•  Softbound exhibition catalogue, on good paper. Worn but intact.

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•  Shaw & Shoemaker 2175; Allibone 547.   Period-style quarter tan cloth and light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Last page institutionally pressure-stamped; title-page with traces of paper adhesions to inner margin. Uncut copy; pages lightly age-toned, with a bit of soiling and light to moderate spotting.  (25830)

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The Selectae dissertationes mexicanae was planned as a three-volume work but only this volume was published, the other two having been left in manuscript. It was printed by the widow Hogal, who continued to maintain the high standards of printing that she established with her husband; more than one bibliographer has compared the Hogal output favorably with that of the best European contemporaries. The title-page is in black and red with the text in double-column format in roman and italic, and the whole has decent margins. The volume was intended as a university level text for the study of certain theological concepts.

Provenance:   Marca de fuego on top and bottom edges of the closed volume of the “Convento Grande de Nuestra Señora de la Merced” in Mexico City.

Very uncommon. We trace only three copies in the U.S.

•  Medina, Mexico, 3763 Palau 78637; Beristain, I, 216–21. Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of button and loop ties. Marca de fuego as noted previously. Some worming into text on pages 361–94, costing letters but not impairing sense.

The volume is illustrated with43 lithographed plates done by Weber & Co., including a portrait of “A New Mexican Indian Woman,” a fish of the Gila River, a map of “the actions fought at San Pasqual in upper California between the Americans and Mexicans Dec. 6th & 7th 1846,” and a view of cliffside hieroglyphics, as well as a series of 14 botanical images.

•  Cowan & Cowan 195; Graff 1249 (other 1848 issues only); Haferkorn 38; Howes E145; Sabin 22536 (for House ed. only); Wagner-Camp, Plains & Rockies, 148:2; Zamorano 80, 33.   Recent black cloth, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Oversized, folding map lacking. Plates and pages with some light to moderate foxing; one leaf with tear from upper margin, extending into text without loss. Clean, strong.  (27364)

A preface to another volume in this series notes that “by means of some new literary connexions in america, we shall possess peculiar advantages in presenting to our Readers, accounts of the most interesting circumstances belonging to the United States”—and it was an American reader, in fact, who owned the present example.

Provenance: Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription of Joshua Gilpin, a Quaker from Philadelphia who established the first paper mill in Delaware, in 1787.

•  Disbound; marbled paper–covered boards much chipped and worn, with joints cracking and large portions of spine leather lost or worn down; sewing going, with some leaves separated. Some signatures uncut; page edges untrimmed and in some cases browned. Occasional edge chips. Volume now housed in a simple, acid-free phase box.

•  Venus: ESTC T73277; Ode: ESTC T41985 (first ed.). Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Second work lacking half-title and title-page. Inner margins of two leaves reinforced; last line of advertising page shaved. Title-page and last few leaves with moderate foxing; one page (not the title) stamped by a now-defunct institution, with some offsetting to opposing page.

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•  Written in a small notarial hand and slightly difficult to read. All edges tattered with some loss of paper and of an occasional word or end of word, not impairing sense.

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•  Palau 81595. Removed from a nonce volume. Small inked numeral in upper margin. Some light waterstaining; two leaves with outer edges untrimmed and ragged.

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Provenance? We can offer no names on this one, butit was probably a woman's copy, as the rear free endpaper has the colorful round labels from thirteen spools of thread pasted in!

•  Hymnal: Shaw & Shoemaker 31426; Arndt, The First Century of German Language Printing in the United States of America, 2032. Kurze Andachten: Shaw & Shoemaker 31686; Arndt, The First Century of German Language Printing in the United States of America, 2034.   Contemporary sheep over wooden boards, spine with raised bands and later spine labels; brass clasps present and working, but front cover off and volume abraded, especially in top spine compartment damaged where there is significant loss of leather. Spots of browning throughout as usual in German imprints of this period, not worse and indeed better than is often the case; indeed in its way a nice copy, save for that detached cover that basically halves the price!  (26967)

•  Written in a very clear hand, with the paper and wax seal below the king’s signature (wax desicated and paper loose, but present). Two blank leaves at end. Very good condition.

