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Calmet, Augustin. Dictionarium historicum, criticum, chronologicum, geographicum, et literale sacrae scripturae .... Augustae Vindelicorum [Augsburg]: Sumptibus Martini Veith bibliopolae, 1738. Folio (33.5 cm, 13.2"). 2 vols. I: [9] ff., 200 pp.; 762 pp.; 11 plates. II: [2], 688 pp.; 180 pp.; 19 plates.
$1750.00
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Second German edition of Calmet's great dictionary of the Bible, first published at Paris in 1722 in his native French, followed by a supplement in 1728; Augustin Calmet (1672–1757) was a renowned exegetist and Benedictine priest who completed the present work shortly after the massive Bible commentary that made him famous (Commentaire littéral, 23 vols., Paris, 1707–16).
The text here is from the Latin translation by Giovanni Domenico Mansi (1692–1769), and gives
definitions for hundreds of words and where to find them in Scripture; it is printed double-column in roman and italic, with a few woodcut initials, head-
and tailpieces, and with the printer's device on both title-pages. Select entries from the dictionary are illustrated by
seven fold-out engraved plates including five maps and 23 full-page engraved plates (some folded at the fore-edge to fit), of places, apparatuses for religious rituals, numismata, dress, and musical instruments described in Scripture. Many of these are signed by Augsburg engravers Johann Gottfried Kolb and Andreas Ehman, who himself contributed
eight new plates to Kolb's set (used in the 1729 ed.). Two maps are ascribed to A.P. Starckman.
Additionally appearing are various tables and charts, including genealogical tables; a chronological register of Hebrew high priests; a comprehensive chronology of general Bible history; a Jewish calendar; and an extensive index of authors' names included in the
bibliography of the best sources on Scripture that precedes the dictionary in vol. I. The second volume closes with a “Dissertatio de tactice hebraeorum” by D. Equite Volard.
Bindings: Contemporary blind-tooled alum-tawed pigskin over beveled wooden boards, tooled using a variety of rules and foliate rolls and stamps in concentric rectangular panels to frame a central lozenge (constructed of multiple stamps) on each cover. Each volume bears remnants of two clasps, and both spines have raised bands with author and title written in early ink in the upper two compartments. Blue edges.
Provenance: Discalced Carmelite Convent at Schongau, Bavaria (early ink inscription, title-pages, both volumes).
Graesse, II, 20n. See Brunet, I, 1495; and Vancil, pp. 44–45. Binding as above, scuffs and dust-soiling; spine of vol. II pulled and lower spines speckled with ink. Ex-library: bookplates of two collections on front pastedowns and fly-leaves, stamp on bottom edges and rear pastedowns, call number on spines (crossed out), and penciling from a third library on front pastedowns. Clippings from old booksellers' descriptions on front pastedown of vol. I. Both title-pages trimmed just grazing print; title-page in vol. I tipped onto following leaf, with tear in outer margin and another starting near printer's device; otherwise the odd small marginal tear or isolated stain only, and occasional light foxing in both volumes including to plates. Very minor worming to one plate in vol II.
An indispensable reference and an illuminating “browse.” (30573)

