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F. Scott Fitzgerald. The Great Gatsby. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition, first printing, with all first printing points: "chatter" on p. 60, line 16; "northern" on p. 119, line 22; "it's" on p. 165, line 16; "away" on p. 165, line 29; "sick in tired" on p. 205, lines 9-10; and "Union Street station" on p. 211, lines 7-8. Octavo. 218 pages. Original, unrestored first printing dust jacket designed by Francis Cugat, with the lowercase "j" in "jay Gatsby" on the back panel hand-corrected in ink. A fabulous example of the book, with bright spine gilt, and only light edge wear to the cloth and mild cocking to the spine and a small inked price stamp to the rear free endpaper. The original dust jacket has a few small chips, tiny tears, and some loss to the edges and spine ends, affecting, only slightly, the "T" in "The" at the beginning of the title at both the spine head and front panel. A short horizontal tear across the spine of the jacket just touches the top part of the word "GATSBY." A triangular-shaped area near the middle of the spine is missing. The piece of the jacket spine towards the spine tail, where "SCRIBNERS" is printed, has only recently become detached, but is still present. The spine folds are a bit weak. It is a somewhat fragile, but mostly complete, original, and unsophisticated dust jacket. Overall, it is a wonderful copy of one of the true rarities in American literature, a book Cyril Connolly described in 1966 as, "a prose poem of delight and sadness which has by now introduced two generations to the romance of America, as Huckleberry Finn and Leaves of Grass introduced those before it." Bruccoli A11.1.a. Connolly, The Modern Movement, p. 48.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36174 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $46,875.00
[Nobel Prize in Science]. Excellent Collection of 218 Nobel Lectures & Related Offprints by 80 Nobel Prize Laureates, 175 Signed. Collection includes 63 Nobel Lectures, 58 signed; 121 Offprints, 84 signed; 32 typescript letters, 31 signed; and two signed photographs. Housed in six portfolios.

