•  Brunet, II, 856; Graesse 440. Period-style calf framed in blind, spine with raised bands and otherwise very plain– no label. Title-page with faint early inked inscriptions. Colophon with margins repaired, one repair at inner margin just touching a letter of text. Waterstaining to inner portions and lower outer corners of much of volume (not affecting title-page or preface, and generally faint); some pages browned. Numerous instances of early inked marginalia and underlining. (20816)

Freemasonry in America

•  Sabin 100650; Shaw & Shoemaker 2166. Recent quarter calf with marbled paper sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and blind-stamped Masonic devices in compartments. Lacking the plate and pp. 17–20, 51–58, and 71/72 of the first part. Title-page and several others stamped by a now-defunct institution. Pages sometime exposed to moisture or mildew, thus variously browned, age-toned, and brittle, with some tears; our second double-page photo was taken to show the worst such damage. P. 84 of the second part with two names carefully excised.

•  Richmond 545; Egbert, II, 182.   Original brown cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover; spine and part of cover sunned, small loss of cloth at spine extremities and corners, thumb-sized waterspot and another discoloration to front cover. Ex-library: call number on spine (blacked out), bookplate, pressure-stamp on title-page and penciled notations on verso, rubber-stamps on pastedown and at base of p. [iii], date due slip in the back. Front hinge (inside) cracked, title-page and following two leaves detached (but present). Waterstain at top left part of frontispiece and shallow chip at inner edge. Marginal tear extending from outer edge of title-page and one other page. Good.  (24436)

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•  ESTC P74 (for full run from 1699–1708). Removed from a nonce volume. Inner margin tattered, repaired some time ago with loss of “The” from header and of a number of words along that margin on each side.

This volume’s oversized, folding frontispiece shows the front facade of the “new East India House now building in Leadenhall Street”; there is also one in-text engraving of Lethington House in East Lothian, residence of the Maitland family.

Provenance: Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription of Joshua Gilpin, a Quaker from Philadelphia who established the first paper mill in Delaware, in 1787.

•  Disbound with front cover, front free endpaper, and frontispiece separated; back cover lost, and signature sewing exposed/going, with many leaves loose. Now contained in a simple, acid-free phase box. Edges untrimmed. Minor offsetting and a few stray marks; mostly clean.

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Binding:  Vellum over paste boards; covers ruled in deep blue and stamped with gilt coat of arms of the Earl of Aylesford (motto: “Aperto vivere voto”), spines with gracefully gilt-stamped blue leather title-labels. Marbled endpapers. Blue silk placemarkers.

•  Brunet, II, 1097; Dibdin, I, 532–33; Graesse, II, 519; Schweiger, I, 115.   Bindings as above, moderate soiling to vellum, joints unobtrusively strengthened with cloth from the inside. Signs of card pockets once present and shadows of pencilled numerals on title-pages; Aylesford bookplates as above; three volumes only, of four (see above), with Greek portion complete. An attractive, even luxurious example of “Clarendon Press Greek.”  (23262)

Rare.   The first edition is vanishingly scarce, and this second only slightly less so; searches of various institutional databases locate only one U.S. and two overseas holdings of the second edition.

•  Contemporary half morocco with paper-covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; leather lost from corners and head of spine, binding a bit rubbed and scuffed. Front pastedown with private collector’s bookplate; front pastedown and free endpaper institutionally rubber-stamped. Light to moderate foxing throughout; plates of demonstration lacking, philosophical text (still interesting) all/only present, along with the frontispiece portrait of a young and serious-looking Favarger.

•  Brunet, II, 1291 (for an 1810 ed. only, not citing this ed.). Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; front joint entirely open with leather chipped along base of joint, spine leather and gilt rubbed in spots, corners bumped, small dent to outer edges. Front pastedown with private collector’s bookplate; front pastedown and free endpaper with institutional rubber stamp (no other markings). Pages faintly age-toned, else clean.

