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Light of My Life, Fire of My Loins
Nabokov, Vladimir. Lolita. Paris: Olympia Press, (September, 1959). 12mo (17.5 cm, 6.8 “). 2 vols. I: 189, [3] pp. II: 221, [1] pp.
$450.00
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First edition, stated fourth printing: The two-volume “Traveller's Companion” edition (no. 66 in that series) of one of the most controversial classics of 20th-century literature. Maurice Girodias's Olympia Press specialized in providing the types of books that would be automatically banned in Britain and the United States; in addition to Lolita, it was the first to publish Donleavy's Ginger Man as well as avant-garde and controversial works by prominent Beat writers including William S. Burroughs and Gregory Corso, along with numerous exuberantly pornographic works penned pseudonymously by members of the Paris expatriate community.
Publisher's printed green paper wrappers; very slight traces of shelfwear, vol. I with tiny nick to front wrapper. A crisp, clean copy. (35649)
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The First Study of
Otomi (or indeed of ANY Mexican Language!)
Published in the U.S.
Nájera, Manuel de San Juan Crisóstomo, father. De lingua Othomitorum dissertatio, autore Emmanuele Naxera. Philadelphia: ex prelis James Kay, jun. ac fratris, 1835. 4to (27 cm; 10.5"). [1] f. 48 pp.
$775.00
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Father Najera (1803–53) was a native of Mexico, a member of the Zacatecas Literary Academy, and a highly respected self-taught linguist, who while in political exile in Philadelphia in the 1830s presented this study of the Otomi language on 6 March 1835 before the membership of the American Philosophical Society.
With this publication, Najera became the first person to publish a study in the U.S. of any Mexican indigenous language.
This edition is reprinted from the Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (“Ex quinto tomo novae seriei Actorum Societatis philosophiae americanae decerpta”).
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)
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Limited Edition of 80 Copies, with an
Original Water Color
Nancy, Jean-Luc. Le regard du portrait. [Paris]: Galilée, (2000). 8vo (21.5 cm; 8.5"). 90, [1], [1 (blank)] pp., [1], [2 (ads)], [1 (blank)], [1(colophon)] ff., [8] pp. of color illus., [1] tipped-in watercolor.
$275.00
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Nancy's treatise on the philosophy of portraiture was issued in a trade edition and a limited edition. This is a copy of the limited edition of 80 copies containing an original water color portrait by François Martin: 70 were numbered and for sale, five were lettered and for the artist, and five were lettered and not for sale.
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)
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Coptic Texts, Special Fonts
Nani, Giacomo; Giovanni Luigi Mingarelli, ed. Aegyptiorum codicum reliquiae Venetiis in Bibliotheca Naniana asservate. Bononiae [Venice]: Typis Laelii a Vulpe, 1785. 4to (28 cm, 11.5"). 2 parts in 1. I: 7, [1], CCXIX, [1] pp. II: [2], CCXXI–CCCLXIII, [1] pp.; 2 facsims. (engravings).
$2500.00
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The Coptic language texts that are transcribed and edited here by G.L. Mingarelli (1722–93), a professor of Greek and Hebrew at the University of Bologna, were the property of Giacomo Nani (1728–97), a collector of Egyptian antiquities, and housed in the Bibliotheca Naniana in Venice.
Among the fragments of Coptic texts presented here, to mention just a few, are portions of the Bible, including parts of Jeremiah, and the Gospels of Matthew and John; homilies, the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles, the life of St. Theodore, and the “Travels of John the son of Zebedee.” It must be repeated that
all are fragments.
In this
sole edition, the Coptic texts are reproduced as best was typographically possible in the 1780s, with special fonts, in double-column format. The apparatus is in roman, Greek, and Coptic characters.
Binding: Contemporary Venetian red goat, boards nicely and somewhat richly tooled in gilt with rolls, fillets, and sizable corner devices, board edges with a simple gilt roll, and each spine compartment with a gilt center device and defined by gilt fillets and a gilt roll. Stone pattern–marbled endpapers. All edges gilt and gauffered.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Brunet, I, 60. Binding as above; a dozen small pin-type wormholes in spine not extending into text, sides with small spots of discoloration. Lower board edges a little scuffed. Lacks the free endpapers. Foxing, sometimes heavy, in text; still, a desirable copy. (38967)
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Anti-Catholic — Now in English!
Naogeorg, Thomas; Barnabe Googe, trans.; Robert Charles Hope, ed. Reprint of The Popish Kingdome or Reigne of Antichrist. London: Imprinted at the Chiswick Press ... by Charles Whittingham & Co. for the editor ... and sold by Wm. Satchell & Co., 1880. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). xviii pp., [5], 60 ff., [1], 62–74 pp.
$100.00
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Chiswick Press reprint and loosely accurate facsimile of Elizabethan poet and Puritan Googe’s 1570 English translation of Naogeorg’s “fierce denunciation of the superstitions of the Roman branch of the Church Catholic in its period,” with scholarly prefatory matter and commentary.
Evidence of Readership: A previous reader has marked specific passages in pencil through perhaps a third of the text and left a scrap of paper with notes on word choices tucked in at back.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC 0401732. Half black roan in imitation of morocco and burgundy paper–covered boards, spine lettered and decorated in gilt; rubbed with some loss of paper, waterstaining along bottom edges of boards only. Light to moderate age-toning with a handful of spots or stains, a few creased leaves from manufacture, readership marks as above.
A good clean copy of a handsome book from this excellent press in its “retrospective” mode. (37921)
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Napoleon on Religion in France & Italy
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French. [drop-title]
Discours adressé par Bonaparte, premier Consul de la République française, aux curés de la ville
de Milan, le 5 juin 1800, traduit de l'Italien. [Paris?]: [1800]. 8vo (21.7 cm, 8.5"). 4 pp.
$100.00
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First edition thus of a speech by Napoleon, clarifying his opinions on the Roman
Catholic religion and on the relationship between church and state: “Cette traduction est tirée du
14e cahier des Annales philosophiques et morales, imprimées chez le Clere . . . On y trouve le
texte italien tel qu'il a été imprimé à Gênes, chez André Frugoni.” Another variant, described as
being 10 pages, gives different publication information and mentions “auquel on a joint des notes
historiques.”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)
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A Gathering of
Lost Generation Writers
Neagoe, Peter, comp. & ed. Americans abroad. The Hague: Servire Press, 1932.
$175.00
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First edition of an important anthology of writings by writers of the Lost Generation: Includes Henry Miller's first book appearance sharing space with pieces by 51 other Americans including Conrad Aiken, Djuna Barnes, Kay Boyle, Malcolm Cowley, Caresse Crosby, Harry Crosby, E.E. Cummings, John Dos Passos, Emma Goldman, Ernest Hemingway, Eugene Jolas, Robert McAlmon, Ezra Pound, Laura Riding, Gertrude Stein, and William Carlos Williams. Each piece is preceded by a brief biography, two of which are
most notably brief: Hemingway's (''Born Oak Park, Ill., July 21, 1898") and Pound's (“I can't bloody well be bothered to write my own biography”).
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)
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Neal, John. The battle of Niagara: Second edition — enlarged: With other poems. Baltimore: N.G. Maxwell (pr. by B. Edes), 1819. 18mo (15.6 cm, 6.2"). Add. engr. t.-p., 272 pp.
