•  ESTC T115485.   Removed from a nonce volume. Very good.  (39078)

•  Very good image.  (33873)

The present example appears to be the variant printing of the first edition as described by the University of Illinois, with line 32 of p. 179 giving “F acies” (instead of “Fallacies”); ESTC and Thomason suggest that the actual printing date was 1653. Printed legend “Cokes Art of Logick in English.” vertically on a blank between the front free endpaper and the title-page; the relic of a ream wrapper.
Binding:  Notably elegant period-style quarter speckled calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, raised bands, and blind-tooled decorations filling compartments.

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with early inked inscription of M[atthew?] Bakewell; half-title and title-page each with early rubber-stamp of S. Davies. Later in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).

•  ESTC R9220 (variant); Wing (rev. ed.) A804B (formerly C4986); Thomason E.1436[2].   Binding as above; endpapers with offsetting from previous leather, front one chipped at edges, age-toning generally with page edges browned/dust-soiled. Small spots of pinhole worming to upper inner margins of roughly first half of volume, just touching some top lines without affecting legibility; old waterstaining across lower outer corners variably reaching text; a few pages showing traces of red around edges, presumably from now-shaved original red edge staining. A solid, pleasing copy of this fairly uncommon treatise.  (40076)

Uncommon: ESTC and WorldCat locate only three U.S. institutional holdings of this edition. A variant, lacking publisher information, was printed in the same year; the present example bears three woodcut headpieces and one foliated capital.

•  ESTC R29637; Wing (rev. ed.) C5039A.   Removed from a nonce volume, with early inked pagination added in upper outer corners. Final leaf with lower outer corner torn away, not nearing text; slim track of worming to lower inner leaf portions, not obscuring text and with unobtrusive translucent repairs to several instances. A very nice copy of this uncommon polemic.  (36844)

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.

This copy lacks the two preliminary leaves. The catchword on p. 7 is “allow'd.” This is the variant issue with a final blank leaf instead of the advertisement leaf.

Provenance:  From the library of the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School; properly deaccessioned.

Evidence of Readership: Occasional pencil markings and a few marginal comments in the first third of text.

•  ESTC T31966; Allibone 411–12.   Recent blue-grey marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Title-page repaired with loss of perhaps ten letters of epigraph, with partially trimmed name inked in an early hand, and with very elegant old institutional pressure-stamp; title-page verso with pencilled call numbers; first text page with institutional stamp in upper margin, inked and pencilled numeral in lower margin. Two preliminary leaves lacking. A few leaves closely trimmed at one or another margin; last 20 with very short marginal tears not approaching text. Light age-toning and occasionally a spot; generally, clean; marked as above. An influential work on rational religion with evidence of use.  (36007)

•  See Moon, John Harris's Books for Youth, 151; also Osborne Collection, p. 162; also Opie D 37 (this issue not given in their sequences).   Publisher's quarter green roan and printed pink paper–covered sides, neatly rebacked some time ago preserving original gilt-stamped spine; joints and edges rubbed. Pages very slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. A lovely copy.  (41169)

The frontispiece portrait of Collins is a reproduction of one by John Flaxman.

•  Publisher's quarter brick red morocco with gray paper over boards, front board with a gilt center device; small amounts of discoloration to rear board's paper and black streak to its leather. Deckle edges. Offsetting of frontispiece to title-page, attractively; slim sliver of light waterstaining to some top margins and some upper outer corners creased across in a way that may suggest an incident in the print-shop; in all a clean and very appealing copy from the Press's “special” part of this edition.  (33502)

•  Nearly New. Bound in brown paper boards, printed in black. In a protective box that is lightly chipped and with a spot or two of fading/discoloration; book in fine condition.  (35756)

•  Martin & Walter 5106.   Sewn, never bound; title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner, not touching text, and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. Page edges untrimmed. Lacking center signature (pp. 17–24: end of article IV, beginning of article V). Pages gently age-toned, otherwise very crisp and clean.  (30698)

The stories areillustrated with a total of ten hand-colored, wood-engraved plates, some of which are signed N. Orr Co., done after designs by Jacob A. Dallas. The added engraved title-page reads “The Fairies in Council,” giving the same date and publication information as the main title-page.

Binding: Publisher's dark green textured cloth, covers blind-stamped with publisher's “GGE” shield, spine with gilt-stamped fairy-surrounded decorative title and a large harp-playing fairy in lower portion.

