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Children, Build Your Own Paradise in the Woods
Jauffret, Louis François. The little hermitage, a tale; illustrative of the arts of rural life. London: Pr. for Richard Phillips (by W. Heney), 1805. 12mo (13.5 cm, 5.3"). 72 pp.; 2 plts.
$200.00
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English translation of this delightful story focusing on both natural history and basic homesteading. Three farmer's children learn herein how to create their own little idyllic retreat, taught by a wandering beggar eventually revealed to be an educated man temporarily down on his luck. Joseph talks the brothers (their only sister does visit, but does not take part in the labor) through building a log cabin surrounded by a vegetable garden and willow palisade, enlivened by semi-tame birds and squirrels. Other instructions include well-digging and fruit-tree grafting, as well as discourses on the workings of gravity and sound waves, and an introduction to botanical classification — although none of the latter terms are used in the text.
This is an early printing, following the first of the previous year. The present copy is in wrappers bearing a slightly altered subtitle, “Illustrative of the Arts of Rural Life,” and a publication line crediting Tabart & Company's “Juvenile and School Library.” The text is illustrated with
two copper-engraved plates, one showing the first meeting with the “beggar” and his dog, and one the cabin-building in process. This edition is uncommon, with a search of WorldCat finding
only one U.S institution reporting ownership of this imprint.
Provenance: Title-page with inked gift inscription from Belinda Crooke to Mary Arnold Hearn, dated 1821. Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Gumuchian 3181 (describing this as the first ed.); Osborne Collection, 899–900 (for 1804 ed.). Publisher's printed paper wrappers; worn, faded, and stained, front wrapper with faint pencilled inscription, spine with early hand-inked title. Inscription as above. Waterstaining, age-toning, and mild foxing throughout; a copy that got itself wet, but otherwise clearly was used with care (and still was cared for after the wetting).
Scarce and fascinating. (41031)
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One of the
First Two Books Printed at ETON
John, 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.
$3500.00
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One of the first two books printed at Eton, both in Greek and both printed in 1610. The Byzantine poetry here is from the pen of John, Mauropus, an 11th-century teacher, hymnographer, orator, Byzantine Greek poet, and correspondent of scholars.
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).
$42.50
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From the Young People's Library series. An endearing collection of children's stories accompanied by
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)

“The Greatest Commonwealth upon Earth”
[Johnson, Richard]. A new Roman history, from the foundation of Rome to the end of the common-wealth ... Designed for the use of young ladies and gentlemen. London: E. Newbery, 1784. 12mo (14.4 cm, 5.67"). [2], vi, 136 pp.; 6 plts.
$300.00
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Uncommon juvenile account of the rise and fall of Rome, with a strong moral theme — the preface optimistically suggesting that studying this schoolbook with careful attention will give childish readers a taste for “useful History,” make them “an ornament to their country,” and fortify them with “Virtue, Honour and Prudence” (p. iv). The text is illustrated with
six copper-engraved plates, the first signed by Royce.
This is the second edition, following the first of 1770; the work, one of several Newbery “New Histories” of various locations, was popular enough that it went through at least three subsequent printings. Only nine U.S. institutions report physical holdings of this printing via WorldCat.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked inscription “Ann Thorold [/] 1790.” Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
ESTC T118612; Opie D 195; Osborne Collection, p. 167 (first ed.); Roscoe, John Newberry and His Successors, J263 (2). Contemporary treed calf, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label and gilt-stamped “faux” bands; joints and extremities rubbed, front joint refurbished, spine head chipped. Offsetting from turn-ins to margins of endpapers and fly-leaves; pages slightly age-toned with a handful of small ink spots.
A sound and attractive little book complete with all its nice plates. (40552)

Toys & Games & Fun at the Fin de Siecle
Johnson Bros., Harborne, England. The “Acme” and “Chad Valley” series of New games for winter evenings. Season 1898–9. Harborne, England: Johnson Bros. [published in the Printing Department of Chad Valley Works], 1898. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 40 pp., illus.
$75.00
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Pages 8 through 31 “hype” the games, panoramas and dioramas, and gift books available from the Johnsons, while pages 32 through 40 list other products such as flushable toilet paper, date stampers, brush racks, family printing devices, etc. A relatively simple price list fills pages 4 through 7, but the display pages offer
half- to full-page green-printed illustrations of the firm's eye-filling book covers, game pieces and box-tops, “moving” and “illuminated' panoramas, etc.
