•  Publisher's printed green paper wrappers; very slight traces of shelfwear, vol. I with tiny nick to front wrapper. A crisp, clean copy.  (35649)

Provenance:  Bookplate and small stamp of the Library of the Supreme Council, 33o, A.A.S.R., Southern Jurisdiction, U.S.A. (i.e., Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite).

•  Sabin 52131; Newberry Library, Ayer Indians, Otomi 20; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2695 (not having seen a copy).   1870s-era half dark red morocco with marbled paper sides; title, author, and date of publication on leather of front cover. Front cover expertly reattached using Japanese long-fiber method, volume sound as well as handsome. Small stamp as above, on title-page and in one other place, with typical pencilling to former; scattered foxing. A very good copy.  (35412)

This is number 21 of the 70 numbered, with the water color being a version of the frontispiece on heavy artists' paper and signed by the artist with his initials.

•  Original wrappers with a glassine dust jacket; front wrapper and title-page with publisher's “scribble” device above imprint as seen on other titles from this press. Very good.  (35646)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only two U.S. institutional holdings of this edition.

•  Removed from a nonce volume. First page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, not touching text, and with lightly pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Page edges slightly tattered; a few spots of staining. Age-toned.  (30767)

This copy in the first of two bindings, with some sources hinting that the second indicates a remainder.

•  On the precedence of bindings, see Ahearn & Ahearn, Collected Books.   First of two bindings, this being full off-white cloth. A notoriously very fragile book, this copy with only the brittle endpapers across the hinges (inside) cracked, not the hinges themselves; two short tears (one repaired) to front free endpaper. Without the dust jacket. A very good copy.  (33391)

•  BAL 14856; Shaw & Shoemaker 48824; Wegelin 1066. On Neal, see: Dictionary of American Biography, XIII, 398–99. Period-style quarter tan cloth over light blue paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Dedication page and a few others (not including title) stamped by a now-defunct institution. Waterstaining to upper margins and some inner page parts, with final leaves darkened and a few spotted with foxing. Some upper edges chipped; final leaf with inner margin repaired.  (13727)

•  Evans 30835; ESTC W21378; Windle & Pippin, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin . . . a bibliography, B1g.   18th-century acid washed calf, gilt red leather spine label with gilt ruling on spine; rubbed, boards warping, small loss of spine leather, hinges worn but holding, glue action to first and last few leaves. Provenance markings as above, a few other markings on endpapers; one leaf with pinprick hole affecting a letter, one torn corner and a few more bent; old general foxing, age-toning, and waterstaining. Not a comely copy (and priced accordingly), but a good, sound, complete, and usable one.  (36603)

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers; age-toned, minimal wear at spine extremities. Pages slightly age-toned, final leaf with smudge not touching text.  (33169)

Printed in Latin and Greek, in roman and italic, this has a (sectional) title-page with its text framed in a wide ornamental border of acanthus leaves and flowers. In text are a number of ornate woodcut initials in white against a white-floriated background.

Evidence of readership: Early ink annotations in a few margins (partially cut off at the time of rebinding).

•  EDIT16 CNCE 47085; Sander, II, 4984.   Modern vellum over flexible boards, author/contents/date inked on spine, binding gently cocked; marginalia trimmed as above. Very lightly age-toned; clean and crisp.  (37311)

•  Original quarter straight-grain roan with tan paper–covered sides, spine gilt-stamped, leather edges with gilt roll; binding rubbed overall with much loss of spine gilt, hinges (inside) cracked. Some pages foxed or stained. Charmingly representative of a particular type of elevated sentiment of the early 19th century, and interesting documentation of a (presumably young) lady's social circle.  (36466)

The frontispiece portrait of Nelson was engraved by George Vertue after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. The volume also includes all publisher's advertisements as well as the rather uncommon Poem in Memory of Robert Nelson Esquire.

This was produced to be a handsome work, printed in large type on good paper with wide margins — the better to appeal to a “quality” audience?

