•  Evans 36722; ESTC W7573; Sabin 104300; Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library. of Thomas Jefferson, 649; Wroth, American Contributions to Navigation, pp. 28-31; Rink, Technical Americana, 3893. On Williams, see: Dictionary of American Biography, XX, 280–82, or the American National Biography Online.   Late 19th-century dark brown half calf with marbled paper sides; rubbed and with white specks (paint spatter?). Staining to title-leaf and early leaves; complete with both the printed errata on p. 98 and the pasted errata slip on p. [v]. A good to very good copy with almost unbeatable provenance.  (36370)

In that yearAntonio Ricardo printed the first book in South America, the Doctrina christiana y catecismo para instruccion de los Indios. Antonio Ricardo was an Italian who began working as a printer in Mexico in 1570 in the shops of other printers, almost certainly principally in that of Pedro Ocharte. In 1577 he became the fifth independent printer in the New World but operated under his own name only until 1579, during which time he worked closely with the Jesuits and printed books for students at the Society of Jesus' Colegio de San Pedro y San Pablo; at the urging of the Society he left Mexico in 1580 to establish his press in Peru. There, however, because of a dispute between the Jesuits and the viceroy, he did not receive license to print until 1584, when the first thing he printed, at the insistence of the viceroy, was a four-page explanation of the change from the Julian to the Gregorian calendar. This was quickly followed bythree tri-lingual books in Spanish, Quechua, and Aymara, all works by members of the Society of Jesus. The Tercero cathecismo is only the third book printed in South America and it shows Ricardo as aware and proud of his position as the first printer in South America. He pointedly identified himself as such on the book's title-page: “Antonio Ricardo, primer impressor en estos Reynos del Piru.”

The Tercero cathecismo's importance is multifaceted and goes far beyond its place as an icon in American printing history, for it provided doctrinally approved sermons both for those priests serving the Spanish population who were less than proficient sermonizers and also, specifically, for thosepriests and missionaries working among the indigenous population whose command of Quechua and/or Aymara was not sufficient for them to be safe and fluent deliverers of the word of God and instruction in Christian ethics and practices. Modern study of these sermons additionally considers which indigenous terms were used to convey European concepts (precursor to the Chinese rites controversy of the late 17th century Jesuit missionaries in China), which Spanish words became loan words in Quechua and Aymara, what indigenous practices were of concern to the religious authorities, and of course which dialect of each language was chosen to be the norm of proselytization.

Ricardo was fond of printing his texts witha mix of type faces and a wide variety of large woodcut initials. The inventory of the type, ornamental letters, woodcut illustrations, etc., that he owned when he sold the press shows that he had amassed huge quantities of all of those elements of the black art. (The inventory is in the Manuscript Division of the New York Public Library, the gift of Edward Harkness.) The Tercero cathecismo prints the Spanish text in italic and the indigenous-language texts in roman, with the Spanish printed margin to margin at the top of the pages and the Quechua and Aymara below it in parallel columns to the left and right respectively. And yes, there is goodly use of several woodcut headpieces, many large woodcut initials (some historiated); curiously, no tailpieces.

Provenance:  18th-century ownership inscription in an upper margin of the library of Colegio de Santa Rosa; which one, not clear.

As one would expect of any book that was among the first productions of a press in a remote region, the Tercero cathecismo is a rare book. Searches of NUC Pre-1956, WorldCat, COPAC, CCPBE, and KVK locate only eight U.S., four European, and two South American libraries reporting ownership. However, we know of one other U.S. and one other European library owning copies.

•  Backer-Sommervogel, I, 34; Sabin 94838; Medina, Lima, 3; Vargas Ugarte, Impresos peruanos, 3; Johnson, The Book in the Americas, 34; Medina, Lenguas quechua y aymará, 4; Viñaza 81.   Recased in possibly original limp vellum; new free endpapers and fly-leaves; evidence of long-gone ties. Title-page in facsimile. Thirteen leaves supplied from a shorter copy (ff. 57, 138, 143, 146, 151, 135, 160, 161, 168, 186, 191, 194, 199); heavy staining to ca. fol. 25 and again at the end, other staining scattered. Worming, mostly pinhole but some meander, with loss of letters, parts of words, and occasionally whole words, seldom with injury to reading; a few leaves with repaired margins and repairs to wormed areas.Obviously a sophisticated copy and one that has seen hardships, nonetheless, a copy ready to repay ownership and study.  (36505)

Evidence of readership: Front fly-leaf with early 20th-century inked note regarding edition and portrait, signed “E.J.S.”; a few instances of light early underlining; eight pages with early inked shouldernotes in Latin (ink color differing from above underlining).

Provenance:  Unidentified 16th-century collector; “B.G.C.” on the binding. Later in the Library of the Pacific School of Religion (properly deaccessioned).

•  VD16 M 2890; this ed. not in Adams.   Binding as above, rebacked with similar black calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and blind-ruled raised bands; original leather edges worn and chipped, edges and extremities refurbished, new endpapers. Ex-library (properly released): front fly-leaf, title-page, and one other page with old rubber-stamps. Annotations and underlining as above; front fly-leaf with chipped portion of paper bookplate adhered to upper outer corner. One leaf with small chip in upper margin; pages age-toned with occasional small smudges, otherwise clean. An attractive, interesting example of this important work.  (36726)

Written in Latin and printed in roman characters with a few historiated woodcut initials. This the first edition.

•  VD16 L3723; Benzing, Lutherbibliographie, 724; Pegg (XLV) 1969; Proctor 11903; Aland 112; WA 6.596-612.   Removed from a nonce volume and sewing perished. Title-leaf with approximately one-third missing in blank fore- and bottom areas, replaced with later good quality paper; publication date noted and title partially underlined on title-page in old red ink. First text leaf remargined on fore- and bottom edges, and first page of text with red ink underlining and red ink marginalia in three places. A good copy. Complete.  (36681)

Provenance:  Front free endpaper inscribed “To Michael Blaisdell from his grandfather — Fred D. Blaisdell [/] This book was a gift from his uncle 65 years ago.” Pencilled beneath is “Rec'd Christmas 1947.” The original Blaisdell inscription follows on the fly-leaf, in beautiful copperplate script: “To Freddie Blaisdell. From his Uncle Sam.l Facey. Christmas, Dec. 25th 1882.”

