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Polish Catholic Miniature
(God be with you!). Bóg z toba! Ksiazka do nabozenstwa dla katolików obojga plci. Warszawa i Wimperk: J. Steinbrenera, 1911. 16mo (9.8 cm, 3.75"). 256 pp. (19–30 lacking); illus.
$100.00
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Miniature (or near-miniature) Polish Catholic devotional book. All text here is in Polish except for one line of the title-page: “Printed in Czechoslovakia.” Steinbrener was the proprietor of a prominent printing concern in Vimperk, which published prayer books in more than 20 languages; the present example was first printed in 1895. The work is illustrated with portraits of Jesus and Mary, six images of priests conducting Mass, and smaller vignettes of the stations of the Cross.
Uncommon: WorldCat locates only one U.S. institutional holding of this 1911 (as per the imprimatur) edition.
Binding: Cream-colored plasticized boards (with cream cloth intentionally visible at joints), front cover with color-printed overlay of an angel delicately tinted in light blue and pink with gilt backdrop beneath a rose and grapevine motif, turn-ins with gilt roll, moiré silk endpapers. All edges gilt.
Binding as above, corners slightly rubbed, minor discoloration to sides and spine head. Lacking pp. 19–30 (though with its not being entirely clear whether these were ever present). Pages age-toned; lower outer corners of first few leaves bumped. A beautiful little prayerbook. (30391)
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(Very) Limited Edition Goethe
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Harzreise im Winter. Berlin: Otto von Holten, 1924. 8vo (23.4 cm, 9.2"). [16] pp.
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Handsome edition of the poem along with Dr. Kannegiesser's 1820 essay on the subject, with the text printed in black and oxblood on heavy paper. Uncommon: this is
numbered copy 29 of just 80 printed.
Original printed tan paper wrappers; minor dust-soiling, front wrapper with small unobtrusive stain, corners slightly rubbed. A nice copy. (35986)
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Beautifully
Bound & Illustrated FRENCH Edition
“Tr. by Mme. Bachellery”
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Les souffrances du jeune Werther. Tr. by Mme. Bachellery. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1886. 8vo.
$2250.00
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Edition limited to 220, this one of 10 on papier du Japon. Illustrated with eaux-fortes by Lalauze, and each plate
present in four states.
Binding: Bound by Lortic Frères in red morocco with filigree gilt tooling on covers and in spine compartments; a gilt rose also in each spine compartment. Blue morocco in-laid doublures, turquoise watered silk endpapers, and marbled fly-leaves; very wide turn-ins with gilt dentelles. All edges gilt over marbling.
A copy in lovely condition, imperceptibly rebacked with the original spine retained. Original wrappers bound in. Protected in a crimson morocco-edged slipcase. (2933)

LEC: Sacred Text with Expressionist Art – Signed
Goldin, Judah, trans.; Ben-Zion, illus. The living Talmud: The wisdom of the Fathers and its classical commentaries. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. 4to (32 cm, 12.625"). xxxi, [1], 165, [3] pp.; 12 plts.
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Designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Spiral Press, this Limited Editions Club presentation offers the challenging book of Jewish law and tradition with commentary. This attractive volume contains Hebrew text hand-set in Hadassah type and printed in red, in addition to the English translation by Judah Goldin, who also edited and introduced the edition, set in black Poliphilus and Bembo types. Expressionist artist Ben-Zion provided
12 sepia-ink drawings (eleven full-page, and one double-spread) illustrating parts of the Talmudic text printed on a tissue guard before each drawing; these poignant works contrast the expansive, sacred text with their mono-color simplicity.
This is numbered copy 1002 of 1500 printed,
signed by the artist at the colophon. The monthly newsletter and prospectus are laid in.
Binding: Quarter natural-grain goatskin vellum with black buckram sides and gilt lettering to spine; top edge is gilt.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 315. Binding as above; vellum darkened lightly in spots, spine-head warped slightly (but in no way broken) from being pulled out of the slipcase. In original red cloth–covered slipcase with cream spine label printed in black; clean and strong and one side with a small black spot, label with faint waterspot. Volume with one light finger smudge to front free endpaper, else clean.
Another masterful LEC production, simply handsome, and in a very pleasing copy. (38941)
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Presentation Copy Bound by
HAYDAY
Goldsmith, Oliver. The vicar of Wakefield. London: John Van Voorst, 1843. 8vo (8.25"; 21 cm). xv, 306 pp.
$500.00
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A presentation copy signed by the publisher, “Dr. W. Cooke Taylor / from John Van Voorst,” on the half-title. This is likely addressed to William Cooke Taylor, the Irish journalist and historian who wrote extensively for the AntiCorn Law League.
There are
32 illustrations provided by William Mulready, “the most distinguished talent of British Art applicable to this purpose . . .” (p. v).
Binding: Bound by Hayday in green pebbled morocco, spine with raised bands; two compartments with title and author and four with rich and elaborate gilt decoration; wide gilt composite borders to boards, board edges with gilt hatching, gilt zig-zag design on turn-ins. All edges gilt.
Bound as above; light rubbing particularly to spine-head, one slim scrape to front board and several to rear one. Endpapers lightly foxed, silk placemarker present with end a little frayed, old pencilling to verso of front free endpaper. Interior and illustrations clean and unmarked.
A very good presentation copy of this classic. (37320)
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Thomson's Illustrations The Vicar
Goldsmith, Oliver. The Vicar of Wakefield. London & New York: Macmillan & Co., 1892. 8vo. Frontis., xxxiv, [2], 305, [7] pp.; illus.
$40.00
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With a preface by Austin Dobson and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. The back pastedown bears the ticket of a Hartford, CT, bookseller.
Publisher's teal cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title and decorative floral motifs; back cover and corners showing very slight scuffing. Back hinge cracked and front hinge starting; front free endpaper excised. Still, an attractive copy. (18393)

A Bishop of LIMA Feuds with the POPE
González Vigil, Francisco de Paula. Light in Darkness. a book for Catholics
and Protestants, letter to the Pope, and an analysis of the brief of the 10th of June, 1851. Boston: Crocker & Brewster, 1852. 12mo. 44 pp.
$150.00
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González Vigil was the Roman Catholic of Lima, Peru, and in 1848–49 he published his six-volume Defensa de la autoridad de los gobiernos y de los obispos contra las pretensiones de la Curia romana (i.e., “Defense of the Civil and Ecclesiastical Authorities against the pretensions of the Roman Curia”) . The pope was not pleased by this challenge to his temporal power and in 1851 placed the book on the Index librorum prohibitorum.
In 1852 González Vigil responded to the pope with his Carta al Papa y análisis del Breve de 10 de junio de 1851, which is here in English translation from a Boston publisher.
A scarce American Catholicum.
Removed from a nonce volume; a little dusty and some dog-earing. (37963)
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With a Cut of
the Printer's Print Shop
The good farmer; or, the entertaining history of Thomas Wiseman. Banbury [England]: J.G. Rusher, [ca. 1835]. 32mo (11.5 cm, 4.5"). [8] ff.; illus.
