This offering is a rare and exciting example of Sendak's early work: WorldCat locates only six institutional copies, all in the U.S.

•  Hanrahan, Works of Maurice Sendak, Revised & Expanded to 2001, A15.   Original colored paper wrappers (each booklet in a different color) with black lettering and cover art, contained in a white and orange pictorial, originally hinged box; box is edgeworn, rubbed and scuffed, with joint cleanly severed. Scuff to rear wrapper of one booklet, extremely minor wrinkling to corner of another; overall the booklets are insuperb condition and the survival of the box is afine bonus.  (38364)

Binding:  Publisher's red cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped decorative title; with binder's ticket of Bone & Son on back pastedown.

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

•  NSTC 2M21798.   Binding as above; spine and edges darkened, gilt dimmed, corners and spine extremities slightly rubbed, outer edge of back board and back free endpaper (only) showing tidemark. Small bookseller's ticket on front pastedown now mostly effaced. Pages clean. Prettily bound though no longer quite “bright”; indeed, a very nice copy.  (38638)

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

•  Contemporary half sheep in imitation of morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorations; rubbed (though spine gilt bright) and front hinge (inside) cracked. Six leaves lacking, as per collation, and an unknown number of plates; upper outer corner of pp. 41/42 torn away with loss of perhaps seven letters. Upper inner portions stained from a thumb's breadth to at worst case an eighth of the page, throughout; other staining and foxing quite minimal, and more often to text than to images. Despite its incompleteness and other evidence of enthusiastic use, this copy of this rarity still offers both considerable charm and several varieties of usefulness.  (38650)

Binding:  Dark blue morocco framed in gilt double fillets and panelled in a dotted gilt roll with gilt-tooled corner fleurons; spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-framed compartments. Turn-ins tooled to echo covers, cream moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt.

•  Binding as above, edges and extremities showing slight sunning and wear. Vellum (expectably) cockled. Lovely, unique, beautifully bound, and an impressive showcase both of modern calligraphy and of Follansbee's impact.  (38417)

Hop-scotch, jump-rope, and hoop-running are all shown as boys' games, with girls shown as actively playing at Blindman's Bluff only.

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

•  Rosenbach, Children, 432; Welch, American Children’s Books, 1468; Shaw & Shoemaker 22130.   Publisher's gold-flecked yellow paper; wrappers slightly dust-soiled, with light wear over edges and spine, front wrapper with title inked in contemporary hand. Last few leaves unopened.  Pages age-toned, with corners bumped, otherwise clean and — seemingly — unread.  (38508)

Provenance:  Front fly-leaf inscribed “Benjamin Fay Mills [/] From Pa & Ma [/] Christmas – 1862.” The New Jersey–born Mills (1857–1916), in his adult life, became a prominent evangelist and socially conscious humanitarian; a Christian Socialist who at various times was an itinerant preacher and lecturer said to have converted hundreds of thousands of hearers over more than a decade, a minister to the First Unitarian Church in Oakland, CA, and the founder and leader of the Los Angeles Fellowship and the Chicago Fellowship. Henry Miller cited Mills's as a life that was “singular and inspiring” to him (Miller, The Books in My Life). The frontispiece here has been partially colored in and captioned “Garden of EDEN” in a youthful hand, presumably Mills's. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard; small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Publisher's textured green cloth, front cover framed in blind surrounding decorative gilt-stamped title and book vignette, back cover with same design entirely in blind; rubbed, back cover showing light wear. Inscription as above; frontispiece with caption supplied in contemporary blue; title-page with Mills's childishly pencilled name. Scattered spots of mild foxing; first few leaves (including frontispiece and title-page) with semi-circle of waterstaining in upper margin, touching small section of upper portion of image; one leaf with short tear from outer margin, not extending past frame of page. Hieroglyphic Bibles are always entertaining examples of juvenile religious instruction, and this one is particularly delightful as likely the first Bible owned by a much-admired American religious leader.  (38464)

Binding: 19th-century crushed light brown morocco, spine with gilt-stamped title, spine and covers framed in single gilt fillet, board edges with double gilt fillets, turn-ins with an intricate gilt roll of arabesque, dot, and tulip designs. All edges gilt. Signed on bottom front turn-in by London bookbinders Lloyd, Wallis, & Lloyd.

Provenance:  Pencil note on front pastedown “Proviene della Raccolta Catalina Fernese”; more recently in the library of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Not in Adams.   Bound as above; very gently rubbed with a few small specks on covers and moderate offsetting from binding to endpapers. Leaves with moderate age-toning and some dust-soiling, fore- and inner margins expertly repaired via leafcasting; a handful of words quite rubbed. Provenance indicia as above. A scarce fairy tale printing clearly meant to be ephemeral, now well preserved and neatly bound.  (38270)

This is the second, revised edition of Auguste Bernard's 1865 work on Tory appearing in English for the first time, having been translated from the original French by George B. Ives.

The prospectus is laid in, announcing the edition as being of 350 copies; as per the colophon, this is no. 71 of 370.

Binding: Publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, rectangle of ornate gilt decoration to boards featuring a simple Grecian urn at the base surrounded by leafy vines in two sets of large swirls, all within a double-ruled border and a border of fleurs-de-lis.

•  Warde, Bruce Rogers, 94; Work of Bruce Rogers, 184.   Bound as above, very minor rubbing to boards and corners; in original white slipcase, black paper spine with tan spine-label and scuffed, short stray pen mark to one side. Interior clean, bottom and fore-edges uncut, prospectus lightly age-toned. An elegant limited edition, expertly designed by one of the greats.  (38200)

WorldCat locates only one holding of this item, in Germany.

Provenance:  Contemporary neat inked ownership signature of Harriet Verner at top of title-page; her pencil note on front free endpaper “Mrs. Verner Aix la Chapell, July 1834.” Most recently the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Publisher's quarter mauve paper and marbled paper–covered sides, housed in later folding marbled paper–covered case with gilt-stamped black cloth spine, the whole in a marbled paper–covered slipcase; binding rubbed, spine sunned, joints very tender, slipcase darkened. Frontispiece recto with pencilled gift inscription dated 1834, title-page with early inked ownership inscription as noted. Last two plates have had their intended chapter locations switched in binding. Pages clean — the little reader who owned this must have been very respectful.  (38649)

Provenance:  Title-page with early inked inscription: “Phill Wenman”; first page of “The Life of Godfrey of Boulogne” with early inked inscription: “Phi. Wenman his Booke.” Frontispiece verso, title-page, and one other page rubber-stamped by the Holbrook Library of the Pacific School of Religion (properly deaccessioned).

