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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. Marjorie's three gifts ... Illustrated. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, n.d., [ca. 1899].
$150
First separate edition, slim 8vo, pp. [2], 41, [5]; 4 plates; original green pictorial cloth stamped in green, yellow, and gilt; extremities slightly rubbed; very good.
This tale for girls was originally published in My Girls (1878), and was the second of the book's eleven tales to be separately published between 1899 and 1904.
BAL 226.
2. [Arnold, Frances Rogers.] Remarks made at the funeral of Frances Rogers Arnold, August 2d, 1865. Providence: Knowles, Anthony & Co., 1865.
$175
8vo, pp. 21, [3]; text within mourning border; original glazed black wrappers printed in silver; a lovely copy.
Frances was the wife of Samuel G. Arnold who died in 1826; he was the son of Welcome Arnold Green.
Not in OCLC.
3. Women of Japan. Photographs by Marc Riboud. Translated by Diane Athill. [London]: Andre Deutsch, a Bruyna Book, [1959].
$250
First edition in English, 12mo, pp. 64; frontispiece and 80 photographic plates on 96 pages; slight creasing of the spine else a near fine copy in original pictorial wrappers.
Christine Arnothy (née Irène Kovach de Szendrö, 1930-2015) was a Hungarian-born French novelist and literary critic who grew up in Budapest and fled with her family to Austria, thence to Paris where she studied at the Sorbonne. In all she wrote over 40 books including two detective novels under the pseudonym William Dickinson.
4. [Quakers.] Some account of the early part of the life of Elizabeth Ashbridge, who died, in the service of the truth, at the house of Robert Lecky, in the county of Carlow, Ireland, the 16th of 5th month, 1755. Providence: H. H. Brown, for the Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Fund, 1831.
$750
12mo, pp. 60; original drab front wrapper; some browning, very good.
Preceded by several other editions between 1774 and 1820, this poignant autobiography chronicles the spiritual journey of an independent woman in a patriarchal world. Born in England in 1713, Elizabeth Ashbridge eloped at the age of 14, but within several months she was a widow. After her parents refused to take her in she went to Ireland to live with Quaker relatives. At the age of 19 she immigrated to the United States where she was indentured as a servant in New York. After two years she managed to purchase her freedom from a cruel master, then married a teacher named Sullivan who proved to be abusive. Disappointed that the Anglican ministry was closed to women, she tried other denominations, but became disenchanted with clerics indifferent to her aspirations. Visiting Quaker relatives in Pennsylvania, she converted. Her growing independence and secular life increasingly alienated her husband. After Sullivan's death, quickened by habitual drunkenness, she married Aaron Ashbridge, a respected Quaker from Chester Co., Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth Ashbridge overcomes an authoritarian father, a cruel master, an abusive husband, and the hypocrisy of the priestly class. In her failed marriage and in her faith, Ashbridge chooses conscience over convention. Her story provides a unique perspective on the situation of women at the time of the Great Awakening.
A thriving Quaker population in Rhode Island likely accounts for the publication of this edition, paid for by the Obadiah Brown Fund, which was founded in Providence in 1823 by bequest of Obadiah Brown "to be a fund, independent of New England Yearly Meeting, to enhance the Religious Society of Friends through grants to individuals and Friends organizations, and specifically for 'the printing and disseminating of useful books for the promulgation of the gospel and by that means, as well as, otherwise spreading our Religious Principals where they are little known'.”
Obadiah Brown was the son of Moses Brown, the founder of the Quaker School in Rhode Island (i.e. Moses Brown), and the nephew of John Brown, founder of Brown University. The original bequest from Brown was $100,000, said to be the largest single bequest to an institution of learning up to that time. The Obadiah Brown Fund exists to this day.
This edition not in Smith, Friend's Books (see pp. 135-36); American Imprints 5802.
5. Inni giovenili della Signora Barbauld. Tradotti da un Toscano. In Londra: stampato per N. Hailes, Libreria Giovenile, Piccadilly: da C. Whittingham, Casa di Collegio, Chiswick, 1819.
$375
16mo, pp. x, [2], 146,[4] ads for Hailes’ Juvenile Library; original drab paper-covered boards, printed paper label ("Mrs. Barbauld’s / Hymns for Children. / — / Price 3s.") on upper cover, and a second label ("Inni Goivenili. / Price 3s.") on spine; some rubbing but generally very good and sound.
6. [Barney, Susan Hammond.] Apologia de la Caridad personificada en Jesuchristo. Invitacion al verdadero Cristiano. Dedicada a Mrs. J. K. Barney [wrapper title]. Guanabacoa [i.e. Havana]: n.d., [1901].
$300
16mo, pp. 4 (approx. 6" x 4½"), original drab printed wrappers (toned); dedication slip tipped in prior to the first leaf and stating "edicion II."
Accompanied by a printed bifolium containing the poem "Otro Lamento" by Orozco y Etienne, dated 1903, and with 2 (likely authorial) corrections in ink to the text, the bifolium stitched together with 4 small broadside slip poems by the same poet, the first a tribute to the late President McKinley ("A MacKinley" [sic]); the second "El 10 de Octubre", imp. El Progresso; "En memoria del pundonoroso Capitan Don Federico Capdevila," imp. El Progresso; and, "Al Rev. H. B. Someillan," the first dated 1901, the second undated, and the last two dated 1903.
Susan Hammond Barney (a.k.a. Mrs. Joseph K. Barney, 1834-1922) of Providence, R.I. is the noted prison reformer, Christian writer, evangelist, and world traveler. She is one of the founders of the Prisoners' Aid Society of Rhode Island, and for many years was the President of the Women's Christian Temperance Union in Rhode Island. She is perhaps best known as the National Superintendent of Prison, Jail, Police, and Almshouse Visitation.
Only one entry in OCLC for Anastasio Orozco y Etienne: Emblema de las flores y de los colores en prosa y verso, Havana, 1882, held only at the University of Florida.
7. The evils suffered by American women and children: the causes and the remedy. Presented in an address ... to meetings of ladies in Cincinnati, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, and other cities. Also, an address to the Protestant clergy of the United States. New York: Harper & Brothers, publishers, 82 Cliff Street, [1846].
$275
8vo pp. 36, 4 (ads); text in double column; removed from binding, wrappers wanting; all else very good.
Beecher's importance stems from her desire to expand the role of women in domestic life and to use that newly found power to effect changes in the public sphere. A pragmatic, moral philosophy, based upon industry and self-sacrifice, competed quite successfully with more radical views of the role of women associated with anti-slavery and other reforms. Education, especially childhood education—the subject of the second title here—was central to her mission. "In numerous magazine articles and in such books as The Evils Suffered by American Women and American Children: The Causes and the Remedy (1846) she assumed the role of teacher and minister to her sex. All her writings on women—as, indeed, all her educational reforms—sprang from an indignant sense of the disparity between woman's true role and her actual condition...." (Notable American Women).
American Imprints 46-690; Sabin 4291.
8. The ten pleasures of marriage and the second part The confession of the new married couple. Reprinted with an introduction by John Harvey. London: privately printed for the Navarre Society, 1922.
$125
Limited edition of an unspecified number, 8vo, pp. xviii, [6], 280; 22 plates; minimal foxing, free endpapers darkened, dust jacket with faint spots on the spine and very light edge wear.
The first editions of The Pleasures and The Confession (1682 & 1683) give A. Marsh as the author (see Wing M726 & M727). With the armorial bookplate of Molineux on the front pastedown.
9. [Education for Women.] Letters to a young lady, on a variety of useful and interesting subjects, calculated to improve the heart, to form the manners, and enlighten the understanding ... The fourth edition. In two volumes. London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand [by W. Flint, Old Bailey, London]., 1812.
$350
2 volumes, 12mo, pp. xvii, [1], 240; [4], 264; original brown paper-covered boards recovered with marbled paper and glazed green paper shelfback with gilt fillets; very good and sound. An attractive sophistication, and a solution to the drabness of the original binding.
Bennett's book went through many editions in both England and American and gave discourse to the question of women's education.
10. Poems; being the genuine compositions of Elizabeth Bentley, of Norwich. Norwich: sold by the Author, near the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital; sold also by Peers. Taylor and Hessey, 98, Fleet-Steet, London; Stevenson, Matchett, and Stevenson, Norwich; Messrs. Deighton, Cambridge; and all other Booksellers, 1821.
$950
First edition, 12mo, pp. xxviii, 168, [2] (an inserted half leaf at end for an additional publisher, further subscribers, and errata); engraved frontispiece portrait (from a drawing by Clover); original drab paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine (gouged with minor loss); upper joint cracked but on the whole very good, clean, and sound. Early ownership signature on front endpaper, in ink: 'Elizabeth Watts 17th. Nor. 1821,' she being on of the subscribers.
Additionally, another presentation from Shakespeare bibliographer William Jaggard on the front pastedown: "To Richard Bentley Esq., one of the Stationers' Brethern, from another 'of that ilk,' at Stratford-on-Avon - this salvage from old Father Time's tidemarks, W.J."
In her poetry Bentley (1767-1839) "celebrates the countryside and engages in public debates on topics such as abolitionism and cruelty to animals. Cowper compared her favourably with Mary Leapor, a labouring-class poet of the previous generation, citing her 'strong natural genius'" (Wikipedia).
11. Some account of the life of Rachael Wriothesley Lady Russell, by the editor of Madame du Deffand’s letters. Followed by a series of letters from Lady Russell to her husband, William Lord Russell, from 1672 to 1682; together with some miscellaneous letters to and from Lady Russell. To which are added, eleven letters from Dorothy Sidney Countess of Sunderland, to George Saville Marquis of Hallifax. In the year 1680. Published from the originals in the possession of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster-Row; and James Ridgway, Piccadilly., 1819.
$850
First edition, 4to, pp. ciii, [1], 150; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; small cracks at the bottom of the spine, small wax spots on lower cover, but otherwise near fine. On the upper cover is the ownership signature of Princess Starhemberg [i.e. Princess Franziska Starhemberg 1787-1864].
Presentation copy from the editor, Mrs. Berry, inscribed "To the Princess Starhemberg from her most attached grateful, & affectionate friend, The Editor." There is one correction in ink in the margin of p. viii, also in her hand. Berry (1763-1852), was the editor of the works of Horace Walpole, two dramatic plays, and A Comparative View of the Social Life of England and France from the Restoration of Charles II to the French Revolution.
