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Hardcover. Zustand: Near fine. First. THE FIRST MODERN ATLAS -- "THE MOST IMPORTANT OF ALL PTOLEMY EDITIONS" -- THE BOURNE-ROSENBACH-STREETER-WARDINGTON COPY. First edition. Strasbourg: Johann Schott, 1513. Folio ( 17 1/2" x 12 1/2", 444mm x 317mm). With 47 woodcut maps by Martin Waldseemüller, 45 double-page, 2 single (the final map printed in three colors). Bound in contemporary paneled dark calf (rebacked) over wooden boards with red silk ties. On the boards, two broad borders of emblems blind. In the central panel, fleurons with two sets of initials: "T. C." and "T. A." On the spine, seven raised bands with blind fleurons in the panels. Presented in a felt-lined clam-shell box by Brockman. Rebacked. Conserved by James and Stuart Brockman (full report available on request). Ties perished. Lacking the final blank. Small dampstain to the lower fore-corner, with some additions and repairs. Ownership signature on the title-page: "Su[m] Jo(hannis) Bourne". With scattered early ink marginalia to the text and to the plates. Bookplate of Thomas Winthrop Streeter (his sale, Parke-Bernet 25 Octover 1966, lot 6) to the front-paste down, between a lot description of the volume and the armorial bookplate of York Minster. Gilt bookplate of Lord Wardington (his sale, Sotheby's London 10 October 2006, lot 399) to the rear paste-down. Claudius Ptolemaeus was a second-century philosopher living in Roman Alexandria in Egypt. In the Greek tradition, philosophy -- the love of wisdom -- bridged what we now divide into the humanities and the sciences; he was a mathematician, natural scientist and geographer-astronomer. No manuscripts of the Geographike Hyphegesis (Geographical Guidance) survive from before the XIIIc, but some examples survive with maps that bear some relation to those Ptolemy himself drew. Various translations circulated, but Ringmann's is generally regarded as superior to his predecessors'. In the XVc, the Geographia was the core of ancient knowledge of the world. It was crucial to explorers; Columbus expected to find the East Indies because of Ptolemy's calculations and assertions about longitude. With funding from René II, Duke of Lorraine (whence the polychromy of the map of Lorraine), Walter Lud, canon in St-Dié-des-Vosges, gathered a group of humanists to knit together the new knowledge coming from Christopher Columbus and other early explorers with a new translation (Ringmann) and new maps (Waldseemüller). Together they revolutionized cartography, and were likely responsible with the coinage of America and a description of the New World. The provenance of the present copy befits the importance of the work. Sir John Bourne (ca. 1518-1575) was, until the accession of Queen Mary (1553), a rather minor parliamentary figure. Probably due to his support of Mary's claim in the succession crisis, he was knighted, given a manor and elevated to a principal secretaryship on the Privy Council. Having grown quite rich -- he was a founder of the Russia (or Muscovy) Company, perhaps the source of his geographic curiosity -- Bourne was a significant book-collector, and more than a dozen of his volumes (in Greek, Latin and Hebrew) are to be found in institutional libraries. Eight of Bourne's books remain in the collection of York Minster, most having been acquired by Toby Matthew, Archbishop of York. Doubtless our volume entered the library of the cathedral in the same way. Long afterwards, the book was bought privately by that greatest of all booksellers, A.S.W. Rosenbach, who sold it to Thomas W. Streeter, whose sale of Americana was epochal. Charles W. Traylen -- himself a force among booksellers for some eight decades -- bought the volume at that sale on behalf of Christopher Henry Beaumont Pease, Lord Wardington, in whose collection it remained until his death. His landmark sale of important atlases and geographies in 2006 included some 20 copies of Ptolemy's Geography. Fairfax Murray German 348 and 348A; Harrisse 74; Phillips 359; Sabin 66478; Shirley 34; Streeter I:6.

First edition, first issue of the most famous debates in American history which cemented Lincoln as a national presidential candidate; inscribed by Lincoln in pencil to close friend Martin S. Morris and accompanied by the table from the Morris household that Lincoln signed the book on. Octavo, original cloth stamped in blind. First issue, with no advertisements, no rule above the publisherâs imprint on the copyright page, and with numeral 2 at the bottom of page 17. Association copy, inscribed by Abraham Lincoln in pencil on the front free endpaper, "M. S. Morris Esq A. Lincoln." The recipient, Martin S. Morris, was was a long-time political supporter and friend of Abraham Lincoln from Menard County, Illinois. In March 1843, Lincoln wrote to Morris, âIt is truly gratifying to me to learn that while the people of Sangamon have cast me off, my friends of Menard who have known me longest and best of any, still retain their confidence in me.â Morris was selected as one of the delegates from Menard County to attend the Whig convention in Pekin in May 1843, but was detained by an illness and Francis Regnier attended in his place. The convention selected John J. Hardin rather than Lincoln as the Whig candidate for Congress from that district. In June 1852, Morris's close friend Whig Congressman (and later Illinois governor) Richard Yates wrote to him from Washington regarding the 1852 presidential election. The Democratic National Convention was then underway in Baltimore, and after 32 ballots by the convention, Yates believed the chances of receiving the nomination were against U.S. Senator Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois unless âhis almost never failing good luck may avail him.â Ultimately on the 49th ballot, the Convention nominated Franklin Pierce, who had received no votes until the 35th ballot. Laid in is Yates' letter to Morris which reads in part, âWashington June 4, 1852 Dear Morris, I thank you kindly. The Democratic Convention is now in session in Baltimore. The 32nd ballot has been had, and no nomination. Douglass does not appear to have as much strength as anticipated, and if we were to judge from present indications the chances are against him. How far his almost never failing good luck may avail him remains to be seen. The contest between Fillmore & Scott, it is now believed, will be very close. Some of the knowing ones, (who have not much to do but make calculations) say that the vote of Illinois will decide the question. We do not know how the Illinois delegation stands but we suppose nearly equal for Scott and for Fillmore. Fillmore and his friends will, (if necessary to defeat Gen'l Scott), cast their vote for Mr. Webster. My opinion, and it is only an opinion is that Gen'l Scott will receive the nomination. Of one thing I feel pretty sure that either Scott or Fillmore will be supported most cheerfully by the Whigs, and what is better the Whigs here and throughout the Union have an abiding confidence that they will again gloriously triumph in November. Such was not the case at the beginning of the session. There was more or less of despondency then, but the skies are bright ahead now and (be the result what it may), the Whigs will march up to the work with unfaltering purpose and in the confident hope of victory. Your friend Richard Yates." The Whig National Convention met a few weeks later, also in Baltimore, and the contest remained close between Winfield Scott and incumbent president Millard Fillmore, with Daniel Webster running a distant third, until Scott finally received the nomination on the 53rd ballot. In his letter to Morris, Yates was confident of a Whig victory in November, but Pierce went on to defeat Scott with 51 percent of the vote to Scottâs 44 percent, and an overwhelming 254-to-42 victory in the Electoral College. In May 1858, Morris wrote to Lincoln that he and other Republicans in Menard County âare up and doingâ and âthough we are in a minority, we nevertheless intend to give them [the Democrats] the best fight we can.â Four months later, he again wrote to âFriend Lincolnâ: "If there is any reliance to be placed on the papers which I read, you are certainly making a very successful electioneering tour through the state, and whether you are elected to the senate or not, you certainly have reason to congratulate yourself and feel proud of the manifestations of confidence every where shown you by the people I have said and believed ever since Douglass repealed the MO. Com. That you would be his successor the first chance the people had to vote in matter, that was a most rascally thing and I believe would and know it ought to politically damn him and all who had anything to do with it, at least in the north. But my object is not to write a dissertation on politicks knowing well that I could say nothing But which you already know, But merely to inform you by way of adding to the encouragement which I believe you are every where receiving, the good news, that you may calculate with a very great degree of certainty on a vote from Menard & Cass. We are glad that you have made an appointment to speak here and will endeavor to get you a large crowd." Contrary to Morrisâs assurances, in the race for state representative from Cass and Menard, Democrat William Engle defeated Republican James W. Judy for a seat in the legislature, where he dutifully voted for Stephen A. Douglas for the U.S. Senate. In September 1859, Morris was a delegate from Menard County to the Republican Congressional Convention for the Sixth Congressional District in Springfield. At the Convention, Morris was elected to the District Central Committee, which consisted of one delegate from each county. Among the resolutions passed by the Convention were, âResolved, That the Territories of the United States are the common property of all the free white citizens of the whole Union, but that the institution of Slavery has no right or heritage therein.but at the same time,

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. This is an excellent example of the Second Folio, the second edition of Shakespeare's collected plays. This is "incomparably the most important work in the English language" (Jackson, Pforzheimer Catalogue). The First Folio, published in 1623, was such a success that just nine years later the collection was printed again. The Second Folio venture was undertaken by a group of booksellers and rights holders, some of whom had been members of the First Folio syndicate. The massive book includes 36 plays, half of which had not been printed prior to the First Folio, as well as commendatory verses and dedicatory epistles by contemporary admirers of Shakespeare. One of these, John Milton's "An Epitaph on the admirable Dramaticke Poet, W. Shakespeare," was Milton's first appearance in print. For almost four centuries Shakespeare's transcendent genius has been recognized. In 1623 Ben Jonson wrote of Shakespeare, "He was not of an age, but for all time." In 1840 Thomas Carlyle called Shakespeare, "the chief of all poets hitherto, the greatest intellect who, in our recorded world, has left record of himself in the way of literature." And Harold Bloom recently wrote, "There is no substitute for Shakespeare . . . Shakespeare is the Western Canon." With the First Folio now commanding $10,000,000, a Second Folio in an appealing early binding is one of the most desirable books in English literature. Provenance: 18th-century armorial bookplate of the Earl of Rosebery. Folio. 13 x 8 ½ inches. Title-page with the engraved portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout, with a short tear. Paneled calf ca. 1700, rebacked preserving portions of original spine, recornered, later endpapers, red sprinkled edges. Some restoration to first and last leaves, a few paper flaws and repairs, early handwritten notes on first two and last leaves. Some spotting and staining. An excellent, tall copy. STC 22274e.3 (the reissue with the A2.5 (title and its conjugate) printed on thicker paper, with "Blacke beare" in the imprint).

Servetus - the expurgated edition - with contemporary hand-colour Folio. Large woodcut printer's device on title-page; double-page woodcut old map of the world, 26 old regional maps, 2 modern maps of the world, 20 new regional maps and one full-page, most with text enclosed in elaborate woodcut borders, probably by Hans Holbein and Urs Graf, text with 2 full-page woodcuts of a diagram and armillary sphere showing the projection of the winds by Albrecht Dürer (l4 verso), all with magnificent contemporary hand-colour in full, 4 large woodcut diagrams, woodcut initials, colophon n4 present, seventeenth-century limp vellum, recased. Collation: a-i(6), k-m(6), n(4), 50 maps, A-G(6), 2[-]; pp., [1]-149, [3], 50 maps, [76]. Beautifully coloured in a contemporary hand throughout, and very rare as such, this is the second edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia' to be edited by Michael Villanovanus, better known as Servetus, (c1490-1570). It was printed by Gaspar Trechsel for Hugues de la Porte (1500-1572) in Lyon, a well-known protestant publisher and bookseller, and a prominent member of the Grande Compagnie des Libraries de Lyon (founded in 1519), many of whose works were on the list of condemned books, some of which were destroyed on the banks of the Saone by order of the Archbishop in 1568 (Davis). Nevertheless, the most inflammatory remarks from the earlier editions of the text have been removed. While working as an editor for the publishers Melchior (c1490-1570) and Gaspar Trechsel, Servetus, who was born at Villanueva, in Aragon, Spain, wrote the preface and many of the descriptions for the versos of these maps, for an edition which was first published in 1535. He unwittingly translated verbatim the text accompanying map 41, 'Tab. Ter. Sanctae', of the Holy Land, from the 1522 and 1525 editions, in which it states that Palestine "was not such a fertile land as was generally believed, since modern travellers reported it barren". Excising the offensive text for this new edition did not save Servetus, when he was burnt at the stake in 1553, this heresy was charged to him, along with 39 other counts, which included the sins of writing against the Holy Trinity and infant baptism. As a result, many copies of the book were burned with him on the orders of John Calvin. The maps, which are very rarely found with such fine contemporary colour, as here, include 27 depicting the ancient world, 22 of the modern world, and one of Lotharingia. They are printed from the same woodblocks that were created by Laurent Fries for the 1522 edition of Ptolemy's 'Geographia', after the original 1513 maps of Martin Waldseemuller (1470-1520). Fries was originally a physician, "at a succession of places in the Alsace region, with a short spell in Switzerland, before settling in Strasbourg, in about 1519. By this time, he had established a reputation as a writer on medical topics, with several publications already to his credit. Indeed, it was thus that Fries met the Strasbourg printer and publisher Johann Grüninger, an associate of the St. Die group of scholars formed by, among others, Walter Lud, Martin Ringmann and Martin Waldseemuller. It would seem that Gruninger was responsible for printing several of the maps prepared by Waldseemuller, and for supervising the cutting of the maps for the 1513 edition of Ptolemy, edited by the group. Three of the maps relate to the Americas: 'Terra Nova', the first map in an atlas dedicated to America; 'Tabula noua totius orbis', to which he added images of Russian, Egyptian, Etheopian, Trapobanan and Mursulian kings, and an elephant off the coast of Greenland; and 'Orbis typus universalis', the 'Admiral's map', and the first map in an atlas to name America'. Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) created his image of the armillary sphere for the Gruninger edition of Ptolemy's Geography, 1525. His simple and elegant rendition of the inhabited parts of the globe, within the floating spherical astrolabe, is less a scientific instrument and more a framework for the schematized world; belying the complex nature of Ptolemy's text. Alden & Landis 541/9; Burden 4; Davis 'On the Protestantism of Benoit Rigaud', 1955, page 246; Phillips Atlases 366; Sabin 66485; Shirley 47-49.

