•  Wing (rev. ed.) D187; ESTC R6224.   Removed from a nonce volume; small stain in outer margin of four leaves. Very good condition.  (32248)

Binding:  Medieval-inspired contemporary vellum, front cover with decorative title and fleur-de-lis design hand-painted in red, black, and gilt; spine with author and title painted in black and red. Covers bear a half dozen “studs” laid on, of clay or ceramic. Endpapers are stamped with medieval design in green and orange; front free one with small ticket of Florence bookbinder and stationer Giulio Giannini.

Books bound in this way were snapped up as suitable souvenirs by visitors to Italy, and the Italian-facing-English format here suggests that this was aimed specifically at British and American tourists.

•  NSTC 0886216.   Binding as above, hardware apparently now absent resulting in small holes at joints and edges; lightly dust-soiled and spine a bit moreso, front cover with spot of staining at upper inner corner. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean; last few leaves lightly creased. An extremely atmospheric copy.  (30371)

No copy traced via WorldCat, COPAC, CCILA, or METABASE.

•  Light waterstain criscrossing text; one pin-type wormhole in left margin and many, very small ones in lower margin, occasionally into lower four lines of text not costing any words. Good++ copy.  (30891)

Binding:  Percaline mosaïquée binding of publisher's violet cloth, covers framed in blind, front cover with gilt-stamped Last Supper vignette surrounded by smaller vignettes and decorations stamped in gilt, white, green, red, and pink; back cover with elaborate IHS display stamped in gilt, green, blue, red, and white; spine gilt extra and stamped in red and green. All edges gilt.

•  Binding as above, spine and edges of front cover somewhat sunned, front cover with a few small spots of discoloration, extremities rubbed, “presence” very nice. Hinges (inside) tender, requiring some caution (not unexpected in a volume of this size).; one plate separated, one starting to separate. Intermittent faint foxing only; in fact a sumptuous and pleasing presentation, with an intriguing inscription, in a copy that can be called not only “clean” but “bright.”  (30993)

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress 24397; NSTC 2D18483.   Period-style quarter tan cloth and light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Last page institutionally rubber-stamped, no other markings. Occasional faint shadows of early pencilled bracketing and marks of emphasis; pages otherwise clean. All edges speckled red, with additional treatment producing an unusual polka-dot effect!  (27731)

•  Wing (rev. ed.) D2475; ESTC R504.   Removed from a nonce volume. Very good condition.  (32249)

•  Wing (rev. ed.) D2474; ESTC R505.   Removed from a nonce volume. Very good condition, veryclean.  (32250)

Duranti (Durantus, 1534–89) was appointed first president of the Toulouse parliament by Henri III in 1581. A royalist supporter, he was shot and savagely stabbed by a mob of Catholic partisans in 1589. His De ritibus, sometimes erroneously attributed to Peter Danés, bishop of Lavaur, was posthumously printed by order of Pope Sixtus V at Rome in 1591.

The text is printed in Latin with a few citations in Greek and Hebrew, enhanced with one historiated initial at the beginning, many smaller initials in the text, and at least two decorative ornaments, the headpiece on the dedication page featuring an “L.” Moreau's device on the title-page shows a crowned dragon engulfed in flames, with the printer's initials and the motto “Deum ni deest timentibus.”

Evidence of use: Extensive early ink notes in French on front pastedown and both sides of the front fly-leaf repeat biographical notes and call this a “bon ouvrage.”

Provenance:  Ambrose Swasey Library (stamp).

Scarce, NUC Pre-1956 (supplement) finding only this copy, deaccessioned from Colgate Rochester in 2005; WorldCat locates just one other U.S. copy.

