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

Thevery dramatic wood-engraved frontispiece is signed “Gilbert.”

Provenance:  “MESS West Salem No. 77" on front free endpaper in ink.

•  Shoemaker 33155.   Publisher's quarter navy cloth and marble paper covered boards, paper label on spine; covers rubbed, joints starting, hinges worn but sewing still strong. Something, perhaps a bookplate, removed from front pastedown, some ink and crayon markings on endpapers. Light foxing, spotting, and age-toning; a few, perhaps a dozen, leaves creased. A nice, representative example of an American Sunday School Union text.  (36019)

•  Martin & Walter, II, 13122.   Folded as issued. Title-page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, touching three letters without obscuring sense, and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Page edges uncut, slightly ragged.  (30835)

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

The printer, Pietrasanta, begins the volume with a handsome title-page defined by a large woodcut architectural border, then prints the text in italic with a scattering of 8- and 10-line historiated woodcut initials thatbear looking at.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only three copies in U.S. libraries.

•  Adams F182; Index Aurel. 168.890; Fairfax Murray, Catalogo dei libri italiani, 1179; Cicognara 1646; EDIT16 CNCE18633.   18th-century half vellum over boards, “wallpaper'”sides; back cover sometime cracked across top corner and front one creased across, repaired (at the time?) and now strong. Front pastedown with evidence of a bookplate's removal and with an old pressmark (“26.1.88") in upper left corner. Minor worming in inner margins, well removed from text; gathering “C” browned with some migration to leaves opposite C1 and C4. A very acceptable copy.  (35558)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of the Charles Holbrook Library, Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  Wing (rev. ed.) F588; ESTC R25394.   Contemporary mottled calf, framed and panelled in blind double fillets, central panel of plain calf with blind-tooled corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped compartment decorations; spine (and spine label), joints, and edges rubbed, front panel with areas of chipping, front joint just starting from head. Ex-library as above; spine with paper shelving label, front pastedown lifted and partially excised with bookplate affixed to board; back pastedown also lifted, with library slip affixed and pocket on rear board. Front fly-leaf and frontispiece with outer edges ragged, both the former and the title-page institutionally rubber-stamped, fly-leaf and title-page with early inked ownership inscription. Occasional smudges and small edge nicks. The necessary description suggests a “poor soul” of a book — however, this isn't one.  (34289)

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)

•  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)

•  Philip, Bibliography of Firework Books, F050.1; Palau 89222, Peeters-Fontainas, Bibliographie des impressions espagnoles des pays-bas méridionaux, 449. On the author, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 323, frames 120–28.   Contemporary Spanish sheep in the Valenciana style; plain boards, modest gilt tooling on spine, partially surviving leather spine label. Overall age-toning; modest worm trail in some foremargins, not costing words; one plate with repaired partial fold tear. A rather nice copy.  (36367)

Provenance:  Series title-page with inked inscription of E. Jane Campbell, Kildalloig, dated 184[?].

•  NCBEL, III, 720. On Ferrier, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online.   Contemporary half dark blue calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label and gilt-decorated bands; paper lightly scuffed at sides and chipped at board edges, extremities with minor rubbing. All edges marbled to match the marbled paper of the boards. Front pastedown with small 19th-century ticket of Edinburgh binder, and with traces of paper adhesions. A few leaves with small chip from lower margin. Frontispiece and added engraved title-page with limited foxing/offsetting; pages otherwise clean.  (29868)

Binding:  Publisher's green cloth, front cover with affixed color-printed vignette surrounded by blind-stamped butterfly wing design, title and author stamped in cream, spine with publication information stamped in cream, volume inpublisher's original box with cover vignette rendered in tones of rose and sepia on lid. Endpapers with striking design of butterfly-winged sprites pulling a flying automobile, printed in pale green; each page framed with similar motifs.

