This now-uncommon textbook is illustrated with five folding engraved plates of diagrams. WorldCat showsjust one U.S. institution (Society of the Cincinnati) reporting a copy, and only a handful of overseas holdings.

Provenance:  Title-page with early inked inscription “de Ratzenried” and front pastedown with von Ratzenried armorial bookplate (coat of arms showing greyhounds and a moon with clouds) labelled F.C.V.R.: possibly Franz Carl Anton von und zu Ratzenried.

•  Contemporary mottled calf, board edges with gilt roll, spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped leather title-label, and compartments gilt extra; light wear overall, edges and joints moderately rubbed. All edges speckled red. Bookplate and inscription as above. Pages with occasional small pencilled marks of emphasis, otherwise clean; one plate with outer edge slightly tattered. A very nice copy, in contemporary binding, of this scarce practical compendium.  (40246)

The woodcut “printer's device” on the title-page is telling: “Ex trunco veteri novus ramus,” which pretty much epitomizes Leclerc's writings.

Uncommon.  We locate fewer than 10 copies in the U.S.

•  Weller, I, p.278.   Recent quarter leather with gilt spine; sides with German-style brown paper speckled with black. Shadow of old pencilled shelf number and another four-digit number on verso of title-page. A very good copy.  (24769)

WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only seven U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Martin & Walter 8746.   Folded as issued, never bound, edges uncut. Title-page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, red-pencilled annotation in upper inner corner, and pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. A few instances of light spotting.  (30941)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Removed from a nonce volume. First page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, barely touching one letter of text, and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Pages trimmed closely, in one instance touching a few letters without loss of sense. Mild waterstaining across lower and outer portions, pages otherwise crisp and clean.  (30837)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Simply sewn, edges untrimmed; spine with small split, sewing loosening. Title-page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner and pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Minor age-toning and offsetting; final leaf with paper flaw resulting in shortening of upper outer corner.  (30909)

•  Evans 16773; Hildeburn, The Issues of the Press in Pennsylvania, 1685–1784, 4006. Five-digit number stamped above the title; pp. 1 and 2 separated from 3 and 4, and gutter margin repaired, reattaching the halves. Semicircular tear in lower, inside area of all pages, costing a total of 9 or 10 words.  (3144)

The English-language title-page reads, “The book of daily prayers for every day in the year. According to the custom of the German and Polish Jews.” The text is presented with the original Hebrew and English translation on opposite pages.

Provenance:  19th-century ownership stamp of “Mme. Bernheim, 603 Magazine St., New-Orleans.”

•  Rosenbach, Jewish, 636; Singerman, Judaica Americana, 1024; Goldman 37.   Contemporary full, plain, treed calf, with a black leather spine label. Expectable wear to spine from use. Scattered light foxing. A good++ copy with a provenance worthy of research.  (32879)

Uncommon:  WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three U.S. libraries reporting ownership.

•  Saricks, I, 385.   Removed from a nonce volume, title-page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, pencilled monogram in upper outer corner and that latter corner curled. Pages age-toned with some dust-soiled; last few leaves with crumpled edges or creased/dog-eared corners.  (36788)

•  Contemporary quarter green sheep in imitation of morocco over paper-covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; joints and edges slightly rubbed, spine showing very faint traces of a now-absent label. Front pastedown with private collector’s 19th-century bookplate and with institutional rubber-stamp (no other markings). Half-title with chip to outer margin; pages and plates clean and fresh.  (19332)

This third edition is typographically complex in ye good 17th-century style, with a title-page printed in red and black and liberal variation of type-ornament borders, multiple fonts, and decorative initials; the pages are ruled into multiple divisions for presentation of text and various sorts/levels of notes, with the printer occasionally breaking “form” to enhance compactness or clarity. Braces and brackets appear generously, with these tricky-to-set devices being most strikingly deployed in full-page diagrammatic “Tables” of contents, one at the start of each of the five books and the one of the third being actually alarge fold-out.

