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Sirs Substantive & Pronoun, Corporal Syllable,
& of Course Captain Word . . .
[Peacock, Thomas Love]. Sir Hornbook, or, Childe Launcelot's expedition. A grammatico-allegorical ballad. London: Joseph Cundall, 1843. 16mo (16 cm, 6.125"). 28, 3, [5] pp.; 8 col. plts.
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Peacock's aim is to teach English grammar in a fun way via a verse tale set in the age of knights in armor. As for example, “Indicative declar'd the foes / Should perish by his hand; / And stout Imperative arose / The squadron to command.”
The volume is illustrated with
eight hand-colored lithographic plates by H. Corbould, with tissue guards. This is a “New edition” as per the title-page, appearing as part of “The Home Treasury” series. The work was first published in 1814 and is here in the first Cundall edition; the Osborne catalogue explains that Peacock and Henry Cole, the “Home Treasury” editor, met some time after 1814, and Cole liked Sir Hornbook so much that he republished it.
Provenance: Signature on front fly-leaf of John Yeames (1 January 1846); related late 19th–century ownership note on front free endpaper; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Osborne Collection, p. 729; Gumuchian 3077. Publisher's boards covered with green paper printed with intertwined vine pattern; paper rubbed, spine darkened with extremities chipped, front cover with small inkstain in upper inner corner. Inscriptions and booklabel as above. A few interior smudges. Without the publisher's ads at the end; good++.
Lithographs very bright! (38919)

The New French Classicism — Le nouveau classicisme français
Perrault, Claude. Ordonnance des cinq especes de colonnes selon la methode des anciens. Paris: Jean Baptiste Coignard, 1683. Folio (37.3 cm, 14.75"). [8], xxvii, [1], 124 pp.; 6 plts.
$2850.00
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First edition of this influential treatise on the five orders of classical architecture, written by the physician and scientist generally credited with the design of the eastern façade of the Louvre. Perrault's theory of proportion introduced a lasting debate over ideas of positive and arbitrary beauty.
In addition to the
six leaves of plates done by Pierre Le Pautre, Louis de Chastillon, and Sebastien Le Clerc, the work is illustrated with several in-text uses of a woodcut diagram comparing the five types, as well as a title-page vignette of the arms of Louis XIV and a distinctively rendered headpiece (signed by Chastillon) of the Colbert serpent coat of arms supported by a dog and a unicorn.And yes, Claude was related to (brother, in fact, of) Charles Perrault, the fabulist and reteller of the Cinderella story and other tales.
Brunet, IV, 507; Graesse, V, 207; Cicognara, I, 607. Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations, board edges with gilt roll; joints and extremities carefully and unobtrusively repaired and refurbished, edge gilt rubbed. Pages slightly age-toned, with scattered spots; last few leaves with margins a bit darkened. Small area of pinhole worming to outer margins, not touching text (three plates each with tiny portion of one line touched); some instances nicely refurbished with long-fiber tissue.
A clean, wide-margined, attractive copy of an attractive book. (33221)

AMAZONS — Illustrated!
Petit, Pierre. De amazonibus dissertatio, quâ an verè extiterint, necne, variis ultro citroque conjecturis & argumentis disputatur. Amstelodami: apud Johannem Wolters & Yserandum Haring, 1687. 12mo (17 cm, 6.125"). [6] ff, 398 pp., [6] ff., illus. (without the map).
$450.00
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Using classical texts and images Petit explores the possibility that the Amazons were not merely figments of mythological fancy, but actual members of Scythian society. Using texts from Homer through Juvenal and beyond, Petit canvasses the full range of opinions and evidence from contemporary sources. His text is in Latin; the Greek texts, offered in Greek, are translated into Latin as well.
This is the “Editio secunda, auctior & correctior,” following the very rare edition of 1685.
The
53 in-text engravings offer iconographic evidence for the Amazons. The majority are numismatic, showing portrayals of Amazons on classical coins. Some others show works of art, especially sculpture, and representations of what Amazonian weapons might have looked like.
The work begins with a dedication to Baudelot de Dairval and a full table of contents. The body of the text is organized into chapters concerning various aspects of the lives and types of evidence relating to the Amazons. There is an “Addenda” on pp. 381–98 that includes
discussions of Christopher Columbus, cannibalism, and Amazons in the New World. The book ends with another index.
European Americana 587/106; Sabin 61256; Hayn, Amazonen-Litteratur, 53. Recent marbled paper over boards, leather spine label. Added engraved title-page cut down with loss of imprint data and mounted; without the map, often missing. Light staining to the preliminary and first few text pages. Otherwise, a rather nice copy. (40385)

