PROVENANCE! . . . the history of ownership of an object . . .
PROVENANCE! 
Business Correspondence in
Italian & French
E. A. Secrétaire des negociants, ou lettres françoises it italiennes.... Par E.A. professeur de ces deux langues. Amsterdam: Et se vend à Turin, chez les Frères Reycends, Guibert e Silvestre, libraires, 1752. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). 333, [1 (blank)] pp., [1 (blank)] f.
Scarce: No U.S. copies traced via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC, or RLIN; and only two via the Italian union catalogue (SBN), the British Library, the OPAC of the Dutch Royal Library, and the Catalogue collectif de France, both in France. 
First of three editions.
Provenance: On blank back of Italian title-page, “Comprato da me Filipo Ricccardini in Ancona,” dated 1801; similar note on title-page in French.
• Goldsmith’s-Kress 9910.20 (for later ed. only). Uncut copy. Publisher’s cartonné binding, with some staining; spine perished and renewed with marbled paper not affecting inked notation in Italian on front cover. Some light browning and occasional spots of staining; actually rather clean for such a working volume. A few pages adhered together at their gutters, obscuring individual letters without loss of sense. Inked notations on endpapers; ownership inscriptions as above.
One That Got Away!Eguiara y Eguren, Juan José de. Selectae dissertationes mexicanae ad scholasticam spectantes theologiam tribus tomis distinctae. Tomus primus continet tractatus, I de Deo ut Uno & ejus attributis. II de Augustissimae trinitatis mysterio. III de SS. deigenitricis sponso Josepho. Tomus secundus complectitur tractatus, IV de libertate creata. V de ente supernaturali. VI de gratia auxiliante. VII de justificatione. Tomus tertius exhibet tractatus, VIII de voluntate divina. IX de divinis decretis. X de systemate dominicae incarnationis. XI de praedestinatione & reprobatione. XII theojuridicos offert titulos sex: de donationibus, de compensationibus, de actione Pauliana, de crimine laesae majestatis, de confiscatione, de vectigalibus. Mexici: Typis viduae Josephi Bernardi de Hogal, 1746. Folio (30 cm; 11.75"). [33] ff., 506 pp., [5] ff. 
Click the image to the left or rightThe Selectae dissertationes mexicanae was planned as a three-volume work but only this volume was published, the other two having been left in manuscript. It was printed by the widow Hogal, who continued to maintain the high standards of printing that she established with her husband; more than one bibliographer has compared the Hogal output favorably with that of the best European contemporaries. The title-page is in black and red with the text in double-column format in roman and italic, and the whole has decent margins. The volume was intended as a university level text for the study of certain theological concepts.
Provenance: Marca de fuego on top and bottom edges of the closed volume of the “Convento Grande de Nuestra Señora de la Merced” in Mexico City.
Very uncommon. We trace only one copy in the U.S., at the University of Texas.
• Medina, Mexico, 3763 Palau 78637; Beristain, I, 216–21. Contemporary limp vellum with remnants of button and loop ties. Marca de fuego as noted previously. Some worming into text on pages 361–94, costing letters but not impairing sense.
Touting
“New Literary Connexions
in
AMERICA”(English
Literary Periodical). The monthly magazine, and British register,
part I. 1798. From January to June, inclusive. Vol. V. London: R. Phillips, 1798.
8vo (22.5 cm, 9"). Frontis., [8], 552 (i.e., 554; lacking 499–504, 120 used
twice in pagination, 521–28 numbered 321–28) pp.
The
preface notes that “by means of some new literary connexions in america,
we shall possess peculiar advantages in presenting to our Readers, accounts
of the most interesting circumstances belonging to the United States”—and
it was an American reader, in fact, who owned the present example.
This volume’s oversized, folding frontispiece shows the front facade
of the “new East India House now building in Leadenhall Street”;
there is also one in-text engraving of Lethington House in East Lothian, residence
of the Maitland family.
Provenance:
Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription of Joshua Gilpin,
a Quaker from Philadelphia who established the first paper mill in Delaware,
in 1787.
• Disbound with front cover, front free endpaper, and frontispiece separated; back cover lost, and signature sewing exposed/going, with many leaves loose. Now contained in a simple, acid-free phase box. Edges untrimmed. Minor offsetting and a few stray marks; mostly clean.
A Politician's Prose & Poetry — Presentation Copy Everhart, James B. Miscellanies. West Chester, PA: Edward F. James, 1862. 8vo. Frontis., [6], ii, 300 pp.
Provenance: Inscribed by the author: “To B.F. Pyle, Esq. [?] from his friend the author.”
