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Laugh a Little — Cringe a Little — Carrington Curiosa
Cabanès, Augustin. The secret cabinet of history peeped into by a doctor. Paris: Charles Carrington, 1897. 8vo. x pp., [2[ ff., 3–239, vii, [1 (blank) pp., [4 (ads)] ff.
$100.00
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W.C. Costello's translation of Cabanès' Cabinet secret de l'histoire (première série), the sole edition in English and an interesting, if at times gruesome, complication of medical anecdotes, medical humor, celebrity lore, and titillation.
Cabanès (1862–1928) was a medical doctor, historian, and successful writer of a goodly number of works of fiction and history, with a subspecialty of historical medical mysteries. Carrington was a leading British publisher (“abroad”) of late-Victorian and Edwardian pornography/erotica for “bibliophiles,” much of it flagellatory; there have been significant essays on him and his works, but
Wikipedia provides one irresistible sentence: “Carrington went blind as a result of syphilis and the last few years of his life were spent in poverty as his mistress stole his valuable collection of rare books.”
The chapters in this publication are: A youthful indiscretion of Louis XIV, The fistula of a great king, The maladies of Louis XV, The semi-impotency of Louis XVI, The first pregnancy of Marie-Antoinette, Louis XVI in private life, One of the judges of Marie-Antoinette: the surgeon Souberbielle, What was Marat's disease, Talleyrand and the doctors, The accouchement of the empress Marie-Louise, The ancestors of Marshal Mac-Mahon, and Gambetta's eye.
Nicely printed, with title-page in black and red and text block issued untrimmed, this is a copy of the trade edition: There was a deluxe issue on Japan vellum limited to 30 copies.
Provenance: “Virginia Pritchard Hilton-Green, my father's book.”
Publisher's blue cloth stamped in blind. Minor rubbing; small tear at base of front joint (outside). Inside clean. (35372)

Cadalso for American Students
Cadalso, José. Cártas marruécas y poesías seléctas. Boston: Imprenta de Munroe y Francis, 1827. 12mo (18 cm, 7.25"). 288 pp.
$425.00
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First American printing of any of Cadálso's works. This edition was “[p]reparado, revisado y corregido, por F. Sales” and specifically aimed at U.S. students: “con notas y acentos de prosodia, al uso de los estudiantes en las academias, colegios y universidades de los Estado Unidos de la America Setentrional.”
Sales was an instructor of French and Spanish at Harvard, and his edition has accents on the emphasized syllable of each word even if such accents are usually absent.
Provenance: 20th-century signature in ink on front free endpaper of Francis E. Condict Ballard; earlier pencilled inscription of H.W. Rivers on front fly-leaf.
Shoemaker 28356. Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title-label; covers and front (blank) pages expertly reattached and leather at head and foot of spine renewed. Inscriptions as above; back endpapers with pencilled missive in Spanish. Mild foxing and noticeable old water- and dampstaining, almost all marginal.
A good, solid, usable copy. (8506)

A Solid Supporter of the Pope
Cajetan, Tommaso de Vio, Cardinal. Oratio in secunda seseione [sic for “sessione”] concilii Lateranensis. [colophon: Romae: impressa apud Sanctum Eustachium per Ioannem Beplinum Alemanum de Argentina, 1512]. 4to (20.5 cm, 8.25"). [14] ff.
$500.00
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Sole edition of the cardinal's oration delivered at the second session of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512–17). Cardinal Cajetan (1469–1534) was an eminent theologian, diplomat, and thinker. “At the Fifth Lateran Council . . . he defended papal supremacy, urged ecclesiastical reform, and participated in discussions on Averroism and the Immaculate Conception” (New Catholic Encyclopedia, II, 1053). In the future the pope would send him to Germany in hopes of creating interest in a crusade against the Turks and while there to
represent the See in discussions with Luther at Augsburg in 1518.
The date of publication is surmised from the text on leaf A3r: “Oratio Reveren. Patris Fratris Thome Deuio Gaitani, sacrae theo. prof. ac totius ordinis Predi. Generalis Magri, habita Romae in secunda sessione Cõcilii Laterañ. xvii Kal. Iun. M.D.xii.” Beplin printed the work in a nice roman and used a handsome woodcut architectural border on the title-page.
N.B., Italian sources give the author's name as “De Vio, Tommaso.”
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only two U.S. libraries (Newberry, Penn State) reporting ownership.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Adams C165; Isaac 12067; EDIT16 CNCE 16928. Modern quarter red morocco with marbled paper sides over boards. Very good. (40523)

CALVIN on the
Book of Daniel
Calvin, Jean. Praelectiones Ioannis Calvini in librum prophetiarum Danielis, Ioannis Budaei & Caroli Ionvillaei labore & industria exceptae. Additus est è regione versionis Latinae Hebraicus & Chaldaicus textus. [Lugduni]: Apud Bartholomaeum Vincentium, 1571. Folio (31.4 cm, 12.35"). [8], 171, [10] ff. (lacking one internal blank).
[SOLD]
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Early edition of Calvin's lectures on Daniel, edited by Charles de Jonvilliers and Jean Budé and first published in 1561. Leaders like Luther, Calvin, and Melanchthon played a role essential to the Reformation in both legend and reality in interpreting the Bible for its readers; yet while (like the others) he championed the reading of the Scriptures in the vernacular, Calvin chose to present his notes on and explanations of various books of the Bible in the language of scholars — Latin. In other words, effectively, he still expected the mass of believers to
rely on the intermediation of the clergy to assist them; but his works were
placed on the Index nonetheless, including this book, one of his many exegeses of the Old Testament.
The Latin text here is printed in roman and italic with intermittent Hebrew, with decorative woodcut initials throughout. The title-page features the
large printer's device of Bartholomew Vincent. Curiously, most library records for this edition give Geneva as the place of printing, which is wrong. No place is given in the book itself; Vincentius, however, never printed anywhere except in Lyons. Thus, this is the first printing of the Latin text outside of Geneva, for the 1561, 1562, and 1569 edition all appeared there (the 1570 edition was an English-language translation from a London press).
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of lawyer and historian Guido Kisch (1889–1985, son of Rabbi Alexander Kisch and brother of medical historian Dr. Bruno Kisch), with inked inscription beneath: “Letztes Geburtstagsgeschenk des M. Bruno, '75.”
Adams C302; Index Aurel. 130.118. Contemporary vellum, spine with early hand-inked title replacing now-absent title-label; worn, especially at extremities, and cocked with vellum split over front joint (sewing holding) and front cover with insect holes. Endpapers slightly ragged; one internal blank leaf lacking. Some corners bumped; pages age-toned with occasional spotting and staining.
A used but very usable copy, with interesting provenance. (37849)

A Renaissance Theories Book — With Reference to America
Castilla, Francisco de. Theorica de virtudes en coplas, y con co[n]mento. [colophon: Caragoça [Saragossa, Zaragoza]: Impresso ... por Agostin Millan impressor de libros, 1552]. 4to (20 cm, 8"). 2 parts in 1 vol. lxx, xxxiiii, [4] ff.
$9750.00
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Gathered here in its third edition, but
only the second to survive in known copies, are seven of Castilla's wide-ranging tracts covering topics that include theory of poetry, theory of empire and government, the nature of humanity, virtue, happiness, original sin, and friendship.
The work is printed in Gothic type. The title-page is executed in black and red, has a five-element woodcut border, and contains the arms of Charles V and a small woodcut shield with the Castilla family coat of arms. The verso of the title-page bears a four-element woodcut border (the elements totally distinct from those of the recto), surrounding the list of the tracts in the volume with the Castilla coat of arms repeated.
In addition to the black and red typography of the title-page, leaves ii verso (A2), vii (A7) and viii verso (A8) are also in red and black. The text is printed in double-column format within ruled borders, contains occasional, rather interesting, woodcut initials, and is supplemented with side- and shouldernotes. The “Pratica de las virtudes de los buenos reyes Despaña en coplas de arte mayor” has a sectional title-page that in its woodcut elements duplicates the main title-page, and has its own foliation and signature sequence. The work ends with two “tablas,” and the errata on the verso of the last leaf.
Of special note is a stanza on leaf 33 of the second part that refers to America: “Ganaron las islas que son de Canaría, Ganaron las Indías del mar occeano . . .”
Binding: 19th-century quarter brown sheep in ecclesiastical style with marbled paper sides; spine blind-embossed with elements of a church (rose window, arches, leaded glass window, etc.) and with gilt ruling and tooling. All edges marbled.
Binding by B. Miyar (with his ticket).
Provenance: 16th-century signature of Juan de la Torre in lower margin of main title-page.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and the Iberian Book Project locate only three copies of the 1519 edition in U.S. (Hispanic Society, Newberry, Huntington), no copies anywhere in the world of the 1546 (i.e., apparently a ghost), and only six U.S. copies of this 1552 (Hispanic Society, NYPL, Bancroft, Lilly, BPL, and UPenn).
On Castilla, see: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica, fiche 195, frames 158–59. Brunet, I, 1632; Graesse, II, 66 & VII, 161, note; Palau 47981; Salvá, 522; Heredia, II, 1887; Wilkinson, Iberian Books, 2921; Iberian Book Project IB 2921; Sánchez, Bibliografia aragonesa, II, 332. Not in Alden & Landis; not in Harrisse. Binding as above; spine ends rubbed. Text lightly to moderately age-browned, with scattered foxing; small chipping to fore-edges of some leaves, small piece torn from blank outer margin of title to second part, last leaf with a closed tear, repaired.
Overall a very nice copy of a scarce Spanish work of the Golden Age. (38121)

