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)

The flap with “Come, read and learn” on the outside and the title and publication data on the inside is present and integral. It is not uncommon for this fragile flap to have been lost.

•  Rosenbach, Children, 428; Welch 1363; Shaw & Shoemaker 14251 and 21546; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 248; Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 330.   Publisher's heavy paper wrappers as above; covers darkened, front cover with pencilled annotation in upper portion, spine rubbed with short split starting from foot. Pages age-toned; upper edge and lower outer corner of central leaf slightly proud and thus showing some rubbing, last (T–Z) page with a wrinkle or two from gluing to back wrapper (not spoiling image or print). Not pristine (and priced accordingly); a good, solid survivor. (41325)

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)

German-American Catholic fraktur prayer books are rare but not unknown; for example, the renowned collection of fraktur at the Free Library of Philadelphia contains a “Himmlischer Palm Zweig Worinen die Auserlesene Morgen Abend Auch Beicht und Kommunion Wie auch zum H. Sakrament In Christo und seinen Leiden, wie auch zur der H. Mutter Gottes, 1787" (item no: frkm064000; https://libwww.freelibrary.org/digital/item/41639). Still, early German-American Catholic religious manuscripts areobjectively rare, especially on the market.

Manuscript additions to the manuscript:  An early-19th-century owner of Kary's manuscript has added somberly appropriate matter opposite its title-page, i.e., on the inside of the front wrapper, that reads, in translation: “Forget not your father and your mother, for they have died. My most honored father died on 17th March in the year of the Lord [1]784. My beloved mother died on 6th December in the year of the Lord [1]801. The 14th November in the year of the Lord [1]803. M.S. in the sign of the fish.”

Provenance:  Simon Kary in 1799; by 1803 owned by M.S. (as per inside front wrapper). Later early-19th-century ownership signature of Anna Holzinger on title-page; later 19th-century pencil signature of “Theresa” in lower margin of same with similar inscription on the outside of the front wrapper.

• We thank Prof. Edward Quinter for his help in ranscribing and translating this manuscript's title-page and translating the family notes opposite it.  Recent light blue paper–covered boards with printed paper spine label, original block-printed wrappers preserved inside; early inked annotations in German on inside of original front wrapper and elsewhere, as detailed above. First two leaves and several others with areas of waterstaining, with tissue-paper repair to title-page partially obscuring several lines of text; last leaves with areas darkened as with some variety of oil. Pages age-toned, with scattered spots and occasional offsetting. A manuscript attractive, engaging, and worthy of study; an enduring testimony to piety among an important, early American religious minority. (41242)

•  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)

•  ESTC R1885; Wing B6150.   Modern dark brown quarter calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands gilt-ruled above and below, burgundy leather author and title labels, and gilt devices in compartments; leaves in facsimile as noted above and lower outer corner of B7 torn away taking a few words on each side. First and last leaves with offsetting to edges from previous binding, severest at rear; title and first two gatherings a bit soiled, with other instances of that variably elsewhere, and first few leaves with old marginal waterstaining; edges dusty and a bit darkened throughout, with general age-toning. A copy that clearly had been through a good deal and has been priced accordingly, now cased neatly and safely, ready for good use.  (39427)

The title-pages offer three instances of the same handsome woodcut vignette.

Binding:  19th-century straight-grained citron morocco, raised bands, spine gilt-extra with flowers and flourishes; inner dentelles gilt, puce endpapers, all edges gilt over marbling. Red silk bookmark present and attached.

