This, the final book published by Boudinot, strongly supportsfair and compassionate treatment of Native Americans. The work includes comparisons of Hebrew and Native American languages (Charibee, Creek, Mohegan, and “northern languages”), traditions, and lore; the appendix comprises “Historical Sketches of Louisiana” and “Fraser's Key to the Prophecies.”

Binding:  The binding of this copy is most curious. There are three distinct areas of the leather that are clearly inlaid repairs, the leather being of a darker color but the same style as the rest; and three of the gilt-tooled chalice or urn devices that appear on the spine are partly on this inserted leather.

Provenance:  Contemporary ownership signature of James Linn in upper margin of title-page.

•  Felcone 433; Howes B643; Pilling, Algonquian, 54; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 421; Rosenbach, Jewish, 180; Sabin 6856; Shaw & Shoemaker 37057; Singerman, Judaica Americana, 252. Not in Field. On Boudinot, see: Dictionary of American Biography, II, 477–78.   Contemporary acid-stained sheep, spine with elegant though dimmed gilt-stamped leather title-label and compartment stampings; volume scuffed and abraded. Foxing, with some soiling/staining. Still-sturdy copy of this early and oft-cited Amerindian Lost Tribes treatise.  (39632)

Provenance:  From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Brunet, VI, 1423.   Contemporary green morocco-grained paper–covered boards, covers framed in black-stamped roll with corner fleurons, spine with black-stamped title and compartment bands; edges and extremities worn and sunned, spine much sunned and chipped with portion of title lost, hinges (inside) very tender due to weight of boards with free endpapers and half-title lacking. Pastedowns with interesting, attractive white and green trefoils on paste paper–like red background. Wide-margined pages, remarkably crisp and clean.  (40415)

Evidence of readership: Pencillings in French and English record pronunciation of a name, offer judgments such as “a beautiful poem — with a loathsome subject,” identify one figure in a poem by Derzhavin as “the pampered paramour of Catherine the great” and object on the same page to “the murder” of “helpless Turks”; brief quotations from a history of Russia (which, not clear) are supplied; and the writer wonders, “What must be the Russian heart when her poets can thus sing of deeds like this!”

•  Library cloth, pressure-stamped on front and back covers by a now-defunct library; title-page and several others rubber-stamped; bookplate, charge pocket, a bit of pencilling. Top margin of title-leaf torn away (no print lost, but an inscription taken); age-toned, light waterstaining in margins toward rear, one signature loosening, good +. Marginalia as noted.  (9221)

An early user has added a note “By W. Bowyer” to the title-page; there is also evidence of a torn out leaf (M4), although pagination and content match catalogued and digitized copies.

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  ESTC N10660; Bigmore & Wyman, Bibliography of Printing, p. 74.   19th-century half speckled calf and mottled paper, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, covers with gilt rolls along edges of calf; gently rubbed at corners and moderately along joints. Note and torn edge as above with three textual corrections in an earlier hand and one word in green ink, two very small marginal stains, light age-toning. Bookish content in a neat copy.  (37566)

The Princeton Library catalogue record for this work states that P.J. Conkwright, the legendary designer and typographer at the Princeton University Press, designed the book. One would suspect that it was printed at the Press as well.

•  New. Bound as issued; marbled paper boards, black cloth spine with title stamped in gold. Glassine dust wrapper, chipped and torn over spine but present.  (35761)

A total of 26 lettered copies were issued in the binding described above. In addition to beingsigned by Bradbury and Weist on the title-page, the present example is anout-of-series copy marked (in red ink, on the title-page) as the publisher's copy.

Vol. I is illustrated with one wood-engraved plate depicting a Saxon almanac, and seven in-text engravings depicting Odin, Frigga, Thor, and the other deities with days named in their honor.

Provenance: Signature on title-pages of George Buckton, vol. I dated 1812 and vol. II dated 1813.

