Attached at the bottom of the document is a very fine impression in red wax, surrounded by brown wax, of the prince-archbishop's circular seal.

Provenance:  Early 20th-century bookplate of Count Eric von Rosen and late 20th-century bookplate of Brian Douglas Stilwell to enclosing box; sold to William H. Allen, Bookseller (Philadelphia); sold by WHA to Dr. Wolfgang G. Scholz; acquired via agency from his widow (2019).

•  Housed in a specially designed box, one seam neatly repaired from the inside; bookplates as above. Very good condition, with a few very small worm holes.  (40527)

Provenance:  On the front pastedown, the bookplate of Brian Douglas Stilwell.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership of this edition (Harvard, Kansas, University of Texas-HRHRC, Princeton Theological).

•  Brooks 507; Giani 44 (pp. 47–48).   Binding as above, rubbing to extremities and to spine/joints; somewhat noticeable scrape to length of front board and bump to bottom edge, very small spot of discoloration to top edge of front board, small scrape to rear board and rubbing to fore-edge. Without the initial and final blanks (i.e., two blank leaves total). Provenance marks as above; occasional light foxing to leaves, interior otherwise in very nice condition.  (40159)

The colophon reads: “Finis Q. Horati operum omnium libri, ex recensione oxoniensi emendate, permissu Typographiae Clarendonianae delegatorum, typis Riccardi a Carolo T. Jacobi novissime excusi. Impensis Mediceae societatis, librario Philippo H. Lee Warner . . . .”

This is a copy of the deluxe binding issue: the norm was quarter cloth or boards, but copies were also had “on application” in full leather, plain or tooled.

The edition consisted of 1000 copies on hand-made paper (like this one) and 16 on vellum (of which 15 were for sale). This is copy 622.

•  Publisher's limp vellum, title in gilt on spine and front cover; top edge gilt and laced-through ties of green silk. Light dust-soiling to binding. A few spots of discoloration to the gutters of the endpapers. Very nice.  (40518)

Binding:  Contemporary red morocco, spine gilt extra with green leather gilt label and elegant tooling to top and bottom, bands, and compartments; covers with similarly elegant, well-composed gilt borders and with board edges and turn-ins gilt in complementary fashion. All edges gilt, silk bookmarker present.

Provenance:  Bookplate of Brian Stilwell.

•  Brunet, Supplement, 981; Graesse, IV, 439.   Bound as above in excellent condition with only the lightest shelfwear and a very short tear (not advancing) at head of spine; wide-margined leaves very clean with only the lightest sort of normal foxing. A treasurable copy.  (40323)

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only four U.S. libraries (Wesleyan, Boston University, Johns Hopkins, The Bridwell) reporting ownership of this quarto format edition.

•  Brooks 1105; Brunet, III, 846; De Lama, II, 199; Giani 199 (p. 77).   Contemporary quarter vellum and Bodoni orange paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-ruled bands and gilt-stamped leather title and date labels; corners and edges much rubbed, sides with light scuffing, vellum slightly darkened. Bookplates as above; front free endpaper with small oval of offsetting from monogram label. Occasional faint foxing, pages overall giving a clean, fresh impression.  (40200)

One of the few books printed by Bodoni that is highly illustrated and is about art.  The edition was limited to 150 copies.

Provenance:  On front pastedown, the bookplate of Robert Wayne Stilwell.

•  Brooks 1060; Giani 187 (page 74).   Quarter black morocco with threaded textured black cloth sides, raised bands and gilt lettering to spine; minor rubbing to spine, a few threads loose on rear board, and sky-blue, white polka-dotted endpapers reinforced in gutter. Provenance marks as above; small inked numbers in the bottom corner of some leaves with plates; instances of foxing not entirely absent but in factthe leaves of this copy are notably bright, its engravings are notably crisp, and its pages are very clean!  (40195)

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine, in original yellow dust jackets printed in black and white; extremities bumped, boards lightly soiled, jackets price-clipped, edgeworn, and faintly soiled. This very good set includes volumes 1–3 of 4.  (38055)

Arthur Fenner was the fourth Governor of Rhode Island from 1790 until his death in office in 1805 and Dorrance was a justice of the Court of Common Pleas. The root of all the litigation was whether Dorrance had swapped the cadaver of a suicide for a hat.  Needless to say, there is political animosity at work here.

The whole was “carefully compiled from notes correctly taken by several gentlemen who were present during the whole course of the trial.”

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 2156; Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law, 11968.   Removed from a nonce volume, lacking the wrappers. Age-toning and a few spots of foxing. Else very good.  (39246)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with 19th-century armorial bookplate of a descendant of the famous Philadelphia collector Isaac Norris (argent, on a chevron gules between three falcons' heads erased sable a mullet Or, with the motto “Ubique patriam reminisci”; note that design differs from the one engraved by James Turner); front free endpaper with bookplate of Brian Douglas Stilwell.

•  Brooks 493; Brunet, III, 322; Giani 37 (p. 46); Renouard, II, 263; Schweiger, II, 413.   Binding as above, minimal rubbing. Top edge gilt. Bookplates as above; front free endpaper verso with pencilled reference annotations. Broad, wide-margined pages clean and fresh.  (40155)

•  ESTC T115485.   Removed from a nonce volume. Very good.  (39078)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of Brian Douglas Stilwell, front free endpaper with bookplate of Robert Wayne Stilwell.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only eight U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Providence Public, NYPL, UCLA, University of California-Irvine, HRC, Bridwell, Pierpont Morgan).

