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It is a study of the Society of Jesus and its expulsion from Spain and France and the consequences thereof, and it was presented to Joseph of Portugal so that he might anticipate similar consequences following his order of expulsion.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, XI, 1205.   Contemporary vellum over paste boards. Blackened area on spine; bookplate. A clean copy. (20462)

A Roman edition also appeared in 1694, the year of the work’s first appearance; the present edition is more uncommon: We trace only one U.S. library copy of it.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, VII, 1079. Boards covered in music-printed paper from an 18th-century antiphonal, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Title-page and one other stamped by a now-defunct institution. Light spotting throughout, more pronounced to first and last few leaves; some corners dog-eared.

The work is generally attributed to the Comte de Ségur, a diplomat and historian who served under Rochambeau in the American War of Independence; he also published works on classical and Jewish history.

•  Old-style blue morocco, covers framed in double gilt fillets, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped devices in compartments, leather turndowns tooled in blind. Tear in upper margin of one leaf repaired very unobtrusively; several leaves with closed tears or holes also professionally patched, just touching a few letters; one leaf with clear tape covering tear. Pages washed, resized, and very clean, with only a few faint spots; edges slightly brittle, with occasional very short tears.

The pieces here were translated from Swiss German into Latin by Laurentius Surius. A large printer’s device, showing Hercules and the lion, appears following the colophon. This first edition is uncommon: RLIN, OCLC, and NUC Pre-1956 show only three U.S. and three international holdings.

Provenance: From the library of Dr. Johann August Wilhelm Neander, a prominent 19th-century theologian and convert to Christianity from Judaism; front pastedown with Neander’s bookplate.

Binding: Contemporary embossed and blind-tooled calf, with portions of original decorated brass clasps remaining. The embossed roll framing the covers is dated 1546, and bears the initials RR (or possibly PHR?).

•  Adams S21128; VD16 S6098. Not in Brunet. Binding as above, spine with later hand-inked paper label; leather rubbed at joints and extremities and cracking at spine, brass clasp hardware present with clasps themselves now absent. Front pastedown with bookplate as above and with early inked annotations, front and rear endpapers excised. Title-page with small early inked annotation to publication information. Pages age-toned; pinhole worming to first half of volume, with loss of some letters not affecting sense.

•  Palau 307020. Wrappers stencilled in green with manuscript title on paper label affixed to front wrapper; all edges speckled red. Wrappers with a few tears and a little tattering. Small wormhole in front fly-leaf. A few pencil marks. Inked number on verso of front fly-leaf.

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George Him both illustrated and designed the book, and also signed the colophon. The book is heavily illustrated with a considerable number of black-and-white line-and-wash drawings and 14 full-page color illustrations which were hand-colored by the pochoir process at the studio of Walter Fischer. These drawings are both beautiful and witty. In one color plate, for example, we see a line of picketing Egyptian soldiers carrying placards reading, “Egypt for the Egyptians,” and “Caesar Go Home,” the latter appearing in “Egyptian Hieroglyphs”; in another plate, we are treated to a breathtaking scene of the library at Alexandria being consumed by fire; in yet another drawing, we see an amusing little rendering of Belzanor's description of a seven-armed wife-eating Roman soldier!

Him chose a monotype Plantin font for the text which was printed in Bloomfield, Connecticut, at the Sign of the Stone Book. The binding is full bright red “vellum book-cloth” stamped on the front with a double-eagle (one American, one Roman) design in gold, and stamped on the spine in black and gold leaf with a design of a Roman legionary standard bearing the title and the author's initials. The endpapers are “nugget-gold” Tweedweave.

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•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 381.   A fine copy with the slipcase, which is covered in “nugget-gold” paper and stamped in black and gold. Slipcase showing traces of rubbing at top and bottom. A great treat for a Shaw-lover!   (21756)

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•  NSTC 2S17713.   Publisher's blue blind-stamped cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities rubbed, front cover with patches of discoloration, spine sunned. Front pastedown with traces of now-absent label. Sewing going, with first signature and a few plates separated, and a number of other leaves loosening. A lesser copy at, yes, a lower price — complete.  (24334)

Binding: Contemporary half calf with marbled paper–covered sides, spines with blind-stamped decorative devices between raised bands and with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels. All edges marbled.

