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Beliefs of the Iroquois in
Mohawk *&* English
Hale, Horatio, ed. The Iroquois book of rites. Philadelphia: D.G. Brinton, 1883. 8vo (24 cm, 9.45"). [2], 222 pp.
$175.00
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First edition, unopened and uncut copy: An account of the Iroquois and their customs, followed by Mohawk text with English translation of “Ancient rites of the condoling council” (the Canienga or Mohawk book of rites), and Onondaga text, with English translation, of the “Book of the younger nations” (the Onondaga book of rites). This was no. II in the “Brinton's Library of Aboriginal American Literature” series.
Pilling, Iroquoian, 75. Not in Newberry Library, Indian Linguistics in the Edward E. Ayer Collection; not in Pilling, Proof-sheets. Publisher's brown textured cloth framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; corners a little rubbed, spine with chip at top and somewhat sunned. Ex–social club library: call number on front fly-leaf, half-title and title-page pressure-stamped. No other markings. Signatures unopened and uncut. (26506)
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A Protestant Controversialist's
Version of the Bible
Hall, Joseph. A plaine and familiar explication (by way of paraphrase) of all the hard texts of the whole Divine Scripture of the Old and New Testament. London: Pr. by Miles Flesher for Nath. Butter, 1633. Folio (30 cm, 11.75"). [10], 621, [3], 427, [3] pp. (lacking one prelim. f.; pagination skips 441–50 & 525–42, 287–89).
$825.00
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First edition: Challenging Bible passages reworded, with a Protestant perspective. The title-page attributes this to “Jos. Exon.,” which is also the name appended to the dedicatory epistle, but the author was actually Joseph Hall (1574–1656), bishop of Norwich. Hall was a notable preacher, known for his engagement in various doctrinal disputes; his Common Apology against the Brownists and The Olde Religion were particularly controversial works.
The title-page is within a single-element architectural woodcut border; the text is printed in single wide columns with the original texts in shouldernotes, with woodcut decorative capitals, some historiated, at the beginnings of books and tailpieces at the ends. The New Testament portion has a separate title-page, dated 1632.
ESTC S120055; STC (2nd ed.)12702. Period-style calf framed and panelled in gilt with decorative blind rolls and gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt-dotted raised bands, and gilt-stamped floral decorations in compartments. Front fly-leaf with inked presentation inscription dated 1830. Title-page with early inked inscription in lower margin, crossed out, and with institutional rubber-stamp; short tear from lower outer edge just touching border. Pages age-toned; final 50 ff. waterstained, mostly in margins, but extending into text in final 30 ff. Text complete despite erratic pagination and signing (signatures begin with B as per ESTC's description). All edges speckled red.
Very interesting reading. (25845)
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“Remarkable
Book” of
Maps
of Eclipses in Europe in
the Early
19th Century
A
Copy in a Remarkable Binding
Hallaschka, Cassian [Franz Ignaz Cassian]. Elementa
eclipsium quas patitur tellus, luna eam inter et solem versante, ab A.1816 usque ad A.1860, ex
tabulis astronomicis recentissime conditis et calculo parallactico deducta, typo ecliptico et tabulis
projectionis geographicis collustrata. Pragae: Typis Theophili Haase, 1816. 4to (23.5 cm; 9.25").
Engr. title, xi, [1],107, [1] pp., 19 [of 20] fold. leaves of plates mounted on leaves.
[SOLD]
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A well-to-do collector, possibly a minor noble, enrobed Cassian's treatise on solar
eclipses in a deluxe binding as described below.Cassian (1780–1847) published this “. . . remarkable book . . . in Prague in 1816. It
contain[s] the maps for eclipses between 1816 and 1860. . . . The geometric constructions used
by Hallaska anticipated the standard theory of eclipses developed later by Friedrich Wilhelm
Bessel” (S. Débarat, “Historical Eclipses in Europe,” in Astron. Abs. Skalnate Pleso 28 (1999),
167–68).
Binding:
Full tan goat. Covers with a geometric center device accomplished using black
leather in-lays accented and continued in gilt beading; flower-petal corner
devices of green leather inlays and gilt pointillé tooling. Covers with
a single gilt rule border. Spine elaborately tooled in gilt with numerous black,
red, and green leather in-lays of geometric designs; elaborate gilt ruling and
pointillé treatment. Board edges with single gilt rule. Wide turn-ins
tooled in gilt using a variety of rolls including a leaf and fruit vine motif
and an orb in a partial eclipse design; corner devices in gilt on in-laid squares
of black leather. Pastedowns and free endpapers of silk. All edges gilt.
