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:  Title-page with early inked ownership inscription of Domenico Antonio Farini (1777–1834); later part of the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Ronalds, Catalogue of Books & Papers Relating to Electricity, p. 100; Wheeler Gift. I, 463 (for the first English edition).   19th-century decorative paper–covered boards (sides with cream and light blue interlaced pattern, attractive shelfback of tan paper with foliate pattern in brown and green) and hand-inked paper label; edges and extremities much worn, with paper peeling back on both boards and text block starting to separate from spine at front joint (sewing holding). Pastedowns and endpapers with limited worming, at rear touching lower margin and innermost fold of final plate without affecting image; one leaf with paper flaw in upper margin. Page edges untrimmed, leaving wide handsome margins. Text block entirely solid and pages overall clean and crisp. A most interesting copy of this interesting book.  (40045)

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

•  Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 351; Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 2159.   Publisher's printed yellow paper–covered boards with rose-colored shelfback faded to tan on front cover. A nice copy.  (38783)

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)

As an Enlightenment figure and also still an owner of significant sugar-producing land, Azeredo Coutinho unsurprisingly was interested in the economic underpinning of Portugal and its colonies, especially Brazil; during his years in Portugal he wrote against legislation that would adversely effect thesugar, salt, cacao, and other export crops of Brazil and other colonies. His detailed analysis, the Ensaio economico sobre o comercio de Portugal e suas colonias, appeared in 1794 and is now a rare book. In it he lays out the facts about the Brazilian export economy and combatsMontesquieu's silly, but nonetheless celebrated and universally received, theory of climates.

This “segunda edição, corrigida, e accrescentada pelo mesmo auctor” was revised in Portugal where Azeredo Coutinho was living following his recall in 1802. The text has some corrections and whole paragraphs and areas have been rewritten, or expanded with new information or arguments. Even the footnotes, where Azeredo Coutinho has set forth considerable personal observations on all aspects of life and people in Brazil, are expanded.

It must be emphasized that while much of the volume addresses Brazil, the Portuguese colonies in Asia and Africa are also studied.

Provenance:  Late 19th- or early 20th-century bookplate of the Visconde de Moreita de Rey.

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress 21406.8; Inocencio, IV, 384/6; Borba de Moraes, Bibliographia brasiliana, I, 23; Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal e Iberoamérica, fiche 242, 428–34; Sabin 17949 (for first edition; the second not listed). Burns, “The Role of Azeredo Coutinho in the Enlightenment of Brazil,” The Hispanic American Historical Review, 44. 2 (May, 1964), pp. 145–60.   Contemporary mottled sheep (“pasta espanola”), gilt spine with red leather gilt label, plain boards; some worming, this reaching in to some areas of front free endpaper but not text. A sound, clean, nice copy.  (40065)

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)

•  Library Company, Afro-Americana (rev. ed.), 753; Sabin 2641 (giving second ed. only); Shoemaker 4517.   Marbled paper wrappers, lightly worn overall. Title-page with two small pencilled annotations, pages age-toned. Frankly, riveting.  (40077)

Binding:  Publisher's pebbled brown leather, covers and spine with blind-stamped framework containing foliate motifs, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, turn-ins with border composed of several gilt rolls. Marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.

Provenance:  From the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.

•  Binding as above, edges and extremities mildly rubbed and refurbished. Frontispiece recto with early inked gift inscription “from F.B.H.” Internally slightly age-toned; plates clean. A luxurious production in very good condition; an aesthetically pleasing combination of art and literature. (39853)

The title-page is printed in black and red, with an interesting engraved acanthus- and pineapple-decorated architectural border incorporating the Jesuit device. WorldCat locatesonly five reported U.S. institutional holdings (Claremont, Boston College, Harvard, Michigan State, Johns Hopkins).

Provenance:  Title-page with early inked ownership inscription from a Jesuit institution (difficult to decipher).

