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Saving the Souls of the Rich via
CHARITY
Nelson, Robert. An address to persons of quality and estate ... To which is added, an appendix of some original and valuable papers. [with another related title, as below]. London: A. & G. Way, prs., 1715. 8vo (21.9 cm, 8.6"). Frontis., xxxi, [1], 267, [1], 55, [7] pp. [with] A poem in memory of Robert Nelson Esquire. London: Pr. by Geo. James for Richard Smith, at Bishop Beveridge’s-Head, 1715. 8vo. 21, [3] pp.
$675.00
First edition: Nelson, a philanthropist and popular religious writer, reminds the wealthy and well bred of their charitable obligations as Christians. After exhorting the rich to consider their salvation, Nelson solicits their support for such endeavors as building churches, funding the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, maintaining poor clergy and their families, founding seminaries and schools, relieving prisoners, and establishing houses for the improvement of ladies (both proper and fallen). The appendix provides texts of various proposals as well as statistics on numbers of residents in hospitals and schools.
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The frontispiece portrait of Nelson was engraved by George Vertue after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. The volume also includes all publisher's advertisements as well as the rather
uncommon Poem in Memory of Robert Nelson Esquire.
This was produced to be a handsome work, printed in large type on good paper with wide margins — the better to appeal to a “quality” audience?
ESTC T85360; Goldsmiths’-Kress 5249. Poem: ESTC T25431; Foxon P538. Contemporary speckled calf, framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons; rebacked with speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, raised bands, and blind-tooled foliate compartment decorations. Original leather abraded, front cover with small chip to outer edge and area of faint discoloration from a now-absent label; title-page institutionally rubber-stamped (no other markings). Some signatures browned and foxed, most pages clean. (25999)
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“Muy
Rara”
Neve
y Molina, Luis de. Reglas de orthographia,
diccionario, y arte del idioma othomi. Mexico: Bibliotheca Mexicana, 1767. Small
8vo (14.5 cm, 5.75". [12] ff., 160 pp., engr. leaf of errata (frontis. supplied
in facsimile).
$1250.00
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Otomí is one of the principal languages spoken in Central
Mexico, and this work, more than any other, standardized its orthography; it
is also the classic Otomí grammar and dictionary, and is by a man some
authorities believe to have been himself an Otomí Indian, or at least
of Otomí heritage. It was written during the mid-18th-century renaissance
of linguistic study of the languages of Mexico, and Palau considers it “muy
rara.”
Medina, Mexico, 5174; García Icazbalceta, Lenguas,
55; Viñaza 356; Maggs, Bibl. Amer., II, 2154; Sabin 52413; Palau
190159. Original limp vellum, cockled and a little shrunken, upper
front edge chipped, original ties partially surviving. Ex-AAS with its attractive
bookplate (properly deaccessioned); private ownership stamp on title-page
and one other. Lacks the very rare engraved frontispiece; a facsimile reproduction
was inserted some time ago and is now loose. Text block separating from spine.
Title-leaf torn, taking a bit of border, and next leaf same with first letters
of three lines on verso taken; errata plate opposite p. 12 shaved at fore-edge,
with loss to line (not page) references. A bit of thread-like worming, without
text destruction, towards end. Overall clean.
Not a pristine, but certainly a good copy of an
important and scarce book. (2154)
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Making Notaries Help with
Sales Tax Collection
New Spain. Viceroy (1789–94, Revillagigedo). Broadside, begins: “Don Juan Vicente de Guemez ... virrey, gobernador y capitan general de Nueva España ... Conforme a la ley 19. tit. 8. lib. 8 de la Recopilacion de Indias deben los escribanos.... [colophon: Mexico: No publisher/printer, 28 May 1791]. Folio extra (42 cm; 16.5"). [1] p.
$825.00
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Viceroy Revillagigedo is put out that the notaries are not obeying the law and respecting the various quasi-legal reminders of their duty and obligation to notify the sales tax authorities of all sales and transfers of property that they record and certify. The viceroy now requires that all notarial documents involving sales or transfers of property or auctions must include a certification by a sales tax official in order to be valid.
WorldCat finds only the copy at the National Library of Chile.
Medina, Mexico, 8090. Folded and a little dog-eared; four instances of worming, two meander-type holes repaired. With manuscript certifications on verso that the document has been recorded in the official acts of three different towns. (26044)
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Hebrew Aramaic Latin
Nold, Christian. ... Concordantiae particularum Ebraeo-Chaldaicarum in quibus partium indeclinabilium quae occurrunt in fontibus ... ostenditur ... Accommodantur huc etiam particulae graecae conferuntur versiones et multa scripturae loca ita explicantur ut ubi tenebrae uel dissensiones sunt adiungantur annotationes et vindiciae. Joh. Bottfr. Tympius ... summa cura recensuit ... Nunc primum congestas a M. Sim. Bened. Tympio ... denique appendicis loco subiunxit Lexica particularum Ebraicarum Joh. Michaelis et Christ. Koerberi. Jenae: sumtibus Jo. Felicis Bielckii, 1734. Large 4to. 984, 22, 37, [3] pp.
