This neatly printed text has single columns with unaccomplished guide letters and shouldernotes using roman font; the iconic Aldine device appears on the title-page and an errata list appears in double-column format at the end.

Provenance:  The printer's mark of Jan Baptiste Verdussen II depicting a stork feeding a snake to another stork with the Latin motto “Virtus pietas homini tutissima,” which can be dated between 1659 and 1759, has been excised from another source and affixed to the front pastedown (possibly as a bookplate, as speculated by the Provenance Online Project); this title is later listed in the auction catalogue of Jean-Baptiste Verdussen III's book collection, suggesting this copy may have belonged to the Verdussen family. Two early inked signatures of G.J. Enoch and I.F. Vanderelie also appear on the front endpapers. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

Searches of WorldCat and NUC located only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership (CLU, LNT, MnCS, UPB).

•  Adams A950; EDIT16 CNCE 16242; Index Aurel. 104.682; Renouard, Alde, p. 186, no. 7; UCLA, Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection (2001), 678. Not in Kallendorf & Wells, Aldine Press Books. On the Aldine press at Rome, see: Curt Buhler, “Manutius and His First Roman Printings,” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 46, pp. 209–14.   19th-century polished calf, spine stamped in gilt with two gilt-stamped leather title-labels, covers framed with a dog-tooth roll, two gilt fillets, and small fleurons at corners; gilt floral rolls to board edges and turn-ins, all edges stained red, with marbled endpapers. Binding rubbed and refurbished, one leather spine label chipped and the other removed; spotting on endpapers, evidence of a removed bookplate at back. Mostly light offsetting of text throughout, intermittent mild to moderate unobtrusive waterstaining (including to title-page) and other spotting; title-page and eight more leaves of text with marginal repairs, one gutter showing narrow band of discoloration (possibly glue action). Provenance indicia as above, two pencilled endpaper notes. An important collection from an interesting era of the Aldine Press; and a strong, in fact quite handsome copy.  (37366)

Beddoes (1760–1808) had a “fervent belief that true medical science must have a chemical basis and with this in mind, he set up a Pneumatic Institute where diseases were treated with the administration of gases. He appointed Humphry Davy (1778–1829), then a lad of nineteen, as superintendent, and it was here that Davy, in the course of his experiments on the medical properties of gases, discovered the anesthetic effects of nitrous oxide” (Heirs of Hippocrates).

In this, hisfirst medical work,  Beddoes fully recognized the importance of applying new developments in chemistry to medicine. The initial section on calculus described a new therapy for stones in which the recently discovered carbon dioxide plays a prominent role. Beddoes considered scurvy and obesity to be caused by a deficiency of oxygen, while consumption and catarrh were caused by excessive oxygen.

On pp. [171]–252 are “Two memoirs translated from the French of Dr. Girtanner.” Credit for the translation is given on p. 44 to “Mr. Woodhouse, of the Middle Temple.”

Provenance:  1816 ownership signature of James M. Taylor; most recently in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Evans 31782; Austin 169; ESTC W21341; Heirs of Hippocrates 717.   Publisher's speckled sheep, round spine, gilt rules forming spine compartments, red leather spine label; some abrading of leather. Browning, and a brown stain in lower margin of many leaves; the usual foxing and age-toning.  (39732)

Binding:  Contemporary dark green straight-grain morocco, spine with gilt-stamped rules, rolls, and devices. Covers framed with a delicately curly gilt-rolled border; the center panels, within, accented by gilt-stamped corner fleurons. A bit of additional filigree in blind appears both within the rules of the gilt border and within the border on each center panel, to nice subtle effect. Gilt inner dentelles. All edges gilt.

•  NSTC C355.   Binding as above, leather rubbed at edges and joints, spine a bit dimmed. Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of John Allan Powell; front fly-leaf with inked inscription dated 1922. A few spots of foxing, pages otherwise clean. A pretty and very English production for this Portuguese poet.  A charming volume.  (23077)

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Bongi, Annali di Gabriel Giolito de’ Ferrari, II, p. 130; Brunet, II, 791; EDIT16 CNCE 17375; Graesse, Trésor de Livres Rares, II, p. 418; Index Aurel. 154.658. Not in Adams.   19th-century paste paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-lettered blue paper label and blue stamp; rubbed with some loss of paper and some dust-soiling. Title-page woodcut shaved along lower edge. Light to moderate age-toning with a handful of spots, one gathering with marginal waterstaining; one short marginal and gutter tear, two interior tears with early repairs touching text but not affecting sense. Booklabel as above, a few small pencilled bibliographical notes on endpapers; occasional scattered ink spots and two pages with math or letters in an early hand. Gorgeously, thoughtfully illustrated work from an important press.  (39014)

•  Binding as above, in original terra-cotta paper–covered slipcase; leather very gently sunned, leather very gently sunned, slipcase with lower edge rubbed and each side with a small unobtrusive spot/mark or two to paper, otherwise clean. Informative and attractive.  (30560)

Binding: Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and foliate decoration to spine; deep blind-stamped triple-ruled and foliate border on front board framing stylized gilt title and cottage centerpiece; rear board identical to front board but with centerpiece in blind. Saffron endpapers.

