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Gilt Vellum Binding with
the Papal Coat of Arms
[Tagliaferri, Johannes Baptista]. Manuscript on paper, in Latin. “De executiva et inspectiva ecclesiae potestatibus disputatio.” [Rome?: ca. 1831–44?]. Folio (32 cm; 12.5"). [7] ff., 371 pp.
$1275.00
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Gregory XVI (pope, 1831–46) was a fervent ultramontanist and so sought to strengthen the papal prerogatives and powers, and through them the religious and political authority of his papacy. This manuscript on the
executive and investigative powers of the Church, a topic dear to his heart, dovetails nicely with ultramontanism and was dedicated to him. Signed by Tagliaferri at the end of the dedication, it is written in a single easy-to-read hand on a single stock of high quality wove paper with a watermark bearing the date of 1822.
An extended text apparently unpublished, at least separately.
Provenance: Gilt supra-libros of Pope Gregory XVI. Circa 1930 acquired by John Howell, bookseller in San Francisco, and added to his personal library (bookplate on front pastedown). He later sold it to the Pacific School of Religion (bookplate on front pastedown; stamps).
Binding: Full vellum over boards, round spine, no raised bands; spine richly gilt using a variety of tools. Papal coat of arms in the center of each board. All edges gilt.
Binding as above, spine darkened as are the boards, front joint repaired; gilt faded but still attractive and “legible.” Small stamp on a blank page and another in upper margin of the first page of the dedication; charge pocket on rear pastedown.
An impressively bound copy of an interesting and very nicely produced manuscript. (35975)

“Christians
Unjustly Accused of Polytheism” — On the Unity of Jehovah
Taylor, Henry. The apology of Benjamin Ben Mordecai to his friends, for embracing Christianity; in seven letters... London: J. Wilkie, 1771–74. 4to (26.5 cm, 10.4"). vii, [1], 128, [2], v, [1], 60, lxiii–lxv, [1], 63–115, [1], cxxi–cxxiv, 125–205, [1], v, [1], 48, xlix/l, 49–94, xcv–xcvii, [1], 95–187, [1 (adv.)] pp.
$550.00
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First edition. The ostensible conversion of the title was actually an excuse to attack the Athanasian creed; written by the controversialist Rev. Henry Taylor and addressed to Elisha Levi, these letters “espoused the restrained Arianism of Samuel Clarke . . . and embraced the Apollinarian heresy which questioned the human nature of Christ's person” (DNB).
Letters II–IV and V–VII have separate title-pages, dated 1773 and 1774 respectively.
ESTC T101252; Allibone 2344; Lowndes 2581–82. On Taylor, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent quarter calf with marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges tooled in blind, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. Outer (closed) edges institutionally rubber-stamped; title-page and one other pressure-stamped in an old style.
Very clean and with wide margins. (25083)

