The text is printed in roman and italic, ruled in red throughout, with sidenotes inset within the red ruled border. Anengraved portrait of Epicurus faces the title-page.

The translator, Walter Charleton (1620–1707), was named physician-in-ordinary to Charles I shortly after graduating from Oxford, and published numerous books on natural philosophy as well as physiology and antiquity. To the various writings by the philosopher Epicurus (341–270) included herein, Charleton added an Apology for Epicurus, building a Christian framework for the following chapters.

Provenance:  A later pencil inscription on the front free endpaper indicates this book may have once been in the library atDyrham Park, a 17th-century English mansion now overseen by the National Trust.

•  Wing (rev. ed.) E3156; ESTC R13827. On Charleton, see: ODNB online. On the binding, see: Nixon, English Restoration Bookbinding, no. 42.   Binding as above, with joints worn (especially at front joint's ends) and board corners scuffed, these gently refurbished; front hinge (inside) cracked but holding well; red leather spine label partially lost; frontispiece portrait excised and mounted on verso of front fly-leaf. A copy rather remarkably unspotted, with an inkstain in one outer margin and a brown chemical stain on another leaf, neither affecting text; while a shift in paper during printing resulted inan instructive typographical anomaly, with the text being printed at an angle on the lower outer corner of one page. A good book, a good binding, and a good copy.  (32483)

Provenance:  19th-century label of the Redemptorists' provincial library of Baltimore; later markings of the Redemptorists' library at Mount St. Alphonsus.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, IV, 514–515; Landwehr, Emblem & Fable Books Printed in the Low Countries, 353.   Contemporary morocco, covers framed in blind triple fillets, original clasps intact, spine with later hand-inked paper shelving label; binding rubbed overall, especially spine. All edges gilt. Institutional markings as above: front pastedown with 19th-century bookplate and back pastedown with pocket; front free endpaper with early inked shelving annotation; title-page verso with early inked ownership inscription, small shelving ticket, and rubber-stamp; first page of dedication and one text page with rubber-stamp; a bit of typical pencilling. Final privilegium leaf lacking, integral blank instead present. Pages mildly to moderately age-toned, a very few with slight spotting. A nice example of one of the best-received emblem books of the 17th century.  (32741)

Provenance:  Signatures of Elizabeth Powell (17th century), Robert Binnell (18th century), and three other 17th-century signatures only partially deciphered.

•  STC (rev. ed.) 17063; ESTC S108999.   20th-century half blue morocco with cloth sides. This copy clearly spent time in an English bookseller's “hospital” and may be sophisticated, a fact perhaps of some positive, studyable interest now that such hospitals and their ministrations have been “history” for decades; title-leaf dust-soiled, creased but flattened, with rents and holes repaired most sympathetically. Many corners and leaf edges expertly renewed; some captions touched by binder's knife, none or only one seriously. Child's writing practice, including an alphabet (without J or V), in some margins. A good copy with an interesting provenance worthy of deeper research and greater paleographical skills than we can bring to bear.  (32713)

•  Publisher's blue cloth–covered case, front cover with printed paper label. Crisp and clean. A delight for lovers of book arts.  (32778)

The four years' worth of issues gathered here allows not only for reading of complete serializations and for analysis of fashion changes, but also for study of the magazine's evolution over time, as sections and columns came and went or were revamped.

Binding:  Contemporary half blue-green calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt-stamped and -ruled raised bands, and blind-tooled compartment decorations. All edges marbled.

•  Bindings showing mild to moderate rubbing and scuffing overall, but sturdy. Endpapers and first and last few leaves with moderate spotting, scattered spots elsewhere; intermittent age-toning and offsetting; December 1864 issue (only) lacking. One leaf in first volume with short tear from upper margin, without loss; one outer corner torn away and reaffixed, with slight loss to one or two letters. An engaging set.  (32043)

Apparently little held in the U.S. for we trace copies atonly three North American institutions.

•  Not in Palau.   Removed from a nonce volume; nonce spine evident. Clean, even crisp.  (32723)

Publication of this piece was due to a friend, “Lo da a luz pública un amigo del orador.”

•  Garritz, I, 255; Medina, Mexico, 10120; Beristain, II, p. 174; Andrade 2393.   Modern vellum over boards, waterstaining to rear cover and small crescent of same to top margins; remnant of marca de fuego on top edge. A few faint spots, a blurred ink-note (a monogram?), and two short ink-slashes to title-page, otherwise clean and unmarked. A good copy.  (32770)

•  ESTC S111817; STC (2nd ed.) 14751l.   Green cloth over limp boards, front cover with title and publication information stamped in gilt; spine and corners very slightly rubbed; gutters of title-page and last leaf affixed to endpapers with cloth tape. Pages age-toned especially at edges, with scattered spots; one leaf with paper flaw in outer margin, not touching text; one leaf with small inked lines in outer margin. A nice copy of one of Jonson's most important plays.  (32720)

That said, he does sternly say here that women, black and white, are up to the work and training and will not be held back by distances to be travelled, weather or other inconveniences. His school moved beyond just training midwives to a full medical program for women and granted degrees, at which the Boston medical establishment was not pleased. But Gregory believed that “there are . . .forty-thousand physicians in the United States. Twenty thousand of these ought to give place to this number of women” (p. 36).

