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Ramírez Carrillo, Alonso. Document (“escritura pública de donación”). In Spanish, on paper. Peñafiel, Spain, 24 April 1615. Folio. [10] pp.
$450.00
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Don Alonso Ramírez was the past choir master of Popayán, Colombia, and by this document gives various properties to María de la Puente, widow of Diego Ramírez Carrillo (Don Alonso’s nephew) and Doña Isabel Ramírez Carrillo, Maria’s daughter. The properties include a vineyard (“nueve viñas” that Don Alonso bought from Diego on 9 March 1591; another (“viña a Manzanillo”) that he bought from Juan Arranz, the elder, citizen of Manzanillo, on 7 December 1612; a third vineyard (“viña a Majuelo”) that he purchased from Francisco Santos and his wife (María Muñoz), citizens of Manzanillo, on 20 April 1614; a piece of land in Manzanillo, in the region called “tierras de las Tapias,” sown with two cargas of seed, purchased from Gaspar Decian on 6 January 1586; and a house in the parish of Nuestra Señora de Mediavilla that he purchased on 16 July 1605 from the administrators of the trust that Joratalina Sarmiento established.
A contemporaneous certified copy of the original document.
Written in a clear notarial hand. Very good condition. (14466)

Fictitious 17TH-Century Diary — Both Parts — Matching ZAEHNSDORF Bindings
[Rathbone, Hannah Mary]. So much of
the diary of Lady Willoughby as relates to her domestic history, & to the eventful period of the reign of Charles the First. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans (pr. by C. Whittingham), 1845. 12mo (17.3 cm, 6.8"). [4], 220 pp. [with the same author's] Some further portions of the diary of Lady Willoughby which do relate to her domestic history and to the events of the latter years of the reign of King Charles the First, the Protectorate and the Restoration. London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1848. 12mo. [6], 215, [1] pp.
$500.00
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As per the “Address to the Reader” of So Much of the Diary, etc. “the style of Printing and general appearance of this Volume have been adopted by the Publishers merely to be in accordance with the design of the Author, who in this Work personates a lady of the seventeenth Century” — with “personat[ing]” being the key word, as this is
the diary of a real 17th-century woman as imagined, both deeply and extensively, by a Victorian woman who had immersed herself in the history and memoirs of the “diarist's” period. Published anonymously, it was on its first appearance often sincerely attributed to Elizabeth Cecil Willoughby, Baroness Willoughby (1606–61), perhaps helped on by the fact that Longman had gone so far as to commission a new font from
the Chiswick Press, a recasting of Caslon Old Face, with “antique” headpieces and decorative woodcut initials, pages framed in double-ruled borders, and up-front woodcut coats of arms further employed to enhance the “journal's” verisimilitude. According to the DNB (online), the publication “fostered a minor vogue for first-person historical narratives in contemporary typefaces, notably Anne Manning's 1850 account of Mary Powell (Milton's first wife), and Thackeray's Henry Esmond (1852).”
Lady Willoughby's husband, Francis Willoughby, was a political intriguer who originally opposed the King, but later fell out with the Parliamentarians and joined the Royalists, fleeing to the Caribbean where he eventually became Governor of Barbados and established the short-lived colony of Willoughbyland (in what is now Suriname) before being restored to his estates in England. The diary entries attributed to his wife, which end shortly before Willoughby's departure for the islands, describe the major political and military events of the day against a background of her concern for her children, her love of her mother and husband, and her piety and devotion. Rathbone paid enough attention to detail to have “Lady Willoughby” offer a recipe against giddiness “given to mee by Mr. Gerard's Aunte” — the recipe being quoted in full directly from John Gerard's Herball of 1597 — but altered the course of historical events very slightly by extending the life of her daughter Diana about six years past her actual death and increasing the number of her deceased children!So Much of the Diary, here in its 1845 second edition, was originally printed in 1844, while Some Further Portions is here in its first printing.
