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“A Family of Beauties Interesting to Us for Almost
Every Reason That Can Render Women Interesting”
(A RATHER BREATHTAKING Caption ~ No??).Scott, Walter; Charles Heath, illus. The Waverley gallery of the principal female characters in Sir Walter Scott's romances. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1864. 8vo (26.8 cm, 10.55"). 230 pp.; 36 plts.
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36 steel-engraved portraits. Heath, a prominent artist and engraver, illustrated a number of Scott's works during the course of his prolific career and was much noted for his work on the Waverley Novels, although for the present volume he focused on works done by other hands. The plates here, offering
a range of maidenly beauties from demure to maniacal, are each accompanied by several pages of Scott's most descriptive writing about the character portrayed. This is an early American edition, following the first London of 1840–41.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf with pencilled inscription: “Sarah & Thomas [/] From Father E [/] 'Merry Christmas' [/] 1864.” Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
• Bound as above, a little very light rubbing; gilt bright. Some offsetting to guard leaves and minimal foxing to margins of some plates — actually, remarkably little! 
A clean and attractive copy of this aesthetically pleasing collection. (39861)
Don't Fall for It, Fatima!(A Pristine ENGLISH Barbe bleue). Perrault, Charles.The history of Blue Beard. With a coloured engraving. Derby / London: Thomas Richardson / Robert Sears & Co., [ca. 1830]. 24mo (14 cm, 5.5"). 12 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate
only one U.S. library reporting ownership (Pierpont Morgan) and four internationally.
• Meriton & Dumontet, Small Books, 92. Fine copy in original green wrappers. (38812)
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Women Gone WEST . . . Now ca. 170 Years Ago(AMERICAN WOMEN, ON THE MOVE). Ladies' Society for the Promotion of Education at the West. First annual report. Boston: Well-Spring Press, A.J. Wright, printer, 1847. 8vo. 38 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.No one here was sent to what came to be the “far” West — it wasn't yet time for that — but concerned as these young women surely were about unsaved frontier folk and “papal ascendancy,” they clearly felt themselves to be off on real adventures in places that were not, well, New England . . .
Apparently the last annual report was in 1852.
• Sabin 38542. Disbound. Clean. (38336)
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An American Reads, Often Disagrees With, & Sometimes Corrects Mill(An AMERICAN
READER OPINES). . . . Mill, John Stuart. The subjection of women. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1869. 12mo (19.2 cm; 7.5"). 174 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.Needless to say, the concept of equality between the sexes was beyond then-current European conventional norms.
That text discusses slavery, especially its role in the normalization of women's subjugation, and the hashtag marks the sentence, “It has not lost the taint of its brutal origin.”
Provenance: “F.S. Barter” on the front pastedown.
• Publisher's green pebbled cloth. Text block a little skewed. Overall a very nice copy. (37824)
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Abbott'sIllustrated Biographies
Abbott, Jacob, & John S.C. Abbott. 
MAKERS OF HISTORY. Akron, OH: The Superior Printing Co., [1914]. 12mo (18.8 cm, 7.4"). 20 vols. I: Frontis., [2], 256 pp.; 3 plts. II: Frontis., 229, [1] pp.; 3 plts. III: Frontis., 251, [1] pp.; 3 plts. IV: Frontis., 250 pp.; 2 plts. V: Frontis., 263, [1] pp.; 2 plts. VI: Frontis., 239, [1] pp.; 1 fold. map, 3 plts. VII: Frontis., 264 pp.; 2 plts. VIII: Frontis., 272 pp.; 2 plts. IX: Frontis., 257, [1] pp.; 1 fold. map, 3 plts. X: Frontis., 239, [1] pp.; 3 plts. XI: Frontis., 265, [1] pp.; 3 plts. XII: Frontis., 248 pp.; 3 plts. XIII: Frontis., 303, [1] pp.; 3 plts. XIV: Frontis., 285, [1] pp.; 4 plts. XV: Frontis., 287, [1] pp.; 4 plts. XVI: Frontis., 223, [1] pp.; 3 plts. XVII: Frontis., 233, [1] pp.; 3 plts. XVIII: Frontis., 327, [1] pp.; 4 plts. XIX: Frontis., 263, [1] pp.; 3 plts. XX: Frontis., 285, [1] pp.; 3 plts.