Binding:  Publisher's brown cloth, front cover with complex gilt-stamped architectural design and chromolithographic paper inset of a young girl with pinafore, toys, and blonde ringlets.

•  Binding as above, mild rubbing to extremities, gilt slightly dimmed; front hinge (inside) cracked. Inscriptions as above. Pages age-toned with occasional light smudges and tiny spots of foxing. Overall, surprisingly and delightfully clean — a children's book that wasclearly treasured.  (36598)

•  Evans 30835; ESTC W21378; Windle & Pippin, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin . . . a bibliography, B1g.   18th-century acid washed calf, gilt red leather spine label with gilt ruling on spine; rubbed, boards warping, small loss of spine leather, hinges worn but holding, glue action to first and last few leaves. Provenance markings as above, a few other markings on endpapers; one leaf with pinprick hole affecting a letter, one torn corner and a few more bent; old general foxing, age-toning, and waterstaining. Not a comely copy (and priced accordingly), but a good, sound, complete, and usable one.  (36603)

•  Contemporary mottled calf, round spine without raised bands, gilt spine extra, marbled endpapers, all edges red; some leather abraded from covers and a very little from the spine's base, lacking spine label once reading “MELANGE” (and this now blind-embossed in that compartment). Light age-toning; bookplate as above.  (36671)

The spine foot bears the stamp of Alden, Beardsley, & Co. of Auburn, NY, who published the work in 1853; it was originally printed by Scribner in 1851, and the copyright page here reflects that.

Evidence of Readership: Light pencilled bracketing and marks of emphasis in portions of the “Practical Directions to Amateurs” chapter.

•  Publisher's textured brown cloth, covers framed in blind with central blind-stamped vignettes, spine with gilt-stamped title and cottage vignette, back joint starting from foot and back hinge (inside) tender; cloth rubbed at corners and spine extremities, and split along portion of back lower inner corner outside. Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription of Helen W. McNamara, back pastedown with pencilled “baby” inscription. Frontispiece browned, not unattractively, with offsetting to title-page; pages with a few instances of tiny spots and light smudges, generally clean. A good reasonable copy of a good and interesting work, copiously illustrated.  (36596)

While this book lacks the free endpapers and the printed title-page, it offers ahand-colored engraved title-page, executed by M. Hailler's burin and embellished by a watercolorist in blue and yellow.

Provenance:  Unreadable inked ownership signature dated 1752 on pastedown and rubber-stamp of the Rev. Charles Woessner of Berkeley, CA, on back of title-page; later in the Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics, vol. II, pp. 2–3; Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie, II, 346.   Vellum over pasteboards, title inked on spine, all edges speckled red; soiled and scratched, ink spots on edges, joints cracked but textblock firmly attached. Ex-library as above, call number and five-digit accession stamp on front pastedown. Marked and lacking two endpapers and printed title-page as above, with light pencilling, one leaf with small tear to inner margin, a few pages with inked or pencilled marginal notes or dashes, and a few bent corners; moderate to heavy age-toning. Uncommon place of printing and a nicely hand-colored added engraved title-page.  (36600)

The treaty states that the United States will pay each family thirty dollars annually for twenty years for their decisions to “withdraw from the route overland already established,” ceasing all warfare with other groups, and to settle future disputes by using the president as an arbitrator. The government promises that it will provide protection from “annoyance or molestation on the part of whites or Indians” should members of the group settle permanently to engage in agricultural pursuits, and offers further incentives for their doing so.

It was ratified 5 March 1866 and later proclaimed by President Johnson on March 17.

•  Eberstadt 130.   Folded sheets, light age-toning, gently chipped along edges; light pencilling on upper margin of title-page.  (36650)

Provenance:  Ink and pencil signatures of H. Norman Turner on front free endpaper verso.

•  BCP not in ESTC nor Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer. On Sternhold's Psalms, see: ESTC T195102. On Tate's Psalms, see: ESTC T196530.   Binding rubbed with a few small scuffs, especially at corners, gilt faded. Provenance markings and one leaf lacking as above, light pencilling on endpapers, BCP title-page with a corner in old pen-and-ink facsimile and a bit of text on verso lost and unreplaced, that leaf a little holed in an erasure attempt; very short marginal tears on three leaves, short tears affecting a few letters on three more, light to moderate age-toning. A pleasing combination of texts in a pleasing binding.  (36635)

Included aretestimonials of the work's success from those near Harrisburg, cures for numerous problems such as epilepsy, unlucky days, possibly bewitched cattle, and more.

•  Quarter black pebbled cloth and light blue paper–covered boards, covers stamped with turquoise, gold, and pearl designs; gently rubbed, some loss of paper at corners, front hinge (inside) cracking. Light age-toning.  (36641)

Following the poetry section there is a series of advertisements for products such as Pratt's Astral Oil and double-deodorized benzine. This is an interesting, attractive little relic of an era when manufacturers of such humble products sought surprisingly often to associate themselves with Much Higher Things — often going to real trouble and expense to do so!

•  Beige printed wrappers with “1888" written on the front cover in ink and a small pink stain at top edge; light age-toning.  (36736)

•  Sabin 24819; Medina, Mexico, 4246; DeBacker-Sommervogel, III, 799; Grajales & Burrus, Bibliografia guadalupana, 169; Palau 92355.   Contemporary limp vellum, lacking ties and pastedowns and front free endpapers (if there ever were any). Two small round areas in blank space of title-page with holes probably where a previous owner's name was; two pages (31, 153) each with two areas of blank space heavily inked over, again probably where a previous owner's name was, the iron gall ink having damaged those two leaves with small loss (perhaps 12 or 15 words total) on their versos. Some stray brown stains, possibly associated with ink or with wax. A good copy but for the noted small losses. Priced accordingly.  (36621)

Binding:  16th-century alum-tawed pig skin over beech boards, covers elaborately tooled in blind using a wide roll featuring religious figures, double fillets, and stamps of a rose and an acorn with evidence of two brass clasp;, all edges stained red.