•  Not in Sabin but see 24049 for a related work.   Removed from a nonce volume, lacking the wrappers; creased across corners, light age-toning and light foxing/spotting (only).  (32202)

Bishop's collected poems were first published in 1796.

Searches of ESTC, WorldCat, NUC Pre-1956, and COPAC findno copies.

•  As issued. Old stitching holes in inner margin, one corner turned in, clean.  (32757)

48 plates

•  NSTC 0155519.   Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with pictorial onlay; lower outer front corner bumped, spine sunned with extremities a bit rubbed and corners less so. Last two leaves opened roughly, with chips to outer edges; otherwise, pages age-toned but very clean. A comprehensive and entertaining illustrated guide to seafaring for juveniles.  (30296)

ESTC lists two editions for 1708, but apparently not this one: T165861 is listed as being a 12mo having a pagination of [2], ii, 3, [5], 271, [1], ii, 38 pp. with one plate, a frontispiece; while T92380 is an 8vo with a pagination of [12], 339, [3], 45, [1] pp., no plates noted.

•  Not in ESTC? On Stanhope, see: Dictionary of National Biography, LIV, 10–12.   18th-century calf plain style, round spine, gilt rules forming spine “compartments”; binding worn, front joint (outside) open but cover holding nicely. Title-leaf soiled and with small area of abrasion, verso with paper repair at inner margin; stain from liquid in inner margin of early leaves, light waterstaining in outer margins in a later section, and a few other stray stains, none serious; possibly lacking a frontispiece. Not a great copy but a good sound one; a classic text classically illustrated.  (32727)

Binding:  Publisher's olive cloth, front cover decoratively stamped in gilt, black, and blind, with affixed chromolithographic portrait of O'Malley's lady in a straw(?) hat trimmed with pink feathers and ribbons.

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with inked gift inscription dated Christmas 1908, to Major Catlett Conway Taliaferro (1847–1916), a prominent Virginia land agent, Democratic supporter, and philanthropist (“from his wife”). Taliaferro had fought under General Lee, and was selected to carry the flag of truce to General Grant.

•  Bound as above; spine darkened, mildly rubbed, text block just starting to pull away from spine. Pages lightly age-toned. Attractive and interesting.  (32704)

•  Wing (rev. ed.) A120; ESTC R6638.   Removed from a nonce volume. Very good condition.  (32240)

The work begins withone of the most famous colonial-era engravings — signed by Zapata — showing St. Ignatius above a tableau representing the peoples of the world. This frontispiece, often missing, is present, and the volume's detailed title-page and beautiful full-page woodcut coat of arms are also here and handsome. The printer has further employed various attractive woodcut head- and tailpieces at different points in the text.

Provenance:  Ownership inscription of Fray Tomas Marti, dated July 1825, on the front free endpaper. His signature also in the lower margin of the title-page. He was a “misionero apostolico . . . en el Colegio de Propaganda Fide de Orizaba” from November, 1810, until he returned in Spain in 1825. 20th-century bookseller's description in English clipped from a printed catalogue.

•  Viñaza 344; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 57; Medina, Mexico, 4568; León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli, 2082; Sabin 58575; De Backer-Sommervogel, VI, 211–12; Burrus & Grajales 206.   Contemporary full Mexican treed sheep, spine modestly but nicely gilt, sprinkled edges. Dark stain in upper outer corners of covers, rear cover stain continuing into the upper corners of the last few leaves; otherwise a notably clean copy. Very good.   (32711)

•  Tan cloth over boards, red and black stamped, with vignettes of a biplane, a roadster, a motorbike, and a speedboat in the corners and the author/title in a large oval center medallion. A little rubbed, a little “used,” one page dog-eared; gift inscription dated 1931 on front free endpaper.  (32710)

•  NSTC 0262094.   Publisher's textured brown cloth, covers framed in blind double fillets, spines with gilt-stamped title; vol. 1 with small areas of light discoloration, both volumes with mild edgewear. Pages very slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. A nice set.  (32641)

•  Brunet (supplement) 476; Leclerc 2227; Pilling, Eskimo, 32; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 1254; Newberry Library, Ayer Indians, 54; Sabin 23603.   19th-century half sheep with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine darkened (apparently deliberately), binding mildly scuffed overall, joints and extremities rubbed, front hinge (inside) tender. Front free endpaper with inked inscription dated [18]51. Pages age-toned. A complete, solid copy of an uncommon item.  (32706)

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers and brown cloth shelfback, wrappers lightly soiled. A few light smudges to pages.  (27651)

•  Wing (rev. ed.) D2475; ESTC R504.   Removed from a nonce volume. Very good condition.  (32249)

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers; tiny amount of rubbing to extremities. A nice copy of this uncommon debut from a major contemporary American poet.  (32661)

Evidence of readership: Present in the text here are one shouldernote and one annotation inked in Cadwallader Colden's hand; a small torn-out scrap of botanically related notes, also in Colden's hand, is laid in.

