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Art/Architecture — Folio Extra — Imposing!
Valentini, Agostino. La patriarcale basilica Liberiana. Roma: a spese
di Agostino Valentini, 1839. Folio extra (47.5 cm; 18.75"). [4] ff., 118 pp.; 1 fold. plt., 102 plts.
$600.00
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Italian-language work on the art and architecture of the Liberiana basilica in Rome, illustrated with more than 100 impressive full-page engravings (as well as one oversized, folding engraving) of the church’s art and sculpture, along with its architectural detail, plans, and design. Detailed explanations of the plates, which were engraved by Domenico Feltrini, are provided.
This handsomely printed and produced volume forms the second part of the author's “Quattro principali basiliche di Roma,” which also includes works (not present here) on the Vaticana and Lataranense.
Publisher's half vellum with marbled paper–covered sides, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather labels; boards a little abraded and showing wear. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate; front fly-leaf with bookseller’s pressure-stamp in upper corner. Occasional light foxing.
A handsomely produced, still very impressive volume. (11659)

Wonderful Title-Page — Serious Text
Valerón, Manuel Román. Tractatus de transactionibus in quo integra transactionum materia theoricè, ac ingenti studio, & justa methodo collecta, & exposita continetur. Lugduni: sumptib. Philippi Borde, Laurenti Arnaud, Petri Borde, et Guill. Barbier, 1665. Folio extra (33 cm; 12.75"). [8] ff., 272 pp., [21] ff.
$675.00
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Second edition, following the first of the previous year, of Valerón's work on contracts, inheritance, succession, and compromise under Roman law. Valerón (fl. 1663) held the chair of canon law in the University of Valladolid.
The work begins with a title-page in black and red, bearing the printers' large woodcut device incorporating images of Time and Fortune. The text is printed in the expected double-column format in roman and italic.
Palau 276638. 18th-century mottled calf, round spine, modest gilt tooling on spine. Front joint (outside) open along top three inches; front pastedown loosening from the board. Scattered foxing and staining. Sporadic worming in inner margins not touching the text. All edges richly saffron, unusually bright. (29157)
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The Chiswell Grant of Arms — A Scion of
BOOKSELLERS Armigerous
Vanbrugh, John. [Grant of arms to Richard Chiswell, “Turkey merchant.”]. Illuminated manuscript in English, on vellum: “To all and singular...” [London]: 1714. Folio (document: 39.37 cm x 52.07 cm; 15.5 x 20.5"). [1] f.
[SOLD]
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A splendid illuminated heraldic document preserved in its original 18th-century custom-made decorative case. Confirming the grant of arms to Richard Chiswell the younger (1673–1751), this letter patent is ornamented with both Chiswell's coat of arms (Argent, two bars of nebuly gules, overall on a bend engrailed sable, a rose between two mullets or) and that of Queen Anne, with
the arms and the borders on three sides being richly painted in red, gold, silver, blue, and black.
The grant was signed on 16 April 1714 by Sir Henry St. George as Garter Principal King of Arms and by
playwright and architect Sir John Vanbrugh as Clarenceux King of Arms, and it is accompanied by their wax seals, each seal (having been removed from the original ties) housed in a tin box.
The rolled document and seals are protected in a contemporary box of gilt- and blind-tooled leather over wood, lined in marbled paper and having twin compartments attached along one edge for the seals' separate, safe keeping.
Chiswell was the oldest surviving son of the famed London bookseller of the same name and his wife Mary Royston, daughter of another prominent bookseller, Richard Royston. He earned his own wealth as a member of the Levant Company trading with Turkey, making several journeys through the Middle East (and writing at least three never-published travelogues), eventually serving terms as the director of the Bank of England and as an M.P. Vanbrugh (1664–1726) is remembered for several successful comedies including The Relapse, The Provok'd Wife, and The Country House, as well as for having designed Blenheim Palace, Castle Howard, the original Haymarket Theatre, and many other notable buildings.
In the original box as above, housed in a modern buckram case with hand-inked spine label; the original box, lacking three of four closure hooks, has been expertly restored and is now safely strong. One of the two seals is cracked across, but wholy present; the grant, rolled and slightly darkened, is overall clean and striking.
A proud and obviously treasured survival. (41231)
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“Listen, Ye Who Look for Jesus”
Van Dyke, Henry. The toiling of Felix: A legend on a new saying of the Christ. New York: Privately printed, 1898. 12mo (19.2 cm, 7.5"). 34 pp.
$200.00
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A presentation copy of one of only 125 copies total “printed from type at the De Vinne Press.” Henry van Dyke (1852–1933) was an American author and clergyman who also taught English literature at Princeton University. His works, which include several Christmas stories, are deeply reflective of his religious devotion. Here, through rhyming verse, he tells of a man's revelation during his quest seeking God. After failed attempts to find Him through books and solitude, Felix finally achieves what he's looking for through daily labor. God tells him, “Raise the stone, and thou shalt find Me; cleave the wood, and I am there.”
This is copy no. 7.
Provenance: Presentation copy to Arthur H. Scribner, a president of Charles Scribner's Sons and a Princeton alumnus, signed by Van Dyke, “March 17, 1898, Dies Sancti Patricii.”
Quarter “vellum” paper over gray paper–covered boards, dark teal lettering to front board; corners a bit bumped, very faint dirtying of boards. Interior bright, with fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. An unassumingly simple production from a good press, now uncommon and here inscribed by the author. (38239)
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M.A. BINDING — “The Music-Lover,” “The Unruly Sprite,”
“The King's Jewel,” *&* OTHERS
(ILLUSTRATED)
Van Dyke, Henry. The unknown quantity: A book of romance and some half-told tales. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1912. 12mo (19.5 cm, 7.67"). [2], xiv, [2], 370 pp.; 4 col. plts, 3 plts.
$30.00
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First edition. The first few stories are set among the French Canadians of Quebec; others are inspired by fairy tales from various lands, Christian epiphanies, musical experiences, etc. The volume is illustrated with a total of seven plates: a color-printed frontispiece, three more color-printed plates, three black and white plates, and additional head- and tailpiece vignettes by Garth Jones.
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth, decorated on the front cover with an elaborate fruit and flower pattern in gold, light green, and orange, spine with gilt-stamped decorative title. Top edges gilt.
Signed by Margaret Armstrong.
Gullans & Espey, Checklist of Trade Bindings Designed by Margaret Armstrong, 250; Smith, American Fiction, 1901–1925, V-87. Bound as above; corners and spine extremities lightly rubbed, orange stamping showing minor scuffing. Pages gently age-toned, with some foxing to endpapers and in proximity to plates.
A nice copy of a nice book. (41282)
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“Just the Facts, Sir” — Just before Those 20's Began to “Roar”
Van Dyke, James Edward. The investor's pocket manual. New York: The Financial Press, 1921. 16mo (15.5 cm, 6.1"). 272 pp.
$500.00
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Vol. XIII, no. 4 (May, 1921) of a monthly publication offering “current statistics, records and high and low prices of stocks and bonds of railroad, industrial, and mining corporations, also grain, cotton, coffee and provisions.” The publisher advertised in contemporary magazines that copies of this “real help to investors” would be “furnished FREE by any investment house . . . on request,” and the front wrapper of the present example identifies it as coming from Kurtz Brothers Bankers and Brokers at 1421 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA. There is a great deal here on the structure and value of many, many individual companies.
