•  Publisher's red cloth, spine with black-stamped title. Offsetting to endpapers. Clean.  (35691)

Binding:  Contemporary crimson straight-grained morocco, covers framed in blind acanthus-leaf and fillet rolls surrounding central blind-tooled foliate medallions, spine with blind-tooled designs and gilt-stamped publication information, board edges with gilt roll. Morocco doublures (i.e., “pastedowns”) of same leather as covers (but now much brighter!) with light blue moiré silk inlays as center panels; matching silk mounted on free endpapers. Morocco with very large and wide, very bright gilt-rolled borders surrounding the inlays, and both inlays and endpapers with blind-rolled and -stamped decorations. All edges gilt.

Provenance: Front pastedown with booklabel and bookplate of Charles T. Tallent-Bateman (a lawyer and antiquary who served as president of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society), one reading “No. 15 of my R. Westall library or collection. C.T. T.-B., Manchester.” Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  NSTC 2F1364.   Bound as above; joints (outside) and edges rubbed, spine and edges slightly darkened. Ownership indicia as above. As usual, some offsetting from plates, occasional instances of mild foxing. An elegantly distinctive volume on shelf or table and a frankly “showy” one when opened.  (37632)

Printed on thin paper with a black border, the text contained in a square withina catafalque featuring weeping figures, skulls and cross bones, and eagles.

•  As issued, never bound. Margins irregular. “Señor José M. Resptrepo” in lower margins.  (38182)

ESTC locates only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership (UCLA, Princeton, University of Washington, University of Florida).

•  ESTC N8308; Cropper, Nottinghamshire Printed Chap-Books, 18; Meriton & Dumontet, Small Books, 538.   Removed from a bound volume; sewing perished. Very good condition.  Woodcuts wonderful.  (38813)

This announcement of Tournon's death, written in Italian with Latin quotations, is attributed to the Cardinal's deputy, Abbot Giangiacomo Fatinelli; following the main statement are “Verba per Sanctissimum Dominum Nostrum Clementem Papam XI . . . de obitu Cardinalis de Tournon” and Carlo Majelli's “Oratio habita in Sacello Pontificio V. Kal. Decembris A.D. MDCCXI. in funere ... Cardinalis Caroli Thomae Maillard de Tournon apostolici ad Sinas, & Indias Orientales.” This is the second of three editions published in 1711, with this being a notably scarce printing: Searches of WorldCat findonly three U.S. institutions reporting holdings (Harvard, Princeton, and Cleveland).

•  Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica, 913–14 (for Gonzaga ed.); DeBacker-Sommervogel, XI, 1285-6 (calling for 38 pages only, i.e. the first part).   Later plain paper wrappers, darkened and worn, back wrapper with numeral in red. Title-page with early inked numeral in upper outer corner. Title-page mildly foxed, pages otherwise overall clean.  (40109)

•  Cloth with a few light spots, spine extremities faintly worn, dust jacket with slightly ragged edges and some spine fading.  (2113)

WorldCat reportsonly four U.S. institutional holdings of this attractive Antoine-Augustin Renouard printing. While this copy does include the half-title, the engraved portrait cited by OCLC as appearing in some copies is not present here (with the volume showing no signs of its ever having been present).

Binding:  Contemporary mottled calf, covers framed in gilt roll, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins with gilt roll resembling but not identical to cover roll. All edges gilt.

•  Binding as above, showing rubbing to spine, joints, and extremities. Portrait reported in some copies not present here; pages with scattered instances of mild spotting. An elegant little testament to the enduring influence of this work, progressive for its day.  (38421)

The “lady” was Eliza L. Cabot Follen (1787–1860), the Boston-born author, translator, and abolitionist.  She used her own translation — “a free one; but sedulous care has been taken never to depart from the spirit of the author” (v) — and one of her concerns in selection is to de-Catholicize the archbishop, allowing his more universal appreciation — for, as she says, his “writings necessarily contain many things that could not be acceptable to Christians of all denominations [and have therefore] been uniformly omitted” (v).

