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CHILDREN
• EDUCATION[
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A Game with Forfeits, a Dictator, & Mirth 
(Illustrated Rhyming Game). The gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog: A new and entertaining game of questions and commands with proper directions for playing the game and crying forfeits: Embellished with thirteen coloured engravings. [London]: Republished by Field & Tuer, 1887. Small 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). [4], iv, [7]-29, [2] pp., [4 (ads)] ff.; [1] plt., col. illus.
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each printed page has a hand-colored illustration.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Buff-color printed wrappers with hand-colored vignette on front wrapper; stitched, head and foot of spine chipped, rear wrapper detached and reattached with archival tissue. A good++ copy. (38873)
For GAMES, PUZZLES, SPORTS, &
Children, THANKSGIVING, Glad Times!!
Irish, Marie, & Lenore K. Dolan. The glad time Thanksgiving book. Syracuse, NY: Willis N. Bugbee Co., © 1932. 12mo. 100 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Publisher's printed cream-colored paper wrappers, front wrapper with cornucop ia design in navy and gold; back lower outer corner bumped, light dust-soiling to back wrapper. One page with small affixed sticker in upper portion, partially obscuring header but no other text. (30227)
One of theFirst Two Books Printed at ETONJohn, Mauropus, Metropolitan of Euchaita (active 11th century). Joannis Metropolitani Euchaitensis versus iambici in principalium festorum pictas in tabulis historias atq[ue] alia varia compositi. Etonae: In Collegio Regali, excudebat [M. Bradwood for] Ioannes Norton, in Gr[a]ecis, &c. regius typographus, 1610. 4to (22.8 cm; 9"). [4] ff., 73, [1] pp., [4] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. This, the editio princeps, was edited by and has the notes of Matthew Bust (1543 or 1544–1613), Fellow of Eton College and father of his namesake who was Master of Eton (1611–30). The prefatory matter and notes are printed in Latin in italics and the main text is in a large greek face; the actual printer's name is from STC.
Searches of STC, WorldCat, and ESTC locate many copies in Britain and even Europe, but only five in U.S. libraries.
Provenance: 18th-century ownership inscription at top of title-page: “Petri Bonifantii.” Most recently in the collection of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
An amazing early English schoolbook!
• STC (rev.) 14622; ESTC S103427. 20th-century quarter red morocco with red cloth sides. Light age-toning and some stray ink spots. In fact, very good. (37309)
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Signed Binding on a
Reward Volume from a Teacher Johnny and Maggie, and other stories. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Co., [1852–60?]. 16mo (15.3 cm; 6"). 48, 14 pp. (publisher's catalogue).
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five full-page wood engravings (including title-page and frontispiece), in addition to smaller ornamental illustrations. The stories include “Johnny and Maggie” (two dolls), “The Coffee Pot and the Milk Pitcher,” and “M. Du Pratz and the Beavers.”Binding: Signed “Liebherre, GRA.” Midnight blue or purple cloth with blind-stamped boards and richly gilt-stamped spine.
Provenance: On front free endpaper, “Present to Albert Loomis by N.L. Tilden, Teacher.”
• Sternick, Bibliography of 19th-century children's series books: 1291. Binding as above, minor rubbing of spine foot and crown, gilt very bright. Calligraphic inscription and ownership stamp to front endpapers; light foxing throughout. 
Very good. (37749)
Model Moral “LIVES” for“Little Masters & Misses”
[Johnson, Richard]. The juvenile biographer; containing the lives of little masters and misses, including a variety of good and bad characters. Worcester: Printed by Isaiah Thomas, & sold at his book store, sold also by E. Battelle, Boston, 1787. 16mo (9.5 cm, 3.75"). Frontis.[ii], t-p.[iii], [iv], v–viii, [9], 10–119, [120 (blank)], [121–24 (adv.)], [2 (blank)] pp. (lacks initial blank f.); illus.
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20 woodcuts, as well as tailpieces and ornamental rules.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• ESTC W18139; Evans 20440; Welch 680.1; Rosenbach, Children's, 119; Hamilton, American Book Illustrators, 114. In pasteboards covered with “Dutch” gilt paper; housed in a corset within an open-back full red calf slipcase A remarkably crisp and clean copy. (38528)
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A Present for the Students of “the English Mezzofanti”Juvenal, & Persius. Decii Junii Juvenalis aquinatis satirae decem et sex[.] Auli Persii Flacci satirae sex. Londini: [colophon: Excudebat Carolus Whittingham], 1845. 4to (28.3 cm, 11.125"). [99] ff.