These ephemeral guidebooks are not widely institutionally held in the U.S., although a different, quarterly publication of the same title (published by E.A. Pierce & Co.) appears to be somewhat more common.
Publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers; creased and lightly soiled, with inked date on spine and pencilled annotations on back wrapper. Text block just starting to pull away from wrappers. Pages age-toned; three leaves separated.
A useful snapshot of the American economy in the spring of 1921. (37198)
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Offering Help with the
Important & Difficult Bits
Van Est, Willem Hessels (i.e., Estius). Annotationes in praecipua ac difficiliora sacrae scripturae loca. Duaci [Douai]: Apud Gerardum Patté, sub signo missalis aurei, 1628. Folio in 6's (36 cm, 14.2"). [3] ff. (of 4, lacking title-leaf), 684 pp., [10] ff.
$550.00
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“Second edition” (but really third?) of commentary on the O.T. and N.T. by Willem Hessels van Est (Gulielmus Estius, 1542–1613), who studied classics at Utrecht and religion at Louvain, and was Chancellor at the University of Douai from 1595 until his death. Famous especially for exegetical writings, as herein, “Estius's reputation became so great among later scholars that the saying . . . 'Estius on the Epistles' became proverbial.” (NCE) This edition was edited by Gaspard Dubois (Nemius, 1587–1667), whose dedication to Francis van der Burch, Archbishop of Cambrai, features his
engraved arms as a headpiece.
First published in 1617, the text is in Latin printed in roman and italic, double-column, framed on each page by a double-ruled border, with elaborate woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, many incorporating the Jesuit “IHS” and one of these
censored by an 18th-century hand. (Two large leaves are drawn in ink over objectionable putti parts!)
The title-page, wanting in this copy, has been transcribed by the same(?) early hand in ink on the front fly-leaf recto and verso, and the imprint information is confirmed by the colophon on the last page, which features the woodcut printer's device and the date in roman numerals.
Provenance: An inscription on the front fly-leaf verso gives three dates, 1682–1739, and the names Fido Springhere and Philippus Coisne(?); there is a second ex-libris inscription with the name Baptista Baelde(?) at top of dedication leaf; and a final inscription, “Fido Springhere 1686" on verso of last leaf, above colophon.
Scarce: This edition
not in NUC Pre-1956, and WorldCat finds just three U.S. copies.
McCrank, 871. On Estius, see: NCE, V, 558. Contemporary calf with an elaborate cartouche gilt at the center of each cover, rebacked to style with gilt-ruled raised bands and green gilt-lettered spine label; extremities repaired and new endpapers. Ex-library: old oval stamp on first page of dedication and accession number on p. 1 of text. Lacks title-leaf; various markings on verso of front endpaper; final two quires lightly creased; small marginal hole from natural paper flaw on three leaves; a few spots and smudges and one small tear, also from natural flaw. With occasional
underlining and marginalia in Latin, seemingly by the same hand that transcribed the title and inscribed the fly-leaf. (31112)
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Vanière, Jacques. Praedium rusticum. Editio nova longè auctior & emendatior. Tolosæ: Petrum Robert, 1742. 12mo (17.3 cm, 6.8"). [4] ff., 319, [7 (index)] pp.
$350.00
Attractive edition of the Jesuit Vanière's agriculturally themed neo-Latin poetry, originally published in 1696. This printing features woodcut headpieces, along with decorative capitals and a title-page vignette.
Goldsmiths’-Kress 7892.2; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VIII, 444. Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding scuffed and rubbed, with leather cracking over joints and spine extremities chipped. All edges speckled red. Front free endpaper and fly-leaf partially affixed to front pastedown; front pastedown with inked initials. Pages beautifully clean. (13629)

Fiji Isles Paradise
Van Sandwyk, Charles. Sketches from a tropic isle. [North Vancouver?]: Published by the artist, 1997. 12mo (17.3 cm, 6.81"). 28 pp.; col. illus.
$150.00
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Drawn and annotated in the Fiji Islands: a stunning booklet of color-printed watercolor illustrations by Canadian-born artist Van Sandwyk, accompanied by his calligraphed meditations and signed by him on the dedication page.
This present example features the parrot-variant front cover illustration and, according to the artist's website, is one of 1500 copies.
The gilt-stamped matching bookmark and a card with information on purchasing prints are laid in.
Binding: Publisher's gilt-stamped olive green paper wrappers with color-printed parrot portrait onlay on front wrapper.
Searches of WorldCat locate
no copies in the U.S., with two found in Canada and one at the National Library in New Zealand, which last library supplies the “[North Vancouver?]“ attribution for this production without internal assertion of imprint place. Another online source gives “Tavewa Island,” with we know not what evidence.
Wrappers crisp and fresh, showing virtually no wear save for a small area of faint discoloration from now-absent label; booklet pristine and lay-ins present.
A lovely copy of a scarce and attractive item. (41361)
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From the Early Days of the
Dutch Sea-Borne Empire — Japan & Siam & MORE
Varenius, Bernhardus. Descriptio regni Iaponiae. Cum quibusdam affinis materiae, ex variis auctoribus collecta et in ordinem redacta. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1649. 12mo (11 cm; 4.25"). 2 vols. in 1. I: [24] ff., 267 [i.e., 287], [1 (blank)] pp. II: [4] ff., 120 [i.e., 320] pp.; fold. table.
$1250.00
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Varenius (1622–50) was born in Germany, studied medicine, settled in Amsterdam, abandoned medicine to study geography and learn of the new discoveries being made by the Dutch explorers, and died young and impoverished.
This is the first edition of his first published work, a description of Japan, and is based on previously published and unpublished sources that were available to him thanks to his association with the Elzevir firm and friendship with Willem Blaeu. The second part of the work, “Descriptio regni Siam,” is a translation into Latin of J. Schouten's Beschrijvinge van de regeringe, macht, religie, coustuymen, traffijcquen, en andere remercquable saken, des koninghrycks Siam.
Both texts treat of religions, customs, political organization, society, and history.
As a
coda to the “Descriptio regni Siam,” pp. 225 to the end provide “Brevis informatio de diversis gentium religionibus,” including large sections on the religions of Africa and Asia (including China); a page on those of Mexico, Peru, and Chile; sections on ancient Greece and Rome; and pages on Russia, Armenia, and Islam.
The volume begins with an engraved title-leaf showing a royal audience chamber with many people kowtowing to the emperor, and, in another portion of the page, Asian scholars with a book and map.
Provenance: 19th-century Hungarian stamp on verso of title-page “Teleki Pal Gr Pribekfalva.”
Copinger, Elzevier, 4802; Willems 1095; Berghman 1927; Rahir 1109. Contemporary vellum, soiled. Title-leaf loose but present; lightly reattached. A very little old underlining in ink; a good copy. (35534)
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Early 19th–Century Seismology
Vassalli-Eandi, Antonio Maria. Rapport sur le tremblement de terre qui a commencé le 2 avril 1808, dans les vallées de Pélis, de Cluson, de Pô, etc. Fait à la classe des sciences physiques et mathématiques de l'Académie Impériale de Turin dans sa séance du 2 mai 1808. [Turin]: Felix Galletti, 1808. 8vo (22 cm, 8.66"). 136, [2 (index)] pp.
