The list of books here:  Carey, Mathew. The American Primer; or, an Easy Introduction to Spelling & Reading (Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1813 – fourth edition); The Blackbird's Nest (Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, 1812); The Council of Dogs (Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, 1809 [really, 1821]); Turner, Elizabeth. The Daisy; or, Cautionary Stories in Verse, Adapted to the Ideas of Children from Four to Eight Years Old (Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson [pr. by J. Adams], 1808); Die Gefahr in den Strassen. Nebst einigen andern Erzählungen (Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner [pr. by Jacob Meyer], 1810); M'Carty's American Primer (Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis, heirs to Benjamin Warner [stereotyped by J. Howe], © 1828); The New-York Preceptor; or Third Book (New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, [1822]); A Picture Book, for Little Children (Philadelphia: Kimber & Conrad [pr. by Merritt], [1812]); More, Hannah. The Search after Happiness: A Pastoral Drama, to which is added, Joseph Made Known to His Brethren: A Sacred Drama (Philadelphia: Pr. for Johnson & Warner, 1811); Dorset, Catherine Ann. Think Before You Speak: Or, the Three Wishes (Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, 1811); The Uncle's Present: A New Battledoor (Philadelphia: Jacob Johnson, [1810]); Village Annals, Containing Austerus and Humanus. A Sympathetic Tale (Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner [pr. by Griggs & Dickinsons], 1814). On some of these, additional cataloguing can be supplied upon request.

•  American Primer: Shaw & Shoemaker 27716; Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books, 468. Blackbird's Nest: S&S 24883; Rosenbach 452; Welch, American Children's Books, 104.1. Council: Shoemaker 5091; Rosenbach 603. Daisy: S&S 16353; Rosenbach 382; Welch 1355.2. Die Gefahr: S&S 20192; Rosenbach 418; Welch 431; Bötte & Tannhof, German Printing, 1770; Hamilton, American Book Illustrators, 1406. M'Carty: Shoemaker 33941; Rosenbach 714; Heartman, Non-New England Primers, 97. Preceptor: Shoemaker 13569; Rosenbach 465 (for 1812 first ed.). Picture Book: S&S 26465; Rosenbach 466; Welch 993. Search: S&S 23434 & 23905; Rosenbach 442. Think: S&S 19992, 21480, 22717, & 24026; Rosenbach 438; Welch 297.1. Uncle's Present: S&S 21546; Rosenbach 428. Village: S&S 33546; Rosenbach 514; Welch 1381.  
          Early American Children's Books: Blue pigskin, covers embossed in black with an early American design, spine with gilt-stamped title and black-stamped decorations, in the original black cloth slipcase with printed paper label; spine slightly sunned and raised spine bands with small spots of rubbing, slipcase with only faint traces of shelfwear. Minor offsetting to edges of first and last few leaves, pages otherwise clean.
          “Cock Robin”: Chemise and case matching the above very good with only slightest touches of ribbing. Salmon wrappers clean and fresh, with traces of old light pencilling on rear one; text age-toned yet bright, with all engravings very crisply impressed.
          Boxed set of 12 chapbooks: All housed in a two-part marbled cloth–covered slipcase, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; slipcase gently faded, edges rubbed with one edge tearing. Individual items in publisher's paper or paper-covered wrappers, some smudged, some with edge chips. Varying degrees of browning and spotting, occasional chips; all items solid and complete and all in very good condition and several fine.
          Broadside: Age-toned. One crease, probably from folding; very minor chipping around edges, three short edge tears, bottom corners lost.
          The Rosenbach shipping case:  Damage to wood with loss, along one edge of sliding lid; paper label worn and partially lost. Case solid and sturdy overall.
          A remarkable collection, and a gathering in which each item has its own individual interest. (36110)

The itemized gathering: Third annual report of the managers of the State Lunatic Asylum. Made to the Legislature, January 23, 1846. Albany, E. Mack, 1846. 8vo (25.2 cm, 9.92"). 61, [3] pp. Fifth annual report ... January 19, 1848. Albany: Charles Van Benthuysen, 1848. 8vo (23 cm, 9.05"). 76 pp. [and] Sixth annual report ... February 1, 1849. Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co., 1849. 8vo (24.9 cm, 9.8"). 60, [2] pp. [and] Fourteenth annual report ... January 7, 1857. Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, 1857. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.89"). 46, [2] pp. [and] Fifteenth annual report ... February 7, 1858. Albany: C. Van Benthuysen, 1858. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.89"). Frontis., 61, [3] pp.; 1 map. [and] Sixteenth annual report ... Jan. 29, 1859. Utica: Curtiss & White, 1859. (22.7 cm, 8.93"). Frontis., 47, [1] pp. [and] Sixth annual report of the superintendent of the Cincinnati Sanitarium for the year ending November 30th. 1879. Cincinnati: A.H. Pounsford & Co., 1880. 8vo (22.9 cm, 9"). 21, [3] pp. [and] Twenty-seventh annual report of the board of directors and superintendent of the Longview Asylum, Carthage, Ohio, to the governor of the state of Ohio, for the year 1886. Cincinnati: The Commercial Gazette Job Print., 1886. 8vo (23.3 cm, 9.17"). 43, [1] pp. [and] Twenty-ninth annual report of the board of directors and superintendent of the Longview Asylum, Carthage, Ohio, to the governor of the state of Ohio, for the year 1888. Cincinnati: The Commercial Gazette Job Print., 1888. 8vo (22.9 cm, 9"). 43, [1] pp.

