•  Wing (rev.) M9; ESTC R202839.   Recent half calf with marbled paper sides. Text followed by 13 blank leaves belonging to a later previous binding, with some foxing only, including to title-page; nothing worse.  (16976)

OCLC locates only one U.S. institutional holding of this novel.

•  Manne, Nouveau dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, 162; Le Mayeur, Les Belges, 340.   Contemporary plain paper-covered boards, spine with hand-inked volume label; binding stained, spine rubbed with small insect hole. Vol. I only. Inner margin of title-page repaired with loss of first letter of publisher's information line. Faint spotting and staining; trimmed closely, often shaving pagination and signatures. As interesting to see how this was produced, as it is frustrating to be unable to finish the story!  (26937)

An engraved frontispiece of Ptolemy done by Menzel opens the volume; the main title-page is printed in red and black, with an engraved allegorical vignette.

Provenance:  Title-page verso with intaglio-printed armorial ex libris, printed directly on the leaf (not a bookplate that was glued on): “Ex Bibliotheca Friederici Roth-Scholtzii.” Friedrich Roth-Scholtz (1687–1736) was a prominent Nuremberg printer and publisher, as well as the author of Icones bibliopolarum et typographorum de republica litteraria and the Bibliotheca chemica; there are several reported examples of such bookplates in his books.

•  Recent quarter calf and speckled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped author, title, place, date and gilt-ruled raised bands. Volume a little cocked. Endpapers soiled; some pages with mild offsetting, and text otherwise clean.  (25490)

Binding:  Late 19th- or early 20th-century full crimson calf, covers framed in triple gilt fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-dotted raised bands, gilt-stamped title and author labels, and gilt-stamped compartment decorations. Top edge gilt. The publisher's original brown cloth spine and blind-stamped covers arebound in at the back of the volume. Signed: Front free endpaper stamped “Root & Son.”

•  Hayward 258; Tinker 1509; NSTC 2M1220.   Binding as above, carefully refurbished; edges and extremities mildly rubbed, sides with unobtrusive scuffs and a few small smudges. Previous owner's small ticket on back pastedown, slightly scraped. Two leaves with offsetting from now-absent laid-in slip. Last few leaves with pinhole worming in lower margins, not touching text; worming to back fly-leaves and endpapers neatly repaired. Endpapers foxed; pages age-toned with occasional faint spots or smudges, generally clean. Solid and very attractive.  (29456)

Five Thousand Receipts was first printed in America in 1826, and enjoyed as enthusiastic a reception in the United States as it previously had in England. This is the fourth American edition, here in the Kay variant giving “122 Chestnut Street – near 4th” as the publisher's address.

Provenance: Francis Kelsey, New York City.

•  Bitting 299; Lowenstein 122; Shoemaker 39366.   Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped decorations; worn and abraded, joints open and fragile, front cover darkened, leather lost at spine extremities. Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription; front fly-leaf with small hole and pencilled annotations. Pages with varying degrees of age-toning and spotting, several signatures deeply browned. Some corners dog-eared. One leaf with upper outer corner torn away, with loss of a few words; one leaf with tear from lower margin extending into text without loss; one leaf with internal closed tear, without loss. Used, as this usually was!  (27405)

•  Wing (rev. ed.) M224; ESTC R184.   Removed from a nonce volume; age-toned and with a bit of foxing. Very good condition.  (32258)

No copies are located via NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, or the OPAC of the Mexican National Library. The attributed place of printing is based on the fact that it was part of a collection of manuscripts and other printed items all originating in Parral.

•  Some minor tattering and crumpling of paper; rich color faded along part of one edge and at horizontal fold. At fold, one tear through four words, not costing letters; one hole at center costing portions of four words; one other small hole entirely interlinear.  (31474)

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•  Gamba 2323; not in Brunet. Contemporary vellum over paste boards, outer edges yapp, spine with hand-inked title; vellum torn and partially lost over lower edge of front cover, with signs of wear and small spots of staining elsewhere. Ex-library, front pastedown with Italian institutional bookplate; yet volume otherwise free of markings. Title-page verso with affixed scrap of paper. Intermittently occurring light dampstaining in upper margins; otherwise clean.

The poem (set in the Philadelphia area, and connected to San Diego) is illustrated by Laura Dronzek with two interesting takes on the human/motor transport motif, and signed by the author at the close. This is numbered copy 37 of 130 printed; the laid-in invoice is printed on the back of a map portion and includes a mock parking garage ticket reading “118/ 0037 place on car.”

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers folded (as issued) into portions of Philadelphia and California maps, with paper slip protecting folds. A crisp, clean copy of this striking example of Hamady's dedication to integration of content and form, and to artistic expression.  (31217)

•  Publisher's red cloth in dust wrapper, jacket not price-clipped; dust jacket rubbed and chipped at extremities and along upper back edge, light dustsoiling to portion of back cover.  (24682)

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Binding:  Publisher's brown cloth, covers decoratively blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title. In its modest, subtle (and difficult to photograph!) way, this is avery handsome binding.