Scarce Early Americanum — Harrisse's Copy, in His Personalized Gruel Binding
Catanaeus, Johannes Maria [a.k.a. Giovanni Maria Cattaneo]. Io: Mariae Catanaei Genua. [colophon: Romae: Impressum apud Iacobum Mazochium, 1514]. 4to (20.6 cm, 8.15"). [11] ff. (lacking final blank only).
$3750.00
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A neo-Latin poem in praise of the city of Genoa, including “some verses concerning Columbus and his voyages” (Harrisse). The author, a clergyman, is identified by various sources as Catanaeus, Cattaneo, Cataneo, etc. The neo-Latin poem is printed in roman and has two woodcut initials; the title-page sports a very handsome architectural woodcut border.
Binding: Signed custom binding done by the legendary Léon Gruel, stamped “Gruel” on front free endpaper: Dark brown morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt-stamped title, covers with small central gilt-stamped monogram of intertwined Hs (see provenance below), turn-ins with gilt border composed of several rolls. Marbled pastedowns and double marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplates of Robert Walsingham Martin and Samuel Latham Mitchill Barlow, fleur-de-lis bookplate of “E.O.,” and
leather ex libris of author, lawyer, historian, and book collector Henry Harrisse (two letters H intertwined, labelled “Nov. Eborac” [New York]). Back pastedown with institutional bookplates of Harvard (properly deaccessioned and appropriately stamped); front free endpaper with 19th-century inked annotation opening “B.A.V. No. 75...” Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and the bibliographies cited below find only seven U.S. libraries (MH, OCU, NN, ICN, RPJCB, CtY, DLC) reporting ownership.
Alden & Landis 514/3; Adams C1016; Brunet, Supplement, I, 225; Harrisse, BAV, 75; Sabin 11494; Index Aurel. 133.919; Edit16 CNCE 10294. Binding as above; bookplates as above; final blank leaf (only) lacking. Title-page with one small spot of foxing, pages otherwise clean, and this clearly a copy that has been “washed and pressed.” (39557)

Portuguese Embroidered Binding — A Lisbon Luxury Diario, 1816
Catholic Church. Diario ecclesiastico para o Reino de Portugal, principalmente para a cidade de Lisboa, para o anno de 1816. Lisboa: Na Impressam Regia, [1815]. 16mo (10.2 cm, 4"). 176, [2 (blank)] pp.; 1 col. fold. map.
$2650.00
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A jewel of an almanac: the 1816 edition of a pocket-sized gathering of ecclesiastical and civil information, in a treasurable
goldwork embroidered binding. The volume opens with a
hand-colored, folding map of Portugal; it includes, along with the calendar of feast days, a directory of European royalty and a table of sunrise and sunset times.
Binding: Contemporary dove-colored silk, front cover with spangles and goldwork embroidery (couched and broad plate) surrounding the embroidered coat of arms of the Kingdom of Portugal, back cover with similar goldwork surrounding
a needle-worked pastoral scene of a shepherd with two of his flock, with a tree and flying birds in the background, spine with stylized leaf design in gold and silver stitching; all edges gilt and gauffered, original red-dotted silk bookmark present and attached. The volume is housed in the
original and elegantly gilt-tooled dark red morocco–covered case, this fitted with a green and red patterned paper–lined interior.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with attractive early inked inscription of J.A. Calderhead, calligraphed with flourishes on a blue-colored banner.
Binding as above, silk and some metalwork just slightly darkened with embroidery still virtually perfect; case with lightest shelfwear and unobtrusive small cracks to leather, moderate rubbing to interior paper. Small closed split to one fold of map, and a few lower corners bumped; a handful of outer edges trimmed closely, in some cases just touching outermost letters with no loss of text.
Truly lovely. (38157)

Pocket-Size Greek Marian Liturgy — RED/Black & ELEGANT
Catholic Church. Liturgy & ritual. Little office of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Greek. [three lines in Greek transliterated as ] Akolouthia tes makarias Parthenou Marias. Patavii: Ex Typographia Seminarii, 1713. 12mo (11.6 cm, 4.75’’). [24], 258, [6] pp. (last three blank).
$450.00
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This exquisite Greek pocket prayer book for Marian liturgy is here in its scarce third edition; the 1687 and 1698 editions are just as scarce. The work, entirely in Greek, begins with the attributes and symbolism of the Virgin and continues with sections on her life, accompanied by scriptural readings for specific times of the liturgical year.
Established in 1684 by Cardinal Gregorio Barbarigo, the Tipografia del Seminario in Padua quickly became a most important press in the Venetian territories. It specialized in the production of works in Greek, Hebrew, and Arabic for the use of missionaries, thanks in part to the donation of typefaces and matrixes from the Typography of the Propaganda Fide. The title-page of this one characteristically presents its text in red and black above and below a small woodcut Greek Orthodox vignette of the Mary holding Jesus,with section titles and initials printed in red and with a full-page woodcut of the Virgin and Child on a12.
Such so-called “red and black” devotional and liturgical books as this present one were popular and remunerative.
Provenance: Inscription “Ex Lib (?) Ma[ri]ae Nicolai Stanislav Meucci Ex dono Δ.Μ.Κ. 1737 26 [Dice]mbre 1738 12 Nov. 1792 26 [Dice]mbre 1739" (probably a monk in an unidentified Orthodox monastery of Sts Mary and Nicholas); 19th-century stamp Pallavicini to front pastedown. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
WorldCat locates four copies, only two in the US (Princeton, Dayton).
Contemporary limp vellum, title inked to spine; spine a little creased with two small wormholes at tail. Text is age-toned and clean, with tiny chips (really “nicks”) to a fore-edge or two only.
Treasurable. (41302)

Beautifully Bound Bilingual Edition of Catullus, Tibullus, & Propertius
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. Catullo Tibullo e Properzio d'espurgata lezione tradotti dall'ab. Raffaele Pastore. Bassano: Tip. Giuseppe Remondini e Figli ed., 1823. 12mo (17 cm; 6.75"). 2 vols. in 1. I: [15], 4–297, [3] pp.; II: 317, [3] pp.
$275.00
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Bilingual edition of the works of the famous trio of Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius, translated by poet Raffaele Pastore into Italian, here in the fifth edition. For easy comparison, the Latin original is in italic type on the left and the Italian translation is in roman on the right, with marginal notes added. The title-page notes this edition has been “ritoccata dal traduttore, accresciuta insieme e modificata in parte, e divisa in due volumi.”
Binding: Black morocco, spine lettered and tooled in gilt using six different rolls and a single and a triple rule; two compartments stamped in blind. Covers single-ruled in gilt around a frame of blind-stamped flowers with a blind-embossed “chipped” diamond design at center that incorporates two different texturings and a central circle-and-swirls motif; board edges and turn-ins gilt in zig-zag patterns. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled in an identical design. Green ribbon place marker still attached.
Provenance: Presentation label noting “To Angelo C. Hayter, from his affectionate father, Sir George Hayter. 1864" on front pastedown; title-pages with barely legible rubber-stamp from St. Michele's in Bologna. George Hayter (1792–1871) was a noted English painter who served as Queen Victoria's Principal Painter in Ordinary. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Bound as above, gently rubbed, tailband partially detached; provenance evidence as above, four examples of a chipped margin, trimmed corner, or tremoin. Light to moderate age-toning with a handful of spots.
A clean and handsome copy. (37740)

THREE Classics with Commentary, in a
PRIZE BINDING
Catullus, Gaius Valerius; Tibullus; & Propertius. Catullus, Tibullus et Propertius, ex recensione Joannis Georgii Graevii, cum notis integris Jos. Scaligeri, M. Ant. Mureti, Achill. Statii, Roberti Titii, Hieronymi Avantii, Jani Dousae patris & filii, Theodori Marcilii, nec non selectis aliorum. Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: Rudolphi a Zyll, G.F., 1680. Thick 8vo (19.6 cm, 7.75"). 2 pts. in 1. [12] ff., 638, [2] pp.; 662 pp. (i.e., 672), [32] ff.
$950.00
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The works of Catullus, Tibullus, and Propertius were first published together in 1472. The first part here contains a section for each of these Roman poets, each with copious notes by Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540–1609); the second part is divided into
14 chapters of commentary by Muretus, Statius, and others as per the title-page. The volume's text is in Latin with some Greek, printed in roman, italic, and capital letters, with the main text single-column above Scaliger's notes, printed smaller and in double columns; the separate commentaries, paginated continuously but quite erratically, are also in double-column. Dotted throughout are attractive woodcut initials of floral, historiated, and factotum designs; ornaments and head- and tailpieces; a small woodcut diagram; and a few inscriptions printed in capitals, including one set lengthwise on a full page. The title-page features the printer's large device and is preceded by an
added engraved title-page.
Binding: Contemporary vellum
prize binding paneled in gilt on each cover with fleurons at corners, this surrounding the
coat of arms of Rotterdam, i.e., two gilt lions supporting a shield of four lions passant above a pale charge, crowned by a ducal coronet with a fleur-de-lis at the helm. Spine blind-ruled with a single floral ornament blind-stamped in each compartment, title written in early ink (now faded).
Provenance: Two different bookplates of Lebanese lawyer, writer, and translator Camille Aboussouan (b. 1919), former UNESCO ambassador to Lebanon who founded the cultural review Les Cahiers de l'Est. Pressure-stamp of Jean-François Jolibois (1794–1879), a priest at Trévoux, France, who was a member of the légion d'honneur and various literary societies. Ink inscription in French dated 25 February 1863 at Lyon, shelf number in same hand on front pastedown, and price in ink on front free endpaper.
Schweiger, II, 81; Dibdin, I, 377; Graesse, II, 87 (“fort rare”). Binding as above, with four green ribbon ties; prize assignment lacking and engraved title-page reattached; lightly soiled, gilt rubbed in places, some staining to edges of text block. Mild to moderate foxing, occasionally; a few inkstains or smudges and small dampstains; two small holes from natural paper flaws not affecting text and one sectional title-page with same taking “A” from CATULLUS; two short marginal tears. Overall, indeed, clean and crisp and pleasing. (31362)

