•  Chanticleer (1921–36) 55.   Publisher' red cloth, spine slightly sunned; slight bubbling of cloth, possibly from glue action. Without the d/j. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed.A very good copy of a very nice and typical Golden Cockerel.  (36985)

The letters have all the characteristics to be expected of copies retained in a bound volume maintained by Benjamin Hall Wright.

•  Zanetti & Garcia, Sugar & Railroads: A Cuban History, pp. 18–33.   All documents overall in excellent condition with only some age-toning; all leaves loose. Letters with evidence, as above, of having been in a sewn volume.  (40980)

•  Publisher's embossed cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; corners and spine extremities showing minor wear, with gilt oxidized. Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription; some page edges with small blotches. Binding very handsome in its subtle way. Impossible! to get a good image of!  (12986)

The text is in fraktur, of course, and the title-page hasa wonderful woodcut border.

Evidence of readership: Meaningful marginalia in German on nine of the leaves.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only two U.S. libraries (University of Chicago, Columbia University) reporting ownership.

•  VD16 E91; Hase, Erfurter Drucke, 639; Kuczynski 627; Köhler, Bibliographie der Flugschriften, 782 [Fiche 234/ Nr. 654]; Luther, Titeleinfassungen der Reformationszeit, 70; Gatch, Library of Leander van Ess, D1071; Goedeke, II, 223; Hohenemser 2976; Schrodt, Reformation Era pamphlets in the Ambrose Swasey Library, 57.  Recent quarter red morocco, some worming touching and occasionally costing letters but never seriously impairing the sense of a sentence. The usual age-toning; no tattering. (40455)

Provenance:  Title-page with old and decorative but partially obscured rubber-stamp and with early inked inscription (“Kopp”); front free endpaper with rubber-stamp of R. Weiss (“Fairmount Ave”). Later in the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

Personalizations: Spine with hand-inked English title embellished with a small key drawing, and with place/date at bottom; affixed coat of arms taken from chocolate packaging; and an affixed gilt “knowledge” label (possibly a cigar band in a previous life). Front endpapers with affixed slip of old cataloguing, a printed clipping aboutglow-in-the-dark ink, pencilled annotations, and an early inked inscription in German.

•  19th-century quarter cloth with speckled paper–covered sides, spine with German title-label, rubbed overall, edges reinforced some time ago; additions as described above; vol. I only, of four, with front hinge (inside) cracked, front free endpaper and frontispiece separated. Paper foxed, in parts browned, with pencilled marks of emphasis as above; two leaves each with a closed tear just touching text, without loss, and one leaf with lower outer corner torn away. Early printings of this work are uncommon, and this copy is particularly engaging as an object. (41258)

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with ownership inscription by Henry Binkly, dated 1833; several laid-in slips of paper include a recipe for hair dye and a concoction involving sulphur, sugar of lead, and bay rum.

•  Shoemaker 8591; First Century of German Language Printing in the U.S., 2565. Contemporary sheep framed in blind, spine with blind-ruled raised bands, abraded but solid. One clasp lacking, one present and working. Moderate foxing; one sectional title with pencilled annotations. Clearly a volume that saw both use and reasonable care. Plain, and pleasing.  (3424)

Binding:  Publisher's blue textured cloth, covers framed with wide embossed strapwork and foliate borders, front cover with gilt-stamped decorative title and vignette of a small child reading a large book. All edges gilt.

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  NSTC 2H27679.   Binding as above, spine and edges rubbed and darkened with hinges (inside) cracked, upper outer corners bumped, areas of discoloration to back cover, none of this condemning and gilt vignette still bright. Pages faintly age-toned with occasional minor smudges; plates clean and appealing.  (41207)

•  NSTC 2E4979.   Removed from a nonce volume.  (11085)

•  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)

This formulation in reaction to the Great Awakening characterizes the beginning of the Unitarian movement in the U.S., a movement which now seems very far indeed from anything this preacher would have foreseen.A fascinating item in the history of religious thought.

