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Analyzing Baptist Logic “Female Communion”
Edwards, Peter. Candid reasons for renouncing the principles of antipaedobaptism. Also, an appendix, containing a short method with the Baptists. Exeter, NH: Henry Ranlet, 1802. 8vo (20.3 cm, 8"). [4], 199, [1 (blank)] pp.
$125.00
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First U.S. edition, following the London first of 1795, of an oft-printed, much-debated refutation of Abraham Booth's Paedo-baptism Examined. The author was for some years the pastor of a Baptist church before having a dramatic change of heart regarding infant baptism; Allibone says that with the present treatise, he “produced an argument of unusual power and conclusiveness. It cannot be overcome, and all attempts hitherto employed to set it aside have been feeble.”
The work includes substantial sections on female communion.
Shaw & Shoemaker 2175; Allibone 547. Period-style quarter tan cloth and light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Last page institutionally pressure-stamped; title-page with traces of paper adhesions to inner margin. Uncut copy; pages lightly age-toned, with a bit of soiling and light to moderate spotting. (25830)

Quintessential “Pennsylvania Dutch” A First & “Fancy”
Egelmann, Charles Frederick, engraver. Broadside Taufschein, begins: “Staat [blank] Nordamerica. Gehet hin in alle welt lehret alle volker und taufet sieim namen des vaters des sohnes und des heiligren geistes.” With manuscript completed by an anonymous scrivene. [Reading, PA: C. F. Egelmann, 1814 and later]. Folio (34.8 x 25.7 cm; 13.75" x 10"). [1] p.
$750.00
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The engraver Egelmann (1782–1860) is credited by Stopp with producing
the first engraved Taufschein (birth/baptismal certificate), an example of which is offered here. The certificate is for Louisa Buehler, daughter of L. Buehler and Salomea Wagner, born 25 January 1849 in Tamaqua, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania.
The cataloguer at the Penn State University library describes its uncolored example: “The form is generally dated ca. 1830, but could have been in use as early as 1814. The lower design depicts Jesus with the disciples, while the upper scene shows Jesus' baptism. The form stretches between two pillars, flanked by columns of smoke, all within line border. Distinctive mix of [stipple] engraving and etching, probably on copper plate, by Egelmann.”
The present copy is handsomely hand-colored with the entirety of the baptismal certificate written out, not “filled in,” in red ink in a clear hand. That is, the “form” part of the engraving has been neatly, precisely excised and replaced with fresh paper to record Louisa's baptism.
Weiser & Heaney, Pennsylvania German Fraktur, 495; Stopp, Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans, IV, pg. 2784. Gently age-toned, small amount of spotting to lower right corner, a bit of waterstaining to upper right corner. Excellent repair to a few tears around the margins, plate expertly altered/repurposed within the manuscript portion as described above. (36105)

