SELECTED RECENT ACQUISITIONS

1996

• October 1996
• April 1996

• The Bernard M. Rosenthal Collection of Printed Books with Manuscript Annotations

  In 1960, the antiquarian bookseller Bernard Rosenthal began forming a collection of early printed books containing manuscript annotations by contemporary readers, in most cases anonymous Renaissance students, teachers, and scholars. At the time he began collecting, such annotations were widely regarded by bibliophiles and by members of the trade as blemishes to the printed book; their presence in a volume was typically noted along with the defects. Rosenthal's reaction, however, was quite the opposite; he saw the annotations as vital evidence of the interests and reactions of the original audience of the books and came in time, he says, to feel like a book was somehow defective if it lacked such evidence of its use. As Rosenthal added to his collection over the decades, he formulated the plan of making the first ever bookseller's catalogue devoted entirely to annotated books. He also determined that it would be his retirement catalogue.

  Scholars and academic libraries have long recognized the importance of these records of early readership, and in the 1990s the study of annotated books has taken on new life under the rubric of "reader response criticism." This year the Beinecke Library successfully completed negotiations to acquire the Rosenthal collection en bloc and maintain it intact. We are preparing an exhibition and a catalogue of the collection, and it will be the subject of a conference in January co-sponsored by the Beinecke Library and the Bibliographical Society of America.

  The collection numbers 242 separate editions in 160 volumes. In terms of subject matter, the entire range of Renaissance reading is represented, from classical authors to patristic and biblical studies, from vernacular poetry to Reformation theology. The books are predominantly from the 15th and 16th centuries--the range of dates is 1474 to 1752, all but 10 of them dating from before 1600. Although the books were printed in 32 cities, the greatest numbers come from Paris and Leipzig, where the local printers produced books for students at the universities. These volumes provide extraordinary insight into the educational practices and curricula at these universities in the 16th-century, and a first-hand record of how specific texts were read and interpreted. The Parisian volumes are largely Aristotelian and philosophical in nature, the Leipzig imprints mostly belles lettres, especially classical poetry. Most of the books are in Latin, but Greek and Hebrew are also well represented, as are Italian, French, and German.

  If the primary interest of the collection as a whole lies in the evidence it provides about the reading habits of and reception of literature among the general reading public, the collection is not lacking in books annotated by well-known scholars, including Joseph Scaliger, Daniel Heinsius, and Hieronymus Wolf. These volumes preserve records of Renaissance literary and editorial activities at the highest level. There are also medical texts annotated by practicing physicians (who add case studies from their private practices, new recipes for medicines, and empirical criticism of the medical writers based on their own experiences); copies of dramatic texts with stage directions added by 16th century actors; illustrative drawings and explanatory tables in astronomical treatises; the working books of lawyers and notaries; and volumes used by editors preparing new or up-dated editions of the works. The collection documents Renaissance reading in all its diversity and from a personal and individual perspective not otherwise available.

• Olivier de Serre. Le theatre d'agriculture et mesnage des champs . Paris, 1600.

  The father of modern agronomy, Olivier de Serres was born in Vivarais in a Protestant family in 1539, and died in his seigneurie of Pradel, also in Vivarais, which he had made into a model farm. He practiced rotation cropping and grew beetroots, rice, corn, hops, and madder. Henry IV called him to Paris to supervise the planting of 20,000 white mulberry trees in the Tuileries garden. At the king's request, he wrote a treatise on the feeding of silkworms in 1599, and in July 1600 published his masterpiece, this Theatre d'agriculture , of which a second, revised edition appeared three years later. The work is dedicated to Henry IV, who is represented enthroned at the head of the engraved title page. The 1,004 pages cover virtually every topic arranged in eight "loci," from "abeilles" (bees) to "yeux" (i.e. eye infections in cattle and poultry). Substantial chapters are devoted to hunting and fishing.

• Giovanni Battista Nicolos. Mexicvm in hac forma in lucem edebat Ioannes Baptista Nicolosivs S. T. D . Rome, 1660. Four sheet, printed map.

  The first state of Nicolosi's important map of southwestern North America. Although the Spanish settlements in New Mexico were already more than half a century old, previous maps of the Southwest relied more upon myth than geographic knowledge. Nicolosi's map was the first to incorporate accurate first-hand information, but it also retains many of the mythological ideas of earlier maps. For example, while the course of the Rio Grande is laid out far more carefully and accurately than ever before, it is called the Rio Escondido; the map continues to show California as an island; and it identifies three locations for "Quivera," the town of gold sought by Coronado. The second state of the map, published in 1670 and present in the Yale collections, corrects some of these errors and adds further information about New Mexico.

