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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. [Agriculture / Animal Husbandry.] The complete grazier: or, gentleman and farmer's directory. Containing the best instructions for buying, breeding and feeding cattle, sheep and hogs, and for suckling lambs. A description of the particular symptoms, commonly attending the various distempers to which cattle, sheep, and hogs are subject; with the most approved remedies. Directions for making the best butter, several sorts of cheese, and renner. Different methods of stocking a grass farm, with the particular expence and profit of each. How to prepare the land, and sow several sorts of grass seeds to advantage ... Also directions for making fish ponds or canals, and for storing them, and ordering the fish in the best manner ... Written by a country gentleman, and originally designed for private use. The second edition. London: printed for J. Almond, opposite Burlington House, in Piccadilly, 1767.
$750
12mo, pp. xii, 252; contemporary full calf; neatly rebacked, new leather label on gilt-paneled spine; very good. Printed the same year as the first edition and with the same collation, including the half-title and initial advertisement leaf.
Includes directions for raising proper fodder for cattle and sheep. Particular instructions for ordering, breeding and feeding poultry, turkeys, pigeons, tame rabbets, geese, ducks, bustards, pea-fowls, pheasants and partridges.
2. [Albany County, New York.] [Manuscript survey]: Field book of a patent. [N.p., n.d. but likely Albany County: late 18th century].
$400
Square 8vo, pp. [44]; sewn, with thread weakened, old fold, the occasional ink stain, good and legible.
A thorough survey of five-thousand acres of land divided into 20 lots, owned by William Smith Esquire, Johannes Quackenboss, and Thomas Smith, situated in the County of Albany on the east side of the Hudson. Distance is measured by [Gunter's] chain and link. The first 15 pages of the survey describe the entire parcel of 5000 acres, and the bordering properties (owned by Alexander Turner, Duncan Reed, Alexander Montgomery, and others). Markers, creeks, trees, and other landmarks are noted. The balance of the manuscript breaks the parcel down into 20 lots, each with surveyed dimensions, and notes on the quality of the lumber and soil.
At the back is a chart grading each plot in terms of quality. On final page is an inventory of livestock for multiple local men (Aston Peace 2 oxen, 2 cows, 1 yearling 23 sheep 2 horses).
An example of a lot description: "Begins at a stake blazed on four sides standing at the NE corner of lot no 3. 50 links N of a black birch tree marked on four sides no. 3: 4 & 7. 8 thence due N along the W line of lot no 7 50 chains to a pine tree marked on four sides... the place containing 50 acres of land and the usual allowance for highways. A considerable part of this lot has pine timber, the rest a mixture of beach and maple a stoney hill on the E. side the lot is but ordinary."
3. [American Fiction.] Doesticks. What he says. By Q. K. Doesticks, P. B.. New York: Edward Livermore, 1855.
$85
First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, [1], 13-330; wood-engraved frontispiece, 7 wood-engraved plates (in the pagination); original brown cloth, pictorial gilt spine; bottom of spine slightly chipped, extremities a little rubbed, all else very good.
These sketches were first published mostly in the New York Tribune, where Thomson was a reporter for most of his career. His social satire and parody, published under the "Doesticks" pseudonym, was wildly popular. For a short time in the 1870s, Thomson was an associate editor of the Minneapolis Tribune. "Q. K. Philander Doesticks, P. B.", was a pseudonym he had first used at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, the full version being "Queer Kritter Philander Doesticks, Perfect Brick."
BAL 20091; Wright II, 2493.
4. [American Fiction.] The recollections of Jotham Anderson, minister of the gospel. Boston: published at the Christian Register Office. John B Russell, printer, 1824.
$375
12mo, pp. 118, [2]; original plain paper-covered boards; spine partially perished, but otherwise generally very good.
Inscribed on the flyleaf: "Given / with a wish that the little Tract / may be read in the school / It is presented to the Trustees of the Female / Academy in Augusta / by their affectionate / friend the / Founder." Also, inscribed in the same hand on the title page: "For the use / of the Female / Academy / May 1824."
The Cony Female Academy, which was founded in 1816 by Daniel Cony, provided free education to orphans and other girls under the age of 16. The inscriptions are almost certainly in Daniel Cony's hand.
American Imprints 19187; Sabin 101391; Wright I, 2653.
5. [American Revolution.] Receipt for the return of a gun and bayonet. Colchester, [Connecticut]: April 7, 1777.
$250
Receipt of payment on a slip of paper approx. 3" x 6". "Received of Amasa Brown a soldier in the late Capt. Rowley's Company one gun and bayonet No. 25 £3.12.0" signed by "Jonth. Deming, Selectman."
6. [American Theatre.] Niblo's. Manager ... Mr. John Sefton. Tickets 50 cents ... private boxes, $5.00. John Sefton's benefit. Only appearance of the Ravel family, 26 in number, and Mr. Burton who will sustain his great character of Mr. Fright ... To be followed by the laughable piece Crimson Crimes ... Concluding with, last time but one, the comic pantomime of the Conjurer's Gift! Or, the Magic Pills. [New York: publisher not identified], 1852.
$100
Tall narrow broadside approx. 22" x 5½". Display type; some toning and wrinkling, else very good.
Not found in OCLC.
7. [American Theatre.] Fontainville Abbey, a tragedy ... as performed at the New-York Theatre. New York: published by David Longworth, at the Dramatic Repository, Shakespeare Gallery, 1807.
$150
First edition, pp. [7], 156-211, [1]; removed from binding, tide stain on lower gatherings, annotations in pencil to a few pages changing a maid to a boy in the text, names of plays written in manuscript on final blank page. Retains the pagination of the Dramatic works of William Dunlap, Philadelphia, volume I, 1806, in which it first appeared.
This first separate edition of Fontainville Abbey was produced by extracting sheets from his Dramatic Works of 1806 and adding a title leaf.
"In serious drama Dunlap made two important innovations: he was the first in his country to write Gothic or terroristic plays, a species well illustrated by his Fountainville Abbey (acted 1795) ... and he broke away from the formal pseudo-classic manner of the typical eighteenth-century tragedy" (DAB).
"This play was founded on Mrs. Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest, and was written in 1794. First played at John Street Theatre, February 16, 1795" (Hill).
American Imprints 12477; BAL 5002; Hill, American Plays, 80.
8. [American Theatre.] Wallack's Theatre ... Eighth appearance this season, of Mr. Wallack and the first time in this theatre of Colman's celebrated play of the Iron Chest .. To conclude with, second time this season, the capital farce of Deaf as a Post ... Tomorrow - in consequence of the crowded state of the theatre on Monday Mr. Wallack will repeat his celebrated character of Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing.... [New York]: Herald Print, n.d., [1856].
$150
Tall narrow broadside approx. 22¼" x 6" announcing the program for the week of October 27, 1856. Display type within a decorative border; some toning, else very good.
Wallack opened his new theatre at 485 Broadway, having taken over Brougham's Lyceum, on September 8, 1852 "and with his sons John Lester as stage manager, and Charles as treasurer, [performed] there for nine years [and] flourished, with the manager himself playing many and varied parts ... In 1861 he and Lester opened a new Wallack's Theatre at Broadway and Thirteenth St. ... He remains the most distinguished member of a notable family whose history for over fifty years was inseparably linked with that of the New York stage" (DAB).
He "performed ... October 20 through November 22, 1856, and May 11 through June 6, 1857. Brown asserts that Wallack's engagement was unsuccessful, that he played to the poorest houses of the season, and that he insisted on appearing in parts for which at this time he was too old, though he had gained a reputation in them twenty years before. Wallack did not perform during the 1857–58 season, and he resumed management of the theater in fall 1858" (Wikipedia).
Not found in OCLC.
9. [Americanisms.] Wörterbuch der Americanismen. Eigenheiten der Englischen sprache in Nordamerika...Nach J. Russell Bartlett's "Dictionary of Americanisms" 3 ausg. Boston 1860. Leipzig: druck und verlag von Philipp Reclam jun., 1866.
$350
First edition, small 8vo, pp. iv, 183, [1] (ad); original yellow printed wrappers neatly rebacked; good.
German edition of Bartlett's famous work on Americanisms, with revisions.
Kennedy 11401; Sabin 38221; Vancil, p. 140.
10. [Arctic.] Description of a view of the north coast of Spitzbergen, now exhibiting in the large rotunda of Henry Aston Barker's Panorama, Leicester-Square; painted from drawings taken by Lieut. Beechey, who accompanied the Polar Expedition in 1818, and liberally presented them to the proprietor. A view of Lausanne, and the lake of Geneva is also exhibiting . London: printed by Jas.-W. and Chas. Adlard, 1820.
$1,750
Small 8vo, pp. 12; engraved folding plate (slightly spotted); very good in contemporary brown wrappers.
In the first edition of the pamphlet published the preceeding year, "A view of Lausanne, and the lake of Geneva" in the title is replaced with "An interesting representation of the city of St. Petersburg, is open in the upper circle."
Ostensibly, the earliest polar panorama, depicting the exploits of Capt. David Buchan, who along with his young lieutanant John Franklin ventured through the ice near the Spitzbergen Islands in 1818 in search of the Northwest Passage. Frederick William Beechy, naval officer and hydrographer, was appointed to the brig Trent, and also served on the expedition. He later published an account of the voyage, Voyage of Discovery Towards the North Pole Performed in His Majesty's Ships Dorothea and Trent, Under the Command of Captain David Buchan, in 1843.
The panorama, celebrating the expedition, depicts the two ships, Capt. Buchan and Lieut. Franklin, the barrier of ice extending from Spitsbergen to Greenland, seals, polar bears, walruses, and "three magnificient icebergs."