•  ESTC R030321; Wing (rev. ed.) G1946; Dibner, Heralds of Science, 21; Sparrow, Milestones of Science, 20.   Contemporary speckled sheep framed in blind double fillets, rebacked with similar sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-ruled raised bands; original leather showing expectable traceries of cracks but still sturdy, with edges unobtrusively refurbished. Pp. 17–32 lacking, pagination erratic elsewhere. Pages age-toned and browned at edges, with intermittent mild to moderate spotting; first and last few leaves with slightly ragged edges; front free endpaper with outer margin repaired. Plates here are single-page; some other copies report folding plates, but these three include all 29 figures called for by the text, though one is trimmed with a little loss at bottom. Early inked annotations as above, one very slightly shaved. A high spot of science, with a remarkable association.  (32629)

•  NCBEL, III, 977; NSTC 2C96885.   Later quarter red morocco with red and gold marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and publication information, outer board edges trimmed in morocco; spine slightly darkened. Frontispiece recto with inked gift inscription dated Christmas, 1866; half-title with pencilled “No. 1" annotation. Pages very gently age-toned with scattered incidences of spotting; a few leaves with short tear from lower inner margin, touching text without loss; one lower outer corner torn away. Some illustrations hand-colored as above; a solid and charming copy ofan indubitable high spot.  (32292)

•  ESTC S111817; STC (2nd ed.) 14751; NCBEL, I, 1657.   Green cloth over limp boards, front cover with title and publication information stamped in gilt; spine and extremities lightly rubbed. One page with pencilled annotation in lower margin, partially shaved; two smaller notes elsewhere. Pages lightly age-toned, with occasional small spots of mild staining; title-page and final page gutters reinforced with cloth tape. A very accessible piece of Jonsoniana; a veritable cornucopia of misogynies.  (32709)

•  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)

The story of the publication is this: In 1833 the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions asked Dr. Elijah Coleman Bridgman, the first U.S. Protestant missionary to China, to obtain a set of wood printing blocks containing the Sermon on the Mount and a supply of Chinese paper and to send these to Boston. The purpose was to use the wooden blocks to cast stereoplates in hopes that their long-lasting qualities and relatively low amortized cost would obviate the need to develop a system of producing Chinese in roman characters or an entirely new alphabet to be used on presses printing from moveable type. All reports are that only a small number of copies were printed from the plates; the exercise was, after all, an experiment, and indeed a commitment to moveable type was soon made for printing work going forward.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate only four holding libraries worldwide of this text, at Harvard-Yenching, Cambridge University (in the collection of the British and Foreign Bible Society), the Boston Athenaeum, and the Massachusetts Historical Society; but we know of a copy at the Watkinson Library, Trinity College, Hartford. All other copies reported are microforms, all taken from the copy at the Yenching Library.

Provenance:  Signature of William Jenks on wrapper with date of 1834. Jenks was a Congregational Minister, member of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, and founder of a mission for seamen; he opened the Mariner's Church on Central Wharf, in Boston. Besides his pastorate, he was a scholar and author who taught Oriental Languages and English at Bowdoin College; a member of the American Antiquarian Society, the Massachusetts Historical Society, and the New England Historic Genealogical Society; and a founding member of the American Oriental Society.

•  Spillett, Catalogue of Scriptures in the Languages of China, 36; Darlow & Moule 2481. Not in Shoemaker. On the history of this printing of the Sermon, see: Chinese Recorder, Vols. 10–11, p. 208.   Printed on Chinese paper and bound (sewn) in the Asian style, in yellow wrappers; small piece missing from corner of rear wrapper at spine and another corner chipped and repaired. Housed in a quarter red morocco tray case. A fine copy.  (31850)

This is numbered copy 146 of 200 printed, this copyinscribed on the title-page by the author to Andrew Hedden (a notable collector of press books and livres d'artiste).

•  Publisher's plain paper wrappers in marbled paper dust jacket, front panel with printed paper label. A clean, crisp copy.  (32660)

Binding:  Publisher's deluxe binding of black pebbled morocco elaborately tooled in blind on covers and spine. All edges gilt.

•  Pilling, Algonquian, 507; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 4006; Banks (rev. ed.), Books in Native Languages, p.2. Not in Evans, Masinahikan.   Bound as above, minimal shelfwear only. Occasional light off-setting from illustrations only. An absolutely beautiful book in a remarkably good copy.  (32277)

This isone of 50 copies printed from Arrighi and Bembo types at the Kelly-Winterton Press.

•  Publisher's heavy brown paper wrappers of an interesting texture, front wrapper with title stamped in dark brown. Fresh and clean.  (32682)

Printed on a rather thin paper, this would not have easily survived the heavy use that many copies saw — which, along with the Counter-Reformation, would perhaps explain the Bible's scarcity.

Beza joined John Calvin at Geneva in 1548 and soon became his intimate friend and chief aide. He became professor of Greek at Lausanne, wrote a defense of the conduct of Calvin and the Genevan magistrates in the notorious trial and burning of Servetus in 1554, became professor of Greek at Geneva in 1558, and in 1564 succeeded Calvin in the chair of theology at Geneva. Beza came to be regarded as the chief advocate of all reformed congregations in France. His scholarship relating to the Greek and Latin versions of the New Testament further extended the work of Erasmus and other early 16th-century researchers and was important for later scholars. Significantly, he gave Codex D, or Codex Bezae, one of the most important manuscripts of the Bible, to the University of Cambridge.

Provenance:  Early owner's inscription on title, “Ex libris M. Raymundi Formentin, Parisini, Sorbonii.” Later rubber-stamp of Andover Newton Theological Seminary.

