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Arguing That
No Good Will Come of This
Jabineau, Henri. Replique au développement de M.
Camus sur la constitution civile du clergé. [Paris: 1790?]. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). [2], 38 pp.
$125.00
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First edition of this strongly worded rebuttal of Armand-Gaston Camus's 1790
pamphlet on the execution of laws relating to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy — of which
Camus was one of the most vociferous defenders. The author was a lawyer and Jansenist abbé.
Martin & Walter, II, 17050. Removed from a nonce volume.
Half-title with paper shelving label in lower inner corner and pencilled monogram in upper outer
corner. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean.
(30873)
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Jackson, Andrew (President, 1829–1837). [drop-title] Treaty between the United States and the Emperor of Russia. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting copies of a treaty of navigation and commerce between the United States and his Majesty the Emperor of all the Russias. May 14, 1834. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs. [Washington]: Gales & Seaton, printers, 1834. 8vo (22.7 cm, 8.9"). 10 pp.
$450.00
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Uncommon. Contains Jackson’s transmittal letter and a copy of the treaty (printed in double columns), concluded at St. Petersburg on 6/18 December 1832, and the ratifications which were exchanged in the city on 11 May 1833. The text is provided in English and French.
This is the first printing of the first treaty of commerce and navigation between the United States and Russia; the only prior convention between the two nations was the convention of 1824 concerning the Pacific Northwest. This treaty establishes and confirms reciprocal trade, and commercial and navigation rights to vessels of both countries, and also applies the same rights to the
kingdom of Poland.
Government document: 23d Congress, 1st Session. Doc. No. 415. Ho. of Reps. Executive.
Recent paper wrappers. Title-page with inked numeral in upper margin. Light spotting. (12529)
Jacob, P.L. Les perles. Pièces d'écrin artistique et littéraire. Paris: Veuve Jules Renouard, 1867. Folio (35 cm, 13.75"). Add. engr. t.-p., [2], 81, [1] pp.; 22 plts.
$600.00
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Scarce, and
undescribed in any major database. Edited and contributed to by the prolific French author Paul Lacroix, best known as “Bibliophile Jacob,” this lovely collection of short stories, poems, and meditations by Lacroix, Balzac, Émile Délerot, Charles Nodier, et al. is illustrated with
22 large steel engravings done by J.C. Armytage, W. Greatbach, J.B. Allen, J.T. Willmore, F. Joubert, and others after designs by artists including Turner, Webster, etc.
Contemporary quarter morocco over paper-covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding lightly rubbed over sides and extremities. Front pastedown with small armorial bookplate. Front free endpaper and first few leaves separated. Occasional faint pencilled vocabulary annotations, in English. Scattered light spots of foxing, with most plates clean and untouched, a few showing some spotting in margins.

A QUITE
Luxurious & Useful Production
Jacquemart, Albert. Histoire de la céramique. Paris: Librairie Hachette, 1873. 4to (26.5 cm, 10.43"). [2] ff., 750, [2] pp. 12 pls.
$425.00
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Canvassing ancient Egypt to the Italian Renaissance and modern times, this monograph on ceramic art distinguishes classes and styles of pottery, is illustrated with
200 wood-engraved figures by Hercule Catenacci and Jules Jacquemart, bears
12 full-page engraved plates by the latter, and tells how to identify many works' makers, cataloguing
1,000 marks and monograms. Each full-page plate is protected by a guard sheet with a brief letterpress description.
Jules Jacquemart (1837–80) was but in his mid-twenties when he began drawing from the renowned art collection of his father, Albert, an art historian. The Jacquemarts' first book on the subject was the Histoire de la porcelaine, followed shortly by this, its companion, in 1873, when Jules was “at work again on his own best work of etching.” He also made the etchings for Techener's Histoire de la bibliophilie (1860–64) and, in 1864, received an important commission from the French crown for Gemmes et joyaux de la couronne (1865).
The monograph's original
color-painted beaux-arts wrappers are bound in at the front and back here, including the spine in front (rubbed and faded, hinting at original splendor). The title-page is printed in red and black. An extensive index appears at the end.
Binding: Three-quarter evergreen morocco bordered with gilt fillets over bubble gum and mint marbled paper boards; spine with raised bands, gilt-framed compartments containing author, title, date, and appropriate devices in gilt; endpapers matching marbled boards and top edge gilt.
For J. Jacquemart, see: The Nineteenth Century, Vol. IX, pp. 681–90. Leather lightly scuffed at extremities and sunned to a woody green on spine and upper front cover; offsetting from turn-ins onto endpapers. Mild to (occasionally) moderate foxing throughout and old water damage on a few leaves only. (30132)
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Bernard & Gordon & Angela
James, Henry. Confidence. Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co., 1880. 12mo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). [2], [5]–347, [1] pp.
$400.00
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First U.S. edition, in BAL's binding state 1 (with “Houghton, Osgood & Co.” on spine). Although modern criticism considers this novel one of James's more lightweight works, it was quite popular at the time of its publication, and the author chose to include it in the first collection of his works.
