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One of the Scarcer Elzevir Works
Haestens, Hendrik van. La nouvelle Troye ou Memorable histoire du siege d'Ostende. Le plus signalé qu'on ait veu en l'Europe. En laquelle sont descripts & naifvement representés en diverses figures, les assauts, deffenses, inventions de guerre, mines, contremines, retranchemens, combats par terre & par mer, & autres choses remarcables advenues de part & d'autre, avec ce qui s'est passé par chascun jour durant ledit siege depuis le 5 iuing 1601 iusqu'au 20 septemb. 1604 qu'elle fut renduë. Recoeuillie des plus asseurés memoires. A Leyde: Chez Loys Elzevier, 1615. 4to (20 cm; 8"). [4] ff., 293 [i.e., 297], [1] pp., 14 fold. plates, port., coat of arms.
$950.00
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French-language translation of De bloedige belegeringe der stad Oostende in Vlaanderen, a classic account of siege of Ostend (1601–04), a protracted battle during the Eighty Years' War (i.e., the War for Dutch Independence) that eventually ousted the Dutch from Belgium.
The text is illustrated with a full page engraved portrait of Mauretius of Nassau, an engraving of his coat of arms, and
14 engraved folding plates.
A curious aspect of this Elzevir production is that the firm used very inferior paper and many of the surviving copies are severely browned in sections; this copy is no exception. The anomaly is clearly visible in the copy that the Austrian National Library (i.e., Österreichische Nationalbibliothek) digitized for googlebooks.
Willems 99; Copinger, Elzevier Press, 2063; Berghman 129; Rahir, Elzevier, 78. Contemporary vellum over paste boards; a large portion of the vellum gone from the rear cover, exposing the boards, and front free endpaper lacking. Evidence of ties. Several quires severely browned, others age-toned; some leaves loosened; worming in margins, only occasionally entering text. A lesser copy, essentially a near good one; still, rare and interesting. (35264)

An All-Hamady Production
Hamady, Walter. Eyes touch & change, or weather conditions at other locations. Minor Confluence [i.e., Mt. Horeb], WI: Perishable Press, 1986. 8vo (20.8 cm, 8.25"). [16] pp.; illus.
$100.00
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First edition: Three poems written and printed by the proprietor of the Perishable
Press — marking the 111th volume from the press. Printed in black, grey, tan, and red, this
quirky chapbook includes one oversized, folding text page and two pages of typographically
inspired illustration; its colophon says “The edition size decreased to 172 including the 19 variant
title pages that clearly show blatant signs of recurring Gabbaerfk(MC)Jabb(itis çábïn fever).”The work is
signed by Hamady in pencil towards the back.
Publisher's tan paper wrappers, front wrapper with blind-stamped and
embossed decoration. A nice copy. (30933)

A Creative
Epistolary Collaboration
Hamady, Walter. A Hamady Wilde sampler salutations 1995. [Mt. Horeb, WI]: Perishable Press, 2001. 8vo (28 cm, 11"). [90] pp.; illus.
$550.00
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The 127th Perishable Press book: Excerpts from a lengthy exchange of letters between Walter Hamady, proprietor of the press, and artist John Wilde, “being a desultory chronicle with marginalia and excerpts lifted from a correspondence holographically transmitted, on paper, through the US Postal Service, initiated in the year 1971 and continuing through to the present day with emphasis on the year stressed above . . . Printed by hand & privately published for our good friends & patrons who have faithfully followed this adventure of eight, slightly eccentric, collaborations by Walter Hamady & John Wilde.” Hamady also points out that this book has “the first partially boustrophedonic title page of this 21st century.”
The text was set in Gill Sans type and printed on Twinrocker, Japanese, and German handmade papers; it is
decorated with a number of sketches, affixed illustrations, and stamps. The colophon bears a
hand-inked note reading “here is copy number ten of ninety-five.”
Binding: Appropriately to contents, the endpapers here are crafted of portions of a Wisconsin map, and the hand-sewn binding is enclosed in heavy paper wrappers with a postal cancellation–inspired design on the front one.
Binding as above, clean and crisp. A very nice copy of an amusing, affectionate, aesthetically pleasing production. (31241)

Scarce Perishable Press Ephemera: “Laura Evans Hamady, Printer's Devil”
A Beautiful Birth Announcement (PROOFSHEETS)
Hamady, Walter. Proofs: Laura's birth announcement.
[Mt. Horeb, WI]: Perishable Press, 1975. 8vo (26.7 cm, 10.5"). [10] ff.; illus.
$1500.00
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Unusual and interesting ephemera, offering some insight into the design and printing process of the proprietor of the Perishable Press, as well as a nice example of his
inimitably quirky style: 10 proofsheets of Hamady's announcement of his daughter Laura's birth, reflecting the printer's experimentations with layout and color as well as his personal joy. Some of these proofsheets bear editorial marks in red ink, while one has the “Printer's Devil” header on an affixed slip of paper; several have the text printed in variant color schemes.
The sheets are printed on Plover Fineweave paper with the text set in Sabon Antiqua. At the head of each is a print of a nicely rendered pen-and-ink drawing of the Hamady farm (where “Mother Father & Daughter are well and thriving”), done by Jack Beal (“Laura's Uncle Jack”).
Not in Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press. Sheets laid into a manila envelope labelled in Hamady's handwriting. Clean and crisp; some pages with markings as above. (31364)

Witty, Moderately Filthy, & Scarce
Harington, John. The metamorphosis of Ajax; a cloacinean satire: With the Anatomy and apology ... To which is added, Ulysses upon Ajax. Chiswick: C. Whittingham, 1814. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.7"). Frontis., xv, [1], xx, [4], 135, [1], 21, [1], 62, [4], 70, [2] pp.; illus., music.
[SOLD]
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Whittingham printing of this 1596 Rabelaisian satire, in which Sir John Harington describes inventing a flush toilet, resulting in much scatalogical humor as well as sly allusions to members of and events in Queen Elizabeth's court. The work was a mild scandal in its day and earned the wrath of the queen, although only temporarily — Harington, one of her godsons, fell in and out of favor with her several times before her death.
The volume, which includes Harington's two follow-ups to the original piece, features
a fine array of appurtenances including an engraved frontispiece portrait of the author, a song with sheet music provided (“O tu qui dans oracula”), a reproduction of the original woodcut illustration of a devil appearing to an aged man in the midst of doing his business, diagrams of the new privy both in parts and assembled, etc. Each section has a facsimile title-page based on originals of 1596.
Edition of only 100 copies.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Bibliotheca Osleriana 4907; Brunet, III, 43; Garrison & Morton 1594; NSTC H564; NCBEL, I, 1113. Not in Ing, Charles Whittingham: Printer, 1795-1876. 19th-century half brown calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-ruled bands and compartments, leather edges ruled in blind; binding lightly rubbed overall, somewhat more so along joints. Front fly-leaf with pencilled annotations and affixed slip of old cataloguing. Fore-edges untrimmed.
A clean, attractive copy. (38229)

