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Berhardt Wall's Works:
“A Prize of the Cognoscenti, a Delight for Collectors, & the Pride of Librarians”
Weber, Francis J. Following Bernhardt Wall 1872–1956. Austin, TX: The Book Club of Texas, 1994. Folio (29.9 cm, 11.75"). [2], 63, [1] pp.; 5 col. plts., col. illus.
$450.00
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Weber's account of the life and works of Wall, known as the “Postcard King,” an American artist, historian, and pioneer of etching. Originally published in 1974 as a miniature volume, the work appears here in an
expanded full-sized presentation designed and typeset by Castle Press and printed by Patrick Reagh Printers, limited to 195 copies (this example unnumbered). Like the first edition, this one is illustrated with mounted intaglio reproductions by Anthony Kroll — but this one additionally features a number of examples of Wall's work printed from the original plates, five colored photogravure reproductions of etchings by Wall, and one
original postcard (with writing on the reverse).
Publisher's speckled paper–covered boards with gray cloth shelfback, front cover with printed paper label, in plain paper dust jacket with printed spine label and in coordinating paper and cloth slipcase; jacket spine very slightly sunned, slipcase and volume clean and crisp.
A beautiful tribute to an important American illustrator. (37130)

Romantic Moonlit Cloth Binding
Weyman, Stanley J. Sophia: A romance. New York: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1900. 12mo (18.9 cm, 7.5"). viii, [2], 345, [25 (adv.)] pp.; 12 plts.
[SOLD]
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“In the dining-room of a small house on the east side of Arlington Street, which at that period — 1742 — was the Ministerial street, Mr. and Mrs. Northey sat awaiting Sophia.”
This romance is illustrated with 12 black and white plates (including the frontispiece) by productive English illustrator Christine “Chris” Hammond. Stanley J. Weyman's stories were immensely popular during his day (1855–1928), but they are now often forgotten among other Victorian works. This is a first American edition, published one year after the London first.
Binding: Publisher's navy cloth with gilt lettering to spine. On front board, gilt lettering and a moonlit water scene stamped in light blue, black, and white. Top edge gilt.
Provenance: On the front free endpaper, the name-stamp of Sarah E. Lembeck, with her initials also written in pencil and stamped in ink.
Binding as above; light rubbing to extremities and small scrape to front board. Provenance as above, some ink transfer to front pastedown. A nice copy in an interesting, moody, Arts & Crafts–style binding. (37561)

From Shipwreck to Success
Whymper, Elijah, illus. The foundling of the wreck. London: Groombridge & Sons (pr. by Richard Barrett), [ca. 1850]. 12mo (14.2 cm, 5.625"). Frontis. (incl. in pagination), 47, [1] pp.; illus.
$75.00
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From the “Stories for Summer Days & Winter Nights” second series: after a shipwreck Gerald is adopted by a nice Swedish family living in Russia. When his adopted father is forced to work in slave conditions, Gerald travels to ask Peter the Great if he may work for his father instead — a sacrifice that eventually leads to him meeting his birth mother, a Polish noblewoman, and attending university. Elijah Whymper contributed the frontispiece of Gerald at Court, the title vignette, and at least three of the four interior
wood-engraved illustrations.
Provenance: Inscribed “Mary Agnes Phillott / A Reward,” with partial date, on inside of front wrapper. Later in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Publisher's printed turquoise wrappers; spine and edges very slightly chipped, wrappers just beginning to separate, some discoloration around edges. Very light age-toning, pages clean. (38455)

