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Jewish Writings, Christian Thought?
Scheidt, Balthasar; Johann Andreas Dantz; Jacob Rhenferd; et al. Novum testamentum ex Talmude et antiquitatibus Hebraeorum illustratum. Lipsiae: Apud haer. Joh. Frid. Braunii, 1736. 4to (21.4 cm, 8.4"). [30], 736, 735–39, 737–1216, [96] pp.
$400.00
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Sole edition: Edited by theologian Johann Gerhard Meuschen (1680–1743), this volume presents a prominent Christian Hebraist's analysis of alleged Talmudic references to Jesus and the New Testament, accompanied by a variety of contemporary writings similarly focused on how Jewish texts could shed light on the New Testament. In addition to Balthasar Scheidt (1614–70), professor of Oriental languages at the University of Strasbourg, also represented here are Johann Andreas Dantz (a.k.a. Danz or Dans, 1654–1727), Herman Wits, and Jakob Rhenferd (1654–1712); the largest part of the volume, including several treatises on Jewish baptismal rites, is by Dantz, professor of Hebrew and theology at Jena, noted for his strictly Christological interpretation of the Old Testament.
The title-page here is in red and black, sporting an engraved title vignette. Ornamented with woodcut head- and tailpieces (the latter repeated once) and a few woodcut initials, the
primarily Latin text incorporates numerous quotations printed in Hebrew, several in Greek, three in Arabic, and one in Syriac; the sole German quotation is printed in black-letter.
Provenance: Bookplate of Johann Christian Wilhelm Diederichs (1750–81), a philosopher and professor of Oriental languages at Göttingen and Königsberg, laid in along with those of two seminaries (plates formerly affixed to front pastedown). Front fly-leaf and one page each with an inked annotation in the same 18th-century hand, possibly Diederichs'.
Recent speckled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label; title-page with faded 19th-century institutional rubber-stamp and bottom edges with another stamp, lower outer portion of Diederichs bookplate partially torn away. Two leaves each with small paper flaw, one marginal, one affecting a few letters without loss of sense; a few corners dog-eared. Pages gently age-toned with minor to moderate offsetting and occasional slight spotting; first and last few leaves with margins browned by offsetting from old binding. Two early inked annotations as above, and a scattered handful of small inked text corrections.
A thick, sturdy, fistful of a book. (31721)

A Cookbook Collector's Own
PERSONAL Recipe Collection
Schofield, Eloise. Manuscript on paper, in English. U.S.: [1950s–60s]. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). 59–181, [1] pp.; illus.
$450.00
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A remarkable culinary florilegium compiled by prominent cookbook collector Eloise Schofield. Recorded mostly by hand on
122 well-filled pages of a ledger book, these 19th- and 20th-century recipes cover a very wide range, opening with an “Orange Pie” recipe given in verse and including local specialties such as fried eel from Provincetown, “State of Maine Mincemeat,” and Nantucket corn pudding; quirky historical dishes and home remedies (for earache, weeping eyes, burns, etc.), often with their sources and dates attributed; and more general everyday items, passed on by family members and friends (“My mother's Harlequin Cake”). Annotations offer Schofield's thoughts and recollections: “This isn't at all bad”; “Bob's grandmother always had it [lemon conserve] on hand”; “Here is a very old recipe — waste not want not”; “My father loved to eat; he always lifted each cover off the pots every evening to see what was cooking”).
Interspersed among the recipes are clippings and artwork affixed to the pages, including an advertisement for the “Anna Held” carnation petticoat for sale by John Wanamaker, as well as a number of other color-printed or black and white advertisements; several cat photos taken from periodicals or other sources; “Hints for Housekeepers,” from an 1865 magazine; a recipe for “Gertie's Christmas Cake,” written in Schofield's hand on an old-fashioned holiday greeting card; a color reproduction of a portion of a 1799 embroidery sampler; a recipe for “Spong Cake” in an older hand, labelled by Schofield “Found in an 1887 Cook Book”; ETC.
Schofield's delight in culinary history is clear on every page — for instance, “Tripe was a favorite around 1900 and the Parker House became famous for its tripe besides the rolls. Here is a Tripe Batter highly recommended by an old lady” (p. 114).
Contemporary half roan and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding cocked, worn and scuffed overall, spine leather split and chipping. Pp. 1–58 excised, very likely having been the ledger's contents before repurposing; gutter of first signature present reinforced some time ago. Pages age-toned with scattered smudging and offsetting. A gift of densely packed pleasure in terms of both aesthetics and domestic content, this is
the most endearing example of such a book that we have ever seen. (41503)

