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American WINE & More 1867
United States. Department of Agriculture. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1867. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.25"). xix, [1], 512 pp., XXXVII plates; illus.
$225.00
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A presentation copy of Acting Commissioner John W. Stokes' report to Congress for the year 1867. The report includes reports and research on a variety of crops and domestic animals; steam and other cultivation, and rural construction; patents; agricultural clubs, schools, associations; also climate and meteorology. The authors include Thomas Antisell (chemist of the
department), Thomas Glover (entomologist), F.R. Elliott (on hardy fruit, especially apples), Walter W.W. Bowie (on tobacco), and Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper (winter bee keeping), to single out a
few.
Freethinker George Husmann (of Herman, Missouri) provided this cataloguer's favorite report, “American Wine and Wine Making.”
The excellent plates are divided between steel and wood engravings, with additional wood-engraved illustrations in some texts.
The presenter of the volume was R.T. McLain, chief clerk of the Department of Agriculture; the Hon. J. Gregory Smith, the recipient, was the president of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
Binding: A presentation binding of black morocco over boards with slightly bevelled edges. Covers with a gilt triple fillet border and a gilt floral vine inner “border.” Recipient's name in gilt in center of front board. Round spine, raised bands, gilt spine extra; gilt roll on board edges, different gilt roll on turn-ins. Pink endpapers of a textured paper, printed with an overall pattern of small gilt interlocking circles. Green silk place marker. All edges gilt.
A very nice example of a mid-19th-century presentation binding.
Binding as above, lightly rubbed at the joints (outside) and board edges. McLain's presentation card pasted to front pastedown, above Smith's bookplate.
A very good copy of a book that is, as we say here, “interesting for more than one reason.” (35244)

When Undergrads Could Understand & Translate Demotic
When It Could Seem Sensible to Them to Produce a WHOLE BOOK by Lithography
. . . *&* with CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY Plentifully Present . . .
University of Pennsylvania. Philomathean Society (Henry Morton, Charles R. Hale, Samuel Huntington Jones). Report of the committee appointed by the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania to translate the inscription on the Rosetta Stone. [Philadelphia: The Philomathean Society], copyright 1859. Small 4to (23 cm; 9"). 152 pp., [4] ff., 6 plates. [also bound in] Catalogue of members of the Philomathean Society ... Philadelphia: Ringwalt & Co, 1859. Small 4to. 24 pp.; and tipped-in lithographed copyright notice.
$1100.00
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Probably the most famous
American all-lithographed book of the 19th century, with
chromolithographic illustrations and embellishments that lavishly enhance the whole. In his already classic study of 19th-century American color plate books, Stamped with a National Character, William Reese writes of this work: “The first full translation of the Rosetta Stone, undertaken by three members of the University of Pennsylvania . . . [student body], provided the basis for a notable display of chromolithographic book illustration by the Philadelphia lithographer, Louis Rosenthal. The entire book was lithographed, presumably to better accommodate the hieroglyphs, but Rosenthal went far beyond necessity. He created hundreds of crude but exuberant chromolithographs intermingled with the text, showing scenes from Egyptian life or elaborate borders in quasi-Egyptian motifs. It is one of the few American books printed entirely by lithography” (p. 99).
The genesis of the work was the arrival at the Philomatheans' building of a donated cast of the Rosetta Stone. Three Philomatheans — Henry Morton, Charles R. Hale, and Samuel Huntington Jones — worked out a plan to translate the stone and produce the book here offered. Hale undertook to transcribe and translated the Greek and Demotic texts, Jones produced the historical introduction, and Morton supplied the hieroglyphic inscriptions, drawings, and other illustrations. The first edition of the finished work appeared just before Christmas, 1858, in an edition of 400 copies and sold out immediately.
In late January 1859, the Society wished to print a second edition of 600 copies; but because no lithographic establishment could afford not to reuse lithographic stones, all stones save those for the last 20 or so pages of their work had been ground down. Thus in the second edition, i.e., the edition offered here, the artistic embellishments are “largely a new work,” in the words of Randolph G. Adams (“The Rosetta Stone,” in Bibliographical Essays, A Tribute to Wilberforce Eames, p. 234).
In some very few copies of this second edition, p. 6 bears the signatures of the three Philomatheans who produced the book. This is, unfortunately, not one of those few, hence the lower price. But this copy does have the oft-missing copyright notice at the rear.
Reese, Stamped with a National Character, 91; Bennett, American Color Plate Books, p. 93. On the story of the production of the book and for a chart showing which pages of the second edition are restrikes from the first, see: Randolph G. Adams, “The Rosetta Stone,” in Bibliographical Essays, A Tribute to Wilberforce Eames, pp. 227–40. Publisher's dark green cloth, covers stamped in blind with a gilt center device of a sphynx; spine also stamped in blind but with two gilt-stamped vertical lozenges and the title in gilt. About six small areas of loss of cloth on spine or board, some probably silverfish damage. Bookseller's description of a different copy pasted to rear pastedown. A good++ copy well worth having. (35384)

