101. The enchanted plants, fables in verse. Inscribed to Miss Montolieu, and Miss Julia Montolieu. Second edition. London: printed by Thomas Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, 1801.
$200
Small 8vo (6¾" x 4¼"), pp. viii, 95, [1]; engraved frontispiece by L. Schiavonetti after W. Hamilton; original gray-green paper-covered boards, tan paper shelfback; spine largely perished, upper board and first gathering almost loose, cords holding; text clean; good.
Written for the author's children, to whom the poems are inscribed. Maria Henrietta Montolieu (1763-1817, née Heywood) was the daughter of James Modyford Heywood, an English MP for Fowey, plantation owner in Jamaica, and Lord of the Admiralty.
102. Marianne Moore at The Dial commissions an article on the movies. Six letters to Ralph Block and his article. Edited by Ernest Kroll. [Colorado Springs]: The Press at Colorado College, .
$225
Edition limited to 100 copies (this, no. 22), 4to, 22 double leaves bound leporello style; 8 photo-engraved plates; original black cloth-backed marbled boards, printed paper label on spine; fine copy. From the library of Kim Merker.
Includes the letters to Block soliciting his article "Not Theatre, Not Literature, Not Painting?", the article itself, and a few letters looking back on its influence.
103. Essays on various subjects, principally designed for young ladies. Chambersburg, [Pa.]: Dover & Harper, for Mathew Carey, Philadelphia, 1796.
$325
Second American edition, 16mo, pp. 84; contemporary marbled boards, rebacked; top outer corners browned, front hinge starting; a good and venerable copy.
Evans 30814. Winterthur, AAS, and Western Univ. in Ontario only in OCLC. Evans would add NYPL.
104. Hints towards forming the character of a young princess ... In two volumes ... The fifth edition. London: printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, in the Strand, 1819.
$500
2 volumes, 8vo, pp. vii, [12], xviii-xxviii, 331, [1], [4] Cadell ads; viii, 403, [1], [2] ads; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed paper labels on spines; 2 smudge marks on the upper cover of volume II, all else very good and sound. Bookplate of Anne and F. G. Renier.
First published in 1805, this fifth edition contains an entirely new Preface and Advertisement. The book offers suggestions for the education of Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales who died in 1817. In the new preface to this edition, More laments the loss, and mentions that the Princess, who might one day have been Queen, actually read the book.
105. The search after happiness and other poems. With engravings on wood. Chiswick: printed by C. Whittingham. Sold by R. Jennings, Poultry; T. Tegg, Cheapside; A. K. Newman and Co. Leadenhall Street, London; J. Sutherland, Edinburgh; and R. Griffin and Co. Glasgow, 1823.
$175
24mo (5½" x 3¼"), pp. 64; wood engraved vignette title page and chapter headers; original printed paper wrappers; small split at bottom of spine, else fine, and unusual thus.
Whittingham’s Cabinet Library No. 3. This was her first pastoral play, written when More (1745-1833) was just 18, and originally not intended for publication. Charles Whittingham was an enterprising printer of cheap but nicely made editions.
106. L’Italie, par Lady Morgan. Traduit de L’Anglais. Paris: chez Pierre Dufart, Libraire, Quai Voltaire, No. 19, 1821.
$1,500
First edition in French, 4 volumes, 8vo, pp. [6], 416; [4], 416; [4], 440; [4], 504; original green paper wrappers, printed paper labels on spines; a few chips and cracks, but the text is clean and the bindings firm. Owner’s stamp at top tight corner of the half-title, of each volume: "v. Nostitz-Wallwitz Schweikershain (Sa.)." Different owner’s stamp, in small, illegible cursive script, in lower margin of each title page.
Lady Morgan (d. 1859), most famous for her Irish novels, wrote this work on travel, politics, and society as observed by her in Italy to much popular acclaim. This follows a similar work on France which was published in 1815. This book was praised by Byron. She continued to write throughout her life and, in 1837, she was given a pension of 300£ "in acknowledgment of the services rendered by her to the world of letters," the first pension of the kind given to a woman (DNB).
107. La France; par Lady Morgan, ci-devant Miss Owenson; traduit de l’Anglois par A. J. B. D. Seconde édition, revue, corrigée et augmentée, avec des notes critiques par le traducteur. Paris et Londres: chez Treuttel et Würtz, Libraires, rue de Bourbon, no. 17; et 30 Soho square, 1817.
$450
Second edition in French, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xiv, 346; [4], 478; 4 pages of ads bound in at the front of volume I; first leaf of ads dampstained and adhered to the inside wrapper, manuscript spine labels renewed; wrappers rubbed, but still a compelling copy in original green wrappers.
Lady Morgan (d. 1859), most famous for her Irish novels, wrote this work on travel, politics, and society as observed by her in France in 1815 to much popular acclaim. On the strength of its success, she was commissioned to write a similar book on Italy, which was published in 1821 and was praised by Byron. She continued to write throughout her life and, in 1837, she was given a pension of 300£ "in acknowledgment of the services rendered by her to the world of letters," the first pension of the kind given to a woman (DNB).
See Sadlier 1771 for the first edition.
108. Memoirs for the history of Anne of Austria, wife to Lewis XIII. of France; and regent of that kingdom from his death to the accession of her son Lewis XIV. Containing all the remarkable events during the king's minority, and the administration of her favourite Cardinal Mazarin. London: J. Darby [and 8 others], 1725.
$500
First English edition (volume I is dated 1726 and is from the second edition, all others are dated 1725); 5 volumes, 12mo; woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces; full contemporary calf; gilt spines, red and black gilt spine labels, all edges red; some minor scuffing else a very attractive, near-fine set. Volume I and V with neat restoration of the joints.
Memoirs of Queen Anne by "the Queen Regent's chief Companion and Confident, and who has likewise added an Account of the Troubles of King Charles I. not to be met with in Clarendon or any other English writer, being the Substance of several Conversations betwixt his Queen, then in Exile at the French Court, and the Author of the Memoirs."
See Brunet III, 1929-30 for the first (Amsterdam, 1723) edition; 4 copies in OCLC, none outside the United Kingdom.
109. The social evil in Japan and allied subjects with statistics, social evil test cases, and progress of the anti-brothel movement. [Tokyo]: Published for the Author, 1908.
$100
Fourth edition, revised, 12mo, pp. [2], vi, 172; 6 plates, including 2 street scenes of brothels; full burgundy cloth, gilt title on cover; hinges cracked, front free endpaper, frontispiece, and first two leaves of text loose, fair.
An account of prostitution in Japan and the work done to combat it. Murphy covers methods by which girls are brought in, the contracts which control them, the abuses they suffer by traffickers, and the attempts that have been made to rescue girls or end the practice of exploitation generally.