Binding: Contemporary
matched bindings done by Zaehnsdorf, signed on each front turn-in: brown morocco, framed and panelled in gilt and black fillets with gilt-stamped fleur-de-lis corner fleurons, turn-ins similarly designed, and board edges with gilt roll; spines with gilt-stamped titles and volume labels, blind-stamped compartment decorations, and gilt-stamped fleurs-de-lis in compartments. Top edges gilt. Back pastedown of each volume with gilt-stamped example of Zaehnsdorf's oval medieval bookbinding apprentice device, from a design by Jost Amman.
Provenance: Front fly-leaf of second volume with a woman's tantalizingly not-quite-decipherable ownership inscription: “E[something] Anne Fan[something!]s [/] Farnley 1848.” Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
NSTC 2R2740 & 2R2743; Ing, Charles Whittingham: Printer, 1795-1876, 32. Bindings as above, variously rubbed to extremities; offsetting to endpapers from turn-ins. Vol. II with ownership inscription as above. Pages lightly age-toned with occasional minor smudges or spots; front fly-leaf of vol. II (only) more notably spotted.
A handsome set of an intriguing Victorian — and feminine — perspective on the domestic side of this dramatic period in the 17th century. (37855)

19th-Century Cookery “On the Fire” in the Household of a
Widely Active Lancashire Executive
(Mrs. Rawlinson's Manuscript Compilations)
Rawlinson, Mary Ann. Manuscript on paper, in English. [Cookery]. Burnley, Lancashire: [ca. 1884]. 2 vols (16.1 cm, 6.34"; 15.7 cm, 6.18"). I: [32] ff. II: [24] ff.
$1250.00
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Two notebooks of recipes compiled by Mary Ann Rawlinson of Burnley, Lancashire. Rawlinson (1841–1912) was the wife of Joshua Rawlinson (1841–1896), a prominent figure in the Burnley community — having trained at his father's cotton mill, he went on to become an accountant and successfully directed or managed a jaw-dropping number of businesses and business concerns in the area, including the Burnley Paper Works, the Burnley Carriage Company, the Burnley Ironworks, the Nelson Room and Power Company, etc. He also became a well-known authority on the cotton trade, founding or serving in various positions in the Burnley Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Association, the Todmorden Cotton Spinners' and Manufacturers' Association, the Padiham Masters' Association, the Colne and District Coloured Goods Manufacturers' Association, and many other organizations; his obituary in The Accountant periodical noted his widespread influence in trade matters, and his position as “one of the best-known men on the Manchester Exchange . . . well known and respected throughout commercial circles in Lancashire.” In addition, he was one of the founding members of the Victoria Hospital, assisted in that capacity by Mary Ann.
Mrs. Rawlinson recorded these recipes in standard format with ingredients listed first, and although her page-filling, uninterrupted, and only lightly punctuated paragraphs sometimes obscure that convention, her strong, slanting handwriting is very decipherable. The dishes she chose to preserve here (unseparated by any categorization) include British classics as well as dishes showing overseas influences; among them are Genoise pudding, maccaroni cheese [sic], curry, baked haddock, marmalade pudding, ragout of rabbit, milk rolls, lobster cutlets, beef olives, amber pudding (using apples, dried cherries, and lemon rind), Charlotte Russe, stewed steak, potato croquettes, Mulligatawny soup, lentil purée, beef hash pie, orange fritters, stewed kidney, kedgeree, German pudding, oyster patties, and many others. In the middle of one volume are a few pages bearing dessert recipes given in several different hands, one recipe being attributed to Mrs. Carr and one dated 1884.
This gathering of recipes provides
a great deal of information regarding the dietary habits and preferences of the prosperous couple, as well as the culinary techniques available to Mrs. Rawlinson — everything here was prepared “on the fire,” as Burnley did not have electricity until 1893.
Contemporary oilcloth limp wrappers, now housed in a plain box with printed paper label on lid; box extremities lightly rubbed, wrappers rubbed and worn, text block all but detached from spine in smaller volume; Mrs. Rawlinson's name inscribed in each volume. Larger volume with offsetting to first and last pages; a very few instances of spotting, pages overall very clean.