$300.00
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First edition of this report on the massive Piedmont earthquake of 1808. The Abàte Vassalli-Eandi (1761–1825) was a Turin-born scientist and professor who published numerous papers on electricity, meteorological phenomena, agriculture, etc.; here, he collects and analyzes a large amount of data on local weather, topography, mines, etc., in an effort to support or rebut arguments for or against various potential causes (including the then-popular pyrite fermentation theory) for the seismic event.
The work is not widely held outside of Europe — a search of WorldCat finds
only two U.S. institutions reporting ownership (University of Oklahoma, Yale).Provenance: Title-page with 19th-century inked donation inscription in upper portion and with aesthetically appealing 19th-century institutional rubber-stamp. Later in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
Recent blue paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Title-page with markings as above, and browned; pages age-toned (most notably the index), with scattered foxing; edges untrimmed and so dust-soiled.
Solid and readable. (40605)
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Waxing Philosophical on
Duty, Obedience, & the Common Good
Vauvilliers, Jean-François. Questions sur les sermens ou promesses politiques en général, et en particulier sur le voeu de haine éternelle a la royauté. Bâle: De l'Imprimerie de Thourneisen, 1796. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). 74 pp.
$100.00
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First edition: The author justifies his refusal to take the oath of allegiance. Vauvilliers was a prominent Hellenist scholar and professor who, following the Revolution, became an important Parisian official.WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only eight U.S. institutional holdings.
Martin & Walter 33276. “Spine” with overcast, later stitching. Title-page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, pencilled initials in upper outer corner. One leaf with tear from upper inner margin, touching a few letters without loss; last leaf with tear from foot along inner margin. Light to moderate foxing scattered throughout. (30943)
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Wise, WARM Advice to a
Young Philadelphia Woman
V[aux], R[oberts]. Autograph Sentiment Signed (with initials) for Isabella Walsh. [Philadelphia]: 18 January 1828. Small 4to. 1 p.
$75.00
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Inscribed on a page of Walsh's autograph album is this wonderful sentiment and advice:
“The affectionate interest which I have always entertained for the welfare & happiness, of the eldest daughter, & proper representative, of one of the most estimable, and accomplished ladies who ever adorned the society of Philadelphia, induces me to comply with a request of the possessor of this volume, to inscribe some lines upon one of its pages.
It were impossible to contribute wiser counsel, or more excellent lessons, than those already recorded in this Album, by her honoured Father, & several of his, & her Mothers [sic] friends.
I will only commend her to the most faithful observation of that advice, and to the strictest imitation of the pure & bright example, furnished in the character of her departed & lamented Mother, whose unostentation piety, gave especial grace & dignity to her life, and has no doubt yielded for her immortal spirit, a precious & enduring rest, in Heaven.”
Vaux was a noted lawyer, philanthropist, abolitionist, and civic leader. Miss Walsh (b. 8 July 1812) was the daughter of Robert Walsh (lawyer and abolitionist) and Anna Maria Moylan Walsh (who died in 1826).
Provenance: The Walsh album sold at Anderson Galleries 28 November 1921 (sale 1609) as lot 60. Later in the Allyn K. Ford Collection, Minnesota Historical Society, recently deaccessioned.
Very good condition. (34490)
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“La boussole n’a pas été connue par les anciens”
Venanson, Flaminius. De l’invention de la boussole nautique. Naples: Chez Ange Trani, 1808. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.9"). 172 pp.
$200.00
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Sole edition: History of
the nautical compass in which the author attempts to assign credit for the invention of that device not to ancient Chinese or Arabic minds but rather to marine pilot Flavio Gioia d’Amalfi, with much accompanying praise of the “supériorité maritime” of the medieval Italians.
Scarce: WorldCat and NUC-Pre1956 locate only six U.S. holdings.
Brunet, V, 1118. Contemporary limp paste paper–covered wrappers, spine with hand-inked label; paper chipped at edges and front joint open; spine label darkened and peeling. Front pastedown with bookseller’s ticket and institutional bookplate; front free endpaper and title-page with institutional stamp; front free endpaper with ownership inscriptions dated 1829. Pages untrimmed. (19120)

With Carefully Engraved & Labelled Illustrations
Venette, Nicolai. ... Abhandlung von Erzeugung der Menschen. Königsberg: Christoph Gottfried Eckart, 1738. 8vo (17 cm, 6.75"). Frontis., [16] ff., 546 pp., 10 leaves of plts. (various sizes).
$250.00
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On human reproduction, including a section on “Hermaphroditen.”
This edition not in Blake, NLM 18th Century. Contemporary half vellum with multi-color pastepaper on the boards. Internally very good. (39918)
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A Lovingly
ILLUSTRATED Fables Collection
Verdizotti, Giovanni Mario. Cento favole morali de i piu illustri antichi, & moderni autori Greci, & Latini. In Venetia: Appresso Sebastian Combi, 1599. 12mo (14.1 cm, 5.5"). 253, [11] pp.; illus.
$1000.00
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Scarce, charmingly petite edition of Italian artist and writer Verdizotti's popular collection of illustrated fables taken from classical sources, here with
one hundred in-text woodcuts — one for each tale, with a few repeated images. These cuts are based on his earlier designs, sometimes said to have been inspired by his friend Titian. The text is printed in single columns using italic type for the fables, with morals printed in roman; decorative initials and endpieces complete the work.
While the work was popular enough to merit reprintings throughout the 16th and 17th centuries following the first edition of 1570, the present edition is now uncommon: Searches of Worldcat and NUC Pre-1956 reveal only one U.S. institution that reports holding this printing, with EDIT16 finding only one additional international institution with holdings.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
EDIT16 CNCE 60555; Mortimer, Italian 16th-Century Books, 523 (note); USTC 862550. This edition not in Adams. Contemporary limp vellum, title inked on spine with red painted shelfmark, title inked on fore- and bottom edges in an early hand; vellum stained and cockled, heavily chipped at spine head and very loosely attached, endpapers torn and soiled with evidence of worming and a few bibliographical notes in ink and pencil. Booklabel as above; light age-toning throughout, with waterstaining to lower and outer portions of the very faint to moderate level that reduces price but not pleasure. This was printed on inexpensive paper, as evidenced by one leaf with a small hole and a few examples of uneven edges; it has also been well read, with a few loosely attached quires, worn edges, occasionally a spot or a tear. A scarce edition that in this copy has had plenty of adventures and is ready for more; the illustrations are
wonderful. (39635)
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“The French Virgil”
Does Virgil
Vergilius Maro, Publius. Les Géorgiques de Virgile,
traduction nouvelle en vers françois, enrichies de notes & de figures. Paris: Chez Bleuet, 1770.
8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [2], 366 pp.; 5 plts.
$650.00
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Fourth edition, revised and corrected, of Jacques Delille's acclaimed verse translation of the Georgics, first printed in the previous year. Delille was one of the great names of late 18th-century French literature, famed for his translations of Latin classics; Brunet calls him a “versificateur élégant et facile.”