"These letters are written with such a neglect of style, and often of grammar, as may disgust the admirers of well-turned periods, and they contain such frequent repetitions of homely tenderness, as may shock the sentimental readers of the present days. But they evince the enjoyment of happiness, built on such rational foundations, and so truly appreciated by its possessors, as too seldom occurs in the history of the human heart. They are impressed too with the marks of a cheerful mind, a social spirit, and every indication of a character prepared, as well to enjoy the sunshine, as to meet the storms of life" (Berry, p. xix).
Lowndes, p. III, 2155.
12. "The most difficult journey in the world." A pilgrimage to Tibet and back [wrapper title]. [Aurobindhu's Ashram, Pondicherry, French India: printed by D. A. Latkin, at the Statesman's Press, Calcutta, n.d., ca. 1950].
$1,250
8¼" x 5¾", pp. 40; 12 illustrations from photographs; very good, sound and clean in original purple wrappers.
This is a first-hand account of an eccentric American woman's 45-day pilgrimage from Darjeeling to Tibet, via Sikkim, and return. "Now this year 1950 is highly important as it marks the beginning of a New Era in the world as well as the beginning of tremendous cataclysms which will change the face of the Earth. The Age of Aquarious [sic] is dawning: it is the age of the Air, the Age of Brotherhood, the Age in which we shall see the establishment of the Reign of Love on Earth, some have called it the Golden Age. It is for this reason that this particular disciple undertakes her pilgrimage at this particular time." (p. 4).
McGill and Santa Barbara only in OCLC. Not in Yukushi.
13. Small archive of letters largely among Henrietta Philippine Thornhill, née Beaufoy; J. W. Newell Birch, Edward Cox, and George H. Hussey, concerning Thornhill’s tenancy at Adwell House, Oxfordshire. Adwell, England: 1848-1852.
$850
28 letters, memorandum of agreement, two receipts, “List of deficiencies in the furnished residence,” “List of articles charged to Thornhill though left by her."
Henrietta Thornhill was the daughter of Col. Mark Beaufoy. She married John Thornhill who was on and off the director of the East India Company between 1815 and 1840. After his death in 1841 she appears to have stayed in England while her children continued on with the Company in India, coming back to visit from time to time. In 1848 Henrietta Thornhill, by this time a widow, employs the estate agent Edmond Cox to procure her a place to rent. He writes to her on March 15th, saying that he has spoken to J. W. Newell Birch, the landlord of Adwell, and Birch is eager to let the house for the 150 guineas a year, which he describes as a modest sum. Cox mentions other options as well, but it appears Thornhill goes with Adwell, and five letters of negotiation follow.
Birch offers a three-year lease, and agrees to install a kitchen mangle. Inventories are made and the garden management is discussed. On April 30th, Birch tells Thornhill that all is prepared for her, and he solicits her on behalf of a few residents who are in need of work. One is a widow with six children younger than 10, who he hopes Thornhill might employ for sewing or laundry work. On May first a memorandum of agreement is drawn up, which includes a hand-colored map of the property. Upon Thornhill’s arrival, she provides a “List of deficiencies in the furnished residence Adwell House Oxon found upon an examination of the inventory of the effects.” This is organized by room and includes the, Library, Bed Rooms, Buff Room, and much in the Servant’s quarters, missing dust pans, decanters, spice plates, incomplete breakfast and tea service, egg cups, pans, etc.
Correspondence is relatively sparse in the following years, until it is time for Thornhill to exit her lease around January 1852. At this point Hussey, Birch’s agent, supplies Thornhill with a bill for objects lost and broken during her tenancy. Thornhill, through Cox, protests the charges, and a nearly year-long contest breaks out, with Hussey insisting that a china set be completely replaced, Cox arguing that it was incomplete on arrival and only the cost of making it whole need be paid, disagreements about what normal wear and unreasonable breakage may be, lists of items that were marked lost but were present, attempts to get around Cox by both Hussey and Birch, Thornhill’s son going off to India before supplying Birch with promised items, and so on, until finally Cox is ordered by Thornhill to pay Birch 15 Pounds on her behalf, which he protests as still too much but does. This seems to settle the matter, as the letters end here. The letters are all either addressed to Thornhill or have been forwarded to her through Cox. Old folds, some toning, writing largely legible, overall very good condition. The Adwell house is now a Grade II listed building, and the estate remains in the possession of the Birch Reynardson family.
14. The Yangtze Valley and beyond. An account of journeys in China, chiefly in the province of Sze Chuan and among the Man-Tze of the Somo Territory . New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. London: John Murray, 1900.
$350
First American and first 2-volume edition; 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [2], xii, [2], 410, [2] ads; [2], vii, [3], 365, [1], [2] ads; folding color map, 118 illustrations primarily from photographs by the author, and many full-page; original pictorial blue cloth stamped in gilt on upper covers and spines; lightly rubbed, spines darkened and worn at extremities; a good, sound set by an important travel writer. Wikipedia notes that she was the first woman to be elected as a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
Cordier, Sinica 355; Yakushi B382.
15. Ernestine; or, the child of mystery. By a lady of fashion ... In three volumes. London: Henry Colburn, publisher, Greater Marlborough Street, 1840.
$750
First edition, 3 volumes, 12mo, pp. [4], 258, [2]; [4], 268; [4], 288; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; bindings a little skewed, labels darkened and rubbed, several small cracks at the joints; a couple of gatherings sprung, evidence of removal on endpapers; all else good and sound.
The hinges have seemingly been reinforced beneath the endpapers, suggesting that the endpapers have been renewed. In any case, a late example of a board binding.
A rare novel: seven locations in OCLC: Huntington, UCLC, Illinois-Urbana, Harvard, Minnesota, Cambridge, and Oxford.
16. H. P. Blavatsky, Tibet and Tulku. Madras: Theosophical Publishing House, 1966.
$125
First edition, 8vo, pp. xxiii, [1], 476; 12 plates and 16 facsimiles; small crack at the bottom of the upper joint, otherwise a near fine copy in original blue cloth stamped in black, and preserving the pictorial dust jacket which has a few short breaks at the extremities.
Not a biography, as the author makes clear in his Preface, as much of Blavatsky's early life remains in shadow. Instead, this is primarily a survey of her writings. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (1831-1891), "was a Russian and American mystic and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875. She gained an international following as the primary founder of Theosophy as a belief system ... Blavatsky was a controversial figure during her lifetime, championed by supporters as an enlightened sage and derided as a charlatan by critics. Her Theosophical doctrines influenced the spread of Hindu and Buddhist ideas in the West as well as the development of Western esoteric currents like Ariosophy, Anthroposophy, and the New Age Movement" (Wikipedia).
17. From stripper to publisher: or, how printing changed my life. Two lectures. [Easthampton: Warwick Press, 1986].
$110
Edition limited to 125 copies signed by Blinn and the photographer, 12mo, [2], 30, [3]; 1 color photograph by Robert Lyons of the author in her print shop tipped in; fine in original green paste-paper covered boards, gilt-lettered spine.
The text consists of two lectures by Ms. Blinn: the first delivered for The Heritage of the Graphic Arts in October of 1980; the second delivered to the Honorable Company of Printers, Annual Wayzgoose, Yale University, April 1986.
18. [Warwick Press.] One woman's work. A lecture by Carol J. Blinn, a.k.a. The Duck Lady ... about her life's work as a typographic designer, letterpress printer, book-artist and publisher ... Lucy Scribner Library ... Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York. [Easthampton: Warwick Press], 2001.
$250
Broadside (approx. 15" x 9½"), signed by Blinn, illustrated with a hand-colored collage caricature of Blinn as a duck, using green, orange, red and yellow; slight wrinkle in the collage due to glue, otherwise fine.
19. The excellency of the female character vindicated; being an investigation relative to the cause and effects of the encroachments of men upon the rights of women, and the too frequent degradation and consequent misfortunes of the fair sex. Printed from the second edition. By the author of the "Beauties of Philanthropy.". Harrisburg: printed by Francis Wyeth, 1828.
$285
12mo, pp. xiii, [2], 16-280 [i.e. 279], [1]; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards; spine rubbed, small crack starting at the top of the front joint; good and sound.
The half-title identifies this as "printed for subscribers, the third, improved edition."
American Imprints 32462.
20. Nothing but the girl: the blatant lesbian image: a portfolio and exploration of lesbian erotic photography. [Herndon, Virginia: Freedom Editions, 1998].
$125
Square 4to, pp. 144; photographically illustrated in black & white throughout; near fine in original pictorial wrappers.
21. Poems, by Felicia Dorothea Browne. Liverpool: printed by G. F. Harris for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, London, 1808.
$950
First edition of the author's first book, published when she was just 14 years' old; 4to, pp. xxvii, [1], 111, [1]; engraved vignette title page, 12 other wood-engraved vignettes throughout; extremities rubbed and worn but on the whole a very good sound copy in original blue paper-covered boards, printed blue paper label on spine.
Includes a lengthy 19-page subscribers' list. Pickering & Chatto note: "Although it received some harsh criticism, her book was sufficiently interesting to Shelley for him to make repeated efforts to meet her (young Felicia's reported beauty may also have been an inducement) - but her mother prevented what would have been an interview fraught with possibilities."
22. Repentance, and other poems. London: Longman & Co.; Hatchard & Son, Piccadilly; and Saunders & Benning, Fleet-Street, 1829.
$400
First edition, 12mo, pp. viii, 118; errata slip tipped in at p. [1]; original drab paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; a few smudges, the label a little rubbed; all else very good, sound, and clean.
Mary Ann Browne (1812-1845) published her first book of poetry at the age of just 15 and was only 17 when Repentance was published. In all she published seven books of poetry and many more poems, songs, and musical scores appeared in periodicals.
23. Emmeline. With some other pieces. To which is prefixed a memoir of her life, including some extracts from her correspondence. Edinburgh: printed for Manners and Miller, and Archibald Constable and Co., Edinburgh; and John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1819.
$425
First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 195, [1]; engraved frontispiece portrait of Mary Brunton; original brown paper-covered boards, manuscript titling on spine; joints starting, spine with several small cracks; the whole slightly shaken, but still a good copy, internally clean.
The memoir is written by her husband, Alexander Brunton. After her second and last novel, Discipline, she planned a series of 'Domestic Tales', and also began work on a new novel Emmeline, but it was never finished. It was later published, with a memoir by her husband, after her death" (National Library of Scotland).
Wolff 887.
24. Celia in search of a husband. By a modern antique ... Second edition. London: printed at the Minerva-Press for A. K. Newman and Co. (Successors to Lane, Newman, and Co.) Leadenhall-Street, 1809.
$850
2 volumes, 8vo, pp. viii, 322, [2] Minerva ads; [4], 306, [2] different Minerva ads; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, original printed paper labels on spine; labels still legible but clearly worn, pieces missing at top and bottom of the spines; all else good and sound, or better.