Provenance:  William Beckford, with 19th-century note “Beckford sale 1883 lot 174" on front free endpaper verso and cutting from sale catalogue on front pastedown; red leather Durdans (Rosebery) booklabel to front pastedown and that library's small blind-stamp to first title-page and elsewhere. Later bookplate of Lawrence Strangman to front free endpaper; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, with his small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  I: Wing (rev.ed.) N1462;ESTC R219402. II: Brunet II, 759 (1638 ed.).   Bound as above, with significant rubbing to joints and spine especially and with discoloration especially affecting raised bands; gilt ornamentation still impressive. Short closed tear to B4 not quite reaching print, another with loss to margin just touching text on L4; age-toning, with a few leaves slightly browned. Desirable texts in a desirable copy, with very desirable provenance. (41315)

•  Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). The bottom half inch of the leaves and the top inch of the rear leaf are separated; very good.  (38504)

Evidence of Readership: On the title-page, “Quaker” has been appended to Crook's name in pencil (done some time ago), with a bibliographic note in the same hand in the upper margin; two textual errors have been corrected, one in an early inked hand and one pencilled.

•  ESTC T73591; Smith I, 491.   Modern green striped pastepaper–covered boards; spine gently sunned with paper spine label now blank, binding otherwise showing virtually no wear. Annotations as above. Pages browned (particularly first and last) and spotted with mild cockling and creasing. One leaf with tear from outer margin touching a few letters without loss. A solid copy of the now-uncommon first edition.  (41355)

•  Publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in dark blue, in original color-printed dust jacket; volume extremities very slightly rubbed, back cover with small scuff, jacket gently sunned with a few short edge tears and inside spine foot reinforced some time ago. Front free endpaper with “Elizabeth” in pencil. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean and fresh. A nice copy. (37510)

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

•  Original illustrated paper over boards, with the dust jacket (a little worn with interior repair at top of spine). Clean. A very nice copy.  (41368)

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)

Attributed to James Hogg [1770 –1835] by the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, this tale was first published in 1817; known as the “Ettrick Shepherd”, Hogg was born in Ettrick Forest and indeed began his life as a shepherd. His literary talents were discovered by Scott, and he was a friend of Byron, Wordsworth and Southey.

A woodcut border frames the title page, which features a woodcut vignette of a seated man in kilt, plaid and bonnet, playing the bagpipes; there is also a woodcut tail-piece “[No.] 24” is printed at the foot of the title.

•  Very good. Original self wrappers (unbound; removed).  (38499)

•  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)

•  Schweiger, II, 598 (for 1645 ed.). This ed. not in Brunet.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped black leather label. Inscriptions as above, title-page with small initials inked next to publication information. Fly-leaves browned, with edges chipped; pages age-toned with occasionally a pinhole piercing and in one leaf a tiny burn-hole, with neither obscuring sense. A solid, clean, very usable copy.  (41359)

It is illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates done by Edmund H. Garrett.

Binding:  This is an intriguing example of this novel of ideas, in that the usual thematically appropriate binding has been replaced by an unrelated, innocuous color-printed scene of a cottage by a lake on a background with a repeating design of daisies, embellished with raised cornflowers (unsigned) — perhaps intended for ladies of delicate sensibilities who didn't want to be seen in public reading this controversial novel!

Provenance:  On front free endpaper, two ownership stamps of Sarah E. Lembeck.

•  Publisher's printed paper–covered boards with pattern of daisies in white and gilt, front cover with illustration as above, robin's egg blue cloth shelfback gilt extra; very minor dust-soiling to light portion of cover illustration, traces of wear to corners and lower edges. Title-page with one tiny edge tear; pages clean.  (37535)

•  This ed. not in NSTC.   Removed from a nonce volume. Pages age-toned, else clean.  (38501)

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)

The work is made of up three parts in one, with separate title-pages. The first, “The Mystery of the two Iunto’s,” discusses the tensions between the Presbyterian and Independent factions; the second, “The History of Independency,” begins with a discussion of Cromwell’s Army, its fights against the City, and all the phases of the strengthening of the Cromwell faction. The third part is concerned with the controversial Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, eventually executed as a Cromwell collaborator, under Charles II, for high treason.