•  Allibone 237 (listing 1813 & 1814 eds. only); NSTC B4120.   Contemporary treed calf, rebacked preserving original spines with gilt-stamped titles, gilt-ruled and -dotted compartment bands, and gilt-stamped compartment decorations; original spine leather chipped, cracked, and darkened as by fire. Covers with corners and edges unobtrusively rubbed; portions nearest spines showing evidence of heat exposure; hinges (inside) reinforced. Front pastedowns each with institutional bookplate, vol. I front pastedown with bookseller's ticket and affixed early cataloguing slip, vol. I back pastedown and vol. II front pastedown with inked library inscription. Title-pages with inked ownership inscriptions as above. Offsetting from plate and to endpapers from binding, pages otherwise clean though with all edges (i.e., of closed book) darkened. A particularly handsome exemplar of popular scholarship of the day.  (25436)

Provenance:  Each front pastedown with armorial bookplate of William Arthur, sixth Duke of Portland.

•  NSTC 2B46491; Allibone 240; Brunet, II, 1215.   Binding as above, minor shelf wear to lower edges and corners, vol. I with front board expertly reattached and with small dent to outer edge of front cover. Joints delicate, due to size and weight of volumes, but holding. A few pages and plates with faint foxing, otherwise clean.  (24100)

This is numbered copy 1063 of the 2000 printed, signed by both Levine and Bentley at the colophon. The monthly newsletter is laid in.

Binding:  Full black linen, stamped in gold on the front cover from a design by Levine, with gilt lettering to spine.

Binding, slipcase, and illustrations all properly evoke the grittiness of the London underworld.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 529.   Bound as above, in original black slipcase with gilt lettering to spine; minor rubbing to slipcase. A highly enjoyable copy of a fine production.  (39034)

Provenance:  Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.

•  Very good condition. Slightly irregular along the left margin; hole in right margin (not touching text) where the wax seal for mailing adhered to the blank area during opening.  (33388)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC locate only nine U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Martin & Walter 5290.   Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page slightly darkened, with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, pencilled initials in upper outer corner, and inked numeral above header; verso institutionally rubber-stamped (marked duplicate). One leaf with tear from upper margin extending into text, with old repair. Occasional light spotting, overall clean.  (30959)

•  NSTC 2LON952. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with inked numeral in upper outer corner. First two leaves with small nicks to outer edges; pages clean. (20591)

We find six copies only in U.S. libraries.

•  Publisher's printed wrappers; minor pencilling in some margins, dust-soiling. Folded once lengthwise. Very good.  (34312)

•  NCBEL, III, 865.   Original green cloth, spines with printed paper labels, lacking the dust wrappers (which are scarce and almost never seen); labels darkened, a few starting to peel up at corners. Pages untrimmed, with some signatures unopened. A beautiful, clean example of this set.  (24629)

•  ESTC T65811. Recent wrappers. Pages age-toned, with a few small spots.  (9302)

•  ESTC N2497. Recent marbled-paper wrappers, front wrapper with paper title label. Lacking half-title. Title-page with lower corner neatly off, otherwise in excellent, clean condition.  (3247)

First published in 1813 (see Osborne Collection, p. 161; Gumuchian 937). WorldCat locates fewer than ten U.S. libraries reporting ownership.

Provenance:  Signature in early ink of Mary Elizabeth Williams on title-page. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Shoemaker 1597.   Original printed paper boards with title-page reproduced on the front board and a publishers' advertisement on the rear, stained and dust-soiled. Foxing and dampstaining throughout, generally light and marginal but severe on final verso; deckle preserved at fore-edge of one leaf; small closed tear in one outer margin. Temoine pp. 25–26. Small tear in outer margin of pp. 17–18. A less than ideal but still decent copy andvery uncommon title in the marketplace.  (38476)

•  Shoemaker 8196; NSTC 2B53063.   Period-style quarter light grey cloth and light blue paper–covered sides, spines with printed paper labels. One leaf with short tear from outer edge, not touching text. Pages age-toned with a scant handful of scattered small spots, otherwiseremarkably clean.  (30339)

The frontispiece portrait of Brown was engraved by W. Watson after George Watson's 1806 portrait. The volume contains “a memoir of the author, by the Rev. David Welsh, minister of St. David's Glasgow.”