•  Bound as above; fore-edges of the two inside, touching boards as the volumes stand on the shelf, bumped hard at centers (one can’t quite imagine how); otherwise, only very minor wear. Front free endpaper with inked inscription dated 1865. Nice on shelf and in hand.

First edition, with subsequent ones in 1650 and 1655. The work is divided into four parts, and parts 2, 3, and 4 have sectional title-pages.

•  Wing (rev.) S3144; Sabin 80255; Church 495; ESTC R232939. Not in Alden & Landis.   20th-century half blue morocco with blue cloth sides. One spine panel abraded and refurbished. Library stamp on front pastedown. An age-toned copy, some lower margins closely cropped occasionally touching a catchword. (20052)

Harold Lamb wrote the introduction. Of the author's attention to the minutiae of daily life in the Rome of A.D. 63–66 he writes, “The city itself appears in exact historical detail. Praetorians idling at their posts pass the time with their favorite dice games; girl attendants at Petronius' bath finish their duties punctiliously and break away to their own diversions as soon as the door curtain falls behind the master. Sienkiewicz knows how the dishes, including blackbirds, were prepared for a nobleman's feast; he knows what the oriental dancers wore on their heads and what the priests of Cybele carried in their hands, and what you see when you round a corner of the Vicus Sceleratus.”

Salvatore Fiume created the 35 drawings which were reproduced in three-tone process and mounted by hand. Giovanni Madersteig designed this edition, which is limited to 1500 copies, choosing a monotype Old Face font; the composition and printing of the text and illustrations was done by Madersteing at the Officina Bodoni in Verona.

The binding is full natural linen printed, in grey-blue, with an overall pattern derived from an old wood engraving. The signatures of Salvatore Fiume and Giovanni Madersteig appear on the colophon.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 302.   In the original slipcase, spine sunned with a long closed crack to paper and paper cracked/chipped; case good overall. Book with spine lightly faded and rear pastedown with small gold bookseller's label; volume in the original dust jacket (spine sunned to darker than sides are); near fine.  (22293)

This is this history’s first edition and was followed by 1579, 1593, and 1628 editions. It is printed with a woodcut printer’s device on the title-page showing the goddess Liberty with two books labelled “Bononia docet” (“Bologna teaches”) at her feet. The text is enclosed in double-ruled borders and simply ornamented with a few woodcut initials, one of which shows Juno being pulled in her chariot by peacocks.

The pairing of Zelaa’s two efforts in one volume is both uncommon and intellectually reinforcing. But here, it is more than that: It is a personal memento of a life’s work as well, forthis copy bears the bookplate of the editor himself.

Provenance:  Bookplate of José María Zelaa é Hidalgo. 20th-century rubber-stamp with initials only of a private Mexican collector.

•  Sigüenza: Medina, Mexico, 9637; Palau 312964. Zelaa: Medina, Mexico, 10540; Garritz 940; not in Palau. Publisher's sheep, gilt spine; small amount of leather missing from base of spine. Collector’s stamp partly offset to title-page; otherwise, the occasional stray stain only. “Association copies” don’t get much more “associated” than this.

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Provenance:  Howard Osgood's signature on title-page.

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress 2558; Wing (2nd ed.) S3801B.   Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label, board edges stamped with gilt roll; corners and spine extremities worn, front joint cracked and back joint starting, sewing holding. Front pastedown with small French bookseller's ticket and early inked numeral. Title-page with small early inked owner's name and with institutional pressure stamp, reverse with pencilled numerals. Pages clean. (19511)

Slenker, daughter of a Shaker preacher, was a well-known liberal author and editor; at one point in her career she spent six months in jail for sending private correspondences on sex and contraception. D.M. Bennett (printer of this novel) was the founder and editor of The Truth Seeker and one of the most controversial publishers of the Gilded Age—a stalwart “infidel” who defended Darwinism, Liberalism, and free love, and whose trial on charges of obscenity was a landmark test of American thought on that issue.

