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La Fontaine, Jean Louis. Oeuvres complettes de J. La Fontaine....
A Paris: de l'imprimerie de Crapelet, Chez Lefèvre, libraire, 1814. 8vo.
6 vols. 
Provenance: This set carries the bookplate of French collector Louis Mercier.
Luscious.
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fine set of a scarce and beautiful edition.
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Wildcats,
Bears,
Rabbits,
Otters,
Skunks,
Buffalo,
& “Wapite”(A
SPECIALLY SWELL AMERICANUM).
Audubon, John James, & John Bachman.
The quadrupeds of North America. New-York: V.G. Audubon, 1854. Royal 8vo (27.5
cm; 10.75"). 3 vols. I: viii, 383, [1 (blank)] pp., 50 plts. II: [2] ff., 334
pp., 49 plts. III: v, [1], 348 pp., [1] f., 51 plts.
155 fine handcolored lithographed plates by W. E. Hitchcock and R. Trembly after J.J. and J.W. Audubon, lithographed by J.T. Bowen. 
A lovely set. (23904)
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Into the Woods Abbott, Henry. Camps and trails. New York: Pr. for the author, 1918. 12mo (15.1 cm, 5.9"). 64 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. The work is illustrated with a number of mounted black-and-white photographs.
Each book in the series was published by the author as a very limited edition and distributed to his friends as a Christmas gift; the present copy is 
inscribed by Abbott: “Wishing you peacetime Christmas cheer.”
This is the original first, 1918 edition, not a modern reprint.
• Publisher's bark-patterned paper–covered boards, front cover with printed title; extremities chipped (most notably spine head). Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription as above; pages clean. (26848)
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Abell, Truman. New-England farmer's almanack, with an emphemeris,
for the year ... 1828. ... Fitted to the latitude and longitude of the town
of Windsor, Vt. but will serve, without sensible variation, for all the adjacent
states. Alstead, N. H.: Newton & Tufts; Windsor, Vt.: Simeon Ide, [1827].
12mo. [24] ff.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Drake 13641; Shoemaker 29925. Uncut copy; later stitching and later oversewing; dog-earing and a bit tattered. Title-page and p. [48] age-darkened. Occasional mild staining. (10027)
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Trial by Jury Adam, William. Observations respecting the further extension of trial by jury to Scotland in civil causes. Edinburgh: J. Hay & Co., 1819. 8vo. [2], 51, [1], xi, [1] pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • NSTC 2A2513. Removed from a nonce volume. Closely trimmed with shouldernotes and signature marks variously shaved; one page's last line in the Appendix taken (but no others). (11155)
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UPBRAIDING a Lutheran Theologian forHis Statements on Transubstantiation Ad frivolas calumnias, et cavillationes sophisticas Danielis Hoffmanni doctoris theologiae responsio ministrorum Ecclesiae Bremensis, qua monetur Hoffmannus, ut suo se pede metiens, & secum habitans, ad sobrietatem sapere discat, neque supra quam sapere opertet, sapiat. Bremae: ex officina typographica Theodori Glückstein, 1584. Small 8vo (16.2 cm; 6.25"). [32] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. The text is in Latin printed in italic, but with some passages in Greek and others in German (the latter printed in fraktur). One final section is entirely in Greek.
There were only two editions of this printed, one year apart. This is the second (1584) and is apparently much scarcer than the first (1583): It is not listed in VD16 and WorldCat finds only two copies worldwide, one of which has been deaccessioned.
• VD16 A184 (for 1583 ed.). Recent ebony-brown calf old style: Round spine, fillets extending onto covers terminating in trefoils, and covers framed in blind double fillets. Very good condition. (26755)
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Famous for Its
Maps of the Holy LandAdrichem (a.k.a. Adrichom), Christiaan van. Theatrum Terrae Sanctae et biblicarum historiarum cum tabulis geographicis aere expressis. [colophon: Coloniae Agrippinae: Officina Birckmannica, sumptibus Hermanni Mylij, 1628]. Folio (37 cm; 14.5"). [6] ff., 256 pp., [15] ff.; 12 fold. or double-page engr. maps.
Theatrum Terrae Sanctae is famous for its engraved maps, but the work is justly sought for its descriptions of Palestine and the antiquities of Jerusalem. Additionally the work contains a chronology from Adam to 1585, the year of the author's death.
The work begins with an engraved allegorical title-page, has woodcut initials and tailpieces, and bears
12 folding or double-page engraved maps. The text is printed in roman type in double-column format.
In all, a good+ copy and a very handsome volume. (24104)
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Christian
History’s
ChronicleAdrichem, Christiaan van. Chronicon de Christiano Adricomio Delfo; traducido de latin en español por Don Lorenco Martinez de Marcilla. Madrid: En La Imprenta Imperial, 1679. Small 4to. π4 A–Z4 Aa–Pp4 Qq2; [4] ff., 284 (i.e., 286) pp., [11] ff.
translation into Spanish of Adrichem’s history of Biblical events to the year 109 a.d. An additional “Chronicon Breve” at the end of the volume gives a chronology from Adam and Eve to the year 1585.
