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Henri II of France, Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire, & the Sultan of the Turks [Danès, Pierre]. Apologia cuiusdam regiae famae stvdiosi: qua caesariani regem Christianiss. arma & auxilia Turcica euocasse vociferates, impuri me[n]dacii & flagitiosae manifestè arguuntur. Lvtetiae: Apud Carolum Stephanum, 1551. 4to (22 cm; 9"). [22 (last blank] ff.
• Schreiber summarizes this work nicely: "A defense of . . . Henri II of France, on whom publicists writing for the Emperor of Germany had cast the blame of having betrayed Christian Europe by soliciting the help of the Turkish sultan against Charles V." Danès (1497–1577) was Regius Professor of Greek and the French ambassador to the Council of Trent; one of his students of Greek was Henri Estienne.
The work also appeared in 1551 in French from the same press.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate fewer than ten North American libraries reporting ownership.
• Renouard, Estienne, 102, no.5; Goellner, II, 904; Schreiber, Estiennes. 128; Cioranesco 7375. Bound in modern boards, paper of spine chipping off; old paper shelf label inside front cover and multiple "generations" of bibliographical pencilling to front endpapers. Once upon a time bound in a sammelband as evidenced by the 17th-century manuscript folio numbers (29–49, 30 repeated); some lacing to paper due to iron gall ink. Some browning/foxing of the paper; still, paper and sewing strong. A good copy. (37770)
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The Boise Penrose Copy Daniel, Samuel. The collection of the history of England. London: Printed [by Nicholas Okes] for Simon Waterson, 1626. Folio (28.5 cm; 11.5"). [4] ff., 222 pp. (without imprimatur and dedication leaves).
• Daniel (1562–1619), a poet and historian, was educated at Oxford but left without taking a degree. During his life he had several patrons, served several lords, and only obtained financial security early in the 17th century when Queen Anne became his Maecenas. His early poetry varied in style but by the early 1590s it was solidly in the dolce stile.
In 1612 Daniel brought out his first important prose work, The First Part of the Historie of England. The present work completes that earlier one and after recapitulating the earlier history in just 22 pages, takes the story from the Conquest to the end of the reign of Edward III.
The title is printed within a woodcut "arabesque" border and the text is in roman within line borders defining space for sidenotes.
Evidence of Readership: Occasional pencil marks in text; final blank with old pencil notes and an inked couplet of yet greater age: "To make poor mortalls more in Love with breath / The Gods conceale the benefitts of Death."
Provenance: Signature on front free endpaper of "Thos. Hekt"(?) dated 1822; older ownership note on inside rear board of "Fransisci Heyct"(?); 20th-century bookplate of the famous collector Boies Penrose II.
• STC (rev. ed.) 6251; ESTC S107343. Contemporary calf over paste boards, modest blind double-ruled border on boards, gilt beading on board edges; binding worn, lacks pastedowns, hinges (inside) open but binding strong. Inner margin of title-leaf discolored from old glue. Text generally clean with only light waterstains in some early leaves' upper inner parts, a few stray stains or pencil marks as noted above in text, one leaf with a short closed tear. Without the imprimatur leaf preceding the title and lacking the dedication leaf, which was an insert between A2 and A3 and is frequently lacking; final blank leaf, also usually missing, present here with notes as above. Ownership notes as noted. On the whole, a good copy. (34472)
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The Mormon Smith Bros. — Murdered by a Mob Daniels, William M. A correct account of the murder of Generals Joseph and Hyrum Smith at Carthage, on the 27th day of June 1844. By ... an eyewitness. [Independence, MO?]: [Daniel Macgregor], [ca. 1910–20]. 8vo (21.3cm, 8.5"). 26 pp., illus.
• The front wrapper and title-page give the publication's information as "Nauvoo, Ill.: John Taylor, for the proprietor, 1845," but this is clearly Daniel Macgregor's ca. 1910 reprint of Daniels' classic account (as written by L.O. Littlefield, according to Flake) of the murder of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon Church, and his brother Hyrum. Includes the full text and reproductions of the woodcut illustrations (a half-page profile of "Tom Sharp, editor of the Warsaw Signal," anda full-page woodcut of the mob attack on the jail).
Searches of WorldCat and Flake locate only eight U.S. libraries (CSmH, CtY, MoInRC, UHi, UPB, USIC, MiU-C, NjP) reporting ownership of this reprint.
• Flake & Draper, Mormon Bibliography, 2659; McDade, Annals of Murder, 878 (for the 1845 first edition; this edition not in McDade). As issued: Stapled in original printed green wrappers, sun-faded along spine and edges of cover. Very good. (39215)
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Issue #1 was Limited to 25 Copies . . .
& There Was No #2 Danielson, Henry, ed. The Adelphi magazine. London: Henry Danielson (pr. at the Morland Press), 1922. 8vo (27.5 cm, 10.75"). 46 pp., [1 (adv.)] f.; illus.
• Editor Danielson envisioned The Adelphi thus, according to an announcement in the December 24, 1921, Publishers Weekly: "The Adelphi Magazine, a quarterly magazine of art and letters, will be published by Henry Danielson, at the Moreland Press, Ltd., the first number appearing in January, 1922. In addition to the regular edition an edition de luxe will be published limited strictly to subscribers. This edition will contain a signed proof on fine paper of an original work by an eminent artist, and each copy will be numbered and will bear the name of the subscriber for whom it was printed. No copies of this edition will be put on sale nor will any be issued to persons other than subscribers."
Present here is issue #1, this copy being stated no. 20 of an edition explicitly limited to 25. It is not a subscriber copy, as projected above, nor can a 25-copy edition be imagined as "regular"; and no more were published. The contributors were Deverell Dagnal, Bernard Muddiman, Jack Darmuzey, Alexander Griffith, E. Powys Mathers, and Addington Osgoode, all of whom supplied short stories (the last recounting a lynching in the American South), and Walter Adolphe Roberts, who offered a poem.
Handsomely printed on fine quality paper, with several woodcuts.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only two U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Columbia, UC-Davis).
• Original gray paper wrappers. An uncut and unopened, fine copy. (38220)
Cautionary Tales for Children of the Young American Republic — BEWARE!
("And Is This Bird [i.e., the Pelican] of No Use to Mankind?") Darton, William. Little truths, for the instruction of children. Vol. II. Philadelphia: Published by Johnson & Warner, 1812. 16mo (6.5"). 48 pp., illus.
• First 19th-century American printing of Darton's Little Truths, following the earlier American editions of 1789, 1794, and 1800. This conduct of life book incorporating children's questions and answers, and some nature study, was aimed at four- to eight-year-olds. The title-page is metal-engraved, has a vignette, and is pasted to the inside of the front cover. The text is illustrated with 13 good, metal-engraved third-of-a-page images — including several rather graphic ones of dire accidents caused to children by carelessness or disobedience.
• Rosenbach, Children's, 456; Welch 263; Shaw & Shoemaker 25216. In publisher's printed tan stiffened wrappers with vignette on on upper wrapper; list of children's books "with copper plates" on lower wrapper. A copy in very good condition. (38818)
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DARWIN on How & Why Plants Twine Darwin, Charles. The power of movement in plants. London: John Murray, 1880. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.65"). x, 592, 32 (adv.) pp.; illus.
• First edition of Darwin's examination of the mechanisms of motion in flowering plants, a follow-up to his work on climbing plants — based on experiments conducted with the assistance of his son Francis Darwin, and mentioning natural selection as a possible explanation for plants' ability to bend towards or away from environmental stimuli (pp. 569/70). The volume is illustrated with numerous in-text engravings of circumnutation patterns, plant structures, diurnal and nocturnal leaf positions, tropisms, etc. This is the first issue of the first edition, with two lines of errata on p. x and publisher's advertisements at the back dated 1878.
• NSTC 0174363. Publisher's textured green cloth, covers framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; faint discoloration to outer edge of front cover and lower outer corner of back cover, tiny spots of insect damage near joints (one carrying through about 60 pp., not touching text). Hinges (inside) tender, as is often seen with this book, with pastedowns and free endpapers showing evidence of past dampness in lower portions, not affecting interior; two leaves with corners lost away from text. Title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper portion, first text page (only) with pencilled marks of emphasis; pages clean. British bookseller's invoice from 1983 laid in. A pleasing copy. (30671)
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Hague & Gill Bibliography — "Observing Eric Gill's Centenary" Davis, James. Printed by Hague and Gill a checklist prepared in conjunction with the exhibit A Responsible Workman observing Eric Gill's centenary. [Los Angeles]: Regents of the University of California, © 1982. 8vo. [2], 48, [2] pp.; illus.
• First edition: Compiled and with an introduction by James Davis. The text is illustrated with four versions of the printer's devices designed by Gill for Hague & Gill, plus "Pigotts Road."
• Publisher's plain paper wrappers. Clean and fresh. (29721)
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How to Be a Man [Day, Thomas]. Forsaken infant; or entertaining history of Little Jack. New York: John C. Tottin, 1811. 24mo (13.7 cm, 5.25"). 52 pp.; illus.
• Day's tale is of an English foundling, adopted and raised by an old man, who grows up to become a soldier. His adventures are illustrated with nine half-page, well-impressed and interesting in-text wood engravings. Filling out the space at the end of the volume is "Ingratitude: Exemplified in the Story of George & Marcellus" (pp. [47]–52).
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only three U.S. libraries reporting ownership (Columbia, ULCA, AAS).
• Shaw & Shoemaker 22669; Welch 266.2. Not in Rosenbach (but see 574 for Totten's 1819 edition). Tan wrappers, illustrated with a woodcut of a soldier on the front and an allegorical figure titled "Excelsior" on the rear in a scene incorporating an eagle and a liberty cap among other elements. Some of the paper of spine has rubbed away; closed 2" split starting to front cover; else very good. (38776)
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16th-Century BIBLIOGRAPHICAL PUZZLE Decio, Filippo. Sermo editus per excellentissimu[m] ... Philippu[m] Deciu[m] … pro justificatione co[n]cilii Pisani nunc Mediolani reside[n]tis ... [Lyon?: Jacques Sacon?, ca.1512?]. 8vo (13.8 cm, 5.5'). [8] ff.
• Obscure edition — probably one of two recorded copies only — of this conciliarist speech given in defence of the notorious "Conciliabulum of Pisa" (Council of Pisa), indicted against Pope Julius II by Louis XII of France, with the assistance of four cardinals. The jurist and humanist Filippo Decio (1454–1535), siding with the King whilst upholding his own orthodoxy, was asked to produce this oration a few weeks after the beginning of the assembly, to defend the synod which was being transferred to Milan for safety reasons. Decio justified the Council as a "healthy remedy" for church reform, and argued, in the wake of the medieval conciliary tradition, for its legitimacy and authority over the Pope. Julius II excommunicated the presiding cardinals in January 1512, calling for the Fifth Lateran Council in April.
A study of the type suggests that this edition was probably printed, covertly, by Jacques Sacon in Lyon. In 1512, the cardinals had moved from Milan to Lyon; Decio too arrived in Lyon in June 1512, and, a couple of months later, two of his juridical works were printed by Sacon. The handsome woodcut on the title-page of this edition, which bears strong German influences, portrays cardinals, the Holy Roman Emperor, and the King of France, surmounted by the dove of the Holy Spirit . It was drawn after the woodcut on the first (probably Milanese) octavo edition of this pamphlet, ca.1511, another in quarto having been printed in Pavia.
Provenance: Most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear.