Provenance:
Inlaid to front pastedown is a red and green leather bookplate featuring a
crowned lion en passant with a doubled tail (particularly associated
with Bohemia).
Binding as above,
discoloration in spots and patches to covers. Without the first plate, all others present and crisp.
A most remarkable copy of a very scarce book. (26668)
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Halyburton, Thomas, & John Wesley. An extract of the life and death of Mr. Thomas Haliburton...second edition. Bristol: Felix Farley, 1747. 12mo (17.2 cm, 6.75"). [8], 92 pp.
$1350.00

Second edition of John Wesley’s rendition of the life of the legendarily pious theologian Thomas Halyburton (sometimes given as Haliburton), son of a Scots nonconformist minister. Halyburton’s writings, all published posthumously, were promoted by Wesley, who provided the introduction for this volume and some editing of Halyburton’s autobiography.
ESTC N9604. Period-style calf by Grace Bindings (signed in blind at inner area of lower rear turn-in), framed and panelled in blind rolls with blind-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels and with gilt-stamped floral decorations. Pages age-toned and paper embrittled, with a very few small edge nicks; title-page with a short tear from lower margin into lower inner corner, not touching text.
Clean, interesting.

Arabic — Armenian — Antiochus
Hamaker, Hendrik Arent. Specimen catalogi codicum mss. orientalium bibliothecae Academiae Lugduno-Batavae ... [bound with two other works as described below]. Lugduni Batavorum: Apud S. & J. Luchtmans, 1820. 4to (24.5 cm, 9.7"). [4], viii, 264, [4] pp. [bound with] Chahan de Cirbied, Jacques M. Notice de deux manuscrits Arméniens contenant l'histoire de Mathieu Eretz ... Paris: De l'imprimerie Impériale, 1812. 4to. 92 pp. [and] Tôchon
d'Annecy, Joseph-François . Dissertation sur l'époque de la mort d'Antiochus VII évergètes sidétès, roi de Syrie, sur deux médailles antiques de ce prince ... Paris: L.G. Michaud, 1815. 4to. Frontis., 68 pp.
$1250.00
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First edition of this catalogue of Arabic manuscripts held by the university at Leiden, annotated by Hamaker; the text is printed in Latin and Arabic. That work is followed by one on ancient Armenian manuscripts and another on the last era of Antiochus Sidetes with reference both to numismatic and Biblical sources; these are also in their first editions.
Hamaker: Brunet, III, 26-27. Contemporary half red morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and publication information; binding darkened, corners and joints lightly rubbed. Front pastedown institutionally rubber-stamped, front free endpaper with neatly inked list of contents, half-title with small inked annotation dated 1825. Hamaker: Occasional instances of light spotting, pages otherwise clean. Chahan: Light intermittent foxing; inked marginalia in a neat hand. Tochon: Title-page with inked ownership inscription in upper margin, dated 1848. (20613)

Dutch Bible Commentary by a
Controversial Scholar/Politician
Hamelsveld, Ysbrand van. Korte aanmerkingen over het Oude & Nieuwe Testament voor ongeleerden. [with] De Apokryfe boeken. Amsteldam: Martinus de Bruijn, 1791–98. 8vo (22.7 cm, 8.9"). 9 vols. O.T.: I: [4], 388 pp. II: [4], 396 pp. III: [8], [429]–1011, [1] pp. IV: [4], 624 pp. V: [2], 582 pp. VI: [4], 442, [2], [443]–656, iv pp. Apocr.: [4], 456, [4], 342 pp. N.T.: I: [4], 134, [2], 135–187, [3], 189–282, [2], [283]–514 pp. II: viii, 489, [1] pp.
$2200.00
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Nine-volume set of Biblical commentary intended for laypeople rather than theologians, incorporating extensive quotations from both Testaments in Dutch. Van Hamelsveld, a Christian Hebraist, preacher, and professor of theology at Utrecht, suffered a period of unpopularity due to his political activism and association with the Patriot party, but following his death his reputation was rehabilitated. His translations of the Old and New Testaments from the original languages are well regarded, with Houtman taking particular note of the fluency and free nature of van Hamelsveld's Old Testament with respect to word choice and sentence structure.
