Rare.  We trace no U.S. copies of this edition via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, or RLIN.

•  NSTC 2P809, Imprint 3; this edition not in Goldsmith’s-Kress. Recent speckled brown wrappers. Some shallow chipping. Closely trimmed by binder, shaving a few signatures and borders of tables. Inked numeral in margin of title-page.  (11201)

With the leaf of advertisements for “new publications for sale by John Fellows.”

Provenance: Signature of “Geo. Wilson jr,” dated 1880, inked to title-page.

•  Evans 30944; ESTC W20110 & T5824.   Uncut copy, without the half-title, stitched in modern plain wrappers; dust-soiled and age-toned with old dampstains. Ownership signature as above on title; pencilled note on verso (not in the same hand), “bad effect on bank of connection with gov't.” A good copy.  (29899)

Paleario was at once a creation of the Renaissance and of the Reformation.  He carried on a wide correspondence with the intellectuals of his time, he studied the writings of Luther and Erasmus, and he sought to reconcile the old with the new. This edition of his works is chiefly composed of his letters, but also includes “De Immortalitate Animorum libri III,” and “Poematia.”

•  On Paleario, see: Contemporaries of Erasmus, III, 45–46. Contemporary vellum over boards; bit of abrasion and black speckling in lower area of spine. 18th-century armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Occasional light spotting in text. Notes in pencil on rear endpapers. Rear free endpaper torn with loss of paper in the lower outer area.  (19246)

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 20980.   Contemporary treed sheep, spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels; leather rubbed and volumes pleasantly refurbished. Front and back pastedowns with institutional bookplates; pencilled shelfmarks, etc., with shadows of these visible on title-pages. Occasional spots of light to moderate foxing.  (14453)

•  Adams P238, P239, P246 (1560 ed. only), P243; Brunet, IV, 356. Contemporary vellum-covered boards, spine with inked title; vellum slightly soiled, with spine title faded. All edges stained blue. First title-page mounted and several leaves with outer margins or upper outer corners reinforced, two pages with loss of a few letters at upper outer corners. Second play lacking two preliminary leaves and final register leaf. Two leaves with annotations in an early inked hand, now faded; pages with intermittent mild waterstaining.

Toxites (born Johann Michael Schütz) was poet laureate of Holy Roman Emperor under Charles V, himself an alchemist, and, like Paracelsus, a doctor.

Evidence of readership: The recto of the front free endpaper is filled withquotations from the Bible that the reader feels bear on the text of the first tract; the verso of same bears an extensive quotation from Toxites' foreword to Paraceleus' Astronomia magna. At least one reader has written commentary in the margins of both texts and even written miniscule inter-liner corrections, observations, or explanations of words. Some marginalia is merely “indexing” so as to be able to re-find a text section by keyword in the margin; other marginalia tie concepts in the texts to other published texts. In the blank area below the colophon and continuing on the blank verso of that same leaf is an extensive quotation from Georg Forberger followed by more quotations from the Bible that are apposite to Paracelsus' text.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only four copies in U.S. libraries and searches via COPAC, VD16, and KVK find precious few in Britain or Europe.

•  Sudhoff 141; Ritter, p. 1144; Wellcome 4788; Durling 3494; VD16 P611. Not found in Gerguson or Duveen. On “electron,” see: C.J.S. Thompson, The Lure and Romance of Alchemy (London: Harrap, 1932), p. 42; and cited in Walter Pagel, Paracelsus: An Introduction to Philosophical Medicine in the Era of the Renaissance (Basel: Karger, 1982), fn. 230, p. 87.   19th-century tan half pigskin and marbled boards, with remnants of an old paper label. Front free endpaper and title-leaf loosening, moderately browned, good margins; overall a rather nice copy of aremarkably scarce work of pharmaceutical and alchemical science.  (37189)

Binding:  Publisher's grey silk, front cover with affixed color-printed illustration, spine with title stamped in black, in a striking lucite slipcase.

