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MUSIC & DANCE
The ESSAYS that Made Lamb's Reputation — 1st U.S. Edition 
Lamb, Charles. Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Carey (pr. by Mifflin & Parry, and J.R.A. Skerrett), 1828. 12mo (I: 18.4 cm, 7.25", II: 16.8cm, 6.6"). 2 vols. I: 292 pp. II: 230 pp. (both vols. without ads.).
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true
first edition of the unofficial second series, of Lamb's pseudonymously
published essays for the London Magazine. These eloquently written pieces
mingle humor and pathos as they describe the experiences of the author and his
acquaintances while attending boarding school, playing whist,
listening
to music, visiting Quaker meetings, etc. Food is a recurring
topic (“A Dissertation upon Roast Pig”); there are two essays on
Valentine's Day (one in each volume), and several on plays and actors.
The first series made its first appearance in book form in London, 1823. The authorized second series was not published until 1833, under the title The Last Essays of Elia; the pieces selected for the unauthorized American second series offered here are different from those contained in that volume, and mistakenly include three essays written by other hands.
• Shoemaker 33813 & 33814; NCBEL, III, 1225; NSTC 2L2346. Vol. I: Uncut copy. Publisher's quarter once-red cloth and paper sides, covers printed with “Elia” within a simple frame, spine with printed paper label; binding rubbed and lightly soiled, spine sunned to yellow. Repaired tear to one leaf, touching text without loss; remarkably clean and sound. Vol. II: Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; rubbed, and head of spine chipped with old refurbishing. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and call number ticket on front pastedown, front free endpaper with inked numerals, title-page pressure-stamped. Author's name inked on title-page; front free endpaper and title-page reinforced at fore-edge (the latter from the back). Both volumes age-toned, with intermittent spots of staining; advertisements absent. The set now housed in a quarter blue morocco and blue cloth–covered clamshell case with marbled paper–covered sides and gilt-stamped spine. (26434)
“Shout, Shout, America!” McCarty, William. Songs, odes, and other poems, on national subjects; compiled from various sources ... Part first – patriotic ... Part second – naval ... Part third – military. Philadelphia: Wm. McCarty, 1842. 12mo [signed in 6s] (15.6 cm, 6.1"). 3 vols. I: 468 pp. II: 467, [1 (blank)] pp. III: 468 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Front free endpaper of vol. I with inked inscription: “Presented to the 'German Society Library of the State of Pennsylvania' by the Compiler,” signed “Wm. M'Carty.”; same to vol. III. Vol. II from a second 19th-century Philadelphia subscription library!
• American Imprints 42-3093; Sabin 42997. A married set. Vols. I & III: Publisher's brown cloth, covers framed in blind, spines with gilt-stamped title and two different vignettes; corners and spine extremities chipped (foot of vol. I revealing printed music beneath the cloth). Ex–social club library with remnants of shelving labels on spine heads, 19th-century bookplates and call number on endpapers, pressure-stamp on title-pages. Vol. II (Naval) sometime rebound in navy leather over blue cloth, leather edges blind-tooled, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label; spine sunned, rubber-stamp of a different 19th-century library on title-page and a number of other pages, small repair to dedication leaf of vol. II. All volumes with occasional short marginal edge tears or corners chipped away; some pages lightly age-toned. All meaty, all sound for use, all evocative; despite “mixed” nature, a very pleasant set. (3283)
Friendship Book: Early 19th-Century Medical Students (Med. School Memories)? Manuscript on paper, in Latin, French, & German. “Denkmahle der Freundschaft.” 1801–06. 8vo (11.7 cm, 4.6"). 88 ff. (a few blank).
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a
number of original artistic endeavors: an affixed metal-engraved
image of two hands extended in friendship; a hand-painted basket on pedestal
scene, cut out in silhouette and mounted on a leaf, with separate flower bouquet
and verse that can be pulled out of the basket; a small pen-and-ink sketch of
a vase and vine; a pencil sketch of a bouquet; an inked framework depicting
leisure activities (lit pipes, a party invitation, alcohol, cards, musical instruments,
etc. — giving one to imagine that the journal owner's friends may not
have been especially studious scholars!); a hand-painted pastoral vignette;
a framework of
musical instruments and sheet music
(signed Samuel F. Kronberg); and two beautiful painted roundels with outdoor
vignettes.
• Bound as above; moderate rubbing to corners and joints, front cover with small areas of faint staining, one small spot of insect damage to each cover. Pages age-toned with occasional faint spotting, otherwise clean. 
