As previously mentioned, the volume offers critical apparatus: This is printed in the inner margin of the text and gives variant readings and additions from manuscripts that Estienne had consulted for collating against the printed text; and the outer margin contains references and the ordinary chapter-numbers and division-letters, A, B, etc.

Two versions ofthe Estienne printer's device are used in the work: The coiling snake and vine (Schreiber B1) on the main and divisional title-pages and the man standing under an olive tree (Schreiber 10) on the verso of the colophon leaf.

Binding:  18th-century red crushed morocco, round spine, no raised bands, spine richly tooled with an overall, elaborate vine pattern “gilt-extra.” The covers have an outer border formed by a triple and single fillet, three of the four tooled in blind and one in gilt, and an inner frame also of a triple and single fillet, but with two in blind and two in gilt; the resulting panel is graced with gilt corner devices and a large gilt center device. All edges gilt and top edge with old ink lettering under the gilt (“Novum Testamentu[m]”).

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

•  Schreiber, Estiennes, 105; Adams B1661; Darlow & Moule 4622; Renouard, Estienne, 75, no. 1; Mortimer; French, 78; Rumball-Petre 228; Pelikan, Reformation of the Bible, I.18.   Binding as above, evidence of ties at top, bottom, and fore-edges of boards; a little rubbed. Text with red ruling through p. 43. Occasional light, small stain in upper margin and very occasionally some other spot; perhaps six leaves towards end with old light waterstain across lower outer corner. Very minor worming in some lower margins, not near text. Definitely a very good copy of a sumptuous book.  (33610)

Our caption must be credited to “Anonymous”!

•  Later red pebbled cloth, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; laces clean and well preserved. Volume and contents in very good condition.  (31365)

•  NSTC J636.   Bound as above, some spines slightly darkened and one with a scrape at its base; leather otherwise with the odd rub, scuff, or smudge only. English title-pages each with rubber-stamped numeral on back; bookplates as above. A significant work with interesting provenance; a set in attractive, evenbright condition.  (33621)

•  Fine copy in a very good dust jacket, jacket with minor chipping to lower area of spine, one long split at spine repaired on verso, and lower corner of ifront flap cut off; volume very clean and nice, top edge gilt. In a green cloth chemise with red leather author, title, and date labels on the spine, in an open-back slipcase.  (33426)

Also present and laid in is a typed letter signed (“Lisan”) to St. Denis dated “Sunday April 23, '61" in which she says that Miss Ruth has hurt her in unspecified ways but “terribly” on the occasion of Lisan's having treated her to a performance of “Clytemnestra” that Lisan thought had “obvious Denishawn influences.” “I don't hold it against you --- but for the moment, it does hurt terribly.” St. Denis wrote back immediately and her autograph letter signed, written in blue pencil, is also present: “Lysan Dear! Try to forgive me!! I am in the middle of one of those crises that come to us all at times. I must appear — Rude & ungratefull {sic] — it was not meant in that spirit at all. I am truly grateful that you went to the trouble of getting the tickets & I am sorry beyond words for my bungling.”

Provenance:  St. Denis' gift inscription on the half-title in green ink: “To Lisan Kay — with all delightfull [sic] memories — past present [and?] sure to come!” Dated, '[19]55"; signed, as the letter is, with the writer's initials.

•  Publisher's cloth, without the d/j. Small chip out of fore-edge of front free endpaper. Text block slightly skewed. A truly special copy.  (33446)

The first edition of this translation was issued at Rheims in 1582, in over-sanguine hopes that its sale would be successful enough to underwrite the cost of a prompt production of the Old Testament. The two-volume O.T. did not appear, however, until 1609/1610.

The second edition of the Rheims N.T. is a revision of the first, not merely a reprinting of it, and contains a “Table of Heretical Corruptions” not found in the 1582 printing and a new preface. In an era of noticeable decline in the art of printing, this Testament enjoys far better than average typography.

•  Darlow & Moule 198; Herbert 258; STC 2989; ESTC S102510.   Late 17th-, early 18th-century English calf, with concentric blind panels on covers in contrasting tones of brown and tan, all edges deep red; covers with scrapes and bumps, rebacked with hinges (inside) strengthened, new endpapers with 1906 owner's inscription on front free one. Title-page dust-soiled and torn in upper margin with some loss of decorative border, page skillfully remargined with blank paper. Some foxing and age-soiling in early leaves; this similarly at rear (starting around p. 640 and most notable in Tables), with also some dust-soiling and with light waterstaining across a good number of upper outer corners. Overall a good to very good copy, sturdy and appealing.  (33612)

The present example isone of 2000 copies printed, with the type afterwards distributed.