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Provenance: Printed presentation leaf at front inscribed to “Harford” with two inked dashes through a printed date of 1841; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• On Hawtrey, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Binding as above, rubbed and scraped with leather loss and some spotting; front hinge (inside) starting, boards firmly attached. Dust-soiling of varying degrees along top edges with the occasional spot; moderate foxing to first and last few leaves, two leaves with offsetting from ribbon placemarker that is still present. Presentation inscription and booklabel as above. (38839)
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With Four Hand-Colored Engraved Plates The juvenile Plutarch: Comtaining [sic] accounts of the lives of children and of the infancy of illustrious men, who have been remarkable for their early progress in knowledge. London: R. Phillips; sold by B. Tabart, at the Juvenile Library; T. Gillet, Printer, 1801. 24mo (14 cm, 5.5"). [iv], 212 pp.; 4 plts.
Click the images for enlargements.Frances Maria, whose exceptionally dramatic plate shows her “saving her Brother from the Wolves.”
Binding: Excellent retrospective sprinkled calf by Wallis, covers with double gilt ruled border, raised bands, gilt spine extra; stone pattern endpapers. All edges gilt.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Moon, Tabart, 85(1); Osborne Collection p. 168. Binding as above, in lovely condition. Pages and plates clean and crisp.A specially desirable copy. (38531)
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“KEEPER” asPrinted by Lydia Bailey[Kendall, Edward A.]. Keeper's travels in search of his master. Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner [Lydia R. Bailey, printer], 1808. 24mo (15 cm, 5.5"). vi, [1], 8-87, [3] pp.; 1 plt., illus.
Click the images for enlargements.This is the third American edition, having been preceded by editions in 1801 and 1802. The frontispiece is a metal-engraved plate and notably, the book is printed on wove paper. This isone of the earliest books that Lydia Bailey printed.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Welch 723.4; Rosenbach, Children's, 370; Shaw & Shoemaker 15353; Gumuchian 3494; Nipps, Lydia Bailey, 7. Bound in boards covered with plain gray-brown paper; top of spine showing light wear. Age-toning, later leaves creased across lower outer corner, a very nice copy. (38921)
Tom's Journey from Chimney-Sweep to “Great Man of Science”Kingsley, Charles; A.E. Jackson, illus. The water babies. London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press (pr. by R. Clay & Sons, Ltd.), 1920. 8vo (23.9 cm, 9.4"). 252 pp.; 16 col. plts.
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• Bound as above, jacket worn with extremities chipped, edges crumpled, lower front edge torn, spine sunned; volume with spine slightly darkened, front cover bright and clean. Top edge gilt. Free endpapers darkened; half-title with pencilled ownership inscription. Minor offsetting to pages opposite plates and a very few scattered small spots, pages otherwise clean and interior in fact lovely. One signature unopened — curiously, the pages containing the actual ending of the story! (38958)
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Featuring Kate Greenaway's First Book IllustrationKingston, William H.G., & Kate Greenaway, illus. Infant amusements; or, how to make a nursery happy. With practical hints to parents and nurses on the moral and physical training of children. London: Griffith and Farran, 1867. 12mo (18.7 cm, 7.375"). Frontis, xviii, 183, [1], 32 (adv.) pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements.Greenaway's first illustration for a published book. She quickly became one of the most beloved and influential illustrators of her era.
Kingston's “practical hints” for a happy nursery are further illustrated by three unsigned black-and-white plates and several in-text illustrations demonstrating various toys for children. These are accompanied by prayers, and hymns and songs with music.
Binding: Publisher's green cloth, front board with gilt lettering and floral centerpiece within decorative black-stamped border, spine with similar gilt floral decoration and rear board with decorative border in blind.
Provenance: From the library of Ellery Yale Wood, a collector of children's books and young adult literature, with her name inked on front free endpaper; endpaper also with pencilled signature of E.H. Jay.
