•  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, with leather of one spine compartment chipped away; 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)

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)

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)

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)

Evidence of Readership: Scattered unobtrusive marks of emphasis, annotations, and corrections pencilled in an early hand.

Provenance:  From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Contemporary marbled paper, spine with gilt-stamped paper label; binding rubbed and scuffed. All page edges stained blue. Occasional small, neat markings as above. A clean, pleasing copy of this uncommon medical work, in its contemporary binding.  (40663)

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)

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

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 thiscomprehensive 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, andan illuminating volume from an important series.  (38045)

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)

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)

•  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)

•  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)

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)

In addition to an essay on Nicolaius's life and writings, Nott also provided passages from other poets for comparison, samples of other English and French translations of Nicolaius, and annotations on phrases he found particularly attractive or compelling; the Epithalamium and some fragments are appended following the title work. This is self-described as the fourth edition.

The plate depicting Aphrodite admiring the sleeping Ascanius is after a design by Mortimer and was engraved by F. Bartolozzi.

•  19th-century half tan calf, scuffed and abraded but sound; without the added engraved title-leaf and with the odd stain, otherwise complete and pleasing. A nice old book.  (39875)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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 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)

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)

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)

Although the WorldCat entry for this undated edition suggests a publication ca. 1840, John Bysh's peak publishing dates (between 1810 and 1825) and the address given here — as well as the inscription (see below) — indicate an earlier printing. Only two U.S. institutions report holdings via WorldCat (Morgan Library, Princeton).

Provenance:  Frontispiece recto with inked ownership inscription of S.G. Rolls, dated 1828. Later in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  This ed. not in Opie (see N 953 & N 954 for other Bysh eds.); not in Osborne Collection. 19th-century marbled paper–covered boards, housed in a dark purple cloth–covered clamshell case; binding rubbed, case with remnants of now-absent paper label on spine. Original printed paper wrappers bound in, front with upper and lower margins trimmed. Wrappers darkened and spotted, pages lightly age-toned with scattered small spots of foxing; last leaf with outer margin ragged and with lower portion torn away resulting in loss to the sentimental “Winter Reflections” of about eight lines on each side, neatly repaired some time ago with plain paper. Uncommon and intriguing, with more than a little by way of unexpected content. (40736)

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)

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress 7982 (different printing, same year); Sabin 56843; ESTC N13696; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 743/171.   Removed from a nonce volume. Very good.  (39076)

•  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)

•  Very good condition. With pencilledinscription to a child “from papa and mama, Dec. 25–1890,” at top of first page.  (38771)

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)

Provenance:  Library of the . . . German Society in Philadelphia; its bookplate and shelving indicia inside front cover.

•  American Imprints 30124; NSTC 2O4386.   Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding scuffed and worn but holding (helped by tape under shelving label), with front hinge (inside) tender and free endpapers lacking. Ex–social club library: paper shelving label on spine, 19th-century bookplate and call number on pastedown, title-page pressure-stamped, no other markings. Pages age-toned and intermittently spotted and stained, with occasional bumped corners and short edge tears.  (29782)

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)

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)

•  Bound in recent quarter red calf with marbled paper sides. Repairs to the lower inner margins of all leaves and last leaf backed; first leaf with foremargin repaired and some edges of paper with tears; old staining, not serious. Very good.  (40706)

•  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)

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)

While WorldCat does locate an 1876 New York printing of Our Girls Songster (note the absence of an apostrophe), that edition is only 68 pages and the Brown University catalogue record specifies that it does not include music. NO institutional holdings of this much more substantial songster are reported. It should be noted that the front wrapper here does give the title as “Our Girls' Songster,” and also that there are 12 pages of publisher's advertisements present.

•  Publisher's cream paper wrappers with blue lettering and illustration of a young woman on front wrapper; spine paper chipped, rear wrapper absent, front wrapper foxed and with outer corners lost (cutting off the vol. number) and with short tear from spine. Interior age-toned and lightly foxed. An unusual survivor, profoundly evocative of cheerfully lowbrow 19th-century American entertainment.  (37925)

•  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)

•  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)