Interesting provenance/context, and interesting content. (41147)
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Collection / Uncommon
Illustrated Variant
[Roach, John, ed.]. The beauties of the poets of Great Britain,
carefully selected from the works of the best authors. Embellished with engravings on wood. London:
Sherwin & Co., 1821–22. 12mo (15 cm, 5.9"). 2 vols. I: [4], ii, 360 pp.; 9 plts. II: [2], iii, [1], 360 pp.;
9 plts.
$250.00
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Scarce-to-say-the-least illustrated variant of a long-popular anthology
first published in 1793. OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 fail to find any holdings
of this edition, which is also not listed by NSTC; from this time period, most
catalogues and bibliographies find only the three-volume 1826 printing.
The contents of these two volumes appear to be based almost entirely on
John Roach's Beauties of the Poets of Great Britain, although Roach
is not cited as the editor, the pieces are in a different order than originally
presented, and there are a few minor changes: “The Negro Boy”
is not included here, while several “runic odes” by Mathias and
Penrose have been added. The expected highlights of Pope, Gray, Cowper, Burns,
Chatterton, Goldsmith, etc. are present,
as
well as lesser-known pieces by women such as Mrs. Carter's
“Address to Meditation,” Mary Darby Robinson's “Trumpeter,”
and Helen Maria Williams's “Sonnet to Twilight” and “Sonnet
to Hope” (the latter memorized by Wordsworth, whose first published
poem was “Sonnet, on seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale
of Distress”).
The volumes are illustrated with 18 wood-engraved plates signed by Sears,
Willis, and others — not the 1793 originals.
Provenance:
Ownership note of “Adams Jewett, M.D.” to top of title-page.
This ed. not in NSTC, Lowndes, or Allibone. Not in British Library
OPAC, not in NUC Pre-1956, not in OCLC, not in COPAC. Recent
marbled paper–covered boards, spines with printed paper labels. Each
title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin as above.
Some pages with offsetting; spots of light to moderate staining; one page
with pencilled annotation. (25339)

“Improved Taste of Modern Time Must
Question the Crudities of Former Days”
Rocco, Sha [pseud. of Abisha Shumway Hudson]. The masculine cross and ancient sex worship. New York: Asa K. Butts & Co., 1874. 8vo (19 cm, 7.75"). 65, [7 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
$200.00
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First edition: A study of cruciform sexual symbolism in ancient religions, touching on Indian, Egyptian, Chinese, and other mythological connections to the shape of the cross. The volume is illustrated with in-text engravings of statues, relics, and other items, including the final chapter (“The Phallus in California,” about the results of the author's antiquity-hunting expedition in Stanlislaus County, CA), which features a representation of what the author says is misidentified as an “Indian pestle.”
Hudson was a Massachusetts-born physician and one of the founders of the Keokuk Medical College; his publisher here was the notable freethinker and
contraception advocate Asa K. Butts, who has supplied several pages of advertisements for some of his other publications.
Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and fish vignette with blind-stamped decorative borders; spine slightly darkened, small spots of light discoloration, extremities rubbed. Sewing just barely starting to loosen but holding; pages clean.
A more than decent copy of this interesting and, shall we say, “highly personal” work. (35139)
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A Young Ladies' Writing Club: The Fruits of their Labors in 1885
Handwritten, Illustrated, & Custom Bound
The Rocket Club. Manuscript on paper, in English. “Essays of the Rocket Club.” [England]: 1885. 4to (23.8 cm, 9.375"). [200 (195 used)] ff.; illus.
[SOLD]
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A remarkable collection: One year's worth of
original, handwritten pieces painstakingly composed and assembled by the members of a private “girls'” essay society, covering a wide range of literary, cultural, and historical topics, gathered in a luxurious custom binding. At the time this volume was commenced, the club was coming into its eighth year of existence — “a venerable age for an essay society” according to the author of the introduction, whose pseudonymous “Elm” signature often shows up in these pages graced by a sketched leaf. Following Elm's admonishment to write more things worth reading in the coming year are pieces like “Books for the Million” (regarding the advantages and disadvantages of booms in publishing and public libraries, signed by Pleasance), “The Ministry of Little Things” (a parable in verse, from Ivy), “A Day in the Orkneys” (a travelogue by Sirius), a lengthy essay on personal influence by Serapis, and groups of essays from multiple contributors on assigned topics including fashion, 17th-century poets, architecture (to which Elm had strong objections, considering it too broad a topic to address in this format), beetles, and “Music: Its Use and Influence.”
