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Edward Everett Hale Pursues Good Works — Signed
Hale, Edward Everett. Autograph Letter Signed, to an unknown recipient. On paper, in English. Roxbury, MA: 1893. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). [1] f.
$75.00
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Letter written and signed by Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909), an author, historian, and Unitarian minister descended from a distinguished American family. In his day one of the nation's most prominent men of letters, Hale may now be best remembered for two stories: “The Man Without a Country,” a patriotic pro-Union allegory of the then-raging U.S. Civil War, and “The Brick Moon,” generally considered to be
the earliest known literary depiction of a man-made satellite.
With the present letter, Hale notifies an unidentified recipient of a planned meeting for an Ithaca church subscription committee, by way of a clearly written note on his Roxbury, MA, letterhead. This very nice example of his signature (here, “Edw. E. Hale”) on his stationery is also a pleasing reminder of the great author's commitment to good works throughout his life.
Creased along original folds, one lower corner creased acriss.
Excellent bit of Hale memorabilia. (36715)

A Writer at a (Charming!) Loss for Words
Hall, Basil. Autograph Letter Signed to Isabella Walsh. Philadelphia: 17 December 1827. Small 4to (24 x 19 cm; 9.5" x 7.5"). 1 p.
$100.00
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Inscribed on a page of Walsh's autograph album was this kind and playful sentiment:
“Your Brother has just called with this album, in which, he tells me, it is your wish that I should write something.
I am so much flattered by your request that I lose no time in complying with it: but I am much at a loss what to say that shall deserve a place in so gay a book — & in such good Company.
But as it becomes every well bred lion to roar for the entertainment of the company when he is bid — whether he be in a growling mood or not — I take up my pen accordingly.
Yet I daresay you will often have the mortification of hearing the visitors to this your 'menagerie' exclaim — 'Well! I am sure I never saw such a stupid wild beast before — I dont [sic] believe he is a real lion after all — I have heard many a donkey make quite as good an exhibition!'”
Hall (1788–1844) was a Scot, a naval officer, and author of several accounts of voyages and travels including Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island in the Japan Sea (1818), Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico in the years 1820, 1821, 1822 (1824), and Travels in North America in 1827–28 (1829). Miss Walsh (b 8 July 1812) was the daughter of Robert Walsh (Philadelphia lawyer and abolitionist) and Anna Maria Moylan Walsh (who died in 1826).
Provenance: The Walsh album sold at Anderson Galleries 28 Nov. 1921 (sale 1609) as lot 60. Later in the Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.
Very good condition. (34491)

A Visit from an Unnamed BUT
Possibly Discoverable &
Probably Published WOMAN Writer
Hall, Capt. Basil. Autograph Letter Signed to “Madam.” Putney Heath: no year. 12mo (7.125" x 4"). 2 pp., with integral blank leaf.
$125.00
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Hall (1788–1844), a Scot, naval officer, and author of several accounts of voyages and travels including Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island in the Japan Sea (1818), Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico in the years 1820, 1821, 1822 (1824), and Travels in North America in 1827–28, tells his correspondent that she is welcome to call on him on Sunday as she proposes, any time after 10:30 A.M. He gives detailed instructions on how to reach his house: It “is on the top of the Heath close to the Telegraph, which is a single Staff, a Semaphore.” He tells her he has finished making notes of her vol. II but has lent vol. I to another and does not yet have it returned to him.
As Hall writes that he will be easy to find because he is “about as well known here though I hope in a different spirit as in Yankee Land,” we date the letter to some time shortly enough after publication of Travels in North America for oblique reference to its angry reception there to be both natural and “fresh”; and, indeed, we wonder if his correspondent is American?
Provenance: Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.
Very good condition. Old folds, a few spots of pale tea-colored stains. Written in a pale ink that is yet quite legible. (33346)

“Hitherto Entirely Unknown to Bibliographers”? —
A Source for Shakespeare?!
Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard, ed. The debate and stryfe betwene Somer and Wynter; a poetical dialogue, from the unique copy printed by Laurence Andrew early in the sixteenth century. London: Printed for the editor [colophon: by Whittingham & Wilkins, at the Chiswick Press], 1860. 24mo (14.7 cm, 5.75"). 19, [1] pp.
$225.00
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An “exceedingly curious early poetical dialogue” between personified summer and winter, edited by noted Shakespearean scholar, son-in-law to bibliomaniac Sir Thomas Phillipps,
and history of science collector James Halliwell-Phillipps, who speculates that “some dialogue, such as the present one, suggested to Shakespeare the conclusion of his drama 'Love's Labour's Lost'.” This is the first appearance of Halliwell-Phillipps's edition; the production was
limited to 30 copies and is neatly printed.
Provenance: Pencilled signature of prominent Bostonian book collector Henry Gardner Denny on half-title margin; pencilled collation note at rear from the Quaritch firm; later rubber-stamp reading “F.S.H. Dupl.” at back. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Winsor, Halliwelliana, 1860:14. Quarter roan in imitation of morocco with chocolate paper–covered boards, spine gilt-lettered; gently rubbed with some loss of leather at joints and paper at corners/edges. Provenance marks as above; light pencilling on endpapers and title-page. (38010)