Three editions of this novel were published in 1809. "Nothing is known of Medora Gordon Byron. She has been tentatively, but not conclusively, identified as Julia Maria Byron (1782–1858), a cousin of George Gordon Byron. There are two sets of novels which have been traditionally attributed to Medora Gordon Byron, five published under the name 'Miss Byron' and three under the pseudonym 'A Modern Antique.' Both groups of novels were brought out by the notorious Minerva Press, a highly successful London publisher of Gothic, sensation, and other popular genres. Susan Brown et al. writes that '[b]oth strings of fiction are exclamatory in style, interested in domesticity, and latterly in the unmarried (both men and women), given sometimes to commentary on novel-writing.' Some twenty-first century experts maintain that it is unlikely that the same person authored both series, but Caroline Franklin, the editor of the only modern edition of this author's work, considers Julia Byron to be 'a distinct possibility' for the author of all eight novels ... The 'Modern Antique' persona has been described as conservative and a moralist, yet also as the author of the 'high-spirited and entertaining ... anti-Jacobin' Celia in Search of a Husband. The literary quality is not what interests recent scholars, however, but rather Byron's role as a professional woman writer, such as her use of 'multiple authorial identities,' a strategy she shared with Ann Hatton and Elizabeth Meeke, both of whom also published with Minerva" (Wikipedia).
Not in Sadleir or Wolff.
25. Brooklyn - Queens Day. [Guilford, CT.]: A Telephone Book, 1982.
$250
Edition limited to 300 copies, 26 of which are lettered and signed by Cataldo (this, the letter M, signed by her); oblong 8vo, 48 leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; fine copy in original pictorial wrappers by Ann Rupel.
26. Letters from New York. [With:] Letters from New York. Second series.. New York: C. S. Francis and Co., 1844-45.
$225
Second edition of the first volume, first edition, first state of the second, 12mo, pp. 288; 287, [17]; green cloth, gilt spine; corners bumped, light foxing,some fading on the spines but generally good and sound.
An account of the author's time in New York.
From the Poetry Foundation: "Lydia Maria Child ranks among the most influential of nineteenth-century American women writers. She was renowned in her day as a tireless crusader for truth and justice and a champion of excluded groups in American society—especially Indians, slaves, and women. A writer who early heeded the call for an American literature with American themes, she was a pioneer in several literary genres. She wrote one of the earliest American historical novels, the first comprehensive history of American slavery, and the first comparative history of women. In addition, she edited the first American children's magazine, compiled an early primer for the freed slaves, and published the first book designed for the elderly. Child possessed an uncanny ability for knowing exactly what the American reading public wanted and when they wanted it. She was also gifted at rendering radical ideas, such as the abolition of slavery, palatable for American readers."
BAL 3147 and BAL 3152, state A
27. Through Khiva to golden Samarkand. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1925.
$750
First American edition, 8vo, pp. 280; frontispiece and 53 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 15 plates plus a full-page map; original orange cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; spine a touch faded, else near fine.
A solitary woman traveler in central Asia with a camera. "In 1910, she packed a camp bed, stove, lamp, oatmeal and biscuits and travelled to Russian Turkestan. Her journey took her to Constantinople across the Black Sea, through Georgia to the Caspian Sea and onward to Ashkabad and Merv. She travelled by train and boat along the Silk Road, visiting Bukhara, Samarkand, Kokand, and finally Andhizan ... Christie undertook a further trip to the Russian Empire in 1912. Starting in Saint Petersburg she travelled by train, steamer and droshky to Tashkent, Samarkand and Khiva. She was the first British woman to visit Khiva ... She later wrote about her trips to the Russian Empire in the book Through Khiva to golden Samarkand" (Wikipedia)
Yakushi C262.
28. [Coleridge, Sara, translator.] The right joyous and pleasant history of the feats, gests, and prowesses of the Chevalier Bayard, the good knight without fear and without reproach. By the loyal servant. In two volumes. London: John Murray, Albemarle Street [printed by C. Roworth, Ball Yard, Temple Bar], 1825.
$375
First edition, 2 volumes, pp. xv, [1], 294; [4], 286; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper labels on spines; volume I dampstained with slight tidemark extending into the first few leaves of text; volume II with front board partially stained red; front joint of volume I cracked and top of spine slightly chipped; staining aside, a good copy. With the pictorial and armorial bookplate of Henry Eustatius Strickland in each volume.
Sara Coleridge (1802-1852) was the only daughter of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This is her second book, a translation from the medieval French.
29. Album poetico fotografico de escritoras y poetisas Cubanas. escrito en 1868 para la senora dona Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda por Domitila Garcia de Coronado. Havana: imprenta de "Elf Figaro", 1926.
$325
Second expanded and revised edition, 4to, pp. 256, [4]; 29 plates, mostly portraits after photographs; original upper wrapper bound in; later brown calf gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; small snag at the top of the spine, text clean and the binding is sound, very good;
The first edition of the Album poetico was published in 1868 and was the first anthology of Cuban women writers published. Beginning with the Condesa de Merlin, each chapter includes a portrait plate (save the final two entries), a brief biography, and poems and prose excerpts. The biographical section for Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, the author to whom the book is dedicated, is significantly larger than the rest, with additional plates showing her childhood home and a facsimile of a letter from her to Coronado. Avellaneda was a prolific and well-regarded author, best known for her first novel, Sab, which was banned in Cuba for its sympathetic depiction of slavery and suggestions of interracial relations. Domitila Garcia de Coronado was likewise a well-established Cuban author, activist, publisher and printer, and the first woman journalist in the country (Negritas y Cursivas at wordpress).
30. Claims of the country on American females. Columbus: Isaac N. Whiting, 1842.
$750
First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo, pp. [4] ads for the author's Young Lady's Companion, iv, 243, [3]; iv, 243, [1]; lightly foxed, else a near fine copy in original brown blindstamped cloth lettered in gilt on spine. On the rear flyleaf in vol. I a previous owner has written 25 lines in pencil headed "Subject - French School of the Fine Arts - Paris."
The author was a native of Burlington, N.J. The first volume deals primarily with women throughout history and in different cultures; the second volume deals with the status of women current in America.
Morgan, Ohio, 4444; American Imprints 42-1333.
31. These pages are dedicated to a beloved mother by her daughter Maria D'Wolfe Lady of the Lily ... Received the Lily's Badge of the Order of Neatness. New Port: February 5, 1812.
$1,250
Small 4to, pp. [20]; 9 leaves of exquisite penmanship, each leaf adorned with an attractive watercolor or two of floral and botanical motifs; very nice.
Maria was the fourth child of William and Charlotte De Wolfe. In 1814 she married Robert Rogers, a wealthy and prominent banker in Bristol, after whose death Maria endowed the Rogers Free Library in Bristol, still standing and still in operation.
32. My journey to Lhasa. The personal story of the only white woman who succeeded in entering the Forbidden City. London: William Heinemann, 1927.
$425
First edition, 8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 309, [1]; frontispiece portrait, 43 illustrations from photographs on rectos and versos of 15 plates; original pictorial black cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; bindings slightly spotted, else very good, sound and clean. 1927 ownership signature of Crompton Peatfield.
"The author travelled to Lhasa from China in 1917, lived in Lhasa for two months disguised as a beggar in 1923-24, and returned to France in 1925. She became the first European woman to enter Lhasa, and lived on until 1969, dying at the age of 100" (Yakushi).
Yakushi D86b.
33. Tibetan journey. London: John Lane The Bodley Head, [1936].
$125
First edition, 8vo, pp. x, [2], 275, [1]; folding map, 21 illustrations from photographs on 15 plates; original maroon cloth, gilt-stamped spine; the binding a little dull, but otherwise very good, clean and sound. Bookplate of Four Provinces House, Dublin.
"The author travelled to Lhasa from China in 1917, lived in Lhasa for two months disguised as a beggar in 1923-24, and returned to France in 1925. She became the first European woman entered into Lhasa, and lived on until 1969, dying at the age of 100" (Yakushi).
Yakushi D91c.
34. Man-woman; or, the temple, the hearth, the street. From "L'Homme-Femme" of Alexander Dumas fils. Translated and edited by George Vandenhoff. With a memoir of the author. Philadelphia, New York, and Boston: [publisher not identified], 1873.
$150
12mo, pp. iv, 5-112, [2]; original purple cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; spine a bit faded; all else very good and sound.
Concerning the treatment of women, the classification of women, how matches are made, the wife-mother, the father-husband, the wife's lover, the education of women, divorce, etc.
35. Castle Rackrent; an Hibernian tale. Taken from facts, and from the manners of the Irish squires, before the year 1782 ... A new edition. London: printed for R. Hunter, successor to J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster-Row [by T. Bensley, Printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street], 1815.
$250
12mo, pp. xii, 216; original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; some chipping of the paper at the joints and along the spine, small chip from the label affecting one letter; all else very good, sound, and clean. Owner's blindstamp name in tiny letters at the top of the front pastedown: "J: Brett."
36. Castle Rackrent; and Hibernian tale. taken from facts, and from the manners of the Irish squires, before the year 1782 ... The third edition. London: printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard by H. Bryer, Bridewell-Hospital, 1801.
$850
8vo, pp. [2], xvi, 214, [2] blank; original blue-gray paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; small cracks in the joints at the extremities, edges rubbed, corners bumped; all else very good. With the ownership signature of El[izabeth] Rose of Kilravock dated 1802.
Third edition of "the masterpiece by which her name will live," a rattling narrative of three generations of an Irish estate, first published the previous year. In this edition, Edgeworth's name appears for the first time on the title page.
Slade 5C.
37. Harrington, and Ormond, tales ... The second edition, corrected. In three volumes. London: printed for R. Hunter, successor to Mr. Johnson, 72, St. Paul’s Churchyard, and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster Row, 1817.
$250
3 volumes, 12mo, pp. [2], v, [1], 513, [1]; [4], 422, [2]; [4], 352; original drab paper-covered boards, green muslin shelfbacks, printed paper labels on spines; shelfbacks faded, labels rubbed with some loss, particularly on the first volume; boards rubbed, spine ends chipped and joints cracking; internally clean and the bindings, for all their external problems, are still reasonably sound.
The uncommon second edition, with corrections, and published in the same year as the first edition.
38. Patronage. London: J. Johnson and Co. St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1814.
$1,500
First edition, 4 volumes, 8vo, pp. [4], 418; [4], 431, [1]; [4], 402; [4], 389-[1]; half-titles in volumes II-IV and with the errata leaf in vol. IV as called for; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfbacks; spines partially perished, printed paper labels intact but lightly chipped and rubbed; hinges tender; a good copy at best; unrestored. Each volume contained in a cloth chemise and green cloth box with a green morocco cover lettered in gilt.