•  Jackson, D.H. Lawrence Handbook, 24; Roberts A50c.   Publisher's olive green cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped phoenix vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title; dust wrapper lacking, spine slightly sunned, spine extremities and lower corners rubbed. Free endpapers with offsetting(?) and front one with upper outer corner torn away; text gently age-toned, with small areas of staining to two pages. Showing signs of wear, this is yet a solid, attractive, and pleasing copy.  (33546)

In the same year, 1858, Hardeland published the first complete Bible in Dayak, the Old and New Testaments being issued as separate volumes. Searches of NUC and WorldCat locateonly two copies in the U.S. of the N.T. alone.

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

•  Darlow & Moule 3460; North & Nida, Book of a Thousand Tongues (1972), 311.   Publisher's brown textured cloth, all edges speckled blue; library bookplate, old library rubber-stamp on title and in margin of table of contents, charge pocket and date slip at rear. Most attractively clean, even bright, with a very occasional spot or bit of foxing only; a very nice copy.  (33606)

The fine, engraved portrait inserted before p. 28 by Samuel Hollyer is one of the most famous images of Whitman, being a restrike of the frontispiece (based on a Gabriel Harrison daguerreotype) from the first edition.

Provenance:  Small 20th-century booklabel (not really a bookplate) of William B. Gross.

•  Myerson A2.7.l, first issue; BAL 21433.   Publisher's mustard-yellow cloth, spine stamped in gilt with decorations and lettering, front cover with gilt-stamped facsimile of Whitman's signature, top edge gilt; hinges (inside) strengthened, lower board edges showing shelfwear, binding surprisingly little rubbed but with a bit of dust- and other soiling/spotting. Paper age-toned, but clean; indeed a very good copy of a book often found badly shaken and soiled.  (33585)

This isnumbered copy 102 of a total of 150 printed (75 on Rives paper and 75 on Mohawk Letterpress). All types used in the volume were designed by Goudy, except for the one piece set in Garamond by his wife.

•  Publisher's quarter grey-cream linen with blue and cream patterned paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label; minimal wear to outer corners. Overall a very clean and lovely copy.  (33503)

The present work is an epitome of Diffiniciones de la orden y cavalleria de Calatrava in small, pocket format for ease of use in celebrating the ceremonies of the Order and for general quick reference. It isthe only work published in Mexico during the colonial period relating to the Order of Calatrava.

The volume begins with a frontispiece engraved portrait of Charles III of Spain, signed by Nava. At the end of the volume is a section on the history of the military orders of Avis, Montesa, Alcantara, Santiago, Christo, and Calatrava. At the head of each history is a large woodcut of the insignia of the order printed in its official color (red or green), distinguishing this work asone of the very few books printed in Mexico using green ink.

Binding:  Contemporary dark brown sheep, gilt spine extra, boards not tooled but mottled in the “sponge method.” Gilt Dutch embossed floral endpapers. All edges red.

•  Medina, Puebla, 1078; Andrade 3516.   Binding as above, small loss of leather on spine. One manuscript note in a margin relating to use in a court case of an exemption privilege enjoyed by members of the Order of Calatrava. A wonderful copy of an important book.  (33555)

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

Binding:  Contemporary limp vellum, being apalimpsest leaf.  Old text in narrow column with wide margin.

•  Ahmanson-Murphy (2001) 469; Renouard, Alde (3rd edition, 1834), 161:14; Adams C1893; Schweiger, II, 244; Index Aurel. 138.748; Edit16 CNCE 12321.   Binding as above, worming to small portions in gutter occasionally affecting inner margins of text pages; without final blank leaf. Upper outer corner of f. A2 torn away with loss of ends of seven lines on recto and beginning of eight lines on verso, old repair replacing this with blank paper. Library shelf label on front pastedown and accession number stamped on verso of title and in one lower margin; early inked ownership note on title-page later inked out; otherwise, generally clean, with one spot to midgutter of last few leaves and another to top inner portion of title-page. One early marginal note and very minor amount of early ink underlining or marks in margins. Less than perfect but also less than common.  (33411)

It is one of a number of remainder copies, of which a few appear very occasionally in the market, the bulk having been acquired by America's libraries in the period 1920–80. As a remarkable copy of a pre-Revolution era American children's book, thus an artifact of American educational, religious, and social history, this is also in this state an illuminating relic ofprinting history.

•  Evans 12085; Welch 665.8; Rosenbach, Children, 67; Holmes, Cotton Mather, 403-F1; ESTC T59367 & W29553.   Condition as above. In a quarter green cloth open-back slipcase with an inner chemise. Extremely good condition — it can't be said too many times!  (33552)

This is numbered copy 88 of 515 printed (of which only 500 were for sale), signed by the author at the colophon. The volume was designed by John Miles of Banks and Miles, with the text and line illustrations printed by John Roberts Press and Stellar Press on Glastonbury Antique laid paper, the color plates lithographically printed by W.R. Royle & Son, and the binding done by W.T. Morell & Co.

•  Publisher's quarter morocco and floral-printed (tulip-printed!) cloth–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped title, in paper-covered slipcase; one corner of slipcase slightly rubbed, otherwise a clean, crisp copy.  (33517)

In this copy the date in roman numerals is the variant: MCMXXVIV.