First editions, an exceptionally rare presentation copy, inscribed by Whitehead on the front free endpapers of volumes I and II to his only sister, Shirley Maria Whitehead (1858-1943), "S.M.W. from A.N.W.", and dated "March 13 / 12" in the second volume (preceding publication in April). In 1891 Shirley Maria married Alfred's former Sherborne School mathematics master, the Rev. John Blanch (1842-1907), whom Alfred held in high esteem - in 1898 he presented him with an inscribed copy of his first book, Treatise on Universal Algebra with Applications. The marriage however is recorded as unhappy by Victor Lowe in his biography of Whitehead, and Blanch died by suicide in 1907, before the publication of the Principia Mathematica. Shirley continued to reside in Cambridge, where both Russell and Whitehead studied, and where they collaborated in writing the Principia. To our knowledge the only other presentation copy to have appeared on the market was that in the collection of Haskell F. Norman, which was presented to the mathematical philosopher Philip Jourdain. That copy, however, had only presentation slips from the publisher, rather than being inscribed directly by an author as here - it garnered $129,000 in the Norman sale in 1998. The authors are known to have sent complimentary copies to the library of Trinity College, Cambridge, of which they both were or had been Fellows, to R. G. Hawtrey, who checked over some of the text while it was in preparation, to G. G. Berry, a clerk at the Bodleian Library with remarkable abilities in mathematical logic, and to Jourdain. The University Press sent copies to G. Peano, G. Frege, L. Couturat, J. Royce, W. E. Johnson (who had examined the manuscript for the Press), E. W. Hobson, and A. R. Forsyth. We cannot trace the location of any of these copies, other than Jourdain's and the copy remaining in Trinity College, Cambridge. In the Principia, Whitehead and Russell attempted to construct "the whole body of mathematical doctrine by logical deduction from the basis of a small number of primitive ideas and a small number of primitive principles of logical inference" (DSB, XII, p. 14). This 'logicist' position holds that mathematics is as a branch of logic, and thus "that a separate philosophy of mathematics does not exist, a view contradicting the Kantian doctrine that mathematical proofs depend on a priori forms of intuition. the three colossal volumes of Principia Mathematica. formed the greatest single contribution to symbolic logic for the time" (ODNB). Russell wrote to Helen Flexner that he doubted anyone would read it all the way through, and it is renowned for its extraordinary complexity and impenetrability, yet nonetheless, it has been correctly called "one of the most impressive intellectual monuments of the twentieth century" (ibid.). A fourth volume, dealing with the applications to geometry, was planned but never finished, as both men turned their attention away from mathematics and towards philosophy. Aside from the desirable presentation, this is one of only 500 possible complete sets - the first volume was printed in 750 copies, but the publishers reduced the printings of volumes II and III to 500 copies each. John Slater, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and editor of The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, suggests that there are probably fewer than 50 sets surviving in private hands. Blackwell & Ruja A9.1a; Church, Bibliography of Symbolic Logic, 194.1-3 (one of a handful of works marked by Church as being "of especial interest or importance"); Martin 101.01-03. Victor Lowe, Alfred North Whitehead: The Man and His Work, vol. I, 2020. Three volumes, large octavo. Original dark blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, rules continuing to covers in blind; joints and extremities neatly restored. Housed in custom morocco-entry blue cloth slipcase. Bookplate of South-west Essex Technical College and School of Art Library to front pastedowns of vol. I and II (active 1938-1970, absorbed into the North East London Polytechnic), their stamp to vol. I and II titles, every hundredth page from p. 5 on, and rear free endpapers and fore edges (vol. III without such markings and likely sometime supplied). Vol. I: endpapers toned with slight abrasion to front pastedown, upper outer corner a little bumped, two short closed tears at foot of first text leaf. Vol. II: restoration at upper outer corner of front free endpaper with loss to the "W" in the inscription. Vol. III with front free endpapers replaced, bump to lower outer corner. All three volumes a little rubbed and sometime polished, vol. III a little more visibly. Contents clean aside from library markings. A very good set.

"Incomparably The Most Important Work In The English Language" The Fourth Folio Edition of 'Shakespeare's Plays' A Beautiful Tall Copy, With Seven New Plays SHAKESPEAR[E], William. Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies. Published according to the true Original Copies. Unto which is added, Seven Plays, Never before Printed in Folio: viz. Pericles Prince of Tyre. The London Prodigal. The History of Thomas Lord Cromwel. Sir John Oldcastle Lord Cobham. The Puritan Widow. A Yorkshire Tragedy. The Tragedy of Locrine. The Fourth Edition. London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685. The Fourth Folio edition of Shakespeare's plays, first state of the imprint (without Chiswell's name). Tall copy. Large folio (14 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches; 368 x 233 mm). [12], 96, 99-160, 163-254, 243 [i.3. 253]-272, [1], [1, blank], 328, 303, [3, blank] pp. (page 33 is numbered 23, 107 is numbered 109, 109 is 111, 190 is 186, 191 is 187, 219 is 221, 246 is 234, 253 repeated is 243, and 67 is 76). Engraved frontispiece portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout, with ten-line poem by Ben Jonson, entitled "To the Reader," underneath. Woodcut printer's device on title-page (McKerrow 263). Decorative woodcut initials. A large copy in contemporary full mottled calf, rebacked to style. With spine label, lettered in gilt. Boards stamped in blind. All edges speckled red. With quite generous margins. Small repaired closed tear on leaf F, barely affecting text. Occasional light soiling and a few small stains to title-page. A few tiny holes to leaves G2, affecting one letter and Cccc2 affecting two letters. A light dampstain to bottom outer corner of signature F. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Overall a beautiful copy of this important book. Housed in a custom 19th-century full morocco clamshell. The Fourth Folio was the stateliest of all the folios, being printed on a Royal stock, distinctly larger than the sheets of the Third Folio, which in turn is on a larger sheet than the First and Second. The last edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in the seventeenth century and the last to be printed before the editorial endeavors of the eighteenth century. First issue, without Richard Chiswell listed in the imprint, as he was listed on the second issue (the third issue lists Herringman alone). For this fourth edition Shakespeare's text was assigned to three different printers (one of whom has since been identified as Robert Roberts), who typeset their sections simultaneously, thus shortening the time it took to get to market. When the work was finished and the three sections of printed sheets collated, there was a shortage of 17 sheets from the second section (for the full press run), which were hastily reprinted without the characteristic borders around the text. Copies have been found with these second state sheets. In the copy offered here all of the sheets are in the original settings and with the borders. A second anomaly distinguishes this edition: "The copy for this edition was divided among several shops. Some miscalculation apparently occurred so that the equivalent of about one column of additional matter had to be crowded into Sig L [pp. 123/124] which is therefore printed in a much smaller type than the rest of the volume" (Pforzheimer). Although there is no accurate census of the number of folios still extant today, it is believed that copies of each printing number only in the hundreds. Shakespeare's portrait is in the fourth state, as issued, with verses below (see Blayney, 19). The folios are "incomparably the most important work in the English language" (William A. Jackson). Because of their incalculable impact on the language, thought and literature of our world, they are among the most desirable of all English language books, the prizes of any collection. Bartlett 123A. Greg III, p. 1119. Jaggard, p. 497. Pforzheimer 910. Wing S2915. HBS 67106. $200,000.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. First. THE NEBENZAHL COPY, CONTAINING THE FIRST MAP TO SHOW THE EARTH REVOLVING ON ITS AXIS. First edition, map state A. Basel: Io[hannes] Hervagius, 1532. Folio in 6s (11 5/8" x 8 1/16", 296mm x 205mm). [Full collation available.] With a folding woodcut map (Harrisse A) of the world (inserted at pp. 11-12). Bound in (1581, per the front board) calf over beveled wooden boards with clasps. On the front, a silver (in all instances oxidized to black) Crucifixion within blind borders within a silver repeating allegorical border with the figures of the four Virtues within a blind border, with silver corner-fleurons within a blind border. On the rear, an Annunciation at the center, otherwise identical. On the spine, four raised bands with blind fillets. In the panels, blind borders. Paper label manuscript to the first panel. Brass catches with clasp (one lacking) incised with hatching, rays and concentric circles. All edges of the text-block dotted in red and blue. Lacking one clasp. Staining to the boards. Fore-corners (except the lower rear) worn. Head- and tail-pieces perished. Front board split, but binding cords firm. The map has some small repaired tears at the folds, but is altogether very good. Scattered worming to the boards, and one discreet wormhole from 2b2 through to the rear board (with a patch of worming to the rear paste-down and free end-paper. Scattered tanning. In a sixteenth-century hand, some ink marginalia and underlining throughout but concentrations of intense comment from pp. 298-363 and 2318-323 (mis-numbered 327). In all, a volume that has been used and perused, but still robust and solid. With the bookplate of Kenneth Nebenzahl (Christie's New York, 9 April 2012, lot 65). Although the map (rightly) has a nearly electromagnetic pull, being the first to indicate Copernicus' model of the revolving world (predating his 1543 De revolutionibus by 11 years), the book in which it was published is monumental in its own right: the first collection of voyages. Johann Huttich (Huttichius, 1490-1544) gained access to the accounts of Spanish and Portuguese (or Iberian-funded) explorers of the Americas in addition to a great many voyages elsewhere (including Marco Polo) in Eurasia. Their union in a single edited work is the first time we can discern the genre of voyages. Simon Grynaeus (Griner, 1493-1541) was principally a prefator. To Sebastian Münster (1488-1552) Shirley attributes the map. Hans Holbein (The Younger, 1497-1543) cut the fanciful border of the map with its cannibals and elephant hunt. In short, the Novus Orbus is the collective effort of some of the great humane minds of the Protestant Reformation. The map is Harrisse A ("we are inclined to consider as the genuine map;" Shirley is agnostic about precedence), distinguished by the large "ASIA". Münster (or Holbein) indicates the revolving world with angels at the North and South Poles powering the revolution via crank. Widukind of Corvey's (ca. 925-973) chronicle of the Saxons up through the Xc, known as the Res gestae saxonicae, is published here for the first time by Martin Frecht (1494-1556). Often the only account of crucial portions of Saxon history, it also takes as its basis local and oral traditions rather than Roman (or southern) accounts, which are often biased and inaccurate. The present volume comes from the distinguished collection of Kenneth Nebenzahl Jr. (1927-2020), whose 2012 Christie's sale fetched some $11.6M. He was a dealer of the highest order, specializing in maps. Indeed, the Nebenzahl Lectures in the History of Cartography at the Newberry Library in Chicago (the first speaker was the great authority R.A. Skelton) are among the most important landmarks in the field. It is difficult to imagine a superior provenance for such a vital volume. Novus orbis: Adams G-1334, Alden & Landis 532/17, Harrisse 171, John Carter Brown Library I, p. 104 (JCB I:101), Sabin 34100, Shirley 67. Res gestae: Adams W-215.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. DICKENS, CHARLES. (1812-1870). English novelist of the Victorian era; his numerous beloved works include: A Christmas Carol , A Tale of Two Cities Barnaby Rudge , Bleak House , David Copperfield , Dombey and Son , Great Expectations , Martin Chuzzlewit , Nicholas Nickleby , Oliver Twist , The Old Curiosity Shop , and The Pickwick Papers . His book: THE OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. London: [Bradbury and Evans for] Chapman and Hall, 1841. Quired in 6s (251 x 167 mm). Dedication leaf to Samuel Rogers (not called for by Smith, but that in vol.1 of Master Humphrey's Clock from which this is separately issued). Illustrations in text by George Cattermole and Hablot K. Browne ["Phiz"]. Gilt-ruled on covers, gilt-decorated on spine, deep green/black and red morocco lettering pieces, all edges gilt, ink stamp of Chapman and Hall on front free endpaper and of the binder Hayday on rear free endpaper. Housed in a vintage custom full leather embossed slip case, of excellent quality. BOLDLY INSCRIBED TO: WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR FROM HIS HEARTY FRIEND, CHARLES DICKENS , ON THE TITLE PAGE. THIS PRESENTATION IS ONE OF EXTRAORDINARY ASSOCIATIONS, one made even more so when one considers Landor (1775 - 1864) was 37 years Dickens senior, and then further inscribed by Landor to his son, opposite the title page, Arnold Savage Landor / from Babbo [a family nickname]. Landor was an immediate admirer of Dickens works. In April 1839, before Dickens was introduced to Landor by John Forster, [both Landor s and Dickens biographer, literary advisor and inner circle friend], Landor wrote to Forster, Tell Dickens he has drawn from me more tears and more smiles than are remaining to me for all the rest of the world, real or ideal. Dickens and Landor first met in January 1840, through Forster, at Lady Blessington s literary salon. On February 10, 1840, Landor wrote to his friend G.P.R. James: In town I made a new acquaintance -- is a really popular, and what is much better, truly extraordinary man the author of Nicholas Nickleby. He comes on Saturday to spend a few days with me at Bath, and on Monday I have invited my elite of beauty (the Paynters) to meet him How I wish you could too! Dickens is really a good as well as a delightful man. It is rarely that two such persons meet, as you and he nor in any other society could I easily be the least of three. In 1869, a year before his death, Dickens wrote to Forster: Landor s ghost goes along the silent streets before me. Forster wrote it was the first meeting in Bath on February 7, 1840, that there came into the novelist s mind the first stirrings of imagination that eventually took form as Little Nell who became to Landor as one who had really lived and died. Dickens on May 9, 1869, in a letter to Forster, confirmed what Landor had often previously told friends that it was at Landor s lodgings in Bath that Dickens first thought of Nell. Landor later declared that he had never in his life regretted anything so much as having failed to buy the house and burn it to the ground, so that no meaner association should ever desecrate the birthplace of Nell. It was during this first trip that Rose Paynter, Landor s elite of beauty and best friend in Bath, introduced Dickens to the original of Quilp in The Old Curiosity Shop , a frightful little dwarf named Prior, who let donkeys on hire and used a heavy stick impartially on his wife and donkeys. On September 13, 1840, in a letter to John Forster, Dickens determined he wanted to separate and publish The Old Curiosity Shop from Master Humphrey s Clock, although it wasn t until April 20, 1841, in a letter to his dear friend Miss Angela Burdett Coutts [Coutts Bank family] that he had given his binder instructions to put The Old Curiosity Shop in one Volume. Since The Old Curiosity Shop (40 weekly numbers published from April 25, 1840 to February 6, 1841) was a part of Master Humphrey s Clock, Dickens had to add sections to make it a viable separate novel. On February 11, 1841, Dickens as.

