TWENTY for TUESDAY (XV)
“ . . . Three, Two, One, ZERO! . . .” (Three or Fewer Copies Located in U.S. Libraries at This Writing)
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Sermons to Hermits —Attributed toAugustine — 16th-Century Edition in ITALIAN
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo. Sermoni agli eremiti del divo Aurelio Agostino Hipponense ... Nuovamente stampati. Et ... espurgati. Venice: [colophon: Domenego Zio e fradelli], 1538. 8vo (15.3 cm, 6"). [160] ff. [SOLD]
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Attributed to St. Augustine but now relegated to the “spurious, doubtful” category of his works, these sermons enjoyed a wide audience within the Church for centuries. This is an early Italian edition of the famous text first published in Latin in 1477, here printed in roman type, double-column format, with many woodcut initials in various styles (historiated, floriated, criblé, black on white and reverse) and sizes. The title-page features a woodcut device of three fleurs-des-lis; and the printer's device of a circle with a double cross and the initials D.Z.V.F. appears below the colophon, which is dated 1537.
A Doctor of the Church, St. Augustine (354–430) “dominates the Christian tradition of the West, of which he may be considered the founder” (NCE).
Binding: 19th-century paneled calf rather elaborately bordered with multiple rules and rolls in blind, with a flower tool at the inner corners of the border on each board; gilt turn-ins and all edges gilt.
Provenance: Early ink ownership signature of M. Bains(?) and pen marks on title-page.
WorldCat finds no copies in the U.S. of this edition, which is not in NUC Pre-1956. COPAC locates only the British Library copy.
Index Aurel. 110.240; Edit16 CNCE 25866; NCE, I, pp. 1041–58. This ed. not in Adams. Bound as above, recently rebacked with title and date gilt on spine, new endpapers. Light age-toning throughout, turning moderate on last few leaves. (33128)
A Trio from the Old Testament — Bengali Calcutta Baptist Mission Press
Bible. O.T. Job. Bengali. Yates. 1843. The preceptive and devotional books of the Old Testament comprehending Job, the Psalms of David and the writings of Solomon, in Bengálí. Calcutta: Printed at the Baptist Mission Press, 1843. Sm. 4to (25.5 cm; 10.125"). [4], 475–608 pp. $350.00
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The title-page tells us this was translated “by the Calcutta Baptist missionaries with native assistants” and that it was translated from the Hebrew. The lead translator was William Yates (1792–1845), a Baptist missionary who was first stationed at Serampore where he studied under William Carey and afterwards resided and worked at Calcutta.
Titled in English, the text is in Bengali characters in a double-column format.
Binding: Brown ribbon–embossed cloth, printed paper spine label, all edges speckled red. Bookcloth is Krupp style At2, whichsuggests the cloth was exported to India in addition to its use in England and America.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate only one copy in the U.S., one in Canada, and two in Britain.
Not in Darlow & Moule; nor North & Nida, Book of a Thousand Tongues (1972); on binding cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50, p. 50. Bound as above; cloth lightly discolored in a mottled fashion, spine chipped with small loss of cloth and printed label rubbed, one mark on back cover. Gentle age-toning with light foxing on endpapers. (36118)
Bolívar, Simón. Broadside. Begins: Simon Bolivar libertador presidente de Colombia & & &. Colombianos! Las voluntades públicas se habian espresado enerjicamente por las reformas políticas de la nacion ... Bogota: No publisher/printer], 1828. Folio (29.2 cm; 11.5"). [1] p. $8000.00
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In August of 1828 Bolivar was 45 years old, weary, and would be dead in two years. He had freed or helped free much of South America from Spain, served as president of Bolivia (12 August 1825 – 29 December 1825) and Peru (8 February 1824 – 28 January 1827), and was president of federation of Gran Colombia (17 December 1819 – 4 May 1830). He believed in democracy and republicanism and in that summer of 1828 was frustrated that the Constitutional Convention he had called expecting it to write a strong centralist document that would satisfy the demands of the emerging separatist and extremely regional sentiments of the Venezuelans and others had failed. Because of the Convention's collapse, via this document, dated 27 August, Bolivar declared himself dictator rather than president.