More than One Lifetime's Worth of Adventure & Interesting Ideas
Harriott, John. Struggles through life, exemplified in the various travels and adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, of John Harriott, Esq. London: Pr. for the author, 1815. 12mo (18 cm, 7.1"). 3 vols. I: Frontis., xvxv, [1], 443, [1] pp. II: xii, 428, [2] pp. III: vii, [1], 479, [1] pp. (lacking pp. 69–72); 1 fold. plt., 1 plt.
$750.00
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Autobiography of
one of the founders of the Thames police, a clever and independent mariner who went adventuring around the world before settling down to become an Essex justice of the peace and eventually Resident Magistrate of the Thames River Police (a.k.a. the Marine Police Force, sometimes called England's first official police force). Here he looks back on his remarkably varied youthful escapades, including travelling in the merchant-service, visiting “the Savages in North America,” meeting the King of Denmark, serving in the East India Company's military service, and narrowly escaping such dangers as tigers, poisonous snakes, floods, fires, and scamming fathers-in-law. If the narrator is to be believed, the two issues that caused him the chiefest distress in life were pecuniary difficulties and other people's unchivalrous treatment of women. He also has much to say about law and business in the New World and the Old, slavery in America, forcible incarceration in private madhouses (with excerpts from a first-person account of such), and the nature of farming in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, as well as the state of affairs in Washington, DC, and, of course, the history of the creation of the Thames police.
Vol. I opens with a steel-engraved portrait of the author, done by Henry Cook after Hervé; vol. III is illustrated with an
oversized, folding plate of a water-engine intended for millwork, devised by the author, and a plate of another of his inventions: the automated “chamber fire escape”, which enables anyone to lower him- or herself from a high window. This is the third edition, following the first of 1807.
NSTC H625; Sabin 30461. Contemporary speckled sheep, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels; vol. I with joints and extremities refurbished, vols. II and III with spines and edges rubbed, old strips of library tape reinforcing spine heads. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, call number on endpapers, pressure-stamp on title-pages, vols. II and III with paper shelving labels at top of spines (vol. I showing signs of now-absent label). Vol. I title-page with offsetting from frontispiece; vol. III with pp. 69–72 excised (two leaves of a rather long religious-themed letter from Harriott to his son) and with upper portion of one leaf crumpled, reinforced some time ago. Some light age-toning, intermittent small spots of foxing and ink-staining, pages generally clean.
Utterly absorbing. (30651)

Dance of Death — Bewick(s?), after Holbein
[Hawkins, J.S., ed.]. Emblems of mortality; representing, in upwards of fifty cuts, death seizing all ranks and degrees of people. London: T. Hodgson, 1789. 12mo (17.1 cm, 6.75"). Frontis., [2], xxviii, 51, [1] pp.; illus.
$950.00
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First edition: “Imitated from a painting in the cemetery of the Dominican Church at Basil, in Switzerland: With an apostrophe to each, translated from the Latin and French. Intended as well for the information of the curious, as the instruction and entertainment of youth.” Thomas and John Bewick (according to Hugo; the ESTC and other sources indicate that most likely only John was involved) worked from the woodcuts by Hans Lützelburger after Hans Holbein to provide the
frontispiece and 51 illustrations for these verses, adapted largely from a Latin edition of 1547 with additions from a French rendition of 1562 — as described in Hawkins' scholarly overview of the Dance of Death, which opens the volume.
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of the Gray family (with “Anchor fast anchor” motto); front free endpaper with armorial bookplate of G. Wüthrich (with inked shelving number); back pastedown with armorial bookplate of C. Robert Bignold.
ESTC T139829; Hugo, Bewick Collector, 35. Contemporary acid-mottled calf, covers framed in double gilt fillets, rebacked with similar calf, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands, board edges with gilt roll, turn-ins with blind roll; original leather acid-pitted from staining process. All edges gilt. Bookplates as above. One small spot of staining to upper margin of title-page, offsetting somewhat to surrounding leaves, pages otherwise pleasingly clean and crisp.
A desirable copy of this attractive and interesting Bewick production. (39313)

“This King Midas Was Fonder of
Gold than Anything Else in the World”
Hawthorne, Nathaniel. The golden touch. [San Francisco]: Grabhorn Press, 1927.
$100.00
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First published in Hawthorne's Wonder Book for Boys and Girls (1852), this is his retelling of the Midas story.During the heyday of the fine press movement in America, the
Grabhorns printed this handsome edition in 240 copies with illustration and title-page vignette drawn and then hand-colored by the indefatigable
Valenti Angelo.
Heller & Magee, Grabhorn, 93; BAL 7720; Clark A18.31. Publisher's quarter vellum with gold and blue patterned paper sides. In its slipcase, a bit darkened at edges. Unopened copy save one fold to show illustration; a fine copy. (33532)

He Beat
Mark Twain to the Use of Pike County Vernacular
Hay, John. The Pike County ballads. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912. 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.75"). 45, [3] pp.; illus.
$150.00
First U.S. edition with the Wyeth illustrations, following the original (unillustrated) printing of 1871. Written by a private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, these dialect poems greatly influenced Samuel Clemens's choice of linguistic style for the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; they were illustrated for the present edition by one of America's best-known illustrators and painters, who also provided a preface.
BAL 7841. Publisher's tan cloth, front cover with affixed color-printed paper illustration; binding somewhat darkened (especially spine), corners and spine extremities rubbed, a few small spots of discoloration to front and back covers. Front pastedown with pencilled gift inscription, front free endpaper with bookseller's small ticket. Pages clean. A very nice book. (20839)
Hayden's
Survey: Thomas
on
Grasshoppers
& Locusts
Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer, & Cyrus Thomas. Report
of the United States Geological Survey of the territories: Synopsis of the Acrididae of North America.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873. Folio (31.5 cm, 12.4"). x, 24, 262 pp.; 1 plt.
$375.00
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First edition: Vol. V of a five-volume series, this volume is dedicated to zoology and
botany. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, remembered today as one of the primary proponents of the
creation of Yellowstone National Park, was a surgeon and geologist who led the massive United States
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories from 1867 through 1879, and edited the
resulting publications. The present portion of that enormous undertaking consists of “A Synopsis of
the Acrididae of North America,” written by pioneering American entomologist Cyrus Thomas.
Thomas's monograph describes earwigs, cockroaches, devils-horses, walking-sticks,
grasshoppers (this category including locusts), and crickets, and is illustrated
with a few in-text wood engravings in addition to the lithographed plate (done
by W.H. Holmes) showing 17 different U.S. insects.
This copy is uncut and unopened.
Schmeckebier, Catalogue & Index of the Publications
of the Hayden, King, Powell, & Wheeler Surveys, 21. Period-style quarter tan cloth
with light blue paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Title-page institutionally rubber-stamped; title-page and half-title with outer margins repaired. Page edges untrimmed, signatures
unopened. Spots of staining to outer margins of a few leaves. In fact a nice copy.
(25282)
Fossil Flora — 65 Plates
Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the territories. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878. 4to (30.4 cm,
11.9"). xv, [3], 366 pp.; 65 plts.
$175.00
First edition: Vol. VII of the final reports of Hayden’s massive survey, consisting of Leo Lesquereux’s report on the “Tertiary Flora” of the American west. This treatise is part II of “Contributions to the Fossil Flora of the Western Territories,” but complete in and of itself, and illustrated with 65 plates lithographed by T. Sinclair & Son.
Publisher’s cloth, covers framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; front cover with discoloration to upper edge and small bump to outer edge, cloth rubbed along edges and joints, spine scuffed. Front pastedown institutionally rubber-stamped. Pages and plates clean, and the large volume quite solid. (19652)

