D.J. with only minor chipping at edges of D.J. spine. Price: $30.00 6639 Garland, Hugh A.- The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke. Two Volumes. New York. D. Appleton & Co. 1851. Portrait Frontispiece in Each Volume. ? First Edition. 311 pp., 375 pp. + publisher’s ads in each volume, at rear. 12mo. Purple Publisher's Cloth. The Biography of an Important Virginia Planter, a Relative of Thomas Jefferson. Randolph Freed His Slaves by His Will in 1823-33. Covers & spines faded. Spine ends slightly worn. Penciled number notations on one blank endpaper. of Vol. II. Mild foxing at end of Vol. II. Otherwise, Very Good. Price: $125.00 6578 Evans, Marian (pseudonym: George Eliot).- The Spanish Gypsy. A Poem. Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1868. First American Edition. Author's Edition, from Advance Sheets. 287 pp. 12mo. Red Publisher's Cloth.Gilt titling on spine and front cover. Beveled boards. Brown coated end papers. NCBEL III 903. Baker & Ross A9.3a-g. A long epic poem, originally written in 1864-65, but revised in 1867 by Eliot after her visit to Spain. Published in same year in Britain and in US. One gathering slightly loose. Picture of exotic Middle Eastern Dancer with Tambourine (? from old Valentine) laid down on front free end paper. Slight wear to ends and edges of spine. Corners mildly bumped. Else, Very Good. Price: $90.00 6507 Darwin, Charles.- The Various Contrivances by Which Orchids Are Fertilised by Insects. New York D. Appleton and Company 1877 Illlustrated with 38 woodcuts by G. Sowerby. Second American Edition, Revised 300 pp. + 8 pp. publisher’s ads at rear. Small 8vo. Terra-cotta cloth with black decoration on covers and gilt titling on spine. T.e.g. Tan end papers. Freeman 802. One of Darwin’s less commonly encountered titles, especially in this condition. There was no issue of the First Edition in America. Owner’s label laid down on front pastedown. Slight wear at ends and edges of spine and at corners. Else, Very Good. Price: $350.00 6491 D’Israeli, B[enjamin].- Coningsby; or the New Generation. Paris. A. and W. Galignani and Co, 1844. First French Edition in English. 347 pp. 8vo. Half brown calf sewn on 5 bands. Marbled boards. Marbled edges (all). Gilt tooled spine with gilt titling on black calf label. Marbled end papers. Sadleir 709. Wolff 1833. (both for First British Edition, 1844) One of the morality novels of Disraeli, the onetime British Prime Minister. Published after he entered Parliament, it was his first wholly political novel. A rare first edition, published the same year as the First British Edition. The character of Sidonia may be a stand-in for Disraeli himself. Moderate wear at head and foot of spine and at corners. Marbled boards scuffed. Hinges starting internally. Else, Very Good -. Price: $175.00 6476 Cross , J[ames] W[alter] (Editor).- George Eliot’s Life as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Three Volumes. New York. Harper & Brothers. 1885. Illustrated. First American Edition. 348, 324 + errata slip, 340 + errata slip, + 4 pp. publisher’s ads. 12mo. Green pebbled publisher's cloth with gilt decorations. Titled in gilt on spine. Facsimile signature of Eliot on front covers. Chocolate coated end papers. T.e.g. Baker & Ross D38.3.a The first biography of George Eliot. Written by her husband. Though they had been married only six months at her death, this well researched biography is the standard reference. Owner's signature on front free fly leaf: "Alice I.[?] Ordway./ June 4th '85./ Newton Center." Engraved business card tucked into Volume III. Slight wear at ends and edges of spine. Else, Very Good. Price: $210.00 6410 Chaucer, Geoffrey.- Troilus and Cressida. A Love Poem in Five Books. New York. Literary Guild. 1932. Illustrated. First Edition as Such 309 pp. Large 8vo. White paper spine (in imitation of vellum) with gilt titling. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt decoration on front cover. Blue end papers. Front edge untrimmed. New translation by George Philip Krapp. Illustrated by Eric Gill (wood engravings) after the Golden Cockerel Press Edition.. Blue cloth fading with wear at corners. Mild wear at ends and edge of spine. Else, Very Good. Price: $75.00 9745 Mahan, Captain Alfred T[hayer].- Lessons with the War with Spain and Other Articles. London. Sampson Low., Marston & Co. 1899. First Edition. 320 pp. 8vo. Blue Publisher's Cloth. Blue-black end papers. Gilt titling on spine and illustration on front cover. T.e.g. A. T. Mahan (1840–1914) wrote extensively on sea power as a medium of national power and international influence. This is one of Mahan's work in which he further develops the concept that international power was predicated on control of the sea. Based on a series of magazine articles, this book is very prescient in recognizing the capture of the Phillipines from Spain as an important factor in future American relations with Japan and China. These predictions took 40 years to come to the fore. The author was disturbed by American complacency after the Spanish-American War and was anxious to awaken scrutiny ofthe implications of that war for British and for American power. Mahan's ideas. based on details of maritime history, have cogent relevance today, although the methodology of sea power has changed. Mild wear at ends of spine and corners. Few markings on front cover. Else, Very Good. Price: $150.00 10966 [Sheet Music][Charles Dickens].- Coote, Charles. Coote's Lancers. Somebody's Luggage. (1) His Boots; (2) His Umbrella; (3) His Black Bag; (4) His Writing Desk; (5) His Portmanteau; Martha the Milkman's Daughter; Old Rosin the Beau; The Soldier's Joy. Dedicated to Charles Dickens Esq. Boston. Oliver Ditson & Co. N.D. [? 1862-67]. Delightful cover lithograph. First American Edition. 11 pp. Fo. Disbound. Miller, Dickens Student and Collector, p.224. not in Lightwood. Fisher, 150 Yrs. Music Pub. U.S. A Musical setting for the story by Dickens and others, published in All the Year Round as the Extra Christmas Number for 1862 (Volume VIII). The composer was Charles Coote (1807-79). Coote and his son, Charles Coote, Jr. (1831-1916) were noted composers of popular music, including dance music (waltzes, polkas, quadrilles and galops) and, with the Lancers, various entertainments, which were precursors of the music hall genre. In the latter capacity they were also conductors of various groups A London Edition of "Somebody's Luggage" was also published (N.D, but probably 1862) as played by Coote and Tinney╒s Band by H. Davison. The dedication to Charles Dickens was with permission (Miller). the publisher flourished under the name of Oliver Ditson & Co. from 1857 until 1888, the death of O. Ditson. The list of associate publishers auggests that this item, undated, was published about 1867. Covers mildly soiled. Offsetting of printing to opposite pages. Else, Very Good. Price: $250.00 10965 [Sheet Music]. Dickens, Charles (Words), and Lesta Vesé (Music).- Last Song (Autumn Leaves). Dedicated to Charles C. Converse, Esq. Louisville, KY. Louis Tripp. 1870 First Edition. 5 pp. Fo. Disbound. Decorative typography on cover. Podeschi B33. Not in Lightwood, nor in Miller, Dickens Student and Collector. A ballad from "The Village Coquettes", Dickens's early opera (1835-36), with the original music by John Hullah (see Podeschi B33). Here the music is by Lesta Vesé, a prominent composer of ballads and sacred music in mid 19th century America. The imprint is unusual and this piece is in several prominent collections, e.g. the University of Louisville and the Templeton Collection at Mississippi State University, as well as the Library of Congress. Charles Crozat Converse (1834-1918), was the composer of 'What a Friend We Have in Jesus". He studied music in Germany in 1855 and was a friend of Franz List and Louis Spohr. Returning to America, he studied law in New York and practiced in Pennsylvania, but continued to write music. "The Village Coquettes" written by Dickens with music by Hullah was an early production by the author, but had little success with negative criticism of Dickens's libretto. He, in turn, blamed the quality of the acting and the high ticket prices. Tears in lowest margin, with no encroachment on text. Closed tear in leading edge of rear cover. Mild foxing of covers. Else, Very Good. Price: $195.00 10959 [Sheet Music] Glover, Stephen (Music) and Charles Jefferys (Words).- Dred. Song. [London], Printed by Stannard and Dixon. N.D. [ca. 1856] Cover illustration signed by A. Laby; lithography also by Laby. First Edition. 7 pp. Disbound. A dramatic and forceful cover illustration of Dred in the swamp on music adapted from Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1856 novel "Dred". Charles Jefferys (1807-65) was a noted lyricist and publisher. Originally (1840) a musical partner of composer Sydney Nelson, Jefferys after 1843 wrote many lyrics for musical settings by Stephen Glover and his brother Charles Glover (1806-63), the latter the composer and the violinist at Drury Lane and Covent Garden. Stephen Glover (1813-70) was very popular in both England and America. He wrote over 1500 compositions, including many marches at the time of the Crimean War. After copyright reform in 1842, most books, ballads and pamphlets printed in Britain were registered at Stationer's Hall, the guildhall dating back to 1557. It was useful for copyright purposes, as was done here. Auguste-Franìois Laby (1784-1860) was a prominent lithographer in Britain, whose work is represented in the Royal Collection as well as the Spellman Collection of Victorian Music Covers at the University of Reading (UK). The printers, Stannard and Dixon were prominent printers, active ca. 1840-60. Closely trimmed, cutting off most of title and possibly publisher's information. Tidal mark in right margin of covers. Spine detached between pp. 2 & 3. Mild foxing. Price: $300.00 10958 [Sheet Music]. Rowbotham, T. L. - Original Edition. The Criket (sic) on the Hearth. A Set of Quadrilles, from a Fairy Tale of Home Dedicated to Charles Dickens Esqe. [Title Page Only]. London. H. Tolkien. N.D. [ca. 1845]. Lithographed illustration of title page First Edition. Only the title page survives. Fo. Not bound. Title page illustrated with scenes from the Christmas Book of 1845 by Charles Dickens. Podeschi H787. Lightwood, p. 175. DNB (for Rowbotham). Thomas L. Rowbotham, Jr. (1823-75) was a noted English watercolor painter of the mid-19th century. In his early youth, he aspired to be a composer of music. This is a product of his musical career. In his early 20's, in the years of this musical composition, he changed to pursue the traditional family career of artist , as his father had wished. Although highly admired for his watercolor landscape sketches, he died penniless. In the Gimbel Collection of Charles Dickens, as here, only the cover of the music survives, the illustrations occupying most of the page. Cover only, trimmed. Stain and small chip at upper corner. Dusty. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 10957 [Sheet Music]. The Chimes Quadrille, Composed for the Musical Bouquet. Most Respectfully Inscribed to Charles Dickens. No. 1. Toby Veck. No. 2. Meggy Veck. No. 3. Lilian. No. 4. Richard. No. 5. The Wedding. London. J. Bingley & W. Strange. N. D. [ca. 1844]. Engraved illustration of title page by A[lfred] Ashley. First Edition. 4 pp. Fo. Not bound. Title page illustrated elaborately by Ashley, inspired by the illustrations of ╥The Chimes╙ Podeschi H751. Lightwood, p. 175. Biographical Dict. at www.devon.gov.uk (for Ashley). Lightwood cites two versions of ╥The Chimes Quadrille, one by Henry Oakey, the other by Lancelott. Oakey's "Ethiopian Quadrilles" is in the Lester Levy Collection of Sheet Music at Johns Hopkins. He also composed "The Bruce Polka". F. Lancelott is also represented in the Levy Collection and was often published by the Musical Bouquet. The Musical Bouquet series began ca. 1846 and was operated by James Bingley and William Strange, often via piracy until the establishment of Stationers Hall, for copyright registration. One of their prime properties was the music of Henry Russell (1812-1900), the famous singer and composer who lived for a period in the United States. Musical Bouquet competed fiercely for his music and leadership of the mass music market in mid-century. Alfred Ashley (1821?-97, fl. 1840-50) was a noted English engraver of the mid-19th century and the author of "The Art of Etching on Copper" (1849). He was also noted for his musical titles. Music seller's stamp at foot of p.1. Owner's signature: "Mrs. Gooey- 1847". Attractive and very uncommon. Spine professionally taped. Mildly dusty. Else, Very Good. Price: $225.00 10954 [Sheet Music]. Dodworth, Allen.- The Jenny Lind Polka. As Played by Dodworth's Cornet Band. Arranged by Allen Dodworth. Teacher of Dancing, 448 Broome St. New York. Firth, Hall & Pond. 1846. Engraved by Frc. Wakelam. First Edition. 2 pp. Fo. Unbound. Richard K. Hansen, The American Wind Band American band music had a grand development in the period of 1820-70. Allen Dodworth was one of the leaders of this movement, creating in 1848 a Cornet Band, an orchestra and a school of brass band instruments. Band musicians were feeders for the brass sections of symphonic orchestras in this period, helping symphonic music to develop. The year 1848 was a seminal year in the development of band music in America because of the great unrest in central Europe, causing band musicians to migrate in droves to America, many from Germany and some from Ireland. Joseph Gung-l came with his whole band in 1848. The Germania Musical Society came on an extended tour, 1848-55. Of this group, Carl Bergman taught Charles Ives's father harmony and counterpoint, undoubtedly thereby influencing the great and quixotic American composer, who incorporated so much American folk and band music into his symphonic works. Another immigrant was Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore who came in 1849 to conduct many brass bands. While working for P. T. Barnum, Gilmore developed a taste for superlatives, especially in promoting the tour of Jenny Lind, "The Swedish Nightingale", for Barnum in America in 1850. The American public lionized her and the orchestras. Dodworth was one of the most prominent band leaders at this time. His band played at Presidential inaugurations. Moreover, Dodworth led his group at Zachary Taylor's inauguration on March 5, 1849, a program managed by Ball Coordinator, Abraham Lincoln. The music for the Jenny Lind Polka was originally composed by Anton Wallerstein (1813-92), who was famous both in Germany and America for his polkas. Hinge separated. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 10952 Dickens, Charles.- The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: Containing a Faithful Record of the Perambulations, Perils, Adventures and Sporting Transactions of the Corresponding Members. Edited by "Boz". Part Fifth [Only] Philadelphia. Carey, Lea & Blanchard. 1837. Not illustrated. First American Edition. 205 pp. Publisher's ads for illustrated edition, etc. at front and for Scott and Irving, dated January, 1838, at rear. 12mo. Red (now tan) cloth spine with printed paper label. Brown paper covered boards with decorative ruled frame printed on front cover. Wilkins, pp. 7-11. Edgar & Vail, pp. 16-17. Podeschi A19. McGuire Catalogue, 4. "Pickwick Papers" was Dickens' first great literary success, although his journalism and sketches were popular, too. The novel , issued in parts in London by Chapman & Hall, was quickly pirated in America, first by Carey, Lea and Blanchard of Philadelphis. The Philadelphia edition was first issued in 5 parts (volumes), unillustrated, in brown paper covered boards and reddish cloth spine. Each volume contained 4 of the original parts. The first illustrated edition was also published by this publisher in 1838 with engravings by Yeager of the extra illustrations drawn in London by Alfred Crowquill (Alfred Henry Forrester) and "Sam Weller". Because Dickens was unknown at the time, only 1200 copies were issued. In 1838, the publisher paid Dickens £50 in honor of the success of the work. This is Part (Volume) V, only, of the original 5-part issue, one of the 1200 copies. Owner's signature on rear spine ("The property of Ezekiel Potter") and on front pastedown ("The Property of Ezekiel Potter Jr./ Whitefield Me 1837"). Ezekiel Potter was a descendant of Anthony Potter (d. 1690), who immigrated to the American colonies from England in 1628, was recorded in Ipswich, MA in 1648, founding a family of successful farmers. In generation V, Solomon Potter moved to Whitefield, Maine in 1782. Three of his sons served in the War of 1812 and son Ezekiel , owner of this book, was born December 26, 1785. Spine worn at hinges, soiled and fading. Label worn, with some residual printing. Covers abraded and stained. Shaken. Foxed. Tidal marks on preliminary pages. Front hinge cracked internally. Else, Good. Price: $250.00 10949 Dickens, Charles.- Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail, and for Exportation. With Illustrations, Engraved on Wood by J. W. Orr. From Designs by H. K. Browne. Number XII. New York. Wiley and Putnam. 1847. First American Edition. pp. 533-580 12mo. Printed tan stiff paper wraps. Wilkins, p. 25. Edgar & Vail, p. 24. Grolier #156. Podeschi A104. Part Xii of the First American Edition of Dombey and Son, published By Wiley and Putnam (the last 2 parts are by Wiley, alone). They beat the other publishers by not waiting for the illustrations for the currently new part to arrive. The illustrations thus lag the corresponding part. There were 20 parts in 19, as typically for the English Edition in Parts. Publisher's ads on verso of front cover and recto and verso of rear cover, A scarce item. Few small chips and closed tears at edges of covers. Wear at ends of spine with small chip at foot and 1" chip at head. Mild soiling and a crease on cover. Else, Very Good. Price: $150.00 10948 Mark Twain (pseudonym) [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne].- The Late Benjamn Franklin. San Francisco, CA. The Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs. 1980. Illustrated by Thomas Nast. First Edition in this format. 3 pp. Fo. Blue stiff paper wraps, printed in blue on front cover. Alan Dietch and Kenneth M. Johnson, both of the Roxburghe Club, presented this as a keepsake for the 15th Joint Biennial Bash of the Zamorano and Roxburghe Clubs in September 1980. Enlarged 50% from the original, it includes, printed in red, the original illustrations by Thomas Nast. The keepsake was designed and lithographed by Lawton Kennedy, printer. Near Fine. Price: $35.00 10947 Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge, (pseudonym: Lewis Carroll).- Feeding the Mind. With a Prefatory Note by William H. Draper. London. Chatto & Windus. 1907. First Edition. 31 pp. Small 8vo. Red buckram spine. Grey stiff paper wraps decorated and titled in red and black Half title. WMGC 290. 291. Taylor 540, 605. The text is a short public (unusual for him) lecture given by Carroll in 1884, comparing the feeding of the mind with the feeding of the body, delivered with sly humor. The manuscript was presented to Draper. It was first published by Harper's Monthly Magazine, Vol. 112, pp. 937-9, May, 1906. It was issued separately, a year later in various covers, one as here in wraps. A few chips at edges of wraps. Slight toning of covers. Else, Very Good. Price: $85.00 10946 Kitton, Fred. G.- Dickensiana. A Bibliography of the Literature Relating to Charles Dickens and His Writings. With Portrait of "Boz" from a Drawing by Samuel Lawrence London. George Redway. 1886. First Edition. One of 500 Copies. 511 pp. + 24 pp. publisher's catalogue dated 1886. 8vo. Green publisher's cloth. Gilt titlng on spine. Chocolate end papers. An early bibliography of Dickensiana, some quite unusual. Very mild wear at ends and edges of spine. Stain on spine below title. Pages untrimmed and some uncut. Minimal foxing of front end paper Very Good +. Price: $135.00 10942 Dickens, Charles.- Christmas Books and Reprinted Pieces. From The Caxton Edition (Fully Illustrated) of The Works of Charles Dickens. New York. Caxton Publishing Co. N.D. [ca. 1890} Illustrated by Frederick Barnard and engraved by theDalziel Brothers. Early form of the Caxton Edition. 840 pp. 12mo. Brown publisher's cloth, embossed n black on spine and front cover. Titled in gilt on spine and front cover. T.e.g. Floral end papers. Podeschi D98. This volume has a nice collection of Dickens's Christmas, Books, Christmas Stories (from Household Words and All the Year Round) and many Reprinted Pieces. The Caxton Edition was issued in many forms and by many publishers. This version has illustrations by Frederick Barnard, also signed by the Dalziels. Wear at ends of spine, corners and edges. Front hinge starting internally. Pages yellowing. Else, Very Good -. Price: $25.00 10941 Dickens, Charles.- Works of Charles Dickens. Connoisseur Edition. Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby Philadelphia.. University Library Association. N.D. [ca. 1910] Illustrated by Frederick Barnard and Hablot K. Browne. First Edition of this set. 846 pp. 8vo. Half leather elaborately gilt decorations and titling on spine. Red cloth covered boards. Floral end papers with numerous cartouches, some labeled Chivers Patent Binding and others with dates ca. 1907. Podeschi D168 (Bibliophile Edition) appears identical.. A single volume from what was likely a 30 volume set of Dickens' Works, published in Philadelphia ca. 1910, known variously as "The Connoisseur's Edition" or the Bibliophile Edition. A poor copy of "Nicholas Nickleby" from this early 20th century edition of Dickens's Works, The best part is the set of Barnard's illustrations. Also, tucked in are: (1) a card printed with ╥Our Class Temperance Pledge╙ published by the Connecticut Temperance Union and (2) an album sheet with floral watercolor and a calligraphic autograph of N. A. Ray of Meriden, Conn. Ex Libris, with library stamps, discard marks, etc. Hinges cracked, pieces of spine gone, edges worn, text edges soiled. Old taping of pp. 125/6. Overall Poor. Illustrations, mostly by Barnard, are Good +. Price: $15.00 10940 Dickens, Charles.- Works of Charles Dickens. Century Library Edition. Vols. I-VI. Includes Pickwick Papers (Vols. I-II); Tale of Two Cities, Christmas Carol, The Chimes, Cricket on the Hearth (Vol. III); Oliver Twist (Vol. IV); David Copperfield (Vols. V -VI) [All Printed]. New York. The Century Co. 1910. Frontispiece, facsimile of cover of original parts issue, and several illustrations by Phiz, Seymour, Maclise or Cruikshank. First Edition of this set. 8vo. Tan publisher's cloth. Brown label on spine titled in gilt. T.e.g. A small set of Dickens's Works, nicely done in 1910 by the Century Co. A selection of highlights of Dickens's Works. Mild wear to title areas of spine and corners. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 10939 Dickens, Charles.- A Christmas Carol New York and Boston.. H. M. Caldwell Co. 1901. Vignette frontispiece engraving in border. First Edition in this format. 159.pp. 12mo. Green publisher's cloth with floral-tooled leather inlay on front cover superimposed with elaborate cloth on-lay titled with raised gilt lettering. T.e.g. Other edges untrimmed. Pictorial end papers. Text pages with very large borders and gutters illustrated in gold colored art nouveau illustrations. A lovely art nouveau production of Dickens's Christmas classic. Rare. Mild wear to corners. Owner╒s signature on front free end paper. Else, Very Good Price: $150.00 10929 Dickens, Charles.- American Notes for General Circulation. Leipzig, Germany. Bernh. Tauchnitz Jun. 1842. First Edition 310 pp. 16mo., signed in 8's. Three quarters black morocco on 5 raised cords. Marbled paper covered boards. Plain grey end papers. tTtled in gilt on spine Todd and Bowden, 32a.(See also Podeschi A69 for a later printing). The very first edition of Tauchnitz╒s publication of Dickens's "American Notes". tt was also the first "Continental Edition", though (like all the very early Tauchnitz editions) not labeled so, as Tauchnitz had not yet concluded his contract with Dickens. Has the initial misprint on p. 69, l. 26, reading "far gentlemen". Foxed. Hinges cracking. Front board n 3early detached. Wear at edges and corners of boards. Else, Very Good. Price: $160.00 10925 Clarke, Joseph Clayton (pseudonym: Kyd).- Some Well Known Characters from the Works of Charles Dickens, Illustrated by J. Clayton Clarke. London. Hildesheimer & Faulkner. N.D. [1892] 16 colored plates by "Kyd". First Edition. Unpaginated Large 8vo. Brown publisher's cloth. Beveled boards. Half title. Image of Fagin and titling in gilt on front cover. A.e.g. Images of characters from some novels by Charles Dickens and brief associated textual excerpts. The illustrations are by "Kyd", the illustrious artist who did so many Dickensian characters, generally in watercolor. Owner's signature on front pastedown. Wear at ends of spine, mild at corners and edges of boards. Shaken with loosening of several plates. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 10921 Fitzgerald, Edward (Translator).- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Co, N. D. 8 unsigned stylized illustrations including frontispiece in color, laid down in decorative border, possibly after originals in pen and watercolor. Possibly one of several versions by Willy Pogany.- First Edition in this format. 94 pp. 16mo. Full Calf. Ruled, with embossed floral decoration and gilt titling, all on spine and front cover. T.e.g. Marbled greyish tan end papers. Pages uncut. A lovely copy of the great poem in quatrains, originally translated in 1859 by Edward Fitzgerald. All pages with background decorated with tracery, flowers and leaves. Elaborate title page with decorations in elaborate style of Persian miniatures, and titling in pseudo-Arabic script. Half-title in similar script enclosed in decorative medallion. All full page illustrations laid down. A very nice and uncommon production. Very mild wear at ends of spine and corners and edges of covers. A tiny spot of stain or foxing at edge of text block. Front cover with mild curvature. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 10920 Dickens, Charles.- Our Mutual Friend, Chapters V, VI, Vii. in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. CLXX, July, 1864, pp.241-259. New York. Harper & Brpthers. 1864. Illustrated. First American Edition. pp. 145-280 + 2pp. ads + 5 pp. publisher's catalogue. (whole monthly issue) 8vo. Illustrated tan paper wraps A complete single monthly issue of a Dickens work, "Our Mutual Friend", with the usual 2 full-page illustrations. At this time Harper╒s was the official publisher of Dickens╒ works in America. Usually the novels were published in 20 (19) parts. This issue also contains a single part of "Denis Duval" by William Makepeace Thackeray and a part of Benjamin J. Lossing's "Scenes in the War of 1812". Mild soiling of covers. Early corners dog-eared. Few chips at ends of paper spine, with titling intact Else, Very Good. Price: $35.00 10917 Pugh, Edwin.- The Charles Dickens Originals London & Edinburgh. T. N. Foulis. 1912. Frontispiece and numerous plates tipped in, with tissue guards. First Edition 347 pp. 8vo Red publisher's cloth. Gilt titling on spine and front cover. T.e.g. Other edges untrimmed. A charming and interesting discussion of the real life people, friends and others, after whom Charles Dickens patterned his characters. 65.00 10917 Price: $65.00 10914 Dumas, Alexandre.- The Foresters New York. D. Appleton & Co. 1854. First American Edition. Translated from the manuscript and published simultaneously with French Edition. The half-title is in French, while the title page is in English. 226 pp. + 14 pp. publisher╒s catalogue at rear. 12mo. Brown publisher╒s cloth embossed in the blind on covers. Titled in gilt on spine. Alexandre Dumas, père (1802-70), the noted French Romanticist, was author also of "The Three Muketeers", "The Count of Monte Christo", "The Man In the Iron Mask", etc. His father was a Napoleonic general, but he took his name from his mother, a black slave from Haiti. His illegitimate but acknowledged son (one among at least three), also Alexandre Dumas, followed him in the literary tradition ("The Lady of the Camellias"). The father has been ever popular as a novelist, in America, where in the modern era he is most famous for the film adaptations of his novels. "The Forest Rangers" was simultaneously published in France and in America, the translation having been drawn from the manuscript. Dumas later converted it to a play. Active also in writing for magazines, making adaptations, authoring a cookbook, he was even more famous for his plays. Like Charles Dickens, he often wrote serial novels and made much money. He was often in debt from his profligacy. A romantic life for a romantic author. Wear at ends of spine. Corners bumped. Few spots on text edges. Mild foxing. Else, Very Good. Price: $100.00 10909 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.- Outre-Mer, A Pilgrimage beyond the Sea. Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1850. Fourth Edition. 374 pp. + 4 pp. publisher╒s catalogue at front. 8vo Brown blind-embossed publisher's cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Yellow end papers. T.e.g. Livingston, pp. 16-22, 45. BAL 12408. Wright I, 17-20. Sketches of scenes in France, Spain and Italy and comments on their literature, Based on Longfellow's personal travels in those countries, the first trip in 1826-9. Some were originally published in New England Magazine in 1831-3 and a few in 1834. The first book edition was published in 2 volumes by Harpers in 1835. While this book was being published in the Harper's edition, Longfellow was offered (and he accepted) a professorship of modern languages by Harvard, to succeed the great George Ticknor. A new revised edition of this book was published in one volume in 1846 by Ticknor & Co. (Wright I, 1720 for this edition) The text had been revised and two essays omitted. Milld wear at ends of spine and corners. Owner's elaborate bookplate on front pastedown: "Isaac Norris". Else, Very Good +. Price: $145.00 10908 Twain, Mark (Samuel L Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner.- The Gilded Age. A Tale of Today. Fully Illustrated from New Designs by Hoppin, Stephens, Williams, White, etc., etc. Sold by Subscription Only Hartford, CT. American Publishing Company. 1874. Illustrated First Edition (?), Second Printing, Mixed State. 576 pp. 8vo. Brown publisher╒s cloth with plain edges. Titled and decorated in gilt on spine and front cover. Speckled edges. BAL 3357. MacDonnell, Firsts, Vol 8, No. 7/8, 1998, pp. 36-8. Twain's first novel. Warner, his neighbor, was his co-author of this satire on the American pursuit of wealth. Only a small number of the first editions bear the 1873 date. Col. Sellers bears the name "Beriah", thus, probably the Second Printing. On title page is Cincinnati imprint as well as Hartford imprint. Most of First Edition errors listed in BAL are corrected, but this issue has some of the broken type characteristics, e.g. on pp. 302, 409.14, and 473 (see MacDonnell). Has no terminal ads.Folding map present p. 246 with tear at base not involving image. Bookseller's tag on front pastedown. Wear at ends of spine, corners and edges. Front hinge cracked half way up from tail. Mildly shaken. Else, text block Very Good. Price: $175.00 10907 Herford, Oliver.- An Alphabet of Celebrities. Boston. Small, Maynard & Company. 1899. Illustrated throughout by Oliver Herford. Borders and initial letters by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue. End papers and cover design by E. B. Bird. First Edition, limited to 2000 copies. Printed at The Heintzemann Press. 52 pp. + preliminary and colophon pages. 4to. Tan cloth spine, titled in red and black. Greyish tan paper covered boards, titled and decorated in red and black. Highly decorated end papers. Unnumbered pages. A witty assemblage of comic verse, celebrating major historical and literary figures. Full page illustrations and verse in 2-page spread for each letter of the alphabet. Verses celebrate a range of people, including Sarah Bernhardt, Queen Victoria, Brigham Young, Napoleon and others. Beautiful borders and humorous verse. Mild soiling of covers. Wear to corners. Mild wear to edges of spine. Else, Very Good. Price: $200.00 10906 Woolf, Virginia.- Walter Sickert: A Conversation. London. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press. 1934. Cover illustration by Vanessa Bell, sister of the author. First Edition. 28 pp. 12mo. Printed and illustrated light green stiff paper wraps Beekman Catalogue, #33. Kirkpatrick A20b. A sophisticated conversation about "color" in literature and ideas generated by an exhibition of paintings, especially portraits, by the artist Walter Sickert. The first impression of his work is that of biography in an expanded sense. Woolf, however, also sees novelistic elements in his works, rich novels akin to those by Charles Dickens and others. This returns the conversation to color in literature. Whereas Pope had little, Keats, like Dickens. had a rich palette. Critics like Dryden and Lamb had long been aware of the closeness of music and painting to literature. "Woolf drew great inspiration from the modern art movement in London". (Beekman). Originally published as an introduction to the catalogue an exhibition of Sickert's work at Agnew Galleries in London, 1960. This is the first separate edition, and the first with a cover by Vanessa Bell. Cover and half title detached from text block (broken thread). Toning of pages. and cover near spine. Else, Very Good. Price: $185.00 10902 Myers, Albert Cook.- The Boy George Washington, Aged 16. His Own Account of an Iroquois Indian Dance, 1748. In Commemoration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the birth of George Washington. 1732-1932. Philadelphia, PA. Albert Cook Myers. 1932. Illustrated. 79 pp. 12mo. Yellow publisher╒s cloth, titled and decorated in black on front cover and spine.. Illustrated D.J. A description of George Washington's trip over the western mountains as an apprentice surveyor, based upon his first journal. Grandly illustrated. Gives an account of an Indian dance observed in an encounter with the Iroquois. Inscribed by the author on copyright page in 1944 to Pusey Bancroft Heald and family in appreciation of their hospitality to him Damp stained D.J., extending to cover of book and preliminary pages. D.J. chipped, with closed tears on spine. Else, Book is Very Good. Price: $45.00 10879 [Sheet Music]. Stange, Stanislaus (Words), and Jukian Edwards (Music).- Dollie Varden. Dick. (Song). New York. M. Witmark & Sons. 1901. First Edition. 5 pp. Small Fo. Printed and decorated paper wraps. A parodic version of Dickens's "Dolly Varden", as invented by him, in a turn of the 20th century popular comic opera. Among publisher's ads on back cover is a listing of the various songs published separately for this "Dainty Comic Opera as produced by the Lulu Glaser Opera Co.". There were Broadway productions of this opera from 1902 to 1903. Hugh Stanislaus Strange (1862-1917), librettist and lyricist. Born in Liverpool, he came to America in 1881 and embarked on a career of acting and playwriting. His biggest success was his dramatization of the novel "Quo Vadis" (1900). However, Stange was most in demand as a lyricist and librettist, working often with Julian Edwards. At least eighteen of his musicals reached New York, among them "Madeleine" (1895), "Brian Boru" (1896) "The Wedding Day" (1897), "The Jolly Musketeer" (1898), and his best work, "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" (1902). He enjoyed his longest run with his adaptation of Oscar Straus's Viennese favorite, "The Chocolate Soldier" (1909), which he also directed" (Answers. Com). Julian Edwards (1855-1910) was an English composer; he studied with Oakeley and Macfarren and was Kappelmeister at Londoner Covent Garden Opera and was ╥conductor of the Carl Rosa Opera Company. In 1888 James C. Duff brought him to New York and produced his first show to reach Broadway, Jupiter (1892). Between that premiere and his death eighteen years later he wrote the scores for seventeen New York musicals. Among the best received or more interesting were King RenÄ's Daughter (1893), Madeleine (1895), The Goddess of Truth (1896), The Wedding Day (1897), The Jolly Musketeer (1898), Princess Chic (1900), Dolly Varden (1902), When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1902), Love's Lottery (1904), and The Girl and the Wizard (1909). Although none of his music remains popular, he was highly respected in his own time, and his work was sufficiently admired to lure such stars as Lillian Russell, Jefferson De Angelis, Della Fox, Christie MacDonald, and Lulu Glaser." (Answers.com) He died in New York. A very uncommon bit of Dickensiana. Price: $175.00 9348 Le Carré, John.- A Perfect Spy. New York. Alfred A. Knopf. 1986. First American Edition. 475 pp. 8vo. Black linen spine and black paper covered boards. Gilt titling on spine and front cover.. Decorative D.J. The longest of Le Carré's spy novels. He explores the basic nature of espionage and its practitioners. Wear at edges of D.J. with a few small chips from head of D.J. Else, Near Fine. Price: $40.00 8203 Grahame, Kenneth.- The Golden Age. London. John Lane. The Bodley Head. 1915. Nineteen full page illustrations in color by R. J. Enraght Moony. Later edition, but the first edition with these illustrations by Enraght Moony. 243 pp. + 4 pp. publisher's ads. Large 8vo. Tan publisher's cloth, illustrated with Viking ships in red. T.e. stained red.. Floral end papers. llustrated D.J. Pages ucut and untrimmed at foredge and tail. Kenneth Grahame's second book, originally published in 1895. Its companion volume. "Dream Days" followed 2 years later. "The Golden Age&" was repeatedly reissued by John Lane The Bodley Head, with a change of illustrator every decade or so. Besides Moony, who provided the first color illustrations, the volume has been previously illustrated by Maxfield Parrish in black and white, and later by E. H. Shepard and Lois Lensky. Enraght Moony's beautiful color illustrations capture the mystical mood of Grahame╒s (1859-1932) prose in this, one of his most delightful books. Pages toned, especially at edges. Front hinge starting internally. Wear and mild browning of ends of spine. Mild foxing of preliminaries. D.J. has lost large chips from both ends of spine and from a blank area of rear of D.J. Small chips from edges of D.J. Image and titling on front of D.J. intact. Else, Very Good. Price: $75.00 7059 Quiller-Couch, Sir Arthur.- On the Art of Writing. New York. G. P. Putnam's Sons. 1923. First American Edition, sixth printing. 302 pp. + 2 pp. publisher's ads at rear. 8vo Blue publisher's cloth spine with gilt titling. Blue paper covered boards. A series of essays on writing by the great rhetorician, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, who was also an editor, novelist, poet and critic. This volume includes his famous essay "On Jargon." Once you've read it, you'll never again write it. Wear at edges and corners. Mild wear at ends of spine. Front hinge starting internally. Else very good. Price: $48.00 6932 Melville, Herman.- Pierre: or the Ambiguities. New York. Hendricks House. Farrar Strauss. 1949 A new annotated American version of Melville╒s novel. First edition in this form. 504 pp. 8vo. Grey publisher's cloth, titled in gilt on spine. Illustration of a ship embossed in the blind on front cover.Illustrated D.J. with portrait of Melville at rear. The editor, Henry A. Murray, was a scholar of Melville and Professor of Psychology at Harvard, Inventor of the Thematic Apperception Test for Personality Assessment. He was famous for contributing to the US war effort during World War II, by providing a secret assessment of Adolph Hitler's personality to the US Secret Service, predicting Hitler&'s suicide. A self-taught psychologist, a graduate in Medicine, he turned to a career in psychology and personality assessment, merging ideas from Freud and from Jung and helping to found the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute. His analysis of Melville rests heavily on hs talents at psychological assessment. Few small chips from edges of D.J. Else, Very Good +. Price: $175.00 6894 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth.- Outre-Mer, A Pilgrimage beyond the Sea. Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1855 Seventh Edition. 374 pp. + 12 pp. publisher╒s catalogue at rear. Brown blind-embossed publisher╒s cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Yellow end papers. T.e.g. Livingston, pp. 16-22, 45. BAL 12408. Wright I, 1715-20. Sketches of scenes in France, Spain and Italy and comments on their literature, Based on Longfellow╒s personal travels in those countries, the first trip in 1826-9. Some were originally published in New England Magazine in 1831-3 and a few in 1834. The first book edition was published in 2 volumes by Harper's in 1835. While this book was being published in the Harper's edition, Longfellow was offered (and he accepted) a professorship of modern languages by Harvard, to succeed the great George Ticknor. A new revised edition of this book was published in one volume in 1846 by Ticknor & Co. (Wright I, 1720) The text had been revised and two essays omitted. Milld wear at ends of spine and corners. Front hinge with half inch separation at head. Owner╒s signature on front free end paper: "H. H. Northrop/ 1876". Else, Very Good. Price: $75.00 6733 Helmuth, Wm. Tod, M. D.- With the "Pousse Café" Being a Collection of Post Prandial Verses. Philadelphia. Boericke and Tafel. 1892. First Edition. 141 pp. 8vo. Greyish white cloth spine, titled in giltGrey cloth covered boards, illustrated and titled in silver on front cover. T.e.g. DAB, Cordasco CC309. Humorous verses on Medical themes by Dr. Wm. Tod Helmuth (1833-1902), distinguished physician and surgeon; Dean of the New York Homeopathic Medical College; prolific author on medical subjects and also of humorous verse, as in this volume and in "Scratches of a Surgeon". Dr. Helmuth was ensconced in the Homeopathic community, but sensitive to allopathic advances and affectations. Many of the verses are in iambic pentameter, but various metres are employed. An uncommon title. Owner's stamp on front pastedown. Spine cloth soiled stained; slightly worn at head and tail. Corners bumped. Top edge gilt very bright. Price: $160.00 6693 Harris, Joel Chandler,- Sister Jane. Her Friends and Acquaintances. A Narrative of Certain Events and Episodes Transcribed from the Papers of the Late William Wornum. Boston. Houghton, Mifflin and Company. 1896. First Edition. 