Provenance:  Front free endpaper with inked inscription of Maggie Tarlsbury, dated 1862.

•  Binding cocked, gently worn overall with small closed tear to back cover cloth, gilt dimmed yet still pleasing. Front pastedown with bookseller's ticket of Hudson Taylor, Washington City; inscription as above. Pages age-toned, with a few very short edge tears not extending into text and occasional small spots. Early printings of this collection, with its graceful bows to American children, are now scarce. (40996)

WorldCat findsno institutional holdings of this charitable publication.

•  Cook, America's Charitable Cooks, 116.   Publisher's tan cloth–covered boards, front cover with decorative title stamped in olive; cloth dust-soiled and showing mild bubbling, with extremities rubbed. A few corners dog-eared. Occasional small pencil marks; scattered spots of staining. An uncommon item, showing only minimal kitchen wear.  (38307)

•  ESTC R29682; Pforzheimer 193; Wing (rev. ed.) C5845.   Later plain paper-covered limp boards; paper darkened and chipped. Front pastedown with bookplate as above, front free endpaper with affixed slip of old cataloguing offset onto pastedown. Pages age-toned and cockled with margins slightly darkened; last two leaves with holes affecting text, final leaf with loss of about 14 words and penultimate with only a handful of letters touched. Lower edge with one chip throughout. A flawed, but moderately uncommon, first edition from one of the most popular playwrights of the Restoration era.  (33587)

•  ESTC T97031; Sweet & Maxwell (2nd ed.) I:322.4.   19th-century half calf and dark red ribbon-embossed cloth, very pleasingly rebacked, spine with gilt-stamped title and raised bands framed by bead-and-line blind tooling; original leather corners worn, cloth scuffed, front cover with faint traces of ring indentation and small area of bubbling by lower outer corner. Pages gently age-toned; one lower outer corner torn away, not touching text; one leaf with paper flaw in lower outer portion. A good solid copy that will present a pleasing appearance on the shelf.  (34120)

Binding:  19th-century crushed midnight blue morocco, round spine with four raised bands forming five spine compartments, four of which are further defined by a single gilt rule on four sides and have each a gilt floral device in the center; each band accented with gilt beading. Author and title gilt in the fifth compartment and at base of bottom compartment, in gilt, place and date of publication. Both boards with a simple gilt triple-fillet border, board edges with a single gilt fillet, turn-ins gilt-tooled with an intricate roll. Endpapers of a French combed-up pattern.

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

Renouard opines: “Mince volume devenu rare.”

•  EDIT 16 CNCE 13162; Index Aurel. 144.003; Renouard, Alde, 152:14; Adams C2431; UCLA, Aldine Press: Catalogue of the Ahmanson-Murphy Collection (2001), 405; Kallendorf & Wells, Aldine Press Books, 348; Ebert, Allgemeines bibliographisches Lexikon, 5036; Schwerdt, I, 118.   Binding as above. A very nice copy in all respects.  (37914)

We note that the section captions of Corbett’s work amount in themselves to a sweeping, heroic catalogue of Black history, experience, self-defense, and accomplishments, and that the poet never forgets (as the ancient epicists never did, either!) the component of violence that characterizes and sometimes advances human society.

The volume's sole illustration is a formal portrait of Corbett, seated and wearing a suit.

The National Baptist Publishing Board was, by 1913, “one of the largest business enterprises owned and operated by blacks in the United States” — having been established in 1897, when its founder Reverend Richard Henry Boyd (1843–1922), had “sought the services of a white man to visit auctions and bid for machinery, since the rules of segregation would not allow blacks to engage in such activity.” Still the print run on Corbett's work would have been small, although 20th-century interest in Black literature and culture led to a widely distributed facsimile printing being issued in 1971.

Presentation copy  from one of Corbett's daughters: “To Dr. & Mrs. H.D. Miller of Muskogee, Okla. Compliments of Lilie [partially obscured] Corbett, Work of My late Father Maurice H. Corbett of Washington, D.C.”