•  Binding as above, lucite showing predictable minor shelfwear, overall a beautiful copy. An uncommon printing of work by one of the most popular contemporary crime writers; actually, ofan all-star trio of writers.  (33332)

The volume opens with anoversized, folding map, engraved by M.M. Peabody, which Graff describes as “the earliest map of the Oregon interior with a pretense to accuracy”; includes an account of Parker'svoyage to Hawaii and Tahiti; and closes with avocabulary of Indian languages (Nez Perce, Klicatat, Calapooa, and Chenook). The plate depicts “Basaltic Formations on the Columbia River.”

•  Flake & Draper, Mormon Bibliography, 6100; Graff 3193; Hill, Collection of Pacific Voyages, 1306; Howes P89; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2907; Sabin 58729; Wagner-Camp, Plains & Rockies, 70:3.   Publisher's charcoal-colored ribbed cloth, covers with blind-stamped arabesque frame, spine with gilt-stamped title; cloth chipped at spine extremities and front joint, corners rubbed. Mild to moderate foxing. Map with faint spotting, a pinpoint hole at one corner, and one very short tear from inner edge; foxing and soiling, never dark/nasty but present throughout. A comfortably solid copy.  (29273)

We trace only five copies in U.S. libraries of the Haymarket item andnone of the novel.

•  Contemporary half brown cloth in imitation of leather, with marbled paper sides; rubber-stamp of Milwaukee bookseller C.N. Caspar on back pastedown. Haymarket item printed on highly acidic paper and brittle, brittle, brittle, and totally browned; novel with foxing. (32122)

Provenance:  The 19th-century joint bookplate of the Rev. J. Jones and the Rev. W. Wilds; later in the collection of The Society of the Holy Child Jesus with its bookplate laid over.

Sole edition (save for a modern reprint) of this Jesuit author's choleric and interesting Recusant work, this has added attraction for collectors and scholars of English law for the entire eighth chapter takes Sir Edward Coke to task “about a nihil dicit, & some other points uttered by him in two late Preambles, to his sixt and seaventh [sic] partes of Reports.”

•  STC (rev. ed.) 19412; Allison & Rogers, II, 635; DeBacker Sommervogel, VI, 313; ESTC S114160.   18th- or early 19th-century half calf over marbled boards, worn and abraded around edges, recently rebacked and original spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment devices retained; hinges (inside) strengthened. Two brief old inked notes on title-page; some sections with captions trimmed-into; rather a nice copyand very wild reading.  (36743)

•  Sutro 756 ("19p." being a typographical error for collation given here); not in Steele, Independent Mexico: A Collection of Mexican Pamphlets in the Bodleian Library. Folded and never sewn or bound; as issued.  (4992)

The first three volumes were printed in Amsterdam in 1734, and each opens with an engraved frontispiece; the fourth volume was printed in Cologne in 1739. All four volumes have title-pages printed in red and black, with the fourth specifying that Nicole's notes were translated by Mademoiselle de Joncourt.

Provenance:  All four title-pages with small early inked ownership inscription in upper outer corner of “A. Thorpe, York.”

•  Period-style quarter mottled calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels and gilt-stamped compartment decorations. Vols. I and II with frontispiece rectos institutionally rubber-stamped, with bleed-through into images; ownership inscriptions as above. Pages clean.  (27243)

•  Publisher's tan and brown printed paper–covered boards; spine somewhat darkened, paper chipped at spine and cracking along front joint. Front and rear free endpaper with inked presentation inscriptions dated 1914. Pages age-toned; one leaf with short tear from outer margin.  (33100)

•  Sabin 59130; Shaw & Shoemaker 6994. Recent simple paper-covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Slight cockling; minor foxing to first and last few leaves. Edges untrimmed. Two leaves with inner margin reinforced. A good copy.  (3230)

Provenance:  Author's presentation inscription, to “Craig Biddle,” on half-title.