11. [Asiatic Islands.] Memoir, geographical, political, and commercial, on the present state, productive resources, and capabilities for commerce, of Siberia, Manchuria, and the Asiatic Islands of the Northern Pacific Ocean; and on the importance of opening commercial intercourse with those countries, &c. [drop title]. Washington, D.C.: Tippin & Streeper, printers, 1848.
$450
Issued as Senate Miscellaneous Document no. 80, 30th Congress, 1st Session; 8vo, pp. 76, [4]; 2 folding maps, including a very large one of Northeastern Asia and the Asiatic Islands; one small hole (paper flaw) in the map (in a blank section of Siberia); removed from binding; very good.
Includes sections on: 1. Siberia, its valuable products and rich gold mines; 2. Russian overland trade with China at Kiakta, &c.; 3. Manchuria and the river Amur, &c.; 4. Island of Tarakay, or Saghalien; 5. Russian and Japanese Kurile Islands, &c.; 6. Steam communication with China; 7. Special mission to the East; 8. Policy of encouraging immigration of Chinese agricultural laborers to California. Railroad from the Mississippi to the bay of San Francisco; 9. Ship canal from the Atlantic to the Pacific; and a Prospectus for the author's The Unknown Countries of the East.
The Addenda (on p. 77) is on The Aleutian Islands. Palmer, "a wealthy businessman and staunch believer in expansionism, is frequently regarded as the instigator of Perry's expedition [to Japan]" (Hill, Pacific Voyages). Not in Lust; Sabin 58340.
12. [Atlas.] Sonnenschein & Allen's Royal relief atlas of all parts of the world consisting of 31 maps, with physical, political, and statistical descriptions. London: W. Swan Sonnenschein and Allen, [1880].
$1,000
4to, pp. [6] followed by 31 maps (25 in relief), each with a descriptive leaf of text mounted on the verso of the preceding map; original green cloth boards stamped in gilt on the upper cover, rebacked in red cloth with (uneven) gilt lettering on spine; very good.
''This book, I think, is very rare. I know of only one other copy in the BM with its acquisition date 16 November 1880 stamped on it. I know of no other edition'' (Sotheby's, Wardington Catalogue, lot 482). In fact, as of January 2021, 2 other copies are on line and there are quite a few in OCLC.
13. [Automotive.] The oldtime automobile; Antique automobiles; The old car book. Greenwich, CT: Fawcett Books, 1951-1953.
$50
3 volumes, 8vo, nos. 137, 168, and 207 of the Fawcett books series, covering automobile history from 1898-1935 across all three volumes. Extensively illustrated throughout, color illustrated paper wrappers, staple-bound; a little denting to the spine of the first volume but otherwise all in fine condition, which is not common in these titles.
14. Novum organum or true suggestions for the interpretation of nature by Francis Lord Verulam. London: William Pickering, n.d., [ca. 1850].
$75
12mo, pp. [2], 323, [1]; architectural title page printed in red and black; full straight-grain black morocco by Henderson & Bissset, gilt-paneled spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1, sprinkled edges; extremities and joints rubbed, else very good.
15. Of the proficience and advancement of learning by Francis Lord Verulam. Edited by B[asil] Montagu. London: William Pickering, 1838.
$125
First Pickering edition, small 8vo, pp. xvi, 350; Pickering anchor & dolphin device on title page; contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, red leather label on spine, marbled edges and endpapers; lightly rubbed at extremities; generally good and sound.
Bookplate of Amos Tuck French, Tuxedo Park.
Keynes, p. 51; Kelly, 1838.1
16. The essays or counsels civil and moral and wisdom of the ancients of Francis Lord Verulam. Edited by B[asil] Montagu, Esq. London: William Pickering, 1836.
$125
12mo, pp. [16] Pickering ads, [6], xxx, [2], 351, [1]; Pickering device on title page; original terracotta cloth, printed paper label on spine; label slightly stained, spine ends a bit worn; all else very good.
Not in Keynes or Kelly.
17. The origin and antiquity of engraving: with some remarks on the utility and pleasures of prints. Philadelphia: George Gebbie, 1872.
$175
First edition, 8vo, pp. 62; previous owner's rubberstamp on title page, else a near fine, bright copy in original green cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover and spine.
This copy with an inscription in pencil to "Zavarr Wilmshurst with the compliments of Stephen English" at the top of the title page. Zavarr Wilmshurst (1824-1887) was born William Bennett in England and came to New York under his new name where he thrived as a poet, journalist, and dramatist with at least six books of poetry to his credit.
Stephen English was his predecessor at the Insurance Times which Wilmshurst took over with Dr. P. T. Kempson after English's death. Earlier, Wilmshurst also was an editor at the Insurance Monitor.
18. An examination of the "Remarks" of considerations suggested by the establishment of a second college in Connecticut. Hartford: printed by Peter B, Gleason & Co., 1825.
$150
8vo, pp. 26, [2]; stitched, as issued; very good.
Founded as Washington College in 1823, it is the second-oldest college in Connecticut, after Yale. It was renamed Trinity College in 1845. Like many of his Yale alumni, Baldwin declines to support Washington College.
Baldwin, later a U.S. Senator from Connecticut, was best known for his defense of the African slaves in the famous Amistad case.
American Imprints 19503; Sabin 15721.
19. Problems of rotary motion presented by the gyroscope, the precession of the equinoxes, and the pendulum. Washington: The Smithsonian Institution, 1871.
$65
4to, pp. 52, [2]; original green printed paper wrappers; spine perished, wrappers chipped, text clean. Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge volume. 19.
John G. Barnard was a career army engineer who cultivated a circle of some of the most influential scientists and publishers of the time (A Century of Book Publishing, 1948).
Sabin 85072.
20. Comic and sentimental songs of all nations and ages. Nos. 1 - 43 (complete). New York: Beadle & Adams, [1878-79].
$5,000
2 volumes, 4to, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, joints cracked, cords holding (but barely), spines perished; occasional light foxing else internally fine. With 43 hand-colored illustrations, each on the first page of every issue.
Cf. Johannsen, The House of Beadle and Adams, I, 391-95, plus full-page illustration between pp. 388-89. Beadle's Half-Dime Singer's Library "appeared, with occasionally a break, in weekly numbers between the 18th of May, 1878, and the 29th of March, 1879, ending with No. 43. The booklets are thin quartos, of 16 pages each, and measure 11¾" by 8¼". There are no outside wrappers, but early editions ... have a colored illustration on the first page [as here] ... the coloring was apparently done by color stencil ... The sixty songs in each number consist not only of the popular songs of the day, but also include original contributions. Beneath the titles of many of the songs is given the name of the original publisher from whom the music could be attained ... The only bound volume that I have seen contained the whole 43 numbers and was without an Index [as here]."
Contains lyrics to nearly 2500 songs (without music), including standards such as The Star-Spangled Banner; Hail, Columbia; America; When Johnny Comes Marching Home; Old Rosin the Beau; Oh! Susannah; and, The Yellow Rose of Texas; also, The Spider and the Fly; I Wish I Was in Dixie's Land; Oh, Take Me back to Tennessee; Hush-a-By Baby; Down By the River Side, Base-Ball, and the whole of Gilbert & Sullivan's H.M.S. Pinafore, plus many more written specifically for The Singer's Library.
Also, The Rat-Catcher's Daughter; The Mormon's Lament; The Day I Played Base-Ball; 'Tis the Money that Makes the Mare Go! or L.S.D.; Some Girls Do and Some Girls Don't; Drunk Again, or, Timothy Tottle; Poor Kitty Popcorn; Gay Young Clerk in a Dry-Goods Store; and my two favorites, Move My Arm Chair, Dearest Mother; and, Turn Off the Gas at the Meter.
Eleven (presumably) complete runs in OCLC: NY Public, Huntington, Yale, Northern Illinois, Minnesota, Dartmouth, Princeton, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Brown, and Texas.
21. Sacred poetry: consisting of psalms and hymns, adapted to Christian devotion, in publick and private. Selected from the best authors, with variations and additions ... A new edition with additional hymns. Boston: published by Thomas Wells, no. 3 Hanover-Street, 1820.
$75
24mo, pp. v, [2], 8-231, [9]; [1], 2-276; contemporary full sheep, gilt-lettered direct on gilt-paneled spine; spine ends a little chipped, the whole rubbed and worn; good and sound.
American Imprints 377. Not in BAL.
22. Las guerras de Flandes desde la muerte del emperador Carlos V hasta la conclusión de la Tregua de Doze Años ... Nueva impression enriquezida con lindas figuras, etc.. Ambers [i.e. Antwerp]: Gerónymo Verdussen, 1687.
$600
First Spanish edition translated by Basilio Varen, folio, pp. [12], 540, [14]; engraved title page, frontispiece portrait of Queen Elizabeth, vignette title page printed in red and black, 4 double-page engraved plates of battle scenes 26 engraved portraits; slightly later full calf, gilt-decorated spine; hinges cracked with some chipping, cords holding; internally fine but in a worn, but stable binding.
History of the wars of Flanders written originally in Italian under the title Della guerra di Fiandra, Cologne, 1632-39.
Palau 27607.
23. [Berkshires.] The Berkshire jubilee, celebrated at Pittsfield, Mass. August 22 and 23, 1844. Albany: Weare. C. Little. E. P. Little, Pittsfield, 1845.
$325
8vo, pp. 244; wood-engraved frontispiece (in the pagination) and 7 full-page wood engravings; original wrappers laid down over a new blue cloth binding; the introduction mistakenly bound in prior to the title page, but otherwise very good and attractive.
A two-day summer celebration encompassing the communities of Pittsfield, Stockbridge, Lee, Great Barrington, Lenox, and Williamstown (each of which is illustrated here with a bird's-eye view), with requisite sermons, addresses, odes, poems, and sentiments, and a detailed account of the farewell dinner banquet.