Provenance:  Bookplate of William S. O'Brien and with his note “This book is to belong to [my son] Edward William after my death [.] William S. O'Brien [,] Christmas, 1859.”

Binding:  Mid-19th-century polished tan calf, spine gilt extra, single gilt rule on boards; gilt roll on board edges.

•  Binding as above, small scuffs and joints (outside) very lightly abraded; paper of the front hinge partially open and with “invisible” cello tape repair (cover firmly attached). Back pastedown and lower outer margins of a few index leaves with spots of worming, not touching text. A nice copy.  (39818)

•  ESTC T86771; Allibone 263.   Period-style calf framed and panelled in blind rolls with blind-tooled corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels, gilt-dotted raised bands, and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments (signed in blind on lower rear turn-in by Grace Bindings). Pagination jumps from 267 to 272, text complete. Title-page with early inked annotation on the authorship of Christianity as Old as the Creation, and with institutional rubber-stamp in lower margin; closed lower edges rubber-stamped. First and last few leaves lightly spotted.  (23782)

Provenance:  Front pastedowns each with armorial bookplate of William Holland Wilmer, grandson of the eponym who served as president of the College of William and Mary; Dr. Wilmer (1863–1936) received his MD from the University of Virginia.

•  Publisher's navy cloth, front covers framed in blind with gilt-stamped title and central portrait medallion of a Classical-looking Thomas Jefferson, spines with gilt-stamped publication information; bindings showing moderate shelfwear and variable traces of damp-staining (not visible in any way to interiors). Bookplates as above. Pages gently and evenly age-toned, otherwise clean, with some signatures unopened. One leaf with short tear from lower margin, not touching text. One page with small pencilled annotation in margin regarding jump in continuity from p. 152 to p. 153 of vol. 5: although no pages are lacking, a small portion of text appears to have been left out by the typesetter. A good, respectable set, with nice provenance.  (39808)

•  Brunet, I, 1284; VD18 90722175.   Contemporary half calf with speckled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-stamped compartment decorations, and all edges stained red; binding rubbed and worn overall with front board showing partial split due to the weight of the substantial volume. Main title-page not present here; all letters complete and plates present. Front free endpaper with inscription as above and with early inked annotation noting “Cent. III Epist. 1–75.” Pages slightly age-toned with a very few scattered spots, overall clean.  (40186)

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  VD16 B 8553; Index Aurel. 125.614; Chrisman, Bibliography of Strasbourg Imprints, 1480-1599, B7.8.6. Not in Adams.   18th-century tan calf, rebacked; spine and covers enthusiastically yet inexpertly stamped in blind with a variety of shapes and tools, from daisies to fleurs-de-lis, rubbed and cracked with some loss of leather, one repaired tear, and new endpapers. Final leaf with device and following blank lacking. Chiefly marginal waterstaining mostly faded into the appearance of age-toning, throughout; a few small wormholes through perhaps the first quarter of text and six leaves inexpertly repaired including title-page; title-page with two small inked dots and one minor inked embellishment. Otherwise a few marginal chips, short tears, stains, or worn edges; booklabel as above. With its attractive, sometimes satirical woodcut page borders and its striking title-page, this is, though imperfect, a book to pore over.  (38732)

•  VD16 ZV 30477.   Later plain paper wrappers; outer edges speckled red, carrying over to outer margin of title-page. Early inked monogram in upper outer corner of title-page; two instances of early inked marginalia. Pages age-toned with occasional small spots. A nice copy.  (40416)

The volume is illustrated witha total of ten hand-colored lithographed plates, each offering a pair of multi-animal images — except for the added engraved title-page, which bears a single vignette representing a dramatic encounter: a snake constricting a difficult-to-identify but undoubtedly ferocious catlike creature, while fending off a vulture at the same time. Among the birds depicted are the wild turkey, bird of paradise, pelican, swan, and peacock, while mammals include the lion, tiger, camel, marmot, rhinoceros, elephant, and bear; also present are a number of lizards, fish, snakes, etc.