3 volumes. Folio. (13 1/2 x 10 5/8 inches). 102 watercolors over etched line. 90 distinct watercolors with 12 variants. 1795 Volume: Unpaginated, 86 pp. Manuscript title page and 42 watercolors over etched line. 1796 Volume I: Unpaginated, 130 pp. Manuscript title and 30 watercolors over etched line, each with manuscript description on preceding leaf. 1796 Volume II: Unpaginated, 68 pp. 29 watercolors over etched lines with 3 ink manuscript leaves with descriptions. All finely bound in contemporary straight-grained red Morocco, 1795 Volume with gilt fillet, 1796 Volumes with gilt fillets and Greek key pattern borders on covers, all spines gilt in compartments, 1796 Volumes with drawer-handle motifs, all titled in gilt in second compartment [MARTYN'S PLANTS], 1795 Volume with marbled black and red endpapers, 1796 Volumes with marbled cobalt endpapers. 1795 Volume and 1796 Volume I with binder's ticket of Charles Hering (1763-1815) of 10 St. Martin Street in London on front pastedowns of each. An unparalleled collection of 102 magnificent watercolor botanical illustrations by Thomas Martyn and his academy. One of the rarest botanical books by a renown master; only four other examples in the census of copies. The Thomas Martyn (fl. 1760-1816) who produced Figures of Plants is not the Thomas Martyn (1735-1825) who wrote the commonly found Flora Rustica (1792) and was a professor of botany at Cambridge, like his father John Martyn (1699-1768). Our Martyn was born in Coventry, England. He was an artist and publisher of the natural sciences known best for the Universal Conchologist which illustrated exotic sea shells and won medals from many European leaders. His illustrations of plants, butterflies, shells, and spiders, remain among the most exquisite issued in book format. The plates of Martyn's books were lightly etched and watercolored by a group of young apprentice artists trained by Martyn for an operation he called the Academy for Painting Natural History. Martyn opened the academy in 1786 and by 1789 he employed 10 apprentices. Martyn recruited these youths because he desired a "uniformity and equality of style, conception, and execution which it would be in vain to expect from a variety of independent artists." Subsequent publications Martyn and his academy published include The English Entomologist (1792); Aranei or a Natural History of Spiders (1793); and Psyche: Figures of Nondescript Lepidopterous Insects (1797). The 1795 Volume has chain-laid endpapers with a "Lepard" watermark and wove paper with "J. Whatman" watermarks. The 1796 Volumes have "J. Whatman" watermarks on wove paper. The 1795 Volume is credited to "Mr. Martyn" at "No 10 Great Marlborough Street London" while the 1796 Volumes are credited to "Thomas Martyn" at "Great Marlborough Street London" with no street number. Each of the manuscript description leaves in the 1796 Volumes include the plant's common name, its Latin binomial, and a brief description as to its prevalence, habitat, size, and season. All of the drawings in 1796 Volume 1 have a leaf of manuscript description; only 3 in 1796 Volume II do. Figures of Plants Census: 1. British Library copy: 43 plates, no descriptions, 1795. Shelf number: 44.i.18 2. Newberry Library copy formerly owned by Henry Probasco: 2 folios, 65 plates, 1795-1796. 3. John Townley copy sold at Christie's October 19, Lot 28 in 1999: 2 volumes in 1, 65 plates, 1796. Sold at $157,965. 4. Fattorini copy sold at Sotheby's May 8, Lot 20 in 2002: 1 volume, 51 plates, 1795. Sold at $87,162. 5. Our copy: 3 volumes, 102 plates, many with descriptions, 1795-1796. Plate names: 1795 Volume: 42 distinct figures, hand-numbered in pencil with plate names. Unlike the 1796 volumes, these figures are depicted within gilt-rulings: 1. Sublinear Aster. 2. Heart Leaved Aster. 3. One Flowered Aster. 4. Indian Aster. 5. Umbrella Aster. 6. Pyrenean Aster. 7. Thready Flap. 8. Broad Leaved Pokeweed. 9. Short Rayed Aster. 10. Dolled Aster. 11. Curled Leaved Aster. 12. C.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 2nd Edition. A signed book from Thoreau's library***Second edition. Remboitage in contemporary leather binding of the same book. Concord Library stamp to title page, fore-edge a bit chipped. Pages quite clean, Very Good. HDT s ownership signature and annotations in bold ink.*** The signature is an early one, sometime around 22 years of age. Thoreau had studied Greek and the Classics at Harvard, graduating in 1837 and began translating Aeschylus in his journal circa 1839 - his translation of Prometheus Bound would appear in the third installment of The Dial in 1843. This is a young Thoreau still developing as a person and an intellectual. He obviously used this book heavily, as it contains lengthy annotations on 16 pages - his additions of Greek words with definitions.*** This book was gifted in 1874 by his devoted sister, Sophia, to the Concord Library and later de-accessioned by the library in 1906 and purchased by the celebrated collector, Stephen H. Wakeman. It doesn't need any trinkets of imaginative dressing from me, but to go full bore, it's more than conceivable that he brought this to Walden Pond along with other pieces from his library. Wakeman was amongst the greatest collectors of all time in a golden era of collectors who continuously one-upped each other by gobbling up the choicest pieces. He was the OG Thoreau collector, amassing the largest, most comprehensive assortment of HDT items - even furniture made and used by Thoreau.*** It s now over 200 years since the icon's birth, and his place in the literary firmament is fully established. What is pertinent to convey is that pieces like this will continue to be more impossible to procure the longer time expands the void between us and him. You can often pick up nice copies of HDT's books, even fragments of his manuscript leaves though they often lack significance. This piece does have lofty significance(a book heavily used by an American legend to shape his mind) and now is your shooting star-esque window of time to own a museum piece.***Please email us for better pricing. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Map of the United States with the Contiguous British & Spanish Possessions Compiled from the Latest and Best Authorities. Philadelphia: John Melish, 1816 - A Geographical Description of the United States, with the Contiguous British and Spanish Possessions, Intended as an Accompaniment to Melish's Map of these Countries. AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE ENGRAVED MAP (36 x 58 ½ in; 91.4 x 148.6 cm) by J. Vallance and H.S. Tanner, with original handcoloring in outline, dissected into 40 segments and laid down on linen, green silk selvages, folds with marbled end sheets; some occasional pale spotting. Contemporary half red roan portfolio, marbled boards, linen ties; joints splitting but intact, minor losses to spine. GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION: Errata leaf tipped to front free endpaper, 4 engraved plans of Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, hand colored folding engraved map being a "Specimen of the County Maps to be Constructed by Virtue of an Act of Legislature, Directing the Formation of a Map of Pennsylvania" with 3 pages of instructions and prospectus for constructing state and country maps thereof, 12 pages of publisher's advertisements and endorsements; browned throughout, scattered stains on the full-page maps; short tear to County Map near mount. Marbled boards rather worn, rebacked, some restoration to red roan corners. (65B2E) THE FIRST AMERICAN-PRODUCED WALL MAP DEPICTING THE COUNTRY FROM COAST TO COAST. Ristow's Fifth State (Martin's Fourth), with Cadiz, Washington, Cambridge, Adelphi, Mansfield, and Wooster added in Ohio, "Vevay or" added before "Swiss Vineyards" in southeastern Indiana. Frakfort renamed Washington D.C. and C.H. replaced with "Charleston" in Western Virginia (present West Virginia). The northern border of the United States indicated with a dot dash engraved line at approximately 49 degrees 37 minutes 30 seconds north running due west from the Lake of the Woods to the Gulf of Georgia, and then up the Columbia to the Pacific. The map is colored to extend the northern boundary to include the headwaters of the Missouri and Clark's Fork of the Columbia Rivers. "An exquisite map, it distinguished Melish as the leading American map publisher of the second decade and placed American maps on equal footing with those produced by the prestigious firms in London and Paris. PROVENANCE: Geographical Description of the United States FROM THE LIBRARY OF JAMES BUCHANAN (1791-1868). REFERENCES: Clark II: 218; Howes M490; Martin/Ristow 24; Sabin 47431; Streeter VI:3798, Wheat, Transmississippi 322, pp.62.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. A very early edition of Luther's December Testament, appearing within six months of the first (Wittenberg, December 1522). With a large title woodcut by Hans Schäufelein, 25 large historiated woodcut initials (numerous repeats) with scenes of the Evangelists writing the Gospels, Paul writing the Epistles, and John writing the Book of Revelations. The Apocalypse is illustrated with 21 large woodcuts by Hans Burgkmair the Elder. The complete cycle first appeared less than three months earlier, in Otmar's edition of 21 March. With a large title woodcut by Hans Schäufelein, 25 large historiated woodcut initials (numerous repeats) with scenes of the Evangelists writing the Gospels, Paul writing the Epistles, and John writing the Book of Revelations. The Apocalypse is illustrated with 21 large woodcuts by Hans Burgkmair the Elder. Bound in contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over beveled wooden boards (wear and stains to boards, extremities rubbed, corners bumped), ruled and tooled in blind, with original brass catches with the brass clasps restored. A fine, complete copy on bright paper, overall very fresh, with very minor faults: title lightly soiled and with a few small spots, occ. very mild damp-staining, a few closed tears, worm-trail in blank lower margin of opening signatures (not affecting the text) and in the blank inner margin of some later gatherings (occ. touching a letter or two). Provenance: Front pastedown with 16th/17th cent. ownership inscription ("In usum H. Mem (m) ingk"), illustrated bookplates of the Kempten brewer Johann Leichtle (19th century) and his son, the landowner and collector Hans Leichtle, Castle Lenzfried in Kempten (ca. ca. 1927) Working primarily from Erasmus' second edition of the Greek text (1517), Martin Luther translated the New Testament into German in only eleven weeks, from mid-December 1521 to early March 1522, while in hiding in Wartburg Castle. Upon his return to Wittenberg, he revised the translation -with the assistance of Melanchthon. The first edition (the "September Testament") was printed at Wittenberg by Melchior Lotter the Younger in September 1522. Its success was immediate and in December, Lotter printed a second edition (the "December Testament"), with Luther's further revisions. Only the Book of Revelations was illustrated, with striking woodcuts by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553). Cranach was influenced in part by the Apocalypse of Albrecht Dürer (1498) but his woodcuts show a close reading of Luther's text. "In 1523 Luther's German New Testament, with new illustrations for the Book of Revelations, was printed at Augsburg by Silvan Otmar. The images were created by Hans Burgkmair the Elder [one of the first German artists to show the influence of the Italian Renaissance]. Thematically they corresponded to those of the September Testament (by Lucas Cranach), but with a new, independent textual interpretation. Hans Burgkmair had read the Apocalypse carefully; his pictures are completely independent of those of Dürer. The images of the revelations are characterized by faithfulness to the text."(Schmidt, Lutherbibel) "Although Martin Luther was not the first to translate the Bible into German, he was the first to translate the text from the original biblical languages. First printed at Wittenberg in September 1522, Luther's German New Testament was considered a philological and literary masterpiece that exerted enormous influence on the development of modern German. "In addition to aggressively promoting the reading of biblical texts in the vernacular, the Protestant Reformation also introduced one of the most creative and controversial periods of printed Bible illustration. Martin Luther made effective use of translations enriched with woodcuts, beginning with his first translation of the German New Testament, published by Melchior Lotter in Wittenberg in September, 1522, (the "September Bible".) For that edition he employed Lucas Cranach the Elder (1472-1553), one of the leadin.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Map of the United States with the Contiguous British and Spanish Possessions. Entered.the 16th Day of June, 1820. Philadelphia: John Melish, 1820 - A Geographical Description of the United States, with the Contiguous British and Spanish Possessions, Intended as an Accompaniment to Melish's Map of these Countries. Large engraved folding map by J. Vallance and H.S. Tanner (43 ½ x 57 in.; 110.4 x 144.8 cm), dissected into 36 segments and mounted on linen, full contemporary handcoloring; fold separation affecting 3 segments, a few holes at interstices, faint offsetting and some toning. Contemporary green paste-paper board slipcase, manuscript label; extremities somewhat worn, loss of one side strip. GEOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION: 8vo (8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in.; 21 x 13.3 cm). 5 engraved maps (one folding and partially hand-colored), errata slip tipped to front free endpaper; scattered staining, mild text browning. Contemporary red roan over marbled boards, smooth spine lettered gilt; rebased and recornered. (65B2E) The scarce 1820 edition, third state (Martin/Ristow), enlarged to include the West Indies and all of Mexico, with fine handcoloring and the original slipcase. Melish was the first publisher in the United States to specialize in geographical and cartographic works. First published in 1816, this was the first American-produced wall map depicting the country from coast to coast. Melish frequently revised and corrected the plates. He published new editions in 1818 (five states), 1819 (two states), 1820 (eight states) 1822 (two states), and 1823 (one state). According to Streeter, who also owned two copies of the 1820 edition (6:3808 dated 6 June 1820 and 6:3809 dated 16 June 1820): "The obvious difference between the June 6th and June 16th maps is in the coloration. In the June 6th, as in all previous editions, states and territories appear outlined in color. In the June 16th edition, they are tinted throughout in the same color as the darker boundary colors." Melish has extended the southern boundary to include the Yucatan peninsula, as well as the Caribbean Islands. The northern boundary of Tennessee is shown along the parallel 36o30' following Congress's ratification of 12 May 1820. The depiction of Lake Michigan and the borders of Illinois and Indiana are also corrected to include Chicago within the Illinois state boundary. Missouri appears as a Territory separate from the Arkansas Territory. Incorporating data from state and military maps as these became available, Melish outlined the reasons for the principal changes in his posthumously published 1826 Geographical Description: "When the late treaty was negotiated with Spain which had reference to the map in fixing the southwest boundary, it was determined to bring forward an entire new edition of the Map, exhibiting Florida as part of the United States, and making all alterations that had taken place in the country, up to the time of publication; and from conviction that Mexico would soon become independent, and would eventually be of great importance to the United States, it was determined to add another sheet exhibiting a complete view of that very interesting country, with all the most important West India Islands. This was accordingly executed, and the supplement was so enlarged as to exhibit a view of the whole West Indies, with Guatimala, the Isthmus of Panama, and the northern provinces of South America, now forming part of the Republic of Colombia. "SCARCE: Only two copies of the third state have sold at auction in the last four decades which have appeared several times: the Streeter/Newman copy (2018) and the Charles J. Tanenbaum copy (2008) which was purchased at auction in 1977. Second edition of the text, after the 1815 original and another similar but earlier issue without the designation of "second edition". PROVENANCE: Charles J. Tannenbaum, Collection of American Cartography (Sotheby's NY, 11 Dec 2008, lot 16; An anonymous consignor (Sotheby's NY, 25 Jan 1977.