Early ownership signature of A. S. Were Clarke, 1814 in each volume.
Edgeworth begin writing Patronage in 1809, and it is the longest of all her works. "As a book it is path-making; it was among the first novels with a thesis and as such, it opened the way for Sir Walter Scott's historical novels. In the novel, Edgeworth focuses on and scrupulously explores the various types of patronage and the many forms it takes in all strata of English society" (Wikipedia).
Sadleir 780; Slade 16a; Wolff 1993.
39. The Prima Donna. Her history and surroundings from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. London: Remington and Co. Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, 1888.
$150
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [4], 320; [4], 302; largely unopened; hinges starting, small tear in the fore-edge of the front free endpaper in volume I; all else very good and sound in original taupe cloth stamped in gilt and black.
An account of the origin of the prima donna, operatic conventions, the prima donna as a type, and anecdotal biographies of famous divas, including Sophie Arnould, Maria Malibran, Angelica Catalini, Jenny Lind, and Christine Nilsson, among many others. This is Sutherland's sequel, of sorts, to his book on modern opera and lyrical drama published in 1881.
40. A Chinese-English dictionary in the Cantonese dialect ... revised and enlarged. Hongkong: Kelly & Walsh, 1910-11.
$950
2 volumes in 1, large 4to, pp. iv (supplement), v-xxxiii (index), xxxiv-xxxvi (list of characters), xxxvii-xlvii (clan names), 3 (corrections and additions), [6] prefaces to the first and second edition, xviii (introduction), 696, [2], 697-1417, [1]; apparently lacking the title and the half-title to the first part; second title page after p. 696 is present; later half tan calf, gilt lettering on spine; most all of the preliminaries and terminals with early tape repairs in the foremargins, made necessary by dampstains; occasional light worming mostly confined to the margins, the first 2 leaves silked, a number of marginal tears and creases throughout, but the lexicon proper is clean and the binding, for all its mundanity, is sound. Binder's ticket of Sam Ying Co., Hong Kong.
A compromised copy with plenty of faults, but with the early ownership signature of "Nell E[llen] Elliott / China Y.W.C.A. / Hong Kong." Ms. Elliott, born in Toronto on January 1st, 1889, was the secretary at the Y.W.C.A. and, as a member of the British Red Cross, later worked in the Medical Department of the Hong Kong government until Hong Kong fell to the Japanese in December 1941. She was interned at the Stanley Camp, a civilian internment camp in Hong Kong, and she was repatriated to Toronto in September 1943 when some of the Canadians at Camp Stanley became part of an exchange of interned citizens.
On 14 September 1943 Teia Maru departed Yokohama carrying 80 American repatriates from Japan. Approximately 975 repatriates boarded at Shanghai on 19 September, 24 boarded at Hong Kong on 23 September (including Nell Elliott), 130 boarded at San Fernando, La Union on 26 September, 27 boarded at Saigon on 30 September, and others boarded at Singapore on 5 October. Teia Maru arrived at Mormugao, Goa on 15 October 1943 carrying 1,525 priests, nuns, protestant missionaries, and businessmen and their families. In Goa, Ms. Elliott and her fellow repatriates were transferred to the Gripsholm, a Swedish passanger liner under charter to the United States Department of State as a repatriation ship, carrying Japanese and German nationals to exchange points where she then picked up US and Canadian citizens to bring home to the USA and Canada.
Nell Elliott was 57 when she returned home but very little is known of her after repatriation. Even her date of death does not appear to be recorded, but this dictionary, with its many careful repairs tells us a bit about her and her situation.
41. India, Minto, and Morley 1905-1910 compiled from the correspondence between the Viceroy and the Secretary of State by Mary, Countess of Minto, with extracts from her Indian journal. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1934.
$125
8vo, pp. viii, [4], 447, [1]; 8 plates, color folding maps; publisher's blue cloth gilt, top edge stained blue; signed on free endpaper "T. Walter Wallbank," almost certainly the historian Thomas Walter Wallbank; fine, in a very good dust jacket which is slightly faded and price-clipped.
"Lord Minto became viceroy in 1905, a position he held until 1910. Lord Minto saw his wife as a true partner in this accomplishment, seeing it as ‘a recognition of all her work quite as much as anything I have ever done’ ... After the war Mary Minto became invested in securing credit for her husband for a series of Indian constitutional reforms of 1909 that were more widely associated at the time with his secretary of state, John Morley. She used her husband’s correspondence and her own Indian journal (later posthumously published in its own right in 2016) to write India, Minto and Morley (1934), a work that demonstrates her thorough understanding of—and involvement in—all her husband did in office" (DNB).
Thomas Walter Wallbank was a USC professor of history and author of the textbook Civilization past and present, "in which he conceived of an integration of African, Asian and Middle Eastern cultures with those of the West."
42. Hands across the Himalayas. Ten short stories of missionary experiences north of the mountains and south of them. N.p.: [publisher not identified], n.d., [ca. 1960s?].
$100
Approx. 5¾" x 4½", pp. 45, [1]; original stapled mustard wrappers printed in black; bookplate inside lower wrapper which is hiding some residue; all else about fine.
"Marguerite Fairbrother [1928-2000] is the daughter of Dr. and Mrs. N. H. Bare who were missionaries on the border of China and Tibet for fourteen years. They returned to the United States when Marguerite was thirteen. At the age of eleven Marguerite was used as an interpreter by new missionaries. She therefore met with both the problems and the joys of the mission field. After her marriage and the completion of her college work, she and her husband went to Assam, India, to serve the Lord among the Khasi tribespeople in that province. They went to India because the door of service for the Lord in China had been closed by Communists. Her years of service qualify her for writing the stories in this book. It is her hope that through this book, Christians, young and old, will have a better vision of what the Word of God is doing in the lives of people half way around the world" (Archie Fairbrother).
Not in Yakushi. Three in OCLC: Cincinnati Christian Univ., Milligan Univ., and Abilene Chrisitian Univ.
43. Elodie, being a sketch of the life of Elodie Farnum as set forth in a letter by John Russell. Providence: privately printed for Elodie's mother by the Livermore & Knight Company, 1917.
$150
Small 4to, pp. 32; mounted photographic frontispiece portrait, 11 illustrations on rectos and versos of 3 plates; original brown cloth stamped in gilt on the upper cover; newspaper shadow on title page, else very good and sound.
Elodie was the daughter of Herbert Cyrus Farnum the landscape painter known for his paintings of Africa where he spent much time with his wife and Elodie. She was a talented violinist, some say a musical genius, and her untimely death in 1914 was a devastating loss to him and precipitated also the loss of his wife a few years later. Included here are 7 poems by her.
44. A French doctor in the Yemen. Translated by Douglas McKee. London: Robert Hale Ltd., [1957].
$125
First edition, 8vo, pp. 288; 42 photographic illustrations on rectos and versos of 15 plates; a fine copy in a very good dust jacket.
An account of a woman doctor's 18 months in the Muslim society.
45. 劉胡蘭 : 三幕十二場歌劇 = [Liu Hulan: san mu shi er chang ge ju] = [Liu Hulan: Opera in three acts and twelve scenes. A collective creation by Combat Drama Club]. 太嶽新華書店 Combat Drama Club / Taiyue, 1948.
$175
First edition, 7" x 5", pp. [2], 168; stapled self-wrappers; 72 pages of music at the back; very good. OCLC notes 169 pages, possibly a colophon (or a typo). The last leaf here is the cast of characters.
The subject of the opera is Liu Hulan (1932–1947), "a young female spy during the Chinese Civil War between the Kuomintang and the Communist Party. She joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in 1946 and soon after joined an association of women working in support of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). She was actively involved in organizing the villagers of Yunzhouxi in support of the CCP. Her contributions involved a wide range of activities, such as supplying food to the Eighth Liberation Army, relaying secret messages, and mending boots and uniforms.
"On January 12, 1947, the Kuomintang army under Yan Xishan invaded her village in response to the assassination of Shi Peihuai, the village chief of Yunzhouxi, who was known to be loyal to the Kuomintang. Upon entering the village, Kuomintang soldiers rounded up several reputed CCP members believed to be involved in the assassination, among them the teenager Liu Hulan. The party members were decapitated in the town square. Before killing Liu Hulan, the executioners paused, giving her one final chance to renounce her allegiance to the CCP. She refused and was immediately beheaded. She was 14 years old.
"In February 1947, Shanxi Jinsui Daily published the news of Liu Hulan's heroic sacrifice. Liu Hulan's name spread all over North China. At that time, the "Battle Theatre Club" of the 12th Division took Liu Hulan's glorious deeds as its theme, and in more than a month, it created the opera Liu Hulan, which gave the audience a lot of education in each performance. Six months after Liu Hulan's sacrifice, on August 1, 1947, the Jinsui Branch of the CCP decided to break the rules (usually until she was 18 years old) and recognize Liu Hulan as a full member of the CCP. After the liberation of the whole country, Liu Hulan's deeds were written into books, adapted into plays, movies and TV plays, and her former village was changed to 'Liu Hulan Village'" (see Wikipedia).
46. Destiny; or, the chief’s daughter. By the author of “Marriage,” and “The Inheritance”. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, Edinburgh; and Whittaker and Co., London, 1831.
$3,750
First edition, 8vo, 3 volumes, pp. [2] ads, [4], 337, [1]; [4], 407, [1]; [4], 399, [1]; original blue cloth-backed drab paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; an uncommonly fine set in a variant binding. Bookplate of Douglas C. Ewing. Red cloth dropback box lettered in gilt.
Ferrier (1782-1854) a friend of Scott and the author of three good novels of Scottish life, Marriage (1818), Inheritance, and Destiny (1831), all marked by a sense of humor and high comedy. In fact, Destiny is dedicated to Sir Walter Scott.
Wolff 2234.
47. [Fielding, Sarah, translator.] Xenophon's memoirs of Socrates. With the defense of Socrates before his judges. Translated from the original Greek. The third edition, corrected. London: printed for T. Cadell, 1788.
$275
8vo, pp. [2], vi, 360; contemporary sprinkled calf, red and black morocco labels, gilt-paneled spine; top of spine chipped, front joint starting, but still reasonably sound; good copy.
Sarah Fielding, sister of Henry Fielding, first published this translation in Bath, 1762.
48. The top of the world. New York and Cincinnati: The Abingdon Press, [1926].
$150
First edition, 8vo, pp. 178, [2]; frontispiece and 31 plates after photographs by the author; green pictorial cloth; fine in very good dust jacket with light soiling, some shallow chipping and closed tears, and price-clipped inner panel.
