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Monday, April 23, 2012 at 10am

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Including Property From

Estate of a Titled Lady
Estate of Andrew Arkin
Estate of Berthold Regensteiner
Estate of Charlotte London
Estate of David K. Anderson, son of Martha Jackson
Estate of Delores D. Di Paola
Estate of Dr. Edward Scollin
Estate of Ernest Shapiro
Estate of Florence Thomases
Estate of Grace J. Ross
Estate of Helen S. Cooper and Herman E. Cooper
Estate of M. Michael Eisenberg
Estate of Max Wilk
Estates of M. Michael Eisenberg and Barbara Yetka-Eisenberg
Estates of Mary Stuart Krause and Bradley W. Krause, Quawksnest
Proceeds to benefit the Pollock-Krasner Hous
Property from the William Haber Collection
Property of a Washington, DC Collector
Property of Barbara Dempsey-Phillips
The Collection of John W. Fitzgerald
The Collection of Paige Rense Noland
The Creekmore and Adele Fath Charitable Foundation Collection
The Joanne Melniker Stern Collection
The Property of a New Jersey Collector
The property of Jonathan Hay

GROUP OF EARLY MANUSCRIPT LEAVES ACHIEVES $86,500 AT DOYLE NEW YORK'S APRIL 23, 2012 SALE OF RARE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND MAPS

First Octavo Edition of Audubon's 'Birds of America' Fetches $56,250

Sale Total Surpasses $1 Million Amid International Bidding

We Invite You to Contact Us for a Complimentary Auction Evaluation of Your Books, Autographs and Maps

On April 23, 2012, Doyle New York held an auction of Rare Books, Autographs and Photographs. Among the offerings were manuscripts and early printing, color plate, Americana, travel, sporting, literature, illustrations, artist books, fine bindings, private press, maps and atlases.

With competitive bidding from the salesroom, the telephones and the Internet, the sale totaled a strong $1,022,676, surpassing the pre-sale estimate of $531,400-785,600, with an exceptional 91% sold by lot and 98% sold by value.

Highlighting the sale was a group of manuscript leaves dating from the 8th through 16th centuries that achieved a stunning $86,500 from a European buyer. The group included a fine range of leaves from Carolingian and Ottonian manuscripts.

Early printing featured a first edition of Simon Kellwaye’s 1593 A defensatiue against the plague, London, that achieved $22,500, more than doubling its estimate of $8,000-10,000. A copy of The holy bull, and crusado of Rome, London, 1588, sold for $20,000, many times its estimate of $4,000-6,000.

Color plate books featured a first octavo edition of John James Audubon’s Birds of America that fetched $56,250 from a New York buyer. Published in Philadelphia 1840-1844, this set of seven volumes contained 500 finely hand-colored lithographic plates. Also offered was James Malton’s A picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin displayed in a series of the most interesting scenes taken in the year 1791, which sold for $28,125.

American literature offered The Writings of Mark Twain, New York, 1922-25, The Definitive Edition signed by the author as both Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain, in 37 volumes bound in morocco. Estimated at $8,000-10,000, the set fetched $17,920. Also featured was Herman Melville’s Moby Dick with illustrations by Rockwell Kent, 1930, estimated at $4,000-6,000, that sold for $8,125.

Property from the Estates of M. Michael Eisenberg and Barbara Yetka-Eisenberg included a first Russian edition of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland (Ania V Stranie Chudes), 1923, as translated by Vladimir Nabokov, that sold for $12,800, well over its estimate of $6,000-9,000.

The selection of autographs was highlighted by a letter signed by Marcel Proust, circa 1919, that achieved $16,640, more than tripling the estimate of $4,000-5,000. An archive of letters, photographs etc. belonging to John Martin (1893-1985), the eminent American dance critic, estimated at $1,000-2,000 fetched a surprising $13,750.

From the Collection of longtime Architectural Digest editor Paige Rense Noland was an autograph transcript of Louise Labe's 18th sonnet in Henri Matisse's hand, incorporating an elaborate engrossed capital B and drawing of a pair of lips. Estimated at $3,000-5,000, it fetched a strong $14,080. From the same Collection was a rare 1944 postcard signed by Norma Jeane, as the young Marilyn Monroe was known, that sold for $8,750, far surpassing its estimate of $1,000-1,500.

All prices include the buyer's premium.