Evidence of readership: Intermittent, generally unobtrusive early inked marginal brackets and marks of emphasis, with one annotation reading simply “Milton” (at “Swift from my selfe I run, my selfe I feare, / Yet still my hell within my selfe I beare”).

•  ESTC S117570; Graesse, VI, 35; NCBEL, I, 1103; STC (rev. ed.) 23699.   Contemporary mottled calf framed in double blind fillets, rebacked with plain calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands; sides predictably acid-pitted. Frontispiece cut down and mounted on contemporary fly-leaf. Institutional rubber-stamps as above, title-page recto with stamped numeral; pp. 81/82 excised and replaced in facsimile. Pages with light age-toning and cockling, occasional small smudges or spots; a few corners bumped. One leaf with tear from upper outer corner, not extending into text; four final leaves with closed tear in inner margin and small hole in text, affecting one to two letters of six lines of text without obscuring sense. A solid copy with appreciable history.  (36790)

Editor, writer, illustrator, and translator Shoberl may be best known for his editing work on the English literary annual Forget-me-Not, although he published on a variety of topics.

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

•  Shoemaker 35196. On Shoberl, see: DNB (online).   Quarter red roan in imitation of morocco and yellow paper–covered sides, spine lettered and ruled in gilt; spine evenly sunned, front cover lightly discolored, all edges darkened, none of this unattractive. Front fly-leaf with light pencilling and short marginal tear; light to significant age-toning and a small amount of waterstaining through most of text; creased or crumpled corners, a few spots/stains including to plate margins, one témoin, and a short marginal tear. Beautiful illustrations and interesting reading.  (38402)

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

•  Shoemaker 27716; Rosenbach, Children's, 468.   Original printed paper wrappers respined very nicely with black cloth; partially unopened. Age-toning and minor chipping on wrappers and few instances of very mild foxing in text. Very crisp.  (38477)

Hamilton notes that “in the sketch of Dr. Anderson's life written by himself in 1848 . . . [he] mentions by name only two books illustrated by him” — this, and the (dare we say here, “fabled”?) General History of Quadrupeds.

Binding:  American full calf binding of the first quarter of the 19th century, with a wide lacy gilt roll framing each cover and a narrower blind roll within that, the whole unobtrusively rebacked preserving the original, elaborately gilt-stamped spine.

Provenance:  Early 20th-century bookplate of Allen L. Story; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 6616; Stauffer, American Engravers, II, p. 14; Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 153; Hamilton, 224.   On Langhorne, see: The Dictionary of National Biography. Binding as above; front pastedown with private collector's bookplate. Pages age-toned. One plate with short edge tear, not extending into image; one plate with spot of foxing just at outer edge of image. In fact a beautiful little book. (38641)

Binding:  Late 19th-century black morocco, spine gilt-extra: lettered and stamped in gilt with dots along raised bands and arabesque stamps in compartments; covers framed in triple fillets, board edges with a gilt roll of dots, turn-ins with gilt daisy roll, nonpareil marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.

Provenance: A previous owner has added a Greek inscription dated Christmas 1873 in ink on a front fly-leaf; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1828.17; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 81; Darlow & Moule, 4816.   Binding as above, very gently rubbed with a few small scuffs. Light age-toning with one small spot; half-title lacking, frontispiece obviously reattached. Provenance markings as above, a few small marginal pencil or colored pencil markings, mostly at the start of the text. A petite and elegant production in a binding that is, frankly, about aspristine and classic as you are going to get.  (38282)

Provenance:  Front inside wrapper with early inked ownership inscription of Sarah J. Gaffield. Later in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.

•  American Imprints 42693.   Publisher's tan printed paper wrappers; spine and corners with very minor rubbing. Moderate foxing. A solid example, with neat contemporary inscription but otherwise unmarked by childish hands. An excellent copy.  (38471)

Binding:  19th-century brown morocco, spine gilt extra with red leather label, daisy-stamped spine compartments, and minute daisy roll along raised bands; covers framed in gilt vinous and foliate roll, board edges gilt-beaded. A completely different gilt daisy and dog-tooth roll adorns the turn-ins; striking marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt.

Provenance:  Very small embossed armorial stamp (featuring three cross crosslets and a mullet in the base) above inked signature of J.J. FitzAdam on front endpaper; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1842.6; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 76; Pickering & Chatto, William Pickering (catalogue 708), 185.   Bound as above; gently rubbed at corners. A few small, scattered specks to interior, otherwise clean; one or two uneven edges from manufacture. Provenance indicia as above. A neatly printed collection beautifully bound.  (38386)

Binding:  19th-century half brown morocco and papier tourniquet paper–covered sides, gilt lettering on spine with ruling in blind, covers with blind beaded roll along leather edges; French curl marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, green ribbon placemarker.

Provenance:  20th-century bookplate of the Sondley Reference Library of Asheville, NC, on front pastedown and its embossed stamps on frontispiece, title-page, and two leaves of text; clipping of a bookseller's description on endpaper. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Bound as above, gently rubbed. Moderate age-toning with light spotting, a few unevenly trimmed leaves of text and one missing corner from paper manufacture, foxing to first and last few leaves of volume. A strong and attractive copy of a book that's still a “good read.”  (38427)

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear; evidence of removed bookplate on front pastedown and very faded word in an early hand on title-page margin.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, IV, 513; Landwehr, Emblem & Fable Books Printed in the Low Countries (3rd ed.), 346; Corpus librorum emblematum, Jesuit series, J.631; Emblem Books at the University of Illinois, H56.   Bound as above, binding gently rubbed with a few small spots, one small wormhole and a leather repair, pencilling on endpapers. Light age-toning and limited, light to moderate all-marginal waterstaining throughout, a smattering of spots. Provenance marks as above. Plates as fresh and engaging as the day they were produced.  (38273)

Binding:  19th-century textured red roan in imitation of morocco, both covers and spine gilt extra with elaborate floral and foliate designs, title in each case in red relief “on” a pair of gilt panels textured with cross-hatching. Covers framed in triple fillets, the second delicately cornered with small diamonds, surrounding a border incorporating floral corner brackets and a floral base supporting an arch that itself breaks out in flowery flourishes. All edges gilt.