Among the contributors is Lydia Sigourney who contributes three poems, and Oliver Wendell Holmes who contributes a poem and a speech. Published at expense of the Sons of Berkshire under the editorship of their committee of five, viz.: Rev. John Todd, E. Ballard, C. Sedgwick, W. C. Bryant, H. L. Sabin.
BAL 8740 (Holmes) and 17799 (Sigourney).
24. [Berlin.] Album von Berlin: 65 anischten nach momentaufnahmen und zwei panoramen. Berlin: Parnassus Verlag, [1910?].
$45
Oblong 4to, pp. 56; text in German, English and French; photo-reproductive illustrations of various sights around the city, with captions; illustrated cloth boards, boards lightly soiled, upper endpaper creased, a couple small tears repaired with tape, very good.
Inscribed "Dem geliebsen Albert Campbell zum andenken an seine ihm sehr liebenden. - Tans Mury" on half title.
Curiously none found in OCLC.
25. [Bible.] The hieroglyphick Bible; or select passages in the Old and New Testaments, represented with emblematical figures, for the amusement of youth ... illustrated with nearly five hundred cuts. Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1825.
$75
Fourth edition, 12mo, pp.129, [1]; lacking pages 9-10, 47-96, 125-128, and 130-[134] (page 130 being blank in this copy but with text on copies checked online); woodblock illustrations throughout text, many crudely hand colored; calf-backed paper-covered boards; spine partially perished, textblock split and pp. 37-38 loose; a deeply flawed copy, but still a visually interesting novelty, telling the major stories of the Bible through a rebus text.
This edition is in neither Osborn nor Welch, both of whom list a number of different editions. American Imprints 19677.
26. Captain Hall in America. By an American. Philadelphia: Carey & Lea, 1830.
$125
8vo, pp. 120; original tan printed wrappers; front wrapper chipped with minor loss at the edges, mounted and reattached; blank back wrapper with considerable loss.
An American review of the Scotsman Captain Basil Hall's Travels in North America in the years 1827 and 1828 (Edinburgh, 1829).
American Imprints 538; Howes B-429; Sabin 5246.
27. [Blasphemy.] An introduction to the defence of Abner Kneeland, charged with blasphemy; before the municipal court in Boston, Mass. Boston: printed for the publisher, 1834.
$350
12mo, pp. 43, [1]; bound with: Dunlap, Andrew. A Speech Delivered Before the Municipal Court of the City of Boston, in Defence of Abner Kneeland, on an Indictment for Blasphemy. Boston: Printed for the publisher, 1834. Pp. 132 (lacking the gathering for pp. 25-36 with a contemporary manuscript note on top margin "here is a loss of 12 pages, through the carelessness of the binder"); contemporary blue paper wrappers, 6 pages bound in back with newspaper clippings presenting the argument of Charles G. Greene defending his decision as juror tipped in. Ex-library, with call number on upper wrapper and residue of bookplate on upper cover; very good.
Kneeland (1774-1847), a Universalist clergyman and antitheist, "became leader of a group known as the First Society of Free Enquirers, lectured frequently on Rationalism, and in 1831 began to expound his pantheistic views in the Boston Investigator, probably the first Rationalist journal in the United States. In the first issue of Dec. 20, 1833, he used language and illustrative material which led to his indictment for publishing 'a certain scandalous, impious, obscene, blasphemous and profane libel of and concerning God.'
Tried in January 1834, he was convicted, but appealed. In two further trials the juries disagreed, but conviction was again secured at the fourth trial, November term, 1835. The appeal was postponed from term to term until 1838, when James T. Austin, attorney-general of Massachusetts, obtained a confirmation of the judgement, and sentence of sixty days was pronounced ... [A] petition for pardon was signed by William Ellery Channing ... A. Bronson Alcott ... Theodore Parker ... William Lloyd Garrison, and Ralph Waldo Emerson ... The committee took no action, however, and the sentence was enforced" (DAB). Kneeland would be the last American imprisoned for Blasphemy.
In the spring of 1839, some months after his release from jail, Kneeland emigrated to Iowa, to the utopian colony which he named Salubria, founded in the name of the First Society of Free Enquirers.
28. [Boston.] Map of the country about Boston. Boston: Appalachian Mountain Club, 1890.
$150
Folding color map backed by linen, as issued, approx. 23½" x 33, folding down into printed green paper wrappers 8" x 4¼"; two or three short splits at the folds, but generally very good.
"Published by the Appalachian Mountain Club from the proofs of the State map with the permission of the director of the United States Geological Survey and the commissioners of the Topographic Survey of Massachusetts" and "for sale by W. B. Clarke & Co., 340 Washington Street, Boston."
29. Museum polka redowa. Providence: P. Taber & Co., 1853.
$150
Folio sheet music, pp. [4]; lithographed vignette title page depicting the Museum Building at 127 Westminster Place with Taber's Music Store's facade included. Two pages of musical notation. Removed from binding, light tidestain on bottom edge, very good.
The Museum building depicted on the title page was destroyed by fire in October of 1853, the same year of this item's publication.
Boston Athenaeum only in OCLC. John Hopkins has another in its Levy Sheet Music Collection.
30. [Bradford, William.] Catalogue of books printed by William Bradford and other printers in the middle colonies. New York: Grolier Club, 1893.
$100
First edition, 16mo, pp. 100; facsimile frontispiece, original printed paper wrappers, with "[compiled by C. R. Hildeburn]" in manuscript on cover and title page, covers lightly soiled, small cracks at spine extremities, text clean, very good.
321 items dutifully described.
31. The flowers of literature. Being an exhibition of the most interesting geographical, historical, miscellaneous and theological subjects. To which are prefixed, preliminary addresses to parents, teachers and their pupils. A new edition, to which is added the Constitution of the United States. Philadelphia: printed for Daniel Fenton, Trenton (N. J.) John Cline, printer, 1810..
$100
12mo, viii, [1], 10-324; engraved frontispiece; contemporary full sheep, old leather label on spine; scuffed and rubbed, text toned and lightly stained; good.
American Imprints 19630; Sabin 7380 for the first edition of 1806.
32. [Bridge Construction.] The Menai Bridge, near Bangor, Carnarvonshire. Bangor: J. Brown, printer and book-binder, [1825].
$500
Broadside, approx. 14" x 9¼" (35 cm x 24 cm), printed on one side within a typographical ornament border, wood-engraved illustration of the bridge at the top, text beneath in double column under the running head; margins trimmed to the outer edge of the border, remains of an old mount on the verso; a sharp copy. “Second edition, with additions” as stated at the top.
A handsome letterpress broadside describing the architecture, construction, and detailed statistics of the bridge. “On Tuesday, the 26th of April, 1825, the first Chain of the stupendous work was thrown over the Straits of Menai ... An emense concourse of persons, of all ranks, began to assemble on the Anglesea and the Carnarvonshire shores ... to witness a scene, which our ancestors had never contemplated ... The 16th chain, which completes the whole line of suspension, was carried over on Saturday, July 9th, 1825.”
The bridge is still in use today and has been classified as a Grade 1 World Heritage site.
Not located bibliographically.
33. De animi immortalitate poema. Londini: impensis J. & R. Tonson & S. Draper, 1754.
$100
4to, pp. [4], 40; modern boards, gilt lettering on spine; some toning of the text and the textblock trimmed to 23.5 x 18.5 cm; all else very good. This is the variant with the price 1 s. 6 d. on the title page.
Painfully common, but Browne's best known work, a poem on the immortality of the soul.
34. [Burton, Richard F..] The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi. Translated and annotated by his friend and pupil F[rank] B[aker]. London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot Limited, 1927.
$450
12mo, pp. viii, 152; full tan calf by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, black morocco label in 1, triple gilt border on covers, "The Kasidah" in gilt on upper cover, a.e.g., gilt turn-ins, blue star-patterned endpapers; 2 bookplates, else fine and bright, in the binder's plain paper slipcase. Issued in the publisher's Bodoni series.
"F. B. at the end of the 'translator's note' stands for Frank Baker, from Francis, his second name, and Baker, his mother's family name" (foreword).
Ostensibly translated by Burton, he in fact was its author; written in 1857 under his nom-de-plume Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi but it was not published until 1880 by Quaritch.
Casada 84.6. See Penzer, p. 97 for the first edition.
35. The navies of the world; their present state, and future capabilities. London: Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, 1859.
$35
12mo, pp. xv, [1], 312, 127, [1], 8; frontispiece and 7 plates and maps; later green cloth, gilt title on spine; tidestains to the edges of a few plates, near fine.
36. [Canadian Boundary.] The unfortified boundary: a diary of the first survey of the Canadian boundary line from St. Regis to the Lake of the Woods by Major Joseph Delafield, American agent under Article VI and VII of the Treaty of Ghent. From the original manuscript recently discovered. Edited by Robert McElroy... [and] Thomas Riggs. New York: Privately Printed, 1943.
$100
Edition limited to 1000 copies (this, copy 352), large 8vo, pp. [11], 490, [1]; frontispiece portrait, 8 folding maps, 2 folding facsimiles, and 2 plates (1 folding, from the painting "Detroit 1820" by George Washington Whistler, which is not included in the list of illustrations); a fine copy in the original dark tan cloth lettered in gilt on spine and upper cover.
37. Address delivered before the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, at its meeting, on the twentieth of July, 1824 ... Second edition. Philadelphia: Joseph R. A. Skerrett, 1824.
$125
8vo, pp. 66; removed from binding; light foxing, very good.
The PSPA was one of a number of organizations established by Carey and other nationalists after the War of 1812, designed to promote, via a policy of protectionism, the domestic economy.
Mathew Carey "left no systematic work of economic theory, but Henry Charles Carey's later economic works show a deep debt to his father, so that Mathew Carey must be reckoned as one of the founders of the nationalist school of American economic thought" (ANB).