Original textured cream-colored wrappers printed in green and red; paper of wrappers starting at head and foot of spine with staples offsetting to covers and first/last leaves.
Interior clean and very, very nice. (40799)
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Learning the Times Tables with Hand-Colored Pilgrims,
Cherries, Dogs, & Brandy Balls
(Juvenile Mathematics). Grandmamma Easy's merry multiplication. [London]: Dean & Co., [ca. 1850]. 8vo (25 cm, 9.84"). 8 ff.; col. illus.
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Children's multiplication guide, engagingly presented as an illustrated poem rather than plain old boring mathematical tables. Each leaf is printed on one side, and the
title-page vignette and 16 wood-engraved illustrations have been hand-colored. This item comes from the publisher's “Grandmamma Easy's Pictorial Books” series, and is now uncommon: a search of WorldCat finds only four U.S. institutions reporting holdings of this first edition: There seem to have been one later printing and definitely several subsequent American printings.
The back cover lists the titles of six series' worth of Dean & Son's “original and superior coloured six-penny books” for children.
Provenance: Front cover with early inked ownership inscription of Spencer William Wiles, 1855[?, date partially rubbed]; most recently in the chidren's book collection of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Osborne Collection, p. 711 (giving speculative date). Publisher's half cloth and printed paper–covered sides; lightly rubbed and dust-soiled, inscription as above, endpapers skillfully refreshed. Page corners and edges showing wear, with one outer corner unobtrusively repaired. Overall a solid copy in original binding, interior completely free of any sign of childish handling and
bright, bright, bright. (40807)
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Victorian Illustrated Verse: A Beautiful Romp through
Late 19th-Century France
[Keary, Eliza?]; Ellen E. Houghton & Thomas Crane, illus. Abroad. London: Marcus Ward & Co., [1882]. 4to (22 cm, 8.66"). 56 pp.; col. illus.
$150.00
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“Last year, dear friends, we met 'At Home,' / And now 'Abroad' we mean to roam,” in the even lovelier companion volume to At Home. For this outing, the poems and illustrations share a coherent theme: the experiences of an English family travelling in France. Osborne notes that “Thomas Crane, Walter's elder brother, designed the ornamental pages while his cousin, Mrs. Houghton did the figure designs.” The chromolithographed scenes include our well-dressed friends departing from Charing Cross Station (and later, sleeping on the train home), boarding the steamer to cross to Calais, walking the Rue de l'Epicerie and visiting the Creche of Sister Rosalie (a nursery for children of working women) in Rouen, observing lacemakers in Caen, and enjoying all sorts of amusements in Paris. The publisher tells us only that “the verses are by various writers,” but Opie suggests that Eliza Keary, who wrote the poems for At Home, may have been involved.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Margaret Heydon Folger.
Osborne Collection, p. 49; Opie PP 330. Publisher's color-printed paper–covered sides with teal cloth shelfback; extremities rubbed with a little loss to paper of covers at corners and front cover with an instance of abrasion affecting the “O” of “Abroad”; general light soiling and limited areas of old blue (ink?) staining. Bookplate as above; half-title with inked Christmas gift inscription dated 1882. Pages gently age-toned with a very few small spots, overall clean; sewing loosening but not broken; a children's book “read,” for sure.
One ready for more reading, and looking! (40829)
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“Our English Children's Ways to Show” — With Chromolithographs
[Keary, Eliza]; John George Sowerby & Thomas Crane, illus. At home. London: Marcus Ward & Co., [ca. 1881]. 4to (22 cm, 8.66"). 56 pp.; col. illus.
$195.00
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A volume of illustrated poetry for children, described as “among the loveliest books ever produced” (Roger Dixon, “The Splendid Press of Messrs Marcus Ward & Company”). Sowerby's color-printed illustrations are framed by Crane's decorative motifs, all accompanying delightful verses written by Eliza Keary (1827–1918). Keary went uncredited here — and indeed under-appreciated in her day, having all but stopped writing for adult readers following a four-sentence dismissal of her work by The Athenaeum in 1874. In the present book, her poems about childish activities (including fishing, gathering flowers, and hosting tea parties) make a perfect complement to the Greenaway-esque art.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Margaret Heydon Folger.
Osborne Collection, p. 50; Opie PP 190. Publisher's brightly color-printed paper–covered sides with green cloth shelfback; spine and edges rubbed, hinges (inside) tender, paper split along gutters and sewing starting to loosen, ready for ongoing comfortable handling if care is used. Pages very slightly age-toned with a handful of spots of foxing, overall clean.