•  ESTC T85360; Goldsmiths’-Kress 5249. Poem: ESTC T25431; Foxon P538.   Contemporary speckled calf, framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons; rebacked with speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, raised bands, and blind-tooled foliate compartment decorations. Original leather abraded, front cover with small chip to outer edge and area of faint discoloration from a now-absent label; title-page institutionally rubber-stamped (no other markings). Some signatures browned and foxed, most pages clean.  (25999)

•  Medina, Mexico, 5174; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 55; Viñaza 356; Maggs, Bibl. Amer., II, 2154; Sabin 52413; Palau 190159; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2738.   Contemporary vellum, now shrunk to smaller than the size of the text block, with newer endpapers, ties lacking, light to moderate staining and wear to interior; housed in a custom slipcase of quarter vellum and cranberry-colored cloth with a cloth chemise. A good copy of an important and scarce book, complete and with a good provenance.  (31417)

Apparently held by only one U.S. library.

This copy was sent to the town of Tulancingo; it has docketing information on the blank verso stating that it was received there and thatJuan de la Cruz, a bilingual Indian, read the decree to a large crowd on market day, 15 January 1795.

•  Not in Medina, Mexico.   Very good condition. Small longitudinal fold tears in the very middle of the leaf.  (33683)

VD17 records what appear to be five variants of this title, all from the same press, but not this particular one. All of the variants are rare with only one or perhaps two institutions reporting ownership. None of the institutions are in the U.S.

Provenance: Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard (sans indicia).

•  Not in VD17, but a variant of or related to 23:286673Q, 12:631632B, 12:190736S, 23:264664A, and 14:006772G.   Recent calf, spine (sunned) with blind rules above and below each gilt-ruled band that extend onto the covers, forming a V terminating in a trefoil, covers blind-ruled in period style; paper browned but not brittle, small ink mark on title-page.  (37359)

•  Publisher's blue-grey cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and LEC compass device, spine with gilt-stamped title. Slipcase lacking. Clean and fresh.  (30010)

Printed with a two-page, small-type list of the subscribers to this Irish edition, some entries noting a profession or a locality.

•  Wallis, Newton, 328.2; ESTC T18642.   Recent full brown calf, Cambridge style binding: Round spine, raised bands accented with single gilt rules above and below each, gilt center device in five spine compartments; black spine label, gilt. Covers tooled in blind with center compartment with corner devices; new endpapers. Old rubber-stamp along inner margin of title, with another to lower margin of dedication page and an inked line of presentation to its gutter; age-toning and stray stains. A good+ copy of the uncommon Dublin edition.  (33120)

“A new edition, with the citations translated, and notes by P. Borthwick . . . of Downing College, Cambridge.”

•  Publisher's quarter green cloth with paper-covered boards. Rebacked in sympathetic cloth and new paper label (antique style) applied. Boards show age-stains and wear but are solid. Old library pressure-stamp on title-page. In an open back slipcase of green library cloth; spine of box with author, title, and call number in gilt. A nice copy, sound for reading.  (21773)

•  Babson 32; Brunet, IV, 49.   Bindings as above, spines sunned (evenly and not unattractively), spines and edges with minor wear. Vol. I with original silk bookmark separated, laid in; one leaf with lower outer corner torn away. Both volumes with occasional mild offsetting and intermittent light to moderate foxing. An elegantly (and very soundly, strongly) bound example of a scientific landmark.  (34077)

Rare.  We fail to trace any copies via OCLC.

•  Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.   As issued, with old folds. Short tear and spot in blank area of inner margin. A clean, very good copy.  (24637)

“Nicholls died on the continent in want and, probably, depression, most likely in 1584. He has been condemned by biographers for his want of constancy in what are assumed to be genuine, if bewildering, changes of faith and profession. Yet it may have been the case that there was a kind of cynical consistency in his animal sense of self-preservation, one actively encouraged by the systems of religious repression and polarization under which he managed for a while to operate with some success” (ODNB). He was clearly one of the most troubled figures in the history of Recusancy.

This copy of his Declaration has setting 2 of the title-page, setting 1 of leaf N1r, and setting 1 of L1r (see ESTC). The title-page has a handsome, elaborate woodcut frame/border in a typical “Barker” style; the prefatory “epistola” is printed in italics, the preface in roman, and the text in gothic (i.e., black letter).

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and ESTC locate only seven U.S. libraries reporting ownership of this, not one a Catholic institution.

Binding:  Signed binding by Bedford. Full sprinkled calf, round spine, raised bands, gilt spine extra. Gilt triple-rule border on both boards; gilt double-rule on board edges; gilt turn-ins including a gilt dentelle rule and a gilt floral vine roll. Red French swirl marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.

