WorldCat locates only two libraries worldwide reporting ownership of this (JCB, Lilly), but given its presence in the bibliographies below it must be held in non-reporting libraries.

Scarce item from the famous press of “the orphan children” of Buenos Aires.

•  Medina, Río de la Plata, 563; Zinny, 1808, xxvi; Furlong, Rio-platenses, 1181 (describing only p. [1]–[2]).   Without wrappers; leaves once separated from each other and now expertly rejoined at the inner margin. Very clean, very good. (41417)

Rare.  We fail to trace any copies via OCLC.

•  Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.   As issued, with old folds. Short tear and spot in blank area of inner margin. A clean, very good copy.  (24637)

•  Brunet, VI, 1720 (no. 30066); Graesse, IV, 679.   Later plain cream linen, spines with titles stamped in brown; minor sunning to spines and to top front edge of vol. II. Edges untrimmed, most signatures unopened; dust-soiling to edges and into many margins; foxing, creasing and cockling variously; some leaves in vol. I with short tears from outer margins (often where an illustration needed to be placed inside an unopened signature). Of interest for scholars of public morals and popular culture, the book trade, and illustration in France from the 15th century through the middle of the 19th, among other topics. (40866)

This copy saw clear and evident use primarily as a resource for cakes and other desserts: while most of the pages are (if at all) only lightly worn or spotted, the “Cake” section displays venerable battle scars from numerous baking endeavors. Two recipes clipped from a newspaper (for “Hermits” and Snow Pudding) are laid in towards the back, among the advertisements for St. Johnsbury businesses.

WorldCat locates only five libraries reporting ownership.

•  Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Cook, America's Charitable Cooks, p. 251.   Publisher's red cloth–covered board, front cover and spine ruled in black, front cover with gilt-stamped title and blind-stamped decorations, spine with black-stamped title; binding cocked, rubbed, and soiled with front hinge (inside) cracked and a bit weak. Front pastedown with small ticket of C.C. Bingham, a St. Johnsbury druggist and pharmacist. Pages mildly age-toned with scattered small spots, two pages with offsetting from now-absent laid-in paper, dessert section showing extensive wear as noted above. Scarce, and remarkably evocative.  (38086)

The Oneida newspaper meant so much to Noyes that even after he gave up control of the Oneida Community, he was to retain control of the newspaper and continue itsits advocacy for social change along with argument for communitarian economic aims, and these embraced a wide range: women’s rights, abolition, “complex marriage” (a form of polyamory), birth control via male continence, and (eventually) proto-eugenics, to name but five. As a University of Syracuse digital guide to the Oneida Community Collection notes, “The papers contained a very frank record of the daily life at Oneida as well as religious tracts, discourses on current subjects of social, political, and economic interest, letters to the editors, and advertisements for the Community's varied manufactured goods. They made no secret of their manner of life. . . . “

Present here is The Circular's volume I  (numbers 1–52, November 1851 through October 1852),  all issues printed in four-column format and very legible type. Following the attention-grabbing article already cited, the gathering's first issue presents a neat statement of “The Basis and Prospects of the Circular” before moving directly on to recount at length the foundering on a Hudson River excursion of a Community-owned sloop, with the loss of two woman members' lives. This is an engaging, very readable social history compendium apart from its usefulness for the study of a particular, mid–19th century American, radical social and religious movement.

•  Mott, History of American Magazines, II, p. 207; Lomazow, American Periodicals, 568; Oneida Community collection in the Syracuse University Library, pp. 24–25; https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/o/OneidaCommunityCollection/hsr1.htm; and Sabin, 89516.   Stitched, in plain wrappers. Front wrapper with a patch of waterstaining along upper spine area, carrying through variously but usually faintly through March issue; some later issues on paper inclined to browning. Untrimmed, and with very little staining or tattering. A physically stable collection, safely and immediately usable.  (41155)

Here he writes, “my creditors have indeed fallen upon me without mercy.” He assures his correspondent that the note that he owes him is a personal one and not drawn on Otis's company; so, he advises the correspondent not to accede to any demands of Otis's business creditors regarding that note.

Provenance:  Ex–Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.