• Sir Humphrey Gore of Gilston, Hertfordshire. Autograph manuscript diary covering five years, 25 March 1671 to 12 March 1676.

  This substantial personal diary from the age of Pepys is both unrecorded and unpublished. Gore's (1626-76) principal occupations are the management of his land the administration of local justice and civic works. He records a large number of inns and taverns which he regularly attends, and his visits to London, his family, recreations, reading habits, and religious reflections.

  Sienese Poetry Broadsides

  These three volumes gather 312 broadside sonnets, madrigals, ballads, and other occasional poetry, all printed in Siena between 1668 and 1699. The first volume covers the years 1668-74, the second the years 1679-83, and the third 1695-99. The poems were written by various members of local literary academies: many of the authors are identified in a contemporary hand. In the first volume, these inscriptions are by a Camilla Ubaldo Maria Gori, a member of the Accademia degli Sbigottiti (Academy of the Discouraged), himself the author of several pieces.

  The poems were prompted by masquerades, feasts, saints' days, spectacles, theatrical and operatic performances, marriages, elections, appointments, and visits by official personages. Many of them are in celebration of women, either members of prominent local families or famous actresses and singers. Most are in Italian, but a number are in Latin and at least one is in French. The subject matter ranges from mythological themes (Orpheus, Paris, Hercules, Apollo, Pan and Syrinx, Pallas, and Mercury) to Christian saints, notably the two Sienese ones, Santa Catarina and San Bernardino, but also St. Joseph, St. Sebastian, St. John the Baptist, St. Paul, St. Philip Neri, and others. It is clear from one poem that the Sienese aristocracy saw nothing wrong about an epithalamium taking as its subject Emperor Hadrian and his male lover contemplating the rising sun. Many of the broadsides are illustrated, some rather crudely, some quite handsomely and elaborately.

  A Vauban Binding And A Vauban Letter

• Champmeslé. Delie, pastorale . Paris, 1668. Bound with three other works, Les grisettes, ou Crispin chevalier. Comedie (Paris, 1683); La rue Saint Denys. Comedie (Paris, 1682); and Le Parisien. Comedie (Paris, 1683).

  Charles Chevillet, a.k.a. Champmeslé (1642-1701), enjoyed a successful career both as a playwright and as an actor. In 1670, he created the part of Antiochus in Racine's Bérénice . The title-role was played by his wife Marie, famous for her many affairs: the son of Mme de Sévigné, and Racine himself for that matter, were among her lovers.

  Of the four plays bound together, Le Parisien was Champmeslé's greatest hit. The first one, Delie , has also been attributed to Donneau de Visé. The volume comes from the library of Marshal Vauban (1633-1707), Louis XIV's finest strategist, who designed and built 333 fortified places and was equally renowned on the offensive--"the soul of all the sieges the King had made," in Saint-Simon's words.

• Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban. Autograph letter, signed, to Michel Le Peletier de Souzy, 17 August 1697.

  Vauban reports on the siege of Lille, "a damnable siege, very long and very bloody for the poor engineers . . . I wish this business would end because it has lasted too long." He then comments on his health. "I keep on drinking asses milk by order of my physicians and this diet will last the entire month unless something very important interrupts it." Vauban's correspondent, Le Peletier de Souzy (1640-1725), then intendant of Flanders, was appointed director general of fortifications in 1700.

• John Baber. "Annals of Staghunting." Autograph manuscript, September 1706-June 1709.

  The unpublished manuscript of a highly literary diary-chronicle of stag hunts in the Windsor Forest, chiefly in prose but with long passages in mock-heroic couplets and blank verse. A consciously comic, wildly exuberant narrative of some sixty expeditions, celebrating the thrills of the chase, but with emphasis throughout on the inelegant realties: clumsy horsemanship, humiliating spills and collisions, hunters (especially the narrator) getting hopelessly lost, foul weather and bad pathways, bogs, muddy ponds, inadequate hounds.

  Retrun of a 1742 Duplicate

• Richard Baxter. The practical works of the late reverend and pious Mr. Richard Baxter, in four volumes. With a preface; giving some account of the author, and of this ed. of his practical works . London, 1707.

  In his Catalogue of the library of Yale-College in New-Haven , printed in 1742, Yale President Thomas Clapp recorded two copies of the 1707 folio edition of Baxter's works. The one currently housed in the Beinecke was donated by the Honourable Samuel Holden of London, governor of the Bank of England. The other copy was deaccessioned at a later stage by the library, which is now happy to welcome it back.

• J. M. Conradi. Der dreyfach geartete Sehe-Strahl in einer kurtzen doch deutlichen Anweisung zur Optica oder Sehe-Kunst . Thurnau, 1710.