Searches of OCLC and NUC locate no copies of this New Testament in U.S. Libraries.

•  Not in Darlow & Moule, nor Adams; Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics, v. I, p. 117; VD16 ZV 1883.   Bound as above, rubbed and soiled, moderate evidence of worming, bars of clasps not present, new endpapers. Marked as above, title-page margin artfully repaired; five digit rubber-stamp on title-page verso, two leaves with torn corners, one with a word or two excised, a few with gentle waterstaining; light age-toning.  (36498)

Fowler notes this is a reissue of Bevilacqua's 1562 edition, which is a reprint of Rouillé's 1558 edition; the illustrations first appeared in L. Avanzo's 1557 edition. Bevilacqua's device is present on both main works' title-pages and after the colophon.

•  Graesse, V, 228; Fowler, M. Petrarch, p. 107, Pet N 564a.   Vellum over boards, green morocco spine label with elegant gilt lettering and rolls; very slight loss of vellum at top and bottom of hinges, light inking on top and bottom edge, light pencilling on endpapers. Old private, monogram rubber-stamp on title-page; light age-toning with varying levels of generally quite unobtrusive waterstaining, often marginal only; a handful of short tears or ink dottings, and a few leaves trimmed unevenly or with bent corners. In fact a lovely little book.  (36582)

Needless to say, the emphasis is on his military career with much about native Americans.

The text is unillustrated, but the front cover has acentral medallion bust of Harrison in gold.

Provenance:  Author's presentation copy? “Joseph Barclay Esq., from the author” in ink on the first blank page after the front free endpaper. In an appropriately contemporary style hand.

Binding:  Publisher's brown textured cloth, front and rear boards stamped with blind corner devices and front board with a large bust of Harrison in gold in a circle and with his rank and name in gilt below. Cloth not in Krupp but closely related to her Wav1.

•  Sabin 35422. On binding cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50.   Publisher's textured purplish-brown cloth, covers embossed with border rules and foliate corner pieces to frame the gilt image of “General Harrison” as above. A very good copy, light sun-fading to spine; the usual foxing.  (36557)

It is also rare: This item isnot in NUC or WorldCat, and has only one holding in the CCPB.

•  Not in Palau.   Removed from a volume of pamphlets and now in later marbled paper wrappers; light age-toning.  (36686)

Binding: Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt on front cover with title and a vignette of a nun in prayer at an altar.

•  Bound as above; a little frayed at spine tips, corners a little bumped, a little discoloration to forepart of back cover; gilt very bright. Bookplate roughly removed from front pastedown, exposing the underlying board, and front free endpaper gone (possibly also to eliminate old private ownership marks?). Text age-toned; the occasional spot, only.  (36574)

The book consists ofeight in-text, hand-colored illustrations neatly colored in yellow, purple, blue, green, and brown along with one image repeated on the front wrapper. Advertisements for other “new and beautiful colored juvenile works” appear on the back wrapper. Dating of publication is based on information about Turner & Fisher in the 19th Century American Children's Book Trade Directory website.

Searches of WorldCat and the NUC show no record of this text in any U.S. Libraries.

•  Peach printed wrappers, lightly worn with two small spots of light waterstaining on front cover; hand-coloring as above, small spot on top margin of a few leaves and also gentle offsetting. A pretty and well-preserved little book, though not a pretty take on the classic tale.  (36594)

While Ford used the Stokes name on this Antwerp printing (and again later in the same year on a Parisian printing to which he resorted after Whistler's representatives successfully halted the Belgian production and confiscated most of the existing copies), Stokes denied having been involved in any way.

Provenance:  Inked inscription of noted educator and book collector Jahu Dewitt Miller on final blank page.

•  For the story of Ford's pirated edition, see: E.R. & J. Pennell's Life of Whistler, 1908, V. II chap. 34, pp. 100–13.   Publisher's heavy gray paper wrappers, front wrapper with title stamped in red; spine creased and sunned, corners rubbed, rear wrapper very unobtrusively reinforced. Now housed in a violet cloth–covered chemise and a quarter deep purple morocco and violet cloth–covered slip case, with outer box edge and case spine and front cover sunned, case showing light shelfwear overall. Front two fly-leaves with short tear from upper margin; a very few instances of light spotting, generally not occurring within text. With laid-in auction catalogue information regarding publication and textual details; final blank page with inked inscription as above. Now very uncommon.  (36545)

Includes10 hand-colored wood engravings with blue, green, red, and brown accents, including some nontraditional coloring such as a blue apple pie and blue horses.

Provenance:  Undated ink signature of Susan Browning on title-page; signature of Miss Janette C. Browning dated 1852 on frontispiece.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 34913; Welch 563.15.   Sewn blue printed publisher's wrappers, first and last leaves pasted down; light rubbing at corners. Marked as above, light pencilling and inking on title-page, light waterstaining on inner bottom margin of many leaves, moderate age-toning throughout. A charming little Hartford chapbook.  (36295)

Searches of WorldCat and the NUC suggest that two U.S. libraries report ownership, but there is reallyonly one and it is now at Georgetown.

Binding:  Contemporary cream speckled paper over boards in imitation of vellum, covers bordered in gilt single and red double fillets; red leather title label to spine divided into compartments by gilt-stamping in broad bands, with a gilt device in each compartment. Ornate gilt inner dentelles, and stiff marbled endpapers typical of the era. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed.

•  Bound as above, front cover very slightly sprung; corners bumped with some accompanying discoloration, not severe. Two front fly-leaves with pencilled notes, some faint spots of foxing. Overall a clean, lovely little book; quite pleasing.  (36682)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of the Charles Holbrook Library, Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  Wing (rev. ed.) F588; ESTC R25394.   Contemporary mottled calf, framed and panelled in blind double fillets, central panel of plain calf with blind-tooled corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped compartment decorations; spine (and spine label), joints, and edges rubbed, front panel with areas of chipping, front joint just starting from head. Ex-library as above; spine with paper shelving label, front pastedown lifted and partially excised with bookplate affixed to board; back pastedown also lifted, with library slip affixed and pocket on rear board. Front fly-leaf and frontispiece with outer edges ragged, both the former and the title-page institutionally rubber-stamped, fly-leaf and title-page with early inked ownership inscription. Occasional smudges and small edge nicks. The necessary description suggests a “poor soul” of a book — however, this isn't one.  (34289)

From then until his death he served or worked variously as a church prefect, catechist, missionary, professor of moral theology, controversialist, and military chaplain. He lived in England and on the continent. In defending Catholicism he addresses many of the doctrinal issues and religious practices that were contentious: e.g., the worship of saints, angels, and holy images (and the making of the latter); justification by faith alone; purgatory; and the merit of good works.