363 pp. 8vo. Green decorated publisher's cloth.Titled in art nouveau floral cartouches with much gilt, on spine and front cover. BAL 7138. Wright III, 2491. One of only two adult novels by Harris. A witty and warm delineation of black, poor white and upper class Georgians. Owner's signature on front free end paper: "Annie D. Montgomery./June 2 - 97."Cover badly spotted with mild wear at ends of spine. End papers stained with hinges starting internally. All edges gilt. Else, Very Good. Price: $85.00 6686 Hardy, Thomas.- Far from the Madding Crowd. London. Osgood. McIlvaine and Co. 1895. Frontispiece etching by H. Macbeth-Raeburn. Map of Wessex at rear. First Edition of the Collected Wessex Novels (Vol II). 477 pp. 8vo. Blue publisher's cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Gilt floral device with TH monogram on front cover. T.e.g. Pages untrimmed at other edges, Purdy, pp. 279-82. Preface to this edition by Thomas Hardy. A nice copy of this illustrious work, Hardy's fourth novel, from the set of "The Wessex Novels". Hardy captures well the notion of country in his Wessex and the poetic aspects of both character and environment. Signed in ink on front free end paper by previous owner: "Henry A. S. Upton / his book / Sept 1897". Front hinge cracked internally. Very slightly cocked. Else, Very Good. Price: $60.00 6230 Anonymous.[? Blake, Alexander V.].- Anecdotes of the American Indians, Illustrating Their Eccentricities of Character. Hartford. C. M. Welles. 1850. Illustrated with full page frontispiece, vignette on title page and numerous wood engravings set as tailpieces Early Reprint Edition (copyright 1843). 252 pp. 12mo Red publisher's cloth, embossed in the blind. Gilt titling and decorations on spine. Not in Sabin. Not in Howes. AI 44-209 (1st Ed.). .By the Author of "Evenings in Boston" &"Ramon the Rover of Cuba"; [See Wright, I, 2088] &c. A contemporary analysis of the Native American character as illustrated by anecdotes of the time. Nice woodcuts and on pp. 12 ff a long poem with references to Andrew Jackson. Small waterstain on cover and early pages. Spine worn at hinges and ends. Corners worn . Else, Good +. Price: $125.00 6155 Vidocq, Eugene Francois.- Memoirs of Vidocq, Principal Agent of the French Police. Written by Himself. Translated from the French. Four Volumes. London. Whittaker and Co. [ca. 1830-45]. ? First English Edition 237, 266, 251, 275 pp. Small 12mo. Nicely rebound in plain grey paper covered boards and spines with printed paper labels. New end papers. Barzun & Taylor, # 178, 3105, 4936. Queen's Quorum ,8-9. In Queen;s Quorum, these memoirs, published originally in French (Paris: 1828-29) are cited for their enormous influence on detective-story writers to come, especially on Poe. Vidocq [1775-1857] [was a] self-confessed thief, circus performer, vagabond, galley convict, jail-breaker, and finally, king of thief-catchers". The memoirs display his transition from rogue to detective. Barzun & Taylor comment on the influence of Vidocq on Balzac, Eugene Sue and others. Accordng to Jarndyce (Brian Lake and Janet Nassau) Vidocq wrote only the first volume, the others having been ghost-written by Louis L'Héritier. They were probably first issued in an English translation by H. T. R [William Manginn] in a four volume London publication by Hunt and Clarke in 1828, then by Whittaker, Treacher and Arnot, added in the last 2 volumes in 1829. This undated issue by Whittaker may be later, with cancel titles from Whittaker alone tipped onto the first signature, probably from the original sheets. The original frontispiece is lacking in this edition. Volume IV contains an appendix, dated 1829, reporting on different sensibilities of English and French audiences for this book and acknowledgement that some prurient elements were omitted. The Appendix is signed H. T. R. (the probable translator, W. Maginn).Tucked in is an undated newspaper clipping reporting Pushkin's 1830 condemnation of Vidocq's Memoirs. A Near Fine set. Very Good +. Price: $800.00 5015 Humboldt, Alexander de.- Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain.. With Physical Section and Maps, Founded on Astronomical Observations, and Trigonometrical and Barometrical Measurements. Volume I only (of Two). New York. I. Riley. 1811. Numerous tables. The American edition lacks the maps. First American Edition. 221 pp. 8vo. Contemporary full tree calf with decorated edges., . Originally publlished in France. The English and American editions, based on Black's translation, were both published in 1811. From about 1799 to 1804, Humboldt [1769-1859) toured extensively in Latin America, especially New Spain (Mexico) , making numerous scientific observations and accumulating much data on the customs, behavior, intellect and social arrangements of the indigenous population as well as investigating geographic, geologic, commercial and agricultural aspects of the society. He comments, moreover, on the political organization of that society. This is a milestone in exploration in that it set a standard for the new scientific exploration, testifying to Humboldt╒s rich intellect and capacity for critical analysis. Hinges cracked. Ex Libris (Miss Jordans' Circulating Library, Lancaster) with bookplate on front pastedown as only mark. Mild toning of some pages. Else, text block Very Good +. Price: $200.00 10895 Dickens, Charles.- Hard Times, Chs. XXXI & XXXII. in The Evening Post [New York], Weekly. Volume XIII. No. 33. Thursday, August 17, 1864, p.4 William C. Bryant & Co. 1854. First Edition. 4 pp. Newspaper. Large Fo. Not bound. Folded. A reprinting of two chapters from Charles Dickens’s novel “Hard Times”. Probably one part in the serial publication of Dickens’s novel in this New York newspaper in the same year as the book publication. Likely this was a piracy, as was all too frequent in reprinting Dickens’s works in America. In his first visit to America in 1842, Dickens raised the issue of the lack of respect in America for the idea of international copyright, for he rankled at the frequent piracies of his work in this country. In doing so he incurred the ire of the American Press. Some amends were made at the press dinner for Dickens on the second visit of the author to America in 1867–8. The New York Evening Post was a distinguished newspaper founded by Alexander Hamilton. It prospered under the editorship of William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878), a poet, lawyer and journalist, who supported the Abolitionists and introduced Lincoln in 1860 at the Cooper Union. Bryant must have been aware of Dickens feelings about piracy of his works, but there is no record of recompense to Dickens by this or the many other newspapers and most publishers who printed his work. America did not join the international copyright protection till the 1890’s. “Hard Times”, originally published in Britain in 1854, was a social novel in which Dickens held forth against Jeremy Bentham and Utilitarianism,; he argued for the role of ‘feelings’ in education, as opposed to the emphasis on ‘facts’; and he showed his early awareness of problems and inequities for the working class in the Industrial Revolution. Hinge mildly separating. Else, Very Good. Price: $110.00 10894 Trollope, Anthony.- George Walker at Suez. Mt. Carmel, CT. Turtle Press. N.D. [ca. 1970] First Edition in this format. 31 unnumbered pages. 8vo Buff stiff paper wraps, illustrated. “ ‘George Walker at Suez’ is the comical story of an ill-natured British businessman on an Egyptian holiday and the misadventures of his trip to Suez.’ (Note on rear cover). Trollope (1815–82) was a prolific author. His daily job was in the British Postal Service, but he managed to write 35 novels and at least as much other work. Near Fine. Price: $23.00 10886 Sweetser, Kate Dickinson.- Dining with Dickens a Delmonico’s. A illustrious Friendly Relations Assembly as Revealed in the Contents of an Old Trunk. In a Whole Single Issue of “The Bookman”, Vol. XLIX, No. 1. March, 1919, pp. 20–28. New York. George H. Doran Company. 1919. First Edition. 9 pp. 8vo. Blue printed paper wraps. William Edgar Sackett and John James Scannell, “Scannell’s New Jersey First Citizens” ( for Kate Sweetser). Obituary, N. Y. Times, February 18, 1870 (for Henry E. Sweetser) The story of Dickens’s New York dinner witth the Press on April 18, 1868. This story is written by Kate Dickinson Sweetser (d. 1939), an author of stories about children in Dickens’s (and others’) works, and is based on a collection of manuscript material and documents she found in a trunk belonging to Henry E. Sweetser, a relative (? uncle), whose efforts almost alone carried out this great celebration of Dickens, just prior to his departure from America on his second visit here in 1868. Dickens’s relations with the American Press became strained on his first visit to America in 1842, but this breach was repaired greatly by the occasion of this dinner, to which Dickens came amidst great suffering from foot pain, probably caused by acute gout. Kate Swetser was a cousin of the poet Emily Dickinson; she had been born in New York City, the daughter of Charles H. and Mary N. Sweetser and lived in New Jersey. Her father was a journalist and editor, a partner with Henry Sweetser. Another story in this issue, “Tatania Arrives”, concerning a bookshop is by Christopher Morley. Chips and closed tears at edges of wraps. Else, Very Good. Price: $90.00 10883 Doyle, Richard.- A Journal Kept by Richard Doyle in the Year 1840. Illustrated with Several Hundrd Sketches by the Author. With an Introduction by J. Hungerford Pollen and a Portrait. London. Smith, Elder, & Co. 1885. Frontispiece self-portrait laid on (with loose tissue guard) and numerous other illustrations on manuscript pages by lithography, all by Doyle. First Edition. 152 pp. 4to. Tan publisher’s cloth on beveled boards. Elaborate gilt titling and decoration in rustic style on spine and front cover. Illustrations on front cover in black, designed by Doyle. A.e.g. Black coated end papers. For Richard Doyle: Catholic Encyclopedia and Everitt, pp. 381–94. A remarkable production by Richard Doyle, called on cover and inner titles “Dick Doyle’s Journal”. His journal for the year 1840, printed in facsimile handwriting with numerous decorations, head pieces and tailpieces and illustrations by Doyle. A nice copy of a delightful book. Richard Doyle (1824–1883) was an English artist and caricaturist, a son of the artist and caricaturist, John Doyle, This journal, a manuscript book written and illustrated in pen and ink when the author was 16, is now in the British Museum.. This work, reproduce in facsimile in 1885, “is a remarkable proof of Richard Doyle’s precocity as an artist” (www.newadvent.org/cathen/05151c.htm). At age 19 he started work for “Punch”, and is noted for his drawing that became their cover of “Punch” to this day. A devout Catholic he left “Punch” in 1850 because of their anti-Catholic positions. Among his work in book illustration is Thackeray’s “The Newcomes”, etc. With a technique full of imagination and romantic fancy, he was noted for his draftsmanship, grace and amusement. Mild wear at ends of spine and corners. Mild soiling of covers. Gilding very bright. Front hinge starting internally. Else, Very Good. Price: $225.00 10881 Grimm, Jakob und Wilhelm.-3 Kinder- und Hausmärchen Gesammelt durch die Brüder Jakob und Wlhelm Grimm. Herausgegeben von Herman Grimm. Mit Dreizehn Bildern nach Zeichnungen von Paul Meyerheim Gütersloh C. Bertelsmann. 1890 Illustrated with chromoithographic plates after drawiings by Paul Meyerheim, engraved by R. Loëziske. Kleine Ausgabe, Vierzigste Auflage. 288 pp. Small 8vo Brown embossed and illustrated publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling and illustration on spine. Rear cover embossed in the blind with ruling and device. Front cover embossed with illustration of Hansel and Gretel with old witch, in black with black ruling. T.e.g. Other edges marbled. Grey end papers. A lovely nineteenth century edition of the tales of the Brothers Grimm, in German. The tales, collected chiefly from oral tradition, through field work by the brothers, who were academic linguists, were originally published in 1812–19, The collection was perhaps the first work of folklore, although a few of the stories were derived from printed works. This very attractive edition has excellent chromolithographic illustrations. Bookseller’s tag (New York) on front pastedown. Owner’s signature on front free end paper. Very mild wear at ends of spine, edges and corners. Else, Very Good +. Price: $110.00 10879 [Sheet Music]. Stange, Stanislaus (Words), and Jukian Edwards (Music).- Dollie Varden. Dick. (Song). New York. M. Witmark & Sons. 1901. First Edition. 5 pp. Small Fo. Printed and decorated paper wraps. A parodic version of Dickens’s “Dolly Varden”, as invented by him, in a turn of the 20th century popular comic opera. Among publisher’s ads on back cover is a listing of the various songs published separately for this “Dainty Comic Opera … as produced by the Lulu Glaser Opera Co.”. There were Broadway productions of this opera from 1902 to 1903. Hugh “Stanislaus Strange (1862–1917), librettist and lyricist. Born in Liverpool, he came to America in 1881 and embarked on a career of acting and playwriting. His biggest success was his dramatization of the novel ‘Quo Vadis’ (1900). However, Stange was most in demand as a lyricist and librettist, working often with Julian Edwards. At least eighteen of his musicals reached New York, among them ‘Madeleine’ (1895), Brian Boru (1896) ‘The Wedding Day’ (1897), ‘The Jolly Musketeer“ (1898), and his best work, ‘When Johnny Comes Marching Home’ (1902). he enjoyed his longest run with his adaptation of Oscar Straus’s Viennese favorite, ‘The Chocolate Soldier’ (1909), which he also directed” (Answers. Com). Julian Edwards (1855–1910) was an English composer; he studied with Oakeley and Macfarren and was Kappelmeister at Londoner Covent Garden Opera and was “conductor of the Carl Rosa Opera Company. In 1888 James C. Duff brought him to New York and produced his first show to reach Broadway, Jupiter (1892). Between that premiere and his death eighteen years later he wrote the scores for seventeen New York musicals. Among the best received or more interesting were King René's Daughter (1893), Madeleine (1895), The Goddess of Truth (1896), The Wedding Day (1897), The Jolly Musketeer (1898), Princess Chic (1900), Dolly Varden (1902), When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1902), Love's Lottery (1904), and The Girl and the Wizard (1909). Although none of his music remains popular, he was highly respected in his own time, and his work was sufficiently admired to lure such stars as Lillian Russell, Jefferson De Angelis, Della Fox, Christie MacDonald, and Lulu Glaser.” (Answers.com) He died in New York. A very uncommon bit of Dickensiana. Price: $175.00 10870 Dickens, Charles.- The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain. London. Cassell & Co., Ltd. 1891. First Edition in this Series. 192 pp. 32mo. Greyish tan printed paper wraps. An inexpensive edition of Charles Dickens’ fifth Christmas book in an attractive format. Bookseller’s tag at foot of front cover. A charming ad for “a luxury no longer unknown. Barber & Company’s French Coffee. As used in Paris,…”, “One shilling per pound, including tin”. One of the major series of inexpensive 19th century productions by the distinguished British publisher, Cassell & Co. Mild soiling of cover and page edges. Else, Very Good +. Price: $55.00 10869 Dickens, Charles.- The Cricket on the Hearth. With Selections from Sketches by Boz New York. Cassell & Co., Ltd. 1900. First Edition in this Series. 192 pp. + 8 pp.publisher’s catalogue at rear. 32mo. Tan printed and decorated paper wraps. An inexpensive edition of Charles Dickens’ third Christmas book in an attractive format. “The Cricket on the Hearth” is accompanied by two items from “Sketches by Boz”, “A Christmas Dinner” and ”The New Year”. This volume is issued in America by the English publisher. Bookseller’s tags at foot of front cover and title page. A charming illustrated ad for the Columbia Phonograph Co. on rear cover, showing a cylinder “graphophone. One of the major series of inexpensive 19th century productions by the distinguished British publisher, Cassell & Co. Mild soiling of cover and page edges. Else, Very Good +. Price: $55.00 10865 Thome, Ja[me]s A[rmstrong] and J[oseph] Horace Kimball.- The Anti–Slavery Examiner, No. 7. Emancipation in the West Indies. A Six Months’ Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes, and Jamaica, in the Year 1837. New York. The American Ant-Slavery Society. 1838. First Edition. 128 pp. 8vo. Disbound. Double column format. Self wraps. Dumond, pp . 9–10. LCP/HSP AfroAmercana 10208. Sabin 95460. AmImp 53294. Cundall, Bib. West Indies, #2236. http://www.civilwar.si.edu/slavery_thome.html (for Thome). Appl. Cyclo. Am. Biog. (for Kimball). A later edition contains a 32 page “Extra”. A deluxe edition was published in boards and the contents in 489 pp. A critical review of the effects and problems encountered in the lead-up to and the processes of emancipation in the West Indies. The information was gathered in a 6 month tour of the islands of Antigua, Barbadoes and Jamaica. James A, Thome (1813–73) the son of a Kentucky slaveholder, was initially uneasy about slavery, but grew appalled in 1834 as a student of theology, after attending a debate on the moral aspects of slavery. As a traveling agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1837, he and Joseph Horace Kimball conducted this study of the emancipation of the slaves in the British West Indies. Kimball (1813–38), a friend of Thome, resided in New Hampshire, where he edited “The Herald of Freedom”, an anti-slavery journal. They refuted the prevalent notion that slavery could be abolished only gradually so as to prepare the slaves for a new life of freedom. Consequently, the Society changed its platform to a demand for “unconditional freedom without delay”. In 1839 Thome escaped from Ohio to Connecticut to avoid arrest for helping a runaway slave to freedom. Lacks folding map frontispiece. Mild foxing of covers. Else. Very Good. Price: $155.00 10864 Harrison, William Henry.- Gen. Harrison’s Speech at the Dayton Convention, September 10, 1840 [Boston, MA} The Whig Republican Association of Boston. [Gould, Kendell & Lincoln]. [1840]. First Edition. 8 pp. 8vo. Self-wraps with title above text. Sabin 30573n, Am Imp 40-2970. An uncommon title, One of only the few of Harrison’s campaign speeches to be published. Annotated in textual parentheses with commentary on the immense or tremendous cheering, the great and lasting sensation, lending a charming verisimilitude. Harrison claims his past experiences stand in place of promises. He does promise to lessen the power of the Chief Executive, a power that then bordered on despotism. He favored paper money, but also a vigorous banking system. He supports strong States Rights. To strengthen the democratic spirit, Harrison calls for lesser power to and fewer demands from political parties. Paper toned and dusty. Held together by 2 later stitches. Tidal mark. Horizontal fold. Edges show a few short closed tears and tiny chips. Else, Good +. Price: $80.00 10857 Cruikshank, George, [and Charles Dickens and possibly William Makepeace Thackeray ].- [Pamphlet]. The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman. With Illustrations and Notes by George Cruikshank. New York and London. G. W. Carleton and Bell & Daldy. 1871. Illustrated. First American Edition in this format. 16 pp. (13 pp. + 3 pp. Notes on reverse of last page and both sides of rear cover). 12mo. Tan illustrated and printedstiff paper covers. All textual pages siif, also. Podeschi B86 (for this edition). Van Duzer p. 69, Cohn #243 (for the first edition). An American reissue of the comic verse by George Cruikshank and Charles Dickens, possibly together with William Makepeace Thackeray. Originally issued in 1839, the authorship was, for a long time, a subject of controversy. In “The Colophon. New Graphic Series. Number One” (1939. pp. 39-66), Anne L. Haight adds an interesting discourse on this famous work attributed at different times to Dickens, Thackeray and George Cruikshank, alone or in combination. From Dickens' letters, Haight argues that Dickens wrote the Preface and the Notes, and that he corrected Cruikshank's verses, himself adding the last verse. There is a possibility also that Thackeray contributed in a major way, but his illustrations have been found and differ significantly from Cruikshank’s published version. The verses are allegedly traditional. After his famous argument with Dickens, according to Haight, Cruikshank reissued the work without the Notes and with Dickens’ last verse replaced by three others by Cruikshank. The original work was adapted in 1839 by Charles Scully as “an historical, pantomimical, melo-dramatical, ballettical, burlesque burletta, in two acts…from an old ballad” (Podeschi, H837) and performed at the New Strand Theatre As noted by Podeschi, the first and last pages of this Carleton issue resemble wrappers, but are numbered in sequence. Front cover detached. Mild soiling of coversSmall chips from lower edge of front cover, wthout loss of text. Else Good +. Price: $135.00 10856 [Peabody, Ephraim].- [Pamphlet]. Slavery in the United States: Its Evils, Alleviations, and Remedies. Reprinted from the North American Review, Oct., 1851. Boston. Charles C. Little and James Brown. 1851. First Edition. 