•  Evans 5173; Sabin 22006.   Recent cloth-covered boards; a red leather spine label, gilt double ruled above and below with gilt lettering. 19th-century library rubber-stamps on verso of title leaf and bottom of p. 43. Light waterstain on title-page, occasional other light stains, overall remarkably clean. A nice, neat book.  (3203)

The cataloguer at the Penn State University library describes its uncolored example: “The form is generally dated ca. 1830, but could have been in use as early as 1814. The lower design depicts Jesus with the disciples, while the upper scene shows Jesus' baptism. The form stretches between two pillars, flanked by columns of smoke, all within line border. Distinctive mix of [stipple] engraving and etching, probably on copper plate, by Egelmann.”

The present copy is handsomely hand-colored with the entirety of the baptismal certificate written out, not “filled in,” in red ink in a clear hand. That is, the “form” part of the engraving has been neatly, precisely excised and replaced with fresh paper to record Louisa's baptism.

•  Weiser & Heaney, Pennsylvania German Fraktur, 495; Stopp, Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans, IV, pg. 2784.   Gently age-toned, small amount of spotting to lower right corner, a bit of waterstaining to upper right corner. Excellent repair to a few tears around the margins, plate expertly altered/repurposed within the manuscript portion as described above.  (36105)

•  Graesse 467; NSTC 2E6790.   Period-style quarter brown cloth with light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Intermittent small pencilled marks of emphasis, pages otherwise clean. All edges stained red.  (24872)

•  Publisher's black paper-covered boards with white paper shelfback, spine with gilt-stamped title; board edges sunned, outer corners rubbed. Pages crisp and clean.  (33334)

The last page offers a “Per Contra” claiming, “Jamie Gemmill yet is leevin” — with a note on where you can find him to buy him a drink!

Provenance: Neat inscription John Andrews, Paisley,” on front wrapper.

•  Original self wrappers (unbound; removed); sewn with sewing loosening. Very good.  (38503)

Binding:  Publisher's brick-colored cloth, front cover with cream medallion stamped in gilt and silver, in silver- and gold-stamped frame with corner fleurons, spine and back cover repeating the corner fleuron motifs. Top edges gilt. Silk bookmark detached but laid in.

•  Binding as above; spine foot chipped, corners rubbed, otherwise fresh and bright inside and out. In fact a lovely little volume, with both the gold and the silver, i.e., aluminum, shine extraordinarily bright and clear. (41288)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with calligraphic bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books, and with large armorial bookplate of John Roland Abbey (1894–1969), English collector extraordinaire; the purchase notes are the latter's as “J.A.”

•  McKitterick/Rendall/Dreyfus 93.   Natural niger morocco, spine with gilt-stamped title and series of gilt-ruled raised bands, top edge gilt on the rough; corners slightly rubbed, sides with small spots of discoloration, back cover with light scuff and free endpapers with offsetting from pastedowns. A solid and attractive copy with very nice provenance.  (32041)

Provenance:  Daughters with inked ownership inscription of Josephine Sparre, dated 1856; Women with early inked inscription of A.M. Kirwan of Well Park, Drumcondra (Ireland).

•  Publisher's red pebbled cloth, covers elaborately stamped in blind, spines with gilt-stamped titles and embossed decorations; volumes with edges and extremities rubbed, small scuffs and spots of discoloration to sides, spines gently sunned, Daughters cloth somewhat lighter overall. Daughters: Offsetting from frontispiece to title-page. Mothers: Frontispiece lightly foxed; light pencilled marks of emphasis. Wives: Front free endpaper lacking; frontispiece foxed. Inscriptions as above; occasional small spots of foxing, smudges, and edge chips scattered throughout; box with scuffs and wear, cracks to leather at top refurbished. A removable dais has been added to the foot of the box in order to fit the presently contained volumes more snugly; markings to the cloth lining of the box suggest that, at one time, taller volumes resided there. Some of Ellis's most successful and influential writing in a desirable uniformly bound set, within the rarely surviving and quite charming display case. (41250)

