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•  Written in a clear notarial hand, but with bleed-through in the inventory, making reading slightly challenging — not, impossible. Very good condition.

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A contemporaneous certified copy of the original document.

•  Written in a clear notarial hand. Very good condition.

•  In a Mylar folder. Pages darkened, with small discolorations and edges somewhat tattered. A pleasing gift for anyone exploring culinary, or almost certainly women’s, history.

Provenance:  Presentation leaf with inked inscription to Catharine Everdell from her husband William, dated 1836; front fly-leaf with early inked gift inscription from Mary L. Everdell to Bell Vandevere and with Vandevere's pencilled inscription.

•  Faxon 1493.   Contemporary half brown morocco and marbled paper–covered boards, leather edges gilt-ruled, spine with gilt-stamped title, gilt-dotted raised bands, and gilt-stamped compartment decorations; corners and sides showing moderate rubbing. Front fly-leaf with bookseller's pressure-stamp, title-page and two others institutionally pressure-stamped, table of contents with inked notation in gutter and rubber-stamped numeral in lower margin, back pastedown with traces of now-absent adhered leaf. One guard leaf partially torn away. Pages and plates faintly age-toned with occasional light spots, mostly clean.The devotedly feminine orientation of the Keepsake series is particularly observable here, both in the notable list of women involved in producing this year's “number” and, differently, in the series of inscriptions to be found in this copy.  (26175)

•  Publisher's blind-stamped blue cloth, rebacked preserving original gilt-stamped spine; edges rubbed, spine darkened. Pages clean. (20711)

The contents of these two volumes appear to be based almost entirely on John Roach's Beauties of the Poets of Great Britain, although Roach is not cited as the editor, the pieces are in a different order than originally presented, and there are a few minor changes: “The Negro Boy” is not included here, while several “runic odes” by Mathias and Penrose have been added. The expected highlights of Pope, Gray, Cowper, Burns, Chatterton, Goldsmith, etc. are present, as well as lesser-known pieces by women such as Mrs. Carter's “Address to Meditation,” Mary Darby Robinson's “Trumpeter,” and Helen Maria Williams's “Sonnet to Twilight” and “Sonnet to Hope” (the latter memorized by Wordsworth, whose first published poem was “Sonnet, on seeing Miss Helen Maria Williams Weep at a Tale of Distress”).

The volumes are illustrated with 18 wood-engraved plates signed by Sears, Willis, and others — not the 1793 originals.

Provenance:  Ownership note of “Adams Jewett, M.D.” to top of title-page.

•  This ed. not in NSTC, Lowndes, or Allibone. Not in British Library OPAC, not in NUC Pre-1956, not in OCLC, not in COPAC.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards, spines with printed paper labels. Each title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin as above. Some pages with offsetting; spots of light to moderate staining; one page with pencilled annotation.  (25339)

“Personal” this is, both in construction and in style; it is written in accessible language and with wonder given full rein. But it is real science.  (Robertson-Miller published in agricultural and other scientific journals.)

Binding:  Publisher's sage green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in olive, black, and pale green.

•  Bound as above with lower edge of front cover darkened, corners and spine extremities lightly rubbed. Front hinge slightly tender. Pages clean.  (22214)

•  Shoemaker 3035; Sabin 72202; this edition not in Palau. Contemporary boards, rebacked with paper in the style of the era; original paper label reapplied. Uncut copy with edges untrimmed. Library bookplate with stamps on it, but no other institutional markings.

WorldCat locates only the Paris editions with a total of two libraries reporting ownership. Not in COPAC.

•  Not in Lindsay & Neu, but see 4839 for the Paris editions.   Removed from a nonce volume. Gatherings should be resewn as they are loosening one from another.  (25759)

Provenance: On a rear blank, “Amos Clarke his book”; another signature with a plea to borrowers below that. Opposite, “Southington September 7th 179[?]” and the note, “Read your Book Every opportunity.”

•  ESTC W37924; Evans 38424. On Rowe, see: Dictionary of National Biography. Quarter sheep over paste boards, covers much abraded and chipped; spine leather torn at base and lacking at head. Dog-ears, shallow chipping, and brownstaining—with loss of individual words in a few places. Early inked notations on endpapers.

This edition includes the engraved frontispiece, a kitchen and larder scene, along with nine other plates (as called for) showing carving and trussing diagrams.

•  Bitting 410–11; Cagle 971 (for first ed.). On Rundell, see: DNB, XLIX, 403.   Contemporary speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, board edges with gilt roll; binding lightly scuffed/rubbed overall and with some pitting thanks to the “speckling.” One front fly-leaf excised. Front free endpaper with bold inked ownership inscription dated 1813 and with two small pencilled “decorations”; title-page with decorative but sadly illegible private collection rubber-stamp. One recipe with early inked annotation. Scattered light foxing and staining, pages mostly clean. A classic, in a very nice copy of a less-common edition.  (26674)

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•  NCBEL, IV, 336.   Publisher's red and black marbled cloth, spine with printed paper label, dust jacket lacking; minor rubbing, unobtrusive spots of discoloration, spine label darkened. Front free endpaper with pencilled sketch, back pastedown with bookseller's small ticket and front one with a collector's(?) pencilled note on the book and its rarity. Pages clean and crisp; top edges red.  (27044)

This is an untrimmed copy in original boards, with 24 pages of advertising for Carey publications bound in at the front of the volume. The preliminary map, engraved by John Bower, has hand-colored border lines; this American edition does not call for the plates found in the English first, but does include in-text depictions of several “Ethiopic inscriptions.”

•  Shaw & Shoemaker 33864; NSTC 2S3118. Publisher’s quarter tan paper over light blue paper–covered sides; front cover detached and back joint cracked, binding spotted, paper cracked and split along spine, spine label now absent and replaced with hand-inked title, spine with later paper shelving label. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1829. Half-title with portion of outer margin torn away (not touching text) and laid in. Map lightly foxed, with two short tears along folds. Pages age-toned, with occasional spots of foxing.

•  Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine stamped in white and gilt; extremities and front gilt vignette slightly rubbed, else fresh and bright. Pages clean. (12603)

Very uncommon. OCLC and ESTC report only one holding, at Stanford.

•  Original printed boards, worn, paper almost entirely lost over spine. Without endpapers, apparently as bound. Sewing loosening, with several leaves separated. Scattered spots of mild foxing. Despite faults noted, a charmer.

•  NSTC 2S12043.   Removed from a nonce volume. The title-page is cropped close to the border along the top edge and the spine. Very good. (16773)

Quite rare: Via OCLC we locate only three copies in the U.S.

•  Medina, Mexico, 1680.   Contemporary stiff vellum; binding stained and lacking ties, and a little bowed. Text starting to loosen. Waterstaining to early and late sections, paper yet strong. Withal, a good+ copy of a scarce and important early Mexican medical-related item.  (14649)

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•  ESTC T95509; NCBEL, II, 682. Old-style marbled paper–covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and date labels. Light waterstaining to upper and lower margins of first and last few leaves; title-page and a few others stamped by a now-defunct institution. Author’s name inscribed in an early hand at the end of the poem.