This isone of 425 copies printed by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats on Irish-made paper. The colophon is printed in red, and the title-page bears the Press's “Candle in Waves” device, done by Thomas Sturge Moore.

•  Wade 163.   Publisher's quarter off-white linen with blue-green paper sides in the Kelmscott style, spine with printed paper label and front cover with black-stamped title; spine and edges sunned with browning extending onto portions of back cover, extremities rubbed, and spine label chipped. Two leaves (only) opened a bit roughly, with upper edges slightly chipped. Pages age-toned, final four leaves foxed; read, but unmarked.  (33557)

•  This edition not in VD18.   Modern light brown paper-covered boards with paper spine label. Ex-library with faint blind-pressure stamp on title- and one other leaf and librarian's pencil notations on verso of title-page. Scattered foxing, occasional stray stain. Overall a good, solid, clean copy.  (33597)

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.

•  Publisher's quarter vellum and textured tan cloth–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title. One preliminary leaf excised. A very nice copy.  (33507)

In the early decades of the 20th century, Tice was a sensation because of her provocative art and as the embodiment of bohemian Greenwich Village — gaining, indeed, the sobriquet “The Queen of Greenwich Village.”

Binding:  Publisher's black goat, round spine with raised bands lettered in gilt and with a gilt-stamped female nude figure in center area of spine; front cover with two gilt-stamped reclining female nude figures reminiscent of those on big-rig mud guards! Elegant gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt and other edges deckle. Housed in a brown paper–covered open-back case.

•  Case rubbed but sound; binding as above with spine a little pulled, corners a little bumped, and front joint (outside) a little abraded. First leaves separated and tipped in; possibly, cancels? All illustrations eye-popping in several senses; all tissue guards present.  (33447)

Binding:  Contemporary cream-colored sheep, covers framed in gilt floral roll, spines with gilt compartment decorations and gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels; turn-ins with gilt roll of a vine design, blue endpapers, all edges gilt.

Provenance:  Front pastedowns each with rather attractive 19th-century institutional bookplate, rubber-stamped “withdrawn”; title-page rectos each with rubber-stamped numeral. The set isfrom the collection of noted historian and military critic John Watts de Peyster: the title-page versos (or, in two cases, the contents pages) bear his affixed printed curriculum vitae.

Evidence of Readership:  In vol. I, two (helpful!) inked notes or reminders of where to look for pages bound in out of order; vol. II's front pastedown with inked inscription from Petrarch, “Solo e pensoso i piú deserti campi,” and its back free endpaper with first four lines of Gaetana Passerini's “Genova mia.”

•  ESTC T107371.   Bound as above, spines rubbed and darkened with labels variably chipped and one compartment variably lightened from now-absent shelving label; sides scuffed, edges and extremities rubbed. Pastedowns and title-pages as above; some endpapers showing light waterstaining; back endpapers with old paper adhesions; age-toning throughout. Vol. I: one leaf with lower margin repaired, not affecting text; a number of leaves from pp. 100–20 bound in out of order (see above); final text page with lower margin neatly excised. Vol. II: Inscriptions as above, back pastedown with a pencil sketch. Vol. III: small area of worming to final portion of volume, obscuring a few letters on some pages. Vol. IV: title-page with old staining; small areas of worming to front endpapers and to inner and outer portions of some pages with loss of a few letters. Vol. VI: title-page with small area of offsetting from affixed slip on reverse. A respectably (even endearingly) aged, complete set of interesting provenance.  (33397)

In sum, thiscomplete array of the blocks used for printing a substantial and well-regarded Titanic-era book looks like something that was put on a printing house shelf one afternoon in 1912 at the end of an ordinary project for the pressmen and simply stayed there. Seeing it in on its present PRB&M shelf, coherent and unmessed-with, is like walking up to that shelf just about precisely 100 years later.

•  On the Beginnings, see: Cowan & Cowan, Bibliography of the History of California, 193. For a list of all its images and notes on their origins, see: http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hbbegidx.htm.   The paper wrappers present are variously just fine or age-toned or browned, chipped, torn along folds. ALL the blocks are in good condition; this is not a sort of thing easily damaged!  (29741)

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)

•  Publisher's sand-colored variegated linen, front cover with artist's name stamped in black; boards very slightly cocked, leather portfolio showing minimal edge wear. A beautiful copy. The leather portfolio is often missing, but not here.  (33427)

This is the first American edition, using the English sheets; the present example is numbered copy 561 of 1000 for sale in the United States, and issigned on the limitation leaf by the author.

