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“Your Very Affectionate, Louis N. Parker” — Autobiography with Signed Letter
Parker, Louis N. Several of my lives. London: Chapman & Hall, 1928. 8vo (22.7 cm, 8.875"). viii, 312 pp.; 32 plts.
$125.00
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First edition: From the prolific British playwright, an illustrated autobiography with signed ephemera laid in, mounted, or tipped in
including a handwritten letter and poem written by Parker, photographs, and newspaper clippings. Louis N. Parker (1852–1944), best known for his 1911 play Disraeli, started his career composing music after attending the Royal Academy of Music; as he began to lose his hearing, he became increasingly involved with drama instead. During his career, he wrote or translated (either alone or in collaboration) over 100 plays, and organized pageants — huge drama festivals involving hundreds of performers, inspiring a rise in “pageantitis” in England.
Parker's biography is well illustrated with 32 black-and-white plates (including his frontispiece portrait) featuring the many people he met throughout his “lives” — early life, musical life, theatrical life, and pageant life (as the book is sectioned).
Binding: Half red morocco double gilt-ruled, over red cloth sides; five raised bands to spine, lettering or elegant gilt floral decoration in ruled compartments. Top edge gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed.
Signed by Bickers & Son.
Provenance & added material: Previously owned by Parker's friend “Saint” (unidentified; see further). Mounted on front free endpaper, a black and white photograph of Parker in front of shelves holding a glass collection; mounted underneath is a clipping from a letter: “Your very affectionate, Luigi.” On following verso, a newspaper clipping of an interview from 1932 is tipped in; on the next recto is mounted a letter to “Saint” (a delightfully written apology for the friend's absence in the book) with, on its second leaf, an original poem asking his friend to “accept this trivial book.” Additional newspaper clippings laid in. On rear pastedown, a black and white photograph with a small ink note indicating it is of Parker's salon; on rear free endpaper, Parker's obituary clipped from the Illustrated London News (as indicated by previous owner's pencilled note) dated 1944. Occasionally a pencilled word or checkmark; one clipping with cut-off words supplied in ink.
Bound as above, minor rubbing to corners, small stain and light fading to boards; offsetting to endpapers and soiling from glue used to attach ephemera, evidence of one glue-in removed. Evidence of readership as above; one checkmark in old-fashioned red pencil.
A splendid, unique volume containing intriguing related ephemera — clearly owned by a special friend of Parker's. (38018)

Future Punishment Theology — with
Reference to the Americas!
Patuzzi, Giovanni Vincenzo. De futuro impiorum statu libri tres ubi advers. deistas, nuperos Origenistas, Socinianos, aliosq; novatores Ecclesiae Catholicae doctrina de poenarum inferni veritate qualitate et aeternitate asseritur et illustratur. [Verona]: Typis Seminarii Veronensis, 1748. Folio (31.7 cm; 12.5"). [16], XXIV, 405 pp. Lacks final blank (only).
$675.00
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Neatly printed Latin treatise on future punishment for those who do not follow the ways of the Catholic Church, its three books covering why punishment should exist, what merits it, and the punishments themselves.
Alden & Landis also note this text “mentions beliefs on afterlife by people in Americas.”
The Americana content is found in the first section of the volume, dedicated to “deists,” chapter XI (subsections xxvi–xxxii); the natives discussed include those of Canada (Hurons), Virginia, Florida, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay, the Caribbean, and Brazil. Earlier in the “deists” section there is equally interesting discussion of the afterlife in the religions for various
African nations.
The title-page is printed in red and black with an engraved armorial design in the center. Several engraved historiated initials, including a few that show people holding books, and one engraved headpiece of women leading horses on clouds decorate the text.
Binding: Uncut text in an 18th-century cartonné binding with an attractive hand-lettered vellum spine label.
Provenance: “Ex Libris P. Josephi Sacella” written in the bottom margin of the title-page; Sacella has also inked a few words (mostly obliterated) to the front pastedown and a manicule within the text.
Alden & Landis, European Americana, 748/147. Uncut and bound as above, corners bumped and binding rubbed with some loss of paper at front bottom corner, binding dust-soiled and spotted. Volume with final blank (only) lacking and with markings as noted above; half-title with loss of some paper at fore-edge. One leaf detached and two with short to medium marginal tears; central gatherings with a very pale, old, circular stain across gutter reaching type on a few leaves only; and a few leaves creased or with small spots.
A handsome text interestingly cased. (36831)

Four Classic
Spanish Novelas Neatly Bound
Pérez Galdós, Benito. La sombra. Celin. Tropiquillos. Theros. Madrid: Imprenta de La Guirnalda, 1890. 8vo (17.9 cm, 7"). [10], [5]–257, [3 (2 adv.)] pp.
$100.00
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First edition of this collection of four works by a prominent Spanish realist author.
Palau 220773. Contemporary mottled calf with gilt-stamped red leather title-label; minor wear to edges and extremities. Half-title rubber-stamped, no other markings. Pages age-toned with a few scattered instances of faint spotting or smudging. (29867)

Erudite Edition Stealth Deluxe Binding
Petit de Julleville, Louis, trans. La chanson de Roland: Traduction nouvelle rhythmée et assonancée avec une introduction et des notes. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre (pr. by A. Quantin), 1878. 8vo (20.7 cm, 8.18"). [4], 460, [4] pp.
$350.00
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First edition of this modern French verse rendition of the classic epic, done by medievalist Louis Petit de Julleville (1841–1900), known for his studies of the history of French language and literature. The text is printed on facing pages with the original Old French on the left and the translation on the right.
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, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
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)

An American, “Filadelphia” Ladies' Gift Book for a
Trans-American Elite Audience
Presente a las damas. Filadelphia: Carey, Lea, & Carey, 1829. 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.55"). Engr. presentation f., [4] pp., 32 ff.; 32 plts.
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First edition of this unusual and intriguing gift book for the then-emerging foreign market in newly independent Spanish America: a Philadelphia-printed collection of
32 single-page poems in Spanish, each accompanied by a steel-engraved plate. These are very Anglo-American pieces, despite their linguistic guise; present here are odes to the Schuylkill, Trenton Falls, and the Delaware Water Gap (with attractive and appropriate illustrations engraved after Doughty, Wall, and others), although Hampton Court and other, more exotic locales are also featured.
At least one of these poems appears to be an uncredited, partial excerpt from José María Heredia; some of the other content seems to have come from Carey, Lea, & Carey's Atlantic Souvenir of 1827 and 1828 and Carey's 1828 El Aguinaldo para el año de 1829 — a landmark production with which the nature of Spanish-language printing in the U.S., and especially in Philadelphia, changed dramatically, as to an ordinary output of political tracts and textbooks were added
luxury Spanish-language objects of artistic and literary merit designed for marketing to a trans-American elite. Carey printed four such gift books: this Presente a las damas in 1829 and three “Alguinaldos,” for 1829, 1830, and 1831. All were meant for ladies and to be presented to them by gentleman and lady friends.
Binding: Publisher's dark green morocco, covers embossed with arabesque designs surrounding a central gilt-stamped floral medallion, spine gilt extra. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Given to Doa Caroline [sic] Tagl[e] by her husband (as per presentation page).
WorldCat locates only seven U.S. institutional holdings (DLC, ICN, MWA, NSyU, NN, PU, PPL).
Shoemaker 40147; Palau 236614. Central block similar to Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 7, here with addition of medallion. This edition not in Faxon, nor Thomson, nor Tepper; see Faxon 59 for further information. Bound as above, variably sunned and with edges rubbed; pulled at top and foot of spine with gilt still bright. Interior age-toned with staining/spotting/foxing throughout, never dark but ubiquitous.
An uncommon volume representing one of the vanishingly few foreign-language annuals printed by an American publisher and an often unnoticed phenomenon. (38391)