The 1858 and 1859 New York reports each open with a frontispiece depicting the asylum, engraved by H.B. Hall, and the former also includes a floor plan of the building. The 1879 Cincinnati report includes a tipped-in announcement of the death of Dr. W.S. Chipley, superintendent, which “occurred this morning,” and also provides an application form for admittance and an obligation bond for payment.

These reports can be dry; they also, suddenly, can become quite interesting on the anecdotal, human-story level; and either way they embody significant social history.

Provenance:  Most recently in the library of Robert Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.

•  Longview: see Sabin 41938.   Publisher's printed paper wrappers in light blue, rose, green, tan, brown, and yellow; four pamphlets with edge chips, one with spine and edges sunned. Two pamphlets with some signatures unopened. Fifteenth with offsetting from frontis. to map and title-page; Sixth Cincinnati with light waterstaining to lower outer corners. These reports are all individually uncommon on the market. If you are interested in them as a category, please enquire as to our other holdings.  (41707)

The title-page notes that this is a stereotype edition; it appears to bethe sole appearance of this work, with no other printing reported by WorldCat — although different publication dates have been assigned, the earliest possible being 1846 based on the presence of the Victoria Fountain (built in that year) and the last date mentioned in the text being 1845.

Binding:  Publisher's red cloth in imitation of morocco (Krupp Lea3, var. 1), both covers elaborately gilt-stamped with floral and foliate designs around a central urn-shaped motif in a bower with angels; spine with gilt-stamped palm tree and Chinese peasant design. All edges gilt.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with 19th-century rubber-stamp of J.A. Newhall.

•  Krupp, Making a Case for Cloth, p. 37.   Bound as above, with light rubbing only and spine gilt only slightly dimmed; endpapers foxed, and minor foxing to some pages and plates. A remarkable collection of steel engravings, in an exuberant contemporary binding that STILL GLOWS! (41566)

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

•  Bound as above, extremities rubbed, plain spine very slightly sunned; pages of heavy, rather coarse paper age-toned with scattered spots of foxing. An uncommon example of the genre, in appealing condition.  (41692)

Evidence of Readership: Early inked annotations in Latin, ranging from the simple addition of a date to commentaries of several lines.

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with one shelving label and one decorative bookplate, both of Dr. Joachim Haas; the ex libris reflecting Haas's status as a lawyer.

•  Adams C2804; VD16 K 2038. Index librorum: VD16 K 180.   Bound as above with vellum darkened and dust-soiled; limited areas of insect damage not affecting structure, this also to rear pastedown and endpaper; all points of tie attachment reinforced from inside covers. Bookplates as above; title-page with several early inked inscriptions; annotations as above and occasional small marks of emphasis. Some sections with water- or dampstaining ranging from faint to barely moderate (never worse); one decorative capital “V” partially obscured with a neat ink spot (seemingly deliberately and with slight bleed-through to subsequent leaves); pages generally clean. A solid, attractive copy of this early German appearance of an important text, in a contemporary binding and with intriguing marginalia. (41651)

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

•  Publisher's mustard-colored paper–covered boards with vellum shelfback, spine with gilt-stamped title, front cover with black-stamped silhouette, in original mustard dust jacket; jacket with spine slightly sunned and three short tears from upper edge of front panel repaired from rear. Volume and plate in beautiful fresh condition. (41690)

Excerpts of Socinus'sacrid debates with protagonists of the Reformation on baptism, redemption, (im)mortality, and the nature of Christ pervade the present volume.

The minister-turned-printer Kuyper (1629–91) produced only Socinian works in the decade 1663–73, many edited by Andreas Wissowatius, Socinus's grandson, who had an influential hand in the present opera. The printer Samuel Przypkowski, whose shop also produced earlier volumes in the series of which these are a part, has here graced the text with refined tailpieces, large initials against a floriated background, and woodcut devices on the sectional titles (some initialed “HB” for printer Hendrick Boom). There are occasional Hebrew references in vol. II.

Provenance:  Deaccessioned by the Andover Newton Theological Seminary.

•  Knijff & Visser, Bibliographia sociniana, 2004–5 (for Bib. fratrum polonorum, see 2001–11); Estreicher, Bibliografia polska, XIII: 45–48; Knuttel, Verboden boeken 60; STCN/ Bock I: 46–54; Wallace, Antitrinitarian Biography; NCE 13: 397–8 ).   Vol. 2 of 2 ONLY. Contemporary northern-European style vellum over boards ruled in blind, panels with blind-stamped central cartouches; lightly soiled and a bit sprung with vellum a bit bubbling. Institutional pressure-stamps (only); paper lightly age-toned with page-edges most affected. A good, solid, substantial, and important volume. (32782)

These items showcase advertisements, design, and packaging from four different drug companies of the period. Six packages come from S.W. Gould & Brothers of Malden, MA; they are offered in similarly designed, differently colored wrappers displaying the contents’ medicinal names, common names, and curative properties, along with the blazoned promise of their being “Always Fresh and Reliable.” The horsemint was sold by Allaire, Woodward, & Co. of Peoria, IL, and the “Initial Line” chestnut leaves, “loose pressed,” were sent forth from S.B. Penick & Co. Crude Drugs, based in NYC, Asheville, Chicago, and Jersey City. (Penick & Co. claimed to be the first producer of hermetically sealed botanical drugs of uniform medicinal strength “untouched by human hands”; see The Pharmaceutical Era, vol. 49, p. 132). The Mine Safety Appliances Co., which is still in business, supplied the package of ten ammonia inhalants, with the directions for use on the back of the box offering advice by way oftwo illustrations.

The era represented here is remembered as a great one for “patent medicines,” being typically manufactured compounds touting their variously scientific, exotic, or modern “secret” formulas; but these productions represent and serve a counter-thread in popular medical self- and family care — a desire and a market fornatural, pure, familiar, and even “traditional” curatives.

