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Autograph Letter [Signed "A toi"] to Louise Colet by FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE

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Title: Autograph Letter [Signed "A toi"] to Louise Colet
Author: FLAUBERT, GUSTAVE
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Croisset: np, 1847. First edition. Letter; custom case. Very Good. A LONG, EARLY, AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY FLAUBERT TO HIS MUSE LOUISE COLET, WITH REVEALING REFLECTIONS ON LIFE AND ART. On Louise Colet: "Louise Colet was truly Flaubert's muse and a midwife for his Emma Bovary. It is to her that the hermit of Croisset chronicled, in over a hundred letters, the progress of his first published novel: It is exclusively to Louise that he wrote his famous reflections about the craft of literature - prophetic passages that would become the most familiar credos of twentieth-century modernism... "Throughout the phase of their correspondence... Flaubert so often sought Louise's advice on details that her daughter and literary executor, Henriette Colet Bissieu, would later demand... that her mother's collaboration in Madame Bovary be officially acknowledged." (Francine du Plessix Gray, Rage & Fire: A Life of Louise Colet, Pioneer Feminist, Literary Star, Flaubert's Muse, pp. 199-201.) The letter: Flaubert wrote wonderfully evocative letters and his correspondence as a whole has often been hailed as a literary masterpiece, holding a rightful place alongside his novels. Michael Dirda has noted that "the correspondence of Gustave Flaubert soars above all other works in setting forth the proper ideals and accompanying rigors of art", Enid Starkie thought that the letters "in the future, [would] become Flaubert's most popular and widely-read book, the one in which he has most fully distilled his personality and wisdom" and André Gide connected with the letters on such a personal level, claiming that "for more than five years his correspondence took the place of the Bible at my bedside. It was my reservoir of energy". (Dirda, Washington Post, "Flaubert on Travel, Sex, and Writing"; Starkie, Flaubert the Master; Gide, in Steegmuller, ed., The Letters of Gustave Flaubert). This letter embodies the elements that have made Flaubert's correspondence so inspirational and entertaining to generations of readers and writers: full of frank opinions on art and literature and current events. This is a rare letter from early in their relationship. At the time it was written - September 17, 1847 - Colet and Flaubert has only known each other for a little over a year (they met on July 28, 1846). Colet was a famous published author; Flaubert, however, was little known, still nine years away from the publication of Madame Bovary. The letter from translated from the original French, reads in full: Croisset, Friday Evening, 11 pm. I just now sent to Rouen for the package you addressed to me- it was a good thing you didn't put a claim check inside the package, it would probably have been opened and read and then... I would have had to endure being teased about it. I will read Mme de Praslin's letters. What little I know about them, they seem intriguing. One thing was striking, these letters reminded me at certain places of your style - you are going to laugh, but the resemblance, for whatever reason, strikes me as obviously correct. Although you have to believe that this comparison will go no further and that I will not murder you! But who knows? Anyway, it would be funny. He was, after all, a man of charm, this M. de Praslin. But he didn't like fat women. Tell me, so what were these details that were intentionally omitted in the press on this affair, and what was this liquid spread on the Duchess's sheets? In the letter addressed to Fougeres you mentioned some curious revelations by the school teacher - what are they? I browsed through Thoré's book, what nonsense! I consider myself happy to live far from these "expert" fellows! What misinformation! What a sham! What emptiness! I am tired of everything that's being said about art, beauty, ideas and Form. It's always the same song and what a song! I just keep going on, and I pity all these people and what's happening now. In truth, I actually spend my mornings with Aristophanes. I find there what is beautiful, brilliant and exuberant. But it is not decent, it is not moral, it's not even acceptable, it's simply sublime. From the top of the Arc de Triomphe the Parisians, even those on horseback, don't seem tall. One is ridiculed for admiring the Classics, yet the Moderns don't have much stature either. When I reflect on that, I don't think there is in me a dryness nor resistance to this gradual restriction of my admirations. As I detach myself from the artists I become more enthusiastic about Art. I will manage on my own account and no longer dare to write a line because day by day I feel more and more small, thin and weak. The muse is a virgin who has a virginity of bronze, and you have to be a bit of a bon vivant to... The panic of the poor artist confronted by Beauty, is powerlessness, it is neither resistance nor skepticism. The sea appears immense seen from the shore. Climb to the summit of the mountain and behold it's even bigger. Go on board everything disappears: waves, waves... What am I in my little rowboat! "Protect me my God, the sea is so big and my boat is so small!" A Breton song says that and I also say it thinking about other precipices. Du Camp did not and could not have gone to your place to take your message. He returned to Paris and immediately left for Vichy from where he must have returned the same evening and I am waiting for him tomorrow at 10pm. We are going to spend a month together writing about our journey that we started on the way. I am going tomorrow to visit my sick friend I told you about - he is getting worse, that makes me sad. A dying friend is a piece of you dying. So long my dear friend, I kiss you tenderly Yours [A toi] For your nausea you should go to the country, to a good bourgeois home. Take warm baths, take care of yourself and drink chamomile. Address to Du Camp the letters you write to me. ------------------- Translation by Myriam Smith. Published in: Gustave Flaubert, Correspondance, Paris, Gallimard (Nrf, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade), vol. I, 2008, pp. 470-471. Additional context: Flaubert mentions the Praslin murder case. On the night of August 17/18, 1847, Françoise, the Duchess of Praslin was found murdered. Her husband (the Duke) was the primary suspect and committed suicide on August 24, 1847, while awaiting trial. The case caught the imagination of the public and is believed to have contributed to the French Revolution of 1848. Flaubert refers to a book by the art critic Théophile Thoré (Le Salon de 1847), clearly disapproving of his views. Toward the end of the letter he mentions his good friend Maxime Du Camp. Flaubert and Du Camp recently returned from a walking tour through France and the writing about their journey he mentions would not be published until 1886, after Flaubert's death. Notes: As is usual in letters from Flaubert to Colet from this period, Flaubert simply signs it "A toi" and does not write his name. The letter is visually beautiful, written in dark ink with Flaubert's words flowing exuberantly across the pages. Croisset, France. September 17, 1847. Four pages on one 8.5x11 inch sheet. Usual folds. In outstanding condition. Housed in a custom presentation folder. A WONDERFUL IMPASSIONED EARLY LETTER WITH IMPORTANT INSIGHTS INTO FLAUBERT'S VIEWS ON ART AND BEAUTY.

