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“Outcasts of Israel, Wherever They May Be”
Boudinot, Elias. A star in the west; or, a humble attempt to discover the long lost ten tribes of Israel, preparatory to their return to their beloved city, Jerusalem. Trenton: D. Fenton, S. Hutchinson, & J. Dunham (pr. by George Sherman), 1816. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). iv, 312 pp.
$450.00
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First edition, propounding the theory that Native Americans were descended from the lost tribes of Israel. The author was a lawyer and statesman who served as president of the Continental Congress in 1783 and later as a U.S. Representative, trustee of Princeton University, and founding member of the American Bible Society; he was also mentor to the Cherokee author
and editor who took his name in tribute.
This, the final book published by Boudinot, strongly supports
fair 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)
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Russian Poets for Boston's Pleasure — One Reader
Was Sometimes Pleased & Sometimes Horrified
Bowring, John, trans. Specimens of the Russian poets; with preliminary remarks and biographical notices. Boston: Cummings & Hilliard (Hilliard & Metcalf, printers), 1822. 12mo. xxxii, 240 pp.
$150.00
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Russian poetry, translated into English by John Bowring; first edition published in London, in 1821. Bearing the half-title “Russian Anthology” and including the poems of Derzhavin, Batiushov, Lomonosov, Zhukovsky, Karamsin, Dmitriev, Krilov, Khemnitzer, Bobrov, Bogdanovich, Davidov, Kostrov, Neledinsky Meletzky, this also offers some national songs and the poem “Death of Ossian.” A second volume was published in 1823.
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)
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Then an Unpopular Opinion Now a FACT
Bowyer, William. The origin of printing: in two essays: I. The substance of Dr. Middleton's Dissertation on the origin of printing in England. II. Mr. Meerman's account of the invention of the art. An appendix is annexed, 1. On the first-printed Greek books. 2. On the first-printed Hebrew books, with observations on some modern Editions; and a collation, from Walton's Polyglott, of a remarkable Passage, as printed in Kings and Chronicles. 3. On the early polyglotts. London: printed for W. Bowyer & J. Nichols, 1774. 8vo (21 cm; 8.25"). xvi, 144, [2] pp.
$1250.00
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First edition of Bowyer's rewriting of Middleton's Dissertation on the Origin of Printing in England and Meerman's Origines typographicae: Bowyer was assisted by Dr. Owen and Mr. Missy.
In his dissertation on the history of printing in England (first edition 1734–35), Dr. Middleton argued the then unpopular opinion that
William Caxton was the first to bring the printing press to England. That work is accompanied here by Gerard Meerman's essay on the appearance of printing in Harlem and Mentz, each with intelligent commentary by printers W. Bowyer and John Nichols. Also present are three short appendices on early Greek, Hebrew, and polyglot books.
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)
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“LOVE is the Magic That Makes All Things Fair”
Classic Story, Classic Illustrations
Boyle, Eleanor Vere. Beauty and the beast. An old tale
new-told, with pictures, by E.V.B. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, & Searle, [1875]. 4to (26.4 cm, 10.39"). [6], 57, [1] pp.; 10 col. plts., illus.
[SOLD]
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First edition: Pre-Raphaelite–inspired version of the beloved children's story, illustrated with
ten glorious chromolithographed plates printed by the Leighton Brothers from Eleanor Vere Boyle's designs. This is one of Boyle's most acclaimed books, notable for her unusual, inventive depiction of the Beast as a non-bipedal walrus-like creature — especially striking in the oft-reproduced image “After Supper, Every Night.” Each plate here has a guard
leaf with a printed caption; in addition to the plates, there are a number of in-text wood engravings.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked gift inscription to Felix Bulley from Aunt Nora, dated 1885. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Osborne Collection, p. 590. Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black; light wear overall, spine slightly darkened and worn. Plates with foxing to reverses and margins, not affecting images; first plate (frontispiece) with spots of rubbing. A solid, desirable copy of this lovely production. (41166)
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Deluxe Signed Limited Edition PUBLISHER'S COPY: Life of a Science Fiction Pioneer
(Bradbury, Ray). Weist, Jerry.
BRADBURY: An illustrated life. A journey to far metaphor. Hampton Falls, NH: Donald M. Grant, 2004. Folio (29.2 cm, 11.5"). [36], xxvi, 195, [1] pp.; illus.
$1150.00
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First, limited edition thus of a visual record of the great Ray Bradbury's career in comics, movies, television, theatre, and literature. This profusely illustrated limited edition includes
32 pages of material not present in the trade edition (incorporated here after the William Morrow title-page dated 2002, marked first edition): the volume opens with the previously unpublished “The Ghosts of Forever: A Film Fantasy,” illustrated by Joseph A. Mugnaini, and “Switch on the Night,” a reproduction of portions of Bradbury's original manuscript bearing his own illustrations. The foreword is by Donn Albright, and the introduction by Bradbury.
