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Literati Literature
Gaddi, Jacopo. Adlocutiones, et elogia exemplaria, cabalistica, oratoria, mixta, sepulcralia. Florentiae: Typis Petri Nestei, ad signum solis, 1636. 4to (21.2 cm, 8.34"). [2] ff., 187, [1] pp. [with the same author's] [Corollarium poeticum]. [Florence: Pietro Nesti, 1636]. 118, [2] pp. (probably lacking first two preliminary leaves).
$650.00
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First edition of Gaddi's Adlocutiones and the only edition of his Corollarium. Jacopo Gaddi (d. 1668) published these speeches, poems, and epitaphs praising European men of letters within years of founding the Accademia degli Svogliati, an international circle of living literati (including John Milton) who met at his home in Florence to discuss poetry and philosophy. His accolades, in Latin and Italian, go mostly to Italians, including Pietro Bembo, Pope Pius II, Ludovico Ariosto, Torquato Tasso, Vicentine nobleman Giangiorgio Trissino, and Dante, among other late greats.
The Corollarium is only found bound with the Adlocutiones, as here; however the latter was also published separately the same year. Both were printed by Pietro Nesti at Florence using roman and italic type with woodcut initials, ornaments, head- and tailpieces. This volume concludes with the original final blank, lacking in many copies, although the Corollarium seems to lack a preliminary signature of two leaves (probably a blank and a sectional title leaf).
Provenance: Front fly-leaf and title-page with early owner's inscription of Oliver Pagn[...]; fly-leaf verso with owner's inscription dated 1650 of Jo[h]annes Baptista Adimari (related, perhaps, to Alessandro Adimari, a member of Gaddi's Accademia who died in 1649?); and front fly-leaf with later owner's inscription of Philadelphian Henry John Gibbons (“Rittenhouse Square West”).
Contemporary flexible vellum with title inked to spine, pierced at the edges for four ties, now wanting; repairs with tissue to headcap, spine, and front cover edge. Title-page and following leaf repaired in two places, and following 30 pp. repaired in outer margin; first two leaves of second book wanting, as above. Foxing and occasional other staining throughout, the occasional tear, one leaf holed touching text but not spoiling reading, rear free endpaper torn away. Doodlings on front pastedown and fly-leaf; brief index to the first part written by an early hand on final recto and rear pastedown; later pencil markings.
A proud witness to the interests of (Italian) academia. (30505)
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He Helped Establish the First Press in Paris,
Was a Friend of Erasmus,
Etc.
Gaguin, Robert. Co[m]pe[n]diu[m] Roberti Gaguini sup[er] fra[n]cor[um] gestis. [colophon: Parisiis: Impressit Bertholdus Rembolt, Impensis optimi bibilopolæ Iohaanis parui, 1511]. 8vo (19 cm, 7.5"). [16], 312 ff.
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Gaguin (1433?–1502), one of the greatest Parisian humanists of the late 15th century, was a disciple and successor of Guillaume Fichet; he assisted Fichet “in establishing the first printing press in Paris and may have been instrumental in attracting Josse Bade to the capital” (Contemporaries of Erasmus). He was also a patron or friend of Pico della Mirandola, Erasmus, and other young Humanists visiting or living for a while in Paris.
This “compendium” is his most celebrated work, a chronicle first published at Paris in 1495 that “exhibited a measure of historical criticism” (Contemporaries of Erasmus). It is devoted to the Hundred Years War, the Italian Wars, and the reigns of Charles VIII and Louis XII.
The text is printed in roman with some gothic with a variety of woodcut initials. The title-page consists of the title in one line of type above an
elaborate, essentially full-page woodcut incorporating full-body portraits of Charlemagne, St. Louis, and St. Dagobert, the coats of arms of 12 of the principal regions of France, and the coat of arms of France itself flanked by two stags rampant. The work was printed by Rembolt for Jehan Petit, with
Petit's device in large format appearing on the verso of the last leaf.
Evidence of readership: Scattered early marginalia, chiefly of a word or three or four, some marks of emphasis (underscoring, manicules).
Provenance: 19th-century ownership signature of “Wm. H. Burroughs, Savannah, Georgia” on folio aa8v and 312v. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Adams A17; Moreau, Éditions parisiennes du XVI siècle, II, 78, 91; Renouard, Badius Ascensius, II, 451, 7. On Gaguin, see: Contemporaries of Erasmus, II, 69–70. Full 20th-century alum-tawed brown goat, mottled, with spine and top area of front board sunned to a pale tan (part of front board protected by a smaller volume?); raised bands, blind tooling on boards. Some dates written in pencil in margins, other marginalia as above; last quarter with variable old waterstaining.
A nice copy. (40646)
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By an Irish Augustinian
Gahan, William. A compendious abstract of the history of the Church of Christ, from its first foundation to the eighteenth century. New York: Pr. by J. Seymour, 1814. 8vo (18 cm, 7.125"). 408 pp.
$650.00
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First American edition. Gahan, an Irish Augustinian, was famous for his part in the absolutely rip-snorting Dunboyne will case (see the DNB). Gahan had received the grandly apostate bishop Lord Dunboyne back into the Catholic Church against the commands of his archbishop, and urged him to revoke his will in which he bequeathed one of Dunboyne family estates to the University of Maynooth. After Dunboyne's death a sister contested the will, and during the trial Gahan's refusal to break the seal of the confessional led to his imprisonment for contempt of court.
The present work shows this independent Augustinian in his role as a teacher and writer.
Provenance: Released as a duplicate from the greatest collection of American Catholica in the world, the Georgetown University Library, with a few faint rubber-stamps.