Fisher was an educator, feminist, and traveler. She was one of the founders of World Education, and the only American placed on an Indian postage stamp. From the jacket: "This volume is the record of a remarkable journey which Bishop and Mrs. Fisher took to the mountain fastnesses of the Himalayas. Using their own little shack in Darjeeling... they started back, following for a while the route of the Everest climbers, and went on to spend some time with the lamas of the lamassaries of Sikhim and Nepal to the very border of Tibet."
Yakushi F97.
49. In the valley of the Yangtse. London: London Missionary Society, 1899.
$125
First edition, 8vo, pp. xii, 216; numerous illustrations throughout including halftone, wood engravings, and drawings; original pictorial red cloth stamped in black and gilt; binding slightly soiled, spine a touch sunned; all else very good, sound and clean. With a large London Missionary Society presentation slip on front pastedown presenting this copy to a Welsh Sunday School.
"Amy Foster (née Jackson) was born on 26 May 1856. She was appointed as a missionary with the London Missionary Society to Hong Kong, and sailed in 1878. She was married to Rev Arnold Foster, also an LMS missionary (Wuchang, China), on 22 June 1882 at Union Church, Hong Kong. Rev Foster was appointed Honorary Missionary to Hankow in 1884. In 1889, they removed to Wuchang and took charge of that station. In February 1900, Mrs Foster opened a Girls' Boarding School. In 1910, Rev Foster was chosen as first member of the Advisory Council for Central China. In 1911, Mrs Foster became a member of the District Committee, continuing to live in Wuchang and taking part in that work until 1918. From 1915 to 1918, Rev Foster was Hon. Pastor of the Hankow Union Church. In 1918, they moved to Kuling, where Rev Foster died on 30 July 1919. Amy Foster died in 1938" (archiveshub).
50. The rival roses; or wars of York and Lancaster. A metrical tale. London: printed for the author; Sold by J. J. Stockdale, No. 4, Pall-Mall, 1813.
$650
First edition, 8vo, 2 volumes, pp. [4], viii, [9]-209, [1], [2] ads; [2], [5]-163, [1], 8 (ads); original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper labels on spines; labels virtually rubbed away, boards soiled, edges rubbed and worn; a good, sound set, internally clean.
Little seems to be known about Eliza Francis. This appears to be her first book, a rare narrative poem in five cantos relating to the War of the Roses, with notes by the anonymous female author.
51. The women's room. New York: Summit Books, [1977].
$400
"This special edition of 2,500 copies of The Women's Room ... the first book to be published by Summit Books, has been prepared for the friends of the publisher and the author," 8vo, pp. [8], 7-471, [3]; original red cloth stamped in gilt and black on upper cover and original mylar jacket; a touch of sunning to the spine but in all a fine copy.
With the ownership signature of Gabriel Garcia Marquez 1977 on the front free endpaper. This is the "debut novel by American feminist author Marilyn French, published in 1977. It launched French as a major participant in the feminist movement and, while French states it is not autobiographical, the book reflects many autobiographical elements ... [It] has been described as one of the most influential novels of the modern feminist movement" (Wikipedia).
52. Sale's brigade in Afghanistan, with an account of the seizure and defence of Jellalabard. London: John Murray, 1846.
$150
First edition, 12mo, pp. ix, [1], 182; bound with: Letters from Madras, during the years 1836-1839. By a Lady [i.e., Miss Julia Charlotte Maitland, née Barrett]. London: Murray, 1846, pp. ix, [1], 145, [1], 16 (Murray catalogue]; together 2 volumes in 1, original red cloth, gilt-stamped spine; spine a little sunned and with small cracks; issued as volume XVII in Murray's Home and Colonial Library series.
Julia Charlotte Maitland (1808-1864) "was an English writer and traveller, and the grandniece of the novelists Fanny Burney and Sarah Burney. She and her husband ran a boys' school in India, while strongly advocating a national system of education for the country" (Wikipedia).
53. [Godolphin, Margaret.] The life of Mrs. Godolphin … Now first published and edited by Samuel Lord Bishop of Oxford, Chancellor of the most noble Order of the Garter. London: William Pickering, 1847.
$100
First edition, small 8vo, pp. xviii, 265-[266]; engraved frontispiece portrait, title page with Pickering device, title page and text throughout within ruled borders; a very good copy in 3/4 black morocco and marbled paper-covered boards by Riviere, elaborately gilt spine with raised bands, minor wear to extremities, offsetting of portrait to title page through guard.
Evelyn's eulogistic memoir of his dear friend and prayer partner, Margaret Godolphin (née Blagge), printed from the manuscript retained by Evelyn's family after his death.
Keynes, p. 65.
54. Many moods. Shanghai: Kelly & Walsh, Limited, 1917.
$145
6½" x 4 ¼", pp. [2], 23, [1]; portrait of the author; original green cloth-backed printed paper boards; front free endpaper excised, boards faded and a bit soiled, text a little toned; a good copy.
The book is dedicated to Marian Greenwald and a 1985 biro inscription underneath the dedication notes: "My sister Marian, April 5, 1975. H.S."
A book of both prose and poetry by a woman, possibly from San Francisco, who clearly likes her opium.
Not in OCLC.
55. Valedictory address to the twentieth graduating class of the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Jas. B. Rodgers Co., 1872.
$225
First edition, 8vo, pp. 14, [2]; self-wrappers, removed from binding; prior old fold, text clean and sound, very good.
Henry Hartshorne "was a strong advocate of the rights of women to study medicine" (DAB). The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania was the second medical institution in the world established to provide women with a medical degree.
56. Poems by Felicia Hemans, with an essay on her genius, by H. T. Tuckerman. Edited by Rufus W. Griswold. Philadelphia: Sorin and Ball, 1845.
$175
8vo, pp. xviii, [2], 21-347, [1]; portrait frontispiece of the author, engraved title page, and four additional engraved plates; original green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt on both covers and spine; contemporary owner's name and the annotation "pretty" above Ms. Hemans' portrait, light foxing, small bookplate of Mrs. C. F. Kendall on front pastedown; very good.
With a brief biography of Hemans' life and an essay on her work.
57. Bartering ivory. Iowa City: Ausable Press, 1975.
$500
Edition limited to 100 copies (this, no. 95), "printed on Beckett Text with Perpetua types," 8vo, pp. [12]; original printed black wrappers; some toning at the edges, else about fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
I had thought this might have been Hillman's first book, but searching OCLC I noticed a book, also published in 1975, Case History and Other Poems, by Brenda Hillman and Colin Simms. So, I tracked Ms. Hillman down and she sent a speedy reply: "Bartering Ivory was printed by the poet Chase Twichell when we were in a printing class as graduate students at University of Iowa Writers Workshop. I printed her chapbook of poems as well. My very earliest publications were of course in high school and college magazines, but Case History would be my first chapbook publication [together with Colin Simms]. I never met Colin Simms, but he solicited my work while I was living in England for a time, and he printed that little booklet ... I think that would be my first publication, officially."
So, Bartering Ivory would have been her second book, but the first written entirely by herself.
Arizona, Yale, Virginia, and University of Reading in OCLC.
58. "The Queen" Newspaper book of travel. A guide to home and foreign resorts. A résumé of the practical travel information which has appeared in the "Queen" from 1894 to 1906. Compiled by the travel editor (M. Hornsby, F.R.G.S.) With sixteen maps and forty-five illustrations ... (third year). London: Horace Cox, Windsor House, Bream's Buildings; Paris: F. Tennant Pain, 18, rue Favart, 1906.
$125
8vo, pp. viii, 504; 15 maps (13 folding), 41 plates and 4 illustrations in the text; some toning, but on the whole a very good copy.
The Queen was a newspaper for women, and the contents of this guide book is geared towards women travelers. Switzerland, Italy, Austria, France, Germany, Scandinavia, and India are well represented, plus smaller sections on New Zealand, Australia, the East and West Indies, and others. Numerous advertisements throughout, much of it aimed at women.
59. Portrait of a Chinese lady and certain of her contemporaries. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1930.
$125
First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 404; 24 plates from photographs, including frontispiece; fine copy in original red cloth, stamped in white on upper cover and spine, in an unclipped dust jacket with shallow breaks.
Biographies of Chinese men and women in Ms. Hosie's circle. "Lady Hosie makes the Sung family of Shanghai (and particularly Mrs. Sung) the centre of her study of life in modern China. Mrs. Sung is young and lovely: in her the old aristocracy of China meets the modern woman. Through an interchange of affection- ate confidences these two women consider many of the vital issues in China today. The other people in this book are delightfully varied. They range from Miss Wu, a tutor in a woman's college, three Chinese gentlemen, and a Manchu princess to rickshawmen, boatmen, amahs, beggars and bandits. The all-pervading humor and urbanity of the Chinese of all ranks are marked in every incident in this book. There are charming sketches of home life in modern China written with an intimacy that could come only from close sympathy with the people" (jacket blurb).
60. Poor women!. London: The Scholartis Press, 1928.
$750
First edition, limited to 1000 copies, this is copy no. 1 of only 10 numbered and signed by the author; 8vo, pp. 226, [2]; blue cloth, title gilt on spine; lower board worn and dampstained, spine a little spotted, page 155 chipped at corner, a good copy, in a very good dust jacket (likely supplied) with a small closed tear on back panel.
Poor women! was Hoult's first published book. It enjoyed critical success and saw a second printing, with Hoult going on to write 28 books total, but she has since become an obscure author and all but one of her books are out of print.
61. An exhortation to the inhabitants of the province of South-Carolina, to bring their deeds to the light of Christ, in their own consciences ... in which is inserted, some account of the author's experience in the important business of religion. Dublin: printed by Isaac Jackson, in Meath-street, 1754.
$375
12mo, pp. 164, [4] ads; 19th century morocco-backed marbled boards; flyleaves perished, joints cracked; textblock sound.
First published in Philadelphia in 1747. Born in Charleston, Hume was married to a landowner, lawyer and public official, and led a life of aristocratic leisure until the death of her husband. A conversion took place in 1740. In much reduced circumstances she moved to London and adopted the simple habits of a Quaker. In 1747 she felt a call to reprove the self-indulgences of the inhabitants of Charleston, and once again removed there to preach. To spread her message she wrote this book, which went through several editions. "Among Quaker women of her day, Sophia Hume had an extraordinary knowledge of the arts, literature, and theology--to some extent the product of her years as an Anglican....she found it hard to justify erudition in a woman--and harder to justify her public life--by her own principles. The result was a paradoxical career" (Notable American Women).
