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“A Family of Beauties Interesting to Us for Almost
Every Reason That Can Render Women Interesting”
Scott, Walter; Charles Heath, illus. The Waverley gallery of the principal female characters in Sir Walter Scott's romances. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1864. 8vo (26.8 cm, 10.55"). 230 pp.; 36 plts.
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“From original paintings by eminent artists — engraved under the superintendence of Charles Heath”: Sir Walter Scott's beloved heroines, depicted in
36 steel-engraved portraits. Heath, a prominent artist and engraver, illustrated a number of Scott's works during the course of his prolific career and was much noted for his work on the Waverley Novels, although for the present volume he focused on works done by other hands. The plates here, offering
a range of maidenly beauties from demure to maniacal, are each accompanied by several pages of Scott's most descriptive writing about the character portrayed. This is an early American edition, following the first London of 1840–41.
Binding: Publisher's brown morocco, BOTH covers framed and panelled in gilt and blind and with decorative gilt-stamped title and geometric motifs; spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-framed compartments with blind-stamped motif in each. Board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf with pencilled inscription: “Sarah & Thomas [/] From Father E [/] 'Merry Christmas' [/] 1864.” Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
Bound as above, a little very light rubbing; gilt bright. Some offsetting to guard leaves and minimal foxing to margins of some plates — actually, remarkably little!
A clean and attractive copy of this aesthetically pleasing collection. (39861)

“Neither Romance Nor Pure History” — The Pilgrims
& Their Departure from England
Sears, Edmund H. Pictures of the olden time, as shown in the fortunes of a family of the Pilgrims. Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Co.; Cincinnati: George S. Blanchard; London: Sampson Low, Son, & Co., 1857. 12mo (19.8 cm, 7.75"). viii, 342 pp.
$100.00
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First edition: Historical novel based on the author's genealogical researches, with chapters entitled “The Exile,” “The Adventurer,” and “The Pilgrim.” Sears later in the same year issued a now-rare private edition of this work which included a spurious pedigree of Richard Sears, not present here.
The
Massachusetts-born Sears was a Unitarian minister and author of the famous carol
“It Came upon the Midnight Clear.”
Wright, II, 2174; Sabin 78641. Publisher's brown cloth, covers blind-stamped with star-shaped design, spine with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped decoration; binding cocked and rubbed, spine extremities chipped. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and call number on pastedown and fly-leaf, front free endpaper lacking, title-page pressure-stamped. No other markings. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean. (26565)

Isn't “Rustlings in the Rockies” a GREAT Title??
Shields, G.O. Rustlings in the Rockies: Hunting and fishing by mountain and stream. Chicago: Belford, Clarke & Co., 1883. 8vo. Frontis., xvi (vii/viii bound in after xvi),9–306, [6 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
$100.00
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Early edition, following the first of 1880 (published as Hunting the Great West): Outdoors adventures among the bears and buffalo — not to mention the trout and the alligator — as well as encounters with the Cheyenne and Sioux, all illustrated with numerous full-page and in-text steel engravings. The author (a.k.a. Coquina) was president of the League of American Sportsmen and a frequent contributor to American Field.
Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, front cover with black-stamped hunting scene and title framed in gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title.
Binding as above, corners and spine head lightly rubbed. Ex–social club library: call number on endpaper, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Pages clean. (27113)

A Bowery
“B'Hoy” Makes Good
Southworth, Mrs. E.D.E.N. Capitola's peril. New York: A.L. Burt & Co., [ca. 1890]. 12mo (19.2 cm, 7.55"). [2], 246, [6 (adv.)] pp.
$125.00
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The exciting conclusion of The Hidden Hand, Southworth's most popular novel. “Madcap” scrappy Irish-American tomboy Capitola, rescued from street life in New York City and removed to a Virginia plantation, embarks on further adventures before settling down to her happy ending. The entire work was originally serialized and then printed in book form under the Hidden Hand title, and subsequently often published in two volumes as The Hidden Hand and Capitola's Perils. This is an early if not the first printing of the latter as a separate item, now uncommon as such, with the present copy being
in the publisher's original dust jacket.
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)

