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WALKER Robert "The Beginning or the End"ABAA

Document From Norman Taurog's Log of Films Signed by 55 Members of the Cast and Crew of the 1947 film "The Beginning or the End."

Hikmet Nazim 1902 1963 and Ali Suavi Suavi Sonar 1910 or 1913 1994 designerABAA

835 Satir

50663Istanbul: A. Halit Kitaphanesi 1932. Octavo. Original pictorial wrappers by Ali Suavi; 48 pp. Very good save for very light wear to edges. Second edition of Hikmet's first book of poetry originally published in 1929 but issued with a striking cover designed by Ali Suavi 1910 or 1913-1994 who Suavi designed most of the avant-garde-inflected covers of Hikmet's books. Little is known about Suavi who was a famous designer of books and later became known as a photographer. Nazim Hikmet 1902-1963 is considered the founder of modern Turkish poetry who transcended Ottoman versification and absorbed the influence of Russian futurist writers such as Sergei Esenin but above all Vladimir Mayakovsky. Aside from the "step-ladder" form of verse he shared with Mayakovsky his sociopolitical engagement as well as Esenin's love for the simple folk and his origins. Impressed by the 1917 October Revolution in Russia he resisted the occupying powers in Constantinple and fled to the countryside where he sought to connect with various socialist and libertarian organizations. In 1920s he traveled to Russia twice for extended periods of time where he studied in Moscow and was in close contact with Soviet Futurist poets. Upon his return in 1928 he was subject to imprisonment and harsh repressions including a ban on publishing but nevertheless garnered success with readers and created a prolific output while in prison. In 1938 he was sentenced to nearly three decades of jail but was released in 1950 and fled to Moscow exile in 1951 where he was a leading public intellectual and died in 1963. He was not published in Turkey until 1965 and remained nearly unknown in the West for much longer. See also: Saime GÃ¶ksu and Edward Timms Romantic Communist: The Life and Work of Nazim Hikmet. As of March 2020 no copies in North America according to KVK OCLC. unknown books

Bernett Penka Rare Books LLC · États-Unis1 750,00 $US≈ 1 480,68 €

Philosophy / Theology. Behmen Boehme or Bohme Jacob or Jakob. 1575 1624. Sparrow John 1615 1665?. Ellistone John d.ABAA

XL QUESTIONS CONCERNING The SOULE. Propounded by Dr. Balthasar Walter Walther. And Answered by Jacob Behmen. Aliàs Teutonicus Philosophus. And in his Answer to the First Question is the Turned EYE or Philsophick GLOBE. Which in it selfe containeth all Mysteries with an Exposition of it. Written in the Germane Language. Anno. 1620. bound with The CLAVIS Or KEY. Or An Exposition of Some Principall Matters and Words in the Writings of Jacob Behmen. Very Usefull for the Better Apprehending and Understanding of this Booke. Written in the Germane Language in March and Aprill Anno. 1624