Anglican Moral Theology from
“the Shakespeare of Divines”
Taylor, Jeremy. Ductor dubitantium, or the rule of conscience in all her generall measures; serving as a great instrument for the determination of cases of conscience. London: Pr. by James Flesher for Richard Royston, 1660. Folio (32 cm, 12.6"). 2 vols. I: Add. engr. t.-p., [6], xl, 559, [1] pp.; 1 plt. II: [2], 558, [2] pp.
$1500.00
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First edition: Important philosophical treatise on conscience, casuistry, and Christian ethics, written by the Bishop of Down and Connor. The controversialist Taylor, crowned “the Shakespeare of divines” by Ralph Waldo Emerson, was the subject during his career of a number of accusations of crypto-popery, but the present work — the first of its kind — was designed as a “complete protestant answer to the many Roman Catholic manuals of casuistry” (according to the Oxford DNB online) and intended to provide an authoritative Anglican reference on the subject.
The portrait of the author was engraved by Pierre Lombard, while the added engraved title-page is unsigned. Each of the four books here (in two volumes) has a separate title-page; the main title-pages are printed in black and ruled in red. The text is in English, Greek, and Latin. A printed addenda slip is affixed to the final text page of vol. II, above the catalogue of books sold by Richard Royston. Leaf L6 in vol. II is a cancel (and separated).
Provenance: Vol. I added title-page recto with inked ownership inscription dated 1781 (“T. Moore”); vol. II front fly-leaf with inked ownership inscription dated 1696 (“Guilel. Rayner”) and another (of “T. Moore's”) dated 1781.
ESTC R20123; Wing (rev.) T324; Allibone 2348. On Taylor, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges tooled in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title and volume labels and gilt-stamped decorations between raised bands. Ownership inscriptions as above. First few leaves of vol. I (including regular and added title-pages) with tiny spots of worming; slightly larger sections of same to inner margins of some subsequent leaves; a number of pages in both volumes with scattered spots of worming, touching letters but not affecting sense. Light waterstaining to outer margins of some leaves. One leaf in vol. II separated.
Significant and attractive. (24889)
Taylor, Jeremy. Vnum necessarium. Or, the doctrine and practice of repentance. Describing the necessities and measures of a strict, a holy, and a Christian life. And rescued from popular errors. [with his] A further explication of the doctrine of originall sin. London: James Flesher for R. Royston, 1655. 8vo (19 cm, 7.5"). A–Z8Aa–Zz8Aaa4; engr. t.-p., [46], 448, [8], 449–690 (i.e., 746), [6 (index)] pp. (pagination incorrect); 1 fold. plt.
$650.00
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Second edition of the Unum necessarium, following the first of 1653, followed by the first edition of the Further Explication. Jeremy Taylor (1613–67), a High Church divine and chaplain to Charles I, was well known as a theologian and one of the school of Caroline Divines who brilliantly systematized Anglican theology in the 17th century. The first of these present works caused him some difficulty, as some of its arguments were widely considered unorthodox and antidoctrinal; the Further Explication was Taylor’s attempt to clarify his position.
The engraved frontispiece by P. Lombart depicts Jesus in shepherd guise, and is followed by a title-page printed in red and black. An oversized, folding plate shows a contrite heart accompanied by scriptural figures and allegorical images; this is also signed, Lombart. Both works came off the press with incorrect pagination, the latter with apparent page count being thrown significantly off.
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Charles Grave Hudson.
ESTC R203751; Wing (rev.) T415. Contemporary speckled calf, framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; leather cracked over joints and spine. Occasional pencilled bracketing. (12659)

Much
Funereal Detail . . .
(Taylor, Zachary). Obituary addresses delivered on the occasion of the death of Zachary Taylor, president of the United States, in the Senate and House of Representatives, July 10, 1850; with the funeral sermon by the Rev. Smith Pyne, D.D. rector of St. John's church, Washington, preached in the presidential mansion, July 13, 1850. Washington: William M. Belt, 1850. 8vo. Frontis., 107, [5 (blank)] pp.
$90.00
Zachary Taylor's sudden death (possibly from eating a bowl of bad cherries) was a shock to the nation. His funeral took place in Washington on July 12th, 1850, with an estimated 100,000 people attending the funeral procession. The presidential hearse was drawn by eight white horses accompanied by grooms dressed in white and wearing white turbans. Behind the hearse were military units, pall-bearers (drawn from the ranks of Congress, the military, and the Supreme Court), the president's beloved horse "Old Whitey," his family, and a long line of citizens. The procession stretched over two miles. This book has a detailed account of the procession as well as speeches by many Washington dignitaries Not in Sabin. Quarter buckram over paper-covered sides. Without the original mourning wrappers. "Mercantile Library Co." blind-stamped on both sides. Paper call number label on spine. Edges and corners worn, tips of spine pulled, with loss. Ownership signature on front fly leaf, and charge pocket and card on rear free endpaper. Dog-eared. (3722)