Revolutionary, EASY! & Economical Cookery
Soyer, Nicolas; Van De Water, Virginia Terhune, ed. Soyer's paper-bag cookery. New York: Sturgis & Walton Co., 1911. 12mo (17 cm, 6.69"). [2], 130, [2] pp.
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Cook tastier, healthier food without need of pots or pans — and without creating strong smells in small living spaces! Soyer, grandson of the legendary chef and reformer Alexis Soyer, here offers an entire system of cuisine en papillote. This is the first U.S. edition (second printing), and
specially adapted by the editor for American cooks. Towards the back are sections with suggestions for working-class families, invalids, and bachelors, this last being introduced by an amusing first-person short story (“The Bag & the Bachelor”); the final page is an advertisement for Union cooking bags to be used with this system. The copyright statement notes that the electrotyping was done in July, 1911 and the present printing in August of the same year.
Bitting, 444 (for London eds. only); Cagle & Stafford, American Books on Food and Drink, 725 ???. Not in Brown. Publisher's cloth the color of a tan paper bag, front cover and spine stamped in red; spine lettering darkened, extremities slightly rubbed. Front pastedown with (attractive) institutional bookplate, title-page and one other with pressure-stamp, copyright page with inked numeral (no other markings), and back pastedown with traces of now-absent pocket. Pages faintly and evenly age-toned, otherwise crisp and fresh.
An agreeable copy of a most genially presented process. (41351)

Noted Christian Nativist Fans the Flames
Sparry, C. The illustrated Christian martyrology; being an authentic and genuine historical account of the principal persecutions against the church of Christ, in different parts of the world by pagans and papists. Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, 1854. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.5"). Color frontis., 254 pp., [16] ff. (of publisher's ads), 23 color plts.
$550.00
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Charles Sparry was a virulent anti-Catholic “reverend,” author or compiler of several anti-Catholic books, editor of the short-lived periodical The North American Protestant magazine or the anti Jesuit, and an accused purveyor of obscene literature.
The present martyrology, first printed in 1846, reached seven editions during the 19th century, four of them printed by Leary & Getz, the printing arm of the famous Philadelphia bookstore generally and simply known as “Leary's.” Not unexpectedly, the volume is wildly anti-Cathoic but is also an excellent example of mid-century American bookmaking in its publisher's binding, illustration, and method of printing.
The binding is the publisher's red roan in imitation of morocco. Both covers are gilt-stamped with a triple rule border at the board edges and gilt corner devices; in the center of each board is a gilt vignette of a martyrdom based on one of the plates in the text. All edges are gilt.
The illustrations are wood engravings, mostly unsigned, but a few signed “Lossing.” There are several in-text wood-engraved portraits and there are additionally
24 wood-engraved plates (including the frontispiece) that have been hand colored, probably by a stencil method.
The text is printed in double-column format from stereoplates, in roman type, with an interesting six-line capital at the beginning of each chapter.
Provenance: “Mamie C. Swinton, from 'Aunt Jennie,' August 1870.”
Binding as above, rubbed at board edges and joints (outside); top and bottom of spine pulled with loss of leather. Short tears in foremargins of final blank leaves; scattered foxing and some brown spotting. Over all, a good++ copy; a very good representative of
the genre, “ugly ideas got-up beautifully.” (37226)