•  Gould herbs with printed paper wrappers and others in printed boxes, all but two later wrapped in plastic to better contain the contents, with some starting to unfold; some wrappers faded and rubbed but all generally intact. PLEASE NOTE THAT THESE ARE HISTORICAL ARTIFACTS NOT INTENDED FOR CONSUMPTION, although the herbs still bear a pleasant scent! A multipurpose educational gathering of items more commonly found individually as loners. (37294)

Binding:  Brown morocco framed in triple gilt fillets, spine gilt extra (spine label attributing the work to Masson); board edges with gilt fillets, wide turn-ins with gilt roll, deep blue endpapers and top edges gilt. The publisher's original gilt-stamped red cloth covers and spine are mounted on leaves bound in at the back. Signed binding by Riviere & Son.

Provenance:  From the personal library of Dr. Robert Sadoff, sans indicia.

•  NCBEL, III, 860.   Binding as above, minor rubbing only, half-title lacking; bound-in original covers with light wear to gilt. Pages evenly age-toned; one early pencilled shouldernote with light offsetting to facing page. A handsome, “collector's” example of an uncommon true first.  (41674)

•  Cohn, George Cruikshank: A Catalogue Raisonné, 197; Osborne Collection, p. 596; see Gumuchian 1964–1968.   Publisher's printed green paper wrappers; wrappers showing dust-soiling, spine sunned and rubbed, front wrapper with small scrape at upper inner corner, none of this devastating. Title-page with short closed tear from outer margin, just touching title-frame; paper of text age-toned but clean. A very solid copy, used in its time but never abused.  (41680)

•  Quarter black cloth with dusky purple paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label; dust jacket lacking, paper edges slightly sunned, spine label darkened and with small edge chip. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise fresh. A clean, solid copy.  (41682)

•  Publisher's glazed-paper wrapper pictorially printed in green; front wrapper creased, back wrapper lacking. Old repairs to some hinges and to inside front wrapper; pages age-toned with occasional small spots, some edges rubbed, final page with outer edge tattered. An appealing and infrequently encountered item.  (41174)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of eminent philanthropist and bibliophile Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy (1786–1851); front fly-leaf with monogram of Edwin Wolf II, and his bibliographic notes.

•  Brunet, I, 652; Copinger 211; Willems 452.   Binding as above, rebacked some time ago with calf a little less red in hue, spine gilt extra; joints and extremities rubbed, board edges darkened. Bookplate as above; front free endpaper and fly-leaf with later pencilled annotations, fly-leaf also with inked monogram. Light waterstaining to upper outer corners of first three signatures, page edges slightly darkened throughout, foxing in upper portion of engraved title-page; all these things less striking in hand than in description. A binding of distinction, as well as a copy with excellent provenance. (41622)

•  Cowan & Cowan, Bibliography of the History of California, 169; Gaer, California Literature of the Gold-Rush, F 24; Gumuchian 2204.   Publisher's cream paper printed in green and gilt with title on front cover and swan vignette on back, nicely recased preserving original paper covers in light green linen–covered boards, using endpapers marbled in violet and pink; original paper covers lightly dust-soiled, back cover with minor chipping to paper edges (repaired). Pages with age-toning most visible at margins; a few light spots of foxing. A very attractive copy of a VERY attractive book. (41666)

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

•  ESTC T68701.   19th-century paper-covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped title; moderate wear overall with board edges and spine sunned, spine title all but lost. Front endpapers with pencilled annotations and small 19th-century shelving label. Title-page with spots of staining; title-page and first text leaf with lower inner corner torn away, not approaching text. Pages age-toned and dust-soiled with scattered foxing. Actual hard-copy holdings of this item areuncommon, as is the case for all of the 1722 printings.  (41669)

Gardner commands and authorizes Timothy Hartshorn, “constable or collector” in Reading, to collect for the state more than 8,500 pounds.

Provenance:  Pencil note on verso “S.C. Hamilton, #190, 1/21/55" and the code zvt (not in cursive); another pencil note on verso “zhq” in cursive above “5.00.”

•  Not in Evans; not in Shipton & Mooney; not in Bristol; not in ESTC; not in NAIP.   Full-margined copy with old folds and with old and new repairs to these on the verso; some slight darkening in the imprint area. Official paper and wax seal present in upper left margin. (41505)

•  Osborne Collection, p. 47.   Publisher's printed orange paper wrappers; very slightest wear to extremities. Pages evenly age-toned, otherwise clean. A very nice copy, with pleasing provenance.  (41032)

Searches of Worldcat find only one North American library reporting ownership, the University of Kansas.

•  Pamphlet saddle-stitched (i.e., stapled), with rust staining from the staples and with other, limited spotting/soiling. Lower outer corners bumped/creased with a few corners torn away not approaching text; foxing.  Complete.  Now in a green cloth clamshell box.  

Provenance:  Frontispiece recto with early inked inscription of Margaret A. Lomba[ugh?].