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BAL 10549; Edel & Laurence, Bibliography of Henry James (3rd. ed.), A11b; Wright, III, 2913. Publisher's terra-cotta cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; extremities rubbed and cloth with areas of discoloration. Ex–social club library: call number on endpaper, rubber-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Pages with scattered light stains, still a very nice copy. (26637)
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Economic Development through
Better Roads — CUBA, 1795
Jáuregui, Juan Tomás de. Memoria sobre proporcionar arbitrios para la construcción de caminos en esta jurisdicción. En La Havana: en la imprenta de Estevan Bolona, 1795. 4to (25 cm; 10"). 12 pp.
$4850.00
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Jáuregui (d. 1809) was the “primer consul del Real Tribunal del Consulado” in Cuba, and it was the Consulado's “Junta de Gobierno” that ordered this report published — although his was the minority report. At the crown's urging, such Consulados had been created throughout the Empire to aim at economic development and commercial improvement of the various regions of the New World under Spanish control, in good Enlightenment fashion.
Public works and land use are traditionally fraught with concern and intransigence on the part of the various parties involved, and in the Cuban case at hand, this was certainly so; the Junta had appointed a four-member committee “para meditar los arbitrios que conceptuasen mas oportunos y menos gravosos para la formacin de caminos” (“to decide the tax rates that will be least burdensome but still will bring about the most timely creation of [good] roads”). Jáuregui's opinion was clearly and concisely expressed and shows a progressive tax structure differentiating
users of the roads and the wear each category was most likely to create.
Handsomely printed on extremely good quality paper.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, CCPB, and the OPACs of the national libraries of Mexico and Spain locate only three copies: two in the U.S. and one in Chile. One of the U.S. copies is incomplete. How many copies may be in Cuban libraries is unknown.
Sabin 35823; Trelles, Bibliografía cubana de los siglos XVII y XVIII (2nd ed.), 166; Medina, Habana, 130. A fine copy in original plain wrappers. Housed in a quarter dark red morocco clamshell case. (34735)
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Up the THAMES in a Rowboat
Jerome, Jerome K. Three men in a boat
to say nothing of the dog! Ipswich: Pr. by W.S. Cowell Ltd. for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1975. Oblong 8vo (23.6 cm, 9.3"). xv, [1], 174, [2] pp.; 12 col. plts., 2 double-p. col. plts.
$60.00
Limited Editions Club rendition of this classic work of English humor, in which George, Harris, and Jerome (all “seasoned hypochondriacs,” as the newsletter puts it) take Montmorency the dog along with them for a boating trip up the Thames that turns out rather more complicated than expected.
Stella Gibbons (a great choice) provided the introduction, and John Griffiths produced the
12 full-page and two double-spread color plates, as well as numerous black-and-white ink drawings. John Lewis set the horizontally formatted work (so done “because so few rivers in England are perpendicular”) in Modern Extended and ultra-bold Bodoni type; it was printed by W.S. Cowell Ltd. on Abbey Mills cream-colored eggshell paper, and snazzily bound in gaily striped scarlet, slate, and yellow linen.
This is numbered copy 733 of 2000 printed; it is
signed by the artist at the colophon. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 487. Bound as above, with ochre linen shelfback and gilt-stamped title, in yellow papercovered slipcase with gilt-stamped title; slipcase with inch-long ding to one edge and otherwise but a few small scuffs and light shelfwear to edges; volume just reached by the blow and cover just showing that — otherwise (blessedly) clean and fresh. (36861)
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One of the
First Two Books Printed at ETON
John, Mauropus, Metropolitan of Euchaita (active 11th century). Joannis Metropolitani Euchaitensis versus iambici in principalium festorum pictas in tabulis historias atq[ue] alia varia compositi. Etonae: In Collegio Regali, excudebat [M. Bradwood for] Ioannes Norton, in Gr[a]ecis, &c. regius typographus, 1610. 4to (22.8 cm; 9"). [4] ff., 73, [1] pp., [4] ff.
$3500.00
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One of the first two books printed at Eton, both in Greek and both printed in 1610. The Byzantine poetry here is from the pen of John, Mauropus, an 11th-century teacher, hymnographer, orator, Byzantine Greek poet, and correspondent of scholars.
This, the editio princeps, was edited by and has the notes of Matthew Bust (1543 or 1544–1613), Fellow of Eton College and father of his namesake who was Master of Eton (1611–30). The prefatory matter and notes are printed in Latin in italics and the main text is in a large greek face; the actual printer's name is from STC.
Searches of STC, WorldCat, and ESTC locate many copies in Britain and even Europe, but only five in U.S. libraries.
Provenance: 18th-century ownership inscription at top of title-page: “Petri Bonifantii.” Most recently in the collection of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
An amazing early English schoolbook!
STC (rev.) 14622; ESTC S103427. 20th-century quarter red morocco with red cloth sides. Light age-toning and some stray ink spots. In fact, very good. (37309)
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A “Golden-Mouthed” Aldine
John Chrysostom, Saint; Giulio Poggiani, trans. Sancti Joannis Chrysostomi De virginitate liber, a Julio Pogiano conversus. Romae: Apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi F., 1562. 4to (21.8 cm, 8.625"). [8], 64 ff.