Sabin 33780.
62. The writings of Nancy Maria Hyde, of Norwich Conn., connected with a sketch of her life. Norwich, Conn.: Russell Hubbard, 1816.
$375
First edition, 12mo, pp. [5], 6-252; original printed gray paper-covered boards; front joint cracked, cords holding, covers rubbed, spine perished; all else good and sound. The last 10 pages constitute a subscribers' list of primarily Connecticut names. Ownership inscription on title page of Charles P. Huntington. No fewer than 13 Huntingtons in the subscribers' list, but not Charles P.
A collection of letters, poems, and journal entries by Nancy Maria Hyde (1792-1816), who died young from an illness. The writings were assembled by her classmate, Lydia Huntley Sigourney, and published posthumously. BAL notes that the book was "edited, with commentary, by Mrs. Sigourney, anonymously. The dedicatory verse p. [3] and the final verses, pp. 234-241 are also probably by Mrs. Sigourney." Russell Hubbard, for his part, was the proprietor of the Norwich Courier.
BAL 17616; American Imprints 37903; Sabin 34125.
63. Japanese lady in America. Tokyo: Kenkyusha Co., [1945].
$100
Second edition, 8vo, pp. [3]-347, [3]; original red cloth stamped in gilt on spine, preserving the original printed dust jacket with slightly faded spine; very good throughout. With an 8-page prospectus laid in for the author's Japanese Lady in Europe (1937).
This copy presented as a gift to an anonymous individual, with ten signatures on free endpaper and a manuscript menu laid in. The signatures are of individuals from the Canadian Legation and corporate representatives from Japan, dated April 4th, 1939.
64. Sport & travel in both Tibets. With map and twenty-five coloured illustrations exactly reproduced from the authoress's original sketches. London: printed and published by Blades, East & Blades, [1909].
$425
Only edition, tall 8vo, pp. [6], 87; double-p. map, 25 color plates; a bit of wear at extremities, else very good in original purple cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, pictorial pastedown on upper cover.
Lady Jenkins was not just an artist, but also a crack shot: among her trophies were gazelles, antelopes, ibex, burhel, and markhor. "One of the handful of Edwardian-era women who embarked on her own hunting expeditions, Lady Jenkins departed from Srinagar, traveled through Leh and Miroo and into the high country of Changchenmo ... She and her guides suffered from altitude sickness, lack of food, and severe weather" (Czech).
Czech, Asia Big Game Hunting, p. 112; Yakushi J83.
65. A wayfarer in China. Impressions of a trip across west China and Mongolia. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, The Riverside Press, 1913.
$125
First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 338; frontispiece, double-page map and 38 illustrations from photographs on 26 plates; original decorative blue cloth stamped in gilt, red, and yellow; but for a mis-fold at the top of the second page of the map and the first page of text, a very good, sound, and clean copy.
Not in Yakushi.
66. Vera Vorontzoff ... Rendered into English by Anna von Rydingsvard. Boston and New York: Lamson Wolffe and Co., 1895.
$250
First American edition and first edition in English; 16mo, pp. [2], ix, [1], 3-197, [1]; engraved tailpieces; biographical introduction by Rydingsvard; original decorative tan cloth stamped in red, blue, black and silver with strong Russian motifs, uncut, t.e.g.; boards soiled, upper free endpaper excised, very good in a custom quarter red morocco clamshell box, gilt spine.
Sonya Kovalevsky's life was a singular one. She entered into a false marriage in order to escape the conservative demands placed upon her by mid-19th-century social mores, and through this ruse was able to pursue a career in mathematics. She won multiple accolades in this field, becoming the first woman to receive a doctorate in mathematics, the first woman to join the editorial board of a scientific journal, the first woman to win the Prix Bordin of the French Academy of Sciences, and the first woman appointed to a full professorship in Northern Europe. In her later life she turned to writing fiction, with this posthumous novel being her last. It is a semi-autobiographical account of a young Russian noblewoman who longs to dedicate herself to a cause but falls into Nihilism after the emancipation of the Russian serfs.
67. [Lennox, Charlotte, translator.] Memoirs of Maximilian de Bethune, Duke of Sully, prime minister to Henry the Great. Containing the history of the life and reign of that monarch, and his own administration under him. Translated from the French. To which is added, the tryal of Ravaillac for the murder of Henry the Great. The fourth edition. London: printed for A. Millar [et al.], 1763.
$500
6 volumes, 12mo, 2 engraved portraits and a folding map in volume I; full contemporary calf, gilt-decorated spines, maroon morocco labels; spines a bit soiled, front hinge on volume I cracked, small chip from the bottom of the spine on volume VI, but generally good and sound, or better.
Translated by Charlotte Lennox and first published in quarto, 1756.
68. [Letter Sheet.] Christmas piece, specimen of handwriting. London: King Chapel, St. Somers Town, n.d., [ca. mid-19th century].
$1,750
Folio broadside, approx. 20" x 15", with 7 hand-colored wood engravings (the coloring likely later); a few short tears and edge creases at the margin, but on the whole a fine example, and very rare. Princeton only in OCLC.
An unused writing sheet with seven vignettes depicting scenes from life at sea. The images include "An English Privateer Capturing a Frigate," "The Sailor's Farewell," "The Sailor's Return," and two images of Ann Thornton: "Ann Thornton the Female Sailor Travelling [sic] in America," and "Ann Thornton the Female Sailor Going Aloft." At the bottom are two vignette illustrations, of a small sloop under way, and a long-boat with an anchor.
Anne Jane Thornton (1817-1877), also spelt Ann Jane Thornton, was a 19th-century adventurer from Donegal who in 1832 posed as a boy to go to sea, in pursuit of a lost lover who had gone to the United States. As recounted in Wikipedia: "At the age of thirteen, Thornton met Captain Alexander Burke, an Englishman whose father lived in New York, and before she was fifteen the two had become strongly attached to each other. In 1832, Burke left Donegal to travel to New York, and Thornton made up her mind to go after him. Attended by a maid and a boy, she left Donegal, obtained a suit of cabin boy's clothes, and posing as a boy, made a safe passage to New York. On arrival, she went to Burke's father's house, where she said that she had worked under the captain's orders and wished to be engaged by him again. She learnt from Burke's father that the man she loved had died a few days before.
She continued her career as a seaman, working on several American and British ships, until her arrival in London in 1835, when she was interviewed by the Lord Mayor of London. She later wrote a book about her adventures, The Interesting Life and Wonderful Adventures of that Extraordinary Woman Anne Jane Thornton, the Female Sailor.
69. Calisthenics of the heart [cover title]. [New York]: Vehicle Editions, 1976].
$250
Edition limited to 24 copies (per OCLC - this copy designated "commercial 12"); square 16mo (5¼" x 5¼"); printing, binding, and marbling by the author; lightly rubbed, else fine. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
Apparently, this is Levitt's and Vehicle Editions' first book. From the Vehicle Editions website: "Vehicle Editions was founded in 1976 by Annabel Levitt. Annabel Lee (she married the Lee in 1988) brings diverse experience to her role as publisher. A printer (letterpress and offset), hand bookbinder, teacher of book crafts, bookkeeper, phototypesetter, monotype typesetter, hand typesetter and writer, Annabel has worked for many other publishers (including responsibilities as Managing Editor and as Production Manager) and she has worked extensively with art book publishers on behalf of European printers." She was also formerly Secretary/Treasurer on the Board of Center for Book Arts, New York.
Arizona only in OCLC.
70. Man, the social creator. [Edited by Jane Addams and Anne Withington]. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1906.
$425
First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 279; frontispiece portrait; elongated 3" hole in half-title, spine darkened, edges rubbed, else a reasonably good copy in original green buckram, gilt-lettered spine.
This copy with the signature at the end of the Editors' Note, "Jane Addams, Hull House, Chicago." And with another signature in pencil on the front free endpaper of Kate W. Withington, undoubtedly a relative of Anne.
Jane Addams, co-founder of both Hull House and the American Civil Liberties Union, was one of the most prominent reformers and social activists of the Progressive Era, and is recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States. In 1931, she was the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
71. First love. A novel. London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1830.
$2,500
First edition of this Irish author's first book; 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. [4], 380; [2], 367, [1]; [2], 433, [1], [2] Saunders & Otley ads; original brown paper-covered boards, green cloth shelfback, printed paper labels on spines; spines lightly sunned, upper joint on volume III cracked, and a few other minor defects, but in all, a very good copy of an uncommon novel in original boards.
In the top right corner of volume I is a bookseller’s octagonal label: "Sold by / Martin Keene & Son / Booksellers and Stationers. / No. 6, College Green / Corner of Anglesea Strt. / Dublin." On p. 1 of each volume, in ink: "Ballygarth House."
In 1835, Loudon wrote Philanthropic Economy; or, the philosophy of happiness, "an innovative attempt to redefine the very nature of government activity and to recast the bases of political economy. The work was widely reviewed and published in several editions before the Anti-Corn Law League chose a section to be distributed to all electors in the 1840s (around nine million copies). Yet her publications and even her name - Margracia Loudon - are largely unknown today" (Richardson, The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Politics in Nineteenth Century Britain, 2013, p. 5).
Wolff 4190 calling for 3 errata slips and a 4-page catalogue from Whittaker, Treacher, none of which are present here.
72. Poems. London: printed for John Booth, Duke street, Portland Place; G. G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster Row; and B. and J. White, Fleet Street, 1794.
$250
First duodecimo edition, 12mo, pp. [6], 152; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback; both front and rear pastedowns unglued from boards and the inside of boards entirely exposed; otherwise fine.
At the bottom of the last leaf: "Dated from Southampton, / October 4, 1793." The unglued endpapers allow one to see an 1802 watermark in the blue paper covering the boards, so the binding is slightly later, though probably still original.
In 1790 Catherine Rebecca Gray (1766-1852) of Lehena in County Cork, Ireland, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and poet, married William Manners, Lord Huntingtower of Leicester. The first collection of poems under Lady Manners' own name was published in 1793 in quarto, and she was described as having "claims ... to the praise of harmony of verse and purity of sentiment ... not exceeded by those of any among her fair contemporaries." This first book was reprinted once in 1793, also in quarto, and again in 1794, as here. Her only other volume of verse was Review of Poetry, Ancient and Modern, addressed to "a son," and where most of the major poets get a mention, from Homer through Milton and Shakespeare, to Johnson, Thomson, et al."
73. Poems ... Second edition. London: printed by John Bell, British Library, Strand, bookseller to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, 1793.
$350
4to, pp. [4], 128; contemporary gray paper-covered boards, pink paper shelfback, printed label on spine; spine and label faded, boards a little soiled, else a very good copy.