Ellis on “the Whole Law of Woman's Life” — Complete Set
in the
SCARCE PRESENTATION CASE
Ellis, Sarah Stickney. (The Englishwoman's Family Library). The daughters of England, their position in society, character & responsibilities. The mothers of England[,] their influence & responsibility. The wives of England, their relative duties, domestic influence, & social obligations. The women of England, their social duties, and domestic habits. London: Peter Jackson & Fisher, Son, and Co., [ca. 1845]. 8vo (17.7 cm, 6.96"). 4 vols. Daughters: Frontis., 400 pp. Mothers: Frontis., [8], 390 pp. Wives: Frontis., 371, [1] pp. Women: Frontis., 343, [1] pp.
$5500.00
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Ellis's popular “Women of England” series: Moral education aimed not at fine ladies but rather at middle-class women, of “that estimable class of females who . . . enjoy the privilege of liberal education, with exemption from the pecuniary necessities of labor” (Women, p. iv). These volumes seek to teach Englishwomen to be observant, kind, and humble as girls; thrifty, domestic, and comforting as wives; dedicated instructors and guides as mothers; good, soothing Christian influences on those around them throughout their lives; and above all, patient and submissive — in short
the embodiment of the Angel in the House, though these books preceded the publication of that poem. Ellis grants the necessity of some degree of education for women primarily in order to make them better housekeepers and more interesting companions to men, noting that “so far as cleverness, learning, and knowledge are conducive to woman's moral excellence, they are therefore desirable, and no further” (Daughters, p. 105) — but still she reinforces women's agency, responsibility, and need for self-awareness and self-management, particularly in the daunting task of choosing husbands who will respect them and treat them well.
The four volumes, each with its own engraved frontispiece, appear here
in the publisher's leather-covered wooden display casewith shaped roof-like pediment, gilt decorations, gilt-stamped “Library” title, glass-fronted door, and push-button metal catch. The works were first published separately in 1839 (Women), 1842 (Daughters), early 1843 (Wives), and late 1843 (Mothers); the case, apparently first advertised in 1843, could be “had separately” and assembled sets then ensconced in it, or one could buy handsome, variously bound complete sets already encased when new.
Uniform sets are uncommon, and contained in cases like this one are even more so.
Provenance: Daughters with inked ownership inscription of Josephine Sparre, dated 1856; Women with early inked inscription of A.M. Kirwan of Well Park, Drumcondra (Ireland).
Publisher's red pebbled cloth, covers elaborately stamped in blind, spines with gilt-stamped titles and embossed decorations; volumes with edges and extremities rubbed, small scuffs and spots of discoloration to sides, spines gently sunned, Daughters cloth somewhat lighter overall. Daughters: Offsetting from frontispiece to title-page. Mothers: Frontispiece lightly foxed; light pencilled marks of emphasis. Wives: Front free endpaper lacking; frontispiece foxed. Inscriptions as above; occasional small spots of foxing, smudges, and edge chips scattered throughout; box with scuffs and wear, cracks to leather at top refurbished. A removable dais has been added to the foot of the box in order to fit the presently contained volumes more snugly; markings to the cloth lining of the box suggest that, at one time, taller volumes resided there.
Some of Ellis's most successful and influential writing in a desirable uniformly bound set, within the rarely surviving and quite charming display case. (41250)
(English Political Satire PLUS). Venus attiring the graces. London: J. Dodsley, 1777. 4to (24.8 cm, 9.75"). 11, [1 (blank)] pp. [with] [Mason, William?] [Ode to Mr. Pinchbeck, upon his newly invented patent candle-snuffers. London: J. Almon, 1776]. [5]–11, [1 (adv.)] pp.
$385.00
Satiric verse mocking fashionable English dress, accompanied by a political satire addressed to Christopher Pinchbeck which includes the lines “Haste then, and quash the hot Turmoil, / That flames in
Boston’s angry Soil . . .” The first work is here in its first edition, while the second is likely an early printing.
Venus: ESTC T73277; Ode: ESTC T41985 (first ed.). Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Second work lacking half-title and title-page. Inner margins of two leaves reinforced; last line of advertising page shaved. Title-page and last few leaves with moderate foxing; one page (not the title) stamped by a now-defunct institution, with some offsetting to opposing page. (5875)

Catherine, the RUINER
Estienne, Henri; Théodore de Bèze; Jean de Serres, attributed authors. Discours merveilleux de la vie[,] actions & deportemens de Catherine de Medicis Royne mere; declarant tous les moyens qu'elle a tenus pour usurper le gouvernement du royaume de France & ruiner l'estat d'iceluy. No place: Selon la copie imprimée à Paris, 1649. 8vo (14.3 cm, 5.625"). 201, [1] pp.
$450.00
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A scandalous life of Catherine de Medici, expanded from a pamphlet titled Sympathie de la vie de Catherine et de Jésabel, avec l'antipathie de leur mort and here followed by a section titled “Exhortation a la paix, aux François Catholiques.” The pamphlet was first printed in 1574 and the extended version in the following year, with more than a few subsequent appearances in the 16th and 17th centuries. The present example is one of two editions printed in 1649; the other has only 138 pages (although the two contain similar content). Perhaps these 1649 editions were inspired by the overthrow of English King Charles I, and anxiety “around” monarchy?
The title-page here is decorated with a small printer's device of a snail, perhaps making haste slowly, and the text features shouldernotes for ease of use.
Evidence of Readership: A past reader has added a few paragraphs of commentary in French on the verso of the front endpaper as well as two marginal notes in pencil and one in ink.
Provenance: 19th-century “Ex libris Lebers” in ink on verso of front free endpaper. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Barbier 4030. 19th-century quarter brown morocco and brown, tan, and yellow marbled paper–covered boards, spine lettered and stamped in gilt, stormont marbled endpapers, all edges stained red; lightly rubbed with some loss of paper and leather. Provenance and readership markings as above, light age-toning with a few spots; a few leaves with waterstaining at corners, two short marginal tears, and one marginal repair. (38054)