“Know Thyself” — And FEAR Thy Sex Life
Hayes, Albert H. The science of life; or, self-preservation. A medical treatise on nervous and physical debility, spermatorrhoea, impotence, and sterility, with practical observations on the treatment of diseases of the generative organs. Boston: Peabody Medical Institute, © 1881. 12mo (16.8 cm, 6.6"). xviii, 286 pp.; 4 plts. (1 fold.).
$220.00
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Stern warnings regarding venereal disease, masturbation, premature sexual activity, and other sex-related issues — with much of the book making dire insinuations regarding the reader's potential ill-health, as well as the likelihood that any practitioner other than Dr. Hayes will make the reader's woes even worse. The volume opens with a folding reproduction of a certificate commemorating the alleged presentation of “the most beautiful and expensive gold and jewelled medal ever conferred upon any one, be he prince or potentate” (p. xii) to Hayes by three (seemingly nonexistent) officers of the National Medical Association; the three other plates depict two views of the medal itself, and “Victims of Self-Abuse, and Their Offspring.” At the back are a list of medicines and how to formulate them, as well as testimonials to Hayes's miraculous curative abilities. First published in 1868, this popular treatise appears here in a surprisingly flashy binding for its subject.
Binding: Publisher's very bright blue cloth, front cover with overall oak-and-acorn and geometric pattern stamped in gilt and black, with decorative title and sun vignette, spine similar. All edges gilt.
Binding as above, slightly cocked, extremities lightly rubbed; sewing of first signature loosening. Four leaves with short tear in upper margin, not touching text; several more creased across one corner; one page with light smudges, pages otherwise clean.
A simultaneously disturbing and amusing look at quack medicine of the 19th century. (35120)

Ladies, Be Sweet & Mild — “A Sportive Satire” — A Nice Example of Color Printing
Hayley, William. The triumphs of temper, a poem: in six cantos. Chichester: Pr. by William Mason for T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1817. 8vo (16.8 cm, 6.65"). Col. frontis., xii, 166 pp.
$750.00
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Fairly light-hearted poetic chastisement of spleen and shrewishness in womankind, first published in 1781 and tremendously popular in its day. The “delicate raillery on female foibles” (p. ix), written in mock heroic couplets, opens here with
a color-printed, stipple-engraved frontispiece done by T.B. Brown after George Romney.
Binding: Handsome diced tan calf, covers framed in gilt roll composed of pyramid and trefoil elements, spine with wide raised bands, gilt-stamped leather title and author labels, and gilt-stamped foliate designs in compartments and on bands. Turn-ins with blind roll; marbled paper endpapers. All edges marbled (different marbling than the endpapers).
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of British collector and author Eric Stanley Quayle, dated 1965; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NCBEL, II, 658; NSTC 2H14088. Bound as above, joints (outside) and corners mildly rubbed, leather a little mottled; light offsetting to title-page from frontispiece. Occasional tiny spots of faint foxing, pages otherwise clean.
A lovely, appealing copy of this interesting cross between Spenser and Pope. (37630)

From Discussion through Completed Work — With Four Original Illustrations
Hays, H.R. Poems 1933–67. San Francisco: Kayak, 1968. 8vo (16.2 cm, 6.4"). [2], 79, [1] pp.; illus. [with the same author's] Crisis. Menomie, WI: Ox Head Press, 1969. 16mo (16.2 cm, 6.4'). [14] pp.; illus.
$250.00
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Two interesting literary, small-press printed items, with excellent accompanying material. The first item is one of 1000 copies designed and printed by George Hitchcock at the Kayak Press; the second small pamphlet, illustrated by Gerson Leiber, is one of 350 copies, the edition hand-set in Goudy Oldstyle.
In addition to the printed Poems and Crisis, Gerson Leiber's
four original ink drawings for Crisis — including one not printed in the piece — are here, with a cover letter (dated 1993 and apologizing for the 24-year delay!), signed by editor and publisher Don Olsen. Also present is Hays's typescript of “Crisis,” addressed to Olsen and stapled to two typed, signed letters from Olsen to Leiber regarding the artwork commission and subsequent printing details.
A card designed and printed by Fredric Aldwyn Brewer at the Raintree Press on behalf of the Indiana University LIbraries, with a warm handwritten message from Brewer thanking the recipient (presumably Leiber) for an engraving, is laid in to Crisis.
Provenance: From the collection of Gerson Leiber, the artist, engraver, sculptor, and book collector.
Poems: Publisher's printed light blue paper wrappers; spine and edges sunned. Crisis: Publisher's brown paper wrappers, front wrapper with black-stamped title and author information.
A marvelous look at one example of the collaborative process among writers, artists, and printers. (33615)

On a Most Ancient & Honourable Company — Presentation Copy
Heath, John Benjamin. Some account of the Worshipful Company of Grocers of the city of London. London: Privately printed, 1854. 8vo (26.8 cm, 10.55"). xvi, 580 pp.; 8 (1 fold.) plts.
$350.00
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Uncommon, privately printed second edition of this
illustrated history of the Company of Grocers — one of the Twelve Great Livery Companies of London — and some of its prominent members from its medieval origins through the early 1850s, written by Heath, governor of the Bank of England from 1845 to 1847. The illustrations include a map of Cheape Ward showing the Grocers' Hall and garden and an oversized, folding facsimile of the charter of incorporation, while the “Notices of Eminent Members” include renditions of their coats of arms. Also present are selections from some of the literature associated with the Grocers: speeches, plays, poems, etc.
Presentation copy: Half-title inscribed “Thomas Alex[ande]r Roberts Esq. [/] Presented by J.B. Heath July 1854.”
NSTC 2H15366; Cagle 736 (for first and third eds. only.); Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 25858.17 (first ed.). Publisher's olive green textured cloth, covers and spine blind-stamped, front cover with gilt-stamped armorial vignette, back cover with gilt-stamped device and motto, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine slightly sunned, extremities mildly rubbed. Hinges (inside) of this hefty volume now cracked, with joints tender but holding. One plate (the map dated 1560) with pencilled annotations. Some plates faintly age-toned; pages with a few instances of light foxing. A work
full of valuable and interesting detail in a nice, clean, and (as handled with care) sound copy. (37084)

19th-Century American
Signed Blind–Embossed Binding
This Copy Extra-Illustrated
Hemans, Felicia; Reginald Heber; & Robert Pollok. The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok. Complete in one volume. Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliott, 1838. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). Frontis., engr. t.-p., [10], vii, [ii]–xvi, 479, [1], [ii]–xvii, [1], 43, [1], 79, [1] pp.; 2 add. engr. plts.
$250.00
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A stereotyped collection of works by three early 19th–century British poets, presented in
a handsome American blind-embossed binding. This anthology includes some of Hemans' (1793–1835) most admired works, such as Records of Woman and Hymns on the Works of Nature, along with the best-known hymns and poems of Heber (1783–1826) and Pollok (1798–1827).
The present example is an extra-illustrated copy. In addition to a frontispiece of Hemans and a pastoral title-page vignette, both engraved by W.H. Ellis, it bears tipped in on the back of the frontispiece a stunning added engraving of Hemans after a plaque by Edward William Wyon (“by A. Collas's Patent Process”). A portrait of Pollok “engraved by T.A. Dean from the only drawing from life ever taken” is mounted on a leaf before his Course of Time.
Binding: Intricately embossed burgundy calf with gilt lettering to spine; the spine design is derived from a Remnant & Edmonds spine plaque, according to Wolf. Each board has a medallion in the center featuring a woman in a chariot pulled by two galloping horses with several delicate stars in the sky; the medallion is framed by elaborate acanthus and foliate motifs. Blue marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Signed by
Benjamin Gaskill (“Gaskill, Phila”) on spine.
WorldCat locates only eight copies of this 1838 edition.
Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 190. Bound as above, mildest rubbing; marbled endpapers rubbed and slightly discolored just along edges from action by turn-ins. First set of contents with pages bound out of order. Interior age-toned as expectable, with instances of foxing especially along top edges throughout and with light evidence of old waterstaining along bottom ones; title-page with short inked line from outer edge, added engraving with small closed tear
A nice example of Gaskill's embossing work and a delightful volume overall, “personalized.” (38710)