An outstanding Victorian children's production. (40823)
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Educating
German-American Boys & Girls in 1809
Kleine 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.
$475.00
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Sole American issue of this German-language edition of Little prattle over a book of prints. A wonderful picture book for children with wood engravings by Alexander Anderson, this small volume contains short stories that deal with conduct of life, animal welfare, and accidents that befall children (like falling through the ice on a pond).
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)
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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.).
$1000.00
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First U.S. edition of the official first series, and
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 while
attending 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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“Flattery Put Out of Countenance: A Poetical Version
of an
ANCIENT Tale”
Lamb, Charles. Prince Dorus. London: Field & Tuer (The Leadenhall Press), 1889. 8vo (20.2 cm, 7.95"). xii, 31, [1] pp.; 10 plts. (9 col.).
$145.00
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Type facsimile of the famously scarce 1811 first edition. Lamb's verse fairy tale gives us a royal babe cursed by an enchanter, who as he grows up must overcome vanity and self-flattery to win his true love (not to mention a nose of less Cyranoesque proportions). Here, it opens with an introduction by Andrew White Tuer, half of the publishing firm. “The type and illustrations . . . follow as closely as possible the original edition of 1811,” notes the limitation statement, which also marks this as
numbered copy 143 of 500 printed, signed by the publishers.
The plates include a reproduction of the woodcut from the original first edition paper wrapper, printed on blue paper, as well as
hand-colored facsimiles of the nine original copper engravings.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Gumuchian 3612; NCBEL, III, 1225; Opie C 993. Publisher's half vellum and blue paper–covered sides, vellum edges ruled in gilt, front cover with gilt-stamped title; binding lightly dust-soiled. Front free endpaper with inked inscription of G. Tansley and pencilled purchase-related annotations. Pages gently age-toned with very faint spots of foxing (more noticeable to endpapers), otherwise clean.
A lovely copy of an uncommon item. (40992)
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A Concise Overview for a
Very Special Student Subset
Le Blond, Guillaume. Abregé de geometrie à l'usage des pages de la Grande Ecurie du Roy. Où l'on donne ce qui est le plus nécessaire pour entrer dans l'étude des fortifications. Paris: Joseph Bullot & Jombert, 1737. 12mo (16.9 cm, 6.7"). [4], 162, [6] pp.; 5 fold. plts.
$450.00
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First edition of this introduction to geometry, intended for
young men working in the royal stables who had only scant time available for the study of mathematics. In addition to a mathematician, professor, and contributor to Diderot's Encyclopédie, the author (1704–81) was a scholar of military tactics, responsible for Éléments de tactique and Traité de l'attaque des places among other items.
This now-uncommon textbook is illustrated with five folding engraved plates of diagrams. WorldCat shows
just one U.S. institution (Society of the Cincinnati) reporting a copy, and only a handful of overseas holdings.
Provenance: Title-page with early inked inscription “de Ratzenried” and front pastedown with von Ratzenried armorial bookplate (coat of arms showing greyhounds and a moon with clouds) labelled F.C.V.R.: possibly Franz Carl Anton von und zu Ratzenried.
Contemporary mottled calf, board edges with gilt roll, spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped leather title-label, and compartments gilt extra; light wear overall, edges and joints moderately rubbed. All edges speckled red. Bookplate and inscription as above. Pages with occasional small pencilled marks of emphasis, otherwise clean; one plate with outer edge slightly tattered.
A very nice copy, in contemporary binding, of this scarce practical compendium. (40246)

“With Upwards of Fifty Illustrations”
Lemon, Mark; Charles H. Bennett & Richard Doyle, illus. Fairy tales. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co., 1868. 8vo (19.9 cm, 7.83"). [12], 189, [3] pp.; 6 plts., illus.
$300.00
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First edition, combining these two fairy tales with art from two popular illustrators of the day: “The Chronicles of the Three Sisters” and “The Enchanted Doll,” with numerous contributions by Charles H. Bennett and Richard Doyle. The first story features four full-page designs, decorative capitals, and in-text vignettes by Bennett, known for his “Shadows” series and his artwork for Aesop's fables; and the latter (a tale written for and originally dedicated to Charles Dickens' two oldest daughters) two full-page designs along with assorted capitals and vignettes by Doyle, a popular comic and fairytale artist.
The three contributors here — Lemon, Doyle, and Bennett — worked together at Punch; this appears to be the only book-form work on which all three collaborated.