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• Publisher's cream paper–covered boards, spines with stamped titles and heraldic rampant lion decorations; spines darkened (uniformly so), some spines chipped or scuffed. Preface and last text page of each volume with pencilled ownership inscription of J.C.B., dated 1923, except vol XV, marked as read in 1959 by J.D. Bowman. Vol. VI with newspaper clippings affixed to free endpapers, offset onto pastedowns. Vol. VIII with frontispiece separated and laid in, first few lower outer corners bumped, small pencilled marks of emphasis. Vol. IX with small scuff to front cover, small pencilled marks of emphasis, newspaper clipping affixed to back pastedown. Vol. XI with lower portion of one leaf torn away, with loss of portions of eight lines. Vol. XIII with front joint cracked and spine paper partially detached, reinforced some time ago with cellophane tape. Vols. XIV and XIX with back endpapers bearing inked and pencilled annotations. 
An enjoyably readable tour of famous lives in a “period” edition. (33428)
Signed Binding —Pure GoldAlbin, Thomas, ed. Pure gold from the rivers of wisdom. Edited by the author of “Affection's keepsake.” New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1841. 32mo (10.5 cm; 4.25"). [1 (ads)] f., 126 pp., [2 (ads)] pp.; frontis. (included in pagination).
Click the images for enlargements. The frontispiece (retaining its tissue guard) is an engraving by Thomas Phillibrown showing a young male writer in a sea-side cave with a quill pen, leaning on his writing pad and looking for inspiration.
Binding: Signed binding (embossed stamp on front fly-leaf) by B. Bradley of Boston. Green cloth, spine stamped in gold with vines, grapes, and title; stamped in blind on covers featuring birds and vines. Yellow calendared endpapers. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Mid- to late-19th-century pencil signature of L.A. Nichols.
• American Imprints 41-128. Binding as above. Minor discoloration in a few inner and foremargins; offsetting from frontispiece to title-page despite tissue (or because of it). Very good. (36017)
One Poem on an “Air Balloon” & a *FUNNY* One Called“A Receipt for Writing a Novel”Alcock, Mary. Poems, &c. &c. by the late Mrs. Mary Alcock. London: C. Dilly, 1799. 8vo. vii, [3], 183, [1] pp. (lacking subscribers list).
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Title-page with early inked name “Timothy Tynell” in upper margin and ink smear to inner margin; early inked gift inscription (“J. Sadler given to him by W. Clanton”) between verses on p. 3.
• ESTC T86344. 19th-century half calf over marbled paper, much worn and abraded with covers detached, last few leaves starting to separate, and leather partially lost over spine; an ex-library, reading copy worthy of rebinding — covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution, title-page and several others rubber-stamped, back free endpaper with pocket. Lacking extensive (25 pp.) subscribers' list (only). Pages with light to moderate spotting and a few short edge tears, not touching text. (17696)
With a Woman's IllustrationsAnacreon. Anacreontis Odaria, ad textus Barnesiani fidem emendata. Londini: Gul. Bulmer & Soc., 1802. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.4"). [2], 130 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements.20 copper-engraved vignettes. The Annual Review & History of Literature for 1803 described the resulting volume as an “exquisite specimen of typographical skill,” while Dibdin called it an “elegant work” that “confers great credit on the printer.”
Provenance: Early 19th-century ownership signature on front fly-leaf of Robert Harry Hughes, Jesus College, Oxford; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Dibdin, I, 266–67; NSTC A1179; Schweiger, I, 25–26. Bound as above; darkening to spine and small adjoining area on boards and along top area of boards; joints and edges rubbed. Pages age-toned with instances of mild to moderate foxing. A handsomely printed and pleasingly bound volume. (39276)
Murder by PoisonUnidentifiedAngus, Charles (defendant). The trial of Charles Angus, Esq. on an indictment for the wilful murder of Margaret Burns, at the Assizes held at Lancaster, on Friday, 2d Sept. 1808, before the Hon. Sir Alan Chambre. Liverpool: Printed by William Jones, [1808]. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [2] ff., 288 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.important material relating to medical jurisprudence and forensic medicine.
Binding: Circa-1865 half-black calf with green marbled paper sides, spine with gilt-stamped red leather label, gilt rules to form compartments, and blind-stamped center device in five compartments.
