NEWEST ARRIVALS
NEWEST ENTRIES 27 JULY 2014
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[ PART I — PART II ]

10 Volumes, 22 Inches of Shelf Well Filled, 729 Illustrations
Large Paper & EXTRA-Illustrated

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•  Produced for a connoisseur, this Bible is a large paper copy, extra-illustrated with 729 plates inlaid to paper to the size of the text leaves, and bound in gilt-tooled red goat (i.e., morocco). “The text is that of the King James version but in Blayney's modern diction (first used in 1769), with certain changes, chiefly in format, thus producing what is sometimes known as Reeves' Bible” (Herbert). We note that the tallest copy reported to WorldCat is 24 cm tall and that this set is 28 cm in height.

The division of the text in the volumes is: 1. Genesis to Exodus; 2. Exodus to Numbers; 3. Deutronomy to II Samuel; 4. I Kings to Esther; 5. Job to Psalms; 6. Proverbs to Jeremiah; 7. Ezekiel to Malachi; 8. The Apocrypha; 9. Matthew to Acts; & 10. Romans to Revelation. Other sets are found in nine volumes, and there was an 8vo edition as well.

The illustrations are unsigned, detailed, andnotably well-accomplished etchings, chiefly measuring 13.5 x 19.5 cm ( h x w; 5.5" x 7.75"); they are uncaptioned, but a large number have identifications of their scenes inked or pencilled in outside the plates.

Binding:  Contemporary straight-grained goat, slightly raised bands on round spine, gilt spine extra. Boards tooled along perimeter with a gilt roll of a diamond pattern and with an abutting blind-tooled roll pattern of floral sprigs; modest gilt roll on the turn-ins. All edges gilt.

Provenance:  1870s American bookseller's label, “Henry Miller, Bookseller & Binder, 82 Nassau St., N.Y.” Bookplate of Alfred A. Cohen, Fernside, the English-born lawyer and mid- to late-19th-century railroad tycoon based in Alameda, California; 20th-century bookplate and other indicia of The Pacific School of Religion (properly released), i.e., Howell Bible Collection.

•  Herbert 1457.   Binding as above, unsigned despite splendor; three boards skillfully reattached, spines lightly to moderately rubbed, some covers with scuffs and one spine with one; overall impression very pleasing. Text generally very clean, with expectable offsetting from engravings and instances variably of foxing or occasional other spotting; engravings annotated as above. Some volumes with some leaves creased across (not torn and not “damaged”), clearly in the press or in binding. Ex-library set as above: Bookplates, rubber-stamp in lower margin of each title-page and five-digit stamped number on verso, evidence of removal of charge pockets and date due slips, lightly pencilled shelf notations. Indeed a striking and handsome set, one with many points of use and interest.  (34151)

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“I Have Not Received at Your Hands, the Fair Trial by an Impartial Jury which is the Law”
(The Content Is Significant Here, but the Presentation Is Just as Important)

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•  The Dorr Rebellion: Was it treason or a desperate attempt to bring into effect change such as enlarged enfranchisement of the white male population and even universal public education? In Jacksonian America the movement for increased white male suffrage led to challenges to the established norm in several states, but in only one state did the challenge lead to the creation of a parallel government and open rebellion against the establishment: That state was Rhode Island and the leader was Thomas Dorr.

“Dorr was by turns a Whig state legislator (1834–37), a Democratic state chairman (1840–41), a political insurrectionary (1842), and the leader of the Equal Rights wing of the Rhode Island Democratic party (1842–54). [He] was the catalyst that hastened the demise of the royal charter of 1663 and the adoption of a written state constitution. Ironically, neither document met with his approval, for his egalitarian philosophy was best expressed in the so-called People's Constitution, of which Dorr was the principal draftsman. It was Dorr's attempt to put this constitution into effect by invoking his version of the Lockean doctrine of popular constituent sovereignty that precipitated the Dorr War in 1842" (American National Biography On-Line) and that landed him in jail for treason.

In this speech “preached” at his 1844 trial, Dorr, the guiding force of the revolt, defended his actions and those of his followers before being sentenced to solitary confinement and hard labor for life. A year later, yielding to widespread protest against the harshness of the sentence, he was freed but broken in health and resolve.

Though his significant and stirring speech was promulgated in many just-get-it-out-there forms, this version of this broadside isprinted in gold on midnight blue calendared paper, in triple-column format within a filigree border featuring doves in the upper corners and American eagles with shields in the lower corners. The printed area, including ornamental border, measures 39 x 28 cm. The producer here was both getting a text out there and obviously, perhaps daringly, creatinga patriotic keepsake, memorial, and relic.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat fail to locate any copy of this printing but we know of one at Yale. We also know from correspondence with the Hay Library at Brown University and with the New-York Historical Society that the Simons printing is the same as one issued with “A.H. Stillwell, No. 1 Market Square, Providence” in the imprint line, that also in gold on blue paper but with copies additionally having been produced on ordinary paper and yet others on silk!

•  Waviness along the top from old exposure to water, staining visible on rear only; some of the gold printed border at top slightly darkened. Minor chipping to margins and small piece torn from upper left corner, noting cost gold printing. Good++ condition.  (34247)

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“Honey & Wax Were Not Known tothe Indians of New-England”

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•  In addition to commemorating Columbus in a manner suitable to the 300th anniversary of the European discovery of America, Belknap adds four significant dissertations “connected with various parts of the Discourse, viz. 1) On the circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients. 2) An examination of the pretensions of Martin Behaim to a discovery of America prior to that of Columbus, with a chronological detail of all the discoveries made in the 15th century. 3) On the question, whether the honey-bee is a native of America? 4) On the colour of the native Americans and the recent population of this continent.”

•  Evans 24085; ESTC W20181.   Modern marbled paper–covered boards. Age-toning and foxing in reasonable degrees. A solid, good and worthy copy.  (34334)

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The FirstAvowedly PROTESTANT Spanish New Testament

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•  Kermit the Frog sang soulfully about the difficulty of being green: Juan Pérez de Pineda, like many another Reformation-era Bible translator probably would have howled dirges about his difficulties as well. This work of his, asonly the second complete translation of the complete New Testament into Spanish and the first by an avowed Protestant, had to be published with a false imprint — both place of printing and printer being fictitious — and without the translator's name appearing anywhere in the volume, especially notably not on the title-page.

Pérez de Pineda (d.1567), the translator of this N.T. was apparently educated at least in part at Alcala de Henares and received a doctorate, but we don't yet know from which university. In the early 1540s he resided in Seville, the hotbed of Protestantism in Spain in the period to ca. 1550. He taught at the Casa de la Doctrina there and was a member of the inner circle of Protestants of Seville, along with Juan Gil (alias, Dr. Egidio), Constantino Ponce de la Fuente, Casiodoro de Reina, and Cipriano de Valera, As things heated up and life became untenable in Seville, Perez fled, and in 1549 entered on a peripatetic existence, living at times in Paris, England, Frankfurt, Antwerp, and settling longest in Geneva, but dying in Paris.

He translated directly from the Greek, not the Latin: and his N.T. translation was the foundation on which Casiodoro de Reina built his complete translation of the whole Bible into Spanish.

A neat hand-holdable volume, this is printed chiefly in roman with chapter summaries in italic, a sprinkling of woodcut initials, and notable side- and shouldernotes. It begins with a most interesting woodcut title-vignette contrasting the narrowness of the “right road” with the wide path leading to perdition.

Provenance:  Ownership indicia of John (??) Watney of Buckhold, England, dated 1891 on the front fly-leaf; given by him to M.E. Watney in 1928.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, and two other national union OPACs located three U.S. institutions reporting ownership (but we know of a fourth), plus three British, three French, one Swiss, two German, and two Spanish holdings.

A significant, handsome, and rare book.

•  Adams B1795 & B1796; Darlow & Moule 8468; Gilmont 56/1; Toda 690; Palau 29076; Salva 4016.   20th-century mottled sheep, mildly distressed; round spine, raised bands, modest gilt ruling on spine; red spine label. All edges carmine and a green silk placemarker supplied. Occasional light stains, mostly in margins, occasionally into the text. Overall, a very nice copy.  (34297)

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Signatures of theFamous & Obscure

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•  The collection contains approximately 400 clipped signatures of historical, political, and literary figures, including: José María Fagoaga (signer of the Act of Independence), Manuel Sotarriva (signer of the Act of Independence), Miguel Cervantes (i.e., Marques de Salvatierra. signer of the Act of Independence), Juan de Solorzano Pereira (jurist and major writer on the law of the Indies), Juan Cervantes y Padilla (signer of the Act of Independence), Jose Maria Heredia (poet), Jose Fernandez de Jauregui (printer), Jose Maria Guridi y Alcocer (signer of the Act of Independence), Valentín Canalizo (general, supporter and confidante of Santa Anna), Marques de San Juan de Rayas (signer of the Act of Independence), Santiago de Irissarri ((Independence-era military figure), Jose Bustamante (signer of the Act of Independence), Enrique White (governor of East Florida), Ignacio Barbachano (leader of the 1841 Yucatecan-break-away protonation), Vicente de la Concha (Queretaro politician), Juan Hierro Maldonado (Minister of Fomento, Colonización é Industria, and great politician), El Marques de Selva Nevada, Jacobo Ugarte y Loyola (governor of province of Coahuila y Tejas in the 1790s), El Conde de Alcazar, Ignacio de Bustamante (many times governor of Sonora), José Ignacio de Berasueta (intendent of Puebla in 1811), José Mariano de Arce (chief of revenue for pulque and alcabala), Francisco Javier Miranda (one of the delegation that offered Mexico to Maximilian!), Urbano Tovar (conservative politician, governor of Jalisco), Ramon Gutierrez del Mayo, Francisco Robledo, Francisco Jose de Urrutia, Victoriano Lopez Gonzalo (bishop of Puebla), Esteban Lorenzo de Tristán y Esmenota (bishop of Durango), Manuel José Rubio y Salinas (archbishop of Mexico), Mariano Riva Palacio (politician), Rafael Mangino (politician who crowned Emperor Agustin I), José Agustín Domínguez y Díaz (bishop of Oaxaca), Ignacio Alas (railroad entrepreneur), Juan Faustino Mazihcatzin (Indian leader of Tlaxcala), Pedro Saenz de la Guardia (naval commander of the San Blas region), Vicente Filisola (general, second in command to Santa Anna in the Texas Campaign), Esteban Moctezuma (general defeated by Bustamante at Gallinero), Jose Mariano Beristain (the great bibliographer), Manuel Payno (novelist and playwright), and many more.

Beyond its simple charm asa signature gallery both representing and evoking a long era of Mexican history, this is a most useful archive of “sample” signatures.

