•  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)

•  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)

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)

•  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)

•  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 separated and another with repaired partial fold tear. A rather nice copy.  (36367)

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)

•  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)

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)

This pamphlet was clearly meant to be an ephemeral publication: Searches of WorldCat, NUC, Lindsay & Neu, and COPAC reveal only two copies in the U.S. (BYU and the Newberry), with only a handful more in Europe.

Provenance:  Early manuscript monogram on title-page in ink; bookplate of Paul Schmidt and green bookseller's label of J.L. Beijers of Utrecht on front pastedown. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Renouard, Estienne, 171; Duvall, French Political Pamphlets, 125; Lindsay & Neu 614; Welsh, French Political Pamphlets, 42. Not in Adams; not in Schreiber, Estiennes.   Disbound pamphlet tucked into a larger, possibly repurposed binding of vellum over boards with yapp edges and inked spine, date incorrectly noted “1562.” Moderate age-toning, small marginal hole at bottom interior corners; one témoin and one ink spot. Provenance indicia as above, a few small inked letters and numbers in an early hand, pencilled pagination on title-page, and inked pagination on final page. An interesting example of Estienne job printing.  (38694)

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)

WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 findno institutional holdings of this edition and find only one U.S. library (Princeton) reporting ownership of any 16th-century edition of the work in Italian!

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

•  EDIT16 CNCE 78256. This ed. not in Adams, Brunet, or Mortimer; see Brunet and Essling for other eds.   Later limp vellum, spine with hand-inked title; spine vellum creased. Corners and inner margin of title-page refurbished (touching two letters of title); one other page corner repaired. One text leaf (O1, without illustration) excised and one final blank (O8) lacking. A few signatures slightly more noticeably age-toned than others; occasional small ink spots, touching but not obscuring text or images; some pages with pencilled foliation. A pleasing copy of a very uncommon edition.  (37929)

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)

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)

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)

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)

•  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:  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)

“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)