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, VII, 1605. See Sandys, II, 280.   Later cream, ochre, and green patterned pastepaper-covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped cloth label; spine slightly sunned, minor wear to extremities. Title-page with early inked annotations, two lines in lower margin inked over. Text variably trimmed at top, occasionally shaving a header; pages age-toned with some corners creased; one leaf with inkstain in lower margin (not touching text), a few leaves with light staining in upper outer corners.  (40035)

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)

NUC and WorldCat locate only two libraries worldwide reporting ownership (National Library of Scotland, Princeton).

Provenance:  From the chapbook collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.

•  Publisher's green wrappers, slight discoloration and a little paper loss at spine. Clean.  (38786)

Only 210 copies were printed: Florencio Ramírez composed the text using Dante, Centaur, Poliphilus, and Blado type. Juan Pascoe and Martín Urbgina printed the work on Tamayo De Ponte paper using a Vandercook cylinder press and two Washington handpresses. The work was bound by Fermín Urbina.

The two folding plates are printed in black and red, as is the title-page and the first page of text. Other illustrations are an Antonio Espinosa vignette, a woodcut of a kneeling Mexica man, and two printer's ornaments. All are printed from zinc plates.

•  Green shelfback with yellow paper spine label and matching yellow paper on the boards. Author and title printed on front board in a frame of printer's ornaments. As new.  (40095)

Binding:  Original red paper–covered boards with black lettering and double-ruled border to title on front board.

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

WorldCat has located only ten institutional copies.

•  Bound as above; rubbed, soiled, and scraped with wrinkling to rear board. Minor gutter crack at the seventh illustration. Pages untrimmed. Housed in a modern red cloth slipcase, faded, with lettering on spine reading “Illustrations to Puckle's Club — Original Boards — 1820. A copy complete, clean, and in original boards, containing wonderful engravings.  (37777)

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)

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

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 22669; Welch 266.2. Not in Rosenbach (but see 574 for Totten's 1819 edition).   Tan wrappers, illustrated with a woodcut of a soldier on the front and an allegorical figure titled “Excelsior” on the rear in a scene incorporating an eagle and a liberty cap among other elements. Some of the paper of spine has rubbed away; closed 2" split starting to front cover; else very good.  (38776)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of Frederic William Bois; most recently in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.

•  Sadleir 1515a; Wolff, Nineteenth-Century Fiction, 4374a.   19th-century half blue calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label and gilt decorations in compartments (done by Bayntun, with their Bath stamp on the front free endpaper); edges rubbed, spine gently sunned, front joint cracked but holding. Front free endpaper with offsetting from bookplate; one page with faint stain.  (39833)

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

•  Caillet, Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques ou occultes, 4461.   Sewn in publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers; wrappers slightly dust-soiled with edges chipped, losses to spine paper resulting in wrappers splitting at spine with sewing holding for now. Light foxing. A very reasonable copy of an unusual, ephemeral item, here in its original wrappers with page edges untrimmed.  (40017)

•  ESTC R200673; Wing (rev. ed.) W3533.   Quarter red morocco with French-swirl marbled paper sides and gilt spine lettering; binding signed (with small rubber-stamp on verso of front free endpaper) by the Macdonald Company of New York. Leather of joints lightly rubbed in places. Text soiled/stained throughout; fore- and top margins of all leaves with repairs to areas of lost paper, not affecting sidenotes; in all, Good.  (37988)

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

Not traced via NUC, WorldCat, or COPAC. But found in the OPAC of the National Library of Portugal.

•  Not in Coumont.   Removed from a nonce volume, blue-speckled edges. Neat penned numbers in corners of each page, light stain on one leaf. Fairly bright and clean for its age.  (39624)

Provenance:  Bookplate of Samuel X. Radbill (Philadelphia book collector, bookplate collector, and medical doctor).