• Publisher's textured violet cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; faded, especially over spine, tear to cloth along front joint with corners and extremities a bit rubbed. Front fly-leaf with inked inscription as above. Endpapers, frontispiece (“The Rhine”), and title-page lightly foxed. In fact a clean, nice copy. (23195)
“Madmen
or Epileptics”
(Anyway, NOT
Bewitched)
Farmer, Hugh. An essay on the demoniacs of the New Testament. London: G. Robinson, 1775. 8vo (21.6 cm, 8.5"). [16], 416 pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. Provenance: Signature of Philip Harwood on half-title.
• ESTC T68112; Lowndes 780; Allibone 578. Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and blind-tooled compartment decorations. Half-title with early inked ownership inscription. Half-title, title-page, and last page institutionally pressure-stamped, title-page with inked numeral in lower margin. Pages slightly age-toned, otherwise clean. (25088)
In
Defense
of
ModerationFeijoo, Benito Jerónimo. Ilustracion apologetica al primero, y segundo tomo del Theatro critico.... Quarta impression. Madrid: Por los herederos de Francisco del Hierro, 1737. 4to (20.3 cm, 8"). [16] ff., 207, [1 (blank)] pp.
Provenance: Bookseller’s ticket of the “Livraria de Braamcamp-Freire” on front pastedown.
• Palau 91083. Speckled sheep; spine with double gilt rules above and below each band, second compartment with a brown leather label, gilt-lettered, and the rest with a gilt diamond-shaped floral device. Leather abraded with some loss at head and foot of spine and on edges of covers. Browning from turn-ins and some little tears or chipping to endpapers. Interior generally clean with occasional fine spotting.
A Little Boy withHeaven on His Mind The flower gathered, or the history of Henry Packman Smith. London: The Religious Tract Society, [1838–39?]. 32mo. 64 pp.
Binding: Contemporary blue calf framed in gilt rolls with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped title and floral decorations, turn-ins with gilt dentelles, front cover gilt-stamped “C. Anderson.” All edges gilt.
Portrait: In addition
to the personalized binding, this copy has the skillfully executed silhouette
of a boy in a cap glued to the back of its title-page, opposite the contents.Is
this Charles Anderson?
Provenance: Charles Anderson.
• NSTC 2S26587. Binding as above, corners and spine extremities very slightly rubbed. Title-page with early inked inscription of Charles Anderson in upper margin. A beautiful little volume. (22728)
Do
It Yourself!
— PAINT
a Farm Wagon or
a Drawing Room
Gardner, Franklin B. How to paint. A complete compendium of the art. Designed for the use of the tradesman, mechanic, merchant, and farmer, and to guide the professional painter ... New York: Samuel R. Wells, 1872. 16mo (15.7 cm, 6.2"). 127, [17 (adv.)] pp.;
illus.
Click the interior images for enlargements.
Provenance: Pencilled ownership inscriptions of W. G. Benton.
Rare in the first edition, with only one copy located via OCLC and none added by NUC Pre-1956.
• Publisher's brown pebbled cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; rubbed overall, edges darkened, spine extremities chipped. Front hinge (inside) cracked; front pastedown and free endpaper with pencilled ownership inscriptions; front fly-leaf partially excised. Light foxing variably throughout. (24377)
Bilingual
Laws
of ToroGómez, Antonio. Ad leges tauri commenatrium absolutissimum. Editio nova cæteris longe locupletior.... Lugduni: Joannis Posuel, 1701. Folio (34 cm, 13.5"). ã2A–C4 D–Z6 Aa–Zz6 Aaa–Ccc6 Ddd4; [2] ff., 504 pp., [40 (index)] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. The text is mostly in Latin, with portions in Spanish; the printer has made use of nicely cut head- and tailpieces as well as a striking woodcut printer’s vignette (“De forti dulcedo”) on the red and black title-page.
RLIN and OCLC show only two U.S. holdings of this edition.
Provenance: Front free endpaper with bookplate of Michael J. O’Farrell, the first Bishop of the Diocese of Trenton; also with bookplate noting O’Farrell’s gift of the book to an institution.
• Palau 103253. Contemporary limp vellum, cockled and lightly soiled, with ties now lacking; spine with faded inked title. Title-page dusty, thin, and holed, with lower outside corner torn away, touching one letter and a red rule; date altered to 1601 by erasure of the first “C” in the roman-numeralled date! Leaves browned, foxed; instances of early inked marginalia and blots. Uncommon, as well as interesting for its contemporary use and its later provenance. (12184)
FIRST
EDITION
Gough,
John. A history of the people called
Quakers. From their first rise to the present time. Dublin: Robert Jackson,
1789. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). 3 (of 4) vols. I: x, [2], 546, [10 (index)] pp. (pagination
skipping 294 to 297, text complete and uninterrupted). II: [2], 557, [11] pp.