History of Rome in Both Latin & Italian —Bodoni Press
Eutropius; Giuseppe Bandini, trans. Il compendio della storia romana di Flavio Eutropio recato di latino in italiano. Parma: Dalla Tipografia Ducale, 1828. 8vo (22.6 cm, 8.9"). xxii, 354, [2 (errata)] pp.
$250.00
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First edition of Bandini's Italian translation of the Breviarium historiae romanae, Eutropius's widely read history of Rome, as well as the first appearance from the Bodoni-run ducal press, at the time of this printing under the supervision of
Margherita Dall’Aglio, Giambattista Bodoni's widow. The text, which includes the original Latin set in italics beneath each section of Italian, is crisply printed on notably heavy paper — “molto bene stampato,” as Brooks puts it.This Bodoni production is now uncommon, with searches of WorldCat finding
only three U.S. institutions (University of Illinois, University of Kansas, Yale) reporting holdings.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplates of Brian Douglas Stilwell and Robert Wayne Stilwell.
Brooks 1298. Contemporary quarter brown morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and acanthus motifs; binding rubbed. Very minor spots of foxing to title-page, wide-margined pages otherwise clean. (40205)

By the MENTOR, about the MENTEE — Signed Binding by Hayday
Evelyn, John. The life of Mrs. Godolphin. London: William Pickering, 1848. 16mo (17.5 cm, 6.875"). xviii, 291 pp.
[SOLD]
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Here in a delightful signed binding, this affectionate account of Mrs. Godolphin's life, by writer and diarist John Evelyn (1620–1706), was passed down through his family until 1847 when Edward Venables-Vernon-Harcourt allowed its publication with the assistance and editorship of Samuel Wilberforce. Margaret Godolphin (1652–78) was a British courtier married to one of the leading politicians of the time, Sidney Godolphin. She chose Evelyn as a mentor and paternal figure; they remained close until her early death due to complications from childbirth.
The volume, one of the third edition, is illustrated by a
pensive engraved frontispiece of Mrs. Goldophin,by William Humphreys, from an original painting by Matthew Dixon. The work also includes five genealogical tables.
Binding: Black morocco–covered boards with beveled edges, covers framed by two sets of blind double-rules and with an embossed center medallion; spine with raised bands, gilt lettering, blind-stamped devices in compartments, and blind rules extending from bands onto covers. Marbled endpapers, all edges gilt.
Signed by Hayday.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Kelly, Checklist of Books Published by William Pickering, 1847.5 (not noting the 1848 reprints); Keynes, William Pickering (rev. ed.), 65. Bound as above. Minor rubbing to spine-ends and joints, scuffs and faint scrapes to boards, corners bumped. Light stains to very edges of frontispiece, offsetting to title-page, and gutter crack to p. 290.
Lovely and sturdy overall. (37862)

Celebrating the Sun King, in Thread — & in Stunning Engravings
by Johanna Sibylla Küsel
[Félibien, André]; Johanna Sibylla Küsel Krauss & Johann Ulrich Krauss, engr. Tapisseries du roy, ou sont representez les quatre elemens et les quatre saisons. Avec les devises qui les accompagnent et leur explication. Königliche französische Tapezereyen. Augsburg: Johann Ulrich Krauss (pr. by Jacob Koppmayer), 1687. Folio (31.8 cm, 12.52"). [8], 129, [13] pp.; 8 double plts., illus. (2 illus. ff. lacking).
$2750.00
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German and French Baroque: This sumptuous illustrated presentation of Charles Le Brun's tapestry designs for Louis XIV, accompanied by explanations in prose and poetry, marks the work's first bilingual appearance — following its initial French publication of 1668 — as well as the first publication under the imprint of Johann Ulrich Krauss, who had taken over his father-in-law's printmaking and publishing business not long before.
Working on royal commission, Le Brun created eight elaborate renderings for two sets of allegorical tapestries comprising the four elements and the four seasons, which were then woven at
the Gobelins Manufactory. In addition to the added copper-engraved main title-page here, there is a special engraved sectional title for each main set. Each design (Fire, Air, Water, Earth; Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) has its own section featuring a double-page spread with accompanying letterpress description in both French and German, followed by individual close-ups of the emblems from the borders (done from miniature paintings by Jacques Bailly), each with a brief prose explanation followed by verse in both languages. The prose was written by Félibien, secretary to the French Royal Academy, while many of the poems were written by
Charles Perrault with others by François Charpentier, Jean Chapelin, and Jacques Cassagnes; the German throughout is printed in blackletter, the French prose in roman, and the French verse in italic.
The text is not only illustrated as above but decorated with a number of engraved initials and headpieces, as well as woodcut tailpieces.
Sébastien Le Clerc did the original 1668 engravings after Le Brun's designs; for the present edition, although a number of sources cite Krauss as the engraver throughout, Krauss's wife
Johanna Sibylla Küsel supplied and signed four of the eight dramatic double-page copperplates depicting the tapestries in their entirety and she was almost certainly chiefly responsible for many additional pieces. Frau Krauss (1650–1717), daughter of engraver Melchior Küsel, was an accomplished artist, engraver, and printmaker in her own right.
VD17 23:288787R; Landwehr, French, Italian, Spanish, & Portuguese Books of Devices & Emblems, 287; Henkel & Schöne, Emblemata: Handbuch Zur Sinnbildkunst des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, 300; Adams, Bibliography of French Emblem Books of the 16th & 17th Centuries, F.247; Faber du Faur 1846. Contemporary vellum with later silk ties; vellum lightly worn and spotted, spine head with traces of early, hand-inked shelfmark. Light waterstaining to upper outer portions of roughly the first third of the volume; minor spots of staining scattered throughout. Some inner margins unobtrusively repaired or reinforced; two small spots of pinhole worming running through most of volume with six instances (touching some images) repaired; engraved “Devises” title-page with short closed tear. Lacking two plates from the Autumn section (XXVI & XXVII): Despite this, and the minor faults described, a copy
deserving of admiration. (40766)

