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“Make USE of Those Powers of
Reasoning & Observation
Which a Bountiful Creator Has Bestowed upon You . . . ”
Hack, Maria. Harry Beaufoy; or, the pupil of nature. London: Harvey & Darton, 1821. 24mo (14.3 cm, 5.6"). Frontis., vii, [1], 194, [2] pp.
$150.00
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First edition: the best-known work of a popular writer of educational books for children. This tale of
Harry's scientific awakening was partly inspired by Paley's Natural Theology (acknowledgedly so, at the beginning of the preface here); at the time of its publication, the Quarterly Journal of Education praised it as a pedagogical accomplishment “in which the mechanism of the human frame is explained so simply, and so clearly, that children of ten years old can fully understand and take an interest in the perusal.” The frontispiece, engraved by H. Melville after E.B. Hack (not the author's husband, but possibly a member of his family), depicts Harry admiring an experiment his father is showing him in a well-appointed library, while his mother and dog look on.
It should be noted that in many passages it is Harry's mother who is his instructor, and in one striking one he is allowed to be present when a medical man comes to the house at her request to bleed her.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked inscription: “S. Doubleday to H. Doubleday [/] 1822.” Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NCBEL, III, 1089; NSTC 2H824. Contemporary quarter red roan in imitation of morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities rubbed, spine leather showing tiny cracks, sides a bit scuffed. Pages gently age-toned with scattered small faint spots, some cockling. A solid, clean copy of an influential work of natural theology and scientific pedagogy. (38642)

A Writer at a (Charming!) Loss for Words
Hall, Basil. Autograph Letter Signed to Isabella Walsh. Philadelphia: 17 December 1827. Small 4to (24 x 19 cm; 9.5" x 7.5"). 1 p.
$100.00
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Inscribed on a page of Walsh's autograph album was this kind and playful sentiment:
“Your Brother has just called with this album, in which, he tells me, it is your wish that I should write something.
I am so much flattered by your request that I lose no time in complying with it: but I am much at a loss what to say that shall deserve a place in so gay a book — & in such good Company.
But as it becomes every well bred lion to roar for the entertainment of the company when he is bid — whether he be in a growling mood or not — I take up my pen accordingly.
Yet I daresay you will often have the mortification of hearing the visitors to this your 'menagerie' exclaim — 'Well! I am sure I never saw such a stupid wild beast before — I dont [sic] believe he is a real lion after all — I have heard many a donkey make quite as good an exhibition!'”
Hall (1788–1844) was a Scot, a naval officer, and author of several accounts of voyages and travels including Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island in the Japan Sea (1818), Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico in the years 1820, 1821, 1822 (1824), and Travels in North America in 1827–28 (1829). Miss Walsh (b 8 July 1812) was the daughter of Robert Walsh (Philadelphia lawyer and abolitionist) and Anna Maria Moylan Walsh (who died in 1826).
Provenance: The Walsh album sold at Anderson Galleries 28 Nov. 1921 (sale 1609) as lot 60. Later in the Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.
Very good condition. (34491)

A Visit from an Unnamed BUT
Possibly Discoverable &
Probably Published WOMAN Writer
Hall, Capt. Basil. Autograph Letter Signed to “Madam.” Putney Heath: no year. 12mo (7.125" x 4"). 2 pp., with integral blank leaf.
$125.00
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Hall (1788–1844), a Scot, naval officer, and author of several accounts of voyages and travels including Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea and the Great Loo-Choo Island in the Japan Sea (1818), Extracts from a Journal Written on the Coasts of Chili, Peru, and Mexico in the years 1820, 1821, 1822 (1824), and Travels in North America in 1827–28, tells his correspondent that she is welcome to call on him on Sunday as she proposes, any time after 10:30 A.M. He gives detailed instructions on how to reach his house: It “is on the top of the Heath close to the Telegraph, which is a single Staff, a Semaphore.” He tells her he has finished making notes of her vol. II but has lent vol. I to another and does not yet have it returned to him.
As Hall writes that he will be easy to find because he is “about as well known here though I hope in a different spirit as in Yankee Land,” we date the letter to some time shortly enough after publication of Travels in North America for oblique reference to its angry reception there to be both natural and “fresh”; and, indeed, we wonder if his correspondent is American?
Provenance: Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.
Very good condition. Old folds, a few spots of pale tea-colored stains. Written in a pale ink that is yet quite legible. (33346)