Fénelon's appearance in Follen's selective epitome would surely have amused him, and it pleased the book-buying public: This is the work’s third edition.

Provenance:  A note states that “this book belonged to Grandmother Dyer[:] Ann Eliza Morse”; Charles Dyer Norton has also signed an endpaper in ink.

•  American Imprints 7028. On Fénelon, see: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., X, 252–54.   Mid-19th-century plain black calf with gilt spine compartments tooled in an interesting pattern, single gilt rule around covers, a little gilt on board edges, marbled endpapers and edges; some wear and abrasions but spine gilt still bright. Provenance markings as above, some leaves creased across and a little interior staining and spotting especially at rear. A nice old book.  (36673)

Provenance:  Armorial bookplate of Ezra Otis Swift on the front pastedown; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  NSTC 2B47098 & 2P5931.   Quarter black roan in imitation of morocco and dark pink paper–covered boards, gilt lettering on spine; rubbed with some loss of leather and paper. Edges uncut. Light age-toning with a handful of marginal stains. Bookplate and label as above; bookplate offsetting onto free endpaper. A scandalous historical poem from a respectable press.  (39422)

•  Publisher's black and red printed paper wrappers, in original similar dust wrapper; dust wrapper with chips and short tears to margins (longer closed tear from upper front edge), spine slightly sunned. Front free endpaper with contemporary inked ownership inscription. Two leaves with short tear from lower margin, touching text without loss. Pages age-toned, embrittled as expectable; in fact, a nice copy, and with a “Three Seal Book Mark” laid in.  (28422)

The work opens with an introduction from the publishers, who dedicated the Life to the members of the First Christian Church and Society of Kittery, ME. The frontispiece portrait of Fernald was engraved by John Sartain, after a daguerrotype.

Binding:  Publisher's textured black cloth, covers framed in blind rules and with foliate designs surrounding central gilt-stamped floral motifs on both boards. Spine gilt extra, all edges gilt.

•  Bound as above; spine extremities and corners rubbed, cloth showing small split starting at foot of front joint (hinge holding). Mild foxing to margins of frontispiece, with offsetting to title-page from guard leaf; two pages with small section of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item; pages otherwise clean. A solid, worthwhile copy with its gilt shining bright and crisp. (38618)

Following the opinion is an appendix providing “history of the legislation of the Supervisors of the city and county of San Francisco against the Chinese . . . compiled by one of the counsel in the above case [i.e., B.S. Brooks] from the records of the Supervisors and the newspapers of the city.” The text was printed from a revised copy, according to the title-page.

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers; corners and edges chipped, paper lost over spine, front wrapper with short tear from outer edge (not touching text), back wrapper with outer edge shortened. The whole now housed in a quarter navy morocco clamshell case with deep blue cloth–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-stamped compartment decorations. Pages slightly age-toned. A landmark document of American Constitutional law.  (34196)

Not located in RLIN.

•  Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). The front edge of the title page is darkened, else very good.  (17422)

This isnumbered copy 71 of 1250 for sale in England.

Binding: Special signed binding of brown morocco, covers with leather bird inlays and gilt-stamped line of falling leaves, spine with blind-stamped leather title and author labels between raised bands. The back pastedown bears a blind-stamped omega, dated 1955.

•  Binding as above, corners and joints lightly rubbed. Inside, fresh and clean. An elegant volume.  (33519)

•  Publisher's quarter floral-patterned paper with woodgrain-patterned paper–covered sides, spine with black leather title-label stamped in silver, in original matching slipcase; one corner bumped and spine extremities with small chips, slipcase showing moderate shelfwear and with one upper edge split and repaired with archival tissue. Pages clean. Internally very appealing despite minor external wear.  (39805)