  The only edition, and probably the only work of the Coburg scholar Conradi, this illustrated handbook of optics discusses physiology, theory of colors, projected images, lenses, mirrors, telescopes, microscopes, and the camera obscura. Of particular interest is the fact that Goethe, in his Theory of Colors , refers to Conradi's explanation of why the sky looks blue.

• Isaac Watts. Manuscript volume of sermon notes by Mary Abney.

  Mary Abney, the wife of Watts's patron Sir Thomas Abney, wrote her notes in a blank book that Watts gave her, presumably for that purpose. Among these sermons are notes on 17 preached by Watts himself; they are believed to be unpublished and several appear to have brief amendments in his hand. After Sir Thomas Abney's death, Lady Abney continued to offer Watts a home, and with it financial independence and freedom from onerous clerical duties, privileges he enjoyed until his death in 1748.

• Cadwallader Colden. The principles of action in matter, the gravitation of bodies, and the motion of the planets, explained from those principles . London, 1751.

  Educated in Edinburgh, the Scottish-born botanist Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776) settled in Pennsylvania in 1708 and ten years later in New York, where he became surveyor-general of the colony and served several terms as lieutenant-general from 1761 until his retirement in 1775, at the age of 87. Though a doctor by training, he was interested in pure science and in 1745, in New York, published a pamphlet entitled An explication of the first causes of action in matter , which he subsequently revised and expanded into the present publication. We know that Colden continued to revise the work, even though no further edition was published. A copy, annotated by his son David acting as amanuensis, survives in the Edinburgh University Library. This copy is similarly annotated in a contemporary hand and provides further evidence that Colden circulated his emendations in a small circle of Scottish scientists.

• Johann Gottlieb Fichte. Grundlage der gesammten Wissenschaftslehre . Leipzig, 1794.

  Last fall, when we prepared a small exhibition to illustrate Professor Cyrus Hamlin's lecture on the year 1795 in Germany, it was found that Yale lacked the first edition of one of the basic texts of that extraordinary period in German literature and philosophy, Fichte's treatise on the foundation of the theory of science. The lacuna was repaired several months later when the book came up at auction in Basel.

• Theophilus Lindsay. Autograph letter to the Reverend John Rose, 15 October 1798.

  A fine long letter from a prominent Unitarian minister to a younger colleague, with observations on Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the "new philosophy" of Godwin and his acolytes. Lindsay (1773-1808) was one of the leading Unitarians of the later eighteenth century; he was particularly friendly with Joseph Priestley and Richard Price, both of whom helped him establish a chapel in London upon his arrival there in 1774.

  German Literary Texts by Women

• Sophie von Knorring. Wunderbilder und Träume in elf Märchen (Köningsberg, 1802). Romantic tales by Ludwig Tieck's younger sister.

• Sophie von LaRoche. Melusinens Sommer-Abende (Halle, 1806), her last book, with a portrait of the author.

• Caroline Pichler. Gedichte (Wien, 1814). Poems by the prolific novelist, dramatist, and well known Viennese hostess.

• Therese Huber. Erzé**hlungen (Leipzig, 1830-33). Therese Huber's first husband was the explorer and travel writer Georg Forster. Until the death of her second husband, the political writer L. F. Huber, in 1804, her own works appeared under his name. This six-volume edition of her stories was published posthumously.

• Mary Leadbeater. Poems . . . to which are prefixed her Translation of the fourteenth book of the Aeneid . Dublin, 1808.

  The first edition of this work by one of the new female Irish writers of her day, annotated throughout by the poet, her manuscript notes appearing on 78 pages. This volume joins numerous other manuscripts by Leadbeater (1758-1826) and other members of her family, at whose Quaker school in Ballitore, co. Kildare, her father, Richard Shackleton, and his lifelong friend Edmund Burke were educated.

• Lydia Mary Sigourney. Autograph letter, signed, to the Reverend Leonard Bacon. Hartford, 11 July 1827. The writer offers a contribution to a charity for African-Americans.

  Picturesque Cuba

• Frédéric Mialhe. La isla de Cuba pintoresca . [Havana, 1839-48]

  Born in 1810, Mialhe left France for Cuba in 1838 to become the landscape painter of the lithographic firm newly established by three of his compatriots under the sponsorship of the Royal Patriotic and Economic Society of Cuba. The so-called "French lithographers" became the foremost such venture in Cuba, and Mialhe's album of picturesque sites is considered the best collection of views of the island in the nineteenth century. The lithographs were published in monthly installments of four plates each, but such an ambitious scheme could not be sustained and publication became intermittent after the ninth issue. Although the figure of 49 has been suggested, it is difficult to establish with certainty how many plates were actually produced. Forty-two are currently recorded in the Havana National Library, with 37 bound in one volume, as in this particular set.