$2250.00
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First Aldine edition: Chrysostom's meditations on the religious aspects of virginity, De Virginitate liber, along with a letter from Poggiani to Cardinal Bishop of Augsburg Otto Truchsess von Waldburg and a note to the reader. Essentially an extension of the papacy, the Roman Aldine press capitalized on its fame to disseminate — with great cachet — Vatican-approved texts in the publication war that was such an integral part of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
John Chrysostom (349–407) was one of the four doctors of the Greek Church and the foremost preacher among the Church Fathers, the name “Chrysostom” meaning “golden-mouthed.” The subject of some controversy, he fell afoul of the Empress Eudoxia and was exiled. Italian humanist and Greek scholar Poggiani (1522–68), secretary to Carlo Borromeo, led a much calmer life editing texts related to the Council of Trent, and even translated into Latin a catechism organized by the council.
The text is neatly printed in roman in single-column format with capital spaces with guide letters (unaccomplished) and marginal notes; the title-page contains the iconic Aldine device.
Provenance: Early ink signature “Alexii Feni” on title-page; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear of both the text and its clamshell housing.
Adams C1559; UCLA, Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection (2001), 674; EDIT 16 CNCE 27775; Renouard, Alde, p. 186, 5; Goldsmid, Aldine Press at Venice, *546. On John Chrysostom, see: New Catholic Encyclopedia, VII, 1041–44. 16th-century limp vellum with title label on spine and evidence of ties; vellum wrinkled and stained, significant portions lacking on spine, edges of endpapers tattered with some paper loss and text block recently reattached. Housed in a maroon cloth clamshell with black leather labels. Light to moderate age-toning and staining with the occasional spot, several leaves with waterstaining to bottom corner or small marginal worm tracking; a handful of creased corners, a few examples of hurried paper manufacture, chipping to edges of first and last few leaves of text including title-page. Provenance marks as above, one early inked correction to a marginal note. (38092)
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Model Moral “LIVES” for
“Little Masters & Misses”
[Johnson, Richard]. The juvenile biographer; containing the lives of little masters and misses, including a variety of good and bad characters. Worcester: Printed by Isaiah Thomas, & sold at his book store, sold also by E. Battelle, Boston, 1787. 16mo (9.5 cm, 3.75"). Frontis.[ii], t-p.[iii], [iv], v–viii, [9], 10–119, [120 (blank)], [121–24 (adv.)], [2 (blank)] pp. (lacks initial blank f.); illus.
[SOLD]
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First American edition. In addition to the fictitious biographies (e.g., Miss Betsey Allgood, Master Billy Bad-enough, Miss Nancy Careful, Master Billy Bashful) written to teach morals and conduct, this work contains “Some account of the little author, written by himself” and a portrait of that same “author” on front pastedown. In the text are
20 woodcuts, as well as tailpieces and ornamental rules.
M.J.P. Weedon is the source for the attribution of authorship to Johnson (“Richard Johnson and the successors to John Newbery,” The Library, 5th series, 4 (1949): 49). Interestingly, Welch says that copies in the binding noted below are “part of a large publisher’s remainder.”
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
ESTC W18139; Evans 20440; Welch 680.1; Rosenbach, Children's, 119; Hamilton, American Book Illustrators, 114. In pasteboards covered with “Dutch” gilt paper; housed in a corset within an open-back full red calf slipcase
A remarkably crisp and clean copy. (38528)
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On the Dethroning of
James II
Johnson, Samuel. An argument proving, that the abrogation of King James by the people of England from the regal throne, and the promotion of the Prince of Orange, one of the royal family, to the throne of the kingdom in his stead, was according to the constitution of the English government, and prescribed by it. London: Printed for the author, 1692. Small 4to (20 cm; 8"). 62 pp., [1] f.
$350.00
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Author Johnson (1649–1703) was a clergyman and pamphleteer who spent time in prison ostensibly for having written his very popular Julian the Apostate, but really because his patron, Lord Russell, was executed as a conspirator in the Rye House matter thus painting him with the same brush — and because he could not pay a fine of 500 marks.“In 1692 Johnson published what he hoped would be recognized as the quintessential interpretation of the events of 1688. His pamphlet, An argument proving that the abrogation of King James by the people of England . . . was according to the constitution of the English government, went into five editions in 1693 alone, and was translated into Dutch. Even Johnson's enemies recognized that this latest ‘pamphlet of renown has fill'd every tongue in town'” (Canonical Statesman's Grand Argument Discussed, 3, quoted in the ODNB).
This is a copy of the issue with the one-line imprint and the correct pagination. The last leaf is a “catalogue” of the author's books.
ESTC R226875; Wing (rev. ed.) J821. Modern marbled pape–covered boards. Text browned and foxed, as with most copies seen; paper yet strong and good. A very decent copy. (33471)
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“The Last Augustan” According to
T.S.E.
Johnson, Samuel. London: a poem and The vanity of human wishes ... with an introductory essay by T.S. Eliot. London: Frederick Etchells & Hugh MacDonald, 1930. Folio (35.2 cm, 13.8"). 44, [2] pp.
