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Angels & Allegories for
Children
Todd, John. The angel of the iceberg: and other stories, illustrating great moral truths. Northampton: Bridgman & Childs; New York: Sheldon & Co.; Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co., 1859. 8vo (17.3 cm, 6.8"). 376 pp.; 2 plts.
$55.00
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First edition. This collection of edifying Christian tales includes “Niblan the Great and the Little Angel,” “The Day Lily and the Old Mahogany-Tree,” “Little Mufta and the Valley of Sorrow,” “The Island of Convicts and the Young Prince,” “The Angel of Toil and the Great Mill,” and others, along with the title story, mostly written by the pastor of the First Congregational Church in Pittsfield, Massachusetts — although he notes in the preface that some (which are unidentified) were written by one of his children. The volume opens with a steel-engraved tropical view and an additional engraved title-page done by S. Cloues.
Provenance: Front free endpaper and front fly-leaf each with contemporary pencilled inscription: “Miss L. Hart, Poughkeepsie, New York.”
Publisher's textured olive cloth, covers with embossed strapwork medallion surrounded by blind-stamped ivy border, spine with gilt-stamped title and ivy decoration; cloth attractively faded, extremities slightly rubbed, binding cocked with sewing loosening slightly. Pages with scattered instances of spotting, generally clean. (34793)
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Seeing a
Renaissance Man's MIND through His Letters
Tolomei, Claudio. Delle lettere di M. Clavdio Tolomei libri VII. Vinegia: Presso Altobello Salicato, 1572. 8vo (16 cm, 6.25"). 296, [8] ff.
$900.00
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Emily Dickinson famously observed that “a letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.” So it is that here in this collection of Renaissance-era letters we meet the mind of Tolomei (1492–1555), a Humanist poet, diplomat, philologist, literary critic, and Catholic bishop. He counted among his many correspondents such notables as Anibal Caro, King Francis I, Aretino, Paolo Manuzio, Girolamo Ruscelli, and Bernardino Ochino; and among the women of his era Giulia Gonzaga, Vittoria Farnese, Camilla Saracini, Catherine de' Medici, Lavinia Sanvitale, Countess Olimpia Tolomei, and the Archduchess Margaret of Austria (1480–1530).
Topics found in this collection of correspondence are wide ranging: Dante and terze rime, poetic style, preference for the Tuscan dialect, the fountains and viaducts of Rome, proper use of honorifics in letters, the letter “H” in Tuscan Italian and whether it is aspirated or not, teaching the alphabet to beginners, how a prince should react to those who speak ill of him, and the use of Greek words and terms.
This edition “con nuova aggiunta ristampati, & con somma diligenza da molti errori corretti” is printed in italic, and divided into seven “books,” each “book” beginning with a woodcut factotum initial. The printer's handsome woodcut device graces the title-page and the volume ends with three useful indices.
Provenance: Black-stamped supra-libros (faded to “silver”) of Paulus von Pruan (1548–1616), the Nuremberg merchant and collector, and his signature on the front free endpaper; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Adams T789; EDIT16 CNCE 30511. Contemporary limp vellum (lacking front pastedown) with slightly yapp edges; evidence that an old manuscript leaf was repurposed in construction of spine and of now-absent ties. Occasionally a little old very light staining or foxing; clean and nice.
A desirable copy. (38143)
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Printed in London — (Re-)Bound inTrenton
Toone, William. The chronological historian; or a record of public events, historical, political, biographical, literary, domestic, and miscellaneous; principally illustrative of the ecclesiastical, civil, naval, and military history of Great Britain and its dependencies, from the invasion of Julius Cæsar to the present time... Second edition. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green, 1828. 8vo (21.8 cm, 8.55"). 2 vols. I: [1] f., ii, 664 pp. II: [1] f., 747, [1] pp.
$250.00
Second edition of this ambitious (if, necessarily, much-abridged) timeline of British history, originally published in 1826. Toone, who seems to have been greatly interested in the organization and summarization of information, also published The magistrate's manual, or, A summary of the duties and powers of a justice of the peace and A glossary and etymological dictionary, of obsolete and uncommon words, antiquated phrases, and proverbs illustrative of early English literature.Binding: Mid- to late-19th-century binding, with binder’s ticket of the True American Bindery of Trenton, NJ.
Half morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped titles and blind-stamped decorative devices; edges and sides moderately rubbed with a bit of paper skinned from cover of vol. II. Most pages with some degree of foxing. Handsome on shelf, solid in hand. (12431)

Picaresque Aventuras — An ANIMATED Autobiography
Torres Villarroel, Diego de. Vida, ascendencia, nacimiento, crianza y aventuras del Doctor Don Diego de Torres Villarroel. Madrid: En la Oficina de Don Benito Cano, 1789. 4to (22.5 cm; 9"). [4] ff., 115, [1 (ad)] pp. [bound and apparently issued with his] El ermitaño y Torres: aventura curiosa, en que se trata de la piedra filosofal. Madrid: En la Oficina de Don Benito Cano, 1789. 4to (22.5 cm; 9"). 131, [1 (blank) pp.
$850.00
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Torres Villarroel's autobiography reads like a picaresque novel because he really did lead such a wild and adventurous life. Son of a bookseller, he left home (Salamanca) little educated (but an avid student) and “took to the road, becoming in turn apprentice hermit in Tras os Montes, dancer in Coimbra, bullfighter in Lisbon, musician, and failed smuggler” (Oxford Companion). He authored a successful series of almanacs (beginning in 1721), wrote on witchcraft, and in 1726 won the open competition for the chair of mathematics at the University of Salamanca.
His “Vida” is considered one of “the most important in the Spanish language” (Oxford Companion). The first edition of the autobiography appeared in 1743 and subsequent editions through that of 1758 added events and adventures of later decades of his life, the 1743 edition having covered only the first forty years. This edition, curiously, reprinted the text of the 1743 edition, thus leaving off his fifth and sixth decades; or
perhaps that is not “curious,” as the years covered here were more than arguably the most exciting!
Palau 337551 & 337410. Oxford Companion to Spanish Literature 575–76. Quarter mottled sheep, “Valenciana” style, round spine with raised bands accented in gilt above and below; boards covered in a handsome marbled paper and with a matching gilt rule along the leather's edges. Waterstaining almost throughout, often light, sometimes obtrusive, never ghastly; heavy paper strong and good.
Content, ENGAGING! (11657)
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Feuding Friends & Jesuit's Bark
Torti, Francesco. Ad criticam dissertationem De abusu chinae chinae Mutinensibus medicis perperam objecto a clarissimo quondam viro Bernardino Ramazzino. Mutinae: Typis Bertholomaei Soliani, 1715. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). viii, 191, [1] pp.
$750.00
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Torti, a professor in the University of Modena, was the first to systematically study
the effect of cinchona in the treatment of malaria. He recommended the use of the drug for a period of eight days beyond the febrile stage of malaria and in 1712 published Therapeutice specialis ad febres quasdam perniciosas, inopinatò, ac repentè lethales, una verò china china, peculiari methodo ministrata, sanabiles, which pushed that advice and seriously displeased his senior colleague Bernardino Ramazzini, who in 1714 took Torti to task in his De abusu chinae chinae.
