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American Primer American Woodcuts
M'Carty's American primer. Being a selection of words the most easy of pronunciation. Philadelphia: M'Carty & Davis (stereotyped by J. Howe), (copyright 1828). 12mo (14.3 cm, 5.6"). 36 pp.; illus.
$250.00

“Intended to facilitate the Improvement of Children in Spelling.” This primer is illustrated with a front wrapper image of the American eagle with shield, a title-page vignette, numerous small wood engravings, and
12 half-page wood engravings of animals and birds done by Gilbert.
Shoemaker 33941; Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books, 714. Publisher's printed light blue paper wrappers, split and chipped along spine, otherwise crisp and clean. Pages with light age-toning and offsetting. (24569)

Maffei, Francesco Scipione. Teatro del Sig. Marchese Scipione Maffei cioè la tragedia la comedia e il drama non più stampato.... Verona: Gio. Alberto Tumermani, 1730. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). xli, [3], 281, [1] pp.; 1 fold. plt., illus.
$675.00

First edition. Francesco and Andrea Zucchi were responsible for the copperplate engraving for this work: The title-page bears a copperplate vignette, with four other copperplate vignettes and one decorated capital present as well as the oversized, folding plate. Giulio Cesare Becelli edited and introduced this collection of Maffei’s plays, providing what Gamba calls “tre erudite prefazioni.” The author was an archeologist and man of letters whose tragedy Merope (present here) achieved enormous popularity in not only his native Italy but also almost every country where translations appeared, including France, England, Germany, and Holland.
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Gamba 2323; not in Brunet. Contemporary vellum over paste boards, outer edges yapp, spine with hand-inked title; vellum torn and partially lost over lower edge of front cover, with signs of wear and small spots of staining elsewhere. Ex-library, front pastedown with Italian institutional bookplate; yet volume otherwise free of markings. Title-page verso with affixed scrap of paper. Intermittently occurring light dampstaining in upper margins; otherwise clean.
Micmac
Catechism With
Illustrations
Maillard, Antoine Simon. Le catechisme Micmac.
Ristigouche, P.Q. [Quebec]: Freres mineurs capucins, [1921]. 12mo. 128, 32 pp.; illus.
$75.00

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Reprint of this Catholic catechism written almost entirely in Micmac (with occasional
captions in French), begun in 1759 by Abbé Maillard and finished in 1900 by Père Pacifique. It is
illustrated with many pretty in-text engravings.
Up to p. 112, this issue is a reprint of the second edition (with the title-page labeled Deuxième edition,
giving a date of 1913), after which comes a section entitled “Alasotmaganel” (rather than the “Gis Oen
Melgitimg” of the actual 1913 printing). The closing section, “Gtapegiemgeoel,” is the same in both
printings. The publisher's binding gives the date of 1921 on the front cover!
Publisher's quarter cloth with printed paper-covered sides; cloth and paper showing
light wear. Some offsetting and paper punctured around binding staples, otherwise a nice, even fresh
copy. (12614)

Marilyn Monroe's
LAST Posed Photo Session
Maloney, Tom, ed. U.S. camera annual 1964. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, (copyright 1963). 8vo (29 cm, 11.4"). 231, [1] pp.; illus.
$125.00
The 1964 issue of this popular annual includes an essay by Margaret Bourke-White, in addition to the 12-page portfolio showcasing Bert Stern's photographs of Marilyn Monroe (and much more).
Publisher's red cloth in dust wrapper, jacket not price-clipped; dust jacket rubbed and chipped at extremities and along upper back edge, light dustsoiling to portion of back cover. (24682)

Marmontel's Political-Philosophical Novel with
Gravelot's Illustrations
Marmontel, Jean François. Bélisaire. Paris: Chez Merlin, 1767. 8vo (19.9 cm, 7.8"). [4], x, 340, [6] pp.; 4 plts.
$900.00
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First edition, early state, featuring the frontispiece and three copper-engraved plates designed by Gravelot. Quickly translated into numerous languages following its initial publication, Marmontel's controversial philosophical novel was written in great part in the hope that its retelling of the story of Gen. Flavius Beisarius of the Byzantine Empire would convince Louis XV to become, himself, the longed-for Philosopher-King. Chapter 15, however, in which Marmontel advocates freedom of opinion and religious tolerance, inspired extensive commentary by Voltaire and others and brought on condemnation by both the Sorbonne and the Archbishop of Paris — though it may ultimately have helped the Huguenot cause.
Merlin also printed a duodecimo edition in 1767; in the present edition, “Fragmens de philosophie morale” is found on pp. 273–340, followed by the Addition and Approbation.
Provenance: Front pastedown with gilt-stamped armorial bookplate of notable 19th-century book collector Edward Hailstone, gilt-stamped “I.T.” bookplate with motto “Inter folia fructus,” and bookplate of Sir Montague Shearman.
Binding: Contemporary crimson morocco, covers framed in gilt triple fillets; spine gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather labels, board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls. This volume (complete in itself) seems at one time to have been part of a set of Marmontel's works, and bears an (unnumbered) spine label reading “Oeuvres de Marmontel.”
Brunet, III, 1440; Cohen de Ricci, Guide de l’amateur de livres à gravures du XVIIIe siècle, 688; Graesse 406; Tchermezine 455. Binding as above, with edges, extremities, and joints showing minor rubbing. Front pastedown with bookplates as above; front free endpaper with affixed slip of early cataloguing; rear pastedown with small chip out of paper. Light spots of foxing, slightly heavier around plates. All edges gilt. (25776)
Wonderful
“Peasant”(!)
Binding
Martin, von Cochem. Der grosse Baumgarten.
Sulzbach: Im verlage der J. E. Seidelschen Kunst- und Buchhandlung, 1807. 8vo (18.5 cm;
7.375"). Frontis., [9] ff., 688 pp., [6] ff., 16 plts.
$2000.00
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A fabulously bound later printing of Cochem's German-language,
comprehensive, personal devotional work. It is printed in gothic type and has
16
woodcut plates.
Binding:
An example of a painted vellum binding, known in Germany as a “Bauern
Einbände,” or “Peasant Binding,” betraying a strong
influence of folk art; but such bindings were certainly not bindings for peasants.
This style almost certainly began in Hungary with early examples first appearing
in southern Germany. The style, however, gained greatest favor in northern
Germany and Holland during the 18th century.
The vellum binding is elaborately tooled in gilt and in-painted in blue,
green, and salmon. All edges are gilt and gauffered.
Binding as above with light rubbing. A very handsome, interestingly
late example of this uncommon binding style. (26690)
Martin,
William, ed. Peter
Parley’s annual: a Christmas and New Year's present for
young people. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1840 [i.e., 1839].
12mo (15 cm, 5.9"). Engr. t.-p., vi, 378 pp.; 4 plts., illus.
$375.00
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First edition of the first volume in a popular annual series of
children’s gift books, taken from the pages of Peter Parley’s
Magazine. The selections, which include a brief summary of
the history and rules of
chess, are illustrated with a number of in-text steel engravings
and four engraved plates, one of which depicts a ship at sea in stormy weather.
Binding:
Contemporary signed binding by C. Lewis: Half green calf over
marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label
and decoratively gilt-stamped raised bands.
Faxon 108. Binding as above, paper scuffed and joints a touch
rubbed. Front free endpaper with owner’s name; front pastedown and fly-leaf
with pencilled notations. Frontispiece with small chip to outer margin, repaired.
Some instances of offsetting surrounding plates and illustrations, pages otherwise
clean.
An attractive, engaging
little book.

Gardener's
Guidebook 1844
— 12 Plates
Maund, B[enjamin]. Our hardy flowers [/] how to cultivate and rear them from seeds, cuttings, and layers...with numerous accurately coloured illustrations. London: Charles Griffin & Co., [1864]. 4to (20.5 cm, 8.1"). 100, [5]–20 (adv.) pp.; 12 plts.
$375.00

Delicate and lovely hand-coloring enhances the floral illustrations of this scarce gardener's guidebook, presented in a decorative gift binding. As proof that pretty though the plates are, they were conceived in a seriously scientific rather than a merely fanciful spirit, a small portion of each image has been left uncolored so that the viewer may examine leaf and flower structures in non-distracting black and white.