Provenance: “Foglieta Claro[rum] Illustrium” has been written in ink along the bottom edge with “Don Berardi della Ferra” and another name scribbled out on the title-page, as well as a signature dated 1669 below the colophon, in what appear to be three different early hands; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Alden & Landis, European Americana, 588/31; EDIT16 CNCE 19333; Sabin 24942. Not in Adams. On Foglietta, see: Treccani (online).   Contemporary limp vellum, title inked on spine and bottom edge, evidence of now-absent ties; spine darkened and crackling just enough to show evidence of binding waste, some spotting on covers, endpapers repaired. Provenance notes and booklabel as above. Light to moderate age-toning and mostly faint marginal waterstaining throughout, with intermittent foxing and a handful of spots. Three leaves including the title-page have been repaired. Exactly what one expects a nice 16th-century book to look like!  (39368)

Stepping into the presidency amidst scandal, war, and a poor economy, Gerald Ford was presented with some very difficult leadership challenges. On the one hand, he was the right man at the right time: His honesty and reassurance restored the confidence in the presidency that been lost during the Watergate scandal, and his negotiation of the Helsinki Agreement contributed to the end of the Cold War. However, Ford's pardon of Richard Nixon eroded much of the trust he had built early in his term. This fateful decision, together with the fall of Saigon and his inability to “whip inflation,” were the main factors that cost him reelection. This memoir speaks to his role in navigating the challenges of his time with the same honesty and straightforwardness that characterized his tenure as president.

•  Full red leather, covers lavishly gilt-stamped with a pattern of elephants, spine with raised bands, gilt title, author's name, and gilt elephants within “compartments.” Endpapers bear a version of the image of the obverse side of the Great Seal of the United States. Silk ribbon placemarker. All edges gilt. Fine condition.  (23605)

Binding:  Publisher's pebbled brown leather, covers and spine with blind-stamped framework containing foliate motifs, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, turn-ins with border composed of several gilt rolls. Marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.

Provenance:  From the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.

•  Binding as above, edges and extremities mildly rubbed and refurbished. Frontispiece recto with early inked gift inscription “from F.B.H.” Internally slightly age-toned; plates clean. A luxurious production in very good condition; an aesthetically pleasing combination of art and literature. (39853)

Searches of WorldCat, COPAC, and NSTC show no holdings at all, while NUC Pre-1956 finds one copy in the U.S. at the New York Public.

•  Not in NSTC.   Recent wrappers. Title-page and a few others stamped by a now-defunct institution. Portion torn away from upper margin of front fly-leaf, perhaps to remove an inscription.  (9422)

Provenance: The bookplate of J.R.P. Forrest of Edinburgh, possibly the first Baronet of Comiston, appears on the front pastedown; that of influential book collector and Spanish printing scholar James P.R. Lyell (1871–1948), who donated a sizable portion of his medieval manuscript collection to the Bodleian Library, appears below that of Forrest. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Brunet, I, 1604; Graesse, II, 57; Sebastiani, Johann Froben, 57; USTC 692594; VD16 F 1921. Not in Adams. On Lyell, see: Oxford DNB (online). For the Holbein title-page, see: Hollstein, XIV, Hans Holbein, 13.   19th-century quarter green morocco and green cloth–covered boards, spine lettered in gilt; spine sunkissed with leather otherwise darkened, binding ever so gently rubbed. Light age-toning, touches of marginal light waterstaining or glue action to several leaves, small wormhole affecting letters (but not meaning) to five; one small marginal tear to title-page, another small hole and one chipped edge elsewhere. Readership and provenance indicia as above; marginal repairs to final leaf approaching neither type nor printer's device.A fascinating Froben pamphlet for far more reasons than one.  (39588)

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

•  NSTC 2F11546.   Late 19th-century half black calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine gilt extra; front board and spine neatly and unobtrusively reattached with new gilt-stamped leather title-label, leather refurbished, sides and edges rubbed. Top edges gilt. Frontispiece recto with former owner's label partially removed from upper inner corner; upper outer frontispiece corner with small repair neatly done some time ago, offsetting onto previous and following leaves. Pages gently age-toned. Like its author, showing signs of having travelled; like its subject, both enduring and attractive.  (39766)

Binding:  Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, gilt, and yellow, with a frame of apples and greenery surrounding a decorative title and small gilt motifs.