THACKERAY Admired These “Most Charmingly Humorous
of English Lyrical Poems”
Some Fellow-ADMIRER Had
THIS Set Bound
Prior, Matthew. The poetical works...: Now first collected, with explanatory notes, and memoirs of the author, in two volumes. London: Pr. for W. Strahan, T. Payne, J. Rivington, et al., 1779. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). I: xvi, xxviii, 420 pp.; 1 plt. II: [2] ff., xvi, 287, [1 (errata)] pp.
$200.00
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Witty, amorous, sardonic works by the English poet-diplomat, edited by Evans and first thus. The DNB notes that among posthumous editions of Prior's works, "that of Evans . . . long enjoyed the reputation of being the best."
The "Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse," Prior's satiric and politically motivated response to Dryden's "Hind and Panther," is not included, but the long pieces "Solomon on the Vanity of the World" and "Alma" are present. The "Life of Mat. Prior" in the first volume commences beneath a small engraved portrait.
Binding: Later sprinkled calf, covers gilt-ruled with gilt inner dentelles, spines gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels. All edges saffron.
Provenance: Both volumes with armorial bookplates of Sir Robert D'Arcy Hildyard.
On Prior, see: Dictionary of National Biography, 397-401. Leather cracking over joints with hinges tender; spine tips a little dry and pulled; upper and outer edges of all covers somewhat darkened; light wear to extremities. Light foxing to some pages. In fact a very handsome pair. (3402)

Introduction by Dickens Illustrations by Tenniel, Millais, Palmer, et al.
Procter, Adelaide Anne. Legends and lyrics. London: Bell & Daldy, 1866. 8vo (22.9 cm; 9"). Frontis., [10] ff., 329, [1] pp., 20 plts.; lacks dedication leaf.
$100.00
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New edition with additions: This new edition of Adelaide Anne Procter's 1861 collection of poems is the first to feature an introduction by her father's good friend Charles Dickens; the introduction was repeated in subsequent editions. The
20 plates are wood engravings by Horace Harrel after W.T.C. Dobson, Samuel Palmer, John Tenniel, William H. Millais, and several others.
Procter was a philanthropist as well as a poet, involved in several charitable and feminist causes, and contributed to Dickens' Household Words under the pen name “Mary Berwick” in hopes that her work would not be judged based on her father's friendship with Dickens. She died shortly before the publication of this new edition of her poems.
Binding: Red morocco over bevelled-edged wooden boards, spine with gilt lettering, rules, and stamped compartment decorations of acorns and oak leaves; covers with a wide composite gilt border incorporating laurel crowns and more oak'y ornaments surrounding a large gilt spray of holly and ivy. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Eckel, First Editions of the Writing of Charles Dickens . . . A bibliography, pp. 163–64; Podeschi, Dickens & Dickensiana, B293. Bound as above, heavy boards sometime separated and reattached; extremities rubbed with spine pulled. Dedication page mentioned by Eckel lacking; foxing and minor staining to edges of frontispiece portrait with one other illustration and adjacent
page foxed also. Previous owner's notes in pencil on front endpapers. A Good+ copy (priced accordingly) of this attractive production. (37385)
Propertius, Sextus. Sex. Aurelii Propertii elegiarum libri IV. Trajecti ad Rhenum: Barth. Wild, 1780. 4to (26.3 cm, 10.4"). [10], xiv, [2], 990 (i.e., 996; pagination repeats 627–32), [2] pp.
$450.00
First edition: Pieter Burmann the younger’s edition of Propertius, based primarily on Brouckhusius’s text and — after Burmann’s death — edited and completed by Laurentius Santen with commentary on the final elegy. Graesse points out some flaws in the text and exposition, but says that “les notes de Burmann sont de nouvelles preuves de son érudition,” and Dibdin agrees that the commentary is “a treasure of critical and philological learning.”
Binding/Provenance: Prize binding of contemporary vellum, covers framed and panelled in gilt rolls with gilt-stamped corner fleurons and gilt central vignette with the crest of the city of Amsterdam, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. The partially printed, partially inscribed, bound-in prize certificate reads “Ingenuo magnaeque spei adolescenti, Henrico Gerteler propter insignes in artibus humanioribus progessus, in classe tertia . . . Quod testor R. v. Ommeren [/] Gymnasii publici Amstelaedamensis Rector,” dated 1791.
Brunet, IV, 905; Dibdin, I, 385–86; Graesse, V, 460; Sandys, II, 455; Schweiger, II, 831. Binding as above, vellum slightly darkened, lacking ties; spine with gilt dimmed and traces of a now-absent label and inked call number at foot of spine. Lower edges with institutional rubber-stamp; title-page with shadow of a pencilled numeral. Front free endpaper with paper adhesions from a now-absent bookplate; back pastedown with rubber-stamp and small adhesion. Pages clean save for offsetting to upper margins of a few, from a laid-in slip. (20594)

Prudentius, Bodoni, & TWO Oxford Friends — A Handsome Set
(Extra-Beloved Here for Its Surviving Bookseller's Label)
Prudentius Clemens, Aurelius. Aurelii Prudentii Clementis V.C. Opera omnia nunc primum cum codd. vaticanis collata praefatione, variantibus lectionibus, notis, ac rerum verborumque indice locupletissimo aucta et illustrata. Parmae: Ex Regio Typographeo, 1788. Large 4to (30.2 cm, 11.89"). 2 vols. I: [10], 71, [3], 361, [3] pp. II: [4], 284, [2] pp.
$800.00
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First edition of Prudentius from the Bodoni press. Aurelius Prudentius Clemens (348 – ca. 410) was a Roman Christian poet born in Northern Spain, known for the asceticism he adopted late in life as well as for his lyric (Cathemerinon, Peristephanon), didactic (Apotheosis, Hamartigenia, Psychomachia), and polemical works (Contra Symmachum). The Psychomachia is particularly notable as one of the earliest Western examples of allegorical verse, exerting much influence on the subsequent medieval development of that genre. Here, the texts were edited by Giuseppe Teoli, who signed the dedication as well as supplying the preface, footnotes, and indexes.
This is a typically handsome Bodoni production with wide margins, an elegant type, and a different engraved vignette on each title-page; Dibdin calls it “one of the most beautiful editions of a classical author I ever beheld.” 18th- and 19th-century critics tended to agree with him and with Eschenburg, who deemed this edition “splendid and valuable.”
Binding: Contemporary light brown morocco, covers with wide frames composed of multiple gilt rolls, spines of darker brown morocco with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels; main label reading “Aurelii Opera.”
Board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls and, in an unusual treatment, with the darker brown of the spine echoed in these areas as an accent. Endpapers of light blue moiré silk, all edges gilt.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf of vol. I with affectionate inked gift inscription from David Williams to John Griffiths (both academics of the University of Oxford, as referenced in the inscription), dated 1854. Front pastedowns each with 19th-century bookseller's small leather label (“the most Expert Bookfinder Extant”).
Brooks 361; Brunet, V, 916; De Lama, II, 52–53; Dibdin, II, 360–61; Graesse 467. Bindings as above, edges and extremities rubbed, spine labels with small repairs.
One of the most desirable editions of this important poet, here in an attractive copy with delightful provenance. (40137)