“Waves Break Where the Seagulls Glide”
Henri, Adrian. Lowlands away. Bath, UK: The Old School Press, [Spring] 2001. 4to (26.7 cm, 10.5"). [15] ff.
$90.00
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A collection of poems, some first published by Adrian Henri (1932–2000) in Liverpool Accents (1996), this is fourth in a series of works by six contemporary British poets published by The Old School Press. The author's note says “Lowlands Away” was commissioned and set to music by Richard Gordon-Smith for the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
Illustrated with
eight pastels in color by the author, printed by Adrian Lack at the Senecio Press, this is copy 46 in a limited edition of 280 set in Monotype Gill Sans 262 cast by Harry McIntosh on heavy Rivoli paper. It was bound by Rachel and Richard James in quarter bright yellow fine-grain cloth with the title gilt-stamped not on the spine but along the line of the its cloth on the handmade light green Larroque paper covering the boards; black Canson was used for the endpapers. Copies 241–80 were reserved for binders in sheets.
Binding as above. Pristine in a mylar wrapper. (30558)

The Famous Heredia Catalogue — with
Auction Prices
Heredia, Ricardo. Catalogue de la bibliothèque de M. Ricardo Heredia. Paris: Ém. Paul, L. Huard, & Guillemin, 1891–1894. 8vo (27 cm, 10.6"). 4 vols. I: xxiii, [1], 332 pp.; illus. II: xi, [1], 482, [2] pp.; illus. III: viii, 340 pp.; illus. IV: viii, 524 pp.
$900.00
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First edition: Auction catalogue of the extensive, impressive library of bibliophile Ricardo Heredia y Livermore, Conde de Benahavís (1831–96). Heredia built “perhaps the greatest collection of Spanish books ever formed” (as noted by an old cataloguing slip laid into this set), incorporating the former Salvá y Mallén collection; this catalogue serves as an important reference work for a wide swathe of Spanish literature, theology, belles-lettres, etc.
The listings are augmented in the first three volumes by numerous in-text reproductions of illustrations and title-pages from the books. This copy includes
auction prices neatly inked alongside every book.
Contemporary treed sheep, spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels and gilt-ruled bands; sides showing minor rubbing, edges, joints, and extremities moreso. All hinges (inside) cracked or tender, some endpapers with pencilled notations. Vol. I: Two pages with light offsetting from now-absent item, one leaf with lower outer corner torn away. Vol. IV with bookplate of Alvaro de Fontagud y Aguilera. Pages gently age-toned, most noticeably in vol. IV, with occasional light smudges; each volume with last page browned. (29161)
The Amazon & Its “Aborigines” — 52 Lithographed Plates
Herndon, William Lewis; & Gibbon, Lardner. Exploration of the valley of the Amazon, made under direction of the Navy Department.... Washington: Robert Armstrong, 1853, & A.O.P. Nicholson, 1854. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.1"). 2 vols. I: 414, [2], iii, [1] pp.; 16 plts. II: x, [2], 339, [1] pp.; 36 plts.
$600.00
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Original government issue of these “Minute, accurate, and very interesting accounts of the aborigines of the Andes, and the Amazon and its tributaries” (Sabin). These two volumes are parts I and II of Senate Executive Document no. 36, 32d Cong., 2d sess., consisting of Lieut. Herndon’s description of following the Amazon itself and Lieut. Gibbon’s account of his travels along the Amazon’s tributaries in Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil.
Many of the 52 lithographed plates are in duotone; some were done by Ackerman Lithography and some by P.S. Duval & Co., after views of scenery, buildings, and natives drawn by Lieut. Gibbon.
Two volumes of maps, not present here, were issued separately.
Sabin 31524; Palau 113897. Publisher’s textured cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; vol. I with spine sunned and cloth chipped at spine extremities; vol. II with corners bumped, cloth peeling away from spine and chipped at spine extremities, spine with gilt dimmed and small area of unobtrusive discoloration from now-absent label. Front pastedowns each with pencilled owner’s name and institutional rubber stamp (no other markings); front free endpaper of vol. II starting to tear along inner margin. Mild to moderate foxing and spotting; a few text gatherings unopened. One plate in vol. I with short tear from outer margin, turning into a narrow scrape extending about halfway into the upper portion of the image; one leaf in vol. II with tiny portion (less than one word) affixed to opposing plate.
Not a perfect set, but a perfectly fascinating one.

Sutton's
Hospital in
Charterhouse
& The
Famous
Charterhouse
School
Herne, Samuel. Domus carthusiana: Or an account of the most noble foundation of the charter-house near Smithfield in London. Both before and since the Reformation. London: Pr. by T.R. for Richard Marriott & Henry Brome, 1677. 8vo (18.2 cm, 7.2"). Frontis., [46], 287, [1] pp.; 2 plts.
$1500.00
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First edition of this history of the Charterhouse, a charitable hospital and (eventually) elite boys' school founded by Thomas Sutton on the site of a former Carthusian monastery. The volume is illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Sutton, a copperplate engraving of a Carthusian monk done by F.H. Van Houe, and an allegorical copperplate engraving of the House of Prayer. It is partly printed in black-letter.
Provenance: Rolle family armorial bookplate.
ESTC R10688; Wing (rev.) H1578; Allibone 813. Contemporary sheep, covers framed in blind double fillets; leather rubbed and scuffed, partially cracked along front joint. All edges marbled. Pastedowns peeled up, front pastedown with early inked inscription; inside front cover with armorial bookplate. Title-page with inked numeral in upper outer corner. (21012)

Making America's
Drawbridges BETTER
Herschel, Clemens. Continuous, revolving drawbridges: the principles of their construction and the calculation of the strains in them. With more especial reference to the designing of continuous panel girders of this description. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1875. 8vo (24 cm; 8.5"). 54 pp., x leaves of plates (9 fold.). Illus.
$150.00
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“This little book, in its original shape, was a paper written for the American Society of Civil Engineers” (preface). Very much a technical work of importance for bridge engineers as attested to by its provenance (see below), this book addresses the dramatic innovations in American drawbridge engineering that began at the end of the 1860s. The text is illustrated with 19 in-text wood-engraved cuts and
10 “heliotype” plates at the rear.
Throughout the text are lengthy mathematical proofs and calculations, with the whole supported at the end by “a list of books and articles in technical journals, relating to the subject of continuous girders (in part or in whole), in the German, French, and English languages, published between 1854 and 1874" (pp. 52–54).
Provenance: Ex–Franklin Institute Library (its on-site sale 1986) with its bookplate, lending rules, and stamps.
Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt on front cover and gilt on spine; top of spine pulled with a chip. Fore-, top, and bottom edges of book and all odd-numbered pages with the library's stamp, and even-numbered pages with offset from the stamps; titIe-page and one other leaf with a perforation-stamp.
A testament to why 19th-century librarians were so often called enemies of books. (35448)

From a Caney, Kansas NYAL
Hill, Janet McKenzie. Nyal cook book. Practical recipes that have been tested in actual use. Detroit: Nyal Company, (copyright 1916). 12mo (19.4 cm, 7.625"). Frontis., [20], 228 pp.; 7 double-sided plts.
$90.00
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First edition. “For sale only at Nyal Quality Drug Stores,” this cookbook was compiled by one of the leading lights of the Boston Cooking School: Janet McKenzie Hill, editor of the Boston Cooking School Magazine. The recipes are illustrated with a total of eight halftone process photographic pages — a frontispiece and seven double-sided plate leaves, each page with three images, each leaf with six — two halftone pages having been lightly rubber-stamped, as is the front free endpaper, by the Nyal Store of Caney, KS.
Binding: Publisher's sage green paper–covered boards with brown cloth shelfback, covers color-printed with a young woman wearing a frilly cap and apron mixing ingredients in a bowl.
Bitting, 228. Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Bound as above, edges and extremities lightly rubbed; covers with small scuffs, front cover with thin scratch. One plate and attached leaf separated. Nyal stamps as above. A very few recipes with pencilled marks of emphasis, one page in dessert section with small stains and a dog-earned corner, pages otherwise clean. This is not a facsimile or reprint — it is a cleaner copy of the first edition than often seen on the market, with interesting commercial provenance. (38622)