$200.00
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Limited edition: Johnson's enduring verse satires, here with an interesting foreword by Eliot. The volume was printed at the Chiswick Press as part of the Haslewood Books series.
This is
numbered copy 262 of 450 printed.
Olive cloth–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; spine and board edges sunned, extremities slightly rubbed, lower front board edge with small dent. Front pastedown with bookplate of one of Harvard's undergraduate houses (with small deaccession stamp); title-page with pressure-stamp from the same house, with deaccession stamp on the reverse. Pages gently age-toned. Clean. (33613)
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Grouse Shooting, Percussion Powder, Pointers
Johnson, Thomas Burgeland; Charles Towne, illus. The shooter's companion. London: Printed by Johnson for Edwards & Knibb and W. Grapel, 1819. 12mo (19.6 cm, 7.75"). XII, [1], 14–156 pp.; 3 plts.
$325.00
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Johnson, an avid hunter and specialist on field sports who originally began his career as a printer in Liverpool, first published his Shooter's Guide in 1809 under the pseudonym of B. Thomas, followed by The Complete Sportsman in 1817 (as “T. H. Needham”) and finally the Shooter's Companion. The Dictionary of National Biography notes that this work “celebrates the patent wire cartridge” and “drew on [Johnson's] experience in breeding pointers 'equal, if not superior, to any in the world' . . . Johnson excelled at the art of shooting over dogs”; but also notes that it avoids much detail on the newer styles of fast riding and battue shooting.
The title-page summarizes this comprehensive work as “Directions for the Breeding, Training, and Management of Setters and Pointers, with an Historical Description of Winged Game. The Fowling Piece considered, particularly as it relates to the Use of Percussion Powder. The various Methods of making Percussion Powder, and the best pointed out. Of Scent: the Olfactory Organs anatomically explained; with the Reason why one Dog's Sense of Smell is superior to another's. Shooting illustrated; and the Art of Shooting Flying simplified and clearly laid down. The
Game Laws familiarly explained, and illustrated by various Cases. As well as every Information connected with the Use of the Fowling Piece.”
This
first edition is illustrated with three copper-etchings of a gentleman and his two dogs in the various stages of the hunt, all done by respected landscape and animal painter Charles Towne (born Town).
Schwerdt, I, 269. On Johnson, see DNB (online). Original drab boards, rebacked with appropriate quarter paper and with new printed paper spine label; boards rubbed, illegible ownership signature on front board, new pastedowns. Edges untrimmed, light age-toning with the very occasional spot or stain, dust-soiling along some edges; plates lightly to moderately foxed with expectable offsetting to surrounding pages. (38629)
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The Irish Rebellion Interpreted for the English Audience
[Jones, Henry]. A perfect relation of the beginning and continuation of the Irish–Rebellion, from May last, to this present 12th. of January, 1641. With the place where, and persons who, did plot, contrive, and put in execution that Romish damnable designe. London: Pr. by J. R., 1641 [i.e., 1642]. 4to (19 cm, 7.5"). 8 [i.e., 16] pp.
$875.00
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This early account of the 1641 Irish Rebellion comes from the pen of “Dean Jones of Kilmore,” i.e., Henry Jones, the Bishop of Meath, whose name appears on B4r. As presented here by an English merchant headquartered in Dublin, it ignores the multiple causes of the uprising merely playing on the bugaboo of a Catholic vs. Protestant war with the supposed aim of the former being the extirpation in Ireland of all non-Catholics.
ESTC R9329; Wing (rev. ed.) J942A. Quarter red morocco with French-swirl marbled paper sides and gilt spine lettering; binding signed (with small rubber-stamp on verso of front free endpaper) by the Macdonald Company of New York. Leather of the joints rubbed, soiling to the title-page. Very good condition. (37986)
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The Dispossesseds' Testimony . . .
Abstracted & Published
[Jones, Henry, et al.]. A remonstrance of divers remarkeable passages concerning the church and kingdome of Ireland, recommended by letters from the Right Honourable the Lords Justices, and Counsell of Ireland, and presented by Henry Jones Doctor in Divinity, and agent for the ministers of the Gospel in that kingdom, to the Honourable House of Commons in England. London: Pr. for Godfrey Emerson, & William Bladen, 1642. 4to (19 cm, 7.5"). [4] ff., 82 pp.
$1250.00
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The Irish rebellion of 1641 is nicely explained on the Trinity College Dublin library website: “Traditionally the rebellion was thought to be sufficiently explained as an inevitable response to the plantation in Ulster. Nowadays most scholars see that as an oversimplification and treat the immediate outbreak of rebellion as a response to political developments in all three of the Stuart kingdoms. The deterioration of the condition of Catholics under Lord Deputy Thomas Wentworth’s rule, the success of the Scottish revolt[,] and the breakdown in relations between the king and the English parliament led Catholics in Ireland who retained property and social position to fear that they were in danger of expropriation and persecution if the power of the king were to be significantly limited. In the belief that the king was seeking allies to assist him in defending his prerogative, they entered into a complex conspiracy to seize control of the Irish government on his behalf” (http://1641.tcd.ie/historical-rebellion.php).