In doing so he pledge to his people that he obligated himself “to strictly obey your legitimate wants: I will protect your sacred religion as the faith of all Colombians and the code of all good men; I will make justice the first law of all transactions and the universal guarantee of our citizens.”
The promise of liberty is strangely addressed: “I will not say anything to you about liberty because if I fulfill my promises you will be more than free — you will be respected.”
Searches of WorldCat, COPAC, CCILA, Catálogo Colectivo del Patrimonio Bibliográfico, the OPACs of the Bibliotecas Nacionales de Colombia and Venezuela locate one copy in the U.S. and possibly three in the BNC and probably none in the BNV.
Posada 1042. Removed from a bound volume and irregular along the left margin; without the integral blank. Eight wormholes in text but not costing any letters. Now housed in a quarter red morocco clamshell box, round spine, raised bands with gilt accenting. A good++ copy. (34097)
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Peter Martyr MeetsSt. Clement of Alexandria
Clement, of Alexandria, Saint. Clementis Alexandrini, viri longe doctissimi, qui Panteni quidem martyris fuit discipulus, praeceptor verò Origenis, omnia, quae quidem extant opera, à paucis iam annis inventa, [et] nunc denuò accuratiùs excusa Gentiano Herueto Aureliano interprete ... [with another, as below]. Basileae: Per Thomam Guarinum, 1566. Folio (33.5 cm; 13.125"). 364 pp., [8] ff. [also bound in] Vermigli, Pietro Martire. In selectissimam D. Pauli priorem ad Corinthios Epistolam. Tiguri: apud C. Froschouerum, 1567. Folio (33.5 cm; 13.125"). [6], 242, [17] ff. (lacks final blank). $2800.00
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Wonderful large folio volume containing the Works (in Latin translation) of St. Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150 – ca. 215), here in the second edition as edited by Gentian Hervet (1499–1584); the first was in 1556 from Isengrin's press. In this edition, Isengrin's device appears on the title-page and the verso of the final leaf. As with the first edition, this has scholia at the end, notes (including sidenotes), and an index. The contents are Liber adhortatorius adversus gentes, qui Protrepticus inscribitur; Paeagogi libri tres; and Stromaton sive Commentariorum, de varia multipliciq[ue] literatura, ad instituendum Christianum philosophum, libri octo.
The second work is Peter Martyr's commentaries on Corinthians, here in the second edition. It has a full-page woodcut portrait of him on the recto of leaf aa6. The printer's woodcut device is on the title-page and there are numerous woodcut initials. The sidenotes are printed in italic while the text proper is in roman.
Peter Martyr (8 September 1499 – 12 November 1562), was an Italian theologian who began his religious life as an Augustinian friar, converted to the Protestant cause, was closely associated on the continent with Ochino, Bucer, and some prominent Lutherans, and, while in England where he held the Regius Chair of Divinity at Oxford, was an intimate of Thomas Cranmer and Bishop Jewel.
Both works are uncommon in these editions in the U.S.: We locate three institutions reporting ownership of the first title and three totally different institutions owning the Vermigli.
Binding: Contemporary alum-tawed pig over wooden boards with bevelled edges and metal and leather clasps; one clasp perished. Leather tooled elaborately in blind using a variety of rolls and fillets, including one roll incorporating the date 1546, a medallion of David and his harp, and another medallion depicting John the Baptist with the words below the image, “Ecce Agnus Dei.”