Evidence of Readership: A previous owner has tucked in a newspaper clipping of a poem titled “What is Love?” as well as two poems printed on silk and framed in paper lace (gilt in the one case, pink and white in the other), titled “To Papa” and “Farewell.”

•  Faxon, Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 258; Tepper, American Gift Books & Literary Annuals (2nd ed.), pp. 84–85 (see copy 2); Thompson, American Literary Annuals & Gift Books, pp. 106–07.   Bound as above, rubbed along board edges with very small worm holes along joints, light glue action to pastedowns. Light age-toning with the occasional spot or stain, plates moderately to heavily foxed; a few gently creased pages, one gathering loosely attached to binding. Lay-ins absolutely charming.  (38203)

Comparing this set of parts to Field's collation we find one ad slip lacking in No. 19/20, but an extra (uncalled-for) one in No. 4. Four of the wrappers (Nos. 1, 2, 18, 19/20) contain different ads than those specified by Field, but clearly these are original and authentic (possibly states of the wrappers?).

•  Tooley, Coloured Plates (1979 ed.), 295–96; Field, John Leech on My Shelves, 130–37; Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 136.  The condition of the set is remarkably fine:  The first part has only the slightest wear at its extremities, but otherwise there is virtually no wear or soiling to the set. Housed in a quarter dark red morocco open-back slipcase with raised bands and an inner chemise, with some abrading to the slipcase.  (38151)

The Grandeza was Balbuena's first published work, appearing from the Ocharte press in Mexico in 1604. A descriptive epic poem about Mexico City at the close of the 16th century, paying homage to its external material aspects and to its spiritual, political, and social ones as well, it is a major work of Novohispanic literature. The Siglo de Oro was the author's second published work; it first appeared in Madrid in 1608 and is composed of a series of 12 eclogues.

Binding:  Contemporary acid-stained sheep (Valencia style) in hues of green and brown, covers with a gilt roll border and a center device of the Spanish royal coat of arms, spine gilt extra.

•  Palau 22339; Simón Díaz 2286; Maggs, Spanish Books, 71a. On Balbuena, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica, fiche 90, frames 7–16.   Bound as above, joints and extremities mildly rubbed. Title-page with spots of pinhole worming, front fly-leaf with one such. Pages clean, portrait handsome.  (38393)

German printer Vindelinus de Spira (a.k.a. Wendelin de Speier or Speyer) was, alongside his brother John, in 1468 one of the first to bring printing to Venice from Germany, where their use of roman type was considered innovative. Trevitt & Steinberg note in Five Hundred Years of Printing that the brothers' publications “were well produced and show discrimination in their choice of authors” (p. 31).

Provenance:  From the incunabula leaf collection of the Grabhorn press.

•  Goff L238; IGI 5771; BMC, V, 154; ISTC il00238000; GKW M18494.   Leaf disbound and mounted along the top edge to a dark gray pasteboard. Very light dust-soiling overall, with none on the side facing the mounting; age-toning along edges with a few small spots; text block gently skewed. Faint bibliographical information pencilled in bottom margin. An attractive early leaf from an early press.  (38326)

No one here was sent to what came to be the “far” West — it wasn't yet time for that — but concerned as these young women surely were about unsaved frontier folk and “papal ascendancy,” they clearly felt themselves to be off on real adventures in places that were not, well, New England . . .

Apparently the last annual report was in 1852.

•  Sabin 38542.   Disbound. Clean.  (38336)

•  Brunet, II, 1013; Schweiger, I, 107; Wolf & Hayes, Library of Benjamin Franklin, 1000.   18th-century dark hunter green morocco framed in gilt triple fillets, board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls, spine with gilt-stamped title, gilt rules, and gilt compartment decorations; moderately worn overall, joints and extremities refurbished, spine rubbed and slightly browned. Red endpapers. All edges gilt. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean. What's technically known as “a sweetheart.”   (38265)

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

•  Bibliotheca Osleriana 4907; Brunet, III, 43; Garrison & Morton 1594; NSTC H564; NCBEL, I, 1113. Not in Ing, Charles Whittingham: Printer, 1795-1876.   19th-century half brown calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-ruled bands and compartments, leather edges ruled in blind; binding lightly rubbed overall, somewhat more so along joints. Front fly-leaf with pencilled annotations and affixed slip of old cataloguing. Fore-edges untrimmed.A clean, attractive copy.  (38229)

WorldCat finds no U.S. institutional holdings of any B.C.B.A. publication.

•  Printed paper wrappers, with the 1916 booklet laid into another, slightly larger but otherwise identical version of its wrappers; 1916 wrappers creased and slightly smudged, 1911 and 1913 very gently faded. 1916 with short tear from outer margin of title-page. One baker's first name lined through in advertisements (a professional vendetta?). Overall, clean and pleasing copies of seldom-seen ephemera. (38276)

A book of toasts and quotations for all occasions organized by categories (love, the army, colleges, sports, particular quaffs, life's joys, etc.) presented in a merry, decorative (and signed) binding.

Binding:  Publisher's yellow/tan cloth with yellow-stamped lettering to spine, purple and yellow-stamped lettering bordered by black on front board with purple grapes, green leaves and yellow tankards and goblets surrounding a giant steaming punchbowl as decoration. Top edge gilt, black ribbon bookmark included. Signed “AR” (i.e., Amy Richards).

•  Bound as above; edges lightly rubbed, parts of text on spine rubbed, faint spots of soiling to front board. Light spotting to fore-edge, a few random finger smudges, soiling to gutter of p. 98. Wassail in a fitting decorative binding!  (38318)

Printed with rather notable neatness, and “embellished with three copper-plate engravings.”

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

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 16281; Rosenbach, Children; 381; Welch, American Children’s Books, 1290.   Original publisher's marbled paper over light boards, starting to separate along joints. Light age-toning only. A nice copy.  (38481)

Binding:  Decorated publisher's binding: blue cloth with “silver”-stamped lettering and fleur-de-lis decorations to front board and spine, front cover with large “silver”-stamped vignette of a medieval gentleman holding a cage with two owls. “Silver” work actually aluminum and very bright!

Provenance:  On front free endpaper, two ownership stamps of Sarah E. Lembeck.