The title-page here states that this is the second, revised and enlarged edition, but there appear to have been at least three printings between the first edition of 1901 and the present example.

The author was an advocate of vegetarianism, abstinence from alcohol, and women physicians to treat women; she here provides encyclopedic information on an array of ailments and how to manage them, as well as detailed descriptions of pregnancy, birth, nursing (with the recommendation to maintain a vegetarian diet while doing so), and how to handle infants.

A total of35 full-page plates are present: 16 color-printed, and 19 in black and white, beginning with a photographic portrait of the author at the front of the volume and concluding, at the back of the volume, with three color plates depicting helpful plants for compounding home remedies. In addition to these plates, the text is extensively illustrated with in-text anatomical diagrams as well as depictions of exercise, types of bathing, massage, bandaging, surgery, etc. Ideals of feminine (as well as childish) beauty are represented in hairstyles and “reform clothing,” offering graceful styles that do not require body-deforming corsetry or footwear; a number of illustrations contrast the overly corseted, exaggeratedly feminine shape with the natural female physique, which is well represented in both photographic images and engravings. Each section has an illustrated sectional title-page in Art Nouveau style, printed on heavy colored paper.

Binding:  Publisher's blue-green cloth, front cover with an affixed chromolithographed illustration (signed “M. Seeger, Stuttgart”) of a lady nursing an elderly woman with inset vignette of the same lady and her infant (or possibly the elderly woman as a young one, with the baby who grew up to nurse her), spine with color-printed decorative title featuring flowers and a fountain in shades of pink, green, white, blue, and black with touches of gilt. All edges red.

•  Binding as above, joints and edges rubbed, lower outer corner of cover illustration creased. Joints holding surprisingly well for such a hefty volume. Front fly-leaf with nearly illegible pencilled German inscription dated 1935. One index leaf with tear from outer margin, extending into text without loss. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise very clean and crisp with colors bright in all illustrations.  (29582)

•  Sabin 24947; Wright, I, 965.  Publisher's speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; rubbed, spine label with small scuffs, some leaves pulling away from sewing. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Waterstaining (appropriately?) to inner margins of first few leaves, with lower inner margins of those leaves nicked; spotting and staining variously. (26375)

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The binding is full blue linen stamped in gold on the spine and front cover, with additional ornamentation to both covers in deep pink. Top edges are gilt, others deckle; one leaf is left unopened.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 49.   Binding as above; spine sunned and with thumbnail sized dark patch at head and foot. Some cracking along the top edges and spine of the slipcase, which is still sturdy; spine of case sunned, paper label a little soiled. Pages clean; no ownership markings or labels. A very good, clean copy.  (22313)

•  Palau 290780. Recent quarter red morocco over red cloth, spine gilt extra, red marbled endpapers, and top edge red. Clean, attractive interior.

•  Bitting 166–67; Cagle, A Matter of Taste, 691 (for fourth ed.). Contemporary mottled sheep, recently rebacked in complementary fashion, preserving the original gilt-stamped leather spine label; sides and edges worn, with abrasions. Title-page with stray small ink markings; half-title and title-page with outer edges darkened. A few leaves with spots of light staining; two lower corners torn away, and a number of others dog-eared. Pages mostly clean — this is overall an attractive copy.

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•  Sewn. Some edges ragged; worming to upper margins of last few leaves, touching two letters.

Binding:  Publisher's dark green cloth, front cover stamped in black with gilt-stamped cabin and family vignette (five wives visible); spine also stamped in black and gilt, with back cover stamped in blind.

•  Flake & Draper, Mormon Bibliography, 3472.   Binding slightly cocked, corners and spine extremities lightly rubbed; front hinge (inside) tender. Frontispiece and title-page lightly spotted; pages faintly age-toned with a few scattered spots, otherwise clean.  (29559)