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The California Poets
California Writers Club. Poems. 1933. Berkeley: Pr. by The Professional Press, 1933. 8vo. 67, [1] pp.
$45.00

A collection of 15 poems selected for the 1933 Annual of
the California Writers Club. The poems were chosen by Margaret Widdemer, Margaret
Tod Witter, and David Morton, who singled out “Skylark Terrace”
by Alice Harlow Stetson and “The Prairie Saga” by Don Farran as
the best of the collection.
One
poem celebrates the campanile (Sather Tower) at Berkeley.
Provenance:
Bookplate inside front wrapper of Lorraine & Horace Haynes.
Publisher's light-blue wrappers. Bookplate as above. Near fine.
(23669)
Lafayette
With Chromos
Cecil, E. Life of Lafayette. Written for children. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Co., 1860. 12mo. Frontis., illus. added title-page, [6], 218 pp.; 4 color plts.
$125.00



Stirringly written and excitingly illustrated with chromolithographic plates, frontispiece, and added title-page. Cecil also wrote a similar biography of Washington. Publisher's quarter red cloth, stamped in blind on sides and in gold on spine. Cloth starting at joints, and splitting over edges and corners; spine tips off. Waterstains on first five leaves, intermittent light foxing in margins, pencilling to front endpapers. Minor bubbling to front and rear pastedowns, front endpaper chipped. (756)

Go Fish
The child's book of nature; being figures and descriptions illustrative of the natural history of beasts, birds, insects, fishes, &c. Lancaster [MA]: Carter, Andrews, & Co., (copyright 1830). 16mo (13.2 cm, 5.3"). 16 pp.; illus.
$175.00
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Uncommon second edition of this, the fifth entry in the “Child's Book of Nature” series, focusing on fish; the work appears here as part of the “Lancaster Cabinet of Amusement & Instruction.” The front wrapper gives the publication information as Boston: Clapp & Broaders, but the title-page gives Lancaster: Carter, Andrews, & Co.
The book is illustrated with
17 hand-colored, in-text wood engravings of different types of fish and one uncolored title-page vignette.
American Imprints 852. Not in Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books. Publisher's printed paper wrappers, creased, paper worn and split along spine, edges rubbed. Moderate spotting throughout.
Charming. (24547)
What to Wear, the Duty of Schoole-Masters, Divorce Sentences, & More
Church of England. Constitutions and canons. 1603. English. Constitutions and canons ecclesiasticall treated upon by the Bishop of London, president of the convocation for the province of Canterbury, and the rest of the bishops and clergy of the said province: And agreed upon with
the Kings Majesties licence in their synod begun at London, anno Dom. 1603, and in the year of the reign of our soveraigne Lord James, by the grace of God, King of England, France, and Ireland the first, and of Scotland the 37. And now published for the due observation of them, by His Majesties authority under the Great Seal of England. London: Pr. by John Norton, for Joyce Norton, and Richard Whitaker, 1633. Small 4to. [60] ff.
$500.00
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A translation of Constitutiones sive canones ecclesiastici. Several editions give this publishing information and date; this is one of the few that seem actually to have been printed in 1633 as opposed to 1640 or later.
The Constitutions and Canons Ecclesiastical was an assemblage of rulings given equal force with the canon law, although the rulings themselves were not based on canon law.
STC (rev. ed.) 10076; ESTC S101555. Removed from a nonce volume. A very nice, clean copy with an array of marginal markings — Xs, asterisks, “vid.,” and the odd hand-with-pointing-finger. (21226)

Choir Boys' Colegio
Colegio de Nuestra Señora de la Asumpcion (Mexico City).
Constitvciones de el Colegio de Nvestra Señora de la Assumpcion, y el glorioso patriarcha Señor San Joseph, de la infantes de el coro de esta santa iglesia metropolitana de Mexico. Dispvestas y ordenandas por el m. ilustre señor venerable dean, y cabildo de dicha iglesia. Mexico: En la Imprenta Real del Superior Govierno, de Da. maria de Rivera, 1734. Small 4to. 18 pp.
$900.00
Rules for the administration and daily operation of the colegio established in the cathedral of Mexico for the boys of the choir. Begins with a very handsome title-page featuring a woodcut of the Virgin on a Nopal. From the press of a famous 18th-century woman printer.
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Very rare: Not in OCLC or RLIN. We locate only the copy at the John Carter Brown Library.
Medina, Mexico, 3319. In plain wrappers as issued. A very good copy. (12054)
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