110. A diamond necklace. [New York]: Frontward Books, [1977].
$225
First edition limited to 350 copies, 4to, 11" x 8½", 30 leaves printed from typescript on rectos only; cover art by Rochelle Kraut; small stain on front wrapper, else just about fine in original pictorial hand-colored wrappers, side-stapled. From the library of Allan Kornblum, poet, fine press printer, and publisher who founded Coffee House Press.
111. How spring comes. West Brance, Iowa: The Toothpaste Press, March, 1981.
$500
First edition limited to 100 copies signed and numbered by Notley, this, copy no. 2 and the personal copy of the designer and printer, Allan Kornblum; tall 8vo, pp. [6], 9-53, [1]; title-page drawing by George Schneeman in red and black; generally, fine in original blue cloth bound at the Black Oak Bindery, printed paper label on upper cover; slightest fading at the extremities, else fine. There was another issue of this book in 900 copies in wrappers.
Peich 57.
112. [Olender-Papurt, Jeanette.] From the Revelations of Saint Birgitta of Sweden. Doom of the kings. Translation by Patrick O. Moore with illustrations by Jeanette Olender-Papurt. Toledo, Ohio: The Clarino Press, 1982.
$1,500
Edition limited to 40 copies (this being copy no. 1); folio, pp. [6], 26, [4]; printed in blue and black; 6 copperplate etchings by Olender-Papurt who has also designed and printed the book; text paper is Arches Cover with Barcham Greens Turner Grey as endsheets; typefaces are 16-point Centaur & Arrighi; printing of the text was done at the Logan Elm Press; original black cloth, green lettering on spine. Fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
"'Doom of the kings' is our title for this modern English version of a chapter (p. 63-87) of the fifteenth-century Middle English text published in The Revelations of Saint Birgitta, edited by William Patterson Cumming (London: Oxford University Press, 1929)" (Afterword). The work known as Revelationes Sanctae Birgittae was partly dictated by Birgitta, partly written by her in Swedish, to her confessors, who rendered her words into the Latin text from which the Middle English version, and all others, are derived.
113. A collection of objects. Montreal and New York: Tente, 2010.
$250
Edition limited to 100 copies (this, no. 72); square 12mo, approx. 6" x 6½", pp. [30]; 3 illustrations from photographs; fine in original white wrappers printed in black. From the library of Allan Kornblum, fine press printer, poet, and founder of the Coffee House Press.
Inscribed on the title page: "For A. K. - thank you, from A. O." Most likely, a thank you for Oliver's Coffee House edition of A Toast in the House of Friends (see below).
The Poetry Foundation notes that Akilah Oliver "was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in Los Angeles, California. She was the author of two books of poetry: A Toast in the House of Friends [published by Coffee House Press in 2009] and The She Said Dialogues: Flesh Memory (1999), which received a PEN Beyond Margins award. Her chapbooks include A Collection of Objects (2010), a(A)ugust (2007), The Putterer’s Notebook (2006), and An Arriving Guard of Angels, Thusly Coming to Greet (2004). Oliver collaborated with a range of artists and musicians, such Tyler Burba, Anne Waldman, and Rasul Siddik; a notable performer, Oliver founded the feminist performance collective Sacred Naked Nature Girls in the 1990s. She was a member of the Belladonna* collaborative and a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School."
114. Sweethearts. Carrboro, N.C.: Truck Press, 1976.
$250
First edition limited to 400 copies of the poet's first book, 10 of which were in boards and signed; large 8vo, pp. [60]; photograph of the author by Brent Blair; composed and printed at the Regulator Press, Durham; wrappers toned and curled at the corners, small stain at the lower left edge of the front cover; all else very good in original pictorial wrappers.
This copy inscribed by Phillips, "For Allan & Cinda - in the Iowa heartland. Jayne Anne, April 19, 1978."
115. A letter from John Pigott, Esq. to his friend. A member of Parliament. Shewing his reasons for parting with his wife. Dublin: [publisher not identified] printed in the year, 1749.
$450
8vo, pp. 30; stitched, as issued; title a little erose in the gutter, the whole trimmed close with partial loss to many letters but sense remains clear; good.
Pigott, tricked into marriage, was obliged to pay 4,000 pounds to pay off her debts. And it gets worse from there.
ESTC locates only the Huntington copy; OCLC adds Minnesota.
116. A mirror for the female sex. Historical beauties for young ladies. Intended to lead the female mind to the love and practice of moral goodness. Hartford: printed by Hudson and Goodwin, for Oliver D. and I. Cooke, 1799.
$375
First American edition, 12mo, pp. xxiv, 211, [1] ads; contemporary full calf, boards scuffed with morocco label on spine partially perished, light stain in gutter of last few leaves, else clean and sound.
Mary Pilkington was primarily a governess and a novelist, with over 40 titles attributed to her. Her Mirror was intended as a textbook to aid in instructing girls in school. It led a trend of similar collections of female biography.
Evans 36117; Sabin 62852.
117. Sir Edward Seaward’s narrative of his shipwreck, and consequent discovery of certain islands in the Caribbean Sea: with a detail of many extraordinary and highly interesting events in his life, from the year 1733 to 1749, as written in his own diary ... In three volumes. New-York: printed and published by J. & J. Harper, No. 82 Cliff-Street, 1831.
$500
First American edition (published the same year as the first London edition), 12mo, 3 vols.; pp. xii, [1], 14-239, [1]; [5], x-xi, [2], 14-250, [2]; [5], x-xii, [1], 14-236; original red muslin, printed paper labels on spine; spine sunned, label of vol. 1 chipped, upper joint of vol. 3 cracked, labels on volumes I and II slightly chipped (loss of 3 letters), endpapers and the odd page of text foxed, contemporary ownership signatures of Grace Walton and Edward H. Walton on title pages, (a manuscript note on the back of vol. 3 notes the date of Grace's death 5 years later), good and sound, or better.
Although presented as a discovered account, this is a wholly fictional work. According to the Quarterly Review, which devotes seven pages to proving the novel to be a romance, "Nine-tenths of those who have perused the book, and among others a great many naval officers, believed it to be a true and genuine story." Despite the deception, the Review concludes it is an "amusing romance in the school of Defoe - a far better school than most of those now in fashion." (Q. Review v. 48, 1832) Jane was credited as the author until family correspondence revealed that the bulk of the writing had been done by her brother, William, albeit with significant contribution and input from both his sisters. "[Edward's] years at sea served him well in writing the nautical passages, and he had the assistance of his sisters, both accomplished historical novelists, in drafting the scenes in London and at court."(Wolff)
Wolff, 19th Century Fiction, 5612; Huntress, Shipwrecks & Disasters, 248C; Sabin 64323.
118. Imagination. A poem. In two parts. London: printed for J. Hatchard and Son, No 190, Piccadilly [by J. Brettell, Rupert Street, Haymarket, London], 1820.