The present work is Torti's reply to Ramazzini's De abusu chinae chinae. Needless to say the Modena University colleagues and friends were soon erstwhile friends.
Blake, NLM 18th Century, p. 455; Alden & Landis 715/174; Waring, Bibliotheca therapeutica, I, 341. 18th-century quarter vellum with block-printed paper sides; outside lower corner of front board bent but not breaking. Internally a very good copy. (40092)
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Presages of Death — Strange & Unexplainable Apparitions
[Tregortha, John]. News from the invisible world; or interesting anecdotes of the dead; containing a particular survey of remarkable and well authenticated accounts of apparitions, ghosts, spectres, and visions, together with some remarkable dreams, impulses, and other ominous circumstances which have led to the most remarkable discoveries, some of which has been extracted from the works of the Rev. John Wesley, and other eminent divines. York: C. Croshaw, [1810]. 8vo (18.2 cm, 7.16"). Col. frontis., 34, [2] pp.
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Shocking tales of frightful figures, distressing but accurate premonitions, and foul murders — interspersed with dire warnings against “putting off religion to another day” (p. 35). The work opens with
a hand-colored wood-engraved frontispiece depicting a family reacting to a glowing specter in the woods.
This little pamphlet was extracted from a longer (and also more specifically Christian) collection of ghost stories originally published ca. 1806 by Tregortha, an itinerant Methodist preacher who later became a printer and bookseller. The present York printing is extremely scarce, with WorldCat and NSTC both finding
only one reported location (the British Library). Our suggested publication date is based on that listing.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC N860. Later red leather–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped title; lightly worn, with a few small scuffs. Pages age-toned with scattered light spots, some upper outer corners bumped. One lower outer corner torn away, not touching text; final leaf with upper two-thirds torn away and repaired with blank paper with significant loss of text, though the verso does show the printer's “finis” vignette as almost entirely preserved.
Unusual, intriguing, and priced with an eye more on its faults than on its fascinations. (40705)
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Owned by (At Least) Two American Doctors
Trotter on “Nervous Diseases”
Trotter, Thomas. A view of the nervous temperament; being a practical inquiry into the increasing prevalence, prevention, and treatment of those diseases commonly called nervous, bilious, stomach & liver complaints; indigestion; low spirits, gout, &c. Troy, NY: Wright, Goodenow, & Stockwell (colophon: Salem, NY: Pr. by J.P. Reynolds), 1808. 12mo (17.5 cm, 6.89"). 338, [2] pp.
$275.00
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First American edition of this comprehensive overview of Georgian thought on physical, mental, environmental, and inherited causes of “nervous diseases,” as well as their cures. Written by a Scottish naval surgeon (and poet), this influential treatise — first published in London in the previous year — addresses the interconnectivity of mind and body as well as questions of gender, class, and urbanization; it is
one of the earliest books on psychiatric concerns printed in the United States.
Provenance: Title-page with affixed printed slip of Alfred Baylies (1787–1873) of Taunton, MA, an eminent physician after whom a local Masonic lodge was named; one text page with his now-faint inked ownership inscription. Most recently in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., one of the nation's leading forensic psychiatrists and a director of Penn's Center for Studies in Social-Legal Psychiatry, sans indicia.
Shaw & Shoemaker 16348; Austin, Early American Medical Imprints, 1929. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped green leather title-label; spine and edges rubbed, front joint just starting from head with binding sturdy and holding well. Moderate foxing throughout. One leaf with a small hole, not touching text; one leaf with paper flaw running through text without affecting legibility.
A solid copy in its original binding, with nice provenance. (41514)
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Homelessness Human & CANINE . . .
Trowbridge, J.T. The vagabonds. With illustrations by F.O.C. Darley. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1883. [20] pp.; 4 plts., illus.
$95.00
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Later edition of this sad and (convincing)
temperance tale of a homeless fiddler and his faithful dog; two promising lives blighted. Illustrated with plates and in-text engravings by Darley.
Binding: Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, front cover black- and gilt-stamped with vignette and decorative title, spine with gilt-stamped title. All page edges gilt.
Binding showing minor wear over extremities. Front fly-leaf with gift inscription dated 1885; pages with light spots of foxing, otherwise clean. (5780)

Noble Knights & Fair Infantas
Trueba y Cosío, Joaquín Telesforo de. The romance of history: Spain. London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1872]. 8vo (19.75 cm, 7.7"). viii, 579, [1] pp.; 8 plts.
$75.00
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Melodramatically thrilling romantic vignettes, some quoting poetry from Lockhart's renditions of “ancient Spanish ballads,” with accompanying historical summaries covering each period of time. The work is illustrated with eight plates and a number of in-text engravings; this is a single-volume edition, part of the Chandos Classics series.
NSTC 0647541. Contemporary half green goat and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and compartment decorations, top edge gilt; joints and extremities rubbed, inner portion of leather on front cover with patches of light discoloration. Front free endpaper with adhesions from now-absent label. Pages mildly age-toned, with a few instances of light spotting.
Indeed a very romantic view (in both text and image) of Spanish fact mixed with fiction. (34883)
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“Complementary Opposites. At Least I Hope So.” — One of Fifty Copies Only
Tucker, Alan, & Morris Cox. In line. Stroud; Gloucestershire: The Stilt Press [& The Gogmagog Press], 1988. Sm. 4to (26 cm; 10.25"). 2 vols. I: [10], 11–21, [4] pp.; illus. II: [11] ff.; illus.
$300.00
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Wickedly original collages from artist and
Gogmagog Press owner Morris Cox, here published with some Alan Tucker poems inspired by them; an introduction supplies notes on the somewhat “complicated” process of collaboration from the participants' points of view. Illustrations here were “designed and photoprinted at the Gogmagog Private Press” by a process using Cox's original collages and a copy machine, and have been printed on double-folded Japanese handmade paper. One volume contains illustrations by Cox and Tucker's poems, while the other offers Cox's illustrations and the Gogmagog Press mark as a colophon.
The poem volume colophon states “Published in one edition only, fifty copies signed and numbered,” of which this is
number 39. Bookseller Bertram Rota was responsible for distribution.
Binding: Publisher's lime green cloth with a black and while collage-inspired paper label on each front cover; the pair housed in lime green cloth slipcase with black paper sides and paper labels on front and spine.
Chambers 70. Bound as above, ink on pastedowns somewhat tacky with some offsetting, one leaf attached to pastedown with partial tear to fold; light to moderate age-toning affecting Japanese paper, otherwise bright and clean. Definitely an engaging piece of art. (37197)
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Review of Improvements in the
Care & Treatment of Mental Illness
Tuke, Daniel Hack. Rules and list of the present members of the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane; and the prize essay entitled Progressive changes which have taken place since the time of Pinel in the moral management of the insane and the various contrivances which have been adopted instead of mechanical restraint. London: Published for the Society by John Churchill, 1854. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). 6, 8, [2], 9–119, [3] pp.
$600.00
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Psychiatric care came naturally to Daniel Tuke (1827–95): His great-grandfather William Tuke and his grandfather Henry Tuke co-founded The Retreat, an institution credited with revolutionizing the treatment of the mentally ill, and his father continued the Tuke family presence at the leadership level of the hospital.