III: 526, [10] pp.
Provenance: Vol. I title-page with inscription dated 1790, reading “Joseph Russells cost 10s a Vollume [sic]”.
• ESTC T102429. Contemporary treed calf, spines with gilt-stamped leather title labels; worn but sound. Bookplates of a now-defunct institution on front pastedowns. Some instances of offsetting and foxing, generally no more than moderate, with pages otherwise clean. (8655)
Second
Edition (?) —
“New” Fourth
Volume Present
Gough,
John. A history of the people called
Quakers. From their first rise to the present time. Dublin: Robert Jackson,
1790. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). 4 vols. I: x, [2], 542, [10 (index)] pp. II: [2],
557, [11] pp. III: 526, [10] pp. IV: 573, [7] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Each volume's front fly-leaf (facing title-page) with inscription dated 1791, reading “John Humphrey, his book 1791 Price 10s”; each volume's pastedown with small bookplate of Richard McIlvain.
• ESTC N2800. Contemporary treed calf, spines with gilt-stamped leather title labels; worn, with all front covers and free endpaper of vol. IV detached. Some instances of light offsetting and foxing, with pages generally clean; some leaves chipped or with marginal tears, one tear causing loss of a few letters from a heading. (14671)
Spanish as aSecond Language, 1835 Granja, Juan de la. Rasgos históricos de magnanimidad, valor, y nobleeza: Anecdotas, sentencias y ejemplos raros de virtud; dichos notables, cuentos, fábulas y ocurrencias graciosas, en prosa y en verso. Nueva York: Imprenta de Don Juan de la Granja, 1835. Small 8vo. 252 pp., [2 (index, ads)] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Early 19th-century ownership signatures on front free endpaper of Anthony Coe Ogilvie and E.H.(?) Ogilvie.
• American Imprints 31923. Not in Palau. Publisher’s quarter cloth with paper-covered sides; binding waterspotted. Scattered light foxing. A good copy. (26144)
Sin & Redemption Grotius, Hugo. Defensio fidei Catholicae de satisfactione Christi adversus Faustum Socinum senensem. Lugduni Batavorum: Excudit Ioannes Patius, 1617. 4to (22.5 cm; 8.875" ). [4] ff., 183, [1 (blank)] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. Both the first and this second edition are little held in the U.S.: We trace three copies of the first and three of the second, one of which has been deaccessioned.
Provenance: Three 18th-century ownership inscriptions on title-page: Jehoua Portis, Lib. Richbach, and Joh[ann]is Buys. 19th-century pressure-stamps of a Pennsylvania theological library, deaccessioned.
• Full modern calf old style: Spine with raised bands, accented with gilt beading and blind rules, rules extending onto boards to Vs and ending with trefoils; blind double fillets beyond. Gilt center device in each spine compartment and a green title label lettered in gilt. Waterstaining in inner margins, extending into text on pp. 136–61; otherwise, expectable age-toning only. All edges red. (25847)
“Remarkable
Book” ofMaps
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.
Click the images for enlargements. 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).
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)
Harvard Library Catalogue Signed byPresident 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.
Click the images for enlargements. 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)
Social THEATRICAL Pleasures — A Social Club's Copy Head, James H. Home pastimes or tableaux vivants. Boston: J.E. Tilton, 1860. 12mo. 264 pp., lacks printed title-page.
Click the images for enlargements. costumes, scenery, positions, lights, shades, etc., designed for public exhibitions and the home circle.” An important work for the study of Victorian play, recreation, social interaction — and, theater. Notes at the back explain how to achieve fire effects, sound effects, etc.
The added title-page is printed in red and black and has a wood-engraved vignette of friends-and-family spectators rapt before a home stage.
Provenance: The German Society of Pennsylvania.
• Publisher's blue textured cloth stamped in blind; light discoloration to edges. Ex–social club library, as above: call number in a neat 19th-century hand on endpapers and fly-leaf, rubber- and pressure-stamp on title-page and rubber-stamp on a very few other pages. No other markings. Faint waterstain at front in some lower margins. With the handsome added title-page but without the printed “main” one. Withal, a good copy. (26283)
Sutton's
Hospital inCharterhouse
Charterhouse
School
Herne, Samuel. Domus carthusiana: Or an account of the most noble foundation of the charter-house near Smithfield in London. Both before and since the Reformation. London: Pr. by T.R. for Richard Marriott & Henry Brome, 1677. 8vo (18.2 cm, 7.2"). Frontis., [46], 287, [1] pp.; 2 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Rolle family armorial bookplate.