• Thomson, Kate Greenaway: A Catalogue of the Kate Greenaway Collection, 116. Bound as above, corners bumped and edges rubbed, a little; spine ends remarkably intact, unrubbed and unpulled with all gilt very bright. Inscriptions as above, with additional early signature on front pastedown now effaced. Pages with light soiling to top and fore-edges, and very occasionally a small light spot elsewhere (with a few to title-page and frontispiece); minor foxing to endpapers and publisher's catalogue (only). An attractive copy of Greenaway's book-form debut. (38014)
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EducatingGerman-American Boys & Girls in 1809Kleine Erzählungen über ein Buch mit Kupfern: oder Leicht Geschichte für Kinder. Philadelphia: Gedruckt [beyJacob Meyer] für Johnson und Warner, 1809. 24mo (14 cm; 5.5"). [22] ff., illus.
Click the images for enlargements. The title-page wood engraving is signed, “A” (i.e., Alexander Anderson) as are some of the other 18 wood engravings. The last two pages contain printings of the alphabet in majuscule and miniscule fraktur, the two- or three-letter vowel and consonant combinations of German, and the numerals from 1 to 0.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 17875; Welch 739; Rosenbach, Children, 395; German Language Printing in the U.S. 1690; Pomeroy, Anderson, 289. Publisher's stone-pattern marbled-covered boards.A very nice copy; remarkably, beautifully clean. (36378)
One Year's Worth ofWell-Spent Half HoursKnight, Charles. Half-hours with the best authors. [London: Charles Knight, 1847–48]. 8vo (22.8 cm, 9"). 4 vols. in 2. I: Frontis., engr. t.-p., [2], 312 pp., frontis., engr. t.-p., [2], 312 pp. II: Frontis., engr. t.-p., [iii]–iv, 312 pp., frontis., engr. t.-p., [iii]–iv, 316 pp.
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52 weekly issues meant to be consumed in half-hour portions, with each weekly number containing seven half-hours. (Indices and quarterly title-pages are bound in here.)
Knight, who was devoted to books and to literature from the time he was a small child, was a much-admired printer and publisher, as well as an author, reformer, and would-be educator: Many of his publishing endeavors were aimed at improving and enlightening the working class.
• NSTC 2K7731. On Knight, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. On binding cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth, style Wav3. Publisher's textured brown cloth, covers blind-stamped with muse motif and title, spines with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped decorations; lightly worn overall with some fading, vol. II spine head with traces of a strip of cloth tape. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Paper slightly embrittled (more so in second volume), with a few short edge tears. Externally ordinary; internally worthwhile. (26860)
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Women Gone WEST . . . Now ca. 170 Years AgoLadies' Society for the Promotion of Education at the West. First annual report. Boston: Well-Spring Press, A.J. Wright, printer, 1847. 8vo. 38 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.No one here was sent to what came to be the “far” West — it wasn't yet time for that — but concerned as these young women surely were about unsaved frontier folk and “papal ascendancy,” they clearly felt themselves to be off on real adventures in places that were not, well, New England . . .
Apparently the last annual report was in 1852.
• Sabin 38542. Disbound. Clean. (38336)
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The Animals Include the XanyLady, A. An alphabet of animals. London: Marshall & Co.; Leicester: Winks & Son, [ca. 1865]. 32mo (12 cm, 4.75"). 30, [2] pp.; illus.
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The title-page declares this a “Revised” edition, but we fail to find the implied previous printing. The work is undated and our date is suggested by the British Library. The first and last pages are pastedowns.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
WorldCat locates only seven North American libraries reporting ownership (Huntington, New York Museum of Natural History, UFlorida, Wayne State, Ohio State, Toronto Public, McGill).
• Osborne Collection, p. 673. Original printed and illustrated stiff yellow wrappers. Fine. (38902)
The ESSAYS that Made Lamb's Reputation — 1st U.S. Edition Lamb, Charles. Elia. Essays which have appeared under that signature in the London Magazine. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Carey (pr. by Mifflin & Parry, and J.R.A. Skerrett), 1828. 12mo (I: 18.4 cm, 7.25", II: 16.8cm, 6.6"). 2 vols. I: 292 pp. II: 230 pp. (both vols. without ads.).