The first edition appeared in 1633 with two more in 1641. Those three and this 1650 are uncommon in commerce with only three of this apparently held in U.S. libraries (Boston Athenaeum, University of Illinois, and Princeton Theological).

Leigh (1602–71), a decided puritan, was described by one contemporary as “a man of fiery disposition” and by another as “a cunning man”; in addition to his religious duties he found time and inclination for politics and was elected to Parliament.

Provenance:  Tim Hide(?), 18th century, has signed the top margin of the title-page; George B. Engle Junior notes on a fly leaf that he bought the book in Boston, MA, March 1881. Later at the Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  ESTC R34516; Wing (rev. ed.) L1015.   17th-century calf, rebacked early 19th century, covers reattached recently using Japanese long-fiber method; spine with gilt-lettered label and blind tooling, covers framed in double rules with gilt-rolled board edges, marbled endpapers, all edges red. Ex-library as above: rubber-stamp to fly-leaf, accession stamp and pencilled call number on title-page verso. Private provenance markings as above, and one entry to the “Table” at rear corrected in old ink. Title-page repaired at top where sometime trimmed; one leaf with very small interior hole not touching text, elsewhere a short marginal tear, a few small ink marks, and a bit of almost invisible marginal worm tracking; the occasional unevenly trimmed leaf, a few more with upper rules cut away, light age-toning. Old bookseller label at rear. A very solid, very appealing, very “atmospheric” little volume.  (36835)

•  NSTC 2L11171.   Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in silver and black; binding lightly worn overall (most noticeably at extremities) with very minor bubbling to cloth. Title-page and a few others with small spots of foxing, pages otherwise clean. An attractive copy of a desirable work.  (40983)

•  Contemporary quarter black morocco with paper-covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped title and gilt-stamped compartment decorations; bindings clean and solid with only very minimal edge and corner wear. Front pastedowns and free endpapers each with institutional rubber-stamp (no other markings). Pages slightly age-toned; a few leaves unopened. Handsome.  (19294)

The work is handsomely printed (although erratic in its pagination and signature markings), in double-column format, featuring title-pages in black and red with an engaging small engraved vignette of a ship between pillars reading “Plus” and “Ultra.”

Provenance:  Ownership stamp of Carlos Sanz in several places.

•  Sabin 40053; Palau 135738; Alden & Landis 737/135; Medina, BHA, 3071; Borba de Moraes, II, 150; LeClerc 872.   Contemporary vellum over pasteboards, a little soiled especially to spnes, retaining button and loop closures; hinges (inside) open in a few places but bindings strong. Occasional waterstain or other sign of exposure to dampness; a few gutter margins (only) of first volume with a short wormtrack; some cockling of paper.  (34810)

•  ESTC R25145; Wing (rev. ed.) L1130; McAlpin, IV, 589.   Recent marbled paper wrappers. Title-page darkened and institutionally pressure-stamped, with lower outer portion torn away, just touching final number in date with no loss of sense. First few pages with edge nicks. Final (adv.) leaf with short internal tear with loss of a few letters, not affecting sense.  (25009)

Provenance: Property, in 1836, of Henry G. Hubbard of Detroit.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 25848.   Contemporary sheep. Spine with compartments divided by gilt rules. Leather much rubbed with a little chipping. Browning from turn-ins onto endpapers and title-page. Top margins closely trimmed with loss of page numbers in some places. Inked ownership inscriptions on recto of front free endpaper and title-page.  (5442)

However harsh the allegations, the Quakers were not Leslie's sole target; he also wrote works against deism, Judaism, Catholicism, Socinianism, and more, not to mention his numerous writings against various political parties.

Sabin's entry for this Americanum has this bizarre and amusing note: “It gives a long account of the 'Fourth or New Quakers who mostly reside in Long Island and East Jersey, in America,' one of whom wasMary Ross, who went to meeting stark naked, and carrying a fiddle.”

The text here is in a rather striking mix of roman, italic, and large black letter.

Provenance:  The Howell Bible Collection, Pacific School of Religion (properly released), with bookplate tucked into front cover.