“Advantages of Poverty, & Blessings of Affliction, My Father!”
Hanway, Jonas. Virtue in humble life: containing reflections on relative duties, particularly those of masters and servants ... Various anecdotes of the living and the dead: in two hundred and nine conversations, between a father and his daughter, amidst rural scenes ... with a manual of devotion. London: Printed for Dodsley, in Pall-Mall; Sewel, near the Royal-Exchange; and Bew, in Pater-noster-Row, 1777. 4to (28.4 cm, 11.2"). 2 vols. in 1. I: Frontis., [2] ff., xvii, [1], vii, [1], 323, [1] p., [2] ff., pp. 325 (i.e., 327)–411, [1] p. II: Frontis., vii, [1], 523, [1] p.
$1200.00
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This is the second edition of
father-daughter dialogues intended to strengthen
servants' morals by myriad examples and advice; it was first published as an octavo series in 1774, using much the same content as Hanway's earlier Farmer's Advice to his Daughter (1770). The author (1712–86) was a merchant and philanthropist known not only for his charity, but also for regularly sporting both a sword and an umbrella at a time when neither was fashionable, and for tipping attractive female servants especially well. (He was a prolific author, too.)
Chapters include conversations between daughter Mary and her father on the utmost importance of prayer, sacraments, and charity; the “reciprocal duties of masters and servants”; the “necessity of subordination”; and “caution to female domestics against dancing-meetings,” among many, many other topics large and small.
The text is handsomely printed double-column in roman and italic, with
two finely engraved frontispieces signed by E. Edwards and J. Hall, one at the beginning of each volume: the first of a father and daughter sitting beneath a tree; the second of Hanway seated on a rock, contemplating a book and skull beneath the motto “Never Despair” — the author's own, which he adopted after a particularly grueling merchant voyage for the Russia Company in 1743. Each volume also has its own title-page, the Manual of Devotion, Consisting of Prayers, Psalms, Hymns, and Lessons that appears between the two having its own as well.
ESTC T93949; Goldsmiths-Kress 11624. On Hanway, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Contemporary speckled calf, boards framed in a gilt Greek key pattern, gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers; recently rebacked, spine gilt extra preserving original gilt-tooled green morocco label and adding a new red one gilt with author and title. Boards stained and scratched in a few places, corners bumped, chipping leather glued down; marbled endpapers repaired with photocopy segments of the original design. Ex-library: stamps on bottom edge, front endpaper, and rear pastedown (only). Mild to moderate foxing on a handful of leaves in each volume, and one small circular stain affecting eight or so pages in first, while pages mostly clean and bright; short closed tear to bottom margin of one leaf in second volume.
Nice. (31089)

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)

