Books X Decades

1. [Fust & Schoeffer.] Koenig, Eberhard. The 1462 Fust & Schoeffer Bible. Introduction by Christopher de Hamel. With an original leaf from the 1462 Bible. Akron & Evanston: Bruce Ferrini / Hamill & Barker, 1993.

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Edition limited to 166 copies, folio, pp. 40; original burgundy morocco-backed boards, paper label on upper cover, black morocco label on spine; accompanied by a linen folder, paper label on upper cover, containing an original leaf from the Fust & Schoeffer Bible, initials in red and blue and with red and blue flourishes in the margins; all in a linen clamshell box, paper label on upper cover; new, as issued.

Dr. Koenig, a noted authority on 15th-century manuscripts and German incunabula, details the history of Fust & Schoeffer's magnificent Bible of 1462, with particular emphasis on the fragment that forms the basis of this publication, the only known copy of the Bible to have been illuminated in England for the English market. Koenig has also included a census of the extant copies.

The monograph was printed letterpress by W. Thomas Taylor of Austin, Texas, and includes 12 monochrome plates. The leaf itself is from Deuteronomy.

2. Lactantius, [Lucius Caecilius Firmianus]. [Opera: De divinis institutionibus; De ira dei; De opificio dei vel de formatione hominis; De phoenice carmen. Epitome divinarum institutionum [cap. LVI-LXXIII]. Venantius Fortunatus: De resurrectione Christi]. [Venice: Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen], 27 Aug., 1478.

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Early edition by Johann de Colonia and Johann Manthen, a reprint from Adam de Ambergau's 1471 edition; folio (11¾" x 7⅝"), 227 (of 228) leaves, lacking the blank leaf a1; collating a¹² (-a1) b-m¹⁰ n⁸ o-r¹⁰ s-x⁸ y¹⁰ z⁸; [1]⁸, with additional Epitomon, 8 leaves at the back; 2 to 6-line initial spaces, some with printed guide-letters; occasional early annotations; some spotting and dampstaining; 20th-century half brown calf over boards in imitation of a 15th-century binding; spine in 5 compartments, lettered in blind in 2; spine sunned, old library rubberstamp in bottom margin of a2, leaf z8 with old tears and mounted; last 30 or so leaves with dampstain in lower margin, the occasional tear neatly mended; in all a very good copy.

The final 8-leaf quire, with the Epitome of De divinis institutionibus and a second colophon, is not always present but is here.

Lactantius, a rhetorician of Berber origin, born in proconsular Africa and often described as the “Christian Cicero”. After converting to Christianity, Lactantius sought in most of his works and in particular his most famous work, the Divinae institutiones, to prove to the pagans that polytheism must be abandoned in favor of Christian dogmas.

BMC V, page 233; Goff L8; ISTC il00009000.

3. Horatius Flaccus, Quintus. Opera. [Edited and with commentary by Christophorus Landinus]. Venetiis: Bernardino Stagnino da Trino, 1486.

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Folio (approx. 298 x 210 mm.), 178 leaves (foliated [1], 2-178); collating a-x8 y10; 56 lines of commentary surrounding text, and head-line, Roman type, capital spaces with guide letters; manuscript title in ink in an 18th-century hand on blank leaf preceding [a1]; extensive ink annotations in both Latin and Italian in at least 3 hands on approximately 160 pages; the earliest annotations appear to be contemporary, while the last are likely 18th-century; several manicules; 18th-century full calf, spine in 7 compartments, red morocco label in 1; top and bottom compartments with restoration; leaves b7 and b8 with small pieces missing from the bottom edge; tiny worm tracks (the largest about 1 cm.) in the bottom margins of the last 22 leaves (not approaching any text); faults aside, a very good copy.

An uncommon incunable edition of Horace's work (only 2 copies at auction since the 1950s and none in the last 20 years), edited and with commentary by Cristoforo Landino, and based on the edition printed by De Gregori in 1483.

BMC V, 364; Goff H-450; GW 13462; ISTC ih00450000.

4. Aristophanes. Ἀριστοφάνους Κωμῳδίαι ἐννέα / Aristophanis comoediae novem. Venice: Aldus Manutius, 1498.

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First edition, folio in eights, collating: π⁸,α-γ⁸, δ¹⁰, ε-ξ⁸, ο¹⁰, π-υ⁸, φ¹⁰, χ-Ε⁸, Ζ⁶, Η-Λ⁸, Μ⁴, Ν-Ο⁸, Π¹⁰, Ρ-Σ⁸, Τ⁶ (lacking the final T6 blank); guideletters in initial spaces; woodcut decorated headers and strapwork initials; 18th-century diced russia, later rebacking, gilt title on spine, gauffered edges, marbled endpapers; boards rubbed, bookplate of Joseph Stainton of Biggarshiells on pastedown, bookplate of book dealer Tammaro de Marinis on free endpaper, engraved bookplate of Collegium Beatae Mariae de Etona on bottom of title page, small Harvard Library blindstamp on title page, small tear at gutter of π2 neatly repaired, dampstain to bottom right corner persisting through the entire textblock with varying degrees of intensity, scattered ink spotting on χ2, woodcuts on B2 filled in with pencil leading to offsetting on facing page, dime sized stain at the signature of I1 with some permeation to neighboring leaves, single wormhole through the first 120 leaves at upper fore-edge, not affecting text; about 2 dozen pages with marginal notes, some with a little loss due to trimming, catalog record for this copy tipped in.

The editio princeps of Aristophanes, including nine of his comedies, compiled and edited by Marcus Musurus. Lysistrata was not included due to Musurus' inability to find a complete manuscript of the text in time for publication.

BMC V, IB 24470; Goff A-958; ISTC ia00958000; GW, 2333; Ahmanson-Murphy 25; Renouard 16:3.

5. [Erasmus, Desiderius.] Euripides. Hecvba, & Iphigeniain Aulide Euripidis tragoediae in latinum tralatae Erasmo Roterodamo interprete. Venetiis: in aedibus Aldi Mense Decembri, 1507.

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The first Aldine edition, and first edition of any of Erasmus's translations of Euripides; 8vo (approx. 158 x 94 mm); [80] leaves; collating: pi8 a-i8; woodcut anchor & dolphin device on the title page; initial spaces with guide-letters; inverted A for V in 'Hecvba' on title page; Erasmus's name inked out on title page, and on leaves pi2r, a1r, d1r d2r, i1v and i4r; e8 with early repair in the bottom margin (without loss); contemporary brown paneled goat with gilt fleurons in the corners and "T Rasmi"in gilt central on the upper cover, a.e.g.; old small library rubberstamp on blank flyleaf; marbled endpapers look to be replaced in the 19th century; light overall wear; but for the eradications, clean and sound.

Adams E-1045; BM-STC Italian, 239; Dibdin (1827), p. 374; Renouard, p. 51:1 ("volume tres rare et peu connu"); Ahmanson-Murphy 96.

6. Silio Itálico, Cayo. Que hoc libro contineatur [sic]: Sillii Italici Vita ex Petro Crinito & Petro Marso, Secundi belli punici compendium ex Marso, Sillii Italici ... libri decem & septe cum ... Petri Marsi commentariis ad amussim emucti nusq citra Alpes impressi. [Paris]: veneunt ab honestissimo bibliopola Po[n]cio Probo via diui Iacobi e regione mathurinoru[m] ad lupi quadrupedis intersignium; [ex aedibus Nicolai de Pratis: impensis vero honestissimoru[m] viro[rum] Poncij probi & Francisci regnault bibliopola[rum], 1512.