Binding:  Publisher's “shingle boards” with leather shelfback and blue paper over the boards. In many recorded copies, the first and last leaves are pasted to the appropriate boards of the binding; they show no signs of ever having been affixed thus here.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 35424; Rosenbach, Children, 531; Heartman 445.   Bound as above, front cover almost separated with board split horizontally and also all but separated along that axis, with paper almost entirely gone; back board with paper rubbed and chipped. Gutter between frontispiece and title-page reinforced with cellophane tape long ago; title-page with chip in lower margin, not touching border or text, text leaves each with one minute pin-type wormhole in upper margin and one in the outer. One leaf almost entirely torn away (“Dr. Watts's Cradle Hymn,” with first two stanzas of poem still present); two leaves in catechism section with small holes in center each affecting a few letters; final leaf with short tear from lower margin affecting two letters. Worn, still a very reasonable copy, given the usual state of these much-used schoolbooks, andan example of particular use and interest to those wanting to study or show such schoolbooks' structure. (41663)

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

•  Contemporary sheep, covers framed in blind double fillet, front cover with inlaid plain leather medallion possibly obscuring original monogram or insignia; binding of old rubbed overall and with spine label now absent, front joint starting but volume quite sound and now nicely refurbished. Front pastedown with traces of now-absent bookplate shaped similarly to cover medallion; front fly-leaf with early pencilled annotation regarding contents. Offsetting from frontispieces to title-pages; Carew title-page with some pencilled underlining. Small hole to last leaf, affecting a few words on one side. Pages age-toned with occasional faint foxing, otherwise clean. A sturdy, rakish pair of “beggars”! (41617)

•  Bound as above; spines sunned, joints and extremities rubbed, handsome nonetheless. Ownership indicia as above. All guard leaves present; one page in vol. II with small marking in upper margin, pages otherwise clean. A very nice set.  (41652)

It is difficult to identify the owner; a slip with the signature of Johan Daniel Scheiffele is laid in, but that hand does not appear to match the primary entries here, many of which are invery small but decorative script. Items are written for the most part in German, with Italian and Latin also making appearances. One inscription of friendship is signed “Helveto-Gluronensis,” i.e., Glarus, Switzerland, and another Sċhasburg (Sighi?oara, Romania). Closer study will likely be rewarding.

•  Original case covered in calf and fastened with ornate clasp, covers with gilt-stamped foliate frames partially colored in pink and green, front cover with gilt-stamped title; box with moderate rubbing overall, clasp in perfect working order. A few scattered spots of light foxing; leaves overall in clean, fresh condition. Evocative and eminently worthy of further investigation.  (41539)

Searches of WorldCat find only three U.S. libraries (UPenn, Vanderbilt, Lutheran Seminary in St. Paul, MN) reporting ownership.

•  VD16 H 1069.   Disbound, now in modern marbled wrappers; paper uniformly browned but not brittle or otherwise fragile. Some old, generally light stains and soil and a little shallow dog-earing, in one leaf's case with loss of the corner; pen trials in two lower margins. In fact rather good.  (41620)

•  Cook, America's Charitable Cooks, p. 207.   Publisher's dark green cloth; spine and extremities with light rubbing, covers with paper adhesions from old shelf neighbors, hinges (inside) slightly tender and showing small spots of insect damage. Stationer's stamp as above and early purchase notation on front free endpaper; several clipped printed recipes (including “Tomato Soy” and cucumber preserves) laid in. Pages evenly age-toned, with intermittent spots of staining; a few with mild offsetting from clippings. A copy that has seen (appreciative) kitchen usage, still in better condition than often encountered, withsewing holding and pages secure.  (41352)

Graphically quite attractive.

•  Very good with one old fold.  (40355)

Binding: Contemporary olive calf, covers with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped title, turn-ins with gilt roll; marbled endpapers and all edges gilt.

Provenance:  Bookplate of artist, collector, and art dealer Samuel Putnam Avery laid in. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Cohn, George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné, 783.   Bound as above, spine and board edges sunned and rubbed with small scuffs to sides. Bookplate laid in as above, final leaf of publisher's advertising lacking; endpapers and fly-leaves lightly foxed, with a few faint spots to pages and plates. A lovely little book and one with nice provenance.  (41590)

Evidence of use: Covers with numerous early inked doodles in addition to inscription described below; early inked marginal doodles and marks of emphasis throughout (including the inked outlining of the title-page griffin.

Provenance:  Front cover with inked inscription “Tobia 1614"; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Contemporary cartonné binding, darkened, spine and extremities rubbed, front cover with 19th-century small paper shelving label, and spine with two earlier paper labels now chipped and largely lost; corners bumped, with one lower outer corner and one upper outer apparently cut away. Pages age-toned and stained, with a good deal of deep dog-earing and lower outer corner of final leaf torn away not touching text. A good solid copy, obviously well used and in some ways the more appealing for that. (41237)

This work was originally written in Latin and this English translation was probably byWilliam Caxton himself, based in part on the French translation of Jean de Vignay.

Provenance:  The Pacific School of Religion (properly released)..

•  STC(rev. ed.) 24880; ESTC S111988.   Loosely laid into marbled wrappers. Some light staining and soil in margins; three pin-type wormholes in blank areas; remnants of two hinges present from previous mountingPaper good and woodcut charming.  (41596)

The present edition of the first work isrevised and enlarged with added material on Algeria. It should be noted that the second work is here in the “mieux imprimée et plus correcte” of the two editions printed in 1632 (according to Willems), while the third work is the first of its two 1632 editions (with the final line giving “LXV. menses”). All three were first printed by Elzevir in 1630.

Produced in Elzevir's typical compact style, the three together form a small but very thick omnibus.