•  Darlow & Moule 4627 (for the 1560 edition; the 1559 not listed); Adams B1694; Reuss, VI, 30; VD16 ZV 1893.   Modern full calf in a handsome antique style. Title-page with fore-edge and an old inkspot-associated hole in blank area repaired, small library stamp and numeral on verso; neat repair of tear to last leaf without loss; final blank (only) lacking. Light water-or dampstaining at fore-edges, mainly notable in margins (only) towards end of volume though actually extending farthest inward on first leaves; eight-page “Index Graecarum Vocum” bound at the end in this copy, with some minor spotting to its top margins; a few instances of truly negligible worming. A very good exemplar of this scarce edition of Beza's New Testament.  (30393)

Binding:  Publisher's blind-embossed black leather, covers each with gilt-stamped wreath and gilt single fillet frame, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations.

•  Binding as above, edges and extremities rubbed; front pastedown with Bordeaux bookseller's small 19th-century ticket. First text page with early inked ownership inscription in upper portion. Pages faintly age-toned, some early corners creased. Worn, but sturdy and still attractive.  (32309)

Provenance: Bookplate of Ventura Gómez Alatorre, late-19th-century citizen and official of Tepatitlán.

•  Contemporary acid-stained sheep with elegant gilt spines, with scuffs, stains, and a decorative design lightly etched into one cover, all this attractive; evidence of blue wrappers at inner margins of each volume, all edges yellow. Some mild old foxing and spotting; first volume's first leaves with crescent of dampstaining across top of gutter margin and second volume with deeper arc of same to first and last leaves; a very good set.  (31180)

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)

The volume was designed by Joseph Blumenthal and printed at the Spiral Press; this is numbered copy 347 of 805 printed (400 copies for the Typophile contributors and subscribers, 55 for the members of the Carteret Book Club, and 350 for general sale).

•  Publisher's deep blue buckram, spine with decorative title stamped in black and gilt; minimal traces of wear to outer corners, slipcase lacking. A fresh, clean, lovely book.  (32213)

•  Bound as above, housed in a grey cloth–covered, felt-lined clamshell case with affixed printed paper illustration reproducing the engraved title-page; vellum very slightly sprung, case showing spots of minor discoloration and shelfwear. Very nice facsimile of this important work.  (32214)

•  Publisher's yellow cloth, front cover and spine stamped in green and gilt, binding dust-soiled and damp-stained with corners rubbed; lower edges of early pages and inner margins of some plate slightly waterstained (plates themselves undamaged, one lightly spotted). While the binding and some other bits of this volume have suffered a bit, the important parts are still gorgeous and, of course, the price has been adjusted to fit the facts.  (31976)

•  WIng (rev. ed.) B3843; ESTC R19524.   Removed from a nonce volume; very good condition, very clean and nice.  (32236)

•  Publisher's paper wrappers, front wrapper stamped in black and blue; spine and edges very slightly sunned. A nice copy.  (32655)

•  American Imprints 6758.   Publisher's quarter cloth with dun-colored paper over boards, paper spine label partially chipped away. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call numbers inked on endpapers, no other markings. Some stains in a few margins; a rather nice copy.  (32305)

This copy isinscribed by the author on the half-title.

•  Publisher's printed brown paper wrappers; edges slightly curled, back wrapper creased. A clean, solid copy.  (32234)

Provenance:  Signatures of John Dunn, of Stirling, on front free endpaper and on front fly-leaf, one dated 1814 and the other dated 1795.

•  Wing (rev. ed.) R2374A; ESTC R217833.   Contemporary plain calf, rebacked. Considerable age-soiling and a fair amount of early underscoring; old seminary pressure-stamps and a bookplate sometime removed exposing evidence of another old signature not John Dunn's; closely trimmed in some parts, sometimes touching a sidenote. A good, solid, interesting and useable copy.  (32306)

•  Not in Sutro.   Removed from a nonce volume; lower third wrinkled. Otherwise clean and crisp.  (32340)

This isnumbered copy 56 of only 80 printed on handmade “parchment vellum” and signed by the translators; there were an additional 310 copies printed on paper.

•  Publisher's quarter vellum with printed paper–covered sides, front cover with printed paper label, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine vellum dust-soiled, paper darkened towards edges, board edges and corners rubbed. Pages very slightly age-toned, otherwise clean, with edges untrimmed.  (32304)

•  Herbert 1402; Hills 53; O'Callaghan 51; Rumball-Petre 175; Wright, Early Bibles of America, 325; Evans 30065; ESTC W004506.   Early 19th-century mottled sheep, covers framed in blind roll, spine with gilt-stamped title label and compartment decorations; binding scuffed and rubbed, gilt now mostly lost, front cover with inkstain, front joint cracked but holding and back one holed, back free endpaper lacking. Spine head chipped with one label partly cut (yes, cut) away, and foot with inked shelving number; other library markings including institutional bookplate, pressure- and rubber-stamps, and a few typical annotations. Pages age-toned to browned with offsetting and foxing ranging from mild to moderate, occasional spotting and smudging, some dog-eared corners;some leaves with margins chipped or short edge tears, a few with tears extending into text (some with loss of a few letters). Two leaves in Jeremiah torn with upper portions lacking, one leaf crudely repaired some time ago, last leaf tattered; two final leaves (last portion of tables section and the subscribers list) lacking, with scraps of the “Table of Kindred & Affinity” laid in. Marked by time and use, still an agreeable and interesting example of a noteworthy edition.  (31848)

George Gregory seeks here to champion his brother's cause of educating women to minister medically to women, especially but not exclusively as midwives in the broadest terms. “Does the fact that a man practises medicine give him any right to invade his neighbor's wife . . . ?”