164724501London: Printed by M. S. for H. Blunden at the Castle in Corne-hill 1647. 1st Edition variant issue Wing B-3408A. Another issue of the same year has the printer's name "Matth. Simmons. in the yeare 1647". Period full leather with modern rebacking to style. Red morocco title label in second spine compartment. Modern eps. An overall VG copy text paper beginning to brown at edges with some associated chipping/repaired hole to lower right quarter of E2 affects last few words of two lines on p 25 and first few words of four lines on page 26/occasional po marginal pencil annotation a/o check mark. 18 155 7 28 4 pp. Separate t.p. for "Clavis". Last 4 pp: 2 pp 'Catalogue of Bookes' viz. bibliographical list by Behmen 1 pp of "Faults Escaped in Printing" & a blank. Inserted table & plate imperfect lacking 'folded' left side approx. 1 - 1.5". 4to: ¢4 -¢1 a half-title a2 a3 B1 A4 -A1 C - 2B4 2C2. Bohme a German philosophical mystic who had a profound influence on such later intellectual movements as idealism and Romanticism. Born of poor parents in Goerlitz Germany as a boy he tended cattle later becoming a shoemaker marrying & fathering 4 children. Boehme at the robust age of 37 in 1612 wrote his first treatise Aurora oder Die Morgenroete in Aufgang. In 1613 an unauthorized copy of the manuscript was copied and circulated by Karl von Ender. Its reception "raised him out of his homely sphere and made him the centre of a local circle of liberal thinkers considerably above him in station and culture." However the local pastor primarius of Gorlitz Gregorius Richter leveled a charge of heresy. The local muncipal council administered an admonishment to no further "meddle in such matters." This charge Boehme publicly followed for 5 years. In 1618 Boehme again started writing expository & polemical treatises. The majority of his works were written though not formally published from 1619 - 1624. A second major work Der Weg zu Christo was published in 1624 and signaled a renewal of clerical hostility. Boehem however was destined to suffer but a short period of this second persecution; he died of an illness on 17 November 1624. Boehme has been said to have a "fertility of ideas" and a "trasncendent greatness of religious insight." Boehme was studied by Sir Isaac Newton and influenced the work Henry More as well as and especially William Law 1686 - 1761. Xl Questions concerning the Soule was translated by the English mystic John Sparrow in collaboration with John Ellstone & financed by Humphrey Blunden. This the first of several works by Boehme that Sparrow & Ellstone were to translate into English between 1644 - 1662. Boehme proved to be highly popular in England where there were regular societies of Behmenists at the time. This work XL Questions went into a second edition in 1648 and a third edition in 1665. 11th EB. A scarce title in the Boehme canon. We find no copies currently offered via the major on-line databases OCLC records but 4 institional cc and the work has only appeared at auction 3 times in the last 25 years the last in 1989. Printed by M. S. for H. Blunden, at the Castle in Corne-hill hardcover books

Tavistock Books, ABAA · États-Unis1 750,00 $US≈ 1 480,68 €

CIVIL WAR Estick or Estwick EVANS 1787 1866ABAA

Great Pacification. To the People of the United States . I propose the restoration of our Union . Peace the hope of it even in the midst of the most strenuous war should not be abandoned .

186538207Washington D.C. 1865. Letterpress broadside. 24 x 8 1/2 inches. Expert restoration on verso. An unusual broadside Civil War peace proposal. A little-known but highly eccentric character Evans first made a name for himself in 1818 when he walked from New Hampshire to Detroit in the middle of winter no less backtracked to Pittsburgh and continued his walk all the way to New Orleans publishing a narrative of his pedestrian journey the following year. After a failed Congressional run in New Hampshire and a failed attempt to become secretary of the Senate he ended up practicing law in Washington. In the midst of the Civil War Evans published a series of broadside letters all known in but few examples and likely printed in small quantities. In one in which excoriated the south for their role in the war he explained that he issued his missives as broadsides since his letters had no chance of publication in the already crowded pages of the newspaper press. The present broadside by Evans suggests a 20-point proposal for peace between the North and South including the abolition of slavery the federal assumption of Confederate debt universal amnesty restoration of all confiscated property the annexation of Mexico the expulsion of the Russians from the Pacific Northwest the seizing of the Hudson's Bay and Arctic fur trade from the British inviting Canada to become part of the United States the unification of Central America and the building of a trans-Darien canal the nationalization of the mining industry universal temperance fair pay charity from the rich and more. The broadside letter concludes: "Unhappy -- deeply unhappy am I in what I am now going to say -- tears of pity grief and shame for the whole country coursing down my cheeks: -- I solemnly declare that I have no doubt and never had that the longer the South holds out the nearer she will be so absolute annihilation ." We locate only four examples extant Boston Aethenaeum American Antiquarian Society Harvard and Minnesota Historical Society. unknown books

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis1 800,00 $US≈ 1 522,98 €

Exquemelin Esquemeling Exquemeling or Oexmelin Alexandre Olivier c1645 1707ABAA

Histoire des avanturiers qui se sont signalez dans les Indes contenant ce qu'ils ont fait de plus remarquable depuis vingt annÃ©es. Avec la vie les moeurs les coÃ»tumes des habitans de Saint Domingue & de la TortuÃ« & une description exacte de ces lieux.