Published by Americans / Printed in Germany / Bound near Philadelphia
Schultz, Christopher. Erläuterung für herrn Caspar Schwenckfeld, und die zugethanen, seiner lehre. Breslau und Leipzig: In commission bey G.W. Seidel; Jauer, Gedruckt bey H.C. Müllern, 1771. 8vo (18.5 cm; 7.25"). [7 of 8 ff.], 464 of 468 (lacking pp. 465–68) pp., [2] ff.
$500.00
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First edition of Schultz's “vindication of Caspar Schwenkfeld and and an elucidation of his doctrines and the vicissitudes of his followers.” Published by the Schwenkfelders in America but printed in Germany.
Binding: Full speckled sheep, four raised bands; tooled in blind using rules and a rope-design roll. Binding attributed to Philadelphia-area binder Christopher Hoffman, who was both a Schwenckfelder minister and a binder!
Provenance: “To Isaac Jeackle in Herreford 1791" on front fly-leaf. Hereford is in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
On Hoffman as a binder with an illustration of a nearly identical binding, see: Maser, Bookbinding in America, 15. Binding as above, chip to bottom of front joint; old library rubber-stamp on front pastedown and to title-page verso, with a bit of old pencilling. Without the half-title and pp. 465–68; title-page with short closed tear along gutter. Paper with the usual age-toning/foxing, but untattered. All edges heavily sprinkled red. (28536)

“COMPLEAT . . . for travellers, merchants &
LOVERS OF BOTH LANGUAGES”
Schulz, [Johann Christoph Friedrich]. Compleat English pocket dictionary English and German, for travellers, merchants & lovers of both languages, &c. Augsburg: Printed for C. Henry Stage, [1796]. Square 12mo (vertical chainlines; 15 cm, 5.91"). 2 vols. I: x, 887, [1 (blank)] pp. II: 795, [1 (blank)] pp.
[SOLD]
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Schulz “was born (1 January 1762) in Magdeburg and died (27 September/9 October 1798) in Mitau. During his brief life, he became one of the most popular authors of his day, translating and writing both novels and non-fiction, and serving as an important eyewitness to current events” (unsigned biography, University of Manchester site [see reference area below]). His substantial dictionary is here English to German in vol. I and the reverse in II. The printer has presented text in English in roman type and that in German in Fraktur, all printed in double-column format in both volumes; the title-page of vol. II reads “Vollständiges englisches Taschenwörterbuch, deutsch und englisch ... Zweyter Theil.”
While there is no publication date on either title-page, we have taken as the probable publication date what is printed on the dedication, which is dated 7 Marz 1796.
Provenance: Vol. I has the handsome, contemporary bookseller's label of Pierre Beaume, of Bordeaux, on the front pastedown.
Searches of WorldCat and ESTC find apparently six German libraries reporting ownership of vol. I only and no German library reporting holding both volumes or even just vol. II. The same searches found only three libraries in the Anglo world reporting ownership, each having both volumes: Indiana University, the British Library, and the University of Wales.
ESTC T124033; Alston, Bibliography of the English Language from the Invention of Printing to the Year 1800, 13, 60. For a brief biography, see: https://users.manchester.edu/FacStaff/SSNaragon/Kant/bio/fullbio/schulzjcf.html. Contemporary full sheep with modest gilt-bead tooling to spines and to red and black leather spine labels; board corners and spine extremities renewed, and joints strengthened with long-fiber and toned. Textblocks age-toned and with some offsetting from leather of turn-ins to some edges of early and late margins; vol. I with old light marginal waterstaining to first few leaves; vol. II with limited Inkstain in a few outer margins not into text and pp. 793/794 crumpled, its top and lower margins torn and repaired with old paper.
A very pleasing set and one that is now also SOLID FOR USE. (41252)

On
WINGS of Verse
Scott, Walter. Miscellaneous poems. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable & Co., and Hurst, Robinson, & Co. (pr. by James Ballantyne), 1820. 8vo (22.2 cm, 8.75"). viii, 510, [2] pp. (pagination skips 66-85).
$600.00
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Beautiful edition of gathered verses by Sir Walter Scott, containing “The Bridal of Triermain,” “Harold the Dauntless,” “William and Helen,” and what the advertisement calls “all the Smaller Pieces, collected for the first time in the recent edition of the Author's Poems” — decorated with a fore-edge painting.
The Fore-edge: Simple but charming design of six bright butterflies in red, orange, yellow and blue.
Provenance: Front pastedown with armorial bookplate of John Train.
Binding: Contemporary maroon straight-grain morocco framed in wide gilt border and panelled in gilt single fillet, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorations, board edges (at corners) and turn-ins with gilt roll. All edges gilt.
NSTC 2S9246. Binding as above, moderately rubbed; hinges (inside) slightly tender. Front free endpaper verso with inked ownership inscription. Light to moderate foxing throughout, pages otherwise clean. (30141)