The work is printed single-column, in roman with some italic, and with woodcut initials and tailpieces. It ends with an index.

•  Wing (rev. ed.) S4958; Clancy, English Catholic Books (rev. ed.), 922; ESTC R30149; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VII, 1434; Gillow, English Catholics, V, p. 521, no. 1.   Contemporary vellum over pasteboards, binding soiled and a little sprung; front hinge (inside) partially open. Dust-soiling to some pages and some dog-earing. A good, decent copy.  (36601)

From WorldCat and NUC we trace only one copy of this edition in U.S. libraries — at the Bancroft Library.

•  Not in Palau; nor in DeBacker-Sommervogel, but see: IV, 703–704.   Cockled vellum over light pasteboards; hinges open (inside) but volume strong. Occasional stains, not serious, light pencilling on back pastedown.  (36666)

This is an early U.S. edition, following London printings of 1874 and 1875. The poem is illustrated withfour full-page chromolithographs and a chromolithographed front wrapper, all executed by Griset in comically grotesque style.

•  Publisher's color-printed paper wrappers; slightly faded, back wrapper with abrasions near spine and at outer edge. lower outer corners bumped. Pages faintly age-toned, with minor offsetting. An entertaining piece withgrandly garish coloring.  (36526)

The patient and the doctors were all resident in Mexico City.

The online cataloguing of this book is an amazing example of copy-cataloguing from an initial poor record. The cataloguer of that initial record misunderstood the Medina entry and thought that Medina's “port.” meant “portrait,” when in fact it means “title-page”; that cataloguer then recorded that library's copy as “lacking the portrait.” And the error was perpetuated again, and again, and again by five of the ten Anglo-American libraries reporting ownership.

One of the few medical works printed by this famous woman printer.

•  Medina, Mexico, 10967; Guerra, Iconografia medica mexicana, 619; Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 2091.   Original plain wrappers. Very nice.  (36515)

The volume isillustrated with an engraved title-page and seven folding copperplates done by Romeyn de Hooghe. The illustrated title is suitably spooky, featuring a witch casting a ritual, surrounded by owls, scorpions, skeletons, a goat-creature, a pipe-smoking rat, a semi-naked broom rider, and a disconcertingly near-faceless, ruff- and cloak-wearing scarecrow. The seven engraved plates depict a variety of ghostly scenes that also reward careful scrutiny.

Provenance:  Front flyleaf with inked inscription of M. Tydeman, dated 1811 (possibly Dutch lawyer and professor Meinard Tydeman, b. 1741), and with older inked annotation regarding publication; front and rear pastedowns with small ticket of prominent bookseller and founding ABAA member William Salloch.

•  Brunet, III, 887; Coumont, Demonology and Witchcraft, L26.6; Garrison & Morton 4916.2; Wellcome 32446-A.   Contemporary vellum, covers framed/panelled in blind with blind-tooled central stylized floral and foliate medallion, spine with early hand-inked title; vellum dust-soiled, particularly at upper edges and spine. Inscriptions, tickets as above; front pastedown with shadows of now largely erased pencilled annotations. Pages age-toned, with occasional instances of early inked underlining and Latin corrections; two leaves with small area torn from upper margin away from text.A solid, crisp, attractive copy of a fascinating, influential treatise.  (36496)

Provenance:  A laid-in handwritten slip proclaims this “Auntie Doris Lamb's recipe book,” and a letter from Odhams Press Ltd. to Mrs. Lamb acknowledges her correctness in having pointed out that a recipe for Soup Dumplings with Cheese in Modern Cookery Illustrated should have included butter and cheese in the ingredients list. Mrs. Lamb resided at Glen Villa in the parish of Lonan, Isle of Man, as documented by several items, including a retained copy of a letter from her husband Frank to a gentleman looking to buy a bungalow on the island.

•  Publisher's black pebbled roan, front cover with gilt-stamped title and “jeweled” corners stamped in gilt, red, and black; leather with mild scuffs overall. Hinges (inside) reinforced some time ago; pastedowns each with one strip of old cellophane tape. Title-page with printed label reading “No. 62" affixed beneath title; varying degrees of offsetting to pages and wear to laid-in items. While a number of the pages bound in this capacious volume are unused, between the inscribed items and the laid-in items there isan impressive amount of substantive content here.  (36499)

•  Sabin 51791; NSTC 2USA3337.   Removed from a nonce volume, lacks wrappers, with stitching holes; crayon writing in top right corner of title-page, and one instance of pencilled underlining. Small chip to fore-edge of final leaf. Now in a Mylar folder.  (8962)

Of course, by 1845 Texas was nine years past its 2 March 1836 Declaration of Independence from Mexico and was on the verge of being admitted to U.S. statehood, although Mexico still failed to recognize the fact.  But New Mexico and California were still one year from being wrenched away via the Mexican-American War (i.e., La intervención estadounidense en México, La Guerra de 1846).

•  Not in Streeter (rev.), Texas.   Fold as issued. with the integral blank leaf. Pencil notations of a bookseller, including a price code. Very good.  (36688)

•  American Imprints 9398.   Contemporary tan paper–covered boards with brown cloth shelfback; cloth worn, paper lost over rear board and wrinkled/chipped on front board. Front pastedown and free endpaper with early inked and pencilled inscriptions; tracing and annotation as above. Pages age-toned; one plate with upper portion excised, just shaving top of image.A quirky copy of a quirky work.  (36683)

The second edition, following the first of 1858.

Provenance:  1920s-era bookplate of Richard D. Steuart (1880–1951), the Baltimore-based journalist whose nom de plume was Carroll Dulaney. Steuart was an avid student of the U.S. Civil War.