NSTC 2L11171. Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine pictorially stamped in silver and black; binding lightly worn overall (most noticeably at extremities) with very minor bubbling to cloth. Title-page and a few others with small spots of foxing, pages otherwise clean.
An attractive copy of a desirable work. (40983)
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A Very Large University Broadside
Printed on SILK
Linares Montefrio y Martinez, Evaristo. Broadside. Begins, Excmo. domino ac semper domino meo, D. Josepho Moñino, comiti de Florida Blanca ... Exoptat hihi iam diu illuxit dies ... quo publicum oc non tantum mei in studiies, profectus, verum etiam grati animi significationes testimonium exhiberem. Toleti [i.e., Toledo]: apud Nicolaum de Almanzano, typographum universitatis, 1782. Folio (76 x 57 cm, 31" x 22.5" ). [1] p.
$5500.00
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On 19 June 1782 at the Universidad de Toledo, Linares Montefrio stood to defend his Bachelor's degree and this
letterpress broadside on rose-colored silk was the official announcement of that test. The oral examination centered on Justinian's Institutes, specifically book three, title 26.
It is handsomely printed using several point sizes of roman and italic, with center justification in the top portion and full justification below. Around the printed area are wide margins on the four sides, which margins contain
16 large, crisp, evenly spaced impressions of the city of Toledo's double-headed eagle, with crown above, sword in its right talon and mace in its left.
Broadsides were an important source of income for handpress-era printers in Europe and Spanish America and the printers offered “package deals” to the families of the graduate and post-graduate degree postulants; the packages were geared to the students' families' economic means. Broadsides could be large (folio) or small (8vo), have an engraving or not, have a border of type ornaments or not, and be printed on standard paper or colored paper (usually blue); if one splurged, one could get the announcement printed, as here, on silk. The usual total number of copies printed for each candidate is unknown at this time, but is likely to have been only one or two dozen, and we also don't know if more than one silk copy was printed when that top option was in fact ordered. In extravagant cases, one can imagine one for the degree candidate, one for the parents, one for each godparent, etc.; still, such cases would probably have been few.
Certainly, the printers would have been willing to rake in as much money as possible, on each happy occasion, and these richly beautiful silk mementos — doubtless proudly displayed for years going forward in homes or offices — would have been excellent ongoing advertisements. Equally clearly, however, the number of copies of all of the defense broadsides surviving is small, and
the survival of those on silk is very small.
No copies of this broadside are traced via the usual bibliographies, nor via NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, KVK, CCPB, or the OPACs of University of Toledo and the national library of Spain.
Rose-colored silk, with old folds; sun-fading variously and rather attractively approaching pinks and apricots. Sides “accented” by an attractive retained green and white selvage edge; bottom edge hemmed and top one, possibly once so, now with fraying and a bit of ravelling; near the broadside's center, a round hole costs six letters.
Still, at 230+ years old, frankly gorgeous. (39844)
Still Thoughtful Still Thought-Provoking
Lippman, 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.
$25.00
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One of three hundred copies printed and privately distributed.
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 of
Famous 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.
$400.00
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First American edition, taken from the London printing of the same year. Illustrations in this work are a woodcut frontispiece, a woodcut on the title-page, and a
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.”
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
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)

Scholarly Highlights of Southern Germany, Plus
Great Universities of Medieval Europe
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.
$900.00
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Attractive edition of this literary and antiquarian tour of the Swabia, Helvetia, and Bavaria regions of Germany, written by a well-travelled Benedictine monk acclaimed for his scholarship. Originally published in 1683, the Iter Germanicum is here introduced by Joannes Albertus Fabricius and accompanied by an important treatise on European universities since the time of Charlemagne, by French historian Jean de Launoy (Joannes Launoius).
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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“Al-fred Was a Kind Heart-ed Boy: He Ne-ver
Play-ed With Naugh-ty Chil-dren”
Mamma's gift, or pretty tales and pretty pictures for good children... Embellished with coloured engravings. London: Published by D. Carvalho, [ca. 1833–35?]. 12mo (17.5 cm, 7"). [8] ff.; illus.
$750.00
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The text of this wonderfully illustrated book of stories has half-page illustrations above a syllabified letterpress text in prose, the whole printed on one side of each leaf only and the printed pages bound facing each other. The illustrations are hand-colored wood engravings. The date range of publication is suggested by Brown's London Publishers and Printers, p. 33.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
This is a copy of the third edition. Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate no copies of this edition and only one library worldwide reporting ownership of either the first or the second edition (the second, at Princeton).