Pleasing Provenance & Woodcut Illustrations
Petrarca, Francesco [i.e., Petrarch]; Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo, commentator. Il Petrarcha con la spositione di M. Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo. [colophon: In Venetia: per Domenico Giglio, 1553]. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). 2 vols. in 1. [94], 346 pp.; illus.
$1650.00
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First illustrated edition of Petrarch's Sonetti et canzoni and I Trionfi to appear with a biography of the author and the extensive commentary of humanist Giovanni Andrea Gesualdo. The Renaissance page management by which a short section of text may be printed as near-surrounded by a sea of commentary is on full show here, with text and commentary presented in different sizes of italic type with plenty of historiated woodcut initials in varying sizes throughout. This edition is one of two printed in 1553, the other, unillustrated one having come from G. Giolito (also of Venice). Fowler notes that this edition does not incorporate Gesualdo's dedication, the index to the commentary, or the giunta, but it does contain a letter to Bernardo Priuli from Giglio; in our copy I Trionfi has been bound before the rest of the text, contrary to the directions of the register.
The work begins with a Grecian-style woodcut title-page featuring medallion portraits of Petrarch and Laura originally used in the Nicolini-Daniello edition of 1549; the cut is repeated to create a sectional title-page for I Trionfi. Also present are the
six detailed, half-page woodcut illustrations of I Trionfi and Giglio's printer's device at the colophon.Provenance: With a partially removed armorial bookplate of the Bibliotheque de Rosny (the library of
Duchess Marie-Caroline de Bourbon-Sicile — King Henry the Fifth's mother) on front pastedown and two bookseller descriptions of the item in hand on binder's blanks; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Adams P820; Brunet, IV, 552; EDIT16 CNCE 25824; Fowler, Petrarch, Pet N 553; Fiske p. 103. French 17th-century speckled calf, spine compartments lettered and elaborately stamped in gilt with gilt rolls along bands, covers framed in triple fillets with French curl marbled endpapers, all edges speckled red and brown, green ribbon placemarker; well-rubbed with some loss of leather, joints (outside) starting but covers firmly attached, tailband loose. Light age-toning with chiefly faint marginal waterstaining throughout, a few other small spots or stains. Some leaves with uneven edges or faint holes from paper manufacture; three leaves closely trimmed, including the title-page, and two corners cut away. Bookplates and labels as above, a few small pencilled notes and one in ink on free endpapers.
DESIRABLE. (39337)

FALLS from
Vermont to Hawaii
Pfahl, John. Waterfall. Tucson, AZ: Nazraeli Press, [2000]. Oblong 8vo (12 cm, 4.75"). [36] pp., [1 (laid-in)] f.; illus.
$125.00
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Elegant accordion-pleated presentation of this series of waterfall photographs, taken throughout the United States and offering intriguing urban images in addition to the more typical scenic views. Deborah Tall's accompanying essay on waterfalls and representations thereof is laid in.
Publisher's midnight blue cloth–covered boards, spine with blind-stamped title, in original cream and blue cloth–covered slipcase; binding and case in beautiful condition. An attractive volume. (30642)

Biography of Savonarola by
His Friend
Pico della Mirandola, Giovanni Francesco. Vita R. P. Fr. Hieronymi Savonarolae ferrariensis, ord. praedicatorum. Paris: Sumptibus Ludovici Billaine, 1674. 12mo (15 cm, 5.9"). Vol. I of II. Frontis., [18] ff., 385 [i.e., 375], [1] pp. Plates.
$900.00
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Authoritative edition of Savonarola's biography first printed in the 1530's, the volume in hand containing both the entire “life” and the famous compendium of his revelations. Count Giovanni Francesco Pico della Mirandola (1469–1533, not to be confused with his uncle Giovanni, the famous philosopher, 1463–94) knew Savonarola personally, and witnessed his martyrdom in 1498. After years of writing and revising, and reviews by friends who also knew Savonarola, his biography was finally finished in 1530 and later translated anonymously into Italian. The present edition is in Latin and was edited by Jacques Quétif (1618–98), a Dominican priest working chez Louis Billaine in Paris — France of the Ancien Régime regarding Savonarola as an authentic spiritual leader and not “just” the vexatious Dominican priest who antagonized Alexander VI, spoke out against humanism, and was excommunicated and executed for heresy.
The text is printed in roman and italic with side- and shouldernotes, and decorated with a few woodcut initials, headpieces and tail ornaments, with a separate section title for the
Compendium revelationum, introduced with a preface by Florentine poet Girolamo Benivieni (1453–1542). A colophon at the end of the Lamentatio sponsae Christi (final leaf) is dated 1537 for the Venetian edition by Tridino.
In addition to a finely engraved frontispiece portrait of Savonarola, there are
eight plates, numbering four engraved coats of arms, for the Atestina, Medici, Borgia and Sforza families, and
four large foldout letterpress family trees, for the author's family, the Atestina, Medici, and Borgia, who are all related in some way or another to Savonarola's story.
BM STC French, P1013. On Pico della Mirandola, see: NCE, XI, 347–48, and C.B. Schmitt, Gianfrancesco Pico della Mirandola ... and his Critique of Aristotle (1967). On Billaine, see: B. Montagnes OP, “Éditions et éditeurs de Savonarole dans la France d'Ancien Régime,” in Archivium fratrum praedicatorum, LXXV, pp. 159–78. Vellum over boards with yapp edges, ink title to spine and blue speckled edges; vol. II, “Additiones,” not present. Unnoticeable pin-type wormhole to frontispiece, title-page rubbed with loss to part of two words and with small hole to its blank area; small spottings to Medici fold-out plate and a few other leaves; Borgia fold-out plate repaired and with a diamond-shaped waterstain; a few tears in lower margins, two resulting in a bit of loss and one of these given an old repair. (30276)

