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BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
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Leaves
from a Large
18th-Century CHOIRBOOK
(A
Welcome Present)? Leaves from a Graduale romanum.
Venice: Balleoniana, 1729. Folio extra (19.25" x 13.625"). 1 f. 
Click either image for an enlargement. This particular choirbook was printed with 10 lines of text and music per page. Each leaf contains music and words, and is printed in black and red; text is in black, with an occasional small letter in red, and the music is provided for all the antiphons in black square notation on a four-line red staff. Antiphons begin with a tall decorative initial printed in red, as high as the text and music together. The initials vary from leaf to leaf.
• Crisp, wide margined leaf with slightest bleed-through from one side to another. Printed on handmade paper of 100% rag. 
A marvelous display, accent, or gift item.
A
COLLECTING
ESSENTIAL
(ABCs). Carter,
John & Nicolas Barker. ABC
for book collectors. Eighth
edition with corrections, additions, and a new introduction by Nicolas Barker.
New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press & the British Library. 8vo. 232, [2] pp.
• Are
you a novice reader of rare book cataloguing who is just beginning to realize
that there might be a difference between a "joint" and a "hinge"? Would you
rather be asked for the proof of "E=MC2" than for the meaning of " *6a-z6A-R6S2**6)(6)()(4T6V-X4 "?
Or are you on the other hand a connoisseur of the bibliographer's terms of
art who savors the very sound and cadence — as well as the exact and enticing
images that the words and sentences raise — in a description like the following: "18th-century
olive morocco; round gilt spines extra without bands; gilt triple-line fillet
frames on covers with gilt corner devices; single gilt rule on board edges;
gilt inner dentelles. Dutch-style printed endpapers with gilt and green stars
and dots on a white field. All edges gilt; all pages ruled in red in the 17th-century
style"?
At once a great basic resource and a rewarding volume for browsing or bibliophilic
pleasure-reading, this classic work by John Carter contains over 490 alphabetical
entries offering definitions and analysis of technical terms as well as the
jargon of book collecting and bibliography — with ample examples. A vice-president
of the Bibliographical Society and Sandars Reader in Bibliography in the
University of Cambridge, its author also worked for Scribner's and Sotheby's,
and over the course of his active career he wrote or edited many well known
and influential books about books. 
With
Percy H. Muir, Carter was a prime mover of the legendary 1963 exhibition
from which was derived that landmark text and guide among guides — Printing
and the Mind of Man.
Carter's ABC (first printed in 1952) was revised and expanded by
Nicolas Barker, his friend and the respected editor of The Book Collector,
making good use of the author's own annotations and bringing to bear his
own great knowledge and brisk style. A new introduction was also provided.
This eighth edition incorporates the "lexicon of new bibliographical
terms" brought into use by the Internet, in addition to other additions
and amendments arising since the publication of the previous revised edition.
The result has been lauded as "the wittiest and most instructive alphabet
for incipient bibliophiles ever compiled" (Books); it has been asserted
that "No better guide to the whole subject has appeared in print" (Chicago
Tribune). 
This
is a book that no purchasing collector or cataloguer should think of as a
frivolous expense, and a book that as a gift to a collector or cataloguer
cannot fail to please.
• New. Complete with printed dust jacket.
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Popularizing the Idea of a
Fourth Dimension Abbott, Edwin Abbott. FLATLAND: A romance of many dimensions. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1929. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). xvi, [2], [11]–155, [1] pp.; illus.
• NSTC 0854657 (for first U.S. ed.). Publisher's light blue cloth, front cover stamped in dark blue and green, spine with title stamped in blue; binding slightly cocked, board edges faded, spine darkened and with old inked shelving number. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate. Pages very faintly age-toned, else clean. (24675)
For more LITERATURE, click here. For more MATHEMATICS, click here. This book also appears in the GENERAL
A Book, then a Movie — A Woman Writer'sROMANTIC Fairy Tale Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell. Molly make-believe. New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1931. 8vo. [8], 154, [4] pp.
This
is one of 250 copies printed for private distribution as the press's Christmas
book.
• Publisher's half blue morocco over lighter blue cloth-covered boards, top edge gilt. A fine copy. (24546)
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COLLECTED PRESSES
Much Varia — An Ad for aPapermaker! Abell, Truman. New-England farmer's almanack, with an emphemeris, for the year ... 1828. ... Fitted to the latitude and longitude of the town of Windsor, Vt. but will serve, without sensible variation, for all the adjacent states. Alstead, N. H.: Newton & Tufts; Windsor, Vt.: Simeon Ide, [1827]. 12mo. [24] ff.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Drake 13641; Shoemaker 29925. Uncut copy; later stitching and later oversewing; dog-earing and a bit tattered. Title-page and p. [48] age-darkened. Occasional mild staining. (10027)
For more POST-1820 AMERICANA, click here. For a bit more AGRICULTURE, click here. For more LITERATURE, click here. For more MEDICINE, click here. For more ALMANACS, click here.
Neat Pairing. Striking Illustrations. Aeschylus & Percy Bysshe Shelley. Prometheus bound & Prometheus unbound. Haarlem: Pr. by Joh. Enschede en Zonen for the Limited Editions Club, 1965. 4to.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club 370. Publisher's gilt-stamped tan and light blue buckram, the colors “split” horizontally across the covers, in a slipcase lightly sunned and with an old waterspot to the label (but sturdy). In original glassine dustwrapper, with upper edges a bit chipped; book clean and fresh, (13313)
For more LITERATURE, click here. For more GREEK & LATIN CLASSICS, click here. For more ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, click here. For more TRANSLATIONS, click here. For more LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB books, click here.