•  Library Company, Afro-Americana (rev. ed.), 9378.   Publisher's brown cloth, stamped in blind on covers and in gilt on spine (gilt faded); top and base of spine pulled with small loss of cloth, cloth missing from lower corner of front board, lower edges of boards with shelf wear. A copy sometime exposed to damp and browned, mostly evenly.  (36572)

•  ESTC T144894; NCBEL, II, 440.   Bound as above, edges and extremities rubbed, spine leather with small cracks; offsetting to margins of first and last few leaves in each volume. Two pages in vol. II with printing ink smudges, text wholly legible; a few leaves with light spotting in lower margins. A handsome 18th-century production of some of the highlights of 17th-century English literature.  (35458)

•  Publisher's color-printed paper wrappers; extremities rubbed, spine paper starting to split, small abrasion to back wrapper. Pages slightly age-toned; center illustration spread with bright yellow band across upper margin, apparently as printed. A moderately uncommon item and a nice copy of it.  (36524)

We trace only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership, the JCB copy being reported as fire-damaged and lacking the last four leaves.

•  Medina, Mexico, 5166.   Original plain wrapper with scattered ink spots and a very light, very limited marginal waterstain to last few leaves; horizontal worming in last three leaves affecting four words but not sense. A lovely little book of devotion.  (36514)

This fan likely predates 1930, that being the date when the A.H. Lewis Medicine Company (pictured as the product manufacturer on the reverse of this fan) became the Lewis-Howe Company and began major commercial production ofTums.

•  Paper fan with reinforced “wood”-patterned cardboard handle, horizontally creased along attachment of paddle to handle; darkened overall, with illustration spotted or “freckled.” Quaintly endearing as a medical and commercial Americanum.  (36565)

This is the last New Testament that the Saur family printed in the 18th century.

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

•  ESTC W4523; Evans 13837; O'Callaghan p. 29; Hildeburn, Pennsylvania, 3245; German Language Printing in the U.S., 454 (explaining the variants).   18th-century calf, simple brass clasps, covers gently rubbed; rebacked with gilt lettering and ruling on spine, new endpapers. Moderate to heavy age-toning and spotting; several leaves trimmed closely with the loss of a letter or two per line. One leaf lacking, another in facsimile, two leaves at front of Matthew supplied from a different copy. Signs of heavy use include chipped edges on first and last few leaves, a few bent corners or short tears, and the occasional mark in ink or (in one case) old crayon. Only library markings are a five-digit stamped inventory number and call number pencilled on verso of title-page. A good, typical example of a Saur German-American testament.  (36376)

•  Publisher's paper wrappers, very slightly darkened, spine and one corner of cover rubbed. One vertical crease and a few others throughout; pages faintly age-toned. A nice demonstration of Eulalie's appeal.  (36533)

Meibom (1590–1655) was a German physician and professor of medicine at the University of Helmstedt, although because of war and unstable political situations in Germany during his life, he moved several times to take new posts.

His work on the use of flagellation in love making (first published in 1639) was a multi-century best seller in Latin and, beginning in the 18th century, in English, French, and other translations. Virtually all of the editions, whether in Latin or not, were read to death or very effectively suppressed. Of this pocket-size edition, searches of NUC, WorldCat, ESTC, COPAC, KVK, and CCPBE, locate only three copies in Britain, none in Spain, four in Germany, andone in the U.S.

Provenance:  Shelf number written on verso of title-page: “Lxxviii. k. 22.”

•  ESTC N31606.   Uncut copy (but it has been opened); dust-soiling to edges and title-page as so often associated. Bound in late 20th or early 21st century in quarter red morocco with red cloth sides. An excellent copy.  (36380)

The author, who spent most of his life in Derby, was a sculptor as well as a Derbyshire historian, and he appears to have supplied theoriginal illustrations here himself. The two pairs of plates (one lithographed, one steel-engraved) are done in notably different styles — we suspect that two different engravers worked from Robinson's sketches. Robinson wrote one additional Twitcher piece in 1881, describing a visit to the Royal Agricultural Show, not included in this gathering.

All the Twitcher books are now scarce: WorldCat finds very few U.K. holdings of these titles and virtually no U.S.

Provenance: First text page with early pencilled ownership inscription of Mr. H. Mills in upper outer corner.

•  Crismas: NSTC 2R14138; Visit: NSTC 2R14139; Second Visit: NSTC 2R14140; Watter Cure: NSTC 0643751.   Later quarter green calf and fine combed marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; minor shelfwear. Pencilled ownership note as above. Light age-toning; first two works with mild foxing and last leaves with avery light, old waterstain across a lower corner. A highly personal production in text *and* illustration; an entertaining and very uncommon gathering.  (36501)

Horse cures apparently a specialty.

•  Not in Bitting, Brown, or Cagle & Stafford (see Bitting 515 for 1868 printing).   Publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers with original hanging loop present in upper inner corner; wrappers showing light wear. Mild to moderate foxing. An interesting (and seldom seen) example of the genre.  (36570)

The engraved title-page's vignette is of Abel's burnt sacrifice, after W. Hamilton, opposite a frontispiece of the destruction of Pharaoh's host, after Loutherbourg; both were engraved by Ellis.

Binding:  19th-century red sheep, spine gilt extra with arabesque design; covers framed in gilt double rules surrounding a rolled gilt design and a blind roll of zig-zags. Board edges and turn-ins with a similar zig-zag design in gilt; deep blue endpapers and all edges gilt.

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

•  Bound as above, spine and section of back cover slightly darkened, light rubbing, more at spine tips and joints, a few spots of soiling. Light age-toning and pencilling, booklabel at back. A nice little Philadelphia Bible in a graceful, refined American binding.  (36516)

Provenance:  Front fly-leaf with elegantly written 17th-century inked inscription (in Latin) noting the book was a gift to “Gulielmo Seeke” from William Pudsey, a graduate of Lincoln College, Oxford; below the inscription Seeke has calligraphically signed his name in English. First main text page with early inked inscription of Joseph Moses; title-page rubber-stamped by the Charles Holbrook Library of the Pacific School of Religion (properly released, with bookplate laid in).

