Evidence of readership: Scattered early marginalia, chiefly of a word or three or four, some marks of emphasis (underscoring, manicules).

Provenance:  19th-century ownership signature of “Wm. H. Burroughs, Savannah, Georgia” on folio aa8v and 312v. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Adams A17; Moreau, Éditions parisiennes du XVI siècle, II, 78, 91; Renouard, Badius Ascensius, II, 451, 7. On Gaguin, see: Contemporaries of Erasmus, II, 69–70.   Full 20th-century alum-tawed brown goat, mottled, with spine and top area of front board sunned to a pale tan (part of front board protected by a smaller volume?); raised bands, blind tooling on boards. Some dates written in pencil in margins, other marginalia as above; last quarter with variable old waterstaining.A nice copy. (40646)

The archive of Pascoe productions offered here was formed by Martín Urbina, Juan's long-time press assistant. A list of the archive is available upon request.

•  All items in fine condition.  (39662)

VOLUME 1:  Epostola. 21 Septembris 1788 (Sallander No. 46); Indulto. 18 February 1789 (Sallander No. 51); Lettera pastorale. No date. (Brooks 1348); Omelia recitata al popolo. 1789, (Sallander No. 54); Indulto. 1790. (Sallander No. 55);Omelia. Recitata nel giorno di Pentecoste, 1790 (Sallander No. 56); Omelia. Recitata nel giorno dell' Assunzione di Maria Vergine. 1790 (Sallander No. 57); Omelia. Recitata al popolo nel giorno si San Bernardo. 1790 (Sallander No. 58); Indulto pubblicato. 1791 (Sallander No. 59); Omelia. Recitata nel giorno di Pentecoste, 1791 (Brooks 432); Omelia. Recitata nel giorni di Tutti li Santi. 1791 (Brooks 433); Omelia. Recitata nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1791 (Sallander No. 61); Indulto. Per la Quaresima. 1792 (Sallander No. 65).

Evidence of Readership: Scattered unobtrusive marks of emphasis, annotations, and corrections pencilled in an early hand.

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

•  Contemporary marbled paper, spine with gilt-stamped paper label; binding rubbed and scuffed. All page edges stained blue. Occasional small, neat markings as above. A clean, pleasing copy of this uncommon medical work, in its contemporary binding.  (40663)

Provenance:  Green 1880 copy with pencilled inscription of Mariou Pierce of “B'ville, Mass.” (Baldwinsville), dated 1916. 1885 copy with Carroll Institute of Reading, PA,  PRIZE AWARD BOOKPLATE, noting gift in that year to Frederick Clymer for excellence in arithmetic. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.

•  NSTC 741843.   Bindings as above; one spine with gilt dimmed, two volumes with extremities rubbed, hinges of green copy tender. Bookplate and inscription as above. Pages clean. An unusual gathering, of interest to scholars and lovers of binding and publishing history as well as to aficionados of late 19th–century illustration.  (40629)

Evidence of Readership: An early hand has corrected some of the errors in pagination, and one outer margin bears an 18th-century inscription.

Provenance:  Title-page with early inked ownership inscription of Samuel Tennant.

•  Wing (rev. ed.) L2215; ESTC R4033. Not in Coumont, not in Caillet.   Recent period-style quarter speckled brown calf with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with green leather title and author labels, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-stamped fleuron decorations in compartments; small binder's ticket on back pastedown. Frontispiece lacking and final four leaves (index) supplied in facsimile; title-age with inner margin and short tears to lower portion repaired, several other leaves with margins repaired, and two contents leaves with outer margins trimmed very closely; otherwise, general browning, old staining, and occasional short tears or small holes — this book was used. Title-page with inscription as above and with small inked annotation in lower margin. A landmark of astrological thought, in a copy priced to reflect its history of use and its mishaps more than its allure. (40587)

The work was published at the expense of Johann Schabler, called Wattenschnee, whose device with motto “Durum pacientia frango” is on the verso of last leaf. The Testament text is in Greek only and each book begins with a woodcut headpiece and a historiated initial, with some initials after Dance of Death designs byHans Holbein.

Reuss lists this among “Editiones Erasmicae.”

Provenance:  19th-century signature on front fly-leaf of W.C.S. Tole (?); most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  VD16 B4180; Adams B1653; Reuss, Bibliotheca Novi Testamenti Graeci, p. 33. Not in Darlow & Moule, but see 4601 for the first editon.   18th-century full calf, no raised bands, round spine gilt extra; spine pulled at head, front joint sometime repaired taking part of the label and some gilt on that side with volume now strong, corners rubbed and some old abrasions. Interior with a very few instances of old marginalia; type splendidly sharp on very clean pages. (40636)

•  Late 19th/early 20th–century half morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped author, title, and date; extremities and spine bands rubbed and refurbished. Upper edges stained red, with staining extending slightly into many upper margins; some pages trimmed closely. Light to moderate foxing and soiling.  (40654)

•  Goff A1246; Hain-Copinger 2068*; GKW 2890; BMC, III, p. 695 (IB. 14206); ISTC ia01246000; Printing & the Mind of Man 3 (for the first edition, 1467).   Late 19th- or early 20th-century half brown leather with tan paper paper sides and endpapers; binding lightly worn and covers with a bit of loss to paper. Fore- and part of upper margins of the first eight leaves damaged with loss and repaired many years ago. Some soiling to the text, chiefly in the margins; old waterstaining; pin-hole worming. Not a rare edition of this text but a nice copy of it withconsiderable added scholarly importance .  (40533)

Following the Omaggio poetico is the first appearance of Valperga di Caluso's Libellus carminum, 15 poems in Latin including one to his friend Alfieri, published (as was the former item) under the pseudonym the author preferred for his literary works.

