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AARDVARK BOOKS/EZRA TISHMAN BOOK APPRAISALS
ANTIPODEAN BOOKS, MAPS, PRINTS
- E-list #44 ~ W.W.I., Americana, Australia, Photographs, Maps, Ephemera
- E-list #43 ~ Antipodean Books at the Brooklyn Virtual Book Fair
Featured item:
Nissen, Georg Nikolaus von.
Leipzig: Breitkopf und Härtel, 1828. Large octavo, 6 x 8.25 in (15 x 21 cm), two parts in one volume, including the supplement (Anhang); xliv, 702, 220 pages. Contemporary paper boards; expertly rebacked. Moderate external wear, light occasional foxing to contents, overall an attractive copy. All illustrations, facsimiles, etc. are present, except the family portrait that is usually missing. There are 8 lithograph plates, ; a manuscript music facsimile; a text facsimile of Nissen’s tombstone; and 8 folded music plates.
This collection of family letters, journals, contemporary criticism, etc. was assembled with connecting text by Danish diplomat Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, the second husband of Mozart’s widow, Constanze. She edited it for publication after Nissen’s death. It remains one of the most important collections of primary source material on the composer.
Offered by Archway Books and found in "A Short Musical List."
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Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., State Printers, 1888. 8vo (9.5” x 6.25”), later blue library buckram, gilt title at spine. 469 pp. Autograph of “Waldbridge A. Field” pasted in above tipped in autograph letter from Sarah Jane Robinson to “Judge Field,” dated 30 May, 1888. CONDITION: Very good, tissue repairs to chipped edges of first 6 and last 4 leaves; letter very good.
The official report on the first of two trials of Sarah Jane Robinson, the “Massachusetts Borgia,” who murdered her landlord and seven of her own family members, with a brazen letter from the murderer herself to Massachusetts Justice Waldbridge A. Field, requesting a private meeting.
After the death of her parents, Sarah Jane (Tennant) Robinson emigrated from Ireland to the U.S. at the age of fourteen, and at nineteen married Moses Robinson, a carpenter. They lived in poverty, dogged by creditors and moving frequently to escape unpaid rent. She gained notoriety in the 1880s for committing a series of murders, beginning with her elderly landlord in August 1881 and followed by her husband (1882), their young daughter (1884), her sister and brother-in-law (1885), an older daughter, her seven-year-old nephew, and her son William (1886). Most of Robinson’s victims were insured—some thanks to her own urging—and she found ways of becoming the beneficiary: in the case of her sister and brother-in-law, whose insurance benefited their young son, she simply adopted her nephew and “put [him] out of the way” (“A Bay State Borgia”).
Robinson was tried twice—first for William’s murder, and then for those of her sister and brother-in-law, their son, her landlord, and her husband. This volume is the report on the first trial. Robinson’s letter, dated May 30th, 1888, was written from “E. Cambridge Jail” after the second trial. It reads in full:
Judge Field Dear Sir:—
As you well know I am here charged with one of the highest crimes known to the law & convicted by false evidence since my trial I have not felt able to be off my bed having been quite sick.
Would it be asking too much if you could find time for me to have a short interview with you I want to see you very much hoping you will grant me the favor of seeing you I remain
Respectfully
Sara J Robinson
Excised from a different sheet and affixed above the letter is the autograph of Judge Walbridge A. Field (1833–1899). Originally from Vermont, Field studied at the Harvard Law School and practiced law in Boston in between periods of service as the Assistant Attorney General of the United States, Republican Representative to the House of Representatives, and justice—eventually Chief Justice—of the Massachusetts Supreme Court (1881–1899).
Accounts differ as to what finally tipped off the police to Robinson’s guilt—the increasingly frequent insurance payouts to her, or the fact that William, after being struck on the back by a falling object at work, became, in his mother’s care, seriously ill with the same stomach convulsions that had carried off his siblings, aunt, uncle, and cousin. A suspicious doctor, Emory White, sent a sample of William’s vomit to Harvard chemist and toxicologist Edward Wood, who found it to contain arsenic. Eventually, all Robinson’s victims were exhumed, and all were found to have been poisoned with arsenic. While “nursing” her victims, Robinson apparently had several premonitions and prophetic dreams about their imminent deaths, which soon—or at least, as soon she confirmed that their life insurance was in order—became reality. After her imprisonment, newspapers reported the discovery of a box of rat poison in a hole in the wall of her former basement: “That it may have been there before Mrs. Robinson took the house of course is possible, but the police firmly believe that Mrs. Robinson placed it where it was found” (“Circumstantial Evidence”).
Naturally, newspapers were inclined to sensationalize Robinson’s story, the interest of which was no doubt increased because she had an “intelligent” face and “the appearance of a refined woman” (“Arsenic Grains Found”). Around the time of her sentencing in November, 1888, however, “public sentiment had turned in Mrs. Robinson’s favor and a petition to commute her sentence [from death by hanging] to life in prison” was submitted to and granted by the Governor (Wilhelm). Her sympathetic bearing in court, as well as her gender, may have had something to do with this. A modern author, also sympathetic, put it this way: “If there is shrewd calculation in such long-range plans as her elimination of Annie [her sister] to get at Prince [her brother-in-law], there is also a desperate necessity in picking off one insured worker after another. In the circle of poverty, no person’s work was as valuable as life insurance; and even that lump—the sum of a person’s life—was never, in the long run, enough” (Jones, p. 156). Robinson died in prison on January 3rd, 1906.
REFERENCES: “A Bay State Borgia,” Morning Journal and Courier (New Haven, CT), August 13 1886; “Arsenic Grains Found,” Fall River Daily Herald, 13 August 1886, p. 1; “Circumstantial Evidence,” Boston Evening Transcript, 31 May, 1888, p. 1; Jones, Ann. Women Who Kill (New York: The Feminist Press, 2009), pp. 149–157; Wilhelm, Robert. “The Massachusetts Borgia,” at Murder by Gaslight online.