The Archbishop of Cambrai on
How to Teach Girls
Fénelon [François de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon]. De l'éducation des filles. Paris: Ant. Aug. Renouard, 1807. 12mo (14 cm, 5.5"). viii, 204, [4], 6 (adv.) pp.
$275.00
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Uncommon early 19th-century edition of a widely read treatise on the education of girls, written by a Roman Catholic archbishop (1651–1715) now largely remembered for his best-selling Aventures de Télémaque. In 1679, Fénelon became the director of the Nouvelles-Catholiques, a community of
Huguenot girls undergoing conversion to Catholicism, and published the present work after several years of experience there.
WorldCat reports
only four U.S. institutional holdings of this attractive Antoine-Augustin Renouard printing. While this copy does include the half-title, the engraved portrait cited by OCLC as appearing in some copies is not present here (with the volume showing no signs of its ever having been present).
Binding: Contemporary mottled calf, covers framed in gilt roll, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; board edges with single gilt fillet, turn-ins with gilt roll resembling but not identical to cover roll. All edges gilt.
Binding as above, showing rubbing to spine, joints, and extremities. Portrait reported in some copies not present here; pages with scattered instances of mild spotting.
An elegant little testament to the enduring influence of this work, progressive for its day. (38421)

A De-Catholicized Archbishop?
[Fénelon, François de Salignac de la Mothe]. Selections from the writings of Fenelon. With a memoir of his life. By a lady. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, and Wilkins, 1831. 8vo (18.4 cm; 7.25"). 304 pp.
$100.00
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Fénelon (1651–1715), a French theologian and archbishop, had a tense and complex relationship with the Church hierarchy because of his writings. His office in Cambray was one of the richest benefices in France, and upon his banishment from the court of Louis XIV for the publication of his Maxims of the Saints, he dedicated himself fully to his position, making himself “in all that he did the perfect churchman” (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 253).
The “lady” was Eliza L. Cabot Follen (1787–1860), the Boston-born author, translator, and abolitionist. She used her own translation — “a free one; but sedulous care has been taken never to depart from the spirit of the author” (v) — and one of her concerns in selection is to de-Catholicize the archbishop, allowing his more universal appreciation — for, as she says, his “writings necessarily contain many things that could not be acceptable to Christians of all denominations [and have therefore] been uniformly omitted” (v).
Fénelon's appearance in Follen's selective epitome would surely have amused him, and it pleased the book-buying public: This is the work’s third edition.
Provenance: A note states that “this book belonged to Grandmother Dyer[:] Ann Eliza Morse”; Charles Dyer Norton has also signed an endpaper in ink.
American Imprints 7028. On Fénelon, see: Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed., X, 252–54. Mid-19th-century plain black calf with gilt spine compartments tooled in an interesting pattern, single gilt rule around covers, a little gilt on board edges, marbled endpapers and edges; some wear and abrasions but spine gilt still bright. Provenance markings as above, some leaves creased across and a little interior staining and spotting especially at rear.
A nice old book. (36673)