Provenance:  On front free endpaper, 20th-century signature of “Wm. B. Goodwin, M.I.T.” A rubber-stamp from the Lowell Historical Society appears on the front pastedown and on the top and bottom edge.

•  Hitchcock, American architectural books . . . portfolios, and pamphlets . . . published in America before 1895, 389.   Bound as above; rubbing to extremities, small tears at spine head, minor coppery discoloration to gilt on front board. Provenance stamp and signature as above; age-toned edges and minor to moderate foxing throughout interior. Sound and unassuming, much like its target audience.  (38084)

While suffering from financial difficulties throughout his life, Frewen continually worked with influential people, many of whom are here discussed in detail, including his wife Clara Jerome, aunt of Winston Churchill. One way and another there is plenty of huntin', shootin', and fishin'; and there are plenty of politics.

Provenance:  A tantalizing “Wealdside 1924” in ink on the front pastedown. The Weald is of course of huge extent, and there are therefore potentially a number of possible “Wealdsides”; but it is notable that the Frewen family dates back to Elizabethan times in East Sussex — and, perhaps, that Moreton Frewen died in 1924.

•  Howes F380; Graff 1442.   Light green publisher's cloth, cover ruled and lettered in black, spine and back also stamped in black; gently rubbed and text slightly cocked, with a thumbnail-sized pink stain along the edge of the back cover and speckling the bottom edge. Light age-toning with offsetting to fly-leaves; inscription as noted. A good read in a good solid copy.  (37037)

Bindings: 20th-century speckled calf framed and panelled 17th century–style in double blind fillets with blind-tooled corner fleurons, middle panels in plain calf, innermost panels framed with blind roll; spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels, raised bands, and blind-tooled composite motifs in compartmentsdone by a modern master. Back pastedown of vol. I with pencilled note reading “Bound by Bernard Middleton [/] Feb. '62.”

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Brunet, II, 1735; Lowndes, IV, 943; NSTC 2G21923.   Bindings as above; joints and edges rubbed, spines evenly sunned, minor scuffing to sides. Front pastedown of vol. I with pencilled annotation of old purchase price. Page edges untrimmed; a few leaves in vol. II with very short tears from outer margins, not touching text; faint age-toning and intermittent instances of light spotting, mostly but not entirely in upper outer corners. Vol. I with one 20th-century pencilled marginal annotation, vol. II with one pencilled date correction. A good example of 19th-century scholarship on printing and literary history, here in a lovely demonstration of 20th-century binding technique.  (37968)

Langham's organization is this: “He devoted a chapter to each plant, describing its parts and their uses, the different processes such as distillation that could be applied to it, and how the resulting products could be used for particular diseases. To every item of information he added a number and at the end of the chapter there is an index or table of conditions with the numbers that were in the main text. The reader can thus see at a glance that one herb could be used in a wide variety of conditions, and whether a specific illness could be helped by a particular drug” (Wear, pp. 82–83).

This is the second edition, “corrected and amended,” the first having appeared in 1597. We are sure the reading public, which was sufficient to support a second edition, would have been helped rather more if the work had had illustrations, but that would have increased the cost of the work dramatically and awide audience was sought. The text is printed chiefly in gothic type while the end of chapter “indices” are in roman. This herbal was not printed during a period of good English typography, so the pages are dense with little white space or appreciation for making the text on the page easy on the eye rather than wearying.

•  ESTC S108241; STC (rev. ed.) 15196; Alden & Landis 633/67; Huth Library 817. On Langham, see Andrew Wear, Knowledge & Practice in English Medicine, 1550–1680.   Contemporary English calf, boards modestly ruled in blind at edges; rebacked in high quality goat. Age-toning or old soiling, especially at the edges of margins and with offsetting from binding to title-page; some light marginal waterstaining especially at end in index; some short tears with last leaves' edges chopped and final two with edges strengthened.Overall, an unsophisticated copy that has been spared being washed, pressed, and gussied up.  (34545)