“Eight Signs of a Hard Drinker” Allen, Anson. The New-England almanac, for the year of our Lord 1833: ... Containing besides the astronomical calculations a variety of useful and entertaining matter. Hartford: Published and sold by Andrus and Judd (Geo. F. Olmsted, printer), [1832]. 12mo. 35, [1] pp.
that could have been published last week. Last page contains an advertisement by the publisher, dated October 1832.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Drake 1024. Trimmed copy; later stitching; dog-earing. Spotting. Dark thumb-sized stains on three pages. Some text (on two pages) crossed out in ink by a contemporary hand. (13481)
For more POST-1820 AMERICANA, click here. For a little more CONNECTICUTiana, click here. For a bit more AGRICULTURE, click here. For more MEDICINE, click here. For more TEMPERANCE, click here. For more ALMANACS, click here.
The Most Famous
Fairy-Tale Author of All Andersen, Hans Christian. The fairy tale of my life. New York (pr. in Denmark): British Book Centre Inc., (copyright 1954). Folio. 350 pp.; illus.
• Publisher's quarter cloth with paper-covered sides, corners the slightest bit rubbed; original slipcase, this sunned and abraded with “spine” broken. Danish copyright information lined through, volume otherwise clean and quite nice internally. (24517)
For more LITERATURE, click here. For CHILDREN / EDUCATION, click here. For more ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, click here. For more BIOGRAPHIES, mostly 20th-Century For more TRANSLATIONS, click here. This also appears in the GENERAL
Inscribed
bythe
Author
Angney, Lydia
F. California and other poems.
Gilroy, CA: Pr. for the author by A.C. Eaton, 1900. 8vo. 96 pp.
“Californianum”
— this copy with a laid-in slip of paper reading “Christmas Greeting
to Frank & Annie, from Aunt Lydia.” Lydia Francis Witham Angney authored
two volumes of poetry, both published in Gilroy, the home of the annual Garlic
Festival, and endured a long widowhood following the death of her husband W.
Z. Angney. W.Z. served in the Mexican War and played a major role in the U.S.
occupation of New Mexico and in the territorial government, then moved on to
California, settling in Gilroy to raise tree fruit in his orchards, but being
sent to the state senate and called on by the governor for other civic duties.
He died in January 1878.
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the interior image for an enlargement.
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; light shelf wear to corners and spine extremities. (22223)
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a bit more of CALIFORNIA interest, click
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Books with SPECIAL
Limited Edition Facsimile Antonozzi, Leopardo. De Caratteri. [Rome 1638]. Nieuwkoop: Miland Publishers, 1971. Oblong 4to. 57 pp.
• Publisher's light boards with printed dust wrapper, in Mylar protective jacket. Nearly new. (23241)
For CALLIGRAPHY / WRITING, click here. For ART REFERENCE, click here. For more BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, click here. This also appears in the GENERAL
Original Greek on the Left — English to the Right — Striking Illustration! Apollonius Rhodius. Argonautica. Or, the quest of Jason for the golden fleece. Athens: Pr. by Aspioti-Elka Graphic Arts Co. for the Limited Editions Club, 1957. 8vo.
Click the images for enlargements. 
For more GREEK & LATIN CLASSICS, click here. For more LITERATURE, click here. For more ILLUSTRATED BOOKS, click here.Or for LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB books, click here.
Chancery
Hand
Arrighi, Ludovico degli. The first writing book; an English translation & facsimile text of Arrighi's 'Operina', the first manual of the Chancery hand. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959. Small 8vo. xv, [1], 47, [1] pp.
• Publisher's blue cloth, d/j with several short tears, owner's stamp on top edge of closed book and signature on the front free endpaper. (22702)
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Limited to
303
Copies
(Art).
Babbott, Frank Lusk. The collection of...[,] 1854-1933. New York, 1934.
4to. Unpaginated.
• Ex-library with blind pressure- and rubber-stamps, properly deaccessioned.
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“My
Style ofDrawing
Birds”
Audubon, John James. My style of drawing birds by John James Audubon.... Ardsley, NY: Pub. By the Overland Press for the Haydn Foundation, 1979. Tall 8vo. 26 pp., [2] ff., illus., facsims. 
• New. Attractive.
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Goosing the GothicAusten, Jane. Northanger Abbey. [Baltimore]: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club, by the Garamond Press, 1971. Folio (27.8 cm, 11"). [4 (1 blank)], v–xi, [5 (3 blank)], 3–210, [3 (2 blank)] pp.; 12 plts. 
• Bibliography of the Fine Books of the Limited Editions Club 1929–1985, 436. Binding as above, clean and unworn, in original glassine wrapper and slipcase; wrapper chipped at head of spine and with small edge tears; spine and top of slipcase sunned, back of case with a small, faint spot of soiling, spine label with some soiling, small scrapes, and a small
chip at bottom edge. A fine, very attractive copy. Heroine
Catherine might have liked the cover fabric here as dress material.
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Scots
“Lays” —
With Notes
Aytoun, William Edmonstoune.
Lays of the Scottish cavaliers and other poems. New edition. New York: R. Worthington,
1878. 8vo. 230 pp.
• Very good; front cover bright and unmarked, spine notably faded, corners and spine extremities gently worn. All edges gilt. Pages very clean. (1908)
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