•  Contemporary vellum, red-stained gilt spine label; spine's top layer of vellum chipped exposing the layer beneath (repaired so as not to flake). Ex–seminary library with shelf mark to spine, a bit of pencilling, rubber-stamp as above to bottom edge of closed book and inside front cover, pressure-stamp to title-page; title-page with narrow strip excised apparently to remove an old inscription, this crudely “repaired” with missing text line supplied via computer print-out, affecting text on verso. Generally, moderate foxing and age-toning or browning due to nature of paper, a few insignificant tears, some truly teeny wormholes.  (30149)

Both works have elaborate framed title-pages, that of the Eck done in black and red and that of the Froben/Erasmus Arnobius being wonderfully illustrated/emblematic, with most “characters” conveniently labelled. The Arnobius has additional woodcut borders, all different, on the first pages of the preface, the Arnobius text, and Eramus' “Commentarium in psalmum”; while a large, beautiful device of Froben's graces its last leaf verso — a bracket to his having put his own name at the top of the title-page in capital letters twice as large as the font he used in “up/low” style for the names of Arnobius and Erasmus! The Arnobius also offers many historiated woodcut initials.

Provenance: 18th-century inscription on title-page of Eck, “Fr. Mon. Bambergensium ad S. Annam.” 20th century, in an American Redemptorist library.

An interesting sammelband showing that sometimes things were bound together because of similarity of size, not similarity of content!

•  Eck: VD16 E389; Arnobius: VD16 B3130, VD16 E2459 (for Commentarius in psalmum Quare fremuerunt gentes); Index Aurel. 108.894; Adams B 1402; Bezzel 553; Panzer VI, 231, 430; Vander Haeghen II, 10.   Contemporary quarter alum-tawed pigskin elaborately tooled in blind using rolls and devices, with exposed wooden boards; remnants of metal and leather closures. Some discoloration to spine from glue that once adhered paper labels to compartments, and bits of one of these present. Text with some discoloration due to sometime exposure to damp, age-toning occasionally rising to browning; marginal worming very occasionally touching a sidenote and virtually all pin-type, in last half; shelving sticker and partial Redemptorist rubber-stamp to verso of title-page, old charge pocket with “rules.” One leaf loose/extruded, but present; title and author inked old-style to fore-edge. A very few old marginal notations. Withal, a nice antiquarian volume offering two notable texts, one from a most notable printer.  (32632)

Provenance:  These two copies were joined together by a contemporary reader who marked the recto of the printing permission of the first piece with “The Address” and the verso of the permission of the second piece (that is, that piece's final page) with “The King's Declaration. This read in ye Parochial Church of Thrandeston May ye first Anno Domini 1681. [?] Tho. Mael.” Mael served as rector of Thrandeston from 1670 until his death in 1709.

•  Humble Address: ESTC R228475; Nelson & Seccombe 647.49B. Declaration: Wing (rev. ed.) C3000; ESTC R13996.   Disbound from a nonce volume. Pages slightly age-toned with scattered light spots; inscriptions as above. A nice pairing, from the library of a clergyman who presumably had a strong interest in the outcome of the struggle.  (31090)

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

•  Signatures simply sewn through two stab holes. Title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner, not (quite)touching text; upper outer corner with early pencilled monogram. Page edges uncut. Pp. xvii–xxiv incorrectly placed between pp. 96 and 97. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean.  (30686)

Jansenist

The text here is in Latin, printed in roman and italic with sidenotes, large woodcut initials, intricate headpieces, and ornaments, including a number of dainty stars and at least two impressive, richly inked tailpieces. The title-page features a large printer's device for the widow and children of Wilhelm Metternich's shop.

Gratian's Decretum, written in the 12th century and henceforth amended (most significantly in the 16th), was a legal cornerstone of ecclesiastical courts until 1917 and a major influence on the most recent laws of 1983, even though it was never officially promulgated by the Church.

•  On van Espen, see: NCE, V, 543.   Contemporary flexible vellum, remnants of four leather ties, ink title to spine; soiled and shelf-worn, small chip one to corner. Marginal waterstains and the odd ink- or other stain, a few small bits of paper lost at edges, very minor but persistent marginal worming, one small hole in text (a natural flaw), and browning/foxing (heaviest in the commentary). Deckle on some leaves, and one témoine. Early inscription in ink on title-page.  (30254)

