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English
Grammar, 1855
Hallock, Edward J. A grammar of the English language. For the use of common schools, academies and seminaries...sixth edition. New York: Ivison & Phinney (pr. by Thomas B. Smith), 1855. 12mo. 250, [14 (illus. adv.)] pp. 
• Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label; spine and edges lightly rubbed. Occasional pencilled marginalia and emphasis marks, confined to the first half of the work. (12103)
A Spanish-American
Guide to an
Elegant
Hand
Halsey, George W. El pendolista universal. Obra original: Que contiene el arte de escribir,
segun se enseña en Inglaterra y en los Estados Unidos: Como asimismo
una variedad de dibujos y floréos nuevos. El todo va esplicado en unas
reglas impresas, y en direcciones tan sencillas, que los diferentes estilos
de letra tirada pueden aprenderse sin necesidad de ningun instructor....
New York: Pr. for G.W. Halsey & Bros. by Spinning & Hodges,
1838. Long 4to (20.4 cm, 8"). x, 14 pp., 35 ff.
The final leaf bears a vignette of St. George spearing
the dragon, composed entirely of flowing brush strokes. Written
and produced chiefly for export to the Spanish and Spanish American market:
Hence, scarce in the U.S.
• Palau 112066; Nash, American Penmanship, 263. Contemporary
half diced calf over embossed cloth, single gilt roll at each leather edge;
worn with boards very slightly sprung, evidence of water damage to upper back
cover, small scrape to cloth on front cover and larger scrape to leather at
top of spine. Pages moderately foxed, with text leaves cleaner than plates.
“I SpeckI Got You Dis Time, Brer Rabbit”Harris, Joel Chandler. Uncle Remus his songs and his sayings[.] The folk-lore of the old plantation. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1881 (c. 1880). 12mo (19.5 cm, 7.74"). 231, [1 (blank)], [8 (adv.)] pp.; 8 plts., illus.
Binding: Publisher’s green cloth, front cover stamped in black with gilt-stamped vignette of Brer Rabbit reclining elegantly at his ease; spine with decorative gilt-stamped title featuring a banjo.
• BAL 7100; Grolier, 100 Influential American Books, 83; Blank, Peter Parley to Penrod, 56. Binding lightly worn with some rubbing to extremities, spine a bit darkened. Title-page with inked inscription dated 1881 in upper margin, front pastedown with similar inscription. Very mild foxing to some pages.
Das ABC Hermanns, Karl. Hand-Fibel oder der Schreib-Lese-Unterricht als erstes Lese-, Sprach- und Lehrbuch für Schule and Haus. Philadelphia: Schäfer & Koradi, 1867. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). [2], 80, [2] pp.
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Sutton's
Hospital in
CharterhouseCharterhouse
School
Herne, Samuel. Domus carthusiana: Or an account of the most noble foundation of the charter-house near Smithfield in London. Both before and since the Reformation. London: Pr. by T.R. for Richard Marriott & Henry Brome, 1677. 8vo (18.2 cm, 7.2"). Frontis., [46], 287, [1] pp.; 2 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Rolle family armorial bookplate.
• ESTC R10688; Wing (rev.) H1578; Allibone 813. Contemporary sheep, covers framed in blind double fillets; leather rubbed and scuffed, partially cracked along front joint. All edges marbled. Pastedowns peeled up, front pastedown with early inked inscription; inside front cover with armorial bookplate. Title-page with inked numeral in upper outer corner. (21012)
LOVELY
Hand-Tinted Plates History of Samuel.
Old Testament scenes and narratives. Being a second series of The Good Child's
Library. Philadelphia: John B. Perry, 1855. Square 16mo (14.8 cm, 5.8"). [6 (3
blank)], 9-60, [2 (blank)] pp.; 3 plts. (lacks frontis.).
• Sewn; in original printed yellow wrappers. One plate loose. Small loss of paper to lower spine, with covers separating just a bit (about 1" from bottom edge). Pencilled gift inscription on half-title. Some offsetting from plates, light foxing to several pages. Lacks a frontispiece — yet rare enough, and the other plates handsome enough, to be interesting despite that. (4835)
College Sermons — Presentation Copy Hoffman, Charles Frederick. Christ, the patron of all true education. New York: E. & J.B. Young & Co., 1893. 8vo. Frontis., [2], 209, [1] pp.
Provenance: With a tipped-in, printed slip reading “With the kind regards of The Author.”
• Publisher's purple cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped; spine and edges sunned, back cover with its double layer of cloth partially torn through the top layer (interesting, as to binding structure). Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, preliminary leaf with early inked ownership inscription and pressure-stamp of a religious institution, title-page with small rubber-stamp. Pages clean. (20829)
Marriage
of Minors
Hoffmann, Conrad Philipp. ...Schediasma de ætate juvenili, contrahendis sponsalibvs ac matrimoniis idonea, sive, Von junger Leute Heyrathen. Ut & de annis, qvibvs qvis sub poena matrimonivm inire tenetvr, sive Von Bestranfung unterlassenen Heyrathen. Regiomonti et Lipsiae: Impensis Francisci Bortoletti, 1743. Small 4to. 96 pp.
• Sometime bound in a nonce volume (removed).
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WITCHES Have Always BeenPopular Choices! Holt, Ardern. Fancy dresses described; or, what to wear at fancy balls. London: Debenham & Freebody, [1887]. 8vo (20.8 cm, 8.2"). vi, 253, [3] pp.; 16 col. plts.; 16 plts.
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A
Philadelphia
“Prep”
Text — The
RARER of
Two
Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. Opera expurgata, notis anglicis illustrata: Quibus præfixum syntagma prosodiale. Cura et studio Thomæ Dugdale. Philadelphiae: Impensis Solomon W. Conrad, excud. Guilelmus Fry, 1815. 8vo. xvii, [1 (blank)], 359, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the title-page image for an enlargement. This is the rarer of two Philadelphia editions of 1815: It is not listed in NUC Pre-1956 and Shaw and Shoemaker located only one copy (at The American Antiquarian Society); we do know of some other copies. The other edition has the imprint reading “Impensis E. Kimber.”
• Shaw & Shoemaker 34951. Original treed sheep, leather label; spine, with gilt-stamped red leather label, a little pulled at bottom. Significant degrees of browning and foxing, as expectable of the paper used. Front free endpaper missing; volume opens on title-page. An interesting volume in attractive condition. (7008)
A Boy’s Verses Hunt, James Henry Leigh. Juvenilia; or, a collection of poems: Written between the ages of twelve and sixteen... Second edition. London: J. Whiting, 1801. 8vo (17 cm, 6.6"). xxxii, [2], 136 (i.e., 236) pp.; 1 fold. plt., 1 plt.
Single-click any image where the hand appears on• NCBEL, III, 1217; NSTC H3100. Recent quarter calf over marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title-label and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. Half-title with affixed advertisement for another Leigh Hunt publication; slight offsetting to two leaves from laid-in article on dance, pages otherwise clean save for very minor age-toning. 
Attractive.
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