One of 50 Special Copies Wood Engravings by
Ruzicka
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, & Rudolph Ruzicka. D.B.U. and R.R.: selected extracts from correspondence between Daniel Berkeley Updike and Rudolph Ruzicka, 1908–1941. New York: American Printing History Association, 1998. Small 4to (27.3 cm; 10.75"). vi, 181, [8] pp.
$115.00
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One of 500 copies and no. 50 of 50 special copies signed by the designer Roderick Stinehour and bound by Judi Conant at Guildhall, VT, with the inclusion of
three wood engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka printed by the Merrymount Press in addition to the many reproductions prepared for this volume. The correspondence was edited by Elizabeth French Lathem and Edward Connery Lathem, and the text and illustration together well exemplify the collaboration between two giants of the Book Arts during the first half of the 20th century.
The wood engravings are absolutely stunning.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard (sans indicia).
Quarter blue cloth with gray paper spine label over lovely marbled paper; issued without a dust jacket.
A bright and clean copy. (37600)

Signed, Illustrated
Updike Poem
Updike, John. In the cemetery high above Shillington. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1995. 8vo (26.2 cm, 10.25"). [16] pp.; illus.
$200.00
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First and only stand-alone printing, following an appearance in the Ontario Review, here illustrated with three relief engravings by
Barry Moser. The edition was designed by John Kristensen and letterpress printed in Baskerville type at the Firefly Press, where it was also bound. 150 copies were printed altogether; the present example is one of 100 copies
signed by the author and the artist, printed on Molino paper, and handsewn in wrappers.
Publisher's cream paper wrappers in folded heavy taupe paper wraps, front wrapper with gilt-stamped title. Front free endpaper with pencilled annotations. A clean, crisp copy. (32675)

Sumptuously Bound by DAVID for
Cortlandt Bishop
Uzanne, Octave. Son altesse la femme. Paris: A. Quantin, 1885. Small folio (27.5 cm; 11" ). [2] ff., [i]–xii, 312 pp., 2 l. illus. (part col.).
$1500.00
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Definitely this work was created by a bibliophile for fellow lovers of the book. When this work appeared, Uzanne (1852–1931) was in full stride as a leader of the Paris circle of men and women interested in handsomely illustrated, printed, and bound works of literature. In 1880 he launched Miscellanées bibliographiques and, soon after Son altesse la femme appeared. he introduced the influential periodicals Le Livre, Le Livre moderne, and L'Art et l'Idée. In 1889, he took part in the creation of a publishing company, the “League of Contemporary Bibliophiles.” He counted among his friends the artists Jean Lorrain, Barbey d'Aurevilly, and Remy de Gourmont.
Son altesse la femme essays most satirically the position of women in society from the medieval to the author's time. The chapters are: Le vray mirouer de sorcellerie, La mie du poete, La précieuse, La caillette, La citoyenne française, Les galanteries du directoire, Sous la restauration, L'amour aux champs, La parisienne moderne, and Mulieriana.
The work was limited to 100 copies all printed on Japan vellum. It has an
engraved vignette on the black and red printed title, small illustrations
or vignettes on 50 text pages, 11 vignette borders or headpieces (three of
them in color, 10 of them in an
extra
state), and 10 tipped-in color plates. The illustrations are
by Henri Gervex, J.A. Gonzalès, L. Kratké, Albert Lynch, Adrien
Moreau, and Félicien Rops.
Binding: Full red crushed morocco with five raised bands. Covers with a triple-rule gilt border; spine gilt extra with gilt beading on bands. Triple gilt fillet on board edges. Wide turn-ins richly tooled in gilt and with cream and blue leather inlays that are also gilt-tooled. Blue silk pastedowns and free endpapers. Marbled paper fly-leaves. All edges gilt.
Binding signed “David.”
Provenance: Red leather bookplate of Cortlandt Field Bishop, the famed collector of the early 20th century and, at one time, owner of the TWO most important auction galleries in NY/USA.
Original
full-color wrappers bound in.
Vicaire, VII, 924. Uncut copy. Bound as above with original
wrappers bound in; front joint (outside) somewhat abraded.
A
very pleasing copy. (26675)
Art/Architecture — Folio Extra — Imposing!
Valentini, Agostino. La patriarcale basilica Liberiana. Roma: a spese
di Agostino Valentini, 1839. Folio extra (47.5 cm; 18.75"). [4] ff., 118 pp.; 1 fold. plt., 102 plts.
$600.00
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Italian-language work on the art and architecture of the Liberiana basilica in Rome, illustrated with more than 100 impressive full-page engravings (as well as one oversized, folding engraving) of the church’s art and sculpture, along with its architectural detail, plans, and design. Detailed explanations of the plates, which were engraved by Domenico Feltrini, are provided.
This handsomely printed and produced volume forms the second part of the author's “Quattro principali basiliche di Roma,” which also includes works (not present here) on the Vaticana and Lataranense.
Publisher's half vellum with marbled paper–covered sides, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather labels; boards a little abraded and showing wear. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate; front fly-leaf with bookseller’s pressure-stamp in upper corner. Occasional light foxing.
A handsomely produced, still very impressive volume. (11659)