SCHISM “dis-arm'd” Sole Edition
Sergeant, John. Schism dis-arm'd of the defensive weapons, lent it by Doctor Hammond and the bishop of Derry. Paris: M. Blageart, 1655. 8vo (14 cm, 5.5"). AY8(-Y8, blank); [8] ff., 333, [1] pp.
$750.00
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John Sergeant (16221707) converted to Catholicism from the Church of England after researching the history of the early Church. He was ordained to the priesthood and undertook a career as a controversialist against Protestantism, writing many works. This one is a Catholic answer to Henry Hammond's (160560) Of Schisme, and John Bramhall's (15941663) Just Vindication of the Church of England from the Unjust Aspersion of Criminal Schism. Hammond and Bramhall were leading Anglican divines of the high-church party, and in attacking them Sergeant reveals the influence that that party still commanded, even at its lowest ebb under Cromwell. His argument is largely a defense of the Papacy against those who would assert the historical independence of the Church of England.
This is the sole edition of this important Recusant work.
This is a volume that shows such controvery was definitely not “dry”; we have photographed the start of Sergeant's explanation/defense of his personal animus against his antagonist, and also the “Stationer's” description of the polemical feast to come, this worked out as a menu or “Bill of Fare ”!
Provenance: On the recto of the second front fly-leaf is a presentation inscription: “For my honnord & best frind, Master John Bulteel.” The most likely John Bulteel is the one who was created M.A. at Oxford in 1661, and later served as secretary to Edward, Earl of Clarendon.
Wing S2589; ESTC R6168; Clancy, English Catholic Books, 16411700, 897. On Sergeant, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, LI, 25153. On Bramhall, see: DNB, VI, 203206. On Hammond, see: DNB, XXIV, 24246. Contemporary mottled calf, with remnants of modest double gilt rules on covers; rubbed and joints open, front cover detached. Browning from turn-ins on fly-leaves, last leaves, and fore-edge of title-page, as well as moderately to a few signatures, with a little occasional light waterstaining; otherwise, the expectable degrees of age-toning and spotting only. (7067)

INDIANA Fine Press Shakespeare
Shakespeare, William; Fredric Brewer, ed. Mr. William Shakespeare's songs. Published according to the true original copies. Bloomington, IN: The Raintree Press, 1976. 16mo (17.1 cm, 6.73"). [2], 26 pp.; illus.
$30.00
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Scarce: 24 songs from Shakespeare's plays (text only), edited, handset, and printed by Brewer at his Raintree Press. This is
numbered copy 81 of 100 printed, decorated with an engraving of a print-shop scene and a color-printed woodcut portrait of Shakespeare after the Chandos image.
Provenance: From the collection of Gerson Leiber, the artist, engraver, sculptor, and book collector, sans indicia.
Publisher's cream-colored paper dust jacket, front panel printed in red and brown, over glossy paper wrappers printed in green and blue; jacket slightly darkened, wrappers and pages pristine.
A very nice copy of this now-uncommon item. (41525)

Behind the Scenes: Shaw vs. Chesterton — Postcards Signed by Shaw
Shaw, George Bernard. ALS: Two postcards sent to Richard Mealand. Ayot St Lawrence: 1933. (14.2 x 9.2 cm & 11.3 x 8.8 cm). 2 cards.
$650.00
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Two handwritten cards from Shaw to Mealand, regarding “this proposed G.B.S. – G.K.C. page.” At the time, Mealand was editor of Nash's Pall Mall Magazine (owned by the National Magazine Company, to which these cards are addressed); G.K.C. was Gilbert Keith Chesterton, famously one of Shaw's favorite philosophical sparring partners and possibly his most beloved enemy. The first card, from 15 May 1933, takes a lightly ridiculing tone in stating that the author cannot possibly interrupt his “serious work” to engage in such commercial business unless paid “an enormous sum” — whatever Mealand is paying Chesterton, to be specific; the second, from 21 June 1933, notes that Shaw's reply to Chesterton has already run long and “too heavy for the occasion,” and suggests his plans for revising it.
Sent from Shaw's home in Ayot St. Lawrence and postmarked in Hertfordshire, both cards are
inscribed in Shaw's distinctive hand and signed with his initials.
Cards crisp and clean, one with pair of staple holes.
Delightful and characteristic Shavian ephemera. (37045)

English REFORMATION Satire
Printed in the 19th Century ON VELLUM
[Shepherd, Luke, fl.1548]. [drop-title] John Bon and mast person. [London]: [colophon: J. Smeeton, Printer], n.d. [1807 or 1808]. Small 4to (27 cm; 10.5"). [5] ff.
$1950.00
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One of either 12 or 25 copies printed on vellum (as per Alston in the former case, as per Oxford cataloguer and a contemporary note on title-page in the latter). John Bon was originally printed by Daye and Seres in London in 1548 (STC 3258.5) and is here reproduced in letterpress facsimile from a copy formerly owned by Richard Forster
Attributed to Luke Shepherd by Halkett and Laing, this is a satirical poem, a dialogue in verse, on the Eucharist, and could even be seen as a short play. It is printed in gothic (black letter) type with
a large woodcut of a procession of the Eucharist on the title-page.
None of the copies reported to WorldCat, COPAC, or NUC are described as printed on vellum. The copy that Alston found at the British Library is not findable via the BL OPAC.
Provenance: Early 19th-century manuscript ownership on front fly-leaf: “Thomas Briggs Esq., Edgeware Road.” Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Alston, Books Printed on Vellum in the Collections of the British Library, p. 35; Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.), III, p. 192; Halkett & Laing (3rd ed.), J21 (var.) l NSTC, I, S1667. Original dun colored boards with beige linen shelfback; rebacked, and binding discolored. “25 copies Printed on chosen Parchment” written in ink in an early 19th-century hand in lower margin of the title-page. Foxing, heaviest on last three leaves; last page (a publisher's note and colophon) lightly inked and so a little faint.
A nice find for the collector of printing on vellum, letterpress facsimiles, or reprints of rare 16th-century English tracts. (34699)

