Provenance: One leaf with early inked inscription reading “ex dono Joseph Rowens”; later bookplates of the James Buckham Memorial and Charles Holbrook libraries at the Pacific School of Religion (Berkeley, CA).

Evidence of Readership: Title-page with traces of mostly effaced early inked inscription; blank leaf between Old and New Testaments with one small early inked word, lined through; occasional early marks of emphasis and underlining in red, one early marginal note.

•  Darlow & Moule 6160. N.T.: Adams B1075; Renouard (2nd ed.), Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, p. 159.   Bound as above, with most gilt significantly rubbed and dimmed; rubbed and scuffed overall but solid. Endpapers refurbished some time ago; front pastedown and free endpaper with PSR bookplates affixed as above, these bearing small rubber-stamps affirming the volume's proper deaccession. First few leaves crumpled, final leaf rumpled and partially adhered to rear free endpaper; one leaf with small hole affecting a few letters; some upper edges trimmed closely, touching headers and leaf numbers; a handful of corners torn away not touching text. Old waterstaining affecting the text block’s final third, very light to begin with, darkens significantly across the last portion with the last few leaves and rear endpapers showing onetime action of mold long since stabilized; otherwise only the light soil as of ordinary use is occasionally apparent, with a few scattered small ink stains. A volume that obviously has seen much service and is priced accordingly, while yeta sturdy, usable, and interesting copy of a noteworthy Bible.  (41585)

This early 19th–century chapbook printing opens with ahand-colored, folding frontispiece showing four vignettes of servants “humorously” at work, surrounding a larger depiction of the lady of the house, the whole in an acanthus-leaf frame, the coloring having been executed with somewhat more enthusiasm than precision. The back wrapper advertises Hodgson's The Life & Adventures of Three Fingered Jack, the Terror of Jamaica.

This edition is uncommon: A search of WorldCat findsonly one reported U.S. institutional holding  (the Huntington Library).

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

•  Teerink 793.   Sewn in printed tan paper wrappers as issued, with back wrapper smaller than front; moderate wear and dust-soiling, upper edge of back wrapper chipped affecting border. Pages faintly age-toned, with light creasing and finger-soil; edges untrimmed with last leaves dust-soiled in areas not covered by the small-cut wrapper. A good surviving copy of this essentially ephemeral publication. (41899)

•  Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1852:32; Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1852.1.   Contemporary plain gray-green cloth, very neatly rebacked with almost indistinguishable cloth, piece of original spine with publisher's printed spine label laid in; sides with small spots of unobtrusive discoloration. Front pastedown with early inked annotation. Pages very slightly age-toned, with faint foxing to endpapers and a few scattered light spots elsewhere. Quite a nice copy. (41937)

This sole edition of “A Warning Voice” opens with the poem “Sister Spirit Come Away,” illustrated with a wood-engraved scene of angels watching over the victims as they drown, a poem written by Eliza Perkins.  Portions of several other poems about the catastrophe are included, one written specifically for Sophia, and one that begins “Death follows in the wake of Time and sweeps / Away the aged and the blooming young.”

Also present are lists of officers, crew, and passengers of the Lexington, and an account of the various ways in which they perished. The authorial attribution comes from the copyright information.

This item is scarce, with very few institutions reporting hard-copy holdings.

•  Sabin 101453; American Imprints 40-6819.   Removed from a nonce volume; sewing going, with some leaves all but separated. Upper and lower edges waterstained, into margins but not text; pages age-toned overall with occasional foxing.  (41953)

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

•  Cohn, George Cruikshank: A catalogue raisonné, 221.   Later speckled paper wrappers, rubbed and chipped, splitting at joints with covers essentially separated. Age-toned; offsetting from frontispiece to title-page. Scarce, and worthy of recasing. (41802)

Balli (fl. 1574–1600), originally from Salamanca, Spain, and of French and Spanish decent, arrived in Mexico as a bookseller butby 1574 was operating a printing shop.

Provenance:   Discreet ownership stamp in an inner margin of Michael Mathes.

Related to Edwin A. Carpenter, A Sixteenth-Century Mexican Broadside (i.e., The Valtón Collection), types 31– 35??

•  Edwin A. Carpenter, A Sixteenth-Century Mexican Broadside, Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1965; Not in Szewczyk & Buffington, 39 Books and Broadsides Printed in America before the Bay Psalm Book; María Isabel GraZén Porrúa, Los Grabados en la obra de Juan Pablos, Mexico: Apoyo al desarrollo de Archivos y Bibliotecas de Mexico & Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2010.   Removed from a bound volume, very irregular in inner margins, worming in lower margin and into last line of text, costing portions of two printed words and six manuscript words, but not impairing ability to understand the text; otherwise, ordinary age-toning only. Laid in, as issued, to a copy of the Carpenter leaf book (Los Angeles: Dawson’s Book Shop, 1965; limited to 140 copies, printed by Saul & Lilian Marks at the Plantin Press). A good and visually striking example of a Mexican incunable broadside and of Mexican, specifically Balli job printing — and, one with evocative manuscript completions. (41754)

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)

•  Palau 149416. On Mansfield, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online).   Bound as above, spine slightly dimmed, extremities rubbed. Ownership marking (?) at foot of half-title and pencilled annotation on title-page both now almost completely effaced. Pages faintly age-toned with leaves prior to text (only) showing a few instances of foxing; otherwise, a very clean and fresh copy and one withthe folding map in excellent condition.  (41798)

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

•  Recent marbled paper wrappers in a striking green and red ripple pattern. Minor offsetting to title-page from frontispiece; pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean and fresh. A pleasing copy of an uncommon and attractive item.  (41799)

•  Contemporary ribbon-embossed olive cloth, covers framed in blind-stamped flower and stem motifs, spine with same motif and title in gilt; spine and upper edges sunned to brown, extremities rubbed. Back pastedown with binder's ticket of Bone & Son. Pages gently age-toned, with pencilled markings as above; last few signatures unopened and two leaves with short edge tears. An “association copy” of real interest. (41893)

Special homage is paid in this handsome and rare broadside to three picadores who participated in what we suspect was a Corrida de Beneficencia, a benefit bullfight, in early 1888. Entirely printed in gold, the text of the broadside is center justified, employs eight typefaces, and is contained in a gold frame.