The Chiswell Grant of Arms — A Scion of
BOOKSELLERS Armigerous
Vanbrugh, John. [Grant of arms to Richard Chiswell, “Turkey merchant.”]. Illuminated manuscript in English, on vellum: “To all and singular...” [London]: 1714. Folio (document: 39.37 cm x 52.07 cm; 15.5 x 20.5"). [1] f.
[SOLD]
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A splendid illuminated heraldic document preserved in its original 18th-century custom-made decorative case. Confirming the grant of arms to Richard Chiswell the younger (1673–1751), this letter patent is ornamented with both Chiswell's coat of arms (Argent, two bars of nebuly gules, overall on a bend engrailed sable, a rose between two mullets or) and that of Queen Anne, with
the arms and the borders on three sides being richly painted in red, gold, silver, blue, and black.
The grant was signed on 16 April 1714 by Sir Henry St. George as Garter Principal King of Arms and by
playwright and architect Sir John Vanbrugh as Clarenceux King of Arms, and it is accompanied by their wax seals, each seal (having been removed from the original ties) housed in a tin box.
The rolled document and seals are protected in a contemporary box of gilt- and blind-tooled leather over wood, lined in marbled paper and having twin compartments attached along one edge for the seals' separate, safe keeping.
Chiswell was the oldest surviving son of the famed London bookseller of the same name and his wife Mary Royston, daughter of another prominent bookseller, Richard Royston. He earned his own wealth as a member of the Levant Company trading with Turkey, making several journeys through the Middle East (and writing at least three never-published travelogues), eventually serving terms as the director of the Bank of England and as an M.P. Vanbrugh (1664–1726) is remembered for several successful comedies including The Relapse, The Provok'd Wife, and The Country House, as well as for having designed Blenheim Palace, Castle Howard, the original Haymarket Theatre, and many other notable buildings.
In the original box as above, housed in a modern buckram case with hand-inked spine label; the original box, lacking three of four closure hooks, has been expertly restored and is now safely strong. One of the two seals is cracked across, but wholy present; the grant, rolled and slightly darkened, is overall clean and striking.
A proud and obviously treasured survival. (41231)

The
JOYS of
Hard Work in
a
Deluxe
Edition
Van
Dyke, Henry. The toiling of Felix. New
York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913. 8vo (22 cm, 8.6"). [6], 70 pp.; 4 col.
plts. (incl. in pagination).
$100.00
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First illustrated edition of this poem — based on the lines “Raise the stone, and thou shalt find me; cleave the wood, and there am I” — about finding Christ through selfless manual labor. Printed on heavy, deckle-edged paper within wide Art Nouveau-style borders, the text is additionally decorated with mounted chromolithographed painted illustrations by Herbert Moore.
Provenance:
Front free endpaper with inked inscription reading “A Thanksgiving
Appreciation to Miss Alta Anderson from the Parents and Pupils of the Emerson
St. Presbyterian S.S. Nov. 28, 1917.”
Signed binding:
Publisher's deep violet-blue cloth, front cover with wide
gilt border of floral and vine design, spine with gilt-stamped title and fleurons.
Signed “EE,” with the second E reversed: Edward B. Edwards, who
also designed the interior frames.
Binding as above, spine slightly dimmed. Pages and plates clean. A lovely copy. (28954)

M.A. BINDING — “The Music-Lover,” “The Unruly Sprite,”
“The King's Jewel,” *&* OTHERS
(ILLUSTRATED)
Van Dyke, Henry. The unknown quantity: A book of romance and some half-told tales. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. 12mo (19.5 cm, 7.67"). [2], xiv, [2], 370 pp.; 4 col. plts, 3 plts.
$30.00
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First edition. The first few stories are set among the French Canadians of Quebec; others are inspired by fairy tales from various lands, Christian epiphanies, musical experiences, etc. The volume is illustrated with a total of seven plates: a color-printed frontispiece, three more color-printed plates, three black and white plates, and additional head- and tailpiece vignettes by Garth Jones.
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth, decorated on the front cover with an elaborate fruit and flower pattern in gold, light green, and orange, spine with gilt-stamped decorative title. Top edges gilt.
Signed by Margaret Armstrong.
Gullans & Espey, Checklist of Trade Bindings Designed by Margaret Armstrong, 250; Smith, American Fiction, 1901–1925, V-87. Bound as above; corners and spine extremities lightly rubbed, orange stamping showing minor scuffing. Pages gently age-toned, with some foxing to endpapers and in proximity to plates.
A nice copy of a nice book. (41282)