1713E0012Paris: Chez les T'Serstevens 1713 2 volumes: i-x44816 pages with illustrations 2 folding maps and index; iv28516 pages with illustrations folding map and index. Duodecimo 6 1/2" x 4 1/4" bound early calf with labeled spines. From the Society of Writers to the Signet. European Americana 713/77 this edition not in Sabin Early French edition. Rare French edition of one of the most famous books of the period Exquemelin's account of the adventures life morals and customs of the pirates roaming the seas together with a full description of the Caribbean where they mainly operated. The French edition was just like the Dutch edition directly based on the original manuscript and was adapted by Thomas de Frontigniers. Alexandre Olivier Exquemelin called Oexmelin by the French was a chemist of French Protestant origin who spent several years with the pirates as a ship's surgeon. He took part in their daring exploits like the expeditions of the notorious English buccaneer Henry Morgan called John in the book including his raid on Maracaibo in 1669 or a year later his attack on Panama. The first edition of Exquemelin's eye witness account was published in Dutch in Amsterdam by Jan ten Hoorn in 1678 an edition so rare that it long escaped bibliographers. Exquemelin who once before in 1672 had shortly been in Amsterdam returned there in 1677 to take the 'chirurgijn' exams he sorely needed to exercise this profession at Jamaica where he had settled and in 1679 he made his last 'proof'. Meanwhile he also offered his manuscript to the publisher's Ten Hoorn who printed it in 1678. The book became immediately so polular that editions were published everywhere. The Spanish edition of 1681 probably also published in Amsterdam was long taken for the first. The first French edition was published two years before the present but both editions are equally extremely rare. In 1684 Exquemelin had sailed for France and the captain of the ship impressed with his stories saw to it that Exquemelin's manuscript was made ready for publication. The French edition altough seemingly much the same as the first Dutch edition from which most translations were made proves by closer comparison to be considerably enlarged. Several extra chapters are added mostly treating the natural history of the Spanish Americas and the romantic figure of Monbars is found here for the first time. For both the Dutch and French editions Exquemelin's manuscript had been adapted but according to De la Fontaine Verwey has kept the French edition the closest to the original. The illustrations for the French edition were newly made as well and where the Dutch edition mainly shows the portraits and atrocious acts of the pirates the plates of the French edition pay more attention to the geographical and natural historical aspects including for the fist time the plate with a buccaneer in hunting costume. Another plate shows the catching of turtles at night and the illustration in the text shows a sea-cow of which Exquemelin made a special study. The maps were also newly designed with the help of AbbBaudrand who wanted to remain anonymous; they include a map of the Isthmus of Panama drawn by Exquemelin himself. The book therefore is an important 'Americanum' as well. Of special interest are the two "Appendices" with an account of the possessions revenues and offices of the Spaniards in America including a complete list of all ecclesiastical functionaries in Spanish America together with their salaries. No book in any language was ever the parent of so many imitations and the source of so many legends and it still is popular today. The Society of Writers to Her Majestys Signet is the oldest legal society in the world. It is a private society of Scottish solicitors. The Society dates back to 1594 and is part of the College of Justice. Writers to the Signet originally had special privileges in relation to the drawing up of documents which required to be signeted but these have disappeared and the Society is now an independent non-regulatory association of solicitors most of whom are based in Edinburgh. Members of the Society. Condition: Joints begining gilt embossed stamps of the Society of Writers to the Signet on front boards 4 leaves of Volume II soiled and slightly defective along outer margins; book plates on front pastedowns 3 folding maps each with moderate browning and very short closed tears else about a very good set. . Early French Edition. Full-Leather. About Very Good. Duodecimo. Chez les T'Serstevens hardcover books

The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB · États-Unis2 000,00 $US≈ 1 692,20 €