Exceptional Musical Provenance
Hamma, Fridolin. Meisterwerke italienischer Geigenbau-Kunst Ihre Beschreibg und bisher erzielte Preise. Stuttgart: Hamma & Co., [ca. 1933]. 4to (29.5 cm, 11.6"). [2], xiii, [3], 345, [5] pp.; 9 double plts., plts., illus.
$1000.00
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First edition of this important treatise on Italian violins and their makers. The author (1881–1969) was himself an accomplished luthier, and the son of the founder of the famed instrument-making firm Hamma & Co. His scholarship is here illustrated with numerous photographic reproductions of violins, representing the masterworks of many eminent Italian artists; a few of these violin images are printed in color, and at the back of the volume are
nine double-spread plates providing life-sized diagrams with measurements of instrument exemplars. This is
hand-numbered copy 518 of 1200 printed, this particular copy having outstanding provenance (see below). The publisher's prospectus — with sample illustrations — is also laid in.
Provenance: From the library of the great violinist, composer, and conductor Adolf Busch — owner of a Stradivarius violin made in 1716 — and by bequest to his daughter Irene Serkin and son-in-law, musician Rudolph Serkin. Half-title with author's signed presentation inscription to Fritz Baumgartner, who was, alongside Hamma, a co-founder of EILA, the International Association of Violin and Bow Makers (and who also owned a Stradivarius); half-title with another inked inscription signed by Busch recording gift of this volume “von Frau Baumgartner” in 1937, and with inked ownership inscription of Irene Serkin-Busch. Laid-in three-page manuscript letter dated 1937, addressed “Sehr verehrter Herr Professor” and signed by Frau Baumgartner. Herr Baumgartner and Busch had a noteworthy (so to speak) connection; the latter commissioned both a custom viola and a copy of a Stradivarius violin from the former.
Publisher's quarter (wide) vellum and brown sueded cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped coat of arms, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; covers slightly bowed, suede rubbed down to cloth along edges and in small spots on sides, vellum showing minor soiling. Pages faintly age-toned. Inscriptions as above; small piece of paper with inked annotations re. two Guadagnini instruments, laid in at the Joannes Baptista Guadagnini page.
A useful and authoritative work in and of itself, with remarkable connections to three different prominent musical families. (39715)

London Cries & Old Mother Hubbard — Hand-Colored Engravings
[Harris, John, pub.]. Sam Syntax's description of the cries of London, as they are daily exhibited in the streets. London: John Harris, [ca. 1825]. 12mo (17.2 cm, 6.75"). Frontis., [1], 17 ff.; col. illus. [bound with] [Martin, Sarah Catherine]. The comic adventures of Old Mother Hubbard and her dog: In which are shown the wonderful powers that good old lady possessed in the education of her favourite animal. London: John Harris, [ca. 1830]. 12mo. Frontis., 16, [1 (adv.)] ff.; col. illus.
$2250.00
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Two scarce juvenile works published by Harris, one of the pioneering producers of popular children's books of the early 19th century. The first item pairs
rhyming street calls with 16 vignettes of vendors with their wares, along with purchasers and would-be purchasers — as well as a frontispiece featuring Harris's storefront. The second item was “probably the most significant children's book that JH ever published . . . the first sign of his encouragement of a new kind of nursery literature — amusing, pretty, and without any moral teaching whatever” (Moon, p. 83). Both items are printed on facing pages (only), and appear here in their fourth editions as per Moon. Together, the two offer
a total of 34 hand-colored, wood-engraved illustrations.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with early inked inscription reading “Mlles Prevost Martin.” Later in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Syntax: Moon, John Harris's Books for Youth, 766(4); see also Osborne Collection, p. 630 and Gumuchian 1948 & 1949. Hubbard: Gumuchian 4329; Moon, 560(4); see Osborne pp. 683/84 (for 1st and 2nd eds). 19th-century half vellum and marbled paper–covered sides; paper rubbed, vellum darkened, upper outer corner bumped, none of this awful. Pages lightly age-toned and faintly creased, otherwise clean. An attractive copy, and
early editions of these beloved classics are now uncommon. (40758)

Harvard Library Catalogue Signed by
President Quincy
Harvard University. A catalogue of the library of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge: E.W. Metcalf & Co., 1830–31. 8vo (24.8 cm, 9.8"). 4 vols. I: xvii, [3], 490 pp. II: [2], [491]–952, [2] pp. III: xii, 233, [1] pp. IV: viii, 224 pp.
$1000.00
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First of the 19th-century catalogues of Harvard's holdings, here
uncut and unopened in four volumes, including the Catalogue of the Maps and Charts, which was published shortly after the three main volumes.
Provenance: Inscribed to a Philadelphia social club “from the President & Fellows of Harvard University,” signed by Josiah Quincy.
American Imprints 1772 & 7465; Sabin 30729 (vols. 1–3) & 30730 (maps). Publisher's quarter cloth and tan paper–covered sides, spines with printed paper labels; worn and soiled/stained but sound, with spines sunned and front lower outer corner of vol. I chipped. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, endpapers with call number, rubber-stamp on title-pages and a few others, no other markings. Front free endpaper of vol. I with inked inscription as above. (26904)