Daniel took his medical degree at Heidelberg in 1853 and then visited foreign asylums observing treatments and innovations. Returning to York, he became visiting physician to the York Retreat and the York Dispensary, lecturing also at the York School of Medicine on mental diseases.
In addition to his prize essay, this volume contains a short abstract or classification of cases contributed by
Sir Alexander Morison.
Provenance: In a fine hand in ink on verso of title-page: “Presented to the Library of the Charing Cross Hospital Med. College by Jabez Hogg, Esq. 29 Sept. 1856.” Hogg was a prominent ophthalmic surgeon and for two years vice-president of the Medical Society of London. Most recently in the library of Robert Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
Publisher's cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title; dust-soiled overall, spine cloth chipped and sunned, ex-library with bookplate and several rubber-stamps. Clean and sound.
An important and now scarce work on the care of the mentally ill, residential treatment, mental hospitals, and physical restraint. (39786)
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“Horse-Hoing” — 6
NIFTY Fold-Out Plates
Tull, Jethro. The horse-hoing husbandry: Or, an essay on the principles of tillage and vegetation.... London: Pr. for the author, and sold by G. Strahan, T. Woodward, A. Miller, J. Stagg, and J. Brindley, 1733. Folio (30.2 cm, 11.875"). [4], x, 200 pp.; pp. [201–202]. 6 fold-out plts. [bound with] Tull, Jethro. A supplement to the essay on horse-hoing husbandry.... London: Pr. for and sold by the author, and may be had at Mr. Mills's, London, at John Aitkins's, Esq, in Edinburgh, and at the Bear in Hungerford, Berks., 1736. Folio. pp. [203–205], 206–69; [1] pp.
$1500.00
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Improvements in farming founded on a scientific basis made British agriculture one of the strongest in Europe in the 18th century. Though called to the bar, Jethro Tull (1674–1741) never practiced law, but devoted himself to farming on land that had belonged to his father. From the beginning he set about trying to discover ways of doing things better, including inventing a number of implements, as this work reveals both in text and in image. His work proved very successful—Tull’s “seed drills” revolutionized planting techniques—and it saw a number of editions; it was translated into French, whence it proved influential on the Continent. This volume’s
six beautifully engraved, pleasantly intelligible plates (“W. Thorpe, sculp.) illustrate some of Tull’s inventions, including improved plows and drills for planting seeds.

First printed in London in 1731, Horse-hoing is here (likely) the fourth edition. Bound with it is the first edition of the interesting Supplement issued in 1736, directed largely to answering Tull’s detractors. The first title is fairly widely held, in libraries; the latter, much less so.
Goldsmiths’-Kress 7065; ESTC T81915 and N24607. Contemporary calf with remnants of gilt; dry, flaking, and partially gone to red, with some chips to edges, corners, and spine tips; old repairs to joints. Remnants of bookplate on front pastedown. Old water/mildew damage to lower margins, occasionally making its way a bit into text; several leaves repaired, long since. Plates generally quite clean and always pleasing, with faintest waterstaining to lower portion of plate 6 (only). All edges speckled red. (11286)

“Horse-Hoeing”
— COBBETT's
Introduction
Tull, Jethro. The horse-hoeing husbandry: or, a treatise on the principles of tillage and vegetation, wherein is taught a method of introducing a sort of vineyard culture into the corn-fields, in order to increase their product and diminish the common expense. By Jethro Tull. London: William Cobbett, 1829. 8vo. xxiv, 466 pp., 1 plt. (included in pagination).
$300.00
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Second Cobbett edition of this work on scientific farming that was first published in 1731 to some little controversy concerning “plagarism.” This edition contains William Cobbett's lengthy introduction “explanatory of some circumstances connected with the History and Division of the Work; and containing an account of certain experiments of recent date.” Illustrated with a single full-page woodcut diagram accompanying the chapter on roots.
Published at the beginning of renewed interest in the U.S. and England in “scientific agriculture.”
Goldsmiths'-Kress 25812. Publisher's blind-embossed green cloth, rebacked with much of old spine unobtrusively reapplied. Binding a little soiled and spine darkened with gilt of title dimmed; tips of corners chipped. Instances of dust-soiling at some top margins; one leaf with loss and soiling along outer edge without affecting text. Ex-library with old rubber-stamp on the title-page and several other pages. (24439)
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An Insider's Guide to
BATH
Tunstall, James. Rambles about Bath and its neighbourhood. Bath: R.E. Peach, 1856. 12mo (17.5 cm; 7"). Frontis., viii pp., [1] f., 304 pp., 13 plts, fold. map, illus.
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Tunstall was a
Bath booster big-time. A graduate of the University of Edinburgh, he was physician to the Eastern Dispensary of Bath and seven years resident medical officer of the Bath Hospital; his guide book to his city first appeared in 1847, with subsequent editions in 1848, 1851, 1856, 1876, 1888, 1889, and 1900. Besides the locale's follies, Roman ruins, chapels, farms, overlooks, etc., he offers considerable information on the hospitals, baths, and healing wells.
This would have been
a definite must for hydrotherapy and other tourists. Nicely illustrated, it bears a great map.
Provenance: Ownership signature of Mrs. Edward Brown, Belmont House, 1884. (This may well be the Mr. & Mrs. E. Brown whose “Belmont House” dates from ca. 1880 and is located in Browns Cove, Albemarle County, VA).
Publisher's green cloth, stamped in blind on covers and lettered in gilt on spine; text clean. A nice copy. (33529)
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A 30-Item One-Author Sampling of
Bodoni “Job Printing”
Turchi, Adeodati. Collection of Bodoni editions of 30 works by Turchi. [Parma: Dalla Stamperia Reale], 1788–96. 12mo & 8vo. In 3 vols.
$2500.00
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30 different, very short works by Turchi, a Capuchin friar who rose to be Bishop of Parma, plus six duplicates of which two are incomplete. All are prime examples of job printing, executed in the same small elegant font, each page with the same border of type ornaments and a small composed ornament above that; present as below are expositions of faith and doctrine, pastoral letters, remissions and pardons, and many, many homilies. Some entries have, on their first page, a crisply neat rendering of the bishop's coat of arms.
Sermons, pastoral letters, and homilies are among the types of job printing that have provided necessary cash flow for all presses throughout time. And because of their ephemeral and narrow-interest nature combined with their short print runs, they tend to be among the scarcest productions of the Bodoni Press.
VOLUME 1: Epostola. 21 Septembris 1788 (Sallander No. 46); Indulto. 18 February 1789 (Sallander No. 51); Lettera pastorale. No date. (Brooks 1348); Omelia recitata al popolo. 1789, (Sallander No. 54); Indulto. 1790. (Sallander No. 55);Omelia. Recitata nel giorno di Pentecoste, 1790 (Sallander No. 56); Omelia. Recitata nel giorno dell' Assunzione di Maria Vergine. 1790 (Sallander No. 57); Omelia. Recitata al popolo nel giorno si San Bernardo. 1790 (Sallander No. 58); Indulto pubblicato. 1791 (Sallander No. 59); Omelia. Recitata nel giorno di Pentecoste, 1791 (Brooks 432); Omelia. Recitata nel giorni di Tutti li Santi. 1791 (Brooks 433); Omelia. Recitata nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1791 (Sallander No. 61); Indulto. Per la Quaresima. 1792 (Sallander No. 65).
