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MACAULAY, Aulay. Polygraphy, or Short-Hand made easy to the meanest capacity: Being an Universal Character fitted to all languages: which may be learnt by this Book, without the help of a Master: Invented by Aulay Macaulay. 24mo, contemporary crimson morocco, gilt decorated borders (rebacked; new label, engraved frontispiece, 1 p.l., pp. viii, 119, a.e.g., marbled end papers, engraved throughout. London: Printed for the Author, and sold by him in the square Manchester: Also sold by [9 others], November 30, 1747.
First Edition. Printed from engraved copperplates. The frontispiece represents a preacher at a pulpit above a group of men and women taking notes in shorthand. With the author's authenticating signature on verso of title. There was demand for a second edition, also dated November 30th, and a third edition in 1756. Aulay Macaulay (d. 1788) was a Manchester tea dealer whose "shorthand system was the first English system to include written vowels; and he was the first to intend his… Read More

DEDICATION COPY
MACKINSTRY, Elizabeth. Puck in Pasture. Verse and Decorations by...8vo, original cloth backed decorated boards (corners rubbed), 2 pictorial labels, pp. 79, [3]. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1925.
First Edition. Mackinstry (1878-1956), an American poet, illustrator, and sculptor, lived in Paris from 1892-1901, during which time she studied with the sculptor Auguste Rodin. She had a successful career turning out illustrations for seveal New York publishing houses, illustrating books, and doing costume designs. In her later years she lived in Lenox, Massachusetts, near Emily Howland Leeming Lyman (1871-1951), a friend from Buffalo, who was a relative of Rachel Field. This is the dedication copy, inscribed: "To Emily Howland Lyman/ a jais/ Here/s your book dear/ Elizabeth Mackinstry." Mackinstry has tipped-in a 3 5/8 x 3 3/4" original pen-and-ink drawing of two young girls in long dresses standing close to each other. Spine a little faded, and spine label little… Read More

A MANUSCRIPT SHORT STORY OF "LESBIAN DECADENCE"MAIZEROY, René (pseud. of Baron René Jules Jean Toussaint, 1856-1918). AMsS, Petit Mémoires/ Madame Heurteaux. Approx. 1100 words in the author's small hand, 8vo, 4pp (rectos only), each leaf pasted in old 1/2 cloth binder. [Paris: 1884].
A manuscript short story concerned with eroticism, published as the fifth and last volume of the author's "collection curieuse...histoire d'amour troublantes et curieuses, enfermés dans une couverture très coquette," Les amours deféndues (Paris: 1884), published title simply, Madame Heurteaux. Maizeroy was a friend of Guy de Maupassant who based his character of "Duroy" on him in his novel Bel-Ami. A contemporary wrote of Maizeroy that he "is one of the most elegant of our present men of letters; many of his pages are chiseled with the most masterly and artistic strokes."-Rosine Mellé, The Contemporary French Writers (1894), p. 78. Maizeroy's portrait was painted by Edouard Manet in 1883. For Les amouirs… Read More

INSCRIBED BY THE POET

MARKHAM, Edwin. The Man with the Hoe. 12mo, original printed wrappers, 1 p.l., pp. [5], [2] ads, string tied, as issued. San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1899.
First Edition; preceded by a 4-page supplement to the San Francisco Examiner ten weeks earlier. Inscribed on front wrapper: "Your Friend Edwin Markham 1934." Herewith the original printed mailing envelope, extensively, and professionally repaired. Skiff, Adventures in Americana, pp. 314-315, says that only abouit 30 copies escaped burning in a fire, which we find hard to believe. Bennett, Practical Guide, p. 184. Fullerton, pp. 190-1. Grolier American One Hundred, p. 127. Johnson, High Spots, pp. 55-6. Nearly fine in orocco backed cloth folding case.

A LARGE AND BEAUTIFUL SIGNED AND DATED WEST INDIAN PORTRAIT MINIATURE OF THE BRITISH GENERAL WHO CONQUERED MARTINIQUE IN 1809 & GUADELOUPE IN 1810 COMMANDING NATIVE TROOPS ---PAINTED IN MARTINIQUE SHORTLY AFTER THE CONQUEST BY A FINE FEMALE FRENCH ARTIST: A UNIQUE EXAMPLE OF THE ARTIST'S WORK?
MARTNER, Mme, née Charlotte Gertrude Hélène Daniel (1781-1839), painter, painter in miniature and sculptor of the Antilles. BECKWITH, Sir George KCB (1752/3-1823), British General who saw very active service in America during the Revolution; conqueror of Martinique and Guadeloupe. Curved, half-length portrait in miniature of Beckwith in uniform standing in a dark hall with Grecian columns behind. A LARGE MINIATURE, 3 ¾ x 3 ¾" (9.5 x 9.5cm), glazed and framed. [Front Royal, Martinique:] Signed and dated "Mme Martner 1809". A lovely, vividly colored and beautifully executed portrait… Read More