•  Bound as above; binding very slightly cocked, corners and spine extremities with minor rubbing. Ex–social club library: call numbers on fly-leaves, rubber-stamp on title-page and two others, no other markings. Pages clean save for slight offsetting from stamps. A nice copy.  (28238)

This is a revised version of the 1844 translation with an introduction by Ronald H. Boothroyd, designed by Giovanni Mardersteig using monotype Garamond on Fabriano paper and50 wood-engraved illustrationsnewly engraved for this edition by Bruno Bramanti from originals by Francesco Gonin commissioned by the author in 1840. Just 1500 hundred copies were printed and bound at Officina Bodoni in Verona, of which this is no. 604; it wassigned by the engraver and the printer below the colophon.

Binding: Quarter natural Italian linen over paper boards decorated in an all-over russet-colored leaf and dot pattern, title gilt on gray linen spine label. In original plain paper dust jacket and with publisher's black box.

Provenance:  Though without indicia, from Andrew Hedden’s collection of press books and livres d'artiste.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 217 (“half natural Italian linen”).   Bound as above; jacket lightly sunned and a little chipped at spine, box much abused and, though repaired, showing it. Spine of volume a bit darkened and with an old spot; text very fresh and clean.  (30542)

The edition in hand is printed in roman and italic, with factotum initials and a handful of woodcut tailpieces. The title-page in the first volume is printed in red and black, and black only in the second, with both volumes featuring the printer's device of an armillary sphere: mark of the Elzevirs, who printed the 1678 edition in Amsterdam?

•  On Marino, see: DBI online.   Quarter calf over paper-covered boards, recently rebacked with original spine leather laid down; spine tooled creating compartments accented with gilt center ornaments, author and title gilt on black morocco spine in second one. Scuffed, chipped, and soiled but sturdy; foxed throughout though never more than moderately; edges uncut.  (30910)

Author's presentation copy:  Signed by Markham, with an inscription “with my friendly greetings” to a theological seminary, dated 1933.

•  Mounted on cardboard. Age-toned, edges darkened; clean and unchipped.  (26119)

•  Contemporary gilt-stamped green cloth with a bit of light wear to the head and foot of the spine, otherwise bright and lovely. Some page edges uncut. (10569)

Merlin also printed a duodecimo edition in 1767; in the present edition, “Fragmens de philosophie morale” is found on pp. 273–340, followed by the Addition and Approbation.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with large, round, gilt-stamped armorial leather bookplate of notable 19th-century bookseller and book collector James Toovey; smaller, round, gilt-stamped “I.T.” bookplate with motto “Inter folia fructus” (also Toovey's and of cream-colored leather); and bookplate of Sir Montague Shearman.

Binding:  Contemporary crimson morocco, covers framed in gilt triple fillets; spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather labels, board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls. This volume (complete in itself) seems at one time to have been part of a set of Marmontel's works, and bears an (unnumbered) spine label reading “Oeuvres de Marmontel.”

•  Brunet, III, 1440; Cohen de Ricci, Guide de l’amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle, 688; Graesse 406; Tchermezine 455.   Binding as above, with edges, extremities, and joints showing minor rubbing. Front pastedown with bookplates as above; front free endpaper with affixed slip of early cataloguing; rear pastedown with small chip out of paper. Light spots of foxing, slightly heavier around plates. All edges gilt.  (25776)

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Some holdings report (variously) 10 or 12 preliminary pages as present, but signature A is complete here, including one blank leaf.

•  ESTC R200739; Wing (rev. ed.) M751 .   Recent marbled paper wrappers. Some light staining to a few early leaves, pages otherwise almost entirely clean.  (25039)

Uncommon: ESTC, OCLC, Wing, and NUC Pre-1956 find only six U.S. holdings, one of which has been deaccessioned.

•  Wing (rev. ed.) M775; McAlpin, II, 361; ESTC R211892 & R31210. On Marshall, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online.   Recent marbled paper wrappers. Title-page institutionally pressure-stamped, with outer and upper margins darkened by offsetting from sometime binding; first few leaves with corners bumped. Based on the signatures, either a half-title or a license leaf is lacking, but this collation matches that reported by ESTC.  (25019)

The text is in Spanish, printed in roman and italic. Part of a contemporary ink manuscript is visible (though illegible) on the rear pastedown, where it was incorporated into the binding.

•  Medina, Mexico, 8600; Palau 153111.   Contemporary vellum with traces of four ties, early ink title on spine and green edges. Small nick in bottom of one leaf and some text lost in printing on deckle of another; mild to moderate foxing throughout; occasional green stains from edge-tinting, including to title-page. Darkening to lower outer corner of many leaves, most prominent on first 30. A congregant's faithful companion.  (31195)

Provenance:  Bookplate on front pastedown of Kenneth Rapoport, a modern American collector of early and scientific books. Trace of 18th-century ex-libris inscription on title-page in ink, now washed away.