Uncommon: OCLC shows only six U.S. holdings.

•  Wright, III, 4961.   Publisher's pebbled black cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities rubbed, cloth with small spots of discoloration. Front free endpaper with institutional rubber-stamp from Exeter, RI. A very few scattered spots, pages otherwise clean.  (23462)

•  Publisher's tan cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black; binding a bit sprung with light wear to lower edges. Pages age-toned but clean. (16724)

The present volume is an early Cleveland imprint and an early American edition of this collection, originally published in London in the same year; it is not widely held in American institutions.

•  Publisher's olive cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding slightly cocked and darkened, with edges and extremities rubbed. Foxing and some staining; page edges darkened.  (23708)

•  Pebbled cloth, lightly worn. Leaves with minor cockling, some staining and offsetting. Some pages with portions excised; one leaf excised entirely.

The contents include “Primvm ac generale examen iis omnibvs, qvi in Societatem Iesv admitti petent, proponendum”; “Constitvtiones cum declarationibus”; “Formvla votorvm simplicivm, quae professi emittunt post professionem, iuxta constitutiones; extracta ex prima Congregatione generali, & recognita à tertia”; “Index in examen, & constitutiones”; each of those sections starts with a decorative capital. An extensive index is provided.

Much attention was paid overall to the attractive typography of this work, which was printed at the Jesuits' Roman college. A four-element woodcut architectural title-page border, woodcut initials and tailpieces, and carefully laid-out columns of roman and italic text adorn the volume. The text of the Constitutiones is printed in roman type and the “declarationibus” that supplements them is printed in italic, sometimes surrounding the text, other times in a column to the right or left.

Scarce: Only three U.S. institutions report holdings.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, V, 78; Graesse, II, 255.   Recent calf, covers ruled in blind in period style: blind rules above and below each band extending onto the covers forming a V with a trefoil at the end of each V; each band with fine gilt rule. Title-page with inked Jesuit ownership inscription dated 1625. Light foxing throughout; waterstaining to lower and outer portions of some early leaves. All edges stained red. A handsome production in a good copy.  (23547)

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The volume’s engraved title-page shows Ancients in a library and the main title-page has a vignette engraving of the Sheldonian Theatre. The text is printed in roman, italic, and Anglo-Saxon type, in double-column format.

•  Alston, III, 9; ESTC T101265. Not in O’Neill. Contemporary calf, modestly tooled in blind on covers and spine plain (without label); abraded, with spine leather cracked and peeling. Joints starting, but volume sound. Endpapers gone and early/late blank leaves with off-setting/tattering from exposed leather of turn-ins.

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The two texts begin at opposite ends of the pamphlet and read towards the middle — which see, at right!

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•  Sewn; sewing loosening a bit. Paper of the spine starting to split. Lightly soiled.  (5000)

•  Not in Von Hunersdorff, Coffee. Publisher's embossed gilt-paper binding, moderately worn with the spine and board edges a bit darkened; still a very attractive, unusual binding. Front pastedown with small bookseller's ticket and with remnants of a school prize bookplate. Pages mostly clean, with scattered hints of light foxing. (10592)

Stated second edition for the Divine and Spiritual Communications, but actually the third edition. The first edition was 1803; the second being 1809. This pamphlet consists of an introduction by William Sharp and letters on the above topics as it relates to her claims.

Bound (but not issued) with the third edition of An Explanation of the Parables of 1804, first published in 1806. The edition statement appears at the foot of p. [1], the imprint at the foot of p. 64.Signed in type on p. 64: “Taken from Joanna Southcott's mouth by me, Ann Underwood. Jane Townley.”