•  All items glued toboth sides of sheets of paper (approximately 25 x 21.5 cm; .75 x 8.5" h x w) with multiple clipped signatures per sheet, 21 sheets total. Glue stains, and some early colonial ones with sealing-wax stains.  (34167)

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The Largest Book Produced inColonial America

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•  First American edition, here in German translation by Johann Peter Miller (1710–96) from the original Dutch, of the famous “Martyrs' Mirror” (Martyrer Spiegel der Tauffs-Gesinnten oder Wehrlosen-Christen), a history of baptism century by century alternating with accounts of Christian martyrs who suffered for their faith under both pagan and Christian governments.

This translation and printing were done at the behest of the Pennsylvania Mennonite community and done at the famous Ephrata Cloister in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The Cloister was a pietistic community that separated from the Schwarzenau Brethren movement of Alexander Mack of Schwarzenau in Germany, and was established in Pennsylvania in 1732 by Johann Conrad Beissel. Book I chronicles events from the 1st to 15th centuries and II surveys the 16th and 17th centuries to 1660.

Evans tells us that “The Ephrata Brethren were three years engaged upon its printing and binding. . . . The engraved frontispiece [not present in this copy], representing the army of the martyrs marching to Heaven is generally missing, as the design was offensive to the Mennonites.” Others have suggested that the frontispiece was suppressed and that many copies were bound and issued without it. (It was not engraved in the New World, but rather in Germany and possibly by M. Eben.)

Provenance: 18th-century ownership signature of David Worther on title-page of part II. In 1869 a gift of the Shallenberger family to the Crozer Theological Seminary; faint library pressure-stamps on main title- and last leaf of the defunct Crozer Library.

•  Hildeburn 1050; Evans 6256; Arndt & Eck, German Language Printing in the U.S., T96; NAIP w019947.   Contemporary brown sheep over bevelled wood boards, rebacked sympathetically without labels; new endpapers and fly-leaves. Brass corner bosses and evidence of brass and leather closures. Waterstaining in many margins, occasionally into portions of the text; stray brown stains (sometimes heavy and into text), occasional foxing; otherwise, minor rents or holes in some lower margins, and finger soiling in lower margins from turning of pages. Old ink stains into text on 6 pp. obscuring the text a bit. Ownership indicia as above, with an instance or two additionally of library pencilling. Clearly a copy that was used, read, and loved enough to survive in good strong shape into the 21st century.  (34266)

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Awen Anna Kije Manito?

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•  Designed for children.  In addition to the abridged catechism in Cree, pp. [3]–10 contain the alphabet and a primer, and pp. [11]–17 prayers. At the top of the title-page: L.J.C. et M.I.

WorldCat locates copies in only four U.S. and three Canadian institutions.

Provenance:  Stamp on the title-page of the [L'Oeuvre Pontificale de la] “Propagation de la Foi, 5 rue Monsieur, Paris.”

•  Pilling, Algonquian, 215; Newberry Library, Ayer Indians, Cree 36; Banks (rev. ed.), Books in Native Languages, 43; not in Evans, Masinahikan.   Publishers quarter cloth with blue paper covers; a bit of chipping to spine and lightly rubbed at edges. Ex-library: paper call number label partially removed from top of spine; stamp on title-page as above; else very good.  (34294)

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“There Are Three Types Observable amongthe Arctic Eskimos of Alaska”

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•  Apparently the first separately printed non-Greenlandic Eskimo-English / English-Eskimo dictionary. The compilers were a U.S. Navy ensign (i.e., Wells) and an official interpreter (Kelly). Wells (spelled “Welles” in some sources) was an 1884 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy who made several voyages to the North Pacific, visiting the Arctic and the Baring Sea, and acquiring some knowledge of the native tongue. One online source indicates that these vocabularies contain a mix of words of the Malemiut and Wales dialects.

The prefatory matter here includes maps that show tribal boundaries of Arctic Eskimo in Alaska in 1889 and “ethnographical memoranda concerning the Arctic Eskimos in Alaska and Siberia, by John W. Kelly.”

•  Not in Evans, Masinahikan; not in Banks (rev. ed.), Books in Native Languages.   Fine. In original printed wrappers.  (34327)

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Issue No. 1 & News of the War with Gran Colombia

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•  As were so many of the 19th-century Peruvian newspapers, La Prensa Peruana was short-lived: it began publishing on 29 January 1828 and ceased printing on 1 July 1829. Announced as being published every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, its imprint varies with most issues reading “Imprenta. de la Instrucción Primaria,” others “Imprenta del Estado,” and the name of the press operator changes several times: Pedro Casal, J. Fabian Solorzano, J. Gonzalez, and so on.

Present here are eleven issues: 1 (29 January 1828), 20 ( 27 March 1828), 55 (1 July 1828), 58 (8 July 1828), 59 (10 July 1858) , 86 (2 October 1828), 87 (7 October 1828), 103 (2 December 1828), 130 (5 March 1829), 131 (12 March 1829), 133 (14 March 1829).

Included are national and international news, politics, and coverage of the war with Gran Colombia; the sentencing of Gen. Santander for the attempted assassination of Simon Bolivar is announced; and one issue is oversized.

•  Charno p. 544.   Disbound; worming, especially in the inner margins but also into text costing letters but not words. Some stray stains, bug spotting, light foxing; paper good.  (34206)

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The“Wife Beater's” Bible, 1549

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•  The 1549 Matthew's Bible, a.k.a. the “Wife Beater's Bible,” is a reprint of the 1537 printing of Matthew's Bible, a “version, which welds together the best work of Tyndale and Coverdale, [and which is] generally considered to be the real primary version of our English Bible (Herbert).” Copinger writes of the Matthew's Bible that “The real editor is said to have been John Rogers, the first martyr in Queen Mary's reign. The Bible was composed of Tyndale's version of Genesis to 2 Chronicles, Coverdale's for the rest of the Old Testament, and Tyndale's New Testament from the edition of 1535" (Bible and its Transmission, p. 304).

Edmund Becke was responsible for the revisions and notes, and it is his note at the end of 1 Peter iii that gave the Bible its noted sobriquet: “And yf she be not obedient and healpfull unto hym endeuoureth to beate the feare of God into her heade, that therby she maye be compelled to learne her dutie and do it”

The text is printed in double-column format in an interesting gothic (i.e., “black letter”) type with many sidenotes and five-line woodcut initials. A nicely illustrated work, it has 70 woodcuts in 83 occurrences in a complete Bible, many of them from Antwerp cutters.

This edition is notorious for its surviving copies' being either sophisticated or incomplete and this one is no exception. Incomplete and in part sophisticated by the supplying of leaves from a different copy, it also offers an array of examples of absolutely dangerously! exquisite 19th-century pen and ink facsimile restorations to portions of a number of its pages, plus several complete leaves in old forms of photofacsimile (see detail below).

Evidence of Readership/Use: There is some minimal marginalia by a reader but we are more attracted to the “doodling,” practice alphabets, and crude drawings in the margins and find them interesting and evocative.

Provenance:  17th-century trial signature of “John Mabbe” in one margin; birth and baptism notes of the daughters of William and Mary Trusson dated 1696 and 1697 opposite the title-page of the N.T. Later in the Howell Bible Collection, Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  STC (rev. ed.) 2077; ESTC S106943; Herbert 74; Rumball-Petre 84; Copinger, Bible and its Transmission, p. 304; Luborsky & Ingram, English Illustrated Books, 1536–1603, 2077.   19th-century “Divinity” binding, rebacked and original spine reapplied; front cover loosely attached by the cloth hinge (inside); binding rubbed. Title, three leaves of Revelation, and the final leaf of the table lacking and supplied in photostatic facsimile; twelve preliminary leaves simply lacking and eight preliminary leaves supplied from a different copy, with all of gathering Cc also clearly from a different copy. Six leaves in Revelation with shortened lower margins, expertly repaired and the two or three bottom lines of those leaves supplied in virtually perfect pen and ink facsimile; two leaves in Revelation and one in Psalms each with a sizeable hole in one column, missing paper supplied by expert leaf casting and missing text and woodcuts or woodcut initials supplied in equally expert pen and ink facsimile. Some waterstaing; wormholes in text in a few gatherings, not serious; old candlewax stains on some leaves. Withal, a rather decent example of this desirable and sought after early English Bible that so often is terribly defective, and a copy with some of its specific repairs and completions now having their own historical interest.  (34163)

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Expanding the Imagination & Bringing Science to the Masses

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•  A large and various collection of science fiction and fantasy paperbacks, encompassing some of the greatest names of both genres and many early or uncommon editions (including the first edition of Andre Norton's The Sioux Spaceman, printed dos-à-dos with Richard Wilson's And Then the Town Took Off). A number of short story collections and “Best of” readers are present, as well as many early DAW paperbacks and Ace Books double novels. A sampling of the authors represented: Isaac Asimov, Michael Moorcock, Jack L. Chalker, A.E. van Vogt, Harry Harrison, Ursula K. LeGuin, Piers Anthony, Robert A. Heinlein, Robert E. Howard, Jack Vance, John Wyndham, Theodore Sturgeon, Clifford D. Simak, Jo Clayton, Poul Anderson, Pamela Sargent, Samuel R. Delany, Keith Laumer, Madeleine L’Engle, Fritz Leiber, Robert Silverberg, Tanith Lee, Larry Niven, et al.

The collection contains slightly more than 500 books, comprising some 525 titles (i.e., 55 books are Ace Doubles), with a few duplicates.

Cover art ranges from the simple and/or crude to the elaborate and/or lovely; many styles, trends, and fads are represented. with exuberant imagery ranging from classic “bug-eyed monsters” to near-naked ladies to pointy-nosed rockets to multiple, quite variously conceived instances of dinosaurs, orcs, and unicorns.

Among the artists (and 204 coversidentify the artists) are Gallardo, Jack Gaughan, Schinella, Allan Gutierrez, David Mattingly, Michael Gilbert, Clifford Geary, Steele Savage, Tim Kirk, Michael Whelan, Don Maitz, Dean Ellis, Carl Kochich, Laurence Kresek, Barclay Shaw, and H.R. van Dongen.

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•  Paperbacks in varying condition; some volumes well read, some in very good condition.  (34118)

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The Deluge Delineated & a Library Located

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•  Edited by H.V. Hilprecht. Offered here is Volume V, fascicle I, printing “The earliest version of the Babylonian deluge story and the temple library of Nippur.” Illustrated with a frontispiece and two plates.