• Unrecorded in Gültlingen and Baudrier. Baldacchini, "Un enigma bibliografico" discusses Decius's other French false imprints. Index Aurel. 150.792, Perrins-Warner n.210 and Sander 2398 record only the Milan edition of ca.1511/12. 19th-century suede wrappers, a little rubbed. Title-page, verso of last leaf, and edges a trifle dusty, occasional very minor marginal foxing, text block partly loosening. Very nice. (40828)
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Christian Consolations Spiritually Endorsed Defoe, Daniel; Charles Drelincourt. [The Christian's defence against the fears of death. With seasonable directions how to prepare ourselves to die well. Written originally in French ... Translated into English, by Marius D'Assigny] A true relation of the apparition of one Mrs. Veal ... the eighteenth edition. [London: Pr. for R. Ware, W. Innys & J. Richardson, W. & D. Baker, et al., 1756]. 8vo (20.3 cm, 8"). [2], xi/xii, 12, 502 pp. (lacking frontis., main t.-p., 3 ff. preface, & final f.).
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• English translation of Charles Drelincourt's Consolations de l'âme fidèle, with the intriguing "True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal." First published in 1705, Daniel Defoe's convincingly matter-of-fact account of Margaret Veal's ghostly visit to an old friend went through numerous editions; it appears here as the stated eighteenth, serving (as did most later printings) as a preface to the Christian's Defence against the Fears of Death. Legend has it that Defoe's retelling of a ghost story then in circulation was meant as a boost for flagging sales of an edition of the Defence, although current scholarship is skeptical of that tale. Drelincourt's pious work sold quite well both before and after Defoe's addition, at any rate, and was often recommended as a gift for mourners.
This example particularly showcases the "True Relation," as the separate title-page for that item is the first leaf present here; the title-page and preface for the Defence are absent.
• ESTC T189434; Lowndes 616–17; Allibone 490. Recent quarter mottled calf and marbled paper–covered sides, leather edges blind-tooled, spine with gilt-stamped leather labels, gilt-dotted raised bands, and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. First three pages institutionally pressure-stamped, lower (closed) edges rubber-stamped; title-page with inked and rubber-stamped numerals in lower margin. Frontispiece, main title-page, preface to Christian's Defence, and final leaf lacking (the last interrupting the text of a brief account of Drelincourt's life). Title-page stained with inner margin reinforced and tear repaired some time ago. Pages browned, foxed, and stained, first and last few with edges tattered; some corners dog-eared. Two leaves torn, without loss of text; one leaf with outer margin chipped, affecting four words without loss of sense. A book often "read to death" . . . (25807)
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Journalism? Historical Fiction? Defoe on the Plague Defoe, Daniel. History of the plague in London, in 1665. Edinburgh: Pr. by James Ballantyne & Co. for John Ballantyne & Co.; Brown & Crombie; Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme; and John Murray, 1810. 16mo (18.2 cm, 7.2"). [2], 288 pp. (vol. 12 only, of 12).
• Early 19th-century Scottish edition of this riveting account of the Great Plague of London. Originally published in 1722 as A Journal of the Plague Year, the text presents itself as the first-person memoir of one H. F. (likely inspired by Defoe's uncle Henry Foe), a well-to-do saddler who remains in the city during the worst of the plague's devastation. Defoe biographer James Runcieman Sutherland made note of how the author, himself only five years old in 1665 and writing 57 years after the event, was able to weave fact and fiction into "an utterly convincing narrative"; efforts by modern critics and researchers to untangle the two have continued to reinforce the essential accuracy of a work often categorized as a novel.
This is the final work in Ballantyne's 12-volume "Novels of Daniel De Foe" series. At the back of the book is "A List of De Foe's Writings, as Far as They Have Been Ascertained."
• NSTC D721. Later quarter brown calf and brown buckram, spine with gilt-stamped black leather title and author labels (no indication of "volume" status); leather and corners with minimal shelfwear. Page edges untrimmed. One leaf with short tear from lower margin, not touching text; one leaf with small hole touching two letters. Minor to moderate foxing, most notably in first and last few pages, otherwise clean. Attractive on the shelf and a good solid antiquarian book for avid reading. (40346)
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A Defoe Tract? (Defoe, Daniel?). The Duke of Anjou's succession further consider'd, as to the danger that may arise from it to Europe in general, but more particularly to England, and the several branches of our trade. Part II. London: Printed & sold by A. Baldwin, 1701. Small 4to (20.8 cm; 8.25"). [2] ff., 59, [1] pp.
• The War of Spanish Succession (1701–14) was of great concern to Britain for if the Duke of Anjou ascended to the throne of Spain, the balance of power on the Continent and in European colonization worldwide would shift to the House of Bourbon. This treatise and its part-I predecessor are attributed by some to Daniel Defoe (cf. Bastian, Defoe's Early Life, p. 312), not listed by Moore or NCBEL.
This is one of four editions of this part all of which were printed in 1701, including a false-imprinted one done in Dublin.
• ESTC T035011; Goldsmiths' 3775; Knuttel 14605; Hanson, 50. Removed from a nonce volume. Inner margin of title-leaf with a small raggedly torn area and a bit of staining; age-toning, occasional foxing, and dust-soiling. Paper a bit fatigued. Only a "good" copy and priced accordingly. (36769)
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"Le Plus Beau Jour de Ma Vie est Celui où J'ai Vengé Mes Concitoyens
des Calomnies de Leurs Injustes Oppresseurs"
(On the Avignon Massacres) Deleutre, J.A. Justification des Avignonois, présentée à l'Assemblée nationale... [Paris: 1792]. 8vo (19.6 cm, 7.75"). 20 pp. (lacking half-title & second portion).
• First edition: Deleutre, the deputy extraordinary from Avignon, here argues — in the aftermath of the 1791 massacres — the legal and ethical ramifications of the severity of the measures taken against the town, and demands justice. The main text is present here; the "Pièces justificatives" (22 pp.) that followed are not.
Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only seven U.S. institutional holdings.
• Martin & Walter 9944. Removed from a nonce volume. First page with paper shelving label in lower inner corner, touching lower edges of seven letters without obscuring sense, and with pencilled inscription in upper outer corner. Half-title and 22 pp. of additional supporting material lacking. Pages mildly age-toned with a handful of small spots, otherwise remarkably clean. (30864)
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Les Jardins — Illustrated & Charmingly Bound
Delille, Jacques. Les jardins, poëme...nouvelle édition, considérablement augmentée. Paris: Chez Levrault (pr. by P. Didot l'aîné), 1801. 12mo (13.5 cm, 5.25"). [6], xxxv, [1], 216 pp.; 4 plts.
• Subtitled "L'art d'embellir les paysages," this gardening-themed poem includes praise of the virtues of the relaxed, relatively "natural" jardin anglais. Les jardins, Delille's most successful work, was originally published in 1782 with many subsequent editions appearing both in French and English; the present example is a nicely bound copy of the expanded version, illustrated with four engraved plates by Monciau after Benoît-Louis Prevost and other artists.
Binding: Contemporary treed calf. Spine with gilt-stamped red leather title label, gilt-stamped compartment lines, and floral devices within compartments.
• Brunet, II, 576. Binding somewhat rubbed and starting to crack over joints, though very firm; some onetime water exposure visible on front cover (a not entirely unattractive effect). Pages with a bit of very minor spotting, and some offsetting from plates. An attractive copy of a pretty book. (8295)
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Truly CLASSIC in Its Field: MAGIC Del Río, Martin Antoine. Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex, quibus continetur accurata curiosarum artium, et uanarum superstitionum confutatio, utilis theologis, iurisconsultis, medicis, philologis. Moguntiae: Apud Joannem Albinum, 1603. Folio (31.5 cm; 12.5"). [12 ff.], 276 pp., [8] ff.; [2 ff.], 268 pp., [10], [2] ff., 250 pp., [5] ff. (without the folding table in book II).
• One of the two best known 16th-century treatises on magic, Disquisitionum magicarum libri sex was first printed 1599–1600 and is the magnum opus of Martin del Río (1551–1608), a Jesuit scholar. Amulets, incantations, demons, spells, alchemy, prophecy, divination, and many other topics are surveyed. The tome was designed as a ready reference book for priests and ecclesiastical judges. And yes, there are sections on exorcism.
This ediiton ("nunc secundus curis auctior longè, additionibus multis passim insertis: correctior quoq(ue) mendis sublatis") bears a title-page with a rather fascinating engraved border composed of eleven vignettes, all portraying scenes from Exodus. The text is printed with side- and shouldernotes and has woodcut head- and tailpieces.
Provenance: Stamps of two U.S. Redemptorist libraries (one in Ilchester, MD; the other in New York state).
• VD17 1:001581Y; DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 1899; Robbins 283; Graesse, Magica, 47; Coumont, Demonology and Witchcraft, D45.3. Contemporary limp vellum with slightly yapp edges, evidence of now-lacking ties; vellum soiled, front joint (outside) with excellent repair, new endpapers. Scattered waterstains; discoloration in some margins from old damp; some gatherings and individual leaves browned, as in all other copies seen. Title-page trimmed at top, not quite into plate; without the folding table in Book II; old library stamps in some margins and an old sticker. A solid, satisfying copy. (33026)
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Folk-Style German Painted Binding Demme, Christoph Hermann Gottfried, ed. Altenburgisches Gesangbuch nebst Gebeten. Altenburg: Herzogl. Sächs. Hofbuchbruderen, 1825. 8vo (17.4 cm, 6.8"). [2], [v]/vi, 417, [1] pp. [with] Bible. O.T. Psalms. German. Des Königs und Propheten Davids Psalter. Verdeutscht durch Dr. Martin Luther. [Jena: Mauke, 1830?]. 8vo. 84 pp. [and] Episteln und Evangelia, wie solche auf alle Sonn-, Fest- und Feiertage durchs ganze Jahr pflegen gelesen zu werden. [Altenburg: Herzogl. Sächs. Hofbuchdr, 1829]. 8vo. 56 pp.
• Later printing of the popular Altenburg hymnal, this copy brightly bound in peasant style, inscribed, and clearly cherished; with two related texts. The Gesangbuch (words only) was edited by theologian Demme, and is printed in double columns of small but legible Fraktur; this 1825 edition is relatively uncommon. The publication information of the two additional works was suggested by WorldCat.
Provenance: Front cover gilt-stamped M.K./S.W.M./1828. Front fly-leaf with attractively inked presentation inscription in German, signed Sophie Wiedemann in Lobitz and dated 1828, above additional inscriptions dated 1879, 1886, and 1938, the latter in English; back fly-leaf with inked prayer in Wiedemann's hand, above a later inked prayer in English, dated 1984.
Binding: Contemporary varnished red paper, covers framed in gilt roll, covers and spine with floral designs painted in shades of pink, green, and yellow., front cover with gilt-stamping as above. All edges gilt, and gauffered at corners and at the spine. Pastedowns of light blue and red paste-paper.
The binding is highly reminiscent of a "peasant" binding, but clearly is not one as these are generally understood: It is not vellum, not embossed; but yes, it is definitely handpainted and folk-art inspired. A variant.