36 pp. Large 12mo. Tan Printed paper wraps. Appl. Cycl. Am. Biog., Dumond, p. 90. Ephraim Peabody (1807–56), the author of this pamphlet was the son of a New Hampshire blacksmith. He became a prominent New England Unitarian minister, later the beloved minister of King’ Chapel in Boston. A graduate of Phillips Academy at Exeter, Bowdoin and Harvard Divinity School he was a strong supporter of rational Christianity, the liberal Unitarian position. He served in Pennsylvania, the West (Cincinnati) and married the granddaughter of Elias Haskett Derby, the first American millionaire. His daughter married Charles Eliot, later the President of Harvard. He suffered from tuberculosis and moved about to essay a cure, but failed. He died young of the disease. Peabody had helped plan the Boston public school system. He had a wide group of friends including Frderick T. Gray and the circle about William Ellery Channing. His sensitivity to the poor and deprived in society was heightened by this exposure and he founded the Boston Provident Society, to succor the poor. In 1849 he wrote an essay in strong support of Frederick Douglass and, here in 1851, an attack on slavery. He saw slavery as woven deeply into the fabric and institutions of our society. It had, accordingly a disastrous influence on our people, both Black and White. He showed his Enlightenment base in dealing with the issues on the basis of rights and duties. Peabody acknowledged that States Rights was the operant principle, but it would be too long to await the growth of an emancipation party in the South. The Border states showed increasingly a decline in slavery, but with economic concerns paramount and cotton being “king”, the growth of other industries should lessen the institution of slavery. Colonization in Africa, financed by the government, might help Emancipation, but it might remove those free Black leaders who might be helpful to lead the Black community out of slavery. Colonization n Jamaica might be more readily successful. However the preservation of the Union is critical to the welfare of both Blacks and Whites. The then current strife has heightened the sensitivity of all to notions of justice, personal rights and constitutional law. The author’s hope is that such attention, in a united nation will lead to the growth of notions of justice and of freedom for all. Loss of 1 1/2” from top of front cover without loss of text. Soiling of covers. Wear at lower end of spine. Else, Very Good. Price: $245.00 10855 Anonymous [Broadside]. The Doony Song. Air, When Johnny Comes Marching Home. As Sung by Matt Kelly. San Francisco, CA. T. C. Boyd. N.D. [1867] Printed vignette image of boxer and border composed of printer’s devices. First Edition 1 p. 4 9/16” W x 8” H. Loose sheet. A boxing broadside with San Francisco imprint, likely from 1867, celebrating the victory of the American middleweight, Tom Chandler, a Californian, over the favored English champion Dooney Harris. The celebrated victory was by knockout in the twenty-third round of the bareknuckle fight on April 13, 1867. The middleweight class first developed in the 1840’s and this was likely the first middleweight class American championship fight. Chandler became known as the American Middleweight Champion. Boxing gloves were not used till 1884. Dooney Harris was shot by “Billy” Clough, who was arrested for the attack by the New York City police on April 9, 1874, at a saloon in Greenwich Village, while playing cards with his cronies. He claimed he had shot Dooney in self-defense (New York Times, April 9, 1874). Dooney Harris survived to fight again and is recorded to have fought “Denver” Ed Smith ( née Edward Cororan) in 1884–5 in New York, as did Tommy Chandler. The tune of “The Doony Song” was “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”, whose music and lyrics were written by Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (under the pseudonym Louis Lambert), a great Irish-born American bandmaster and composer. It was based on a traditional Irish air, “Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye”, not on a Negro Spiritual as claimed by some. Soiled. Tidal mark at lower corner. Chips from 3 margins, not encroaching on printed border. Small chip from body with small loss from left border, up to, but not involving text. Else, Good. Price: $250.00 10853 [Ware, James].- Identities Ascertained or, an Illustration of Mr. Ware’s Opinion Respecting the Sameness of Infection in Venereal Gonorrhœ, and the Ophthalmia of Egypt: with an Examination of Affinity between Antient Leprosy and Lues. London. J. Callow. Printed by J. and W. Smith. 1808. First Edition. 68 pp. 12mo. Disbound. Printed title page (self wraps). P. Dunn, British Masters of Ophthalmology Series: 3, James Ware. Br. J. Ophthalmol. 1917, pp.400–410. This interesting article discusses the different manifestations of venereal diseases. In the first case it reviews James Ware’s suggestion that Egyptian Ophthalmia is the same disease as venereal gonorrhœa, caused by the same contagious organism. The author, aware of John Hunter’s error in confusing the identity of syphilis and gonorrhœa, nonetheless identifies syphilis and facial-cutaneous leprosy as identical diseases occurring in different locations with different behavioral origins. James Ware (1756–1815) was a distinguished British ophthalmologist, unconventionally trained, but scientific in approach. He was thus unlike the “oculists” of his time who indulged in much quackery and were so favored by Royalty. Ware was famous for his skills at cataract surgery and was especially innovative in the surgery of congenital cataracts in children. A presentation copy, indecipherably inscribed on title page, “Presented by Sir E. Hor(?)/Bar(?)/ art(?)” Very uncommon. OCLC lists 5 locations (Harvard, Nat,. Lib. Med., Johns Hopkins, Edinburgh, Wellcome Library). Possibly trimmed at leading edges. Mild tidal stain at lower corner of early pages. Else, Very Good. Price: $350.00 10852 [Sheet Music]. Anonymous.- I Won't Be a Nun. New York. E. Riley. N.D. [very early 19th C.] First Edition. 1 p. Small Fo. Loose sheet. Removed. Not in Wolfe, Fuld, or Fisher. Dichter's Handbook #914 (Boston edition). Fisher, 150 Years of Music Publishing in the U.S. A comic song engraved and printed by E. Riley of New York, likely in early 19th century. A pretty, young woman disobeys her mother's wishes and refuses to go to a nunery because she knows and acknowledges that she is too wild and pleasure-loving. Dichter lists this song as published by G. Graupner in Boston ca. 1813. According to Fisher (pp.96–97), another work published by E. Riley in 1814, was perhaps the first piece of American music bearing a copyright date. This fixes Riley as active very early in the 19th century, perhaps also in the 18th century. Edward Riley was a music teacher and engraver, first appearing in the New York directory for 1806. It is not known whether he is the same Edward Riley who published and engraved music in London from 1799 to 1802, when his name appears as the engraver of much music of this period. Riley was set up in New York from 1814 to 1831. His widow and children continued his business from 1832 to 1851. They contributed to the growth of New York as an early center of music publishing in America. (Krummell & Sadie,p.114). Dichter and Shapiro list a number of Negro and minstrel songs published by Riley, again early in the history of this genre. Music seller’s modest stamp at lower margin (”E. Hopkins / Music Store / Troy] Browning of margins. Chips from edges, not encroaching on the text. Single horizontal fold. Else, Very Good Price: $150.00 10851 Eijkman, P[ieter] H[endrik].- Krebs und Röntgestrahlen. Haarlem, The Netherlands, and Jena, Germany. De Erven F. Bohn and Gustav Fischer. 1902. First Edition. 40 pp. 8vo. Printed grayish tan paper wraps. See Garrison-Morton. A very early (February 2002) monograph on the treatment of cancer with X-rays. The author assembles his experience with the use of X-Rays in cancer, presenting his several cases. His first report of a dramatic response had been published earlier and is related here too. He selected his cases for inoperability and found X-Ray therapy to be painless and without complication. The reported cases from 1900–1 were of breast cancer and cancer of the palate. The first use of deep X-Ray therapy of tumors was reported by Leopold Freund only 3 years earlier (G-M 2002). The first successful treatment of cancer with radium was reported after this review, in 1903 by Goldberg and London (G-M 2627). The carcinogenic effect of X-Ray in man were first reported in 1902 (G-M 2627, 2627.1). This early articale is not in G–M. Paper spine nearly gone. Edges of covers heavily chipped. Soling and browning of covers. Shaken. Else, Good +. Price: $95.00 10849 Byron, [George Gordon Noel] Lord.- Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt. Boston. Ticknor & Co. 1886. Illustrated. Engraved by A. V. Anthony First Illustrated Edition in this format. 8vo. Full tan tree calf with gilt titling on black leather labels and gilt decoration on spine, gilt border on covers and elaborate gilt dentelles. Marbled paper end papers. A.e.g. Gilt very bright A lovely edition of Byron’s Childe Harold, complete . A great production by the 19th Century publisher Ticknor & Co. Heavy paper stock and 64 illustrations and engravings (including headpieces and tailpieces and frontispiece portrait of Byron, protected by tissue guard). In a n elegant binding. Corners slightly bumped. Mild wear at ends of spine and chip from head of spine. Hinges starting, esp. at front cover. Else Very Good. Price: $110.00 10848 Dickens, Charles.- Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. London. MacGibbon& Kee Ltd. 1968. Colored frontispiece and black and white Cruikshank engravings. First English Edition. 311 pp. 8vo. Publisher's white marbled paper covered boards, with red title label, ruled and decorated in gilt on spine. Illustrated and printed D.J. Rose colored end papers. Findlater was the author of "Grimaldi: King of the Clowns" (1955) and here, utilizing his tools of modern scholarship, re-edits and annotates Charles Dickens' edition of Grimaldi's autobiography , first published in 1838. This is likely to be the definitive edition of Grimaldi's memoirs. Edges of D.J. lightly chipped, but all intact. Book, Near Fine. Price: $50.00 10846 Carlyle, Thomas.- The International Copyright Law. in a Letter from Thomas Carlyle to Charles Dickens in America, 26th March, 1842, and the Response from the Editors of Brother Jonathan. In Brother Jonathan, Library Edition, Whole Number XX, For the Week Ending Saturday, May 14, 1842, Vol. II, No. 3, pp.74–5. New York. Wilson and Company. 1842. First Edition. Whole number pp. 57–84. 4to. Printed and illustrated papr wraps with 3 pp. of ads. In January 1842, 30 year old Charles Dickens, already famous, sailed to America to examine “the Republic of my imagination”. He became sorely and famously disappointed. Almost immediately, he publicly addressed the problem of international copyright, for he had lost considerable sums to piracy, because there was no International Copyright Agreement. The American Press attacked him severely. Dickens transmitted to the Press, an address to the American people on this subject , which he had received from a host of illustrious English authors led by Edward Lytton Bulwer and a letter from Carlyle. Brother Jonathan here prints the Carlyle letter and its editorial response. Carlyle likens literary piracy to stealng, forbidden in common Biblical proscription and even by Utilitarian reasoning by Jeremy Bentham, the then-current vogue in moral philosophy. Brother Jonathan satirizes the skill of Carlyle, claiming he does not know the meaning of what he says and his listeners cannot understand him. Carlyle is accused of exaggerating the abuse Dickens has taken, claiming courtesy for his American opposition on the issue. Carlyle is treated sarcastically, his “words” distorted and exaggerated by the Editor, He, Carlyle, is accused of egotism, distortion of the English tongue, profanity and being sinister in his distortion. Dickens is attacked for urging attention to Carlyle’s plain words. The Editor denies that an author has any right except that which his own government gives him; English authors have no rights in America and there is, consequently, no loss at all. A monopoly extended to authors across national boundaries would raise the price of books in America or reduce the sales of English books in America. Of course, Brother Jonathan was itself a pirate, in even printing this letter from Carlyle, Dickens having sent the letter to the American Press, widely, but not to this periodical. Also pirated in this issue of Brother Jonathan is a segment in the serial publication of Gilbert A. à Beckett’s (1811–56) “Comic English Grammar”, illustrated by John Leech, published first in London in 1840 by Richard Bentley. Hinge separating. Mild toning of pages. Else, Very Good. Price: $195.00 10844 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (Words) and James Ernest Perring (Music).- Beware! Cavatina. Words by H. W. Longfellow, Composed and Respectfully Dedcated to Ephraim Leonard Corning by James Ernest Perring. New York. William A. Pond & Co. 1864. First Edition by this composer. 7 pp. Fo. Disbound.Engraved decorated cover BAL, Vol. 5, p. 624. A poem of Longfellow, here set to music by James Ernest Perring (1822–89), a London born composer of art songs who sang tenor with great success in New York, London and elsewhere in mid-19th century. He ranked “with the leading tenors of the day, and sang frequently with Jennie Lind …[and others]. He achieved his greatest distinction in oratorio, and was probably unsurpassed for purity of tone and artistic conception…He was a thorough all-round musician and was a composer of some note” (New York Times, Obituary, Jan. 16, 1889). This song was one of his most noted compositions. Several versions exist of the musical setting of this poem by Longfellow; the first, under the title “I Knew a Maiden Fair”, was composed by C. S. T. and published by Firth & Hall in 1842. A few spots of foxing.. Else, Very Good. Price: $150.00 10843 Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (Words) and William R. Dempster (Music).- The Rainy Day. Boston. Oliver Ditson. 1847. First Edition. 7 pp. Fo. Disbound.Engraved decorated cover BAL, Vol. 5, p. 627. A poem of Longfellow, published first in “Ballads” of 1842. Here it is set to music by William Richardson Dempster (1809–71). A Scottish born composer and pianist who performed a series of popular ballad concerts in New York and elsewhere in mid-19th century (Vera B. Lawrence, Strong on Music, Vol. Ip. 226). Dempster composed such ballads to the text of poems by Longfellow, as here, Tennyson and others. Small chip from lower corner of cover. A few spots of foxing.. Else, Very Good. Price: $150.00 10842 Tennyson, Alfred Lord (Words) and Dolores (Music).- The Brook. Boston. Oliver Ditson & Co. N.D. [1865–70] First Edition. 5 pp. Catalogue of piano music on rear cover. Fo. Disbound. Printed (several typefaces) front cover with elaborate decorative border, stereotyped by Peters & Son. W. A. Fisher, “150 Years of Music Publishing in the U. S.”. Krummel and Sadie, Music Printing and Publishing (Norton). pp. 363–4 (for Peters). Owner’s signature in pencil on front cover. Tennyson’s (1809–92) great poem, “The Brook”, here set to music for piano and voice, by the composer Dolores and published by Ditson about 1865–1870, dated from the name & address of the firm and the additional publishers (see Fisher). Peters & Son, the stereotypists, may have been one of the congeners of W. C. Peters Co., music publishers and engravers prominent at the period, who in the 1870’s sold out to Oliver Ditson. Slight toxing and soiling of cover... Hinge separating. Else, Very Good. Price: $100.00 10841 [Broadside, Dorr War].- List of Committees, Appointed at a meeting of the friends of the present State Administration, held at the Court House, in this City, on Thursday Evening, April 10, 1834. N.P. [Providence, RI]. N.Pub. [? Committee of Certificate Voters]. 1834. Decorated. First Edition. 1 p. 6” W x 14 3/4” H Loose sheet. Elaborate printer’s devices form border surrounding entire text. Mowry. pp. 25–44. Gettleman, pp. 3–29 Signed in ink on reverse:”Walter R. Danorth Esq.”. After the American Revolution, Rhode Island continued to be governed by the Colonial Charter, given to Roger Williams by King Charles II in 1663. Suffrage limited to property holders, a weak Governor and judicial system and power strongly centered in the Legislature were its chief features. While the other colonies developed balanced constitutional systems with separation of powers, Rhode Island remained static, despite being the first locus of the Industrial Revolution in America. There was a progressive disappearance of agrarian landholders among the class of Freemen along with the increase in immigration, both in the northern cities, especially Providence. Voter eligibility declined to barely 3500 active voters in the state (Mowry, p.33). The early decades of the 19th century saw unrest among the disenfranchised citizens and agitation for extension of the suffrage and pursuit of greater democracy through replacement of the charter with a new constitution (Gettleman). In February–March, 1834 this agitation began to come to a head, leading to systematic action in the form of establishing a committee to consider the best approaches to a new constitution and extended suffrage. An “Address to the People” was prepared “masterfully” (Mowy, p. 38) written by Thomas Wilson Dorr, an activist lawyer, declaring suffrage to be a “natural right”. The Charter was severely criticized and a constitutional convention recommended as well as changes to the judiciary. In June, 1834 the legislature recommended a convention but chose the delegates from among the voting freemen and the issue gradually died. It was resurrected in 1842 with more agitation by Dorr and his associates, ultimately leading to the armed rebellion known as the Dorr War. This broadside appeared between Dorr’s “Address to the People” and the Legislative session and appears to be the formation of Committees by friends of the existing government to counter the suffrage movement. Among them, however, were some voters later in favor of the “Peoples Movement”, among them Barrington Anthony whose house became the headquarters of the armed rebellion, and Thoma F. Carpenter, a lawyer active in the “Committee of Nine Lawyers” who argued n 1842 for the legitimacy of a “People’s Convention” and constitutional reform. (Gettleman, pp. 64–9). An interesting broadside relating to the the early movements toward the Door Rebellion in Rhode Island (yet unrecorded in DeSimone & Schofield) listing the composition of various committees (including Vigilance Committees) in each ward of Providence) loyal to the Charter Government in 1834. Mild brownng Few small stains or ink marks in margins. Else, Very Good. Price: $2,200.00 10840 Dickens, Charles.- Charles Dickens Christmas. Collector’s Edition. Includes the Five Christmas Books in Facsimile of the First Editions: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. A Ghost Story of Christmas; The Chimes. A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang the Old Year Out and A New Year In; The Cricket on the Hearth. A Fairy Tale of Home; The Battle of Life. A Love Story; The Haunted Man and The Ghost’s Bargain. A Fancy for Christmas-Time. In Original Slip Case. New York. Time Life Books. 1992. Illustrated with all theoriginal illustrations (A Christmas Carol, in color) Facsimile Edition of First Editions. Small 12mo. Red publlsher’s cloth, embossed, with gilt titling and decoration. In original red cloth covered slip case. A modern facsimile of each of the Christmas Books by Charles Dickens, in photographic reproduction, retaining the errors, etc. of the first editions. Each volume has a red ribbon marker. In pristine condition, in a similar original slip case.. Fine. As New. Price: $200.00 10838 À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott (Editor).- George Cruikshank’s Table-Book. Illustrated with Twelve Steel Plates, and One Hundred and Sixteen Engravings on Wood by George Cruikshank. London. Bell and Daldy. 1869/ Illustrated. A New Edition. 277 pp. + 2 pp. publisher’s catalogue. Royal 8vo. Green publisher’s cloth. Embossed and gilt illustration and title on front cover and gilt titling on spine. Covers ruled in the blind. A.e.g. Brown end papers. Cohn 191 This production was first issued by “Punch” in 1845. it was issued in 12 monthly numbers (each with a “Table Book Advertiser”), later gathered into one volume. Earlier (1827–8) William Hone had issued a “Table Book” in two volumes, without illustrations by George Cruikshank (Cohn 403). The frontispiece of this volume, originally the wrapper illustration of the parts, appears to have been engraved by W. J. Linton, as on the original. The engravings, both on steel and on wood are of very high quality and interest.c. Mild wear at ends of spine and corners. A few stains on front cover. Else, Very Good. Price: $195.00 10833 Marshall, Dexter.- Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and His Work. New York. The Century Company. (The American Press Association. 1898. Illustrated with portrait of Dr. Mitchell on front cover. First Edition. 