“A
Haven of Peace in a Distracted
World”
Spaulding, Thomas M. The Literary Society in peace
and war. Washington; Menasha, WI: Privately printed by George Banta Publishing Co., 1947.
8vo. 37, [1 (blank)] pp.
$35.00
This edition is limited to
150 copies; our caption quotation
appears on p. 1. With a list of members on pp. 23–37.
Publisher's cloth,
lettered in gilt on the front. Near fine. (26702)
State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Collections on the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, for the years 1877, 1878 and 1879. Vol. VIII. Madison: David Atwood, 1879. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). 511, [1] pp.; illus.
$100.00
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1877–79 edition of what was generally an annual report, commenced in 1855. Topics covered include “Ancient Copper Mines of Lake Superior,” “Indian Wars of Wisconsin,” and “Early Times at Fort Winnebago”; the volume is illustrated with representations of cave designs from La Crosse Valley.
Provenance: Title-page with affixed presentation slip from the State Historical Society; front free endpaper with affixed envelope flap addressed to the Rev. E.A. Dalrymple of Baltimore, MD.
Publisher’s cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title. Binding sturdy but with portion of spine cloth missing, exposing underlying material; corners bumped, extremities very lightly rubbed. Front pastedown with institutional stamp. Pages slightly age-toned, else clean.

Just Sort of ~ Crazy?
Stearns, Charles, comp. & ed. Report of the case of Charles Stearns against J.W. Ripley, in the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, November term, 1850, for malicious prosecution. His Honor Judge Sprague, presiding. Springfield [Mass.]: G.W. Wilson, Printer, 1851. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.75"). 76, [1], 14 pages, 1 folded leaf of plates (i.e., a plan).
$225.00
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The root of the case was
a dispute over a vineyard that Ripley attempted to spirit away from Stearns during the period when Ripley was Superintendent of the Springfield Armory. Stearns was an abutting neighbor of the Armory and at one point was indicted for “malicious trespass and riot.” Upon acquittal, he in turn sued Ripley for trespass, but crazily was himself once more indicted for trespass. Matters dragged on for years and even in 1851 Stearns was slugging it out with the army for his land.
Cohen, Bibliography of early American Law, 12057; Sabin 90872. As issued: Stitched in printed green wrappers. (39221)

Printed by W. Thomas Taylor / Signed by Stern
Stern, Madeleine B. Nicholas Gouin Dufief of Philadelphia: Franco-American bookseller, 1776-1834. Philadelphia: The Philobiblon Club, 1988. 8vo. (22 cm; 8.75"). 81 pp., illus., portrait, facsimiles.
$50.00
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Limited to 300 (unnumbered) copies, signed by Stern and printed by W. Thomas Taylor, Austin, Texas, who also designed the work (“The types used are Baskerville & Bulmer”). Stern gave this talk before the Philobiblon Club; the text “Appeared previously in the American Book Collector in a somewhat shorter form” (Preface). Includes bibliographical references (pp. 73–81).
Stern was the life and business partner of Leona Rostenberg, their firm of Rostenberg & Stern having been one of America's most respected during the post –WWII period and known for its dealing in early printed books Dufief (1776?–1834) was a refugee from the French Revolution who from 1793 to 1818 lived in Philadelphia, where he taught French and ran a bookstore.
Among the libraries he acquired was the large residue of Benjamin Franklin's!
New. Publisher's light brown cloth with paper spine label. (35753)

19th-Century American
Blind-Embossed Binding
Sterne, Laurence. The works of Laurence Sterne, in one volume: With a life of the author, written by himself. Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliot (stereotyped by J. Howe), 1834. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.875"). Frontis. port., vi, [1], 8-416 pp.
$115.00
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A stereotyped American edition of 18th-century novelist Sterne's works bound in
a wonderful American blind-embossed binding. This edition comprises “Memoirs of the life and family of the Late Reverend Mr. Laurence Sterne, Written by himself,” “The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman,” “A sentimental journey through France and Italy,” “Letters by Laurence Sterne, A.M.,” “An impromptu,” “The fragment,” and “The history of a good warm watch-coat.”
The frontispiece portrait was engraved by James Barton Longacre (1794–1869) after the painting by Joshua Reynolds. Longacre was an American engraver of great talent: From 1844 until his death he was the Chief Engraver of the United States Mint. He is remembered for designing the Indian Head penny, the Shield nickel, the Flying Eagle cent, and other iconic coins of the mid-19th century.
Binding: Green morocco, both covers blind-embossed with a round center medallion depicting a man and a woman (or goddess) in a garden by a greenhouse, he seated with a rake on one shoulder and a spade by his side, she standing and extending a hand to him to either give or receive a branch of fruit; medallion surmounted by a lyre and framed in elaborate acanthus and foliate motifs. Brown marbled endpapers; all edges sprinkled brown in a pattern resembling marbling.
Provenance: Inked ownership inscription (David Scott?) dated 1963 on front fly-leaf; title-page with early inked inscription of E.R. Potter.
American Imprints 26935. Binding not in Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks. Binding as above; edges and extremities rubbed, front joint tender and starting, spine slightly sunned. Ownership inscriptions as above. Intermittent mild to moderate foxing; offsetting to title-page from portrait.
Aged but elegant, in a notable binding. (38209)