• Binding as above, edges and extremities rubbed, spine faded with paper chipped at joints, head, and foot, partially exposing binding structure, front joint cracked. Free endpapers lacking; fly-leaves with inscriptions as above. Sewing loosening, with some signatures slightly proud and others just starting to separate. A few instances of dried plant matter laid in, including three four-leaf clovers. Occasional spots of minor foxing; one small ink stain affecting two leaves but not obscuring text. Some corners bumped. A multi-generational heirloom devotional, still lovely, and a very appealing example of such. (29894)
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"We Have Gathered Here Tonight in Tribute to Those Whose Leadership Contributed to
the Magnificent Democratic Victory of 1964" Democratic National Committee. 1965 Democratic Congressional dinner. June 24, 1965. [Washington: Democratic Party, 1965]. Folio (27.3 cm, 10.75"). [12] pp.; illus.
• Commemorative program honoring Rep. Michael J. Kirwan, Sen. Warren G. Magnuson, the leadership of the House and Senate, and the chairmen of the Standing Committees; the names of all of the former are given, along with the prominent players of the Congressional and Senatorial campaign committees. President Lyndon B. Johnson, whose portrait appears on the inside front wrapper, spoke at the dinner, which also featured entertainment by Carmel Quinn and a main course of filet mignon with pommes rissolées and French-cut string beans; the booklet closes with an exhortation regarding preparations for the 1966 elections.
• Publisher's very colorful (bright pink and bright green) printed paper wrappers; slightly cockled, small spot of staining to foot of front wrapper. A nice piece of political ephemera. (34158)
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Ephemeral MIMEOGRAPHED DeMolay Cookbook DeMolay Mothers' Club. Success is automatic with a DeMolay Mother's Club cook book. [U.S.: ca. 1950?]. 12mo (20.3 cm, 8"). [26] ff.
• Recipes from women associated with the DeMolay fraternal organization, founded in Kansas City in 1919. This small-scale, lovingly self-produced mimeographed booklet — presumably a fundraising effort — opens with Spiced Peach Salad Molds (leading a pack of other gelatin-based salads and molds), and includes Fisherman's Pie (made of tuna fish, hard-boiled eggs, a can of peas, and a can of mushroom soup topped with mashed potatoes), along with a recipe for oven-fried chicken to serve 50 and a range of desserts including Maple Pecan Chiffon Pie, a variation on the classic Ritz [Cracker] Pie, and Busy-Day Cake with Lazy Daisy Frosting. The cover, although now faded, appears to have borne a hand-drawn design, and there is no publication information provided; however, many of the recipes were contributed by Hilda Stone, Priscilla Carroll, Virginia Sanborn, Arlene Curtis, Doris Crouse, and Alma VanHorn.
• Not in Brown, Culinary Americana. Front wrapper says "Mother's Club," but all online references to the organization give either "Mothers' Club" or "Mothers Club.". In original hand-inked wrappers, on original plastic rings; wrapper design faded, edges worn with short tears. Pages clean, unmarked, and unstained. A surely uncommon if not now unique item, with no holdings discoverable. (38138)
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Dropmore Press — Unopened Copy De Quincey, Thomas. Revolt of the Tartars or flight of the Kalmuck Khan and his people from the Russian territories to the frontiers of China. London: Dropmore Press, Ltd., 1948. 4to (26.8 cm, 10.6"). [10], 96, [4] pp.; illus.
• Fine press production, first edition with these illustrations, sole Dropmore Press printing: An evocatively written account of a Tartar migration under threat by Russian soldiers, by the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater — who was generally considered to have accomplished a greater feat of literature than of history with this work. The full-page illustrations and chapter headers were done by Stuart Boyle.
This is numbered copy 119 of 450 printed. The volume was set in Monotype Poliphilus and printed by hand on hand-made paper by Hodgkinson of Wells, with the binding done by Evans of Croydon.
• Publisher's half brown morocco and terra cotta cloth, front cover leather with gilt-stamped horse and rider vignette, spine with gilt-stamped title between two raised bands; corners bumped, spine foot and lower raised band slightly rubbed. Signatures unopened. (35218)
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"L'Apôtre Moderne" of Palm-Reading Desbarrolles, Adrien Adolphe. Les mystères de la main révélés et expliqués. Art de connaître la vie, le caractère, les aptitudes et la destinée de chacun d'après la seule inspection des mains. Paris: E. Dentu, 1859. 16mo (17.7 cm, 6.9"). [4], 624, [2 (errata)] pp.; illus.
• First edition of a legendary occultist's first book, issued under the banner "Chiromancie Nouvelle." An artist and student of Kabbalah, Desbarrolles (1801–86) was — along with his contemporary D'Arpentigny — one of the foundational figures of the modern practice of chiromancy, or palmistry.
The title-page vignette, engraved by Henry Isidore Chevauchet after Durand, shows a gentleman expounding over a young lady's palm; in-text illustrations include an Indian goddess along with the expected diagrams of hands.
• Caillet, Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques ou occultes, 3010. Contemporary quarter green sheep with green and brown marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and bands; binding rubbed overall with sides scuffed, small areas of insect damage to lower front joint. Front free endpaper absent (no visible signs of excision). Light to moderate foxing. A solid and consultable copy of this notable work. (39984)
The United Bishops Speak Desbois de Rochefort, Eléonore-Marie. Lettre circulaire des evêques réunis à Paris, aux evêques métropolitains de France. [Collection des pieces imprimees par ordre du concile national de France]. Paris: L'imprimerie-Librairie Chrétienne, 1797. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.7"). 8 pp.
• Originally a gathering of 14 texts separately printed in the same year, this copy includes the first piece only, "Lettre circulaire des Evêques réunis à Paris, aux Evêques métropolitains de France." At the close are the names of Eléonore-Marie Desbois, A.H. Wandelaincourt, Henry Grégoire, Jean-Baptiste Royer, Jean-Pierre Saurine, and Augustin-Jean-Charles Clément, part of a group of constitutional bishops who attempted to revive religion in France following the Reign of Terror.
• Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with paper shelving label, touching one letter of publication line, and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. First piece (only) of gathering present. Pages age-toned. (30827)
Studying Descartes' Principles Descartes, René; Florimond de Beaune; Johan de Witt; & Frans van Schooten; Rasmus Bartholin, ed. Renati des Cartes Principia matheseos universalis, seu introductio ad geometriae methodum. Francofurti ad Moenum: Sumptibus Friderici Knochii, 1695. 4to (21.3 cm, 8.3"). [8], 420, [4], 423–68, [2] pp.; diagrs.
• Important gathering of Cartesian mathematical thought, opening with van Schooten's Latin introduction to and commentary on Descartes' La Géométrie, followed by De aequationum natura, constitutione, & limitibus by de Beaune, Elementa curvarum linearum by de Witt, Tractatus de concinnandis demonstrationibus geometricis ex calculo algebraïco by van Schooten, and the closing Notae et animadversiones tumultuariae in universum opus by Bartholin, who edited the texts. Each work has a separate title-page, and numerous equations and small in-text diagrams appearing throughout; the volume ends with a one page list of errata, chiefly of errors in the mathematical notations.
The trio here was first published as the second volume of the two volume edition of the Latin translation of Descartes' Geométrie, issued in Amsterdam by the Elzevirs, 1659–61.
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only four U.S. libraries (UChicago, U.S. Naval Observatory, UMinnesota, Linda Hall) reporting ownership.
• VD17 3:301520H. 19th-century half calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and date label; mildly rubbed overall. Title-page with rectangular portion on either side of printer's device excised and repaired (repair apparently done some time ago), with excision just barely touching the ends of the motto banner. First few leaves browned; foxing and offsetting throughout. A worthwhile exploration of mathematical thought as it stood toward the close of the 17th century and a good solid copy. (39902)
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"Nécessaire & Indispensable Pour la France" Des vrais intérêts de la France, relativement a la Hollande. [colophon: Paris: H.J. Jansen & Comp.], no date [ca. 1790?]. 4to (27.8 cm, 10.9"). 19, [1] pp.
• First edition: Economic relations between France and the Netherlands at a tense and portentous moment.
• Untrimmed, unbound copy, simply stitched. "Title-page" with inked call number in lower inner corner, penciled initials in upper outer corner. One leaf torn across in upper margin, not touching text. A few instances of light spotting; uncut edges slightly darkened. (33251)
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An Academic Ephemerum Printed on Blue-Green SILK Díaz de la Vega, José María. Broadside. Begins, Juxta. Crucem. Jesu. Stanti Ast. in Cruce. Ipsa ... Angelop[oli] [i.e, Puebla]: Petri de la Rosa, 1816. Folio (38 cm; 15"). [1] p.
• On 24 April 1816 Díaz de la Vega stood to defend his Bachelor degree and this letterpress broadside on silk is the official announcement of that. It is handsomely printed using several point sizes of roman and italic, with center justification in the top portion and full justification below.
Degree defense broadsides were an important source of income for Colonial-era printers in Latin America and the printers offered "package deals" to the families of the graduate and post-graduate degree postulants; the packages were geared to the students' families economic means. Broadsides could be large (folio) or small (8vo), have an engraving or not, have a border of type ornaments or not, and be printed on standard paper or colored paper (usually blue); if one splurged, one could get the announcement printed, as here, on silk. The usual total number of copies printed for each candidate is unknown at this time, but is likely to have been only one or two dozen, and we also don't know if more than one silk copy was printed when that top option was in fact ordered. In extravagant cases, one can imagine one for the degree candidate, one for the parents, one for each godparent, etc.; still, such cases would probably have been few.
Certainly, the printers would have been willing to rake in as much money as possible, on each happy occasion, and the richly beautiful silk mementos — doubtless proudly displayed for years going forward in homes or offices — would have been excellent ongoing advertisements. Equally clearly, however, the number of copies of all of the defense broadsides surviving is small, and the survival of those on silk is very small.
No copies of this broadside are traced via the usual bibliographies, nor via NUC, WorldCat, COPAC, KVK, CCILA, CCPB, or the OPACs of CONDUMEX, the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, and the national libraries of Spain and Mexico.
• Not in Medina, Puebla; not in Palau; not Ziga & Espinosa, Adiciones a la imprenta en Mexico; not in Garritz, Impresos novohispanos; not in Gavito, Adiciones a la Imprenta en la Puebla. Blue-green silk with braided edges using gold and silver metallic thread, and with blue tassels incorporating silver thread and fittings attached on all corners. Minimal wear and stunningly attractive. (34730)
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Herculean Efforts — A Beautifully Produced Book Di Bassi, Pietro Andrea. The Labors of Hercules. Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1971. 4to (27.9 cm, 11"). 89, [3] pp.
• To redress his having killed his own wife and children during an episode of insanity, the Greek hero Hercules was ordered to serve King Eurystheus for twelve years and to complete twelve seemingly impossible feats. This English version of his Labors is the first translation made of an Italian manuscript in the Philip Hofer collection at Harvard's Houghton Library, written by Pietro Andrea di Bassi for Niccolo III d'Este, Marquis of Ferrara, before 1435.
The translator, W. Kenneth Thompson, selected thirteen episodes from Bassi's text, and illustrations including one double-page plate and twelve miniatures, reproduced from photographs of the manuscript in five-color facsimiles printed by offset lithography at The Meriden Gravure Company in Meriden, CT. Giovanni Mardersteig designed the text in his own Monotype Dante on Manunzia paper, and oversaw production with his son Martino at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy. The edition was limited to 1950 copies, of which this is no. 164, as written in ink below the colophon.