The rebellion resulted in thousands of English and Scottish settlers being dispossessed. Those who fled to Dublin for safety were interviewed by crown authorities and their depositions taken, and this publication devotes itself almost entirely to recital of their
detailed, lengthy, often harrowing testimonies as to events, sufferings, and atrocities.
ESTC R202636; Wing (rev. ed.) J943. Quarter red morocco with French-swirl marbled paper sides and gilt spine lettering; binding signed (with small rubber-stamp on verso of front free endpaper) by the Macdonald Company of New York. Leather of joints lightly rubbed in places. Very good condition. (37992)
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America Reads about
the Irish Rebellion of 1798
Jones, John, of Dublin. An impartial narrative of the most important engagements which took place between His Majesty's forces and the insurgents, during the Irish Rebellion, in 1798; including very interesting information not before published. Carefully collected from authentic letters. Cambridge, N.Y.: Printed by Tennery & Stockwell, [1804]. 12mo. (17.5 cm; 7".) 237, [1] pp.
$400.00
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First U.S. edition of this collection of first-person accounts of the United Irishmen's 1798 uprising against British rule, originally published in Dublin in 1799.
The date of printing is based on the fact that the printing firm of Tennery & Stockwell was active at Cambridge, N.Y., in 1804 only.
Provenance: Ownership signature dated 1806 of M.H. Smith and another undated (i.e., Manassah H. Smith, a lawyer in Warren and Portland, Maine); 20th-century bookplate of Francis Massey O'Brien (Portland, Maine), bibliophile and bookseller.
Shaw & Shoemaker 6570. Publisher's acid-stained sheep, abraded; black leather spine label; front joint (outside) starting. Early and late leaves with discoloration in outer margins from migration of leather oils, otherwise typical age-toning and the occasional stain or spot. Generally a very nice copy. (29949)
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Irish Insurgency — American Imprint & Provenance
Jones, John, of Dublin. An impartial narrative of the most important engagements which took place between His Majesty's forces and the insurgents, during the Irish Rebellion, in 1798; including very interesting information not before published. Carefully collected from authentic letters. Second edition, with additions and corrections. South Newberlin, NY: Levi Harris, 1834. 12mo (18.3 cm, 7.2"). Frontis., 227, [1] pp.
$350.00
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Revised U.S. edition of this collection of first-person accounts of the United Irishmen's 1798 uprising against British rule, originally published in Dublin in 1799. The volume begins with a woodcut frontispiece of the Battle of Vinegar Hill. Levi Harris also published an earlier edition in 1833 at South Newbury, N.Y. Where “South Newbury” might have been, we don't know. South New Berlin is an equally obscure place, but still exists west of Cooperstown and east of Syracuse.
Provenance: Inked inscriptions of James Mack of Windham, VT (1784–1860) on front free endpaper and rear fly-leaf. Although both inscriptions are dated 1840, one gives “Col. James Mack” and the other “Major James Mack.”
American Imprints 25154. Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; joints, edges, and extremities rubbed, spine leather darkened and cracked, boards very slightly sprung. Inscriptions as above. Light to moderate age-toning and foxing, more pronounced to frontispiece and title-page. Now housed in a cloth clamshell case with gilt-stamped leather spine label. (25116)
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Defending the Doctrine of the Trinity — in WELSH
Jones, William. Yr athrawiaeth Gatholig o Ddrindod, gwedi ei phrofi trwy ragor nâ chant o resymmau byrr ac eglur, pa rai a draethir yng ngeiriau’r ysgrythur lan, a’i chydmaru mewn dull hollol newydd: ... Gan William Jones, ... Newydd ei gyfiethu o’r chweched argraphiad Saesoneg, i’r Gymraeg, ac mewn rhyw fesur wedi ei dalfyrru, gan J. Williams. Trefecca: Argraphwyd yn y flwyddyn, 1794. 12mo (18.5 cm; 7.25"). 96 pp.
$250.00
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First edition in Welsh of The Catholic doctrine of a Trinity proved by above an hundred short and clear arguments. The true first edition appeared at Oxford in 1756; the author (William Jones, M.A., F.R.S.) was “Rector of Paston, in Northamptonshire, and Minister of Nayland, in Suffolk.” The work is divided into four main sections: 1. The Divinity of Christ. 2. The Divinity of the Holy Ghost. 3. The Plurality of Persons. 4. The Trinity in Unity.
Jones also here delivers “a few Reflections, occasionally interspersed, upon some of the Arian Writers, particularly Dr. S. Clarke: To which is added, A letter to the common people, in Answer to some Popular Arguments against The Trinity” (from the English-language title).
NUC, WorldCat, and ESTC find
only one U.S. library reporting ownership (Harvard).
ESTC T116044. 20th-century quarter tan calf with gray paper sides. Title-page with brown stains and a bit of chipping; the occasional stain or bit of foxing elsewhere and top corners bumped at the end; two leaves holed, one with a small piercing that takes a letter or two and the other with a paper flaw that affects several words. Else a good to very good copy. (37040)
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Early 18th-Century Jonson Collection — At End, a Most
AMBITIOUS Catalogue
Jonson, Ben. [The three celebrated plays of that excellent poet Ben Johnson]. London: Pr. for J. Walthoe, G. Conyers, J. Knapton, et al., 1732. 12mo (16.8 cm, 6.6"). Frontis., 96, 96, 100, 35, [1] pp., without the general title-page.