Offered by James Arsenault & Company and found in "Recent Acquisitions & Highlights in Americana, June 2024."
- Artists' Books and Exhibition Catalogues: Electronic List 146
- French World War I Print Portfolios, Drawings, Photographs, Periodicals & Livres d'artistes: Electronic List 145
- EVOLVING HISTORY of IDEAS (New York Book Fair)
- Catalog 24: LUDWIG WITTGENSTEIN – THE MAN and HIS THOUGHT
Featured item;
Signed Portrait of the Boxer Cecil Phillips.
Washington or environs, 1938. Silver gelatin print measuring 9 ⅛ x 6 ⅛ inches. Some creasing, very good.
A signed photograph of the boxer Cecil Phillips - of whom we find no record besides a negative in the Smithsonian’s Scurlock collection of this image. The photograph is signed twice by Phillips, and dated april 1, 1938. The Scurlock Studio played a significant role in photographically documenting the African-American communities of Washington D.C. and its environs during this period.
Offered by Auger Down Books and found in "Graphic & Archival Americana."
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19th Century Decorated Paper Bindings, Decorated Cloth Bindings and Historic Works New York Book & Ephemera Fair Catalog
W. C. BAKER RARE BOOKS & EPHEMERA
- eList 210: African Literature *New*
- eList 209: First Books *New*
- Catalog 265: Americana *New*
Featured item:
MARSHALL, Paule
Brown Girl, Brownstones
New York: Random House, (1959).
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 310pp. Fine in very good rubbed dust jacket with moderate edgewear including nicks, short tears and creases. Signed by Marshall on the title page. The author's first novel.
Offered by Between the Covers Rare Books and found in "eList 209: First Books."
- 2024-25 The Hotch Potch *New*
Featured item:
Samuel Medary
Columbus, Ohio: 1862-1863. 20.5”x13.5”x1.75” brown cloth binding of one full year of weekly editions of The Crisis, a political newspaper published during the Civil War in Columbus, Ohio. Each issue is 4 pages front and back, printed in 5 columns. Issue 2 is repeated. Title written on front and spine in black marker. Light wear, loose leaves, some discoloration. Last leaf - index to V.2 - has loss affecting some text. Good+
Samuel Medary, a controversial journalist and political activist known as a Peace Democrat or Copperhead, published The Crisis from 1861-1864. Believers in States Rights, Copperheads like Medary vilified Lincoln, despised abolitionists, and disparaged non-white Americans. The Crisis espoused tradition over change and couched Medary’s unpopular political opinions in a desire for peace with the South. His views opposing the Union war effort and encouraging resistance to Lincoln’s policies angered many in the North. The newspaper officers were ransacked and Medary was charged with conspiracy, but the paper was never shut down by he or the government. ~~Of note is Medary’s January 7, 1863 response to the Emancipation Proclamation being enacted on the first of the year, in which he declares Lincoln to be a “dictator” and “usurper”. The language in this and other articles is reminiscent of the pervasive modern political hate-speech. While his politics have gotten no less controversial with time, his tenacious and oppositional publication contributed to ideas about American freedom of the press that remain valuable
Offered by Black Swan Books and found in "2024-25 The Hotch Potch."
BLUEMANGO BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS
Featured item:
Engraving on four sheets joined, 30 5/8”h x 48 7/8”w at neat line plus margins, some outline color. Minor soiling, concentrated along folds and at edges. Paper reinstated along central seam, with some image in facsimile, two chips at edges reinstated with small areas of neatline in facsimile.
An early, separately published, and rare edition of Joshua Fry and Peter Jefferson’s epochal Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia, praised as “the basic cartographical document for Virginia of the eighteenth century [and] the first map of Virginia by Virginians” (Coolie Verner) and “the definitive eighteenth century cartographic document for the colony of Virginia.” (Taliaferro)
In scope, content and accuracy, the map far exceeds any of its predecessors. Whereas previous “mother maps” of Virginia by John Smith and Augustine Hermann focused on the Tidewater and Piedmont regions, Fry and Jefferson’s extends well west of the Blue Ridge, though the treatment of the trans-montane region is admittedly sketchy. As Bill Wooldridge argues, the map constitutes a visual argument for the colony’s size, wealth, and maturity:
“The map’s generous scale, fine engraving, and iconic cartouche suggest the prosperity of Virginia. The image in the cartouche is that of a planter seated on his wharf, surrounded by merchants, tobacco hogsheads, and slaves, one of whom is serving the planter a cordial on a footed silver tray. Even the stone building behind the planter, as Margaret Pritchard has noted, projects an aura of stability and wealth….
“In the map’s interior we see a fully developed political entity. In addition to the carefully charted network of rivers and watercourses, there are county names, roads, ferries, bridges, mills, churches, ordinaries, and seats of individual planters. Virginia has a full complement of all the geographic indicia of maturity….
“The proportions of the map, about eleven square feet of engraved area when the four sheets are assembled, both accommodated its geographic reach and emphasized the colony’s stunning size, which is one of the map’s silent if salient messages.” (Wooldridge, pp. 108, 110)
Per Taliaferro’s definitive carto-bibliography in the 2013 MESDA Journal, this is an example of the 5th state of the map, published separately in or around 1755. Like earlier states, the map retains the date of 1751 and the imprint Thomas Jefferys, but the figures for longitude have been corrected to read, right to left, 75° 19’ to 82° 19’. All early states of the map are rare on the market.
Offered by Boston Rare Maps, Inc. and found in "Recent Acquisitions."
- Brattlecast #184: A Collection of New Books (Podcast)
- Brattlecast #183: Famous Old People (Podcast)
Featured item:
(Original Art) "Baseball Time"
Gorey, Edward (illus.)