• R. M. Morris. Manuscript journal of Captain R. M. Morris. March 25, 1849-November 4, 1852

  A journal kept by Brevet Captain R. M. Morris, a career army officer, during his service in the West between spring 1849 and fall 1852. The journal begins on March 25, 1849, when Morris received orders to travel from Washington, D.C. to Fort Leavenworth, where he describes daily camp life and a cholera outbreak. Approximately 80 pages describe a journey to San Francisco made while he served as head of the escort to General John Wilson, principal Indian agent. Morris records cholera outbreaks, encounters with Indians, stampedes, buffalo hunting, teamsters deserting, General Wilson's dismissal of his escort, and soldiers deserting upon reaching the gold fields.

  An unpublished, eye-witness account of the Gold Rush of 1849, this journal is one of a handful known to have been made by military officers.

• Mary Trail Spence Lowell Putnam. Record of an Obscure Man. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1861. First edition, one of 50 large paper copies containing an addition to the end notes of earlier printings. Ye Yellowstone expedition 1872 . Camp on Little Missouri, Dakota Territory, September 21, 1872.

  An unrecorded, anonymously published broadside which satirizes, in verse, Colonel D. S. Stanley's leadership of an army expedition charged with escorting a surveying party along the lower Yellowstone River in July 1872. The party was continually menaced by Chief Gall's band of Unkpapa Sioux, and this piece, probably written by a young junior officer and published on an army field press, reflects the difficult assignment and the tension that existed in the field. The item was found in a scrapbook that appears to have been owned by Captain Augustus Whittemore Corliss, who served as secretary of the Fort Robinson, Nebraska Officers' Club and Mess.

• Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. Doctor Zay . Autograph manuscript, heavily corrected, 1881-82. Inscribed to Doctor William Pl. Wesselhoeft, thought to be the model for homeopathic Doctor Zay.

• Sumner W. Matteson. Album of 190 platinum and silver photographs of Pueblo Indian life and scenes in Colorado and Montana. ca. 1899-1902.

  Sumner Matteson, a bicycle salesman from Denver who became a photographer, traveled around the West between 1899 and 1903. He sold his own photographs, wrote articles and provided illustrations for popular magazines, and provided photographs for several books on Southwestern Indians written by others.

  The album, created by Matteson, is accompanied by a typescript that identifies it as the "Frank Klepetko Album." The typescript provides detailed captions for each image. The majority of the photographs are of the Hopi Indians and their Snake, Antelope, and Flute ceremonies. They include kiva interiors, as well as the Hopi weaving, grinding corn, courting, working in fields, making pottery, and marketing at the Moenkopi, Mishongnovi, Shipolovi, and Shongopovi Pueblos. There are also photographs of cliffdwellings at Mesa Verde and Mancos Canyon, Colorado; Canyon de Chelly, Arizona; Pueblo Indians at Isleta and Acoma, New Mexico; Navajo and Ute Indians in New Mexico and Colorado; Penitentes in Abiquiu, New Mexico; and views of wagon trains, Indian encampments, mines, and sheepherding in Montana.

  Russian Jewish Avant-Garde Books

  The Library has acquired a collection of nine books, some of them children's books, all of them in Yiddish and illustrated by the three great names of the Russian Jewish Avant-Garde: El Lissitzky (1890-1941), Joseph Chaikov (1888-1986), and Marc Chagall (1887-1985). The four Lissitzky books are Sikhes Kholin (Small talk), a Prague legend, by Moshe Broderzon (Moscow, 1917); Yingl Tsingl Khvat (The mischievous boy) by Mani Leib (St. Petersburg, 1917); and two titles by "Uncle Ben Zion" (Ben Zion Raskin) from the Kindergarten series, Di Hun vos hot gevolt hoben a Kam (The rooster that wanted a comb, St. Petersburg, 1919), and Der Milner, di Milnerin un di Milshtayner (The miller, his wife, and their millstones, Kiev, 1919).

  Chaikov is the illustrator of Moshe Broderzon's Temerl (Little Tamar, Moscow, 1917), Finf Arbeslakh (Five chick peas, after Hans Christian Andersen, Kiev, 1919), Skulptur (Kiev, 1921), and Dos Kelbel (The calf) by Mendele Mokher Seforim (Kiev and St. Petersburg, 1919).

  Chagall's Troyer (Mourning), a collection of poems by David Hofstein, published in Kiev in 1922, evokes the pogroms against the Jews in the Ukraine during the civil war.