•  ESTC R186161; Wing (rev. ed.) W334C.   Modern marbled paper–covered boards, gilt-lettered leather label to spine. Text with age-toning sometimes unto browning, with variable dust- and finger-soiling especially to page edges; short slender (even “minute”) worm tracks to outer margin of final gatherings. A sound and serviceable copy of this work by “Verax.” (41342)

•  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)

Binding:  Contemporary half green morocco and gold-veined marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels; gilt-ruled raised bands, and compartments gilt extra.

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

•  Bound as above, withspines evenly sunned to olive, joints and edges rubbed, some corners bumped, spine extremities chipped; front joint of vol. I cracked and partially separated. Pages lightly age-toned; stain to fore-edge of vol. I, extending slimly into a few margins, and two pages in vol. II with small area of spotting. A dignified set, priced to allow for repair! (41200)

In addition to the royal printer’s woodcut device on titles, the works all also have interesting decorated initials and ornaments.

Binding:  Late 18th-century green sheep, board edges gilt with a decorated fillet with stars in a chaine; spine gilt with Greek fillet and urns. Gilt inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.

Provenance:  From the library of the Hardens of Crea, King’s Co., in Ireland, and probably bound in Dublin in the second half of the 18th century. Armorial bookplate printed in red of Henry Hurden, L.L.B.; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  I: Not in Brunet or USTC. II: USTC 171954; Pettegree & Walsby 87229; Renouard 1584 06:14:1; Brunet, V, 614. III: Adams, C1546. Bittrich, “Outline of a General History of Speculation about Dreams,” in On Prophecy, Dreams and Human Imagination (2014), 71–96.   Bound as above, second work lacking parts II and III, rubbed and with spine a little sunned; text remarkably clean, with generous lower margins. Light age-toning small light water stain at foot of a few leaves; two pages in last section with old pencilled underlining. Handsome Greek printing with pleasing provenance.  (37798)

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)

Provenance:  17th-century autograph of “William (?)ram (?)” and three early pen trials on title-page; large 20th-century armorial bookplate of Edward Jackson Barron, member of the Society of Antiquaries to front pastedown; even larger 20th-century engraved bookplate of Moses H. Grossman, designed by Henri Bérengier (1881–1943), laid in; modern manuscript date to lower blank margin of last verso.

•  ESTC R19887; Kress 606; Goldsmiths’-Kress 766.1; Wing (rev. ed.) S4924.   Early 20th-century half calf over marbled paper boards with author/title/date blind-stamped to spine; rubbed. Title-page and last verso dust-soiled and text generally with significant age-toning but paper yet good; one small pinehole-type wormhole through lower margins. A sound, readable copy of an important text on a once vexed subject. (41335)

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)

The Traité is a history of divination (i.e., the prediction of the future) in ancient Western and Middle Eastern cultures. Discussing its origins and its main kinds (artificial and natural), it considers divination through dreams, prodigies and presages, and the function of the Aruspices.

Isocrates’s Discourse addresses “the behavior of honest men in the course of life,” with didactic advice.

Trojet's title-page is in red and black with an emblematic engraved vignette; his last four pages give a “Catalogue des livres francois qui se trouve à Amsterdam, chez Isaac Trojel,” with an interesting selection promised.

Binding: Contemporary calf, covers gilt ruled and spine gilt extra with gilt-lettered morocco label. Gilt inner denteles, blue endpapers, edges speckled red. Red silk ribbon book mark present.

Provenance:  18th-century French inscription on the fly-leaf.

WorldCat locates no copies in the U.S.

•  Dorbon, Bibliotheca Esoterica, 746; Quérard, II, 203. Not in Caillet; not in Coumont..   Bound as above, a little scuffed; evidence of mismanaged binding acid, especially at one corner, and front endpapers abraded. A handful of leaves slightly browned (poorly dried) or with the odd, small, light dampstain; text generally clean, with a couple of blank margins unobtrusively strengthened.  (41303)

Title woodcut vignette is of a young man in a straw hat, sharpening a scythe which is balanced on his shoulder; “[No.] 53” is printed at the foot of the chapbook's title-page.