A Great 18th-Century Printer Presents a
a Great 17th-Century Dramatist
Racine, Jean. Oeuvres de Jean Racine. Paris: de l'Imprimerie de Didot l'aine, 1784. 8vo in 4s (19 cm, 7.5". 3 vols. I: 463, [1] pp. II: [2] ff., 484 pp. III: [2] ff., 372 pp., [2] ff.
$950.00
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“Cette édition in-8o a été imprimée au nombre de 350 exemplaires, avec les nouveaux caractères de la fonderie de Didot l’aine, sur du papier-vélin de la manufacture de M[ess]rs. Johannot pere et fils, d’Annonaie, premiers fabricants en France de cette sorte de papiers” (vol. III, verso of leaf following p. 372). That is, this is printed on wove paper.
In the series Collection des auteurs classiques, françois et latins, this was issued in the same year in 4to and 18mo formats. The present, octavo format is not only handsomely conceived but
very “handy in the hands.”
Binding: Full crushed red morocco, gilt spine and boards, signed Petit Succs. de Simier; gilt rule on board edges, gilt rolls on turn-ins, marbled endpapers, green silk placemarkers. All edges gilt. Each volume in a light board open-back slipcase covered with marbled paper.
Provenance: Bookplates of Casimir L. Stralem, Clarence E. Clark, and Brian Douglas Stilwell, the trio presenting an appealing set of styles.
WorldCat locates copies of this edition in this format at only four U.S. libraries (UCLA, Georgetown, Library of Congress, Harvard).
Bulletin de la Librairie Morgand et Fatout 10951; Brunet, V, 1078–79; Jammes, Les Didot, 25. Bound as above, joints of all volumes slightly cracking with volumes otherwise only lightly worn; some tape repairs to the delicate slipcases. Age-toning and foxing of faintest varieties only.
Very Good. (40317)

Fictitious 17TH-Century Diary — Both Parts — Matching ZAEHNSDORF Bindings
[Rathbone, Hannah Mary]. So much of
the diary of Lady Willoughby as relates to her domestic history, & to the eventful period of the reign of Charles the First. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans (pr. by C. Whittingham), 1845. 12mo (17.3 cm, 6.8"). [4], 220 pp. [with the same author's] Some further portions of the diary of Lady Willoughby which do relate to her domestic history and to the events of the latter years of the reign of King Charles the First, the Protectorate and the Restoration. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1848. 12mo. [6], 215, [1] pp.
$500.00
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As per the “Address to the Reader” of So Much of the Diary, etc. “the style of Printing and general appearance of this Volume have been adopted by the Publishers merely to be in accordance with the design of the Author, who in this Work personates a lady of the seventeenth Century” — with “personat[ing]” being the key word, as this is
the diary of a real 17th-century woman as imagined, both deeply and extensively, by a Victorian woman who had immersed herself in the history and memoirs of the “diarist's” period. Published anonymously, it was on its first appearance often sincerely attributed to Elizabeth Cecil Willoughby, Baroness Willoughby (1606–61), perhaps helped on by the fact that Longman had gone so far as to commission a new font from
the Chiswick Press, a recasting of Caslon Old Face, with “antique” headpieces and decorative woodcut initials, pages framed in double-ruled borders, and up-front woodcut coats of arms further employed to enhance the “journal's” verisimilitude. According to the DNB (online), the publication “fostered a minor vogue for first-person historical narratives in contemporary typefaces, notably Anne Manning's 1850 account of Mary Powell (Milton's first wife), and Thackeray's Henry Esmond (1852).”
Lady Willoughby's husband, Francis Willoughby, was a political intriguer who originally opposed the King, but later fell out with the Parliamentarians and joined the Royalists, fleeing to the Caribbean where he eventually became Governor of Barbados and established the short-lived colony of Willoughbyland (in what is now Suriname) before being restored to his estates in England. The diary entries attributed to his wife, which end shortly before Willoughby's departure for the islands, describe the major political and military events of the day against a background of her concern for her children, her love of her mother and husband, and her piety and devotion. Rathbone paid enough attention to detail to have “Lady Willoughby” offer a recipe against giddiness “given to mee by Mr. Gerard's Aunte” — the recipe being quoted in full directly from John Gerard's Herball of 1597 — but altered the course of historical events very slightly by extending the life of her daughter Diana about six years past her actual death and increasing the number of her deceased children!
So Much of the Diary, here in its 1845 second edition, was originally printed in 1844, while Some Further Portions is here in its first printing.
Binding: Contemporary
matched bindings done by Zaehnsdorf, signed on each front turn-in: brown morocco, framed and panelled in gilt and black fillets with gilt-stamped fleur-de-lis corner fleurons, turn-ins similarly designed, and board edges with gilt roll; spines with gilt-stamped titles and volume labels, blind-stamped compartment decorations, and gilt-stamped fleurs-de-lis in compartments. Top edges gilt. Back pastedown of each volume with gilt-stamped example of Zaehnsdorf's oval medieval bookbinding apprentice device, from a design by Jost Amman.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf of second volume with a woman's tantalizingly not-quite-decipherable ownership inscription: “E[something] Anne Fan[something!]s [/] Farnley 1848.” Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC 2R2740 & 2R2743; Ing, Charles Whittingham: Printer, 1795-1876, 32. Bindings as above, variously rubbed to extremities; offsetting to endpapers from turn-ins. Vol. II with ownership inscription as above. Pages lightly age-toned with occasional minor smudges or spots; front fly-leaf of vol. II (only) more notably spotted.
A handsome set of an intriguing Victorian — and feminine — perspective on the domestic side of this dramatic period in the 17th century. (37855)

A Young Ladies' Writing Club: The Fruits of their Labors in 1885
Handwritten, Illustrated, & Custom Bound
The Rocket Club. Manuscript on paper, in English. “Essays of the Rocket Club.” [England]: 1885. 4to (23.8 cm, 9.375"). [200 (195 used)] ff.; illus.
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A remarkable collection: One year's worth of
original, handwritten pieces painstakingly composed and assembled by the members of a private “girls'” essay society, covering a wide range of literary, cultural, and historical topics, gathered in a luxurious custom binding. At the time this volume was commenced, the club was coming into its eighth year of existence — “a venerable age for an essay society” according to the author of the introduction, whose pseudonymous “Elm” signature often shows up in these pages graced by a sketched leaf. Following Elm's admonishment to write more things worth reading in the coming year are pieces like “Books for the Million” (regarding the advantages and disadvantages of booms in publishing and public libraries, signed by Pleasance), “The Ministry of Little Things” (a parable in verse, from Ivy), “A Day in the Orkneys” (a travelogue by Sirius), a lengthy essay on personal influence by Serapis, and groups of essays from multiple contributors on assigned topics including fashion, 17th-century poets, architecture (to which Elm had strong objections, considering it too broad a topic to address in this format), beetles, and “Music: Its Use and Influence.”
The essays seem to have been submitted on a monthly basis, with each club member having an opportunity to comment on the month' offerings. In some instances, the critical responses are as interesting as the original pieces!
As mentioned in the November criticism section, there were at least 16 members of the club, although some were more active than others. It seems all but certain that all of them were female, well educated, and sufficiently wealthy to participate in this type of leisure activity. Several made use of overtly feminine pseudonyms (Stella, Faith, the intriguing Duhitar) or self-identifiers (Elm mentions “us girls”); Sirius, Serapis, Aquarius, Nitor, and Tortoise are less obvious — but in at least one instance a Serapis essay bears a follow-up comment that begins “she wishes to say . . .,” and other critical responses give us additional she/her references for Key, ?, Aquarius, Pleasance, and Dragonfly. Ivy is an interesting case, rebutting a point on contemporary male fashion by describing men's style as “simple, sensible, & comfortable,” and then going on to say “as to women, they may attire themselves in any way almost that is most convenient,” which seems curiously self-distancing from feminine experience. One of the few specifically female-oriented topics, “Should the Franchise be Extended to Women?,” brings several references to “our” characteristics, and although no hardline declarations in favor of suffrage are made, several essayists tentatively conclude that single women running their own households should have the right to vote.
In addition to the beautifully hand-calligraphed and illuminated title-page, the volume also contains a number of mounted illustrations. These include a pencilled “design for a border,” symbolically signed by Key, which received high praise from the club members in that month's criticism section; five costume drawings in one of the essays on fashion, likewise symbolically signed by Dragonfly; five striking depictions of beetles, four in color (the one of an African beetle bearing the sub-caption “Drawn from life,” which has been followed with a pencilled question mark!); a sketch of an Irish “Bian” horse-drawn carriage (accompanying an essay on the life of Charles Bianconi); and six lovely painted landscapes (including coastline, mountain, and village scenes — some connected to a group of essays on “What Constitutes Beauty” and some to “A Type of English Scenery”).
Binding: Contemporary black morocco, covers framed in gilt rolls and fillets with inner blind roll and blind-tooled corner fleurons surrounding gilt-stamped title (“Essays of the Rocket Club. 1885); spine with gilt-stamped raised bands and gilt-tooled compartment decorations. Board edges with gilt roll, turn-ins with blind roll; marbled endpapers and top edges gilt.
Bound as above, spine head repaired and refurbished; somewhat rubbed and a little scuffed — a volume that was both used/referred to and treasured. Many leaves with short tears from outer margins, often with old, possibly contemporary repairs; some leaves showing faint, pressed-out creases most likely from mailing.
Unique, enjoyable, and eminently worthy of study. (36353)

