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Venice: [Bonetus Locatellus] for Octavianus Scotus, 1490. Venice: Bonetus Locatellus for Octavianus Scotus, 1490]. After Manilius's Astronomica, Sacrobosco's Sphaera was the first printed book on astronomy (Ferrara: 1472). Small quarto (7 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches; 197 x 150 mm). 48 leaves. Woodcuts and diagrams, seven of which are colored. With the full-page woodcut portraying Urania, Ptolemy, and Astronomia on a throne, printed here for the first time. And a woodcut printer's device printed in red on colophon leaf. Additionally there are numerous engraved initials. This is the second book printed in color, the first being the first edition of this title. Full modern calf. Boards ruled in gilt. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Some minor scuffs to boards. Modern marbled endpapers. Previous owner's old ink faded marginalia, on title-page and throughout. Some minor occasional soiling and a few minor marginal wormholes. Overall a very good, crisp copy. Housed in a custom cloth clamshell. Written about… Read More

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1951. 1919-2010). The Catcher in the Rye. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1951. First edition, in first issue dust jacket. Octavo (7 11/16 x 5 1/4 inches; 196 x 135 mm). [8], [1]-277, [1, blank] pp. Publisher's full black cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Boards with some light glue residue to top and bottom edges. Glue residue from bookplate removal on front and back pastedown. Library stamps for "Beverly Book Shelves Rental Libraries" on front and back free endpapers as well as to bottom margin of page 71, only touching page number. Some very light soiling to top margin of page 3, not affecting text. In a first issue dust jacket printed in red, black and yellow with cropped photograph of Salinger on rear cover, flap priced at $3.00. Some wrinkling to front panel and small minor chipping along top edge. Some minor toning to bottom edge. Old adhesive remnants to front sides of both flaps and some minor paper damage to inside of flaps. Still a very good copy in a very… Read More

London: John Waley, 1557. Full Description: SALLUST. The Conspiracie of Catiline. Written by Constancius, Felicius, Durantinus, and translated bi Thomas Paynell: with the historye of Iugurth writen by the famous Romaine Salust, and translated into Englyshe by Alexander Barcklaye. London: John Waley, 1557. First combined edition. Second edition of Catiline translated by Paynell and third edition of De Bella Jugurthino translated by Barclay. Two parts in one small quarto volume (7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches; 185 x 135 mm). Volumes bound in reverse order. [4], 85 (but numbered xxxiiii, lxxxvij); [5], 120 leaves. With separate title, pagination and register for each book. Title-page for Conspiracie of Catilin within architectural woodcut border. Both books with engraved initials. Black letter. Place of publication and printer's name from colophon. A translation of "De conjuratione L. Catalinae" by Felice Costanzo, and "Jugurtha" by Sallust. Bound without blank Y6 (?). Modern brown speckled calf, ruled in… Read More

Madrid: Por Joachin Ibarra, 1772. IBARRA, Joachin. The Magnificent Ibarra Sallust [SALLUST]. La Conjuracion de Catilina y la Guerra de Jurgurta. [Madrid: Por Joachin Ibarra, 1772]. First Ibarra edition. Folio (13 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches; 352 x 251 mm.). [2, blank], [18], [1]-395, [1, colophon pp. With half-title, engraved title with border by E. Montfort, engraved medallion portrait by E. Montfort after M.S. Maella, engraved map of North Africa, and eight engraved plates by E.S. Carmona, J. Ballester, F. Assensio, and J. Fabregat, after M.S. Maella and others, including frontispiece. Numerous engraved illustrations, head- and tail-pieces, and initials. Original full red morocco. Covers decoratively bordered in gilt. Spine stamped in gilt. Green morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Gilt dentelles. All edges gilt. Watered blue silk endpapers. Previous owner's small old bookplate on front free endpaper. Some minor rubbing to board edges and corners. But generally, a near fine, crisp copy of Ibarra's… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1939. LINCOLN, Abraham. SANDBURG, Carl. [LINCOLN, Abraham]. Abraham Lincoln: The War Years. Volume One. [Two. Three. Four.] New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1939. First edition, signed by Carl Sandburg, and limited to 525 copies, this being number 392. Four small quarto volumes (10 1/4 x 7 inches; 260 x 180 mm). With 414 Half-tones of photographs, and 249 cuts of cartoons, letteres, and documents. Original publisher's heavy-grain buckram over beveled boards. Gilt facsimile closing and signature of Lincoln stamped on top board. Gilt-ruled and -lettered maroon morocco spine labels. Top edge gilt, others uncut. Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown of each volume. Some mild toning from bookplate. Else fine. Partially unopened. In original board slipcase with some wear. "The first edition of Abraham Lincoln: The War Years is limited to 525 copies on all rag paper, numbered and signed by the author, of which 500 copies are for sale." (Colophon). HBS… Read More