This is the first edition of the Old Testament commentary and the second of the New (which was first published in 1789–90). An entire volume is dedicated to the Apocrypha; in the other volumes, each section has a separate title-page.
Scarce: OCLC locates only three U.S. holdings, one of which has since been deaccessioned.
Not in Darlow & Moule, but see under 3357. On van Hamelsveld, see: Houtman, Nederlandse Vertalingen van het Oude Testament, 25–26. Contemporary half mottled calf with speckled paper–covered sides, spines gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels; rubbed, paper starting to peel at a few edges, some spines with unobtrusive chips or a gilt-stamped decoration rubbed away, one spine with portion of leather (rather bigger than a “chip”) lost at head. Lower (closed) edges institutionally rubber-stamped, front pastedowns each with institutional bookplate. Page edges untrimmed. Waterstaining to upper inner portions throughout (a bit difficult to visualize the accident); otherwise, occasional minor spotting only. Vol. I of N.T. with back fly-leaf excised. Vol. I of O.T. with pencilled ownership inscription on front free endpaper, one leaf with short tear from outer margin not touching text, one blank intermediary leaf excised. Apocrypha with hole to one sectional title affecting one letter.
A sturdy set with a great deal of shelf appeal. (25843)
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Travels through
Gran Colombia, 1823–24
Hamilton, John Potter. Travels through the interior provinces of Columbia. By Colonel J. P. Hamilton, Late Chief Commissioner from His Britannica Majesty to the Republic of Colombia. London: John Murray (Pr. by G. Woodfall), 1827. 8vo. 2 vols. I: Frontis., [2], 332, [1] pp.; 2 plts. II: Frontis., [1], 256 pp.; 3 plts., 1 map.
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First edition. Acute travel account of the geography and society of Gran Colombia, by the British diplomat John Potter Hamilton. He set sail from Portsmouth late in 1823; from the coast, he traveled inland up the River Magdalen, through the pass from Honda to Bogotá, and as far as Popayán. On every stage of the journey, he describes in great detail the flora, fauna, and natural landscape of the country, as well as the local customs and cultural life of both the Spanish and Indian inhabitants. His narrative is also sprinkled with commentary on the commercial activities and political system of the new republic.
Illustrated with seven engraved plates and a folding engraved map by Edward Finden. The plates, probably taken from personal sketches of the author, render the landscape and people in fine detail. Four plates are of mountain passes and river crossings. The other three plates depict “cottages and natives at Hacienda of Mondomo,” a dramatic scene of mounted Indian lancers attacking Spanish troops, and another showing the lassoing of bulls. In the back of vol. II is a folding map of the Department of Cauca, “Dedicated to Sr. Dr. Marselino Perez Devalenca. By I. R. A.”
Binding: Contemporary brown calf, covers elegantly framed in single gilt and triple blind fillets and then panelled in six gilt fillets and blind roll with gilt-stamped corner fleurons; gilt roll on board edges and turn-ins. Spines elegantly gilt, with raised bands and gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels. All edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Rather surprisingly, not signed.
Provenance: Formerly a copy belonging to Indiana University Library.
Palau 112117; Sabin 30023. Bound as above. Flex marks on joints, a couple of shallow scratches on front and back covers. Fold-mark across corners of two leaves. Pages clean, map and plates in excellent condition. Lilly Library duplicate, with small paper label affixed to bottom edge of rear pastedowns; a few library pencillings, but no library stamps. (24568)
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Defending His DEFENSE of
Celebrating CHRISTMAS
Hammond, Henry. An account of Mr. Cawdry’s triplex diatribe concerning superstition, wil-worship, and Christmas festivall. London: Pr. by J. Flesher for Richard Royston, 1655. 4to (19.9 cm, 7.75"). [16], 295, [1 (errata)] pp.
$800.00

Uncommon variant of the first edition, being a “reissue, with cancel title page, of the edition with Richard Davis’s name in imprint” according to ESTC. Hammond was “a celebrated catechism writer” (DNB) and clergyman, called by some the father of English biblical criticism. Cawdrey, a prominent nonconformist, published A Diatribe, against Dr. Hammond on Superstition and Festivals in 1654; the present item was Hammond's response to that attack on three of his early tracts — including his defense of celebrating Christmas. The dispute between Hammond and Cawdrey lasted four years and produced several publications on both sides.