“El Amor a la Memoria de
Mi Infeliz Hermano”
Rodríguez Galván, Ignacio. Poesías de D. Ignacio Rodriguez Galvan. Mejico: Impresas por M.N. de la Vega, 1851. Folio (24 cm; ). 2 vols. in 1. I: [4] ff., frontis., 311, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f. II: 336 pp., [1] f.
$950.00
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First edition. Born in 1816 in the small town of Tizayuca in what is now the state of Hidalgo, Rodriguez Galvan is widely credited with being
the initiator of the Romantic movement in Mexico. He wrote novels, poetry, plays, and was the editor of several periodicals, most especially Calendario de las Señoritas Mexicanas and Año Nuevo, El Recreo de las Familias. He died of yellow fever in Havana in 1842 at the age of 27 while en route to South
America on a diplomatic mission. A few of the poems in vol. I were penned in
Havana before his death.
These volumes offer his “Composiciones líricas originales” in vol. I and “Composiciones dramáticas originales” in vol. II. The frontispiece is a fine lithographic portrait of Don Ignacio, in Romantic style of course; there is a liberal use of handsome tailpieces. The whole was compiled and edited by the author's brother Antonio.
This first edition is uncommon in our experience as dealers in Mexicana.
Provenance: Masonic stamp, “Porfirio del Rio” on title-page; inscription to fly-leaf of A. Quijano, 1916.
Palau 273981; Sabin 72510. Handsome contemporary quarter red morocco with red mottled paper sides, boards rubbed; spine exuberantly tooled in gilt, bright. Foxing and spotting variously; provenance indications as above. (31961)

Poems for a “Much Loved Daughter” — Ticketed Binding
Rogers, Samuel. Poems. London: Edward Moxon [colophon: Chiswick Press: Pr. by C. Whittingham], 1839. 16mo (16.7 cm, 6.625"). viii, 311, [1] pp.; illus.
$100.00
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Nicely bound selection of poems from the celebrated Romantic-era English poet and member of the Dickens circle, with many charming vignettes (head- and tailpieces), mostly of women, scattered throughout the work. The vignettes were done by Thomas Stothard, with some bearing his logo.Binding: 19th-century black pebbled calf, spine with gilt title surrounded by various double gilt rules and arabesque stamps, covers framed with double fillets in blind around two drawer pulls connected by a rule of dots surrounding a mostly oval gilt foliate design. All edges gilt; original brown silk ribbon placeholder present. Front pastedown with binder's ticket of T. Edmondson, 38 Marketplace, Lancaster.
Provenance: With gift inscription “Elisabeth Sophia Jameson to her much Loved Daughter Maryanne Jameson Lancaster July the 7 1848" on front fly-leaf in ink and a pencilled note “C.S.F. July 10 1915" immediately below. A small rubber-stamp green monogram, possibly C.S.F.'s, appears at the bottom of the title-page. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Binding as above, very gently rubbed at corners and joints, top back joint (outside) just starting, front cover very slightly splayed. Light age-toning throughout, a handful of specks, one small marginal spot. Provenance markings as above, binder's ticket offsetting to front endpaper. Despite the sound of the necessarily recited faults, this is
a strong, lovely copy of this handsome production. (38254)

Lord Byron Called the Author
“the Last Argonaut of Classic English Poetry”
(Gilt Strapwork Binding)
Rogers, Samuel. Poems. London: Pr. for T. Cadell & W. Davies by T. Bensley, 1820. 8vo (17 cm, 6.69"). [6], 251, [1] pp.; illus.
$165.00
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“A new edition”: Handsome presentation of selected pieces from the Romantic-era English poet and member of the Dickens circle, best remembered for his “The Pleasures of Memory” — present here, of course, along with “Jacqueline,” “The Sailor,” “An Italian Song,” and “The Voyage of Columbus.” Scattered throughout are
charming engraved vignettes, many of cherubs.
Binding: Contemporary calf, covers framed in triple gilt fillets and blind roll with gilt-tooled lyre and leaf corner motifs, surrounding a gilt strapwork cartouche with central blind-tooled motif; spine gilt extra, with gilt-stamped leather title-label. All edges marbled.Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of Byam Martin Davies; front fly-leaf with pencilled inscription of C. Ellis.
Bound as above, a little rubbed; minute chipping to spine label and leather split across joints. Bookplate and inscription as above. Faint to moderate foxing; some leaves with upper outer corners bumped/creased. A bit worn overall, this is still
very elegant. (41515)
Rousseau,
Jean-Baptiste. Oeuvres poétiques
... avec un commentaire par M. Amar. Paris: Chez Lefèvre, 1824. 8vo (23.1 cm, 9.1"). 2 vols. in 1. Frontis., xxxv, [1], 419, [5], 363, [1 (blank)] pp.
$225.00
First edition of this compilation. Rousseau’s verses and epigrams enjoyed enormous popularity in their day; they appear here as part of the “Collection des classiques françois,” with commentary by Jean Augustin Amar du Rivier and an engraved frontispiece portrait done by Taurel.
Brunet, IV, 1421. Contemporary black half morocco over blue pebbled cloth, spine beautifully gilt extra, leather edges ruled in gilt; volume clean and virtually unworn. Front pastedown with private collector’s bookplate and with institutional rubber-stamp (no other markings); some soiling and offsetting to front pastedown and free endpaper. Many leaves lightly to moderately foxed, a few more heavily — the paper here was not as good as it might have been. One leaf with short tear from upper margin, touching page number but not text.
An attractive production. (19301)

Prayers & Catechism in Latin & Greek for the
Boys of St. Paul's School
St. Paul's School (London, England). Preces catechismus et hymni Graecè et Latinè in usum antiquae et celebris scholae juxtà S. Pauli templum apud Londinates fundatore ... Johanne Coleto ... Londini: Ex officinâ Johannis Nichols et Sociorum, 1814. Small 8vo (18.5cm, 7.25"). Frontis. port., [1] f., 62 pp.
$675.00
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John Colet (1467?–1519), Dean of St. Paul's, seems in 1508 to have begun to think about “apply[ing] his patrimony to education by the reconstitution of St Paul's Cathedral school in new premises, reflecting a preoccupation with education as prerequisite for spiritual regeneration” (DNB online). He “opened the doors to St Paul’s School in 1509 to educate boys 'from all nacions and countres indifferently'” (St. Paul's School website).
Elegantly bound and handsomely printed, this is the first edition of this collection for use of the boys of the school and is comprised of “Preces quotidianae ut celebrantur in scholâ Paulina” and “Catechismus, cum ordine Confirmationis.” The prayers were first published in 1642 and are in Latin, while the catechism is in Greek (on versos of leaves) and Latin opposite (on rectos). The engraved frontispiece portrait of Colet is by J[ohn] T[aylor] Wedgwood (1783–1856), a cousin of Josiah Wedgwood.
Provenance: Late 19th-century bookplate of the Rev. George H. Culshaw; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Binding: Contemporary green straight-grain goat, spine gilt extra; both boards with a gilt double-rule outer border and an inner center frame of single gilt rule with large gilt corner devices. Board edges with a gilt roll; narrow turn-ins with a different gilt roll. All edges gilt.
Searches of WorldCat locate only six U.S. libraries (IU, NjNbT, PPiT, IEN, NNC, NNG) reporting ownership.
Binding as above; spine sunned to olive, front cover with scuff sometime well disguised, boards showing signs of having been bent some time ago. Bookplate and label as above. A very few light spots of foxing, pages overall clean and crisp. Very good condition.
A very attractive book. (39223)

