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EVERYONE You Need to Know in France — Bright, Fresh, & IN THE BOX!
ALMANACH DE LA COUR, de la ville et des départemens pour l'année 1829. Paris: Louis Janet, [1828]. 12mo (11.2 cm, 4.4"). [34], 254, [2] pp.; 4 plts.
$350.00
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1829's issue of this useful and decorative annual, “orné de jolies gravures.” The preliminary calendar is followed by genealogical information for European nobility, the list of French bishops and archbishops, the royal household roster (both domestic and military), names and positions of civil servants by department, members of chivalrous orders, major military officers, etc. The
four steel-engraved plates offer views of the Chateau de Neuilly, Chateau d'Avaray, Chateau de Lucienne, and Chateau de Rosny (with brief descriptions of these noble residences).
Binding: Publisher's apple green paper–covered boards in original matching slipcase with gilt-stamped spine title. All edges gilt.
Binding as above: lower front and back edges each with tiny bump, extremities showing very slight rubbing, slipcase with edges rubbed and a few small spots of discoloration. Front free endpaper with pencilled annotations in French. Pages and plates clean. Really in quite remarkable condition. (30574)

“SCROUNGERS” & Their
RIGHTS in 13th-Century ARAGON
(Still Scrounging/Foraging in 1542)
Almudevar (Spain). Manuscript document, on paper. In Latin. Aragon: 5 May 1542. Small 4to (21.9 cm; 8.675"). [5] pp.
$775.00
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“Susan Knew . . . the Value of What She Learned at the Sunday School”
American Sunday-School Union. Little Susan and her lamb. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, [between 1827 and 1853]. 32mo (10.5 cm, 4.125"). Frontis.,15 pp.
$45.00
Thanks to Sunday school, Susan learns to be kind to others and is able to
protectively raise a flock of lambs to provide wool for her family to sell.This text was stereotyped by L. Johnson with an unsigned wood-engraved frontispiece and a wood-engraved vignette on the front wrapper. Publication date is from the American Antiquarian Society OPAC.
Provenance: On front cover, an inscription naming “Oliver Glick.”
Shoemaker 29513. Original tan printed wrappers with inscription as above; extremities lightly rubbed, small chip at lower inner corner of back wrapper. Pages foxed, with one bent corner. (41327)

A Philadelphia Company
Pursues National &
Trans-Atlantic Trade (1785–91)
Arthur, Thomas, & Co. Manuscript on paper, in English. Philadelphia: 1785–91. Folio (31.7 cm, 12.4"). [48] pp.
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Manuscript copybook for business and legal correspondences exchanged between 1785 and 1791, largely relating to several merchants active in Philadelphia and the storage, shipping, and disposition of their goods and property: Stuart & Barr; Richard Tarbet (deceased at the time of writing, with several transactions naming his widow Isabella, née McCalla); Arthur, Neale, & Co., etc. The legal notices, transaction accounts, notes and instructions on the chartering/lading of ships and of freight costs, and inventory records refer frequently to Glasgow, and also to locations including but not limited to New York, Boston, Jamaica, London, Liverpool, Bristol, Greenwich, Dublin, Cork, and Galloway.
The densely filled copybook further covers
business matters relating to interests in the American South, notably Virginia and the Carolinas, some having to do with land in the former; one page is dedicated to a 1786 sale of land in Philadelphia to Alexander Ritchie, including a drawing of the plot, and one of a number of entries referencing Ritchie relates to a matter concerning “Doctor Thos. Clark Preacher of the Gosple [sic] in Long Cane near Charleston” — a famous figure in the Reformed/Associated/Covenanter tradition sometime “of Philadelphia,” where he had been instrumental in the formal founding of the American Presbyterian Church. (Entries generally are not signed, but a few at the end of the compilation are signed, “Alex'r Ritchie.”)
Difficulty in achieving collections of several sorts is a running theme here, producing sometimes painful recountings, and
the range of products shown as having been carried by the firm's ships or otherwise brokered approaches breathtaking, with much emphasis on textiles and soft goods of various sorts (e.g., raw and finished linen and muslin, both as yardage and in the form of aprons and handkerchiefs), but extending variously also to pens, tea tongs, Bibles, and tobacco.
Notes of best wishes conveyed to recipients from the writer and his “spouse” suggest that
this manuscript documents social as well as business connections. Religious observations are not lacking and a
Scottish family background is apparent.
Sewn. First leaf with upper and lower edges chipped, one chip restoring loss of several words retained separately; corners bumped with occasional losses of a few letters at lower outer corners. Two pages with ink smudge at inner margins, not obscuring text.
A trove of data on 18th century merchant goods, local history, and American and international commerce. (33842)

