Provenance: The front free endpaper bears a neatly inked ownership inscription dated 1860 (J.C.W. Kempe) and an additional inked “sold to” inscription dated 1871 (Aden Mc Bowman); Bowman also signed another blank, and the presentation leaf is made out to Kempe as “P.G.J.C.W. Kempe.”

Binding:  Publisher's deep blue/black diced sheep in imitation of morocco, covers with gilt-stamped vignette of Friendship, Love, and Truth personified within an architectural frame; spine gilt extra with column motif. All edges gilt.

•  BAL 6877; Faxon 609.   Binding as above, joints and extremities rubbed, spine gilt slightly dimmed. Inscriptions and presentation leaf as above. Poetry clippings, fabric swatch, and lock of hair laid in. Scattered staining, generally light, throughout; chromo very bright and nice.  (27041)

On the bottom half is a signed receipt, in Spanish, dated Granada 8 May 1501, wherein Germán de Paris and Jacques acknowledge receiving the above mentioned payment.

•  The usual slash of cancellation (faintly visible above), indicating that this has been entered into the account books. Remnant of stiff paper at top of verso indicating it was once mounted in an album.

•  Original illustrated wrappers. Ink markings on front cover.

Binding: Contemporary calf over heavy boards, panelled and framed in blind with floral, geometric, and armorial blind-tooling within panels; a pencilled note on the front free endpaper says, “Richardson binding.” There once were clasps, now lost.

Provenance:  Title-page with small inked inscription, dated 1836, of Charles Nice Davies (1794–1842), a Welsh linguist, librarian at the Congregational Library, and divinity tutor at Brecon College.

•  STC (2nd ed.) 14600.5; ESTC S112182.   Bound as above, rebacked preserving original spine; leather cracked, edges and extremities rubbed, clasps now lost, hinges (inside) reinforced some time ago. Institutionally rubber-stamped on lower closed page edges, front pastedown, and first contents page. Title-page provided in early pen and ink facsimile, with inscription as above; last text page with commentary on the book's age, dated 1724 and 1913. Early inked underlining and marks of emphasis throughout; occasional marginalia, two pages dealing with women and the Church having extensive annotations.  Pp. 675/76 lacking. One leaf with tear from upper margin extending into three lines of text, without loss; one leaf with large chip from lower margin, not affecting text. Scattered spots of staining only — a clean, strong volume.  (24511)

Heavily illustrated; hammer prices pencilled in.

•  Original printed boards, scuffed and stained yet volume sound and pleasant enough with interior clean. As noted, most hammer prices pencilled in.  (26156)

•  Schweiger, II, 513; this ed. not in Brunet. Contemporary half vellum over paste paper covers, spine with early inked title; sides and edges lightly scuffed, spine with vellum darkened and chipped. Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription dated 1775, lined through; front free endpaper with 19th-century (?) inked inscription; title-page with early inked inscription reading “Carolus Comes a Wartensleben.” Back free endpaper excised. Title-page torn along inner margin and with short tear from outer edge, just touching one letter. One leaf with small ink blots and several leaves with small nicks to outer edges; scattered light foxing. A few small early inked annotations.

Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate “De la bibliotheque de F. Freudenreich.”

•  ESTC T48434; Alston, III, 308; Goldsmiths’-Kress 11089; Sabin 32702. Contemporary speckled calf, neatly rebacked preserving original gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels, spines with gilt-stamped thistle decorations; edges and corners rubbed, sides showing small scrapes and discolorations. Residue on pastedowns from sometime removal of bookplates. Pages age-toned, with occasional small spots, and offsetting from binding to in margins of first and last few leaves. All edges speckled.

•  This ed. not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages age-toned, else clean. (16762)

opens with an eye-catching, precisely layered, cut-away plate of “the dissected human body,”

35 other plates, many color-printed,

Binding:  Publisher's brown morocco, covers framed in blind, front cover with gilt-stamped title, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorations, turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt.

•  Not in Garrison & Morton.   Binding as above, front cover gilt rubbed, front joint starting from foot (not surprising given the substantial weight of this volume), minor rubbing to joints and extremities, slightly uneven toning to leather. Plate booklet with front wrapper chipped, spine paper chipped at foot; back pastedown pocket with short tear starting from lower free edge; frontispiece with small area of light staining in lower margin, not touching facsimile signature (it was always tricky getting this in and out of the pocket) Occasional faint smudges; pages and plates almost entirely clean. A remarkable production in attractive condition.  (28570)

•  This ed. not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Very faint foxing. (16784)

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•  Publisher's oxblood cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title. Edges and extremities lightly worn, spine with area of discoloration. Ex–social club library: call number on endpapers, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Pages clean.  (27184)

This is the first edition edited by W.F. Rocheleau and possibly the U.S. first (a Philadelphia printing appeared in the same year), as well as the earliest edition listed by Bitting; the work was originally printed in London in 1874. At the back of this edition is “A Sequel to Aunt Martha's Corner Cupboard,” which offers similar essays on sponge, cork, glass, chocolate, cloves, pepper, feathers, and flax — also an anecdote of a “noble girl” who swore never to wear ornamental feathers again, having come to understand the devastation the fashion wrought among bird populations.

Binding:  Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with black-stamped flowering plant design, spine with gilt-stamped title.

•  Bitting 260; Von Hünersdorff & Hasenkamp, Coffee, 798.   Binding as above, corners lightly rubbed and spine extremities somewhat moreso, front cover with small area of light discoloration near head of spine, spine slightly darkened. Front free endpaper with faint pencilled ownership inscription. Two pages with minor offsetting from now-absent laid-in item; a few small scattered smudges. Last leaf (advertising) torn partway along inner margin. A solid, clean, pleasant little volume.  (28538)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of notable book collector Edward Hubert Litchfield.

•  Howes K217.   Publisher's quarter navy cloth and floral-printed white, red, and blue cloth, spine with printed paper label; spine extremities very slightly rubbed. Front pastedown with bookplate as above. Edges uncut. Map clean.  (29709)

•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Publisher's printed paper wrappers, slightly age-toned, back upper outer corner minutely chipped. A clean, fresh copy — a fine one.  (26065)