Counting to Six — One of
65 Copies
Hill, Jennifer. Overpass. Six drawings. [Florence, MA]: Kat Ran Press, 2001. Folio (35.8 cm, 14.2"). [6] pp.; 6 plts.
$175.00
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First edition of the first Kat Ran “number book”: six drawings by Hill, illustrating the numbers one through six with images of imaginary structures. The images were printed from plates made at Wild Carrot Letterpress, with
additional hand embellishments made by the artist. The Gill Sans types were cast by Michael and Winifred Bixler, and composed and printed at Kat Ran on Twinrocker papers.
This is numbered copy 31 of only 65 copies printed (50 numbered, 15 lettered),
signed by the artist at the colophon.
The publisher's prospectus is laid in.
Publisher's cream-grey paper wrappers, front wrapper with title printed in dark brown. Very clean and crisp. (32691)

Plants for Both
Ornament & Medicine
Hill, John. The British herbal: An history of plants and trees, natives of Britain, cultivated for use, or raised for beauty. London: Pr. for T. Osborne & J. Shipton, J. Hodges, J. Newbery, et al., 1756 [–1757]. Folio (41.3 cm, 16.25"). Frontis., [4], 536 pp.; 75 plts.
$4000.00
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First edition of this impressive herbal by the prolific and energetic botanist who first introduced the Linnaean system of nomenclature to Great Britain — a polemical figure whose failed acting career and disputes with members of the Royal Society led to academic snubbing despite his notable contributions to science and literature.
This work was originally issued in 52 parts between January 1756 and January 1757, and appears here in its first book-form edition, with a title-page printed in red and black (the title-page is dated 1756 as it was issued with the first part, as per Henrey). Entries cover general plant descriptions along with information on medicinal usages; exotic species grown in Britain are included along with the “natives” of the title.
75 copper-engraved plates by Boyce, Darly and Edwards, Benning, and other hands follow the text, each plate packed with images of multiple plants (uncolored here). The frontispiece, “The Genius of Health receiving the tributes of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, and delivering them to the British Reader,” was designed by Samuel Wade and engraved by Henry Roberts; Wade also designed the title-page vignette, “Asculapius and Flora gathering from the Lap of Nature,” which was engraved by his frequent collaborator Charles Grignion the Elder.
Provenance & Evidence of Readership: Front pastedown with two attractive bookplates of a British independent school and the manor in which it was founded (Canford). The front free endpaper and frontispiece recto are carefully annotated in an early inked hand with summaries of each class of plants described herein, along with appropriate page and plate numbers; the first four plates (only) have neatly and faintly pencilled page numbers with almost every item.
ESTC T29713; Rohde, Old English Herbals, 222; Nissen 881; Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature, II, 666 & item 798; Brunet, III, 167. Contemporary mottled calf, moderately rubbed and scuffed with spine extremities chipped, gilt-stamped leather spine label chipped with loss of two letters, joints and corners refurbished. Front pastedown with early inked ownership inscription; endpaper and frontispiece with neatly inked contents annotations as above; plate numbers inked or pencilled in margins of the corresponding texts for the first few leaves only. A few plates with light foxing almost entirely confined to margins, five plates with small area of pinholes in vicinity of images; contents otherwise in pleasing condition.
A solid, clean, pleasing copy of an important entry in British botanical studies. (34664)

The Medicinal Virtues of Plants
Illustrated
Hill, John. The family herbal, or an account of all those English plants, which are remarkable for their virtues, and of the drugs which are produced by vegetables of other countries; with their descriptions and their uses, as proved by experience. Bungay: J. & R. Childs, 1822. 8vo (21.2 cm, 8.4"). viii, xl, 376 pp.; 54 col. plts.
$750.00
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19th-century edition of Hill's popular herbal handbook for home medicinal use, originally published in 1755 and here illustrated with
54 delicately tinted hand-colored plates, most bearing three images each. The author was a prolific and energetic botanist known for his Vegetable System and other works.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with early inked inscription: “John Watts Book [/] Dunfermline”; front pastedown with inscriptions of both John Watt and Robert Watt, and back free endpaper with that of John.
Rohde, Old English Herbals, 222; Nissen 881 (for Bungay 1803 ed.); Henrey, British Botanical and Horticultural Literature, III, 829. Contemporary half calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and rules and blind-stamped devices in compartments; binding worn and scuffed, front joint cracked (sewing holding), spine leather with a number of small cracks. One plate with very short tear from upper margin, just barely extending into plate edge and not approaching image; small spots of foxing to some pages and plates, with two early plates showing somewhat more noticeable spotting.
A very browsable and readable copy, with lovely plates. (34849)

Master Violin Makers (Both Subjects & Authors) — Equally Masterful Binders
Extraordinary Provenance
Hill, William Henry; Arthur F. Hill; Alfred Ebsworth Hill. The violin-makers of the Guarneri family (1626–1762): Their life and work. London: William E. Hill & Sons, 1931. 4to (29.9 cm, 11.75"). xxxvii, [3], 181, [5] pp.; 58 plts., 2 fold. maps, illus.
$3250.00
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The first edition in its deluxe format, in an eye-catching Riviere binding: a carefully detailed, extensively illustrated examination of the careers and productions of all five of the master instrument-makers of the Guarneri family. The text is enhanced by
58 full-page depictions of known examples of Guarneri work, often in multiple views, with many color-printed and the rest in crisply impressed photogravure, along with two oversized, folding maps and numerous in-text illustrations. And it bears a touching dedication to the memory of William Hill (1857–1929), noting that this history “embodies the knowledge and considered views of three brothers who lived and worked in a life-long intimacy.” The Hill family was itself known for fine violin-making and expert instrument repair work, and the W.E. Hill & Sons firm continues to be active today.
This is hand-numbered copy 137 of only 200 produced in this special limited format, there having been apparently fewer than 700 copies produced for subscribers overall.
Binding: Signed brown morocco, covers framed and panelled in gilt double fillets with gilt corner fleurons and floral decorations enclosed by strapwork, front cover with central gilt-stamped Guarneri coat of arms, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands, gilt-stamped title and author, and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. Turn-ins with one wide gilt roll and one narrow, joined by gilt double fillets. Page edges untrimmed. Binding dated 1931 (at spine foot) and gilt-stamped by Riviere & Son on lower front turn-in.
Provenance: From the library (sans indicia) of the great violinist Adolf Busch and by bequest to his daughter Irene Serkin and son-in-law Rudolph Serkin.
Binding as above; back cover with one scuff, front cover with small unobtrusive area of darkening towards upper outer corner. Offsetting to edges of free endpapers from turn-ins. Pages and plates clean and fresh.
A striking, elegant volume, of surpassing interest for music historians and aficionados. (39690)

