WOMEN 
MENU of a
Major Philadelphia Occasion 
Gimbel Brothers. Dinner tendered to Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt upon the occasion of the presentation of the Gimbel Awards... Philadelphia: Gimbel Brothers, [1934]. 8vo. [16] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. • Stapled in original printed cardstock, with decorative silk tassel. Darkening and dust-soiling, definitely more noticeable in person than the photos suggest on some monitors here; still a worthy souvenir. (26059)
Beautifully
Bound & Illustrated FRENCH Edition
“Tr.
by Mme. Bachellery”
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Les souffrances du jeune Werther. Tr. by Mme. Bachellery. Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1886. 8vo.
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in four states.
• A copy in lovely condition, imperceptibly rebacked with the original spine retained. Original wrappers bound in. Protected in a crimson morocco-edged slipcase.
A
PRB&M “FEATURED BOOK” —
Dance of Death Chapbook — “Très Rare”La grande danse macabre des hommes et des femmes, historiée & renouvellée de vieux Gaulois, en langage le plus poli de notre temps. Troyes: Jean-Antoine Garnier, 1728. 4to (22 cm, 8.6"). 76 pp.
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Over
60 large woodcuts illustrate the text, with some images appearing in both sections. The volume concludes with several poems on the themes of life, death, and the afterlife.
Uncommon: We trace only nine copies in the U.S., all but one in libraries east of the Mississippi.
• Fairfax-Murray, French, 108; Morin, Bibliothèque bleue de Troyes, 435; Nisard, Histoire des Livres Populaires, II, 303. Binding with minor scuffing at corners and old (good) repairs to head and foot of spine, with leather starting to crack over joints; hinges tender. Pages slightly age-toned, with signature marks shaved.
English Law — Woman PrinterGreat Britain. Court of Common Pleas. Reports. 1682–1704. The reports and entries of Sir Edward Lutwyche, Kt. Serjeant at law, and late one of the judges of the Court of common Pleas...made very useful for students and practisers of the common law. By W. Nelson of the Middle-Temple, Esq. [London]: Eliz. Nutt & R. Gosling, 1718. Folio (33.1 cm, 13"). [14], 528, [36 (index)] pp.
• ESTC T8304. Contemporary full calf, covers framed in blind using double fillets on three sides and a floral roll on the fourth; rebacked and corners redone at some point using lighter calf, gilt-stamped leather title label. Abraded and worn, with front hinge(inside) tender. Pages age-toned, some more so than others; yet the volume almost entirely free of spotting. (Our image is a bit distorted, above right — Nutt & Gosling could print in straight lines, and did!)
Greenaway's Lads & Lasses Greenaway, Kate. Mother Goose or the old nursery rhymes. London & New York: George Routledge & Sons, [1881]. 12mo (17.2 cm, 6.45"). 48 pp. (with contents pr. on front free endpaper).; illus.
• Not in Gottlieb, Early Children's Books & Their Illustration. Publisher's quarter rose and ivory cloth, covers with title stamped in brown surrounded by green latticework, dust jacket lacking; binding darkened and spotted. Front free endpaper with small inked ownership inscription. Sewing starting to loosen; light offsetting from facing images occasionally noticeable; some pages with tears at inner margins; a good copy only — yet, still, a charming thing! (27046)
Anglo-Jewish
Cookbook
Greenberg, Florence. The Jewish Chronicle cookery
book. London: The Jewish Chronicle, [1934]. 8vo (18.4 cm, 7.25"). vi (adv.), 307, [1] pp.
Click the images for enlargements. There is a small separate section on Passover cookery; there is one on “invalid cookery”; and there are advertisements front and back that tickle in themselves.
• Bitting 200. Publisher's blue cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding cocked, spine sunned, covers with spots of light discoloration. One upper outer page corner torn away, not touching text; index with one inked annotation. Pages age-toned with occasional small spots, mostly clean. (26663)
Phyllis
Wheatley Anne
Bradstreet & “Others”
“Female
Genius” of Their
Days
Griswold, Rufus Willmot, ed. The female poets of America.