•  BAL 6747 (state A imprint, state A binding).   Bound as above; spine cocked and extremities and joints lightly rubbed. Stamps as above. Crease to p. 42; interior otherwise unspoiled. A handsomely medieval-esque production.  (37506)

Provenance:  Small signature in ink of J.E. McKinley, M.D., on title-page along top edge; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Kraus, Italia, 192; EDIT16 CNCE 47029; Brunet, III, 1904; Graesse, Trésor de Livres Rares, IV, p. 608. Not in Adams.   20th-century full calf, spine with raised bands double-ruled in gilt with daisy stamps in compartments, covers framed in gilt double-fillets, all edges gilt; spine gently sunned. Light age-toning and staining with the occasional spot; of several different paper stocks with a few uneven fore-edges and later repairs. Provenance markings as above. Attractive.  (38107)

Evidence of Readership: Four pages with early inked annotations in Latin, corrections, or marks of emphasis.

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

•  Brunet, II, 561; VD16 D 389; Index Aurel. 150.950. See also Vicaire 255; this ed. not in Adams.   19th-century treed paper, spine with hand-inked paper label; binding slightly sprung, spine sunned, extremities rubbed. Front free endpaper with (inexact) modern pencilled bibliographic notes; title-page with small pencilled annotation in lower margin; other annotations as noted. Trimmed somewhat closely, occasionally touching foliation or catchwords. An uncommon edition in a solid, worthwhile copy.  (38291)

The title vignette is signed “J.H.H.” (John H. Hall); the front wrapper gives a publication date of 1838, while the title-page gives 1839.

There are two interesting points about the wrapper here. First, the title is printed down the slim little spine in minute letters, with “bands” above and below it; the “binding” part of the operation of putting this together was designed to be more than usually unforgiving. And the back wrapper offers an interesting emblematic engraving with text reading, “ORATORIO . . . to aid in rebuilding Zion Church.” (Is the reference to “metaphorical Zion”; was this perhaps sold as a fund-raiser; or did the Phinneys just have the plate lying around, and figure it would fit?? — which last does not seem to fit with the care taken in the spine treatment?).

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

•  American Imprints 49687.   Very Good copy. Publisher's printed gray-blue paper wrappers, slightly faded, lower back outer corner nicked. Moderate foxing. A seemingly unread copy, with added interest from thevery pretty contemporary but non-childish hand-coloring.  (38489)

The volume is illustrated witha frontispiece and eight engraved plates done by several different hands after artists including Tissot, Millais, Tenniel, Keene and others, with the frontispiece and title-page vignettes being particularly nice steel engravings done by Charles Henry Jeens from Tissot designs.

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

•  Publisher's brick-colored textured cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped vignette of a medieval lancer framed in gilt triple fillets, spine with gilt-stamped title; slightly cocked with front hinge a bit tender, edges and extremities rubbed, spine gently darkened. Top edge gilt. Binder's ticket of Burn & Co. on back pastedown. Pages and plates clean. An outstanding example of a quintessentially Victorian-era perspective on Celtic lore.  (38052)

Alice Barber Stephens, an American painter and engraver whose work appeared in Harper's and the Ladies' Home Journal, provides the illustrations, being13 plates throughout the text and a frontispiece (with tissue guard) of Wilkins.

Vol. III of the Ladies' Home Journal Library of Fiction.

Provenance:  On front free endpaper, the signature of Katherine Phinprose(?).

•  Wright, III, 2038.   Publisher's textured green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board; lighter green-stamped decoration to front board and spine; fore-edge of pages untrimmed. Extremities rubbed. Small tear of paper on front pastedown; gutter crack at series list and p. 114. A nice little volume combining the work of two prominent women.  (37815)

Binding:  19th-century quarter brown sheep in ecclesiastical style with marbled paper sides; spine blind-embossed with elements of a church (rose window, arches, leaded glass window, etc.) and with gilt ruling and tooling. All edges marbled. Binding by B. Miyar (with his ticket).

Provenance:  16th-century signature of Juan de la Torre in lower margin of main title-page.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and the Iberian Book Project locate only three copies of the 1519 edition in U.S. (Hispanic Society, Newberry, Huntington), no copies anywhere in the world of the 1546 (i.e., apparently a ghost), and only six U.S. copies of this 1552 (Hispanic Society, NYPL, Bancroft, Lilly, BPL, and UPenn).

•  On Castilla, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 195, frames 158–59. Brunet, I, 1632; Graesse, II, 66 & VII, 161, note; Palau 47981; Salvá, 522; Heredia, II, 1887; Wilkinson, Iberian Books, 2921; Iberian Book Project IB 2921; Sánchez, Bibliografia aragonesa, II, 332. Not in Alden & Landis; not in Harrisse.   Binding as above; spine ends rubbed. Text lightly to moderately age-browned, with scattered foxing; small chipping to fore-edges of some leaves, small piece torn from blank outer margin of title to second part, last leaf with a closed tear, repaired. Overall a very nice copy of a scarce Spanish work of the Golden Age.  (38121)

The four sections of the title story open each with alarge, crisp woodcut illustration; the book closes with the poems “Dan and Jane: Or Faith and Works” and “The History of Richard.”

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

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 23422; Welch, American Children's Books, 886. Not in Rosenbach.   Contemporary blue textured paper–covered boards, respined with blue paper shelfback; corners and edges rubbed, front outer corners showing faint tidelines. Pages, probablyblue to begin with, browned; final leaf with short tear from outer margin, not extending into text. A solid, unmarked copy.  (38653)

The offering begins witha merrily violent woodcut border of rabbits hunting men on the title-page; the text is printed in single columns with italic type and roman chapter headings along with the occasional decorative initial.

Evidence of Readership: Two early users have covered the title-page verso and three endpapers with notes in Latin and Greek — sometimes minute and some overlaying previous ones — in addition to adding a few phrases and decorations to the title-page, embellishing nearly every large initial (both plain and decorative), supplying a few marginal notes, and underlining a few phrases of text, all in ink. A more modern user has contributed a few English notes in pencil at the back.

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

•  Not in Adams; not in VD16. On Mosellanus and Hegendorff, see: Contemporaries of Erasmus; our quotation on Hagendorff is from this source. On the Paedologia, see: Seybolt, Paedologia of Petrus Mosellanus (introduction).   16th-century limp vellum over pasteboards, title inked on spine, all edges stained blue; evenly dust-soiled, new endpapers. Lacks final blank (only) as above. Provenance and readership markings as above, with a few notes partially trimmed. One small marginal hole and a few pages with slightly worn type; moderate age-toning and occasional, chiefly marginal, staining. An exciting find for multiple reasons.  (38117)

Binding:  Publisher's dark brown vertical leather-grained cloth (Krupp Lea8); covers with blind-stamped ruled frame and symmetrical foliate “drawer handles” top and bottom. Spine with title and foliate decorations gilt-stamped. Yellow endpapers.