Written & Owned by Violinists
Hill, William Henry; Arthur F. Hill; Alfred Ebsworth Hill. Antonio Stradivari his life and work (1644–1737). London: William E. Hill & Sons, 1902. Large 4to (30.1 cm, 11.875"). xvi, 303, [1] pp.; 30 plts.; illus.
$750.00
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First edition of the preeminent work on the preeminent name in violins. The Hill family was itself known for fine violin making (the W.E. Hill & Sons firm continues to be active today), making the three music-playing, instrument-restoring brothers who produced this text abundantly qualified to discuss not just the technical and historical but also the aesthetic qualities of Stradivari's work — and they do so here at length, with scholarly precision. The volume opens with an introductory note by Lady Huggins, and is
illustrated with 30 plates (many images of instruments printed in color) plus a genealogical tree, an illuminated title-page in red and black with the Stradivari device in red and gilt, and a number of in-text images.
Provenance: From the library (sans indicia) of the great violinist and conductor Adolf Busch — himself the owner of a Stradivarius instrument, a violin made in 1716 and now played by David Garrett — and by bequest to his daughter Irene Serkin and son-in-law Rudolph Serkin.
Publisher's (wide) quarter green calf and green cloth–covered sides, outer leather edges with blind roll, front cover with Stradivarius coat of arms stamped in gilt and red, spine with gilt-stamped publication information; spine and back joint sunned, corners and joints lightly rubbed. Top edges gilt, other edges untrimmed. Last two leaves of index starting to separate.
A nice copy of this critically important work of music history, with outstanding provenance. (39702)

Washington, D.C. — Life & Society, 1895
Hinman, Ida. The Washington sketch book. A society souvenir. Containing over one hundred portraits of prominent people, and fifty views of public buildings and statues. Washington, DC: Hartman & Cadick, 1895. 4to (28.5 cm; 11.25"). 112 pp., [2 (ads) ff.
$75.00
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A guidebook and social life manual aimed very much at the female audience. Illustrated with numerous black and white halftone illustrations throughout, including many views of the city and its important buildings both exterior and interior, this includes an extended section of profiles of “Some Prominent Women of Washington.”
Neat gift inscription on front free endpaper: “Mollie, with Ada's love. 898.”
Publisher's light blue cloth, front cover stamped in silver with images of the Washington Monument and the Capitol; author's name and title of work stamped in in gold within silver cartouches. Light wear to edges of boards and a little spotting; a Very Good copy. (37010)

A Stubborn Pig Is Rewarded with a Clean Sty & Good Food
History of the Little Dame Crump and her white pig. London: J.L. Marks, [ca. 1835-57?]. 12mo (17.5 cm, 6.875"). [8] ff.; illus.
$375.00
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The approximate date of publication is suggested by Brown's London Publishers and Printers c.1800–1870. The verse text, in letterpress, is below the large half-page,
brightly hand-colored, wood-engraved illustrations, the whole printed on one side of each leaf only, the leaves bound facing each other; the first and last leaves are pasted to wrappers.
Provenance: Signature of John Duncrist in upper margin of front wrapper; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Cf. Osborne Collection p. 631. Original printed green wrappers; wrappers in past separated from text block and expertly reattached. Light staining in some inner margins. A very nice copy. (38799)

NEVER in Childish Hands — Cuts Very Well Impressed
The history of Tommy and Harry. York: J. Kendrew, [ca. 1820]. 16mo (10.3 cm, 4.1"). 30, [2] pp.; illus.
$250.00
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Virtually pristine copy of this penny toybook — a popular cautionary tale of two overly indulged brothers, one of whom prospers by way of his natural love of learning, and one of whom enjoys bad company and eventually goes to rack and ruin (not here, as some variants of this story have it, being eaten by wild beasts after a shipwreck, but rather more prosaically being sent to Newgate). The story is illustrated with eight woodcuts, two of which show the boys playing
badminton and marbles.
One signature at the back is unopened.
NSTC 2H10236. Publisher's light yellow printed paper wrappers, removed from a nonce volume. Clean, crisp, unread copy. (31946)

La Mort Ny Mord
Holbein, Hans; Anatole de Montaiglon, ed. L’alfabeto della morte di Hans Holbein. Parigi: Edwin Tross (pr. by Firmin Didot), 1856. 8vo (23 cm, 9.1"). [36] pp.; illus.
$300.00
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First edition: Italian version of the stunning Firmin Didot–printed rendering of the Dance of Death, inspired by Holbein’s work. The textual selections from early Christian saints, given in Latin, are accompanied by quatrains in Italian and prefaced by an Italian introduction written by Luigi Odorici — unlike the English and French editions published by Tross in the same year, which were both introduced by Anatole de Montaiglon, who had made the editorial selections.
Each meditation on death opens with a reproduction of one of Holbein’s initials, done by Heinrich Loedel, with
the whole alphabet being represented except, of course, J and U; and each page is framed in an exquisite death-themed, wood-engraved
border done by Léon le Maire after designs from a Book of Hours printed by Simon Vostre. The
original front wrapper is preserved here, and the pages are untrimmed, resulting in some leaves having very wide margins.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Brunet, III, 259 (for French ed. only). 19th-century quarter printed cloth with marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped decorative bands and gilt-stamped black leather title-label; minor rubbing to extremities. Mild age-toning and foxing throughout, more noticeable on bound-in wrapper; wrapper with inner portion repaired some time ago.
Attractive and interesting. (37927)

“As Faithful Representations of the Originals as Can Well Nigh Be Conceived”
Holbein, Hans, illus. Icones Veteris Testamenti; illustrations of the Old Testament, engraved on wood, from designs by H. Holbein. London: William Pickering [Charles Whittingham], 1830. 8vo (20 cm, 7.875"). 14, [180] pp.; XC plts.
$225.00
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First Pickering edition reproducing some of well-known 16th-century artist Holbein's early work. Following an introduction by woodcutter siblings Mary & John Byfield are
ninety different woodcuts depicting passages from the Old Testament, each with the English verse printed below and the text in Latin, French, Italian, and Spanish on the following page. Keynes device no. iv appears on the title-page with device no. iii at the end.
Provenance: A small binder's ticket of Remnant & Edmonds of London appears at back with a small blue and white bookplate of book designer and typographer Lester Douglas on front pastedown; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1830.11; Keynes, Pickering, p. 72; Pickering & Chatto, William Pickering (catalogue 708), 173; NSTC 2H25927 & 2B30767. Quarter brown roan in imitation of morocco over red paper–covered boards, spine lettered and title framed in gilt; rubbed, spine sunned, spotting on endpapers. Light age-toning gently darkening towards edges with the rather occasional marginal spot or stain and one gathering loosening but firmly attached; uncut with a few unopened leaves, one témoin. Booklabels and binder's ticket as above, a small marginal check mark and number in pencil.
A pleasing production with the perfect provenance. (39010)

Holbein’s Dance of Death — HIS ALPHABET with “New” Borders
Holbein, Hans. L'alphabet de la mort de Hans Holbein entouré de bordures du XVIe siècle et suivi d'anciens poëmes français sur le sujet de trois mors et des trois vis publiés d'après les manuscrits par Anatole de Montaiglon. Paris: Edwin Tross, 1856. 8vo (21.8 cm, 8.625"). [96] pp.; illus.
$450.00
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Tross's careful and elegant 19th-century edition: The Dance of Death concept experienced a revival in French Romantic literature of the era and the main text here, in French and Latin, is prefaced by Anatole de Montaiglon's introduction (in French). The reproductions of Holbein's initials were done by Heinrich Loedel, and each page is given an
exquisite death-themed, wood-engraved border by Léon le Maire after designs from a Book of Hours printed by Simon Vostre. The alphabet is represented (excluding J and U) by magnificent engraved historiated letters, five of which are repeated.
Binding: Chocolate brown morocco, covers framed and panelled in blind with gilt-tooled corner fleurons and gilt strapwork central medallions; spine with blind-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped title and date and cover fleurons repeated in compartments; turn-ins with wide composite gilt rolls. All edges gilt; striking and distinctive marbled endpapers.
Signed by binder L. Claessens with tiny stamp in roll on lower front turn-in.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Bound as above and in lovely condition; extremely minor spots of rubbing and scraping to boards, one raised band with a short cut(?) and a sliver of leather lost.
An overall wonderful copy of this beautiful reprint. (37923)