VOLUME 2: Indulto. Per la Quaresima. 1792 (Sallander No. 65; second copy); Omelia. Recitara nel giorno di Pentecoste, 1792 (Sallander No. 66); Omelia. Recitata al suopopolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1792 (Brooks 498); Omelia. Detta al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1792 (Sallander No. 67); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1793 (Sallander No. 70); Omelia. Diretta al suo popolo nel giorno di Pentecoste. 1793 (Sallander No. 72); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1793 (Sallander No. 73); Omelia. Detta al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1793 (Sallander No. 74); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1794 (Sallander No. 76); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Pentecoste. 1794 (Sallander No. 77); Omelia. Recitata dopo la messa pontificale in lode del B. Bartolommeo di Breganze.1794 (Brooks 582); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1794 (Sallander No. 79); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1794 (Sallander No. 80); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1795 (Sallander No. 81).
VOLUME 3: Indulto. La Quaresima. 1793 (Sallander No. 70; second copy); Omelia. Detta al suo popolo nel Giorno di San Bernardo, 1793 (Sallander No. 74; second copy – incomplete, lacking two leaves containing pages 29 to 32); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1794 (Sallander No. 76; second copy – incomplete, lacking two leaves consisting of first blank leaf and title); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Pentecoste. 1794 (Sallander No. 77; second copy); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1794 (Sallander No. 79; second copy); Omelia. Recitata dopo la messa pontificale in lode del B. Bartolommeo di Breganze. 1794 (Brooks 582; second copy); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1794 (Sallander No. 80; second copy); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Pentecoste. 1795 (Sallander No. 82); Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di Tutti I Santi, 1795 (Sallander No. 83). Omelia. Recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo, 1794 (Sallander No. 84); Indulto. La Quaresima. 1796 (Sallander No. 86).
Two volumes in contemporary marbled boards, and one volume in boards with repurposed antique marbled paper, that volume with top edge gilt. Some pages are trimmed at foremargins, most not; vol. II retains a silk placemarker.
All volumes are clean, sound, and attractive. (40140)
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Two Bodoni-Printed Sermons
Turchi, Adeodato. Omelia dall' illustrissimo e reverendissimo Monsignore Fr. Adeodato Turchi ... recitata nel giorno di Pentecoste dell'anno MDCCXCII sopra i beni temporali della cattolica chiesa. [Parma: Dalla stamperia reale, 1793]. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.13"). [4], xxix, [1] pp. [with the same author's] Omelia ... recitata al suo popolo nel giorno di San Bernardo dell'anno MDCCXCII. [Parma: Dalla stamperia reale, 1793]. 8vo. [2], xxxii pp.
$185.00
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Two homilies from Turchi (first name sometimes given as Diodato), a Capuchin friar who rose to be Bishop of Parma, and who favored the Bodoni Press for his printing needs. Each piece opens with a crisp rendering of the bishop's coat of arms.
Sermons, pastoral letters, and homilies are among the types of job printing that have provided necessary cash flow for all presses throughout time. And because of their ephemeral and narrow-interest nature combined with their short print runs, they tend to be among the scarcest productions of the Bodoni Press.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplates of “G.P.C.” (Pegasus design) and Fratelli Salimbeni (with shelving designation).
Brooks, Compendiosa bibliografia i edizioni Bodoniane, 497. Contemporary marbled paper–covered boards, faded and rubbed; bookplates as above. Page edges untrimmed. Light foxing, as typically seen in these Bodoni printings. (40157)
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Turgenev in Love
Turgenev, Ivan; Alec Waugh, intro.; Lajos Szalay, illus. The torrents of spring. Westport, CT: The Limited Editions Club, 1976. Tall 8vo (24.8 cm, 9.75"). xiii, [3], 186, [4] pp.; 8 col. plts., illus.
$100.00
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This Limited Editions Club edition of Turgenev's story of romantic love and regret— one of his few works without political nuance — is illustrated by Hungarian artist Lajos Szalay with
eight full-page illustrations in beautiful, rich color, and ten line drawings within the text. British novelist Alec Waugh provides an introduction to the Russian novel translated by Constance Garnett.
This is numbered copy 1063 out of 2000 printed,
signed at the colophon by the illustrator. The monthly newsletter is laid in.
Binding: Publisher's quarter green calf with marbled paper–covered sides and gilt lettering to spine, done by the Tapley-Rutter Company.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 502. Binding as above. In original green paper–covered slipcase with cream label printed in black; some fading to sides.
A bright and appealing copy. (39031)
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Cautionary Poems for Children ILLUSTRATED
Turner, Elizabeth. The daisy; or, cautionary stories in verse. Adapted to the ideas of children from four to eight years old. London: Pr. for J. Harris, 1807 (i.e., 1899). 12mo (12.5 cm, 4.92"). 66, [4 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
$75.00
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The Leadenhall Press facsimile of the first edition, illustrated with
30 wood engravings done after the original copperplates. The publisher's note says “The little books printed about a hundred years ago 'for the amusement of little masters and misses' must now be looked for in the cabinets of the curious. The type is quaint, the illustrations quainter, and the grayish tinted paper abounds in obtrusive specks of embedded dirt [not found here!]. For the covers, gaudy Dutch gilt paper was used, or paper with patchy blobs of startlingly contrasted colours laid on with a brush by young people. The text, always amusing, is of course redolent of earlier days.”
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Publisher's brightly colored printed paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label, back cover with printed paper illustration laid on; slightly darkened, spine paper and corners chipped.
Fragile but CHARMING. (41280)
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Hebrew Scholarship
Tychsen, Oluf Gerhard. Tentamen de variis codicum Hebraicorum vet. test. mss. generibus, a Judaeis et Non-Judaeis descriptis: Eorum in classes certas distributione et antiquitatis et bonitatis characteribus. Rostochii: Impensis Io. Christ. Koppii, 1772. 8vo (18.2 cm, 7.1"). 372 pp.
$140.00
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First edition: Old Testament textual criticism and exegesis, written by a well-regarded German Orientalist, scholar of Hebrew, and professor at the University of Rostock. The text is in Latin with extensive Hebrew sections, and some quotations in Greek and German; the colophon gives Rostochii, ex officina Mulleriana.
Provenance: Title-page recto with small inked inscription reading “Diederichs, 1772.”
Recent plain brown paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Title-page institutionally pressure-stamped in lower margin, title-page verso with inked ownership “medallion” dated 1793, first text page with inked numeral in lower margin. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean and crisp; one early inked shouldernote in Latin, in the same hand as an annotation on the front fly-leaf. (31565)
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Facts, Figures, Who's Who, & What's Where
Unanúe, José Hipólito. Guia política, eclesiástica y militar del Virreynato del Perú. Para el año de 1794. [Lima]: Impresa en la Imprenta Real de los Niños Huérfanos, [1794]. 8vo (15 cm, 5.875"). [8], xii, [2], 306 pp.; 6 fold. plts., [1] fold. map.
