18. Darby, William

Darby's Universal Gazetteer, or, a New Geographical Dictionary
Publisher: Bennett & Walton, 1827. Second edition
Calf, false bands, red calf spine label. Containing a description of the Empires, Kingdoms, States, Provinces,Cities, Towns, Forts, Seas.

100/200     SOLD: $115.00

19. Stowe, Harriet Beecher

A Key to Uncle Tom s Cabin; Presenting the Original Facts and Documents Upon Which the Story is Founded.
Publisher: John P. Jewett, 1853.
Modern, full red tooled leather with raised bands.

150/300     SOLD: $74.00

20. Chaucer, Geffrey. Lidgate, John

Works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
Publisher: Kyngston for Ihon Wight, 1561. First Stowe edition.
Modern full ruled calf; black morocco labels. Folio, Black Letter. Woodcuts on title page with the armorial bearing of Chaucer; before Knight's Tale at B1; below the Colophon; and ornamental initial letters throughout. The title to the Canterbury Tales is enclosed within a large woodcut representing the family trees of John Duke of Lancaster and Edmund Duke of York. Top inch of title page replaced with Japan paper (not affecting text). This first Stowe edition of Chaucer's collected works contains, in addition to all the previously printed writings by the poet, a final section entitled "Other works of Chaucer, never before imprinted, as hereafter foloweth." Fourteen leaves of ballads, court of love, etc., were published for the first time in this 1561 edition, including: "A balade, teaching what is gentilnes" "A proverbe against covetise" "A balade against unconstant women" "Now all thing in this worlde is variable, save women only" "The crafte of Lovers" "A pleasaunt balade of women" "The X. comandements of love" "The IX. ladies worthie" "Certaine balades" "Now mercurie with the goddesses, appered to Paris" The 20th-century provenance of this rare volume is documented on its endpapers. Ex Libris bookplates inside its front cover record the following owners: The Library of Wellesley College (presented by Mr. and Mrs. Durant); George Herbert Palmer; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Kennedy Morse Opposite the bookplates is a letter which reads: "This copy of the Works of Chaucer, 1561, bearing the stamp of Wellesley College on its title, has been sold as a duplicate. (signed) Henriette St. B. Brooks, Librarian, Wellesley College, 15 Jan. 1912." Attached to an endpaper at the back of the volume is a letter from Cris Clair Takacs of Chardon, Ohio recording the procedures used to rebind the text in English calf in 1994. Inside the back cover are three printed descriptions of the volume from antiquarian dealers. A fourth paper label reads "Bought of N. R. Campbell and Co. Booksellers, Harvard Square."

8000/12000     SOLD: $7,015.00

21. Kipling, Rudyard

Poems
Publisher: Doubleday, Doron & Company, 1930. Limited Edition.
#264/537, signed by the author. Half red cloth, cream paper parchment boards with gilt decor. Fore-edge painting of Windsor Castle.

500/1000     SOLD: $564.00

22. James, Montague R. (William Russell Flint)

Book of Tobit and the History of Susanna.
Publisher: Haymarket Press, 1929. Limited edition.
Dust jacket torn. Color-plates after watercolors by William Russell Flint. Number 113 of a limited edition of 875 copies. Top edge gilt. Scottish-born artist Sir William Russell Flint enjoyed a successful career as a painter in watercolor and oil, book illustrator, medical illustrator, lithographer and etcher. He served for a long period as the President of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolor as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers. He is remembered today primarily for his depictions of the female figure and his delicate, wet manner of working with watercolor. He was knighted in 1947. In 1950, in a lavishly produced book entitled "Drawings by Sir William Russell Flint" (London: Collins), Flint discusses in textual notes the circumstances surrounding many of the drawings he made from life and the illustration projects he was involved with during the course of his long and productive career. On p. 157, he recorded some thoughts on the Tobit and Susanna project: "Not many years ago a fine scholar and write of ghost stories [James R. Montague], now deceased, stated in an introduction to the Books of Tobit and Susanna, which I had been asked to illustrate, that the latter throughout the centuries "supplied artists of prurient minds with a subject." I was disturbed at a man of great attainment holding such a foolish view, and the publisher, my old friend Ernest Halton [at Haymarket Press], at my request drew his blue pencil through the passage. I strongly repudiate the notion that artists have prurient minds. I go further and submit that, by and large, artists, especially figure painters, are less-prurient-minded than other men. Having made this declaration, I may now take a lighter view of the subject. How old were the Elders? In my boyhood I was friendly with an Elder of the Kirk and my recollection is that he was merry and young looking. That Susanna's troublesome visitors were at least well up in years is made plain in the story, but not having read it carefully until I was about to illustrate it, I often wondered why the wicked ones who were so disturbed by the beauty of the wife of Joakim of Babylon should invariably be so represented as of immense age. Leave questions, however--what a dissector of texts can do with a simple tale like the History of Susanna is almost beyond belief. Regard the subject itself; it is a delightful one. The fair and righteous Susanna, her two maids, the false accusers, "old in wickedness" and richly attired, the garden with trees and the implied pool or fountain--or if your taste runs that way, grotto with sculptures--present ample ingredients for a pleasant exercise in composition. In not a single rendering of the subject that I have seen has there been the slightest hint of Babylon! To end this note more gaily than I began--there must have been something convincing in my illustration, because my small son (as he then was) remarked, "But I don't understand. Why is she looking so cross?" A must for every Flint collector.