Fiji Isles Paradise
Van Sandwyk, Charles. Sketches from a tropic isle. [North Vancouver?]: Published by the artist, 1997. 12mo (17.3 cm, 6.81"). 28 pp.; col. illus.
$150.00
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Drawn and annotated in the Fiji Islands: a stunning booklet of color-printed watercolor illustrations by Canadian-born artist Van Sandwyk, accompanied by his calligraphed meditations and signed by him on the dedication page.
This present example features the parrot-variant front cover illustration and, according to the artist's website, is one of 1500 copies.
The gilt-stamped matching bookmark and a card with information on purchasing prints are laid in.
Binding: Publisher's gilt-stamped olive green paper wrappers with color-printed parrot portrait onlay on front wrapper.
Searches of WorldCat locate
no copies in the U.S., with two found in Canada and one at the National Library in New Zealand, which last library supplies the “[North Vancouver?]“ attribution for this production without internal assertion of imprint place. Another online source gives “Tavewa Island,” with we know not what evidence.
Wrappers crisp and fresh, showing virtually no wear save for a small area of faint discoloration from now-absent label; booklet pristine and lay-ins present.
A lovely copy of a scarce and attractive item. (41361)

“Train up a Child in the Way It Should Go”
Variety; or, stories for children from the age of seven years to twelve. London: John Harris, 1825. 12mo (17.6 cm, 6.9"). [4], 127, [1] pp.; 12 plts.
[SOLD]
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“Founded on facts,” and dedicated to “the author's little friends Kate and Fanny”: stories full of edifying examples of children who were good and kind, and appropriately rewarded — and of children who were punished for lying, selfishness, etc. The tales are illustrated with
twelve full-page engraved plates, each bearing two scenes. This is the second edition, following the first of 1823; it is uncommon, with WorldCat locating only seven U.S. institutions reporting holdings.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Osborne Collection, p. 953; Gumuchian 5727; Moon, John Harris's Books for Youth, 943(2); Opie, A 1214. Publisher's printed tan paper–covered boards with maroon sheep shelfback; spine and edges rubbed, sides with small scuffs. Front free endpaper lacking; title-page with unexplainable image offsetting of the ninth plate. A very nice copy, undamaged by childish hands. (39885)

A Lovingly
ILLUSTRATED Fables Collection
Verdizotti, Giovanni Mario. Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi, & moderni autori Greci, & Latini. In Venetia: Appresso Sebastian Combi, 1599. 12mo (14.1 cm, 5.5"). 253, [11] pp.; illus.
$1000.00
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Scarce, charmingly petite edition of Italian artist and writer Verdizotti's popular collection of illustrated fables taken from classical sources, here with
one hundred in-text woodcuts — one for each tale, with a few repeated images. These cuts are based on his earlier designs, sometimes said to have been inspired by his friend Titian. The text is printed in single columns using italic type for the fables, with morals printed in roman; decorative initials and endpieces complete the work.
While the work was popular enough to merit reprintings throughout the 16th and 17th centuries following the first edition of 1570, the present edition is now uncommon: Searches of Worldcat and NUC Pre-1956 reveal only one U.S. institution that reports holding this printing, with EDIT16 finding only one additional international institution with holdings.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT16 CNCE 60555; Mortimer, Italian 16th-Century Books, 523 (note); USTC 862550. This edition not in Adams. Contemporary limp vellum, title inked on spine with red painted shelfmark, title inked on fore- and bottom edges in an early hand; vellum stained and cockled, heavily chipped at spine head and very loosely attached, endpapers torn and soiled with evidence of worming and a few bibliographical notes in ink and pencil. Booklabel as above; light age-toning throughout, with waterstaining to lower and outer portions of the very faint to moderate level that reduces price but not pleasure. This was printed on inexpensive paper, as evidenced by one leaf with a small hole and a few examples of uneven edges; it has also been well read, with a few loosely attached quires, worn edges, occasionally a spot or a tear. A scarce edition that in this copy has had plenty of adventures and is ready for more; the illustrations are
wonderful. (39635)

“The French Virgil”
Does Virgil
Vergilius Maro, Publius. Les Géorgiques de Virgile,
traduction nouvelle en vers françois, enrichies de notes & de figures. Paris: Chez Bleuet, 1770.
8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [2], 366 pp.; 5 plts.
$650.00
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Fourth edition, revised and corrected, of Jacques Delille's acclaimed verse
translation of the Georgics, first printed in the previous year. Delille was one of the great names
of late 18th-century French literature, famed for his translations of Latin classics; Brunet calls
him a “versificateur élégant et facile.”
The work is here illustrated with
a copper-engraved frontispiece and four plates,
generally bucolic, done by Joseph de Longueil after Francesco Giuseppe Casanova and Charles
Eisen. The text is additionally decorated with pictorial headpieces and fruit and floral tailpieces.
Brunet, V, 1303; Cohen & de Ricci 1022; Graesse, VII, 359; Schweiger, II,
1221/22. Contemporary mottled calf framed in gilt triple fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped floral
compartment decorations; joints and extremities rubbed, spine leather with small cracks, sides
with expectable moderate acid-pitting. All edges gilt. Front hinge (inside) tender; a few
scattered light spots, pages overall clean. An early, attractive edition of an excellent translation,
with
crisp, lovely, well-impressed plates. (30949)