He Was a Member of
Sor JUANA's Circle
Sigüenza y Góngora, Carlos de. Parayso occidental plantado y cultivado por la liberal benefica mano de los muy catholicos y poderosos reyes de España, nuestros señores, en su magnifico Real Convento de Jesus Maria de Mexico. Mexico: Juan Ribera, 1684. Small 4to. [12], 206 ff., coat of arms.
$15,000.00
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“Polymath” is the term most often applied to Siguenza y Gongora (1645–1700), and indeed he was a cosmographer, philosopher, chronicler, poet, biographer, historian, cartographer, and priest.
Here he is wearing the hats of a chronicler and a biographer, as he, “an intellectual friend of Sor Juana [Ines de la Cruz] and at the same time a man of science and religiosity, [writes] the history of the convent of Jesus Maria and the biography of some of its notable nuns.” His Parayso occidental is “a classic example of baroque[-era] writing on the monastic life of nuns [in Mexico]” (both quotations from Lavrin, p. 205). As such, the volume is important; and even apart from its association with the Spanish world's Tenth Muse,” it is
a basic starting place for the study of nuns, the economics of nunneries, and the political life of the same.
As is increasingly the case with Mexican imprints of the 17th century, it is
little found in the marketplace.
Provenance: 18th-century ownership signature on title-page and first leaf of preliminaries of the Conde del Fresno de la Fuente.
Medina, Mexico, 1328; Palau 312973; Asuncion Lavrin, “Cotidianidad y espiritualidad en la vida conventual novohispana: Siglo XVII,” in Memoria del Coloquio Internacional Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz y pensamiento novohispano (1995). Late 19th-century Mexican quarter dark green morocco with mottled green paper sides; binding rubbed and abraded, front endpapers with an old paper label and remnants of one removed. Pencilling on front fly-leaf and title-page verso; top margins closely cropped occasionally costing top of letters of running heads and foliation. Worming, chiefly in margins but occasionally into the text, not costing words, sometimes repaired; first and last few leaves with old repairs to corners and margins and a bit of text restored in pen and ink. Withal, a good++ copy of important work that is not often on the market. (34203)

Flavian Epic, Georgian Scholarship
Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius; Richard Heber, ed. Caji Silii Italici Punica. Londini: Gul. Bulmer (pr. by R. Faulder), 1792. 16mo (16.5 cm, 6.5"). 2 vols. I: xxiv, 240 pp. II: [4], 270, [2] pp.
$300.00
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Sole printing of Richard Heber's edition of this Silver Age epic Latin verse about the Second Punic War — so epic that it is now the longest known extant poem of Classic Latin literature, in fact. Heber (1774–1833), himself one of the most notably epic bibliomaniacs of the era, was just 18 when he tackled the project, as per the Bibliotheca Heberiana. He based his work on Arnold Drakenborch's. Dibdin found this a “useful little edition, which exhibits the text very elegantly printed by Bulmer.” Printed on wove paper.
Binding: Contemporary mottled calf, covers framed in beaded gilt rule, spines with gilt-stamped leather black and red title and volume labels, gilt-stamped crossed-arrow decorations in elegantly gilt-ruled compartments.
Provenance: Front pastedowns each with inked inscription: “George Sinclair, April 11th, 1805"; first two books of vol. I with early inked annotations in both Latin and English, no subsequent annotations. Later in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear of each volume.
Brunet, V, 383; Dibdin, II, 407–08; ESTC T147242; Schweiger, II, 956. Bound as above; minimal wear overall, vol. II with small scuff to back cover. Inscriptions and marginalia as above. Back pastedown and final 40 (approximately) leaves of vol. I with small area of pinhole worming to upper outer margins, not approaching text.
A handsome set of this uncommon Heberianum. (40254)