•  Uncut, unopened copy in original wrappers; wrappers discolored in certain areas, back one probably from a newspaper clipping, Interior clean, very good.  (34322)

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“AKnowledge of the Human Heart”

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•  An early English rendition of a classic of the genre: Rochefoucauld's dry, pragmatic observations on human nature. Portions of the work were first published in English in 1694, and subsequent versions have differed in number of maxims included; this is a “revised and improved” edition (the first of five Lockyer Davis printings) dedicated to David Garrick, offering503 maxims as well as a topical index. The final advertisement leaf is present.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with early inked inscription of Sarah Scawen.

•  ESTC T83529.   Contemporary calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; edges and extremities rubbed, joints cracked, spine leather showing small cracks, sides scuffed with small discolorations. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate covering earlier bookplate, inked call number on front endpapers. Pages age-toned with offsetting to edges of first and last few leaves, and occasional spots of mild staining. One pencilled annotation; one leaf with short tear from lower margin, not touching text. Overall, clearly a pored-over copy, but sound and with contents still as interesting as they were to 17th- and 18th-century readers.  (34198)

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A Summary of (Very Readably Various!) Early 18th-CenturyIRISH LAWS

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•  Irish statutes from 1717 through 1728, compiled and edited by Edward Hunt. Included here are acts on linen manufacturing and importing, shipwrecks, Dublin street cleaning, “strengthening the Protestant Interest” in Galway, reducing interest to seven percent, regulating the price of bread, etc. The text is printed largely in roman, with headers and sectional titles in black-letter; the second section, from the first session of George II, has a separate title-page, and both sections offer indexes.

Searches of WorldCat and ESTC find only seven copies rerported by U.S. libraries.

•  ESTC T109891.   Contemporary calf, framed in blind with blind roll along joints, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding moderately rubbed overall with lower inner corner of front cover scuffed, spine label chipped and dimmed. One page with early inked doodles, not obscuring text, offset onto opposing page. A few corners bumped; one leaf with lower outer corner torn away. A solid and very usable copy.  (34136)

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Good, SolidAMERICAN Food

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•  Thislarge and completely filled manuscript cookbook starts with definitions of the basics: the first leaf defines ranges of oven heat (250–350° equals a “slow oven,” 450–550° is a “very hot oven”) along with terms such as baste and sear. The recipes are in modern style, with quantities of ingredients listed first, followed by instructions; shrimp salad, fried cauliflower, spaghetti loaf, and cheese croquettes are mixed in among walnut cake, pumpkin pie, doughnuts, and “Peachy Pie.”

There are a wide variety of inscriptions and annotations present, making it an interesting challenge to assignownership: The front pastedown has “Cash” inked in a decorative hand, with “George” inscribed beneath several times — along with an array of additional pencilled first names. One prominent name suggests the volume's owner may have been a Clara. Among other pieces of data, George Joseph P[ruer?]povitch's name and address in Pennsylvania are pencilled on the back free endpaper, Clair Elise Prokopovitch's name (seemingly different from the previous last name) appears on another leaf, and Anna and Stephen's heights and weights are given on the front pastedown as of 28 November, [19]19 and 16 March, [19]18, respectively.

•  Contemporary half red oilcloth with pebbled black paper–covered sides (rubbed), spine stamped “Ledger” (faded); volume shake and hinges (inside) reinforced with cloth tape. Front fly-leaf excised, one leaf separated and laid in, one leaf torn with pieces laid in; some numbered pages lacking, as above, though it cannot be known whether these were (still?) present when the (onetime?) “Ledger” was assigned to cookbook use. Pages age-toned with occasional smudges and some edges tattered, but generally clean and almost entirely free of typical kitchen staining though the compilation was clearly much used. An interesting volume and worthy of careful perusal.  (34141)

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“Transcendentalism”

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•  First separate printing. “Reprinted from The journal of Speculative Philosophy, ... Vol. XXIII, No. 1.” Dall was a noted feminist, abolitionist, and reforming Transcendentalist author and lecturer.

•  Original publisher's printed wrappers. Owner's name lightly stamped on front wrapper. Minor pencilling in margins.  (34309)

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“Volad a las Fronteras del Peru y Esperad alla la Hora de la Vindieta”

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•  “The Liberator” condemns the actions — the “limitless perfidy” — of the government of Peru and announces the beginning of the first international war on South American soil. This pitted Peru against Gran Colombia and was an attempted land grab by Peru, wanting to wrench Bolivia from orbit of Gran Colombia. Greatly displeased with Peru's invasion of the nation named after him, in which he had been the first president, and which was guarded by forces from the Colombia of which he was presently president, Bolivar in this proclamation of 3 July mobilized his army.

Coincidentally, and unknown to him, also on 3 July, Peru officially declared war on Gran Colombia.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, CCILA, and COPAC fail to locate any copies.

•  Not in Posada.   Tattered at the edges with tears and small pieces of paper missing; old repairs on the verso where a fold tear and another exist; small stains to upper margin, with light age-toning and a very little foxing. Housed in a quarter red morocco clamshell case. Very good.  (34168)

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One of Luther's Favorite Texts, with His Commentary — English Black Letter, 1616

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•  Fourth edition in English of Luther's In epistolam Sancti Pauli ad Galatas commentarius, which first appeared for the English monoglots in 1575, with second and third editions in 1577 and 1602.

The Epistle to the Galatians held a special place in Luther's heart and mind; he lectured on it in 1519 and also in 1523. It is widely reported that in his table talks he is recorded as saying: “The Epistle to the Galatians is my epistle. To it I am as it were in wedlock. It is my Katherine [i.e., the name of his wife].”

Provenance:  Ownership inscription of Bryan Tompson, 1735 (fol. 166r); also on A2r, undated, family name spelled “Thompson” and with notation of cost of book as 5/3. Late 19th- or early 20-century ownership inscription on front free endpaper of G.P. Hesketh, of Beltrami Cty., MN; later given (1907) to Dr. Charles Schwartz.

•  ESTC S108962; STC (rev. ed.) 16973.   18th-century English speckled sheep, recently rebacked; late 19th- or early 20th-century endpapers. Title-page cut down close to text (supplied from a different copy?), mounted to restore page size and expose type on verso; leaf soiled. Top margins throughout closely cropped, costing the top line of text on five of the eight preliminary pages and the running heads and folio numbers on many (not all) text leaves; staining in portions in margins and sometimes into the text of the upper outer sixth of a leaf; longitudinal hole on fols. 259 to 262 costing three words total. Not a perfect, but a decent copy of a Lutheran mainstay in an edition not often found on the market.  (34166)

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A High Spot of Science — One of the Most Useful Editions — A HANDSOME Set

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•  First Glasgow printing of LeSeur and Jacquier's annotated edition, originally published in Geneva in 1739. Sometimes known as the “Jesuit edition” (although the two editors were actually Minim friars), this production of Sir Isaac Newton's seminal work of mathematics and physics incorporates extensive commentary, with consideration of Leibnizian calculus; Brunet describes this printing as particularly “belle et soignée, avec les figures insérées dans le texte.”

Binding:  19th-century calf, covers framed in acanthus and shell–motif blind roll and panelled in double gilt fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spines with gilt-framed compartments and gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels, board edges with gilt roll, turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges marbled.

Provenance:  Both volumes with early 19th-century inked ownership inscription of James Gallichan, St. John's College, in upper outer corner of front fly-leaf.

•  Babson 32; Brunet, IV, 49.   Bindings as above, spines sunned (evenly and not unattractively), spines and edges with minor wear. Vol. I with original silk bookmark separated, laid in; one leaf with lower outer corner torn away. Both volumes with occasional mild offsetting and intermittent light to moderate foxing. An elegantly (and very soundly, strongly) bound example of a scientific landmark.  (34077)

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With a Masthead Device inENGLISH — A Production of Arequipa

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•  This was Arequipa's first newspaper, established on 26 November 1825. Present here are ten issues or extras: Tomo 4, num. 26 (27 June 1829, lacks last two pages), Extra (20 December 1830), 4:18 (2 May 1829), 4:28 (11 July 1829), 4:29 (18 July 1829, lacks last two pages), 4:34 (22 August 1829), 4:36 (5 September 1829), Extra to 4:52 (December 1829), 5:52 (25 December 1830), 6:1 (1 January 1831).

The masthead device of this publication offers an example of the movement of the materials of presswork in this period as well as the movement of ideas; the handsome block used depictsa radiant printing press floating a banner-ribbon blazoned, “THE TYRANTS FOE, THE PEOPLES FRIEND.”

•  Charno 544.   Disbound, worming in text costing letters but not words. Some stray stains, bug spotting, light foxing. Two issues incomplete; a very few foremargins closely cropped.  (34207)

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One Writer's Prose isAnother's Poetry

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•  Karl Wilhelm Ramler (1725–98) was a Prussian poet, lyricist, editor, and anthologizer. He here turns a selection of Salomon Gessner's prose Idyllen into poetic hexameters! Gessner (1730–88) was a Swiss painter and prose writer of considerable success.

A volume of modest production values, this begins nicely with a handsome title-page bearing an engraved vignette by Johann Wilhelm Meil (1733–1805) that sets the tone for the contents: lyricism in an idyllic setting.

•  Leemann-van Elck, Salomon Gessner, 584.   Slightly later green paper–covered boards, rubbed and abraded but volume sound. Early leaves lightly soiled and with light foxing, all edges red.  (34204)

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A “Soufleuse”Bids Her Theatre Goodbye

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•  Beautifullysilk-bound souvenir edition of the calendar of performances of the Bamberg National Theatre for the year 1837, along with the staff and cast list, privately printed for Lida Bornhagen in commemoration of her retirement as the house prompter in that year. A charming poem presumably written by Bornhagen, celebrating her delight in her quiet contributions to “Thalia's Temple,” opens this little volume, dedicated to theatrical patron (and father of Empress Elisabeth of Austria) Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria; an affectionate and slightly melancholy farewell verse closes it. The elegant binding seems to indicate that this was the dedicatee's copy, with the author's name inked on the front cover as seen on other volumes in his library.

Binding:  Contemporary cream silk framed and panelled in gold appliqué with attached gilt corner fleurons, front cover with central teal medallion lettered “Aus Ehrfurcht gewidmet.”

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•  Binding as above, Bornhagen's name neatly inked in upper portion of front cover, front cover with small portions of appliquéd medallion-edge and borders lacking; back cover with short gap in gold appliqué at one corner and with one leaf broken off from one fleuron. Clean, crisp, and with a small repair to inner corner of front fly-leaf, this is avery pretty association item.  (34155)

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Bible Stories in Rebus Form — 500 “Cuts” — Learn to Read, Learn Your Bible!