Innovative American Presbyterian Worship — Elegant Ecclesiastical Binding
St. Peter's Church (Rochester, NY). The book of worship in use in St. Peter's Church, of the presbytery of Rochester City, New York. Rochester: E. Darrow & Brother, 1864. 8vo (22.7 cm, 8.94"). 352 pp.
$250.00
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Presbyterian prayer book for what was at the time a new and experimental church. Levi A. Ward founded St. Peter's in 1853, and this worship manual came out of his efforts to promote increased congregational participation in the service. This is the first edition under this title, following the first of 1855, which had been published as Church Book of St. Peter's. The service is followed by a psalter and hymnal, including music; the Rev. Edward D. Yoemans helped prepare the former, and the Rev. Leonard W. Bacon the latter.
Binding: Contemporary black pebbled leather with beveled edges, covers with deeply impressed double windows and arch design surrounded by corner decorations of quatrefoils in
rondels, spine with gilt-stamped title and blind-tooled fleurons between raised bands, board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls. All edges gilt.
Binding as above, front joint and hinge refurbished, light wear to edges and extremities, small scuff to lower edge of front cover. One preliminary leaf with pencilled source notation in inner margin, dated [19]37, and with rubber-stamped numeral in lower margin; first text page with institutional rubber-stamp in lower margin. Back free endpaper with traces of paper adhering to upper portion. Pages clean. (40628)

Reading Recommended by William Penn
Saltmarsh, John. Sparkles of glory, or some beams of the morning star. Wherein are many discoveries as to truth and peace. To the establishment and pure enlargement of a Christian in spirit and truth. London: Reprinted for William Pickering [colophon: J. Whittingham], 1847. 12mo (14.1 cm, 5.6"). [8], xx, 212 pp.
$225.00
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Pickering edition of 17th-century charismatic Protestant Saltmarsh's work, from the publisher's Christian Classics series. William Penn counted Saltmarsh (d. 1647) as a good pre-Quaker writer to read, though he led quite the controversial life — most notably promoting the idea of free grace while serving as chaplain to Sir Thomas Fairfax, and even being accused of letting a woman preach.
The text was first published in 1647; although the title-page and WorldCat records give the publication date of this printing as 1847, Kelly and Keynes suggest 1848.
Binding: 20th-century brown textured calf, spine lettered in gilt with leaf stamps in compartments, covers framed in double blind fillets with crosses at corners and an intricate oval stamp at center; blind dotted roll along board edges, blind double fillets on turn-ins, Fountain marbled endpapers, all edges stained red.
Binding signed by Rivière.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of the Bell family (a fess ermine between three church bells, with motto “promptus sum”) at front; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering,1848.12; Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 57; NSTC 2S3189. On Saltmarsh, see: Oxford DNB (online). Binding as above, a few very gently rubbed spots. Pages very clean save for light age-toning and one small spot to half-title. Bookplates and labels as above, a few small pencilled bibliographic notes on endpapers.
A nice copy of a Pickering and Quaker classic, in a very attractive binding. (39483)

Popular Odes — Petite Bodoni Printing
Savioli, Ludovico. Amori. Crisopoli: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1795. 16mo (12.4 cm, 4.88"). Frontis., [8], 134, [2] pp.
$350.00
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Amorous canzonetti — first published in their final count of 24 poems in 1765, and best-selling in their day — here in
the first Bodoni 16mo edition. Count Ludovico Vittorio Savioli (1729–1804) was classically inspired, and contemporary critics noted the grace and lightness of his verse, particularly these melodious pieces. The Amori are here preceded by a dedication to the Count from the printer, and followed by Savioli's “Amore e Psiche.” Bodoni's first quarto edition was printed in the same year, with the present example offering a daintier, more delicately minute setting; the stipple-engraved title-page portrait of the author, which Giani particularly praised, appears in this edition as a frontispiece.
Binding: Contemporary mottled brown calf, spine with gilt-ruled compartments and gilt-stamped compartment decorations; covers framed in gilt roll, upper cover lettered “A. M. Ad. Etereocle,” board edges with gilt roll. All edges speckled red, original green silk bookmark laid in.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Robert Wayne Stilwell, front free endpaper with bookplate of Brian Douglas Stilwell. Front fly-leaf with faded inked gift inscription dated 1837.
Brooks 598; De Lama, II, 107; Giani 72 (pp. 54-55); Brunet, V, 156; Graesse, VI, 279. Bound as above, extremities unobtrusively refurbished; front joint unobtrusively starting from head. Bookplates and inscription as above, front and back free endpapers with later pencilled bibliographical notes.
Charming. (40170)

Published by Americans / Printed in Germany / Bound near Philadelphia
Schultz, Christopher. Erläuterung für herrn Caspar Schwenckfeld, und die zugethanen, seiner lehre. Breslau und Leipzig: In commission bey G.W. Seidel; Jauer, Gedruckt bey H.C. Müllern, 1771. 8vo (18.5 cm; 7.25"). [7 of 8 ff.], 464 of 468 (lacking pp. 465–68) pp., [2] ff.
$500.00
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First edition of Schultz's “vindication of Caspar Schwenkfeld and and an elucidation of his doctrines and the vicissitudes of his followers.” Published by the Schwenkfelders in America but printed in Germany.
Binding: Full speckled sheep, four raised bands; tooled in blind using rules and a rope-design roll. Binding attributed to Philadelphia-area binder Christopher Hoffman, who was both a Schwenckfelder minister and a binder!
Provenance: “To Isaac Jeackle in Herreford 1791" on front fly-leaf. Hereford is in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
On Hoffman as a binder with an illustration of a nearly identical binding, see: Maser, Bookbinding in America, 15. Binding as above, chip to bottom of front joint; old library rubber-stamp on front pastedown and to title-page verso, with a bit of old pencilling. Without the half-title and pp. 465–68; title-page with short closed tear along gutter. Paper with the usual age-toning/foxing, but untattered. All edges heavily sprinkled red. (28536)

On
WINGS of Verse
Scott, Walter. Miscellaneous poems. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., and Hurst, Robinson, & Co. (pr. by James Ballantyne), 1820. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). viii, 510, [2] pp. (pagination skips 66-85).
$600.00
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Beautiful edition of gathered verses by Sir Walter Scott, containing “The Bridal of Triermain,” “Harold the Dauntless,” “William and Helen,” and what the advertisement calls “all the Smaller Pieces, collected for the first time in the recent edition of the Author's Poems” — decorated with a fore-edge painting.
The Fore-edge: Simple but charming design of six bright butterflies in red, orange, yellow and blue.
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of John Train.
Binding: Contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco framed in wide gilt border and panelled in gilt single fillet, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorations, board edges (at corners) and turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt.
NSTC 2S9246. Binding as above, moderately rubbed; hinges (inside) slightly tender. Front free endpaper verso with inked ownership inscription. Light to moderate foxing throughout, pages otherwise clean. (30141)