Binding: Crimson “snakeskin” leatherette, front cover and spine with decorative gilt-stamped title and creature vignette, housed in matching clamshell case with front cover and spine similarly gilt-stamped.A total of 26 lettered copies were issued in the binding described above. In addition to being
signed by Bradbury and Weist on the title-page, the present example is an
out-of-series copy marked (in red ink, on the title-page) as the publisher's copy.
Binding as above. A beautiful and unique copy of a striking tribute. (33416)
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A NOVEL “Which Proves That War is Solving Civilization's Problems
& Has Made Love Again Triumphant”
(Margaret Armstrong Binding)
Bradley, Mary Hastings. The wine of astonishment. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1919. 8vo (19.2 cm, 7.56"). 312, [2] pp.
$75.00
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Romance set at the start of WWI, with the main difficulty separating the two lovers being at first financial issues and then her subsequent “marriage of friendship.” Stamped in purple and green with a grapevine and heart design, the
binding is signed MA, for Margaret Armstrong: the dust jacket is in the style of Maxfield Parrish, although unsigned. This is the second printing.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription of Harry E. Young, dated 1921.
American Fiction, 1901-1925, B-858; Gullans & Espey, Checklist of Trade Bindings Designed by Margaret Armstrong, 38. Publisher's tan paper–covered sides with title stamped in black and grapevine design in green and purple, light green cloth shelfback with matching grape motif, in original color-printed dust jacket; jacket, with spine and back panel slightly dust-soiled, front joint rubbed, three short edge tears and a few tiny edge nicks, in overall very good, attractive condition. The volume itself, in its Armstrong binding, shows a faint narrow band of offsetting across its back cover (only) from “protective” plastic wrapping the dust jacket; otherwise, very clean and fresh.
A nice copy of the now-uncommon first edition of a socially interesting novel in an “MA” binding. (37550)
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A Not-So-Brief History of
Time
Brady, John. Clavis calendaria; or, a compendious analysis of the calendar: Illustrated with ecclesiastical, historical, and classical anecdotes ... second edition. London: Pr. for the author & sold by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, et al., 1812–13. 8vo (21.6 cm, 8.5"). 2 vols. I: xxxvi, 387, [1] pp.; 1 plt. II: [2], 395, [1] pp.
$325.00
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Second edition of this popular survey of the history of time and calendars from the ancient world onwards, following the first edition of 1812. Brady here describes the rituals and lore associated with the regulation of time, in all its divisions and subdivisions; much material from the lives of the saints is present. Allibone quotes the London Quarterly Review's assertion that “Especially to students in divinity and law, [the work] will be an invaluable acquisition; and we hesitate not to declare that, in proportion as its merits become known to the public, it will find its way to the libraries of every gentleman and scholar in the kingdom.” Contemporary opinion seems to have borne that prediction out, as the subscribers list here (carried over from the first edition) is substantial and the work went through several editions in the first few years after its initial publication.
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)
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Rime Pietose — De Luca Copy
Interestingly VARIOUS Management of the Woodcuts
Bramicelli, Guglielmo, transl. Inni che si cantano tutto l'anno alle hore canoniche, nella Chiesa romana. Venetia: Giorgio Angelieri, 1597. 8vo (13.3 cm, 5.25"). [40] pp., 93 (i.e., 100) ff. (pagination erratic); illus.
$1975.00
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First edition: Catholic hymns, translated from Latin into Italian verse by a member of the Clerics Regular of Somasca (variously identified as either Bramiceli or Bramicelli). Many of the hymns open with small illustrations — totaling
42 in-text woodcuts— and the title-page features Angelieri's printer's device of an amphora watering a seedling, bearing the motto “A poco a poco.”
The woodcuts are notable not only for the variety of scenes they present but for a certain variety in presentation: Many of the images are presented with their edges visually defined in the normal way, essentially “ruled”; but some are presented as if paintings, within full Renaissance “picture frames” --- with the images themselves, inside, sometimes having their edges normally defined and sometimes floating entirely free. Yet other cuts are given framing at their sides or top and bottom, but not both!
Bramicelli's vernacular renditions were apparently unauthorized; one source claims that the Church ordered the book burned (Tentorio, Saggio storico sullo sviluppo dell'ordine somasco dal 1569 al 1650, p. 178). This may explain why the work is now
scarce, with WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locating only one U.S. institutional holding (Newberry), and only one additional one internationally. EDIT16 gives only ten Italian libraries as holding copies.
Provenance: From the collection of Don Tommaso De Luca (1752–1829), described by Alexander Roberson as “a priest of the old school . . . possessed of one of the finest libraries in all Northern Italy”; front free endpaper inked with “Exemplare proveniente dalla celebre Collezione de Luca. Veggasi suo Catalogo stampato, alla pag. 101, lin. 29.30" (referring to De Luca's 1816 Catalogo di una pregevole collezione di manoscritti e di libri a stampa delle più ricercate edizioni). Most recently in the library of of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT16 CNCE 7425. Not in Adams; not in Mortimer; not in Index Aurel. Contemporary marbled paper–covered limp wrappers, faded and rubbed overall; spine darkened and chipped, front cover with early inked numeral at upper center. Front hinge (inside) cracked, with uppermost of two sewing bands separated from vellum; front free endpaper with early bibliographic note in neatly inked Italian. Light waterstaining to lower outer corners of about 12 ff., scattered minor foxing.