This is actually vol. 6 of Maund's eight-volume Book of Hardy Flowers; Or, Gardener's Edition of the Botanic Garden, although the title-page gives no such indication; the flowering plants described are numbered 145 through 192. The plants tend to be familiar specimens in English gardens (anemones, primroses, violets), although more uncommon flowers are offered.
A considerable and interesting array of ads for other Griffin publications is appended.
Publisher's green textured cloth, extremely neatly rebacked, back cover blind-stamped, front cover gilt-stamped with abstract plant-recalling border and central title amidst flowers; each cover pressure-stamped by now-defunct library, with slight discolorations to upper edges. All edges gilt. Title-page and four others lightly stamped (plates untouched); library pocket on back free endpaper. Small bookseller's ticket on back pastedown; endpaper edges chipped.
Plates clean and very pleasing; in fact, it's a pleasing little volume overall.

A
Universalist
Women's
Literary
Annual:
1843
Mayo, Sarah Carter Edgarton, ed. The rose of Sharon:
A religious souvenir, for MDCCCXLIII. Boston: A. Tompkins & B.B. Mussey, 1843 [i.e., 1842].
8vo (17.8 cm, 7"). add. engr. t.-p., 312 pp.; 3 plts. (lacking frontis.).
$135.00
First
edition:
The “fourth blossom of our cherished Rose,” an annual collection
of writings by Universalists. Among the contents are “The Dweller Apart”
by Mrs. J.H. Scott, “The Minstrel and His Bride” by Caroline M.
Sawyer, and several pieces by the editor. Also present is an article on the
Actual vs. the Ideal, which opens with a critique of L.E.L. (the poet
Letitia Elizabeth Landon) for indulging in flights of romantic fantasy rather
than depicting the “glory of love in its power to beautify the affections
of the mother, the wife, the sister, and the friend” (p. 219).
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The volume is illustrated with an added engraved title-page and three steel-engraved
plates, done by O. Pelton after designs by T.B. Read and Beaume, and by Charles Phillips after
Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Signed binding:
Hunter green embossed morocco, covers with cherub vignette in foliate frame;
the embossed panel was designed by Francis N. Mitchell and engraved by Alex
C. Morin, and the binding was done by Benjamin Bradley, with all three names
stamped in panel. All edges gilt.
Faxon 713. On binding, see: Wolf, From Gothic Windows to
Peacocks, 178; Spawn & Kinsella, American Signed Bindings,
53. Binding as above, extremities with very minor rubbing; frontispiece
lacking. Offsetting from plates, two pages with offsetting from now-absent
laid-in item, scattered light spotting elsewhere.
A gorgeous example of the binding, with interesting
reading inside. (26737)

A
Universalist Women's Literary Annual: 1844
Mayo, Sarah Carter Edgarton, ed. The rose of Sharon: A religious souvenir, for MDCCCXLIV. Boston: A. Tompkins & B.B. Mussey, 1844 [i.e., 1843]. 8vo (17.8 cm, 7"). Add. engr. t.-p., 304 pp.; 4 plts.
$185.00
First edition: The fifth volume of an annual collection of writings by Universalists. Among the contents are “Human Life” by Horace Greeley, “The Astrologer” by Mary Ann H. Dodd, “Joan of Arc in Prison” by Luella J.B. Case, and “The Uncultivated Garden” by Julia A. Fletcher, as well as several pieces by the editor.
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The volume is illustrated with four steel-engraved plates and an additional engraved title-page by various hands.
Signed binding: Hunter green embossed morocco, covers with cherub vignette in foliate frame; the embossed panel was designed by Francis N. Mitchell and engraved by Alex C. Morin, and the binding was done by Benjamin Bradley, with all three names stamped in panel. All edges gilt.
Faxon 714. On binding, see: Wolf, From Gothic Windows to Peacocks, 178; Spawn & Kinsella, American Signed Bindings, 53. Binding as above, showing virtually no wear. A few light spots, pages mostly clean. Dried flower laid in.
It is hard to imagine a better copy of this lovely annual. (26743)

“What Is Dis, A Chin-Chin to a Show Down?”
McHugh, Hugh. Out for the coin. New York: G.W. Dillingham Co., 1903. 8vo. 107, [1], xx (adv.) pp.; 6 plts.
$32.50

A young would-be investor inherits seven racehorses and their trainer from an uncle in Kentucky. Comic hijinx result, as he'd promised his wife he'd stay away from horses and the track. The novel is written in choice contemporary slang (“cuckoo on the curb,” “that old jojo,” “tipped to a sag”), for which this particular author had a reputation, and it is illustrated with six black-and-white plates by Gordon H. Grant. Fifth in a series of 11 books featuring John Henry, “A man about town.”
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Binding: Publisher's tan cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in black and white; designed by Thomas Watson Ball and with his “B” cipher. The cover depicts a richly dressed man at a tickertape machine. Top edge gilt.
Bound as above; black stamping showing light wear: a solid, clean copy. (22208)
Medina, Pedro de. Arte del navigare. Venetia: Appresso Tomaso Baglioni, 1609. 4to (20.5 cm, 8"). A4 b4 2A8 B–Q8 R10; [7], [1 (blank)], 137, [1 (blank)] ff.; illus.
$8000.00


Pedro de Medina’s (1493–1567) Arte de navegar (originally published in Spanish in 1545) was a ground-breaking work on compass navigation, and became a standard manual translated into many languages. Medina was famous as a mathematician and cosmographer, and the king of Spain placed him in charge of examining pilots and masters for the West Indies. This second Italian edition (the first was printed in 1554) was translated by Vincenzo Palentino; it has a title-page in red and black with a woodcut printer’s device, and woodcut initials, tables, and illustrations, many showing how to make celestial observations.
Also included is a woodcut map showing Europe, the Atlantic, and the New World.

Palau 159680; Alden & Landis, European Americana, 609/77; Medina, BHA, 123. Old vellum; red leather, gilt-lettered spine label; some staining, and chipping to edges and label. Old, careful repairs to interior worming occasionally cost individual letters (but never sense) or a little loss to an illustration. Old rubber-stamps and red and black ownership label on title-page; inked notations on title-page and front pastedown. All edges speckled red.


Victorian Arabica
Nicely Presented
Meredith, George. The shaving of Shagpat. New York: Pr. by the George Grady Press for the Limited Editions Club, 1955. 4to.
$60.00
The centenary edition of Meredith's Arabian-inspired fantasy, with an introduction by Sir Francis Meredith Meynell and illustrations by Honore Guilbeau, who signed the colophon. The
printing here is handsome, with accents and chapter indications in blue throughout and with touches of other colors — leaf green and curry. This is copy number 288 of 1500 printed.
Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by the Limited Editions Club 260. Publisher's quarter leather over printed paper-covered sides; spine extremities slightly rubbed, in slipcase showing a bit of scraping and refurbished at top fore-edge. Very nice. (13276)
Cortlandt
Bishop Copy
Mérimée, Prosper. Colomba.
Paris: L. Conquet, 1904. Small folio.
$1200.00
Edition limited to 300; this one of 100 copies "de grand luxe sur Japon ancien" and
with
a suite of proofs of the illustrations, which are by Daniel Vierge. Ex-libris Cortlandt F. Bishop.
Bound by M. Lortic in red morocco, gilt extra with accents of black; original wrappers bound in; rubbing to joints at top and bottom. Wide turn-ins with gilt dentelles; marbled endpapers. All edges gilt.

