“To prevent fraud, the written signature of the proprietor, S.A. Osburn, will be written upon the wrapper[of the bottle], without which none is genuine. Sold, wholesale and retail, by N. Osburn, corner of Main and St. Paul Streets, Rochester, N.Y., general agent for the United States” (p. [4]) — this copy without that signature.

Printed testimonials on p. 4 are dated 1847 and 1855, and a charming wood engraving on p. 1 shows a woman administering medicine to a sick woman in her bed.

Searches of WorldCat locate only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership (PPL, NRU-Med, MWA, NRMW).

•  Folded, as issued. A clean, attractive piece of medical-commercial ephemera.  (38410)

George graduates from Bates in 1905 and, by the final diary in 1912, he is an accomplished secondary-school physics teacher in Worcester, MA, with a master’s degree from Clark University, and he is taking additional (presumably doctoral) courses at Columbia University during a teaching sabbatical.

Each volume here opens with a printed section offering calendars, postal rates, almanac facts, etc.; usually, George has used the back pages for personal accounting, addresses of friends, and other memoranda. For space reasons, his entries must be laconic, but he has filled most space there is. Only the final few diaries have significant unused sections. A long descriptive analysis is available on request.

•  Virtually all diaries are bound in leather or leatherette, a few with the lower third of the rear covers removed neatly, and the “set” lacking only the volume for 1906. Some volumes are written in pencil, later ones mostly in ink, in a legible hand. Very good. (39290)

The work is printed on “rice paper” (i.e., Asian paper probably from the mulberry tree) as was common in Manila during the period to ca. 1820. The typography is definitely provincial and plain, using only one decorative woodcut initial and no ornamentation on the title-page. The type is roman in a variety of sizes with a practice of using all capitals for emphasis.

The press on which this work was printed had been that of the Jesuits until Archbishop Sancho de Santa Justa carried out the king's order and expelled them; he then appropriated the press for his private use, as here. What had been only the fourth press to operate in the Islands, now with a new name, became the fifth.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate only six libraries worldwide reporting ownership: three in the U.S. {John Carter Brown, Indiana University, Newberry) one in the U.K. (Briish Library), one in Spain (national library), one in the Philippines (national library).

•  Medina, Manila, 317; Retana, Aparato bibliográfico, 379.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards (green and mauve stone pattern); red leather label on front cover. A few minor paper repairs to edges of a few leaves; a very few small pinhole type wormholes, not costing any letters; the brown spotting and staining peculiar to rice paper. Old, brief note lightly red-inked to title-page. Over all a very good copy.  (33130)

Provenance:  Vol. I has the handsome, contemporary bookseller's label of Pierre Beaume, of Bordeaux, on the front pastedown.

Searches of WorldCat and ESTC find apparently six German libraries reporting ownership of vol. I only and no German library reporting holding both volumes or even just vol. II. The same searches found only three libraries in the Anglo world reporting ownership, each having both volumes: Indiana University, the British Library, and the University of Wales.

•  ESTC T124033; Alston, Bibliography of the English Language from the Invention of Printing to the Year 1800, 13, 60. For a brief biography, see: https://users.manchester.edu/FacStaff/SSNaragon/Kant/bio/fullbio/schulzjcf.html.   Contemporary full sheep with modest gilt-bead tooling to spines and to red and black leather spine labels; board corners and spine extremities renewed, and joints strengthened with long-fiber and toned. Textblocks age-toned and with some offsetting from leather of turn-ins to some edges of early and late margins; vol. I with old light marginal waterstaining to first few leaves; vol. II with limited Inkstain in a few outer margins not into text and pp. 793/794 crumpled, its top and lower margins torn and repaired with old paper. A very pleasing set and one that is now also SOLID FOR USE. (41252)

Sent from Shaw's home in Ayot St. Lawrence and postmarked in Hertfordshire, both cards areinscribed in Shaw's distinctive hand and signed with his initials.

•  Cards crisp and clean, one with pair of staple holes.Delightful and characteristic Shavian ephemera.  (37045)

The texts of both bills are present here, along with Sheridan’s analysis of how each would address “the question of right between the public and the [East India] Company” (p. 39).

•  ESTC T30944; Goldsmiths’-Kress no. 13610. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped leather title label and spine with gilt-stamped leather author label. Half-title and several other pages stamped by a now-defunct institution. Pages with edges untrimmed and a few small spots of staining; mostly, clean.  (10859)

As is increasingly the case with Mexican imprints of the 17th century, it islittle found in the marketplace.

Provenance:  18th-century ownership signature on title-page and first leaf of preliminaries of the Conde del Fresno de la Fuente.

•  Medina, Mexico, 1328; Palau 312973; Asuncion Lavrin, “Cotidianidad y espiritualidad en la vida conventual novohispana: Siglo XVII,” in Memoria del Coloquio Internacional Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz y pensamiento novohispano (1995).   Late 19th-century Mexican quarter dark green morocco with mottled green paper sides; binding rubbed and abraded, front endpapers with an old paper label and remnants of one removed. Pencilling on front fly-leaf and title-page verso; top margins closely cropped occasionally costing top of letters of running heads and foliation. Worming, chiefly in margins but occasionally into the text, not costing words, sometimes repaired; first and last few leaves with old repairs to corners and margins and a bit of text restored in pen and ink. Withal, a good++ copy of important work that is not often on the market.  (34203)

Provenance:  Signature on title-page of Howard Osgood, a prominent late 19th- and early 20th-century Hebrew scholar and noted collector.