NEXT RARE BOOKS, AUTOGRAPHS AND MAPS AUCTION: Fall 2012
Doyle New York's next auction of Rare Books, Autographs and Maps is scheduled for Fall 2012. Consignments are currently being accepted. We invite you to contact us for a complimentary auction evaluation. Our specialists are always available to discuss the sale of a single item or an entire collection. Please contact Edward Ripley-Duggan at 212-427-4141, ext 234, or Peter Costanzo at ext. 248, or email books@DoyleNewYork.com

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Lot 254
[MANUSCRIPTS-LEAVES]
A group of leaves or portions of leaves, dating from the late 8th to the 16th century, most extracted from bindings and now laid into mats. The collection includes a number of fine examples of Carolingian scripts. Included are approximately fifteen leaves, many extremely early, that are largely intact. As well, there are about twenty smaller fragments. Condition varies.
This collection includes a fine range of leaves from Carolingian and Ottonian manuscripts, and represents an unusual opportunity to acquire a palaeographical study collection with a significant number of examples of early scripts. A full set of images are available upon request. or may be viewed at

https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/69966310/1/Manuscripts?h=97d983

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Sold For $86,500

Lot 154
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES
The Birds of America. New York: Published by J.J. Audubon; Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, 1840-1844. First octavo edition. Seven volumes, later half green morocco over marbled boards, the spines in six compartments, two gilt lettered and four tooled and stamped with bird motifs, 5 raised bands. 10 x 6 1/2 inches (25.5 x 16 cm); Half-titles and lists of subscribers present in all volumes, 500 finely hand-colored lithographic plates after Audubon, printed and colored by J.T. Bowen, in text illustrations. Light spotting throughout, heaviest at preliminaries of vol. 1, 7 and tissue guards, a few plates lightly spotted but overall a very clean copy in both text and plates, spines evenly faded, minor shelfwear.
Provenance:
James Griffith Dearden (bookplates)
A very clean and pleasing set of the first octavo edition, noted by Reese as "the most extensive color plate book produced in America up to that time". This copy finely bound presumably for James Griffith Dearden, the Lord of the Manor of Rochdale and a onetime High Sheriff of Northamptonshire. The first octavo edition, expanded in both plate count and in the amount of species depicted, was the final Birds of America publication to be overseen by Audubon in his lifetime, and was designed to be available "at such a price, as would enable every student or lover of nature to place it in his library" (introduction). Bennett p. 5; Nissen IVB 51; Reese 34; Sabin 2364; McGill/Wood p.208; Ayer/Zimmer p. 22.

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Sold For $56,250

Lot 168
[COLOR PLATE]
MALTON, JAMES. A picturesque and descriptive view of the city of Dublin displayed in a series of the most interesting scenes taken in the year 1791. London: n.d., but after 1799, most likely 1820-25. Abbey Scenery distinguishes two editions by textual points; this example conforms to Abbey 474, the later form, though we find no watermarks; this was the first edition to be issued colored. 19th century three-quarters morocco, marbled boards, the boards (and perhaps the binding) very probably original, as the upper cover bears a printed label with the title, price (fifteen guineas) and (most importantly) the statement "coloured." 16 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches (42 x 55 cm); ii, 18 pp. text, with 24 text leaves, each with an engraved heraldic vignette in aquatint, accompanying each of the plates of Dublin (no text is present, or called for, with plate 16; plate 22 often does not have accompanying text, but it is present here). The plates consist of the colored frontispiece of the Arms of the City of Dublin, the engraved title and dedication, the large folding plan of Dublin by Faden, two plans in sepia, 25 hand-colored aquatint plates and the final plate of key panoramas. The plates are interleaved with tissues. The coloring is exceptionally fine. Binding quite rubbed but joints firm, front hinge separated; internally, some browning and toning as usual, one plate (18) separating along the top of the plate mark, another plate with a minor restoration on the verso.
The first edition of circa 1799 was uncolored (it was issued only in sepia), and Abbey states that colored copies of the present edition were not published until after the parts issue. The plates in this example have the "magnificent glow" that Abbey describes for authentic colored examples, the contemporaneity of the color being attested, at least in part, by the presence of the original publisher's label identifying it as a colored example. True colored copies are rare, and in this form are among the most desirable of color-plate books of Irish interest. The Faden plan does not occur in all copies. The last copy sold at auction was the Rosebery example (which the auction records incorrectly note as colored; it was in fact a sepia copy of the first edition). Abbey Scenery 474.