A Curious Combination of Whimsy & Morality
Sinclair, Catherine. Holiday house: A series of tales. Dedicated to Lady Diana Boyle. Edinburgh: William Whyte & Co., 1849. 16mo (16.4 cm, 6.5"). Col. frontis., xii, 346 pp.
$160.00
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Tremendously popular in its day, this children's book is often cited as one of the first pieces of juvenile literature to realistically depict youthful shenanigans — the preface describes our protagonists as “noisy, frolicsome, mischievous children . . . like wild horses on the prairies, rather than like well-broken hacks on the road” (p. vii).
Modern readers may well find themselves taken aback by the harshness of the punishments doled out by a stern governess to Harry and Laura for such unforgivable (and amusingly depicted!) sins as inviting friends over to tea, tearing their clothes, or breaking a plate — although occasionally the siblings' boisterousness leads to genuine crises like a fire in the nursery. In the end, while neither the severity of the governess nor the kindness of their grandmother and uncle serve to dampen the children's spirits, the loss of their beloved older brother transforms them from “merry, thoughtless, young creatures” to mourners convinced of the frailty of earthly joy and the necessity of religion (p. 345).
Sinclair was Scottish-born and this is an early Scottish edition (stated fifth thousand) of this work, following the London first of 1826 and the Edinburgh first of 1839. The frontispiece here features two engraved vignettes, done by Lizars Lithography of Edinburgh, both scenes with
early hand-coloring.
Binding: 19th-century half green calf, sides covered with veined and rippled marbled paper in shades of blue-green, cream, and gold, spine with gilt-stamped red leather title-label, gilt-dotted raised bands, and gilt-stamped floral compartment decorations. Marbled endpapers matching binding, with all page edges likewise marbled.
Provenance: Title-page with early inked inscription of Marian Rogers, Beawell Rectory; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Opie A 1081. For 1844 ed., see Osborne Collection, p. 304. Bound as above; spine sunned evenly to olive, spine label with small chip, joints and edges rubbed. Pages showing minor to moderate spotting and staining.
A landmark of children's literature, in a surprisingly formal, adult binding. (41232)

Signed First Edition — PASSIONS
Singer, Isaac Bashevis. Passions. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. 8vo (21.5 cm, 8.4"). [8], 312 pp.
$100.00
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First edition: 20 stories incorporating some of Singer's favorite themes, many translated by Singer himself in collaboration with his nephew or with other authors and editors. This copy is
inscribed by the author on the half-title, dated 1975.
Publisher's quarter orange cloth and dark green paper–covered sides, spine with title stamped in silver, in original dust jacket; jacket with spine extremities lightly worn, edges of back panel darkened, upper inner front corner and upper back corner each with short tear. One page with light smudge to lower outer margin. A nice copy of a signed Singer first edition. (34092)

The Ninth Time is the Charm?
Smith, Samuel. The great assize, or, Day of iubilee delivered in foure sermons, upon the 20 chapt. of the Revel. ver. 12, 13, 14, 15: whereunto are annexed two sermons upon the I. chapter of the Canticles, vers. 6, 7. London: Printed by Iohn Okes, and are to be sold by H. Blunden at his shop in Corn-hill neare the Royall Exchange, 1637.
8vo (14.1 cm; 5.625"). [6], 182, 185–307, [3], 309–88, 373–86. Lacks added engr. t.-p. & pp. 183–84.
$850.00
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Smith (1584–1665), an English clergyman and trusted mentor of theologian Richard Baxter (1615–91), produced several often reprinted publications, of which this is one. This edition of six sermons is advertised as “the ninth impression, corrected, amended, and and much enlarged,” but an interesting prefatory note from the printer claims it is the first truly correct edition as Smith was “dwelling far distant from the City, and having a Pastorall charge to attend upon, could not attend the Press” for earlier printings.
Provenance: Round armorial bookplate of Baronet Heathcote of Hursley on front pastedown; bookplate of Thomas Vernon of Hanbury (1654–1721) dated 1703 attached to title-page verso. Later in the Howell Bible Collection, Pacific School of Religion (properly released), with library bookplate tucked in front cover.
Copies of any early edition of this text are scarce, and
searches of NUC, COPAC, and OCLC reveal only three known copies, this copy one of only two in North America, and now deacessioned. Two other reported copies in COPAC are false. The other North American copy is described in the library's catalogue record as “Imperfect: leaves B4-B5, C3 and V7 lacking; faded and stained in places, spine broken; covers detached.”
ESTC S4905; STC (rev. ed.) 22849.7. On Smith, see: DNB (online). Contemporary calf, Cambridge–style binding with raised bands ruled in blind and gilt-lettered red leather spine label, covers double framed and panelled in blind, board edges rolled in gilt; rebacked, new endpapers, added engraved title-page and one leaf of text.lacking, covers rubbed with some loss of leather. Moderate age-toning with the very occasional spot;; two leaves with corners torn and loss of a letter or two but not sense, one with a small hole, another two repaired. Bookplates as described above, call numbers on title-page verso, rubber-stamp on title-page and one leaf of text.
Imperfect, but worthwhile. (36326)