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The aim of this Banbury-printed penny chapbook is to teach the rewards of virtue and industry; beyond the reaping of such serious satisfactions as solvency and respect, a wise and good poor boy may one day have a daughter plays a pretty spinet in a pretty dress and is called “Miss Fanny.” Illustrated with
wood engravings on each page, this has additional illustrations on the wrappers: the first page (the recto of the frontispiece) has a cut of Rusher's printing shop.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate only four libraries worldwide reporting ownership (Vassar, the V&A, the Bodleian, and the British Library).
Opie A 1318. Original blue wrappers, rear one a very little tattered at edges; uncut copy, very clean and nice. (38795)
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American History for
Schools (1823)
Goodrich, Charles Augustus. History of the United States of America. Hartford: Barber & Robinson, 1823. 12mo (18.6 cm, 7.4"). [10 (blank)], engr. half-title, [3 (1 blank)], 3–400, [10 (blank)] pp.; 11 plts.
$125.00
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Third edition of this American school book by the Rev. Goodrich. The book is divided into 11 periods, “each distinguished by some particular characteristic . . . to aid the memory (p. 3–4).” In chronological order, the periods are distinguished for discoveries; settlements; the wars of King William, Queen Anne, and George II; French and Indian war; war of the Revolution; formation and establishment of the federal Constitution; Washington's administration; Adams' administration; Jefferson's administration; Madison's administration; and Monroe's administration.
The work is
illustrated with a total of 12 engravings, including portraits of the first five presidents and an engraved half-title page.
Provenance: Ownership signature on two front fly-leaves of Giles Satterthwaite, dated 1824; his note also, “Prise [sic] $1-75.”
Sabin 27871; Shoemaker 12704. Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations; binding worn and abraded, spine leather much chipped and cracked with some fragments carefully reattached in first panel; joints, corners, and headcaps restored. Pages
foxed and age-toned throughout, loosening in some signatures, torn and chipped in margins and corners of a few pages; inner margin of one front fly-leaf reinforced. Ownership inscriptions as noted.
An evocative survivor. (5503)
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Around the World with
Maps & Costumes
Goodrich, Samuel G. The second book of history, including the modern history of Europe, Africa, and Asia. Boston: Charles J. Hendee & G.W. Palmer and Co., 1838. 4to (19 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., 180 pp.; 16 maps.
$75.00
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From the author of Peter Parley's Tales: a children's history reader aimed at pupils who had come a bit further along from that first book. The accounts here of the development of Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Russia, China, etc., and the countries' foreign relations, are illustrated with
in-text wood engravings including depictions of Portuguese, Norwegian, Russian, “Algerine,” “Otaheitan,” and other national costumes; also included in the volume are
16 steel-engraved maps.
While the title-page gives the Boston publication line described above, the printed front cover gives Philadelphia: Thomas, Cowperthwait, & Co., 1838; this is a later edition, following the first of 1832.
A first impression is that “child” readers had, in 1832, much greater powers of attention to print than is now common, but indeed the history here is — the stories are — absorbing and evocative.
American Imprints 50587. Publisher's quarter sheep and printed green paper–covered boards, rubbed and worn; pages cockled and foxed, yet paper good and untattered. One page with stray ink marks, not obstructing legibility.
A good, solid, pleasing copy. (33716)
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FIRST EDITION
Gough, John. A history of the people called Quakers. From their first rise to the present time. Dublin: Robert Jackson, 1789. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). 3 (of 4) vols. I: x, [2], 546, [10 (index)] pp. (pagination skipping 294 to 297, text complete and uninterrupted). II: [2], 557, [11] pp. III: 526, [10] pp.
$375.00
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First edition of Gough's account of the origins of the Society of Friends, including biographies of a number of Irish Quakers. This three-volume set in matching contemporary bindings is composed of the original three books projected; a fourth volume, published in 1790, is not present here. Each book has an index at the back.
Provenance: Vol. I title-page with inscription dated 1790, reading “Joseph Russells cost 10s a Vollume [sic]”.
ESTC T102429. Contemporary treed calf, spines with gilt-stamped leather title labels; worn and one cover off. Ex–defunct library with bookplates, a stamp to each title-page and last leaf, old (interestingly make-shift) card pockets. Some instances of offsetting and foxing, generally no more than moderate, with pages otherwise clean. (8655)

MUSICAL SCHOLARSHIP Printed Beautifully
Printed Masterfully!
Grañén Porrúa, María Isabel. Tesoros musicales de la Nueva España: Siglo XVI. Tacámbaro de Codallos [Mexico]: Taller Martín Pescador, 2018. Small 4to (25.7 cm, 10"). 46 pp., [1] f., 2 fold. plts., illuis.
$375.00
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Dr. María Isabel Grañén Porrúa is Mexico's leading scholar of 16th-century printing in the Viceroyalty of New Spain and Juan Pascoe of the Taller Martín Pescador is Mexico's greatest living handpress printer. Her scholarship, based on archival research and the minute study of early colonial-era printed musical texts, and his precise and meticulous presswork are here combined to give us a masterful study of a neglected area of the history of the book in Mexico, in a volume that is joy in the hand and a jewel to the eye.
Prior to publication here, the extended essay had been “presentado en el simposio 'El libro en la Nueva España. Historiografía en Construcción.' Dirección de Estudios Históricos del INAH, octubre de 2017.”
Only 210 copies were printed: Florencio Ramírez composed the text using Dante, Centaur, Poliphilus, and Blado type. Juan Pascoe and Martín Urbgina printed the work on Tamayo De Ponte paper using a Vandercook cylinder press and two Washington handpresses. The work was bound by Fermín Urbina.
The two folding plates are printed in black and red, as is the title-page and the first page of text. Other illustrations are an Antonio Espinosa vignette, a woodcut of a kneeling Mexica man, and two printer's ornaments. All are printed from zinc plates.
Green shelfback with yellow paper spine label and matching yellow paper on the boards. Author and title printed on front board in a frame of printer's ornaments. As new. (40095)
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A University of Leiden Professor Promotes
Newtonian Studies
Gravesande, Willem Jacob 's. Philosophiae Newtonianae institutiones, in usus academicos. Leidae & Amstelodami: Apud Joh. Arn. Langerak, Joh. & Herm. Verbeek, and Balthasarem Lakeman, 1728. 8vo (15.5 cm, 6.1"). [16], 488, [16 (index) pp.; 17 fold. plts.
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Gravesande's important introduction to Newtonian principles of physics in its second edition; an abridged version of the Dutch mathematician and philosopher's Physices elementa mathematica, experimentis confirmata sive introductio ad philosophiam Newtonianam that was intended for students — one of the earliest such textbooks, first published in 1723. The title-page is printed in red and black, with an engraved printer's vignette featuring a fountain flanked by Athena and Mercury and the motto “Varietas delectat,” engraved by R.B. after A.D.; the text is
illustrated with 17 tipped-in folding plates offering a variety of engraved figures and diagrams.
Wallis, Newton and Newtoniana, 81.1. Contemporary speckled calf, rebacked similarly, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title and author labels, gilt-ruled raised bands, and blind-tooled compartment decorations. Title-page verso with small, early inked ownership mark. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise crisp and clean; one plate with inner fold somewhat crumpled, three plates with outer edges darkened and worn.
