BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
BIBLIO-GIFTABLES
“Marvellous” SCIENCE for Children — 1868 
Macé, Jean. Servants of the stomach. Reprinted from the London translation, revised and corrected. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1868. 8vo. 311, [1] pp.
• Bitting, 298 (1866 printing). Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped with author and title information; binding cocked, with cloth slightly darkened and edges rubbed. Front free endpaper affixed to pastedown. (13563)
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What to Serve for Breakfast, Luncheon, Dinner, & Supper Maddocks, Mildred. [cover title] Rumford receipt book. Providence, RI: Rumford Chemical Works, © 1911. 8vo. 24 pp.
The chromolithographed front cover illustration depicts a rosy-cheeked young girl in a fur-lined winter bonnet and coat.
• Not in Brown, Culinary Americana (describes Rumford Cook Book and Complete Cook Book only). Publisher's printed paper wrappers, with hanging loop; wrapper rubbed, with corners creased — and still charming. Pages with light spotting, one upper outer corner creased and darkened, one recipe with title bracketed in pencil — a copy apparently cooked from! (26056)
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Micmac
Catechism With
Illustrations
Maillard, Antoine Simon. Le catechisme Micmac.
Ristigouche, P.Q. [Quebec]: Freres mineurs capucins, [1921]. 12mo. 128, 32 pp.; illus.
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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)
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Sailing Around
(Maine). Duncan,
Roger F. Eastward: A Maine cruise in a friendship sloop. Camden, ME: International
Marine Publishing Company, 1976. 8vo. Illus.
• Publisher's cloth. Very good condition, in a good dust jacket; some nicks along the lower edge of the jacket's near panel and head of the spine.
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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.
• 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)
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CHESS — One of
150 CopiesMansfield, Comins. Adventures in composition[:] The art of the two-move chess problem. Stamford: Printed at the Overbrook Press, 1944. Small quarto. [8 (2 blank)], iii–xi, [2 (blank)], 212, [8 (5 blank)] pp.
• Cahoon, 42. Quarter gilt cloth and pastepaper over boards, gilt label. Fine in tissue dust jacket, jacket with a chip and some spots of discoloration. (24502)
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CHESS — One of
250 CopiesMansfield, Comins. Adventures in composition[:] The art of the two-move chess problem. Stamford: Printed at the Overbrook Press, 1944. Small quarto. [8 (2 blank)], iii–xi, [2 (blank)], 212, [8 (5 blank)] pp.
• Cahoon, 42. Quarter gilt cloth and boards, gilt label. Fine in tissue dust jacket. (24501)
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Presentation
Copy of
the“Greatest
Poem EVER
WrittenMarkham, Edwin. [drop-title] Lincoln, the man of the people. No place [United States]: No publisher/printer, © 1919 [ but printed ca. 1925–30]. Folio (35.5 cm, 14"). [1] f.
Click the image for an enlargement. Author's presentation copy: Signed by Markham, with an inscription “with my friendly greetings” to a theological seminary, dated 1933.
• Mounted on cardboard. Age-toned, edges darkened; clean and unchipped. (26119)
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Interesting Pathetic Moral COMPLICATED!Marmontel, Jean François. The shepherdess of the Alps, a very interesting, pathetic, and moral history. Glasgow: Pr. for
the booksellers, [1839]. 12mo. 24 pp. 
• NSTC 2S18901. Removed from a nonce volume. (16764)
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Science for ChildrenMarles, J. de. Les cent merveilles des sciences et des arts. Huitieme edition. Tours: Alfred Mame et fils, 1869. 12mo. Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., [2], 5-240 pp. 
• 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)
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Free
Yourself from
the
Tyranny
of Tuners
Martin, H.T. Every woman her own piano tuner; or,
hints and aids to piano tuning. Cleveland: Standard Music Co., © 1880. 12mo (14.6 cm, 5.75").
48 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. • Publisher's quarter cloth and printed paper–covered boards;
front cover worn and stained, spine chewed in three spots. Pages age-toned,
otherwise clean. Just
— COOL! (26662)
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A First
Edition of theFirst
“Volume”Martin,
William, ed. Peter
Parley’s annual: a Christmas and New Year's present for
yount people. London: Simpkin, Marshall, & Co., 1840 [i.e., 1839].
12mo (15 cm, 5.9"). Engr. t.-p., vi, 378 pp.; 4 plts., illus.
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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.
• 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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An American WomanHelps Us Organize Our Emotions May, Caroline. Treasured thoughts from favorite authors. Collected and arranged by Caroline May. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1851 (©1850). Small 8vo. 336 pp., [2 (ads)] ff.
Click the images for enlargements. Binding: Publisher's purple cloth, elaborately blind-embossed on covers. Gilt center device on each cover and spine lettered in gilt with modest gilt decoration.
• Binding as above; spine a little faded; light wear at extremities. Ex–social club library: 19th-century bookplate, call number on endpaper, pressure-stamp on title-page, no other markings. A nice copy. (26259)
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UniversalistWomen'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.).
Click the images for enlargements. 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)
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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.
Click the images for enlargements. 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)
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