“This Kind of Composition Is Not So New to Our Language
as It Has Been Considered”
Fennor, William. Cornu-copiae. Pasquil's night-cap: Or, antidot for the head-ache. [London]: [colophon: C. Whittingham, at the Chiswick Press, 1819]. 8vo (20.2 cm, 7.9"). viii, 119, [1] pp.
$175.00
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Chiswick Press reprint of a delightfully filthy and humorous English poem discussing adultery, originally attributed to Nicholas Breton or Samuel Rowlands. This edition's text comes from a combination of those printed in 1612 and 1623, whose differences the introduction notes are “little more than corrections of orthography and punctuation.” A printer's device appears on the final page.
Provenance: Armorial bookplate of Ezra Otis Swift on the front pastedown; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC 2B47098 & 2P5931. Quarter black roan in imitation of morocco and dark pink paper–covered boards, gilt lettering on spine; rubbed with some loss of leather and paper. Edges uncut. Light age-toning with a handful of marginal stains. Bookplate and label as above; bookplate offsetting onto free endpaper.
A scandalous historical poem from a respectable press. (39422)
Fernando VII, King of Spain. Document Signed (“Yo El Rey”), on paper, in Spanish. “En Palacio” [i.e., Madrid], 1 March 1815. Folio (29.8 cm, 12.75"), 4 pp.
$700.00
On 11 February 1815 the king conceded Doña María Josefa d’Alouise, widow of Don Juan Carlos Benavides, the power to attempt recovery of 8356 reales and 6 maravides de velón of annual income from her late husband’s entailed estate (i.e., mayorazgo). He here expands his earlier decree and orders the current holder of the entail to give the said sum annually to her, provided she does not remarry or take religious vows.
Written in a very clear hand, with the paper and wax seal below the king’s signature (wax desicated and paper loose, but present). Two blank leaves at end. Very good condition. (5578)
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“Jim Crow's trip to Greenwich . . .”
(With a Side Order of Man'splaining)
Five popular songs. The Exile of Erin. Jim Crow's trip to Greenwich. Braes o' Birniebouzle. My Mither men't my auld breeks. Lash to the helm. Glasgow [Scotland]: Printed for the Booksellers, [1840s]. 12mo. 8 pp.
$85.00
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In the second song here, Jim Crow takes a trip to Greenwich on a steamboat with “folks of e'bery nation,” some of whom are nervous about the safety of the boat, and overhears
a foolish fellow explaining the mechanical workings of the craft to a lady passenger. “The Exile of Erin” is Thomas Campbell's.
Title woodcut vignette is of a young man in a straw hat, sharpening a scythe which is balanced on his shoulder; “[No.] 53” is printed at the foot of the chapbook's title-page.
Unbound; removed. In the song “My Mither”, an owner has crossed out two words & one phrase in pencil and written pencil amendments in the margin. Very good. (37145)
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Figures from Schiller
Förster, Erwin; William Kaulbach, illus. Schiller-Gallery. From the original drawings of William Kaulbach, C. Jaeger, A. Mueller, Th. Pixis, R. Beyschlag, W. Lindenschmit. New York: Stroeffer & Kirchner, [ca. 1868]. 8vo (22.5 cm, 8.85"). [4], 136 pp.; 22 plts.
$200.00
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Handsome gift book, offering a glossy set of presentations of Friedrich Schiller's heroines — and a few associated heroes. Illustrated here are Mary Stuart (confronting Elizabeth), Joan of Arc, Karl and Amalia (from Die Räuber), the Bride of Messina, the Maiden from Afar, and other memorable characters from Schiller's poems and plays, in
22 mounted and tipped-in albumen reproductions of drawings done by various artists after designs from “the masterly pencil of William Kaulbach” (p. 1), a.k.a. Wilhelm von Kaulbach. Explicatory text by Förster (or Foerster, as given by the title-page) accompanies the plates.
Binding: Publisher's pebbled brown leather, covers and spine with blind-stamped framework containing foliate motifs, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title, turn-ins with border composed of several gilt rolls. Marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.
Provenance: From the library of Robert L. Sadoff, M.D., sans indicia.
Binding as above, edges and extremities mildly rubbed and refurbished. Frontispiece recto with early inked gift inscription “from F.B.H.” Internally slightly age-toned; plates clean.
A luxurious production in very good condition; an aesthetically pleasing combination of art and literature. (39853)

“Twiddle, Twiddle, & Tromp, Trompee” — Lighthearted Victorian Medievalism
Forsyth, Evelyn; Anna Hennen Broadwood, illus. Ye gestes of ye Ladye Anne: A marvelous pleasaunt and comfortable tayle. London: A. & G. Way, prs., [1884]. 4to (21.2 cm, 8.35"). [8], 105, [3 (pub. adv.)] pp.; illus.
$95.00
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Sole edition: Faux-medieval romance, ostensibly edited by Evelyn Forsyth (1851–1930) from an ancient manuscript discovered by one Griffith Boan in 1512. The witty, deliberately archaized misadventures of Lady Anne are set partly in italic and partly in black letter, and graced by a number of original ditties (including one with melody supplied) as well as
charming illustrations done in the style of woodcuts by Anna Hennen Broadwood, wife of Forsyth's uncle Thomas Capel Broadwood. A publisher's advertisement from the year of publication pitched this now-uncommon work as “quaint, humorous . . . a book for those with a taste for the antique and the ridiculous.”
NSTC 0255053. Imitation vellum over stiff wrappers, front wrapper stamped in black, dust-soiled, and a little short at fore-edge exposing front free endpaper also to dust-soiling;spine and front upper edge of wrapper chipped. Pages slightly age-toned with first few corners bumped, scrape along (closed) fore-edges.
Delightful gift for fans of either medieval or Victorian literature — an excellent “geste” indeed! (40442)