1993. Watercolor and ink on paper, measuring 7 by 6 inches. Matted and framed. This illustration appeared on page 21 of the July 19, 1993 issue of Sports Illustrated. The image served as the lead-in to the "Anniversary" section, and it depicts an obscure baseball moment from 1893, when former player-manager Harry Wright suggested that umpires keep the ball-strike count secret until the at-bat was concluded. While this would have undoubtedly added an element of mystery to the game, wiser heads prevailed, baseball continued unchanged, and Wright, whose 1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings went undefeated, was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1953.
An uncommon sports-related commission by Gorey, whose pitcher almost seems en pointe in his delivery. Together with a copy of the printed magazine, with the piece by contributor Richard Demak.
Offered by Bromer Booksellers and found in "E-catalogue 119: Edward Gorey Books & Ephemera."
Featured item:
Ambler, Eric
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1939. First American edition. Signed by Eric Ambler and inscribed to Norman Nolan on page facing title page at the Mystery Writers of America awards (Ambler won the Grand Master award) in New York, April 25, 1975. From the Otto Penzler Collection of Mystery Fiction. [xiv], 281, [1] pp. Publisher's light gray cloth stamped in crimson, crimson top edge. Fine in a very Near Fine unclipped, unfaded dust jacket with light wear to extremities, three tiny closed tears at edges, small smudge to back panel. A very bright, attractive copy.
A truly excellent signed copy of Ambler's best-known thriller, titled Mask of Dimitrios in the British edition.
Offered by Burnside Rare Books and found in "e-List #78: Cloak & Dagger."
ANDREW CAHAN, BOOKSELLER, LTD.
- E-list on the South (June 2024)
- New York Book Fair 2024
- From the library of John Henry Nash -- list available on request from info@carpediemfinebooks.com...
- New Arrivals
- Inhabited by Winston (January 2022)
- Winston for Your Walls
- African Americana (July 2024) *New*
- Literary Acquisitions *New*
- July New Arrivals *New*
- THE LUNAR VOYAGE FROM THE 17th CENTURY TO THE PRESENT -- In conjunction with the RBMS and the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller
- Popular Fiction 1814-1939: Selections from the Anthony Tino Collection -- Offered jointly with John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller
- E-list: Photographic Archives, Latin-Americana, African-Americana, Lincoln Conspirators, American Indian History, and More -- Joint catalog with Auger Down Books
DE SIMONE COMPANY, BOOKSELLERS
- List 58: Women, Illustrated Books, Cookery, Collections *New*
- List 55 Illustrated Books, Broadsides & Manuscripts
- New Arrivals (July 22, 2024) *New*
- Shaker Books, Ephemera and Photography
- Catalog #88, Medical Books from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Centuries -- This catalog is print-only. To request a copy, contact MedBks@aol.com...
Featured item:
Mastering the Art of French Cooking
Child, Julia; Louisette Bertholle; and Simone Beck
Notes: A very good signed copy of the 8th printing of the most influential cookbook of the 1960s. Pro tip: If you are looking for the famous "beef bourguignon" recipe, you won't find it in the index with other beef recipes (like beef Stroganoff), it's alphabetized under Boeuf... This is a serious French cookbook.
Illustrated by Sidonie Coryn. [1–2: blank] [i–vii] viii–x [xi–xiii] xiv–xv [xvi] [1–3] 4–684 ii–xxxii (index) [xxxiii–xxxiv] pages.
Edition + Condition: Eighth printing. A very good copy with a few spots on the fore-edge in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket missing a half-inch or so at the top of the spine (not affecting any text). The jacket also has a few spots and edge tears. This copy is signed by Julia Child on the half-title with her usual "Bon appétit!" Vintage copies, from the 1960s, can be hard to find signed.
Publication: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1964.
Offered by Downtown Brown Books and found in "List 112."
- e-list 104: Miscellany: the Doukhobors, a Perfumed Nut, a Curseword Puzzle, "A Job Only a Woman Can Do", & Of COurse, the Children *New*
- e-list No. 103 Miscellany: Circus Ephemera, Butter Wrappers, Victory Rations, a Jesuit Priest's Guide to "Going Steady" & Of Course, the Children
EDITIO ALTERA RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
- RBMS 2024
- New York Book Fair 2024 (Revised)
- Comic collection of William "Gatz" Hjortsberg -- Details available upon request from info@elkriverbooks.com...
- Highlights from the ABAA Virtual Book Fair
RODGER FRIEDMAN RARE BOOK STUDIO
- OCCASIONAL LIST 22: A Miscellany: Original Art Work; Small Archive of Major English Watercolourist; Interesting Theatrical Pieces; Manuscript Material, Etc., Etc. -- available on request from fgrare@fgrarebooks.com...
- Has the following lists available: California, Texas, Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Oregon, Louisiana, Colorado, Ohio and New York. Will email to interested parties. Contact info@ginsbook.com to request...
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THOMAS A. GOLDWASSER RARE BOOKS
- Faith & Science *New*
- Three Pseudo-Augustine Collections *New*
DAVID A. HAMILTON AMERICANA BOOKS
Featured item:
HIRST, Damien.
Pharmacy (Signed Limited Edition)
New York: Cohen Gallery, 1992. Limited Edition. Offset print on thick card (8.5 x 8.5 inches), with die-cut circle to center; SIGNED and hand-numbered to lower margin (147/200). An editioned announcement card produced by Damien Hirst for one of his earliest New York shows at Cohen Gallery (Dec. 4–Jan. 28, 1993), where Pharmacy had been created as a site-specific installation. Archivally-hinged in white lacquer frame with UV plexiglass.
Offered by Harper's Books and found in "July Selections."
- Americana
- Antiquarian Miscellany (May 28, 2024)
JONATHAN A. HILL, BOOKSELLER, INC.
- Asian Printing Woodblocks *New*
- Artists' Books *New*
- Recent Asian Acquisitions *New*
- Literary Broadsides July 2024 *New*
- e-List 249 *New*
- Artist Books e-List *New*
- e-List 248 | Rita Dove, Todd Hido, Robert Motherwell *New*
Featured item:
ACHEBE, Chinua.