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4to, (approx. 270 x 190 mm.); pp. [4], clxxiiij; collating a⁴ a-y⁸, z⁶; title printed in red and black; engraved printer's vignette on title page; metalcut initials; 18th-century paneled calf with a late 19th century rebacking, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; dampstain starts at the top of h1 and runs continuously to the end of the text block in varying degrees, the worst being from n1 to p8; a good copy of a relatively uncommon book.

Silius Italicus (born c. 26, Patavium [now Padua, Italy]—died 102) was a Latin epic poet whose 17-book, 12,000-line Punica on the Second Punic War (218–201 BCE) is the longest poem in Latin literature. Contains the life of Silius Italicus by Pietro Riccio, known as Crinito, and the text of Punica which is framed by the comments of Pietro Marso.

OCLC locates 16 copies worldwide, in the US only Wesleyan, LSU, Duke, and Loras College (this copy).

7. Ammonius, Hermiae. Ammonii Hermeae commentaria in qvinqve voces Porphyrii cum Graeco exemplari recens collata. Locis pluribus restitutis, ac resectis omnibus iis, quae superflua in aliis latinis codicibus legebantur. Venetiis: [Ottaviano Scoto], 1539.

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Small folio, collating  A-E⁴, a-r⁸, s-t⁶, gathering g misbound but all leaves present; vignette title page, three large and many smaller historiated initials throughout; Ottaviano Scotto's printer's mark on final leaf; contemporary full parchment with raised bands on spine neatly restored, leather ties (replaced), and contemporary manuscript text on spine and upper cover, largely worn past legibility; endpapers renewed, ex libris of the Conuentus S. Francisci Vitellianae and Marquis C. L. Cavriani of Mantova, with Cavriani's arms reapplied, occasional underlining and marginal notes in a contemporary hand, in Latin, toning to the top right corner of last dozen or so leaves, very good.

Ammonius (ca. c. 440 – c. 520 AD) taught philosophy at Alexandria, where his father Hermeias had taught earlier. Known primarily for his commentaries on Aristotle, which were said to be of greater benefit than anyone else’s, he was also distinguished in geometry and astronomy. Himself a pupil of Proclus at Athens, at Alexandria Ammonius taught most of the important Platonists of the late 5th and early 6th centuries (paraphrased from several online sources).

Not in Adams. Not in BM-STC Italian.

8. Pollux, Julius. Iulii Pollucis Onomasticon, hoc est instructissimum rerum et synonymorum dictionarium, nunc primum Latinitate donatum, Rodolopho Gualthero Tigurino interprete. Basileae: Robertum Winter, 1541.

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8vo, pp. 479, [15]; woodcut initials, printer's device on colophon; contemporary full vellum; vellum a little soiled and with some cracking along the upper joint; top blank margin of title page clipped and infilled; all else very good. With a 1734 manuscript monastery ex-libris at the bottom of the title page. 

Pollux, the Greek grammarian and Sophist from Naucratis in Egypt, flourished in the second century A.D. The Onomasticon, the only work of his which survives, "is a Greek dictionary in ten books...arranged not alphabetically, but according to subject matter. Though mainly a dictionary of synonyms and phrases, chiefly intended to furnish the reader with the Attic names for individual things, it supplies much rare and valuable information on many points of classical antiquity [and] numerous fragments of writers now lost" (EB-11). 

Adams P1790; BM-STC German, p. 709; Vancil, p. 195.

9. Estienne, Henri. In M.T. Ciceronis quãplurimos locoscastigationes Henrici Stephani: partim ex eius ingenio, partim ex vetustissimo quodã & emendatissimo exemplari. [Geneva]: Ex Officina Henrici Stephani, 1557.

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Small 8vo, pp. [6], 114; bound with: Estienne, Henri. Ciceronianum Lexicon Græcolatinum. [Geneva]: Ex Officina Henrici Stephani, 1557, first edition of Estienne's first original work, pp. [16], 200.

2 volumes in 1, full 20th-century blind-tooled calf, unlettered spine in 4 compartments, raised bands, all edges red; fine. Both title pages adorned with printer's device no. 12 (Schreiber). The 'h' gathering in the first volume cropped in the fore-margin.

The first title consists of a collection of comments and corrections made to the text of Cicero; the second, the author's first original work, consists of a Greek-Latin lexicon of words, phrases, and expressions taken from the Greek of Cicero; the second section of this brief work is of all the Greek texts, with Cicero's Latin translation parallel.

"Although Renouard states that [In M.T. Ciceronis] forms one volume with [Ciceronianum Lexicon Græcilatinum], it is in fact quite separate and distinct from it, having its own title page and preface. The two works are found bound together as often as they are not" (Schreiber).

Adams S1778 & S1755; Renouard, p. 116, no. 4; Schreiber 144 & 143.

10. Melanchthon, Philipp. Corpus doctrinae Christianae. Quae est summa orthodoxi et Catholici dogmatis, complectens doctrinam puram & ueram Euangelij Iesu Christi secundum diuina prophetarum & apostolorum scripta, aliquot libris fideli ac pio studio explicata . Lipsiae: cum gratia & privilegio ad decennium [in officina M. Ernesti Voegelini Constantiensis], 1560.

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First edition of Melanchthon's last work, published just three months before his death; folio, pp. [20], 982; large woodcut vignette on title-p., 8-, 7-, and 6-line historiated woodcut initials, dampstains in the fore-margins of the first 5 and top and fore-margins of the last 8 leaves, small clipped ownership signature at the lower outer corner of the title page (remaining on 3 lines are the letters "Emp / man / ar"); contemporary blindstamped pigskin, vellum label on spine titled in ink; the whole worn and soiled, lacking both clasps, turn-ins curled; in all, a good, sound copy,

This copy extensively annotated on approximately 240 pages in at least two distinct hands (about one-third very heavily annotated), in red and black ink, endpapers also with extensive ink notations, the front pastedown with the ownership signature of "Jo. Caspar Reuchlin D., 1752" (likely one of the annotators). Many of the annotations are earlier, likely dating from the 17th century. Sections in the book extensively marked include: De Deo, De Filio, De Creatione, De Peccato Originis, De Evangelio, De Vocabulo Fidei, De Praemiis, De Loge Morali, De Libero Arbitrio, De Iustificatione, De Bonis Operibus, and De Ecclesia.

Reuchlin is the author of Dissertatio academica de historica Christiana Romanorum poetarum testimoniis illustrata. Strasbourg, 1750. Melanchthon himself was the grand-nephew of Johann Reuchlin, the well-known Renaissance humanist. That Jo. Caspar Reuchlin (1714-1767), Johann Reuchlin, and Melanchthon are all inter-related seems likely.

Not in Adams; BM-STC German, p. 610; Graesse IV, p. 469.

11. Euclid. Euclidis Elementorum libri XV. Unà cum scholijs antiquis à Federico Commandino ... nuper in latinum conversi, commentarijsque quibusdam illustrati. Pesaro: Jacobus Chriegher German, 1572.

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Folio in sixes, pp. [24] plus 255 leaves; title within an architectural woodcut border signed by J. Chrieger, historiated woodcut initials, numerous woodcut geometric diagrams and illustrations in the text; a clean, crisp copy in 19th century quarter vellum over marbled boards, smooth gilt-decorated spine with 2 black calf lettering pieces, edges stained yellow; nice copy.

"A new translation into Latin of the fifteen books of the Elements appeared at Pesaro, a seaport on the Adriatic near Urbino, in 1572. The printer was Camillo Francischini. The translation, which was made use of by subsequent editors for centuries, was the work of Federigo Comandino, certainly an outstanding figure in the history of Euclid's Elements" (Thomas-Stanford).

Adams E-984; Thomas-Stanford, Early Editions of Euclid's Elements, no. 18; BM-STC Italian, p. 238.

