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A Fortuneteller, a Determined Mother, a Murder by Arsenic
Harden, Jacob S., defendant. Life, confession, and letters of courtship of Rev. Jacob S. Harden of the M.E. Church, Mount Lebanon, Hunterdon Co., N.J. Executed for the murder of his wife on the 6th of July 1860, at Belvidere, Warren Co., N.J. Hackettstown, NJ: E. Winton, printer, 1860. 8vo (24 cm, 9.5"). 48 pp., frontis. port.
Click the images for enlargements.Felcone adds that soon after he met Miss Louisa Dorland, “Louisa's mother was determined that her daughter would marry Harden, and, after encouraging them to spend nights together, she forced the marriage. After several months of unhappiness, Harden poisoned his wife. He fled, was captured, tried, and hanged . . . before an immense crowd.”
• McDade, Annals of Murder, 438; Felcone, New Jersey Books 1698-1800. 838. Stitched, lacks the wrappers; the frontispiece portrait of Harden detached but present. Short tears in margins, dog-earring, tattering, waterstain, etc. Only a good+ copy; this was a very cheaply printed production, hence the condition problems. (39252)
More than One Lifetime's Worth of Adventure & Interesting Ideas Harriott, John. Struggles through life, exemplified in the various travels and adventures in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America, of John Harriott, Esq. London: Pr. for the author, 1815. 12mo (18 cm, 7.1"). 3 vols. I: Frontis., xvxv, [1], 443, [1] pp. II: xii, 428, [2] pp. III: vii, [1], 479, [1] pp. (lacking pp. 69–72); 1 fold. plt., 1 plt.
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one
of the founders of the Thames police, a clever and independent
mariner who went adventuring around the world before settling down to become
an Essex justice of the peace and eventually Resident Magistrate of the Thames
River Police (a.k.a. the Marine Police Force, sometimes called England's
first official police force). Here he looks back on his remarkably varied youthful
escapades, including travelling in the merchant-service, visiting “the
Savages in North America,” meeting the King of Denmark, serving in the
East India Company's military service, and narrowly escaping such dangers as
tigers, poisonous snakes, floods, fires, and scamming fathers-in-law. If the
narrator is to be believed, the two issues that caused him the chiefest distress
in life were pecuniary difficulties and other people's unchivalrous treatment
of
women. He also has much to say about law and business in the New World and the
Old, slavery in America, forcible incarceration in private madhouses (with excerpts
from a first-person account of such), and the nature of farming in Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,
and Virginia, as well as the state of affairs in Washington, DC, and, of course,
the history of the creation of the Thames police.
Vol. I opens with a steel-engraved portrait of the author, done by Henry
Cook after Hervé; vol. III is illustrated with an 
oversized,
folding plate of a water-engine intended for millwork, devised
by the author, and a plate of another of his inventions: the automated “chamber
fire escape”, which enables anyone to lower him- or herself from a high
window. This is the third edition, following the first of 1807.
• NSTC H625; Sabin 30461. Contemporary speckled sheep,
spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels; vol. I with joints and extremities
refurbished, vols. II and III with spines and edges rubbed, old strips of
library tape reinforcing spine heads. Ex–social club library: 19th-century
bookplates, call number on endpapers, pressure-stamp on title-pages, vols.
II and III with paper shelving labels at top of spines (vol. I showing signs
of now-absent label). Vol. I title-page with offsetting from frontispiece;
vol. III with pp. 69–72 excised (two leaves of a rather long religious-themed
letter from Harriott to his son) and with upper portion of one leaf crumpled,
reinforced some time ago. Some light age-toning, intermittent small spots
of foxing and ink-staining, pages generally clean. 
Utterly
absorbing. (30651)
“My daddie looks sulky, my minnie looks sour,
They frown upon Jamie because he is poor” Harry Bluff. Logie O'Buchan. Within a Mile of Edinburgh Town. / Oh! No, We Never Mention Her. / Oh, Say Not Womam's [sic] Love is Bought. / Dearest Maid, My Heart Is Thine. / Meet Me in the Moonlight. / Tell Me Why Men Will Deceive Us. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [ca. 1825?]. 12mo. 8 pp. 
