These examples are numbered copy 238 of either 2000 or 2500 printed depending on the set (except for one trio out of the five, which is numbered 236); the appropriate LEC newsletter is present.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 193^1-3, 202^4-6, 203^7-9, 222^10-13, 228^12-15.   Publisher's cloth of various colors, eight volumes in the original glassine dust wrappers, all in publisher's red paper–covered slipcases with printed paper spine labels; some wrappers with tears or chips, slipcase spines gently sunned, slipcases showing light shelfwear overall with Aladdin set case dust-soiled, Emperor's New Clothes spine lettering rubbed. Ali Baba and a few other volumes with scattered spots of light foxing, overall most pages clean. Newsletter moderately worn. Complete sets are uncommon; this one shows no signs of having been in the hands of any actual child.  (30766)

Binding:  Contemporaneously bound at the time of the writing of the manuscript in rich, dark brown goat over wood boards, spine plain and covers tooled in blind using a variety of rolls and rules to form three borders around a central panel, that panel tooled to create a cross.

•  Bound as above, strongly. Four natural flaws in the parchment, not affecting the text. One tear in one leaf repaired by stitching, costing a few letters; one lower corner lost away from text; soiling and spotting variously as is typical. An interesting, impressive volume.  (30618)

•  Fine copy.  (30791)

Added at end of vol. 3 and paged separately here is “Death of Cicero, a Fragment.”

Provenance:  Ex–social club library (the German Society of Pennsylvania): each volume with its 19th-century bookplate, call number label on spine and number on pastedown, pressure-stamp on title-page; no other markings.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 237; Wright, I, 421; BAL 1500.   Full speckled sheep with round spines and black leather spine labels, binding from ca. 1820; abraded, front joints cracked and starting. Vol. I lacking front free endpaper and early leave of that volume detached at some time, crumpled, torn (repaired), and crudely reattached. Stains, some leaves closely cropped. One leaf in vol. II with natural paper flaw causing misprinting of some text; same volume missing final leaf of text . A tattered and stained and slightly imperfect set of a scarce early American novel.  (30263)

printed in both English and Russian

the artist's autobiographical essay

Binding:  By The Fine Bindery, Wellingborough, in quarter brown cloth over patterned paper boards in salmon and rust, featuring a design from a block by the artist, with title gilt to spine.

•  Binding as above. Pristine, in the publisher's matching salmon slipcase.  (30592)

There is no title-page (if there ever was one) but as the colophon in Latin translates to “Disputed publicly at the Jesuit University of Genoa,” with spaces left blank to fill in the year, month, day, and very hour in manuscript, this was clearlyan unsubmitted copy of an unidentified student's thesis defense in pursuit of a degree from the Jesuit university's department of sciences — the tesi di laurea (thesis defense) remaining a necessary component of Italian university education to this day. The title and publication information given in brackets above are derived from another thesis defense at the university, and we suspect the title was rather formulaic; searches of various databases show Franchelli to have been the printer of choice for the institution.

Packed with information, this is a wonderful window on Jesuit university education during the Age of Enlightenment and on the eve of thesuppression of the order in the Spanish Empire, made official everywhere by Clement XIV in 1773. Its every page is framed by a wide woodcut border in a leafy pattern punctuated by “o” and “s” letters and asterisks, the text being also decorated with fine woodcut initials, tailpieces, and the occasional ornament; an errata leaf follows at the end.

We fail to locate any copy, other than that offered here, of this work.

•  Mid-20th-century quarter vellum over paper boards imitating brown tree calf, title gilt to red spine label, dark gray silk place marker; extremities rubbed, corners bumped. First and last two leaves with instances of very minor foxing, light staining, or slim worming; otherwise light ink smudges on one page, soiling on two, and recent pencil scribblings by an Italian book dealer on front and rear endpapers; a very good copy. Final quire and plates tipped in at time of rebinding. On its thick paper and with its fine typography and neat plates, this was designed to be impressive and succeeds.  (30527)

Limited to 626 copies, 26 being specially bound and signed. This is copy 46 of the 600 copies bound in quarter morocco.

•  Publisher's quarter reddish-brown morocco with green paper sides, top edges gilt. Housed in the publisher's open-back slipcase, small part of one lower seam starting to crack; else fine. Books, lovely.  (30550)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only four U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Sewn, never bound; outer leaf with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner and with pencilled annotations. Page edges untrimmed and somewhat ragged and dust-soiled; foxed.  (30694)

•  Publisher's textured charcoal cloth blind stamped on covers and gilt lettered on spine. Small tear in cloth at base of spine, else a very good copy.  (30672)

Calvin's commentary on the Pentateuch was first published in 1563; this is the fourth edition, and the first to include his commentary on the book of Joshua, which was first published separately in 1564.

•  Adams C278.   Contemporary northern-European style vellum over paste boards single-ruled in blind, panels with blind-stamped central cartouches, evidence of ties, ink title to spine; soiled, spine especially, and vellum rippled on both covers, with joints repaired and vellum worn away at corners revealing boards. Ex-library: bookplate on front pastedown and stamp on fly-leaf verso. Light waterstaining in swoops along foremargin of first fifty pages or so and in a half-moon shape in margins midway through volume to end, occasional other instances of this also; mild foxing with some blackish residue on some leaves, other small stains or a small wormhole elsewhere. Deckle preserved on a few leaves with some lower corners torn away, some other corners bumped, creased, or turned down; paper strong and good. A strong, imposing folio.  (30639)

Scarce: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only one U.S. institutional holding but we know of two other U.S. libraries with copies.

•  Sewn, never bound; title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner, not touching text, and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Dust-soiling, ffirst and last few leaves with light foxing; page edges untrimmed.  (30702)

The booklet was hand-printed in an edition of 70 copies, of which this is 33, numbered in ink andsigned “Gaylord” in pencil below the colophon. Avignette wood engraving in midnight blue decorates the title-page.

We locate only four copies in institutions.

•  Stitched in midnight blue wrappers, small black stamp of moon's face on front cover, gray endpapers. Deckled fore-edge. Fine.  (30794)

The scrupulous, unnamed editor is thought to be Marchigiano Alessandro Maggiori (1764–1834), whose return to the original manuscripts makes this themost accurate printing to date, improving on Domenico Maria Manni's 1726 edition. The first edition was that of 1623, published by the artist's grand-nephew.