$1750.00
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Unanúe (1755–1833) was a polymath, physician, naturalist, meteorologist, cosmographer, university professor, and founder of the San Fernando Medical School. In his role as cosmographer to the viceroyalty, he produced just five of these guides to Peru (1793–97), each containing standard information on geography, political and religious divisions, political and religious position holders by name, highly important statistics, and a
much-coveted engraved map first created by Andres Baleto in 1792 and engraved by José Vazquez.
While a goodly amount of data is the same in each edition of the Guia, annual statistics are not, and when new people were slotted into positions, the new names are given. Text appears on elegantly bordered pages.
Binding: Marvelous contemporary sponge-mottled sheep binding, round spine richly gilt by repeated use of a small portion of a roll featuring a fine vinous pattern with fruit or berry.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate
only three U.S. libraries reporting ownership (UC-San Diego, Lehigh, and Brown {not the JCB}).
Medina, Lima, 1790; Vargas Ugarte, Impresos peruanos, 2682; Sabin 97718; Palau 344278. Binding as above; joints and edges rubbed, tiny spots of worming. Private ownership stamp whited-out on title-page. Worming in the inner margins in the lower outer corner of the index, with loss of blank paper only. (37980)
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Party Strife!
New York State Senate 1806
“Uniform Republican, A”. Broadside. Begins, “To the Republican electors of the Western District. Fellow-citizens, At the same time that a bold and aspiring faction at the seat of government of the United States, is making the most daring and unprincipled attack upon the president and the friends of his administration, we find another faction actuated by the same motives, and impelled by the same spirit, commencing an attack upon the administration of this state.” New York state: no publisher/printer, [1806?]. Folio (vertical chain lines; 41 cm, 16.5"). [1] f. (verso blank).
$975.00
A wall posting of the so-called “Lewisites” or “Quids,” the faction of the Democratic-Republican party that supported Gov. Morgan Lewis of New York against the faction led by New York City Mayor DeWitt Clinton. It is a direct reply to a handbill circulated by “A Republican of 1776,” who assailed the character of three candidates for State Senate in the Western District, Evans Wharry, Freegift Patchin, and Joseph Annin.
Much of the text presents a defense of the incorporation of the Merchants' Bank. Printed in triple columns.
Rare: We fail to trace any copies via OCLC; only one holding listed in Shaw & Shoemaker.
Shaw & Shoemaker 11490. As issued, with old folds, edges slightly irregular. Two tiny holes within text, at the point where two folds intersect, and costing only a portion of two letters. Fingernail-sized stain. Four words have been redacted by the previous owner in ink, but can still be easily read. (24636)
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United BCP with a
Westminster Abbey Fore-Edge View
United Church of England and Ireland. Book of Common Prayer. The Book of Common Prayer, and administration of the Sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland: Together with the Psalter, or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. London: Pub. for John Reeves (pr. by W. Bulmer), 1802. 8vo (24 cm, 9.5"). vi, [694] pp.
$750.00
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There were minor differences between the Prayer Books of the Church of England and the Church of Ireland up until 1801, the year that the churches merged; the various 1801 BCPs were the first to use the “United Church” designation. John Reeves had been appointed king's printer in 1800, and edited his own version of the BCP, of which this is the second edition; the separate title-page following the preliminary matter is dated 1801. (That preliminary matter, offering historical and liturgical commentary, is extensive and interesting.)Fore-edge: This beautiful example bears a subtly shaded (and therefore hard to photograph)
fore-edge painting showing Westminster Abbey in the background behind a waterfront view with sailboats.
Binding: Full straight-grain dark olive green morocco, covers framed in elegant feather and pearl twist gilt roll, turn-ins with floral gilt roll. Stone-pattern marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.
Griffiths, Bibliography of the Book of Common Prayer, 1802/1. Binding as above, mild rubbing overall with some abraded areas consolidated, joints and extremities subtly repaired, aesthetically appropriate endbands supplied. Title-page with inked ownership inscription dated 1803, “The gift of my beloved husband.” Intermittent faint spots of foxing, mostly confined to early leaves. One inked marginal annotation in an early hand, three psalms (145–47) with small inked emphasis marks, pages otherwise clean. (28715)
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The First Anglo-Dutch War, New Amsterdam, Prisoner Exchanges, & Much More
United Provinces of the Netherlands. Verbael gehouden door de Heeren H. van Beverningk, W. Nieupoort, J. van de Perre, en A.P. Jongestal, als gedeputeerden ... van de heeren Staeten generael der Vereenigde Nederlanden, aen de republyck van Engelandt. Gravenhage: By Hendrick Scheurleer, 1725. 4to (25.5 cm; 10"). xx, 416, 415–518, 517–716 pp.
$725.00
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We have here the minutes of negotiations between Dutch ambassadors and the English Republic regarding the First Anglo-Dutch War, various commercial disputes, and matters in North America, 1653–54. The documents are chiefly in Dutch, but some are in English, French, or Latin; for example pp. 198–214 contain a draft in English followed by one in Latin “of Articles of Union, Peace and Confederation to be made between the Common-Wealth of England and the States General of the United-Province of the Neitherlands [sic].”
Muller notes that this account “chiefly” concerns New-Netherland and that “it contains all the speeches and reports”; Asher adds that the information here is “not to be found in the letters of the Pensionary J. de Witt and other ministers.”
Provenance: 20th-century bookplate of J.W. Six; later in the collection of Frank Marshall Vanderhoof (American scholar, university librarian, private collector; 1919–2005).
Alden & Landis, European Americana, 725/147; Asher, Dutch books and pamphlets, 335; Sabin 98926; Frederik Muller, America (1872 catalogue), 1100. Contemporary Dutch vellum over boards, round spine, raised bands, blind rules on covers, center cartouche blind-embossed. The usual foxing and browning found in so many copies. Solid, attractive, and a very good copy. (35777)
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The American Flag — Sole Edition
United States. Congress. House. Report of the select committee appointed on the 12th ult. to inquire into the expediency of altering the flag of the United States. January 2, 1817, read, and ordered to be printed. [Washington]: no publisher/printer, [1817]. 12mo. 3 pp.
$975.00
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Sole printing of the committee report that led to the adoption of the composition of the U.S. flag as 13 stripes to represent the original colonies and one white star on the blue field for each state fully admitted to the union.
A landmark piece of Americana.
Shaw & Shoemaker 42734. Removed from a nonce volume and now in modern boards covered with blue paper, and with a red leather gilt label on the front cover. Very good copy. (34955)
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United States. Congress. House. Report of the committee, to whom was referred the petition of the legislative council and House of Representatives of the Indiana territory, praying to be admitted into the union upon an equal footing with the original states. March 31st, 1812. Read, and referred to a committee of the whole House on Monday next. Washington City: Pr. by R. C. Weightman, 1812. 8vo (21.2 cm, 8.4"). [4] pp.
$325.00
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Concerns a resolution to admit Indiana into the Union as a state. The territory was then in the midst of great population growth of settlers and still being convulsed occasionally by wars and battles with the Native American population, etc., but was of stature to seek admission as a state — which it achieved in 1816.