Lando or Landi Ortensio.ABAA

Quattro libri de dubbi:

15526331Venice: Gabriel GIolito de' Ferrari 1552. First edition. Very Good/The title promises four sets of "questions and their solutions" and indeed that was the plan. Lando wrote Q&A on four topics: medical questions including dietary and aging functions ethical questions questions about religion and questions about love and sex. It was the love and sex part that raised the eyebrows of the censors and neither Lando or his publisher Giolito could get permissions to print it as the book was going to press. As Giolito himself declares in a postscript to the reader: "I promised you four books of doubts but since I haven't yet been granted a license for the doubts about love I'm forced to give you only three. Be well and enjoy as much of the book as I could give you." The license came later and the text appeared in later editions. This unfinished text with its publisher's apology represents a fascinating birthmark on the 16th-century book trade. The Q&A ranges over hundreds of topics calling upon the author's medical training much involved with the humors and temperaments associated with various organs objects and creatures his classical erudition and his training in the Augustinian order. The three sections together provide comprehensive insight into 16th century medicine and popular religious and moral thought. The odd matter of two versions of the dedication page leaf A ii is not easily explained. We suspect with some justification that Lando sought patronage for the same work in different locations knowing that Protestant Germany rarely spoke with Catholic Italy and vice versa. He might have found different backers in different markets. We know that to be the case with at least one other book of Lando's the "Sermoni Funebri" 1549 where some copies are dedicated to Fugger and others to Niccolo degli Alberti. That case is known and recorded. We find no recorded instance of the alternate dedication of "Quattro libri dei dubbi" to Fugger and no record of the author being identified by signing the dedication letter in any other copy. The "Quattro libri de dubbi" was quickly translated into French Lyon 1558 and by William Painter into English entitled "Delectable demaundes and pleasaunt questions with their severall aunswers." 1566 and again 1640. . Octavo 16 cm; 318 2 pages. Woodcut device on title page and on last page. Woodcut initials. Bound in recent vellum in period style yapp edges titled in ink on spine. Early 20th-century bibliographical note bound in. Marginal annotations in contemporary hand. Leaf a ii the dedicatory letter present in two states the cancel addressed to Johann Jakob Fugger closing with Lando's name and the original leaf addressed to Christoph Mielich and not signed as usual. Small perforation in the cancel affecting a word. Occasional light stains darker on last leaf. References: Bongi I 368; Melzi II 391; BM Italian 377 1556 ed.; Fontanini II 117. Gabriel GIolito de' Ferrari hardcover books

Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio · États-Unis2 200,00 $US≈ 1 861,42 €

YOSHIWARA Gento or RyusenABAA

Manuscript on paper entitled on label of upper cover "Kyoinsai seikotsu shinshi" "Kyoinsai's Hands-on Orthopedic Manipulations"

711427 folding leaves. 8vo 234 x 158 mm. orig. wrappers manuscript title label on upper cover new stitching. Japan: on final page in trans.: "Copied 1854 by Wakabayashi in today's Tottori Prefecture a member of the Shinshoken." Manipulative therapy has a long history in Japan. "Healing of the sick through rubbing of the body was known to the earliest Japanese physicians who brought the art to a high state of development. Massage was early pre-Nara period linked with the treatment of fractures and bandaging and remained one of the chief factors in the care of the body sharing with mineral baths acupuncture gymnastics and 'deep breathing' in the preliminary development of physical therapy in Japan.The achievements and learning in the practice of massage also contributed to the establishment in the latter part of the 17th century of the 'Seikotsu-Jutsu' which was a system of treatment for fractures and dislocations."-Mestler A Galaxy of Old Japanese Medical Books II pp. 484-85. Gento Yoshiwara d. 1800 was one of the three most important orthopedic specialists in Japan during the final years of the 18th century along with Bunken Kagami and Genka Ninomiya. Yoshiwara whose trade name or mark was "Kyoinsai" studied both Dutch medicine in Nagasaki and Chinese medicine and was greatly influenced by the Chinese Dao yin treatment of massage and exercise. Unlike the works of Kagami and Ninomiya Yoshiwara's most important work - "Seikotsu yoketsu" - remained in manuscript as it was restricted to students of Yoshiwara's school; the present manuscript contains a reworking of that text. The beginning of the main part of the text on the fifth leaf provides the name of Yoshiwara and the location of his school in Hizen province today's Nagasaki Prefecture and the name of two disciples Wada and Abe. The text describes 13 types of treatment in detail including treatments of dislocated shoulders fingers and jaws; spinal stretching dealing with hip problems etc. Many of these treatments have rather fanciful names: "Windmill" "Bear Hug" "Bird's Wing" "Control the Wind" "Crane Feather" "Playing with a Fish" "Worm" "Playing with a Jewel" "Tail of the Bird" "The Snail Method" "Riding on the Dragon" "Swallow's Tail" etc. Some relatively minor worming at the beginning and light marginal dampstaining. ❧ Mestler A Galaxy of Old Japanese Medical Books III p. 152. unknown books

Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. · États-Unis2 250,00 $US≈ 1 903,73 €

AUCTION CATALOGUE: AGUESSEAU or DAGUESSEAU Henri Francois & Jean Baptiste PaulinABAA

Catalogue des Livres imprimés et manuscrits de la Bibliothèque de feu Monsieur d'Aguesseau Doyen du Conseil.

5858xxxvi 366 pp. one leaf but lacking as is often the case the 12-page schedule of sale & the 80-page author index. 8vo cont. speckled calf two corners a bit worn joints a little cracked but strong flat spine gilt red morocco lettering piece on spine. Paris: Gogué & Née de la Rochelle 1785. The rare sale catalogue of the great library of books and early manuscripts many illuminated founded by Henri François d'Aguesseau 1668-1751 Chancellor of France a man of great learning. According to the preface of the catalogue he had acquired the collection of the poet Florent Chrestien 1541-1596 and his son Claude b. 1567. His library passed to his second son Jean Baptiste Paulin d'Aguesseau Marquis de Mannoevre 1701-84 who considerably enlarged it. Between the two generations they created a most remarkable collection. The father and son employed fifteen versions of their coat-of-arms on their bindings. The sale included 5583 lots and was sold over a 57-day period. Payne and the Marquis de Méjanes were major buyers. Very good copy with some minor foxing. Short tear due to a paper flaw to title but with no loss of text. Bookplate of the great French bookseller Georges Heilbrun. As mentioned above this copy lacks - as does the Grolier Club copy - the schedule of sale and index but it does have a final leaf in which the auctioneers promise to deliver the index at no charge by the end of May 1785 to anyone who requests a copy. ❧ Gustave Brunet Dictionnaire de Bibliologie Catholique col. 405-"cette vaste réunion d'ouvrages importants." Grolier Club Printed Catalogues of French Books Auctions.1643-1830 318-lacking both the schedule of sale and author index. Guigard II p. 173. Peignot p. 76. unknown books

Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 115,25 €

Gyraldi Lili Gregori Giglio Gregorio Giraldi Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus or GiraldusABAA

Opera Omnia Duobus Tomis Distincta Complectentia Historiam De Deis Gentium Musis Et Hercule Rem Nauticam Sepulcralia et Varios Sepeliendi Ritus Historiam Poetarum Graecorum et Latinorum Kalendarium Romanum et Graecum Cum Libello De Annis Mensibus