This copy includes two old, related newspaper clippings: “Letter from General Joseph E. Johnston--the first battle of Manassas--important historical errors corrected” from the Daily Evening Telegraph, Philadelphia, dated Wednesday, 10 April 1867, laid in; and “Battle of Bull Run,” from the American Gazette, dated 27 February 1867, pasted to rear fly-leaf.

•  Sabin 59141.   Recent full black moiré cloth with tobacco-colored gilt spine label. Light offsetting to early and late leaves from old binding, old, light staining to a few interior leaves and three or four with marginal streaks or spots of a darker nature; otherwise, a clean good copy.  (6946)

The Americana content is found in the first section of the volume, dedicated to “deists,” chapter XI (subsections xxvi–xxxii); the natives discussed include those of Canada (Hurons), Virginia, Florida, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Earlier in the “deists” section there is equally interesting discussion of the afterlife in the religions for variousAfrican nations.

The title-page is printed in red and black with an engraved armorial design in the center. Several engraved historiated initials, including a few that show people holding books, and one engraved headpiece of women leading horses on clouds decorate the text.

Binding:  Uncut text in an 18th-century cartonné binding with an attractive hand-lettered vellum spine label.

Provenance:  “Ex Libris P. Josephi Sacella” written in the bottom margin of the title-page; Sacella has also inked a few words (mostly obliterated) to the front pastedown and a manicule within the text.

•  Alden & Landis, European Americana, 748/147.   Uncut and bound as above, corners bumped and binding rubbed with some loss of paper at front bottom corner, binding dust-soiled and spotted. Volume with final blank (only) lacking and with markings as noted above; half-title with loss of some paper at fore-edge. One leaf detached and two with short to medium marginal tears; central gatherings with a very pale, old, circular stain across gutter reaching type on a few leaves only; and a few leaves creased or with small spots. A handsome text interestingly cased.  (36831)

Part of the “Harper's library of select novels” series, the work appears here with vol. I in the second printing (vol. II had only one printing); the binding is BAL's state A, with the front cover of vol. II incorrectly marked “No. XXV.”

•  American Imprints 14120; Wright, I, 2024; BAL 15715.   Publisher's green cloth, covers and spines stamped in black; corners bumped, spots of discoloration, spines sunned (and a little bubbled) with extremities rubbed. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and call number on endpapers, title-pages pressure-stamped. No other markings; endpapers foxed and pages with intermittent moderate spotting.  (26533)

Provenance:  Ex–Theological Institute of Connecticut, properly deaccessioned.

•  Contemporary wrappers, with pencilling, spine perished and repaired with archival paper tape. Ex-library: two paper shelf labels on front cover, seven leaves with library's blind pressure-stamps. Light age-toning. A nice example of this press's typography in an interesting, characteristic text.  (36690)

Binding:  Publisher's brown cloth, gilt-and black-stamped.

•  A little spotting, a little shaken; a good++ copy.  (34001)

•  ESTC N34872; Part IV: ESTC T93310. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Title-page with traces of now-absent early ownership inscription and with an early inked annotation identifying Pearce, then the Bishop of Bangor, as the author; one page with inked and pencilled annotations. Pages mildly age-toned.  (14335)

Five celebratory harvest scenes are depicted — [1] a group of six adults and two horses moving a haycart, [2] a waitress holding a stein and four male customers in a pub setting, [3] a man asking a woman to dance in a wooded scene with a group of people to the left and a two-man band to the right, [4] a couple dancing with wreaths and a couple walking, in a wooded scene incorporating sheaves and a garland, and [5] several couples dancing around a tree with a village in the background.

To see the full vista, a viewer looks though a hole in image of the first scene, which is attached to the front of the box, to see the other scenes arrayed “within” the final one attached to the inside back of the box. All five etchings are meticulously hand-colored and complete.