A Man of the People
New York: The John Day Company, 1966. First U.S. edition and first printing. Hardcover. 166 pages. The fourth novel from the author of the classic "Things Fall Apart." A clean and tight near fine copy in yellow cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with a small tear to the base of the spine and some other very minor wear. A pleasing copy.
Offered by Jeff Hirsch Books and found in "e-List 249."
Featured item:
Thea Friederici. [Monatsbilder].
Leipzig: privately published, circa 1920. First and only edition of this charming children’s calendar by German illustrator Thea Friederici (1897-1971), with binding and plates watercolored by hand. Twelve full-page lithographs, one for each month, depict villagers enjoying seasonal pastimes: gathering flowers in March, sailing in August, apple picking in October, hunting in November, ice skating in December. February features a quartet of masked, dancing children celebrating Fasching, the traditional German carnival to welcome spring. Friederici lived and worked in Leipzig with her husband, Moravian-born book illustrator Karl Stratil, who moved there in exile after World War I.
Though the print run of this series is unknown, the delicate string-tied binding and handcolored pictorial boards suggest a very limited edition. Text in German. Not listed in the major children’s bibliographies; OCLC locates two institutional holdings (Princeton and Winthrop). A near-fine copy of a scarce and striking book. Single volume, measuring 9.5 x 8.5 inches: 12 plates. Original hand-colored lithographic pictorial boards, red paper spine tied with gold cord. Twelve handcolored lithographs, the first signed by Friederici in pencil, the rest initialed. Light shelfwear, paper spine chipped, lightest foxing to endpapers and first plate.
Offered by Honey & Wax Booksellers and found in "A Children's List, June 2024."
Featured item:
GAY PRIDE PARADE and PERSONAL PHOTOS OF FRIENDS AND LOVERS AIDS QUILT 1989 PHOTO LOT
23,500 people died of AIDS in the United States in the year 1989, and still many gathered to mourn, revel, and celebrate love. Forty-six 5” x 3 3/4” photographs document a Gay Pride parade and friends and lovers in 1989.
Hundreds of people are pictured in procession smiling, laughing, and marching in the parade. Many are walking while others are riding motorcycles, many hold each other while others hold up banners. Banners read: FIGHT AIDS! WE NEED HEALTHCARE RESEARCH!, National Lesbian Conference, SMYAL (Sexual Minority Youth Assistance League),
The Lesbian & Gay Big Apple Corps, Stonewall 1969-1989.
One photograph features an AIDS memorial quilt. Two names are visible: Paul McLean and Stanley Lawrence Roberts.
Other images frame personal photos of friends and lovers. In good overall condition.
Offered by House of Mirth Photos and found in "Summer 2024."
- Harold Bloom Archive - Details and price available upon request to james@jamesjaffe.com. Institutional inquiries only.
- New York Book Fair 2024
- Politics *New*
- Advancing Women *New*
- California Summer 2024 *New*
Featured item:
CALIFORNIA POLITICAL BUTTON COLLECTION
A collection of 1950s and ‘60s political buttons supporting causes and candidates ranging from the Vietnam anti-war movement to Ronald Reagan’s campaign for the California governorship. This group consists of 56 unique metal pinback buttons, which are housed in a period cardboard box. Most of the buttons are coated paper with metal backing; some are union printed.
Several of the political pins relate directly to Northern California. For example, a button for the Free Speech F.S.M. is associated with the 1964-65 student protest at the University of California, Berkeley, the first mass act of civil disobedience on an American college campus in the 1960s.
The orange and black Viva Kennedy button in this collection is representative of clubs formed by Latinx supporters of John F. Kennedy during his 1968 presidential campaign. The Viva Kennedy clubs began in Texas as a forum for Mexican American veterans to rally support for equal rights, and eventually spread to swing states with large Latinx populations like Arizona and California. They also promoted increased voter registration and political organization for the Latinx community.
Another button in this collection advocates “No on Prop 14”. The Proposition 14 in question is the proposed amendment to the California Constitution which, had it passed, would have effectively allowed housing discrimination. The initiative was intended to counteract the effects of the Rumford Fair Housing Act, which was passed by the California Legislature in 1963 to help end racial discrimination by property owners and landlords who refused to rent or sell their property to people based on ethnicity, religion, sex, marital status, physical handicap, or familial status. It was drafted by William Byron Rumford, the first African American from Northern California to serve in the state legislature.
Overall, the buttons are in very good condition.
Offered by johnson rare books & archives and found in "Politics."
- Original Photographs and Photography Books *New*
- Lewis Carroll Inspired Books & Prints *New*
- Religion - Book Arts, Leaves, & Antiquarian *New*
Featured item:
Tenneson, Joyce.
Joyce Tenneson Photographs
Boston: David R. Godine, 1984.
Signed by the author. Afterword by Philip K. Jason. Lovely compilation of 46 ethereal photographs by well-known fine arts photographer Tenneson. Most of the images feature babies, mothers, and women. In cream paper wrappers with black title to spine and photographic illustration to front panel. Minor wear to edges of wrappers. In very good condition. 77 pages. Quarto.
Offered by Kelmscott Bookshop and found in "Original Photography and Photography Books."
Featured item:
Improvements in or relating to forks.
[Redhill: Malcomson, 1900.] Disbound: One plate. 2 pp. Red edges, signs of removal from gutter, purple stamp on page [1].
This is the patent for an innovative and affordable fork designed for laborers. Invented by Charles Frederick Marriott, this fork was to be constructed so that it could fold closed safely without the tines being exposed, and then be kept in one’s pocket while working. With a plate showing the nature of the invention as well as the means for putting it into effect. The four figures represent an opened folding fork; a longitudinal section through the fork; the cross section of the fork; and the fork in its closed position. With a purple stamp from the Manchester department of patents on page [1] dated 16 May 1900. In good condition. Unrecorded.