Harvard's “Examinations for Women” pre– the “Society,” the “Annex,”
Radcliffe, &
FIVE of the Seven Sisters
Harvard University. Examinations for women in 1874. Cambridge: Welch, Bigelow & Co., 1873. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). 72 pp.
[SOLD]
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In 1874 Harvard began creating tests for young women on behalf of the Woman's Education Association (Boston), which then administered them. “They were equivalent to the Harvard College entrance examinations and were designed to raise the standard of secondary education for girls, but not designed as admission tests for college” ( http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/examination.html ) — at least at first they weren't.
The subjects tested were modern English, foreign languages, Latin, Greek, mathematics, physics, botany, geology, physical geography, chemistry, mineralogy, astronomy, history, mental philosophy, moral philosophy, logic, and political economy. This pamphlet's p. 3 reads, “The examinations will be held for the first time in the last half of June, 1874, and will be of two grades: I. A general or preliminary examination for young women who are not less than seventeen years old; II. An advanced examination for young women who have passed the preliminary examination and not of less than eighteen years old.”
Beginning in 1881 the examinations were “accepted as an equivalent for the entrance examination by Wellesley College and by Smith and Vassar Colleges as the equivalent in such subjects . . . as are covered by it,” and beginning in 1887 Bryn Mawr College fell in line. Commencing in 1884 the examinations were also used “to determine admission to classes given by the Society for the Collegiate Instruction of Women [i.e., the successor to the “Harvard Annex” and predecessor of Radcliffe College],” and in 1895 considered for admission to Radcliffe College (as per data in later editions).
WorldCat seems to locate only eight actual copies but MANY e- and micro-surrogates.
Original printed blue-green wrappers; lightly worn, starting at head and foot. Released as a duplicate from Haverford College (no stamps, just a pencil note in a margin).
Very good condition. (38348)

Life of the Warrior Queen — In a Regal Binding
Hauteville, Euvoi de [pseud. of Joseph Jouve]. Histoire de Zénobie, impératrice-reine de Palmyre. Paris: Les frères Estienne (pr. by Moreau), 1758. 12mo (16.7 cm, 6.6"). [4], xxiv, 357, [3] pp.
$200.00
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First edition: Jouve's romanticized account of Zenobia, legendary queen of Palmyra; the Monthly Review of June, 1758, made particular note of both the vivacity and floridness of the author's style. There was a La Haye edition of the same year; the present Estienne printing is significantly less common, with WorldCat locating
only six U.S. institutional holdings.
Binding: Contemporary mottled calf, front cover with elaborate gilt-stamped EC monogram and coronet, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt compartment decorations. Marbled endpapers and all edges marbled; original silk bookmark present and intact.
DeBacker-Sommervogel, IV, 860. Brunet gives only the Hague edition of the same year. Binding as above, leather scuffed and rubbed with spine head chipped yet gilt still bright. Pages gently age-toned and cockled, with some offsetting front and rear from the binding and scattered small spots of foxing; a few corners bumped.
A handsome volume and an interesting 18th-century perspective on the near-mythic rebel queen. (36250)

First American Edition — American Binding — American Illustrator
Hayley, William. The triumphs of temper; a poem in six cantos. Newburyport [MA]: Pr. by John Mycall, for Joseph H. Seymour, engraver, in Boston, [1794]. 12mo (17.5 cm; 7.875"). vi, 162 pp., 7 plts.
$875.00
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First American edition of a fairly light-hearted poetic chastisement of spleen and shrewishness in womankind, first published in 1781 and tremendously popular in its day. This edition includes
seven full-page illustrated plates by American-trained engraver Joseph Seymour, mostly of women, two of them reading. Seymour also worked extensively for the well-known and ambitious American printer Isaiah Thomas, providing 32 plates for his illustrated Bible of 1791.
Binding: 18th-century American red morocco, spine lettered and delicately stamped in gilt with tulip rolls and Grecian urn designs; deep green leather title label. Covers single-ruled in gilt, board edges rolled in gilt with alternating solid and dotted lines, marbled endpapers.
Elegantly handsome.
Provenance: Inked signature of John Anderson on endpaper and title-page, flourished, with additional pencilled signature on title-page; later in the library of American collector Albert Howard (sans indicia).
ESTC W29588; Evans 27104. On Seymour, see: Stauffer & Fielding, American Engravers, I, p. 244. Bound as above, gently rubbed with joints repaired; one small spot of glue on back cover, light pencilling on endpapers. Light to moderate age-toning/foxing/spotting throughout; one short marginal tear, one small interlinear hole, one creased corner.
A uniquely American take on this popular English work; a very American production. (37845)