In a Wonderful, COLORFUL Slipcase with
Embossed & Chromolithographed Onlays
Picture books for little children. London: Religious Tract Society, 56, Paternoster Row, 65, St. Paul's Churchyard, and 164, Piccadilly, [ca. 1865]. 16mo (15 cm, 6"). 12 vols. Each volume 12 pp.
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Although published in England, some sets of these chapbooks may have been dressed for the American audience: This copy has a fine chromolithographic scene of a steam sternwheeler a short distance off shore in heavy seas, with
an American flag–topped buoy between it and the shore.
The twelve stories, each one in its own little pamphlet, are: No. 1, The picture show; no. 2, The farm; no. 3, The loaf of bread; no. 4, Verses and pictures; no. 5, The scrap book; no. 6, Bible pictures; no. 7, Sea-side pictures; no. 8, The picture teacher; no. 9, The little verse book; no. 10, Picture lessons; no. 11, Bird pictures; no. 12, My own book. Each of the chapbooks is illustrated with
a charming wood engraving on every page, accompanying the stories and poems about honesty, breadmaking, good habits, foreign people, birds, and conduct of life in general.
WorldCat locates only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership, and at least one of the reported sets is incomplete. The publication date given here is that suggested by the Osborne Collection.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Osborne Collection, p. 765. Blue textured paper over cardboard slipcase; embossed red paper onlay on front, printed in gold and titled “Picture books”; chromolithographed paper onlay on front (as described above). One of the chapbooks has small repairs, others variously displaying a small chip, a light stain, or a bit of creasing; else and indeed, very good. (39521)

How to Paint, According to
One of the Great French Critics
Piles, Roger de. Cours de peinture par principes. Amsterdam & Leipzig: Arkstee & Merkus; Paris: Chez les Freres Estienne, 1767. 12mo (17.1 cm, 6.75"). Frontis., [8], 389, [11] pp.; 2 plts.
$250.00
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Attractive 18th-century printing of an influential treatise on painting by de Piles (1635–1709), an eminent artist, critic, and member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. The publisher's foreword notes that the work had become “extrêmement rare” since its original publication in 1708, prompting
this updated edition, here in its second printing following the first of the previous year (that 1766 issue having been part of a five-volume Oeuvres diverses of de Piles; the date and the booksellers' information have been reset on the title-page here). The text is illustrated with the engraved allegorical frontispiece and two plates, one of which is signed by Charles de Rochefort, from the 1708 Jacques Estienne edition. At the back of the volume is de Pile's original — and still controversial — “objective” numerical breakdown of the talents of 56 famous painters, assigning points in four categories (composition, drawing, color, and expression).
WorldCat locates
only three U.S. institutions reporting holdings of this 1767 printing, and just a handful of the 1766.
Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title and pomegranate decorations in compartments; joints and extremities rubbed, with back joint starting from foot. All edges stained red. Pages with a very few scattered small spots or smudges, overall clean. (40294)