LEC: The Dead Sea Scrolls in
English
Vermes, Geza, trans. The Dead Sea scrolls. Westerham: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1966. Folio (31.6 cm, 12.4"). [8], 241, [3] pp.; 16 col. plts.
$150.00
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Limited Editions Club production of the Dead Sea Scrolls, here translated and introduced by Geza Vermes, one of the first scholars to examine the groundbreaking manuscript find; the text is illustrated with 16 watercolor plates “richly liturgical in mood yet . . . free and pulsating,” some being double-page spread, and with additional black-and-white line drawings by Israeli painter Shraga Weil. The volume was designed by Henri Friedlaender, who set the text in Joanna (designed by Eric Gill) and Albertus and had it printed on St. Paul's Cray paper made by Hale of London. The volume was printed at the Westerham Press, and bound in quarter tangerine levant-grain leather with heavy natural linen–covered sides.
This is
numbered copy 705 of 1500 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 386. Binding as above, spine with gilt-stamped title, in matching buckram-covered slipcase with printed paper spine label; slipcase mildly waterstained with cloth chipping in two spots and spine label worn, volume very clean and fresh. An attractive edition of the ever-fascinating Scrolls, this copy internally crisp and lovely despite slipcase wear. (36301)

History of the Hospitallers — First English Edition
Vertot, René Aubert, abbé de. The history of the Knights of Malta. London: Pr. for G. Strahan, F. Gyles, Woodman & Lyon, et al., 1728. Tall folio (34.3 cm, 13.5"). 2 vols. I: [8], 487, [1], 180 pp.; 1 fold. map, 2 maps, 49 plts. II: [2], 220, 143, [1], 196, [24 (index)], 3, [1 (adv.)] pp.; 22 plts., 1 fold. map, 1 double-p. map.
$4600.00
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First edition in English. In 1715 the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta appointed the Abbé de Vertot as historiographer of the order, and in 1726 Vertot published the Histoire des chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem — an influential and oft-cited work, although the order itself felt certain portions not entirely to its taste. This is the first English translation, illustrated with
71 portraits of Grand Masters et al. engraved by Laurent Cars, Jean-François Cars, and others; the
maps of the area, fortifications, and the Hospitallers' military exploits were done by Guillaume Delisle and Charles Amadeus de Berey. Also present are Vertot's “Dissertation on Zizim” and “Proofs of the History of the Knights Hospitallers” (which include document texts in Latin and French) and his “Discourse upon the Alcoran,” originally presented at the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres in 1724.
ESTC T53873; Lowndes, VI, 2765. Recent quarter calf over marbled paper sides, old style: round spine, raised bands, gilt beading on bands and gilt double rules above and below each; gilt leather spine labels and gilt center devices in five compartments. Vol. I: occasional light smudges or spots of staining, some plates with mild to moderate foxing; one leaf with short tears from upper margin, touching header but not text; one leaf with tear from upper edge extending into text without loss; one plate with short tear and resulting crease at lower inner corner, not touching image; one plate with a few early inked doodles on reverse. First map with two short edge tears not touching image, one small closed hole touching outer border only. Vol. II: many leaves with mild to moderate foxing mostly confined to margins; two leaves with worming in lower margins, not touching text; one lower outer corner chipped. Paper variously age-toned, with intermittent creasing or cockling.
A strong, agreeable set of this significant, and significantly well-illustrated, work of religious, military, and social history. (34268)

“So Finished Our Landlord His Tale”
Village annals, containing Austerus and Humanus. A sympathetic tale. Philadelphia: Griggs & Dickinson for Johnson & Warner, 1814. 12mo (13.7 cm, 5.4"). 35 pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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First American edition of this children's chapbook tale comparing the hard-heartedness of Austerus with the kindness and generosity of Humanus, taken from the London edition published by Arliss in 1808. In addition to the frontispiece, this work has
six full-page wood engravings, wood-engraved devices on the title-page and below the final paragraph of text, and a large cut of two boys ice-skating. Those six full-page illustrations are printed on leaves whose versos are blank, but they are not true plates as all sides of all leaves are counted in the pagination.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Rosenbach, Children's, 514; Welch 1381; Shaw & Shoemaker 33546. Contemporary light boards with stone-pattern marbled paper. Text age-toned with occasional foxing and two small marginal inkspots; a very nice copy. (38819)