New York: Ira L. Hill, 1917. SANGER, Margaret. Margaret Sanger. An Autobiography. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, [1938]. First edition. Octavo (9 3/8 x 6 3/8 inches; 237 x 161 mm). [1]-504, [2] pp. With photographic frontispiece portrait. Title-page printed in black and blue. Original full blue cloth. Spine printed in orange and gilt, and lettered in gilt. Top edge brick red, others uncut. Some minor rubbing to boards. Overall about fine. Margaret Sanger is a woman's right's activist and a pioneer of the birth control movement, starting clinics that would eventually become known as Planned Parenthood. "Sanger made it her mission to 1) provide women with birth control information and 2) repeal the federal Comstock Law, which prohibited the distribution of obscene materials through the mails, and regarded birth control information as such. In 1914, Sanger launched her own feminist publication, The Woman Rebel, advocating for birth control. She was charged with violating the Comstock laws and fled… Read More

Venice: Bernardinus Benalius & Johannes de Tridino alias Tacuinus, 1511. [H]ORTUS SANITATIS. Venice: Bernardinus Benalius & Johannes de Tridino alias Tacuinus, 1511]. The fifth, expanded edition of the Latin text and the first edition printed in Italy. The tract De facile acquisibilibus is added for the first time as a supplement to the section De urinis. Folio (11 7/8 x 8 1/8 inches; 300 x 205 mm). With 367 (of 368) leaves, bound without the final blank which is common. Printed in double columns, with over 1000 column-width woodcuts within the text. Title page within an elaborate woodcut border and three full-page woodcuts. Two of which are of physicians, and the third is of a skeleton. The illustration cuts are reverse copies of those by Johann Prüss. from the c.1496 Strasbourg which were copies from the first edition printed in Mainz by Jacob Meydenbach in 1491. Newer full calf. Boards stamped in black and blind. Spine lettered in gilt and incorrectly dated 1497. Title-page is slightly… Read More

Georgia, 1935. SARAZEN, Gene. Georgia: 1935. Black and white photograph signed "Gene Sarazen" in black ink on bottom. (Measures 9 3/4 x 7 1/2"). Photograph of Sarazen alone on the course, dropping one of his putts that leads him to the Masters in Augusta, Georgia on April 9th, 1935. He is surrounded by elegantly dressed spectators as he sinks his putt into the 9th green during his thirty-six hole play off. Catching up to Craig Wood who wholed a 4-wood second shot on the par-5 15th for a double eagle. Sarazen parred in from there then beat Craig Wood in a playoff the following day. The double eagle is "the shot that was heard around the world" and is one of the most famous single golf shots in history. Score card (measures 12 x 5") is also signed by Sarazen on signature line. 18 x 21 inches framed. Beautifully matted and framed. HBS 67680. $500.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. PARRISH, Maxfield. [No place, no date]. An autographed note, signed by Parrish on a 3 x 5 inch card. In his distinct hand it reads: "Dear Mr. Johnson:/As far as I can remember the books I/ have illustrated are about as follows:/ The Knave of Hearts: Louise Saunders./ Arabian Nights./ Italian Villas. Edith Wharton./ Mother Goose in Prose./ The Golden Age [and] Dream Days} Kenneth Grahame./ Poems of Childhood. Eugene Field./ M.P." And on the reverse of the note is his full name, signed "Maxfield Parrish" "Not until 1920 did [Parrish] agree to illustrate what was to become one of the most valuable children's books ever published, Louise Saunders's Knave of Hearts. Saunders was the wife of Maxwell Perkins, the editor of Scribner's. They summered in Cornish, New Hampshire, and were friends with the Parrishes. In a letter to J.H. Chapin of Scribner's, Parrish wrote on October 24, 1920: The reason I wanted to illustrate the Knave of Hearts was on ac- count of the… Read More