LEC Plato: “Love, Friendship, & Hiccups”
Plato. Dialogues on love and friendship. New York: Printed at the Press of A. Colish for the members of The Limited Editions Club, 1968. Folio (28 cm, 11"). xiv, [3], 208, [2] pp.; illus.
$100.00
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The three dialogues that form the present volume — the “Lysis,” the “Symposium,” and the “Phaedrus” — constitute nearly all of Plato's ideas on the subject of love and friendship, and are here translated from the Greek by Benjamin Jowett. The introductory materials consist of a preface by Whitney J. Oates and three prefatory analyses (one preceding each dialogue) by Jowett, who also contributed brief running summaries of the text, which are printed in the margins.
Eugene Karlin (who signed the colophon) created the
delicate fine-pen illustrations; of these, 20 are full-page and 9 are in-text. The drawings of lovers engaged in the act of lovemaking are both tasteful and erotic; they are mostly heterosexual, with one — non-explicit — depicting two men). Robert L. Dothard designed the edition, which is limited to 1500 copies (of which this is numbered copy 1002), using a monotype Emerson font; the binding is quarter goatskin vellum with the title stamped in gold on a brown skiver label, and the sides are Swedish tan paper with a gold-stamped design on the front. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 409. Binding as above, in original glassine dust wrapper and slipcase; wrapper with lower corners chipped, slipcase with minor rubbing to gilt spine label, vellum spine with a few tiny brown spots (possibly as issued — the club newsletter for this volume says “Goats are real individuals, and that goes for their skins too; connoisseurs in such matters prize the mottled and stained appearance, which the skins come by quite naturally”). The whole generally clean and unworn; pages fresh and crisp. A beautiful copy. (30460)
BENEDICTINES Come to the New World
with COLUMBUS
A FINE Engraved Title-Page & 18 Splendid Plates
[Plautius, Caspar]. Nova typis transacta navigatio novi orbis Indiae occidentalis.... [Linz], 1621. Folio (32.6 cm, 12.875"). )(4 (-)(4, blank) A–M4 N4 (-N4, blank); Engr. t.-p., [2] ff., 101, [1] pp.; 18 plts.
$27,000.00
Curiously enough, the dedicatee of this work, Caspar Plautius, is certainly also its author, writing under the pseudonym of Honorius Philoponus. Plautius was abbot of Seitenstetten in Lower Austria, and no doubt wrote as a compliment to a fellow Benedictine: Bernard Buil or Boyl of Montserrat, appointed by the pope vicar general of the Indies, who, with others of the order, accompanied Columbus on his second voyage as missionaries. In the style of a medieval legendary, Nova typis transacta navigatio novi orbis Indiae occidentalis relates first the westward voyage of St. Brendan, then the exploits of the Boyl and his fellow monks, including some description of the customs of the American native peoples they met, with their lands, their agriculture, their feast customs, et al. Boyl’s missionary enterprise failed, and sadly he is now only remembered for his mordant criticism of Columbus.
This book bears an ornate, emblematic engraved title-page, with portraits of St. Brendan and Boyl and more, and no fewer than 18 leaf-filling plates by Wolfgang Kilian. These plates, which mix
fancy and realism in entirely engaging ways, include
a portrait of Columbus, a scene of St. Brendan celebrating mass on the back of a whale, botanical images of the marvelous Peruvian potato, and numerous views of
the missionaries’interaction with the natives, some friendly, and some not—the unfriendliest being notably violent and gory. Also, on p. 35–36 is given an example of purported
native American music, with both words and notation. This copy is one (probably the first) of two states of this sole edition (with only three leaves in the preliminaries), without the additional foldout plate found in some copies.
Binding: Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt-extra, with a red leather title label. Red, blue, yellow, and green endpapers. All edges speckled red. (Our image in this early "edition" of our description is a bit distorted; we expect to fix that, before general publication.)
Alden & Landis, European Americana, 621/100; Sabin 63367; Palau 224762. Binding as above and shown at left (distortion noted), chipped on corners and at head and foot of spine. Small wormholes visible on inside of covers, running into margins of pages and plates, and a few closed tears, neither affecting print or plates. Engraved title remounted. Small stains, light spots of waterstaining, and light soiling.
A very covetable illustrated Americanum of the early 17th century, in an enjoyable copy. (8281)

An
Imaginary & Inward Voyage from E.A.P.
Poe, Edgar Allan. The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. Portland, ME: Pr. by the Southworth Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1930. 4to (28.5 cm, 11.25"). 267, [1] pp., [1 (ad] f.
$90.00
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This edition of Poe's imaginary voyage, a
very early production from the Limited Editions Club, was designed by Fred Anthoensen; the introduction is by Joseph Wood Krutch and the black and white illustrations are by Rene Clarke, who signed the colophon. This is copy 1178 of 1500 printed.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club 5. Publisher's quarter vellum with black leather-covered sides; vellum of spine darkened to light “tobacco” with age, lacking the glassine dust jacket and slipcase.
In itself and by itself, an attractive book. (40703)

Poe in French with
Dulac Illustrations & Designs
Poe, Edgar Allan; J. Serruys, trans.; & Edmund Dulac, illus. Les cloches et quelques autres poèmes. Paris: L'Édition d'Art H. Piazza, [1913]. 4to (30 cm, 12"). 96 pp.; 28 col. plts., illus.
$550.00
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Limited to 400 copies on “papier du Japon,” this translation of The Bells and Other Poems from the pen of Parisian literary light Jenny Serruys Bradley (1886–1983) is stunningly illustrated with
28 full-color plates tipped onto leaves with an embossed frame, plus 39 decorated initials, 9 headpieces in black and white, and 34 tailpieces in black and red done by
Edmund Dulac. Dulac also designed the red and gold front wrapper. Each plate has a tissue guard captioned in red.
Early 20th-century half brown levant morocco, spine richly gilt, with marbled paper sides and marbled endpapers; spine sunned and rubbed, binding scuffed, and corners bumped. Top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Original wrappers bound in. Pages gently age-toned. (38153)

