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A note on OCLC
As is now the norm, OCLC counts are tentative, at best, as we recognize that searches using different qualifiers will often turn up different results. Searches are now further complicated by the vast numbers of digital, microfilm, and even print-on-demand copies, which have polluted the database considerably, making it difficult, without numerous phone calls or emails, to determine the actual number of tangible copies. Hence, even though the counts herein have been recently checked, most all should be taken as a measure of approximation.
1. Atlas tes periegeseos tu N. Anaharsidos epitmetheis kata ton para tu Barbié du Bocage. Vienna: publisher not identified, 1837.
$375
Oblong 4to, title leaf (actually looks to be a front wrapper), hand-colored folding engraved map of south Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor, plus 32 copper-engraved maps, plans, and views; recent blue cloth, maps and plates in fine condition; nice copy. Plates numbered 1-34, with no number 29.
Maps, plans, views and coins, illustrative of the travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece, during the middle of the fourth century before the Christian era.
OCLC locates only 1 copy of this atlas in Romania. I can't find any edition of the text of which this might be a part.
2. Tales of the samurai. Oguri Hangwan ichidaiki. Being the story of the lives, the adventures, and the misadventures of the Hangwan-dai Kojiro Sukeshige and Terute-hime, his wife. Yokohama: published by the author, 1915.
$150
8vo, pp. xx, 485, [2]; printed Japanese style on folded paper sheets; color frontispiece on mica paper and two folding maps, text illustrations; bound in western style blue cloth boards gilt with Japanese clasps at fore-edge; a touch of foxing, mostly to fore-edge, one line of copyright page redacted, text otherwise clean and sound, very good.
"A redaction from the koudan and chronicles of the Japanese originals." "Oguri Hangwan was the hero of many extraordinary adventures. One day (1426), some thieves had resolved to intoxicate him with sake, and murder him during the night; but Teruta-hime revealed the plot which she had discovered and he jumped on a wild horse and fled to Fujiwara (Sagami). Another time, his enemies poisoned his bath and so he contracted leprosy; thereupon, Teruta-hime transported him in a little carriage, which she drove herself to Kamakura to the hot springs of Yu no mine, and a week sufficed to restore his health and strength. Later on, he became a bonze in the temple of Sōkoku-ji (Kyōto) and took the name of Sōtan. He studied painting under Shūbun and became one of the greatest artists of his time." (Papinot, Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan)
3. Convenient and ornamental architecture, consisting of original designs, for plans, elevations, and sections: beginning with the farm house, and regularly ascending to the most grand and magnificent villa ; calculated both from town and country, and to suit all persons in every station of life. With a reference and explanation, in letter-press, of the use of every room in each separate building, and the dimensions accurately figured on the plans, with exact scales for measurement. By John Crunden, architect. The whole elegantly engraved on seventy copper-plates, by Isaac Taylor. London: printed for the author and A. Webley, in Holborn, near Chancery-Lane, 1770.
$875
Second edition (first published in 1767); tall 4to, pp. viii, [4] ads, 26; 70 engraved plates (14 folding) on 56 sheets; contemporary full calf, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, red morocco label in 1; light scuffing and wear, name eradicated from the front free endpaper, first 5 lines of the title written in ink on verso of the third flyleaf; generally a very good, sound, and clean copy, printed on thick paper.
With depictions of facades and architectural floor plans of small country houses, Crunden's work proved to be one of the most popular pattern books of its age, issued many times between its first appearance in 1767, and 1815. "Convenient and Ornamental Architecture proved to be the most successful pattern-book of its kind, providing, in a manageable form and at a reasonable price, designs for a wide range of domestic buildings in a basically Palladian style that continued to be popular for the rest of the eighteenth century. Although Crunden’s pattern-books made no attempt to be original or avant-garde, some of his executed buildings show him developing a more elegant style akin to that of the brothers Adam" (Colvin, p. 281).
4. We accuse. Bill Epton speaks to the court. [Brooklyn: Progressive Labor Party, 1966].
$125
8vo, pp. [40]; self-wrappers; paper a bit toned, else a very good, sound copy. Rubberstamp imprint on front wrapper reads: "Progressive Labor Party / Student Club / P.O. Box 73, Station A / Berkeley, California / 845-8362."
