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WOMEN 
A “Little Manual . . . FIRST Designed for PRIVATE Use” of
TWO PRINCESSES
Lake, Edward. Officium eucharisticum. A preparatory service to a devout and worthy reception of the Lord's Supper. Dublin: Printed by and for Samuel Fairbrother, 1724. 12mo (14.5 cm; 5.75"). [4] ff., 176 pp.
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PRINTED IN IRELAND, all of which are rare and
none of which are reported as held in any U.S. library. Overall this is “the 21st. edition corrected and enlarged. To which is added, a meditation for every day in the week.” A wonderful, small, go-with-you work of personal worship.
Lake was “chaplain and tutor to the princesses Mary and Anne, daughters of James, duke of York” and originally wrote this “devotional manual . . . for his royal pupils” (ODNB).
Provenance: On front free endpaper in an 18th-century hand; “Wm. A. Put Bo[ugh]t of Nau Winkle & Co.”
• ESTC T134200. Contemporary acid-stained calf, round spine, no raised bands, gilt double-rules creating spine compartments, one with a red leather gilt title-label; front cover reattached using the long-fiber method. Light age-toning. A very nice copy. (33142)
Southern, for SureLambert, Mary Eliza Perine Tucker. Poems. New York: M. Doolady, 1867. 12mo (18.3 cm, 7.25"). xi, [1], [5]–237, [1] pp. (lacking 2 plts.).
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Certainly the exercise gives one quite a tour of American racial assumptions and attitudes both popular and academic!
Of particular interest are Lambert’s poems describing the sorrows of the post–Civil War South from a personal, intimate perspective and, without regard to race, the poems sympathetic to “fallen” or sinful women. Heavily held in institutions, especially those specializing in American poetry of the 19th century, her volume Poems is scarce in commerce.
• Recent mottled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and publication labels. Two portraits (of the author and her sister) lacking; guard leaf from latter portrait remains, with ghostly offset imprint of image. Occasional small edge nicks; most pages clean, with the last few signatures moderately browned. An intriguing volume, and writer. (27813)
Around the World inProse, Pictures, & Matching BindingsLander, Sarah W. Spectacles for young eyes. Berlin, Boston, Moscow, Pekin, Rome, St. Petersburg, Zurich. Boston & New York: Walker, Fuller & Co. and Sheldon & Co., 1866 & 1867. 16mo (17.3 cm, 6.81"). 7 vols. Berlin: Frontis., engr. t-p., 192, [2 (adv.)], 2 (adv.) pp.; 5 plts., illus. Boston: Frontis., engr. t.-p., 202, [6 (adv.)] pp.; 7 plts. Moscow: Frontis., engr. t.-p., 202, [2 (adv.)] pp.; 5 plts., illus. Pekin: Frontis., engr. t.-p., 218, [8 (adv.)] pp.; 4 plts., illus. Rome: Frontis., engr. t.-p., 194 pp.; 4 plts., illus. St. Petersburg: Frontis., engr. t.-p., 203, [1], [6 adv.)] pp.; 6 plts., illus. Zurich: Frontis., engr. t-p., 205, [1], [6 (adv.)] pp.; 6 plts., illus. (All frontis. & add. t.-p. incl. in pagination).
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young travelers to see the culture, the people, and the geographic offerings of cities around the world. In her fictional voyages, Lander conveys travel information through characters who share stories and educate one other on the cities' histories. Many
picturesque wood engravings, both in-text and as plates, illustrate the cities and their traditions. The wood-engraved title-page found in each volume features a pair of glasses, with scenes of adventure and travel shown through the lenses.
matched bindings with the Sheldon name at the foot of the spine. A contemporary publisher's advertisement describes these as “the most attractive and instructive books for the young ever issued. Each volume describes, in a lively and interesting manner, the sights and sounds of the cities visited, as well as the national life, manners, and customs of the people.”
Provenance: Boston and St. Petersburg (only) each with inked ownership inscription from Joseph King, dated 1869.
• Sternick, Bibliography of 19th-Century Children's Series Books, 730. All spines evenly sunned with extremities lightly rubbed but not pulled or broken, corners rubbed with some bumped. Boston with upper outer corner of one leaf torn away, taking one letter and just touching another, and with light offsetting to inner portions of two facing pages from something once laid in between them; Pekin with short tear from outer margin of one leaf. Pages gently and evenly age-toned; scattered small spots or areas of foxing or staining (especially to frontispiece guard leaves), overall clean and unmarked. A decidedly nice, matched set of volumes that are much more frequently encountered individually. (41694)
Selling Hair Tonic in Spain Lanman & Kemp. Tónico Oriental para el cabello. [Barcelona?]: Lanman & Kemp, [1864]. 8vo. 4 pp.; illus.