•  Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped Pegasus and rider vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine slightly sunned, acetate wrapper not present. Pages clean and crisp. All in allQUITE! JOLLY!?!   (33505)

Now known as the American Journal of Science (AJS), the publication was formally designated the American Journal of Science and Arts by Silliman, its founder and first editor. Clinton goes on here to say that “There is no doubt but it will promote the interests of knowledge at home and elevate our character abroad,” and he supported it as an early subscriber, the bottom of this letter bearing his request to be so “set down.”

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

•  Very good condition. Light folds, one word smeared; integral address leaf with post office markings.  (33367)

Includes decisions of the Sacro Regio Consiglio and an index. Title-page in black and red; text printed in double-column format in roman and italic.

•  Palau 44244.   Contemporary vellum over paste boards with remnants of ties; vellum of the back cover of vol. I and front cover of vol. II rodent-gnawed along fore-edge with loss of vellum exposing the boards. Front hinges (inside) of of both volumes mostly open but text blocks still adhering nicely to binding. Occasional age-toning. Good++.  (29363)

•  Original quarter tan buckram with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with title stamped in blue; edges and extremities rubbed, spine slightly darkened. Frontispiece with small tear at central folding point. Some pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. Simply, a JOY.  (33512)

Robert L. Dothard designed the volume, which was printed on specially made Curtis Archer white paper and bound by Frank D. Fortney of the Russell-Rutter Co. This is numbered copy 1557 of 2250 printed, one of the 750 copies intended for institutional and professional distribution outside the Club.

Provenance:  Laid in is a promotional letter from the Club addressed to Leonard F. Bahr, proprietor of the Adagio Press; the original, unused subscription form and envelope are also present.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 294.   Publisher's quarter black morocco with red cloth sides, front cover with embossed leather medallion, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; spine sunned and label with scuff, front joint gently refurbished, slipcase worn with one joint broken. Cover and contents bright and clean.  (33425)

During the heyday of the fine press movement in America, theGrabhorns printed this handsome edition in 240 copies with illustration and title-page vignette drawn and then hand-colored by the indefatigableValenti Angelo.

•  Heller & Magee, Grabhorn, 93; BAL 7720; Clark A18.31.   Publisher's quarter vellum with gold and blue patterned paper sides. In its slipcase, a bit darkened at edges. Unopened copy save one fold to show illustration; a fine copy.  (33532)

While the two are said to have remained cordial, the debate was so “bitter” that the Duke of Brunswick (Lessing's supporter) “intervened, silencing Lessing” (Oxford Companion to German Literature, 2nd ed., p. 554)!

Printed here are Lessing's portions of the eleven exchanges in that debate.

•  Goedeke, IV, 447; Holzmann 2383.   Recent boards covered in brown paper specked with black in the style of the era; age-toning and some dampstaining, not beyond “typical.” Overall, a good copy of a complete set of Lessing's eleven arguments.  (33323)

Limited edition of 150 copies, signed by author and translator. This is copy 40.

•  Publisher's off-white linen binding with turquoise spine and cover labels printed in white, in a matching open-back slipcase. Fine copy.  (33520)

Alvah Bessie translated the novel from the original French and its publication precedes his first original book. Set in “Ubangi-Shari,” a former colony of French Equatorial Africa, Batouala was so realistic in its portrayal of colonial life as experienced by blacks that it was banned in all of France's colonial holdings. Charles Blockson ranks it among his 101 most influential books.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 35; Blockson, A Commented Bibliography of One Hundred and One Books by and About People of African Descent, 6.   Full natural leather, blind-stamped; spine darkened and slightly damaged at extremities. A good-only copy, without the slipcase and with a little light thumb-smudging to interior; yet in conception and artwork as fresh as ever.  (33382)

famed colonial printer John Dunlap of Philadelphia

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

•  Very good condition; age-toned, with the sorts of creasing, soiling, and abrasions that come with being carried in a pocket or purse and used as tender. Authentication signature and sequence number faded.  (33359)

Provenance:  No bookplates or inscriptions, but spine with initials “G.O.B.” tooled at base.

•  20th-century cordovan-color calf, modestly tooled in blind, spine sunned and lightened with darker streaks and patches evident; joints (outside) with excellent repairs. Text with only an occasional age-stain or instance of foxing; plates remarkably unblemished. Blue silk placemarker. OVERALL A VERY NICE COPY.   (33233)

•  Publisher's cream paper–covered boards, spines with stamped titles and heraldic rampant lion decorations; spines darkened (uniformly so), some spines chipped or scuffed. Preface and last text page of each volume with pencilled ownership inscription of J.C.B., dated 1923, except vol XV, marked as read in 1959 by J.D. Bowman. Vol. VI with newspaper clippings affixed to free endpapers, offset onto pastedowns. Vol. VIII with frontispiece separated and laid in, first few lower outer corners bumped, small pencilled marks of emphasis. Vol. IX with small scuff to front cover, small pencilled marks of emphasis, newspaper clipping affixed to back pastedown. Vol. XI with lower portion of one leaf torn away, with loss of portions of eight lines. Vol. XIII with front joint cracked and spine paper partially detached, reinforced some time ago with cellophane tape. Vols. XIV and XIX with back endpapers bearing inked and pencilled annotations. An enjoyably readable tour of famous lives in a “period” edition.  (33428)

Binding:  Publisher's grey silk, front cover with affixed color-printed illustration, spine with title stamped in black, in a striking lucite slipcase.