•  Unbound; removed. In the song “My Mither”, an owner has crossed out two words & one phrase in pencil and written pencil amendments in the margin. Very good.  (37145)

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)

This is handsomely printed!

•  Not in Medina, Mexico; not in González de Cossío, Cien or 510.   Folded once and never bound. Lightly soiled at edges, with just a small spot or two of foxing; crisp.  (41271)

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)

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)

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)

Provenance:  Henry Ward Poole's copy with his initials and “Mexico, 1876" on the front pastedown.

•  Medina, Mexico, 5761.   Contemporary limp vellum. Fore-edges of binding and pages smoke-darkened, with old waterstaining at rear; else a nice copy with a good provenance.  (35154)

•  Not in NSTC.   Removed from a nonce volume. Pages faintly age-toned, with small edge nicks.  (37155)

•  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)

•  Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 232.   Binding as above, small red shelfmark at foot of spine; corners and spine extremities chipped, one small chip to outer edge of back panel design, one very unobtrusive break in inner frame of front panel design, nicely refurbished. Sewing loosening as is common, with last leaf separated and previous one threatening; pages gently age-toned with occasional minor smudging in margins; text pages (not plate pages) foxed. A striking binding and equally striking color-printing. (41192)

Provenance: From the collection of Brian Douglas Stilwell, sans indicia.

•  Brooks 1183; Brunet 16403.   Bindings as above; minimal shelfwear overall, one spine head chipped. Vol. I: first few leaves with very light waterstaining across lower corners, not approaching frontispiece image or type; last few leaves with lightest imaginable waterstaining to lower halves . Vol. III: short tear in oute margin of one leaf. Vol. V: title-page with sprinkling of tiny spots; one page with small ink smear. A clean and handsome set.  (40203)

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with ownership inscription of Theodore H. Swan.

•  Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in dark brown and gilt; very slight rubbing to extremities, otherwise clean and fresh. Pages faintly age-toned. One leaf with chip in upper margin; one leaf with tear from upper margin, extending into a few lines of text without loss. A solid, pleasing copy.  (41297)

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)

•  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)

•  Alden & Landis, European Americana, 735/226; Sabin 93331; Palau 324189; Medina, Biblioteca hispoano-americana, 3009.   20th-century full treed sheep, marbled endpapers; title-page and last leaf soiled and mounted, otherwise very nice.  (41274)

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:  Front fly-leaf of vol. I with affectionate inked gift inscription from David Williams to John Griffiths (both academics of the University of Oxford, as referenced in the inscription), dated 1854. Front pastedowns each with 19th-century bookseller's small leather label (“the most Expert Bookfinder Extant”).

•  Brooks 361; Brunet, V, 916; De Lama, II, 52–53; Dibdin, II, 360–61; Graesse 467.   Bindings as above, edges and extremities rubbed, spine labels with small repairs. One of the most desirable editions of this important poet, here in an attractive copy with delightful provenance.  (40137)

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)

Title woodcut vignette of a man in doublet and hose with a plumed helmet and a sword; “[No.] 18” printed at foot of title. Very scarce chapbook edition.

•  Unbound; removed. Very good.  (37146)

•  Exemplares: Medina, Manila, 286; Palau 296834; Pardo de Tavera, Biblioteca filipina, 2516; Retana, Aparato bibliográfico, 342. Representacion: Medina, Manila, 278; Palau 296831; Retana, Aparato bibliográfico, 331; Pardo de Tavera, Biblioteca filipina, 2513. Memorial: Retana, Aparato bibliográfico, 332; Pardo de Tavera, Biblioteca filipina, 2514; Medina, Manila, 279; Palau 296832. Señor: Palau 296833; not in Medina, Manila; not in Retana, Aparato bibliográfico; not in Pardo de Tavera, Biblioteca filipina, 2514.   Contemporary limp vellum with spine title in ink and thong ties, book block loose in binding; first item lacking the engraving. Contents relatively clean, with two small wormholes throughout causing generally minor text loss (a letter or two, not whole words). A fascinating compilation of scarce Philippine imprints. (40763)