A fascinating production. (38978)
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“Large Scale” in Several Respects . . .
62 Engravings & Bedford Bound WESTMINSTER ABBEY
A Classic of English Antiquarianism, Illustration,
& Book-Making
Brayley,
Edward Wedlake. The history and antiquities
of the abbey church of St. Peter, Westminster: Including notices and biographical
memoirs of the abbots and deans of that foundation. London: J.P. Neale for Longman,
Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1818–23. Folio (37.9 cm, 14.9"). 2 vols.
I: [18], 227, [19], 72, [10] pp.; 13 plts. II: [2], 304, [40] pp.; 49 plts.
$2250.00
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First edition, illustrated with a total of 62 engraved plates. Allibone describes Brayley “a laborious and accurate topographer”; he compiled and edited a wide range of works with titles featuring assorted Beauties, Picturesques, Histories, Antiquities, etc. The present work provides a history of Westminster Abbey and some of its associated luminaries, along with extensive descriptions of its architecture, sculptures, and paintings. The illustrator who portrayed many of the above, John Preston Neale, was an architectural draftsman and landscape painter “best remembered for his views of the nation's country houses, churches, and public buildings,” according to the Oxford DNB.
Binding: By Francis Bedford, signed, in dark brown morocco done between 1851 and 1880, covers framed and panelled in ornate gilt rolls with gilt-stamped corner fleurons and midpoint decoration. Spines gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels. Board edges gilt-tooled with triple fillets, turn-ins with gilt-tooled rolls and corner fleurons. All edges gilt. Stamped “F. Bedford” on lower front turn-in.
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)
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Mr. Brecht, Bring Down This “Fourth Wall”
Brecht, Bertolt; Jack Levine, illus.; Eric Bentley, intro. The threepenny opera. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. 4to (29.3 cm, 11.5"). 155, [3] pp.; 12 plts. (incl. in pagination, incl. frontis.).
$125.00
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This edition of Bertolt Brecht's script for one of the 20th century's most innovative and political musicals is limited to 2,000 copies, of which this is no. 1496. The translation is that of Desmond Vesey, with lyrics rendered in English by Eric Bentley, who also wrote the introduction. The
12 full-page illustrations are reproductions of Jack Levine's etchings of scenes from G.W. Pabst's 1931 film version of The Threepenny Opera, and one three-color lithograph
pulled by Emiliano Sorini specially for this edition. Howard I. Gralla designed the book choosing a 12-point Walbaum font with two points leading-space between the lines.
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)
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It Was
ALL the Court of St. James's Fault
Brissot de Warville, Jacques-Pierre, & Jean François Ducos. Exposé de la conduite de la nation française envers le peuple anglais, et des motifs qui ont amené la rupture entre la République française et le roi d'Angleterre, précédé du rapport prononcé par Brissot, au nom du comité diplomatique & du discours de Ducos; imprimé par ordre de la Convention nationale, envoyé aux départemens & aux armées. Paris: De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1793. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). [2], 34, 10, 95, [1] pp.
$100.00
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First edition, in three parts: The “Discours prononcé par Ducos, député de la Gironde” and “Exposé historique” are paginated separately. The “Rapport sur les hostilités du roi d'Angleterre et du Stadhouder des Provinces-Unies” is incorporated herein. At head of title: Convention nationale.
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)
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British Anti-State-Church Association. Proceedings of the first Anti-State-Church Conference, held in London, April 30, May 1 & 2, MDCCCXLIV. London: Pr. for the British Anti-State-Church Assocation, 1844. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). xi, [1], 142
pp.
$150.00
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First edition of these conference proceedings, with the title-page proclaiming “People’s edition.” The Anti-State-Church Association was one of the most prominent Dissenting societies during the church debates of 1826–52, although unsuccessful in their disestablishment campaign.
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)

Introducing . . .
Brockie, William. Indian philosophy, [an] introductory paper. London: Trubner & Co. 8vo. 25 pp.
$95.00
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Brockie (1811–90) was a Scottish-born writer and all around interesting guy who wrote on a wide variety of topics. He was also a moving spirit of the Free Associate Church.
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)
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Works of the
Brontë Sisters
Brontë, Anne; Charlotte; & Emily. The Shakespeare Head Brontë. Oxford: Basil Blackwell & Houghton Mifflin Co. (pr. at the Shakespeare Head Press), 1931. 11 vols. 8vo (24 cm, 9.45"). I [Charlotte]: Frontis., x, [2], 312 pp.; 2 plts. II: Frontis., [6], 284 pp.; 2 plts. III: Frontis., [8], 351 pp.; 2 plts. IV: Frontis., [6], 362 pp.; 2 plts. V: Frontis., [8], 319, [1] pp.; 2 plts. VI: Frontis., [6], 313, [1] pp.; 2 plts. VII: Frontis., [10], 283, [1] pp.; 1 plt. I [Anne]: Frontis., [8], 220 pp.; 2 plts. II: Frontis., xi, [1], 282 pp.; 2 plts. III: Frontis., [6], 278 pp.; 1 plt. I [Emily]: Frontis., xii, 385, [1], 9, [1] pp.; 1 plt.