Parsons 468; Shaw & Shoemaker 31551. On Dunboyne, see: Dictionary of National Biography, VIII, 66–67. Original sheets
sewn but never bound. Edges chipped and dog-eared; age-toned and waterstained. Now housed in a simple acid-free phase box. (39461)
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Galsworthy, John. The plays.... London: Duckworth, 1929. 8vo (22 cm, 8.6"). [8], 1150, [2] pp.
$100.00
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27 plays by the Nobel laureate and author of the Forsyte Saga.
Signed binding: Contemporary half tan morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with raised bands each accented above and below with single gilt rule and single black rule; gilt-stamped title, spine compartments framed in gilt with gilt dots in each corner and each with gilt center device. Front free endpaper stamped “Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.” Top edge gilt; silk ribbon place marker.
Binding as above, spine slightly sunned, corners and extremities showing minor rubbing. Front pastedown with private collector’s armorial bookplate. Pages clean. (19752)
Gilt
MOSAIC Binding
[Gavard, Charles]. Souvenir d'une promenade a Versailles. Paris: au Bureau des Galeries Historiques de Versailles, [ca. 1850–55]. Folio (36.5 cm; 14.5"). [6] ff., 50 leaves of plates.
$600.00
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One of several works with the identical title but from different publishers and with different contents! The present volume contains engravings after paintings in the palace's “Galeries Historiques”: the engravers include Leroux, Masson, Thomas, Nargoot, Rebel, Frilley, and many others. Curiously, many engravings bear a faint line of identification reading “Diagraphe et Pantographe Gavard” and they have non-sequential numbering, meaning the images from this source could be and were recombined to form a wide variety of souvenir albums.
In this copy all plates are guarded by sheets of heavy paper stock.
Binding: In the style of a percaline mosaïquée, but the gilt and mosaic are applied to a textured pebbled cloth. Spine gilt extra with added “mosaic” of green, white, red and blue. Front cover with a blind-stamped border incorporating elegant corner-pieces; within this, “Souvenir de Versailles” gilt-stamped in an arc above a large on-laid crowned coat of arms flanked by banners and flags, this embellished in gilt with rich use of blue, white, red, blue, and green. Rear cover with similar blind-stamped border and a different large gilt-stamped center device strikingly incorporating an on-lay of blue stamped in gilt with a military medal. All edges gilt.
On this type of binding, see: Morris & Levin, The Art of Publishers' Bookbindings, pp. 94–97. Binding as above, rubbed to the underlying boards at the corners of the boards and top of spine slightly pulled with one bit of rubbing. Scattered pale brown stains mostly on interleaves and sometimes visible on versos of plates; some discoloration in some margins of plates and occasionally into one; overwhelmingly a clean copy, remarkably bright and unfoxed. A strong and nice example of this category of “souvenir” and of a gilt mosaic binding. (30464)
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ALDINE Attic Nights . . .
Gellius, Aulus. Auli Gellii noctivm Atticarvm libri vndeviginti. [colophon: Venetiis: in Aedibus Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, mense Septembri 1515. 8vo (17 cm; 6.625"). [32], 289, [51] ff. (errors in foliation, but complete).
$3000.00
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First of two Aldine editions published in 1515 of Gellius' only known work, with “duerniorem” on the final leaf as prescribed by Renouard. The iconic Aldine printer's device appears on both the title-page and the final leaf of text, with the fore-edge of the title-page having been slightly repaired long ago at the margin.
Gellius's Attic Nights, supposed to have been written for the entertainment and education of his children, offers a rich tapestry of the life and times of the Roman Empire under the five good emperors. In an informal style Gellius ranges from law, grammar, history, and literary criticism to evening chats with fellow students and visits to the awe-inspiring villas of Herodes Atticus, the most famous philanthropist of Athens. Editor Giovanni Battista Egnazio (1478–1553), an important part of the Aldine literary circle and executor of Manuzio's will, here presents a newly revised text — complete with two indexes and explanation of the Greek passages.
Renouard, Alde, 73.9; Brunet, II, 1523; Adams G344; Graesse, Trésor de Livres Rares, III, p. 45; Schweiger, Handbuch der classischen Bibliographie, II, p. 376; on Egnazio, see: Contemporaries of Erasmus, pp. 424–25. 18th-century vellum over boards with red and green gilt leather spine labels, one edge with one very small chip to vellum; fore-edge of title-page repaired, light age-toning, a few words in old ink to front endpapers, some unevenly trimmed pages with the occasional (chiefly light) marginal stain or spot. “A. Gellius” in old ink to fore-edge of volume.
A worthy Aldine. (37243)
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Prize Copy of
the Attic Nights
Gellius, Aulus. Auli Gellii Noctium atticarum libri XX prout supersunt quos ad libros msstos novo & multo labore exegerunt.... Lugduni Batavorum: Apud Cornelium Boutesteyn & Johannem du Vivié, 1706. 4to (26, 10.25" cm). Add. engr. t.-p., [34], 903, [65 (index; 1 final f. blank)] pp.
$650.00
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Gellius's Attic Nights, supposed to have been written for the entertainment and education of his children, offers a rich tapestry of the life and times of the Roman Empire under the five good emperors. In an informal style Gellius ranges from law, grammar, history, and literary criticism to evening chats with fellow students and visits to the awe-inspiring villas of Herodes Atticus, the most famous philanthropist of Athens. Brunet calls the present example the “Édition la meilleure qui ait paru jusqu'ici” of the Attic Nights. Originally edited by Joannes Fredericus Gronovius and then polished by his son Jacobus Gronovius, this version also includes notes and commentary by Kaspar Schoppe, Peter Lambeck, Louis Carrion, Antoine Thysius, and Jacobus Oiselius.
