Provenance:  Early inked inscription of Francisci Rolland on title-page with another owner's signature scratched out; later in the “Palestine Institute” at the Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  This edition not in VD18.   Modern light brown paper-covered boards with paper spine label. Ex-library with faint blind-pressure stamp on title- and one other leaf and librarian's pencil notations on verso of title-page. Scattered foxing, occasional stray stain. Overall a good, solid, clean copy.  (33597)

Why his account was printed in New York is not explained, butit is probable that he was in exile. There seems to be no other edition of the work. One suspects Arosemena bore all of the publication costs, meaning the print run was small, chiefly for friends, family, and a few others. This would also explain why only five U.S. (NYPL, UChicago, UKansas, Harvard, Vanderbilt) and seven foreign institutions (Oxford, Universidad Pontifica del Peru, British Library, Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve, Institute Catholique de Paris, the Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia) report ownership of the work (as per WorldCat).

•  Not in Palau.   Publisher's blind-embossed brown bead-textured cloth, covers with central oval containing a blind-stamped kneeling figure (which it is tempting to see as Christ in the Garden of Gethsemene); spine faded. A label carelessly removed from front free endpaper. Light foxing to fore-edges. Otherwise, very good.  (38585)

The stamp so effectively used here has been identified as one engraved by Samuel Dodd, 19th-century bookbinders' tool maker of Bloomfield, NJ.

The text present is preceded by a good engraving by Maverick entitled “People of Masada.”

Provenance:  Late 19th- or 20th-century ownership stamp on front free endpaper of Henry M. Bissell.

•  Shoemaker 21077; Rosenbach, Jewish, 276; Dodd's stamp identified by scholar Steve Beare. Binding as above, lightly rubbed at the joints (outside); browning to endpapers from glue action and ownership stamp on front free one. Some foxing. Vol. 6 only: Sold as a binding and very good as such.  (35830)

•  CBEL, II, 1492; ESTC T112662; Lowndes 1236; Schweiger, I, 179.   Period-style quarter mottled calf with marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges blind-tooled, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels and gilt-stamped compartment decorations. Front fly-leaf of vol. II with 19th-century inked gift inscription. Vol. I lacking list of subscribers; vol. II lacking one plate (“The Death of Caius Caesar”). Light to moderate spotting and staining throughout; some offsetting to and around plates. One leaf torn from outer edge, narrowly missing text. A sound, handsome set fine for working or playing with.  (35380)

NUC and WorldCat locateonly the copy at the Rockford, IL, public library.

Evidence of Readership: Pencil notes on front wrapper, pencil notations in some margins and some underlining; “no” appears next to several assertions about “scientific discoveries” as to Akkadian; and a paragraph of 18 lines on p. 37 is completely, neatly excised (costing lines on verso also) — though whether the clipping was done for posting/sharing (or for “preservation” in a scrapbook), or as an act of censorship, is unknowable.

•  Original printed wrappers; “evidence of readership” as above. Very good.  (34323)

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Sabin 41069; Moreau, Éditions parisiennes du XVI siècle, II, 1099; not in Adams.   20th-century brown cloth, black leather spine label with gilt lettering and ruling, all edges speckled red; ever so gently rubbed, covers with two spots and one scuff, light pencilling and one removed booklabel on endpapers. Light age-toning and dust-soiling, a few small spots, a small hole through title-page and first leaf of text, final leaf repaired; provenance and evidence of readership as above; final three leaves of forematter (only) lacking. Significant content handsomely printed and embellished.  (38390)

Provenance:  Title-page with early inked inscription: “Phill Wenman”; first page of “The Life of Godfrey of Boulogne” with early inked inscription: “Phi. Wenman his Booke.” Frontispiece verso, title-page, and one other page rubber-stamped by the Holbrook Library of the Pacific School of Religion (properly deaccessioned).

Evidence of readership: Intermittent, generally unobtrusive early inked marginal brackets and marks of emphasis, with one annotation reading simply “Milton” (at “Swift from my selfe I run, my selfe I feare, / Yet still my hell within my selfe I beare”).

•  ESTC S117570; Graesse, VI, 35; NCBEL, I, 1103; STC (rev. ed.) 23699.   Contemporary mottled calf framed in double blind fillets, rebacked with plain calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands; sides predictably acid-pitted. Frontispiece cut down and mounted on contemporary fly-leaf. Institutional rubber-stamps as above, title-page recto with stamped numeral; pp. 81/82 excised and replaced in facsimile. Pages with light age-toning and cockling, occasional small smudges or spots; a few corners bumped. One leaf with tear from upper outer corner, not extending into text; four final leaves with closed tear in inner margin and small hole in text, affecting one to two letters of six lines of text without obscuring sense. A solid copy with appreciable history.  (36790)