•  Palau 20871 (Aymerich); Vekene, Bib. bibliographica ... inquisitionis, I, no. 109; id., Bib. der Inquisition, 79; id., “Die gedruckten Ausgaben ... des Nicolaus Eymerich,” in Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 1973, 3; Index Aurel. *167.023; Brunet, II, 1142n; Edit16 CNCE 18448. This ed. not in Adams. On Eymeric, see: New Catholic Encyclopedia online.   Recent full dark brown morocco blind-ruled, old style; spine with raised bands, author/title gilt on a red leather compartment label, and date gilt collector-style at base; bottom edge with title elegantly inked on, early. Ex-library: stamps on bottom edge, old pressure-stamp on first, last, and one other leaf, and acquisition number in ink on second leaf. Title-page repaired at inner margin, with short closed internal tear near device and canceled ink inscription at bottom; first and last leaves (only) dust-soiled and waterstaining in some lower margins (only); an early ink marking or two (only); a handful of quires very foxed, others unevenly browned. Occasional instances of very minor wormwork, typically almost unnoticeable and in gutters, with more noticeable but still minor tracks in lower margins of some quires. A volume satisfying and impressive physically, and textually important.  (31327)

In English, here, he claims to have been approached about becoming involved with the Popish Plot and, naming names, he gives dates and places of meetings and conversations.

•  Wing (rev. ed.) F425; ESTC R16386.   Removed from a nonce volume. Very good condition.  (32251)

The volume ends with a “Corona Florida a la Santisima Trinidad,” being a small literary collection of coplas, canciones, and a romance “en Metafora del Sol, que discurre por los doce signos del Zodiaco.”

Binding: Publisher's mottled sheep, gilt spine extra. Marbled endpapers; all edges red.

•  Medina, Mexico, 8016.   Binding lightly worn. A few gatherings starting to extrude. A very good, clean copy.  (26851)

The Assertatio was first published in 1523 in answer to Luther's defiance of the Pope as exemplified by his burning of the bull “Exurge Domine.” The Sacri sacerdotii defensio, published in 1525, is a defense of the priesthood and the mass against the attacks contained in Luther's 1522 De abroganda missa privata. Both these works (in these editions) are little held in U.S. libraries if WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 are accurate.

Provenance:  Early 17th- & early 18th-century ownership inscriptions on title-page of Assertationis: Frater Hieronimus Urbeueterus, Frater Seraphynus Lodius, and another eradicated. Later rubber-stamp on title-page verso of a Redemporist Library in upstate New York.

•  I: Adams F520; Njhoff & Kronenberg, Nederlandse bibliografie van 1500-1540, 940; Pettegree & Walsby, Netherlandish Books. Books Published in the Low Countries and Dutch Books Printed Abroad before 1601, 12269. II: Njhoff & Kronenberg, Nederlandse bibliografie van 1500-1540, 942; Pettegree & Walsby, Netherlandish Books. Books Published in the Low Countries and Dutch Books Printed Abroad before 1601, 12270; not in Adams.   19th-century quarter red leather with marbled paper sides, showing wear; stamps as above. Two ink smears on first title-page (not opaque nor obscuring text) and old library sticker with shelfmark to verso, curious small stain on f. 97, light waterstaining in upper outer corner of ff. 343–50; second work with natural paper flaws to one leaf (not affecting text), close trimming by binder touching some sidenotes. Charge pocket on rear pastedown. Overall very nice copies of both works.  (31512)

•  Wing F1072; ESTC R7381.   Removed from a nonce volume; brown staining in round spots to lower halves of last leaves. Actually, very good condition.  (32257)

In a later part of the volume Florencia chronicles the springing up in other parts of New Spain of shrines to St. Michael. The work ends with the antiphony and prayers used at the shrine in Tlaxcala and with the novena to St. Michael and an explanation of the same.

The work is in Spanish butthere is a passage in Nahuatl on p. 199.

Provenance:  Late 19th-century ownership stamps of A. Gonzalez Nunez, some partially inked over or partially erased.

There is bad cataloguing relating to this work. An edition was printed at Seville with no date and with “Imprenta de las Siete Revultas” in the imprint and the word “maravillosa” spelled “marabillosa”; too often this is catalogued as having been printed in 1692 when in fact it was printed in 1740. Copies of the true first edition are hard to find. After searching NUC and WorldCat and double-checking reported holdings against OPACs, we find only two U.S. libraries reporting ownership of the true first edition: JCB and the Hispanic Society. False reports were found for Bancroft and the University of Florida.