The additional engraved title-page, done by P. Sluyter after a design by J. Groere, depicts the author at work on a moonlit night, and is decorated with medallions of Athena and her owl; the title-page is printed in red and black, with an engraved vignette of an Attic city.
Binding: Prize binding (without certificate) of contemporary vellum, covers framed and panelled in double blind fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, gilt-stamped medallion on each cover showing a scimitar-wielding knight bearing two crossed keys on his shield, supported by monkeys and surmounted by lounging figures grasping snakes. Spine with gilt-ruled raised bands, gilt-stamped compartment decorations, and early inked title.
Brunet, II, 1524; Graesse, II, 46; Schweiger, II, 379. Binding as above, small areas of discoloration, ties now lacking; front hinge (inside) very unobtrusively reinforced. Front pastedown with affixed slip of old cataloguing, partially obscuring an early inked annotation. Title-page with shadows of pencilled numeral and publication annotation. Some margins darkened or with mild spotting, pages otherwise clean, and all edges red. (25963)
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CORNERSTONE for an
AMERICAN SPORTING LIBRARY
“Gentleman of Philadelphia County, A” [i.e., Jesse Y. Kester]. The American shooter's manual, comprising such plain and simple rules, as are necessary to introduce the inexperienced into a full knowledge of all that relates to the dog, and the correct use of a gun; also a description of the game of this country. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827. 12mo (18.5 cm; 7.125"). [2] ff., pp. [ix]–249, [1] p., [1 (errata)] f., [3 (ads)] ff.; frontis., 2 plts.
$1800.00
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The first American illustrated sporting book and the first American sporting book written by an American. Only one sporting book published in America preceded it: The Sportsman's Companion (NY,1783; later editions Burlington [NJ], 1791, and Philadelphia, 1793), “by a gentleman, who has made shooting his favorite amusement upwards of twenty-six years, in Great-Britain, Ireland, and North-America.”
Kester deals almost exclusively with game birds and waterfowl native to the Delaware Valley that surrounds Philadelphia: wild turkeys, partridge, snipe, quail, grouse, and ducks. With regard to rifles and guns he addresses cleaning, powder, wadding, etc. And when writing about dogs, in addition to notes on training and conditioning them, he offers recipes for common ailments and gun-shot wounds.
The plates are signed “F. Kearny,” an artist born in Perth Amboy, NJ, who studied drawing with Archibald and Alexander Robertson and engraving with Peter Maverick. From 1810 to his death in 1833 he practiced engraving in Philadelphia.
There are two states of gathering “U”: this copy has the typographical error “tibbon” with the stop-press correction to “ribbon” on p. 235.
The volume ends with advertisements for several sporting and fishing goods suppliers.
Shoemaker 27838; Howes K108; Henderson, American Sporting Books, 6; Phillips, Sporting Books, 21; Streeter Sale 4084; Bennett, Practical Guide, 60–61. On Stauffer, American Engravers, I, 148–49. Publisher's sprinkled sheep with simple rope roll in blind on board edges, some abrasion to leather; round spine with gilt double rules forming “spine compartments,” black leather title label. The usual light and scattered foxing noted in all copies, nothing more.
A very nice copy. (28553)
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“We Are Not Fighting a War of Aggression against the German People”
George, David Lloyd. British war aims. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1918. 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). 15, [1] pp.
$45.00
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First U.S. edition, “authorized version as published by the British Government”: The Prime Minister summarizes England's conditions for peace. Laid in is a printed slip “With the compliments of Professor W. Macneile Dixon (University of Glasgow).”
Publisher's printed paper wrappers; faded, lower outer front corner creased, back wrapper with lines of discoloration. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise crisp and clean. (33187)
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“The Yaks are Strong & Hardy”
Gerard, Alexander. Account of Koonawur in the Himalaya,
etc. etc. etc. London: James Madden & Co., 1841. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). xiii, [3], 190, [2], [195]–308 (i.e.,
310), xxvi, [2 (adv.)] pp.; 1 fold. map.
$1750.00
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First edition: Description of the Kannaur (or Kunáwár) region of the Himalayas, taken from the late Capt. Gerard's papers and edited by George Lloyd. Charles William Wason, in the Monthly Review (1841 collected volume), opened his review of this work by saying “CaptainAlexander Gerard, and his brother Dr. J.G. Gerard, have been deservedly ranked amongst the most enterprising scientific travellers to whom Great Britain has given birth,” and he went on to predict that this volume “will be regarded as a precious contribution to science, and to geographical knowledge.”
Gerard's observations cover botany, linguistics, culture, and commerce, as well as geography. The area of his travels is depicted by an oversized, folding map of his own design.
NSTC 2G5453; Howgego, II, G7. Contemporary brown cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; rebacked and 95% of original spine reapplied, with the publisher's name at the foot of the spine chipped. Front pastedown and back of map each with institutional rubber-stamp (no other markings), front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated [18]49. Hinges (inside) reinforced. Last preface page with small inked annotation. Pages slightly age-toned; map with light offsetting and one short tear starting along fold, not touching image. (24291)
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Polenta before It Was Made with
“Turkey Wheat”
& Woodcuts from the
Moretus Press
Gerard, John. The herball, or, General historie of plantes. London: Printed by Adam Islip, Joice Norton & Richard Whitakers, 1636. Large folio (35.5 cm; 14"). [19 of 20] ff., 1630 [i.e., 1634] pp., [24 of 25] ff. (without the initial and final blank leaves).