William Leo Epton Jr. (1932-2002) was a Maoist African-American communist activist. He was Vice Chairman of the Progressive Labor Party until about 1970. He was the first person convicted of criminal anarchy since the Red Scare of 1919. This pamphlet contains his entire speech made before receiving sentence in New York State Supreme Court for a conviction of “criminal anarchy” relating to street disturbances in Harlem.
5. Osserazioni sopra l'alzamento del flusso marittimo nelle Iagune Veneziane. Treviso: dalla tipografia Andreola Ed,, 1826-28.
$375
8vo, pp. 40; Columbia only in OCLC;
bound with: Saggio sopra le influenze lunari, Trevisio, 1826, pp. 22; Columbia and the Smithsonian in OCLC;
bound with: Osservazioni sopra l'antico commercio de' Veneziana, con due appendici una sullo stato antico delle arti presso di essi e l'altra sull'antica loro marina militare, Venezia, 1803, pp. 363, [3]; not found in OCLC;
bound with: Osservazioni sopra le vicende annuali atmosferiche di Venezia, Venezia, 1828, pp. 106; not found in OCLC;
bound with: Osservazioni sulle cause che possono aver fatto ritrovarte nel secolo xiv, Venezia, 1820, pp. 232; BL only in OCLC;
bound with: Memoria sopra il corpo di S. Marco, Venezia, 1813, pp. [2], 5-68, [2]; Illinois and Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in OCLC.
Together 6 titles in 2 volumes, contemporary quarter maroon calf, gilt decorated spines; lightly rubbed, occasional spotting of the text but overall a very good, sound set.
Being able to count on large incomes from his family, Filiasi (1750-1829) devoted himself totally to study, taking an interest in the most disparate topics, from botany to physics, from hydraulics to archaeology, passing through astronomy and meteorology. However, it was history that made him famous: his main work is Memorie storiche dei Veneti primi e secondi, concerning, in fact, the history of Veneto and in particular of the Venetian Lagoon. He was an elector of the College of the Learned, blacksmith of San Marco, director of the Venetian Gymnasiums; he also boasted the title of Knight of the Imperial Order of Leopold. (See the Italian Wiki).
6. The rights of war and peace, in three books. Wherein are explained, the law of nature and nations, and The Principal Points relating to Government. Written in Latin by the learned Hugo Grotius, and translated into English. To which are added, all the large notes of Mr. J. Barbeyrac, Professor of Law at Groningen, And Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin. [Translated and edited by John Morrice, with the assistance of Edward Littlehales and John Spavan]. London: printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, J. and P. Knapton, D. Brown, T. Osborn, and E. Wicksteed, 1738.
$2,500
Second edition in English, folio, pp. [4], xxxvi, 817 [i.e., 809], [1]; contemporary full calf neatly rebacked with old spine laid down, gilt-decorated spine with a thistle motif in 7 compartments, red morocco label in 1, sprinkled edges; lightly rubbed and scuffed, but still a very good, sound, and clean copy. Likely a Scottish binding. With the blindstamp name on upper cover of Thos. Grady Esq., and the engraved armorial bookplate of Frederick Vincent.
The complete text of Grotius's famed De Jure Belli et Pacis, for which see Printing and the Mind of Man, 125: "The questions he put forward have come to be the basis of the ultimate view of law and society. This was the first attempt to lay down a principle of right, and a basis for society and government, outside Church or Scripture. The distinction between religion and law or morality is not clearly made, but Grotius's principle of an immutable law, which God can no more alter than a mathematical axiom, was the first expression of the 'droit naturel', the natural law which exercised the great political theorists of the eighteenth century, and is the foundation of modern institutional law."
Graesse III, 162; Lowndes II, 950. See also: Journal for Eighteenth Century Studies, vol. 32, no. 2 (2009), p. 173.
7. Sweet homeland. [A book of poetry and prints]. Providence: The Red Book Press, Brown University, 2002.
$750
Edition limited to 12 copies, (this, no. 3); signed in full by the author and the printer; 8vo (approx. 10" x 7"), 1 sheet in accordion-fold format, pp. [12], 28 (i.e., 29). [3]; printed in blue, purple and black; with 6 etchings on Rives lightweight, and 2 silkscreens on tracing paper; original paper-covered pictorial boards, contained in the publisher's blue cloth clamshell box staimped in silver on the upper cover. Fine throughout.