•  Binding as above, corners and spine extremities very slightly rubbed, dust jacket lacking. Endpapers and a few pages sprinkled with spots of faint staining, pages generally clean A popular and entertaining author, in an attractive and well-preserved binding.  (35257)

Binding:  Contemporary limp suede with envelope flap, portion of original tie still present.

Provenance:  Front pastedown and free endpaper with early inked ownership inscriptions of Gryff[yth?] Price.

•  ESTC T145812; Sweet & Maxwell 367.   Binding as above, rebacked with mottled sheep with gilt-stamped leather title-label; edges rubbed, flap leather cracking and refurbished with same leather used on spine as well as internally reinforced with marbled paper. Endpapers with offsetting to margins, inscriptions as above. Pages with a very few instances of faint foxing. A nice copy, easily imaginable as an Irish lawyer's portable reading and reference.  (34809)

•  NSTC 2F12262, 2J13268, & 2B13609.   Green cloth over boards, gilt rules and lettering to spine; cloth worn away at spine extremities and corners and splitting over front joint; preliminary pages (including frontispiece) and pp. 1–2 separated from binding. Private ownership signature at top edge of title-pages; a (different) private owner's pressure- and rubber-stamps; institutional bookplate. Off-setting to six pages from old newspaper articles or leaves laid in; old newspaper article (a review of a much later biography of Fouché) still inserted; Inner margin of pp. 327–8 repaired, not affecting text. Spotting and staining of various sorts and a few dog-ears; not a swell copy but a perfectly serviceable one.  (14222)

The vast bulk of this work attempts to convince the English to support the Scots' enterprise and cites political, religious, social, and economic reasons for doing so; clearly, the Scots knew that English naval might in particular would be essential for the success of the scheme. Beyond this, however, a section (pp. 42 to 51) addresses the natural history, native population, agricultural commodities, and indigenous industry of the region; and the work ends with an account of the Scots' settlement, the buildings erected there, and its intercourse with the indigenous people.

Authorship of this work is problematic: It is signed “Philo-Caledon” at the end of the dedication and three other names have have been proposed as possible authors in addition to Foyer's — George Ridpath, Andrew Fletcher, and John Hamilton (2nd Baron Belhaven). Added to the conundrum of authorship, the work was produced in four editions in the same year, each having different numbers of pages, each with a different signature scheme, none with a publisher, and this one without even a place of publication!

•  Wing (rev. ed.) F2047; Sabin 78211; Alden & Landis 699/9; ESTC R18505 ; and Halkett & Laing II:32.   20th-century half dark brown crushed morocco with brown linen sides. This copy has all the hallmarks of having once been through a British bookseller's “hospital”: all leaves are dust-soiled or age-toned; all leaves are uncut but some have been extended and others not, and some leaves with torn margins (but not all) have had lost paper restored; all such repairs and extensions are within the first six leaves, meaning these were probably supplied from another copy. Top of title-leaf trimmed with loss of “A” of the title; another leaf with a tear to the top margin with loss costing tops of several letters of words on one page, and two leaves with the running head guillotined by a binder; some stray stains. An interesting copy for its probable if problematic history and condition.  (34130)

At the top of the first page: “Convention Nationale.”

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

•  Removed from a nonce volume, first page with paper shelving label and pencilled initials in upper corners. Resewn. Scattered light spotting.  (35411)

The binding is full blue linen stamped in gold on the spine and front cover, with additional ornamentation to both covers in deep pink. Top edges are gilt, others deckle; one leaf is left unopened.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 49.   Binding as above; spine sunned and with thumbnail sized dark patch at head and foot. Some cracking along the top edges and spine of the slipcase, which is still sturdy; spine of case sunned, paper label a little soiled. Pages clean; no ownership markings or labels. A very good, clean copy.  (22313)

•  Near-contemporary quarter red morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities rubbed, front cover and joint with small scuffs. Original wrappers not present here. Pages very slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.  (33470)

In sum, thiscomplete array of the blocks used for printing a substantial and well-regarded Titanic-era book looks like something that was put on a printing house shelf one afternoon in 1912 at the end of an ordinary project for the pressmen and simply stayed there. Seeing it on its present PRB&M shelf, coherent and unmessed-with more than 100 years later, is like walking up to that shelf through one of time's “wrinkles.”