• Bound as above, spine very lightly sunned with light pencil smudge; case with one side a little soiled and a limited patch of staining. Text very fresh and clean. (30549)
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Handsome, Scholarly Edition of Dibdin's Cambridge Notebook Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Renato Rabaiotti, ed.; David McKitterick, comp. Horae bibliographicae cantabrigiensis. A facsimile of Dibdin's Cambridge notebook, 1823. With readings from the Library Companion, 1824. New Castle [DE]: Oak Knoll [colophon: Verona: Martino Mardersteig in the Stamperia Valdonega], 1989. 4to (24.8 cm, 9.75"). [6], 11–79, [3] pp.; facs.
• Well-constructed facsimile of Dibdin's 1823 notebook with a detailed introduction by Renato Rabaiotti, excerpts from Dibdin's Library Companion facing appropriate facsimiles, and a then-current finding-list of books, manuscripts, and prints examined by Dibdin in Cambridge libraries, as compiled by David McKitterick.
Mardersteig printed 250 copies of the text in Monotype Times 10/11 24 gr. on paper from Magnani of Pescia, Italy, with plentiful margins and more facsimiles on the endpapers.
• Quarter black calf and grey paper–covered boards, gilt lettering on spine, and black ribbon placemarker. Housed in a grey paper–covered slipcase with uneven fading from sun; slipcase otherwise as new, as the volume itself is. Worthy of any admirer of Dibdin or McKitterick. (37907)
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Dombey, Miss Nipper, Polly, & Some Others (Dickens, Charles); Hablot K. Browne, illus. Dombey and Son. Full-length portraits of Dombey & Carker, Miss Tox, Mrs. Skewton, Mrs. Pipchin, Old Sol. & Capt. Cuttle, Major Bagstock, Miss Nipper, & Polly. London: Chapman & Hall, 1848. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). 8 plts.
• Sole edition: These portraits are "in eight plates . . . designed and etched by Hablot K. Browne . . . published with the sanction of Mr. Charles Dickens."
• VanderPoel B207. Laid into original green wrappers as issued, wrappers chipping at fore-edges and a little soiled. Plates very good. (38156)
The Old Curiosity Shop — First Book-Form Printing Dickens, Charles. Master Humphrey's clock. London: Chapman & Hall, 1840. 12mo (26.2 cm, 10.3"). 3 vols. I: Frontis., [2], iv, 306 pp.; illus. II: Frontis. (incl. in pagination), vi, 306 pp.; illus. III: Frontis. (incl. in pagination), vi, 426 pp.; illus.
• First book-form edition of Dickens's weekly periodical — a variety of pieces gathered under a framing device of a storytelling circle led by Master Humphrey and the other members of his club. The serial marked the first appearance of Barnaby Rudge, as well as of the enormously popular The Old Curiosity Shop, which more or less took over the author's original design of focusing on articles and sketches.
The three volumes are illustrated by George Cattermole and Hablot "Phiz" Browne with numerous in-text engravings, displaying the former artist's skill with architecture and views and the latter's with humor and character.
• NSTC 2D11892; Smith, Dickens in the Original Cloth, 6. Publisher's ribbed maroon cloth, covers with blind-stamped floral and arabesque frame and front covers with gilt-stamped clock vignette, spines gilt extra; extremities rubbed, spines faded, joints tender with some starting from extremities, cloth showing small splits at joint and spine extremities, each volume now housed in a maroon cloth chemise and the trio in a matching box. Front pastedowns with small, attractive institutional bookplate; vol. III with small area of abrasion from now-lacking bookplate. Pages faintly age-toned with a very few scattered light spots, overall pleasingly clean. Vol. III with small nick to upper outer edge of first few leaves. An attractive item of Dickensiana, with two of the author's most significant illustrators splendidly represented. (33147)
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Greek History for Italians Dictys, Cretensis; Dares, Phrygius; Porcacchi, Tommaso, trans. Ditte Candiotto et Darete Frigio della Guerra Troiana. In Vinetia: Appresso Gabriel Giolito de Ferrarii, 1570. 4to (21.5 cm, 8.5"). [32], 180 pp.
• First Italian edition of Tuscan historian, philologist, and poet Porcacchi's translations of Dictys Cretensis' and Dares Phrygius' works on the Trojan War, with supplementary materials. The text starts with a dedication from Porcacchi to Silvio Torelli; a detailed index; and introductory material on the importance of historical study, past Greek historians, and a publication history, before moving on to Cretensis' Ditte candiotto della Guerra Troiana; a letter from Cornelio Nepote to Crispo Sallustio on Phrygius' work; Phrygius' Historia di Darete Frigio della ruina di Troia; three of Libanius' declamationes discussing Helen of Troy, Medea, and Andromache; and the Vite di tutti gl'historici antichi greci, with biographies of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, and others.
The work is beautifully printed in single columns with shouldernotes using italic and roman type; Giolito has added numerous head- and tailpieces plus an array of lovely, variously sized historiated initials, with his sizable printer's device appearing on the title-page.
Provenance: A shelfmark has been added on the top edge and title on the bottom edge in ink, with the shelflabel of Domenico Olivieri di Parma on the front pastedown; most recently in the library of American collector Albert A. Howard, small booklabel ("AHA") at rear.
• Adams D437; Bongi, Annali di Gabriel Giolito, II, 295–7; EDIT16 CNCE 17123; Graesse, II, p. 389; Schweiger, II, 332. 19th-century quarter vellum and beige paper–covered boards, gilt-stamped green leather spine label, pink ribbon placemarker; expectable dust-soiling on covers, one limited stain on front. Light to moderate age-toning, three gatherings with rather light marginal waterstaining; title-page and a few other leaves with small stains of various darkness, a missing corner, a marginal repair, or a short tear. Provenance indicia as above, one inked note on front free endpaper, ink on edges occasionally bleeding slightly into margins. A neatly, in fact elegantly packaged overview of the Trojan War and Greek historians. (39331)
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Dinmore, Richard. Select and fugitive poetry. A compilation. With notes biographical and historical. Washington City: Pr. at the Franklin Press [by James Lyon & Richard Dinmore], 1802. 12mo (16.3 cm, 6.4"). 288 pp.
• First edition of what was likely the first volume of verse printed in Washington (according to Wegelin), and one of the first anthologies compiled by an American. Richard Dinmore, editor of the National Magazine, selected the widely ranging pieces present here, including a sprinkling of poems by the Della Cruscan Robert Merry and some poems by Americans (and others that evoke American feelings and situations).
Among the American authors is Tom Paine writing on Gen. Charles Lee, whom a 19th-century reader has identified in pencil as "A traitor to [the] American cause." A few of the U.S. pieces are anonymous, e.g. "The People's Friend," which was "sung at Philadelphia, 4 July, 1801."
Three pages bear subscribers' names.
• Wegelin 932; Shaw & Shoemaker 2148. Period-style quarter tan cloth over light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Title-page torn, with outer corner chipped, resulting in loss of four letters from end of title; now mounted. One contents leaf with edge tear extending into text; last leaf with short edge tears. Some light to moderate foxing, with pages age-toned; final page with shadow of pencilled "Finis" and p. 80 with pencilled comment as above. (3027)
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Early Biography of Palafox Dinouart, Joseph-Antoine-Toussaint. Vie du vénérable Dom Jean de Palafox, evêque d'Angélopolis, & ensuite evêque d'Osme, dédiée a Sa Majeté Catholique. Cologne: Nyon, 1767. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). Frontis., iv, lvi, 576 pp.; 3 plts.
• First edition: Life of the celebrated yet controversial viceroy and reformer Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza. Abbé Dinouart consulted an unpublished biography begun by the Jesuit Pierre Champion (and halted due to Champion's "franchise," according to Barbier) to produce this important account of Palafox's life, accomplishments, and disputes with the Jesuits. Dinouart's Vie includes the text (in French translation) of Palafox's letters to the king of Spain and to Pope Innocent X on behalf of the cruelly treated Mexican Indians, as well as the text of the petition by Charles III of Spain to the Pope, requesting that Palafox be considered for canonization.
The work is illustrated with a frontispiece and three copper-engraved plates done by Louis le Grand after designs by Gravelot.
• Sabin 20201; Palau 73986; LeClerc, Bibliotheca Americana, 3180; Barbier, Dictionnaire des ouvrages anonymes et pseudonymes, 1003–04. Contemporary mottled calf, spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title-label; corners, joints, and spine extremities rubbed, spine with two pinpoint holes and surface cracks to leather. Front free endpaper partially separated, with pencilled annotation on verso; inner margins of one plate and opposing page with small area of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item, pages otherwise clean. All edges marbled in blue. An attractive copy. (25799)
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Rare Variant — "WE" Binding Detail — Sunderland Copy Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus Siculus. [Operum lib. vi. priores, Latine Poggio interprete.] [Paris]: [pr. by Jean Marchant for] Jean Petit, [ca. 1507]. 4to. a–v8.4x6y4; 123, [6] ff. [bound with] Justinus, Marcus Junianus. Justini historia ex Trogo Pompeio quattor & triginta epithomatis collecta; acc. Lucius Florus et Sextus Rufus. [Paris]: De Marnef, [ca. 1507]. 4to. A8B4C6a–y8.4z6&4; [18], 140 ff.
• Diodorus, according to the Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, "is one of the sources of our knowledge of the legends of mythology." His 40-book Bibliotheke Historike, with its accounts of the mythic origins of Hellenes, Greeks, and Egyptians, helps document the derivations of the Greek and Roman gods and also preserves fragments of the sources he consulted. Only 15 books of this history of the world survive intact; the noted Renaissance scholar Poggio Bracciolini provided this translation of the first six from the original Greek for Nicholas V.
Diodorus's work is here accompanied by Justinus's abridged version of Trogus Pompeius's history. Both books feature striking capitals and title-page devices. The typography of the first book is Jean Marchant's, done for Jean Petit whose lion-and-leopard device is prominently displayed. The second book's device shows initials of two of the three de Marnef brothers (E and G) beneath a pelican in her piety. This second book collates exactly like the Jean Petit edition of Justinus, printed sometime after December of 1507, and appears to differ from it solely in its title-page, probably reset only for insertion of the de Marnef device.
Via NUC, WorldCat, Moreau, COPAC, and the OPAC of the BNF we find no record of the apparently extremely scarce de Marnef variant.
Provenance: Charles Spencer, Third Earl of Sunderland, lot 3934 in the Sunderland Library sale (1882).
• Diodorus: Moreau 1508:64; not in Schweiger. Justinus: not in Moreau, not in Schweiger. On Diodorus, see: Oxford Companion to Classical Literature, 146. 17th-century English calf, panelled, with gilt fleurons and elaborate front and back gilt floral center motifs, each worked with a minute WE. (You need a magnifying glass, but this is THERE.) Overall, showing wear with some leather chipped from spine, covers abraded, and joints starting. Pages mostly clean, with slight staining to inner margins from binding supports. Gilt cover lozenges still bright and the whole safe to be worked with. (11308)
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Congo Mission Press Hymnal — LOKUNDO Disciples of Christ Congo Mission. Bonkanda wa nsao ya Nzakomba. Bolenge, Congo Belge: Disciples of Christ Congo Mission, 1918. 12mo (28 cm; 7.125"). 231 hymns.
• The fifth edition of the Disciples of Christ Congo Mission's Lonkundo Hymn Book. The Disciples of Christ Congo Mission (DCCM) arrived in the Congo in 1889 with the intention of developing an indigenous church that would provide change to the whole Congo social order. After developing a written form of the local language, Lonkundo, the DCCM began publishing hymnbooks and educational pamphlets, although Eva Nichols Dye, an early DCCM missionary, would later lament the inaccuracy of their understanding of the language.