•  Binding as above, lucite showing predictable minor shelfwear, overall a beautiful copy. An uncommon printing of work by one of the most popular contemporary crime writers; actually, ofan all-star trio of writers.  (33332)

Printed in black, flanked bythe original Latin in red italic at the outer margin of each page, this edition numbers one hundred copies “from Adobe Garamond type generated directly onto film from a Macintosh file.” The colophon specially thanks designer Janet M. Tingey of New York.

•  Deep red silk by Moroquain, Inc., with chapter and verse gilt-stamped on front cover. Protective mylar wrapper. Fresh.  (33336)

The work is printed on “rice paper” (i.e., Asian paper probably from the mulberry tree) as was common in Manila during the period to ca. 1820. The typography is definitely provincial and plain, using only one decorative woodcut initial and no ornamentation on the title-page. The type is roman in a variety of sizes with a practice of using all capitals for emphasis.

The press on which this work was printed had been that of the Jesuits until Archbishop Sancho de Santa Justa carried out the king's order and expelled them; he then appropriated the press for his private use, as here. What had been only the fourth press to operate in the Islands, now with a new name, became the fifth.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate only five copies worldwide (three in the U.S., one in the U.K., one in Spain).

•  Medina, Manila, 317; Retana, Aparato bibliográfico, 379.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards (green and mauve stone pattern); red leather label on front cover. A few minor paper repairs to edges of a few leaves; a very few small pinhole type wormholes, not costing any letters; the brown spotting and staining peculiar to rice paper. Old, brief note lightly red-inked to title-page. Over all a very good copy.  (33130)

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

•  Very good condition. Light stain in upper margin of first page. Inlaid to a larger sheet.  (33363)

•  Garrison A12.1.c.   Publisher's red cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title and author; without the dust jacket. Top edge gilt. One leaf with short tear from lower margin, extending into text without loss; one page with a streak of discoloration along gutter (associated with bindery glue?). A very nice, clean, crisp copy.  (33105)

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers; wrappers darkened with corners bumped, front wrapper with small ink spots, short edge tears, and faint rings of discoloration. Faint intermittent foxing with one signature (only) more notably age-toned.; final leaf with portion torn out of outer margin, not touching text. A pleasing touchstone for Victorian literature and its “production.”  (33259)

This is afine facsimile of the 1833, twelfth edition, and is, in fact, a reprinting of the 1963 facsimile edition issued by the Worthington, OH, Historical Society. Present here is much information on domestic thrift, mixed with some recipes.

•  Very good+ condition. Printed paper over boards.  (33309)

•  Forster 32; Toy 156.   Publisher's brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities slightly rubbed, spine with small spots of discoloration. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean; a nice copy.  (33301)

With the monthly newsletter and mailing notice.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 467.   Bound as above, in original glassine dust wrapper and with dark green paper–covered slipcase with printed spine label. Minor chips at edges of wrapper; paper on one edge of box very slightly peeling, else fine.  (33183)

His Notes covers slavery of both Indians and blacks, the laws allowing and regulating it, the practices, movements against it, and other institutional and social aspects. It is most occupied with the colonial period to 1775.

•  Sabin 50381; Library Company, Afro-Americana (rev. ed.), 6776.   Uncut copy and mostly unopened. Publisher's dark red cloth, covers embossed in blind and spine lettered in gilt; joints (outside) slightly rubbed. Slim crescent of light amber–colored stain to outer margin of first few leaves only. An excellent copy.  (33285)

•  Luther 92; Howes V82; Rader 3534; Smith 10543.   Publisher's maroon cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped bull vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title, dust jacket lacking; spine with gilt dimmed and extremities a bit rubbed. Fore-edges of closed book with staining that occasionally encroaches on the outer edge of a margin and on a few leaves appears at “light to moderate” level farther inward; otherwise, expectable age-toning only with the occasional spot. A solid, good copy.  (33168)

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

•  Very good condition. Slightly irregular along the left margin; hole in right margin (not touching text) where the wax seal for mailing adhered to the blank area during opening.  (33388)

Title-page printed in black and red, text in double-column format.

•  Palau 200148.   Contemporary limp vellum with ties; a browned copy. Half-title cut down and mounted; title-leaf remargined. Worming in margins and in text, with loss of words and letters; occasionally a tear, occasionally an old marginal note.  (31655)

Provenance:  Initials in ink of early owner, “JB,” on title-page; 19th-century stamp of the Redemptorist House in Philadelphia; 20th-century stamp of the Redemptorist Library in New York State.