A lovely little book and an engaging example of its genre. (27353)
First Peformed at Ludlow Castle 1634 — Comus with the Music Milton, John, & Henry Lawes. The masque of Comus. Cambridge: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1954. 4to (26.6 cm, 10.4"). Frontis., [6], 3–57, [3], [12 (music)], [2] pp.; 5 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. The illustrations consist of six full-page watercolors by Edmund Dulac. The LEC bibliography says they were “printed in process offset,” but this is in error: The mailing notice (not present with this offering) asserts they were “reproduced in six printings by the Sun Engraving Company,” and a member of the family that owned that enterprise observes to us that it did not in fact have offset presses — while it was noted for its color letterpress productions, including the original (1940) Szyk Haggadah. The design is by John Dreyfus, who chose a monotype Bembo font printed by the University of Cambridge Press; the engraving of the music was done by G.T. Friend.
The binding is quarter gold-stamped vellum with marbled paper sides; top edges are gilt.
• Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 250. Binding with a light, small stain on back cover. Clean inside; bookseller's small label on rear pastedown. Original slipcase, with light scuff marks and minor paper loss at head and foot of mouth. A fine book, in a very good slipcase. (23002)
“A
Second Edition of
My
Mutilated Poems”Neal,
John. The battle of Niagara: Second edition — enlarged:
With other poems. Baltimore: N.G. Maxwell (pr. by B. Edes), 1819. 18mo (15.6 cm,
6.2"). Add. engr. t.-p., 272 pp. 
“Goldau:
Or the Maniac Harper,” along with a few shorter works. Neal, who went on to become a prominent voice in 19th-century American literature, describes in the preface here his distress over the first edition, which he calls “crowded and disfigured with innumerable errors — chiefly typographical, however; though in some cases, whole lines were left out . . .” Alas, this edition also required an errata leaf.
• BAL 14856; Shaw & Shoemaker 48824; Wegelin 1066. On Neal, see: Dictionary of American Biography, XIII, 398–99. Period-style quarter tan cloth over light blue paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Dedication page and a few others (not including title) stamped by a now-defunct institution. Waterstaining to upper margins and some inner page parts, with final leaves darkened and a few spotted with foxing. Some upper edges chipped; final leaf with inner margin repaired.
Lovely Christian Gift Book — BEAUTIFUL Hand Coloring Newell, Daniel. The Christian family annual. Vol. 3. New York: Daniel Newell, [1845]. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). Engr. t.-p., [4], [9]–432 pp.; 11 col. plts., 13 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. songs
(with music), and meditations, edited and published by
the Rev. Daniel Newell. The volume is illustrated with an engraved title-page
and24
steel-engraved plates, including 11 hand-colored images of flowers and birds.
U.S.
Periodical
for Children Festively
Illustrated
The
nursery a monthly magazine for youngest readers. Volume
XXI & volume XXII. Boston: John L. Shorey, 1877. 4to (20.2 cm, 8"). iv,
188, iv, 188 pp.; illus.
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the images for enlargement.
• Charming and charmingly illustrated Victorian tales, poems, and songs for children, many featuring animals — plus a series of lessons on astronomy. Almost every page incorporates a steel- or wood-engraved image; variously sized, many of these are full-page. (The final illustration, of a young miss playing piano with her little lapdog “singing” along, is especially appealing.) Music is included for “The Old Year and the New,” “Chipperee, Chip,” “Song of the Cat,” and many other tunes.
• Contemporary half roan and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and date; binding scuffed. Two leaves with chips in lower margins, with loss of about four letters; two pages with spots of staining, pages otherwise clean. This copy evidently was never abused by childish hands, although the magazine certainly deserved to be pored over — really, this is a wonderful little book. (29570)
BENEDICTINES Come to the New World
A
FINE Engraved Title-Page & 18 Splendid Plates[Plautius, Caspar]. Nova typis transacta navigatio novi orbis Indiae occidentalis.... [Linz], 1621. Folio (32.6 cm, 12.875"). )(4 (-)(4, blank) A–M4 N4 (-N4, blank); Engr. t.-p., [2] ff., 101, [1] pp.; 18 plts. 
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This book bears an ornate, emblematic engraved title-page, with portraits of St. Brendan and Boyl and more, and no fewer than 18 leaf-filling plates by Wolfgang Kilian. These plates, which mixfancy and realism in entirely engaging ways, include a portrait of Columbus, a scene of St. Brendan celebrating mass on the back of a whale, botanical images of the marvelous Peruvian potato, and numerous views of 
the missionaries’interaction with the natives, some friendly, and some not—the unfriendliest being notably violent and gory. Also, on p. 35–36 is given an example of purportednative American music, with both words and notation. This copy is one (probably the first) of two states of this sole edition (with only three leaves in the preliminaries), without the additional foldout plate found in some copies. 