Provenance:  Curiously, the back free endpaper of this copy bears a pressure-stamp from the Calzoleria di F. Barellai, in Florence — a shoemaker’s shop! Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Publisher's color-printed yellow paper–covered boards; slightly darkened, corners and spine extremities rubbed. Back hinge (inside) starting from foot but cover firm; back free endpaper stamped as above. Variable foxing throughout and the occasional “splotch” of something else, the latter most notably to the engraved title-page with off-setting to frontispiece leaf opposite (not marring the illustrations on these leaves). One leaf with short tear from lower margin, not touching text. Scarce, and delightful.  (39796)

•  ESTC T58485.   Recent speckled paper wrappers. Free endpapers and first and last leaves with worm damage to edges; final blank leaf lacking. Front free endpaper and dedication page with rubber-stamped numerals (no other markings). Lower outer corners waterstained in first portion of volume; some darker stains from laid-in plant matter, with several leaves having words obscured or lost due to botanical adhesions — in the worst case, one leaf with hole affecting about 30 words from having adhered to plant matter, subsequent leaf with about 15 words obscured. Some headers just shaved but no catchwords touched. Title-page verso and back free endpaper with inked ownership inscriptions as above.  (20618)

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and ESTC locate only three copies worldwide of the 1659 first edition, three copies in North America of the 1685 second, and three North American copies of this 1701 edition (this being one of the three). This work lacks the portrait and one leaf of text, a common occurrence as Bunyan's works were often read to death.

Provenance:  Booklabel of Farrer in Reading on front pastedown. Later in the Howell Bible Collection, Pacific School of Religion (properly released); with presentation inscription of C. Bernard Cockett (1888–1965), president of both the Australian Council of Churches and the Congregational Union of Australia & New Zealand, to the Pacific School of Religion on 7 May 1943 in appreciation for receiving an honorary doctorate.

•  ESTC T58494.   Brown buckram with gilt lettering and ruling on spine, all edges speckled brown; binding lightly rubbed, joints cracked and back cover loosely attached, corner torn from front free endpaper. Light age-toning with intermittent waterstaining, generally light but notable on final two gatherings; a few leaves lacking corners including title-page (with loss of last four letters of “Doctrine”); a few more leaves damaged with loss of text to up to 14 lines (usually fewer) on each of four pages; one leaf of text and the portrait leaf missing. Inscribed as above, with library marking to spine, several old rubber-stamps, date and edition underlined on title-page, circulation slip and card pocket at rear. Withal rather clean, still sound, and stillBUNYAN.  (36216)

Binding:  Bound by the Tapley-Rutter Company in “full Schumacher cloth with an all over multicolor Colonial pattern.” On the spine, a burgundy leather label with gilt lettering.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 491.   Binding as above, in original brown paper–covered slipcase; slipcase showing minimal shelfwear, volume fresh and clean. A handsome, crisp copy.  (39040)

•  NSTC 2B60417.   Period-style quarter light grey cloth and light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label; engraved portrait of Hale lacking. Ex–social club library with rubber-stamp on half-titles and main title-page but not on the pretty engraved title-page introducing Rochester's life; no other markings. A few leaves with upper outer corners bumped. Nice printing of two much-read and long-respected memoirs.  (30337)

Binding:  Contemporary straight-grained oxblood morocco, covers framed in two wide blind rolls and panelled with a blind roll and a single gilt fillet with corner fleurons. Board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll; all edges gilt. Robin's-egg blue glossy endpapers.