•  NSTC 2E8170. On Ellis, see: Oxford DNB (online).   Green publisher's cloth, spine lettered in gilt and ruled in blind, covers framed in blind double fillets around an arabesque stamp; rubbed, spine gently sunned, covers spotted, bottom of back joint (outside) open, top of spine pulling. Folding frontispiece lacking as above, a few leaf edges uneven from opening, one small marginal hole. Light age-toning with a handful of spots or stains. Provenance indicia as above, a few pages with marginal accents or short notes in pencil; a “good used” copy with very interesting provenance.  (39709)

•  Publisher's quarter sheep with printed sides; neatly respined with cloth tape. Signed by previous owner on front pastedown.  (4182)

Provenance:  Ownership inscription dated 1762 of “R.P. Eugenius Peters” on front free endpaper. Two names inked of old on title-page, one “Jacobus Cramer” and another not deciphered, with a third entry inked over.

•  Contemporary half vellum with marbled paper sides; soiled, worn, and rubbed with loss of much paper on rear board. General age-toning, occasional faint waterstaining in some margins, title-page with small spot of paper lost at the end of that “deleted” inscription; overall, very good copies of the texts, in a solid but used binding.  (34734)

•  ESTC R4373; Wing (rev. ed.) E2557.   Quarter red morocco with French-swirl marbled paper sides and gilt spine lettering; binding signed (with small rubber-stamp on verso of front free endpaper) by the Macdonald Company of New York. Leather of joints lightly rubbed in places. Very good condition.  (37991)

•  ESTC R19001; Wing (rev. ed.) E1765.   Quarter red morocco with French-swirl marbled paper sides and gilt spine lettering; binding signed (with small rubber-stamp on verso of front free endpaper) by the Macdonald Company of New York. Leather of joints rubbed. Very good condition.  (37985)

Bibliographically interesting.  Wing records four different issues of this ordinance, the telling points being on the title-page: the spelling of “classical” or “classicall” and the form of the date, whether “12 Novemb., 1645,” or just “1645" and combinations thereof. ESTC fails to distinguish them.

•  Wing (rev. ed.) E1894A; ESTC R176130.   Removed from a nonce volume and dusty; in modern wrappers. All edges a bit chipped and lower margins of leaves A2 and A3 with loss of blank paper. All leaves age-toned.  (20454)

Provenance:  These two copies were joined together by a contemporary reader who marked the recto of the printing permission of the first piece with “The Address” and the verso of the permission of the second piece (that is, that piece's final page) with “The King's Declaration. This read in ye Parochial Church of Thrandeston May ye first Anno Domini 1681. [?] Tho. Mael.” Mael served as rector of Thrandeston from 1670 until his death in 1709.

•  Humble Address: ESTC R228475; Nelson & Seccombe 647.49B. Declaration: Wing (rev. ed.) C3000; ESTC R13996.   Disbound from a nonce volume. Pages slightly age-toned with scattered light spots; inscriptions as above. A nice pairing, from the library of a clergyman who presumably had a strong interest in the outcome of the struggle.  (31090)

Evidence of Readership: An early reader has pencilled marks of emphasis in some margins — most frequently single short lines, with one series of one, two, and three short lines plus a zero or O lined through and another of arrows and hashmarks; several faint annotations adding to or questioning content; and a few instances of expressive punctuation such as “?!” or “!?.” Unfortunately, what looks to be the accompanying ownership inscription on the back pastedown is difficult to decipher.