12. [Bible in Greek, New Testament]. Novvm Testamentvm Græcvm, cvm Vulgata interpretatione Latina, græci contextus lineis inserta ... atque alia Ben. Ariæ Montani hispalensis opera e verbo reddita ... Accesservnt & huic editioni Libri græce scripti, qui vocantur Apocryphi ; cum interlineari interpretatione Latina ex Bibliis complutensibus deprompta. Antverpiae: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1584.

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Folio, 6 parts in 1; pp. [8], 186, [2]; 128; collating: ¶⁴, A-Y⁴, Z⁶; Aa-Qq⁴; woodcut device on title page;

bound with: Biblica Hebraica. Antverpiae, 1584 [Hebrew-Latin Old Testament, Greek-Latin Apocrypha, etc. in various pagings from back of book], viz.: pp. [20], 183, [1]; 283, [1]; 84; 203, [1]; collating (from the back): †⁴, ‡⁶ , A-O⁶, P⁸; a-x⁶, y-z⁸, aa-gg⁶, AA-RR⁶; (in all, 551 leaves); text in double column in Hebrew, Greek, and Latin; early 18th century calf, blindstamped panels on covers, red morocco label on spine; covers with dampstains, corners bumped and showing, small cracks starting at the extremities of the joints, occasional light minor dampstaining, but in all a very good and reasonably sound copy.

Terminal flyleaf with elaborately penned inscription: "Isaac Sharpe [flourishes] dono Patris 1719." On the rear pastedown is Sharpe's early "Coll. Mag." bookplate dated April 4, 1683 - possibly the date of his matriculation at Magdalene College, Cambridge.

The Greek N.T. starts at the beginning of the volume, and the Hebrew O.T. at the end, with the Greek Apocrypha of 128 pages between them. Each Testament has its own title page, and the mention of the Apocrypha on both suggests that it was intended to form an appendix to either of the Testaments if they were issued separately.

See Darlow & Moule 4645 and 5106: "This forms the latter half of the complete Bible in the original languages, with an interlinear Latin translation; the whole reprinted from the Antwerp polyglot"; Voet A2 (p. 320).

13. Casas, Christoval de las. Vocabulario de las dos lenguas toscana y castellana...Et accresciuto di nuovo da Camillo Camilli di molti vocaboli. Venetia: vendese en casa de Damian Zenaro, 1591.

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8vo, a-c⁸, A-2C⁸, 2D⁴, pp. [48], 1-240, 257-437, [3]; woodcut devices, head- and tail-pieces, and initials; full period parchment, parchment ties, contemporary manuscript spine title; thongs partially perished, 2 small holes along upper cover fore-edge; front joint split, dampstaining throughout, numerous contemporary and slightly later notes and drawings in various hands on p. [450] depicting a papal or bishop's crest; a good copy. Pp. 241-256 omitted as usual. 

Colophon: "Impresso en Venetia, en casa de Gio. Antonio Bertano." Palau 47006; BM-STC Italian, p. 153; see also Vancil, p. 46 for the 1587 edition. This edition not in Adams or Zaunmuller.

14. [Bible in French, Louvain version.] La Saincte Bible, contenante le Vieil et Nouueau Testament. Traduicte de latin en françois par les theologiens de l'Vniuersité de Louuain, comme il apperte par l'epistre suiuante, d'vn des premiers docteurs d'icelle ; enrichie en ceste derniere impression de figures & cartes necessaires pour le contentement & soulagement du lecteur catholique ; auec vne docte table faicte françois de la latine de M. Iean Harlemius. A Lyon: Guichard Iullieron ... & Claude Morillon, 1604.

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Folio in 6s, 2 volumes in 1, the first volume in 2 parts; ruled text in double column; collating ¶⁶, A-Qq⁶, Rr⁸ ; AA-IIi⁶, KKk⁸ ; A-V⁶, x⁸, a-c⁶; lacking the blank leaves KKk8 at the end of the O.T. and c6 at the end of the N.T., ¶ misbound but complete; pp. [12], 484, 398; 256, [30]; primary title page printed in red and black, sectional title page for the N.T. in black only; both titles with large printer's woodcut device; hundreds of woodcut illustrations throughout, mostly 2" x 2½" and 2½" x 3¼", a number larger and 3 full-page; plus 5 half-page maps (Egypt & Arabia, Canaan, Eastern Mediterranean Sea, the Holy Land, and Italy & Greek archipelago); 3- and 4-line woodcut initials throughout, some larger, and some historiated; temoines at Mm2 and HH1; first title backed and with 2 small holes not touching any letterpress, light worm track mostly confined to the gutter margin from CCc1 to DDd2, a few leaves miscreased, last 4 leaves with tears in the margins (no loss of letterpress); contemporary scruffy full calf, joints partially cracked, corners worn, and the whole rather rubbed, but the binding remains sound. Early 20th century gilt inscription on the front pastedown. 

The many illustrations are by Pierre Eskrich (ca. 1518 - ca. 1590), a French engraver, illustrator and painter; and Antoine du Pinet (1510?-1584?). The Preface is by Jacques De Bay. As in the quarto edition of 1605, the approbation is dated December, 1581.

OCLC locates a copy at Lyon but apparently lacking all the preliminaries; a copy at the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Belgium; and the Library of Congress which record misidentifies this as Darlow & Moule 3743 (the 1605 quarto). In fact, this edition is not in Darlow & Moule.

15. Johannes van Meurs. Ioannis Meursi Glossarium Graeco-Barbarum. In quo praeter vocabula quinque millia quadringenta, officia atque dignitates Imperij Constantinop. tam in palatio, quam ecclesia aut militia, explicantur, & illustrantur. Editio altera. Lugdvni Batavorum: Ludovicum Elzevirium, 1614.

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4to, pp. [16], 672 [i.e. 670]; title page printed in red and black, printer's device on title page, full-page engraved portrait on verso of title page, woodcut initials and ornaments; 18th-century full calf, gilt-paneled spine in 5 compartments, red morocco label in 1, pastedowns from an 18th-century theological book in English; upper joint cracked, bottom of spine chipped, a good and reasonably sound copy.

Copinger 3083; Willems 91; Vancil, p. 163.

16. [Bacon, Francis]. The historie of the raigne of King Henry the Seventh. Written by the Right Honourable, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban. London: printed by W. Stansby, for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, 1622.

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Mixed edition, small folio, pp. [4], 248; engraved portrait frontispiece by John Payne (with moderate dampstain pervading about a third of it), title within an elaborate architectural woodcut border, text within ruled borders throughout, early ownership signature on the front free endpaper of "Jer. Milles de Duloe" (almost certainly the antiquary Jeremiah Milles (1714-1784) of Duloe, Cornwall -- see DNB for a 3-column account), and with numerous underlinings and occasional notes in the margins in his hand; dampstain at the bottom quarter of C1-D2, all else very good in contemporary full speckled paneled calf, speckled edges; edges a little rubbed, the whole very nicely rebacked and preserving the original red morocco label.

See Gibson 116a and 116b for distinctions in the many errata: "There is ... no certain means of determining their priority."

17. Calepinus, Ambrosius. Dictionarium, quanta maxima fide ac diligentia accurate emendatum... Adjectae sunt Latinis dictionibus Hebraeae, Graecae, Gallicae, Italicae, Germanicae, Hispanicae, atque Anglicae. Lugduni [i.e. Lyon]: sumptibus Iacobi Cardon, 1634.

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Folio, 2 volumes in 1, pp. [12], 902, [2], 815; both title pages printed in red and black, and both with printer's woodcut device, copper-engraved head-piece on dedication page, woodcut initials and ornaments; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in 8 compartments, label perished; a good, sound copy of a large and impressive volume.