•  Binding as above, book showing almost no wear; box mildly darkened and dust-soiled with paper and one side of the boxtop chipped. Front pastedown with early 20th-century inked ownership inscription. A very attractive acquisition or gift for fans of Edwardian-era illustration and design, screwball romances, or vintage automobiles.  (35162)

One appears to be a signed autograph manuscript copy of the fourth verse of Field's “The Wanderer” provided to a fan or friend as a “souvenir” (No place: 22 April 1894. Small 8vo, 20 x 12.5 cm; 7.75" x 5". 1 p.). Another reproduces an autograph letter signed by Field to Francis Wilson in which he thanks Wilson for an unexpected gift of “the Thackeray.” Field asks if Wilson and Miss Harriet might “fall into Rector’s after the show tonight and take a farewell nip with me” (No place [N.Y.?], 1 February 1889. 4to, 25 x 20.5 cm; 10" x 8". 1 p.).

The last would seem to be an autograph letter to a Mrs. Ehrich from Stevenson, in which he writes that he is in bed, sick. “Though I have never written to thank you, I have been punishing your cakes” (No place, no date. 12mo,1 x 10.5 cm; 6.75" x 4.25". 1 p.).

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

•  All very good with some old folds and one with evidence of having been mounted in an album.  (34473)

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 partially 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)

•  Brunet, II, 1291 (for an 1810 ed. only, not citing this ed.); Graesse, 596 (for an 1810 ed. only, not citing this ed). Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked in calf preserving original gilt-stamped leather title-label, spine with gilt-dotted raised bands and gilt-stamped date; corners bumped, edges rubbed and with a few small dents, old leather abraded with some old cracking. Front pastedown with private collector's bookplate; front pastedown and free endpaper with institutional rubber-stamp (no other markings). Pages faintly age-toned, else clean.  (19312)

•  Cockalorum 170.   Publisher's green cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped ship vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title; minimal wear to extremities, faintest light spotting to spine and small area of back cover, otherwisea clean and beautiful copy of this exciting adventure tale, in elegant dress.  (36890)

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)

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)

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)

The trial mentioned in the title refers to that of thosearrested for participation in the Jacobite rising of 1745, an attempt by “Bonnie Prince Charlie” (i.e., Charles Edward Stuart) to regain the British throne. (He had timed his effort for a moment when much of the British military was occupied on the continent by the War of the Austrian Succession.)

•  ESTC T181470 (see also T147759); Sweet & Maxwell 367.   Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and blind-tooled tulip decorations between raised bands; hinges (inside) reinforced. Front pastedown and free endpaper each with one small early inked annotation (shelf and price?); first and last few leaves with offsetting to margins; pages generally mildly age-toned with a very few scattered light spots.  (34791)

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)

•  ESTC R10666; Wing (rev. ed.) F1720.   Bound into recent plain paper wrappers with linen binder's tape; wrappers faded, front wrapper splitting along joint. Title-page with small inked numeral in lower margin; first and last pages darkened.  (19897)

The story is illustrated witheight black and white plates reproducing paintings by Nell Marion Tenison Cuneo (1867–1953).

Binding:  Signed binding, marked “DD” for Decorative Designers: navy cloth, front cover and spine stamped with Art Nouveau–inspired pomegranate and leaf motif in green and with title in gilt.

•  Binding as above; extremities very lightly rubbed with all gilt and stamping bright. Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription. Pages very faintly age-toned with a few scattered spots, generally clean. A decidedly pretty copy of an interesting look at early 20th-century social mores regarding love, religion, and ambition.  (35619)

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)

two trumpet-blowing angels and a flaming fleur-de-lis

WorldCat locates only three U.S. institutional holdings. This is an uncut, unbound copy.

•  Uncut, inner margin with two stab marks. First page with inked Dewey decimal call number in lower inner corner. Untrimmed edges ragged, with two short tears extending inwards from outer margin, not touching text. Slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.  (33245)

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)

This edition opens with an engraved frontispiece of the saint in his role as humble priest, includes a summary of his life and a collection of his “choicest Maxims,” and closes with “The Communication of Doctor Thaulerus with a Poor Beggar.”

Uncommon: WorldCat and ESTC locate only nine U.S. institutional holdings of this royal edition.

