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EVERYONE You Need to Know in France — Bright, Fresh, IN THE BOX!
Almanach de la cour, de la ville et des départemens pour l'année 1829. Paris: Louis Janet, [1828]. 12mo (11.2 cm, 4.4"). [34], 254, [2] pp.; 4 plts.
$350.00
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1829's issue of this useful and decorative annual, “orné de jolies gravures.” The preliminary calendar is followed by genealogical information for European nobility, the list of French bishops and archbishops, the royal household roster (both domestic and military), names and positions of civil servants by department, members of chivalrous orders, major military officers, etc. The
four steel-engraved plates offer views of the Chateau de Neuilly, Chateau d'Avaray, Chateau de Lucienne, and Chateau de Rosny (with brief descriptions of these noble residences).
Binding: Publisher's apple green paper–covered boards in original matching slipcase with gilt-stamped spine title. All edges gilt.
Binding as above: lower front and back edges each with tiny bump, extremities showing very slight rubbing, slipcase with edges rubbed and a few small spots of discoloration. Front free endpaper with pencilled annotations in French. Pages and plates clean. Really in quite remarkable condition. (30574)

Tilting at Windmills, Protecting Dulcinea, & Flying to the MOON
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Primera parte del ingenioso hidalgo don Qvixote de la Mancha. En Brucelas: Por Huberto Antonio, 1617. 8vo ( 16.8 cm; 6.625"). [8] ff., 583, [1] p., [3] ff. (one leaf in facsimile).
$18,000.00
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That momentous international success, Don Quixote, part I, appearing in Brussels within the first dozen years of its life — this for the third time, following Brussels printings of 1607 and 1611. Part II was not issued in Brussels until 1616 and and then as a stand-alone volume. Overall this is the only 11th separate printing of part I.
Scarce: We trace but seven copies in U.S. libraries (Harvard, University of California–Berkeley, Dartmouth, Huntington, University of Kansas, Hispanic Society, Texas A&M).
Provenance: Late 17th-century ownership inscription at top of title-page of “T. Engle”; 18th-century ownership inscription below that of “E. Ward”; on endpaper, “December, 1787,” with lines in French in an 18th-century hand.
Contemporary purchase information: On recto of rear free endpaper, in an early 17th-century Spanish hand, “# 1618 # [new line] En 24 de marco [i.e., março] Costo en Brusellas 20 placas.”
Rius 11; Peeters-Fontainas 227; Suñé Benages 15; Palau 51988. Contemporary limp vellum, soiled and beginning to separate, ties perished; Don Quixote inked on spine, faded. Lacking one leaf of text only, supplied in very good facsimile (pp. 575–76).
First and last gatherings guarded with strips of Renaissance vellum manuscript. (23423)

For the Peace of the State
Chevalier, Sieur de. Libre discours fait au roy, sur la conclusion de la paix. Paris: Abraham Saugrain, 1516 [i.e., 1616]. 8vo (17.6 cm, 6.9"). 8 pp.
$850.00
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Also published as Harangue prononcée au roi en sa ville de Blois, following the negotiations between Condé and Marie de Medici, this is apparently a variant — not bearing the attribution “Par un Seigneur de qualité.” The title-page features a vignette of the royal coat of arms (per pale France and Navarre).
WorldCat and Lindsay & Neu combine to locate
only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Folger, Newberry, Duke, Brigham Young).
Lindsay & Neu 3721; see also 3636. Recent paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Title-page verso with inked numeral; all four leaves institutionally pressure-stamped. Inner margins reinforced. Clean. (27785)

A Romance of Chivalry — A Copy That Had Its Own “Adventures”
Floresta, Pedro de la. Historia de los muy nobles y valientes cavalleros, Oliveros de Castilla y Artus de Algarve. Y de sus maravillosas y grandes hazañas. Madrid: A costa de Don pedro Joseph Alonso y Padilla, Librero de Camara de S.M., [1735]. Small 8vo (14 cm; 5.5"). [2] ff., 219, [1 (blank)] pp., [1 (blank)] f.
$475.00
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There were numerous versions of the romance of Oliver and Arthur, this adaptation by Floresta being one of them; the first edition of Floresta's story appeared circa 1700, and was followed by a few others in the 18th and 19th centuries. This particular edition is the third.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Palau 200858. Contemporary limp vellum a bit too short for the text block. Title-page soiled and small piece torn from lower outer corner; text block separating from binding at the front hinge (inside). Browning (sometimes heavy) from impurities in water during paper manufacture. NOT a beauty, but, therefore, relatively affordable/possessable. (38640)