16 pp. 32mo. Self wraps. E. D. Louis, et al, Neurology (2006), Vol. 66, pp. 403–7. A brief adulatory biography of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell (1829–1914) and brief reviews of his major literary works up to the date of publication. A publicity piece by his publisher, with ads on rear cover. Silas Weir Mitchell was a noted neurologist, illustrious for his prescription of the “Rest Cure” for neuasthenia. Specializng in the nerves, he made early contributions to our understanding of phantom limb syndrome, causalgia and nerve injuries, references to which appear in his fictional works {Louis, et al.). He wrote novels, poetry and short stories of quality, up to the time of his death in 1914. Slight abrasion of front cover at upper right corner. Els, Very Good. Price: $65.00 10821 [Sheet Music]. Leybourne, [George] [pseudonym for Joe Sanders].- Up in a Balloon. Boston. Oliver Ditson & Co. 1869. Illustrated cover designed and engraved by Greene. First American Edition. 5 pp. Fo. Disbound. Dichter & Shapiro, p.131. Groce & Wallace,p. 273 (for Greene). A delightful mid-nineteenth century piece of comic sheet music celebrating aeronautics by balloon. The lyrics are in two forms, a Ladies’ version and a Men’s version (mislabeled here as a second Ladies’ version). The cover has a full-page image of a balloon in flight carrying in its basket (emblazoned “by Leybourne”) containing two cherubs, one of whom carries a flag imprinted “Sung by all the Minstrel Troupes”. It also exists in an English version adapted as a Scottische by Gorge Roe from Leybourne. George Leybourne (1842–84) was born Joe Sanders and was a devotee of and famous performer in the music hall genre. He was most famous for his lyrics for “The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze”. His 1871 song “If I ever Cease to Love” is famous today as the signature song of the Rex Krewe in the New Orleans Mardi Gras. Leybourne was widely known as “Champagne Charlie” after his 1867 appearance as a swell in top hat and tails, carrying a bottle of Moët et Chandon. Later he worked for Moët et Chandon and his rival Alfred Vance appeared with a bottle of Cliquot; the rivalry produced a new music hall genre, the Lion Comique. Born in Newcastle, Leybourne died penniless and is buried in London. A movie celebrating the music hall career of “Champagne Charlie” was made in 1944. It starred Tommy Trinder as Leybourne and Stanley Holloway (”My Fair Lady”) as his rival “The Great Vance”. Greene is likely Henry F. Greene (1828–?) a Boston plate and music engraver of this period. Mild foxing of covers, not encroaching on image. Else, Very Good. Price: $350.00 10807 Gallaudet, Thomas H.- A Sermon Delivered at the Opening of the Connecticut Asylum for the Education and Instruction of Deaf and Dumb Persons, at the Request of the Directors, on Sunday Evening, April 20th, 1817, in the Brick Church in Hartford. Hartford, CT. Printed for the benefit of the Asylum, Hudson and Co., Printers. 1817. First Edition. 15 pp. Small 8vo. Two signatures, stab sewn. Self wrap. American Imprints 40885. Sabin 26408 A sermon at the opening of the first institution in America for the education of the deaf and dumb (Mark & Schwab, The Faith of Our Fathers, pp. 176–7). Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787–1851), who was the first to advocate the education of the deaf, was the first principal of the Asylum. Gallaudet University in Washington, specializing in the advanced education of the Deaf was named after his son, Edward Miner Gallaudet. The text of the sermon is derived from the prophet Isaiah, as are the three hymns which follow the text, composed for the occasion. A seminal document in the history of the education of the deaf. Minor chip at front corner ends. Small faint stain on lower edge of front cover. Else, very clean and Very Good +. Price: $350.00 8725 [Sheet Music] Bellak, J[ames].- Barnum's Polka for the Piano. Philadelphia. Edward L. Walker. 1849. Engraved by T. J. Williams First Edition. 2 pp. Fo. Sheet music, unbound. http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/rbm/keffer/bellak.html. (for Bellak) A polka written in celebration of Barnum's Museum, next door to the publisher in Philadelphia. On December 30, 1851 (New York Times, Dec. 31, 1851), The Museum, at Chestnut and Seventh Sts., was consumed by fire, “Little is known about the life of James Bellak”, a Philadelphia composer. “He was a remarkably prolific composer of sentimental songs and piano pieces. The popularity of his music coincided with the increasing presence of the piano in American homes in the 1860s.” (John Bewley, Website of Keffer Collection, The Penn Library}. Bellak composed the popular ditty, “Listen to the Mocking Bird”. Quite uncommon (not at Univ. Pennsylvania nor at Indiana). Removed. Foxed. Tear at hinge oversewn with no loss. ? complete. Hinge separating. Else Fair to Good. Price: $225.00 8580 [Theatrical Broadside].- Selwyn's Theatre, Boston. Holiday Week. On Tuesday Evening, Dec. 29th, 1868, Will Be Presented the Christmas Story by Charles Dickens, esq., Entitled The Cricket on the Hearth As Arranged for the Stage by Dion Boucicault, under the Title of DOT. A Fairy Tale of Home! In Three Chirps. Boston, MA. Selwyn Theatre. 1868. First Edition. 1 p. 20"H x 9" W. Unmounted. Kate Ryan, "Old Boston Museum Days." Hornblow, "A History of the Theatre in America, Vol. II. Bolton, p. 283, #61. The Selwyn Theatre, a stock company, existed for only 3 years, 1867–1870. It brought the most distinguished actors and productions to Boston, equal to those of New York and was the rival of the Boston Museum Theatre. Its manager, John H. Selwyn had previously managed Wallack's in New York. The bill for this production included "An Atrocious Extravaganza, after Byron, entitled 'An Hour with Forty Thieves'." The cast was most distinguished and included the illustrious names of Harry Pearson, G. H. Grifffiths, W. J.. Le Moyne, Stuart Robson, Kittie Blanchard, Harry Josephs and Mary Cary. According to Hornblow,the drama critic Henry Austin Clapp called the actors at the Sewyn, many of whom performed in these productions, "the chief theme of Boston's 'table-talk'." The broadside announces that the illustrious Mrs. Franchau is indisposed but due notice will be provided of her reappearance. Also promised are "brilliant selections" of music to be provided by the orchestra directed by C. Koppitz. Crisply printed. Few small chips and short tears at edges remote from text. No folds or creases. Else, Near Fine. Price: $250.00 8277 Galbraith, Mr.- US Govt. Documents: Ho. of Reps., 24th Congress, 2nd Session. Rep. No.272. Notes of the Bank of the United States [To Accompany Bill H.R. No. 956]. February 22, 1837. Washington, DC. U. S. Government. 1837. First Edition. 10 pp. 8vo. Removed. The Select Committee had been referred memorials regarding an amendment to the U. S. Constitution in relation to banking corporations in the states and reissuance of notes of the late Bank of the United States. This is part of the continuing saga of the Bank of the United States, originally chartered by Congress but discharged by Andrew Jackson. Continuing under charter of Pennsylvania, the Bank was reissuing notes for obligations to the United States. Congress was displeased and in this report enjoins the Bank from carrying on with this practice. Minor soiling and offsetting. Else, Very Good. 75.00 8277 Price: $75.00 8274 Smith, Robert. (Report from The Committee on Roads and Canals).- US Govt. Documents: Ho. of Reps., 29th Congress, 1st Session. Rep. No.676. Improvement of the Mississippi River [To Accompany Bill H.R. No. 67]. May 4, 1846. Washington, DC U. S. Government. 1846. First Edition. 10 pp. 8vo. Removed. The Committee on Roads and Canals had been referred a bill regarding the Des Moines and Rock River Rapids. In this report the Committee disposes of the constitutional argument whereby the Federal government has the right to make improvements on the Mississippi River. The retail cost of the vast quantities of lead mined in the State of Illinois and the Territories of Iowa and Wisconsin are augmented 25% by the need to pass these rapids at low water level. Also lost is the excessive cost and wastage of wheat and other produce due to seasonal need to pass the rapids. The value of local Federal and other lands is hence substantially reduced by the impact of the rapids. Tolls and local initiative are inadequate to the task. The committee recommends appropriation for the work in clearing the rapids and dredging by the Federal government. Appended is the engineering study supporting the feasibility of the project. Included tables document the required excavation. Minor spotting and offsetting. Else, Very Good. Price: $45.00 7930 Preston, Howard W.- Washington's Visits to Providence. In Rhode Island Historical Society Collections. Vol. XIX, No. 4, pp. 97–116,October, 1926. Providence. The Rhode Island Historical Society. 1926. Illustrated. First Edition 21 pp. 8vo. Printed Paper Covers, as Issued. Library Bound in Hardboard Covers. A variant of this article was subsequently published separately by the the Rhode island State Bureau of Information in 1932 as Historical Publication Number Five (See ID # 7909). Very Good. Price: $35.00 7618 Payne, George A. Mrs. Gaskell. A Brief Biography. Manchester. Sherratt & Hughes. 1929. Illustrated with frontispiece & portraits. First Edition. 94 pp. 8vo. Blue cloth spine and marble paper covered boards with paper labe on front coverl. Front edge untrimmed. A friendly, intimate portrait of the biographer of Charlotte Brontë, the author of novels of the Industrial Revolution, journalism for Charles Dickens’ “Household Words”, etc. Edges of Cover and corners slightly worn. Slightly shaken. Else, Very Good. Price: $95.00 6931 Melville, Herman.- Moby Dick, or the Whale. New York. Random House. 1930. First Trade Edition. 822 pp. Squat 8vo. Black publisher’s cloth with silver decorations and titling on spine and front cover. Greyish tan illustrated and decorated D.J., decorated by Rockwell Kent. The first trade edition of 1930 of Melville’s American classic, illustrated and designed by Rockwell Kent. Contains nearly all the headpieces and tailpieces and woodcuts by Kent that are in the 3 volume Limited Lakeside Press Edition. This edition also printed by The Lakeside Press for Random House. It is itself an American classic of book production and illustration. produced under the supervision of William A Kittredge. A Very Good copy in a Good version of the uncommon dust jacket. Slight soiling of page edges. Else, a Very Good book The D.J. shows toning and tidal marks on spine and both covers. Loss of 1/2” H x 2” W chip from upper spine of D.J. encroaching on word “Moby” in title. Else. D.J. is Good. Price: $625.00 6386 [Butler, William Howard Allen].- Nothing to Wear. An Episode of City Life. (From Harpers Weekly). New York. Rudd and Carleton. 1857. First Edition. 68 pp. 12mo. Brown Cloth. Gilt Titling on Front Cover. Dark Green Coated End Papers. Publisher's Shield Device without Lettering on Rear Cover in Blind (Not in All Copies). BAL 2228. Hamilton 873. Fullerton p.41. Illustrated by Augustus Hoppin, engraved by Richardson Cox. Publisher’s Ads, Printed on One Side Only in This Copy (see BAL 2228), Tipped in on Front End Paper. Title Page in Red. Butler (1825–1902) Was a Lawyer and Wrote Satirical Society Verse. He Was the Son of Benjamin Franklin Butler, U.S. Attorney General and Later Secretary of War. The Author's Brother Was Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler, Who Led the Capture of New Orleans in 1862 and Ran for President in 1884 as Candidate of the Anti-Monopoly and Greenback Parties. Butler, in His Legal Persona, Argued against Street Railroads in New York. Foxing. Fading of Spine and Edges of Boards. Else, Very Good. Price: $0.00 6371 Brown, Dr. O. Phelps.- The Complete Herbalist. Or, the People Their Own Physicians by the Use of Nature’s Remedies: Showing the Great Curative Properties of All Herbs, Gums,Balsams, Barks, Flowers and Roots; How....Also Symptoms of Prevalent Diseases; Special Treatment in Speci. Jersey City, NJ. O. Phelps Brown. 1870. Frontisliece portrait of Brown. Twelve colored full-page lithographic plates of herbs. First American Edition,? third printing. 432 pp. + Author’s ads following Index. 12mo Brown embossed publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Gilt floral cluster oembossed on front cover with same imag in the blind on rear cover. Cordasco 60-0225. An early edition of Brown’s popular herbal. First edition was in 1865 and this is likely the thiird printing. New editions well into 20th century. Detailed information on useful herbs. A subsequent section on indications. Much historical informaton, includingan introductory section on the history of medicine. Minimal wear at spine edges and corners. Gilt very bright. Rear fblank end paper has much cipping at one corner. Free end papers not affected. A Very Good+ copy, uncommon in its early editions. Price: $100.00 10879 [Sheet Music]. Stange, Stanislaus (Words), and Jukian Edwards (Music).- Dollie Varden. Dick. (Song). New York. M. Witmark & Sons. 1901. First Edition. 5 pp. Small Fo. Printed and decorated paper wraps. A parodic version of Dickens’s “Dolly Varden”, as invented by him, in a turn of the 20th century popular comic opera. Among publisher’s ads on back cover is a listing of the various songs published separately for this “Dainty Comic Opera … as produced by the Lulu Glaser Opera Co.”. There were Broadway productions of this opera from 1902 to 1903. Hugh “Stanislaus Strange (1862–1917), librettist and lyricist. Born in Liverpool, he came to America in 1881 and embarked on a career of acting and playwriting. His biggest success was his dramatization of the novel ‘Quo Vadis’ (1900). However, Stange was most in demand as a lyricist and librettist, working often with Julian Edwards. At least eighteen of his musicals reached New York, among them ‘Madeleine’ (1895), Brian Boru (1896) ‘The Wedding Day’ (1897), ‘The Jolly Musketeer“ (1898), and his best work, ‘When Johnny Comes Marching Home’ (1902). he enjoyed his longest run with his adaptation of Oscar Straus’s Viennese favorite, ‘The Chocolate Soldier’ (1909), which he also directed” (Answers. Com). Julian Edwards (1855–1910) was an English composer; he studied with Oakeley and Macfarren and was Kappelmeister at Londoner Covent Garden Opera and was “conductor of the Carl Rosa Opera Company. In 1888 James C. Duff brought him to New York and produced his first show to reach Broadway, Jupiter (1892). Between that premiere and his death eighteen years later he wrote the scores for seventeen New York musicals. Among the best received or more interesting were King René's Daughter (1893), Madeleine (1895), The Goddess of Truth (1896), The Wedding Day (1897), The Jolly Musketeer (1898), Princess Chic (1900), Dolly Varden (1902), When Johnny Comes Marching Home (1902), Love's Lottery (1904), and The Girl and the Wizard (1909). Although none of his music remains popular, he was highly respected in his own time, and his work was sufficiently admired to lure such stars as Lillian Russell, Jefferson De Angelis, Della Fox, Christie MacDonald, and Lulu Glaser.” (Answers.com) He died in New York. A very uncommon bit of Dickensiana. Price: $175.00 10819 American Anti-Slavery Society.- Declaration of Sentiments of the American Anti-Slavery Society. Adopted at the Formation of Said Society, in Philadelphia, on the 4th Day of December, 1833. New York. American Anti_Slavery Society. N.D. [1844]. First Edition. 4 pp. 8vo. Self-wraps. Sabin 81825 A re-issue of the Declaration of Sentiments, which was originally published in 1835 with the Constitution of the Anti-Slavery Society, both from the 1833 organizational meeting (Sabin 81826, Am Imp 30019. LCP/HFC Afro-Americana, Hogg 3075). This pamphlet, with no date, but probably 1844 from internal evidence, conforms to Sabin 81825, and is labeled [Penny Tracts], [Number I] , the first in a series of important tracts issued by the American Anti-Slavery Society. It includes the Preamble to the Constitution and a short portion of The Address ( a manifesto) presented at the Tenth Anniversary of the Society in 1844. Very Good +. Price: $195.00 10816 Webster, Daniel.- The Rhode island Question. Mr. Webster’s Argument in the Supreme Court of the United States, in the Case of Martin Luther vs. Luther M. Borden and Others, January 27th, 1848. Washington. J. and G. S. Gideon, Printers. 1848. First Edition. 20 pp. 8vo. Removed. Self wraps. Harvard Law Cat. II, 883. Bartlett, pp. 105, 270–1. Not in Sabin. The Dorr Rebellion in Rhode Island came after attempts, beginning in 1841, to extend suffrage to citizens without real property. An armed uprising occurred as the government legitimized under the state charter resisted voting extension. A new regime was voted in by the rebellious citizenry. Webster argued to the Supreme Court that any change in government from the old charter government would have to occur in conformity with the existing ratified constitution and not through measures voted without such conformity. Chief Justice Taney ruled that the US Supreme Court had no jurisdiction in what was a political argument, relevant only to Rhode Island, whose courts had rightfully made their decision. (For a detailed summary of the case, see Mowry,The Dorr War, pp. 231.-237 and Gettleman, The Dorr Rebellion, pp. 174–199 ). The People’s Government of Rhode Island, then, were without standing. A 26 page edition with same text also exists (no priority). Minor foxing of title page and page edges. Vertical fold. Else, Very Good. Price: $160.00 10815 Lambert, Samuel W.- When Mr. Pickwick Went Fishing. With Eleven Ilustrations by Robert Seymour New York. Edmond Byrne Hackett. The Brick Row Book Shop, Inc. 1924. Illustrated. First Edition. 83 pp. 12mo. White publisher’s cloth spine with printed paper label. Green paper covered boards. illustrated D.J. P. Van Ingen, Bull. NY Acad. Med., Vol. 18 (4), April, 1942. pp. 293–6 (for Lambert). This volume reopens the case put forward by the family of Robert Seymour, the first illustrator of Charles Dickens’s “Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, his first novel and the one that established Dickens’s enormous reputation. Dickens had denied the claims of the Seymours that Robert Seymour, a noted illustrator, who committed suicide after only two issues of the serial novel had been published, had conceived of Mr. Samuel Pickwick prior to knowing Dickens and had illustrated him and many of his personal characteristics before Dickens had been hired by Chapman & Hall Publishers to provide text to Seymour’s illustrations of the sporting gentleman. The author of this study presents a cogent case in support of the Seymours, who had been harshly dismissed by Dickens and his biographer, John Forster. The author of this study was Dr. Samuel W. Lambert (1859–1942), an advocate for women’s care in pregnancy and parturition, Dean of Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons, engineer of the merger of the medical college and its hospital, President of the New York Academy of Medicine, a prominent bibliophile and donor to the latter’s distinguished library of rare medical books. Inscribed by author to Lewis M. Thompson. who may have been the Lewis M. Thompson found, with the notorious adventurer and soldier of fortune, George B. Boynton, to be the targets of an investigation in 1906 for the counterfeiting of Venezuela’s silver currency in anticipation of their fostering a revolution in that country. (New York Times. Wednesday, September 19, 1906, p. 4). Near Fine. Pages uncut and untrimmed. Price: $75.00 10806 Whipple, Edwin P.- Lectures on Subjects Connected with Literature and Life. Boston. Ticknor, Reed & Fields. 1850 [1849] First Edition. (Catalogue at front dated October 1, 1849; it notes Longfellow’s “Evangeline” just published; owner’s stamp dated Oct. 1849). 218 pp. + 4 pp. publisher’s catalogue at front. Small 8vo. Brown publisher’s cloth, embossed in the blind. Titled in gilt on spine. Tryon & Charvat, A162b. A series of lectures, mostly on wit and humor in literature by Edwin P. Whipple (1819–86), the noted 19th Century critic, essayist and Editor of Dickens’s Works. The first essay in the volume comments on the changing reputation of authors through their lives. There follows.an extended consideration of Dickens as an author and a person, showing through his characters Dickens’s personal characteristics and effectiveness as a man. Two of the six lectures, perhaps Whipple’s most famous, discuss “Wit and Humor” and “The Ludicrous Side of Life”. Ex libris with library stamp on title page dated Oct., 1849, from the Boston Mercantile Library where some of these lectures were delivered. According to Tryon & Charvat, this first edition, published on October 3, 1849, was printed in only 750 copies and sold out in 10 days. Wear at ends of spine. Corners bumped. Front cover soiled. Chip from cloth on rear cover. Else. Very Good. Price: $110.00 10800 Kipling, Rudyard.- Doctors. An Address Delivered to the Students of the Medical School of the Middlesex Hospital, 1st October, 1908. With a Preface. Sold for the Benefit of Middlesex Hospital. London. Macmillan and Co. 1908. Frontispiece photograph of Kipling. First Edition. 32 pp. 12mo. Limp red cloth with black lettering and swastika device on front cover. Martindell, #88. Livingston, #312. In 1908, Kipling was invited to distribute prizes at the opening session of the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. This address, while reprinted in "The Ladies' Home Journal," January, 1909, has never been collected in Kipling's Works. The preface consists of a brief history of Middlesex Hospital (founded 1745) and its Medical School (founded in 1835). There follows, as transition, the poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes "The Two Armies." Kipling, who suffered from depression and other illnesses, saw Life as a long fight for Time and saw Doctors as one of the major defenses of the patient in that war. Bookplate, on verso of front cover, of James Ramsay Hunt (1874–1937), a prominent neurologist. Inscription to Hunt on front free end paper from Beatrice Hickson (posssibly A. Beatrice Hickson, the illustrious World War I female poet)... Soiled. Else, Good+.1937 Price: $90.00 10796 Potter, Elisha R.