Well-Illustrated & Scholarly Too
Campbell, Thomas; William Harvey, illus. The poetical works of Thomas Campbell. Illustrated by thirty-seven woodcuts, from designs by Harvey. London: Edward Moxon ... Bradbury & Evans, Printers, 1846. 16mo (16.7 cm, 6.6"). Engr. frontis., [3], vi–ix, [4], 2–343, [1] pp.; illus.
$450.00
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Nicely illustrated edition of poetry from Scottish poet, New Monthly Magazine editor, and fierce supporter of Poland's independence Thomas Campbell (1777–1844). The text
begins with an engraved frontispiece by W.H. Watt after Sir Thomas Lawrence, and continues with
37 in-text woodcuts designed by William Harvey, Thomas Bewick's favorite and most prominent student — many of them signed by well-known engraver J. Thompson with a select few by Thos. Williams, Mason Jackson, W.T. Green, and C. Gray (Moxon also published a version in the same year with additional engravings by Turner, not present in this issue). As a later edition of Campbell's work spanning his entire career, the text also contains endnotes explaining various lines of verse.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
This ed. not in NSTC (see 2C5005 for other 1846 ed.). On Campbell, see: DNB (online). Contemporary red morocco, spine compartments stamped in blind with raised bands and title stamped in gilt, covers framed in single gilt fillet around blind foliate roll, board edges and turn-ins with dashed roll in blind, all edges gilt; spine evenly darkened, a few small spots or short slivers of leather lost, two rear fly-leaves moderately foxed. Light to moderate age-toning with the occasional speck, one crinkled and smoothed leaf, one témoin. Booklabel as above, one inked endpaper note and an ink mark or two, a few pencilled and two inked marks of emphasis, otherwise clean.
A handsome little book in all respects. (38988)
Quaint Customs
Carleton, Will. Farm festivals. New York: Harper & Brothers, copyright 1881. 8vo. 167, [1], 6 (adv.)] pp. ; 18 plts. (incl. in pagination), illus.
$50.00
First edition of another “Farm” volume by a successful and beloved poet. A copy of Carleton's poem "Captain Young's Thanksgiving," including illustration, has been affixed to the back fly-leaf and free endpaper.
BAL 2482 (second printing state, with plates included in pagination). Publisher's brown cloth, front cover stamped in gilt and green, spine with gilt-stamped title; front cover lightly scuffed, with corners rubbed. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription "to My Daughter," dated 1890; newspaper clipping about Carleton affixed to front fly-leaf, poem affixed to back fly-leaf as described above. Several insurance advertisements, religious leaflets, and other ephemera laid in. (14367)

Chromolithographed Illustrations by
Eleanor Vere Boyle
Carové, Friedrich Wilhelm; Sarah Austin, transl.; Eleanor Vere Boyle, illus. The story without an end. London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1879. 4to (25.8 cm, 10.15"). Frontis., vi, [2], 40 pp.; 15 col. plts., illus.
$350.00
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Based on the original German by Carové, Austin's version of this idyllic children's story is decorated with
a frontispiece, 15 chromolithographed plates and additional in-text illustrations done from designs by “E.V.B.” This was acclaimed Victorian fairytale artist Eleanor Vere Boyle (1825–1916), whose otherworldly, Pre-Raphaelite–influenced illustrations, particularly the color-printed plates, beautifully reflect the text's ethereal meditations on the peace and joy to be found in the natural world by imaginative observers. An 1868 edition was the first appearance of this popular story featuring Boyle's artwork, with the present example being its fourth printing.
Binding: Publisher's red cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title, front cover with a
stunning gilt- and black-stamped dragonfly, spiderweb, ivy, and butterfly design. All edges gilt. Original guard leaves present.
Ray, Illustrator and the Book in England, 108; Osborne Collection, pp. 329/30 (both for first ed.). Bound as above; spine sunned and worn, sides with small areas of light discoloration, corners rubbed. Front free endpaper with early inked gift inscription to Muriel. A very few instances of small, faint spots or smudges, pages and plates overall clean and pleasing.
Intact copies with all plates present in unmodified original bindings are now uncommon. (40768)

Unexpected Views of “New Life in the Villages”
Carrington, Noel; Edward Bawden, illus. Life in an English village. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1949. 12mo (18.3 cm, 7.2"). 30, [2] pp.; 16 col. plts. (on 8 double-sided ff.), illus.
$85.00
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First edition: No. 51 from the
King Penguin Books series, a set of monographs being the first hardcover Penguin books as well as the first to feature color printing. Carrington was an influential book designer and editor and the founder of Puffin Books, Penguin's children's imprint; his preface here offers a clear-eyed look at the economic and social realities of villages as well as an affirmation of the good in village life.
Taking his own village of Bardfield as a model, Edward Bawden supplied
six full-page black and white illustrations and 16 color-printed scenes, including “The Child Welfare Clinic” and “An Agricultural Machinery Repair Shop” as well as “The Vicar,” “The Bell” (a pub), and “The Market Gardener.” The list of plates specifies that “the coloured illustrations in this book are from drawings made by the artist directly on to lithographic zinc plates. They are therefore originals and not reproductions of drawings made on paper.”
Publisher's printed paper–covered boards, spine reinforced some time ago with cellophane tape. Issued without dust jacket. Pages and plates clean and crisp. (40875)