Case Reports — Sarah Cotter Imprint — ENVELOPE BINDING
Foster, Michael, Sir. A report of some proceedings on the commission of oyer and terminer and gaol delivery for the trial of the rebels in the year 1746 in the county of Surry [sic], and of other Crown cases. To which are added discourses upon a few branches of the Crown law. Dublin: Printed for Sarah Cotter, 1767. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.6"). x, 412 pp., [10] ff.
$900.00
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Second Irish printing, following the Oxford first of 1762 and the Dublin first of 1763: one of the most authoritative and scholarly of such reports of the time, accompanied by examinations of treason, homicide, accessories, the writings of Lord Hale, etc. The trial mentioned in the title refers to that of those arrested for participation in the Jacobite rising of 1745, an attempt by “Bonnie Prince Charlie” (i.e., Charles Edward Stuart) to regain the British throne. (He had timed his effort for a moment when much of the British military was occupied on the continent by the War of the Austrian Succession.)
Cotter was the daughter of Joseph Cotterand successor to his printing business. She was active from 1757 to 1767 and published/printed law, technical, and religious books, belles lettres, and a wide variety of other productions. Her press produced two variants of this edition; in the present example, the colon after “Dublin” in the imprint is above the n of “in,” and the catchword on p. 406 is “manner.”
Binding: Contemporary limp suede with envelope flap, portion of original tie still present.
Provenance: Front pastedown and free endpaper with early inked ownership inscriptions of Gryff[yth?] Price.
ESTC T145812; Sweet & Maxwell 367. Binding as above, rebacked with mottled sheep with gilt-stamped leather title-label; edges rubbed, flap leather cracking and refurbished with same leather used on spine as well as internally reinforced with marbled paper. Endpapers with offsetting to margins, inscriptions as above. Pages with a very few instances of faint foxing.
A nice copy, easily imaginable as an Irish lawyer's portable reading and reference. (34809)

A Woman's Translation (Watercolors Abound)
France, Anatole. At the sign of the Queen Pédauque. Chicago: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions Club by The Lakeside Press, 1933. Tall 4to. Frontis., [5], v–xii, 174, [2] pp., [3 (blank)] ff.; 19 plts.
$95.00
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This is number 1469 of 1500 in the Limited Editions Club edition of Anatole France's conte philosophique. Signed by the illustrator, Sylvain Sauvage, who created the book's 20 full-page and two smaller-sized water-colors, the work is here
translated from the French by "Mrs. Wilfrid Jackson," and carries both an introduction by Ernest Boyd and a prefatory note by the author. Designer William A. Kittredge chose a monotype centaur font printed in red and black inks, and embellished the title-page with red, blue, yellow, and black inks.
The binding is full blue linen stamped in gold on the spine and front cover, with additional ornamentation to both covers in deep pink. Top edges are gilt, others deckle; one leaf is left unopened.
Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 49. Binding as above; spine sunned and with thumbnail sized dark patch at head and foot. Some cracking along the top edges and spine of the slipcase, which is still sturdy; spine of case sunned, paper label a little soiled. Pages clean; no ownership markings or labels. A very good, clean copy. (22313)
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Six Items Together — A French Lady's Anti-Jesuit Sammelband
[Frey de Neuville, Pierre-Claude]. Observations sur l'Institut de la Société des Jésuites. Avignon: Alexandre Giroud, 1761. 8vo (16.6 cm; 6.5"). [1] f., 108 pp. [bound with] [Anonymous]. Les Jesuites convaincus par leurs propres ouvrages d'être toujous les mêmes. Rome, 1761. 8vo. 32 pp. [also bound in] [Routh, Bernard], supposed author. Mémoire pour les jésuites de Franche-Comté. Besançon, 1762. 8vo. [1] f., 109, [1 (blank)] pp. [also bound in] [Cabut, Pierre]. Mes doutes sur la mort des jesuites. [France, ca. 1762]. 8vo. [1] f., 37, [1 (blank)] pp. [also bound in] [Anonymous]. **** Lettre sur le procés-verbal de vérification des textes des assertions cités dans l'instruction pastorale de M. l'archevéque de Paris, du 28 Octobre 1763.... [Place not determined], 1764. “Seconde édition.” 8vo. 143, [1 (blank)] pp. [also bound in] [Anonymous]. **** Tout n'est pas fait dans l'affaire des Jésuites, ou lettre d'un de leurs creanciers a M *** avocat au parlement. Lyon, 1765. 8vo. 52 pp.
$1500.00
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The short pieces in this mélange relate to the Society of Jesus in France just prior to and during their expulsion from that country in 1764. All were issued anonymously, many are scarce, and all now command the interest of various types of scholars and collectors. The first item is sometimes attributed to Charles de Neuville; the second, according to Carayon, is a “réimpression de la Tres humble remonstrance des PP. Jésuites à la France” that according to WorldCat and NUC is held by only one U.S. library, the University of Minnesota; the third is held by only two U.S. libraries; the fourth is held only in another edition of 45 pages; finally, the sixth item is reportedly held by only one U.S. library.
Provenance: Elegant contemporary bookplate of Mademoiselle de Valanglart.
Contemporary mottled calf, round spine without raised bands, gilt spine extra, marbled endpapers, all edges red; some leather abraded from covers and a very little from the spine's base, lacking spine label once reading “MELANGE” (and this now blind-embossed in that compartment). Light age-toning; bookplate as above. (36671)