WONDERFUL
Culs-de-Lampe by
Villavicencio
& Navarro
& a
Headpiece
by Nava
Mexico
(ecclesiastical province). 1st & 2nd Concilia (1555, 1565).
Concilios provinciales primero, y segundo, celebrados en la muy noble,
y muy leal Ciudad de México, presidiendo el Illmo. y Rmo. Señor
D. Fr. Alonso de Montúfar, en los años de 1555, y 1565. En México:
En la Imprenta de el Superior Gobierno, de el Br. D. Joseph Antonio de Hogal,
1769. Folio (27 cm; 10.5"). [10], 34, [2], 35–38, 41–184, [2], 185–396,
[12] pp.
$2500.00
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Second edition, following the first of 1555 of the acts of the
first Mexican concilium, and the first printing of the acts of the second Mexican
concilium.
This text is from the press of José Hogal,
who is often called the Baskerville of Mexico.
This edition begins with a handsome title-page in black and red with an allegorical copper
engraving by Mexican artist and engraver Manuel Villavicencio depicting the Church ministering
to the native Americans. The typography is clean with generous white space that accents the
crisp roman and italic of the text. One large engraved headpiece from another great Mexican
artist and engraver — Alonso Nava — appears on p. 1, and on that same page there is a gorgeous
engraved initial A that is signed in the plate by Villavicencio, this being one of the very few
signed engraved initials we have seen in our more than 40 years working with colonial Mexican
books. On pp. 367, 375, and 396 there are culs-de-lampe by (respectively) Manuel Villavicencio,
José Navarro, and Manuel Villavicencio. They incorporate Mexican scenery (coast near
Cozumel, a rural village) and motifs (alligators, eagle and serpent, “hieroglyphs,” and pyramids.
On the verso of the last leaf is a final engraving by Villavicencio, dated 1768, of a sleepy cherub
holding a skull. This same engraving was used as a cul-de-lampe below the last line of the
prologue (p. 37).
The first and second Mexican Concilia were called by Archbishop Moya de Contreras to
codify the principles of religious teaching, especially among the Indians, matters of canon law,
resolving problems relating to confession, addressing issues relating to slaves and free blacks,
and most curiously prohibiting Indians from owning collections of sermon and Bibles.The force behind this edition was archbishop Francisco Antonio Lorenzana (1722–1804),
a patron of Hogal's press and of the arts, who soon after assuming the archbishopric of Mexico in
1766 saw the need for a concilium. In preparation for it he paid Hogal to publish or republish, as
was the case, the acts of the first three provincial councils of Mexico, held respectively in 1555,
1565, and 1585; these appeared in 1769 and 1770. In 1771 he himself held the fourth Mexican
provincial synod; ironically, those acts were not published until 1898.
Medina, Mexico, 5299; Palau 142387; Sabin 42063.
Recent Spanish sheep mottled in the Valenciana style. Occasional light waterstain
in some upper margins, never in text. Paper crisp and printing very sharp.
A
very good copy. (26797)

Michener on
Japanese Woodblocks
Michener, James A. Japanese prints from the early masters to the modern. Rutland, VT & Tokyo, Japan: Charles E. Tuttle Co., (copyright 1959). Folio (31.7 cm, 12.5"). 287, [1] pp.; plts., 6 fold.
$250.00
First edition of this “tour of three centuries of art,” conducted by famed novelist Michener. 257 illustrations decorate the substantial volume, including 55 in full color; many are full-page, others in-text or several to a page.
Publisher's textured taupe silk binding, front cover with patterned coral silk insert; spine with gilt-stamped title. Dust wrapper and original slipcase present, lower back corner of jacket slightly crumpled; otherwise a gorgeous, clean copy in an undamaged slipcase. (24683)
Signed by
Arthur Miller & Leonard Baskin
Miller, Arthur. Death of a salesman: certain private conversations in two acts and a requiem ... With five etchings by Leonard Baskin. New York City: The Limited Editions Club, 1984. 4to. [12], 5–164, [3 (1 blank)] pp.; 5 plts.
$975.00
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This Limited Editions Club copy (no. 880 of 1500 printed) is
signed by both the playwright and the illustrator at the colophon.
The binding is full rusty-brown Nigerian goat, stamped in gold on the spine. The etchings are by Leonard Baskin, a series of five portraits tracing the downward spiral of Willy Loman — a powerful complement to Miller's portrait of a salesman at the end of his career and at the end of his rope! The plates, printed by Bruce Chandler, are each protected by a brown paper tissue guard. The book is designed by Benjamin Schiff, who chose a Bulmer font for the text.
This offering includes the monthly newsletter but not the mailing notice.
Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 540. Binding as above. One of the tissue guards is loose but otherwise undamaged. Fine, in the original slipcase. A handsome production of one of the most performed plays in the world! (21754)
Milne, Walter J. Manuscript on paper, in English. [U.K.], 1914. Long 8vo (10.5 cm, 4.1"). [140 (32 used)] pp.; illus.
$95.00
Dated 1914 in the ownership inscription, this little volume includes
a number of quotations and original verses inscribed by family and friends,
a pencil sketch of a Sopwith Pup, a caricature of two black waiters with a caption
reading “Cook’s Tours — Personally Conducted,” and a
photograph of “St. Paul’s School” (not the American one).
There are also
TWO
nicely accomplished pen-and-ink drawings of ships (one
of a great steamship, signed “J.A.M. Harvey,” 1914, one of a three-masted
sailing ship accompanied by a small “modern” warship, signed Jack
Neill, 1915). Friends have also noted favorite authors, “authoresses,”
and heroines, and two pages are devoted to a series of cut-out autographs (possibly
not original) affixed beneath photographs of Ellen Terry, Estelle Stead, and
others. Place names are London and Hunstanton (Norfolk).
One leaf bears a number of small photographs of young men, labelled “1915”
— possibly classmates from St. Paul’s?
Publisher’s cloth wrappers, front cover gilt-stamped “Autographs”;
edges and extremities chipped. Text block partially separated from spine.
Some fading to colored pages, with occasional very slight offsetting or ink
smearing.
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here.
Milton, John. The poetical works... from the text of the Rev. Henry John Todd, M.A. with a critical essay, by J. Aikin, M.D. London: Pr. for J. Johnson,
W.J. & J. Richardson, R. Baldwin, et al., 1808. (16.5 cm, 6.45"). 4 vols. I: Frontis., [4], 39, [1], 256 pp.; 6 plts. II: [4], 245, [1] pp.; 6 plts. III: [4], 259, [1] pp.; 6 plts. IV: iv, 265, [1] pp.; 2 plts.
$300.00
Early printing of the Rev. Todd’s then-authoritative edition of Milton, preceded by Dr. Aikin’s commentary on Milton’s poetry. The four volumes are illustrated with
a frontispiece and 19 engraved plates done by I. Neagle, W. Cooke, P. Thomas and others after designs by Stephen Francis Rigaud.
Binding: Contemporary olive morocco, covers framed in gilt single fillet, spines with gilt-stamped title. All edges gilt.
NSTC T1207 (for 1801 and 1809 eds., not citing this ed.). Bound as above; spines darkened (not unattractively), some corners bumped. Front pastedowns each with armorial bookplate, one volume with additional private
collector’s bookplate affixed and others with that bookplate laid in. Occasional small spots of faint foxing; one page with two drops of spilled wax.