• T. S. Eliot. Four Quartets . Cambridge: Rampant Lions Press, 1996. Number 5 of 200 copies.

• William Carlos Williams. Twenty one letters and postcards to John Sanford (Julian Shapiro), 1932-76.

  Ved Mehta Papers

  Born in 1934 in India, Ved Mehta lost his eyesight at an early age. He was educated first in his native country, then at the Arkansas School for the Blind, an experience he recalls in his autobiography Sound-Shadows of the New World . He then got his B.A. from Pomona College in 1956, read history at Oxford from 1956 to 1959, and obtained an M.A. at Harvard in 1961. He has been associated with The New Yorker since 1961 and has taught history and creative writing at Bard, Sarah Lawrence, Oxford, New York University, Yale, Williams, and Vassar. He is the author of nineteen books and numerous essays and short stories. Among his best-known works are A portrait of India (1970), the controversial Mahatma Gandhi and his apostles (1977), and the multi-volume autobiography Continents of exile , from Daddyji (1972) to Up at Oxford (1993).

  The archive now at the Beinecke comprises all his extant papers, and documents the textual and publication history of all his books. In addition to files relating to The New Yorker , especially under the editorship of William Shawn, correspondents include S.N. Behrman, Isaiah Berlin, Timothy D'Arcy, Indira Gandhi, Brendan Gill, Allen Ginsberg, Graham Greene, Shirley Hazzard, Lilian Hellman, Mary McCarthy, Dwight Macdonald, Alan Pryce-Jones, Bertrand Russell, Muriel Sparks, and Han Suyin, among others.

• N. Scott Momaday. The Journey of Tai-me . Santa Barbara: Privately printed at the University of California, 1967. The first edition of the Native American author's first book.

  Iliazd's Last book

• Adrian de Monluc, comte de Cramail. Le courtisan grotesque . Paris, 1974.

  Published one year before Iliazd's death, Le courtisan grotesque is no less a typographical tour-de-force than the more celebrated earlier productions of the Georgian artist of the book, Poésie de mots inconnus and 65 Maximiliana.

  The text is a short satirical treatise by a little-known aristocrat and amateur bellettrist of considerable charm, whose ascendancy under Louis XIII was cut short when Richelieu had him arrested in 1635 and thrown into the Bastille, where he languished until after the death of his persecutor seven years later. Iliazd combined the 1621 and 1623 editions of Monluc's book and embellished the text with emendations of his own, which are printed to be read vertically, making each page a dazzling feat of typesetting virtuosity. Published in an edition of 113 copies, the book is illustrated with sixteen full-page and seven double-page etchings with aquatint in color by Joan Miró, as well as a vellum cover illustrated with a drypoint etching with aquatint in color, also by Miró.

April

• Litany Rolls. Milan, ca. 1300.

  These three liturgical rolls contain the full text and music for the chants recited during the processions associated with the Rogation Days. The rolls, which follow the Ambrosian rite, are the only surviving examples from the Middle Ages of the text and music they preserve. Although rolls were commonly used in the Middle Ages for liturgical purposes, and there are specific references in literary sources to the use of processional rolls in the Ambrosian rite for the Rogation Days, few liturgical rolls of any type survive, and these are the first at Yale. They are written on parchment, wound on wooden sticks, and protected by leather covers.

• Ps.-Augustine. Canones iuxta regulam. Strassburg, 1490.

  Commonly attributed to St. Augustine during the Middle Ages, this set of rules was adopted by many communities of secular canons and frequently reprinted in the 15th and 16th centuries, often, as here, with annotations and commentary. This volume, printed by Martin Schott, is illustrated with a suite of woodcuts depicting St. Augustine teaching and in prayer. The blind-tooled pigskin binding appears to be contemporary, as is the delicate coloring of three of the woodcuts.

• Juvenal. Satires. Italy, ca. 1450.

  Juvenal's Satires , widely read in medieval and Renaissance schools, survive in many manuscript copies. A particular favorite of Tom Marston's, Juvenal is perhaps the best represented ancient author in our early manuscript collection. This elegant manuscript is a particularly noteworthy addition to our holdings, as it has a richly illuminated frontispiece, a contemporary blind-tooled leather binding, and the annotations of a 15th-century scholar--text critical emendations as well as notes and glosses on Greek words used by Juvenal.

• Humanist Miscellany. Florence, ca. 1500.

  This collection of treatises and letters was assembled and copied by Francesco Baroncini, a Florentine humanist and member of the first Florentine academy. The manuscript opens with Bartolomeo Fonzio's translation of a speech purportedly made by Demosthenes to Alexander the Great. Fonzio dedicated the work to Baroncini, the scribe of our manuscript. Also present are Italian translations of two works by Marsilio Ficino, the leader of the Florentine academy, and letters to and from Ficino about the translations. Both the translations and the letters are unique to our manuscript; they are neither recorded in the scholarly literature nor published.

• Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica. Florence, 1503.

  One of the leading Latin poets of the Silver Age, Valerius Flaccus was especially popular in the Renaissance for his epic on the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts. This edition of the work, an impressive early product of the Giunta press in Florence, has extensive manuscript annotations to the first five books by a contemporary reader. The volume is preserved in an early 16th-century tooled leather binding.

• MOLIÈRE'S PLAUTUS?

  Plautus. M. Acci Plauti Comoediae . . . Ex recognitione Francisci Guieti Andini, opera et studio Michaelis de Marolles, Abbatis de Villeloin. Paris, 1658.

  This first French translation of Plautus, by the prominent scholar Michel de Marolles, includes both French and Latin texts on facing pages. Two years later, Molière turned to Plautus for inspiration for his Amphitryon (published only in 1668). And in 1668, Plautus was again his source for one of his most famous works, L'Avare. Molière had been educated by the Jesuits at the Collège de Clermont (which survives today as the Lycée Louis-le-Grand) and was a good enough Latinist to have undertaken a translation of Lucretius. He must therefore have been familiar with Plautus in the original Latin. The publication of Marolles's translation, however, may have at least triggered his interest in the Latin comic author.

• John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester. The Hartwell Manuscript, ca. 1680.

  With the addition of this compilation of works by Rochester, the Osborn Collection becomes the possessor of the two most significant contemporary manuscript collections of verse by the outstanding poet of the Restoration court. The Hartwell Manuscript, devoted almost exclusively to Rochester, shows a serious attempt by someone within a few years of his death to compile an authoritative collection. The manuscript has been completely unknown to Rochester's editors.

  John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester (1647-80), who managed to render himself notorious by his rakish life of drinking, womanizing, atheistical raillery, and general debauchery, was undoubtedly the wittiest and most brilliant poet and satirist of the court of Charles II. Regarded today as a writer of considerable genius and complexity, he was generally associated in his own lifetime with scurrilous and obscene lampoons, which circulated for the most part in manuscript copies. With his premature death in 1680, celebrated at the time by virtue of his deathbed conversion and repentance, an edition of his supposed poems was rushed through the press. In this edition, poems by Rochester are mixed with poems by his contemporaries; the scholarly task of disentangling Rochester's genuine works from a host of others spuriously attributed to him continues to this day.

• John Bunyan. Come, & Welcome, to Jesus Christ. Or, a plain and profitable discourse . . . shewing the cause, truth, and manner of the coming of a sinner to Jesus Christ; with his happy reception, and blessed entertainment. London, 1678. (Wing B5495).

  First edition of one of Bunyan's most popular evangelical book, published in the same year as the Pilgrim's Progres, and hardly less successful. It ran through at least eleven editions before 1700, four of which are at Yale. There were no doubt many more, including piracies, but the book was evidently read to death, and very few, as a result, survive.

• SWIFT'S HORACE

  Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Opera ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensita. Cambridge, 1699.

  By the time he died in 1745, Swift owned two Horaces, one of them Pine's engraved "collector's edition" of 1733-37, which came to him as a gift, the other this handsome Cambridge edition by James Talbot. We know that he owned "an old musty Horace" which he discarded as early as 1698 and an Elzevier edition, which he also disposed of, as well as a bilingual edition with the Philip Francis translation. The one he demonstrably "used" is the Cambridge quarto. He acquired it in March-April 1711 at the posthumous sale of his friend Charles Bernard, a surgeon and collector. Four of Swift's six Horatian imitations were composed shortly afterwards. In addition to his microscopic signature on the title page, the book contains seven marginal glosses in his hand, about twenty-eight pencil ticks, probably indicating words to check, and two bibliographical references which may be in Bernard's rather than in Swifts's hand.

  The book is listed in the catalogue of the sale of the library of Jonathan Swift, which took place after his death, with the asterisk indicating the presence of marginal notes. The buyer at that 1745 auction is unknown, but may have been Swift's friend Robert Jocelyn, first Viscount Jocelyn, since we have evidence that it later belonged to Jocelyn's son, the first Earl of Roden. It remained in the hands of the Roden family at Tollymore Park until the dispersal of their library in the 1940s, and has been in private ownership since.

• AMERICAN CHILDREN'S LITERATURE: A NATIVE AMERICAN COLLECTION

  The Native American section of the Betsy Beinecke Shirley Collection of American Children's Literature includes more than 500 titles, among them classic works by and relating to George Catlin, Davy Crockett, John Eliot, Grace Moon, Asher Wright, and the Jesuit mission presses, especially the St. Ignatius Mission Press in Montana Territory (1876-98).