$575.00
Second, expanded edition, following the first of the previous year, of the author’s second published book. In addition to the title piece, the volume includes
“Goldau: Or the Maniac Harper,” along with a few shorter works. Neal, who went on to become a prominent voice in 19th-century American literature, describes in the preface here his distress over the first edition, which he calls “crowded and disfigured with innumerable errors — chiefly typographical, however; though in some cases, whole lines were left out . . .” Alas, this edition also required an errata leaf.
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)

A Study of a
Complicated Man
Nedava, Joseph. Arthur Koestler a study. London:
Robert Anscombe & Co., [1948]. 8vo (18.6 cm, 7.3"). Frontis., 63, [1] pp.
$65.00
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Scarce first edition: biography and analysis of the Hungarian-British author, journalist, and political activist, with a foreword by Michael Foot, who praises him as an anti-Soviet socialist; at this date the arc of Koestler's philosophical evolutions had yet some ways to go, but Darkness at Noon had been published in 1941 and this is a leitmotif.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers; age-toned, minimal wear at spine extremities. Pages slightly age-toned, final leaf with smudge not touching text. (33169)
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“An Area of Technology . . . of Profound Importance
in the Spread of Civilisation” — Papermaking & Printing
Needham, Joseph, & Tsien Tsuen-Hsuin. Science and civilisation in China. Volume 5: Chemistry and chemical technology. Part I: Paper and printing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 8vo (25.3 cm, 10"). xxv, [1], 485, [1] pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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Volume five, part one of an extensive series on the history of Chinese science and technology, headed by biochemist, sinologist, and historian Joseph Needham. Needham (1900–95), along with several collaborators, began developing the Science and Civilisation in China series in 1948, with the first volume appearing in 1954; there are currently seven volumes in 27 books in the series covering topics such as mechanical engineering, physics, botany, medicine, language, and more.
Needham's collaborator for this volume, Tsein Tseun-hsuin, was a Chinese sinologist and librarian known for smuggling thousands of rare books, many being invaluable artifacts of Chinese culture, out of Japanese-occupied China during World War II. With Needham's support, Tsien created this
comprehensive study of paper and printing in China from its very beginnings to the end of the 19th century.
This is the third printing, revised; many black-and-white illustrations accompany the text throughout and the whole production is notably attractive.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Publisher's quarter pictorial cloth and black cloth spine with gilt lettering, in original pictorial dust jacket; jacket with minor edgewear, spine and edges faded. Light foxing to top edges of text. Sound, unmarked, and
an illuminating volume from an important series. (38045)
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Saving the Souls of the Rich via
CHARITY
Nelson, Robert. An address to persons of quality and estate ... To which is added, an appendix of some original and valuable papers. [with another related title, as below]. London: A. & G. Way, prs., 1715. 8vo (21.9 cm, 8.6"). Frontis., xxxi, [1], 267, [1], 55, [7] pp. [with] A poem in memory of Robert Nelson Esquire. London: Pr. by Geo. James for Richard Smith, at Bishop Beveridge’s-Head, 1715. 8vo. 21, [3] pp.
$675.00
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First edition: Nelson, a philanthropist and popular religious writer, reminds the wealthy and well bred of their charitable obligations as Christians. After exhorting the rich to consider their salvation, Nelson solicits their support for such endeavors as building churches, funding the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, maintaining poor clergy and their families, founding seminaries and schools, relieving prisoners, and establishing houses for the improvement of ladies (both proper and fallen). The appendix provides texts of various proposals as well as statistics on
numbers of residents in hospitals and schools.
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)
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“Muy Rara” — Otomí by a
Native-Speaker — with the FRONTISPIECE!
Neve y Molina, Luis de. Reglas de orthographia, diccionario, y arte del idioma othomi. Mexico: Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767. Small 8vo (14.5 cm, 5.75". Frontis., [2] ff., 160 pp., engr. leaf of errata.
$5500.00
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Otomí is one of the principal languages spoken in Central Mexico, and this work, more than any other, standardized its orthography; it is also the classic Otomí grammar and dictionary, and is by a man some authorities believe to have been himself an Otomí Indian, or at least of Otomí heritage. It was written during the mid-18th-century renaissance of linguistic study of the languages of Mexico, and Palau considers it “muy rara.” (It is much rarer on the market, in our experience, than similarly important works in Nahuatl.)
Both the engraved frontispiece and the engraved errata leaf are signed by the engraver Jose Francisco Gomez; the former, often, is not present but it is
here in very good state.

Provenance: Red leather bookplate stamped in gold of Estelle Doheny on front pastedown.
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)
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Investigating His Predecessor, Learning the Tricks of
Corruption
New Spain. Viceroy (1794–98, Branciforte). Broadside. Begins: Miguel la Grua Talamanca y Branciforte ... marqués de Branciforte ... Con fecha de 19 de marzo ultimo me ha comunicado el ... Senor D. Eugenio de Llaguno, la real orden del tenor siguiente ... [in text, Mexico: 30 December 1794. Folio (43 cm; 17"). [1] p.
$400.00
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The viceroy publishes this announcement that the king has appointed him to carry out the residencia hearing into the administration of his predecessor, the Count Revillagigedo. Copy initialed by Branciforte and countersigned by José Ignacio Negreyros y Soria.
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 that
Juan 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)
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The Great Catholic Apologetic of the Victorian Era
Newman, John Henry. Apologia pro vita sua: Being a reply to a pamphlet entitled “What, then, does Dr. Newman mean?” London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1864. 8vo (23.3 cm, 9.2"). iv, 430, 127, [1] pp.
$300.00
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The one-time Anglican priest and later Catholic cardinal offers a passionately written defense of his theological soundness — and indeed of his career as a whole, not to mention Catholicism itself — against Charles Kingsley's charges of knavery, dishonesty, and various other sins. The work was first published in 1864 in bi-monthly parts, with
the present volume being the first book-form printing (here in its second issue, with Oakeley's name added on p. 277); it enjoyed great commercial success as well as doing much to rehabilitate the public's general opinion of the author, and it has remained a classic of insightful spiritual reading even for non-Catholics. While the table of contents primarily focuses on Newman's attacker (“Mr. Kingsley's method of disputation,” “True mode of meeting Mr. Kingsley,” etc.), the main interest of the Apologia lies with Newman's carefully considered autobiography and elegantly expressed religious convictions.
Provenance: Title-page with early inked inscription of Frederick H. Sperling.
NSTC 2N6349. 20th-century quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt-dotted raised bands, and gilt-stamped compartments; extremities rubbed, corners worn. Pages gently age-toned overall, with intermittent spots of minor to moderate foxing or staining; one leaf in appendix with closed tear. One page with early pencilled annotation as to content, final appendix page with small pencilled doodle-monogram.
A handsome copy of an important book. (39627)
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Biblio-LEC
High
Spots
Newman, Ralph Geoffrey, & Glen Norman Wiche. Great and good books: A bibliographical catalogue of the Limited Editions Club 1929–1985. Chicago: Ralph Geoffrey Newman, Inc., 1989. Folio. ix, [73] pp.; illus.
$95.00
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First edition, limited to 500 copies, of which this is numbered copy 226. The work is illustrated with examples of some of the most significant illustrations and colophons found in the LEC oeuvre; the colophon here is signed by Mortimer J. Adler, who provided the preface.
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)
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NEWTON for
IRELAND
Newton, Isaac. Observations upon the prophecies of Daniel, and the Apocalypse of St. John. In two parts. Dublin: Pr. by S. Powell, for Goerge Risch, George Ewing, and William Smith, 1733. 8vo (20 cm; 7.75"). iv, [4], 320 pp.