•  On the Beginnings, see: Cowan & Cowan, Bibliography of the History of California, 193. For a list of all its images and notes on their origins, see: http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hbbegidx.htm.   The paper wrappers present are variously just fine or age-toned or browned, chipped, torn along folds. ALL the blocks are in good condition; this is not a sort of thing easily damaged!  (29741)

Searches of WorldCat and the NUC suggest that two U.S. libraries report ownership, but there is reallyonly one and it is now at Georgetown.

Binding:  Contemporary cream speckled paper over boards in imitation of vellum, covers bordered in gilt single and red double fillets; red leather title label to spine divided into compartments by gilt-stamping in broad bands, with a gilt device in each compartment. Ornate gilt inner dentelles, and stiff marbled endpapers typical of the era. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed.

•  Bound as above, front cover very slightly sprung; corners bumped with some accompanying discoloration, not severe. Two front fly-leaves with pencilled notes, some faint spots of foxing. Overall a clean, lovely little book; quite pleasing.  (36682)

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

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

Of the two Salicato printings of 1590, this offering is distinguished by a dedication from Giovannini to Annibale Ruccelai instead of the later dedication to Bernardo, Brandimarte, and Bartolomeo Lovaria. The text, in Italian, is neatly printed in single columns using mostly italic and some roman type, with several decorative and historiated initials as well as head- and tailpieces; Salicato's printer's device appears on the title-page.

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

•  Adams F954; Brunet, II, 1377; EDIT16 CNCE 79848; Graesse, II, p. 628. On Franco & Giovannini, see: Treccani (online).   Rebacked 18th-century speckled calf, spine with gilt-lettered red leather label, raised bands ruled in gilt, covers framed in gilt double fillets; extremities rubbed, original leather showing fine cracks, free endpapers chipped (with a few pencilled notations). All edges speckled red. Light age-toning and mostly faint marginal waterstaining, a few other stains; four leaves with uneven edges or marginal paper flaws from manufacture. Booklabel as above, evidence of partially removed bookseller label; title-page with small ink dashes, five leaves with mostly illegible ink notes (occasionally offsetting) in an early hand. Intriguing, particularly in comparison with Franco's original.  (39319)

featuring an addition “not in any other Edition,” according to the title-page: “An Examination, before the British House of Lords, respecting the Stamp-Act.”

•  Sabin 25602; Shaw & Shoemaker 515. On Temple Franklin and early editions, see: Green & Stallybrass, Franklin,151–60.   Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; spine extremities a little chipped, front cover a little sprung, hinges (inside) reinforced. Frontispiece and title-page tattered and now mounted, with outer margin of first preface page repaired; a number of corners bumped or dog-eared, with a few in one section at some point delicately rodent(?)-nibbled. Subscribers' list trimmed closely, affecting two names only; pages age-toned with intermittent foxing. In fact, though certainly not “excellent” — quite “satisfactory.”  (25357)

•  Leaf closely trimmed at top and sides, with visible “crease” between final line of text and printer's byline marking where the publisher's name has been very carefully excised and the broadside repaired; remains of a former hinge visible along inner edge of verso. Two letters in body of text very slightly rubbed. Eye-catching as a physical object, and of interest as a now-unusual example of a particular 19th-century type of ostentation, here applied in an exercise of conjoined piety and politics.  (39451)

From The Book Collector: Occasional Series, vol. 1.

•  Publisher's paperback (not issued in cloth); lightest edgewear, spine faded. Several tiny spots of foxing on page edges (not into margins). Near fine.  (37781)

Here Frémont presents to the U.S. Senate his formal report on his third expedition to the West. The map referred to in the title wasissued separately under title “Map of Oregon and Upper California. . . 1848" and is not present; hence the affordable price here.

The original edition, not a reprint. A government publication: [U.S.] 30th Cong., 2d sess. House. Misc. [doc.] 5.

