GENERAL MISCELLANY
GENERAL MISCELLANY
Hieroglyphics Illustrated — Sole Edition
Ideler, Julius Ludwig. Hermapion sive rudimenta hieroglyphicae veterum Aegyptiorum literaturae. Lipsiae: Fr. Chr. Guil. Vogelii, 1841. 4to (31 cm, 12.1"). x, 314, 75, [1], 15, [1], [77]–95, [11] pp.; 28 plts. (6 folding)
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French in addition to the predominant Latin and the hieroglyphic reproductions. 28 tipped-in plates, many of which are oversized and folded, provide illustrations of cartouches, hieroglyphs, and other characters; the text and plates were originally issued as two separate volumes, but are here bound in one.
• Brunet, II, 402. Recent black moiré cloth, covers framed with blind roll; spine with gilt-stamped leather title, author, and publication labels. Title-page with early inked annotation to volume information. Some mild foxing, with a few leaves more heavily spotted; plates browned. Plate VII with outer edge cropped, with loss of some characters; plate V with short tear from inner margin.
False Imprint — Early 17th-Century Americana Interest
(Imaginary Voyages). [Hall,
Joseph]. Mvndvs
alter et idem: siue Terra Australis ante hac semper incognita longis itineribus
peregrini
academici nuperrime lustrata. Auth: Mercurio Britannico [pseud.]. [London
and Hanau; sold:] Francofurti: apud hæredes Ascanii de Rinialme, [1607?].
16mo. Plt., [8] ff., 224 pp. (lacks the maps).
In this edition, the title-page is in the state with the diagonal (not vertical) shading of the pedestal; and quires and D are without catchwords on the rectos (i.e., they were printed at Hanau), while all other quires have catchwords (i.e., they were printed in London). The title-page's claim to Frankfurt printing is simply specious.
• STC (rev.) 12685.3; Shaaber, British Authors Printed Abroad, H49; Sabin 29819; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 606/61. For a detailed bibliographical study of the editions of this and their points, see: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 74 (1980), pp. 1-12. On Hall, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XXIV, 75-80. Old vellum, neatly recased and hinges strengthened. Lacks the maps, but the engraved title-page and engraved plate of "writing" are present. These have light, thumbnail-sized waterstains at their foremargins, being the only leaves so marked, all others being quite clean. Priced approximately $2300 less than the last complete copy to sell at auction.
For
Books for the BUSTED
Mystery — Scandal? In memoriam Elliott Speer, 1898–1934. East Northfield, Mass.: 1935. Small 8vo. 36 pp.; illus.
He was shot to death in his study on 14 September by a still unknown gunman using a shotgun! The Northfield Schools Bulletin. Vol. XXIII, January 1935, no. 1.
Craig Walley's relatively recent Murder at Mount Hermon: The Unsolved Killing of Headmaster Elliott Speer has resurrected interest in the mystery.
• Original wrappers. Fine. (17126)
A
PAIR of
These IndexesACTUALLY
USED in Colonial
MexicoIndex librorum prohibitorum. Index et catalogvs librorum prohibitorum, mandato...D.D. Gasparis a Qviroga...denuò editus. Madriti: Apud Alphonsum Gomezium regium typographum, 1583. 4to. A4 *2 2A8 B–M8; [6], 96 ff. [bound with] Index expurgatorius librorum. Index librorvm expurgatorum, illustrissimi ac reuendis. D.D. Gasparis Qviroga...iussu editus. Madriti: Apud Alfonsum Gomezium regium typographum, 1584. 4to. π2 A–B8 C10 D–S8 T10 V–Z8 Aa–Bb8 (-Bb8, a blank); [2], 194 [ie., 198], [6 (last 2 blanks)] ff. (lacks final blank).
Single-click any image above where the hand appears onCopies of the Indexes that can be proved to have been used in colonial Mexico are virtually unknown. 
This is the first such pairing of 16th-century printings that we have seen in our 30 years of dealing in colonial Mexicana.