Chatty, Sophisticated, & Charmingly Illustrated
High-Society Guide to SPA
Pöllnitz, Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von. Amusemens des eaux de Spa, ouvrage utile à ceux qui vont boire ces eaux minérales sur les lieux. Enrichi des tailles-douces, qui représentent les vues & les perspectives du bourg de Spa, des fontaines, des promenades, & des environs. Amsterdam: Chez Pierre Mortier, 1740. 8vo (15.1 cm, 5.94"). 2 vols. I: ix, [3], 424 pp.; 9 fold. plts. II: [2], 414 pp.; 7 fold. plts.
$950.00
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“Nouvelle edition” following the first of 1734 (also published by Mortier), of this entertaining guide to the delights of Spa — the
first work of its kind, focusing primarily on society and fashion rather than on practical descriptions of the waters and their medicinal qualities. Baron von Pöllnitz was a favorite of Frederick the Great, and published an assortment of memoirs of himself and others. His Amusemens enjoyed great success, was quickly translated into English, and went through a number of editions in both languages, launching a genre of similar works on Spa and other fashionable destinations.
Early editions of the present guide are uncommon: WorldCat finds
only one U.S. institution (New York Academy of Medicine) reporting holding this printing, and only a small handful more of the scarce first.
This attractively accomplished production features title-pages printed in red and black and
16 delightful engraved plates counting the double-spread added engraved title-page serving as the frontispiece of vol. I. Offering views of the countryside and the fountains, many of the images incorporate figures such as a hunter and his hounds, riders on horseback, and well-dressed ladies and gentlemen strolling or dancing — as well as one of
a life-sized “insect” allegedly “brought away from the Kidneys of a Woman by the Drinking of the Pouhon Waters.” The unsigned plates, sometimes attributed to the author himself and sometimes to Hecquet, bear
captions given in French, German, and English.
Provenance: Title-pages each with early inked inscription of Frances Osborn. Later in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
Graesse, I, 109; Wellcome, IV, 407. Not in Blake, NLM 18th Century (which only lists an English-language edition). Contemporary quarter mottled calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels; bindings rubbed, scuffed, and with leather refurbished. Added engraved title-page for vol. I here tipped in as a double-page spread. Vol. I with waterstaining to outer margins of first few leaves, including added title-page and title-page; vol. II with waterstaining to upper outer portions of first few leaves; some plates with waterstaining to margins, not affecting images. Pages otherwise crisp and clean.
A pleasurable production, showcasing a pleasurable place! (40619)

Pomet's Own Edition of
His Guide to Drugs
Pomet, Pierre. Le marchand sincere ou traite general des drogues simples et composes. Paris: Chez l'Auteur, 1695. Folio (40 cm, 15.75"). Frontis., [12], 304 (i.e., 332), 108, 116, [38], 16 pp.; 5 of 6 plts., illus.
$4500.00
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Second and
for the first time self-published edition of this groundbreaking, best-selling guide to botanically derived medicines, written by the chief pharmacist to Louis XIV. Highly influential in its time, Pomet's materia medica covers botanical, zoological, and mineral sources and is illustrated in this edition with
almost 200 copper-engraved, in-text images including many of the plants described along with subjects such as coral, ostriches, and fish, not to mention exotica like
mummies, unicorns, and some extremely implausibly depicted rhinoceroses and whales. Also present are images of harvesting and processing sugar cane, indigo, and tobacco (all depicting black workers). In addition, the final addendum, “Remarques tres-curieuses sur plusieurs vegetaux, animaux, mineraux, & autres, que j'ai oublié d'inserer dans la premiere impression, ou que j'ai découvert du depuis,” supplies information on mercury, cinnabar, antimony, etc., along with five tipped-in plates showing mechoacan, Virginia snakeroot, indigo, drakena, and an assortment of bezoars. The
Americana content is noteworthy, with discussion of cacao, chocolate, tobacco, jalap, and so on. Tea and coffee are present as well.
This second edition was retitled by Pomet from the original Histoire générale des drogues, and is both less widely held and less frequently described in bibliographies (WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only seven U.S. institutional holdings). It opens with a frontispiece portrait of the author, done by A. le Clerc the Younger, facing a title-page vignette by I. Crespy; sections open with decorative headpieces and capitals and many close with tailpieces.
Alden & Landis 695/147; Hunersdorff & Hasenkamp, Coffee, 1177–1179; Wellcome Catalogue, IV, 411 (for first ed.); Krivatsy 9137. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt extra and with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding rubbed and scuffed with leather pitted, front joint cracked but holding, spine refurbished with untooled leather replacing that lost in bottom compartment. First few leaves with edges darkened and slightly ragged; dedication and first leaf of preface with inkstains in upper margins; early portion with light waterstaining in upper margins. Several leaves with tears from margins, some extending into text without loss; a few leaves with small rectangular portion of lower inner margins cut away and two with corners torn away, one with loss of a few words and the other wish loss of about ten; two leaves each with a tiny burn hole affecting one letter. One leaf torn across, tear going through two images without loss; one leaf with small ink smears entering into an image frame (for “De la Colle de Poisson”), not approaching the images themselves. Lacks one plate (at pp. 46/47). Clearly a much-read, pored-over example of this great 17th-century treatise, and also one
fit for much more enjoyment and “action.” (34643)