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only five U.S. institutions reporting ownership.

•  Removed from a nonce volume, with the two plates (which would have been near-pornographic in their time) torn out and present in laid-in facsimile, thus lowering the price considerably. Lightly age-toned, with a little foxing and spotting only.  (32183)

The cataloguer at the Penn State University library describes its uncolored example: “The form is generally dated ca. 1830, but could have been in use as early as 1814. The lower design depicts Jesus with the disciples, while the upper scene shows Jesus' baptism. The form stretches between two pillars, flanked by columns of smoke, all within line border. Distinctive mix of [stipple] engraving and etching, probably on copper plate, by Egelmann.”

The present copy is handsomely hand-colored with the blanks for names, dates, and places accomplished nicely in red ink in a clear hand.

•  Weiser & Heaney, Pennsylvania German Fraktur, 495; Stopp, Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans, IV, pg. 2784.   Excellent repair to a lower area into the image; other repairs to the margins. Bug spotting in lower outer corner.  (31977)

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 issigned 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)

Provenance:  Calligraphic bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books.

•  McKitterick/Rendall/Dreyfus 12.   Quarter vellum with gold paper sides; edges rubbed, wrapper lacking. Top edge gilt on the rough. Minor offsetting to endpapers, otherwise clean.  (32037)

This paper was first read before the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Edinburgh in December, 1847. The work ends with an appendix not found in the Edinburgh editions, offering letters on the use of chloroform written by several members of the medical profession.

•  Heirs of Hippocrates 1765; Osler 1461.   Removed from a nonce volume, without the wrappers; (very) limited spotting to a few leaves including title. Very good.  (32203)

Provenance:  Bookplate on front pastedown of Kenneth Rapoport, a modern American collector of early and scientific books. Trace of 18th-century ex-libris inscription on title-page in ink, now washed away.

•  Adams M694; Ahmanson-Murphy 161; Schweiger, III, p. 594; Dibdin, II, p. 229; Renouard, Alde, 1517:11; Isaac 12874; Palau 150953.   19th-century speckled calf, spine gilt extra with raised bands accented by gilt ruling; author and publisher gilt on light brown leather spine label, board edges gilt, red speckled edges. Joints worn and board extremities lightly rubbed, small scuff on front cover; light stains from binding glue on endpapers; trimmed close at upper margin; temoine in lower outer corner of one leaf; washed? Small spot from chemical reaction on one leaf, otherwise veryclean and crisp. Price in 19th-century ink on front free endpaper and four pages with underlining in same hand as title-page inscription.  (31460)

This is numbered copy 801 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist. The appropriate Club newsletter is laid in.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 500.   Binding as above, in publisher's green paper-covered slipcase. A handsome copy.  (31987)

The text is in Latin, printed in roman and italic, enlivened by handsome woodcut initials of various design and size; the printer's large device of a three-headed Hermes holding a caduceus appears on both the title-page and final verso. Printer Hervagius (Johann Herwagen, 1497– ca. 1558) moved to Basel from Strasbourg in 1528 to marry the widow of Johann Froben and take part in Froben's famous printing firm there; in 1531, he established his own press at the Nadelberg, Froben's house and the former residence of Erasmus. Some of the first products of Herwagen's press were works by Erasmus, who also edited the present text for the first edition by Froben in 1520.

Provenance:  Contemporary ink monogram JCP expanded to “Joh: Chr: Pychey”(?) on title-page.

•  VD16 C-6516; Index Aurel. 149.099; Adams C3160; Vander Haeghen, II, 24; BM STC 234; NCE, IV, 564–66 (Cyprian). On Herwagen, see: Contemporaries of Erasmus.   Recent full black morocco ruled in blind, old style; raised bands accented with blind ruling, title gilt on red morocco spine label and date gilt collector-style at spine base. Title-page dust-soiled and expertly repaired in upper outer corner away from print. Glue stains on title-page verso from former bookplate; occasional very minor foxing, and light dampstaining in bottom margin of some leaves. A few small inkstains from same pen as sparse contemporary marginalia and underlining. A handsome, handsome volume.  (31540)

•  Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 22.   Publisher's blue, cream, and brown marbled paper–covered boards (this being one of three different papers chosen by color to pair with the various shades of text paper used). One tiny bump at spine head, otherwise a fresh, clean copy.  (31361)

•  Sabin 106302n.   Publisher's textured cloth in a brick color, hinges (inside) cracked; ex-library with a bookplate, no stamps. Clipping about this “quaint” dictionary affixed to a blank, with offsetting to endpaper verso opposite; interior clean.  (31960)

Searches of NUC and WorldCat find six copies in U.S. libraries.

•  Not in Sutro.   Removed from a nonce volume. Lacks the final six leaves, which is not immediately apparent; priced accordingly.  (32082)

This is an Aldine imprint, with the Aldus dolphin-and-anchor device on both the title-page and the final page.

