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Bernard Francis: Miller Francis surveyorABAA

THE ROAD FROM BOSTON TO ALBANY BY WAY OF SPRINGFIELD AND GREAT BARRINGTON.AND.BY WAY OF NORTHAMPTON TO ALBANY manuscript title within the map

1765WRCAM46139New England 1765. Pen-and-ink on laid paper with the road colored in sepia and with water elements in green with a yellow wash border within the gradients on seventeen of eighteen sheets. Sheet size: 27 1/2 x 214 inches overall if joined. Minor repairs one small blank section in the upper border lacking. Very good. Provenance: Sir Francis Bernard Colonial Governor of Massachusetts 1712-79; by descent to Robert Spencer Bernard Nether Winchendon House Buckinghamshire England. A truly massive road map measuring over seventeen feet from east to west showing the roads across the colony of Massachusetts in great detail. It is one of only a handful of road maps to survive from the colonial era. It was created for Sir Francis Bernard then colonial governor of Massachusetts. In November 1969 noted historian of cartography William P. Cumming discovered in the family home of Sir Francis Bernard "a collection of maps that in purpose and type differed so markedly from the more usual military coastal and general colonial maps of the time that it stands out in both interest and importance. These were domestic maps of a gentleman's estates and the roads to them.Probably Sir Francis's most important contribution to cartography was to have careful surveys made of the roads from Boston.westward to Albany New York on a one-inch to two-thirds-mile scale. It was along part of this Albany to Boston road that the American rebels dragged the heavy cannon captured at Fort Ticonderoga that set up on Dorchester Heights forced General Howe's evacuation of Boston in 1776.No route maps as detailed as these except for two short New Jersey road maps are known for any other section of the eastern seaboard until those of Christopher Colles in 1789" Cumming pp.29-30. The present manuscript map depicts the road across Massachusetts but does not extend as far as Albany. The road divided into miles throughout extends from Boston to Springfield where it splits into two westward routes to Albany: the first a more southerly route via Great Barrington Massachusetts which ends on the present map at a point approximately thirty-three miles from Albany; and the more northerly route which is shown on the map as far as Northampton just past the Connecticut River. The map is done on a very large scale of approximately two-thirds of a mile to the inch with towns rivers mountains residences meetinghouses and numerous taverns identified along the way. Cumming records this map as four separate entries i.e. MP21-24 although with an incorrect sheet count. Comprised of eighteen sheets one narrow blank sheet is missing the top half of the map is comprised of ten narrow sheets varyingly long and short while the bottom half is comprised of eight uniform sheets each measuring 18 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches. The sheets are as follows: 1 Southeast corner of the map blank except wash border. 2 Blank except for wash border with a segment of rhumb line. 3 missing but would clearly be blank except for wash border with section of rhumb line 4 Text reading "Boston to Albany." 5 Text reading "Way to Spr-" with part of the southern road. 6 Text reading "-ingfield" with part of the southern road including Springfield and the Connecticut River. 7 A small sheet containing text reading "and" and part of the southern route. 8 blank except for wash border 9 blank except for wash border 10 Southwest corner of the map blank except for wash border. 11 Northeast corner of the map containing Medford Boston and the route as far as Framingham. 12 Text reading "the road" with the northern route from Sudbury to Westborough. 13 Text reading "from" with the route from Shrewsbury to Leicester. 14 Text reading "by" and "road b-" with the route from Brookfield west to Coy's Hill and the Porpoodock Mountains. 15 Text reading "-y way of Northampton to Albany" showing the route from Belchertown to Northampton including part of the Connecticut River and the Hadley Mountains. 16 Text reading "Gr-" with part of the route showing Blandford. 17 Text reading "-eat Barrington" showing the route from the Farmington River to Tyringham. 18 Northwest corner of the map showing Great Barrington and a bit beyond to the Massachusetts-New York border. Sir Francis Bernard became the colonial governor of Massachusetts in late 1759 shortly after British troops were victorious in the Battle of Quebec. That decisive French and Indian War victory opened a vast region for renewed English settlement and trade thus necessitating the need for more accurate surveys of the roads. The present manuscript map was surveyed and drawn by talented military mapmaker Francis Miller in 1765 for Bernard the details of which are recounted by Bernard in a 1766 letter to Lord Barrington: "I am desired to certify to your Lordship that at the beginning of the Year 1764 Genl Gage at my Request gave Leave to Ensign Francis Miller of the 45th regiment then stationed in Newfoundland to come to Boston to assist me in some Works of Public Surveying which I had undertaken in pursuance of resolutions of the general Assembly & partly by Orders from England. Mr Miller being then at an outpost & not easily relieved did not arrive at Boston till Nov in that Year when the Season for actual Surveying was over. He was employed that Winter & Spring following in protracting the Surveys made that Summer among which was a compleat Route from Fort Pownal on the River Penobscot to Quebec & some other curious explorations of the Eastern parts of New England hitherto unknown to Englishmen: of which elegant Maps drawn by Mr Miller have been transmitted to the Board of Trade. Early in the Last Summer I employed M' Miller having previously informed Genl Gage of the Intention to make an actual Survey from Boston to Albany & back again by another Way being near 200 Miles; & afterwards from Boston to Penobscot being above 200 Miles; by which Means a true Geometrical Line of 400 Miles in length through part of New York & all the habitable part of New-England has been obtained which will afford great Assistance to the Ascertaining the Geography of this Country & its Sea Coast. After this Survey was finished he was employed in protracting the Same & making Drawings thereof which he has done with great Accuracy & Elegance" Bernard to Barrington Jan. 1 1766 quoted in THE BARRINGTON-BERNARD CORRESPONDENCE p.103. This important manuscript map detailing the route from Boston westward towards Albany constitutes among the earliest of American road maps. CUMMING BRITISH MAPS OF COLONIAL AMERICA Chicago: University of Chicago Press 1974 pp.29-30 and Appendix A. THE BARRINGTON-BERNARD CORRESPONDENCE Cambridge: Harvard University 1912. unknown books