$2000.00
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First edition printed in Ireland. In addition to being a physicist, mathematician, and natural philosopher, Sir Isaac Newton was something of a Biblical scholar as well, as shown by the present exegesis on apocalyptic texts. His analysis generally reads as being practical in nature — as the New Catholic Encyclopedia (X, 428) says, “Newton's writings on apocalyptical prophecies were not mystical or millenarian in any sense, but more exercises in deciphering cryptograms.” They comport with our sense of him as someone who believed in the scientific method!
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)
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The
Scientist as
Scholar
of
Prophecy
& Apocalypse
Sir
Isaac &
His (actually, not so) Mystical
Side
Newton,
Isaac. Observations upon the prophecies of Daniel. London:
James Nisbet, & T. Stevenson, Cambridge, 1831. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9"). [1] f.,
xii, 250 pp.
$550.00
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Third edition; 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)
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Infighting! New York State Senate 1806
New York (state). Democratic-Republican Party. Broadside. Begins, “To the electors of the Western District. Fellow-citizens, In a few days you will again be called upon to exercise the distinguishing privilege of Freemen — that of electing your Representatives to the Legislature. In discharging this duty, the great body of the people only want correct information, and they will generally choose the most able and faithful men to legislate for them.” New York state: no publisher/printer, [1806?]. Folio (39 cm, 15.5"). [1] f. (verso blank).
$1000.00
A wall posting of the so-called “Lewisites” or “Quids,” the faction of the Democratic-Republican party that supported Gov. Morgan Lewis of New York against the faction led by New York City Mayor DeWitt Clinton. This supports four candidates, “friends of the present administration [i.e., Gov. Morgan Lewis],” to fill vacancies in the Western District of the New York State Senate; the candidates, all former members of the state assembly, are Freegift Patchin, of Schoharie, Evans Wharrey, of Herkimer, John McWhorter, of Onondaga, and Joseph Annin, of Cayuga. Their names are printed at the end, followed by the words “The People's Choice” in bold letters. Included are attacks on the character of the opposing candidates, Salmon Buell, John Ballard, Nathan Smith, and Jacob Gebhard, and of particular interest is a spirited defense of the controversial Merchants' Bank.
An interesting window into the factional struggles within the party and the growing dominance of the western district in state politics. Text printed in double columns.
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)
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Inconstancy of Apostasy — Multiple Metamorphoses
Nicholls [a.k.a., Niccols, Nicols], John. A declaration of the recantation of Iohn Nichols (for the space almoste of two yeeres the Popes scholer in the Englishe seminarie or college at Rome) which desireth to be reconciled, and receiued as a member into the true Church of Christ in England ... London: Imprinted by Christopher Barker, 1581. Small 8vo (14.5 cm; 5.75"). [98] ff.
$5750.00
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Nicholls (1555–84?) was educated at Brasenose but did not take a degree. Instead, he left upon completion of his course work and returned to his native Glamorgan, Wales, where he soon obtained a curacy. In 1577 he left his position, gave up his allegiance to the Church of England, travelled to Rome, and voluntarily submitted himself to the
Inquisition where he formally recanted his Protestantism. He was welcomed warmly into the Roman Catholic Church, and in 1580 was back in England.
He was arrested in Islington, London, sent to the Tower, recanted his Catholicism, became an informer denouncing various Catholics of his acquaintance. His allegiance changed yet again in 1582, in Rouen, where he recanted his most previous recantation and was
very cautiously received back in the Church of Rome. Death came soon after.
“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)
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Presentation Copy — Pickering Press
Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir. Life of Geoffrey Chaucer. London: William Pickering [colophon: C. Whittingham], 1843. 16mo (17 cm, 6.7"). Engr. frontis., [5], 10–144 pp.
$375.00
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First separate edition of antiquarian Nicolas' well-respected Chaucer biography, from the Pickering Press, researched using public records and with plenty of notes following the text. The volume opens with an
engraved frontispiece of Chaucer by W.H. Worthington after H.L. Keens taken from from a manuscript of Hoccleve's poems in the Harleian Library, and bears Keynes' device no. v on the title-page. Nicolas, a prolific scholar, later edited six volumes of Chaucer in the Pickering Aldine Poets series in 1845 and 1852.
Provenance: This is a presentation copy, with the inscription “The Lord Brougham [&] Vaux from the Author” in ink on a front endpaper, and with the Baron’s gilt monogram and coronet stamp appearing on the spine. The Edinburgh-born Henry Peter Brougham (1778–1868), described as “precociously talented” by the Oxford DNB, helped start the Edinburgh Review and the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, served as Lord Chancellor, and was the first Baron Brougham and Vaux. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1843.12; Keynes, Pickering, p. 82; NSTC 2N8249; Pickering & Chatto, William Pickering (catalogue 708), 214. On Nicolas & Brougham, see: Oxford DNB (online). Half 19th-century polished calf and marbled paper, spine ruled in gilt with a gilt-stamped brown leather title-label and rolls in blind; gently rubbed, some leather faded or darkened. All edges speckled red. Light age-toning; one leaf with chipped edges. Provenance indicia as above with also at top left corner of inside front cover a good-sized paper label over another paper label, this bearing a large “Q”; a shelf mark? a particularly cryptic “bookplate”? (39060)
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Woodcut Border by
SPRINGINKLEE
Nilus Ancyranus (i.e., Nilus, of Ancyra, Saint; a.k.a. St. Nilius of Sinai). Beatiss. Patris Nili, episcopi et martyris theologi antiquiss, sente[n]tiae morales e graeco in latinu[m] versae. Nurembergae: Fridericus Peypus, [1516]. 4to (20.3 cm; 8"). [10] ff.
$1750.00
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First edition of Saint Nilus of Sinai's Sententiae morales as translated by Willibald Pirckheimer from the Greek to Latin. Both talented men were great supporters of others in their lifetimes, Nilus being “a leading ascetical writer of the 5th century” while defending St. John Chrysostom, and German humanist Pirckheimer (1470–1530) befriending both the illustrator Albrecht Durer and the theologian Erasmus (Holweck, Biographical Dictionary of the Saints, p. 745). At the end here, on the final two leaves, is a sermon of St. John of Damascus, “Ex Sanctiss, Patriss [sic] Ioannis Damasceni sermonibvs.”
A woodcut border cut in reverse (i.e., the background is black and the figures are white) with Pirckheimer's coat of arms and Grecian decoration, originally attributed to Durer but now attributed to Durer's pupil Hans Springinklee (ca. 1490/ 1495 – ca. 1540), adorns the title-page; the border was first used in Plutarchi Chaeronei de his qui tarde a numine corripintur libellus (1513).
Evidence of Readership: Words and phrases of text have been underlined in early ink, with one word added marginally
.
Provenance: Illustrated bookplate of 20th-century German book collector Ida Schoeller on front pastedown; later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear. A pre-WWII German bookseller's description has been pasted on the rear pastedown.
VD16 N1760. On the title-page, see: Dodgson, German and Flemish Woodcuts, I, p. 379. Modern boards covered in an incunable leaf, light glue action to endpapers; small interior tear (or short slim wormtrack) to title-page and its top edge closely trimmed affecting edge of woodcut border. Readership/provenance markings as above, moderate age-toning and foxing with a few marginal spots/stains.
