vols., 1872; The Politics of Switzerland, 1876; Minor Works, 1873; Life of Grote, by his wife, 1873. 471. GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS. The Diverting History of John Gilpin. By William Cowper. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. Small 4to, buckram, uncut. London: Printed for the Guild of Women Binders, 1899 One of 100 copies on Japan paper. From the estate of F. W. Halsey. 472. GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS. The Deserted Village. By Oliver Goldsmith. Illustrated by H. L. Richardson. Small 4to, full buckram, uncut. London, 1899 One of 100 copies on Japanese paper. From the estate of F. R. Halsey. 473. GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. By Thomas Gray. Illustrated by R. W. A. Rouse. Small 4to, full buckram, uncut. London, 1899 One of 100 copies on Japanese paper. From the estate of F. R. Halsey. 474. GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS. The Sensitive Plant. By Percy Bysshe Shelley. Illustrated by Laurence Housman. Small 4to, full buckram, uncut. London, 1899 One of 50 copies on Japanese paper. From the estate of F. R. Halsey. 475. GUILD OF WOMEN BINDERS. Songs from the Plays of Shakespeare. Illustrated by Paul Woodroffe. Small 4to, full buckram, uncut. London, 1899 One of 100 copies on Japanese paper. From the estate of F. R. Halsey. 476. GUINEY (LOUISE IMOGEN). "Monsieur Henri." A Foot-note to French History. Frontispiece. 18mo, cloth, uncut. New York, 1892 with FIRST EDITION. With an autograph inscription by the author, stating that this is the "Author's edition, uncut, fifty copies printed. a binding of the plaid pattern worn by Henri de La Rochejaquelein,'' etc. From the estate of F. R. Halsey. 477. GWYN (NELL). Memoirs of the Life of Eleanor Gwinn, a Celebrated Courtezan in the Reign of King Charles II. and Mistress to that Monarch. 8vo, full sprinkled calf, gilt, tooled back, inside gilt borders, gilt edges, by Riviere. London: F. Stamper, 1752 These rare and curious Memoirs were written by J. Seymour, a comedian. Very fine copy. 478. HAKLUYT (RICHARD). The Discoveries of the World from their first originall vnto the yeere of our Lord 1555. Briefly written in the Portugall tongue, by Antonie Galvano, Gouernour of Ternate, the chiefe Island of the Mulacos: Corrected, quoted, and now published in English by Richard Hakluyt, sometimes student of Christchurch in Oxford. Quarto, full crimson crushed levant morocco, ornately tooled by Riviere, gilt over red edges. Londini. Impensis G. Bishop, 1601 BEAUTIFUL COPY. From the famous Brinley collection. The body of the book is in black letter, the side notes and preliminary leaves in roman type. Contains interesting account of the Third voyage of Columbus. "GOLF" AT THE SOUTH SEAS 479. HALLEY (DR. EDMUND). A Voyage to the South Sea, and along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, in the Years, 1712, 1713 and 1714. Particularly describing the Genius and Constitution of the Inhabitants, as well as Indians and Spaniards: Their Customs and Manners: Their Natural History, Mines, Commodities, Traffick with Europe, etc. By Monsieur Frezier. Illustrated with 37 copper-cutts of the Coasts, Harbours, Cities, Plants, Natives and other Curiosities. Printed from the author's original Plates in the Paris Edition. 4to, original calf. London: Jonah Bowyer, 1717 FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Dedicated to the Governor of the South Sea Company. At the end is a most interesting Supplementary Account of the Settlement, Commerce and Riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay." This is by Dr. Edmund Halley, who gave the first account of the "trade" winds, also originated the science of life statistics. He predicted accurately the return of the Comet of 1581 named after him, "Halley's Comet.", The plates include plans of Lima, Callao, and Santiago, Chile. At page 62 is a plate showing Indians playing a game with ball and clubs, which is practically the golf game of to-day. 480. HALSEY (FREDERIC R.). Raphael Morghen's Engraved Works. Being a descriptive Catalogue of all the engravings of this Master. The inscriptions given at full length, and the variations of the states precisely set forth, accompanied by Biographical and other Notes, with a Life of the Engraver. Engraved portrait by Mediolani after Caronni. 