Sabin 10889 (note); American Imprints 15648.
38. Steamship models. London: T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1924.
$150
First edition limited to 1000 signed and numbered copies (this, no. 160); 4to, pp. xii, 84; 128 plates, some in color, some mounted, some half-tones; a very good, firm copy in original blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, t.e.g. No better work on the subject.
39. An oration, delivered before the Society of the Φ Β Κ; at their anniversary meeting, in the city of New Haven, on the evening preceding commencement, anno domini 1797. New Haven: printed by T. and S. Green, [1797].
$175
8vo, pp. 34, [2]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; text a bit toned, else very good.
On the idea of progress, with some emphasis on the importance of nurturing science.
Evans 31932; Sabin 12301; Trumbull 457.
40. [Chemistry.] A grammar of chemistry, wherein the principles of the science are familiarized by a variety of easy and entertaining experiments; with questions for exercise, and a glossary of terms in common use ... Corrected and revised by Benjamin Tucker. Philadelphia: published and sold by David Hogan, no. 249, Market-street, 1810.
$135
First American edition,12mo, pp. 180; engraved frontispiece showing 3 figures; contemporary full sheep, red morocco label on spine; text toned and lightly spotted, occasional stains, extremities rubbed and worn but the binding is sound.
Ownership signature of Miss Harriet Messersmith, Lancaster, Pa. dated 1846, with her occasional notes on endpapers and flyleaves. At the back is a 35-page glossary of chemistry terms. Vancil shows no earlier dictionary/glossary of chemistry printed in the United States.
American Imprints 21077.
41. [China.] Album of painted figures on pith. [Canton: c. mid 1800s].
$900
Small album, 6½" x 4½" with 12 hand-painted illustrations on pith, affixed to paper, depicting dramatic figures such as scholars, bannermen, swordsmen, and dancers; red brocade over boards; boards loose, the pith brittle with splits on many leaves, a couple touching images, the images themselves bright and detailed.
Laid in is a card printed "C. Edward Mudie" with manuscript note "Pictures hand painted on rice paper. A birthday souvenir from Canton, China." This Mudie is likely the English bookman and pioneer of private lending libraries.
Pith paintings were typically produced specifically for the tourist trade. The paper is made from the untreated inner pulp of the pith plant, which absorbs watercolor well and produces strong color against a bright white background.
42. [China.] Chinese Gordon: A succinct record of his life. New York: John B. Alden, 1884.
$75
First American edition, 12mo. pp. 215; black & white frontispiece portrait, ownership inscription and stamp on front blank; original green cloth with a dragon stamped in gilt on front cover; fine and bright.
Major-General Charles George Gordon, also known as Chinese Gordon, was a British Army officer and administrator. His military reputation was established in China, for commanding Chinese soldiers, frequently against superior forces, in putting down the Taiping Rebellion.
43. [China.] Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, ecrites des missions etrangeres, par quelques missionaires de la Compagnie de Jesus. X. Recueil. Paris: Jean Barbou, 1713.
$675
First edition, 12mo, pp. [32], 439, [9]; two folding plates; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in six compartments, red speckled edges; upper joint cracked, spine chipped and label perished, ex-St. Stanislaus Novitiate House Library, Guelph, Ont. (closed in 1971) with labels and a bookplate on upper pastedown, stamp on title page, and call number on spine, good.
Volume X contains letters on: Missions to the southeast of India and the Philippines; troubles of the missionaries to China, including a folding plate of a Chinese inscription "in the Emperor's hand"; a letter on the properties of ginseng, with folding plate; a biography of P. Cyprien Baraze, missionary to the West Indies, including an interesting description of the Moxos Indians; missions to Canada, including mores and customs of the native people; the islands of Archipel, Syphanto, Serpho, Thermia & Andros (Greece).
One volume of the 34-volume collection of Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (1703-1776). "These volumes, issued regularly by the Society of Jesus, presented selections from correspondence and reports written by Jesuit missionaries then scattered around the globe" and reflected "the continued interest in France in the progress of the Jesuit missions in various parts of the world. The termination of the series reflects the suppression of the Society of Jesus by papal decree" (James Ford Bell Catalogue, L-368). Collectively they provided some of the most thorough reporting on China in particular to Western audiences of the period.
Howes L 299; James Ford Bell Catalogue, L-368.
44. [China.] Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, ecrites des missions etrangeres, par quelques missionaires de la Compagnie de Jesus. XVII. Recueil. Paris: Nicolas Le Clerc, 1726.
$650
First edition, 12mo, pp. xxxiv, [2], 446, [14]; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red stained edges; spine label perished, boards rubbed and upper hinge starting; ex-St. Stanislaus Novitiate House Library, Guelph, Ont. (closed in 1971) with labels and a bookplate on upper pastedown, and shelf label on spine, good and sound.
Volume XVII contains letters on: Letters from Dominique Parennin on his work in China, recounting the conversion of the imperial princes; missionary work in Southeast China (Macao and Fokien); Chinese interest in Western medicine and the Tartar language; work with the Abenakis in the American Northeast, including war with the English, by Sebastien Rasles, along with an account of his death; and description and uses of Chinese rhubarb.
One volume of the 34-volume collection of Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (1703-1776). "These volumes, issued regularly by the Society of Jesus, presented selections from correspondence and reports written by Jesuit missionaries then scattered around the globe" and reflected "the continued interest in France in the progress of the Jesuit missions in various parts of the world. The termination of the series reflects the suppression of the Society of Jesus by papal decree" (James Ford Bell Catalogue, L-368). Collectively they provided some of the most thorough reporting on China in particular to Western audiences of the period.
Howes L 299; James Ford Bell Catalogue, L-368.
45. [China.] Lettres edifiantes et curieuses, ecrites des missions etrangeres, par quelques missionaires de la Compagnie de Jesus. IX. Recueil. Paris: Nicolas Le Clerc, 1711.
$600
First edition, 12mo, pp. [24], 431, [11]; contemporary full calf, gilt-decorated spine in 6 compartments, red stained edges; spine label perished, boards rubbed and upper board starting, upper pastedown lifting, ex-St. Stanislaus Novitiate House Library, Guelph, Ont. (closed in 1971) with labels and a bookplate on upper pastedown, and shelf label on spine, text clean, good and sound.
Volume IX contains letters on: "Oracles of the demons of the Indies"; missions to Madure; The death of Father Broissia in China; observations on the English in Peking; etc.
One volume of the 34-volume collection of Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents (1703-1776). "These volumes, issued regularly by the Society of Jesus, presented selections from correspondence and reports written by Jesuit missionaries then scattered around the globe" and reflected "the continued interest in France in the progress of the Jesuit missions in various parts of the world. The termination of the series reflects the suppression of the Society of Jesus by papal decree" (James Ford Bell Catalogue, L-368). Collectively they provided some of the most thorough reporting on China in particular to Western audiences of the period.
Howes L 299; James Ford Bell Catalogue, L-368.
46. [China.] The Chinese as they are; their moral and social character, manners, customs, language: with remarks on their arts and sciences, medical skill, the extent of missionary enterprise, etc. By G. Tradescent [i.e., Tradescant] Lay, Esq., naturalist in Beechy's expedition, late resident at Canton, author of "The voyage of the Himmaleh," etc. Containing also, illustrative and corroborative notes, additional chapters on the ancient and modern history, ancient and modern intercourse, population, government, civilization, education, literature, etc. of the Chinese, compiled from authentic sources by E. G. Squier. Albany: published by George Jones, Museum Building. Burgess and Stringer, and M.Y. Beach, New York. Redding and Co. Boston: G.B. Zeiber [i.e. Zieber], Philadelphia. Wm. Taylor, Baltimore, 1843.
$325
8vo, pp. iv, 116; original printed green wrappers; neatly rebacked; small piece missing from the front of the front wrapper, else very good. Printed by Joel Munsell, Albany.
This is the first separate publication by Squire who became a prominent archaeologist and a prolific author.
Lust, citing the London edition of the same year, which was published without the Squire contribution: "Good deal of observation, firm believer in the superiority of "Graeco-Hebraic" civilization, for a free opium market."
Lust 48; Cordier, Sinica, 77.
47. [Chronological Chart.] A key, or complete and full explanation of Adam's synchronological chart, a grand work of chromo-lithographic art. Adam's illustrated map of history. Containing a full and complete outline of all nations embraced in biblical, ancient mediaeval and modern history. Together with the illustrious personages, important events, inventions and changes in all ages. The whole chart elaborately and beautifully embellished with numerous illustrations. Cincinnati: [publisher not identified], 1876.
$100
Second edition, "carefully and critically revised, with numerous changes and additions," 8vo, pp. [3], 4-49, [1]; printed pictorial wrappers; staining on front and rear wrappers; upper spine chipped; otherwise very good.
In 1871 Sebastian C. Adams published his Chronological chart of ancient, modern and biblical history, a scroll measuring approx. 27½" x 13½", containing a very large folding chromolithographic chart 27" x 21' 9" on 22 coated panels. He toured the country with his product and several years later published a short addendum explaining how to navigate the historical eras depicted in the chart, complete with brief biographies of prominent figures and outlines of major events.
48. Speech of the Hon. Henry Clay, in the Senate of the United States, on the subject of abolition petitions, February 7, 1839. Boston: James Munroe & Company, 1839.
$125
12mo, pp. 42; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; very good.
Regarding the question of slavery in the District of Columbia. At issue was a petition from the Mayor of the District and "several hundred" Washingtonians, asserting "that they do not desire the abolition of slavery within the District, even if Congress possess the very questionable power of abolishing it, without the consent of the people whose interests would be immediately and directly affected by the measure."
Afro-Americana 2434; American Imprints 54995; Sabin 13550 (note).