•  Willems 416, 367, 366.   Contemporary vellum, spine with hand-inked title; light dust-soiling, traces of now-absent shelf label at foot of spine, upper corners bumped, and wormtrack to front endpapers not reaching/affecting title-page. Texts faintly age-toned with occasional spots of very light foxing, otherwise clean. A fine little fistful.  (41379)

•  VD16 ZV13747.   Contemporary alum-tawed pigskin over wood boards with bevelled edges, remnants of metal clasps, and covers richly blind embossed using rolls with religious imagery (Crucifixion, saints, etc.); vellum of spine dry and with tears (but “all there”), boards with some loss at corners/edges (but with tooled vellum all there”!), both boards heavily wormed with pinhole-type worming extending well into text both front and back (although this is such a thick book, such a “tome,” that the worms did not reach the middle of the text block, and in fact their work does not much endanger confident reading). First leaf of Scapula's preface lacking, that leaf replaced with an unrelated engraving; title-page tattered at edges and largely separated, with a good many leaves dog-eared or creased across corners; old, generally light staining or soil variously and occasionally a leaf with an old marginal tape repair. A solid, decent, interesting, and surprisingly clean although minorly defective copy.  (32630)

•  Original mottled calf, covers framed on three sides in double gilt fillets, spine with vertical gilt-stamped title, top edge gilt; spine gently sunned, sides and corners showing light shelf-wear. Front pastedown with recent pencilled annotations, no other markings; heavy-paper leaves and engravings very clean and crisp. A handsome production.  (41563)

•  BAL 7940, state C.   Publisher's cloth as above, dust jacket not present; extremities rubbed, spine slightly dimmed, front hinge (inside) tender. Clippings about Hearn's life and his funeral attached to back endpapers. Pages evenly age-toned with one leaf torn in two places not touching text; two leaves with tiny chips in lower margins. An attractive and intriguing copy, owned by someone interested in Hearn's life. (41512)

Binding: Publisher's gilt paper–covered boards, front cover with black-stamped title and color-stamped raised vignette. All edges red.

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

•  Not in Gumuchian.   Bound as above, gilt paper pleasantly gone to bronze; spine and board edges darkened, front cover with a few small spots. Front free endpaper showing traces of now-effaced inscription. A solid, handsome copy, showing no signs of wear childish or “other.” (41234)

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

•  NSTC 2L3671 (for first ed.).   Publisher's red cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title and vignette, covers with blind-stamped vignette; cocked yet solid, with hinges/extremities rubbed and cloth (especially of spines) having uneven discolorations from sunning or other exposures. Endpapers and next adjacent leaves with variably light discoloration to gutter areas from binding process; text blocks otherwise gently age-toned but with very little foxing, this mostly confined to first and last few leaves of vol. I. Two facing pages in vol. III with traces of small spot of adhesion from organic matter; occasionally, elsewhere, another sort of spot. A well-used set of this landmark work described and priced accordingly, yet a respectable set; here in an early (partial-first!) appearance in the original bindings. (41416)

•  NSTC 2ENG9105.   Removed from a nonce volume. Pages opened slightly roughly with occasional small edge chips, including lower outer corner of part I title-page. Free of foxing or indeed any apparent signs of use other than having been opened, this isa notably clean, crisp set with nice dark impressions of the cuts.  (41522)

This is numbered copy 26 of 1500 printed; it wassigned at the colophon by the artist.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 32.   Publisher's brown and orange cloth as above, spines with gilt-stamped titles, slipcase and wrappers lacking; spines a little sunned and extremities with a little rubbing. Pages clean and fresh. In fact a nice pair of these books.  (41547)

•  Publisher's printed green paper wrappers; minimal shelfwear. Light offsetting from wrapper turn-in to outer portion of first page (illustration), otherwise clean and fresh.  (41526)

Provenance:  Inscription of M.A. O'Neil to fly-leaf, Portland, ME (1905); signature of Francis Massey O'Brien, Irish-American bibliophile and bookseller also of Portland, in his “Proinnsías Ó Bríain” form (1940).

•  Publisher's quarter brick red cloth with muted-apricot paper-covered sides; elegant gilt cartouche on front cover with author and title in black. Board edges lightly rubbed. A pleasing, attractive copy with pleasing provenance.  (29955)

Binding:  Contemporary morocco with covers framed in a single blind fillet; spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped compartment decorations. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. All pages ruled in red in the best style of the era.

Provenance:  ISAAC WATTS  (1674–1748), the godfather of English hymnody, is also fondly remembered for his Psalms of David: Imitated in the Language of the New Testament, a work that was reprinted over a thousand times. His ownership signature is on the blank leaf opposite the BCP title-page here. Later the volume was owned by Charles Mayo (1767–1858), a scholar of Old English, who dated his ownership as “St. John's College, Oxford, 1787.” Most recently in the library of American collector of Greek printing Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  BCP: Benton, Book of Common Prayer (2nd ed.), p. 25, no. 122; ESTC R24205; Wing (2nd ed.) B3632; Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 45,3. Psalms: STC R204252; Wing (2nd ed., 1994) B2720A.   Bound as above, extremities a little rubbed, with small chip at head of spine and edges of label chipped; joints strengthened some time ago and volume varnished. Inscriptions and small booklabel as above; pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean. A solid and attractive copy of an attractive production, with wonderful provenance. (40968)

Binding:  Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, covers framed with embossed vinework border, front cover with decorative gilt-stamped title, spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped title, and blind-tooled fleurons in compartments. All edges gilt.

Provenance:  Inscription on initial blank from ____ P. James to _____ Thomas, “Dec 25/64.”

•  Sabin 33391.   Binding as above, just a little rubbed at edges and corners, with gilt of front cover, still attractive, dimmed affecting three letters. Small spot of offsetting in lower portion of title-page and blank opposite from something once laid in, with a few small spots of foxing to the blank.A clean, bright, very nice copy of a book more usually seen in compromised condition. (41397)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., and with small, attractive 19th-century institutional ticket.

Binding:  19th-century morocco, framed and panelled in blind, turn-ins with gilt rolls; top edges gilt, marbled paper endpapers. The extremely minutebinder's stamp of Alfred Matthews appears, in gilt, within the lower turn-in of the front cover.