Includes Linus Pauling and Harold C. Urey, among many others. The following is just a sampling of the overall collection: Langmuir, Irving (Chemistry). Photograph Signed. Urey, Harold C. (Chemistry). Some Thermodynamic Properties of Hydrogen and Deuterium. Stockholm 1935. (Noble Lecture, February 16, 1935, pp.1-16). Signed. Szent-Györgyi, Albert (Medicine & Physiology). Typescript Letter Signed. December 14, 1962. Typescript Letter Signed. March 28, 1966. Kuhn, Richard (Chemistry). Der Nobelpreis des Jahres 1938 für Chemie, wurde am 9. November 1939. (Copy). Signed. Typescript Letter Signed. February 19, 1959, and its English translation. Heymans, C. (Medicine & Physiology). Sur le Role des Presso- et des Chimio-Récepteurs. Stockholm 1946. (Nobel Lecture, December 12, 1945, pp; 142-158). Signed. Baroceptor and Chemoceptor Reflexes in Monkeys. (Offprint. 3pp. Reprinted from Circulation Research, Vol. VI, No.5, September, 1958). Typescript Letter Signed. February 11, 1959. Fermi, Enrico (Physics). Artificial Radioactivity produced by Neutron Bombardment. Stockholm 1939. (Nobel Lecture, December 12. 1938, 8 pp.). Hevesy, G. (Chemistry). Historical Notes on the Discovery of Hafnium. (Offprint. 543-548 pp. Reprinted from "Archiv för Kemi", Bd. 3, Nr. 58, June 6, 1951). Signed. On the New Element H
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36227 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $43,750.00
Ian Fleming. Complete Set of British First Editions of the James Bond Books, including: (Total: 14 Items)
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36114 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $31,250.00
[Armenian Illuminated Manuscript of the Four Gospels]. Copied on parchment by archimandrite Hovhannes and illustrated by monk Nerses in the monastery of Holy Virgin Plea-Fulfilling (Khndrakatar Surb Astvatzatzin), in the district of Yekegheats (province of Upper Armenia, currently Western Armenia, in territory of Turkey). The colophon is dated 1584. The manuscript was copied by Hovhannes in the year of his consecration as archimandrite. The manuscript has 571 pages (285 hand-numbered leaves or folios), with fifteen full-page miniatures and smaller marginal illustrations. Contemporary embossed leather over boards, with flap to cover the fore-edge attached to the rear board. Vellum endleaves. Binding worn with some loss, cracked at the spine and along the joints. Occasional soiling and other minor flaws, but altogether a magnificent manuscript in very good condition. From the collection of a gentleman of New York.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36250 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $30,000.00
[Armenian Illuminated Manuscript of the Four Gospels]. Copied on vellum by Priest Grigor in Karahat, in the province of Gandzak [currently Ganja, in Lower Karabagh, in Azerbaijan]. Colophon dated March 20, 1659. Stout octavo, 6.25 by 4.75 inches. The manuscript has 637 pages, with 12 full page miniatures and smaller marginal illustrations. Period binding adorned with semi-precious stones, though only six of the seventeen settings are still complete with their stones. Remnants of clasps to rear cover. The cover was ornamented by jeweler Niaz in 1675, with brass framework laid over embossed leather. It has a second colophon recorded by priest Yeghiazar in 1737, most likely in Jerusalem. Alogether, a lovely manuscript. Leaves and binding are somewhat tired and handled, but still attractive. Calendars in the front, large miniatures and marginal ornaments are all most beautifully and skillfully painted.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36254 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $30,000.00
[Thomas Paine]. Common Sense; Addressed to the Inhabitants of America... The Third Edition. Philadelphia; Printed, and Sold, by R. Bell, [February 14,] 1776.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36020 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $27,500.00
[Benjamin Franklin, printer]. A Treaty, Held at the Town of Lancaster, In Pennsylvania, by the Honourable the Lieutenant-Governor of the Province, and the Honourable the Commissioners for the Provinces of Virginia and Maryland, with the Indians of the Six Nations, in June, 1744. Philadelphia: B. Franklin, 1744. First edition (this is the third of thirteen Indian treaties printed by Franklin).
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36009 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $27,500.00
William Stone. Declaration of Independence. SC Washn., [n.d., ca. 1848]. Printed on rice paper. Approximately 29 x 25.75 inches. Usual folds, one two-inch tear to right margin, affecting some text. In the lower left in faint print is "W. J. Stone SC Washn." As issued. A very good copy of this extremely rare and fragile item. (Total: 9 Items)
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36025 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $22,500.00
[Armenian Illuminated Manuscript Four Gospels]. Copied by scribe Barsegh. The colophon is undated and does not give the place. The text, written in bolorgir, may have been copied between the 13th and the 16th centuries. It includes two pages (written on both sides) of an older manuscript in transition erkatagir script (used in Armenian manuscripts in 11th-12th centuries), used as endliners attached to the covers. Quarto, 9 by 6.5 inches. Some pages, and probably portraits, are lacking. The manuscript has 479 pages, with very good illustrations, and smaller marginal illustrations. Old brown leather over boards, elaborately stamped in blind. Heavily worn, joints cracked or cracking, leaning backwards, staining to edges and endleaves, as well as some sheets. General wear and soiling to paper, darkened a bit at the edges. Some illustrations with color scraped or rubbed. Altogether a lovely example of an early manuscript, with wonderful illustrations and calligraphy. Should be seen. From the collection of a gentleman of New York.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36253 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $20,000.00
Ian Fleming. Goldfinger. London: Jonathan Cape, [1959]. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Fleming, "To / Nicholas Woolmer, / who has good / taste in English / literature! / from / Ian Fleming" on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 318 pages. Publisher's black cloth with blind and gilt stamped front and gilt stamped spine. Original illustrated dust jacket. Housed in a half morocco clamshell box. Fine condition. Woolmer was a book reviewer who had written well, apparently, of some of the James Bond novels.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36116 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $17,500.00
Ian Fleming. For Your Eyes Only. Five Secret Occasions in the Life of James Bond. London: Jonathan Cape, [1960]. First edition. Inscribed and signed by Fleming, "For / John / To hack about! / from / Ian" on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 252 pages. Publisher's black cloth with white eye design stamped on front and gilt-stamped spine. Original illustrated dust jacket. Dust jacket is lightly toned and rubbed with minor soiling. Several light pencil notations on tail of rear inner flap. A near fine copy of the eighth Bond book, a scarce title to find inscribed. The recipient of the inscription is purportedly Fleming's long-time friend and associate on The Book Collector magazine, John Hayward.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36115 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $16,250.00
Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, [1960]. First edition, in the first issue dust jacket. Octavo. 296 pages. Publisher's light green cloth back over rust paper boards. First issue dust jacket with Capote blurb in green on the front flap, the $3.95 price, the Jonathan Daniels blurb on the rear flap, and the Capote portrait of Harper Lee on the rear panel. A vibrant example of the book, with very clean text. Very light overall wear to the jacket, with minimal wear at the spine ends, folds, and corners. One tiny closed tear at the spine head. A couple of light creases to the flaps. A stunning example of Harper Lee's only novel, which won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Literature, in near fine condition.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36186 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $16,250.00
J. R. R. Tolkien. The Lord of the Rings, including: The Fellowship of the Ring. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954. First edition, first impression. Octavo. 423 pages plus map attached to rear flyleaf. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine titles. With signature mark "4" at the bottom of page 49. Original dust jacket priced "21s net". [and:] The Two Towers. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954. First edition, second impression. Octavo. 352 pages plus map attached to rear flyleaf. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine titles. Original dust jacket priced "21s net". [and:] The Return of the King. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1955. First edition, first impression, first state (signature mark "4" present on page 49, and all lines of type sag in the middle). Octavo. 423 pages plus map attached to rear flyleaf. Publisher's red cloth with gilt spine titles. Original dust jacket priced "21s net". Minor edge wear. Toning to endpapers. Minor dust-soiling to two jackets. Minor wear to the extremities of the jackets. Overall, a very attractive, first edition, (almost) first impression set of Tolkien's classic. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36140 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $15,000.00
David Ricardo. On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation. London: John Murray, 1817. First edition, second issue (with the last line of page 589 reading "different" instead of "differently") Approximately 8.5 x 5 inches. Octavo. viii, 589, [1, errata], [13, index], [1, blank] pages. Modern full brown calf, smooth spine double-ruled, with a red morocco gilt lettering label, new endleaves and blanks. Library bookplate, ink "Withdrawn" stamps on recto and verso of title-page, as well as a perforated stamp near the margin, a few small library ink stamps throughout, page viii trimmed a bit on the margin. Some minor foxing in text. Overall, a very good copy of this now extremely scarce cornerstone of political economy.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36243 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $11,875.00