•  Brooks 805; De Lama, II, 142; Giani 135 (p. 65).   Later half green morocco and marbled paper–covered boards, spine lettered in gilt; minimal shelfwear to lower edges only. Front pastedown with pencilled reference annotations. A few small spots of staining; two pages with faint area of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item; pages crisp and clean overall. A marvelous polyglot, of much interest both textually and typographically, in a very attractive copy. (40184)

Provenance:  The Howell Bible Collection, Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  Brunet, V, 350; on the 1708 edition, see: Faber du Faur, German Baroque Literature, 1843; see also: Graesse, Trésor de Livres Rares, VI, pt. 2, 429.   18th-century rust and ochre paste paper–covered boards, gilt black leather spine label, all edges stained red; rubbed, especially edges and corners; one plate lacking as above. Light age-toning and some leaves with soiling to edges or marginal spotting; some lower corner tips with an old limited inkstain; these things by no means calamitous. Ex-library with pictorial bookplate at front, a few rubber-stamps not within plates, library pencillings, and booklabel and circulation materials at back. An emjoyable and instructive copy of a captivating, ambitious, and beautiful work.  (40489)

Felcone adds that soon after he met Miss Louisa Dorland, “Louisa's mother was determined that her daughter would marry Harden, and, after encouraging them to spend nights together, she forced the marriage. After several months of unhappiness, Harden poisoned his wife. He fled, was captured, tried, and hanged . . . before an immense crowd.”

•  McDade, Annals of Murder, 438; Felcone, New Jersey Books 1698-1800. 838.   Stitched, lacks the wrappers; the frontispiece portrait of Harden detached but present. Short tears in margins, dog-earring, tattering, waterstain, etc. Only a good+ copy; this was a very cheaply printed production, hence the condition problems.  (39252)

Evidence of readershp: Interesting marginalia on nine pages.

•  Benzing, Lutherbibliographie, 3318; VD16 L7402; Luther, Titeleinfassungen der Reformationszeit, 37. Contemporaries of Erasmus, I, pp. 185–87.   Later light brown wrappers, front one tearing away at top of “joint”; title-page holed within border towards one side. A nice copy with Ink smearing broadly to C4 verso, this not impairing reading, and a narrow instance of inkstaining from another accident just to the top gutter edge of the last few leaves; otherwise, the ordinary spotting and soiling of use only..  (40488)

In the series Collection des auteurs classiques, françois et latins, this was issued in the same year in 4to and 18mo formats. The present, octavo format is not only handsomely conceived butvery “handy in the hands.”

Binding:  Full crushed red morocco, gilt spine and boards, signed Petit Succs. de Simier; gilt rule on board edges, gilt rolls on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, green silk placemarkers. All edges gilt. Each volume in a light board open-back slipcase covered with marbled paper.

Provenance:  Bookplates of Casimir L. Stralem, Clarence E. Clark, and Brian Douglas Stilwell, the trio presenting an appealing set of styles.

WorldCat locates copies of this edition in this format at only four U.S. libraries (UCLA, Georgetown, Library of Congress, Harvard).

•  Bulletin de la Librairie Morgand et Fatout 10951; Brunet, V, 1078–79; Jammes, Les Didot, 25.   Bound as above, joints of all volumes slightly cracking with volumes otherwise only lightly worn; some tape repairs to the delicate slipcases. Age-toning and foxing of faintest varieties only. Very Good. (40317)

•  McDade, Annals of Murder, 1042; Sabin 70981..   Lacks the original wrappers; light age-toning and some spotting. Clearly removed from a nonce volume. But, very good.  (39213)

Provenance:  On front free endpaper, bookplate of Robert Wayne Stilwell. Laid in is the H.P. Kraus description; at rear in pencil is Kit Currie’s collation, dated 5/86.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate fewer than ten U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Harvard, UArizona, University of Southern California, Wesleyan, University of Illinois, Penn, Newark Public Library, Bridwell, Yale).

•  Brooks 508; Giani 44 (pp. 47–48).   Binding as above, rebacked with new endpapers. Spine, board edges, and turn-ins heavily rubbed with some loss of gilt, spots of rubbing and scrapes to boards, pinhole in rear joint (outside). Provenance marks as above; small number of leaves with light spotting at very fore-edge, same leaves protruding slightly from text-block.A sound, very clean copy.  (40161)

Matters worsened for Malagrida in September, 1758, following the supposed attempted assassination of the king when he was returning from a visit to his mistress. (The real target of the attackers may well have been the king's chamberlain!) The attackers said under torture that they acted on orders of the Távora family, who were plotting to put the Duke of Aveiro on the throne. Pombal hated the Távoras and their power and influence, and was determined to destroy them as well as their circle, which included Malagrida, personal confessor of Marquise Leonor Tomásia de Távora, Andhe succeeded in killing virtually the entire family, confiscating their wealth, razing their properties, and salting the area where they were burned at the stake. All via rigged trials he staged!

At Malagrida's criminal trial he was found guilty of treason and sentenced to die; but because of his ecclesiastical status only the Inquisition could put him to death and the Inquisitors overruled the criminal court. Pombal replaced the judges with others favorable to him and eventually Malagrida was found guilty of heresy, hypocrisy, false prophecies, impostures, and various other heinous crimes. He was garroted and burned at the stake. His Juizo da verdadeira causa do terremoto wasvery successfully suppressed and banned by royal decree (Mémoires de Pombal, IV, 150–53).

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, KVK, CCPBE, PROBASE, and the OPACs of the French and Spanish national libraries located only two U.S. libraries (Newberry, Harvard) and three foreign ones (British Library, University of Sao Paulo, Portuguese National Library) reporting ownership.

•  Inocêncio III. 106; Ameal 1424; Palha 3408; DeBacker-Sommervogel, V, 395.   20th-century boards with light blue-green mottled paper covering. Title-page damaged at inner margin and mounted; several leaves with old worm damage, repaired with yellowing and with affected or lost letters inexpertly (but not eye-catchingly) supplied in pen and ink. Text browned overall. Less than an ideal copy, butone of the few surviving ones and that for significant reasons!  (40435)

Binding:  19th-century half brown morocco and brown and tan marbled paper–covered sides, signed binding done by R. David (gilt-stamped on lower front turn-in). Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed.