Offered by Ben Kinmont, Bookseller and found in "Job Printing & Gastronomy."
JOHN W. KNOTT, JR., BOOKSELLER
Featured item:
THE FEDS. June 1937. (Volume 2, No. 4). John L. Nanovic, editor.
New York: Street and Smith Publishing, Inc., 1937. Octavo, single issue, pictorial wrappers. Pulp magazine. Lead feature is "Public Hero No. 1-The Life Story of John Edgar Hoover and the F.B.I." Also includes a Steve Fisher novelette. Cook, Mystery, Detective and Espionage Magazines, pp. 237-239. Tanning to text paper, still supple, mild edge wear, small paper loss at the head of the spine, light damp stain to verso of lower front edge.
Offered by John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller and found in "New Arrivals: Pulps."
- Catalog #74: 100 Rare Books -- with an emphasis on history and military affairs. Please request from mail@kubikbooks.com...
MICHAEL LAIRD RARE BOOKS & MANUSCRIPTS
Featured item:
GOLD-PRINTED LITHOGRAPH: A PROTECTIVE TALISMAN, WITH SPECIAL APPEALS FOR HEALING
[Anonymous Lithographer].
S.l. (probably Istanbul): late 19th century or ca. 1900. Gold printed lithograph (51 x 16 cm; 20” x 6.25”), stained, significantly repaired on verso, some small holes in folds. Preserved in a mylar L-sleeve (folded once horizontally). Good.
PROTECTION FROM EVIL SPIRITS, LITHOGRAPHED IN GOLD. An intriguing Ottoman talisman; unusually, it was executed in gold ink lithography. As customary, there are two columns of various prayers and spells, references to the Qur’an, the names of God, the Prophet, other prophets, and other magical terms and magical squares. The text is Arabic, here presented in calligraphic handwriting. The talisman itself was created to be carried (or worn), either folded or in a protective case. The vertical texts on the borders of the two columns are verses taken from the Qur’an and are REQUESTS FOR HEALING. The two middle columns are requests for aid by God through the Qur’an, the Prophet Muhammed, and the other prophets. Such objects have been popular as a personal protection against evil spirits in the Middle East for centuries until today. Nonetheless, examples printed in gold lithography, are very uncommon. We are grateful to Kelly Tuttle for her kind assistance in cataloguing of this talisman.
Offered by Michael Laird Rare Books & Manuscripts and found in "RBMS 2024."
- Incunabula (July 23, 2024) *New*
- English, American & Continental Law, 1591-2000 (July 16, 2024) *New*
- Selected Items on Display at the 2024 AALL Annual Meeting & Conference, July 20–23, 2024 *New*
- English and American Ephemera, 1693-1971 (July 2, 2024) *New*
DAVID M. LESSER, FINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKS
- Civil War, New Acquisitions *New*
- New Political Americana *New*
- Maps & More Maps *New*
- Catalogue 204 *New*
Featured item:
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[vp: 1865]. All are in Very Good condition, with occasional dust to the backing. All are about 2-1/2" x 4." Light occasional wear, Very Good.
1. EXECUTIVE OFFICE, SOUTHERN CONFEDERACY. NY: Brill. 1865. 2-3/8" x 3-7/8." Illustration of a despairing Jefferson Davis, now a prisoner in handcuffs standing in the middle of his small cell. Mrs. Davis's dress and crinoline, in which he was allegedly captured, hangs on a wall in his prison cell. A stool and a pitcher are by his bed. A chain for shackling is on another wall. The verso is blank. Very Good with light wear.
2. THE LAST OF THE CHEVALIERS. (END OF THE PLAY) JEFF: "I THOUGHT YOUR GOVERNMENT WAS MORE MAGNANIMOUS THAN TO HUNT DOWN WOMEN AND CHILDREN." Boston: Prang. 1865. Lithograph print, 2-3/8" x 3-15/16." Jefferson Davis in a woman's long dress, with shawl and cape, holding a knife in his upraised right hand. A hand points a revolver at Davis's head. Davis wears boots, with spurs. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1865 by L. Prang & Co. in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of Mass." Very Good.
3. "DONT PROVOKE HIM. HE MIGHT HURT YOU. [np: 1865]. 2-38" x 3-3/4," mounted on card stock. On the verso is a photo of an elderly gentleman [Davis?], wearing a top hat and standing in front of his house]. Davis is running away, in woman's dress and bonnet, carrying a knife in his right hand.
4. Uncaptioned. Providence: 1865. 2-1/2" x 4." Jeff Davis, elaborately costumed in women's clothing, and Mrs. Davis at his side, is flanked by two Union soldiers, one of whom lifts the bottom of Davis's dress with his sword; the other Union soldier pats Davis on top of his head. They are standing outside Davis's tent. A ghoulish person looks on from inside the tent.
5. Uncaptioned. New York: Anthony. [1865]. Davis wears a woman's dress and cloak. He has a long pigtail and shuffles away from a burning Richmond.
6. In manuscript, "The Neglected Picture." Davis's portrait is enclosed in a frame with shattered glass. Two business cards--one for a rope maker and one for an undertaker--are inserted into inner edges of frame. Photograph of a cartoon. The verso states, in ink manuscript, "From an original oil painting by Wm. M. Davis of Port Jefferson L.I. - 1861."
The copy at the Lincoln Financial Foundation confirms Davis as the artist. ""William M. Davis produced a trompe l' oeil painting in 1861 based on the most popular likeness of the Confederate president, which had appeared, among other places, on the five-cent Confederate stamp. The center of the artist's work is a tattered lithograph in an old pine frame, with its caption 'Hon. Jeff Davis' fully visible. The lithograph is torn, one corner curls down, and disrespectful signs are pasted over it. But what makes the work successful is the illusion of shattered glass over the print. The painting was photographed in 1862 and distributed as a carte-de-visite entitled The Neglected Picture..." Neely, Holzer, Boritt: The Confederate Image, pages 169-170.