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. PARRISH, Maxfield. PARRISH, Maxfield, [illustrator]. SAUNDERS, Louise. The Knave of Hearts. With pictures by Maxfield Parrish. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1925. First edition. A clean, Near Fine copy of the book. Original black cloth with mounted cover illustration and pictorial endpapers. Internal contents generally in excellent condition. Cover illustration lightly rubbed and a previous owner's name on the verso of the free endpaper. Complete with the full complement of illustrations by Maxfield Parrish, his last and most brilliant book illustration project. Parrish worked for three years on the illustrations for the book, creating an elaborate model of the castle to use for his inspiration. In agreeing to work on the project, Parrish wrote: "You must understand all this layout to be in gorgeous color. The landscapes back of the figures in the cover lining - a very beautiful affair illuminated by a golden late afternoon sun: castles, waterfall, rocks… Read More

New York: B.C. Forbes Publishing Company, 1930. New York: B.C. Forbes Publishing Company, [1930]. First edition. Octavo (9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 233 x 156 mm). [i]-xxix, [3], [1]-875, [1, blank] pp. With folding frontispiece map of the Financial District in New York, two folding charts, twelve black-and-white plates and ninety illustrations in the text. This volume also includes twelve appendices with historical records and statistics. Original full black paper boards, stamped in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. Some very light foxing in places. In original blue and orange dust jacket. Jacket is extremely bright, with just a bit of shelfwear and two small, quarter-inch closed tears to top edge of front panel. Top edge of back panel has a small amount of dampstaining. Overall about fine. Schabacker was the youngest financial editor of Forbes Magazine and wrote three influential books on the stock market, Stock Market Theory and Practice, 1930; Technical Analysis and Stock Market Profits, 1932; and… Read More

Lambarene, 1949. SCHWEITZER, Albert. N.p., N.d., ca. 1949]. One page black and white printed directory of Albert Schweitzer's Hospital he founded in 1913, located in Lambarene, now Gabon. Inscribed by Schweitzer in blue ink, three lines. Signed "A.S." The top half of the page is a black and white illustration of the hospital grounds marked with 46 locations. The bottom half of the page names each of the 46 locations. Written in French. (Measures 12 x 8 1/4 inches). Two fold lines. Very good. The Albert Schweitzer Hospital is still one of the primary sources of healthcare for the surrounding regions of West Africa. Its Medical Research Unit is one of the leading scientific institutions in Africa working to end malaria. At Lambaréné, Schweitzer was doctor and surgeon in the hospital, pastor of a congregation, administrator of a village, superintendent of buildings and grounds, writer of scholarly books, commentator on contemporary history, musician, host to countless visitors. He received many… Read More

Paris: Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, 1930. SEGUY, E.A.. . Prismes. 40 Planches de Dessins et Coloris Nouveaux Paris: Editions d'Art Charles Moreau, 1930. First Edition. With forty pochoir plates by Seguy. Complete. Folio (12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches; 321 x 244 mm). Publisher's quarter cloth over printed boards portfolio. Spine printed in black. With original silk ties. Portfolio cover with some wear to edges and top outer corner bumped. Cloth with minor fraying and splitting at extremities. Margins of plates lightly foxed, but images still very clean. Bookplate of the Worcester Art Museum on front pastedown, covering the publisher's ads. Bookplate with "withdrawn" stamp on it. Half-title and each plate at lower margin with small stamp reading "School of the Worcester Art Museum. Overall very good, with beautiful plates. "E.A. Seguy was an artist and designer active in Paris during the first three decades of the 20th century. Very little is known about him, even his actual name and birth/death dates are… Read More

London: Printed for Robert Peake, 1611. The first Booke of Architecture, made by Sebastian Serly, entreating of Geometri. Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English. London: Printed for Robert Peake, 1611. Full description: SERLIO, Sebastiano. The first [-fift] Booke of Architecture, made by Sebastian Serly, entreating of Geometrie. Translated out of Italian into Dutch, and out of Dutch into English. London: Printed for Robert Peake, 1611. First English edition. Folio (13 5/8 x 9 1/2 inches; 340 x 240 mm). [3], 13; [1], 26, [1, blank]; [1], 73; 72; 16 leaves. Copiously illustrated with full-page and intertextual woodcuts. With title-page of first book in facsimile. Although the first title is in facsimile, all four other titles are present and complete. The book is textually complete, and includes the often-missing blank leaf at the end of Book II. Mostly printed in black letter. Book four also includes early engravings of Serlio's Roman alphabet. Bound in later full… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1925-1928. First edition. Limited to 177 copies, signed by the author on the frontispiece of volume I and with usual cat's paw. This set being number 100. Illustrated with 50 maps and 1500 illustrations. Frontispieces with tissue guards. Four quarto volumes (10 3/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 273 x 206 mm). Volume I covers "Cats, Wolves, and Foxes", Volume II covers "Bears, Raccoons, Badger, and Weasels", Volume II covers "Deer, Antelope, Buffalo, Sheep, and Peccary" and Volume IV covers "Squirrels, Rabbits, Armadillo, and Opossum." Uniformly bound in quarter brown cloth over tan cloth. Front boards double-ruled in gilt with animal head gilt central device. Spines lettered in gilt. Top edges gilt, others uncut. Overall near fine, which is unusual for such a large heavy set. Ernest Thompson Seton was a naturalist, artist, writer, and lecturer and also one of the key founders of the Boy Scouts of America, authoring their… Read More