A
very covetable illustrated Americanum of the early 17th century, in an enjoyable copy.
“Put on My Gingham Dress . . . Went with Millie Down to the Depot” (Pocket Diary, 1864). Manuscript on paper, in English. “Pocket diary for 1864.” New York: Willy Wallach, [1864]. 12mo (10.1 cm, 4"). [396] pp.
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Chicago,
first in a boarding house and then in a house she went hunting for on the North
Side; she mentions an Aunt Eliza Morgan, her husband was Willie, and her children
seem to have been called John, Arty, and Nellie. The family was sufficiently
well-to-do that the writer could indulge “a sudden fit to go to the opera”
(one of her regular pastimes, regarding whichshe
expresses opinions on specific artists and overall performances)
along with other excursions. While she describes enjoying the opera and family
visits very much, she also regularly mentions having the blues, feeling poorly,
and even crying herself to sleep one night. She kept a detailed record of monthly
expenses, present at the back of the volume, with notable expenditures on kid
gloves.
Not overtly present is any discussion of the particular events of the war, but it is part of this lady's life in this era: On 5 June, “Willie took Johnny with him to the office after dinner to see the soldiers go”; on 23 August, we hear that “Will [is] feeling so bad about Pres — we think he must have been taken prisoner” (he was, this “darling brother” whose release was learned of on 13 September and whose regiment was in Kentucky in October); and on 28 August, “Willie received a letter from Doc, saying he was a prisoner after Charleston. We feel relieved that it is no worse.”
• Publisher's limp textured sheep with foldover flap, flap gilt-stamped “Diary 1864"; much rubbed, front “cover” detached and one “seam” of flap half open. All edges marbled. Most diary pages filled in a reasonably legibly inked hand; calendar with a few dates circled in ink. Offers a very matter-of-fact perspective on late 19th-century social and domestic life. (30667)
“A
Faithful
Remembrancer ofParental,
Social,
& Filial
Duties”
Pratt, Stillman, ed. The illustrated souvenir a gift book for the holidays ... for MDCCCLII. Boston: Stone & Pratt, 1852. 8vo (22.7 cm, 9"). Frontis., viii, 190, 190 (lacking pp. 33/34, text uninterrupted), [2] pp.; 7 plts. (2 incl. in pagination).
Click the images for enlargements. the World's Fair Crystal Palace.
In addition to a total of eight plates (six steel-engraved and two wood), the text isillustrated with 34 wood engravings.
Binding: Publisher's red straight-grained cloth, both covers with gilt-stamped arabesque motifs and Queen Victoria vignette, spine gilt extra. All edges gilt.
• Faxon 386. Binding as above, corners and spine extremities rubbed; back free endpaper neatly excised. Someone (a would-be au courant gift-giver?), added one final “I” to the roman numeral on the title-page; pp. 33/34 of second part absent with no discernible interruption. First two and last few signatures (including one plate) with offsetting and browning, pages and plates otherwise clean. A pretty and interesting gift book in pleasing condition. (30502)
The
Interesting Estate
of the Choir
MasterPopayán,
1621Ramírez
Carrillo, Alonso. Manuscript document,
unsigned. On paper, in Spanish. Peñafiel, Spain, 1621. Folio (31 cm; 12.25").
15 ff.
Certified, contemporary copy of the original.
• Sewn. In good condition. Very legible notarial hand.
The
Choir Master
OwnedVineyardsRamírez
Carrillo, Alonso. Document (“escritura
pública de donación”). In Spanish, on paper. Peñafiel,
Spain, 24 April 1615. Folio. [10] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. A contemporaneous certified copy of the original document.
• Written in a clear notarial hand. Very good condition.
Mid-19th-Century Music forthe Young Russell, Benjamin A., & Charles Walton Sanders. The robin red breast; a new juvenile singing book. New York: Ivison & Phinney; Chicago: S.C. Griggs & Co.; Buffalo: Phinney & Co.; et al., 1855. Oblong 8vo. 199, [1] pp.
Click the image for enlargement. This is the second edition, following the (scarce) first of 1852; the front cover differs from the title-page in giving the publication information as Chicago.
Provenance: Front pastedown with several early pencilled inscriptions, including one reading “To Vestilla from W.B. Lear, July 13th 1857.” A folded section from a smaller hymnal is laid in.