A good copy of an apparently unusual little work. (37818)
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New York Gubernatorial Election 1820 The Issue of Patriotism
“No Time Server,” & “Red-Jacket”. Broadside. Begins, “Of all the strange and unaccountable things which have appeared during the present electioneering campaign, the Federal Bucktail Address, which has lately been put into circulation is the most so.” New York state: no publisher/printer, 1820. Folio (34 cm, 12.75"). [1] f. (verso blank).
$975.00
A wall posting of the Democratic-Republican party supporting incumbent DeWitt Clinton for Governor of New York in the 1820 elections against Vice-President Daniel D. Tompkins, the candidate of the Tammany-Virginia wing of the party. The document is a direct reply to the anti-Clinton Federal Bucktail Address (signed on 14 April 1820) and its signatories, a group of 40 men known as the “high-minded Federalists.” Named members include John Duer and Rufus King. Of particular interest is the author's contention that the group misrepresented the nature of their opposition to the War of 1812. Signed in type: “No Time Server. April 19th, 1820.”
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)
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“The Editor Flatters Himself that the Execution of this Reprint . . .
Will be
Self Recommended”
The noble and renowned history of Guy Earl of Warwick. Containing a full and true account of his many famous and valiant actions, remarkable and brave exploits, and noble and renowned victories. Chiswick: Printed by C. Whittingham for John Merridew et al., 1821. 12mo (19.5 cm, 7.75"). x, [2], 148 pp.; illus.
$250.00
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Chiswick Press production of this enduringly popular romance, first printed in the 17th century and here illustrated with a frontispiece of Guy's statue “in the Chapel at Guy's Cliff” by S. Williams, a title-vignette of a woman sitting on a bower bench, and two pages showing his “armour, etc.”
Binding: 19th-century half brown morocco and papier tourniquet paper–covered sides, gilt lettering on spine with ruling in blind, covers with blind beaded roll along leather edges; French curl marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, green ribbon placemarker.
Provenance: 20th-century bookplate of the Sondley Reference Library of Asheville, NC, on front pastedown and its embossed stamps on frontispiece, title-page, and two leaves of text; clipping of a bookseller's description on endpaper. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Bound as above, gently rubbed. Moderate age-toning with light spotting, a few unevenly trimmed leaves of text and one missing corner from paper manufacture, foxing to first and last few leaves of volume.
A strong and attractive copy of a book that's still a “good read.” (38427)
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ROMANTIC
Style & Story — Illustration Suites in Two States
Nodier, Charles. La légende de Soeur Béatrix. Paris: Librairie A. Rouquette, 1903. 4to (25 cm, 9.84"). [2] ff., 67, [1] pp.; [68] ff.
$975.00
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The coloring here is VERY delicate though at the same time rich
our photos really do not do them justice.
Beautiful and scarce. This is signed
no. 1 of an edition of 150 on Japan paper (there were also 10 on “papier vélin” re-imposed in 4s) color printed and with watercoloring after the original by Henri Caruchet, the coloring executed under his direction by artists at the atelier of A. Charpentier et Fils. The title-page is printed in red and black, with Soeur Béatrix's face in a central medallion of blue, grey, and white.
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 are
initialed 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 style
much 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 to
M.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)
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One of 30 Special Copies — Extra Plates, Signed Binding
Nogaret, François-Félix, et al. Le fond du sac, ou recueil de contes en vers et en prose & de pieces fugitives. Paris: Leclere (pr. Lyon: Louis Perrin), 1866. 8vo (20 cm, 7.8"). xli, [3], 172, [2] pp.; 12 plts.
$1000.00
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Nogaret (1740–1831) was perhaps more noted as France's theatrical censor or as the Freemason responsible for various Masonic hymns than as an author — with one exception, that being his story about an automaton created by a man named Frankenstein, predating Shelley's by almost 30 years. In the present collection (originally published in 1780), he gathers some of his own poems, short stories, and literary essays, including “La Main Chaude,” “Délire bachique,” and “Bouquet à Jean” along with pieces by other contemporary hands. This is
one of only 30 copies printed on papier de Chine, this example with an extra suite of plates bound in offering a second state of the frontispiece and the eleven headpiece engravings by Duplessis-Bertaux.
Binding: Contemporary signed blue morocco, covers framed in gilt triple fillets with gilt-stamped arabesque central medallion surrounded by a frame of gilt double fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine gilt extra, with gilt dentelles and marbled paper pastedowns; lower edge of front dentelle stamped “Allô” (Paul Charles Allô, 1823–90). All edges gilt. Original slim, tricolor silk bookmarker laid in.
Vicaire, Manuel de l’amateur de livres du XIXe siècle, 201. Binding as above, spine gently sunned, joints and extremities rubbed, area of light discoloration to each cover at joint, back cover with small scuffs; front hinge (inside) tender. Front pastedown with unidentified bookplate reading “Exploranda est veritas” (name effaced); back free endpaper with institutional rubber-stamp and note of proper deaccession. Bookmarker separated and laid in, as above, with offsetting on either side; scattered light foxing. Volume now housed in maroon cloth–covered clamshell case partially lined with marbled paper.
Interesting 19th-century French belles-lettres, beautifully produced, here in a beautifully bound example with the bonus suite of plates. (34918)
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Hebrew Aramaic Latin
Nold, Christian. ... Concordantiae particularum Ebraeo-Chaldaicarum in quibus partium indeclinabilium quae occurrunt in fontibus ... ostenditur ... Accommodantur huc etiam particulae graecae conferuntur versiones et multa scripturae loca ita explicantur ut ubi tenebrae uel dissensiones sunt adiungantur annotationes et vindiciae. Joh. Bottfr. Tympius ... summa cura recensuit ... Nunc primum congestas a M. Sim. Bened. Tympio ... denique appendicis loco subiunxit Lexica particularum Ebraicarum Joh. Michaelis et Christ. Koerberi. Jenae: sumtibus Jo. Felicis Bielckii, 1734. Large 4to. 984, 22, 37, [3] pp.
$500.00
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A reworking of Christian Koerber's Lexicon particularum Ebraicarum, but really rather more: A work that combines the characteristics of an Old Testament Hebrew concordance, an O.T. Aramaic concordance, a particle dictionary of Hebrew, and a Latin dictionary of Hebrew. Here in a later edition.
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)
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Groundbreaking French & English Research on
ELECTRICITY, Freshly in Italian
Nollet, Jean-Antoine, & William Watson. Saggio intorno all'elettricità de' corpi ... Traduzione dal francese. Aggiuntevi alcune esperienze ed osservazioni, che illustrano l'istessa materia. Venezia: Presso Giambattista Pasquali, 1747. 8vo (17.1 cm, 6.75"). Frontis., 254, [2 (blank)] pp.; 5 fold. plts. [with] Nollet, Jean-Antoine. Ricerche sopra le cause particolari de fenomeni elettrici e sopra gli effetti nocivi o vantaggiosi che se ne puo' attendere. Venezia: Giambatista Pasquali, 1750. 8vo. 334, [2 (blank)] pp.; 8 fold. plts.
