Provenance: Bookseller’s ticket of the “Livraria de Braamcamp-Freire” on front pastedown.

•  Palau 91083. Speckled sheep; spine with double gilt rules above and below each band, second compartment with a brown leather label, gilt-lettered, and the rest with a gilt diamond-shaped floral device. Leather abraded with some loss at head and foot of spine and on edges of covers. Browning from turn-ins and some little tears or chipping to endpapers. Interior generally clean with occasional fine spotting.

Stated on p. [iii]: “Copy-right secured by Act of Congress”; Evans notes another issue of the same year with a “136th Pennsylvania District Copyright.”

Very interesting reading, with much detail as to actual events.

•  Evans 30419; Sabin 24360; ESTC W20462.   Recent quarter calf over marbled paper–covered boards. Some foxing, including to title-page. Long tear running through 10 lines or so of two leaves, affecting but not costing any letters, neatly repaired with old library transparent paper tape now browned but still transparent enough to permit easy reading. The dates “1774" and “1796" have been minutely inked on the title-page below the Roman numerals in the title and imprint, respectively, by an early owner; ex-library, with no signs of that save a four-digit inked accession number and a two-digit number rubber-stamped at base of copyright page. Binder's ticket on rear pastedown. A very good copy in an attractive binding.  (23909)

This edition, the first to be printed in New Hampshire, exists in two states — this one has “sold also by the booksellers in Boston” on the title-page.  (In addition, there was another 1795 edition printed in Newbury, Vt.)  Regularly reprinted into the 19th century, the Token saw editions in Welsh and Gaelic.

•  ESTC W19733; Evan 28677. On Flavel, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Contemporary quarter sheep over brown paper covered boards, significant loss of paper and of edges of boards. Some shallow chipping, notable soiling, browning, and waterstaining (yet no difficulty reading text). A volume that’s been through a good deal, but is probably stable for quite a long while to come.

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He tells of the cult that surrounded this apparition, the numerous aspects of her veneration, and the many miracles attributed to her. Hers was the image paraded through the streets in times of plague, drought, famine, war, and tribulation in general. The volume begins with a full-page frontispiece that incorporates a large anonymously carved woodcut of the Virgin surrounded by text and a border of printer's flowers.  Below the woodcut is an epigram about her.

•  Palau 92338; DeBacker-Sommervogel, III, 796; Sabin 24814; Medina, BHA, 3375; Alden & Landis 745/84.   Contemporary full calf in the Valencia style, gilt spine extra; plain endpapers. Occasional spotting; minor worming in upper outer margins of some leaves not touching text — a good+ copy of a scarce book.  (23059)

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•  Not in Goldsmiths’-Kress. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped title-label; leather rubbed over corners, joints, and spine extremities, with some scuffing to back cover and leather showing minor cracking over spine. Front fly-leaf with early inked annotations; title-page with owner’s name in lower margin inked out. Pages lightly spotted; one leaf with tear from outer margin, with small loss of paper not touching text.

A special issue copy: Present here is an uncalled-for frontispiece. It is of four Capuchin martyrs, is signed by the artist Navarro, is engraved on copper, and is printed au sanguine -- the color reserved for only the most special copies of 18th-century books. This frontispiece is not called for by Medina and is not present in any of the copies reported as held in the U.S.

•  Medina, Mexico, 4991; Palau 45600; Sabin 11098; Maggs, Bibliotheca Asiatica, 611.   Full antique calf, spine gilt, leather label. Slight worming to late leaves, repaired with tape in an inoffensive fashion. Quite a good copy.  (12725)

•  Palau 290780. Recent quarter red morocco over red cloth, spine gilt extra, red marbled endpapers, and top edge red. Clean, attractive interior.

•  Evans 37442; Sabin 25602; ESTC W17376.   Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; joints fully open and holding by cords, leather peeled up from board edges, gilt dimmed on spine label. Front fly-leaves with faint pencilled and inked inscriptions; back fly-leaves with inked ownership inscriptions, one dated 1801. Pages age-toned, last few waterstained; one leaf torn with loss of several words from one line. A “survivor” copy, priced accordingly.  (22636)