MAUND, B[enjamin], F. L. S., editor. The Botanic Garden; consisting of highly finished representations of many ornamental flowering plants, cultivated in Great Britain; with their names, classes, orders, history, qualities, culture, and physiological observations. Large 4to, 16 volumes in 11 (complete set), including The Frutist, The Floral Register, and Auctarium, mid-19th century dark blue calf, gilt, foliate border with triple (and quadruple) fillet borders gilt, spines in 6 compartments, elaborately gilt, gilt lettered red calf title and numbering pieces, inner gilt dentelles, cover edges gilt, marbled end papers, marbled edges, with 15 engraved titles of Baldwin and Craddock, and Simpkin & Marshall; dedication leaf "To the Lovers of Botany" in volume I, engraved dedication to the Queen in volume III, 9 (of 10) "Prefaces," "Farewell" in vol. XIII (physical vol. XI) + 312 hand colored floral plates (1248 illustrations numbered consequtively, 4 illustrations to a plate), 4 leaves of text for each… Read More

OVER 1000 PAGES OF MANUSCRIPT CONSTRUCTION RECORDS AND ACCOUNTS IN THIRTEEN FOLIO VOLUMES OF AN IMPORTANT FREDERICK, MARYLAND, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY IRISH IMMIGRANT ARCHITECT AND MASTER BUILDER, INCLUDING THOSE OF HIS SONS, WHO WERE HIS PARTNERS AND SUCCESSORS, KEPT OVER A PERIOD OF FIFTY YEARS, 1790-1840
McCLEERY, Henry (1749-1819), Irish-American architect and master builder in Frederick, Maryland, who built most of Frederick's significant structures in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Tall folio ledger book, original flexible boards (worn & soiled), signed on front cover: "Henry McCleery/his Book/1790 January 1st," then again, "Henry McCleery His Book," with dates "1791/1792/1793," and "Alegheny Lotts in this Book 1790 page 20," over 320 pages of manuscript in 4 sections, crudely side-sewn and bound as one, ca. pp. [76] + [76] + [80] + [90], each section with alphabetical list of clients/customers + 12 simple original sketch plans of buildings with dimensions, written on laid paper, with… Read More

GEORGETOWN COLLEGE PHILOSOPHY LECTURE NOTES BY A STUDENT WHO WOULD LATER BE AN UNSUCCESSFUL PETITIONER IN AN EFFORT TO INCORPORATE THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS IN WORCESTER MASSACHUSETTS: THE PROFESSOR ADVOCATED SELLING GEORGETOWN'S SLAVES
[EDUCATION]. [PHILOSOPHY]. McMULLEN, A[ugustine], Georgetown College student, future priest in the Society of Jesus. GABARIA, Father John Stephen, S. J. AMsS in Latin by McMullen of philosophy lectures given by Father John Stephen Gabaria, S. J., at Georgetown College, Georgetown, D. C. Small 4to, original 1/2 calf, marbled boards, with McMullen's gold bordered red morocco ownership label on front cover, lettering label "Philosophia" on spine, and gold stamped "Tome III", pp. 287. [Georgetown, District of Columbia] February-July 6, 1838.

Future Reverend Augustine McMullen, S. J., became a professor of Latin and Greek, and assistant professor of French, at Georgetown College in 1851. In… Read More

[FUR TRADING, CANADIAN]. McTAVISH, McGILLIVRAYS & CO., & PIERRE DE ROCHEBLAVE. Signed 2x by Archibald Norman McLeod, partner in the North West Company. Printed Document Signed, Pardevant les Notaires de la Province du Bas-Canada à Montreal, y résident, soussigné; fut présent [Sr. Luc Plante de L'Isle Foquace (Sorel) in manuscript] lequel s'est volontairement engagé par ces présentes à Messrs. William McGillivray, Simon McGillivray, Simon McGillivray, Archibald Norman McLeod, Thomas Thain, et Henry Mackenzie, de Montreal, Négocians et associés, souis le nom de McTAVISH, McGILLIVRAYS & Co. & PIERRE DE ROCHEBLAVE, A. N. McLeod [accomplished by hand], signed by twice by Archibald Norman McLeod, 1p., folio, 7 1/2 x 12 3/4", in French. Contract employing fur traders, "Voyageurs." [Montreal, December 13, 1820].
Holograph signatures of Archibald Norman McLeod (1772-after 1837), a native of Kilfinichen, Isle of Mull,… Read More