Offered by David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books and found in "Civil War: New Acquisitions."
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Featured item:
Safety Matches / Alumettes de Surete
Moscow: Raznoexport, (n. d.), circa 1958. 10-1/4 x 6-1/2 inches. [32]pp. Stapled blue wrappers illustrated in pink, yellow, orange, etc. Profusely illustrated in color and b&w, with gilt highlights. Text in English and French. Rubbing/scuffing to spine and lightly to wrappers; slight bumping to corners. Very Good.
A scarce promotional booklet of matchbooks from the USSR, gorgeously printed and including a two-page photographic spread of women working in the matchbox factory. The USSR itself is promoted here nearly as much as the matches themselves, which have names like "Soviet Ballet," "Visit the USSR," "Puppet Theatre," and "Festivalniye"; these last were issued in 1957 to mark the Sixth World Festival of Youth and Students, held in Moscow. Naturally, the high quality of Soviet materials and workmanship is touted, too, and the specs for each of the different match sizes offered are carefully delineated.
OCLC locates one holding, at the Art Institute of Chicago.
Offered by Kate Mitas, Bookseller and found in "E-list No. 22: How to Be a Badass."
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Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica.
This is an excellent example of Jansson’s beautifully engraved and hand-colored wind rose chart, one of the first in that map genre and a significant navigational advance for sailors.
Using the 32 points of the compass rose developed by sailors and navigators in the Middle Ages; each point is associated with a line labeled in Greek, Latin, Italian, Portuguese, French, and Dutch and degrees separated at intervals of 90 as well as degrees running 360 from the north. The cardinal directions are labeled in all caps with lines running towards the top-left (north), top-right (east), bottom-right (south), and bottom-left (west). Heads representing the different races of the world blow winds around the perimeter of the chart, with larger heads at the ends of the lines for the cardinal directions. Despite its aesthetic qualities, this chart was used as a reference, evidenced by its detail and inclusion of the six languages, as extant pilot books or other navigational tools could easily be in any of these languages.
Wind Rose Charts
This map was one of the earliest published wind charts, which are graphical representations of wind data showing various attributes of wind, such as direction, speed, frequency, and patterns over a specific period and location. The present map is more specifically a wind rose chart, also known as an anemographic chart, which is a circular diagram showing the frequency of winds blowing from different directions. Each “spoke” on the rose represents a wind direction, and the length of each spoke indicates the frequency or speed of the wind from that direction.
Publication information
This map appeared as the first plate in Jannson’s Atlantis Majoris, the fifth volume of Jansson’s Atlas Novus. The first part of the Atlantis Majoris is also known as the Atlas Maritimus. A ground-breaking work, it was the first true sea atlas. This example is distinguished by its very good condition and gorgeous hand coloring.
Offered by Neatline Antique Maps and featured in "Curiosities & Miscellanea."
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[Adams, Katharine- Binding and Original Stunning Illuminations By Allan Vigers]
Morris, William. Art and the Beauty of the Earth.
London: Longmans & Company; The Chiswick Press, 1898. First Edition. 8vo, 8 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches. EXQUISITELY ILLUMINATED BY ALLAN F. VIGERS (1858-1921), including half-title decorated with white rose blossoms and leafy tendrils hanging down in multiple colors, verso with square illustration of flowers in garden, with striking blue ornamental background, opening text leaf with stunning full-page wide border design in multiple colors composed of dozens of flowers in bright red bordered design panels, and two graceful long-beaked birds at the bottom (dated “1903”), large illustration on the colophon page including the two birds facing each other in a garden, with 12 roses overhead, bright blue background, and red bordering panels, and approximately 48 tendril and flower infills within the text in various colors--all in watercolor; the colophon illumination is signed below by Vigers: “1903 A.V.F.” This wonderfully illumined masterpiece is further complemented by its superb binding by KATHARINE ADAMS, one of the top bookbinders in the modern era, who became an acclaimed and highly sought-after bookbinder in Britain and abroad, creating intricate gold-tooled bindings with tools she herself had designed. Adams became the second president of the Women’s Guild of Art, and bound many books which have become legendary in the trade by famous publishers such as the Doves and Kelmscott Press. Bound in full crushed green morocco, signed and dated “K.A. 1906,” on lower dentelle, lettered on upper cover and spine, top edges gilt, and dentelles made up of small circles; joints slightly rubbed, internally fine. Printed at the Chiswick Press in Golden type designed by William Morris for the Kelmscott Press.
Allan Francis Vigers (1858-1921) was trained as an architect, but was best-known (like Morris) as a designer of textiles, furniture and especially beautifully designed wallpaper in distinctively Arts & Crafts modalities. Vigers joined the Art Workers Guild in 1903, and exhibited at the Royal Academy and at the Arts and Crafts Exhibition in 1910, and took a highly individualistic approach to pattern design, informed by his skills as an illuminator. He specialized in intricate florals, composed of a mass of small flower heads, mounted like jewels on white or dark-blue backgrounds. At once naturalistic and symbolic, his patterns feature typical English garden flowers... simply and accurately depicted, but arranged in consciously artful synchronized formations.
Offered by Nudelman Rare Books and found in "Catalog 52."
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LES LETTRES ET LES ARTS. REVUE ILLUSTREE. FOUR VOLUMES
Paris: Boussod, Valadon et Cie, 1886-1887. large 4to. half brown morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, leather tips, marbled patedowns and endpapers. variously paginated.
The first four (of twelve) volumes of this well-known reference on French Art. Minor rubbing / wear to spine ends / hinges / corners of all four volumes. Foxing to preliminary pages of all four volumes, else a very good set. Many illustrated plates, some in color.