This famous and durable work was first published as a Latin lexicon in Reggio in 1502, and was gradually augmented by a series of editors to include up to ten languages, including English. "During the whole period of the Renaissance scarcely an important dictionary was published which did not reflect directly or indirectly the influence of Calepine" (Starnes). The first edition to contain English equivalents was that of Lugduni 1585,

Alston II, 94; Labarre 187.

18. Davila, H[enrico] C[aterino]. The histoire of the civill warres of France, written in Italian by H.C. Davila. Translated out of the original. London: printed by R. Raworth, and … sold by W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell, 1647.

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First edition in English, folio, pp. [4], 1478, [1] errata; with the approbation leaf and engraved vignette title-p.; 2" waterstain pervades first ten leaves, occasional spots and stains throughout, title-p. dusty; full contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, preserving the old red morocco label on spine; good and sound. Translated by William Aylesbury.

Lowndes I, 601: "An excellent translation." Wing D 413.

19. La Porte, Arnoldo De. Den nieuwen dictionaris; oft, Schadt der Duytse en Spaensche talen. Van niews oversien en seer vermeerdert ... Daerbu geoecht eenen Spaenschen grammatica. Antwerpen: Hieronymus en Ian Bapt. Verdussen, 1659.

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First edition, small, thick 4to, unpaged; [*1-4], A-Xx⁴; bound with, as issued, Nuevo Dictionario o Thesoro de la Lingua Española y Flamenca, Amberes: Ieronymo y Ivan Bapt. Verdussen, 1659, unpaged; [*-2], A-Bbb2; and also bound with, as issued, Den Spaensen Grammatica, Amberee: Ieronymo y Ivan Bapt. Verdussen, 1659, unpaged, [*1-***4]; sectional title pages for each part; pictorial woodcut title pages for the first 2 parts by C. Jeghers who worked for Rubens, woodcut printer's device at the end of the second part; printer's woodcut device on title page of the Grammar, woodcut tailpiece at the end; full contemporary parchment (a bit spotted), manuscript spine title; early and late 20th-century bookseller's descriptions mounted to front pastedown, else very good and sound.

First edition of this Spanish-Dutch / Dutch-Spanish dictionary, with an emphasis on trade and commerce, and designed for the use of Spaniards travelling abroad at a time when Spain and the Netherlands were diplomatically entwined, following the Treaty of Westphalia, which recognized the independence of the Dutch republic, and ceded to the kingdom of Spain that part of the Netherlands which is now Belguim.

Vancil, p. 143; not in Zaunmuller.

20. Le Moyne, Pierre. La gallerie des femmes fortes. Troisiesme edition, revue & corrigée. Paris: Claude Barbin, 1661.

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12mo, pp. [110], 309, [3]; 251, [16], [4]; with genuine blank [N12] at the end of volume I and the 2 leaves of preliminaries for volume II bound in at the back; extra engraved title page, and 20 full-page engraved portraits of women by Claude Vignon; woodcut ornaments and initials; leaf e3 with marginal tear; all else about fine in an attractive full crimson morocco binding of the 19th century, a.e.g., gilt lettered direct on spine.

"In 1647, La Gallerie des Femmes fortes by the Jesuit Pierre Le Moyne, the admired court poet, was published by Antoine de Sommaville. Dedicated to Anne of Austria, the work is composed of twenty chapters, written in both verse and prose, celebrating notable women of Jewish, Christian, and Pagan origin…In these beautiful engravings of women, we find in our artist the profound sense of taste for the heroines, filled with grace, passion, and melodrama" (Pacht-Bassani).

The portraits include Salome, Artemise, Lucrece, Jeanne d'Arc, and a dramatic portrait of Marie Stuart.

21. Cave, William. Apostolici: or, the history of the lives, acts, death, and martyrdoms of those who were contemporary with, or immediately succeeded the apostles as also the most eminent of the primitive fathers for the first three hundred years : to which is added, a chronology of the three first ages of the church. London: printed by A.C. for Richard Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in S. Paul's Church-yard, 1677.

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First edition, folio, pp. [36], xxxii, 335; copper-engraved pictorial title and 23 copper-engraved plates of the martyrs by M. Burghers, printed title in red and black, woodcut initials throughout, the whole in contemporary full calf, red morocco label, gilt spine; spine a bit rubbed, else a very good, sound copy.

Wing C1590

22. [Sprat, Thomas, Bishop of Rochester]. A true account and declaration of the horrid conspiracy against the late King His Present Majesty and the government. As it was order'd to be published by His late Majesty. [London] In the Savoy: printed by Thomas Newcomb, one of His Majesties printers, 1685.

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First edition, folio, pp. [6], 167, [1]; woodcut ornaments;

bound with: Copies of the Informations and Original Papers relating to the proof of the Horrid Conspiracy against the late King, His present Majesty and the Government. In the Savoy: printed by Thomas Newcomb, one of His Majesties printers, 1685. Folio, pp. [2], 141, [1]; woodcut ornaments;

Together, 2 volumes in 1, full contemporary calf, neatly rebacked.

Presentation copy from the author, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "R. Duke Donum Rev:nds Authoris Thomae Roffensis" (i.e. "R. Duke, a gift of the Reverend Author, Thomas, Bishop of Rochester"). R. Duke is almost certainly Richard Duke (1658-1711), the English poet and divine (see DNB). No presentation copy of Sprat's has appeared at auction in more than 60 years.

Sprat (1635-1713) was a friend of Dryden, Evelyn, Cowley, Christopher Wren, and John Wilkins, and was in the midst of those who were to found the Royal Society, of which he was the first historian. "On 21 Sept. 1683 he was installed in the deanery of Westminster, and he was consecrated at Lambeth as bishop of Rochester on 2 Nov. 1684, holding both preferments until his death ... He marked his gratitude for his new preferments by bringing out at the close of May 1685 A True Account and Declaration of the Horrid Conspiracy against the late King, his present Majesty and the Government, which, though anonymous, was known to be the composition of Sprat. It purported to be an account of the Rye House plot, and he drew it up after much hesitation, as he subsequently pleaded, at the command of Charles II, who granted ‘free liberty to consult the Paper-office and council-books.’ A second edition appeared in the same year, a third in 1686, and a fourth in 1696" (DNB).

Wing S-5065A and S-5029A respectively.

23. Herbelot de Molainville, Barthélemy d'. Bibliothèque orientale, ou Dictionaire universel contenant généralement tout ce qui regarde la connoissance des peuples de l'Orient. Leurs histoires et traditions ... leurs religions, sectes et politique ... leurs sciences, et leurs arts ... les vies et actions remarquables de tous leurs saints ... des jugemens critiques, et des extraits de tous leurs ouvrages. Paris: par la Compagnie des Libraires, 1697.

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First edition, folio, pp. [32], 1059, [1]; title page printed in red and black, woodcut ornaments and initials; full contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spine in 7 compartments, red morocco label in 1; edges a little worn, a few minor tears and dampstains in the text, but in all, a very good, sound copy. Manuscript inscription at the top of the title page reads: "Monasterii S. Germani a pratis Congregationis S. Maur: 1698."

Based on the immense Arabic bibliography (the Kashf al-Zunun) of Hadji Khalfa (Katip Çelebi), of which it is largely an abridged translation, but it also contains the substance of a vast number of other Arabic and Turkish compilations and manuscripts. Four editions of this encyclopedia on the culture and history of the Near East were printed, the last being 1781-83.

Atabey Sale, 563: "Herbelot spent the last thirty years of his life working on his Bibliothèque orientale, a landmark in Arabic studies which was unfinished at his death and completed and published two years later by the orientalist Antoine Galland in 1697. He knew a range of languages, including Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Aramaic, Syriac, and Hebrew, and was familiar with their literature and history, of which this work forms an encyclopaedia."