•  Wright, I, 112. On the book cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50, Lea8.   Binding cocked, corners and spine extremities rubbed. A few corners dog-eared; intermittent light to moderate foxing, pages otherwise clean. In fact a nice copy, in the original cloth.  (38152)

Needham's collaborator for this volume, Tsein Tseun-hsuin, was a Chinese sinologist and librarian known for smuggling thousands of rare books, many being invaluable artifacts of Chinese culture, out of Japanese-occupied China during World War II. With Needham's support, Tsien created thiscomprehensive study of paper and printing in China from its very beginnings to the end of the 19th century.

This is the third printing, revised; many black-and-white illustrations accompany the text throughout and the whole production is notably attractive.

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

•  Publisher's quarter pictorial cloth and black cloth spine with gilt lettering, in original pictorial dust jacket; jacket with minor edgewear, spine and edges faded. Light foxing to top edges of text. Sound, unmarked, andan illuminating volume from an important series.  (38045)

Provenance:  18th-century ownership signature of Francisco Antonio Ximenez del Arenal on front free endpaper. Unidentified marca de fuego on top edge of volume. Handsome 20th-century bookplate of Jose Rodriguez Familiar on front pastedown.

There seems to have been NO Mexico-printed edition of this work.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, III, 798; Palau 92347; Sabin 24815; Alden & Landis 740/121; Medina, BHA, 6467.   Publisher's limp vellum with ties, title in old ink on spine, all edges speckled red; stain on front cover and another on rear. Evidence of ties, now perished. Bookplate and markings as above. Overall a clean, crisp copy in very good condition.  (38135)

This pamphlet presents the treaty and two separate articles with more specific details on implementation of its arrangements in French, Spanish, and English, with the British ratification statements recorded in Latin and English and the Spanish ones in Spanish and English. Several ships are mentioned by name, and the West Indies and Puerto Rico appear as locales for conflict.

•  ESTC T4473; Sabin 16195; not in Alden & Landis, European Americana; Goldsmiths'-Kress 07664.   Removed from nonce volume, first leaf separating from text block; light age-toning, one top margin trimmed closely, light marginal pencilling on first and final leaves. A good printed relic of a failed peace effort.  (38080)

Luther was unable to attend the 1537 meeting; consequently, the League ended up being largely influenced by Melanchthon and decided not to adopt the Articles chiefly because of their stand on the doctrine of the Lord’s Supper. The Articles did, however, circulate widely and were incorporated in the 1580 Book of Concord.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locateonly one U.S. library reporting ownership UPenn).

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

•  VD16 C4347; Index Aurel. 142.161; Claus 187, 28; Spahn 132.   Removed from a sammelband. Very good condition.  (38083)

Four black and white plates (including the frontispiece) done by F.T. Merrill accompany the text.

Binding:  Publisher's green cloth with white lettering to spine; front board decorated with a ship at sea stamped in white and gray, with white lettering and two white single-rule borders. Signed by Amy Sacker.

•  Bound as above; extremities very lightly rubbed. Small, rubber-stamped monogram (CMcA? JCA?) on the front free endpaper. Minor gutter crack at p. 30. Overall a wonderful copy.  (38127)

The volume's title-page shows the simple all-caps word “Biblia” printed within a decorative woodcut frame below which is a version of the Estienne printer's device. The text includes the Apocrypha and Psalms at the end of the New Testament; the inner margin contains subject headings, references, and variants, while the outer margin provides the above-mentioned notes. The edition, in octavo, was Estienne's second venture only at producing a Bible in that format. This copy is lightly ruled in red throughout.

Binding:   17th-century limp vellum with slightly yapp edges and evidence of ties (now perished), covers ruled in gilt with fleur-de-lis corner devices to form a frame for a gilt center device; spine with gilt rolls and center devices. All edges gilt.

Provenance:  18th-century ownership signature on rear pastedown of Margaret Sizer, Berwick on Tweed.

•  Renouard 62.2; Adams B1036; Darlow & Moule 6127; Schreiber, Estiennes, 83.   Binding as above, with hand-inked spine title; vellum soiled and loosening from the text block, with 2.5" split at front joint (outside). Front pastedown largely lost, remnants with pencilled annotations. Title-page and last page dust-soiled. Overall a good++ copy, handsome on shelf and satisfying in hand.  (38197)

The black and white frontispiece depicts a dream of the author's as described in her text, and seven additional plates offer examples of period mansions, gardens, and contemporary noble garb.

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

•  Half red cloth with tan paper sides, “silver” lettering to spine and black lettering to boards; edges somewhat rubbed and small abrasions/discolorations to paper. Offsetting to endpapers. A solid, pleasant copy; very readable.  (38051)

The work was first published in London in 1844, with an informative introduction by its editor, Harriet Martineau; this Boston printing, including that contextualizing introduction, isthe first U.S. appearance of a significant and uncommon expression of the thoughts and dreams of women laborers in the early 19th-century American factory system.

Provenance:  Bookplate of the Wilmington Institute Free Library (originally incorporated in 1754).

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress 34077; Sabin 49192.   Publisher's straight-grained brown cloth, covers framed in triple blind fillets surrounding central blind-stamped foliate medallions, spine with gilt-stamped title and foliate motifs; extremities rubbed, spine with paper hand-inked shelving label and with affixed letter “S” partially obscuring title. Front pastedown with bookplate as noted; back free endpaper with affixed library slip noting the book was “not for circulation,” with offsetting to back pastedown. Last text page with early inked initials and with pencilled purchase note. Scattered mild foxing. A nice example of this pioneering collection, in its original publisher's binding, andonce held by a public library designed to support exactly the kind of working-class self-improvement on which the volume focuses.  (38169)

•  Leclerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 2423; Palau 292360; Blake, Philippine Languages, 327; Walsh, Philippine Linguistics, 951; Retana, Aparato bibliográfico, 619.   Contemporary limp vellum, yellowed, ties lacking; front free endpaper and title-page with old taped repairs; text block (itself strongly intact) loose in binding. Insect tunneling to approximately 50 leaves at front with some loss to print and about 100 leaves at the rear with small losses mostly marginal, not destroying sense of text; else good++ .  (38102)

•  Apparently not in Palau.   Repairs to first leaf of part I, with loss of a very few words; close trimming of two pages touching some lines without actually taking type (this last suggesting the hasty production typical of such cheap, essentially ephemeral publications).  (38510)

Binding:  Publisher's appropriately green cloth with gilt lettering to spine; front board with floral pattern, author/title, and double-ruled border all in gilt. Top edge gilt.