$1500.00
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Large-paper issue of this 11-volume set of the works of all three Brontë sisters, illustrated by Jack Hewer with a total of 30 architectural and landscape views. The novels are complete here, including Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Wuthering Heights, Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor. (There were several additional volumes of miscellaneous writings, letters, and biography published in this “Shakespeare Head” series, which was not complete until 1938; they are not part of this set.)
The lovely illustrations are of real places fictionally transfigured in the novels . . .
Of the 1000 copies printed of this, 500 were printed on large paper and reserved for issue in America. The present example (numbered 452) is of the large paper size and in green cloth; it is not clear to us by what rule copies were bound in this green cloth and which in the orange reported elsewhere.
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)
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Brook, Mary. Reasons for the necessity of silent waiting, in order to the solemn worship of God...third edition. London: Mary Hinde, 1775. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). [2], 31, [1 (blank)] pp.
$325.00
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Third edition of Brook’s explication of the principles underlying Quaker worship practices, issued by a woman printer — Mary Hinde, successful printer and publisher of numerous Quaker items.
ESTC T65811. Recent wrappers. Pages age-toned, with a few small spots. (9302)

Political /Jurisprudential / Theatrical SATIRE
[Broome, Ralph]. Letters from Simpkin the second to his dear brother in Wales, containing an humble description of the trial of William Hastings, Esq. with Simon's answer. Dublin: P. Byrne & J. Moore, 1788. 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). 46 pp. (lacking half-title).
$325.00
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First Irish printing, from the same year as the English first: Broome, adopting the persona of a Welsh country bumpkin, mocks Sheridan and other members of Parliament for their proceedings during the trial of William Hastings.
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)
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The State of
19th-Century Metaphysics
Brown, Thomas. Lectures on the philosophy of the human mind. Andover: Mark Newman (pr. by Flagg & Gould), 1822. 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.8"). 3 vols. I: 536 pp. II: 528 pp. III: 574, [2] pp.
$600.00
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First U.S. edition: Discussion of the characteristics and essence of thought, and the relation of thought and philosophy to natural history, the sciences, and morality. Brown (1778–1820) was a Scottish philosopher, poet, and professor at the University of Edinburgh; this, his most significant work, went through 20 editions in the years following its initial Edinburgh publication in 1820.
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, otherwise
remarkably clean. (30339)
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The HUMAN MIND Examined
Philosophically, Medically, Psychologically
Brown, Thomas. Lectures on the philosophy of the human mind. Edinburgh: William Tait, 1828. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.75"). XXXI, [1], 692 pp.; port.
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Brown (1778–1820) was of the Scottish School of Common Sense but was not as central to it nor as totally committed to its principles as Thomas Reid and Dugald Steward. His career was centered in Edinburgh, and in 1810 he was appointed conjoint professor of moral philosophy with Stewart and took over the teaching duties of the chair. He was a dazzling lecturer and his lectures were published after his death, with several editions in the 1820s and early 30s.
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)
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A Volume EXTRA ILLUSTRATED & Then Some!
Brown University. Celebration of the one hundreth anniversary of the founding of Brown University, September 6th, 1864. Providence: Sidney S. Rider & Bro., 1865. 4to (26.5 cm; 10.25"). [4] ff., 178 pp., [1] f.
$10,000.00
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An extra-illustrated copy. Noted 19th-century book collector, devoted Baptist, and political and civic activist Horatio Gates Jones, an honored participant in the centennial celebration at Brown, created this extra-illustrated copy of the official publication. Added as embellishments are an original copy of the broadside publication of the theses for the first commencement of the College of Rhode Island (the first name of Brown University), 19 autograph letters signed, 14 engravings (views, portraits), 15 photographs (including cartes de visite), eight clipped signatures, and 5 other items including a partially printed document from 1738.
Provenance: Horatio Gates Jones, Jr. (American, 1822–93); donated to the Crozer Theological Seminary; later deaccessioned.
In a late 19th-century black half leather binding with red morocco spine label. Occasional library pressure-stamps. Very good condition. (25981)
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Evocative Character Studies from “Phiz”
Browne, Hablot Knight, illus., & Charles Dickens. Dombey & Son. The four portraits of Edith, Florence, Alice, and little Paul. London: Chapman & Hall, 1848. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.1"). 4 plts.
$300.00
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First standalone printing: Four striking steel-engraved plates by the ever-popular “Phiz,” created for Dickens's seventh novel. “Engraved under the superintendence of R. Young and H.K. Browne” and published with the author's sanction as per the front wrapper, the portraits are
printed on two bifolia and laid into the publisher's wrappers as issued.