The Italian text is printed in roman and italic, with sweet little woodcut ornaments of an eagle, Pegasus, plants, a shooting star, feathers, arrows, and an owl perched on a book, some incorporating phrases in Latin, Italian, or Greek. The title-page and final page of two sections feature a woodcut device of a flour bolter and the motto “Il più bel fior ne coglie,” symbol for the Accademia della Crusca, a Florentine society of scholars founded in 1583.

•  Gamba, Testi di lingua, 250; Norton, C.E., “List of the Principal Books Relating to the Life and Works of Michelangelo,” in Bibliographical contributions 3 (Harvard, 1879), p. 7, no. 5; Ragionieri, Michelangelo: The Man and the Myth, p. 62.   Contemporary quarter green calf over green and brown marbled paper boards, brown speckled edges, pink and green striped ribbon place holder; author, title, and ornaments gilt on spine. Boards rubbed with paper chipped at corners; two round wormholes to title-page and following leaf well away from type, one continuing through 45 leaves. Minor to mild foxing throughout, very light waterstaining to lower gutter of 70 or so pages. Artful poetry!  (30675)

This is numbered copy 538 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by both Littell and Gross. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 512.   Binding as above in original glassine wrapper and dark brown slipcase; wrapper with spine sunned and lower front corner crumpled, slipcase showing minimal wear to outer extremities only. Volume with two small brown spots visible on the pale leather, otherwise clean and lovely.  (30528)

For the present edition, limited to 2,000 copies of which this is number 1496, artist Leonard Baskin (1922–2000) designed the text using monotype Janson font and created nine full-page black and white drawings of O'Neill's characters, reproduced by Meriden Gravure Company, and one sanguine lithograph pulled on Arches paper by Fox-Graphics Editions. In her introductory essay, “O'Neill and Baskin: The Iconography of a Double Exposure,” art historian Irma Jaffe analyzes the illustrations and traces the parallels in the art and lives of the playwright (1888–1953) and Baskin, who has signed this below the colophon.

Binding:  The play was printed and bound at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, VT, in full Curtis gray paper–covered boards with printed paper labels on the spine and front cover. It is rather bleak-looking — which is perfectly appropriate given the nihilistic theme of the play.

This offering includes the monthly newsletter.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 525.   Binding as above. Fine, in a fine slipcase.  (30747)

•  Brown, Culinary Americana, 2397; Cagle & Stafford 894.   Sewn in publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers; wrappers with spots of light staining, upper outer corner bumped (carrying through first 14 pp.). Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. A solid, clean copy of an item ephemeral in nature.  (30677)

•  Publishers' white vellum lettered in black, with brown paper sides blind-embossed with a fighting figure on the top board and a dancing figure on the lower board. In an open-back slipcase. Near fine.  (30476)

Vol. I opens with a steel-engraved portrait of the author, done by Henry Cook after Hervé; vol. III is illustrated with an oversized, folding plate of a water-engine intended for millwork, devised by the author, and a plate of another of his inventions: the automated “chamber fire escape”, which enables anyone to lower him- or herself from a high window. This is the third edition, following the first of 1807.

•  NSTC H625; Sabin 30461.   Contemporary speckled sheep, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels; vol. I with joints and extremities refurbished, vols. II and III with spines and edges rubbed, old strips of library tape reinforcing spine heads. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, call number on endpapers, pressure-stamp on title-pages, vols. II and III with paper shelving labels at top of spines (vol. I showing signs of now-absent label). Vol. I title-page with offsetting from frontispiece; vol. III with pp. 69–72 excised (two leaves of a rather long religious-themed letter from Harriott to his son) and with upper portion of one leaf crumpled, reinforced some time ago. Some light age-toning, intermittent small spots of foxing and ink-staining, pages generally clean. Utterly absorbing.  (30651)

Of 1500 copies printed, this is no. 889, signed by the artist below the colophon. It was bound by Russell-Rutter Company in quarter dark green morocco over mottled green paper boards, with the title gilt on the spine.

The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 418.   Binding as above, in publisher's matching mottled green slipcase; minor shelf wear to slipcase. Pristine, in a fine slipcase.  (30462)

affixed chromolithographed illustration

•  Binding as above, spine slightly darkened, edges and extremities moderately rubbed, front cover with one old stain. Front free endpaper with early inked gift inscription. Pages faintly age-toned with a few light spots of staining; one plate with tiny edge nicks. Read, but gently, and all but unmarked by childish hands.  (30645)

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

Binding:  Signed binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, stamped “S. & S.” on front pastedown: Quarter cream morocco and bright gold buckram–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and cockerel decorations.

•  Binding as above, lower outer corners very slightly bumped, morocco with three small spots of staining and a bit of darkening associated with its gluing-down; cloth bright with a little soiling and with reddish spotting apparently associated not with “staining” but with something in the nature of the cloth itself. Pages clean. Overall a solid and attractive copy.  (30589)

This is numbered copy 616 of 1200 printed, and is signed at the colophon by the artist.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 164.   Bindings and blue cloth slipcase as above; case with “spine” and top sides sunned, one joint just starting and lower edge showing light shelfwear. Books clean and bright; despite minor wear to slipcase, a beautiful set.  (30541)

Promising “a fresh attempt at negotiation” in his message to Congress of 16 May 1797, John Adams appointed John Marshall and Elbridge Gerry to join Pinckney as part of a peace commission charged with negotiating a new treaty with France. Unfortunately for the commissioners, Secretary of State Thomas Pickering's instructions asked for much and gave away little, thus giving them a weak hand with which to bargain. In addition, they were later approached by three agents of the French foreign minister Talleyrand, identified in their dispatches as X, Y, and Z, who demanded a bribe as a precondition to negotiation. Pinckney refused and news of the XYZ Affair, released to Congress by the President on 3 April 1797, led the more extreme Federalists to press for an immediate declaration of war.

This is Secretary of State Thomas Pickering's instructions, dated July 15, 1797, to the peace commission to France.