$1500.00
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Two first Italian translations: Nollet's Essai sur l'électricité des corps, and his Recherches sur les causes particulieres des phénoménes électriques, each translated by an unknown hand. Abbé Nollet — the first professor of experimental physics at the University of Paris — achieved great notoriety for his empirical experiments in
the conduction of electrical force, often involving numerous human participants (including, once, 180 soldiers at Versailles). In the first work here, he offers his two-current theory of electrical conduction, which conflicted with and was eventually superseded by Franklin's work. This first edition appends (with a separate title-page, but continuous pagination) an Italian translation of A Sequel to the Experiments and Observations Tending to Illustrate the Nature and Properties of Electricity, first published in 1746 by Sir William Watson, a physician, botanist, and physicist who was as much of a pioneer in English electrical studies as Nollet was in French. The Ricerche is an early entrant in the corpus of works on
electrophysiology. Also, “The author lays down a theory, according to which the cause of electrical phenomenon is the “effluence and affluence” of a subtle fluid which is everywhere present. Some interesting experiments are described with vacuum tubes also on the influence of electrical charges on the growth of plants” (Wheeler Gift).
The first treatise appears here in the state where the tailpiece on p. 13 is a bird surrounded by acanthus leaves, as opposed to an arabesque with shell. The volume features
14 engraved plates altogether, including a frontispiece depicting Nollet's famous experiment in which he
suspended a small boy from the ceiling and then electrified him, allowing onlookers to see and feel the magnetic effects, as well as five tipped-in folding plates (in Saggio) showing pieces of equipment and experiment designs, and another eight along the same lines in Ricerche. The final plate presents a rather remarkable setup in which a frock-coated observer gestures towards a hanging contraption involving three shelves on which rest plants, a small mammal in a cage, and a bird in a cage.
Wheeler Gift 329 (Essai), 335 (Recherches). Contemporary vellum, spine with early hand-inked title and shelving number, page edges marbled in red and blue; front joint starting from foot, joints with spots of pinpoint worming (more prominent to endpapers), corners rubbed, vellum showing mild dust-soiling, spine slightly darkened. Mild foxing, mostly but not entirely confined to first two-thirds of volume. First and last few leaves with pinhole worming, including frontispiece (just barely touching image) and margins (but not images) of last few plates; final folding plate of first work with a short slice from the lower margin, not touching image and not affecting stability; one leaf with small hole touching about three letters. First title-page with faded, early inked Italian ownership inscription; an early reader has affixed a place-marking paper tab to the outer margin of the title-page of the Ricerche.
Attractive, interesting, and uncommon. (39735)
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Post-Revolutionary Schism: Against Constitutional
Doctrine
Normand, abbé. Les premiers efforts du schisme dans La
Touraine, repoussés par la voix de la vérité; ou réponse a la lettre circulaire du 22 Mars, de M.
Suzor.... Paris: Artaud, Crapart, Guerbart, Dufrêne, & Pichard (Pr. by Laillet), 1791. 8vo (21.7
cm, 8.5"). [2], 54 pp.
$175.00
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First edition, untrimmed copy of this response to a piece by Pierre Suzor, the
Constitutional bishop of Tours, with the text of Suzor's letter included at the front. Here, the curé
of St-François-de-Paule in Tours defends the clergy of the Gallican Church.
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)
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“I Now Write Only to Those of the Learned Order”
Norris, John. Treatises upon several subjects, formerly printed singly, now collected into one volume. London: Printed for S. Manship at the Ship near the Royal-Exchange in Cornhill, 1697. 8vo (19.2 cm; 7.625"). [16], 448, 443–506 pp.
$650.00
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This first edition compilation contains Norris' “Reason and Religion;” “Reflections Upon the Conduct of Human Life;” “A sermon preach'd in the Abby Church of Bath;” “The charge of schism continued;” “Two treatises concerning the divine light,” a response to Quakers offended by an earlier publication; and “Spiritual counsel: or, the father's advice to his children,” a much softer piece written for his four children. Text also includes two advertisement leaves of “Books printed for S. Manship.”
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. A
variety of pieces from a prolific theological writer. (36098)
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“To this
GOOD WOMAN Unsung & Unsaid / We Dedicate the Book We Have Made”
North Congregational Church (Saint Johnsbury, VT); Ladies' Benevolent Society. A collection of tried recipes contributed by various St. Johnsbury house-keepers, and published in behalf of the Ladies' Benevolent Society of the North Congregational Church, St. Johnsbury, VT. St. Johnsbury, VT: C.M. Stone & Co., 1883. 8vo (20.4 cm, 8.1"). Frontis., 87, [1] pp.
$175.00
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Uncommon Vermont charitable fundraiser cookbook, opening with a frontispiece engraving of the North Congregational Church and with a delightful — apparently original — poem beginning “We have often asked and are asking still / For the name of the woman whose wondrous skill / Whipped the first eggs till she saw them rise, / Like a feathery mountain before her eyes.” This collection covers the standard categories of soups, fish, meats, vegetables, salads, pickles, breads, desserts, and preserves; the majority of the recipes are attributed to local ladies. The whole was edited by Mrs. Walter P. Smith and Mrs. Robert McKinnon.
This copy saw clear and evident use primarily as a resource for cakes and other desserts: while most of the pages are (if at all) only lightly worn or spotted, the “Cake” section displays venerable battle scars from numerous baking endeavors. Two recipes clipped from a newspaper (for “Hermits” and Snow Pudding) are laid in towards the back, among the advertisements for St. Johnsbury businesses.
WorldCat locates only five libraries reporting ownership.
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Cook, America's Charitable Cooks, p. 251. Publisher's red cloth–covered board, front cover and spine ruled in black, front cover with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped decorations, spine with black-stamped title; binding cocked, rubbed, and soiled with front hinge (inside) cracked and a bit weak. Front pastedown with small ticket of C.C. Bingham, a St. Johnsbury druggist and pharmacist. Pages mildly age-toned with scattered small spots, two pages with offsetting from now-absent laid-in paper, dessert section showing extensive wear as noted above.
Scarce, and remarkably evocative. (38086)
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Illustrated Fables by
One of Thomas Bewick's Favorite Pupils
Northcote, James; William Harvey, engr.; William Hazlitt. One hundred fables, original and selected. London: George Lawford (pr. by J. Johnson), 1828. 4to (25.3 cm, 10"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., [6], iii, [1], 272 pp.; illus. II: lx, 248 pp.; illus. [with] Northcote, James; William Harvey, engr.; Edmund Southey Rogers, ed. Fables, original and selected. Second series. London: John Murray (pr. by C. Whittingham), 1833.
$600.00
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Here are both series of Northcote's profusely illustrated fairy tale collections together, with
over 500 in-text wood engravings by William Harvey, one of Thomas Bewick's favorite apprentices, after Northcote's work “based on illustrations from old prints onto which Northcote pasted his own designs,” and with ornamental letters and vignettes designed by Harvey himself (DNB online).
The first volume of this work was published in 1828 with the writing help of Northcote's friend and essayist William Hazlitt and begins with a frontispiece of Northcote engraved by W.H. Worthington. The second, which contains 101 new fables, was printed by Whittingham at the Chiswick Press and produced posthumously through the effort of Edmund Southey Rogers, who also contributed a biographical sketch of Northcote to the volume.
Binding: Late 19th- or early 20th-century polished tan calf, spines each with two different-colored leather spine labels, compartments gilt-stamped with two birds in a fountain, covers framed in gilt double fillets around a delicate foliate roll. Board edges with gilt double fillets, turn-ins with decorative gilt roll, marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear of each volume.
Bound as above: gently rubbed at corners and hinges, one sunned board, two short scratches and one with a bit of discoloration around it, pencilling on one endpaper. Provenance as above, light age-toning with the occasional spot, moderate foxing on and around frontispiece.