NCBEL, III, 798 (for main Dombey & Son info.). Publisher's printed light blue-green paper wrappers; wrapper edges sunned and lightly worn. Very slightly and evenly age-toned with small spots of faint foxing mostly confined to margins; light offsetting from images, primarily affecting (blank) reverses save in Little Paul's case, where a ghostly Edith is faintly visible over his head.
An attractive set. (41239)
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A “Father of Botany” Going Biblical Adornments by
“The Petrarch Master”
Brunfels, Otto; Hans Weiditz, illus. Precationes biblicae Sanctoru[m] Patrum, illustrium viroru[m] et mulierum utriusq[ue] Testamenti. Argentorati [Strasbourg]: apud Ioannem Schottum, 1528. 8vo (14.9 cm, 5.875"). 8, [91] ff.; illus. (final illus. & blank lacking).
$4800.00
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Sole edition of an uncommon Biblical commentary from prolific author Otto Brunfels (1488–1534), a Carthusian monk, early convert to Protestantism, friend of von Sickingen and von Hutten, physician, and botanist so admired by Linnaeus that he labelled him one of the “Fathers of Botany.” The title-page is in black and red, and the Latin text is printed with italic type in single columns, with each page of text being framed by one of
16 different four-element historiated borders cut by Hans Weiditz incorporating a variety of animate and inanimate subjects, including cherubs, armor, hounds, bears, columns, coins, a beetle, and even a monkey selling indulgences to a goose! Weiditz (1495–1537) was a very talented German Renaissance artist popularly known as “The Petrarch Master” for his woodcuts illustrating Petrarch's De remediis utriusque fortunae, although he also illustrated some of Brunfels' secular work.
Searches of WorldCat, COPAC, and the NUC Pre-1956 reveal
only one holding at a U.S. institution.
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)
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Scarce Medical Dissertation from the University of Jena
Buchamer, Jacob; Johann Friedrich Schröter. Orationes et quaestiones habitae, in promotione clarissimi & doctissimi viri, D.M. Jacobi Buchameri Halensis. Cum ipsi summus in arte medica gradus in academia Genensi decerneretur. [Jena]: Typis Donati Richtzenhan, 1584. 4to (18 cm, 7.08"). [24] ff.
$500.00
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The medical school at the University of Jena, one of the institution's four founding departments, was established in 1558. Roughly 25 years later, Jacob Buchamer of Halle received his degree in medicine with all due pomp and circumstance from Schröter (1513–1593, personal physician to the emperor and first rector of the university) — as documented in this testimony to Buchamer's knowledge and accomplishments. Schröter had previously been the moderator for Buchamer's thesis Agōnisma Iatrikon de calculo renum et vesicae urinariae, printed in 1583. Both that work and this doctoral dissertation presentation are now uncommon; a search of WorldCat finds
only two institutional holdings, both in Germany, of the present item.
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)
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Buffon's Natural History in the “Short” Version: Four Volumes
“Upwards of Four Hundred Engravings on Wood”
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de; John Wright, ed. Buffon's natural history of the globe and of man; beasts, birds, fishes, reptiles, and insects. London: Printed for T.T. & J. Tegg (by C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press), 1833. 12mo (16.8 cm, 6.6"). 4 vols. I: vi, 463, [1] pp.; illus. II: [2], 492 pp.; illus. III: [2], 476 pp.; illus. IV: [2], 470 pp.; illus.
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Buffon was widely admired by the public for his numerous scientific publications, although his disagreement with the church's position on the age of the earth and his musings on the connections between men and apes did not earn him much support from contemporary scholars. His Histoire Naturelle, originally published in 15 volumes, is given here in an abridged rendition more suitable for “the rising generation” (p. vi), with additional material adapted “from the writings of . . . Cuvier, Lacépède and other eminent naturalists,” and also with “Elements of Botany.” Wright first published his version in 1831; this second Chiswick Press printing features
over 400 wood-engraved illustrations of birds, animals, and denizens of various lands, along with the title-page vignettes done by John Thompson after William Harvey.
Binding: Contemporary dark red textured roan, covers with gilt-stamped foliate cartouches; spines with gilt-stamped title, band decorations, and volume number; spines gently sunned and scuffed, board edges and extremities rubbed. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Inked ownership inscriptions of Clara Gibbons, one dated 1850; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabels (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC 2L8393. This ed. not in Osborne. Vols. I and II with Gibbons inscription on front pastedown, vol. III on title-page, vol. IV without inscription; front hinge (inside) of vol. III starting from head, with text block pulling. Gentle age-toning, occasional light spotting; title-pages mildly foxed; a few leaves in vol. II affected by small spot of staining in upper margins, two of those leaves with resulting adhesion and loss of perhaps ten words (total). Pages overall clean.
A very nice set on shelf and in hand. (41038)
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NOT the Progress — The Pharisee & Publican & the Dying Sayings
Bunyan, John. A discourse upon the Pharisee and Publican. Wherein several weighty things are handled ... the twelfth edition, corrected. To which is added his last sermon; as also his dying sayins [sic]. London: John Marshall, 1725. 12mo (14.7 cm, 5.75"). 166 pp. (lacking final blank f.).
