The flap with “Come, read and learn” on the outside and the title and publication data on the inside is present and integral. It is not uncommon for this fragile flap to have been lost.

•  Rosenbach, Children, 428; Welch 1363; Shaw & Shoemaker 14251 and 21546; Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators, 248; Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 330.   Publisher's olive printed paper–covered wrappers. Minor chipping to one top margin of rear cover; adhesion of olive paper from a different copy to the underside of the flap! A very few light stains. A very nice copy of this fragile item.  (33551)

The first portion of the Bible printed in the Oriya language was the N.T. in 1809. This printing of the text of Matthew is in Oriya script while the title is printed on the front wrapper in English and Oriya.

WorldCat lists only three earlier printings (1840, 1865, 1870), each with only one library reporting ownership (variously Cambridge, British Library, National Library of Chile). Clearly, however, there were many others that have either disappeared or are just not reported to WorldCat. No library reports owning this edition.

•  Darlow & Moule 7160 (for the 1870 printing); North & Nida, Book of a Thousand Tongues (1972), 1011.   Stiff buff wrappers with cloth shelfback; some creasing/dog-earing and light soiling. Else, very nice.  (40967)

Bopp, who studied under de Sacy in Paris, was the chair of Sanskrit at the University of Berlin and a member of the Royal Prussian Academy; his work was highly influential in developing a morphology of Indo-European languages, and indeed dominated the field of comparative linguistics for a significant portion of the 19th century.

•  NSTC 2B41650. Contemporary half red morocco with paper-covered sides, boards recently expertly reattached, spine with gilt-stamped title; sides and edges showing minor scuffing, spine slightly darkened. Front pastedown with bookseller’s ticket of B. Westermann & Co., private collector’s 19th-century bookplate, and institutional stamp (no other markings). Pages faintly age-toned. A sturdy copy of this hefty tome. (19171)

Provenance:  20th-century signature in ink on front free endpaper of Francis E. Condict Ballard; earlier pencilled inscription of H.W. Rivers on front fly-leaf.

•  Shoemaker 28356.   Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title-label; covers and front (blank) pages expertly reattached and leather at head and foot of spine renewed. Inscriptions as above; back endpapers with pencilled missive in Spanish. Mild foxing and noticeable old water- and dampstaining, almost all marginal. A good, solid, usable copy.  (8506)

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

•  Unrecorded in Gültlingen and Baudrier. Baldacchini, “Un enigma bibliografico” discusses Decius’s other French false imprints. Index Aurel. 150.792, Perrins-Warner n.210 and Sander 2398 record only the Milan edition of ca.1511/12.   19th-century suede wrappers, a little rubbed. Title-page, verso of last leaf, and edges a trifle dusty, occasional very minor marginal foxing, text block partly loosening. Very nice.  (40828)

a woman tried and convicted, seeking a stay of execution because pregnant, may pray “a Jury of [12] Matrons or Motherly Women” confirm and attest the same

Printed mostly in roman type with some italic, this has headings in gothic and some long passages also in gothic.

Provenance:  18th-century ownership signatures at top of main title-page of J.W. Tarleton and J. Skynner (both lined through), and 19th-century signature of Wm. Saunders. Oldham Free Public Library (Lancs.) stamp on verso of same.

•  ESTC T136807; Sweet & Maxwell 12.Ia.6 and 12.Ia.10.   Late 20th-century quarter brown calf with brown stone-pattern marbled paper sides; all edges gilt. Slim waterstain in upper margin of last four leaves; same leaves foxed. Overall a very good copy.  (34007)

Provenance:  From the collection of leaves assembled by the Grabhorn Press (1920–65), for their reference library.

•  ISTC No.ij00171000; Goff J171; GW M11405; Proctor 1262–63; Copinger 4626.   Disbound, inner margin slightly irregular and discolored from glue; dust-soiled. Else, very good — indeed, quite handsome.  (40785)

Provenance:  18th-century bookplate of Beilby Thompson of Eserick (1742–99 ), who may famously be remembered for having gradually bought up and relocated the village of Eserick to move it away from his house. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

Binding:  18th-century calf in a modified Cambridge-style binding. The covers' central panels, stained black and outlined in a filigree roll, are surrounded by a wide frame of tan calf; beyond that, at the boards' edges, is a 1.5" outer border of sprinkled calf. Blind-tooled rules and beading articulate the intersections, with black(?)-stamped devices accenting the tan compartments' corners, in the speckled section, and with the chains connecting those devices to the innermost panel being also (sometimes?) blackened. The round spine has raised bands accented by gilt rules above and below each band, and a gilt-stamped label with the author's name abbreviated.