• ESTC R10688; Wing (rev.) H1578; Allibone 813. Contemporary sheep, covers framed in blind double fillets; leather rubbed and scuffed, partially cracked along front joint. All edges marbled. Pastedowns peeled up, front pastedown with early inked inscription; inside front cover with armorial bookplate. Title-page with inked numeral in upper outer corner. (21012)
Line by LinePURITAN Meditations on the Miserere Hildersam [or Hildersham], Arthur. CLII lectures upon Psalm LI. Preached at Ashby-Delazouch in Leicester-Shire. London: Pr. by J. Raworth for Edward Brewster, 1642. Folio (28.3 cm, 11.25"). [36], 815, [1] pp. (pagination skips 176–77).
Click the images for enlargements. Provenance: Signature of Henry G. Weston on title-page; another inscription reads, “Betsy Colling Her Book.” An early owner practiced handwriting in this volume: Several pages bear sample letters, and the final (blank) page offers additional notations (largely, a list of Colling family names) and a doodle.
• ESTC R20661; Wing (rev. ed.) H1978. On Hildersam, see: Dictionary of National Biography, IX, 833–35. Recent quarter calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt-ruled raised bands, and blind-tooled compartment decorations. Title-page institutionally pressure-stamped, with inked ownership inscription in upper portion; dedication with inked annotation in inner margin and inked numeral in lower margin; first contents page with small paper adhesion in upper portion. Pages age-toned with occasional staining; light to moderate waterstaining towards back of volume. First two leaves with margins chipped. One leaf with lower outer corner torn away, not touching text. Several pages with early inked notes and doodles as above. All edges red; fore-edge with an old “H” recording onetime shelving fore-edge out. (26126)
First-Person AMERICAN Account of the Boer War
Signed by THE AUTHORS Hiley, Alan Richard Illeigh, & John Arthur Hassell. The mobile Boer being the record of the observations of two burgher officers. New York: Grafton Press, (© 1902). 8vo (19.3 cm, 7.6"). Frontis., xvii, [1], 277, [5 (adv.)] pp.; 1 fold. map, 41 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. illustrated with an oversized, color-printed map (affixed to the back pastedown) and with a total of 42 plates, mostly photographic, including a frontispiece portrait of Paul Kruger, president of the South African Republic (Transvaal).
• Publisher's orange cloth, front cover pictorially stamped in green and gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and extremities lightly rubbed, sides with small areas of minor discoloration, spine sunned. Ex–social club library: call number in 19th-century hand on front pastedown, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. Pages and plates clean and fresh. (26364)
Blair, BlazonedHill, John. An account of the life and writings of Hugh Blair .... Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1808. 8vo (21.7 cm, 8.5"). 229, [1 (blank)] pp.
Provenance: The Rev. Edwin A. Dalrymple; the Maryland Diocesan Library.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 15224. Contemporary quarter cloth over marbled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; binding moderately darkened and worn, cloth chipped over head of spine, spine showing shadow of a now-absent shelving label. Front pastedown with private collector’s bookplate and with institutional rubber-stamp (as above); title-page additionally with early inked gift inscription in upper margin (this cut into by binder). Some light spotting and age-toning.
College Sermons — Presentation Copy Hoffman, Charles Frederick. Christ, the patron of all true education. New York: E. & J.B. Young & Co., 1893. 8vo. Frontis., [2], 209, [1] pp.
Provenance: With a tipped-in, printed slip reading “With the kind regards of The Author.”
• Publisher's purple cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped; spine and edges sunned, back cover with its double layer of cloth partially torn through the top layer (interesting, as to binding structure). Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, preliminary leaf with early inked ownership inscription and pressure-stamp of a religious institution, title-page with small rubber-stamp. Pages clean. (20829)
Missionary Travel tothe Arctic — An Account of LaplandHögström, Pehr. M. Petr. Höchströms in Galliwarn Beschreibung von dem unter Schwedischer Crone gehörigen Lappland, in sich fassend einen kurtzen Ünterricht sowohl von des Landes Beschaffenheit überhaupt, als aüch von dem Züstande der Einwöhner, ihrer Haushaltung, Sitten, Manieren, Lebensart, Lastern ünd Aberglaüben .... Stockholm & Leipzig : Beij Johann Friedrich Lochner, 1748. 8vo (17.7 cm, 7"). Engr. t.-p. (double-page), 328 pp.; 1 fold. map, 1 fold. plt.