Ladies, Be Sweet & Mild — “A Sportive Satire” — A Nice Example of Color Printing
Hayley, William. The triumphs of temper, a poem: in six cantos. Chichester: Pr. by William Mason for T. Cadell & W. Davies, 1817. 8vo (16.8 cm, 6.65"). Col. frontis., xii, 166 pp.
$750.00
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Fairly light-hearted poetic chastisement of spleen and shrewishness in womankind, first published in 1781 and tremendously popular in its day. The “delicate raillery on female foibles” (p. ix), written in mock heroic couplets, opens here with
a color-printed, stipple-engraved frontispiece done by T.B. Brown after George Romney.
Binding: Handsome diced tan calf, covers framed in gilt roll composed of pyramid and trefoil elements, spine with wide raised bands, gilt-stamped leather title and author labels, and gilt-stamped foliate designs in compartments and on bands. Turn-ins with blind roll; marbled paper endpapers. All edges marbled (different marbling than the endpapers).
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of British collector and author Eric Stanley Quayle, dated 1965; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NCBEL, II, 658; NSTC 2H14088. Bound as above, joints (outside) and corners mildly rubbed, leather a little mottled; light offsetting to title-page from frontispiece. Occasional tiny spots of faint foxing, pages otherwise clean.
A lovely, appealing copy of this interesting cross between Spenser and Pope. (37630)
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)

“My Pen Has Been Taken up in the Cause, & for the Benefit, of My Own Sex”
A Biographical Dictionary of & for WOMEN
Hays, Mary. Female biography; or, memoirs of illustrious and celebrated women, of all ages and countries. Philadelphia: Birch & Small (pr. by Fry & Kammerer), 1807. 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.8"). 3 vols. I: vi, [2], 488 pp. II: [4], 510, [2 (adv.)] pp. III: [4], 512 pp.
$1850.00
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First American edition, following the London first of 1803. This encyclopedic collection of lives of famous (and infamous) women was compiled by controversial novelist, editor, and feminist Mary Hays, friend of Mary Wollstonecraft — who is, curiously, not counted among the “illustrious and celebrated women” here. Among those who did make the cut are Sappho, Diane de Poitiers, Matoaks (a.k.a. Pocahontas), Susannah Centlivre, Charlotte Corday, Anne Boleyn, Mrs. Pilkington, and Anne Broadstreet (i.e., Bradstreet).
Hays notes in her preface that “Women, unsophisticated by the pedantry of the schools, read not for dry information, to load their memories with uninteresting facts, or to make a display of a vain erudition . . . they require pleasure to be mingled with instruction, lively images, the graces of sentiment, and the polish of language” (vol. I, p. iii). These last things, she strives to supply herself!
Shaw & Shoemaker 12742; Sabin 31061. Period-style quarter tan cloth over blue-grey paper-covered sides, spines with printed paper labels. Title-page of each volume with the blind pressure- (not perforation-) stamp of a social club library. As in all copies we have had, pages age-toned, with a few foxed or spotted; occasional short edge tears, not extending into text. Three leaves in vol. II with tears in margin with loss of paper only and four other leaves in the same volume with loss of paper and either a few letters (pp. 10710) or words (approximately half the words on each of five lines on pp. 15152 and a word or threeon each of five lines on 22930).
A good resource and a good “read.” (28716)
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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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Popular Philosophical Dialogues
Helps, Arthur, Sir. Friends in council: A series of readings and discourse thereon. Boston & Cambridge: James Munroe & Co. (pr. by Allen & Farnham), 1853. 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"2 vols. I: [2 (adv.)], viii, [2], 291, [1] pp. II: vi, [2], 271, [1] pp.
$200.00
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Essays on social and moral problems including educating women and children, improving the condition of the rural poor, and giving and taking criticism, presented in a framing text involving several personable imaginary figures whose interspersed dialogues enliven the philosophical exposition. Helps, a civil servant, was much admired in his day for this popular work, which was at least partly inspired by his time as a member of the Cambridge Conversazione Society (a.k.a. the Apostles).
Present here is an early U.S. edition of the first series; two series were published, the first in 1847–49 and the second in 1859.
Much of the second volume of this series is dedicated to the question of slavery.
Allibone 818. On Helps, see: Dictionary of National Biography online. Publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title; moderate rubbing most noticeable at vol. I spine head, and vol. II with strip of dark cloth tape at head of spine extending onto sides. Ex–social club library: front pastedowns with 19th-century bookplate and call-number sticker, front free endpapers lacking, title-pages pressure-stamped, no other markings. Pages age-toned, with intermittent spots of staining and light pencilled bracketing. (26412)