$350
First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 103, [1]; tear entering the final leaf from the fore-margin (no loss), original blue paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; label partially perished, a few spots on the covers, otherwise, a near fine copy.
Inscribed "From the authoress" at the top of the title page. This is Poulter's only original book of which there was a revised edition published in 1841. She also edited an anthology of English religious thought, A Treasury of Great Pearls of Great Price (1854). (See Jackson, Bibliography of Romantic Poetry.)
119. The Italian, or the confessional of the black penitents. A romance ... Second edition. London: T. Cadell jun. and W. Davies (Successor to Mr. Cadell) in the Strand, 1797.
$1,250
3 volumes, 12mo, pp. 380; [2], 360; 444; original blue paper-covered boards, at some point rebacked and re-labelled in the style of the original binding. The spine paper is incongruously fresh; the font, type-setting, and design of the labels are clearly later; and, signs of the spine restoration can be glimpsed within. Red cloth clamshell box, morocco label lettered in gilt.
In volume III, G12 - I1 (pp. 167-194) has mistakenly been placed in front of G2-11 (pp. 147-166). This likely occurred not when the volume was originally bound, since the reversed sections do not correspond to complete signature gatherings, but when the volume was rebacked. The whole recessed cluster of pages is now detached from the sewing.
Ownership signature on the title page of each volume: "H.R.H. The Dutchess of York," i.e. Princess Frederica Charlotte of Prussia (Friederike Charlotte Ulrike Katharina, 1767-1820), a Prussian princess by birth and a British princess by marriage. She was the eldest daughter of King Frederick William II of Prussia and the wife of Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, second son of King George III of the United Kingdom.
A masterpiece of gothic literature, The Italian was translated as soon as it was published by the abbot Morellet. The novel was the last work published by Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823) during her lifetime.
Rothschild, 1703.
120. The receipt book of Elizabeth Raper and a portion of her Cipher Journal edited by her great-grandson the late Bartle Grant with a portrait and decorations by Duncan Grant. Soho: Nonesuch Press, 1924.
$125
Edition limited to 850 copies, 8vo, pp. [6], 94, [2]; portrait and decorations by Duncan Grant; original blue cloth, spine gilt; very good in chipped dust jacket.
Written 1756-1770 and never before printed. Edited by her great-grandson, Bartle Grant.
121. With the Tibetans in tent and temple. Narrative of four years' residence on the Tibetan border, and of a journey into the far interior. Edinburgh & London: Oliphant, Anderson & Ferrier, 1902.
$175
First edition, 8vo, pp. [12], 9-406; frontispiece, folding map, and 12 plates; light wear and soiling, but generally a very good, sound and clean copy.
"A Canadian doctor and missionary, Mrs. Rijnhart lived and traveled among the Tibetans during the years 1895-99. Her child died and her husband Peter disappeared during this period. She at last reached Tachienlu via Jyekundo after a two months' desperate journey" (Yakushi).
Yakushi R232
122. Primal sound & other prose pieces. Translated with an introduction by Carl Niemeyer, illustrated with woodcuts by Paul Wieghardt. [Cummington]: Cummington Press, [1943].
$300
First edition in English, limited to 175 copies (this, no. 127), 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 38; 5 full-page woodcuts; original blue cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine; light wear, but near fine.
Ownership signature of Edith T. Bronson 1943 on front free endpaper. From the library of Kim Merker.
Richmond 10.
123. We Tibetans. An intimate picture, by a woman of Tibet, of an interesting and distinctive people, in which it is shown how they live, their beliefs, their outlook, their work & play, & how they regard themselves and others ... With a historical introduction by Louis Magrath King. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1926.
$500
First American edition, 8vo, pp.viii, [2], 11-228; frontispiece and 28 illustrations on 15 plates; original pictorial yellow cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine; front free endpaper excised, else near fine.
"This book is the first English one which was published by a woman of Tibet. The authoress had been born at the Kham district in Tibet, and since she was married to Louis King, a British Consul at Tatsienlu. All of twenty chapters deal with Tibetan life and religion" (Yakushi).
Yakushi R236.
124. [Women's Rights.] Our sisters are lost. I mourn for my brothers. Tempe, Arizona: Cabbagehead Press, June 30, 1982.
$150
Broadside printed in black on gray paper, approx. 10" x 8¾", the text within a black mourning border. "Printed with great sadness but no surprise as a public service and an expression of personal outrage by the angry hand of John Risseeuw at his Cabbagehead Press, now located in Tempe, Arizona, most regrettably an unratified state."
On the verso printed in red at an angle: "The Amendment may be dead for now, but the movement is not. The struggle for justice, human rights ... is continuing. Join us now in fighting for an enlightened future ... Join N.O.W."
On June 30, 1982, the proposed Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.) to the U.S. Constitution expired, having failed to receive the required number of ratifications for its adoption.
125. Devout exercises of the heart, in meditation and soliloquy, prayer and praise. By the late pious and ingenious Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe. To which are prefixed, memoirs of the author, with a portrait. Reviewed and published, at her request, by I. Watts, D.D. Jones’s edition.. London: M. Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1803.
$175
16mo, pp. xxiv, 168; largely unopened; stipple-engraved frontispiece portrait of the Ms. Rowe; original blue paper-covered boards; spine soiled with hairline cracks; very good, sound and clean.
126. The works of Mrs. Elizabeth Rowe: in four volumes. London: printed for John & Arthur Arch, Grace-Church Street, & Sylvester Doig, Edinburgh, 1796.
$500
4 volumes, small 8vo, pp. [v], 5, [3], 310; vii, [1], 317, [1]; [2], v, [2], 8-343, [1]; [9], 8-388; leaf with 4 printed spine labels bound in as part of the front matter in volume IV; contemporary and likely original full speckled calf, gilt-decorated spines, black morocco labels and numbering pieces; lightly rubbed; very good and sound. An attractive set.
Rowe (1674-1737) was among the most widely read authors in 18th-century England. (Witness this collection published 60 years after her death.) "Her works were reprinted nearly annually until 1855, out of print by 1860, and in 1897 she was not even mentioned in A Dictionary of English Authors ... [However], recent scholars have interpreted Rowe as a pivotal figure in the development of the English novel: Rowe borrowed stock characters and situations from the late 17th and early 18th-century French and Italian romances popular in England, transforming the outward struggles to save the body of the heroine from seducers, to saving the mind and soul of the heroine from the corrupt world through the virtuous self-control that results from contemplation, thus sealing the plot trajectory of subsequent fiction as evidenced in later novels such as Eliza Haywood's Betsy Thoughtless, Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Frances Burney's Cecilia. The proto-feminist and amatory significance of Rowe's literary contribution continues to be reassessed against her moral and didactic themes."
