Montes de Oca's plates are particularly detailed and moving when they show the saint in Japan being abused and tortured, but all are strong and striking.

Uncut.

•  Palau 363045.   Late 19th-century plain sheep binding. Uncut; lacking two plates and two with minor worming as noted above; all plates well impressed, as would be expected of a work that the artist himself saw through the press! A very good copy of a scarce and important work.  (25095)

Pagan's variant of the famous Estienne printer's device appears on the title-page. Text is printed in roman type with occasional use of italic and Hebrew and a few nice historiated initials here and there.

•  Early limp vellum, dustsoiled. Ex-library with rubber-stamp on bottom edge of closed volume; others on front pastedown and bookplate on same; stamp on rear pastedown; shadows of librarian's pencilling erased from title and verso.  (25091)

Provenance:  Flourishing old signatures of “J. Lowry” to pastedown and title-page.

This was long most commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin, but recently, on the basis of new scholarship, authorship has been ascribed to Richard Jackson, a London barrister and colonial agent with whom Franklin collaborated in other publications. Franklin and his son, William, certainly supplied many of the materials that formed the basis of the book, which was published during Franklin's first mission to England.

Provenance:  Large signature of “Jo. Kirkbride” dated “Septr 30th 1759" on front free endpaper.

Manuscript additions: Under this ownership signature, in a later, much smaller hand, are five lines of speculation as to the work's authorship; a date is corrected on p. 263. Between leaves B3 and B4, a leaf is bound in containing, on its two sides, a handwritten “List of Governors of Pennsylvania — continued”; this, with one addition to the printed list on p. 262, takes the chronology through John W. Geary, inaugurated in 1867.

•  Sabin 25512 (noting that the editor of the second edition (Philadelphia, 1812) “had no doubt as to [Franklin's] authorship” and supplied his name); Sparks, Franklin, III, 109 (affirming that the volume “was prepared under [Franklin's] direction, and doubtless from copious materials furnished by him”); ESTC T117618.   Recent quarter calf, old style, with raised bands accented with gilt beading on each band, a gilt center device in each spine compartment, and a green leather title label. Boards covered with a stone pattern marbled paper. Title-page with two old ink blots; text lightly and uniformly age-toned. Inscriptions/additions as noted.  (25085)

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The title-page states: “This book is one of 300 [copies] paid for by the parishioners of Beecroft and Cheltenham in the Diocese of Sydney, in memory of the Rev. Joseph Young, Rector of the Parish 1903-1926. He passed to his rest on the 21st January, 1945.”

Uncommon.  We trace only two copies in U.S. libraries.

•  Publisher's red cloth. “North Central New Georgia” in ballpoint on the front free endpaper. A very good copy.  (25022)

The first volume covers the years 1517 to 1561, and the second and third 1562 and 1563 (describing the state of the church and the dramatic events “depuis le massacre de Vassy”). As in most copies reported, the publication line on each title-page has Anvers inked out and “A Geneve” stamped above. The engraved title-page vignette found in each volume shows three armed men hammering an anvil, with the motto “Plus a me frapper on s'amuse, tant plus de marteaux on y use,” a quotation attributed to the Huguenot martyr Gaspard de Coligny.

•  Adams B916; Brunet, I, 843; Gardy, Bibliographie des oeuvres ... de Théodore de Bèze, 222; Index aureliensis 118.737; Ruble, Catalogue des livres rares et precieux composant le cabinet de feu M. le Baron de Ruble, 580.   17th-century mottled calf with covers framed and panelled in gilt double fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, corners bumped and leather expectably acid-pitted on sides; spines gilt-stamped with titles, volume numbers, and compartment decorations, gilt rubbed and dimmed. Vol I, neatly rebacked preserving original spine leather; vols. II and III with joints cracked, leather lost at spine extremities, spine compartment decorations matching vol. I but differently oriented! Front pastedown of vol. I abraded an vols. II and III lacking free endpapers; title-page of vol. I reinforced along lower portion of inner margin, slightly affecting inner margin of first contents page; one signature of vol. II separated/extruded. Pages gently age-toned with occasional light spotting or very faint old waterstaining. All edges gilt. A good 16th-century book in an interesting 17th-century binding.  (24919)

Binding:  Contemporary half vellum with embossed gilt and red paper on the boards, spine renewed with modern vellum. All edges red.

•  Bound as above; overall rubbing to binding, and age-toning to the vellum and to text. Ex-library with 19th-century circular stamp on title-page and bookplate on front pastedown; paper adherence from old date slip (?) on back free endpaper. An interesting, satisfying volume.  (25016)

Very rare: No copy traced via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, CCILA, Medina, or Palau.

