WOMEN 
With
the Frontispiece — “The
Picture of Philadelphia”
Mease, James. The picture of Philadelphia,
giving an account of its origin, increase, and improvements in arts, science,
manufactures, commerce and revenue.... Philadelphia: H. & T. Kite, 1811.
8vo. Frontis., xii, 372 (of 376) pp.
The frontispiece is a view downstream along the Delaware River, of Philadelphia,
taken from Kensington. It was drawn by Thomas Birch and engraved by S.
Seymour. 
For those who collect important printers, it
is notable that this was printed by Jane Aitken for the Kites.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 23363; Howes M471. On Mease, see: Dictionary of American Biography, XIII, 486–87. Contemporary sheep with black leather spine label; round spine, ruled in gilt approximating spine compartments; rear joint rubbed and just starting. Usual age-toning. Lacking the final four pages of subscribers, yet textually complete and bearing the important folding frontispiece.
Presentation
Copy
Fit
for a QueenMelgarejo
y Salafranca, José, Conde del Valle de San Juan.
Consideraciones sobre la iglesia en sus relaciones con la sociedad... Obra dedicada
a S.M. el Rey. Madrid: Zacarias Soler, 1851. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). [6], 316, [2] pp.;
1 plt.
• First edition of this uncommon defense of the Church and its involvement
with contemporary politics. The work is preceded by a portrait of the Count,
here depicted in his study, with cigarette in hand.
Binding:
Signed binding (with Bilbao’s ticket on front pastedown) of oxblood
morocco, front and back covers framed in a wide gilt roll surrounding gilt-stamped
coat of arms of Francesco de Assisi de Bourbon, Duc de Cadiz (consort to Isabella
II of Spain); spine with four raised bands, compartments gilt extra, with
author, title, and date gilt-stamped. Board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls;
all page edges gilt; blue moiré endpapers.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Maria Christina, Queen of Spain.
• Palau 350495. Binding as above, showing light wear, spine slightly
faded; pastedowns with some offsetting, endpapers with spots of foxing. 
Rare
and attractive.
Mere Angélique &
Her Works Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de
Port-Royal, et à la vie de la Reverende Mere Marie Angelique de Sainte Magdeleine Arnauld reformatrice de ce monastere. Utrecht: Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1742. 12mo. 3 vols. I: [2] ff., xx, 611, [1] pp. II: [2] ff., 621, [1] pp. III: [2] ff., 618 pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Contemporary mottled calf, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels, spine compartments with gilt-stamped floral decorations; covers mildly acid-pitted and considerably abraded, with leather lost at head of spine, corners, and joints. Spines with paper shelving labels or remnants thereof; front pastedowns each with bookplate. All edges marbled. Faint pencilled marginalia and bracketing; intermittent offsetting. (22804)
Introducing the
Della Cruscans to America
A MS. Verse “Appreciation” on the Rear Blanks Merry, Robert, et al. The British album. Boston: Belknap &
Hall, 1793. 12mo. [8], 324, [2] pp.; 2 plts.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Written on the rear two fly-leaves is a manuscript poem in Della Crusca's honor, “Composed by Mrs. A. M. Vining” and dated July 17th 1800.
• ESTC W30060; Evans 25807. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; leather rubbed overall, binding sturdy. Front free endpaper with inked gift inscription (of Mary Goldsborough) dated 1812; front fly-leaf and title-page with early inked ownership inscriptions (Miller; one, Eliza Miller). Moderate foxing. One leaf with tear from outer margin extending into text. (22557)
TheFemale School at Fuh-Chau Methodist almanac, for the year ... 1852 ... comprising also a summary view of Methodism throughout the world ... New York: Lane & Scott (Joseph Longking, Pr.), [1851]. 12mo. 60 pp., plus wrapper. 
• Original front wrapper present, but not rear one. Some chipping and definite wear, especially along spine. Old ink notations. A good copy. (9383)
“Mites of Help”Mite Society. Gems a collection of reliable recipes. Selected with care from the treasures of culinary experts. Jamaica, NY: Charles Welling, 1883. 8vo (12.2 cm, 4.75"). Frontis., 120 pp.; illus.