From Discussion through Completed Work — With Four Original Illustrations
Hays, H.R. Poems 1933–67. San Francisco: Kayak, 1968. 8vo (16.2 cm, 6.4"). [2], 79, [1] pp.; illus. [with the same author's] Crisis. Menomie, WI: Ox Head Press, 1969. 16mo (16.2 cm, 6.4'). [14] pp.; illus.
$250.00
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Two interesting literary, small-press printed items, with excellent accompanying material. The first item is one of 1000 copies designed and printed by George Hitchcock at the Kayak Press; the second small pamphlet, illustrated by Gerson Leiber, is one of 350 copies, the edition hand-set in Goudy Oldstyle.
In addition to the printed Poems and Crisis, Gerson Leiber's
four original ink drawings for Crisis — including one not printed in the piece — are here, with a cover letter (dated 1993 and apologizing for the 24-year delay!), signed by editor and publisher Don Olsen. Also present is Hays's typescript of “Crisis,” addressed to Olsen and stapled to two typed, signed letters from Olsen to Leiber regarding the artwork commission and subsequent printing details.
A card designed and printed by Fredric Aldwyn Brewer at the Raintree Press on behalf of the Indiana University LIbraries, with a warm handwritten message from Brewer thanking the recipient (presumably Leiber) for an engraving, is laid in to Crisis.
Provenance: From the collection of Gerson Leiber, the artist, engraver, sculptor, and book collector.
Poems: Publisher's printed light blue paper wrappers; spine and edges sunned. Crisis: Publisher's brown paper wrappers, front wrapper with black-stamped title and author information.
A marvelous look at one example of the collaborative process among writers, artists, and printers. (33615)
Not Perfect but
Evocative on Many Fronts
Hazlemore, Maximilian. Domestic economy: Or, a complete system of English housekeeping ... also, the complete brewer ... likewise the family physician. London: J. Creswick & Co., 1794. 8vo. xxxii, 392 pp. (lacking pp. 331/32, 341–44, 357–62, & 365–84 ).
$350.00
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Sole edition thus: Recipes, brewing instructions, menus suitable for a year of housekeeping, and a collection of home remedies “which will be found applicable to the relief of all common complaints incident to families, and which will be particularly useful in the country, where frequent opportunities offer of relieving the Distressed, whose situation in life will not enable them to call in Medical Aid” (p. 4).
Many of the recipes in the first portion of this book are attributed to such well-known names as Glasse, Raffald, and Mason. Oxford points out that both the extended subtitle and the overall contents of the work as a whole are strikingly similar to Mary Cole's Lady's Complete Guide of 1791, commenting “One wonders who was the real author.” Whatever its origins, the present volume as attributed to Hazlemore is now uncommon: WorldCat, ESTC, and Cagle cite only seven U.S. institutional holdings.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with ownership inscription and title-page with pressure-stamp of prominent cookbook collector Eloise Schofield; title-page also with early inked inscription of Charlotte Booty; front pastedown with early ticket of J. Rackham, a late 18th-/early 19th-century printer and bookseller in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
ESTC T93869; Cagle, Matter of Taste, 734; Oxford, English Cookery, 122. Not in Bitting. Incomplete copy. Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, scuffed; spine label and extremities chipped, joints open and volume tender, front cover with spots of insect damage extending through to upper inner margins of first few leaves, touching two letters of title but no other text. Pp. 331/32, 341–44, 357–62, and 365–84 excised with great neatness (and no, we cannot work out any theory of “why”). Scattered instances of early pencilled or inked marginal annotations, including alternate instructions in two cases and
a full recipe for dressed spinach inked at the end of the vegetables section, intended to replace the crossed-out printed recipe provided. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. An incomplete copy, priced accordingly, of a still interesting work. (29554)

The Beckford & Durdans/Rosebery Copy
[Head, Richard]. Nugae venales, sive, thesaurus ridendi & jocandi. [bound with another, see below] Disputatio perjucunda qua probare nititur mulieres homines non esse. [The Hague: I. Burchornius, 1642]. 12mo (12 cm, 4.7’’). [4], 336, 48, 44 pp. [also bound in] Acidalius, Valens. Disputatio perjucunda qua probare nititur mulieres homines non esse. Hagae-Comitatis: I. Burchornius, 1641. 12mo. 191, [1] pp.
$1250.00
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The elegantly bound copy of these works from the rich library of the novelist William Beckford (1760–1844). Interestingly, Beckford owned seven editions of the Nugae — this is his
first edition — printed between 1642 and 1720. In his sale catalogue, a note attributes it to the Irish novelist Richard Head (1637–ca. 86), author of the successful The Irish Rogue, although scattered sentences in Dutch or German cast doubts; the work also had an English edition, this perhaps translated by Head. The first part is a collection of ironic, witty questions and answers on satirical topics, often concerned with women — e.g., what is a liberal woman? — as well as with curiosities (e.g., why are Ethiopians black? is begging preferable to wealth? {‘it is’}). There follow essays on unrelated topics including pseudo-medicine, with the Nugae's second part — Crepundia poetica — then being a collection of short poems on sundry subjects from doctors to astrologers. The third part — Pugna porcorum — is
a satirical poem written solely and perhaps preposterously with words beginning with P.
The Disputatio, here in the second collected edition after a first of 1638, is “a jeu d’esprit against the opinions of the Socinians” (Brunet). Its two parts, propounding rhetorical paradoxes, first appeared separately in 1595, when a debate broke out following the Socinian affirmation that women were animals, not humans, as Eve was not created in the image of God. Attributed to Acidalius Valens, the work
seeks satirically to prove, through numerous mainly theological sources and following Socinian logic, that women are not men; the second essay defends women as a sex.
The title-pages offer three instances of the same handsome woodcut vignette.
Binding: 19th-century straight-grained citron morocco, raised bands, spine gilt-extra with flowers and flourishes; inner dentelles gilt, puce endpapers, all edges gilt over marbling. Red silk bookmark present and attached.
Provenance: William Beckford, with 19th-century note “Beckford sale 1883 lot 174" on front free endpaper verso and cutting from sale catalogue on front pastedown; red leather Durdans (Rosebery) booklabel to front pastedown and that library's small blind-stamp to first title-page and elsewhere. Later bookplate of Lawrence Strangman to front free endpaper; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, with his small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
I: Wing (rev.ed.) N1462;ESTC R219402. II: Brunet II, 759 (1638 ed.). Bound as above, with significant rubbing to joints and spine especially and with discoloration especially affecting raised bands; gilt ornamentation still impressive. Short closed tear to B4 not quite reaching print, another with loss to margin just touching text on L4; age-toning, with a few leaves slightly browned.
Desirable texts in a desirable copy, with very desirable provenance. (41315)