$800.00
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Volpone, The Alchemist, and Epicoene: Or, the Silent Woman: Three of Jonson's most popular and enduring comedies, happily followed by “A True and Exact Catalogue of All the Plays and Other Dramatick Pieces, That Were Ever Yet Printed in the English Tongue, in Alphabetical Order.” The plays were also issued separately; and while the title-page giving “The Three Celebrated Plays of That Excellent Poet Ben Jonson,” published by W. Feales, is not present here, the presence of
the Volpone plate (engraved by Jan Van der Gucht) and several pagination errata seem to indicate that this is indeed Feales's omnibus edition.
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate (a crowned lion rampant, billetty) labelled “A.C.J.L.”
Binding: Contemporary speckled calf framed and panelled in blind with roll-bordered panel in plain calf, blind-tooled corner fleurons.
ESTC T79993. Binding as above, rebacked some time ago with mottled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt floral decorations in compartments; upper corners refurbished, edges and extremities rubbed, hinges (inside) cracked, volume holding. A copy without the general title-page, and with bookplate as above. First and last few leaves (including frontispiece) with offsetting to margins from pastedowns; back free endpaper with a corner torn away; pages age-toned, with some instances of mild foxing.
A nice 18th-century look at Jonson, with the bonus of the contemporary theatrical catalogue. (35449)
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A Comic Romp — An Oxford, Meynell LEC Production
Jonson, Ben. Volpone, or the fox. Oxford: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at the University Press, 1952. Folio. (30 cm, 11.75"). [4], v–xxv, [3], 163, [2] pp.; 17 plts.
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Ben Jonson's first great comedy was produced in 1605, after a brief stay in prison for offending the new king of England, James I. Jonson's reputation as a great dramatist lies primarily upon the brilliance of this play and three or four others. This volume's illustrations are watercolors by René ben Sussan, whose signature appears on the colophon. Initially drawn in black, they were reproduced by the collotype process in the studio of Louis Duval in Paris; the printed sheets were then colored by hand, through stencils, by Maurice Beaufamé. The introduction is by Louis Kronenberger.
This edition, which is limited to 1500 copies, was designed by Francis Meynell and printed by Charles Batey, Printer to the University at Oxford. Meynell's choice for the font is the rarely used Fell, which can only be used at Oxford; the letters are large and have a rather archaic feel to them.
The binding is quarter rust-colored linen, stamped in gold, with sides covered in linen printed with a repeating pattern.
Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 236. In the original slipcase, covered with paper printed with the same pattern as that of the binding; case in very good condition, volume without the dust wrapper. A very attractive book and slipcase too; a near-fine copy. (33381)
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The Check Is in the Mail
Joseph Anthony & Co. Autograph Letter Signed to Benjamin Bourne. Philadelphia, PA: 28 January 1800. 4to (10" x 7.75"). 1 p., without the integral address leaf.
$75.00
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The merchant company of Joseph Anthony & Co. tells Bourne that on 18 January it sent him a post note for $170; it laments the irregularity of post mail, which is due (it thinks) to carelessness of the post riders.
Provenance: Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.
Very good condition. Docketed on verso. (33398)
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American Acid-Stained Autumnal Binding Spine with a DISTINCTIVE Stamp
Josephus, Flavius. The genuine works of Flavius Josephus; translated by William Whiston, A.M. New York: Published by William Borradaile, 1825. 12mo (18 cm; 7"). Vol. 6 only of 6. Frontis., 317, [1] pp.
$85.00
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A marvelous example of an American acid-stained autumnal binding with a gilt spine extra. The boards are tooled with a gilt double rule border around their perimeter; inside that border and almost touching the inner rule is a blind-impressed roll of flowers and leaves. The spine is richly tooled in gilt with a variety of single rules, rolls, and a handsome, large, finely detailed stamp used twice. A black leather spine label offers author, title, and volume number; the autumnal colors of the binding overall are red, pale yellow, brown, and green.
The stamp so effectively used here has been identified as one engraved by Samuel Dodd, 19th-century bookbinders' tool maker of Bloomfield, NJ.
The text present is preceded by a good engraving by Maverick entitled “People of Masada.”
Provenance: Late 19th- or 20th-century ownership stamp on front free endpaper of Henry M. Bissell.
Shoemaker 21077; Rosenbach, Jewish, 276; Dodd's stamp identified by scholar Steve Beare. Binding as above, lightly rubbed at the joints (outside); browning to endpapers from glue action and ownership stamp on front free one. Some foxing. Vol. 6 only: Sold as a binding and very good as such. (35830)
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Spanish Statecraft — First English Appearance
Juan
de Santa María, fray. Christian
policie: Or, the Christian common-wealth. London: Pr. by Thomas Harper for Richard
Collins, 1632. 4to (22 cm, 8.6"). [18 of 19 (lacks blank {only}], 481, [1]
pp.
