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On Wesley’s Death — By a Friend & Co-Laborer

Coke, Thomas. The substance of a sermon preached in Baltimore and Philadelphia, on the first and eighth of May, 1791, on the death of the Rev. John Wesley. London: Pr. by G. Paramore for G. Whitfield, 1791. 8vo (20.7 cm, 8.1"). 20 pp.
$125.00

• ESTC T48777. On Bishop Coke, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin, slightly shaved at top. Lightest waterstaining to upper edges and faint spotting around sewing holes in inner margins; pages otherwise clean, with some minor creasing.

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"THE PATRIOTIC DEAD"

[Collins, William T., & Hanson E. Weaver]. Broadside. Begins: "Headquarters Grand Army of the Republic, Adjutant General's Office, 411 F Street" Washington, 1870. 12mo (20.3 cm, 8"). [1] f.
$30.00

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• One leaf, printed on one side and creased from folding into six parts. Top left and bottom right corners torn. Tear to lower margin resulting in the loss of one or two words of text. (6336)

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THE VEDA Considered . . .

(A conversation on the Veda). A conversation on the Veda. Madras: Religious Tract and Book Society, printed at the American Mission Press, 1864. 12mo. 10 pp.
$82.50

• Front wrapper present, lacking rear one; removed from a bound volume. (15159)

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A Clean, Attractive Copy

Costanzo, Angelo di. Le rime...quinta edizione. Padova: Giuseppe Comino, 1738. 8vo (17.5 cm, 6.9"). 186, [6] pp.
$150.00

• Contemporary vellum, lightly soiled. Some worming to pastedowns and endpapers, with a few tiny holes to the title-page and dedication. Front pastedown with bookplate, front free endpaper with inked-out inscription. Pages clean, all edges sprinkled green.

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First Paperback Edition

Coward, Noel. To step aside: Seven long short stories. New York: Avon Book Co., (1943). 12mo. 183 pp.
$10.00

• Very Good condition. Original printed wrappers, spine lightly sunned. Pages browned from cheapness of paper. (3406)

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A Pretty

Crowell Copy

Cowper, William. Poetical works of William Cowper. Complete edition. With memoir, explanatory notes, etc. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., [ca. 1875?]. 8vo. 649, [5 (adv.)], pp.; 6 plts.
$45.00

• Publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt; cloth a bit rubbed over corners and spine extremities, with spine gilt slightly dimmed, otherwise beautiful. Front pastedown with small bookplate, front free endpaper with contemporary gift inscription. (12985)

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San Francisco Cookery in a

High-Flying Era

Craig, John C., ed. The recipe book of

Lillie Hitchcock Coit. Introduction by Carol Hart Field. Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1998. 8vo. [2 (blank)], frontis., 5–65, [5 (3 blank)] pp.
$20.00

The recipes collected by Mrs. Coit reflect the “cosmopolitan character of San Francisco” during the 1870's and 1880's and show “the influence of the French, Spanish, Mexican, and English traditions in the cookery of the period.”

Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and one additional illustration.

• Paperback. Fine. (5461)

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Well, no . . . This Wouldn't Be for Everybody . . .

(Crane, Hart). Schwartz, Joseph. Hart Crane: An annotated critical bibliography. New York: David Lewis, 1970. 8vo. xi, 276 pp.
$27.50

• Very good copy in dust jacket; dust jacket lightly foxing.

Well-Done Facsimile — CALLIGRAPHY

Cresci, Giovanni Francesco. Il perfetto scrittore (Rome 1570). Nieuwkoop: Miland publishers, 1972.
[SOLD]

• Publisher's illustrated gray wrappers. Very good condition. (22641)

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“Well . . . What says my Daughter?”

Cumberland, Richard. The brothers. A comedy, as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden. London: W. Griffin, 1770. 8vo. v, [3], 72 pp.
$50.00

surely-emblematic title vignette

• Very good; disbound from a nonce volume with signatures starting to separate. One page faintly stamped by a now-defunct library. (1478)

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