Publisher's printed dun-colored wrappers; excellent repairs to spine. Some finger soiling.
Overall very good, with the coloring very neat and vivid. (38809)

EDIFYING STORIES for French Youths
[Marmontel, Jean-François]. L'école des peres, suivie de la mauvaise mere, contes nouveaux. Caen: P. Chalopin, 1788. 12mo (14.6 cm, 5.75"). 40 pp.
$250.00
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Scarce chapbook presentation of two moral tales, printed without attribution but taken from Marmontel's Contes moraux, a multivolume production originally published from 1755 through 1759. While the titles of both stories imply a focus on parenting (and both pieces emphasize the dangers of bad mothering), the major lessons here are that sons should avoid gambling, partying, and expensive mistresses — while taking care to fall in love with women who are virtuous and wealthy.A woodcut headpiece opens each story in this printing, which is now uncommon: WorldCat finds
only one U.S. institution reporting a copy (Princeton) and just a handful of other locations, all in France.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Gumuchian 2337. Appropriate plain lilac paper wrappers not original to the chapbook, these a little worn and chipped; old stitching holes in gutter margins and one signature separated.
A clean, pleasing copy of a seldom-seen item. (40712)

Part of the Series of Texts Printed by
DIDOT for the
Education of the Dauphin
Massillon, Jean-Baptiste. Petit careme. Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aine, 1789. Large 4to (31 cm, 12. 25"). [4] ff., 312 pp.
$1000.00
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Massillon (1663–1742) was a noted, much admired, and greatly in demand Oratorian preacher remembered for his gentle persuasiveness. One of his most famous works is this Petit Carême, the compiled Lenten sermons which he delivered before the young King Louis XV of France in 1718. It is here in an edition of
200 copies, a part of the series of texts printed for the education of the Dauphin.

WorldCat locates only two U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Cornell, Cleveland Public).
Binding: Contemporary red morocco, spine gilt extra with green leather gilt label and elegant tooling to top and bottom, bands, and compartments; covers with similarly elegant, well-composed gilt borders and with board edges and turn-ins gilt in complementary fashion. All edges gilt, silk bookmarker present.
Provenance: Bookplate of Brian Stilwell.
Brunet, Supplement, 981; Graesse, IV, 439. Bound as above in excellent condition with only the lightest shelfwear and a very short tear (not advancing) at head of spine; wide-margined leaves very clean with only the lightest sort of normal foxing.
A treasurable copy. (40323)
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Early Students' Text on Greek & Latin Composition
Maturanzio, Francesco; Jakob Locher (ed.). ... De componendis versibus hexametro & pentametro opusculum aureum. Item Iacobi Sentini Ricinensis De quibusdam lyricis versibus Appendix. [colophon: Nurnbergae: Impressum ... Per Ioannem Stuchs, 1520. 4to (20.5 cm, 8"). [24] ff.
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Apparently the sole edition printed in Germany of the text often considered
one of the most important writings of the Renaissance for the teaching of Greek and Latin composition. Its author, Francesco Maturanzio (Latin: Mataratius), who was born in 1443 in Perugia, studied in Vicenza, Crete, and Rhodes and in that period collected and edited numerous notable texts on Hellenistic authors. In 1486 he became professor of eloquence in Perugia, later moving to Vicenza and Venice, and in 1498 he returned to his native city; he is most famous for his chronicle of Perugia, which earned him high regard in his hometown, where he died in 1518.
The first edition of Maturanzio's text appeared in 1481 in Perugia from Stephan Arndes and was reprinted several times in the 16th century, with all editions apart from this one appearing exclusively in Italy. The present German edition's editor and publisher, Jacob Locher (1471–1528), was a noted German humanist, poet laureate, and teacher (see Contemporaries of Erasmus, II, p. 338), who was teaching in 1520 at the University of Ingolstadt and had it
handsomely published for the use of his students. He has included a poem to two particular students, Peter Schletlin and Blasius Kotterle from Augsburg, as well as one to the reader and another by Konrad Gaillinus Leutkirch that is addressed to Maturanzio, dated 6th December, Ingolstadt. And he has
enlarged the text with the addition of a treatise by Jacobus Sentinus on the same subject. The title-page is printed in black and red with a fine four-part woodcut border; the text is in roman with one seven-line woodcut historiated initial and several three-line woodcut initials.