Clement: VD16 C4070; Index Aurel. 104.903; Adams C2106. Vermigli: VD16 B5054; Adams M788. Bound as above. Ex-library with bookplate on front pastedown, small blind pressure- (not perf-.) stamp on title-page and remnant of charge pocket at rear; six-digit number stamped in lower margin of one leaf. Early inked ownership indicia on title-page and old private ownership stamp on front free endpaper; a little old marginalia and underlining. A very little foxing and the odd spot only. Excellent copies of both works in a handsome contemporary binding. (24827)
Corke, Miss. 'What shall we do with them?' A history of the London and Brighton convalescent home. London: J. Nisbet & Co., 1882. 12mo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). Frontis., vii, [1 blank], 157, [1] pp. $150.00
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This rare history of the still-extant London and Brighton convalescent home was clearly written as a fund raising publication: “It is hoped that the profits of the sale of this volume will considerably augment the Free Fund of the Crescent House” (title-page). The convalescent home was, and still is. for elderly and needy women; a previous fundraising endeavor for the purchase of the “Crescent House” on the Marine Parade, in Brighton, had been heavily subscribed and accumulated over GBP4,500, as attested to by the published list at the rear of this volume.
Miss Corke's identity remains a mystery despite two of her other publications being noted on the title-page; searches for those titles found no copies listed in WorldCat or COPAC.
The present work is also not listed in WorldCat, and via COPAC we find only one copy — at the Bodleian.
Provenance: From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
NSTC 0946400. Publisher's dark green cloth stamped on front cover with ferns in black and author and title in gilt; binding darkened and rubbed, slightly cocked. Occasional light foxing; oil-like stain in lower area of the final 20 leaves. An interesting late-Victorian women's social and medical work. (39657)
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Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus Siculus. [Operum lib. vi. priores, Latine Poggio interprete.] [Paris]: [pr. by Jean Marchant for] Jean Petit, [ca. 1507]. 4to. av8.4x6y4; 123, [6] ff. [bound with] Justinus, Marcus Junianus. Justini historia ex Trogo Pompeio quattor & triginta epithomatis collecta; acc. Lucius Florus et Sextus Rufus. [Paris]: De Marnef, [ca. 1507]. 4to. A8B4C6ay8.4z6&4; [18], 140 ff. $3200.00
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Diodorus, according to the Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, “is one of the sources of our knowledge of the legends of mythology.” His 40-book Bibliotheke Historike, with its accounts of the mythic origins of Hellenes, Greeks, and Egyptians, helps document the derivations of the Greek and Roman gods and also preserves fragments of the sources he consulted. Only 15 books of this history of the worldsurvive intact; the noted Renaissance scholar Poggio Bracciolini provided this translation of the first six from the original Greek for Nicholas V.
Diodorus's work is here accompanied by Justinus's abridged version of Trogus Pompeius's history. Both books feature striking capitals and title-page devices. The typography of the first book is Jean Marchant's, done for Jean Petit whose lion-and-leopard device is prominently displayed. The second book's device shows initials of two of the three de Marnef brothers (E and G) beneath a pelican in her piety. This second book collates exactly like the Jean Petit edition of Justinus, printed sometime after December of 1507, and appears to differ from it solely in its title-page, probably reset only for insertion of the de Marnef device.
Via NUC, WorldCat, Moreau, COPAC, and the OPAC of the BNF we find no record of the apparently extremely scarce de Marnef variant.
Provenance: Charles Spencer, Third Earl of Sunderland, lot 3934 in the Sunderland Library sale (1882).
Diodorus: Moreau 1508:64; not in Schweiger. Justinus: not in Moreau, not in Schweiger. On Diodorus, see: Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, 146. 17th-century English calf, panelled, with gilt fleurons and elaborate front and back gilt floral center motifs, each worked with a minuteWE. (You need a magnifying glass, but this is THERE.) Overall, showing wear with some leather chipped from spine, covers abraded, and joints starting. Pages mostly clean, with slight staining to inner margins from binding supports. Gilt cover lozenges still bright and the whole safe to be worked with. (11308)
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WHO Gets the BEER & Why?
(Dunsinnan vs. Ramsay). Broadside. Begins: “Information for William Nairn of Dunsinnan, commissar clerk of Edinburgh, against Mr. David Ramsay writer to the signet....”[Edinburgh, ca. 1710]. Folio (31.2 cm, 12.35"). [2] pp. $850.00
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Account of the legal dispute between Dunsinnan and Ramsay over the estate of Thomas Young, which included “Fourty Bolls Bear and Malt”; executory principles are addressed.This is a scarce document, with no copies listed by ESTC, OCLC, or NUC Pre-1956.