Early American Edition: German Reformed Hymnal
Tersteegen, Gerhardt. Geistliches Blumen-Gärtlein inniger Seelen; oder Kurze Schluss-Reimen, Betrachtungen und Lieder, ueber allerhand Wahrheiten des inwendigen Christenthums; zur Erweckung, Stärkung und Erquickung in dem verborgenen Leben mit Christo in Gott; nebst der Frommen Lotterie. Germantaun: Gedruckt und zu finden bey Peter Leibert, 1791. 12mo (14 cm, 5.5"). [12], 126, [20], 127–534, [8] pp. (pagination erratic, several pages out of order).
$500.00
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Gerhardt Tersteegen (1697–1769) was a pillar of German pietism, a popular and innovative poet noted for his use of free verse, and (along with Joachim Neander) one of the two most significant German hymnographers of the 18th century. First published in 1729, his “Spiritual Flower Garden for Ardent Souls” contains “end-rhymes,” “meditations,” and hymns. The first American edition appeared in 1747; this is the fourth.
Evans 23823; ESTC W21016; Arndt & Eck 805. Contemporary mottled sheep, covers framed in blind, with remnants of original clasp, spine with later gilt-stamped leather title and publication labels; leather mildly rubbed, spine leather with small cracks, spine and joints unobtrusively repaired. Front free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription dated 1835; afterwards, ex–theological library: Old-fashioned bookplate on front pastedown, title-page pressure-stamped, pocket on back pastedown. Pagination erratic; several pages appearing out of order. A few corners bumped or dog-eared; a good many sections moderately browned and stained as is commonly seen with these Germantown imprints. (27905)

Interpreting the Prophets
Theophylactus of Achrida; Lonicer, Jean (trans.). Theophylacti Bulgariae archiepiscopi In quatuor Prophetas enarrationes. Parisiis: Apud Iacobum Bogardum, sub insigni D. Christophori è regione gymnasij Cameracensium, 1549. 8vo (17.5 cm, 6.75’’). [8], 112 ff.
$875.00
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Theophylactus (1055–1107) was a Byzantine archbishop of Achrida, in Bulgaria, and an important theologian whose work was included by Thomas Aquinas in his Catena aurea. First published in Latin in the 1520s, his commentaries on the Scriptures were very influential to Erasmus’s exegetical work. This scarce Parisian edition, based on Bogard’s of 1542, was reprinted by his heirs in cooperation with Jean Macé; the title-pages of the two issues bear slight differences in the imprint information. The work features Theophylactus’s commentary on the Old Testament books of Habakkuk, Jonah, Nahum, and Hosea in Loncier's translation from the Greek, which first appeared in 1534; each chapter discusses their most important vaticinia with Theophylactus' interpretations following, with mention of early Christian heresies and doctrinal debates.
Binding: 16th-century polished calf expertly rebacked in slightly lighter leather; spine plain with raised bands accented by blind rules above and below each band. Covers blind-ruled with large gilt fleurons to corners and gilt floral centerpieces. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Contemporary inscription “Perrot” to title-page (possibly Charles Perrot, 1541–1608, a Protestant minister in Geneva who preached religious tolerance and so fell out of favor with Calvin); slightly later name “Langloir” also inked to same.
Small 19th-century photographic portrait of a military officer pasted to verso of front free endpaper. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Pettegree & Walsby record two copies, one in the U.S. (Harvard); WorldCat and COPAC find no copies with Bogard’s imprint.
Renouard, Imprimeurs & libraires Parisiens du XVIe siècle, 281; Pettegree & Walsby, French Books, 8834. Bound and rebacked as above, with onetime cracking to covers near joints also strengthened/refurbished with darkening to leather; minor repair to corners, and later endpapers. Text double-ruled in red, with occasional slight toning and a little foxing to the title-page and last three leaves; a slender waterstain to the upper blank margin of the last two leaves and a small repair to the outer blank margin of the last.
A very nice copy in an interesting binding. (40794)