A Military Manual for Troops Serving under a BRITISH OFFICER in the Peninsular Campaign
PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED
Spain. Army. Reglamento para el exercicio y maniobras de la infantería. De las evoluciones de línea. [colophon: Cadiz: en la Imprenta Tormentaria á cargo de Juan Domingo Villegas, 1813]. 8vo (21.5 cm; 8.125"). [2], 281–385, 15 pp., fold. plts. numbered xxxix –lxviii.
$1800.00
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At the base of the title-page of this infantry manual is printed “Reimpreso por disposicion del . . . señor don Carlos Doyle, teniente general de los reales exercitos.”
That is, Lt. Gen. Charles William Doyle (1770–1842) ordered this work to be printed.
Doyle was an Irish-born British lieutenant-colonel who in 1808 was ordered to Portugal to help fight Napoleon in the Peninsular Campaign. He very successfully aided the Spanish army in instilling discipline and organizing light infantry and was made a lieutenant general in the Spanish army. In 1811 Britain ordered him home, but when he reached Cadiz, Sir Henry Wellesley convinced him to command a camp at which a new army was being organized for action in the south of Spain. Again he was highly successful in his military instruction of new troops, and as a result was promoted to full colonel in the British army; he remained in Spain till the end of the war in 1814.
The present work, extracted from the larger one of the same title printed at Madrid by the Imprenta Real in 1808, was clearly printed for the instruction of Doyle's southern army.
At the rear of the volume are
30 folding plates setting forth various dispositions and movements of infantry troops; clear, careful, verbal explanations of these precede them.
Searches of NUC, WorldCat, and the CCPBE locate
only three copies worldwide (all in Spain).
Provenance: Contemporary signature of “Velez” on title-page.
Not in Palau. On Doyle, see: DNB online. Dark brown speckled calf, black gilt-lettered title-label (a little chipped) to gilt-ruled spine, marbled endpapers; binding lightly rubbed. Age-toning and general light soiling, occasionally a dog-ear or a spot, all plates clean, well-attached, and whole at folds.
A very sound, very good copy. (36362)

Vizcaino & Serra Letters in
Extremely Good 19th-Century Facsimiles
(Spanish-era California). Three excellent photographic copies of autograph letters in the Archivo General de Indias. [copies made in Seville: Establecimiento Tipografico y Litografico “El Porvenir”, 1884]. Folio (31 cm, 12.5"). [1], [2], [3] pp.
$275.00
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Each facsimile has this note on it: “Photographed from the original preserved in the 'Archivo General de Indias' de Sevilla, under Royal Order dated Madrid December 26th, 1883 for Aldoph Sutro, Esq. of San Francisco, California,” and the typographic imprint above.
One is a letter of Junipero Serra dated Monterey, 7 October 1779, reporting that he has made a copy of Fr. Crespi's diary and is sending it via the ship that has just arrived; a second Serra letter dated Monterey, 9 September 1779, reports on the various missions and states that he hopes to establish one in San Francisco. The third letter is by Sebastian Vizcaino, dated Monterey, 8 December 1602, reporting on his voyage of discovery along the California coast.
The facsimiles are on laid paper and in sepia ink and are great replicas of the originals with a great backstory as to their creation.
Provenance: Adolph Sutro; later for sale by E. B. Sterling, Historical Print Seller, Trenton, NJ (1851–1925).
Overall very good: Some age stains, one corner repaired, some dust-soiling. In a light paper folder with E.B. Sterling's faint rubber-stamp. (41011)

Noted Christian Nativist Fans the Flames
Sparry, C. The illustrated Christian martyrology; being an authentic and genuine historical account of the principal persecutions against the church of Christ, in different parts of the world by pagans and papists. Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, 1854. 8vo (23.5 cm; 9.5"). Color frontis., 254 pp., [16] ff. (of publisher's ads), 23 color plts.
$550.00
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Charles Sparry was a virulent anti-Catholic “reverend,” author or compiler of several anti-Catholic books, editor of the short-lived periodical The North American Protestant magazine or the anti Jesuit, and an accused purveyor of obscene literature.
The present martyrology, first printed in 1846, reached seven editions during the 19th century, four of them printed by Leary & Getz, the printing arm of the famous Philadelphia bookstore generally and simply known as “Leary's.” Not unexpectedly, the volume is wildly anti-Cathoic but is also an excellent example of mid-century American bookmaking in its publisher's binding, illustration, and method of printing.
The binding is the publisher's red roan in imitation of morocco. Both covers are gilt-stamped with a triple rule border at the board edges and gilt corner devices; in the center of each board is a gilt vignette of a martyrdom based on one of the plates in the text. All edges are gilt.
The illustrations are wood engravings, mostly unsigned, but a few signed “Lossing.” There are several in-text wood-engraved portraits and there are additionally
24 wood-engraved plates (including the frontispiece) that have been hand colored, probably by a stencil method.
The text is printed in double-column format from stereoplates, in roman type, with an interesting six-line capital at the beginning of each chapter.
Provenance: “Mamie C. Swinton, from 'Aunt Jennie,' August 1870.”
Binding as above, rubbed at board edges and joints (outside); top and bottom of spine pulled with loss of leather. Short tears in foremargins of final blank leaves; scattered foxing and some brown spotting. Over all, a good++ copy; a very good representative of
the genre, “ugly ideas got-up beautifully.” (37226)