This book ... was made possible by a Research at Brown grant, a donation from Richard Rubin, and the blessing of Brown University President, Ruth Simmons. Under the "perfect instruction" of professors Michael S. Harper and Walter Feldman, it was designed and printed by Rebecca Bella Wangh ... printed on Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design printing presses as well as the Karl Schrag press in Deer Isle, Maine. Etchings and text are on Rives lightweight white paper. The silkscreen images are on tracing paper. The text was set in 12pt. Garamond by Kent LeFebvre in Holyoke, Massachusetts ... The bird design that appears on the cover is from a block print created by Ruth Wolfson, Rebecca's great grandmother ... The book project was inspired by a Metropolitan Opera performance of Prokofiev's adaptation of Lev Tolstoy's novel, War and Peace. It was concluded with Richard Wagner's operatic score, Tristan and Isolde. It is about motherland, fatherland, and homeland sweet homeland" (colophon).
Michael Harper (1938-2016) was the first poet laureate of Rhode Island. "Known for his innovative use of jazz rhythms, cultural allusion, historical reference, and personal narrative, Harper was 'a deeply complex poet whose mission is to unite the fractured, inhumane technologies of our time with the abiding deep well of Negro folk traditions,' wrote John Callahan in the New Republic. Poetry reviewer Paul Breslin noted that Harper did this by drawing “upon black history, literature, and myth” (Poetry Foundation). When he retired from Brown University in 2013, where he had taught literature, poetry, and creative writing since 1970, he was the longest serving professor of English and Literary Arts at that institution.
Yale, Harvard, Brown and LC in OCLC.
8. Songlines: mosaics. Providence: Brown/Ziggurat Press, 1991.
$400
Edition limited to 65 copies, this marked "Pressman Proof," signed in full by the author and the printer; 8vo (approx. 10½" x 7"), pp. [26] some french-fold; 9 illustrations by Michael Feldman; printed on Rives, German-Ingre, and Mohawk Superfine papers, in Garamond type by Walter Feldman; fine, in original cream wrappers, printed paper label on the upper cover, and contained in the publisher's terracotta clamsherll box, paper label on spine.
This is the "first volume in the Brooke Hunt Mitchell Distinguished Authors Series" and the first book of the press. Michael Harper (1938-2016) was the first poet laureate of Rhode Island. (See above for details.)
9. Dear John, dear Coltrane. [Pittsburgh]: University of Pittsburgh Press, [1970].
$450
First edition, 8vo, pp. [10], 88, [4]; contemporary quarter blue niger over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine. Signed simply "Harper" on the half-title, and with 8 tick marks next to 8 poems in the table of contents, and corresponding numbers (1 through 8) in the page corners of the selected poems.
This is Harper's first book, and placed in a special binding either by him or for him by the publisher. Harper (1938-2016) was the first poet laureate of Rhode Island. (See above for details.)
10. The fret cycle. Poems ... Visual accompaniments Walter Feldman. Providence: Ziggurat Press, 2006.
$275
Edition limited to 35 copies, (this, no. 7); small square 4to, pp. 38 accordion fold, the last page affixed to the back end of the publisher's beige cloth case; 11 hand-colored photo-engraved drawings by Walter Feldman; case fastened with a white plastic clasp, copper plate title label on upper cover; fine. The text was set by Kent Lefebre in Holyoke, Mass. and printed on an Universal 3 Vandercook at the Walter Feldman Book Arts Studio in the John Hay Library of Brown University.
Harper (1938-2016) was the first poet laureate of Rhode Island. (See above for details.)
OCLC locates only the Yale, Illinois, and Brown copies.
11. The night-blooming cereus. London: Paul Breman, 1972.
$350
First edition limited to 150 copies (50 copies for sale) signed by the author and publisher, 8vo, pp. 16; original stapled pictorial wrappers; lightly toned else near fine.
This copy additionally inscribed by Hayden to the Rhode Island poet laureate, Michael Harper on the inside cover: "For Michael, whose poems enrich us all - Robert."
Hayden (1913-1980) served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as US Poet Laureate. He was the first African-American writer to hold the office.
12. For the unfallen. Poems 1952-1958. [London]: Andre Deutsch, [1959].
$275
First edition, 8vo, pp. 59, [1]; fine in original printed boards, and in a near fine (tiny crease and nick at bottom of spine), unclipped dust jacket.