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This variant is less common than the Davis imprint of the same year; WorldCat and ESTC locate only six U.S. holdings, one since deaccessioned.
ESTC R202302; Wing (rev. ed.) H510. On Hammond, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Lower (closed) edges institutionally rubber-stamped (no other markings). A few small corrections inked in an early hand. A nice copy. (25770)
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Defending the Epistles of St. Ignatius
Hammond, Henry. An answer to the animadversions on the dissertations touching Ignatius's epistles, and the episcopacie in them asserted. London: Pr. by J.G. for Richard Royston, 1654. 4to (19.7 cm, 7.75"). [2], 219, [1] pp.
$275.00
First edition of this reply to John Owen's Doctrine of the Saints Perseverance Explained and Confirmed. Hammond, “a celebrated catechism writer” (DNB) and prominent Church of England clergyman, was also a prolific controversialist who engaged with Owen in a spirited debate over the authenticity of Ignatius's epistles, as they were then known, and their
authority on the subject of ecclesiastical hierarchy.
The title-page is printed in red and black, and the text is ornamented with a headpiece and one decorative initial; there are numerous quotations in Greek.
ESTC R202518; Wing (rev. ed.) H514. On Hammond, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Title-page with small excised portion (not affecting text) repaired some time ago, institutional pressure-stamp, and tiny inked annotation in lower margin; first text page with inked numeral in lower margin. Early inked corrections scattered throughout, with occasional shouldernotes and marks of emphasis. (25789)
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Black-face “Humor”
Hannibal, Julius Caesar. Black diamonds, or, Humor, satire, and sentiment, treated scientifically by Professor Julius Caesar Hannibal. In a series of burlesque lectures, darkly colored. New York: A. Ranney, 1855. 8vo. Frontis., wood engr. title-page, 364 pp., [3 (adv.)] pp.; 3 plates.
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Satirical “humor” in the “Black” dialect used by white writers in the 19th century, here the work of W.H. Levinson under the nom de plume of Professor Julius Caesar Hannibal. The plates and added title-page were engraved by J[ohn] W[illiam] Orr; the poetry and prose were originally published in The New York Picayune. Interesting full-page advertisements at the back
advertise publisher Ranney's “Maps, Books, Charts, & Prints.”
Provenance: Bookplate and signature of Theodore S. Comstock.
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Not in Library Company, Afro-Americana; Wright, II, 1543. Publisher's olive cloth; spine with gilt vignette of Professor Hannibal and title in gold; boards stamped in blind; covers lightly soiled/stained and corners bumped/rubbed. Ownership inscription on front free endpaper and bookplate on front pastedown. Paper with a very little foxing; old, faint crescents of waterstaining along top edge of last leaves. A clean and complete copy. (21475)
Hanning, John. Rights of women vindicated in the following sermon. New York: Pr. by T. Kirk for the author, 1807. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). 12 pp.
$650.00
First edition of this uncommon early American sermon on women’s rights. The Rev. Hanning argues in favor of the “respect due to the sex in general,” using Biblical and historical examples of worthy women to bolster his points.
Provenance: Title-page verso with early inked ownership inscriptions of James Bemiss and Nelson Bemiss.
Shaw & Shoemaker 12709 (describing the second edition only). Uncut copy. Removed from a nonce volume and now in a Mylar folder. Pages lightly age-toned, with a few small spots of foxing. Some short edge tears and dog-eared corners. Inscriptions as described above.
Harcouet de Longeville. Histoire des personnes qui ont vecu plusieurs siecles, et qui ont rajeuni: Avec le secret du rajeunissement. Paris: Chez la Veuve Carpentier & Laurent le Comte, 1716. 12mo (14.7 cm, 5.75"). Frontis., [14], 248 pp.
$750.00

Second edition of this uncommon French treatise on longevity and rejuvenation, originally published in 1715 and shortly thereafter reprinted in English as Long Livers: A Curious History of Such Persons of Both Sexes Who Have Liv’d Several Ages, and Grown Young Again. The frontispiece was engraved by Harrewyn, and incorporates the motto “Sanitas vita longa” along with symbolic motifs including Adam and Eve, a fountain, the staff of Asclepius (the bearer of which wears a pentagram on his chest), and a stag. Sources drawn on and listed by the author include Ptolemy, Torquemada, Rousseau, and St. Augustine, as well as an assortment of Biblical figures — not to mention Arnaud de Villeneuve, in whose writings Monsieur Harcouet (ca. 1660–1720) allegedly found the highly complicated procedure described here for would-be Methuselahs, involving preparations of saffron and sandalwood (stored in a lead box) and the consumption of chickens kept on a diet of serpent broth.