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Sold For $28,125

Lot 262
[ELIZABETHAN]
KELLWAYE, SIMON. A defensatiue against the plague: contayning two partes or treatises: the first, shewing the meanes how to preserue vs from the dangerous contagion thereof: the second, how to cure those that are infected therewith. Whereunto is annexed a short treatise of the small poxe shewing how to gouerne and helpe those that are infected therewith. London: Printed by Iohn Windet, dwelling neere Powles Wharfe at the signe of the Crossekeyes, 1593. First edition. Full modern tree calf by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. 7 1/8 x 5 inches (18 x 13 cm); 6], 48, [2] ff; correctly A^(4) [par.]^2 B-N^(4) O^(2), here the table on the final two leaves reversed and misbound between [par.] 1 and 2, but the work collates complete. The binding in fine condition, some minor browning and pale stains affecting a few leaves (mostly in the upper margin), but overall this is a fresh, unwashed copy internally.
An exceedingly rare work, remarkable on a number of fronts. It is likely the first printed systematic account in English on smallpox, and it also seems probable that the Defensative is the first account in English of the plague to consider the disease epdemiologically. It discusses physical causes, not merely ascribing the disease to a wrathful deity, and mentions (p. 1) likely causative agencies, including animal dispersal of the disease. Pigs (which did indeed harbor the disease), dogs, cats and weasels are suggested as probable vectors. In addition, the impact of overcrowding, burial yards and similar environmental conditions are taken into account.
Finally, it is worthy of note that the plague of 1592 closed London theatres. In consequence, Shakespeare, absent an audience, wrote Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece, which bought him recognition and rank among his greatest literary achievements.
We are aware of five copies in US institutions, but we know of no copies at auction since 1981. Durling 2655; STC (2nd ed.), 14917; ESTC S109245.

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Sold For $22,500

Lot 260
[ELIZABETHAN]
The holy bull, and crusado of Rome: first published by the holy father Gregory the xiii. and afterwards renewed and ratified by Sixtus the fift: for all those which desire full pardon and indulgence of their sinnes: and that for a litle money, to weete, for two Spanish realls, vz. thirteene pence. Very plainely set forth, and compared with the testimony of the holy scriptures, to the great benefite and profite of all good Christians. Together with a briefe declaration (set downe in the beginning) which was founde in the Armado of Spaine, of the prowde presumptio of the Spaniard: which through the instigation of the aforesaide bulle, hath taken in hand the setting forth of the inuincible army (as they terme it) out of Portingale, towards England, and the Lowe countries, in which army the saide bulle hath been founde, with other like things. Which armado is come to confusion... London: by Iohn Wolfe, dwelling in the stationers hall, 1588. Nineteenth century dark blue pebble-grained morocco, marbled endpapers. 7 1/8 x 5 inches (18.5 x 12.5 cm); 59, [1] pp.; A-G^(4) H^(2), the first signature misimposed or misfolded. Some minor stains, a rust hole just affecting one headline, with an amusing note in a contemporary hand against the supposed thirteen pence price of indulgences -"Hangman's wages"!
The account of the Armada notes that the fleet carried "Fifty thousand bunches of Andalosia Garlick," as well as "Hammes of Goates flesh, called in Spanish Cabricio." Page 7 has a number of verses or apothegms addressed against the Spanish. Though without discernible internal evidence, by provenance this is the Sir Thomas Phillips copy, last sold at auction to Edwards in 1974. We are unaware of any copy sold at auction since then. STC (2nd ed.), 12354; ESTC S112514.

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Sold For $20,000

Lot 400
CLEMENS, SAMUEL L. [=TWAIN, MARK]
The Writings of Mark Twain. New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922-25. The Definitive Edition signed by the author as both Samuel Clemens and Mark Twain, further signed by Twain biographer Albert Bigelow Paine, number 619 of 1000 copies. Thirty-seven volumes, three-quarters red moroco by MacDonald. 8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (22 x 15 cm); illustrated with plates. Joint of vol. I tender, one volume slightly faded, otherwise a fine set.
The signatures were prepared for an unissued limited edition prior to the author's death.