  The greatest of the early treasures are the Brinley copy of Cotton Mather's The Triumphs of the Reformed Religion, in America. The Life of the Renowned John Eliot (Boston, 1691; Wing M1163) and Lutheri catechismus, oefwersatt pa American-Virginske Spraket (Stockholm, 1696), the translation made in 1646 by Johannes Campanius of the Lutheran cathechism into the language of the Indians of Virginia, followed by a Mohawk-Swedish glossary. Present in the volume is the rare folding map, drawn by the Swedish engineer Pehr Lindhestroem in 1654-55, and said to be the earliest general map of Pennsylvania (then known as New Sweden).

  Other notable titles are the first edition of David Zeisberger's Essay of a Delaware-Indian and English Spelling-Book for the Use of the Schools of the Christian Indians on Muskingum River (Philadelphia, 1776), the first children's book written by a resident of what is now Ohio; Cherokee Hymns Compiled from Several Authors, and Revised (the fifth edition, printed in Union in 1835); and near-complete runs of four important Indian newspapers published by the students of the Indian Industrial School at Carlisle, Pennsylvania: School News (1880-83), Eadle Keatah Toh (1880-82), The Morning Star (1882-84), and The Red Man (1888-1900). Also in the collection are primers, vocabularies, catechisms, and service books in Assiniboin, Cherokee, Choctaw, Crow Indian, Dakota, Eskimo, Kootenai, Mohawk (notably A Primer, for the Use of the Mohawk Children, printed in London in 1786), Nez Perce, Ojibwa (Chippewa), Osage, and Seneca, among others.

  Manuscript material includes "Dialogue upon the Brethens Mission among N. American Indians spoken by the second class April 18th 1795" [Bethlehem, Pennsylvania?], a vernal examination at Nazareth School, and a collection of letters by a Nicholas Ray in London to his brother Richard of New York (1756-57).

• GERMAN LITERATURE

  The original edition of one of the earliest publications of Christoph Martin Wieland, Briefe von Verstorbenen an hinterlassene Freunde (Zürich, 1753), a lyrical and didactic work written under the literary influence of the Swiss critic J. J. Bodmer.

  Two works by Sophie von La Roche, one of Germany's best-known women authors, a friend of both Goethe and Wieland: Neuere moralische Erzehlungen (Altenburg, 1786) and Briefe über Mannheim (Zürich, 1791).

  The last book of Karl Philip Moritz, Die neue Cecilia (Berlin, 1794), left unfinished by the author of Germany's first fate tragedy and several novels, as well as studies in aesthetics and psychology. The book is the second to be printed in Unger Fraktur and contains an essay about the newly invented font by the publisher, Friedrich Unger.

• Marquis de Lafayette. ALS to James Fenimore Cooper. France, ca. 1820.

  Cooper has evidently requested that Lafayette sit for a portrait by an American artist. Lafayette replies: "I am sworn to an indiscriminate refusal to every application for bust or portrait for two reasons, that my time does not allow it, and that Schiffer's portrait and my friend David's bust do perfectly answer the purpose. Yet when I think of a young talented American sculptor I don't know how to deny him and you."

• George Eliot. Partly holograph journal, undated.

  This notebook contains a chronological outline of George Eliot's life, the first half in the hand of her friend Sara Hennell, the second in Eliot's own hand. She has inscribed it at the beginning: "This book was made & given to me by my friend Sara S. Hennell. She Entered as many dates as she knew of in association with my life, i think as far as 1853." Sara Hennell (who gives 1820 instead of the correct 1819 as the birth year) clearly intended the journal as a sort of biographical tribute. George Eliot kept it up until 1872, recording travels, operas seen, people met, and some of the crucial dates of her career as a writer ("Began 'Adam Bede'," "Book 1 of Middlemarch published," etc.). This unrecorded diary has now joined the fourteen other journals, diaries, and notebooks in Yale's George Eliot and George Henry Lewes collection.

• Natalie Clifford Barney. Original black-&-white photographs of Barney as a child in England, at her "Temple d'amitié" in Paris, and in dramatic poses about 1900.

• Ezra Pound. "Means of Distribution Exist." Typescript, ca. 1934.

  The original 3-paged manuscript is accompanied by two letters from Pound in Rapallo, 7 May 1934 and 16 June 1935, to H. R. Hays in New York. In the first letter Pound writes: "I know of no good Italian anthology of contemporary verse. . . . There are three Italys now existing side by side. The Italy of Mussolini and his technicians. . . The Italian `intelligentzia', literati. . . , the Italian university faculties etc. `cultured Italy'. . . ."