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)

This leaf of The Golden Legend has on its recto, and continuing on the verso, the final portion of account of the nativity of the Virgin, which recounts episodes from her mature adulthood andshows the Mother of God as a powerful figure with a powerful sense of what is due her.  She promises death within 30 days to a bishop who has removed from office an unsatisfactory priest that she appreciates as specially devoted to her (he is reinstated and the bishop lives); she intercedes in another vision with her “debonayre sone” to reverse the damnation of a “vayne and ryotous” cleric who, on the other hand, has been specially devoted to her and her Hours (he reforms). In a third case, she redeems from the grasp of hell a bishop's vicar who, disappointed of promotion in office, had engaged “a Jewe [who was] a magycyan” to facilitate his signing in his own blood a soul-sacrificing deal with “the devyll” (the vicar repented).  The Marian section closes with an account of “Saynt Jherom's” devotion to her. All this is followed on the verso by the beginning of the life of St. Adrian of Nicomedia, who before his conversion to Christianity and subsequent martyrdom was a Herculian Guard of the Roman Emperor Galerius Maximian. He is the patron saint of soldiers, arms dealers, guards, butchers, victims of the plague, and epileptics. The text is printed in double-column format inEnglish gothic type.

Provenance:  From an offering of leaves from this edition of The Golden Legend by the Dauber & Pine Bookshops, New York City, in ca. 1928 .

English incunable leaves are increasingly difficult to obtain.

•  STC (rev. ed.) 24876; ESTC S103597; Duff 411; Copinger 6475; Goff J-151; ISTC ij00151000.   Removed neatly from a bound volume. With a “cover leaf” in approximation of a title-page, reading “The Golden Legende. J. de Voragine. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde 1498. Dauber & Pine Bookshops, Inc. New York.” A striking relic recounting multiple miracles and presenting Mary as a most interesting personality.  (40744)

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)

Mrs. Rawlinson recorded these recipes in standard format with ingredients listed first, and although her page-filling, uninterrupted, and only lightly punctuated paragraphs sometimes obscure that convention, her strong, slanting handwriting is very decipherable. The dishes she chose to preserve here (unseparated by any categorization) include British classics as well as dishes showing overseas influences; among them are Genoise pudding, maccaroni cheese [sic], curry, baked haddock, marmalade pudding, ragout of rabbit, milk rolls, lobster cutlets, beef olives, amber pudding (using apples, dried cherries, and lemon rind), Charlotte Russe, stewed steak, potato croquettes, Mulligatawny soup, lentil purée, beef hash pie, orange fritters, stewed kidney, kedgeree, German pudding, oyster patties, and many others. In the middle of one volume are a few pages bearing dessert recipes given in several different hands, one recipe being attributed to Mrs. Carr and one dated 1884.

This gathering of recipes providesa great deal of information regarding the dietary habits and preferences of the prosperous couple, as well as the culinary techniques available to Mrs. Rawlinson — everything here was prepared “on the fire,” as Burnley did not have electricity until 1893.

•  Contemporary oilcloth limp wrappers, now housed in a plain box with printed paper label on lid; box extremities lightly rubbed, wrappers rubbed and worn, text block all but detached from spine in smaller volume; Mrs. Rawlinson's name inscribed in each volume. Larger volume with offsetting to first and last pages; a very few instances of spotting, pages overall very clean. Interesting provenance/context, and interesting content. (41147)

•  Brooks 548; De Lama, II, 96–97; Giani 59 (p. 51).   Contemporary half brown calf and marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled; rubbed overall with fore-edge and spine label chipped, pin-hole worm action to spine/joints without this reaching interior. Free endpapers, front fly-leaf, and final blank each with one horizontal crease in lower portion; front endpapers with pencilled annotations. Occasional light to moderate foxing.  (40167)