•  Not in Medina, Veracruz.   Self-wrappers. Light foxing along fore-edge of the title-page. Else, very good.  (25097)

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Binding: Contemporary straight-grain black morocco, covers framed and panelled in gilt and blind, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-framed compartments, spine compartments blind-tooled in foliate designs, turn-ins with gilt double fillets. All edges gilt.

•  NCBEL, III, 264.   Bound as above, edges and extremities with minor rubbing, bottom spine compartment with small crack, leather (only) starting at front joint (joint itself strong). Front pastedown with early inked ownership inscription. Moderate foxing, more pronounced to first and last few leaves; two pages with offsetting from dried plant matter laid in. A lovely volume.  (24906)

Letters II–IV and V–VII have separate title-pages, dated 1773 and 1774 respectively.

•  ESTC T101252; Allibone 2344; Lowndes 2581–82. On Taylor, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online.   Recent quarter calf with marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges tooled in blind, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. Outer (closed) edges institutionally rubber-stamped; title-page and one other pressure-stamped in an old style. Very clean and with wide margins.  (25083)

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Provenance:  Signature of Philip Harwood on half-title.

•  ESTC T68112; Lowndes 780; Allibone 578.   Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and blind-tooled compartment decorations. Half-title with early inked ownership inscription. Half-title, title-page, and last page institutionally pressure-stamped, title-page with inked numeral in lower margin. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.  (25088)

Nogai (a.k.a. Nogay, Nogai Tatar) is a Turkic language of southwestern Russia.

We find only one copy of this in U.S. libraries.

•  Darlow and Moule 9444.   Late 19th- or early 20th-century black cloth in imitation of leather, entirely plain. All edges carmine. Occasional light age-toning. A very, very good copy.  (25026)

The portrait of the author was engraved by Pierre Lombard, while the added engraved title-page is unsigned. Each of the four books here (in two volumes) has a separate title-page; the main title-pages are printed in black and ruled in red. The text is in English, Greek, and Latin. A printed addenda slip is affixed to the final text page of vol. II, above the catalogue of books sold by Richard Royston. Leaf L6 in vol. II is a cancel (and separated).

Provenance:  Vol. I added title-page recto with inked ownership inscription dated 1781 (“T. Moore”); vol. II front fly-leaf with inked ownership inscription dated 1696 (“Guilel. Rayner”) and another (of “T. Moore's”) dated 1781.

•  ESTC R20123; Wing (rev.) T324; Allibone 2348. On Taylor, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online.   Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges tooled in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title and volume labels and gilt-stamped decorations between raised bands. Ownership inscriptions as above. First few leaves of vol. I (including regular and added title-pages) with tiny spots of worming; slightly larger sections of same to inner margins of some subsequent leaves; a number of pages in both volumes with scattered spots of worming, touching letters but not affecting sense. Light waterstaining to outer margins of some leaves. One leaf in vol. II separated. Significant and attractive.  (24889)

The gospels of Luke and John are in Sangir (a.k.a. Sangihe, a.k.a. Sangirese: Siau), an Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia and the Philippines, and despite the initial large printing, this publication of Luke and John is uncommon. We find only one copy reported in U.S. libraries.

•  Darlow & Moule 7976.   Publisher's black roan in imitation of straight-grain morocco, contents in gilt on front cover. Leather worn at edges and chipped from spine with some small loss; front joint (outside) starting and volume fragile. Internally very good. Now housed in a simple, acid-free phase box.  (25032)

Opposite the main title-page is an added one, reading: The Holy Gospels. Translated from the authorized English version into the Iroquois Indian dialect, under the supervision of the Montreal auxiliary to the British and Foreign Bible Society. Other than the added title-page, the entire work is in Iroquois.

•  Pilling, Iroquoian, 131–132; Darlow & Moule 5568; Newberry Library, Ayer Collection, Mohawk-2; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2838.   Publisher's black cloth, stamped and lettered in blind; this is very handsome but refuses to photograph well! Offset discoloration on the endpapers. An extremely nice, precious little–used copy.  (25004)

•  NSTC 00522718; Palau 26647; Jackson, Guide to the Literature of Botany, 368.   Publisher's blue cloth, covers framed in black-stamped designs, front cover with central gilt-stamped alligator vignette; binding slightly shaken, spine sunned, corners and spine extremities rubbed, sewing just starting to loosen. Two leaves with outer margins lightly waterstained; map edges lightly foxed. A nice clean copy.  (24406)

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription of Abraham Voorhees, dated 1800; last page with undated presentation inscription to Else Vorhees from her brother.