Evidence of readership: An early reader has added marginalia to the first four pages of text, one note relating to Plato, six to meters.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Apparently part of a relatively small edition, this text was also of a nature that would have led to hard, destructive use by students. Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate
only one U.S. library(Yale) reporting ownership.
VD16 M1622. Modern marbled paper-covered boards. With marginalia as above; clean, and very nice. (40525)

Moore's St. Nicholas: The Night Before Christmas
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Moore, Clement Clarke; Mary C. Ogden, illus. A visit from St. Nicholas. [New York: Time, Inc., 1951]. 8vo (17.8 cm, 7"). [16] pp.; col. illus.
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Calligraphed and illustrated in 1855 by Mary Clarke Moore Ogden, daughter of the author, as a gift for her husband John Doughty Ogden, this charming rendition of the classic Christmas poem appears here in an attractive photographic facsimile published by Life in December of 1951.
Ribbon-tied in original color-printed wrappers. Age-toned with some minor creasing and light edgewear; first two leaves with short tear from outer margin. (41058)
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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.
$90.00
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Uncommon: Speeches objecting to “Government interference in the matter of education,” by Edward Baines, Jr., Bailie Duncan, the Rev. Andrew Thomson, the Rev. J.R. Campbell, Dr. Lindsay Alexander, Duncan McLaren, etc.
NSTC 2E4287. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper outer corner. (17041)
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African Mission Press — Gabon, 1877
(Mpongwe primer). Ezango z' imari go Mpongwe.
Baraka: Press vi Mission, 1877. 24mo (15.8 cm, 6.125"). 12 pp.
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American
missionaries arrived in Gabon in the late 1830s and by 1838/1839 had firmly established
themselves in Baraka, now Libreville, and built a church. The history of printing in the
Mpongwe language is still to be written, but texts did start to appear as early as 1840, first being
printed in Boston, and soon the missionaries had a rudimentary press of their own. Most of their
imprints simply gave the place of printing as “Gaboon,” but it was really in or near Baraka.This primer is unrecorded in WorldCat and COPAC and all other online databases we
have checked. It consists, as one would expect, of the alphabet, the phonemes, hyphenated
simple words, and short texts. Mpongwe is a dialect of the Myene language spoken by a small
group of Bantus living in Gabon.The booklet is printed
on native paper using the Latin
alphabet and diacritical marks. Again as one would expect, the type is worn.
Sewn, in original golden-tan wrappers; front cover lightly soiled and two small
triangular tears without loss. Partially unopened, edges uncut. Very good.
(41075)
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School Text 1791 — “Muretus” a
MODEL
for Students
Muret, 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.
$600.00
Marc Antoine Muret (1526–85), better known by the Latin form of his name, Muretus, started his literary career in Paris as a member of the circle of young poets that also included Dorat and Ronsard, and in 1553 he published a French commentary on Ronsard’s Amours. He later moved to Italy, where he became one of the leading classicists of his day. He has long been recognized as the best Latin prose stylist of the Renaissance, and his works were used, as this textbook exemplifies, as a model for students. Vol. I of this work contains selections from his speeches, while vol. II contains letters. This particular collection of Muretus for students was apparently first published in 1739 and regularly republished during the 18th century. An engraved portrait of Muretus serves as the frontispiece for vol. I.
Rare. No U.S. copies traced via NUC Pre-1956 or WorldCat.
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)

A Pretty Present Indeed
My pretty present. Thomas Nelson & Sons; London: S.W. Partridge & Co., [ca. 1885]. 18mo (14.7 cm, 5.75"). [56] pp.; illus.
$100.00
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First edition: This appealing and now uncommon children's book appeared as part of both Nelson's “Short Story” series and their “My Story Box” series. The front cover bears an affixed
chromolithograph of a Greenaway-style young girl holding a posy; the title-page vignette was engraved by popular illustrators Bross and Bogart — as several subsequent images also appear to have been — and each text page features a large wood engraving, four done in silhouette style, with an accompanying paragraph telling a brief story or describing the moral to be drawn from the image. The subjects of the pictures include a poor sailor, a policeman, and a milkmaid as well as fashionably dressed children and a variety of pets and livestock. Overall, the stories stress perseverance, politeness, and kindness to animals.
Binding: Publisher's cream paper–covered boards, front cover with mounted color-printed illustration of a young girl as above, back cover with black-stamped decorative design.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Binding as above, very lightly soiled, and interior with a few spots of light foxing only; a clean, lovely copy, apparently
untouched by childish hands (or only by awfully careful ones). (40740)
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