Nouveau Dictionnaire CHIVALRY
Gourdon de Genouillac, Henri. Nouveau dictionnaire des ordres de chevalerie crées chez les différents peuples despuis les premiers siècles jusqu'a nos jours.... Paris: E. Dentu, 1891. 8vo. 347 pp.
$115.00
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Handy illustrated dictionary. The illustrations are in-text wood engravings. The date on the wrappers is 1892; on the title-page, 1891.
UNCUT and mostly unopened exemplar.
Original printed wrappers; dusty, with chipping, and front one now separated. Paper lost at top of spine along front joint. The whole, fragile and wanting to separate between signatures. (Our interior image tends a bit to pink tone that is not actually present, FYI.) Now housed in a simple acid-free phase box. (4701)

The Life of the Courtier —
Guevara, in Italian
Guevara, Antonio de; Vincenzo Bondi, trans. Aviso de favoriti, e dottrina de cortegiani, opera non meno vtile, che diletteuole. In Venetia: Per Comin da Trino di Monferrato, 1562. 8vo (15.6 cm, 6.1"). 205 (i.e., 207), [1] ff.
$750.00
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Fray Antonio de Guevara (ca. 1481–1545) was a historian, bishop, court historiographer of Charles V, and acclaimed Golden Age literary figure. This volume presents an early Italian translation of his Aviso de prevados y doctrina de cortesanos — in which Guevara lays out the duties of courtiers (specifically, of the secular rather than religious members of a royal entourage) — along with
the first Italian translation of the author's Menosprecio de corte, a popular, critical satire on courtly life. This printing is not common in the U.S., with WorldCat locating only six reported institutional holdings (Columbia, UCLA, UMichigan, UIllinois, Harvard, UWisconsin-Milwaukee, Huntington).
Provenance: Title-page with traces of partially effaced early institutional armorial rubber-stamp; later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT16 CNCE 22234; Palau 110317; USTC 835287. Not in Adams. Contemporary limp vellum, evidence of ties now gone; spine with some sections chipped away, remnants of blue and white printed label, and inked title; binding stained, rubbed, and worm tracked with title-page, last two leaves of text, and endpapers also tracked. Interior overall rather nice with age-toning, intermittent foxing or faint marginal waterstaining, and a few leaves creased along corners. Otherwise a few flawed leaves, probably from paper manufacture, and pagination erratic; provenance indicia as above, front free endpaper with early
inked annotation in Italian, and one marginal accent in ink Sound, despite noted binding flaws, and an interesting work. (39705)

The Last Romance Written by William Morris
Edited by May Morris
(Kelmscott Press). Morris, William. The sundering flood. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897 [i.e., 1898]. 8vo (21 cm, 8.26"). [2], 507, [1] pp.
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First edition of this groundbreaking medieval-inspired fantasy, partially dictated by Morris on his deathbed and published following his death. As noted by the colophon, the manuscript was
edited by the author's daughter May Morris — herself an accomplished artist and designer — and printed at the Kelmscott Press. Ornamented with one full and several partial woodcut borders as well as numerous decorative capitals, the text is set in the Chaucer type with chapter headers and shouldernotes printed in red.
Like many of the modern fantasy novels to follow it, this volume opens with
a map of the imaginary land in which the action is set, in this case drawn by H. Cribb and engraved by Walker & Boutall to serve as front pastedown.
Peterson, Kelmscott Press, A51. Original blue paper–covered boards with linen shelfback, spine with printed paper label; lower outer corners a little bumped, spine label with minor rubbing over sewing band, a few small spots of very minor discoloration. Offsetting to outer portions of front pastedown front free endpaper, and front fly-leaf, not reaching other front blanks or half-title; lighter offsetting to rear endpapers. Front free endpaper with small pencilled initials (F.S.?), dated 1898.
Pages throughout very crisp and clean, a handsome copy. (41193)

An Irish-American BOOKSELLER's MacLysaght — Personalized with Insertions
MacLysaght, Edward. Irish families: their names, arms, and origins. Dublin: Hodges Figgis & Co., Ltd., 1957. Tall 4to. 366 pp,. 2 maps (1 fold. col.), color coat of arms.
$125.00
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First edition of this standard and well done work; complete with large color folding map and with a section of plates offering over 200 Irish coats of arms printed in excellent color.
Provenance & Insertions: Front pastedown with bookplate of Francis Massey O'Brien (bibliophile and bookseller in Portland, Maine); newsclipping on the author pasted to front pastedown, with O'Brien's inked note recording a meeting with him in Dublin.
Laid in at rear is THE ELABORATE PROSPECTUS for this book, along with several pieces of correspondence, with envelopes, addressed to O'Brien and relating to this book or otherwise to Irish history and/or bookselling.
Publisher's blue cloth and original dust jacket, the latter torn, worn, and soiled; front cover with short slim line of light discoloration at base. Insertions and markings as above.
Very Good, and a special copy for its provenance. (30077)