•  Very good condition.  (27919)

•  Publisher's brown cloth, covers and spine with blind-stamped decorations and gilt-stamped vignettes; extremities rubbed, spine head chipped, gilt lightly rubbed. Ex–social club library: paper shelving label on spine, 19th-century bookplate, front free endpaper lacking, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Small crescent burn mark to upper margin of title-page, a very few small smudges elsewhere, otherwise clean.  (28291)

Dating to the 1460s, Monte di Pietà were very important institutions of Franciscan inspiration: They sought to counteract the usury of money-lenders, which had ruined many a poor family, by providing insteadan alternative form of loan without interest.  Two of the publications here are different issues of Innocent VIII’s bull of 1488 confirming the official status of the Monte di Pietà in Cesena, previously established by the city’s inhabitants; two others, dated 1506, are similar to the above, but concern the Monte di Pietà in Bologna, approved by Julius II. There follow eight more, dating from 1580 to 1596, concerning the payment of notaries for various tasks, the interactions between the Monte di Pietà and the criminal court of the Torrone, in Bologna, the use of money from the Monte di Pietà for other purposes, and the orders and oaths of the Torrone.

These are printed in roman type, with eight having variously sized title-page woodcuts of five papal coats of arms, executed and supported in seven different ways; several are quite large and handsome. One additional bull has on its title-pagea very large woodcut of Christ being aided down from the Cross by angels, and all thirteen have interesting woodcut initials.

•  Stitched or unbound, preserved in a modern folding cloth case. Light age-toning or minor browning variously as usual; one papal letter waterstained and another item with final blank partly torn away. Three issue have old inked underlinings, and one an old line of docketing in ink; all bear later archival annotations in pencil . A nice little collection of papal publications inviting several kinds of interrogation. (41313)

Limited to 85 copies: Printed using Polifilo type and an Ostrander Seymour press, on Tamayo De Ponte paper as shown above in the two lefthand images. A few variant copies are printed on heavy gold paper, as shown at right, above, andif you would prefer us to send one of those latter, or one of each, please let us know. We will do so in such instances as we can; first come, first served!

•  New. Stitched, issued without wrappers. (41410)

In addition to discussion of this ornament's use by those various printers, Pascoe also offers interesting and sometimes new biographical information on the printers based on archival documents. His assessment of each printer's skills is informed by his own eye and decades of experience as a hand-press printer. His text is illustrated by more than 20 color illustrations and by examples of each printer's signature.

In all, a totally satisfying work on the skills and personalities and, at times, the tribulations of these early New World printers — itself beautifully printed in Pascoe's own unmistakable style.

•  Issued in a strong soft white cover printed in black and red, within a dove grey typographic over-wrapper printed in darker grey and red. As new.  (40046)

Juan’s narrative quickly establishes him as a master prose stylist, like Duncan, and as printers they are also equals, in my opinion, having worked with both. His dual identity as American and Mexican gives this compelling memoir a topical appeal beyond that of hand-press printing or poetry” (John Ridland).

•  Hardcover, set in Espinosa Nova and printed digitally in black and red throughout; binding in shades of cream with vintage printshop cover illustration on front and John Ridland's summary on rear. New.  (38863)

Binding:  Publisher's blue cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in cream, black, and gilt, spine stamped in cream and black.

•  Binding as above, minor rubbing to extremities, a few spine letters with tiny spots of rubbing. One leaf with lower outer corner torn away. Clean and fresh.  (28606)

Tench Coxe was the publishing President, Peter A. Browne, the Secretary.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 7024; Sabin 60367. Publisher's plain blue wrappers, soiled. Dog-earing, with a few chipped corners; some soiling and foxing.  (30372)

The second sheet is for Stanfield's “Grand Local Diorama,” the grand finale of which involved the “magnificent display of the Falls of the Virginia Waters, seen through the Fairy Temple of Luminaria” — facilitated by a hydraulic apparatus capable of discharging 39 tons of water, “forming a coup d'oeil never before witnessed on any stage.”

A contemporary of Stanfield's once called him “the prince of scene-painters,” and his dioramas were legendary for their beauty and immersive effects.

•  Split halfway up center fold and neatly repaired from rear; one untrimmed outer edge slightly ragged. Gently age-toned. Delightful (and very displayable) piece of theatrical ephemera.  (36575)

There are two issues: in this issue on p. [1], the catchword is “hendidos,” and in the other catchword is “hendi-.”

WorldCat locates only the copy at the John Carter Brown Library.