Provenance: Contemporary signature on title-page of James Kendrick; embossed ownership stamp of J.H. Williams, rector of Llangadwaladr; bookseller's label of Wildy & Sons, London; late 19th- or early 20th-century armorial leather bookplate of Alexander MacGregor; most recently in the collection of Robert Sadoff, M.D.
• Binding as above, edges rubbed, small scuffs. The endpapers, curiously, appear to have been marbled over typeprint. Very good. (39633)
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HOPE that You Never Receive a Gift of“Penny Royal”!Anonymous. Language of flowers. London: Rock Brothers & Payne (Boot, printer, Dockhead), no date [ca. 1850]. Miniature (49 mm; 1.95"). 100 pp., [14] ff. (ads).
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Original black goat elaborately stamped in gilt on covers and spine. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Miniature bookplate of Grace Broecker, a major collector of miniature books: a portion of her collection is now at the Huntington Library.
• Welsh, Bibliography of miniature books, 4279. Binding as above. Upper outer corner of front cover abraded exposing minute hint of the board. Very good. (35633)
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A Lotta Moneyon the Line — A Lady's DowryArias de Saavedra, Francisco. Manifestacion de los derechos de la menor dona Grimaneza de la Puente en el juicio que en segunda instancia; ha promovido en esta real audiencia, con el Señor Marques de Corpa oydor de ella: sobre el entero de la dote de la Marquesa de la Puente su hija finada, para que se reforme la sentencia de vista declaratoria de la simulacion del instrumento dotal. Lima: En la Imprenta Real de los Niños Expósitos, 1793. Small 4to (21 cm; 8.25"). [3] ff., 175, [1 (blank)] pp., [1 (errata)] f.
Click the images for enlargements. dowry of Marquesa de la Puente, a member of one of the richest and most important families of Peru in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Provenance: Bookplate of the Clements Library, properly deaccessioned.
An interesting production of the “Orphans' Press” of Lima.
• Medina, Lima, 1764; Vargas Ugarte, Impresos peruanos, 2645. Early decorative wrappers bound into 20th-century gray cloth binding; old, somewhat inexplicable stamp (in English) to front wrapper. A very good copy, complete with the errata leaf. (35488)
Jane Austen's Works — A Handsome,
Limited EditionIllustrated by the Brock Brothers Austen, Jane. The novels and letters of Jane Austen. New York & Philadelphia: Frank S. Holby, 1906. 8vo. 12 (of 12) vols. I: Frontis., [6], vii–lix, [6], 255 pp.; 5 plts. II: Frontis., [8], 302 pp.; 6 plts. III: Frontis., [4], v–vii, 3–283 pp.; 5 plts. IV: Frontis., [8], [3]–299 pp.; 5 plts. V: Frontis., [4], v–vii, [5], 338 pp.; 5 plts. VI: Frontis., [8], 347 pp.; 5 plts. VII: Frontis., [6], vii–viii, [4]–339 pp.; 5 plts. VIII: Frontis., [8], 359 pp.; 5 plts. IX: Frontis., [4], v–viii, [4]–338 pp.; 5 plts. X: Frontis., [4], vii–viii, [4]–362 pp.; 5 plts. XI: [10], 3–392 pp.; 3 plts. XII: Frontis., [8], 3–393 pp.; 3 plts. (1 fold.).
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69 plates, including a wonderful series of color drawings to accompany the text, done by the brothers Charles Edmond and Henry Matthew Brock, this isadditionally embellished with portraits of the author, pictures of her residences in Bath and Winchester, a view of her burial place inside Winchester Cathedral, a facsimile autograph letter, and a facsimile title-page of the first edition of Sense and Sensibility. Each plate is accompanied by a protective tissue guard, printed with a descriptive caption in red ink. Title-pages are printed in red and black, and each has its own unique engraved vignette. The delights in this production abound. On the whole, very satisfying!