Shaw & Shoemaker 27339. In modern wrappers, old sewing holes; age-toned. (18645)

American WINE & More 1867
United States. Department of Agriculture. Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the year 1867. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1868. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.25"). xix, [1], 512 pp., XXXVII plates; illus.
$225.00
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A presentation copy of Acting Commissioner John W. Stokes' report to Congress for the year 1867. The report includes reports and research on a variety of crops and domestic animals; steam and other cultivation, and rural construction; patents; agricultural clubs, schools, associations; also climate and meteorology. The authors include Thomas Antisell (chemist of the
department), Thomas Glover (entomologist), F.R. Elliott (on hardy fruit, especially apples), Walter W.W. Bowie (on tobacco), and Mrs. Ellen S. Tupper (winter bee keeping), to single out a
few.
Freethinker George Husmann (of Herman, Missouri) provided this cataloguer's favorite report, “American Wine and Wine Making.”
The excellent plates are divided between steel and wood engravings, with additional wood-engraved illustrations in some texts.
The presenter of the volume was R.T. McLain, chief clerk of the Department of Agriculture; the Hon. J. Gregory Smith, the recipient, was the president of the Northern Pacific Railroad Company.
Binding: A presentation binding of black morocco over boards with slightly bevelled edges. Covers with a gilt triple fillet border and a gilt floral vine inner “border.” Recipient's name in gilt in center of front board. Round spine, raised bands, gilt spine extra; gilt roll on board edges, different gilt roll on turn-ins. Pink endpapers of a textured paper, printed with an overall pattern of small gilt interlocking circles. Green silk place marker. All edges gilt.
A very nice example of a mid-19th-century presentation binding.
Binding as above, lightly rubbed at the joints (outside) and board edges. McLain's presentation card pasted to front pastedown, above Smith's bookplate.
A very good copy of a book that is, as we say here, “interesting for more than one reason.” (35244)
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President Adams Sends
TWO Messages on the “XYZ Affair”
United States. Dept. of State. Message from the President of the United States, accompanying sundry papers relative to the affairs of the United States, with the French Republic. 18th January, 1799.... [Philadelphia: Pr. for the House of Representatives, 1799]. 8vo (20.1 cm, 7.9"). 123, [1 (blank)] pp. [with] Message from the President of the United States, accompanying a report of the Secretary of State, containing observations on some of the documents, communicated by the President, on the eighteenth instant. 21st January, 1799. Philadelphia: John Ward Fenno, 1799. 8vo. [2], 45, [3 (2 blank)] pp.
$685.00
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President John Adams introduces both items; the first work consists primarily of the correspondence of Elbridge Gerry, American envoy at Paris, with Talleyrand, prior to the former's recall from France. Evans assigns this to William Ross's press. The second piece is a report by the Secretary of State on developments following the transactions cited in the first.
18th: ESTC W026145; Evans 36551. 21st: ESTC W026008; Evans 36546. Recently attractively bound in quarter blue goat over blue cloth, leather edges rolled in gilt; spine with gilt-stamped title, place, and date, raised bands accented with gilt-stamped abstract floral design and straight and wavy rules. Title-page hinged on with long-fiber tissue, outer margin repaired with same. Varying degrees of foxing, with some leaves untouched, some slightly spotted, and some notably darkened. (3745)
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The Louisiana Purchase PLUS
United States. Dept. of State. Message from the President of the United States, transmitting the correspondence between the United States and the government of Spain, relative to the subjects of controversy between the two nations. Washington: William A. Davis, 1817. 8vo. 77 pp.
$125.00
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Meaty document dealing with the Louisiana Purchase, U.S. relations with Spain, U.S. boundaries, and the cession of
Florida to the U.S. that would occur in 1819. There is even discussion of the fate of the province of
Texas. [14th Cong., 2d sess. Senate. Doc.] 114.
Shaw & Shoemaker 42663. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with edges browned and with War Department stamp; pages with minor offsetting. (34943)
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The
O'Gallala Trade Warfare for Farming?
United States. Treaties, etc. 1865–1869 Johnson. Treaty between the United States of America and the O'Gallala band of Dakota or Sioux Indians. Concluded October 28, 1865. Ratification advised, with amendment, March 5, 1866. Proclaimed March 17, 1866. [Washington: publisher not identified, 1866]. Folio (29.6 cm; 11.625"). 6, [2] pp.
$650.00
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Printed version of the treaty between the United States government and the Oglala Lakota signed in print by Newton Edmunds (governor of the Dakota Territory), Edward B. Taylor (superintendent of Indian affairs for the northern superintendency), Gen. H.H. Sibley, Tan-tan-ka-has-ka (Chief Long Bull), Ma-lo-wa-ta-khe (The Charging Bear), Pa-ha-to-ne-je (The Man that Stands on a Hill), and others at Fort Sully, Dakota Territory, on 28 October 1865.
The treaty states that the United States will pay each family thirty dollars annually for twenty years for their decisions to “withdraw from the route overland already established,” ceasing all warfare with other groups, and to settle future disputes by using the president as an arbitrator. The government promises that it will provide protection from “annoyance or molestation on the part of whites or Indians” should members of the group settle permanently to engage in agricultural pursuits, and offers further incentives for their doing so.
It was ratified 5 March 1866 and later proclaimed by President Johnson on March 17.
Eberstadt 130. Folded sheets, light age-toning, gently chipped along edges; light pencilling on upper margin of title-page. (36650)
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“A Treaty Was Made & Concluded at Fort Sully”
United States. Treaties, etc. 1865–1869 Johnson. Treaty between the United States of America and
the Sans Arcs band of Dakota or Sioux Indians. Concluded October 20, 1865. Ratification advised, with amendment March 5, 1866. Proclaimed March 17, 1866. [Washington: publisher not identified, 1866]. Folio (31.4 cm; 12.375"). 6, [2] pp.
$600.00
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Printed version of the treaty between the United States government and the Sans Arc Lakota signed by Newton Edmunds (governor of the Dakota Territory), Edward B. Taylor (superintendent of Indian affairs for the northern superintendency), Gen. H.H. Sibley, Wah-mun-dee-o-pee-doo-tah (The War Eagle with the Red Tail), Cha-tau-'hne (Yellow Hawk), Shon-kah-we-te-ko (The Fool Dog), and others at Fort Sully, Dakota Territory, on 20 October 1865.
The treaty states that the United States will pay each family thirty dollars annually for twenty years for their decisions to “withdraw from the route overland already established,” ceasing all warfare with other groups, and to settle future disputes by using the president as an arbitrator. The government promises that it will provide protection from “annoyance or molestation on the part of whites or Indians” should members of the group settle permanently to engage in agricultural pursuits, and offers further incentives for their doing so.
It was ratified 5 March 1866 and later proclaimed by President Johnson on March 17.
Eberstadt 130. Folded sheets, light age-toning, gentle chipping along edges; light pencilling on upper margin of title-page, bottom corner of same chipped away. (36651)
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Mutiny at Buena Vista?
United States. President. 1845-1849. Message from the President...relative to an alleged mutiny at Buena Vista.... U.S. 30th Congress, 1st session, 1848. Sen. Exec. Doc. No. 62. [Washington: 1848]. 8vo. 214 pp.