A supplement compiled by Claude de Visdelou wasn't published until 1780.

James Ford Bell Catalogue cites the 1781-83 edition only.

24. Craig, Thomas, Sir. The right succession to the kingdom of England...against the sophisms of Parsons the Jesuite, who assum'd the counterfeit name of Doleman; by which he endeavours to overthrow not only the rights of succession in kingdoms, but also the sacred authority of kings themselves. Written originally in Latin…and now faithfully translated into English, with a large index … and a preface, giving an account of the author. London: printed by M. Bennet, for Dan. Brown [et al.], 1703.

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First edition in English, folio, pp. [34], 431, [1], [17]; full contemporary paneled calf, red morocco label; slight crack at the bottom of the lower joint, else a very good, sound copy.

The Dedication is signed J. G. (i.e. James Gatherer). With the early ownership inscription of "Ph: Fowke, M.D…A.D. 1703" with a six-line inscription in Latin and Greek beneath it, and a number of additional notes in his hand throughout, in the margins and on the rear blank flyleaves.

Phineas Fowke (1638-1710) was a Yorkshire physician who graduated from Cambridge in 1668. He practiced in London and was admitted as a fellow in the College of Physicians in 1680. See DNB.

25. [Fisher, John]. A practical discourse upon private prayer. London: printed and sold by J. Roberts, 1719.

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First edition, small 8vo, pp. [2], vi, viii, 128; contemporary full red goat with an all-over "cottage-roof" design, enclosing a gilt coronet central and the initials "A. F.", unlettered spine elaborately decorated in gilt in 6 compartments, a.e.g.; edges rubbed and minor wear at the ends of the joints.

A penciled note on the flyleaf identifies the coronet and initials on the covers as those of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, one of the sons of George III (b. 1773). We have not been able to confirm this. Nonetheless, this is a rare devotional book dedicated to Princess Anne, the eldest daughter of George II; she was ten when the book appeared.

OCLC records 3 copies: Oxford, BL and the National Library of Scotland. ESTC adds no others. No copies located in the U.S.

26. [Newton, Isaac.] Pemberton, Henry. A view of Isaac Newton's philosophy. London: printed by Samuel S. Palmer, 1728.

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First edition, 4to, pp. [50], 407, [1]; engraved vignette title page by Pine after Grison, handsome engraved headpieces, tailpieces and historiated initials, and the arms of Sir Robert Walpole on the dedication page, also by Pine after Grison, plus 12 folding engraved plates; a very good, sound copy in full contemporary calf neatly rebacked to style, black leather label in gilt on spine. Ownership signature of John Llewellyn, 1807 on title page

"Dr. Pemberton studied under Boerhaave, prepared the Fifth London Pharmacopoeia and was invited by Newton to edit the third (1726) edition of the Principia. This study of Newton's philosophy is interesting as being the account of a close friend. The preface contains the author's recollections of Newton, especially in his old age. There is also a poem on Sir Isaac by Richard Glover (poet and M.P., 1712-1785) written in his 16th year; the author's introduction on Newton's method of reasoning in philosophy; and a long list of subscribers" (Babson).

Babson Collection, 98; Gray 132.

27. [Qur'an, in English.] The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed, translated into English immediately from the original Arabic; with explanatory notes, taken from the most approved commentators. To which is prefixed a preliminary discourse. By George Sale. London: printed by C. Ackers...for J. Wilcox, 1734.

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First edition in English taken directly from the Arabic, and "remarkably accurate … the best in any language … a very poor English rendering by Alexander Ross appeared in 1649, but it was taken from the despicable French version" (DNB) of Andre Du Ryer. 4to, pp. [6], iii-ix, [3], 187, [1], 508, [15]; title page printed in red and black, engraved folding map of Arabia, 4 engraved plates (3 folding); full contemporary gilt-ruled sheep recently rebacked in calf, red gilt morocco spine label, marbled endpapers; very good and sound.

Lowndes II, 1280.

28. [Pope, Alexander]. Essai sur l'homme … avec l'original Anglois; ornee de figures en taille-douce. Lausanne & Geneve: Marc-Michel Bosquet, 1745.

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The first of several bi-lingual editions, folio, pp. xxiv, 116; title page printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece and vignette title page, engraved portrait of Prince Charles Frederic to whom this edition is dedicated, 19 copper-engraved plates throughout by Delamonce, 4 full-page; parallel text in French and English throughout; nice copy in contemporary full calf, gilt spine, red morocco label; some rubbing but very good.

29. Robson, Joseph. An account of six years residence in Hudson's-Bay, from 1733 to 1736, and 1744 to 1747. By Joseph Robson, late surveyor and supervisor of the buildings to the Hudson's-Bay Company. Containing a variety of facts, observations, and discoveries, tending to shew, I. The vast importance of the countries about Hudson's-Bay to Great-Britain ... particularly in the Furs and Whale and Seal fisheries. And, II. The interested views of the Hudson's-Bay Company... To which is added an appendix. London: printed for J. Payne and J. Bouquet [et al.], 1752.

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First edition, 8vo, [2], [2], vi, 84, [1]-95pp., with the scarce leaf of adverts preceding the title, otherwise collating as in Streeter, with 2 folding maps and folding plate of plans; full contemporary calf, gilt spine with original morocco label preserved; joints just cracked (cords holding), extremities rubbed, binding firm.

From the collection of bibliophile Brent Gration-Maxfield, with his characteristic manuscript ex-libris and tidy bibliographic notes. The Gration-Maxfield library was dispersed in a series of sales by Sotheby's in the early 1980s.

Contains a short history of the discovery of Hudson's Bay, a number of important hydrographic surveys, meteorological observations, and suggestions for keeping the area out of the hands of the French. "Robson was as yet the longest resident in the Bay to print his observations. With an intimate knowledge of the locality and of the personnel of the Company, he condemned its failure to promote fishing and mining enterprise, and the exploration and development of its interior. The appendix is based on the unpublished journal of Groseillier's expedition to the Bay in 1668-69 by his ship captain Zachariah Gillam" (Staton & Tremaine).

JCB 1700-1770, 986; JFB, p. 398; Lande 1418; Sabin 72259; Staton & Tremaine, 217; Streeter 3648.

30. Congreve, William. The works ... in three volumes. Consisting of his poems and plays. Birmingham: John Baskerville for J. & R. Tonson, 1761.

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3 volumes, 8vo, portrait frontispiece, 5 engraved plates; contemporary polished calf, red and green leather labels on gilt-decorated spines, marbled endpapers; spine toned, else a near fine copy in a fine set of red morocco slipcases.

Gaskell 16.

31. Assó y del Rio, Ignacio Jordán de, & Miguel Manuel y Rodríguez. El fuero viejo de Castilla, sacado, y comprobado con el exemplar de la misma obra, que exîste en la Real Biblioteca de esta corte, y con otros mss ... Publícanlo con notas históricas y legales. Madrid: por D. Joachin Ibarra, 1771.

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Small folio, pp. [4], lvi, 143, [1]; engraved vignette title page;

bound with: Jordán de Assó y del Río, Ignacio, & Miguel Manuel y Rodríguez, El ordenamiento de leyes, que D. Alfonso XI hizo en las Cortes de Alcalá de Henares el año de mil trescientos y quarenta y ocho. Publícanlo con notas... Madrid: Ibarra, 1774, pp. [2], xxxiv, 158, [2]; woodcut vignette on title page, tail-pieces; decorative initial.