Click either imageThe title is within a typographic border; text is printed in double-column format, in roman type.
• Palau 2864. 19th-century half sheep with marbled paper sides; binding shows wear. Lower margin of title-leaf and leaves of the preliminaries with minor worming; repaired with pasted-over paper. Some side- and shouldernotes shaved with loss. Sporadic soiling, not severe.
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Animal Stories — Fly-Fishing, Too!Aelianus, Claudius. [4 lines in Greek, then] Aeliani de natvra animalivm.... Londini: Gulielmus Bowyer, 1744. 4to (26.2 cm, 10.4"). 2 vols. I: xiv, xxvii, [35 (index)], 603, [1] pp. II: [605]–1128, [88 (index and addenda)] pp.
• ESTC T88657; Dibdin, I, 232; Schweiger, I, 2. Contemporary vellum-covered boards, covers framed and panelled in blind with central blind-stamped strapwork medallions, spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels; front joints repaired and now strong, vellum soiled. Front free endpapers with early inked owner's name as above; shadow of shelf number once pencilled on title-page, erased. Spotting of various sorts and minor smudging in upper margins of some pages; leaves otherwise clean.
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Neat Pairing. Striking Illustrations. Aeschylus & Percy Bysshe Shelley. Prometheus bound & Prometheus unbound. Haarlem: Pr. by Joh. Enschede en Zonen for the Limited Editions Club, 1965. 4to.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club 370. Publisher's gilt-stamped tan and light blue buckram, the colors “split” horizontally across the covers, in a slipcase lightly sunned and with an old waterspot to the label (but sturdy). In original glassine dustwrapper, with upper edges a bit chipped; book clean and fresh, (13313)
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Not THAT AgricolaAgricola, Johann. Siebenhundert und funfftzig deutscher sprüchwörter ernewert und begessert durch Johan. Agricola. Mit vielen schönen lustigen und nützlichen historien und exempeln erkleret und ausgelegt. Wittenberg: Gedruckt bey J. Krafft, 1592. Small 8vo. )(8 *8 A–Z8 Aa–Xx8 (-Xx8, a blank) [14], 350 ff.
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All 16th-century editions are scarce. Via NUC, OCLC and RLIN we locate only this copy of this edition (now deaccessioned) and that at Princeton.
Binding: Contemporary alum-tawed sheep over wooden boards with partially bevelled edges. Elaborately blind-embossed with a roll and a center panel ornament. Front cover with initials “H. S.” and date “1597” in gilt. Rear cover with gilt putti in the areas where initials and the date appear on the front.
Evidence of readership: Marginalia in the prefatory index; very scattered early underscoring.
• VD16 A969; Goedeke, II, 8. Binding as above, lacking clasps and with old paper spine label; ex-library with bookplate and call number in old, faded, white numbering on spine. Title-page browned and tipped in; loss of paper to fore- and bottom margins of same. Some age-toning to paper and several leaves with natural paper flaws, repaired with archival tissue; three other leaves also with natural paper flaws repaired at time of binding or shortly after printing. Approximately 12 leaves with inkstains, sometimes obscuring text. One leaf (178) with a hole costing a significant loss of text. A marginally acceptable copy as regards text, in a good binding.
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Reformation Concern aboutMonasticism Ain Schoner Dialogus wie ain Bawr mit aim Frawe[n] brüder Münch redt[,] das er die Kutten von jm würfft, vnd dem Münch arbayt zügeben, lustbarlich vnd lieblich zu lesen. [Augsburg: Philipp Ulhart d.Ä.], 1525. Small 4to (19 cm; 7.5"). 6 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. This edition has a handsome, single-unit woodcut title-border incorporating pillars, stags, vines, and cherubs. The text is in fraktur, of course.
Rare: WorldCat locates only one copy of any edition in the U.S. (at Emory — this edition), while VD16 locates three German copies each for the Augsburg and Würzburg editions and only a microform of the Strassburg printing.
• Kuczynsk 579; VD16 S3433. Removed from a nonce volume. One small area of discoloration on title-page. Very good condition. (25922)
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Extra
SpecialGrabhorn
Press Leaf
Book(Aitken
Bible). The Bible
of the Revolution[.] Signers' edition[:] containing
original leaves of both Old and New Testaments & an essay concerning it by
Robert R. Dearden, Jr. and Douglas S. Watson[.] San Francisco: Edwin & Robert
Grabhorn for John Howell, 1930. Tall 8vo (27 cm; 10.625"). Frontis., [1] f., pp.
[1–2], [4] ff. of facsimile, pp. [3–4], pp. 5–24, [2] ff., pp.
25–26, [2] ff. of facsimile, pp. 27–34; 3 ports., 1 illus., 4 facsims.
(including a 3-page letter from George Washington), 2 leaves from the Bible. 
the first complete Bible in English printed in the U.S., the Grabhorns produced an edition limited to 580 copies: 515 copies of the “Colonial Edition,” 15 “editorial copies,” and 50 copies of the “Signers’ Edition."
