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Women as Writers, Editors, Translators, Illustrators, Printers, & Binders
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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.
$375.00
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Harden (1837–60) “poisoned his wife with arsenic after a fortuneteller had told him that she would not live long. His mother-in-law was the real cause of the crime for she hounded until he reluctantly married the girl, although there does not seem to have been any necessity that he do so” (McDade).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.
$750.00
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Autobiography of
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.
$95.00
A woodcut vignette on the title-page shows a young man with one arm raised, above “[No.] 37" printed at the foot of the title.
NSTC 2B38504. Removed from a nonce volume. A few traces of very faint spots of foxing, else clean and fresh. (16824)
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.
$350.00
The work is here in its second edition, printed in the same year as the first; it made a later appearance with plates engraved by Blake.
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 but
Evocative
on Many Fronts
Hazlemore, Maximilian.
Domestic economy: Or, a complete system of English housekeeping ... also, the
complete
brewer
... likewise the family physician. London: J. Creswick & Co., 1794. 8vo.
xxxii, 392 pp. (lacking pp. 331/32, 341–44, 357–62, & 365–84
).
$350.00
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Sole edition thus: Recipes, brewing instructions, menus suitable for a year of housekeeping, and a collection of home remedies “which will be found applicable to the relief of all common complaints incident to families, and which will be particularly useful in the country, where frequent opportunities offer of relieving the Distressed, whose situation in life will not enable them to call in Medical Aid” (p. 4).
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 and
a 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.
$1250.00
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The elegantly bound copy of these works from the rich library of the novelist William Beckford (1760–1844). Interestingly, Beckford owned seven editions of the Nugae — this is his
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 — is
a satirical poem written solely and perhaps preposterously with words beginning with P.
The Disputatio, here in the second collected edition after a first of 1638, is “a jeu d’esprit against the opinions of the Socinians” (Brunet). Its two parts, propounding rhetorical paradoxes, first appeared separately in 1595, when a debate broke out following the Socinian affirmation that women were animals, not humans, as Eve was not created in the image of God. Attributed to Acidalius Valens, the work
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 American
Signed Blind–Embossed Binding
This Copy Extra-Illustrated
Hemans, 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 stereotyped collection of works by three early 19th–century British poets, presented in
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).
The present example is an extra-illustrated copy. In addition to a frontispiece of Hemans and a pastoral title-page vignette, both engraved by W.H. Ellis, it bears tipped in on the back of the frontispiece a stunning added engraving of Hemans after a plaque by Edward William Wyon (“by A. Collas's Patent Process”). A portrait of Pollok “engraved by T.A. Dean from the only drawing from life ever taken” is mounted on a leaf before his Course of Time.
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 by
Benjamin 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.
[with] A number of other collateral documents relating to the Condes de Vivanco. On paper, in Spanish. Mexico City, Real de Bolaños, Aguas Clientes, Valladolid (now Morelia), and elsewhere in Mexico. Folio (31 cm, 12.25") and smaller.
Approximately 350 ff.
$7500.00
In 1780 Augustina Velázquez died and her will provided, among other things, for a huge number of masses to be said for her. Subsidy for the masses was spread among the priests in the mining region where she had lived Real de Bolaños and Aguas Calientes. Those receiving sums of money signed receipts, and among the dozens was a newly ordained minister who signed his receipt "Br. Hidalgo." The young bachiller became famous in 1810 for initiating the uprising that began the eleven-year struggle for Mexican Independence.
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 marvelous
calligraphic 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 MUSE
Hill, Elizabeth Chase. Gleanings: Girlhood and womanhood. Concord, NH: Republican Press Association, 1887. 4to (19.2 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., [2], 76, [2] pp.
$280.00
Uncommon, posthumously printed writings from Mrs. John M. Hill, a Concord, NH, resident who grew up in South Berwick, Maine (the first permanent settlement in that state) and attended school in Exeter, NH. The work was
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.