• NSTC 2B38504. Removed from a nonce volume. A few traces of very faint spots of foxing, else clean and fresh. (16824)
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“O Lovely Mildness!”Hayley, William. The triumphs of temper; a poem. In six cantos...the second edition. London: J. Dodsley, 1781. 4to (28cm, 11"). xii (lacking half-title), 166, [2] pp.
• ESTC T1746; NCBEL, II, 658. Marbled paper–covered boards, old-style, front cover and spine with printed paper labels. Lacking half-title. Title-page and a few others faintly stamped by a now-defunct institution. First few leaves lightly foxed, scattered small spots elsewhere, a very nice copy. (6934)
NOT Perfect butEvocative
on Many Fronts
Hazlemore, Maximilian.
Domestic economy: Or, a complete system of English housekeeping ... also, the
completebrewer
... likewise the family physician. London: J. Creswick & Co., 1794. 8vo.
xxxii, 392 pp. (lacking pp. 331/32, 341–44, 357–62, & 365–84
).
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Many of the recipes in the first portion of this book are attributed to such well-known names as Glasse, Raffald, and Mason. Oxford points out that both the extended subtitle and the overall contents of the work as a whole are strikingly similar to Mary Cole's Lady's Complete Guide of 1791, commenting “One wonders who was the real author.” Whatever its origins, the present volume as attributed to Hazlemore is now uncommon: WorldCat, ESTC, and Cagle cite only seven U.S. institutional holdings.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with ownership inscription and title-page with pressure-stamp of prominent cookbook collector Eloise Schofield; title-page also with early inked inscription of Charlotte Booty; front pastedown with early ticket of J. Rackham, a late 18th-/early 19th-century printer and bookseller in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk.
• ESTC T93869; Cagle, Matter of Taste, 734; Oxford, English Cookery, 122. Not in Bitting. Incomplete copy. Contemporary treed sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, scuffed; spine label and extremities chipped, joints open and volume tender, front cover with spots of insect damage extending through to upper inner margins of first few leaves, touching two letters of title but no other text. Pp. 331/32, 341–44, 357–62, and 365–84 excised with great neatness (and no, we cannot work out any theory of “why”). Scattered instances of early pencilled or inked marginal annotations, including alternate instructions in two cases anda full recipe for dressed spinach inked at the end of the vegetables section, intended to replace the crossed-out printed recipe provided. Pages age-toned, otherwise clean. An incomplete copy, priced accordingly, of a still interesting work. (29554)
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The Beckford & Durdans/Rosebery Copy[Head, Richard]. Nugae venales, sive, thesaurus ridendi & jocandi. [bound with another, see below] Disputatio perjucunda qua probare nititur mulieres homines non esse. [The Hague: I. Burchornius, 1642]. 12mo (12 cm, 4.7’’). [4], 336, 48, 44 pp. [also bound in] Acidalius, Valens. Disputatio perjucunda qua probare nititur mulieres homines non esse. Hagae-Comitatis: I. Burchornius, 1641. 12mo. 191, [1] pp.
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first edition — printed between 1642 and 1720. In his sale catalogue, a note attributes it to the Irish novelist Richard Head (1637–ca. 86), author of the successful The Irish Rogue, although scattered sentences in Dutch or German cast doubts; the work also had an English edition, this perhaps translated by Head. The first part is a collection of ironic, witty questions and answers on satirical topics, often concerned with women — e.g., what is a liberal woman? — as well as with curiosities (e.g., why are Ethiopians black? is begging preferable to wealth? {‘it is’}). There follow essays on unrelated topics including pseudo-medicine, with the Nugae's second part — Crepundia poetica — then being a collection of short poems on sundry subjects from doctors to astrologers. The third part — Pugna porcorum — isa satirical poem written solely and perhaps preposterously with words beginning with P.
seeks satirically to prove, through numerous mainly theological sources and following Socinian logic, that women are not men; the second essay defends women as a sex.