Pickering–Chiswick Imitation — Signed Binding
Thomas, à Kempis. De imitatione Christi et contemptu mundi omniumque ejus vanitatum libri IV. Codex De-Advocatis saeculi XIII. Londini: Guil. Pickering (pr. by C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press), 1851. 12mo (14.4 cm, 5.67"). xxii, 322, [2] pp.
$275.00
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Handsome Chiswick Press production of the enduring classic, here in an equally handsome signed binding. The Latin text opens with a prefatory “Life of Thomas of Kempis” (in English) by Charles Butler and is decorated with ornamental headpieces and capitals. While Pickering had previously published an Imitation of Christ in Latin in 1827, this is the
first Pickering edition printed by Whittingham at the Chiswick Press and “from the edition of Lambinet, with a strict adherence to the text “ (p. xv).
Binding: Signed binding, stamped by Charles Capé at foot of front pastedown: Very simple black morocco, spine with raised bands and gilt-stamped title, place of publication, and date; board edges with gilt rules, pastedowns with gilt dentelle rolls. All edges gilt.Provenance: Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1851.9; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 75. Binding as above, original silk bookmark present. Pages gently and evenly age-toned, otherwise clean and fresh.
A desirable copy. (40820)

Murder Most Foul — Guilt Most Miserable
Three true and remarkable stories. The awful death of a murderer. The power of conscience. And, the terrors of a guilty conscience. London: J. Evans & Son, [ca. 1820?]. 8vo (18.4 cm, 7.24"). 8 pp.
[SOLD]
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Three sensational cautionary tales, about “a young woman of an extraordinary good character” (p. 3) who secretly bears and kills a baby and then dies of “a wounded spirit”; a jeweler's apprentice who kills his master and conducts his subsequent affairs so skillfully that he rises to the post of chief magistrate before succumbing to guilt upon being asked to judge a prisoner charged with murdering his master; and a sailor who almost — but not quite — kills his wife and children through neglect and abuse. The title-page wood engraving of this later printing shows the repentant magistrate unburdening his heart to his fellow judges in a courtroom.
Provenance: From the chapbook collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Removed from a nonce volume. Edges untrimmed, some slightly ragged. Title-page with small smudge of what may be printer's ink, pages otherwise clean.
Uncommon and REALLY SENSATIONAL. (41204)

Angels & Allegories for
Children
Todd, John. The angel of the iceberg: and other stories, illustrating great moral truths. Northampton: Bridgman & Childs; New York: Sheldon & Co.; Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co., 1859. 8vo (17.3 cm, 6.8"). 376 pp.; 2 plts.
$55.00
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First edition. This collection of edifying Christian tales includes “Niblan the Great and the Little Angel,” “The Day Lily and the Old Mahogany-Tree,” “Little Mufta and the Valley of Sorrow,” “The Island of Convicts and the Young Prince,” “The Angel of Toil and the Great Mill,” and others, along with the title story, mostly written by the pastor of the First Congregational Church in Pittsfield, Massachusetts — although he notes in the preface that some (which are unidentified) were written by one of his children. The volume opens with a steel-engraved tropical view and an additional engraved title-page done by S. Cloues.
Provenance: Front free endpaper and front fly-leaf each with contemporary pencilled inscription: “Miss L. Hart, Poughkeepsie, New York.”
Publisher's textured olive cloth, covers with embossed strapwork medallion surrounded by blind-stamped ivy border, spine with gilt-stamped title and ivy decoration; cloth attractively faded, extremities slightly rubbed, binding cocked with sewing loosening slightly. Pages with scattered instances of spotting, generally clean. (34793)
Printed in London — (Re-)Bound inTrenton
Toone, William. The chronological historian; or a record of public events, historical, political, biographical, literary, domestic, and miscellaneous; principally illustrative of the ecclesiastical, civil, naval, and military history of Great Britain and its dependencies, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the present time... Second edition. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1828. 8vo (21.8 cm, 8.55"). 2 vols. I: [1] f., ii, 664 pp. II: [1] f., 747, [1] pp.
$250.00
Second edition of this ambitious (if, necessarily, much-abridged) timeline of British history, originally published in 1826. Toone, who seems to have been greatly interested in the organization and summarization of information, also published The magistrate's manual, or, A summary of the duties and powers of a justice of the peace and A glossary and etymological dictionary, of obsolete and uncommon words, antiquated phrases, and proverbs illustrative of early English literature.Binding: Mid- to late-19th-century binding, with binder’s ticket of the True American Bindery of Trenton, NJ.
Half morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped titles and blind-stamped decorative devices; edges and sides moderately rubbed with a bit of paper skinned from cover of vol. II. Most pages with some degree of foxing. Handsome on shelf, solid in hand. (12431)