See Ezell, Margaret, Writing Women's Literary History. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, pp. 105–106; and, Backscheider, Paula, Elizabeth Singer Rowe and the Development of the English Novel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. pp. 122–207, as noted in Wikipedia.
127. A journal of the disasters in Afghanistan, 1841-2. London: John Murray, 1843.
$250
Seventh thousand, 12mo, pp. xvi, 451, [1], 4; 2 engraved maps (1 folding); later quarter tan calf over marbled paper boards; raised bands, spine in 6 compartments with black morocco label in 1; light foxing in text, bookplate and signature of James Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the Smithsonian on endpapers; text lightly spotted, else near fine.
In 1842 Lady Sale was taken captive by Akbar Khan, and after nine months was able to bribe Afghan officers for the release of herself and her family. She kept excellent record of that time, both concerning her personal situation and the facts of the campaign around her. Includes an 8-page "Vocabulary of Persian, Hindostani. and other Oriental words employed in this volume."
128. The history of prostitution: its extent, causes, and effects throughout the world. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1858.
$250
First edition, large 8vo, pp. [7], viii-xiv, [3], 18-685, [3]; original brown blindstamped cloth, publisher's monogram on covers, gilt spine lettering, extremities chipped; pastedowns bubbled; otherwise very good.
Pencil ownership inscription on title page of H. S. Humphrey.
William Wallace Sanger (1819-1872) was a New York physician. The History of Prostitution elucidates the laws and customs surrounding sex work internationally. For foreign cultures Sanger relied primarily on secondary sources. The most well-researched chapters of the book related to sex work in New York City, where Sanger interviewed approximately 2,000 women at Blackwell Island and assembled comprehensive statistics from police reports and city records.
Sabin 76512.
129. Letters of Anna Seward: written between the years 1784 and 1807. Edinburgh: printed by George Ramsay & Company, for Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, William Miller, and John Murray, London, 1811.
$950
First edition, 6 volumes, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 399, [1]; viii, 399, [1]; viii, 397, [1]; vii, [1], 397, [1]; vii, [1], 432; vii, [1], 490, xiv (index); uncut and largely unopened; engraved frontispieces in the first three volumes, folding facsimile; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; tops of spines lightly chipped or cracked, a couple of labels with small chips (affecting only 1 letter, pages vi-vii in volume III crudely opened at the top (no loss); all else very good and sound.
The portrait of Anna in volume I was engraved by A. Carden from the original picture painted in 1762 by Kettle in the possession Thomas White Esqr. Anna Seward (1742-1809) was both a poet and a novelist, as well as a literary critic. She "fostered a close-knit network of friends and correspondents from across many areas of knowledge and culture, including Samuel Johnson, Erasmus Darwin, George Romney, Helen Maria Williams, the Ladies of Llangollen (Sarah Ponsonby and Eleanor Butler), Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, as well as such members of the blooming Romantic movement as Robert Southey and Walter Scott ... In her provincial salon she cultivated friendships, and in her vast epistolary record she wove a network of writers, scientists, and artists" (Brittanica).
130. Words against the shifting seasons: women speak of breast cancer. A collection of writings by women with breast cancer. Edited by Whitney Scott. Original art by Hollis Sigler. Chicago: Calhoun Press, Columbia College, 1994.
$250
First edition, limited to an unspecified number of copies, oblong 8vo, pp. 114, [4]; printed in purple and black; text in double column; 12 tipped-in color illustrations by Hollis Sigler, gilt-stamped purple cloth spine, green cloth over gilt-stamped boards; fine. Designed by Marlene Lipinski. This is the bookbinder Greg Campbell's copy, Campbell-Logan Bindery, and out-of-series.
131. A collection of more than five thousand glass stereo-optic slides of art, architecture, gardens, and street scenes taken mostly in Europe in the 1950s. Various places: .
$3,800
Sister Mona Riley (1896-1998) earned her degree in Classical Languages at The College of Saint Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1919, and supplemented that with her M.A. in Classics at the University of Chicago; later, she pursued advanced study at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Columbia University in New York, and the Catholic University in Washington, D.C. In 1954 she studied art history at the Pius XII Institute in Florence, Italy. She taught at St. Catherine for more than 50 years, and introduced generations of students to classical literature, history, music, art, and architecture, "inviting them to see the Humanities as an integrated whole, the well from which the waters of the 'good life' could be drawn and savored."
Toward that end, Sister Mona traveled extensively in both North American and Europe photographing significant art, architecture, gardens and street scenes, amassing a collection of thousands of glass slides. In 2005, the Minneapolis-based conceptual artist Harriet Bart received a call from the Chair of the Art History Department at The College of Saint Catherine who in reorganizing and updating the visual images collection was casting aside twenty-eight boxes of Sister Mona's photography, and thought Bart might have some use for them.
Says Bart: "Through a chance meeting I discovered that this slide collection was used and developed by Sister Mona Riley who started the Humanities program at Saint Catherine in the 1930s. Through the generosity of Sister Mary Kraft, the archivist at the college, I was given access to Sister Mona's archive. There, I found many letters and postcards that Sister Mona and her colleagues had exchanged during their travels. I discovered that Sister Mona was a woman of great curiosity, adventure, and joy."
Ms. Bart sought to use these slides in "some kind of installation inspired by Mona's life," but the project never came to fruition. As a result, a number of slides - Bart says about 100 - were removed from the archive, but the much larger balance remains. The collection includes 23 custom stereo-optic slide cases, each with 8 drawers of slides. A detailed spreadsheet with drawer titles and number of slides for each drawer is available.
132. De L’Allemagne, par Mme La Baronne de Staël Holstein. Paris: H. Nicolle, à la Libraire Stéréotype, Rue de Seine, N, 12. 1810. Ré-imprimé par John Murray, Albemarle-Street, Londres. [Volume II: De l’Imprimerie de R. Taylor et Co. Shoe-lane, Londres; volume III: De l’Imprimerie de Cox et Baylis, Great Queen-street, Lincoln’s Inn-fields, Londres], 1813.
$1,500
Second (i.e. first available) edition, 3 volumes, 8vo, pp. xxi, [3], 360; [6], 399, [1]; [8], 416; original blue paper-covered boards, brown paper shelfback, printed paper labels on spine; light cracking and wear but generally very good and sound. Ownership signature of "Cambusmore" on the title pages.
This is the first edition to reach the public of Madame de Staël's most important work which introduced German literature, especially the Romantic poets, to French readers, and greatly influenced French writers throughout the 19th century.
The book was first printed in Paris in 1810, but the entire edition, except for three proof copies ending with page 240 of the third volume was seized and destroyed on the orders of Napoleon who misunderstood it as a political work. In her preface to this London edition - the "de facto" first edition - De Staël wrote about the fate of her book and her expulsion from France. She explains the circumstances of the suppression: although the text had already been submitted and passed after certain excisions, the minister of police had all 10,000 copies destroyed on the grounds that the book was "un-French."