This copy inscribed by Hall to the American novelist and short-story writer Alan Seager (1906-1968): "To Alan Seager from Geoffrey Hill. 'Sic transit.' Or 'The journey was very rough'." And at the bottom of the page Hill has added: "Tecumseh, west of the Appalacians, Jan. 1965."
The poet's first regularly published book (preceded only by a 1952 Fantasy Press pamphlet).
13. [Horatius Flaccus, Quintus.] Q. Horatii Flacci Opera omnia, cum indicibus locupletissimis, recensuit et illustravit Fridericus Guil. Doering. Glasguae: excudebant Andreas et Joannes M. Duncan, academie typographi; impensis Richardi Priestley, Londini, 1826.
$450
8vo, pp. [iii]-xxxii, 726, [2] ads; inserted engraved frontispiece and title page; a prize binding in full contemportary full calf, triple blindstamped ruled borders on covers enclosing a gilt monogram on both of Trinity College, Dublin; smooth gilt-decorated spine laid out in 5 compartments, black calf label in 1, sprinkled edges; lightly rubbed and scuffed, else very good, sound, and clean. With the ownership signature on the front free endpaper of the likely prize winner, "John Flanagan, Scholar T.C.D., May 24th 1837."
Friedrick Wilhelm Döring (1756-1837) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher. He translated and edited the works of Cicero and Livy, and also Horace, the Opera omnia having been first published in Leipzig in 1803, with a second edition in 1814 on which this Glasgow edition is based.
Mills College Check List 1100; not in Riedel-Horatiana.
14. [Horatius Flaccus, Quintus.] The works of Quintus Horatius Flaccus. Illustrated [by Owen Jones] chiefly from the remains of ancient art. With a life by the Rev. Henry Hart Milman. London: John Murray, 1849.
$750
2 volumes in 1, 8vo, pp. [6], 194; [4], 490, xiv; 8 chromolithograph sectional titles and decorative borders printed in varying colors throughout, illustrated with line drawings of antique statuary, friezes and coins; 20th-century half parchment over marbled boards, spine stamped in black, t.e.g.; a very good, sound, and clean copy.
Milman (1791-1868) was early a professor of poetry at Oxford, and later Dear of St. Paul's. He wrote histories of the Jews and Christianity, wrote several plays, edited Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, and wrote a life of Gibbon. He also edited an edition of Horace as well as having written this popular life of him.
Mills College Check List 1334; Riedel-Horatiana A-370. McLean, Victorian Book Design & Colour Printing, p. 94.
15. [Horatius Flaccus, Quintus.] Odes et épodes, chant séculaire. Traduction nouvelle par le comte de Séguier, gravures de Méaulle d'après les aquarelles de Meyeré. Paris: A. Quantin, imprimeur-éditeur, rue Saint-Benoît, 1883.
$350
16mo, pp. [4], vi, 220; 14 oval cul-de-lampe vignette engravings in the text by Méaulle, printed in color after watercolors by Meyeré; text within chromolithograph border, contemporary and likely original full blue morocco, gilt rules on covers with fleurons in the corners, and enclosing a central gilt lozenge, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; the whole lightly rubbed, but overall very good, clean, and sound.
Issued as no. 10 in the publisher's Petits Chefs-d'Oeuvre Antiques series.
16. Before the war: poems as they happened. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1971.
$250
First edition, 8vo, pp. 124;fine copy in original white cloth, spine stamped in black, and ith a very good, unclipped, toned dust jacket with some wear at the spine ends, and a tiny hole in the spine.
This copy isncribed to the poet laureat of Rhode Island, Michael Harper: "Michael, well, here we are, on the stand, blowing. Love, Lawson, 4 Nov. 78."
Inada (b.1938) is a third-generation Japanese American who studied poetry with Philip Levine at Fresno State University. This is his first book. He was appointed Oregon Poet Laureate in 2006. His Legends from Camp (1992) was the winner of the American Book Award. (See his entry at poetryfoundation[.]org).