With Printed Music —
Edmund Dulac's Last
Project
Milton, John, & Henry
Lawes. The
masque of Comus. Cambridge: Printed for the members of The Limited Editions
Club at the University Press, 1954. 4to. [1 (blank)] p., [1 (blank)] f., [3
(2 blank)], frontis., [6 (2 blanks)], 3–59 pp., [1 (blank)] p., 12 pp. of printed
music, [2 (1 blank)] pp., [1 (blank)] f., [1 (blank)] p.; 5 plts.
$175.00
John Milton was commissioned to write this masque by his good friend, Henry Lawes, for John, Earl of Bridgewater, on the occasion of his becoming President of Wales. It was first performed by Lawes himself and the Earl's children at Ludlow Castle in 1634. The masque's five songs were set to music composed by Henry Lawes, and this music is printed in two parts (for treble and bass clefs) on 12 pages immediately following the text. The prefatory materials to this edition, which is limited to 1500 copies, include an introduction to the play proper by Mark van Doren and an explanation of the music by Hubert Foss.
The illustrations are full-page watercolors, six in all, by Edmund Dulac. The LEC Bibliography says they were "printed in process offset," but this is in error: The mailing notice asserts they were "reproduced in six printings by the Sun Engraving Company," and a member of the family that owned that enterprise observes to us that it did not in fact have offset presseswhile it was noted for its color letterpress productions, including the original (1940) Szyk Haggadah.
The design is by John Dreyfus, who chose a monotype Bembo font printed by the University of Cambridge Press; the engraving of the music was done by G.T. Friend. The binding is quarter gold-stamped vellum with marbled paper sides; top edges are gilt. Since Hubert Foss and Edmund Dulac both died during the production of this book, a one-page photo-print from The Times of London's obituary section summarizing the achievements of these two men has been included with this offering. The monthly letter and mailing notice are also present.
Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 250. Two tiny stains on the fore-edge, a penstroke marking p. 54, and two other pen-point spots. With the original slipcase.
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ALL Illustrated, click here.
Montelius, Oscar. Antiquités suédoises, arrangées et décrites .... Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1873–75. 2 vols. in 1. 8vo (25.1 cm, 9.9"). [6], 80, [12], 182, [16] pp.; illus.
$300.00
First edition comprising both parts: French translation of Montelius’s Svenska fornsaker, an atlas of Swedish antiquities from the Stone Age through the Iron Age. The weapons, pots, jewelry, and other items are beautifully depicted in wood engravings by Karl Fredrik Lindberg, with accompanying descriptive text by Montelius, a prominent archeologist whose work on the chronological dating method known as seriation is reflected in the organization of the present volume.
Lipperheide, Katalog der Freiherrlich von Lipperheide’schen Kostumbibliothek, 285m. Contemporary quarter morocco with marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; joints and edges rubbed, joints cracked
and leather chipped at spine extremities. Front free endpaper separated but present; front pastedown and free endpaper institutionally rubber-stamped. Pages clean.
Absorbing.

The FIRST ENTIRELY ENGRAVED Book
Printed in
the AMERICAS
Montes de Oca, José. Vida de San Felipe de Jesus protomartir de Japon y patron de su patria Mexico. Mexico: Montes de Oca ... Calle del. Baustisterio de S. Catalina m.e n.o 3, 1801. 4to (23 cm; 9"). [1] f., 28 [of 30] plts.
$8750.00
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With this work Montes de Oca secured for himself the position of the most important and talented engraver in the New World at the beginning of the 19th century. He conceived and
self-published this, the first entirely engraved book printed in the Americas. In a series of 30 plates with captions he told the biography of St. Philip of Jesus (1572–97), the protomartyr of Japan.
This is a rare book with only nine U.S. libraries reporting ownership: Several of those copies are lacking either one, two, or three of the plates, and it is certain that the book was issued unbound, as a gathering of 31 individual leaves, thus accounting for copies with less than the “requisite” engraved title and 30 plates. This copy in fact confirms that the plates spent part of their lives unbound, as two of them are touched by small instances of worming that have not touched their next neighbors!
Montes de Oca's plates are particularly detailed and moving when they show the saint in Japan being abused and tortured, but all are strong and striking.
Uncut.
Palau 363045. Late 19th-century plain sheep binding. Uncut; lacking two plates and two with minor worming as noted above; all plates well impressed, as would be expected of a work that the artist himself saw through the press!
A very good copy of a scarce and important work. (25095)

Interesting Mariology — A Fine Image of Her
Mora, Juan Antonio de. Alientos a la verdadera confianza, y poderosos motivos para moverse â la perfecta contricion de las culpas. Sacados de los soberanos titulos, que resplandecen en dios para perdonarnos. Dispuestos en varias meditaciones para las almas temerosas y pusilanimes. Mexico: No publisher/printer, 1722. Small 8vo (14.5 cm; 5.75"). [12] ff., 238 pp., plt.
$925.00
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Mora (1667–1737), a native of Puebla, was a Jesuit and rector of the Society's colegio in Querétaro. This is the second of three editions (1721, 1722, 1724) of his treatise on contrition and repentance.
An excellent, unsigned, copper engraving of Our Lady of Sorrows opposite the first page of the dedication represents each of the Seven Sorrows as a long sword piercing Her heart;
“Meditacion I” with an absolutely charming headpiece.
No U.S. library reports ownership of this edition.
Medina, Mexico, 2685; DeBacker-Somervogel, V, 1275. Contemporary vellum over paste boards, lacking the ties; vellum stained and worn through at board edges; text block loose in binding. Finger soiling in foremargins, old ink stains and some areas of light waterstaining here and there, some light foxing, instances of light dust-soiling. Ownership inscriptions in lower margins of two leaves inked over. Minor worming at inner margins at rear of book, touching some letters. (26870)
Murray, Hannah Lindley & Mary. The
toilet. Washington, DC: William Ballantine [Ballantyne], 1867. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [4] pp.; 20 col. plts.
$750.00
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First issue of the Ballantyne printing, with the publisher’s name given as “Ballantine” on the chromolithographic title-page. This variant of The Young Lady’s Toilet (or The American Toilet) was inspired by the original handmade books constructed by Hannah and Mary Murray of New York, two young ladies who cut pictures out of periodicals and pasted them onto blank leaves, adding their own captions. The publisher of the present edition proudly proclaims that the Murrays’ version realized one thousand dollars in sales, all of which was given to the Foreign Missionary Society, and adds that the work “now appears in a somewhat altered garb.” The chromolithographed pictures display their maxims behind moveable flaps, a concept that the Murrays may have adapted from Grimaldi’s earlier, London-published Toilet.Provenance: Inscription to Ellie Bond Robinson (from her cousin Elizabeth); elegant small booklabel, “Gardner.”
Publisher’s textured cloth, framed in blind, front cover with gilt-stamped title; covers and corners showing very slight traces of wear. Front free endpaper with small booklabel and with inked gift inscription dated 1887. One flap (“Circumspection”) lacking, with all other flaps present and working.
An attractive copy of an uncommon item.

Illustrated
English Translation:
HERETICS
in the MOUNTAINS
Muston, Alexis. The Israel of the Alps: A history of the
persecutions of the Waldenses. London: Ingram, Cooke, & Co., 1852. 8vo (19.5 cm, 7.75"). vii,
[1], 312 pp.; 7 plts.
$200.00
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Uncommon first edition of this English rendition, translated from the original
French by William Hazlitt. John Montgomery also published an English translation of L'Israël
des Alpes around the same time — Montgomery's Israel of the Alps: A Complete History of the
Vaudois of Piedmont and Their Colonies should not be confused with the present work. Hazlitt's
version, done for the “Illustrated Library” series, includes excerpts from Gilly's “Narrative of an
Excursion to the Mountains of Piedmont”; the volume is illustrated with an additional engraved
title-page, six plates (including a map) and 12 in-text steel engravings.
Binding:
Publisher's embossed brown cloth in pattern incorporating foliage, heraldic
shields, and the words “National Illustrated Library”; spine with
gilt-stamped title and floral decorations.
Binding as above, cloth gently faded and partially split over
joints, corners and spine tips rubbed. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, inked call
number on front free endpaper, no other markings. Back pastedown with London bookseller's
ticket. Sewing going, two signatures separated and other leaves starting. One leaf with tear from
lower margin, extending into text with loss of one or two letters; one section with small edge
chips. Pages age-toned. (26411)

“Marble is Never Commonplace”
National Association of Marble Dealers. The everyday uses of marble. Cleveland: The National Association of Marble Dealers, © 1927. 8vo. 76 pp.; illus.
$65.00
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Sole edition: Promoting the usage of marble in banks, bathrooms, churches, gardens, libraries, railroad stations, stores, and just about anywhere else it could be employed architecturally or decoratively. The volume is illustrated with
photographs of a wide variety of interiors and exteriors.
Publisher's brown marbled, textured paper–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped title. Clean and unworn.
Not a commonplace copy! (26833)

