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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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“Moi Aussi Je Suis Philosophe”
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. (32624)
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Investigating the Signs of the Body
Naumann, Moritz Ernst Adolph. Handbuch der allgemeinen Semiotik. Berlin: August Hirschwald (pr. by J.G.F. Kniestädt), 1826. 12mo (17.8 cm, 7"). xviii, 456 pp.
$275.00
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Sole edition: Naumann (1798–1871), a German physician and professor at the University of Bonn, published a number of works on clinical medicine as well as on more metaphysical topics. Here, he covers
the art of diagnosis based on interpreting signs and symptoms, including sections on mental phenomena arising from physical conditions and those “die von der Seele selbst auszugehen scheinen” (p. xviii). The work is now scarce, particularly outside of Germany, with a search of WorldCat finding just two U.S. institutions reporting holdings (National Library of Medicine & University of Chicago) and only a handful of European holdings.
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)
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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)

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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Flowers, Patriotism, SCANDAL
[Newell, Mrs. D., ed.]. Family circle and parlor annual [volume IX]. New York: J.G. Reed, [1851]. 8vo (22.6 cm, 9"). [1], 10–410 pp., [26] leaves of plates (some col.); illus., music, ports.
$255.00
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Sentimental literature originally published as individual issues of the Family Circle magazine and here collected and bound into a yearly volume gift book (with index) — charmingly illustrated not only with 12 of the usual steel-engraved scenes but also with
9 hand-colored plates, 4 wood-engraved plates, and a chromolithographed added title-page. The hand-colored plates include a peacock and variety of flowers, shrubs, and trees including alstroemeria, the moss rose, the inga, catalpa, and the Nankin magnolia.
The book's theme is established both by these plates and by the accompanying series of florally themed romantic stories, while other pieces refer admiringly to temperance, patriotism, or female education. Some plates were engraved by R. Soper, Allanson, W. Wellstood, A.L. Dick, and J. Smillie; lyrics and music for “Christian Graces” and “Springdale” are present.
Shockingly the editors report “a most infamous conspiracy to injure and break down several periodicals in this city — our own among the number — has lately come to light” (p. 230). The subscribers’ lists of several periodicals were leaked (apparently by clerks) to unscrupulous individuals who then sent “a vile obscene and filth paper [sic]” to those unsuspecting patrons.
Binding: Publisher's red, richly gold-stamped textured leather, covers with gilt-stamped central bouquet in a basket. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Pencilled name of Peter J. Revill on front free endpaper.
Faxon 188c. Not in Tepper or Thomson. Binding as above and
a brilliantly BRIGHT example. Varying degrees of foxing and staining, most notably surrounding plates. A very pleasing volume from many points of view. (40888)
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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.
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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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BILINGUAL KISSES
Nicolaius, Johannes Secundus. Kisses: Being a poetical translation of the Basia of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius. London: Pr. by John Crowder, for J. Bew, 1790. 8vo (20 cm, 7.75"). [6], iv, 6, 17-252 pp., [1] f., plt. (without the added engr. title-leaf).
$75.00
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Nicolaius (a.k.a. Janus Secundus, 1511–36) was a Dutch poet known for his Latin elegies, epigrams, odes, verse epistles and epithalamia (i.e., lyric odes in honor of a bride and bridegroom). This English rendition of his most famous work, the Liber basiorum, was done by physician and prolific translator John Nott: It presents the translation and the original Latin in parallel columns.
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)
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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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Surveying the Literature of
Street Vendors
Nisard, [Marie-Léonard] Charles. Histoire des livres populaires ou de la littérature du colportage depuis le XVe siècle jusqu'à l'établissement de la Commission d'examen des livres du colportage (30 novembre 1852). Paris: Librairie d'Amyot (Imprimerie D. Jouaust & Ch. Lahure), 1854. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.64"). 2 vols. I: [4], xvi, 580, [4] pp.; illus. II: [4], 599, [1] pp.; 1 fold. plt., illus.
$500.00
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First edition of this important study of the chapbooks and tracts (both secular and religious) peddled by itinerant sellers in France: the first comprehensive, systematic work published on the subject. Nisard was a member of the titular government committee charged with licensing (and censoring) the literature sold by colporteurs, putting him in an excellent position to collect and document a great deal of otherwise ephemeral printed material — much of which he considered pernicious in influence. Covered in these two substantial volumes are almanacs, occult pamphlets, catechisms, biographies, sermons, letters, primers, religious polemics, romances, etc.
The text is
decorated with over 100 illustrations reproducing woodcuts from tracts
described, many mounted and some full-page, including a number of danses macabres.
Brunet, VI, 1720 (no. 30066); Graesse, IV, 679. Later plain cream linen, spines with titles stamped in brown; minor sunning to spines and to top front edge of vol. II. Edges untrimmed, most signatures unopened; dust-soiling to edges and into many margins; foxing, creasing and cockling variously; some leaves in vol. I with short tears from outer margins (often where an illustration needed to be placed inside an unopened signature).
