•  Goff A1246; Hain-Copinger 2068*; GKW 2890; BMC, III, p. 695 (IB. 14206); ISTC ia01246000; Printing & the Mind of Man 3 (for the first edition, 1467).   Late 19th- or early 20th-century half brown leather with tan paper paper sides and endpapers; binding lightly worn and covers with a bit of loss to paper. Fore- and part of upper margins of the first eight leaves damaged with loss and repaired many years ago. Some soiling to the text, chiefly in the margins; old waterstaining; pin-hole worming. Not a rare edition of this text but a nice copy of it withconsiderable added scholarly importance.  (40533)

•  Wheeler Gift 1320.   Publisher's printed green paper wrappers; spines and edges chipped, vol. I sunned and vol. III slightly darkened, vol. III front wrapper torn with old tape repairs. Signatures unopened; some mild age-toning and occasional spots of foxing. Vol. I with final signature and plates starting to separate. Important, and unusual in original wrappers.  (40236)

Provenance:  The Howell Bible Collection, Pacific School of Religion (properly released).

•  Brunet, V, 350; on the 1708 edition, see: Faber du Faur, German Baroque Literature, 1843; see also: Graesse, Trésor de Livres Rares, VI, pt. 2, 429.   18th-century rust and ochre paste paper–covered boards, gilt black leather spine label, all edges stained red; rubbed, especially edges and corners; one plate lacking as above. Light age-toning and some leaves with soiling to edges or marginal spotting; some lower corner tips with an old limited inkstain; these things by no means calamitous. Ex-library with pictorial bookplate at front, a few rubber-stamps not within plates, library pencillings, and booklabel and circulation materials at back. An emjoyable and instructive copy of a captivating, ambitious, and beautiful work.  (40489)

Provenance:  Bookseller label of Leo S. Olschki.  Most recently in the collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat find fewer than a dozen North American libraries reporting ownership.

•  Willems 1542.   19th-century maroon calf, plain but with raised bands beaded; rose-color endpapers. Fly-leaf with old, largely obliterated inscription; a few preliminary leaves with old faded waterstains along the outer and top margins. An attractive copy of a nice little Elzevir.  (37778)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of collector William Gott (1797–1863, father of John Gott, Bishop of Truro) with motto “Nec temere nec timide.” Neat note on rear free endpaper indicating book was purchased from the Pickering firm and then rebound by Hayday.

Binding:  Signed binding done by James Hayday (1796–1872), an eminent London binder: Early 19th-century dark blue morocco, spine gilt extra. Covers framed in gilt rolls surrounding central gilt-stamped composed medallions; board edges and turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt. Front free endpaper stamped “Bound by Hayday.”

•  BCP: Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1762:8; Gaskell 20; ESTC T87226. Sternhold & Hopkins: ESTC T87252; Gaskell 21. Brady & Tate: ESTC T107540; Gaskell 22.   Binding as above, light rubbing to extremities, small scuffs to covers; back free endpaper with small inked annotations regarding purchase and binding costs.   First few leaves browned, varying degrees of mild to moderate foxing elsewhere. A handsome example of both Baskerville's printing and Hayday's binding skills.  (35341)

This is the final work in Ballantyne's 12-volume “Novels of Daniel De Foe” series. At the back of the book is “A List of De Foe's Writings, as Far as They Have Been Ascertained.”

•  NSTC D721.   Later quarter brown calf and brown buckram, spine with gilt-stamped black leather title and author labels (no indication of “volume” status); leather and corners with minimal shelfwear. Page edges untrimmed. One leaf with short tear from lower margin, not touching text; one leaf with small hole touching two letters. Minor to moderate foxing, most notably in first and last few pages, otherwise clean. Attractive on the shelf and a good solid antiquarian book for avid reading.  (40346)

Binding: Bound at the Stamperia Valdonega in a silk-finish gray-green cloth with green gilt-stamped spine labels.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 482.   Bound as above, without the glassine dust jackets (as usual); occasional light bumping to edges, light rubbing to spine-label of vol. II, and small faint stain to box label. Notably bright volumes, inside and out!  (38938)

Offered here is his landmark work known in English as “Observations on the illusions of the insane, and on the medico-legal question of their confinement.” It originated as a “Memoire lu a l'Institut, le 1er octobre 1832" (p. 1) and is here reprinted in the first book edition from the Annales d'hygiène et de médecine légale.