First U.S. Edition: Icelandic Travel Book
Nicoll, James. An historical and descriptive account of Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Islands. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1841. 12mo (15.7 cm, 6.2"). Add. engr. t.-p., 360 pp.; 2 fold. maps, 1 plt. (incl. in pagination).
$125.00
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First U.S. edition: Overview of “three of the most singular and interesting
countries on the face of the earth” (p. iii). Printed as no. 131 in the “Family Library” series, the
volume is illustrated with two oversized, folding maps, a view of the Great Geyser of Iceland,
and a vignette of the coast near Stappen (on the additional title-page).
Binding: Publisher's olive-brown vermiform cloth of Krupp's style Mis1, spine with gilt-stamped series and individual title.
Sabin 32058. On binding: Krupp, Bookcloth in England and America, 1823--50, Mis1. Binding as above, head of spine chipped, front joint with small spot of insect damage. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and small call-number ticket on front pastedown, title-page pressure-stamped, no other markings. First map creased, outer edge slightly tattered. Pages age-toned. A nice copy. (26418)

Caroline Norton's Sole
Keepsake Effort
Norton, Caroline, ed. The keepsake for MDCCCXXXVI. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, [1835]. 8vo (18.9 cm, 7.45"). Add. engr. t.-p., [4], 324 pp. (pagination skips 300–303); 18 plts.
[SOLD]
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The 1836 entry in a popular series of gift books. This year's example was edited by Lady Caroline Norton and includes a number of works by her, several printed anonymously: “Count Rodolph's Heir,” “A Sonnet,” “The Reprieve,” “The Favourite Flower,” “The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons,” “The Artist's Love,” etc. Also here are the first appearances of “Fenella's Escape” by L.E.L. (Letitia Elizabeth Landon), and “The Progress of Painting” by Lalla Rookh author Thomas Moore.
The volume is illustrated with 18 steel-engraved plates and an additional engraved title-page.
Binding: Crimson straight-grain morocco, covers framed in blind and panelled in quadruple gilt fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls. All edges gilt.
Faxon 1497. Binding as above, edges and extremities lightly rubbed with corners bumped, joints and edges darkened, lower spine compartment discolored. Title-page and two others institutionally pressure-stamped. Pages gently age-toned with a few scattered light spots, generally clean. (26033)
Oakley, Amy. Cloud-lands of France. New York: Century Co., 1927. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 497, [1] pp.; illus.
$50.00

First edition, illustrated by Thornton Oakley. In the popular and well-done series of travel books by the Oakleys.
Publisher's cloth, covers and spine gilt-stamped; corners and extremities very slightly rubbed, dust-jacket lacking, otherwise a beautiful copy. (18414)
Oakley, Amy. Enchanted Brittany. New York: Century Co., 1930. 8vo. Frontis., xix, [1], 437, [1] pp.; illus.
$40.00
First edition, illustrated by Thornton Oakley. In the popular and well-done series of travel books by the Oakleys.
Publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; spine slightly sunned, dust-jacket lacking. (18410)

Life Without Pipe Dreams?
O'Neill, Eugene. The iceman cometh. New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1982. Folio. xv, [5], 153 pp.; 10 plts.
$210.00
This edition is limited to 2,000 copies and this copy is
signed on the colophon page by the illustrator, Leonard Baskin. Baskin both created the ten full-page drawings of the characters, one of them an original lithograph, and designed the book, choosing a Monotype Janson font, which was composed and bound at the Stinehour Press in Ludenburg, Vermont. Art historian Irma Jaffe analyzes the illustrations and traces the parallels in the art and lives of Baskin and O'Neill in her introductory essay, “O'Neill and Baskin: the iconography of a double exposure.”
The binding is full grey paper–covered boards with printed paper labels on the spine and front cover. It is rather bleak-looking — which is perfectly appropriate given the nihilistic theme of the play.
This offering includes the monthly newsletter.
Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 525. Binding as above. Fine, in a fine slipcase. (21758)

Travelling
the Great Northern Route
— 21 Plates
& a
Large Folding Map
Ontario
and St. Lawrence Steamboat Company. The
Ontario and St. Lawrence Steamboat Company's hand-book for travelers to Niagara
Falls, Montreal and Quebec, and through Lake Champlain to Saratoga Springs.
Buffalo: Jewett, Thomas & Co., Geo. H. Derby & Co., 1852. 12mo (19.1
cm, 7.5"). 158 pp.; 1 fold. map, 21 plts. (incl. in pagination).
$200.00
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First edition of this guide to travelling by railroad and steamer
to
Niagara
Falls and beyond, from the “Great Northern Route. American
Lines” series. This particular journey is described as “one of the
favorite summer excursions so indulged in by all classes of the American people”
(p. 25). The volume is illustrated with an oversized, folding map (28 x 20 cm)
of the routes from Albany to Niagara Falls, Buffalo, and Montreal (with an engraved
image of the Falls), as well as a frontispiece and 20 other wood-engraved plates
depicting scenic views to be found along the way. The plates are mostly by Benjamin
C. Vanduzee and J.P. Hall, after John Van Cleeve.
Provenance: Front pastedown
with inked ownership inscription of Ida M. Hardy, dated 1867. The book itself,
alas, provides no indication whether Ms. Hardy was a traveller of the actual
or armchair sort.
Sabin 57368. Not in Phillips, List of Maps of America.
Publisher's brown cloth of Krupp's style Lea8, covers blind-stamped,
front cover with gilt-stamped title; a little sunned with corners bumped and
binding slightly cocked. Front pastedown with inscription as above, front
free endpaper with mostly erased pencilled inscription. Mild smudging to some
page edges; a few leaves with light waterstaining to lower outer portions.
One leaf torn, repaired some time ago with cellophane tape, touching but not
obscuring five words; map with short tear from lower edge, upper edge a bit
crumpled. A solid copy, with map and all plates. (26666)

Illustrated Inspiring Sumptuous
Orsini, Mathieu, abbé, & J. Sadlier. Life of the blessed virgin Mary, mother of God; with the history of the devotion to her. Completed by the traditions of the East, the writings of the fathers, and the private history of the Jews. Translated from the French of the Abbé Orsini, by Mrs. J. Sadlier. New York, Boston, & Montreal: D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 1861. 4to. [4], xxviii, 225, [3], 311, [12], 8–192, 133 pp.; 22 plts.
[SOLD]
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Later edition. Copyright date was 1853. The translator's preface is dated October 1853, the Apostolic Letter of Pope Pius IX is dated 6 December 1854. Contents: “Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary ...” (2 vols. in 1); “Historical Calendar of the Feasts of the Blessed Virgin, with the Foundations and Churches Dedicated to Her” (pp. 282–311); “Family Records” ([4 (blank)] ff.); “A Monument to the Glory of Mary. Meditations on the Litany of the Blessed Virgin. By the Abbé Edouard Barthe. Translated by Mrs. J. Sadlier”; and “The Admirable Life of the Glorious Patriarch Saint Joseph to which is added the Lives of St. Joachim and St. Anne. Taken from the Cité Mystique de Dieu (the Mythical City of God). Translated from the French of the Abbé J. A. Boullan, Doctor Theologian.”
Illustrated with 22 engraved plates (each with protective tissue guard), an added engraved title-page (in color), and in-text engravings used as chapter tail-pieces. Text printed within an engraved decorative border, repeated throughout.
Publisher's full red morocco, elaborately stamped in gilt. Spine with raised bands, gilt center devices and lettering in spine compartments. Front cover bears a gilt image of the Blessed Virgin framed in an oval, with “Mary A. Dunigan” stamped in gilt beneath it; back cover bears a gilt-stamped crucifix within an oval. All edges gilt. Rubbing at edges and joints. Front joint starting and weak. Scratch-marks. Some spotting to plates and tissue guards. Very light waterstaining in margins of later pages. Chip at top margin of two leaves, only. Very good condition, without ownership markings. (14268)
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)
Parry, William Edward. Journal of a voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific.... London: John Murray, 1821. 4to (27.3 cm, 10.75"). [4] ff., xxix, [3], 310, [2], clxxix, [3 (2 adv.)]pp.; 14 plts., 4 fold. maps, 2 maps.
$1000.00
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First edition of Parry's classic account of his first and most
successful voyage of Arctic exploration (181920), which resulted in the
mapping of extensive stretches of coastline. The volume is illustrated with
14 plates and six maps, four of which are oversized and folding; the appendix
includes tables of navigational and chronometer data, lunar observations, and
a report on the state of health and disease among the men.
The copper-engraved, oversized frontispiece
map shows Baffin's Bay, Barrow's Straits, Prince Regent's Inlet, and the North
Georgian Islands, as well as the bay named after Parry's two ships.
Arctic Bibliography 13145; Hill (2nd ed.) 1311;
Sabin 58860. Recent quarter calf over marbled paper–covered sides, spine
with gilt-stamped leather title and author labels, and gilt-stamped anchor
decorations in compartments. Title-page and a few others, plus reverse of
1 map, lightly stamped by a now-defunct institution. Pages gently age-toned,
with occasional offsetting from engraving and the odd spot or smudge. One
map with small portion of inner margin reinforced; final two leaves with inner
margins reinforced; one plate with tears into image and mounted. Final advertisement
leaf bound in before final text leaf. All edges marbled.