The title-pages offer three instances of the same handsome woodcut vignette.
Binding: 19th-century straight-grained citron morocco, raised bands, spine gilt-extra with flowers and flourishes; inner dentelles gilt, puce endpapers, all edges gilt over marbling. Red silk bookmark present and attached.
Provenance: William Beckford, with 19th-century note “Beckford sale 1883 lot 174" on front free endpaper verso and cutting from sale catalogue on front pastedown; red leather Durdans (Rosebery) booklabel to front pastedown and that library's small blind-stamp to first title-page and elsewhere. Later bookplate of Lawrence Strangman to front free endpaper; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, with his small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• I: Wing (rev.ed.) N1462;ESTC R219402. II: Brunet II, 759 (1638 ed.). Bound as above, with significant rubbing to joints and spine especially and with discoloration especially affecting raised bands; gilt ornamentation still impressive. Short closed tear to B4 not quite reaching print, another with loss to margin just touching text on L4; age-toning, with a few leaves slightly browned. 
Desirable texts in a desirable copy, with very desirable provenance. (41315)
19th-Century AmericanSigned Blind–Embossed BindingThis Copy Extra-IllustratedHemans, Felicia; Reginald Heber; & Robert Pollok. The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok. Complete in one volume. Philadelphia: Grigg & Elliott, 1838. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). Frontis., engr. t.-p., [10], vii, [ii]–xvi, 479, [1], [ii]–xvii, [1], 43, [1], 79, [1] pp.; 2 add. engr. plts.
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a handsome American blind-embossed binding. This anthology includes some of Hemans' (1793–1835) most admired works, such as Records of Woman and Hymns on the Works of Nature, along with the best-known hymns and poems of Heber (1783–1826) and Pollok (1798–1827).
Binding: Intricately embossed burgundy calf with gilt lettering to spine; the spine design is derived from a Remnant & Edmonds spine plaque, according to Wolf. Each board has a medallion in the center featuring a woman in a chariot pulled by two galloping horses with several delicate stars in the sky; the medallion is framed by elaborate acanthus and foliate motifs. Blue marbled endpapers; all edges gilt. Signed byBenjamin Gaskill (“Gaskill, Phila”) on spine.
WorldCat locates only eight copies of this 1838 edition.
• Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 190. Bound as above, mildest rubbing; marbled endpapers rubbed and slightly discolored just along edges from action by turn-ins. First set of contents with pages bound out of order. Interior age-toned as expectable, with instances of foxing especially along top edges throughout and with light evidence of old waterstaining along bottom ones; title-page with short inked line from outer edge, added engraving with small closed tear A nice example of Gaskill's embossing work and a delightful volume overall, “personalized.” (38710)
The Mining Revival & The Father of
Mexican Independence Hidalgo, Miguel de, Father of Mexican Independence. Document Signed (Br. Hidalgo), on paper, in Spanish. No place [mining region of Real de Bolaños or Aguas Calientes], no date [1780]. Folio, 1 p., bound in a dossier of documents relating to the execution of the provisions of the will of Augustina Velázquez.
Approximately 350 ff.
This is a fine, extremely early example of Father Hidalgo's signature.
The woman who provided the money for the above mentioned masses was the wife of Antonio de Vivano (also spelled Bibano) Gutiérrez and mother of Antonio Guadalupe de Vivano, the first two Condes de Vivanco. Cambridge scholar David Brading credits Antonio de Vivanco with restoring the mining region of Bolaños to prosperity in the early 1770s, following the region's sharp decline in silver ore production during the first two-thirds of the 18th century — whereby he became very wealthy.
In addition to payment for masses for her soul, Doña Augustina's will provides for large sums of money to be spent on construction work on the chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the bishopric of Guadalajara. The paperwork, including receipts, associated with the distribution of her largesse is weighty and detailed.