A pair of 18-inch Bardin Globes on Table Stands A pair of 18-inch table globes, raised on four turned mahogany legs with stretcher, spheres covered with plaster coating, two sets of 12 engraved and hand-coloured half gores on each globe, varnished. The Bardin family were among the greatest globe makers in London from the late eighteenth to the early nineteenth century. The patriarch of the family, William Bardin (d. 1798), began globe production in the 1780s. The origin of Bardin's globes is thought to be traceable to the early eighteenth century globes of John Senex. Fifteen years after Senex's death, the copper plates for his globe gores were sold to James Ferguson. In 1757, Ferguson transferred his globe trade, including his Senex globe gores, to the scientific instrument maker and lecturer Benjamin Martin (1704-1782). One of Bardin's earliest globes refers directly to Ferguson: "A New, Accurate, and Compleat Terrestrial Globe. originally laid down by the late Mr. James Ferguson, F.R.S. 1783." William Bardin's connection with Ferguson is thought to be through Gabriel Wright (d. 1803-04), an apprentice of Benjamin Martin. Wright went to work for the Bardin family of globe makers and worked with Bardin in creating his first globe in 1782. In 1790, William Bardin's son, Thomas Marriott Bardin, completed a seven-year apprenticeship, and immediately joined ranks with his father, the firm thereafter trading as W. & T.M. Bardin. In 1798, the father and the son team began publication of their "New British Globes." The 18-inch New British Globes include dedications to the scientist Sir Joseph Banks, President of the Royal Society (terrestrial) and astronomer Neville Maskelyne (celestial), and were frequently marketed by the scientific instrument makers and dealers W. & S. Jones. The skill required for the production of these 12- and 18-inch globes was much admired by the Bardin's contemporaries. Following T.M. Bardin's death in 1819, his daughter, Elizabeth Marriott Bardin, continued the family's globe production until 1832, at which time the company's title was passed to her husband, Samuel Sabine Edkins.

First edition. DIBNER 130 "THE FIRST GREAT AMERICAN CONTRIBUTION TO PHYSIOLOGY" "THE MOST IMPORTANT PRESENTATION COPY EXTANT". First edition, inscribed by Beaumont to James W. Kingsbury, of "the most important study of digestion before Pavlov" (Garrison-Morton), this is "the first great American contribution to physiology" and "the most important presentation copy extant" (). Sir William Osler called Beaumont (1785-1853) "the pioneer physiologist of the United States, and the first to make a contribution of enduring value. His work remains a model of patient, persevering research." "While stationed at Fort Mackinac, near Michilimackinac, on Mackinac Island, Michigan, close to the Canadian border - then and now an extremely remote location - Beaumont had been presented with a unique opportunity in the person of one of his patients, the young French Canadian soldier Alexis St. Martin (1797?-1880), who was left with a permanent gastric fistula after suffering a gunshot wound to the stomach. Beaumont's experiments and observations, conducted between 1825 and 1831, conclusively established the chemical nature of digestion, the presence and role of hydrochloric acid in the stomach, the temperature of the stomach during digestion, the movement of the stomach walls and the relative digestibility of certain foods - all of which revolutionized current theories of the physiology of digestion" (ibid.). Beaumont wrote of St. Martin, "When he lies on the opposite side, I can look directly into the cavity of the stomach, and almost see the process of digestion." Beaumont's scientific advisors urged him to haveExperiments and Observations on the Gastric Juiceissued by established medical publishers such as Lippincott in Philadelphia, but he decided to self-publish his book. He had it typeset at the press of the town newspaper in Plattsburgh, New York, where he practised medicine, probably because he thought the work could be done more quickly and cheaply there. According to a letter of 4 December 1833 from Beaumont to Surgeon-General Joseph Lovell, the dedicatee, the first edition consisted of 1000 copies, although Beaumont's nephew later claimed that 3000 copies had been printed. Most of the first edition had the Plattsburgh imprint, but there was a smaller second issue with the imprint 'Boston: Lilly, Wait, and Company'. "Only one other presentation copy of this work is recorded: the Haskell F. Norman copy, which sold at Christie's NY in 1998. That was one of fifty copies which Beaumont had bound in full leather. Considering normal book production practice, it is likely that the special full-leather copies were produced after the main edition. The Norman copy was inscribed by Beaumont to William Dunlap, whose relationship with Beaumont is unknown" (). Provenance: James W. Kingsbury (1813-81) (inscription on title in Beaumont's hand); Joseph W. Kingsbury; Scribner Rare Books Shop (1947); Thomas W. Streeter; sold Bonham's NY, 27 June 2006, lot 3046, $38,838. "Nestled along the clear blue straits between the great lakes called Michigan and Huron is an oblong and verdant island. Centuries ago, the Chippewa and Ottawa tribes named it Michilimackinac, or 'the Great Turtle'; [it is] referred to today as Mackinac but pronounced 'Mackinaw' . In 1670, the French Jesuit missionary Father Jacques Marquette and his intrepid interpreter Louis Joliet fled St. Ignace, Michigan, to settle on the 'Great Turtle' in the name of their homeland. Less than a century later, in 1759, the British took control of the island from the French and, in 1783, after signing the Treaty of Paris, Great Britain relinquished it to the fledgling United States, which had to defend and regain it during the War of 1812. The French pursued fur trapping there with vigor and cunning. But it was John Jacob Astor, the first US multimillionaire, who put Mackinac Island on the map in 1817, when Michigan was admitted to the Union and Astor chose the island as the main trading post of his fabled American Fur Company, a pelt empire that spanned from the Great Lakes to the Mississippi River. "Every June, the American Fur Company hosted a convention on Mackinac for thousands of trappers eager to sell or barter the bounty they had hunted the previous winter. The rest of the year, the island's population hovered at a mere 500. Situated on the southeast cliff a few hundred feet above the shoreline was a limestone fortress built by the British in 1761 and subsequently occupied by the US Army to protect the island's commerce and trade. "In 1820, one of the military officers stationed there was a young physician named William Beaumont. In 1810, he began a 2-year apprenticeship to a well-established Vermont physician named Benjamin Chandler and in 1812 passed his state's qualification examination. That same year, Beaumont enlisted with the US Army in search of adventure and clinical experience and served as a surgeon's mate in the War of 1812. After the end of that conflict in 1815, he resigned his post to set up a private practice in Plattsburgh, New York. Five years later, he turned his practice over to a cousin and re-enlisted in the Army, which assigned him to Fort Michilimackinac. "At this distant frontier outpost, Beaumont began the work that culminated in a remarkable, if not outright revolutionary, book - Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion. But he hardly accomplished this gargantuan task alone. Indeed, Beaumont had the help and the body of a French Canadian fur trapper named Alexis St. Martin. "The story of Beaumont and St. Martin has been recounted so often it has acquired the finely burnished patina of hagiography. Yet even when stripped of its most sensational layers, their collaboration remains an inspiring and cautionary tale about the boundaries between physician and patient and medical investigator and human participant. "On the morning of June 6, 1822, as the annual pelt swapping jamboree was underway, a 20-year-o.