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true first edition of the unofficial second series, of Lamb's pseudonymously published essays for the London Magazine. These eloquently written pieces mingle humor and pathos as they describe the experiences of the author and his acquaintances whileattending boarding school, playing whist, listening to music, visiting Quaker meetings, etc. Food is a recurring topic (“A Dissertation upon Roast Pig”); there are two essays on Valentine's Day (one in each volume), and several on plays and actors.
The first series made its first appearance in book form in London, 1823. The authorized second series was not published until 1833, under the title The Last Essays of Elia; the pieces selected for the unauthorized American second series offered here are different from those contained in that volume, and mistakenly include three essays written by other hands.
• Shoemaker 33813 & 33814; NCBEL, III, 1225; NSTC 2L2346. Vol. I: Uncut copy. Publisher's quarter once-red cloth and paper sides, covers printed with “Elia” within a simple frame, spine with printed paper label; binding rubbed and lightly soiled, spine sunned to yellow. Repaired tear to one leaf, touching text without loss; remarkably clean and sound. Vol. II: Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; rubbed, and head of spine chipped with old refurbishing. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and call number ticket on front pastedown, front free endpaper with inked numerals, title-page pressure-stamped. Author's name inked on title-page; front free endpaper and title-page reinforced at fore-edge (the latter from the back). Both volumes age-toned, with intermittent spots of staining; advertisements absent. The set now housed in a quarter blue morocco and blue cloth–covered clamshell case with marbled paper–covered sides and gilt-stamped spine. (26434)
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A Mathematician, a Missionary, & theChinese Rites ControversyLe Comte, Louis. Memoirs and observations topographical, physical, mathematical, mechanical, natural, civil, and ecclesiastical. Made in a late journey through the Empire of China, and published in several letters. Particularly upon the Chinese pottery and varnishing; the silk and other manufactures; the pearl fishing; the history of plants and animals. Description of their cities and publick works; number of people, their language, manners and commerce; their habits, oeconomy, and government. The philosophy of Confucius. The state of Christianity, with many other curious and useful remarks. London: Pr. for Benj. Toke & Sam. Buckley, 1697. 8vo (20 cm; 8"). [12] ff., 527 [i.e., 543], [1] pp.; frontis. (port.), 3 plt. (2 fold.), fold. table.
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The work is a classic in the field of early European accounts of China, of missions to and in China, and of travel in general. Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of this edition and may have done so for the work's sections on education in that kingdom.
Provenance: Signature of M. Middleton dated 1699 at top of the frontispiece. Later in the collection of the Pacific School of Religion (properly released).
• Wing (rev. ed.) L831; ESTC R15898; Goldsmiths'-Kress 3379; DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 1356; Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica, I, 40. Contemporary modest Cambridge-style binding of speckled calf; very nicely newly rebacked. Small institutional stamp on title-page and in margin of one other page. A very good copy. (36372)
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The Owl Knows How to Reconcile
Farmer & CrowsLionni, Leo. Six crows. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988. 4to (28.5 cm, 11.25"). [32] pp.; col. illus.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's quarter ivory cloth and black paper–covered sides in original color-printed dust-jacket; jacket with cream areas (including spine) very slightly darkened, extremities lightly rubbed, back panel with short tear from upper edge, volume with minimal wear to extremities. A pleasing copy of a classic from an award-winning children's author/illustrator. (34435)
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Still Thoughtful — Still Thought-ProvokingLippman, Walter. The scholar in a troubled world. An address delivered as the Phi Beta Kappa oration at the commencement exercises of Columbia University May 31, 1932. New York: Press of the Wooly Whale, 1932. 8vo. [40] pp. 
Click the image for an enlargement. • Metallic marbled paper-covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Clean and pleasant, in original glassine dustwrapper remarkably intact. (31136)
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“NO CRIES Are Sure of Such Renown, as Those ofFamous London Town”London cries for children. Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner (pr. by John Bouvier), 1810. 24mo (14 cm, 5.5"). Frontis. (incl. in pagination), 40 pp.; illus. 
Click the images for enlargements.half-page woodcut illustration for each of the 18 cries in the text, for a total of 20 cuts. Dr. R wrote of this work: “This edition of the London Cries resembles [the Cries] of Philadelphia and of New York in that each Cry is accompanied by a verse, and a long explanatory passage in prose . . . [A]nd although the book is intended for children, the propaganda introduced into . . . [it] is at times obviously intended for their parents.” 