Among the collateral documents in this offering are copies of the last wills and testaments of Antonio de Vivanco Gutiérrez (1796), Augustina Velázquez (1780), and Antonio Guadalupe de Vivanco (1800); the inventory of the younger Vivanco's massive estate (1801); and a marvelouscalligraphic manuscript in which the bishop of Guadalajara grants a special privilege to Vivanco the elder. All are notarially certified copies of the originals.
• All documents in very good condition, sewn, in contemporary vellum bindings. (3731)
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A Well-Meaning but Not Very High-Rising MUSEHill, Elizabeth Chase. Gleanings: Girlhood and womanhood. Concord, NH: Republican Press Association, 1887. 4to (19.2 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., [2], 76, [2] pp.
privately printed as a holiday gift for friends of the author; the poems and short pieces display intelligence, but not much by way of polished craft — unsurprising given that most of them were written during Hill’s adolescence. One unfinished poem ends abruptly with “. . . my Muse would plume her wing, / And higher as she rises sweeter sing — ”; the note beneath humorously reads “Muse did n’t get any further up that trip” (p. 25).
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Burton W.F. Trafton, Jr.’s library at Old Fields in South Berwick, ME; pastedown also with binder’s ticket from Crawford & Stockbridge of Concord, NH. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription dated Christmas, 1887.
• Publisher’s brown cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and dark brown–stamped decorative bands, bottom band labelled “Christmas 1887"; corners and spine extremities rubbed, binding showing very little wear otherwise. First two signatures with sewing loosening; pages very slightly age-toned but otherwise clean. (13883)
Treachery! Deception! BUT in the End — “Conjugal Delights!”The history of Donna Eugenia; or, the innocent adulteress. London: Pr. by Lewis and Ramblin for Langley and Belch, 1807. 16mo (17.6 cm, 6.9"). Col. frontis., [2], [7]–40 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.This English chapbook version is scarce: WorldCat reports only one U.S. institutional location (University of Delaware) and just two additional U.K. holdings, with the title not recorded at all by NSTC. The hand-colored engraved frontispiece here depicts our rosy-cheeked, Rubenesque heroine telling her story to her mustachioed rescuer over breakfast.
• Recent marbled paper wrappers in attractive red, brown, tan, and cream fantail pattern. Frontispiece recto with small inked ownership inscription in upper inner corner. Pages clean and crisp. An uncommon incarnation of an internationally popular trashy romance, here in an attractive copy. (40974)
On the Marriage of MinorsHoffmann, Conrad Philipp. Schediasma de aetate juvenili, contrahendis sponsalibus ac matrimoniis idonea, sive, Von junger leute heyrathen. Ut & de annis, qvibvs qvis sub poena matrimonivm inire tenetvr, sive Von bestranfung unterlassenen heyrathen. Regiomonti et Lipsiae: Impensis Francisci Bortoletti, 1743. 4to. 96 pp. 
Click the image for an enlargement. • Sometime bound in a nonce volume (removed). Very nice condition. (7882)
“Services
Rendered” — 1835,
'36(Hofmaster,
Mary). Dakal, G.M. Two Autograph Notes Signed. No
places, 19 September 1835 and 29 June 1836. One sheet 8vo, one 4to with integral
address leaf. 
• Both long folded, the bill apparently into an "envelope" (with direction to Mrs. Hofmaster); receipt with some tears and tatters not affecting text.
“Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Coming of the Lord”Howe, Julia Ward. A birth day anniversary, May xxvii MDCCCXIX–MDCCCLXXXIX. [Boston: L. Prang & Co., 1889]. 4to (30.5 cm, 12"). [4] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.Below her essay on the origins of the “Battle Hymn” is a facsimile of her signature. All of this is printed in blue and orange with decorations of green and orange laurel wreaths, and green and orange lilies, on a single heavyweight sheet folded to make four pages. WorldCat locatesonly three institutional copies (University of Massachusetts, University of Virginia, Rollins College), but we know of another at Harvard.