MILLER ArthurABAA

A COLLECTION OF FIRST EDITIONS OF HIS WORK

31748286 ITEMS. Includes 47 signed items: Including a signed first edition of Miller's first play "All My Sons: signed first edition of "Death of a Salesman" a signed "round robin signed by complete cast of "Death of a Salesman" a first edition of his only children's book: "Jane's Blanket" a signed copy of "A View From the Bridge" original photos two letters a fine first in dj of "The Misfits" a signed limited edition of "After the Fall" a signed first of "Incident at Vichey" etc. Included also are play bills critical works magazine articles etc. A complete list is available. "Arthur Miller's first success came in 1947 with "All My Sons" for which he won the New York Drama Critics Circle award. Although it lacked the originality of some of his later works this family drama which told the story of a factory owner who caused the death of several American pilots during World War I by selling defective parts to the government dealt with issues of guilt and dishonesty that Miller would revisit and expand upon in some of his more memorable plays. His next play "Death of a Salesman" stunned audiences with its brilliance and was quickly earmarked as a classic of the modern theatre. It also sparked heated debates over the true nature of tragedy. Some critics criticized Miller for infusing the play with a deep sense of pity for the commonplace salesman Willy Loman. They insisted that Willy was a "little man" and therefore not worthy of the pathos reserved for such tragic heroes as Oedipus and Medea. Miller however argued that the tragic feeling is invoked whenever we are in the presence of a character any character who is ready to sacrifice his life if need be to secure one thing--his sense of personal dignity. And the "little" salesman was determined to do just that no matter what the cost. Arthur Miller was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1949 for Death of a Salesman. He has come to be considered one of the greatest dramatists in the history of the American Theatre and his plays a fusion of naturalistic and expressionistic techniques continue to be widely produced. unknown books

Second Life Books Inc · États-Unis38 500,00 $US≈ 32 574,85 €

MILLER Philip 1691 1771ABAA

Figures of the Most Beautiful Useful and Uncommon Plants Described in the Gardeners Dictionary exhibited on three hundred copper plates accurately engraved after drawings taken from nature with the characters of their flowers and seed vessels drawn when they were in their greatest perfection