49. [College Verse.] A poem, on liberty and equality. Albany: printed for the author at the office of the Albany Centinel, Court Street, 1804.
$75
First edition, 12mo, pp. 29, [3]; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; title page stained and foxed, penetrating into a couple of the following pages, a few shallow chips, first and last leaf starting to separate, fair to good.
"A half satirical attempt to give a historic and philosophic basis to the ideas of liberty and equality." Poorly reviewed in Otis' American Verse, where he calls it an example of "the depth to which college verse can sometimes sink." (American Verse, 1625-1807)
American Imprints 7206
50. [Columbus, Christopher.] Los dos restos de Cristobal Colon exhumados de la Catedral De Santo Domingo en 1795 I 1877. Santo Domingo: imprenta De Garcia Hermanos, 1879.
$300
8vo, pp. 111, [1]; folding plate illustrating the urn and various inscriptions of funerary memorials of Columbus; the text has a few other inscriptions relating to the Admiral's interments; original printed light blue paper wrappers; spine paper about half chipped away, bottom of front wrapper torn with small loss; wrappers soiled; good or better.
The author expounds his theories regarding the exhumations and final resting place of the remains of the explorer in Santo Domingo. Title page with the previous ownership stamp & book number of George R. Brush, M.D. U.S. Navy. Surgeon & Medical Inspector, from 1861-1894; naval duties took him to many locations in the Caribbean and South America during his long career.
The stories of Columbus's remains are a mix of fact and lore. He died in May 1506 and was buried in Valladolid, Spain. The remains were exhumed and moved in 1513 to the monastery of La Cartuja in Seville by the will of his son Diego. In about 1536, the remains of both Columbus and Diego were moved to a cathedral in Colonial Santo Domingo, in the present-day Dominican Republic. By some accounts, around 1796, when France took over the entire island of Hispaniola, Columbus's remains were moved to Havana, Cuba. After Cuba became independent following the Spanish-American War in 1898, the remains were moved back to the Cathedral of Seville, in Spain.
Lo and behold! "In 1877, a priest discovered a lead box at Santo Domingo inscribed: "Discoverer of America, First Admiral." Inscriptions found the next year read "Last of the remains of the first admiral, Sire Christopher Columbus, discoverer." The box contained bones of an arm and a leg, as well as a bullet. These remains were considered legitimate by physician and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State John Eugene Osborne, who suggested in 1913 that they travel through the Panama Canal as a part of its opening ceremony. These remains were kept at the Basilica Cathedral of Santa María la Menor [in Santo Domingo] before being moved to the Columbus Lighthouse [a mausoleum monument in Santo Domingo Este] (inaugurated in 1992). The authorities in Santo Domingo have never allowed these remains to be exhumed, so it is unconfirmed whether they are from Columbus's body as well" [Wikipedia].
Palau 329261. OCLC locates copies at the National Library of Chile and the BL. None apparently in North America.
51. Commonplace book on civics and art. Scotland [?]: 1804-1813.
$750
Small 4to, pp. [148] plus about 100 blank pages; 16 pages of manuscript material laid in; parchment over boards, blind ruled boards, title and date in manuscript on cover and spine, armorial bookplate of Francis Cunningham on pastedown; boards toned, textblock clean and sound, very good.
A commonplace book for a civically minded man, a volume with extensive prose summaries and not one piece of poetry. The content of the book is split relatively evenly between issues of politics, history, civics, etc. Cunningham appears to have had some interest in Irish matters, as he includes information on land issues there, particularly the problem of middlemen. He summarizes the pros and cons for debates on immigration, the value of "great towns" ("Agriculture is the sole stay and real wealth of an Empire, and great towns do not forward agriculture") and the test act. He also dedicates multiple pages to Masonry, covering Anti-Christian/monarchal conspiracies, illuminism, conspiracies, rites, and degrees.
In addition to politics and civics Cunningham had an interest in art and aesthetic philosophy, particularly in the definition and comparison of certain aesthetic principles. The last two entries of his commonplace book appear to be drafts and notes on personal projects. The first is "Enquiries respecting the state of Ireland gathered from various books & persons to be the subjects of my investigation on my promised journey in 1813." The second is a draft of a talk titled "Whether poetry music or painting has most influence on the passions... to have been spoken at the Club in Feb. 1804." Both entries are accompanied by further drafts and notes on paper laid in, consisting of 16 pages.
Other sections concern toleration, languages, decyphering, knowledge of God, human understanding, tragedy, poetry, passion, poor laws, the character of Columbus, the incentive of gold, Botany Bay, standing armies, national character, Scotland, and his own family of Cunningham; many are extracted from authors such as Samuel Johnson, Dugdale Stewart, James Beattie, Jean D'Alembert, and Samuel Pegge, among others. Many entries are unsigned, and some are signed "F.C." so likely these are original compositions.
Francis Cunningham does not appear to be well known to history. Genealogical notes on the lower pastedown may give some hints as to his place in the Cunningham clan but they do not immediately solve the problem. The bookplate with the motto "Over / Fork / Over" identifies this as one of the many branches of the Scottish Cunningham clan, but which one, exactly, is not yet known. According to ScotsConnection.com this surname is territorial and found in Ayrshire.
52. [Contraception - Abortion.] The married woman's private medical companion, embracing the treatment of menstruation... pregnancy... discovery to prevent pregnancy... when proper and necessary to effect miscarriage when attended with entire safety.... New York: [Joseph Trow], 1847.
$500
First edition, 12mo, pp. xiii, [1], 238; original full brown, unadorned cloth; boards rubbed, textblock slightly cocked, light foxing, good and sound.
An influential text on contraception, it imparted generally correct information on all matters of women's sexual health while doubling as an advertisement for both the French Secret, aka, baudruche, aka condoms, and for abortion services provided by the author. Janet F. Brodie identifies the pseudonymous author as Joseph Trow, the brother of famous New York abortionist Ann Trow Lohman, in her book Contraception and Abortion in Nineteenth-Century America.
53. The philosophy of the beautiful, from the French of Victor Cousin. Translated with notes and an introduction by Jesse Cato Daniel. London: William Pickering, 1848.
$100
12mo, pp. xx, [2], 189, [1]; original brown cloth, printed paper label on spine; label rather spotted; all else very good.
"In the year 1818, M. Cousin delivered a course of lectures on the True, the Beautiful and the Good: this volume is a translation of that part of the course which is entitled The Beautiful" (advertisement).
54. [Cruikshank, George.] Tales of other days. By J. Y. A. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange, 1830.
$150
8vo, pp. vii, [3], 250; vignette title page and 6 engraved plates by J. Thompson and S. & T. Williams after drawings by Cruikshank; later half black morocco over marbled boards, gilt decorated spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 2; extremities a bit rubbed, but generally a good, sound copy, or better.
"The Tales comprised in this volumes were written during the author's leisure hours, and have already appeared before the public , but at the request of a few partial friends they have been revised and collected in the present form, and he trusts that although they may be wanting in elegance of style, they will be found correct as to historical and descriptive particulars" (preface).
Akerman was an English antiquarian specializing mainly in numismatics. He also wrote under the pseudonym Paul Pindar.
Cohn 23.
55. [Cuba.] Cuba and the wrecked Maine. With introduction and descriptive text, reproductions of photographs. Chicago: Belford, Middlebrook & Co., 1898.
$50
Oblong 4to, pp. [84]; 3 full-page maps, numerous photographs, mostly full-page, including some of the destruction and salvage of the Maine; original pictorial white cloth stamped in brown and green; old Xmas gift inscription, some soiling of the binding, otherwise very good.
56. Nile notes of a Howadji. New York: Harper & Bros., 1851.
$400
First edition of the author's first book, 8vo, pp. 320, 6 (ads), 6 (ads), [4] ads; wood-engraved half-title and vignette tail-piece; lightly foxed throughout, original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt; a fine copy, with the leather bookplate of Arthur Wilmer Lissauer, and in a scuffed and faded quarter green morocco slipcase.
The Rhode Island writer and abolitionist George William Curtis (1824-1892) was friends with many of the transcendentalists of the day, including Emerson, Hawthorne, and Thoreau. He was a vocal supporter women's suffrage and civil rights, and was later involved in the founding of the Republican party, This book recounts much of the four years he spent in Egypt, Syria, and the Levant, 1846-50.
American Travellers Abroad C-143; BAL 4259: "The London (Bentley) edition appears to have been issued simultaneously; or, perhaps a few days before the American edition."
57. [Cyprus.] Cyprus: historical and descriptive. From the earliest times to the present day. Adapted from the German of Franz von Löher, with much additional matter by Mrs. A. Batson Joyner. New York: R. Worthington, 750 Broadway, 1878.
$325
8vo, pp. xvi, [2], 324; frontispiece map, one full-page map, 18 wood-engraved illustrations on 15 plates; original decorative terracotta cloth stamped in black and gilt; old owner's rubberstamp on title page, otherwise, a bright, sound copy.
58. [Democratic Party.] The record of the Democratic Party 1860-1865 [wrapper title and drop title]. [New York: The Loyal Publication Society, 1865].
$75
8vo, pp. 39, [1]; original yellow printed wrappers; wrappers worn and loose, old fold, all else good and sound.
“Our repulsive task has been to show, upon Democratic evidence ... the doom earned for itself by the Democratic Party.”
An attack on the Democratic Party for its sympathy to the Confederate south, its resistance to the Union effort, and its obstruction of meaningful reconstruction, with many quotations of Democratic materials and politicians. The Loyal Publication Society's mission was of the largest and most significant of the propaganda organizations that formed to sway public opinion on the Civil War. It published a total of 90 pamphlets in about 900,000 copies.