Armistice Day
Remembered by . . .
Smacking the Wehrmacht AGAIN
Cary, Melbert Brinckerhoff. Willi's wishful thinking issued in commemoration of Armistice Day ... New York: Press of the Woolly Whale, 1938 (copyright 1939). 8vo (15.5 cm, 6.2"). 34 pp.; illus.
$37.50
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Reproductions of German and Austrian
postcards from 1914, with English translations of the German texts; all cards, in one way or another (and ridiculously in the upshot) show the German Army triumphant.The colophon says only that “a few copies of this book” were printed; the back pastedown here bears a very small inked numeral 44, which may indicate this copy's number.
Publisher's red cloth, without the original glassine dust wrapper and with darkening around the bottom and fore-edge of front cover; page edges and endpapers also affected (especially the back one). Not pristine but nice. (17863)

The Beatus vir . . . Gorgeously Produced, Beautifully Framed
Catholic Church. Liturgy & Ritual. Psalter. Manuscript leaf. Northern Italy: ca. 1490. Folio. [1] f. (56 x 42 cm; 22" x 16").
$8750.00
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From a
large, magnificent Benedictine Psalter, this is the start of Psalm 1, “Beatus vir . . .” (“Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence But his will is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he shall meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree which is planted near the running waters, which shall bring forth its fruit, in due season. And his leaf shall not fall off: and all [whatsoever he shall do shall prosper]. . . . ”).
The text appears here in sepia ink in a large Renaissance rotunda hand, set forth to the point of our bracket above, illuminated and featuring
a large miniature of King David filling the center of a large initial B. Along the bottom margin in three medallions are
Saints Mark, Benedict (center bottom), and Laurence; the right margin has two additional medallion portraits of unidentified female figures. The margins are garnished with gilt and bright-colored flowers, among which hides
the small image of a deer “As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God”?
Matted and under glass in an elegant 20th-century gilt frame, ready for hanging. We have not opened this to discover whether Psalm 1 continues (or Job concludes) on the other side of the leaf, but the suspicion must be, given the beauty and quality of the side showing, that this is a leaf that would benefit from double-glazing showcasing both sides. (33296)

The Year in
Four Vols. & Beautiful Bindings
Catholic Church. Liturgy & ritual. Breviaries. Breviarium romanum ex decreto sacrosancti Concilii tridentini restitutum S. Pii V. pontificis maximi iussu editum, Clementis VIII. ac Urbani VIII. auctoritate recognitum, cum officiis sanctorum novissimis usque ad SS. D.N. Pium VI, pro recitantium commoditate diligenter dispositis. [Romae]: A. Galler , 1781. 8vo (18 cm, 7.1"). 4 vols. I: [20], 632, cclxxxviii, 19, [1] pp.; illus. II: [18], 646, ccliv, 21, [1] pp.; 1 plt. III: [54], 566, cclxxvi, 26 pp.; 1 plt. IV: [20], 608, cclxx, 15, [1] pp.; illus.
$2750.00
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Beautifully printed and handsomely bound set of the Roman Breviary. The text is printed in double-column format, in black and red, with a vignette on each title-page and an engraving
in each volume.
Binding: Contemporary's black goat sides with simple roll gilt border and gilt corner devices, spines gilt extra. The top panel of each volume indicates contents with abbreviation: P. V. (“Pars Vernalis”), P. AE. (“Pars Aestivalis”), etc. Block-printed decorated endpapers; all edges gilt. Silk place markers.
Not in Weale & Bohatta. Bindings as above, edges and extremities rubbed, spine leather with tiny cracks, one spine head chipped, one joint starting. Ex-library with bookplates, rubber-stamp on lower edges of pages of the closed volumes. One volume with text block separating from spine and sewing loosening; this with the most leather rubbed away and the darkest instances of the usually-light waterstaining and spots of foxing seen occasionally throughout. Endpapers bear early inked ownership inscriptions and annotations.
An elegant quartet. (12406)