Provenance: Front pastedown with small 19th-century London bookseller's label of Bowdery & Kerby. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Gibson, Burns, 38; NCBEL, II, 1877; NSTC 2B60971.   Binding as above, spine evenly sunned, joints and corners rubbed. Front pastedown with ticket as above; endpapers slightly rubbed. Engraved title-page foxed, with off-setting or “contact foxing” to title-page following; off-setting and/or mild foxing associated with other plates. An attractive incarnation of some of Burns's most beloved pieces.  (37640)

The colophon notes that this is one of 750 unnumbered copies “printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper and the type distributed in the month of December MDCCCCXIV.”

•  Bishop, Mosher, 180; Hatch, Mosher, 610.   Green paper shelfback with pictorial blue and white paper–covered boards, white printed paper labels with green and red lettering to spine and front board; minor darkening to board edges; signatures unopened. In original white paper dust jacket; age-toned and edgeworn with chipping to extremities. A truly handsome edition in a nice copy.  (38900)

Originally published in 1648, two years after the author's death, this treatise continues to receive glowing recommendations as a study in achieving Christian peace even for modern readers.

•  ESTC R23842; Wing (rev. ed.) B6110.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Pages age-toned and cockled, with waterstaining to first 16 leaves; two leaves each with small burn spot affecting but not obscuring a few letters, one leaf with short tear from outer edge not extending into text; one leaf holed with loss of about ten letters. A solid, very readable copy of this Christian classic in a good late 17th–century edition.  (36724)

Uncut and unopened copy of a beautifully accomplished volume.

•  Not in Penzer, Annotated Bibliography of Sir Richard Burton.   Publisher's quarter vellum and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; vellum darkened, corners bumped. Pages clean.  (28273)

Provenance:  Back pastedown with ticket of New York bookseller William Salloch; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Lipperheide 1026. Not in Abbey, Life in England in Aquatint and Lithography; Beall, Cries and Itinerant Trades, E43.   Bound as above; front board reattached, volume showing minimal wear otherwise. Some light offsetting to guard leaves; a few plates with small spots of minor foxing, plates otherwise pleasingly clean. Uncommon, with images both visually striking and sociologically intriguing.  (39553)

Provenance:  Calligraphic bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books.

•  McKitterick/Rendall/Dreyfus 84.   Publisher's quarter natural niger morocco with red and black Cockerell marbled paper–covered sides; glassine wrapper lacking, boards very gently curved, extremities slightly worn. A solid, handsome copy of a handsome book.  (32040)

•  VD17 12:128413B. Contemporary vellum with yapp edges, spine with early inked title; some light discoloration, with cut to vellum across spine. Pastedowns loose from inside covers, with bits of old manuscript used in the binding structure, showing; 19th-century bookplate attached to exposed paste board and endpapers creased. Shadow of old shelf number on verso of title-page. One leaf with small stain and hole affecting about four letters. Foxing ranging from mild to moderate.

Provenance:  Engraved title-page with minute owner's inscription dated 1723 ofErnst Wilh[elm] Christoph Christfels of Fürth, Germany, who published a treatise, “Concerning Ialtha, daughter of the prince, an example of the learned women of the Jewish race,” in 1725, citing Buxtorf's Institutio epistolaris hebraica of 1629 at least once (and using this dictionary for the Hebrew vocabulary?).

•  VD17 12:128987E; Vancil, Cordell Collection, 40.   19th-century paper imitating tree calf over boards, paper spine label; rubbed and spine paper cracking. Ex-library: bookplate on front pastedown and old notes in ink to same. Engraved title-page and portrait chipped at edges and lightly wormed at margins, the former also repaired at one margin. Generally lightly browned with occasional foxing and staining; smudges from printer’s and annotators’ inks; a few very small tears and holes none causing loss to text. Early repairs (or paper twisted while still wet?) on two leaves. Occasional marginalia, interlinear writing, and underlining, in black and red ink, by an early owner. Old bookseller’s note in English inserted between two leaves. A remarkably strong volume, given its great size.  (30596)