Large Historiated Initial Featuring Illuminated Miniature of a Pope by ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF

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Title: Large Historiated Initial Featuring Illuminated Miniature of a Pope
Author: ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT LEAF
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Germany: np, 1491. First edition. Framed. Very Good. LARGE HISTORIATED INITIAL DEPICTING A POPE, FINELY ILLUMINATED IN GOLD AND RICH COLOUR. Reading from a lectern, the Pope is depicted in full regalia, wearing the distinctive triple crown, or triregnum, and holding the crucifix-topped crosier. His robe is a deep blue and likely pigmented by lapis lazuli-a mineral so valuable in Medieval Europe that is typically reserved for the Virgin Mary and occasionally referred to as blue gold. A vista of green hillsides and blue mountains is seen from a window within the miniature. Noteworthy are the multiple textiles displayed in the room, including mauve drapery as well as the lectern cloth whose embroidered design is emulated here in gold filagree. Highly intricate, monochromatic green acanthine detail adorns the body of the initial. If such handiwork does not alone merit admiration, the gilding of the initial's field as well as that of the Pope's halo showcase excellent tooling-the use of metal stamps to create blind impressions on the surface of the gold. Tooled flowers and foliage pattern the field while circles of varying design radiate around the papal triple crown. A liturgical calendar in the top right of the miniature reads "1491", providing both a terminus ad quo for the manuscript and a possible identity for the miniature's subject. Pope Innocent VIII reigned from 1484 to 1492, and so perhaps he is represented in this miniature, but it is equally possible the image simply represents a generic figure of a pope. Size as visible through frame: 125 x 102 mm (5.0 x 4.0 inches). With frame: approx. 10x9 in. S. Germany, c.1491. Some loss to the colour around the curve of the "P". Striking contrast of green, blue and burnished gold. Uncommon subject for historiated initials, with much to appreciate historically and aesthetically in this handsomely-sized piece. With linen matte and early frame (some chips on frame). Not examined out of frame. References: Joseph Hansen, Geschichte des Hexenwhns und der Hexenverfolgung im Mittelalter (Bonn: Georgi, 1907) Alan Charles Kors and Edward Peters, Witchcraft in Europe, 400-1700: A Documentary History, 2nd edn. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