17. The builder's jewel: or, the youth's instructor, and workman's remembrancer. Explaining short and easy rules, made familiar to the meanest capacity, for drawing and working, I. the five orders of columns entire; or any part of an order, without regard to the module or diameter. and to enrich them with their rusticks, fluting, saburg, dentules, modillions, &c. also to proportion their doors, windows, intercolumnations, portico's, and arcades. together with fourteen varieties of raking, circular, scrolled, compound, and contracted pediments; and the true formation and accadering of their raking and returned cornices; and mouldings for capping their dentules and modillions. II. Block and cantaliver cornices, rustick quoins, cornices proportioned to rooms, angle brackets, mouldings for tabernacle frames, pannelling, and centering for groins, trussed partitions, girders, roofs and domes. With a section of the dome of St. Paul's, London. the whole illustrated by upwards of 200 examples, engraved on 100 copper-plates. by B. and T. Langley . London: printed for R. Ware, at the Bible and Sun, on Ludgate-Hill, 1757.
$750
Square 16mo, pp. 34, [2] ads; engraved Masonic frontispiece and 99 engraved plates; small hole at top corner of frontispiece, else a very good, sound, and clean copy in contemporary full calf, gilt-paneled spine in 5 compartments, otherwise unadorned.
Bookplate of Clarence Wilson Brazer (1880-1956), a renown Chester, PA architect who worked with Cass Gilbert from January 1901 until April 1905 on Gilbert's plans for the State Capitol in St. Paul, MN, and an art gallery and festival hall for St. Louis, MO, as well as the U. S. Customs House in New York City. (See philadelphiabuildings[.]org.).
First published in 1741, and appearing in at least 18 editions by 1810, including a Dublin piracy, and 2 editions printed in Boston. This is the fifth edition.
18. On the edge. Iowa City: Stone Wall Press, [1963].
$500
Edition limited to 220 copies (this copy unnumbered), 8vo, pp. 62, [2]; fine in original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; fine throughout. From the library of the printer Kim Merker.
This is Levine's first published book. Later, he won the National Book Award twice, the Pulitzer Prize, and was the U.S. Poet Laureate 2011-12.
Berger, Printing and the Mind of Merker, 12.
19. [Lovecraft, H. P.] Science primers. Botany ... with illustrations. Third edition, revised and corrected. New York, Cincinnati, Chicago: American Book Co., n.d., [ca. 1915.]
$1,250
16mo, pp. 129, [13] ads; 68 wood-engraved illustrations in the text; near fine in original limp terracotta cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine.
Lovecraft's own copy, with his handwritten ownership name and address, "H. P. Lovecraft / 598, Angell St., / Providence, / R. I. / U.S.A." as well as a rubberstamp also giving his name and address, both on the front free endpaper. In high school, Lovecraft took a course in Botany as a freshman.
20. Men, women and ghosts. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1916.
$150
First edition, 8vo, pp. [7], viii-xv, [4], 4-363, [1], [6] ads; original green cloth-backed green papr-covered boards, printed paper label on the upper cover and spine; a fine copy through and through, retaining the original printed dust jacket, chipped, with several small losses, and with the lower inch of the spine missing.
A collection of short stories by the American poet and biographer Amy Lowell (1874-1925).
21. [Manuscript.] Hymns and spiritual songs. Glasgow: Andl. Kerr script, 1815.
$325
32mo (approx. 4½" x 2¾"), 132 pages of neat manuscript containing the lyrics of 118 songs, many from Isaac Watts.
Bound before: The Psalms of David in metre: translated and diligently compared with the original text, and former translations. More plain, smooth, and agreeable to the text, than any heretofor. Allowed by the authority of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland. Edinburgh: printed by Sir D. Hunter Blair and J. Bruce, 1812; pp. [106], 26; engraved frontispiece; text laid out in horizontal triple columns.
Together 2 parts (1 manuscript, 1 printed) in 1, contemporary full straight-grain maroon morocco, double gilt rules on covers, smooth spine laid out in 4 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2. Lightly rubbed; very good, sound and clean.
22. [Massachusetts & Rhode Island.] Map of Massachusetts with railroads and townships [cover title]. Cupples, Upham & Co. Railroad & township map of Massachusetts. Boston: published at the Boston Map Store, 383 Washington Street, 1885.
$425
Hand-colored folding pocket map of Massachusetts, Rhode Island and much of Connecticut, including Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket; approx. 21" x 32", folding down into a maroon cloth binding approx. 5½" x 4", gilt-stamped on upper cover; fine, with strong coloring and no breaks at the folds.
