HUMOR

Wayward Wives & Shysters in Disguise
Specifically CALIFORNIAN Comedy
(American Humor).  Baer, Warren.  The duke of Sacramento. San Francisco: The Grabhorn Press, 1934. 8vo. [12], 77, [1] pp.; illus.
$60.00
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The Best of 16th-Century Italian Satire
Ariosto, Ludovico, & others; Francesco Sansovino, ed.  Sette libri di satire di Ludovico Ariosto, Hercole Bentivogli, Luigi Alemanni, Pietro Nelli, Antonino Vinciguerra, Francesco Sansovino, ed altri scrittori. Venice: Appresso Fabio, & Agostin Zopini fratelli, 1583. 8vo (14.6 cm, 5.75"). [8], 206, [1] ff. (lacking original final blank).
$500.00
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Hold Your Peace Good Man-Boy” . . .
 . . . This ReallyIS Full of mirth and delight”! 
Beaumont, Francis.  The knight of the burning pestle. Full of mirth and delight. London: Printed by N.O [i.e., Nicholas Okes] for I. S. [i.e., John Spencer], 1635. Small 4to (17.5 cm; 7"). [39 of 40] ff., without the initial blank.
$4000.00
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BR! BRavo!!!
Bennet, Paul A., & friends.  Barnacles from many bottoms scraped and gathered for BR by The Typophiles. [New York]: 1935. 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.75"). 29 parts in one. Frontis., [1] f.; [4] ff.; [6] ff., 2 pl.; [4] ff.; [2] ff.; [2] ff.; [4] ff.; [4] ff.; [4] ff.; [4] ff.; [4] ff.; [2] ff., 1 pl.; [2] ff.; [4] ff.; [6] ff.; [2] ff.; [4] ff.; [4] ff., 1 pl.; [2] ff.; [4] ff., 1 pl.; [2] ff.; [4] ff.; [4] ff.; [2] ff.; [4] ff.; [2] ff.; [8] ff.; [4] ff.; [4] ff.
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Original Productions of the American Press”
Buckingham, Joseph Tinker, comp.  Miscellanies selected from the public journals. Boston: Joseph T. Buckingham, 1822–24. 12mo (18.1 cm, 7.15"). 2 vols. I: [4], [ix]–268 pp. II: [4], [ix]–256 pp.
$750.00
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Poor Zenobia Her Cure Is a Hard One!
Bunner, H.C.  The elephant's love or Zenobia's infidelity. Presented with the compliments of C.I. Hood & Co. proprietors of Hood's Sarsaparilla. Lowell, MA: No publisher, 1891(?). 16mo. 16 pp.
$65.00
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Scarce Elzevir SIX of ThoseClassic Engraved Title-Pages
Corneille, Thomas.  Les tragédies et comédies de Th. Corneille. No place [Amsterdam]: Suivant la copie imprimée a Paris [Abraham Wolfgang], [1665]. 12mo (13.4 cm, 5.25"). Six of seven parts in one. Lacking general t.-p. and first part. Engr. t.-p., [3] ff., 78 pp.; engr. t.-p., [4] ff., 76 pp.; engr. t.-p., [5] ff., 73, [1] pp.; engr. t.-p., [1] f., 70 pp.; engr. t.-p., [4] ff., 73, [3] pp.; engr. t.-p., [3] ff., 82 pp.
$550.00
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Proudly American Liberal ArtsThe Port Folio's Debut
Dennie, Joseph, ed.  The port folio. Philadelphia: Bradford & Inskeep, 1801. 4to (32.2 cm, 12.7"). [8], 416 pp. (lacking pp. 103/04, 11/12, 255–64, 271/72, 339/40).
$350.00
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A Big Year for Oliver Oldschool
Dennie, Joseph, ed.  The port folio. Volume V. Philadelphia: Bradford & Inskeep, 1805. Large 4to (32.2 cm, 12.7"). 408 (lacking 89–96, never bound in) pp.
$275.00
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The Collected Works of Erasmus, IncludingHis Greek New Testament
Erasmus, Desiderius.  Desiderii Erasmi opera omnia in decem tomos distincta. Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]: Pieter van der Aa, 1703–06. Folio extra (39.4 cm, 15.5"). 10 vols. in 11. I: [3] ff., 24, [64] pp., 1226 cols. (i.e., 1240); engr. t.-p., 1 double-pg. engr. plt. and 1 full-pg. engr. plt. II: [6] ff., 1212 cols., [5 4] pp. III(a): [15] ff., 1104 cols.; 18 full-pg. engr. plts. III(b): [2] ff., cols. 1105-944, [92] ff.; 2 full-pg. engr. plts. IV: [3] ff., 758 cols. (i.e., 768); 1 full-pg. engr. plt., 75 single-col. engr. vignettes (3.5" sq.), and 6 double-col. engr. vignettes (4.25" x 7.25"). V: [3] ff., 1360 cols. VI: [29] ff., 1126 cols., [17] pp. VII: [6] ff., 1198 cols., [1] p. VIII: [3] ff., 652 cols. IX: [3] ff., 1248 cols.; 1 fold-out plt., 1 full-pg. plt. X: [2] ff., cols. 1249–860, [64] ff.
$17,500.00
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A Temperance CatechismImproving Your SwineHull's Physic” JOKES
(Fun, Day by Day).  Abell, Truman.  New-England farmer's almanac, for the year ... 1834 ... Fitted to the latitude and longitude of the town of Windsor, Vt. but will serve without sensible variation, for all the adjacent states. Windsor, Vt.: Ide & Goddard, [1833]. 12mo. [24] ff.
$30.00
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This is Call'dMortifying of a Foxe
Jonson, Ben.  Volpone, or the foxe. London: W. Stansby, 1616. Folio (27.6 cm, 10.9"). [2], 441–524 pp.
$750.00
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Wit & Style inElizabethan England
Lyly, John.  Euphues. The anatomy of wit. Verie pleasant for all gentlemen to reade, and most necessarie to remember. Wherein are contained the delights that wit followeth in his youth, by the pleasantnesse of love: and the happinesse he reapeth in age, by the perfectnes of wisedome. At London: Printed [by Humphrey Lownes] for William Leake, dwelling in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Holy-Ghost, 1613. Small 4to (18 cm; 7.125"). [80] ff.
$2850.00
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Nonesuch Press Edition: A NovelC.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien Read Aloud
toMake the Inklings Laugh
Ros, Amanda McKittrick.  Irene Iddesleigh. London: Nonesuch Press, 1926. 12mo (20 cm, 7.9"). 151, [1] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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A SERIES OF SURTEES —