$900.00
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Uncommon early 18th-century edition of this important theological work, originally printed in 1685. All of Bunyan’s works, not just his Pilgrim’s Progress, were widely read and often reprinted in his day; this 1725 printing is described as the 12th edition, but ESTC locates only three editions (in 1704, 1705, and 1706) between the initial appearance and the present example. The 1704–25 editions are all scarce, surviving in only a few copies each.
John Marshall also issued this work in the same year as the present example with a slightly different title-page, reading “Wherein several great and weighty things . . . ,” this being a copy of the issue with a cancel title-page.
The text is illustrated with one woodcut scene. A few copies are described as having a frontispiece, which would not be integral to the collation; presumably it was added later and so not original.
Provenance: John Kinsman, jun., 1760; Edwin P. Farnham, 1903.
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)
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. . . but Bunyan Wrote MORE than Allegory!
Bunyan, John. The doctrine of the law & grace unfolded: or, a discourse touching the law and grace. The Nature of the one, and the Nature of the other: Shewing what they are, as they are the Two Covenants; and likewise who they be, and what their Conditions are, that be under either of these Two Covenants. Wherein, For the better Understanding of the Reader, there is several Questions answered touching the Law and Grace, very easie to be read, and as easie to be understood, by those that are the Sons of Wisdom, the Children of the Second Covenant. Also, Several Titles set over the several Truths contained in this Book, for thy sooner finding of them; which are those at the latter end. London: printed for Will. Marshall, at the Bible in Newgate-Street, 1701. 12mo (15.7 cm; 6.125"). [16], 8, 11–204, 203–70 pp. Lacks the portrait and pp. 9–10 of text.
$2750.00
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A religious essay from the author of Pilgrim's Progress, here in the “second edition, corrected and amended,” which is actually a newer version of the second edition printed in 1685. Bunyan gives lengthy discussion to the differences between the covenant of works and the covenant of grace, and as with all of the early editions of his works, this one is scarce.
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 still
BUNYAN. (36216)
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Uncommon Bunyan Item
Bunyan, John. The heavenly footman. London: Pr. by S. & C. McDowall for Williams & Smith, [ca. 1810?]. 12mo (19.2 cm, 7.56"). 12 pp.
$150.00
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“Run apace, and hold out to the end”: Bunyan's instructions on how to run the race of life in such a way as to gain the kingdom of heaven. Originally printed in 1698, the work appears here in a lightly abridged version as no. XII of the first volume of the “Cottage Library of Christian Knowledge” series, with the title-page bearing
a woodcut vignette of two running men. This ephemeral religious tract was intended for public distribution (aimed perhaps at young men, as other entries in the series are aimed at Jews, Catholics, blacks, gamblers, and fallen women?) and it is now uncommon: A search of WorldCat finds
only one U.S. institution reporting holding this edition (University of Kentucky), with just three additional overseas locations.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Charles G. Balmanno, president of the Mechanics Bank of Brooklyn and director of several other banks, and a famed collector who helped appraise the J.P. Morgan collection. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Later half red morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; front joint and extremities rubbed. Bookplate as above. Page edges slightly ragged; first and last pages dust-soiled.
A Bunyan treasure, with binding and provenance that show it as having been treasured. (40700)
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War of Austrian Succession: The Best Latin History of the Italian Campaigns
Buonamici, [Giuseppe Maria] Castruccio. Castruccii Bonamici Commentariorum de Bello Italico. Lugduni Batavorum: No publisher/printer, 1750. 4to (20.3 cm, 7.9"). [2], [v]–xx, 128, xix, [1], 122, [4 (1 errata)] pp. (half-title lacking).
$475.00
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First edition: Classically inspired, authoritatively written account of the Italian campaigns of the War of Austrian Succession. The author (1710–61) had himself participated in the Battle of Velletri and published a memoir of that experience prior to this longer and more complete history. Contemporary critics praised the elegance of his writing, as well as the faithfulness and accuracy of the work — which is
still cited today as an important reference on the subject.
The two title-pages are printed in red and black; each book opens with a military-inspired decorative capital and a woodcut headpiece. A third book (in two parts), not present here, was published in the following year.
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)
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19th-Century
Children at WORK & at Play
Burden, Mrs. Short tales in short words: About the lame boy; the sea shore; the cross boy; and, the stray child. London: Thomas Dean & Son, [1855]. 12mo (15.2 cm, 5.98"). 59, [5 (4 adv.)] pp. (lacking 4 pp.); 7 col. plts. (incl. in pagination).
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Chapbook containing four short stories for children, emphasizing the virtues of kindness, patience, hard work, and caution. The tales are
embellished with seven hand-colored wood engravings, done by Whatman after T.H. Jones and featuring what the publisher advertised as “fanciful borders.”
The first story offers an interesting insight into 19th-century book production, with the “lame boy” of the title taking up paid work as subcontractor to another child, a little girl, in cutting small prints from a large sheet to be bound into books.