Vincenza's
Illustrated & Hand-BEADED Prayer Book
Catholic Church. Liturgy. L'anima adoratrice del santissimo sacramento, raccolta di orazioni per ascoltare la santa Messa secondo le proprie intenzioni, ed altre divotissime preghiere. Besanzone: Antonio Montarsolo (pr. by Bonvalot), [ca. 1860]. 16mo (12.5 cm, 4.9"). Frontis., illum. t.-p., 464 pp.; 2 plts.
[SOLD]
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Scarce illustrated Catholic prayer book intended to accompany Mass, this copy in a
lovingly personalized, hand-beaded binding featuring the owner's initial. The title-page is printed in red, green, and gold, and each page of text appears within a decorative border; the frontispiece and two additional steel-engraved plates were done by Dopter at Paris (and captioned in French). A small color-printed icon of St. Anna is laid in, along with black and white images of the Holy Family and St. Aloysius.
Searches of WorldCat find
no reported holdings of this printing in any binding.
Binding: Contemporary black morocco, spine with gilt-stamped decoration of geometric and foliate elements, boards framed and panelled in single gilt roll, leather of center panels partially cut away and replaced with beaded canvas. Front cover beading presents clusters of red, pink, and gold flowers on green vines, surrounding a central gold “V”; back cover beading, mostly lost or perhaps never completed, shows offers portions of pink flowers and green vines on a background of brown beads.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf with inked inscription of Vincenza Landi, dated 1860.
Bound as above; central portion of back cover beading mostly sans beads as above, front panel nearly perfect and very bright. Hinges (inside) cracked but holding; back free endpaper torn. Pages and plates foxed.
Unique, and a remarkably evocative object. (41245)

Peregrino Becomes “PEREGRIN” — First French Appearance, ILLUSTRATED
Caviceo, Jacopo. [Libro de Peregrino] Dialogue treselegant intitule le Peregrin, traictant de lhonneste et pudicq amour concilie par pure et sincere vertu, traduict de vulgaire Italien en langue Fra[n]coyse... Paris: [Pr. by Nicolas Couteau for] Galliot du Pré, [1527]. 4to (25 cm, 9.8"). [8], 169, [1 (facs.)] ff.; illus.
$10,000.00
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First French edition of Caviceo's best-selling, often translated, and widely influential romance. The author had a complicated life which included dropping out of law school shortly before he could be expelled, becoming a court historian and diplomat in Parma, being banished from that city for seducing a nun (and possibly more than one), voyaging in the Middle East and India, and embroiling himself in various political intrigues before working his way to the post of Vicar General in cities including Rimini, Ravenna, and Florence. His classically inspired novel, first published in 1508 and dedicated to Lucrezia Borgia, is a romance in which Peregrin tells the ghost of Boccaccio all about his globe-spanning quest to satisfy his passion for the fair Genevre — with the plot incorporating the author's own travel experiences.
This first known French edition is uncommon: WorldCat reports
only three U.S. institutional holdings. The translation from the original Italian was done by “Maistre Francoys Dassy” — François Dassi, secretary to Jean d'Albret, King of Navarre, and to Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois. The text is printed in an elegant lettre bâtarde and ornamented with numerous decorative capitals, with the title-page printed in red and black. In addition, this printing features three large woodcuts: Opposite the first page of the first chapter is a split scene showing the lovers as a youthful pair in the distance and as a mature couple in the foreground (with the lady holding her angelic baby in her lap), while another scene shows the hero making preparations for pilgrimage, and the third shows his search throughout “tous les pays habitables” for his lost love. The final leaf, bearing the printer's device, appears here in facsimile.
Binding: 19th-century calf, spine with gilt-stamped title, raised bands, and small circular gilt-stamped decorations in compartments; board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls and covers framed and panelled in blind with gilt-stamped corner fleurons. All page edges stained red, red silk placemarker present and attached. Binding done by Koehler (with his stamp on front free endpaper).
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Brunet, I, 1701-02; Index aurel. 134.656; Moreau, Editions parisiennes du XVI siecle, III, 1158. This ed. not in Adams or Mortimer, French 16th-Century Books. Bound as above, spine and edges rubbed, sides scuffed. Endpapers with pencilled annotations and with binder's small rubber-stamp as above; title-page with date faintly inked in an early hand. Final leaf (printer's vignette) in facsimile, title-page with lower outer corner with small loss of paper in blank area repaired via excellent leaf-casting, and a similar excellent leaf-cast repair to two inner areas of last text leaf with a few letters supplied in pen and ink facsimile. One leaf with small printing flaw affecting a handful of words without loss of sense; three leaves at back with small semi-circular areas of worming touching a few letters, also without loss of sense. Pages very clean and type very clear.
A scarce and desirable volume. (37747)