$13,500.00
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“When reading Gerard we are wandering in the peace of an Elizabethan garden, with a companion who
has a story for every flower and is full of wise philosophies” (Woodward, p. viii). And indeed, Gerard's herbal is written in “glorious Elizabethan prose, [with] the folk-lore steeping its pages'” (Woodward, p. vii), these factors going a long way towards making it one of the best-known and -loved of the early English herbals. The “herbs” surveyed include plants aquatic and terrestrial, New World and Old, embracing shrubs, plants, and trees, each with a description of its structure and appearance, where it is found (and how it got there), when it is sown and reaped or flowers, its name or names (often with engrossingly exotic etymologies), its “temperature,” and its “vertues” or uses (often curious).
The story is famous: John Norton, Queen's printer, wished to bring out an English language version of Dodoen's Pemptades of 1583 and hired a certain “Dr. Priest” to do so, but the translator died with the work only partially done. A copy of the manuscript translation made its way into John Gerard's hands and he seized the opportunity, reorganizing the contents, obscuring the previous translator's contribution, incorporating aspects of Rembert and Cruydenboeck's works, and commandeering the result as his own.
Gerard abandoned Dodoen's classification, opting for l'Obel's instead, and, in a stroke of ambition and brilliance, illustrated the work with
more than 2500 woodcuts of plants. Many of these are large and all are attractive but more than a few were of plants he himself did not know, thus leading to considerable confusion between illustration and text in the earliest editions, this being third overall and the second with Thomas Johnson's additions and amendments. For both Johnson editions
a large number of the woodcuts were obtained from the famous Leyden printing and publishing firm of Moretus, successors to the highly famous firm of Plantin. As Johnston notes: “Most of the cuts were those used in the botanicals published by Plantin, although a number of new woodcuts were added after drawings by Johnson and Goodyer” (Cleveland Herbal . . . Collections, #185).
The large thick volume begins with a handsome engraved title-page by John Payne incorporating a bust of the author, urns with flowers and herbs, and full-length seated images of Dioscorides and Theophrastus and of Ceres and Pomona. Replacing the missing initial blank is a later leaf on which is mounted a large engraving of Gerard. The text is printed in italic, roman, and gothic type.
There is, to us, a surprising and very interesting section on grapes and wines. The first part of our caption delights partly in discovery that maize, the “corn” of the U.S., is here called “turkey wheat” — with further note that you can make bread of it, but that the result is pleasing only to “barbarous” tastes! The entry as a whole shows
Gerard at his characteristic best, at once scientifically systematic and engagingly discursive.
Provenance: Neatly lettered name of “W. Younge” at top of title-page; it is tempting to attribute this to William Younge, physician of Sheffield and Fellow of the Royal Linnean Society, whose online correspondence shows him to have been an eager collector of botanical books.
STC (rev. ed.) 11752; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 636/25; Nissen, Botanischebuchs, 698n; Pritzel 3282n; Johnston, The Cleveland Herbal, Botanical, and Horticultural Collections, 185; Woodward, Gerard's Herball: The essence thereof distilled (London, 1964). On the source of the blocks, see: Hunt Botanical Catalogue and Bowen, K. L., & D. Imhof, The illustration of Books Published by the Moretuses (Antwerpen, 1997). For “Turkey Wheat, “ see: Gerard, p. 81; for polenta, p. 71. Late 17th-century English calf, plain style; rebacked professionally in the 20th century, later endpapers. As usual, without the first and last blank leaves. Three leaves with natural paper flaws in blank margins. A very good copy. (34500)
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Geree's
FIRST Vindication — Infant-baptisme
Geree, John. Vindiciae paedo-baptismi: Or, a vindication of infant baptism, in a full answer to Mr. Tombs his twelve arguments alleaged against it in his Exercitation, and whatsoever is rational, or material in his answer to Mr. Marshals Sermon. London: Pr. by John Field for Christopher Meredith, 1646. 4to (19 cm, 7.5"). [8], 71, [1] pp.
$800.00
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First edition of this reply to John Tombes's Two Treatises and an Appendix to Them Concerning Infant-baptisme, both works being part of a vigorously conducted controversy on the topic involving Geree (the Church of England clergyman who wrote The Character of an Old English Puritan), Tombes, Michael Harrison, Stephen Marshall, and others among the most prominent theologians and preachers of the day.
ESTC R200633; Wing (rev. ed.) G603. Recent marbled paper wrappers. Pages very slightly age-toned with one early inked marginal annotation, else clean and crisp. (25024)
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GESSNER with a Little Help from His Friends (Melanchthon & Amerotius)
Gesner, Konrad (a.k.a. Gessner, Conrad). Lexicon graecolatinum postremo nunc supra omnes omnium hactenus accessiones, ingenti vocabulorum numero, per viros multa assiduaq[ue] lectione Graeca exercitatos, ita auctum & emendatum, ut uixsit, quod desiderare amplius linguae eius studiosus possit. Una cum indice vocum Latinarum ac phraseon, qui loco Latinograeci dictionarii exhibetur. Praeterea accedit nunc primùm nomenclatura Graecolatina, vocum tàm facultatum maiorum quàm aliarum etiam disciplinarum, omni generi literaturae haud inutilis futura. In super de mensibus & eorum partibus, quibus etiam nominibus variè appellari soleant, paulò quàm antea copiosior exegesis. Ac denique farrago libellorum quorundam Graecam linguam concernentium: quorum elenchum suo loco reperies. Basileae: [colophon: Ex Officina Hieronymi Curionis, impensis Henrichi Petri, 1554]. Folio (32.5 cm; 12.85"). [4 of 18] ff., 1526 columns, [1] p., [92] ff.