The essays seem to have been submitted on a monthly basis, with each club member having an opportunity to comment on the month' offerings. In some instances, the critical responses are as interesting as the original pieces!
As mentioned in the November criticism section, there were at least 16 members of the club, although some were more active than others. It seems all but certain that all of them were female, well educated, and sufficiently wealthy to participate in this type of leisure activity. Several made use of overtly feminine pseudonyms (Stella, Faith, the intriguing Duhitar) or self-identifiers (Elm mentions “us girls”); Sirius, Serapis, Aquarius, Nitor, and Tortoise are less obvious — but in at least one instance a Serapis essay bears a follow-up comment that begins “she wishes to say . . .,” and other critical responses give us additional she/her references for Key, ?, Aquarius, Pleasance, and Dragonfly. Ivy is an interesting case, rebutting a point on contemporary male fashion by describing men's style as “simple, sensible, & comfortable,” and then going on to say “as to women, they may attire themselves in any way almost that is most convenient,” which seems curiously self-distancing from feminine experience. One of the few specifically female-oriented topics, “Should the Franchise be Extended to Women?,” brings several references to “our” characteristics, and although no hardline declarations in favor of suffrage are made, several essayists tentatively conclude that single women running their own households should have the right to vote.
In addition to the beautifully hand-calligraphed and illuminated title-page, the volume also contains a number of mounted illustrations. These include a pencilled “design for a border,” symbolically signed by Key, which received high praise from the club members in that month's criticism section; five costume drawings in one of the essays on fashion, likewise symbolically signed by Dragonfly; five striking depictions of beetles, four in color (the one of an African beetle bearing the sub-caption “Drawn from life,” which has been followed with a pencilled question mark!); a sketch of an Irish “Bian” horse-drawn carriage (accompanying an essay on the life of Charles Bianconi); and six lovely painted landscapes (including coastline, mountain, and village scenes — some connected to a group of essays on “What Constitutes Beauty” and some to “A Type of English Scenery”).
Binding: Contemporary black morocco, covers framed in gilt rolls and fillets with inner blind roll and blind-tooled corner fleurons surrounding gilt-stamped title (“Essays of the Rocket Club. 1885); spine with gilt-stamped raised bands and gilt-tooled compartment decorations. Board edges with gilt roll, turn-ins with blind roll; marbled endpapers and top edges gilt.
Bound as above, spine head repaired and refurbished; somewhat rubbed and a little scuffed — a volume that was both used/referred to and treasured. Many leaves with short tears from outer margins, often with old, possibly contemporary repairs; some leaves showing faint, pressed-out creases most likely from mailing.
Unique, enjoyable, and eminently worthy of study. (36353)

Love & Honor in the REVOLUTION
Roe, Edward Payson. Near to nature's heart. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., © 1876. 12mo. [4], [7]–556, [4 (adv.)] pp.
$75.00
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First edition. Presbyterian minister and popular novelist Edward Payson Roe wrote this romance with strong Christian themes, set in New York state during the Revolutionary War — mixing in real people such as “Captain Molly” Corbin and George Washington.
Binding: Publisher's dark green cloth, front cover and spine with flowering branches stamped in black, spine with gilt-stamped title.
BAL 16902 (not matching either described binding); Wright, III, 4619. Bound as above, extremities rubbed not too roughly; front cover with small areas of faint discoloration. Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription (S.M. Woodburn) dated [18]81 and tear with a bit of loss from upper margin. Generally clean and nice with occasional light spots; ads at the back giving extra pleasure and interest. (28406)

A Happy Ending for Two Starving Wanderers
(AND for the People Who Help Them)
Roe, Nora A.M.; Davidson, Bertha G., illus. Two little street singers. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1900. 12mo (18.9 cm, 7.44"). v, [1], 182 pp.; 8 plts.