• Rosenbach, Children's, 421; Welch 249.12; Shaw & Shoemaker 19892 & 20586. Publisher's light boards with salmon-colored paper covering. Browning as in all copies seen today. One leaf with short tear from lower margin, just touching text. Solid, and engaging from multiple perspectives. (38925)
“Where They Live Forever and Aye” London, Jack. The sea sprite and the shooting star. [Oakland? Cal.]: Privately printed, 1932. 8vo (25.5 cm; 10"). [2] ff.
Click the image for enlargement. Recent research (Wichlan, Complete Poetry of Jack London, 2007) suggests that this was printed atthe Keesling Press in Campbell, California. The number of copies printed is unknown.
• BAL 11989; Woodbridge, p. 275. Printed on heavy, textured card stock and folded lengthwise once to form a booklet. Front cover irregularly age-toned; interior facing pages, displaying whole poem, very fresh and nice. (30148)
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Highlights of Southern
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Great
Universities of Medieval
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Mabillon, Jean; & Jean de Launoy. ... Iter Germanicum et Io. Launoii De scholis celebribus a Carolo M. et post Carolum M. in Occidente instauratis liber.... Hamburgi: Christiani Liebezeit, 1717. 8vo (17.5 cm, 6.9"). Frontis., [22], 103, [1], 507, [5] pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. An engraved frontispiece of Ptolemy done by Menzel opens the volume; the main title-page is printed in red and black, with an engraved allegorical vignette.
Provenance: Title-page verso with intaglio-printed armorial ex libris, printed directly on the leaf (not a bookplate that was glued on): “Ex Bibliotheca Friederici Roth-Scholtzii.” Friedrich Roth-Scholtz (1687–1736) was a prominent Nuremberg printer and publisher, as well as the author of Icones bibliopolarum et typographorum de republica litteraria and the Bibliotheca chemica; there are several reported examples of such bookplates in his books.
• Recent quarter calf and speckled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped author, title, place, date and gilt-ruled raised bands. Volume a little cocked. Endpapers soiled; some pages with mild offsetting, and text otherwise clean. (25490)
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The National Tournament inHealth Knighthood (1919)Minnesota Public Health Association (1914–52). Field of the cloth of gold. Book of instructions for conducting the Minnesota division of the national tournament in health knighthood, February 9th to May 24th, 1919. St. Paul: Printed by Minnesota Public Health Association, 1919. 8vo. 12 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • Light discoloration and minor cockling. (35307)
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The More Things Change . . . ( . . . The More They Stay the Same). Report of the speeches delivered at the public meeting of the inhabitants of Edinburgh opposed to 
the government scheme of education, held in the Music Hall, on Wednesday evening the 31st March 1847. Edinburgh: Grant & Taylor, 1847. 8vo. 34 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • NSTC 2E4287. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper outer corner. (17041)
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“He Did Not Use His Apprentices Ill, Because He KnewMore, Hannah. The history of the two shoemakers. Philadelphia: Pr. by Jacob Meyer for Johnson & Warner, 1811. 24mo (14.6 cm, 5.75"). 107, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. The four sections of the title story open each with alarge, crisp woodcut illustration; the book closes with the poems “Dan and Jane: Or Faith and Works” and “The History of Richard.”
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 23422; Welch, American Children's Books, 886. Not in Rosenbach. Contemporary blue textured paper–covered boards, respined with blue paper shelfback; corners and edges rubbed, front outer corners showing faint tidelines. Pages, probablyblue to begin with, browned; final leaf with short tear from outer margin, not extending into text. A solid, unmarked copy. (38653)
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Daffy-Down-Dilly, Mary & Her Lamb, &c.[Mother Goose]. Queen of hearts and other rhymes. New York: Samuel Gabriel Sons & Co., [ca. 1910]. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). [12 (incl. wrappers)] pp.; col. illus.
Click the images for enlargements. 11 Kate Greenaway–inspired, color-printed scenes of children at play. This is no. 474 from this prolific publisher of children's works, with a logo that reads “To keep busy the little hands and little head.”