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Brunet, III, 39; Osler, Biblotheca Osleriana, 5950 (first ed.). 19th-century quarter calf over marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and raised bands ruled in gilt fillets; edges and spine moderately rubbed, paper chipped over corners, corners bumped. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean.
Hare, Julius Charles, ed. The philological museum. Cambridge: Pr. by J. Smith for Deightons, Rivingtons,
& Parker, 1832–33. 8vo (22.1 cm, 8.7"). 2 vols. I: iv, iv, 706 pp.; 1 fold. facs. II: iv, 706 pp.
$875.00
First edition: The first two and only volumes published of a journal devoted to classical literature from the “philological point of view” (p. i). Connop Thirwall, who along with Hare was one of the founders of the periodical, submitted his essay “On the Irony of Sophocles” to the work; the “Translation of Part of the First Book of the AEneid” was written by Wordsworth.
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NSTC 2H412. Contemporary half vellum over marbled paper–covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels; sides and edges scuffed, vol. II with vellum starting to peel or lift up in several places; despite qualifications, neither unsound nor unattractive. Front pastedowns each with private collector’s 19th-century bookplate and with institutional stamp (no other markings); front pastedown of vol. I with bookseller’s ticket from B. Westermann & Co. of New York. Some faint foxing, more pronounced to endpapers; some corners dog-eared.

Virginia Discovery in
Limited Edition Facsimile
Hariot, Thomas. A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia ... reproduced in facsimile from the first edition of 1588. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1903. 4to (23 cm, 9.1"). xiii, [1], [48] pp.
$100.00

No. 1 in the “Historical Series” of Dodd, Mead & Company's facsimile reprints of rare books, here with an introduction by Luther S. Livingston. This is one of 520 copies printed.
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Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; corners and spine extremities a little rubbed, spine with white-inked call number. Front
pastedown with institutional bookplate, no stamps or other markings; clean and nice. (24657)
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Famed
Anti-Hobbesian
UTOPIA
Harrington, James. The Oceana of James Harrington, and his other works som[e] wherof are now first publish'd from his own manuscripts. The whole collected, methodiz'd, and review'd, with an exact account of his life prefix'd, by John Toland. London: The booksellers of London & Westminster, 1700. Folio (32.2 cm, 12.7"). Frontis., [2], xliv, 546, [2]pp.; 1 fold. plt, 1 plt. (incl. in pagination).
$1650.00
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First edition of Harrington's collected works, including the controversial Commonwealth of Oceana, originally published in 1656. Harrington, a political philosopher, proposed in the utopian title work a system of government wherein voting rights were to be based on land ownership, which in turn would be strictly regulated to ensure a stable and reasonably egalitarian (unless you were a woman, a servant, or a non-Protestant) commonwealth. Harrington's theories were widely read and much debated both during his lifetime and afterwards; the DNB notes that “the French constitution of 1799 . . . was clearly modelled on parts of the Oceana.”
Also present here are The Grounds and Reasons of Monarchy Consider'd, The Art of Lawgiving, and six political tracts, along with several other pieces. The volume is illustrated with three engraved plates by Michael van der Gucht: an allegorical frontispiece, a portrait of the author after P. Lely, and an oversized folding plate depicting “The Manner and Use of the Ballot.” The title-page is printed in red and black.
This was edited by John Toland.
ESTC R009111; Goldsmiths'-Kress 3735; Wing (rev. ed.) H816. On Harrington, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
online. Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-ruled raised bands, leather edges tooled in blind. Minor offsetting to title-page and elsewhere; intermittent light to moderate foxing; good paper. Oversized folding plate with short tear from upper margin, just touching caption but not extending into text. A handsome book. (25237)
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Religion Wants
to Be Free
Harris, William. Observations on national establishments in religion in general, and on the establishment of Christianity in particular. Together with some occasional remarks on the conduct and behaviour of the teachers of it. London: S. Bladon, 1767. 8vo (21.2 cm, 8.4"). [2], 60 pp. (half-title lacking).