Laws, statutes, etc. of the Kingdom of Castile in Spain. Miguel Manuel y Rodríguez of Seville was one of the great historians of Spain in the 18th century and he was also the first librarian of the Colegio Imperial de Madrid. Together with Dr. Ignacio Jordán de Asso y Rio, a Spanish historian, jurist, and naturalist who was also known under the pseudonym Melchor de Azagra, they published these two works dedicated to Spanish law: the first on the Charter Viejo de Castilla; and the second, El Ordenamiento de Leyes in which they deal with the system of laws that Don Alfonso XI made ​​in the courts of Alcala de Henares in the year 1348, here published with notes and an accounting of the Kingdom of Castile.

Palau 18725 and 18726 respectively. Lasala 287 and 345 respectively.

32. Glass, James, Rev. Libertas. A poem. Belfast: printed for the author by J. and W. Magee, 1789.

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First edition, 8vo, pp. 16; stitched, as issued; uncut; a fine copy.

A poem celebrating the fall of James II, "originally intended for recital at a festive meeting of the principal inhabitants of Derry, who assembled on the 7th of December 1788, for the purpose of commemorating the heroism displayed in the preceding century, in support of freedom, by their illustrious ancestors." Because Glass only began writing the poem a few days before the event, and "as it has been committed to the press in the first rough draft," it was Glass's intention that the poem should be revised and published "upon a more extended scale." However, this seems not to have come to pass.

James Glass, (fl. 1789-97) was a radical poet and friend and disciple of the Ulster radical poet Samuel Thomson (1766-1816). Glass's poem fell within a recognizable vein of radicalism that "challenged the right of the aristocracy to land ownership in the face of a disenfranchised laboring class who worked the land and produced wealth for others."

ESTC citing nine copies: Harvard (2), Yale, and Berkeley in North America, plus five others in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Not in Donoghue, Poets of Ireland, London, 1892. See also: Jennifer Orr, "Fostering an Irish Writer's Circle, a Revisionist Reading of the Life and Works of Samuel Thomson, an Ulster poet (1766-1816)," her PhD thesis, Glasgow, 2010. Burmester 2019.

33. [Montgomery, James]. Prison amusements, and other trifles: principally written during nine months of confinement in the castle of York. By Paul Positive. London: J. Johnson, no. 72, St. Paul’s Church Yard. Price Four Shillings in Boards, 1797.

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First edition of the author's first book, 8vo, pp. viii, 200; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; a bit of cracking along the front joint, boards somewhat soiled; all else very good, sound and clean.

Montgomery (1771-1854) was a Scottish poet and writer of hymns. "He was raised in the Moravian Church and theologically trained there, so that his writings often reflect concern for humanitarian causes, such as the abolition of slavery and the exploitation of child chimney sweeps" (Wikipedia). Early in life he worked for an auctioneer and bookseller in Sheffield, and published the local newspaper, the Sheffield Iris. For his political views he was twice imprisoned for sedition, and his time in jail was the seed for his first book, Prison Amusements. He wrote a number of books of poetry, and among his many hymns was "The Lord Is My Shepherd" which is still a favorite today.

34. Lewis, Matthew Gregory. Tales of wonder ... The second edition. London: printed by W. Bulmer and Co. Cleveland-Row, St. James's; for J. Bell, no. 148, Oxford-Street, opposite New Bond-Street, 1801.

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8vo, pp. [4], 251, [1];

bound with: Tales of Terror; with an introductory dialogue ... Second edition. London: printed for R. Faulder, J. Walker [et al.], 1808, pp. [4], 155, [1]; hand-colored engraved folding frontispiece and hand-colored vignette title page, and 2 other hand-colored engraved folding plates by W. P.

Together 2 volumes in 1, contemporary quarter tan calf over marbled boards, chipped leather label on gilt-paneled spine; spine rubbed and worn, joints neatly repaired; good and sound.

First published in 1801, the second title is a delightfully macabre work, originally assumed to be by Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis but now assumed to be a parody. "The book is gruesome, and in its illustrations even disgusting, and it seems impossible that Lewis could have had anything to do with it. Some of the ballads are too coarse and grotesque to stand comparison with any work by M. G. Lewis" (Montague Summers, A Gothic Bibliography).

35. [Type Specimen.] Seitz, Johann Baptist. Alphabéte de üblichsten Sprachen ... Tableau de calligraphie ... Alphabets of languages the most customary. Munich: Anton Dreer, 1816.

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Large, beautiful broadside in fine condition, approx. 30½" x 23½" (775 x 590 mm.), engraved with 15 samples of various fonts intermingled with 5 engraved vignettes, printed on thick wove paper with deckled edge.

A rare type specimen sheet with ornaments for the use of map-makers. The imprint notes in French and German that it was "composed, engraved, and published by J. B. Seitz" (1786-1859), an engraver for the Royal Bavarian Bureau of Statistics and Topography (Königlichen Bayrischen Statisch-Topographischen Bureau), which was responsible for the manufacture of official maps, charts, and plans. He was one of the first technicians to work on prototypes of lithographic maps, and was considered a leader in the fields of cartographic design and printing.

This specimen sheet was presumably printed for cartographic institutes, publishers, and mapmakers. The subtitle, Alphabets of languages the most customary, is in German, English, French, and Italian, and the remaining captions, all in different ornamental fonts, are in German and French, as is the imprint. Included are ornate alphabets in Fraktur, several different italics (dubbed English, Italian, and French Letters), gothic, roman, and Greek alphabets, and the German Currentschrift.

Three of the engraved vignettes, arrayed down the center of the sheet are pictorial. At the top is a romantic landscape in which a plaque leaning against a tree bears the appropriate motto "Nihil est Simul et Inventum et Perfectum." The others show a funerary monument in a pastoral glade, and a military trophy with the emblematic initials of Rome (SPQR) and the motto "Et arevivitur patriae" below.

Apparently unrecorded. No copies found in any of the German national library OPACs and none in OCLC or NUC. For information of Seitz see R. A. Winkler's Die Frühzeit der deutschen Lithographie (1975).

36. Cruikshank, George. Illustrations of time. London: published May 1st, 1827 by the artist, 22 Myddleton Terrace, Pentonville, and sold by Js. Robins and Co. Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row, 1827.

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First edition, oblong folio, engraved title page and 6 hand-colored engraved plates showing 35 illustrations by Cruikshank; later full tan calf, red morocco label on spine, gilt-stamped title on upper cover; remains of old library label in upper corner, neither the tissue guards nor the advertisements in this copy are preserved.

The book was issued with the plates plain, colored (as here), or with India proofs. One of the plates is watermarked "Whatman Turkey Mill 1826."

Cohen 179: "The book was frequently reissued."

37. Brewster, David. The Edinburgh encyclopaedia, conducted by David Brewster ... with the assistance of gentlemen eminent in science and literature ... The first American edition, corrected and improved by the addition of numerous articles relative to the institutions of the American continent. Philadelphia: Joseph and Edward Parker, 1832.

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18 volumes text, plus 2 volumes of plates; 4to, original mottled calf, red and black morocco labels on spines; some internal tears, minor rubbing and scuffing, occasional mild to moderate dampstains, some foxing, several flyleaves loose with tears, one partially torn away, but in all a very good, sound, reasonably clean copy, with no chipping, and no breaks at any of the joints or hinges. The plate volumes are generally clean but do exhibit modest offsetting and spotting.

Extra engraved title page in vol. I (with a New York imprint), and with 533 (of 539) engraved plates (4 folding, 2 double-page, 1 with an overlay; 1 torn at fold, 1 with a small hole in the middle, several with short tears; some misnumbered, some bound out of order, some with duplicate numbers, and some numbers missing.) Whether all 539 listed in the 18 plate lists were published is a matter of conjecture.

Additionally, in the text volumes, and not noted in the plate lists, are 10 engraved maps (2 folding), 3 portraits (Franklin, Hamilton, and Fisher Ames), and a nice double-page engraving of Philadelphia by Campbell after Birch.

