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WOMEN
Love & Friendship
Artfully Preserved 
Conradt,
Michael. Manuscript in German, Latin, French,
& Italian on paper. “Fautoribus ac amicis consecrat Mich. Conradt.”
No place [Germany or Austria]: 1769–72, & later. Oblong 8vo (12 cm,
4.75"). [120] ff. (48 filled, i.e., 96 pp.); illus.
Click the images for enlargements. 
engraved
miniature portraits of ladies with accompanying verses
in fraktur (alphabetically arranged from Anna to Therese), three reverse silhouettes
of white paper cutouts mounted on black paper, a calendar wheel, and nine brightly
hand-colored printed pages, all of which seem to have been taken from the same
rebus book.
Evocative and intriguing. (27304)
“I am anxious you should do a writing portrait . . . ” Cook, Eliza. A.L.s. (“Eliza”) to “My dear Sec.” London: 6 June 1860. 12mo (7.25" x. 4.5"). 1 p.
Click the image for an enlargement. a Chartist poet, author, and proponent of political and sexual freedom for women. She writes, “I am again here for a few days . . . and want to know if you can receive me on Friday about eleven. I am anxious you should do a writing portrait to see which will afford you most satisfaction. I will bring the proofs of the sonnet with me.”
Provenance: Residue of the stock of Seven Gables Bookshop (1930–79), via the son of Michael Papantonio (2009).
• Very good condition. Tipped onto a slightly larger sheet. With the integral blank. (25726)
Presentation Copy: Corson's Textbook of Economic Cookery Corson, Juliet. Cooking school text book; and housekeeper's guide to cookery and kitchen management. New York: Orange Judd, 1879. 12mo. 240 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. Binding: This is in a simply elegant binding of publisher's brown cloth, front cover and spine each with decorative gilt-stamped title; front cover with author's facsimile signature in gilt, and publishing information.
Presentation copy: Front fly-leaf inscribed in pencil, “Compliments of Juliet Corson Apr. 1880.” The signature matches the facsimile signature on the front cover.
• Not in Bitting; not in Brown, Culinary Americana; not in Cagle & Stafford. Extremities mildly rubbed (head of spine moreso), small spots of very faint discoloration to sides. Fly-leaf with inscription as above. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. It's quite fair to call this “lovely.” (28479)
A
Woman DeadYet
“Living” Cox, Samuel Hanson. The dead are the living. A sermon preached on Lord's day afternoon, October 1, 1843, on occasion of the funeral of Mrs. Mary L., the wife of the Rev. Ward Stafford, A.M.[,] of this city. New-York: John F. Trow & Co., Printers, 1843. 8vo. 30 pp., [1 (blank)] f.
• Good. Ex-historical society copy (rubber-stamps, "New Jersey Historical Society," on front cover and title-page). Pencil marks to front cover. Some chipping to front cover and first page. (290)
San
Francisco Cookery in
aHigh-Flying
Era Craig, John C., ed. The recipe
book of 
Lillie
Hitchcock Coit. Introduction by Carol Hart Field. Berkeley,
CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1998.
8vo. [2 (blank)], frontis., 5–65, [5 (3 blank)] pp. 
The recipes collected by Mrs. Coit reflect the “cosmopolitan character of San Francisco” during the 1870's and 1880's and show “the influence of the French, Spanish, Mexican, and English traditions in the cookery of the period.”
Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and one additional illustration.
• Paperback. Fine. (5461)
Full Set of Her Works, IncludingVillancicos in Nahuatl & an African Language Cruz, Juana Inés de la, Sister. Poemas de la unica poetisa americana, musa dezima, Soror Juana Ines de la Cruz ... Tercera edicion, corregida, y añadida por su authora. [with others, as below]. Barcelona: por Joeph Llopis, 1691. 4to (21 cm; 8.25"). [8] ff., 426 pp., [5] ff. [with the same author's] Segundo tomo de las obras de Soror Juana Ines de la Cruz. Madrid: Impr. de Angel Pasqual Rubio, 1725. 4to (20 cm; 8"). [4] ff., 438 pp., [3] ff. [with the same author's] Fama, y obras posthumas del fenix de Mexico, dezima musa, poetisa americana. Madrid: Impr. de Angel Pasqual Rubio, 1725. 4to (20 cm; 8"). [10] ff., 352 pp., [2] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. 
