This edition of Spanish Jesuit Nadal Geronimo's text is apparently rare. Wefail to trace any copies whatsoever by author, title, or the uniform title, despite searching NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, KVK, and VD17.

•  This edition not listed in DeBacker-Sommervogel.   19th-century paste boards covered with German stone pattern marbled paper in tones of brown, beige, and blue; binding worn, corners bumped or creased. Ex-library with bookplate, old stamp in lower margin of title-page, charge pocket and date slip at rear. First three plates after the Evangelists with damage and loss to inner lower margin area. Finger-, dust-, and other staining to margins of many plates, and foxing in some margins; the images, however, are generallyvery clean and free of the afflictions of the margins.  (33609)

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)

•  Publisher's tan cloth, corners bumped, in handsome illustrated dust-jacket, sunned and with a small chip / short tear or two. A very nice book! (22344)

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.

Vol. I “continens dictionarium latinum cum hispanicis interpretationibus Cui ad jecti sunt, praeter ca quae olim fuerunt addita á Xantho Nebrissensi Antonii filio, insignes loquendi modi, phrases, adagía quae ibi deside rabantur; ac pené innumerae dictiones cum carum explanation ibus, originibus, etymologia latinis, quam graecis; expurgatis al quamplurinis, quaepro veris in prioribus editionibus intrusas fuerant: quae omnia latius in praefatione ad lectoruem exponuntur” and vol. II “complectens dictionarium hispanum ejusdem auctoris latine interpretatumin hac nova editione emendatum, quamplirimis vocabulis, pharasibus, adagiis, ac variis locundi formulis adornatum, auctum, locupletatum: deinde alterum propriorum nominum oppidorum, civitatum, montium, fontium, flviorum, lacuum, promontoriorum, portunm, sinum, insularum, & locorum memorabilium, ab eodem autore compositum: nunc denuó quibuasdam interpretationibus vernaculis, quae ibi deerant, adjectis.”

Provenance:  18th- or early 19th-century bookseller's label of the Libreria de Lozano of Cadiz.

•  Palau 189216 (erroneously giving date as 1761, having read the final roman numeral as I instead of L) & 189222 (without giving publisher).   Contemporary acid-stained Spanish sheep, round spine, raised bands, modest gilt tooling on spine, one red and one green spine label on each volume. Labels abraded with some loss; binding with abrasions and rubbed in places to the underlying boards, but binding mostly very nice. Marbled endpapers. Occasional light age-toning and three or four gatherings browned from impurities in water during paper manufacture. A sound, decent set.  (28907)

•  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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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)

The volume was printed by Philip Kerrigan, with the text set in Monotype Bembo by the Whittington Press and “subsequently put through the stick at Oxshott,” on Basingwerk paper. This isnumbered copy 205 of 270 printed (this being one of the 250 regular copies), bound by Woolnough Fine Binding.

•  Publisher's quarter marine blue canvas and light blue buckram–covered sides; spine with silver-stamped title, beautiful endpapers. A clean, attractive copy of a very handsome book.  (34080)

•  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)

This item is rare: No copies were found in OCLC, RLIN, or NUC Pre-1956.

•  Removed from a nonce volume; without wrappers. Uncut. A few very light spots of foxing. In excellent shape.

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

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

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

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

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

Rare.  We fail to trace any copies via OCLC.

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

Provenance:  Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.

•  Very good condition. Old folds. Clean.  (33386)

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

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

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•  Garrison & Morton 1612 (London ed.).   Original textured olive cloth, covers framed in blind, front cover with gilt-stamped title; binding faded with areas of moderate discoloration, most notably at head of spine and adjacently on front cover. Ex–social club library: hand-inked paper shelving label on spine, call numbers on endpapers, rubber-stamp on title-page and two others, no other markings. Pages clean.  (27884)

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•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers, front wrapper with affixed color-printed illustration; corners and edges rubbed, wrappers sunned and lightly soiled, front wrapper with small area of discoloration from now-absent label. Ex–social club library with its attractive bookplate, back inside wrapper with charge-slip, inked numeral in lower margin of preface, no other markings. Pages clean; a few corners bumped.  (27469)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

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

The specifications of the verso are: Imprint area: 42 x 153 mm. Number of lines of text: 9. First line: que e[n] vuestro lugar y e[n] mi nombre podays hazer et sostituyr este poder en vna per Last line: la clausula judicium sisti iudicatum con sus clausulas acostumbradas Blanks: at the end of lines 4 and 9 and the beginning of 5.

The document was sworn in Puebla on 16 January 1562, before the notary Juan de Bedoya, and in it Martinez de Iturriaga, a ship's master temporarily in Puebla, gives his power of attorney to Antonio Lopez de Erquinigo.