Printed in black-letter, the volume is illustrated with an oversized, folding map of Lapland and a folding plate of Laplanders at work and at play, in addition to the double-page engraved title.
Scarce: Searches of OCLC and RLIN show only two U.S. locations, one of which has been deaccessioned.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of a 19th-century collector; front fly-leaf with inked ownership inscription dated 1770; title-page with early inscription of J.H. Gronau.
• Contemporary half calf over paper-covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments; leather worn, paper discolored, one spine compartment with dark adhesion now chipping. All edges marbled. First text page with inked numeral in lower margin. Free endpapers excised, with offsetting from turn-ins to edges of front and back fly-leaves; back fly-leaf with corners torn away. Engraved title-page, map, and plate browned.
Black Morocco Binding, Skulls & Crossbones Gilt on Spine — Plates after Hollar Holbein, Hans. The dances of death, through the various stages of human life ... in forty-six copper-plates. London: Pr. by S. Gosnell ... for John Scott, and Thomas Ostell, 1803. Small 4to (20 cm, 7.75"). Title-page, plate, port. of Holbein, [1] f., engr. t.p., 47, [1] pp; 46 plts.; plus two uncalled-for plates.
Click the images for enlargements. Each plate is accompanied by bilingual explanatory text in English and French. 
Though small, the illustrations are detailed and wonderfully Renaissance in setting and feeling.
Binding: 19th-century crushed half black levant morocco over black and white marbled paper; binding signed on verso of front free endpaper, but stamp mostly indecipherable. Spine with raised bands, gilt above, below, and on each; gilt-tooled skull and crossbones in three compartments, a flame in two others, and author and title in the remaining one. Gilt rule where the half leather meets the marbled paper on each cover. Green and red French swirl marbled endpapers. Silk ribbon place marker. All leaves tipped to stubs. Uncut copy.
• Warthin, The Physician of the Dance of Death, pp. 79–80; NSTC B3545. Binding as above. Joints and edges of covers lightly rubbed; top of front joint just starting. Age-spotting on pages and plates, generally light; some off-setting from the plates. Bookseller's catalogue description clipped and pasted to front pastedown. Dealer's letter pasted to rear pastedown.
Two uncalled-for plates. This is a pleasing, better than “decent” copy priced well below excellent ones in contemporary bindings. (25933)
Inscribed by Hoover Hoover, J. Edgar. Masters of deceit: The story of Communism in America and how to fight it. New York: Henry Holt, 1958. 8vo. x, 374 pp.
Presentation copy: This copy inscribed “To Sister Mary Jane / Best wishes / J. Edgar Hoover / Xmas 1958.”
• Publisher's cloth, dust jacket in protective sleeve taped to covers; dust jacket with minor scuffing at corners and spine extremities, one crease to back, price clipped. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate; endpapers with offsetting from tape. Pages clean. (24821)
A “Works” & Bibliography with ProvenanceHoratius Flaccus, Quintus (Horace). ...Opera illustravit Christ. Giul. Mitscherlich. Lipsiae: Siegfried Lebrecht Crusii, 1800. 8vo (21.3 cm, 8.4"). 2
vols. I: [8], xxii, clxxxiv, 550 pp.; illus. II: vi, 712 pp.; illus.
Provenance: Title-pages with personal stamp of Jean Antoine Letronne, member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.
• Brunet, III, 323; Dibdin, II, 118–19; Graesse, III, 356; Schweiger, II, 414. Contemporary vellum (just a little bit sprung), spines with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels; bindings showing only very minor soiling, with some small, fine cracks in vellum on spine and back cover of vol. II. Front pastedowns each with private collector’s bookplate and institutional rubber-stamp; title-pages stamped as above. Pages age-toned and lightly spotted; one section of lower corners in vol. I bumped and crumpled, with one page corner broken off and several more threatening detachment. Two leaves with early inked marginal annotation and one with pencilled annotation. An attractive set.
“A Wise & Affectionate Early Education” Howitt, Mary Botham. The childhood of Mary Leeson.
Boston: Wm. Crosby & H.P. Nichols, 1849. 12mo (15.6 cm, 6.1"). Frontis., [2], 143, [1] pp.
Prize copy: Front free endpaper with inked inscription reading “Presented to Lydia Ann Beeson by Mt. Pleasant Sabbath School 1852.”
Click the images for enlargements. • Publisher's olive green rippled cloth (Krupp's style Rip1), covers panelled in blind with blind-stamped floral decorations, spine gilt extra; binding lightly rubbed, front cover with two small areas additionally of light discoloration. Front free endpaper as above. Occasional mild staining, pages mostly clean. (26754)
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