23. Little Sandy Review. An incomplete run, as below.. Minneapolis: 1959-65.
$2,250
23 (out of 30 volumes), each approx. 7" x 4¼" (with minor variation issue to issue); issues range from 32 pages to 110 pages (generally in the 40-50 range); saddle-stitched and mimeographed throughout; some toning throughout, but generally very good.
"The Little Sandy Review was a folk music fanzine published by Paul Nelson and Jon Pankake in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Launched in 1959, the zine was dedicated to reviewing folk music legends such as Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger, as well as then newcomers like Bob Dylan, The New Lost City Ramblers, and Koerner, Ray, and Glover. Thirty issues of the zine were published in total before publication ceased in 1965" (University of Minnesota, Special Collections).
These are Jon Pankake's personal copies, obtained recently directly from his wife. Present are: issues 2, 5 (Tribute to Woody Guthrie), 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, and 30.
Say Nelson and Pankake in the inaugural issue (not present here): "We are two people who love folk music very much and want to do all we can to help the good in it grow and the bad in it perish. After reading this issue, it should be very apparent to anyone who we think is good and who we think is bad and why. ... We also want to print a complete coverage of all folk records released that would be of interest to the American folk-record buyer..."
And so they did for six years, reviewing the likes of Pete Seeger, Peggy Seeger, Bob Gibson, Jean Ritchie, Muddy Waters, New Lost City Ramblers, Odetta, Blind Willie McTell, Maybelle Carter, Bonnie Dobson, Alan Lomax, Woodie Guthrie, Marjorie Guthrie, Ed McCurdy, Lightning Hopkins, Joan Baez, Greenbriar Boys, the Soho Skiffle Group, the Dillards, Mississippi John Hurt, John Lee Hooker, "Spider" John Koerner, Leadbelly, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Carolyn Hester, the Clancy Brothers, Judy Collins, Peter, Paul, and Mary, and even Gid Tanner and His Skillet Lickers. And native Minnesotan, friend of both Nelson and Pankake, Bob Dylan.
Other contributors include Pete Seeger, Malvina Reynolds, Woodie Guthrie, and Edith Fowke, John Cohen, Cynthia Gooding, Peggy Seeger, Nat Hentoff, Moses Asch (Folkways Records), Manny Solomon (Vanguard Records), and John Shelton (New York Times).
"Over time, the value of these reviews grows more apparent as the recordings themselves – re-packaged and re-issued multiple times by now – gain increasing stature as landmarks in the emerging consensus on a formal American roots canon. For all of this to happen, though, the editors of The Little Sandy Review first had to invent, essentially from scratch, the foundations of modern rock journalism" (David Lightbourne, from newvulgate.blogspot.com).
24. Esoteric anthropology. A comprehensive and confidential treatise on the structure, functions, passional attractions and perversions, true and false physical and social conditions, and the most intimate relations of men and women. New York: published by the author at his Reform Book Store, no. 65 Walker Street, 1854.
$150
12mo, pp. iv, [5]-482; 80 wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt-stamped spine; one internal signature sprung; all else very good, sound, and clean.
"This is no book for the center-table, the library shelf, or the counter of a bookstore. As its name imports, it is a private treatise on the most interesting and important subjects. It is of the nature of a STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL PROFESSIONAL CONSULTATION BETWEEN PHYSICIAN AND PATIENT, in which the latter wishes to know all that can be of use to him, and all that the former is able and willing to teach. It is such a book as I wish to put into the hands of every man and every woman - yes, and every child wise enough to profit by its teachings - and no others" (To the Reader).
Thomas Low Nichols (1815-1901) "was an American physician, journalist, writer, and advocate for a number of causes including free love, hydrotherapy, food and health reform, vegetarianism and spiritualism ... Nichols actively participated in associations promoting hygienic practices, vegetarianism, and public health. He founded journals like Nichols' Monthly and Nichols' Journal to advocate for his beliefs, which included free love, universal suffrage, and libertarianism. Nichols and his wife were associated with Josiah Warren's Modern Times community before founding the Memnonia Institute in Yellow Springs, Ohio, which eventually failed" (Wikipedia).
Among the chapters are those on the Function of generation; Impregnation; Evolution of the fœtus; Of pregnancy; Disease; Curative agencies; Processes of water-cure; Passional diseases; Inflammation and brain diseases; Gestation and parturition; Lactation and the management of infants; and, On death, among may others.