A solid, attractive copy of a text that did much to spread Newton's philosophy. (40411)
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Before the
War of JENKINS' EAR
Great Britain. The convention between the Crowns of Great Britain and Spain, concluded at the Pardo on the 14th of January 1739, N.S. London: Printed by Samuel Buckley, 1739. 4to (21.7 cm, 8.625"). 28 pp.
$600.00
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Ineffectual trilingual treaty, one of two copies printed in London in the same year, this edition most likely the first. The 1739 Convention of Pardo (a.k.a. Treaty of Pardo or Convention of El Pardo) was designed to avoid a war between Spain and Great Britain over trade conflicts and the boundaries of Florida, Georgia, and the Carolinas by reimbursing Britain for damaged ships and creating, through a committee, plans to negotiate a neutral trading area. Despite these efforts, the War of Jenkins' Ear erupted later that year.
This pamphlet presents the treaty and two separate articles with more specific details on implementation of its arrangements in French, Spanish, and English, with the British ratification statements recorded in Latin and English and the Spanish ones in Spanish and English.
Several ships are mentioned by name, and the West Indies and Puerto Rico appear as locales for conflict.
ESTC T4473; Sabin 16195; not in Alden & Landis, European Americana; Goldsmiths'-Kress 07664. Removed from nonce volume, first leaf separating from text block; light age-toning, one top margin trimmed closely, light marginal pencilling on first and final leaves.
A good printed relic of a failed peace effort. (38080)
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“And Be It Further Enacted,” & “Provided Always, That” . . .
Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc. A collection of the several statutes and parts of statutes now in force, relating to
HIGH TREASON, and misprision of high treason. London: Pr. by Charles Bill, & the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1709. 12mo (15.5 cm; 6.125"). 113, [1] pp., [7] ff.; 44 pp., [2] ff.
$500.00
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Publication of this treatise on high treason followed hard on the heels of the Treason Act 1708 (7 Ann c 21), by which Parliament “harmonized” the laws of high treason in “Great Britain” following the union in 1707 of England and Scotland, each of which had different and sometimes quite distinct concepts of “high treason.”
The final part of this small volume bears a title-page reading “A form and method of trial of commoners, in cases of high treason, and misprision of high treason,” with the same imprint information at the main title. (A
woman tried and convicted, seeking a stay of execution because pregnant, may pray “a Jury of [12] Matrons or Motherly Women” confirm and attest the same; other data are equally particular and evocative.) While the pagination and signature markings of this final part are not continuous from A collection of several statutes, it is clear that the “two” were printed as a whole and are not separate works, although they are sometimes catalogued as if they were and are even sometimes sold as such.
Printed mostly in roman type with some italic, this has headings in gothic and some long passages also in gothic.
Provenance: 18th-century ownership signatures at top of main title-page of J.W. Tarleton and J. Skynner (both lined through), and 19th-century signature of Wm. Saunders. Oldham Free Public Library (Lancs.) stamp on verso of same.
ESTC T136807; Sweet & Maxwell 12.Ia.6 and 12.Ia.10. Late 20th-century quarter brown calf with brown stone-pattern marbled paper sides; all edges gilt. Slim waterstain in upper margin of last four leaves; same leaves foxed. Overall a very good copy. (34007)
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Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Report from the committee to whom the petition of the trustees of the British Museum, respecting the late Mr. Townley’s collection of ancient sculptured marbles, was referred. [London, 1805]. Folio (32.5 cm, 12.75"). 8 pp.
$250.00
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Government document 172, “Ordered to be printed 19th June 1805.” This scarce discussion of the British Museum’s proposed acquisition of a significant collection of classical sculpture includes several contemporary assessments of the value of Townley’s marbles — which did indeed go to the museum later in the year of this item’s publication. John Flaxman was one of those expressing an opinion of the trove; he says that he has “paid a great deal of attention to it as a Sculptor” and believes it to be “richly worth” the sum of £20,000.
RLIN and OCLC report only one holding of this item in the U.S.
Not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder; title-page and final blank lightly dust-soiled. Sewing mostly gone. Title-page with short tear from inner margin, not touching text; some leaves with small edge chips. (17274)
Great Britain. Parliament. A true and exact list of the lords spiritual and temporal, also of the knights[,] commissioners of shires, citizens and burgesses, chosen to serve in the Parliament of Great Britain. [London], 1741. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). 16 pp.
$500.00
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Register prepared for the 1741 general election, with notations regarding how M.P.s voted on the Convention and on Walpole’s proposed Excise Bill (a tax on
tobacco and wine). The current U.K. Parliament website sums up the terms thusly: “The Lords Spiritual are made up of the Archbishops of Canterbury and of York, the Bishops of London, Durham and Winchester as well as specific bishops of the Church of England. The Lords Temporal are made up of Hereditary Peers elected under Standing Orders, Life Peers, Law Lords, the earl Marshal and the Lord Great Chamberlain.”
Uncommon: ESTC locates only four copies, none of which are in the U.S.
ESTC T26238; Goldsmiths’-Kress 7877.5. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Pages age-toned, with some dustsoiling. (16585)
Great Britain. Treaties, etc., 1760-1820 (George III). The official correspondence between Great Britain and France, on the subject of the late negotiation; with His Majesty’s declaration, to which is prefixed, the preliminary and definitive treaties of peace; with an appendix containing Colonel Sebastiani’s report to the First Consul, &c. &c. London: Pr. by D.N. Shury for J. Ginger, 1803. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). [6], [3]–159, [1], xlv, [1 (blank)] pp.
$250.00
Third edition, following two previous 1803 printings: Record of the short-lived attempt at peace made in 1802 with the Treaty of Amiens.
NSTC ENG385. Recent paper wrappers. Title-page with rubber-stamped numeral and shadows of now-absent pencilled annotations. Three leaves with upper outer corners torn off and reattached/repaired without loss of sense. A few faint spots of foxing to title-page, otherwise clean. (18733)

Cowper's Life a “Striking Instance of
the Instability of Earthly Hopes”
Greatheed, Samuel. A practical improvement of the divine counsel and conduct, attempted in a sermon, occasioned by the decease of William Cowper Esq; preached at Olney, 18 May 1800. Newport-Pagnel: J. Wakefield, [1800]. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.9"). [4], 47, [1] pp.
$175.00
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First edition. A dissenting minister and founding member of the Eclectic Review, the Rev. Samuel Greatheed was a close friend of Cowper's; this memorial piece includes affecting descriptions of the poet's mental illness. This is the first issue of the first edition, with “sermon” in solid type on the title-page and a semi-colon after Wakefield in the imprint.
ESTC lists no publication prior to this occurring in Newport-Pagnel.
ESTC T44132; NCBEL, II, 598. Uncut copy and stitched as issued. Title-page with rubber-stamped numeral and internal tear touching the first line of title without loss; first and last pages dust-soiled, fore-edges chipped and slightly ragged. Not pristine, but a desirable example of this uncommon piece in its original state. (29490)
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The Beginning of the Greenaway Vogue
Greenaway, Kate. Under the window. Pictures & rhymes for children. London: George Routledge & Sons, [1878]. 8vo (24.1 cm, 9.5"). 64, [2] pp.; col. illus.
$450.00
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Kate Greenaway's first book, and one of only two for which she provided both text and illustrations: a best-selling introduction to her inimitable, sweetly sentimental style. This is the first edition, here in a later issue, with the printer's ornaments on either side of Evans' name on the title-page.
Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 253. Publisher's printed paper–covered boards with cloth shelfback; moderately rubbed overall with minor discoloration to upper outer portion of front cover. Hinges (inside) tender; intermittent light foxing and last leaf (printer's colophon) separated but present.
An ambitious production, with its ambitions achieved! (39009)
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Poetry from Springfield, Massachusetts
& the “Mansion” Hotel at Pas'comuck
Greene, Aella. After night, a summer-place talk, with other poems. Boston: Lee & Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, 1873. 8vo. Frontis., 93, [1] pp.; 2 plts. (incl. in pagination).
$50.00
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First edition: Verses from a poet and journalist whose work was, in its day, considered to “most faithfully embody the genuine spirit of New England country life” (New England Homestead, 1881).
Sickness is a theme here, along with the pain of it bravely borne; and the last piece expresses the hope that “all the allopaths” would vanish from the earth and that only “pleasant herbs” and “mild botanics” be given to the sick, rather than calomel and drugs.
The volume is illustrated with a total of three wood-engraved depictions of New England buildings.
Publisher's pebbled terra cotta cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; spine darkened and worn with gilt rubbed, sides with small spots of discoloration, cover gilt nice and bright. Some light smudging to margins, pages otherwise clean. All edges gilt. (27649)
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Some Bishops Found Themselves Together in Paris . . .
Grégoire, Henri. Compte rendu par le citoyen Grégoire, au concile national, des travaux des évêques réunis à Paris, imprimé par ordre du Concile National. [Paris: L'Imprimerie-Librairie Chrétienne, 1797]. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). 84 pp. (lacking half-title).
$150.00
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Uncut copy of the first edition of Abbé Grégoire's account of a 1797 council of bishops and their debates on priests and marriage, Catholic–Presbyterian relations, the activities of the Société de Philosophie Chrétienne, and French colonies and foreign missions; also present here is a French translation of correspondence between Grégoire and the Bishop of Barbastro. The work closes with an expression of humility and an acknowledgment of the dual burden of being good ministers and good French citizens. WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only eight U.S. institutional holdings.
Martin & Walter 15618. Removed from a nonce volume; sewing holes present but stitching perished; gatherings now loose. Page edges untrimmed. Half-title lacking, title-page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner and inked numeral, old pencilling, and a light ink-smear. Pages age-toned with occasional small spots of mild staining or foxing; one word corrected in text in old ink. (32622)

Anti-Monarchy, Pro-Religion, Pro–Religious FREEDOM
Grégoire, Henri. Observations sur les calomniateurs et
les persécuteurs en matiere de religion. Paris: Chez la citoyenne Desrois (de l'Imprimerie-Librarie
chretienne), [1796]. 8vo (21.1 cm, 8.3"). 27, [1] pp.
$135.00
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Unbound, uncut copy of the first edition of this denunciation of religious
persecution, specifically of intolerance aimed at Catholics (“On vous passeroit de croire au
Zend-Avesta, à l'Alcoran, au Talmud, mais croire à l'évangile, à leurs yeux est un crime,” p. 1).
Abbé Grégoire (1750–1831) was a revolutionary, abolitionist, and opponent of vandalism — as
well as the constitutional bishop of Blois, and the first priest to take the oath of loyalty to the
Civil Constitution of the Clergy.Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only four U.S. institutional holdings.
Folded as issued, never sewn; outermost signature chipped at
spine. First page with paper shelving label, not touching text, and with pencilled monogram in
upper outer corner. Mild to moderate foxing. (30820)
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French Post-Restoration Politics
Grégoire, Henri. Seconde lettre aux électeurs du département de l'Isère. Paris: Librairie Constitutionnelle de Baudoin Frères, 1820. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). [4], 31, [1] pp.
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Wondrous Happenings in
Sixth Century Italy
Gregorius I, Pont. Max. (Gregory I, pope). Dialogorum libri quattuor. [colophon: Venetiis: per Hieronymus de Paganinis,
1492]. Small 4to (19.5 cm; 7.625"). [79 of 80] ff., lacks final blank leaf.
$3500.00
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Miracles, signs, wonders, and healings performed in Italy in the sixth century A.D., mostly by monks, fill three of the four books of this incunable printing of one of Gregory the Great's understandably most popular writings. The book not devoted to such wondrous things is book two, a life of Saint Benedict. There were 20 editions printed between 1473 and the end of the 15th century, in Latin, German, Italian, and Spanish, in formats ranging from folio to octavo.
This Venetian printing from the press of Girolamo de Paganini (active 1492– 97), is done in gothic type in double-column format, and the first four lines on the first text leaf are printed in red; there is one large woodcut (on the first page), of St . Peter, which cut is used in other of his books (e.g., his 1492 Biblia latina). Below the cut is this praise of Gregory: “Sicut Petrus apostolo[rum] princeps in ecclesia dei prefuit: sic postmodu[m] Gregorius: Qui quidem pro mercede glorie celestis imarcessibilem coronam reportantes: nobis scripta bene viuedi exepla reliquerunt: vt infra Gregorij sermo dyalogus probat.”
Gregory (ca.?540–12 March 604), pope from 3 September 590 to 12 March 604, is the
patron saint of musicians, singers, students, and teachers, and is famous for instigating the first known large-scale mission from Rome — the Gregorian Mission, to convert the pagan Anglo-Saxons in England to Christianity.
Provenance: Cut-down Blumhaven Library bookplate (i.e., private library of Herman Blum, 1885–1973, of the Frankford section of Philadelphia, PA); given by Mr. Blum on his 89th birthday to his grandson Robert Martin Blum, as per light blue ballpoint pen inscription on front pastedown.
ISTC ig00405000; Goff G405; HC 7963*; Pell 5357; IGI 4422; BMC V 457; GKW 11401. Half vellum and cream paper covered boards of the first half of the 20th century, soiled; without the final blank leaf (only). Bookseller's description glued to front pastedown above provenance information as above; additional tape or glue stains on same and tape stains on rear pastedown. Title- leaf seriously browned, torn with blank lower area lost, and mounted, with image of St. Peter and all but one letter of type preserved; repairs to upper margin and fore-edge of the first text leaf; waterstaining in first half, diminishing after first signatures. (39630)
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A Costume Designer's Interpretation of
Gogol
Gregory, Anne. [Costume illustration for] The government inspector by Nikolay Gogol. [U.S.]: ca. 1971. (27 cm, 10.65"). 24 col. illus.
$875.00
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A remarkable album: 24 panels of hand-inked and painted costume designs for a production of Gogol's Government Inspector (a.k.a. The Inspector General, originally Revizor). These delightful designs, slightly reminiscent in style of Jean de Brunhoff's illustrations, convey a great deal of personality; each panel's character is shown in a different pose — including those characters given more than one costume — with a range of expressions portrayed throughout. The images were painted on heavy panels bound together with cloth tape
leporello- or accordion-style, with the entire sequence unfolding as one very long, very impressive strip ABOUT 20 FEET LONG.