•  ESTC T117287; Pforzheimer 611.   Period-style calf, covers framed and panelled in gilt rolls with gilt-stamped corner fleurons and central decoration, spine with with gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt-ruled raised bands, and gilt-stamped compartment decorations. Title-page with early inked ownership inscription (William R. Williams) in upper outer corner; preface with early inked initials in upper corners, partially effaced, resulting in small holes to upper outer corner (touching two letters of text without obscuring sense). Occasional early inked corrections and annotations; partial topical index filling final blank. One leaf with short tear from upper margin not extending into text, another with portion of lower foremargin torn away just touching (but not really “affecting”) print; scattered light smudges and a handful of pages with old marginal stains, ink-drop to fore-edge (closed) in Latin section, otherwise clean.  (30851)

At the time of this publication, Mather (1706–85), the son of Cotton Mather, was pastor of Second Church in Boston. This is his second substantial publication, the first having been the biography of his father.

This was attractively printed with some care, incorporating some attractive head- and tailpieces.

•  Sabin 4679; Evans 4275.; Holmes, Minor Mathers; 60; Sabin 46791; ESTC W37808.   Later 18th-century full calf with gilt double-rule border to each cover, same double rule above and below each spine band, and a neat gilt-tooled spine label; board edges blind-tooled with a roll. Binding solid but a bit scuffed; interior clean and tight.  (34648)

Binding:  Publisher's blue-gray cloth, front cover with gate design stamped in yellow surrounding apaper-onlay color-printed portrait of the heroine, spine with stamped title and flower motif.

•  Binding as above; extremities gently rubbed, spine with small spot of discoloration; hinges (inside) slightly tender and frontispiece starting to separate from foot. A pleasing copy of an appealing — and very decorative — novel.  (35420)

Not located via NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, or the OPAC of the Mexican National Library. Durango imprints are rare.

•  Printed on rose-colored paper, faded and tattered at edges; small fold tears, dog-earing, and an old tape stain in one margin. Faults noted, stilldisplayable/frameable!  (31472)

•  Sabin 59130; Shaw & Shoemaker 6994. Recent simple paper-covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Slight cockling; minor foxing to first and last few leaves. Edges untrimmed. Two leaves with inner margin reinforced. A good copy.  (3230)

The forematter includes a history of the text, a bibliography, a study of medieval customs and the characteristics of the protagonists and antagonists, and an introduction to the versification.

Binding:  Contemporary dark brown morocco, covers framed and panelled in gilt fillets with gilt-tooled corner fleurons, spine gilt-lettered and with gilt-beaded raised bands and compartments stamped similarly to covers using same tools; board edges with gilt fillet, free endpapers in maroon silk. Doublures of brown morocco matching covers and stamped more ornately, in foliate and floral designs. Top edges gilt, page edges otherwise untrimmed; silk place marker. Front pastedown (doublure) signed, gilt-stamped, “The Harcourt Bindery.”

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard (sans indicia).

•  Bound as above, spine gently and evenly sunned to olive and spine edge of front cover slightly so, extremities lightly rubbed. Some gatherings in introduction and in notes unopened. Minor foxing throughout, pages otherwise clean. A great example of the binders' style/philosophy rewarding those who care actually to open their subtly-finely bound volumes; “but look, here's more!”  (37751)

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.

•  Original green wrappers with bird illustration on front wrapper and advertisement on rear. Minor soiling to two pages and small crease in upper corner of rear wrapper, else fine. A very attractive little “toy.”  (38780)

This isone of 500 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press in Los Angeles; Mary Kuper did the wood engraving of a Samoan scene.

Provenance:  Miniature bookplate of Raymond A. Smith to front pastedown.

•  Publisher's orange paper–covered boards with tan paper shelfback, front cover with red-stamped cruciform motif, spine with title in red. A clean and fresh copy.  (35704)

Provenance:  From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  NSTC 2T6768.   Binding as above, spine sunned to a rosy tan color, extremities lightly rubbed. Old cataloguing affixed to front free endpaper verso (i.e., to paper, not silk). Small line of staining to upper margins of most leaves, pages and plates otherwise clean save for three instances of offsetting from plates. A pretty little book; a nice thing in 1848 and a nice thing now.  (38635)

•  Publisher's cream paper wrappers in folded heavy taupe paper wraps, front wrapper with gilt-stamped title. Front free endpaper with pencilled annotations. A clean, crisp copy.  (32675)

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA”) at rear.

•  Rosenbach, Children's, 596 ([c. 1820]); Shaw & Shoemaker 46904 ([1818?]). This ed. not in Welch.   Publisher's printed paper wrappers with woodcuts, as above; wrappers foxed and leaves age-toned, not distressingly or weakening paper. Very little used, in good shape.  (38483)