In good clean condition, tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder. (6747)
Grunberg, Arnon. Verzamelde visite kaartjes. New York: Kunst Editions, 1998. 12mo (18.5 cm; 7.5"). 2 loose leaves (half-title, title) and three booklets). $400.00
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Arnon Yasha Yves Grunberg (b. 1971) is a Dutch writer, investigative reporter, radio and television personality, and occasional artist, as specifically exemplified by this artist book. It was printed in only 16 copies, 15 of which are signed by Grunberg and were for sale.
The work consists of three booklets with small, business-sized cards pasted one or two to a page, printed on paper or wood, with different designs, different messages, and different imagery; all are facetious, e.g., Grunberg, Magician for Children; Grunberg, Owner of Whore C.; Grunberg, Owner of Grunberg Catering; etc.
Searches of WorldCat, COPAC, and KVK locateonly one copy worldwide (in the National Library of the Netherlands).
Original red clamshell box with spine label in silver metal holder; author, title, and imprint date on handmade paper adhered to front board. All contents in very good condition. (34731)
Linares Montefrio y Martinez, Evaristo. Broadside. Begins, Excmo. domino ac semper domino meo, D. Josepho Moñino, comiti de Florida Blanca ... Exoptat hihi iam diu illuxit dies ... quo publicum oc non tantum mei in studiies, profectus, verum etiam grati animi significationes testimonium exhiberem. Toleti [i.e., Toledo]: apud Nicolaum de Almanzano, typographum universitatis, 1782. Folio (76 x 57 cm, 31" x 22.5" ). [1] p. $5500.00
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On 19 June 1782 at the Universidad de Toledo, Linares Montefrio stood to defend his Bachelor's degree and thisletterpress broadside on rose-colored silk was the official announcement of that test. The oral examination centered on Justinian's Institutes, specifically book three, title 26.
It is handsomely printed using several point sizes of roman and italic, with center justification in the top portion and full justification below. Around the printed area are wide margins on the four sides, which margins contain16 large, crisp, evenly spaced impressions of the city of Toledo's double-headed eagle, with crown above, sword in its right talon and mace in its left.
Broadsides were an important source of income for handpress-era printers in Europe and Spanish America and the printers offered “package deals” to the families of the graduate and post-graduate degree postulants; the packages were geared to the students' families' economic means. Broadsides could be large (folio) or small (8vo), have an engraving or not, have a border of type ornaments or not, and be printed on standard paper or colored paper (usually blue); if one splurged, one could get the announcement printed, as here, on silk. The usual total number of copies printed for each candidate is unknown at this time, but is likely to have been only one or two dozen, and we also don't know if more than one silk copy was printed when that top option was in fact ordered. In extravagant cases, one can imagine one for the degree candidate, one for the parents, one for each godparent, etc.; still, such cases would probably have been few.
Certainly, the printers would have been willing to rake in as much money as possible, on each happy occasion, and these richly beautiful silk mementos — doubtless proudly displayed for years going forward in homes or offices — would have been excellent ongoing advertisements. Equally clearly, however, the number of copies of all of the defense broadsides surviving is small, and the survival of those on silk is very small.
No copies of this broadside are traced via the usual bibliographies, nor via NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, KVK, CCPB, or the OPACs of University of Toledo and the national library of Spain.