Offered by Oak Knoll Books and found in "Special Catalogue 34: The Herbert H. Johnson Collection of Book Design and Typography, Part One."
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[Ninja Press] Creeley, Robert; Merwin, W.S.; et al.
The Alphabet Broadsides [Set of 16]
Sherman Oaks, CA: Ninja Press, 2006-2018. Each limited to 75 copies. Set of 16 broadsides, each 11x17" in various type style, paper, and color. Each broadside is signed by its author, (Except "I" by Robert Creeley, who had passed away the year prior). "A" and "T" are number 59, the remaining are number 60. All in fine condition.
Complete set, to this date (May, 2024), of the beautiful Alphabet Broadsides published by Carolee Campbell at her Ninja Press. The project was begun in 2006 "to explore some of the possible variations in the relationship between a large letterform used within a confined space and a poem." Each broadside is the same size though the letterform is neither enlarged nor reduced.
A. “Joplin,” Jeffrey Brown 2018
B. “Before the Snake,” Nathaniel Tarn 2008
C. “Crows,” Gaylord Schanilec 2016
D. “Depression,” Janet Rodney 2010
G. “Incident,” Gerald Lange 2014
I. “I Know a Man,” Robert Creeley 2006
J. “Beyond Freedom,” Michael Hannon 2006
K. “Tune,” Kay Ryan 2011
L. “Coming Home, Detroit, 1968,” Philip Levine 2014
P. “Mojave,” Lindsay Hill 2009
R. “Rotation,” Natasha Trethewey 2015
S. “Smoking Holes,” Richard Lang 2011
T. “Brown Towhee,” Joseph Stroud 2017
W. “The Wilderness,” W.S. Merwin 2012
X. “X-Poetics,” Johanna Drucker 2012
Z. “Zhaozhou Congshen,” Robert Bringhurst 2007
Offered by Peruse the Stacks and found in "Archives & Collections."
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Featured item:
Bruce Rogers Selected Letters, 1915-1918.
Caliban Press, 1988. Octavo. [4], viii, [2], 61, [2] pp., illus. Limited edition, number 62 of 190 copies. As issued, backed in calf with flexible covers. A very nice copy with only light shelf-rubbing; clean throughout. A significant collection of letters from Rogers to Emery Walker, Sydney Cockerell, and others. These 16 letters were written during "a very unsettling time for Rogers. In 1912 he resigned from the Riverside Press after sixteen years and some 60 limited editions published under his direction. He was 42 and had made a significant name for himself at Houghton Mifflin, the parent company of Riverside Press. Yet he became dissatisfied" (p. vii). The letters address both projects and possibilities with which Rogers is struggling. An important look into a critical time on his career and life. Here beautifully printed by Mark McMurray at his Caliban Press.
Offered by Michael Pyron, Bookseller and found in "Fine & Private Press."
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Featured item:
Robert Towne (screenwriter)
CHINATOWN [ca. 1973] Jack Nicholson's copy of early draft film script
[Los Angeles]: Paramount Pictures, [ca. 1973]. Vintage original film script, printed die-cut Paramount Pictures wrappers, 11 x 8 1⁄2" (28 x 22 cm.). First-generation xerographic printing, 187 pp. Pp. 178-187 are
hand-numbered in ink. Light creasing to back cover, last few pages have minute stains at extreme top blank margins, overall near fine.
Jack Nicholson’s copy of a very early draft by Robert Towne. The script contains innumerable photocopied revisions, almost certainly in Towne’s hand, and some underlinings and notes in ink in Nicholson’s hand.
Almost all of the great American private-eye films—The Maltese Falcon, Murder My Sweet, The Big Sleep, Out of the Past, Kiss Me Deadly—are adapted from preexisting works, with one outstanding exception: 1974’s Chinatown, based on an original screenplay by Robert Towne that is a masterpiece of narrative construction, meta-history, and myth. This early draft of the Chinatown screenplay, with corrections by writer Towne and annotations by star Jack Nicholson, is substantially different from the screenplay that was eventually filmed—rougher and much longer. It has voiceover narration missing from the completed film. Where later versions of the screenplay—and the film—begin with the detective protagonist Jake Gittes (Nicholson) in conference with a cuckolded client (Burt Young), this version, set like the film in the 1930s, begins with the eventual murder victim, water commissioner Hollis Mulwray, examining the bed of the L.A. River. What appear to be Towne’s photocopied annotations are essentially corrections (portions of lines crossed out, many hand-printed words added to the dialogue), suggesting this is an early draft, if not the first draft, of the completed script. What appear to be Nicholson’s annotations, handwritten in this copy, are comments suggesting a dialogue between Towne and Nicholson (who had been friends and collaborators for many years) regarding the development of the script. The screenplay was clearly written with Nicholson in mind as the lead.
Although the movie is much tighter than this early draft, and scenes have been revised, replaced, or rearranged, the bare bones of the plot are the same as in all later versions—the mystery of why massive amounts of L.A.’s water are being diverted into the ocean, the strange interrelationship of Mulwray and his beautiful wife Evelyn (Faye Dunaway), her monstrously wealthy father and Hollis’ former partner Julian Cross (renamed Noah Cross and played by John Huston), and the incest theme, the hidden girl who turns out to be Evelyn’s daughter by her own father. Between this draft and the completed film, some characters were added and others eliminated. Unlike in the movie, the screenplay’s patriarchal villain, Cross, doesn’t appear until late in the story. And he has far fewer scenes and lines. The most radical difference between this draft, subsequent drafts, and the completed film is its final act and conclusion. In this early draft, Cross is shot dead by Evelyn off-screen—whereas in the completed movie’s stunning ending (written by director Roman Polanski), Evelyn is the one who is shot and Cross leaves the scene with Evelyn’s terried daughter in his custody. Evil and corruption prevail.
Offered by Walter Reuben, Inc. and found in "Catalog 54."
