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...EMBELLISHED WITH PORTRAITS FROM THE INDIAN GALLERY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR, AT WASHINGTON. The first volume of this magnificent three-volume set. Folio (14-3/4" x 21") bound in contemporary half red morocco with matching corners and marbled boards, gilt-decorated spine with six raised bands and matching black morocco spine labels. Illustrated with 48 beautiful hand-colored lithographs of Native Americans based on original oil portraits painted from life in the studio of Charles Bird King, to whom McKenney brought many of the subjects. The rest were copied from watercolors executed in the field by a young frontier artist named James Otto Lewis. The finished portraits were housed in the Smithsonian where all but four were destroyed in a fire in 1865. There appearance here is not only the best but in many cases the only likenesses of many of the most prominent Indian leaders of the nineteenth century. Bennett, p. 79; BAL 6934; Field 992; Howes M129: "The most colorful portraits of Indians ever executed"; Reese 24: "the grandest color plate book issued in the United States up to the time of its publication, and one of the most important of the century"; Sabin 43410a. Bookplate of Samuel Spaight Reeves on the front pastedown.
HISTORY OF THE INDIAN TRIBES OF NORTH AMERICA, WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND ANECDOTES OF THE PRINCIPAL CHIEFS...
McKENNEY, Thomas L. and HALL, James [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenbough, 1838.
Price: $50,000.00
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ARCHIVE OF 18 SIGNED BOOKS INCLUDING HIS FAMILY BIBLE & CABLE'S COPY OF THE GRANDISSIMES USED ON HIS TOUR WITH MARK TWAIN
CABLE, George Washington
Price: $30,000.00
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Bound Cosway-style by Bayntun-Riviere in full red crushed levant morocco with five raised bands, spine and covers elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt with the front cover set with a large oval miniature painting of Dickens under glass, gilt dentelles, silk doublures and endpapers, all edges gilt. Small octavo, 4" x 6-1/2"; [8], 166, [2, ads] pages with the original cloth covers bound in at the rear. First edition, first issue: "Stave I"; text entirely uncorrected; green-coated endpapers; blue half-title page; red and blue title page. Four hand-colored steel-engraved plates by and after Leech and four wood-engraved text illustrations by W. J. Linton after Leech. Two tiny pinholes, one at the bottom of the front joint and the other at the bottom of the rear joint. Housed in a red cloth slipcase.
A CHRISTMAS CAROL in superb COSWAY-STYLE BINDING
DICKENS, Charles
London: Chapman & Hall, 1843.
Price: $30,000.00
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Original blindstamped publisher's dark brown cloth containing in this order: Shattuck's HISTORY OF CONCORD (viii, 392 pages with folding map); an offprint REVIEW OF A HISTORY OF CONCORD FROM THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, No. XCI (20 pages); and importantly, Emerson's address on the Second Centennial Anniversary of the incorporation of Concord (52 pages), INSCRIBED by the author on the top of the title: "Mr. Lemuel Shattuck/with Mr. Emerson's comp." The end of the final word in the inscription was trimmed and the original blue wrappers discarded when bound with the other two items, the original size 6-7/16" x 9- 3/4" trimmed to 5-1/2" x 8-3/4". BAL 5178; Myerson A2.1: second state with signature mark 3 present, but he notes that the order of states is arbitrary. Emerson's first separately published substantial publication, preceded only by the pamphlet and broadside printings of his 1832 LETTER...TO THE SECOND CHURCH, is scarce not only due to a likely very small printing but also to a fire at the Town-Clerk's office in Concord that is said to have destroyed most copies. He consulted the proof sheets of Shattuck's history, published shortly after the town's celebration, in creating this work, refering to it in 23 footnotes. The strong circumstantial evidence leads us to believe this is Shattuck's own copy of his work and the offprint as well, bound together for him with the pamphlet given to him by Emerson. Bookplate of the Reverend Philip Wheeler on the front pastedown. The Shattuck title page reinforced at the gutter.
A HISTORICAL DISCOURSE, DELIVERED BEFORE THE CITIZENS OF CONCORD, 12TH SEPT. 1835 with A HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF CONCORD
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo with SHATTUCK, Lemuel
Concord: G. F. Bemis/John Stacy, 1835.
Price: $30,000.00
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AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES
WILSON, Alexander [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
Philadelphia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1808-1814.