59. [Detroit.] Shove's business advertiser, and Detroit directory for 1852-53, containing a correct census of the city for 1852, together with an historical sketch of the city and Its trade ... No. 1 to be published annually. Detroit: Free Press Book and Job Office Print, 1852.
$450
12mo, pp. xii, 235, [3]; including an errata leaf, general index and an index to advertisements, some of which are illustrated with small woodcuts; front endpaper with a blue and red printed advertisement paste-down for the Free Press of Jacob Barns and its job printing & newspaper offerings; opposite endpaper with the small name-stamp of collector George R. Brush; M.D. in the U.S. Navy; a surgeon & medical inspector, from 1861-1894; penciled on that page are the names of ‘A. H. Redfield Detroit, Alos. Hamilton Redfield family from Killingworth, and a faint note regarding the Redfield family history; original printed blue paper-covered boards, back cover with an illustrated advertisement for Geo. Winter Hat and Cap manufacturer and Hyde & Satchell, merchant tailors; roan shelf back, gilt ruled and titled. Some edgewear, light occasional spotting, but generally a very good, sound copy.
This is the fifth Detroit directory overall, and the first and only compiled by Shove. Spear, p. 119.
60. Die Feile und ihre Entwicklungsgeschichte. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1925.
$375
Small folio, pp. [4], 251, [1], [4] ads; 278 illustrations in the text; original parchment-backed gray paper-covered boards stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; plain paper-dust-jacket split along the joints; all else near fine.
With the ownership signature of Paul C. Nicholson (1888-1956) on the front free endpaper, Nicholson the owner and president of Nicholson File Company in Providence, R.I., the largest manufacturer of files in the world, and a well-known book collector, most notably of whaling logs: his Nicholson Log Book collection now at Providence Public. Three pages of manuscript notes by Nicholson laid in.
Contains a detailed description of the file cutting machine, the history of the file, as well as file manufacture and its development.
Not found in OCLC.
61. The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With illustrations by Phiz. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.
$675
First edition, bound from the original parts (stab holes evident), first issue with "Chapman & Hall" on frontispiece and 3 of the first four plates; also with "visiter" for "sister" on p. 123, line 17, and "latter" for "letter" on p. 160, line 6 up; 8vo, pp. [iii]-xvi, 624; engraved portrait frontispiece of Dickens, 39 engraved plates (2 misbound) by Halbot K. Browne ("Phiz"); bound without the half-title in late 19th century half green calf, red morocco; good and sound.
Gimble A-41; Smith I, 5.
62. The Pickwick papers. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, n.d., [ca. 1855].
$75
8vo, pp. [4], 9-371, [1]; text in double column; original pictorial wrappers chipped and worn with the occasional small piece missing, back wrapper loose, but present with some loss in the gutter; spine largely intact; good.
From Peterson's Uniform Edition of Dickens' works.
63. British military uniforms. A portfolio of prints depicting officers of cavalry regiments as drawn by L. Mansion and St. Eschauzier, coloured by C. H. Martin, and published by W. Spooner circa 1830. London: Neville Spearman & The Holland Press, 1958.
$150
Folio, pp. [14], plus 8 color plates, each with a descriptive page of text; fine copy in the dust jacket, retaining the original glassine jacket (a bit miscreased), and the invoice from Francis Edwards to the original owner. The illustrations are all equestrian in nature.
64. [Dorr, Thomas Wilson.] Report of the trial of Thomas Wilson Dorr, for treason: including the testimony at length, arguments of counsel - the charge of the Chief Justice - the motions and arguments on the questions of a new trial and in arrest of judgment: together with the sentence of the court, and the speech of Mr. Dorr, before sentence. From notes taken at the trial. Providence: B. F. Moore, 1844.
$250
First edition, 8vo, pp. 115, [1]; text largely in double column; original blue printed wrappers; rear wrapper wanting; front wrapper starting; lower spine perished; all else good.
Most of this report was published earlier in the Republican Herald according to the Preface which is signed: George Turner [and] W. S. Burges.
American Imprints 2044; Bartlett, p. 111; Cohen 14138; Sabin 20650.
65. [Dorr, Thomas Wilson.] Report of the trial of Thomas Wilson Dorr, for treason against the state of Rhode Island, containing the arguments of counsel, and the charge of Chief Justice Durfee. Boston: published by Tappan & Dennett, 1844.
$450
First edition, 8vo, pp. 131, [1] index and errata; contemporary half-calf over marbled boards; gilt spine label; front endpaper excised; rear joint cracked, binding sound; all else good or better. American Imprints 4970; Cohen 14137; Sabin 20649.
Bound with: [Dorr, Thomas Wilson.] Burgess, W[alter] S., & George Turner, attorneys for the defence. Report of the trial of Thomas Wilson Dorr, for treason: including the testimony at length, arguments of counsel - the charge of the Chief Justice - the motions and arguments on the questions of a new trial and in arrest of judgment: together with the sentence of the court, and the speech of Mr. Dorr, before sentence. From notes taken at the trial. Providence: B. F. Moore, 1844. First edition, 8vo, pp. 115, [1]; text largely in double column; original tan printed wrappers; rear wrapper wanting. Most of this report was published earlier in the Republican Herald according to the Preface which is signed: George Turner [and] W. S. Burges. American Imprints 2044; Bartlett, p. 111; Cohen 14138; Sabin 20650.
Both copies belonging to William Henry Potter (1816-1908), brother of Elisha R. Potter, Jr., a representative from R.I. in Congress whose opposition to the Dorrites led to his appointment as one of three commissioners sent to consult with President Tyler.
The only state without a written constitution, Rhode Island still governed itself under its colonial charter granted by Charles II, which effectively barred about half the adult males from suffrage. Dorr led the effort to change Rhode Island's political system which became known as the Dorr Rebellion or Dorr War. Rebuffed, he and his People's Party set up a competing government. While he did not attempt to sieze the State House or governmental institutions, a few armed clashes did occur. Governor King declared martial law, arrested Dorr, and indicted him for treason. These are the records of the trial, "prepared from notes taken in full by the reporter and from the notes of one of the judges who sat during the trial" (Preface to the first title).
66. Newport past and present [wrapper title]. Newport: the city by the sea. Four epochs in her history. An age of shadowy tradition. An era of commercial success and social splendor. A generation o decadence. A half century of unparalled development. Newport: John P. Sanborn, 1880.
$325
12mo, pp. 120; original printed blue wrappers; back wrapper rubbed (or stained) causing discoloration; previous owner's rubberstamp on title page, light creasing and soiling; all else very good.
Uncommon.
Hammett, p. 55; Parks 2002.
67. Nature displayed in her mode of teaching language to man; or, a new and infallible method of acquiring a language, in the shortest time possible, deduced from the analysis of the human mind ... adapted to the French. Philadelphia: T. & G. Palmer, 1810.
$225
Third edition "highly improved and much enlarged," 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xl, 433, [1], 96; [8], 366, [2], [97]-253, [1], [2]; a mixed set, both volumes in full contemporary mottled calf, one with speckled edges, red morocco labels on spines; title in volume I with old tears neatly closed on verso, the boards rubbed, text lightly foxed, but generally very good and sound.
This third edition includes the first appearance of his Le Lecteur Francais; ou choix de morceaux en prose et en vers, Parts 1 and 2, bound in with its separate pagination.
Dedicated to Locke, Condillac and Sicard, and a separate dedication to his mother. Dufief was a Franco-American bookseller in Philadelphia, and a professor of the French language, whose innovative methods of teaching "eschewed grammatical rules and endorsed the learning of phrases and sentences rather than solitary words" (Stern, Nicholas Gouin Dufief of Philadelphia, p. 12). It was a method adopted by schools around the country, and the book went through at least 21 editions over the next 45 years.
American Imprints 20001 and 20002 (Le Lecteur Francais), 20003 (Nature Displayed).
68. Tarantula. New York: Macmillan, [1971].
$100
First edition, first printing, 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 136, [2]; covers a bit spotted, unclipped dust jacket with a short crease at the top of the front panel and some rubbing at the lower left corner; all else near fine. Dylan contracted with Macmillan to write Tarantula in 1964, but for various reasons, the book never made it to the press and numerous piracies appeared in its place. Tarantula was not commercially published until 1971.
69. [Education - Connecticut.] Connecticut common school journal. Volumes 1-3. Hartford: Board of Commissioners of Common Schools, 1838-1841.
$250
First edition, 4to, 3 volumes, volumes 1 and 3 bound in contemporary calf-backed boards, and volume 2 in unopened sheets; upper cover of volume 1 loose, the rest starting; text illustrations, including classroom diagrams produced via ornaments, each volume complete except lacking nos. 9 (Feb 15) and 16 (appendix) in volume 2, vol. 2 no. 10 misnumbered as 9; spotting and tide stains to a few issues of vol. 2, text generally clean and sound.
Also, with a folio 4-page supplement: "Conn. Common School Journal, --- EXTRA. August, 1839", containing the Connecticut act controlling schools in the state.
The official publication for the Board of Commissioners, which lasted until 1866, providing news on education policy, new best practices, ideas for classrooms, reports of the board, and other articles of relevance to teachers.
70. [Education.] Evening schools and district libraries: an appeal to Philadelphians, on behalf of improved means of education and self-culture, for apprentices and young workmen. Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1850.
$100
First edition, 8vo, pp. 26, [6]; original green printed wrappers; small chip on upper wrapper, foxing, with the stamp of New York State Library and signature of J. Francis Fisher, a prominent Philadelphian.
The pamphlet is soliciting funds of thirty-thousand dollars for the erection of 6 buildings to serve West Philadelphia.
Sabin 61640.
71. [Education.] Object lessons: prepared for teachers of primary schools and primary classes ... Fourth thousand. New York: A. S. Barnes & Burr, publishers, 51 and 58 John Street, 1863.