•  Box covered in marbled paper; moderately rubbed and only slightly soiled with use, outside plate gently age-toned. Folds strong and plates firmly attached; one spot, two pinpricks, and light pencilling on accordion-folded paper but not plates. A dashing 3-D depiction of a 19th-century harvest celebration in a sweet small format.  (36054)

This is an uncommon edition: WorldCat does not find any institutional locations. There is apparently one copy of the same printing at the University of Essex, and the date given here is based on their assessment.

•  This edition not in NSTC.   Removed from a nonce volume; sewing loosening, with signatures starting to separate. Pages age-toned, with small area of waterstaining to upper outer margins; title-page with small spot of staining; plate mounted (some time ago), with three small spots of staining and some darkening around caption. A very readable copy of a striking and strikingly vivid morality tale.  (37200)

Provenance:  “F.W. Beasley from G.L. Harrison, Sr., April 3, 1877.” (Mr. Harrison was the lead plaintiff.) Below which, “Jones Dale, Rectory.”

•  Publisher's brown-purple cloth, spine faded; map usefully backed and reinserted. Very good condition and engrossing reading, especially for those entranced bythe spectacle of haute NIMBY drama.  (36975)

WorldCat and Shaw & Shoemaker locate a combined total of fewer than a dozen copies.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 18345.   Sewn, as issued, but without the wrappers; edges tattered. Waterstaining, heavy on first and last few pages. Uncut.  (25966)

•  Shoemaker 30185; on Powel, see: Dictionary of American Biography, XV, 143–44. Contemporary paper wrappers, front with printed paper label and separated from spine but present; chipping, soiling, and pencilling, with staining especially to lower edge of front wrapper. Pages untrimmed; varying degrees of foxing and staining; lacking frontispiece and one plate — a still-interesting volume priced according to its faults.  (3384)

This work predates Gill and Pepler's acquiring their own printing press, so it was “Printed by The Westminster Press, 411a Harrow Road, London, W.” (p. [128]) for them.

•  Gill (second ed.) 259.   Quarter bound in linen with red boards, with the title-page printed in black on the front cover. (Gill's emblem is particularly striking in this up-front presentation.) Boards lightly rubbed. A nice copy.  (35834)

•  NCBEL, II, 1583 (for the 1854 ed. on which the present ed. was based). Publisher’s textured cloth, worn, covers framed in decorative blind-stamping, spines ruled in blind and simply gilt-stamped with titles and volume numbers; spines faded, slightly discolored, all pulled with cloth lost above page level and one with additional chip out of cloth near head. Front pastedowns with tickets from a Nashville bookseller. Many pages with light offsetting (darker following frontispieces) and foxing such as the paper is prone to; front free endpaper of vol. IV with pencilled ownership inscription and back fly-leaf of vol. II with pencilled annotations. (4737)

Written in double-column format with 49 lines in each column on the recto and 54 lines per column on verso, the text consists of multiple snippets of text/extracts/quotations from multiple sources that are often noted in the margins. The sources include the Bible (especially, but not limited to Psalms, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Romans, and Job), the Glossa ordinaria, and authorities such as Saints Gregory, Ambrosius, and Bernard of Clairvaux.

This manuscript is copied in a script which has been variously described as “scholastic” or “university” — a small quick Gothic book hand, with considerable compression vertically (i.e., with short ascenders and descenders) and horizontally (with spaces between strokes equal to the thickness of strokes). Noteworthy in addition to this compression are a two-compartment “a” (occasionally verging on the single-compartment form); styles both long and round for “s” and long and 2-shaped for “r”; both uncial and textura forms of “t”; and the uncial “d,” straight/upright “l,” and horned” “g.” The text itself is heavily abbreviated, frequently including contractions (e.g., “e[ss]e,” “p[er]”/”p[ar]”/”p[ro],” etc.), macrons or other marks, and suspensions.

An English origin is possible for this leaf but the abbreviation styles suggest a French one; while the long final “s” and final “m” extending below the baseline (in addition to the approach to a single-compartment “a”), together with great speed of execution and letters more or less broken up into their component strokes, are frequently found in manuscripts specifically from the university of Paris.