From the preface: "This fifth edition of the Lonkundo Hymn Book is a result of the joint labor of the missionaries and the native Christians." One of those missionaries was "Alice Ferren Hensey, 1907–31, a talented musician and poet . . . [she] translated many hymns and songs, and taught them to new Congo Christians" (Smith). This is a mission press production and was actually printed in Bolenge.
• On the Disciples of Christ Congo Mission, see: Fifty Years in Congo by Herbert Smith. Publisher's green cloth-covered light boards, spine sun-faded. Some dust-soiling and dog-earing, but withal, a nice copy. (40440)
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"Diverting" KidLit CHAPBOOK The diverting history of Jumping Joan, and her dog and cat. Otley [England]: Printed by W. Walker, at the Wharfdale Stanhope Press, [ca. 1850?]. Near miniature (10 cm, 4"). 15, [1 (blank) pp.; illus.
• In this penny chapbook, each page has a small wood engraving appropriate to the text of the four-line poem below it. The reader meets Joan and her mischievous, talented, and at times anthropomorphic cat and dog.
The first and last pages (i.e., 1 and 16, both blank) are pasted to the inside of the wrappers.
WorldCat locates only three libraries reporting ownership (Pierpont Morgan, Yale, Princeton) but we know of two others (Oxford, Toronto Public).
• Publisher's rust-colored wrappers; the original single stitch now perished and leaves loose. Very good. (38910)
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Dobson, Austin. The ballad of Beau Brocade and other poems of the XVIIIth century. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1892. 8vo. Frontis., xiii, [3], 89, [3] pp.; 25 plts., illus.
• Second edition, with numerous illustrations by Hugh Thomson.
• Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine decoratively gilt-stamped; spine, lower edges, and corners a touch rubbed. Top edge gilt. A few leaves and plates with waterstaining to lower outer corners, scattered spots of light foxing. (18409)
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"Good Shooting is a Very Necessary Ingredient in the Making of Good Dogs" Dobson, William. Kunopaedia. A practical essay on breaking or training the English spaniel or pointer. With instructions for attaining the art of shooting flying. In which the latter is reduced to rule, and the former inculcated on principle. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely & Jones by C. Whittingham, Chiswick, 1817. 8vo (23.4 cm, 9.25"). Frontis., xliv, 235 pp.
• A Regency-era guide to training bird dogs and bird hunting, written in two "letters" by William Dobson (1750–1813) to a Scottish friend, with further material added for general readers in response to the recipient's urging publication. Dobson's guides never received the thorough rewrite he intended, which is a good thing according to his editor; the material would have otherwise lost its charm. (This is the second edition, Dobson having died a year before publication of the first; the "charm" includes a certain amount of "period" cruelty to the canine trainees.)
Kunopaedia is one of the earliest books on bird dog training and bears a small wood-engraved frontispiece depicting a man and his dog opposite the title-page.
WorldCat locates only eight copies of this second edition, including one in the library of the American Kennel Club.
• Not in Ing. Publisher's quarter olive paper over blue boards, with paper spine label; edges rubbed, corners bumped, and spots/soiling to boards. Page edges untrimmed. Minimal, faint spotting to interior; pages mildly cockled; semi-puncture to margin of pp. xi–xvi, corner of one leaf folded in twice. A solid and pleasant copy, in unaltered guise, of this early dog training manual. (37913)
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More Than 1000 Illustrations by Pieter van der Borcht
& with Evidence of Readership Dodoens, Rembert. Remberti Dodonaei Mechliniensis medici caesari Stirpium historiae pemptades sex sive libri XXX. Antuerpiae: Ex officina Christophori Plantini, 1583. Folio (36 cm; 14"). [10] ff., 860 pp., [13] ff., illus.
• Written and printed during the second decade of the Dutch Golden Age (1570–1670), this first edition of Dodoens' Stirpium historiae pemptades sex is coveted today by collectors of printing for the excellent typography of the Plantin Press, by collectors of early illustration for van der Borcht's detailed woodcuts, and by collectors and scholars of natural history for the important contributions to botany that the author incorporates.
Hunt says of this that it is the "First edition of Dodoens' last and most comprehensive botanical work, incorporating material from a number of his earlier books, including the Cruydeboeck"; it was the basis for Gerard's famous English herbal.
Rembert Dodoens (1517–85), a Flemish physician and botanist, was fully immersed in the Renaissance method of pursuing knowledge, whether derived from ancient texts or from new discoveries and personal observation, or combining the best elements of both streams. That is what he did with his Cruydeboeck and with Stirpium historiae pemptades sex.
Coming as it does during the first hundred years after the discovery of the New World and concomitant knowledge of New World plants, the Pemptades illustrates and discusses such new discoveries as maize, tobacco, mechoacan, and mpnopal. The 1298 woodcut illustrations here were commissioned by Plantin from the Flemish artist Pieter van der Borcht (1545–1608), a pupil of Pieter Brueghel the Elder. Thomas Gloning (Rembert Dodoens und sein Cruyde Boeck) says van der Borcht is held to be one of the most gifted botanical painters of the 16th century.
Provenance: College of Pharmacy of the City of New York.
Evidence of readership: A reader of the late 16th century has corrected some of the text and has added interesting marginalia in Latin that expounds or expands on sections of it. A later reader, probably of the late 18th or early 19th century, has labeled some of the woodcut illustrations with the plant names using Linnaean and post-Linnaean taxonyms. For example some have "W" at the end of the Latin name, for Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765–1812), others "Schmidt" for F.W. Schmidt (1764–96), most just have an "L" at the end, for Linnaeus.
• Pritzel 2350; Nissen, Botanische Buchillustration, 517; Hunt Botanical Catalogue 143; Nissen 517; DSB, IV,138–9. Voet, Plantin Press, 1101; Adams D722; Arents, Adds., 74; Alden & Landis 583/23; Index Aurel. 154.557; Bibliographia Belgica D117. Recent quarter mottled brown calf with green and red stone-pattern marbled paper sides; raised bands, each accented above and below by single gilt rule and with gilt center devices in five spine compartments. Library stamp as above on title-page and three other pages. Minor worming in some, a very few, margins, most notable in upper margins of pp. 260–89; gently age-toned, and a few leaves with browning or foxing; overall a crisp, clean, decidedly desirable copy. (34549)
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Illustrated Life of Joseph Dolce, Lodovico. La vita di Giuseppe, discritta in ottava rima. In Vinegia: Appresso Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, 1561. 4to (19.4 cm, 7.625"). 43, [1] ff.; illus.
• Sole edition of Venetian polygraph and humanist Dolce's "Life of Joseph." Gabriel Giolito, one of the most prolific Italian printers of the 16th century, exercised great influence on his contemporaries and successors in the form and decoration of books; this offering is luxuriously printed in single columns using a larger italic type, with only three stanzas of ottava rima per page, and has his sizable woodcut printer's device on the title-page as well as a different device on the final leaf. Each of the three books of the "Life" begins with a different half-page woodcut scene from the story, each with a three-element woodcut border. In each case the top element is the same, but the side elements differ. Additional woodcuts include four different historiated initials and head- and tailpieces.
The "Giuseppe" here is Old Testament–Joseph, not the father of Jesus; and the three touchstones of his life illustrated are his being sold from the well into slavery, his escape from Potiphar's wife (very vigorous), and his ultimate kneeling receipt of his father's blessing.
• Bongi, Annali di Gabriel Giolito de' Ferrari, II, p. 130; Brunet, II, 791; EDIT16 CNCE 17375; Graesse, Trésor de Livres Rares, II, p. 418; Index Aurel. 154.658. Not in Adams. 19th-century paste paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-lettered blue paper label and blue stamp; rubbed with some loss of paper and some dust-soiling. Title-page woodcut shaved along lower edge. Light to moderate age-toning with a handful of spots, one gathering with marginal waterstaining; one short marginal and gutter tear, two interior tears with early repairs touching text but not affecting sense. Booklabel as above, a few small pencilled bibliographical notes on endpapers; occasional scattered ink spots and two pages with math or letters in an early hand. Gorgeously, thoughtfully illustrated work from an important press. (39014)
On Papal Supremacy Donati (a.k,a., Donato), Girolamo. Hieronymi Donati Epistola ad Oliuerium Cardinalem Neapolitanu[m] ... [colophon: Rome: In aedibvs F. Minitii Calvi, 1525 (mense Ianuario]. Small 4to (18.8cm, 7.375''). [8] ff.
• First edition of this important theological essay on papal supremacy published in the wake of the Reformation and not long after the Fifth Lateran Council. Girolamo Donati (or Donato, 1454–1511) was an Italian theologian, magistrate, and Venetian legate to Pope Julius II — a friend of Politian and Ermolao Barbaro. This letter, undated and published posthumously by his son, was probably composed in the 1480s–90s, when its addressee, Cardinal Oliviero Carafa (1430–1511), was among the plausible candidates for papacy. It argues for papal primacy, or the superiority of the Bishop of Rome over other bishops, as based on Petrine primacy, or the superiority of Peter over the other Apostles. St. Peter was "the rock on which the Church was built" and the ultimate source of papal authority.
WorldCat locates only four U.S. libraries (Yale, Harvard, UNorthCarolina, USouthernCal) reporting ownership.
• EDIT16 CNCE 17628; Index Aurel. 157.997. Modern wrappers; all edges red. Text is clean, save minimal slight foxing to upper margin. (40806)
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Art — Artists — Wit — Allegory — Prose — Poetry Doni, Anton Francesco. La zvcca del Doni, Fiorentino. Divisa in cinqve libri di gran valore ... In Venetia: Appresso F. Rampazetto, ad instantia di G.B. & M., Sessa fratelli, 1565. 8vo (15.5 cm, 6.25"). [8], 316 ff.
• Doni (1513–74) first published La zucca in parts over the course of 1551 and 1552 — a collection of moral tales, witticisms, aphorisms, and letters in which he often mocks his contemporaries, all of it in prose with some poetry and with a heavy helping of allegory. In this edition that Rampazetto printed for the famous Sessa family of publishers/printers, he has edited the five parts and renamed them in the forms now most commonly used.
Added here is his work on art ("Pitture"), which had first appeared in 1564 at Padua. The theme is the allegorical representation of Love, Chastity, Death, Fame, Time, and Eternity. Through this work he gives us an understanding of the artistic theory of his era and many observations on the life and works of such artists as Giovanni Angelo (1507–63) and Vasari.
A full-page woodcut portrait of author is found on the verso of leaf *8, along with the printer's woodcut device on the title-page and woodcut headpieces and initials throughout the text.
• Grässe, II, p. 424; Marsili-Libelli, Anton Francesco Doni,; 57; Edit16 CNCE 17710; Gamba 1367 (note). . . Early 20th-century vellum over light boards, ruled and tooled and lettered in gilt; marbled endpapers. Possible ownership name in one margin (not deciphered). Light waterstaining in some upper and lower margins, with occasional limited effect to text; overall in fact a good and attractive copy. (40658)
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A Triumph of 18th-Century Miniature Illustration
in a Masterful Binding by Cuzin Dorat, Claude-Joseph; Marillier, Pierre-Clément, illus. Fables nouvelles. La Haye & Paris: Chez Delalain, 1773[–75]. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). 2 vols. in 1. xxii, [2], 309, [3 (index)] pp.; 4 plts., illus.