This is the stated sixth edition, with the publication date suggested by the Bodleian; it is notably uncommon, with WorldCat finding
only one U.S. institution (Wayne State) reporting an actual hard copy rather than microform.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Opie A 188; Osborne Collection, p. 973. Publisher's brown cloth, ribbon-embossed in a staggered ripple pattern, front cover with gilt-stamped title framed in blind-stamped arabesques; neatly rebacked with buckram, edges faded, corners rubbed. Two leaves of text lacking from final story; one plate bound in the wrong story but all plates present. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean. (40708)
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LEC: Burke on the American Controversy WARD ENGRAVINGS
Burke, Edmund, Lynd Ward, illus. On conciliation with the colonies and other papers on the American Revolution. Lunenberg, VT: The Limited Editions Club, 1975. 8vo (26 cm, 10.25"). Frontis., xxix, [1], 267, [3] pp.; 11 col. plts., illus.
$125.00
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Edited by Peter J. Stanlis and illustrated with
wood engravings by Lynd Ward — marking the first LEC production for which Ward did wood engravings, according to the newsletter. Ward provided 12 full-page two-color engravings, six roundels for sectional title-pages, and eight “scutiform tailpiece decorations”; the volume was designed and printed by Roderick Stinehour at the Stinehour Press.
Numbered copy 733 of 2000 printed, this is
signed at the colophon by the artist. The monthly newsletter and prospectus are laid in.
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)
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Bishop Burnet's Instructive Lives
Burnet, Gilbert. Lives of Sir Matthew Hale and John Earl of Rochester. London: William Pickering, 1829. 12mo (15 cm, 5.9"). [2], v, [1], 330 pp.; 1 plt.
$145.00
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Second edition thus of these paired biographies, originally published separately in 1681 and 1680 respectively. The first work is an admiring tribute, written by a man who knew little of law but who considered Hale's life a pattern of virtue and usefulness; the preface offers a brief and rather biased look at the history of biography. A list of Hale's writings, both published and (then) unpublished, plus a list of the books he left to Lincoln's Inn in his will, are appended. The second work, an account of the legendary libertine, opens with an added title-page (dated 1820) bearing an engraved portrait by R. Grave. Both biographies were “admirably calculated to enforce the lessons of the moralist” (p. iii).
NSTC 2B60417. Period-style quarter light grey cloth and light blue papercovered 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)
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A Limited Edition from Thomas Bird Mosher
Burns, Robert; William Marion Reedy, intro. The jolly beggars: A cantata. Portland, ME: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1914. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.625"). Frontis., xxiii, [1], 106, [2] pp.; facsims.
$50.00
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Burns' cantata gets the Thomas Bird Mosher treatment in this attractive limited edition with an introduction from American editor William Marion Reedy, followed by short selections from Matthew Arnold, James Douglas, William Scott Douglas, and James Sime. Originally published after Burns' death in 1799, the song tells of a group of six beggars' drunken reveling in a Scottish pub. Mosher's rendition includes a facsimile of the 1799 title-page, a facsimile of the last page of Burns' manuscript from the 1823 lithographed edition, and a facsimile of “the original air” of the final song; a black and white portrait of Burns stands as the frontispiece.
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)

“Do Not Murmure Nor Repine . . . Do Not Fret Nor Vex”
Burroughs, Jeremiah. The rare jewel of Christian contentment. London: Pr. by W.W. for H. Sawbridge, 1685. 4to (19.6 cm, 7.75"). [6] ff., 208 pp.
$425.00
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Classic Puritan counsel on how to accept affliction and loss with a humble heart, written by the man Thomas Brooks called “a prince of preachers.” The preface here, which was signed by Thomas Goodwin, Sydrach Simpson, William Greenhil[l], Philip Nye, William Bridge, John Yates, and William Adderly, praises Burroughs' vastness and graciousness of spirit, and notes that he “lived and died in a fulness of honor and esteem with the best of men” (p. [iii]).
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)
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On Spirits & the Supernatural
Burthogge, Richard. An essay upon reason, and the nature of spirits. London: Printed for J[ohn] Dunton, 1694. 8vo (17.3 cm,6.8"). [4] ff., 280 pp., in-text diagram (6 leaves [i.e., pp. 83–94] in expert facsimile).
$1500.00
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The first and only edition of this interesting work on philosophy and the supernatural. Richard Burthogge (1637/8–1705) was a physician and philosopher; after studying at Oxford and Leiden, he settled in his native Devon where he was a local magistrate and physician. His writings include theological and philosophical works.
Dedicated to John Locke, “one of the Greatest Masters of Reason,” this Essay sought “to reconcile the Experimental, or Mechanical, with the Scholastical Method.” It comprises discussion of the nature of Reason and its Acts (apprehension and the use and meaning of words), the nature of Falsity and Enthusiasm (with mentions of Fludd and the Rosicrucians), the nature of questions, human knowledge, and the mind and senses. The second half of the book focuses on the nature of animals and spirits and on the nature of spirits, specters, and apparitions in relation to the human mind and senses, with examples including the conversion of an Indian Raja and a strange omen narrated by Sir Walter Raleigh.