According to Renouard's 1794 catalogue of Bodoni imprints, the edition of Omaggio poetico was limited to 210 copies; it is now relatively uncommon in the U.S., with the Turin-printed Libellus carminum even more so — a search of WorldCat fails to locateany American institutional holdings of the latter.

Binding:  Contemporary mottled calf; spine gilt-extra, with gilt-stamped red leather title-label, board edges with distinctive gilt roll. Stone pattern marbled paper endpapers; all edges carmine.

•  Brooks 458; De Lama, II, 74; Giani 28 (p. 44).   Bound as above: spine with spots of worming and head chipped, these affecting appearance remarkably little; otherwise light wear, small scuffs. Front and rear free endpapers with pencilled bibliographical annotations. One leaf with paper flaw in outer margin, not touching text. Of interest both for Bodoni's usual elegance in printing and for the contents' connections to some of the most eminent figures of Italian belles-lettres of the day. (40151)

•  Original color-printed paper wrappers, three very small light spots to be noted; a clean and attractive example.  (40608)

Although Wellcome gives 1776 for the date of publication, ESTC suggests 1780.

The second, similarly themed work — which closes witha section praising music as beneficial to health — here includes its half-title, which notes this is “a new edition,” following the first of 1744. The author was a Scottish-born physician who published a number of poems, essays, and other pieces, including the scandalously explicit The Oeconomy of Love.

•  Joannes: ESTC T135836; Roscoe A389; Wellcome, IV, p. 494. Armstrong: ESTC T59726; Foxon A297 (for first ed.).   Later half reddish-brown calf and chestnut cloth, spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped title, and gilt-stamped compartment fleurons; minor wear overall, boards carefully and unobtrusively reattached with new endpapers. First few leaves with edges chipped, a little staining, and one corner taken (away from text); otherwise the gently age-toned pages are clean with only one or two minor exceptions. A pleasing pairing, of interest to scholars of both medicine and poetry.  (39529)

Provenance:  Title-page with 19th-century inked donation inscription in upper portion and with aesthetically appealing 19th-century institutional rubber-stamp. Later in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Recent blue paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Title-page with markings as above, and browned; pages age-toned (most notably the index), with scattered foxing; edges untrimmed and so dust-soiled. Solid and readable.  (40605)

•  Brooks 692; Brunet, V, 638. This ed. not in De Lama, not in Schweiger.   Modern quarter green morocco and green pebbled cloth–covered boards, spines with gilt-stamped title and gilt rule–framed compartments; spines sunned (not unattractively), volumes lightly rubbed overall. Some pages creased in the press, with variable spotting/soiling/foxing, the last generally speckle-type; still asolid, dignified set. (40179)

Binding:  Early 19th-century quarter sheep with marbled paper–covered sides, spine neatly, handsomely ornamented with gilt-stamped title and date in roman numerals, blind-tooled raised bands, and elegantly gilt-stamped stylized floral motifs in five compartments.

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

•  Brunet, V, 836; Cohen-de Ricci 991–992. On Le Barbier, see: Ray, I, 76–77.  Bound as above; joints and spine extremities refurbished, sides lightly rubbed and edges more so. Pages faintly age-toned; edges untrimmed. Plates with spots of foxing mostly confined to margins. A beloved 18th-century work in an interesting French form, with striking plates and very attractive on the shelf. (40598)

Provenance: Label of bookseller C.S. Bridges, High Street, Oxford, inside front cover.

•  Cordeaux, Printed Works Relating to the University of Oxford, 1318; Lipperheide, II, 2029. On binding cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50, Rip 1 variant. Bound as above, cloth with an unobtrusive spot or two only and hinge (inside) with paper lost; contents a bit cocked within binding affecting a few fore-edges but not images. Light soiling and action of old glue visible at two “seams” where plate sequences are joined, as seen in other copies; generally, a good exemplar. (40497)

•  Sabin 29721; Howes H46.   Publisher's printed paper–covered boards with vellum shelfback, spine with printed paper label; binding darkened with extremities rubbed. Plates with light waterstaining to lower outer portions, foxing variously. A solid copy, in publisher's boards, of this engaging picture book. (40536)

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

Provenance:  Bookplate of Brian Stilwell.

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

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

•  Shoemaker 27674.   Contemporary plain paper–covered boards with green roan shelfback, spine with gilt-stamped title and ruled bands; moderate scuffing and rubbing overall, spine with spots of discoloration. Front pastedown with 19th-century Vermont institutional bookplate. Mild to moderate foxing, with some offsetting from plates.A solid, pleasing copy of the sole American appearance, in its original binding. (40550)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Evidence of readershp: Interesting marginalia on nine pages.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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