Hand-Colored Illustrations
Sproat, Nancy. Little ditties for little children. New York: Samuel Wood & Sons, [not after 1835?]. 32mo (12.8 cm, 5"). 23, [1] pp.; illus.
$350.00
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Obedience, charity, truthfulness vs. falsehood, and country life are the themes and lessons for the young reader in this early American chapbook from the pen of Massachusetts native Sproat (1766–1827), who also used the pseudonym “A Lady of Boston.” The “ditties” are in verse and are illustrated with
15 in-text, hand-colored wood engravings, each measuring 2" x 2".
Provenance: Early 19th-century presentation inscription on the inside of the front wrapper: “Presented to Miss Sally Raley by her Friend Mary Wales”; most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only three libraries reporting ownership of this edition (NYPL, AAS, UNC-Greensboro) and five of the 1821 printing (University of Rochester, Huntington, AAS, University of Michigan, Brown).
Shoemaker 1977. Publisher's orange wrappers with wood engravings not repeating interior cuts on front and back; black spine of wrapper rubbed, rear cover a little rubbed or sunned at edge; gift inscriptions on inside of front wrapper. Light dampstaining and crinkling of text pages.
A very decent copy. (38785)

“A Thought is a Real Thing & Words are Only Its Raiment”
Stephens, James; Thomas Mackenzie, illus. The crock of gold. London: Macmillan & Co, 1926. 8vo (22.9 cm, 9"). vii, [1], 227, [1] pp.; 12 col. plts.
$650.00
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“They took the Philosopher from his prison . . . and then they returned again, dancing and singing, to the country of the gods . . . “: A fantastical novel of philosophical adventure, liberally infused with mirth and
Irish folklore — as well as a great number of proclamations regarding the essential nature of the sexes and their battle. This is an early edition, following the first of 1912, featuring
twelve color-printed plates as well as large, decorative black and white head- and tailpieces in modern woodcut style by Thomas Mackenzie.
Binding: Contemporary green morocco, covers framed in gilt double fillets, front cover with gilt-stamped title, spine with raised bands, compartments framed in gilt double fillets with
gilt corner shamrocks, shamrock motif repeated on wide, gilt-ruled turn-ins Bright green endpapers. Signed binding, stamped by Donnelley of Chicago on lower front turn-in.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Francis John Breck, Jr., dated 10/29/72. Later in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
Binding as above, spine and edges sunned to brown, joints opening from head and foot, edges rubbed. Endpapers with offsetting from turn-ins and front free one loosening; pages slightly age-toned. A handsome example of this enduring classic, with Mackenzie's
lovely, lyrical illustration. (39825)

A Tiny Gem — Printed by the Plantin Press (L.A.) — A Mary Kuper Wood Engraving
Stevenson, Robert Louis. Prayers written at Vailima. Los Angeles: Dawson's Book Shop, 1973. Miniature (6.2 cm, 2.4"). xxxviii, [2], 61, [1] pp.
$125.00
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Miniature edition of the daily prayers Stevenson wrote
for the use of his family and their Samoan household members, with an introduction by Fanny Stevenson and a preliminary note by Ellen Shaffer (one-time head of the rare book department of the Free Library of Philadelphia and later the first curator of the Silverado Museum in St. Helena, CA).
This is
one of 500 copies printed by Saul and Lillian Marks at the Plantin Press in Los Angeles; Mary Kuper did the wood engraving of a Samoan scene.
Provenance: Miniature bookplate of Raymond A. Smith to front pastedown.
Publisher's orange paper–covered boards with tan paper shelfback, front cover with red-stamped cruciform motif, spine with title in red. A clean and fresh copy. (35704)

Shaker Bible — “Testimonies” as Part Two
Stewart, Philemon. A holy, sacred, and divine roll and book; from the Lord God of Heaven, to the inhabitants of Earth: revealed in the United Society at New Lebanon, County of Columbia, State of New-York, United States of America. Canterbury, N.H.: United Society, 1843. 8vo. vii, 222, [3] pp., [2] ff., 223–403, [3] pp.
$675.00
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First edition of this famous book of Shaker revelations, printed
and bound by a Shaker institution. As was the case with the Book of Mormon,
the Sacred Roll and Book was an attempt to add to the scriptural canon
but met much less success. The Shaker Bible begins with a proclamation signed
in type by Philemon Stewart, a member of the New Lebanon village, attesting
that the text was dictated to him by a “Holy Angel” on 4 May 1842.
Interestingly, the angel's introduction contains specific instructions regarding
reprinting and dissemination of the book — ministers were “required”
to keep a copy in their pulpits and Boards of Foreign Missions were to print
translated copies “sufficient to circulate into all foreign nations.”
The second part (pp. 267–403), which contains its own title-page,
is a collection of testimonies by “inspired writers,” or Shakers
professing their faith in the book's divine source.
“Read and understand all ye in mortal clay,” exhorts the title-page
— “Received by the church of this communion, and published in
union with the same.”
Provenance: In the library
of Colgate Rochester Divinity School; inscription on front free endpaper “To
be returned to Amelia G. Mace, Office.”
Sabin 32664, 79708; and 90701.5 for revised collation.
Contemporary sheep, recently rebacked in plain calf with gilt-ruled bands
and gilt-stamped green leather title-label. Ex-library copy, with rubber-stamp
on all paper edges and p. [1]; rubber-stamped five-digit number at base of
p. [iii]; inscription on front free endpaper in blue ink (see above); and
faint traces of a librarian's penciling at inner margin of p. [iii] and verso
of title-page. Small bookseller's ticket at lower outer corner of rear pastedown.
Some foxing, especially to endpapers; offsetting from leather affecting title-page
and following page, at edges; very good condition. (24495)