$450.00
First edition of this anti-establishment rebuttal of John Rotheram's Essay on Establishment in Religion. Harris argues against nationalized forms of both Catholic and Protestant churches, and in favor of freedom of religious dissent.
Uncommon: Only three U.S. institutions report holdings.
ESTC T3154. Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Lacking the half-title. Pages lightly age-toned. (21078)
AMERICAN
Bibliography
— Quarter
Morocco Copy
[Harrisse, Henri].
Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima: A Description of works relating to
America published between 1492 and 1551. New York: Geo. P. Philes, 1866. Large
8vo. liv, 519 pp.
$700.00


Still a standard bibliography for this aspect of Americana.
This copy is no. 74 of 400 copies in royal octavo format. Harrisse provides
considerably more information than later bibliographies such as European
Americana, including details of collation by signature.
Modern quarter brown morocco. Ex-library with red stamps. Top
edge gilt. A few margins with chips or short tears. In all a rather nice copy,
one now in a strong and appropriate
binding.
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Harvard Library Catalogue Signed by
President Quincy
Harvard University. A catalogue of the library of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cambridge: E.W. Metcalf & Co., 1830–31. 8vo (24.8 cm, 9.8"). 4 vols. I: xvii, [3], 490 pp. II: [2], [491]–952, [2] pp. III: xii, 233, [1] pp. IV: viii, 224 pp.
$1000.00
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First of the 19th-century catalogues of Harvard's holdings, here
uncut and unopened in four volumes, including the Catalogue of the Maps and Charts, which was published shortly after the three main volumes.
Provenance: Inscribed to a Philadelphia social club “from the President & Fellows of Harvard University,” signed by Josiah Quincy.
American Imprints 1772 & 7465; Sabin 30729 (vols. 1–3) & 30730 (maps). Publisher's quarter cloth and tan paper–covered sides, spines with printed paper labels; worn and soiled/stained but sound, with spines sunned and front lower outer corner of vol. I chipped. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplates, endpapers with call number, rubber-stamp on title-pages and a few others, no other markings. Front free endpaper of vol. I with inked inscription as above. (26904)
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A “Candid Representation . . . of That TRULY
Eccentric Community”
Haskett, William J. Shakerism unmasked, or the history of the Shakers; including a form politic of their government as councils, orders, gifts, with an exposition of the five orders of Shakerism, and Ann Lee's grand foundation vision, in sealed pages. Pittsfield: Pr. for the author by D.H. Walkley, 1828. 12mo (17.9 cm, 7"). 300 pp.
$500.00
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A former believer wrote this insider's exposé of Ann Lee and the Shakers, including “some extracts from their private hymns which have never appeared before the public.” This is the first edition; the
two dramatically sealed leaves describing a pair of Mother Ann's more shocking visions have been separated, with traces of the red sealing wax remaining. Despite his cynicism and those scandalous revelations, Haskett takes care to describe the Shaker beliefs and rituals as thoroughly and fairly as possible.
Howes H279; McLean 40; Sabin 30803; Shoemaker 33495. Period-style quarter tan cloth and light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Sealed leaves opened as above, one leaf with short tear above seal, not touching text. A good copy. (25241)
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Thou Art My Biding Place . . .
Haweis, Thomas. Carmina Christo; Or, hymns to the Saviour: Designed for the use and comfort of those who worship the lamb that was slain ... second edition. London: T. Chapman, 1795. 16mo (10.5 cm, 4.1"). Frontis., xii, 186 pp.
$975.00
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Scarce second edition, following the equally uncommon first of 1792, of this collection of English Methodist hymns. The Rev. Haweis was chaplain to Selina Hastings, Countess of
Huntingdon, and some copies of the Select Collection of Hymns Universally Sung in All the Countess of Huntingdon's Chapels are found bound with examples of the present hymnal. Haweis's best-known hymn, “O Thou, from whom all goodness flows,” is present here, as are “From the cross uplifted high” and “Enthron'd on high, almighty Lord!”
OCLC and ESTC find only one U.S. location (and one former location, since deaccessioned); NUC Pre-1956 does not even list this edition.