•  Kerlin, Robert T., Negro Poets and Their Poems, 270. For Dr. Herron's essay, see: Columbia History of American Poetry, “Early African American Poetry,” quotations from pp. 18 and 31. On the National Baptist Publishing Board, see: Tennessee State University website, http://ww2.tnstate.edu/.   Publisher's red cloth, spotting to front cover and hinges (inside) cracking; paper very fragile, being the acidic sort so common in the first half of the 20th century, edges browned. Tear at gutter to front free endpaper, not approaching inscription; old repairs to other short tears or chippings have adhered this leaf at top to the one following. A good copy of a rare work, with a great provenance, requiring special handling and deserving it.  (41128)

•  Sabin 16953.   Contemporary treed calf, front joint (outside) starting at top to open. A good+ copy — in fact, a rather nice one.  (20510)

The colophon notes that “this book has been produced asa complete exercise in book production at the Department of Printing, Oxford School of Art. Peter Tysoe who planned the typography and executed the twelve woodcuts has thereby been afforded an opportunity to assist in all the various stages of production . . . The typeface used for the text is 12-pt. Bembo set solid and composed on the Monotype with a three-unit minimum space.”

Uncommon: WorldCat locatesonly one institutional copy, not in the U.S.

•  Publisher's boards covered with cream “vellum” paper, front board with black woodcut within gilt frame and black lettering; paper of boards lightly soiled/foxed, spinea little darkened. Endpapers and half-title foxed; text block not so, with all text and illustrations clean and nice. A very satisfactory copy of this scarce, limited edition.  (38192)

Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only five U.S. institutional holdings.

•  Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, pencilled initials in upper outer corner. A very few light spots, pages otherwise clean.  (31091)

The Dictionary of Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Dutch Philosophers labels this work “the first unequivocal expression of republicanism in the Dutch Republic.”

There were at least five editions printed in 1662: three in Amsterdam (one 8vo, two 12mo) and two in Leiden (one 8vo, one 12mo), but with stop-press corrections resulting in STCN listing 12 editions/variants. We believe this to be a true first edition.  The STCN speculates that the printer cited on the title-page here, I.C. vander Gracht, was a pseudonym used by the Hackius firm of Leiden.

Alden and Landis succinctly summarize theAmericana content: “Includes refs [sic] to West Indies commerce, whale & cod fisheries, salt-trade, & Puritans in English colonies.”

Huygens (1596–87) was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer, secretary to two Princes of Orange, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens. Here he pens a rebuttal of Interest van Holland, defends the House of Orange, and seeks to rebut as many republican assertions as possible. This is thesole edition of Herstelden Prins tot Stadt-houder.

Provenance:  Frank Marshall Vanderhoof (American scholar, university librarian, private collector; 1919–2005).

•  Court: Goldsmiths'-Kress 1659.2; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 662/38; Knuttel 8652; Meulman 3925; STCN 063391201. Huygens: Knuttel 8806a; STCN 61687140.   Contemporary vellum over boards. Waterstaining variously noticeable and never serious. A good solid copy.  (35677)

Cowley’s Pindaric odes are present here, as are the Davideis and Davideidos; also set forth are the “delightful little prose Essays (with verse interwoven)” for which The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature believes Cowley will most ultimately be remembered. Some sections have separate title-pages, bearing the same publisher and date information as the main title-page but lacking the printer attribution.

Provenance: Front pastedown with small armorial bookplate and with bookseller’s ticket from Cambridge, England.

•  ESTC R29730; Wing (2nd ed.) C-6652. On Cowley, see: Concise Cambridge History of English Literature, 351–52. 17th-century mottled calf, rebacked at some point in the 19th century and again more recently with hinges carefully reinforced (inside); spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title label, covers showing the predictable acid-etching. Varying degrees of browning to pages; scattered incidents of worming in lower inner and outer margins, almost never affecting text. A handsome book in a binding both sturdy and attractive. (7716)

Provenance:  Calligraphic bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books.

•  McKitterick/Rendall/Dreyfus 12.   Quarter vellum with gold paper sides; edges rubbed, wrapper lacking. Top edge gilt on the rough. Minor offsetting to endpapers, otherwise clean.  (32037)

Binding: A. Horowitz & Sons bound the work in quarter brown cloth with gray Fabriano Ingres paper, the front cover stamped in brown to reproduce the front cover of a 1920s literary magazine.

•  Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 523. Binding as above, in original glassine dust jacket with very minor chipping to corners. Also in original slipcase of brown cloth and gray paper with brown printed lettering to spine. A clean, fresh, indeed wonderful copy.  (39039)

The work, including the illustrations, is printed on the outside of double leaves unopened at fore-edge. The justification (pp. [2–3]), title (pp. [4–5]), and copyright notice (pp. [6–7]) extend across two pages. The text is set in Madura, the title in Jefferson Gothic, and the preliminaries in Gill Sans Medium Condensed.