Neatly laid out, beautifully illustrated, handsomely bound, happy condition. (37998)
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Kierkegaard on Mediation
“Notabene, Nicolaus” (i.e., Soren Kierkegaard). Forord. Morskabslaesning for enkelte staender efter tid og leilighed. Kjobenhavn [i.e., Copenhagen]: Faaes hos universitetsboghandler C.A. Reitzel, Trykt i Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri, 1844. 12mo (17.5 cm; 6.75"). 110 pp., [1] f.
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Kierkegaard published Forord (i.e., Preface) on the same day as Begrebet angest en simpel psychologisk-paapegende overveielse i retning af det dogmatiske problem om arvesynden (The Concept of Anxiety) and yes, they are related and intertwined.
The fictional author Notabene seems capable of writing only prefaces and explains why they are important, criticizing those who skip over them. How this work intersects with the other is that both concern mediation. As one anonymous writer notes, Notabene “is mediated by his wife as well as his reviewer”; the fictional author of The Concept of Anxiety, Haufniensis, is against his knowledge of sin being mediated by Adam.
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)
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A BALLI-Printed Broadside A Mexican INCUNABLE
Notarial form. Carta de poder. [Mexico: Pedro Balli, before 14 September 1590]. Folio. [1] f.
$1875.00
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The text of this power of attorney is contained on the recto and has these printing characteristics: Type face: gothic. Imprint area: 250 x 140 mm. Number of lines of text: 44. First line: SEpan quantos esta carta vieren,como yo Last line: forma d[e] d[e]recho. E para lo auer por firme obligo mi persona y bienes Blank space between the first and second lines of text: 30 mm. Woodcut initial: None.
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)
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Presentation Copy from the Illustrator — A Star-Studded Colophon
Novak, David Alan, comp. & ed. The first one hundred years, 1892–1992. A keepsake volume for the centenary of
the Rowfant Club. Cleveland: The Rowfant Club, 1992. 4to (26 cm; 10.25"). xii, 77 pp., illus.
$200.00
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Assembled here are short biographies of members and honorary members, stories of various furnishings of the club house, episodes in the history of the club, and details of the club's library.
Limited to 315 copies, “[t]his book was printed at the Yellow Barn Press . . . during the summer of 1991. It has been set in 15 point Perpetua designed earlier this century by Eric Gill. . . . The paper is Rives. . . . The book was bound at the Campbell-Logan Bindery. . . . John DePol designed the pattern paper for the covers. Neil Shaver printed the book on a Vandercook III. Denise Brady folded and collated the edition” (colophon).
DePol also provided the
numerous 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)
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The Etched Plates, in
Sanguine
Nurse Dandlem's little repository of great instruction, containing The surprising adventures of Little Wake Wilful, and his deliverance from the Giant Grumbolumbo. Glasgow: Pub. & sold wholesale, by J. Lumsden & Son, [ca. 1815]. Near miniature (9.5 cm, 3.75"). 47, [1] pp.; illus.
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“Written by the famous Prussian, for the sole amusement of the chickabiddy generation,” this little chapbook is “embellished with [eight] copperplates”
printed in sanguine, seven of which plates have two images. The deep rust-red of these illustrations is striking, and the impressions are simply
excellent. (Of special interest to Americans, one part of the story and one of the vignette images portray
“The Engagement with {Pirate} Paul Jones.”)
Pages 1 and 48 are blank and are pasted to the inside of the front or rear wrapper, as appropriate. This is a later edition, the first having been issued in the 1780s.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Roscoe & Brimmell. James Lumsden & Son of Glasgow, 106. Publisher's salmon-colored wrappers, evidence of onetime binding in a sammelband, now clearly removed with small rubbing to spine and signs of old oversewing. Very good. (38963)
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Highlighting Modern Fine Printing
Oak Knoll Press. Oak Knoll Fest X portfolio: A collection of broadsheets. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Books, 2003. Folio (30.5 cm, 12"). T.-p., [36] ff. (three items appearing twice).
$200.00
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Typographic keepsakes: a celebration of the tenth Oak Knoll Fest, dedicated to fine printing. Present here as a gathering of unbound leaves are 33 remarkable broadsheets designed and printed by the Aardvark Press, the Alembic Press, Henry Morris of the Bird & Bull Press, Michael Peich, Jan and Crispin Elsted of the Barbarian Press, Michael Andrews of the Bombshelter Press, the Celtic Cross Press, Éditions du Silence, David Esslemont of the Solmentes Press, the Fleece Press (with an engraving by Jane Lydbury), Gwasg Gregynog, Robin Price and Anne Thompson, the Harsimus Press, the Hill Press, Graham Moss and Kathy Whalen of the Incline Press, the Inky Parrot Press, the Kat Ran Press, Craig Jobson of the Lark Sparrow Press, Abigail Rorer of the Lone Oak Press, the Midnight Paper Sales Press (with illustration by Gaylord Schanilec, the sheet signed by Schanilec and numbered 108 out of 166), Carolee Campbell at the Ninja Press, the Old School Press, the Perpetua Press, Bernard Bracaval of the Pré Nian Press, Sebastian Carter of the Rampant Lions Press, Walter Bachinski and Janis Butler of the Shanty Bay Press, the Sherwin Beach Press, the Walking Bird Press, the Warwick Press (signed by Carol J. Blinn), the Whittington Press, the Woodside Press (a delightful oversized, folded broadside setting forth the rules of tea in the printing shop), and Neil Shaver of the Yellow Barn Press (“How to Dun a Deadbeat Book Customer,” an attractive resetting of a letter from the Roycrofters). The leaves offer an impressive variety of papers, fonts, and design elements, with many bearing original illustrations.
The portfolio was assembled at the Campbell-Logan Bindery; this is
numbered 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)
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By a Franciscan
PROTESTANT?
Ochino, Bernardino. Liber de corporis Christi praesentia in Coenae Sacramento ... cui adiunximus eiusdem authoris Labyrinthos de diuina praenotione, & libero seu seruo hominis arbitrio. Basileae: [apud Petrum Pernam, 1561 or 1563]. Small 8vo (15.5 cm; 6") 2 pts. in 1 vol. I: A–R8; [2] ff., 261, [1 (blank)] pp., [3 (2 blank)] ff. II: a–t8u4; [4] ff., 301 [i.e., 299], [1 (blank)] pp., [2 (1 blank)] ff.
$2875.00
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During his life Bernardino Ochino seems always to have been searching for something more. In 1504 he joined the Observant Franciscans, pursued a wide range of studies, and rose to be a provincial and later the vicar of the Cisapline province. But that was not enough and in 1534 he joined the stricter Capuchin Franciscans, rising to serve as their vicar-general. He ranged beyond the convent walls and was a very popular preacher.
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, spine
gilt 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)
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Christmas Gift of
Riddles & Other Mental Fun
Old Friend. Mince pies for Christmas, and for all merry seasons: consisting of riddles, charades, rebuses, transpositions, and queries. London: Printed for Tabart & Co., 1812. 24mo (13.5 cm, 5.25"). Frontis., vi, 192 pp.
$250.00
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A darling little book “intended to gratify the mental taste, and to exercise the ingenuity of all sensible masters and misses,” proudly printed here in a “new edition” (title-page) and with the editor's charming Christmas birthday dedication to a 7-year-old girl. The juvenile readers are presented with mental fun and exercises and not left 'hanging” by the challenges, for
the answers and solutions are printed at the rear. The volume ends (p. [187]–92) with the bookseller's advertisements.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel
(“AHA”) at rear.