Following Anne Gregory's name on the cover here is the designation, “'71,” but its significance has not been established. There was a premiere of Zador's revised operatic version of The Government Inspector at El Camino College in that year, and these do look like they could be operatic costumes; so perhaps the date refers to that production — or, perhaps “Anne Gregory” was to graduate from that institution or another, that year.
As above, cover panels with small smudges, interior panels clean and bright.
A unique and extensive work of art, offering literary, theatrical, and costuming interest in addition to its aesthetic pleasures. (36014)
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A Plea for
Training Women in the MEDICAL ARTS
Gregory, George. Medical morals, illustrated with plates and extracts from medical works; designed to show the pernicious social and moral influence of the present system of medical practice, and the importance of establishing female medical colleges, and educating and employing female physicians for their own sex. New York: Published by the author, 1852. 8vo (22 cm; 8.5"). 48 pp.
$800.00
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Cataloguers have universally identified “George Gregory” of the title- and copyright pages as the famous English physician (1790–1853), teacher, textbook writer, and advocate of vaccination. This is patently wrong. The author is based in the U.S. as is made clear by reading the pamphlet: The English George Gregory never lived in the U.S., and, indeed, on p. 18 we are told that George is the brother of Samuel Gregory, a founder of the Boston Female Medical College.
George Gregory seeks here to champion his brother's cause of educating women to minister medically to women, especially but not exclusively as midwives in the broadest terms. “Does the fact that a man practises medicine give him any right to invade his neighbor's wife . . . ?”
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only five U.S. institutions reporting ownership.
Removed from a nonce volume, with the two plates (which would have been near-pornographic in their time) torn out and present in laid-in facsimile, thus lowering the price considerably. Lightly age-toned, with a little foxing and spotting only. (32183)
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First Appearance:
NEW TESTAMENT Thoughts
from the
Great Dialogist
Gregory I, Pope, ca. 540-604; Tornacensis Alulphus, ed. Gregoriana super nouum testamentum. Parisijs: Bertholdus Rembolt, 1516. 4to (22.2 cm, 8.75"). [6], 142 ff.; illus.
$2000.00
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Previously unprinted commentary on the New Testament from Gregory the Great, edited by Benedictine monk Tornacensis Alulphus. Gregory I spent time as a Benedictine monk, regularized parts of the Mass, and was known as “one of the most commanding figures in ecclesiastical history”; his analysis here begins with Matthew and ends with the Apocrypha. Searches of WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 reveal only two U.S. institutions holding this uncommon edition (Harvard and Southern Methodist University); another was printed later in the same year at Strassburg by Joannem Knoblouch, dated 28 July, while the colophon here gives 15 January as a production date.
The title-page is printed in red and black, with a three-piece decorative woodcut border featuring wyverns and other mythical creatures, and Rembolt's printer's device; following the index, there is also a
large in-text woodcut of Gregory handing a book (his commentary, most likely) to a kneeling cleric. The text is printed in double columns using black letter, with decorative and historiated initials, shouldernotes and printed manicules, and red marks to highlight the start of sentences or notes.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) on rear free endpaper.
Adams G1187; Index Aurel. 104.188; Moreau, Éditions parisiennes du XVI siècle, II, 1360. On Gregory, see: Holweck, Biographical Dictionary of the Saints, pp. 446–7; our quotation is from this source. Modern boards covered in a 16th-century leaf from a biblical index with accents in red, new endpapers; booklabel as above. Light age-toning with a handful of marginal stains, one red; uneven edges (probably from manufacture), one small wormhole touching letters throughout most of text with two additional near the end. Title-page and final leaf have been attached to stubs for binding; five other leaves with small, early marginal repairs.
A neatly printed book with many embellishments; a very attractive thing of its kind. (39284)
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On the Estiennes & Their Peers — Bound by Bernard Middleton
Greswell, William Parr. A view of the early Parisian Greek press; including the lives of the Stephani; notices of other contemporary Greek printers of Paris; and various particulars of the literary and ecclesiastical history of their times. Oxford: Pr. by S. Collingwood for D.A. Talboys, 1833. 8vo (23 cm, 9.1"). 2 vols. I: xix, [1], 412 pp. II: vii, [1], 413, [1] pp.
$750.00
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First edition of this account of the Estiennes and other important printers of their milieu, including much information on, excerpts from, and commentary on classical literature (many quotations being supplied in English translation in addition to the original languages) as well as details of political, cultural, and religious history of the time. The preface is signed by the Rev. William Parr Greswell, known as a scholar of Parisian typography, and the title-page attributes the editing to his son Edward Greswell. While Brunet was not wholly convinced regarding the Greswells' exactitude, he nevertheless concluded that this work made for an interesting read.
Bindings: 20th-century speckled calf framed and panelled 17th century–style in double blind fillets with blind-tooled corner fleurons, middle panels in plain calf, innermost panels framed with blind roll; spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels, raised bands, and blind-tooled composite motifs in compartments
done by a modern master. Back pastedown of vol. I with pencilled note reading “Bound by Bernard Middleton [/] Feb. '62.”
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Brunet, II, 1735; Lowndes, IV, 943; NSTC 2G21923. Bindings as above; joints and edges rubbed, spines evenly sunned, minor scuffing to sides. Front pastedown of vol. I with pencilled annotation of old purchase price. Page edges untrimmed; a few leaves in vol. II with very short tears from outer margins, not touching text; faint age-toning and intermittent instances of light spotting, mostly but not entirely in upper outer corners. Vol. I with one 20th-century pencilled marginal annotation, vol. II with one pencilled date correction.
A good example of 19th-century scholarship on printing and literary history, here in a lovely demonstration of 20th-century binding technique. (37968)
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A Temperance Tome adapted for
AMERICANS
Grindrod, Ralph Barnes. Bacchus. An essay on the nature, causes, effects, and cure, of intemperance ... first American edition.... New York: J. & H.G. Langley, 1840. 12mo. xvi, 512 pp.
$75.00
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Stated first U.S. edition, adapted for the American public and dedicated “to the officers and members of the American Temperance Societies.” This prize essay submitted to the New British and Foreign Temperance Society opens with a
history of drinking and of “intoxicating liquors” stretching back to the Philistines, Thracians, and Babylonians, followed by discussions of the moral and physical causes of intemperance, the results of indulgence, and
the efficacy of various means of quitting drinking. One of the final chapters contrasts the temperance and intemperance of the Hebrews with those of the primitive Christians; in this chapter, the author promotes the theory that many biblical references to wine actually meant unfermented, non-intoxicating grape juice. Grindrod (1811–83) was a well-known British “water cure” physician and temperance crusader.
American Imprints 40-2804; NSTC 2G23438. This ed. not in Amerine & Borg; see entry 1599 for later, 1848 ed. Publisher's brown cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with decorative gilt-stamped title; showing only light shelf wear. Ex–social club library: paper shelving label on spine, 19th-century bookplate and presentation plate (bequest of George Fox), call numbers on endpapers, title-page and one other rubber-stamped, no other markings. Pages lightly cockled but clean. (28182)
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Gros, John Daniel. Natural principles of rectitude, for the conduct of man in all states and situations of life; demonstrated and explained in a systematic treatise on moral philosophy. New York: T. & J. Swords, 1795. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). xvi, 456 pp. (lacking half-title).