•  VD18 11231777 for the first title; second title not in VD18; Blake, NLM 18th Century, p. 394.   Contemporary German pastepaper over boards; binding very worn. Interior very good.  (39953)

The volume is illustrated witha total of ten hand-colored lithographed plates, each offering a pair of multi-animal images — except for the added engraved title-page, which bears a single vignette representing a dramatic encounter: a snake constricting a difficult-to-identify but undoubtedly ferocious catlike creature, while fending off a vulture at the same time. Among the birds depicted are the wild turkey, bird of paradise, pelican, swan, and peacock, while mammals include the lion, tiger, camel, marmot, rhinoceros, elephant, and bear; also present are a number of lizards, fish, snakes, etc.

Provenance:  Curiously, the back free endpaper of this copy bears a pressure-stamp from the Calzoleria di F. Barellai, in Florence — a shoemaker’s shop! Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Publisher's color-printed yellow paper–covered boards; slightly darkened, corners and spine extremities rubbed. Back hinge (inside) starting from foot but cover firm; back free endpaper stamped as above. Variable foxing throughout and the occasional “splotch” of something else, the latter most notably to the engraved title-page with off-setting to frontispiece leaf opposite (not marring the illustrations on these leaves). One leaf with short tear from lower margin, not touching text. Scarce, and delightful.  (39796)

•  VD17 3:301520H.   19th-century half calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and date label; mildly rubbed overall. Title-page with rectangular portion on either side of printer's device excised and repaired (repair apparently done some time ago), with excision just barely touching the ends of the motto banner. First few leaves browned; foxing and offsetting throughout. A worthwhile exploration of mathematical thought as it stood toward the close of the 17th century and a good solid copy. (39902)

Provenance:  From the Buxheim Charterhouse library (title-page with attractive armorial rubber-stamp reading “Bibl. Buxheim” and early inked inscription reading “Cartusiae Buxiae”). Most recently in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 1214.   Contemporary vellum with yapp edges, spine with early hand-inked title; front cover slightly sprung, ties now lacking, spine with traces of later inked shelving identifier and sides with small spots of staining. All edges stained blue, now mottled. This is vol. II only, with books 7–16 complete here. Front pastedown with pencilled annotations; one page with early inked annotation as above. Intermittent minor foxing; about ten leaves with light waterstaining to upper outer portions. A solid, appealing copy of an important mathematical work, with nice provenance. (39903)

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, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Osborne Collection, p. 953; Gumuchian 5727; Moon, John Harris's Books for Youth, 943(2); Opie, A 1214.   Publisher's printed tan paper–covered boards with maroon sheep shelfback; spine and edges rubbed, sides with small scuffs. Front free endpaper lacking; title-page with unexplainable image offsetting of the ninth plate. A very nice copy, undamaged by childish hands.  (39885)

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 frontispiece portrait of Brown was engraved by W. Watson after George Watson's 1806 portrait. The volume contains “a memoir of the author, by the Rev. David Welsh, minister of St. David's Glasgow.”

Provenance:  Bookplate of William S. O'Brien and with his note “This book is to belong to [my son] Edward William after my death [.] William S. O'Brien [,] Christmas, 1859.”

Binding:  Mid-19th-century polished tan calf, spine gilt extra, single gilt rule on boards; gilt roll on board edges.

•  Binding as above, small scuffs and joints (outside) very lightly abraded; paper of the front hinge partially open and with “invisible” cello tape repair (cover firmly attached). Back pastedown and lower outer margins of a few index leaves with spots of worming, not touching text. A nice copy.  (39818)

•  Binding as above; back cover with one scuff, front cover with small unobtrusive area of darkening towards upper outer corner. Offsetting to edges of free endpapers from turn-ins. Pages and plates clean and fresh. A striking, elegant volume, of surpassing interest for music historians and aficionados.  (39690)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with attractive armorial bookplate of Walter Henry James, 2nd Baron Northbourne, bookplate done by “T.E.H.”: Thomas Erat Harrison, famed for rebus-style representations of names and heraldic motifs. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.