True or False?
[Stophel, Georg]. Manuscript on paper, in German. “Schlüssel zu Irrthum [sic] und Wahrheit.” No place [Germany]: 1788. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.7"). xi, [5 (blank)], 153 [i.e., 154] pp.
$875.00
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A German dictionary of philosophy called the “Key to Error and Truth,” with copious numerical references (to another text?) and occasional Latin, this is written in a single cursive hand in black ink with red underlining. The text is divided into alphabetical sections with corresponding letters at the top middle of each page, and pagination in the upper outer corner; the title-page is written in neat gothic letters. The preliminary leaves are an index.
The paper has a clear watermark dated 1787, showing a man sawing a tree, with the countermark reading “Rethenbach Beys Wolfgang” (?).
Provenance: Now missing bookplate (see below) read “Aus der Büchersamlung von Georg Stophel”; acquired by August Neander; later in the Colgate University Library (the Rochester Theological Seminary, later the Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, deaccessioned 2005).
Modern black moiré cloth, gilt leather spine label; damaged in a fire and its aftermath, losing its previous binding, this also lost its previously recorded bookplate and other provenance indicia with only one line of a shelfmark remaining. Translucently waterstained throughout in a W pattern across each opening, handwriting and reading almost miraculously unaffected; now restored to strength and safety for use. (30159)

Stowe's Second Anti-Slavery Novel — First U.S. Edition
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Dred; a tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1856. 12mo (20 cm, 7.87"). 2 vols. I: 329, [7 (6 adv.)] pp. II; v, [1], [5]–370 pp.
$475.00
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The follow-up to Uncle Tom's Cabin: first American edition, first state as described by BAL (matching on all points, including state “A” bindings), with publisher's advertisements at the back of vol. I.
In some ways even more militantly abolitionist than Uncle Tom, this novel's complicated plot
drew liberally on real-life figures and events that Stowe cited in a long and detailed Appendix, to create and assert a realism as to slavery and its effects that readers would find undismissable..
Provenance: Front free endpaper of vol. I with inked inscription: “To Miss Matthews As a Phillipoena Pay[men]t From G.S.R. October 7 1856.” (“Phillipoena” was a German-derived game involving love and friendship penalties or “forfeits” between couples; make of that what you will!) Most recently in the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
Binding: Publisher's straight-grained very dark brown cloth, covers framed in blind-stamped leaf and vine decorations, spines with gilt-stamped title and “Boston” at feet; plain yellow endpapers.
BAL 19389; Wright, II, 2391. Bound as above, slightly cocked, lightly rubbed overall and moreso at corners; spine extremities chipped. Varying degrees of foxing; some signatures starting to loosen.
Inscription as above! (41279)

A Lamb Disobeys Mom . . . & . . .
IS TORN TO PIECES & EATEN BY WOLF CUBS
The stray lamb. New York: Mahlon Day, [ca. 1825–33?]. Miniature (7.5 cm, 3"). 8 pp.
[SOLD]
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Illustrating this
miniature chapbook are three wee wood engravings. It is a cautionary tale / fable whose purpose is to teach obedience.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Shoemaker 5104; Bradbury, Miniature Books, B295. Fine in original plain green wrappers. (38779)

Mountains, Waterways, & Birds of the
ADIRONDACKS
Street, Alfred Billings; John Augustus Hows, illus. Forest pictures in the Adirondacks. New York: James G. Gregory, 1865. 4to (23.1 cm, 9.09). [6], 63, [3] pp.; 16 plts. (incl. in pagination).
$75.00
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First edition, featuring 16 dramatic woodland views from New York–born artist John A. Hows. An original poem by Street accompanies each of the 16 plates, which were wood-engraved by Messrs. Bobbett & Hooper after Hows' designs.
Binding: Publisher's pebbled brown cloth, covers framed with embossed vinework border, front cover with decorative gilt-stamped title, spine with raised bands, gilt-stamped title, and blind-tooled fleurons in compartments. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Inscription on initial blank from ____ P. James to _____ Thomas, “Dec 25/64.”
Sabin 33391. Binding as above, just a little rubbed at edges and corners, with gilt of front cover, still attractive, dimmed affecting three letters. Small spot of offsetting in lower portion of title-page and blank opposite from something once laid in, with a few small spots of foxing to the blank.
A clean, bright, very nice copy of a book more usually seen in compromised condition. (41397)
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