175534775London: Printed for the Author; and sold by John Rivington and others 1755. 2 volumes folio. 16 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches. Engraved allegorical headpiece to the dedication leaf after and by J. S. Miller woodcut headpiece and initial-frame. 300 hand-coloured engraved plates two folding after G. D. Ehret J. Bartram W. Houston R. Lancake and J. S. Miller by Miller T. Jefferys and J. Mynde. Uncut. Contemporary marbled paper boards expertly rebacked to style in tan calf spine gilt with raised bands. Housed in a slipcase. A lovely set of the first edition of Miller's illustrated supplement to his overwhelmingly popular Gardeners Dictionary. While conceived as a complement to an earlier publication Miller's Figures of . Plants "is a sufficiently complete work and may be rated on its own merits" Hunt. In the preface Miller stated his intention of publishing one figure of a plant for every known genus but abandoned this in favor of ".those Plants only which are either curious in themselves or may be useful in Trades Medicine &c. including the Figures of such new Plants as have not been noticed by any former Botanists." The plants illustrated were either engraved from drawings of specimens in the Chelsea Physic Garden or drawings supplied by Miller's numerous correspondents including John Bartram the Pennsylvania naturalist cf. plate 272 and Dr. William Houston who travelled widely in the Americas and West Indies and bequeathed Miller his papers drawings and herbarium cf. plates 44 and 182. For the plants drawn from examples in the Garden Miller employed Richard Lancake and two of the leading botanical artists and engravers of the period Georg Dionysius Ehret and Johann Sebastian Miller. Like Miller's Catalogus Plantarum many of the etched and engraved plates are delicately printed in colour i.e. green to give a more life-like impression after hand colouring. The work was published by subscription in 50 monthly parts with each part containing 6 plates between 25 March 1755 and 30 June 1760. Two later editions were published in 1771 and 1809. Complete sets of the first edition are scarce particularly in such lovely original condition. Nissen BBI 1378; Great Flower Books p. 121; Dunthorne 209; Henrey 1097; Hunt 566; Stafleu and Cowen TL2 6059; Pritzel 6241. Printed for the Author; and sold by John Rivington [and others] unknown books

Donald Heald Rare Books · États-Unis18 000,00 $US≈ 15 229,80 €

MEUNIER Charles binder; CAMOENS. Luis deABAA

Love Poems

03821: Privately Reprinted 1886. Just like Love is yonder rose Heavenly fragrance round it throws." Luis de Camoens - Portugal's Greatest Poet A Wonderful Inlaid Binding by Charles Meunier MEUNIER Charles binder. CAMOENS. Luis de. Love Poems from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoens. By Lord Viscount Strangford. London: Privately Reprinted 1886. Limited to 50 copies on Japan Paper this being number 49 signed by the editor B.B. Haggin. Additionally inscribed on a front blank leaf "Compliments of the Editor/B.B. Haggin/March 27th 1892." Small quarto 8 9/16 x 6 9/16 inches; 217 x 167 mm. iv 117 3 blank pp. Original stiff paper wrappers decorated in gold bound in. Illustrated with very attractive engraved head and tail-pieces. Bound ca. 1886 by Charles Meunier stamp-signed in gilt on lower turn-in. Full rose colored crushed morocco each cover richly and decoratively bordered in gilt surrounding a rectangular foliate frame with sixteen flowers inlaid in black morocco and fourteen leaves inlaid in green morocco. Spine with five raised bands and five inlaid black morocco flowers decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments in a matching design decorative gilt board-edges wide gilt decorated turn-ins blue silk liners and end-leaves marbled end-papers all edges gilt. A spectacular binding on a beautifully printed book. Charles Meunier 1865-1940 began his apprenticeship as a bookbinder at age eleven. Five years later at age sixteen he joined master binder Marius-Michel's workshop. He soon grew weary of producing traditional bindings and established his own bindery in 1885 at the tender age of twenty years old. CM was thought to be innovative and instinctive with great reserves of energy and undeniable artistic talent. Drawing on traditional and modern techniques and forms of decoration Meuniere mixed classical punches.with newly fashionable incised and modeled leather panels. His output was prodigious; by 1897 he had produced roughly six hundred bindings" Art Nouveau and Art Deco Bookbinding p. 194. LuÃs Vaz de Camoens c. 1524-1580 is considered Portugal's and the Portuguese language's greatest poet. His mastery of verse has been compared to that of Shakespeare Vondel Homer Virgil and Dante. He wrote a considerable amount of lyrical poetry and drama but is best remembered for his epic work Os LusÃadas The Lusiads. His collection of poetry The Parnasum of LuÃs de CamÃµes was lost in his lifetime. The influence of his masterpiece Os LusÃadas is so profound that Portuguese is sometimes called the "language of Camoens : Privately Reprinted, 1886 unknown books