Her impressions are based on two journeys through Germany in 1803-04 to Weimar and Berlin, and in 1807-08 to Munich and Vienna. The most important second part offers an almost complete literary history of the time of Goethe and Schiller, but the young romantic poets were especially close to her heart. No doubt she was influenced there by her travel companion August Wilhelm von Schlegel.
133. Men of our times; or leading patriots of the day. Being narratives of the lives and deeds of statesmen, generals, and orators. Hartford: Hartford Publishing Co., 1868.
$250
Canvassing book. 8vo, pagination varies; original green cloth, gilt lettering on upper cover; green cloth spine sample mounted to front pastedown; two leather spine samples mounted to the rear pastedown; illustrations are complete with 18 steel engravings of American historical figures; includes an advertorial broadside and blank subscription leaves; first state of the title page with Frederick Douglass' name misspelled; text partially dampstained; otherwise very good.
Arbour 1529-31; see BAL 19449.
134. The Chimney-corner. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868.
$125
First American edition, 12mo, pp. 311; original green cloth, stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers; pages slightly browned, else very good.
Written under the pseudonym Christopher Crowfield.
BAL 19448.
135. Worcester field; or, the cavalier. A poem in four cantos, with historical notes. London: published by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, Paternoster-Row, [1826].
$325
First edition, 8vo, pp. [4], 163, [1]; original blue paper-covered boards, cream muslin shelfback, printed paper label on spine; label a little rubbed else near fine. Bookplate of Simon Nowell-Smith.
Presentation copy, inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Miss Dobbel with the Authoress's Compts." There is also a manuscript correction on p. 159, possibly authorial.
Agnes Strickland (1796-1874) was a British poet, author of children's stories, and historical writer, best known for her Lives of the Queens of England (12 volumes, 1840-48). This is her first book of poetry.
136. The lives of Mrs. Ann H. Judson and Mrs. Sarah B. Judson with a biographical sketch of Mrs. Emily C. Judson, missionaries to Burmah. Auburn: Derby and Miller, 1851.
$200
First edition, 12mo, pp. x, [3], 14-356, [4] ads; 2 engraved frontispiece portraits; top and bottom of spine chipped level with the textblock, bookplate of Minnesota Historical Society (no external markings); all else good and sound.
Ann Hasseltine Judson (1789-1826) was one of the first female American foreign missionaries. She married Adoniram Judson in 1812, and two weeks later they embarked on their mission trip to India, and in the following year, they moved on to Burma. She wrote a catechism in Burmese, and translated the books of Daniel and Jonah into Burmese. She was the first Protestant to translate any of the scriptures into Thai when in 1819 she translated the Gospel of Matthew.
Sarah, for her part, born in Alstead, New Hampshire, married the Rev. George D. Boardman, in 1825. She accompanied him to a Baptist mission in Burma, where he died in 1831. Three years later, she married the Rev. Adoniram Judson after the death of his wife Ann, and continued to proselytize with him in Burma until her health started to decline. She died on St. Helena island while on her way home to America.
137. Poems. Providence: Cranston & Hammond, 1834.
$200
First edition, 12mo, pp. xxii [i.e. xxxii], [2], 98; original green cloth boards, brown leather label on spine; boards and label worn, textblock in rough shape, with endpaper, flyleaf, and final few leaves in back reattached, pp. 5-10 torn through the middle, retaining all text; fair only.
Bookplate of the estate of William P Sheffield, a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island, and the ownership signature of Anna Elizabeth Hardy of New Port [sic], Rhode Island.
Taggart was an invalid and suffered from insomnia and chronic pain throughout her life. Her poetry reflects her condition, and was put forward in the introduction as "defective" in some respects but remarkable for the circumstances in which it was produced. The 22-page preliminary includes a synopsis of her life and letters of note.
American Imprints 27004.
138. Madoka / 高田明美画集 (Illustrations by Akami Takada). Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 2001.
$300
First edition, square 8vo, pp. [80]; text in Japanese; full color illustrations throughout; red padded cloth with pictorial onlay, fine with fine book band.
Takada was artist on the shows Creamy Mami and Kimagure Orange Road. Her Madoka is largely a collection of soft portraits of women.
139. Adventures in Tibet. Including the diary of Miss Annie R. Taylor's remarkable journey from Tau-Chau to Ta-Chien-Lu through the heart of the "Forbidden Land". New York: The Baker and Taylor Co., [1901].
$150
First edition, 8vo, pp. 285, [1]; 75 illustrations on plates and in the text; original pictorial yellow cloth stamped in black; rear hinge cracked, bookplate neatly removed, old institutional blindstamp on title (marked canceled), accession numbers on verso of title page, spine a touch soiled; no external markings; all else good, clean, and sound.
140. The call of China's great north-west or Kansu and beyond. London, Philadelphia [et al.]: The China Inland Mission ... agents: the Religious Tract Society, n.d., [ca. 1923].
$125
12mo, pp. viii, 215, [1]; frontispiece, 15 illustrations from photographs on 11 plates, and a folding color map of Kansu Province; later calf-backed marbled boards, red morocco label on spine; spine sun-touched, else near fine.
Yakushi T37: "Missionary's experiences in NE-Tibet, and Lanchow."
141. The present of a mistress to a young servant: consisting of friendly advice and real histories. By Mrs. Taylor, of Ongar ... Seventh edition. London: printed for Taylor and Hessey, Fleet Street [by J. Moyes, Greville Street, 1822.
$175
12mo, pp. vi, [1], 167, [1]; engraved frontispiece; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; small crack at the top of the front joint, frontispiece slightly offset onto title page, label lightly toned, but in all, a near fine copy. Bookplate of Anne and F. G. Renier.
Ann Taylor (1757-1830) was the mother of Ann (the younger) and Jane Taylor, both of whom who would become noted writers. "Ann Taylor was a prolific and lively correspondent, writing regularly to her children whenever they were apart ... In 1814 [she] published as Maternal Solicitude for a Daughter's Best Interests. It sold extremely well, going into fifteen editions (two of them American) over the next sixteen years. There followed other works in the same vein: Practical Hints to Young Females (1815); The Present of a Mistress to a Young Servant (1816); Reciprocal Duties of Parents and Children (1818); and, in collaboration with her daughter Jane, Correspondence between a Mother and her Daughter at School (1817). Most proved equally popular and influential" (ODNB).
142. Chicagoverse. Chicago: The Water Tower Press, 1949.
$450
First edition, 12mo, pp. 15, [1]; 5 illustrations by Philip Reed; original card wrappers with printed blue dust jacket; fine. "Printed at the Printing Office of Philip Reed."