The work is here illustrated with
a copper-engraved frontispiece and four plates, generally bucolic, done by Joseph de Longueil after Francesco Giuseppe Casanova and Charles Eisen. The text is additionally decorated with pictorial headpieces and fruit and floral tailpieces.
Brunet, V, 1303; Cohen & de Ricci 1022; Graesse, VII, 359; Schweiger, II, 1221/22. Contemporary mottled calf framed in gilt triple fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped floral compartment decorations; joints and extremities rubbed, spine leather with small cracks, sides with expectable moderate acid-pitting. All edges gilt. Front hinge (inside) tender; a few scattered light spots, pages overall clean. An early, attractive edition of an excellent translation, with
crisp, lovely, well-impressed plates. (30949)
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LEC: The Dead Sea Scrolls in
English
Vermes, Geza, trans. The Dead Sea scrolls. Westerham: Printed for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1966. Folio (31.6 cm, 12.4"). [8], 241, [3] pp.; 16 col. plts.
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Limited Editions Club production of the Dead Sea Scrolls, here translated and introduced by Geza Vermes, one of the first scholars to examine the groundbreaking manuscript find; the text is illustrated with 16 watercolor plates “richly liturgical in mood yet . . . free and pulsating,” some being double-page spread, and with additional black-and-white line drawings by Israeli painter Shraga Weil. The volume was designed by Henri Friedlaender, who set the text in Joanna (designed by Eric Gill) and Albertus and had it printed on St. Paul's Cray paper made by Hale of London. The volume was printed at the Westerham Press, and bound in quarter tangerine levant-grain leather with heavy natural linen–covered sides.
This is
numbered copy 705 of 1500 printed, signed at the colophon by the artist. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 386. Binding as above, spine with gilt-stamped title, in matching buckram-covered slipcase with printed paper spine label; slipcase mildly waterstained with cloth chipping in two spots and spine label worn, volume very clean and fresh. An attractive edition of the ever-fascinating Scrolls, this copy internally crisp and lovely despite slipcase wear. (36301)
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History of the Hospitallers — First English Edition
Vertot, René Aubert, abbé de. The history of the Knights of Malta. London: Pr. for G. Strahan, F. Gyles, Woodman & Lyon, et al., 1728. Tall folio (34.3 cm, 13.5"). 2 vols. I: [8], 487, [1], 180 pp.; 1 fold. map, 2 maps, 49 plts. II: [2], 220, 143, [1], 196, [24 (index)], 3, [1 (adv.)] pp.; 22 plts., 1 fold. map, 1 double-p. map.
$4600.00
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First edition in English. In 1715 the Grand Master of the Knights of Malta appointed the Abbé de Vertot as historiographer of the order, and in 1726 Vertot published the Histoire des chevaliers hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem — an influential and oft-cited work, although the order itself felt certain portions not entirely to its taste. This is the first English translation, illustrated with
71 portraits of Grand Masters et al. engraved by Laurent Cars, Jean-François Cars, and others; the
maps of the area, fortifications, and the Hospitallers' military exploits were done by Guillaume Delisle and Charles Amadeus de Berey. Also present are Vertot's “Dissertation on Zizim” and “Proofs of the History of the Knights Hospitallers” (which include document texts in Latin and French) and his “Discourse upon the Alcoran,” originally presented at the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-Lettres in 1724.
ESTC T53873; Lowndes, VI, 2765. Recent quarter calf over marbled paper sides, old style: round spine, raised bands, gilt beading on bands and gilt double rules above and below each; gilt leather spine labels and gilt center devices in five compartments. Vol. I: occasional light smudges or spots of staining, some plates with mild to moderate foxing; one leaf with short tears from upper margin, touching header but not text; one leaf with tear from upper edge extending into text without loss; one plate with short tear and resulting crease at lower inner corner, not touching image; one plate with a few early inked doodles on reverse. First map with two short edge tears not touching image, one small closed hole touching outer border only. Vol. II: many leaves with mild to moderate foxing mostly confined to margins; two leaves with worming in lower margins, not touching text; one lower outer corner chipped. Paper variously age-toned, with intermittent creasing or cockling.
A strong, agreeable set of this significant, and significantly well-illustrated, work of religious, military, and social history. (34268)
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Early History of Brittany
Vertot, René Aubert, abbé de. Histoire critique de l'établissement des Bretons dans les Gaules; et de leur dépendance des rois de France, & des ducs de Normandie. Paris: Chez Nyon, Didot, & G.F. Quillau, 1730. 12mo (16.5 cm, 6.5"). 2 vols. in 1. [2], 72, 357, [3], ii, 375, [7] pp.
$175.00
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For some time one of the most widely read and discussed explanations of the arrival of the Celtic Britons in Armorica — though subsequently supplanted by less speculative and more documentable accounts — this treatise was written by the Abbé de Vertot (1655–1735), known as the official historiographer of the Knights of Malta. The present example (containing both volumes in one) is a reissue of the first edition of 1720, with the leaf following the title-page of the second volume reset and the privilege statement giving 1720; it is now uncommon, with WorldCat finding
only one U.S. institutional holding.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with affixed slip reading “Louis Duval Archiviste du département de l'Orne.” Duval (1840–1917) was a prominent librarian and archivist, and co-founder of the still-active Société historique et archéologique de l'Orne.
Not in Brunet, not in Graesse. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; rubbed and scuffed overall (but gilt sill pleasing), with spine extremities chipped. All edges stained red. Ex-library (properly deaccessioned): Front pastedown with institutional label, gutter of first text page with pencilled gift annotation, back free endpaper with affixed bar code (lined through); front free endpaper with slip as above. One leaf with minor paper flaw to outer margin; a handful of scattered small spots of foxing, pages otherwise nearly pristine. (38444)
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Post-Concordat
Vilinas, C. La vérité sur les divisions qui existent entre les deux clergés de France, et projet de réunion; ou lettre de M. L'abbe *** ... a M. L'abbé de ***. Paris: Vatar-Jouannet, An IX / 1801. 8vo (19 cm, 7.4"). 32 pp.
$110.00
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Scarce sole edition of this entry in the debate over how to reconcile the constitutional clergy and the non-jurors, written following the Concordat of 1801 and the meeting of the Comité Central on 27 July 1801. WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only two U.S. institutional holdings.
Removed from a nonce volume, sewing loosening and signatures separating. Title-page with affixed paper shelving label in lower inner corner and pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. First few pages (including title) with spots of staining, not obscuring text. (30809)
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Kennebunkport Church Cookery
Village Baptist Church (Kennebunkport, ME). Ladies' Guild. Cook book. Kennebunkport, ME: Published by Village Baptist Church Kennebunkport Maine [at the Press of Arundel], [1948]. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). 56, [24 (adv.)] pp. (some pagination out of sequence).
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Uncommon fund-raising cookbook, printed in “an edition of 1000 from the press of Arundel for the Village Baptist Church”; date of publication is supplied by the New York Public Library. This copy includes a number of laid-in manuscript and printed recipes, including a handwritten recipe for cranberry coffee cake, an advertising item from Swanson with recipes for “Oriental Chicken” and other dishes, a recipe pamphlet from Purity Supreme, instructions for the “Energy Miser Original Potato Baker,” a Dover Farms whipped topping lid with recipe for apple crisp, an envelope with handwritten notes on rhubarb bread (with the original letter still inside, acknowledging the recipient for donating equipment to a project known as “Camp Waban for Retarded Citizens”), etc.