$250.00
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“In which is exemplified the bad effects of disproportionate ages in marriage, the consequence of indulging in illegitimate passion and revenge, and the beneficial result of timely repentance”: a melodramatic tale set in Valladolid, adapted from Paul Scarron's novel L'Adultère Innocente — that story itself being based on Al fin se paga todo, published in 1632 by María de Zayas, with plays by Southerne and Sheridan also having been (loosely) inspired by the same plot.
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 Minors
Hoffmann, 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.
$50.00
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(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.
$20.00
On the quarto sheet is a gracefully phrased bill for professional services rendered by a G.M. Dakal to a Mrs. Mary Hofmaster over a two-year period; on the octavo sheet is a receipt for partial payment of those services.
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.
$175.00
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Howe described herself at the moment she completed her most famous work — the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” — as “feeling that something of importance had happened to me.” The lyric, which was set to the tune of “John Brown's Body,” was originally published in the Atlantic Monthly, and was reproduced here in honor of the author's birthday. While the iconic anthem was and remains her best-known work, Julia Ward Howe (1819–1910) was a prolific and prominent American poet, lecturer, and activist who dedicated her long life to advocating for women's suffrage as well as abolitionism. The New England Women's Club, which she was responsible for organizing, was one of the earliest women's clubs in the United States.
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 locates
only 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.
$85.00
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“To which are added, Who's Master, Or, A Fight for the Breeches. / York Youre Wanted. / And Emigrants Farewell.” Two comic and two serious songs, with a title-page woodcut engraving of a swan.
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
& Playful Ethnographic Study — Hand-Written & Extensive
[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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Curious and charming: A detailed survey of the imaginary land of Tigreen, in which the females are all tigers — and notably the dominant, ruling personalities throughout — and the males all lions, with many of the customs seeming to poke gentle fun at Anglo culture. The volume opens with an account of Tigeenish journalism (it should be noted that the country is generally given as “Tigreen,” but its people and language as the “Tigeenish”), and goes on to lovingly describe “Great Names & Well Known Personalities of the Tigeenish World” before embarking on the events of the main travelogue — which include “Going to a Tigeenish Swimming Bath,” shopping and eating out, going to the theater, attending Fuersday services at the village church, and making the “First Visit to the Tigeenish Liberary” (sic). Inked neatly and possibly left-handedly in green, the text is both expository and narrative, with the writer giving a first-person account of events and dialogue; spelling is erratic. As the travelogue opens at item (chapter) 11, with “We have explored into the outlines of Tigeenish life,” and concludes with the party's return to its “home base” village in item 19 — not, apparently, the travellers' true home — the reader of these 150+ folio pages is both tantalized and impressed to realize that they present
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.
The story is illustrated with
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.
Clues in the text indicate that this is a British work (the author mentions queuing at bus stops, describes a mode of dress as “equivalent to our late Edwardian stile,” and has one character warn against spoiling breakfast with biscuits, among other details); it was written not earlier than 1936 and, we think, not so late as the wartime forties. The elaborate detail of Tigeenish worldbuilding, including linguistics, may variously reflect the influence of Wonderland, Toad Hall, the Hundred Acre Wood, or Middle-Earth; some aspects prefigure even Narnia (or perhaps the text dates later than we think). The age of the narrator is difficult to pin down, with some of the elements here conveying what could well be enthusiastic teenaged pop-culture fandom (Deanna Durbin is cited as the pinnacle of silver-screen fame), while some suggest a bit more reflective distance from childhood. The focus on domestic details implies, though of course does not guarantee, a feminine sensibility — and confirming this, the author does refer to herself as she and “Miss.”
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's
Tapestry
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.
$4000.00
On the top half of this page the Queen orders Sancho de Parades, her chamberlain, to pay Germán de Paris and his partner Jacques 22,600 maravides remaining on the 78,600 maravides that she owes them for a tapestry. The woven piece is a gift for a church, and includes 12 depictions of the royal coat of arms.
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” Case
Jackman, 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.