Star-Crossed Italian Lovers — Peregrino & Genevera
Caviceo, Jacopo. Il peregrino. Vinegia: Pietro di Nicolini da Sabbio, 1538. 8vo (15 cm, 5.9"). [16] pp., 271, [1 (blank)] ff.; illus.
$2250.00
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“Nuovamente ristampato, e con somma diligenza corretto, et alla sua pristina integrita ridotto”: an uncommon early edition of Caviceo's best-selling, often translated, and widely influential romance. The author had a complicated life which included dropping out of law school shortly before he could be expelled, becoming a court historian and diplomat in Parma, being banished from that city for seducing a nun (and possibly more than one), voyaging in the Middle East and India, and embroiling himself in various political intrigues before working his way to the post of Vicar General in cities including Rimini, Ravenna, and Florence. His classically inspired novel, first published in 1508 and dedicated to Lucrezia Borgia, is a romance in which Peregrino tells the ghost of Boccaccio all about his globe-spanning quest to satisfy his passion for the fair Genevera — with the plot incorporating the author's own travel experiences.
In addition to the woodcut architectural border on the title-page (previously used in the printer's 1536 edition of Boccaccio's Laberinto), the text is decorated with one large and two small woodcut illustrations, the large cut showing our lovelorn hero tormented by two satyrs playing fantastical string and wind instruments, under the banner “Ancora spero solver me.”
WorldCat locates
only three U.S. institutional holdings of this edition.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Adams C1190; EDIT 16 CNCE 71312; Brunet, I, 1701; Index aurel. 134.670. 19th-century half calf over marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped olive morocco title-label and gilt-tooled bands, all page edges speckled in brown; binding rubbed and worn, joints cracked but holding. First gathering very possibly supplied from a different copy. Front pastedown with two older cataloguing slips affixed; front free endpaper and (tipped-in) fly-leaf with later inked annotations in Latin and Italian. Occasional small spots of foxing and ink staining; a limited circle of light waterstain(?) to last leaf; a very few small early inked marks of emphasis in margins. A solid, eminently readable copy of an
important, readable, and uncommon early prose romanzo d'amore. (37524)

The Later Years of the
Golden Cockerel
Chambers, David, & Christopher Sandford, comp. Cock-a-hoop a sequel to Chanticleer, Pertelote, and Cockalorum. Being a bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press September 1949 — December 1961. [Vancouver]: Pr. by W. & J. Mackay Ltd. for the Private Libraries Association for the Golden Cockerel Press, [1961]. 8vo (25.3 cm, 10"). 126 pp.; illus.
$20.00
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Unlimited edition of the fourth volume of
the bibliography of the Golden Cockerel Press, with a list of prospectuses from 1920 through 1962 and illustrations taken from the books.
Publisher's blue cloth–covered boards in original printed paper dust jacket; jacket with edges and spine lightly sunned, upper edge showing minor wear, lower corner of front inside flap clipped. Volume clean and fresh. (36848)