•  ESTC W11724; Evans 30898.   Contemporary mottled sheep, spine roughly reinforced in the early 19th-century “homespun style” with sheep, binding and spine reinforcement rubbed, corners and portion of back outer edge rodent-gnawed. Frontispiece portrait and back free endpaper lacking. Pages age-toned, with scattered spotting; lower outer corners also rodent gnawed (rather neatly). One leaf with small hole, affecting a few letters without loss of sense; ownership notes as above.  (24978)

Offered here is an early printing of the version for the youngest students. The title-page and calendar are printed in red and black, and a few headlines in the early section are also in red.

Uncommon.  OCLC locates only this now deaccessioned copy in the U.S., and one copy in Europe. Index Aureliensis fails to list this edition at all.

•  Not in Index Aurel.; not in Adams.   Recent ebony-brown calf old style: Round spine with raised bands, accented in gilt and with blind-tooled devices in compartments; single blind rules extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils, and covers framed in blind double fillets. Author's name and date of printing in gilt on spine. Early underscoring and some minimal marginalia in red ink in a 16th-century hand; ownership note of same era on title-page. Some age-spotting and other light discoloration, not serious. For an early children's book, a very, very nice copy.  (24855)

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•  ESTC R200633; Wing (rev. ed.) G603.   Recent marbled paper wrappers. Pages very slightly age-toned with one early inked marginal annotation, else clean and crisp.  (25024)

The Scottish-born Buchanan was a historian and poet who served as tutor to James VI; Allibone calls him “one of the most famous scholars whom the world has ever seen.”

•  Willems 292; Graesse 562; Brunet, I, 1367; Allibone 274.   Recent calf, framed and tooled in blind, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and raised bands edged in blind with tooling extending onto covers. Light touches of waterstaining to some leaves. A handsome little book.  (24909)

No copy traced via OCLC.

•  Not in Banks. Not in Evans.   Original printed cloth–covered stiff wrappers. Fine.  (14756)

The work was first printed in English in 1657, as Les provinciales: Or the Mysterie of Jesvitisme. The present edition is illustrated with an oversized, folding plate depicting prominent Jesuits.  The second section (the “Additionals”) has a separate title-page.

Our caption is the first title's epigraph.

•  ESTC R5437; Wing (rev. ed.) P641 & 642; Lowndes 1208; PMM 140 (on the first edition).   Period-style mottled calf, covers framed and panelled in gilt rules with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Frontispiece (Moses delivering the law), a few preliminary leaves, and final advertising leaves lacking; text complete despite skip in pagination and fold-out plate present. Title-page with early inked numerals and institutional rubber-stamp. Light waterstaining to outer and lower page portions; otherwise, the odd spot only.  (24874)

Osiander adds to the polemical debate building on the question of baptism and the Anabaptists. The work is printed in gothic type, of course, and is densely printed on the page. One passage has elicited a marginal, Latin reply by an early reader.

Not common.  NUC Pre-1956 and OCLC locate the same two copies in the U.S., one of which is this now deaccessioned copy; and VG16 locates only six copies in Europe.

•  VD16 O1279.   Recent boards covered with a leaf from a printed gradual, with music and printed in black and red. Red leather spine label. Clean complete copy.  (24857)

Here Frémont presents to the U.S. Senate his formal report on his third expedition to the West. The map referred to in the title wasissued separately under title “Map of Oregon and Upper California. . . 1848" and is not present; hence the affordable price here.

The original edition, not a reprint.  A government publication: [U.S.] 30th Cong., 2d sess. House. Misc. [doc.] 5.

•  Sabin 25837; Howes F366; Wagner-Camp-Becker, Plains and Rockies, 150:2.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards with leather label on front cover. Occasional light foxing.  (24883)

Uncommon: ESTC, OCLC, Wing, and NUC Pre-1956 find only six U.S. holdings, one of which has been deaccessioned.

•  Wing (rev. ed.) M775; McAlpin, II, 361; ESTC R211892 & R31210. On Marshall, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online.   Recent marbled paper wrappers. Title-page institutionally pressure-stamped, with outer and upper margins darkened by offsetting from sometime binding; first few leaves with corners bumped. Based on the signatures, either a half-title or a license leaf is lacking, but this collation matches that reported by ESTC.  (25019)

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Lightfoot (1602–75) was a noted Hebraist and Biblical scholar; Lowndes says of his works that “the writings of Dr. Lightfoot are an invaluable treasure to the biblical student.”

•  ESTC R21614; Wing (2nd ed.) L2052; Lowndes 1359.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped title and publication labels. Title-page institutionally rubber-stamped. Pp. 145–48 (the end of the “Christian History...XXXIIII” section) bound in between pp. 152 and 153, with annotations in an early inked hand noting the error. Pages trimmed closely, taking part of title-page border and in a few instances affecting the catchwords or final lines of text. Waterstaining, mostly to lower outer portions.  (24853)