Foremost Shakespearean Scholars — Handsomely Bound with Embroidered Onlays
Shakespeare, William; Samuel Johnson; George Steevens; Isaac Reed; & Mary Cowden Clarke. The complete works of William Shakespeare, from the text of Johnson, Steevens, and Reed. Edinburgh: William P. Nimmo, [1880s]. 16mo (17.5 cm, 6.875"). 2 vols. I: xxxviii, 841 pp. II: 919, [1] pp.
$75.00
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Two-volume set of Shakespeare's complete works edited by Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, and Isaac Reed, with a biographical sketch by Mary Cowden Clarke. The three editors were notable Shakespearean scholars; Steevens and Johnson edited a collection of Shakespeare's works together in 1773, an edition that Reed would later re-edit in 1803. Cowden Clarke, in addition to working on Shakespearean studies with her husband, published an invaluable Shakespeare concordance.
The first volume begins with a 16-page index to the characters in the plays and includes
an engraved frontispiece of Shakespeare, with additional small engravings on the title-pages and at the end of each work. The title-page vignette in vol. I is signed by J.M. Corner.
Binding: Brown (vol. I) and red (vol. II) morocco with beveled boards, five raised bands to spines and gilt lettering/devices in compartments; front covers with gilt tripled-rule borders, gilt lettering, blind-stamped corner decorations, and, within central oval frames defined by beaded gilt swags, compound recessed medallions each composed of a (faux?) tortoise shell oval surrounding and securing an inlaid silk panel embroidered with a
differently colored colorful wreath of flowers. Rear boards bear same borders and corner devices in blind, with a blind-stamped central quatrefoil medallion; all edges of both volumes gilt, with bookmarks of purple (vol. I) and green (vol. II) silk ribbon present.
While the bindings are clearly intended as a pair, the differing colors of the leather, bookmarks, and flowers in the insets make this an interesting sort of set.
Evidence of Readership: On verso of front fly-leaf of vol. I, a previous owner's neat pencil notes on purchase history. Small, marginal pencil marks throughout the middle section of vol. I.
Bound as above, rubbed; vol. II lacking tortoise frame on front board, leaving board underneath exposed and embroidery slightly soiled (although, usefully, this shows some of the area's underlying construction). Minor foxing throughout, with more severe foxing to title-page and frontispiece of vol. I; bookmarks with fading and loss at ends. Charmingly bound set; blemished, still pleasant and sturdy. (37361)

Early in the
FIRST English Annual Series — This Copy in Its Box
Shoberl, Frederic, ed. Forget me not;
A Christmas and New Year's present for 1828. London: R. Ackermann, [1828]. 12mo (14.4 cm, 5.75"). Engr. presentation leaf, engr. frontis., x, 418, 4 (advertisements) pp.; 14 plts. including presentation leaf and frontis.
$350.00
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An exemplar of an early and important English gift book series, one Faxon describes as “The first attempt to rival the numerous and elegant publications of the continent,”
in only its sixth annual appearance. This volume includes pieces by Mary Russell Mitford, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Felicia Hemans, among others. It is illustrated with a total of
14 engraved plates, including the beautiful embossed presentation leaf here in unused state. Several engravers, including E. Finden, S. Davenport, and A.W. Warren, modeled their work after various artists.
Binding: Publisher's glazed green paper–covered boards, pictorially printed in black, all edges gilt. Housed in publisher's cardboard slipcase with green glazed paper sides pictorially printed in black.
Owner's modification: The word “Pax” is neatly printed in black ink on the book's back cover, gently arced above the engraving; and “Roosevelt” has been similarly added to the back of the slipcase, with “Post Lux Tenebras” being artfully placed below the engraving.
Faxon 1303. Binding as above, back inside cover with brown silk pull-tab intact, joints very skillfully refurbished with long fiber and then toned; extremities gently rubbed. Front free endpaper pencilled with old bookseller annotations. Pages and plates generally clean with very occasional light foxing; guard leaves with predictable offsetting. Case somewhat rubbed with extremities chipped at corners but completely sound and with the described embellishments.
A lovely little gift book, with the original (and early for its kind) slipcase. (36042)

The E.P. Goldschmidt Copy, Bound for Julius von Thungen
(Sibyls’ Oracles). [two lines in Greek romanized as] Sibylliakon chresmon logoi okto. [then in Latin] Sibyllinorum oraculorum libri VIII. Basileae: per Ioannem Oporium, [1555]. 8vo (16 cm, 6.375’’). 333. [3] pp. [bound with] [Greek Comedy.] Ex veterum comicorum fabulis, quae integrae non extant, sententiae. Parisiis: Apud Guil. Morelium, 1553. [4], 147, [1] pp.
[SOLD]
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The E.P. Goldschmidt copy of a fascinating humanistic sammelband. The first work is the first Greek–Latin edition of the Sibyllinorum oraculorum libri viii, based on Birck’s Greek edition of 1545 as amended and translated by Sébastien Castellion (1515–63). These were short prophecies allegedly uttered by the ancient Sibyls, imbued with Greek mythology and the doctrines of Gnosticism, Hebraism, and early Christianity. The second work is the first Greek–Latin edition of a florilegium of ancient drama and poetry — including prominently Menander — which had survived in fragmentary form only. Like the oracles, these excerpts were interpreted allegorically by humanists as a gateway to disclose pagan insights into the coming of Christ. Present here is the Latin translation only, the Greek never having been bound in.
Binding: Exquisitely bound for Julius von Thungen, a German aristocrat, in contemporary polished French calf, spine with raised bands, devices in compartments, and identifying information gilt-tooled directly to spine (not on labels); covers gilt-ruled with gilt fleurons to corners and a gilt armorial supralibros at center, this incorporating in its wreath a gilt “G.W.” and “1558" that may be the binder’s signature and the year in which the book was bound. All edges gilt and gauffered; traces of a 16th-century manuscript used as rear pastedown. This is “an example of a German student’s binding made in some French university town, whether Paris, Bourges or Orleans” (Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings, n .218).
Provenance: Armorial supralibros of Julius von Thungen (ca. 1558) on covers as above; bookplate of Anton Ruland (1874) and Goldschmidt’s gilt booklabel “E PH G” (ca. 1900) on front pastedown; modern label of G.J. Arvanitidi and autograph of Anton Ruland on front free endpaper; casemark label to rear pastedown. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
I: VD16 S6278; Graesse, VI, 398. II:: Pettegree & Walsby, French Books, 79713; not in Brunet. Binding as above. Joints and spine cracked but firm, with edges a bit rubbed and spine with leather lost at head, foot, and band ends; front free endpaper torn at lower outer corner. Text ruled in red, with an appended, unrelated gathering B entitled Phocylidis poema admonitorium
(from an unidentified 16th-century probably French edition) and two leaves of gathering F misbound; upper blank margin of title trimmed, edges a trifle dusty, the odd marginal spot.
Engaging content, an engaging physical copy, and a very engaging provenance. (40793)

Justice
COMING & GOING on These Covers
Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius. Silij Italici, poetae clarissimi, De bello Punico libri septemdecim. Lugduni: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1551. 16mo (13.3 cm, 5.25"), 430, [2] (the last leaf blank).
[SOLD]
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Silius Italicus (ca. 26 –c a. 101 A.D.), was a Roman consul, orator, and epic poet of the Silver Age of Latin literature. His only surviving work is this 17-book epic poem — Punica, as it is commonly known — about the Second Punic War. The longest surviving poem in Latin at over 12,000 lines, it is here edited by Franciscus Asulanus (d. 1546) and prefaced by a biography of the author from the pen of Pietro Crinitus (1465–ca.1504).
This Gryphius edition is in italic, except for the title-page and text headings which are in roman, and it is without woodcut initials.
Binding: Contemporary vellum over pasteboards, elaborately tooled in blind and with spine (only) sometime colored to imitate darker leather. Perimeter of the boards edged with a double rule, then a wide roll with repeating diamonds each having a center quatrefoil. At center of each board is a large blind-embossed figure in a frame: that on the upper board is of
Justice with a sword and that on the lower is of
Justice with scales. Each image of Justice has a different four-line caption.
Baudrier, Bibliotheca lyonnaise, VIII, p. 256; Adams S 1137. Bound as above, worn/rubbed with corners of boards bumped and lacking front free endpaper; spine with lowest compartment missing its vellum (exposing part of sewing structure), and a small area of front cover fore-edge with vellum torn (exposing pasteboard). Lower blank areas of title-page excised, apparently to remove signatures, leaving imprint information; a very few instances of old ink underlining or marginal annotation with more of these (still not many) in modern pencilling. Dust-soiling variously and occasionally a stray stain; a solid and interesting “used” copy of this
classic text from a classic press in an interesting binding. (41524)