An
AMERICAN Dissatisfied with New-Granada
Steuart, John. Bogotá in 1836–7. Being a narrative of an expedition to the capital of New-Grenada, and a residence there of eleven months. New York: Pr. for the author by Harper & Bros., 1838. 8vo (cm). viii, [13]–312, [2] pp.
$500.00
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First edition of this travel account, in which Steuart describes his journey from New York to Bogotá and Carthagena. The author, who opens by debunking “Extravagant Ideas prevalent regarding South America” (p. 13), is highly critical of the local virtue, temperament, religious observances, apparel, and cuisine (complaining particularly of excessive cumin and garlic), reserving his praise primarily for the excellent chocolate. In his concluding remarks, he expresses much pessimism regarding any possibility of successful international commerce with the South American states.
Binding: Publisher's ribbon-embossed green floral-patterned cloth of Krupp's style Ft6.
American Imprints 53109; Palau 322394; Sabin 91388. Not in Smith, American Travellers Abroad. On the binding, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823--50. Publisher's green floral-patterned cloth, spine with printed paper label; corners and spine foot rubbed, spine head pulled, paper label darkened with edges chipped. Front free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription; occasional pencilled annotations and marks of emphasis. Light to moderate foxing. (25425)
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Shaker Bible — “Testimonies” as Part Two
Stewart, Philemon. A holy, sacred, and divine roll and book; from the Lord God of Heaven, to the inhabitants of Earth: revealed in the United Society at New Lebanon, County of Columbia, State of New-York, United States of America. Canterbury, N.H.: United Society, 1843. 8vo. vii, 222, [3] pp., [2] ff., 223–403, [3] pp.
$675.00
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First edition of this famous book of Shaker revelations, printed and bound by a Shaker institution. As was the case with the Book of Mormon, the Sacred Roll and Book was an attempt to add to the scriptural canon but met much less success. The Shaker Bible begins with a proclamation signed in type by Philemon Stewart, a member of the New Lebanon village, attesting that the text was dictated to him by a “Holy Angel” on 4 May 1842. Interestingly, the angel's introduction contains specific instructions regarding reprinting and dissemination of the book — ministers were “required” to keep a copy in their pulpits and Boards of Foreign Missions were to print translated copies “sufficient to circulate into all foreign nations.”
The second part (pp. 267–403), which contains its own title-page, is a collection of testimonies by “inspired writers,” or Shakers professing their faith in the book's divine source.
“Read and understand all ye in mortal clay,” exhorts the title-page — “Received by the church of this communion, and published in union with the same.”
Provenance: In the library of Colgate Rochester Divinity School; inscription on front free endpaper “To be returned to Amelia G. Mace, Office.”
Sabin 32664, 79708; and 90701.5 for revised collation. Contemporary sheep, recently rebacked in plain calf with gilt-ruled bands and gilt-stamped green leather title-label. Ex-library copy, with rubber-stamp on all paper edges and p. [1]; rubber-stamped five-digit number at base of p. [iii]; inscription on front free endpaper in blue ink (see above); and faint traces of a librarian's penciling at inner margin of p. [iii] and verso of title-page. Small bookseller's ticket at lower outer corner of rear pastedown. Some foxing, especially to endpapers; offsetting from leather affecting title-page and following page, at edges; very good condition. (24495)