Poems on Wrigley Field, The El, Stagg Field, Symphony, and others in and around the Chicago universe. This is Templeton's first book, published when only 15 years old. Who is she? Lucille Corinne Templeton (1935-1986), better known as "Rini" Templeton, "was an American graphic artist, sculptor, and political activist. She was most active in Mexico and the Southwestern United States, although she also volunteered in Cuba and Nicaragua after the triumph of the Cuban Revolution and the electoral victory of the F.S.L.N. Although her name is not well known, her uncredited work has been used on countless fliers, posters, and banners for the labor, feminist, and social justice movements" (Wikipedia). She was also one of the Quiz Kids on radio and later on TV, and she illustrated John Nichols' The Milagro Beanfield War.
143. The lady’s magazine. A new series. June 1820 [cover title]. Vol. 1, no. VI. London: printed for the Proprietors, and sold by S. Robinson, 25, Paternoster-Row; and W. Fearman, New Bond-Street, June, 1820.
$150
8vo, pp. [1], 282-336, [4] (ads); engraved frontispiece by Heath after Strothard, 2 engraved plates and plate of music; original printed paper wrappers; untrimmed, light foxing to plates, near fine.
Uncommon to find in original wrappers.
Includes a biographical sketch of Joseph Banks; contributions to the natural and literary history of dolphins; African human sacrifices; disappointments of love (from Washington Irving's Sketch-Book); English female costume for July; dramatic intelligence on Drury-Lane, Covent Garden, and the Russian theatres; births, marriages, deaths, etc.
144. The Port-folio; containing essays, letters, and narratives. In two volumes. London: printed by Dove, St. John's Square, for the author, and sold by J. Murray, Albemarle Street; J. Underwood, Fleet Street; Richardson, Cornhill; Curtis, Plymouth; W. Blackwood, Edinburgh; and J. Cumming, Dublin, 1814.
$600
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [2], viii, 280; [2], iv, 310; original brown paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; labels a little soiled, corners bumped, but generally a near fine copy throughout. Bookplate of Anne and F. G. Renier in each volume. Pink bookseller's ticket in volume I: "Sold by H. Godwin, Bookseller, / No. 24, Milsom street, Bath."
A curious assemblage of material, likely compiled by a male, but with much reference to women and their concerns, such as marriages, romance, parenting, children, blushing, pronouns, love letters, and other offbeat subjects such as physiognomy, fortune-telling, fops, superstition, and practical jokes.
Not common. OCLC locates 12 copies worldwide: Yale, LC, Newberry, Chicago, Chapel Hill, Texas A&M, Urbana, HRC, Sweet Briar, Boston Athenaeum, Cambridge, and the BL. Not in Halkett & Laing.
145. North American miniatures. Twenty photographs. Iowa City, Iowa: Polyeidus Press, [1975].
$600
Edition limited to 30 copies, 16mo (5" x 4¼"), pp. [6] plus 20 original photographs in mounts (each approx. 1¼" x 2"); original white linen over boards stamped in black on upper cover; some spotting of the binding, but otherwise fine. From the library of Kim Merker.
"Acknowledgements go to ... K. K. Merker, Kay Amert, and Lissa Lunning ... without whose support and encouragement none of this would have been necessary."
Tiegreen graduated from Iowa with a degree in photography. This is her first of more than 20 books.
146. Manuscript dress-making and pattern book. N.p., n.d.: [1936] .
$1,500
Oblong folio, pp. 117; numerous detailed diagrams and patterns throughout, many in black, red, and green ink, fully indexed. Includes instructions on how to take measurements of the neck, bust, hips, across the back and the front, depth of armhole, sleeves, wrist, etc., plus a section on the skirt foundation, and pattern designs for flared skirt, pleated skirt, skating skirt, double goudets, cascades, tailored wrap, crossway panel, bodice with tucks, darts, square shoulders, Victorian bodice, apron cascade, flared & gathered shirt, long sleeved kimono, cross over kimono, wedding dress, riding coat, swagger coat, boy's long trousers, hoods, nightie-pyjamas - you get the idea. In all, over 100 designs, many designs containing multiple drawings.
Original black cloth, the name B.E. Todd in gilt at lower corner of upper cover, with ownership signature on front pastedown, and a teacher's approbation in ink: "Extra good 100%, J. Erios-Fontaines, 7 April 1936." Near fine throughout. Orthography and nomenclature indicate Todd was British. I can find no evidence that Todd was either a man or a woman, although it's worth noting that fewer than five designs are for men, while over 100 are for women.
147. Tours in Sikhim and the Darjeeling district ... Revised and edited with additions by Joan Townend. Calcutta: W. Newman & Co., Limited, 1944.
$150
Fourth edition (first published in 1917); 12mo (7¼" x 4¾"), pp. [4], x, [2], 188; large folding map in rear cover pocket, photographic frontispiece, 3 folding panoramas (each showing 3 profiles), 3 folding tables of road profiles; bottom inch of spine perished else a very good, clean, and sound copy in original gray wrappers printed in red on upper cover.
Includes prefaces to the first, second (1922) and third (1934) editions. "Percy Brown's book—Tours in Sikkim, revised and edited by Joan Townend—was then the only authentic book which served, and still serves, as a good guide to all mountaineers in the Sikkim Himalaya. This book is also of special interest to me and all students of Natural History. She took special interest also in the Natural History Museum of Darjeeling and did much to develop this small but very useful museum containing a good representative collection and illustrations of animals, birds and reptiles, butterflies and many other interesting objects of the Darjeeling and Sikkim forests, all well displayed in this museum which attracts visitors from many parts of India and abroad" (K. Biswas in The Himalayan Journal).
"No record of Joan Townend's activities would be complete without mentioning Percy Brown's Tours in Sikkim which she revised and edited in 1934. This little guide-book has always been an essential part of the equipment of the travelled in Sikkim, and no member of the Himalayan Club in pre-war days was without his or her copy" (V.S. Risoe).
OCLC locates copies at Boulder, Michigan State, Alberta, the BL, University of London, Central Library-Rome, and the national libraries in Scotland and Australia.
148. My Chinese note book. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co. London: Methuen & Co., 1904.
$100
First edition, American issue (British sheets with a new title page), 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 338; frontispiece, 15 plates and 2 folding maps; original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine; a very good, sound, and clean copy. With the bookplate of William Macpherson Wiltbank, and with his wife's calling card laid in presenting this book to another at Christmas, 1904. (William himself died in 1905 at the age of 35.)
"The fourth daughter of the seventh Earl of Albemarle, [Lady Susan Townley] came of a family with a record of public service since the days of William of Orange. Widely travelled even before her marriage in 1896, she was an ideal partner for her husband [Sir Walter Beaupré Townley (1863-1945), a British diplomat, who most notably served as the British Ambassador to the Netherlands during the final years of the First World War] in his career in Lisbon, Berlin, Rome, Peking, Constantinople, South America, Persia, Belgium, and finally Holland, the home of her ancestors. She had that best of all conversational gifts, that of stimulating conversation in others, and she had a long and accurate memory, as her delightful volume of reminiscences proves. These, though published over 30 years ago, are still very well worth reading for the picture they give of the life of a bygone era, not only in this country but in, for instance, China, which in the days recalled by Lady Susan was still dominated by the Dowager Empress" (Wikipedia).