• BAL 9478. Folded sheet as above with very minor wrinkling to outside corners, one tiny dark spot to front, and the faintest bit of age-toning along edges. Clean, strong, and handsome, and a fitting tribute. (38801)
Including“A Fight for the Breeches”Hudson, Thomas. Betsey Baker. Glasgow: J. Neil, 1829. 12mo. 8 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • NSTC 2H34825. Removed from a nonce volume. Slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. (16963)
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Visiting the Land of Tigreen — An Illustrated Fantastical Travelogue[Imaginary Travel/Voyage/Country]. Manuscript on paper, in English. “The Tigeenish News Paper.” [U.K.: ca. 1940?]. Folio (31.7 cm, 12.51"). [160 (156 used)] pp.; 5 ff. of illus.
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a broad landscape vista of “Tigeen” as seen through a generous window but a “window” nonetheless, with an even broader, larger fantasy world to be presumed as “existing” beyond it.
five leaves' worth of pencil drawings, including sketches of household chores and of a series of swimmers in their bathing costumes; portraits of ancient Tigeenish royalty, author “Wittiber Bope,” “Mee-Wae the famous ballerina,” and other prominent figures; and two full-page drawings of a game called Blacking-Pot and of church-goers assembled on the steps outside the building.
Certain remarks convey a sort of backstage meta-commentary on the fiction, as if it had an existence outside this manuscript (“Indeed Tigreen functioned largely on my own experiences and childhood's impressions, many of which remain with me”; “She [Poy] was inspired by the fact that when I was a child myself I could never understand why people would exclaim Oh! & Ah! each time they saw such children as Poy making an entry anywhere”; “The pictures you see of Tigeenish personalities, places, & objects placed within the pages are the exact replicas of what they represent . . . in my young days I was not always able to get them to look just as I saw them, even though I tried very hard . . . now I draw them as I meant them to look then & as I visualized them in my childish mind”).
There is no evidence that this feminist-informed fantasy creation was ever published in any form.
• Contemporary pebbled green paper–covered sides with red oilcloth shelfback; moderately rubbed overall, front board slightly sprung. Occasional underlining and marks of emphasis in red; some corrections in the same hand but different ink color. 
A treasure, and intriguing. (41069)
Royal Household Affairs Partial Payment for Her Majesty'sTapestry Isabel I, Queen of Spain. Document on paper, in Spanish, signed "Yo la Reyna." Granada, 8 May 1501. Folio (31.2 cm, 12.25"). [1] p.
On the bottom half is a signed receipt, in Spanish, dated Granada 8 May 1501, wherein Germán de Paris and Jacques acknowledge receiving the above mentioned payment.
• The usual slash of cancellation (faintly visible above), indicating that this has been entered into the account books. Remnant of stiff paper at top of verso indicating it was once mounted in an album. (19360)
Daniel Webster Saves the Day — The Kenniston “Sham-Robbery” CaseJackman, Joseph. The sham-robbery, committed by Elijah Putnam Goodridge, on his own person, in Newbury near Essex bridge, Dec. 19, 1816, with a history of his journey to the place where he robbed himself. And his trial with Mr. Ebenezer Pearson, whom he maliciously arrested for robbery. Also the trial of Levi & Laban Kenniston. Concord, NH: Printed for the author, 1819. 12mo (17 cm, 6.75"). 151, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.Also includes accounts of Ebenezer Pearson's action against Goodridge for damages for malicious prosecution.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 48361; Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law, 14017. Stitched as issued, in plain pale green wrappers. Light soiling, stray areas of light foxing or staining. Very good. (39251)
LEC: A Southern Californian Landmark Jackson, Helen Hunt. Ramona. Los Angeles: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club at The Plantin Press, 1959. 8vo. xiv, [6], 428, [2] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. The LEC illustrations consist of 8 full-page and 41 in-text color drawings by Everett Gee Jackson (no relation to the author), who also signed the colophon. Saul Marks designed the book, selecting a monotype Bembo font with the chapter titles printed in red ink, and the printing was done by Saul and Lillian Marks at The Plantin Press, Los Angeles.