169619590Lugduni Batavorum: Hackium Boutesteyn Vivie Vander AA & Lucthmans 1696. Two volumes bound in one of this first collected edition of Giraldi's works; 20 772 26 928 30 pages Index Rerum et Verborum 1 page Catalogus Amicorum Lilii Quorum Meminit in epistola Direptionis Urbanae.; paginated in two columns except for the 'Varia' section; collated complete; text printed double-column; engraved illustrated frontispiece 7 full page and 2 double-page plates beautifully accomplished by Avele after Botard superb engravers' work with full and lively compositions realistically posed and drawn with action; title page with publishers' woodcut ornament and printed in red and black; the text with title and endpiece ornamentation and initial ornamentation as well nicely printed and with good wide margins; 11th ed. Britannica cites Giraldi Giglio Gregorio Lilius Gregorius Gyraldus 1470-1552 Italian scholar and poet born at Ferrara ".where he early distinguished himself by his talents and acquirements. he removed to Naples hwere he lived on familiar terms with Jovianus Pontanus and Sannazaro; and subsequently to Lombardy where he enjoyed the favour of the Mirandola family. At Miland in 1507 he studied Greek under Chalcondylas; and shortly afterwards at Modena he became tutor to Ercole afterwards Cardinal Rangone. About the year 1514 he removed to Rome where under Clement VII he held the office of apostolic protonotary; but having in the sack of that city 1527 which almost coincided with the death of his patron Cardinal Rangone lost all his property he returned in poverty once more to Mirandola whence again he was driven by the troubles consequent on the assassination of the reigning prince in 1533. The rest of his life was one long struggle with ill-health poverty and neglect; and he is alluded to with sorrowful regret by Montaigne in one of his Essais i. 34 as having like Sebastian Castalio ended his days in utter destitution. He died at Ferrara.a man of very extensive erudition; and numerous testimonies to his profundity and accuracy have been given both by contemporary and by later scholars. His Historia. marked a distinctly forward step in the systematic study of classical mythology; and by his treatises De Annis et Mensibus and on the Calendarium. he contributed to bring about the reform of the calendar which was ultimately effected by Pope Gregory XIII.Giraldi was also an elegant Latin poet."; approximately 15" tall by 10"; bound in full probably contemporary leather; seven raised spine bands gilt floral roll tool rectangles with fruit & leafy spray devices at corner of inner box surrounding a heavily-impressed and complex gilt central device with heroic figure surrounded by winged angel figures & cherubs figure holding a spear and a book shield below with cross device and the motto Sic Itur Ad Astra onward to the heavens; all edges tinted red; spine leather covering 1/3 gone very charred and worn; both boards still attached and the binding firm; first leaves a bit maladjusted at the inner margin from the heaviness of the binding pulling at them; text block with some spotting and darkening section at back with old bit of creasing at top corners; nevertheless mostly very fresh and clean free from markings or wear; in good condition and worthy of a rebacking or rebinding. First Edition. Leather Binding. Good. Hackium, Boutesteyn, Vivie, Vander AA, & Lucthmans books

Certain Books, ABAA · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 115,25 €

INDIAE Francisci or Francesco India 1482/85 ca1561. a. 15ABAA

De Gutta Podagrica Chiragrica et Arthritica. Libri Duo . . . in quibus natura earum & curatio miro ordine discutitur & enucleatur. Et medicamenta non vulgaria magnaeque vis et efficatiae praestantissimae et que a nullo unquam antea fortasse excogitata proponuntur.