The “triads” are three-line minimalist poems that now seem very 1950s/60s “coffee house” in style.

•  Chambers, Gogmagog, 18.   Publisher's light boards covered with patterned Japanese Hana-asa paper. A fine copy.  (35836)

•  ESTC T160087; Brunet, II, 399. On Coxe, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Contemporary half morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; leather a bit scuffed over corners and extremities. Front pastedown with institutional rubber-stamp (no other markings). Light to moderate foxing throughout (nothing worse).  (19364)

Bindings: Publisher's plain light blue paper–covered sides with tan shelfbacks, spines with printed paper labels; uncut.

•  NSTC 2C41665; NCBEL, II, 611; Shaw & Shoemaker 47741.   Spine paper darkened and cracked, joints and spines of both volumes restored with long-fiber tissue; inner margins of first and last few leaves unobtrusively repaired; as noted, page edges uncut.. Vol. I with front cover waterstained and back cover inkstained(?); title-page of vol. II with pencilled ownership inscription in upper portion. Foxing variously; one pencilled correction.  (30085)

Provenance:  From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.

•  Osborne Collection p. 33; Pearson, Banbury Chap Books, p. 33.   As issued, age-toning at edges; spine splitting at very top but all sewing present and holding. A good+++ copy.  (38797)

•  Forster 32; Toy 156.   Publisher's brown cloth, covers stamped in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities slightly rubbed, spine with small spots of discoloration. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean; a nice copy.  (33301)

nothing new since my last, exceptCapt. Barney in the ship Hyder Aly taking the King ship Monk of 10 nine pounders, in an action of 30 minutes. The Hyder Aly mounted 6 nines & 10 sixes, there never was more execution done by the same force in the same time. The Monk had every officer except two, killed or wounded, amongst the latter was the Capt. She had in all 21 kill'd & 32 wounded. The Hyder Aly had 4 kill'd & 11 wounded, from such slaughter no doubt you'd conclude one of them boarded, but it was not the case, a fair action within pistol shot.

Although the land battles of the American Revolution had ended with the surrender at Yorktown, sea battles continued until receipt of the signing of the Treaty of Paris. The account above refers to Comm. Joshua Barney's capture on 8 April off Cape May, NJ, of the sloop of war General Monk. In a wonderful twist of fate, the intrepid Barney had only arrived in Philadelphia in March — having been occupied since the previous May with his escape, recapture, and second escape from Portsmouth prison! into which stronghold he had been clapped by the British for his previous maritime (infr)actions.

Having, then, been given command of the Hyder Ally (a.k.a., Hyder Ali) only a few weeks previously, and having been charged with clearing the Delaware River and Bay of privateers, Barney had met the General Monk while pursuing that task — and, in a Revolutionary War naval action eclipsed only by that of the Bon Homme Richard and the Serapis, took on and thoroughly defeated a King's ship of superior firepower in a bloody, 26-minute battle.

Following this capture of the General Monk, Congress voted Barney a sword for his gallantry and offered him command of his prize after renaming her General Washington. In November, 1782, he was ordered to sail to France in the Washington with dispatches for Benjamin Franklin who was negotiating the Treaty of Paris. He returned with news of the signing of the preliminary peace treaty and with money from the French.

Barney was an American Hornblower!

•  On Barney, see: Dictionary of American Biography and Appleton's Cyclopedia.   Very good condition. Small blank portion of the integral address leaf torn with loss where the sealing wax was attached. Old dealer's (Sessler's) coding in pencil at base of letter.  (31069)

•  NSTC 2C42639; Goldsmiths’-Kress 26080; not in Maggs, Bibl. Asiatica. On Crawfurd, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Publisher’s dark green cloth, blind-stamped, spines with gilt-stamped title; spines very slightly sunned and showing faint traces of now-absent paper labels, cloth lightly rubbed at corners and spine extremities. Hinges cracked (inside). Front pastedowns rubber-stamped (no other institutional markings). Title-pages with pencilled owner’s name in upper margins; contents pages with inked owner’s name dated 1865. Frontispiece, plates, and a few pages in proximity to plates lightly to moderately foxed; one plate in vol. II torn from inner margin, tear not touching image. Absorbing reading, evocative images.  (19179)

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

•  Publisher's quarter very light grey linen and printed paper–covered sides; small faint spot of staining at lower edge of front cover, otherwise clean and unworn. Pages age-toned (not unattractively or indeed inappropriately!). A thoroughly delightful production in a very nice copy.  (41201)