$495.00
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First edition. Born in Germany, Gros was a pastor and professor of both German and moral phlosophy at Columbia University. This work is the text version of a course he taught there, and is the “first treatise on Moral Philosophy written and published in America,” according to Sabin.
ESTC W28659; Evans 28775; Sabin 28933. 19th-century quarter sheep in imitation of morocco, rubbed and worn; covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution, spine with paper shelving label. Half-title lacking, title-page and a number of others stamped, back free endpaper with pocket. Pages clean save for stamps. (9536)

Sin & Redemption
Grotius, Hugo. Defensio fidei Catholicae de satisfactione Christi adversus Faustum Socinum senensem. Lugduni Batavorum: Excudit Ioannes Patius, 1617. 4to (22.5 cm; 8.875" ). [4] ff., 183, [1 (blank)] pp.
$850.00
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In this work Grotius deals with the nature of sin and its redemption; in doing so, he critiques the Socinian stand on the matter and avoids totally the arguments “de gratia et praedestinatione.” Specifically addressed here is Faustus Socinus's De Jesu Christi servatore. This is the second edition, printed the same year as the first and by the same printer.
Both the first and this second edition are little held in the U.S.: We trace three copies of the first and three of the second, one of which has been deaccessioned.
Provenance: Three 18th-century ownership inscriptions on title-page: Jehoua Portis, Lib. Richbach, and Joh[ann]is Buys. 19th-century pressure-stamps of a Pennsylvania theological library, deaccessioned.
Full modern calf old style: Spine with raised bands, accented with gilt beading and blind rules, rules extending onto boards to Vs and ending with trefoils; blind double fillets beyond. Gilt center device in each spine compartment and a green title label lettered in gilt. Waterstaining in inner margins, extending into text on pp. 136–61; otherwise, expectable age-toning only. All edges red. (25847)
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Protestant Apologetics
Grotius, Hugo. De veritate religionis christianae. Lugduni Batavorum: Ioannis Maire, 1640. 12mo (12.7 cm, 5"). [8], 33–27, [7], 372 pp.
$675.00
“Editio nova, additis annotationibus, in quibus testimonia”: Early edition of Grotius's defense of Christianity. The first Protestant textbook of apologetics, this work was first published in Dutch verse in 1622 and then in a revised Latin prose rendition in 1627.
This ed. not in Brunet. Contemporary vellum, spine with early inked title; vellum showing minor spots of discoloration and spine with call number. Front pastedown and bottom page edges with institutional rubber-stamp; back pastedown with stamp of a 19th-century Dutch bookseller; front fly-leaf with early inked annotation. First dedication leaf with inked numeral in lower margin; some instances of early inked underlining and marginalia, confined to early part of volume. First few leaves with light waterstaining to outer portions. First part skips pp. 1/2 (between preface and first text page), with this collation matching that reported online. (19564)

Famous Epistolary
Grotius, Hugo. Epistolae quotquot reperiri potuerunt; in quibus praeter hactenus editas, plurimae theologici, iuridici, philologici, historici, & politici argumenti occurrunt. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Ex typographia
P. & I. Blaeu ... apud Wolfgang, Waasberge, Boom, à Someren & Goethals, 1687. Folio (37.5 cm, 14.76"). [4] ff., 977, [2] pp.
$1600.00
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First complete edition of Grotius's correspondence, comprising 2,510 letters written by the Dutch philosopher between April 1599 and July 1645 to an international milieu of famous correspondents, including the Swedish statesman Axel Oxenstierna, the Dutch theologian Gerardus Joannes Vossius, and the German politician Ludwig Camerarius.
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online), “Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) [Hugo, Huigh or Hugeianus de Groot] was a towering figure in philosophy, political theory, law and associated fields during the seventeenth century and for hundreds of years afterwards. His work ranged over a wide array of topics, though he is best known to philosophers today for his contributions to the natural law theories of normativity which emerged in the later medieval and early modern periods.”
The text is printed in Latin, double-column, with a handful of large woodcut initials, a few tail ornaments, and one letterpress diagram. The title-page, printed in red and black, features Blaeu's large device of an astrolabe flanked by Time and Hercules. An index on the final two pages lists Grotius's correspondents and the corresponding letters, which are arranged chronologically in the text.
Meulen, Grotius, 1210; Brunet, II, 1766; Graesse, III, 163. Contemporary northern-European style vellum over boards ruled in blind, panels with blind-stamped central cartouches, spine with seven raised bands and remnants of later paper labels, red speckled edges; vellum soiled and lightly rubbed at extremities with corners bumped. Ex-library with bookplate on front pastedown and later library marking in pen on second leaf; light foxing, a light waterstain across the lower outer corner of perhaps a dozen leaves, and scattered darker stains, with a few leaves browned; small tear in outer margin of title-leaf and another margin, small hole from natural flaw in outer margin of one leaf and small bit of paper torn away from lower corner of another. Very mild worming in middle of two leaves and final leaf, the latter repaired; additional very minor, “slim” worming mostly to margins at rear.
A solid, handsome important book. (30293)
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Grotius on THE LAW of War & of the Sea,
& on Natural Law
Grotius, Hugo. Hugonis Grotii De jure belli ac pacis libri tres, in quibus jus naturae & gentium, item juris publici praecipua explicantur. Cum annotatis auctoris, ejusdemque dissertatione de Mari libero, ac Libello singulari de aequitate, indulgentia, & facilitate, nec non Joann. Frid. Gronovii v.c. notis in totum opus De jure belli ac pacis. Amstelaedami: Apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1720. 8vo (20 cm; 8"). Frontis., engr. title-page, [13] ff., xxxv, [1] pp., [2] ff., 483, [1] pp., [1] f., [483!]–936 pp.; 43, [1] pp., [42] ff.
$550.00
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Groundwork for Grotius’ De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace) was laid in the 16th century by Spanish theologians Francisco de Vitoria, Francisco Suarez, Bartolomé de las Casas, and Ginés de Sepulveda as they struggled with the legitimacy of making war on the Indians of the New World.
Grotius saw his book published for the first time in 1625 at Paris: It studies the legality of war and immediately established itself as a foundational work on the topic. Modern scholars regard it as
foundational in international law.
This edition contains added scholarship from Joannes Fredericus Gronovius (1611–71) and Jean Barbeyrac (1674–1744). In addition to De jure belli ac pacis the reader will find two other important Grotius tracts at the rear of the volume: Mare liberum and Libellus singularis de aequitate, indulgentia et facilitate, meaning the volume treats not just of law of war, but natural law, international law, maritime law, and law of the sea.
There are two issues of this edition, the other having “Ex Officina Wetsteniana” on the title-page in place of “Apud Janssonio-Waesbergio.” In both editions the title-page is printed in black and red, and of course, they have the same pagination. The work has side- and shouldernotes, an engraved portrait of Grotius, and an added engraved title-page.
Meulen & Diermanse (1950 ed), Grotius, 602. Modern quarter claret-colored morocco with gilt-accented raised bands; gilt center device in each spine compartment. Marbled paper sides. Library pressure-stamps on title-page, no other markings; light age-toning and occasional spotting or foxing. A very nice copy with all edges decorated — more than “speckled,” not quite “marbled,” definitely attractive. (26526)
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Fate & Fatalism
Grotius, Hugo. Philosophorum sententiae de fato, et de eo quod in nostra est potestate. Amsterodami: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1648. 12mo (12.7 cm; 5"). [4] ff., 384 pp.