Click the image for an enlargement. The front page bears two vignettes of brunette beauties, one in the process of applying tonic and one with an impeccably arranged hairstyle.
• Folded as issued, back page with upper outer corner bent and small nick to upper edge. Gently age-toned. (29194)
Whose Baptisms Count? — Widow PrinterLaunoy, Jean de. Remarques sur la dissertation, ou l'on montre en quel temps, & pour quelles raisons l'Eglise universelle consentit à recevoir le baptesme des heretiques; & par où l'on découvre ce qui a donné occasion aux auteurs, qui ont traité de cette matiere, de s'estre égarez dans la recherche qu'ils ont faite du Concile plenier, qui termina suivant S. Augustin cette contestation. Paris: L'imprimerie de la Veuve Edme Martin, 1671. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). [2], 77, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. an early hand has pencilled “Très Gallican” on the title-page here.
Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only two U.S. institutional holdings of this 1671 edition, one of which was deaccessioned and is in fact this copy.
• Contemporary mottled sheep framed in blind double fillets, recently rebacked with complementary calf, spine with raised bands and blind-tooled compartment decorations; edges and extremities rubbed, sides with old scuffs. Title-page and first text page with institutional perforation-stamp, title-page also with pencilled annotation as above, first text page with rubber-stamped numerals in lower margin, no other markings. Pages clean. (31049)
Breton Folk Literature Legacy — Music & Engraved PlatesLa Villemarqué, Théodore Hersart, Vicomte de; & Tom Taylor, trans. Ballads and songs of Brittany ... translated from the “Barsaz-Breiz” of Vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqué. London & Cambridge: Macmillan & Co. (pr. by Bradbury & Evans), 1865. 4to (21.4 cm, 8.4"). Frontis., xxii, [2], 239, [1] pp.; 8 plts.
Click the images for enlargements.harmonized by Mrs. Tom Taylor.” Laura Wilson Taylor (née Barker) was a talented violinist and accomplished composer who supplied music for her husband's plays and other theatrical performances, and published a number of popular songs.
The volume is illustrated witha frontispiece and eight engraved plates done by several different hands after artists including Tissot, Millais, Tenniel, Keene and others, with the frontispiece and title-page vignettes being particularly nice steel engravings done by Charles Henry Jeens from Tissot designs.
Provenance: From the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
• Publisher's brick-colored textured cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped vignette of a medieval lancer framed in gilt triple fillets, spine with gilt-stamped title; slightly cocked with front hinge a bit tender, edges and extremities rubbed, spine gently darkened. Top edge gilt. Binder's ticket of Burn & Co. on back pastedown. Pages and plates clean. An outstanding example of a quintessentially Victorian-era perspective on Celtic lore. (38052)
Quaker Meditations — A Neat Compendium[Law, William]. An extract from a treatise on the spirit of prayer, or the soul rising out of the vanity of time into the riches of eternity. With some thoughts on war. Remarks on the nature and bad effects of the use of spirituous liquors. And considerations on slavery. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1780. 12mo (16.3 cm, 6.45"). 84 pp. [bound with] Webb, Elizabeth. A letter...to Anthony William Boehm, with his answer. Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1783. 44 pp. [with] [Benezet, Anthony]. In the life of the lady Elizabeth Hastings... [Philadelphia: Joseph Crukshank, 1784]. 8 pp. 
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Considerations on Slavery are designated simply as those of a "number of different authors"; the Remarks on . . . Liquors, which aims to promote health and happiness rather than directly religious concerns, is attributed by ESTC to Anthony Benezet, as is the volume's last piece, the title of which is taken from its opening lines. Lady Elizabeth Hastings was the original for Aspasia in Steele's "Tatler" and a major donor to Oxford University Queen's College.
Elizabeth Webb, "an acknowledged minister among the people called Quakers," first encountered Prince George of Denmark's chaplain Boehm while on a visit to Great Britain; the missive with which she opened her subsequent correspondence with him, here, greatly inspired him and a number of his friends.
Provenance: With inscription reading "Miss Hannah Amelia Moore / Book a Present from her worthy / Friend Ruth Patton / 1789."