A Southern Hero Enters the “Brawl with Boston” — Illustrated by Christy
Girl Heroes, Prominent!
Chambers, Robert W. The maid-at-arms. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. 8vo. Frontis., vi, [6], 342, [6] pp.; 7 plts.
[SOLD]
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First edition of this novel from the “Cardigan” series, set in New York state during the American Revolution and written by an author best known for his important supernatural work The King in Yellow. The plot here stars George Ormond, a Southerner of good family; it also features a character named Catrine Montour, based in part on the half-French, half-Native American “Queen” Catherine Montour (1710–1804), while the climactic rescue involves two maidens riding to the aid of an officer captured by Senecas. The
eight halftone plates were done by Howard Chandler Christy, and the belles are much in the style of his famed Christy Girls.
This is the genuine first edition, not a modern reprint.
Binding: Publisher's olive cloth, front cover with Art Nouveau water lily design and gilt-stamped title, spine with gilt-stamped title.
Binding as above, minor rubbing at extremities. Front free endpaper with pencilled Christmas gift inscription dated 1902; back free endpaper with rubber-stamped numeral (no other markings). Pages and plates clean. A very nice copy. (28585)
PERSIA in
10 Volumes & 79 Plates
Chardin, John. Voyages de Mr. le chevalier Chardin, en Perse, et autres lieux de l'Orient. Paris: André Cailleau, 1723. 8vo (16.5 cm, 6.5"). 10 vols. I: Frontis., [10], 254 pp.; 1 fold. map. II: 334 pp.; 4 fold. plts., 5 plts. III: 285, [1 (blank)] pp.; 4 fold. plts., 3 plts. IV: 280 pp.; 2 fold. plts., 3 plts. V: 312 pp.; 4 fold. tables, 5 plts. VI: 328 pp.; 4 plts. VII: [10], 15448 [i.e., 446] pp. VIII: 255, [1 (blank)] pp.; 10 fold. plts., 6 plts. IX: 308 pp.; 1 double-spread fold. plt., 8 fold. plts., 19 plts. X: [22], 3220, [82 (index)] pp.
$4000.00
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Attractive French edition of Sir John Chardin's Persian travelogue, originally published in 1686. Brunet calls the account, which covers Chardin's voyages through India, Russia, and Persia, “un des plus intéressants que l'on ait publiés” in the 18th century; the work was and continues to be a major source of information on contemporary Persian politics, government, religion, and culture. The title-pages are printed in red and black, and the 10 volumes are illustrated with a total of 79 plates (many folding) and tables, including one map and one frontispiece.
Brunet, I, 1802. Contemporary speckled calf, spines extra gilt; edges, joints and extremities rubbed, leather in some cases cracked or starting along joints or chipped at spine extremities, two spines with compartments chipped. All edges speckled. Front pastedowns each with institutional bookplate, front free endpapers rubber-stamped and with inked ownership inscriptions dated [18]67, title-pages except for vol. I rubber-stamped, reverse of map in vol. I rubber-stamped, some vols. with first text page rubber-stamped. Additional plate (creased) laid in, seemingly excised from another work. (19664)