$100.00
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Uncommon first edition: Set in and around Boston, this is an edifyingly heartwarming tale of two lost children — having been taken and trained as performers by a pair of Italian tramps — found, with the action opening just before Thanksgiving and the planned holiday meal providing a minor plot point. Among their saviors, most of whom receive various blessings in return, are a generous doctor, a protective Newfoundland dog (depicted in one of the plates), and most importantly an impoverished but kindly woman and her elderly mother suffering from dementia.
This appears to be not only the first but the only 20th-century edition of the only work published by Roe, whose name is also given as Mrs. Alfred S. Roe on the title-page; the eight plates were done by
popular children's illustrator Bertha G. Davidson.
A search of WorldCat finds this two-woman collaboration physically in only two U.S. institutions (Harvard and the University of Chicago).
Binding: Publisher's sage green cloth (unsigned) stamped in black, white, and gilt, with the two children dancing and playing their tambourines on the front cover, and good dog Napoleon on the spine.
Not in Wright. Publisher's cloth as above, spine very slightly darkened, minimal wear to extremities. Front fly-leaf with early pencilled ownership inscription. Pages faintly age-toned, otherwise clean.
A solid, pleasing copy of this scarce New Englandflavored item; a tale offering much sentimentality, but also plenty of realism. (41370)

Poems for a “Much Loved Daughter” — Ticketed Binding
Rogers, Samuel. Poems. London: Edward Moxon [colophon: Chiswick Press: Pr. by C. Whittingham], 1839. 16mo (16.7 cm, 6.625"). viii, 311, [1] pp.; illus.
$100.00
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Nicely bound selection of poems from the celebrated Romantic-era English poet and member of the Dickens circle, with many charming vignettes (head- and tailpieces), mostly of women, scattered throughout the work. The vignettes were done by Thomas Stothard, with some bearing his logo.Binding: 19th-century black pebbled calf, spine with gilt title surrounded by various double gilt rules and arabesque stamps, covers framed with double fillets in blind around two drawer pulls connected by a rule of dots surrounding a mostly oval gilt foliate design. All edges gilt; original brown silk ribbon placeholder present. Front pastedown with binder's ticket of T. Edmondson, 38 Marketplace, Lancaster.
Provenance: With gift inscription “Elisabeth Sophia Jameson to her much Loved Daughter Maryanne Jameson Lancaster July the 7 1848" on front fly-leaf in ink and a pencilled note “C.S.F. July 10 1915" immediately below. A small rubber-stamp green monogram, possibly C.S.F.'s, appears at the bottom of the title-page. Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Binding as above, very gently rubbed at corners and joints, top back joint (outside) just starting, front cover very slightly splayed. Light age-toning throughout, a handful of specks, one small marginal spot. Provenance markings as above, binder's ticket offsetting to front endpaper. Despite the sound of the necessarily recited faults, this is
a strong, lovely copy of this handsome production. (38254)

Nonesuch Press Edition: A Novel
C.S. Lewis & J.R.R. Tolkien Read Aloud
to
Make the Inklings Laugh
Ros, Amanda McKittrick. Irene Iddesleigh. London: Nonesuch Press, 1926. 12mo (20 cm, 7.9"). 151, [1] pp.; illus.
$125.00
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Nonesuch printing of the first novel from an Irish author who made a career out of being critically savaged for her florid and improbably alliterative prose. Anna Margaret Ross, who wrote under the “Ros” pseudonym, first published this tragic novel about a doomed marriage at her own expense in 1897; Mark Twain called it “one of the greatest unintentionally hilarious novels of all time,” and to this day it continues to be featured on lists of the worst books ever written.
“This edition follows exactly the text of the original Belfast issue of 1897 except that certain misprints have been corrected,” according to the edition statement; the text is ornamented with reproductions of the original
three wood engravings by W.M.R. Quick. The present example is numbered copy 719 of 1250 printed.
Provenance: Calligraphic bookplate of Norman J. Sondheim, American collector of fine press books.