• Law: ESTC W32233; Evans 16817; Hildeburn 3987. Webb: ESTC W13440; Evans 18295; Hildeburn 4409. Benezet: ESTC W6416; Evans 18355. Contemporary quarter sheep over paper-covered sides, the whole worn and abraded but the little volume quite sound. Light age-toning, occasional darker spots. Small chip in bottom margin of title-page; one leaf with paper flaw in lower corner, resulting in the loss of a very few letters. (10951)
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Ladies, Get Spry! Lever Bros., Cambridge, Mass. 
Easy to be a good cook now! No place: No publisher/printer, [ca. 1950]. 12mo (12.5 cm; 5"). [1] leaf.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Folded as issued. Very good condition. (26013)
A Most CreativelyFaux-Medieval Manuscript fromLindsay, Margaret E.; Alice F. Lindsay, illus.; et al. Manuscript on paper, in English: “Dark Baron Rolf. Or a romance of the Middle Ages.” [U.K.]: “New Year's Eve,” 1866. 4to (26.1 cm, 10.27"). [2], 54 pp.; illus.
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a gift from four young sisters to their mother. The fair Lady Madeline's adventures — which show a certain degree of Sir Walter Scott's influence, and which begin in a convent and end in blissful marriage — feature 16 brightly rendered watercolor illustrations of various sizes, some quite large, as well asseveral apparently original lyrics including lines such as “O I would that my heart would merry be,” and “Fill the goblet to the brim / Fa-la-la-la-fal-la-la.” Also present are a musical setting of the Miserere, with accompanying poetic English translation, and a troubadour-style song of four verses set to an original melody. 
red and black inks within red-line borders, with its accomplished, charming illustrations (by Alice Frances, b. 1849) similarly red-framed. Each page, numbered, carries a sometimes breathless red header (“The Choice,” “Gone to Palestine,” “The Widowed Bride,” “Found!”).
Their final result is, without exaggeration, a treasure.
Binding: Scarlet morocco, covers bordered and panelled in gilt and black rules surrounding a gilt frame incorporating foliate motifs; front cover with gilt-stamped coronet and “M.L.” monogram. Spine gilt extra, board edges and turn-ins gilt with rolls, moiré silk endpapers, all edges gilt. Binding stamped by C.E. Clifford of Piccadilly.
• Bound as above, minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities. Pages age-toned with scattered faint smudges only, these testifying along with the title-page that many hands labored over the leaves. A delightful fantasy creation, a charming family love-gift, a surviving family “period piece” with impressive family provenance. (41478)
Early 20th–Century LutheranMISSIONARY FAMILY LIFE in SOUTH INDIA
(Lutheran Church. Missouri Synod). Huebener, Mrs. Gerhard. Manuscript on paper, in German, with photo album. [India]: 1910–11. Journal: 4to (23.5 cm, 9.25"). [44 (used, of 280)] pp. Album: Oblong 8vo (14.2 cm, 5.59").
Click the images for enlargements. a look back on her last weeks in Germany, continuing with an account of the voyage to India and the trip to the remote missionary station where the wedding took place. After that, she focused primarily on the other German missionaries, nurses, and their families in the places where she lived or visited, depicting theeveryday affairs and concerns of a close-knit community, and occasionally referencing Indians who had converted or were in the process of converting to Christianity. She marked the birth of a son on 20 November 1911, and his baptism as Fritz Wilhelm Martin Hübener on 15 December of that year; the diary ends with the family retreating to Kodaikanal in the Palani Hills to escape extreme heat in the lowlands.
Also present is Hübener's photograph album, containing 59 mounted black and white shots of local sights and residents as well as of the family. There are additional photos mounted in the journal, with entries written around them in some cases. 
Unique and intriguing. (41710)
“Medieval Romance” from a
Notable (later) Woman of Letters M., Mademoiselle de [Marie-Caroline de Murray]. Aventures et anecdotes françoises tirées d'une chronique du XIV siecle. Vienne: Fr. Ant. Schrämbl, 1800. 8vo (15.9 cm, 6.25"). Vol. I (of 2): 176 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. OCLC locates only one U.S. institutional holding of this novel.
• Manne, Nouveau dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes, 162; Le Mayeur, Les Belges, 340. Contemporary plain paper-covered boards, spine with hand-inked volume label; binding stained, spine rubbed with small insect hole. Vol. I only. Inner margin of title-page repaired with loss of first letter of publisher's information line. Faint spotting and staining; trimmed closely, often shaving pagination and signatures. As interesting to see how this was produced, as it is frustrating to be unable to finish the story! (26937)
The Lock Hospital Collection of Sacred Music — First U.S. Printing[Madan, Martin]. The collection of psalm and hymn tunes sung at the chapel of the Lock Hospital. Boston: West & Blake, and Manning & Loring (pr. by Manning & Loring), [1809]. Large oblong 8vo (25.2 cm, 9.92"). viii, [2 (blank)], 9–198, [2 (index)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. specializing in the treatment of venereal disease (as well as in offering refuge to “penitent female patients”). Originally published in 1765, the work here appears “from the last London edition,” with a subscribers list — giving largely Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York locations — and with a new advertisement to thisgenerously sized Boston printing, noting that the publishers “have now the satisfaction of presenting to the lovers of classical sacred harmony, a work of the first celebrity; to the acknowledged merit of which few musicians are strangers, though scarcely a copy has lately been found for sale, even in London” (p. vi). 