•  Alden & Landis 692/63; Sabin 24815 (for the 1740 edition only); DeBacker-Sommervogel, III, 798 (for the 1740 edition only); Medina, BHA, 6467; Palau 92347 (for the 1740 edition only). Not in H. de León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli.   Contemporary limp vellum, lacking the ties; recased, spine with small repairs. All edged made black (but in an uneven way). Old bookseller's stamp on title and three other pages, three stamps partially inked over; several old inscriptions ineffectually inked over. Lacking the preliminary leaf with the woodcut of St. Michael on the verso and the final blank leaf. Some water- and other staining; last leaf soiled and last four with small damage to foremargin (no loss of text). A rare, and MEATY, thing.  (31482)

Hand-set in Aurora Uncial and printed on Rives paper with deckled fore-edge, the text is printed in red and black and features digital reproductions oforiginal gouache paintings in very bright colors.

•  Publisher's sunny orange and yellow-streaked paste paper over boards with midnight blue endpapers. Protective mylar cover. Very minor wear at spine corners. Light and bright.  (31279)

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A scarce work, having been printed in a limited number of copies for the very limited-sized audience of Franciscan novices.

•  Medina, Mexico, 5761.   Contemporary limp vellum. Very clean and crisp. A truly excellent copy.  (22204)

And, of course, the volume covers much about the administration of the order, the admission of novices, the pursuit and expression of spiritual life, etc.

The work begins with the title-page printed in black and red in roman with some italic. The text is in roman also, with sidenotes in some sections, and with a sprinkling of interesting woodcut tailpieces.

A dense and interesting work.

•  Medina, Mexico, 1687; Sabin 76023.   Recased in original (?) vellum with four leather ties (two new). Title-leaf mounted; damage to lower third with loss of paper and print including imprint; approbation leaves torn in same portion, repaired with loss of a few words; first leaf of the “Parecer” torn and repaired with no loss. Some worming of both types: pinhole and meander, the latter repaired with archival tissue. Otherwise, occasional light waterstaining only; a solid, serviceable copy.  (25559)

A special issue copy: Present here is an uncalled-for frontispiece. It is of four Capuchin martyrs, issigned by the artist Navarro, is engraved on copper, and is printed au sanguine — the color reserved foronly the most special copies of 18th-century books. This frontispiece is not called for by Medina and is not present in any of the copies reported as held in the U.S.

•  Medina, Mexico, 4991; Palau 45600; Sabin 11098; Maggs, Bibliotheca Asiatica, 611.   Full antique calf, spine gilt, leather label. Careful repairs, using archival tape, accomplished to old worming to most leaves; wormwork sometimes minimal and sometimes more extensive but never preventing reading. Quite a good copy.  (12725)

•  Palau 290780. Recent quarter red morocco over red cloth, spine gilt extra, red marbled endpapers, and top edge red. Clean, attractive interior.

•  ESTC S121254; STC (2nd ed.) 11465; Allibone 643; Wither to Prior 387 (for the first edition, 1639).   Period-style dark calf, covers framed and panelled in gilt and blind rolls with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-stamped compartment decorations. Title inked on outer (closed) edges in an early hand. “Declaration of the Frontispiece” mounted; added engraved title-page with upper margin repaired, lower area trimmed into the imprint line (taking most) and with one pinhole. Otherwise browning, mild spotting and light waterstaining variously, last leaves dust-soiled; light cockling and volume a tad sprung; a few leaves with short edge tears, not extending into text; map with ragged portion of lower inner edge, tear along one fold, and small hole at intersection of two folds. One blank page with early pencilled doodles.  (27562)

The subject of this work is the rivalry between Spain and France for political and religious supremacy in the Catholic realm of Europe, but the author also discusses national traits, as he sees them, such as manner of dressing, walking, eating, and talking.

•  Palau 97802.   Recent boards covered with marbled paper; leather spine label gilt with title. Some lower margins irregular due to natural paper flaws. All edges speckled red. A very good copy.  (25812)

Vol. II of this set was issued first; and Genovese died during publication of vol. I, while still composing a third volume never published; his biography follows the preface in vol. I. The text is in Spanish, printed in roman and italic, with occasional woodcut ornaments, and in vol. II there is oneengraved plate illustrating the sacred heart signed by Iph. Morales (José Morales, according to Medina).