• Hoe copy of this resplendently elegant production: Both volumes of Dorat's fables with their exquisite illustrations, engraved after Pierre-Clément Marillier's designs by de Ghent and several other hands, in a lavish 19th-century binding. The volumes open with an engraved frontispiece (repeated) and an engraved title-page (different for vols. I and 2); each fable is headed by a minutely detailed engraved vignette and closes with an equally refined engraved tailpiece. This is the first edition to include the 99 engraved vignettes & 99 engraved culs-de-lampe by Marillier; Cohen called this the artist's masterpiece, and Lady Dilke noted in particular that de Ghent's pieces were "miracles of microscopic delicacy" (French Engravers & Draughtsmen of the XVIIIth Century, p. 108).
The present example is probably a iarge-paper copy as others are reported as being only 18 cm tall, and certainly it has notably wide margins and crisply impressed vignettes showcasing Marillier's accomplishments as "the artist of the infinitely small" (Portalis, quoted by Ray). This is the second issue of the first volume, with the triple-band headpiece on p. iii and the text on p. 162 corrected.
Binding: Signed 19th-century green morocco done for Hoe by eminent Parisian binder Cuzin. Covers with wide gilt-tooled lacework border composed of foliate, floral, pomegranate, bird, and monkey elements; spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped title, date, and pomegrante motifs between gilt-dotted raised bands; red morocco doublures framed in gilt fillets and rolls surrounding gilt-tooled foliate design with flower basket and wheat sheaf elements, front pastedown with Cuzin's stamp at lower edge (pencilled note on front fly-leaf dating binding to May 1888); board edges with gilt roll. All edges gilt.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with leather ex libris of Robert Hoe, leather ex libris of Cortlandt F. Bishop, bookplate of Mary S[chell]. Collins (Philadelphia collector of medieval manuscripts [now in the Philadelphia Museum of Art] and fine and rare books).
• Brunet, II, 818; Cohen-de Ricci, col. 313-14; Ray, Art of the French Illustrated Book, 43A; Sander 508; Cioranescu 25113; Fabula Docet 102; Landwehr, Emblem & Fable Books, F079. Binding as above, spine sunned (evenly and not unattractively) to olive brown with one small spot of discoloration on uppermost raised band, corners and joints very slightly rubbed. Bookplates as above. A gorgeous, covetable copy. (40757)
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No, REALLY??? — For a HAT? Dorrance, John; Arthur Fenner. Report of the case John Dorrance against Arthur Fenner tried at the December term of the Court of Common Pleas, in the county of Providence, A.D. 1801. To which are added, the proceedings in the case Arthur Fenner vs. John Dorrance. Providence: Printed by Bennett Wheeler, 1802. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). iv, 116 pp.
• "Case commenced . . . by John Dorrance, esq., against Arthur Fenner . . . charging the defendant with having, falsely and maliciously, slandered and defamed the good name, fame and reputation of the plaintiff" (p. 2) and a "case commenced by His Excellency Arthur Fenner, esq., charging the defendant with having published a false and scandalous libel against the plaintiff" (p. [110]).
Arthur Fenner was the fourth Governor of Rhode Island from 1790 until his death in office in 1805 and Dorrance was a justice of the Court of Common Pleas. The root of all the litigation was whether Dorrance had swapped the cadaver of a suicide for a hat. Needless to say, there is political animosity at work here.
The whole was "carefully compiled from notes correctly taken by several gentlemen who were present during the whole course of the trial."
• Shaw & Shoemaker 2156; Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law, 11968. Removed from a nonce volume, lacking the wrappers. Age-toning and a few spots of foxing. Else very good. (39246)
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Dostoevsky Gets the LEC Treatment Dostoevsky, Fyodor; Fritz Eichenberg, illus. The brothers Karamazov. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1949. 4to (28.3 cm, 11.25"). I: xxii, 248 pp.; 17 plts. II: vi, [4], 251–604, [2] pp.; 31 plts.
• Dostoevsky's last and greatest work was completed a mere two months before his death in 1881 and is offered here in the translation of Constance Garnett, revised by Avrahm Yarmonlinsky who has also written the introduction. Fritz Eichenberg illustrated the book with 48 full-page etchings on stone, pulled by George C. Miller; Eichenberg has also signed the colophon. George Macy designed both volumes using a linotype Original Old Style font for the text, and printed a series of embellishments in green ink for the part-opening and chapter-opening pages, and also for the title-page.
This is numbered copy 1157 of 1500 printed of this two-volume edition. The monthly newsletter is laid in.
Binding: Half red buckram stamped with a design by Eichenberg in aluminium leaf, and red linen sides; page tops are stained green.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 197. Binding as above; spines slightly darkened, small scuffs to boards and bottom edges. Slipcase lacking. A great set with captivating illustrations. (38940)
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Dostoevsky LEC — Signed by the Artist Dostoevsky, Feodor; Fritz Eichenberg, illus.; Constance Garnett, trans.; Konstantin Mochulsky, intro. A raw youth. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1974. 4to (29 cm, 11.375"). 2 vols. I: xviii, 264 pp.; 8 plts., illus. II: x, [2], 265–514, [2] pp.; 7 plts., illus.
• The Limited Editions Club presents a two-volume set of Dostoevsky's novel exploring a father and son's relationship and the conflicts that arise between them. Designed by Martino Mardersteig at the Stamperia Valdonega in Verona, Italy, the volumes feature text set in Monotype Bembo, along with 15 full-page wood engravings and three smaller engravings to introduce the beginning of each part of the novel; the engravings were done by German-American artist Fritz Eichenberg, who had previously illustrated several of Dostoevsky's works. His bold visions impressively demonstrate the array of emotions endured by the characters.
This is numbered copy 733 of 2000 printed, being signed by the artist at the colophon. The monthly newsletter and prospectus in the original envelope are laid in.
Binding: Bound at the Stamperia Valdonega in a silk-finish gray-green cloth with green gilt-stamped spine labels.
• Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club, 482. Bound as above, without the glassine dust jackets (as usual); occasional light bumping to edges, light rubbing to spine-label of vol. II, and small faint stain to box label. Notably bright volumes, inside and out! (38938)
Gorgeous Belle Époque Tales Doucet, Jérôme; Alfred Garth Jones, illus. Contes de haute-lisse. [Lyon]: Bernoux et Cumin (pr. by G. de Malherbe), 1899. 4to (33.1 cm, 13.1"). [84] pp.; col. illus.
• First, deluxe edition of this collection of fairy tales by Doucet. The opening story here is about a romantic medieval princess who discovers to her dismay that the 19th century — particularly its top-hatted young gents! — is not nearly as much to her taste as she thought it would be when she wished to go to sleep for hundreds of years. Each page of this and the other five stories features one of Garth Jones' medieval-inflected Art Nouveau illustrations either above or below the text, the whole within a lush framework; and each of the six tales is color-printed using photo-zincotypes (mostly chromo- or tinted) including the borders, with its own individual accent color (mauve, gray, sage green, yellow, coral, or orange). This is numbered copy 208 of a total of 600 printed (this being one of 500 on papier vélin du Marais), with the original wrappers bound in.
Provenance: Front wrapper with early pencilled inscription reading "F. de Jauzé" (possibly the Vicomte F. de Jauzé whose library was auctioned in 1909).
Searches of NUC Pre-1956 and WorldCat locate only three U.S. libraries reporting ownership (!!!).
• Late 19th- or early 20th-century half dark blue morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with raised bands and gilt-stamped title; extremities and edges showing minor rubbing, back cover scuffed. Wrapper edges browned. Pages with a scattering of tiny spots and faint smudges, one leaf with short tear from lower margin, overall clean and more than pleasing. (39412)
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Proverbs, Parables, & Dreams with a "Period" Flavor Downey, William Scott. Proverbs...tenth edition. New York: Pub. for the author by Edward Walker, 1856. 12mo (18.8 cm, 7.4"). 128 pp.
• New York "tenth edition" of this popular collection of proverbs by a Boston preacher highly thought of in his day; its original publication was in 1850, perhaps rather oddly in St. Louis, and it appeared thereafter in a variety of markets. Here, it is in a perfectly stunning American publisher's binding of gilt red morocco. Along with the "proverbs," pithy preachings of the author, this offers parables and apocalyptic dreams.
Binding: Publisher's red morocco, covers framed in gilt rolls, front cover with gilt-stamped angel vignette and title, back cover with gilt-stamped urn, spine gilt extra. All edges gilt.
• Binding as above, edges and extremities rubbed with leather chipped at spine head, spine somewhat darkened and with gilt dimmed (not lost); appearance of three small pin-type wormholes through leather at front joint, but this is associated with the sewing stations. Pages gently age-toned, with a few lightly foxed or stained; first few leaves loosening. Delightful lying on a table in 1856, delightful doing the same thing now. (15208)
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"Well . . . If This is True, We Only Tumbled Out of One Mystery into Another" Doyle, Arthur Conan. The valley of fear: a Sherlock Holmes novel. New York: George H. Doran Co., (1914). Small 8vo (19.7 cm; 7.75"). 320 pp.
• First American and indeed first book edition of the fourth and final Sherlock Holmes novel; as with many of the Holmes stories, it was originally published as a serial for the Strand Magazine before it was published as a whole. The first American edition preceded the first UK edition by several months.
The present copy includes all seven illustrations, a frontispiece and six plates, by Arthur I. Keller; this seems not always to be true of copies on the market and the first UK printing lacks Keller's illustrations altogether.
• Red cloth with gilt stamping, no dust jacket; spine slightly cocked, light rubbing to extremities and corners. Previous owner's signature ("Howard") in faint pencil on front endpaper; small stain to fore-edge affecting perhaps seven leaves with interior otherwise clean. A very good copy of a classic detective novel. (37598)
Notes on the Life & Death of Jesus Drexel, Jeremias. Deliciae gentis humanae Christus Iesus, nascens, moriens, resurgens, orbis amori propositus: Ser[enissi]mo utriusq[ue] Bauarie duci S.R.I. Archidapif[ero] Electore Maximiliano et ser[enissi]ma coniuge Maria Annae Austriacae inscriptus & consecratus. Antverpiae: Apud Viduam Ioannis Cnobbari, 1639. 12mo (12.9 cm; 5.125"). [24], 390, [20], 478 pp.
• First two sections of commentary and prayers on Jesus Christ's life from a popular 17th-century author. Drexel (1581–1638), a Jesuit and professor at Augsburg and Dillingen, converted to Catholicism after being raised Lutheran and went on to write numerous religious works translated into multiple languages.
Sommervogel lists two rather different versions of this published in 1639, being a fourth edition; this offering appears to be the issue with an engraved title-page showing the different parts of Jesus' life and text spanning 390 pages (only), offering "Christvs Iesvs nascens" (solo). This volume, however, also contains the other issue's "Christvs Iesvs moriens," while omitting its "Christvs Iesvs resurgens," suggesting it may be simply an impromptu combination text drawing on both 1639 versions or a previously unrecorded "version" in its own right.
Provenance: Signatures of three former owners on fly-leaves including that of Emerii Viajosrsaisy; ex-library stamp of Francisci Botka on title-page verso.
• Sommervogel III, col. 199, 22. Vellum over pasteboards with yapp edges, inked lettering on spine, all edges speckled blue; dust-soiled and rubbed with some loss of vellum, pastedowns lacking to leave printed binding paper waste exposed. Fly-leaves and title-page crumpled and tattered with some loss of paper at margins, four leaves with a small hole, short tear, or rubbed ink, and short (mostly marginal) wormtracks to the bottom of the last few gatherings; also light waterstaining to upper outside corner through perhaps a third of the text and light age-toning with the occasional spot or dog-ear. Provenance markings as above, one pencilled note on back pastedown, a few leaves with underlined passages. Nicely printed, portable, and in fact a much pleasanter copy overall than its fault-notes suggest! (36972)
Cholera in Mexico after the
Mexican-American War Duck, William Ward. Método curativo racional para el cholera morbus asiático, por Guillermo Ward Duck. México : Tipo. de R. Rafael, 1850. 8vo. 16 pp.