•  Sabin 40195; ESTC R216663; Wing (rev. ed.) L1156; Smith, Anti-Quakeriana, 267; on Leslie, see: DNB (online).   17th-century speckled calf, Cambridge-style, spine gilt-lettered with two labels, bands accented and covers panelled in blind; rebacked with new endpapers; abraded, edges worn. Moderate age-toning and foxing, a handful of leaves with rounded corners or chipped edges. Ex-library with its rubber-stamp on title-page and one leaf of text, five-digit number on title-page verso; light pencilling on title-page.  (36371)

First published in 1587, this popular work found an audience among both Protestants and Catholics, and went through a number of editions in not only the original French, but also several other European languages as well as Latin. The present early French printing is handsomely accomplished, with nice head- and tailpieces and decorative capitals. WorldCat findsno U.S. institutional holdings of this edition.

Binding:  Later dark blue Jansenist-style morocco: spine with raised bands and gilt-stamped title and date, board edges with double gilt rules, and turn-ins with particularly elegant gilt dentelles. All edges gilt.  Signed binding done by Hans Asper, with Asper's minute rubber-stamp on the front free endpaper.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of Swiss theologian, historian, and professor Gaspard Ernest Stroehlin (1844–1907), a notable scholar of Protestantism. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Index Aurel. 164.928; Pettegree, French Vernacular Books, 34461. This ed. not in Adams, not in Brunet.   Binding as above, spine showing very slight sunning, lower back outer corner bumped. Bookplate as above, with small paper adhesion over one corner. Pages gently age-toned with scattered small, faint spots, otherwise clean. A striking copy, with notably apropos provenance.  (38345)

While the two are said to have remained cordial, the debate was so “bitter” that the Duke of Brunswick (Lessing's supporter) “intervened, silencing Lessing” (Oxford Companion to German Literature, 2nd ed., p. 554)!

Printed here are Lessing's portions of the eleven exchanges in that debate.

•  Goedeke, IV, 447; Holzmann 2383.   Recent boards covered in brown paper specked with black in the style of the era; age-toning and some dampstaining, not beyond “typical.” Overall, a good copy of a complete set of Lessing's eleven arguments.  (33323)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only four U.S. institutional holdings of this first edition.

•  This ed. not in Martin & Walter (cf. IV 2: 8376).   Sewn, never bound; title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner, not touching text, and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Page edges untrimmed and somewhat ragged; top edges mostly unopened; dust-soiling to outer leaves and untrimmed edges, with corners of a good many untriummed leaves turned in. A nice copy.  (36785).

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only two U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner and pencilled monogram in upper outer portion. Pages age-toned with a few light spots.  (30814)

Provenance:  From the chapbook collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.

•  NCBEL, III, 743 (for earlier eds.); NSTC 2L14132.   Removed from a nonce volume in printed self-wrappers, sewing loosened. Front wrapper/title-page with short tear from upper margin not reaching print. Pages age-toned, with some edges slightly ragged.  (41173)

This author enjoyed great success among feminine (and young) audiences with his gothic tales of horror and woe, most notably with his one novel, The Monk, a youthful production that earned him his nickname. Shelley was especially fond of Lewis's work, although Byron mocked the author's “gibb'ring spectres” and “infernal brain” in the poem “English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.”

•  NCBEL, III, 743 (first ed.).   Later 19th-century half sheep in imitation of morocco over marbled paper sides, worn and abraded; leather chipping over head of spine, covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution, spine with paper shelving label. Title-page and several others stamped; endpaper and final blank separated but present (former with date slip); many pages, not unexpectedly, show light to moderate spots of foxing, and there is some staining. Last leaf torn across outer corner taking top author's name in ads on verso (it was John Beckmann) and most of three words of the last poem's last verse (“herte should breke”).  (5414)

•  Sabin 78417.   Stitched originally, but this now perished and leaves separating; irregularly trimmed, in the case of two leaves to touch text; some foxing/staining, and chipping.  (26006)

Lightfoot (1602–75) was a noted Hebraist and Biblical scholar; Lowndes says of his works that “the writings of Dr. Lightfoot are an invaluable treasure to the biblical student.”