•  Coumont, Demonology and Witchcraft, G38.3; ESTC R21168; Wing (rev. ed.) G800–819.   Period-style speckled calf, framed in double blind fillets, spine with gilt-stamped title-label, blind-ruled raised bands, and blind-tooled compartment decorations. Ex-library as above, title-page verso with rubber-stamped numeral and shadow of pencilled numeral, one text page with rubber-stamp in lower margin, touching one word without obscuring sense. Pp. 121/22 supplied in fine facsimile. Faint age-toning and occasional light spotting, with offsetting to margins of first and last few leaves; short tear in upper margins of first two leaves of dedication.A solid and handsomely bound copy of a frankly spellbinding text.  (36381)

•  Not in Bitting, Brown, or Cagle & Stafford.   Publisher's terra cotta cloth, front cover with “silver”-stamped title and small leaf decoration; spine and extremities showing mild wear. Hinges (inside) unobtrusively reinforced some time ago. A crisp, bright, tight copy.  (36487)

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, and KVK find only one copy of the almanac and one of the New Testament, bound together. They are in the Württembergische Landesbibliothek. However Chambers lists five copies in addition to that one, including one at the National Library of Scotland that is not findable via COPAC.

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

•  Van Eys, Bibles French, pt. II, 118; Chambers, French Bibles, 340; not in Darlow & Moule.   Bound as above, rebacked, with gentle rubbing. Light general age-toning with this greater at edges, Bible title-page lacking; two early leaves darkened and one repaired, some leaves closely trimmed touching captions or with loss of a letter or two from marginal notes, two leaves with short tears and three each with a small spot. Ex-library as above: pencilling on endpapers, five-digit acquisition stamp and call number on title-page verso, booklabel at back. A compact and dare it be said “darling” book.  (36407)

One of several piracies that appeared in the year of publication, this copy has seven stars on a shield as the title-page ornament.

•  ESTC T41625; Foxon H282.   As above, removed from a nonce volume and now in a Mylar folder; starting to split along inner fold. Title-page with faintly inked numeral in upper outer corner; pages mildly age-toned. A nice example.  (2992)

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 17875; Welch 739; Rosenbach, Children, 395; German Language Printing in the U.S. 1690; Pomeroy, Anderson, 289.   Publisher's stone-pattern marbled-covered boards.A very nice copy; remarkably, beautifully clean.  (36378)

The work is printed in large roman type and bears the engraved coat of arms of the king, signed by Benavides, on the title-page. The text contains two large historiated woodcut initials and one large woodcut headpiece.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only three copies in the U.S.

•  Palau 60068; Medina, Mexico, 7091.   Recased in old vellum; a few short tears to the edges of the title-leaf, repaired. Else very good.  (36393)

An interesting “extra-illustrated” copy.

•  Recent good quality red-maroon cloth; lightly rubbed along the front joint (outside). Ex-library with pencilled shelf-location and five-digit rubber-stamp to verso of title-page, no other stampings; charge pocket at rear and the residue of a date due slip. Small area of discoloration at base of spine. With the two specially inserted leaves in very good condition.  (33644)

Provenance:  Title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin reading “Liber Guilielmi Kedden”; inked calculation of the age of the book dated 1702 (in Kedden's hand?). Motto in 18th-century hand on title-page: “Disce mori mundo vivere disce Deo.” In the 20th century in the Charles Holbrook Library of the Pacific School of Religion (properly released, with bookplate laid in).

Binding:  Period-style mottled calf, spine with gilt-stamped title and author labels and blind-ruled raised bands; preserving original wastepaper endpapers of its previously totally deteriorated binding, which are reused leaves from a 16th-century blackletter work by Jacobus Perez de Valencia (at the front) and a large portion of a 1692 royal proclamation “for a General Fast” (ESTC R38082, Wing W2574) at the back.

•  Brunet, IV, 39 (for 1593 ed.); STC (rev. ed.) 18355; ESTC S113083.   Binding as above; lacks the initial blank leaf (only). Front fly-leaf with early inked annotation in upper margin describing publication; title-page and one other rubber-stamped as above; title-page also with inkings as above. Pages faintly age-toned with edges slightly ragged. Two leaves torn across; one leaf with closed tear, without loss. Retained elements of earlier binding as above. An intriguing copy of this important post–Scottish Reformation exegesis.  (36388)

The Spanish-language account of the burial includesa detailed description of the funeral monument (i.e., cenotaph) that the city erected for the archbishop, including the inscriptions and epigrams that were by F.J. Alegre. Following the last page of the text, there isa large folding engraved plate by Manuel Villavicencio after the design of the monument by Miguel Cabrera, “pintor americano.” The engraving is detailed, exquisite, and includes a measure of scale.

A good source for the study of Mexican colonial architecture, commemorative ceremonies, and treatment of and thinking about death.

•  Palau 6584; Medina, Mexico, 5067; DeBacker-Sommervogel, I, 153.   Contemporary vellum with remnants of ties; spine damaged with loss to hungry rodents not affecting paper. One short tear in margin of folding plate, well away from image. A very clean, very good copy.  (36410)

This text was stereotyped by L. Johnson with an unsigned wood-engraved frontispiece and a wood-engraved vignette on the front wrapper. Publication date is from the American Antiquarian Society OPAC.

•  Shoemaker 29513.   Original blue printed wrappers; moderate foxing, one bent corner.  (36569)

Unfussy but handsome, the publications themselves were just as clearly as the poems prepared for “occasions” also — i.e., for limited personal distribution by a charming and social man who frankly referred to himself, on the title-page of one of his printed collections, as a “master of ceremonies.”

Four of these publications are not found at all via NUC, ESTC, WorldCat, and COPAC; two more are found only at Yale with four others found only at Yale, the BL, and the Bodleian. In no case are more than a handful of copies recorded.

Almost all our offered effusions — NOT the Bishop items or “Some say he dried the widow's tear,” This is the judge,” “The Lawyer,” or the “New Century” — are to be found reset in a little volume sans title-page but with an index, held at the Bodleian and catalogued as “[A collection of 81 poems by J. Townley].” This has been digitized, review of it showing that tucked-in, original, separately printed copies of “The Lawyer” and “The New Century” were roughly, unreadably scanned with it!