Price: $30,000.00
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BAL 3310. The first printing of Mark Twain's first book, published in an edition of only 1000 copies, with the inserted ad leaf before the title page and undamaged type in folio 21 and in the last lines of pages 66 and 198. In the traditionally preferred blue cloth with the traditionally preferred gilt frog in the center of the front cover. Twain's presentation copy to his mother was in blue cloth. A very faded signature of a previous owner at the top of the title page and a small blue ink stamp of the same name at the blank top of the dedication page. The text is quite clean with one page with a very short, hardly noticeable marginal repair. The cloth is bright and clean. The hinges have been professionally strengthened with no visible sign of the work ever having been done, and the spine has been neatly and expertly relined to repair a fingernail-sized chip at the head and fraying at the base. The result is quite stunning with the work visible only under close scrutiny. Many Twain collectors wait for that elusive, fine, unrestored copy to add to their collections. Perhaps the best known collector of Twain in the latter half of the twentieth century admired this copy but held out for an unrestored copy and went to his grave without acquiring this title. The decision is certainly one of the toughest a serious collector has to make and one in which, if he is savvy, he will take all factors into consideration.
THE CELEBRATED JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY, AND OTHER SKETCHES
TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
New York: C. H. Webb, 1867.
Price: $25,000.00
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Folio (11-1/2" x 14-1/2") bound in contemporary half brown leather with leather corners, though the spine is lacking and both covers are detached. The atlas volume only consisting of a title page and 76 beautiful hand-colored plates, mostly multi-image. Wood (p. 360) notes that "the hand-colored drawings in the atlas are from the original copper plates, colored anew by pigments which seem to have been of better quality than those used by Wilson" in the first edition published 15 - 20 years earlier. A superb American production. Along with Audubon it is one of the color plate masterpieces of the 19th century, but significantly less expensive to obtain though becoming very difficult to locate. Colors still bright, occasional and light spot of foxing or small stain, but generally quite clean with most tissue guards still present. Minor edge tear on one or two plates not extending into image; a few plates detached. Both endpapers and blanks wrinkled to varying degrees.
Atlas Volume of Plates for AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY; OR THE NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BIRDS OF THE UNITED STATES
WILSON, Alexander [HAND-COLORED PLATES]
New York & Philadelphia: Collins & Co/Harrison Hall, 1829.
Price: $20,000.00
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LETTERS AND SOCIAL AIMS
EMERSON, Ralph Waldo
Boston: Osgood, 1876.
Price: $20,000.00
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First Printing. Publisher's library binding of full sheep, the scarcest of the bindings for this title, here very skillfully rebacked retaining the original leather spine labels. With 174 illustrations by E. W. Kemble. BAL 3415. Earliest issue for four points of BAL's seven points and with McBride's point. Recent Twain scholarship convincingly establishes three changes from the printing plates of the first printing of 30,000 copies and later printings: 1) an erroneous page reference "88" on page 13 later changed to "87" (BAL's point 2); 2) the misprint "with the was" on page 57 later corrected to "with the saw" (BAL's point 3); and 3) the misprint "Decided" on page 9 later changed to "Decides" (not noted by BAL). This copy has all three first printing points as well as most of the earliest points for BAL, lacking only the conjugate title page and having the conjugate page 283 with the vertical fly and the frontispiece with the credit to Heliotype but without the scarf. Laid in is a lottery ticket for the New Catholic Orphan Asylum in Minneapolis dated 12 September 1885. First prize was a building lot in Lakeview. Hinges tight. Internally a very clean copy and very unusual as such.
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN. (TOM SAWYER'S COMRADE). SCENE: THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY. TIME: FORTY TO FIFTY YEARS AGO
TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885.
Price: $15,000.00
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DON JUAN
BYRON, Lord
London: Thomas Davison/John Hunt, 1819 - 1824.
Price: $15,000.00
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LEAVES OF GRASS with TWO RIVULETS, each INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author
WHITMAN, Walt
Camden, NJ: 1876.
Price: $12,500.00
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39 pages. BAL 8757: First Printing, State B (A?), Binding A of original glazed boards: 2500 copies printed of this poem delivered at the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Yale College on 14 August 1850. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "H. W. Longfellow/With the compliments of/O. W. Holmes." An absolutely superb presentation copy linking two giants of nineteenth century American Literature. With the bookplate of the Longfellow Collection of Harvard College Library on the front pastedown, deaccessioned.