WorldCat locates only one library reporting ownership (NYPL).
Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers, stapled as issued; spine and edges rubbed, moderately worn overall, front wrapper with scuff and old crease, back wrapper with small spots of staining. Inside a few scattered spots only, pages mostly clean.
Seldom-seen ephemeral Maine church cookery, this example with extra interest for its lay-ins. (38089)
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Italian Travels Englished, 1825
Villemarest, Charles Maxime Catherinet de. The hermit in Italy, or observations on the manners and customs of Italy .... London: Geo. B. Whittaker, 1825. 12mo (19.9 cm, 7.9"). 3 vols. I: vii, [1], 267, [1 (blank)] pp. II: [4], 281, [1 (blank)] pp. III: [4], 295, [1 (blank)] pp.
$450.00
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First English edition of L’Hermite en Italie, a sequel to Etienne de Jouy’s L’Hermite de la Chaussée d’Antin, ou observations sur les mœurs et les usages français. These engaging vignettes of travel experiences throughout Italy are interspersed with historical digressions as well as with personal anecdotes. A fourth volume later appeared in the original French, but was not yet available to be translated as part of this edition.
Many sources, including OCLC, attribute this work to de Jouy himself, but the Monthly Review of May, 1825 admits that the “similarity of title, of decorum, of form, and of manner,” as well as the title-page’s claim that this is a continuation of de Jouy’s work, all misled their reviewer and a number of others into that incorrect and much-perpetuated citation. The travelogue has more recently been attributed to Louet de Chaumont, among others, while Barbier and Quérard suggest that it may have been compiled by de Villemarest from de Chaumont’s notes and manuscripts.
NSTC 2H18614. Publisher’s plain paper-covered boards, sometime rebacked with speckled paper and old printed paper labels laid on, the set now in a recent case with sides covered in blue cloth and speckled paper; extremities rubbed, covers with spots of discoloration, retained spine labels chipped and darkened. Front pastedowns each with institutional bookplate (no other markings). Hinges (inside) reinforced some time ago. Vol. II with one signature separated. Pages untrimmed and clean save for scattered small spots of foxing. A strong, agreeable set. (20256)

“The Most Villainous of Poets”
Villon, François. The lyrical poems of François Villon. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1979. 8vo (28.4 cm,11.1"). 145, [3] pp.
$60.00
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Limited Editions Club printing: 36 of Villon's lyrics in English translation, with the original French on facing pages. The poems were selected by Léonie Adams and appear here with an introductory essay by Robert Louis Stevenson; the translations were done by Adams, Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Ernest Henley, and John Payne.
This is numbered copy 538 of 2000 printed — this volume, designed by Stephen Harvard, being the first ever set by the Stinehour Press in the then-new Galliard typeface, created by Matthew Carter after the work of the 16th-century punchcutter Robert Granjon; Carter also designed the endpaper ornaments.
Bound in green linen imported from Holland, spine with gilt-stamped title and front cover with gilt-stamped author's name, the volume is
signed by Harvard at the colophon. The appropriate LEC newsletter is laid in.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 513. Binding as above, in original dust wrapper and matching slipcase; back upper edge of wrapper torn, slipcase and volume clean and crisp. A very nice copy. (32031)
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Her Classic Image
(Virgin of Guadalupe). Broadside, begins: Soneto. ¿Quién sino tú, Dulcísima MARÍA, ... [Mexico: No publisher, ca. 1830]. 8vo (215 x 157 mm, 8.25" x 6.25"). [1] p.
$450.00
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Poetry in one column in a decorative typographic border. Includes woodcut of the Virgin at top. Printed on laid paper.
WorldCat locates only three libraries reporting ownership (the Bridwell at Southern Methodist University, San Diego State University, Stanford University, and the University of San Francisco). We know of unreported copies at UPenn, the Bancroft, and Notre Dame.
Very good as issued. (41538)
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Bodoni's Quarto
Hero & Leander
Viviani, Niccolò. Ero, e Leandro poema. Parma: Nel Regal Palazzo Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1794. 4to (28.4 cm, 11.18"). [8], 40, [2 (blank)] pp.
$700.00
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Typically elegant Bodoni printing of this ottava rima treatment of the subject, written by the Marchese Niccolò Viviani, governor of Pisa, and dedicated to Maria Luisa of Parma. In 1794, Bodoni published the first edition of Ero, e Leandro in folio, following up in the same year with quarto and octavo versions; the paper of this
large quarto is watermarked “FP.” Thomas Hartwell Horne claimed “of each edition, not more than
40 or 50 copies were struck off.”
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Robert Wayne Stilwell and with 19th-century Florence bookseller's ticket.
Brooks 548; De Lama, II, 96–97; Giani 59 (p. 51). Contemporary half brown calf and marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, marbled endpapers and all edges marbled; rubbed overall with fore-edge and spine label chipped, pin-hole worm action to spine/joints without this reaching interior. Free endpapers, front fly-leaf, and final blank each with one horizontal crease
in lower portion; front endpapers with pencilled annotations. Occasional light to moderate foxing. (40167)
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TICE Illustrates
VOLTAIRE
Voltaire. Candide, or All for the best. New York: Bennett Libraries, 1927. 8vo (23 cm; 9.25"). 2 vols. in 1. 182 pp., [4] ff., color plates.
$725.00
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Sole edition illustrated by Clara Tice, the illustrations numbering ten, printed in color, and definitely of an erotic nature. This copy (no. 130) is one of 250 copies “on special deckle-edge Pannekoek paper.” The title-page, printed in black and red, announces this is an “Exact reprint of the earliest English text” and tells us that it was “printed in Holland by Joh. Enschede en Zonen for the Bennett Libraries, Inc.”
In the early decades of the 20th century, Tice was a sensation because of her provocative art and as the embodiment of bohemian Greenwich Village — gaining, indeed, the sobriquet “The Queen of Greenwich Village.”
Binding: Publisher's black goat, round spine with raised bands lettered in gilt and with a gilt-stamped female nude figure in center area of spine; front cover with two gilt-stamped reclining female nude figures reminiscent of those on big-rig mud guards! Elegant gilt turn-ins, top edge gilt and other edges deckle. Housed in a brown paper–covered open-back case.
Case rubbed but sound; binding as above with spine a little pulled, corners a little bumped, and front joint (outside) a little abraded. First leaves separated and tipped in; possibly, cancels? All illustrations eye-popping in several senses; all tissue guards present. (33447)
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A
PITTSBURGH Woman's Poetry
Wade, A. Annie Rogers. The poetical works of A. Annie Wade. Allegheny, PA: [Privately printed], 1895. 8vo. Frontis., 227 pp.
$150.00
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Mrs. Wade died in 1893. She was born in New Hampshire and moved to Pittsburgh after marrying a businessman of that city; a prominent social figure there, she was also a trained singer and composed several songs published during her lifetime. Her loving husband compiled and published this volume of her poetry “for her friends.”