David Brass Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis8 500,00 $US≈ 7 191,85 €

GRANDVILLE JJ. pseud. of Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard; MERY Joseph; MEUNIER Charles binder J. J.ABAA

Les Ã‰toiles

04602Paris & Leipzig : G. De Gonet Ã‰diteur & Chez Charles Twietmeyer 1849. Grandville's "Last Fairy-Tale" In a Superb Inlaid Binding by Charles Meunier GRANDVILLE J.J. illustrator MÃ‰RY Joseph. MEUNIER Charles binder. Les Ã‰toiles. DerniÃ¨re fÃ©erie par J.-J. Grandville. Texte par MÃ©ry. Astronomie des dames par le Comte Foelix. Paris: G. De Gonet Ã‰diteur & Leipzig: Chez Charles Twietmeyer 1849. First edition. Two parts in one quarto volume 11 x 7 3/8 inches; 280 x 187 mm. 4 xvi 252; 4 186 2 pp. With added hand-colored wood-engraved vignette title in each part hand-colored engraved portrait of Grandville by Ch. Geoffroy and twelve hand-colored engraved plates eleven in the first part one in the second part by Ch. Geoffroy after Grandville all with original tissue-guards. Handsomely bound by Charles Meunier stamp-signed in black on front turn-in "Ch. Meunier. 1905". Full blue morocco covers decoratively rued in gilt with gray morocco inlaid borders enclosing an elaborate design of inlaid gray cream and green inlaid flowers with decorative gilt stems. Spine with four raised bands decoratively inlaid in various colored morocco's decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments. Decorative gilt board-edges gilt ruled turn-ins with inlaid gay morocco borders gray-green marbled endpapers top edge trimmed others uncut. Original printed paper wrappers and spine bound in at end. Unidentified bookplate "Nec Tu Semper Eris" You will not always be on verso of front flyleaf. Housed in the original blue leather edged patterned paper board slipcase. A wonderful copy of this lovely book with exquisite plates after Grandville. "The compositions of this â€˜last fairy-tale' brilliantly engraved on steel by Charles Geoffroy and delicately colored form a fitting memorial to Grandville. They show that his powers remained unimpaired to the end of his short career. Grandville told his wife on the day he began these designs: â€˜for too long I have kept my eyes lowered to the earth; now I want to lift them to the heavens' p. ix. The pattern which he follows is similar to that of Les fleurs animÃ©es. Nearly every plate has its beautiful lady clad in white and adorned with stars looming in the sky with varied scenes of earthly life below her. These designs Grandville's tranquil refuge from the turmoil that beset his mind are as charming as they are mysterious. Also included in the volume are an unsigned essay which remains the most considerable source of biographical information about Grandville and a fine portrait of him by Geoffroy I xvi with a border of his creations animals paying him tribute as well as his flower- and star-ladies" Ray. This posthumously published work Grandville died on March 17 1847 was originally issued in fifty parts the first part appearing in September 1849. Charles Meunier 1865-1940 began his apprenticeship as a bookbinder at age eleven. Five years later at age sixteen he joined master binder Marius-Michel's workshop. He soon grew weary of producing traditional bindings and established his own bindery in 1885 at the tender age of twenty years old. CM was thought to be innovative and instinctive with great reserves of energy and undeniable artistic talent. Drawing on traditional and modern techniques and forms of decoration Meuniere mixed classical punches. with newly fashionable incised and modeled leather panels. His output was prodigious; by 1897 he had produced roughly six hundred bindings" Art Nouveau and Art Deco Bookbinding p. 194. Ray The Art of the French Illustrated Book 200. Vicaire V col. 770. Grandville. Dessins Originaux p. 398. Paris [&] Leipzig : G. De Gonet, Ã‰diteur [&] Chez Charles Twietmeyer, 1849 unknown books

David Brass Rare Books, Inc. · États-Unis7 500,00 $US≈ 6 345,75 €

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