A Thoughtfully Cautious Gift
Cavendish, George; Samuel Weller Singer, ed. The life of Cardinal Wolsey ... Metrical visions, from the original autograph manuscript. Chiswick: C. Whittingham, 1825. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.125"). 2 vols. I: [5], x–xxvii, [5], 344 pp. (lacking half-title); 6 plts. II: lxxii, 304 pp.; 3 plts.
$125.00
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Chiswick Press edition of what some consider to be the first major English biography along with Cavendish's verse tragedies, here with supplementary material including illustrative letters and documents; a dissertation on the true author of the Life by Reverend Joseph Hunter; and “Extracts from the life of . . . Queen Anne Boleigne, by George Wyatt” with a series of letters about her. Elizabethan scholar Singer (1783–1858), who edited these texts, also owned a bookshop, wrote a history of playing cards, and served as the librarian to the Royal Institution in Albemarle Street. The volume is illustrated with
nine plates of portraits, facsimiles, and scenes from the cardinal's life.
Evidence of Readership: A past reader has added several lengthy marginal notes as well as a few smaller ones in pencil in both volumes, usually in relation to
women mentioned in the text.
Provenance: An armorial bookplate of Samuel Edward Herrick with the motto “virtus omnia nobilitat” appears on the front pastedown of both volumes with the inked note “Gift of Jno. M. Fiske Xmas 1892" at the bottom (Fiske and the Rev. Herrick were both members of the City Missionary Society of Boston); a one-page letter from Fiske to a Mr. Doer written on Boston Custom House Stationary and tipped into the first volume notes, if he already owns the set, “I have the assurance of friend Bartlett of Hornhill that he will exchange it for something not already on your shelves.” Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC 2C12319. On Cavendish & Singer, see: DNB (online). Half red roan in imitation of morocco and Papier Tourniquet paper–covered boards, spines lettered and compartments stamped in gilt, overprinted marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, others uncut; gently rubbed, hinges (inside) starting to crack. Light age-toning with the very occasional stain, light foxing or offsetting around plates. Provenance and readership indicia as above, some pencilled notes very faint. A nice edition of an influential work. (39444)

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

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

With BOTH the Author's & the Subject's
Signatures
Cecil, Richard. Memoirs of John Bacon, esq. R.A. with reflections drawn from a review of his moral and religious character. London: Pr. for F. & C. Rivington by R. Noble, 1801. 8vo (17.5 cm, 6.9"). Frontis., iv, 118, [2 (1 adv.)] pp.
$1800.00
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Uncommon first edition of this life of the prominent sculptor, remembered for his memorial busts and statues in Westminster Abbey, St. Paul's Cathedral, and elsewhere. The author was an eminent Church of England clergyman and one of the founders of the Eclectic Society. Joseph Collyer steel-engraved the frontispiece portrait, which shows Bacon at work on a classical head, after John Russell.
WorldCat locates only seven U.S. institutional holdings.
Provenance: This copy is inscribed by the author on a front fly-leaf: “Mrs. Bacon wth the author's affect. respects.” In addition, a
three-page autograph letter signed by Bacon is tipped in; the letter pertains to Bacon family heraldic and heritage matters and includes mention of a deposition. The front pastedown bears the pictorial bookplate and small ticket of Robert Heysham Sayre of Bethlehem, PA.
NSTC C1166. 19th-century half brown morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and blind-tooled trefoil decorations in compartments; joints refurbished, spine bands and extremities slightly worn. Pages age-toned; six leaves browned from an old stain and a few more with small marginal areas browned; frontispiece and title-page with spots of foxing. Manuscript letter with outer edges creased, some creases partially slit, one small strip detached along an edge fold and laid in. An attractive copy of an interesting text with excellent and interesting additional material. (33598)

Bodoni Press: Genesis in Italian Verse
Cerati, Gregorio [Gaetano Gerardo]. La genesi: Versione di Monsignor D. Gregorio Cerati, già vescovo di Piacenza. Parma: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1807. 8vo (15.5 cm, 6.1"). [2], lix, [3], 260, [4] pp.
$275.00
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First edition: Poetic retelling of key Old Testament events from the creation of the world through the deaths of Jacob and Joseph, by an author (1730–1807) who served as bishop of Piacenza from 1783 until his death. This Bodoni printing sets Cerati's terza rima in the press's typically restrained, minimalist style; the preface is dedicated “al chiarissimo Giambatista Bodoni” by Antonio Cerati.
Binding: Contemporary green morocco, spine with gilt-stamped floral motifs, covers bordered with gilt roll. Attractive marbled endpapers; original silk bookmarker present and attached.
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Benedetto Grandi, a collector of books and antiquities, and with small early label marked “Attilio”; front free endpaper with bookplate of Dom Henri Quentin (1872–1935), philologist and editor of the Vulgate Old Testament.
Brooks 1018; Giani 180 (p. 72; apparent error in collation). Bound as above, lightly rubbed overall and spine sunned to olive. Scattered minor foxing; small signs of worming buried in gutters and other spots in inner margins with repairs done some time ago, with occasional minor adhering between pages at repair locations.
Solid and very readable; a pleasing copy. (40193)

Eminent Rhetorician Bodoni Printing
Cerretti, Luigi. Poesie. Parma: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1801. 8vo (16.1 cm, 6.33"). [2], 49, [1] pp.
$350.00
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Uncommon Bodoni edition: Verses from a Modena poet (1738–1808) who began his studies with the Jesuits before going on to a respected career as a professor — but one with a tumultuous personal and political life. “The purity and elegance of his diction made [Cerretti] at an early age, the most distinguished professor of rhetoric and oratory in Italy. His ‘Poems and Select Prose,’ collected into a posthumous volume, were instantly successful, and have retained their rank ever since” (Charles Dudley Warner). This is
the first and only appearance of any of Cerretti's work from the prestigious Bodoni press (with the title-page here giving the author's name as Ceretti).A search of WorldCat finds only five U.S. institutions reporting holdings (Harvard, Southern Methodist, University of Oregon, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin).
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplates of Robert Wayne Stilwell and Brian Douglas Stilwell.
Brooks 804; De Lama, II, 142; Giani 134 (p. 65). Contemporary limp marbled boards, spine with original printed paper label upside down at foot of spine; lightly rubbed overall, spine slightly darkened. Endpapers with pencilled bibliographic annotations, front pastedown with early inked numeral and tiny inscription. Page edges untrimmed, a few with chips and some with lightest dust-soiling; a very attractive little item. (40183)

Tilting at Windmills, Protecting Dulcinea, & Flying to the MOON
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de. Primera parte del ingenioso hidalgo don Qvixote de la Mancha. En Brucelas: Por Huberto Antonio, 1617. 8vo ( 16.8 cm; 6.625"). [8] ff., 583, [1] p., [3] ff. (one leaf in facsimile).
$18,000.00
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That momentous international success, Don Quixote, part I, appearing in Brussels within the first dozen years of its life — this for the third time, following Brussels printings of 1607 and 1611. Part II was not issued in Brussels until 1616 and and then as a stand-alone volume. Overall this is the only 11th separate printing of part I.
Scarce: We trace but seven copies in U.S. libraries (Harvard, University of California–Berkeley, Dartmouth, Huntington, University of Kansas, Hispanic Society, Texas A&M).
Provenance: Late 17th-century ownership inscription at top of title-page of “T. Engle”; 18th-century ownership inscription below that of “E. Ward”; on endpaper, “December, 1787,” with lines in French in an 18th-century hand.
Contemporary purchase information: On recto of rear free endpaper, in an early 17th-century Spanish hand, “# 1618 # [new line] En 24 de marco [i.e., março] Costo en Brusellas 20 placas.”
Rius 11; Peeters-Fontainas 227; Suñé Benages 15; Palau 51988. Contemporary limp vellum, soiled and beginning to separate, ties perished; Don Quixote inked on spine, faded. Lacking one leaf of text only, supplied in very good facsimile (pp. 575–76).
First and last gatherings guarded with strips of Renaissance vellum manuscript. (23423)

“The Grounds of the Old Religion”
Challoner, Richard. The grounds of the old religion: or, some general arguments in favour of the Catholic, Apostolic, Roman, communion...by a convert. Philadelphia: Augustine Fagan, 1814. 8vo. 204 pp.
$325.00
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First American edition: The true first was printed in London, 1742, under the pseudonym “Augusta.” The author was indeed a convert (from Presbyterianism), and an important one: As vicar apostolic of the London district, he provided a most determined voice for English Catholics during the 18th century. Anti-Catholic laws forced his efforts to remain covert, but he endured to found the “Benevolent Society for the Relief of the Aged and Infirm Poor” and three schools; a preacher and minister especially to the poor, he converted many in the London slums.
Throughout his life Challoner “labored to save Catholicism in England from extinction; his writings and preachings served to strengthen the faith of the Catholic minority . . .” (New Catholic Encyclopedia, 438). His readable, revised edition of the Douay–Rheims Bible (1749–52) served as the English Catholic standard until quite recently.
Provenance: Released as a duplicate from the greatest collection of American Catholica in the world, the Georgetown University Library, with a few of the requisite and expected stamps.
Parsons 461; Shaw & Shoemaker 31112. On Challoner, see: New Catholic Encyclopedia, III, 437–438. Contemporary treed sheep, spine with chipped, gilt-stamped red leather title-label; binding abraded, covers a bit sprung, spine with paper shelving label and some cracking of leather. Title-page and one other stamped as described above; pages age-toned. A “decent” copy. (30248)

