The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-06-11

ARROI.L EEckWiTH hns pre-
Scnlcd to the Flower Hospital
~ bust portrait IN oil of "a
Ftcpvh uc,-uut vuinon witch
VII lW sis,'rS"d uf at WI, att s.',r aC-
cpfdin- t. e! s~ruuunccu'VNt ,ru,n ir-
hospital. The pdntN2 - considered
by Mir. Hcckwith ou" If the finest II
his works. Tao subject acted as hts
,aild of Oh n"rt dur ,nv tho batter
ciV~ NJ his stay ~ i'nr'~. Tho picture
hangs now IN the -. Regis. " win
ie sold to- Nh. ni,ld y m,hins the
highest Offer.
Rare i"uhs and autographs will b"
sod III the Audrr-uu Galleries to-
my,ruw and ~ the w following days.
Aut"ns the Americana are works
or the pual,cr~. rare hunks on cali
fptniI and til" West. scarce L neal
osics. M" FIRST proposed institution
fuf VIZ. s,ntc ~; New Work. III" tIiu-
ton Narrative. hU,k~ printed ", frauN
lin in ~? and 49,. the FIRST l.uEltSl
edition Of E~uncmrliug's Eucinicri'
tLondou: $3.50. and u lr"k ON Mill
tary Discipline u.ot 2a1b, printed at
Boston IN i1lS. which WAS unknown
"a Sabin. Evans and other hiJiiuS
rapher'.
Among the autographs irr huCu-
mcnts signed Ivy famnus s~uVercicns.
including Queen Elizabeth. Ferdinand
and Isabella and Louis XIV, letters
ny Dickens, Lord Nelson and Vol
inirc and original manuscripts by
Dickens and Hawthorne.
\ presentation volume inscribed by
Boswell. the kelmscott Chaucer, a fine
uncut copy of Johnson's Lives of the
Poets, many very important Dickens
items md "A complete set of ThoCk-
eray's Christmas Books, all first edi-
tons and all in the original boards,
are only a few of the rar.ties.
The original printed proclamation Of
Cromwell, London. 1857. is also a very
unusual item. The complete works
OF Kipling and collected sets Of first
editions by Jane Austen. wIlkie Coi-
lins. Miss Freer and Henry James
,aearly a hundred volumes by James,
are also offered.
The sale includes many books
beautifully printed by George D..
Sproul. Among these are Mrs. Brown
.ng's S,nnets. Dickens's Pickwick.
T%ennyson's Holy Grail, the Rubaiyat
IA 'Ittu tisk ahh ft"s 49, -
sonrats. each Of which is one of thirty
copies on yellum, beautifully ilium!-
mated hy Ross Turner or Nestorc
Leon. and maGnihccntly bound in
crushed Levant morocco. Among other
noteworthy bindings is one by samuel
Mearne.
.T'i-. copy If Presidents ot the Cnited
States. edited nv Wilson. has been
80 a. ...,.
Volumes bv the addition Of more than
a hundred choice engraVings. auto
graph letters of an the Presidents and
other valuable material. aud the vol
umes have been handsomely bound in
fuI, crimson French I.evant morocco.
Special attention should also hc
called to the limitations Of Original
Drawings by lIolbein. printed in Lon
don in l792-a splendid copy If this
beautiful work, with brilliant impress
sions of the plates by Bartoiozzi. in
Guiding eight proofs before all letters,
and portraits Of Holbein and his wife,
the two miniatures Of the sons Of
Chsrfes Brandon, Inc other prints not
usually found With the book. The vol
ume represents many Of the celebrities
OF the reign OF Henry VIII. and is one
of the most valua Die hooks in the
catalogue.
This sale is also notable for the
large number Of illustrations. One
collection Of more than nifty lots of
colored plates prints include.
msny scarce items by famous artists.
The books with Co.ored plates are also
attractive. and among them are tho
first edition Of tho liumourist. uncut:
the Dance ri Life and the Dance of
Death, Doings in London, and other
works Illustrated by Aiken, Rowland
son and the Cruikshanks. Most al
these books are in exceedingly fine
condition.
Ten oil paintings by John Ward
Dunsmore. each l6 by - inches in size,
are the originals from which Illus
tra,ions for the works Of Smol.ett were