•  Evans 34837.   Sewn, edges untrimmed, now in a Mylar folder. Title-page with a little bug-spotting, edges darkened, top-right quadrant waterstained throughout.  (12331)

The text is printed in roman and italic, double-column with sidenotes, and decorated with refined woodcut historiated initials and head- and tailpieces. Sectional title-pages introduce the second and third volumes, with pagination and signatures continuous throughout; the general title-page is printed in red and black, with a large woodcut device for printer Joannes van Keerberghen (1586–1624). Two pages contain text printed in Greek, representing inscriptions on antique monuments to Ephraem, translated into Latin below.

Scarce: Searches of WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 findjust two copies in North America, both in Canada!

•  NCE online (Ephrem, Ephraim).   Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt extra with author and title gilt to label; joints starting, boards scuffed, leather chipped at spine extremities (significantly lost across top compartment) and worn away at cover corners (bumped). Ex-library with bookplate on front pastedown and with remains of earlier, private inked ownership inscriptions; on front pastedown, “Ex libris Ioannis [ . . . ]” is left after heavy rubbing-out and on the front free endpaper, the same hand's bold “Ex libris” is neighbored only by a sizable hole. Foxing on endpapers and in some margins, milder; small hole from natural flaw in two leaves. A scarce text in overall good condition.  (30641)

numbered copy 100 of 400 printed by the important Welsh press

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, the collector of press books.

•  Welsh sheepskin as above, the soft leather showing light (expectable) rubbing to edges and spine, with small spots of discoloration. A very little light foxing, most leaves clean. A nice copy of an uncommon item.  (30616)

limited edition of 75, of which this is numbered copy 8

This special copy has a bifolium with an uncolored imprint of title-page vignette opposite an additional piece from September, 1976, laid in, this being signed by both Seastone and Crane.

Provenance:  Though without indicia, from Andrew Hedden’s collection of press books and livres d'artiste.

•  Publisher's quarter cream paper and grey paper–covered boards, fresh and unworn. Pages clean.  (30628)

•  Binding as above, very slightly worn at extremities. An artistic and ambitious project, richly executed.  (30620)

Provenance:  Ex–Harvard library, with bookplate on front pastedown, pressure-stamp on title-page and first leaf of text, and two stamps in ink on title verso.

Evidence of readership: Much interlinear writing and marginalia in a Latin secretary hand on26 pages of “Pythia” and note on final verso.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locateonly five U.S. libraries reporting ownership.

•  Adams P-1225; Brunet, IV, 658 (“Belle édition”); Dibdin, II, 287 (“A beautiful and excellent edition”); Graesse, V, 294 (“Jolie”); Schweiger, I, 235 (“Schön”).   Original flexible vellum, soiled, renewed stitching visible along spine; restored endbands, chips on front cover repaired. Front fly-leaf repaired at edges with tissue. Age-toning throughout, especially to page-edges, with some dust-soiling; very mild foxing on a few leaves; waterstain in lower half of three leaves only. Tiny tear in outer margin of one leaf, and small hole from natural flaw in another. Early annotation as noted; annotator's ink smudged on two pages. A very interesting copy of a fine printing.  (30494)

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

•  NCBEL, III, 701; Harrop, Gregynog Press, 12.   Publisher's cobalt blue and black patterned cloth with violet buckram shelfback, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine gently sunned, upper front corners bumped. Front pastedown with bookplate as above. Clean. A pleasing bit of Arthuriana, and of Welsh history.  (30595)

Illustrated withsix line blocks from original drawings by John Watts, this is copy 46 in a limited edition of 215, machine set in Monotype Centaur by Peter J. Sanderson on heavy Zerkall paper, andsigned by the author and the artist on the last leaf. It was bound by Rachel James in quarter bright yellow fine-grain cloth with the title gilt-stamped not on the spine but along the line of the its cloth on the handmade grey-blue Larroque paper covering the boards; black Canson Mi-Teintes was used for the endpapers. Copies 186–215 were reserved for binders in sheets.

•  Binding as above. Pristine in a mylar wrapper.  (30561)

In addition to a total of eight plates (six steel-engraved and two wood), the text isillustrated with 34 wood engravings.

Binding:  Publisher's red straight-grained cloth, both covers with gilt-stamped arabesque motifs and Queen Victoria vignette, spine gilt extra. All edges gilt.

•  Faxon 386.   Binding as above, corners and spine extremities rubbed; back free endpaper neatly excised. Someone (a would-be au courant gift-giver?), added one final “I” to the roman numeral on the title-page; pp. 33/34 of second part absent with no discernible interruption. First two and last few signatures (including one plate) with offsetting and browning, pages and plates otherwise clean. A pretty and interesting gift book in pleasing condition.  (30502)

The text, in Latin and Greek, is divided into two sections: a preface in 15 short chapters, and the main text. The former is printed in roman and italic with nice woodcut head- and tailpieces, and one historiated woodcut initial. Sidenotes, footnotes, and woodcut ornaments like those in the former section enhance the main text, which is printed double column in parallel Latin and Greek, with two handsome engraved initials on the first page below a finely engraved vignette by J. B. Guélard (fl. ca. 1730) after a drawing by A. Humblot (fl. ca. 1740). The title-page, printed in red and black, has an engraved device by [Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste] de Poilly (1707–80). This copy also has a half-title page.

•  Brunet, III, 623 (“Bonne édition”); Graesse, III, 515; NCE 8: 94–95 and online (St. Justin Martyr).   Contemporary treed calf triple-ruled in blind on covers, spine gilt extra with author and title gilt to red morocco spine label, board edges with gilt double-rule, marbled endpapers in a stone pattern and matching marbled edges, emerald green ribbon place holder. Upper joint starting with volume strong despite this and its large size; boards scuffed, corners bumped and rubbed revealing boards; stains on pastedowns and endpapers from underlying turn-ins of the binding. Light foxing in a few places, thumbsoiling, and occasional small stains; one leaf with a corner torn away, another with a natural paper flaw, a few leaves creased. A good copy of avery imposing book.  (30647)

the author's signature at the colophon

•  Publisher's quarter green morocco over gold, green, grey and crimson marbled paper–covered sides, spine with author's initials gilt-stamped; spine almost imperceptibly sunned. A beautiful copy, with guard leaves present.  (30552)

The title-page bears a woodcut of a man stargazing with telescope, with a globe and other tools at his feet.