$500.00
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A reworking of Christian Koerber's Lexicon particularum Ebraicarum, but really rather more: A work that combines the characteristics of an Old Testament Hebrew concordance, an O.T. Aramaic concordance, a particle dictionary of Hebrew, and a Latin dictionary of Hebrew. Here in a later edition.
Contemporary vellum over paste boards. Ex-library: Call number label removed from spine with noticeable result, bookplate, library name rubber-stamped on bottom edges of closed book, pressure-stamp on title-page. Librarian's pencil markings. Withal, a very nice copy. (21305)
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Christian Philosophy from the
“English Malebranche”
Norris, John. A treatise concerning Christian prudence: Or
the principles of practical wisdom, fitted to the use of human life, and design'd for the better regulation of it. London: Samuel Manship, 1710. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). [12], 399, [5] pp.
$575.00


First edition of the author's last book published within his lifetime. The Rev. Norris, rector of Bemerton near Salisbury (“Sarum” according to the title-page), was an Anglican divine, a poet, a Platonist, and a prominent disciple of Malebranche; he wrote this analysis of humility and its role in Christian life in the hopes that “some other more able hand” would continue with individual examinations of the rest of the Christian virtues.
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Provenance: 18th-century inscription, “Master Griffith Boynton”; 20th-century bookplate of the John Donne scholar Charles Monroe Coffin.
ESTC T76120. On Norris, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Contemporary speckled calf, framed and
panelled (with plain calf) in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons, rebacked, spine with recent gilt-stamped leather title-label; edges and corners showing minor rubbing, front cover with small faint area of staining from a now-absent paper label. Front pastedown with private collector's bookplate (institutionally rubber-stamped), as above; front free endpaper with inked inscription, as above; title-page institutionally rubber-stamped in lower margin. Two pencilled marginal annotations; scattered pencilled bracketing. Pages age-toned, with occasional light spotting. (20902)

Mostly Desserts Manuscript Cookery
(“Oringe Pudding,” Plus). Manuscript in English, on paper: Cookery recipes. [England: ca. 1730 through 1875]. 4to (20.3 cm, 8"). [43] ff. (15 used).
$1500.00
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Early 18th- through 19th-century cookery manuscript focusing primarily on desserts. At least four hands contributed, with three clearly distinct writers being responsible for the opening section of sweet and savory puddings. The first writer starts out with “oringe pudding” before giving several variants each of calves-foot, oatmeal, and boiled or baked puddings, along with one “shakin” and one “quaking” pudding. The second adds the ever-popular Portugal cakes along with orange and carob puddings, while the third digresses into pound cake, “a nice plum cake,” and cheese straws before closing with fig pudding — all taken from Mrs. Beeton's famed cookbook.
After the dessert section, the original writer returns to add a few more miscellaneous recipes and, after an intermission of blank leaves, some marmalades and jellies. Four additional items are present towards the back of the volume, the contributors having turned the volume upside-down to inscribe them: pastilles for burning, Madeira wine, cider attributed to “Mr. Phillips” (possibly Henry Phillips, author of a historical account of fruits known in Great Britain), and instructions for fining stale beer.
Although a number of leaves here are blank, the content is substantial, legible, and interesting. No dates are present in the text itself, but the paper bears a Dutch watermark related to Churchill 109–119, and was produced in the Seven Provinces ca. 1675–1700 and the recipes attributed to Beeton must date after 1861. Some of the handwriting and spelling is consistent with a date of 1730.
Contemporary vellum, rebacked, corners rubbed/bumped, front cover with now-illegible traces of inked ownership inscription, covers with spots of discoloration; hinges (inside) reinforced. First leaf excised (first recipe present numbered 2). Soiling (mostly at or in from edges) and moderate foxing/spotting, throughout. (25630)
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Poëmata Embellished with
Lovely Engravings
Orville, Pierre d'. Poëmata. Amstelaedami: Apud Adrianum Wor & Haeredes Gerardi, 1740. 8vo (22.7 cm, 9"). Added engr. title-page, [18], 291, [1] pp.
$850.00
Sole edition of these neo-Latin poems, written by the brother of noted classical scholar Jacques Philippe d'Orville. The volume is illustrated with a mythic-themed, copper-engraved added title-page and head- and tailpiece vignettes done by A. vander Laan. All the engravings are gorgeous, and some extend almost to a half page in size. The main title-page is printed in black and red.
Most of the poetry here is “occasional” — there are several epithalamia as well as elegies and odes honoring various “noble youths” and such figures as Pieter Burmann, Hadrian Reland, and the author's brother Jacque Philippe. Some works celebrate (and are in the styles of) the great ancient Latin poets; at least one, and the longest, is explicitly (Christian) religious; two are in Greek.
Uncommon. OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 find only four U.S. holdings.
Brunet 13064. Contemporary vellum, covers framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled central lozenge, spine with hand-inked title; front cover slightly warped, binding dust-soiled. Front pastedown institutionally rubber-stamped. Scattered spots of light to moderate foxing. Errata (final page) lined through in ink. (24490)
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