Design Manual, Used by a
Female Philadelphia Art Student?
Peale, Rembrandt. Graphics, the art of accurate delineation; a system of school exercise, for the education of the eye and the training of the hand, as auxiliary to writing, geography, and drawing. Philadelphia: E.C. & J. Biddle, 1853. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). [6 (adv.)], xvii, [1], 22, [2], 27–132 pp.; 41 plts.
$175.00
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Later edition of a best-selling guide to drawing and draftsmanship, published by Rembrandt Peale (1778–1860), the noted American Neoclassical painter. The volume is illustrated with
41 plates depicting various aspects of line production and calligraphy.
Provenance: This copy bears an early inked inscription reading “School of Design S.E. Cr. of 8th and Locust” — that address having been one of the earliest locations of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, now the Moore College of Art.
Contemporary quarter black sheep with black ribbed cloth–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine much rubbed, corners and edges far less so. Front pastedown with inscription as above. Pages and plates clean. (27050)

The Only
GIFT of Its Kind
Percival, Walter, ed. Friendship's gift: A souvenir for MDCCCXLVIII. Boston: John P. Hill, [1847]. 12mo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., vi, [2], [13]–312 pp.; 8 plts.
$140.00
First and only volume of what was intended as the start of an annual gift book series, although this sole example was reissued in the next year under the title The Lady's Gift, a Souvenir for All Seasons. The work includes one fictional piece on Shakespeare's childhood, one poem in his honor, and one essay on his birthplace, along with Mary Russell Mitford's “Talking Lady” and “The China Jug,” Lydia Howard Sigourney's “Prayers at Sea,” and Ismael Fitzadam's “Farewell”; it is illustrated with a total of ten steel-engraved plates by various hands.
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Signed binding: Black sheep in imitation of morocco, covers framed in heavy gilt borders surrounding gilt-stamped arabesque designs, spine gilt extra; front free endpaper with bookbinder Bradley's small pressure-stamp. All edges gilt.
Faxon 224. Not in Hamilton, Early American Book Illustrators. On binder's stamp, see: Spawn & Kinsella, American Signed Bindings, 55f. Binding as above, minor wear to corners, spine with tiny scuff towards foot; binding clean and bright. Pages with varied degrees of foxing/staining and age-toning.
Very spiffy. (26673)

Virtuous EMBLEMS — Engraved Title-Page
after RUBENS
Pietrasanta, Silvestro. Symbola heroica. Amstelaedami: Janssonio Waesbergios & Henr. Wetstenium, 1682. 4to (21.3 cm, 8.4"). lxxx, 480, [32] pp.; illus. (lacking 1 portrait).
$3000.00
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Second edition, following the Plantin printing of 1634 (under the title De Symbolis Heroicis) with the addition of new preliminary material. Pietrasanta (or Petra Sancta), a Jesuit priest, here explicates a wide variety of “heroic” emblems and allegorical images. The copper-engraved title-page was done by Cornelis Galle after Peter Paul Rubens, and the volume is illustrated with
264 in-text copper engravings. One emblem features a telescope aimed at the sun, with the heading “Non ideo maculor”; Pietrasanta's anti-Galilean explanation is that any flaws to be perceived in the character of a virtuous prince are as imaginary as the illusory sunspots created by optical vibrations.
Pietrasanta was the confessor of Cardinal Pier Luigi Carafa — hence the preliminary section of this book dedicated to the lineage and armory of the Carafa family. He was also an
accomplished heraldic scholar credited with promoting (if not indeed originating) the modern hatching method in heraldry.
Sterling Maxwell Collection SM1427; Landwehr, Emblem & Fable Books (3rd ed.), 634; Held, Rubens & the Book, 142; DeBacker-Sommervogel, VI, 740–41. Recent quarter morocco and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-ruled raised bands, leather edges with gilt roll. Fore-edge and title-page with early inked numerals of different generations; age-toning with occasional dust-soiling or the odd stain/spot; one leaf with tear from outer margin, not approaching text. Preliminary portrait of Cardinal Carafa, only, lacking; engraved title-page trimmed to (NOT into) plate at top; all emblems and other embellishments present and lovely. Two illustrations with English translations of mottos pencilled in margins. (26098)
[Plautius, Caspar]. Nova typis transacta navigatio novi orbis Indiae occidentalis.... [Linz], 1621. Folio (32.6 cm, 12.875"). )(4 (-)(4, blank) A–M4 N4 (-N4, blank); Engr. t.-p., [2] ff., 101, [1] pp.; 18 plts.
$27,000.00

Curiously enough, the dedicatee of this work, Caspar Plautius,
is certainly also its author, writing under the pseudonym of Honorius Philoponus.
Plautius was abbot of Seitenstetten in Lower Austria, and no doubt wrote as
a compliment to a fellow Benedictine: Bernard Buil or Boyl of Montserrat, appointed
by the pope vicar general of the Indies, who, with others of the order, accompanied
Columbus on his second voyage as missionaries. In the style of a medieval legendary, Nova
typis transacta navigatio novi orbis Indiae occidentalis relates first the
westward voyage of St. Brendan, then the exploits of the Boyl and his fellow
monks, including some description of the customs of the American native peoples
they met, with their lands, their agriculture, their feast customs, et al. Boyl’s
missionary enterprise failed, and sadly he is now only remembered for his mordant
criticism of Columbus.

This
book bears an ornate, emblematic engraved title-page, with portraits of St.
Brendan and Boyl and more, and no fewer than 18 leaf-filling plates by Wolfgang
Kilian. These plates, which mix
fancy and realism in entirely engaging ways, include
a portrait of Columbus, a scene of St. Brendan celebrating mass on the back of a whale, botanical images of the marvelous Peruvian potato, and numerous views of
the missionaries’interaction with the natives, some friendly, and some not—the unfriendliest being notably violent and gory. Also, on p. 35–36 is given an example of purported
native
American music, with both words and notation. This copy is one (probably the first) of two states of this sole edition (with only three leaves in the preliminaries), without the additional foldout plate found in some copies.