Baily's Central American Survey — Volcanic Illustrations
Baily, John. Central America; describing each of the states of Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica; their natural features, products, population, and remarkable capacity for colonization. London: Trelawney Saunders, 1850. 8vo (20.7 cm; 8.25"). Frontis., xii, 164 pp.; 2 plts.
$625.00
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First edition of this evaluation of the commercial and agricultural potential of the Central American countries. An officer of the British Royal Marines, Baily lived in Guatemala for many years, and was the translator of Juarros's Compendio de la historia de la ciudad de Guatemala; he was also a proponent of the “Canal de Nicaragua.”
The volume is illustrated with
three engraved views, all three incorporating volcanos. As usual, this copy does not include the oversized map, which was printed and published separately.
Provenance: With ownership stamp of early 20th-century American archaeologist Harry Evelyn Dorr Pollock on front free endpaper.
Binding: Navy blue publisher's cloth with gilt lettering and blind ruling on spine, decorative foliate frames on covers in blind. Binder's label of Edmonds & Remnants, London, on rear pastedown.
Palau 21943; Sabin 2771; Nicaraguan National Bibliography 1476. Binding as above: gently rubbed with tiny tissue patches applied to weak areas of bookcloth, text slightly cocked, front hinge repaired and a few preliminary leaves reattached with long–fiber tissue and wheat starch paste. Light age-toning with some foxing, most notably around plates; one leaf with small marginal hole, a few corners creased, some leaves with evidence in margins of hasty opening. (36298)

Truth & Progess of Knowledge
[Bailey, Samuel]. Essays on the pursuit of truth, on the progress of knowledge, and the fundamental principle of all evidence and expectation. Philadelphia: R.W. Pomeroy (A. Waldie, pr.), 1831. 12mo. [1 (ads)] f., 233 pp., [1 (ads)] f.
$300.00
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First American edition. Bailey was an economist and moderate philosophical radical.
In the field of economics he challenged David Ricardo and his followers and demonstrated several of their fallacies and false assumptions The present work is a continuation of his “Essays on the Formation and Publication of Opinions and other Subjects” (1821).
American Imprints 5859. Publisher's quarter red cloth shelfback with drab paper on boards and paper label to spine; spine cloth chipped at top (3/4" missing). Ex–social club library; with 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpapers, no other markings. Small piece of front free endpaper torn away. Uncut copy. Clean. (28077)

A PHILADELPHIA Bank's
Articles of Incorporation . . .
(Banking). Philadelphia [National] Bank. Pennsylvania. Laws, statutes, etc. An act to incorporate the Philadelphia Bank. Philadelphia: Pr. by W. W. Woodward, 1804. 8vo. 21, [1 (blank)] pp.
$800.00
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READ ARTICLE XVIII!
The legislature enables the bank to come into existence and prohibits conflicts of interest by barring sitting governors and legislators from serving on the Bank's board of directors. This act of incorporation seems to be as rare as the Bank's Articles.
Shaw & Shoemaker 7007. Original light boards covered with marbled paper. Back cover and two leaves gnawed by a rodent, with loss of paper. (3512)

State-of-the-Art
19th-Century Electrical Studies
Becquerel, Antoine César, & Alexandre Edmond Becquerel. Traité d'électricité et de magnétisme. Leurs applications aux sciences physiques, aux arts et a l'industrie. Paris: Librairie de Firmin Didot Frères, 1855–56. 8vo (22.7 cm, 9"). 3 vols. I: xvi, 456 pp.; 3 fold. plts. II: [4], 475, [1] pp. III: [4], 412 pp.; 14 fold. plts. (incl. maps).
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First edition, uncut copies in publisher's original wrappers of this three-volume set, comprising Electricité — Principes généraux, Électro-chimie, and Magnétisme et électro-magnétisme, with vols. II and III bearing Traité d'électricité et de magnétisme, et des applications de ces sciences à la chimie, à la physiologie et aux arts on their title-pages. The authors were a pioneering father–son pair of scientists and professors; the senior Becquerel was a prominent researcher in electrochemistry and thermoelectricity, and the younger (known as Edmond) was responsible for
inventing the photovoltaic cell in 1839. Here, they follow up their earlier treatises on electricity and magnetism — some written together, some separately, several with misleadingly similar titles — with the latest information on “les travaux les plus récents” in the field.
The chapters include numerous in-text engravings and tables, and at the backs of vols. I and III are
a series of 17 oversized, folding engraved plates, including six maps.
Provenance: From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
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)