Flavian Epic, Georgian Scholarship
Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius; Richard Heber, ed. Caji Silii Italici Punica. Londini: Gul. Bulmer (pr. by R. Faulder), 1792. 16mo (16.5 cm, 6.5"). 2 vols. I: xxiv, 240 pp. II: [4], 270, [2] pp.
[SOLD]
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Sole printing of Richard Heber's edition of this Silver Age epic Latin verse about the Second Punic War — so epic that it is now the longest known extant poem of Classic Latin literature, in fact. Heber (1774–1833), himself one of the most notably epic bibliomaniacs of the era, was just 18 when he tackled the project, as per the Bibliotheca Heberiana. He based his work on Arnold Drakenborch's. Dibdin found this a “useful little edition, which exhibits the text very elegantly printed by Bulmer.” Printed on wove paper.
Binding: Contemporary mottled calf, covers framed in beaded gilt rule, spines with gilt-stamped leather black and red title and volume labels, gilt-stamped crossed-arrow decorations in elegantly gilt-ruled compartments.
Provenance: Front pastedowns each with inked inscription: “George Sinclair, April 11th, 1805"; first two books of vol. I with early inked annotations in both Latin and English, no subsequent annotations. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear of each volume.
Brunet, V, 383; Dibdin, II, 407–08; ESTC T147242; Schweiger, II, 956. Bound as above; minimal wear overall, vol. II with small scuff to back cover. Inscriptions and marginalia as above. Back pastedown and final 40 (approximately) leaves of vol. I with small area of pinhole worming to upper outer margins, not approaching text.
A handsome set of this uncommon Heberianum. (40254)

The Scottish . . . Machiavelli?
Skelton, John. Maitland of Lethington and the Scotland of Mary Stuart: A history. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood & Sons, 1887. 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.77"). 2 vols. I: xl, [2], 336, [4 (adv.)] pp. II: x, 436, [2 (adv.)] pp.
$100.00
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First edition, attractively bound; and one of the first scholarly efforts to advocate for a more positive depiction of the character and accomplishments of Secretary Lethington, set in the context of his tumultuous era.
Binding: Contemporary half green morocco and gold-veined marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels; gilt-ruled raised bands, and compartments gilt extra.
Provenance: From the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
Bound as above, withspines evenly sunned to olive, joints and edges rubbed, some corners bumped, spine extremities chipped; front joint of vol. I cracked and partially separated. Pages lightly age-toned; stain to fore-edge of vol. I, extending slimly into a few margins, and two pages in vol. II with small area of spotting.
A dignified set, priced to allow for repair! (41200)

The KEYSTONE of Hispanic-American Colonial Law
A Very
HANDSOME Edition
Spain. Laws, statutes, etc. Recopilacion de leyes de los reinos de las Indias. Madrid: Boix, 1841. Small folio. 4 vols. in 2. I: [6] ff., 335, [1 (blank)] pp. II: [1] f., 334 (i.e., 332) pp., [1 (index) f. III: [1] f., 319, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f. IV:[1] f., 147, [1 (blank)] pp., [1] f.; 105, [1], 31, [1] pp. (all indices).
$2150.00
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Handsome mid-19th century edition of the first comprehensive compilation of the laws of the Spanish Indies. Antonio Rodríguez de León Pinello compiled it by 1635, but it circulated only in manuscript until Fernando Jiménez de Paniagua brought it up to date and saw the result through the press in 1681. Prior to the publication of this massive work, it was common practice for lawyers and courts in the various legal districts of the New World (i.e., audiencias) to compile in manuscript the laws in force in order that they might be used as precedents. Upon publication of this code, the number of precedents did not (as might have been expected) decrease via "regularization" but instead increased: The courts continued to accept the cases and laws on point in the old local manuscript compilations and also those contained in the Recopilación!
In sum, this is a major work for all collections of international and Hispanic-specific law. The first edition is very uncommon in today's marketplace, meaning most scholars and collectors must settle for a later edition, such as this fifthwhich has the happy advantage of being
handsomely printed in double-column format. This copy is attractively bound, as well.
Palau 137466; Sabin 68390. Victorian acid-stained sheep with gilt spines extra. Marbled edges. Tape adhered to one title-page at inner margin. Ownership signatures on title-page. A nice set. (3584)
Spain. Ministerio de Hacienda. Presupuestos generales de gastos é ingresos para el año de 1850, segun la ley sancionada en 20 de Febrero del mismo año. Madrid: La Viuda de Burgos, 1850 [i.e., 1849]. 8vo signed in 4s (22.1 cm, 8.65"). 761, [1 (blank)] pp.
$2750.00
Complete budgetary accounting for the year 1850, issued by the Spanish government, printed by a woman printer of Madrid, and here in an early example of the work of noted Madrid binder Ginesta.
Binding: Signed presentation binding by Miguel Ginesta II of Madrid, of oxblood straight-grain morocco, covers framed in double gilt fillets surrounding gilt-stamped arabesques and the gilt-stamped coat of arms of Queen Isabella II of Spain; spine with gilt-stamped title and arabesques. Board edges and turn-ins gilt-stamped, pink moiré endpapers, all edges gilt.
Provenance: Infante Duc de Montpensier (sixth son of King Louis Philippe), husband of the Infanta Maria Louisa (Queen Isabella’s sister), with his bookplate.
Palau 236716. Binding as described above, covers showing only very minor wear, spine slightly faded. Front pastedown with bookplate described above. Pages gently age-toned, a few showing mild foxing but most clean. Very attractive. (5749)

“A Thought is a Real Thing & Words are Only Its Raiment”
Stephens, James; Thomas Mackenzie, illus. The crock of gold. London: Macmillan & Co, 1926. 8vo (22.9 cm, 9"). vii, [1], 227, [1] pp.; 12 col. plts.
$650.00
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“They took the Philosopher from his prison . . . and then they returned again, dancing and singing, to the country of the gods . . . “: A fantastical novel of philosophical adventure, liberally infused with mirth and
Irish folklore — as well as a great number of proclamations regarding the essential nature of the sexes and their battle. This is an early edition, following the first of 1912, featuring
twelve color-printed plates as well as large, decorative black and white head- and tailpieces in modern woodcut style by Thomas Mackenzie.
Binding: Contemporary green morocco, covers framed in gilt double fillets, front cover with gilt-stamped title, spine with raised bands, compartments framed in gilt double fillets with
gilt corner shamrocks, shamrock motif repeated on wide, gilt-ruled turn-ins Bright green endpapers. Signed binding, stamped by Donnelley of Chicago on lower front turn-in.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Francis John Breck, Jr., dated 10/29/72. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
Binding as above, spine and edges sunned to brown, joints opening from head and foot, edges rubbed. Endpapers with offsetting from turn-ins and front free one loosening; pages slightly age-toned. A handsome example of this enduring classic, with Mackenzie's
lovely, lyrical illustration. (39825)