•  STC (rev. ed.) 18533; ESTC S113205; Franks 6551. Apparently beyond the scope of Allison & Rogers (rev. ed.).   Excellent 19th-century binding as above, lightly rubbed along the joints (outside). Very good.  (37208)

Binding:  Publisher's olive-brown vermiform cloth of Krupp's style Mis1, spine with gilt-stamped series and individual title.

•  Sabin 32058. On binding: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823--50, Mis1.   Binding as above, head of spine chipped, front joint with small spot of insect damage. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and small call-number ticket on front pastedown, title-page pressure-stamped, no other markings. First map creased, outer edge slightly tattered. Pages age-toned. A nice copy.  (26418)

Several lines of text at the base of the document are headed “The Seminole Federalists,” an unflattering soubriquet given to the faction of Federalists who opposed the Clinton administration. This section is signed in type, “Red-Jacket.”

•  Not in Shoemaker.   As issued, with some later folds. Inch-long tear within first line of text, costing one word and portions of two or three letters, without affecting sense. Tear above center fold snaking five lines of text, touching letters from seven words without costing any text. Thumbnail-sized chip in center, affecting portions of three lines and costing several complete words but little sense. Lightly foxed.  (24635)

This volume for connoisseurs offers two distinct parts: first, the text printed and all the illustrations present as fully colored, delicately washed in shades of pink, blue, purple, grey, white, and earth tones; and second, a set of the illustrations in proofs uncolored and without text. Most of the illustrations in both suites areinitialed by Caruchet.

Jean Emmanuel Charles Nodier (1780–1844) was a French author and librarian, appointed to the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal in 1824. His literary stylemuch influenced the Romantics, including Victor Hugo and Alfred de Musset. This legend, first published in La Revue de Paris (1838), is representative of his fantastical oeuvre. It was later adapted into a French opera (Béatrice, 1914) and a film (1923).

Signed Binding: Crushed half milk chocolate morocco over marbled paper boards signed “V. Champs,” gilt author, title, and date to spine; patterned marbled endpapers (different from the covers). Original gilt and hand-colored stiff cream wrappers bound in, showing Béatrix full-figure on the front, her hands extended outward beneath the gilt title.

Provenance:  An initialed ink inscription beneath the Justification du tirage states this copy was “Offert à Madame Conquet” — who must have been related toM.L. Conquet, “the great Paris publisher of works of the romantic school,” whose publications were famous for being very limited editions and for the “high artistic quality of their illustrations” (“Books and Authors,” The New York Times, 26 March 1898).

•  Carteret, V, 141; Vicaire, VI, 179.   Binding as above. One small nick on the front leather near the spine, and board extremities (paper and leather) lightly rubbed. The publisher's authentication embossed stamp below the limitation statement. Text clean, unblemished. Simply, excellent.  (30135)

•  Contemporary vellum over paste boards. Ex-library: Call number label removed from spine with noticeable result, bookplate, library name rubber-stamped on bottom edges of closed book, pressure-stamp on title-page. Librarian's pencil markings. Withal, a very nice copy.  (21305)

The illustrations are 16 full-page watercolors and 15 in-text monochrome line drawings by Fletcher Martin, who has also signed the colophon. George Macy designed the book using an intertype Garamond font printed at the Garamond Press in Baltimore, MD; chapter initials are printed in green, sepia, and orange inks. The binding is full brown sheepskingold-stamped on the spine with the title and a design of two cat-o'-nine-tails, and also on the front with a design (perhaps not coincidentally) of five surly-looking seamen. Top edges are gilt.

This is copy number 1157 out of 1500 printed.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club 178.   Binding as above, with the leather rubbed at spine and (lightly) at joints, gently refurbished; one small, very light spot to fore-edge not entering margins. In a slipcase slightly darkened in portions, sturdy and undamaged.  (35465)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only four U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Martin & Walter 25914.   Removed from a nonce volume, paper adhesions to gutter of last leaf associated with this. Title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner, pencilled monogram and small early inked annotation in upper portion, and very neatly early inked author information added beneath title. Dust-soiling, last few leaves with some staining, final leaf with short tear from upper margin, just barely touching text without loss.  (30806)

The Rev. Norris (1657–1712), rector of Bemerton near Salisbury (“Sarum” as the title-page fashions it), was an Anglican divine, a poet, a Platonist, and a prominent disciple of Malebranche, and a noted opponent of Locke and critic of philosophical writings.

Provenance:  From the Ambrose Swasey Library (Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School) with library stamp on verso of title-page and bottom edge of text block.