The Development of a
Hacienda in the YUCATAN — 1626–1866
(Chalmuch Hacienda, Yucatan, Mexico). Manuscript cahiers on paper of land transfers and inventories, in
MAYA and Spanish. Chalmuch, Merida, elsewhere in Yucatan: 1626–1866. Folio (31 cm, 12.5"). 132 ff. (14 blank).
$5500.00
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Law suits between Yucatan hacienda owners (one a woman), and hacienda owners and Indians; estate inventories and land transfers (three in Maya); materials showing usefully characteristic environmental effects — from the early 17th century and continuing through the middle of the 19th, these documents chronicle the development of the Chalmuch hacienda, situated approximately 12 kilometers west of the center of Merida.
In the Yucatan — for geographic, geologic. ecologic, and economic reasons, particularly the quality of the soil and the lack of water for irrigation — haciendas had a later appearance than in other parts of Mexico, especially in the center and north, where their development began in the decade after the fall of the Aztec Empire. It was not until the 17th century that haciendas began to be established in the Yucatan Peninsula.
The earliest document in these five sewn-files is dated 18 May 1626 and concerns the settlement of a law suit between Bernardo de Sosa Velazquez and the Indians of the towns of Santiago, Cauqall, and Vac regarding unused lands and hills. The suit was settled in favor of Sosa with the provisos that he occupy the lands, build on and populate them, and bring in cattle within one year. The addition of new land to this original sitio is the substance of the remaining documents. Among them are two estate inventories and three documents of the first third of the 18th century in Maya (land transfers).
In the 1850s and ‘60s there was a land dispute between Doña Pastora Castillo, owner of the Oxcun hacienda, and Bernardo Cano, owner of the Chalmuch hacienda (represented by Sr. José Vicente Solís, his agent), concerning the need for a survey of boundaries. The dispute dragged on and in 1866, during the attempted reforms of Maximilian's Empire, these documents were presented before the state's Land Inspection Section and were certified by the Chief of Inspection with his stamp. The Land Inspection Section was responsible for the preparation and revision of plans, the comparison of land documents, and the measurement of land held by each hacienda, as well as certification of location, boundaries, and owners.
Provenance: From the private archive of the Chalmuch hacienda.
Documents such as these showing the growth and development of haciendas in the central part of Mexico are fairly common but extremely uncommon for the Yucatan. Similarly colonial-era documents in Nahuatl are fairly commonly available in the marketplace but comparable ones in Maya are rare.
This is the first gathering of land documents for the Yucatan and the first manuscripts in Maya that PRB&M has had in its decades of dealing in Mexican colonial-era manuscripts see images below for the latter.
Manuscripts from the Yucatan are notorious for having suffered environmental and ecological damage: damp and insect problems. These are no exception, but as such they are excellent for teaching purposes as well as traditional research. One cahier has extensive worm/insect damage, another has faded ink from exposure to long-term humidity, and others are just fine. Here is the opportunity to show (and for students to practice) how to use light sources of various wave-lengths for making faded writing jump off the page and how to carefully interleave a document with thin Mylar sheets to save leaves from further damage during reading and page-turning.
(We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the state archive of the Yucatan in explaining the significance of the stamps of the Land Inspection Section that appear in some of the documents. It is good to be assured that they are indication of private, not government, ownership.)
Each cahier is housed in a Mylar sleeve and the five are contained in a blue cloth clamshell box. Condition is extremely variable: as above, one cahier has extensive worm/insect damage, another has faded ink, and others are just fine. Stamps are present as mentioned above.
A rare surviving compilation and one that is instructive from multiple perspectives. (40308)

The History of Japan, for French Students — Prize Copy
Charlevoix, Pierre Francois-Xavier de. Histoire et description du Japon. Tours: A. de Mame & Cie., 1839. 12mo (18.2 cm, 7.16"). Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., [4], 308 pp.; 2 plts.
$750.00
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First edition under the banner of the “Bibliothèque de la jeunesse chrétienne” series, published with the approval of the Archbishop of Tours. Written by a Jesuit professor and explorer, this treatise on Japan began as a history of Christianity in that country, and was first published as such in 1715 before being revised and significantly expanded for a new edition in 1736. The present, still-further revised account of the country, its history, and its people is illustrated with an engraved frontispiece by Rubierre (“Entrée solennelle des Ambassadeurs Japonnais à Rome”), a title-page vignette depicting the author preaching to Japanese listeners, and two other religiously themed plates (a prince destroying an idol, and Japanese Christians being martyred on crosses).
A search of WorldCat shows
no U.S. institutional holdings of this 1839 first edition.
Provenance: Prize copy bearing on its front pastedown a presentation bookplate from the “Pension des Dames de l'Adoration Perpétuelle, Place du Champ-de-Mars,” marking the volume's award to Mlle. Aldonza Boitard in 1839. Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Cordier, Bibliotheca Japonica, 425; DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 1075–76. Contemporary diced green roan, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; leather rubbed and darkened with back cover also spotted, lower front board edge and text block fore-edge dented. Presentation bookplate as above. Lower margin of added engraved title-page chipped, not affecting image or text; pagination repeats in one section with text being nonetheless complete and properly ordered. Intermittent foxing, soiling, some corners creased. Worn and used; still a solid and worthwhile example of a scarce item. (41039)

Advice from a Man with More than a Few Afflictions
Cheyne, George. An essay of health and long life. London: Printed for George Strahan ... and J. Leake, 1724. 8vo (20 cm, 7.75"). xx, 232 pp.
$600.00
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Cheyne (1673–1743), a native of Methlick, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and a disciple of Dr. Archibald Pitcairn, was professor of medicine at Edinburgh and a follower of Pitcairn's iatromathematical school of medical science. Cheyne's several medical works “were popular largely because Cheyne possessed a superior literary style. . . . [They] appear to have been prepared primarily for the lay reader. Much of the commonplace advice he gives in these works was based upon his own
hypochondria, gouty arthritis, and continual struggle with obesity. . . . In this book, he sets forth his philosophy and rules for those who desire to live a long and healthy life” (Heirs of Hippocrates).
The chapters are: Of art, Of meat and drink, Of sleeping and watching, Of exercise and quiet, Of our evacuations and their obstructions, Of the passions, and Miscellany observations [sic].
Provenance: With the large black and white bookplate of Detroit-based collector Dr. O.O. Fisher. Most recently in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
Blake p. 86; Heirs of Hippocrates 481; Osler 2303 (2nd edition); Cushing C211; ESTC T58019. Contemporary plain brown calf, new spine labels; front joint (outside) partially open, rear one abraded, rear free endpaper lacking. Only a minimal amount of spotting in the text.
Live long and prosper, if you follow his advice. (39820)

Anglican Liturgy, in Greek
Church of England. Book of Common Prayer. Greek. 1665. [in Greek, transliterated:] Biblos tes demosias euches kai teleseos mysterion kai ton allon thesmon kai teleton tes ekklesias, kata to eth[os] tes Agglikanes Ekklesias. Pros [de] t[ou]tois typos k[ai] tropos tes katagaseos, cheirotonias, kai kathieroseos episkopon, presbyteron, k[ai] diakonon. En te Kantabrigia: Ioannou Phieldou, 1665. 12mo (14.5 cm, 5.75"). [36], 126, [2 (blank)] pp. [as issued, with the same publisher's] Bible. Psalms. Greek. 1664. Psalterion toy Dabid kata tous Hebdomekonta eis ta tmemata, ta en te tes Agglikanes Ekkesias leitourgia nomizomena, diegemenon. 12mo. 1664. [2], 115, [3], 117–71, [1] pp. [and] Bible. New Testament. Greek. 1665. Tes kaines diathekes apanta. 12mo. [2], 419, [1], pp.
$1800.00
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First edition of this Greek translation of the Book of Common Prayer. The preface is signed “I.D.,” i.e., James Duport, a popular professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge, who had the year before printed a translation of the Psalter (which appears here with the BCP as issued, under a separate title-page) and Ordinal, along with the Greek New Testament and Apocrypha (the title-page of the New Testament being an insert, and the Apocrypha having separate pagination). This is only the second translation of the BCP into Greek, following the first by Elias Petley in 1638. There were apparently two settings of this edition produced by printer John Field in the same year, under the same title and imprint, with priority not established; the present example has line six of the main title-page all in capital letters, and the “Alma mater Cantabrigia” device following the last page of the Psalter — but while the sun is on the left and the cup on the right of the Psalter title-page device, they are reversed on the New Testament title-page, apparently indicating that the New Testament is from a variant post-dating the BCP and Psalter.
Binding: Contemporary mottled calf Cambridge-style, covers framed in double gilt fillets and panelled in triple gilt fillets with gilt-tooled corner fleurons; spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled compartments.Provenance: Front free endpaper with early inscription in red pencil: “Gibson's [/] Queens [/] Oxon. [/] 1787[?].” Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Biblos: Wing (rev.) B3632; ESTC R204258; Griffiths 45:3. Psalterion: Wing B2720A; ESTC R204259. Tes kaines diathekes: Darlow & Moule 4702; Wing B2733. Bound as above, worn and showing expectable acid-pitting with edges, extremities, and spine rubbed; spine label cracked with loss of central portion of label. Endpapers with early inked annotations in Greek and English. A few leaves with light waterstaining in upper portions; one leaf with tear from outer margin into text, with loss of one letter; one leaf with short tear along paper flaw, without loss of text. Final work with early inked underlining; rear fly-leaf with a few jotted references in Greek.
A scholar's copy of this nice example of early English Greek liturgical/scriptural printing. (37826)

Early
Baskerville BCP
Church of England. Book of Common Prayer. The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the psalter or psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. Cambridge: John Baskerville for B. Dod, 1760. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.6"). [544] pp.
$1500.00
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Second edition of Cambridge University printer John Baskerville's Book of Common Prayer, including the Psalter, the articles of religion, and state prayers for George II. This impression, printed in the same year as the first edition, features decorative page borders; its title-page matches the description of Gaskell's Group 2, with the third line printed in roman and the price listed as “Seven Shillings and Six Pence, unbound.” The final text leaf is Ll2; there are interpolated signatures (r–z) between Q and R.
Binding: Contemporary red morocco framed and panelled in gilt rolls with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll; later rebacked with red morocco, spine beautifully stamped in foliate and geometric designs originally gilt but now virtually entirely black/blind. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate (“A ma puissance”) of the Earl of Stamford.
ESTC N32874; Gaskell, Baskerville, 12. Binding as above, extremities rubbed, sides with small scuffs. Front pastedown with bookplate as above, bookplate bearing inked numeral in red. Pages gently age-toned with a few instances of light spots of foxing, otherwise clean.
An attractive production in an attractive copy. (30966)