•  Brooks 724; Brunet, I, 1037; Schweiger, II, 34.   Binding as above; joints and extremities rubbed, spine and corners more so. Bookplates as above. Endpapers with pencilled reference annotations, front fly-leaf with affixed slip as above. Pages very clean and crisp. A handsome copy with impressive provenance.  (40181)

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress 7982 (different printing, same year); Sabin 56843; ESTC N13696; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 743/171.   Removed from a nonce volume. Very good.  (39076)

Provenance:  Front pastedown and interior of book box with bookplates of Robert Wayne Stilwell and Brian Douglas Stilwell.

•  Brooks 890; De Lama, II, 153; Giani 151 (p. 67); Lester, Bodoni, 157.   Contemporary marbled paper–covered boards; binding rubbed and worn with spine chipped, now housed in modern cloth book box with hand-inked spine label. Hinges (inside) tender; second plate with short tear from lower inner margin, just extending into border of image, with traces of old repair on reverse. A volume of note for its architectural interest, its typography, and its documentation of this important event in Bodoni's career.  (40187)

The text is in fraktur, of course, and the title-page hasa wonderful woodcut border.

Evidence of readership: Meaningful marginalia in German on nine of the leaves.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only two U.S. libraries (University of Chicago, Columbia University) reporting ownership.

•  VD16 E91; Hase, Erfurter Drucke, 639; Kuczynski 627; Köhler, Bibliographie der Flugschriften, 782 [Fiche 234/ Nr. 654]; Luther, Titeleinfassungen der Reformationszeit, 70; Gatch, Library of Leander van Ess, D1071; Goedeke, II, 223; Hohenemser 2976; Schrodt, Reformation Era pamphlets in the Ambrose Swasey Library, 57.   Removed from a nonce volume with some worming touching and occasionally costing letters, but never seriously impairing the sense of a sentence. The usual age-toning; no tattering.  (40455)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of private collector Brian Douglas Stilwell.

•  Brooks 379; Brunet, V, 673; Giani 11 (p. 39); Renouard, IV, 305.   Binding as above, unobtrusively rebacked preserving original spine; light wear to joints and extremities, sides with small scuffs refurbished with a restrained hand. Bookplate as above; front free endpaper with pencilled reference annotations. The wide-margined, crisply printed and engraved pages are notably clean. Distinctive for its occasion and and desirable for its lovely production.  (40138)

From the preface: “This fifth edition of the Lonkundo Hymn Book is a result of the joint labor of the missionaries and the native Christians.” One of those missionaries was “Alice Ferren Hensey, 1907–31, a talented musician and poet . . . [she] translated many hymns and songs, and taught them to new Congo Christians” (Smith). This is a mission press production and was actually printed in Bolenge.

•  On the Disciples of Christ Congo Mission, see: Fifty Years in Congo by Herbert Smith.  Publisher's green cloth-covered light boards, spine sun-faded. Some dust-soiling and dog-earing, but withal, a nice copy.  (40440)

Provenance:  Bookplate of Louis Boutemy, later owned by Tisseyre Boutemy.

WorldCat locates five U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Pierpont Morgan, NYPL, State Library of Indiana, St. Johns, St. Catherine University).

•  Brunet, V, 1491.   19th-century half red morocco and marbled boards, rubbed at extremities; top edge gilt, silk place marker. Foxing of a the lightest sort and that not “throughout.” A lovely copy. (40332)

The work's two volumes are here bound as one, with each half-title present; the main text is in French, with many footnotes in Latin or Greek. The author (1730–1812) was a French-born tutor and chargé d'affaires who spent much of his life either in England or travelling the Continent, generally in the service of various well-to-do people of rank.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of G.W. Fowler. Later in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Barbier, IV, 29; Blake, NLM 18th Century, p. 130; Brunet, II, 922; Wallis, Newton and Newtoniana, 382.55.   Contemporary quarter mottled sheep and interestingly marbled paper–covered sides (paper in shades of rose, grey, and brown, with pattern resembling camouflage), spine with gilt-stamped leather label; binding rubbed and worn overall, with tiny spots of insect damage. Bookplate as above, front free endpaper with early inked initials in upper margin, vol. I half-title with early inked authorship attribution. Light foxing, only. A solid copy of this interesting look at 18th-century thought on the history of science.  (40425)

•  Contemporary mottled calf, nicely rebacked with calf, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label (reading “Francesco”), raised bands, and compartments elaborately blind-tooled; original leather edges worn. First volume only, offering the complete “De insectis” without the “Experimentia naturalia”; the two volumes were published separately and often separated. Title-page with two small early inked markings. One folding plate with short tear from inner margin; outer margins of a few plates slightly ragged or creased. A solid, sturdy, attractive copy of this scientific landmark, with all its fascinating plates.  (40410)

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate copies only at the British Library and the French National Library. We know of one copy in a U.S. library (Brigham Young U.).

Provenance:  Ex–Hartford Theological Seminary; sold to Pitts Theology Library; sold by Pitts to PRB&M.

•  Duvall, French political pamphlets, 426. Not in Lindsay & Neu, French Political Pamphlets 1547–1648.; not in Hillerbrand, Bibliography of Anabaptism.   Disbound. Each page institutionally pressure-stamped (not rubber-stamped); title-page verso with inked numeral. Light staining along inner margins of first few leaves, just touching text in some instances. Very good.  (40446)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of Jan-Olof Grady.