On a Most Ancient & Honourable Company — Presentation Copy
Heath, John Benjamin. Some account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the city of London. London: Privately printed, 1854. 8vo (26.8 cm, 10.55"). xvi, 580 pp.; 8 (1 fold.) plts.
$350.00
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Uncommon, privately printed second edition of this
illustrated history of the Company of Grocers — one of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of London — and some of its prominent members from its medieval origins through the early 1850s, written by Heath, governor of the Bank of England from 1845 to 1847. The illustrations include a map of Cheape Ward showing the Grocers' Hall and garden and an oversized, folding facsimile of the charter of incorporation, while the “Notices of Eminent Members” include renditions of their coats of arms. Also present are selections from some of the literature associated with the Grocers: speeches, plays, poems, etc.
Presentation copy: Half-title inscribed “Thomas Alex[ande]r Roberts Esq. [/] Presented by J.B. Heath July 1854.”
NSTC 2H15366; Cagle 736 (for first and third eds. only.); Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 25858.17 (first ed.). Publisher's olive green textured cloth, covers and spine blind-stamped, front cover with gilt-stamped armorial vignette, back cover with gilt-stamped device and motto, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine slightly sunned, extremities mildly rubbed. Hinges (inside) of this hefty volume now cracked, with joints tender but holding. One plate (the map dated 1560) with pencilled annotations. Some plates faintly age-toned; pages with a few instances of light foxing. A work
full of valuable and interesting detail in a nice, clean, and (as handled with care) sound copy. (37084)

Sutton's
Hospital in
Charterhouse
& The
Famous
Charterhouse
School
Herne, Samuel. Domus carthusiana: Or an account of the most noble foundation of the charter-house near Smithfield in London. Both before and since the Reformation. London: Pr. by T.R. for Richard Marriott & Henry Brome, 1677. 8vo (18.2 cm, 7.2"). Frontis., [46], 287, [1] pp.; 2 plts.
$1500.00
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First edition of this history of the Charterhouse, a charitable hospital and (eventually) elite boys' school founded by Thomas Sutton on the site of a former Carthusian monastery. The volume is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Sutton, a copperplate engraving of a Carthusian monk done by F.H. Van Houe, and an allegorical copperplate engraving of the House of Prayer. It is partly printed in black-letter.
Provenance: Rolle family armorial bookplate.
ESTC R10688; Wing (rev.) H1578; Allibone 813. Contemporary sheep, covers framed in blind double fillets; leather rubbed and scuffed, partially cracked along front joint. All edges marbled. Pastedowns peeled up, front pastedown with early inked inscription; inside front cover with armorial bookplate. Title-page with inked numeral in upper outer corner. (21012)