Avant-Garde Short Stories Cutting-Edge Criticism
Stone, Herbert Stuart, ed. Essays from the Chap-Book being a miscellany of curious and interesting tales, histories, &c.; newly composed by many celebrated writers and very delightful to read. [and] New stories from the Chap-Book being a miscellany of curious and interesting tales, histories, &c.; newly composed by many celebrated writers and very delightful to read. Chicago: Herbert S. Stone & Co., 1896 & 1898. 8vo (17.8 cm, 7"). I: vi, [2], [5]–262, [19 (adv.)] pp. II: [6], 260, [2] pp.
$150.00
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First editions of the first and second series of selected pieces from an important late 19th-century literary periodical: one volume of essays and one of short stories. Each title-page is printed in red and black, with a gaily colored publisher's vignette. The first volume includes Boyesen writing on Ibsen's new play (“Little Eyolf”), John Burroughs on writing and criticism in general, Alice Morse Earle on three different topics including the merits (or lack thereof) of professional writing revision services, Maurice Thompson on the relative oldness of “The New Woman” and on “The Return of the Girl,” and many other interesting essays on the state of contemporary life and literature.
The second volume contains “The Sands of the Green River” (Neith Boyce), “The Unsullied Brow of the Viceroy” (Edwin Lefévre), “The Saving of Jim Moseby” (Anthony Leland), “The Escape” (Dabney Marshall), “Dick” (Maria Louise Pool), “The Primrose Dame” (John Regnault Ellyson), “When His Majesty Nicholas Came to England” (Clinton Ross), “At 'The Temple of Unending Peace'” (Alfred Dwight Sheffield), “The Tumbrils” (Nathaniel Stephenson), “Gil Horne's Bergonzi” (Maurice Thompson), “Her Last Love” (Clarence Wellford), “A Little Boy of Dreams” (Beatrice Witte), and “The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing” (Edith Franklin Wyatt).
Bindings: Both volumes in publisher's pinkish-tan cloth, all edges gilt. Vol. I's spine in dark blue, each cover with A.E. Borie's Art Nouveau design of a woman walking down the street while reading, stamped in black, green, yellow, and blue. Vol. II's spine in red, covers each with striking black and red reproduction of Claude Bragdon's Chap-Book poster of the “Sandwich Man”: a vignette of a bowler-hatted man in triplicate, wearing Chap-Book sandwich boards.
Kramer, Stone & Kimball, 119 & 168. Vol. I: Binding as above, minimal shelfwear, faint smudging to sides. Pages with a few instances of pencilled marks of emphasis, mostly but not entirely confined to the first essay, pages otherwise clean. Vol. II: Binding as above, very slightly cocked, sides with faint spots of discoloration, light wear to extremities. Two stories with faded inked marks of emphasis, and one with a few pencilled marks; a very few small spots of staining, pages otherwise clean. (29013)

Stowe's Second Anti-Slavery Novel — First U.S. Edition
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Dred; a tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1856. 12mo (20 cm, 7.87"). 2 vols. I: 329, [7 (6 adv.)] pp. II; v, [1], [5]–370 pp.
$475.00
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The follow-up to Uncle Tom's Cabin: first American edition, first state as described by BAL (matching on all points, including state “A” bindings), with publisher's advertisements at the back of vol. I.
In some ways even more militantly abolitionist than Uncle Tom, this novel's complicated plot
drew 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)

Was Uncle Tom's Cabin
“A Fair Delineation of Slavery”?
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Together with corroborative statements verifying the truth of the work. London: Thomas Bosworth; Clarke, Beeton, & Co., 1853. 8vo (17.9 cm, 7.1"). viii, 595, [1], 4 (adv). pp.
$250.00
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Coming to nearly 600 pages of small but readable type, this is Stowe's aggressively exhaustive articulation and defense of the facts behind Uncle Tom's Cabin, providing an annotated account of her evidence and sources, including trial records and newspaper excerpts. An early London printing, it dates from the first year of the work's appearance in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
An abolitionist document important in its own right, not just as “support” of a fiction's faithfulness to fact.
BAL 19357 (for first London ed.). Contemporary pebbled paper with roan shelfback, spine with gilt-stamped title, foliate designs, and “L, C” at foot; rubbed. Pages slightly age-toned, with occasional small spots of foxing. A solid copy of an early printing. (34942)