Externally rough and fragile, internally a nice example of this important and handsome first U.S. appearance. (41708)
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Vapours, Distemper, & Stomach Ferment: Mandeville on Curing DiseaseMandeville, Bernard. A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick diseases. In three dialogues. London: J. Tonson, 1730. 8vo (19.9 cm, 7.83"). xxii, [10], 380 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.“corrected and enlarged by the author.” The dialogues open and close with elegant head- and tailpieces.
• ESTC T60407; Blake, NLM 18th Century, p. 285. Contemporary half red roan and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, all edges saffron; binding rubbed and scuffed. Bookplate as above, front free endpaper with early inked shelving numbers (no other markings); front endpapers with small area of staining carrying lightly through to center portion of title-page and first signatures with more noticeable age-toning than others, text in fact notably clean. A solid copy of a very interesting work, with nice provenance. (41709)
EDIFYING STORIES for French Youths[Marmontel, Jean-François]. L'école des peres, suivie de la mauvaise mere, contes nouveaux. Caen: P. Chalopin, 1788. 12mo (14.6 cm, 5.75"). 40 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.A woodcut headpiece opens each story in this printing, which is now uncommon: WorldCat findsonly one U.S. institution reporting a copy (Princeton) and just a handful of other locations, all in France.
Provenance: From the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
• Gumuchian 2337. Appropriate plain lilac paper wrappers not original to the chapbook, these a little worn and chipped; old stitching holes in gutter margins and one signature separated. A clean, pleasing copy of a seldom-seen item. (40712)
A “Way” of Life — & DEATHMarshall, Charles. The way of life revealed, and the way of death discovered: Wherein is declared, man's happy estate before the fall, his miserable estate in the fall, and the way of restoration out of the fall.... London: Pr. by Mary Hinde, 1772. 8vo. [2] ff., 59, [1] pp., [1] f. (of which final leaf of advertisements wanting). 
Click the image for an enlargement. • Removed from a nonce volume. Wanting final leaf of advertisements. Light foxing and traces of soiling. Closely trimmed by the binder, with loss of last letters of lines on a few pages, but without loss of sense. (9216)
The
30 Years' Peace: First
American Edition, Much
Enlarged
Martineau, Harriet. History of the peace: Being a history of England from 1816 to 1854. With an introduction 1800 to 1815. Boston: Walker, Wise, & Co.; Walker, Fuller, & Co., 1864–66. 8vo (20.6 cm, 8.1"). 4 vols. I: xi, [1], 455, [1] pp. II: vii, [1], 500, 2 pp. III: x, 575, [1] pp. IV: xii, 665, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. adds a preliminary volume of background information on England's politics and economy during the 15 years prior to the start of the main history, as well as extending the closing date from the original 1846 to 1854. (Those interested in Martineau will definitely be interested in her “take” on this.)
• NSTC 2M17389. Publisher's textured brown cloth, spines with gilt-stamped title; vols. III and IV with spine heads chipped. Ex–social club library: paper shelving label on each spine head, call number on endpapers, title-pages and a few others rubber-stamped, no other markings. Light waterstaining to upper and lower inner portions of vols. I and II, upper only of vol. III; pages otherwise clean save for very faint age-toning. Paper a bit embrittled, with occasional short edge tears or corner chips, but the set quite suitable for use with reasonable care. (28336)
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A Quack's Surprisingly Accurate Information on Contraception, Mauriceau, A. M. The married woman’s private medical companion, embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression. Pregnancy, and how it may be determined; with the treatment of its various diseases. Discovery to prevent pregnancy; the great and important necessity where malformation or inability exists to give birth. To prevent miscarriage or abortion. When proper and necessary to effect miscarriage. When attended with entire safety. Causes and mode of cure of barrenness, or sterility. New York: No publisher/printer, 1847. 12mo (16 cm, ). xiii, [1], 238 pp.