Provenance:  Unidentified mark in ink on bottom edge of vol. I, resembling a marca del fuego.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, III, 1323; Palau 101381, 101382; Medina, Mexico, 4290, 4439; Beristain, II, p. 27; León, Bibl. Mex., 682.   Contemporary limp vellum, soiled, early title and volume number inked on each spine with modest and attractive decoration; shelf marks of an old library quaintly in red ink or paint to lower spines, small inked number to one front pastedown also; edges faintly speckled red. Two recent ties and bead catches on first volume, and remnants of four contemporary leather ties on second. number in ink on front pastedown of first. Both volumes trimmed close with a few ink smudges, mild foxing in places, occasionally another spot; natural paper flaws in vol. II resulting in one small hole and one closed internal tear. Really, very crisp and clean internally, and overallmost appealing.  (31194)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only three U.S. institutional holdings. There seems to have been a 36-page variant of the same year, which is also uncommon.

•  Martin & Walter, II, 15045.   Never bound, simply sewn as issued. Title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner (not touching text) and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Signatures unopened, page edges untrimmed. Pages slightly age-toned and/or dust-soiled, title-page with light spotting.  (30815)

Uncommon: WorldCat locates only one U.S. institutional holding of this 1911 (as per the imprimatur) edition.

Binding:  Cream-colored plasticized boards (with cream cloth intentionally visible at joints), front cover with color-printed overlay of an angel delicately tinted in light blue and pink with gilt backdrop beneath a rose and grapevine motif, turn-ins with gilt roll, moiré silk endpapers. All edges gilt.

•  Binding as above, corners slightly rubbed, minor discoloration to sides and spine head. Lacking pp. 19–30 (though with its not being entirely clear whether these were ever present). Pages age-toned; lower outer corners of first few leaves bumped. A beautiful little prayerbook.  (30391)

•  Wing (rev. ed.) T1879A; ESTC R28265.   Removed from a nonce volume. Very good condition.  (32259)

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

•  Folded as issued, never sewn; outermost signature chipped at spine. First page with paper shelving label, not touching text, and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Mild to moderate foxing.  (30820)

•  Wing (rev. ed) E3714 & G2215; ESTC R519; McAlpin, IV, p. 15.   Removed from a nonce volume. Very good condition.  (32254)

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

•  Martin & Walter, II, 16531.   Folded as issued, page edges untrimmed. First page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, barely touching but not obscuring five letters. Pages age-toned and dust-soiled, with a few faint spots.  (30880)

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•  Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels. Frontispiece lacking and pages showing light cockling; clean and attractive. (21114)

The text is in Latin printed in roman and italic, with passages inHebrew, Arabic, Greek, and Syriac, and an index at the end of each volume to the exotic words. Fresh-looking woodcut initials, head-, and tailpieces decorate the thick, bright leaves, which areuncut, in a very original state, with deckle preserved. Surviving opposite the title-page in vol. II isan advertisement for books available from the printer, Schoonhoven & Socios, including the accompanying first volume (1749) and other titles in Latin and Dutch on various subjects ancient, religious, grammatical, and literary.

•  On Iken, see: Nieuw Nederlandsch Biografisch Woordenboek.   Bound uniformly in quarter red sheepskin and marbled paper paste boards, framed title gilt in second spine compartment and volume number in third; rubbed/faded with loss to leather and paper, spine on vol. I more rubbed with marbled paper on vol. II more faded, and parts torn away revealing boards front and back. Old library markings on front pastedowns and title-page versos, seminary pressure-stamp to each title-page. As noted above, an uncut set in remarkably good original condition, displaying but a few short tears, small holes associated with natural paper flaws, virtually NO foxing, and deckle edges dust-soiled as in their wont with ALL else clean and bright.  (30340)

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WorldCat locates only six U.S. libraries reporting ownership.

•  Medina, Mexico, 8139; Palau 317550.   Original plain wrappers, front one lacking. Light dust-soiling. Very good copy.  (28210)

Offered here is folio ccxii: Printed in a single column in Germanic roman type.