•  Clancy, English Catholic Books 1641–1700, 391; ESTC R177248; Wing (rev. ed.) F2071.   Contemporary mottled calf framed in double gilt fillets, rebacked with similar calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands; original leather scuffed, edges rubbed. Light pencilled marks of emphasis throughout and a very few inked marks; back free endpaper once with decorative pencilled title, now largely erased. Frontispiece neatly mounted (caption excised), darkened and cockled but still quite attractive; title-page with small “loop: of old ink, pages with occasional smudges. A solid and pleasantly serviceable copy of a desirable printing.  (36977)

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)

Provenance:  Various notes, some more legible than others, of 17th-century users; among these, “Di Bartolomeo Pieroti,” “Ex Libris Paul[u]s Pierotti,” and one date “Die xx Janu[a]rii 1640.”

An uncommon book with searches of WorldCat, NUC, and COPAC revealing only one U.S. institution in possession, that being the Folger Shakespeare Library.

•  EDIT16 CNCE 19644; not in Adams; on Lucantonio, see: Pettas, The Giunti of Florence, pp. 2–4.   Modern boards covered with a medieval vellum manuscript leaf, its text surrounded by commentary, all in a gothic hand, and with red and blue initials and annotations. Inscriptions as above, and pen trials to verso of colophon leaf; light age-toning, light to almost-“moderate” waterstaining to leaves' top thirds and a few margins elsewhere; a few leaves with minute pin-type wormholes or a small stain or chip. Last leaf lacking lower corner, well away from colophon on its recto. An uncommon book from “the original Giunta.”  (37292)

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. 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)

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)

•  Evans 37442; Sabin 25602; ESTC W17376.   Contemporary speckled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; joints fully open and holding by cords, leather peeled up from board edges, gilt dimmed on spine label. Front fly-leaves with faint pencilled and inked inscriptions; back fly-leaves with inked ownership inscriptions, one dated 1801. Pages age-toned, last few waterstained; one leaf torn with loss of several words from one line. A “survivor” copy, priced accordingly.  (22636)

Provenance:  Many previous owners have inked or pencilled their ownership on the endpapers, sometimes several times, including “Sarah Reel,” “Christian Van Lasche” dated 18 December 1796, and “Samuel Van Lasche in the year of our Lord” dated both 1805 and 1806. The Lasche family were early immigrants to Germantown, Christian being a carpenter and pump-maker. Later gilt red leather label of 20th-century woman book collector Estelle Doheny (widow of oil tycoon Edward L. Doheny) on front pastedown.

•  ESTC W37375; Evans 23258.   18th-century calf, plain rounded spine with raised bands ruled in blind above and below, rubbed and corners bumped; moderate age-toning with waterstaining along most margins, variable spotting /soiling and stray ink marks. Otherwise, some creased leaves and torn-away corners including to title-page, one leaf with a long marginal tear taking (on the two sides) a few letters and one word, short marginal tears. Inked ownership indicia as above.  (37269)

•  NSTC 0262094.   Publisher's textured brown cloth, covers framed in blind double fillets, spines with gilt-stamped title; vol. 1 with small areas of light discoloration, both volumes with mild edgewear. Pages very slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. A nice set.  (32641)

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:  Early signature of Godefroi Kolberg. Later in the collection of 19th-century scholar Dr. Johann August Neander (1789–1850), a convert from Judaism who became a leading scholar of Christian church history; later yet in the Crozer Theological Seminary (properly released); most recently, in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard (sans indicia).

•  Schreiber, Colines, 150; Adams F1070.   18th-century calf, spine with both an inked paper and a gilt-stamped leather title-label; other spine compartments gilt-stamped, covers double-/triple-ruled in blind, board edges with gilt beading. Marbled pastedowns (with marbled free endpapers lacking); all edges stained red. Rubbed and abraded but quite solid; ex-library as above with bookplate on front pastedown, pencilled call number on title-leaf verso; early owner's signature as above. Attachment of title-page strengthened at time of binding; lightest waterstaining to perhaps a third of the text, light age-toning throughout, very occasionally a spot.  (37431)

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)

The panorama was exhibited “in the rotunda, S.E. Cor. Wabash Avenue and Panorama Place” before, during, and after theChicago Columbian Exposition. The front wrapper proclaims it “Chicago's great illustration. The grandest permanent exhibition of the nineteenth century.”