Provenance: Marca de fuego on top and bottom edges of the Convento of San Antonio Sultepec; later in the library of Santa Barbara of Puebla according to a 17th-century notation on the title-page of the first work (“Es de Sta. Barbara de la Puebla, por n[uest]ro her[man]o fr[ay] Juan de Santa Ana, g[uardi]an”).
• Aed.I: Palau 118926 Aed. II: 118927 & 118928. Contemporary limp and cockled vellum, a little shrunken and with remnants of ties. Lower margins sometime exposed to water and with arrested mildew damage, causing loss of paper that has been repaired in heavy-handed fashion. Good copies, but not very good ones, of these remarkable survivors!
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MORE!
Things Change . . .?Index librorum prohibitorum. Index librorum prohibitorum S[anctissi]mi D. N. Benedicti XIV. pontificis maximi jvssv recognitus, atque editus. Romae: Ex typographia Rev. Camerae Apostolicae, 1758. 8vo (19 cm, 7.1"). *6a8b10A8B10C–S
The
engraved title-page incorporates an engraving of men burning books!
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either image for an enlargement. • Vellum over paste boards; spine with tan label, gilt-lettered and ruled. Ex-library: Rubber stamps, including on front pastedown and all edges of closed book, spine with call number label and inked-out area. Paper clean and crisp. All edges marbled red.
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No to Necker Inquisition. Mexico. Broadside, begins: Nos los inquisidores apostolicos, contra la herética pravedad, y apostasía, en la ciudad de México, estados, y provincias de esta Nueva España, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Islas Philipinas, y su distrito, &c. A todas ... salud ... y á los nuestros mandamientos firmemente obedecer y cumplir. Sabed, que teniendo noticia de haberse ... divulgado ... varios libros, tratados, y papeles, que sin contentarse con la sencilla narracion de unos hechos por su naturaleza sediciosos ... parecian formar como un código teórico-práctico de independencia á las legitimas potestades ... prohibimos ... los libros ... que son los que se siguen ... Mexico: 13 March 1790. Folio extra (50 cm; 23.5"). [1] p.
Click the image for an enlargement. Very uncommon: We trace only two copies in the U.S. — at the University of California at Berkeley and at Harvard.
• Not in Medina, Mexico. Piece torn from upper right corner costing “icos” in “Apostolicos” and “a España” of “Nueva España.” Fold tears along the horizontal and vertical middle folds of the document with loss of paper costing some words and some ability to read and follow the flow of the content. Light stains. Priced accordingly. (17045)
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Banning the Reading of TWO WORKS inBasque Inquisition. Mexico. Broadside: [begins] Nos los inquisidores contra la heretica pravedad ... A todas, y qualesquier personas de qualesquier estado, grado, y condicion, preeminencia ... Sabed ... mandamos prohibir, o expurgar, respectivamente, como aqui se expresa, y son los siguientes: Prohibidos aun para los que tienen licencia. 1. La obra intitulada: Le monarque accompli. Mexico: 28 June 1792. Folio extra (59 x 43 cm; 33.75" x 17"). 1 p.
Among the publications banned in their entirety are two “papeles” in Basque: Conferencia spirituala çoint an ikhusten baita francianco Nationeax eliça guiçonen againean eguin duen Constitutione Civlia, and Erresumaco juramentuya populujaren adiskide batez, escualduner esplicatuya. 
These
constitute the first instance this cataloguer has personally seen of the Mexican Inquisition banning publications in Basque (DMS).
Handsomely printed in roman type, single-column format at top and bottom and double-column format in the middle. With the embossed paper and wax seal of the Inquisition present, in the lower left corner. Signed with paraphs by four Inquisitors: Drs. Juan de Mier y Villar, Antonio Bergosa y Jordan, Bernardo de Prado y Obejero, and José de Pereda y Chaves.
Rare: Not in the standard bibliographies and OCLC locates only the copy at the Bancroft.