McKitterick/Rendall/Dreyfus 33. Publisher's half sheep and pink, red, and brown mottled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine gently sunned, extremities a bit rubbed. Front pastedown with bookplate as above; light foxing to endpapers, with a very few faint spots elsewhere. Lovely Nonesuch production of a “must read it to believe it” novel! (32039)
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Betrayal/MURDER! in Oxford
Rosanna; the Oxford tragedy / In two parts. Part I.--How fair Rosanna, of the city of Oxford, was by a young gentleman betrayed of her virginity. Part II.--His cruelty in murdering her, and how a rose-bush sprung upon her grave, which blossoms all the year through; and how the murder came to be found out, by his cropping the rose, &c. Glasgow [Scotland]: Printed for the Booksellers, [18--]. 12mo (15 cm, 6"). 8 pp.
$95.00
Title woodcut vignette of a young woman in a bonnet, leaning against a gate. “[No.] 20” printed at the foot of the title.
Original self wrappers (unbound; removed). The bottom half inch of the leaves and the top inch of the rear leaf are separated; very good. (38504)
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Woman Entrepreneur, Patent Medicines Division, 1855
S.A. Osburn (Firm). [drop-title] Osburn's detergent balsam, or, the great remedy, for nursing sore mouth, canker, thrush, scarlet fever, inflamed sore throat, &c., &c. [Rochester, NY]: No publisher/printer, 1855. Tall 12mo (20 cm; 7.75"). 3, [1] pp.
$225.00
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The Library Company of Philadelphia's catalogue record for this work reports “Nehemiah Osburn (1801–92), prominent Rochester businessman, built Osburn House at Main and St. Paul,” and that his wife Sarah Ann Van Schuyver Osburn (1806–92) was a successful businesswoman, her eponymous firm specializing in patent and popular medicines for ailments of the mouth.
“To prevent fraud, the written signature of the proprietor, S.A. Osburn, will be written upon the wrapper[of the bottle], without which none is genuine. Sold, wholesale and retail, by N. Osburn, corner of Main and St. Paul Streets, Rochester, N.Y., general agent for the United States” (p. [4]) — this copy without that signature.
Printed testimonials on p. 4 are dated 1847 and 1855, and a charming wood engraving on p. 1 shows a woman administering medicine to a sick woman in her bed.
Searches of WorldCat locate only four U.S. libraries reporting ownership (PPL, NRU-Med, MWA, NRMW).
Folded, as issued.
A clean, attractive piece of medical-commercial ephemera. (38410)

The Bustle, Excitement, Culture, & NOISE of LONDON
Laid Out for Children
S. W. [Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson?, Elizabeth Kilner?]. A visit to London: Containing a description of the principal curiosities in the British metropolis. Philadelphia: Published by Benjamin Warner ... sold also at his store in Richmond, Virginia (pr. by Wm. Greer), 1817. 24mo (14.8 cm, 5.75"). 111, [1] pp.; 6 plts., illus.
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First American edition. This look at multifaceted London, including city life, prisons, orphanages, booksellers, street vendors, hospitals, etc., is illustrated with six metal-engraved plates. Included are a description of Darton's bookshop (“Darton's Juvenile Library”) on pp. 82–87, and one of London street noises on pp. 164–65.
The Osborne Collection suggests Sarah Scudgell Wilkinson as author, while Moon gives strong evidence for Elizabeth Kilner.
WorldCat locates nine North American libraries reporting ownership.
Provenance: Late 19th-century signature of Rebecca B. Miller; a later bookplate removed; 1954 gift inscription to Hope Cooper W. Patterson from her grandfather. Most recently in the children's book collection of Albert A. Howard, small booklabel (“AHA”) at rear.