ESTC R1885; Wing B6150. Modern dark brown quarter calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands gilt-ruled above and below, burgundy leather author and title labels, and gilt devices in compartments; leaves in facsimile as noted above and lower outer corner of B7 torn away taking a few words on each side. First and last leaves with offsetting to edges from previous binding, severest at rear; title and first two gatherings a bit soiled, with other instances of that variably elsewhere, and first few leaves with old marginal waterstaining; edges dusty and a bit darkened throughout, with general age-toning. A copy that clearly had been through a good deal and has been priced accordingly, now cased neatly and safely, ready for good use. (39427)
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Burton's Philosophical Poetry
Burton, Richard F. The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî: A lay of the higher law. San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1919. Folio (31.5 cm, 12.7"). vii, [3], 52, [2] pp.
$100.00
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Burton's Sufi-inspired poem, with an introduction by Aurelia Henry Reinhardt and extensive endnotes. The work was printed by John Henry Nash for the Book Club of California (this being only their ninth publication), with title-page decoration and headpieces by Dan Sweeney. This is numbered copy 254 of 500 printed.
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)
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London Street Vendors “Live” & in COLOR!
[Busby, Thomas Lord]. Costume of the lower orders of the metropolis. [London: Samuel Leigh, ca. 1820]. 24mo (14.6 cm, 5.75"). Engr. t.-p., 23 col. plts.
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Dress of the lower-class denizens of the streets of London, depicted in
23 hand-colored plates: vibrant, expressive representations of characters including the ballad singer, the watchman, the chimney sweep, and the scissors grinder, along with sellers of matches, watercress, milk, mackerel — not to mention the raree showman, plus the (metaphorical?) horn-blower of the engraved title-page. Many sources attribute these plates to Thomas Busby, and the title-page is signed “T.L.B. ”; the images here are not identical to those in Busby's Costume of the Lower Orders of London, and Lipperheide hints that they might have been done by another hand inspired by Busby's work, with 13 of them differing in subject matter entirely. (In the same vein, these are not the images of Rowlandson's Characteristic Sketches of the Lower Orders, although the Lilly Library notes similarities between some of the designs here with those in Beall E40).
Binding: Signed 19th-century half brown morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges ruled in double gilt fillets, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-stamped decorations above and below two raised bands surrounding title. Top edge gilt. Front free endpaper stamped “Morrell binder.”
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)
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“I Never Showed Any Aptitude for Study or Literature at School”
Butler, Samuel. Butleriana. Bloomsbury: Nonesuch Press, 1932. (23.4 cm, 9.5"). xvi, 172, [4] pp.; illus.
$100.00
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Nonesuch Press production of previously unpublished selections from Butler's papers, edited and introduced by A.T. Bartholomew, illustrated with six photographs and two collotype reproductions of oil paintings also previously unpublished (with the exception of “Miss Savage”). This is
numbered copy 603 of 800 printed in England by Ernest Ingham at the Fanfare Press; 600 were for sale in England and 200 in America.
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)
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FOUR Generations of Pontifexes & . . .
. . . ONE BLACK SHEEP Destined to Become a Writer
Butler, Samuel. The way of all flesh. London: Grant Richards, 1903. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.68"). [6], 423, [1], 12 (adv.) pp.
$400.00
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First edition of “the second-best novel in the English language” (according to A.A. Milne). This groundbreaking, semi-autobiographical reaction to Victorian hypocrisy recounts the struggle of Ernest Pontifex to overcome his family's selfish, smothering piety and insistence on conformity. In a prefatory note, Richard Alexander Streatfeild, a friend of the author's, explains that he edited the book and arranged for its posthumous publication in accordance with Butler's wishes.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Dame Agnes Jekyll (1861–1937), a writer, philanthropist, and patron of the arts; bookplate signed by Charles William Sherborn, 1890.
NCBEL, III, 1407. Publisher's red cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, top edge gilt, now in quarter brown morocco and tan cloth–covered open-back slipcase with matching cloth–covered chemise; binding slightly cocked, moderately worn overall with spine darkened and spots of light discoloration to covers, slipcase with spine bands and extremities rubbed. Hinges (inside) tender, sewing starting to loosen along some gutters; pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean.
A serviceable copy and a nice association. (40871)
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Buxtorf, Johann. Florilegium Hebraicum: Continens elegantes sententias, proverbia, apophthegmata, similitudines.... Basileae: Impensis Haered. Ludovici König, 1648. 8vo (16.7 cm, 6.55"). )(8A–Z8Aa–Bb8; [16], 390, [8 (index)] pp.
$600.00
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Sole edition of this gathering of brief literary excerpts in Latin and Hebrew, alphabetically arranged by motif; the texts were collected and edited by Buxtorf the younger. The title-page bears a woodcut printer’s device.
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.
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