NUC and WorldCat locate only the copy at the Newberry.

•  In original peach wrappers. Very good.  (36615)

Binding:  Each text is bound in a different color of publisher's cloth (red, green, rust, blue) with the title decoratively gilt-stamped and a small landscape picture pasted on the front cover. The four books are housed together in a delicate cardboard box covered in gilt-patterned mint green paper with a maroon paper lid, the latter gilt-lettered and featuring a paper onlay that presents a color engraving of two girls playing with a doll.

Provenance:  Pencilled signature of Rosetta J[ane?] Quackenbush on underside of lid.

•  Bradbury, R.C. Antique United States miniature books, p. 92.   Bindings very bright and only very gently rubbed; one very lightly waterstained corner on one back endpaper; texts clean. Housed and bound as above, box worn and gently soiled with small loss of paper and three tears to lid, two at corners and one at bottom center (tears repaired to strengthen from inside). A happy survival, a pleasing gathering.  (36801)

These books feature a grand total of 114 full-color plates depicting all the dishes. The glossy double-sided plates are divided sectionally in vol. I, gathered at the beginning of vol. II, and grouped as prospective dinner menus in vol. III; all three volumes are additionally illustrated with black-and-white photographic images from Pei-Mei's career.

•  Vol. I: Publisher's brightly color-printed paper–covered boards, vols. II and III in publisher's original dust wrappers over green and yellow cloth, respectively; vol. I with moderate shelfwear to edges and extremities, vol. II wrapper with extremities rubbed and a few small edge nicks, vol. III wrapper with spine extremities chipped and small scuff to back joint. Front free endpaper of vol. I with inked gift inscription dated 1977. Pages of vols. II and III very clean and white, vol. I slightly age-toned but otherwise clean. Very attractive copies of a set seldom found all volumes together.  (30289)

Binding: 18th-century speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped foliate compartment decorations between gilt-ruled raised bands.

Evidence of Readership: Intermittent early inked underlining and occasional annotations; final page (colophon) with substantive early inked annotation in Latin.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of Tess M. Hope; title-page with inked ownership inscription of Vitus Herremann, dated 1633; title-page verso with small bookplate “Biblioth. Bosian. Hortens.” (the Leipzig Botanical Garden).

•  Adams F1102; Nissen, Botanische Buchillustration, 667; Baudrier, Bib. Lyonnaise, 102–03; Brunet, II, 1415; Pritzel 3138; Alden & Landis 549/9; Hunt 61. Not in Johnson, Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections.   Bound as above, leather pitted and scuffed, joints and spine rubbed with spine leather showing small cracks. Bookplate and inscriptions as above, front free endpaper and back pastedown with later pencilled annotations; other annotations as noted above. Title-page with lower portion excised, mounted some time ago. Margins of first and last few leaves darkened; occasional light spots and smudges. A solid and interesting copy of a landmark herbal, with evidence of early reader engagement.  (34532)

“It is at the request of many friends I consent to publish the story of my life. They have heard enough of what I have suffered by the Indians, to make them anxious to hear or rest the rest. To repeat the whole story to every individual that wants to hear it is an impossibility — hence I write that they may read for themselves” (preface). Yes, her autobiography does continue her life and travels after the massacre, but only to 1879. She died in either 1923 or 1924.

There are two pages of portraits of Fuller's family as they looked in 1860: her mother, father, a baby, a brother and sister, and herself at 14 years. There is an additional full-page portrait of Fuller as she looked in 1892.

Life-time published accounts by pioneer women in the Pacific Northwest are uncommon. Those detailing massacres and cannibalism even fewer.

•  Graff Collection 1460; Howes, U.S.iana (2nd ed.), F407; Smith 3386; Streeter Sale 3197.   Publisher's green wrapper, wire stitched, as issued; lightly soiled. Small brown stain in foremargin of three final leaves. A rather nice copy of a delicate publication.  (35588)

•  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)