• Publisher's brown cloth, spines with brown paper label; several labels with ssmall brown spots, cracks, and edge chips, not too conspicuous and not affecting printing. Two leaves (pp. 343–346 of vol. X) detached from binding; long tear down center of pp. 283/284 (vol. IV), without loss of text; except for two leaves with some offsetting from laid-in scrap of paper, interiors clean. Outer and lower edges deckle, with a few signatures opened unevenly and some unopened. A very good set. (24537)
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Additions to aSpaniard's Take on Roman Law Ayllón Laynez, Juan de. Illustrationes sive additiones eruditissimae ad varias resolutiones Antonii Gomezii. Lugduni [Lyon]: Sumptibus Anisson & Posuel, 1692. Folio (32.7 cm, 12.9"). [4] ff., 380, [14] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. heredity, marriage, and torture, inter alia — were first printed at Utrera, Andalusia, in 1654.
The text is in Latin, decorated with woodcut initials, factotum initials, and intricate head- and tailpieces. The title-page, printed in red and black, features a large device of a fleur-de-lis in an elaborate cartouche.
Rare, WorldCat & NUC Pre-1956 locatingjust two copies in the U.S.
• Palau 20846. Modern boards covered with 18th-century religious manuscript on vellum, with red speckled edges and ink title to spine; tight, with paper cockled and boards a bit sprung. Title-leaf with small marginal tear and three repairs; the next 88 pages repaired/reinforced in upper outer margin; minor worming variously, mostly marginal and often unnoticeable; small hole from natural paper flaw on one leaf. Foxing generally, other spotting occasionally. A used, occasionally abused, still strong copy of a scarce work. (30297)
Sermon on aSister of Mercy BEATIFIEDBaez, José. Sermon que en la solemnidad de la beatificacion de la bienaventurada Mariana de Jesus, tercera profesa de habito descubierto del Real y militar orden de Nuestra Señora de la Merced Redencion de Cautivos, predicó ... el dia 24 de abril de 1785. Mexico: En la impr. de D. Felipe de Zuniga y Ontiveros, 1785. Small 4to (19.5 cm; 7.75"). [6] ff., 28 p.
Click the images for enlargements. WorldCat locates only five copies in the U.S.
• Medina, Mexico, 7555. Removed from a nonce volume, some age-toning and foxing with final leaf wanting to separate from the rest; some leaves torn or insect gnawed at edges, with light waterstaining in some foremargins. Good condition. (36913)
(4) Women's Lives . . .Baird, Robert. Transplanted flowers, or memoirs of Mrs. Rumpff, daughter of John Jacob Astor, Esq. and the Duchess de Broglie, daughter of Madame de Stael. New York: John S. Taylor, 1847. 12mo. Frontis., 159, [1] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Publisher's blind-stamped textured cloth, spine gilt-stamped; binding lightly worn, with spine gilt rubbed and dimmed. Front pastedown with bookplate of J.E. Vanderhoef, front free endpaper with early inked inscription of Susan A. Baker. Some foxing to endpapers and a few scattered spots to pages; internally mostly clean. (8958)
Milkmaids, Bathing Beauties, Muses, ETC. Bamlach, Christian. Pudelnakerd erotische Szenen aus der Gründerzeit. Dortmund: Harenberg, © 1981. 12mo (17.5 cm, 6.9"). 155, [5] pp.; illus.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Publisher's yellow bookcloth wrappers, front wrapper with affixed photographic label. Very clean and crisp. (30630)
The Wonderful Rescues & Brave Deeds ofTom Thumb Banks, Eulalie, illus. Tom Thumb. [New York]: The Platt & Munk Co., Inc., © 1934. 4to (20.3 cm, 8"). [12 (incl. covers)] pp.; col. illus.
Click the images for enlargements. seven black-and-white and five color-printed illustrations by “Eulalie” — Eulalie Minfred Banks (1895–1999), a beloved English-born artist who spent a number of years living in California.