Learning about Animals & about Being Cheerful
at the Same Time
Whymper, Elijah, illus. Much ado about nothing; or, a day at the gardens. London: Groombridge & Sons, [ca. 1850]. 12mo (11.8 cm, 4.7"). Frontis. (incl. in pagination), 24 pp.; illus.
$45.00
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From the “Buds and Blossoms” series: Fretful little Dora goes to the zoo with her Aunt Clara, and learns not to make troubles out of trifles. Elijah Whymper provided the cover design, the frontispiece camel, and at least one of the four interior illustrations.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Publisher's printed salmon paper wrappers; light wear to extremities, paper just starting to split at foot of spine. A few spots of light foxing, pages otherwise generally clean (and entirely unmauled by childish hands).
A very attractive copy. (38462)
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Tideline Press: Deluxe Set, Signed & with Illumination
Wild, Peter; Elaine Scull, illus. The island hunter trilogy: Pioneers, The Cavalryman, and The Island Hunter. [NY]: Tideline Press, 1976. Oblong 8vo (16.5 cm, 6.5"). 3 vols. Each [24] pp.; illus.
$350.00
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Handsome fine press printing: a set of three volumes of Wild's poetry, illustrated by Elaine Scull, printed and bound by Leonard Seastone at Tideline Press, part of an edition of 150 “regular” copies and and present here as
lettered copy S of 26 deluxe gold-illuminated, casebound copies, signed at the colophon by the author, printer, and artist.
Bindings: Publisher's paper-covered boards in light blue, light green, and taupe; covers blind-stamped each with author, volume title, and
a landscape image drawn from the double-spread title-page.
Bound as above, spines slightly sunned and spotted; each volume with small faint trace of now-absent shelf label. Pages clean and fresh.
A very nice trio. (41344)

Orthopaedics
Wilhelm, Philipp. Uber den Bruch des Schlüsselbeines und über die verschiedenen Methoden denselben zu heilen. Würzburg: Gedruckt bey Carl Wilhelm Becker, 1822. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.5"). 87, [3] pp.; 2 fold. plts.
$450.00
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Young Dr. Wilhelm (1798–1840) discusses fractures of the clavicle and their treatment, and in one of the
two large folding lithographic plates illustrates a device for supporting the area of the body connected by muscle and sinew to the clavicle in order to speed recovery.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only three U.S. libraries (CtY, DNLM, PPCP) reporting ownership.
Provenance: 19th-century stamp of the Medic. Chirug. Bibliothek Altenburg (on front wrapper and title-page, but NOT on plates). Most recently in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
Original blue-green wrappers. Waterstaining to wrappers at spine and onto covers and at rear on portions of the folding plates. Else very nice. (39793)

The Unlucky Man, the Christmas Sing, & the Friend of Cats
Wilkins, Mary. The people of our neighborhood. Philadelphia: Curtis Pub. Co.; New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., (1898). 32mo (15.2 cm; 6"). viii, 161, [1] pp.
$45.00
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A collection of sketches depicting life in New England. Mary Wilkins, known for portraying the frustrating lives within that region's villages, gives each unique character a defining characteristic; e.g., Timothy Sampson is “The Wise Man,” Margaret Snell is “The Village Runaway,” and Amanda Todd is “The Friend of Cats.”
Alice Barber Stephens, an American painter and engraver whose work appeared in Harper's and the Ladies' Home Journal, provides the illustrations, being
13 plates throughout the text and a frontispiece (with tissue guard) of Wilkins.
Vol. III of the Ladies' Home Journal Library of Fiction.
Provenance: On front free endpaper, the signature of Katherine Phinprose(?).
Wright, III, 2038. Publisher's textured green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and front board; lighter green-stamped decoration to front board and spine; fore-edge of pages untrimmed. Extremities rubbed. Small tear of paper on front pastedown; gutter crack at series list and p. 114.
A nice little volume combining the work of two prominent women. (37815)