• Publisher's color-printed wrappers; lightly dust-soiled, corners and spine showing minor rubbing, front wrapper with one faint spot of staining and inked owner's name in upper outer corner. Pages very slightly age-toned with one small adhesion between first two leaves, otherwise clean. A pretty and now relatively uncommon book, overall showing impressively little wear for an item of this nature. (36527)
School Text 1791 — “Muretus”
aMODEL
for StudentsMuret, Marc Antoine. Orationes, et epistolae...ad usum scolarum selectae.... Venetiis: Apud Josephum Orlandelli, 1791. 8vo (19 cm, 7.5"). 2 vols. I: xv, 359, [1] pp. II: 328 pp.
Rare. No copies traced via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC or RLIN.
• On Muretus, see: Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, II, 148–52. Contemporary half vellum over stencilled paper, spine with inked title; stained and paper torn with much chipping, especially on edges of covers. Ex-library with white-lettered call number on spines and, on title-pages, two different Catholic institutions’ rubber-stamps, plus the old inked ownership inscription of a Jesuit novitiate (Maryland). Ink scratches to frontispiece portrait (intentional?), and some inkstains in margins elsewhere. Lightly foxed. All edges speckled red. (11574)
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Saving the Souls of the Rich via
CHARITY Nelson, Robert. An address to persons of quality and estate ... To which is added, an appendix of some original and valuable papers. [with another related title, as below]. London: A. & G. Way, prs., 1715. 8vo (21.9 cm, 8.6"). Frontis., xxxi, [1], 267, [1], 55, [7] pp. [with] A poem in memory of Robert Nelson Esquire. London: Pr. by Geo. James for Richard Smith, at Bishop Beveridge’s-Head, 1715. 8vo. 21, [3] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. seminaries and schools, relieving prisoners, and establishing houses for the improvement of ladies (both proper and fallen). The appendix provides texts of various proposals as well as statistics onnumbers of residents in hospitals and schools.
The frontispiece portrait of Nelson was engraved by George Vertue after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. The volume also includes all publisher's advertisements as well as the rather uncommon Poem in Memory of Robert Nelson Esquire.
This was produced to be a handsome work, printed in large type on good paper with wide margins — the better to appeal to a “quality” audience?
• ESTC T85360; Goldsmiths’-Kress 5249. Poem: ESTC T25431; Foxon P538. Contemporary speckled calf, framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons; rebacked with speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, raised bands, and blind-tooled foliate compartment decorations. Original leather abraded, front cover with small chip to outer edge and area of faint discoloration from a now-absent label; title-page institutionally rubber-stamped (no other markings). Some signatures browned and foxed, most pages clean. (25999)
Dime
Novel: Secret
Service
New
York Detective, A. The
Bradys and the girl smuggler, or working for the custom house, and other stories.
New York: Frank Tousey, 1914. Folio. 30, [2 (adv.)] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. complete title story along with chapters VII and VIII of “Drawer 99 or A detective's Six-Year Search” by Percy B. St. John, chapters IX and X of “Ventriloquist Val or The Mystery of the Dark Room” by Tom Fox, thecomplete story “The Witch in the Well,” and an assortment of jokes and odd news clips. (The ads present are their own enhancement.)
• Publisher's color-printed paper wrappers, spine chewed and overall with soiling; back cover with tear from upper edge into text without impairment to reading. Paper age-toned; some text pages ragged at edges, again, without harm to reading. (26935)
Dime Novel: A Yachting Yarn New York Detective, A. The Bradys on deck or, the mystery of the private yacht. New York: Frank Tousey, 1914. Folio. 30, [2 (adv.)] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. complete title story along with the prologue of “Drawer 99 or A detective's Six-Year Search” by Percy B. St. John, chapter III of “Ventriloquist Val or The Mystery of the Dark Room” by Tom Fox, thecomplete story “The Traitor's Doom” by Alexander Armstrong, and an assortment of jokes and odd news clips. (The ads present are their own enhancement.)
• Publisher's color-printed paper wrappers; spine and edges chewed with overall light soiling. Paper age-toned and actually rather good/strong, of its sort. (26936)
A Lotta Moneyon the Line (Niños Expósitos). Arias de Saavedra, Francisco. Manifestacion de los derechos de la menor dona Grimaneza de la Puente en el juicio que en segunda instancia; ha promovido en esta real audiencia, con el Señor Marques de Corpa oydor de ella: sobre el entero de la dote de la Marquesa de la Puente su hija finada, para que se reforme la sentencia de vista declaratoria de la simulacion del instrumento dotal. Lima: En la Imprenta Real de los Niños Expósitos, 1793. Small 4to (21 cm; 8.25"). [3] ff., 175, [1 (blank)] pp., [1 (errata)] f.