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)

Washington, D.C. — Life & Society, 1895
Hinman, Ida. The Washington sketch book. A society souvenir. Containing over one hundred portraits of prominent people, and fifty views of public buildings and statues. Washington, DC: Hartman & Cadick, 1895. 4to (28.5 cm; 11.25"). 112 pp., [2 (ads) ff.
$75.00
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A guidebook and social life manual aimed very much at the female audience. Illustrated with numerous black and white halftone illustrations throughout, including many views of the city and its important buildings both exterior and interior, this includes an extended section of profiles of “Some Prominent Women of Washington.”
Neat gift inscription on front free endpaper: “Mollie, with Ada's love. 898.”
Publisher's light blue cloth, front cover stamped in silver with images of the Washington Monument and the Capitol; author's name and title of work stamped in in gold within silver cartouches. Light wear to edges of boards and a little spotting; a Very Good copy. (37010)
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.

The Author of
“The Spider & the Fly”
Howitt, Mary. Mary Howitt an autobiography. London: Wm. Isbister, 1889. 8vo (24.1 cm, 9.5"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., xviii, [2], 326 pp.; illus. II: Frontis., xii, 370 pp.; illus.
$125.00
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First edition: Life of the Quaker-educated poet, author, and translator, edited by her daughter Margaret Howitt. Present here are descriptions of her interest in Spiritualism and her eventual conversion to Catholicism; the two handsome volumes are illustrated with numerous engravings of buildings, views, interiors, and people from Howitt's youth and her subsequent travels with husband and fellow author William Howitt.
NSTC 0356417. Early 20th-century half blue morocco and blue cloth, leather edges with gilt rule, spines with particularly graceful gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations; spines slightly sunned, extremities rubbed. Front fly-leaves each with decorative ownership rubber-stamp. A scattered few light smudges to margins, pages otherwise clean. (33151)
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Hudson, Thomas. Betsey Baker. Glasgow: J. Neil, 1829. 12mo. 8 pp.
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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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Tepper's “Most Ornately Decorated” Book
Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The Odd-fellows' offering, for 1852. Embellished with elegant engravings, and a highly-finished presentation plate. New York: Edward Walker (pr. by E.N. Grossman & Son), 1852 (copyright 1851). 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.75"). 320 pp.; 11 plts.
$115.00
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Elaborately bound annual gift book issued by the charitable fraternity, here in its tenth appearance. The poems and stories are illustrated with a total of
eleven steel-engraved plates — all but two still with protective tissue — engraved by McRae after R.A. Landseer, E. Walker, Rossiter, Blauvelt, Brueckner, Birch, Magee, Claxton, or Peale, and including the
illuminated presentation plate, chromolithographed by T. Sinclair after Devereux, here left blank. Among the works, which were written chiefly by members of the order, their wives, and their sisters, are several pieces on the principles and virtues of Odd Fellowship.
Binding: 19th-century red roan in imitation of morocco, best described (at length) by Tepper: “Saturated with gold, the complex design consists of a system of strapwork borders, oak leaf garlands, and finely structured borders surrounding five separate panels of religious and biblical scenes. Framed with rounded strapwork, the four smaller panels depict Noah's Ark, the lion and the lamb, and two Christian female figures, while the larger central panel features Lazarus and Christ and a retinue of of historical figures. This is to say nothing of the elaborately detailed spine decoration, which has separate strapwork panels for the title, a biblical scene, and the date of the publication.
This is possibly the most ornately decorated book in the entire collection” (emphasis ours). The back cover has the frame in blind surrounding a gilt stamp of two cherubs and doves on an archway with the word “love” at bottom, floral decorations around the edge, and a three part wreath reading “F.L.T.” (Friendship, Love, Truth) with a different letter in each wreath.
Evidence of Readership: A previous reader has left a bookmark-sized section of sky blue silk and a clipping of the start of a moral tale titled “The Hidden Snare” tucked within the text; alas, the end is missing!
Faxon, Literary Annuals and Gift Books, 610; Tepper, American Gift Books & Literary Annuals. (Second edition), p. 164; Thompson, American Literary Annuals & Gift Books, p. 144. Bound as above; somewhat rubbed with some loss of leather, spine ends pulling, joints and hinges starting to open, faint glue action to endpapers. Light to moderate age-toning with the occasional spot or small stain, plates remarkably unfoxed but with a few other spots; presentation leaf loosely attached at bottom. Reader evidence as above. A much nicer object than this necessary recital of faults may suggest. (38210)
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)