The American Antiquarian OPAC notes that the calculations were done by Joshua Sharp: “All the calculations on the calendar pages, as well as the eclipse predictions, are identical with those in Father Tammany’s almanac for 1802 (Philadelphia), which bears Sharp’s name on the title page.” There was a variant printing in the same year with the publication information “Printed and sold by H. & R. Rice”; neither version is common.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 481; Drake 10581.   Sewn as issued, sewing loosened and sometime renewed. Corners bumped and the whole darkened, with typical spotting and waterstaining; paper good, not brittle.  (29499)

Provenance:  Engraved title-page with minute owner's inscription dated 1723 ofErnst Wilh[elm] Christoph Christfels of Fürth, Germany, who published a treatise, “Concerning Ialtha, daughter of the prince, an example of the learned women of the Jewish race,” in 1725, citing Buxtorf's Institutio epistolaris hebraica of 1629 at least once (and using this dictionary for the Hebrew vocabulary?).

•  VD17 12:128987E; Vancil, Cordell Collection, 40.   19th-century paper imitating tree calf over boards, paper spine label; rubbed and spine paper cracking. Ex-library: bookplate on front pastedown and old notes in ink to same. Engraved title-page and portrait chipped at edges and lightly wormed at margins, the former also repaired at one margin. Generally lightly browned with occasional foxing and staining; smudges from printer’s and annotators’ inks; a few very small tears and holes none causing loss to text. Early repairs (or paper twisted while still wet?) on two leaves. Occasional marginalia, interlinear writing, and underlining, in black and red ink, by an early owner. Old bookseller’s note in English inserted between two leaves. A remarkably strong volume, given its great size.  (30596)

The text is illustrated with six photographic plates showing that East's “kitchenette” is essentially akitchen in a closet and demonstrating her well-thought-out storage and serving schemes. This is the second printing, following the first of the previous year.

•  Bitting 139; Brown, Culinary Americana, 1602.   Publisher's light brown cloth, front cover with kitchenette vignette stamped in dark brown and cream, spine with title in dark brown; very faint traces of rubbing to extremities, otherwise unworn. Pages clean. A handsome, fresh copy of a fascinator.  (30646)

Binding:  Publisher's apple green paper–covered boards in original matching slipcase with gilt-stamped spine title. All edges gilt.

•  Binding as above: lower front and back edges each with tiny bump, extremities showing very slight rubbing, slipcase with edges rubbed and a few small spots of discoloration. Front free endpaper with pencilled annotations in French. Pages and plates clean. Really in quite remarkable condition.  (30574)

The volume isillustrated with 13 photographic plates: portraits, landscapes, copies of artworks, etc., intended to offer interesting and practical lessons in particular aspects of the art. In addition, a number of in-text wood engravings depict aspects of composition and pieces of equipment.

•  Recent black moiré silk, spine with gilt-stamped title; new, archival guard tissues opposite photographs. Title-page and a number of others institutionally rubber-stamped. Pages gently age-toned, a few outer margins with small chips. First few leaves with inner margins reinforced, one later leaf with inner and lower margins thus; four leaves with small burn mark. First plate with short edge tear touching frame (only) of image and with small chip to upper outer corner of image; two darker plates (the two using Woodbury's Patent Process) with slight bloom, sepia-toned plates all clean and beautiful. Perfectly captures the state of the art.  (30326)

one of 350 copies printed at the University of California Press for the Book Club of California

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with inked gift inscription from historian Carl Wheat, author of Mapping of the Trans-Mississippi West, to Joe Blumenthal (of Spiral Press fame), a “fellow member of WOOFFB.”

•  Publisher's quarter vellum and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped author/title; minimal shelfwear to outer corners. A fresh, clean copy with an interesting inscription.  (30622)

Additionally, both the Chinese and English texts are presented on a folded slip of paper, with additional commentary in Chinese characters only.

The ivory is mounted within a black frame affixed to a small square of gold paper, on red velvet, and contained in a beautiful, eminently displayable case covered in olive-green silk with a woven Asian-inspired knotwork pattern in bronze and blue, decorated with a Chinese-printed label on the front cover. The case closes with a fabric loop and white-painted wooden toggle.

•  Box as above, showing the faintest hint of rubbing to one corner, overall in excellent condition. Small compartment beneath presentation window seems to indicate a long slender item was at one point laid in, but it is difficult to say what that might have been.  (30544)

Binding: Publisher's textured green cloth, covers framed in a wide foliate blind roll; front cover with gilt-stamped floral and foliate ring vignette, the same in blind on rear cover. Spine gilt extra, all edges gilt, lovely green patterned endpapers.

•  Faxon 537e (for 1842 ed.).   Bound as above; light wear to corners and extremities, cloth faintly mottled. Front fly-leaf with early pencilled ownership and gift inscriptions, also one not quite readable on free endpaper. Light to moderate foxing throughout; clean.  (30500)

one of 500 copies printed by Vance Gerry

•  Publisher's textured green paper wrappers, sewn as issued. Clean and crisp.  (30658)

•  American Imprints 46-3993; NSTC 2L4514. Recent black moiré silk, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels. Vol. II half-title and title-page with faint spots of waterstaining, pages otherwise clean. A very nice example of one of the best-selling scientific works of its time. (30342)

Binding: 19th-century half treed calf over gray and blue marbled boards; spine, , bearing green and red morocco labels, handsomely gilt with rules and rolls and center devices in the compartments. All edges green.

Provenance:  Ink inscription on front fly-leaf, vol. I, dated 1823 at London, by the painterSIR GEORGE HAYTER (1792–1871), who lived in Italy for part of his career and collected old master paintings. Hayter and his second wife, Louisa, left London for Rome in 1816, where he abandoned the miniature paintings that made him famous in England and took up full-scale portraits, landscapes, and historical subjects. After returning home for some years Hayter moved again to Florence, but was forced to leave after Louisa killed herself. Despite the scandal, Hayter was elected to the academies of Florence, Parma, and Bologna; knighted in England; and he was appointed court painter by Queen Victoria.