Binding: In an attractive full woven fabric derived from a striated Native American design, with a colorful paper spine label.
This is numbered copy 972 of 1500 printed; the appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 298. Binding as above in original slipcase, volume spine label slightly darkened, slipcase showing only minimal wear and with a spot or two of darkening to front panel. A very nice copy. (30117)
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Armelle Nicolas in Philadelphia — An Early American CatholicumJeanne de la Nativité. Daily conversation with God, exemplified in the holy life of Armelle Nicolas, a poor ignorant country maid in France, commonly known by the name of the good Armelle, deceas’d in Bretaigne in the year 1671. Philadelphia: Reprinted by Henry Miller, 1767. 8vo (16.3 cm, 6.375"). 16, [2] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.WorldCat records suggest this could have beena tract printed for Anthony Benezet (1713–84), a French-born educator and abolitionist who immigrated to Philadelphia.
• Evans 10659; Hildeburn, Pennsylvania, 2289; Parsons 21. In modern tan wrappers; faint stain to front one. Leaves age-toned with some foxing, tip of one leaf corner torn away, tiny stain to bottom edge of leaves. A small, neat product of earnest Philadelphia. (39894)
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“A Loving Touch May Taste of Cold”Jennings, Elizabeth. Winter wind. Newark, VT: Janus Press, 1979. 12mo (23.7 cm, 9.4"). [12] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. one of only 50 copies printed for the Janus Press (with an additional 170 for the Gruffyground Press).
• Fine, Janus Press 1975–80, 47. Publisher's white linen–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. A clean, crisp copy of acoolly elegant evocation of the titular theme. (34148)
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A “Golden-Mouthed” AldineJohn Chrysostom, Saint; Giulio Poggiani, trans. Sancti Joannis Chrysostomi De virginitate liber, a Julio Pogiano conversus. Romae: Apud Paulum Manutium, Aldi F., 1562. 4to (21.8 cm, 8.625"). [8], 64 ff.
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The text is neatly printed in roman in single-column format with capital spaces with guide letters (unaccomplished) and marginal notes; the title-page contains the iconic Aldine device.
Provenance: Early ink signature “Alexii Feni” on title-page; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear of both the text and its clamshell housing.
• Adams C1559; UCLA, Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection (2001), 674; EDIT 16 CNCE 27775; Renouard, Alde, p. 186, 5; Goldsmid, Aldine Press at Venice, *546. On John Chrysostom, see: New Catholic Encyclopedia, VII, 1041–44. 16th-century limp vellum with title label on spine and evidence of ties; vellum wrinkled and stained, significant portions lacking on spine, edges of endpapers tattered with some paper loss and text block recently reattached. Housed in a maroon cloth clamshell with black leather labels. Light to moderate age-toning and staining with the occasional spot, several leaves with waterstaining to bottom corner or small marginal worm tracking; a handful of creased corners, a few examples of hurried paper manufacture, chipping to edges of first and last few leaves of text including title-page. Provenance marks as above, one early inked correction to a marginal note. (38092)
Tamzen Parsons: Murdered, at17, by a Bigamist SeducerHughes, John W, defendant. The trial of Dr. John W. Hughes, for the murder of Miss Tamzen Parsons; with a sketch of his life, as related by himself ... Cleveland: [Published by John K. Stetler & Co.] Printed by The Leader Company, 1866. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 57, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.“Jealous and intoxicated, Hughes, on the streets of Bedford, Ohio, shot and killed the seventeen-year-old girl he had seduced. At his execution, he spoke for fifteen minutes until the sheriff reminded him 'Time is going.' Then he dropped” (McDade).
There were multiple issues of this work: one with the title-page in red and black and a title-page vignette of the murderer, another printed only in black and without the title-page vignette, and one in black with the vignette portrait. Offered here is a copy of the latter.