Rose-colored silk, with old folds; sun-fading variously and rather attractively approaching pinks and apricots. Sides “accented” by an attractive retained green and white selvage edge; bottom edge hemmed and top one, possibly once so, now with fraying and a bit of ravelling; near the broadside's center, a round hole costs six letters. Still, at 230+ years old, frankly gorgeous. (39844)
Part of the Series of Texts Printed byDIDOT for theEducation of the Dauphin
Massillon, Jean-Baptiste. Petit careme. Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aine, 1789. Large 4to (31 cm, 12. 25"). [4] ff., 312 pp. $1000.00
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Massillon (1663–1742) was a noted, much admired, and greatly in demand Oratorian preacher remembered for his gentle persuasiveness. One of his most famous works is this Petit Carême, the compiled Lenten sermons which he delivered before the young King Louis XV of France in 1718. It is here in an edition of200 copies, a part of the series of texts printed for the education of the Dauphin.
WorldCat locates only two U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Cornell, Cleveland Public).
Binding: Contemporary red morocco, spine gilt extra with green leather gilt label and elegant tooling to top and bottom, bands, and compartments; covers with similarly elegant, well-composed gilt borders and with board edges and turn-ins gilt in complementary fashion. All edges gilt, silk bookmarker present.
Provenance: Bookplate of Brian Stilwell.
Brunet, Supplement, 981; Graesse, IV, 439. Bound as above in excellent condition with only the lightest shelfwear and a very short tear (not advancing) at head of spine; wide-margined leaves very clean with only the lightest sort of normal foxing. A treasurable copy. (40323)
Professionally Published Cookery / Locally Influenced Advertising & Fundraising
Milford (MA). Young Men's Christian Association. Women's Auxiliary. Cook book “Something good for company.” Milford, MA: Amherst Cook Book Co., (1912). 8vo (22.9 cm, 9"). 32 pp. $75.00
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The Amherst Cook Book publishing company produced a number of variations on this title for organizations in need of fundraising efforts; each local group would have its version customized to reflect local advertising. Margaret Cook's America's Charitable Cooks bibliography does list a Something Good for Company from the same year, put out by the Class of 1916 of New Castle High School, New Castle, PA — but the present Massachusetts version does not appear in Cook. This copy was clearly much referred to, and includes a handwritten laid-in recipe for quinces with ginger as well as one pencilled annotation.
WorldCat lists only three institutions reporting ownership this issue of this work (Kansas State University, Harvard-Schlesinger, Nicollete Country Historical). One was printed for the Ladies Circle of the Washington Street Baptist Church of Dover, NH, and the other for the Congregational Church of Granite Falls, MN.
Cook, America's Charitable Cooks, 233 (for PA edition only, not describing this MA printing). Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Original printed paper wrappers, detached and chipped, with spots of staining. Pages stained but very readable. A production that reflects an interesting point of development and the increasing professionalization of the originally amateurish charitable cookbook genre — with all regional variations of this item now being rather uncommon. (38119)
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REFORMING the Queen'sHydrotheraphy Hospital at Caldas
Portugal. Sovereign (1750–77, Joseph). [begins] Eu el rey. Faço saber aos que este Alvará virem: Que sendo o decurso dos tempos sujeito as grandes alterações, que vem a fazer necessarias muitas novas, e antes não cogitadas providencias ... Havendo sido util, e louvavelmente erigido o Hospital dos Expostos da Cidade de Lisboa.... [Lisbon]: [colophon: Na Regia Officina Typografica, 1775]. Folio. 38 pp. $500.00
The Portuguese king decides to reform and reorganize the Hospital Real das Caldas (a thermal springs treatment center) that Queen Leonor established in 1484. The details of the innovations are detailed here. (“Alvará de Regimento, por que Vossa Magestade, annullando, cassando, e abolindo o antigo Regimento, chamado Compromisso do Hospital Real das Caldas . . . que depois delle se expediram; fazendo cessar a Inspecção, que sobre elle até agora teve a Meza da Consciencia, e Ordens; e separando-o da Adminstração dos Conegos Seculares de S. João Evangelista”).
No copy traced via WorldCat or COPAC.