Compendium of Early Physiognomy, in Italian,
& with a Byzantine Forgery
Porta, Giovanni Battista [Giambattista] della; Antonius Polemo (attrib.); Giovanni Ingegneri.
La fisonomia dell'huomo, et la celeste ... libri sei. Venetia: Sebastian Combi & Gio. LaNoù, 1652. 8vo (16.6 cm, 6.55"). Add. engr. t.-p., [30], 598, [18], 190, [2], 134 pp.; illus.
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Della Porta's influential work on physiognomy, originally published in 1586 as De humana physiognomonia. Here, the author seeks to categorize similarities between visible external physical characteristics and the traits of the soul or character hidden within — formalizing a pseudo-science that continues (in assorted variations) to find adherents even today. The human physiognomy treatise is followed by its celestial counterpart, and then, as issued, by the Fisonomia di Polemone (although attributed to Polemo, actually a Byzantine forgery) and the Fisonomia naturale of Giovanni Ingegneri.
The two Italian-laguage della Porta texts are illustrated with
numerous in-text copper engravings: These remarkable vignettes include, along with a sequence of individual animals and humans, a series of
side-by-side comparisons of human facial types to various types of animal, offered as examples of Porta's determinations: “The horse is a noble animal, therefore it is a sign of nobility to walk erect with the head held high. Men who resemble a donkey are like that animal: timid, stupid, nervous. He who looks like an ostrich is akin to it in character: he is timid, elegant, vicious, stolid man who reminds us of a swine is a swine, eating greedily and having all the other characteristics, such as rudeness, irascibility, lack of discipline, sordidness, lack of intelligence [and] modesty. In a similar way, men who look like ravens are impudent; those who resemble oxen are stubborn, lazy, irascible; men who have lips shaped like those of a lion are hearty, magnanimous, courageous; others who make us think of a ram are timid, malicious and humble” (Seligmann). Mortimer notes that these engravings “were probably copied from the Vicenza woodcuts used by Pietro Paolo Tozzi.”
Evidence of readership: Front pastedown and free endpaper with early inked annotation in Latin and French.
This ed. not in Brunet; see Mortimer, Italian 16th-Century Books, 398; Cicognara 2460. See also Seligmann, The History of Magic, 319. No edition of the Polemo forgery is listed in Freeman, Bibliotheca Fictiva. Contemporary mottled calf, covers framed in gilt double fillets, spine with gilt-stamped title, compartments ruled in gilt and holdaing gilt-stamped decorative motifs, and raised bands with gilt roll; leather expectably acid-pitted, binding moderately worn overall. Annotation as above.
This is a very pleasing copy, with pages clean and images printed darkly and crisply. (39430)

