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Galileo Galilei. Dialogo...Doue ne I congressi di Quattro giornate si discorre sopra I due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo Tolemaico, e Copernicano... Florence: Giovanni Batista Landini, 1632. First edition. Quarto. [viii], 458, [32] pages, with Errata leaf (2F6)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37053 | Sep 14, 2011

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Joseph Smith, Junior. The Book of Mormon: An Account Written by the Hand of Mormon, Upon Plates Taken From the Plates of Nephi. By Joseph Smith, Junior, Author and Proprietor. Palmyra, [New York]: Printed by E. B. Grandin, for the Author, 1830. First (Total: 18 Items)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37034 | Sep 14, 2011

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Charles Darwin. The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species. London: John Murray, 1877. First edition, first issue. Inscribed by Darwin on the title page: "From the Author with kind regards." Also with three autograph letters signed by Darwin
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37038 | Sep 14, 2011

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Alexander Hamilton. Report of the Secretary of the Treasury to the House of Representatives Relative to a Provision for the Support of the Public Credit of the United States...Presented to the House on Thursday, the 14th Day of January 1790. New
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37006 | Sep 14, 2011

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H. A. Rey. Curious George. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1941. First edition. Quarto. Unpaginated. Illustrations by the author. Publisher's brick red cloth with Curious George vignette in black on front board and lettering in black on spine. Illustrated
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37070 | Sep 14, 2011

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Ernest Hemingway. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by Hemingway on the front free endpaper: "For Popsie and Frankie / Steinhart [Hemingway's neighbors in Havana] from their
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37105 | Sep 14, 2011

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William Shakespeare. Poems Written by Wil. Shakespeare. Gent. Printed at London by Tho. Cotes, and are to be sold by John Benson, dwelling in St. Dunstans Church-yard, 1640. First edition. Small octavo (5 x 3 inches). 104 leaves, plus engraved
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37133 | Sep 14, 2011

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[Lord John Press]. Ninety-Two Books Published by Lord John Press Between the Years 1977 and 2000, including: John Updike. Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu. 1977. One of 26 copies. [and:] Donald Barthelme. Here in the Village. 1978. Limited (Total: 92 Items)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37119 | Sep 14, 2011

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Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight Errant, Don Quixote of the Mancha. Written in Spanish by Michael Cervantes: and now Translated into English. London: Edward Blount, 1620. First volume, second (Total: 2)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37087 | Sep 14, 2011

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Raymond Chandler. The Big Sleep. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First edition, first printing, of the author's first book. Octavo (7.375 x 5 inches). [8], 277, [1], [2, blank] pages. Publisher's brownish orange V cloth
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37088 | Sep 14, 2011

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Thomas Jefferson. Notes on the State of Virginia. Illustrated with a Map, including the States of Virginia, Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania. London: Printed for John Stockdale, 1787. First edition in English.
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37009 | Sep 14, 2011

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James Joyce. Ulysses. Paris: Shakespeare and Company, 1922. First edition. Number 540 of 750 numbered copies on handmade paper, out of a total edition of 1,000 copies. Quarto (9.125 x 7.25 inches; 232 x 184 mm.).
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37108 | Sep 14, 2011

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J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. [London]: Bloomsbury, [1997]. First edition, first printing, one of 500 copies of the first and rarest of the Harry Potter books, and likely one of approximately 300 copies sent to British
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37073 | Sep 14, 2011

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F. Scott Fitzgerald. Tender is the Night. A Romance. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1934. First edition, third printing ("Devereux" on page 320, line 17). Inscribed by Fitzgerald on the front free endpaper: "For Walter Bruington / from his friend
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37098 | Sep 14, 2011

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Herman Melville. Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1851. First American edition. Octavo. xxiii, [1, blank], 634, [1, "Epilogue"], [1, blank], [6, ads], [4, blank] pages. BAL first binding of publisher's drab
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37122 | Sep 14, 2011

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John James Audubon. The Birds of America, Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories. New York: George R. Lockwood, [1870]. Later Lockwood edition with the biographical essay on Audubon in Volume I. Eight (Total: 8 Items)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37037 | Sep 14, 2011