Ley para Castigar los Delitos Contra la Nacion, Contra el Orden y la Paz Publica by [Mexico]. [Reform War]

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Title: Ley para Castigar los Delitos Contra la Nacion, Contra el Orden y la Paz Publica
Author: [Mexico]. [Reform War]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Still very good.
Description: Mexico City: Imprenta de Ignacio Cumplido, 1856. Still very good.. 17pp. Original printed wrappers, bound into full calf, front board gilt lettered. Some toning and scattered, light foxing. This law was promulgated at the end of 1856 by the new liberal government of Mexico following its ascendancy in the mid-1850s, and preceded the reform Constitution of 1857 by two months. Its statutes defined "crimes against the independence and security of the nation," including various forms of treason, rebellion, and foreign military service or assistance, and made them punishable by death. The law anticipated conservative resistance and revolt against the new policies of the liberal faction that aimed to strip power and influence from the church and traditional aristocracy of the country. Their efforts indeed led to full-scale civil war in 1858 and the second French intervention in the early 1860s. OCLC locates a small handful of institutional copies and we locate just one in available sales records. Scarce, and in attractive original wrappers.

Emin, the Governor of Equatoria by SYMONS, A. J. A.

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Title: Emin, the Governor of Equatoria
Author: SYMONS, A. J. A.
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: Spine slightly faded, a very good copy
Description: London: The Fleuron Ltd, 1928. From the Bart Auerbach Collection. Spine slightly faded, a very good copy. 8vo. Original cloth-backed decorated boards. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies (of which this is no. 21), and the dedication copy, inscribed by Symons on the front free endpaper (oddly, his inscription virtually repeats the printed dedication): "for Harold Fisher from whose eloquent lips, one sultry midnight seven years ago, I first heard the story of Emin: from AJ." Symons' first book is a study of the 19th-century German who, under the assumed name of Emin Pasha, lived for fifteen years as a Turk in Equatorial Africa. The dedicatee, Captain Harold Fisher, was Symons' oldest and closest friend (see his brother Julian's excellent biography, 'A. J. A. Symons: His Life and Speculations,' Oxford, 1986). 'Emin' is the first book printed (by Oliver Simon at the Curwen Press) in Lutetia type designed by Van Krimpen. With the prospectus laid in. Alphonse James Albert Symons (1900-1941) was a bibliographer, biographer (particularly of Corvo), book collector and general bon vivant. He was the founder of the First Editions Club, a co-founder with Andre Simon of the Wine & Food Society, and, with Desmond Flower, of the 'Book Collector's Quarterly' (a forerunner to the 'Book Collector'). (BA).

A Jury of Her Peers (Signed limited edition) by Glaspell, Susan

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Title: A Jury of Her Peers (Signed limited edition)
Author: Glaspell, Susan
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Ernest Benn, 1927. First edition. Fine. One of 250 copies signed by the author on the limitation page. A Fine, bright copy in original publisher's wraps; internally fresh and unmarked. A Jury of Her Peers is the short-story adaptation of Glaspell's one-act play Trifles (1916), in which two women unravel the truth behind a murder-that a woman has killed her abusive husband-and hide the evidence to protect the accused from jail. Set in the Midwest, the story is an ode to rural communities and the power of female solidarity told through the lens of a crime. Glaspell was inspired by the reporting that she did for the Des Moines Daily News on Margaret Hossack's murder trial. In its telling, readers must confront questions of morality, empathy, and justice. Fine.

Multitudes, Multitudes. by Clampitt, Amy.