Second Printing. 310 x 212 mm. (12 1/4 x 8 3/8"). [234] leaves. Modern dark brown crushed morocco, raised bands, gilt titling to spine, gilt-ruled turn-ins, leather hinges, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With Aldine device on title page and final page, and 170 WOODCUTS, nine of which are full-page (count includes tablets with typeset text within, as per Mortimer). Mortimer 131; Sander 2057; Essling 1199; Adams C-2414; Kallendorf 302; Renouard 133:14; EDIT16 CNCE 12823; USTC 823513. See also: John Harthan, "The History of the Illustrated Book" pp. 80-82; and Martin Lowry, "The World of Aldus Manutius," pp. 120-25. âTitle page with faint discoloration in two small marginal spots (to remove indications of ownership?), one leaf in last gathering a little browned, final three leaves (including colophon) with repair to fill small worm trail, occasional quite trivial spots to margins; in all other ways, A VERY FINE COPY--the text remarkably clean, fresh, and bright, the margins especially generous, and the binding unworn. A masterpiece of Renaissance book production, this is one of the most beautiful printed works ever created, being especially desirable for the refinement of its illustrations, extraordinary design, and thoughtful interaction of word and image. "Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream," as it is often translated, is a complex allegorical romance that follows the love-sick Poliphilo as he pursues the object of his desire, Polia, through a dream world rich with architectural forms and antique splendors. Written in an unusual hybrid of Latin and Italian, the text is usually credited to the Dominican monk Francesco Colonna (1443/4-1527) due to the presence of an acrostic, formed by the first letter of each of the 38 chapters, spelling out "POLIAM FRATER FRANCISCVS COLVMNA PERAMAVIT" ["Brother Francisco Colonna desperately loved Polia"]. Though connected to the monastery of San Giovanni e Paolo, Colonna apparently lived outside the monastery walls and was something of a miscreant. Martin Lowry describes him as "a more than usually vicious character, who had twice been called before the highest authorities of his Order and once expelled from Venice on so many charges that the senior members of his community had also been held under threat. . . . [He] accused several of his superiors of sodomy, then retracted and was himself accused and convicted of seducing a young girl." Although scholars disagree about the literary merits of Colonna's erotic tale, its story and dream-world setting provided the perfect stimulus for the artistic imagination. Often arcane and mysterious, the images include ruins, obelisks, temples, and other architectural delights, strange artifacts and bits of masonry bearing inscriptions, much Christian and pagan symbolism, and various ceremonies, rituals, and processions. The artist/engraver of this work is anonymous, though the quality of the illustrations has led scholars to suggest major artists such as Andrea Mantegna, Gentile Bellini, and even Raphael as possible candidates. Recent scholarship now favors Venetian miniaturist Benedetto Bordon, based on the presence of a "b" on two of the illustrations. As Lowry notes, "the illustrator, whoever he was, produced a masterpiece which towers above any contemporary and carries the interdependence of word and picture into a new dimension. Arches, temples, vases, sculptures, inscriptions, [and] chariots were traced out as the writer had described them, not only with expertise but with a kind of zest which gave the completed whole both its brilliance and its danger." The 1499 original edition done by Aldus Manutius had been a financial disappointment (probably due to the expense of the book as well as the relatively small audience to whom it would have appealed), but the work enjoyed a renewed surge of popularity when the present 1545 reprint by Aldus' son Paulus appeared. The original wood blocks are reused in our second printing (with the exception of six that had to be recut due to damage, as per Mortimer). The earlier printing is now extravagantly expensive, and our second edition, while costly, provides a page-for-page reprint with a very much reduced price tag.

London, sold at his house no. 16 Great Marlborough Street, [1784-] 1789 [-1812]. 4 volumes. 4to (335 x 273mm), vol. I with engraved frontispiece of a shell, engraved title, engraved dedication to the King, two engraved plates of medals, pp. 27 [1, blank] letterpress text in English and French, engraved 'Explanatory Table', listing the shells and their sources, the three further volumes with engraved title and 'Explanatory Table' for each volume, with a total of 160 hand-coloured aquatint and watercolour plates (not counting the frontispiece) containing 355 figures, mostly depicting two views of a shell within a quadruple-ruled border; a few faint marginal waterstains on a few leaves, some very occasional marginal spotting, generally a very fresh, attractive copy, bound in contemporary full red straight-grained morocco, panelled in blind with interlocking panels on sides, spines tooled in blind, gilt ornaments on the turn-ins, gilt edges, with the bookbinder Welcher's label on free front endleaves. A rare complete set of 'The Universal Conchologist', in the large-format 'deluxe' issue (see below). A fine copy of one of the most attractive shell books ever produced. The first two volumes, devoted to shells of the South Seas, were originally published as a separate work in 1784. Martyn then extended the work to four volumes with an additional 80 plates. 'From the introduction to 'The universal conchologist' we learn that it was "to commence with the figures of shells (most of them rare and nondescript) which have been collected by several officers of the ships under the command of Captain Byron, Wallis, Cook, and others made to the South Sea" . When the 'Resolution and the Discovery' returned from the third and last voyage in 1780 [the dealer] Humphrey purchased some more shells, but the bulk of the conchological spoils went this time to Thomas Martyn, a knowledgeable dealer, versatile writer and gifted artist . Unlike Humphrey and other dealers who snapped up the Cook shells Thomas Martyn had more than a pecuniary interest in his purchases. Martyn's reason for wanting to corner the market in South Seas shells was entirely praiseworthy; although he sold many of the shells he had bought, he illustrated the finest in 'The Universal Conchologist', his magnum opus [and] a work which, for beauty, has seldom been surpassed in the history of conchological iconography' (Dance, A history of shell collecting).Martyn purchased shells brought back from Cook's third voyage, although, as he wrote to Henry Seymer on 9 December 1780, 'I have purchased, amounting to 400 gns, more than 2 thirds of the whole brought home, Nevertheless I do not abound either in the variety of the new or many duplicates of the known ones that are valuable'. As a result, he modified his project and instead of presenting two shells on each plate, presented only one but depicted in two different views. Besides the specimens deriving from Cook's voyages, Martyn included specimens from the collections of the Duchess of Portland, the Countess of Bute, John Hunter, the Forsters, and others.The fine plates were drawn by Martyn and engraved and coloured by his 'Academy' of young men whom he had trained as natural history artists. The plates, each showing a single species in two positions, were engraved in soft aquatint and printed lightly inked, so that when hand-coloured they would resemble watercolours.Thomas Martyn (ca 1760-1816) was a native of Coventry, who lived in London at various addresses, 'most notably 10, Great Marlborough Street, Westminster, where he established his academy for the painting of Natural History. Besides the present work, his 'chef d'oeuvre', he published works on a dirigible balloon he designed, and various works of entomology, and colour theory.The complete four-volume work is complicated by various issue points and varieties of format, dating, etc. There are variants amongst some of the plates, some being intended for the standard quarto issue, and others being adapted for the 'select' issue, which is often mounted on large sheets of blank blue-grey mounts. Unusually, the present copy contains the 'select' issue plates, but unmounted.The single shell that serves as a frontispiece usually bears the caption 'Aphrodite' in Greek, and is framed by a gilt Greek key design; here it is uncaptioned and unframed. Several of the plates are also unframed. Otherwise the present copy conforms to the issue points of the 'select', folio issue, with the plates within larger frames. The following differences were first noticed by Dall: Plate 43 has two views of shell. There is only one view in the quarto. Plate 57 and 59; same remark. Plates 61 and 63, the figures are side by side. In the quarto (owing to the smaller page?) they are placed diagonally' (Dall, 'Supplementary notes' p. 186). I have also noticed that the following plates also differ, with the ones in the present copy being placed side-by-side within larger frames: 2, 30, and 35.The plates are on heavy woven paper, some of it with an undated Whatman watermark. The format of the plates is altered from portrait to landscape, in rectangular rather than mostly square-ruled frames, and with the rules quadruple rather than double. As a result, here they are bound in sideways, with the plate numbers in the upper inner corner.Nine plates in the present copy (see below) are signed by one of the artists trained by Martin, John Harris, who was an accomplished illustrator of numerous natural history works of the late eighteenth, early nineteenth century.John Harris '(1767-1832), watercolour painter and illustrator, was born in London on 5 June 1767, the second son of Moses Harris (1730-c. 1788), the artist and entomologist. He was brought up at Deptford, which gave him a taste for marine subjects. He was articled c. 1780 to the entomologist Thomas Martyn, whose Academy for Illustrating and Painting Natural History was in Great Marlborough Street. Until about 1789 he also w.