Click the images for enlargements. dowry of Marquesa de la Puente, a member of one of the richest and most important families of Peru in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Provenance: Bookplate of the Clements Library, properly deaccessioned.
An interesting production of the “Orphans' Press” of Lima.
• Medina, Lima, 1764; Vargas Ugarte, Impresos peruanos, 2645. Early decorative wrappers bound into 20th-century gray cloth binding; old, somewhat inexplicable stamp (in English) to front wrapper. A very good copy, complete with the errata leaf. (35488)
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“I Now Write Only to Those of the Learned Order”Norris, John. Treatises upon several subjects, formerly printed singly, now collected into one volume. London: Printed for S. Manship at the Ship near the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill, 1697. 8vo (19.2 cm; 7.625"). [16], 448, 443–506 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. “Spiritual counsel: or, the father's advice to his children,” a much softer piece written for his four children. Text also includes two advertisement leaves of “Books printed for S. Manship.”
The Rev. Norris (1657–1712), rector of Bemerton near Salisbury (“Sarum” as the title-page fashions it), was an Anglican divine, a poet, a Platonist, and a prominent disciple of Malebranche, and a noted opponent of Locke and critic of philosophical writings.
Provenance: From the Ambrose Swasey Library (Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School) with library stamp on verso of title-page and bottom edge of text block.
• Wing (rev. ed.). N1274; ESTC R32226; Smith, Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana, p. 340; on Norris, see: DNB (online). Recent marbled paper–covered boards with gilt black leather label, new endpapers, all edges speckled red. Marked as above, light to moderate age-toning and occasional wormwork, almost completely in margins; one leaf with some paper torn away at foremargin. Avariety of pieces from a prolific theological writer. (36098)
Illustrated Fables byOne of Thomas Bewick's FAVORITE Pupils
Northcote, James; William Harvey, engr.; William Hazlitt. One hundred fables, original and selected. London: George Lawford (pr. by J. Johnson), 1828. 4to (25.3 cm, 10"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., [6], iii, [1], 272 pp.; illus. II: lx, 248 pp.; illus. [with] Northcote, James; William Harvey, engr.; Edmund Southey Rogers, ed. Fables, original and selected. Second series. London: John Murray (pr. by C. Whittingham), 1833.
Click the images for enlargements.over 500 in-text wood engravings by William Harvey, one of Thomas Bewick's favorite apprentices, after Northcote's work “based on illustrations from old prints onto which Northcote pasted his own designs,” and with ornamental letters and vignettes designed by Harvey himself (DNB online).
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear of each volume.
• Bound as above: gently rubbed at corners and hinges, one sunned board, two short scratches and one with a bit of discoloration around it, pencilling on one endpaper. Provenance as above, light age-toning with the occasional spot, moderate foxing on and around frontispiece. Neatly laid out, beautifully illustrated, handsomely bound, happy condition. (37998)
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The Etched Plates, inSanguineNurse Dandlem's little repository of great instruction, containing The surprising adventures of Little Wake Wilful, and his deliverance from the Giant Grumbolumbo. Glasgow: Pub. & sold wholesale, by J. Lumsden & Son, [ca. 1815]. Near miniature (9.5 cm, 3.75"). 47, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements.printed in sanguine, seven of which plates have two images. The deep rust-red of these illustrations is striking, and the impressions are simplyexcellent. (Of special interest to Americans, one part of the story and one of the vignette images portray “The Engagement with {Pirate} Paul Jones.”)
Pages 1 and 48 are blank and are pasted to the inside of the front or rear wrapper, as appropriate. This is a later edition, the first having been issued in the 1780s.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
• Roscoe & Brimmell. James Lumsden & Son of Glasgow, 106. Publisher's salmon-colored wrappers, evidence of onetime binding in a sammelband, now clearly removed with small rubbing to spine and signs of old oversewing. Very good. (38963)
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