•  NSTC 2P9143.   Contemporary half calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine gilt extra, with gilt-stamped leather title-label; edges and extremities rubbed. All edges stained red. Minor foxing, largely confined to first portion and last few leaves of volume, endpapers more notably foxed. A solid and distinguished copy.  (39877)

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

•  Quarter dark blue morocco and vividly color-printed paper–covered sides with gilt-stamped title on spine, portfolio in matching paper, both housed in publisher's plain slipcase; portfolio spine and corners showing minor wear, main volume bright and fresh. Top edge gilt. One portfolio sample leaf with two short tears from one edge, papers otherwise in beautiful, crisp condition, as are the text pages of the main volume. A special copy in lovely condition.  (39552)

Handsomely printed, as one expects of the Bulmer firm.

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

•  NSTC W597.   20th-century plain brown wrappers. A little pencilling, age-toned with a darkened area to facing pages where something was laid in, and otherwise clean.  (39729)

•  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)

Provenance:  20th-century bookplate of A. Garrigues, D.M. Most recently in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

Searches of NUC, ESTC, and WorldCat surprisingly locate only seven U.S. libraries (DNLM, NN [incomplete copy], CU-M, WU, PCarlD, NNOD, MiU) reporting ownership.  Notably absent from that list are Harvard, Yale, the Huntington, New York Academy of Medicine, the College of Physicians, University of Texas, and the Folger.

•  ESTC R14791; Wing (rev. ed.) B1655.   Mid-19th-century quarter leather with marbled paper sides; leather along joints abraded and top and bottom of front joint starting. Age-toning, notably to first leaves including title; discoloration in gutter margins from transference from leather (?). A good copy of a scarce English medical imprint.  (39767)

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate only eight reported copies worldwide.

•  Original wrappers, all edges gilt; evidence of having been bound in a sammelband; minor damage along spine area. First and last leaves pasted to wrappers. Very good and with very neat, strong coloring.  (38792)

This, the final book published by Boudinot, strongly supportsfair and compassionate treatment of Native Americans. The work includes comparisons of Hebrew and Native American languages (Charibee, Creek, Mohegan, and “northern languages”), traditions, and lore; the appendix comprises “Historical Sketches of Louisiana” and “Fraser's Key to the Prophecies.”

Binding:  The binding of this copy is most curious. There are three distinct areas of the leather that are clearly inlaid repairs, the leather being of a darker color but the same style as the rest; and three of the gilt-tooled chalice or urn devices that appear on the spine are partly on this inserted leather.

Provenance:  Contemporary ownership signature of James Linn in upper margin of title-page.

•  Felcone 433; Howes B643; Pilling, Algonquian, 54; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 421; Rosenbach, Jewish, 180; Sabin 6856; Shaw & Shoemaker 37057; Singerman, Judaica Americana, 252. Not in Field. On Boudinot, see: Dictionary of American Biography, II, 477–78.   Contemporary acid-stained sheep, spine with elegant though dimmed gilt-stamped leather title-label and compartment stampings; volume scuffed and abraded. Foxing, with some soiling/staining. Still-sturdy copy of this early and oft-cited Amerindian Lost Tribes treatise.  (39632)

Binding: Contemporary olive calf, covers framed in blind and gilt rolls with gilt-tooled corner fleurons, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped black leather title-label. Board edges with gilt roll and turn-ins with blind roll; all edges marbled.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of Robert Alfred Herman, a fellow of Trinity College, known for his success in coaching students in the grueling Cambridge Mathematical Tripos; also with small bookseller's ticket of D. McWatters. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.