• Publisher's paper wrappers, very slightly darkened, spine and one corner of cover rubbed. One vertical crease and a few others throughout; pages faintly age-toned. A nice demonstration of Eulalie's appeal. (36533)
Training Young Women to Bethe IDEAL Victorian & “Christian”Wife, Mother, HomemakerBeecher, Catharine E., & Harriet Beecher Stowe. The American woman's home: Or, principles of domestic science; being a guide to the formation and maintenance of economical healthful, beautiful, and Christian homes. New York: J.B. Ford & Co., 1869. 8vo (20.9 cm, 8.125"). Engr. frontis., engr. t.-p., [4], xii, [13]–500, [12 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
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Provenance: From the library of Robert Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
• BAL 19453. Publisher's green cloth with gilt decoration to spine and gilt lettering to front board; some discoloration and mottling to cloth with front covers a little cockled, corners bumped. Minor age-toning and occasionally a small dot or spot to interior; overall clean, and nice. (39688)
Retrieving the Ranchos Benavides, Tomás. Informe en derecho que Tomas Benavides ha presentado ante la exma. tercera sala del Supremo Tribunal de Guerra para que le sirva revocar la sentencia de primera y segunda instancia, que se han pronunciado en favor de D. Mariano P. Tagle. Mexico: Imp. de la Calle de Cordobanes Num. 5, a cargo de J. V. Hernandez, 1854. Small 4to. 24 pp.
Dolores Campuzano.
• Sutro 893. Removed from a nonce volume. (3886)
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Authorship in Question — Elizabeth Allde's Printing, NOTBernardus Claraevallensis (Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint). Saint Bernard his meditations, or, sighes, sobbes, and teares upon Our Saviours passion, in memoriall of his death; also his motives to mortification, with other meditations. London: Printed by E[lizabeth] A[llde] for Robert Allot, 1631–32. 12mo (14 cm; 5.5"). 2 parts in 1 vol. I: [7] ff., 439, [1] pp. (p. [440] blank); II .[3] ff., 243, [3] pp. (pp. [244–[46] blank; numbers 127–36 omitted in the sequence).
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The printer Elizabeth Allde was the widow of printer Edward Allde, who was active from 1584 to his death in 1628; he was successor to his printer father John Allde (variously Allde, Aldaye, Alde or Aldye), fl. 1555–92, a Scottish stationer and printer. Elizabeth was active from 1628 to 1633, at which latter date she passed the business to Richard Oulton (or Olton), her son-in-law. He continued the firm for another ten years only.
Provenance: On the front free endpaper: “From the Hon. Rev. Lowther Barrington, Buckinghamshire, Eng., 1835.”
• STC (rev. ed.) 1920; ESTC S112939. Recent full brown calf, late 17th-century style; raised bands accented with gilt rules above and below each band, modest blind fillet on boards, red spine label. Text cockled, waterstained, and with some browning; one leaf with small hole in text with loss to words in two lines on each side. Far from a perfect copy but complete, sound, solid, anddifficult to find. (34388)
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The First Lady ofFly Fishing? Berners, Juliana. The treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle. London: William Pickering, 1827. 8vo (18.1 cm, 7.2"). Frontis., [2], xiii (pagination skips v–viii), [1], 41, [1] pp.; 4 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. The volume is printed with the original language and spelling preserved, and is illustrated with a woodcut frontispiece of a fisherman taken from de Worde's 1518 edition that is cited as the earliest known depiction of an angler fishing with a rod, as well as with six woodcuts (provided at the back of the volume in the form of four plates) showing types of poles, hooks, etc. As the title-page proclaims, the work was printed with the types of John Baskerville, making it one of the last such printings done in England. A later hand has helpfully added pencilled marginalia clarifying archaic or obscure terms and suggesting subject headers.
• NSTC 2B20037; Keynes, Pickering, 42. Later half calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt-decorated raised bands, and gilt-stamped fishing creel devices in compartments; spine label with small edge chips and mild rubbing to paper. Pencilled annotations as above, pages and plates otherwise pleasingly clean. (28566)
Printed Using Baskerville's Types — Uncut Copy Berners, Juliana. The treatyse of fysshynge wyth an angle. London: Printed ... for William Pickering [by Thomas White], 1827. 8vo (19 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., [2], xiii (pagination skips v–viii), [1], 41, [1] pp.; 4 plts.
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This
copy uncut and in original boards:
RARE THUS.