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•  As per its title page, the “Second Edition” (only) of this popular and long-reprinted production. “Hieroglyphic” is the term that was originally and is still applied to Bibles of the sort offered here, but, in fact, the stories are in the form of rebuses, with the accurate readings supplied at the base of each page. These abridged Bibles are laden with many “cuts” or illustration — this one having 500, according to the title-page — and were designed for use by children. They had the dual purpose of being a fun way of learning to read and of learning the Bible. Children are, unfortunately, notorious as “enemies of books,” to use the term made current by Mr. Blades in his book of that title, and so, hieroglyphic Bibles are often severely damaged or incomplete.

Binding:  Contemporary brown calf, perimeter of boards tooled in gilt with a triple fillet; inside that is a gilt-tooled roll of a rope design, and inside that is the blind-tooled roll of a repeating flower motif. Turn-ins with a gilt-roll of dots, stone pattern endpapers.

Provenance:  Gift inscription on p. 5: “Sarah Fessenden to her cousin Elizabeth Ford. New Year's gift, Jan. 1817.” Ownership inscription on front fly-leaf, “Elizabeth Ford's Book.”

•  Not in Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books; Welch, Bibliography of American Children's Books Printed Prior to 1821, 512.1; Shaw & Shoemaker 30861.   Binding as above, rebacked in calf with cloth-reinforced hinges (inside) and small spine label reading “H-Bible.” Pages 43/44 and 47/48 torn with loss of paper and some text and small portion of one image; paper repaired and text replaced in pen and ink. Age-toning, some light spotting and an ink-blot or two; a good+ copy ofa delightful little Bible, children's book, and Americanum.  (34161)

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A Legendary Liberator Says, “FAREWELL” — “He Dejado de Ser Hombe Publico”

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•  Weary from ten years of war, sacrifice, and then the politics of the nascent Peruvian republic, Gen. San Martin, liberator of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru, here announces his retirement from public life. An Argentine by birth, San Martin's introduction to war happened not in America but in Europe where he was serving in the Spanish army against England, Portugal, and finally France. After the peninsula fell to the French, he returned to America and fought with and soon led one of the main rebel armies.

The struggle lasted more than a decade, but on 12 July 1821, he took Lima from the Royalists, saw Peru officially declared independent on the 28th, and was himself named “Protector of Peru” on 3 August. Just about a year later, on 22 September 1822, via this document, he resigned his position and retired permanently from public life and service.

“The presence of a lucky soldier . . . is feared by newly constituted states; [and] for my part, I am tired of hearing it said that I want to be the sovereign.”

“Peruvians: I leave you with an established national government; if you repose in it all of your confidence, count on triumph; if you don't, anarchy will devour you.”

And with that he left Peru, returned to Argentina briefly, then sailed to Europe where he lived in several cities, only once attempting to return to America, but always maintaining a keen interest in the fate of his native Argentina.

Searches of WorldCat, NUC, CCILA, COPAC, and the Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico locate two copies worldwide: one in the U.S., and one in Chile. There is a very old unverified report of a copy in the Biblioteca Nacional in Lima.

•  Medina, Lima, 3704.   Browning, age-toning, some crumpling and tattering. Small loss of paper along the wide bottom margin. No worming. Housed in a quarter red morocco clamshell box.  (34159)

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“Complete Lack of Subscribers”

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•  Issue number 40 (8 December) — the last published — of an early Peruvian newspaper that was issued every Wednesday; Cuzco's first newspaper came off the press in 1825. The existence of this newspaper isnot noted at all by Charno, WorldCat (serials), Union List of Serials, COPAC, or CCILA. And searches via the OPAC of the Hemeroteca Peruana also failed to find this newspaper listed.

In announcing that this is the last issue the editors give reasons that are stark and must have been bitter: a complete lack of subscribers, a law that requires them to publish opinions by others that are anathema to the editors' beliefs and ends, and failure of supporters of the editors' ideals to write for the paper.

•  Removed from a nonce volume; inner margin slightly irregular. Wormholes in text costing some letters and portions of words.  (34201)

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Biographies Galore

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• Treasure house of biographies and obscure information about German theologians to the year 1618; the Vitae was first published in 1620 while the Decades appeared in 1618. This second and last edition of both works bears title-pages havingan interesting woodcut vignette of Jonah and the whale.

Provenance:  18th-century ownership inscription at top of title-page of Joseph Mendham (probably the clergyman and controversialist).

•  I: VD17 1:001325D. II: VD17 1:001333V.   Recent marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine label. Splotch browning and foxing to text, yet paper strong and clean; a good, solid copy.  (34208)

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A CulinaryGift Chain Charted

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•  Originally compiled by Hannah P. Gill, this mid-to-late 19th–century New England assortment of recipes for desserts (including cider cake, rose cakes, wedding cake, sour milk cake, and many others), savory dishes (beef à la mode, baked shad, green tomato pie, pickled limes, etc.), and domestic helps was first passed on to M.L. Littlehale and Margaret S. Cheney, and later to Elizabeth R. Dearborn (who may have added some items), according to the inscriptions on the front pastedown.

While a few leaves have been left blank, the volume is largely filled with apleasing quantity of very cookable instructions.

Provenance:  Gift inscription as above, dated 1850; inked inscription of prominent cookbook collector Eloise Schofield on front fly-leaf.

•  Contemporary sheep; much rubbed, spine leather cracked, front joint starting from foot. Front pastedown with small ticket of S.G. Simpkins, Boston stationer. One leaf separated; light to moderate spotting, occasional small smudges. Several pieces of cut paper in a watering can and floral print are laid in. Engrossing and eminently usable.  (34153)

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The FIRST FRENCH PROTESTANT Bible

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•  First edition of the First French Protestant Bible, the version of the Bible adopted by the Reformed Church of Geneva, i.e., Calvin's church, and sometimes known as “La Bible de Serrières,” from the village of that name near Neuchâtel, where it was published, and other times known asthe Waldensian Bible. The translator was Pierre Robert Olivétan (ca.1506–38), a cousin of John Calvin; he supposedly worked from the Hebrew and Greek. Chambers tells us that “this work also draws on the earlier Lefèvre-version Bibles,” and he says it was the “basis for all 'Geneva' versions into the 19th century.”

The text is printed in double columns, in a good French Gothic batarde typeface; each chapter begins with a woodcut four- or five-line initial. In addition to the text of the Bible the volume has a preface in Latin attributed to Calvin extolling this vernacular translation, an “Apologie du translateur,” an appeal in French (also attributed to Calvin) to the Jews to convert to Christianity, and an introduction to the New Testament (also in French, also attributed to Calvin), this latter is often seen as a preview and summary of Calvin’s Institutes. The first and second Calvin texts are to be found nowhere else. Additionally, there are a “Table de tous les motz” by H. Rosa and Eutychus Deper (i.e., Bonaventure Des Periers) and an “Indice des principales matiers” (with preface) by Matthieu Gramelin (i.e., Matthieu Malingre).

Imprint information is from colophon: “Imprime par Pierre de wingle, dict Pirot Picard, Bourgeois de Neufchastel. Mil. CCCCCxxxv.” The printer's device is found on the sectional title of the Apocrypha.

Censored copy? The lower 40% of the title-page was torn away sometime before 1831 and repaired by that date by a skilled hand, probably in the early 18th century. But the repair not only replaced the missing paper, it alsocovered virtually the entire verso of the title-leaf, thus masking Calvin's preface! Was this carelessness, in a remarkable degree, or a form of censorship? Certainly the required repair to the leaf did not necessitate covering intact portions of it.

Provenance:  Old stamps on title of the “Bibliotheca Pub. College. Lugdun.;” 1831 ownership inscription on same of Jean Louis Helfenbein; in the 20th century in The Howell Bible Collection, Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  Adams B1128; Chambers 66; Baudrier, XII, 218; Darlow & Moule 3710; Van Eys, I, 35.   Late 16th- or early 17th-century calf, covers elaborately tooled in gilt with large gilt corner devices consisting of one large stamp, that same stamp then used in a rotating fashion to create a very large symmetrical center device; rebacked in the 20th-century in brown morocco with gilt-stamped and -ruled leather from three old compartmentspreserved inside back cover; new endpapers. Title-leaf repaired as noted above, with a number of other leaves repaired or remargined especially at end; waterstaining, occasional inkstains, and some marginal worming. Withal, a good++ and interesting copy of an important and rare Bible.  (34071)

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Muggleton on Christ's Baptism — An Engaged Reader Responding

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•  Lodowicke (or Lodowick) Muggleton (1609–98) was, along with his cousin John Reeve, the founder of the Muggletonians, a small Christian sect that denied the doctrine of the Trinity, believed that God would no longer interfere in human affairs after the revelation of their founders, and condemned prayer and preaching. In this letter he replies in the affirmative to Robert Peirce's question as to whether the Holy Ghost in the bodily shape of a dove descended on Christ at his baptism — with a final note stating his opinion that Moses was never buried.

Evidence of readership: A 19th-century reader has added words and a whole phrase to the text in pencil on p. 4; has added a much, much longer note on p. 5; has “corrected” some words on p. 6 and added a long phrase on same; and has “corrected” one word on p. 7.

The dating of the printing of this is problematic: NUC uses the Library of Congress dating of 1719 (and locates only two copies). ESTC, not noting either of the copies reported to NUC, lists only the copy at Columbia University whose cataloguer uses the date of 1680 found in type at the end of the letter, being when Muggleton penned it, but not necessarily when it was printed. Of the two copies reported to NUC, one one is findable via the reporting institutions' OPACs.

•  ESTC R476627; Smith, Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana, 311. On Muggleton, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, XXXIX, 264–67; and on the movement, see: Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 948.   Recent green, brown, and yellow marbled paper over light boards; front cover with a paper label lettered in black. Browned with darker spotting. Chipping in the margins repaired. Pencilling as above. A very good copy.  (5117)

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An Unfolding Landscape

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•  Burke's long-form poem in an intricately crafted Janus Press production — mostly printed in unfolding accordion pleats, with a central pamphlet section bound in. As Ruth Fine, who contributed a linoleum cut illustration, describes it in the Janus catalogue raisonné, the “accordion section is French-folded to contain [the] linoleum cut, inserted so image is seen most clearly from verso.”

Claire Van Vliet designed and printed the volume; Barbara Luck set the text, and Van Vliet and Linda Idella Kohl Wray bound the work in gray Kizuki wrappers. This isone of 150 copies printed, signed at the colophon by both author and artist.

•  Fine, Janus Press 1981–1990, 41.   Publisher's paper–covered light boards as above, spine and front cover with title simply stamped in black; covers with central portion gently sunned, creating a subtle and not unattractive striped effect.  (34145)

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Managing aNew England Household

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•  A well-loved, early 20th–century gathering of recipes, domestic hints, and gardening tips, some in manuscript and some print clippings; the whole with a careful and thrifty tone: recipes for catsup never known to get moldy, mustard pickles that “will keep if locked up,” a remedy for pear blight, etc. Among the more interesting items are hickory-nut macaroons, cranberry pie, tomato butter, and a now undeservedly obscureclam chowder recipe in blank verse, written by Bertha B. Stratton.