149. A companion to the Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England: containing a comment on the service for Sundays; including the collects, epistles, and gospels ... The second edition. London: printed for J. Johnson and Co. in St. Pauls’ Church-Yard [by T. Bensley, printer, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London], 1812.
$250
12mo, pp. [2], 475, [1]; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, manuscript titling on spine; upper joint starting, corners bumped, but on the whole a very good, clean, and sound copy. Early ownership inscription on pastedown reading: "P. M. Hopper / a reward for good behavior." Also, with his signature at the top of the title page.
The book was first published in 1791, and is here reissued two years after her death. Sarah Trimmer (1741-1810) was a British author of mostly children's literature. "Her periodical, The Guardian of Education, helped to define the emerging genre by seriously reviewing children's literature for the first time; it also provided the first history of children's literature, establishing a canon of the early landmarks of the genre that scholars still use today. Trimmer's most popular children's book, Fabulous Histories, inspired numerous children's animal stories and remained in print for over a century" (Wikipedia).
150. Domestic manners of the Americans. London: Whittaker, Treacher & Co. Ave Maria Lane, 1832.
$600
First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xi, [1], 336; v, [1], 271, [1] ads; half-titles not preserved, 24 lithograph plates; slightly later tan straight-grain morocco, gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; joints restored, extremities worn; previous owner's' bookplates; a good copy, or better.
Frances Trollope (1780-1863, mother of Anthony Trollope, the novelist) had spent four years in the United States, "travelled in nearly every part of it, associated with all classes, and unremittently exercised a keen faculty for observation. If [her book] fails to offer a completely authentic view of American manners, the reason is no want of candour or any invincible prejudice, but the tendency, equally visible in her novels, to dwell upon the more broadly humorous, and consequently the more vulgar, aspects of things" (DNB). The lithographs reflect this attitude and are particularly amusing.
Four editions of Mrs. Trollope's work appeared in London in its first year of publication, only the first with the pagination as here.
Howes T-357; Sadleir 3218.
151. Cindabright: or. the fatal flowers. A fairy tale. With minor poems. Kensington [London]: printed and sold by John Wild, bookseller (by appointment) to the Queen; sold also by Milliken and Son, publishers, Dublin, 1838.
$750
First edition, 8vo, pp. vi, [2], 151, [1]; largely unopened; 2 tinted engravings by S. Russell after E. H. Trotter; original tan paper-covered boards, printed paper label on upper cover; lower cover spotted, edges rubbed; very good and sound. Small manuscript insertion on p. 25 (authorial?).
Includes a subscribers' list of a mere sixty names (taking 75 copies), so the edition was likely quite small.
Only four in OCLC: Princeton, Toronto, Liverpool, and the BL.
152. Mother of knowledge: the enlightenment of Ye-shes mTsho-rgyal. Text by Nam-mkhaʼi-snying-po. Oral translation by Tarthang Tulku. Edited by Jane Wilhelms. Berkeley: Dharma Publishing, 1983.
$125
First edition, large 8vo, pp. xxvii, 244; color frontispiece, 3 plates (2 in color); a fine, bright copy in original gilt-stamped terracotta cloth and a printed, unclipped dust jacket.
This account of Yeshe Tsogyal (ca. 777-817), Tibet's greatest woman teacher, was written in the eighth century by her Dharma friend and fellow disciple Nam-mkhai sNying-po. She is considered the Mother of Tibetan Buddhism.
153. Letters written during a ten years' residence at the court of Tripoli; published from the originals in the possession the family of the later Richard Tully, Esq. the British Consul: comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw, his family, and other persons of distinction; also, an account of the domestic manners of the Moors, Arabs, and Turks. Third edition. London: printed for Henry Colburn, Conduit Street, 1819.
$1,500
2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 375, [1]; [4], 396; folding map, 7 hand-colored aquatints; original drab paper-covered boards, printed paper labels on spines; light wear; very good and sound.
First published in 1816 with 2 fewer aquatints, and with the title Narrative of a Ten Years' Residence at Tripoli in Africa. Written by the sister-in-law of Richard Tully, British Consul at Tripoli between 1783 and 1793. The female members of Tully’s family were on intimate terms with the Bashaw’s family. Thus the narrative contains a unique insight into the life of the Seraglio. The letters were published from the originals in the possession of the family of the late Richard Tully, comprising authentic memoirs and anecdotes of the reigning Bashaw, his family and other persons of distinction. Also included are accounts of the domestic matters of the Moors, Arabs and Turks. One of the most important records of Tripolitan life during the 18th century.
"These letters will prove no less important to the political inquirer than amusing to the public at large; laying open much that will materially assist the comprehensive views of the stateman, blended with all the rich entertainment that so greatly distinguished the correspondence of Lady Mary Wortley Montague" (Preface).
See Abbey, Travel, 299; Blackmer 1682; Tooley 493 for the 1816 edition.
154. The belle, the blue and the bigot; or three fields for woman's influence. By the author of Wreaths and Branches for the Church, &c. Providence: Samuel C. Blodget, 1844.
$150
First edition, 16mo, pp. 322; original blind-stamped green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; front free endpaper excised, last leaf nearly loose, spine ends slightly chipped; all else very good and sound. Bookseller's ticket of Jordan & Co., publishers, in Boston.
The Belle, or, Woman's Influence in Society; The Blue, or, Woman's Influence in Literature; and, The Bigot, or, Woman's Influence in Religion.
"Educated in seminaries for young ladies in New Haven and Litchfield, Connecticut, Louisa Caroline Huggins Tuthill apparently expected to settle down into an unexceptional life as a lawyer's wife, but a religious experience caused her husband to give up the law for the ministry and an attack of typhoid fever forced him to give up the ministry for a brief attempt at publishing a literary magazine. Tuthill encouraged his wife to write. After his death in 1825, she began to write steadily and seriously in order to support herself and her four children ... A popular author, whose works often ran to many editions and were reprinted in England, Tuthill wrote with a clear intention to instruct, to edify, and to raise the moral tone of the women and children who read her books" (encyclopedia.com).
Wright I, 2624.
155. Clara Ueland of Minnesota. [Minneapolis]: 1967.
$250
4to, pp. [2], 501; printed from typescript; presumably original blue cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover; generally fine.
The biography of the writer's mother, a women's suffrage leader and the first President of the League of Women Voters of Minnesota.
OCLC locates the MHS and the Mpls. Public Library copies only.