“The Most Villainous of Poets”
Villon, François. The lyrical poems of François Villon. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1979. 8vo (28.4 cm,11.1"). 145, [3] pp.
$60.00
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Limited Editions Club printing: 36 of Villon's lyrics in English translation, with the original French on facing pages. The poems were selected by Léonie Adams and appear here with an introductory essay by Robert Louis Stevenson; the translations were done by Adams, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Ernest Henley, and John Payne.
This is numbered copy 538 of 2000 printed — this volume, designed by Stephen Harvard, being the first ever set by the Stinehour Press in the then-new Galliard typeface, created by Matthew Carter after the work of the 16th-century punchcutter Robert Granjon; Carter also designed the endpaper ornaments.
Bound in green linen imported from Holland, spine with gilt-stamped title and front cover with gilt-stamped author's name, the volume is
signed by Harvard at the colophon. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 513. Binding as above, in original dust wrapper and matching slipcase; back upper edge of wrapper torn, slipcase and volume clean and crisp. A very nice copy. (32031)

TICE Illustrates
VOLTAIRE
Voltaire. Candide, or All for the best. New York: Bennett Libraries, 1927. 8vo (23 cm; 9.25"). 2 vols. in 1. 182 pp., [4] ff., color plates.
$725.00
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Sole edition illustrated by Clara Tice, the illustrations numbering ten, printed in color, and definitely of an erotic nature. This copy (no. 130) is one of 250 copies “on special deckle-edge Pannekoek paper.” The title-page, printed in black and red, announces this is an “Exact reprint of the earliest English text” and tells us that it was “printed in Holland by Joh. Enschede en Zonen for the Bennett Libraries, Inc.”
In the early decades of the 20th century, Tice was a sensation because of her provocative art and as the embodiment of bohemian Greenwich Village — gaining, indeed, the sobriquet “The Queen of Greenwich Village.”
Binding: Publisher's black goat, round spine with raised bands lettered in gilt and with a gilt-stamped female nude figure in center area of spine; front cover with two gilt-stamped reclining female nude figures reminiscent of those on big-rig mud guards! Elegant gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt and other edges deckle. Housed in a brown paper–covered open-back case.
Case rubbed but sound; binding as above with spine a little pulled, corners a little bumped, and front joint (outside) a little abraded. First leaves separated and tipped in; possibly, cancels? All illustrations eye-popping in several senses; all tissue guards present. (33447)

Signed by Both the Poet & the Artist — With Original Bearden Lithograph
Walcott, Derek; Romare Bearden, illus. & ed. The Caribbean poetry of Derek Walcott & the art of Romare Bearden. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1983. Folio (31.1 cm, 12.25"). xix, [1], 210, [4] pp.; col. illus.
$800.00
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For this Limited Editions Club production, “distinguished artist Romare Bearden has culled his favorite representative pieces from Derek Walcott's output of the past twenty years.” The poems are chronologically arranged, with
each section opening with a vibrantly energetic double-page spread painted by Bearden, an award-winning African-American artist and writer. Joseph Brodsky supplied the introduction; the text was set in Monotype Bembo by Michael and Winifred Bixler and printed by the Anthoensen Press in Portland, Maine, while the illustrations were reproduced by the Seaboard Lithograph Corporation and the original lithograph (see below) was hand-printed on Rives paper at the Blackburn Studio, New York.
This is numbered copy 1063 of 2000 printed, signed by Walcott and Bearden at the colophon. An original Bearden lithograph (numbered 35/275) is included, laid in at the back of the volume. The appropriate LEC newsletter is also included.
Binding: Caribbean-inspired linen with a sun and sea pattern combining warm reds and golds with cool blues and greens, created specifically for this volume by Bearden (marking the first time “an artist has designed his own fabric expressly for our edition” per the newsletter) and silk-screened in Italy by Ratti d.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 533. Binding as above, in the original gray paper–covered slipcase with silver gilt spine title; slipcase with spine and edges sunned, volume in beautiful condition.
Attractively crafted, and the performance of an all-star “cast.” (38924)

“The Cat & the Dog Make Our House Their Home”
Walks with mamma, or, stories in words of one syllable. London: John Harris, 1824. Sq. 24mo (13.5 cm, 5.25"). 63, [1] pp.; 8 plts.
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Presented here for childhood pleasure are five stories of “Anne's” walks with her mother, all in one way or another involving
natural history appreciated as God's work, and with four of the five having
excellent hand-colored wood engravings, some very dramatic and showing “exotic” places, people, or animals.
Moon tells us that “This is one of the earliest examples of J[ohn] H[arris]'s cloth bindings,” and says the cloth is “rose or blue” and the paper label “yellow.” The copy at hand is bound in green cloth with a rose-color paper label.Searches of WorldCat locate only four North American libraries (URochester, IndianaU, Princeton, and Toronto Public) reporting ownership.
Evidence of use: Inside front cover enhanced with one rather good pencil sketch of a horse in traces, with blinders, and another smaller one, rather childish, of a galloping(?) horse with
a whip-flourishing side-saddle rider aboard. Above the latter is pencilled, “Mary, Clara, Shirley.”
Provenance: Inscription “Mary Clara Elizabeth” with surname uncertain; later in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Moon, John Harris's Books for Youth, 963(1). Binding as above, cloth faded and with some stains; part of paper label chipped off and missing. Pages with some childish pencilling apart from the sketches described above, and with stray light brown stains. A few leaves just starting to loosen. A good+ copy.
Sketches and plates, grand. (38915)