$450.00
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Daniel Webster to the rescue. Webster was one of the defense attorneys in this bizarre case: He had only shortly earlier resumed private practice following service in the U.S. Congress. The case involved the “respected” and definitely “plugged in” Goodridge who accused the mentally challenged Kenniston brothers of robbery. The cards seemed stacked against the two until Webster rose and began his defense, and stitch by stitch caused Goodridge's story to come apart and succeeded in obtaining the acquittal of the Kennistons.
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.
$125.00
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Helen Hunt Jackson avowedly wrote Ramona, set during the Spanish missions period of California, to do for the American Indian what Uncle Tom's Cabin had done for the African-American The novel appeared as a book in 1884, five years after she heard an eloquent lecture by two Ponca Indians, Standing Bear and Bright Eyes, on the injustices inflicted upon the Indian at the hands of greedy white settlers. Roused to action, she had written her first book on the subject in 1881, a well-researched work of non-fiction called A Century of Dishonor; but unhappily, neither that one nor this mobilized much support for the rights of the first Americans — although the novel was very, very popular. The introduction here is by J. Frank Dobie who writes, “her chief work lives on, not only in print but in the minds and emotions of people who call for the book in libraries, buy it in stores, read it, and are moved by it. Helen Hunt Jackson's outcries of moral indignation against America's shifty and cruel treatment of Indians still lift human spirits — even though comparatively few people are moved to lift hands against ambitious patriots still trying to get hold of Indian property . . . Her passion against wrong and for right will make her book live a long, long while yet.”
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 Catholicum
Jeanne 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.
$500.00
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An early American religious tract that tells the story of French maid Armelle Nicolas and her “child-like, hearty, and confident conversing with God as her only love, her father, and intimate friend.” This short English work was translated from a section of the 1704 French work “L'école du pur amour de Dieu” in the hopes that “some able pen or other” might be inspired to translate the entirety of the humbly pious woman's story into English.
WorldCat records suggest this could have been
a 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.
$150.00
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First edition: nine age- and chill-related poems. The volume was designed and printed by Claire Van Vliet, with the text handset in Trump Mediaeval italic and printed in black and silver on Barcham Green Charles I paper, and illustrated with a wood engraving by Monica Poole. This is
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 a
coolly elegant evocation of the titular theme. (34148)
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A “Golden-Mouthed” Aldine
John 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.
$2250.00
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First Aldine edition: Chrysostom's meditations on the religious aspects of virginity, De Virginitate liber, along with a letter from Poggiani to Cardinal Bishop of Augsburg Otto Truchsess von Waldburg and a note to the reader. Essentially an extension of the papacy, the Roman Aldine press capitalized on its fame to disseminate — with great cachet — Vatican-approved texts in the publication war that was such an integral part of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation.
John Chrysostom (349–407) was one of the four doctors of the Greek Church and the foremost preacher among the Church Fathers, the name “Chrysostom” meaning “golden-mouthed.” The subject of some controversy, he fell afoul of the Empress Eudoxia and was exiled. Italian humanist and Greek scholar Poggiani (1522–68), secretary to Carlo Borromeo, led a much calmer life editing texts related to the Council of Trent, and even translated into Latin a catechism organized by the council.
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, at
17, by a Bigamist Seducer
Hughes, 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.
$600.00
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The sub-title reads, “A record of love, bigamy and murder, unparalleled in the annals of crime. Trial was held in the Court of Common Pleas for Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in December, 1865.”
“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.
$27.50
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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.
$15.00
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First American edition of the second volume of reminiscences of Percy Muir's widow; well described as “a lively and entertaining account of the antiquarian book world and English village life in the post-war years.” A good sequel to Kaye's previous work The Company We Kept.
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.
$195.00
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A volume of illustrated poetry for children, described as “among the loveliest books ever produced” (Roger Dixon, “The Splendid Press of Messrs Marcus Ward & Company”). Sowerby's color-printed illustrations are framed by Crane's decorative motifs, all accompanying delightful verses written by Eliza Keary (1827–1918). Keary went uncredited here — and indeed under-appreciated in her day, having all but stopped writing for adult readers following a four-sentence dismissal of her work by The Athenaeum in 1874. In the present book, her poems about childish activities (including fishing, gathering flowers, and hosting tea parties) make a perfect complement to the Greenaway-esque art.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Margaret Heydon Folger.