Provenance:  From the library of Robert Sadoff, M.D.

Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate fewer than ten U.S. libraries reporting ownership (ClobS, CLU, CtY-M, MH-M, DNLM, MnRM, CCCP, TxU-M, ViW) and COPAC finds only the copy at Cambridge. WorldCat adds one other British library reporting ownership (University of Essex).

•  On Esquirol see: Heirs of Hippocrates 766; The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine 721.   Original wrappers. Uncut, unopened. An excellent copy.  (39178)

Provenance: Front free endpaper with early pencilled gift inscription to Miss M. Robertson of Loch Croft.

•  Not in Bitting; not in Cagle.   Publisher's plain paper-covered boards, front cover and spine with title (abbreviated on spine) stamped in black; covers dust-soiled, spine and extremities rubbed, front and back joint starting from foot but holding, with hinges (inside) slightly tender. Pages age-toned; one corner dog-eared. Pleasant for reading, sound for use.   (40528)

Binding:  Publisher's pebbled brown leather, covers and spine with blind-stamped framework containing foliate motifs, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, turn-ins with border composed of several gilt rolls. Marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.

Provenance:  From the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.

•  Binding as above, edges and extremities mildly rubbed and refurbished. Frontispiece recto with early inked gift inscription “from F.B.H.” Internally slightly age-toned; plates clean. A luxurious production in very good condition; an aesthetically pleasing combination of art and literature. (39853)

Binding:  Contemporary full red morocco, plain style. Side-combed nonpareil endpapers. All edges gilt. Silk place marker.

WorldCat locates only five U.S. libraries (Society of the Cincinnati, University of Chicago, Library of Congress, University of Pennsylvania, University of Cincinnati) reporting ownership.

•  Schweiger, II, 369; Graesse, II, 639; Brunet, II, 1409.   Bound as above; interior as “clean” as the edition. Very good copy.  (40322)

The texts of the orations and “letters” of the great Athenian orator (436–338 B.C.) are printed in double-column format, with the Greek presented in exquisite Greek type in the inner columns and the Latin translation in roman type in the outer ones. A version of the famous Estienne printer's device graces the title-page.

•  Adams O219; Renouard (2nd ed.), Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, 155.1; Schreiber, Estienne, 225; Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie, I:181; Dibdin (4th ed.), An Introduction to . . . Greek and Latin Classics, II:126. 18th-century plain calf, recently rebacked; round spine, raised bands accented with gilt ruling. Gilt-tooled center devices in spine compartments. Two gilt-lettered spine labels. Title-page dust-soiled; a library's blind pressure-stamps; properly deaccessioned with no additional stamps. A covetable exemplar. (2129)

•  Original hand-stitched wrappers resembling bamboo grain, with paper label on front wrapper, in paper overlay matching the endpapers; outer overlay with minor edge wear and with small annotation (possibly from publisher) on label. A lovely and uncommon production.  (35979)

Blockley, in which the land in question was located, was a township located in West Philadelphia from about 1677 until its consolidation with the city in 1854. The name has lingered, although it has been superceded in general usage by the broader term “University City.”

•  Parchment crisp and untorn, with outermost folded portions lightly spotted; front with early inked title as given above, plus pencilled numerals. An evocative document connected to some very prominent names, in excellent condition, with its seal protected for its intended reuse by a diamond-shaped paper covering.  (7720)

Provenance:  18th-century signature on title-page of Joseph Antonio del Moral (canon of the Cathedral in Puebla); in 1779 given by the executor of his estate to the Franciscan monastery in Tehuacan de las Grandes with a commemorative bookplate on front pastedown and the monastery's marcas de fuego on the top and bottom edges of the closed volume (the monastery's library was secularized in the 1860s). Sold in 1908 by Alice W. Kurtz (American bookseller resident in Mexico City) to the American Antiquarian Society, and later deaccessioned.