485 Stunning Views of
England, Scotland, & Wales
EACH
IMAGE Hand-Captioned
Storer, James Sargant. Antiquarian and topographical cabinet, containing a series of elegant views of the most interesting objects of curiosity in Great Britain. London: W. Clarke, J. Carpenter, & H.D. Symonds, 1807–11. 8vo. 10 vols. I: [approx. 112] pp.; 56 plts. II: pp.; 49 plts. III: [approx. 110] pp.; 55 plts. IV: [approx. 92] pp.; 46 plts. V: [approx. 86] pp.; 43 plts. VI: [approx. 106] pp.; 53 plts. VII: [approx. 98] pp.; 49 plts. VIII: [approx. 86] pp.; 43 plts. IX: [approx. 110] pp.; 55 plts. X: [approx. 72], [16 (index)] pp.; 36 plts. (15 plts. lacking of 500).
$2250.00
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Deluxe printing of the first edition, here in an impressive large-paper set illustrated with 485 copper-engraved plates. The engraved images designed for the duodecimo regular edition are here, in this octavo printing, mounted within printed borders with
hand-inked calligraphic captions. Those images depict such scenic high spots as Dunstaple Priory in Bedfordshire, Roman remains in Brecknockshire, the “great oak” at Silton, a Crusader monument in Winchester Cathedral, Tintern Abbey (of course), and many, many churches and castles; they were engraved by J. Greig, W. Angus, W. & G. Cooke, and J. Storer after drawings by various hands.
Each plate is accompanied by a letterpress description, generally about two pages long.
Binding: Contemporary green morocco, darkened to black; covers framed in gilt with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spines with gilt-stamped title, board edges with gilt-stamped roll. All edges gilt.
NSTC S4069; Brunet, I, 319, Graesse 503. Bound as above with insignificant shelf wear only, now refurbished and a bit of scuffing; 15 plates lacking of 500. Most plates clean, some foxed (a few heavily); some pages with light offsetting from plates. One page with pencilled annotation detailing an 1823 update in a site's ownership.
A luxurious, in fact in its way spectacular, production. (22855)
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Like Father / Like Son
Strozzi, Tito Vespasiano; Ercole Strozzi; Aldo Manuzio. Strozii poetae pater et filius. Parisiis: Ex officina Simonis Colinaei, 1530. 8vo (17.3 cm, 6.75"). [8], 256, [4] ff.
$2800.00
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First and only Colines edition from Italian Renaissance father and son poets, containing a dedication by Aldus Manutius to Lucrezia Borgia, an extensive table of contents, poems by Ercole Strozzi (1473–1508) followed by those of his father Tito Vespasiano Strozzi (1424–1505), and “Oratio tumultario habita à Coelio Calcagnino in funere Herculis Strozae.” The content covers a variety of themes — from the religious to the erotic — and formats, including numerous elegies and epitaphs.
The text is neatly printed in single columns of italic text, with a few uncompleted guide letters and initial letters in roman; the Colines “Tempus II” printer's device of Time with his scythe appears on the title-page, with the motto “Hanc aciem sola retundit virtus” on a ribbon over a cartouche containing the word “tempus.” The text was originally published by Aldus in 1513; Colines enhances the introduction with a 33-line epitaph to the poet.
Binding: 19th-century rather deeply diced calf; spine gilt-lettered, gilt-ruled with solid and dotted lines, and gilt-stamped with a central floral device in five compartments. Covers framed with a gilt rope and floral roll, board edges with a dash and dot roll in gilt, turn-ins gilt with a Greek key roll; Stormont marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, ribbon place marker.
Evidence of Readership: A reader has helpfully added inked marginal reference numbers approximately every eight lines, for ease of navigation, and entered one small correction in an early hand.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Schreiber, Colines, 68; Renouard, Simon de Colines, pp. 166–7; Moreau, Éditions parisiennes du XVI siècle, III, 2292; Adams S1957. Bound as above, gently rubbed with some loss of leather at corners; joints (outside) refurbished and front one beginning to crack but covers solidly attached. A few pencilled notes on endpapers; faint touches of hand-coloring on title-page and (perhaps) one leaf of text. Light age-toning with a handful of spots, three small marginal paper flaws including one to title-page; two other small holes and one repair. Provenance and readership markings as above, perhaps a third of the marginal numbers partially trimmed. A pleasurable book to hold or
use. (38144)

Introduction to the
Study of Modern History
Sullivan, William. Historical causes and effects from the fall of the Roman empire, 476, to the reformation, 1517. Boston: James B. Dow, 1838. 12mo (19.6 cm, 7.75"). viii, 615, [1 (blank)] pp.
$200.00
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First edition of this broad survey of world history, a sequel to the author's Historical Sketches, which had been published in 1833 as the first part of a contemplated general
history; Sullivan died before completing the planned third part (cf. Mass. Hist. Soc. Proceedings, 1835–55). The New York Review bestowed rather extravagant praise on the present volume, calling it “the best digest of history . . . extant in our language,” and noting that it was “written in the same simple and beautiful style which has marked all [Sullivan's] works” (vol. III, pp. 229–30).
Binding: Publisher's ribbon-embossed brown cloth with flower and acanthus leaf design (Krupp's style ft1), spine with gilt-stamped title.
American Imprints 53164; Adams, Manual of Historical Literature, 168. On the binding, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England & America, 1823–1850, ft1. Binding as above; corners rubbed and small rubbed spot on front cover, spine extremities chipped, spine head with small lightly discolored area from now-absent label. Ex–social club library: bookplate and early inked call number on front pastedown, title-page pressure- and (faintly) rubber-stamped. No other markings. Front hinge (inside) partially reinforced with paper some time ago. Scattered light staining. A nice book. (26289)
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Artist, Author, & Printer All Uncredited — All of Interest
Summerly, Felix, ed. [pseud. of Sir Henry Cole]; [John Callcott Horsley], illus. Beauty and the beast. An entirely new edition. With new pictures by an eminent artist. London: Joseph Cundall [pr. by Charles Whittingham at the Chiswick Press], 1843. 12mo (16.7 cm, 6.57"). 4, iv, 36 pp.; 4 col. plts.
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First edition: The classic fairy tale, rewritten in opposition to contemporary versions full of “moralizings” and “dull logical probability,” and published as part of Cole's “Home Treasury of Books” series. Darton notes that Cundall's children's books were “distinguished by sound typography and illustration,” and indeed this volume is clear, legible, and graced by
four hand-colored, wood-engraved plates from (unattributed) designs by the painter and popular illustrator John Callcott Horsley (responsible for the design of the first commercially produced Christmas card). McLean's Cundall bibliography attributes the printing of the entire Home Treasury series to the
Chiswick Press. This work is now scarce, with a search of WorldCat finding
only one U.S. institution reporting a physical holding (UCLA).
Binding: Publisher's arabesque-printed cream paper–covered sides with vellum shelfback, covers elaborately and beautifully gilt; diapered endpapers and all edges gilt.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Osborne Collection, p. 593; McLean, Joseph Cundall, p. 48; Darton, Children's Books in England (3rd ed.), pp. 234–35. Bound as above, sides slightly darkened and rubbed with gilt dimmed; back hinge (inside) tender. Front pastedown with pencilled inscription of Mrs. W., dated '44. Pages age-toned with occasional minor smudges; guard leaves present for all four plates.
A nice copy of an uncommon item. (40805)

ENGLISH ORGANS:
Written towards
“Preventing their Wanton Destruction in Future”
Sutton, Sir John. A short account of organs built in England from the reign of King Charles the Second to the present time. London: J. Masters, Aldersgate Street [Printed by Charles Whittingham, Chiswick], 1847. 16mo (17.5 cm, 6.875"). xxvi, [2], 117, [1] pp., illus.
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A colorful commentary on the purpose and worth of the sizable musical instrument, with chapters divided by builders — including Schmidt, the Harrises, Green, Snetzler, Avory, and others — complete with in-text vignettes and five full-page illustrations of organ cases.
Binding: 19th-century very green morocco, spine gilt with ruling around raised bands and a dash pattern through the middle of each one, compartments with circular daisy stamps. Covers double-framed in gilt fillets with simple gilt strapwork design in 16th-century style, front cover lettered in gilt; board edges gilt with double fillets, turn-ins gilt with complex roll incorporating fillets, a zig-zag with dots, and foliate designs. Fountain marbled endpapers, red ribbon placemarker.
Provenance: Striking armorial bookplate with the motto “Quis idoneus” of Magdalen College Dean of Divinity James Elwin Millard, D.D. (1823–94) on front pastedown; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
A very nice Whittingham production.
Bound as above; spine evenly sunned, gently rubbed with some loss of leather at edges, boards gently bowed, front free endpaper detached. Light age-toning, two leaves with very short marginal tears, a few faint traces of pencilling, small hole in final leaf repaired. Provenance as above. (38425)

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