For a sense of her range of subjects, click to enlarge our images. She invented a decasyllabic meter and cultivated dramatic poetry: Among her works are sonnets, redondillas, décimas, villancicos, and plays, as well as prose works, including the famous Carta athenagorica in which she criticizes the great Luso-Brazilian preacher and defender of the Brazilian Indians, Antônio Vieira. The contents here are mostly Spanish-language, but some portions are in Latin — and a few, as is seldom recognized, are in the black language of “Guinea” (e.g., Villancico VIII of the “Villancicos que se cantaron en la Sta. Iglesia Metropolitana de Mexico en honor de Maria Santissima Madre de Dios . . . y se imprimieron año de 1679") or in Nahuatl (e.g., Villancico V of the “Villancicos que se cantaron en la Santa Iglesia Metropolitana de Mexico, en honor de Maria Santissima Madre de Dios . . . año de 1687, en que se imprimieron”).
In the offering here, vol. I was printed during the great poet's lifetime, and is one of the last to hold that distinction. 
With slight faults only, this is a handsome set of this major writer's works. (26753)
Sor
Juana &
Her Arch Enemy Cruz,
Juana Inés de la, Sister.Manuscript
Document Signed. In Spanish, on paper. Mexico City, 21 November
1692. Folio (31.3cm; 12.25"), 1 p. (in a larger document extending to 4 pp.)
Able to bully the most gifted member of his religious community only following the return to Spain of her last viceregal patron and protector, the Marquis de la Laguna, Aguiar y Seijas applied increasing pressure to Sor Juana and the prioress of her Hieronymite convent. It took him from 1688 until 1693 to put “la decima Musa” “in her place.”
Documents signed by the polymath Sor Juana are very rare and highly sought
after; this one desirably shows the trust her Sisters placed in her. 
The
pairing of her signature with her arch enemy's is chilling and visually impactful.
• In very good condition.
A Triumph of 19th-Century MEXICAN Literature,TYPOGRAPHY, ILLUSTRATION,
& BINDING
Cumplido,
Ignacio, ed. Presente amistoso
dedicado a las senoritas Mexicanas. [Mexico]: Ignacio Cumplido, [1850]. 8vo
(26.5 cm, 10.45"). Col. t.-p., iv, 435, [1] pp.; 20 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. 
Binding:
Contemporary deep reddish-brown sheep in imitation of morocco, exuberantly
flourished in gilt both as to both covers and the spine; front cover gilt
extra with arabesque and floral designs surrounding a vignette of a girl bearing
a basket of flowers on her head, spine with gilt-stamped title and similar
motifs, back cover with blind-tooled foliate decorations and gilt-stamped
arabesque motifs. All edges gilt. 
This
binding is illustrated as “lamina XXVIII” in Manuel Romero de
Terreros' Encuadernaciones artisticas mexicanas, siglos XVI al XIX.
• Palau 66293; Sabin 65337 (for 1847 & 1852 eds.).
Binding as above, mild rubbing overall, especially to spine; front joint just
starting from head. Hinges (inside) cracked across paper, with text block
starting to pull away. Pages gently age-toned, with some light foxing generally
to or around plates and a few corners crumpled. One plate with ragged outer
edge, not touching image. Silk bookmarker laid in; many guard leaves still
present. More solid than description might imply, and an all-around
remarkable, beautiful volume. (29091)
Brave Enough to Tell? Deland, Margaret. The hands of Esau. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1914. 8vo. 85, [1] pp.; 2 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's green cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in white, red, and gilt; spine with gilt-stamped title.
• Binding as above; dust jacket lacking, minor rubbing to extremities, back cover with crease in cloth (not board). Front pastedown with private collector's bookplate dated [19]15. A nice copy! (28612)
Illustrated Explorations of theCountryside Dibdin, Charles. Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland, in a series of letters, addressed to a large number of intelligent and respectable friends. London: G. Goulding & John Walker (pr. by T. Woodfall), [1801–02]. 4to (28.9 cm, 11.4"). 2 vols. I: 404 pp.; 27 plts. II: [2], 406, [2] pp.; 33 plts., 1 fold. map, 1 fold. chart.