Beautifully Bound BCP with Plentiful Options for
Psalms — Bound by HAYDAY
Church of England. Book of Common Prayer. The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the Church of England: Together with the psalter or psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. Cambridge: John Baskerville & B. Dod, 1762. 12mo (16.9 cm, 6.7"). [392] pp. [with] Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. 1762. Sternhold & Hopkins. The whole book of Psalms, collected into English metre . . . Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1762. 12mo. [122] pp. [and] Bible. O.T. Psalms. English. 1762. Tate & Brady. A new version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the tunes used in churches. Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1762. 12mo. [104] pp.
$1450.00
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One of the last of Cambridge University printer John Baskerville's great series of printings of the Book of Common Prayer, including the Psalter, the articles of religion, and state prayers for George III. The BCP is followed by two versions of the Psalms — the older rendition by Sternhold and Hopkins, and the newer by Tate and Brady.
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of collector William Gott (1797–1863, father of John Gott, Bishop of Truro) with motto “Nec temere nec timide.” Neat note on rear free endpaper indicating book was purchased from the Pickering firm and then rebound by Hayday.
Binding: Signed binding done by James Hayday (1796–1872), an eminent London binder: Early 19th-century dark blue morocco, spine gilt extra. Covers framed in gilt rolls surrounding central gilt-stamped composed medallions; board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt. Front free endpaper stamped “Bound by Hayday.”
BCP: Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1762:8; Gaskell 20; ESTC T87226. Sternhold & Hopkins: ESTC T87252; Gaskell 21. Brady & Tate: ESTC T107540; Gaskell 22. Binding as above, light rubbing to extremities, small scuffs to covers; back free endpaper with
small inked annotations regarding purchase and binding costs. First few leaves browned, varying degrees of mild to moderate foxing elsewhere. A handsome example of both Baskerville's printing and Hayday's binding skills. (35341)

Pickering BCP Facsimile — LAVISHED with the Work of
MARY BYFIELD
Church of England. Book of Common Prayer. The book of common prayer: King James, anno 1604, commonly called the Hampton Court Book. London: William Pickering (pr. by Charles Whittingham), 1844. Folio (35.1 cm, 13.8"). [260] pp.
$950.00
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Pickering's beautiful type facsimile of Robert Barker's 1604 edition — a.k.a. the Hampton Court Book — here in a Rivière binding. Charles Whittingham printed the work on handmade paper in black-letter type for Pickering, who, inspired by the printing of Aldus Manutius, published in 1844 a series of six such facsimiles of important editions of the Book of Common Prayer, each of which was
illustrated with wood-engraved initials and ornaments done by Mary Byfield, and limited to
only 350 copies printed on paper (with another two on vellum). The original title-pages were reproduced for each in
red and black, and in the case of the present example, the almanac pages likewise printed in red and black. Each book in this homage to important editions of the BCP was
an outstanding example of the Victorian-era Gothic design movement, and Kelly notes that these volumes are “considered to be among the finest work of Whittingham.”
Binding: Signed 19th-century dark brown morocco framed and panelled in single gilt and double blind fillets with gilt-tooled corner fleurons, surrounding a central arabesque medallion; spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped fleur-de-lis decorations in compartments, and gilt-stamped publication information. All edges gilt. Front lower turn-in stamped by Rivière.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with small stamp of B[asil] M. Pickering, who took over the business after his father's death; later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Brunet, I, 1108; Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1844:29; Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1844.4; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 85; McLean, Victorian Book Design, 13; Pickering & Chatto, William Pickering (catalogue 708), 222. Bound as above, joints and extremities showing moderate rubbing. Scattered spots of faint to mild foxing, pages generally clean and fresh. (39585)

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



Roman Philosophy Explained by a
German Humanist
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. M.T. Ciceronis libri tres De officiis ... Hac 2. Editione et Correctis, & nonnihil auctis ... Addita sunt et scholia brevia eiusdem in Catonem, Laelium Paradoxa, et Somnium Scipionis. Basileae: Ex Officina Hervagiana, per Eusebium Episcopium, 1569. Folio (31.9 cm; 12.5"). [5] ff., 732 cols., 733–50 pp., [26] ff., 262 cols., [22] pp., 134 cols., [9] ff., 60 cols., [4] ff., 62 cols., [7] pp. Lacks an internal blank and the final three leaves of index.
$975.00
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A choice selection of Cicero's philosophical works edited and with extensive commentary from German humanist Hieronymus Wolf (1516–80), here in an enlarged and corrected second edition issued from the
Hervagius press. Wolf was a student of Melanchthon's “who after a wandering life, settled at Augsburg, first as secretary and librarian to the wealthy merchant Johann Jakob Fugger, and next as Rector of the newly-founded gymnasium which he ruled from 1557 until his death” (Sandys, II, p. 268).
Works annotated in depth include Cicero's De officiis, Cato maior de senectute, De amicitia, “Paradoxa VI” from Paradoxa stoicorum, and “Scipionis somnium” from De re publica. Each work has a sectional title-page and index.
Provenance: Early 17th-century ownership inscription on title “Ex bibliotheca Magister Joannes Makgill” (a Johannes Makgill graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 1602); 18th- or early 19th- century signature of George Blair on front fly-leaf; 18th-century signature of Daniel MacKinnon on title-page. (Our thanks to Eric White of Princeton for deciphering the Makgill's last name and his university affiliation.)
Index Aurel. 139.245; Adams C1769; Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie, II, 200–01; VD16 C3211. On Wolf see: Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie, II, p. 268. Recent blue-grey paper–covered boards; spine with printed paper labels, new endpapers, all edges speckled red. Age-toning, some spotting, and light to moderately heavy waterstaining throughout; perhaps a dozen leaves with corners bumped and perhaps another dozen with minor, very unobtrusive touches of worming, a few light markings in pencil and ink. Title-page and three index leaves artfully repaired with Japanese tissue, the first with no loss of text and the latter with some loss; an internal blank and three index leaves lacking, otherwise complete. A well-used and imperfect but solid and still useful compilation of extensively analyzed classical texts, and from an important press. (36087)

False Imprint
Claude, Jean. Les plaintes des Protestans, cruellement opprimez dans le royaume de France. Cologne: Chez Pierre Marteau, 1686. 12mo (13.7 cm, 5.4"). [2], 192 pp.
$800.00
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First edition of these “Déclamations énergiques contre Louis XIV, à l'occasion des
persécutions suscitées aux protestants” (Brunet), written by a Huguenot minister and theologian who fled France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The work was issued under the fictitious Marteau imprint, well known as a shelter for satirical, political, pirated, and otherwise questionable or potentially scandalous works; this is an early “Marteau” item, with the first such imprint having appeared in 1660.
Provenance: Howard Osgood.
Brunet, IV, 683. Contemporary calf, spine elegantly gilt extra, board edges with gilt rolls; leather acid-pitted, edges and extremities a bit rubbed. Title-page with small inked owner's name and institutional pressure-stamp. Damp-spotting to first and last few pages; some leaves starting to separate, many with lower outer corners crumpled. Intermittent underlining and marks of emphasis in red pencil throughout. (20861)

How to Treat & CURE
Tertian Fevers
Cleghorn, George. Observations on the epidemical diseases in Minorca. From the year 1744, to 1749. To which is prefixed, a short account of the climate, productions, inhabitants, and endemial distempers, of that island. London: Printed for T. Cadell, in the Strand; and G. Robinson, in Pater-Noster Row, 1779. 8vo (20.5 cm; 8.125"). [iii]–xxiv, 311 pp. Lacks half-title.
$400.00
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A descriptive, epidemiological account of Minorca based on letters exchanged between Cleghorn (1716–89) and physician John Fothergill (1712–80) while Cleghorn was stationed on Minorca as surgeon to the 22nd Regiment of Foot from 1736 to 1749, here in the fourth edition. Cleghorn, a Scotsman educated at the University of Edinburgh, went on to become the first Lecturer of Anatomy at the University of Dublin.
First printed in 1751, this landmark work on epidemiology contains previously unpublished descriptions of several diseases, such as epidemic jaundice, and was reprinted in 1767, 1768, 1779, and 1815. The DNB (online) notes “his extensive observations rendered the book essential reading for those going to practice in Minorca”; and, cast in the vivid first person as it is and as full of opinions on Minorca's “inhabitants” as it is, it must have been riveting reading as well for even non-medical stay-at-homes.
Provenance: W.G. Ramsay SO.CA. stamped at head of title-page; the “SO.CA.” may indicate “South Carolina” and associate this book with the physician son of David Ramsay — public official, historian of the American Revolution, and physician who introduced the smallpox vaccine in his region. (The younger Ramsay was particularly interested in racial differences, and not in what the 21st century would consider to be a good way.)
Evidence of readership: Three neatly pencilled short notes to the Introduction.
ESTC N10137; Garrison & Morton 1674; On Cleghorn, see: DNB (online). Recent half navy blue buckram and blue marbled paper–covered boards, new endpapers; binding irregularly sized and half-title lacking. Title-page heavily repaired with former owner's signature excised from top right corner. Light to moderate age-toning and waterstaining with the occasional spot; first gathering darkened and partially detached.
Medical practice here is an adventure. (36126)