So INTERESTING, What He
Chose Here!
Strodtmann, Adolf (trans.). Amerikanische Anthologie. Erster Theil: Dichtungen. Zweiter Theil: Novellen. Leipzig: Bibliogaphisches Institut, [1875]. 12mo. 2 vols. in 1. I: 236 pp. II: 297 pp.
$50.00
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Poetry by an American Journalist
Stuart, Carlos D. Ianthe: and other poems. New York: C.L. Stickney & J.C. Wadleigh, 1843. 12mo. Added engr. title-page; 222, [2] pp.
$70.00
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First edition: Collection of verse from one of the founders of the New Yorker, including two Native American-themed pieces. “Contain[ing] several poems of historical interest,” according to Sabin, this bears on its added engraved title-page a lovely vignette in romantic melancholy style signed, “J.N. Gimbrede.” The general title given above this, interestingly, is not “Ianthe” as on the printed title but “Greenwood” — that being one of the “other poems” in Stuart's volume.
Provenance: “Miss Carrie G. Skinner, Fort Ann Village, NY.”
American Imprints 43-4820; Sabin 93131. Publisher's violet cloth, covers blind-stamped with central gilt-stamped urn vignettes, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorations; cloth sunned especially at edges and spine, corners bumped, front joint with small spots of old insect damage. Front free endpaper with early pencilled ownership inscription, as above. Foxed; a few poems with early pencilled annotations (brief) — one is, simply, “Splendid.” (27650)
Sudermann, Hermann; Edith Wharton, trans. The joy of living (Es Lebe das Leben) a play in five acts. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1902. 8vo (19 cm, 7.7"). vii, [1], 185, [1 (blank)] pp.
$150.00
First edition, translated from the German by Edith Wharton: Sudermann’s play is about love, politics, and morality. It is not difficult to imagine Wharton’s attraction to this piece, in which one of the final lines uttered by the intelligent, sensitive, unhappily married heroine is “We are all expected to sacrifice our personal happiness to the welfare of the race!”
Garrison A7.1.a. Publisher’s olive paper–covered boards, front cover and spine stamped in gold; lacking the now seldom-seen dustwrapper, spine very slightly darkened, extremities showing touches of wear. Top edge gilt. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1903. Pages clean. A good-looking copy. (15733)

Introduction to the
Study of Modern History
Sullivan, William. Historical causes and effects from the fall of the Roman empire, 476, to the reformation, 1517. Boston: James B. Dow, 1838. 12mo (19.6 cm, 7.75"). viii, 615, [1 (blank)] pp.
$200.00
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First edition of this broad survey of world history, a sequel to the author's Historical Sketches, which had been published in 1833 as the first part of a contemplated general
history; Sullivan died before completing the planned third part (cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, 1835–55). The New York Review bestowed rather extravagant praise on the present volume, calling it “the best digest of history . . . extant in our language,” and noting that it was “written in the same simple and beautiful style which has marked all [Sullivan's] works” (vol. III, pp. 229–30).
Binding: Publisher's ribbon-embossed brown cloth with flower and acanthus leaf design (Krupp's style ft1), spine with gilt-stamped title.
American Imprints 53164; Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, 168. On the binding, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England & America, 1823–1850, ft1. Binding as above; corners rubbed and small rubbed spot on front cover, spine extremities chipped, spine head with small lightly discolored area from now-absent label. Ex–social club library: bookplate and early inked call number on front pastedown, title-page pressure- and (faintly) rubber-stamped. No other markings. Front hinge (inside) partially reinforced with paper some time ago. Scattered light staining. A nice book. (26289)
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