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

•  Bennett, American Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books, p. 75; Nissen, Botanische Buchillustration, 1331.   Bound as above, moderate rubbing overall with small scuffs, sunning to cloth at edges, front joint of vol. I partially refurbished some time ago. Pages and plates age-toned with offsetting from plates and intermittent foxing; one leaf with short tear into lower inner margin, not touching text. Laid in is a small scrap of paper bearing an appealingly homemade rendition of a pink flower, in what looks like watercolor. A strong, clean, and attractive set of a significant American and Philadelphia-associated botanical work, beautifully illustrated.  (41168)

This is numbered copy 1157 of 1500 printed, with the appropriate LEC newsletter laid in; unlike many LEC editions, this one was issued unsigned, asthe mysterious artist had vanished into parts unknown by the time of publication!

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 199.   Publisher's tan buckram, front cover and spine stamped in brown and gilt; spine showing a little rubbing and darkening. Slipcase lacking. A solid, pleasing copy.  (41183)

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)

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)

•  Brooks 1146; De Lama, II, 218–19.   Contemporary speckled paper–covered boards, framed in single blind roll, spine with later gilt-stamped red leather title and publisher labels; spine darkened, edges and extremities chewed, back joint starting from head and foot. Front pastedown showing small line of adhesion from now-absent affixed label. A very few faint spots of foxing only, indeed happily few as Bodoni productions can go; internally, an attractive, wide-margined example, with its page edges untrimmed.  (40201)

Each title-page features a wood-engraved vignette. All six pieces are signed “Z,” for Hannah More, the creator of and primary contributor to the “Cheap Repository.”

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

•  Removed from a nonce volume. Latter portion misbound as above. Slightly age-toned, with scattered mild foxing. Each title-page vignette with a few dark spots apparently resulting from printer's over-inking; an interesting copy.  (41161)

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers, stapled; small scuffs, back wrapper with streak of staining, pressure point from a front-wrapper scuff or prick unobtrusively carried throughout. This ephemeral, eye-opening item is now scarce.  (41057)

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

•  Removed from a nonce volume; page edges gently browned. The workmanlike printing is somewhat uneven, and the title-page vignette shows a few small ink spots from the press.Uncommon and interesting.   (41160)

The two folding tables are printed on very thin tissue or “tracing”-like paper. In addition to the grammar and the vocabularies there is alsoa printing of the parable of the prodigal son in Mpongwe with a literal translation into English done interlinearly.

Provenance:  Deaccessioned from the Bowdoin College library.

•  Publisher's marbled paper covered boards, brown leather shelfback, original title label on front board; light abrasions only, and some soiling to label. Browning to endpapers, some chipping and crinkling to edges and corners, intermittent spotting and soiling; ex-library with partially removed bookplate on front pastedown, embossed stamps on title-leaf and two others, no other markings.  (41081)

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)

•  Adomeit, Thumb Bibles, B16 (see also p. xvi); ESTC N64949; Opie L 25.   Binding as above, slightly (expectably) sprung, spine gilt showing one crack. Dates inked in an early hand as above; frontispiece for New Testament affixed to final page of Old Testament. Pages and plates very clean.  A remarkable copy of a desirable item.  (41004)

•  Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 94; Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1836.17; Ing, Charles Whittingham, 13; Horne, The Compleat Angler 1653–1967, 43.   Bindings as above, spines gently sunned; front free endpapers stamped “Bartlett & Co, Boston” in upper outer corners. Occasional minor foxing/spotting; vol. II with mild waterstaining to lower outer portions, more pronounced to first few leaves and later ones. An enduring classic, in a beautiful set. (40961)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Benedetto Grandi, a collector of books and antiquities, and with small early label marked “Attilio”; front free endpaper with bookplate of Dom Henri Quentin (1872–1935), philologist and editor of the Vulgate Old Testament.