Of interest for scholars of public morals and popular culture, the book trade, and illustration in France from the 15th century through the middle of the 19th, among other topics. (40866)
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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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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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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 from the Chiswick Press
Northcote, James. One hundred fables, original and selected. London: Geo. Lawford (pr. by C. Whittingham, Chiswick Press), 1829. 8vo (20 cm, 7.87"). Frontis., viii, 272 pp.; illus. [with the same author's] Fables, original and selected ... second series. London: John Murray (pr. by C. Whittingham, Chiswick Press), 1833. 8vo (20 cm, 7.87"). lx, 248 pp.; illus.
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AESOPIAN MORAL TALES, some in prose and some in verse, each illustrated with a headpiece vignette and decorative capital, and most bearing a tailpiece as well. The
over 500 wood engravings were accomplished by a variety of hands (including William Harvey, one of Thomas Bewick's pupils) after designs by Harvey and by the author himself; they are attributed in indexes at the back of the volumes. The first volume is here in its stated second edition, following the first of the previous year, and the second volume in its first edition.
Provenance: Front pastedowns with “Suivez raison” armorial bookplate of Robert Callwell, front free endpapers with “Spectemur agendo” armorial bookplate of Laurence A. Waldron, Dublin. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 55 & 56; NSTC 2N10328 & 2N10331. Contemporary half green morocco with green pebbled cloth–covered sides, leather edges with gilt fillet, spines with gilt-stamped title and dates and blind-stamped compartments; spines slightly sunned and volumes showing light shelfwear. Bookplates as above. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean.
A handsome set of a classic Aesop. (40759)
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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 Oneida Community's Official Newspaper
Noyes, John Humphrey, ed. The circular. Brooklyn, NY: No publisher/printer, 1851–52. Folio (46 cm, 18.5"). 207, [1] pp.
$2875.00
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John Humphrey Noyes founded the Oneida Community in 1848 and The Circular came into being only three years later as the reinvented version of The Free Church Circular, which had been Oneida's periodical until a fire destroyed the printing area in July, 1851. It was not only the Oneida community’s own newspaper, it was
its chief propaganda organ and that is apparent in these pages; for who “outside” could resist curiosity such as that raised by the headline of the very first issue's first article here — “Financial View of the Second Coming. [Adapted to Wall Street]”? Over the years The Circular was to change its name several more times; in 1871 it became The Oneida Circular and in 1877 it changed again to The American Socialist. Similarly, and even more frequently, its place of publication changed: Brooklyn (1851–54), Oneida, NY (1855–Feb. 1864), Mount Tom (i.e., Wallingford, CT, Mar. 1864–Mar. 9, 1868), and finally Oneida Community (Mar. 23, 1868–Dec. 26, 1870).
The Oneida Community has often been called the most successful American 19th-century Utopian community: A Perfectionist communal society dedicated to living as one family and to sharing all property, work, and love. The website of the Swarthmore College’s Peace Collection has this to say about the it, and about The Circular in particular: “The Oneida Community was an experiment in Christian perfectionism, the doctrine that by union with God, humans could live lives entirely free from sin. Founded by John Humphrey Noyes (1811–1886), it was radical in the thoroughness with which this challenging ideal was pursued. The community's religious leanings are readily apparent in the discussion provided by The Circular, in which many [secular] topics are covered; yet most of the conclusions call on religious ideals.”
The Oneida newspaper meant so much to Noyes that even after he gave up control of the Oneida Community, he was to retain control of the newspaper and continue its
its advocacy for social change along with argument for communitarian economic aims, and these embraced a wide range: women’s rights, abolition, “complex marriage” (a form of polyamory), birth control via male continence, and (eventually) proto-eugenics, to name but five. As a University of Syracuse digital guide to the Oneida Community Collection notes, “The papers contained a very frank record of the daily life at Oneida as well as religious tracts, discourses on current subjects of social, political, and economic interest, letters to the editors, and advertisements for the Community's varied manufactured goods. They made no secret of their manner of life. . . . “
Present here is The Circular's volume I (numbers 1–52, November 1851 through October 1852), all issues printed in four-column format and very legible type. Following the attention-grabbing article already cited, the gathering's first issue presents a neat statement of “The Basis and Prospects of the Circular” before moving directly on to recount at length the foundering on a Hudson River excursion of a Community-owned sloop, with the loss of two woman members' lives.
This is an engaging, very readable social history compendium apart from its usefulness for the study of a particular, mid–19th century American, radical social and religious movement.
Mott, History of American Magazines, II, p. 207; Lomazow, American Periodicals, 568; Oneida Community collection in the Syracuse University Library, pp. 24–25; https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/o/OneidaCommunityCollection/hsr1.htm; and Sabin, 89516. Stitched, in plain wrappers. Front wrapper with a patch of waterstaining along upper spine area, carrying through variously but usually faintly through March issue; some later issues on paper inclined to browning. Untrimmed, and with very little staining or tattering.