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Ian Fleming. Thunderball. London: Jonathan Cape, [1961]. First edition. Inscribed by Fleming, "To / the kind lady / called Reynolds / who was such / a help! / from / Ian Fleming" on the front free endpaper. Octavo. 253 pages. Publisher's black cloth with blindstamped front and gilt stamped spine titles. Cloth is lightly rubbed with softly bumped corners. Front endpapers show some foxing and top page edges have just a hint of foxing. Dust jacket has some darkening along edges and spine. Previous owner's name written on rear inner flap. There is a one-eighth-inch tear on the top edge of the jacket at the rear joint. Housed in a beautiful custom clamshell box by The Dragonfly Bindery. The box front reproduces an image of the knife and skeletal hand from the front panel of jacket in leathers and other materials. A better than very good copy of the ninth Bond novel.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36118 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $11,250.00
Ian Fleming. On Her Majesty's Secret Service. London: Jonathan Cape, [1963]. Limited edition, number 80 of 250 specially bound copies signed by Fleming on the copyright page (where the limitation appears). Octavo. 288 pages. With a special frontispiece opposite the title page. Specially bound in the publisher's vellum over black cloth with gilt spine titles. Top edge gilt. Also included is an original illustrated dust jacket (mis-folded, obviously because the jacket was designed to fit the trade edition). Minimal shelf wear to the binding. Slight toning to the title page, with a small white, rectangular area (likely from a laid-in card). Really a beautiful copy in near fine condition. Housed in a custom black half-leather box.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36117 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $10,625.00
[Samuel] Urlsperger. Der Ausfuhrlichen Nachrichten von der Koniglich-Gross-Britannischen Colonie Saltzburgischer Emigranten in America. Halle: 1741. The first part in one small quarto volume (one part and six "Continuations"). (Total: 4 Items)
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36028 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $10,000.00
Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, 1873. First English edition. Octavo. 303 pages. Contemporary polished half calf with marbled boards and endpapers.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36146 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $10,000.00
J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. [London]: Bloomsbury, [1997]. First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the half-title page, with a hologram sticker near the top right edge. Twelvemo. 223 pages. Original stiff illustrated wrappers. Minor shelf wear, else a fine copy of a true rarity for Potter collectors. A bookplate signed by Rowling featuring the artwork from the front cover of this very book is laid in, along with an original photograph of Rowling reading a copy of the book. The verso of the photograph has "J K Rowling - Author" in a somewhat familiar hand, though whether it is Rowling's, we cannot say for sure.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36094 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $9,687.50
[Alexander Wilson. American Ornithology; or, the Natural History of the Birds of the United States. Plates. Engraved and Coloured from Original Drawings taken from Nature. New York and Philadelphia: Collins & Co. and Harrison Hall, 1829.] One tall folio volume (approximately 19 x 13.25 inches). Plate volume only, no text volumes. No title page (presumed 1829 imprint). With all seventy-six tissue-guarded hand-colored engraved plates after Wilson, with gum arabic highlights, including the cleanest example of the Bald Eagle (plate 36) we've seen. Contemporary half leather over marbled boards, with gilt spine titles. Significant wear, chipping, and abrading to the binding. Boards detached. Ownership signature to front flyleaf. Some tiny, insignificant, marginal closed tears to the edges of the plates. Scattered, mostly marginal foxing and thumb-soiling. Tiny corner chips to some plates. Overall, the plates are in excellent condition, though the binding is in need of some restoration. Sold as a collection of plates, not subject to return.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36030 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $8,750.00
Mark Twain. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade). New York: Charles L. Webster and Company, 1885. First American edition. First printing with the text uncorrected at pages 9, 13 and 57.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36207 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $8,750.00
Robert Louis Stevenson. Treasure Island. London, Paris & New York: Cassell & Company, 1883. First edition, with the following first issue points: "dead man's chest" not capitalized on pp. 2 and 7; "rain" for "vain" in the last line of p. 40; the "a" is not present in line 6 on p. 63; the "7" is bolder than the other numbers and slightly raised above them in the pagination on p. 127; lacking the period following "opportunity" in line 20 of p. 178; "worse" for "worst" in line 3 on page 197. Octavo. vii, 292, [4, ads dated "5R-1083" and incorrectly listing Treasure Island as having 304 pages] pages.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36203 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $8,125.00
James Dalton. A New System of Chemical Philosophy. Manchester: S. Russell, 1808-10. First edition of Dalton's work on the atomic theory of matter. Signed by W. J. MacNeven, the first Professor of Chemistry at Columbia University and the foremost exponent of Dalton's atomic theory in the United States, on the title page for Part II. Two octavo volumes bound in one. vi, [2], 220; [8], 221-560 pages. Illustrated with eight engraved plates. Contemporary half leather over marbled paper-covered boards, rebacked with a leather spine title label lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to the binding. Armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Marginal notes on a few leaves (possibly by MacNeven). Top sixth of the title page filled, likely removed originally for the previous owner's signature. Dampstaining to the top margin of a few plates. Occasional light scattered foxing. Still, a very good copy of a rare title.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36223 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $7,812.50
Charles Dickens. The Nonesuch Dickens. Published under the editorial direction of Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Walter Dexter and Thomas Hatton. Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-1938. Limited to 877 copies (the number having been determined by the number of steel plates and woodblocks available). (Total: 26 Items)
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36169 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $7,500.00