We locate only five libraries (three in Pittsbugh) reporting ownership of the work.
Provenance: Inscribed to Mrs. John R. McCune by the writer of the volume's biographical sketch of the author, “Frank H. Wade, M.D.,” and his wife.
Publisher's white cloth elaborately stamped in gold, all edges gilt; binding and text both remarkably clean and fresh. (29567)
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Signed by Both the Poet & the Artist — With Original Bearden Lithograph
Walcott, Derek; Romare Bearden, illus. & ed. The Caribbean poetry of Derek Walcott & the art of Romare Bearden. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1983. Folio (31.1 cm, 12.25"). xix, [1], 210, [4] pp.; col. illus.
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For this Limited Editions Club production, “distinguished artist Romare Bearden has culled his favorite representative pieces from Derek Walcott's output of the past twenty years.” The poems are chronologically arranged, with
each section opening with a vibrantly energetic double-page spread painted by Bearden, an award-winning African-American artist and writer. Joseph Brodsky supplied the introduction; the text was set in Monotype Bembo by Michael and Winifred Bixler and printed by the Anthoensen Press in Portland, Maine, while the illustrations were reproduced by the Seaboard Lithograph Corporation and the original lithograph (see below) was hand-printed on Rives paper at the Blackburn Studio, New York.
This is numbered copy 1063 of 2000 printed, signed by Walcott and Bearden at the colophon. An original Bearden lithograph (numbered 35/275) is included, laid in at the back of the volume. The appropriate LEC newsletter is also included.
Binding: Caribbean-inspired linen with a sun and sea pattern combining warm reds and golds with cool blues and greens, created specifically for this volume by Bearden (marking the first time “an artist has designed his own fabric expressly for our edition” per the newsletter) and silk-screened in Italy by Ratti d.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 533. Binding as above, in the original gray paper–covered slipcase with silver gilt spine title; slipcase with spine and edges sunned, volume in beautiful condition.
Attractively crafted, and the performance of an all-star “cast.” (38924)
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An ANGRY “History of Independency” — Anarchia Anglicana
Walker, Clement. Relations and observations, historicall and politick, upon the Parliament, begun Anno Dom. 1640 ... together with an appendix, touching the proceedings of the Independent faction in Scotland. [London?], 1648. 4to (18.3 cm, 7.25"). A–T4t2V–Z4Aa2; [12], 174 pp. [with] An appendix to the History of Independency ... London, 1648. 4to. a–c4(-c4); [2], 20 pp. [with] Anarchia Anglicana: Or, the history of Independency. The second part. [London], 1649. 4to. A–Z4Aa–Kk4; [8], 256 pp.; 1 double-page plt. [with] The high court of justice; or Cromwells new slaughter house in England ... [London], 1651. 4to. A–I4; 71, [1 (blank)] pp. [with]
M., T. The history of Independency. The fourth and last part. London: H. Brome & H. Marsh, 1660. 4to. A–R4; [8], 124 pp.
$1000.00
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First edition under this title of the first two parts of this
anti-Puritan history of the rivalry between the Presbyterian and Independent factions of Parliament, with early printings of the third and fourth parts. The brief introductory portion, originally titled The Mystery of the Two Juntos, was first published in 1647; after the second part (Anarchia Anglicana) appeared in the following year, Walker was
sent to the Tower and died there shortly thereafter. The third (The High Court of Justice; or Cromwells New Slaughter House in England) and fourth part (History of Independency) are present here in 1651 and 1660 printings, respectively.
This variant reads “II. Bookes”on line 7 of the title-page; R4 is cancelled and not present here, as is the case in most copies. The second portion has a separate title-page printed in red and black, giving Anarchia Anglicana: Or, the History of Independency as the title and the pseudonymous Theodorus Verax as the author.
The famous double-page plate showing
the felling of “The Royall Oake of Brittayne” at Cromwell's command is present in a good crisp impression, with its
“Inspiratio Diabolica” just slightly shaved at the bottom.
Relations: ESTC R205117; Wing (rev.) W334A. Appendix: ESTC R233193; Wing (rev.) W321A. Anarchia: ESTC R27579; Wing (rev.) W317. High Court: ESTC R207365;Wing (rev.) W325. History, fourth part: ESTC R18043; Wing (rev.) M81B. Fourth part: Issued as part of Wing W324, “and possibly separately” as well according to ESTC. Contemporary calf, covers framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons, sometime rebacked with first leaves tipped (back) in; spine with new gilt-stamped title, sides rubbed and abraded. Front free endpaper lacking. Front pastedown with old institutional bookplate and pencilled notations, title-page with faded rubber-stamp (and with author’s name added in an early hand), back pastedown and lower edges of closed book rubber-stamped. Two title-pages with one short tear from outer edge each, not touching text; title-page verso with shadows of pencilled numerals. Lower and outer margins trimmed closely, in some cases touching catchwords, signature marks, or shouldernotes. (20259)

The FIRST Occurence of the
Term “Rump Parliament”
Walker, Clement. Relations and observations, historicall and politick, upon the Parliament begun anno Dom. 1640. [London?:: No publisher/printer], 1650. 4to (20 cm, 7.8’’). [6], 161, [1] pp.
$750.00
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This intriguing pamphlet in its fourth edition, after three of 1648, with the first occurrence of the phrase “Rump Parliament” used to refer to the members of the sitting Long Parliament. “Wing states that [its] place of publication [was] London, but the typesetting and ornaments appear to be continental” (ESTC); as, unlike the three editions of 1848, this was printed after the beheading of Charles I, it is unsurprising it should have been produced abroad. The title-page layout appears to follow that of the second edition, a copy of which probably provided the source for the present one.
Writing under the pseudonym Theodorus Verax, Clement Walker (d. 1651) was a controversialist and M.P. for Wells. His Relations is devoted to the Long Parliament; appointed in 1640, in 1648 it was hit by Pride’s Purge, which expelled the Presbyterian, moderate faction, favoring instead the Independents and supporters of Cromwell’s New Model Army under the direction of Sir Thomas Fairfax, to whom the Relations is dedicated. It argues, however, that if Presbyterians were in the wrong, the Independents were not right either, as, like the former, they eventually behaved in ways that wronged the English people.
The work is made of up three parts in one, with separate title-pages. The first, “The Mystery of the two Iunto’s,” discusses the tensions between the Presbyterian and Independent factions; the second, “The History of Independency,” begins with a discussion of Cromwell’s Army, its fights against the City, and all the phases of the strengthening of the Cromwell faction. The third part is concerned with the controversial Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, eventually executed as a Cromwell collaborator, under Charles II, for high treason.
ESTC R186161; Wing (rev. ed.) W334C. Modern marbled paper–covered boards, gilt-lettered leather label to spine. Text with age-toning sometimes unto browning, with variable dust- and finger-soiling especially to page edges; short slender (even “minute”) worm tracks to outer margin of final gatherings.
A sound and serviceable copy of this work by “Verax.” (41342)
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A Classically Informed Perspective on the
Great Infant Baptism Controversy
Walker, William. Baptismon didache, the doctrine of baptisms: or, a discourse of dipping and sprinkling; wherein is shewed the lawfulness of other ways of baptization, besides that of a total immersion: and objections against it answered. London: Robert Pawlet, 1678. 8vo (18.5 cm, 7.25"). [16], 301, [3] pp.