•  Brooks 1018; Giani 180 (p. 72; apparent error in collation).   Bound as above, lightly rubbed overall and spine sunned to olive. Scattered minor foxing; small signs of worming buried in gutters and other spots in inner margins with repairs done some time ago, with occasional minor adhering between pages at repair locations. Solid and very readable; a pleasing copy. (40193)

“Title page and decorations by I. Sanders, sculptor. Lettering by Theodore Mehrer. Composition by I. Marlin. Cover and interior stock supplied by The Japan Paper Company” (verso of title-page).

Davidson (1895–1971) was an American poet, writer, publisher and longtime secretary of the Poetry Society of America.

•  Original green stiff wrappers with lettering and design in gold on front cover. Fine copy. A very elegant little production.  (39837)

This broadside also importantly marks the end of the 40-year ban on the use of Nahuatl in official publications. Venegas adds (in translation): “And so every one may know the king's desires, and so they may be realized, we order this decree be promulgated everywhere in the Mexican language, the Otomí language, and every other Indian language.” No examples of its publication in those other indigenous languages have been found.

The broadside was not intended to be read by the natives, most of whom were illiterate, but rather was to be read by Nahuatl-speaking town criers.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only four U.S. libraries (UC-San Diego, Lilly, John Carter Brown, and Cushing at Texas A&M) reporting ownership.

•  Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 914; Medina, Mexico, 10533; Torres Lanzas 2609; Ugarte, Obras escritas en lenguas indigenas de Mexico, 421; H. de León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolll, 2812. See also: Mark Morris, “Language in Service of the State: The Nahuatl Counterinsurgency Broadsides of 1810,” in Hispanic American Historical Review 87:3 (2007), pp. 433–70.   Removed from a bound volume, printed on pale blue paper. Two tears in text area with old repair. The bottom margin shows the faintly visible transfer from another copy of the broadside while wet and stacked in the print shop!  (41014)

Provenance:  Pasted in the top margin of Herodotus is a slip reading “Ex libris Joannis Adami Messerschmid 1770.” Later in the library of the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School (properly deaccessioned).

Binding:  Recent full calf by Starr bindery, raised bands to spine accented with gilt rules, and a gilt green spine label; interesting but modest blind tooling on the covers in a 16th-century style.

Previous Binding:  Deteriorated but preserved in a separate blue cloth clamshell case: Boards covered in calf with a center gilt device accomplished with a single stamp used dos á dos Visible under the pastedowns and on the back of the preserved but incomplete spine covering are scraps of a medieval manuscript. Also visible on the front pastedown is a curious embossing, possibly intentional and possibly the impression of something once pressed long and hard between cover and text block.

•  Herodotus: Adams H395; VD16 H2507& G1079; Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics, II, 19–20; Schweiger, I, 138; Graesse, III, 254. Thucydides: VD16 T1114; Adams T664; Graesse, VII, 148; Schoell, II, 166; Adams T664; Schweiger, I, 325; Dibdin, Greek and Latin Classics, II, 506.   Bound as above; text with occasional, generally light instances of soiling, staining, or spotting, this most notable at beginning (including Herodotus title-page) and at end of volume. Minor pinhole type worming in lower margin of both works (three or four very determined pests, who thankfully did not meander). A handsome and wide-margined copy.  (40952)

•  Brunet, VI, 1720 (no. 30066); Graesse, IV, 679.   Later plain cream linen, spines with titles stamped in brown; minor sunning to spines and to top front edge of vol. II. Edges untrimmed, most signatures unopened; dust-soiling to edges and into many margins; foxing, creasing and cockling variously; some leaves in vol. I with short tears from outer margins (often where an illustration needed to be placed inside an unopened signature). Of interest for scholars of public morals and popular culture, the book trade, and illustration in France from the 15th century through the middle of the 19th, among other topics. (40866)