Provenance:  From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Contemporary quarter dark green sheep and dark green marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title, gilt- and blind-tooled decorative bands, and gilt-stamped foliate decorations in compartments; rubbed overall, especially corners and joints with the latter starting/cracking. Gentle age-toning, spots of mild foxing, pencilled annotations as above. Excellent example of contemporary engagement with this influential text.  (40101)

This is a “fictitious imprint” in thatits given date is false, there being two distinct editions each with a title-page stating it is “Segun el exemplar en Rohan, De la emprenta de Lavrentio Maurry. MDCLXXXII” but with one edition's last numbered page being 268 and the other's being 292 (i.e., 308) as offered here. Charles Amiel argues convincingly based on textual analysis, in his critical edition of the work, that the 292/308-page edition in hand is acounterfeit of the true 1682 edition. Much less convincingly he postulates a publication date as late as 1725, the year before the third edition was printed; whereas had he examined the watermarks in the paper of the text he would have limited the range of publication dates to ca. 1699 — a dating based on my personal experience of almost 50 years cataloguing Hispanic books and manuscripts and always paying special attention to watermarks (DMS).

•  Palau 79834; Salva 1789; Frank W. Chandler, Literature of Roguery (2 vols.; Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1907); Charles Amiel, El siglo pitagórico y Vida de Don Gregorio Guadaña (Paris: Ediciones Hispanoamericanas, 1977), pp. xxv–xxxvi. For biographical data: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 285, frames 107–73.   Contemporary limp vellum, a bit shrunken and cockled, rear free endpaper lacking; remnants of ties. Title-page torn away at outside corners and repaired long, long ago without loss of print; pp. 73–80 clearly supplied from a smaller copy; the expectable sorts of dog-ears, creasing, and soiling only. A decent, interesting copy of an interesting picaresque/fantasy novel of the 17th century.  (36654)

•  Brunet, II, 1013; Schweiger, I, 107; Wolf & Hayes, Library of Benjamin Franklin, 1000.   18th-century dark hunter green morocco framed in gilt triple fillets, board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls, spine with gilt-stamped title, gilt rules, and gilt compartment decorations; moderately worn overall, joints and extremities refurbished, spine rubbed and slightly browned. Red endpapers. All edges gilt. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean. What's technically known as “a sweetheart.”   (38265)

This work appeared with three different title-pages and there are even internal differences. In this copy the setting of quire B has line B3v with “Deliberations” spelled with the capital letter “D.”

• STC (rev ed.) 22058; ESTC S116980.   Removed from a nonce volume and in modern wrappers. First and last pages dust-soiled; tea (?) stain to last leaf. Ex-library with the not unattractive stamp of the Union Theological Seminary on the verso of the title and in the bottom margin of the last text page. Blank area of foremargin of B4 torn with loss. In modern wrappers.  (21000)

Binding:  Dark blue morocco framed in gilt double fillets and panelled in a dotted gilt roll with gilt-tooled corner fleurons; spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-framed compartments. Turn-ins tooled to echo covers, cream moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt.

•  Binding as above, edges and extremities showing slight sunning and wear. Vellum (expectably) cockled. Lovely, unique, beautifully bound, and an impressive showcase both of modern calligraphy and of Follansbee's impact.  (38417)

The volume offers anexcellent copper-engraved portrait by Joaquín Sotomayor of Fray Antonio with the keys of his office and the symbols representing his responsibility of giving bread and water to those begging at the monastery door.

The book is from the press of master printer Hogal, considered to be the Ibarra (or Baskerville) of Mexico.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate fewer than a dozen copies in U.S. libraries.

•  Medina, Mexico, 3173; Ayala Echavarri, Bibliografía histórica y geográfica de Querétaro, 423; Palau 82700; Sabin 22895. On the engraver of the portrait, see: Romero de Terreros, Grabados y grabadores de la Nueva España, pp. 537–38.   Contemporary stiff vellum with remnants of ties, recased; new endpapers. The occasional stain or wormtrack, never serious; one leaf with small tear at inner gutter affecting a few letters. A handsome book in a very good copy.  (23508)

Offered here is his landmark work known in English as “Observations on the illusions of the insane, and on the medico-legal question of their confinement.” It originated as a “Memoire lu a l'Institut, le 1er octobre 1832" (p. 1) and is here reprinted in the first book edition from the Annales d'hygiène et de médecine légale.