•  Removed from a volume. Light brown stain in lower margin and an even lighter stain in top one; old foliation number neatly inked in upper outer corner of recto. A good exemplar.  (28246)

First covered in the English Chronicle, Price was a popular biographical subject, with three different editions of this work printed in 1786 alone. Searches of COPAC, WorldCat, and the NUC reveal only one holding of this edition in a U.S. institution (Princeton).

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

•  ESTC N49660.   19th-century quarter tan linen and blue paper–covered boards, both darkened, with gilt lettering and ruling on spine; spine lightly dust-soiled, light pencilling on endpapers. Light age-toning and spotting, a few creased edges; one missing corner, one short marginal tear to plate not quite reaching impression, and one torn and uneven leaf from flawed paper manufacture (pp. 29/30) affecting text. One inked page number and one correction of Latin spelling. Colorful biography and colorful publishing commentary.  (38564)

•  Very good condition. Easy to read.  (27626)

Binding:  Publisher's straight-grained black cloth (deeply textured), covers with blind-stamped corner fleurons, front cover with gilt-stamped vignette.

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with early pencilled gift inscription reading “Helena Emma Abbott [/] Presented by her cousin,” rear free endpaper with Abbott's own pencilled inscription. Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.

•  Not in American Imprints.   Bound as above, slightly cocked and with corners rubbed. Interior age-toned with mild to moderate spotting and offsetting from illustrations; two leaves with upper outer corners creased across. A very presentable copy of an uncommon and charming item.  (41513)

•  Publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers over printed paper–covered stiff boards; wrappers with spine sunned, minor edge wear. Contents clean and crisp. Very good.  (34969)

Mrs. Rawlinson recorded these recipes in standard format with ingredients listed first, and although her page-filling, uninterrupted, and only lightly punctuated paragraphs sometimes obscure that convention, her strong, slanting handwriting is very decipherable. The dishes she chose to preserve here (unseparated by any categorization) include British classics as well as dishes showing overseas influences; among them are Genoise pudding, maccaroni cheese [sic], curry, baked haddock, marmalade pudding, ragout of rabbit, milk rolls, lobster cutlets, beef olives, amber pudding (using apples, dried cherries, and lemon rind), Charlotte Russe, stewed steak, potato croquettes, Mulligatawny soup, lentil purée, beef hash pie, orange fritters, stewed kidney, kedgeree, German pudding, oyster patties, and many others. In the middle of one volume are a few pages bearing dessert recipes given in several different hands, one recipe being attributed to Mrs. Carr and one dated 1884.

This gathering of recipes providesa great deal of information regarding the dietary habits and preferences of the prosperous couple, as well as the culinary techniques available to Mrs. Rawlinson — everything here was prepared “on the fire,” as Burnley did not have electricity until 1893.

•  Contemporary oilcloth limp wrappers, now housed in a plain box with printed paper label on lid; box extremities lightly rubbed, wrappers rubbed and worn, text block all but detached from spine in smaller volume; Mrs. Rawlinson's name inscribed in each volume. Larger volume with offsetting to first and last pages; a very few instances of spotting, pages overall very clean. Interesting provenance/context, and interesting content. (41147)

The Yucatecans were perhaps encouraged by the Tejanos and their successful separation from Mexico in 1836.

The four manuscript documents, two broadsides, and nine newspapers in this collection date from the period of the first Mexican invasion of the peninsula and the central government's failed attempt to quell what it saw as a rebellion — an invasion that was not repelled until April, 1843. Included here are: 1) A pair of letters dated Merida 17 and 24 January 1843, from Juan de Regil to Mauricio de Santelices of Havana regarding the political situation. 2) A printed broadside proclamation by President Miguel Barbachano (Mérida, 2 December 1842), imposing a heavy tax on and forced loans from the nation's industrialists, merchants, and professionals. 3) A manuscript extract from a letter (Merida, 21 December 1842) from an unknown Spanish national to Santelices, requesting assistance in leaving Yucatan due to the oppressive new tax, but also giving first-hand information aboutmilitary operations. 4) An Autograph Letter Signed, Campeche, 17 February 1843, from Geronimo Ferrer y Valls (Spanish commercial agent in Yucatan) to the Captain General of Cuba in Havana, expressing concern for the safety of Spanish nationals in the Yucatan and containing details ofmurders and summary military executions. 5) A printed broadside entitled Opinion General, Verdaderas ideas y convicciones de las secciones del ejército del Estado acampadas extramuros de esta Ciudad (Campeche: José M. Peralta, 1843).  And, 6) Nine issues of the Boletin del Espiritu del Siglo dated January to June 1843, most withexcellent content on Yucatecan resistance to the invasion by Mexico.