$150.00
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The full proceedings of a court of inquiry held at Saltillo, Mexico, from January to April 1848, investigating a mutiny that occurred among American forces stationed at Buena Vista in August 1847 during the Mexican American War. The court exonerates Col. Robert T. Paine, who was the focus of the mutiny and who killed one soldier and wounded another in overcoming the mutineers.
The depositions here offer a view of “ordinary” military life that is full of specifics, as well as accounts of moments of high excitement.
Sewn as issued; in later plain wrappers. Some dust-soiling and light foxing. (3303)
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Reading Up on
Printing-Related Patents
United States Patent Office. [binding title] “Patents on copper printing rolls.” [Washington]: 1876–1904. 8vo (28.8 cm, 11.35"). [68] pp.; 36 plts.
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A lawyer's gathering of 25 important British and U.S. patents related to technological developments in printing, dating from 1876 through 1904. The patents here include “Engraving-Machine” and various specifications on the Pantograph (by John Hope, of the Hope & Sons textile printing company, whose “pantograph engraving machine . . . revolutionized the business of roll-engraving,” Bicknell, History of the State of Rhode Island, 141), “Phototypography” (by Hannibal Goodwin, famed for later inventing roll film), and “Calico-Printing Machine” (by James Blair, the Scottish inventor of the aforementioned roller). Also represented is John Jacobson, holder of several photographic patents, and British engraver Gabriel Raphael Hugon.
The patent record copies are accompanied by
36 plates illustrating the various devices. A
typed index is stitched in at the front; the title given above comes from this volume's spine label.
A full list of contents is available upon enquiry.
Provenance: Front and back pastedown each with rubber-stamp of A. Bell Malcolmson, attorney and counsellor at law; final page with pencilled annotation: “Bind for Mr. Malcolmson.” Malcolmson is recorded as having been involved, in 1908, with a case regarding patent infringement of a method for duplicating typewritten work.
Contemporary tan cloth, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label; cloth spotted and moderately discolored, extremities and spine label lightly rubbed. Preliminary index pages, of onion skin, each with short tear from outer margin; one text leaf with small chip to upper margin; some leaves creased; occasional pencilled annotations and marks of emphasis. (30399)
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ANOTHER KIND of
“Student Social Activism” @ Berkeley —
Hey, Gang! Let's Build a Fountain!
University of California magazine. Under the Berkeley Oaks. Stories by students of the University of California; selected and edited by the editorial staff of the University of California magazine. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1901, ©1900. 12mo (19 cm, 7.25"). Frontis., [2] ff., 227, [1] pp.
$110.00
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Not many student publications are listed in the Bibliography of American Literature, but this one is. And that is because the lead-off entry in this anthology of stories is Frank Norris' “Travis Hallett's Half-back.” Norris (1870–1902) was class of '94.
It may interest the reader to know that half of the writings in this volume are by women.
Sole edition. The volume was a fund-raising effort: “The principal reason that these stories have been gathered together and given to the public, is to start a fund wherewith to erect a fountain on the Campus of the University of California to be in harmony with the great Hearst architectural plan.”
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth stamped in gilt with title and a scene of a rolling hill with trees on it. Binding signed “Kales.”
BAL 15035. Binding as above: gilt a little rubbed or dulled. Overall, very good. (34834)
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Laws of Oxford
University of Oxford. Parecbolae sive excerpta è corpore statutorum Universitatis Oxoniensis. Accedunt articuli religionis XXXIX. in Ecclesia Anglicana recepti: nec non juramenta fidelitatis & suprematus. Oxoniae: E Theatro Sheldoniano, 1729. 8vo in 4s (15.9 cm, 6.25"). [24], 232 (lacking pp. 227–30) pp.
$350.00
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18th-century edition of this collection of selected statutes of the University of Oxford, originally compiled by Thomas Crossfield of Queen's College and printed in 1638 under the title Statuta selecta è corpore statutorum Universitatis Oxon. The section Statuta Bibliothecae Bodleianae is of special interest to book people, though the notes on disturbing the peace and de nocturna Vagatione cannot but please the Latinate.
That this is a volume of “selections” is trumpeted on the title-page. However, both usefully for the seeker of context and at points confusingly for the actual reader, its table of contents seems to be not for what's present as selected but for the text in full extent — so the table announces, for example, that “Titulus XVII” comprises nine sections and lists these even unto the subsections, though the body of the book itself sets forth sections five and six only.
The title-page offers a handsome vignette of the Theatre, not one of the commonest ones.
ESTC T118673; Madan, Oxford Books, 17. Period-style calf, framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons and rather elaborate additional decorations in blind; spine with gilt-stamped title and publication information and different blind-tooled decorations. Endpapers a little smudged and title-page mounted, with edges darkened. Early inked ownership inscription in upper margin of first text page mostly torn away, with loss of a few words. Pp. 227–30 lacking, being the last bit of the printing of the Church of England's 39 Articles and the first part of the section, “De Eligendis Publicis Lectoribus.” Pages faintly age-toned, with occasional light spotting; mostly clean. (25553)
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When Undergrads Could Understand & Translate Demotic
When It Could Seem Sensible to Them to Produce a WHOLE BOOK by Lithography
. . . *&* with CHROMOLITHOGRAPHY Plentifully Present . . .
University of Pennsylvania. Philomathean Society (Henry Morton, Charles R. Hale, Samuel Huntington Jones). Report of the committee appointed by the Philomathean Society of the University of Pennsylvania to translate the inscription on the Rosetta Stone. [Philadelphia: The Philomathean Society], copyright 1859. Small 4to (23 cm; 9"). 152 pp., [4] ff., 6 plates. [also bound in] Catalogue of members of the Philomathean Society ... Philadelphia: Ringwalt & Co, 1859. Small 4to. 24 pp.; and tipped-in lithographed copyright notice.
$1100.00
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Probably the most famous
American all-lithographed book of the 19th century, with
chromolithographic illustrations and embellishments that lavishly enhance the whole. In his already classic study of 19th-century American color plate books, Stamped with a National Character, William Reese writes of this work: “The first full translation of the Rosetta Stone, undertaken by three members of the University of Pennsylvania . . . [student body], provided the basis for a notable display of chromolithographic book illustration by the Philadelphia lithographer, Louis Rosenthal. The entire book was lithographed, presumably to better accommodate the hieroglyphs, but Rosenthal went far beyond necessity. He created hundreds of crude but exuberant chromolithographs intermingled with the text, showing scenes from Egyptian life or elaborate borders in quasi-Egyptian motifs. It is one of the few American books printed entirely by lithography” (p. 99).
The genesis of the work was the arrival at the Philomatheans' building of a donated cast of the Rosetta Stone. Three Philomatheans — Henry Morton, Charles R. Hale, and Samuel Huntington Jones — worked out a plan to translate the stone and produce the book here offered. Hale undertook to transcribe and translated the Greek and Demotic texts, Jones produced the historical introduction, and Morton supplied the hieroglyphic inscriptions, drawings, and other illustrations. The first edition of the finished work appeared just before Christmas, 1858, in an edition of 400 copies and sold out immediately.