The History of Japan, for French Students — Prize Copy
Charlevoix, Pierre Francois-Xavier de. Histoire et description du Japon. Tours: A. de Mame & Cie., 1839. 12mo (18.2 cm, 7.16"). Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., [4], 308 pp.; 2 plts.
$750.00
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First edition under the banner of the “Bibliothèque de la jeunesse chrétienne” series, published with the approval of the Archbishop of Tours. Written by a Jesuit professor and explorer, this treatise on Japan began as a history of Christianity in that country, and was first published as such in 1715 before being revised and significantly expanded for a new edition in 1736. The present, still-further revised account of the country, its history, and its people is illustrated with an engraved frontispiece by Rubierre (“Entrée solennelle des Ambassadeurs Japonnais à Rome”), a title-page vignette depicting the author preaching to Japanese listeners, and two other religiously themed plates (a prince destroying an idol, and Japanese Christians being martyred on crosses).
A search of WorldCat shows
no U.S. institutional holdings of this 1839 first edition.
Provenance: Prize copy bearing on its front pastedown a presentation bookplate from the “Pension des Dames de l'Adoration Perpétuelle, Place du Champ-de-Mars,” marking the volume's award to Mlle. Aldonza Boitard in 1839. Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Cordier, Bibliotheca Japonica, 425; DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 1075–76. Contemporary diced green roan, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; leather rubbed and darkened with back cover also spotted, lower front board edge and text block fore-edge dented. Presentation bookplate as above. Lower margin of added engraved title-page chipped, not affecting image or text; pagination repeats in one section with text being nonetheless complete and properly ordered. Intermittent foxing, soiling, some corners creased. Worn and used; still a solid and worthwhile example of a scarce item. (41039)
Wisdom, Censored Post-PURCHASE?!
Charron, Pierre. De la sagesse. Paris: Jean-François Bastien, 1783. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). Frontis., xviii, 768 pp.; 1 plt. (damaged/censored).
$250.00
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Later printing of Charron’s final work, a philosophical treatise which was first published in 1601 and which was strongly connected to Montaigne’s essays. Although the author was a Catholic priest widely acclaimed for skillful preaching, he and La Sagesse came under bitter attack by the clergy when the work first appeared, on the grounds of its promoting skepticism and free thinking.
This particular copy seems to have incurred someone’s personal wrath, as the plate illustrating the allegory of Wisdom has had its central (nude) female figure excised. The much more staid frontispiece portrait of the author, done by Pruneau, is undamaged.
Second thoughts here raise the question, though maybe this wasn't censorship but rather an expression of erotic interest or, um, art appreciation?? Maybe someone wanted
a nice little nude to keep in his pocketbook??????
Contemporary mottled calf framed in triple gilt fillets, spine gilt extra, all page edges marbled; binding with expectable acid-pitting and minor cracking of the leather over the spine and joints. One (and only one) signature foxed, leaves otherwise clean. A handsome book, defaced in a way that is depressing but also interesting. (11896)

Four Tiny, Lovely Fairy Tales — Brightly Illustrated & in Their Box
Chatelain, Clara de. The Lilliputian library. London: A.N. Myers & Co., [1850]. 16mo (8.7 cm, 3.4"). 4 vols. I: 54 pp.; 2 col. plts. II: 39, [1] pp.; 2 col. plts. III: 46 pp.; 2 col. plts. IV: 46 pp.; 2 col. plts.
[SOLD]
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A set of sparkling baubles: Four original, utterly charming fairy tales from a prolific and popular Victorian author, in their first editions and presented in child-sized (near-miniature) fancy dress form. Madame de Chatelain here offers Babyland, The Night Laundresses, Pot-Luck, and Up! Horsie!, all of which are engagingly written — and morally instructive without being tediously or overtly pedagogical. The present examples are actually the F. Fechner productions printed in Guben in 1850, but bear affixed paper labels bearing the imprint of A.N. Myers & Co. (undated).
These little gems are beautifully and brightly illustrated: Each story features two hand-colored lithographed plates, touched up by hand with gum arabic or egg white to enhance the vivid colors.
Bindings: Each in different metallic-patterned glazed cloth with embossed flower applied to front cover, housed in publisher's pale pink moiré paper–covered box.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabels
(“AHA”) at rear.
Welsh 1745-8; Opie V 23 (describing a three-volume set with two vols. matching). Not in Gumuchian, not in Osborne. Bindings as above, virtually unworn save for small chips to some spine extremities; box faded, edges rubbed, an embossed lozenge on one side now mostly lacking. A few pages with minor foxing, most clean.
A delightful set, seldom seen intact. (41052)
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LEC Chekhov
Chekhov, Anton; Lajos Szalay, illus.; Helen Muchnic, intro. The short stories of Anton Chekhov. Avon, CT: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1973. 8vo (26 cm, 10.25"). xv, [1], 315, [3] pp.; 10 col. plts., illus.
$85.00
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A collection of Chekhov's classic short stories in Constance Garnett's translations, selected and introduced by Helen Muchnic. The 21 stories are illustrated with 10 full-page colored plates, printed from
Lajos Szalay's brooding, expressionistic tempera paintings by the Holyoke Lithographic Company, and 16 additional black and white in-text line drawings by Szalay. The volume was designed by Bert Clarke, and printed by A. Colish.
This is numbered copy 733 of 2000 printed, signed by the artist at the colophon. The monthly newsletter is laid in.
Binding: Bound by the Tapley-Rutter Company in red and gold damask cloth with a gilt-stamped leather title-label on the spine.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 466. Binding as above, in the original brown paper–covered slipcase, slipcase spine with cream paper label printed in brown; lightest bit of shelfwear to slipcase, volume fresh.
A stunning book, outside and in. (39043)