The volume has a pocket at the back, into which a number of clippings and advertisements have been laid. Among that group is a printed promotional pamphlet for spray pumps and nozzles sold by L. Templin & Sons of Calla, Ohio, “Seedmen” and practical garden suppliers; Mrs. Vates seems to have been concerned with agricultural and husbandry matters in general, as two different sets of instructions for preparing poultry feed are also here. The clippings come from an assortment of Connecticut, New York, and Philadelphia periodicals, while some of the manuscript recipes bear attributions to Mary Smith, Carrie Buell, Mrs. Andrews, Mrs. Coffrin, and others.

•  Contemporary limp sheep, covers framed in blind; binding worn, spine reinforced with cloth tape, back cover with printed “Butcher Books” label (now rubbed) affixed. Hinges (inside) cracked, back pocket somewhat frayed, pages age-toned with spots of staining. A very nice example of domesticity as shaped both locally and by the media in the early 1900s.  (34140)

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A 16th-Century Concordance toPETRARCH

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•  This “table” is the work of Luca Antonio Ridolfi, and is, in essence, a concordance of Petrarch's poetry. It was issued as an appendix to Bevillacqua's 1562 printing of Il Petrarca con dichiarationi non piu stampate, but is here separated from the main work, having been divorced from it some long time past.

•  Recent red marbled paper over boards with black leather spine label lettered in gilt. Faint overall dampstaining and consequent cockling of leaves; staining darker to first three leaves and these, including title, with repairs to slim streaks of interior loss affecting text or image (perhaps a hint as to why the poem is not present). Worming in lower margin at rear affecting a few catchwords; lower blank portion of next to last leaf excised but printer's device not touched. A relic in decent shape, a survivor.  (34113)

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The Consequences ofOUTLAWRY in England & Ireland

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•  Sole edition: a treatise on outlawry in civil actions, with a custodiam “being a leafe from the crown under the seal of the Exchequer, whereby the lands and tenements, &c. of a person outlawed . . . are made over to the plaintiff for and towards satisfying of his debt” (p. 1). The appendix of precedents is paginated separately from the main text.

•  ESTC T97031; Sweet & Maxwell (2nd ed.) I:322.4.   19th-century half calf and dark red ribbon-embossed cloth, very pleasingly rebacked, spine with gilt-stamped title and raised bands framed by bead-and-line blind tooling; original leather corners worn, cloth scuffed, front cover with faint traces of ring indentation and small area of bubbling by lower outer corner. Pages gently age-toned; one lower outer corner torn away, not touching text; one leaf with paper flaw in lower outer portion. A good solid copy that will present a pleasing appearance on the shelf.  (34120)

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Early Marginalia by a Parish Priest & a Confessionary in Nahuatl
Puebla Imprint, Puebla Provenance, & Special Emphasis on Indigenous Practices

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•  Personal experience among various indigenous people of differing regions of Mexico sets this treatise apart from the garden variety of other books by Villvicencio's contemporaries on surviving pre-Contact religious practices. One searches hard to find information on religious practices among the late 17th-centuryChocho speakers of Oaxaca and Veracruz, for example, but some interesting tidbits can be found here — though the greatest portion of the volume is dedicated to practices among the various Nahuatl-speaking peoples, as they were viewed by Europeans as the norm for pre-Conquest practices. In fact, there is a confessionary in Nahuatl speaking specifically to indigenous practices on pp. 11–19 of the second pagination.

In addition to supplying firsthand practical information about surviving practices (e.g., the lengthy list found on pp. 49 and 50, second pagination, of sacrifice practices and superstitions that the Church frowned upon), the author displays considerable erudition on the subject of pre-Contact practices based on a huge body of published information, all of which is carefully documented.

17th-century Mexican imprints are ever increasingly difficult to find, and those produced in Puebla (as opposed to Mexico City) are the most difficult of all. This important treatise isonly the second copy we have had in our stock in more than 30 years of dealing in Mexicana.

Provenance: Marcas de fuego on closed top and bottom edges of the Dominican convent of Puebla, each marca of a different style. Ownership signature (18th-century) of Fr. Gaspar de Fraga (fol.98r).

Evidence of readership: A parish priest, most probably Fr. Gaspar, has supplied some very personal marginalia commenting on aspects of the text. On pi5r one reads in a hand like Fr. Gaspar's, “En Tlapanala se usa en sus fietas,” below which a later 18th-century commentator wrote, “si este instrumento es lo mismo que te ponaste se usa de el en Tepexic de la Seda y de ellos hay muchos en la mixteca.” This is commentary on a dance (refered to as an “instrument of the devil”). On p. 81, the writer comments on a passage about drinking among the Indians: “Por eso rien los indios que con licencia de su rey lo beben y ya se permite mas embriaguez que aun antes.” A little further on (p. 99), we see our commentator noting: “Se esto ejecurtare el ministro sera aboresido y tenido por de mala condicion” with reference to the text telling the priests to destroy all found non-Christian symbols and practices. And on p. 134, commenting on advice concerning idolatry: “No se pone porque el cura lo padece en su honor.” And other comments are peppered there and there in the volume. Some of those at the front of book have been lightly crossed through but are readable.

•  Medina, Puebla, 153; Sabin 99693; Palau 368931; Viñaza 232; León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli, 2827; Ugarte, Lenguas indigenas de Mexico, 427; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 4038; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 164.   Original limp vellum lacking the ties, and vellum with some brown stains; endpapers of printer's waste; without the woodcut frontispiece of the Crucifixion and the final blank. Minor dampstaining and old arrested mold stains in many lower margins, not approaching text; stray small waterstain in some upper- and foremargins. Foremargins of last two leaves with small loss of paper to insects and lower margins of some leaves with small chips missing due to waterstain weakening paper. Overall, an imperfect copy that is at the same timean outstanding copy for provenance and evidence of readership.  (34115)

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Standing in a “New Light” — ARCHAEOLOGY'S Implications

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•  The WorldCat record has this excellent explanation of this pamphlet: “A series of four lectures delivered in March of 1890 in Rockford, Illinois, by Dr. Thomas Kerr, a Scottish immigrant, medical doctor and former Baptist minister expelled because of his liberal views. In 1870 he organized the Church of the Christian Union with 65 Rockford Unitarians who were without a minister. These lectures describe and discuss tablets and other archaeological finds discovered mid-nineteenth century in what was Babylon (present day Iraq). Dr. Kerr had recently returned from a trip to London and Paris where he had viewed these relics in the British Museum and the Louvre. He discusses the 'disclosures that have come from the study of archaeology' as they relate to the 'religious idea' and how they have 'placed the religious in a new light'.”

NUC and WorldCat locateonly the copy at the Rockford, IL, public library.

Evidence of Readership: Pencil notes on front wrapper, pencil notations in some margins and some underlining; “no” appears next to several assertions about “scientific discoveries” as to Akkadian; and a paragraph of 18 lines on p. 37 is completely, neatly excised (costing lines on verso also) — though whether the clipping was done for posting/sharing (or for “preservation” in a scrapbook), or as an act of censorship, is unknowable.

•  Original printed wrappers; “evidence of readership” as above. Very good.  (34323)

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The Ill-Fated Scots Colony atDarien

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•  As the 1690s wound down the lords and and burghers of Scotland dreamed of an overseas empire such as Spain, England, Portugal, and the Dutch had, and to this end came into existence the Company of Scotland for Trading to Africa and the Indies. Chartered in 1695 and with a coffer of some £400,000, it established a colony (“Darien”) on the Caribbean coast of what is now Panama, a worse location being hard to conceive. Even today that site is virtually uninhabited.

Trouble plagued the enterprise from the arrival of the first Scots in 1698 and it fairly shortly collapsed for lack of supplies, malaria, other diseases, internal dissension, a nonexistent trading base, and the might of the Spanish military in the region. The wreck of the scheme led to an economic crisis at home which in turn helped enable the 1707 Act of Unification.

The vast bulk of this work attempts to convince the English to support the Scots' enterprise and cites political, religious, social, and economic reasons for doing so; clearly, the Scots knew that English naval might in particular would be essential for the success of the scheme. Beyond this, however, a section (pp. 42 to 51) addresses the natural history, native population, agricultural commodities, and indigenous industry of the region; and the work ends with an account of the Scots' settlement, the buildings erected there, and its intercourse with the indigenous people.

Authorship of this work is problematic: It is signed “Philo-Caledon” at the end of the dedication and three other names have have been proposed as possible authors in addition to Foyer's — George Ridpath, Andrew Fletcher, and John Hamilton (2nd Baron Belhaven). Added to the conundrum of authorship, the work was produced in four editions in the same year, each having different numbers of pages, each with a different signature scheme, none with a publisher, and this one without even a place of publication!

•  Wing (rev. ed.) F2047; Sabin 78211; Alden & Landis 699/9; ESTC R18505 ; and Halkett & Laing II:32.   20th-century half dark brown crushed morocco with brown linen sides. This copy has all the hallmarks of having once been through a British bookseller's “hospital”: all leaves are dust-soiled or age-toned; all leaves are uncut but some have been extended and others not, and some leaves with torn margins (but not all) have had lost paper restored; all such repairs and extensions are within the first six leaves, meaning these were probably supplied from another copy. Top of title-leaf trimmed with loss of “A” of the title; another leaf with a tear to the top margin with loss costing tops of several letters of words on one page, and two leaves with the running head guillotined by a binder; some stray stains. An interesting copy for its probable if problematic history and condition.  (34130)

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MARLOWE inFine “16th-CENTURY” Style

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•  Handsome fine-press edition of the “Troublesome raigne and lamentable death of Edward the Second, King of England: with the tragicall fall of proud Mortimer.” The volume, which reproduces the 1594 text, opens witha striking double-page display of richly colored and illuminated heraldic coats of arms, and reintroduces the shield motifs to mark character entrances.

The text was hand-set by “I.W.S.” (with “Sibthorp” pencilled in this copy) in Caslon Old Face and printed by hand on Maillol hand-made paper, with the decorative shields drawn by Alexina Ogilvie and emblazoned by A. Alexander and sons, and the binding done by James Burn & Co. This isnumbered copy 244 of 500 printed.

Binding:  Publisher's vellum, front cover with Edward's coat of arms stamped in red, black, and gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title; top edge gilt.