•  NCBEL, III, 516; NSTC 2C34000 (for first ed.).   Bound as above; back joint starting from foot, boards with unobtrusive mottling, edges and joints showing mild to moderate rubbing. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. A suitably elegant appearance of this early edition.  (39876)

Provenance: The bookplate of J.R. Cuthbert, with a viper on a dotted background, appears on the front pastedown; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Brunet, I, 950; Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics, I, p. 349; ESTC N32017; Graesse, I, 428; Schweiger, I, 72.   Rebacked 19th-century polished calf, spine with gilt-lettered red leather labels and gilt-stamped compartments in period style; covers framed in gilt double fillets, board edges with gilt dotted roll, turn-ins with gilt floral roll, Stormont marbled endpapers, all edges speckled brown Covers rubbed and scratched with a few spots, binder's blanks moderately foxed with a few bibliographic notes in pencil and one small hole in a rear one. Light age-toning with the occasional speck; a few leaves with offsetting from a ribbon placeholder (still present). Bookplate and label as above; bookplate with some ink along edges, one marginal inked “2.”  (39577)

Kiggins & Kellogg was located at 123 & 125 William St. between 1856 and 1866. The wood-engraved illustrations are variously signed “Lossing & Co.” (i.e., Benson John Lossing), “W. Howland sc.” (i.e., William Howland), and “HH sc.”

•  Printed green-colored wrappers. Faded gift inscription on title-page. Text and images clean.  (39515)

Provenance: An inked ownership stamp of notable 19th-century English bibliomaniac Richard Heber (1774–1833), reading “Bibliotheca Heberiana,” appears on the front free endpaper; Thomas Frognall Dibdin added this stamp to select rare books in Heber's collection following the collector's death. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Bibliotheca Palatina F5048/F5049; VD16 B3122; USTC 626665. Not in Adams; not in Darlow & Moule. On Dolscius, see: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (online).   19th-century half calf and paste paper–covered boards, spine with gilt rolls and green leather gilt title-label, all edges stained blue; rubbed, slight loss of leather on front joint (outside) and corners, a few small spots and leather repairs, isolated glue action to endpapers. Light age-toning with occasional slivers of marginal staining (possibly thanks to the blue edge stain?), one interior tear touching letters and two marginal spots. Provenance indicia as above, small round paper shelflabel on spine, a few bibliographical notes pencilled on endpapers. A skillfully produced work with a pleasing provenance.  (39566)

Binding:  Contemporary green straight-grain goat, spine gilt extra; both boards with a gilt double-rule outer border and an inner center frame of single gilt rule with large gilt corner devices. Board edges with a gilt roll; narrow turn-ins with a different gilt roll. All edges gilt.

Searches of WorldCat locate only six U.S. libraries (IU, NjNbT, PPiT, IEN, NNC, NNG) reporting ownership.

•  Binding as above; spine sunned to olive, front cover with scuff sometime well disguised, boards showing signs of having been bent some time ago. Bookplate and label as above. A very few light spots of foxing, pages overall clean and crisp. Very good condition. A very attractive book.  (39223)

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

•  Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1836.18; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 96; NSTC 2W34141; Pickering & Chatto, William Pickering (catalogue 708), 277.   Quarter dark brown roan in imitation of morocco and rose-pink paper–covered boards, spine lettered in gilt; paper gently rubbed and faded, front hinge (inside) just starting at top, two small pencilled notes on endpapers. Booklabel as above. Light age-toning, some light staining on endpapers. Signatures mostly unopened. Early English poetry presented within a historical context and in “antiquarian” style. (39487)

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 221.   Quarter black calf with gilt lettering to spine, and French marbled paper sides, this copy without the glassine dust jacket and the slipcase; rubbing to corners and spine-ends. Interior lightly age-toned with the very occasional finger-smudge. A compelling copy from the artist's bookshelf; and the illustrations are amusing and bright!  (39561)

Binding: Bound at the Stamperia Valdonega in a silk-finish gray-green cloth with green gilt-stamped spine labels.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 482.   Bound as above, without the glassine dust jackets (as usual); occasional light bumping to edges, light rubbing to spine-label of vol. II, and small faint stain to box label. Notably bright volumes, inside and out!  (38938)

Binding:  Circa-1865 half-black calf with green marbled paper sides, spine with gilt-stamped red leather label, gilt rules to form compartments, and blind-stamped center device in five compartments.