•  Brooks 400; Brunet, V, 1309; De Lama, II, 57; DeBacker-Sommervogel, I, 1706; Schweiger, II, 1231.   Modern half brown calf and Stormont marbled paper–covered boards, original 19th-century mottled calf spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped compartment devices laid down; original spine leather edges chipped, binding otherwise clean and unworn. All edges stained red. Some light foxing or other spotting, pages overall crisp and fresh.  (40142)

Present here is much information on domestic thrift, mixed with some recipes.

Provenance:  Pencilled inscription “M.E. Pratt to Ella Sandford,” dated “Prattsville, June 12th 1850.”

•  Bitting 86; Cagle & Stafford 154; Lowenstein 212–13.   Publisher's linen shelfback with printed paper over boards; rubbed and worn with small areas of loss of cloth or paper covering. Foxing and stained with kitchen use; a few clippings (one, a “Remedy for Diptheria”) laid in. A good copy.  (37004)

•  VD16 ZV 30477.   Later plain paper wrappers; outer edges speckled red, carrying over to outer margin of title-page. Early inked monogram in upper outer corner of title-page; two instances of early inked marginalia. Pages age-toned with occasional small spots. A nice copy.  (40416)

•  Wheeler Gift 1320.   Publisher's printed green paper wrappers; spines and edges chipped, vol. I sunned and vol. III slightly darkened, vol. III front wrapper torn with old tape repairs. Signatures unopened; some mild age-toning and occasional spots of foxing. Vol. I with final signature and plates starting to separate. Important, and unusual in original wrappers.  (40236)

The ambivalence of the presentation of the relationship has led some scholars to say that the novel falls within the nineteenth-century genre of non-sexual romantic friendships between men, while others come down squarely saying it is a novel of homosexuality.

Joseph and His Friend was Taylor's only novel that was serialized before publication (The Atlantic Monthly, January–December 1870). There are “points” in the first edition. The present copy is BAL printing A, purple C cloth, with tan endpaper.

•  BAL 19713; Wright, II. 2433; Young, Male Homosexual in Literature, 3752.   Publisher's cloth as above; frayed at joints (outside) and along board edges, at points exposing underlying board, and at top and bottom of spine. Fore-edge of front free endpaper bent. Age-toned as expectable, with a few light stains; a good copy.  (40313)

The author travelled Europe in search of a certain old-world atmosphere. His descriptions of his discoveries in towns such as Clovelly, England; Carcassonne, France; and San Gimignano, Italy, are accompanied by 48 black and white photographs, as well as a map of Europe. This is the second printing.

Binding:  Publisher's olive cloth with white lettering to spine. On the front board, a picturesque townscape with white-stamped stone exteriors and maroon-stamped roofs against a gilt sky; the lettering is also in white. Signed by “GH,” presumably George Washington Hood.

•  Bound as above, extremely minor rubbing to extremities, faint scratches to gilt decoration, scrape to bottom page edges; faint foxing to the very top edge of the plates and several leaves. In a decorated binding as quaint as the towns!  (38922)

The page opposite the coat of arms leaf, opening the text, is richly illuminated and decorated in more than half of its area with red flowers on stems with green leaves, and with two birds; the whole is contained within a gilt-ruled frame. Toward the end of the petition proper there are two lines of text written all in majuscules accomplished in gold, with red highlighting; and the first three lines of the granting of the petition that follows are also indited in majuscules in gold with red highlighting, and with green foliage and a bird.

The binding: Contemporary reddish-brown morocco over pasteboards, with evidence of silk ties now missing; gilt double-fillet border with gilt corner devices and gilt center device on each board. Contemporary red silk guards protect all illuminated pages.

•  Bound as above. Small losses of paint to leaf of arms, else an artifact in excellent condition.  (40314)

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabels (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Bound as above; joints, edges, and spine extremities rubbed and refurbished, spines sunned. Back free endpapers each with bookseller's ticket of Hessey, Fleet Street. Minor offsetting from turn-ins to free endpapers; pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. A desirable set, externally a bit worn, now exuding the promise of comfortable enjoyment. (40307)

Provenance:  Front free endpaper (now separated) with bookplate of Dr. Martin J. Loeb, a prominent New York physician and philanthropist, with an explanatory “Legend of the Bookplate” label affixed to opposing fly-leaf.

•  BAL 19807.   Publisher's brown morocco, bevelled boards, covers framed in decorative blind rolls, spine with raised band and gilt-stamped title, turn-ins with gilt roll; light wear overall with extremities rubbed and spine title dimmed. All edges gilt. BAL binding C, the others being cloth. Front free endpaper (with bookplate) separated; back pastedown with small (upside-down!) numerical paper label. Foxing, as the paper is inclined to it, and a little soiling; a “decent” copy.  (40360)

Walker's anthropological works on women were widely read and enjoyed credence as “philosophy” in their time butnow reward students of the pseudosciences of physiognomy and phrenology.  In Beauty he divides the female anatomy into feet and legs, torso, and head, and seeks to define the subtleties of what is pleasing in each and how they mesh for perfection. Also discussed are clothes, health, and hygiene.

An entirely intentional exercise in the objectification of woman, this discusses the differing standards and understandings of female beauty found among Africans, American Indians, Asians, and (separately!) young and older European men.

This American issue was expurgated by the “American physician” who edited the volume: “In preparing the present edition, it has been thought expedient to make some verbal alterations, and omit a few paragraphs, to which a refined taste might perhaps object. . . . “ (p. vi).

Binding:  Publisher's brown ribbed cloth with moiré effect. Signed “E. Walker N. York” (i.e., Edward Walker, 1804–79).

•  American Imprints 40-6763.   Light wear to binding; spine sunned. Foxing and staining, text block skewed in binding, volume yet sound.  (40359)

Binding:  Publisher's deep blue cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in black and gilt; endpapers as above.

