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)

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)

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)

•  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)

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 findingonly 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)

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)

•  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)

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)

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)

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).

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)

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)

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)

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 locateonly 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)

Much of the text presents a defense of the incorporation of the Merchants' Bank.

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)

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)

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)

A landmark piece of Americana.

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 42734.   Removed from a nonce volume and now in modern boards covered with blue paper, the binder having “bulked out” this three-page, two-leaf production with attractive and sympathetic paper that “bulks” the fore-edge more than the binding-side edge. The volume closes fully and without apparent stress for shelving. Red leather gilt label to front cover. A very good copy.  (34955)

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 27339. In modern wrappers, old sewing holes; age-toned.  (18645)

•  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)

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 42663.   Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with edges browned and with War Department stamp; pages with minor offsetting.  (34943)

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)

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)

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)

The patent record copies are accompanied by36 plates illustrating the various devices. Atyped 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)

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)

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)

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)

•  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)

•  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)

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 anextra 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)