$400.00
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First edition: This entry in the heated 17th-century debate over paedobaptism offers scholarly analysis of the historical practice of baptism along with theological analysis of the doctrinal implications. Walker, an acclaimed schoolmaster and the author of A Treatise of English Particles, here references Greek and Hebrew texts to support his argument that baptism does not require total immersion; printed shouldernotes offer extended quotations, many in Latin.
Provenance: Lower margin of final advertisement leaf with two 17th-century inked ownership inscriptions: “Robt. Fotherby[?] Lincoln,” and “Thomas Coninghams Book.”
Wing (rev. ed.) W417; ESTC R39415. Recent plain grey paper–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Title-page perforation-stamped, also chipped and torn, now neatly mounted; first dedication page with rubber-stamped and inked numerals in lower portion; no other such markings. Pages age-toned; first two leaves with lower inner margins stained, five leaves with upper outer portions crumpled, last two leaves with edges chipped and darkened, a few leaves towards back with sewing loosening. Final page with inked inscriptions as above. (31058)
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Walton, Illustrated
Walton, Izaak. The complete angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Extensively embellished with engravings on copper and wood ... To which are added, an introductory essay; the Linnaean arrangement of the various river fish delineated in the work; and illustrative notes. London: John Major (pr. at the Shakspeare Press by W. Nicol), 1824. 8vo in 4s (19.7 cm, 7.76"). lviii, 416 pp.; 14 plts.; illus. [with the same author's] The lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert, and Dr. Robert Sanderson ... To which are added, the autographs of those eminent men, now first collected; an index, and illustrative notes. London: John Major (pr. at the Shakspeare Press by W. Nicol), 1825. Frontis., xviii, [2], 503, [1] pp.; 10 plts., illus.
$550.00
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Classic combination: Major's nicely edited rendition of Walton's beloved treatise in combination with his collected lives of authors, the set (with Angler here in its stated second edition, Lives in the first)
charmingly illustrated with a total of 25 copper-engraved plates and numerous wood-engraved in-text vignettes. The Angler plates generally represent dashing young men — and a few young ladies — in the garb of Walton's day, while many of the in-text illustrations depict hooked fish; the Lives volume opens with a representation of the subjects' signatures within a decorative frame and includes, along with a portrait of each, ten renditions of important moments and locations in the subjects' careers as well as numerous smaller portraits, coats of arms, etc.
Bindings: Contemporary dark brown morocco, covers framed and panelled in blind surrounding embossed arabesque cartouches, spines with gilt-stamped titles and blind-ruled compartments, board edges with single gilt fillet, wide turn-ins with quadruple gilt fillets and corner fleurons. All edges gilt.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabels (“AHA”) at rear.
Bound as above; joints, edges, and spine extremities rubbed and refurbished, spines sunned. Back free endpapers each with bookseller's ticket of Hessey, Fleet Street. Minor offsetting from turn-ins to free endpapers; pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.
A desirable set, externally a bit worn, now exuding the promise of comfortable enjoyment. (40307)
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The Art of Angling
Illustrated by Adams
Walton, Izaak. The compleat angler or the contemplative man's recreation being a discourse of fish and fishing not unworthy the perusal of most anglers ... decorated by Frank Adams. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode; New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1930. Folio (35 cm, 13.5"). Frontis., [10], 124, [2] pp.; illus.
$350.00
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Beautifully enhanced facsimile of the first edition of Walton's beloved classic, possibly the highlight of fishing literature. The pages are graced with numerous black-and-white decorations in addition to a color-printed frontispiece and nine scenes of gentlemen fishing done in elegantly muted shades of green, blue, and brown by American artist Frank Adams (1871–1944), known for his children's illustrations. This is numbered copy 359 of 450 printed, and signed by the artist.
Provenance: The publisher-issued bookplate and box label proclaim that this copy belonged to L. Haskell Sweet, a New York businessman.
Coigney 308. Publisher's quarter vellum and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; original glassine dust wrapper and original charcoal-colored paper-covered box with personalized label present, wrapper with chips, short tears, and some creasing, and box split at seams with two side elements fully detached (one lost). Vellum of the volume's spine faintly darkened and spotted, book otherwise clean and fresh with top edges gilt; sweet identification as above.
A good catch. (28332)
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Deluxe Angler — In a Zaehnsdorf Binding, with Proof Plates
Walton, Izaak & Charles Cotton; Harris Nicolas, ed. The complete angler or the contemplative man's recreation being a discourse of rivers fish-ponds fish and fishing ... and instructions on how to angle for a trout or grayling in a clear stream ... with original memoirs and notes. London: William Pickering (pr. by C. Whittingham), 1836. Large 8vo (27.3 cm, 10.75"). 2 vols. I: [16], clxiv, [4], [clxv]-ccxii, [2], 129, [1] pp.; 29 plts., illus. II: [4], [131]–436, [32 (index)] pp.; 38 plts., illus.
$4000.00
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First edition edited by Sir Harris Nicolas, and
the most lavish of all of Pickering's editions of this beloved treatise on fishing. In addition to the expected steel-engraved plates and in-text illustrations, this copy features
an extra set of proof plates printed on India paper, mounted on heavy paper, and bound in for all illustrations including the headpiece decorations, for
a total of 67 plates. Horne summed the work up as having been “illustrated by the foremost contemporary artists, produced by an excellent printer and issued by an outstanding publisher” — and it appears here in a binding that does justice to those qualities.
Binding: Signed 20th-century dark green straight-grain morocco, covers framed in quadruple gilt fillets with gilt fish motifs in corners, spines similarly decorated, board edges with gilt fillets, turn-ins with gilt fillets and roll. All edges gilt; green marbled endpapers. Bindings done by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf, with his stamp (dated 1914) on lower front turn-ins.
Provenance: Front pastedowns each with small silver “TJS” monogram label (unidentified); most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), p. 94; Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1836.17; Ing, Charles Whittingham, 13; Horne, The Compleat Angler 1653–1967, 43. Bindings as above, spines gently sunned; front free endpapers stamped “Bartlett & Co, Boston” in upper outer corners. Occasional minor foxing/spotting; vol. II with mild waterstaining to lower outer portions, more pronounced to first few leaves and later ones.
An enduring classic, in a beautiful set. (40961)
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Attempting to Restore SIGHT in the Early 1800s
Wardrop, James. History of James Mitchell, a boy born blind and deaf, with an account of the operation performed for the recovery of his sight. London: Pr. for John Murray ... ; & Archibald Constable & Co., Edinburgh, by W. Bulmer & Co., 1813. Small 4to (27.6 cm, 10.875"). vi, 52 pp.
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James Mitchell (1795–1869), a Scot, was born deaf and blinded by cataracts, and at the age of 13 had “couching” operations to restore his sight. Dr. Wardrop (1782–1869) performed the second and most successful operation on Mitchell. Since it was not a cataract extraction, success was only partial, restoring limited sight; still, that was something, and
this is an interesting, early account of an ophthalmologic surgical procedure.
Handsomely printed, as one expects of the Bulmer firm.