New York: Spiral Press for Pantheon, 1954. New York: Spiral Press for Pantheon, [1954]. First edition. One of 50 copies printed on Umbria handmade paper, signed by Shahn and with an original drawing by him. This copy being number five. Tall octavo (10 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches; 275 x 170 mm). [44] pages including colophon and numerous Shahn illustrations plus the frontispiece of an original Shahn watercolor of the letter 'Zadhe', signed by him below. Publisher's natural linen cloth with black morocco gilt spine label (English) and cover label (Hebrew). In publisher's cardboard slipcase. Slipcase with a small piece missing from bottom. Overall a fine copy. "The Alphabet of Creation is one of the legends from the Sefer Har-Zohar, or Book of Splendor, an ancient Gnostic work written in Aramaic by a thirteenth century Spanish scholar named Moses de Leon who presented the work, not as his own, but as mystic knowledge revealed many centuries earlier to the Rabbi Simeon ben Yohai" (colophon). HBS 66047. $1,850.

London: Printed for H. Herringman, E. Brewster, and R. Bentley, 1685. 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,… Read More

London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot.., 1632. Full Description: SHAKESPEARE, William. The Life of King Henry the Fift[h]. with; The First [Second] [Third] Part of King Henry the Sixt[h] [London: Printed by Tho. Cotes, for Robert Allot..., 1632]. From the Second Folio Edition. Folio (12 1/4 x 8 1/8 inches; 310 x 207 mm). [52] leaves, (pages 69-172). With woodcut head and tailpieces, and initials. Printed in double columns. Newer half brown calf over marbled paper boards. Spine with four brown morocco spine labels, lettered in gilt, one for each play. Some occasional spotting and toning. Some early old ink notes and marginalia. Page 115 with a tiny quarter-inch closed tear repaired at blank bottom margin. A few of the top margins trimmed close, occasionally touching top rule. Overall a very good copy. Henry the Fifth and Sixth were first published as part of the First Folio of 1623. Jaggard, p. 495. Pforzheimer 906. STC 22274. HBS 69087. $15,000.

London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall.., 1765. JOHNSON, Samuel. . The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Eight Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; To Which are added Notes by Sam. Johnson. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall..., 1765. Full Description: SHAKESPEARE, William. [JOHNSON, Samuel, editor]. The Plays of William Shakespeare. In Eight Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; To Which is added Notes by Sam. Johnson. London: Printed for J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall..., 1765. First Samuel Johnson variorum edition, first issue, with the unpaginated Johnson preface. Eight octavo volumes (8 x 4 3/4 inches; 204 x 122 mm). [78], ciii, [1, blank], [1]-488; [2], [1]-557, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-504; [2], [1]-589, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-493, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-627, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-547, [1, blank]; [2], [1]-473, [1, blank], [53, appendix], [1, blank] pp. Volume one with engraved frontispiece portrait. Bound… Read More

London: Bernard Lintott, 1709. Full Description: SHAKESPEARE, William. A Collection of Poems, Viz. I. Venus and Adonis. II. The Rape of Lucrece. III. The Passionate Pilgrim. IV. Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Musick. London: Bernard Lintott, [1709]. First edition, first issue of the second collection of "Poems" (the first being 1640) and the first to include "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece." One small octavo volumes (6 3/4 x 4 inches; 170 x 103 mm). [4], [1]-155, [1, blank] pp. With four divided title-pages dated respectively 1630, 1632, 1599 and 1599 and "Price bound One Shilling Six-pence" on main title-page. With woodcut vignettes with tree motif on part-titles and woodcut initials. Full contemporary speckled sheep, rebacked to style. Boards ruled in blind. Spine lettered in gilt. Corners renewed. Some nearly invisible professional repairs to bottom blank margin throughout, never affecting text. Two previous owner's bookplates on front pastedown and front free endpaper. A small… Read More