- Considerations on the Questions of the Adoption of a Constitution, and Extension of Suffrage in Rhode Island. Boston. Thomas H. Webb & Co. 1842. First Edition. 64 pp. Green printed paper wraps William M. Wiecek, Am. J. Legal History, Vol. 22, No. 3 (Jul., 1978), pp. 237–53. Mowry, p.81. Elisha Reynolds Potter (1811–82) was a noted Rhode Island jurist and politician, serving on the Rhode Island Supreme Court and in the US Congress, where his father had served before him. He was a propertied citizen in the politically overweighted area south of Providence, and a member of the conservative establishment of Rhode Island. Potter was a defender of the Freeholder’s Convention, based on the King Charles Charter, which still held in Rhode Island, against the People’s Convention, based on extended suffrage and championed by Thomas Wilson Dorr. These Rhode Island conservatives did not share the republican conservatism of the Whigs in post-Jacksonian America, but indulged in a non-republican “Peculiar Conservatism” (Wiecek). The Conservatives were proud of their anachronistic charter government with its limited suffrage and lack of social unrest. This was to be disrupted by the Dorr Rebellion. In this pamphlet, Potter argues that the Charter has yielded the most democratic government in America with its freehold qualification for voting, and calls the suffragist movement an unjustified revolution. He opposes the concepts of “natural rights” and the utilitarian precept of “the greatest good for the greatest number” and discusses the tyranny of the majority and limited rights of women, yet he defends the Rhode Island government as being as republican as any other state, although RI was one of only two states with property qualifications for voting. This is the most intellectual and authoritative defense of the anti-Dorr position. Tiny chip at foot of spine. Else, Very Good + Price: $325.00 10794 Dickens, Charles.- Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, Edited by “Boz.” Embellished with a Portrait. New York. William H. Colyer. 1838. Frontispiece portrait of Grimaldi, an early lithograph by N. Currier, with tissue guard. Second American Edition, Second State. 232 pp. 12mo. Blue paper covered boards and tan linen spine. Printed paper label (lacking). T.e.g. Podeschi, B66. VanderPoel B602(1) .Conningham (Revised) 3297. “The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi” was edited with an introduction by a young Charles Dickens only 2 years after his first major literary production, “The Pickwick Papers”.. The text presented to Dickens was a long discursive manuscript, which he edited and rewrote heavily, also providing the “Introductory Chapter” and, possibly, the “Concluding Chapter”. It was published first in England by Bentley in two volumes with illustrations by George Cruikshank. The first American edition was also in two volumes published in Philadelphia. This second edition was a one-volume production by William Colyer, published in the same year as the First Edition. Both American editions did not include Cruikshank’s illustrations. The Colyer edition was issued in two states: in the first state, signatures 3 & 4 were both labeled “3”, corrected in the second state. The frontispiece lithograph is an early production by Nathaniel Currier, who had opened his shop only three years earlier. Lacks label on spine. Wear chiefly at edges of board and front hinge. Signature 3 mildly shaken. Mild foxing. Else, Very Good. Price: $300.00 10792 Elliott, Maud Howe.- This Was My Newport. Cambridge, MA. The Mythology Company, a. Marshall Jones. 1945. Second Edition with First Edition Titie Page, dated 1944. 279 pp. 8vo Red publisher’s cloth with black titling on spne and front cover. A charming bit of the social history of fashionable Newport, RI, by the daughter of Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward howe. Very Good +. Price: $35.00 10776 [Carte de Visite]. Supervised by S. B. Heald. Oliver Wendell Holmes (Sr.) Boston. Warren’s. N.D. [ca.1850’s-60’s] First Edition. 1 p. 2 1/2” x 4 3/16”. A carte de visite of the distinguished poet, author, physician, educator and inventor, Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809–1894), the father of the Supreme Court Jurist. Holmes coined the word anaesthesia, saved the U.S.S. Constitution through his poem “Old Ironsides”, invented the stereoscope and was Dean of Harvard Medical School. He entertained Charles Dickens on the latter’s visits to America and testified at the trial of Professor John White Webster for the murder of Dr. George Parkman, which took place at Harvard Medical School while Holmes was Dean. An undated photograph, but Warren’s was active by the 1860’s and there is a photo from 1867 of Edward Jackson Holmes by Warren at Harvard. Very Good +. Price: $195.00 10774 [Stereopticon Card] Curtis, Geo[rge] E. 233. American Falls from Canada. Niagara Falls, NY. Geo. E. Curtis, Photographer. N.D. [? 1874]. First Edition. 1 p. 2 7/8” x 6 15/16” Stereo photographs mounted on orange card with rounded corners and decoratve imprint. The mount is flat. Waldsmith, Stereo Views. Darrah, Stereo Views. On reverse, holographic signature: “C.J.P./ June 1874. Curtis was a Niagara Falls photographer, noted for his views of the Falls, various bridges across the Falls, etc. Actve 1868–78, he photographed Madame Spelterini on the high wire as she became the first woman to cross the Niagara Falls by wire in 1872. In the flowering of stereo views, when Curtis was active, Niagara Falls was one of the favorite subjects for stereo photographers, who photographed all aspects of the Falls in all seasons. Very good. Price: $150.00 10773 Phillips, Wendell.- [Pamphlet]. Review of Lysander Spooner's Essay on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery. Reprinted from the "Anti-Slavery Standard," with Additions. Boston. Andrews and Prentiss. 1847. First Edition. 95 pp. 12mo in 6’s. Tan printed paper wraps. Stab Sewn. LCP 8173. Lysander Spooner (1808–1887) was a prominent lawyer of Boston interested in constitutional matters. He was an ardent abolitionist, who was convinced of the unconstitutionality of slavery. He hoped to abolish that institution by judicial action and published a tract on this matter. Wendell Phillips (1811–1884), an orator of Boston, also an abolitionist as well as champion of labor reform and women's suffrage, wanted slavery abolished by legislative action since he considered the constitution to support it. In this pamphlet Phillips reviews Spooner's document and details his disagreements with him. Spooner's works have been republished in the modern era by M & S Press and are still in print from the publisher. Of interest, Spooner published another document supporting the unconstitutionality of the guilty verdict of Professor John W. Webster for the celebrated murder of Dr. George Parkman in 1849 on the basis that the jury had not been drawn from Professor Webster's peers, since they all had favored the death penalty (dissenters from that position having been excused).. Small chip fromedge of cover (present). Else, Very Good. Price: $280.00 10771 Ebstein, Dr. Wilhelm.- Die Medizin im Alten Testament. Stuttgart. Verlag von Ferdinand Enke. 1901. First Edition. 184 pp. 8vo. Printed yellow paper wraps. G-M 6497. A study of hygiene, the presentation of illnesses and their remedies, as encountered in the Old Testament and Apocrypha. The author avoids discussion of the Talmud or other non-medical treatises in later Jewish culture. Uncommon, especially in wraps. Spine lacking. Covers and first few leaves detached. Water stain on front cover and margin of front 25 pp. or so. Short closed tear at hinge of front cover. Else, Very Good. 125.00 10771 Price: $125.00 10769 Barnard, Frederick- A Set of Six Postcards with Full Images of Characters from Dickens’ Works, Drawn by Barnard. London. Cassell and Co. N.D. [ca. 1900–10] Illustrated by F. Barnard. First Edition. 6 cards. 3 1/2” x 5 1/2”. Unbound. Six individual postcards, calling for Halfpenny Stamp for local delivery and i Penny Stamp for foreign delivery. A set of six unused sepia postcards with the superb illustrations by Frederick Barnard (1846–96) of Dickens characters. Each postcard shows the image along with an appropriate quotation from the novel for which the illustration was drawn. We have elsewhere seen an identical postcard, postmarked 1907. The characters in this set are: Little Dorrit, Mr. Micawber, Uriah Heep, Captain Cuttle, The Two Wellers, Mr. Pickwick. Barnard, who worked in New York and London (for Punch and the Illustrated London News) as an engraver and illustrator, often drew for Harper Brothers publications in America. These illustrations first appeared (1870–79) in the Household Edition of Dickens’ Works for Chapman & Hall and for Harpers. They were immensely popular. Mild bumping of a few corners. The image of The Two Wellers” is toned. Else, Very Good. Price: $110.00 10767 Tourgée, Albion W[inegar],- Bricks without Straw. A Novel. New York. Fords, Howard, & Hulbert. 1880. Frontispiec engraved on wood (with tissue guard). First Edition, Second Issue 521 pp. + 4pp. publisher’s ads at rear. 12mo. Brown publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Black titling and decorations on front cover; titling and decorations in the blind on rear cover. T.e.g. Wright III, 5516. BAL 20349. A novel of The South under Reconstruction. Tourgée (1838–1905) wrote several pseudonymous novels about the South before and after the Civil War (see Wright II, 2523, e.g.). Tourgée, an attorney, after the Civil War moved to North Carolina, where he met hostility and prejudice. He moved about thereafter. His books were known to Presidents Garfield and Harrison. His pseudonyms include Henry Churton, Edgar Henry, “One of the Fools” and Siva. This issue is the earliest from the corrected plates (on p. 343, l. 17. See Wright III, 5516). Mild wear at end of spine and corners. Owner’s signature on front free end paper. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 10763 Chaudhry, Ghulam Ali.- Dickens and Hawthorne. In Essex House Historical Collections. Vol. C, No. 4, October, 1964, pp. 256–273 Salem, MA. Essex Institute. 1964. First Edition. 17 pp. (whole number, 84 pp.). 8vo. Grey prnted and illustrated stiff paper wraps. An interesting article on the views of Hawthorne and Dickens on one another in a single whole issue, The Special Hawthorne Issue. of The Essex institute Historical Collections. Interesting comments on the fanciful in Hawthorne and Dickens, who may not have met, except that Hawthorne was invited to the great Boston dinner at Papanti’s Hall for Dickens in 1842 (it is not clear that Hawthorne went). The rest of the issue has important commentary on Hawthorne. Slight soiling of covers. Else, Very Good. Price: $40.00 10762 Blanchard, Laman (Editor).- George Cruikshank’s Omnibus. Illustrated with 100 Engravings on Steel and Wood., London. Tilt and Bogue. 1842. Copiously illustrated by George Cruikshank. Engraved cover of September, 1841 issue bound in as a frontispiece, along with grand madcap engraving of Preface and engraved portrait of George Cruikshank with bold facsimile signature as frontispieces. All plates with tissue guards. First Edition. 300 pp. 8vo. Green half-calf with marbled boards. Marbled end papers. Gilt ruling and titling. Hand sewn silk headbands. A.e.g. (heavily) Patten, Cruikshank, Vol. 2, especially pp. 175–183. Cohn 190. In 1841, Cruikshank became increasingly disenchanted with the publisher Bentley while working with Harrison Ainsworth illustrating his novels. Despite financial woes and the illness of his wife, Cruikshank separated from Bentley and became attached to secondary publishers like Tilt and Bogue. In May, 1841, he started Omnibus as his personal outlet. Laman Blanchard was the editor and Ainsworth the subeditor. Other authors include Merle, Marryat, Thackeray and "Bowman Tiller." It had the characteristic comic cover of the rear of a crowded omnibus pulling away. George drew the image and it was engraved by his nephew Percy Cruikshank, although George was angry with him for calling himself "Cruikshank the Younger."The contents are articles in a comic vein including a serialized novel and the miscellany entitled "Omnibus Chat." The leading article in the second issue is a satire on "The New Police Act," which forbad everything joyous and simple. Patten considers Cruikshank's illustrations of this article to be among his sharpest. The Omnibus was issued monthly for the rest of 1841 but lost money steadily, despite selling 6500–7000 copies. In 1842 , after only 9 issues, Cruikshank suspended The Omnibus, considering issuing it as an annual. This never happened, as he was consumed by debt, family problems and heavy drinking. Spine ends and corners worn. Else, Very Good. Price: $400.00 10760 Anonymous.- Revival Melodies, or, Songs of Zion, Dedicated to Elder Jacob Knapp. Twentieth Edition. Boston. John Putnam. 1842. Twentieth Edition. 64 pp. + 2 pp. Gilbert piano-forte ads. 16mo. Blue printed paper wraps. Tan cloth spine. Obituary of Knapp in NY Times, 3/5/1874. Hay-Harris (hMusic R4545s) at Brown. A collection of hymns gathered in the Revivalist spirit. Derived from the favorites of and dedicated to Elder Jacob Knapp (1799–1874), a mobile, much celebrated Baptist evangelist of the early and mid nineteenth century. Knapp was active in the temperance and abolitionist movements and favored his itinerant pulpit, stretching from New England to California, over an assigned parish. Born into the Episcopal Church, he converted at age 20. His early revivalist experience was in Watertown, NY, although he had earlier been recognized for his skill at conversions. In his career, he was sad to have converted 100.000 souls The rear cover boasts of 34,000 copies issued in 9 months. Dated 1842 on title page, 1843 on cover. In Hay-Harris Collection at Brown; also at Harvard, Chicago and several theological libraries. Uncommon. Mild soiling and wrinkling of covers. Mild wear at ends of spine. Else, Very Good. Price: $225.00 10758 Hanaford, Phebe A.- The Life and Writings of Charles Dickens: A Women’s Memorial Volume. Boston. B. B. Russell. 1871. Frontispiece portrait and signature of Dickens (with tissue guard), engraved on steel by F. T. Stuart of Boston. First Edition. 401 pp. + 4 pp. publisher’s ads at rear. Small 8vo. Reddish purple publisher's cloth with gilt lettering on spine and facsimile Dickens signature in front cover. Beveled boards Podeschi H230. NCBEL III, 828. M. Fielding, Groce & Wallace, Stauffer I, 263 (for Stuart). Original Copyright by P.A.H. was 1870. It was issued by two publishers, E. C. Allen of Maine and this Boston issue. Dedicated to the Women of America. A scarce biography with well selected extracts from Dickens' work illustrating the biographical points. The frontispiece portrait of Dickens was engraved on steel by F[rederick] T. Stuart (1837–1913) was a prominent Boston engraver, with many published engraved portraits. He worked originally in New York, later (after 1857) in Boston. published shortly after Dickens’ death, this is his first biography by a woman and one of the earliest of all. Owners’ signatures on front free end paper. Front hinge starting internally. Spine fading. Wear at ends of spine and corners. Pages yellowing. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 10756 Dickens, Charles.- Pictures from Italy. [New York]. [W. H. Colyer]. [1846]. First American Edition under this title. 64 pp. 8vo. Disbound. Double column format. Podeschi A101. Edgar & Vail, p. 23. Wilkins, pp. 27–8. Dickens’s ”Letters [to John Forster from Italy]” were first published serially in early 1846 by “The Daily News”, with the first American separate issue published by Wiley & Putnam’s Library of Choice Reading as “Travelling Letters. Written on the Road”. Modified and adapted further as “Pictures from Italy”, it was issued by Colyer, also in 1846. Very uncommon. Lacks original paper wraps. Else, Very Good. Price: $125.00 10755 [Anonymous].- The American Songster; Being a Collection of the Most Popular, Patriotic, Naval, Military, and Sentimental American Songs. New York. Philip J. Cozans, Publisher. N.D. [ca. 1855] Numerous small wood engavings as head and tail pieces. Three full-page wood engravings depicting the Battle of Bunker Hill (frontispiece), Napoleon, Robin Hood and His Bride. First Edition. 242 pp. + 10 pp. Index. 32 mo. Blue publisher’s cloth, embossed in the blind. Gilt titling and decoration on spine. T.e.g Hay-Harris Coll. (Brown) A51271, 1858? A compendium of 18th and 19th century popular songs, divided into 5 sections, each with its own Index: Songs of the Ocean; Deck and Port Songs; American Songs; Uncle Sam’s Songs; and Pirate and Robin Hood Songs. It includes “The Star Spangled Banner”. Only a few songs are labeled with composer or singer, e.g., [Henry] Russell, Dickinson and Chapman, Henry Phillips, John Roddy Cunningham, et al. Cozans was a publisher of books and chapbooks, many with patriotic or abolitionist themes, active in New York ca. 1847–55 Owner’s signature at front: “Miss Mary Delaney, Age 50 in March the 21 Day”. Very uncommon; found only in Hay-Harris Collection (dated ?1858] among major libraries. Hinges cracked internally. Covers much abraded (but intact) and worn at corners and edges. Gilt worn. Foxing. Lacks rear end paper. Overall Fair. Price: $360.00 10753 Clarke, William and George Cruikshank.- Three Courses and a Dessert; Comprising Three Sets of Tales, West Country, Irish, and Legal; and a Melange. With Fifty Illustrations by George Cruikshank. London. George Bell & Sons. 1881. Wood engravings. full-page and inserted into text. Later Edition. 432 pp. + 30 pp. publisher’s ads in front and rear. 12mo. Green embossed publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Cohn 144. Patten, George Cruikshank’s Life, Times, and Art, Vol. 1. “By far the most celebrated of Cruikshank’s early woodblock illustrations.… Clarke [1800–38] was an underemployed barrister – it is said he once had a client – who collected pothouse tales of West Country, Irish, and legal shenanigans. Possessing some aptitude for dialect and dialogue, he wrote these up and scribbled little comic design to accompany them.” (Patten, p. 329) Clarke had been a friend of Cruikshank since the mid-1820s and called on him to realize the visual expressions of his sketches. The volume was originally published in 1830 and was very successful. Cruikshank’s illustrations. both the tailpieces and the plates, are considered among the best of his career. Corner of leaf 21/22 off (present) without loss of text. Spine slightly sunned. M minimal wear at ends of spine. Else, Very Good. Price: $210.00 10752 [Anonymous].- Insurrection of the Blacks. In Niles' Weekly Register. Fourth Series. Nos. 1– 4 – Vol. V. Sept 3, 10, 17, 24, 1831. [Vol.XLI, Whole No. 1,041–4], pp. 4–5, 35, 66–7 Baltimore, MD. H. Niles. 1831. First Edition. 72 pp. 8vo. Self wraps. Disbound. Four complete issues of Niles’ Weekly Register, comprising the issues of September, 1831. Niles continues to report in three of these issues on the major insurrection by Black slaves under the leadership of Nat [Turner] in Southampton County, Virginia on or about August 21-23, 1831. The slaves, apparently hiding in the nearby swamps and numbering by various estimates from one to several hundred, possibly under white leadership, rose as an insurgency and attacked a number of white families, killing up to 70 persons. A militia of 300 persons was retreating. The author believes plunder to have been the motive, since "there is little disaffection in the slaves generally." He reports that all the rebels had been captured by the militias, the Army and the Navy. Details of the insurrection and murders are provided. Nat’s capture and return to Virginia are falsely reported and Dismal Swamp was scoured for participants in the insurrection. Most of the participants had been executed. Garrison and his paper, The Liberator, are criticized for promoting insurrection and massacre. Agitation in North Carolina consequent to the Virginia insurrection is discussed. All free Blacks in Raleigh had been arrested and examined. Many were evicted from the city and some executed. Also noted in this issue are: much political activity and elections, activities of legislatures, concerns over the Bank, etc. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 10751 Jerrold, Douglas, Kenny Meadows, et al.- Heads of the People; or, Portraits of the English Selected from the Crowd. Drawn by Kenny Meadows and Described by Douglas Jerrold, W. M. Thackeray, William Howitt, Samuel Lover, Nimrod, Whitehead, Mr. & Mrs. S. C. Hall, Mrs. Gore, R. B. Peake, R. H. Horne, etc. London. Willoughby & Co. and W. Tegg & Co. N.D. [ca. 1855–60]. With Twenty-Four Engravings. by Meadows. First Edition. 