$2850.00
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Uncommon first edition of this English translation of Fray Juan de Santa María's Tratado de República y policía christiana, published in 1615. A Christian perspective on the powers and responsibilities of monarchs, the work was inspired by the Franciscan author's opposition to the government of the Duke of Lerma. The English rendition was often assigned to Edward Blount (who signed the dedication), but is now generally considered the work of
scholar and poet James Mabbe, known for his translations of Cervantes and other works of Spanish literature and theology.
The title-page here is a cancel, changing the publisher from Edward Blount to Richard Collins. The work was additionally issued in the same year with yet another title-page, under the title, Policy Unveiled: Wherein may be Learned the Order of True Policie in Kingdomes and Commonwealths, the Matters of Justice, and Government. . . .
Uncommon: ESTC, OCLC, and NUC Pre-1956 find only 9 U.S. holdings.
ESTC S107911; STC (2nd ed.) 14831. Period-style calf framed and panelled in gilt fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons; spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels. Lacks initial blank leaf, as is the case with virtually all copies. Two leaves with tattered outer edges, one leaf with small hole affecting a few letters; pages with some moderate offsetting, a few browned. (25084)
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“Liberty of the PRESS is the Palladium of
All Your RIGHTS”
Junius [pseud.]. The letters of Junius. London: John Sharpe, 1820. 24mo (13.3 cm; 5.25"). 2 vols. I: Engr. t.-p., [1], iv–xviii, [1], 20–203, [1] pp. II: Engr. t.-p., [1], 4–212 pp.
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A timely reprint — one of five in 1820!! — of the scathing invective aimed at the Duke of Grafton, his ministry, and the government of George III in general, delivered with flair and some degree of wit. Anonymously published, the Junius letters were originally printed from 1769 through 1772 and have been convincingly although never with finality attributed to Sir Philip Francis. They discuss
the historical/constitutional rights and liberties of Englishmen and
point to where the government infringes upon them, an appropriate topic for a year of political unrest whose first four months included the major events of the Cato Street Conspiracy, the ascension of George IV following the death of George III and election of his first parliament, and the Radical War in Scotland.
This edition comes with
two engraved title-pages, one for each volume: the first showing an officer whose identity is covered by a curtain by G. Murray after H. Corbould, and the second showing a landscape with a pike topped with a Phrygian cap, sword, and shield alongside the Bill of Rights and Magna Carta by J. Pye after “R.W.”
As noted above, Sharpe was not the only printer to think of producing a new Junius in 1820 — Bumpus, Rivington, Davison, and Hancock also produced editions.
Binding: Red straight-grain morocco, each spine gilt extra, covers framed in gilt floral rolls, all edges gilt.
Bound as above, three boards reattached using the long-fiber method; overall lightly rubbed and stained, spines a bit sunned with leather chipping at one tip, light pencilling on endpapers. Title-page engravings lightly foxed, two leaves with small marginal stain and a number with creasing across corners, light age-toning.
A neat, attractive little set of this political classic. (37228)
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Good Works — Greek & Latin — A Very Large & Handsome Folio
Justin, Martyr, Saint. [in Greek, transliterated as] Tou en Hagiois Patros Hemon Ioustinou philosophou kai Martyros Ta heuriskomena panta, [then in roman] S.P.N. Justini philosophi et martyris opera quæ exstant [sic] omnia. Paris: Sumptibus Carolii Osmont, 1742. Large folio (42.6 cm, 16.75"). [3] ff., cxxviii, 657 [i.e., 653], [1] pp.
$900.00
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Principal edition of the collected works of Saint Justin Martyr (ca. 100–165), “much the greatest figure” of Christian apologists since the Apostles (NCE). The first Latin translation of his works did not appear until 1554. This is the
authoritative edition edited by Prudent Maran (1683–1762), who reordered the works so that Justin's Dialogue with Trypho follows his two apologies, according to the original sequence. Only these three documents, which survive in later manuscripts, are surely his; however many other works are attributed to Justin. The present text contains the Dialogue, Apology I–II, and more, with biographical documents appended.
The text, in Latin and Greek, is divided into two sections: a preface in 15 short chapters, and the main text. The former is printed in roman and italic with nice woodcut head- and tailpieces, and one historiated woodcut initial. Sidenotes, footnotes, and woodcut ornaments like those in the former section enhance the main text, which is printed double column in parallel Latin and Greek, with two handsome engraved initials on the first page below a finely engraved vignette by J. B. Guélard (fl. ca. 1730) after a drawing by A. Humblot (fl. ca. 1740). The title-page, printed in red and black, has an engraved device by [Nicolas-Jean-Baptiste] de Poilly (1707–80). This copy also has a half-title page.