•  Wing (rev. ed.). N1274; ESTC R32226; Smith, Bibliotheca Anti-Quakeriana, p. 340; on Norris, see: DNB (online).   Recent marbled paper–covered boards with gilt black leather label, new endpapers, all edges speckled red. Marked as above, light to moderate age-toning and occasional wormwork, almost completely in margins; one leaf with some paper torn away at foremargin. Avariety of pieces from a prolific theological writer.  (36098)

This is a copy of the sixth English Bijou Almanac. Schloss's series of miniature almanacs, often given asgift books, began with the one for 1836 (published in 1835) and ended with that for 1843: “Schloss engaged Benjamin Reese Davies, a specialist in engraved script . . . to engrave the . . . series. His skill and consistency are apparent in both the text and portraits on steel plates” (Bromer & Edison, p. 95). Once the engraving was accomplished the work was transferred to a lithographic stone for actual printing, i.e., by“transfer lithography” (Bain, p. 8).

Binding:  Light pink wrappers, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped lyre on covers, lilac endpapers with small silver Japanese bookseller's ticket filling back pastedown, all edges gilt. The little volume is housed in a blue-lined and peach slipcase with gilt-stamped lyres on both sides and gilt rolls along the edges.

•  Welsh 2660; Bromer & Edison, Miniature Books, 94–97. On the printing via transfer lithography, see: Iain Bain, Albert Schloss's bijou almanacs (London, 1969).   Binding as above, covers rubbed and a little dust-soiled; slipcase worn, similarly soiled, and chipped butpresent and strong. Pages lightly age-toned with a majority of page numbers and one plate caption partially trimmed, otherwise all being perfect.  (36980)

•  ESTC R13646; Wing (rev. ed.) N1399; Arber, Term Cat., I. 112.   Recently rebacked old calf, red leather label and gilt lettering, ruling, and floral stamps on spine; boards rubbed with some loss of leather and corners sometime strengthened, new endpapers with light pencilling. Bookplate as above, light age-toning with a handful of small spots/stains, two gatherings with minuscule marginal wormtracking, one leaf with inked marginal notes smeared. A few leaves with a paper flaw, printshop stain, or gently rubbed type; two with a small piercing away from print and several more with a short marginal tear or chip, others missing a corner or sliver of margin but text completely present. A solid and enjoyable book of “secrets” ready to share its secrets with someone new.  (36986)

Interesting explorations of mediation are presented by both “authors” and the topic is of course explored again in later works.

•  Himmelstrup, Kierkegaard, 70; Arbaugh, Kierkegaard's Authorship,15.   Handsome 19th-century half mottled brown calf, spine very prettily gilt extra; black textured–paper sides. Without the original plain blue wrappers. Very light foxing with other mild discoloration in some margins; a nice copy.  (32917)

The verso blank.

Use of capitals in text for words: Generalmente, Magestad, Senores, Presidente, Oydores, Reales, Alcaldes, Juezes, and Justicias.

The manuscript completions were sworn in Puebla de los Angeles on 14 September 1590, before the notary Marcos Reyes. Francisco Hernandez de Tinoco, a citizen of Puebla, gives power of attorney to Hernan Perez, a “procurador de causas,” who is not present.

Our attribution to printer is based on the type used and stylistics of composition.

•  Edwin A. Carpenter, A Sixteenth-Century Mexican Broadside (i.e., The Valtón Collection), possibly type 14, 15, or 16. Not in Szewczyk & Buffington, 39 Books and Broadsides Printed in America before the Bay Psalm Book.   Removed from a bound volume with worming in margins and into text, touching but not costing letters; age-toning. Light waterstain in upper margin. A good example of a Mexican incunable broadside.  (34744)

DePol also provided thenumerous wood engravings that enhance the text. This is copy 303.

Presentation copy from DePol: “For Morris Gelfand, old friend, with warm regards . . . John DePol December 3, 1991.” Gelfand was the proprietor of The Stone House Press.

•  Publisher's red cloth shelfback, boards covered with DePol's gray and white illustrated paper. A very nice copy.  (35832)

The portfolio was assembled at the Campbell-Logan Bindery; this isnumbered copy 16 out of 125 copies, signed by Bob Fleck at the colophon.