Everything Victorians Knew about Ancient Egypt, COMPILED — Illustrated in Color
Wilkinson, John Gardner; Samuel Birch, ed. The manners and customs of the ancient Egyptians. London: John Murray (pr. by William Clowes & Sons), 1878. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). 3 vols. I: xxx, 510 pp.; 12 plts. (of which 5 col. & 6 fold.), illus. II: xii, 515, [1] pp.; 5 plts. (of which 2 col. & 2 fold.), illus. III: xi, [1], 528 pp.; 12 plts. (of which 2 col. fold. & 10 fold.; full-page illus. incl. in pagination), illus.
$400.00
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First edition of this revised and corrected version of
the work that helped launch Egyptomania among the 19th-century English masses. A dedicated traveller and independent scholar, Wilkinson (1797–1875) was at the forefront of British Egyptology — as was editor Birch (1813–1885), keeper of Egyptian antiquities at the British Museum — and this massive, detail-packed study of ancient Egyptian history and culture, first printed in 1837, brought him both general fame and a knighthood.
This three-volume set is
extensively illustrated with hundreds of in-text wood engravings as well as the 72 remarkable plates, many based on Wilkinson's own drawings. (Please note that this total follows the publisher's practice, which includes in the count of plates a number of the third volume's full-page illustrations with printed text on the reverse.)
Nine of the plates are printed in color, and 19 are oversized folding images.
Contemporary speckled calf rebacked some time ago with original spines laid on, covers framed in gilt roll; spines gilt extra with acanthus motifs and with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels; marbled endpapers and all page edges marbled. Joints rubbed (edges less so) with joints also dry; spine leather of all volumes dry and variously rubbed/chipped; vol. I with volume label chipped and back joint starting from head — priced according to faults yet with all volumes “holding” and more attractive than some of this detail would suggest. Interior very bright and remarkably unfoxed, with a very few scattered spots only; clean and crisp.
Desirable, as an example of this important work. (41532)

Williams's First Published Poem
Williams, C.K. A day for Anne Frank. Philadelphia: The Falcon Press, 1968. 8vo (29.8 cm, 11.75"). [16] pp.; illus.
$875.00
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First edition of Williams's first published work: a poetic meditation inspired by the horrors of the Holocaust, with illustrations based on photographs of concentration camp victims. The volume was designed by Eugene Feldman and Sarah J. Williams, and printed by Feldman; this is
one of 1000 copies issued.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers; tiny amount of rubbing to extremities. A nice copy of this uncommon debut from a major contemporary American poet. (32661)

Deluxe Comedic Production, Deluxe Binding
Wills, William Henry, ed. Poets' wit and humour. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1861. 8vo (22.8 cm, 9"). [8], 278, [1] pp.; illus.
$975.00
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First U.S. edition: “Illustrated with
one
hundred engravings from drawings by Charles Bennett and George
H. Thomas.” The work was edited by a friend and collaborator of Charles
Dickens; from Chaucer to Swift to “Saint Anthony's Sermon to the Fishes,”
Wills's comic selections are delightfully entertaining, and their wood-engraved
illustrations equally amusing.
Binding:
Publisher's deluxe black calf, covers and spine elaborately embossed and stamped
in blind and gilt with central vignette of a cherub dressed as a jester and
playing a lyre. All edges gilt.
The
embossing plaque is signed with the designer's initials: “R.D.”
Robert Dudley. This is an English publisher's binding,
most likely done using the English sheets with an Appleton title-page.
This work is rarely found in the deluxe binding: The handsomely gilt-stamped
publisher's cloth is the norm.
NSTC 2W24418; Allibone 2762. For binding, see: Morris
& Levin, Art of Publisher's Bookbindings, 44. Binding as above,
showing minor wear to extremities and front cover vignette, original silk
bookmark detached and laid in. Volume slightly shaken with text block starting
to pull away from spine; this is the kind of volume that wants to do that,
and the reader will want to “cradle” it in hand — that done,
no worries. Front fly-leaf with early pencilled gift inscription and with
a Maine druggist's small ticket. Mild to moderate foxing.
Both
funny and decorative, in a publisher's binding that may fairly be called “DAZZLING.”
(26748)

A
SCARCE Labor of Love
Wilson, Douglas. The story of Little Rabbit. [London?: 1973]. Oblong 8vo (15.5 cm, 6.2"). [24] ff.; col. illus.
$450.00
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Artist's book: A self-produced fable apparently (and touchingly) aimed at consoling a little girl after the departure of her pet rabbit. The text is printed on translucent pages overlaying Wilson's hand-colored lithograph illustrations.
This limited edition was hand-printed by Wilson. It is
numbered copy 11 of just 21 printed, and signed by the creator on the front free endpaper.
Publisher's plain yellow cloth–covered boards, showing virtually no wear. A very nice copy of a scarce and charming item, interestingly designed and printed. (33365)