Gumunchian 4045; Osborne Collection, 223 and 850 (for earlier editions). Early 19th-century green half calf with green marbled paper sides, red spine label; moderate leather wear and paper rubbed. Title-page with light offsetting from frontispiece and a small central piercing that takes three letters; cropped variously close in margins, not touching type. Four riddles on one page ticked in pencil; text otherwise clean.
A nice copy. (39685)
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“A Surprising Narrative” — Set in NYC
“Old Sleuth” [pseud. of Harlan Page Halsey]. Carrol Moore; or how he became a detective. New York: J.S. Ogilvie, © 1897. 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). 89, [11 (adv.)] pp.
$65.00
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A now-uncommon dime novel, No. 77 in the “Old Sleuth's Own” series: a shrewd young illustrator, newly arrived in New York City, embroils himself in the hunt for a missing heiress.
WorldCat locates only four U.S. institutional holdings.
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)
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A
Perishable Press–Favored Author
Olson, Toby. The pool, from the novel Dorit in Lesbos.
Driftless [i.e., Mt. Horeb], WI: Perishable Press, 1991. 8vo (26.2 cm, 10.3"). 38 pp.; 1 fold. plt.
$400.00
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First edition: Stand-alone printing of a particularly evocative sequence from
Olsen's novel Dorit in Lesbos, dedicated to Alan Peacock (given here as Allen). This interesting
Perishable Press printing was handset in Gill Sans and printed on Shadwell paper, made by Kent
Kasuboske “back in the Oligocene sometime” according to the colophon; the work is illustrated
with an oversized, folding plate and other designs by Lane Hall.The present example is
numbered 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)
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A.K.A. “Four Poems” — Hamady's Calligraphic Inscription
Olson, Toby. Three & one. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1976. 16mo (13.3 cm, 5.25"). [16] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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First edition of this collaboration between Olson and Walter Hamady of the Perishable Press, with a title variance commented upon in the postface; while the half-title calls this Three & One, the title-page gives Four Poems, with the Perishable Press bibliography using the former. The typeface was Sabon-Antiqua printed in blue, maroon, black, and grey on Frankfurt and Frankfurt Cream papers, sewn into blue marbled paper wrappers, and the poems are
illustrated with two intricate drawings by Mary Laird, hand-tinted with colored pencils by the printer. 145 copies were printed.
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)
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Perishable Press Production from Walter Hamady, His New Wife,
& One of His Favorite Poets
Olson, Toby. Worms into nails. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1969. 8vo (24.3 cm, 9.6"). [32] pp.
$115.00
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First edition: The second collaboration between Olson and Walter Hamady of the Perishable Press, who eventually produced a total of seven books together. Signed by the author at the dedication, this is numbered copy 36 of 200 printed — of which only 140 copies were for sale. The text is Palatino “hand-set by the PPL's new partner . . . Mary Hamady” (according to the colophon), printed in red, black and tan on handmade Fabriano paper; Two Decades describes the gilt front-cover image as “Jack Beal's drawing of worms literally turning into nails.”
Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 28. Publisher's navy cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped vignette; spine all but imperceptibly sunned, otherwise clean and fresh. (31574)
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Iconic Orientalism
Omar Khayyám; Edmund Dulac, illus.; Edward Fitzgerald, trans. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. New York & London: Hodder & Stoughton (pr. by T. & A. Constable at the Edinburgh University Press), [1909]. 4to (28.7 cm, 11.25"). Illum. t.-p., [10], 120 pp.; 20 col. plts.
[SOLD]
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First trade edition of this deluxe production: Fitzgerald's classic translation with
20 gorgeous chromolithographic mounted and tipped-in plates by Dulac. These romantically exotic images are among Dulac's most beloved, and appear here in painstakingly color-printed glory, each plate within an arabesque border.
Publisher's tan cloth, front cover with ornate gilt-stamped peacock and elephant frame and spine simply gilt-lettered; joints, spine extremities, and corners showing minor wear. Gutters pulling slightly inside free endpapers; one plate with crease along one corner; two pages each with small spot of foxing in outer margin, pages otherwise clean.
Stunning, covetable illustrations. (38670)
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Limited Editions Club: O'Neill Comedy
O'Neill, Eugene. Ah, wilderness! New York: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1972. Folio (28.5 cm, 11.25"). 161, [3] pp.; 8 col. plts. (4 double-page).
$175.00
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A humorous rendition of the playwright's own youthful romantic indiscretions, here with an introduction by Walter Kerr, red and blue decorations drawn by Sylvie Roizen, and
eight full-color plates (four of which are double-page spreads) printed by Holyoke Lithograph Co. from oil paintings by Shannon Stirnweis. The artist elected to “bring the reader into the setting as a member of the audience” (according to the newsletter) by depicting the first scene as if the viewer were sitting in the theater, with subsequent images moving the viewer on stage and sweeping the other audience members out of sight.
This is
numbered copy 1346 of 1500 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist. The appropriate Club newsletter and prospectus are both laid in. The volume was designed by Adrian Wilson, set in Monotype Kennerley and Mars types, and printed on Curtis wove paper by Clifford Burke at Mackenzie and Harris, Inc.
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)
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Experiments in Printing Subtlety from the Perishable Press
Oppen, George. Alpine. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable
Press, 1969. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.7"). [16] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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First edition, dedicated “to those who as poets and publishers have rescued a
nation's literature”; Walter Hamady, proprietor of the Perishable Press, was particularly pleased
with that dedication, saying “one of my favorite pages is the dedication page, 18 point Palatino
italic has a fine flow to it & the blind debossment of another geologic structure below it excites
me.” Like that blind-stamped illustration, his distinctive pressmark appears also in blind, at the
colophon — and
the copyright line (deliberately) appears in such a faint grey, overlying a
line on the title-page recto, that its near-invisibility caused issues with filing for copyright.
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)
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Perishable Press Poetry
Oppenheimer, Joel. Del quien lo tomó: A suite. Mt. Horeb, WI: Perishable Press, 1982. 8vo (20.3 cm, 8"). [26] pp.
$140.00
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First edition: “Adornment of Body,” “The Jane St. Poem,” and “Autumn,” preceded by a collage illustration that Hamady (who called this production a personal favorite) described as “a 'lady-out-of-the-map' rising die-cut from a grommetted card pocket with a red halo.”This is
one 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)
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Pieces Found Filed under
“NH Poems”
Oppenheimer, Joel. New Hampshire journal. Perry
Township [i.e., Mt. Horeb], WI: Perishable Press, 1994. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.1"). 48 pp.; illus.
$650.00
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First edition: A simply and strikingly designed
Perishable Press printing of
these poems, written towards the end of Oppenheimer's life and published posthumously. They
appear here with an afterword by Oppenheimer's widow, Theresa Maier, and woodcut page
decorations by
Margaret Sunday.This is numbered copy 39 of 125 printed and it is
hand-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)
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Perishable Press: Fathers, Sons, & Women
Oppenheimer, Joel. Notes toward the definition of David. Minor Confluence [i.e., Mount Horeb], WI: Perishable Press, 1984. 8vo (25.5 cm, 10").
[20] pp.; illus.