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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“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)

“Never Did I Think It Would Unravel into a Long On-Looker's Life”
Kaufman, Margaret. Aunt Sallie's lament. [West Burke, VT: Janus Press, 1988]. Folio (28.6 cm; 11.25" book. 30.6 cm; 12.125" case). [13] ff.
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The first Janus Press quilt book. This visually engaging and heartbreaking five-sided, multicolored book in a patterned mauve clamshell was designed to look like a series of quilting squares, with each page cut into a different shape, in a concertina binding structure. As the pages are turned, select words and phrases from Kaufman's poem conjuring a lonely older woman remembering a brief love affair emerge and remain visible, giving a glimpse into the narrator's regret.
The book was “designed by Claire Van Vliet based on a binding structure developed by Hedi Kyle & made with Linda Wray and boxes made by Judi Conant, Guildhall Vermont.” A note in the clamshell reports the types of paper used as “Fabriano tan, green, & blue mouldmade cover; Barcham Green handmade India, Boxley & India Office; Twinrocker Aura and Lilac Wind; and from MacGregor-Vinzani Blue Fleck, Brockport and the abaca lilac, pink, tan & grey for the binding concertina.”
A limitation statement, in letter-press and signed by Kaufman and Van Vliet, announces that this unnumbered and unlettered copy is specifically for Andrew Hedden.
Fine, Janus Press 1981–90, 20. Bound and housed as above, the smallest bumps to corners, back cover starting to warp at one edge, case pristine.
A complex, interesting work of book art in a special copy. (37128)

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)

For the Amateur Botanist
Keeler, Harriet L. Our native trees and how to identify them: A popular study of their habits and their peculiarities. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1917. 8vo (19.9 cm, 7.875"). xxiii, 533, [5 (4 adv.)] pp.; illus.
$20.00
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Botany in a beautifully decorated binding. Harriet L. Keeler was a life-long educator and amateur botanist, having published seven nature guides between 1894 and her death in 1921. So-called “recreational” botany was popular among women towards the end of the 19th century — “scientific” botany was out of their grasp at this time — affording Keeler a wide readership. Her study of native trees, which provides extensive descriptions and Latin names, influenced many future nature writers and was reprinted over a dozen times. This is the ninth edition.
The text is illustrated with
178 photographic reproductions of leaves, branches, flowers, etc. and 162 reproductions from drawings.
Binding: Publisher's light green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine; grey, black and beige–stamped forest to front board.
Provenance: Inked inscription on front fly-leaf: “Elsa C. Fueslein, with the love and congratulations of G.S.S., Oct. 19/18.” Bookplate of Elsa Carla Fueslein on verso of front free endpaper.
Not in Minsky. Bound as above, edges rubbed with faint stain to bottom edge of front board, light scuffs and soiling to boards; spine darkened and top edge dust-soiled. Top of rear hinge cracked (inside) with some webbing exposed; interior lightly age-toned with small closed tear to front free endpaper and the tip of one leaf missing.
Informative and attractive. (37494)
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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)