New Chemistry, Practical Applications — Illustrations!
Berthollet, Claude- Louis, & Amédée B. Berthollet. Elements of the art of dyeing; with a description of the art of bleaching by oxymuriatic acid. London: Pr. for Thomas Tegg; Simpkin & Marshall; R. Griffin & Co., Glasgow; & J. Cumming, Dublin, 1824. 8vo (23.2 cm; 9.125"). 2 vols. I: xxvii, [1(blank)], 408 pp., 7 plts. (2 fold.). II: vii, [1 (blank), 453 pp., 2 fold. plts.
$500.00
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C.-L. Berthollet was a member of the circle of Lavoisier and helped in the development of a chemical nomenclature that was applicable and derived from the chemistry being developed at the end of the 18th century. The present work is a systematic study and scientific discussion of the nature of dyeing, with nine plates, four folding.
Posthumous second edition in English, “translated from the French, with notes and engravings, illustrative and supplementary, by Andrew Ure.”
Uncut, partially unopened copy.
Uncut, partially unopened copy. Publisher's quarter cloth with paper covered boards; some discoloration to cloth, light chipping to board edges. Ex–social club library: paper label at top of spine, 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. A clean copy with the plates good and crisp; as noted above, an uncut, partially unopened copy. (27388)

ROMAN Political Science in its
Original State
Bilhon, Jean Fréderic Joseph. Du gouvernement des Romains, considéré sous le rapport de la politique, de la justice, des finances, et du commerce. Paris: Chez Louis (pr. by Pierre Didot l'Ainé), 1807. 8vo (21.2 cm, 8.4"). viii, 312 pp.
$500.00
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Sole edition, here unopened and uncut in the publisher's paper wrappers, of this treatise on ancient Roman government and economics. Bilhon also published Principes d'administration et d'économie politique des anciens peuples, appliqués aux peuples modernes and Éloge de J.J. Rousseau.
Uncommon: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 find only eight U.S. holdings.
Goldsmiths'-Kress 19346.100. Publisher's rose paper wrappers, rebacked in paper wrapper edges chipped and hinges (inside) reinforced. Half-title and title-page institutionally rubber-stamped, front pastedown with institutional bookplate and early inked numeral, half-title with small inked ownership inscriptions. Signatures unopened, edges untrimmed; pages age-toned throughout, some with a little foxing; a nice copy. Now housed in a neat rose-maroon cloth clamshell case with gilt-stamped leather title-label. (25268)

Civil Engineering: Building (& Funding!) Railroads, in Italian
Biot, Édouard, & David Hansemann; Luigi Tatti, ed. & trans. L'architetto delle strade ferrate: Ovvero, saggio sui principi generali dell'arte di formare le strade a ruotaje di ferro di Eduardo Biot altro dei sovraintendenti all' esecuzione della strada ferrata da Santo Stefano a Lione. Recato in Italiano con note ed aggiunte dall' ingegnere Luigi Tatti[.] Unitavi una memoria di Davide Hansemann relativa ai rapporti politici ed economici di questa specie di strade. Milano: Angelo Monti, 1837. 8vo (29.1 cm, 11.45"). viii, 371, [1] pp.; 5 fold. plts.
$750.00
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First edition: Italian rendition of two railway-related items, from two authors and a translator who were all prominent in that field. First here is Manuel du constructeur de chemins de fer, a treatise on railroad construction written by the French engineer, Sinologist, and author-translator Biot (1803–50); following that work, with a separate title-page, is “Le strade ferrate e i loro imprenditori considerati nei rapporti colla pubblica amministrazione,” by Prussian politician and banker Hansemann (1790–1864), one of the Rhenish Railway directors. Both items were translated into Italian by engineer, architect, and architectural historian Luigi Tatti (1808–81). At the back of the volume are
five oversized, folding plates, each with multiple figures of train and track schematics.
This first Italian appearance is now uncommon: searches of WorldCat find only four U.S. institutions reporting physical holdings (Harvard, Stanford, University of Chicago, and University of Michigan).
Provenance: Title-page, rear free endpaper, and rear pastedown rubber-stamped “Ex libris Augustini Mueller.” Later from the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
Goldsmiths'-Kress no. 29998. 19th-century quarter brown sheep, marbled paper–covered sides in a Spanish wave and shell vein pattern; spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label, blind-tooled decorative motif in center, and small gilt roll bands. Binding moderately rubbed overall, more so at edges, extremities, and joints; light to moderate foxing, one page with small area of tiny ink splatters in outer margin; large Mueller rubber-stamp as noted.
A sound, more than serviceable copy of this interesting work. (40072)