Walton, Illustrated
Walton, Izaak. The complete angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Extensively embellished with engravings on copper and wood ... To which are added, an introductory essay; the Linnaean arrangement of the various river fish delineated in the work; and illustrative notes. London: John Major (pr. at the Shakspeare Press by W. Nicol), 1824. 8vo in 4s (19.7 cm, 7.76"). lviii, 416 pp.; 14 plts.; illus. [with the same author's] The lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson ... To which are added, the autographs of those eminent men, now first collected; an index, and illustrative notes. London: John Major (pr. at the Shakspeare Press by W. Nicol), 1825. Frontis., xviii, [2], 503, [1] pp.; 10 plts., illus.
$550.00
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Classic combination: Major's nicely edited rendition of Walton's beloved treatise in combination with his collected lives of authors, the set (with Angler here in its stated second edition, Lives in the first)
charmingly illustrated with a total of 25 copper-engraved plates and numerous wood-engraved in-text vignettes. The Angler plates generally represent dashing young men — and a few young ladies — in the garb of Walton's day, while many of the in-text illustrations depict hooked fish; the Lives volume opens with a representation of the subjects' signatures within a decorative frame and includes, along with a portrait of each, ten renditions of important moments and locations in the subjects' careers as well as numerous smaller portraits, coats of arms, etc.
Bindings: Contemporary dark brown morocco, covers framed and panelled in blind surrounding embossed arabesque cartouches, spines with gilt-stamped titles and blind-ruled compartments, board edges with single gilt fillet, wide turn-ins with quadruple gilt fillets and corner fleurons. All edges gilt.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabels (“AHA”) at rear.
Bound as above; joints, edges, and spine extremities rubbed and refurbished, spines sunned. Back free endpapers each with bookseller's ticket of Hessey, Fleet Street. Minor offsetting from turn-ins to free endpapers; pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.
A desirable set, externally a bit worn, now exuding the promise of comfortable enjoyment. (40307)

The Art of Angling
Illustrated by Adams
Walton, Izaak. The compleat angler or the contemplative man's recreation being a discourse of fish and fishing not unworthy the perusal of most anglers ... decorated by Frank Adams. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Folio (35 cm, 13.5"). Frontis., [10], 124, [2] pp.; illus.
$350.00
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Beautifully enhanced facsimile of the first edition of Walton's beloved classic, possibly the highlight of fishing literature. The pages are graced with numerous black-and-white decorations in addition to a color-printed frontispiece and nine scenes of gentlemen fishing done in elegantly muted shades of green, blue, and brown by American artist Frank Adams (1871–1944), known for his children's illustrations. This is numbered copy 359 of 450 printed, and signed by the artist.
Provenance: The publisher-issued bookplate and box label proclaim that this copy belonged to L. Haskell Sweet, a New York businessman.
Coigney 308. Publisher's quarter vellum and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; original glassine dust wrapper and original charcoal-colored paper-covered box with personalized label present, wrapper with chips, short tears, and some creasing, and box split at seams with two side elements fully detached (one lost). Vellum of the volume's spine faintly darkened and spotted, book otherwise clean and fresh with top edges gilt; sweet identification as above.
A good catch. (28332)

Deluxe Angler — In a Zaehnsdorf Binding, with Proof Plates
Walton, Izaak & Charles Cotton; Harris Nicolas, ed. The complete angler or the contemplative man's recreation being a discourse of rivers fish-ponds fish and fishing ... and instructions on how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream ... with original memoirs and notes. London: William Pickering (pr. by C. Whittingham), 1836. Large 8vo (27.3 cm, 10.75"). 2 vols. I: [16], clxiv, [4], [clxv]-ccxii, [2], 129, [1] pp.; 29 plts., illus. II: [4], [131]–436, [32 (index)] pp.; 38 plts., illus.
$4000.00
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First edition edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, and
the most lavish of all of Pickering's editions of this beloved treatise on fishing. In addition to the expected steel-engraved plates and in-text illustrations, this copy features
an extra set of proof plates printed on India paper, mounted on heavy paper, and bound in for all illustrations including the headpiece decorations, for
a total of 67 plates. Horne summed the work up as having been “illustrated by the foremost contemporary artists, produced by an excellent printer and issued by an outstanding publisher” — and it appears here in a binding that does justice to those qualities.
Binding: Signed 20th-century dark green straight-grain morocco, covers framed in quadruple gilt fillets with gilt fish motifs in corners, spines similarly decorated, board edges with gilt fillets, turn-ins with gilt fillets and roll. All edges gilt; green marbled endpapers. Bindings done by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf, with his stamp (dated 1914) on lower front turn-ins.
Provenance: Front pastedowns each with small silver “TJS” monogram label (unidentified); most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 94; Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1836.17; Ing, Charles Whittingham, 13; Horne, The Compleat Angler 1653–1967, 43. Bindings as above, spines gently sunned; front free endpapers stamped “Bartlett & Co, Boston” in upper outer corners. Occasional minor foxing/spotting; vol. II with mild waterstaining to lower outer portions, more pronounced to first few leaves and later ones.
An enduring classic, in a beautiful set. (40961)