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Connie King writing in the Library Company of Philadelphia's Winter 2010 newsletter, New & Noteworthy, says of this work: “What makes this . . . tawdry book . . . [extra interesting] is its extra roles as a mail order catalog for condoms and as an advertisement for abortion services. By mailing 'Dr. Mauriceau' five dollars, one might buy a dozen condoms, and have them sent to 'any part of the United States' (p. 144). Only slightly more delicately does he offer his [or Ann Lohman's] services 'to effect miscarriage' at his office at 129 Liberty Street in New York City.”
• Original publisher's fine grain dark blue cloth, covers stamped in blind, no lettering, spine sunned. A very nice copy of a famous “under the counter book.” (40370)
A Typical Sort ofPrint-on-Paper CoverMayhew, Ira. Mayhew's practical book-keeping. Embracing single and double entry, commercial calculations, and the philosophy and morals of business. Boston: Nichols & Hall, 1869. 12mo. 228 pp. 
bookkeeping for women and importance of teaching that art to them are especially emphasized. Additional engraved title-page present.
• Very good; light wear with some chipping around board edges. Hinges slightly tender. A few pages with small ink stains. Ownership inscription in pencil to front flyleaf. (1923)
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A Pittsburgh Woman'sExceptionally Well-Documented Trip to EuropeMcKnight, Mary Baird. Manuscript on paper, in English. European travel diary. Rome, Seville, Paris, Gibralter, & elsewhere.: 1895. 4to (19 cm, 7.5"). [136] pp.; illus. & lay-ins.
Click the images for enlargements.While her handwriting requires some study, it is legible, and her notes are detailed.
small affixed photographic reproductions of the sights. Among the other intriguing items present are a first-class ticket booklet from Seville to Madrid (perforation- and rubber-stamped), the color-printed folding cabin passenger list for the Kaiser Wilhelm II steamship sailing from Genoa to New York (via Gibraltar, where Mary stopped), a bullfight ticket, the card of Wayne MacVeagh (United States ambassador to Italy), letterheads from many of the hotels and restaurants visited, and numerous other souvenirs, as well as instances of dried flower and plant matter.
A unique and remarkable travelogue. (41244)
Presentation CopyFit for a QueenMelgarejo y Salafranca, José, Conde del Valle de San Juan. Consideraciones sobre la iglesia en sus relaciones con la sociedad... Obra dedicada a S.M. el Rey. Madrid: Zacarias Soler, 1851. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). [6], 316, [2] pp.; 1 plt.
Binding: Signed binding (with Bilbao’s ticket on front pastedown) of oxblood morocco, front and back covers framed in a wide gilt roll surrounding gilt-stamped coat of arms of Francesco de Assisi de Bourbon, Duc de Cadiz (consort to Isabella II of Spain); spine with four raised bands, compartments gilt extra, with author, title, and date gilt-stamped. Board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls; all page edges gilt; blue moiré endpapers. An advanced Spanish collector has observed to us that “the tool that decorates the covers is very similar to the one used by another great Spanish bookbinder, Pedro Pastor” — but, neither he nor we can confirm an actual connection between them!
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Maria Christina, Queen of Spain.
• Palau 350495. Binding as above, showing light wear, spine slightly faded; pastedowns with some offsetting, endpapers with spots of foxing. Rare and attractive. (5876)
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A Mash-up of Attitudes — A Catalogue of Erotic OptionsMember of the Royal Asiatic Society. Marriage ceremonies & priapic rites in India & the East. No place: Privately Printed, 1909. Sq. 8vo. [1] f., 107, [1] pp., [1] f.
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's tan linen shelf-back with rust-colored boards. Boards lightly chipped. A very good copy. (36591)
Professionally Published Cookery / Locally Influenced Advertising & FundraisingMilford (MA). Young Men's Christian Association. Women's Auxiliary. Cook book “Something good for company.” Milford, MA: Amherst Cook Book Co., (1912). 8vo (22.9 cm, 9"). 32 pp.
Click the images for enlargements.WorldCat lists only three institutions reporting ownership this issue of this work (Kansas State University, Harvard-Schlesinger, Nicollete Country Historical). One was printed for the Ladies Circle of the Washington Street Baptist Church of Dover, NH, and the other for the Congregational Church of Granite Falls, MN.
• Cook, America's Charitable Cooks, 233 (for PA edition only, not describing this MA printing). Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Original printed paper wrappers, detached and chipped, with spots of staining. Pages stained but very readable. A production that reflects an interesting point of development and the increasing professionalization of the originally amateurish charitable cookbook genre — with all regional variations of this item now being rather uncommon. (38119)
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