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Thomas Jefferson. A Manual of Parliamentary Practice. For the use of the Senate of the United States. By Thomas Jefferson. Washington City: Printed by Samuel Harrison Smith, 1801. First edition. Presentation copy, with the previous owner's inscription stating that he received the book from Mr. Jefferson: "Dwight Foster's / Book / Presented by / Mr. Jefferson / February 26, 1801."
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36012 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $7,500.00
Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition, first printing with "A" on copyright page, and in the first state jacket with no photographer's credit on the rear panel. Signed and inscribed by Hemingway on the front free endpaper, "To Alfred Kaiser / with sincere good wishes / always / Ernest Hemingway". Octavo. 471 pages.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36178 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $7,500.00
John Ogilby. Africa: Being an Accurate Description of the Regions of AEgypt, Barbary, Lybia, and Billedugerid. London: Printed by Tho. Johnson for the Author, 1670. Folio. [14], [768] pages. Engraved frontispiece, large folding map of Africa, one folding double-page view, 42 double-page views, and with fourteen plates on nine leaves, plus numerous engraved textual engravings. Lacking the half-title illustration as often found. Full calf binding with six raised bands, rebacked with a modern leather spine with gilt spine titles. Marbled endpapers. Minor wear and abrading to the binding. Paper repair to a small portion of the top corner of the frontispiece, which also has a three-inch repaired vertical tear at the top edge. Tiny portion of the corners and small area near the gutter of the last leaf also filled. Uneven toning to some plates. Scattered, mostly minor foxing throughout. A very good copy of a monumental work. This volume on Africa was the first of several comprehensive works on different parts of the world completed by Ogilby including America, China, and Japan.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36234 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $6,875.00