Engraved bookplates on the front pastedowns of both volumes read, “To Angelo C. Hayter, From his affectionate Father, Sir George Hayter, 1864.” According to the DNB, “To [Sir George's] regret his son Angelo gave up painting as a profession and joined the civil service, rising to become chief reviewer of wills at Somerset House.”

Evidence of readership: Pencil annotations in the margin of p. 279, vol. I, by G.H. [George Hayter], giving the current location in 1850 of a painting by Bonifacio Veneziano — of Herod's daughter bringing John the Baptist's head to him during a meal — formerly belonging to the King of England and“now in possession of the Duke of Bedford,” George Hayter's most important patron (DNB), whose collection he must have known intimately.

•  Brunet, IV, 1300 (“estimé et assez rare”); Graesse, VI, 120; Cicognara 2359 (“Opera tenuta in gran pregio potendosi chiamare questo autore il Vasari dei veneziani”); Gamba 2063; UCBA, II, 1739; Arntzen & Rainwater, p. 90; on George Hayter, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online.   Bound as above, extremities and boards a little rubbed. I: Nine plates wanting. Inkstains (limited) in lower margin of frontispiece and natural flaws in upper margin of title-page; small tear in outer margin of one leaf. II: Two plates wanting. One plate repaired in upper inside corner, another lightly frayed at fore-edge; natural flaw in outer margin of one leaf. In each volume a few ink smudges not from a pen but from the press, a bit of bug-spotting, a little thumb-soiling, and some quires browned. A handsome, enjoyable set in itself and one with a provenance to conjure with.  (30087)

•  Publisher's olive green paper wrappers in cream, green- and blue-printed handmade paper dust wrapper, in original cream slipcase; slipcase showing minimal wear at lower edges, volume clean and crisp. An excellent copy.  (30536)

This is copy 44 of a deluxe limited edition of 50 copies containing “a suite of ten original prints by Fritz Scholder, hand-printed in the Kallitype process on Rives BFK by James Hajick, and each signed by the artist.”

•  The book and the added material of the limited edition housed in a red cloth clamshell box with the artist's signature artfully reproduced on a rectangle of gold cardstock and adhered to the front of the box. All items in fine condition.  (30503)

Binding:  Publisher's green cloth, covers framed in blind, front cover with gilt-stamped decorative title and basket vignette, spine with gilt-stamped author and title.

•  Light wear only to joints and extremities, cloth showing small spots of faint discoloration. Front free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription dated 1910, front fly-leaf with same owner's inked inscription. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean.  (30499)

The present example is the fourth edition of this English translation done by Thomas Brown and others, with much matter added to the Satyricon: a life of Petronius Arbiter by Charles de Saint-Évremond, English translations of a number of poems by additional Roman poets (mostly rather earthy, vigorous works), a piece by William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Devonshire, inspired by the Archbishop of Cambray's Telemachus, and a verse-form essay on poetry by John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham. The volume is illustrated with11 copper-engraved plates by various hands, which accompany non-erotic portions of the text and depict a wedding, the siege of Troy, a shipwreck, the Ephesian matron removing her husband's corpse, the death of the holy goose, etc.

Binding:  Contemporary mottled calf panelled with plain calf, framed in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped red morocco title-label.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of John Thomas Ambrose (1798–1881), a philanthropist and solicitor in Mistley and Manningtree.

•  ESTC T17788; Lowndes 1843; Schweiger, II, 727.   Binding as above, rubbed and spine leather cracked; joints strengthened, portion of headband replaced, extremities subtly refurbished with toned long-fiber tissue. Bookplate as above. Varying degrees of age-toning, with a few signatures (only) browned or foxed and some leaves showing sometime exposure to water with no plates affected; additional engraved title-page lacking and index pages bound in incorrectly, interspersed with two poems towards the back of the volume!(29672)

numbered copy 12 of only 60 printed, with Zimmerman's signature at the colophon

Binding:  Five-hole Asian-style stab binding with hinge fold, the beige silk–covered boards tied with brown cord, front cover with title printed in brown.

•  Binding as above. A pristine copy.  (30619)

Designed and printed in an edition of 300 numbered copies by Claire Van Vliet atthe Janus Press, with typesetting by Nancy Boylen and binding by Jim Bicknell. The paper is Mohawk Superfine Vellum and the type 18-point Monotype Spectrum. This is copy 274.

•  Fine, Janus Press 1955–75, p. 42.   Publisher's gray cloth with paper spine label. Fine copy.  (30523)

The famous Elzevir print shop published this volume edited by Philippus van Limborch (1633–1712), Courcelles' student and successor. The eulogy following Limborch's preface was written by Arnold Poelenberg (1628–66), another professor at the Seminary whose remarks are still considered themost important source of information on Courcelles' life (1586–1659).

The Latin text is printed in roman and italic with occasional Greek and decorated with handsome woodcut initials and tailpieces. The title-page, printed in red and black, features the printer's device of Daniel Elzevir, the Minerva.

Provenance:  Swirly red stamp (not a rubber-stamp) blazoning owner's initials in a complicated monogram within a wreath, title-page verso.

•  Willems 1506 (“Belle édition”); Goldsmid, I, 123.   Contemporary full vellum with early ink title to spine, red speckled edges; leather scuffed and lightly soiled, upper joint starting. Ex-library: bookplate and old penciling on front pastedown. Waterstaining in outer margin of first eight leaves then intermittently, minor foxing on a few leaves only, occasional small ink blotches; tiniest touches of worming in bottom margin of 250 pages or so in middle of text and starting again at end, most noticeable on rear pastedown. Provenance mark as above.  (30405)

Binding:  In the style of a percaline mosaïquée, but the gilt and mosaic are applied to a textured pebbled cloth. Spine gilt extra with added “mosaic” of green, white, red and blue. Front cover with a blind-stamped border incorporating elegant corner-pieces; within this, “Souvenir de Versailles” gilt-stamped in an arc above a large on-laid crowned coat of arms flanked by banners and flags, this embellished in gilt with rich use of blue, white, red, blue, and green. Rear cover with similar blind-stamped border and a different large gilt-stamped center device strikingly incorporating an on-lay of blue stamped in gilt with a military medal. All edges gilt.