The Boletin del Espiritu del Siglo (published in Campeche by Jose Maria Peralta) is quite scarce, with only Yale reporting ownership of a very good but incomplete run. Present here are issues from 1843: 43 (7 January), 46 (13 January), 48 (15 January), 52 (19 January), 53 (20 January), 63 (30 January), 144 (22 April), 148 (26 April), and 189 (6 June).

Primary source material on the Republic of the Yucatan is rare.

•  Neither broadside is found in WorldCat, CCILA, or Palau. Boletin del Espiritu del Siglo is not listed in Charno, Latin American Newspapers, nor in CCILA.   Some newspaper issues and one broadside are browned or partially so. Overall condition is good or better.  (37063)

The printer has opened the text here with a rather nice 5-line initial “P.”

NUC and WorldCat locate only one library (National Library of Spain) reporting ownership of the actual broadside, but we know of another in the National Library of Chile.

•  Medina, Mexico, 8091.   As issued, with a later horizontal fold. One small wormhole through the folded document, touching one one letter in each half.  (41008)

The author, who spent most of his life in Derby, was a sculptor as well as a Derbyshire historian, and he appears to have supplied theoriginal illustrations here himself. The two pairs of plates (one lithographed, one steel-engraved) are done in notably different styles — we suspect that two different engravers worked from Robinson's sketches. Robinson wrote one additional Twitcher piece in 1881, describing a visit to the Royal Agricultural Show, not included in this gathering.

All the Twitcher books are now scarce: WorldCat finds very few U.K. holdings of these titles and virtually no U.S.

Provenance: First text page with early pencilled ownership inscription of Mr. H. Mills in upper outer corner.

•  Crismas: NSTC 2R14138; Visit: NSTC 2R14139; Second Visit: NSTC 2R14140; Watter Cure: NSTC 0643751.   Later quarter green calf and fine combed marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; minor shelfwear. Pencilled ownership note as above. Light age-toning; first two works with mild foxing and last leaves with avery light, old waterstain across a lower corner. A highly personal production in text *and* illustration; an entertaining and very uncommon gathering.  (36501)

This has an elegant emblematic frontispiece and an engraved coat of arms on the title-page.

Binding: Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt-extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped pomegranate decorations. Marbled endpaprs; all edges speckled red.

•  Palau 273666.   Bound as above; covers and edges with abrasions, joints and extremities rubbed, spine leather with fine cracks. A copy lacking the map and priced accordingly. Paper browned in some quires by nature of the paper; otherwise, scattered light to moderate foxing only. A nice copy.  (29257)

•  Publisher's printed paper wrappers, stapled; small scuffs, back wrapper with streak of staining, pressure point from a front-wrapper scuff or prick unobtrusively carried throughout. This ephemeral, eye-opening item is now scarce.  (41057)

There are two editions of this work: The other has only 131 leaves and contains a typographical error on the title-page (“lirro” for “libro”). In this edition the “Apendiz al Memorial. Aduertencias a quien lo huuiere leido,” pp. 242–78, is by Juan Antonio Jarque. The place of printing has long been a matter of conjecture because of the paucity of studies of typography and typographic norms in Mexico and Puebla in the 17th century. We admit to no scholarship on the topic of typefaces but do have extensive experience with the paper used in Mexico and Puebla in the 1650s and the watermark in this edition is that of paper widely used there.

Provenance:  Bookseller's label of the Libreria de San Martin in Madrid.

•  Sabin 58279, 73620; Palau 209627, 275715; Medina, BHA, 6837; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VII, col. 252; Streit, Bibliotheca. missionum, VII, 1780. Not in Alden & Landis.   Contemporary limp vellum, evidence of lost ties. Early owner's signature in lower margin of title-page, but lined through making it most difficult to decipher.  (35317)

•  NSTC 2A17980 (for all years 1855–61).   Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper outer corner, otherwise clean.  (17033)