The document is addressed to the fourth provincial council, called by Archbishop Lorenzana, and is a plea on behalf of the nuns to not change how things are done and administered in the nunnery, to not introduce innovations.

Guatemalan by birth, Guevara (d. 1804) studied civil and canonical jurisprudence at the Tridentine Seminary in Mexico, where he graduated from the university and became a lawyer at the royal court. One ofthe leading lawyers in Mexico, he ascended quickly to high office, and was appointed governor in absence of the viceroy four times; according to Beristain, he was called the “American Ulpian” (after the Roman jurist) by at least one contemporary.

•  Palau 129542; Medina, Mexico, 5451; Beristain, II, p. 61.   Recent marbled paper over boards, title and author gilt on green leather spine label, new endpapers. Short, shallow instance of insect gnawing at fore-edge of first ten leaves and very limited, minor worming throughout along with mild to moderate mostly marginal speckles of foxing; light waterstaining at fore-edge of some pages and occasional inkstains or smudges; one corner of textblock bumped or “creased across” (with no tearing) and another corner just bumped. A copy not “fine” but definitely worth having.  (31197)

Lake was “chaplain and tutor to the princesses Mary and Anne, daughters of James, duke of York” and originally wrote this “devotional manual . . . for his royal pupils” (ODNB).

Provenance: On front free endpaper in an 18th-century hand; “Wm. A. Put Bo[ugh]t of Nau Winkle & Co.”

•  ESTC T134200.   Contemporary acid-stained calf, round spine, no raised bands, gilt double-rules creating spine compartments, one with a red leather gilt title-label; front cover reattached using the long-fiber method. Light age-toning. A very nice copy.  (33142)

Provenance:  A laid-in handwritten slip proclaims this “Auntie Doris Lamb's recipe book,” and a letter from Odhams Press Ltd. to Mrs. Lamb acknowledges her correctness in having pointed out that a recipe for Soup Dumplings with Cheese in Modern Cookery Illustrated should have included butter and cheese in the ingredients list. Mrs. Lamb resided at Glen Villa in the parish of Lonan, Isle of Man, as documented by several items, including a retained copy of a letter from her husband Frank to a gentleman looking to buy a bungalow on the island.

•  Publisher's black pebbled roan, front cover with gilt-stamped title and “jeweled” corners stamped in gilt, red, and black; leather with mild scuffs overall. Hinges (inside) reinforced some time ago; pastedowns each with one strip of old cellophane tape. Title-page with printed label reading “No. 62" affixed beneath title; varying degrees of offsetting to pages and wear to laid-in items. While a number of the pages bound in this capacious volume are unused, between the inscribed items and the laid-in items there isan impressive amount of substantive content here.  (36499)

Of particular interest are Lambert’s poems describing the sorrows of the post–Civil War South from a personal, intimate perspective and, without regard to race, the poems sympathetic to “fallen” or sinful women. Heavily held in institutions, especially those specializing in American poetry of the 19th century, her volume Poems is scarce in commerce.

•  Recent mottled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and publication labels. Two portraits (of the author and her sister) lacking; guard leaf from latter portrait remains, with ghostly offset imprint of image. Occasional small edge nicks; most pages clean, with the last few signatures moderately browned. An intriguing volume, and writer.  (27813)

This is a copy of the second English Bijou Almanac. Schloss's series of miniature almanacs, often given asgift books, began with the one for 1836 (published in 1835) and ended with that for 1843. Those for 1836–38 did not bear Schloss's name in the title, that was added beginning with the almanac for 1839. “Schloss engaged Benjamin Reese Davies, a specialist in engraved script . . . to engrave the . . . series. His skill and consistency are apparent in both the text and portraits on steel plates” (Bromer & Edison, p. 95). Once the engraving was accomplished the work was transferred to a lithographic stone for actual printing, the whole process being called “transfer lithography” (Bain, p. 8).