•  On this type of binding, see: Morris & Levin, The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings, pp. 94–97.   Binding as above, rubbed to the underlying boards at the corners of the boards and top of spine slightly pulled with one bit of rubbing. Scattered pale brown stains mostly on interleaves and sometimes visible on versos of plates; some discoloration in some margins of plates and occasionally into one; overwhelmingly a clean copy, remarkably bright and unfoxed. A strong and nice example of this category of “souvenir” and of a gilt mosaic binding.  (30464)

The last page here, while hoping for peace and amity based on a British change of mind and attitude, makes it very clear what a serious militia (such, for example, as Rhode-Island has) can do against great armies!

•  Evans 13764; Alden, Rhode Island, 530; Drake, Almanacs, 12842; ESTC W22707. Not in Adams, American Independence, but that conceivably was deliberate.   Uncut; stitched as issued. Browned, tattered, handsoiling, bug-spotting and an inkblot at lower edge; small piece torn from title-leaf and same leaf with pin-prick holes not affecting readability. Looks like a survivor of the American Revolution, which it is.  (30423)

•  18th: ESTC W026145; Evans 36551. 21st: ESTC W026008; Evans 36546.   Recently attractively bound in quarter blue goat over blue cloth, leather edges rolled in gilt; spine with gilt-stamped title, place, and date, raised bands accented with gilt-stamped abstract floral design and straight and wavy rules. Title-page hinged on with long-fiber tissue, outer margin repaired with same. Varying degrees of foxing, with some leaves untouched, some slightly spotted, and some notably darkened.  (3745)

This is no. 150 of 1500 copies.

Binding:  Full natural burlap, with the title stamped in gold on a red leather spine label; a large red “X” is painted across the front cover, recalling those marked on the house doors of infected families, and a red “1665" is painted on the back cover. Endpapers and edges are black.

With the Monthly Newsletter for this work laid in.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 401.   Binding as above, in the original black slipcase with red paper label; glassine wrapper not present, but volume nice and clean nonetheless. Fine copy.  (30445)

Provenance & Evidence of Readership: Front pastedown with bookplate of Sir John Dashwood-King. This copy was fairly extensively annotated in ink and pencil by an early hand, with both marginalia and marks of emphasis.

•  ESTC R206906; Wing (rev. ed.) B3195. On Blith, see: Dictionary of National Biography online; his designation as “a lover of Ingenuity,” in our caption, is from the engraved title-page.   Contemporary mottled calf, covers framed in blind double fillets, nicely rebacked with calf, spine with gilt-stamped title in exceptionally good period style; sides with minor abrasions, now toned. Pastedowns and free endpapers lacking. Engraved title-page with early inked annotations and pencilled doodle on recto, outer edge slightly ragged affecting image at upper corner; secondary title-page with early inked ownership inscription and a few tiny ink spatters. Pages age-toned and some browned, with early inked and pencilled annotations as above. A significant work, here intriguingly engaged with by a contemporary reader.  (30320)

Paul Hogarth illustrated the book with black-and-white vignettes, which open and close each chapter, and eight full-page color wash drawings. John Lewis designed the book choosing a monotype Walbaum font. The binding is quarter red calf over light-brown buckram sides, gilt-lettered on the spine, and gilt-stamped on the front cover with a design of various fox-hunting implements; tucked away at the lower edge of the back cover is a gilt design of a sly-looking fox in full trot.

This is numbered copy 715 of 1600 printed, and issigned by the artist on the colophon. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 506.   Binding as above, lacking glassine wrapper, in original slipcase; volume and slipcase clean and bright, slipcase with one tiny joint nick near the spine title. Pages crisp and clean. A lovely copy.  (30453)

Bindings: Contemporary mottled calf, spine compartments defined with elegant rules and rolls and bearing handsome center-devices; gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels.

•  ESTC T81010.   Bindings rubbed and acid-pitted, with loss of tilt to top device on each spine; spine heads refurbished, vol. I with joints repaired and volume label supplied (subtly), other joints unobtrusively reinforced with toned long-fiber tissue. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates (largely obscuring private bookplates in three volumes), call numbers on endpapers (overlaid with affixed paper slips in vol. I), pressure-stamp on title-pages, no other markings. Four front pastedowns with ticket of Dublin bookseller W. Figgis. Some light spotting, pages mostly clean.  (27578)

This is numbered copy 1051 of 1500 printed; it wassigned at the colophon by the artist.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 32.   Publisher's brown and orange cloth as above, spines with gilt-stamped titles; slipcase and wrappers lacking, bindings showing moderate shelf wear most pronounced at spine extremities. Clean.  (30404)

•  Martin & Walter 5106.   Sewn, never bound; title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner, not touching text, and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Page edges untrimmed. Lacking center signature (pp. 17–24: end of article IV, beginning of article V). Pages gently age-toned, otherwise very crisp and clean.  (30698)

Each volume is introduced by George Willis Cooke, author of the Guide Book to the Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning, and concluded with his notes. Indices of first lines and titles are included at the end of the final volume.

Binding: Turquoise half-morocco over blue and gold marbled boards with matching marbled endpapers; spines with raised bands, compartments with gilt-tooled author and title labels or modest and attractive gilt tooling. All top edges gilt, blue silk place markers.

•  Bound as above; spines sunned to a handsome olive, boards lightly scuffed and a bit worn along the joints. One section of some 16 leaves in vol. II (as per spine) with a lower corner bumped/crumpled; one group of upper corners in vol. III with a small worm-piercing at outer edge. Ungilt page edges with light age-toning, spotting, and the occasional small nick; mostly, unopened. Nice to hold and behold.  (30001)

illustrated with eight steel-engraved plates

Written by a New Hampshire-born poet and educator and published by subscription, this work was originally printed in 1883 as Our Home; Or the Key to a Nobler Life; it appears here in significantly expanded form with contributions from several ministers and one physician. The wide-ranging volume includes the advice to always send your little child to bed happy (“give the dear child a warm good-night kiss as it goes to its pillow,” p. 67), and to spare the rod and develop the child's conscience and sense of honor instead. It also covers the necessity of education and equality of professional opportunity for girls and women, and offers recommendations to smile often in the home, permit only good reading materials, pursue music, provide guidance in maintaining correspondences and friendships, model Christian values and religious observance, encourage fresh air and exercise, avoid alcohol and tobacco, etc.