•  Goldsmiths'-Kress 2558; Wing (2nd ed.) S3801B.   Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label, board edges stamped with gilt roll; corners and spine extremities worn, front joint cracked and back joint starting, sewing holding. Front pastedown with small French bookseller's ticket and early inked numeral. Title-page with small early inked owner's name and with institutional pressure stamp, reverse with pencilled numerals. Pages clean. (19511)

The broadside was published on 28 August 1918 in the lead-up to the 14 December election that started Ireland on the path to being an independent nation.

Worldcat locatesonly one library in North America, the University of Toronto, reporting ownership.

•  Tattered along top margin with loss of a small type ornament, creasing along center fold; a few pin-type wormholes with one just touching one letter of the caption and with three other small wormings, one perhaps just a tear, that affect letters of two words without impairing ability to know those words. Printed on a grey paper that we have seen before, inexpensive but not flimsy or brittle.  (41598)

This is followed by a comic ballad (one-and-a-half pages) about a drunken exciseman who is carried underground by some miners and is persuaded that he has gone to hell.

The title-page bears a woodcut vignette of a soldier in a tunic, cloak and cap, and a “No 5" (with the “N” shaved away) printed at its top left — not at the center foot of the page, as in a variant we have seen.

•  NSTC 2N2681.   Removed from a bound volume. Good++ condition.  (8418)

•  Palau 239456ii.   Half vellum with caramel cloth sides by Brugalla. Excellent copy.  (20394)

Dated in text 2 December, this would surely have been a most welcome Christmas present!

•  Removed from a binding with sewing holes in inner margins. Date of decree in ink at top of first page. Very good.  (34853)

•  Folded as issued.  (2615)

•  Modern half vellum over burgundy cloth sides. Contemporary inked notation at top right corner of title-page. Very good.  (21056)

•  Lightly in later wrappers; small ownership stamp eradicated from title-page. A very good exemplar.  (24386)

•  Disbound, with a bit of pinhole worming not affecting text; lightly laid into later wrappers.  (24388)

•  Removed from a bound volume; a few wormholes.  (24392)

•  Half vellum with brown cloth sides by Brugalla. Very good copy.  (20392)

Searches of NUC and WorldCat findno copies.

•  Not in Medina, BHA.   Folded as issued; lower margin irregular with mild damp damage.  (33489)

•  Folded and never sewn; as issued.  (24389)

Provenance:  17th-century autograph of “William (?)ram (?)” and three early pen trials on title-page; large 20th-century armorial bookplate of Edward Jackson Barron, member of the Society of Antiquaries to front pastedown; even larger 20th-century engraved bookplate of Moses H. Grossman, designed by Henri Bérengier (1881–1943), laid in; modern manuscript date to lower blank margin of last verso.

•  ESTC R19887; Kress 606; Goldsmiths’-Kress 766.1; Wing (rev. ed.) S4924.   Early 20th-century half calf over marbled paper boards with author/title/date blind-stamped to spine; joints strengthened and well refurbished. Title-page and last verso dust-soiled and text generally with significant age-toning but paper yet good; one small pinehole-type wormhole through lower margins. A nicely provenanced, neatly bound, appealing copy of an important text on a once vexed subject. (41335)

Founded in 1814, the Asylum was by the time of this appeal overwhelmed by the number of County residents needing care, especially from Class III; and, after the failure of efforts to find adjoining land allowing enlargement of facilities on the old mixed principle, decision was taken to build a new center for Class I and II patients within a half-mile's distance. The original provision that better-off patients paying according to their abilities would subsidize the care of the others was explicitly to be maintained, as per the solicitation in hand.

Conjoined is afull-page engraving of the proposed design, signed “Warrington, sc.” The completed Coton Hill opened in 1854. Its main portions have been demolished though the chapel in the engraving and a gatehouse still stand.

Provenance:  “Dr. J.S. Butler” stamped at the top of p. 1; we note that there was a Dr. J.S. Butler who was a noted psychiatrist in Connecticut in the 1850s, 1860s, and 1870s.

Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and COPAC locate only one copy worldwide, although we know of one other.

•  The two leaves starting to separate at top, with gentle age-toning and small chipping and closed tears to edges and fold; one tear barely touches platemark and there is light offsetting to the plate from something once laid between the leaves. An attractive, unusual, and informative prospectus.  (38890)

First edition.

•  Sabin 15716; Shaw & Shoemaker 610.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Title-page with small inked “pseud.” comment next to author's name. Pages age-toned with offsetting and some light spotting (darkest to title-page); one leaf with upper margin repaired some time ago. Page edges untrimmed; one signature unopened.  (25211)

Stern was the life and business partner of Leona Rostenberg, their firm of Rostenberg & Stern having been one of America's most respected during the post –WWII period and known for its dealing in early printed books Dufief (1776?–1834) was a refugee from the French Revolution who from 1793 to 1818 lived in Philadelphia, where he taught French and ran a bookstore. Among the libraries he acquired was the large residue of Benjamin Franklin's!

•  New. Publisher's light brown cloth with paper spine label.  (35753)

Binding:  Publisher's ribbon-embossed green floral-patterned cloth of Krupp's style Ft6.

•  American Imprints 53109; Palau 322394; Sabin 91388. Not in Smith, American Travellers Abroad. On the binding, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823--50.   Publisher's green floral-patterned cloth, spine with printed paper label; corners and spine foot rubbed, spine head pulled, paper label darkened with edges chipped. Front free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscription; occasional pencilled annotations and marks of emphasis. Light to moderate foxing.  (25425)