•  Sabin 25837; Howes F366; Wagner-Camp-Becker, Plains and Rockies, 150:2.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards with leather label on front cover. Occasional light foxing.  (24883)

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, and KVK find only one copy of the almanac and one of the New Testament, bound together. They are in the Württembergische Landesbibliothek. However Chambers lists five copies in addition to that one, including one at the National Library of Scotland that is not findable via COPAC.

Provenance:  The Howell Bible Collection, Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  Van Eys, Bibles French, pt. II, 118; Chambers, French Bibles, 340; not in Darlow & Moule.   Bound as above, rebacked, with gentle rubbing. Light general age-toning with this greater at edges, Bible title-page lacking; two early leaves darkened and one repaired, some leaves closely trimmed touching captions or with loss of a letter or two from marginal notes, two leaves with short tears and three each with a small spot. Ex-library as above: pencilling on endpapers, five-digit acquisition stamp and call number on title-page verso, booklabel at back. A compact and dare it be said “darling” book.  (36407)

While suffering from financial difficulties throughout his life, Frewen continually worked with influential people, many of whom are here discussed in detail, including his wife Clara Jerome, aunt of Winston Churchill. One way and another there is plenty of huntin', shootin', and fishin'; and there are plenty of politics.

Provenance:  A tantalizing “Wealdside 1924” in ink on the front pastedown. The Weald is of course of huge extent, and there are therefore potentially a number of possible “Wealdsides”; but it is notable that the Frewen family dates back to Elizabethan times in East Sussex — and, perhaps, that Moreton Frewen died in 1924.

•  Howes F380; Graff 1442.   Light green publisher's cloth, cover ruled and lettered in black, spine and back also stamped in black; gently rubbed and text slightly cocked, with a thumbnail-sized pink stain along the edge of the back cover and speckling the bottom edge. Light age-toning with offsetting to fly-leaves; inscription as noted. A good read in a good solid copy.  (37037)

•  Contemporary mottled calf, round spine without raised bands, gilt spine extra, marbled endpapers, all edges red; some leather abraded from covers and a very little from the spine's base, lacking spine label once reading “MELANGE” (and this now blind-embossed in that compartment). Light age-toning; bookplate as above.  (36671)

Provenance:  The Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  Adams F1066; Grässe, II, 638; Brunet, II, 1405.   18th-century calf with modest gilt triple rule border on boards, rebacked and forecorners of the boards restored; new endpapers. Oval library stamp (as above) on title-page and in the margins of a few text pages only; stamping is minimal. Fore- and bottom margins with old, light dampstaining; upper margins of a few leaves with a small semicircular brown stain; otherwise, an occasional spot or smudge only. Overall, a rather good copy of a standard and still important workhandsomely printed by the royal printer.  (36777)

Binding:  Contemporary full red morocco, plain style. Side-combed nonpareil endpapers. All edges gilt. Silk place marker.

WorldCat locates only five U.S. libraries (Society of the Cincinnati, University of Chicago, Library of Congress, University of Pennsylvania, University of Cincinnati) reporting ownership.

•  Schweiger, II, 369; Graesse, II, 639; Brunet, II, 1409.   Bound as above; interior as “clean” as the edition. Very good copy.  (40322)

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

The volume opens with acopper-engraved frontispiece done by Harrewyn, featuring a satyr and a jester in addition to muses crowning Furetière with a laurel wreath; the title-page is printed in red and black, and the text is ornamented with two woodcut headpieces, two tailpieces, and two decorative capitals. This nicely printed edition is not widely held in the United States; WorldCat locatesonly four American institutional holdings and these perhaps unexpected ones, with no holdings added by NUC Pre-1956.

•  This edition not in Brunet.   Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped floral decorations in compartments, board edges with gilt roll; worn and rubbed, leather lost at extremities, front joint cracked and back joint starting (sewing holding). All edges speckled red and brown. Front pastedown and free endpaper with modern collector's inscriptions, front pastedown with early inked numerals and later pencilled annotations; one obscured name in text annotated in pencil in the margin. Pages gently age-toned with occasional tiny spots of foxing. Externally worn, interior beautifully preserving the author's irrepressible, biting wit.  (36242)