Binding: Publisher's dark green cloth, front cover with “silver”-stamped decorative frame and red- and “silver”-stamped “Our Home” heart design in center; spine with decorative red and “silver” title. All edges bright red.

•  “Silver” stamping and extremities showing slight rubbing, front cover with a few small, unobtrusive spots of staining. Front hinge (inside) tender from the weight of this hefty work, but holding. Pages clean; a few leaves with small nick to upper edge. A pleasing example of a tenderly appealing portrayal of domestic joys.  (30304)

WorldCat and ESTC do not locate any U.S. institutional holdings of this edition (another variant, printed in the same year, has 194 pages).

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of George Gropius (“und seinen Freunden”), front free endpaper with early pencilled inscription: “Lewis Tiger's Book.”

•  ESTC T167805; Graesse 392; Brunet, V, 1362.   Later marbled paper–covered boards, much rubbed and worn, paper lost over spine and back cover, back cover partially covered in cloth tape. Bookplate as above, front free endpaper with pencilled doodling along inner margin. Frontispiece and pp. 127/28 lacking. Sewing loosening. Occasional mild to moderate foxing; one page with light stain partially obscuring text without loss of sense. This is a book that was read (and read and read). . . .  (30400)

Binding:  Medieval-inspired contemporary vellum, front cover with decorative title and fleur-de-lis design hand-painted in red, black, and gilt; spine with author and title painted in black and red. Covers bear a half dozen “studs” laid on, of clay or ceramic. Endpapers are stamped with medieval design in green and orange; front free one with small ticket of Florence bookbinder and stationer Giulio Giannini.

Books bound in this way were snapped up as suitable souvenirs by visitors to Italy, and the Italian-facing-English format here suggests that this was aimed specifically at British and American tourists.

•  NSTC 0886216.   Binding as above, hardware apparently now absent resulting in small holes at joints and edges; lightly dust-soiled and spine a bit moreso, front cover with spot of staining at upper inner corner. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean; last few leaves lightly creased. An extremely atmospheric copy.  (30371)

This is copy 152.

•  Publisher's quarter cranberry-colored calf with decorated paper over the boards, in a cream-colored paper wrapper. A fine copy.  (30522)

Text handsomely printed within a typographic border in double-column format.

RARE:  No copy traced via WorldCat, NUC, or the OPAC of the Mexican National Library.

•  Not in Sutro.   Dog-earing and minor fold tears; a very little light soiling/spotting. A very good copy of a rarity.  (30439)

This has a very pretty engraved title-page, acting as frontispiece; between the arched words “Bridal Greetings,” above and below, is a bridal bouquet of emblematic flowers, signed F.E. Jones.

Binding:  Publisher's textured red cloth, covers framed in blind, front cover with gilt-stamped rose vignette, spine gilt extra. All edges gilt.

•  Not in Faxon.   Binding as above, cocked, extremities lightly rubbed, front cover with tiny dark spatter; joints each with small instance of insect damage. Front free endpaper with pencilled annotation. Moderate foxing throughout.  (30370)

This set is a good example of an early American publisher's full cloth binding. Vol. I opens with a steel-engraved view of Dublin as seen from Phoenix Park, and vol. II with one of Cove Harbor, Cork, done by Gimber & Dick after G. Petrie and W.B. Bartlett, respectively.

•  NSTC 2T4576.   Publisher's printed cloth–covered boards, darkened with spots of discoloration; extremities rubbed, spine heads reinforced with cloth tape, vol. II with spine chipped at foot and with small ink spot in lower outer portion of front cover. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, call number on front pastedowns, title-pages and one other pressure-stamped, no other markings. Pages untrimmed. Offsetting from frontispieces; mildest age-toning. Much pleasure.  (30380)

The text here is divided into sections for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, followed by a guide to Hebrew abbreviations; an index of classical authors; and a comprehensive Latin index to the defined words, which are described in the text in Hebrew and Latin. The whole is printed in Hebrew, roman, and italic type, double-column, with intricate head- and tailpieces, ornaments, and initials in floriated, historiated, and factotum frames.

Provenance:  Early ownership inscription of Gervüin Pûtre ( or Pêctre?), front pastedown.

•  VD17 1:051625M; Vancil, Cordell Collection, 216; Zaunmüller 345 & Graesse, VI, 305 (Hanover issue). On Semitic-language dictionaries, see S. Segert, “The Use of Comparative Semitic Material in Hebrew Lexicography,” in Semitic Studies in Honor of Wolf Leslau, vol. II, ed. A.S. Kaye.   Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt extra with raised bands, gilt morocco and manuscript paper labels, red speckled edges; joints cracking, free endpapers gone with early and late leaves creased and attachment of first ones affected, corners bumped and leather scuffed with some loss (sewing exposed at spine top).. Ex-library with old seminary pressure-stamp to title-leaf, this mostly detached and with print along that edge touched on both sides. Variously, waterstaining and browning; very mild worming, eye-catching on perhaps six leaves only; small marginal tears; a few ink and other splotches.  (30286)

The volume is illustrated with20 copper-engraved plates by prominent Philadelphia engraver and publisher Joseph Yeager, including one dainty bird and a number of interesting sea creatures.

•  American Imprints 38398; NSTC 2K6659.   Period-style quarter light grey cloth and light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. All edges sprinkled. One leaf creased. Offsetting from plates, among which the last is misnumbered; otherwise, clean.  (30332)

The topic of the defense was the role of the macaenas in times of war and peace.

Chain lines are horizontal!

We trace no copy via NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico, Metabase, or the OPACs of the national libraries of Mexico or Spain. We have failed to find the URL for the OPAC of the Guatemalan National Library.