Provenance: From the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
NSTC W597. 20th-century plain brown wrappers. A little pencilling, age-toned with a darkened area to facing pages where something was laid in, and otherwise clean. (39729)
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Hygienic Ice Cream Manufacturing
Warner-Jenkinson Mfg. Co. Ice cream, carbonated beverages [/] with a short introduction to the study of chemistry and physics. St. Louis : Warner-Jenkinson Mfg. Co., 1924. 8vo (20 cm, 7.87"). [2], 134 pp.; 8 plts.
$120.00
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New and improved version, updated (and retitled) from a sold-out 1921 booklet: “A handbook for ice-cream makers, sodawater bottlers, and students taking short courses in Dairying, etc.” This combination of culinary and scientific information focuses on the technical aspects of manufacture — and promotes Red Seal products including flavors, colors, stabilizing powders, and others. The text is
illustrated with eight photographic plates depicting various facilities, as well as several in-text depictions of yeasts, bacteria, etc.
Not in Bitting; not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Publisher's very dark brown textured cloth, cover and spine stamped in red; edges and extremities a little rubbed, spine sunned. Endpapers lightly foxed; front pastedown with inked ownership inscription from Pullman, WA; pages clean.
A solid and nice copy of this expanded edition, the first under this title. (41348)
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About Great Printers — From a Great Press
Owned by Another Great Printer
Warren, Arthur. The Charles Whittinghams, printers. New York: Grolier Club (pr. by the DeVinne Press), 1896. Large 8vo (25.2 cm, 9.9"). Frontis., 344, [2] pp. (index issued later, not present here); 2 fold. plts. (1 col.), illus.
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First edition: One of 385 copies printed
by the DeVinne Press handmade paper (plus three on vellum) of this account of the influential uncle and nephew printers, covering their life stories and business history as well as the technical and artistic details of their accomplishments. The work is
copiously illustrated with views of important locations in the Whittingtons' lives and careers, woodcuts and engravings from their publications (along with other decorative elements such as borders and headpieces), reduced-size representations of title-pages, five beautifully accomplished stipple-engraved portraits, examples of different types used by the printers, etc., as well as two oversized, folding facsimiles of correspondence and charters. The covers bear the version of the Chiswick Press lion, dolphin, and anchor device that was designed by Charlotte Whittingham and engraved by Mary Byfield.
Provenance: Front pastedown with attractively designed bookplate of Peter Beilenson, proprietor of the Peter Pauper Press; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Publisher's half dark green leather and tan paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and Grolier Club device, covers with stamped central medallions bearing device as above; spine sunned to brick-brown and with some darker streaks and discoloration, sides lightly scuffed, joints and extremities rubbed. Index (printed and issued as a separate insert, after the original publication) not present here. Scattered light spottings only. Externally somewhat worn, but a solid and enjoyable copy, with
a gratifyingly apropos provenance and a Chiswick Bookshop (New York) bookmark iaid in. (39562)
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Scarce Treatise: The Reformation in the
NETHERLANDS
Water, Jona Willem te. Kort verhaal der Reformatie van Zeeland in de zestiende eeuwe; benevens eenige verhandelingen dienende tot ophelderinge van de historie der kerk-hervorminge aldaar ... Middelburg: Pieter Gillissen, 1776. 8vo (20.9 cm, 8.25"). [6], xviii, 117, [11] pp.
$875.00
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First edition of this history of the Dutch Reformed Church, written by a clergyman and professor at Leiden University. The title-page is printed in red and black.
Provenance: Covers gilt-stamped with the device of Francis Egerton, 1st Earl of Ellesmere.
Binding: Contemporary calf framed in gilt triple fillets and blind roll, rebacked preserving original spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; covers gilt-stamped with supra-libros as above. All edges marbled.
Uncommon: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 find only six U.S. locations.
Bound as above; spine leather with small chips and cracks, sides with small unobtrusive areas of rubbing and light discoloration. Binding overall solid and still
attractive; interior clean and nice. (25320)
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Only the Second Known Copy?
Waterville College. Bell-a! Horrid-a bell-a! Inaugural ceremonies at the coronation of John Tupper Champlin. [Maine?]: No publisher/printer, 1853. 8vo (23 cm; 9") 4 pp.
$425.00
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College wit and humor delivered to the not unsuspecting audience on Wednesday, April 6th, 1853. “The performance will commence with a grand review of all the available force of the institution, under the immediate inspection of the emperor. At precisely 7 o'clock the rabble will move in the following order.”
The caption title reads: “Smith, with a copy of the 'Fugitive Slave Law,' eagerly inquiring the way to Canada.” The text printed within a wavy border.
WorldCat locates only the copy at the Library Company of Philadelphia, this being its deaccessioned duplicate.
Old folds, dust-soiled, other stains. Evidence of old stitching. A decent copy of a rarity. (38404)
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The Young Adventurer as an
“Old Buffer” — Signed by Waugh
Waugh, Evelyn. Basil Seal rides again or the rake's regress. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1963. 8vo (25.8 cm, 10.1"). Frontis., [6], 49, [1] pp.
$350.00
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Limited edition of Waugh's final piece of fiction, originally published in Esquire in 1962: a short story featuring a protagonist of several earlier novels, once an enfant terrible and now a fat, wealthy, complacent reactionary. The work is nicely printed on very heavy paper, with a tipped-in, color-printed frontispiece by Kathleen Hale.
This is the first American edition, using the English sheets; the present example is numbered copy 561 of 1000 for sale in the United States, and is
signed on the limitation leaf by the author.
Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped Pegasus and rider vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine slightly sunned, acetate wrapper not present. Pages clean and crisp. All in all
QUITE! JOLLY!?! (33505)
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Waugh!
The Pre-Raphaelites!
Waugh, Evelyn. PRB An essay on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood 1847–54. Westerham, Kent: Dalrymple Press, 1982. 4to (25.2 cm, 9.9"). 44, [3] pp.
$125.00
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“No-one else was writing about the Pre-Raphaelites in the 1920's, and it is therefore interesting to know what an intelligent and independent-minded author thought about them, especially during their most unfashionable phase. We must, of course, be thankful that Waugh became a novelist and not an art-historian, but he does deserve to be remembered as one of the most distinguished pioneers of the Victorian revival” (44).
This is the first published edition of Waugh's essay, which was first printed privately by Alastair Graham in 1926. As Christopher Sykes and Christopher Wood describe it in the preface and postscript, respectively, Waugh's account of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood is not very scholarly (for one, Waugh makes biased remarks about William Holman Hunt, who married not one but two of his relatives, the sisters Fanny and Edith Waugh); however it is regarded as the first serious bit of writing by one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century. A commission followed to write the biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Waugh's first full-length book.
The text was designed by Robert Hamilton Dalrymple using Monophoto Modern Extended 7 and printed on Zerkall mould-made paper at the Westerham Press, illustrated with
six plates reproducing portraits drawn by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais, of each other. The binding, in navy blue cloth with the title stamped in red on the front cover and spine, and matching red endpapers, was designed by Hunter & Foulis of Edinburgh. Of an edition limited to 475 copies, this is number 118, written in manuscript below the colophon.
Binding as above, in protective mylar wrappers. Short marginal tear to bottom of one leaf, else
like new. (30683)
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