August Neander's Copy
Clement, of Alexandria, Saint. Opera graece et latine quae extant. Lutetiae Parisiorum: Typis Regiis, 1641. Tall folio (32.7 cm, 12.9"). [28], 854, 74 (lacking 75–79 [index]) pp. (some pagination erratic; 823/24 repeated).
$775.00
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Works of the second-century Greek theologian Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150–215), reissued from the 1616 Patius printing and here handsomely printed by the French Royal Press. This edition was apparently also issued with the title-page in a different state, sporting the imprint as “Apud Matthaeum Guillemot, via Iacobaea, sub signo Bibliothecae.”
Set forth is Heinsius's edition of the text, with Greek and Latin in parallel columns, additionally offering the earlier revisions and alternate readings by Friedrich Sylburg; the title-page is printed in red and black, with an impressive sailing ship publisher's device, while the main text pages are ornamented with head- and tailpieces and decorative capitals.
Provenance: Title-page with inked inscription “J.D. Michaeli,” presumably Orientalist, biblical scholar, and Göttingen professor Johann David Michaelis (1717–91). Later manuscript notes as below in the hand of the early 19th-century scholar August Neander; his library sold to the Colgate (Rochester Crozer) Divinity School, properly deaccessioned.
Evidence of readership: Three pages completely covered in Neander's hand with annotations in Greek and Latin, tipped in at the front; pencilled marks of emphasis, inked underlining, and inked marginal annotations in what appear to be two different early hands.
Brunet, II, 93. Period-style quarter speckled calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title-label, all edges red; final three index leaves (only) lacking. Trimmed closely, in some instances touching headers and often the marginalia; approximately 30 leaves with a finger's-breadth portion of upper edge chewed, affecting headers but never text; several leaves with repaired tears or reinforced margins; one leaf with flaw in outer margin touching three letters. Markings as above; occasional small areas of light staining or inkblots, one small burn hole, and two pages with dripped red wax.
A solid and very readable copy in an attractive recent binding, with provenance worthy of note. (35424)

The Development of a
Hacienda in the YUCATAN — 1626–1866
(Chalmuch Hacienda, Yucatan, Mexico). Manuscript cahiers on paper of land transfers and inventories, in
MAYA and Spanish. Chalmuch, Merida, elsewhere in Yucatan: 1626–1866. Folio (31 cm, 12.5"). 132 ff. (14 blank).
$5500.00
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Law suits between Yucatan hacienda owners (one a woman), and hacienda owners and Indians; estate inventories and land transfers (three in Maya); materials showing usefully characteristic environmental effects — from the early 17th century and continuing through the middle of the 19th, these documents chronicle the development of the Chalmuch hacienda, situated approximately 12 kilometers west of the center of Merida.
In the Yucatan — for geographic, geologic. ecologic, and economic reasons, particularly the quality of the soil and the lack of water for irrigation — haciendas had a later appearance than in other parts of Mexico, especially in the center and north, where their development began in the decade after the fall of the Aztec Empire. It was not until the 17th century that haciendas began to be established in the Yucatan Peninsula.
The earliest document in these five sewn-files is dated 18 May 1626 and concerns the settlement of a law suit between Bernardo de Sosa Velazquez and the Indians of the towns of Santiago, Cauqall, and Vac regarding unused lands and hills. The suit was settled in favor of Sosa with the provisos that he occupy the lands, build on and populate them, and bring in cattle within one year. The addition of new land to this original sitio is the substance of the remaining documents. Among them are two estate inventories and three documents of the first third of the 18th century in Maya (land transfers).
In the 1850s and ‘60s there was a land dispute between Doña Pastora Castillo, owner of the Oxcun hacienda, and Bernardo Cano, owner of the Chalmuch hacienda (represented by Sr. José Vicente Solís, his agent), concerning the need for a survey of boundaries. The dispute dragged on and in 1866, during the attempted reforms of Maximilian's Empire, these documents were presented before the state's Land Inspection Section and were certified by the Chief of Inspection with his stamp. The Land Inspection Section was responsible for the preparation and revision of plans, the comparison of land documents, and the measurement of land held by each hacienda, as well as certification of location, boundaries, and owners.
Provenance: From the private archive of the Chalmuch hacienda.
Documents such as these showing the growth and development of haciendas in the central part of Mexico are fairly common but extremely uncommon for the Yucatan. Similarly colonial-era documents in Nahuatl are fairly commonly available in the marketplace but comparable ones in Maya are rare.
This is the first gathering of land documents for the Yucatan and the first manuscripts in Maya that PRB&M has had in its decades of dealing in Mexican colonial-era manuscripts see images below for the latter.
Manuscripts from the Yucatan are notorious for having suffered environmental and ecological damage: damp and insect problems. These are no exception, but as such they are excellent for teaching purposes as well as traditional research. One cahier has extensive worm/insect damage, another has faded ink from exposure to long-term humidity, and others are just fine. Here is the opportunity to show (and for students to practice) how to use light sources of various wave-lengths for making faded writing jump off the page and how to carefully interleave a document with thin Mylar sheets to save leaves from further damage during reading and page-turning.
(We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of the state archive of the Yucatan in explaining the significance of the stamps of the Land Inspection Section that appear in some of the documents. It is good to be assured that they are indication of private, not government, ownership.)
Each cahier is housed in a Mylar sleeve and the five are contained in a blue cloth clamshell box. Condition is extremely variable: as above, one cahier has extensive worm/insect damage, another has faded ink, and others are just fine. Stamps are present as mentioned above.
A rare surviving compilation and one that is instructive from multiple perspectives. (40308)

Privileges & Exemptions
Cofradía de Nuestra Señora del Carmen (Mexico). Sumario de las indulgencias, gracias y concesiones que los sumos pontifices han dispensado a la Cofradia de Nuestra Señora del Carmen. Mexico: Impr. de la Calle de Santo Domingo y esquina Tacuba, 1802. Samll 8vo (14.5 cm; 5.75"). [26] ff.
$475.00
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Sixth edition (preceded by those of 1789, 1792, 1793, 1798, and 1801) of the indulgences, privileges, and grants bestowed by the pontiffs on members of the Confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
Provenance: A copy of this work was given to each member upon admission and the last page of this copy indicates that it belonged to Joaquín Gorospe who was admitted to membership on 20 April 1803.
Uncommon: No U.S. library reports owning this edition.
Medina, Mexico, 9488. Lacking the wrappers. Soiling to title-page and verso of last leaf. A few age spots. (26871)

“Distinct & Deliberate Quests of Truth” — First Edition, Variant Printing
Coke, Zachary [possible pseud. of Henry Ainsworth]. The art of logick; or the entire body of logick in English. Unfolding to the meanest capacity the way to dispute well, and to refute all fallacies whatsoever. London: Pr. by Robert White for George Calvert, 1654 [i.e., 1653]. 8vo (17.6 cm, 6.9"). [24], 222 pp.
$600.00
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First edition: a systematic, philosophical approach to the rigors of logical thought. The authorship of this work is debated, with some sources accepting the title-page attribution to Zachary Coke and others suggesting Brownist clergyman Henry Ainsworth (1571–1622), while still others describe the text as heavily indebted to an unauthorized, abridged translation of Bartholomäus Keckermann's Systema Logicae; Harvard notes that “the 'Advertisement to the reader' in the second edition (1657) states that Coke obtained a manuscript of Henry Ainsworth & 'printed it as his own.'” Regardless of whether this work was actually done by Coke's hand or another's, Marco Sgarbi notes that “there is no doubt that Coke's logic was the most complete logical handbook in English written before Locke's Essay” (The Aristotelian Tradition & the Rise of British Empiricism, p. 198).
The present example appears to be the variant printing of the first edition as described by the University of Illinois, with line 32 of p. 179 giving “F acies” (instead of “Fallacies”); ESTC and Thomason suggest that the actual printing date was 1653.
Printed legend “Cokes Art of Logick in English.” vertically on a blank between the front free endpaper and the title-page; the relic of a ream wrapper.
Binding: Notably elegant period-style quarter speckled calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, raised bands, and blind-tooled decorations filling compartments.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with early inked inscription of M[atthew?] Bakewell; half-title and title-page each with early rubber-stamp of S. Davies. Later in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
ESTC R9220 (variant); Wing (rev. ed.) A804B (formerly C4986); Thomason E.1436[2]. Binding as above; endpapers with offsetting from previous leather, front one chipped at edges, age-toning generally with page edges browned/dust-soiled. Small spots of pinhole worming to upper inner margins of roughly first half of volume, just touching some top lines without affecting legibility; old waterstaining across lower outer corners variably reaching text; a few pages showing traces of red around edges, presumably from now-shaved original red edge staining.
A solid, pleasing copy of this fairly uncommon treatise. (40076)

The Yucatan Franz Scholes *&* Robert Chamberlain
Colección de documentos inéditos relativos al decumbrimiento, conquista y organización de las antigua posesiones españolas de ultramar. Segunda serie. Tomo num. 13, II Relaciones de Yucatán. Madrid: Impresores de la Real Casa, 1900. 8vo. xvi, 414 pp.
$450.00
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Major stand-alone volume from the DIU, containing the first publication of the late 16th-century manuscript “Relaciones histório-geográficas de las provincias de Yucatán,” here
extensively annotated in pencil by Robert Chamberlain and with occasional notes by France Scholes!
Provenance: First in the University of Miami Library, deacessioned; then in the library of Robert Chamberlain and later in that of France V. Scholes, both noted scholars of the Yucatán. Their signatures are on the front free endpaper and their notes are penciled in the margins of many pages.
Publisher's quarter cloth, printed paper-covered boards, and paper spine label, call number on spine. Boards worn and exposed at edges and corners. Surface crack down center of spine label; slight chipping on edges. Ex-library copy with pressure- and rubber-stamps, including the release stamp; bookplate on front pastedown, date due slip and remnants of charge pocket in the back. (24442)