Early Editions of Two Titans, in Greek
Herodotus. [two lines in Greek, romanized as ] Erodotou logoi ennea, oiper epikalountai mousai [then in Latin] Herodoti libri novem, qvibvs mvsarvm indita svnt nomina ... Basiliae: In officina Heruagiana, 1541 [colophon date]. Median folio (32.5 cm, 12.75"). [10] ff., 310 pp., [1] f. [bound with] Thucydides. [three lines in Greek, romanized as ] Thoukydides meta scholion palaion kai pany ophelimon choris hon ho syngrapheus poly aneucheres esti [then in Latin] Thucydides cum scholiis et antiquis et utilibus sine quibus autor intellectu multum est difficilis. Accessit praeterea diligentia Ioachimi Camerarij, in castigando tum textu, tum commentarijs un[am] cum annotationibus eius. Stephanus Schirotius Pannonius lectori. Basileae: Ex officina Hervagiana, 1540. Median folio [12] ff., 225, [3], 177 [i.e., 178] pp., [2] ff.
$5750.00
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Only the second edition of Herodotus in the original Greek, the editio princeps having appeared in 1502 from the Aldine press. This is the first edition edited by Joachim Camerarius (1500–74), containing his Latin-language preface and notes before the main text and ending with the historical narration, from the battle of Mantinea (362 B.C.) onwards, of Gemistus Plethon (ca. 1355–1452). Herwagen's Greek type is handsome and, unlike his 1540 printing of Thucydides with which it is bound here, it has no woodcut initials, the printer having opted for guide letters in the initial spaces only.
This Camerarius edition of Thucydides is only the third printing of the text in the original Greek, following the Aldine printing in 1502 and the Giunta in 1526. It is also the first printing of the Greek text outside of Italy. As with his Herodotus, Camerarius' preface here is in Latin while the rest of the text is in Greek only. There are two states of the title-page, this copy with “PANNO/nius” on its title-page; another is noted as having “PAN/nonius.” And in contrast to the Herodotus, this Thucydides has very interesting woodcut initials.
The pairing of these two texts is not uncommon but they are also found separately in contemporary bindings, indicating that in the 1540s they were sold both individually and as a pair.
Provenance: Pasted in the top margin of Herodotus is a slip reading “Ex libris Joannis Adami Messerschmid 1770.” Later in the library of the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (properly deaccessioned).
Binding: Recent full calf by Starr bindery, raised bands to spine accented with gilt rules, and a gilt green spine label; interesting but modest blind tooling on the covers in a 16th-century style.
Previous Binding: Deteriorated but preserved in a separate blue cloth clamshell case: Boards covered in calf with a center gilt device accomplished with a single stamp used dos á dos Visible under the pastedowns and on the back of the preserved but incomplete spine covering are scraps of a medieval manuscript. Also visible on the front pastedown is a curious embossing, possibly intentional and possibly the impression of something once pressed long and hard between cover and text block.
Herodotus: Adams H395; VD16 H2507& G1079; Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics, II, 19–20; Schweiger, I, 138; Graesse, III, 254. Thucydides: VD16 T1114; Adams T664; Graesse, VII, 148; Schoell, II, 166; Adams T664; Schweiger, I, 325; Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics, II, 506. Bound as above; text with occasional, generally light instances of soiling, staining, or spotting, this most notable at beginning (including Herodotus title-page) and at end of volume. Minor pinhole type worming in lower margin of both works (three or four very determined pests, who thankfully did not
meander).
A handsome and wide-margined copy. (40952)

He Sent Copies of Two Scores
Hervé [i.e., Louis Auguste Florimond Ronger]. Autograph Note Signed (“Hervé’) to “Cher Docteur,” in French. Cernay prés Permont, Seine et Oise, France: 14 October 1880. 12mo (18 cm; 7"), 2 pp.
$100.00
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Hervé, a French conductor, composer, and librettist credited by some with inventing the genre of operetta, writes that he sends his latest score and also that of Le Petit Faust (neither present). He adds that he is having vision problems and asks the doctor to suggest something that could rid him of his bifocals.Provenance: Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.
Written in a clear hand. In very good condition. (33763)
Hill, John. An account of the life and writings of Hugh Blair .... Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1808. 8vo (21.7 cm, 8.5"). 229, [1 (blank)] pp.
$125.00
First U.S. edition, following the Edinburgh first of 1807, of this laudatory biography written by a professor at the University of Edinburgh. Dr. Blair, a Scottish preacher, critic, and rhetorician, is best remembered for his sermons (which were praised by Dr. Johnson) and his involvement in the Ossian debate, in which he defended the poems’ authenticity.
Provenance: The Rev. Edwin A. Dalrymple; the Maryland Diocesan Library.
Shaw & Shoemaker 15224. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding moderately darkened and worn, cloth chipped over head of spine, spine showing shadow of a now-absent shelving label. Front pastedown with private collector’s bookplate and with institutional rubber-stamp (as above); title-page additionally with early inked gift inscription in upper margin (this cut into by binder). Some light spotting and age-toning. (19368)

Master Violin Makers (Both Subjects & Authors) — Equally Masterful Binders
Extraordinary Provenance
Hill, William Henry; Arthur F. Hill; Alfred Ebsworth Hill. The violin-makers of the Guarneri family (1626–1762): Their life and work. London: William E. Hill & Sons, 1931. 4to (29.9 cm, 11.75"). xxxvii, [3], 181, [5] pp.; 58 plts., 2 fold. maps, illus.
$3250.00
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The first edition in its deluxe format, in an eye-catching Riviere binding: a carefully detailed, extensively illustrated examination of the careers and productions of all five of the master instrument-makers of the Guarneri family. The text is enhanced by
58 full-page depictions of known examples of Guarneri work, often in multiple views, with many color-printed and the rest in crisply impressed photogravure, along with two oversized, folding maps and numerous in-text illustrations. And it bears a touching dedication to the memory of William Hill (1857–1929), noting that this history “embodies the knowledge and considered views of three brothers who lived and worked in a life-long intimacy.” The Hill family was itself known for fine violin-making and expert instrument repair work, and the W.E. Hill & Sons firm continues to be active today.
This is hand-numbered copy 137 of only 200 produced in this special limited format, there having been apparently fewer than 700 copies produced for subscribers overall.
Binding: Signed brown morocco, covers framed and panelled in gilt double fillets with gilt corner fleurons and floral decorations enclosed by strapwork, front cover with central gilt-stamped Guarneri coat of arms, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands, gilt-stamped title and author, and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. Turn-ins with one wide gilt roll and one narrow, joined by gilt double fillets. Page edges untrimmed. Binding dated 1931 (at spine foot) and gilt-stamped by Riviere & Son on lower front turn-in.
Provenance: From the library (sans indicia) of the great violinist Adolf Busch and by bequest to his daughter Irene Serkin and son-in-law Rudolph Serkin.
Binding as above; back cover with one scuff, front cover with small unobtrusive area of darkening towards upper outer corner. Offsetting to edges of free endpapers from turn-ins. Pages and plates clean and fresh.
A striking, elegant volume, of surpassing interest for music historians and aficionados. (39690)