Binding:  Orchid-colored paper, wrappers with gilt-stamped lyre and wreath motif, all edges gilt. Volume housed in a velvet- and silk-lined tan morocco clamshell case with “Bijou” gilt-stamped on its front within a strapwork frame; case with a hook and eye closing mechanism, still intact and working.

•  Welsh 2656; Spielmann 140; Bromer & Edison, Miniature Books, 94–97, and 100. On the printing via transfer lithography, see: Iain Bain, Albert Schloss's bijou almanacs (London, 1969).   Binding as above, covers rubbed, slipcase slightly worn with title faded and small scuff at the clasp where the hook opens; almanac perhaps once within a paper slipcase within the leather one. Pages very slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. Impossibly petite, and marvelously pleasing.  (36968)

The front page bears two vignettes of brunette beauties, one in the process of applying tonic and one with an impeccably arranged hairstyle.

•  Folded as issued, back page with upper outer corner bent and small nick to upper edge. Gently age-toned.  (29194)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only two U.S. institutional holdings of this 1671 edition, one of which was deaccessioned and is in fact this copy.

•  Contemporary mottled sheep framed in blind double fillets, recently rebacked with complementary calf, spine with raised bands and blind-tooled compartment decorations; edges and extremities rubbed, sides with old scuffs. Title-page and first text page with institutional perforation-stamp, title-page also with pencilled annotation as above, first text page with rubber-stamped numerals in lower margin, no other markings. Pages clean.  (31049)

Considerations on Slavery

Elizabeth Webb, "an acknowledged minister among the people called Quakers," first encountered Prince George of Denmark's chaplain Boehm while on a visit to Great Britain; the missive with which she opened her subsequent correspondence with him, here, greatly inspired him and a number of his friends.

Provenance: With inscription reading "Miss Hannah Amelia Moore / Book a Present from her worthy / Friend Ruth Patton / 1789."

•  Law: ESTC W32233; Evans 16817; Hildeburn 3987. Webb: ESTC W13440; Evans 18295; Hildeburn 4409. Benezet: ESTC W6416; Evans 18355. Contemporary quarter sheep over paper-covered sides, the whole worn and abraded but the little volume quite sound. Light age-toning, occasional darker spots. Small chip in bottom margin of title-page; one leaf with paper flaw in lower corner, resulting in the loss of a very few letters.  (10951)

•  Library quarter sheep over marbled paper boards, spine with paper shelving label, covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library; rubbed/abraded, chipped, joints starting, title-page and several others rubber-stamped. Fly-leaf and title-leaf among a number of others loose and chipped, one chip barely touching one letter of the title; tears, mostly marginal but occasionally into text not taking any; a few creased corners and occasional light spots and stains. Front pastedown with bookbinder's label, back free endpaper with library charge pocket. Lacks four pages of advertisements at end; pp. 87–90 misbound between pp. 154 and 155! In many respects a “poor soul” of a book; in others, a very good representative of what it is.  (8337)

The work is a classic in the field of early European accounts of China, of missions to and in China, and of travel in general. Thomas Jefferson owned a copy of this edition and may have done so for the work's sections on education in that kingdom.

Provenance:  Signature of M. Middleton dated 1699 at top of the frontispiece. Later in the collection of the Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  Wing (rev. ed.) L831; ESTC R15898; Goldsmiths'-Kress 3379; DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 1356; Cordier, Bibliotheca Sinica, I, 40.   Contemporary modest Cambridge-style binding of speckled calf; very nicely newly rebacked. Small institutional stamp on title-page and in margin of one other page. A very good copy.  (36372)

A title-page joins the images as part of aleporello enclosed in a petite brass case resembling a book. Joan's likeness appears on the case's front with the words “Jehanne d'Arc” within a frame of fleurs de lis and under the heading “vive labeur.” Some lilies, a sword within a crown, and two fleurs de lis appear on the back below the dates “1412–1431.” A small hole on the spine suggests the work was originally part of a necklace as opposed to simply a decorative collectible.