Shaw & Shoemaker 42802; Welch, American Children’s Books, 1393; Moon, Benjamin Tabart's Juvenile Library, 94. Publisher's dark green quarter roan with tan paper sides; leather worn and starting to crack along the front joint. Inscriptions and booklabel as above. The expectable age-toning and light foxing to text and plates. A good++ copy. (38918)
“A Voyage to Abyssinia” — A GOOD, Lively, & Readable Account
Salt, Henry. A voyage to Abyssinia, and travels into the interior of that country, executed under the orders of the British government, in the years 1809 and 1810; in which are included, an account of the Portuguese settlements on the east coast of Africa .... Philadelphia: M. Carey; Boston: Wells & Lilly (pr. by Lydia R. Bailey), 1816. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). 24, 454 pp.; fold. map., illus.
$1250.00
First U.S. edition and printed by Lydia Bailey, following the London first of 1814. Salt, a British traveller and Egyptologist, first visited Ethiopia in 1805, and returned in 1809 on a diplomatic mission intended to promote ties between the British government and the Emperor of Abyssinia. The Voyage gives Salt’s observations of Ethiopian customs, manners, dress, cuisine, and music, along with the factual details of his diplomatic achievements — or lack thereof, in terms of concrete agreements — followed by an appendix comparing vocabulary words from various languages spoken along “the Coast of Africa, from Mosambique to the borders of Egypt, with a few others spoken in the Interior of that Continent” (p. 395).
This is an untrimmed copy in original boards, with
24 pages of advertising for Carey publications bound in at the front of the volume. The preliminary map, engraved by John Bower, has hand-colored border lines; this American edition does not call for the plates found in the English first, but does include in-text depictions of several “Ethiopic inscriptions.”
Shaw & Shoemaker 33864; NSTC 2S3118. Publisher’s quarter tan paper over light blue paper–covered sides; front cover detached and back joint cracked, binding spotted, paper cracked and split along spine, spine label now absent and replaced with hand-inked title, spine with later paper shelving label. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1829. Half-title with portion of outer margin torn away (not touching text) and laid in. Map lightly foxed, with two short tears along folds. Pages age-toned, with occasional spots of foxing. (19413)

Plate by Araoz
San Pedro, José María de. Apologia de Santa Teresa de Jesus, que dirige a las rr. mm. carmelitas descalzas de la ciudad de Mexico. Mexico: La oficina de Ontiveros, 1812. 8vo. [4] ff., plt., 44 pp.
$750.00
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This is the
first and only edition of a well-written and footnoted biography of St. Teresa de Jesús. It seeks to rebut negative criticisms and actual charges of harboring vice that had been contained in some 18th-century peninsular publications.
Neither Medina, nor Palau, nor Garritz, nor the cataloguer for the NUC Pre-1956 entry notes a plate as present. The engraved plate in our copy, which is signed “Araoz M.o,” shows St. Teresa kneeling in prayer in her garden. In the background are a lake or a river and a mountain. Christ is seen off to the right, emerging from a stand of trees near the water. In front of the saint are some flowers and other cultivated plants which are being watered by an irrigation system fed by a well; two symbolic doves and a yearning (or dedicated) heart also appear. Below the engraving is a quotation from Ecclesiastes that the saint used in her writings.
The engraver was Manuel de Aráoz, one of the first students of the Mexican Academy of Painting, a noted engraver, and later subdirector of the Academy's department of engraving.
Medina, Mexico, 10812; Palau 293431; Garritz 1569. On the engraver, see: Diccionario Porrúa de historia, biografía y geografía de México (5a ed.), I, 165. Without the plain wrappers one expects. Three pin-type wormholes affecting some pages, including the plate, not offensively. Discoloration along inner margin of title-page; soiling affecting edges/margins variably; upper outer portions of title-leaf, last two text leaves, and final blank most affected. Ample-margined copy. (27616)

A Work Written for the
Discalced Carmelite NUNS of Mexico
San Pedro, José María de. Apologia de Santa Teresa de Jesus, que dirige a las rr. mm. carmelitas descalzas de la ciudad de Mexico ... Mexico: La oficina de Ontiveros, 1812. 4to. [4] ff., 44 pp. (without the plate).
$300.00
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This is the first and only edition of a well-written and footnoted biography of St. Teresa de Jesús. It seeks to rebut negative criticisms and actual charges of harboring vice that had been contained in some 18th-century peninsular publications.