•  ESTC R21614; Wing (2nd ed.) L2052; Lowndes 1359.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped title and publication labels. Title-page institutionally rubber-stamped. Pp. 145–48 (the end of the “Christian History...XXXIIII” section) bound in between pp. 152 and 153, with annotations in an early inked hand noting the error. Pages trimmed closely, taking part of title-page border and in a few instances affecting the catchwords or final lines of text. Waterstaining, mostly to lower outer portions.  (24853)

The 29 letters, catalogues, and offprints gathered here are OFFERED AS A COLLECTION ONLY. For detail, click to the full description in our collection of COLLECTIONS, here.  (30413)

Robert L. Dothard designed the volume, which was printed on specially made Curtis Archer white paper and bound by Frank D. Fortney of the Russell-Rutter Co. This is numbered copy 1557 of 2250 printed, one of the 750 copies intended for institutional and professional distribution outside the Club.

Provenance:  Laid in is a promotional letter from the Club addressed to Leonard F. Bahr, proprietor of the Adagio Press; the original, unused subscription form and envelope are also present.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 294.   Publisher's quarter black morocco with red cloth sides, front cover with embossed leather medallion, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; spine sunned with label scuffed and a spot, front joint gently refurbished, slipcase worn with one joint broken and reinforced. Cover and contents bright and clean.  (33425)

•  Cagle & Stafford 480; Brown, Culinary Americana, 1564 (1906 ed. only).   Publisher's printed paper–covered boards with blue cloth shelfback, front cover with color-printed carving image and decorative title; paper gently darkened, extremities rubbed, back cover showing minor dust-soiling. All page edges stained red. Front free endpaper with a Boston bookseller's small ticket. Pages clean. A nice copy.  (38145)

The present work deals with the sacrament of penance and the need for the penitent to confess orally and from the heart, to be contrite, and to do penance in order to receive the necessary, priestly absolution.

Provenance:  In the 19th century in the library of the Seminarii Veteris Catholici Amisfurtensis (deaccessioned); from 2000 till 2016 in a private collection.

Searches of NUC and WorldCatfail to locate any copies in U.S. libraries.

•  VD17 23:713687B.   Contemporary vellum over pasteboards. Bound without pastedowns or free endpapers, but with four blank leaves before and after the text block! A clean copy in an interesting anomalous binding style.  (36748)

Binding:  Scarlet morocco, covers bordered and panelled in gilt and black rules surrounding a gilt frame incorporating foliate motifs; front cover with gilt-stamped coronet and “M.L.” monogram. Spine gilt extra, board edges and turn-ins gilt with rolls, moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt. Binding stamped by C.E. Clifford of Piccadilly.

•  Bound as above, minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Pages age-toned with scattered faint smudges only, these testifying along with the title-page that many hands labored over the leaves. A delightful fantasy creation, a charming family love-gift, a surviving family “period piece” with impressive family provenance. (41478)

•  Metallic marbled paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Clean and pleasant, in original glassine dustwrapper remarkably intact.  (31136)

The correspondence was also issued in separate parts, and as part of the Opera omnia in seven volumes with a general title-page dated 1614.

•  Bibliotheca Belgica, L406 (Opera), L257 and L258.   Contemporary vellum single-ruled in blind with an ornate central cartouche and four fleurons stamped in black on each cover, manuscript title on spine with raised bands accented by black ruling; red speckled edges, and evidence of four ties. Front joint repaired and new endpapers, text with dust-soiling and a handful of small stains, mild foxing on a few leaves and browning in some sections; faint curves of waterstaining along edges in a few places, small marginal tear on one leaf. A nice copy of a handsome Plantin–Moretus printing.  (30963)

Provenance:  Signed by Eric Gill (“Eric G”) at the end of his foreword; additionally, elegantly inscribed to rare book collector Clark Stillman by the artist's brother and biographer Evan R. Gill, dated 28 September 1937.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat located only three copies in U.S. libraries.

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers; wrappers detached, sunned, and chipped. Pages clean.  (36969)