Removed from a volume and laid into modern wrappers. Light stain in outer margin of last leaf with a trace of same showing on a few more inward; old foliation neatly inked in upper outer corners; generally clean, with good margins. One inked, contemporary marginal note. (28234)
Photography withFlash Bulbs, Gas Lights, Electric Lights, etc. Author's Presentation Copy
Ris-Paquot, [Oscar-Edmond]. La pratique de la photographie à la lumière artificielle. Paris: Charles Mendel, [ca. 1905?]. 12mo (20 cm, 7.87"). 88, 16 (adv.) pp.; illus. [SOLD]
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Analysis of the use (and creation) of different types of artificial light in early 20th-century photographic technology, written by an artist and art historian responsible for reference works on art forms including faience and enamel, as well as a number of practical guides on photography techniques. The guide is illustrated with small, in-text renderings of equipment and setups.
Our suggested publi cation date is based on the back wrapper advertisement for La Photo-Revue, which states that the periodical was then in its 16th year. This manual is not commonly encountered now, with searches of WorldCat findingonly two U.S. institutions reporting holdings (George Eastman House, Texas State University-San Marcos).
Provenance: This is anauthor's presentation copy: half-title inscribed “L'auteur à Monsieur de Tardieu,” with signature. Later from the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
Publisher's paper wrappers in (taped) glassine dust jacket; spine slightly darkened. Signatures unopened; pages age-toned; a clean and sound copy. (40421)
“The Grisly Form ofStar-Chamber Tyranny Stared Me in the Face”
Russell, William. Letters of William Russell, on the doctrine ofconstructive contempt. With a true copy of the original affidavit, upon which the sheriff of the county of Dublin was attached, and an accurate report of the judgment of the King's Bench in that case. Dublin: [s.n.], 1786. 8vo (20.4 cm, 8"). [iii]–xl, 155, [1] pp. (lacking half-title). $1000.00
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Sole edition of this strongly worded epistolary examination of constructive contempt (contempt of court which occurs outside of the court's actual presence) and its role in Sheriff Henry Steevens Reily's case — the disposition of which the author considered an attempt to subvert the rights of free Irish citizens. The dedication to Prime Minister William Pitt makes particular note of the "independent situation of Irish courts" (p. vii).
While this work is certainly held in the expectable Irish libraries, it islittle held in British or American libraries. In fact, searches of NUC, ESTC, and WorldCat locateonly two libraries in the U.S. , both in the northeast (Cornell, Boston Public) reporting ownership.
ESTC T179610. Period-style half calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title. Half-title lacking; title-page with early inked inscriptions in upper portion (one inked over), lower corners torn away, and edges chipped as next few leaves' are; first dedication page with early 20th-century inscription in inner margin. Pages darkened, especially at edges, and a good many bumped; last four leaves tattered with old repairs to lower corners taking a few letters but not sense, and once-separated final leaf with repairs also to upper and inner margins. A copy with some rough aspects, but one now sound anda book that's scarce. (34108)
Printed on “Rice Paper” on theArchbishop's Press in MANILA
. . . i.e., the Ex-Jesuit Press . . .
Sancho de Santa Justa y Rufino, Basilio. Alocucion que en el dia veinte de enero del año mil setecientos ochenta y tres, cumpleaños del Rey nuestro señor D. Carlos III (que Dios gu[ard]e.) pronuncio a la Real Sociedad Patriotica de Manila. Manila: En la Imprenta del Seminario Eclesiastico, por Ignacio Ad-Vincula, 1783. Folio (29.5 cm; 11.5"). [1] f., 23, [1] pp. $5500.00
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After consecration and service in Spain, Sancho de Santa Justa arrived in Manila in 1767 to take up his duties as archbishop, which includedoverseeing the expulsion of the Jesuits. He was a native of Aragon and a member of the Society of Scholarum Piarum. In this address on the occasion of Charles III's 67th birthday, he expresses himself no friend of many of the Enlightment's ideas but a staunch supporter of the King, his economic policies, and especially of the newly instituted practice of free commerce in the Spanish empire. On the other hand, he rails against England, its foreign commercial practices, and its ascension as a maritime powerhouse.