An Enduring Figure ofEnglish Comic Literature
Surtees, Robert Smith.  Handley Cross; or, Mr. Jorrocks's hunt. London: [Whitefriars Press, 1888]. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). xiii, [3], 578 pp.; 17 col. plts., 31 plts.
$100.00
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The Thrill of the ChaseIllustrated by Phiz
Surtees, Robert Smith.  Hawbuck Grange.  London: [Whitefriars Press, 1888]. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). [14], 265, [1] pp.; 8 col. plts.; 13 plts.
$125.00
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One of Surtees'sMost Beloved & Scandalous Characters is Here
Illustrated by Leech *&* Phiz
      
Surtees, Robert Smith.  Mr. Romford's hounds. London: [Whitefriars Press, 1888]. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). xii, 405, [1] pp.; 24 col. plts., 4 plts.
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Chasing afterFoxes & Fortunes: 13 Hand-Colored Plates
Surtees, Robert Smith.  Mr. Sponge's sporting tour. London: [Whitefriars Press, 1888]. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). [2], x, [2], 450 pp.; 13 col. plts., 30 plts.
$125.00

Social Satire at Brighton: Illustrated by Leech
Surtees, Robert Smith.  Plain or ringlets?  London: [Whitefriars Press, 1888]. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). x, [4], 398 pp.; 12 col. plts., 8 plts.
$125.00
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The La Crosse Morning Leader's Leader Speaks
Taylor, Lute A.  Lute Taylor's chip basket; being choice selections from the lectures, essays, addresses, editorials, and public and social correspondence. Hudson, WI: Star & Times Printing House, 1874. 8vo (17.4 cm, 6.75"). Frontis., 218 pp.
$40.00
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“The Finest Novel aboutADVERTISING Ever Written”
Wells, H.G.  Tono-Bungay. New York: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club, 1960. 4to (24.8 cm, 9.75"). xii, [2], 395, [3] pp. 15 plates.
$75.00
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Deluxe Comedic Production, Deluxe Binding
Wills, William Henry, ed.  Poets' wit and humour. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1861. 8vo (22.8 cm, 9"). [8], 278, [1] pp.; illus.
$975.00
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They're th'Stylishest Relations We Got”
Wing, Francis Marion.  “The fotygraft album” shown to the new neighbor by Rebecca Sparks Peters aged eleven. Chicago: Reilly & Britton Co., 1915. 8vo. [96] pp.; illus.
$45.00
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