“Mr. Holmes Played Old Men & Character Parts — Same as I Did”
Kellogg, Eugenia. The Awakening of Poccalito. A Tale of Telegraph Hill, and Other Tales. San Francisco: The Unknown Publisher, 1903. 12mo (17.5 cm; 7"). 130 pp.
$245.00
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Gorgeous presentation copy of an interesting collection of short stories. Kellogg gives us six short stories set in California, Mexico, and Alaska, with prefatory matter including a printed short laudatory letter from Joaquin Miller, reproducing his holograph signature and dated November 7th 1903.
Presentation/Provenance: The presentation is on the dedication page and reads: “For Mr. James L. Carhart. With the best sentiments of the author. Eugenia Kellogg. (Mrs. E. B. Holmes). June 2nd 1918. San Francisco.” And the recipient has written in pencil, “Note: Mrs. E. B. Holmes is the widow of Mr. Edwin B. Holmes, a fellow actor with me in the celebrated American comedian, John E. Owens' company, which played at the Vanities Theater, New Orleans, La, the season of 1874-5.”
Carhart secured a second copy of the frontispiece portrait of Kellogg and on the verso has written: “E.B. Holmes was a member of John E. Owens' company, which played at the Vanities Theater, New Orleans, La, the season of 1874-5. Mr. Holmes played old men and character parts — same as I did.”
Binding: Publisher' green ribbed cloth, stamped in gilt on front cover with the author's name, a shortened version of the title, and the image of Telegraph Hill in the era when it was surmounted by a “castle” — “Poccalito” in his pauper's rags framed between flourishes below this.
A very interesting cover.
Not in Wright. Bound as above with cloth and gilt fresh and bright; a clean, obviously always treasured, little volume. Very good condition. (34675)
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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.
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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)

“The Invigorating Effects of MIND in a Life of Labor” — Voices of American Working Women
Knight, Charles, ed. Mind amongst the spindles. A miscellany, wholly composed by the factory girls. Selected from the Lowell Offering . . . with an introduction by the English editor, and a letter from Harriet Martineau. Boston: Jordan, Swift & Wiley, 1845. 16mo (17.3 cm, 6.8"). 214 pp.
$400.00
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Founded in the 1820s, the factory city of Lowell, MA, boasted its own monthly literary periodical, filled with poems and stories written by the “factory girls” — the working-class women of the textile mills. This collection of highlights from the magazine, which identifies the authors by initials or first names only, largely focuses on the virtues of dedication, hard work, thrift, self-improvement, and patriotism, with special emphasis on the importance of enduring hardship patiently.The work was first published in London in 1844, with an informative introduction by its editor, Harriet Martineau; this Boston printing, including that contextualizing introduction, is
the first U.S. appearance of a significant and uncommon expression of the thoughts and dreams of women laborers in the early 19th-century American factory system.
Provenance: Bookplate of the Wilmington Institute Free Library (originally incorporated in 1754).
Goldsmiths'-Kress 34077; Sabin 49192. Publisher's straight-grained brown cloth, covers framed in triple blind fillets surrounding central blind-stamped foliate medallions, spine with gilt-stamped title and foliate motifs; extremities rubbed, spine with paper hand-inked shelving label and with affixed letter “S” partially obscuring title. Front pastedown with bookplate as noted; back free endpaper with affixed library slip noting the book was “not for circulation,” with offsetting to back pastedown. Last text page with early inked initials and with pencilled purchase note. Scattered mild foxing. A nice example of this pioneering collection, in its original publisher's binding, and
once held by a public library designed to support exactly the kind of working-class self-improvement on which the volume focuses. (38169)

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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