A physically stable collection, safely and immediately usable. (41155)
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COLORFUL Engravings & (Sometimes!) “COLORFUL” Verses
(e.g., “I had a little husband . . . ”)
(Nursery Rhymes). Bysh's edition of nursery rhymes. Embellished with eight coloured engravings. London: Pr. by T. Richardson for J. Bysh, [ca. 1825]. 12mo (14.5 cm, 5.7"). 36 pp.; 6 col. plts.
$350.00
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Chapbook of poetry for children, illustrated with hand-colored wood engravings. In addition to the better-known nursery rhymes that have stayed in modern circulation, present here are some grimmer verses about carrion crows, penknives to the heart, little ducks shot through the head, etc., along with a separate section of longer “select pieces” including “The Blind Boy,” “The Beggar's Petition,” and “Winter Reflections.” Each plate offers a pair of images, for a total of 12 illustrations; both the cartoonish engravings and the very bright coloring are vigorously done.
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)
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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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The Admiral Was Convicted of . . . Losing His Temper?
Ogle, Chaloner, defendant. The tryal of Sir Chaloner Ogle, Kt. rear admiral of the Blue. Before the Chief Justice of Jamaica, for an assault on the person of His Excellency Mr. Trelawney the governor, committed in his own house in Spanish Town, on the 22d day of July last. With authentic copies of the several letters that passed on that occasion, between Mr. Concanen, now Attorney General of the island, Sir Chaloner Ogle, the Governor, and A-----l V-----. London: Printed for W. Webb, 1743. 8vo (20 cm). 22 pp..
[SOLD]
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Adm. Ogle ( 1681?–1750) was tried in Jamaica for assault on the person of Edward Trelawney (1699–1754), the governor of the island; the “A-----l V-------” of the title-page is Admiral Edward Vernon; and, Ogle was convicted although the letters and testimony in the pamphlet make it pretty clear that there was much sympathy with him in his offense.
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)
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This “Old Woman” Has a
MIGHTY VIOLENT Turn of Mind!
The old woman and her pig. [New-York: McLoughlin Bros., 1890?]. Small 8vo (19.9 cm, 7.75"). [6] ff. (incl. boards); illus.
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One of the
very colorful McLoughlin Brothers' “linen” books, here in the “Pleasewell Series.” Illustrated with four fine full-page chromolithographs and one double-page, with two of those images reused on the covers (but in the mirror image of those in the text).
Very good condition. With pencilled
inscription to a child “from papa and mama, Dec. 25–1890,” at top of first page. (38771)
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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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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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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.
$625.00
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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 with small bubbles on covers and split at front joint with fragility. 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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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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A Famous, FAMOUS Debate
Owen, Robert, & Alexander Campbell. Debate on the evidences of Christianity; containing
an examination of the “social system,” ... reported by Charles H. Sims, Stenographer. Bethany, Va.: Pr. & pub. by Alexander Campbell, 1829. 8vo. 2 vols. in 1. 251, [1 (blank)] pp.; 301, [1 (blank)] pp.
$700.00
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First edition of this account of the famous and important debate between the social reformer, atheist, and idealist Robert Owen (founder of New Llanark, etc.) and preacher, Christian, and educator Alexander Campbell (founder of Bethany College), that occurred in in Cincinnati in April, 1839. Includes an “appendix, written by the parties.”
Shoemaker 39945; Goldsmiths', Robert Owen, 1771-1858: Catalogue of an exhibition of printed books held in the Library of the University of London, 79a. Uncut copy, in original quarter cloth, with paper spine label. Binding worn, covers detached (such bindings are notoriously delicate), and with the usual amount of foxing to pages. Housed in a cloth clamshell box. A “good” copy. (12047)

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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Keeping the Theoretical & the Practical in Balance
Ozanam, Jacques. La geometrie pratique, contenant la trigonométrie théorique & pratique, la longimétrie, la planimétrie, & la stéréometrie. Avec un petit traité de l'arithmetique par géometrie. Paris: Charles-Antoine Jombert, 1736. 16mo (16.2 cm, 6.375"). [8], 308, [20 (index)] pp.; 8 fold. plts.
$300.00
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Corrected and enlarged edition, following the first of 1684. Ozanam (1640–1718) was a largely self-taught mathematician who became a teacher and a member of the Académie des Sciences. He published a number of well-regarded treatises on mathematics, including the much-reprinted Dictionnaire mathématique — the first work of its kind in French — and the groundbreaking Récréations mathématiques et physiques. The present work on practical geometry is
illustrated with eight tipped-in folding engraved plates, while its accompanying “petit traité” features numerous in-text diagrams.
Contemporary mottled roan, spine gilt extra with raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label; acid-pitted and worn, especially at joints and extremities. All edges stained red. One plate creased near fold with outer edge slightly proud. Pages and plates clean. (40302)
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