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Sold For $17,500

Lot 182
[SOUTH SEAS]
COOK, JAMES AND KING, JAMES [CAPTAINS]. A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean. Undertaken, by the Command of His Majesty, for Making Discoveries in the Northern Hemisphere. To Determine The Position and Extent of the West Side of North America; its Distance from Asia; and the Practicability of a Northern Passage to Europe. Performed under the Direction of Captains Cook, Clerke, and Gore, In His Majesty's Ships the Resolution and Discovery... London: Printed by W. and A. Strahan, for G. Nicol and T. Cadell, 1784. First edition, a presentation copy from the Bishop of Carlisle to Lord Lonsdale, the original presentation note mounted to the front free endpaper with sealing wax. Three volumes, contemporary tree calf (rebacked at a later date). 11 1/2 x 9 inches (29 x 23 cm). Volume I: title, verso blank, [6], xcvi, [421] pp. Volume II: title, verso blank, [10], 549 pp. Volume III: title, verso blank, [10], 558 pp., 1 p. ads. All the atlas plates are bound in (the plates cut down or folded to fit into the quarto volumes); they collate as per the plate list in volume I, with 87 plates in total between the three volumes, and are placed as the plate list indicates. In addition this copy is extra-illustrated with several interesting plates, most importantly (in the third volume) an uncolored example of the rare Henry Roberts Chart of the N.W Coast of America and the N.E. Coast of Asia, Explored in the Years 1778 and 1779. This is in the first state (i.e. not showing the full Aleutian chain of islands). Also included in the extra-illustration is the Death of Cook plate engraved by Bartolozzi, the Dance portrait of Cook, a portrait of King as the frontispiece of the third volume, etc. Further, grouped with the bound volumes are 36 unfolded loose atlas plates (all duplicates with impressions in the books). Rebacked as noted, some wear to the binding. Internally a fresh copy, the plates tipped to guards, some occasional toning to the plates but overall a very clean copy. The Faden imprint has been trimmed from the lower edge of the Roberts chart, otherwise this is a sound and attractive example, albeit folded. The separate loose plates are frayed and have soft creases and various other defects.
Copies of the first edition of Cook's third voyage with all the plates bound in are relatively uncommon, and this example has an interesting provenance. While the presentation sheet is not dated, it would appear (from the binding, which is clearly 18th century) that the recipient was the first Lord Londsdale, who died in 1784, enabling a precise date to be placed on the preparation of this copy: 1784, the year of publication.
The Roberts map was originally intended to be part of the published atlas, but it was never included (it was replaced in the Atlas by the Harmer chart, bound as indicated by the plate list into the second volume). It is often termed the so-called "Lost" chart; the plate passed immediately to the map publisher William Faden, but it seems that very few impressions were made at the time. It was reissued ten years later, substantially reengraved to reflect a better understanding of the geography of the region. This first issue incorporates portions of Samuel Hearne's discoveries, including the Coppermine River region, that had never previously appeared on a printed map. The presence in this volume of the published Harmer chart of the same region enables an interesting comparison. For Cook's Third Voyage, see Streeter 6:3478; Holmes 47; Mitchell Library 1543 etc. For the Roberts map, see Streeter 6:3479 (the first of the three versions of the chart listed); Campbell A Cook Mystery Solved in The Map Collector no. 32 (1985), p. 37.

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Lot 390
PROUST, MARCEL
Autograph letter signed, two pages, rectos only on a folded letter sheet. No place, no date [probably 1919], apparently to Gustave Kahn, though addressed only "Monsieur." 7 1/2 x 5 5/8 inches (19 x 15 cm). Folded, short splits on center fold, folds fragile, small loss to blank near top fold.
A letter of interesting content, reading in rough translation "I was deeply touched by the kind words which you expressed for the preface to the book by Jacques Blanche. Coming from a Master such as you they were very precious to me. I only read the Mercury yesterday as I have been seriously ill. The condition of my health makes it difficult for me to write. I wished however to thank you." The letter is signed "Marcel Proust."
Proust was a close friend of Blanche, who painted a fine portrait of him. The work mentioned in the letter is presumably Blanche's Propos de Peintre, 1919, the second part of which has a preface by Proust. Kahn wrote an appreciation of this in the Mercure de Francais, for which he was art critic, starting 1919.

