•  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)

An engraved frontispiece of Ptolemy done by Menzel opens the volume; the main title-page is printed in red and black, with an engraved allegorical vignette.

Provenance:  Title-page verso with intaglio-printed armorial ex libris, printed directly on the leaf (not a bookplate that was glued on): “Ex Bibliotheca Friederici Roth-Scholtzii.” Friedrich Roth-Scholtz (1687–1736) was a prominent Nuremberg printer and publisher, as well as the author of Icones bibliopolarum et typographorum de republica litteraria and the Bibliotheca chemica; there are several reported examples of such bookplates in his books.

•  Recent quarter calf and speckled paper–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped author, title, place, date and gilt-ruled raised bands. Volume a little cocked. Endpapers soiled; some pages with mild offsetting, and text otherwise clean.  (25490)

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)

•  Contemporary gilt-stamped green cloth with a bit of light wear to the head and foot of the spine, otherwise bright and lovely. Some page edges uncut. (10569)

•  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.

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Preliminary pages include the testimonials or “Recommendations” (pp. iii–iv) and a “Preface” (pp. [xiii]–xxv). At the end are “On fulfilling engagements and paying debts. From a sermon by the late President Edwards,” “On the religious education of children. (From the Christian observer),” “On sanctifying the Sabbath-Day. By Sir Matthew Hale. (From the same),” and the table of contents.

•  Sabin 46307; Shaw & Shoemaker 35227; Holmes, Cotton Mather, 112-E.   Contemporary sheep, rubbed and abraded. Rebacked, with gilt title on red leather spine label. Offsetting from leather on endpapers, fly-leaves, and title-page, at edges. Variable foxing. Ex-library: Front pastedown with library bookplates, not uninteresting, and front free endpaper with early inked signature; title-page additionally with pressure-stamp and penciling on verso; institutional rubber-stamp on front free endpaper and at base of p. [iii]. Small paper loss at outer margin of pp. 151/152 and pp. 155/156 without any loss of text. Lacks “Editor’s preface, with a sketch of the author’s life” (pp. v–xii).  (24571)

•  Original front wrapper present, but not rear one. Some chipping and definite wear, especially along spine. Old ink notations. A good copy. (9383)

Although the university was founded in 1551 and began offering classes in 1553, its rules and practices were not published until 1668: Various manuscript compilations of the rules had been gathered during the first hundred years of the institution, but it fell to Bishop Palafox to undertake the definitive compilation and to initiate the publication of the results, which did not see light of day until after his death. It is his omnium gatherum that the body of this volume offers.

•  Medina, Mexico, 5836; Palau 6067; not in Harper, Americana Iberica; not in Maggs, Bibl. Amer. 20th-century quarter calf with marbled paper sides and endpapers. All edges carmine. Paper clean and crisp. A lovely copy.

a photograph of “St. Paul’s School” (not the American one)

TWO nicely accomplished pen-and-ink drawings of ships

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.

•  Original quarter cloth with decoratively printed paper sides, paper chipped over edges. One instance of pencil marking; otherwise clean and unused. (4954)

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•  NSTC 2E4287.   Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper outer corner.  (17041)

The Search is in verse and Joseph in prose. The frontispiece is an engraving by B. Tanner after Stothard's original. Tanner was one of America's premier early engravers upon steel and copper. A student of Peter Maverick's, he settled in Philadelphia in 1805 and continued in the Quaker City until 1845. In addition to engravings for book illustration, he produced line and stipple portraits, scenes, and views. Here his offering is printed on a lighter weight stock than the rest of the volume and, as in all copies we have seen, is browned.

•  Rosenbach, Early American Children's Books, 442; Shaw & Shoemaker 23434. On Tanner, see: Stauffer, American Engravers upon Copper and Steel, I: 243–45. Beyond the scope of Welch. Publisher's salmon paper over paste boards. Clean with no tears. Frontispiece browned as noted, with two lighter spots. A very good copy.

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Prize copy: Front free endpaper with inked presentation inscription from a school principal, noting the recipient's perfect attendance in 1905–06.

•  Publisher's orange cloth, front cover and spine with black-stamped title, front cover with black-stamped pictorial vignette; binding showing minor wear but overall very clean and attractive. Front free endpaper with inscription as above. Pages clean.  (26697)

Rare.  No copies traced via NUC Pre-1956, OCLC or RLIN.

•  On Muretus, see: Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, II, 148–52. Contemporary half vellum over stencilled paper, spine with inked title; stained and paper torn with much chipping, especially on edges of covers. Ex-library with white-lettered call number on spines and, on title-pages, two different Catholic institutions’ rubber-stamps, plus the old inked ownership inscription of a Jesuit novitiate (Maryland). Ink scratches to frontispiece portrait (intentional?), and some inkstains in margins elsewhere. Lightly foxed. All edges speckled red.

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The pictures are in a variety of styles and depict an array of the realms of life, including several of occupations and a few illuminating natural history.

Binding:  Publisher's cream paper-covered boards, front cover with mounted color-printed illustration of a young girl with posy, back cover with black-stamped decorative design.

•  Binding very, very lightly soiled and interior with a few spots of light foxing; a clean, lovely copy, apparently untouched by childish hands (or only awfully careful ones).  (26689)