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R. Père F. Estienne de Lusignan [Bishop Stefano di Lusignano]. Description de Toute l'Isle de Cypre, et des Roys, Princes, et Seigneurs, tant Payens que Chrestiens, qui ont commandé en icelle... Paris: Chez Guillaume Chaudiere, 1580. First French edition of this rare history. [Bound With]: R. Père F. Estienne de Lusignan [Bishop Stefano di Lusignano]. Histoire Contenant une Sommaire Description des Genealogies, Alliances, & gestes de tous les Princes & grans Seigneurs... Royames Hierusalem, Cypre, Armenie, & lieux circonvoisins. Paris: Chez Guillaume Chaudiere, 1579. First French edition.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36278 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $6,875.00
H. P. Lovecraft. The Shunned House. Athol, Massachusetts: The Recluse Press, 1928; bound by Arkham House in 1961.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36136 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $6,250.00

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$9,375 or more
Thomas L. McKenney and James Hall. History of the Indian Tribes of North America, with Biographical Sketches and Anecdotes of the Principal Chiefs. Embellished with one hundred and twenty portraits, from the Indian Gallery in the Department of War, at Washington. Philadelphia: Published by D. Rice & A.N. Hart, 1855. Third octavo edition, considered by many to be the best of the octavo editions, due to the skill used in the coloring. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36017 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $5,937.50

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$8,906 or more
Frank Herbert. Dune. Philadelphia / New York: Chilton Books, 1965. First edition, first printing.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36128 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $5,937.50

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$9,351 or more
[Costumes]. Cesare Vecillio. De gli Habiti Antichi et Moderni de Diverse Parti del Mondo, Libri Due. Venice: Presso Damian Zenaro, 1590. First edition.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36283 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $5,937.50
Charles Dickens. Five Christmas Books, including: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. With Illustrations by John Leech. London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First edition, first issue, with the text uncorrected, "Stave I" as first (Total: 5 Items)
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36166 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $5,625.00
Edward Donovan. An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China. London: Printed for the author, by T. Bensley, 1798. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Fifty engraved, hand-colored plates. Contemporary calf with gilt titles and decoration. Light rubbing to extremities. Front joint with professional repair. Rear joint starting from tail and with some scattered bio-predation. Front hinge reinforced. Bookplates to front and rear pastedowns. Rear is armorial. Mild offsetting from plates with some lightly scattered foxing. Lacking all but two tissue guards. A lovely copy in very good condition. From the Almington Collection.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36224 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $5,625.00
David Ramsay. The History of the American Revolution. Philadelphia: R. Aitken & Son, 1789. First edition. With Lawrence Washington's ownership signature to the first page of text. Also with a gift inscription to each front pastedown from early Texas resident Dr. John H. Bowers. Two octavo volumes. vi, 359; iv, 360 pages. Near contemporary full calf binding with leather spine labels lettered in gilt. General overall wear and abrading to the bindings. Toning to the text. Occasional minor foxing and some damp-staining. Very good. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36023 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $5,312.50