Human “Novelties” — Illustrated
Wilson, Henry. Wonderful characters [comprising memoirs and anecdotes of the most remarkable persons of every age and nation]. London: J. Robins & Co. Albion Press, 1826 & 1821. 8vo (20.8 cm, 8.2"). 2 vols. (of 3, ONLY). I: Engr. t.-p., iv, 496 pp.; 16 plts. II: Engr. t.-p., [3]–480 pp.; 14 plts. (printed t.-p. lacking in both).
[SOLD]
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Fascinating sketches of such legendary personages as Bampfylde Moore Carew (the cross-dressing self-styled King of the Beggars), Hannah Snell (the “Female Warrior”), the epically absent-minded Rev. George Harvest (who missed his own wedding because he lost track of time while fishing!), Nathaniel Bentley (“Dirty Dick”), Elizabeth Parsons (perpetrator of the “Cock Lane Ghost” fraud), and many more, some whose names are still remembered and others more obscure. Contemporary mindsets are on full display, and some of the subjects are — in a way not always comfortable for modern readers — men, women, and children with physical or mental “deformities.”
The lives are illustrated with a total of
30 engraved plates, done by Robert Page and Robert Cooper, including an image of Peter Williamson in the Native American garb he adopted after his self-proclaimed Indian captivity.
This set, in matched contemporary bindings, comprises the first edition thus of the second volume and the second of the first, as per Allibone.
Allibone, III, 2771; NSTC 2W25254. Contemporary half dark blue calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped red leather title-labels, raised bands with gilt roll, and blind-tooled decorations in compartments; all edges marbled to match sides. Two volumes only, of three; printed title-pages lacking in both volumes. Early pencilled ownership inscription to front fly-leaf of vol. I; one page with pencilled inscription in upper margin. Vol. I with upper outer corners of two leaves torn away (not touching text); one plate with old repair at upper inner corner (just touching corner of frame). Two pages in vol. I with what might be splashes of tea; light waterstaining to inner margin of first text page and to outer portions of a number of plates in vol. II; mild to moderate age-toning and scattered light foxing throughout. Incomplete and priced accordingly; still
fascinating for both the anecdotes and the illustrations. (40364)

“They Also Selected a Specimen of Money-Wort”
[Wilson, Lucy Sarah Atkins]. A visit to Grove Cottage for the entertainment and instruction of children. London: J. Harris & Son [printed by Cox & Baylis], 1823. 16mo (17 cm, 6.875"). 56 pp.; 4 plts., illus.
[SOLD]
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Attributed to Lucy Sarah Atkins Wilson by the Bodleian Library, these nature stories for children begin with an engraved title-page with an interesting border and a wonderful vignette of a large country house and grounds. The metal-engraved plates and metal-engraved title-page are all dated 1 July 1823; each elegant plate has two illustrations.
Provenance: 19th-century ownership signature of Ashton Case on front pastedown; opposite on the front free endpaper, “Mama's present to dear Emily, Nov. 27th 1823.” Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Moon, John Harris's Books for Youth, 988; Osborne Collection p. 216; Opie A1247. Publisher's quarter red roan with stone pattern marbled paper sides and gilt-stamped spine title; moderately rubbed overall, spine sunned. Inscriptions and booklabel as above. A nice copy. (38926)