“Earning for Himself a Character for Courage, Integrity, & Truth”
Home at the haven. London: Groombridge & Sons [Richard Barrett, Printer], [1860s?]. (14.2 cm; 5.625"). 48 pp., illus.
$75.00
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A widowed mother and her two children move to the home of her late husband's brother in the English countryside, where Lucy and Edward learn important life lessons through building a boat. From the second series of the “Stories for Summer Days & Winter Nights” library.
This work includes a
frontispiece and five in-text wood engravings signed by Edward Whymper (1840–1911), an Arctic explorer and mountaineer best known for being the first to successfully ascend the Matterhorn.
Publisher's green printed wrappers, soiling and splitting along spine; one leaf separated, a light pencil mark or two, a handful of bent corners. (36537)

Chapman's Homer — Classicists' Provenance
Homer, & George Chapman, trans. [The whole works of Homer; prince of poetts In his Iliads, and Odysses]. London: Printed [by Richard Field, William Jaggard, and Thomas Harper] for Nathaniell Butter, [1634?]. Folio (28.1 cm; 11.125"). [26], 341, [9]; [12], 195–349, 352–76, [2] pp. Lacks engr. t-p. and 5 blanks.
$9500.00
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Chapman (1559/60–1634) completed translations of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey — long considered to be the definitive English versions — in 1611 and 1615 respectively, after several adventures as a playwright, including a short period of imprisonment with Ben Jonson for their anti-Scottish play Eastward Ho. In 1616, his two epic translations appeared with a general title-page proclaiming the volume Homer’s Works. The ESTC considers that 1616 volume to have been a “reissue of STC 13634 [the 1611 Iliad] and 13637 [the 1615 Odyssey]” and this, the 1634 edition, to be “a later state of STC 13624 [i.e., the 1616 Works].”
The volume in hand contains a reprinting of The Iliads, The Odysses with a cancel letterpress title-page, and a cancel leaf from the dedicatory epistle of The Odysses, all printed by Thomas Harper as described in the ESTC.
In simplified, perhaps less technical terms, it represents the second printing of the first collected issuance of Chapman’s Iliad and Odyssey in one volume, wherein a previous owner or dealer has substituted the engraved title-page from the 1611 edition of The Iliads for the missing engraved title-page for The Works, eliminating also five blanks!
Provenance: Signature of journalist and author William Agnew Paton dated 1896 on upper margin of title-page in ink and on front endpaper dated 1898 in blue crayon; Paton also added a presentation inscription in 1911 to Lewis Buckley Stillwell, a president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and long a trustee of Princeton University. Stillwell wrote an inscription to his son Richard in 1831, a year before Richard became the director of the Princeton-associated American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Later in the collection of Classicist Pierre A. MacKay (1933–2015), a Classicist also with Princeton associations.
ESTC S119225; STC 13624.5. 19th-century mottled calf with gilt-lettered leather label and gilt-stamped compartments on spine, covers delicately framed in gilt double-rules around simple gilt triple-ruled rectangle with crown stamps at corners, all edges gilt; endpapers chipping, binding worn and abraded, text resewn and reattached to binding, rebacked with 19th-century spine laid on. Marked and lacking title-page and five blanks as above, light pencilling on endpapers, a few very short tears at margins, one leaf with ink spotting; light to moderate age-toning with the occasional spot. (36544)

An Enlightening German Volksbuch — Heavily Illustrated
Honorius Augustodunensis, commonly known as Honorius of Autun. M. Elucidarius. Von allerhand Geschöpffen Gottes, den Engeln, den himmeln Gestirn, Planeten, und wie alle Creaturen geschaffen seind auff Erden. Franckfort am Mayn: Christ[ian] Egen[olffs] Erden [colophon: Adam Loniceri, Johannis Cnipii, Andronici secundi doctorum & Pauli Steinmeyers], 1584. 4to (19 cm, 7.5"). [98] pp.; 2 double-sided plts., illus.
[SOLD]
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Uncommon edition of the work called Elucidarius: Based in part on an 11th-century treatise on theology and world history written in Latin by an enigmatic monk living in England at the time of his composition of his treatise, this German vernacular compendium of general knowledge appears here not only much expanded beyond that original work but also
reformed and secularized to some extent, covering geography (including a reference to America), cosmography, and natural history as well as religion — making this one of the earliest such extensive and encyclopedic works written in German.
While there were a number of Frankfurt editions of this and Egenolff and his heirs themselves issued it several times, the present 1584 printing appears to be one of the scarcest: WorldCat reports
only one U.S. institutional location, and that copy is incomplete. The edition features a title-page printed in red and black, with a vignette of a man balancing an armillary sphere on his back and hoisting a compass flanked by a male and a female grotesque; the text is printed in an attractive black letter and opens with
two leaves of full-page woodcut illustrations (God pulling Eve from Adam's side, a set of twenty monstrous humanoids from around the world, a map of the world done after one in the Nuremberg Chronicle, and a scene of a scholar pointing towards the sun and moon). Other woodcut illustrations that range from a quarter of a page to full-page in size include astronomical diagrams, emblematic scenes including cosmological schematics, Atlas supporting the heavens, a well-dressed gentleman making use of a measuring rod, and a beautiful, elaborated version of the Egenolff device on the colophon page in which the printer's characteristic flaming, sacrificed heart is shown between apposite views of Abraham and Isaac and Balaam and his ass.
In supplement to the main portion, following it, is Jakob Köbel's “Bauren Compassz” (Bauern-Compass, or Farmer's Compass).
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Alden, European Americana, 584/44; Index Aurel. 160.003; Richter, Egenolffs Erben, 516; VD16 L 3100 (& Köbel, Bauernkompaß: VD16 K 160). Not in Adams. Recent plain, unmarked cream paper–covered boards; evidence of sometime (long ago?) removal of an oval stamp from title-page. Pages age-toned with minor offsetting and scattered light spots, generally clean.
A remarkable work, in a desirable copy. (37642)

All the
DETAILS of a Printer's Life
Hopkins, Frank E. The De Vinne & Marion Presses: A chapter from the autobiography of Frank E. Hopkins. Meriden: The Columbiad Club, 1936. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [6], 61, [3] pp.; 4 plts.
$40.00
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Charming, very personal account of Hopkins's printing career, from his early days as a proofreader to his time with De Vinne and his subsequent independent success with his own Marion Press. The recollections are illustrated with four plates, showing the De Vinne building, an old hand press, the first Marion press, and a portrait of the author. This is
one of 315 copies printed (of which 250 were for sale) at the Timothy Press; the colophon of this copy is unnumbered.
Publisher's green and cream marbled paper–covered sides with green cloth shelfback, spine with gilt-stamped title; minimal wear to spine extremities, otherwise a lovely, clean copy. (36843)