Provenance:  Front pastedown with bookplates of John Deakin Heaton, M.D. (one of the founders of the Yorkshire College of Science), and Kenneth Rapoport (a modern American collector of early and scientific books); rear pastedown with armorial bookplate of Dr. Cornelis Hendrik à Roy (1750–1833); title-page with inked ownership inscription dated 1852 (and earlier inscription in upper margin largely shaved).

We locate fewer than 10 copies in U.S. libraries, these not very well distributed.

•  Adams G7; Durling 1740; Renouard, Alde, 1561:3; EDIT16 CNCE 20107.   Later half calf over lighter speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; joints and corners rubbed. Title-page dust-soiled, with small repaired tear and one spot of adhered paper at inner margin; pages with a few scattered spots of staining, overall clean. A good, satisfactory copy.  (31271)

•  ESTC R13764; Wing (rev. ed.) B1574.   Period-style quarter speckled calf with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations. Title-page with a few faint spots in upper margin and small chip to outer margin; pages gently age-toned and slightly cockled, otherwise clean.  (32199)

signed at the colophon

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 489.   Binding as above, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, in original coordinated slipcase; binding crisp and fresh, slipcase all but unworn. A very nice copy.  (31469)

•  Rosenbach, Children's, 603; Shoemaker 5091.   Publisher's plain salmon-colored paper over light paste boards; light gray stains on front cover. Some plates browned as in all copies; glue stains showing through frontispiece. A few leaves mildly foxed and one plate chipped at upper inner corner. A nice book, a charming book.  (31415)

•  ESTC S902; STC (2nd ed.) 16410; Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1638/2.   Later period-style black morocco framed and panelled in double gilt fillets and gilt roll with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-ruled raised bands; boards slightly bowed, gilt showing small spots of rubbing. Lower (closed) page edges institutionally rubber-stamped, title-page and one other perforation-stamped, first almanac page with numerals rubber-stamped in lower portion. Final four leaves lacking (from Psalms). Title-page verso with annotations as above; two pages of almanac with early inked corrections; one text page with early inked pointer in inner margin. Title-page darkened; areas of waterstaining to some outer and inner margins. Pleasing despite minor loss at back and faults noted; a nice Buck and Daniel printing, with engaging evidence of readership.  (31321)

Provenance:  Front fly-leaf with early inked inscription: “Luke Laonu's Book.”

Binding:  Publisher's very rich red morocco, covers and spine ornately gilt-stamped with arabesque and foliate designs. All edges gilt.

•  Sabin 52038.   Binding as above, edges and extremities lightly rubbed, spine and edges darkened, spine with old (once decorative) paper shelving label. Front fly-leaf with inscription as above and with pencilled table of contents. One leaf with tear from outer margin, not extending into text. Varying degrees of mild to moderate spotting, some corners lightly stained. A lavishly printed and bound production from the former American Republican party, still impressive despite wear described above.  (30980)

The title-page, wanting in this copy, has been transcribed by the same(?) early hand in ink on the front fly-leaf recto and verso, and the imprint information is confirmed by the colophon on the last page, which features the woodcut printer's device and the date in roman numerals.

Provenance:  An inscription on the front fly-leaf verso gives three dates, 1682–1739, and the names Fido Springhere and Philippus Coisne(?); there is a second ex-libris inscription with the name Baptista Baelde(?) at top of dedication leaf; and a final inscription, “Fido Springhere 1686" on verso of last leaf, above colophon.

Scarce: This editionnot in NUC Pre-1956, and WorldCat finds just three U.S. copies.

•  McCrank, 871. On Estius, see: NCE, V, 558.   Contemporary calf with an elaborate cartouche gilt at the center of each cover, rebacked to style with gilt-ruled raised bands and green gilt-lettered spine label; extremities repaired and new endpapers. Ex-library: old oval stamp on first page of dedication and accession number on p. 1 of text. Lacks title-leaf; various markings on verso of front endpaper; final two quires lightly creased; small marginal hole from natural paper flaw on three leaves; a few spots and smudges and one small tear, also from natural flaw. With occasionalunderlining and marginalia in Latin, seemingly by the same hand that transcribed the title and inscribed the fly-leaf.  (31112)

Provenance:  Bookplates of Frederick Starr (his, paper) and Estelle Doheny (hers, red leather with gold stamping) on front endpapers.

•  Medina, Mexico, 142; Leon Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli, 2693; Palau 327485; Sabin 94353; Garcia Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 74; Vinaza 334.   Later vellum over boards, somewhat sprung. Acrostic leaf and final leaf of preliminary matter adhered together at top outer corner. Foxing and staining, never severe; light soiling, heavier to last few leaves; five lines of old marginalia to one page. Very good.  (31447)

The work is illustrated witheight wood-engraved vignettes, including on the front and back wrappers. The elegant and charmingcrab on the front wrapper is at first a bit of a puzzle, but then the crab is sometimes seen as a Christian symbol of resurrection because it sheds its shell; or, perhaps, the printer simply found his crab elegant and charming and wanted to use it!

This printing is uncommon; WorldCat locates only two U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Publisher's printed blue-green paper wrappers; light, unobtrusive crease to front wrapper, carrying through to first leaf. A very few light spots, pages otherwise clean. Showing little to no wear overall — unusually so for this genre.  (31451)

The details (and the math) are fascinating: Government document, 19th Congress, 1st Session. Rep. No. 66. Ho. of Reps.