• NSTC 2B20037; Keynes, Pickering, 42. Beyond the scope of Gaskell, Baskerville. Publisher's dun-colored light boards. Uncut copy. Light overall rubbing; spine with minor loss of paper. Old bookseller's description affixed to front free endpaper; small oval stain to corner of half-title and frontispiece, a bit of light offsetting from plates. A very nice copy in a later open-back cardboard slipcase. (30461)
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Hannah's Legacy — Illustrated N.T.(Bible – A Woman's Inheritance). Bible. N.T. English. Authorized. 1841. The New Testament of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; with the marginal readings; and illustrated by marginal references, both parallel and explanatory, and a copious selection, carefully chosen, and newly arranged. New York: John C. Riker, 1841. 16mo (11 cm, 4.4"). Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., [2], 350 pp.; 4 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. illustrated with a frontispiece, an additional engraved title-page, wood-engraved headpieces, and four steel-engraved plates, the latter done by Illman and Pilbrow after various artists.
Provenance: Tipped-in leaf with inked inscription: “Hannah M. Williams / Presented by directive from her grandmother Williams when on her death bed with this injunction to be read with careful attention”; in pencil below is “A precious legacy.” Williams (or a contemporary) apparently took the directive seriously; there are several instances of pencilled bracketing, marks of emphasis, and marginalia in the “precious legacy” hand.
Binding: Contemporary diced-grain red sheep, covers framed in gilt roll surrounding gilt-stamped acanthus and acorn design, spine with gilt-stamped title (“Polyglott Testament”) and decorative motifs, board edges with gilt roll. All edges gilt.
• See Hills, English Bible in America, 768 for 1831 ed.; 1841 not listed. Bound as above, rubbed at joints and extremities with front hinge (inside) cracked yet sound. Front pastedown and free endpaper with pencilled inscriptions dated 1853; inscription leaf as above; one front fly-leaf with pencilled annotations (and with hole in lower center). Additional annotations as above; one plate with “My Saviour” pencilled in lower margin. Intermittent mild foxing and a bit of other staining; a few corners bumped. Worn, yes — still luminous in its own way, and an interesting example of two early 19th-century women's engagement with the Bible. (35204)
In a GOOD AMERICAN Binding — Sarah Leverett's French Bible (Bible – Womanly Provenance). Bible. French. 1839–40. Martin. La Sainte Bible...revue...par David Martin.... New York: Stéréotypé par Henry W. Rees, pour la Société Biblique Americaine, D. Fanshaw, Imprimeur, 1839–40. 8vo. 819 [1 (blank)] pp., 261, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: This copy is exquisitely bound in full black leather in good imitation of morocco, elaborately stamped in gold on the covers forming a five-element frame or border, with gilt tooling on the board edges and with gilt inner dentelles. The spine has slightly raised bands and elaborate gold stamping in its compartments. This is the second copy of this Bible that we have had and we are convinced that this is a publisher's deluxe leather binding. A choice of colors was apparently available, for the other copy we had was of an olive-green color.
Provenance: The name “Sarah B. Leverett” is lettered in gilt on the front cover, and the same name is given in precise gothic calligraphy on the front free endpaper.
• Not in O'Callaghan; not in Darlow & Moule. Bound as above, corners a little bumped with a bit of long ago refurbishing thereto, dulling outermost elements of gilt border (only) on front cover, just at those corners. Evidence to endpapers of the volume's once having been sewn into a chemise or wrapper; old notes just discernible (not really readable) in a minute hand on front free endpaper (i.e., “behind” Sarah's name); see our image. Faint waterstaining in lower inside area for the first few pages (only). The whole very attractive and well preserved. (2666)
Ann Hall's Bible(Bible – Womanly Provenance). Bible. English. 1790. Authorized (i.e., King James Version). The Holy Bible, containing the Old Testament, and the New: Translated out of the original tongues, and with the former translations diligently compared and revised, by His Majesty's special command. Oxford: Pr. at the Clarendon Press by W. Jackson & A. Hamilton, 1790–92. 12mo (13.6 cm, 5.7"). [1232] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Contemporary black morocco, covers framed in gilt roll and single gilt fillet with red- and gilt-stamped IHS central medallions surrounded by gilt-stamped flames, with gilt-stamped corner fleurons; spine with gilt-tooled bands and compartment decorations. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Front pastedown with gilt-stamped red leather ex-libris label of Ann Hall, dated 1798.