•  Coumont, Demonology and Witchcraft, I4.33; Cornell, Witchraft, p. 305; NCE, XIV, 978.   Recent black full calf old-style, handsome and suitable: Round spine with raised bands, accented in gilt and with blind-tooled devices in compartments, with black morocco label, gilt-lettered; fillets extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils and covers framed in blind double fillets; red edges, now faded. Redemptorist library stamps as above on first title-page, with also another and a sticker. Trimmed close at top in some sections, grazing at least one headline; small hole from natural paper flaw on two leaves affecting a few words of text only; a track of slim worming from upper gutter to perhaps 15 central leaves, meandering into text not costing words. Browning and age-toning but very little spotting; a group of leaves missigned but bound correctly. Solid, attractive, and about witchcraft; an edition but lightly held in libraries; why hesitate?  (33145)

And yes, Claude was related to (brother, in fact, of) Charles Perrault, the fabulist and reteller of the Cinderella story and other tales.

•  Brunet, IV, 507; Graesse, V, 207; Cicognara, I, 607.   Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations, board edges with gilt roll; joints and extremities carefully and unobtrusively repaired and refurbished, edge gilt rubbed. Pages slightly age-toned, with scattered spots; last few leaves with margins a bit darkened. Small area of pinhole worming to outer margins, not touching text (three plates each with tiny portion of one line touched); some instances nicely refurbished with long-fiber tissue. A clean, wide-margined, attractive copy of an attractive book.  (33221)

•  Publisher's teal cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title; spines with gilt slightly dimmed and minor extremity wear, front cover of vol. II with a small light smudge. A solid and pleasant set, with its pages very crisp and clean.  (33164)

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

•  Good condition. Overall age-toning with greater darkening along folds and small tears at some folds' intersections; verso (“p. 2") with a variety of docketings.  (33368)

Binding:  Later 19th-century half blue calf and marbled paper–covered boards, gilt spine extra; gilt-stamped dark red leather title and year labels. All edges gilt.

•  NSTC 2H28799.   Binding as above, edges rubbed, front board once loose and now expertly reattached; gilt bright, bright, bright. Front free endpaper with small stamp of Bartlett & Co., Boston. Pages slightly age-toned, one with one upper corner noticeably so, and a very occasional spot; clean. (33102)

•  Willems 723; Scnurrer 79; Brunet, III, 652; Vancil Cordell Collection, 99.   Contemporary vellum over paste boards; spine expertly repaired, new spine label added, no pastedowns, new front endpapers. Light dust-soiling and bug specks on title-page, with repair to one corner; age-toning and occasional spotting only as might be expected. A very good copy.  (33163)

The frontispiece is adetailed wood engraving of Bath from Beechen Cliff as drawn by J. Syer.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only the copy at Duke University as far as U.S. library holdings.

•  Publisher's dark brown textured cloth, stamped in blind and lettered in gilt, top edges bumped; a narrow scalloped border of quite-light waterstaining to top and fore-edges of frontispiece. Very good copy.  (33468)

The text was printed in Fell types, with the music in Walpergen type, by John Johnson at the University Press of Oxford; the illustrations were printed from the artist's linoleum cuts by the Curwen Press; and the binding was done by the Leighton-Straker Company. This isnumbered copy 505 of 950 printed.

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

•  Dreyfus, History of the Nonesuch Press, 109.   Publisher's faux vellum with yapp edges, blind-tooled with rules and arabesque decorations, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine darkened, extremities rubbed, minor dust-soiling more pronounced to back cover, small area of light staining to lower front joint and adjacent cover. Slipcase lacking. Pages very slightly age-toned, all edges deckle. A good solid copy of a beautifully produced work.  (33370)

illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias

Printed in double-column format, this very handsome and coveted edition bears 6 full-page, 12 half-page, and 28 in-text color illustrations, plus one double-page color map, all by Covarrubias.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 207.   Contemporary Spanish-style sheep (pasta española) with red spine labels (labels lightly rubbed). In the slipcase, as issued; case rubbed at some points with loss of paper, as common. A clean and unfoxed copy of the text and illustrations.  (33380)

•  BAL 13228.   Contemporary half calf with marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges with single gilt fillet, spines gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels; spines and extremities rubbed, spine labels chipped, leather with minor discoloration, joints starting from heads. A few signatures opened roughly, some unopened (most in vol. II). A worn but still distinctive set.  (33162)

•  ESTC R21446; Wing (rev. ed.) S3770.   Period-style mottled calf, covers framed and panelled in blind fillets with blind-tooled corner fleurons, spine with raised bands and gilt-stamped title. Pages age-toned and foxed with occasional small inkspots; some paginations trimmed and frontispiece edges slightly ragged. One early leaf with tear in lower margin, extending into text, repaired with two words from opposing page partially lifted by adhesion; one leaf with small hole affecting about eight words; one leaf with tear in outer margin touching final letters of seven lines; occasional edge chips, one upper outer corner torn away. A very readable copy in a dignified binding; a romantic tale with a romantic inscription.  (33123)

The edition was limited to 1500 copies, of which 500 were for sale in England and 1000 in the U.S. This is one of the 500 copies for England.  Autographed by Leighton on the limitation page.