•  ESTC S102332; NCBEL, I, 1188; STC (2nd ed.) 11082; Pforzheimer, I, 376.   Binding as above, spine sunned, joints refurbished, light wear to sides and corners. Markings as above, main title-page also with small, faint pencilled inscription in upper portion; one leaf with lower outer corner torn away, not touching text. Pages gently age-toned, with annotations as above, otherwise clean. A solid, very readable copy, with an interesting history evident. (41438)

In this copy opposite the title-page is an added facsimile map of the province taken from an edition of Augustin Lubin's Orbis Augustinianus, sive, Conventuum ordinis eremitarum Augustini chorographica et topographica descriptio; no map was issued with the book originally.

•  Medina, Mexico,1084; Pinelo-Barcia, Epitome, II, Col. 755; Beristain, I, p. 143; Ternaux 902; Andrade 632.   Recased in contemporary limp vellum with slightly yapp edges showing evidence of now-lost ties; rear free endpaper lacking and all edges mottled. Case marks on front pastedown; last leaf torn cleanly and expertly repaired, one leaf with an old limited ink smear that does not impede reading.A clean, very nice copy of a history offering much first-hand reporting, from a significant press and sometime enhanced, by a former owner, by addition of that helpful map! (41363)

Van Dyck became fluent in Arabic, wrote extensively in that language, and taught medicine and other subjects: “[He was] professor of pathology and internal medicine in the medical school of the newly founded Syrian Protestant College, which later became the American University of Beirut. He also taught astronomy in its literary section, directed its observatory and meteorological station as well as the mission press, and edited its weekly journal al-Nashran. He wrote Arabic textbooks on chemistry, internal medicine, physical diagnosis, and astronomy, publishing some of them at his own expense” (Wikipedia).

WorldCat records at least three editions of the Arabic Bible from the American Printing Press in 1913, each with a different pagination.

•  Publisher's brown cloth, spine stamped in gilt with title in Arabic and with blind stamping to covers and spine; some chipping to cloth around spine and at edges. Printed on very thin paper, occasionally showing a short tear or a crease but clean and untattered. A very good copy.  (41439)

WorldCat locates only two libraries worldwide reporting ownership of this (JCB, Lilly), but given its presence in the bibliographies below it must be held in non-reporting libraries.

Scarce item from the famous press of “the orphan children” of Buenos Aires.

•  Medina, Río de la Plata, 563; Zinny, 1808, xxvi; Furlong, Rio-platenses, 1181 (describing only p. [1]–[2]).   Without wrappers; leaves once separated from each other and now expertly rejoined at the inner margin. Very clean, very good. (41417)

•  Brooks 594; De Lama, II, 106; Giani 71 (p. 54); Schweiger, II, 1006.   Bound as above, rebacked with the original spines laid down; sides and edges with moderate scuffing. Faint spotting, occasionally more pronounced, to many page edges; pages overall clean. Bodoni's unadorned typesetting embodies classical elegance.  (40168)

Binding:  Publisher's gilt-stamped olive green paper wrappers with color-printed parrot portrait onlay on front wrapper.

Searches of WorldCat locateno copies in the U.S., with two found in Canada and one at the National Library in New Zealand, which last library supplies the “[North Vancouver?]“ attribution for this production without internal assertion of imprint place. Another online source gives “Tavewa Island,” with we know not what evidence.

•  Wrappers crisp and fresh, showing virtually no wear save for a small area of faint discoloration from now-absent label; booklet pristine and lay-ins present. A lovely copy of a scarce and attractive item. (41361)

•  Laid into later wrappers. Sewing mostly perished. Removed from a bound volume. Brittle paper, some chipping at the edges.  (40957)

•  Bound as above, spines slightly sunned and spotted; each volume with small faint trace of now-absent shelf label. Pages clean and fresh. A very nice trio. (41344)

This volume is printed in Sir Henry Savile’s superb Greek “silver types.”   “The legend of the silver types has been a favourite one in the romance of typography. . . . with the notion that . . . [the] beautiful and luxurious typography [of the great printers] was the result of rare and costly material; and, ignoring the fact that silver type would not endure the press. . . . Sir Henry Savile’s Greek types, says Bagford,  'on account of their beauty  [our emphasis] were called the Silver types'” (Reed, History, 474 n.181). The elegant Greek and Latin title-page is printed in red and back in various type sizes using roman and italic fonts. The Greek text is also printed in red and black, with several excellent woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces.

Provenance:  Ca.1900 armorial bookplate of Harryson Caird, his autograph at foot of title-page. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  STC 5398; ESTC S108071 (with disjunct privilege leaf); Madan, I, p.166; Brunet, II, 94; T.B. Reed, A History of the Old English Letter Foundries, (1887).   Contemporary English sheep, spine with raised bands and gilt-lettered morocco label; later paper on the boards, mottled and toned to mimic antique leather. Head of spine rubbed with loss, boards a little scuffed, and corners bumped, with first (blank) leaf detached; text variably age-toned, with some dust-soiling to margins and occasional slight spotting or foxing.  (41312)

•  Not in Bitting; not in Brown, Culinary Americana.   Publisher's very dark brown textured cloth, cover and spine stamped in red; edges and extremities a little rubbed, spine sunned. Endpapers lightly foxed; front pastedown with inked ownership inscription from Pullman, WA; pages clean. A solid and nice copy of this expanded edition, the first under this title. (41348)

From the Vatican press, this bears the woodcut arms of Pope Gregory XIV on its title-page and an array of interesting woodcut initials and ornaments in the main text, which is printed in a small roman font with some use of italic type. This is one of few books published by this press at the beginning of the time whenAldo Manuzio the Younger was appointed director. There was also a folio edition in the same year.