• ESTC T95085; Darlow & Moule 953. Binding as above; extremities rubbed, sides with small scuffs and scratches, medallions rubbed and gilt dimmed in spots, spine leather cracked. Corners of front pastedown and free endpaper chewed; front free endpaper with early inked doodles; pages trimmed closely enough to occasionally touch a signature marking. and some corners bumped. One leaf with tear from outer margin, extending into text without loss; two pages with small ink blots in lower and outer margins, not affecting text; four leaves with lower outer corners crumpled. Worn, yet still a very pleasing example of its type. (35351)
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Early 20th–CenturyAMERICAN Cookery ManuscriptBishop, Mary Ellen. Manuscript on paper, in English. Begins “Christmas pudding ...” [U.S.]: 1916. 4to (21.2 cm, 8.38"). [154 (70 used)] pp.
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She Met the Devil QUITE Cheerfully; but . . . then . . . The blasphemer's punishment, or the cries of the son of God, to the whole world. Nottingham: Pr. by C. Sutton, for the Flying Stationers, [1810–15?]. 16mo (16 cm, 6.5"). 8 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.woodcut of the devil shaking a man's hand. It purports to be “a true and faithful account of one Elizabeth Dover, a Knight and Baronet's Daughter twenty one years of age, who never would believe that were either God or Devil, Heaven or Hell . . . till last Sunday was three weeks . . . .”
Elizabeth'snotably unwomanly “ill courses” are not generally shown but are said to include the offenses of “drinking, whoreing, and breaking the sabbath day,” pursued partly to spite him whom she calls with oaths her “cursed rogue of a father.” Her redeeming visions of hell and then heaven are most vividly described.
Provenance: From the chapbook collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate only one library (Oxford) worldwide reporting ownership.
• Not in Cropper, Nottinghamshire Printed Chap-books. Removed from a nonce volume. Very good. (38802)
Maria F.C. Marsh: New York City Printer & Publisher[Bolles, John R. (attrib. author)]. The lullaby, with original engravings. New York: M.F.C. Marsh, [ca. 1860-70]. 12mo (18.6 cm, 7.25"). [12] pp. (plus wrappers); illus.
Click the images for enlargements.from a woman printer/publisher contains poems, including a hymn on p. [12] (without music). It is illustrated with four half-page wood-engraved, hand-colored images, and — interestingly — with several hand-colored woodcut large capitals.
The cataloguer at the Harris Collection of American Poetry at Brown University attributes authorship to Bolles. The title and imprint statement are transcribed from p. [1] of the printed wrapper, while the date of publication is based on New York city directories: Maria F.C. Marsh operated as a publisher, bookseller, and stationer in New York between 1860 and 1870. The wood-engraved, hand-colored decorative border on the front wrappers is signed “J.D. Felter N.Y.” (i.e., John D. Felter).
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
NUC and WorldCat find only two libraries reporting ownership (Brown, AAS).
• Original wrappers; later oversewing along spine. Folded once upon a time horizontally at midpoint, now causing fold tears in the wrappers; shorter tears in interior margins. Reds, greens, and yellows bright. (38817)
A Reference forIrish Justices, UPDATEDBolton, Richard. A justice of peace for Ireland: Consisting of two books; the first, declaring the exercise of that office by one or more justices of the peace out of sessions; the second, setting forth the form of proceeding in sessions, and the matter to be enquired of and handled therein. Dublin: Pr. for J. Leathley & T. Moore, and O. Nelson, 1750. 4to (26.8 cm, 10.5"). [2], xiv, 586, 292 pp.; 2 tables.
Click the images for enlargements. widow Margaret wrote the dedication and apparently shepherded the book through publication after Travers's death. Details include two extremely specific tables of measurements and prices for white, wheat, and household breads. The second book, “containing the description and method of holding the general sessions of the Justices of the Peace,” has a separate title-page, with the same publication information; the final section, “Precedents of Committals, Summonses, Convictions, and Warrants, for Several Offences within the cognizance of Justices of the Peace for Ireland” also has a separate title-page, but continuous pagination with the previous section. 