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Later edition of Conrad Gesner's Greek to Latin dictionary with contributions from Melanchthon and Adrianus Amerotius. Nicelyprinted by Hieronymus Curio for Heinrich Petri.
This copy has
evidence of censorship or post-printing editing, for the “Hadrianus Iunius de anni patribus eiusque principio” in the preliminaries has been completely lined through with iron gall ink and in one blank area is visible the word in an early hand, “deleat.” Also, one wonders why all of the preliminary matter other than the list of sources used and the explanation of Greek arithmetic notation has been removed.
Curio's printer's device (Heitz, Basel, 108) appears on the title-page with another version (Heitz: Basel, 111) on both leaf 2D8v and last leaf verso.
Provenance: 17th-century shelfmark in gilt at base of spine ( “V” over “IX”); 18th-century ownership inscription (name only) of José de Giunta Lobo and late-19th-century inscription of James J. Woolsey on title-page. Woolsey's signature again at head of col. 2 of text. 19th-century stamp of defunct library on title-page.
Via WorldCat we locate only three copies in the U.S.
VD16 G1757. Mid-17th-century plain sheep with early (!!) repairs to head and foot of spine and to fore-edges of covers. Lacking 12 leaves of the preliminaries, we believe by someone's intention. Minor worming (mostly pinhole type) touching some letters; early and late leaves dust-soiled; short tears in some margins of early leaves.
An interesting copy of a scarce edition. (27258)
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One Writer's Prose is
Another's Poetry
Gessner, Salomon. Salomon Gessners auserlesene Idyllen in Verse. Berlin: Gedrukt und verlegt von J.F. Unger, 1787. Small 8vo (16.5 cm; 6.5"). 192 pp.
$200.00
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Karl Wilhelm Ramler (1725–98) was a Prussian poet, lyricist, editor, and anthologizer. He here turns a selection of Salomon Gessner's prose Idyllen into poetic hexameters! Gessner (1730–88) was a Swiss painter and prose writer of considerable success.
A volume of modest production values, this begins nicely with a handsome title-page bearing an engraved vignette by Johann Wilhelm Meil (1733–1805) that sets the tone for the contents: lyricism in an idyllic setting.
Leemann-van Elck, Salomon Gessner, 584. Slightly later green paper–covered boards, rubbed and abraded but volume sound. Early leaves lightly soiled and with light foxing, all edges red. (34204)
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Medieval Literature, Famous Sources, Accounts of Chess TOO!
Gesta Rhomanorum cu[m] applicatio[n]ib[us] moralisatis ac misticis. [Strasbourg]: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (i.e., Georg Husner)], 1499. Folio (27.5 cm, 10.75"). [8], XCIII, [1] ff. (the last leaf blank and missing here) .
$8750.00
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Preaching is work, and for some it is hard work that can be made less hard with the use of preaching aids, such as published sermons that can be cribbed in whole or in part, collections of fables and stories with moral lessons to be woven into a sermon, lives of saints to provide inspiration to the congregation, Bible commentary to illuminate a point being made, and so forth. In the late 13th or early 14th century, either in England or somewhere on the European continent, someone or some people compiled one such preaching aid, a volume of exempla (moralizing or illustrative stories) we now know as Gesta romanorum.
The demand for this work, whether in aid of preaching or simply because it was “a good read,” is attested to by its 25 printed editions in Latin, French, German, and Dutch produced between 1473 and 1501. And its significance does not end with its service in aiding preachers and those “just" wanting a good story, for various of its tales were
sources for Chaucer (Man of Law’s Tale), Gower (the story of Darius and his three sons), Hoccleve (the story about Apollonius of Tyre), Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice, King Lear), and other medieval and Renaissance writers.
The compiler(s) of Gesta romanorum cast such a wide net for its contents that it contains two stories about
chess (chapters 166, “De ludo schacorum,” and 178, “De omnium divitiarum matre, providentia”), bringing the book into the canon of early books of the game. Despite the descriptions being somewhat garbled, one is notable for establishing that by the time the compilation was made the queen had the power to move both to squares of different colors and diagonally to squares of the same color.
This incunable edition is basically a page-for-page reprint of the Husner editions of 6 August 1489 and 25 January 1493. The date of publication as given in the colophon has caused some confusion: “Anno nostre salutis .Mccccxcix. In octaua epiphanie d[omi]ni ” Goff and the BMC interpret this to mean 7–12 January 1499.
The text is printed in double columns, in gothic type, 46 lines per column. There are initial spaces, some with guide letters; all initials are indited in neat red ink.
Provenance: Ownership inscription in the top margin of leaf [pi]2r, in Latin, dated 1500 of Matthew Schach, the Carthusian Prior at Prüll, and “tit. Bp. of Salona (Dalmatia), suffragan Bp. of Freising” according to Paul Needham's Index Possessorum Incunabulorum; mid-19th-century ownership signature on title-page of A. De Welles Miller, Charlotte, North Carolina, a Doctor of Divinity, but we do not know of which denomination. He was a devoted collector of early printed books. (Sincere thanks to Eric Johnson [Ohio State University Library] and Eric White [Princeton University Library] for assistance with the Shach provenance note.)
Evidence of readership: Early marginalia next to chapters (or their morals) 15, 16, 28, 33, 36, 43, 47, 55, 72, 80, 91, 92, 106, 111, 125, 128, 135, 144, 164, 173, and 178. A correction to the moral of 115 and an interlinear addition to moral 55.