192 pp. + 3 pp. publisher’s ads at front and rear. each. 12mo. Green illustrated paper covered boards. itled in black on paper covered spine. Everitt, Engish Caricaturists (pp. 355–363) (for Meadows). A series of comic caricatures of typical English persons and professions, each written by a popular English author of the day, such as Douglas Jerrold (1803–57), Thackeray (1811–63), Mrs. Gore (1799–1861). Samuel Lover (1797–1868), et al. Each chapter is illustrated by a full-page engraving by the noted caricaturist Kenny Meadows (1790–1874). Meadows was a talented Welsh illustrator, wood-engraver and watercolorist, who had cooperated with the Cruikshanks in joint publications. This is among his best works. Although undated, the ads for sequels to H. B. Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” helps to date the issue at approximately 1855–60. It was originally published in 1840 (http://www.answers.com/topic/james-joseph-meadows?cat=entertainment). Uncommon. Hinges cracked. Wear at ends and edges of spine, edges and corners of boards. Slight toning of pages. Else, Very Good. Price: $225.00 10749 Elder, William.- Biography of Elisha Kent Kane. Philadelphia; Boston. Childs & Peterson; Phillips Sampson & Co. 1858. Frontispiece portrait of Dr. Kane, engraved from a Brady Daguerreotype by T. Phillibrown, Sr. Engraved title page and vignette by J.Warr and 4 tissue-guarded plates, wood engravings (one signed as drawn by E. Moran, engraved by Van Ingen-Snyder) First Edition. 416 pp. + 2 pp. publsher’s ads @ front and 2 pp. ads @ rear Brown embossed publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Chocolate coated end papers. DAB. Sabin 22094. Elisha Kent Kane (1820–57) was a physician and American Naval Officer. After beginning his career as a physician in 1842, he enlisted as a Naval Surgeon and served in India, China, Africa, Europe, Mexico and elsewhere. He later explored the routes to the Northwest Passage. Having served as a physician on the First Grinnell Expedition (1850) to the North Pole in search of Sir John Franklin, he was in command of the Second Expedition to the Pole (1853–55), making significant observations on the nature of ice and glaciers and the magnetic pole, charting new areas, and showing extraordinary leadership qualities. After his ship had been trapped in ice for over a year, He brought his men “overland” 1300 miles to Greenland in 10 weeks, losing only one man. Wear at ends of spine, edges and corners of boards. Owner’s signature in pencil on front free endpaper. Minimal foxing of preliminaries. Else, Very Good. Price: $110.00 10747 Hogarth, William.- The Works of William Hogarth. A Series of Engravings on Steel by the First Artists; with Descriptions, pointing out Their Beauty, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency, by the Rev. J. Trusler: with Anecdotes of the Author and His Works, by R. Hogarth, J. Ireland, Nichols and Others. Each Number Will Contain Four Very Highly-Finished Steel Engravings, and Will Be Accompanied by Descriptve Letter-Press. An Incomplete Set. London, New York. E. T. Brain & Co./ Burgess Stringer and Co. N.D. [1843–48] The India Proofs Edition (comprising the first impressions from the Plates). About 80 pages of images and text. 4to. Individual parts, in blue printed paper wraps. Covers bordered and printed in red and black. Each part containing 4 plates and 4 pages of text. Approximately 10 Parts from the original set of 36 Parts issued every two weeks. Dated from the fact that Burgess, Stringer and Co. existed only 1843–48. Wonderful Hogarth images, engraved on steel. In crisp impressions on laid paper. The covers of the parts are in various conditions, some good + and some torn or chipped. A few issues have publisher’s brochures inserted. Very suitable for matting and framing to make a handsome and decorative set of Hogarth engravings. Only a selection of parts. Covers often disbound with chipped spines and edges. Plates with mild toning of edges, rare mark and very modest foxing of edges of a few. Protected with tissue guards. Most, Very Good or better. In such a selection of parts,not all text is appropriate to the plates.Overall Good +. Price: $155.00 10746 Sullivan, Arthur and P[rocida] Bucalossi.- Selections from the Opera of the Mikado or the Town of Titipu. Waltzes. Boston and Chicago. White, Smith & Co. N.D. [1885]. 10 pp. Fo. Engraved, decorated light blue-green wraps. Engraved title. A set of waltzes based on Sullivan’s themes from The Mikado. Arranged by Procida Bucalossi (1831–1918), who had a penchant for arranging Gilbert & Sullivan musical material. These arrangements were with the permission of Richard D’Oyly Carte, who thought well of Bucalossi. D’Oyly Carte had, in fact, bought the theatrical rights to Bucalossi’s most famous production, “Les Manteaux Noirs”. Bucalossi was a composer/conductor, who was the house arranger for Chappell & Co. of dance themes from the Savoy operas from “Pricess Ida”, on. He was famous for his arrangement of “A Hunting We Will Go”. His son, called Ernest Elton, was the conductor of the orchestra of the D’Oyly Carte Company in 1883 for “HMS Pinafore” and “The Pirates of Penzance”. Delightful music. Cover, title and music show platemarks from the engraved plates throughout. White, Smith & Co. was a prominent music publishing company in the late 19th century, early 20th Century. Founded by Charles Albert White (1829–92) of Taunton and William Francis Smith (1840–91) of New Bedford, it was a participant in a major US Supreme Court decision of 1909 that determined that piano rolls were not infringing on the composer’s and publisher’s copyright. This decision was quickly overturned by Congressional action. Sight soiling of cover. Minimal foxing. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 10744 Alcott, Louisa M[ay].- Beginning Again. Being a Continuation of Work: A Story of Experience London. Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle. 1875. Illustrated with 12 black and white wood engravings by Sol Eytinge. First English Edition. 226 pp. 16mo. Printed stiff paper wraps BAL 176. The second half of the 1873 issued “Work, a Story of Experience”, here issued in England in paper wraps. A somewhat feminist story by Louisa May Alcott, in which a woman achieves independence, capacity for service and fulfillment after the loss of her husband in the Civil War. She achieves her status through a fulfilling occupation, through success as a mother, in activity for social improvement for others (aid to Blacks) and in finding her religious identity. A liberated woman! Bookseller’s title embossed in the blind on front end paper and title page. Very uncommon. Lacks front cover and most of paper spine and final illustration. Small tears in title page. Else, Good +. Price: $100.00 10743 Alcott, Louisa M[ay].- Lulu’s Library. Volume I. Boston. Roberts Brothers. 1886. First Edition. 269 pp. + 3 pp. publishr’s ads at rear 16mo. Elaborately embossed illustrated and decorated mustard yellow covers with black and red accents. T.e.g. Floral end papers. BAL 210. Twelve stories by Louisa May Alcott, written for her niece as bedtime stories, now collected as a Christmas gift to her children readers. Similar stories are presented in two more volumes of Lulu’s Library, Volume II in 1887 and Volume III in 1889. Slightly cocked. Shaken, End papers marred by adherent paper residues and removed adherent material. (No evidence of ex libris state). Covers bright and quite clean. Mild foxing. Else, Good +. Price: $225.00 10742 [Dwight, Rev. E[dwin] W[elles].- Memoirs of Henry Obookiah, a Native of the Sandwich Islands, Who Died at Cornwall, Conn. Feb. 17, 1818, Aged 26 Years. New York. The American Tract Society. D. Fanshaw, Printer. N.D. [? 1832] Frontispiece portrait of Obookiah, engraved by Daggett, Hinman & Co., with tissue guard. Revised Edition. 124 pp. 16mo. Original brown calf spine with gilt titling andf gilt rules. Original marbled paper covered boards. Hill, pp. 91-2. Sabin,56429 (for first edition) Not in Howes. Am Imp 12243 (for this 1832 edition) Obookiah was born in Hawaii and came to the U.S. in 1809. "After witnessing the massacre of his family, Obookiah.decided to leave Hawaii. . . An American ship [the Triumph under Captain Brintnall ] touched at the islands, and Obookiah sailed by way of China to New York. Through Obookiah, interest was awakened in the Hawaiians, which led to the American mission in Hawaii in 1820." — Hill p. 91-92. (Quoted by Ten Pound Island) . In the US, he attended the Foreigh Mission School. He had translated the Book of Genesis into Hawaiian, but he died of typhoid fever before he could go back to Hawaii as a missionary.. "This book did more than any other work to interest the general public of New England in supporting a mission to the Hawaiian Islands proposed by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. It narrates the life of Henry Obookiah (or Opukakaia), born in Hawwaii about the year 1792. As a youth he sailed to America, arriving there in 1809, and for a period made his home with Captain Brintnall in New Haven, Connecticut. At Yale College, his desire for knowledge was recognized, and he began instruction by private tutors, earning his support as a farm hand. -- Forbes, Hawaiian National Bibliography, 478. In the first edition, there are .... additional titles bound with the main text, which… are an integral part of the work. Forbes, Treasures, 58. First Edition." (Quoted by Lefkowicz). Originally published in 1819. Slight wear at ends of spine. Corners bumped. Mild foxing. Else, Very Good. Price: $165.00 10741 [Sheet Music]. Q.Q.C.S. (Words) and Giuseppi Verdi (Music). Arranged by M. Wilson.- St. Clare to His Daughter. “O Eva! Art Thou Gone?” Words Suggested by “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” and Published by Permission from the Glasgow Citizen. Glasgow, Scotland. W. & H. R. Mitchison N.D. [After 1852]. Colored lithographic image on cover. 3 pp. Fo. Disbound. Illustrated paper wraps Not at Harvard, Yale or Brown (Harris Coll.), World Cat or Copac (UK) A song from a British version of a dramatic musical setting of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. An eloquent scene from “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” as St. Clare reflects on Eva’s death. Dramatic colored lithographic image on cover of St. Clare in mourning at Eva’s tombstone. “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” had an impact n Britain almost as strong as that in America. There were many “Tom’s Plays” there as well. Very Scarce. Covers soiled and mildly foxed. Water stain on lower 20%. Old tear at edge of front cover, mended long ago with paper tape. Few small edge tears.Corner’s and hinge chipped. ? Trimmed a bit at top and bottom. Else, Good. Price: $500.00 10735 [Sheet Music]. Root, Geo[rge] F. (Words and Music).- On, On, On, the Boys Are Marching! Or the Prisoner Free. Song & Chorus. Sequel to “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp.” Chicago, IL. Root & Cady. 1865. Cover illustration engraved by Copcott- Williams First Edition. 5 pp. Fo. Elaborately illustrated and decorated paper wraps. Fisher, 150 Yrs. Music Publ. US, pp. 59, 60, 129, 132. An ante-fire musical issue by Root & Cady. Not in American Imprints Inventory, No. 4, Check List of Chicago Ante-Fire Imprints, 1851–1871. One of George Root’s famous Civil War songs in its first edition. Piano ads inside front cover. Ad for George Root’s music instruction manual on rear cover. Root & Cady, the pioneer music publisher of Chicago, was founded in 1858, became Geo. F. Root & Sons after the fire in 1871 and the catalogue then sold to John Church in 1873. George Root, originally from Boston where he was an active composer of anthems, choruses and sacred music, had joined Root & Cady in 1859. Foxing, principally near edges. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 10734 Hone, William.- Facetiae and Miscellanies. With One Hundred and Twenty Engravings, Drawn by George Cruikshank. London. Published for William Hone by Hunt and Clark. 1827. Numerous illustrations by George Cruikshank. First Edition. 8vo. Tan paper spine with printed paper label. Blue paper covered boards. Cohn 405. (see also Cohn 400). A major production from William Hone, who collected 14 of his previously published seditious pamphlets, all illustrated by George Cruikshank, into a volume of “Facetiae”. The collection includes the “Political House That Jack Built”, “Non Mi Ricordo!” and other pamphlets on the Queen Charlotte Affair, several on Dr. Slop, etc. It has been a bibliographer’s nightmare, composed of various editions of Hone’s pamphlets. This copy of the erratic production, apparently in its original bound state, lacks “Bank Note” and the “Toy Ladder” (from “The Queen’s Matrimonial Ladder”). The Introduction bears the date of 1822, but in the Advertisement Hone apologized for the publication delay occasioned by his forgetting about the proof sheets. He declares that his purpose in publishing the collection was not to “revive” them, but to provide them “a decent funeral”: “I come to bury these, Sir, not to praise ‘em.” Hone and Cruikshank in title vignette.Grandly illustrated by George Cruikshank; some plates folded. Very scarce. Covers detached. Chips from spine, especially from lower end and hinges. Chips from edges of label Internally, Very Good. Price: $2,500.00 10733 [Chap Book]. Kenney, Charles Lamb.- The Life and Career of Dion Boucicault, Written by His Schoolfellow. New York. The Graphic Company. 1883.32 pp. Illustrated with 12 woodcuts, including the cover and frontispiece portrait and illustrations of scenes from his productions. First Edition. 32 pp.+ ad for one of Boucicault’s productions on rear cover. 3 7/8” W x 4 3/4” H. Illustrated tan printed paper wraps. Bolton, Dickens Dramatized. Dion[ysius] Boucicault [or, Boursiquot] (1822–1890)was an Irish born actor, producer and writer in mid-nineteenth century London and America, especially known for his dramatizations and productions of Charles Dickens’s works. He had been raised by Dionysius Lardner (1793–1859), the noted English scientist (University College, London) and popularizer of science. Lardner was rumored to have been his father, but this is denied by Kenney, a longtime friend and observer of Boucicault. Boucicault developed the star system in the theatre, introducing Henry Irving and Joseph Jefferson. He also changed the finances of the theatre, with the result that the writer/producer shared in the profits of successful dramatic productions. Moreover, he authored about 150 plays. Very Scarce. Very Good. Price: $175.00 10729 Astronomer Royal [Sir Frank Dyson].- Drawings of the Corona from Photographs at Total Eclipses from 1896 to 1922. In Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Vol. 226. Pp. 363–389. [Plates 5–16.] London. The Royal Society (Harrison and Sons, Ltd.) 1927. Illustrated with 12 plates, drawn from photographs by W. H. Wesley and A. Crommelin. First Edition. 27 pp. Large 4to. Green printed stiff paper wraps. A report of The Astronomer Royal (at this time, Frank Dyson), summarizing the appearance in photographs taken of solar eclipses from 1896 to 1922. They are presented in large full-page plates of drawings made from observatory photographs. The plates, in turn photographs of the drawings, are on stiff paper mounted on individual pages of this off-print of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The emphasis of the article is on the structure of the corona. Plar plumes and solar prominences are described. Among the participants n the study were William Christie, Frank Dyson, Arthur Stanley Eddington and the Maunders, Edward Walter and Annie Russell (the first woman accepted at the Royal Astronomical Society). A classic in the early study of the solar corona. Slight fading of spine and edges of covers. Minimal wear at lower end of spine. Else, Very Good +. Price: $275.00 10728 Holcombe, W[illia]m H[enry].- Suggestions as to the Spiritual Philosophy of African Slavery, Addressed to the Members and Friends of the Church of the New Jerusalem. New York. Mason Brothers. 1861. First Edition. 24 pp. Catalogue of Swedenborgian oamphlets on rear cover. 8vo. Blue printed paper wrappers. DAB. A justification of slavery by Dr. William H. Holcombe, a noted homeopathic physician practicing in Mississippi and New Orleans. A Swedenborgian, Holcombe, who had been trained in allopathic medicine, adopted homeopathy when that discipline seemed more effective in the treatment of yellow fever and cholera, after he had moved South. He felt that the different races had differing spiritual lives and that Blacks had a more primitive interior life as they ascended to an agricultural society from the stage of hunter-gatherers. He finds in the fact of enslavement of Blacks a self-justification of the institution of slavery and the inference of a more primitive state of Black spiritual life. He argues, further, that American slavery has enabled the highest moral and spiritual development of Blacks ever achieved. Holcombe, born in Virginia, was very well educated and encouraged by his parents, who were supporters of the emancipation of slaves and, in fact, liberated their slaves. Holcombe, who was a nationally renowned homeopathist, and his brother, James Philemon Holcombe, in contrast, became ardent supporters of slavery. Mild soiling o covers. Vertical soft creasing. Owner’s names on front cover: Daniel L. Webster (in ink) and R. Hancock (?) in pencil. Else, Very Good. Price: $200.00 10726 Cruikshank, George.- The Musical Bijou; Comprising the Popular Stories of The Fakenham Ghost; Elegy on Madam Blaize; & The House That Jack Built: &c., &c.; Set to Music by W. A. Nield. To Which Are Appended Two Rondings, by Steibert and Mozart. Adapted for Young Amateurs, and Illustrated by Cruikshank. London. Allan Bell and Co. and H. Washbourne 1836. Illustrated with small vignettes by George Cruikshank and/or Robert Cruikshank New Edition. [26 pp.] Oblong 4to. Illustrated yellowish printed paper wraps. Stapled. Cohn, Cruikshank, 601. Contains three songs for children’s voices accompanied by piano. Also has two pieces for solo piano. Originally issued in 1834 as part of the Juvenile Musical Library. Reissued in two parts of which this is one. Quite scarce. The original of the Fakenham Ghost (a donkey) was a ballad of 1806 by Robert Bloomfield, an early children’s book. The Elegy on Madam Blaize is by Oliver Goldsmith. The House That Jack Built is, of course, the traditional Mother Goose Poem, parodied by George Cruikshank in his devastating political satire. Covers soiled and hinge worn. Corner’s worn. One corner heavily moused with loss of end note of first line of last 2 pp. Illustrations undamaged. Bookseller stamp of Nash & Woodhouse of Richmond on front cover. Else, Good. Price: $200.00 10717 [Cruikshank, George]. Anonymous.- Four Rare Etchings by the Celebrated George Cruikshank, Drawn and Etched for O’Neill’s “Blessings of Temperance”, with Letter-Press Showing from Whence Came Those Famous Works of the Artist, - “The Bottle,” The Drunkard’s Children, “ & “Upas Tree.” London., Published at 50 Booksellers Row. 1876. 4 full-page plates by George Cruikshank. First Edition.. 4 pp. 8vo. Printer paper wraps with printed decorative border. Not in Cohn. DNB (for O’Neill). Patten, Cruikshank, II, 186, 232, 250 (for Cruikshank and O’Neill). John O’Neill (1777 ?–1860 ?) was an Irish temperance poet. He grew up in poverty and lived his life so. A son of a shoemaker, he followed that profession unsuccessfully, hampered by the costs of his very large family. His poems were popular, especially his 1840 “The Drunkard”. Befriended by George Cruikshank who famously illustrated O’Neill’s temperance poem beginning with the reissue of “The Drunksrd” in 1842. Later Cruikshank published “The Bottle” and a reissued “The Drunkard” as “Blessings of Temperance”. Cruikshank had been a confirmed drunkard himself, but had earlier explored temperance before meeting O’Neill. He “etched four surreal plates for the second edition of ‘The Drunkard’ in December 1841” (Patten, II, 186). Subsequently he became a confirmed teetotaller, but he denied that O’Neill’s poem inspired “The Bottle” (Patten, II, 232, 250).This uncommon pamphlet argues that “The Bottle” of Cruikshank was indeed indebted to O’Neill’s poem. The anonymous author, who reports himself as a friend of O’Neill, traces specific elements of the O’Neill poem through Cruikshank’s illustrations to specific elements of “The Bottle”. Toning of leading edge. Else, Very Good Price: $210.00 10714 Laukis, J.- Naujas Pilnas Orakulas, Arba Knyga Burtu, Monu ir Visokiu Paslapcziu ir Praktiska Comte C. Saint-Germain’o Delnazinyste. Su Paveiksleliais. Surinko ir Isgulde is Svetimu Kalbu. Chicago, IL. Turtu ir Spauda “Lietuvos”. [Property and The Press “Lithuanian”]. A. Olszewski. 1904 Illustrated. ? First Lithuanian Edition. 