SINCERITY, Thy Name is Clara Mai . . .
Fuqua, Clara Mai Howe. Two dozen. Boston: Richard G. Badger, The Gorham Press, 1912. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.625"). 32 pp.
$35.00
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“At ev’ning by the sea I sat, / And watched the sun which sank to rest. / It changed to purest gold the waves, / And filled with glory all the West.” A pleasant volume of 24 poems celebrating nature, family, growth, and faith — apparently the Kentucky-born author’s sole publication.
WorldCat locates only nine institutional copies, these in a rather odd array of places with perhaps some being accounted for by H.L. Mencken’s having reviewed the volume not entirely unkindly in Smart Set.
For Mencken’s remarks, see: Smart Set, “The Bards in Battle Royal”; vol, 37 (1912). Publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine; publisher’s emblem blind-stamped to rear board, light rubbing to extremities. Top edge gilt, other edges deckle; small stains to bottom edge of pages.
A pleasing collection of down-home’y poetry. (37793)

The Lyf of Seynt Katerine
Gibbs, Henry Hucks. The life and martyrdom of Saint Katerine of Alexandria, virgin and martyr. Now first printed from a manuscript of the early part of the fifteenth century in the possession of Henry Hucks Gibbs, with preface, notes, glossary, and appendix. London: Nichols & Sons, 1884. 4to (26.6 cm, 10.5"). [8], xix, [1], 86, [2], lxii, 188 pp.; 1 col. plt.
$500.00
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First edition, printed for the members of the Roxburghe Club: a 15th-century prose rendition of one of the most popular virgin martyr legends, transcribed from the original manuscript and extensively annotated. The title-page is printed in black and red, and the main text — which preserves the spelling and special characters of the Middle English — is preceded by a color-printed facsimile of the first leaf of the illuminated manuscript. The volume closes with a reissue of the Early English Text Society's printing of Einenkel's edition of an Early Middle English verse rendition of the saint's life, given in Latin and Middle English.
NSTC 0458171. Later full navy morocco, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine gently sunned. Top edges gilt. Two pages with small spots of faint staining, overall gentle age-toning. A nice example of the Roxburghe Club's
impeccable publication standards. (33492)