Medina, Mexico, 10812; Palau 293431; Garritz 1569. Removed from a nonce volume. Without the sometimes-seen plate, which is not mentioned by Medina or Garritz or Palau; it may be not all copies were issued with it or that it could be added at an additional cost. Fore-edges closely trimmed, touching or costing up to a few letters of some sidenotes. Very good copy. (34495)

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)
Seward, Anna. Louisa, a poetical novel, in four epistles...the second edition. Lichfield: J. Jackson & G. Robinson, 1784. 4to (27.2 cm, 10.7"). vi, 95, [1 (blank)] pp.
$350.00

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Second issue (with a cancel title-page) of this attempt to “unite the impassion’d fondness of Pope’s ELOISA, with the chaster tenderness of Prior’s EMMA,” written by a Romantic poet often called the Swan of Lichfield. Louisa went through no fewer than four printings in 1784, the year of its initial publication.
ESTC T95509; NCBEL, II, 682. Old-style marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and date labels. Light waterstaining to upper and lower margins of first and last few leaves; title-page and a few others stamped by a now-defunct institution. Author’s name inscribed in an early hand at the end of the poem. (8562)

“Not got a Bible!”?!
Sherwood, [Mary Martha]. History of Emily and her brothers. By Mrs. Sherwood. London: Houlston & Co. (pr. by R. Clay), [1847]. 16mo (10.1 cm, 3.97"). 30 pp. (frontis. incl. in pagination); col. illus.
$185.00
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In this charming chapbook a little girl named Emily raises money to buy a Bible for a poor old woman, teaching the reader about family values, math, and, of course, the Bible. First published in 1816, the text is here illustrated with
seven hand-colored woodcut vignettes. The frontispiece is affixed to the front wrapper (as issued), and the rear wrapper features a bookseller's advertisement, listing a number of other books by Mrs. Sherwood (Mary Martha Sherwood, 1775–1851), who was a beloved and prolific children's book author.
The title-page calls this the “twenty-second edition” (the date of publication given here is suggested by the Bodleian), and it is uncommon: a search of WorldCat finds
just four copies.
Provenance: From the children's library of American collector Albert A. Howard, sans indicia.
Opie A 211/3; Osborne Collection, p. 935 (for 1837 ed.). Original green printed paper wrappers, spine extremities slightly rubbed.
A notably clean, bright, unworn copy, with excellent hand-coloring. (41484)

Early in the
FIRST English Annual Series — This Copy in Its Box
Shoberl, Frederic, ed. Forget me not;
A Christmas and New Year's present for 1828. London: R. Ackermann, [1828]. 12mo (14.4 cm, 5.75"). Engr. presentation leaf, engr. frontis., x, 418, 4 (advertisements) pp.; 14 plts. including presentation leaf and frontis.
$350.00
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An exemplar of an early and important English gift book series, one Faxon describes as “The first attempt to rival the numerous and elegant publications of the continent,”
in only its sixth annual appearance. This volume includes pieces by Mary Russell Mitford, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Felicia Hemans, among others. It is illustrated with a total of
14 engraved plates, including the beautiful embossed presentation leaf here in unused state. Several engravers, including E. Finden, S. Davenport, and A.W. Warren, modeled their work after various artists.
Binding: Publisher's glazed green paper–covered boards, pictorially printed in black, all edges gilt. Housed in publisher's cardboard slipcase with green glazed paper sides pictorially printed in black.
Owner's modification: The word “Pax” is neatly printed in black ink on the book's back cover, gently arced above the engraving; and “Roosevelt” has been similarly added to the back of the slipcase, with “Post Lux Tenebras” being artfully placed below the engraving.
Faxon 1303. Binding as above, back inside cover with brown silk pull-tab intact, joints very skillfully refurbished with long fiber and then toned; extremities gently rubbed. Front free endpaper pencilled with old bookseller annotations. Pages and plates generally clean with very occasional light foxing; guard leaves with predictable offsetting. Case somewhat rubbed with extremities chipped at corners but completely sound and with the described embellishments.
A lovely little gift book, with the original (and early for its kind) slipcase. (36042)
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