Provenance:  As above, with 18th-century autograph “J. Cotes” and small manuscript price (?) on title-page; later manuscript casemark “Case B 1 14" on front pastedown. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Adam D1192; EDIT16 CNCE17949. Hodgson, Northumbrian Documents.   Contemporary English calf, spine plain-style with raised bands and without labels; scratches and rubbing to modestly blind-ruled boards, upper corners bumped; front pastedown lifting but fully present, and upper outer corners (only) of one portion very shallowly rodent-nibbled. Dust-soiling notable to endpapers, title-page, and a few other leaves; otherwise text clean with minimal age-toning, occasional passages of light waterstaining, and the odd corner-crease or dog-ear. A handsome and interesting book with enhancing provenance. (41340)

Binding:  Publisher's brown cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in orange, black, and tan with an image of Uncle Walt holding forth; the orange title lettering is LARGE and the image fills the entire cover.

•  Bound as above; minor wear to black portions of front cover, extremities slightly rubbed. Dust jacket lacking, as is typical; page edges untrimmed. Text age-toned, otherwise clean and crisp.  (41338)

•  Publisher's case of tan buckram and textured grey paper–covered sides, front cover and spine with red paper labels, in matching slipcase; slipcase rubbed but solid with spine cloth slightly foxed, case otherwise showing virtually no wear. The enclosed portolio, pristine. (41304)

Bramicelli's vernacular renditions were apparently unauthorized; one source claims that the Church ordered the book burned (Tentorio, Saggio storico sullo sviluppo dell'ordine somasco dal 1569 al 1650, p. 178). This may explain why the work is nowscarce, with WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locating only one U.S. institutional holding (Newberry), and only one additional one internationally. EDIT16 gives only ten Italian libraries as holding copies.

Provenance:  From the collection of Don Tommaso De Luca (1752–1829), described by Alexander Roberson as “a priest of the old school . . . possessed of one of the finest libraries in all Northern Italy”; front free endpaper inked with “Exemplare proveniente dalla celebre Collezione de Luca. Veggasi suo Catalogo stampato, alla pag. 101, lin. 29.30" (referring to De Luca's 1816 Catalogo di una pregevole collezione di manoscritti e di libri a stampa delle più ricercate edizioni). Most recently in the library of of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  EDIT16 CNCE 7425. Not in Adams; not in Mortimer; not in Index Aurel.   Contemporary marbled paper–covered limp wrappers, faded and rubbed overall; spine darkened and chipped, front cover with early inked numeral at upper center. Front hinge (inside) cracked, with uppermost of two sewing bands separated from vellum; front free endpaper with early bibliographic note in neatly inked Italian. Light waterstaining to lower outer corners of about 12 ff., scattered minor foxing. A fascinating production. (38978)

In some ways even more militantly abolitionist than Uncle Tom, this novel's complicated plotdrew liberally on real-life figures and events that Stowe cited in a long and detailed Appendix, to create and assert a realism as to slavery and its effects that readers would find undismissable..

Provenance:  Front free endpaper of vol. I with inked inscription: “To Miss Matthews As a Phillipoena Pay[men]t From G.S.R. October 7 1856.” (“Phillipoena” was a German-derived game involving love and friendship penalties or “forfeits” between couples; make of that what you will!) Most recently in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.

Binding:   Publisher's straight-grained very dark brown cloth, covers framed in blind-stamped leaf and vine decorations, spines with gilt-stamped title and “Boston” at feet; plain yellow endpapers.

•  BAL 19389; Wright, II, 2391.   Bound as above, slightly cocked, lightly rubbed overall and moreso at corners; spine extremities chipped. Varying degrees of foxing; some signatures starting to loosen. Inscription as above!  (41279)

Binding:  Publisher's light yellow cloth decoratively stamped in maroon and dark green, front cover with color-printed pictorial paper onlay, in color-printed dust jacket as above. Cover and jacket sport three-quarter portraits of a charming, intelligent-looking young woman of the period; not the SAME girl, however!

•  This ed. not in Wright; see Wright, III, 5090 for single-volume first ed.   Bound as above, volume slightly shaken, edges and spine extremities rubbed, tiny spots of insect damage to front joint; jacket darkened with spine head chipped and lower portion of spine torn away. Pages evenly age-toned, otherwise clean.  (41299)

•  Contemporary quarter sheep and cream paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and date; binding rubbed overall with sides darkened and leather scuffed (particularly at joints). Hinges (inside) starting from top; still holding. Back pastedown with small ticket of F. Westley, binder. Pages faintly age-toned with a few scattered small smudges, otherwise clean; one leaf with short tear from lower margin, just touching last line of text without loss. An enjoyable copy of this attractive Whittingham production, and from a good collection.   (41296)

Binding:  Publisher's blue cloth, decorated on the front cover with an elaborate fruit and flower pattern in gold, light green, and orange, spine with gilt-stamped decorative title. Top edges gilt. Signed by Margaret Armstrong.

•  Gullans & Espey, Checklist of Trade Bindings Designed by Margaret Armstrong, 250; Smith, American Fiction, 1901–1925, V-87.   Bound as above; corners and spine extremities lightly rubbed, orange stamping showing minor scuffing. Pages gently age-toned, with some foxing to endpapers and in proximity to plates. A nice copy of a nice book. (41282)

This is a very large and beautiful version of the U.S. “letters patent” document, with an elegant engraved eagle, the calligraphic blazon “The United States of America,” and a handsome engraving of the Patent Office building in Washington (drawn by A.A. von Schmidt and engraved by W.H. Dougal) occupying almost the entire top half of the first page.