“Ignorance is the Foundation of
Atheism, & Freethinking the Cure of It”
Collins, Anthony. A discourse of free-thinking, occasion'd by the rise and growth of a sect call'd Free-thinkers. London: 1713. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.625"). 178 pp., [1 (blank)] f. (lacking preliminary material).
$750.00
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First edition, early issue of a controversial work that spawned an extensive debate. The author, a close friend of John Locke and of freethinkers John Toland and Matthew Tindal, was a Cambridge-educated philosopher who, despite the furor over his writings, was acknowledged by his contemporaries as “an amiable and upright man . . . [who] made all readers welcome to the use of a free library” (DNB). His Discourse, an argument in favor of individual logical assessment of Christian doctrine and other beliefs, brought forth vigorous rebuttals by Richard Bentley, George Berkeley, Jonathan Swift, and others, but remains
a landmark work of rationalistic religion. Opinions continue to vary, even in modern criticism, regarding whether Collins's work promoted deism or atheism; he himself claimed that increased independent critical thinking was responsible for the decline in belief in witchcraft.
This copy lacks the two preliminary leaves. The catchword on p. 7 is “allow'd.” This is the variant issue with a final blank leaf instead of the advertisement leaf.
Provenance: From the library of the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School; properly deaccessioned.
Evidence of Readership: Occasional pencil markings and a few marginal comments in the first third of text.
ESTC T31966; Allibone 411–12. Recent blue-grey marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Title-page repaired with loss of perhaps ten letters of epigraph, with partially trimmed name inked in an early hand, and with very elegant old institutional pressure-stamp; title-page verso with pencilled call numbers; first text page with institutional stamp in upper margin, inked and pencilled numeral in lower margin. Two preliminary leaves lacking. A few leaves closely trimmed at one or another margin; last 20 with very short marginal tears not approaching text. Light age-toning and occasionally a spot; generally, clean; marked as above. An influential work on rational religion with evidence of use. (36007)

The Muse of Poetry Holds “Unbounded Power” over
Time & Fame
Congreve, William. The birth of the muse. London: Jacob Tonson, 1698 [i.e., 1697]. Folio (32.2 cm, 12.7"). [2], 10 pp.
$625.00
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Congreve's tribute to poetical greatness as inspired by political accomplishment. Dedicated to Charles Montagu, first Earl of Halifax, a statesman and poet, this piece was written in honor of Montagu's appointment as First Lord of the Treasury. This is the
first edition; ESTC notes the actual printing date as 1697.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Spencer van Bokkelen Nichols.
ESTC R29682; Pforzheimer 193; Wing (rev. ed.) C5845. Later plain paper-covered limp boards; paper darkened and chipped. Front pastedown with bookplate as above, front free endpaper with affixed slip of old cataloguing offset onto pastedown. Pages age-toned and cockled with margins slightly darkened; last two leaves with holes affecting text, final leaf with loss of about 14 words and penultimate with only a handful of letters touched. Lower edge with one chip throughout. A flawed, but moderately uncommon, first edition from one of the most popular playwrights of the Restoration era. (33587)

A Black Author's
EPIC Poem of Black History
& the Black Experience
Corbett, Maurice N. The harp of Ethiopia. Nashville, TN: National Baptist Publishing Board, 1914. 8vo (20 cm, 8"). 276 pp., illus. (port.).
[SOLD]
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Almost certainly born a slave (his mother was definitely a slave) in North Carolina, Corbett (1859–after 1920) was a Shaw University–educated teacher and political activist. He was energetic in Reconstruction-era Caswell County, NC, politics, serving in the North Carolina legislature, and in the 1880s and 1890s was delivering votes for candidates who promised to look out for Black interests. For a living he taught in the schools of Yanceville. After Thomas Settle was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1893, Corbett moved to D.C. and served the congressman as his personal secretary; following the congressman's defeat in the 1897 election, Corbett remained in the capital and worked in the U.S. printing office as a “laborer.” In 1919 he suffered a paralyzing stroke.
In 1914 Corbett saw his sole book-length work published: The Harp of Ethiopia, an epic poem of Black history from antiquity to the beginning of the 20th century. This was called by Carolivia Herron
“the most sustained epic of this African American nineteenth-century genre,” a literary flowering that she identifies both as understudied and as fascinating — partly as its productions relate self-assuredly to the “Euro-American” epic forms and opera of their day and, of course, partly as they choose to differ. As to the latter, she notes that “they often incorporate aspects of African-influenced oral poetry,” and that
in this particular work “the poet sets aside the regular iambic tetrameter rhythm and uses an irregular jazz rhythm in the section entitled 'The Harp Awakening.'”
We note that the section captions of Corbett’s work amount in themselves to a sweeping, heroic catalogue of Black history, experience, self-defense, and accomplishments, and that the poet never forgets (as the ancient epicists never did, either!) the component of violence that characterizes and sometimes advances human society.
The volume's sole illustration is a formal portrait of Corbett, seated and wearing a suit.
The National Baptist Publishing Board was, by 1913, “one of the largest business enterprises owned and operated by blacks in the United States” — having been established in 1897, when its founder Reverend Richard Henry Boyd (1843–1922), had “sought the services of a white man to visit auctions and bid for machinery, since the rules of segregation would not allow blacks to engage in such activity.” Still the print run on Corbett's work would have been small, although 20th-century interest in Black literature and culture led to a widely distributed facsimile printing being issued in 1971.
Presentation copy from one of Corbett's daughters: “To Dr. & Mrs. H.D. Miller of Muskogee, Okla. Compliments of Lilie [partially obscured] Corbett, Work of My late Father Maurice H. Corbett of Washington, D.C.”
Kerlin, Robert T., Negro Poets and Their Poems, 270. For Dr. Herron's essay, see: Columbia History of American Poetry, “Early African American Poetry,” quotations from pp. 18 and 31. On the National Baptist Publishing Board, see: Tennessee State University website, http://ww2.tnstate.edu/. Publisher's red cloth, spotting to front cover and hinges (inside) cracking; paper very fragile, being the acidic sort so common in the first half of the 20th century, edges browned. Tear at gutter to front free endpaper, not approaching inscription; old repairs to other short tears or chippings have adhered this leaf at top to the one following.
A good copy of a rare work, with a great provenance, requiring special handling and deserving it. (41128)

Dutch Republicanism — For & Against
Court, Pieter de la. Interest van Holland, ofte, Gronden van Hollands-welvaren. Amsterdam: By Joan. Cyprianus vander Gracht, 1662. Small 8vo (15.5 cm; 6.125"). [8] ff., 267, [5] pp. [with bound at the end] Huygens, Constantijn. Den Herstelden Prins tot Stadt-houder ende Capiteyn Generaal vande Vereenighde Nederlanden, ten dienst ende luyster vande loffelijcke en de wel geformeerde Republijck vande Geunieerde Provincien, &c. tegens de boekjens onlangs uyt gegeven met den naem van Interest van Hollandt, ende stadt-houderlijcke regeringe in Hollandt ... Amsterdam: Voor Joan. Cyprianus vander Gracht, 1663. Small 8vo (15.5 cm; 6.125"). [16], 122, [4], [2 (blank)] pp.
$2750.00
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Court (1618–85) and his brother Johan (1622–60) were the sons of Protestant émigrés from Flanders who settled in Leiden around 1613. Both were political and economic theorists; during their lifetimes
Pieter was held to be more capable of the two. This work circulated in manuscript and was first published in Amsterdam in 1662 without the author's permission and with alterations and the addition of two important chapters and part of another by Johan de Wit. A later edition was published under the title Aanwysing der heilsame politike gronden en maximen van de republike van Holland en West-Vriesland, and that edition was translated into English as The true interest and political maxims of the republick of Holland and West-Friesland (London, 1702).
Interest van Holland is Pieter Court's most famous and important work. In this critical analysis of the economic success of the Dutch Republic he ascribes the rise of Holland to a combination of free competition and free (i.e., republican) government. It clearly was a republican manifesto, so on one side of the political spectrum it gained notoriety and infamy and on the other fame and honor. Abroad it was translated into German and English and was studied in order to learn how the Dutch had ascended to a position of prominence in the European and world economic and political theaters.
The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers labels this work “the first unequivocal expression of republicanism in the Dutch Republic.”
There were at least five editions printed in 1662: three in Amsterdam (one 8vo, two 12mo) and two in Leiden (one 8vo, one 12mo), but with stop-press corrections resulting in STCN listing 12 editions/variants.
We believe this to be a true first edition. The STCN speculates that the printer cited on the title-page here, I.C. vander Gracht, was a pseudonym used by the Hackius firm of Leiden.
Alden and Landis succinctly summarize the
Americana content: “Includes refs [sic] to West Indies commerce, whale & cod fisheries, salt-trade, & Puritans in English colonies.”
Huygens (1596–87) was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer, secretary to two Princes of Orange, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. Here he pens a rebuttal of Interest van Holland, defends the House of Orange, and seeks to rebut as many republican assertions as possible. This is the
sole edition of Herstelden Prins tot Stadt-houder.
Provenance: Frank Marshall Vanderhoof (American scholar, university librarian, private collector; 1919–2005).
Court: Goldsmiths'-Kress 1659.2; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 662/38; Knuttel 8652; Meulman 3925; STCN 063391201. Huygens: Knuttel 8806a; STCN 61687140. Contemporary vellum over boards. Waterstaining variously noticeable and never serious. A good solid copy. (35677)

Early Nonesuch — The First Book
Gooden Illustrated
Cowley, Abraham, trans. Anacreon done into English out of the original Greek. Soho: Nonesuch Press, 1923. 8vo (24 cm, 9.5"). [108] pp.; 5 plts.
$150.00
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Nonesuch edition with original
copperplate engravings by Stephen Gooden (four full-page plates, an additional engraved title-page, and two decorations), the whole printed on heavy paper with deckle edges; Dreyfus says, intriguingly, “printed but unacknowledged by the Pelican Press.” This may well be Gooden's finest work as a book illustrator; certainly press director Francis Meynell thought so in the Nonesuch Century. The present example is numbered copy 430 of 725 for sale.
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)

Jack Cuts Off the Giant's Head *&* Razes His Castle
Craig, William Marshall, illus.; John Lee, engraver. Jack the giant killer, a hero. Banbury: Pr. by J.G. Rusher, [ca. 1820]. Near miniature (8.8 cm, 3.5"). 15, [1] pp.; illus. (wood engravings).
$325.00
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The tale is told in verse and prose in this chapbook version and is illustrated with six wood engravings (one repeated on title-page). On the rear wrapper there is an additional, unrelated full-page engraving of a fugitive soldier, attributed in the Osborne Collection to John Lee after W.M. Craig. So, that is, there are a total of
eight cuts.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Osborne Collection p. 33; Pearson, Banbury Chap Books, p. 33. As issued, age-toning at edges; spine splitting at very top but all sewing present and holding. A good+++ copy. (38797)