Provenance:  From the library of Robert Sadoff, M.D.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate fewer than ten U.S. libraries reporting ownership (ClobS, CLU, CtY-M, MH-M, DNLM, MnRM, CCCP, TxU-M, ViW) and COPAC finds only the copy at Cambridge. WorldCat adds one other British library reporting ownership (University of Essex).

•  On Esquirol see: Heirs of Hippocrates 766; The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine 721.   Original wrappers. Uncut, unopened. An excellent copy.  (39178)

The title-page here is decorated with a small printer's device of a snail, perhaps making haste slowly, and the text features shouldernotes for ease of use.

Evidence of Readership: A past reader has added a few paragraphs of commentary in French on the verso of the front endpaper as well as two marginal notes in pencil and one in ink.

Provenance:  19th-century “Ex libris Lebers” in ink on verso of front free endpaper. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Barbier 4030.   19th-century quarter brown morocco and brown, tan, and yellow marbled paper–covered boards, spine lettered and stamped in gilt, stormont marbled endpapers, all edges stained red; lightly rubbed with some loss of paper and leather. Provenance and readership markings as above, light age-toning with a few spots; a few leaves with waterstaining at corners, two short marginal tears, and one marginal repair.  (38054)

This Bodoni production is now uncommon, with searches of WorldCat findingonly three U.S. institutions (University of Illinois, University of Kansas, Yale) reporting holdings.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplates of Brian Douglas Stilwell and Robert Wayne Stilwell.

•  Brooks 1298.   Contemporary quarter brown morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and acanthus motifs; binding rubbed. Very minor spots of foxing to title-page, wide-margined pages otherwise clean.  (40205)

•  ESTC T22250; Foxon E519; NCBEL, II, 547. Recent marbled-paper wrappers, front wrapper with paper label. One page stamped by a now-defunct institution. Some early inked marginalia, one page with first few letters of each line hand-supplied where the printer erred. First and last pages with extremely light foxing.  (3183)

Evarts writes that he regrets “the unfortunate issue of your attempt to get a philosophical apparatus for your College” and the school's difficulty in raising money. The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions holds a note for $1000 that the college owes and Evarts, the organization's treasurer, asks that if the college cannot pay at least some part of the principal, can it at least pay the interest promptly and send a paper guaranteeing payment?

Provenance:  Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.

•  Written in a clear hand.  (33764)

The volume, one of the third edition, is illustrated by apensive engraved frontispiece of Mrs. Goldophin,by William Humphreys, from an original painting by Matthew Dixon. The work also includes five genealogical tables.

Binding:  Black morocco–covered boards with beveled edges, covers framed by two sets of blind double-rules and with an embossed center medallion; spine with raised bands, gilt lettering, blind-stamped devices in compartments, and blind rules extending from bands onto covers. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Signed by Hayday.

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1847.5 (not noting the 1848 reprints); Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), 65.   Bound as above. Minor rubbing to spine-ends and joints, scuffs and faint scrapes to boards, corners bumped. Light stains to very edges of frontispiece, offsetting to title-page, and gutter crack to p. 290. Lovely and sturdy overall.  (37862)

Provenance: Front free endpaper with early pencilled gift inscription to Miss M. Robertson of Loch Croft.

•  Not in Bitting; not in Cagle.   Publisher's plain paper-covered boards, front cover and spine with title (abbreviated on spine) stamped in black; covers dust-soiled, spine and extremities rubbed, front and back joint starting from foot but holding, with hinges (inside) slightly tender. Pages age-toned; one corner dog-eared. Pleasant for reading, sound for use.   (40528)

Provenance:   From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Desmarais, Randolph Caldecott: His Books and Illustrations for Young Readers, 21; Finlay, Randolph Caldecott, p. 27; NSTC 0235860.   Publisher's color-printed paper–covered boards; moderately worn and darkened overall, joints and extremities rubbed, back cover dust-soiled. Front free endpaper with early pencilled inscription, back pastedown with label as above. Endpapers with offsetting; half-title with tear from lower margin. A nice example of both the author's and the artist's accomplishments. (40704)