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[Claude R. Wickard]. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Inaugural Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States. Washington, DC: The White House, Christmas 1943. Edition limited to 100 copies, of which this is number 10. Presentation copy,
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37015 | Sep 14, 2011

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[Claude R. Wickard]. Franklin D. Roosevelt. D-Day Prayer by President Franklin D. Roosevelt from the White House, June 6, 1944, Here Printed for His Friends at Christmastide 1944.
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37014 | Sep 14, 2011

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Thomas L. McKenney & 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 (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37012 | Sep 14, 2011

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[Knights Templar]. Processus Contra Templarios. Exemplaria praetiosa III. "Ex Civitate Vaticana": Archivio Segreto Vaticano, 2007. First edition. Two folio volumes. Limited to 799 numbered sets, this being number 398. Text volume in Latin, Italian, and English, printed on specially made cotton
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37035 | Sep 14, 2011

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Margaret Mitchell. Gone with the Wind. New York: Macmillan, 1936. First edition, first printing with "Published May, 1936" on copyright page and no note of other printings. Inscribed by Margaret Mitchell on front free endpaper: "To Vivian Latady
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37123 | Sep 14, 2011

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Jules Verne. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas. Boston: James R. Osgood, 1873. The true first American edition. One of only a small number of copies extant (perhaps fifty copies or less).
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37141 | Sep 14, 2011

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[Plutarch]. La Prima [-Secunda] Parte della Vite di Plutarco. Tradotta da M. Lodovico Domenichi.... Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1560. Two quarto volumes. [vii], 973; [vii], 535, 350. Woodcut titles and capitals. Beautifully bound (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37027 | Sep 14, 2011

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J. R. R. Tolkien. The Hobbit, or There and Back Again. London: George Allen & Unwin, [1937]. First edition, second impression. Octavo. 310 pages. With illustrations by the author. Publisher's green cloth with black designs and lettering. Map endpapers.
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37138 | Sep 14, 2011

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Henry M. Stanley. In Darkest Africa or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1890. Demy Quarto Edition de Luxe. Limited to 250 numbered copies, of which this is number 69, signed by the author (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37024 | Sep 14, 2011

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Theodore Roosevelt. The Wilderness Hunter. An Account of the Big Game of the United States and Its Chase With Horse, Hound, and Rifle.
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37049 | Sep 14, 2011

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? New York, Evanston, and London: Harper& Row, [1967]. First edition. Inscribed "To Mr. and Mrs. Walter
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37010 | Sep 14, 2011

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[Benjamin Franklin, printer]. Marcus T[ulius] Cicero. M. T. Cicero's Cato Major, or His Discourse of Old-Age: With Explanatory Notes. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by B. Franklin, 1744. First edition, first state, with "ony" on page 27. Small
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37005 | Sep 14, 2011

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Helmut Newton. SUMO. Monte Carlo: Taschen, 1999. Edited by June Newton. Deluxe worldwide edition limited to 10,000 copies, of which this is number 07824, boldly signed by Helmut Newton on the title page in blue crayon. Elephant folio
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37064 | Sep 14, 2011

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Tennessee Williams. The Glass Menagerie. New York: Random House, [1945]. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by Williams on front free endpaper, "For Elizabeth Anne / McMurray / with sincere appreciation /
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37144 | Sep 14, 2011

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[The Atomic Bomb]. [Edward Teller, Edwin M. McMillan, Robert F. Christy, and others]. LA Report 24. Lecture Series on Nuclear Physics. [Los Alamos Scientific Laboratories, 1943-1944].
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37002 | Sep 14, 2011

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[Claude R. Wickard]. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The War Message. Being the addresses of the President to the nation and Congress concerning the involvement of the United States in a war with the Empire of Japan, and Axis Powers. Philadelphia: Ritten House,
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37016 | Sep 14, 2011

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John Guille Millais. A Breath from the Veldt. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1895. Special edition. One of 60 copies, of which this is number 54, signed signed and dated by the author. Imperial folio. 236 pages.
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37042 | Sep 14, 2011