•  Very good, some chipping in margins. Horizontally folded in the past without damage to the “joint.”  (41878)

Provenance:  Front wrapper with rubber-stamp of William C. Gannett, clergyman and reformer; the Rev. Gannett and his wife ran a number of reading and study groups associated with the Unitarian Church in Rochester, NY.

•  Sewn in publisher's printed paper wrappers; wrappers gently sunned and with rubber-stamp as above. Crisp and clean. (41925)

J.F. McLaughlin, a Baltimore lawyer, supplied the 16-page biography of “Peppergrass” that precedes the novel.

Provenance: Ownership signature of James Flaherty of New London, CT, on front free endpaper and fly-leaf.

•  Wright. II, 330 (earlier Baltimore edition in two volumes).   Publisher's green cloth, boards blind-stamped with a center medallion of the publisher's monogram; spine stamped in gilt with an image of the spaewife. Age-toned with foxing/spotting and few quires starting to loosen; a copread with enthusiasm..  (41721)

This is the first edition, illustrated with four striking color-printed plates by Clarence Coles Phillips, demonstrating his characteristic use of negative space.

Binding:  Publisher's brick-colored cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and vignette of the heroine stamped in silver and gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title and silver-stamped butterfly motif. The very unusual color-printed endpapers depict the novel's characters interspersed with (and shown as) butterflies.

•  Smith, American Fiction, 1901–1925, A-341.   Bound as above, extremities a bit rubbed; spine very slightly darkened. Pages fresh and clean. An interesting text, in an attractive presentation. (37481)

•  Sutro 117; Steele 42; Medina, Mexico, 11696; Garritz, Impresos novohispanos, 3584.   Modern marbled boards with paper label.  (3879)

•  ESTC T60407; Blake, NLM 18th Century, p. 285.   Contemporary half red roan and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, all edges saffron; binding rubbed and scuffed. Bookplate as above, front free endpaper with early inked shelving numbers (no other markings); front endpapers with small area of staining carrying lightly through to center portion of title-page and first signatures with more noticeable age-toning than others, text in fact notably clean. A solid copy of a very interesting work, with nice provenance.  (41709)

ESTC records several variant printings, none of which are common; in the present example, the title-page gives both “Cheap Repository” and “Great Allowance will be made to Shopkeepers and Hawkers” in italics, and there is a semicolon after Bath in the imprint.

•  ESTC T22338; Osborne Collection, p. 916; Spinney, Cheap Repository Tracts, 50.   Removed from a nonce volume, title-page with chip to outer edge not touching image or text. Pages age-toned with variable foxing and a little staining, and with . a few pages with lightly pencilled numerals or marks of emphasis. Worn, still an uncommon item very readable in both senses.  (41796)

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)

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

•  ESTC T147119; Gumuchian 3499; Osborne Collection, p. 272; Roscoe, John Newbery, J210.   Original quarter olive-colored vellum and handsome marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label; vellum rubbed, spine label chipped, corners slightly bumped. One page with ink smudge to blank area, pages otherwise clean. An unusually nice copy, one showing no signs of childish wear. (41583)

•  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)

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. (41676)

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)

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)

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)

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)

Provenance:  Bookplates of Casimir L. Stralem, Clarence E. Clark, and Brian Douglas Stilwell.

WorldCat locates only six U.S. libraries reporting ownership ofall eight volumes as present here (NYPL, Cornell, Seton Hall, Holy Cross College, New York Historical Society, UC-Berkeley Law) and two libraries reporting ownership of incomplete sets (Harvard Divinity [vols. 1, 2 only], University of Dayton [vol. 3 only]).

•  Darlow & Moule, III, 6263; Jammes, Les Didot, 25.   Bound as above, some joints (outside) showing cracking but all intact. All volumes housed in light marbled-paper open-back cases, some with tape repairs. Very good. (40318)

This English chapbook version is scarce: WorldCat reports only one U.S. institutional location (University of Delaware) and just two additional U.K. holdings, with the title not recorded at all by NSTC. The hand-colored engraved frontispiece here depicts our rosy-cheeked, Rubenesque heroine telling her story to her mustachioed rescuer over breakfast.

•  Recent marbled paper wrappers in attractive red, brown, tan, and cream fantail pattern. Frontispiece recto with small inked ownership inscription in upper inner corner. Pages clean and crisp. An uncommon incarnation of an internationally popular trashy romance, here in an attractive copy.  (40974)

Shockingly the editors report “a most infamous conspiracy to injure and break down several periodicals in this city — our own among the number — has lately come to light” (p. 230). The subscribers’ lists of several periodicals were leaked (apparently by clerks) to unscrupulous individuals who then sent “a vile obscene and filth paper [sic]” to those unsuspecting patrons.

Binding:  Publisher's red, richly gold-stamped textured leather, covers with gilt-stamped central bouquet in a basket. All edges gilt.

Provenance: Pencilled name of Peter J. Revill on front free endpaper.

•  Faxon 188c. Not in Tepper or Thomson.   Binding as above anda brilliantly BRIGHT example. Varying degrees of foxing and staining, most notably surrounding plates. A very pleasing volume from many points of view.  (40888)

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)

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)

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)

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)

•  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)

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)

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)

•  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)

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)

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)

•  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)