156. "Three score years and ten," life-long memories of Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and other parts of the west. [Minneapolis: Harrison & Smith, printing house], 1888.
$150
First edition, with copyright notice slip pasted to verso of title, 8vo, pp. 176; gravure frontispiece portrait; 3 rub marks on upper cover, else very good in original green cloth, gilt-stamped on upper cover.
Charlotte Van Cleve (née Clark, b. 1819) was the first white child born in Wisconsin, and as a child accompanied the troops who established Fort Snelling at the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers.
Howes V-21; Graff 4455.
157. Among the Kara-Korum glaciers in 1925. London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1926.
$150
First edition, 8vo, pp. x, [2], 303, [1]; gravure frontispiece portrait, folding map, 1 other map in the text, and 24 plates from photographs; spine sunned, else a very good, sound, and clean copy in original blue cloth, gilt-stamped spine.
Jenny Visser-Hoof (1888-1939) was a Dutch traveler, mountaineer, and writer known for the flora and fauna research she did in the 1920s with her husband, Philips Christiaan Visser, in Pakistan and India's Karakorum Glaciers region (see Wikipedia).
Yakushi V104: "General account of the Netherland 2nd Karakoram expedition by the Vissers in 1925, exploring the Batura, Hispar, and Shimshal glaciers."
158. [Ware, Harriet.] A memoir of Harriet Ware, first superintendent of the children's home, in the city of Providence. Providence: George H. Whitney, 1850.
$100
First edition, 12mo, pp. v, [3], 151, [1]; original brown blindstamped cloth, gilt lettering on spine; engraved frontispiece of Harriet Ware; slightly rubbed, some offsetting of the portrait, front free endpaper excised; all else very good.
Ware (1799-1847) was called to teach at India Point, a tough section of Providence, in 1834. The following year, with the assistance of Wayland, President of Brown University, she established the Providence Children's Friend Society, the oldest child welfare organization in Rhode Island. The text here consists mostly of extracts from Ware's correspondence tied together by Wayland's commentary.
159. Overdue [cover title]. Minneapolis: Minneapolis College of Art and Design, 1992.
$175
Edition limited to 10 copies (this, no. 5) signed by Wilkinson with initials; oblong 8vo, 12 leaves printed on rectos only; illustrated throughout with screen prints, etchings, lithographs, etc.; fine in original rivet-bound printed boards backed in gray cloth.
Karen Wilkinson now lives in San Francisco where she is Director of The Tinkering Studio, but she attended MCAD where she "studied Environmental Design and in my senior year started moonlighting at the Science Museum of Minnesota, teaching an Architecture camp for kids. This was the beginning of what would become a lifelong obsession with learning environments and studio pedagogy."
160. Who shares the cost of war?. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Woman Suffrage Association, n.d., [ca. 1910s].
$150
Broadside, 7" x 5"; advocating women's suffrage and listing the costs women bear in war. Shallow chips, paper rather toned, very good.
"Who face death in order to give life to men? WOMEN ... Who see their homes destroyed by shell and fire, their little ones made destitute, their daughters outraged? WOMEN."
Four similar copies in OCLC all printed by the NWS Publishing Co. in different states (VA, MA, NY), none from Pennsylvania.
Accompanied by: pro-forma expense voucher, 5.25" x 8.25"; fine.
161. The death of the moth and other essays. New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1942].
$175
First American edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 248; very small crease tears at bottom of spine of dust jacket, and slight browning of the jacket at the edges and some soiling of the back panel, but otherwise this is a near fine copy in the Vanessa Bell-designed jacket.
A posthumous collection of Woolf's essays, gathered and seen through the press by Leonard Woolf. Virginia Woolf had been in the process of creating a third volume of essays just before she committed suicide in 1941.
162. Peaks and glaciers of Nun Kun: a record of pioneer-exploration and mountaineering in the Punjab Himalaya. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909.
$850
First edition, American issue, 8vo, pp. xv, [1],, 204, [2] ads; folding map, color frontispiece, 91 photographic plates (3 in color, 4 double-page); original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, with pictorial mountainscape onlay on the upper cover, t.e.g.; spine ends rubbed and with slight chipping, slight cracking of the cloth along the rear joint, the whole slightly shaken; all else very good and clean.
This third Karakorum Himalaya expedition was the Workmans' second to the Nun Kin Masif, which whey saw on their first expedition of 1898. Fanny Workman set a women's altitude of 22,810 ft. during the couple's attempt to summit Pinnacle Peak.
Yakushi W230.
163. The call of the snowy Hispar: a narrative of exploration and mountaineering on the northern frontier of India ... With an appendix by Count Dr. Cesare Calciati and Dr. Mathias Koncza. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; London: Constable and Company Ltd., 1911.
$850
First edition, American issue, 8vo, pp. xvi, 297, [1]; 2 folding maps, gravure frontispiece, gravure portrait, 1 gravure plate, 90 photographic plates (6 folding); original pictorial red cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, with pictorial mountainscape onlay on the upper cover, t.e.g.; bookplate removed, else a very good, sound, and clean copy.
Fanny Workman was one of the first professional female mountaineers, who wrote a total of eight travel books with her husband. The above is an account of their fourth expedition, in 1908, in which they explored the Hispar Glacier and the Biafo Glacier.
Yakushi W231.
164. Translations from the French. By D.Y. Lynn: printed for the author. By W. Whittingham, 1770.
$2,000
4to, 3 parts in 1, pp. [12], 151, [1], 113, [1], 92; original blue paper-covered boards, cream paper shelfback, printed orange label on spine; upper joint slightly cracked, and lower joint starting at the top, corners bumped and slight chipping at spine extremities; all else very good and clean.
Contains three translations from the French by Dorothy Young, a close friend of Fanny Burney's, from two separate French texts, each paginated individually, and the second in two parts (separately paginated). The first is Observations on the Greeks by the Abbé de Mably. The second is The History of the City of Paris, 1763, by De St. Foix.
Among the 220 or so subscribers (who took about 280 copies) are Charles Burney and Mrs. Burney (who took six copies), David Garrick, Arthur Young, and nearly 60 women.
Harvard, Case Western, National Library of Scotland, BL, and University of South Africa seem to be all of the tangible copies in OCLC.
165. Constancy and Leopold. By Madame Rossy, author of Switzerland. In four volumes. London: printed for Matthew Iley, Somerset Street, Portman Square; and sold by M Galignani, Paris; and M. Le Double, Geneva; and all other Booksellers, 1818.
$500
First edition, 4 volumes, 12mo; unopened in original marbled wrappers, brown paper spines, printed paper spine labels, minor chips to head and tail of spine and labels, light edge wear, else a very good, lovely set.
Sadly, volume I is here in duplicate and volume II is missing.
A rather rare novel not found in NUC. OCLC locates the NYPL, BL, and University of Bristol copies only.