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Winston S. Churchill. The World Crisis. London: Thornton Butterworth Limited, [1923-1931]. First edition. Volume I signed by Churchill and dated 1923. Five octavo volumes in six. 536; 557; 292; [293]-589; 474; 368 pages. Illustrated with numerous maps and charts. Full blue cloth with blindstamped titles and ruling to front cover with gilt-stamped titles and blindrule to spine. Some rubbing to covers and extremities. Light shelfwear with a few bumped corners; somewhat affecting top corner of text block in Volume One. Some light occasional foxing to page edges and throughout with some toning to endpapers. Some volumes have bookseller's ticket. One with armorial bookplate to front pastedown. Volume I with neat contemporary ownership signature and gift inscription. Otherwise, a very good set with Churchill's sought-after signature. (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36237 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $5,312.50
Arnoldus Montanus. De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld of Beschryving Van America en 't Zuid-Land...
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36018 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $5,000.00
[Codices]. Das Goldene Evangelienbuch von Echternach. Codex Aureus Epternacenis hs. folio 156142. Frankfurt / Main: S. Fischer Verlag, [1982]. First edition of this magnificent facsimile edition, one of only 850 copies printed. Two folio volumes. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36034 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $5,000.00
Beatrix Potter. The Tailor of Gloucester. [London: privately printed for the Author by Strangeways and Sons], December, 1902. First edition, one of 500 privately printed copies. Sixteenmo. With sixteen color plates. Publisher's pink pictorial boards. Dust-soiling to boards. Minor bump to the spine head. Some foxing, mostly contained to the endpapers. Otherwise, a near fine copy of Potter's favorite among her own books. Quinby 3; Linder 420. From the Almington Collection.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36080 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $4,687.50

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A. E. Van Vogt. Original Revised Typescript for Slan. Circa 1945-1946, 337 pages, 8.5 x 11 inches, carbon copy, rectos only, including several second copies and/or alternate versions of some pages. Holographic editorial corrections and revisions throughout in the author's hand. Housed in a plain paper letterbox, with "MSS. / VAN / VOGT / SLAN / #2" in black marker on the spine. In addition, a typed sticker on the box reads, "MSS. / VAN VOGT / "Slan" / 2nd Revision." Also includes a one-page Autograph Note Signed by Van Vogt, reading: "Slan. This is the copy of the ms. sent to Derleth. It contains many of the revisions made on the magazine version, but does not contain all the revisions subsequently made on the original as sent to Arkham House. A E Van Vogt." So, this appears to be an intermediate version of the manuscript that Van Vogt edited himself from the magazine version, then submitted to Derleth for further editorial input. Slan was eventually published by Arkham House in 1946. Expected wear and creasing to some pages. A couple of short tears to the note. An excellent artifact of the authorial process from the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Previously sold as Lot 570 in Butterfield auction #6322, October 17, 1995. From the Almington Collection.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36141 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $4,687.50
[John Ogilby, translator]. The Fables of Aesop. Paraphras'd in Verse and adorn'd with Sculpture. London: Thomas Roycroft, 1665. [bound with]: [John Ogilby, translator]. Aesopic's: or A Second Collection of Fables, Paraphras'd in Verse: adorn'd with Sculpture, and Illustrated with Annotations. London: Thomas Roycroft, 1668. First folio editions.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36193 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $4,687.50

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Ben Jonson. The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. London: Will Stansby, 1616. First collected edition, volume I only (the second volume was not published until 1640).
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36183 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $4,587.50