Written & Owned by Violinists
Hill, William Henry; Arthur F. Hill; Alfred Ebsworth Hill. Antonio Stradivari his life and work (1644–1737). London: William E. Hill & Sons, 1902. Large 4to (30.1 cm, 11.875"). xvi, 303, [1] pp.; 30 plts.; illus.
$750.00
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First edition of the preeminent work on the preeminent name in violins. The Hill family was itself known for fine violin making (the W.E. Hill & Sons firm continues to be active today), making the three music-playing, instrument-restoring brothers who produced this text abundantly qualified to discuss not just the technical and historical but also the aesthetic qualities of Stradivari's work — and they do so here at length, with scholarly precision. The volume opens with an introductory note by Lady Huggins, and is
illustrated with 30 plates (many images of instruments printed in color) plus a genealogical tree, an illuminated title-page in red and black with the Stradivari device in red and gilt, and a number of in-text images.
Provenance: From the library (sans indicia) of the great violinist and conductor Adolf Busch — himself the owner of a Stradivarius instrument, a violin made in 1716 and now played by David Garrett — and by bequest to his daughter Irene Serkin and son-in-law Rudolph Serkin.
Publisher's (wide) quarter green calf and green cloth–covered sides, outer leather edges with blind roll, front cover with Stradivarius coat of arms stamped in gilt and red, spine with gilt-stamped publication information; spine and back joint sunned, corners and joints lightly rubbed. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Last two leaves of index starting to separate.
A nice copy of this critically important work of music history, with outstanding provenance. (39702)

A Stubborn Pig Is Rewarded with a Clean Sty & Good Food
History of the Little Dame Crump and her white pig. London: J.L. Marks, [ca. 1835-57?]. 12mo (17.5 cm, 6.875"). [8] ff.; illus.
$375.00
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The approximate date of publication is suggested by Brown's London Publishers and Printers c.1800–1870. The verse text, in letterpress, is below the large half-page,
brightly hand-colored, wood-engraved illustrations, the whole printed on one side of each leaf only, the leaves bound facing each other; the first and last leaves are pasted to wrappers.
Provenance: Signature of John Duncrist in upper margin of front wrapper; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Cf. Osborne Collection p. 631. Original printed green wrappers; wrappers in past separated from text block and expertly reattached. Light staining in some inner margins. A very nice copy. (38799)

College Sermons — Presentation Copy
Hoffman, Charles Frederick. Christ, the patron of all true education. New York: E. & J.B. Young & Co., 1893. 8vo. Frontis., [2], 209, [1] pp.
$100.00
Sole edition: Sermons delivered at Hobart College, 1893, Geneva, NY, and S. Stephen's College, Annandale, NY.
Provenance: With a tipped-in, printed slip reading “With the kind regards of The Author.”
Publisher's purple cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped; spine and edges sunned, back cover with its double layer of cloth partially torn through the top layer (interesting, as to binding structure). Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, preliminary leaf with early inked ownership inscription and pressure-stamp of a religious institution, title-page with small rubber-stamp. Pages clean. (20829)

Inscribed by Hoover
Hoover, J. Edgar. Masters of deceit: The story of Communism in America and how to fight it. New York: Henry Holt, 1958. 8vo. x, 374 pp.
$250.00
Third printing (stated) of Hoover's exhortation to fight the Red Menace.
Presentation copy: This copy inscribed “To Sister Mary Jane / Best wishes / J. Edgar Hoover / Xmas 1958.”
Publisher's cloth, dust jacket in protective sleeve taped to covers; dust jacket with minor scuffing at corners and spine extremities, one crease to back, price clipped. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate; endpapers with offsetting from tape. Pages clean. (24821)

A Delightful, Eye-Pleasing Horace — A Chromolithographic Tour de Force
Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. The works of Quintus Horatius Flaccus illustrated chiefly from the remains of ancient art. London: John Murray, 1849. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.8"). [6], 194, [6], 490, xiv pp.; 8 col. plts.
$550.00
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First edition of this
lavishly decorated, deluxe production of Horace's works in the original Latin, with a life of the author written in English by the Rev. Henry Hart Milman. Each page of the preface appears in a color-printed, antiquity-inspired frame (ochre, maroon, blue, green, or violet, with several different styles of frame used); the poems appear in simpler frames, but with each section preceded by a chromolithographed title-page (with a total of eight color plates), and almost every text page bearing an in-text wood engraving done by George Scharf after “remains of ancient art” (an index of the original sources and their locations is present at the back of the volume).
The decorative elements were created by architect and pioneering design theorist Owen Jones.
This volume's price at publication was two guineas which, although less than production cost, priced the work out of the market. McLean suggests most of the 2,500 copies were pulped!
Signed binding: Contemporary brown morocco, front pastdown stamped “J. Wright Binder.” Boards with triple fillet gilt border at edges; center panel on each board composed of a triple fillet outer border with a floral/vine gilt roll within; gilt corner devices with elements extending along the outer edges of the center panel. Board edges with double fillet rules, turn-ins with same gilt roll as in the center panels of the boards, cream calendared endpapers. All edges gilt.
Evidence of readership: 20th-century notes relating to the text on rear free endpaper.
Provenance: Large engraved armorial “Kimmel Park” bookplate of Hugh Robert Hughes of Kimmel (1827–1911), Co. Denbigh, and his small library shelf label to top of front pastedown. His signature in full, dated “June 11th 1855,” on front fly-leaf. “G.L.D. 1937" on front free endpaper.
NSTC 2H30539; McLean, Victorian Book Design, pp. 94, 174. Binding as above; joints (outside) abraded, so too lower edges of boards and corners. 20th-century notes as mentioned above; shelf label largely obscured by a later blank one; a very few dog-ears or short edge tears; age-toning with some foxing and other spotting, especially towards beginning and end.
A remarkable, wonderful book. (37188)