Philadelphia: Carey & Hart, 1849. 8vo (23.7 cm, 9.3"). Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., 400 pp.; 4 plts.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. The volume is illustrated with five steel-engraved plates and an additional engraved title-page.
Binding: Contemporary maroon morocco, covers framed in gilt single fillet and blind-stamped with arabesque designs, spine with gilt-stamped title and gilt-stamped raised bands, board edges gilt-tooled, all edges gilt.
Provenance: Front cover with gilt supra-libros of A.M. Pratt.
• BAL 6681; Sabin 28893; Library Company, Afro-Americana, 4386 (for a much later edition); Allibone p. 745; Poe, “The Female Poets of America,” Southern Literary Messenger, Feb. 1849; . Bound as above, spine and edges gently sunned; edges lightly rubbed. Front cover gilt-stamped as above. Pages slightly age-toned, with offsetting around plates and scattered spotting; plates with spots of foxing. A very nice copy. (25126)
Copy
for the“Busted
Bibliophile”?Hale, Sarah Josepha. Flora’s interpreter: Or, the American book of flowers and sentiments...fourteenth edition, improved. Boston: Thomas H. Webb & Co., (1833). 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). 262, [2 (index)] pp. (157–68 repeated, 169–80 skipped); 2 col. plts.
Provenance: Early inked ownership inscriptions reading “P.N. Spofford” on the front fly-leaf and the title-page.
• Original printed paper–covered boards, front cover detached,
with paper cracked over the spine and back joint, and some light staining
to the covers. A few verses with pencilled notes; pages with occasional small,
light spots. 
A
binder's bad day: The pages from 157–68 are bound in twice in this
copy, with the pagination skipped from 169–80; the text headers go from
“rose, bridal” to
“rose-bud, red.”
Women's Rights — “Published by the Author”Hanning, John. Rights of women vindicated in the following sermon. New York: Pr. by T. Kirk for the author, 1807. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). 12 pp.
Provenance: Title-page verso with early inked ownership inscriptions of James Bemiss and Nelson Bemiss.
• Shaw & Shoemaker 12709 (describing the second edition only). Uncut copy. Removed from a nonce volume and now in a Mylar folder. Pages lightly age-toned, with a few small spots of foxing. Some short edge tears and dog-eared corners. Inscriptions as described above.
“My
daddie looks sulky, my minnie looks sour,
/ They frown upon Jamie because he is poor” Harry Bluff. Logie O'Buchan. Glasgow: Pr. for the booksellers, [ca. 1825?]. 12mo. 8 pp.
• NSTC 2B38504. Removed from a nonce volume. A few traces of very faint spots of foxing, else clean and fresh. (16824)
A “Candid Representation . . . of That TRULYEccentric Community” Haskett, William J. Shakerism unmasked, or the history of the Shakers; including a form politic of their government as councils, orders, gifts, with an exposition of the five orders of Shakerism, and Ann Lee's grand foundation vision, in sealed pages. Pittsfield: Pr. for the author by D.H. Walkley, 1828. 12mo (17.9 cm, 7"). 300 pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. two dramatically sealed leaves describing a pair of Mother Ann's more shocking visions have been separated, with traces of the red sealing wax remaining. Despite his cynicism and those scandalous revelations, Haskett takes care to describe the Shaker beliefs and rituals as thoroughly and fairly as possible.
• Howes H279; McLean 40; Sabin 30803; Shoemaker 33495. Period-style quarter tan cloth and light blue paper–covered sides, spine with printed paper label. Light to moderate foxing throughout. Sealed leaves opened as above, one leaf with short tear above seal, not touching text. A good copy. (25241)
“O
Lovely Mildness!”Hayley,
William. The triumphs of temper; a poem. In six cantos...the second edition.
London: J. Dodsley, 1781. 4to (28cm, 11"). xii (lacking half-title), 166, [2]
pp.
• ESTC T1746; NCBEL, II, 658. Marbled paper–covered boards, old-style, front cover and spine with printed paper labels. Lacking half-title. Title-page and a few others faintly stamped by a now-defunct institution. First few leaves lightly foxed, scattered small spots elsewhere, a very nice copy.
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