•  Bound as above; extremities mildly rubbed, lower outer back corner bumped. Front fly-leaf with difficult-to-decipher inked ownership inscription dated 1885. Pages gently age-toned. An attractive and interesting take on Marco Polo for what would now be thought of as the “YA” audience.  (40347)

The lives are illustrated with a total of30 engraved plates, done by Robert Page and Robert Cooper, including an image of Peter Williamson in the Native American garb he adopted after his self-proclaimed Indian captivity.

•  Allibone, III, 2771; NSTC 2W25254.   Contemporary half dark blue calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped red leather title-labels, raised bands with gilt roll, and blind-tooled decorations in compartments; all edges marbled to match sides. Two volumes only, of three; printed title-pages lacking in both volumes. Early pencilled ownership inscription to front fly-leaf of vol. I; one page with pencilled inscription in upper margin. Vol. I with upper outer corners of two leaves torn away (not touching text); one plate with old repair at upper inner corner (just touching corner of frame). Two pages in vol. I with what might be splashes of tea; light waterstaining to inner margin of first text page and to outer portions of a number of plates in vol. II; mild to moderate age-toning and scattered light foxing throughout. Incomplete and priced accordingly; stillfascinating for both the anecdotes and the illustrations.  (40364)

Provenance & Evidence of Readership: Front pastedown with bookplate of the Library of the Theological Seminary of the Diocese of Ohio (properly deaccessioned). Intermittent 17th-century inked marginalia cross-referencing pages, adding significant information, and correcting certain points.

•  ESTC R10655; Wing (rev. ed.) B1224B.   Contemporary calf, rebacked, covers framed in double gilt fillets, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt devices in compartments; rubbed and worn overall, spine with early paper shelving label. Pages age-toned; one leaf with upper outer corner torn away (not touching text). Annotations as above. A solid copy in contemporary binding, with interesting evidence of readership.  (34379)

•  Gallatin & Oliver 18.   Publisher's full blue cloth stamped in gilt, in original dust jacket (shown in photo) with small rent in upper outer corner of front panel. VG/VG; the usual discoloration to the endpapers, platesfresh and charming.  (40379)

This is one of six copies printed on blue paper of an edition of 250 copies.

Provenance:  Ca. 1930 bookplate of Henry Pennell Frank; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Late 19th-century half black morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine lettered in gilt; blue endpapers; rubbed at corners and edges. A testament to 19th-century Shakespeare mania.  (40233)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of John Turner Ettlinger. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1853:22; Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1853.8; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), pp. 32 & 86.   Bound as above; spine slightly darkened, rubbing to joints and edges nicely refurbished. Bookplate as above, front free endpaper with Ettlinger's pencilled inscription. Pages very faintly age-toned, otherwise clean. A solid, satisfactory copy of this attractive and important edition. (40309)

Provenance:  Bookplates of Wilfred Merton, Robert Wayne Stilwell, and Brian Douglas Stilwell.

•  Brooks 451; Brunet, IV, 783; De Lama, II, 71–72; Giani 23 (p. 43).   19th-century half brown mottled sheep and marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands; extremities rubbed. Front pastedown with bookplates as above and with pencilled reference notes; some foxing or other spotting/soiling intermittently; a volume overall clean and pleasing.  (40150)

The work is a classic in the field of early European accounts of China, of missions to and in China, and of travel in general. Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of the first edition and may have done so for the work's sections on education.

•  ESTC T140502; Goldsmiths'-Kress 3379?; DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 1356; Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica, I, 40-41.   Recent quarter calf, round spine, raised bands, gilt ruling above and below each band; gilt center devices in four spine compartments. Marbled paper sides. Light age-toning to title-page; apart from an old touch of inkstaining at the tips of pages in one section, a very few stray stains only. A very nice copy.  (40384)

Provenance:  Library of the . . . German Society in Philadelphia; its bookplate and shelving indicia inside front cover.

•  American Imprints 30124; NSTC 2O4386.   Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding scuffed and worn but holding (helped by tape under shelving label), with front hinge (inside) tender and free endpapers lacking. Ex–social club library: paper shelving label on spine, 19th-century bookplate and call number on pastedown, title-page pressure-stamped, no other markings. Pages age-toned and intermittently spotted and stained, with occasional bumped corners and short edge tears.  (29782)

This now-uncommon textbook is illustrated with five folding engraved plates of diagrams. WorldCat showsjust one U.S. institution (Society of the Cincinnati) reporting a copy, and only a handful of overseas holdings.

Provenance:  Title-page with early inked inscription “de Ratzenried” and front pastedown with von Ratzenried armorial bookplate (coat of arms showing greyhounds and a moon with clouds) labelled F.C.V.R.: possibly Franz Carl Anton von und zu Ratzenried.

•  Contemporary mottled calf, board edges with gilt roll, spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped leather title-label, and compartments gilt extra; light wear overall, edges and joints moderately rubbed. All edges speckled red. Bookplate and inscription as above. Pages with occasional small pencilled marks of emphasis, otherwise clean; one plate with outer edge slightly tattered. A very nice copy, in contemporary binding, of this scarce practical compendium.  (40246)

Provenance:  From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Quaestiones: Blake, NLM 18th Century, p. 192. Theses sistentes: VD18 1056568X; Blake, NLM 18th Century, p. 192. Theses pathologicae: VD18 11684461; Blake, NLM 18th Century, p. 192.   Contemporary half sheep with speckled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding worn and rubbed overall with leather lost at corners and rubbed at joints. All edges stained red. Front endpapers with pencilled annotations. Mild to moderate age-toning and foxing; pages overall clean.  (40114)

Provenance:  Title-page, rear free endpaper, and rear pastedown rubber-stamped “Ex libris Augustini Mueller.” Later from the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 29998.   19th-century quarter brown sheep, marbled paper–covered sides in a Spanish wave and shell vein pattern; spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label, blind-tooled decorative motif in center, and small gilt roll bands. Binding moderately rubbed overall, more so at edges, extremities, and joints; light to moderate foxing, one page with small area of tiny ink splatters in outer margin; large Mueller rubber-stamp as noted. A sound, more than serviceable copy of this interesting work.  (40072)

Binding:  Contemporary mauve calendered paper–covered sides, covers framed in wide gilt grapevine roll, spine with complementary gilt foliate roll. All edges gilt.