•  Bronze'y brass lightly dust-stained, barely noticeable wear on folds. A precious little bibliokeepsake.  (36817)

•  Folded as issued. Very good condition.  (26013)

one of the unnumbered, first 100 hors de commerce copies

•  Two Decades of Hamady & the Perishable Press, 41.   Publisher's golden brown textured paper wrappers, front wrapper with blind-stamped title. One leaf with an incorporated, volunteer, foreign bit-of-something gracing the handmade paper. A clean, unworn copy.  (30798)

•  Osborne, II, 771. Not in NSTC (CD version).   Plates in limp, straight-grained hunter green morocco, Exercises in hunter green vermiform ribbon-embossed cloth with all edges gilt, all in publisher's original ribbon-embossed cloth–covered case (matching the text booklet) with printed paper label; portfolio and booklet edges mildly rubbed, some covers creased, case extremities and label rubbed. Exercises with some corners bumped and one page with small printer's ink smear; front free endpaper with inscription as above and pencilled annotations; plates with scattered faint spots and smudges. Very much “up to” use and very appealing.  (27515)

This is the second issue, in a white binding with the price given as 35 cents.

•  Cagle & Stafford 485; this volume not in Brown, Culinary Americana (see 96 for no. 3).   Publisher's white oilcloth–covered boards, front cover with title information stamped in black, back cover with advertisement for the Times, front free endpaper lacking; binding rubbed and dust-soiled, slightly shaken. Title-page with edge-chipping, one long tear without loss from outer edge and a small hole (the latter two repaired from rear). Some corners dog-eared; scattered mild spotting, pages overall generally clean. An interesting look at what early 20th-century California women were cooking — or what they wanted other people to think they were cooking.  (36518)

Provenance:  The title-page bears “Ex libris Romanet” inked in an early hand.

•  Barbier, III, 1026; Jones 82; Cioranescu 40953.   Contemporary mottled calf framed in single blind fillet, sympathetically rebacked with gilt-stamped red leather title-label, raised bands blind-ruled, and blind-stamped floral motifs in compartments; binding moderately but not unappealingly worn overall, boards slightly sprung, joints and extremities refurbished, front hinge (inside) cracked but holding. Title-page inscription as above. First three leaves with waterstaining in upper outer margin and resulting small loss to edge of title-page, central signatures with waterstaining at inner margins and three leaves there repaired, other pages with scattered light stains and smudges, one leaf with short tear from outer margin not extending into text., and faults not nearly so distressing as that recital suggests they might be. A solid, very readable first edition from an author deserving of scholarly attention.  (37211)

OCLC locates only one U.S. institutional holding of this novel.

•  Manne, Nouveau dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, 162; Le Mayeur, Les Belges, 340.   Contemporary plain paper-covered boards, spine with hand-inked volume label; binding stained, spine rubbed with small insect hole. Vol. I only. Inner margin of title-page repaired with loss of first letter of publisher's information line. Faint spotting and staining; trimmed closely, often shaving pagination and signatures. As interesting to see how this was produced, as it is frustrating to be unable to finish the story!  (26937)

•  American Imprints 32748; Wright, I, 2442a.   Publisher's pebbled green cloth, covers with blind-stamped strapwork design, spine with gilt-stamped title and an image of the “house”; cloth darkened and spotted, edges and extremities rubbed, spine dimmed with none of that .shocking Lacks front free endpaper; mild to moderate spotting and staining. Worn, but a solid copy of this satire entertaining for a good many reasons NOT all its originally intended ones.  (36873)

      May you delight to serve the Lord
      And his commands and precepts keep;
      Remember that for every word
      You must account for what you speak.

In her adult life Mary (1804–57) married Algernon Edwin Beard, a manufacturer, and they had a son Augustus Field Beard (1833–1934), who became an important educator and was actively involved with the black colleges of the South, serving as a trustee of several.

•  Age-toning of paper, some small spots of browning; short fold tears; two old tape repairs to short fold tears from verso. Very good, very charming.  (34437)

•  Publisher's red cloth in dust wrapper, jacket not price-clipped; dust jacket rubbed and chipped at extremities and along upper back edge, light dustsoiling to portion of back cover.  (24682)

•  Sometime bound in a nonce volume (removed).