25. [Printing.] Printers and printing in Providence 1762-1907. Prepared by a committee of Providence Typographical Union Number thirty-three as a souvenir of the fiftieth anniversary of its institution. [Providence: Providence Printing Co., 1907.]
$125
First edition, 8vo, pp. 212, xcviii; illustrated throughout with 25 plates (9 of them composite) and illustrations in the text; original green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; a very good, sound, and clean copy. This copy inscribed to "James B. Gay /Jan. 31, 1908 / from his friend / H. R. Davis."
An excellent reference with much biographical information, even of the journeymen printers.
26. The Gardiners of Narragansett. Being a genealogy of the descendants of George Gardiner the colonist 1638 ... Edited with notes and index by Daniel Goodwin ... sometime rector of St. Paul's Church, Wickford, Narragansett. Providence: printed for the editor [by Snow & Farnham Co.], 1919.
$300
Only edition, 4to, pp. vii, [3], 313, [1]; gravure frontispiece portrait, tipped-in plan; later neat gray cloth, printed paper label on spine; fine copy.
Detailed history of the very extensive Gardiner family, and handsomely printed by Snow & Farnum Co., Providence. This copy inscribed: "Dearest Addie / First Advance Copy / from the Editor / May 9, 1919."
Goodwin (1835-1932) edited, among other texts, The History of the Episcopal Church of Narragansett, Rhode Island written by William Updike in 1847. "Addie" is Adeline Ellis Vaughan Goodwin (1842-1943), his second wife to whom he was married in 1886.
27. Pianta della citta Firenze. [Firenze]: Molini Landi & Cie., 1808.
$650
Engraved plan of Florence, approx. 28" x 21½" on 16 sheets mounted on linen; 2 or 3 tiny breaks at fold junctions; otherwise a very good, and clean exaample. Contained in what appears to be its original marbled paper slipcase (worn, with one small piece misssing from an edge).
City plan of Florence after the 18th-century plan by the architect Ferdinando Ruggieri (1691-1741) with title cartouche upper left, the Florentine lily in an oval cartouche upper right, large vignette view lower left containing the reclining allegorical figure of the Arno with Marzocco, the lion of Florence.
5 copies in OCLC, none in the U.S.
28. Homa rites and mandala meditation in Tendai Buddhsim. New Delhi: International Academy of Indian Culture and Aditya Prakashan, [1991].
$350
4to, pp. 239, [1], vi, [2]; four color plates and text line illustrations throughout; full green cloth gilt; a touch of toning to edges, else fine in fine pictorial dust jacket.
A scarce work and the first to detail the homa rites and meditation practices of esoteric Tendai Buddhism. The author received initiation at Mt. Hiei and took seven years of oral instruction before engaging in the project of transcribing the rites.
29. Making a difference. Rescue and assistance during the Holocaust. Essays in honor of Marion Pritchard. Burlington, VT: Center for Holocaust Studies at the University of Vermont, 2004.
$100
8.5 x 5.5 in., pp. 285, [3]; pictorial paper wrappers; fine. Inscribed by Wolfgang Mieder to the Russian-American linguist and critic Anatoly Lieberman.
A collection of essays on acts of rescue taken on behalf of Jews during the Holocaust.
30. The mechanics' ready reference guide: containing rules, tables and recipes for ready mechanical reference: also -- the rules and directions for proceeding with the United States Patent Office, for obtaining patents, transferring patent rights, liabilites, forteitures, infringments, &c., &c. Portland: B. Thurston, Steam Printer, 1855.
$150
First edition, 16mo, pp. [2], 102, [2] ads; tables in the text; original blindstamped purple cloth, gilt-stamped title on upper cover; very good, sound, and clean.
Sections on weights & measures, ropes & cables, log lines, shoemaker's measures, force of wind, effects of heat, fusible and malleable metals, speaking trumpets, plus many others; and, miscellaneous recipes including those for lacker for fire arms, cements, mortar, waterproof mixtures for leather, varnishes, silver plating, indellible ink, watchmakers oil, ether for tooth ache, "&c., &c."
Only 6 in OCLC: AAS, Delaware, Huntington, Library Co., UCLA, and SUNY-Binghamton.