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Gumuchian 4425.   Bound as above, without the matching slipcase; volume showing only light wear overall and with archival tape strengthening joints, this latter overlying but not at all obscuring gilt tooling. Small spots of faint to mild foxing, otherwise clean, and clearly untouched by childish hands. As Gumuchian says, charmante!  (40062)

The present example appears to be the variant printing of the first edition as described by the University of Illinois, with line 32 of p. 179 giving “F acies” (instead of “Fallacies”); ESTC and Thomason suggest that the actual printing date was 1653. Printed legend “Cokes Art of Logick in English.” vertically on a blank between the front free endpaper and the title-page; the relic of a ream wrapper.
Binding:  Notably elegant period-style quarter speckled calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, raised bands, and blind-tooled decorations filling compartments.

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with early inked inscription of M[atthew?] Bakewell; half-title and title-page each with early rubber-stamp of S. Davies. Later in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  ESTC R9220 (variant); Wing (rev. ed.) A804B (formerly C4986); Thomason E.1436[2].   Binding as above; endpapers with offsetting from previous leather, front one chipped at edges, age-toning generally with page edges browned/dust-soiled. Small spots of pinhole worming to upper inner margins of roughly first half of volume, just touching some top lines without affecting legibility; old waterstaining across lower outer corners variably reaching text; a few pages showing traces of red around edges, presumably from now-shaved original red edge staining. A solid, pleasing copy of this fairly uncommon treatise.  (40076)

Provenance:  Title-page with signed inked inscription noting presentation by the author to a Monsieur Robieux as a mark “d'estime, de considération, et d'amitié.” Later from the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Stitched in contemporary paper wrappers, faded to rose-pink and worn. Two spots of pinhole worming throughout, touching letters without affecting sense. A solid and very readable copy of this uncommon item.  (40214)

Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Shoemaker 5104; Bradbury, Miniature Books, B295.   Fine in original plain green wrappers.  (38779)

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.

•  Original green wrappers with bird illustration on front wrapper and advertisement on rear. Minor soiling to two pages and small crease in upper corner of rear wrapper, else fine. A very attractive little “toy.”  (38780)

•  Library Company, Afro-Americana (rev. ed.), 753; Sabin 2641 (giving second ed. only); Shoemaker 4517.   Marbled paper wrappers, lightly worn overall. Title-page with two small pencilled annotations, pages age-toned. Frankly, riveting.  (40077)

•  Sabin 65383; Shaw & Shoemaker 7115; Walgren, Freemasonry, 823.   Contemporary mottled sheep, rebacked with speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels and gilt-ruled raised bands; original leather moderately worn and stained. Front fly-leaf with pencilled ownership inscription dated 1850. Pages age-toned, with occasional mild foxing and a handful of small, early pencilled marks of emphasis. A solid copy of the probable first U.S. appearance of a work that made quite a splash among those curious about the Masons.  (40392)

Gregory (ca.?540–12 March 604), pope from 3 September 590 to 12 March 604, is thepatron saint of musicians, singers, students, and teachers, and is famous for instigating the first known large-scale mission from Rome — the Gregorian Mission, to convert the pagan Anglo-Saxons in England to Christianity.

Provenance: Cut-down Blumhaven Library bookplate (i.e., private library of Herman Blum, 1885–1973, of the Frankford section of Philadelphia, PA); given by Mr. Blum on his 89th birthday to his grandson Robert Martin Blum, as per light blue ballpoint pen inscription on front pastedown.

•  ISTC ig00405000; Goff G405; HC 7963*; Pell 5357; IGI 4422; BMC V 457; GKW 11401.   Half vellum and cream paper covered boards of the first half of the 20th century, soiled; without the final blank leaf (only). Bookseller's description glued to front pastedown above provenance information as above; additional tape or glue stains on same and tape stains on rear pastedown. Title- leaf seriously browned, torn with blank lower area lost, and mounted, with image of St. Peter and all but one letter of type preserved; repairs to upper margin and fore-edge of the first text leaf; waterstaining in first half, diminishing after first signatures.  (39630)

Binding:  Publisher's pebbled brown leather, covers and spine with blind-stamped framework containing foliate motifs, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, turn-ins with border composed of several gilt rolls. Marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.

Provenance:  From the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.

•  Binding as above, edges and extremities mildly rubbed and refurbished. Frontispiece recto with early inked gift inscription “from F.B.H.” Internally slightly age-toned; plates clean. A luxurious production in very good condition; an aesthetically pleasing combination of art and literature. (39853)

It is handsomely printed using several point sizes of roman and italic, with center justification in the top portion and full justification below. Around the printed area are wide margins on the four sides, which margins contain16 large, crisp, evenly spaced impressions of the city of Toledo's double-headed eagle, with crown above, sword in its right talon and mace in its left.

Boadsides were an important source of income for handpress-era printers in Europe and Spanish America and the printers offered “package deals” to the families of the graduate and post-graduate degree postulants; the packages were geared to the students' families' economic means. Broadsides could be large (folio) or small (8vo), have an engraving or not, have a border of type ornaments or not, and be printed on standard paper or colored paper (usually blue); if one splurged, one could get the announcement printed, as here, on silk. The usual total number of copies printed for each candidate is unknown at this time, but is likely to have been only one or two dozen, and we also don't know if more than one silk copy was printed when that top option was in fact ordered. In extravagant cases, one can imagine one for the degree candidate, one for the parents, one for each godparent, etc.; still, such cases would probably have been few.