Popular Culture & GRAPHICS in Mexico
at the
Turn of the 20th Century
Posada, José Guadalupe. A collection of his pamphlet work and similar work by contemporaries. Mexico: Various publishers, 1880–1920. Most are 16mo (14.5 cm, 5.71"). Most are between 8 and 16 pp. plus wrappers.
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The oeuvre of Jose Guadalupe Posada Aguilar (1852–1913) is steeped in social engagement, satirical acuteness, and wry humor presented to the reader and observer in woodcut and lithographic illustrations for periodicals and chapbooks. During the late Porfiriate and early years of the Mexican Revolution, his art enticed the buyers of popular, very cheaply produced songsters; political broadsides; cookbooks; and single-sheet accounts of hangings, disasters, crimes, volcanic eruptions, and other sensational events.
Six of the publications here are signed, “Posada”; others are simply unmistakable; several are from his most famous publisher but were printed after his death and may or may not be restrikes. A few may simply be “in his style” and therefore, as part of the lot, invite considerations of his context.
The present collection consists of 13 pamphlet/chapbook items, with a good representation of books for children, women, and the general reader. They include a volume of popular recipes for health problems, two booklets offering embroidery patterns (with women at their frames on the pamphlets' covers and the patterns on colored papers), several plays for children to perform (“Les Gendarmes”) and for adults to read (“Don Juan”), compilations of patriotic songs and biographies, and so on. One wrapper is pink, two are gold, one front cover is printed in black and red; rear covers offer advertisements of the publisher's other offerings, within varied borders, and three devote the back wrapper to a poem.
The list follows:
1) Vanegas Arroyo, Antonio. La salud en el hogar. Tercera serie de la coleccion de 300 recetas utiles para curar las enfermedades mas comunes. Mexico: Imprenta y Encuadernacion, n.d. [ca. 1900–18].
2) Muestras para bordados. #9. Mexico: Publicadas por la testamentaria de A. Vanegas, n.d [ca. 1920]. Includes planchas 33–36.
3) Muestras para bordados. #10. Mexico: Publicadas por la testamentaria de A. Vanegas Arroyo, n.d. [ca. 1913]. Front cover signed, “Posada.” Includes planchas 38-40.
4) D. Juan Tenorio. Mexico: A. Vanegas Arroyo, n.d. [1880, date on rear wrapper]. In series: Galeria del Teatro Infantil; Coleccion de comedias para niños o titeres. Front wrapper signed “Posada.”
5) Los gendarmes. Mexico: A. Vanegas Arroyo, n.d. [ca. 1910]. In series: Galeria del Teatro Infantil; Coleccion de comedias para niños o titeres.
6) Los celos del Negro con D. Folias. Mexico: A. Venegas Arroyo, n.d. [ca. 1910]. In series: Galeria del Teatro Infantil; Coleccion de comedias para niños o titeres. Front wrapper signed “Posada.”
7) La casa de vecindad. Mexico: A. Vanegas Arroyo, n.d. [ca. 1910]. In series: Galeria del Teatro Infantil. Front wrapper signed “Posada.” But rear wrapper indicates “la imprenta de la test. de A.V. Arroyo.”
8) Los novios. Mexico: [as per rear wrapper, Tipografia de la Testamentaria de A. Vanegas Arroyo, 1918]. In series: Galeria del Teatro Infantil.
9) Vanegas Arroyo, Antonio, comp. El sarape nacional. Moderna coleccion de canciones para el presente año. Mexico: A. Vanegas Arroyo, 1915. Front wrapper signed “Posada.”
10) Vanegas Arroyo, A., comp. La ex-moderna. Sexta coleccion de canciones para el presente año. [front wrapper: Mexico: A. Vanegas Arroyo] title-page: 1914].
11) Suarez, C. S. El placer de la niñes. Amar sin esperanza. Monologo. Mexico: Tip. de la Testa. de A. Vanegas Arroyo, n.d. [ca. 1918]. In series: Coleccion de monologos. Front wrapper signed “Posada.”
12) Vanegas Arroyo, Antonio, ed. La felicista: 13a coleccion de canciones modernas para el presente año. 1913. Mexico: Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, 1913.
13) Coleccion de himnos nacionales. No place, no publisher, no date, [but certainly Mexico: A. Vanegas Arroygo, and ca. 1880, as per rear wrapper].
Because of their ephemeral nature and their audience, copies of these are generally hard to find. All items are little held in the U.S., many in only one or two copies.
Overall condition is good to very good. #1 lower inside corners nibbled by rodent; #10 seriously wormed; a few items with wrapper paper beginning to split along spine, shallow dog-earring to corners, or small chipping and/or short rents to edges.
An excellent gathering whether for teaching or “just” for enjoyment. (41203)

Hand-Colored Victorian Botanical Plates
Pratt, Anne. Wild flowers. London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (pr. by R. Clay), 1853–55. 16mo (14.2 cm, 5.59"). 2 vols. I: iv, 192 pp.; 96 col. plts. II: viii, 192 pp.; 96 col. plts.
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Illustrated guide to common English wildflowers, written and drawn by one of the most popular botanical artists of the time. Pratt supplied two pages of text description, incorporating both folklore and basic scientific information, to accompany daintily rendered drawing for each flower; the
192 plates were carefully and thoughtfully hand-colored.
These volumes are early appearances, following the original printings of the two volumes in 1850 and 1852, respectively; the first volume here is dated 1855 and the second 1853.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabels (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC 2P24404. Contemporary pebbled red cloth, covers with embossed arabesque frames, spines with gilt-stamped title and volume number; spines and extremities lightly rubbed with spine gilt dimmed, front cover of vol. I with small dark spots, vol. I cocked and vol. II slightly so. Vol. II with small ticket of binder S. Curtis on front pastedown. Occasional minor spots of foxing, pages and plates overall pleasingly clean.
Attractive AND informative. (40812)

“Mini” Natural History Chapbook
Pretty rhymes about birds and animals for little boys and girls. New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, [ca. 1860]. Miniature (7.8 cm, 3"). 8 pp.; illus.
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Five charming wood engravings of an owl, pony, and other birds and animals mentioned in the text of these short rhymes illustrate this miniature chapbook. It is a later, very good edition from the years when this firm was at 123 & 125 William Street (i.e, 1858–1866).
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Original green wrappers with bird illustration on front wrapper and advertisement on rear. Minor soiling to two pages and small crease in upper corner of rear wrapper, else fine.
A very attractive little “toy.” (38780)

Limited Edition — 500 Copies — Art-Deco Illustrations
Prévost, l'Abbé. Manon Lescaut. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1928. Sm. folio (32.3 cm, 12.75"). [8], ix, [1], 141, [3] pp.; 12 col. plts.
$150.00
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The classic tale of passion and inconstancy, illustrated with 12 color plates and numerous large in-text line drawings by John Austen — with this being the sole edition of Austen's Art Deco–influenced designs. This is numbered copy 212 of
500 numbered copies printed, and is
signed by the illustrator. (An additional 20 copies, not for sale, were lettered.)
Among other things, this book is a bonanza for lovers of
COSTUME!
Publisher's quarter vellum and light blue buckram sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; vellum darkened and spotted, sides with mild wear and discolorations; front hinge (inside) slightly tender. Front free endpaper with a very faded (all but illegible) early inked inscription; margins with scattered light smudges, pages and plates otherwise clean. A volume clearly pored over . . . (35542)