A Variation on One of Bodoni's Greatest Hits
Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. Q. Horatii Flacci Opera. Parmae: Ex Regio Typographeo, 1793. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.85"). [2], xxi, [1], 376 pp.
$1000.00
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This first octavo Bodoni printing of Horace preserves the famously austere title-page setting of the legendary 1791 folio edition. It is less commonly seen than the quarto edition which came from the Bodoni press in the same year, with De Lama and Brunet not citing it at all; Schweiger notes that
only 200 copies were printed.
Binding: Contemporary red English straight-grain morocco, covers framed with a Greek key roll surrounding a border composed of arabesque and floral tools around a central gilt-ruled panel cornered with sunburst ornaments; spine sympathetically gilt extra using greek keys, sunbursts, and fleurons. Board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll of a rope design, all edges gilt. Original green silk bookmark present and attached.Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of George Henry Cherry; front fly-leaf with early stamped inscription (strongly resembling handwriing) of Vernon J. Watney, Cornbury (author of Cornbury and the Forest of Wychwood).
Brooks 494; Giani 37 (p. 46); Schweiger, II, 413. Not in Brunet, not in De Lama. Binding as above; joints, spine, and extremities lightly rubbed, sides with a few small spots of minor darkening. First and last pages mildly foxed.
One of Bodoni's most neoclassically restrained productions, in a rather less restrained binding. (40156)

One of the Great Catholic Leaders of His Day — A Polish Statesman & Revered Bishop
Hosius, Stanislaus. Opera omnia hactenus edita, in unum corpus collecta, ac nuperrimè ab ipso auctore recognita, & supra omnes alias editiones aucta, cura & opera Alemanii Fini Cremensis excusa. Adiunctae sunt praetereà Recantationes Fabiani Quadrantini, Braunsbergae in collegio societatis Iesu recitatae. Saluo in omnibus sanctae sedis Apostolicae iudicio. Venetiis: Apud Dominicum Nicolinum, 1573. Folio (33.3 cm, 13.11"). [24] pp., 193, [2], [194]–365, [13] ff.
$700.00
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Uncommon Venetian edition (and the first from this editor) of the collected works of Cardinal Hosius (1504–79), Prince-Bishop of Ermland (Warmia), an illustrious Polish statesman as well as a candidate for canonization. According to Peter Canisius (as quoted by the Catholic Encyclopedia) Hosius was “the most brilliant writer, the most eminent theologian and the best bishop of his times.”
Hosius's Opera omnia was first published in 1562, and first printed in this version edited by Alemanio Fino in Venice in 1573 by Domenico Nicolini da Sabbio; it appeared in two variants in that year, one bearing Francesco de Francesci's imprint and the other — as seen here — Nicolini's own, with
a title-page vignette of a winged woman with laurel wreath and palm branch, giving his “Nisi qui legitime certaverit” motto. The Confutatio prolegomenon Brentii, De expresso Dei verbo, and Palinodiae sive recantationes Fabiani Quadrantini have separate title-pages, and the registrum at the back bears the same printer's vignette.
A search of WorldCat finds
no holdings of this edition reported by U.S. institutions.
Provenance: Title-page with early inked inscription reading “Carthusia Romanas” and with rubber-stamp of Carthusian monastery St. Hugh's, Parkminster.
Adams H1024; CNCE 22786. This ed. not in Brunet. 19th-century quarter tan sheep and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped black leather title-label; rubbed, leather with spots of staining and small insect holes, hinges (inside) cracked but holding strongly. Title-page with inscription and stamp as above, and with additional indecipherable (19th-century?) rubber-stamp; a scattering of shouldernotes and text corrections inked in an early hand. One leaf with upper outer corner torn away, with loss of a few letters; one leaf with small burn holes in outer margin, touching one shouldernote; most leaves clean, with intermittent, widely varying foxing, some leaves browned.
A sturdy, well-produced, and worthwhile volume NOT generally available. (41278)