•  Publisher's quarter vellum with brown patterned paper sides. Top edge gilt; deckled edges. Without the d/j. Vellum lightly discolored. Very good.  (33480)

Binding:  Contemporary English blind-tooled calf over wood boards; evidence of leather and hook closures. Covers tooled in a typical late 16th-century London style, in blind, with a central diamond created using only two blind-embossing rolls and a double fillet tool. (We have identified one of the two rolls used.)

Surprisingly, searches of NUC, WorldCat, and ESTC locateonly half a dozen copies in U.S. libraries (but unsurprisingly, many in Great Britain).

•  STC (rev. ed.) 24668; ESTC S117884. Oldham, English Blind-stamped Bindings, plates XLVII, HM a (2) 771.   Binding as above, well rebacked; leather of two corners lost and refurbished, new endpapers. Library pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings; pinhole worming at front and back; generally light, often lightest imaginable waterstaining in upper margins, this in one section also to lower and to fore-edge in index. Some age-toning, some stray spotting. Overall a very good copy of a bookscarce in the marketplace.  (33127)

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

•  Very good condition. Written in a pale sepia ink. Without the envelope.  (33364)

•  Quarter black cloth with gray-brown paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label; dust jacket lacking, paper edges slightly sunned, spine label darkened and stained (not fatally). Pages gently age-toned. A good, solid copy.  (33131)

This edition, “Hac quarta editione pluribus mendis expurgatae,” has several very good indices of “arguments,” words, and “things.”

•  Later limp, but rather stiff, vellum. Inkstains on bottom edge of closed volume; some captions a little shaved, half-title a little tattered. Remarkably solid andclean.  (31616)

WorldCat reportsprecious few holdings of any issues of the Frankfurter Mess-Relationen for the 1790s.

•  Never bound; spine with faded marbled paper as shelfback. Dust-soiling, dog-earing, light spotting to last leaves; last leaf with a short tear (repaired) in foremargin.  (33124)

•  ESTC T36412; Wing (rev. ed.) S2920.   Binding as above; housed in a clamshell case of brown morocco and brown cloth, case spine with gilt-stamped burgundy leather title-label and gilt-stamped publication information. Pp. 6 and 7 mispaginated as 56 and 57. Some page edges darkened; occasional mild foxing and offsetting, a few headers cropped (none badly). An uncommon early edition of a script that is actually quite interesting (i.e.,not just an epitome of presumption and misunderstanding), in a truly lovely binding.  (32781)

•  Bound as above, spine slightly dimmed and rubbed, back cover with one wrinkle in cloth in upper outer corner, one corner bumped. One page with small scuff where top of page was adhered to previous plate; a few signatures not entirely cut. Lovely front cover bright and beautiful, pages clean: a very nice copy.  (33110)

The two-part text was not reprinted until 1883, by J. Lemonnyer in an edition of 525 copies.

Binding:  Fine olive brown morocco gilt, ca. 1910 and very much expressing that era's style. Each board double-ruled in gilt and finely framed with a canopy of elegant gilt garlands, title gilt at center of front cover. Spine gilt extra from top to bottom in a leafy vine pattern. Board edges single-ruled in gilt, turn-ins double-ruled in gilt with a rule of delicate gilt beads between, french combed marbled endpapers in an exceptionally pretty and precise pattern.

•  Cioranescu 11517.   Bound as above, second part only of two; binding a little rubbed (only) at joints, edges, and one corner of front cover. Paper chosen for blank endpapers unevenly bleached, in production, to now-spotty but not unpleasant effect; text with a little age-toning at upper edges and some light dust-soiling at deckle edges.  (32768)

•  Untrimmed, unbound copy, simply stitched. “Title-page” with inked call number in lower inner corner, penciled initials in upper outer corner. One leaf torn across in upper margin, not touching text. A few instances of light spotting; uncut edges slightly darkened.  (33251)

•  Brunet, II, 1656/57; Landwehr 476.   Later quarter mottled calf with marbled paper–covered sides, front cover with gilt-stamped green leather label, spine with gilt-stamped rules and compartment decorations; edges rubbed, corners bumped, spine and front joint scuffed with none of this disfiguring. Front free endpaper with neatly inked abbreviated ownership inscription dated 1845 and pencilled annotation. Pages age-toned with scattered spotting and staining; waterstaining variously along a good many leaves' inner portions, sometimes with waterstaining to lower and outer portions also. Folio 60 lacking. One leaf with stray inked lines in lower portion, touching one letter, with one line extending into image. Several leaves with repairs, most generally not touching text or image; one with remaining signs of tear extending into text without loss; one with tear extending into image, upper portion repaired, small area of loss within image; one with repair to tear just touching one letter. Final two leaves creased and stained, with more significant repairs, one tape repair covering upper left portion of image. Despite wear and accidents, impressive and attractive.  (32639)

Written in sepia ink in a clear italic hand surrounded by a calligraphic border accomplished in red and green, this has the symbol of the Inquisition at the center top in green and yellow with the symbol of the Dominican Order to its left and right in brown ink. The signatures of three Inquisitors and an Inquisition notary appear large and clear, and the paper and wax seal is present.