A Delightful, Eye-Pleasing Horace — A Chromolithographic Tour de Force
Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. The works of Quintus Horatius Flaccus illustrated chiefly from the remains of ancient art. London: John Murray, 1849. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.8"). [6], 194, [6], 490, xiv pp.; 8 col. plts.
$550.00
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First edition of this
lavishly decorated, deluxe production of Horace's works in the original Latin, with a life of the author written in English by the Rev. Henry Hart Milman. Each page of the preface appears in a color-printed, antiquity-inspired frame (ochre, maroon, blue, green, or violet, with several different styles of frame used); the poems appear in simpler frames, but with each section preceded by a chromolithographed title-page (with a total of eight color plates), and almost every text page bearing an in-text wood engraving done by George Scharf after “remains of ancient art” (an index of the original sources and their locations is present at the back of the volume).
The decorative elements were created by architect and pioneering design theorist Owen Jones.
This volume's price at publication was two guineas which, although less than production cost, priced the work out of the market. McLean suggests most of the 2,500 copies were pulped!
Signed binding: Contemporary brown morocco, front pastdown stamped “J. Wright Binder.” Boards with triple fillet gilt border at edges; center panel on each board composed of a triple fillet outer border with a floral/vine gilt roll within; gilt corner devices with elements extending along the outer edges of the center panel. Board edges with double fillet rules, turn-ins with same gilt roll as in the center panels of the boards, cream calendared endpapers. All edges gilt.
Evidence of readership: 20th-century notes relating to the text on rear free endpaper.
Provenance: Large engraved armorial “Kimmel Park” bookplate of Hugh Robert Hughes of Kimmel (1827–1911), Co. Denbigh, and his small library shelf label to top of front pastedown. His signature in full, dated “June 11th 1855,” on front fly-leaf. “G.L.D. 1937" on front free endpaper.
NSTC 2H30539; McLean, Victorian Book Design, pp. 94, 174. Binding as above; joints (outside) abraded, so too lower edges of boards and corners. 20th-century notes as mentioned above; shelf label largely obscured by a later blank one; a very few dog-ears or short edge tears; age-toning with some foxing and other spotting, especially towards beginning and end.
A remarkable, wonderful book. (37188)

With Typical Kendrew Charm & Quality
The house that Jack built; To which is added, some account of Jack Jingle, Showing by what means he acquired his learning and in consequence thereof got rich, and built himself house [sic]. Adorned with cuts. York: Printed by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, [ca. 1820]. 64mo (8.5 cm; 3.375"). 24 pp.; illus.
$175.00
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In near-miniature format, this York, Kendrew chapbook offers “The house that jack built” and a short essay about Jack, illustrated with
15 woodcuts, including cover images associated (on front wrapper) with a poem entitled “The little girl that beat her sister” and (on the back one) a poem entitled “Mamma and Baby.”
All cuts are apt and charming.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
In hunter green printed wrappers, slightly darkened, removed from a nonce volume; frontispiece and last leaf mounted to inside of covers as issued.
Clean and crisp. (38469)

Book of Designs for
Bakers & Confectioners
Hueg, Herman. Ornamental confectionery, and practical assistant to the art of baking in all its branches, with numerous illustrations. New York: H. Hueg & Co., © 1896. 12mo (14.5 cm, 5.75"). 48, 48 pp.; illus.
$175.00
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Illustrated promotional pamphlet: This
ephemeral sidekick to Hueg's popular
Ornamental Confectionery and the Art of Baking offers baking tips, recipes, and decoration patterns, combined with a product and book catalogue with price list. Some of the depicted cake structures and designs are jaw-droppingly ornate! Originally published in 1893, the pamphlet is now notably less common than its hardcover sibling.
Cagle & Stafford 389 (for first ed.). Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's printed blue paper wrappers, spine and edges rubbed, front cover with spots of discoloration; offsetting inside wrappers from staples. Pages very slightly age-toned.
Delightful for those who like to bake, those who like to eat, or those who just like to appreciate implausible confectionery accomplishments. (35008)

A Classic of the Genre — Love's Progress in
WOODCUT EMBLEMS
Hugo, Herman; Christopher van Sichem, illus. Pia desideria emblematis elegiis & affectibus Ss. Patrum illustrata. Antuerpiae: Typis Henrici Aertssenii, 1628. Small 8vo (12.3 cm, 4.875"). [30], 456, [2] pp.; 46 ill. (woodcuts), 1 coat of arms (woodcut).
$575.00
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Painstakingly pirated version of one of the most influential of the Dutch emblem books and
one of the most charming, with Hugo's morals, written in a combination of Latin verse and prose, accompanying
46 full-page woodcut illustrations by Christopher van Sichem (numbered 0–45), each with a Bible quotation below. The Jesuit author (1588–1629) designed this devotional volume to follow the three stages of mystical life and meditation: purification (here, Book I: “Gemitus animae poenitentis”), illumination (II: “Vota animae sanctae”), and union (III: “Suspiria animae amantis”).
Amsterdam publisher P.I. Paets commissioned the woodcuts, done after the copper engravings by Boetius a Bolswert for the 1624 first edition, later using or sharing them least three more times. Additionally, the volume offers a fine woodcut illustrated title-page, the woodcut coat of arms of Urban VIII, three sectional woodcut architectural title-pages, and in-text woodcut initials and tailpieces.
Binding: 18th-century brown morocco, spine with gilt title-label, raised bands accented with gilt hashing, and compartments containing gilt daisy stamps, corner ornaments, and ruling; covers framed in gilt triple fillets, board edges with gilt zigzag roll. Marbled endapers, all edges marbled, blue ribbon place marker.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear; evidence of removed bookplate on front pastedown and very faded word in an early hand on title-page margin.
DeBacker-Sommervogel, IV, 513; Landwehr, Emblem & Fable Books Printed in the Low Countries (3rd ed.), 346; Corpus librorum emblematum, Jesuit series, J.631; Emblem Books at the University of Illinois, H56. Bound as above, binding gently rubbed with a few small spots, one small wormhole and a leather repair, pencilling on endpapers. Light age-toning and limited, light to moderate all-marginal waterstaining throughout, a smattering of spots. Provenance marks as above.
Plates as fresh and engaging as the day they were produced. (38273)

A James Gang Bank Robbery, FOILED
Huntington, George, comp. & ed. Robber and hero. The story of the raid on the First National Bank of Northfield, Minnesota, by the James-Younger band of robbers in 1876 ... Northfield, MN: Christian Way Co., 1895. 8vo (20 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., v, [3]. 119 pp., [12] leaves of plates; illus.
[SOLD]
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First edition, not a reprint. “This book was written to honor those who helped spoil the Northfield Minnesota bank robbery by the James, Younger gang. Joseph Heywood the man who refused to open the vault, was the hero of the day, but it cost him his life. On September 7th, 1876, The James-Younger gang attempted to rob the Northfield bank. There were 8 members of the gang, consisting of Frank and Jesse James, Cole, Bob, and James Younger, Charles Pitts, Clel Miller, and William Stiles. Three members entered the bank, while two waited outside. The other three were reserves. Once the bullets began to fly, the five members outside rode up and down the street shooting in an attempt to keep the citizens inside. The citizens armed themselves and fought back. Miller and Stiles were left dead on the street, while the others rode off. One week later, the gang split-up, and Frank and Jesse crossed the Minnesota line into South Dakota and escaped. On the 21st, two weeks after the robbery, the Youngers and Charley Pitts, were found and in the shoot-out, Cole received 11 wounds, James 5 wounds, and Bob was shot in the chest. Pitts was killed. The Youngers recovered and pled guilty to avoid the death sentence. They refused to name the Jameses as the two who escaped. Bob died in prison in 1889, and as of the publication date of this book (1895) Cole and James had yet to be paroled" (WorldCat catalog record).
Compiled from original and authentic sources by George Huntington, with a good array of illustrations.
Publisher's pale green cloth, light wear and light dust-soiling. Very good. (39469)
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