4to, cloth, gilt top. uncut. New York, 1885 THIS IS MR. HALSEY'S OWN ANNOTATED COPY, with many corrections throughout in his hand, together with autograph letters from Alfred Maskell, F. Keppel, W. S. Baker, and others, relating to the work; also newspaper clippings, etc. One of 250 copies. 481. 482. Two more copies of the same. Another copy of the same. One of 25 copies on Whatman paper. Portrait on India paper. New York, 1885 485. HALSEY (JACOB L.) and (EDMUND DRAKE). Thomas Halsey of Hertfordshire, England, and Southampton, Long Island, 1591-1679, with his American Descendants to the Eighth and Ninth Generations. With portraits, facsimiles, Halsey arms, etc. 8vo, cloth, uncut. Morristown, 1895 With genealogical clippings, etc., inserted. From the estate of F. R. Halsey. 486. Another copy of the same. With A. L.'s S., etc., relating to the work, also an A. L. S., 3 pp. folio, dated "Camp, June 16, 1781," from William D. Hart to Col. Dayton, referring to a member of the Halsey family: "I'll send Halsey with a Party of Horse tomorrow." From the estate of F. R. Halsey. 487. HARDY (THOMAS). folded. Song of the Soldiers. 8vo, THE EXTREMELY RARE FIRST EDITION. This, one of the finest, if not THE finest poems on the war published in "The Times' Sept. 9th, and reprinted at Hove by permission, September 16th. The entire issue was given to soldiers proceeding to France in 1914, which would account for its disappearance and scarcity. This, and the two following items belong to the widow of one of the first expeditionary soldiers. 488. Another copy of the same. 8vo, in Khaki covers. The leaflet, as above, being exhausted, it was reprinted in khaki covers. 489. The Oxen. 8vo, original printed covers. Hove, 1915 FIRST EDITION. Published in "The Times," Dec. 24, 1915, and reprinted at Hove, Dec. 28, 1915. 490. HARRIS (JOEL CHANDLER). Uncle Remus, his Songs and Sayings. The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation. Illustrations. 12mo, cloth. New York, 1881 FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK. 491. HARTE (BRET). Plain Language from Truthful James. A series of 9 original sketches by Joseph Hull. Square 12mo, in red silk covers. [Chicago: The Western News Co., 1870] FIRST EDITION. From the estate of F. R. Halsey. BRET HARTE FIRST EDITIONS 492. HARTE (BRET). Collected set of FIRST EDITIONS of his Works. 124 volumes, uniformly bound in three-quarters maroon morocco, gilt panel backs, gilt tops, original cloth covers bound in in the majority of volumes, with some of the rarer items enclosed in cases uniform with the rest of the set. v.p., v.d. WE BELIEVE THIS IS THE MOST EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF BRET HARTE FIRST EDITIONS THAT HAS EVER BEEN OFFERED FOR SALE. The set consists of the following: The Knickerbocker, 1858; Fourteenth Anniversary of the Society of California, 1864; The Sanitary Commission Bulletin, 1864; Outcroppings, 1866; Condensed Novels, 1867; The Lost Galleon, (Letter Inserted) 1867; another copy, 1867; The Overland Monthly, in the original parts, 6 vols., 1868-1870; The Luck of Roaring Camp, 1870; The Luck of Roaring Camp (With Brown of Calaveras added to the foregoing) 1870; The Heathen Chinee, Small paper edition of the facsimile of the original manuscript, 1870; Condensed Novels, 1871; The East and West Poems, 1871; That Heathen Chinee, 1871; That Heathen Chinee, London, 1871; Lothaw (Every Saturday), 1871; The Pliocene Skull, 1871; Poems, 1871; Sensation Novels Condensed, 1871; The Atlantic Almanac, 1872; Bret Harte's Poetical Works, 1872; The Luck of Roaring Camp with other Sketches, 1872; The Stories of the Sierras, 1872; Tales, Sketches, Poetry and Music, 1872; Mrs. Skaggs' Husbands, 1873; Baby Sylvester, 1874; Echoes of the Foothills, 1875; Tales of the Argonauts, 1875; Nast's Almanac for 1875; Gabriel Conroy, 1876; Two Men of Sandy Bar, 1876; Thankful Blossom, 1877; Drift from Two Shores, 1878; The Story of a Mine, 1878; West Point Tic-Tacs, 1878; An Heiress of Red Dog, 1879; Deadwood Mystery, 1879; The Twins of Table Mountain, 1879; The Life and Public Service of J. A. Garfield, 1881; Flip, 1882; Flip, A Gentleman of La Porte, 1882; Poetical Works, 1883; In the Carquinez Woods, 1884; On the Frontier, 1884; By Shore and Sedge, 1885; Maruja, 1885; A Ship of '49. Original