•  Publisher's blue cloth–covered case, front cover with printed paper label. Clean and crisp.  (32769)

By 1542 he had come to the attention of the authorities in Rome who, having read his writings, exposed some of his beliefs as Protestant, especially with regards to the doctrine of justification. He fled to Geneva, then later to London, Zurich, Cracow, and eventually Slavkov, where he died of the plague. While in London (1547–53) he wrote the Labyrinth, originally in Italian but translated for publication into Latin, here, assailing the Calvinistic doctrine of predestination. The other work of his published in this volume, on the Last Supper of Christ, was also written in Italian: It also makes its first appearance in print here, also in Latin translation.

In this copy the Labyrinth is misbound first; it is dedicated to Queen Elizabeth. The date of the printing of this volume remains uncertain with some assigning it to 1561 and others to 1563.

Binding:  18th-century brown morocco, spinegilt over-the-top extra and with the gilt supra- libros of Count Hoym. All edges gilt over old marbled edges. With a silk place marker.

Provenance:  From the library of Count Hoym; and with the late-19th-, early-20th-century bookplate of Charles Thomas-Stanford.

•  Adams O20; VD16 ZV3200, O208, O219; Graesse, Trésor de Livres Rares, V, 6.   Bound as above. Second title-page with unidentified old ownership monogram; that text with a reader's old underlining; otherwise, a little light foxing, only. A very fine copy.  (36624)

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers; wrappers slightly darkened with spine rubbed and back edges chipped. Pages predictably age-toned; final advertising leaves with edges chipped. “You will never leave this room alive,” indeed!  (34859)

Two of the orations are in Latin and two in Spanish: [I] Oratio in funere sanctissimi Clementis XIV. Pontificis Maxi. Habita Mexici in Ecclesia S.P.N.S. Francisci F.F. Minorum Observantium die XXVII. martij An. MDCCLXXV. Ab P.F. Josepho Raphaele Bonaventura Olmedo sacrae theologiae in Univ. Mexicana doctore, subtilium doctrinae inìbi publico professore, atque sanctimonialium seraphicae M.D. Clarae secundo vicario. [II] Sacerdote grande por su esmero en fortificar la casa del señor, y atencion a las necesidades del pueblo N. SS. padre Clemente XIV. elogio funebre que en la Iglesia de N.P.S. Francisco de México dixo el R.P. Fr. Joseph Gallegos lector de prima de sagrada teologia en el Convento Imperial de Predicadores, dia 28 de marzo de 1775. [III] Oratio in funere Sanctissimi Patris ac Domini Nostri Clementis XIV. Dicta in almo, & Imperiali Fratrum, Praedicatorum Mexicano Conventu die tertia Aprilis anni Domini millessimi septingentessimi septuagessimi quinti à R. P. Fr. Cosma Enriquez Guerrero ejusdem conventus alumno, sacrae theologiae ex-lectore, in regia, ac Pontificia Mexicana Universitate theologo doctore, & in eadem quondam semel, atque iterum à consilijs, ac doctoris angelici cathedrae regentis titulo nominato moderatore. [IV.] El maximo entre los sagrados politicos, que ha gozado el mundo, y la Iglesia. Sermon funebre, que en las honras de N. SSmô. P. Clemente XIV. celebradas en el Convento Imperial de N.P. Santo Domingo de México predicó el R.P. Fr. Antonio Blanco Valdez notario apostolico, y lector de prima de sagrada teologia en el Colegio de Menores Observantes del Seráfico Doctor S. Buenaventura, el dia 4 de abril de 1775.

Binding:  Contemporary wrappers of the decorative paper known as “Dutch Gilt” (but actually produced in Germany or Italy). This example is embossed in imitation of a brocade pattern.

•  Medina, Mexico, 5820; Sabin 13627; Palau 144769.   Corners bumped and small rents in the wrappers with a little loss; waterstaining very noticeable in text of last four leaves and to rear wrapper. A good copy.  (34762)

with the life of the great poet Ferdusi (i.e., f Abu-'l Kasim Mansur).

•  19th-century German boards covered with black mottled paper; abraded. Paper author/title label on spine, call number label on front cover. Ex-library with bookplate on front pastedown and call number in pencil on verso of title-page. No other markings.  (19137)

The present example isnumbered copy 49 of 107 printed, signed by the author at the end of the text.

•  Publisher's paper wrappers, front wrapper with applied collage elements, in glassine dust wrapper. A nice copy.  (30920)

Provenance:  This copy inscribed, in an angular, decorative hand (presumably Hamady's), to a contemporary bookseller and archivist, with the inscription dated 1976.