$100
12mo, pp. x, [1], 12-173, [1], 18 (publisher's ads); line drawings in the text, 2 of which are hand-colored; original brown blindstamped cloth, wear at edges, but generally good and sound, or better.
First published the previous year, the book was still in print at the turn of the century. It is based on Pestalozzi's system of instruction with methods of training the senses of children by means of their appropriate objects.
72. Chippewa (Ojibwe) language book. [New York: 1991.
$45
8vo, pp. [2], ii-vii, 272; original pictorial wrappers; fine. A brief grammar and phrase book followed by an extensive English-Chippewa / Chippewa-English dictionary. Eklund was a native of Brookston, Minnesota, heart of the Ojibwe country.
73. Observations on a pamphlet, entitled "Remarks on the Seventh Annual Report of the Hon. Horace Mann, Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education" [drop title]. [Boston: Samuel N. Dickinson, 1844].
$50
8vo, pp. 16; sewn without wrappers, likely as issued, light soiling and edgewear, good.
George B. Emerson, a lifelong education reformer, defends Mann against a reactionary and complacent establishment.
American Imprints 44-2205, attributing the pamphlet to Emerson.
74. [Erotica.] The oeconomy of love. A poetical essay ... A new edition. London: printed for M. Cooper, at the Globe in Pater-Noster Row, 1756.
$75
8vo, pp. [4], 43, [1]; vignette title page and head- and tail-piece; removed from binding; all else very good.
The "Oeconomy Of Love" has been described as an eighteenth-century guide to sex. It went through at least ten editions before this one. See Foxon A-303 for the first edition of 1736.
75. [Fanfrolico Press.] Older than earth. Record of lyrical experience. London: Fanfrolico Press, 1930.
$50
Edition limited to 175 copies signed by the poet, slim 8vo, pp. [32]; original red cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering on spine; spine a touch faded; very good and sound.
Hand set and printed by Jack Lindsay.
76. FPBA Banquet 2 November 2013 Saint Giles, Oxford. [Stockholm, Wisconsin: printed at Midnight Paper Sales for the Fine Press Book Association, 2013.]
$50
Tall bifolium (approx. 14" x 5¾") dinner menu for the annual event. The chore of printing the menu falls to a different printer each year. This copy with a small dimple on the front, but otherwise fine.
77. I, Charles Lounsbury. Providence: Ackerman-Standard Company, 1935.
$45
Edition limited to 400 numbered copies (this, no. 230) printed and bound for Eugene A. Clauss; 4to, frontispiece by M. L. Freedman, and 5 leaves printed on rectos only in blue and black; original blue cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper label on upper cover; near fine. Apparently, a holiday gift from Eugene A. Clauss of the Ackerman-Standard Co., with his business card laid in, together with a typed carbon letter to him from the recipient thanking him for the gift.
First printed in Harper's Weekly, Sept. 3, 1898, under the title, "A Last Will," and subsequently published under various titles: "A Legacy to Mankind" (1907); "A Last Will" (1908); "The Happy Testament" (1913), and, "The Will of Charles Lounsbury" (1936).
78. On the rocks.. Printed on the ice of White Bear Lake, Minnesota: by the Ampersand Club, 1997.
$150
Edition limited to approx. 120 copies, this one of 80 copies in gray wrappers, paper label on upper cover; sq. 24mo, pp. [15]; wood-engraved title-page vignette by Gaylord Schanilec; fine.
"The untitled and anonymously-compiled word-list was discovered in a small notebook in the library of M.F.K. Fisher. To the first leaf of the manuscript, in Fisher's hand, was attached the following note: "Definitions (alcoholic) by whom? Why? Found in old binder." The manuscript consisted of 15 pages on graph paper, in pencil, and in a shaky, juvenile hand; but that it was compiled by an adult seems beyond question.
The book was printed by the Ampersand Club at its winter meeting on Super Bowl Sunday in 20 degree below zero weather in the middle of White Bear Lake in an ice-fishing house. The Club believes it is the first time a book has been printed "on the ice" in the western hemisphere.
Quarter to Midnight A.57.b.
79. [Forgeries.] The life and public services of Hon. Abraham Lincoln, with a portrait on steel. To which is added a biographical sketch of Hon. Hannibal Hamlin. New York: Derby & Jackson, publishers, no. 498 Broadway, 1860.
$750
12mo, pp. [iii]-vi, [2],16-354, [4] ads (paginated 29, 6, 5, 4); ads on recto of rear free endpaper; frontispiece portrait from a photograph by Brady; original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine faded, small hole in front free endpaper, all else very good.
Eugene Field's copy, with his signature dated Dec. 6th, 1893 at the top of the title page; his forged signature of "A. Lincoln" on the front pastedown, an ink certification on the verso of the rear free endpaper by Sonya Garfield, a notary public for Cook County, Illinois attesting to a statement on the rear pastedown by Eugene Field II, viz.: "This 'Life' of A. Lincoln came from the library of my father, Eugene Field. It is a first edition and bears the original manuscript signature of A. Lincoln. This volume was presented to my father by H. H. Kohlsaat, publisher of the Times Herald, who was a very dear friend of my father and was prized by him very highly as a very rare Lincoln item. Eugene Field II, June 18, 1935."
With the pressure stamp of Sonya Garfield, signatures of two witnesses, one Gillespie and a W. Maxwell, and the ownership signature of H. H. Kohlsaat crossed out, presumably by Field, on the front free endpaper.
Laid in is a 5" x 4" photograph of Eugene Field by S. L. Stein, Milwaukee, inscribed at the top "With very much love to H. H. Kohlsaat from Eugene Field, 1894."
80. Menologium seu calendarium poeticum, ex Hickesiano Thesauro: or, the poetical calendar of the Anglo-Saxons. With an English translation and notes by Samuel Fox. London: sold by William Pickering; and by the printer, T. Combe, Junior, Leicester, 1830.
$225
8vo, pp. viii, [3], 12-63, [1]; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on upper cover; neatly rebacked in brown paper, hinges strengthened; very good.
Old English text and English translation on opposite pages. An Anglo-Saxon (Old English) poem about the months of the year, taken from George Hickes' Antiquae literaturae septentrionalis libri duo (Oxon, 1705-03).
81. The Grand Junction Railway companion to Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham; and Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham guide: containing an account of every thing worthy the attention of the traveller upon the line; including a complete description of every part of the rail-road; of the noblemen or gentlemen's seats which may be seen from it; and of the towns and villages of importance in its neighborhood. Liverpool: published by Henry Lacey, 64, Bold Street, 1837.
$500
16mo, pp. [2], iv, [2], 192, viii, [1], 194*-200* (ads), 193-228 (ads), [2]; large folding frontispiece map, 1 engraved plate with map on verso; original green cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; cloth cracked at joints, the map with 2 or 3 short tears neatly repaired on verso; all else good or better.
82. [Freemasonry.] Morals and dogma of the ancient and accepted Scottish rite of freemasonry prepared for the Supreme Council of the thirty-third degree for the northern jurisdiction of the United States and published by its authority. Charleston: A. M. 5632 [i.e. Richmond, Va.: L.H. Jenkins, 1947.]
$45
Reprint of the 1906 edition; 8vo, pp. iv, [4], 861, [1]; frontispiece portrait, a few illustrations and diagrams in the text;
bound with, as issued: Digest-Index of "Morals and Dogma," of Albert Pike 33° by T. W. Hugo. Published by the Supreme Council 33° A. & A., S. R. for the southern jurisdiction, U.S.A. Washington, D.C., n.d., pp. iv, [2], 218; original red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine.
83. Report of the exploring expedition to the Rocky Mountains in the year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the years 1843-44. Washington: Gales & Seaton, 1845.
$2,000
First edition, the preferred Senate issue (containing an additional 110 pages of astronomical observations), 8vo, pp. 693, [1]; 22 lithograph plates and 5 maps (3 folding), including the large folding map by Charles Preuss in the back cover pocket; some spotting, but the plates generally clean; one 2-inch split to fold on large map with a few of the corners starting; occasional light pencil annotations; original brown cloth neatly rebacked with old spine laid down, else a very good, sound copy.
Cowan p. 223; Howes F-370; Sabin 25845; Streeter 3131; Wagner-Camp 115.1; Wheat, Trans-Mississippi 497; Zamorano 80, 39.
84. [French Fiction.] Un coeur pour deux amours. Paris: Ambroise Dupont, 1837.
$200
8vo, pp. [4], 540; uncut; red paper wrappers lined with manuscript wastepaper - a manuscript letter draft from 1838, manuscript label on spine; spine and edges sunned; half-title with small closed tear, a couple pages with light soiling but textblock mostly clean and sound.
Janin (1804-74) was a French journalist and drama critic, and wrote a number of novels and tales of which Un coeur pour deux amours was one.
Scarce. Five in OCLC, all in Europe.
85. The beggar's opera. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Lincolns-Inn Fields. Written by Mr. Gay ... The fourth edition: to which is added the ouverture in score; and the musick prefix'd to each song. London: printed for John Watts at the Printing-Office in Wild-Court near Lincoln's-Inn Fields, 1735.
$150
8vo, pp. [8], 8, 76; printed music throughout; removed from binding; first and last leaf a little soiled, wanting the two leaves of ads at the back; else very good.
ESTC notes that signature B-H are reimpressions from the edition of 1733, and that signature A has been reset.
86. [German Military.] Collection of pre-World War II era German magazines. [Berlin, etc.]: 1931-1939.