ASTRAEA Inscribed by Holmes to Longfellow
HOLMES, Oliver Wendell [LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth]
Boston: Ticknor, Reed & Fields, 1850.
Price: $10,000.00
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A COMMERCIAL DICTIONARY; CONTAINING THE PRESENT STATE OF MERCANTILE LAW, PRACTICE AND CUSTOM
[MELVILLE, HERMAN] MONTEFIORE, Joshua
Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1804.
Price: $10,000.00
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[WORKS] THE WRITINGS OF THOMAS HARDY
HARDY, Thomas
New York/London: Harper, n.d [1915].
Price: $9,500.00
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[COMPLETE WORKS] THE WRITINGS OF MARK TWAIN
TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
New York: Harper, 1929.
Price: $9,500.00
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TWO ON A TOWER. A ROMANCE
HARDY, Thomas
London: Sampson, Low, Marston et. al, 1882.
Price: $9,500.00
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Thin octavo (5-3/4" x 9-1/8") bound in contemporary blue boards with a tan cloth spine and corners, recently rebacked with a new sympathetic cloth spine; viii, 86, (2) pages including the half title, a frontispiece engraved portrait of Goethe, and the list of plates by Retsch with the errata printed on the verso. The First Edition of the FIRST COMPLETE ENGLISH TRANSLATION of the first part of Goethe's Tragedy of Faust. The anonymous translation was originally credited to George Soane, but literary scholarship revealed in 2007 that Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the poet of tormented guilt and of the demonic and the supernatural, was the actual translator. There are several editions of this book; the one with the accompanying plates was issued after this edition without plates. All editions are quite scarce, especially this one and especially when complete. Light to moderate foxing.
FAUSTUS: FROM THE GERMAN OF GOETHE
GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von (COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor)
London: Boosey Sons/Rodwell & Martin, 1821.
Price: $9,000.00
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The Definitive Edition consisting of thirty-seven octavo volumes bound in blue cloth-backed boards with printed paper labels on the spines and plain printed dustwrappers. Illustrated with photogravure frontispieces and plates (including portraits) after E. W. Kemble, Howard Pyle, Dan Beard, Peter Newell, A. B. Frost, and others. This is copy #744 of 1024 sets with a tipped-in leaf SIGNED "S.L. Clemens/Mark Twain" in the first volume and SIGNED additionally by Mark Twain's biographer Albert Bigelow Paine. The books are in beautiful condition, the blue cloth spines and paper labels still bright. One volume, the only one lacking a dustwrapper, has some brown spotting on the rear board. Several volumes have minor dust soiling to the blue cloth. The dustwrappers are, for the most part, free of tears and very lightly soiled with slightly darkened backstrips and only minor wear. Several have longer tears, with the first volume having the front panel neatly separated from the backstrip and another volume with both panels neatly separated from the backstrip.
[COMPLETE WORKS] THE WRITINGS OF MARK TWAIN. Definitive Edition
TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
New York: Gabriel Wells, 1922-1925.
Price: $8,500.00
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Original brown cloth with a leaf of ads at the end followed by an additional collective title page and half-title page, allowing the book to form the seventh and final volume of the 1836-7 edition of Wordsworth's POETICAL WORKS. Wordsworth's last collection of new work, and somewhat scarce. This is a Presentation copy INSCRIBED by the poet on the front pastedown: "Herbert Hill/from/the Author/April 1842." Herbert Hill married Robert Southey's daughter, Bertha, in 1839 and was a neighbor of Wordsworth's living with his wife in John Fleming's cottage in Rydal. Hill served as tutor for Matthew Arnold. Both Hill and Wordsworth attended Southey's funeral in March 1843 after which Wordsworth was selected to replace Southey as England's Poet Laureate. Rebacked some time ago with nearly all of the original spine but for the tips retained. An engraved portrait of the author is laid down on the verso of the front free endpaper.
POEMS, CHIEFLY OF EARLY AND LATER YEARS; INCLUDING THE BORDERERS, A TRAGEDY
WORDSWORTH, William
London: Edward Moxon, 1842.
Price: $8,500.00
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PUNCH, BROTHERS, PUNCH! AND OTHER SKETCHES
TWAIN, Mark [CLEMENS, Samuel]
Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone, [1878].
Price: $7,500.00
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