• McDade, Annals of Murder, 493. Removed from a nonce volume; light age-soiling and -toning. Else very good. (39263)
Bookselling Reminiscences Kaye, Barbara. The company we kept. New Castle, DE: Oak Knoll Press, ©1995. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.25"). 10, 224 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. life on the home front in WWII England. A good sequel to Muir's Minding My Own Business.
• New. Fine in original dust jacket. (24310)
MORE Bookselling Reminiscences . . . Kaye, Barbara. Second impression, rural life with a rare bookman. [New Castle, DE]: Oak Knoll Press & Werner Shaw, ©1995. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.25"). x, 350 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. • New. Grey publisher's cloth, fine in original dust jacket. (36764)
“Our English Children's Ways to Show” — Via Chromolithographs[Keary, Eliza]; John George Sowerby & Thomas Crane, illus. At home. London: Marcus Ward & Co., [ca. 1881]. 4to (22 cm, 8.66"). 56 pp.; col. illus.
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• Osborne Collection, p. 50; Opie PP 190. Publisher's brightly color-printed paper–covered sides with green cloth shelfback; spine and edges rubbed, hinges (inside) tender, paper split along gutters and sewing starting to loosen, ready for ongoing comfortable handling if care is used. Pages very slightly age-toned with a handful of spots of foxing, overall clean. An outstanding Victorian children's production. (40823)
Victorian Illustrated Verse: A Beautiful Romp throughLate 19th-Century France[Keary, Eliza?]; Ellen E. Houghton & Thomas Crane, illus. Abroad. London: Marcus Ward & Co., [1882]. 4to (22 cm, 8.66"). 56 pp.; col. illus.
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• Osborne Collection, p. 49; Opie PP 330. Publisher's color-printed paper–covered sides with teal cloth shelfback; extremities rubbed with a little loss to paper of covers at corners and front cover with an instance of abrasion affecting the “O” of “Abroad”; general light soiling and limited areas of old blue (ink?) staining. Bookplate as above; half-title with inked Christmas gift inscription dated 1882. Pages gently age-toned with a very few small spots, overall clean; sewing loosening but not broken; a children's book “read,” for sure. One ready for more reading, and looking! (40829)
Fairies, Medieval Ladies, & Ancient GreeksKeats, John; Averil Burleigh, illus. The poems of John Keats. London: Chapman & Hall, [1912]. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.63"). viii, 360 pp.; 24 col. plts.
Click the images for enlargements.the first appearance of the 24 illustrations done by Averil Burleigh, color-printed in dusky, twilight shades. The fairy tale–style images incorporate Pre-Raphaelite and Art Nouveau influences, and includeBurleigh's take on the pot of basil so beloved by the Pre-Raphaelites, as well as a stunning Belle Dame Sans Merci.
This is the first edition. While some sources offer 1910 or 1911 as the publication date, our suggested date is based on announcements in contemporary publications including The Dialand The Independent; another such notification, in The Bookseller, Newsdealer & Stationer (vol. XXXVII, 1912), lauds the “pictures of graceful imagery, of subtle, tender sentiment, charming alike in color and presentment from the brush of Averil Burleigh.”
Binding: Signed binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe (rubber-stamped on front free endpaper): green calf, covers framed in gilt double fillets with small gilt-tooled corner fleurons, spine gilt extra, edges with gilt fillets, turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt; iridescent green marbled endpapers.
Provenance: From the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
• Binding as above, somewhat rubbed; front pastedown with two small traces of paper adhesion. Occasional mild to moderate foxing, largely confined to margins, with pages mostly clean overall. Gorgeous plates. (41210)
A Gift Book forWomen of “Elevated Character”Keese, John, ed. The opal: A pure gift for the holy days. New York: J.C. Riker, [1846]. 8vo (20.4 cm, 8"). 304 pp.; 8 engr. plts., without the added engr. title-page.
Click the images for enlargements. Includes two poems by Whittier: “My soul and I” and “The wife of Manoah to her husband.”