$120
10 magazines, folio, text illustrations throughout, with articles on military, ships, planes, tanks, war maps, and some culture articles. Pictorial paper wrappers, some in color; the occasional closed tear and vendor stamp but all very good or better. The majority of magazines are dated prior to WW-II but are clearly concerned with Germany's military buildup. Issues include:
Kolnische Illustrierte Beitung. Jan., 1932
Die Woche. Oct., 1932
Frankreich in Waffen. 1932
Ist Deutschland zur See gesichert? Sonderheft Hamburger Illustrierte. Jan., 1933
Koralle. Nov. 1933
Die Sirene. Aug. 1936
Der Adler. July, 1939
Illustrirte zeitung. Nov 1931, May, 1933 and June, 1939.
87. [German Navy.] Deutschlands Kriegsflotte. Eine Darstellung der Entwickelung und des gegewartigen Bestandes der gesamten Reichsmarine, ihrer organisation und ihres Materials. Erfurt und Leipzig: Friedrich Kirchner, 1906.
$140
Large 8vo, pp. 604, [2]; chromolithograph frontispiece, chromolithograph plate of flags and signals, 3 double-page color plates of ships' hulls and cross-sections, double-page color map, 3 other black & white plates, double-page plate printed on 2 sides showing the ships of the German navy, folding table of ships printed in color at the back, and the whole profusely illustrated throughout, mostly from photographs, many full- or nearly full-page; original pictorial green cloth stamped black, red and yellow; extremities worn, cloth starting to crack at the bottom of the front joint, the binding slightly dull and the front hinge starting; a good copy with an interesting provenance.
With the ownership signature on the front free endpaper of William A. Bieber, Hamburg, Dec. 1908 who was a friend and associate of Fred T. Jane, editor of Jane's Fighting Ships. According to a manuscript note accompanying the book, one of the principal characters in Jane's novel The Port Guardship (1902) dealing with contemporary naval life, was Wallace Ransome, in real life the 'genial merchant banker,' William Bieber, whose inestimable collection of warship photographs had been of considerable assistance to Jane in the preparation of Fighting Ships.
There are several annotations by Bieber at the back of the book, correcting the name of a ship and other small reader's marks.
88. [German Navy.] Kaiser Wilhelm II und die Marine. Herausgegeben von Professor Willy Stöwer. Berlin: druct und verlag von August Scherl, 1912.
$45
Folio, pp. [12], 207, [1]; 10 double page color plates of naval scenes after paintings by Willy Stower, frontispiece, and text illustrations throughout; text in German; tan cloth, black decorated covers, light soiling to covers, a few closed tears to pages reinforced with tape, one plate with residue on the lower edge, not affecting image, very good.
89. The central gold region. The grain, pastoral, and gold regions of North America. With some new views of its physical geography; and observations on the Pacific Railroad. Philadelphia & St. Louis: Sower, Barnes & Co. and E. K. Woodward, 1860.
$600
8vo, pp. 194; 6 folding maps (4 hand colored); original brown cloth, gilt title on spine; spine chipped, cracked and with loss; edges rubbed, lacking front free endpaper, owner's signature on flyleaf and a couple small notes in pencil; text clean and sound and only a couple short gutter tears in the maps.
A futurist history of the region, predicting that the Mississippi River valley would become the center of western civilization, with Independence, Kansas at the center, and that the central midwest would become the garden of the world if agriculture was increased there.
Graff 1556; Howes G-192; Sabin 27468.
90. [Glasgow.] Bartholomew's pocket plan of Glasgow and suburbs [wrapper title]. Edinburgh: John Barotholomew & Son, Ltd., n.d., [ca. 1950s?].
$35
Large folding color map of Glasgow and environs approx. 24½" x 32", folding down into orange printed wrappers (approx. 6¼" x 4"), with a 15-page index mounted inside the front cover; very good, map is fine.
91. One-page autograph letter signed regarding a lecture by Robert Scott. [London]: Queen Anne's Mansions, Stg. James Park, S.W., 5 Nov., [19]04.
$100
16mo (approx. 6" x 3¾"), integral leaf attached; generally fine.
The letter is headed "Capt. Scott's lecture." Goldie (1846-1925) notes that he is "much obliged by your letter of yesterday. I shall not be able to use any tickets, but I should like to know the hour of the lecture and how I shall gain admittance to the hall..."
A letter from a prominent Manxman to an unnamed correspondent. Goldie was partially responsible for the founding of Nigeria. In 1905 he was elected President of the Royal Geographical Society and held that office for three years.
92. The vicar of Wakefield. London: printed for, and sold by H. D. Symons, 1793.
$75
12mo, pp. iv, [1], 6-244; contemporary full calf, red morocco label on spine; rubbed and worn, front free endpaper wanting, the text toned and a little spotted; good and sound.
Early ownership signatures of Silas Danham and Elizabeth Russell.
93. [Gonzaga, Aloysius.] Historia Von dem Leben/ Ableiben und Wunderzeichen des seligen Junglings Aloysij Gonzagæ, der Societet Iesv, Ferdinandi/ Fürstens des heyligen Römischen Reichs/ unnd Marggraffens zu Castilion/ ältisten Sohns. Meyntz: Johan Albin, 1614.
$325
Small 4to, pp. [87],1-25, 318; vignette title page printed in red and black; contemporary full blindstamped vellum with a central panel on bother covers, fleurs-de-lys in the corners, pair of ties at the fore-edge replaced; title page a bit toned from front pastedown, old ex-libris crossed out on title page, and with a new (1692) inscription underneath, occasional underlining of the text in an early hand; hinges cracked, both with old reinforcement, turn-ins popped, the vellum a bit warped, but the text is clean and the binding remains sound.
History of the life of the young Jesuit saint Aloysius Gonzaga (1568-1591) who died as a result of caring for the victims of the plague.
VD17 12:118775U.
94. Catalogue de la Galerie des Freres Paul et Serge Tretiakoff propriete de la ville de Moscou. Moscou: Societe d'imprimerie A.I. Mamontoff, 1905.
$50
Small 8vo, pp. [4], 161, [1]; 2 floor plans of the galleries, 29 plates of the artwork; very good in original printed brown wrappers.
A private collection which was given to the city of Moscow in 1892 and placed in a public gallery for the first time in 1902. Massive renovations began in 1985; the New Tretyakov Gallery (as it is now called) presents the most complete permanent exhibition of the art of the 20th century in all its diversity - avant-garde, socialistic realism and art of the "austere style" and "underground" and some new art trends. Here are held not only large-scale retrospectives of great Russian artists, but also showed experimental exhibitions of young artists.
95. John Gould's Birds of Great Britain. Introduction by Maureen Lambourne. London: Bloomsbury Books, [1986].
$45
Folio, pp. 239, [1]; about 200 pages of color illustrations reproducing Gould's famous ornithological illustrations; full red cloth, fine in fine yellow dust jacket.
96. A pocket conspectus of the London and Edinburgh pharmacopoeias. Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1803.
$125
First American edition, small 12mo, pp. 132; full contemporary sheep, gilt ruled spine with red morocco label; boards scuffed, joints strengthened, text clean and sound, signature of Robert Wallace on front free endpaper, slip with contemporary or slightly later manuscript notes on a remedy laid in; good.
"Wherein the virtues, uses, and doses, of the several articles and preparations contained in these works are concisely stated; their pronunciation, as to quantity, is distinctly marked; and a variety of other particulars respecting them given, calculated more especially for the use of junior practitioners."
American Imprints 4308; Austin 832.
97. [Greece.] Handbook of Greece. London: His Majesty's Stationary Office, [1918].
$125
8vo, pp. 782; photographic frontispiece and 19 plates, 2 color folding maps; original navy cloth, gilt title on spine; ex-Hill Library with call number on spine, stamp on title page, and a few other library markings, very good and sound.
The Naval Intelligence Division Geographical Handbook Series was produced between 1917 and 1922 and were commissioned to support the war effort, first for WW1 and then with a second series in WW2. The Greece Handbook was divided into three volumes, our copy being volume 1 only, covering the mainland of Old Greece and certain neighboring islands. (Volume II contained The Cyclades and Northern Sporades, and Volume 3 The Islands of the Northern and Eastern Aegean). It includes an overview on history, ethnology, politics etc., but is mostly concerned with detailed descriptions of all major routes through the country, describing them almost mile by mile.
ID 1221 in the Naval Intelligence Handbook Series.
98. Col. Greene's speech before the McClellan Club of Ward Eleven, Boston, October 28, 1864. Printed by vote of the Club [drop title]. [Boston?: printed by vote of the Club, 1864.
$45
8vo, pp. 24; self-wrappers; small holes in the top blank margin of the final leaf, all else very good.
Campaign literature supporting George B. McClellan and opposing Abraham Lincoln for president in 1864.
99. The Philadelphia vocabulary, English and Latin: put into a new method, proper to acquaint the learner with things as well as pure Latin words. Adorned with twenty-six pictures. Philadelphia: M. Carey, 1806.
$350
12mo, pp. vii, [1], 123, [1]; vignette title page and pictorial woodcut headers for each section; full speckled calf; spine rebacked with japanese tissue; light tidestains; good copy.
A popular school text by the surmaster of St. Paul's School who also compiled an English grammar. The Latin vocabulary went through many editions in both England and America, where it was titled the Philadelphia Vocabulary. It is, essentially, an abridgement of Jan Amos Komensky's Orbis Pictura. The first American edition appeared in 1787.
American Imprints 10503; See Vancil, p. 101 and Osborne, p. 123 for other editions.
100. [Halifax Fisheries Commission.] Argument of Richard H. Dana, Jr. on behalf of the United States [wrapper title and drop title]. [Washington D.C.?: 1877].
$75
Large 8vo, pp. 82, [2]; original olive printed wrappers, separated and chipped, textblock clean and sound.
The United States and England were in dispute over royalties for fishing off the coast of Canada. The Halifax Fisheries Commission was convened to settle the matter, with the tribunal deciding 2 to 1 in England's favor.
BAL II, p. 409.