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No copies located outside of Germany.

Provenance:  Ownership signature on title-page of Howard Osgood, noted late 19th- and early 20th-century collector and scholar; old circular pressure-stamp on same page of a seminary (properly released).

•  VD16 O338; Schrodt & Vogelstein 205–206.   Removed from a nonce volume, provenance indications as above. Light dust-soiling to exterior paper; minor library pencillings and one old inked numeral; otherwise, clean.  (25950)

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First edition and an early Carlisle imprint; the first poetic publication in Cumberland County.

Provenance:  “Presented to Alfred Creigh by His Mother, October 21st 1827,” on verso of front free endpaper: Alfred's modestly calligraphic ownership note inside front cover and his plain note at top of contents page; signature of Eleanor Jane Creigh at top of title-page.

•  Sabin 57205; Shaw & Shoemaker 9346; Wegelin, American Poetry, 1072.   Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label; rubbed, front joint starting, spine and joints with small wormholes. Inscriptions as noted. Margins variously waterstained, never horribly; pages age-toned with occasional spotting. One leaf with tear from lower margin extending into text, partially repaired some time ago; one leaf with lower outer corner torn away, a few lost words replaced in manuscript. Occasional manuscript corrections.  (23146)

Provenance:  Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription of Ida M. Hardy, dated 1867. The book itself, alas, provides no indication whether Ms. Hardy was a traveller of the actual or armchair sort.

•  Sabin 57368. Not in Phillips, List of Maps of America.   Publisher's brown cloth of Krupp's style Lea8, covers blind-stamped, front cover with gilt-stamped title; a little sunned with corners bumped and binding slightly cocked. Front pastedown with inscription as above, front free endpaper with mostly erased pencilled inscription. Mild smudging to some page edges; a few leaves with light waterstaining to lower outer portions. One leaf torn, repaired some time ago with cellophane tape, touching but not obscuring five words; map with short tear from lower edge, upper edge a bit crumpled. A solid copy, with map and all plates.  (26666)

The title-page is printed in red and black; the text is printed in roman, italic, and black-letter fonts with one large foliate initial, two typographical headpieces, and two woodcut tailpieces.

Provenance:  Title-page with 19th-century inked ownership inscription of Howard Osgood (1831–1911), an eminent Baptist minister, scholar, and member of the American Committee on Revision of the Old Testament, as well as a famed collector of Reformation materials.

•  VD17 12:119791F; Hillerbrand, Anabaptism, 2456; Rosenthal, Bibliotheca magica et pneumatica, 4650.   Period-style full dark calf, covers framed in blind fillets and blind roll, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, gilt beading on raised bands with blind-tooling extending onto boards, and blind-tooled decorations in compartments; all edges stained black. Title-page with small inked numeral in upper inner corner, ownership inscription as above, and institutional pressure-stamp. First few leaves darkened; first and last leaf each with small paper adhesions along inner margin; instances of minor to moderate offsetting throughout. One leaf with tear from outer margin, just touching text without loss. A clean, wide-margined, rather pretty. little quarto.  (26090)

We are aware of at least three issues of this edition:  Ordinary, in octavo format; Special Ordinary, in octavo format but with the head- and tail-pieces printed in red; and Large Paper, as here, printed in quarto format.

Provenance: 18th-century armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Astley, Bart.; late-19th- or early-20th-century bookseller’s label of John Britnell (Toronto).

•  Cohen-De Ricci 774. 18th-century calf, gilt spine extra, plain sides. Binding worn with scrapes and abrasions; joints (outside) open, covers tender. Faint impression of a once-heavily-pencilled shelf number on title-page and white-inked shelf-number on spine; a clean copy.

The detailed title-page and beautiful full-page woodcut coat of arms are present. The printer has also employed various handsome woodcut head- and tailpieces at different points in the text.

•  Contemporary quarter black sheep with black ribbed cloth–covered sides, spine with gilt-stamped title; spine much rubbed, corners and edges far less so. Front pastedown with inscription as above. Pages and plates clean.  (27050)

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Provenance:  Ownership signature on the front fly-leaf of August Rauschenbusch, father of Walter Rauschenbusch, a key figure in the Social Gospel movement in the U.S. Before it was given to the Rochester Theological Seminary (whence it was deaccessioned), this would have been one of the books in the Rauschenbusch home library for Walter's perusal.