We offer a copy of the last of those variants—the decidedly rare Signers’ Edition. Bound in full morocco, it contains two original Bible leaves, one from the Old and one from the New Testament. (The “Colonial Edition” contains only one leaf, from the Old Testament, and it was bound in quarter leather.)
Single-click either image, for an enlargement.The Old Testament leaf here is from Isaiah (XXV:9–12, XXVI:1–XXVIII:1) and the N.T. leaf is from I Corinthians (VII:1–VIII:7).
Found only here in the Signers’ Edition are a facsimile of Aitken's
printing of the Declaration of Independence and a special frontispiece that
presents facsimiles of all of the signatures of the signers of the Declaration
of Independence.
Not content merely to double the ordinary offering of Aitken Bible leaves, the Signers' Edition added a special insert on Benjamin Franklin that was to contain a third original leaf—this, from Franklin's 1745 printing of the Confession of Faith. Unfortunately, that leaf was never tipped into this copy—not present, it yet does not seem to have been removed.
All editions of this fine leaf book end with Edwin Grabhorn’s still-notable essay on typography in America at the time of the Revolution.
• Full crushed morocco. Without the slipcase, and without the leaf from Franklin’s printing of the 1745 Confession of Faith; with some spots to covers and one to one leaf. Notwithstanding, quite a good copy.
TheFIRST
Latin Gradus
Aler, Paul. Gradus ad Parnassum, sive Novus synonymorum epithetorum, et phrasium poeticarum thesaurus ... Lipsiae: Apud Michaelem Blochbergerum, 1738. 8vo (17.7 cm, 7"). [8], 48, 768 (i.e., 760) pp.
• DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 1092–95 (for other eds.). Contemporary vellum, spine with inked title; lightly soiled, front cover with partially effaced early inked ownership inscription and back cover with faded early inked inscription. Front pastedown institutionally rubber-stamped, front free endpaper lacking, title-page with early inked ownership inscription partially effaced (resulting in small holes). Pages age-toned, with occasional foxing. (24349)
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A
Learned Huguenot
Discusses theThrice-Holy
HymnAllix, Pierre. Dissertatio de Trisagii origine. Rothomagi: Apud Joannem Lucas, 1674. 8vo (18.2 cm, 7.125"). A–I4; 70 pp., [1 (blank)] f. 
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sole edition is ornamented with a woodcut printer’s device and a woodcut headpiece and initial; the text is referenced with sidenotes.
Rare: Only two copies traced in the U.S. via OCLC, RLIN, and NUC Pre-1956.
Provenance: Bookplate of Virtue & Cahill Library (the library of Portsmouth’s Catholic Cathedral) no. 8783, with a large overlaid rubber-stamp thereon starkly, blackly noting the dispersal and eventual sale of the library “following enemy action”—the cathedral having been bombed by the Germans in 1941.
• On Allix, see: The Dictionary of National Biography, I, 334–35. 19th- or early 20th-century half calf over marbled paper, spine with gilt title; edges of leather with a dog’s tooth roll in blind. Leather rubbed, especially on joints and edges. Some soiling and waterstaining, mostly light and most notable on early leaves, with some small wormholes in the margins; a little fine chipping and some shallow dog-ears. Old inked ownership inscription on title-page, crossed out but still legible.
Anti-Anabaptist Althamer, Andreas, attrib. author. Ein kurtze Vntterricht, den Pfarherrn und Predigern: Inn meiner gnedigen Herrn der Marggraffen zu Branndenburg. [et]c. Fürstenthumben un[d] Landen, hieniden in Francken, und auff dem Gebirg verordent, wes sie das Volck wider etliche verfürische Lere, der Widertauffer, an den Feyertägen auff der Canntzel, zum getreülichsten und besten, auss götlicher Schrifft vermanen, und unterrichten sollen. [Nuremberg: Jobst Gutknecht, 1528]. Small 4to (20 cm; 8.75"). [14] ff.
Click the image for an enlargement. During the Bern Disputation (1528) Althamer stood and defended the Lutheran doctrine of the Lord's Supper.
This is printed in gothic type and offers a title-page graced by a four-element woodcut border composed of floral, avian, and animal motifs, with putti not forgotten.
Provenance: Ownership signature on title-page of Howard Osgood, noted late 19th- and early 20th-century collector and scholar; old circular pressure-stamp on same page of a seminary (properly released).
WorldCat finds two copies in North America, one of which has been deaccessioned, and COPAC finds two copies in Great Britain, both at the British Library.
• Hillerbrand, Anabaptism,3577; VD16 ZV2334 or ZV2333 or B6972 (all listed without attrib. author). Removed from a nonce volume, provenance indications as above. Light dust-soiling to exterior paper; minor library pencillings and one old inked numeral; limited brown stain in blank area of last leaf, offsetting to previous page opposite. A few instances of marginal notation or textual correction in old ink and an old hand. (25960)
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