•  Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 76.   Wrappers as above, with very faint traces of wear to extremities, otherwise clean and fresh. It should be noted that the hand-tinting is to small portions of the illustrations only, and very subtle in tone; inscription, as above, large and bold. A nice copy of this “first,” with an interesting inscription.  (37227)

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 445.   Publisher's quarter red cloth and firework-printed paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label, in original glassine wrapper and matching slipcase; glassine wrapper with small portion torn away from lower back edge and nicks to lower edge and spine head, slipcase with one nick to paper at one edge of foot, volume clean and lovely. Overall in beautiful condition.  (34066)

For the present edition, limited to 2,000 copies of which this is number 1496, artist Leonard Baskin (1922–2000) designed the text using monotype Janson font and created nine full-page black and white drawings of O'Neill's characters, reproduced by Meriden Gravure Company, and one sanguine lithograph pulled on Arches paper by Fox-Graphics Editions. In her introductory essay, “O'Neill and Baskin: The Iconography of a Double Exposure,” art historian Irma Jaffe analyzes the illustrations and traces the parallels in the art and lives of the playwright (1888–1953) and Baskin, who has signed this below the colophon.

Binding:  The play was printed and bound at the Stinehour Press in Lunenburg, VT, in full Curtis gray paper–covered boards with printed paper labels on the spine and front cover. It is rather bleak-looking — which is perfectly appropriate given the nihilistic theme of the play.

This offering includes the monthly newsletter.

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 525.   Binding as above. Fine, in a fine slipcase.  (30747)

The text was set by hand in Palatino and Michaelangelo, and printed in black and grey on Shadwell paper; this is one of 250 copies printed.

•  Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 21.   Publisher's tan paper wrappers, front wrapper with blind-stamped title. Minimal wear to extremities, otherwise a clean and fresh copy.  (30930)

This isone of 228 copies “manually printed in this farmhouse parlour on various shadwell papers hand-formed in the barn,” according to the colophon, which also mentions that “sultry august is when we finish” [sic].

•  Two Decades of Hamady and the Perishable Press Limited, 103.   Publisher's sparkly “flesh-glitter & sequin” paper wrappers, spine with “Joel” pressure-stamped in reverse. A beautiful copy.  (33821)

This is numbered copy 39 of 125 printed and it ishand-dedicated at the colophon to Andrew Hedden, a notable collector of press books and livres d'artiste.

•  Publisher's cream-colored paper wrappers stitched with white leather lacings. Clean and fresh, with signatures unopened.  (30921)

•  Publisher's paper wrappers as above, front wrapper with tiny lion device stamped in red. A fresh, unworn copy.  (30919)

This is one of 130 copies printed and wassigned by the author. The colophon features Hamady's distinctive pressmark, calligraphed by Sheikh Nasib Makarem.

•  Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 10.   Publisher's mushroom-colored paper wrappers; outer edge of front wrapper creased, otherwise unworn and clean.  (30787)

The volume begins with a most handsome emblematic engraved title-page signed C. De Mallery involving a ship at sea against a sky labeled “Lutetia” (for Paris) surmounting an elaborate architectural frame containing the title and incorporating elegant symbolic ladies and more, followed on the next leaves by a dedication to the esteemed French collector Jacques-Auguste de Thou (Thuanus, 1553–1617). Beautiful floriated woodcut initials, factotum initials, head- and tailpieces decorate the text, which is anexquisite example of printing.

It seems that there were related texts printed at the same time that are sometimes found bound with this in a variety of combinations, but this not universally.

•  Adams S1061; Schweiger, I, 287.   Period-style full dark brown mottled calf tooled in blind, gilt title and tools to spine, red edges. Small hole from natural flaw in upper corner of title-page and one other leaf; oval-shaped spot in lower margin of title-page from an erasure (?), offset onto the front fly-leaf; light age-toning and occasional foxing in some margins, with a few stray ink marks from printing and maybe two or three dots from oxidization of the paper. Accounting for these minor expectable flaws, the present volume isreally very, very nice and the portraits areterrific.  (30177)

The volume opens with an oversized, color-printed map of Ireland on green paper; it is further illustrated with a frontispiece and 31 other plates  mostly representing churches and abbeys but also Irish landscapes (“The Shannon above Limerick”), historical moments (“Massacre at Drogheda”), and prominent figures. One split image contrasts a tormented Irish family with the same family happy and prosperous in America; interestingly, that same split plate is reproduced at the back of the volume as two facing plates with new captions — “Ireland As She Is” and “Ireland As She Ought to Be.”