A Big Book Documenting a Big Era
Trevor-Roper, Hugh, ed. The age of expansion: Europe and the world 1559–1660. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., © 1968. Folio. 360 pp.; col. illus.
$25.00
“Three themes dominate the period covered by this book . . . the consolidation of the new nation-states . . . religious persecution and the wars between Catholic and Protestant . . . the expansion of Europe over the whole world” (from the dust-jacket).
The volume is extensively illustrated in color and black-and-white; this is a work of art reference as well as historical reference.
Publisher's terra-cotta cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, corners bumped yet cloth pristine, in dust-jacket; wrapper with wear at corners and spine extremities, one short edge tear to upper front edge. Pages age-toned; clean and unmarked. (26183)

United BCP with a
Westminster Abbey Fore-Edge View
United Church of England and Ireland. 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: Pub. for John Reeves (pr. by W. Bulmer), 1802. 8vo (24 cm, 9.5"). vi, [694] pp.
$750.00
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There were minor differences between the Prayer Books of the Church of England and the Church of Ireland up until 1801, the year that the churches merged; the various 1801 BCPs were the first to use the “United Church” designation. John Reeves had been appointed king's printer in 1800, and edited his own version of the BCP, of which this is the second edition; the separate title-page following the preliminary matter is dated 1801. (That preliminary matter, offering historical and liturgical commentary, is extensive and interesting.)Fore-edge: This beautiful example bears a subtly shaded (and therefore hard to photograph)
fore-edge painting showing Westminster Abbey in the background behind a waterfront view with sailboats.
Binding: Full straight-grain dark olive green morocco, covers framed in elegant feather and pearl twist gilt roll, turn-ins with floral gilt roll. Stone-pattern marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1802/1. Binding as above, mild rubbing overall with some abraded areas consolidated, joints and extremities subtly repaired, aesthetically appropriate endbands supplied. Title-page with inked ownership inscription dated 1803, “The gift of my beloved husband.” Intermittent faint spots of foxing, mostly confined to early leaves. One inked marginal annotation in an early hand, three psalms (145–47) with small inked emphasis marks, pages otherwise clean. (28715)

Laws of Oxford
University of Oxford. Parecbolae sive excerpta è corpore statutorum Universitatis Oxoniensis. Accedunt articuli religionis XXXIX. in Ecclesia Anglicana recepti: nec non juramenta fidelitatis & suprematus. Oxoniae: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1729. 8vo in 4s (15.9 cm, 6.25"). [24], 232 (lacking pp. 227–30) pp.
$350.00
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18th-century edition of this collection of selected statutes of the University of Oxford, originally compiled by Thomas Crossfield of Queen's College and printed in 1638 under the title Statuta selecta è corpore statutorum Universitatis Oxon. The section Statuta Bibliothecae Bodleianae is of special interest to book people, though the notes on disturbing the peace and de nocturna Vagatione cannot but please the Latinate.
That this is a volume of “selections” is trumpeted on the title-page. However, both usefully for the seeker of context and at points confusingly for the actual reader, its table of contents seems to be not for what's present as selected but for the text in full extent — so the table announces, for example, that “Titulus XVII” comprises nine sections and lists these even unto the subsections, though the body of the book itself sets forth sections five and six only.
The title-page offers a handsome vignette of the Theatre, not one of the commonest ones.
ESTC T118673; Madan, Oxford Books, 17. Period-style calf, framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons and rather elaborate additional decorations in blind; spine with gilt-stamped title and publication information and different blind-tooled decorations. Endpapers a little smudged and title-page mounted, with edges darkened. Early inked ownership inscription in upper margin of first text page mostly torn away, with loss of a few words. Pp. 227–30 lacking, being the last bit of the printing of the Church of England's 39 Articles and the first part of the section, “De Eligendis Publicis Lectoribus.” Pages faintly age-toned, with occasional light spotting; mostly clean. (25553)