•  Bound as above, vellum very slightly sprung; spine gently darkened with gilt dimmed and small scuffs to extremities, front cover shield with two minute spots of rubbing to gilt. Four leaves with unobtrusive creasing from outer (untrimmed) edges. A very attractive copy of a very atmospheric work.  (34085)

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History of English Law byOne of the Great Irish Barristers

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•  Uncommon first Irish edition: Lectures on the nature and history of feudal law and the English constitution, originally delivered at the University of Dublin. Sullivan, who served as the first Professor of Feudal and English law at Trinity College Dublin, was a Galway-born lawyer known for his passion for early Irish history as well as for his accomplishments in jurisprudence; this was his only published work, printed posthumously. Later editions of this work carry the title, Lectures on the Constitution and Laws of England.

•  ESTC T78584; Sweet & Maxwell (2nd ed.) I:16.25.   Contemporary calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; spine and extremities showing minor wear. Endpapers and fly-leaves with marginal offsetting from turn-ins. Pages with occasional small faint spots, otherwise clean. A solid and eminently respectable copy.  (34096)

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A Medieval Legal Landmark *WITH*1618's Working Updates

Laws, statutes, etc.

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•  The Magna Carta began the long process in English law of putting explicit legal limits on royal (and hence, by later extension, governmental) authority and of granting explicit rights to the ruled, a process that has led by circuitous and varying routes to many of the key provisions of the present British and U.S. constitutions. This compact, originally just between the king and his discontented barons, has been invested by time and later interpretation with real and mythological power far beyond its original intent and far beyond any other single document in English law. Magna Carta remainsthe most significant single milestone in the common Anglo-American legal tradition.

Appended here to the Magna Carta are“the most necessarie of those old Statutes, and divers later and newe Statutes most convenient to be had” (f. ii), all printed in the original Latin, legal French, or English. One of the lengthiest of these is the statute of Henry VIII confirming the suppression of the monasteries (Anno 31, Henry VII, Cap. 13); others relate to Women, Wills, Forcible Entry, Usury, and “Fraudulent Deeds.” Like many English law books of the period, this is printed in a mix of black-letter, roman, and italic types, with one decorative capital marking the Magna Carta in the table of contents and another, larger, at the beginning of its actual text.

Provenance:  Title-page with early inked ownership inscription of Richard Almack in upper portion, back fly-leaf with early inked inscription “This Book was given to me by Mr. Richard Relham of Cambr[idge]” and, in another hand, “Hugh Davies.”

•  ESTC S122651; STC (2nd ed.) 9285; Lowndes 1449; Sweet & Maxwell, 21.V.9.   Contemporary sheep framed in blind, unobtrusively rebacked, spine with gilt-stamped title and date (incorrect: given as 1611); sides showing signs of earlier wear, back cover with spots of mild discoloration, upper outer corners rubbed. Inscriptions as above. Outer page edges (closed) with early inked title and date; text with a handful of instances of early inked underlining. Mild to moderate waterstaining to upper or lower portions of a number of leaves; two pages with spots of light staining; small section of volume with chip to lower edges. A solid, respectable copy of a venerable work as set forth for and integrated with the needs of the “modern” practitioner.  (34003)

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The Battle WasCostly for Both Sides

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•  This account of the “Battle of the Big Hole” that was fought in Montana in the summer of 1877 between the Nez Perce and soldiers under the command of Col. John Gibbon is “as told by T.C. Sherrill, a volunteer member of Gen. Gibbon's command which was so nearly wiped out on that occasion.”

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•  Decker 28:159.   Original printed beige wrappers. Very good.  (34111)

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Signed First Edition — PASSIONS

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•  First edition: 20 stories incorporating some of Singer's favorite themes, many translated by Singer himself in collaboration with his nephew or with other authors and editors. This copy isinscribed by the author on the half-title, dated 1975.

•  Publisher's quarter orange cloth and dark green paper–covered sides, spine with title stamped in silver, in original dust jacket; jacket with spine extremities lightly worn, edges of back panel darkened, upper inner front corner and upper back corner each with short tear. One page with light smudge to lower outer margin. A nice copy of a signed Singer first edition.  (34092)

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The Beatus vir . . . Gorgeously Produced, Beautifully Framed

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•  From alarge, magnificent Benedictine Psalter, this is the start of Psalm 1, “Beatus vir . . .” (“Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all [whatsoever he shall do shall prosper]. . . . ”).

The text appears here in sepia ink in a large Renaissance rotunda hand, set forth to the point of our bracket above, illuminated and featuringa large miniature of Kind David filling the center of a large initial B. Along the bottom margin in three medallions are Saints Mark, Benedict (center bottom), and Laurence; the right margin has two additional medallion portraits of unidentified female figures. The margins are garnished with gilt and bright-colored flowers, among which hidesthe small image of a deer — “As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God”?

•  Matted and under glass in an elegant 20th-century gilt frame, ready for hanging. We have not opened this to discover whether Psalm 1 continues (or Job concludes) on the other side of the leaf, but the suspicion must be, given the beauty and quality of the side showing, that this is a leaf that would benefit from double-glazing showcasing both sides.  (33296)

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Builder of the First New World Utopian Community

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•  In the 18th century Mexico saw a birth of great biographical writing focusing on important figures in its history, especially its ecclesiastical history. Vasco de Quiroga (1470–1565) was an imposing and perhaps quixotic figure during the early post-Conquest decades. A learned man, he arrived in Mexico in 1531 as one of the first four judges of the high court (i.e., oidores) and became the first bishop of the far western province of Michoacan. In that “out of the way” region of Mexico he devoted himself to establishing European culture, ensuring fair treatment of the indigenous population, creating towns and cities, and building the first utopian community in the New World.

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Not the least of Quiroga's accomplishments was the creation of two pueblo-hospitals for native Americans, and appended and integral to this biography are his “Reglas, y ordenanzas para el gobierno de los Hospitales de Santa Fé de México, y Michoacàn,” which occupy the final 29 pages.

Historians still consider this to be the definitive biography of Quiroga. Theengraved portrait of him, handsome and from the burin of José Morales, adds a face to the words of the biographer and to the account of the deeds of the biographee.

•  Medina, Mexico, 5099; Wellcome, Medical Americana, M.134; Palau 181902; Beristain, III, 2059.   Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of ties. Marca de fuego, unidentified, in upper edges of closed volume; very faint waterstaining visible here and there, most visible on five leaves at rear; generally a very good copy, clean and even crisp.  (34094)

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A CelticTrouvère Story

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•  First publication of this novel in England, and a Nonesuch limited edition: a languidly poetic tale of the wanderings of a bastard knight and his faithful harper companion, set in 14th-century Scotland and Ireland. The volume was printed on japon vellum for the Nonesuch Press by T. & A. Constable Ltd. at the University Press, Edinburgh; the copperplate frontispiece (not opposite but following the title-page) was designed and engraved by Stephen Gooden, and the cover design was by Marion V. Dorn. This isnumbered copy 559 of 1250 printed, with the dedication signed by the author.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with calligraphic bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books.

Binding:  Publisher's creamy tan cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, in original brown paper dust wrapper with heraldic design printed in red on front cover and spine title in red; wrapper very stiff, like vellum, and smaller than the volume, as is generally seen.

•  Dreyfus, History of the Nonesuch Press, 31.   Bound as above with spine extremities very slightly darkened, wrapper with spine darkened and chipped at head; one tiny dark spot on front cover, upper inner flap corners chipped. A clean copy. A very attractive example of modern medievalism.  (34093)

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A Reluctant Dictator

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•  In August of 1828 Bolivar was 45 years old, weary, and would be dead in two years. He had freed or helped free much of South America from Spain, served as president of Bolivia (12 August 1825 – 29 December 1825) and Peru (8 February 1824 – 28 January 1827), and was president of federation of Gran Colombia (17 December 1819 – 4 May 1830). He believed in democracy and republicanism and in that summer of 1828 was frustrated that the Constitutional Convention he had called expecting it to write a strong centralist document that would satisfy the demands of the emerging separatist and extremely regional sentiments of the Venezuelans and others had failed. Because of the Convention's collapse, via this document, dated 27 August, Bolivar declared himself dictator rather than president.

In doing so he pledge to his people that he obligated himself “to strictly obey your legitimate wants: I will protect your sacred religion as the faith of all Colombians and the code of all good men; I will make justice the first law of all transactions and the universal guarantee of our citizens.”

The promise of liberty is strangely addressed: “I will not say anything to you about liberty because if I fulfill my promises you will be more than free — you will be respected.”

Searches of WorldCat, COPAC, CCILA, Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico, the OPACs of the Bibliotecas Nacionales de Colombia and Venezuela locate one copy in the U.S. and possibly three in the BNC and probably none in the BNV.

•  Posada 1042.   Removed from a bound volume and irregular along the left margin; without the integral blank. Eight wormholes in text but not costing any letters. Now housed in a quarter red morocco clamshell box, round spine, raised bands with gilt accenting. A good++ copy.  (34097)

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Surrealism — Expressionism — Modernism

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•  Innovative culture review: Art, literature, music, architecture, and film of the late 1930s, contained in a cover designed byMarcel Duchamp. In addition to a globally conceived category of textual and visual works entitled “Inter-Racial,” the contents include James Agee's “In Memory of My Father,” a “work in progress” from James Joyce (a piece that evolved into chapter 2.3 of Finnegans Wake), a portion of Kafka's Metamorphosis translated by Jolas (in collaboration with his wife Maria, uncredited here), and an essay on “The Unconscious in Art” by André Lhote (illustrated with multiple examples of modern art), as well as black-and-white photographs by Brassai, Man Ray, and Edward Weston, and a reproduction of Aaron Copeland's manuscript music for “Gyp's Song” from The Second Hurricane (which premiered in the year of this publication).

The verse and prose pieces, in English, German, and French, are illustrated with a total of 32 halftone photographic plates representing work by Miró, Kandinsky, Mondrian, and many others.

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers; edges and spine chipped and rubbed with portions of spine paper lost, front wrapper with small scuff near comb image, back wrapper with two tears from upper edge and lower portion creased. The subscription slip is still present, tipped in at the back of the volume. Pages clean; last few advertising leaves with small nick to outer edge, final leaf with lower portion creased.  (33602)

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ZAPF onMORRIS

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•  “11. Band der Monographien künstlerischer Schrift”: First edition of this monograph on Morris's body of work, written by the famed type designer and with a handsome frontispiece portrait of Morris by A. Rosenberger. This essay, “intended to make the Germans more closely acquainted with William Morris the man and with his longing and striving for the truth of art and for a more fortunate existence for mankind, ennobled and blessed by art” (p. 5), is illustrated with 30 black-and-white illustrations reproducing Morris's paintings, wallpaper and stained glass work, and book designs. The art captions are in English and the first few paragraphs of the introduction are in both German and English (as quoted here), with the bulk of the text in German; Morris's own “Prologue of the Earthly Paradise” appears both in English and in German translation.