The use of red is limited to one small capital “S,” to some “picking out” of initials (i.e., addition of red in the “open” areas of “p,” “d,” and the like), and to distinguishing sources and topics throughout the text. The beginnings of new sections (marked by the word “I[tem]”) are picked out in red, and sections of notes (marked “No”) are also “highlighted” by being framed in red at the foot of each page.

The margins are filled with extensive annotations and abbreviation symbols aid cross-referencing and to permit ease of navigating the text both within the space of the page and within the book as a whole. In places these are so dense that it is only with some difficulty that many may be deciphered.

Given the nature of the text and size of the leaf, it seems likely that the book from which this comes would have been producedfor the use of a mendicant friar, probably a Dominican.

•  The parchment is of reasonable quality and the leaf was used as binding waste; a vertical crease with five stitching holes spaced along it shows the spine location of the book from which it was recovered. There are a few other small and miniscule holes also, and the margin opposite the creasing has been a little cropped affecting marginalia. An instructive, visually lively, and most interesting manuscript survivor.  (37287)

The poem was originally printed in 1771. While this mid-19th-century chapbook was printed with reckless disregard for the amount of ink that actually wound up on any given page (for that is very uneven), it does feature a wood-engraved vignette on the title-page and what appears to be a tombstone tailpiece. It is also uncommon, WorldCat locatingno U.S. institutional holdings of this printing.

As the final page is devoted to an enticing description of “WARKWORTH CASTLE” and its environs, set in larger type than the poem, we wonder if this wasgiven or sold to tourists as a souvenir?

•  NSTC 2P11186.   Removed from a nonce volume; one leaf with two nicks to outer edge. A look at the enduring appeal of medieval legend to the Victorian audience.  (37230)

Perez de Ribas' work is exceedingly rare on the market. In forty years of bookselling, this is only the second copy we have handled. Very important and desirable.

•  Wagner, Spanish Southwest, 43; Alden & Landis 645/96; Sabin 60895, 70789; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VI, 525; Servies 176. JCB (3), II, 333. Medina, BHA, 1083; Palau 222254; Streit 1745; Barrett 1984; Bell P169; Howgego R35; Brunet, IV, 21590; Graesse, VI, 106; Leclerc, Bibl. Amer. (1867), 1305; Huth, Catalog, IV, 1243; Heredia 6836; Salva 3376.   Contemporary vellum, manuscript spine title, marca del fuego; hinges (inside) cracking, light soiling. Very small ink stamp on title-page. Light foxing and tanning to text; some very slight worming, confined primarily to margins in rear of text block. A few ink notations and stains. A very good copy in a cloth clamshell case, leather label.  (34581)

•  Fine copy.  (30791)

And yes, Claude was related to (brother, in fact, of) Charles Perrault, the fabulist and reteller of the Cinderella story and other tales.

•  Brunet, IV, 507; Graesse, V, 207; Cicognara, I, 607.   Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations, board edges with gilt roll; joints and extremities carefully and unobtrusively repaired and refurbished, edge gilt rubbed. Pages slightly age-toned, with scattered spots; last few leaves with margins a bit darkened. Small area of pinhole worming to outer margins, not touching text (three plates each with tiny portion of one line touched); some instances nicely refurbished with long-fiber tissue. A clean, wide-margined, attractive copy of an attractive book.  (33221)

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

•  Hain, Repertorium, 12749; Proctor 7608; British Museum, III, 757 (IB. 37387); Goff P-365.   Recent limp vellum, housed in a linen-covered clamshell case with a paper spine label; undeciphered ownership inscription dated 1618 on first leaf. Some old damp damage to all margins (including the gutter) on all leaves, repaired but with variable light brown waterstaining visible in those areas “framing” the pages. A few small pin-type wormholes, occasionally in text but not costing letters. An attractive Humanist “noble” fragment that is, at the same time, a thing complete.  (37457)

The reference to “multis epistolis auctum ex vetusto codice bibliotecae I. Chalasii I. C.” refers to the 65 letters found in the library of Johannes Chalasius, of Nîmes, andpublished here for the first time.