Polynesia & Tahiti — 7 Maps & 6 Plates — Absorbing Narratives
Wilson, William, ed. & illus. A missionary voyage to the southern Pacific Ocean, performed in the years 1796, 1797, 1798, in the ship Duff, commanded by Captain James Wilson. Compiled from journals of the officers and the missionaries; and illustrated with maps, charts, and views ... London: Pr. by S. Gosnell for T. Chapman, 1799. 4to (28.5 cm, 11.25"). [12], c, 420, [12] pp.; 7 fold. maps, 6 plts.
$2000.00
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First edition. This account of a mission to Polynesia and Tahiti (funded by the London Missionary Society) supplies, it must be said, much more by way of the missionary travellers' interested observations of lands and people's exotic to them than it does reports of the proselytizations they pursued; it was compiled by chief mate William Wilson from his own journals and those of Captain James Wilson. Dr. Thomas Haweis, co-founder of the London Missionary Society, edited the work and the Rev. Samuel Greatheed provided (anonymously) the “Preliminary discourse; containing a geographical and historical account of the islands where missionaries have settled, and of others with which they are connected.” The Hill catalogue says, “The narrative is fresh, although sometimes naive, and provides a glimpse of everyday life on the islands that the mariner or naturalist didn't consider worth reporting.” There is a most interesting Appendix, also, canvassing everything from native dress to houses to dances to cookery to canoes to marriage and the place of women to funeral customs — not forgetting human sacrifice and sports.
The volume is illustrated with six plates and seven oversized, folding maps, and includes an extensive list of subscribers. An inferior, less expensive edition appeared in the same year, printed by Gillet; the present example is sometimes identified as the Gosnell edition to distinguish it from the Gillet production.
ESTC T87461; Hill, Pacific Voyages, 1894; Sabin 49480. Contemporary reverse sheep, framed and panelled in blind, spine with leather title-label; leather peeling at extremities, front joint repaired and back one starting from head, spine with label rubbed and two compartments discolored. Hinges (inside) reinforced with cloth tape; front free endpaper lacking. Front pastedown with institutional bookplates; dedication leaf with pressure-stamp in upper margin and rubber-stamped numeral in lower margin. Title-page and dedication with offsetting to margins; title-page with small hole not touching text. First map foxed, with tears along two folds; sixth map with jagged tear along one inner corner; other maps lightly foxed. Occasional stray small spots of staining and some offsetting from plates onto opposing pages; a few page edges slightly ragged. In sum, in fact, a sound, clean, and pleasant volume. (19603)

The Envious DOG & the Ermine
(Thirty Poems Thirty-ONE Engravings)
[Wynne, John Huddlestone]. Tales for youth; in thirty poems: To which are annexed, historical remarks and moral applications in prose. London: Printed by J. Crowder for E. Newbery, 1794. 8vo (17 cm, 6.75"). x (i.e., viii), 158, [2] pp.; 1 plt., illus.
$600.00
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Verse and prose on conduct of life — explained via emblems and fables — fill this volume of Christian literature for children. The copper-engraved frontispiece is by Thomas Cook and
the 30 half-page rectangular wood-engraved headpieces are by John Bewick.
Provenance: Early 20th-century bookplate of James Rolt; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
ESTC T3347; Roscoe, John Newberry and His Successors, J391 (1); Hugo, Bewick Collector, 72 & 4072; Osborne Collection, p. 88. Late 19th- or early 20th-century half tan calf with marbled paper sides; binding lightly rubbed. Bookplate and label as above; front fly-leaf with “No. 72 Hugo's Collector” inked in an early hand, accompanied by pencilled annotation re. Bewick. Small inkstain on title-page and one other, light soiling to text and foxing; leaf of advertisements soiled. Overall a good++ copy
and well worthwhile. (38917)

Bulls Bow Down & Fiends Are Powerless
[IN ITALIAN]
Ximénez, Mateo. Compendio della vita del beato Sebastiano d'Apparizio, laico professo dell'ordine de' Minori Osservanti del Padre S. Francesco della provincia del Santo Evangelio nel Messico. Roma: Stamperia Salomoni, 1789. 4to (24.2 cm, 9.5"). xvi pp., port., 228 pp., [1] f. [with] Coleccion de estampas que representan los principales pasos, echos, y prodigios del Bto.. Frai Sebastian de Aparizio, relig[ios]o. franciscano de la provincia del S[an]to Evangelio de Mexico. Dispuesta por el R.P. Fr. Mateo Ximenez. Roma: por el incisor Pedro Bombelli, 1789. 4to (23.5 cm, 9.125"). Engr. title, [100] of [129] plts.
$7500.00
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From humble carter to revered and beatified lay Franciscan is not an easy course to pursue in life, but Sebastián de Aparicio (1502-1600) accomplished it in Mexico. Although he was married multiple times, he is said to have remained chaste, deciding in 1574 to abandon his secular lifestyle for that of a lay Franciscan. He is said to have had great ability to manage and calm animals, including near-wild bulls. His life was filled with teaching, begging, and accomplishing near-impossible things. Offered here is the first edition of Ximénez's biography and the fine album of plates illustrating events in Aparicio's life (see our caption, above).
Finding the “life” and the volume of plates together is uncommon. Only by happenstance did the two volumes come to us within months of one another, from two different continents, allowing us to marry them for this offering. For example, in the U.S., only the Lilly and Bancroft Libraries report owning both works. There is some question as to the number of plates in a complete copy of the Colección: Some sources call for an engraved title-page and 128 plates, while others call for 129 plates.
There seems not to have been an edition of the Vita in Spanish.
Vita: Palau 377047; Sabin 105727A. Colección: Palau 377048; Sabin 105728. Vita: Contemporary Italian binding of quarter leather with “wallpaper” covered boards; edges of boards seriously rubbed and exposing underlying paste boards. Internally very good. Colección: 20th-century Spanish quarter leather, with paper in imitation of treed calf on the covers. Private ownership stamps on title-page. Missing 29 plates; the other hundred in very good! condition. (2093)