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Sold For $16,250

Lot 203
MATISSE, HENRI
Autograph transcript of Louise Labe's eighteenth sonnet in Matisse's hand, incorporating an elaborate engrossed capital B and drawing of a pair of lips. 14 lines in all, framed with a signed postcard "H. Matisse" with a typed sentiment, and a decorative photograph of Matisse at work. Faint central creases to the sheet, where folded into an envelope, faint toning to edges; Together with a framed translation of the text of the sonnet.
Matisse presents one of the most beautiful and passionate sonnets of Labe, La Belle Cordiere (circa 1520-1566) very much in the manner in which he treated the verse in his edition of the Poemes of Charles, Duc D'Orleans (published 1950). This leaf appears to date from much the same period.
Provenance
Sotheby's, November 21, 1989, lot 317

C The Collection of Paige Rense Noland
Sold For $13,750

Lot 198
[DANCE]
Archive of letters, photographs etc. belonging to John Martin, the eminent American dance critic. Included are in excess of 1500 photographs (some by well known photographers, such as Andre Kertesz and George Platt Lynes); miscellaneous correspondence including letters from Leonard Kirstein, Ruth St. Denis, Martha Graham, Bronislava Nijinska, Rockwell Kent, Rudolf Laban etc; a presentation copy of a book by Martha Graham; art by Vicente Escudero (the flamenco artist and painter); a presentation album given to Martin on the occasion of his twenty-fifth year with the Times, inscribed by many leading figures in dance, including Jose Limon and Martha Graham; etc. Some images and artifacts worn and soiled, but an exceptionally interesting group.
John Martin (1893-1985) was the first major American critic of dance, joining the New York Times in 1927. He was a passionate and persuasive advocate for modern dance, an interest which is strongly reflected in this large archive.

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Sold For $13,750

Lot 327
CARROLL, LEWIS [=REV. C. L. DODGSON]
Ania V Stranie Chudes. Berlin: Izdatel'stov Gamayun, 1923. The first edition in Russian as translated by Vladimir Nabokov. Cloth backed publisher's boards, a modernist binding design by Zalushpin. 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 (22.5 x 16 cm); 116 pp. Slight staining to spine and a small portion of the rear board, light wear, but overall an attractive copy housed in a modern clamshell case.
The very rare first Nabokov edition (using the pseudonym V. Sirin), generally considered to be the best translation in that language.

C Estates of M. Michael Eisenberg and Barbara Yetka-Eisenberg
Sold For $12,500

Lot 256
[ELIZABETHAN]
A treatise of treasons against Q. Elizabeth, and the croune of England, diuided into two partes: whereof, the first parte answereth certaine treasons pretended, that neuer were intended: and the second, discouereth greater treasons committed, that are by few perceiued... [Louvain]: Imprinted [by J. Fowler], in the moneth of Ianuarie, and in the yeare of our Lord. M.D.LXXII. [1572]. Early calf, edges sprinkled red. 5 1/4 x 3 1/4 inches; [24], 174 ff. Old monogram on title page, but overall a very sound clean copy, with extensive and interesting notes on the front endpapers in the hand of a late 18th century antiquary (bookplate present but unidentified).
An important political work, and one with a strongly Catholic perspective, defending as it does Mary Queen of Scots and Thomas Duke of Norfolk.

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Sold For $11,875

Lot 109
[CIVIL WAR ERA PHOTOGRAPHY]
Group of approximately eighteen Civil War-era photographs. Mostly albumin prints on mounts, sizes vary. Includes three by Alexander Gardiner on Incidents of the War mounts, small format photographs depicting Fort Sumter, a photograph of the Capital Building in Washington, etc. Some wear and soiling, sold as-is.

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Lot 169
BELZONI, GIOVANNI BATTISTA
Plates illustrative of the researches and operations of G. Belzoni in Egypt and Nubia... and Six New Plates... London: John Murray: 1820-22. First edition of the Atlas volume (only). Contemporary marbled boards backed in calf. 18 1/4 x 22 1/2 inches (57 x 46.5 cm); 2 ff., followed by 44 plates and plans on 34 sheets, all but 4 hand-colored (in the first part) and six plates in the second, the full complement of published plates. A few plates torn and repaired in the margins; a few plates with margins restored, some soiling & marking. The Signet Library copy, with the library bookplate on the front endpaper.
The Atlas volume of Belzoni's important narrative is one of the great pictorial records of Egyptology at this period, and this first edition is quite uncommon. Abbey Travel 268.