In addition to recounting the Juan Diego story, Florencia examines the reliability of published accounts relating to the Virgin, discusses alleged later appearances, epitomizes the character of Juan Diego, and canvasses many other aspects of the Guadalupe legend. He also proposes the context for a novena in her honor.

•  European Americana 741/85; Palau 92342 (the reported 1714 edition is a ghost, there having been a typographical error of 1714 for 1741 in the Robredo catalogue); DeBacker-Sommervogel, III, 796–97; Sabin 24807; Grajales & Burrus 141 (erroneously giving place of printing as Mexico!).   Contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties; text block loose in binding. Lacking title-page but a copy of the 1785 title-supplied instead; title tattered, soiled and loose. Lacks also the first five preliminary leaves, and a heavily dog-eared copy. Some old pen trials here and there in blank areas.  Definitely one for a “busted bibliophile.”  (24393)

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•  Not in American Imprints (1839).   Contemporary speckled sheep, rebacked and rehinged some time ago with library brown tape; binding much worn and abraded, spine cloth with window cut to show original gilt-stamped title (covered with cellophane tape). Spine with institution's call number; front pastedown, first and last text pages, and all edges of closed book rubber-stamped. Pages foxed. (20025)

•  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)

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•  Sabin 55624. Original printed paper front wrapper (only, and detached; back wrapper lacking); wrapper torn, with inked inscription in upper margin. Wrapper, title-page, and next four leaves gnawed by a rodent with loss to printed border of wrapper and a letter or two on the title-page — main text not affected. Pages creased, with some instances of light spotting.

This recipe collection was perhaps originally part of a longer manuscript, and was very probably too useful for its own good to someone who kept it handy—at one point it was set alight, but made it through relatively unscathed.

•  Disbound, now in a Mylar folder; sewing of upper portion holding. Lower inner margin burned, touching first and last words of many lines. Spots of foxing and of discoloration; occasional pencil marks. Very readable despite damage, and not unattractive.

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Rare in the U.S.: We trace only the Getty copy of this edition, and earlier editions are no less rare.

•  Landwehr, German Emblem Books, 317. Boards covered in music-printed paper from an 18th-century antiphonal, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels. Engraved title and pp. 49/50 (emblem VII) lacking. Title-page and next leaf with long-ago repaired holes, one on the latter affecting an initial on the verso; title-page with old inked device(?) and 19th-century institutional stamp on verso, showing through in part to recto; a small hole in a third leaf, taking perhaps a letter or two. Final blank leaf and two other leaves also stamped. One leaf torn from margins into text, repaired with Japanese tissue. Pages slightly age-toned, some with mild foxing or the odd spot. Faults noted, this is yet a worthwhile and studyable/enjoyable volume.

Provenance: Vol. I title-page with inscription dated 1790, reading “Joseph Russells cost 10s a Vollume [sic]”; vol. IV inscribed by John Humphreys in 1794 and with small bookplate of Richard McIlvain.

•  ESTC T102429. Contemporary treed calf, spines with gilt-stamped leather title labels; board edges worn with leather cracking over spines, front cover and free endpaper of vol. IV detached. Bookplates of a now-defunct institution on front pastedowns. Some instances of offsetting and foxing, generally no more than moderate, with pages otherwise clean.

•  Removed from a nonce volume. Back free endpaper with library pocket. First signature separated. Stray pencil marks; some staining.  (7370)

•  19th-century library half-sheep with paper-covered sides; binding much worn, front and back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution, front cover separated and back joint cracked, leather lost over corners, paper abraded and cracking. Front pastedown with bookplate, last advertising page with pocket. Pages age-toned with some light waterstaining and cockling; a few edge tears and stray pencil marks.  (7402)

The work ends with a list of subscribers, making this one of the few colonial Mexican books with such a list.

•  Medina, Mexico, 11897; Palau 111216; Garritz 3593.   Mid-19th-century sheep, nicely gilt-tooled; leather a little dry and rubbed. Faint 19th-century stamps of an ecclesiastical library. Without the Montes de Oca plate; else, a very good copy.  (23969)