From Ape to Zebra, Illustrated by Anderson
The young child's A B C, or, first book. New York: Samuel Wood (pr. by J.C. Totten), 1806. 32mo (9.8 cm, 3.8"). 16 pp.; illus.
[SOLD]
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Uncommon first edition of the first children's book ever published by Samuel Wood, described by Rosenbach as responsible for “many thousands of children's religious, instructive, and nursery books.” This simple, alphabetically themed reader is internally illustrated with woodcuts of birds, animals, and objects, along with one person: Xerxes. Later editions altered some of the cuts, but Xerxes seems to have been a constant.
Rosenbach attributes all of the illustrations to
Alexander Anderson; Pomeroy doesn't dispute that but is only comfortable attributing nine to him.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Rosenbach, Children's, 325; Welch 1461.1; Shaw & Shoemaker 11909; Hamilton 235; Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 203a. Publisher's printed paper wrappers (with four cuts), gently faded, front wrapper with small scrape to upper margin. Pages slightly age-toned but otherwise very clean. An apparently unread copy. (38507)

From Ape to Zebra
The young child's A, B, C; or, first book. New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, No. 261, Pearl-Street; Samuel S. Wood & Co. No. 212, Market Street, Baltimore, [ca. 1820]. Square 8vo (10.5 cm, 4.13"). 16 pp.
$300.00
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First published in 1806, this little abecedarium was
the first children's book ever published by Samuel Wood, whose work included “many thousands of children's religious, instructive, and nursery books.” (Rosenbach) The alphabet in this later edition is illustrated with
variations on the fine wood engravings of birds, animals, and objects included in the first, except for the portrait of Xerxes, which seems to have been a constant throughout the many editions. Alexander Anderson, America's preeminent wood engraver, is thought to have supplied the illustrations to the original edition.
The front wrapper wood-engraving on this copy shows three young boys playing with a spinning top, and the rear features a swarm of bees buzzing around a honey pot.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA”) at rear.
Rosenbach, Children's, 596 ([c. 1820]); Shaw & Shoemaker 46904 ([1818?]); Pomeroy, Alexander Anderson, 203e. This ed. not in Welch. Publisher's printed paper wrappers with woodcuts, as above; wrappers foxed and leaves age-toned, not distressingly or weakening paper. Very little used, in good shape. (38483)