Certainly, the printers would have been willing to rake in as much money as possible, on each happy occasion, and these richly beautiful silk mementos — doubtless proudly displayed for years going forward in homes or offices — would have been excellent ongoing advertisements. Equally clearly, however, the number of copies of all of the defense broadsides surviving is small, and the survival of those on silk is very small.

No copies of this broadside are traced via the usual bibliographies, nor via NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, KVK, CCPB, or the OPACs of University of Toledo and the national library of Spain.

•  Rose-colored silk, with old folds; sun-fading variously and rather attractively approaching pinks and apricots. Sides “accented” by an attractive retained green and white selvage edge; bottom edge hemmed and top one, possibly once so, now with fraying and a bit of ravelling; near the broadside's center, a round hole costs six letters. Still, at 230+ years old, frankly gorgeous.  (39844)

NUC and WorldCat locate only two libraries worldwide reporting ownership (National Library of Scotland, Princeton).

Provenance:  From the chapbook collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.

•  Publisher's green wrappers, slight discoloration and a little paper loss at spine. Clean.  (38786)

Only 210 copies were printed: Florencio Ramírez composed the text using Dante, Centaur, Poliphilus, and Blado type. Juan Pascoe and Martín Urbgina printed the work on Tamayo De Ponte paper using a Vandercook cylinder press and two Washington handpresses. The work was bound by Fermín Urbina.

The two folding plates are printed in black and red, as is the title-page and the first page of text. Other illustrations are an Antonio Espinosa vignette, a woodcut of a kneeling Mexica man, and two printer's ornaments. All are printed from zinc plates.

•  Green shelfback with yellow paper spine label and matching yellow paper on the boards. Author and title printed on front board in a frame of printer's ornaments. As new.  (40095)

Binding:  Original red paper–covered boards with black lettering and double-ruled border to title on front board.

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

WorldCat has located only ten institutional copies.

•  Bound as above; rubbed, soiled, and scraped with wrinkling to rear board. Minor gutter crack at the seventh illustration. Pages untrimmed. Housed in a modern red cloth slipcase, faded, with lettering on spine reading “Illustrations to Puckle's Club — Original Boards — 1820. A copy complete, clean, and in original boards, containing wonderful engravings.  (37777)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with armorial bookplates of Robert Walsingham Martin and Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow, fleur-de-lis bookplate of “E.O.,” andleather ex libris of author, lawyer, historian, and book collector Henry Harrisse (two letters H intertwined, labelled “Nov. Eborac” [New York]). Back pastedown with institutional bookplates of Harvard (properly deaccessioned and appropriately stamped); front free endpaper with 19th-century inked annotation opening “B.A.V. No. 75...” Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and the bibliographies cited below find only seven U.S. libraries (MH, OCU, NN, ICN, RPJCB, CtY, DLC) reporting ownership.

•  Alden & Landis 514/3; Adams C1016; Brunet, Supplement, I, 225; Harrisse, BAV, 75; Sabin 11494; Index Aurel. 133.919; Edit16 CNCE 10294.   Binding as above; bookplates as above; final blank leaf (only) lacking. Title-page with one small spot of foxing, pages otherwise clean, and this clearly a copy that has been “washed and pressed.”  (39557)

Provenance:  From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

Searches of NUC and WorldCat find only two U.S. libraries (CSdS, CLU) reporting ownership.

•  VD18 11132213; not in Blake, NLM 18th Century; not in Nissen, Botanische Buchillustration. On Hill, see the ODNB.   Removed from a nonce volume. Pencil underscoring, but very good condition; the printing was done on very heavy good paper.  (39959)

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 22669; Welch 266.2. Not in Rosenbach (but see 574 for Totten's 1819 edition).   Tan wrappers, illustrated with a woodcut of a soldier on the front and an allegorical figure titled “Excelsior” on the rear in a scene incorporating an eagle and a liberty cap among other elements. Some of the paper of spine has rubbed away; closed 2" split starting to front cover; else very good.  (38776)

•  Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, II, 755; Coumont, Demonology and Witchcraft, H50.4.   Period-style quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt-ruled and -dotted raised bands, and gilt-stamped compartment decorations; back pastedown with small binder's ticket of Starr Bookworks. Rubber-stamps as above; three parts only out of five as above, thus with six plates present out of ten; title-page verso with inked numeral. Pages and plates age-toned, otherwise clean. Attractive and enjoyable.  (40394)

•  ESTC R200673; Wing (rev. ed.) W3533.   Quarter red morocco with French-swirl marbled paper sides and gilt spine lettering; binding signed (with small rubber-stamp on verso of front free endpaper) by the Macdonald Company of New York. Leather of joints lightly rubbed in places. Text soiled/stained throughout; fore- and top margins of all leaves with repairs to areas of lost paper, not affecting sidenotes; in all, Good.  (37988)

Both 1666 editions are rare (a term we shy from using) in U.S. institutions. Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and ESTC locate only two U.S. libraries (New York Academy of Medicine, National Library of Medicine) reporting ownership of the London printing, and only four (National Library of Medicine, Yale, The Institute of the History of Medicine at Johns Hopkins, and the College of Physicians of Philadelphia) of this Amsterdam edition.