Narrow Escape! Dangerous Publication
Surreptitiously Printed & a Pseudonym Used
Hotman, François. De furoribus Gallicis, horrenda & indigna Amirallij Castillionei, nobilium atq[ue]; illustrium virorum caede, scelerata ac inaudita piorum strage passim edita per complures Galliae ciuitates, sine vllo discrimine generis, sexus, aetatis & conditionis hominum: vera & simplex narratio. Edimburgi [i.e., London: Printed by Henry Bynneman], 1573. 8vo (15.7 cm; 6.125"). CCXII [i.e., 212] pp.
$3250.00
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One of six different editions printed in 1573 describing the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre as told by an enraged French Huguenot jurist who unintentionally avoided it due to a teaching assignment at the University of Bourges. According to the ESTC, the six editions were produced by four printers, one edition in Basel by T. Guarin, one in La Rochelle by B. Berton, and four in London by Henry Bynneman or W. Williamson, all but one bearing a false location. This offering is an altered version of an earlier printing with two leaves reprinted and one reimposed to remove any mention of Bynneman.
Hotman here writes under the pseudonym of Ernestus Varamundus, although the work is also sometimes erroneously attributed to Théodore de Bèze and Hubert Languet. In England, Hotman was the main narrative source for the first, “historical” portion of Marlowe's The Massacre at Paris (Paul Kocher, PMLA {1941}, 349–68).
Binding: Early 19th-century speckled calf, spine compartments gilt-stamped and one with a gilt red leather label; covers with gilt double rules, board edges and turn-ins with gilt single rules, all edges gilt. Signed with stamp by Roger de Coverly, an apprentice of Zaehnsdorf.
A very pretty “container” for some very un-pretty history.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of the Marquess of Bute's Cardiff Castle on front pastedown; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
A rather uncommon edition, with searches of WorldCat, NUC, and COPAC revealing only one U.S. copy (Huntington Library).
ESTC S104240; STC 13845. Bound as above, gentle rubbing, leather a little flaking, joints refurbished and covers solidly attached. Bookplate as above; title-page dust-soiled with one small inked word, a faded ownership signature, one small pencil mark. Light pencilling and some chipping to endpapers, general light to moderate age-toning with an occasional spot and some pages unevenly trimmed; one gathering with very light, limited waterstain to lower margin.
An important work in an unusual edition and an attractive copy. (37745)

A Game with Forfeits, a Dictator, & Mirth
(Illustrated Rhyming Game). The gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog: A new and entertaining game of questions and commands with proper directions for playing the game and crying forfeits: Embellished with thirteen coloured engravings. [London]: Republished by Field & Tuer, 1887. Small 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). [4], iv, [7]-29, [2] pp., [4 (ads)] ff.; [1] plt., col. illus.
$145.00
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Riddles and counting-out rhymes, all part of a fun game whose instructions serve as a preface. The text is printed on one side of a leaf only and
each printed page has a hand-colored illustration.
The work was first printed by Dean & Munday in 1823 and is here presented as vol. II in the Leadenhall Press “Series of Forgotten Picture Books for Children.”
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Buff-color printed wrappers with hand-colored vignette on front wrapper; stitched, head and foot of spine chipped, rear wrapper detached and reattached with archival tissue. A good++ copy. (38873)
Sumptuously Bound
First American Edition of Irving's FIRST HISTORICAL Work
Irving, Washington. A history of the life and voyages of Christopher Columbus. New York: G. & C. Carvill, 1828. 8vo (22 cm; 8.625"). 3 vols. I: xvi, 399 pp., 1 folded map. II: viii, [1], 10–367. III: viii, [1], 14–419, [1] pp.
$850.00
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First American edition of Irving's somewhat fanciful yet readable work on Christopher Columbus. Irving notes in the preface “the sight of disjointed papers and official documents is apt to be repulsive to the general reader” so he has decided to create a narrative rather than simply translate pertinent documents related to Columbus as originally asked. This edition comes with a
large folding map of Columbus' route through the Bahama Islands.
Binding: Gorgeous 19th-century acid-stained autumnal binding: Covers framed with a gilt floral roll and brilliantly crossed with bands of walnut brown, ochre, deep green, russet red, black, and grey, all
very bright. Spines gilt extra with compartment devices and multiple interesting rolls, and bearing black leather gilt labels; board edges touched at corners with gilt; marbled endpapers.
Provenance: Signature of Sam Baird on front endpaper and title-page of vol. I and half-title of vol. II.
As described in the BAL, signature sign 6 is not present on p. 41 in vol. I and the last page of vol. III is unnumbered.
BAL 10124. Bound as above, bindings moderately rubbed with one sliver of leather lost at a joint and a small patch lost near the bottom of one back cover. Age-toning, foxing, and some other spotting; some corners creased (some corners improperly trimmed during manufacture. Inscriptions as above, light pencilling on endpapers of one volume; map wrinkled with some old light staining and a tear repaired some time ago from back, with cloth tape — folds strong.
A classic semi-historical work most strikingly bound. (36170)

Irving's
Tales of
New
York, Paris,
Granada,
Etc.
Irving,
Washington. Wolfert's roost and other
papers, now first collected. New York: G.P. Putnam & Co., 1855. 12mo
(19.3 cm, 7.6"). Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., [2], [7]–383, [1], 12 (adv.)
pp.
$200.00
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First U.S. edition, later printing (with publisher's address of 10 Park Place), in the binding described by BAL; delightfully entertaining tales from a beloved author, collected from their appearances in various periodicals. The frontispiece was done by Darley and the added wood-engraved title-page by J.W. Orr.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplates of prominent Philadelphia collector Robert R. Dearden and Philip Justice Steinmetz, an Episcopal clergyman; the latter design shows a view of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Elkins Park, PA, of which Dr. Steinmetz was the pastor.
BAL 10188. Publisher's slate-green cloth, covers with blind-stamped rococo frame, front cover with gilt-stamped scenic vignette, spine with gilt-stamped author/title and embossed decorations; binding very slightly cocked, extremities rubbed, cloth somewhat faded overall. Front pastedown with bookplates as above and with affixed slip of old cataloguing. Frontispiece and added title-page with margins lightly stained; pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean. (29557)
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