Catherine Rebecca Gray (1766-1852) of Lehena in County Cork, Ireland, an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and poet, married William Manners, Lord Huntingtower of Leicester. Her first collection of poems under her own name was published in 1793 in quarto, and she was described as having "claims ... to the praise of harmony of verse and purity of sentiment ... not exceeded by those of any among her fair contemporaries." This first book was reprinted once in 1793 (as here), also in quarto, and again in 1794 in duodecimo. Her only other volume of verse was Review of Poetry, Ancient and Modern, addressed to 'a son,' and where most of the major poets get a mention, from Homer through Milton and Shakespeare, to Johnson, Thomson, et al."
74. Irish Maori girls' help association [together with:] The Maoris. [N.p. Dublin?]: [n.d.] (early 1900s) .
$125
Broadsheet, printed on both sides, 7 1/4" x 4 1/2"; edges lightly creased, otherwise fine.
A collection card for the Irish Maori Girls' Help Association, listing the honorary presidents (Countess' and Lady Fulton) and reading: "This Society has been founded to provide Scholarships for the Maori Girls' School, Auckland. Subscriptions are invited, and may be sent to The Secretary and Treasurer, Miss Lily Ryder, 13 Carlisle Terrace, Donnybrook, Co. Dublin. Membership, 2/6 per year."
Together with: a bifolium, approx. 5 1/4" x 4", The Maoris. Some annotations on last page, else fine. A detailed imploration to establish finances for schools to take in Maori women and children, via the Victoria Association: "They are sadly decreasing in numbers, and unless energetic and unselfish measures are taken by us, who know and love them, and others to whom we appeal for help, doubtless in a few years that splendid people New Zealand's greatest treasure, will become as extinct as the N.Z. Moa....A great work is being done amongst them by the Victory Association for befriending Maori women and children. I hope to start a branch of that work in Ireland. The Victoria school takes Maori girls from a very early age, and gives them a thorough, sensible and domestic education. The girls are educated up to the sixth standard, and learn cooking, laundry work, gardening and singing, etc. They also have lessons in first aid, and are taught to nurse the sick...All these girls are overshepherded by white ladies, and this is a most important feature of the work. The Association is in touch with every girl who has been in the school. There are 45, 970 Maoris in the North Island, but our school has only room for forty girls. We want help." signed in type, "Rona."
75. On sledge and horseback to outcast Siberian lepers. New York: Cassell Publishing Co., [1892].
$150
First American edition, 8vo, pp. [6], v-xvii, [1], 291, [1]; frontispiece, portrait of the Queen, 2-p. facsimile letter, 3-page facsimile letter, map, and 21 plates; original pictorial tan cloth gilt-stamped on upper cover and spine; a very good, sound, and clean copy.
76. Two old men’s tales. The deformed, and The admiral’s daughter. In two vols. London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1834.
$600
First edition of the author's first book, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [4], 307, [1]; [2] Saunders and Otley ads, [2], 308; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; lower stretches of front and back joints splitting, but with no loss of strength; else, a very good copy.
"Her unmarried name was Anne Caldwell, and from 1817 when she married Arthur Cuthbert Marsh, to 1858, she was known as Anne Marsh ... [She] was one of the most popular British novelists for nearly a quarter of a century. Her first book, Two Old Men's Tales, was made up of two stories, "The Deformed" and "The Admiral's Daughter." It was published at the suggestion of Harriet Martineau" (Wikipedia).
Sadleir 1626; Wolff 4558.
77. The great closed land. A plea for Tibet ... With a preface by Rev. B. La Trobe. London: S. W. Partridge, [1894].
$125
4to, pp. xix, [1], 21-112; frontispiece map, and 24 wood-engraved illustrations in the text; original pictorial glazed yellow-paper-covered boards; binding a bit soiled but on the whole a good, sound, and clean copy.
"This is an acount of the Protestant (Moravian) Mission to Tibet, and contains a short history of exploration, and description of land and people" (Yakushi).
Yakushi M201.
78. Illustrations of political economy, No. XXIII: The three ages. A tale. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row, 1833.
$50
First edition, small 12mo (approx. 5" x 3¾"), pp. [4], 126, [2]; original printed wrappers; wrappers soiled, but good and sound, or better.
"Harriet's first commissioned book, Illustrations of Political Economy, was a fictional tutorial intended to help the general public understand the ideas of Adam Smith. Illustrations was published in February 1832 in an edition of just 1500 copies, since the publisher assumed it would not sell well. Yet it very quickly became highly successful, and would steadily out-sell the work of Charles Dickens. Illustrations was her first work to receive widespread acclaim, and its success served to spread the free-market ideas of Adam Smith and others throughout the British Empire. Martineau then agreed to compose a series of similar monthly stories [as here] over a period of two years, the work being hastened by having her brother James also work on the series with her.
"The subsequent works offered fictional tutorials on a range of political economists such as James Mill, Bentham and Ricardo, the latter especially forming her view of rent law. Martineau relied on Malthus to form her view of the tendency of human population to exceed its means of subsistence. However, in stories such as 'Weal and Woe in Garvelock,' she promoted the idea of population control through what Malthus referred to as 'voluntary checks' such as voluntary chastity and delayed marriages" (Wikipedia).
79. Illustrations of political economy. No. 1. Life in the wilds. A tale ... Third edition. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. [Printed by William Clowes, Stamford Street], 1832.
$100
Small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¾"), pp. xx, 124; small loss at the bottom of the spine, else a very good copy in original drab printed wrappers. Ownership signature at the top of the front wrapper of M. Tower.
"Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century “social problem” writing. This widely read series of didactic stories popularized political economy, making it accessible to audiences by vividly dramatizing issues such as overpopulation and labour strikes. Illustrations of Political Economy marks a pivotal moment in which literature and politics came together, laying the foundation for the realism and social commentary of later Victorian novels" (Broadview Press).
80. Illustrations of political economy. No. II. The hill and the valley. A tale ... Third edition. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. [Printed by William Clowes, Stamford Street], 1832.
$75
Small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¾"), pp. iv, 140; small loss at the bottom of the spine, else a very good copy in original drab printed wrappers. Ownership signature at the top of the front wrapper of M. Tower.
"Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century “social problem” writing. This widely read series of didactic stories popularized political economy, making it accessible to audiences by vividly dramatizing issues such as overpopulation and labour strikes. Illustrations of Political Economy marks a pivotal moment in which literature and politics came together, laying the foundation for the realism and social commentary of later Victorian novels" (Broadview Press).
81. Illustrations of political economy. No. III. Brooke and Brooke farm. A tale. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. [Printed by William Clowes, Duke Street, Lambeth], 1833.
$100
First edition, small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¾"), pp. 147, [1]; spine cocked and with small losses at top and bottom, light staining, else a good copy in original drab printed wrappers. Ownership signature on the title page of E. B. Packey. Bookplate of Anne and F. G. Renier.
"Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century “social problem” writing. This widely read series of didactic stories popularized political economy, making it accessible to audiences by vividly dramatizing issues such as overpopulation and labour strikes. Illustrations of Political Economy marks a pivotal moment in which literature and politics came together, laying the foundation for the realism and social commentary of later Victorian novels" (Broadview Press).
82. Illustrations of political economy. No. IX. Ireland. A tale. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. [Printed by William Clowes, Stamford-Street], 1832.
$100
First edition, small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¾"), pp. [4], iii, [1], 136; small loss at the bottom of the spine, newspaper shadow on pp. 46-7, some soiling, else a very good copy in original drab printed wrappers.
"Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century “social problem” writing. This widely read series of didactic stories popularized political economy, making it accessible to audiences by vividly dramatizing issues such as overpopulation and labour strikes. Illustrations of Political Economy marks a pivotal moment in which literature and politics came together, laying the foundation for the realism and social commentary of later Victorian novels" (Broadview Press).
83. Illustrations of political economy. No. VI. Weal and woe in Garveloch. A tale. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. [Printed by William Clowes, Stamford-Street], 1832.
$125
First edition, small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¾"), pp. [6], 140; a very good copy in original drab printed wrappers.
"Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century “social problem” writing. This widely read series of didactic stories popularized political economy, making it accessible to audiences by vividly dramatizing issues such as overpopulation and labour strikes. Illustrations of Political Economy marks a pivotal moment in which literature and politics came together, laying the foundation for the realism and social commentary of later Victorian novels" (Broadview Press).
"The subsequent works offered fictional tutorials on a range of political economists such as James Mill, Bentham and Ricardo, the latter especially forming her view of rent law. Martineau relied on Malthus to form her view of the tendency of human population to exceed its means of subsistence. However, in stories such as 'Weal and Woe in Garvelock,' she promoted the idea of population control through what Malthus referred to as 'voluntary checks' such as voluntary chastity and delayed marriages" (Wikipedia).
84. Illustrations of political economy. No. VIII. Cousin Marshall. A tale. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. [Printed by William Clowes, Stamford-Street], 1832.
$75
First edition, small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¾"), pp. [4], 132; small losses on spine else a very good copy in original drab printed wrappers.
"Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century 'social problem' writing. This widely read series of didactic stories popularized political economy, making it accessible to audiences by vividly dramatizing issues such as overpopulation and labour strikes. Illustrations of Political Economy marks a pivotal moment in which literature and politics came together, laying the foundation for the realism and social commentary of later Victorian novels" (Broadview Press).
85. Illustrations of political economy. No. XI. For each and for all. A tale. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. [Printed by William Clowes, Stamford-Street], 1832.
$75
First edition, small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¾"), pp. [4], 132; small loss at the spine ends, some soiling, else a very good copy in original drab printed wrappers.
"Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century “social problem” writing. This widely read series of didactic stories popularized political economy, making it accessible to audiences by vividly dramatizing issues such as overpopulation and labour strikes. Illustrations of Political Economy marks a pivotal moment in which literature and politics came together, laying the foundation for the realism and social commentary of later Victorian novels" (Broadview Press).
86. Illustrations of political economy. No. XII. French wines. A tale. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. [Printed by William Clowes, Stamford-Street], 1833.
$100
First edition, small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¾"), pp. [4], 146, [2]; light soiling, else a very good copy in original drab printed wrappers. Ownership signature at the top of the front wrapper of M. Tower.
"Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century “social problem” writing. This widely read series of didactic stories popularized political economy, making it accessible to audiences by vividly dramatizing issues such as overpopulation and labour strikes. Illustrations of Political Economy marks a pivotal moment in which literature and politics came together, laying the foundation for the realism and social commentary of later Victorian novels" (Broadview Press).
87. Illustrations of political economy. No. XIII. The charmed sea. A tale. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. [Printed by William Clowes, Stamford-Street], 1833.
