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RENAISSANCE Caesar — Lushly Illustrated
Caesar, Julius. Julius der erst römisch Keiser von seinem Leben und Krieg, erstmals uss dem Latein in Tütsch gebracht vnd mit andrer Ordnung der Capittel und uil zusetz nüw getruckt. [Strassburg: Durch Joannem Grüninger, vff sant Adolffs des heiligen Bischoffss, 1508]. Folio (31 cm; 11.5"). A6 Aa8 B6 C4 D–N6 O4 P–Z6 Zz6; [148] ff., illus.
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This handsome and 
SCARCE book is famous for its woodcut illustrations: It has one quarter-page, four half-page, one three-quarter page, and 
eleven full-page woodcuts. These include battle scenes, the assassination, camp life, etc., all of the figures being dressed anachronistically in Renaissance garb.
The text is printed in large gothic in double-column format.
Of the first edition we find only two copies in the U.S. (Harvard and Stanford), and of the second we trace three (Brown, Duke, and Trinity College), all being incomplete except the Brown copy.
• Index Aurel. 128.654; Schmidt, Repertoire bibliographique Strasbourgeois, no. 91, p. 40–41; Schweiger, II, 51; not in Adams (who only lists much later editions in German). Recased in an 18th-century vellum-over-boards binding. Sophisticated copy in all likelihood, with several leaves apparently supplied from a different copy, those leaves being either slightly smaller than the others or more heavily sized. Occasional light waterstains in from a very few margins; two leaves with old scribbling in ink in margins; minor worming in lower margin of last six leaves. 
A very nice copy of a very scarce book that is clearly difficult to find complete, incomplete, or sophisticated.
Wonderful Mexican Lithography 
Carbajal Espinosa, Francisco. Historia de Mexico desde los primeros tiempos de que hay noticia. Hasta mediados del siglo XIX. Mexico: Tipografia de Juan Abadiano, 1862. 8vo. 2 vols. I: [2] ff., 688, [5] pp., illus., portraits. II: 704 [4] pp., illus., portraits.
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With Nutritional Notes — A French CookbookNever EnglishedCardelli. Manuel du cuisinier et de la cuisinière, a l’usage de la ville et de la campagne...dixième edition, entièrement revue.... Paris: Librairie Encyclopedique de Roret, 1836. 12mo (14.8 cm, 5.8"). Frontis., iii–xii, 472 pp.; 5 fold. plts. (lacking 1 plt.?).
• According to Vicaire, “Cardelli” was a pseudonym, and the author’s true identity was Henri Louis Nicolas Duval, at one time secretary to Emmanuel, comte de Las Cases; Cagle agrees, and lists the work only under Duval’s name. Possibly due to that faint whiff of Napoleonic connection, the work was too French for English tastes — this popular cookbook was often reprinted in its native France, as well as in Spain and Italy, but never appeared in English translation.
Interestingly, the editors of this edition have chosen to play doctor, and in the service of good nutrition, have added codes to certain recipes identifying them as “Bonne,” “Mauvaise” or “Difficile à digérer,” among other categories. This revised and enlarged edition is the tenth, following the first edition in 1822. 
RLIN and OCLC show no institutional holdings of this particular, unusual edition.
• Cagle 175 (for 1826 ed.); Vicaire 142 (not listing this ed.). Recent three quarter calf over marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label and gilt-stamped decorative devices between raised bands. Some corners dog-eared; some leaves with faint areas of waterstaining and spots of foxing. One plate appears to be lacking, as the numbering goes from IV to VI; no similar copy could be found to compare collations, as earlier editions have fewer plates and later have more.
Quaint CustomsCarleton, Will. Farm festivals. New York: Harper & Brothers, copyright 1881. 8vo. 167, [1], 6 (adv.)] pp. ; 18 plts. (incl. in pagination), illus.
• BAL 2482 (second printing state, with plates included in pagination). Publisher's brown cloth, front cover stamped in gilt and green, spine with gilt-stamped title; front cover lightly scuffed, with corners rubbed. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription "to My Daughter," dated 1890; newspaper clipping about Carleton affixed to front fly-leaf, poem affixed to back fly-leaf as described above. Several insurance advertisements, religious leaflets, and other ephemera laid in. (14367)
Armistice Day Remembered — By Smacking the Wehrmacht
Again Cary, Melbert Brinckerhoff. Willi’s wishful thinking issued in commemoration of Armistice Day.... New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1938 (copyright 1939). 8vo (15.5 cm, 6.2"). 34 pp.; illus.
• Publisher’s red cloth, without the original glassine dustwrapper and so with (at some angles) the thumb-oil prints of a reader visible; therefore not absolutely pristine but quite nice.
The Armenian Rite Englished & IllustratedCatholic Church. Armenian Rite. The Armenian liturgy translated into English. Venice: Pr. at the Armenian Monastery of St. Lazarus, 1862. 8vo (22 cm, 8.6"). 70, [2 (blank)] pp.; 8 plts.
• Publisher’s printed paper wrappers, detached and darkened, front wrapper with tear from inner margin, paper split and chipped along spine, front wrapper with paper shelving label. Title-page with institutional stamp (no other markings). A few plates with very light spots of foxing. Very interesting!
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CharmingDUTCH
Emblem Book
Cats, J[acob]. Nuttelyck huys-boeck. Behelsende eene bespiegeliing des 's mensche; waer in het leeven bestaet; waer door de doot onderworpen is geworden.... Leyden: Hendrik van der Deyster, 1769. 12mo. [12], 321, [11] pp.; illus.
Barbou Illustrated EditionCatullus, Gaius Valerius; Tibullus; & Sextus Propertius. Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius, pristino nitori restituti, & ad optima exemplaria
emendati ... editio nova correctior. Parisiis: Fratrum Barbou, 1792. 12mo (16.7 cm, 6.55"). Frontis., xx, 364 pp.; 2 plts.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Brunet, I, 1680 (for Barbou’s 1754 printing); Graesse, II, 87; Schweiger, II, 83. Contemporary mottled calf, nicely gilt-decorated and all edges gilt; front joint open with leather rubbed, acid-pitted, and cracking; spine rubbed; spine label chipped and partly lacking. Front pastedown with private collector’s bookplate, small shelving ticket, and institutional rubber-stamp; front free endpaper reverse with rubber-stamp; front fly-leaf with inked owner’s name dated 1863. Plates very slightly browned; light spotting to a few upper outer corners. Not a coddled book — but, a complete one.
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