The work was first published in Edinburgh 1808-1830, and appeared in this American edition in 1832. However, in spite of its superb articles, it was a commercial failure, and no further editions were printed. In fact, the plate lists and first page of text in volumes I and II identify this as the second American edition, but no others and the idea of a second American edition seems to have been dropped. The title pages in all volumes state "first American edition."

Among the contributors were Charles Babbage, Jacob Berzelius, Thomas Carlyle, John Lizars, Scoresby, Robert Stevenson, and James Watt.

38. Fauvel-Gouraud, Francis. Phreno-mnemotechnic dictionary; being a philosophical classification of all the homophonic words of the English language...to be used in the application of the phreno-mnemotechnic principles. Part first (all published). New York: printed for the author by Houel & Macoy, 1844.

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First and apparently only edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 197, [1]; iv, [38] tables; frontispiece portrait, 4 very large folding tables (1 loose, but present); foxing, sometimes heavy, spine ends a little chipped, text block upside down in binding; otherwise generally a very good copy in original brown cloth, gilt-lettered spine.

As a pseudo-science, mnemonics gained considerable favor in the mid-19th century, Fauvel-Gouraud being one of its more outspoken proponents. The BM catalogue lists at least two other works of his on the subject, both published in America, as well as a book on universal alphabets. The work at hand is a dictionary designed to facilitate the memory process, and with its folding tables and appendices appears to be as much a challenge for the printer as it was for the public at large. Although Part II is duly announced in the Preface, I can find no record of it ever having been published. A series of lectures on the same subject was, however, published the following year. "The authorities followed in the first part, as standards for orthography and pronunciation, are Walker, Johnson, Webster and the other most approved lexicographers" (from the Preface).

39. [Woodworth, Francis C.] Storm and sunshine, or, the right and the wrong way to wear a hat. By Theodore Thinker. New York: Clark, Austin & Smith, 1854.

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Square 24mo (approx. 4½" tall), pp. 96; wood-engraved frontispiece and 5 full-p. wood-engraved illustrations within borders, several tail-pieces; original pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; some foxing, but generally very good.

Short stories providing Christian doctrinal and moral lessons. The imprint on the front wrapper reads Clark, Austin & Co., 1851. Issued in the publisher's New Stories for Little Folks series.

First published in 1851, other editions followed in 1856 and 1861.

Of this, only Michigan State and North Carolina- Greensboro only in OCLC.

40. Kohn, Ferdinand. Iron and steel manufacture. A series of papers on the manufacture and properties of iron and steel; with reports on iron and steel in the Paris Exhibition of 1867; reviews of the state and progress of the manufacture during the years 1867 & 1868; and descriptions of many of the principal iron and steel works in Great Britain, the continent of Europe, and the United States. London and New York: William Mackenzie, and Virtue & Yorston, [1868].

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First edition, folio, pp. xii, [2], 270; engraved frontispiece and 64 engravings, some double-page; three-quarter brown morocco over purple cloth; gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1, marbled endpapers and edges; a touch of edgewear; lacking a flyleaf, a few plates closely trimmed with the occasional small loss, occasional light spotting, but still very good and sound.

The text is a collection and expansion of material that had previously been published in the journal Engineering. "It is hoped that this collection of loose papers will be found to present to the metallurgist something similar to the service which a systematically arranged sketch book of machinery offers to the mechanical engineer."

The work also “reviews the state and progress of the manufacture during the years 1867 and 1868, and descriptions of many of the principal iron and steel works in Great Britain and on the continent.”

41. Morris, William. The earthly paradise, a poem. London: F. S. Ellis, 1868, 1870, 1871.

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First editions throughout; 4 vols. in 3, as issued; 8vo, woodcut device designed by Morris on title page; original green cloth with paper labels on spines, light to moderate wear at extremities, a few small tears at spine ends, small bubbles in cloth on covers, labels soiled and somewhat worn, generally good and sound, or better.

Volumes I and 2 (in 1), 1868, first edition, first issue, with misprint "my" for "thy" on p. 75; this copy inscribed by Morris on front flyleaf: "With the authors compliments," and with the misprint at p. 75 corrected in his hand; Forman 17. (Also included is another copy of volume I, first edition, first issue with misprint on p. 75, but with the original title page and spine label removed and replaced with a title dated 1870 stating "Parts I. & II," as also the replacement label; Forman p. 66 notes that this title page and label were inserted into volume IV for the use of owners of the 1868 edition, and furthermore, that he has "never seen a copy of the 1868 volume with new title inserted and the new label affixed.")

Volume III, 1870, first edition, with the 2pp. publisher's ads inserted at front, as called for by Forman 23; this copy with front hinge cracked.

Volume IV, 1870, first edition, with the title page and label for the 1868 version of Volume I inserted at back; Forman 30, noting that "I have met with very few copies of Part IV containing the extra title and label." Also included is another copy of Vol. IV, 1871, second edition, without the extra title and label at the back; Forman 31.

One of Morris's most endearing works, later published by the Kelmscott Press.

42. [Jennings, Louis John]. The millionaire. In three volumes. Edinburgh & London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1883.

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First edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, original orange cloth lettered in black on upper covers, and in gilt on spines; minor rubbing, spines a little darkened; near fine. Inscribed in volume I: "From the author" in ink at the top of the first flyleaf.

Sadleir 1325: "A novel based on the life of Jay Gould, by the father of this catalogue's dedicatee" [i.e. Richard Jennings]. Wolff 3650.

43. Harland, Henry, Aubrey Beardsley, & John Lane, editors. The Yellow Book: an illustrated quarterly. London: Elkin Mathews and John Jane; Boston: Copeland & Day, later N.Y.: John Lane, the Bodley Head, 1894-1897.

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13 volumes, 8vo, original pictorial yellow cloth stamped in black, with designs by Aubrey Beardsley, Ethel Reed, and others; some soiling of bindings, light occasional foxing, but generally a very good, sound set throughout. Each volume with an attractive Chinese bookplate in seal script.

A complete run of this famous literary periodical, edited by Henry Harland, with Beardsley serving as art editor until June, 1895. This set is the later issue without the publisher's advertisements at the back.

Includes contributions by Henry James, Richard Le Gallienne, Max Beerbohm, Edmund Gosse, John Buchan, Richard Garnett, Kenneth Graham, William Watson, Arnold Bennett, Anatole France, Arthur Symons, Baron Corvo, H. G. Wells, Wiliam Butler Yeats, Stephen Phillips, and many others.

Illustrations by Sir Frederic Leighton, Aubrey Beardsley, Walter Crane, John Singer Sargent, James Guthrie, Joseph Pennell, D. Y. Cameron, Margaret Macdonald, Laurence Housman, Ethel Reed, and others.

Turn of a Century #33.

44. Kipling, Rudyard. Just so stories for little children… Illustrated by the author. London: Macmillan and Co., 1902.

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First edition, large 8vo, pp. [6], 249, [2]; 22 plates by Kipling; full red niger morocco, t.e.g., gilt lettered direct on gilt paneled spine, original pictorial red cloth front cover bound in at the back.

"Just So Stories has achieved nursery immortality because a genius has married two of the most tried and trusted media - the fable and the fairy-story" (Muir, 107). Livingston, 267.

45. [Lewis, Sinclair.] Graham, Tom. Hike and the aeroplane. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co., [1912].

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First edition of the author's first book, 8vo, pp. [12], 275; 4 duotone plates by Arthur Hutchins; small piece of the corner missing on the last page of text, 1912 Xmas inscription in ink on front free endpaper, very light scratch on the front cover illustration, otherwise fine and bright, and unusual thus.