parts of the English Magazine, 1885; The Queen of the Pirate Isle, 1886; Snow Bound at Eagle's, 1886; The Crusade of the Excelsior, 1887; Devil's Ford, 1887; A Millionaire of Rough and Ready, 1887; The Argonauts of North Liberty, 1888; A Phyllis of the Sierras, 1888; Cressy, 1889; The Heritage of Delow Marsh, 1889; A Sappho of Green Springs, 1890; A Waif of the Plains, 1890; A Waif of the Plains, London, 1890; A Ward of the Golden Gate, 1890; A Ward of the Golden Gate, London, 1890; First Family of Tassajara, 2 vols., 1891; Sappho of Green Springs, 1891; Sappho of Green Springs, London, 1891; Colonel Starbottle's Client, 1892; First Family of Tassajara, 1892; Transformation of Buckeye Camp, 1892; Sally Dows, 1893; Susy, 1893; Susy, London, 1893; The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, London, 1894; The Bell-Ringer of Angel's, 1894; My First Book, 1894; A Protege of Jack Hamlin's, 1894; Clarence, 1895; Clarence, London, 1895; In a Hollow of the Hills, 1895; John Hare, 1894; Barker's Luck, 1896; Barker's Luck, London, 1896; Three Partners, 1897; Three Partners, London, 1897; Some later Verses, 1898; Stories on Light and Shadow, 1898; Tales of Trail and Town, 1898; Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation, 1899; From Sand Hill to Pine, 1900; Under the Red Wood, 1901; Condensed Novels, Second series, 1902; Memorial Number of the Overland Monthly, 1902; Openings in the Old Trail, 1912; Sue, 1902; Bret Harte, Biography by Henry W. Boynton, 1903; The Life of Bret Harte, by Pemberton, 1903; Trent's Trust, 1903; Her Letter, 1905; The Leetures of Bret Harte, PRESENTATION COPY, 1909; Salomy Jane, 1910; The Life of Bret Harte, by Henry C. Merwin, 1911; Eine Sage aus Sammtstadt under andere Erzahlungen, n.d.; The Heathern Chinee, London, n.d.; In a Hollow of the Hills, London, n.d.; Lothaw, n.d.; Fables of George Washington, Aesop and Bret Harte, n.d.; The Atlantic Monthly for October, 1863; Scribner's Monthly Magazine for March, 1877; Californian Stories, 1884; The Hoodlum Band and Other Stories, 1878; The Luck of Roaring Camp, and Other Sketches, 1872; Gabriel Conroy, 3 vols., 1876; Ainslee's Magazine for February, 1899; In the Carquinez Woods, London, 1883; Home Coming of Jim Wilkes, 1899; Poems, 1871; Sally Dows, 1893. 493. HARTE (BRET). The Complete Works of, in Prose and Poetry. Now First Collected. With Introductory Essay, by J. M. Bellew. Portrait of the author and numerous illustrations. 8vo, full crimson levant morocco, the sides and back gold tooled with arabesque ornamentations, doublures of green levant within red borders and broad gold tooling of spiral work around a goldtooled center-piece, flies of white moire silk, gilt top, uncut. London: John Camden Hotten, n.d. PRESENTATION COPY, with long autograph inscription on reverse of the frontispiece portrait, in the handwriting of the author. copy, with the advertisements at end. Very fine 494. HARTE (BRET). ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of his celebrated story, "The Strange Experience of Alkali Dick." Minutely written in ink, ENTIRELY IN THE AUTHOR'S HANDWRITING, and SIGNED AT END, on 15 quarto sheets, (one side of paper only). In the original wrapping, bearing Bret Harte's Autograph Superscription, adding "Finished Oct. 96. Sold Strand Magazine.' The MS. bears numerous corrections and elisions made by the author. 495. HARTE (BRET). ORIGINAL AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of his famous story, "A Knight Errant of the Foothills." Written in ink, entirely IN THE AUTHOR'S HANDWRITING, and SIGNED AT END, on 28 quarto sheets, (one side of paper only). In the original wrapping, bearing Bret Harte's Autograph Signed Endorsement, adding "8881 words, February 1889." The MS. bears numerous corrections and elisions in the author's hand. THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT OF ONE OF BRET 496. HARTE (BRET). The complete original autograph manuscript of his humorous poems, entitled "Seventy-Nine: Mr. Interviewer Interviewed." 3 pages, 4to, enclosed in a half morocco slip case. A very characteristic manuscript of the noted humorist neatly written in his fine clear hand. "Know me next time when you see me, won't you, old smarty! Take out your pensivil, d-m you, sharpen it do! My complaints to make? Lots of 'em-one of 'Ems you." |