31. THE KORAN. Translated from the Arabic by the Rev. J. M. Rodwell. [With an introduction by Rev. G. Margoliouth]. London & Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., [1924].
$250
8vo, pp. xvi, 506, 5 (Everyman ads), [1]; original full divinity-style calf, title in blind on upper cover, original brass clasps and catches; fine, and contained in a somewhat worn publisher's box, printed paper label on spine.
Issued as no. 380 in the Everyman's Library, edited by Ernest Rhys, and first published 1909. "The ordinary edition is bound in cloth with gilt design and coloured top. There is also a library edition in reinforced cloth" (publisher's note). No mention of this deluxe binding in full leather. The Collecting Everyman's Library website contains a rather detailed account (and numerous images) of the Everyman Library bindings, but there is no mention at all of full leather bindings, and nothing as elaborate as this is discussed or pictured.
32. De hobbit of Derhinne en wer werom (The hobbit in West Frisian). [Ljouwert: Elikser, 2009].
$150
8vo, pp. 334; pictorial paper wrappers; spot of soiling to lower corner, else fine. The first paperback edition of The Hobbit in West Frisian, warmly inscribed on 8 June, 2010 by the translator to the Russian-American linguist, Anatoly Lieberman, "Hoping we'll soon meet again to discuss important things like Hobbits, Leiel [?] and Old Frisian. Best wishes, Anne Popkema."
33. The lost flute and other Chinese lyrics. Being a translation from the French by Gertrude Laughlin Joerissen. New York: Brentano's, 1924.
$100
First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 177, [1]; fine copy in a fine dust jacket.
Franz Toussaint (1879-1955) was a French writer and orientalist, a screenwriter, and translator of works from Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit and Japanese (see his French Wiki page for a substantial list). This is an English translation by Joerissen of his La flûte de jade; poésies chinoises (1920), which he translated out of the Chinese of Shangling Cao (Ts'ao Shang-ling).
34. Twelve views of Folkstone [cover title].. London: Newman & Co., n.d., [ca. 1860s].
$100
Oblong 12mo (5¼" x 7¼"), without a title page, as issued, and containing 12 sheets, each with an engraving of a Folkstone view; light wear, but near fine in original brown cloth gilt-stamped title on upper cover. Bookseller's ticket of W. Simpson, Folkstone on front pastedown.
Not found in OCLC.
35. In love & trouble: stories of Black women. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, [1973].
$250
First edition, wrapper issue; 8vo, pp. [12], 138; original pictorial wrappers, with short crease at the top corner, and the text block a bit toned; all else very good and sound.
An early Alice Walker title, inscribed to the wife of the Brown professor and poet, Michael Harper: "For Shirley - I like your house. And you and your rocks. Alice."
Michael Harper (1938-2016) was the first poet laureate of Rhode Island. "Known for his innovative use of jazz rhythms, cultural allusion, historical reference, and personal narrative, Harper was 'a deeply complex poet whose mission is to unite the fractured, inhumane technologies of our time with the abiding deep well of Negro folk traditions,' wrote John Callahan in the New Republic. Poetry reviewer Paul Breslin noted that Harper did this by drawing “upon black history, literature, and myth” (Poetry Foundation). When he retired from Brown University in 2013, where he had taught literature, poetry, and creative writing since 1970, he was the longest serving professor of English and Literary Arts at that institution.
36. A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England, with lists of their works … The second edition, corrected and enlarged.. London: R. & J. Dodsley in Pallmall, and J. Graham in the Strand., 1759.
$425
2 volumes, small 8vo, pp. [6], viii, [2], 247, [4]; [2], 250, [6]; engraved frontispiece and engraved plate of music; nice copy in contemporary full calf, gilt-paneled spines in 6 compartments, red morocco labels in 1, volume designation numbers in gilt in another.
Includes also Peeresses, Scots authors and Irish peers.
Hazen, Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press, p. 36, noting that 2000 copies were published.
37. Xinjiang numismatics. Hong Kong: Xinjiang Art and Photo Press and Educational and Cultural Press, [1991].
$175
First edition limited to 4,500 copies, 4to, pp. [8], 234, [12]; text in Chinese and English; color illustrations throughout; full black cloth gilt, touch of soiling to boards, else fine.
A comprehensive history of the coinage of Xinjiang, which was an important region during the height of the Silk Road.