AUGUSTINE, Saint. De Civitate Dei. 305 ff. of 306 (missing final blank). [a-b8 c-z10 A-G10 H10 (-H10, final blank)], with three blanks (ff. 1, 16, 305). 46 lines, gothic type (2:84) printed double-column, roman headline (4:110). Folio, 286 x 202 mm, bound in contemporary Venetian calf over wooden boards paneled and tooled in blind using a large floral arabesque roll and a smaller interior roll of cords framing a central Islamic-style motif of five knotted lozenges; spine with raised bands separating four compartments blind-tooled in a lattice pattern with pointelle decoration, later paper label; three of four clasps partially intact on front board (traces of four clasps, now lost, on rear board). Venice: Nicolas Jenson, 1475. Second Venetian edition of Saint Augustine's City of God, a foundational text of European culture, and a typographical masterpiece from the press of Nicolas Jenson. This copy survives in a contemporary fifteenth-century Venetian binding with Islamic motifs incorporated into the tooled decoration. Augustine's De Civitate Dei appeared in print for the first time in 1467 at Subiaco, printed by Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz. The first Venetian edition of the City of God was printed by Johannes and Vindelinus de Spira in 1470. This second Venetian edition is the only edition of Augustine issued by French printer Nicolas Jenson (1420-1480), the second printer in Venice, whose publications numbered over 100 works and equaled the best, and often surpassed, all Venetian fifteenth-century printed books in beauty and importance. Jenson's types, the often-magnificent impressions, and the mise-en-page of his books, are considered milestones in the history of printing; his very name is synonymous with excellence. Along with his Pliny of 1472 and his Plutarch's Lives of 1478, the City of God is one of Jenson's most beautiful works. The present text is buttressed by wide margins, and entirely rubricated by hand in red and blue. A seminal Christian text, Augustine's City of God had considerable influence not only on Medieval but also Renaissance thought. Augustine has been called "the first medieval man and the last classical man" (Thomas Cahill, How the Irish Saved Civilization, chapter 2). Martin Luther, John Calvin, Thomas Aquinas, Emperor Charlemagne, Voltaire, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and many other theologians and philosophers were inspired by this work. Like the Bible, the City of God has been a major topic of debate for theologians, historians, politicians, and philosophers throughout the ages. The binding is a refined and elegant example of Italian craftsmanship ca. 1450-1480, incorporating Islamic elements derived from textiles, leathers, and possibly Islamic bindings by way of trade routes between Venice and the Near East in the mid-fifteenth century. Scholar Anthony Hobson suggests that Jenson was the first to introduce the Islamic style of binding in Venice (Humanists and Bookbinders, p. 51). A beautiful example of a Jenson incunable in a contemporary Islamic-style Italian binding, this is an exceptional copy of an essential Christian text. Three text leaves trimmed short and with red edges, probably supplied from another copy; internal blank (f. 16) with very light offsetting, indicating it may have also been supplied. Leaves of one quire (i) bound out of order, and some staining, still a bibliophile's treasure. PROVENANCE: Giovanni Battista Contarini, with his donation inscription to a Venetian seminary dated 1 January 1583 on second leaf; Shakespeare collector Doctor John Gott, Bishop of Truro (1830-1906), with his ownership inscription dated 1865 at Rome on front pastedown; Henry H. Runnell, his ownership signature on last leaf; Abel E. Berland, his sale Christie's New York, October 2001. Early ink marginalia throughout, and eighteenth-century equations on rear pastedown. BMC V, 175 (imperfect). Goff A-1235. GW 2879. HC* 2051. IGI 972. ISTC ia01235000. Polain 360. Pellechet 1550 ([310] ff.). Proctor 4096.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. ff. 290, [vi]: A-X , a-z [et]², 2A-2X , ²2A-2H , last blank. Black letter in various sizes. Title within charming woodcut border (McKerrow & Fergusson 17), white on black woodcut initial, marginal annotations in an early hand, "Joh: Ravens pretium 6d." on title page, 'The Library of Montague House on ff-ep verso, 'John Burns, August 1916' below, bookplate of H Bradley martin on pastedown, and Fox Pointe Collection opposite. Light age yellowing, t-p fractionally dusty, blank upper corners restored on first and last few leaves, the rare marginal mark or spot. A fine copy crisp and clean in handsome brown morocco antique circa 1900 by Zaehensdorf, covers blind worked to a panel design with alternate blind scrolls at centers, spine with raised bands, ruled in compartments with blind tooling, a.e.g. Exceptionally rare first edition of this most important late work by Saint Thomas More in defence of his own actions and those of the clergy in general; a reply to Christopher Saint German's 'A treatise concernynge the division betwene the spirytualtie and temporaltie.' in which the author argued for the supremacy of the King and for the drastic limiting of church power. In religious matters Saint-German was a moderate reformer. In 1532 he issued, anonymously, his 'Diuision' which lays the blame for the troubles and divide in the country on the clergy. It is said to have been commended to Sir Thomas More for its moderation, in contrast to his own intemperance of language. Early in 1533 More made a vigorous attack upon it in this 'Apology,' referring to the author as 'the pacifier.' This provoked a reply from Saint-German entitled 'A Dialogue betwixte two Englishmen, whereof one was called Salem and the other Bizance', and More retorted in the same year with his 'Debellacyon of Salem and Bizance,' which ended the controversy. "By the early sixteenth century the rival claims of canon and common law had been a vexed question in England at least since the time of Thomas Becket. But to what had once been a simple struggle for power between the king and Church, there was added during the reign of Henry VIII a combination of two factors which considerably increased the complexity and the importance of this question, namely, the Protestant Revolt and Henry's desire to obtain a divorce from his wife, Catherine of Aragon. Saint-German was a prominent London lawyer whose services were occasionally employed 'by Henry VIII and 'Cromwell, but his desire for anonymity he never signed any of his works has blotted out much of his public career . The 'Diuisions' two main points are that strife exists between the laity and the clergy and that this strife is owing to the pride and avarice of the latter. An interesting feature of the work, for which it was first drawn to More's attention, is that that these contentions were made in what appears to be a very mild and impartial spirit. Looking more broadly at this controversy, we find that by the time More came to write against Saint-German he had previously championed the cause of the Church against Luther, Burgenhagen, Tyndale, Barnes, Fish, and Frith his main concern had become the extirpation of heresy in England. It seems that anything which worked towards this end he regarded as right, and anything which would not bring about this result he rejected as useless. For instance, his defence of 'ex officio' trials is put on a very practical basis indeed-if we did not have them says More we would have to release the reformer John Frith, who is now a prisoner in the Tower. In the same passage he defends imprisonment without charge by saying that if this could be done, and if accused persons were released on bond, heretics would never keep their bond but would escape (Apologye, pp. 100-101) . If this seems harsh, it must be remembered his youth had premised the earthly happiness of his Utopians on discipline and order, in his later years saw the good order of Catholic England.

A remarkable fragment, the only portion of the original manuscript of Missionary Travels known to remain in private hands. We understand that all other manuscript material is held in the John Murray Archive at the National Library of Scotland. Together with an autograph letter signed from Livingstone's sister, sending the manuscript fragment, and a copy of the first edition. The holograph manuscript is on blue laid paper watermarked "Thomas James", possibly a correction or revision slip, measuring 152 x 197 mm, and reads in full: "12th May. As we were about to start this morning the commandant Sr. Arsenio provided bread and meat most bountifully for my use in the way to the nearest station, and sent too militia soldiers as guides instead of our Cassange corporal who left us here. About midday we asked for shelter from the sun at the house of Senhor Mellot at Zangu and though I was unable to sit and engage in [.]" This 15-line section is published on page 383 of the first edition. The National Library of Scotland confirms that among the papers used in the original manuscript is blue paper watermarked "Thomas James". On 12 January 1892, the manuscript was sent by Livingstone's sister Janet (1818-1895) to "my dear Mrs Metzler", with an accompanying 2-page autograph letter signed, addressed from Castle Lodge, Kendal, discussing her health and her meeting with Mrs Metzler at the popular Scottish watering-place of Wemyss Bay. "The bit of manuscript enclosed, for your dear boy, was written by Dr. Livingstone in 1857 for his first book 'Missionary Travels'". A full transcript of the letter is available on request. The recipient of Janet's letter may be a relative of the German missionary Peter Martin Metzler (1824-1907); if this is the case then Mrs Metzler is probably the wife of one of his four sons. Metzler worked mainly in the Middle East, with a brief sojourn in East Africa in 1851. While in Mombasa he fell seriously ill and by the end of the year had returned to Germany. (This item emerged in Germany.) The book itself is a first edition, corresponding to SABIB's variant 7. The frontispiece and plates facing pages 66 and 225 are woodcuts by Whymper and the extra leaf numbered 8* and 8+ is present, corresponding with Bradlow's variant 3. As many as 11 variants of the first edition are known and a reliable order of precedence has never been established. It is now accepted that "the only thing that can be said with certainty is that the issue with the extra leaf numbered 8* and 8+ is not the first issue" (Bradlow). The extra leaf contains information on Moffat's mission at Kuruman and on Livingstone's marriage and the upbringing of his children, and Bradlow could only speculate as to the reasons for the interpolation: "Why did Livingstone decide to have the extra leaf after page 8 inserted? Did he feel that he had neglected his wife by not mentioning her in this way in the first place? All these questions and a host of others will occur to trained bibliographers and it may well be, that, in the future, some indefatigable researcher will find the answers." Missionary Travels is one of the emblematic accounts of African exploration in the 19th century and the foundation of the Livingstone legend. It describes the first of his three major expeditions, "in which he followed the Zambezi, discovering Victoria Falls in the process, as well as the Shire and Ruyuma rivers, ranging from Angola in the west to Mozambique in the east. During these years he explored vast regions of central Africa, many of which had never been seen by white men before" (PMM). It was also "an instant commercial success. The initial print run of 12,000 copies sold out through pre-publication subscriptions, while second (8,000 copies) and third (11,000 copies) printings followed quickly on its heels. Later printings reportedly brought the sales total to 70,000 for the first two years. Such figures were almost unprecedented for a work of exploration and ensured Livingstone's place alongside earlier celebrated British explorers like James Bruce and Mungo Park" (website livingstoneonline). Abbey Travel 347; Bradlow, "The Variants of the 1857 edition " in Lloyd (ed.), Livingstone 1873-1973; Howgego IV L39; Mendelssohn I p. 908; Printing and the Mind of Man 341; SABIB III p. 136. Octavo. Original reddish-brown sand-grain cloth, title gilt to the spine, blind panels to spine and boards, brown coated endpapers, binder's ticket (Edmonds & Remnants) to rear pastedown. Housed in a dark brown quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Folding wood-engraved frontispiece, steel-engraved portrait of Livingstone by William Holl after Henry Phillips (with tissue-guard), 22 further wood-engraved plates, folding geological cross section, 2 folding maps, of which one in end-pocket, wood-engravings to the text. Contemporary bookseller's ticket of Ginder of Canterbury to front pastedown. Spine gently sunned, a little wear to extremities, professional repair to inner hinges, customary scattered foxing. A very good, bright copy, with the 8 pages of publisher's advertisements dated 1 November 1857 to rear.

Rare late 19th century folio album containing an extensive collection of Presidential autographs, letters, carte-de-visites, and portraits in addition to those of each Cabinet. Folio, bound in three quarter morocco with five raised bands and gilt titles to the spine. The album contains: a clipped signature of President George Washington with a four-page letter of provenance dated July 13 1948, several portraits of him including two rare carte-de-visites as well as a carte-de-visite of Martha Washington; and autograph letter signed by John Adams as President to Benjamin Lincoln, Quincy, July 23, 1799; a clipped document signed by Thomas Jefferson as President and James Madison as Secretary of State with numerous portraits of each; a trimmed ship's passport signed by James Monroe; clipped signatures of Andrew Jackson and Martin van Buren; autograph letter signed by William Henry Harrison, North Bend, March 4, 1840; clipped signature of James Tyler; clipped document signed by James H. Polk as President and countersigned by James Buchanan as Secretary of State with the Presidential Seal intact; a card signed by Zachary Taylor and members of his cabinet; slipped signature of Millard Fillmore; autograph letter signed by James Buchanan; clipped signature of Franklin Pierce; clipped signatures of Abraham Lincoln, William Seward, and Andrew Johnson; clipped signature of Ulysses S. Gran with numerous portraits of him including a rare carte-de-visite; clipped signature and autograph not signed by Rutherford B. Hayes, March 21, 1892; autograph note signed by James Garfield, Menton, Ohio June 22, 1880; signature card of Chester A. Arthur dated November 15, 1881; an autograph letter signed by Grover Cleveland on White House stationery, dated September 1, 1887; a card signed by Benjamin Harrison; a signature card signed by Grover Cleveland; and a letter signed by William McKinley, 27 February 1892. The Presidential autographs and portraits are followed by extensive section of cabinet officials including: a clipped signature of Alexander Hamilton as Secretary of the Treasury; an autograph letter signed by Albert Gallatin; clipped signatures of Aaron Burr, John Armstrong, John Calhoun, and Henry Clay; autograph note signed by Daniel Webster; card signed by James Polk, James Buchanan and other members of his cabinet; autograph letter signed by Edward Everett; autograph note signed by Jefferson Davis and other members of the Confederacy including Howell Cobb and James Thompson; autograph note signed by William H. Seward, dated 1855; and a note signed by Gideon Welles on Navy Department stationery in addition to dozens of other notable American public figures including cabinet officials and Vice-Presidents. In very good condition. An exceptional rarity.

Elaborately bound collection of Presidential autographs, containing the autograph of each of the first 34 Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Quarto, bound in full red morocco by Riviere & Son with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt presidential seal to the front panel with white and blue morocco onlays, gilt arms and motto of George Washington to the rear panel with white and blue morocco onlays and his gilt signature in facsimile, centerpieces within quintuple gilt ruling with star emblems at each corner, blue morocco doublures with multiple gilt presidential signatures, blue silk endpapers. This complete series of autographs of the first 34 Presidents of the United States contains the signature of each mounted on an album leaf opposite a loosely tissue-guarded engraved portrait of each. The collection includes: the signature of George Washington on an envelope addressed to Major General Knox as Secretary ofÂtheÂSocietyÂofÂthe Cincinnati, November 3, 1783; a clipped signature of John Adams; clipped signature of Thomas Jefferson; the signature of James Madison on an envelope addressed to Reverend Frederick Freeman of Manayunk, Pennsylvania; and inscription signed by James Monroe; the signature of John Quincy Adams on an envelope addressed to William Plumer jun. Esq. in Epping, New Hampshire; a partially printed land grant signed by Andrew Jackson dated 1831 registeringÂtheÂpurchaseÂof 20 acres in Detroit by Peter Aldrich; clipped signature of Martin Van Buren; clipped signature of William Henry Harrison; signed inscription from John Tyler; signed inscription from James Polk; clipped signature of Zachary Taylor dated Baton Rouge, March 5, 1841; clipped signature of Millard Fillmore; clipped signature of Franklin Pierce; clipped signature of James Buchanan on a document dated July 18, 1858; clipped signature of Abraham Lincoln; endorsement signed by Andrew Johnson as President; clipped signature of Ulysses S. Grant; card signed by Rutherford B. Hayes; inscription signed by James Garfield; large card signed by Chester A. Arthur and dated May 22, 1884; autograph noted signed by Grover Cleveland declining an invitation, dated November 16, 1890; an Executive Mansion card signed by William McKinely; clipped signature of Theodore Roosevelt; clipped signature of William Howard Taft; clipped signature of Woodrow Wilson; typed letter signed by Warren G. Harding as President, dated June 4, 1923 on White House letterhead; card signed by Calvin Coolidge; White House card signed by Herbert Hoover; typed letter signed by Franklin D. Roosevelt as Assistant SecretaryÂofÂthe Navy, February 15, 1917. Laid in is a typed letter signed by Harry S. Truman as President, June 30, 1950, on White House stationery and a typed letter signed by Dwight Eisenhower. TLS as President, November 13, 1956, on White House stationery. In fine condition.ÂHoused in a custom folding chemise and half morocco slipcase. An exceptional collection and presentation. Note_.