Provenance:  Contemporary signature on title-page of James Kendrick; embossed ownership stamp of J.H. Williams, rector of Llangadwaladr; bookseller's label of Wildy & Sons, London; late 19th- or early 20th-century armorial leather bookplate of Alexander MacGregor; most recently in the collection of Robert Sadoff, M.D.

•  Binding as above, edges rubbed, small scuffs. The endpapers, curiously, appear to have been marbled over typeprint. Very good.  (39633)

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)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of Francis John Breck, Jr., dated 10/29/72. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.

•  Binding as above, spine and edges sunned to brown, joints opening from head and foot, edges rubbed. Endpapers with offsetting from turn-ins and front free one loosening; pages slightly age-toned. A handsome example of this enduring classic, with Mackenzie'slovely, lyrical illustration.  (39825)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Christopher Harrison; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Brunet, III, 1342–43; NSTC M823.   Binding as above, joints and edges rubbed, spine head pulled; nicely strengthened and neatly refurbished. Bookplate and label as above. First and last few leaves showing faint to moderate foxing, scattered foxing to interior, and offsetting variably from plates; two non-adjacent text leaves with matching old waterstain. One leaf with tear from upper edge, affecting header but not text; one leaf with shorter tear confined to margin. Map creased along folds, with one short tear from inner margin barely extending across map border, otherwise in excellent condition. An outstanding 19th-century look at a legendarily scenic region, with its text and plates presented in a handsome contemporary binding.  (39493)

Provenance:  Ownership inscription in the top margin of leaf [pi]2r, in Latin, dated 1500 of Matthew Schach, the Carthusian Prior at Prüll, and “tit. Bp. of Salona (Dalmatia), suffragan Bp. of Freising” according to Paul Needham's Index Possessorum Incunabulorum; mid-19th-century ownership signature on title-page of A. De Welles Miller, Charlotte, North Carolina, a Doctor of Divinity, but we do not know of which denomination. He was a devoted collector of early printed books. (Sincere thanks to Eric Johnson [Ohio State University Library] and Eric White [Princeton University Library] for assistance with the Shach provenance note.)

Evidence of readership: Early marginalia next to chapters (or their morals) 15, 16, 28, 33, 36, 43, 47, 55, 72, 80, 91, 92, 106, 111, 125, 128, 135, 144, 164, 173, and 178. A correction to the moral of 115 and an interlinear addition to moral 55.

•  Goff G-296; GKW 10902; BMC I, 146 (IB. 1928); ISTC ig00296000.   Recent ebony-brown calf old style: Round spine with raised bands accented by gilt rules, cream leather title label, fillets extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils; a vertical blind-tooled “rope” to covers beyond the trefoils and covers framed in blind double fillets. Title-leaf stained and with old repairs, pencilling, and ownership indicia as above; very old bookseller's description glued to same not approaching type or inkings. Variable waterstaining throughout; pinhole-type worming, minor and not costing letters; leaf l4 torn in upper margin extending into text with loss a very few words in the top two lines of one column on each page of the leaf. Lacks the final blank (only). A significant book, and a handsome incunable in a very interesting copy.  (39525)

This archive seems destined to be used not only by historians of Italian-American history but by historians of immigration generally, émigré culture at the beginning of the 20th century, fashion, self-help, education, advertising, and entrepreneurship, to mention but a few obvious areas of social research.

•  A few items quite worn, but overall generally only minor wear. Some items are on poor-quality paper of the era and thus brittle. A gathering fully ready to be worked with, and by multiple sorts of scholars.  (39404)

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

•  Publisher's blue cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, in a striking slipcase covered in combed paper in black, grey, and white, matching the endpapers; volume spine sunned, slipcase showing minimal shelfwear. Pages crisp and clean. A beautiful book for collectors of calligraphic and/or bookplate art as well as connoisseurs of wood engraving.  (39551)

The work is handsomely printed and has woodcut title vignettes, initials, and head- and tailpieces.

Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Théodore de Bauffremont-Courtenay; later in the library at Haverford College, deaccessioned 2017.

•  Vancil, p. 2.   18th-century tan calf, plain sides, spine gilt extra; gilt roll on turn-ins, marbled endpapers. All edges carmine. Ex–Haverford College library with bookplates and usual librarians' pencilled notes on versos of title-pages; lower panels of spines with either call number or that area abraded from its removal. Vol. I front joint cracked, rear one partially; vol. IV with waterstain in upper inner corners of all leaves into text, covers exhibiting same stain as darkening of leather.  (38908)

The Osborne Collection suggests Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson as author, while Moon gives strong evidence for Elizabeth Kilner.

WorldCat locates nine North American libraries reporting ownership.

Provenance:  Late 19th-century signature of Rebecca B. Miller; a later bookplate removed; 1954 gift inscription to Hope Cooper W. Patterson from her grandfather. Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 42802; Welch, American Children’s Books, 1393; Moon, Benjamin Tabart's Juvenile Library, 94.   Publisher's dark green quarter roan with tan paper sides; leather worn and starting to crack along the front joint. Inscriptions and booklabel as above. The expectable age-toning and light foxing to text and plates. A good++ copy.  (38918)

•  Austin, Early American Medical Imprints, 1658; Sowerby, Catalogue of the Library of Thomas Jefferson, 922; Shaw & Shoemaker 9289.   20th-century quarter red calf with stone pattern marbled paper sides, round spine, no raised bands; gilt double-rules used to form six spine compartments, five of which have a gilt center device, the sixth containing the author/title label, with the date of publication at base of spine. Plain endpapers. Internally very good. Fascinating not only as to theory, but also for its detailed and very readable notes on symptoms, treatments, and specific epidemic “outbreaks.”  (39068)

Binding:  Caribbean-inspired linen with a sun and sea pattern combining warm reds and golds with cool blues and greens, created specifically for this volume by Bearden (marking the first time “an artist has designed his own fabric expressly for our edition” per the newsletter) and silk-screened in Italy by Ratti d.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 533.   Binding as above, in the original gray paper–covered slipcase with silver gilt spine title; slipcase with spine and edges sunned, volume in beautiful condition.Attractively crafted, and the performance of an all-star “cast.” (38924)

Here he writes, “my creditors have indeed fallen upon me without mercy.” He assures his correspondent that the note that he owes him is a personal one and not drawn on Otis's company; so, he advises the correspondent not to accede to any demands of Otis's business creditors regarding that note.

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

•  Very good condition.  (27919)

•  This ed. not in Brunet; see Mortimer, Italian 16th-Century Books, 398; Cicognara 2460. See also Seligmann, The History of Magic, 319. No edition of the Polemo forgery is listed in Freeman, Bibliotheca Fictiva.   Contemporary mottled calf, covers framed in gilt double fillets, spine with gilt-stamped title, compartments ruled in gilt and holdaing gilt-stamped decorative motifs, and raised bands with gilt roll; leather expectably acid-pitted, binding moderately worn overall. Annotation as above. This is a very pleasing copy, with pages clean and images printed darkly and crisply.  (39430)

WorldCat locates only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership (UCLA, Yale, Dartmouth, Free Library of Philadelphia).

•  Not in American Imprints. Not in Osborne Collection, nor Rosenbach, Children's, both of which only list “principal countries of the world.”   Contemporary half red roan in imitation of morocco with marbled paper sides, modest gilt ruling on leather on boards, spine gilt extra; binding slightly faded and rubbed, small area at base of spine pulled with loss of leather. Interior with the usual spotting and browning found in virtually all of the Juvenile Emporium books. A delightful little work.  (38526)