Binding: Contemporary speckled calf, spine gilt-extra, with a red leather title label. Red, blue, yellow, and green endpapers. All edges speckled red. (Our image in this early "edition" of our description is a bit distorted; we expect to fix that, before general publication.)
Alden & Landis, European Americana, 621/100; Sabin 63367; Palau 224762. Binding as above and shown at left (distortion noted), chipped on corners and at head and foot of spine. Small wormholes visible on inside of covers, running into margins of pages and plates, and a few closed tears, neither affecting print or plates. Engraved title remounted. Small stains, light spots of waterstaining, and light soiling.
A
very covetable illustrated Americanum of the early 17th century, in an enjoyable copy.
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Get
Cured or
Get Clean
YOU
Choose: “Druggs”
or Soap
[A FAVORITE BOOK HERE]
Pomet, Pierre. A compleat history of druggs, written in French by Monsieur Pomet ... To which is added, what is further observable on the same subject, from Mess. Lemery and Tournefort ... Illustrated with above four hundred copper cutts ... Done into English from the originals. London: Pr. for R. & J. Bonwicke, and R. Wilkin; John Walthoe & Tho. Ward,, 1725. 4to (22.5 cm; 9"). xii, 419, [1] pp., [4] ff.; 86 plts.
$3250.00
In his capacity as “Chief Druggist to the late French King Lewis XIV” Pomet (1658–99) gained a highly favorable reputation for his knowledge and use of botanical and other drugs, and in 1694 he presented as much of his knowledge as he thought wise in his Histoire générale des drogues. In 1712 the first English-language edition appeared, followed a-dozen-plus-one years later by this second. The English editions add material from the works of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656–1708) and Nicolas Lémery (1645–1715), and were translated by Joseph Browne (1673–1721), a Lincoln College –educated physician and satirist.
Highly influential in its time, this materia medica covers botanical, zoological, and mineral sources and is illustrated with
86 etched plates, mostly with four
specimens per plate; but there are also full-page images of a silk factory, a fishery, and of “negro's [sic] making Roucou.” Other plates are of unicorns, whales, rhinos, elephants.
The
Americana content is noteworthy, with discussion of cacao, chocolate, “guinea pepper,” “long American pepper,” tobacco, and so on. Two surprising sections are devoted to glass manufacture and achieving color in glass, and soap making.
The volume begins with a black and red title-page, is printed in roman type with some italic in double-column format, and offers its plates close to the text that refers to them.
Wellcome Catalogue, IV, 412; Graesse, Trésor de Livres rares, V, 398; Alden & Landis 725/158; not in Sabin; ESTC T111989; Pritzel 7258n; Junersforgg & Hasenkamp, Coffee, 1177– 1179. Recent full calf antique-style with gilt concentric panels on covers and gilt corner devices on same; round spine with raised bands, each accented by gilt rules. Some plates closely trimmed at foremargin. A very pleasing copy. (21774)
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Pomey, François. Pantheum mythicum, seu Fabulosa deorum historia hoc epitomes eruditionis volumine brevitur dilucidéque comprehensa. Amstaelodami: Ex officina Schoudeniana ; Trajecti ad Rhenum: Apud J.J. a Poolsum, 1777. Small 8vo (15.5 cm; 6"). [8] ff., 298, [7] ff., 27 plts. (4 fold.).
$625.00
Originally published in 1659, Pomey’s work on classical mythology was extremely popular and was reprinted many times during the following 150
years. This edition describes itself as “editio decima, denuò recensita, à quamplurimis erroribus repurgata, & aeneis figuris ornata.”
The work begins with an elaborate engraved title-page signed “G. Schoute, fecit,” followed by a printed title–page in black and red. The text
is printed in roman type with side- and shouldernotes and is illustrated with
27 plates, four of which are folding. The text is edited by Samuel Pitiscus (1637–1727).

Binding: Full vellum over paste boards, covers with bead and vine borders in gilt at outer edges and large gilt-stamped supralibros coat of arms of the Dutch town of Kampen, with the text “Pallas Minerva sospitatrix urbium.” Round spine with gilt rope-design roll forming spine compartments. Red leather author and title label.
Provenance: With the printed and folding ex-proemium of J.J.S. van Goltstein van Hoekenburg, Jan. 1819.
DeBacker-Sommervogel, VI, 976. Binding as above. All edges marbled. A very good copy; text block very slightly skewed in binding.
Porta, Giambattista della. Della fisionomia dell'huomo.... Venetia: Presso Christoforo Tomasino, 1644. 4to (23 cm, 9"). a6 A–Z8 Aa–Nn8; [6] ff., 570 (i.e., 572) pp., [2] ff.; illus.
$4000.00

Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) della Porta (1535?–1615)
was a natural philosopher and physician who made significant scientific contributions—he
was first, for example, to recognize that light rays have a heating effect.
However, his approach employed many principles now known to be invalid and in
his pursuit of the ancient pseudo-science of physiognomy he tried to determine
a man’s character from his outward resemblance to animals.
"Porta's system . . . leads him constantly to conclusions of analogies
between plants, animals and men. Similar humours are found in various apparently
unrelated organisms. Plants and animals that correspond in shape are interrelated.
A leaf formed like a stag horn shares the character of the deer. The horse
is a noble animal, therefore it is a sign of nobility to walk erect with the
head held high. Men who resemble a donkey are like that animal: timid, stupid,
nervous. He who looks like an ostrich is akin to it in character: he is timid,
elegant, vicious, stolid. A man who reminds us of a swine is a swine, eating
greedily and having all the other characteristics, such as rudeness, irascibility,
lack of discipline, sordidness, lack of intelligence [and] modesty. In a similar
way, men who look like ravens are impudent; those who resemble oxen are stubborn,
lazy, irascible; men who have lips shaped like those of a lion are hearty,
magnanimous, courageous; others who make us think of a ram are timid, malicious
and humble. When practising medicine, Porta had many occasions to observe
his patients, and to study their character and complexion; the results of
this studious inquiry are laid down in his book." (Seligmann)
This
work was written in Latin and first published in 1586 under the title De
humana physiognomia. It saw 19 editions before 1701, and has been translated
into Italian (1598; translation by Salvatore Scarano), German (1651), French
(1655), and English (1817).
This
tenth Italian edition is replete with a large number of intriguing (and humorous)
woodcuts. The first is a portrait
of Porta, and, while some of the rest show anatomical figures, the vast majority
contrast the shapes of faces and bodies of animals and men. The title-page vignette
is of Aesculapius, the Greco-Roman god of healing.
Appended to Della fisionomia humana are the Fisionomia naturale
of Giovanni Ingegneri († 1600), the Physionomia of Polemon (ca.
a.d. 88 –
a.d. 145) in an Italian translation, Porta’s Della celeste
fisionomia (a repudiation of astrology), and two short related treatises
by Livius Agrippa and Luigi Settala (1552–1633). Della celeste fisionomia
has a number of interesting woodcuts showing pagan gods and constellations.
Seligmann, The History of Magic, 319. On physiognomy,
see: Thorndike, History of Magic and Experimental Science, VII, 448
& following. On Porta, see: Webster’s New Biographical Dictionary
811. Vellum over paste boards, soiled and cockled with a little chipping and
front joint opening. Ex-library: paper labels on spine and rubber-stamps,
including one on title-page. Pages cockled with traces of soiling on top edges;
a few edges bumped.
Plates
in very clear, strong impressions.