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Literature from the
Granite State in Gift Book Form Moore, Frederick A., ed. Gems for you; from New Hampshire authors. Manchester, NH: William H. Fisk, 1850. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). Illum. frontis., add. col. t.-p., 312 pp.
the flower of New Hampshire's literati and New Hampshire's only, with Sarah Josepha Hale, Mary Baker Eddy, Horace Greely, Mary Abigail Dodge, and many others represented. This collection marks the first publication of James T. Fields's “Last Wishes of a Child” and “The New Hampshire Girls,” as well as of Joseph C. Neal's “The Green Mountain Maid.”
Click either image for enlargement. Additional illuminated and color-printed title-pages open the volume; each page of text is printed inside a decorative border.
Signed binding: Signed by Bradley, with that company’s pressure-stamp on the front free endpaper: Brown cloth, covers gilt-stamped with strapwork and floral and lyre decorations surrounding a gilt-stamped vignette of cherubim, spine gilt extra. All edges gilt.
• BAL 5932; Sabin 50374; Faxon 286. Binding as above, corners and spine extremities rubbed, front joint with small nick in cloth, back joint with tiny area of insect damage (not affecting interior), binding overall clean and bright. Front free endpaper with early pencilled gift inscription. Illuminated frontispiece (only) foxed, pages otherwise clean. A lovely thing, a delight. (24359)
Printed
by
Lydia Bailey
— Hannah's Youthful
Feminism?
[More, Hannah]. The search
after happiness: A pastoral drama. To which is added, Joseph made known to his
brethren: a sacred drama. Philadelphia: Pr. [by Lydia R. Bailey] for Johnson
and Warner, 1811. 12mo. Frontis., 72 pp.
The Search is in verse and Joseph in prose. The frontispiece
is an engraving by B. Tanner after Stothard's original. 
Tanner was one of America's premier early
engravers upon steel and copper. A student of Peter Maverick's,
he settled in Philadelphia in 1805 and continued in the Quaker City until
1845. In addition to engravings for book illustration, he produced line
and stipple portraits, scenes, and views. Here his offering is printed
on a lighter weight stock than the rest of the volume and, as in all copies
we have seen, is browned.
• Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books, 442; Shaw & Shoemaker 23434. On Tanner, see: Stauffer, American Engravers upon Copper and Steel, I: 243–45. Beyond the scope of Welch. Publisher's salmon paper over paste boards. Clean with no tears. Frontispiece browned as noted, with two lighter spots. A very good copy.
Defending Marie de Médici Morgues, Matthieu de. Diverses pieces pour la defence de la reyne mere du roy tres-Chrestien Louis XIII ... [Paris?], 1643. 8vo (16.8 cm, 6.6"). Vol. I only (of 2). ã8é8A–Z8Aa–Ee8 (-Ee8 [final blank]); [26], 446 [i.e., 456] pp. 
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Uncommon. Searches of OCLC, RLIN, and NUC Pre-1956 find only three U.S. holdings of this edition.
• Contemporary vellum, spine with early inked title; vellum darkened, front cover with faded early inked inscription. Back free endpaper and final blank leaf lacking; front free endpaper with early inked inscription, title-page with contemporary inked ownership inscription in lower margin. Some light foxing; one early inked marginal annotation. Vol. I only; the set rare enough to make offering the “odd” volume reasonable!
20 CHROMOSMurray, Hannah Lindley & Mary. The
toilet. Washington, DC: William Ballantine [Ballantyne], 1867. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [4] pp.; 20 col. plts.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Provenance: Inscription to Ellie Bond Robinson (from her cousin Elizabeth); elegant small booklabel, “Gardner.”
• Publisher’s textured cloth, framed in blind, front cover with gilt-stamped title; covers and corners showing very slight traces of wear. Front free endpaper with small booklabel and with inked gift inscription dated 1887. One flap (“Circumspection”) lacking, with all other flaps present and working. An attractive copy of an uncommon item.
“Rank Confusion” — That’s a Joke![Nares, Edward]. Heraldic anomalies; or, rank confusion in our orders of precedence, With disquisitions, moral, philosophical, and historical, on all the existing orders of society. By It Matters Not Who. London: G. and W.B. Whittaker (pr. by R. Gilbert), 1823. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). 2 vols. I: xxii, [2], 334, [2 (1 blank)] pp. II: [4], 372 pp.
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Though
Nares is quite capable of picking nits with a level of scrupulousness to
match that of the most pedantic of scholars, he is also prone to flights
of fancy such as pondering—after noting that a married woman’s moveable goods are unquestionably the property of her husband— “whether
the female tongue is to be reckoned among the moveables . .