$450.00
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Fate and fatalism is the topic explored here. Grotius has essentially collected extended passages from early Christian philosophers including some who wrote in Greek, and in such latter cases he provides translations. Also included is a section taken from Maimonides' Guide for the Perplexed.
The work was originally published in same year at Paris by J. Camusat: This and that edition were published posthumously, Grotius having died in 1645. The dedication is signed by Grotius' widow, Maria van Reigersberch. The text is in Latin.
Handsomely printed in roman with the title-page in red and black, some four-line woodcut initials, and some tailpieces, this bears the Elzevir printer's device Rahir M.17, but the book was actually printed by Joan Blaeu.
Provenance: 18th-century armorial bookplate of Johann Georg Burckhard (1684–1764) and 20th-century bookplate of Dr. A. Hollander; ownership signature on title-page of L. Kulenkamp (1767) and 19th-century signature on front free endpaper of Dr. Cajetan Felaer; later in the collection of Frank Marshall Vanderhoof (American scholar, university librarian, private collector; 1919–2005).
Copinger, Elzevier, 2000; Willems 1065; Rahir 1074; STCN 852310625. Contemporary vellum over boards. Spine lettered in black ink with author and title (probably late 19th century). Very good. (35680)
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“The Reasonableness of
Believing & Embracing the Christian Religion”
Grotius, Hugo. The truth of the Christian religion. London: J.F. & C. Rivington, R. Horsefield, B. Law, et al., 1777. 8vo (21.7 cm, 8.5"). [32], 352 pp.
$150.00
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Grotius's defense of Christianity: the first Protestant textbook of apologetics, first published in Dutch verse in 1622, here edited by Jean Le Clerc and translated into English prose by John Clarke, dean of Salisbury. This is the eighth edition thus, following the first of 1711.
ESTC N14190. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, board edges with gilt roll; joints cracked (sewing holding), extremities rubbed/chipped. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on paper label to spine and endpaper, no other markings. Early inked ownership inscription on title-page. Title-page and last leaf with offsetting from turn-ins, otherwise occasional light foxing only. (28342)
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“Whatever You Do, Junior, Don't Blow Up the House”
Grotz, Christopher. The art of making fireworks, detonating balls, &c. New York: Printed & published by S[olomon] King, 386 Broadway, 1822. 12mo (18 cm, 7"). 26 pp.
$2875.00
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Uncommon edition of a work teaching children how to blow themselves up. The extended title lays out in detail the mayhem the purchaser of this book could perpetrate, as “containing plain and easy directions for mixing and preparing the ingredients, and making and finishing the most simple devices in this ingenious art: together with how to make and fill air and fire balloons; and how to prepare and make detonating balls, spiders, segars, boots and shoes, Waterloo crackers, &c.”
The first American appearance in 1821 came from the same publisher as this second American edition, but was printed by W. Grattan. That printing had a colored frontispiece not found here and not called for by Shoemaker, nor by the cataloguing for the copy recorded in NUC Pre-1956.
This edition is not listed in WorldCat and the copy noted in Shoemaker & NUC (at Harvard) is not found via its OPAC. Of the 1821 edition we locate only five copies (Yale, Free Library of Philadelphia, U.S. Patent Office, Essex Institute, and the American Antiquarian Society).
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Shoemaker 8903; Rink, Technical Americana, 3185 (erroneously calling for a plate and erroneously locating a copy at the Free Library of Philadelphia). Late 20th-century quarter red morocco with green stone-pattern paper sides. Small area of lower outside corner of title-leaf torn away and nicely repaired. Pages gently age-toned, with spots of mild to moderate soil, staining, and foxing. (38527)
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A DUTCH Artist's Book
Made & Printed in NEW YORK
Grunberg, Arnon. Verzamelde visite kaartjes. New York: Kunst Editions, 1998. 12mo (18.5 cm; 7.5"). 2 loose leaves (half-title, title) and three booklets).
$400.00
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Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg (b. 1971) is a Dutch writer, investigative reporter, radio and television personality, and occasional artist, as specifically exemplified by this artist book. It was printed in only 16 copies, 15 of which are signed by Grunberg and were for sale.
The work consists of three booklets with small, business-sized cards pasted one or two to a page, printed on paper or wood, with different designs, different messages, and different imagery; all are facetious, e.g., Grunberg, Magician for Children; Grunberg, Owner of Whore C.; Grunberg, Owner of Grunberg Catering; etc.
Searches of WorldCat, COPAC, and KVK locate
only one copy worldwide (in the National Library of the Netherlands).
Original red clamshell box with spine label in silver metal holder; author, title, and imprint date on handmade paper adhered to front board. All contents in very good condition. (34731)
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Early Study of Tuscan Literature from the
Giunta Press
Gualteruzzi, Carlo; Vincenzo Borghini, ed. Libro di novelle, et di bel parlar gentile. Nel qual si contengono cento nouelle altrauolta mandate fuori da Messer Carlo Gualteruzzi da Fano ... Con aggiunta di quattro altre nel fine. Et con una dichiaratione d'alcune delle voci piu antiche. In Fiorenza: Nella Stamparia dei Giunti, 1572. 4to (22.5 cm, 8.875"). [28], 153 (i.e., 165; 79–88 repeated), [3] pp.
$2250.00
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Neatly printed collection of French-, Provençal-, and Italian-inspired stories primarily edited by Carlo Gualteruzzi, with four other stories edited by Vincenzo Borghini and an introduction for “alli studiosi della lingua Toscana” by Filippo and Jacopo Giunti. Considered by Dionisotti to be the first critical edition of an ancient text of Tuscan prose, this “nuovo ricorrette” edition comes after the first of 1525. Brunet notes of this edition that “l'auteur a réformé l'orthographe de celle de 1525,” and Gamba points out the two have varying content — that this printing features
four new tales not found in the first edition. Boccaccio is believed to have borrowed the “Three Rings” story for his Decameron.
The text is printed in single columns of roman and italic font with initials of varying decorative quality and size, some historiated, with different Giunta devices present on the title- and final pages.
Binding: Rich green morocco, spine stamped and lettered in gilt with compartmental fleurons, covers framed and panelled in blind double fillets with gilt decorative corner stamps, board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins with decorative gilt rolls, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Signed binding by Capé, name camouflaged in lower front turn-in.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT 16 CNCE 47120; Adams G1358; Gamba, Serie dei testi di lingua e di altre opere importanti nella italiana letteratura scritte dal secolo XIV al XIX (4th ed.), 687; Brunet, I, 1737. Bound as above, moderately rubbed especially corners and spine. Light pencilling on endpapers and one blue crayon mark over a numbered stamp with another stamp at back; provenance as above, old oval rubber-stamp (imperfect) on two leaves of text. Two small marginal paper flaws; leaves with a few instances of light marginal waterstaining or the occasional spot and light age-toning generally.