Goff G-296; GKW 10902; BMC I, 146 (IB. 1928); ISTC ig00296000. Recent ebony-brown calf old style: Round spine with raised bands accented by gilt rules, cream leather title label, fillets extending onto covers from each band to terminate in trefoils; a vertical blind-tooled “rope” to covers beyond the trefoils and covers framed in blind double fillets. Title-leaf stained and with old repairs, pencilling, and ownership indicia as above; very old bookseller's description glued to same not approaching type or inkings. Variable waterstaining throughout; pinhole-type worming, minor and not costing letters; leaf l4 torn in upper margin extending into text with loss a very few words in the top two lines of one column on each page of the leaf. Lacks the final blank (only).
A significant book, and a handsome incunable in a very interesting copy. (39525)
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Neil Gaiman Thought
THIS Art Perfectly Matched Howard's Vision
Gianni, Gary, illus. The Solomon Kane sketchbook. London: Wandering Star, [1997]. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [16] pp.; illus.
$35.00
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Gianni's black-and-white sketches and designs for a deluxe illustrated edition of Robert E. Howard's The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane, opening with introductions by Neil Gaiman and Mike Mignola and featuring excerpts from Howard's text.
Pre-publication advertising ephemera at its best.
Publisher's textured navy paper wrappers, in original brown paper envelope printed in red; envelope corners slightly worn. Wrappers and pages clean and crisp. (31228)
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The Lyf of Seynt Katerine
Gibbs, Henry Hucks. The life and martyrdom of Saint Katerine of Alexandria, virgin and martyr. Now first printed from a manuscript of the early part of the fifteenth century in the possession of Henry Hucks Gibbs, with preface, notes, glossary, and appendix. London: Nichols & Sons, 1884. 4to (26.6 cm, 10.5"). [8], xix, [1], 86, [2], lxii, 188 pp.; 1 col. plt.
$500.00
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First edition, printed for the members of the Roxburghe Club: a 15th-century prose rendition of one of the most popular virgin martyr legends, transcribed from the original manuscript and extensively annotated. The title-page is printed in black and red, and the main text — which preserves the spelling and special characters of the Middle English — is preceded by a color-printed facsimile of the first leaf of the illuminated manuscript. The volume closes with a reissue of the Early English Text Society's printing of Einenkel's edition of an Early Middle English verse rendition of the saint's life, given in Latin and Middle English.
NSTC 0458171. Later full navy morocco, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine gently sunned. Top edges gilt. Two pages with small spots of faint staining, overall gentle age-toning. A nice example of the Roxburghe Club's
impeccable publication standards. (33492)
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The Prophet INSCRIBED
by This Much Admired Lebanese-American Poet,
Artist, & Mystical Writer
Gibran, Kahlil. The prophet. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926. Square small 8vo (25 cm, 8.25"). 84 pp., 12 plates; illus.
$10,000.00
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Gibran was born in Lebanon in 1883 and emigrated to the U.S. with his mother and siblings in 1895. His best-known work is The Prophet, a collection of philosophical, spiritual, mystical, and inspirational poetic essays that have been treasured by generations around the world since being first published in September, 1923. Its illustrations “are reproduced from the original drawings by the author.”
Inscribed copy: “With the kindest thoughts of Kahlil Gibran[,] 1926.”
Provenance: Christmas gift inscription reading, “For my friend Cecile from Barbara Young, Christmas, 1926.” Barbara Young was the pen name of Henrietta Breckenridge Boughton, an American art and literary critic in the 1920s and a poet; she served as Gibran's secretary from 1925 until his death, revised and published his book The Garden of the Prophet, and published a study of his life (This Man from Lebanon).
Publisher's black cloth; gilt faded, top of spine pulled with small loss. Corner of one leaf torn away. Else a very nice copy of
a book not often found inscribed, and with a provenance that goes straight back to the inscriber. (40911)
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History of Convocation. Gibson on Ecclesiastical Law.
Gibson, Edmund. Synodus Anglicana: Or, the constitution and proceedings of an English convocation, shown from the acts and registers thereof, to be agreeable to the principles of an Episcopal church. London: A. & J. Churchill, 1702. 8vo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). [2], xii, [24], 221, [1], 130, [2], 137–76, 169–75, 222–308, [10] pp. (pagination erratic, text complete).
$450.00
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First edition (despite a misleading variant issue with an incorrect publication date of 1672) of this important source of ecclesiastical history and canon law. Not a lawyer himself, Gibson, Bishop of London, nonetheless made a significant contribution to English canon law with his landmark Codex juris ecclesiastici Anglicani; the present work marks his first legal effort, predating the 1713 publication of the Codex, and reflects his dedication to research and scholarship pertaining to the Church of England. The DNB notes that the Synodus Anglicana “came to be regarded as definitive.”
ESTC R24103; Lowndes 888; Wing (rev. ed.) S6383 (noting the true publication date). On Gibson, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and publication labels and gilt-stamped compartment decorations, leather edges tooled in blind. Lower (closed) edges and title-page recto and verso institutionally rubber-stamped; last page with affixed printed errata slip. Back fly-leaf with early inked annotation; text with a very few instances of inked bracketing in an early hand, pages otherwise clean. All edges speckled in red and brown. (25422)
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A Tour of French Colonial Africa
Gide, André. Travels in the Congo. New York: Modern Age Books, Inc., 1937. 12mo. [12], 305, [4] pp.