From the inventory of the Van Keulen family of cartographers 2 works in one volume. Oblong 4to., (250 by 275mm). 2 letterpress sectional title-pages, additional allegorical title-page with magnificent contemporary hand-colour in full, heightened with gold, a total of 180 engraved maps with contemporary hand-colour in outline, contemporary blind-paneled vellum over paste-board, title in manuscript on the spine. Collation: [-](4), A-I(4), K-T(4); V(4), X-Z(4), 2A-I(4), 2K-T(4), 2V(4), 2X-Z(4), 3A-I(4), 3K-T(4), 3V(4), 3X-Z(4), 4A-I(4), 4K(4)-Q(4); [4] pages, [1]-676; 'Appendix' a-f(4);[1-3], 4-[48] First edition of Cloppenburg's version of the miniature Mercator-Hondius atlas, with the 'Appendix', containing twenty-two maps. A finely coloured example, and rare as such, from the inventory of the Van Keulen family of cartographers. Including, as the last map in the 'Appendix', 'Nova Virginiae Tabula': the first reduced version of "the first and most important derivative of John Smith's map of Virginia" (Burden 193), first published in 1612. Smith's map had been reprinted by Jodocus Hondius between 1618 and 1629, and then when he died Blaeu purchased the plate and used the map in his'Atlantic Appendix', 1630, and afterwards in virtually every edition of his atlas. By 1630, there were a reduced number of choices for consumers wanting to buy a small format atlas: the Ortelius 'Epitome' was published only through the first decade of the seventeenth century, although there were Italian imitations; Bertius' 'Tabularum' was last published at the end of the second decade; and the Mercator-Hondius 'Atlas Minor', the copperplates of which had been sold outside the family and shipped to England where they were used by Samuel Purchas, were replaced by the Janssonius issue of 1628, with new and enlarged maps. As with Janssonius' issue, the plates for Coppenburg's edition were engraved by Petrus Kaerius, or Pieter van den Keere. They were slightly larger than these, but also modelled on the folio sized map from the original Mercator-Hondius atlas of 1606. Cloppenburg's atlas was short-lived, he managed to publish further editions of in Latin in 1632, and another in French in 1636, after which it is possible that it was in fact suppressed. Or, perhaps he just went out of business. The van Keulen family operated a chart-making and publishing firm in Amsterdam for nearly 200 years. It was founded by Johannes van Keulen(1676-1718)who registered his business as a "bookseller and cross-staff maker", and in 1680 obtained a privilege from the States General of Holland and West Friesland allowing him to print and publish maritime atlases and shipping guides. This privilege, which protected against the illegal copying of printed material, was especially important for the cartographer's atlases, which were produced with extensive initial costs. Van Keulen named his firm 'In de Gekroonde Lootsman' (In the Crowned Pilot), and began collaborating with cartographers Claes Janz Vooght and Johannes van Luyken. The firm would go on to become one of the most successful publishing firms in Amsterdam; and produce "the largest and finest marine atlases in Holland" (Koeman). Van Keulen's first atlas was his 'Zee Atlas' with about 40 charts. "The culmination in the development of Dutch pilot books was reached with the publication of 'De Nieuwe Groote Lichtende Zee-Fackel' in 1681.The work was immediately recognized as superior to anything else on the market and enjoyed a considerable reputation for accuracy and detail' (Martin & Martin, 11). On the death of Joannes in 1704 the firm passed to his son, then his grandson, and on the death of Cornelis Buys van Keulen the name of the firm "was altered after much palaver into Gerard Hulsst van Keulen. The surviving son conducted the publishing business with more ambition than before. A considerable number of books appeared in the period 1778-1801. Greater activity was developed in the cartographic branch and new issues of the "Zee-Fakkel" again saw the light" (Koeman page IV 279). The Weduwe (ie Anna Hendrina Calkoen,Widow of)Gerard Hulstvan Keulen, was head of thefirm between 1801 and 1810, and the company continued to publish under her imprint until 1885, although by then the firm was being operated by the descendants of employeeJacob Swart Boonen. One of these was Gerrit Dirk Bom, who published a history and bibliography of the firm, 'Bijdragen tot eene geschiedenis van het geslacht - Van Keulen - als Boekhandelaars, Uitgevers, Kaart - en Instrumentmakers in Nederland; eene Biblio-cartographische Studiein', Amsterdam: H.G. Bom, 1885, in the hopes of finding a buyer for the company. However, the possessions of the firm were sold at auction in 1885, bringing 200 years of "DeGekroonde Lootsman" to an end. Much of what was offered was purchased by theAmsterdam antiquarian book and map-seller FredrikMuller & Co., who (according to the Library of Congress), sold the items individually at public sales in 1887. Rare: no examples of this atlas with contemporary hand-colour have appeared at auction in current records; uncoloured examples of this edition are found at: Yale University Library; Indiana University; State Library of Victoria; Bibliothèque Nationale de France; Zeeuwse Bibliotheek Middelburg; University of Amsterdam; Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire - Université de Fribourg; and the Universidad de Salamanca. Provenance: 1. Contemporary ownership inscription of 'B.o D Zirbor' (ie Biblioteque D Zirbor), on the first section title-page 2. Inscribed by Frederik Muller upper right-hand corner of the front free endpaper: "971 V.K. from van Keulen's Library Amsterdam" Koeman, C. Atlantes Neerlandici, cop. 1967-1971, V. II, cat. Me 29 A -cat Me 29B (p.339-343); see Tiele, P.A. 'Nederlandsche bibliographie van land- en volkenkunde'. 1884. p. 168.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Two volumes. Second state of portrait as usual. Two volumes. Second state of portrait as almost always. Contemporary calf rebacked at an early date, endpapers replaced. Some browning and rubbing. A very good set. FIRST EDITION. This is a handsome set of Teerink s A edition, the true first edition. As Sir William Temple s secretary at Moor Park, the young Swift had access to many travel accounts in Temple s library. A frequent reader of such books during his formative years, Swift began working in 1714 on his own fictional account of the travels of Martin Scriblerus. The success of Robinson Crusoe (1719) helped spur on the writing of the book, a satire not only of travel narratives but of many aspects of eighteenth-century life including politics, science, commerce, and society. By the 1720s that work had become Gulliver s Travels. In March 1726 Swift came to England for the first time since 1714, bringing the manuscript of Gulliver s Travels. To preserve his anonymity, Swift dealt with Motte by post and through intermediaries. It has always been assumed that political prudence was the main reason for Swift s so carefully preserving the secret of his authorship. Certainly Swift enjoyed the thought (whether real or illusion) of writing dangerously (Lock, The Text of Gulliver s Travels ). The author returned to Dublin even before the parcel had been delivered to the publisher. Although it was rumored that Swift was the author, he maintained the fiction that he knew nothing of the authorship in his conversation and correspondence. Motte hurried the book into print, using five printers who took different sections of the text. The initial printing (Teerink A) sold out within one week, and two additional editions (AA and B) soon followed. Gulliver s Travels was an immediate success, and the book has remained one of the enduring classics of English literature. John Gay wrote that from the highest to the lowest it is universally read, from the Cabinet Council to the Nursery. The influence of Gulliver s Travels has been vast. The terms Lilliputian, Brobdingnagian, and Yahoo have entered the language. The book inspired countless sequels, adaptations, parodies, and imitations worldwide in print, comics, cartoons, television, stage, and film. The wildly imaginative book became a source of inspiration for authors from Voltaire to Orwell, and it is one of the few works of fiction of its time that is still widely read for pleasure. Teerink 28 (A edition). Rothschild 2104-6. Printing and the Mind of Man 289. Grolier/English 42.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. [HISTORIC PROVENANCE] FIRST EDITION thus. 4to. 3 parts in one volume. 72 unnumbered leaves. A-C , [a] , b-u , ²a-b . [C4, v3, v4 and ²b4 are blank; wanting blanks C4, v4] Titles to parts 2 ('Assertio septem sacramentorum aduersus Martin. Lutherum' [a]1r), and 3 ('Epistola regia'; 2a1r) within a fine historiated woodcut border signed HH and copied from Hans Holbein's (McKerrow & Ferguson 8), general title (A1r) and pages C1r, and C3v within a fine historiated woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 11), B4r within woodcut border (McKerrow and Ferguson 7), seven beautiful white-on-black criblé woodcut initials (with dragons and unicorns etc.) "Part 2 is a reissue of STC 13078. Parts 1 and 3 have no colophon. In part 1 (STC 21307a is part of this) the bull naming Henry 'fidei defensor' is dated 5 id Oct. 1521, so this part was printed sometime later. Part 3 (Epistola regia) was apparently not written until March 1522, and it seems possible that parts 1 and 2 were made available before part 3 was printed" STC. Library stamp of Hatfield House on t-p., gilt morocco armorial label of Lloyd Tyrell-Kenyon, fifth Baron Kenyon (19171993) on pastedown, Louis H. Silver's (19021963) label below, Charles Caldwell Ryrie below. Very light dust soiling to outer margin of first t-p. A fine copy, absolutely crisp and clean, on fine thick paper, in modern crushed morocco by J. P. Gray, Cambridge, spine with blind ruled raised bands, gilt lettered direct in compartments, edges gilt ruled, turn ins gilt ruled. A stunning copy of this important and extremely rare collection of works by Henry VIII, published to coincide with announcement of his gaining the title 'Fidei Defensor' from the Pope. Henry's 'Defense of the Seven Sacraments' against the challenge of Martin Luther was "one of the most successful pieces of Catholic polemics produced by the first generation of anti-Protestant writers," Scarisbrick, 'Henry VIII', going through some twenty editions in the sixteenth century, and, as early as 1522, had appeared in two different German translations. One of Luther's many pronouncements was that there were only two sacraments rather than the traditional seven. The 'Defence' was written by Henry probably with the assistance of Thomas More. The extent of More's involvement with this project has been a point of contention since its publication. The work was also included in John Fisher's works indicating he might also have had a hand in its production. Henry started to write in 1519 while he was reading Martin Luther's attack on indulgences. By June of that year, he had shown it to Thomas Wolsey, but it remained private until three years later, when the earlier manuscript became the first two chapters of the Assertio, the rest consisting of new material relating to Luther's De Captivitate Babylonica. It was dedicated to Pope Leo X, who rewarded Henry with the title Fidei Defensor (Defender of the Faith) in October 1521, a title revoked following the king's break with the Catholic Church in the 1530s, but re-awarded to his heir by the English Parliament, and still used by the present monarchy. "'The Babylonian Captivity of the Church' was published by Melchiot Lotther in Wittenberg on October 6, 1520. Of the three great Reformation treatises which Luther produced in 1520-1521, it is, in the exactest sense of the word, the most devastating for the church, not only in its sustained and profoundly serious criticism of the sacraments, above all that of the mass and its abuse, but as well for the fact that it 'also raised the fundamental question of authority in the church'. In Worms, slightly over four months later, the papal nuncio Aleander knew that the young Henry VIII of England "intended to write a book on Luther's errors". His motives, to be sure, were by no means exclusively or even primarily theological, for "ever since the beginning of his reign he had hankered after a resounding title"; a defence of the sacraments.