•  Adams M694; Ahmanson-Murphy 161; Schweiger, III, p. 594; Dibdin, II, p. 229; Renouard, Alde, 1517:11; Isaac 12874; Palau 150953.   19th-century speckled calf, spine gilt extra with raised bands accented by gilt ruling; author and publisher gilt on light brown leather spine label, board edges gilt, red speckled edges. Joints worn and board extremities lightly rubbed, small scuff on front cover; light stains from binding glue on endpapers; trimmed close at upper margin; temoine in lower outer corner of one leaf; washed? Small spot from chemical reaction on one leaf, otherwise veryclean and crisp. Price in 19th-century ink on front free endpaper and four pages with underlining in same hand as title-page inscription.  (31460)

The volume was lithographically printed on Arches Rivoli paper by Northend Printers of Sheffield, with the typesetting done by Charles Hall and the binding by The Fine Bindery. This isnumbered copy 76 of 280 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist.

•  Publisher's brick paper–covered boards, spine with title and sides with images printed in maroon, minimal shelfwear to extremities; overall a clean and handsome copy.  (32634)

adds a preliminary volume of background information on England's politics and economy during the 15 years prior to the start of the main history

•  NSTC 2M17389.   Publisher's textured brown cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title; vols. III and IV with spine heads chipped. Ex–social club library: paper shelving label on each spine head, call number on endpapers, title-pages and a few others rubber-stamped, no other markings. Light waterstaining to upper and lower inner portions of vols. I and II, upper only of vol. III; pages otherwise clean save for very faint age-toning. Paper a bit embrittled, with occasional short edge tears or corner chips, but the set quite suitable for use with reasonable care.  (28336)

Binding:  Full green calf, covers elaborately blind-embossed using the same plaque for both covers. Round spine with gilt ruling, gilt title, and gilt center devices in compartments; all edges marbled.

•  Palau 156283.   Binding as above, a little rubbed, some loss of gilt; front free endpaper with a patch of abrasion. Signature on verso of title-page. The usual scattered foxing.  (28726)

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Provenance: Signature on title-page of Bruce J. Worthington, dated 1794; of Ethan Allen, dated 1856; of John H. Alexander, Esq.; in the library of the Maryland Diocesan Librarywherein Wroth will have worked with and delighted in it (deaccessioned).

•  Evans 10049; Wroth, Maryland, 254; Sabin 45186.   Recent full calf, old style, by Grace Bindings (signed “G.B.” on lower turn-in of inside back cover), with gilt tooling on covers and spine, raised bands on spine, red title-label. Title-page browned around the edges and with some loss of paper; leaf now backed as is the last (bookseller's advertisements). Maryland Diocesan library stamp (deaccessioned as above) on title-page. Dedication page with very old repair along inner area of blank verso. Old damp- and/or waterstaining to early and late leaves and a few other places; occasional stray spots or small stains. Complete with the errata/advertisement leaf. A handsome, impressive volume.  (20605)

WorldCat locating only three U.S. institutional holdings

Binding:  Publisher's green cloth, front cover decorated with black-stamped oak branch motif, gilt-stamped title, and gilt-stamped vignette of a rescuer saving a drowning boy, spine gilt- and black-stamped, back cover blind-stamped.

•  NSTC 0497352.   Binding as above; spine slightly darkened, edges and extremities lightly rubbed, paper cracking at front hinge (inside). Front free endpaper with early pencilled ownership inscription. A very few scattered small spots of foxing, pages otherwise clean. Educational and pretty.  (30648)

Benjamin Franklin was among those who acknowledged the book's great influence on his life.

Preliminary pages include the testimonials or “Recommendations” (pp. iii–iv) and a “Preface” (pp. [xiii]–xxv). At the end are “On fulfilling engagements and paying debts. From a sermon by the late President Edwards,” “On the religious education of children. (From the Christian observer),” “On sanctifying the Sabbath-Day. By Sir Matthew Hale. (From the same),” and the table of contents.

•  Holmes, Cotton Mather, 112-E2; Shaw & Shoemaker 35227.   Publisher's sheep with a neat gilt red leathr label; binding dry, front joint (outside) starting. Ex–social club library: small 19th-century paper label at top of spine, 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, no other markings.  (29293)

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WorldCat locates only two copies of this edition.

•  Recent marbled paper-covered boards with leather spine label. Without the plates; light age-toning.  (26145)

132 well-filled pages

Near the end of the book is a full-page drawing of an apparatus labeled “percolater,” which looks suspiciously like a still, followed by three pages of notes on French measures. This last set of memoranda may suggest that Mayer did not grow up with those measures, and that he might have been English is suggested by the fact that English words appear sprinkled throughout while four leaves are written entirely in that language.

A ten-centimes ticket to the Tuileries and an advertisement for a means of reproducing engravings are laid in among the pages.

•  Original quarter sheep over blue marbled boards, with paper label on front cover; spine and board edges worn, hinges (inside) open. Previous owner's inscription and pressure-stamp on endpaper. All text is written in a clear but not entirely consistent hand, the English-language recipes and two others in bright blue (as opposed to the book's “regular” brown) ink.  (2551)