Brunet, III, 623 (“Bonne édition”); Graesse, III, 515; NCE 8: 94–95 and online (St. Justin Martyr). Contemporary treed calf triple-ruled in blind on covers, spine gilt extra with author and title gilt to red morocco spine label, board edges with gilt double-rule, marbled endpapers in a stone pattern and matching marbled edges, emerald green ribbon place holder. Upper joint starting with volume strong despite this and its large size; boards scuffed, corners bumped and rubbed revealing boards; stains on pastedowns and endpapers from underlying turn-ins of the binding. Light foxing in a few places, thumbsoiling, and occasional small stains; one leaf with a corner torn away, another with a natural paper flaw, a few leaves creased. A good copy of a
very imposing book. (30647)
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Grynaeus's Edition Three Maps
Justinus, Marcus Junianus; & Pompeius Trogus. Justini ex Trogo Pompeio historia diligentissime nunc quidem supra omnes omnium hactenus aeditiones recognita, et ab innumeris mendis - vetusti exemplaris beneficio purgata. Huic accessit commentariolus. Basilae: apud Michaelem Isingrinium, 1539. Small 4to. [16] ff., 319, [1 (blank)] pp.
$2875.00
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Justinus (3rd century A.D.) is known solely by his Historiarum Philippicarum libri XLIV, which he describes in his preface as a collection of the most important and interesting passages from the voluminous, but now lost, Historiae pillippicae et totius mundi origines et terrae situs, that Pompeius Trogus wrote during the era of Augustus.
This very nice Renaissance edition was edited and has a preface by Simon Grynaeus. In addition to the text, there are an extensive index, four full-page woodcut maps of parts of the ancient world, and Grynaeus's extensive commentary. The main text is printed in roman with a good scattering of woodcut historiated initials and is accompanied on the same page by Grynaeus commentary and notes in a smaller italic. His preface is printed in a larger italic face.
This copy has interesting, early, but now somewhat faded marginalia in a red or sepia ink. The marginalia is scattered and is at times heavy, other times light; in some sections, it is non-existent.
A rare edition: No copy traced via OCLC; VD16 locates only three copies in Europe.
VD16 T2056. Full rich brown calf old style: Round spine with raised bands, accented in gilt rule; author and title lettered on cream-colored spine label; fillets in blind extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils with blind double fillets beyond. Small rent in upper inner area of title-page with a very old and good repair on verso. Library name stamped on lower edge of closed book. (24808)
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A Present for the Students of “the English Mezzofanti”
Juvenal, & Persius. Decii Junii Juvenalis aquinatis satirae decem et sex[.] Auli Persii Flacci satirae sex. Londini: [colophon: Excudebat Carolus Whittingham], 1845. 4to (28.3 cm, 11.125"). [99] ff.
$200.00
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Satirical poems from Juvenal and Persius, here edited by Edward Craven Hawtrey (1789–1862), a language lover known as the “the English Mezzofanti.” Also an Eton headmaster responsible for a number of reforms, including the addition of mathematics to the curriculum, Hawtrey had this printed for giving to his students as a leaving book, and each page of text is neatly printed in black with a red decorative border surrounding it.
Binding: 19th-century polished calf, spine with blue leather title-label and compartments elaborately stamped in gilt with small oval medallions surrounded by arabesque and foliate designs, covers framed in gilt double fillets and floral roll with daisy stamps at corners; board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls, French curl marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Front endpaper with small rubber-stamp noting: “Bound by Rivière.”Provenance: Printed presentation leaf at front inscribed to “Harford” with two inked dashes through a printed date of 1841; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
On Hawtrey, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Binding as above, rubbed and scraped with leather loss and some spotting; front hinge (inside) starting, boards firmly attached. Dust-soiling of varying degrees along top edges with the occasional spot; moderate foxing to first and last few leaves, two leaves with offsetting from ribbon placemarker that is still present. Presentation inscription and booklabel as above. (38839)
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In Latin, Printed at The Hague
(English English ENGLISH PROVENANCE)
Juvenalis, Decimus Junius, & Aulus Persius Flaccus. D. Iun. Iuvenalis et Auli Persii Flacci Satyrae. Hagae Comitum: Apud Arnoldum Leers, 1683. 12mo (14 cm, 5.5"). 189, [1 (blank)] pp.
$550.00
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These classic Classical satires are here offered with commentary by Thomas Farnaby (c.1575–1647), and they consitute
apparently the first printing at The Hague of any Latin Classic(s) in their original Latin.
Juvenal was a Roman poet of the early second century A.D. His Satires are a standard of the genre, eloquent, humorous, and rhetorically
polished, but revealing a very bitter man. Persius (a.d. 34–62), was a gentler soul than Juvenal, and his poems are more Stoic
sermons than satires, preaching a moral life during one of Rome's more corrupt periods and doing so, most remarkably, without a hint of self-righteousness.
The two Satyrae are often published together, in contrast and comparison.
This is the first printing at the Hague of this edition with Farnaby's notes,
originally printed at London in 1612 and then reprinted in Amsterdam in 1630.
The emblematic engraved title-page here was done by A. de Blois; the separate
title-page for Persius bears the printer's device.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf
with three generations of early, dated, inked ownership inscriptions: Thomas
Mansell, first Baron Mansel (1684); Robert Mansel (sic, 1712); and
Thomas Mansell (1730–31).
Brunet, III, 631; Graesse, III, 520; Morgan, Bibliography
of Persius, 298; Schweiger, I, 511. Recent marbled paper–covered
boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Front fly-leaf darkened
and engraved title a littlevery little tattered at edges, the first with inscriptions
“stacked” as above and the second with old repair. Pages gently
age-toned and generally clean, with all edges red. (25952)
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