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Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio

Title: Multitudes, Multitudes.
Author: Clampitt, Amy.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Washington Street Press, 1973. First edition. Very Good. Green laid paper printed wraps, stapled. [4], 69, [1] pages. Title page in red and black. Wraps a bit discolored at edges. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Clampitt to classical scholar Martha Browne as "the first purchaser of this volume."

Daleth, or, The homestead of the nations. Egypt illustrated. by Clark, Edward L.

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Title: Daleth, or, The homestead of the nations. Egypt illustrated.
Author: Clark, Edward L.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1864. First Edition. Very Good. 24cm; 289 pages, including 8 chromolithograph plates by J. H. Buford, 3 color tinted lithograph plates, 3 lithograph plates in black and white and 68 wood-engraved illustrations in text. Bound in recent 1/4 black morocco over marbled boards (in style of original binding). Letters on spine faded. Top edge gilt. Tissue guards present. Very good condtion. Reference: Bennett, 24.

Saboteur (Three original publicity photographs from the 1942 film) by Alan Baxter, Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Norman Lloyd (starring); Alfred Hitchcock (director); Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, Dorothy Parker (screenwriters)

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Title: Saboteur (Three original publicity photographs from the 1942 film)
Author: Alan Baxter, Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Norman Lloyd (starring); Alfred Hitchcock (director); Peter Viertel, Joan Harrison, Dorothy Parker (screenwriters)
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
Description: Universal City: Universal Pictures, 1942. Three vintage publicity photographs from the 1942 film, one showing actor Alan Baxter in heavy makeup and costume as Freeman, the other two showing actors Robert Cummings and Priscilla Lane. One with a printed mimeo snipe affixed to the verso, and one with a provenance stamp on the same. From the archive of noted Hollywood still photographer Ray Jones. Born in Wisconsin on January 1, 1901. Jones worked for Paramount Pictures in the early 1930s, and was the first still photographer to win an Academy Award. He went on to be the head of the still photography department at Universal Pictures, where he worked well into the 1950s. A high spot among Alfred Hitchcock's early thrillers, and the director's only collaboration with author Dorothy Parker, who contributed to the screenplay. The film included much more location footage than most of the director's pictures, including Boulder Dam, locations in New York City including Radio City Music Hall and Rockefeller Center, and of course Liberty Island for the famed closing scene on the Statue of Liberty. 8 x 10 inches. Very Good to Very Good plus.

ESKIMO CUT-OUTS by Winter, Milo

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Title: ESKIMO CUT-OUTS
Author: Winter, Milo
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Co, 1938. Other. Tall octavo; unpaginated; VG; housed in a protective mylar bag; very mild shelfwear to covers; all pages intact and all cut-outs present; shelved in case 14. 1362342. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica Sistens Examen Bituminis Neocomensis .. by L'Agascherie du Ble, Charles Louis

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Title: Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica Sistens Examen Bituminis Neocomensis ..
Author: L'Agascherie du Ble, Charles Louis
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Basel: Typis Emanuelis Thurneysen, 1758. First edition. Softcover. Very good. 4to. 18pp. Printer's device on title page, woodcut chapter heading and initial capital. Original binding of simple thread joining the two signatures without covers. Dissertation on the medical application for bitumen or asphalt of Como (Novum Comun), Italy. Later published in Leyden in 1761 under the title Dissertatio Medica Sistens Examen Bituminis Neocomensis. Light soil and staining else a very good copy.

ENTERING SPACE an Astronaut's Odyssey (With TLS By Joseph Allen) by Allen, Joseph (SIGNED) with Russell Martin

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Title: ENTERING SPACE an Astronaut's Odyssey (With TLS By Joseph Allen)
Author: Allen, Joseph (SIGNED) with Russell Martin
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1985. Original Wraps. Very Good+. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author and with TLS on Space Industries letterhead and envelope laid in. Revised and enlarged edition to include Joe Allen's first-hand account of the triumphant satellite rescue mission. Illustrated with excellent color photos. 239(1)pp., bound in pictorial wraps; a very good+ clean bright copy.

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