100/200     SOLD: $83.00

23. New Bath Guide: Or Memoirs of the B-N-R-D Family

New Bath Guide: Or Memoirs of the B-N-R-D Family.
Publisher: J. Dodsley1776Tenth
Acid etched tree of life full calf boards with gilt decorated spine.

50/100     SOLD: $63.00

24. Goldsmith, Oliver

Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith
London 1853. William Pickering. Full red crushed levant morocco extra, ribbed, A E G moire front and rear fly endpapers. Bound for Charles J Sawyer. At inner cover is recessed ivory portrait of Goldsmith, inset with pearls. Inlaid polychrome leather with gilt tendrils. In clamshell box. In cosway binding. Aldine edition. The text begins with an introduction entitled "Memoir of Goldsmith" by Rev. J. Mitford, which is profusely footnoted. The particularly amusing section of the book following the "Memoir" (and occuring immediately before Goldsmith's works proper, is a collection of nine, well-chosen anecdotes about Goldsmith from: 1) Northcote's Life of Reynolds, 2) Cradock's Memoirs, 3) Davies's Life of Garrick, 4) Boswell's Life of Johnson, 5) Miss Hawkin's Anecdotes, 6) Colman's Random Records, 7)Cumberland's Memoirs, 8) Northcote's Conversations, and Hawkins's Life of Johnson. All are entertaining reading, for they bring out Goldsmith's double nature, although one of the most memorable (and most catty) is Boswell's. An excerpt follows. "His mind resembled a fertile but thin soil. There was a quick, but not a strong vegetation, of whatever chanced to be thrown upon it. No deep root could be struck... He was very much what the French call "un etourdi" and from vanity and an eager desire of being conspicuous wherever he was, he frequently talked carelessly without knowledge of the subject, or even without thought. His person was short, his countenance coarse and vulgar, his deportment that of a scholar awkwardly affecting the easy gentleman." This volume is not only a beautiful 19th-century object, stunningly printed and bound, but also a wonderful read. This text, and the Poems of Shakespeare also offered in this auction, are bound similarly, boxed similarly, and both octavo Aldine editions.

1000/2000     SOLD: $2,352.00

25. Nicholson, William

Dictionary of Practical and Theoretical Chemistry, with its application to the arts and manufacturers.
Publisher: Richard Phillips 1808
Paper Covered Boards.

150/300     SOLD: $68.00

26. Shakespeare, William

Poems of William Shakespeare
London, 1837. William Pickering. Octavo. Full crimson crushed levant morocco extra, ribbed, with the arms of Stratford on upper cover, gold toothed border. A E G moire front and rear fly endpapers. Doublures of dark blue crushed levant morocco. Bound for Charles J Sawyer. At inner cover is recessed ivory portrait of Shakespeare, inset with pearls, in gold frame. Inlaid polychrome leather. with gilt tendrils. In clamshell box. In cosway binding. Bound and boxed very similarly to the volume of Goldsmith's Poetical Works also in this auction. The contents of this volume include: "A Memoir of Shakespeare" by Rev. Alexander Dyce; in Appendix I a chronological list of Shakespeare's plays; in Appendix II Shakespeare's will; Venus and Adonis; The Rape of Lucrece; Sonnets; A Lover's Complaint; A Passionate Pilgrim; Verses among the additional poems to Chester's Love's Martyrs; Songs from the Plays of Shakespeare.

1000/2000     SOLD: $2,932.00

27. Burke [Edmund]

Mr. Burke's Speech, On the Motion Made for Papers
Publisher: J. DODSLEY, PALL-MALL1785
C. 1920 s RED CLOTH AND MARBLED PAPER COVER, EMBOSSED GOLD LETTERING ON SPINERelative to the Directions for Charging the Nabob of Arcot s Private Debts

100/200     SOLD: $92.00