Sinclair Lewis's pseudonymous debut novel. In a new quarter morocco clamshell box, green morocco label lettered in gilt on spine.

46. Lowell, Amy. John Keats. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1925.

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First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xx, 631,[1]; viii, 662; 32 plates; spine a little sunned; very good in original red cloth, gilt-lettered spines.

Presentation copy inscribed in volume I by Lowell to "Grace, with much love from Amy, February, 1925." Beneath this inscription is once from Grace, "with much love," dated 1977. Attacheded to the front pastedown is a Christmas card, signed "Amy" produced by the publishers on behalf of Lowell, noting that the book will not be ready at Christmas, but that it will come in January. "Grace" is likely Amy's friend and poet, Grace Hazard Conkling. Lowell wrote the Introduction to Conkling's book of verse, Little Girl in 1920.

47. Vanderbilt, Harold S. Enterprise: the story of the defense of the America's Cup in 1930. New York & London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1931.

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First edition limited to 250 signed and numbered copies, 4to, pp. [4], xvii, [1], 230; tipped in color frontispiece, numerous plates from photographs, charts, plans, etc. (some folding); edges and corners a little worn, 3½" x 1" stain on front cover, plus two other smaller and less obvious ones, else a very good copy in original quarter blue buckram lettered in gilt, embossed America's Cup ornament on upper cover, t.e.g.; without the scarce publisher's box.

This copy is no. 19 and is inscribed by Vanderbilt on the limitation page to "Edmund Lang with the compliments of Harold S. Vanderbilt." Lang, who died in 1940, was a member of the New York Yacht Club, and was Chairman of the America's Cup Race Committee in 1930, the year Vanderbilt and his J-Boat Enterprise won the America's Cup.

48. [World War II.] Propaganda leaflet dropped on Myitkyina, Burma. [Burma: US Army, 1944].

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Bifolium leaflet, 5" x 6.75"; printed in red and black in Japanese, with instructions in English and Chinese on the last page stating that the bearer of the leaflet should be treated courteously and conducted to Allied headquarters. One prior fold, small chip to one corner, postage stamps overlapping Chinese text, a rare Burmese survival in very good condition.

Such "I surrender" leaflets were dropped throughout the Pacific theater, with text insisting on the futility of continuing to fight, assuring soldiers that to surrender would be honorable and the correct decision to make, and promising safety and respect from the Allies. The text inside this leaflet appears to follow that trend, noting the high casualties and asking, "For what are you giving your life?" It also lists four important things of which to take heed; the third point is highlighted and says that they should absolutely not be holding any firearms when approaching Allied troops.

This particular leaflet refers to the "Soldiers of Myitkyina" and was likely dropped around the Siege of Myitkyna in 1944.

49. Bellow, Saul. The adventures of Augie March. New York: The Viking Press, 1953.

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Fourth printing, 8vo, pp. [6], 536; original black and gray cloth stamped in orange on upper cover and spine, top edge stained orange; dust jacket chipped at top of spine, along top edge, and at top outer corner (never any loss of letterpress), else very good.

This copy inscribed: "To Phil Miller, in him I didn't specially try to recruit, with affection and good wishes, Saul Bellow."

The Adventures of Augie March was the winner of the National Book Award in 1954.

50. [Bangkok.] Telephone directory Bangkok-Thonburi, January 1969. Bangkok: Thailand: Telephone Organization of Thailand, [1968].

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4to, pp. xvii, 244; pictorial wrappers, red stamp to front cover of three elephant heads with caption in Thai; edges and corners worn with minor water damage, pages showing discoloration due to the cheap paper; all else good and sound.

Includes private and commercial listings, the latter being profusely dotted with advertisements ("Pan Am Makes the Going Great"; "IBM electric typewriters").

The leading directory for Americans in the Bangkok area at the height of the Vietnam War.

Not in OCLC.

51. Haley, Alex. Roots. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1976.

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First edition limited to 500 signed and numbered copies (this, no. 123); 8vo, pp. [2], viii, 587, [1]; a fine copy of this Pulitzer Prize winner in publisher's full brown leather, gilt-stamped spine, publisher's slipcase.

52. [Mapplethorpe, Robert.] Chatwin, Bruce. Lady Lisa Lyon. [Photographs by] Robert Mapplethorpe. Text by Bruce Chatwin. New York: Viking Press, a Studio Book, [1983].

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First edition, small 4to, pp. 128; illustrated throughout; fine in original black cloth and in fine dust jacket.

Dedicated by Mapplethorpe to Patti Smith.

53. Schanilec, Gaylord. YTWOK: a chronological miscellany of images engraved in wood by Gaylord Schanilec for books during the second millennium including the first and last. [Stockholm]: Midnight Paper Sales, 1999.

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First edition, one of 99 signed copies, printed and bound by Gaylord Schanilec (this, no. 52); 8vo; 10 wood engravings, 3 in color; original black cloth and patterned paper covered boards, printed paper spine label; fine.

Quarter to Midnight A.187.

54. [Gardner, Martin.] G4G7. Gathering 4 Gardner. Atlanta: Gathering 4 Gardner, Inc, 2007.

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2 volumes, 4to, pp. [4], v, [1], 328; [2], v, [1], 328; spiral-bound; hologram mounted on front cover of volume I indicating this copy was owned by Jeremiah Farrell, illustrated throughout (much in color), CD tipped-in at the back of volume II; generally fine.

"This book chronicles the seventh Gathering 4 Gardner held in Atlanta, Georgia from March 16 - 19, 2006. It combines all of the papers offered as exchange gifts in two volumes."

Contributors include Jerry Farrell whose copy this was, Tyler Barrett, Dick Hess, Kate Jones, Scot Morris, Dana Richards, Jerry Slocum, Al Shapiro, Raymond Smullyan, Scott Kim, Tom Rodgers, and scores of other puzzlers, gamesters, magicians, and mathematicians.

Butler University only in OCLC.

55. Maret, Russell. Hungry bibliophiles. An experiment in utilitarian bookmaking. [New York]: Russell Maret, 2015.

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Edition limited to 75 copies (this being no. 49) signed by Maret; small folio, pp. [2], 7-55, [5]; tipped-in leaf on unsized paper at the back; original decorative paper wrappers; fine.

Designed by Maret and printed by him in two new typefaces of his design. The paper was made by Tim Barrett and student co-workers at the University of Iowa. The book was printed on unsized paper, which was then sized by Barrett, Maret, and the students. The binding structure was designed by Maria Fredericks.

The text consists of numerous recipes by the so-called "hungry bibliophiles," among whom many friends and acquaintances, including Maret, Barrett, and Fredericks; also the De Simones, Gaylord, Esslemont, Liv and Ken, Ian and Suzanne, Susan and Peter, and many others.

56. Gallo, Philip. Pathetic fallacy from allusive typography to Cancel Culture. An extrapolation from word-fetishism in Edmund Wilson's Night Thoughts. [Saint Paul]: Philip Gallo at The Hermetic Press, 2021 [i.e. 2023].

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Edition limited to 31 copies signed by Gallo, press numbered 1-26 and 5 lettered A-E; 8vo, pp. [34]; frontispiece printed in green, "from Bric-A-Brac [J Swift] and first appearance of Hermetic Press imprint :: 1966," the whole printed in red, blue, green, and black, in roman and cyrillic type, on Johannot, with extracts from Montaigne, William Massey, John Ruskin, Laurence Sterne, Ralph Ellison, and Vladimir Nabokov's translation of Lewis Carroll's Alice Adventures in Wonderland; stiff card wrappers with black dust jacket, stamped in silver, in a plexiglas slipcase.

An overtly political book, on the "limitations, if not the failings of Cancel Culture."