In late January 1859, the Society wished to print a second edition of 600 copies; but because no lithographic establishment could afford not to reuse lithographic stones, all stones save those for the last 20 or so pages of their work had been ground down. Thus in the second edition, i.e., the edition offered here, the artistic embellishments are “largely a new work,” in the words of Randolph G. Adams (“The Rosetta Stone,” in Bibliographical Essays, A Tribute to Wilberforce Eames, p. 234).
In some very few copies of this second edition, p. 6 bears the signatures of the three Philomatheans who produced the book. This is, unfortunately, not one of those few, hence the lower price. But this copy does have the oft-missing copyright notice at the rear.
Reese, Stamped with a National Character, 91; Bennett, American Color Plate Books, p. 93. On the story of the production of the book and for a chart showing which pages of the second edition are restrikes from the first, see: Randolph G. Adams, “The Rosetta Stone,” in Bibliographical Essays, A Tribute to Wilberforce Eames, pp. 227–40. Publisher's dark green cloth, covers stamped in blind with a gilt center device of a sphynx; spine also stamped in blind but with two gilt-stamped vertical lozenges and the title in gilt. About six small areas of loss of cloth on spine or board, some probably silverfish damage. Bookseller's description of a different copy pasted to rear pastedown. A good++ copy well worth having. (35384)
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One of 50 Special Copies Wood Engravings by
Ruzicka
Updike, Daniel Berkeley, & Rudolph Ruzicka. D.B.U. and R.R.: selected extracts from correspondence between Daniel Berkeley Updike and Rudolph Ruzicka, 1908–1941. New York: American Printing History Association, 1998. Small 4to (27.3 cm; 10.75"). vi, 181, [8] pp.
$115.00
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One of 500 copies and no. 50 of 50 special copies signed by the designer Roderick Stinehour and bound by Judi Conant at Guildhall, VT, with the inclusion of
three wood engravings by Rudolph Ruzicka printed by the Merrymount Press in addition to the many reproductions prepared for this volume. The correspondence was edited by Elizabeth French Lathem and Edward Connery Lathem, and the text and illustration together well exemplify the collaboration between two giants of the Book Arts during the first half of the 20th century.
The wood engravings are absolutely stunning.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard (sans indicia).
Quarter blue cloth with gray paper spine label over lovely marbled paper; issued without a dust jacket.
A bright and clean copy. (37600)
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Signed, Illustrated
Updike Poem
Updike, John. In the cemetery high above Shillington. Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, 1995. 8vo (26.2 cm, 10.25"). [16] pp.; illus.
$200.00
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First and only stand-alone printing, following an appearance in the Ontario Review, here illustrated with three relief engravings by
Barry Moser. The edition was designed by John Kristensen and letterpress printed in Baskerville type at the Firefly Press, where it was also bound. 150 copies were printed altogether; the present example is one of 100 copies
signed by the author and the artist, printed on Molino paper, and handsewn in wrappers.
Publisher's cream paper wrappers in folded heavy taupe paper wraps, front wrapper with gilt-stamped title. Front free endpaper with pencilled annotations. A clean, crisp copy. (32675)
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Early Christianity in Britain & the
Heresy of Pelagianism
Ussher, James. Britannicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates: Quibus inserta est pestiferae adversus Dei gratiam a Pelagio britanno in ecclesiam inductae haereseos historia. Accedit gravissimae quaestionis de christianarum ecclesiarum successione & statu historica explicatio. Londini: Impensis Benj. Tooke, 1687. Folio (31 cm, 12.5"). [8] ff., 136, 145–336, 339–509, [5], 507–548 pp., [7] ff., 191, [1] pp.
$600.00
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Ussher (1581–1656), Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, is most remembered by the general public for his calculation — based upon his literal reading of the Old Testament — that the first day of creation was 23 October 4004 bc (Julian calendar). The present work was first published in Dublin in 1639 and is here in the second edition “in utraque parte ipsius reverendissimi autoris manu passim aucta & nusquam non emendata.”
The DNB online writes of the Antiquitates: “In 1639 came the culmination of Ussher's researches into the early history of Britain and Ireland, with the publication of his Britannicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates, a monumental work that set out to trace the development of Christianity in these islands from its misty origins to the end of the seventh century. . . . During the 1630s, as his historical interests matured, it became evident that the fiercely anti-Catholic and apocalyptic tone of his earlier writings was much less prominent. But one contemporary concern remained evident in Antiquitates — Ussher's anti-Arminianism: the work contained yet another treatment of the efforts to stamp out Pelagianism in Britain.”
ESTC R9506; Wing (rev. ed.) U160. Late 20th- or early 21st–century quarter dark brown calf, round spine, gilt-beaded raised bands, red leather title-label and blind-stamped center device in each other spine compartment, date in gilt at base of spine; sides with wide comb pattern marbled paper. Waterstaining to early and late leaves, generally confined to margins, with cockling throughout; overall a rather good copy, nicely and very strongly bound. (38981)
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Sumptuously Bound by DAVID for
Cortlandt Bishop
Uzanne, Octave. Son altesse la femme. Paris: A. Quantin, 1885. Small folio (27.5 cm; 11" ). [2] ff., [i]–xii, 312 pp., 2 l. illus. (part col.).
$1500.00
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Definitely this work was created by a bibliophile for fellow lovers of the book. When this work appeared, Uzanne (1852–1931) was in full stride as a leader of the Paris circle of men and women interested in handsomely illustrated, printed, and bound works of literature. In 1880 he launched Miscellanées bibliographiques and, soon after Son altesse la femme appeared. he introduced the influential periodicals Le Livre, Le Livre moderne, and L'Art et l'Idée. In 1889, he took part in the creation of a publishing company, the “League of Contemporary Bibliophiles.” He counted among his friends the artists Jean Lorrain, Barbey d'Aurevilly, and Remy de Gourmont.
Son altesse la femme essays most satirically the position of women in society from the medieval to the author's time. The chapters are: Le vray mirouer de sorcellerie, La mie du poete, La précieuse, La caillette, La citoyenne française, Les galanteries du directoire, Sous la restauration, L'amour aux champs, La parisienne moderne, and Mulieriana.
The work was limited to 100 copies all printed on Japan vellum. It has an
engraved vignette on the black and red printed title, small illustrations
or vignettes on 50 text pages, 11 vignette borders or headpieces (three of
them in color, 10 of them in an
extra
state), and 10 tipped-in color plates. The illustrations are
by Henri Gervex, J.A. Gonzalès, L. Kratké, Albert Lynch, Adrien
Moreau, and Félicien Rops.
Binding: Full red crushed morocco with five raised bands. Covers with a triple-rule gilt border; spine gilt extra with gilt beading on bands. Triple gilt fillet on board edges. Wide turn-ins richly tooled in gilt and with cream and blue leather inlays that are also gilt-tooled. Blue silk pastedowns and free endpapers. Marbled paper fly-leaves. All edges gilt.
Binding signed “David.”
Provenance: Red leather bookplate of Cortlandt Field Bishop, the famed collector of the early 20th century and, at one time, owner of the TWO most important auction galleries in NY/USA.
Original
full-color wrappers bound in.
Vicaire, VII, 924. Uncut copy. Bound as above with original
wrappers bound in; front joint (outside) somewhat abraded.
A
very pleasing copy. (26675)
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