Binding:  Publisher's brown paper–covered boards with tan cloth shelfback, front cover with affixed printed paper decorative title in the Morris style, spine with brown-stamped title.

•  Bound as above with spine cloth spotted perhaps by its own underlying glue, a small old ink(?) spot to lower edge of back cover, corners and spine head slightly rubbed; without the d/j. First and last few pages with faint spotting; corners bumped with a few creased. A solid copy and a good, pleasant one despite faults noted!  (34081)

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“Aristotle Said MELANCHOLY MEN of All Others Are MOST WITTY”

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•  Burton's classic early 17th-century treatise on depression in all its forms, which continues to be read (and beloved) today for its far-ranging philosophizing on human nature and thought, as well as for Burton's extensive quotations of prior writers and for his sly sense of humor. Boswell famously quoted Dr. Johnson as saying of the Anatomy that it was “the only book that ever took him out of bed two hours earlier than he wished to rise.”

This edition, limited to500 copies, “now for the first time with the Latin completely given in translation and embodied in an all-English text, edited by Floyd Dell and Paul Jordan-Smith,” was “composed after the style of the XVIII Century, and the paper is Aurelian Dull Wove Natural made by the Worthy Paper Company. The typogrpahy, presswork, and binding . . . are by The Plimpton Press, Norwood, Massachusetts.” This is copy number 485.

•  Publisher's quarter vellum with dun-colored paper sides, top edge gilt. Bindings dust-soiled, not unpleasantly, with very light overall wear; one chip to paper of vol. II. A good++ set.  (34058)

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Dante in aPoet's “Medieval” Binding

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•  “Edizione simplex” from the eminent Florentine publishing house, and an excellent example of a binding fashion created with an eye to the books' beingsnapped up as suitable souvenirs by visitors to Italy.

Binding:  Medieval-style contemporary vellum with yapp edges, done by Alfonso Dori & Figli of Florence, front cover with calligraphed title and illuminated manuscript–inspired foliate design painted in blue, green, rose, sepia, and gold. Front cover, in this case, additionally personalized with owner's name.

Provenance:  Front cover calligraphed with “M.H. Penick”; front fly-leaf with inked inscription, dated 1932, of Margaret H. Penick: very plausibly the poet Margaret Henry Dabney Penick (later M.H. Penick Nuttle; 1879–1962), author of Beauty's Snare and Coins of Memory.

•  Binding as above, tie now largely absent, vellum darkened (particularly the spine, all attractively). Front fly-leaf with inked ownership inscription as above and a small “device”; back free endpaper with Dori & Figli's attractive book-shaped ticket. Endpapers with small edge chips; pages age-toned, with edges darkened and slightly embrittled; one leaf with tear from lower margin, extending into text without loss. Half-title with small spots of staining. A suggestive and very giftable Divine Comedy.  (33676)

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Among Other Things, William's Mary Was aCapable Multi-Tasker . . .

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•  Funeral sermons for Mary II, Queen of England; the detailed reminiscences, though of course put to religious uses here, are of someone who knew her. Title within mourning border.   Sole printing in Ireland.

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

•  ESTC R219182; Wing (rev. ed.) T721.   Disbound. One corner of one leaf torn away, with loss; text completed on accompanying slip.  (33854)

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A 20th-Century Fine-Press Printing . . .
of a 16th-Century Edition . . .
    of an Ancient Greek Romance . . .

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•  First printing of this edition of what's sometimes spoken of as a sort of protonovel; based on Thomas Creede's 1597 printing of the first English translation, it is here edited by Stephen Gaselee and H.F.B. Brett-Smith. The volume was printed at Stratford-upon-Avon by the Shakespeare Head Press, on Batchelor's Kelmscott handmade paper with untrimmed edges; the title-page is printed in red and black.

This isnumbered copy 459 of a total of 503 printed (394 for sale in Great Britain, 104 for sale in America, and 5 special copies on vellum), signed B.G.G. on the limitation.

•  Publisher's quarter tan cloth and brown paper–covered sides, front cover and spine each with printed paper label; corners bumped, spine darkened, spine label chipped. Pages clean; edges deckle with a very few signatures uncut.  (33816)

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Rockwell Kent'sMoby Dick

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•  First trade edition, following a three-volume limited edition that sold out immediately upon release: Rockwell Kent's powerfully illustrated rendition of Melville's epic sea story, as printed at the Lakeside Press under William A. Kittredge's supervision.

Paying tribute to the impact of Kent's design of the volume and theclose to 300 images he provided, the bindingonly gives the artist's name, rather than the author's!

•  Publisher's black cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in silver; dust jacket lacking, back upper outer corner bumped, spine and corners showing very slight shelfwear, front cover with small, unobtrusive scuff. Some page corners bumped, without soil or breakage; internally clean. A nice copy of the trade edition, more accessible than the limited while still displaying most of that printing'scharms.  (34028)

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The ART of Engraving & Printing inGUATEMALA, 1794 through 1823

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•  This is a great and eye-pleasing assemblage for the study of Guatemalan art, specifically that of engraving, etching, and typography. Announcements of university degree defenses are arare printing genre; for example, none of the 61 items in this collection are held in the John Carter Brown Library. Additionally, only 16 were discovered by Medina.

Of the 61 items, 37 are in the smaller folio format (appx. 29.5 x 20 cm; 11.75" x 8.875") and 24 in the larger folio format (42 x 30.5 cm; 16.5" x 12"). Each has an engraving or etching in the top area: The very attractive images include saints and Madonnas, including three instances of the Virgin of Guadalupe, but also coats of arms and, very interestingly, portraits of living individuals. The typography is always center-justified above a final paragraph or two that is right justified; and the printers have used a variety of ornaments to create interesting borders.

There is one case of an image being used twice: once on a small format broadside and also on a large one. The etched text has been eliminated on one of these; and when one looks carefully at the other images it is clear that engraved text has been masked or removed from some of them also — further evidence of recycling as having been a printshop practice.

Remarkably, one of the broadsides is bilingual (Latin & Spanish) and is a publicationnot of a university defense but a publication of that Enlightenment development, the social organization “La Sociedad Economica,” in this case La Sociedad Economica de Guatemala. It announces that it has been reborn, and will not let the authorities “suffocate” it. Another is aeulogy for a retired university professor.

Among the defense announcements, some give the actual questions/topics that will be asked/defended. The date range of the items is 1794 to 1823 and the engravers include Juan Jose Rosales de Santa Cruz, Narcisco Rosal, Juan Pedro Larrabe, Garci-Aguirre, Francisco Cabrera, Valladolid, and Jose Casildo Espana. Notably one is by the Mexican engraver Villavicencio. Finally, the printers are the usual admirable suspects: Bracamonte, Beteta, and Arevalo. It is interesting to see them represented by such UNusual ephemera!

•  Medina, Guatemala, 761; 814; 852; 1523; 1525; 1557; 1577; 1580; 1596; 1613, 1626; 1758 1898; 1806; 1918; 2138.   All items are in very good condition, in Mylar sleeves, the entire collection in a quarter morocco clamshell case.  (33845)

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An Insider's Guide toBATH

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•  Tunstall was aBath booster big-time. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, he was physician to the Eastern Dispensary of Bath and seven years resident medical officer of the Bath Hospital; his guide book to his city first appeared in 1847, with subsequent editions in 1848, 1851, 1856, 1876, 1888, 1889, and 1900. Besides the locale's follies, Roman ruins, chapels, farms, overlooks, etc., he offers considerable information on the hospitals, baths, and healing wells.

This would have beena definite must for hydrotherapy and other tourists. Nicely illustrated, it bears a great map.

Provenance:  Ownership signature of Mrs. Edward Brown, Belmont House, 1884. (This may well be the Mr. & Mrs. E. Brown whose “Belmont House” dates from ca. 1880 and is located in Browns Cove, Albemarle County, VA).

•  Publisher's green cloth, stamped in blind on covers and lettered in gilt on spine; text clean. A nice copy.  (33529)

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BACON onAll Types of TREASON

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•  First edition: His Majesty's Solicitor General sets forth the law on treason, including sections on felony, abjuration and exile, and heresy. The title-page bears More's “Deus providebit” publisher's device, and the text is decorated with two headpieces and one decorative capital.

Evidence of readership: The section on “Cases of Felony” isannotated in an early and rather challenging hand, on three pages.

•  ESTC R16590; Gibson, Bacon, 198; Pforzheimer 25.3; Wing (rev. ed.) B272.   Contemporary tan calf framed in triple blind fillets, later rebacked with brown sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; sides and spine with small scuffs, edges and extremities worn. Front pastedown with London bookseller's ticket, slightly offset onto free endpaper. Title-page darkened and stained, with two early inked notations; text generally age-toned and waterstained though not weakened. Variable worming from p. 14 on, in some cases touching letters without generally obscuring sense; upper edges of several leaves ragged and chipped, some lower edges untrimmed. A classic.  (34004)

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Basquiat: Words as Information as Power

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•  First edition: A retrospective of Basquiat's word paintings and drawings, illustrated with 65 images of finished works and sketch book pages. His short career started when he received notoriety as part of SAMO, the informal graffiti group that wrote enigmatic epigrams in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and then he moved on to Neo-expressionism and Primitivism. Designed by Reed Seifer, the volume opens with an introduction by Richard D. Marshall and closes with a recollection of the artist by family friend Annette I. Minkalis.

Only 1500 copies were printed, on the occasion of the exhibition of the same title at Cheim & Read in 2005.

•  Publisher's linen-covered boards, front cover and spine with title stamped in red and black, back cover with text reproduced from a Basquiat page. A clean, crisp copy.  (34019)

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LUTHER's Bible Illustrated byLucas Cranach

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•  The Bible in Low German, based on Lufft's 1544–45 edition of Luther's High German version, that is, thelast edition to bear Luther's corrections and revisions. The volume's numerous, often large, and decidedlygorgeous woodcut illustrations are by Lucas Cranach (the elder).

Appended to the text of the Bible are J. Bugenhagen's “Summaria” on various books of the Bible and “Summaria auer dat Olde Testament” by M. Vitus Theodorus. The text is printed in double-column format in fraktur type (i.e., black letter), with prologues, notes in text and margin, references, etc.

•  Darlow & Moule 4198 (in the long note).   Late 18th-century German binding of diced brown morocco with all edges paste-painted in blue. Title-page repaired on four sides on the verso and tipped in. Many margins in first portion of volume defective and repaired, with some loss of marginal notes and/or a word or part of a word of text; one repaired leaf with a good deal more taken towards bottom of outer column; instances intermittently throughout of close “shaving.” Old water- and other staining; lacks two leaves of the aftermatter (l1 and l4 of Theodorus' “Summaria”). Substantial inked “evidence of readership” of various sorts; Cranach's contributions happily unaffected by faults noted. A strong, in sum a rather nice copy of an uncommon and beautiful Bible.  (33851)

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Catholic Church.  Catechisms. Kalispel.   (Canestrelli, trans.).