Ancient Days
FORWARD
Moulin, Gabriel, du. Histoire generale de Normandie. Contenant les choses memorables aduenuës depuis les premieres courses des Normands payens, tant en France qu'aux autres pays, de ceus qui s'emperent du pays de Neustrie sous Charles le Simple. Avec l'histoire de leurs ducs, leur genealogie, & leurs conquestes, tant en France, Italie, Angleterre, qu'en Orient, iusques a la reünion de la Normandie à la couronne de France. A Rouen: Iean Osmont, 1631. Folio. [6] ff., 56 pp., [1] f., 564, 52 pp., [22] ff.
$1750.00
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First edition of this sought-after history of Normandy. Preliminary leaves include a dedication; publication statement; a sonnet, epigrams, and an ode to the history of Normandy; “Discours de la Normandie” (35 pp.); “De l'ancienne Normandie” (35–56 pp.); and a genealogy of the Dukes of Normandy. Rear matter includes an index (22 ff.) and a list (52 pp.) of the Lords of Normandy and other French provinces who took part in the conquest of Jerusalem under Robert Courte-heuze, Duke of Normandy, and Godefroy du Buillon, Duke of Lorraine.
An early owner has mounted on the title-page an armorial plate bearing an image of the two leopards of Normandy on a shield superimposed by a crown, the whole flanked by attendants holding long branches (palms? laurels?) in one hand and the shield in the other.
Handsomely decorated with engraved initials and tailpieces.
Brunet 24296. Recent deep walnut full calf old style, by Grace Bindings (signed in blind at inner area of rear cover, lower turn-in); round spine with raised bands accented in gilt and with blind-tooled devices in compartments, oxblood leather gilt-lettered title-label, blind fillets extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils and covers framed in double blind fillets. Ex–Mercantile Library of Philadelphia with stamps, mostly faint, including to title-page; title-page re-margined along top and inner edge with an interior hole filled also (no words affected). Title-page with early inked ownership initials; a few other instances of early inked notations within text. Some leaves chipped, others mildly to moderately waterstained; we have chosen to show pages bearing more waterstains rather than fewer.
Armorial device mounted to title-page, as noted; we cannot be sure what this covers, but it is elegant! (21215)

“The Editor Flatters Himself that the Execution of this Reprint . . .
Will be
Self Recommended”
The noble and renowned history of Guy Earl of Warwick. Containing a full and true account of his many famous and valiant actions, remarkable and brave exploits, and noble and renowned victories. Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham for John Merridew et al., 1821. 12mo (19.5 cm, 7.75"). x, [2], 148 pp.; illus.
$250.00
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Chiswick Press production of this enduringly popular romance, first printed in the 17th century and here illustrated with a frontispiece of Guy's statue “in the Chapel at Guy's Cliff” by S. Williams, a title-vignette of a woman sitting on a bower bench, and two pages showing his “armour, etc.”
Binding: 19th-century half brown morocco and papier tourniquet paper–covered sides, gilt lettering on spine with ruling in blind, covers with blind beaded roll along leather edges; French curl marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, green ribbon placemarker.
Provenance: 20th-century bookplate of the Sondley Reference Library of Asheville, NC, on front pastedown and its embossed stamps on frontispiece, title-page, and two leaves of text; clipping of a bookseller's description on endpaper. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Bound as above, gently rubbed. Moderate age-toning with light spotting, a few unevenly trimmed leaves of text and one missing corner from paper manufacture, foxing to first and last few leaves of volume.
A strong and attractive copy of a book that's still a “good read.” (38427)