1600M13168Verona: Societatis Aspirantium cura 1600. 1600. Two parts in 1. Small 4to. xxiv 118 1 pp. Printer's woodcut device 5 snakes over landscape woodcut initials and tailpiece rear errata & colophon; old ink marginalia p.36 underlining pp. 97-99. Original vellum; lacks ties. Ownership inscription on title: Hugo De Salins Belnensis Doct. Med. d.1659 and another signature obscured. Bookplate of ChÃ¢teau de Montrevost Cuisery France. EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY WORK ON GOUT & RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: : HUGUES DE SALINS' COPY. First edition of this rare work on the nature cause and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and gout. The status of gout in the late sixteenth century was such that gout was said by Turberville to be found in "horses capons and falcons." p. 64. John Gerard's Herball 1597 stated that Gout-wort or Herba Gerardi was a native herb that could be used with some benefit supported further by Culpeper. According to Copeman Thomas Sydenham 1624-1689 suffered from gout and wrote the classic description of the disease and was the first to be able to differentiate between rheumatoid arthritis and gout. The present work was written decades earlier. Francesco India cites Galen Chap. 1 Ambroise Pare Chap. 12 and Jean Fernel Chapters 5 7 8. India makes two 15-page tables of causes which he uses to organize his data. PROVENANCE: Hugues de Salins: The British Library catalogue lists a "Hugues de Salins; see: Jean Baptiste de Salins Defense du vin de Bourgogne 1704." This may be a descendent. See: Societe d'Histoire d'Archeologie et de Litterature de l'arrondissement de Beaune Memoires annee 1890 Volumes 15-16 Beaune 1891 pp. 75 177. Mentions the wife of Hugues de Salins as buried in 1626 and Hugues de Salins buried in 1659. Francisci Indiae an Italian philosopher and physician who is little known wrote the present work and two others: Hygiphylus: sive de febre maligna dialogus 1593. Hygiophilvs Tertivs Vel De Symptomatvm Febri Malignae Svper 1599. See: Frederic Paulhan Catalogue des legs Gide & Teissier-Rolland 1892 p. 212. Showing a copy of Strabo's Strabonis rerum geographicarum libri XVII 1571 with the same provenance inscription is this book. This inscription must date prior to 1892. Copeman W.S.C. A Short History of the Gout and the Rheumatics Diseases pp. 53 64. Locations: British Library; Edinburgh University; Middle Temple Library; Wellcome Library. Societatis Aspirantium cura, 1600. hardcover books

Jeff Weber Rare Books · Suisse2 500,00 $US≈ 2 115,25 €

McDonnell Alexander 1857 1945 or MacDonnellABAA

Game Book. A. McDonnell.

18800064001880-1917. Full Morocco. Very Good. Oblong 21 by 30 cm. 92 numbered leaves with content with log entries more or less statistical on all the versos and pictures and/or original drawings mostly mounted on 58 rectos with some additional loose material. 129 numbered leaves in all. Several of the log pages have mounted photos obscuring the log as it is clear that this game book was at some point re-purposed to be a more general album with some emphasis on sports including also fishing foxhunting and sailing but also there are two pages of photos from South Africa with photos of native tribesmen ostriches a hut Cecil Rhodes house etc. 13 original works of art -- watercolored pencil pen and ink -- in addition to numerous painted fish hook and fly vignettes these sometimes done directly onto the page. Most charming are the comical illustrations of anthropomorphic foxes. Sepia photos are of the country estates their stately homes and rural settings of the hunts as well as the people involved -- the hosts and guests during these country weekends. Many but by no means all of the photos have captions helpfully identifying the participants or the locations. And the log proper provides the names of those participating in the shooting and often what would now be regarded as obscenely large kills. Among the many aristocrats and wealthy in the photographs and/or logs are Lady Randolph Churchill Jennie Churchill Arthur Balfour Lady Minto Mary the famous 4th Countess Henry Lascelles the 5th Earl of Harewood the 5th Earl of Carnavon of King Tut fame as well as the owner of the castle used in Downton Abbey Baron Rothschild Lord de Grey Lord Ashburton Prince Murat the Duke of Buccleuch Prince Duleep de Singh Lord Rosebery and on and on. Country homes include Longleat Greystoke Castle the Hirsel Highcliffe Castle etc. Alexander McDonnell was a son of the 5th Earl of Antrim and a clerk in the House of Lords. Obviously he was very well connected and surely very popular among the upper echelons of English society back then. And we would note that many of the most illustriously titled have frequent entries here; what we have here is a window into a cohesive social network it is our sense. Condition: morocco binding has moderate to heavy wear along edges some scuffs on the boards and spine. The leaves can have a waviness the result of the interaction of the mounted material upon the leaves. A few photos are loose. There is a little bit of a scrappy quality to the book as befitting a log book that was partially turned into something much more and this quality is part of its charm as well. books

White Fox Rare Books and Antiques · États-Unis2 500,00 $US≈ 2 115,25 €

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