•  Renouard, Estienne, 79/2; Adams J494; Hoffmann, Bibliographisches Lexicon der gesamten Literatur der Griechen, II, 502–503, & 648; Shaaber, Sixteenth-century Imprints, J111; Armstrong 138, 222; Mortimer, French, II, 335; Schreiber, Estienne, 107.   Bound as above, front board recently expertly reattached; endpapers chipped and front one with upper outer corner torn away. A very nice, very wide-margined copy.  (40074)

Connie King writing in the Library Company of Philadelphia's Winter 2010 newsletter, New & Noteworthy, says of this work: “What makes this . . . tawdry book . . . [extra interesting] is its extra roles as a mail order catalog for condoms and as an advertisement for abortion services. By mailing 'Dr. Mauriceau' five dollars, one might buy a dozen condoms, and have them sent to 'any part of the United States' (p. 144). Only slightly more delicately does he offer his [or Ann Lohman's] services 'to effect miscarriage' at his office at 129 Liberty Street in New York City.”

•  Original publisher's fine grain dark blue cloth, covers stamped in blind, no lettering, spine sunned. A very nice copy of a famous “under the counter book.”  (40370)

Several lines of text at the base of the document are headed “The Seminole Federalists,” an unflattering soubriquet given to the faction of Federalists who opposed the Clinton administration. This section is signed in type, “Red-Jacket.”

•  Not in Shoemaker.   As issued, with some later folds. Inch-long tear within first line of text, costing one word and portions of two or three letters, without affecting sense. Tear above center fold snaking five lines of text, touching letters from seven words without costing any text. Thumbnail-sized chip in center, affecting portions of three lines and costing several complete words but little sense. Lightly foxed.  (24635)

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

•  This ed. not in Brunet, Graesse, Gumuchian, WorldCat.   Later plain paper–covered light boards; spine and joints lightly worn. Some leaves trimmed closely, occasionally touching first or last letters or headers; a few pages with minor staining. One page unevenly inked by printer, with about a dozen words only faintly legible. Overall an unusually clean, fresh copy of this seldom-seen edition, clearly untouched by youthful hands.  (40737)

Provenance:  The title-page verso bears a limitation statement “De Auteur erkent geene exemplaren voor echt, dan die dus, eigenhandig, door hem zelf, getekend zyn”signed, “C. Ris.”  Title-page recto has signature of American scholar and collector Howard Osgood.

•  Springer-Klassen 5102.   Later limp speckled paper wrappers, spine reinforced with cloth tape, in buckram-covered slipcase with author and date gilt-stamped on spine, remnants of shelving label. Front and back free endpapers partially excised. Title-page institutionally pressure-stamped, with early inked ownership inscription between two lines of title. Lightly cockled, outer corners curled; occasional light foxing, more pronounced towards back of volume.  (31093)

On its first page is the Patent establishing the organization's “contract,” which is the usual one in such cases: Members contribute money and, upon their deaths, the congregación will take care of their funeral expenses and the corresponding masses. Much less “as usual,”this sodality accepts women, while also noting that it doesn't admit elderly people, pregnant women, or sick people.

The second and third pages establish the indulgences that are to be given to the members of the sodality. On the blank back of the third page, a manuscript note records it that the owner of this patent has died and that a payment of 25 pesos was made to her family.

The elegant and elaborate first, “Patente” page is bordered on three sides by printer's ornaments and above the main text, within these, isan exquisite large engraving by Jose Morales of Mary flanked by two male saints, St. Sebastian with his arrows (on her left) and St. Joseph with his blooming staff (on her right). Above her in a cloud is Christ with a chalice and holding the Host.

•  Minor worm meander in all leaves in one small area affecting the engraving and a small portion of the interior text. Very good condition, with all manuscript additions legible (including signatures) and with the paper seal intact. (41002)

Fore-edge: This beautiful example bears a subtly shaded (and therefore hard to photograph)fore-edge paintingshowing Westminster Abbey in the background behind a waterfront view with sailboats.

Binding:  Full straight-grain dark olive green morocco, covers framed in elegant feather and pearl twist gilt roll, turn-ins with floral gilt roll. Stone-pattern marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.

•  Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1802/1.   Binding as above, mild rubbing overall with some abraded areas consolidated, joints and extremities subtly repaired, aesthetically appropriate endbands supplied. Title-page with inked ownership inscription dated 1803, “The gift of my beloved husband.” Intermittent faint spots of foxing, mostly confined to early leaves. One inked marginal annotation in an early hand, three psalms (145–47) with small inked emphasis marks, pages otherwise clean.  (28715)