Binding:  Publisher's pebbled blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and gilt-stamped vignette of a radiant monolith surrounded by shamrocks; back cover with same vignette in blind, and spine with decorative gilt-stamped author, title, and publisher. All edges gilt.

Provenance:  Back free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription of Maggie Brennan of Philadelphia; we note, but dare not speculate on the import of, her surname's matching that of one of the authors here.

•  NSTC 0558744 (for 1878 ed.).   Bound as above, front cover and spine aged to dark brownish blue and volume moderately rubbed overall. Folding map with tear from inner margin, extending inside frame (close to but not touching actual image). Pages browned in from edges due to nature of paper, but not brittle; dried plant matter laid in at three spots and an old tassel at another. A very solid copy, with hinges holding (unusual for copies of this hefty volume).  (29569)

Thislarge folio edition is “ex variis editionibus, & codicibus manu exaratis, Gallicanis, Ialicis, Germanicis & Anglicis collecta, recensita, Latine versa, atque annotationibus illustrata, cum copiosis indicibus, vita auctoris, & multis dissertationibus.”

•  Late 18th- or early 19th-century speckled calf, round spine gilt extra, boards plain; two red leather spine labels on each volume with author/title and volume number, all edges marbled. Leather of four boards slightly abraded with loss of some leather, otherwise a binding in remarkably good (and strong) condition, especially notable for tomes of this size. Ex-library with bookplates but no stamps, the set generally shows offsetting from leather of binding to endpapers and otherwise light foxing and the odd spot only, with light evidence of old, mild exposure to moisture at some margins. A very handsome set in very good condition, valuable both as precisely what it is *and* as representing a whole grand era/category of scholarship and book production.  (30931)

•  Contemporary blind-stamped black cloth, covers with central gilt-stamped cross and Virgin-with-Infant vignettes, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges, extremities, and back cover rubbed; cloth wrinkled at spine and split at front joint with small bubbles on covers. Front covers lacking clasp hardware (straps present on back cover), spine with inked shelving number; hinges (inside) tender. Front pastedown with New York bookseller's small ticket. Half-title, title-page, and several others institutionally pressure-stamped. Some mild foxing, most pages clean. All edges speckled red.  (25894)

•  Publisher's red cloth with gilt decoration on front board and gilt-title on spine. Publisher's dust jacket, good with only minor rubbing. Excellent copy.  (23274)

The compiler was a French polyglot, grammarian, and translator to King Louis XIII; he holds the distinction of having been the first person to render Don Quixote in French.

•  Brunet, IV, 259; Palau 207297.   Contemporary vellum, spine with hand-inked title; vellum dust-soiled and moderately cockled, ties lacking. Front pastedown with early cataloguing slip affixed, back pastedown with small inked annotation in French, dated 1778. Faint to moderate waterstaining throughout; scattered small areas of worming, mostly in outer margins but touching a few letters barely. Occasional small pencilled marks of emphasis. A solid and very readable copy.  (30904)

•  Publisher's brown cloth, covers and spine with blind-stamped decorations and gilt-stamped vignettes; extremities rubbed, spine head chipped, gilt lightly rubbed. Ex–social club library: paper shelving label on spine, 19th-century bookplate, front free endpaper lacking, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Small crescent burn mark to upper margin of title-page, a very few small smudges elsewhere, otherwise clean.  (28291)

•  Publisher's half cream pigskin and light grey/tan cloth, rich eggplant endpapers, front cover with gilt-stamped vignette and spine with gilt-stamped title; bottom edge and corners rubbed or frayed with attendant soiling, front cover with area of faint staining. Interior clean and bright. (28154)

•  Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 492.   Binding as above, fresh and all but unworn, in the original slipcase with very slight dust-soiling to vellum. With the prospectus and the newsletter.  (36337)

•  ESTC T63374 & T68757.   Contemporary half calf and marbled paper–covered sides, rebacked and corners refurbished; marbled paper sides with surface wear. Front pastedown with bookplate as above, pastedown and free endpaper with small pencilled annotations. Octavo history with small portion torn away in outer margin (only) of final “Additions” leaf; quarto history with dust-soiling to title-page around edges of bound-in octavo and following leaves showing impression of bind-in. Occasional light foxing only, to both items, mostly confined to margins; quarto with a very few early inked corrections and annotations.  (33314)