CHARLES KINGSLEY'S COPY OF A BOOK ABOUT AN AMERICAN CIRCUIT RIDER, WITH HIS NOTES

MILBURN, William Henry. The Rifle, Axe, and Saddle-Bags, and other Lectures. With a Preface, including a Life of the Author, by the Rev. T. Binney. [Illustrated]. Post 8vo, original gilt stamped green cloth (worn & moderately soiled; front hinge cracked at fold, lacking free half of front end paper), inserted frontispiece, pp. [24], 244, [4] ads + 3 tinted plates. London: Sampson, Low, Son & Co., 1857.
First English Edition; published in New York the same year with a different introduction, and without Binney's life of the author included here. Presentation copy, inscribed: "Revd. C. Kingsley with the Publisher's Compliments." Kingsley has written his name and address on front end paper, "Charles Kingsley Eversley Rectory," which has been scored through, but is easily read. Next to Thomas Moore's poem, The Bridge of Sighs, p. 111, Kingsley has written "This poem is one of the noblet sermons ever preached by… Read More

WITH A WATERCOLOR MINIATURE OF LADY MONTAGU PAINTED FOR PRESENTATION

MONTAGU, Mary Wortley.
The Works of...Sixth Edition. Vol. II only (of 5). 8vo, presentation (?) brown morocco, elaborately gilt, inner gilt dentelles, purple silk end papers, pp. xi, [1] blank, 339, [1]; 103, a.e.g. London: Longman et al, 1817.
A composite volume made up for presentation being comprised of volume II plus signatures B-H4 of volume III, so as to include only Lady Montagu's letters written from her husband's embassy to the East. Tipped-in is a lovely watercolor miniature measuring 3 7/8 x 3", with manuscript calligraphic caption, "Copied from an Original Miniature of Lady Wortley Montague [sic] at Harrington House-by Lady Caroline Stanhope." The copyist was the daughter of the 3rd Earl of Harrington, later the wife of E. S. Stanford, M. P. The watercolor depicts Lady Montagu in Turkish costume and was copied by Lady Stanhope from the original painting by Christian Zincke which was owned by her father, the Earl… Read More

AN OIL PORTRAIT OF A MAN WHO WENT WEST IN 1833 TO VISIT PAWNEE INDIANS[IRVING, Jr., John Treat (1812-1906), American author, lawyer, western traveler; Washington Irving's nephew]. [MORGAN, William Penn (1826-1900), Anglo-American painter]. A fine large oil portrait, 30 x 25, on canvas, expertly restored and relined, unframed. Painted in New York in 1868, when Irving was 55 years old. It is a half-lengthportrait showing its subject in formal attire.
Morgan was born in London in 1826, and early in life emigrated to the United States. He studied in Paris at the atelier of Thomas Couture, and at Le Harve. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York in 1851, and became an Associate Member in 1862; exhibiting 71 paintings at the National Gallery between 1861 and 1900. He is described in the Academy records "as a painter of 'sterling merit' whose treatment of subjects 'reflected the sensitiveness and refinement of his own nature.'" He became a fine portraitist, and especially known for… Read More

"ANOTHER MULE JOB": THE FIRST AMERICAN SURVEY OF THE ISTHMUS OF CHIRIQUI: THE MANUSCRIPT TOPOGRAPHICAL REPORT OF THE CHIRIQUI COMMISSION EXPEDITION (1860), THE RESULT OF A LAND SPECULATION SCHEME OF AN AREA WHICH LINCOLN WOULD SOON PROMOTE AS A HOME FOR COLONIZED FREE NEGROES FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.: FIVE SCROLLS TOTALING OVER 80 FEET IN LENGTH
[CHIRIQUI COMMISSION EXPEDITION, PANAMA ]. [MORTON, Lt. James St. Clair (1829-1864) U.S. Army Topographical Engineer]. Long, legible AMs by Lt. Morton, heavily corrected, being a preliminary report of his topographical survey for the Chiriqui Commission for the purpose of establishing coaling stations for the U. S. Navy. 5 scrolls of sheets joined end-to-end totaling over 70 feet in length, the equivalent of approx. 80pp. Foolscap, and over 22,000 words in substance. N.p., [1860? or Jan. 1861?].

A wonderfully descriptive and important mid-19th century manuscript of exploration concerned with American national security. Being a new country, the United States… Read More

MOTLEY, John Lathorp.
History of the United Netherlands: from the death of William the Silent to the Synod of
Dort. With a full view of the English-Dutch struggle against Spain, and the origin and destruction of the Spanish Armada...From the death of William the Silent to the Twelve Years' Truce---1609. 4 vols., Large 8vo, original black cloth, spines stamped in gold, pp. xii, 532; [viii], 563, 4 ads; x, 599; [viii], 632, 4 ads + 4 inserted frontispieces, 1 inserted folding plate. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1861-68.
First American Edition. Nearly fine, free of foxing, and rarely found in such condition. Motley's outstanding history of the Dutch struggle for independence from Spain, from the death of William the Silent (1584) to the truce of 1609. Touches on America only incidentally. Motley later wrote, "My subject had taken me up, drawn me on, and absorbed me into itself." "Leaving for Europe in 1851 he plunged into the archives of Belgium, Holland and Germany. He… Read More