Early Christianity in Britain & the
Heresy of Pelagianism
Ussher, James. Britannicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates: Quibus inserta est pestiferae adversus Dei gratiam a Pelagio britanno in ecclesiam inductae haereseos historia. Accedit gravissimae quaestionis de christianarum ecclesiarum successione & statu historica explicatio. Londini: Impensis Benj. Tooke, 1687. Folio (31 cm, 12.5"). [8] ff., 136, 145–336, 339–509, [5], 507–548 pp., [7] ff., 191, [1] pp.
$600.00
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Ussher (1581–1656), Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, is most remembered by the general public for his calculation — based upon his literal reading of the Old Testament — that the first day of creation was 23 October 4004 bc (Julian calendar). The present work was first published in Dublin in 1639 and is here in the second edition “in utraque parte ipsius reverendissimi autoris manu passim aucta & nusquam non emendata.”
The DNB online writes of the Antiquitates: “In 1639 came the culmination of Ussher's researches into the early history of Britain and Ireland, with the publication of his Britannicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates, a monumental work that set out to trace the development of Christianity in these islands from its misty origins to the end of the seventh century. . . . During the 1630s, as his historical interests matured, it became evident that the fiercely anti-Catholic and apocalyptic tone of his earlier writings was much less prominent. But one contemporary concern remained evident in Antiquitates — Ussher's anti-Arminianism: the work contained yet another treatment of the efforts to stamp out Pelagianism in Britain.”
ESTC R9506; Wing (rev. ed.) U160. Late 20th- or early 21st–century quarter dark brown calf, round spine, gilt-beaded raised bands, red leather title-label and blind-stamped center device in each other spine compartment, date in gilt at base of spine; sides with wide comb pattern marbled paper. Waterstaining to early and late leaves, generally confined to margins, with cockling throughout; overall a rather good copy, nicely and very strongly bound. (38981)

“Listen, Ye Who Look for Jesus”
Van Dyke, Henry. The toiling of Felix: A legend on a new saying of the Christ. New York: Privately printed, 1898. 12mo (19.2 cm, 7.5"). 34 pp.
$200.00
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A presentation copy of one of only 125 copies total “printed from type at the De Vinne Press.” Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) was an American author and clergyman who also taught English literature at Princeton University. His works, which include several Christmas stories, are deeply reflective of his religious devotion. Here, through rhyming verse, he tells of a man's revelation during his quest seeking God. After failed attempts to find Him through books and solitude, Felix finally achieves what he's looking for through daily labor. God tells him, “Raise the stone, and thou shalt find Me; cleave the wood, and I am there.”
This is copy no. 7.
Provenance: Presentation copy to Arthur H. Scribner, a president of Charles Scribner's Sons and a Princeton alumnus, signed by Van Dyke, “March 17, 1898, Dies Sancti Patricii.”
Quarter “vellum” paper over gray paper–covered boards, dark teal lettering to front board; corners a bit bumped, very faint dirtying of boards. Interior bright, with fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. An unassumingly simple production from a good press, now uncommon and here inscribed by the author. (38239)