An elegant production, an attractive volume. (37997)
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“Habrá Paz Perpetua y Perfecta y Amistad Sincera e Invariable”
Guatemala. Treaties. [drop-title] Tratado de amistad, comercio y navegación entre la República de Guatemala y las ciudades libres de Lubeck, Bremen y Hamburgo. [Guatemala: No publisher/printer, 1850]. Folio (33 cm.; 13"). 12 pp.
$875.00
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The text of this treaty is printed in parallel Spanish and
German. At the top of the first page it reads: “Rafael Carrera, Presidente de la República de Guatemala, por cuanto entre la República de Guatemala y las ciudades libres anseáticas de Lubeck, Bremen y Hamburgo, se ha concluido y firmado en esta ciudad el dia veinticinco de junio del corriente año . . . un tratado de amistad, comercio y navegacion. . . .” It is dated in the text at the end 7 June 1850.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, CICLA, and Metabase locate only two copies, both in the U.S. However, we do know of a third copy at Tulane.
Not in Valenzuela. Folded and stitched as issued; minor chipping in lower margins. Scattered faint foxing. A very good copy. (31053)
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The ART of NEW WORLD Engraving & Printing in
GUATEMALA, 1794 through 1823

(Guatemalan Job Printing Ephemera COLONIAL ART ON PAPER). A collection of 61 broadsides, chiefly announcements of degree defenses. Guatemala: Various publishers, 1794–1823. Folio (see below). [61] ff.
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This is a great and eye-pleasing assemblage for the study of Guatemalan Colonial and (in a few cases) earlyIndependence Era art, specifically of engraving, etching, and typography. Announcements of university degree defenses are a
rare printing genre; for example, none of the 61 items in this collection are held in the John Carter Brown Library. Additionally, only 16 were discovered by Medina.
Of the 61 items, 37 are in the smaller folio format (appx. 29.5 x 20 cm; 11.75" x 8.875") and 24 in the larger folio format (42 x 30.5 cm; 16.5" x 12").
Each broadside has an engraving or etching in the top area: The very attractive images include saints and Madonnas, including three instances of the Virgin of Guadalupe, but also coats of arms and, very interestingly, portraits of living individuals. The typography is always center-justified above a final paragraph or two that is right justified; and the printers have used a variety of ornaments to create interesting borders.
There is one case of an image being used twice: once on a small format broadside and also on a large one. The etched text has been eliminated on one of these; and when one looks carefully at the other images it is clear that engraved text has been masked or removed from some of them also — further evidence of recycling as having been a printshop practice.
Remarkably, one of the broadsides is bilingual (Latin & Spanish) and is a publication
not of a university defense but a publication of that Enlightenment development, the social organization “La Sociedad Economica,” in this case La Sociedad Economica de Guatemala. It announces that it has been reborn, and will not let the authorities “suffocate” it. Another is a
eulogy for a retired university professor.
Among the defense announcements, some give the actual questions/topics that will be asked/defended. The date range of the items is 1794 to 1823 and
the engravers include Juan Jose Rosales de Santa Cruz, Narcisco Rosal, Juan Pedro Larrabe, Garci-Aguirre, Francisco Cabrera, Valladolid, and Jose Casildo Espana. Notably one production is by the Mexican engraver Villavicencio.
Finally, the printers are the usual admirable suspects: Bracamonte, Beteta, and Arevalo.
It is interesting to see them represented by such UNusual ephemera!
Medina, Guatemala, 761; 814; 852; 1523; 1525; 1557; 1577; 1580; 1596; 1613, 1626; 1758 1898; 1806; 1918; 2138. All items are in very good condition, in Mylar sleeves, the entire collection in a quarter morocco clamshell case. (33845)
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The Life of the Courtier —
Guevara, in Italian
Guevara, Antonio de; Vincenzo Bondi, trans. Aviso de favoriti, e dottrina de cortegiani, opera non meno vtile, che diletteuole. In Venetia: Per Comin da Trino di Monferrato, 1562. 8vo (15.6 cm, 6.1"). 205 (i.e., 207), [1] ff.
$750.00
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Fray Antonio de Guevara (ca. 1481–1545) was a historian, bishop, court historiographer of Charles V, and acclaimed Golden Age literary figure. This volume presents an early Italian translation of his Aviso de prevados y doctrina de cortesanos — in which Guevara lays out the duties of courtiers (specifically, of the secular rather than religious members of a royal entourage) — along with
the first Italian translation of the author's Menosprecio de corte, a popular, critical satire on courtly life. This printing is not common in the U.S., with WorldCat locating only six reported institutional holdings (Columbia, UCLA, UMichigan, UIllinois, Harvard, UWisconsin-Milwaukee, Huntington).
Provenance: Title-page with traces of partially effaced early institutional armorial rubber-stamp; later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT16 CNCE 22234; Palau 110317; USTC 835287. Not in Adams. Contemporary limp vellum, evidence of ties now gone; spine with some sections chipped away, remnants of blue and white printed label, and inked title; binding stained, rubbed, and worm tracked with title-page, last two leaves of text, and endpapers also tracked. Interior overall rather nice with age-toning, intermittent foxing or faint marginal waterstaining, and a few leaves creased along corners. Otherwise a few flawed leaves, probably from paper manufacture, and pagination erratic; provenance indicia as above, front free endpaper with early
inked annotation in Italian, and one marginal accent in ink Sound, despite noted binding flaws, and an interesting work. (39705)
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“The Queen Is Not . . . Any Way Concerned in the Murder of the King”
Guilford, Francis North. The examination of Captain William Bedlow, deceased, relating to the Popish Plot. London: Printed by the assigns of John Bill, Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills , 1680. Folio (28.5 cm; 11.25"). 16 pp.
$225.00
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The testimony from Bedlow's examination was “taken in his last sickness, by Sir Francis North, Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas.” Also included here are “the narrative of Sir Francis North, at the council board, and the letter of Sir Francis North to Mr. Secretary Jenkins, relating to this examination.”
Wing (rev. ed) E3714 & G2215; ESTC R519; McAlpin, IV, p. 15. Removed from a nonce volume. Very good condition. (32254)
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You Had Certain Rights . . .
Guzman, Alonso de (a.k.a., Guzman Genze, Alonso de). Tractatus de evictionibus ... Omnibus quidem juri operam damtibus, tam in theorica, quam in praxi perutilis, et non minus judicibus, quàm advocatis valdè neccesarius. In quo non tatum quaestionum practicarum in jure civili, & canonico repertarum resolutiones spectantes, sed etiam omnem huius curiae cernere licet. Matriti: apud viduam Ildephonsi Martin, expensis Dominici Goncalez, 1629. Folio (27 cm; 10.5"). [4], 310, [32] ff.
$900.00
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First edition of Guzman's several-times reprinted work on warranty in Roman and canon law.
WorldCat locates no copies of this edition in the U.S.; NUC Pre-1956 (under Guzman Genzer) finds three copies in the U.S.; the Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico locates no copies in Spain, but the OPAC of the BNE finds a single copy in its holdings.
Palau 111738. 20th-century binding using an 18th-century vellum leaf over paste boards. Old ownership inscriptions on title-page inked out long ago; occasionally, a
marginal note. Some age-toning, some gatherings browned (impurities in water during paper manufacture), glue stain in some inner margins; light waterstaining in a good many parts and other stray stains, yet in all a very decent copy of a rare edition. (29083)
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