• Publisher's quarter sheep and printed paper–covered boards; binding darkened and rubbed, front joint starting from head, front cover creased. Front free endpaper partially excised and back free endpaper lacking; front pastedown with inscriptions as above, back pastedown with early inked annotations and numerals. First three leaves with central tear affecting several words. Laid-in hymnal pages with upper edges chewed. Moderate foxing and intermittent waterstaining; some corners dog-eared.Interesting for its graphically appealing cover and the array of its “juvenile” repertoire choices. (30255)
“A Voyage to Abyssinia” — Good Lively & Readable AccountSalt, Henry. A voyage to Abyssinia, and travels into the interior of that country, executed under the orders of the British government, in the years
1809 and 1810; in which are included, an account of the Portuguese settlements on the east coast of Africa .... Philadelphia: M. Carey; Boston: Wells & Lilly (pr. by Lydia R. Bailey), 1816. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). 24, 454 pp.; fold. map.,
illus. 
music,
along with the factual details of his diplomatic achievements — or lack
thereof, in terms of concrete agreements — followed by an appendix comparing
vocabulary words from various languages spoken along “the Coast of Africa,
from Mosambique to the borders of Egypt, with a few others spoken in the Interior
of that Continent” (p. 395).
This is an untrimmed copy in original boards, with 24
pages of advertising for Carey publications bound in at
the front of the volume. The preliminary map, engraved by John Bower, has
hand-colored border lines; this American edition does not call for the plates
found in the English first, but does include in-text depictions of several
“Ethiopic inscriptions.”
• Shaw & Shoemaker 33864; NSTC 2S3118. Publisher’s quarter tan paper over light blue paper–covered sides; front cover detached and back joint cracked, binding spotted, paper cracked and split along spine, spine label now absent and replaced with hand-inked title, spine with later paper shelving label. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1829. Half-title with portion of outer margin torn away (not touching text) and laid in. Map lightly foxed, with two short tears along folds. Pages age-toned, with occasional spots of foxing.
Sentimental Scots Songs Seven sentimental songs. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [ca. 1840?]. 12mo.
8 pp. 
• Not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Upper corners nicked; pages slightly age-toned but otherwise clean. (16761)
Jenny Vow'd
away to Run / WithJockey to the Fair . . . Six love songs.
Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [1840?]. 12mo. 8 pp.
• NSTC 2S31173. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages clean. (16755)
“The Grammarian Must Either Associate with,Musician”Steele, Joshua. Prosodia rationalis: Or, an essay towards establishing the melody and measure of speech, to be expressed and perpetuated by peculiar s ymbols. The second edition ... London: Pr. by J. Nichols for T. Payne & Son, B. White, and H. Payne, 1779. 4to (29.2 cm, 11.5"). vi, [2], vii–xvii, [1], 243, [1
(blank)] pp.
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Not a pretty copy, but a usable and fascinating book.
A Lot of“STORYS” for the Money! Storys of
the bewitched fiddler, perilous situation, and John Hetherington's dream.
Glasgow [Scotland]: Printed for the Booksellers, [18--]. 12mo. 24 pp.
a
strange violin which turns out to be made of a dead man's
bone embossed in silver. Engraved on it is the name of a much-feared local magician.
With some trepidation he returns the violin to its owner and in return is given
a bottomless purse of money. His four nephews, envying his new-found wealth,
murder him for his money. The second story [6 pages] is a vividly dramatic account
of the narrow escape of sailors whose ship is set on fire by lightning. John
Hetherington, a tailor who cannot resist clipping small pieces out of each piece
of cloth his customers bring him, falls asleep after a meal of Welsh rabbit
[toasted cheese]. He dreams he has died and is met by the Devil, who unrolls
a long patchwork scroll of all the pieces he has stolen. This cures him of the
practice of "cabbaging". The final page of the chapbook contains an anecdote
about soldiers from an American regiment making fun of a hunchback who gets
back at them with a dig about Bunker Hill where the regiment suffered heavy
losses. "[No.] 28." printed at the foot of the title.
• Not located in RLIN. Very good. Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). (17584)
“EXAMPLARS of Artistic & Political Courage & Commitment” Strauss, David Levi. Leon Golub [and] Nancy Spero. New York: Roth Horowitz, 2000. 12mo (20.5 cm; 8.125"). 31 pp. (some blank), 6 plates (2 fold.), 1 counted in the pagination.
Click the images for enlargements. the Stinehour Press and limited to 125 copies, 10 of which were specially bound and issued with an original drawing. This is number 42 of the 115 regular issue, signed by the author and the artists. 