• The author of this very scarce pamphlet identifies himself as a retired medical doctor who at the time of its writing was about to leave for England. He tells how to diagnose cholera, explains his "rational" method for curing it (based on methods used successfully in England, the United States, and parts of Europe), and gives suggestions for easing recuperation. At the end of the work he gives the composition of the various medicines and tonics he prescribes, because "detest[o] por mi parte el monopolio que algunos han hecho de sus medicamentos á fin de lucrar á costa de la humanidad doliente."
Cholera became a serious problem in Mexico City and in several other places in the country in the wake of the Mexican–American War. Dr. Duck says of his reasons for writing this opusculum of medical advice, "solo me ha impulsado el deseo que tengo de auxiliar á una Nacion que me es querida." Very rare.
• Sutro 858; not in Palau. Author not in: Archivo biográfico de España, Portugal, e Iberoamérica; or Diccionario Porrúa de historia, biografía y geografía de México (5a ed.). Fine condition; sewn in original cream-colored printed wrappers with elaborate, ornamental borders on both covers. Wrappers very lightly soiled; a clean, untattered copy. (26603)
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Carpet-Making —Four Plates Duhamel du Monceau, [Henry Louis]. Art de faire les tapis, façon de Turquie, connus sous le nom de tapis de la Savonnerie. [Paris: De l'imprimerie de L.F. Delatour], 1766. Folio (46 cm, 18"). [1] f., 25, [1 (blank)] pp.; 4 plts.
• First edition of this stand-alone entry from the Description des arts et métiers, faites ou approuvées par Messieurs de l'Académie des sciences de Paris, a series of publications on French arts and trades sponsored by the Académie Royale des Sciences. Based on the papers of Jacques Noinville, former director of the famed Savonnerie carpet factory, the work describes the history and techniques of making Oriental-style rugs; the plates depict workers using looms and devices resembling spinning wheels, as well as individual pieces of equipment and a sample floral design.
• 19th-century quarter sheep over paper-covered boards, worn and abraded with small discolorations; spine leather chipped, with remnants of gilt-stamped leather title label. Edges untrimmed. Some offsetting and a very few spots to pages; small area of worm damage in upper margins. (5107)
Mythology & Mystery Dulaure, Jacques-Antoine. Des cultes qui ont précédé et amené l'idolatrie ou l'adoration des figures humaines. Paris: L'Imprimerie de Fournier Frères, 1805. 8vo (20.4 cm, 8"). [4], viii, 511 (i.e., 510) pp.
• First edition of this study of the three major ancient cults as identified by the author ("des Fétiches, des Astres, et des Héros ou des Morts") and their connected rites, customs, and symbolism. Dulaure (1755–1835) was an archaeologist, historian, and politician whose wide-ranging published works included Revolutionary political writings, a study of phallus worship, and a proto-science fiction story about a trip to the moon. The present work offers commentary on the pyramids, the zodiac, cults of Mercury and Venus, etc.
Binding: Contemporary calf. Covers framed in gilt roll and fillet; spine with gilt-stamped black leather title-label, compartments defined by multiple rules, and five different gilt-stamped compartment decorations, all harmonizing; quite elegant.
• Caillet, I, 3344. Bound as above, worn overall; front cover with burn mark to lower edge, spine label chipped, joints and extremities rubbed. First few leaves and a few others with waterstaining to outer margins; occasionally a spot of soil or ash-burn; a handful of pages with pencilled underlining, bracketing, or marks of emphasis. A solid, very readable copy of an unusual and interesting treatise. (40406)
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Eleutheropoli? Du Moulin, Louis. Irenaei Philadelphi Epistola, ad Renatum Veridaeum. In qua aperitur mysterium iniquitatis novissimè in Anglia redivivum, & excutitur liber Iosephi Halli, quo asseritur Episcopatum esse juris divini. Eleutheropoli [really, Basel]: no publisher/printer, 1641. Small 4to. 76 pp., [4] ff.
• False imprint edition of Du Moulin's study of the episcopacy of the Church of England which dissects Joseph Hall's Episcopacy by Divine Right (1640). The final four leaves contains Omissa suo loco reponenda."
A work of considerable significance for English canon law. There was another edition in 1641, without any place of printing specified, in 8vo format, and having 122 pages.
• Removed from a nonce volume, semicircular area torn from lower portion of the title-page costing two letters of the imprint. Old ownership inscriptions on title-page. Library stamps in lower margin of last page. (21014)
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The 1886 Winner of the Parkes Memorial Prize Duncan, Andrew. The prevention of disease in tropical and sub-tropical campaigns. London: J. & A. Churchill, 1888. 8vo (22 cm, 8.5"). x, 396 pp.
• Beginning circa 1871 the British War Office awarded the Parkes Memorial Prize, consisting of 75 guineas and a gold medal: It was awarded every third year to the writer of the best essay on a subject connected with hygiene. The competition was open to the medical officers of the Army, Navy, and Indian Services of executive rank on full pay, with the exception of the assistant professors of the Army Medical School during their term of office.
In 1886 Andrew Duncan, a surgeon of the Bengal Army, received the Prize for this extended study of military, preventive, and tropical medicine with a focus on scurvy, typhus, cholera, yellow fever, dengue fever, smallpox, venereal disease, and malaria.
Binding: Prize binding of the Army Medical School (housed in the Royal Victoria Hospital). Contemporary tan calf with black leather gilt label, round spine, raised bands, gilt and blind tooling on spine; modest gilt rolls and fillets to form border at perimeter of boards. Gilt supra libros on front board. Gilt-rolled turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and marbled edges.
Provenance: Presentation leaf noting gift of this copy as a prize to A.E.H. Prince (of the Indian Medical Service) in the Department of Hygiene at the Army Medical School, Netley, signed by Col. J. Lane Notter, Professor of Military Hygiene, and dated 1896. Most recently in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
Searches of NUC and WorldCat locate only five U.S. libraries (NIC, NNNAM, PPCP, PPiU-M, PCarlMH) reporting ownership.
• Binding as above; front joint (outside) rubbed and starting in lower inch, small area at top of spine pulled with small loss of leather. Else a very nice copy; clean, sound, and with notable provenance. (39794)
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The Art of the Printed Book Duncan, Harry. Doors of perception: essays in book typography. Austin, TX: W. Thomas Taylor, 1983. 8vo (23.2 cm, 9.2"). [2], 99, [3] pp.
• First edition: Essays on book design and printing by a famed typographer, book designer, and hand-printer. This is one of 325 copies (300 for sale) printed; the edition was designed by Carol J. Blinn at Warwick Press, printed by Daniel Keleher at Wild Carrot Letterpress, bound by Sarah Creighton and C.J. Blinn in quarter olive Niger goatskin and paste paper–covered sides (paper made by Blinn), and signed at the colophon by the author.
• Binding as above, in original terra-cotta paper–covered slipcase; leather very gently sunned, slipcase with lower edge rubbed and each side with a small unobtrusive spot/mark or two to paper, otherwise clean. Informative and attractive. (30560)
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"The Father of the post–World War II Private-Press Movement" Duncan, Harry; Juan Pascoe, comp. & ed. The inner tympan: The collected verse and prose of Harry Duncan [compiled by Juan Pascoe]. Tacámbaro: Taller Martín Pescador, 2015. 8vo (23.5 cm, 9.25"). 305 pp., illus., ports.
• From the book's rear cover, extensively: "Harry Duncan was a major Master Printer, from whom many younger workers learned enough that legions of poets can be forever grateful to have had their work presented so appropriately that the material particulars, text and all, will melt way, vanish into thin air, leaving the work — the POEM — imprinted in the reader's brain, as if an electronic chip had been implanted: as some crafty publisher might attempt some day, hoping to equal the impact of a Harry Duncan book.
"Harry Duncan was also a distinctive though not prolific poet and translator; a stylist as eloquent and elegant in prose as in speech and bearing; a fine italic penman; and husband of Nancy, whose genius, separate but equal, was of the theater, though still imprinted in the memories of fellow actors and audiences, especially children.
"The Inner Tympan brings together every published piece of Duncan's writing that could be found, and constitutes thus a self-portrait; not one consciously planned, certainly not one he helped to gather, but neither is it one he would have rejected."
Duncan (1916–97) is "considered the father of the post-World War II private-press movement" (Ray Anello, "Reading the Fine Print," Newsweek, August 16, 1982, p. 64). He operated the Cummington Press beginning in 1939 in Cummington, MA, later at Iowa City after becoming director in 1956 of the typographical laboratory at the University of Iowa's School of Journalism, and later still in 1972 in Omaha, NB, where he created the University of Nebraska's fine arts press, Abattoir Editions.
The first edition of The Inner Tympan was printed in 2005 in an edition of 30 copies by Juan Pascoe — Duncan's last apprentice, then and now a master hand-printer in Mexico — for his friends and those of Harry and Nancy Duncan, the Cummington Press, and the Taller Martín Pescador. This second edition "was set in Enrico, a digital version of the 12-point type cut and cast in 1600 by Enrico Martinez in Mexico City, and drawn by Gonzalo Garcia Barcha in the final years of the twentieth century" (colophon).
• Publisher's illustrated hardcover binding. New. With a four-page pamphlet of "Some memories of the Cummington Press" by Gloria Goldsmith Gowdy, printed by Juan Pascoe in 100 copies "with HD's pressmark & PWW's drawing for The Winter Sea," laid in. (40713)
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An Artist's View of the EARLY Development of American Art Dunlap, William. History of the rise and progress of the arts of design in the United States. New York: George P. Scott & Co., 1834. 8vo (24.6 cm, 9.7"). 2 vols. I: 435, [1] pp.; 1 facs. II: viii, 480 pp.
• First edition. Dunlap (1766–1839) was "one of the first outstanding figures of the American stage" according to the Oxford Companion to the Theatre; sent to London to study painting with Benjamin West, he found the lure of the theatre more compelling and eventually became a playwright, manager of New York's Park Theatre, and vice president of the National Academy of Design. Here reverting to his first "life," he provides interesting biographical accounts, full of anecdotes and personal observations, of numerous prominent American artists and their works. Vol. I features a facsimile of an autograph bill of sale, for portraits, by John Singleton Copley.
• On Dunlap, see: Oxford Companion to the Theatre, 211. American Imprints 24237; BAL 5026; Howes D571; Sabin 21303. Publisher's quarter green diced cloth and tan paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities rubbed, corners bumped, spines sunned, sides with spots of staining and discoloration. Front hinges (inside) tender. Ex–social club library: spines with paper shelving labels, front pastedowns with 19th-century bookplates and inked shelving numbers, title-pages and one other in each volume rubber-stamped, no other markings. Some outer corners of vol. II lightly waterstained; a very few instances of small spots of staining. (27558)
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(Dunsinnan vs. Ramsay). Broadside. Begins: "Information for William Nairn of Dunsinnan, commissar clerk of Edinburgh, against Mr. David Ramsay writer to the signet...."[Edinburgh, ca. 1710]. Folio (31.2 cm, 12.35"). [2] pp.