•  Not in Medina, Guatemala.   Old folds, left margin irregular. A very clean, crisp copy.  (30334)

•  Publisher's yellow bookcloth wrappers, front wrapper with affixed photographic label. Very clean and crisp.  (30630)

The printer was Margaret Rhames, scion of a prominent Dublin printing family. WorldCat and ESTC locate only four U.S. institutional holdings of this edition, which preceded the London first.

•  ESTC N5208; Wellcome, IV, 440.   Period-style half calf and antique marbled paper–covered sides, corners tipped in vellum, spine with gilt-stamped leather labels. Title-page with ownership initials (“WS”) inked in upper outer corner; pages age-toned, with mild to moderate foxing. A solid, pleasingly bound copy of an uncommon and interesting piece of medical history.  (30607)

•  Wright, III, 168.   Publisher's cloth, spine gilt-stamped, front cover stamped in “silver” and gilt; cloth a touch rubbed over corners and spine extremities, otherwise clean and neat. Sewing breaking, not because this is a “bad” copy but because it's the nature of the thing.  (12987)

Benjamin Franklin was among those who acknowledged the book's great influence on his life.

Preliminary pages include the testimonials or “Recommendations” (pp. iii–iv) and a “Preface” (pp. [xiii]–xxv). At the end are “On fulfilling engagements and paying debts. From a sermon by the late President Edwards,” “On the religious education of children. (From the Christian observer),” “On sanctifying the Sabbath-Day. By Sir Matthew Hale. (From the same),” and the table of contents.

•  Holmes, Cotton Mather, 112-E2; Shaw & Shoemaker 35227.   Publisher's sheep with a neat gilt red leathr label; binding dry, front joint (outside) starting. Ex–social club library: small 19th-century paper label at top of spine, 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, no other markings.  (29293)

•  Publisher's blue cloth, covers framed and stamped in blind, front cover and spine with elegantly gilt-stamped title; extremities rubbed. Two pages with offsetting from now-absent laid-in item; two small pencilled annotations. A few instances of light spotting; one leaf with outer margin chipped. A pleasing copy.  (30507)

The authorial juxtaposition here is interesting, given that Kellogg and his former teacher Trall had a bitter falling-out; prior to that, both had been sponsored and supported by Ellen White, one of the founders of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.

•  Brown, Culinary Americana, 1717.   Publisher's textured brown cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title and small fountain vignette; mildly worn and spine lightly sunned, sides with small faint spots of light discoloration. Title-page with partially obscured rule. Occasional light foxing.  (30195)

•  Lowndes 1869; NSTC L976; Schweiger, I, 238. Not in Dibdin.   Mid-20th-century half brown morocco and light green cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, compartments with gilt-stamped floral and foliate decorations; spine gently sunned, extremities slightly rubbed. Top edge gilt. Front pastedown with bookplate as above, front free endpaper with inked inscription of Douglas F. Bauer, dated 1970. Front hinge (inside) unobtrusively reinforced with long-fiber tissue. Text with scattered light foxing, frontispiece and map affected more heavily; a few other spots only. Handsome and interesting.  (29763)

•  Publisher's cream-colored boards in original dust wrapper, cream-colored portions of jacket slightly darkened, otherwise showing only minimal shelfwear. A clean, solid copy.  (30365)

These books feature a grand total of 114 full-color plates depicting all the dishes. The glossy double-sided plates are divided sectionally in vol. I, gathered at the beginning of vol. II, and grouped as prospective dinner menus in vol. III; all three volumes are additionally illustrated with black-and-white photographic images from Pei-Mei's career.

•  Vol. I: Publisher's brightly color-printed paper–covered boards, vols. II and III in publisher's original dust wrappers over green and yellow cloth, respectively; vol. I with moderate shelfwear to edges and extremities, vol. II wrapper with extremities rubbed and a few small edge nicks, vol. III wrapper with spine extremities chipped and small scuff to back joint. Front free endpaper of vol. I with inked gift inscription dated 1977. Pages of vols. II and III very clean and white, vol. I slightly age-toned but otherwise clean. Very attractive copies of a set seldom found all volumes together.  (30289)

Even before it was published, the Augustinus generated controversy. Grace was a forbidden subject, and Jansen, who died in 1638 days after completing his magnum opus and never saw it published, was accused of reiterating Calvin and Baius. Despite heated objections, Henri Calenus and Liber Froidmont, whom Jansen entrusted with his manuscript, published the Augustinus at Louvain in 1640, omitting only the author's dedication to Urban VIII. French editions quickly followed in 1641 (Paris), 1642 and 1643 (Rouen), all with an added treatise by the Franciscan F. Conrius. The Augustinus was condemned by the Jesuits, the Inquisition, and the pope to whom Jansen originally dedicated it.

Each of the three parts has a separate title-page, each featuring a large woodcut ornament; of the third part, this copy has the index only. The text is in Latin, printed in roman and italic, with sidenotes, woodcut initials, and large elaborately woodcut head- and tailpieces — at least two initialed “L.M.” or “D.N.,” and at least two more “R.M.” Strangely, two Jesuit ornaments are used as tailpieces, “I.H.S.” surrounded by intricate borders.

•  Willaert, Bibliotheca Janseniana Belgica, 2227; NCE, I, p. 1076. On Jansenius & Jansenism, see: NCE, VII, pp. 818–26.   Period-style black quarter calf over gray marbled paper boards, spine with gilt rolled bands and tool in each compartment, red morocco gilt spine label. Old institutional pressure-stamp on first title-page. Waterstaining, dampstaining, and splotches, foxing and browning all very variously, none of it having weakened the paper; instances of slim, even “hair-line” worming to lower margin of many leaves, with occasionally another wormhole, natural paper flaw, or other piercing. Lacking text of the third part, its title-page and index pages retained. Affordable for its faults, still substantial and interesting.  (30224)

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This features tidbits on A Religious Home, The Persecuted Waldenses, the United States Mail (a distributor of pernicious literature), Drugged Liquors, Missions, and how to make Apple Molasses — etc.

•  Not in American Imprints?; Drake 8049.   Publisher's green printed wrappers with vignette and a publisher’s catalogue. A good++ copy.  (27934)