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Theodore Roosevelt. African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First edition, limited to 500 sets of which this is number 342, signed by Roosevelt on the limitation page (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37047 | Sep 14, 2011

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Aesop. Vita et Fabellae Aesopi...Gabriae Fabellae...Collectio Proverbiorum Tarrhaei &c. [Venice]: Aldus Manutius, [1505]. First Aldine edition, in Greek only.
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37080 | Sep 14, 2011

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[Captain James Cook]. John Hawkesworth. An Account of the Voyages Undertaken by the Order of His Present Majesty for Making Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere, And successively performed by Commodore Byron, Captain Wallis, Captain Carteret, And Captain (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37019 | Sep 14, 2011

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J[ohn] Wesley Powell. Canyons of the Colorado. Meadville: Flood & Vincent, The Chautauqua-Century Press, 1895. Quarto. xiv, 400 pages. One-page advertisement for the Santa Fé Railroad. Title printed in red and black. Frontispiece. Index. Numerous
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37022 | Sep 14, 2011

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Raymond Chandler. The Lady in the Lake. New York: Knopf, 1943. First edition, first printing. Octavo. 216 pages. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Mild rubbing to cloth extremities.
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37302 | Sep 14, 2011

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Alexander Hamilton. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Comprising His Most Important Official Reports; an Improved Edition of the Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in 1788; and Pacifus, on the Proclamation of Neutrality, Written in 1793. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37007 | Sep 14, 2011

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[Claude R. Wickard]. Harry S. Truman. Address of the President at the Opening of the Conference on the Japanese Peace Treaty, September 4, 1951. Washington, DC: The White House, Christmas 1951. One of 60 copies printed for President Truman, of which this is number 52. Presentation copy, inscribed by the President:
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37017 | Sep 14, 2011

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Salvador Dali. Les Dîners de Gala. Paris: Draeger, [1973]. First French edition. Inscribed by Dali to New York restaurateur Charles Masson on the white preliminary pages. Also, Dali has drawn in ink a large, loosely-rendered equine
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37060 | Sep 14, 2011

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Cormac McCarthy. The Border Trilogy, including: All the Pretty Horses; The Crossing; Cities of the Plain. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992, 1994, 1998. First editions. Each volume signed by the author, all on the half title page. (Total: 3 Items)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37121 | Sep 14, 2011

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Richard F. Burton. Zanzibar; City, Island, and Coast. (Total: 2 Items)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37018 | Sep 14, 2011

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John James Audubon (1785-1851). White-headed Eagle -- Plate CXXVI (Havell Edition). A striking hand-colored aquatint engraving by R. Havell from the first edition of The Birds of America (London: 1827-1838). Watermarked "Whatman 1834"
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37036 | Sep 14, 2011

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Thomas Willis. De Anima Brutorum Quae Hominis Vitalis ac Sensitiva est, Exercitationes Duae. Prior Physiologica...Altera Pathologica... Oxford: Theatro Sheldoniano [Sheldonian Theatre], 1672. First edition.
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37055 | Sep 14, 2011

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Henry Fielding. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling. London: Printed for A. Millar, 1749. First edition, first issue. One of a first printing run of only 2,000 copies with errata leaf in Volume I, the errata uncorrected, and all cancels (Total: 6 Items)
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37096 | Sep 14, 2011

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Josiah Quincy, Jun'r. Observations on the Act of Parliament Commonly Called the Boston Port-Bill; with Thoughts on Civil Society and Standing Armies. Boston: Printed for and Sold by Edes and Gill, in Queen Street, 1774. First edition.
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37013 | Sep 14, 2011

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Man Ray. Photographs, 1920-1934 Paris. With a Portrait by Picasso. Texts by André Breton, Paul Eluard, Rrose Sévaly, Tristan Tzara. Preface by Man Ray. Hartford: James Thrall Soby / New York: Random House, [1934]. Second edition. Inscribed by Man Ray
Auction 6058 | Lot: 37062 | Sep 14, 2011

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