As the title states, this was pronounced before “la Real Sociedad Patriotica de Manila.” That august body was “congregada por estatuto en el salon del Real Palacio, y presidida de su protector el muy ilustre señor D. Joseph Basco, y Bargas, Balderrama y Rivera cavallero del Orden de Santiago, capitan de navio de la real armada, gobernador, y capitan general de estas Islas Filipinas, y presidente de su real audiencia, y chancilleria, director g[ene]r[a]l de las tropas de S.M. en estos dominios, superintendente general de la Real Hacienda, y Renta de Tabaco, y subdelegado de la de Correos &c. &c.”
The work is printed on “rice paper” (i.e., Asian paper probably from the mulberry tree) as was common in Manila during the period to ca. 1820. The typography is definitely provincial and plain, using only one decorative woodcut initial and no ornamentation on the title-page. The type is roman in a variety of sizes with a practice of using all capitals for emphasis.
The press on which this work was printed had been that of the Jesuits until Archbishop Sancho de Santa Justa carried out the king's order and expelled them; he then appropriated the press for his private use, as here. What had been only the fourth press to operate in the Islands, now with a new name, became the fifth.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate only six libraries worldwide reporting ownership: being three in the U.S. {John Carter Brown, Indiana University, Newberry), one in the U.K. (Briish Library), one in Spain (national library), one in the Philippines (national library).
Medina, Manila, 317; Retana, Aparato bibliográfico, 379. Recent marbled paper–covered boards (green and mauve stone pattern); red leather label on front cover. A few minor paper repairs to edges of a few leaves; a very few small pinhole type wormholes, not costing any letters; the brown spotting and staining peculiar to rice paper. Old, brief note lightly red-inked to title-page. Over all a very good copy. (33130)
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Solicitation for Funding aVictorian Mental Health Institution
Staffordshire General Lunatic Asylum. [drop-title] Charitable institution for the insane of Staffordshire and the adjacent counties. [Stafford: R. & W. Wright, Printers, 1850?]. Folio (32.8 cm; 13"). [1] f., [1] plt. $450.00
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A two-page solicitation for donations to build Coton Hill Hospital, a new institution designed by architect Frederick Sandham Waller to accommodate the first two of the historical “three classes” of Staffordshire mental health patients: “Class I. — Persons of superior rank, who shall respectively contribute to the charge of maintenance according to their pecuniary abilities. Class II. — Persons in limited circumstances, though not paupers, whose payments shall be assisted and relieved out of the funds of the Charity, and the excess of payments imposed on the more affluent. Class III. — Persons being paupers, sent by Justices of the Peace for the County, pursuant to the provisions of the said Act of Parliament.”
Founded in 1814, the Asylum was by the time of this appeal overwhelmed by the number of County residents needing care, especially from Class III; and, after the failure of efforts to find adjoining land allowing enlargement of facilities on the old mixed principle, decision was taken to build a new center for Class I and II patients within a half-mile's distance. The original provision that better-off patients paying according to their abilities would subsidize the care of the others was explicitly to be maintained, as per the solicitation in hand.
Conjoined is afull-page engraving of the proposed design, signed “Warrington, sc.” The completed Coton Hill opened in 1854. Its main portions have been demolished though the chapel in the engraving and a gatehouse still stand.
Provenance: “Dr. J.S. Butler” stamped at the top of p. 1; we note that there was a Dr. J.S. Butler who was a noted psychiatrist in Connecticut in the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate only one copy worldwide, although we know of one other.
The two leaves starting to separate at top, with gentle age-toning and small chipping and closed tears to edges and fold; one tear barely touches platemark and there is light offsetting to the plate from something once laid between the leaves. An attractive, unusual, and informative prospectus. (38890)
(Trades & Crafts). Kleine Technologie oder Beschreibung der Künste und Handwerke für die wissbegierige Jugend. Nürnberg: Friedrich Campe, 1826. Oblong 12mo (9.4 cm, 3.7"). 332 pp. (lacking pp. 145–46, 149–156, 159–160), 19 plts. present. [SOLD]
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Some very lucky German children in the late 1820s were given copies of this delightful work of short essays on trades involving technology and skilled workmanship: papermaking, printing, carpentry, masonry, glassblowing, pottery making, coppersmithing, shoemaking, weaving, tailoring, and so on. This is the second edition, following the first of 1820, and offers workplace scenes that illuminate clothing styles and aspects of “daily life” as well as the showcased skills. We cannot tell how many of the trade descriptions were originally accompanied by plates, but in this copy19 of the essays are enhanced by full-page, hand-colored plates of high quality.