Provenance:  On front pastedown, inked ownership inscription reading “Marie Louise Russell from Ruth Louise Parker, November, 1904”; on front free endpaper, a card (presumably from Parker) inserted in four small slits in the leaf, reading “To Marie Louise of whom I find the poet Cowley saith, 'The fairest garden in her looks, / And in her mind the wisest books',” dated November 1904 on the reverse. A laid-in clipped piece of paper (also from the early 20th century) announces the New York address and office hours of Dr. Richard J. Scofield.

•  Bound as above; extremities and front joint very lightly rubbed and front board faintly soiled. Small abrasions to front endpapers, two tears at top edge of front free endpaper (repaired with tiny pieces of tape) from card insertion. An attractive little volume in very pleasing condition.  (38091)

•  Cagle & Stafford 480; Brown, Culinary Americana, 1564 (1906 ed. only).   Publisher's printed paper–covered boards with blue cloth shelfback, front cover with color-printed carving image and decorative title; paper gently darkened, extremities rubbed, back cover showing minor dust-soiling. All page edges stained red. Front free endpaper with a Boston bookseller's small ticket. Pages clean. A nice copy.  (38145)

Evidence of Readership/Use: The space at the back for additional items has been used for pencilled recipes for “Mrs. Beaver pan cake” and nine other desserts.

WorldCat findsno institutional holdings, and this is unlisted by Brown. Our supplied date is based on information in the ads, as well as an advance notice of voting primaries to be held in 1927.

•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   In original wrappers, stapled as issued; wrappers with edges chipped and spots of minor discoloration, front wrapper splitting along front joint and all but separated. Two pages with offsetting from now-absent laid-in item; pages evenly and gently age-toned with occasional small spots, otherwise clean and (despite those noted manuscript additions) showing no signs of kitchen use.  (38140)

•  Adams E274; Graesse, V, 390; Moreau, Éditions parisiennes du XVI siècle, III, 1304. On Poliziano (and his impact on Erasmus), see: Contemporaries of Erasmus, III, 106–08.   18th-century calf framed in blind roll, sometime rebacked with complementary leather spine with blind tooling, gilt triple fillets, and gilt-stamped leather title-label; sides, corners, and edges showing light wear, back outer edge with dent not taking leather. Scattered spots of faint foxing; a few leaves with light waterstaining to outer margins (only). Inscriptions and annotations as above (some annotations shaved), with some incorrect foliation and chapter headers corrected in ink. One signature apparently lacking from lib. IX. One leaf with paper flaw affecting a few letters, without loss of sense; one leaf with small portion of outer margin torn away. As a copy revealing instances of attentive scholarly interrogation, this is a distinguished one.  (38065)

While the Sandown Historical Society began reprinting and selling this cookbook in 1993, this is an example of the original 1921 printing. Sandown records indicate that approximately 2000 copies of the 1921 edition were sold.

WorldCat locatesonly one copy anywhere of this 1921 edition (Michigan State University).

•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Original printed paper wrappers, dust-soiled and worn, front wrapper creased along joint. Pages age-toned with scattered spots of staining; light waterstaining noticeable in upper portions of later pages.  (38120)

Binding: Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and foliate decoration to spine; deep blind-stamped triple-ruled and foliate border on front board framing stylized gilt title and cottage centerpiece; rear board identical to front board but with centerpiece in blind. Saffron endpapers.

Provenance:  On front free endpaper, 20th-century signature of “Wm. B. Goodwin, M.I.T.” A rubber-stamp from the Lowell Historical Society appears on the front pastedown and on the top and bottom edge.

•  Hitchcock, American architectural books . . . portfolios, and pamphlets . . . published in America before 1895, 389.   Bound as above; rubbing to extremities, small tears at spine head, minor coppery discoloration to gilt on front board. Provenance stamp and signature as above; age-toned edges and minor to moderate foxing throughout interior. Sound and unassuming, much like its target audience.  (38084)

Mardersteig printed 250 copies of the text in Monotype Times 10/11 24 gr. on paper from Magnani of Pescia, Italy, with plentiful margins and more facsimiles on the endpapers.

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

•  Quarter black calf and grey paper–covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, and black ribbon placemarker. Housed in a grey paper–covered slipcase with uneven fading from sun; slipcase otherwise as new, as the volume itself is. Worthy of any admirer of Dibdin or McKitterick.  (37907)

Patrick Murdoch's short biographical piece on Thomson is included here, as well as a preface by James Nichols and notes from the editor. Stunning engravings signed by English engravers John Gilbert and William Greatbach appear throughout, protected by tissue guards.

Binding:  Dark teal(?) morocco darkened to black with beveled boards and intricate decoration in blind; gilt lettering and additional blind decoration to spine. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt and gauffered. Binder's ticket of Poulter of Leamington on front pastedown.

Evidence of Readership: Two rather interestingly late-dated notes of reading completion (August and September 1942), in pencil in margins.

Provenance:  Signature and initials of V.C. Turnbull on verso of front free endpaper; another owner's notes on place/price of purchase on the same page.

•  Bound as above, refurbished. Lacks half-title; frontispiece and several plates lightly foxed, offsetting to tissue guards from plates, and small, sparse spots of staining to several leaves. Pencillings as above plus one pencilled marginal rule. A lovely collection, delicately detailed plates, and an excellent binding.  (37350)

Binding:  Rich green morocco, spine stamped and lettered in gilt with compartmental fleurons, covers framed and panelled in blind double fillets with gilt decorative corner stamps, board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins with decorative gilt rolls, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Signed binding by Capé, name camouflaged in lower front turn-in.

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

•  EDIT 16 CNCE 47120; Adams G1358; Gamba, Serie dei testi di lingua e di altre opere importanti nella italiana letteratura scritte dal secolo XIV al XIX (4th ed.), 687; Brunet, I, 1737.   Bound as above, moderately rubbed especially corners and spine. Light pencilling on endpapers and one blue crayon mark over a numbered stamp with another stamp at back; provenance as above, old oval rubber-stamp (imperfect) on two leaves of text. Two small marginal paper flaws; leaves with a few instances of light marginal waterstaining or the occasional spot and light age-toning generally. An elegant production, an attractive volume.  (37997)

Binding:  19th-century full tan calfsigned (on spine) Vogel. Boards with a simple gilt double fillet border with corner rondels; flat spine with raised bands accented above and below each band by gilt rule, a wide fillet in black, and another gilt rule, with gilt tooling on each band and gilt center devices in four compartments. Board edges with a gilt rope design and turn-ins with gilt roll. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.

