New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-03
BOOKS AT AUCTION
The Brayton Ives Library
Indian Americana.

Indian Americana.
The sale at the American Art Gal
leries on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday Of next week of the
library Of the late Brayton Ives will
bring under the hammer number of
rare and valuable books. for which
some lively bidding may be expected.
Several of the most important entries
in the catalogue were bought by Mr..
Ives at the Hoe sale, wherefore com
parsons of prices will be in order.
From the Hoe library are, among
others, the Aldine "Hypnerotomachia"
(l499), several Books of Hours, one Of
the two known copies of Dadonville's
"Honneur des Noble Blason," the other
being in the National Library in Paris,
and a copy of Jean Marot's extremely
rare LES Pseaumes."
The library is exceptionally rich in
interesting first editions, especially Of
Mrs. Browning. There is here copy
of her Essay on Mind" (1s26). and an
autograph letter of hers referring to
it inserted in copy of aurora Leigh:
"The black-letter offence of my early
youth. Nothing but youth could
excuse such preparation" There
are a number Of first editions OF Byron,
and copy of the rare Kilmarnock edi-
tion of Burnss poems in exceptionally
good condition. The first edition Of
Ainsworth's Tower of London" of
fered here contains a dedication to
"Vathek" Beckford; an interest in
prices to be established arises in the
case Of first editions of Thomas Bailey
Aldrich and Matthew Arnold; Of Kip
lingiana, all first editions, the most i'm
portant is the Lahore issue Of DE
partmental Ditties," with annotations
by the author.
Hawthorne is represented by q copy
Of "Fanshawe" as well as by first edi-
tons of his later works; Washington
Irving by one of the Knickerbocker
History; and-following the alphabet
Lafontaine by a copy of the Fermiers
Gentraux edition of the "Contes ct
Nouvelles," with the Eisen illustrations.
Set apart is folio of autograph
letters, etc. and portraits OF the Presi-
dents and Vice-Presid of the Unit
ed States, from Washington to Roose-
welt, with specially printed title-page
bound in crimson levant morocco by
Bradstrcet.
There are interesting first editions
Of Shelley and Keats. Rossetti. Poe,
| Lowell, Swinburne, Tennyson, Thack-
cray and Dickens; Cruikshankiana,
Rowlandson colored plates, first edi-
tons of Kate Greenaway, eighteenth
century engravings, foreign authors in
special editions, extra illustrated books.
and many fine bindings by masters old
and new.
Americana relating to the Indians,
collected by Wherefore Eames. will be
sold by the Anderson Auction Company
on Monday and Tuesday afternoons,
April and 6. This is the fourth part
Of the Games collection 10 come under
the hammer. The first part was sold
five years ago, Part II in 1911. and
Part III in March and April, 1913. To
the present sale forty-seven lots have
been added from another source with
Mr.. Eames's consent. These are marked
with star in the catalogue of the
sale.
The rarest item is copy of the
broadside of the Columbia Tragedy"
the battle at Miami Village on NOven-
Der 1, 1891, in which the Indians won
a bloody victory. Only five copies Of
this broadside, printed in Boston in the
following year, are known to collectors.
The elegy consists of forty-one stanzas.
There is also a copy of Josiah Child's
New Discourse on Trade" London,
1694, fourth edition, in which New
York is called "Menades," and which
emphasizes the superiority of the
Dutch trade over. that of the English
in the New World Bossu's "Nouveaux
Voyages" Paris. 1861 was entirely
unknown TO Sabin, and Child's New
Discourse" (London, 1894 was not
mentioned by him; Darley's Scenes
in Indian Life" Philadelphia, 1S43) ,
fourteen plates, is so rare that the
Eames copy is the only one ever offered
at auction; the broadside to William
Denny, printed by Franklin in 1857, Is
very scarce; the copy of the second
edition Of La Hontan's Voyages" is
complete with all the maps and plates;
Ogden's "Claim of the Inhabitants of
Newark" printed at Woodbridge in
New Jersey by Samuel Parker in 1866,
is believed to be one of only three
known copies. Pettrich's Portraits Of
Distinguished Indians" autographed
and published at Baltimore in 1912. is
one of three known copies, the other
| two being in the New Yori; Public Ii
brary and the American Museum Of
Natural History. OF the minutes Of
the Indian conference at Easton.
printed in Germany by Saur in 1857,
only two or three copies are known.
Quintana's "Confessionario" fPuebla,
Mexico, 1889 is very rare. There are
many rare Pacific Coast items in this
collection, including the first number
of the first American newspaper pub
lishcd there, "The Oregon Spectator"
February 8, 1916.
Mr.. Eames and his collections are
we'll known to bibliophiles. He is the
head of the American History Depart
ment at the New York Public Library:
1t is his boast that he has never so ID
book or pamphlet of which there IS
no copy in the library.