The volume is in roman type and has the Crispinus printer's device on the title-page, woodcut initials, and headpieces. This is one of several issues of an edition differing only in the imprint and in slight variations of paging.

•  Horti 364–5; Catalogue of the Petrarch Collection in the Cornell University Library 34; Graesse, V, 236 (“C'est l'édition la plus complète des Epitres de Petrarca.; il y a 65 lettres de plus que dans la prem. édition”).   18th-century half “white” calf, gilt spine, raised bands, boards covered with red and white combed paper; edges rubbed; two spine compartments lighter than others, some captions shaved by binder's knife. Old institutional bookplate (no other markings); 19th-century pencilling and pen notes on front free endpaper. A clean and nice copy.  (24431)

Petrarch did not conceive of I Triomphi as a single, unified work: They do not represent a continuous writing, they differ in character one from another, and they were not assembled as a single poem until after his death. Still, once brought together the six are clearly Petrarch's greatest effort to bring the model of Dante's Comedy into his own canon.

•  Adams P-801; Fowler, M. Petrarch, Pet N 533a.   18th-century quarter vellum over marbled paper–covered boards with “Petrarca – Trionfi” inked to spine, all edges speckled red; volume rubbed, especially at corners, boards gently bent inwards at fore-edge, light worming at spine, one small mark on front cover. Part of a larger work as mentioned above, with light pencilling on endpapers and one instance of old crayon, small signs of worming on front endpapers and most inner margins with several repaired, light waterstaining to upper inner margins and also across upper outer corners at end, a no more than ordinary degree of variable light foxing and soiling generally and a handful of leaves with uneven edges from paper manufacture. A noble fragment, in fact very attractive and evocative.  (36559)

•  ISTC ip00365000; Goff P365; HC 12749; Walsh 1191, 1192; Oates 2791, 2792; Pr 7608; BMC III 757.   Inner margin slightly irregular. Very nice.  (30852)

Fowler notes this is a reissue of Bevilacqua's 1562 edition, which is a reprint of Rouillé's 1558 edition; the illustrations first appeared in L. Avanzo's 1557 edition. Bevilacqua's device is present on both main works' title-pages and after the colophon.

•  Graesse, V, 228; Fowler, M. Petrarch, p. 107, Pet N 564a.   Vellum over boards, green morocco spine label with elegant gilt lettering and rolls; very slight loss of vellum at top and bottom of hinges, light inking on top and bottom edge, light pencilling on endpapers. Old private, monogram rubber-stamp on title-page; light age-toning with varying levels of generally quite unobtrusive waterstaining, often marginal only; a handful of short tears or ink dottings, and a few leaves trimmed unevenly or with bent corners. In fact a lovely little book.  (36582)

•  Brunet, IV, 575; Dibdin, II, 276–77; Schweiger, II, 725. 19th-century quarter sheep in imitation of morocco, with marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped titles; spines, edges, and extremities rubbed, vol. I with spot of discoloration to spine. Main title-page with shadows of pencilled numerals. Pages clean.  (16816)

Binding:  Contemporary mottled calf panelled with plain calf, framed in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped red morocco title-label.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplate of John Thomas Ambrose (1798–1881), a philanthropist and solicitor in Mistley and Manningtree.

•  ESTC T17788; Lowndes 1843; Schweiger, II, 727.   Binding as above, rubbed and spine leather cracked; joints strengthened, portion of headband replaced, extremities subtly refurbished with toned long-fiber tissue. Bookplate as above. Varying degrees of age-toning, with a few signatures (only) browned or foxed and some leaves showing sometime exposure to water with no plates affected; additional engraved title-page lacking and index pages bound in incorrectly, interspersed with two poems towards the back of the volume! (29672)