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

•  Adams G1157; Renouard 75:1; Edit16 CNCE 21740; Kallendorf & Wells, Aldine Press Books, 128; UCLA, Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection (2001), 144; Legrand, Bibliographie hellénique, I, 50; Panzer, VIII, 432, 788.   Binding as above; front joint (outside) with excellent repair, each board with one small scuff, back lower outer corner with small leather loss, spine leather showing a few very fine cracks. Old cataloguing slip laid in. A very good copy.  (37982)

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

•  Publisher's printed orange paper wrappers; corners and spine rubbed, back upper edge with nicks, wrappers lightly dust-soiled. Pages very slightly age-toned.  (38465)

This short story, hand-set and letterpress-printed by R.T. Risk of Typographeum Bookshop, has beensigned on the colophon page by the author. The prospectus is laid in.

•  Lavender blue wrappers with paper front label printed in the same color; spine sunned. Interior clean. A wonderful copy of this signed limited edition.  (38013)

Dietrich (1901–92) was an active performer for much of the 20th century; she reinvented her image many times — going from film actor to humanitarian during World War II to cabaret artist — and maintained her popularity and glamorous image throughout the years. In 1947, she received the Medal of Freedom for her work supporting Allied troops.

The volume includes a section of black-and-white photographs of Dietrich in various roles and with co-stars and friends.

Signed by Dietrich on the front free endpaper, where the book is also numbered (94).

•  Publisher's white cloth with gilt lettering to spine; original pink pictorial dust jacket present with faded spine, light wear to corners, minor creasing and rubbing to front panel with short tears to upper edge, and small piercing at front joint. Volume under jacket, pristine.  (37966)

•  Bound as above and in lovely condition; extremely minor spots of rubbing and scraping to boards, one raised band with a short cut(?) and a sliver of leather lost. An overall wonderful copy of this beautiful reprint.  (37923)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplates of Fratelli Salimbeni (with shelving number) and of “G.P.C.” (with woodcut image of Pegasus and motto “Nec adversa retorquent”); front fly-leaf with early inked annotation “H.III.161" and lined-through (still partially legible) inscription “Bibliotheque Vallicellane”; title-page with early inked inscription “Petri Salvati - V.” surrounding printer’s vignette, and obscured inscription in lower portion. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Adams A409; Brunet, I, 125; Renouard, Estienne, 68:22; Schreiber, Estiennes, 88.   Later vellum, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label and gilt-stamped blue leather publication label; vellum with minimal dust-soiling and traces of wear to extremities, two bottom-most spine compartments with later replacement (blank) vellum “labels,” one now starting to peel slightly. All edges stained blue. Bookplates and inscriptions as above; front free endpaper with later pencilled annotations (one giving incorrect Adams reference). One early inked marginal annotation. Pages gently age-toned, with intermittent minor foxing to margins; final leaf with small paper flaws in lower margin. An attractive copy of an interesting and significant volume.  (37916)

Binding:  Red crushed morocco framed and panelled in blind double fillets with gilt-tooled corner fleurons, spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped title and publication information, and gilt-tooled strawberry leaf decorations in compartments; turn-ins with gilt compound roll, all edges gilt. Signed binding by Capé, name camouflaged in lower front turn-in.

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with ex libris of Panof Grafsos Skinos, with shelving number; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Pettegree, Livres vernaculaires français 18447. Not in Adams; see Brunet, III, 207 for other eds.   Binding as above, minor rubbing to extremities and light scuff to back cover; bookplates as above. Pages mildly age-toned; first text page with tiny nick to upper margin. Scarce edition ofa classic anti-woman romance with much influence throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance, here in a distinguished, attractive signed binding.  (37930)

Binding:  Publisher’s green cloth with white lettering to front board and spine, front cover with dark green and white scene of a log cabin in the woods. Unsigned (and notably fine).

Provenance:  On front free endpaper, signature of Frank U. Burden, “Christmas, 1902.”

•  Not in Minsky.   Bound as above; mild rubbing to edges and spine-head, wrinkle to cloth at top outside corner of front board. Light offsetting from something once laid in to inner margins of two facing pages. A charming binding, a clean handsome book.  (37533)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with inked inscription: “Duchess of Somerset [/] 1875" (presumably Margaret Shaw-Stewart Seymour, widow of the 11th Duke of Somerset, d. 1880). Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Publisher's red cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, front cover with gilt-stamped oval medallion title frame, back cover with gilt-stamped urn and flowers vignette; spine sunned with cloth chipping at joints and frayed at extremities. All edges gilt. Title-page with small portion of outer edge repaired some time ago. Mild age-toning and offsetting around guard tissues; last few leaves foxed. An attractive (if somewhat alarming) production.  (37890)

In his second expedition to Central Asia (1876–77), documented here, Przheval’skii traveled through Kulja, today called Yining, to Lop Nur, although the ultimate goal of reaching Lhasa was not achieved due to an illness and worsening relations with China. For this first English edition, English explorer Edward Delmar Morgan translated the account of the trek and Thomas Douglas Forsyth provided an introduction. The volume includestwo color folding maps; the larger shows Przheval’skii’s journey through South Asia in 1877 and the smaller one depicts the “comparison between Chinese and Prejevalsky’s geography from tracings by Baron Richthofen.”

Evidence of Readership: On the title-page, beside the author’s name, “London 5/11/88 — Telegram death of Col. Prejevalsky while on expedition to Thibet.” Occasionally, an inked or penciled mark or number in a margin.

Provenance:  On verso of title-page, signature of M. Holzmann and (in a different hand) “C.J.M. 5944.” Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  NSTC 0618155.   Publisher’s brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine and minimal black decoration; light rubbing with a bit of unobtrusive spotting, corners a little bumped and a sliver of loss to spine-head. Finger smudges to front free endpaper, three small tears along folds to largest folding map. An interesting and important expedition; a copy complete with the colored maps.  (37867)

WorldCat locates only nine institutional copies, these in a rather odd array of places with perhaps some being accounted for by H.L. Mencken’s having reviewed the volume not entirely unkindly in Smart Set.