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

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

Offering Help with the
Important & Difficult Bits
Van Est, Willem Hessels (i.e., Estius). Annotationes in praecipua ac difficiliora sacrae scripturae loca. Duaci [Douai]: Apud Gerardum Patté, sub signo missalis aurei, 1628. Folio in 6's (36 cm, 14.2"). [3] ff. (of 4, lacking title-leaf), 684 pp., [10] ff.
$550.00
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“Second edition” (but really third?) of commentary on the O.T. and N.T. by Willem Hessels van Est (Gulielmus Estius, 1542–1613), who studied classics at Utrecht and religion at Louvain, and was Chancellor at the University of Douai from 1595 until his death. Famous especially for exegetical writings, as herein, “Estius's reputation became so great among later scholars that the saying . . . 'Estius on the Epistles' became proverbial.” (NCE) This edition was edited by Gaspard Dubois (Nemius, 1587–1667), whose dedication to Francis van der Burch, Archbishop of Cambrai, features his
engraved arms as a headpiece.
First published in 1617, the text is in Latin printed in roman and italic, double-column, framed on each page by a double-ruled border, with elaborate woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, many incorporating the Jesuit “IHS” and one of these
censored by an 18th-century hand. (Two large leaves are drawn in ink over objectionable putti parts!)
The title-page, wanting in this copy, has been transcribed by the same(?) early hand in ink on the front fly-leaf recto and verso, and the imprint information is confirmed by the colophon on the last page, which features the woodcut printer's device and the date in roman numerals.
Provenance: An inscription on the front fly-leaf verso gives three dates, 1682–1739, and the names Fido Springhere and Philippus Coisne(?); there is a second ex-libris inscription with the name Baptista Baelde(?) at top of dedication leaf; and a final inscription, “Fido Springhere 1686" on verso of last leaf, above colophon.
Scarce: This edition
not in NUC Pre-1956, and WorldCat finds just three U.S. copies.
McCrank, 871. On Estius, see: NCE, V, 558. Contemporary calf with an elaborate cartouche gilt at the center of each cover, rebacked to style with gilt-ruled raised bands and green gilt-lettered spine label; extremities repaired and new endpapers. Ex-library: old oval stamp on first page of dedication and accession number on p. 1 of text. Lacks title-leaf; various markings on verso of front endpaper; final two quires lightly creased; small marginal hole from natural paper flaw on three leaves; a few spots and smudges and one small tear, also from natural flaw. With occasional
underlining and marginalia in Latin, seemingly by the same hand that transcribed the title and inscribed the fly-leaf. (31112)

Waxing Philosophical on
Duty, Obedience, & the Common
Good
Vauvilliers, Jean-François. Questions sur les sermens
ou promesses politiques en général, et en particulier sur le voeu de haine éternelle a la royauté.
Bâle: De l'Imprimerie de Thourneisen, 1796. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). 74 pp.
$100.00
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First edition: The author justifies his refusal to take the oath of allegiance.
Vauvilliers was a prominent Hellenist scholar and professor who, following the Revolution,
became an important Parisian official.WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only eight U.S. institutional holdings.
Martin & Walter 33276. “Spine” with overcast, later stitching. Title-page with
paper shelving label in lower inner corner, pencilled initials in upper outer corner. One leaf with
tear from upper inner margin, touching a few letters without loss; last leaf with tear from foot
along inner margin. Light to moderate foxing scattered throughout.
(30943)

Wise, WARM Advice to a
Young Philadelphia Woman
V[aux], R[oberts]. Autograph Sentiment Signed (with initials) for Isabella Walsh. [Philadelphia]: 18 January 1828. Small 4to. 1 p.
$75.00
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Inscribed on a page of Walsh's autograph album is this wonderful sentiment and advice:
“The affectionate interest which I have always entertained for the welfare & happiness, of the eldest daughter, & proper representative, of one of the most estimable, and accomplished ladies who ever adorned the society of Philadelphia, induces me to comply with a request of the possessor of this volume, to inscribe some lines upon one of its pages.
It were impossible to contribute wiser counsel, or more excellent lessons, than those already recorded in this Album, by her honoured Father, & several of his, & her Mothers [sic] friends.
I will only commend her to the most faithful observation of that advice, and to the strictest imitation of the pure & bright example, furnished in the character of her departed & lamented Mother, whose unostentation piety, gave especial grace & dignity to her life, and has no doubt yielded for her immortal spirit, a precious & enduring rest, in Heaven.”
Vaux was a noted lawyer, philanthropist, abolitionist, and civic leader. Miss Walsh (b. 8 July 1812) was the daughter of Robert Walsh (lawyer and abolitionist) and Anna Maria Moylan Walsh (who died in 1826).
Provenance: The Walsh album sold at Anderson Galleries 28 November 1921 (sale 1609) as lot 60. Later in the Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.
Very good condition. (34490)
“Complete”
Evangelical
Response to
the
Whole Duty
Venn, Henry.
The complete duty of man: Or, a system of doctrinal and practical Christianity
... a new edition. London: J. Buckland & G. Keith; and sold at Edinburgh
by Ar. Constable, 1795. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.45"). xvi, 500 pp. (xvii–xx
bound in between 498 & 499).
$375.00
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Revised edition, “carefully corrected, and divided into
fifty-two chapters, one for each Lord's Day in the year” according to
the title-page. The Rev. Venn (1725–97), an acclaimed preacher, wrote
the Complete Duty as a response to the Whole Duty of Man, a
classic devotional work but one which many eighteenth-century evangelicals
felt wanting in the doctrine of justifying faith. The Complete Duty
was first published in 1763 and went through numerous editions; John Henry
Overton calls it “deservedly one of the most popular of all the practical
and devotional works of the Evangelical school.”
Uncommon:
OCLC and ESTC locate only four U.S. institutional holdings of this
edition, one of which has since been deaccessioned.
Provenance: Old inked
signatures of “John R. Brown,” “Tho. Smith,” and “Rev.
Thos. Smith.”
ESTC N028205; Overton, Evangelical Revival in the Eighteenth
Century, 103–04. Contemporary treed sheep, rebacked with
complementary speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label
and raised bands ruled in gilt; corners and edges rubbed, sides scuffed,
lower outer portion of back cover discolored. First preface page with rubber-stamped
numeral, first and last text pages with institutional rubber-stamp in lower
margins. Front fly-leaf, upper outer corner of title-page, and verso of
title-page with inked ownership inscriptions as above. Four pages of contents
bound in at back of volume. Pages age-toned, a few with light to moderate
foxing; outer edge of title-page browned. A solid, in fact pleasant book.
(25929)