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•  The second catechism in Kalispel,following the much shorter, basic one of 17 pages issued by the mission press at St. Ignatius Print in 1880. This one received the approval of the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore and was translated into Kalispel, a Salishan language, by the Jesuit missionary Felipe Canestrelli.

Kalispel is the language of the Flathead Indians of Montana, Idaho, eastern Washington, Alberta, and portions of British Columbia.

•  Pilling, Salishan, 29; Newberry Library, Ayer Indians, Kalispel 2.   Publisher's pale green wrappers, a little soiled and rear one creased across corner, paper of spine with some loss; front free endpaper with a small old stain, else a nice clean copy.  (34101)

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Wycliffe's New Testament — 150 Copies Printed?

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•  This is theearliest printed edition of Wycliffe's New Testament, that text itself occupying the 156 pages following an initial 108 pages devoted to a dedication to “the Right Honourable Thomas Lord Malton, “the editor [John Lewis]'s “History of the English Translations of the Bible,” “Corrigenda & Addenda,” an index, “A Particular Account of the . . . MSS of the Bible,” and “The Names of the Encouragers of this Work.”

The tall, upright folio volume bears two portraits, mezzotint engravings by George White of the editor and of Wycliffe, and offers a bright crisp engraving of the gorgeous and elaborate border of the “frontispiece [i.e., title-page] of Cranmer's Bible,” shown with the area for publishing data left blank.

The N.T. is neatly printed in double-column format, paragraph style with a single rule between the columns. In the top margin of the even-numbered pages is the name of the book of the Bible, while the upper margin of the odd-numbered pages contains the chapter number. The typeface is roman without any special characters (e.g., no “thorns'), but with nine-line woodcut initials at the beginning of each book and two-line bold-face initials at the beginning of chapters.

Different sources give the press run at either 150 or 160 copies.

Provenance:  18th-century note on front pastedown, “C. Willis, the gift of Mrs. Hewitt.” Later in the Howell Bible Collection, Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  ESTC T95000; Darlow & Moule 777; Herbert 1011; Graesse (1867 ed.), VI,2, 87.   Contemporary plain calf with modest gilt ruling on boards and spine, spine label partially missing; front joint (outside) open and board mostly detached. Title-page of N.T. browned from the engraving opposite; engraving of Cranmer Bible leaf extending beyond the text block. Despite the provenance, no library markings.  (33785)

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Deluxe Signed Limited Edition PUBLISHER'S COPY:  Life of a Science Fiction Pioneer

BRADBURY: An illustrated life.

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•  First, limited edition thus of a visual record of the great Ray Bradbury's career in comics, movies, television, theatre, and literature. This profusely illustrated limited edition includes32 pages of material not present in the trade edition (incorporated here after the William Morrow title-page dated 2002, marked first edition): the volume opens with the previously unpublished “The Ghosts of Forever: A Film Fantasy,” illustrated by Joseph A. Mugnaini, and “Switch on the Night,” a reproduction of portions of Bradbury's original manuscript bearing his own illustrations. The foreword is by Donn Albright, and the introduction by Bradbury.

Binding:  Crimson “snakeskin” leatherette, front cover and spine with decorative gilt-stamped title and creature vignette, housed in matching clamshell case with front cover and spine similarly gilt-stamped.

A total of 26 lettered copies were issued in the binding described above. In addition to beingsigned by Bradbury and Weist on the title-page, the present example is anout-of-series copy marked (in red ink, on the title-page) as the publisher's copy.

•  Binding as above. A beautiful and unique copy of a striking tribute.  (33416)

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King Alfred & “Trial by Jury”Celebrated to Boot

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•  “Engraved by T. Trotter, from an Original Picture painted by Cornelius Jansen, in the Hall of the Inner Temple.” Image measures 7.5" x 4.75" and is inlaid to a sheet measuring 11.25" x 8.5".

•  Very good image.  (33873)

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“Be Prepared, to Give MePersonal Satisfaction”

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•  A challenge to a duel!  Clarkson was captain of the ship America. Low was a merchant and real estate developer. Low had published a public “Protest” critical of Clarkson and to the captain’s eye it was slanderous. He demands Low “Publickly recall your malignant Protest, or be prepared, to give me personal satisfaction.”

Provenance:  Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, properly deaccessioned.

•  Written in a clear hand. Paper age-toned and with dampstaining but overall good++ condition.  (33952)

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ENGLISH EMBROIDERED BINDING

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•  A near-miniature printing of the Sternhold and Hopkins metrical version of Psalms, with the Geneva version in the margin, the whole in an embroidered binding. The text is printed in two small point sizes of roman, the smaller being used for the Geneva text in the margins. The music is present.

Binding:  Deep blue, rose, gold, and blue-green silk threads embroidered on cream silk, within an overall chain design in gold and silver wire thread incorporating some florets; mostly sunned to dull brown or dull green on covers butvibrantly viewable “as was” on rear turn-in. Evidence of silk ties now perished. All edges gilt.

Provenance:  Late 17th- or early 18th-century stencilled armorial device on the front pastedown of a griffin surmounting a coronet; bookseller's label (first half 20th century) of John Howell, San Francisco; afterwards The Howell Bible Collection, Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

Scarce edition: Searches of NUC, WorldCat, ESTC, and COPAC locate only three copies in U.S. libraries, this being one of the three (now deaccessioned), and five copies in the rest of the world (two in England, one each in Scotland, Australia, and Germany).

•  STC (rev. ed.) 2573.5; ESTC S116798; Wilson, Bibles, Testaments, Psalms ... in English, III, 71.   Binding as above; use of a magnifying glass is advised as exceptionally rewarding. Housed in a quarter red morocco open back case with a red cloth chemise. Lacking one leaf. Very good condition.  (33819)

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Landmark Works in the STRUGGLE forReligious Tolerance

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•  Locke's letters on toleration were widely read and served as major philosophical support for freedom of worship by all, including Jews, Muslims, and pagans. His influence extended north across the Scottish border, east across the Channel influencing Scottish and Continental Enlightenment thinkers, and west across the Atlantic, having demonstrable influence on the likes of Jefferson and other American Founding Fathers and being a major part of the underpinning of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Present in this volume are copies of the first three of Locke's letters on toleration, the only ones published during his lifetime. The volume leads off with the second edition in English, corrected, of the first letter, this having first appeared in 1689 in Latin (Epistola de tolerantia) and in the same year in English in a quarto edition of 61 pages. Translated by William Popple, it is here in 12mo format. That is followed by Locke's Second Letter, in quarto, written in reply to Jonas Proast's The Argument of the Letter concerning Toleration considered and answered (Oxford, 1690), and then by his Third Letter, also quarto, which continued the debate with Proast by reply to the Oxfordian's own Third Letter.

A fourth letter was left in manuscript at Locke's death in 1702; it was first published in the Posthumous Works of Mr. John Locke (1706) but seems never to have appeared in a free-standing edition of its own.

Provenance:  Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  I: Wing (rev. ed.); L2748; ESTC R21477. II: Wing (rev. ed.) L2755; ESTC R5484. III: Wing (rev. ed.) L2765; ESTC R5673.   Contemporary plain calf with modest blind-tooled floral corner devices on the boards; rebacked. Ex-library as above, with bookplate; stamp on front free endpaper and on title-page of The Second Letter only, otherwise unmarked. Without the half-title to The Second Letter. A very nice gathering. In a quarter brown morocco solander case with brown cloth sides; raised bands accented by gilt rules above and below each band; gilt center devices in spine compartments.  (33772)

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An Imposing Fellow — An Imposing Portrait

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•  Engraved by John Hall after Gainsborough's 1774 painting. Image measures 7.5" x 4.75" and is inlaid to a sheet measuring 11.25" x 8.5".

•  Very good image.  (33880)

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ITALY Learns about theAmerican Continental Congress & Revolutionary Politics

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•  Guillaume Thomas François Raynal (1713–96) wrote his seven-volume account of the European colonies in the East and West Indies with the help of the coteries of philosophes whose salons he frequented: Indeed Diderot is credited with the authorship of up to a third of it, and Holbach, Pechméja, and Paulze also contributed.

This Italian translation is of Books 17 and 18 of the original seven-volume work (first published Amsterdam, 1770, and an anonymous continuation); dealing strictly with North America, it has much to say about the political turmoil of the English colonies, the Continental Congress, etc., but also about Canada, native Americans, the border regions of Florida and Louisiana, and French interests.

A third volume that appeared in 1780, but is not present here, carried the story “fino alla primavera del 1779 nella quale, oltre alla guerra civile trà la Gran Bretagna, e le Colonie Unite, si descrive anche quella trà la prima, e la Francia.”

•  Echeverria & Wilkie, French Image, 778/67.   Contemporary vellum over paste boards, gilt caramel-colored spine label, all edges blue. Some gatherings of leaves browned from impurities in the water during the paper manufacture, and occasional foxing or other light staining. Without vol. 3, later published, and, that aside, arather nice copy.  (33614)

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Printed in GOLD within a Marvelously Elaborate ENGRAVED BORDER
Printed in SILVER

WASHINGTON'S FAREWELL ADDRESS.

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•  As Washington came to the last months of his second administration, he reflected on the nature of government under the new Constitution, the nature of American citizenship, and the status of the nation in the community of world nations, offeringconsidered, informed, and sage advice to his fellow citizens.  FOR EXAMPLE,  he warns against “combinations or associations . . . [that] serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community'; he further foresees that [though] now and then answer[ing] popular ends, [these combinations] are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.” On the diplomatic side, he urges that “Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest . . . “

This is a stunning printing of Washington's famous message.  The text is printed in gold ink in four-column format within an elaborate engraved border printed in silver on bright white calendered paper. The firm of “White & Durand” is listed in the 1834–35 New York city directory as specializing in “specimens of xylographic engraving and printing in colours” and seems to have done a good business in labels for drug store bottles. An earlier incarnation of the firm “A.B.C. Durand, Wright & Co.” had specialized in banknote engraving as early as 1825, and certainly the border here is of that style and quality.

The firm was renamed in the 1835–35 city directory to “Wright & Prentiss.”

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and the OPACs of the American Antiquarian Society and the Library of Congressfail to locate any other copies.

•  Date attribution based on admiring notice in an 1834 trade journal. Minor indications at some edges of the item having been pinned or tacked for display; faint instances of old staining at edges, in one case slightly into border.An excellent copy of an important and absolutely lovely production.  (33580)

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