The spine title reads, “Fighting is a dance, too.”
• Publishers' white vellum lettered in black, with brown paper sides blind-embossed with a fighting figure on the top board and a dancing figure on the lower board. In an open-back slipcase. Near fine. (30476)
A
Delightful Copy
of a Delightful
Book
Sylvestre, Joshua, ed. Christmas carols ancient and modern.
New York: A. Wessels Co., 1905. 8vo. Frontis., 140 pp.; 5 plts.
Christmas lyrics,
each with a note on origins; the volume is illustrated with a sepia-toned frontispiece
and five half-tone reproductions of paintings by Gustav Naujok and others. Each
page has an interesting green border surrounding the text, with four different
border designs used. (Music is not included.)
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in light green, white, and gilt; corners and spine extremities very slightly rubbed, binding otherwise clean and fresh, signed “H.” Endpapers with some offsetting and discoloration; front pastedown with small bookseller's ticket. A charming and interesting Christmas book. (22045)
Liberal Arts Summarized forFrench Students Tardieu-Denesle, Mme. Henri. Encyclopédie de la jeunesse, ou novel abrégé élémentaire des sciences et des arts. Paris: Henri Tardieu, X [i.e., 1802]. 12mo (17.6 cm, 7"). 2 vols. I: vi, 216 pp. II: [4], 202, [4] pp.; 2 fold. maps, 2 fold. plts.
Click the images for enlargements. The oversized, folding maps of France and the world featurehand-colored provincial and continental borders; two additional oversized, steel-engraved plates depict the gods atop Mt. Olympus and the seven wonders of the world.
Early editions of this work are uncommon.
• Quérard, La France littéraire, 341. Contemporary marbled paper–covered boards, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels; bindings faded and with some soiling/rubbing (most notably to spines). rubbed. Half-title of vol. I, pp. vii/viii of preface, and printed volume labels all bound in at back of vol. II; some signatures of vol. I unopened. Title-pages with traces of mostly effaced inscriptions; first and last few leaves of both volumes very lightly waterstained. One plate with two short tears from lower edge, not touching image. Solid and interesting. (27048)
BALLET
Terry, Walter. Ballet guide. Background, listings, credits, and descriptions of more than five hundred of the world's major ballets. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1976. 8vo. Illus.
• Publisher's cloth. Very good condition, in a very good dust jacket; price clipped from front flap of dust jacket.
Music
Overview
(Very Thorough). Sachs, Curt. Our musical heritage: A short history of music. New York: Prentice Hall, 1948. 8vo.
• Publisher's cloth. Good-plus condition.
Boccaccio
on Chestnut Street —
English Libretto
Von Suppe, Franz.
Boccaccio. Opera comique, in three acts...performed for the first time in the
English language by H.B. Mahn's comic opera company, at the Chestnut Street Theatre,
Philadelphia, April 5th, 1880. [Philadelphia]: H.B. Mahn, [1880]. 8vo. 37, [1]
pp. • Good in original printed paper wrappers, faintly waterstained; pages with small edge tears and chips. (2485)
“Pretty Gitana tell us,Wallace, W.V. Maritana. A grand opera, in three acts...correctly printed from the most authentic and approved acting copy, as now performed by the Richings English Opera Company. Philadelphia: Ledger Job Printing Office, 1868. 8vo. 32 pp.
• Good in printed paper wrappers, front cover and some page edges chipped. (1003)
You,
Too!
Can Playthe
Parlor OrganWhitney, W. W. Improved easy method for the parlor organ. Harrisburg, PA: J. H. Troup Piano & Organ House, (1886). Oblong 4to. 99, [1] pp. 
• Publisher's quarter cloth with printed and illustrated sides. Endpapers printed. Covers soiled, worn over edges, corners bumped. Hinges (inside) reinforced, covers a bit wobbly. Complete. Good overall. (6090)
Do-It-Yourself . . .Wohlfahrt, Heinrich. Guide to musical composition. For those who wish, in a short time, and without the aid of a teacher, to acquire the power of inventing melodies, and of providing them with suitable accompaniments... Boston: Oliver Ditson, (copyright 1859). 12mo. 96 pp. 
Single-click the image, for an enlargement. • Publisher's cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title; spine faded and cloth lightly worn. Pages clean. (10646)
Collecting
some 40 Years Ago . .
.
Maggs Bros., booksellers, London. Music: A catalogue of manuscripts & printed books. Part two: Late 18th to end of the 19th century. London: Maggs Bros., 1970. 8vo. 180 pp.
• Original printed wrappers. Some damage to spine paper.
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