“Beautifully Embellished with Superior Engravings, for the Mind & Eye”
The child's own Sunday book ; or Sabbath-day lessons for little children. New Haven: S. Babcock, [1840?]. (11.2 cm, 4.375"). 16 pp.; illus.
$55.00
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Illustrated Sunday school book with
fourteen in-text wood engravings, including the Last Supper and the Crucifixion. Stories include “The World Drowned,” “History of Joseph,” “Birth of Jesus Christ,” and “Death of Our Savior.” Biblical content between lessons is quickly summarized to lead children to the next story, such as this sentence bridging the gap between Jesus' birth and story of his death: “When Jesus Christ was grown to manhood, he began to do a great deal of good in the world.” (p. 13).
This copy is undated and has no illustrations on p. [2] and [3] of the wrappers, unlike other the copies dated 1840 cataloged in WorldCat. Page [4] of the wrappers has this advertisement: “Babcock's moral, instructive, and entertaining toy books.”advertisement, p, [4] of wrapper.
Publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers (other copies known in green and blue); sewn with straight pin still present behind threads, gently worn and separating at spine. Two markings from a rusted paperclip on front wrapper and title-page, light bookseller pencilling on back wrapper; light age-toning. (36536)

An Acclaimed “Elizabethan” Pickering Production
Church of England. Book of Common Prayer. The book of common prayer and administration of the sacraments and other rites and ceremonies of the church according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland together with the psalter or psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. London: William Pickering, 1853. 12mo (18.4 cm, 7.25"). [720] pp.; illus.
$450.00
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Accessible, beautiful Pickering edition of the BCP, inspired by the 1569 edition of A Book of Christian Prayers, a.k.a. “Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book.” Mary Byfield engraved this version of the frontispiece portrait of Queen Elizabeth, as well as the woodcut borders, done after designs by Dürer, Holbein, and others; Kelly notes that
this volume is considered Byfield's masterpiece. The printing was elegantly accomplished by Charles Whittingham, predominantly in a clear and legible yet historic-feeling roman with blackletter captions in the borders.
Binding: Publisher's red morocco, covers with ornate blind-stamped frame, front cover with gilt-stamped decorative title, spine with gilt-stamped title and blind-tooled compartment decorations, board edges with gilt roll, turn-ins with blind roll. All edges gilt and gauffered. Front free endpaper stamped “Bound by J. Wright.”
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of John Turner Ettlinger. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1853:22; Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1853.8; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), pp. 32 & 86. Bound as above; spine slightly darkened, rubbing to joints and edges nicely refurbished. Bookplate as above, front free endpaper with Ettlinger's pencilled inscription. Pages very faintly age-toned, otherwise clean.
A solid, satisfactory copy of this attractive and important edition. (40309)

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