Viewing the online surrogate of the poems' compiled resetting alongside the individual originals in hand makes strikingly clear not just the infinitely greater charm of the latter, but the much greater wealth of social illumination that is embodied in them.

•  Condition overall is very good. Details are supplied in the list of items that may be seen HERE.  (32807)

Provenance:  The Howell Bible Collection, Pacific School of Religion (properly released). With a note laid in reading: “This is a volume of a Chinese Buddhist sacred book, which has been for two centuries in a Shantung family. The woman who owned it became convinced of its uselessness, & exchanged it for a New Testament & a hymn book. It is now presented to the Pacific Theological Seminary by Rev. Arthur H. Smith, P'ang Chuang, Shantung, China.”

The Rev. Smith (1845–1932) was a missionary of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions who spent 54 years as a missionary in China.

(We are grateful to Dr. Martin Heijdra of the East Asian Library at Princeton for assisting us in identifying this work.)

•  Covers detached but present; soiled and totally faded and discolored. Tattering and dog-earing of text leaves; some split at the folds or at pasted areas. Far from perfect condition butcomplete.  (34760)

Binding:  Gorgeous 19th-century acid-stained autumnal binding: Covers framed with a gilt floral roll and brilliantly crossed with bands of walnut brown, ochre, deep green, russet red, black, and grey, allvery bright. Spines gilt extra with compartment devices and multiple interesting rolls, and bearing black leather gilt labels; board edges touched at corners with gilt; marbled endpapers.

Provenance:  Signature of Sam Baird on front endpaper and title-page of vol. I and half-title of vol. II.

As described in the BAL, signature sign 6 is not present on p. 41 in vol. I and the last page of vol. III is unnumbered.

•  BAL 10124.   Bound as above, bindings moderately rubbed with one sliver of leather lost at a joint and a small patch lost near the bottom of one back cover. Age-toning, foxing, and some other spotting; some corners creased (some corners improperly trimmed during manufacture. Inscriptions as above, light pencilling on endpapers of one volume; map wrinkled with some old light staining and a tear repaired some time ago from back, with cloth tape — folds strong. A classic semi-historical work most strikingly bound.  (36170)

However harsh the allegations, the Quakers were not Leslie's sole target; he also wrote works against deism, Judaism, Catholicism, Socinianism, and more, not to mention his numerous writings against various political parties.

Sabin's entry for this Americanum has this bizarre and amusing note: “It gives a long account of the 'Fourth or New Quakers who mostly reside in Long Island and East Jersey, in America,' one of whom wasMary Ross, who went to meeting stark naked, and carrying a fiddle.”

The text here is in a rather striking mix of roman, italic, and large black letter.

Provenance:  The Howell Bible Collection, Pacific School of Religion (properly released), with bookplate tucked into front cover.

•  Sabin 40195; ESTC R216663; Wing (rev. ed.) L1156; Smith, Anti-Quakeriana, 267; on Leslie, see: DNB (online).   17th-century speckled calf, Cambridge-style, spine gilt-lettered with two labels, bands accented and covers panelled in blind; rebacked with new endpapers; abraded, edges worn. Moderate age-toning and foxing, a handful of leaves with rounded corners or chipped edges. Ex-library with its rubber-stamp on title-page and one leaf of text, five-digit number on title-page verso; light pencilling on title-page.  (36371)

Binding:  Contemporary mottled calf, front cover with elaborate gilt-stamped EC monogram and coronet, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt compartment decorations. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled; original silk bookmark present and intact.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, IV, 860. Brunet gives only the Hague edition of the same year.   Binding as above, leather scuffed and rubbed with spine head chipped yet gilt still bright. Pages gently age-toned and cockled, with some offsetting front and rear from the binding and scattered small spots of foxing; a few corners bumped. A handsome volume and an interesting 18th-century perspective on the near-mythic rebel queen.  (36250)

Provenance:  Front fly-leaf with inked inscription: “Ivon Braby, from his affectionate father [/] Christmas 1884"; front free endpaper with Braby's bookplate.

•  Contemporary crimson calf, covers framed in gilt roll, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label, board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll, rebacked with similar leather, preserving original spine; edges rubbed, spine leather with small chips. Plates and surrounding pages with spots of light foxing; frontispiece plate with outer edge lightly waterstained. A solid, very readable, andpretty copy.  (36248)

A suitable candidate for collections of Bibles, Victoriana, OR biblio-blunders!

Provenance:  Gift inscription on the half-title, “Mr. Robert Macnab / from affectionate Brother in law / John Macnab / Feb. 24 1884.”

•  Herbert 2008 (note).  Publisher's gold-stamped vellum with brass clasps; binding signed by J.R. Evans of Oxford. Fore- and bottom edges uncut; top edge crimson. Some dust-soiling (as the uncut edges and white vellum invite it), buta very good copy.  (36186)

Provenance:  With ownership stamp of early 20th-century American archaeologist Harry Evelyn Dorr Pollock on front free endpaper.

Binding: Navy blue publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and blind ruling on spine, decorative foliate frames on covers in blind. Binder's label of Edmonds & Remnants, London, on rear pastedown.

•  Palau 21943; Sabin 2771; Nicaraguan National Bibliography 1476.   Binding as above: gently rubbed with tiny tissue patches applied to weak areas of bookcloth, text slightly cocked, front hinge repaired and a few preliminary leaves reattached with long–fiber tissue and wheat starch paste. Light age-toning with some foxing, most notably around plates; one leaf with small marginal hole, a few corners creased, some leaves with evidence in margins of hasty opening.  (36298)

The biblical text begins on 6r and all of the text leaves bear illuminated, polychromatic, and illustrated borders on two of the four sides of the page. Each border is unique, there are no repeats.  The text is enlivened with infills of red, green, and gold, as well as vines and even bowls with flowers. The many human faces that appear in some of the borders may well be those of friends, neighbors, or acquaintances.