414 pp. 8vo. Brown publsher’s cloth with grandly illustrated paper sheet laid down on front cover. Decorative end papers. A very rough translation of the title is: [The New Complete Oracle or Book of Magic Words, and Secret and Practical Knowledge of the Human Palms from Count C. Saint Germain. With Illustrations. Collected and Validated from Foreign Sources by J. Laukis]. J[oseph] Laukis (1866–?) was known as a Lithuanan translator and scholar in the first two decades of the 20th century. This book is attributed to the Count de Saint-Germain (a pseudonym, named after a village, for a nebulous, but real 18th century author of a book entitled “Practical Palmistry”). Saint-Germain was born about 1707, possibly the illegitimate son of the widow of Charles II of Spain or, possibly, of a titled father in Transylvania; with his uncertain title and little prior history, he arrived about 1758 at the court of Louis XV, distributing jewels and favors, becoming close to Madame de Pompadour. He spoke very many languages fluently, painted, played many musical instruments, had detailed knowledge of chemistry and alchemy. Through the latter, he claimed eternal life and offered potions serving as elixirs of youth. Voltaire admired his seeming immortality. Rameau, the composer, claiming to have seen him as early as 1701, attributed to him the capacity to become invisible and to be adept at hypnosis. Casanova thought him an imposter. Later Saint-Germain appeared in Schleswig- Holstein where he allegedly died about 1784. There were numerous sightings of him throughout the 19th century, as the rumor grew that he had lived 2000 years. He sometimes adopted names like Weldon or Welldone, as he raced about Europe after serious diplomatic failure as a secret agent on behalf of France. Said to have contributed to the rites of Freemasonry, he is a hero, an Ascended Master, to some occultists and to Theosophists. While the connection is apocryphal, books on palmistry have been attributed to Comte St. Germain for 2 centuries, with a revival about 1895 in Chicago. This chirological revival may have been initiated by Edgar de Valcourt-Vermont, a journalist for the “Chicago Times” from 1884 to 1897 and author of books on palmistry. His major book may have been plagiarized from Adrien Desbarolles (d. 1886) and other authorities on Palmistry. Wear at edges and corners of covers. Front free end paper detached. Light pencil markings on front edge of text block. Else, Very Good. Price: $425.00 10711 Seymour, Robert (Illustrator), and Sheridan, Louisa Henrietta (Editor).- Comic Offering; or Ladies' Melange of Literary Mirth, for MDCCCXXXII. London. Smith, Elder and Co. 1832. Profusely illustrated by Robert Seymour and a few by others. Several engravers. First Edition. 374 pp. + 6 pp. publisher’s ads at rear. 12mo in 6's. Elaborately embossed (and quite delightful) publisher's leather binding with gilt decoration and titling on spine. A.e.g. Yellow end papers. Everitt, Engish Caricaturists (pp. 355–363) (for Meadows). NCBEL III, 1874. A variety of comic verse, essays and stories, presumably written for ladies, with numerous comic illustrations. The editor claims in her preface to have done some of the illustrations herself. Many of the illustrations are identified, by signature, initials or by style, as by Robert Seymour, best known as the original illustrator of "The Pickwick Papers". Especially good are the frontispiece and illustrated title pages, the title by Seymour; the frontispiece is by I.[=Joseph] K[enny]. Meadows . Other contributors include more by Meadows, J. Jackson, Robert Cruikshank, who had contributed to other volumes of the series, et al. Engravings done by George Dorrington, a prominent artist and engraver of the 1830’s, Gorway and I. Smith. The "Editor" (Louisa Henrietta Sheridan, d. 1841), not further identified, nor listed in Todd, reports this to be the second issue of her projected annual production which lasted for 5 consecutive years . She had been married to Sir Henry Wyatt in 1841, but died soon thereafter of tuberculosis, as noted in Gentleman’s Magazine. Besides the issues of “Comic Offering”, she was noted for her musical compositions and essays and was editor of “The Diadem, a Book for the Boudoir”. This is a nice copy of a fragile and very rare item, noted for the Seymour contribution. Incidentally, pp.334–7 and accompanying illustration poke fun at Drs. Gall and Spurzheim, founders of phrenology. Hinges cracking. Wear at spine ends, edges and corners. Minimal foxing and soiling. Neat owner’s signature on title. illustrations Near Fine. Else, Very Good. Price: $325.00 10710 Seymour, Robert (Illustrator), and Sheridan, Louisa Henrietta (Editor).- Comic Offering; or Ladies' Melange of Literary Mirth, for MDCCCXXXIII. London. Smith, Elder and Co. 1833. Profusely illustrated by Robert Seymour and a few by others. Several engravers. Engraved and printed title pages. First Edition. 347 pp. 12mo in 6's. Embossed ribbed publisher's cloth with gilt decoration and titling on spine. A.e.g. A variety of comic verse, essays and stories, presumably written for ladies, with numerous comic illustrations. Many of the illustrations are identified, by signature, initials or by style, as by Robert Seymour, best known as the original illustrator of "The Pickwick Papers". Especially good are the frontispiece and illustrated title pages, both by Seymour. Other contributors include Robert and, possibly, George Cruikshank. Engravings often done by George Dorrington, a prominent artist and engraver of the 1830’s. The "Editor" (Louisa Henrietta Sheridan, d. 1841), not further identified, nor listed in Todd, reports this to be the third issue of her projected annual production which lasted for 5 consecutive years . She had been married to Sir Henry Wyatt in 1841, but died soon thereafter of tuberculosis, as noted in Gentleman’s Magazine. Besides the issues of “Comic Offering”, she was noted for her musical compositions and essays and was editor of “The Diadem, a Book for the Boudoir”. This volume is a nice copy of a fragile and very rare item, noted for the Seymour contribution. Bookplates and a catalogue listing laid down on pastedown and front free end paper. Hinges cracked. Small chips from spine ends. Corners bumped. Minimal foxing and soiling. Shaken. illustrations Near Fine, with tissue guards. Else, Good to Very Good. Price: $325.00 10657 Boole, George.- On the Differential Equations Which Determine the Form of the Roots of Algebraic Equations. In Proceedings of the Royal Society, Vol. XII, No. 64, 245–246, 1864. London. Taylor and Francis, for The Royal Society. 1864 First Edition. pp.227–276 (whole issue) 8vo. Original greenish tan printed paper wraps with printed Contents. DNB. DSB. A single issue of the Proceedings of the Royal Society for the papers presented in May, 1864. Included among these is an important paper presented by George Boole (1815–64) on the roots of algebraic equations. Boole, one of the most noted of 19th century mathematicians, whose work was central to modern logic and algorithms important to computers, was by then Professor of Mathematics at Queens College in Cork, Ireland. In this paper, Boole demonstrates again the power of his methodology (in part, derived from the work of Herschel and Babbage) of using symbols for operators (here, typically, D for differential operators) and finding the roots of complex equations in terms of these operators, as if the operator were a quantity. His early work with this approach resulted in his publication of his prize-winning volume “On a General Method of Analysis” in 1844. He continued, as here, to extend his methodology for the remainder of his life. These methods led to the clarity of his symbolic logic. Boole’s ideas were applied by Claude Shannon to designing circuits which could solve algebraic equations. This issue, which also contains articles by Arthur Cayley on Scrolls, and a paper by Edward Sabine on magnetic disturbances and the decennial variation of magnetic fields and sun spots, bears the inscription of W. E. Weber, at Göttingen. Weber was another great 19th century mathematician/physicist, whose statue stands in that city. Front cover separated from spine at lower 2”. Toning of spine, Else Very Good. Price: $250.00 9360 [Sheet Music]. Root, George F.- Just after the Battle. Song and Chorus by Geo. F. Root. Chicago. Root & Cady. 1863. Cover engraving by Copcutt-Williams. Illustrations of Civil War scenes and popular song titles by George F. Root. First Edition. 5 pp. = publisher's ads on verso of both covers. Fo. Illustrated, heavily engraved front cover. Disbound and stab-sewn. Fisher, 150 Yrs. Music Publ. US, pp. 59, 60, 129, 132. Pre-fire Chicago imprint of Civil War music. A wounded soldier lies in pain thinking of his mother, but optimistic of his survival. Root & Cady, the pioneer music publisher of Chicago, was founded in 1858, became Geo. F. Root & Sons after the fire in 1871 and the catalogue then sold to John Church in 1873. George Root, originally from Boston where he was an active composer of anthems, choruses and sacred music, had joined Root & & Cady in 1859. Wear at edges. Foxing. Else, Very Good. Price: $135.00 8209 Alcott, Louisa M[ay].- Nelly's Hospital, in "Our Young Folks. An Illustrated Magazine for Boys and Girls." Volume I, No. IV, pp. 267–277, 1865. Boston. Ticknor and Fields. 1865. Illustrated. First Edition. 11 pp. 8vo. Bound Volume in Half Leather and Cloth Covered Boards, with Gilt Decoration and Titling. See: BAL 150. A charming story about a little girl who wants to be a nurse and learns compassion by caring for wounded birds and other creatures, a story no doubt engendered by Alcott's earlier (and not too happy) experience as a Civil War nurse under the supervision of Dorothea Dix in Washington, at the Union Hotel Hospital. "Nelly's Hospital" was later distributed in pamphlet form by the U. S. Sanitary Commission, which Alcott supported in its work in providing care to the Civil War wounded. It is also an important publication in revealing Alcott's confidence in the ability of women to undertake independent action for social good when encouraged and given the opportunity. This story was a strike for women's liberation and action. The volume contains other stories, etc. by Harriet Beecher Stowe, John G. Whittier, L. Maria Child, and others. Poem by Longfellow. The entire "The Cruise of the Leopold" in three parts by Oliver Optic. Wood engravings by Thomas Nast (p. 568), Augustus Hoppin (p.534 and p. 771). Bookplate of W. G. Boardman of Hartford, CT on front pastedown. Wear at edges of leather. Front hinge starting internally. Else, Very Good. Price: $350.00 8171 Styron, William.- The Confessions of Nat Turner. A Novel. New York. Random House. 1967. First Edition. 428 pp. 8vo. Black publisher's cloth. D.J. The 1968 Pulitzer Prize winning novel. Few small chips at head of D.J. spine. Decorations very bright. Very Good in Very Good D.J. Price: $175.00 7986 Camoens, Luis de.- Poems, from the Portuguese of Luis de Comoens: with Remarks on His Life, Writings, Notes, &c., &c. Philadelphia. H. Maxwell. 1805. First American Edition. 129 pp. Paper Covered Boards with Printed Title on Paper Spine. Leather (Calf?) Strips Pasted over Most of Spine in Crude Repair (of Hinges?). AI 8127. NUC 0067958 An English translation with American imprint of poems of Luis de Camoens, the 16th century national Hero/Poet of Portugal, with a life of the poet and numerous notes. Camoens is most noted for his epic poem "Os Luisadas." He was a glamorous figure, but frustrated in his loves, his political aspirations and in his appreciation by his countrymen till after his death, in 1579, in poverty and neglect. Smythe (1780–1855), a member of the British diplomatic service as secretary of the legation in Lisbon as a young man, published this translation in 1803 in London, shortly after joining the service. Binding, as above. Pages untrimmed. Water stain on preliminary pages. Else, Very Good. Price: $385.00 7952 Dickens, Charles (attrib.)- Hobbledehoy. A Poem in the "Portland Transcript. An Independent Family Journal of Literature, News, &c." Portland, Maine, Saturday, March 5, 1851. Volume XIV, Number 48, p.384. Portland, ME. Gould & Elwell. 1851. First Edition, as such. 8 pp. (whole issue) Fo. Unbound newspaper. Harry Stone, "Uncollected Writings from 'Household Words','' Vol. II. p. 511. Allegedly a Dickens poem appearing in a weekly newspaper from Maine. Prominently placed on the last page. A possible piracy and an early American edition of this poem. Pending identity of Its source, it is not certain that Dickens himself wrote it. According to Harry Stone, for "Household Words", for example, it appears that Dickens himself wrote only one poem ("Hidden Light", with Adelaide Anne Procter) among the many in the nine years of publication. Carolyn W. and Laurence H. Houtchens, however, argue strongly (Three Early Works Attributed to Dickens, Pub.MLA, vol. 59, No. 1, Mar. 1944, pp. 226-235) that the poem is by Dickens, having first appeared in America in the reputable New-York Mirror, edited by George Pope Morris in August, 1841, at that time attributed to “Boz”, Other interesting items include a poem by Shelley and a joke about the atheism of Rhode Island. Hinge of fold Is cracked. A few small stains. Else, Very Good. Price: $135.00 7782 Saunders, J. H.- The Shakespearian Advertiser. Providence, RI H. P. Boyce. 1871. Copiously Illustrated. First Edition. Unnumbered pages. 4 3/4” (W) x 5 3/4” (H). Illustrated orange stiff printed paper wraps, as Issued. RI Historical Society, Manuscript Division: Records of the Ann Eliza Club. Numerous comic illustrations of quotations from Shakespeare's plays interleaved with full-page advertisements for various firms and industries, mostly in Providence, RI. A window into commercial Rhode Island at the three quarters point of the nineteenth century. A humorous view of a literate society. Edward S. Jones (1846–1909) was a prominent artist in Providence, a member (#34) of the Ann Eliza Club, a noted local group of artists and collectors founded in 1885. Members were required to present papers to one another and humor was a by-word of the organization. Small tear to lower margin of rear cover extending into last page. Cover lightly soiled. Else, Very Good. Price: $225.00 7778 Root, George F.- The Young Men's Singing Book; a Collection of Music for Male Voices. Intended for Use in Colleges, Theological Seminariess, and the Social Circle> Consisting of Parts I- V. Boston. Oliver Ditson & Company. 1855. First Edition. 256 pp. Oblong. Blue printed paper covered boards with calf spine. Bound on tapes. By 1855 "The Star Spangled Banner," "Hail, Columbia'" "America" and other patriotic songs had crept into everyday collections like this one by a popular Boston music publisher. Root later moved to Chicago to work for his brother’s firm, Root & Cady, and to write much music, especially inspirational songs centering on the Civil War. Spine deteriorated. Hinges cracked. Text very good. Price: $150.00 7472 [Music] Paull, E[dward] T[aylor].- Chariot Race or Ben Hur March. New York. E. T. Paull Music Co. 1894. Colored Lithographic Cover. First Edition. 7 pp. Fo. Printed paper wraps. A popular march illustrating a scene from "Ben Hur", at the time a very popular novel and more recently, a blockbuster film. The cover is grandly decorated and illustrated by a vivid color illustration, a stipple lithograph, of the dramatic chariot race from the novel. A glorious production at the peak of sheet music production. In 1894, as the Ben-Hur craze grew in America, following Wallace’s 1880 publication (Harper’s) of his novel, E. T. Paull, with permission of Harper and Wallace, published this sheet music for solo piano and for four hands. It “attracted potential buyers with its vivd cover featuring a chariot race……Such popular Ben-Hur items proliferated in newly invented media. The year the player piano was perfected Paull’s ‘Chariot Race or Ben Hur March was transferred to piano roll, and over the next few years a number of different companies …issued Ben Hur piano rolls. John Philip Sousa himself transcribed the piece for his own band and recorded it.” (Jon Solomon, Ephemera News, Spring 2008, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp.14, 16) “Respectfully Dedicated to Gen. Lew Wallace, Author of ‘Ben Hur’.” Spine reinforced neatly with linen band. Mild soiling of cover. Else, Very Good. Price: $145.00 7363 Wilde, Oscar. The Poetical Works of Oscar Wilde Including Poems in Prose with Notes Bibliographic Introduction Index and Facsimiles of Title-Pages. Portland, ME. Thomas B. Mosher. 1908. Illustrated with photographic frontispiece portrait of Wilde by Eliis & Walery in 1892 and facsimiles of title pages of Wilde’s works. Limited edition. One of 750 copes on hand-made Van Gelder paper. 394 pp. Square 8vo. Blue paper covered boards, decorated in a bordered gilt floral cartouche on front and rear covers. Tan paper label on flat spine with printing in red and black. Blue end papers. T.e.g. Pages uncut and untrimmed. An elegant Mosher production, with limited edition, after which the type was distributed. Wear at edges of spine and boards with hinges starting, front and rear at head. Mild toning of spine and leading edge of boards. Else, Very Good. Price: $250.00 7282 Tourgée, Albion Winegar (pseudonym: “One of The Fools”),- A Fool’s Errand. New York. Fords, Howard, & Hulbert. 1880. First Edition. 361 pp. + 4pp. publisher’s ads at front and 4 pp at rear Brown publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Black titling and decorations on front cover; titling in the blind on rear cover. T.e.g. Coated end papers. Wright III, 5520. BAL 20346. A novel of The South under Reconstruction. published anonymously. Tourgée (1838–1905) wrote several pseudonymous novels about the South before and after the Civil War (see Wright II, 2523, e.g.) The last short chapter of this book is quite prophetic. Tourgée, an attorney, after the Civil War moved to North Carolina, where he met hostility and prejudice. He moved about thereafter. His books were known to Presidents Garfield and Harrison. Laid down on front pastedown is a newspaper clipping with a review of the novel and comments on Tourgée. His pseudonyms include Henry Churton, Edgar Henry and Siva. This issue is possibly the earliest reprint from the corrected plates. Front hinges cracked internally. Else, Very Good. Price: $175.00 7130 Shakspeare, William The Dramatic Works & Poems of William Shakspeare, with Notes, Original and Selected, and Introductory Remarks to Each Play, by Samuel Weller Singer, F.S.A. and A Life of the Poet by Charles Symmons, D.D. In Two Volumes. New York. George Dearborn, Publisher. 1835. Illustrated. Frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare,engraved by Prud’homme after Harvey. Title page and numerous full page plates, engraved by Alexander [or Archibald] L. Dick after Moritz Retzsch, Branche, Rev. W. Peters, Westall, Northcote, Mortim, Tresham, Hopner et al. First Edition, as Such 522, 596 pp. 8vo. Full contemporary tan calf with gilt titling and ruling on spine. Marbled end papers. Marbled page edges. Gilt decoration on edges of covers. T.e.g. AmImp. 40135 (for 1836 edition; 1835 edition not listed). DNB. Stauffer, I p.65, and Groce & Wallace, p. 178 for Dick. A very nice early 19th century American set of Shakespeare, with appropriate scholarship. Singer’s notes were first published in England and here incorporated in the First American Edition of this popular set, supplemented by Symmons’ life of the poet, also first published in England. A handsome edition. The engraver, Dick (ca. 1805–ca. 1855), trained in Edinborough, came to America in 1833 and was active in New York and Brooklyn till his death (? 1855). Charles Symmons (1749–1826) received his D.D. at Cambridge and, in addition to this Life of Shakspeare (1826), wrote an important “Life of Milton”. Singer (1783–1858) was a bookseller and scholar, famous for this edition of the annotated Shakspeare of 1826, incorporating Symmons’ biography of the poet. Abrasions and chips frpm leather covers. Wear at edges and corners of covers. Mild foxing. Mildly shaken. Wormed gutter in a single signature of Vol. I. Else, Very Good. Price: $450.00 7129 Shakespeare, William The Complete Works of [William] Shakspere; Revised from the Original Editions: with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius by Barry Cornwall. Illustrated with Engravings on Wood, from Designs by Kenny Meadows; and Numerous Steel Plates, Portraits of Eminent Actors, etc., etc. Vol. I. Comedies. Vol. II. Tragedies. Vol. III Histories. London & New York. The London & New York Printing & Publg. Co. N.D. {ca. 1865–70] Illustrated by Kenny Meadows. First Edition, as Such. 574, 554, 590 pp. + xiv pp. Glossary Small 4to. Three quarters maroon leather with gilt ruling and titling on spine. Red morocco covered boards. Blue silk end papers. Double column format. A.e.g. Everitt, Engish Caricaturists (pp. 355–363) (for Meadows). Introductory remarks by R. H. Horne, et al. Wonderful illustrations by Kenny Meadows (1790–1874), the noted 19th century caricaturist. Meadows was a talented Welsh illustrator, wood-engraver and watercolorist, who had cooperated with the Cruikshanks in joint publications. Beautiful steel-engraved plates and portraits of prominent stage personalities, engraved by Greatbach and others from daguerreotypes. Owner’s signature on front free end paper. Hinges starting internally. Water stain on rear cover of Vol. I. Mild wear at ends and edges of spine and corners. Else, Very Good. Price: $400.00 6841 Keynes, John Maynard.- The Economic Consequences of the Peace. New York. Harcourt, Brace and Howe. 1920. First American Edition 298 pp. 8vo. Blue publisher’s cloth. Gilt titling on spine. Publisher’s logo embossed in the blind on front cover. T.e.g. Printing and the Mind of Man, p. 423 J. M. Keynes (1883–1946) was one of the most prominent economists of the 20th century. Present to represent the British Treasury at the Paris peace conference at the end of World War I, he decried the reparations demanded of Germany. Largely on his complaints, the US rejected the final Treaty of Versailles. The book, thus, had a profound influence on post-World-War I reconstruction and established Keynes’s public reputation and credibility with governments. Front hinge starting internally. Mild wear at ends of spine and corners. Owner’s signature and date on front free endpaper. Else, Very Good. Price: $135.00