$50.00
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First edition: Cleanly designed Perishable Press production, this being one of 210
copies and
signed by the author, illustrated with a wood engraving by Pati Scobey. The
colophon proclaims “This book is the first for the third decade of this press, and is the one-hundred-seventh since beginning in 1964" — it also thanks produce manager Randy Hagen for
saving onion skins over several months to facilitate the production of the handmade Shadwell
“Onionskin” cover stock.
Publisher's paper wrappers as
above, front wrapper with tiny lion device stamped in red. A fresh, unworn copy.
(30919)
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Signed, Limited Edition
Oppenheimer, Joel. Sirventes on a sad occurrence. Madison, WI: The Perishable Press, 1967. 12mo (18.3 cm, 7.25"). [4] pp.; 6 ff., [2] pp.
$150.00
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First separate printing of this poem, which Walter Hamady (proprietor
of the
Perishable Press) described as “one
of Joel's most top-shelf poems . . . so tough and at the same time so tender
with a humanity as big as the planet.” The text is printed in black, brown,
and red on Arches and Nideggen papers, in a pamphlet binding handsewn by Hamady.
This is one of 130 copies printed and was
signed
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)
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With Discussion of Unicorns . . .
. . . A Grand, Beautifully
REPRESENTATIVE Set
Origen. Origenis Opera omnia quae graece vel latine tantum exstant et ejus nomine circumferuntur. Parisiis: Jacobi Vincent; & Joannem Debure,
1733–59. Folio extra (41 cm; 16" ). 4 vols. I: [4] ff., xvii, [1], 979, [1] pp. II: [2] ff., xxviii, 934
pp., [1] f. III: [1] f., viii, 1039, [1] pp. IV: [2] ff., x, 766, 402 pp.
$2750.00
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A complete set in
extremely handsome old bindings of the works of Origen, the founder of the allegorical interpretation of scripture in biblical exegesis. Vols. I, II, and III
were printed in 1733 by Vincent but vol. IV was delayed until 1759 when Debure printed it .
All volumes are
elegantly printed in double-column format placing
the original
Greek text in the inner columns, the Latin translation in the outer, and commentary/notes in a
smaller font below, with ease of navigation enhanced by additional side- and shouldernotes.
Title-pages in black and red, and initials and head- and tailpieces both woodcut and engraved,
grace and support the scholarly production; the title-pages are well laid out, the initials are
various and sometimes large. Three
page-spanning engravings appear in addition, each one-third page in height, with the first two depicting Clement XII (with putti, after Gravelot and
signed by N. Dupuis) and the second depicting a complex scene of martyrdom (signed Jac. de
Savanne) — these in vol. I, while vol. IV boasts an unsigned companion image showing a scene
of judgment or law-giving.
Origen's works are among the foundational works of Christian thought and were read by
all of the church fathers. He had a profound influence on the history of ideas in the fields of
theology, philology, and preaching from late antique times to the present. Vols. I, II, and III
were edited by Charles de La Rue and IV by C.V. de La Rue.This
large 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)
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Lenten Liturgy from
the Phoenix Press
Orthodox Eastern Church. Liturgy & ritual. [In Greek: Triodion katanyktikon, periechon apasan ten anekousan auto akolouthian tes Hagias kai Megales Tessarakostes ... ]. Benetia: Ek tou Hellenikou Typographeiou o Phoinix, 1876. 4to (32 cm, 12.5"). [4], 455, [1 (blank)] pp.
$850.00
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Third edition of this handsome Phoenix Press production, following the first of 1839. The liturgical book used by the Eastern Orthodox Church during Lent and the weeks leading up to it appears here with the half-title, title-page, and text elegantly printed in red and black (with a lot of red), and with the text in double columns; the title-page bears a wood-engraved phoenix vignette and decorative border.
Uncommon: OCLC locates only two U.S. institutional holdings, one of which has since been deaccessioned.
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)
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Cresci Arrighi Erasmus Yciar *&* Others
Osley, A. S. Scribes and sources: Handbook of the Chancery hand in the sixteenth century. Boston: David R. Godine, 1980. 8vo. 291 pp.
$25.00
“Texts from the writing-masters selected, introduced and translated by A. S. Osley; with an account of John de Beauchesne by Berthold Wolpe.”
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)
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“My Creditors Have Indeed Fallen upon Me without Mercy”
Otis, Samuel Allyne. Autograph Letter Signed to unknown addressee. Boston: 11 September 1785. 12mo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). [2] pp.
$750.00
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Otis was a Boston merchant, the brother of revolutionary James Otis, Jr., and of America's first female playwright, Mercy Otis Warren. In 1789 he was elected Secretary of the United States Senate.
Here he writes, “my creditors have indeed fallen upon me without mercy.” He assures his correspondent that the note that he owes him is a personal one and not drawn on Otis's company; so, he advises the correspondent not to accede to any demands of Otis's business creditors regarding that note.
Provenance: Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.
Very good condition. (27919)
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The Science & Mechanics of
Iron, ILLUSTRATED
Overman, Frederick. The manufacture of iron, in all its various branches. Philadelphia: Henry C. Baird, 1850. 8vo (24 cm, 9.4"). 492, [4 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
$450.00
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Illustrated with
150 in-text wood engravings done by William B. Gihon, this important early treatise on the “practical utility” of the technology of the iron industry was written by a prominent mining engineer and metallurgist. The title-page proclaims, “Including a description of wood-cutting, coal-digging, and the burning of charcoal and coke; the digging and roasting of iron ore; the building and management of blast furnaces, working by charcoal, coke, or anthracite; the refining of iron, and the conversion of the crude into wrought iron by charcoal forges and puddling furnaces . . . to which is added, an essay on the manufacture of steel.” This is the second edition, following the first of the previous year.
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)
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Ovid's “Art of Love” in GERMAN — Limited Edition with Slevogt's Embellishments
Ovidius Naso, Publius. Des Publius Ovidius Naso Lehrbuch der Liebe. Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1921. Folio (31.9 cm, 12.75"). 90, [4] pp.; illus.
$975.00
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Attractive edition of the Ars Amatoria translated into German by Ernst Hohenemser. The title-page and the charming, individual, and in a few cases mildly erotic head- and tail-pieces were lithographed by Max Slevogt, a notable member of the Berlin Secession. Publisher Cassirer was an art dealer and editor who actively promoted and supported artists of the Secession and the French Impressionist School.
This is numbered copy 201 of 320 printed, of the eighteenth work to come from
Cassirer's Pan-Presse. The Lehrbuch is not widely institutionally held
in the U.S.; WorldCat finds
only
three American locations.
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)
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The Venerable History
COMPLETE
(OXFORD). Peshall (or Pechell), John. The history of the University of Oxford, to the death of William the Conqueror. Oxford: 1772. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). [2], 32, [6] pp. [with his] The history of the University of Oxford, from the death of William the Conqueror, to the demise of Queen Elizabeth. Oxford: Pr. by W. Jackson & J. Lister for J. & F. Rivington, 1773. 4to (27.3 cm, 10.75"). [4], 264, [2] pp.
$2000.00
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Bound together here are this author's first, 32-page history, tracing the story of education in Britain back to the Druids, and his much more extensive follow-up on Oxford's development including, e.g., passages on
politics, religious controversies, town–gown contretemps, and epidemics. Sir John Peshall (sometimes given Pechell, formerly Pearsall), sixth baronet, was a clergyman and antiquary known for his philanthropic activities; he was himself an Oxford man (BA 1739, MA 1745).
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of the famed Hookham Circulating Library.
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)
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