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Sold For $10,625

Lot 258
[ELIZABETHAN]
Articles to be enquyred in the visitacyon, in the fyrst yeare of the raigne of our most dread soueraygne Lady, Elyzabeth by the grace of God, of England Fraunce, and Irelande Quene, defender of the fayth. &c. London: (Rycharde Iugge and Iohn Cawood, printers to the Quenes Maiestie), 1559. The first edition of seven of this date. Modern marbled boards. 7 x 5 inches (18 x 13 cm); [14] pp.; A^(4) B^(2). A fine large copy with the signature of Humphrey Dyson at the foot of the title page.
The Articles were the fifty-six questions that were to be asked by the Church Commissioners when they paid their investigatory visit to each parish. They include how many parsons had been mistreated in Mary's reign; the number of known drunkards, adulterers, brawlers, sorcerors and bookburners in the parish; and similar questions.
Humphrey Dyson (1582-1633), a scrivener and notary, was a noteworthy English book collector, with ties to Shakespeare's circle. This was also the modern collector Arthur Ehrman's copy, with his bookplate (this was lot 270 in the 1978 sale of his library, purchased by Quaritch and listed in their catalogue 1004). S.T.C. 10118.

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Lot 299
[ILLUSTRATION ART]
SCHULZ, CHARLES. Original drawing for a Peanuts four-panel strip. 5 x 21 inches (12.5 x 53.5 cm), inscribed in the upper margin by Schulz "for John with best wishes"; drawn in black ink, signed "Schulz" in the last panel; undated, with the printed United Features Syndicate slug (with copyright date of 1985) pasted to the extreme right of the outline of the first panel. The inscription quite faded, but the drawing is otherwise in fine condition, framed.
Sally, on the phone, rejects an invitation with the explanation that her brother is gone for the afternoon and she has to "beagle-sit" Snoopy, shown (looking bored) in the final panel.

C The Collection of John W. Fitzgerald
Sold For $10,625

Lot 273
JOHNSON, SAMUEL
A Dictionary of the English Language. London: W. Strahan for J. and P. Knapton, etc, 1755. First edition, reputedly one of 2,000 copies. Two volumes, contemporary calf over boards, rebacked to style retaining early lettering labels. 16 1/4 x 10 inches (41 x 25 cm); title printed in red and black, text in double-column, unpaginated. A discreetly ex-library copy with a stamp to title (and very occasional small stamps in margins of text), booklabel (marked withdrawn), first title with repairs, but in all internally a rather fresh, complete copy.
Johnson's epic accomplishment, "the most amazing, enduring and endearing one-man feat in the field of lexicography" see Printing and the Mind of Man 201. Of the edition of about 2000 copies, about half now survive. The book was published at 4 pounds 10 shillings. Courtney, pp. 54-5; Chapman & Hazen, pp. 137-8; Rothschild 1237; Fleeman I, p. 410.

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Lot 402
[FINE BINDING]
DICKENS, CHARLES. The Works of Charles Dickens. New York: R. G. Newbegin Co., 1902. One of 15 sets of the Edition Definitive, this copy number 5. Sixty volumes, bound in full crimson morocco gilt with turquoise onlays, spine gilt extra, full green leather doublures with elaborate gilt and onlay work and matching moire silk endsheets, t.e.g.; though unsigned, possibly by Trautz-Bauzonnet. 10 x 6 3/4 inches (26 x 17 cm); extra-illustrated with a fine original letter by Dickens on Gads Hill stationery, dated October 1869 and signed with initials; each volume with watercolors by "Kyd" (usually two or three plates per volume). Very light joint wear to a few volumes, one joint with a small loss to the head of the spine, in all a resplendent example of the edition de luxe, with the bookplate of F. H. Goodyear.

C Estates of Mary Stuart Krause and Bradley W. Krause, Quawksnest
Sold For $9,375

Lot 362
[PHOTOBOOK]
PAUL ELUARD. Facile. Paris: Editions G. L. M., [1935]. One of 1,200 on velin, of which this is copy CLVII of the roman-numbered hors commerce copies, this example inscribed on the half-title "to Marion and Ted/affectionately/Man Ray/Paul Eluard". Original wrapper. 9 1/2 x 7 inches (24 x 18 cm); with 12 heliogravure illustrations (one double-page) after Man Ray's photographs. Wrappers lightly worn, exhibiting some creasing, some toning to the paper as usual, in modern clamshell case. Copies inscribed by both Eluard and Man Ray are scarce and desirable.
One of the great avant-garde photographically illustrated books of the twentieth century, and an important and beautiful surrealist work. The model for the remarkable nudes was Eluard's wife, Nusch. Copies inscribed by both Eluard and Ray are rare. Although the identities of the recipients of this example cannot be identified with any certainty, we conjecture that the Ted and Marion of the inscription may possibly be Ted Shawn and Marion Rice of the Dennishawn dance company. 101 Books p. 87; The Open Book pp.118-9; The Photobook vol. I, pp.104-5.