Everything You Need to
“Negotiate” 1857
Blackie's literary and commercial almanac. 1857. Glasgow: Blackie & Son, [1856]. 16mo (8.1 cm; 3.25"). 95, [1] pp.
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Click the images for enlargement. This very pocket-sized almanac manages to stuff into its miniature pages a calendar, a list of the chief European sovereigns and their birthdays and accession days, a summary of postage and tax costs, a foreign currency exchange table, and railway statistics as the “commercial” aspect, before moving on to the “literary” with assorted amusing and enlightening sayings; the booklet closes with
40 pages of advertising for other works from this eminent Scottish publishing firm.
Publisher's printed salmon-colored paper wrappers, front and back wrappers with engraved vignettes; spine and edges mildly rubbed, back wrapper with small scuffs. All edges gilt. First and last few leaves lightly foxed. (29059)

History of Malta & the Knights Hospitallers — Well Bound, Handsomely Illustrated
Boisgelin de Kerdu, Pierre Marie Louis de. Ancient and modern Malta: Containing a full and accurate account of the present state of the islands of Malta and Goza, the history of the knights of St. John of Jerusalem, also a narrative of the events which attended the capture of these islands by the French, and their conquest by the English: and an appendix, containing authentic state-papers and other documents. London: Richard Phillips, 1805. 4to (27.5 cm, 10.75"). 2 vols. I: [6], xlviii, 326 pp.; 2 fold. plts., 3 fold. tables, 17 plts. (fold. map & 1 prelim. f. lacking). II: [8], vi, xxxi, [1], 258, [2], 315, [9 (index)] pp.; 5 plts.
$1600.00
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Second edition, following the first of 1804–05. The author, who was himself a Knight of St. John, here covers the culture, language, economy, natural history, and costume of the Maltese — as well as describing the Bichon or Maltese dog (also rendered pictorially in one of the plates) — before moving on to the history of the Hospitallers from the 16th century onwards.
Vol. I includes catalogues of scientific names of the plants and fish of the area as according to various authors, and is illustrated with an
oversized, folding detailed view of the city and port of Malta (with an accompanying folding map identifying the major landmarks); at the back of that volume there are also two folding tables accounting for treasury expenses of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem. Vol. II features a view of Messina, along with several portraits. In total, the work is illustrated with
24 copper-engraved plates, some aquatint, done by Merigot and others.
Binding: Contemporary stained calf, panelled in dramatically mottled calf with inlaid corner fleurons, framed in gilt double fillets; spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-stamped Greek key bands.
NSTC B3507; Abbey, Travel, 194. Bound as above with leather expectably acid-pitted, scuffing with small cracks and spine titles partially rubbed away; joints(outside) expertly repaired. Folding map and one preliminary leaf (the list of plates) lacking in vol. I, and this volume with a light old waterstain occasionally visible across a gutter, mild to moderate offsetting, plates with likewise mild to moderate foxing; vol. II plates with slightly darker spotting. A strong and attractive set of one of the significant early works on Maltese history. (33600)

The Reference Book for
The Counterculture
Brand, Stewart, ed. The next whole Earth catalog. Sausalito, CA: Point, 1980. Folio (36.5 cm, 14.4"). 608 pp.; illus.
$75.00
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Stated first edition, first printing of the revised version — after a long gap in printing — of a legendary guide to tools for “individuals to conduct their own education, find their own inspiration, shape their own environment, and share the adventure with whoever is interested.” More than a catalogue, this is a compendium of reviews, extensive excerpts, and analyses of some of the most empowering books and products of the 20th century, leavened with bits of poetry, meditations, and musings on modern life. The preface here notes that only 11% of the material here is repeated from the Last Whole Earth Catalog, and that about 975 items are reviewed here for the first time.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers; spine and lower front corner creased, edges showing mild shelfwear. Lower margin of first page with faint rubber-stamped numeral. Pages gently age-toned, otherwise clean, with all tear-out cards still present. Outstanding both as sociological insight and as general reading. (32344)
Briceño, Mariano de. Memoir justificatory of the conduct of the government of Venezuela on the Isla de Aves question, presented to his excellency the secretary of state of the United States.... Washington City: F.H. Sage, printer, 1858. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 22 pp., [1 (blank)] f.
$250.00
The Isla de Aves was a matter of contention between the U.S. and Venezuela, as Venezuela claimed sovereignty over the island and thus the exclusive right to exploit the large amount of guano there. (The dispute was eventually decided in favor of Venezuela.) Briceño was envoy extraordinary to the U.S. and minister plenipotentiary of Venezuela.
Not in Palau. Original yellow printed wrappers, removed from a nonce volume with stab holes in the inner margins; inside wrappers with a short closed tear and a little shallow chipping, light soiling and a few stray marks. Fold mark down the center and traces of soiling on the top edges. (9045)

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