•  Heirs of Hippocrates 352; Garrison & Morton 2198; Biblotheca Osleriana 994 (all three bibliography citations are for the 1676 edition).   Contemporary brown calf with minor scuffing, gilt spine with center devices but no title or author lettering, board edges with a gilt dog-tooth roll. Bookplate as above; text clean with the very occasional dot or small blot of old ink only. A very nice copy.  (39913)

•  Binding as above; back cover with one scuff, front cover with small unobtrusive area of darkening towards upper outer corner. Offsetting to edges of free endpapers from turn-ins. Pages and plates clean and fresh. A striking, elegant volume, of surpassing interest for music historians and aficionados.  (39690)

Provenance: The bookplate of J.R.P. Forrest of Edinburgh, possibly the first Baronet of Comiston, appears on the front pastedown; that of influential book collector and Spanish printing scholar James P.R. Lyell (1871–1948), who donated a sizable portion of his medieval manuscript collection to the Bodleian Library, appears below that of Forrest. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Brunet, I, 1604; Graesse, II, 57; Sebastiani, Johann Froben, 57; USTC 692594; VD16 F 1921. Not in Adams. On Lyell, see: Oxford DNB (online). For the Holbein title-page, see: Hollstein, XIV, Hans Holbein, 13.   19th-century quarter green morocco and green cloth–covered boards, spine lettered in gilt; spine sunkissed with leather otherwise darkened, binding ever so gently rubbed. Light age-toning, touches of marginal light waterstaining or glue action to several leaves, small wormhole affecting letters (but not meaning) to five; one small marginal tear to title-page, another small hole and one chipped edge elsewhere. Readership and provenance indicia as above; marginal repairs to final leaf approaching neither type nor printer's device.A fascinating Froben pamphlet for far more reasons than one.  (39588)

Kelly, the son of an Irish tavern-keeper, launched his London literary career by contributing to newspapers while working as a copying-clerk to an attorney. After marrying a needlewoman, he moved to Middle Temple Lane, where the DNB says “he laboured untiringly as literary hack.” Next he gained fame as a theater critic, publishing two books criticizing the actors of the Drury Lane Theatre and of Covent Garden; Garrick, whom Kelly had prudently praised in the first book, then encouraged Kelly to write plays himself.

Kelly’s first production, this play enjoyed great success both onstage and in print. Garrick wrote the prologue and epilogue to the rather provoking tale of an entire circle of friends attempting to get themselves successfully paired off, most of them foolishly determined to marry people they don’t love for the sake of nobly sparing everyone else’s feelings, and all of them completely misunderstanding the true natures of the various relationships.

This is almost certainly the first edition; of the four printings in 1768, one identifies itself as the fourth edition and the other two both seem to have been labelled “A new edition.”

•  ESTC T230322; CBEL, II, 845.   Quarter cloth over marbled paper-covered sides, worn, spine with shelving label. Half-title and two other pages very faintly stamped by a now-defunct institution. First and last few leaves with light foxing.  (2039)

•  De Vasculis: Adams B54; Renouard, Estienne, 44:21; Schreiber, Estiennes, 51 (1535 ed.). De Re: Adams B43; Renouard, Estienne, 44:20; Schreiber, Estiennes, 50 (1535 ed., also the source of the quotation above).   19th-century brown polished calf, spine lettered and ruled in gilt with compartments stamped in blind, covers framed in single gilt fillet around a tulip roll in blind, board edges with gilt dashes, turn-ins ruled in gilt, all edges speckled brown; gently rubbed with a few stains, corners bowing inwards. Very light waterstaining across some corner-tips and barely noticeable pin-sized wormholes/tracks to most leaves; three leaves with small spots and one with an imperfect corner (probably from manufacture); final blank (only) lacking as above. Provenance indicia as above, a few leaves gently creased along corners. Early examples of a landmark series in children's book production, from a famous press and a famous library.  (39463)

Provenance:  20th-century bookplate of A. Garrigues, D.M. Most recently in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

Searches of NUC, ESTC, and WorldCat surprisingly locate only seven U.S. libraries (DNLM, NN [incomplete copy], CU-M, WU, PCarlD, NNOD, MiU) reporting ownership.  Notably absent from that list are Harvard, Yale, the Huntington, New York Academy of Medicine, the College of Physicians, University of Texas, and the Folger.

•  ESTC R14791; Wing (rev. ed.) B1655.   Mid-19th-century quarter leather with marbled paper sides; front board expertly reattached and leather refurbished. Age-toning, notably to first leaves including title; discoloration in gutter margins from transference from leather (?). A good copy of a scarce English medical imprint.  (39767)

•  Publisher's half dark green leather and tan paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and Grolier Club device, covers with stamped central medallions bearing device as above; spine sunned to brick-brown and with some darker streaks and discoloration, sides lightly scuffed, joints and extremities rubbed. Index (printed and issued as a separate insert, after the original publication) not present here. Scattered light spottings only. Externally somewhat worn, but a solid and enjoyable copy, witha gratifyingly apropos provenance and a Chiswick Bookshop (New York) bookmark iaid in.  (39562)

Binding:  Textured blue cloth, front board with corner maple leaves in blind and elaborate gilt center medallion with lettering. On the spine, the Baron appears to be cutting the rope he's hanging onto that dangles from the Moon, with a lion and alligator waiting underneath him. Undoubtedly he'll come out alive!

•  Bound as above; mild rubbing to extremities and rear board, spine cocked very slightly. Some occasional light foxing and general age-toning to interior. Fantastic fun for lovers of adventure and art. (39527)

Binding:  Circa-1865 half-black calf with green marbled paper sides, spine with gilt-stamped red leather label, gilt rules to form compartments, and blind-stamped center device in five compartments.

Provenance:  Contemporary signature on title-page of James Kendrick; embossed ownership stamp of J.H. Williams, rector of Llangadwaladr; bookseller's label of Wildy & Sons, London; late 19th- or early 20th-century armorial leather bookplate of Alexander MacGregor; most recently in the collection of Robert Sadoff, M.D.

•  Binding as above, edges rubbed, small scuffs. The endpapers, curiously, appear to have been marbled over typeprint. Very good.  (39633)