C Estates of M. Michael Eisenberg and Barbara Yetka-Eisenberg
Sold For $8,750

Lot 222
MONROE, MARILYN [=BAKER, NORMA JEANE]
Postcard signed "Norma Jeane" addressed to Mr. & Mrs. Paris Miracle, postmark dated October 28, 1944. Fine condition, framed with a photograph of Monroe.
The twenty-two year old Monroe writes a postcard to her half-sister, Berenice Miracle, with whom she had corresponded for a number of years, but had not met before visiting her in in Detroit earlier in the year, during which time they vacationed together. The text, on a postcard with a view of the Chicago railyards, reads "I just can't tell you how I enjoyed meeting you. I want to thank you for everything, for I had a wonderful time, love Norma Jeane. Give Mona Rae my love. P.S. Berenice I will write to you soon." Berenice remained close to Monroe in succeeding years, and ultimately helped organize her funeral arrangements. Postcards and letters from the young Monroe are extremely rare.

C The Collection of Paige Rense Noland
Sold For $8,750

Lot 418
[GOLDEN COCKEREL PRESS]
CHAUCER, GEOFFREY. The Canterbury Tales. Waltham Saint Lawrence, Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1929-31. Number 424 of 500 copies (15 printed on vellum). Four volumes. Original half morocco over patterned paper boards by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, t.e.g., cloth slipcase. 12 x 7 inches (31 x 19 cm); viii, 156 pp.; viii, 192 pp.; viii, 204 pp.; viii, 224 pp. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings by Eric Gill. Spines lightly faded, small stains to a few joints, else a fine copy. Evan Gill 281; Chanticleer 63.

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Sold For $8,125

Lot 114
[AMERICAN CHILDREN'S BOOK]
MATHER, COTTON. The man of God furnished. The way of truth, laid out; with a threefold catechism, I. The famous catechism, entituled, Milk for babes... II. An abridgment of the Assemblies Catechism... III. Supplies from the tower of Dvaid [sic]. Or, A catechism... To which are added; several other instruments of piety; to serve the great interests of religion, which ly [sic] near to the hearts of all faithful ministers and all Godly householders. Boston: printed by B. Green, for Samuel Phillips at the brick shop, 1708. First edition. Contemporary American calf. 5 x 3 inches (13 x 8 cm); [2], 140, [2] pp., A-F^(12). Binding worn but sound, tear to the gutter margin of the title, overall a very good copy for a book of this class. The title verso bears an inscription "David Fuller left him by his honored father who died the 23 of December 1798."
An extremely rare work, attributed to Cotton Mather by Holmes. It was intended for the use of children, hence the small format. In the first section, Mather takes John Cotton's beginning catechism Milk for Babes, first published in the 1640s, and renders it "more Easy & Proper for Children of the Smallest Capacity." This text was influential on later editions of the catechism of the New England Primer. The final leaf bears The body of divinity versifyed, a verse attributed to Mather. Only a handful of copies of this very early American juvenile are held in American libraries, and the only copy we can trace at auction sold in 1977 ($1,500). Holmes Cotton Mather 216-A; Evans 1363; ESTC W19226.

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Lot 422
[KENT, ROCKWELL]
MELVILLE, HERMAN. Moby Dick. Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1930. First edition in this form, one of 1000 copies. Three volumes, original black cloth blocked in silver after Rockwell Kent's design, each in the original acetate jacket, the set housed in the original aluminum slipcase of issue. 11 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (29 x 21 cm); xxvii, [1], 279 pp.; vi, [2], 284 pp.; vii, [1], 282, [5] pp. With 280 illustrations by Kent after his original drawings, both full-page and in-text. Very minor discoloration to spine tips where uncovered by acetate jackets, a few small scuffs to case, otherwise a fine copy.

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