$50
First edition, small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¾"), pp. [4], 136; spine with some cracking, wrappers soiled, else a good copy in original drab printed wrappers.
"Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century “social problem” writing. This widely read series of didactic stories popularized political economy, making it accessible to audiences by vividly dramatizing issues such as overpopulation and labour strikes. Illustrations of Political Economy marks a pivotal moment in which literature and politics came together, laying the foundation for the realism and social commentary of later Victorian novels" (Broadview Press).
88. Illustrations of political economy. No. XV. Berkeley the Banker. Part II. A tale. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. [Printed by William Clowes, Stamford-Street], 1833.
$50
First edition, small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¾"), pp. [4], 146, [2]; light soiling, else a very good copy in original drab printed wrappers. Ownership signature at the top of the front wrapper of M. Tower.
"Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century “social problem” writing. This widely read series of didactic stories popularized political economy, making it accessible to audiences by vividly dramatizing issues such as overpopulation and labour strikes. Illustrations of Political Economy marks a pivotal moment in which literature and politics came together, laying the foundation for the realism and social commentary of later Victorian novels" (Broadview Press).
89. Illustrations of political economy. No. XVI. Vanderput and Snoek. A tale. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. [Printed by William Clowes, Stamford-Street], 1833.
$100
First edition, small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¾"), pp. [4], 140; light soiling, else a very good copy in original drab printed wrappers. Ownership signature at the top of the front wrapper of M. Tower.
"Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century “social problem” writing. This widely read series of didactic stories popularized political economy, making it accessible to audiences by vividly dramatizing issues such as overpopulation and labour strikes. Illustrations of Political Economy marks a pivotal moment in which literature and politics came together, laying the foundation for the realism and social commentary of later Victorian novels" (Broadview Press).
90. Illustrations of political economy. No. XVII. The loom and the lugger. Part I. Part II. A tale. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. [Printed by William Clowes, Stamford-Street], 1833.
$125
First edition, 2 volumes, small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¾"), pp. [4], 132; viii, 144; wrappers soiled, spine showing some cracking, else a good copy in original drab printed wrappers. Bookplate of Anne and F. G. Renier.
"Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century “social problem” writing. This widely read series of didactic stories popularized political economy, making it accessible to audiences by vividly dramatizing issues such as overpopulation and labour strikes. Illustrations of Political Economy marks a pivotal moment in which literature and politics came together, laying the foundation for the realism and social commentary of later Victorian novels" (Broadview Press).
91. Illustrations of political economy. No. XXIII. The three ages. A tale. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. [Printed by G. Smallfield, Hackney], 1832.
$50
First edition, small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¾"), pp. [4], 126, [2]; spine cracked and with a small loss at top, else a very good copy in original drab printed wrappers.
"Published in 1832, Illustrations of Political Economy established Harriet Martineau as both a successful and controversial author and a pioneer of nineteenth-century “social problem” writing. This widely read series of didactic stories popularized political economy, making it accessible to audiences by vividly dramatizing issues such as overpopulation and labour strikes. Illustrations of Political Economy marks a pivotal moment in which literature and politics came together, laying the foundation for the realism and social commentary of later Victorian novels" (Broadview Press).
92. Illustrations of Taxation. No. V. The Scholars of Arneside. A Tale. London: Charles Fox, 67, Paternoster-Row. [Printed by William Clowes, Duke Street, Lambeth], 1834.
$75
First edition, small 12mo (approx. 5¾" x 3¾"), pp. vi, [2], 134; light soiling, else a very good copy in original drab printed wrappers.
Illustrations of Taxation followed the success of her series Illustrations of Political Economy. The Scholars of Arneside was the fifth and last in the series.
93. Traditions of Palestine. Edited by Harriet Martineau. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster Row, 1830.
$500
First edition, 12mo, pp. [4], 148; original full terracotta muslin, printed paper label on spine; some fading along the edges, but on the whole, a very good, sound copy in an early full publisher's cloth binding. Bookplate of Anne and F. G. Renier. Bookseller's ticket of Stillie's, Edinburgh on front pastedown. Early ownership signature of M. & D. Viner / 1834 at the top of the title page.
Martineau's sixth separately published book, and aside from moralizing tales, this is her first work of fiction. Her first book was Devotional Exercises … with a Guide to the Study of the Scriptures (1823).
94. Great expectations realized; or, civilizing mountain men. Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society. New York: Blakerman & Mason. Boston: Gould & Lincoln. Chicago: Church, Goodman & Kenny, [1862].
$145
First edition, 8vo, pp. xiv, [2], 17-480; wood-engraved frontispiece of female Karen hunters; original pebble-grain green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, lower cover stamped in blind; spine ends cracked and with tiny chips, front free endpaper excised, 2 gatherings extended; a good, sound, and clean copy.
Ellen Huntly Bullard Mason "was the wife of the missionary clergyman Frances Mason (1799-1874). Mrs. Mason wrote and illustrated works about her missionary activities in Burma, including efforts aimed at Burmese women" (Am. Mus. of Nat. Hist.). The title of the book is certainly a bow to Charles Dickens whose Great Expectations was published in 1861.
95. The Indian Alps and how we crossed them being a narrative of two years' residence in the eastern Himalaya and two months' tour into the interior. By a lady pioneer. London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1876.
$750
First edition, imp. 8vo, pp. xiii, [3], 612; vignette title page, 10 chromolithographs and 134 woodcut vignettes in the text, all by the author; folding map hand-colored in outline; full green morocco, gilt decorated borders and spine, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.; joints and extremities rather rubbed, upper joint starting, gift inscription on preface reading "Nellie D. Montgomery presented by her Father, Jany. 1 1899"; chromolithographs offset, and opposing pages slightly discolored, including the title page.
Yakushi M255: "A lady pioneer and her companions kept along the Singaleelah range, and they reached the Chunjerma Pass traversed by Joseph Hooker."
96. Growing up in New Guinea. A comparative study of primitive education. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1930.
$950
First edition, 8vo, pp. x, [2], 372; 24 photographic illustrations on 16 plates; near fine copy in a very good, price-clipped dust jacket.
Mead's second book, dedicated to her husband, the New Zealander Reo Fortune.
97. [Nantucket.] A short account of the early part of the life of Mary Mitchell, late of Nantucket, deceased. Written by herself. With selections from some other of her writings; and two testimonies of Monthly-meetings of Friends on Rhode-Island and Nantucket, concerning her. New York: printed by R. & G.S. Wood, for the Trustees of Obadiah Brown's Benevolent Fund, 1830.
$200
First edition, 16mo, pp. 72; contemporary and likely original full sheep, gilt-paneled spine; some rubbing, previous owner's bookplate; good and sound.
Born in Newport, R.I., married in Providence, Mary Mitchell moved to Nantucket in 1787. The publication of this edition was paid for by the Obadiah Brown Fund, which was founded in Providence in 1823 by bequest of Obadiah Brown "to be a fund, independent of New England Yearly Meeting, to enhance the Religious Society of Friends through grants to individuals and Friends organizations, and specifically for 'the printing and disseminating of useful books for the promulgation of the gospel and by that means, as well as, otherwise spreading our Religious Principals where they are little known'.”
Obadiah Brown was the son of Moses Brown, the founder of the Quaker School in Rhode Island (i.e. Moses Brown), and the nephew of John Brown, founder of Brown University. The original bequest from Brown was $100,000, said to be the largest single bequest to an institution of learning up to that time. The Obadiah Brown Fund exists to this day.
American Imprints 2605; Sabin 49706 for the first edition of 1812.
98. The works of the right honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague. Including her correspondence, poems and essays. Published by permission from her genuine papers. London: printed for Richard Phillips, No. 71, St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1803.
$650
First collected edition, octavo issue, 5 volumes, original tan paper-covered boards, blue paper-covered spines, paper labels on spines; 2 engraved portraits (Lady Mary Pierrepoint. 1710; and, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 1720), 8 facsimiles (4 folding); spines creased and chipped with hairline cracks, joints cracked on volume I; top of spine chipped on vol. II; moderate wear all around; still a good, sound, venerable set.
With the bookseller ticket of Booth / Bookseller Stationer & Binder / Duke Street, Portland Place / London on the front pastedown of each volume.
A commanding figure of the 18th century, Lady Montague evinced an admirable style with her intelligence, independence and sense of adventure. She defiantly noted the prevailing attitudes towards women: "There is no part of the world where our sex is treated with so much contempt as England" -- which is perhaps why she settled in Italy, choosing to live apart from her husband for a period of twenty-three years. She maintained "an undisputed supremacy as hostess in the intellectual society of London, and to her assemblies was, apparently for the first time, applied the now accepted epithet of "blue-stocking" (DNB).
99. The works of the right honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montague. Including her correspondence, poems and essays. Published by permission from her genuine papers. In five volumes. London: printed for Richard Phillips, No. 71, St. Paul’s Church-yard, 1803.
$500
5 volumes, 12mo, 2 engraved portrait frontispieces (Lady Mary Pierrepoint. 1710; and, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. 1720); original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback; volume designation numbers in ink on spines (variously faded); short cracks starting at the joints, but overall very good and sound.
First collected edition, the duodecimo issue: this is the cheaper, unillustrated edition which followed the octavo edition of the same year which contained 8 facsimile plates.
A commanding figure of the 18th century, Lady Montague evinced an admirable style with her intelligence, independence and sense of adventure. She defiantly noted the prevailing attitudes towards women: "There is no part of the world where our sex is treated with so much contempt as England" -- which is perhaps why she settled in Italy, choosing to live apart from her husband for a period of twenty-three years. She maintained "an undisputed supremacy as hostess in the intellectual society of London, and to her assemblies was, apparently for the first time, applied the now accepted epithet of "blue-stocking" (DNB).
100. The works of the right honourable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, including her correspondence, poems, and essays. Published, by permission, from her genuine papers. The sixth edition. London: printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; John Murray; and Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1817.
$500
5 volumes, 8vo, engraved frontispiece portrait by Watson after Richardson; original drab paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; labels a bit rubbed but generally a very good, sound set. Uncut, and largely unopened.
A commanding figure of the 18th century, Lady Montague evinced an admirable style with her intelligence, independence and sense of adventure. She defiantly noted the prevailing attitudes towards women: "There is no part of the world where our sex is treated with so much contempt as England" -- which is perhaps why she settled in Italy, choosing to live apart from her husband for a period of twenty-three years. She maintained "an undisputed supremacy as hostess in the intellectual society of London, and to her assemblies was, apparently for the first time, applied the now accepted epithet of 'blue-stocking'" (DNB).