Henderson's story as an inventor, involving emigration from England, “field work” building railway bridges in Chile, and residence in the late-19th-century U.S. industrial centers of Baltimore and Philadelphia, is interesting both as individual and asrepresentative of American inventors' careers in a very inventive era.

•  Henderson's papers are held at the Hagley Museum, & Library, Wilmington, DE: see, https://invention.si.edu/william-m-henderson-papers-1847-1893.   Laced together with a light blue silk ribbon; folded. Some foxing, especially on drawing; soiling on exterior fold with traces elsewhere; and spotting to ribbon and blue-green wafer.  (8638)

George graduates from Bates in 1905 and, by the final diary in 1912, he is an accomplished secondary-school physics teacher in Worcester, MA, with a master’s degree from Clark University, and he is taking additional (presumably doctoral) courses at Columbia University during a teaching sabbatical.

Each volume here opens with a printed section offering calendars, postal rates, almanac facts, etc.; usually, George has used the back pages for personal accounting, addresses of friends, and other memoranda. For space reasons, his entries must be laconic, but he has filled most space there is. Only the final few diaries have significant unused sections. A long descriptive analysis is available on request.

•  Virtually all diaries are bound in leather or leatherette, a few with the lower third of the rear covers removed neatly, and the “set” lacking only the volume for 1906. Some volumes are written in pencil, later ones mostly in ink, in a legible hand. Very good. (39290)

•  NSTC 2C3298. Removed from a nonce volume, with stitching holes, now in a Mylar folder. Very good. Series of numbers inked in top left corner of title-page. Title-page separating a bit. Very good.  (9129)

•  Recent, handsome black moiré cloth with caramel color spine labels; text blocks excellent with only the very occasional instance of a generally light spot/stain, short closed tear, or dog-ear. Handsome on shelf, comfortable in lap.  (27436)

Reproduced in black and white,Walter Paget's eight illustrations depict dramatic scenes of survival including a boxing match with a prisoner, a bear attack, and a fight with hostile Samoyeds; they are accompanied by one double-page map of the Russian empire.

Binding: Publisher's teal cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and scene of a bearded man either tying or untying the hero stamped in black, brown, and gilt, spine similarly stamped; midnight blue endpapers and all page edges stained to match boards.

•  Dartt, pp. 40-41; Newbolt 58. Bound as above, binding very slightly cocked with edges and extremities lightly rubbed. Text clean.A nice copy of one of Henty's less common titles. (38686)

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

•  Publisher's quarter very light grey linen and printed paper–covered sides; small faint spot of staining at lower edge of front cover, otherwise clean and unworn. Pages age-toned (not unattractively or indeed inappropriately!). A thoroughly delightful production in a very nice copy.  (41201)

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)

Provenance:  18th-century bookplate of Beilby Thompson of Eserick (1742–99 ), who may famously be remembered for having gradually bought up and relocated the village of Eserick to move it away from his house. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

Binding:  18th-century calf in a modified Cambridge-style binding. The covers' central panels, stained black and outlined in a filigree roll, are surrounded by a wide frame of tan calf; beyond that, at the boards' edges, is a 1.5" outer border of sprinkled calf. Blind-tooled rules and beading articulate the intersections, with black(?)-stamped devices accenting the tan compartments' corners, in the speckled section, and with the chains connecting those devices to the innermost panel being also (sometimes?) blackened. The round spine has raised bands accented by gilt rules above and below each band, and a gilt-stamped label with the author's name abbreviated.

•  Renouard, Estienne, 79/2; Adams J494; Hoffmann, Bibliographisches Lexicon der gesamten Literatur der Griechen, II, 502–503, & 648; Shaaber, Sixteenth-century Imprints, J111; Armstrong 138, 222; Mortimer, French, II, 335; Schreiber, Estienne, 107.   Bound as above, front board recently expertly reattached; endpapers chipped and front one with upper outer corner torn away. A very nice, very wide-margined copy.  (40074)

The Oneida newspaper meant so much to Noyes that even after he gave up control of the Oneida Community, he was to retain control of the newspaper and continue itsits advocacy for social change along with argument for communitarian economic aims, and these embraced a wide range: women’s rights, abolition, “complex marriage” (a form of polyamory), birth control via male continence, and (eventually) proto-eugenics, to name but five. As a University of Syracuse digital guide to the Oneida Community Collection notes, “The papers contained a very frank record of the daily life at Oneida as well as religious tracts, discourses on current subjects of social, political, and economic interest, letters to the editors, and advertisements for the Community's varied manufactured goods. They made no secret of their manner of life. . . . “

Present here is The Circular's volume I  (numbers 1–52, November 1851 through October 1852),  all issues printed in four-column format and very legible type. Following the attention-grabbing article already cited, the gathering's first issue presents a neat statement of “The Basis and Prospects of the Circular” before moving directly on to recount at length the foundering on a Hudson River excursion of a Community-owned sloop, with the loss of two woman members' lives. This is an engaging, very readable social history compendium apart from its usefulness for the study of a particular, mid–19th century American, radical social and religious movement.

•  Mott, History of American Magazines, II, p. 207; Lomazow, American Periodicals, 568; Oneida Community collection in the Syracuse University Library, pp. 24–25; https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/o/OneidaCommunityCollection/hsr1.htm; and Sabin, 89516.   Stitched, in plain wrappers. Front wrapper with a patch of waterstaining along upper spine area, carrying through variously but usually faintly through March issue; some later issues on paper inclined to browning. Untrimmed, and with very little staining or tattering. A physically stable collection, safely and immediately usable.  (41155)