Binding: Publisher’s textured brown calf, covers with blind-stamped frame of foliate design; front cover suitably gilt-stamped with central vignette ofJesus and the woman at the well, back cover centrally gilt-stamped with a weary-looking woman harvesting grain (Ruth?). Spine gilt-stamped with foliate (ivy?) design and ornate title; all edges gilt.
Provenance: 19th-century stencilled ownership name of H. Amelia St John (Purdy) (1838–1925) of Yates County, NY.
• Faxon 622; Thompson 145; Tepper, American Gift Books & Literary Annuals. (Second edition), 167. Binding as above, gilt designs moderately rubbed, edges and corners worn, spine faded and head of spine pulled. Front free endpaper clipped to remove inscription; ownership stencil to front fly-leaf. Some pages with soiling, light foxing, or brown stains. Mezzotints well accomplished and several quite lovely. (37280)
The Last Romance Written by William Morris Edited by May Morris (Kelmscott Press). Morris, William. The sundering flood. Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1897 [i.e., 1898]. 8vo (21 cm, 8.26"). [2], 507, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements.edited by the author's daughter May Morris — herself an accomplished artist and designer — and printed at the Kelmscott Press. Ornamented with one full and several partial woodcut borders as well as numerous decorative capitals, the text is set in the Chaucer type with chapter headers and shouldernotes printed in red.
a map of the imaginary land in which the action is set, in this case drawn by H. Cribb and engraved by Walker & Boutall to serve as front pastedown. 
Pages throughout very crisp and clean, a handsome copy. (41193)
All Ends Well! The king's daughter; together with Catherine Johnstone. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [1840s]. 12mo. 8 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement.The title-page of this chapbook bears a woodcut vignette of a young woman in a low-cut dress, holding a flower in each hand, with “[No.] 77” printed at the foot of the title.
• This ed. not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce volume. Dust-soilng. (37137)
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Hypatia, in Disguise?Kingsley, Charles. Hypatia or new foes with an old face. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1897. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.36"). Frontis., [2], xvi, 477, [1] pp.; 4 plts.
Click the images for enlargements.the extraordinary career and sensational murder of Hypatia, a renowned and revered female philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician in ancient Hellene Alexandria.
It is illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates done by Edmund H. Garrett.
Binding: This is an intriguing example of this novel of ideas, in that the usual thematically appropriate binding has been replaced by an unrelated, innocuous color-printed scene of a cottage by a lake on a background with a repeating design of daisies, embellished with raised cornflowers (unsigned) — perhaps intended for ladies of delicate sensibilities who didn't want to be seen in public reading this controversial novel!
Provenance: On front free endpaper, two ownership stamps of Sarah E. Lembeck.
• Publisher's printed paper–covered boards with pattern of daisies in white and gilt, front cover with illustration as above, robin's egg blue cloth shelfback gilt extra; very minor dust-soiling to light portion of cover illustration, traces of wear to corners and lower edges. Title-page with one tiny edge tear; pages clean. (37535)
Janus Press Edition — Signed by Poet & PhotographerKinnell, Galway. The Seekonk woods. Concord, NH: Pr. at the Janus Press for William B. Ewert, 1985. 8vo (26.7 cm, 10.5"). [12] pp.; 3 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. The text was designed by Claire Van Vliet, set by hand in Trump Mediaeval, and printed by Van Vliet and Christy Bertelson on Barcham Green Tovil paper at the Janus Press in West Burke, VT.
This isnumbered copy 102 of a total of 170 printed, signed at the colophon by both Kinnell and Jacobi.
• Fine, The Janus Press 1981–1990, 40/41. Publisher's natural buckram, spine with printed paper label. A crisp, clean copy. (35933)
Janus Press Livre d'Artiste LeporelloKronfeld, Susan. Spaghettiana. West Burke, VT: The Janus Press, 1976. 8vo (26 cm, 10.2"). [1] f.
Click the images for enlargements. numbered copy 52 of 150 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist. 
A solid and pleasing copy, with artwork in excellent condition. (35934)
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