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$6,881 or more
[Early American Imprints]. The Constitutions of the United States, According to the Latest Amendments: To Which are Annexed, the Declaration of Independence; and the Federal Constitution; With the Amendments Thereto. Philadelphia: From the Press of Carey, Stewart, and Co., 1791. First edition. With Lawrence Washington's ownership signature and date of "21 Nov 1814[?]" to the front free endpaper. Octavo. [iv], 176 pages. Contemporary full calf with leather spine title label lettered in gilt. Moderate wear and abrading to the binding. Toning and occasional foxing to the text. Bottom edge of the title leaf and contents leaf roughly opened. A few creased corners. Very good.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36004 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $4,375.00
[Charles Bukowski]. Michael Montfort. Carlton Way Suite. Twelve Photographs of Charles Bukowski. Los Angeles: Privately Produced By the Photographer, 1982. First edition. Copy B of only two copies produced in the first edition (three more were produced later with slightly different production qualities, constituting a second edition). With twelve different original gallery-quality black & white photographs taken by legendary Bukowski photographer, Michael Montfort. Each photograph measures 16" x 20" and is signed by both Bukowski and Montfort. Also each photograph is lettered "B" (one with a small drawing by Bukowski of a man with a bottle). The photographs are enclosed in the protective black plastic bag as issued and housed within a black string-tied portfolio case with the original printed / inked label on green card stock on the front cover. In the twelve different photographs, Bukowski is shown in different settings in Los Angeles and San Pedro, including: pumping gas in his VW bug, driving with a cigarette in hand, and a few at his home (petting a cat, throwing clothes around in his room, at the typewriter eating, carrying laundry), two at graveyard (one in which he is lying down, and another in front of a headstone reading "Beers"), and more. Cover label states that this is Copy "B" of a limited edition of 26 copies, but in fact only two were originally produced of this first edition due to the very high production costs. A very scarce and important Bukowski item. Fine condition.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36153 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $4,375.00

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Luigi Mayer. Views of Egypt, From the Original Drawings in the Possession of Sir Robert Ainslie, Taken During His Embassy to Constantinople, By Luigi Mayer: Engraved by and under the Direction of Thomas Milton: with Historical Observations, and Incidental Illustrations, of the Manners and Customs of the Natives of that Country. London: R. Boyer, 1804. 102, [2, list of plates] pages plus forty-eight full-page hand-colored aquatint illustrations. [bound with:] Views of Palestine... 1804. 47, [1, list of plates] pages. [and:] Views in the Ottoman Empire... 1803. 40 pages. Both of these works are also printed by Boyer. Each of these works contains twenty-four full-page hand-colored aquatint illustrations. A half-title at the beginning of the book indicates these works were intended to be bound together. Folio (approximately 18.5 x 13 inches). Full calf, rebacked with a modern leather spine, with gilt spine titles inside five raised bands, gilt ornamentation to the covers, and gilt inner dentelles. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Moderate edge wear and abrading to the boards. Small library inventory sticker to the front pastedown. Some offsetting to the text leaves from the tissue guards. Minor scattered foxing.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36233 | Oct 17, 2013

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Rudyard Kipling. The Works of Rudyard Kipling. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1913 - 1919. The Bombay Edition, complete in twenty-five royal octavo volumes and signed by Kipling in volume one. (Total: 25 Items)
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36184 | Oct 17, 2013

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Johann Theodore de Bry and Johann Israel de Bry. I. Acta Mechmeti I saracenorum principis. Natales, vitam, victorias, imperium et mortem eius ominosam complenctentia... II. Vaticinia. Severi et Leonis in oriente impp. cum quibusdam aliorum aliis, interitum regni turcici sub Mechmete hoc III praedicentia.[Frankfurt am Main]: J. T. and J. I. de Bry, 1597. First edition in Latin.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36275 | Oct 17, 2013

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H. L. Tanner. A New Universal Atlas Containing Maps of the various Empires, Kingdoms, States and Republics of the World. With a special map of each of the United States, Plans of Cities &c. Philadelphia: S. Augustus Mitchell, 1846. Folio. With seventy-two hand-colored, copper-engraved maps, including the frontispiece of rivers and mountains. Engraved pictorial title page. Publisher's red half-leather over marbled paper-covered boards with red leather title label on front cover lettered in gilt. Noticeable wear, chipping, and soiling to the binding. Spine and corners partially perished. Heavy toning to the textblock, resulting in somewhat brittle paper. Some creased corners. A complete copy in fair condition.
Auction 6100 | Lot: 36026 | Oct 17, 2013

Sold For: $3,500.00

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