• Sinclair Lewis. Letters to and from Fay Wray, 1938-42, with a mimeograph production script of Sinclair Lewis's play Angela Is Twenty-two , written with Fay Wray and performed by Lewis and Wray in summer stock.
  

• Hermann Broch. Letters to Annemarie M.-G. Broch, 1930s-1951.

  These hundreds of typed letters to his second wife cover the most productive years of Broch's career as a writer and will surely become a central document in future studies of the Austrian novelist.

• Jean-Paul Sartre. Les séquestrés d'Altona. Fragment of the holograph draft, ca. 1959.

  Les séquestrés d'Altona was Sartre's tenth play and can be considered his most powerful since No Exit (1944). It also was to be his last, if one excepts an adaptation of Euripides' Trojan Women in 1965. It was premiered at the Théâtre de la Renaissance in Paris on 23 September 1959 and published the following year by Gallimard, Sartre having in the meantime agreed to a number of cuts in the stage version. Altona is an industrial suburb of Hamburg and the play, set at the period of its composition, deals with a traditional German family's attempt--or rather failure--to cope with its Nazi past. This important fragment of the holograph draft is for Act I, scene 2, one of the crucial episodes, and contains numerous passages not included in the published text.

• THE HELEN WOLFF PAPERS

  In 1942 Helen and Kurt Wolff, having fled Hitler's Germany, founded Pantheon Books, which published the Bollingen Series and such popular works as the American edition of Doctor Zhivago and Anne Morrow Lindbergh's Gift from the Sea. When Random House acquired Pantheon Books in 1961, the Wolffs were invited to join Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, where they had their own imprint. After Kurt Wolff's untimely death in 1963, Helen Wolff continued with HBJ until her retirement, overseeing Helen and Kurt Wolff Books until her death in 1994.

  Helen Wolff's papers contain correspondence from the early 1950s through the late 1990s, financial records, readers' reports, and some manuscripts. These files reflect Helen Wolff's distinguished career as an international publisher based in New York and the friendships she formed with writers and colleagues. Among the correspondents represented in this archive are Joy Adamson, Hannah Arendt, W. H. Auden, Heimito von Doderer, Umberto Eco, Günter Grass, Arthur Koestler, Anne Lindberg, Konrad Lorenz, Ralph Manheim, Herbert Mitgang, and the family of Rudolf Serkin.

  The Helen Wolff papers join the Kurt Wolff archive, which has been part of the Yale Collection of German Literature since 1947.

• Spencer Berger. Photographs, scrapbooks, theater programs, and other printed material relating to John, Lionel, and Ethel Barrymore and the Barrymore family. Included is a modern facsimile of the Declaration of Independence enhanced by John Barrymore.

• Joan Kahn. Letters from Jacques Barzun, Henry Cecil, C. Day Lewis, Peter Dickinson, Dick Francis, Nicholas Freeling, Menna Gallie, John Grant, Tony Hillerman, Katherine Kuh, Kimon Lolos, Arthur Maling, James H. McClure, Patrick McGinley, Maurice Procter, Julian Symons, Bess Truman, Harry Truman, 1945-95, to the mystery book editor, Joan Kahn.

• GEHENNA PRESS

  Leonard Baskin. Horned beetles and other insects. Northampton, 1958.

  _____. Unknown Dutch Artists. No place, 1983.

  Horned Beetles and Other Insects was the first Gehenna Press book to use etchings rather than woodcuts. The 34 etchings by Baskin are printed on various English, French, Italian, and Japanese handmade papers, and some early 19th-century Swiss paper. The small red interleaving titles were printed by Harold McGrath, with whom a fruitful and long-lasting partnership was thus launched. The only text is a short sentence by Darwin as an epigraph. Published in an edition of only 30 copies, all signed by the artist and bound in full leather by the Harcourt bindery, this is one of the rarest and most coveted of the early Gehenna Press titles.

  Unknown Dutch Artists, printed in an edition of 17 copies at the sign of the Eremite Press, was actually never published nor distributed and is therefore one of the rarest and least known of the Gehenna books. Printed on a variety of English handmade papers, it is a "portrait book" in the classical tradition, with biographies and etched portraits of twelve imaginary Dutch artists. Its form and design prefigure two later Gehenna Press publications, Icones Librorum Artifices (1988) and Imaginary Jewish Artists of the Early and Late Renaissance (1993).

• Edmund Wilson. Correspondence with Per Seyersted, professor of American Studies at the University of Oslo, including twenty letters from Wilson, 1958-68.