A Chivalric Chapbook Swell Woodcuts
(Renaud de Montauban). L'histoire des quatre fils d'Aymon, revue et corrigee de nouveau et augmentee de plusieurs figures. Limoges: F. Chapoulaud, [ca. 1780–99]. 8vo in 4s (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 126 pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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Subjects of a chivalric legendary romance, the four brothers Renaud de Montauban (the principal figure), Guiscard, Alard, and Richard, sons of Aymon, Count of Dordogne, were paladins at the court of Charlemagne. Their legend was the inspiration of many writers (Tasso, for example, used “Rinaldo” as the subject of his first epic poem) and appeared in many different versions. Because of the chapter in which Renaud kills Berthelot, Charlemagne's nephew, while playing
chess, this work is included in the great Claude F. Bloodgood Chess Collection at the Cleveland Public Library.
The present charming provincial production is printed on low-quality paper with worn type and
illustrated with 30 crude and thoroughly engaging woodcuts, including one large one on the title-page. Some of the images are used multiple times; the second image just above is an enlarged detail of one of the smaller ones.
Provenance: Late 18th- or early 19th-century inscription on front endpaper reading “This book was given to me by old Bridges, the bookseller at Cambridge, Henry.” 20th-century bookplate of Mary Herbert of Styche. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat find only three U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Cleveland Public, Notre Dame U., U. of Minnesota).
Modern half calf with pastepaper-covered sides, flat spine with longitudinal title-label of caramel-colored morocco lettered in gilt; gilt ornaments at top and bottom of spine. Binding signed “GM” in the rear turn-in. Title-page foxed/soiled; text clean. (39609)

Society History
Society
of the Cincinnati. Pennsylvania. Proceedings of
the General Society of the Cincinnati, with the original institution of the
Order.... Philadelphia: Pr. by John Ormrod, 1801. 8vo. 82 pp.
$850.00
At its founding, The Society or Order of the Cincinnati was composed of the regular army officers who had fought at some length and in specific prominent theaters for American independence, equality, and freedom; future members were to be drawn from among their sons only. By the time that the Society published its second constitution, the Order had changed its membership rules to admit militia and other officers and then their heirsdiluting its elite nature though not renouncing it.
This publication demonstrates that change among many others, as it traces the Society via its own documents from its founding at the "Cantonment of the American Army, on Hudson's River, 10th May, 1783," through the incorporation of the Pennsylvania branch, to the death of Gen. Washington. Included here are the by-laws of the Pennsylvania chapter.
Shaw & Shoemaker 1339. Sewn, as issued. Front wrapper missing, rear wrapper present. A few spots of waterstaining. Uncut copy. New protective paper corset provided and the whole housed in a cloth clam shell case with a leather spine label lettered in gilt. A very good copy. (2946)

The Chiswell Grant of Arms — A Scion of
BOOKSELLERS Armigerous
Vanbrugh, John. [Grant of arms to Richard Chiswell, “Turkey merchant.”]. Illuminated manuscript in English, on vellum: “To all and singular...” [London]: 1714. Folio (document: 39.37 cm x 52.07 cm; 15.5 x 20.5"). [1] f.
[SOLD]
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A splendid illuminated heraldic document preserved in its original 18th-century custom-made decorative case. Confirming the grant of arms to Richard Chiswell the younger (1673–1751), this letter patent is ornamented with both Chiswell's coat of arms (Argent, two bars of nebuly gules, overall on a bend engrailed sable, a rose between two mullets or) and that of Queen Anne, with
the arms and the borders on three sides being richly painted in red, gold, silver, blue, and black.
The grant was signed on 16 April 1714 by Sir Henry St. George as Garter Principal King of Arms and by
playwright and architect Sir John Vanbrugh as Clarenceux King of Arms, and it is accompanied by their wax seals, each seal (having been removed from the original ties) housed in a tin box.
The rolled document and seals are protected in a contemporary box of gilt- and blind-tooled leather over wood, lined in marbled paper and having twin compartments attached along one edge for the seals' separate, safe keeping.
Chiswell was the oldest surviving son of the famed London bookseller of the same name and his wife Mary Royston, daughter of another prominent bookseller, Richard Royston. He earned his own wealth as a member of the Levant Company trading with Turkey, making several journeys through the Middle East (and writing at least three never-published travelogues), eventually serving terms as the director of the Bank of England and as an M.P. Vanbrugh (1664–1726) is remembered for several successful comedies including The Relapse, The Provok'd Wife, and The Country House, as well as for having designed Blenheim Palace, Castle Howard, the original Haymarket Theatre, and many other notable buildings.
In the original box as above, housed in a modern buckram case with hand-inked spine label; the original box, lacking three of four closure hooks, has been expertly restored and is now safely strong. One of the two seals is cracked across, but wholy present; the grant, rolled and slightly darkened, is overall clean and striking.
A proud and obviously treasured survival. (41231)
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