ESTC T92017. Period-style speckled calf, covers framed in blind double fillets, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; signed in blind on lower rear turn-in by Grace Bindings. Title-page verso with private collector's elegant 19th-century rubber-stamp. Frontispiece mounted; upper outer corner of title-page repaired. Frontispiece and title-page gently age-toned, pages otherwise clean.
A handsome little volume. (25287)
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He Beat
Mark Twain to the Use of Pike County Vernacular
Hay, John. The Pike County ballads. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1912. 8vo (22.3 cm, 8.75"). 45, [3] pp.; illus.
$150.00
First U.S. edition with the Wyeth illustrations, following the original (unillustrated) printing of 1871. Written by a private secretary to Abraham Lincoln, these dialect poems greatly influenced Samuel Clemens's choice of linguistic style for the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; they were illustrated for the present edition by one of America's best-known illustrators and painters, who
also provided a preface.
BAL 7841. Publisher's tan cloth, front cover with affixed color-printed paper illustration; binding somewhat darkened (especially spine), corners and spine extremities rubbed, a few small spots of discoloration to front and back covers. Front pastedown with pencilled gift inscription, front free endpaper with bookseller's small ticket. Pages clean. A very nice book. (20839)
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Hayden's
Survey: Thomas
on
Grasshoppers
& Locusts
Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer, and Cyrus Thomas. Report
of the United States Geological Survey of the territories: Synopsis of the Acrididae of North America.
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1873. Folio (31.5 cm, 12.4"). x, 24, 262 pp.; 1 plt.
$375.00
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First edition: Vol. V of a five-volume series, this volume is dedicated to zoology and
botany. Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, remembered today as one of the primary proponents of the
creation of Yellowstone National Park, was a surgeon and geologist who led the massive United States
Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories from 1867 through 1879, and edited the
resulting publications. The present portion of that enormous undertaking consists of “A Synopsis of
the Acrididae of North America,” written by pioneering American entomologist Cyrus Thomas.
Thomas's monograph describes earwigs, cockroaches, devils-horses, walking-sticks,
grasshoppers (this category including locusts), and crickets, and is illustrated
with a few in-text wood engravings in addition to the lithographed plate (done
by W.H. Holmes) showing 17 different U.S. insects.
This copy is uncut and unopened.
Schmeckebier, Catalogue & Index of the Publications
of the Hayden, King, Powell, & Wheeler Surveys, 21. Period-style quarter tan cloth
with light blue paper–covered boards, spine with printed paper label. Title-page institutionally rubber-stamped; title-page and half-title with outer margins repaired. Page edges untrimmed, signatures
unopened. Spots of staining to outer margins of a few leaves. In fact a nice copy.
(25282)
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Hayden, Ferdinand Vandeveer. Report of the United States Geological Survey of the territories. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1878. 4to (30.4 cm,
11.9"). xv, [3], 366 pp.; 65 plts.
$175.00
First edition: Vol. VII of the final reports of Hayden’s massive survey, consisting of Leo Lesquereux’s report on the “Tertiary Flora” of the American west. This treatise is part II of “Contributions to the Fossil Flora of the Western Territories,” but complete in and of itself, and illustrated with 65 plates lithographed by T. Sinclair & Son.
Publisher’s cloth, covers framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; front cover with discoloration to upper edge and small bump to outer edge, cloth rubbed along edges and joints, spine scuffed. Front pastedown institutionally rubber-stamped. Pages and plates clean, and the large volume quite solid.
“Foodie”
Life of an
Earlier
Era
Hayward, Abraham. The art of dining. London: John Murray, 1899. 8vo. Frontis., xi, [1 (blank)], 211, [1 (blank)] pp.
$150.00
First edition to carry Charles Sayle's annotations and additions.
The first U.S. edition was a reprinting of this edition, not of the true first
of 1852 or any of Hayward's lifetime editions! Bitting,
220. Publisher's mauve cloth, gilt-stamped, spine with paper shelving label.
Top edge gilt, others deckle. Light rubbing. Gutter tears to preliminary
pages and pp. 1/2, all separating (except frontispiece); half-title and title
leaf nearly loose. Lacks front free endpaper. Rear free endpaper loose and
chipped. Slight separation of several leaves in middle of text block. Bookplate
on front pastedown. Library pocket at rear pastedown. Some spots and soiling;
pencil marks in many encil marks in a few margins and occasional marginal
tears. Hinges opening just a bit. In mylar. (7667)
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