$30.00
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“Red Seal” paperback edition of this classic travelogue, translated from the original French by Dorothy Bussy.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers, in original printed dust wrapper; dust wrapper partially split along front outer fold and nicked at corners. Pages age-toned. (28931)
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First Irish Edition: Feudal Law & Its Applications, from a
Former Darling of the Nation
Gilbert, Geoffrey, Sir. A treatise of tenures. Containing the original, nature, use, and effect of feudal or common-law tenures. Dublin: Pr. by Alex. M'Culloh for Sarah Cotter, 1754. 8vo (19.8 cm, 7.8"). vii, [1], 144, [36 (index)] pp.
$700.00
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First Irish edition and, notably, printed for a
woman publisher. Sir Geoffrey (also given as Jeffrey or Jeffray) Gilbert (1674–1726), an eminent English judge, became chief baron of the Irish exchequer to the acclaim of all and sundry — until a case he was hearing put the Irish House of Lords in direct conflict with the British, leading to his brief imprisonment and, though much of the situation was beyond his control, much subsequent blame from the Irish for the passing of the Dependency of Ireland on Great Britain Act of 1719. During his otherwise more fortunate career, Gilbert wrote a number of legal works, none of which were published until after his death but all of which were well-received upon their appearance.
This particular treatise was
praised by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1815, and by John Adams; it appears here in its first Irish and third overall edition, following the first of 1730.
ESTC T207893; Sweet & Maxwell (2nd ed.), I, 453:20. Contemporary speckled calf, joints reinforced some time ago, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and blind-tooled bands. Pages age-toned and lightly cockled, with mild to moderate offsetting and spotting; last few leaves of index waterstained. One leaf with printing flaw: final words of 10 lines at bottom of page printed out of true. Not pristine, but sturdy and still respectable. (34394)
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Eric Gill Writes, His Son-in-Law Draws
Gill, Eric, & Denis Tegetmeier. Unholy trinity. London: J. M. Dent & Sons (for Hague & Gill Ltd. [prs.]), [colophon: 1938]. Square 8vo (21 cm; 8"). [12] ff. (i.e., [24] pp.), illus.
$145.00
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In this collaborative work Gill supplied eleven short essays and his son-in-law (husband of Petra) provided the eleven full-page illustrations. The essays are: “Unholy trinity,” “Unholy alliance,” “Work and leisure,” “Paradox of plenty,” “Wheels within wheels,” “Yes, we have no bananas,” “Europa and the bull,” “Swine,” “Cannon fodder,” “Safe for Christianity,” and “Melancholia.” They treat of social problems, war and society, and capitalism.
Gill (second ed.) 37. Publisher's pink paper wrappers printed on front in blue, housed in matching pink and blue paper envelope. Pamphlet in fine condition; envelope with bumped edges and corners and a few spots of smudging. (35362)
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Poems of Town, Country, & Church from the
Bodoni Press
Giordani, Luigi Uberto. Versi di Luigi Uberto Giordani. Parma: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1809. 8vo “piccolo” (17.3 cm, 6.8"). 4 vols. in 2. I & II: [8], 99 (9-16 supplied twice), [9], 103, [1] pp. III & IV: [2], xx, 133, [7], 123, [1] pp.
$250.00
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SOLE EDITION, Bodoni printing: Verses from a poet-lawyer (1753–1818) known in his day both as an orator and as a jurist who taught criminal law at the University of Parma, now remembered primarily as the author of the funeral oration for Ferdinand, Duke of Parma. The first two volumes comprise four pieces “fatti in Villa” (“Il Monte,” “Il Bosco,” “Il Colle,” and “Il Torrente”), and four pieces “fatti in Città” (“Il Teatro,” “Le Tombe,” “Il Passeggio,” and “Il Foro”), while the third volume offers psalm translations (with
Latin and Italian given on facing pages) and the fourth a collection of miscellaneous poems. The author's dedication (“Agli amici l'autore”) is set in a beautiful rounded italic, and the main text in a minute but legible roman.
Provenance: Front pastedowns each with bookplate of Robert Wayne Stilwell.
Brooks 1063; De Lama, II, 187; Giani 189 (p. 74). Modern full crimson morocco, covers framed in single gilt fillet, spines with gilt-stamped title and volume numbers, gilt-dotted raised bands, and gilt-stamped floral decorations in compartments, in a matching cloth slipcase; original paper spine labels for the four volumes affixed to front pastedowns. Page edges untrimmed; one leaf in vol. I with chip out of lower margin and with signature 2 (pp. 9–16) bound in twice. A very few scattered small spots to first three volumes, fourth volume slightly more noticeably so affected, pages overall clean and crisp.
A handsome set. (40196)
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“PAY or
I'll Tell the Truth About You”
Giovio, Paolo. Pauli Jovii Novocomensis episcopi Nucerini Illustrium virorum vitae. Quibus nunc accesserunt Turcarum imperatorum vitae, eodem autore, ex Italico in Latinum conversae, cum genuino indice. Basileae [i.e., Basel]: Per Henricum Petri et Petrum Pernam, 1567. 8vo. 2 vols. in 1. (891 [i.e. 893], [3] pp. (pp. [895–96] blank); 482 [i.e., 472], [104] pp.).
$1450.00
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Renaissance collector, writer, and rascal, Giovio's most important writing is his “Lives of Illustrious Men.” Written in what is often called “law style” and clearly in part an outgrowth of his passion for collecting oil portraits of the great, it has among its nearly 200 biographies a judicious sprinkling of reports on contemporaries who were solicited for financial contributions, which solicitations were thinly disguised blackmail demands.