•  Removed from a nonce volume; inner margin a little irregular. Spot at top margin. Ink numeral in upper margin of recto.  (12476)

•  Publisher's green printed paper–covered boards, rebacked with brown library cloth, spine with inked title and shelving label; paper rubbed and stained, front cover with early inked “1830" in upper outer portion. Back hinge (inside) reinforced. Pastedowns and preface institutionally rubber-stamped, second text page with rubber-stamped numeral in lower margin. Title-page lacking; pp. 9/10 (practice technique exercises) excised. Scattered pencilled marks of emphasis. Some corners bumped; one leaf with tear from outer margin, extending into music without loss. Battered but musically complete, and the instructional parts as interesting as the musical ones.  (29618)

Binding:  In asigned contemporary Wittenberg binding of blind-tooled and -embossed alum-tawed pigskin, dated 1601, done by Thomas Reuter the Younger using his father's tools and plaques. Blind rolls surround the front cover's blind-embossed central panel of a twin-spire cathedral bearing the arms of Wittenberg (labelled “I W G F” above and “1601" below) and “TR” and the date 1576 in the plaque. The back cover panel presents an allegorical female figure holding a torch in each hand. Reuter the Elder was active as a bookbinder from 1567 through 1595; the junior Reuter kept his tools and continued the business.

•  Adams H409; Schweiger, I, 140; VD16 H2518.   Contemporary binding as above, spine with later gilt-stamped crimson leather title-label; spine leather darkened with small cracks, corners rounded, light dust-soiling to back cover. Pages gently browned, with early inked annotations and underlining. One leaf with small paper flaw in outer margin, not touching text. A good edition with interesting evidence of readership, in an unusual signed binding. Simply, entirely appealing.  (31329)

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 31549; Felcone, New Jersey Books 1801-1860, 732.   Stitched into plain brown paper wrappers as issued. Foxing and browning as usual.  (31407)

eight in-text wood engravings total, plus an additional portrait

•  Not in Rosenbach.   Publisher's printed blue-green paper wrappers; creased, with spine reinforced some time ago. Page edges slightly ragged, leaves lightly spotted and soiled; a few quite unobtrusive repairs or reinforcements. Not pristine, but an intriguing little bit of militaristic propaganda specifically aimed atYOUNG BOYS.  (31458)

Provenance: Title-page with early inked name “Timothy Tynell” in upper margin and ink smear to inner margin; early inked gift inscription (“J. Sadler given to him by W. Clanton”) between verses on p. 3.

•  ESTC T86344.   19th-century half calf over marbled paper, much worn and abraded with covers detached, last few leaves starting to separate, and leather partially lost over spine; an ex-library, reading copy worthy of rebinding — covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution, title-page and several others rubber-stamped, back free endpaper with pocket. Lacking extensive (25 pp.) subscribers' list (only). Pages with light to moderate spotting and a few short edge tears, not touching text.  (17696)

Chapters include conversations between daughter Mary and her father on the utmost importance of prayer, sacraments, and charity; the “reciprocal duties of masters and servants”; the “necessity of subordination”; and “caution to female domestics against dancing-meetings,” among many, many other topics large and small.

The text is handsomely printed double-column in roman and italic, withtwo finely engraved frontispieces signed by E. Edwards and J. Hall, one at the beginning of each volume: the first of a father and daughter sitting beneath a tree; the second of Hanway seated on a rock, contemplating a book and skull beneath the motto “Never Despair” — the author's own, which he adopted after a particularly grueling merchant voyage for the Russia Company in 1743. Each volume also has its own title-page, the Manual of Devotion, Consisting of Prayers, Psalms, Hymns, and Lessons that appears between the two having its own as well.

•  ESTC T93949; Goldsmiths-Kress 11624. On Hanway, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online.   Contemporary speckled calf, boards framed in a gilt Greek key pattern, gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers; recently rebacked, spine gilt extra preserving original gilt-tooled green morocco label and adding a new red one gilt with author and title. Boards stained and scratched in a few places, corners bumped, chipping leather glued down; marbled endpapers repaired with photocopy segments of the original design. Ex-library: stamps on bottom edge, front endpaper, and rear pastedown (only). Mild to moderate foxing on a handful of leaves in each volume, and one small circular stain affecting eight or so pages in first, while pages mostly clean and bright; short closed tear to bottom margin of one leaf in second volume.Nice.  (31089)

The title-page, printed in red and black, features ahand-colored engraved vignette of the Virgin Mary enthroned above the Earth, flanked by an eagle, a lion, a bull, and an angel, representing the Four Evangelists, and there arefive additional, large, illustrative hand-colored engraved vignettes functioning as headpieces in the text. Printed double-column and divided in the middle of each page by a paragraph of citations, the text is dotted by a variety of woodcut floriated and historiated initials, and factotum Greek capitals.

Provenance:  J. Provost largely written in light blue ink on title-page.