WorldCat locates no U.S. institutional holdings and only one European holding of this edition.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Contemporary half sheep in imitation of morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorations; rubbed (though spine gilt bright) and front hinge (inside) cracked. Six leaves lacking, as per collation, and an unknown number of plates; upper outer corner of pp. 41/42 torn away with loss of perhaps seven letters. Upper inner portions stained from a thumb's breadth to at worst case an eighth of the page, throughout; other staining and foxing quite minimal, and more often to text than to images. Despite its incompleteness and other evidence of enthusiastic use, this copy of this rarity still offers bothconsiderable charm and several varieties of usefulness.
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Velasco, Tomás de. Breviloquio moral practico, en que se contienen las sesenta y cinco proposiciones prohibidas por N. SS. P. Innocencio XI declaradas por via de expugnacion ... Mexico: Por la Viuda de Bernardo Calderon, 1681. Small 8vo (14.5 cm; 5.75"). [10], 35, xii., [8] ff. [SOLD]
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Here for the first time a Mexican explains the reasoning behind “Sanctissimus Dominus,” the papal bull that Innocent XI issued in 1679 condemning65 propositions that had been examined by the Inquisition and found to be contrary to the tenets and teachings of the Church. The Roman Catholic Church believed that the condemned propositions favored a liberal approach to moral theology, many of them being based in probabilism, a path of reasoning followed by the Jesuits — a path totally rejected by the conservative orders such as the Augustinians, and definitely rejected by the Dominicans who dominated the Holy Office.
Velasco presents the condemned concepts (printed in italic type) one by one and then explains why each has been condemned by the Inquisition. He was a Franciscan and “Lector de Visperas de Theología . . . en esta Nueva-España.”
The twelve-page appendix contains 45 propositions that Pope Alexander VII had condemned, here with summaries of what other writers had done to explain the reasoning for their condemnation. The propositions were mostly Jansenist.
The work is from the press of one of Mexico's famed “widow printers,” Paula Benavides, the widow of Bernardo Calderon.
Sole edition.
Provenance: Undated (late 17th- or early 18th-century) ownership inscription of the Convent of San Antonio of Queretaro on the verso of the title-page, faded. Partial marca de fuego on top edge, undeciphered because it is so partial.
Via NUC and WorldCat we locate only two copies in U.S. libraries, but we know of a third. Searches of COPAC, CCPB, and the OPAC of the Spanish National Library find no copies in Britain or Spain. The OPAC of the Mexican national library on the other hand, shows seven copies held there.
Andrade 751; Medina, Mexico, 1238. Contemporary limp vellum, no evidence of ties; rear cover with brown staining and piece of rear pastedown excised, with vellum a little small for the text block. Faint and sometimes noticeable waterstain in lower corner of some leaves. (34770)
Wexels, Wilhelm Andreas. Rokkus-ja oappo-girje. Samas jårggaluvvum. Kristianiast: Kr. Gröndahl lut prenttijuvvum, 1840. [1] f., 209, [1 blank] pp. $450.00
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Devotional exercises in Lappish. This translation of “Bønne-og leerebog,” excerpted from Wexels's Andagtsbog, was done by Niels Joachim Christian Vibe Stockfleth.
NUC Pre-1956 locates only one U.S. library reporting ownership (Newberry); WorldCat adds no others.
Quarter recent leather over marbled boards; spine with gilt-stamped title label and five raised bands, two inscribed lines above and below each gilt band. Edges stained green. A handsome copy. (24884)