Introduction by Dickens Illustrations by Tenniel, Millais, Palmer, et al.
Procter, Adelaide Anne. Legends and lyrics. London: Bell & Daldy, 1866. 8vo (22.9 cm; 9"). Frontis., [10] ff., 329, [1] pp., 20 plts.; lacks dedication leaf.
$100.00
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New edition with additions: This new edition of Adelaide Anne Procter's 1861 collection of poems is the first to feature an introduction by her father's good friend Charles Dickens; the introduction was repeated in subsequent editions. The
20 plates are wood engravings by Horace Harrel after W.T.C. Dobson, Samuel Palmer, John Tenniel, William H. Millais, and several others.
Procter was a philanthropist as well as a poet, involved in several charitable and feminist causes, and contributed to Dickens' Household Words under the pen name “Mary Berwick” in hopes that her work would not be judged based on her father's friendship with Dickens. She died shortly before the publication of this new edition of her poems.
Binding: Red morocco over bevelled-edged wooden boards, spine with gilt lettering, rules, and stamped compartment decorations of acorns and oak leaves; covers with a wide composite gilt border incorporating laurel crowns and more oak'y ornaments surrounding a large gilt spray of holly and ivy. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Eckel, First Editions of the Writing of Charles Dickens . . . A bibliography, pp. 163–64; Podeschi, Dickens & Dickensiana, B293. Bound as above, heavy boards sometime separated and reattached; extremities rubbed with spine pulled. Dedication page mentioned by Eckel lacking; foxing and minor staining to edges of frontispiece portrait with one other illustration and adjacent
page foxed also. Previous owner's notes in pencil on front endpapers. A Good+ copy (priced accordingly) of this attractive production. (37385)

“A Faint Heart Never Won a Fair Lady”
Proverbs of Little Solomon. Containing entertaining stories... Edinburgh: Published by Oliver & Boyd, Netherbow, [1808–09]. 48mo (10.3 cm, 4"). [32] pp. (including wrappers); illus.
$475.00
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The continuation of the subtitle is “from the following wise sayings: 'A faint heart never won a fair lady.' 'Safe bind, safe find.' 'Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better.' 'A burnt child dreads the fire.' 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.' [and] 'Naught is never in danger.' Each of these 16th- and 17th-century proverbs (i.e., “wise sayings') is the basis for a short story.
This threepenny chapbook is illustrated with wood engravings in the Bewick manner; the illustrations include a frontispiece, title-page vignette, and six wood engravings, three of which are signed “Lee.” Although the work is undated, the Scottish Book Trade Index in the National Library of Scotland shows that Oliver & Boyd's years of activity at Netherbow address were 1808 through 1809. (Pages 1 & 32 are blank and are pasted to the inside of the wrappers.)
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
WorldCat locates only seven North American libraries reporting ownership (CalBerkeley, UCLA, UFlorida, Wayne State, Princeton, Connecticut College, Toronto Public Library).
Osborne Collection, p. 291. Mauve-colored printed wrappers with only a faint touch of soiling; else very good and clean. (38904)

A Night Out at the Club: Antiquaries, Gamesters, Lawyers, Newsmongers,
“Opiniators” et al.
Puckle, James; Samuel Weller Singer, ed.; John Thurston, illus. The club; or, a gray cap for a green head. A dialogue between a father and son. London: Chiswick Press (Pr. by C. Whittingham, for Charles Tilt and N. Hailes), 1834. 8vo (17 cm, 6.69"). Frontis., xvi, [4], 128, 24 (adv.) pp.
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Elegantly printed Chiswick Press production of this popular “humorous little manual” (p. xi), offering “shrewd and instructive views of human conduct” (p. ix) — an alphabet of fools, knaves, and other types of immoral or unpleasant characters with one “wise” exception only. Thurston's 25 character vignettes, originally done in 1817, are expressive without tipping over into cartoonish; they appear here reprinted by Whittingham with the aid of the celebrated wood-engraver John Thompson, who supplied several additional pieces. This is
the first appearance of Singer's edition.
Provenance & Evidence of Readership: Title-page with pencilled ownership inscription of Roger Ingpen, 1924; front free endpaper with pencilled note reading “The notes at the end of this book are by my uncle John at whose sale I purchased this book. - R.I.” (Ingpen was an editor and literary critic best known for his Shelley in England; his uncle supplied occasional marginal
annotations on text pages and detailed pencilled notes on back free endpaper). Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC 2P28587. Publisher's textured dark blue cloth, covers blind-stamped with acanthus leaf frame, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding cocked, spine sunned, extremities lightly rubbed. All edges gilt. Front hinge (inside) open from head with sewing loosened and tender. Pages evenly age-toned with light spots of foxing to first and last few leaves, pencilled markings as above, otherwise clean. (41041)
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