Long the Standard in its Field — Many Illustrations
Potter, John. Archaeologia graeca or the antiquities of Greece. The fifth edition. London: Ja. & Jo. Knapton, R. Knaplock, J. & B. Sprint, et al., 1728. 8vo (19.8 cm, 7.75"). 2 vols. I: iv, [4], 464, [28 (index)] pp.; 2 fold. plts., 7 plts. II: [4], 420, [36 (34 index, 2 adv.)] pp.; 9 fold. plts., 13 plts.
$550.00
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Fifth edition of this popular and then-authoritative history of ancient Greece, following the first of the previous year. Written by the archbishop of Canterbury (bishop of Oxford at the time of this publication), the work incorporates numerous and extensive Greek quotations. This edition is
illustrated with 31 copper-engraved plates (11 folding) depicting temples, theatres, wrestlers and other burly athletes, armor, military maneuvers, ships, and elephant- and horse-drawn war carriages; the title-pages are printed in red and black, and the text is ornamented with head- and tailpieces in addition to decorative capitals.
Present here under a handsome headpiece is a vigorous two-page note from "THE BOOKSELLERS TO THE READER," explaining why first editions are not always to be preferred and why some editions may not be among the trustworthy!
ESTC T121647; Graesse 428; Lowndes 1932. Contemporary speckled calf, framed and panelled in blind with panel of plain calf decorated with blind roll and blind-tooled corner fleurons, rebacked with sympathetic calf, spines with gilt-stamped green leather title and volume labels, gilt-dotted raised bands, and blind-tooled compartment decorations; original leather showing minor pitting and cracking more pronounced towards edges. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate and call number on front pastedowns, pressure-stamp on title-pages, no other markings. Hinges (inside) unobtrusively reinforced with paper. Title-page of vol. I with early inked annotations regarding author's identity and additional editions of this work. Pages age-toned; first and last few leaves with offsetting to margins from turn-ins. (27102)
Powell, J.W. Report on the geology of the eastern portion of the Uinta Mountains and a region of country adjacent thereto. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1876. Folio (30 cm, 11.75"). vii, [1], 218 pp.; 4 plts.
$200.00
First edition: Printed for the Department of the Interior as part of the U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, this is a scientific description of the topographic and geologic features of portions of Utah and Colorado, with summaries of fossil findings. The steel-engraved frontispiece is an attractive depiction of the Gate of Lodore, while other plates and in-text illustrations offer diagrams of strata sections; the title-page mentions an atlas containing two maps, which was published separately and is not present here. Publisher’s cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title (attractively oxidized); cloth rubbed at extremities, spine with small spot of faint discoloration from a now-absent label. Front pastedown institutionally rubber-stamped (no other markings). Erratum slip tipped in. A cleaner copy than most seen on the market.

“In Vienna Everyone Worships the Opera”
Prawy, Marcel. The Vienna Opera. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1970 (© 1969). 4to. 224 pp.; illus.
$25.00

First U.S. edition: Extensive and
extensively illustrated history of “the very center of Viennese culture.”
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Publisher's cloth, virtually pristine, in excellent dust wrapper with minimal rubbing to spine extremities. (26317)
Prescott, William Hickling. History of the conquest of Peru, 1524–1550. Mexico City: Imprenta Nuevo Mundo for the members of the Limited Editions Club, 1957. Folio (32 cm, 12.6"). xxxvi, 252 pp., [2] pp.; illus.
$150.00
This Limited Editions Club edition of Prescott’s classic account of the clash of empires in Peru and the destruction of that of the Inca is limited to 1500 copies. It includes an introduction by Samuel Eliot Morison and water-color illustrations by Everett Gee Jackson. The colophon is
signed by the illustrator and by Harry Block, the printer. The book was designed and issued to be a companion volume to the Club’s printing of Bernal Diaz del Castillo’s Discovery and Conquest of Mexico (Mexico City, 1942).
The binding is full marbled sheep (pasta española) with gilt-stamped red spine-labels and raised bands accented with gilt rules.
Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 275. Original red slipcase; rubbed, chipped and splitting along edges, with some paper loss at corners; case spine sunned. Spine leather a bit darkened, bottom of front joint starting. A very good copy, in a good slipcase.
For
the LIMITED EDITIONS CLUB, click here.

Illustrated
Primer — “do
not lash the cat” — Philadelphia,
ca. 1860
Pretty
stories in easy words. Philadelphia: Davis, Porter & Co.,
[ca. 1860]. 16mo (13.3 cm, 5.25"). [2], 13–18 pp.; illus.
$300.00
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Scarce juvenile basic reader illustrated with six hand-colored wood engravings, with
the front wrapper additionally hand-colored; the hand-coloring is quite nice.
Uncommon:
OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 locate only four holdings, all in the
U.S.
Publisher's printed paper wrappers, front wrapper with early inked inscription in
upper portion; paper just starting at foot of spine. Age-toned, otherwise clean and fresh.
(25501)

For the Interested
Spanish Audience
Prida y Arteaga, Francisco de la; & Rafael Pérez Vento. Méjico contemporáneo. Madrid: Est. tipo. de Fortanet, 1889. 8vo (21.5 cm; 8.25"). xxi, 399 pp. illus., ports.
$150.00
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The authors' aim is to present a popular history of Mexico to the
peninsular audience covering events since Mexico's achievement of independence
and focusing on the current reality of Mexico in three areas particularly: Politics,
economy, and political and geographical organization. Additionally, the appendices
address railroads, the federal constitution, and additions to the constitution.
The
whole is illustrated with approximately 100 photogravures.
Publisher's acid-stained sheep, round spine with gilt tooling
and two spine labels; rubbed at corners and extremities and with evidence
of old worm attack at lower part of front joint. Interior clean; in
fact, a very good copy. (25094)
A
Curious Text &
12 Remarkable Woodcuts
Priest, Josiah. The anti-universalist, or history of the
fallen angels of the Scriptures. Albany: J. Munsell, 1839. 8vo. 420 pp.; 12 plts. (incl. in
pagination).
$150.00
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“Proofs of the being of Satan and of evil spirits, and many other curious matters
connected therewith”: Second edition, following the first of 1837, illustrated with twelve
engraved plates. The second portion has a separate title-page, reading “History of Satan, and
proofs of the existence of devils and evil spirits.”The twelve unsigned woodcut plates are full of energy both emblematic and artistic.
Publisher's quarter tan cloth with blue paper-covered sides;
boards stained and chipped with paper peeling, all extremities rubbed, and paper spine label
mostly lost. Front hinge cracked, back hinge starting. Front pastedown with institutional
bookplate; title-page with private owner's stamp in upper margin and old cataloguing excerpt
affixed to lower margin. Lower outer corners waterstained in first half; pages cockled, with
occasional faint spotting; first text page with newsprint blurb about Priest affixed in upper
margin. A compromised copy, but an extraordinary production; interesting from a variety of
perspectives. (15630)

Tips from
the Prince of Ventriloquists
Prince, Arthur. The whole art of ventriloquism. London: Will Goldston Ltd., [1922]. 8vo (18.3 cm, 7.2"). Frontis., 100, [4 (adv.)] pp.; illus.
$150.00

Second edition, revised, with a color frontispiece portrait of the author: Guidelines to throwing one's voice, imitating accents and tones, and using a dummy. The work is illustrated with numerous interesting anatomical diagrams, images of dummies and their inner workings, and room layouts for optimal performance effect.
So many and various are these illustrations that we SIMPLY couldn't decide which to photograph!
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Provenance: Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1943 and with rubber-stamp of Kanter's Magic Shop, a famed but now-defunct emporium in Philadelphia.
Publisher's gray-brown cloth without dust-jacket, front cover with black-stamped title and dummy vignette; spine very slightly darkened, edges and extremities with minor shelfwear. Front free endpaper as above. Pages age-toned. A nice copy. (26622)

Illustrations by Dulac
Pushkin, Alexander. The golden cockerel. New York: The Limited Editions Club, n.d. [1950]. Folio. [4], 41, [3] pp.; illus.
$200.00
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This eccentric Russian fairy-tale is retold here in prose by Edmund Dulac, the noted children's book illustrator, from the poem by Alexander Pushkin. Dulac, in the foreword, asserts that the meaning of the tale is not easily understood, seeing it as belonging to a “class of folk tales that start as clear and simple myths and . . . have other myths or incidents, often irrelevant, added to them from generation to generation in order to make them more entertaining.” However, it has usually been interpreted as a kind of political satire.
Edmund Dulac created the book's enchanting illustrations, consisting of 10 full-page and six in-text watercolors, a two-color decorative title-page, and decorative head- and tailpieces, and initials, also in two colors. Ernest Ingham designed the book using a monotype Poliphilus font.
The binding is full Russian-red cloth with a
polished brass design of a cockerel set in the front cover and a gilt-lettered title on the spine. This edition is limited to 1500 copies and this offering includes the monthly mailing notice.
Limited Editions Club, Bibliography of the Fine Books Published by The Limited Editions Club, 1929–1985, 205. Binding as above. In a glassine wrapper with shallow edge tears and chips, contained within a chemise covered with Russian-red paper with gilt cockerel design with gilt-lettered spine; spine sunned and paper chipped. The whole in an unevenly sunned slipcase, with slight loss of paper to top edge at mouth and spine. A fine book, in a good+ slipcase. (22314)
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