Provenance:  From the collection of leaves assembled by the Grabhorns.

•  Goff J162; Hain 9978*; Schreiber 4309; IGI 5049; GW M11369; ISTC ij00162000.   Light dust-soiling in margins. Tipped into a plain, single-ply mat. With a typed identification label on the front of the mat.  (31083)

Even before it was published, the Augustinus generated controversy. Grace was a forbidden subject, and Jansen, who died in 1638 days after completing his magnum opus and never saw it published, was accused of reiterating Calvin and Baius. Despite heated objections, Henri Calenus and Liber Froidmont, whom Jansen entrusted with his manuscript, published the Augustinus at Louvain in 1640, omitting only the author's dedication to Urban VIII. French editions quickly followed in 1641 (Paris), 1642 and 1643 (Rouen), all with an added treatise by the Franciscan F. Conrius. The Augustinus was condemned by the Jesuits, the Inquisition, and the pope to whom Jansen originally dedicated it.

Each of the three parts has a separate title-page, each featuring a large woodcut ornament; of the third part, this copy has the index only. The text is in Latin, printed in roman and italic, with sidenotes, woodcut initials, and large elaborately woodcut head- and tailpieces — at least two initialed “L.M.” or “D.N.,” and at least two more “R.M.” Strangely, two Jesuit ornaments are used as tailpieces, “I.H.S.” surrounded by intricate borders.

•  Willaert, Bibliotheca Janseniana Belgica, 2227; NCE, I, p. 1076. On Jansenius & Jansenism, see: NCE, VII, pp. 818–26.   Period-style black quarter calf over gray marbled paper boards, spine with gilt rolled bands and tool in each compartment, red morocco gilt spine label. Old institutional pressure-stamp on first title-page. Waterstaining, dampstaining, and splotches, foxing and browning all very variously, none of it having weakened the paper; instances of slim, even “hair-line” worming to lower margin of many leaves, with occasionally another wormhole, natural paper flaw, or other piercing. Lacking text of the third part, its title-page and index pages retained. Affordable for its faults, still substantial and interesting.  (30224)

WorldCat locates only three copies in the U.S., and we know of one other.

•  Sutro 827.   Sewn in original printed wrappers, front one with (remarkably neat) dust-soiling and one corner-tip repaired. Light waterstain in upper corner of some leaves.  (7756)

Uncommon: ESTC, OCLC, and NUC Pre-1956 find only 9 U.S. holdings.

•  ESTC S107911; STC (2nd ed.) 14831.   Period-style calf framed and panelled in gilt fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons; spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels. Lacks initial blank leaf, as is the case with virtually all copies. Two leaves with tattered outer edges, one leaf with small hole affecting a few letters; pages with some moderate offsetting, a few browned.  (25084)

The text, in Latin and Greek, is divided into two sections: a preface in 15 short chapters, and the main text. The former is printed in roman and italic with nice woodcut head- and tailpieces, and one historiated woodcut initial. Sidenotes, footnotes, and woodcut ornaments like those in the former section enhance the main text, which is printed double column in parallel Latin and Greek, with two handsome engraved initials on the first page below a finely engraved vignette by J. B. Guélard (fl. ca. 1730) after a drawing by A. Humblot (fl. ca. 1740). The title-page, printed in red and black, has an engraved device by [Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste] de Poilly (1707–80). This copy also has a half-title page.

•  Brunet, III, 623 (“Bonne édition”); Graesse, III, 515; NCE 8: 94–95 and online (St. Justin Martyr).   Contemporary treed calf triple-ruled in blind on covers, spine gilt extra with author and title gilt to red morocco spine label, board edges with gilt double-rule, marbled endpapers in a stone pattern and matching marbled edges, emerald green ribbon place holder. Upper joint starting with volume strong despite this and its large size; boards scuffed, corners bumped and rubbed revealing boards; stains on pastedowns and endpapers from underlying turn-ins of the binding. Light foxing in a few places, thumbsoiling, and occasional small stains; one leaf with a corner torn away, another with a natural paper flaw, a few leaves creased. A good copy of avery imposing book.  (30647)