•  Removed from a nonce volume. Wanting final leaf of advertisements. Light foxing and traces of soiling. Closely trimmed by the binder, with loss of last letters of lines on a few pages, but without loss of sense.  (9216)

adds a preliminary volume of background information on England's politics and economy during the 15 years prior to the start of the main history

•  NSTC 2M17389.   Publisher's textured brown cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title; vols. III and IV with spine heads chipped. Ex–social club library: paper shelving label on each spine head, call number on endpapers, title-pages and a few others rubber-stamped, no other markings. Light waterstaining to upper and lower inner portions of vols. I and II, upper only of vol. III; pages otherwise clean save for very faint age-toning. Paper a bit embrittled, with occasional short edge tears or corner chips, but the set quite suitable for use with reasonable care.  (28336)

Provenance:  Front fly-leaf with inked inscription: “Martha Burt from Elizabeth [/] Christmas 1898.”

Binding:  Publisher's textured green cloth; front cover with gilt-stamped vignette and decorative title, spine likewise.

•  Not in scope of Wright.   Binding as above, cloth with scrape near foot of front joint, corners lightly rubbed, spine extremities chipped. Front fly-leaf with pencilled annotations and with inscription as above. Overall a bright and appealing copy of a sweet novel.  (35475)

Meibom (1590–1655) was a German physician and professor of medicine at the University of Helmstedt, although because of war and unstable political situations in Germany during his life, he moved several times to take new posts.

His work on the use of flagellation in love making (first published in 1639) was a multi-century best seller in Latin and, beginning in the 18th century, in English, French, and other translations. Virtually all of the editions, whether in Latin or not, were read to death or very effectively suppressed. Of this pocket-size edition, searches of NUC, WorldCat, ESTC, COPAC, KVK, and CCPBE, locate only three copies in Britain, none in Spain, four in Germany, andone in the U.S.

•  ESTC N31606.   Uncut copy (but it has been opened); dust-soiling to edges and title-page as so often associated. Bound in late 20th or early 21st century in quarter red morocco with red cloth sides; shelf number written on verso of title-page: “Lxxviii. k. 22.” An excellent copy.  (36380)

Binding: Signed binding (with Bilbao’s ticket on front pastedown) of oxblood morocco, front and back covers framed in a wide gilt roll surrounding gilt-stamped coat of arms of Francesco de Assisi de Bourbon, Duc de Cadiz (consort to Isabella II of Spain); spine with four raised bands, compartments gilt extra, with author, title, and date gilt-stamped. Board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls; all page edges gilt; blue moiré endpapers.

Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Maria Christina, Queen of Spain.

•  Palau 350495. Binding as above, showing light wear, spine slightly faded; pastedowns with some offsetting, endpapers with spots of foxing. Rare and attractive.  (5876)

•  Publisher's tan linen shelf-back with rust-colored boards. Boards lightly chipped. A very good copy.  (36591)

250 recipes making use of slow cooking

•  Bitting 326 (for 1909 & 1911 eds.); Brown, Culinary Americana, 2637 (first ed. only). Not in Cagle & Stafford.   Publisher's dark green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black with title and images of fireless cookers; mild rubbing to extremities, very faint scratches to back cover. Front hinge (inside) with small area of insect damage near head. A clean, solid copy.  (30292)

A newspaper clipping of a portrait of Hannah More taken from an engraving after the painting by H. W. Pickersgill, lies loose inside first volume.

•  Contemporary half red sheep in imitation of morocco over marbled cloth-covered boards, spines with gilt-accented raised bands, gilt lettering on spines. All edges marbled. Leather rubbed and scraped with some chips on spine, joints, and edges; pp. 421–34 of vol. VI have some shallow tears and chips from being bumped, fore-edge of one leaf folded back, without affecting text. Front joint of vol. VII starting from top edge. Some foxing throughout. Clean and complete.  (21439)