• Account of the legal dispute between Dunsinnan and Ramsay over the estate of Thomas Young, which included "Fourty Bolls Bear and Malt"; executory principles are addressed. This is a scarce document, with no copies listed by ESTC, RLIN, OCLC, or NUC Pre-1956.
• In good clean condition, tipped onto a leaf of 19th-century paper; now in a Mylar folder. (6747)
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Biblical Law, Debated Dupin, André Marie Jean Jacques. The trial of Jesus before Caiaphas and Pilate. Being a refutation of Mr. Salvador's chapter entitled "The Trial and Condemnation of Jesus." Boston: Charles C. Little & James Brown, 1839. 16mo (18 cm, 7.1"). viii, 88, [2 (blank)] pp.
• First edition, translated from the original French "by a member of the American Bar": John Pickering (1777–1846), a lawyer and philologist. Salvador's Histoire des Institutions de Moise et du Peuple Hebreu included a chapter in which he concluded that as a court proceeding, the trial of Jesus was in accordance with Jewish law; Dupin here rebuts that chapter's arguments, while continuing to express admiration for Salvador as a scholar and author — and while focusing on legal issues rather than theological ones.
Binding: Publisher's blue cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title. Cloth is ribbed and fits Krupp's Rb3 pattern.
Evidence of readership: One pencilled footnote, arguing that capital punishment is the will of the divine.
• American Imprints 55455. On the binding cloth, see: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823–50, p. 40. Binding as above; spine and board edges gently faded, extremities rubbed. Mild to moderate foxing throughout. An interesting book in a good example of an early American cloth binding. (34765)
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BAL Author, before Her Whirlwind Episode with POE Durfee, Job, & Sarah Helen Whitman. A discourse, delivered before the Rhode-Island Historical Society on the evening of Wednesday, Jaunary [sic] 13, 1847. Providence: Charles Burnett, jr., 1847. 8vo (22.5 cm, 9"). 42, 5, [1] pp.
• Durfee (1790–1847), Chief Justice of Rhode Island, expounds on "the Rhode-Island Idea of Government" (p. 40), and his words were "Published at the request of the Society" (title-page). This was first printed in the Journal of the Rhode Island Institute of Instruction (Providence: Charles Burnett, Jr., 1847), vol. II, no. 1.
But for many, of far more interest is the "Poem, by Sarah Helen Whitman. Recited before the Rhode-Island Historical Society on the evening of January 13, 1847; previous to the delivery of Judge Durfee's discourse" (sectional title at rear). Whitman (1803–78) was variously a poet, essayist, Transcendentalist, spiritualist, and romantic interest of Edgar Allan Poe! The author of her page on the Poetry Foundation website characterizes her as "intelligent, gifted, witty, and warm" and says "She was widely read." The fact is she is one of few women given space in the Bibliography of American Literature, that bastion of white male authors.
Provenance: Gift inscription on front wrapper, "Jno. McClellan, Esq. with the respects of E. Dyer, Jr."
• BAL 21359B; Sabin 21425. Yellow printed wrappers. Very good. (40377)
The "Important Truths" Known to the Pagan Sages Dutens, Louis. Recherches sur l'origine des découvertes attribuées aux modernes ... Paris: Chez la veuve Duchesne, 1766. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.36"). xlviii, 228, [4], 257 (i.e., 259), [3] pp.
• First edition: Arguments in favor of classical origins for an impressive array of "modern" inventions and philosophies. Among the modern figures are Descartes, Locke, Leibnitz, and Newton specifically, discussed along with current general thoughts on physics and astronomy, developments in surgery and in the study of anatomy, mathematical discoveries including algebraic concepts, and contemporary ideas of the soul and the divine — all of which Dutens claims were derived directly from ancient Greeks, Romans, and Egyptians.
The work's two volumes are here bound as one, with each half-title present; the main text is in French, with many footnotes in Latin or Greek. The author (1730–1812) was a French-born tutor and chargé d'affaires who spent much of his life either in England or travelling the Continent, generally in the service of various well-to-do people of rank.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of G.W. Fowler. Later in the residue of the stock of the F. Thomas Heller bookselling firm (est. ca. 1928).
• Barbier, IV, 29; Blake, NLM 18th Century, p. 130; Brunet, II, 922; Wallis, Newton and Newtoniana, 382.55. Contemporary quarter mottled sheep and interestingly marbled paper–covered sides (paper in shades of rose, grey, and brown, with pattern resembling camouflage), spine with gilt-stamped leather label; binding rubbed and worn overall, with tiny spots of insect damage. Bookplate as above, front free endpaper with early inked initials in upper margin, vol. I half-title with early inked authorship attribution. Light foxing, only. A solid copy of this interesting look at 18th-century thought on the history of science. (40425)
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The State of a Significant Bishopric, POST-Revolution
A Two-Volume FRENCH Sammelband Du Trousset d'Héricourt, Bénigne-Urbain-Jean-Marie, Bishop of Autun. [Mandements, etc.]. Autun: L'Imprimerie de Dejussieu, 1829–1852. 8vo (24.5 cm, 9.7"). 2 vols. I: [~550] pp. II: [~500] pp.; various paginations.
• A substantial gathering of printed pieces by and connected to the Bishop of Autun (1797–1851) — what appears to be all of his official correspondence with his diocese and with various other clergymen from the time of his appointment through his death, as well as some of the letters from others to which he responded. While the first piece in the first volume was printed in Paris by Adrien le Clere & Cie., D'Héricourt subsequently used his own designated local printer, and many of these pieces are attractively worked up with engraved headpieces, titles in decorative typefaces, and the Bishop's coat of arms vignette. Most of the pieces are in French, with four in Latin; the final few items deal with the bishop's death and the subsequent vacancy of the see.
Altogether, there are dozens of pastoral letters gathered here, over 40 mandements, and a handful of circulars; also present are instructions for catechisms and first communion, and a call for public prayer "pour l'entière cessation du choléra-morbus" (1832).
Given the nature of these publications and that they were printed not in Paris or another large printing center, it is clear why all are scarce, even in France. Truly a remarkable compendium of church history during the French Restoration, July Monarchy, and Second Republic.
• 19th-century marbled paper–covered boards with roan shelfbacks, spines with gilt-stamped titles, dates, and bands; spines and extremities rubbed. All edges speckled. Two pages with neatly inked French annotations in (different) early hands; one title-page with early inked ownership inscription; one single-page letter addressed by hand to M. le Curé à Savianges; one order with a missing bullet point and the date added in a neat early inked hand; a few pieces with dates inked in. Several leaves with creases from mailing folds, one cover leaf with a postal cancellation from Buxy, 7 June 1840. Many leaves variously with generally very light, occasionally moderate waterstaining; occasional spots of foxing or staining scattered throughout, a few leaves age-toned, pages generally clean. A trove of data in physically informative forms. (37160)
An Irish Guide to England's Irish Statutes Dutton, Matthew. An exact abridgment of all the publick printed Irish statutes of Queen Anne and King George, in force and use, to the end of the first session of this present parliament. Anno Dom. 1716. Dublin: James Carson, 1717. 4to (20.7 cm, 8.2"). [4], 263, [1], xv, [25] pp.
• Uncommon first edition: the "Scope and Intendment of every Paragraph" of the Irish statutes, designed to be of use both "those that have not, as those that have these Statutes at large" (p. [iii]). The author published several other studies of Irish law, including The Office and Authority of a Justice of Peace for Ireland, The Laws of Masters and Servants in Ireland (one of the earliest English-language works to focus on the field of labor law), and The Office and Authority of Sheriffs, Under-Sheriffs, Deputies, County-Clerks, and Coroners, in Ireland.
ESTC. COPAC, and WorldCat locate only four U.S. institutional holdings, one in Ireland, and one in Britain, but we know of a copy at the Irish National Library that is not found in those databases.
Provenance: Title-page with inked inscription of Redmond Pursell (possibly Purcell), dated 1717; verso inscribed "Patt. Weldon his hand, dated May the 4th 1777," with "Patr. Weldon, His Book" on the first preface page and another Pursell/Purcell inscription on the first text page.
• ESTC N31275. Modern leather old style with most of original covers laid down on the modern boards, spine with blind-tooled raised bands and gilt-stamped leather label; original leather worn and cracked. First few leaves with edges darkened/chipped and those fly-leaves with edge tears; title-page and preface margins repaired. Inked inscriptions as above, title-page additionally with later inked institutional shelf number and "withdrawn" note; fly-leaves with early inked calculations and budget notes; three instances of early inked marginalia and two printed shouldernotes with marks of emphasis. Pages age-toned with scattered small spots (a few signatures darkened or with more notable spotting), some corners bumped, smudges to last few leaves; one leaf with small hole with loss of seven letters. Solid, usable, and attractive on the shelf. (34133)
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Royalist CONSPIRACY Duverne de Presle, Thomas-Laurent-Madeleine. Déclarations de Duverne Dupresle ou Dunant, annexées au registre secret du Directoire exécutif, le 11 ventôse an 5. [Paris]: L'imprimerie du Directoire, [1797]. 8vo (19.8 cm, 7.75"). 30 pp.
• An intriguer and royalist agent spills the beans on what he knows. There were several variants and reprintings from the same year; this Parisian imprint bears "Directoire Exécutif" at the head of the title.
Uncommon: WorldCat and NUC Pre-1956 locate only five U.S. institutional holdings.
• Martin & Walter 12594. Removed from a nonce volume. First page with paper shelving label, obscuring three letters of header, and with pencilled monogram in upper outer corner. A very few small spots, pages almost entirely clean and crisp. (30830)
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"To Toiling Millions, Whose Means are Small, Yet Whose
Desires are Great to Possess a HOME . . ." Dwyer, Charles P. Economic cottage builder: or, Cottages for men of small means. Buffalo: Wanzer, McKim & Co., 1856. 8vo (23.3 cm, 9.125"). [2], 127, [1] pp.; 32 plts.
• For the handy 19th-century American in need of a home but without the means to consult a professional ("and yet whose tastes are as worthy of being gratified"), an architectural handbook for building one's own cottage on a humble budget. Charles P. Dwyer (ca. 1815 – ca. 1880), an architect and writer, emigrated to North America from Ireland and had moved to Buffalo, NY, by 1847. He subsequently began to publish architectural advice books for people with limited advantages among other works.
Log cabins, plank buildings, and double cottages are a few of the thoughtfully "economic" buildings Dwyer advises for "men of small means." The materials he suggests are "adapted to every locality" and affordable for dwellers of each neighborhood. The manual is illustrated with 32 black-and-white plates (including an added lithographed title-page), 23 of which represent Dwyer's cottages, the other eight being plans for their designs. The lithographs are by Compton, of Buffalo.
Binding: Publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering and foliate decoration to spine; deep blind-stamped triple-ruled and foliate border on front board framing stylized gilt title and cottage centerpiece; rear board identical to front board but with centerpiece in blind. Saffron endpapers.
Provenance: On front free endpaper, 20th-century signature of "Wm. B. Goodwin, M.I.T." A rubber-stamp from the Lowell Historical Society appears on the front pastedown and on the top and bottom edge.
• Hitchcock, American architectural books . . . portfolios, and pamphlets . . . published in America before 1895, 389. Bound as above; rubbing to extremities, small tears at spine head, minor coppery discoloration to gilt on front board. Provenance stamp and signature as above; age-toned edges and minor to moderate foxing throughout interior. Sound and unassuming and more than respectable, much like its target audience. (38084)
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