• Not in Medina, Mexico; not in González de Cossío, Cien; not in González de Cossío, 510. Very good condition, very small piece of blank paper torn from lower margin. Old folds. (23379)
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How to Expurgate
Mungo Park Inquisition. Mexico. Broadside, begins: Nos los inquisidores apostolicos, contra la heretica pravedad y apostasía, en la ciudad de México, estados y provincias de esta Nueva España, Goatemala, Nicaragua, Islas Filipinas, y sus distritos, &c. ... Hacemos saber, que á nuestra noticia ha llegado haberse escrito, impreso, o divulgado varios libros, tratados y papeles, los quales mandamos prohibir ô expurgar ... y son los siugientes ... Mexico: 12 June 1807. Folio extra (43 cm; 17"). 1 p.
Click the image for an enlargement. Printed in double-column format. Signed with paraphs by the three inquisitors and with the Inquisition's woodcut seal in the lower left corner. Also bearing the admonition: “Nadie le quite pena de Excomunion mayor” (“Let no one take this down [from where it is posted], under penalty of complete Excommunicaton.')
Rare. We locate only the copy at Texas A&M.
• Not in Medina, Mexico; not in González de Cossío, Cien or 510; not in Lathrop Harper. Very Good condition. (21772)
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“DUTYS”
— Wine
Brandy
Silks &
Linen
(International
Trade). The consequences of a law for reducing the dutys upon
French wines, brandy, silks and linen, to those of other nations. With remarks
on the Mercator. London: A. Baldwin, 1713. 8vo signed in 4s (19.4 cm, 7.625").
24 pp. 
Beauties
ofthe
Thames IllustratedIreland, Samuel. Picturesque views on the river Thames, from its source in Glocestershire to the Nore; with observations on the public buildings and other works of art in its vicinity. London: T. & J. Egerton, 1792. 4to (25 cm, 9.8"). 2 vols. I: Add. engr. t.-p., xvi, 209, [3] pp.; 1 map, 27 plts., illus. II: Add. engr. t.-p., viii (incl. t.-p.), 258, [4] pp.; 1 map, 25 plts., illus.
Click any image where the hand appears on52 aquatint plates engraved by C. Apostool after drawings by Ireland, 2 maps, and
a number of in-text cuts. 
This supplies both handsome, interesting pictures and good, now quaint reading.
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H.
Estienne's FinalFOLIO
TextGreek,
Latin,
& Impressive
Isocrates. [two
lines in Greek, then] Isocratis Orationes et epistolae cvm Latina interpretatione
Hier. VVolfij, ab ipso postremùm regognita. Henr. Steph. in Isocratem
Diatribæ VII: quarum van obseruationes Harpocrationis in eundem examinat.
Gorgiae et Aristidis quædam, eiusdem cum Isocraticis argumenti. Guil. Cantero
interprete. [Geneva]: Excudebat Henricus Stephanus, 1593. Folio. [fleuron]4*6**4a–z6aa–mm6nn4;
Aa–Ll6; A–C6D4; a
–d
4a.4b.6 (-b.6, blank); [14] ff., 427, [1 (blank)],
131, [1 (blank)], xxxiiii pp., [1 (blank)], [4] ff., 31, [1 (blank)] pp., [9]
ff. (without the final blank).
The texts of the orations and "letters" of the great Athenian orator (436–338 B.C.) are printed in double-column format, with the Greek presented in exquisite Greek type in the inner columns and the Latin translation in roman type in the outer ones. A version of the famous Estienne printer's device graces the title-page.
Single-click either double-page image for an enlargement.• Adams O219; Renouard (2nd ed.), Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, 155.1; Schreiber, Estienne, 225; Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie, I:181; Dibdin (4th ed.), An Introduction to . . . Greek and Latin Classics, II:126. 18th-century plain calf, recently rebacked; round spine, raised bands accented with gilt ruling. Gilt-tooled center devices in spine compartments. Two gilt-lettered spine labels. Title-page dust-soiled; a library's blind pressure-stamps; properly deaccessioned with no additional stamps. A covetable exemplar.
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