. I believe it is pretty generally held to continue ‘in potestate Mulieris,’ even after marriage, and I know nothing to prevent it” (p.
148). This is followed up with references to Ovid, the Wife of Bath, and
the much-storied Flitch of Bacon!
• Contemporary half calf with marbled paper sides, spines with gilt-stamped helm decorations and gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels (the volume labels recently supplied, in sympathetic style). Board edges showing light to moderate wear, with leather cracking at joints and crackled over the spines generally. Top edges gilt. Front pastedowns with bookplates now partially torn away; title-page of vol. II with an early inked ownership inscription in the upper margin. Delightful reading, as well as an overall attractive set.
Marriage Law from aNoted
Mysogynist . . . Nevizzano, Giovanni. Sylvae nuptialis libri sex: In quibus ex dictis moder. materia matrimonii, dotium, filiationis, adulterii, originis, successionis & monitorialium plenissimè discutitur: vnà cum remediis ad sedandum factiones Guelphorum & Giebelinorum. Item modus iudicandi & exequendi iussa principum. Ad haec, de authoritatibus
doctorum, priuilegiisque miserabilium personarum. Quae omnia ex quaestione, an nubendum sit, vel non, desumpta sunt. [Geneva?]: Ioannes Lertotius, 1592. 8vo. [32], 601, [5], pp.
Click the interior image for enlargement. • Not in Adams. Contemporary vellum with yapp edges and remnants of ties, spine with inked title: spots of staining, light soiling, and (on spine) traces of a paper label. Lightly age-toned with occasional light soiling. Early inked notations on front pastedown and title-page. Inked call number on title-page. (11869)
Newspaper
Recipes — TWO
Can DineNorth American. Thoroughly tested cooking recipes for cutting table expenses one-half. Philadelphia: The North American, [ca. 1910]. 16mo. 32 pp.
• Very uncommon pamphlet. Recipes from the Sunday North American newspaper, which employed Marion Harland as its expert on domestic life. One section is by Mrs. Anna B. Scott of Philadelphia, “one of the leading cooking teachers and domestic economists in the East.”
• Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Stapled in publisher's printed paper wrappers, with sewn hanging loop; wrappers faintly soiled, with light wear over spine and edges. Pages age-toned. A scarce item. (13769)
“CLOUD-LANDS” Oakley, Amy. Cloud-lands of France. New York: Century Co., 1927. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 497, [1] pp.; illus. 
• Publisher's cloth, covers and spine gilt-stamped; corners and extremities very slightly rubbed, dust-jacket lacking, otherwise a beautiful copy. (18414)
BRITTANY Oakley, Amy. Enchanted Brittany. New York: Century Co., 1930. 8vo. Frontis., xix, [1], 437, [1] pp.; illus. 
• Publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; spine slightly sunned, dust-jacket lacking. (18410)
A Hard-Laboring Poet of
Cumberland County Oliver, Isabella. Poems, on various subjects. Carlisle: A. Loudon, 1805. 12mo. 5, [1], [vi]–ix, [11]–220 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. First edition and an early Carlisle imprint; the first poetic publication in Cumberland County.
Provenance: “Presented to Alfred Creigh by His Mother, October 21st 1827,” on verso of front free endpaper: Alfred's modestly calligraphic ownership note inside front cover and his plain note at top of contents page; signature of Eleanor Jane Creigh at top of title-page.
• Sabin 57205; Shaw & Shoemaker 9346; Wegelin, American Poetry, 1072. Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; rubbed, front joint starting, spine and joints with small wormholes. Inscriptions as noted. Margins variously waterstained, never horribly; pages age-toned with occasional spotting. One leaf with tear from lower margin extending into text, partially repaired some time ago; one leaf with lower outer corner torn away, a few lost words replaced in manuscript. Occasional manuscript corrections. (23146)
A
Woman &
Her WoesOriguela, Elvira de, & others. Manuscript documents. On paper, in Spanish. Los Reyes [i.e., Lima], Peru, and Seville, Spain, 23 April 1620 – 26 November 1662. 4 cahiers. Folio (31.5 cm; 12.5"). 7, [1 (blank)] ff; 5, [1 (blank)] ff.; 12 ff.; 16, [4 (blank)] ff. 
• Sewn. All four in very good condition.
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