• ESTC T117728. Contemporary calf, spine with raised bands and recent gilt-stamped leather title-label; corners and spine extremities unobtrusively refurbished. Front pastedown with bookplate as above and with early inked numeral; title-page with inscription as above. Some signatures slightly age-toned; one page with line of discoloration in upper margin. Printing license, title-page, and a few others creased; a few corners dog-eared A clean, solid copy of an important reference work for Irish statutes and legal practices. (34380)
Works of the
Brontë Sisters Brontë,
Anne; Charlotte; & Emily. The Shakespeare
Head Brontë. Oxford: Basil Blackwell & Houghton Mifflin Co. (pr. at
the Shakespeare Head Press), 1931. 11 vols. 8vo (24 cm, 9.45"). I [Charlotte]:
Frontis., x, [2], 312 pp.; 2 plts. II: Frontis., [6], 284 pp.; 2 plts. III:
Frontis., [8], 351 pp.; 2 plts. IV: Frontis., [6], 362 pp.; 2 plts. V: Frontis.,
[8], 319, [1] pp.; 2 plts. VI: Frontis., [6], 313, [1] pp.; 2 plts. VII: Frontis.,
[10], 283, [1] pp.; 1 plt. I [Anne]: Frontis., [8], 220 pp.; 2 plts. II: Frontis.,
xi, [1], 282 pp.; 2 plts. III: Frontis., [6], 278 pp.; 1 plt. I [Emily]: Frontis.,
xii, 385, [1], 9, [1] pp.; 1 plt.
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The lovely illustrations are of real places fictionally transfigured in the novels . . .• NCBEL, III, 865. Original green cloth, spines with printed paper labels, lacking the dust wrappers (which are scarce and almost never seen); labels darkened, a few starting to peel up at corners. Pages untrimmed, with some signatures unopened. A beautiful, clean example of this set. (24629)
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Woman Author / Woman Printer — London, 1775Brook, Mary. Reasons for the necessity of silent waiting, in order to the solemn worship of God...third edition. London: Mary Hinde, 1775. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). [2], 31, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • ESTC T65811. Recent wrappers. Pages age-toned, with a few small spots. (9302)
Design, Beauty, Gout, Tobacco, “Chickens”Browne, Isaac Hawkins. Poems upon various subjects, Latin and English. London: J. Nourse, 1768. 8vo (24 cm, 9.4"). [10], 160 pp. (frontis. lacking).
• ESTC T116967. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Frontispiece lacking; title-page and a few others stamped by a now-defunct institution. Inner margins of the first two leaves and outer margin of the final leaf repaired. (10692)
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“The End of the Law is to Preserve Mens Persons & Properties
Violence & Injustice of Others”Buller, Francis, Sir, & Henry Bathurst, 2nd earl Bathurst. An introduction to the law relative to trials at nisi prius. Dublin: Elizabeth Watts, 1768. 8vo (20.7 cm, 8.1"). [4], iv, 470, [2 (adv.)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. The Introduction was published byElizabeth Watts, later Lynch, the widow and successor of bookseller Richard Watts; the volume opens and closes with advertisements for other legal works either at the press or just published by Watts. This edition is uncommon: ESTC and WorldCat locate only eight U.S. institutional holdings.
• ESTC T116235; Sweet & Maxwell (2nd ed.), I, 335:1. Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered boards, spine with raised bands and gilt-stamped title. Pages faintly age-toned, with occasional mild to moderate spotting. One leaf with paper flaw affecting a few letters, without loss of sense. A solid, comfortable copy of a significant legal work. (34385)
Little Lord FauntleroyBurnett, Frances Hodgson. Little lord Fauntleroy. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1890. 8vo., xi, [1 (blank)], 269, [1] pp.; 14 integral plts. (incl. frontis.), illus. 
Binding: Publisher's red pictorial cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, brown, and gilt.
• Good++: Some soiling to binding; light to moderate foxing internally. (8539)
A Beautiful Country Girl & a Spanish BullfighterBurnett, Frances Hodgson. The pretty sister of José. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1889. 12mo (19.1 cm; 7.5"). iv, 127, [8] pp (publisher's
catalogue), [12] leaves of plates.
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Twelve beautiful plates illustrated by C.S. Reinhart accompany Burnett's tender story, including a tissue-guarded frontispiece.Binding: Publisher's green decorative cloth printed on front cover with a guitar and lady's fan in gilt and with a flowering vine design in dark green and gold; spine lettered in gold.
• BAL 2073, state 2; Wright, III, 814. Bound as above, slightly cocked; top and bottom of spine rubbed with loss of green coloring of cloth, now a bit frayed, and spots of discoloration on rear cover. Interior lightly age-toned, overall unmarked and readable. A nice copy. (35454)
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