Oblong folio. (8 3/4 x 10 7/8 inches). 20 hand-colored engravings, including title and section title, and 18 views. The general title and Mendenhall plate are second issue, the title with a letterpress copyright note on verso and Mendenhall with its spelling corrected. Publisher's wrappers with letterpress paper title-label on the upper wrapper with plain rear wrapper. Housed within a cloth chemise and quarter morocco slipcase Provenance: Bookplate of Jay Snider. Martin P. Snyder, bibliographer. The Snyder-Snider copy in original wrappers of one of the earliest and rarest American color-plate books, and the first on American scenery. "Birch's skill as a miniaturist is demonstrated in his charming book." - Reese Country Seats, Birch's second book published in America, principally depicts views near Philadelphia (13), but also shows estates in Virginia, including Mount Vernon; New York; New Jersey; Maryland; and Louisiana. Birch and his sons, Thomas and George, collaborated on the work, combining line and stipple engraving with delicate coloring to rich effect. Country Seats was conceived to be primarily decorative, a handsome series of views aimed at an audience who might possess country estates themselves. This kind of luxury viewbook, a genre of immense popularity in England and Europe, never really took hold in the United States. Americans preferred to buy individual views and prints which were produced in huge numbers, but not expensive books. [Reese] Snyder similarly argues that while Birch's Philadelphia Views was inspired by a burst of civic pride and enthusiasm, Country Seats was much more a work born of Birch's individual background and ambitions. It was the product of a desire to raise the prevailing levels of taste in homes and to identify himself with the wealthy life externally portrayed in his pictures. [Snyder] First issued in four parts for a limited number of subscribers, the work met with little commercial success. Birch nonetheless proceeded to put his work into book form. After the issue to subscribers was complete, he reissued the plates as one volume in 1809 in a trade edition. Very few copies survive. List of Plates: 1. The Capital at Washington. 2. The View from Springland. 3. Devon, in Pennsylvania, the Seat of Mr. Dallas. 4. Mount Sidney, Seat of General Barker, Pennsylvania. 5. Seat of Mr. Duplantier, near New Orleans. 6. Montibello, the Seat of General S. Smith, Maryland. 7. Woodlands, the Seat of Mr. W. Hamilton, Pennsylvania. 8. Sedgley, the Seat of Mr. William Crammond, Pennsylvania. 9. Hoboken in New Jersey, the Seat of Mr. John Stevens. 10. Hampton, the Seat of General Ridgley, Maryland. 11. Lansdown, the Seat of the Late Wm. Bingham, Pennsylvania. 12. Echo, Pennsylvania, Belonging to Mr. Bavarage. 13. Mt. Vernon the Seat of General Washington. 14. Fountain Green, the Seat of Mr. S. Meeker, Pennsylvania. 15. Solitude, in Pennsylvania, Belonging to Mr. Penn. 16. Belmont, the Seat of Judge Peters, Pennsylvania. 17. York-Island, with a View of the Seats of Mr. A. Gracie, Mr. Church, etc. 18. Mendenhall Ferry, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania. 19. China Retreat, Pennsylvania, Seat of Mr. Manigault. 20. Elysian Bower, Springland, Pa. Howes B460c. Reese, Stamped with a National Character 2. Sabin 5531. Snyder, "William Birch: His Country Seats of the United States," in Pennsylvania Magazine, Vol.81, No.3.

Zustand: Near Fine. A remarkable collection of 235 H.P. Lovecraft items with over 200 rare amateur press appearances dating as early as 1914 and nearly 20 miscellaneous appearance by Lovecraft or directly relating to his writing. While a couple items are bound in boards, the rest are bound in stapled or sewn wrappers, nearly all with the tiny book label of Black Sparrow Press founder John K. Martin on the rear pastedown or wrap. Overall near fine with exceptions noted in the detailed list.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Pablo Picasso (illustrator). This beautiful work with illustrations by Pablo Picasso is Honore de Balzac's Le Chef-dâ oeuvre inconnu or The Unknown Masterpiece. The work was published in Paris by Ambroise Vollard in 1931. This was one of 65 copies with the suite of etchings printed on vellum of Rives. Only 340 of the work published of which this is numbered I.The work features 20 reproduced illustrations of drawings by Pablo Picasso between 1924 and 1926, there are 67 woodcuts by Aubert after Picasso's drawings, and 13 original etchings from Picasso at the request of Ambroise Vollard to illustrate this work. The work is signed by Picasso on the receipt / justification. Balzac wrote the story exploring the conception of art, the artist, and the relationships between painter and their models.Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) is one of the most influential artists of the 20th century and co-founded the Cubist movement. He was a Spanish born painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet, and playwright that worked predominantly in France. While he didn't like to work on spec or commission, he did take on illustrating literature of authors he admired. John Golding wrote of Picasso that he was â attracted to art that had a literary flavor,â and â preferred the company of writers, particularly poets, to that of other painters and sculptors.â (The Independent) His work illustrating for Balzac inspired the creation of perhaps his most famous work, the anti-war canvas Guernica.Honorà de Balzac (1799-1850) was a French novelist, playwright, literary critic, art critic, essayist, journalist and printer. He was one of the masters of the French novel. He explored the fantastic, philosophical, poetic, and realist genres. Le Chef-dâ oeuvre inconnu or The Unknown Masterpiece was written about an artist ahead of his time that destroys his secret art when two young painters discover it and think the artist has gone insane. Picasso, writes Thomas Ganzevoort, â had faced something of the same dumbfounded reaction from fellow artists upon showing them his groundbreaking proto-Cubist masterpiece Les Demoiselles dâ Avignon.â --- The work is in very good to excellent condition overall. The work is in a Jansenist binding by P. L. Martin with full brown morocco under a brown half morocco folder and slipcase. The spine is smooth with the title in gilt letters on the spine of the volume and folder. The lining and endpapers are in light beige suide with gilt edges. The cover in Montval laid paper with the title and vignette in black. There may be a few minor imperfections to be expected with age. Please review the image carefully for condition and contact us with any questions. --- Paper Size ~ 9 1/2" by 12 3/4". Signed by Author.

Large 8vo. (234 x 168 mm). [102 leaves; pp. 203]. Title, leaf with explanation, verso and following leaves with contents, leaf with title in red and sonnet 'Bright star!' verso and Keats' verse, two leaves with 'Table of Years', final leaf with colophon recto. Printed text in red and black throughout, sheet size: 230 x 162 mm. Full scarlet crushed morocco by Frieda Thiersch with her signature gilt, boards with double gilt rules, banded spine with elaborate tooled decoration with title 'KEATS / 1815 - 1820' and dated 'MCMXIV' in six compartments, large turn-ins with gilt tools and rules to surround vellum doublures, board edges ruled in gilt, morocco-edged wool-lined marbled board slipcase. [PROVENANCE: From the collection of scholar and bibliophile Dr. Ernst Kyriss (1881 - 1974), with his discreet oval stamp to front free endpaper; Achilles Foundation, the collection of Edith and Barbara Achilles]. A very scarce copy of the vellum issue of the Doves Press' Keats in a highly accomplished binding of red morocco by Frieda Thiersch. From the edition limited to 212 copies, with this one of 12 examples printed on vellum. Apprenticed to the binder Charles McLeish who described her as the 'most skillful pupil we ever had . equal to any professional', Frieda Thiersch (1889 - 1947) was a prodigy: a highly talented, innovative and controversial binder. The daughter of a distinguished Munich-based architect, Frieda had a privileged upbringing before her seduction by her music master Ludwig Hess for a bet; the ensuing pregnancy caused her banishment to France for the birth of her child to avoid scandal. After the birth she was sent to London where she undertook an apprenticeship at McLeish & Sons that led to their endorsement and laid the foundations for her future as a binder. Thiersch clearly absorbed, along with the binding skills and knowledge of the McLeishs, the influence of the Doves Bindery: Charles McLeish Sr. had worked with Cobden-Sanderson from 1893 until the establishment of his own bindery in 1909. The austere but beautiful work with the emphasis on simple clarity with a highly restrained decor became a feature of Thiersch's own work and the signature of the many bindings designed by her and issued by the Bremer Press - she worked as the principal designer and her atelier was the principal bindery for the press - before the worsening economic situation in the late 1920s / early 1930s caused the press to close. Throughout the time she worked with the Bremer Press, Thiersch took commissions in her own right as the present binding, signed with her full name as opposed to her initials (when produced by an assistant) and likely produced in the late 1920s, attests. Thiersch exhibited her work internationally and showed books at the First Edition Club in London in 1929 (it is tempting to think that this binding was shown there), the World Exhibition in Barcelona in the same year, the Milan Triennale in 1930, 1933 and 1936 where she was awarded a gold medal and the Paris World Exhibition in 1937 where she was awarded another gold medal. Later in the 1930s Thiersch became associated with the German political establishment and undertook government contracts for the Nazis. Although she did execute personal commissions for, among others, Hitler, her own political views have never been established. The destruction of her archive and personal collection in a bombing raid in 1944, her death from lung cancer in 1947 and the confusion of the Second World War itself have ensured that both an aura of mystery has surrounded her work while adhering a considerable bibliophile cachet to it. Although Thiersch's bindings for the Bremer Presse are prized, even more so are the bindings that she undertook on commission. We can trace few of these, but notable examples are the luxusausgabe of 'Das Graphische Werk Max Pechsteins' (1921), Johanne Auerbach's 'Summa de Auditione Confessionis et de Sacramentis' (the second or third book printed in Augsburg probably in 1469 or 1470), Georg Martin Richter's unique copy of Thomas Mann's 'Walsengenblut' (1921) and Franz Liszt's copy of the first edition of Baudelaire's 'Les Paradis Artificiels' with a presentation from the author among others. [Tidcombe DP36; Tomkinson 58, 45].

4to, pp.[8], 410, wanting the terminal blank; with three woodcuts of Chinese characters on pp.92-3; three small wax stains (and one small hole) to title-page, small puncture to inner margin of first few gatherings, a little spotting and toning, withal an excellent copy in early limp vellum, yapp edges, morocco spine label; early purchase inscription to head of title (cropped), armorial bookplate of William Charles De Meuron Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, seventh Earl Fitzwilliam, numerous earlier shelfmarks.First edition in English, rare, of the first significant European study of China, 'one of the outstanding "best-sellers" of the sixteenth century' (Boxer). A publication of enormous influence on Elizabethan conceptions of China, it also contained much information on the Spanish Americas. The translation, by Robert Parke, was undertaken at the request and encouragement of Richard Hakluyt, appearing before the latter's Principal Navigations and was dedicated to the explorer Thomas Cavendish. The publisher John Wolfe had issued an edition in Italian under a false 'Venice' imprint in 1587, but this was the first time the work was accessible to a wider English audience. Mendoza had departed on a mission to China in 1580, but because of political instability in the Philippines he made it no further then Mexico, returning to Spain and then Rome in 1583, where he was commissioned to write this history, drawing upon information provided by missionaries in Mexico. La Historia de las Cosas más Notables, Ritos y Costumbres del Gran Reyno de China was first published in Rome in 1585 and then in an expanded edition in Madrid in 1586, which added the report by Antonio de Espejo of his 1583 expedition to New Mexico (pp.32340 here). When the latter was translated here, it was among the earliest accounts of Mexico and New Mexico to appear in English. The first part contains an account of the fifteen provinces of China and includes descriptions of printing, fishing, artillery, marriage customs and criminals. The second part is devoted to three expeditions: that of Martin de Rada, or de Harrada, to the Philippines in 1575, Pedro de Alfaro's journey in 1578, and that of Martin Ignacio de Loyola in 1581. The latter, which includes also the section derived from Espejo, describes Mexico, Cuba, Puerto Rica, Jamaica, Santo Domingo and the Canaries, and was a major source for Ortelius in compiling his atlas. The publication of the Historia 'may be taken to mark the date from which an adequate knowledge of China and its institutions was available for the learned world of Europe" (Hudson, p.242). 'Mendoza's clarity, his penetrating insights, and his lively style must also have contributed to its popularity. In fact, the authority of Mendoza's book was so great that it became the point of departure and the basis of comparison for all subsequent European works on China written before the eighteenth century' (Lach I.ii.p.744). 'It is probably no exaggeration to say that Mendoza's book had been read by the majority of well-educated Europeans at the beginning of the seventeenth-century. Its influence was naturally enormous, and it is not surprising to find that men like Francis Bacon and Sir Walter Raleigh derived their notions of China and the Chinese primarily, if not exclusively, from this work. Even travellers who, like Jan Huighen van Linschoten, had themselves been in Asia, relied mainly on Mendoza's Historia for their accounts of China " (Boxer). STC 12003; Alden 588/39; Church 134; Palau 105513; Cordier, Sinica 13; Sabin 27783 ('It is so rare that we have never seen it'). Language: English.