The date of printing of this form is based on the exemplar in the Beinecke Library at Yale, where the earliest manuscript date on the carta is 9 October 1565.

Valton (see below) attributed this formulary to Juan Pablos. It bears no relation to the examples of his job printing that we have seen; it does, however, bearthe hallmarks of Ocharte's craftsmanship. Our assignment of printer is based on approximate date of printing and on types and ornaments; we will observe, however, that the type used here is the type Ocharte inherited from Juan Pablos via Ocharte's wife, Juan Pablos' daughter.

This exemplar of a Mexican incunable predates the exemplar at Yale by three and a half years and is the earliest Mexican printed power of attorney we have ever seen.

•  Szewczyk & Buffington, 39 Books and Broadsides Printed in America before the Bay Psalm Book, 6 (for the exemplar now at Yale), fully illustrated. Appears to be Carpenter's type 4, attributed by Valton to Juan Pablos.   Removed from a bound volume of notarial documents and irregular along one margin. One wormhole in the lower margin. Light waterstain in upper margin. Overall very good.  (34554)

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)

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)

Provenance & Evidence of Readership: Front pastedown with bookplate of collector Proinnsías Ó Bríain (i.e., Francis Massey O'Brien, Irish-American bibliophile and bookseller); front fly-leaf with pencilled inscription of N.A. Murphy and with older, partially effaced inked inscription (similar inked inscription on title-page, now all but absent). Endpapers with O'Brien's pencilled annotations (including his statement that this copy once belonged to U.S. Congressman Dan McGillicuddy); purchase place noted on both front free endpaper and back fly-leaf. Occasional other pencilled annotations and marks of emphasis from O'Brien's hand, almost entirely confined to early and late portions.

•  ESTC T56380. On O'Halloran, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online.   Contemporary calf, covers framed in gilt fillet and blind roll, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-decorated raised bands; a bit rubbed and scuffed, front joint predictably starting from the weight of the volume. Endpapers and fly-leaves with annotations and inscriptions as above; back pastedown with affixed biography of O'Halloran. Several sorts and degrees of waterstaining variously in (not all) upper portions, affecting title-page and engraved armorial vignette at head of dedication; otherwise, only scattered spotting/staining and mild to moderate age-toning. One leaf torn from upper margin, extending into text without loss; a few lower corners bumped; lock of hair laid in. Not a pristine but a good usable copy of a relatively uncommon item, with pleasingly appropriate associations.  (30548)

Title-page printed in black and red, text in double-column format.

•  Palau 200148.   Contemporary limp vellum with ties; a browned copy. Half-title cut down and mounted; title-leaf remargined. Worming in margins and in text, with loss of words and letters; occasionally a tear, occasionally an old marginal note.  (31655)

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

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

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

A search of WorldCat and NUC locates only ten copies in the U.S. and another of COPAC finds only the British Library copy.

•  Palau 201032; Almirante, Bibliografia militar de España, 575; Alden & Landis 681/104; Sabin 57230; Medina, BHA, 1731.  Early limp vellum, old author, title, and device inked on spine; recased and new endpapers supplied in front, with ties renewed. Added engraved title supplied in facsimile, so too the volvelle; interior tear without loss precisely along the outer edge of the text block on pp. 1/2, evidence of printer misjudgment in the impression. Old inked notes on inside of rear cover, and in a few other places; some instances of old, generally faint waterstaining or minor ink-accident; generally, a clean copy.  (28466)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This offering includes the monthly newsletter.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Although a number of leaves here are blank, the content is substantial, legible, and interesting. No dates are present in the text itself, but the paper bears a Dutch watermark related to Churchill 109–119, and was produced in the Seven Provinces ca. 1675–1700 and the recipes attributed to Beeton must date after 1861. Some of the handwriting and spelling is consistent with a date of 1730.

•  Contemporary vellum, rebacked, corners rubbed/bumped, front cover with now-illegible traces of inked ownership inscription, covers with spots of discoloration; hinges (inside) reinforced. First leaf excised (first recipe present numbered 2). Soiling (mostly at or in from edges) and moderate foxing/spotting, throughout.  (25630)

•  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)

Uncommon.  OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 find only four U.S. holdings.

•  Brunet 13064.   Contemporary vellum, covers framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled central lozenge, spine with hand-inked title; front cover slightly warped, binding dust-soiled. Front pastedown institutionally rubber-stamped. Scattered spots of light to moderate foxing. Errata (final page) lined through in ink.  (24490)

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

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

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

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

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

•  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)