•  I: Viñaza 255; H. de León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli, 2131; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 59; Medina, Mexico, 2370; Sabin 60913; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2955. II: Viñaza 257; H. de León-Portilla, Tepuztlahcuilolli, 2132; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas, 59; Medina, Mexico, 2371; Sabin 60911; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2954.   Contemporary limp vellum, lacking the ties. Marcas de fuego and other provenance indications as noted above. A clean crisp copy.  (38330)

WorldCat locates only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership, and at least one of the reported sets is incomplete. The publication date given here is that suggested by the Osborne Collection.

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

•  Osborne Collection, p. 765.   Blue textured paper over cardboard slipcase; embossed red paper onlay on front, printed in gold and titled “Picture books”; chromolithographed paper onlay on front (as described above). One of the chapbooks has small repairs, others variously displaying a small chip, a light stain, or a bit of creasing; else and indeed, very good.  (39521)

This attractively accomplished production features title-pages printed in red and black and16 delightful engraved plates counting the double-spread added engraved title-page serving as the frontispiece of vol. I. Offering views of the countryside and the fountains, many of the images incorporate figures such as a hunter and his hounds, riders on horseback, and well-dressed ladies and gentlemen strolling or dancing — as well as one ofa life-sized “insect” allegedly “brought away from the Kidneys of a Woman by the Drinking of the Pouhon Waters.” The unsigned plates, sometimes attributed to the author himself and sometimes to Hecquet, bearcaptions given in French, German, and English.

Provenance:  Title-pages each with early inked inscription of Frances Osborn. Later in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  Graesse, I, 109; Wellcome, IV, 407. Not in Blake, NLM 18th Century (which only lists an English-language edition).   Contemporary quarter mottled calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels; bindings rubbed, scuffed, and with leather refurbished. Added engraved title-page for vol. I here tipped in as a double-page spread. Vol. I with waterstaining to outer margins of first few leaves, including added title-page and title-page; vol. II with waterstaining to upper outer portions of first few leaves; some plates with waterstaining to margins, not affecting images. Pages otherwise crisp and clean. A pleasurable production, showcasing a pleasurable place! (40619)

Provenance:  Presentation copy from Rand: “To the Library of [the] Theological Institution Newton Center from the Compiler S.T.R.” With the blind pressure-stamps of the Newton Theological Institution (properly deaccessioned; i.e., rare book collection sold).

•  Reading: Pilling, Proof-sheets, 318; Sabin 67755. Matthew: Darlow & Moule 6788; Pilling, Proof-sheets, 2931; Sabin 67760.   Publisher's plain quarter black leather with stone pattern paper sides. Front board expertly reattached. Some age-toning, but very good.  (40058)

Attributed to Luke Shepherd by Halkett and Laing, this is a satirical poem, a dialogue in verse, on the Eucharist, and could even be seen as a short play. It is printed in gothic (black letter) type witha large woodcut of a procession of the Eucharist on the title-page.

None of the copies reported to WorldCat, COPAC, or NUC are described as printed on vellum. The copy that Alston found at the British Library is not findable via the BL OPAC.

Provenance:  Early 19th-century manuscript ownership on front fly-leaf: “Thomas Briggs Esq., Edgeware Road.” Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Alston, Books Printed on Vellum in the Collections of the British Library, p. 35; Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.), III, p. 192; Halkett & Laing (3rd ed.), J21 (var.) l NSTC, I, S1667.   Original dun colored boards with beige linen shelfback; rebacked, and binding discolored. “25 copies Printed on chosen Parchment” written in ink in an early 19th-century hand in lower margin of the title-page. Foxing, heaviest on last three leaves; last page (a publisher's note and colophon) lightly inked and so a little faint. A nice find for the collector of printing on vellum, letterpress facsimiles, or reprints of rare 16th-century English tracts.  (34699)

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

•  Shoemaker 5104; Bradbury, Miniature Books, B295.   Fine in original plain green wrappers.  (38779)

Provenance: Label of bookseller C.S. Bridges, High Street, Oxford, inside front cover.

•  Cordeaux, Printed Works Relating to the University of Oxford, 1318; Lipperheide, II, 2029. On binding cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50, Rip 1 variant. Bound as above, cloth with an unobtrusive spot or two only and hinge (inside) with paper lost; contents a bit cocked within binding affecting a few fore-edges but not images. Light soiling and action of old glue visible at two “seams” where plate sequences are joined, as seen in other copies; generally, a good exemplar. (40497)