Those who paid had much embellished biographies; those who didn't were treated harshly and faults and sins were exposed ruthlessly. Among the booty Giovio thus obtained were two houses and much gold and silver.
Added to this edition is Francsco Negri's Latin translation of Giovio's Commentario de le cose de' Turchi (“De rebuvs et vitis imperatorum Turcarum usque ad Solymanum”; vol. 2, pp. 390–[472]).
Provenance: 17th-century ownership signature of “Ant. de Sedorne” on title-page; two 19th-century stamps on same, one unidentified and the other of the “Seminarium Sancti Nicolai de Cardueto”; and stamp on verso of same, of the Redemptorist Fathers of the Mount St. Alphonsus Seminary (deaccessioned).
VD16 G2077; Adams G666. Early vellum with precursor yapp edges, author/title inked old-style on top page edges as well as on spine; text block recased and new ties attached. Text browned in places, light waterstaining in some lower portions, stamps as noted above, else a good++ copy and
an impressively thick fistful of book. (34405)
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Freed from GRINDING Poverty in London,
a Writer
Looks Back at Life
Gissing, George, ed. The private papers of Henry Ryecroft. Portland, ME: Thomas Bird Mosher, 1921. 4to (19.4 cm, 7.6"). lxiv, 246, [2] pp.
$45.00
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“Gissing's last and most beautiful book,” according to Mosher. The lightly fictionalized memoir — stylized as an edited, seasonally organized presentation of a deceased author's journal — is preceded by an introductory survey of Gissing's work, written by Thomas Secombe. This edition was printed on handmade Van Gelder paper, with the type distributed afterwards; only
700 copies were printed on paper, with an additional 25 on Japan vellum.
Hatch, Mosher, 688; Bishop, Mosher, 313. Publisher's quarter tan paper and blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label; spine moderately sunned, with extremities rubbed and one tiny fleck to one compartment. Back hinge (inside) cracked, front hinge tender, volume yet holding firmly; as usual, without the dust jacket or the slipcase. Overall, a very good copy of
an interesting book and an attractive Mosher production. (34463)
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Bodoni Edition: “All' Amica” “Il Rossetto” “La Chitarra” & Other Poems
Giusti, Giovanni Battista. Versi di Gio. Batista Giusti. Parma: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1801. 16mo (13.3 cm, 5.23"). [2], 67, [1] pp.
$150.00
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Twelve pieces from a
Bolognese engineer, scientific instrument maker, and amateur poet in a graceful, petite 16mo variant printed in the same year as the Bodoni quarto first edition.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplates of Brian Douglas Stilwell and Robert Wayne Stilwell.
Brooks 818; De Lama, II, 145; Giani 141 (p. 66). Contemporary marbled paper–covered boards, spine with hand-inked paper label, rubbed and fadedl; front joint cracked with spine wanting to pull away from text block although still attached. Back pastedown with small inked annotation and pencilled collation note. Scattered minor foxing, two pages with light offsetting from now-absent laid-in item, pages overall clean with untrimmed edges.
An uncommon Bodoni production. (40185)
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Classic Invaluable
Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall. Encyclopedia of the book. Second edition with a new introduction by Donald Farren. New Castle (DE): Oak Knoll Press & the British Library, 2001. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 551, [1] pp.
$75.00
Marvelously inclusive and detailed encyclopedia of book, printing, and binding terms. A classic, and Donald Farren's introduction is a welcome addition.
Publisher's cloth, dust jacket, and contents as new. (6107)
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The Usefulness of
New SCIENCE & Its Instruments
Glanvill, Joseph. Plus ultra: Or, the progress and advancement of knowledge since the days of Aristotle. London: Pr. for James Collins, 1668. Sm. 8vo (17.8 cm, 7"). 36, 149, [5] pp. (1 final adv. f. lacking).
$1500.00
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First edition: “An account of some of the most remarkable late improvements of practical, useful learning: to encourage philosophical endeavours. Occasioned by a conference with one of the notional way.”
Glanvill defends the advances of science and the Royal Society's scientific method in this rather pugnacious response to controversy caused by an “enrag'd Antagonist” (the Puritan theologian Robert Crosse) who “reported [the author] an Enemy to the Scriptures” (p. 141) and charged him with atheism. Here, Glanvill describes recent progress in chemistry, anatomy, algebra, geometry, astronomy, geography, and natural history, along with advances in instruments such as the telescope, microscope, thermometer, and barometer.
ESTC R14223; Wing (rev. ed.) G820. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather label, lacking final advertisement leaf (only); imprimatur leaf mounted, small repairs to upper margins of title-page and first few leaves. Pages browned and cockled, two with a few letters partially obscured from apparent adhesion one to the other some time ago; text overall very readable. A few instances of annotations, mostly biographical, in an early inked hand.
Despite internal wear, now solid for use and attractive on shelf. (41357)
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CAT-Master Dick becomes London's Lord Mayor: Illustrated Scottish Version
(Glasgow Chapbook). The history of Whittington and his cat. Glasgow: A. Paterson, [ca. 1820]. 16mo (10.3 cm, 4.05"). 16 pp.; illus.
$150.00
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Scarce Glasgow toybook version of the classic story, with
a total of eight woodcut illustrations: a vignette of the cat on the front wrapper and one of a wagon on the back, plus six scenes within the text. A search of WorldCat finds only one U.S. institution reporting holding this Paterson printing (Princeton).
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers, slightly faded, spine rubbed; front wrapper and first few leaves with horizontal crease. Pages with light offsetting, otherwise clean. (41178)
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