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Robert Altman (director) Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Robert Duvall (starring)
Final script for the 1970 film, dated February 26, 1969. Included with the script are eight borderless double-weight reference photographs from the film, with stamps specific to the film’s French release on the versos. A core New Hollywood film, based on the 1968 novel by Richard Hooker, and in turn the basis of the acclaimed television show which ran for eleven seasons, from 1972-1983 on CBS. Winner of the Academy Award for Best Screenplay, and nominated for four more, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress. Winner of the Palme d’Or. Housed in a custom clamshell box. National Film Registry.
Offered by Royal Books and found in "Catalog Eighty-Two" (item 56).
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Featured item:
Une Chemise de Nuit de Flanelle.
Paris: Librairie Les Pas Perdus, 1951. First edition. 30 pp. Original publisher’s printed wrappers, glassine, cover illustration by Max Ernst. Slightly overopened at front gutter, else fine.
Of a total edition of 550 copies, this is one of the edition de tête of fifty copies on Marais Crevecoeur, numbered in pencil (no. 12) with an original linoleum cut by Hans Arp laid in. The print is numbered “12/50” in pencil and the colophon is signed by Arp. A surrealist drama written by Carrington in Mexico in 1945, translated into French by Yves Bonnefoy, with an introduction by Henri Parisot.
Offered by Triolet Books and found in "July List."
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by James Baldwin
1962. First edition, review copy with publisher's publicity photo laid in of novel that Baldwin said "makes GIOVANNI seem conservative—almost square."
Fine in very good plus jacket.
Offered by Type Punch Matrix and found in "James Baldwin Catalog."
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ADICHIE, Chimamanda Ngozi. Half of a Yellow Sun.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. 24.2x16.5cm: 435pp. First North American Edition. SIGNED by author on title page. Yellow paper-covered boards quarterbound in green paper, with title stamped in gilt on spine. Illustrated dust jacket. Spine ends gently nudged with light wear to board edges. Modest stain to textblock foredge that bleeds into the preliminaries and first 20 pages, not affecting text. Dustjacket a bit soiled with scuffing to rear. Small stain on p.178, not affecting text, otherwise internally clean. Better than Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket.
Adichie’s second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun is set during the Nigerian Civil War (Biafran War) and “is a remarkable novel about moral responsibility, about the end of colonialism, about ethnic allegiances, about class and race–and the ways in which love can complicate them all.” It won the UK Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2007, and was turned into a movie in 2013.
Offered by Walnut Street Paper and found in "African Americana E-List."
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Featured item:
Hanham, Frederick, editor.
Natural Illustrations of the British Grasses.
1846. Bath: Binns and Goodwin, 1846.
Small folio, xx, 130, (2, ads) with 62 specimens of dried grasses mounted on separate plates each with printed title and border. Publisher’s red pebbled morocco, elaborately paneled in gilt and blind over beveled boards, backstrip gilt with title entwined by grasses of the field and the publisher’s name surmounted by an oval vignette of reeds at the water’s edge, bound by Astle and Sons. Binding lightly rubbed and worn at tips, occasional light foxing and offsetting, specimens astonishingly well preserved.
First (only) edition. A beautifully preserved specimen book describing the grasses of Great Britain. A small ecological treasure from the pre-herbicide era (one wonders how many of the grasses contained are now endangered or extinct) and one with renewed significance in the light of the rewilding movement in England and new efforts by English Heritage and others to restore former meadowlands. Taxonomy is discussed but the accompanying text is mostly literary, extolling the charms of grasses and their vital importance to mankind. The specimens themselves are extraordinarily delicate and attractive. “Dried specimens of plants, when preserved with care as to their natural appearance and character, must always be more interesting and valuable to a Botanist, or a lover of Nature, than engravings; being the real or original object, which drawings are intended only to portray... there is much... that the pencil can never show” (Hanham, Preface).
Offered by John WIndle Antiquarian Bookseller and found in "A Short List of Manuscripts and Other Rarities."
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ST. VINCENT DE PAUL (1581-1660)
Regulae seu constitutiones communes congregationis Missionis
Paris: 1658. The first edition of the rules of the Congregation of the Mission, the religious society founded by St. Vincent de Paul. Founded in 1625, the society was concerned especially with charitable works and expanded rapidly in Europe and abroad. The edition offered here is the only one published during the saint's lifetime and includes an exhortation by Vincent to this followers. There are several variants of this first edition, some have a different engraved portrait of Vincent, others have a different spelling on the title-page, and still others include an errata sheet at the end (this one does not). 12mo (12 x 6.5cm), [iv], 112pp., [ii]. Engraved title-page, engraved portrait, and engraved plate of Christ. Bound in contemporary calf, some wear to spine.
Offered by Zinos Books and found in "New Arrivals."
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Sherman, Orin The Sherman Clothes Wringer, Warranted Without Cog Wheels
Boston: By the author, n. d. (1860s). Small broadside; 8 3/4 x 5 3/4; off-white stock printed in black and illustrated with a woodcut; a small nick to right edge and a tiny puncture to lower margin; a bit of age-toning and spotting; in about very good condition. A fabulous, mid-19th-century advertising piece, it showed a lady using the Sherman Wringer, dressed in a patriotic, American-Flag-pattern dress. Historically, laundry was a dreaded household chore in the 19th century, one which women did everything they could to avoid - including sending their washing out for others to do and hiring laundresses to come to their homes, when they could afford it. Those, who could not afford help needed a large variety of supplies - water, heating sources and vessels for boiling water, pails, tubs, dippers, wash-boards, soaps, drying areas, and so on. The Sherman Wringer promised to make everyone's life easier by being improved, compact, simple, durable, and without cog wheels "to cause it to turn hard, or to break and render the machine useless," like other wringers on the market. The broadside stated that the Sherman was far superior to Putnam's, Colby's, and many other competitors' contraptions and that it could fit both round and square tubs, making it universal.
Offered by ZH Books and found in "E-list: Everyday Life."
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