The leaf/page construction of the manuscript is this, with a very few exceptions: a leaf of parchment is folded in half and sewn to the binding at the open end, thus leaving inner “pages” blank, as with Asian books. The text of this manuscript, then, is present on the outer surfaces of the folded leaves.

Binding:  Dark brown leather with a richly embossed border on the covers that has been gilt over the embossing, and an inner frame offering a central lobed oval with pendants and corner pieces with arabesque designs on a gold ground. Modeled on that “used in the 17th and 18th centuries to produce sharp inlaid medallion designs of the Persian-style binding. The supporting board was hollowed out in the exact shape of the stamp to be used, then the dampened leather was placed over the board. When applied to the leather, the heated stamp molded into the contours of the board and created a deep impression. The gilt patterns were applied to paper, perhaps because paper took the gilding more readily than leather. The paper was then placed between the leather and the stamp, hence becoming sealed to the leather during the stamping process” (Beinecke Library Exhibit “Islamic Books and Bookbinding,” Arabic ms. 166, http://www.library.yale.edu/neareast/exhibitions/Islamic_book2.html ).

Pastedowns of lighter brown leather with inlaid blue leather central lobed oval; pendants and corner pieces with arabesque designs All edges gilt.

•  Binding as above, spine expertly repaired using the Japanese long-fiber method and then toned. One blank leaf with a cut. Folded edges of two bifolia partially opened. A beautiful, curious, and sumptuous production; an extraordinary relic of a legend in lettering. (35510)

Provenance:  Elegant calligraphic bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books.

•  Dreyfus, History of the Nonesuch Press, 8.   Publisher's batik-printed heavy paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label; joints and extremities mildly rubbed. Extra spine label tipped in at the back of the volume. Pages very slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. An attractive copy of a little book that intrigues for multiple reasons.  (36134)

Not located in RLIN.

•  Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). The front edge of the title page is darkened, else very good.  (17422)

The fore-matter offerings here are: “On Picasso's Desire and T.S. Eliot's Sweeney Agonistes” by J[udith?] M[alina?]; “Reply” by William Carlos Williams; and “In response to a request for a manifesto on music, 1952" by John Cage.

The first year's program announces these productions: Gertrude Stein's “Ladies' Voices,” Pablo Picasso's “Desire,” T.S. Eliot's “Sweeney Agonistes,” Kenneth Rexroth's “Beyond the Mountains,” and Paul Goodman's “Faustina.”

Also present are a few advertisements, and lists of “Who's Who in the Casts,” the staff, and the directors and sponsors of the theater. The image on the front wrapper is a reproduction of a sketch by Picasso of the design for his famous sculpture “Man with a Lamb.”

Curiously, this group of avant garde artists apparently did not feel sufficient solidarity with the working man to have the program printed at a union shop. In fact, it has the feel and look of an “in house” production.

WorldCat finds onlyfive copies.

•  Printed on cheap brown paper and saddle stitched; upper inner corners of wrappers (only) chipped. A very good copy.  (36241)

•  Howes S1145; NSTC S4417; Sabin 93943; Shaw & Shoemaker 26833.   Contemporary tree sheep, recently rebacked with speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; original leather rubbed with edges chipped, new endpapers. Mild to moderate age-toning and foxing throughout; title-page with inner margin repaired; three leaves with a lower corner or bit of margin torn away without approach to text. Scattered instances of early pencilled underlining and annotations. Interesting, sensitive observations from a writer concerned with both commercial and spiritual elements of life in the States; here in a very solid copy with the plate in beautiful condition.  (36315)

The volume opens with acopper-engraved frontispiece done by Harrewyn, featuring a satyr and a jester in addition to muses crowning Furetière with a laurel wreath; the title-page is printed in red and black, and the text is ornamented with two woodcut headpieces, two tailpieces, and two decorative capitals. This nicely printed edition is not widely held in the United States; WorldCat locatesonly four American institutional holdings and these perhaps unexpected ones, with no holdings added by NUC Pre-1956.

•  This edition not in Brunet.   Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped floral decorations in compartments, board edges with gilt roll; worn and rubbed, leather lost at extremities, front joint cracked and back joint starting (sewing holding). All edges speckled red and brown. Front pastedown and free endpaper with modern collector's inscriptions, front pastedown with early inked numerals and later pencilled annotations; one obscured name in text annotated in pencil in the margin. Pages gently age-toned with occasional tiny spots of foxing. Externally worn, interior beautifully preserving the author's irrepressible, biting wit.  (36242)

The work was originally written in Latin: This English translation is probably byWilliam Caxton, and is based in part on the French translation of Jean de Vignay.

Provenance:  The Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  STC (rev. ed.) 24880; ESTC S111988.   Loosely laid into marbled wrappers; leaves browned and dust-soiled, upper margin of first leaf crumpled and with a short tear. Paper good and woodcut charming.  (36088)

Founded in 1814, the Asylum was by the time of this appeal overwhelmed by the number of County residents needing care, especially from Class III; and, after the failure of efforts to find adjoining land allowing enlargement of facilities on the old mixed principle, decision was taken to build a new center for Class I and II patients within a half-mile's distance. The original provision that better-off patients paying according to their abilities would subsidize the care of the others was explicitly to be maintained, as per the solicitation in hand.

Conjoined is afull-page engraving of the proposed design, signed “Warrington, sc.” The completed Coton Hill opened in 1854. Its main portions have been demolished though the chapel in the engraving and a gatehouse still stand.

Provenance:  “Dr. J.S. Butler” stamped at the top of p. 1; we note that there was a Dr. J.S. Butler who was a noted psychiatrist in Connecticut in the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate only one copy worldwide.

•  The two leaves separated, with gentle age-toning and small chipping and tears to edges not touching text or approaching platemark.  (36108)

This isnumbered copy 220 of 500 printed, signed by the author the trade edition of the same year was issued in green cloth, while this special limited edition is in vellum with yapp edges. The front cover design, a steaming wassail bowl, issigned by “BS”: Smith's son, Frank Berkeley Smith.

•  BAL 18236.   Publisher's vellum with yapp edges, front cover and spine gilt-stamped as above; binding slightly cocked, spine and edges darkened, yapp edges intact. Previous bookseller's slip laid in. Pages and plates clean.  (35586)