Click the images for enlargements. 
illustrated
with 60 copper-engraved and aquatint plates, one folding map, and one folding
chart. The copper engravings are done in two different
styles; one set consists of large renditions of scenery, the other of smaller
depictions of people and everyday life — the former done from Dibdin's
own paintings, and the latter fromdrawings
by his daughter Anne.
• Anderson, Book of British Topography, 373; Lowndes 638;
NSTC D1044. Not in Abbey, Life in England; not in Ray, The Illustrator
& the Book in England. On Dibdin, see: Oxford Dictionary of National
Biography online. Recent quarter caramel morocco and ochre cloth.
Light to moderate foxing; mild offsetting around plates; four pages with patch
of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item. Plates depicting people all with
small area of waterstaining to upper inner portions, just touching corner
of platemark without affecting images; scenic plates unaffected. All edges
marbled. A
solid, handsome, satisfying set. (26939)
Who
Wrote theBook
of Mormon?
Dickinson, Ellen E. New light on Mormonism. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885. 8vo. [8], [11]–272, 16 pp.
Beyond matters of authorship, there is quite a lot of general Mormon history here, including a good deal on polygamy; the perspective is not friendly.
Provenance: From the libraries of the Rev. C. C. Bitting and Crozer Theological Seminary.
• Flake & Draper 2832. Publisher's green cloth, spine chipped at head and foot. Title-page separated from binding, but present; shallow chipping along edges. Short closed tears to top edge of pp. 29–32 and 103–106 and outer edge of one page chipped; several page corners chipped/creased. Ex-library with bookplate, card and pocket, pressure-stamp on title-page, inked numeral, penciled notation, two rubber-stamps. A few penciled check-marks. (24434)
Pleasingly Bound & IllustratedDickinson, Emily. Letters of Emily Dickinson. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, [1931]. 8vo (22.4 cm, 8.75"). xxxi, [1] pp. [1] f., 457, [1 (blank)] pp.; 19 plts (incl. frontis.). 
• BAL 4685. Handsome green publisher’s cloth; front cover gilt-stamped with title at top and Indian Pipes in lower right corner: corners rubbed with a little loss of cloth. Some very shallow chipping on corners, and traces of soiling on edges and endpapers. An attractive book.
Les Cent Nouvelles nouvelles All in
English & Illustrated Douglas, Robert B., trans. One hundred merrie and delightsome stories right pleasaunte to relate in all goodly companie by way of joyance and jollity. Paris: Charles Carrington, [ca. 1930]. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.1"). 2 vols. I: xxx, [2], 256 pp.; 24 plts. II: [2], [257]–531, [3]pp.; 27 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. medieval
ladies in and out of their garb were originally published
separately. The present example is numbered copy 237 of 1250 printed.
• Straight, Carrington, 186. Publisher's marble-printed, colored cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title; light wear to corners and spine extremities, spines slightly darkened, head of vol. I with short tear. Top edges gilt. One plate with portion of outer margin torn away, just touching frame of image without affecting image itself. Pages and plates clean. (29146)
“WOMEN'S THEATER” — San Francisco 1923 Dramatic-Musical Society of San Francisco. [drop-title] The Dramatic-Musical Society of San Francisco. Seventh performance of the 1922–1923 season. Friday, April 20, 1923 at 2:30 o'clock. San Francisco: Dramatic Musical Society, 1923. 8vo. [1] f. (verso blank).
• Fine. (19234)
Daughter Jean is theInteresting
One The Duke of Gordon's daughters. To which is added, The challenge. Stirling: W. Macnie, [1820-1830]. 12mo. 8 pp. 
• NSTC 2G14282. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages slightly age-toned, with some minor offsetting to first and last leaves, else clean. (16823)
New
Homes, New
Hearts
Duncan, Norman. The suitable child. New York:
Fleming H. Revell Co., 1909. 4to. Frontis., 96 pp.; 4 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's sage green paper–covered sides with dark green cloth shelfback, front cover with decorative title and train vignette both stamped in gilt and dark green, spine with gilt-stamped title. Top edge gilt, outer edge deckle.
• Binding as above; edges, joints, and extremities rubbed, front cover mottled. Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription. Pages and plates clean. (29126)
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