•  For Mencken’s remarks, see: Smart Set, “The Bards in Battle Royal”; vol, 37 (1912).   Publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine; publisher’s emblem blind-stamped to rear board, light rubbing to extremities. Top edge gilt, other edges deckle; small stains to bottom edge of pages. A pleasing collection of down-home’y poetry.  (37793)

Mrs. Sherwood (Mary Martha Sherwood, 1775–1851) was a beloved, prolific children's book author.

Searches of NUC Pre-1956, WorldCat, and Shoemaker locatejust four copies.

Provenance:  Marcus Fay, 19th-century ownership inscription in ink on front wrapper. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Shoemaker 10261. For Mrs. Sherwood's works, see: F.J.H. Darton, Life and times of Mrs. Sherwood; and M.N. Cutt, Mrs. Sherwood and her books for children.   Original green printed wrappers respined with cloth tape obscuring part of the text of the back wrapper; ex-library with rubber-stamps to inside of front wrapper and lower margins of first and final pages (not title). Light to moderate foxing.  (38485)

So Much of the Diary, here in its 1845 second edition, was originally printed in 1844, while Some Further Portions is here in its first printing.

Binding:  Contemporarymatched bindings done by Zaehnsdorf, signed on each front turn-in: brown morocco, framed and panelled in gilt and black fillets with gilt-stamped fleur-de-lis corner fleurons, turn-ins similarly designed, and board edges with gilt roll; spines with gilt-stamped titles and volume labels, blind-stamped compartment decorations, and gilt-stamped fleurs-de-lis in compartments. Top edges gilt. Back pastedown of each volume with gilt-stamped example of Zaehnsdorf's oval medieval bookbinding apprentice device, from a design by Jost Amman.

Provenance:  Front fly-leaf of second volume with a woman's tantalizingly not-quite-decipherable ownership inscription: “E[something] Anne Fan[something!]s [/] Farnley 1848.”  Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  NSTC 2R2740 & 2R2743; Ing, Charles Whittingham: Printer, 1795-1876, 32.   Bindings as above, variously rubbed to extremities; offsetting to endpapers from turn-ins. Vol. II with ownership inscription as above. Pages lightly age-toned with occasional minor smudges or spots; front fly-leaf of vol. II (only) more notably spotted. A handsome set of an intriguing Victorian — and feminine — perspective on the domestic side of this dramatic period in the 17th century.  (37855)

This is the stated 32nd edition; the present copy was “compliments of Johanson & Peterson, dealers in staple & fancy groceries” in Minneapolis, MN.

•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Publisher's printed cream-colored paper wrappers, stapled as issued; wrappers showing light dust-soiling but virtually no wear. Pages clean. An unused copy.  (38118)

The illustrations number three, of which two are hand-colored. The uncolored one is on the front wrapper and is a repeat of that on p. 4. One cataloguer says the plates are “metal-engraved” but we would think them wood-engraved.

Issued in the series “Peter Parley's smaller tales,” thisincorporates the “be kind to animals” lessons seen in this era.

Provenance:  Very clear, even elegant ownership signature on front wrapper “Mary D. Perkins, 1829"; “Mary Dening Perkins, 1829" on front free endpaper. Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

WorldCat locates a total of five libraries reporting ownership.

•  Shoemaker 38790. Not in Sternick; not in Rosenbach.   Publisher's bright yellow wrappers, printed and illustrated. Light finger soiling on front wrapper along fore-edge; spotting to interior, not distressing; a charming little book.  (38490)

Accompanying the text arethoughtful watercolor illustrations by the German-Swiss painter and book illustrator Gunter Böhmer, including a small portrait of Madame Bovary on the title-page. The artist's signature appears on the limitation page, this being no. 618 of 1500 signed copies.

Binding:  Publisher’s yellow Swiss silk binding with gilt-stamped brown leather spine label, housed in original mottled sand–colored slipcase. Top edges stained grey.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 101.   Bound as above, spine lightly faded with label chipped and foot faintly water-stained, small spots of insect damage along front joint; slipcase with scuffs, waterstaining to corner (blending to some extent with slipcase's marbled paper), and extremities worn. Endpapers and fore-edges lightly foxed; internally clean; a more attractive copy, frankly, than the description suggests.  (37979)

This offering consists of the aforementioned two parts anda supplement with 26 extra tales taken from a newly discovered (in 1815) edition printed in 1567 by H. Wykes of theTales, and Quicke Answeres. Each section has a separate title-page and introduction explaining its Shakespearean connection and origin story, with canvassing also of the editor’s scholarly processes and his decisions to offer his tales with original orthography, in their full “licentiousness,” and with their original “moral reflections.” A short glossary of Elizabethan words is provided, and the second preface is signed in type “S.W.S.,” i.e., Samuel Weller Singer.

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

•  19th-century half black morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine lettered in gilt, with differently patterned marbled endpapers and black silk placemarker, top edge gilt; rubbed at corners and edges. Light age-toning with very occasional off-setting and a few spots, light pencilling referencing a 1925 Goodspeed’s price on title-page.A testament to 19th-century Shakespeare mania and a resonant, even cautionary tale for scholars of any ilk in any era.  (37850)

The volume includes steel-engraved and heliotype plates, several of which have protective tissue, illustrating the interiors and exteriors of the campus. An article on Catharine Hopkins, a former Associate Principal of the seminary, is laid in, as well as an errata slip.

Binding:  Publisher's brown cloth with beveled boards; gilt lettering to spine and front board with college seal gilt to the latter.

•  Bound as above; boards mottled and rubbed, spine faded. Very light spots of foxing throughout, with a few spots on a handful of plates. A sound decent copy.  (37801)

Provenance:  Delightfully artistic inked initials “E.L.” on front pastedown, with the note “collated & perfect” in the same hand at the end. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  ESTC T99611; Schreiber, Estiennes, 294; Bigmore & Wyman, Bibliography of Printing, II, pp. 14–6. On Maittaire, see: DNB (online).   18th-century speckled calf, rebacked with very similar calf stamped, ruled, and lettered in gilt with red leather label; covers double-ruled in gilt with flower stamps at corners, board edges with floral gilt rolls, all edges speckled red. Pencilled and inked notes on endpapers, evidence of a bookplate removed long ago. Light age-toning with a small stain or two, provenance evidence as above, one leaf with short later inked notes. Impressive piece of early Estienne scholarship in a very good copy.  (37887)