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 through
Late 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.
$150.00
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“Last year, dear friends, we met 'At Home,' / And now 'Abroad' we mean to roam,” in the even lovelier companion volume to At Home. For this outing, the poems and illustrations share a coherent theme: the experiences of an English family travelling in France. Osborne notes that “Thomas Crane, Walter's elder brother, designed the ornamental pages while his cousin, Mrs. Houghton did the figure designs.” The chromolithographed scenes include our well-dressed friends departing from Charing Cross Station (and later, sleeping on the train home), boarding the steamer to cross to Calais, walking the Rue de l'Epicerie and visiting the Creche of Sister Rosalie (a nursery for children of working women) in Rouen, observing lacemakers in Caen, and enjoying all sorts of amusements in Paris. The publisher tells us only that “the verses are by various writers,” but Opie suggests that Eliza Keary, who wrote the poems for At Home, may have been involved.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Margaret Heydon Folger.
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 Greeks
24 Color-Printed Plates by Averil Burleigh
A Sangorski & Sutcliffe Binding
Keats, 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.
$200.00
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From the “Burlington Library” series: Keats, here with
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 include
Burleigh'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 for
Women 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.
$100.00
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Collection of Christian-themed short stories, poems, and readings, most of which counsel the womanly virtues of patience, submission, and self-control. This volume, the third to appear in the Opal series, is illustrated with mezzotints by J.G. Chapman; all eight of the plates described in the list of illustrations are present, but not the added engraved title-page.
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 of
Jesus 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.
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First edition of this groundbreaking medieval-inspired fantasy, partially dictated by Morris on his deathbed and published following his death. As noted by the colophon, the manuscript was
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.
Like many of the modern fantasy novels to follow it, this volume opens with
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.
Peterson, Kelmscott Press, A51. Original blue paper–covered boards with linen shelfback, spine with printed paper label; lower outer corners a little bumped, spine label with minor rubbing over sewing band, a few small spots of very minor discoloration. Offsetting to outer portions of front pastedown front free endpaper, and front fly-leaf, not reaching other front blanks or half-title; lighter offsetting to rear endpapers. Front free endpaper with small pencilled initials (F.S.?), dated 1898.
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.
$45.00
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Two verse narratives: Sir Alfred reluctantly gives up his low-born love to marry the king's daughter. When he tells the king he cannot go through with the marriage, the king's daughter lifts her veil, revealing that she is in fact his beloved Rosalie. In the second ballad, the Laird of Lamington turns up on the day his lover is to be wed against her will to an English gentleman, and carries her off.
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.
$50.00
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Kingsley's best-selling tale of fifth-century religious and philosophical conflict canvassed via
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 & Photographer
Kinnell, 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.
$250.00
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First book-form printing of this poem, following its initial appearance in The New Yorker; its Rhode Island–born author (1927–2014) was often compared to Walt Whitman, and this piece highlights his signature earthiness. The text is illustrated with three full-page photographs by Lotte Jacobi, selected from her archive at the University of New Hampshire and printed from the original negatives.
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 is
numbered 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 Leporello
Kronfeld, Susan. Spaghettiana. West Burke, VT: The Janus Press, 1976. 8vo (26 cm, 10.2"). [1] f.
$125.00
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Unusual and delightful Janus Press production: one long accordion-fold (i.e., leporello) rendition of a sinuous linecut illustration, printed from six original drawings by by Susan Kronfeld. The printing was done by Claire Van Vliet and Nancy Southworth at the Stinehour Press, and the binding by Jim Bicknell; the linecut is printed in black, and the text portions (title, colophon, and instructions) in violet, red, and silver. This is
numbered copy 52 of 150 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist.
Fine, The Janus Press 1975–1980, 38. Publisher's red cloth–covered boards, front cover with purple paper inset, spine with printed paper label; spine label and edges of purple inset faded (not unattractively).
A solid and pleasing copy, with artwork in excellent condition. (35934)
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