Illustrations by
Benson Lossing, William Howland, & “HH”
The young sailor; or the sea-life of Tom Bowline. New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 123 & 125 William St., [1856–66]. 32mo (11.5 cm, 4.5"). 16 pp.; illus.
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Chapbook tale of young Tom who is drawn to sea despite his parents' warnings and concerns, and who sails on the ship Godolphin under his uncle Mason, the captain, to the East Indies. They arrive in China and set sail for New South Wales but are shipwrecked en route. After a perilous raft voyage, they reach Banguay, a small island north of Borneo. They are befriended by some Malays but are attacked by another tribe, imprisoned, and put into “cruel slavery.” A dashing escape enables them to flee their captors and they are lucky to find a friendly ship to take them home! A
grand imaginary voyage in little, appearing here under the header “Third Series – No 8.”
Kiggins & Kellogg was located at 123 & 125 William St. between 1856 and 1866. The wood-engraved illustrations are variously signed “Lossing & Co.” (i.e., Benson John Lossing), “W. Howland sc.” (i.e., William Howland), and “HH sc.”
Printed green-colored wrappers. Faded gift inscription on title-page. Text and images clean. (39515)
Peruvian
Conquest
Illustrated
Zárate, Agustín de. Histoire de la decouverte et de laconquete du Perou. Traduite de l'Espagnol...par S.D.C. Paris: La compagnie des libraires, 1716. 8vo (17 cm, 6.75"). 2 vols. I: Frontis., [40], 360 pp.; 13 (2 fold.) plts., 1 fold. map. II: [8], 479, [1 (blank)] pp.
$700.00
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Early French printing of this very successful Peruvian history, which went through numerous editions in languages including Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German, and English. Zárate arrived in Peru as part of the retinue of the first viceroy, and served there from 1543 until 1548. His work was first printed in its original Spanish in 1555, but did not appear in French until 1700; the present translation was done by S. de Broë, Seigneur de Citry et de la Guette. The first volume is illustrated with an oversized folding map and fourteen engraved plates, including the well known depiction of a nattily dressed European gentleman, reclining on a raft-like cushion, borne across a stream by two Indians.
Married set: The two contemporary bindings are similar but not identical; both are of mottled leather, one more coarsely grained (and acid-etched) than the other, while one has floral and the other pomegranate motifs gilt-stamped in spine compartments. The match was made by a previous, Spanish-speaking collector, who has left pencilled notes in Spanish in both volumes.
Sabin 106261; Palau 379641. Contemporary mottled sheep and calf as above, corners and edges worn, all joints cracking, both volumes with minor worming to front covers and pinholes to spines; vol. I with loss of leather over spine head (half of top compartment). Pencilled check marks scattered throughout; front free endpaper and recto of last text page of vol. II with annotations. (3446)
In
Paper Wrappers, 1774
Zárate, Agustin de. Histoire de la découverte et de la conquête du Perou, traduite de l’Espagnol d’Augustin de Zarate, par S.D.C. Paris: Par la compagnie des libraires, 1774. 8vo (18 cm, 7.1"). I: Frontis., xl, 360
pp.; 1 fold. map, 10 engr. plts., 2 fold. engr. plts. II: viii, 479, [1 (blank)] pp.
$445.00
Classic and standard work on the discovery, conquest, and subsequent civil war periods. Sent to Peru to examine the financial status of the viceroyalty, the Spanish treasury official Zárate made use of his visit to compile a history of the conquest of the Incas and the early portion of the subsequent civil wars among the Spanish conquerors. The work was originally published in 1555 and in 1700 was translated into French by S. de Broë, seigneur de Citry et de La Guette; this Paris printing of de Broë’s translation is illustrated with numerous maps and engravings of scenes including a ritual sacrifice.
Sabin 106266; Palau 379645. Volumes bound in paper wrappers, back wrapper lacking in both cases; front wrappers reinforced with printed papers taken from other items. Reverse of frontispiece in vol. I and front pastedown in vol. II with small bookplates of private collector. Edges untrimmed. Scattered spots; pages and plates generally in good clean condition. (5257)

“FATHER'S FATHERS” — One of 50 Copies
Zundenfel, Dieter. Father's fathers. Six poems with six wood engravings. Lebanon, PA: Red Howler Press, 1989. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.25"). [10] ff., 6 plates; illus.
$275.00
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The colophon tells us the edition was limited to “50 copies. The poems are set in 14pt. Garamond type and printed on Rives paper. The prints were engraved on end grain maple blocks and printed on Kitakara Japanese paper. This book is bound in Arches Cover paper with Japanese binding.”
This is copy 22 of 50; the engravings are signed and numbered 22 of 75.
The illustrations are by David Moyer.
Poet and artist look humorously at early 20th-century fathers: baritone, critic, physicist, militarist, machinist, and photographer.
Binding as above, with title embossed on cover and red-cord sewing. Fine copy. (35481)
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