The verso of the document has, in a clear notarial hand in black ink, the registration of the appointment; this, too, isimpressive to look at.

•  Very good condition.  (33157)

Evidence of Readership: Title-page with early, rather elegantly inked comment, “with a Sorrowful ending.”

•  Contemporary quarter morocco and marbled paper sides, worn and abraded; front and back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library, spine rubbed and with paper shelving label. Title-page and several others stamped; title-page with comment as above; stray pencil marks to a handful of pages.  (4364)

Evidence of readership: In the present copy, the first five lives were extensively annotated in Latin by an early hand, with both interlinear and shouldernotes. Evidence of something else: In the present copy, inkblots cover significant portions of three nude figures in the title-page frame!

Provenance:  19th-century ownership stamp of the Redemptorist house in Ilchester, Maryland; later 19th-century stamp and label of the Redemptorists' provincial library of Baltimore; 20th-century stamps of the Redemptorists' library at Mount St. Alphonsus.

WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 do not locateany U.S. institutional holdings of this edition.

•  VD16 P3514; Schweiger, II, 1140 (under Victor); Index Aurel. 110.780. Not in Adams.   Early 19th-century half roan and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title-label; three corners lacking leather, binding scuffed overall, spine leather rubbed, hinges (inside) tender. Title-page darkened with edges somewhat tattered, early inked ownership inscription (faint), two closed tears, two institutional rubber-stamps, and paper shelving label affixed in lower portion of woodcut title-page border; “censoring” inkblots as above with some bleeding to subsequent two leaves. Back pastedown with pocket and slip, one endpaper rubber-stamped. Pages age-toned; some shouldernotes, running headers, and pagination shaved. A nice example of a surviving, utilized, classroom copy of a classic Classical work.  (32635)

The tales are: “The story of Brand the Generous,” “Authuns's story,” “Stump's story,” “The story of Thorsteinn Sagawise,” and “The story of Odd Ofeigsson.”

This is numbered copy 28 out of the 100-copydeluxe edition, signed at the colophon by the translator and artist.

•  Publisher's half cream paper with red and cream printed paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title. A crisp, clean copy.  (33349)

It was not uncommon for Congress in this era to buy important or sensitive patents, whether for security reasons, to prevent their antisocial use, or to promote the common good; and although Morton's “discovery” claim was disputed by Prof. Jackson and a thorough investigation was pursued with much testimony taken from a wide variety of witnesses and “experts,” the Select Committee reporting here, the Army, Navy, and Treasury departments, and virtually all other deciding parties concurred that remuneration should be awarded in the huge sum of $100,000. The record of the discussion, both colorfully narrative and cooly documentary, is here at great length, including the Committee's sweeping yet detailed historical account from the Greek era forward and encompassing Chinese medicine as well, of various herbs and plants — including cannabis — that have been used to alleviate pain or to approximate a true anesthetic quality.

Congress refused to pay, apparently for reasons partly based in a point of procedure; but the argument produceda great, early account of the discovery and use of anesthetics both historically and in the U.S.

•  Removed from a nonce volume, scattered foxing; very good condition and, frankly, utterlyabsorbing reading.  (32215)

•  Palau 20871 (Aymerich); Vekene, Bib. bibliographica ... inquisitionis, I, no. 109; id., Bib. der Inquisition, 79; id., “Die gedruckten Ausgaben ... des Nicolaus Eymerich,” in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1973, 3; Index Aurel. *167.023; Brunet, II, 1142n; Edit16 CNCE 18448. This ed. not in Adams. On Eymeric, see: New Catholic Encyclopedia online.   Recent full dark brown morocco blind-ruled, old style; spine with raised bands, author/title gilt on a red leather compartment label, and date gilt collector-style at base; bottom edge with title elegantly inked on, early. Ex-library: stamps on bottom edge, old pressure-stamp on first, last, and one other leaf, and acquisition number in ink on second leaf. Title-page repaired at inner margin, with short closed internal tear near device and canceled ink inscription at bottom; first and last leaves (only) dust-soiled and waterstaining in some lower margins (only); an early ink marking or two (only); a handful of quires very foxed, others unevenly browned. Occasional instances of very minor wormwork, typically almost unnoticeable and in gutters, with more noticeable but still minor tracks in lower margins of some quires. A volume satisfying and impressive physically, and textually important.  (31327)