Hygienic Ice Cream Manufacturing
Warner-Jenkinson Mfg. Co. Ice cream, carbonated beverages [/] with a short introduction to the study of chemistry and physics. St. Louis : Warner-Jenkinson Mfg. Co., 1924. 8vo (20 cm, 7.87"). [2], 134 pp.; 8 plts.
$120.00
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New and improved version, updated (and retitled) from a sold-out 1921 booklet: “A handbook for ice-cream makers, sodawater bottlers, and students taking short courses in Dairying, etc.” This combination of culinary and scientific information focuses on the technical aspects of manufacture — and promotes Red Seal products including flavors, colors, stabilizing powders, and others. The text is
illustrated with eight photographic plates depicting various facilities, as well as several in-text depictions of yeasts, bacteria, etc.
Not in Bitting; not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's very dark brown textured cloth, cover and spine stamped in red; edges and extremities a little rubbed, spine sunned. Endpapers lightly foxed; front pastedown with inked ownership inscription from Pullman, WA; pages clean.
A solid and nice copy of this expanded edition, the first under this title. (41348)

About Great Printers — From a Great Press
Owned by Another Great Printer
Warren, Arthur. The Charles Whittinghams, printers. New York: Grolier Club (pr. by the DeVinne Press), 1896. Large 8vo (25.2 cm, 9.9"). Frontis., 344, [2] pp. (index issued later, not present here); 2 fold. plts. (1 col.), illus.
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First edition: One of 385 copies printed
by the DeVinne Press handmade paper (plus three on vellum) of this account of the influential uncle and nephew printers, covering their life stories and business history as well as the technical and artistic details of their accomplishments. The work is
copiously illustrated with views of important locations in the Whittingtons' lives and careers, woodcuts and engravings from their publications (along with other decorative elements such as borders and headpieces), reduced-size representations of title-pages, five beautifully accomplished stipple-engraved portraits, examples of different types used by the printers, etc., as well as two oversized, folding facsimiles of correspondence and charters. The covers bear the version of the Chiswick Press lion, dolphin, and anchor device that was designed by Charlotte Whittingham and engraved by Mary Byfield.
Provenance: Front pastedown with attractively designed bookplate of Peter Beilenson, proprietor of the Peter Pauper Press; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Publisher's half dark green leather and tan paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and Grolier Club device, covers with stamped central medallions bearing device as above; spine sunned to brick-brown and with some darker streaks and discoloration, sides lightly scuffed, joints and extremities rubbed. Index (printed and issued as a separate insert, after the original publication) not present here. Scattered light spottings only. Externally somewhat worn, but a solid and enjoyable copy, with
a gratifyingly apropos provenance and a Chiswick Bookshop (New York) bookmark iaid in. (39562)

Waugh! The Pre-Raphaelites!
Waugh, Evelyn. PRB An essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 1847–54. Westerham, Kent: Dalrymple Press, 1982. 4to (25.2 cm, 9.9"). 44, [3] pp.
$125.00
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“No-one else was writing about the Pre-Raphaelites in the 1920's, and it is therefore interesting to know what an intelligent and independent-minded author thought about them, especially during their most unfashionable phase. We must, of course, be thankful that Waugh became a novelist and not an art-historian, but he does deserve to be remembered as one of the most distinguished pioneers of the Victorian revival” (44).
This is the first published edition of Waugh's essay, which was first printed privately by Alastair Graham in 1926. As Christopher Sykes and Christopher Wood describe it in the preface and postscript, respectively, Waugh's account of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is not very scholarly (for one, Waugh makes biased remarks about William Holman Hunt, who married not one but two of his relatives, the sisters Fanny and Edith Waugh); however it is regarded as the first serious bit of writing by one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century. A commission followed to write the biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Waugh's first full-length book.
The text was designed by Robert Hamilton Dalrymple using Monophoto Modern Extended 7 and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper at the Westerham Press, illustrated with
six plates reproducing portraits drawn by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais, of each other. The binding, in navy blue cloth with the title stamped in red on the front cover and spine, and matching red endpapers, was designed by Hunter & Foulis of Edinburgh. Of an edition limited to 475 copies, this is number 118, written in manuscript below the colophon.
Binding as above, in protective mylar wrappers. Short marginal tear to bottom of one leaf, else
like new. (30683)
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