•  Darlow & Moule 4735.   Recent period-style quarter calf over marbled boards, raised bands accented with gilt ruling; gilt center devices in spine compartments, gilt red and green morocco author/title labels, place and date (misprinted 1721) gilt-stamped collector-style at base; red speckled edges. Ex-library: stamp on bottom edge, faded red stamp on half-title and title-page (almost invisible), number lightly inked to first page of preface. Occasional inkstains, with one large spill across an opening affecting four leaves on either side; all can yet be read, but the accident was a sad one. Otherwise minor to moderate foxing throughout and light marginal staining in lower outer corners, starting from back; chip to edge of title-page, tear to one top margin not reaching text, and a small natural hole in one lower outer corner. Marginal notes in pencil on two leaves (one, just a few words), and a longer note in older ink on another. Solid, impressive and usable, and its illustrationsLOVELY.  (30823)

Thislarge folio edition is “ex variis editionibus, & codicibus manu exaratis, Gallicanis, Ialicis, Germanicis & Anglicis collecta, recensita, Latine versa, atque annotationibus illustrata, cum copiosis indicibus, vita auctoris, & multis dissertationibus.”

•  Late 18th- or early 19th-century speckled calf, round spine gilt extra, boards plain; two red leather spine labels on each volume with author/title and volume number, all edges marbled. Leather of four boards slightly abraded with loss of some leather, otherwise a binding in remarkably good (and strong) condition, especially notable for tomes of this size. Ex-library with bookplates but no stamps, the set generally shows offsetting from leather of binding to endpapers and otherwise light foxing and the odd spot only, with light evidence of old, mild exposure to moisture at some margins. A very handsome set in very good condition, valuable both as precisely what it is *and* as representing a whole grand era/category of scholarship and book production.  (30931)

The widely publicized version of the origin of the painting is that during the tremendous floods of 1580, Isayoque, a cacique of Coatlan (near Tlatiollco), found the painting floating on the flood waters and built a chapel in which to venerate it.

That the image survived many vicissitudes is ascribed to the preserving hand of God: waters of the flood, the neglect over time of the chapel, its destruction in the great earthquake of 1776, the failures to rebuild in a timely way, etc.

Reading between the lines, it is clear that Patiño, who preached at the chapel on Sundays, wrote this account with a secondary purpose: to raise money for the completion of the rebuilding of the chapel and the preservation of the image.

Provenance: “Del Refectorio” in a fine hand at top of title-page.

•  Medina, Mexico, 9445.   Early 19th-century quarter sheep with green and black mottled paper sides, boards rubbed and abraded with leather unevenly aged. Internally a very clean, tight copy.  (31425)

One of a series of books separately published over the course of a number of years; limited to 2000 “Litho-Manuscript-fac-simile” copies of which this is copy # 1117. Inscribed by the author on p. viii.

•  Publisher's green cloth, with an attractive design on the front cover. Very light rubbing over joints, and soiling to front cover. Pages clean. Very good.  (5895)

The text of this teeny tome is printedentirely in Greek, except for Latin chapter headings in the table of contents, with one woodcut initial at the beginning and verse numbers in the inner margin of each page. Three variations of the title-page exist: one in all black, and two in combinations of red and black, as here, featuring the printer's woodcut device of a man picking grapes from a vine on a tree and the motto “Non solus.” One word of Greek and the words Testamentum and Ex officina Elzeviriana are printed in red on this title-page, and the place of printing is given as Lugduni Batavorum (not Lugduni alone), i.e., this is title-page variant C in Darlow and Moule's bibliography.

•  Willems 225; Rumball-Petre, Rare Bibles, 251; Darlow & Moule 4669 (title-page is var. C); Dibdin, I, 134–35.   Recent brown calf tooled in the Cambridge style, with marbled endpapers and blue edges; top edge gilt, and brown silk place holder. Ex-library with stamp on title-page verso and final page verso; waterstaining in varying degrees almost throughout, most strikingly (and in odd patterns) in the central section — very little other staining. Occasional early ink underlining and later pencil marginalia. An attractive, satisfactory little Elzevir, and an IMPORTANT production.  (30954)

•  Contemporary terra-cotta textured paper in imitation of pebbled leather, in original matching slipcase; binding rubbed with loss of paper, and cracked and fragile; slipcase faded and rubbed. Plates with a very few tiny spots, overall clean and pleasing. A fine souvenir indeed!  (31416)

This is numbered copy 538 of 2000 printed, signed at the colophon by both Littell and Gross. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 512.   Binding as above in original glassine wrapper and dark brown slipcase; wrapper with spine sunned and lower front corner crumpled, slipcase showing minimal wear to outer extremities only. Volume with two small brown spots visible on the pale leather, otherwise clean and lovely.  (30528)

limited edition of 75, of which this is numbered copy 8

This special copy has a bifolium with an uncolored imprint of title-page vignette opposite an additional piece from September, 1976, laid in, this being signed by both Seastone and Crane.

Provenance:  Though without indicia, from Andrew Hedden’s collection of press books and livres d'artiste.

•  Publisher's quarter cream paper and grey paper–covered boards, fresh and unworn. Pages clean.  (30628)

Binding:  Publisher's apple green paper–covered boards in original matching slipcase with gilt-stamped spine title. All edges gilt.

•  Binding as above: lower front and back edges each with tiny bump, extremities showing very slight rubbing, slipcase with edges rubbed and a few small spots of discoloration. Front free endpaper with pencilled annotations in French. Pages and plates clean. Really in quite remarkable condition.  (30574)

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers. Clean and crisp.  (31231)