JAPAN: “The Subject Is Great, the Actions Sublime,
the ADVENTURES
Surprising & Full of Wonders”
Crasset, Jean. The history of the church of Japan. Written originally in French by Monsieur L’Abbe de T. And now translated into English. By N. N. Volume I. London: [publisher not identified], 1705. 4to (21.6 cm; 8.5"). [28], 544, [8] pp.
$500.00
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Vol. I only of the English translation of Crasset's Histoire de l'eglise de Japon, originally published in 1689; the second volume of the translation was not published for several more years, appearing in 1707. Crasset, a Jesuit preacher, made much use of Father Solier's work on the subject, Histoire ecclésiastique des isles et royaumes du Japon, expanding its chronology with his own account of the years from 1624 to 1658. Also included is
a section describing different aspects of secular Japanese life, including diet, housing, and relationships, among other topics.
Provenance: “Ad Cubiculum Sacerdotis Soc. Jesu Hooton” inscribed on title-page in ink; later in the library of the Pacific School of Religion (properly released).
ESTC T94112; later edition in Cordier, Bibliotheca japonica, col. 425–26; DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 1641. Contemporary Cambridge-style calf, rebacked some time ago with raised bands double-ruled in gilt, two gilt-lettered leather spine labels, and new endpapers; rubbed, especially spine, with a few abrasions. Ex-library as above: evidence of former call number label on spine, bookplate on front pastedown, rubber-stamp on endpaper and title-page, accession pencilling on title-page verso, circulation materials at back. Light pencilling on endpapers, one lower outside corner a tremoin, one leaf repaired, two with small holes and loss of a letter or two, one with a medium tear lightly touching text; light to moderate spotting and age-toning. Not pristine and priced accordingly — yet, a good book. (36729)

Influential “Sacred Comedy” — Christian/Classical Theater
Crocus, Cornelius. Comoedia sacra cui titulus Joseph. Parisiis: Apud Christianum Wechelum, 1541. 8vo (14.8 cm, 5.82’’). 62 pp.
$975.00
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This successful Christian play on the life of Joseph the Patriarch followed in the wake of Gnaphaeus’s ground-breaking comoedia sacra, Acolastus. Relying on scant traces of early Christian drama, these novel plays brought biblical stories onto the secular stage through the dramatic and linguistic tradition of Terentian comedy, inventing
a Christian theater of a humanist nature blending moralism and linguistic refinement — one that proved a powerful didactic instrument for Christians and also for Latin-learning schoolchildren in post-Reformation Europe. (Cornelius Crocus (ca.1500–50), a Jesuit theologian and the dramatist here, was also a teacher at the Latin school in Amsterdam.)
First published in 1536 and here in its sixth edition, Joseph is printed in compact Italic with Wechel's woodcut printer’s device on both the title-page and the verso of the last leaf, and with two historiated woodcut initials in the text.
Provenance: On the title-page, 16th-century ownership inscription of François Couetoux and 17th-century pen trials (dated 1617) with Latin motto; indistinct 17th-century inscription on verso of last leaf.
WorldCat locates
one U.S. library (Harvard) reporting ownership of this edition.
Pettegree & Walsby, French Books, 63672. Not in Index Aurel.; not in DeBacker-Sommervogel. Disbound, outer edge close trimmed occasionally just touching shouldernotes, short closed tear or cut to lower edge to title-page not approaching print; text with limited light (often faint) waterstains to edges and light general soiling.
A good, representative survivor of an important hybrid tradition. (40845)

Bite-Sized
Theatrical Morsels
in
Fancy
Dress — Signed
Bindings
Cruz, Ramón de la. Sainetes de D. Ramón de la Cruz. Barcelona: Biblioteca “Arte y Letras” E. Domenech y Ca., 1882. 8vo (20.5 cm, 8"). 2 vols. I: [4], xliii, [1], 338, [2] pp.; 16 plts. (some incl. in pagination). II: [4], 343, [5] pp.; 5 plts.
$275.00
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Resplendent
collection of
clever, satiric 18th-century theatrical vignettes, originally intended to be
performed as intermedios during longer plays. The pieces, which include
“La Comedia de Maravillas,” “El Café de Máscaras,”
“La Duda Satisfecha,” “Manolo,” and many others, appear
here illustrated with
21
plates and numerous in-text engravings by José Llovera
and A. Lizcano, most depicting lively social scenes, musicians, dancers, and
flirtatious maidens. Although the second volume contains fewer plates than the
first, it makes up for the difference with extra in-text images.
Signed Binding: Publisher's teal pebbled cloth, front covers with striking chariot and armorial scene in light blue, tan, and gilt. The “Cibeles” statue found in Madrid's Cibeles Plaza and the coat of arms (and gilt monogram) of the city of Madrid appear with de la Cruz's name stamped in gilt below; spines offer gilt-stamped title and black-stamped griffin decoration. Cover of vol. II is signed “J. Orba.” All page edges are stamped in a Greek key pattern in blue and gilt.
Provenance:
Half-titles each with old-fashioned rubber-stamp of José Carmona y
Ramos.
Palau 65340. Bindings as above, edges and extremities
showing minor shelfwear, back cover of vol. I with small spots of faint discoloration,
front joint of vol. II rubbed. Collector's stamp as above, each front pastedown
with small paper label bearing hand-inked numeral. Pages age-toned; edges
slightly embrittled, occasionally with small chips or short tears. Scattered
light smudges in vol. I; vol. II with mild to moderate foxing.
A
peacocky set. (29262)

A Gift from One Coleridge to Another — Victorian Color & Song
Cundall, Joseph, ed. Songs, madrigals, and sonnets. A gathering of some of the most pleasant flowers of old English poetry. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Co., 1849. 32mo (13.8 cm, 5.5"). [72] pp.; illus.
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Plenty stunning and a charming provenance: A garden of England's finest poets and their poems, gathered together to create a beautiful collection of color and song as an excellent example of
Victorian color printing. Each song, madrigal, and sonnet has an ornamental border “of an Italian character of design” featuring bright yellow, blue, green, pink and purple and “printed by means of woodblocks.” The half-title, also illustrated with beautiful bright colors, features two elegant statues on plinths surrounded by garden beauty. Compiled by Joseph Cundall and printed by Charles Whittingham, the collection contains works by favorites such as Milton, Shakespeare, and Coleridge.
According to McLean, it was one of the few books Chiswick printed in color.
Binding: Brick red morocco, five bands, gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Four sets of gilt double-rule borders to beveled boards with three smaller decorative borders between each double-rule set: dots (between inner set), leafy vine (very middle), dots (between outer set). Gilt cut-off sheaves and foliate design to turn-ins with rule of short dashes/dots bordering pastedowns. Marbled endpapers and all edges gilt. Signed by
Riviere.
Provenance: On the verso of the half-title, an inscription reading, “F.G. Coleridge, from his affect[ionate] cousin Edwin E. Coleridge, Christmas Day, 1849.” Francis George Coleridge (1794–1854) and Edwin Ellis Coleridge (1803–1870) were
nephews of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Underneath, there appears to be an inscription written in Greek. A penciled note indicates F.G. Coleridge was the grandfather of “Dorothy H. S[mith?].” However, our research could not find a granddaughter named Dorothy. The initials “G.S.,” also in the same penciled hand, are below that. Most recently from the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
McLean, Victorian Book Design and Colour Printing, pp. 70–71, 143; Not in Ing, Charles Whittingham. Bound as above with rubs and scrapes refurbished; spine darkened and rubbed with missing or darkened gilt, small hole to spine-head. Interior mildly age-toned and with some minor, occasional, light spotting and dirtied edges; minor gutter crack at the half-title. Provenance as above.
A nice, still-sturdy Riviere binding and a beautiful, colorful interior. (38395)

Anti-Papal Mockery — Latin Verse & Prose — Signed French Binding
[Curione, Celio Secondo]. Pasquillorum tomi duo. Quorum primo versibus ac rhythmis, altero soluta oratione conscripta quamplurima continentur... Eleutheropoli: [Johann Oporinus], 1543. 8vo (13.9 cm, 5.5"). [16], 537 (i.e., 637), [1] pp.
$3500.00
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First edition of this gathering of pasquinades, or political and religious satires, mostly in Latin. Published anonymously, with a false imprint that translates to “Free City” or “City of Liberty,” these lampoons were collected by a prominent humanist scholar (known in his day as Caelius Secundus Curio) who spent much of his career fleeing persecution by the Church. The denunciations of anti-Reformation thought include Hutten’s Trias Romana (in German), Erasmus’ Pasquillus, and Curione’s own Pasquillus ecstaticus. The text is for the most part printed in an attractive italic — the Hutten German text being an exception, in black letter — with
two decorative capitals hand-illuminated in red, blue, and gold.
Binding: 19th-century straight-grained red morocco, spine with gilt rules and gilt-stamped club, scepter, and wreath motif in compartments; covers framed in single gilt fillet and elegant gilt roll, board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins with gilt Greek key roll. All edges gilt. Spine stamped “Rel[iure] p[ar] Bozerian Jeune,” i.e,. renowned binder
François Bozerian (1765–1826), younger brother of the equally notable binder Jean-Claude Bozerian.
Evidence of Readership: Pencilled marks of emphasis in margins, and occasional early inked marginalia in Latin; final leaf with early inked verses on each side: “Oenigma de Collogino” and “Epigraphium Tilonis Ditmarri [sic] civis Goslariani [sic].”
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of the Earl of Mexborough, with motto “Be fast.” Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Adams P390; Barbier, IV, 1338; Brunet, IV, 410; Index Aurel. 148.564; VD16 C6433. Binding as above, extremities showing mild shelfwear. Bookplates as above; front free endpaper with old cataloguing for this copy affixed, front fly-leaf with early inked note (“très rare”) and ownership inscription (in a different hand), possibly “Wright.” Intermittent staining, mostly but not entirely confined to early portion of volume.
A solid, attractive, and intriguing copy, hand-embellished and in a signed binding. (37912)
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