Beautifully
Bound & Illustrated FRENCH Edition
“Tr. by Mme. Bachellery”
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Les souffrances du jeune Werther. Tr. by Mme. Bachellery. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1886. 8vo.
$2250.00
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Edition limited to 220, this one of 10 on papier du Japon. Illustrated with eaux-fortes by Lalauze, and each plate
present in four states.
Binding: Bound by Lortic Frères in red morocco with filigree gilt tooling on covers and in spine compartments; a gilt rose also in each spine compartment. Blue morocco in-laid doublures, turquoise watered silk endpapers, and marbled fly-leaves; very wide turn-ins with gilt dentelles. All edges gilt over marbling.
A copy in lovely condition, imperceptibly rebacked with the original spine retained. Original wrappers bound in. Protected in a crimson morocco-edged slipcase. (2933)
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“And Be It Further Enacted,” & “Provided Always, That” . . .
Great Britain. Laws, statutes, etc. A collection of the several statutes and parts of statutes now in force, relating to
High treason, and misprision of high treason. London: Pr. by Charles Bill, & the Executrix of Thomas Newcomb, 1709. 12mo (15.5 cm; 6.125"). 113, [1] pp., [7] ff.; 44 pp., [2] ff.
$500.00
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Publication of this treatise on high treason followed hard on the heels of the Treason Act 1708 (7 Ann c 21), by which Parliament “harmonized” the laws of high treason in “Great Britain” following the union in 1707 of England and Scotland, each of which had different and sometimes quite distinct concepts of “high treason.”
The final part of this small volume bears a title-page reading “A form and method of trial of commoners, in cases of high treason, and misprision of high treason,” with the same imprint information at the main title. (A
woman tried and convicted, seeking a stay of execution because pregnant, may pray “a Jury of [12] Matrons or Motherly Women” confirm and attest the same; other data are equally particular and evocative.) While the pagination and signature markings of this final part are not continuous from A collection of several statutes, it is clear that the “two” were printed as a whole and are not separate works, although they are sometimes catalogued as if they were and are even sometimes sold as such.
Printed mostly in roman type with some italic, this has headings in gothic and some long passages also in gothic.
Provenance: 18th-century ownership signatures at top of main title-page of J.W. Tarleton and J. Skynner (both lined through), and 19th-century signature of Wm. Saunders. Oldham Free Public Library (Lancs.) stamp on verso of same.
ESTC T136807; Sweet & Maxwell 12.Ia.6 and 12.Ia.10. Late 20th-century quarter brown calf with brown stone-pattern marbled paper sides; all edges gilt. Slim waterstain in upper margin of last four leaves; same leaves foxed. Overall a very good copy. (34007)
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Famous, EXPANSIVE! Epistolary
Grotius, Hugo. Epistolae quotquot reperiri potuerunt; in quibus praeter hactenus editas, plurimae theologici, iuridici, philologici, historici, & politici argumenti occurrunt. Amstelodami [Amsterdam]: Ex typographia
P. & I. Blaeu ... apud Wolfgang, Waasberge, Boom, à Someren & Goethals, 1687. Folio (37.5 cm, 14.76"). [4] ff., 977, [2] pp.
$1600.00
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First
complete editionof
Grotius's correspondence, comprising 2,510 letters written by the Dutch philosopher
between April 1599 and July 1645 to an international milieu of famous correspondents,
including the Swedish statesman Axel Oxenstierna, the Dutch theologian Gerardus
Joannes Vossius, and the German politician Ludwig Camerarius not to mention
Queen Cristina.
According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online), “Hugo Grotius (1583–1645) [Hugo, Huigh or Hugeianus de Groot] was a towering figure in philosophy, political theory, law and associated fields during the seventeenth century and for hundreds of years afterwards. His work ranged over a wide array of topics, though he is best known to philosophers today for his contributions to the natural law theories of normativity which emerged in the later medieval and early modern periods.”
The text is printed in Latin, double-column, with a handful of large woodcut initials, a few tail ornaments, and one letterpress diagram. The title-page, printed in red and black, features Blaeu's large device of an astrolabe flanked by Time and Hercules. An index on the final two pages lists Grotius's correspondents and the corresponding letters, which are arranged chronologically in the text.
Meulen, Grotius, 1210; Brunet, II, 1766; Graesse, III, 163. Contemporary northern-European style vellum over boards ruled in blind, panels with blind-stamped central cartouches, spine with seven raised bands and remnants of later paper labels, red speckled edges; vellum soiled and lightly rubbed at extremities with corners bumped. Ex-library with bookplate on front pastedown and later library marking in pen on second leaf; light foxing, a light waterstain across the lower outer corner of perhaps a dozen leaves, and scattered darker stains, with a few leaves browned; small tear in outer margin of title-leaf and another margin, small hole from natural flaw in outer margin of one leaf and small bit of paper torn away from lower corner of another. Very mild worming in middle of two leaves and final leaf, the latter repaired; additional very minor, “slim” worming mostly to margins at rear.
A solid, handsome important book. (30293)
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“In the reign of good King René . . . ”
Guiney, Louise Imogen. The secret of Fougereuse: A romance of the fifteenth century; from the French. Boston: Marlier, Callanan & Co., 1898. 12mo (18.7 cm, 7.375"). Frontis., 347, [1] pp.; 4 plts.
$45.00
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First edition. Louise Imogen Guiney was an American Catholic poet and essayist active in the Boston literary circle of the late 19th century. This is her translation of Louis Morvan's Jehan de Fougereuse from the original French. The text is
illustrated with a frontispiece and four plates in black and white.
Binding: Decorated publisher's binding: blue cloth with “silver”-stamped lettering and fleur-de-lis decorations to front board and spine, front cover with large “silver”-stamped vignette of a medieval gentleman holding a cage with two owls. “Silver” work actually aluminum and very bright!
Provenance: On front free endpaper, two ownership stamps of Sarah E. Lembeck.
BAL 6747 (state A imprint, state A binding). Bound as above; spine cocked and extremities and joints lightly rubbed. Stamps as above. Crease to p. 42; interior otherwise unspoiled.
A handsomely medieval-esque production. (37506)
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