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

Post-Concordat
Vilinas, C. La vérité sur les divisions qui existent entre
les deux clergés de France, et projet de réunion; ou lettre de M. L'abbe *** ... a M. L'abbé de
***. Paris: Vatar-Jouannet, An IX / 1801. 8vo (19 cm, 7.4"). 32 pp.
$110.00
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Scarce sole edition of this entry in the debate over how to reconcile the constitutional clergy and the non-jurors, written following the Concordat of 1801 and the meeting of the Comité Central on 27 July 1801. WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only two U.S. institutional holdings.
Removed from a nonce volume, sewing loosening and signatures separating. Title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner and pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. First few pages (including title) with spots of staining, not obscuring text. (30809)

Kennebunkport Church Cookery
Village Baptist Church (Kennebunkport, ME). Ladies' Guild. Cook book. Kennebunkport, ME: Published by Village Baptist Church Kennebunkport Maine [at the Press of Arundel], [1948]. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). 56, [24 (adv.)] pp. (some pagination out of sequence).
$75.00
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Uncommon fund-raising cookbook, printed in “an edition of 1000 from the press of Arundel for the Village Baptist Church”; date of publication is supplied by the New York Public Library. This copy includes a number of laid-in manuscript and printed recipes, including a handwritten recipe for cranberry coffee cake, an advertising item from Swanson with recipes for “Oriental Chicken” and other dishes, a recipe pamphlet from Purity Supreme, instructions for the “Energy Miser Original Potato Baker,” a Dover Farms whipped topping lid with recipe for apple crisp, an envelope with handwritten notes on rhubarb bread (with the original letter still inside, acknowledging the recipient for donating equipment to a project known as “Camp Waban for Retarded Citizens”), etc.
WorldCat locates only one library reporting ownership (NYPL).
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers, stapled as issued; spine and edges rubbed, moderately worn overall, front wrapper with scuff and old crease, back wrapper with small spots of staining. Inside a few scattered spots only, pages mostly clean.
Seldom-seen ephemeral Maine church cookery, this example with extra interest for its lay-ins. (38089)

“'Eternal God!' exclaimed the weeping father . . . ”
Village curate: An interesting tale. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [1840s]. 12mo. 24 pp.
$35.00
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This chapbook offers not a collection of “songs” but
a single extended and indeed “interesting” tale of false appearances, workhouses, betrayed trust, and true love.
Its title-page bears an oval woodcut of a man and woman meeting on a country road.
NSTC 2V4202. Removed from a bound volume. Good++ condition. (37148)
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