•  ESTC T110135.   Contemporary calf, framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons in the Cambridge style; spine with a bit of leather lost at bottom and old paper author/title labels. Ex-library, with title-page pressure-stamped (but not rubber-stamped); shadow of old pencilled call number on back of title-page and five-digit inked number to first leaf of preface. Joints (outside) expertly repaired. Some light foxing and an old blot to one leaf; otherwise, a nice clean old book.  (24168)

•  Publisher's elaborately blind-embossed and gilt-stamped paper in imitation of leather. Spine chipped and worn at tips. Some loss of paper to covers, with a half-inch off on bottom front corner.

Caillet includes this “ouvrage remarquable” in his bibliography of theoccult, since “On trouve dans cette étude des fragments précieux des anciens traités vaudois.”

Uncommon: OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 locate only eight U.S. institutional holdings of this work, one since deaccessioned.

Provenance: This can be “walked back” not so much through collectors and institutions as through the shops of booksellers: Front pastedown with small New York bookseller’s ticket affixed over partially visible Paris bookseller’s ticket; title-page rubber-stamped in late-19th or early-20th century by a Spanish bookseller of Cadiz, and title-page verso bearing the attractive affixed printed advertisement of an earlier Cadiz bookseller.

•  Brunet, IV, 209-10; Caillet, Manuel bibliographique des sciences psychiques ou occultes, 8539; Graesse 208; Morgand and Fatout, Bulletin de la Librairie Morgand et Fatout, 5802 (for 1619 Chouët edition, first two parts only); Picot, Catalogue des livres composant la bibliothèque de feu M. le baron Rothschild, 2030 (for Berjon edition).   Contemporary vellum with yapp edges, covers framed in blind triple fillets, spine with title in an early inked hand, covers a little sprung; covers a bit darkened with light staining, spine with partially effaced inked shelving number; front free endpaper (only) lacking. Ownership indications as above; later in an American institutional library, with its pressure- stamp on title-page, first dedication page with neat inked numeral in lower margin, and lower (closed) edges rubber-stamped. First few leaves with spot of pinhole worming in inner margins, affecting three letters only; final portion of volume with worming in lower margins, affecting a few more letters and continuing through back cover. Pages age-toned and with instances of faint staining. An interesting copy of an interesting book.  (25534)

•  Uncut, unopened copy in later wrappers (which are tattered). Text block split in two: requires binding. Edges dog-eared, some dust-soiling.  (21470)

Provenance: With the printed and folding ex-proemium of J.J.S. van Goltstein van Hoekenburg, Jan. 1819.

•  DeBacker-Sommervogel, VI, 976. Binding as above. All edges marbled. A very good copy; text block very slightly skewed in binding.

François Raymond Joseph de Pons (1751–1812) was archivist for the French Navy. This work also appeared in English, German, and Spanish editions; this is its first edition, and the sole French edition.

Provenance: Engraved armorial bookplates of Thomas Munro on front pastedowns. Unattributed note in pencil in top margin of half-title of vol. I (repeated in substance in the other volumes): “This was Talleyrand’s copy.”

•  Sabin 19641; Palau 70507. Treed calf, spines gilt with red leather labels, marbled endpapers; a little rubbed with fine chipping and some cracking along joints, endpapers with some browning from turn-ins, pages with some light waterstaining and brownspotting and a few small holes resulting in loss of individual letters. Closed tear (without loss) into map in vol. I, short closed tear into right border and some soiling and browning in bottom portion of map facing p. 63 in vol. III, light browning in bottom margin and faint waterstaining in top portion of map facing p. 124 in vol. III, and light waterstaining in map facing p. 128 of the same volume. All edges speckled red and blue. Overall quite handsome and intriguing.

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This set includes two volumes of supplemental text, adding a number of entries. The first edition was followed by two volumes of supplemental plates, not present here and not called for: Graesse describes this edition as “sans grav.”

The pagination is erratic in a number of places; there is a numbering gap from 2342 to 2351 between vols. IV and V, but the text and signatures are uninterrupted.

Uncommon: OCLC locates only two U.S. institutional holdings of this second edition.

Provenance: Most volumes with small inked ownership inscription in an outer margin: “G.R.W.” the mark of William Rollinson Whittingham (1805–79), fourth Episcopal Bishop of Maryland and an enthusiastic book collector.

•  Brunet, IV, 851; Graesse, V, 429. Not in Sabin.   Contemporary half binding, recently rebacked with tan paper, spines with printed paper labels; boards rubbed and faded with small chips, one vol. with front cover waterstained. Foxing almost throughout, generally no worse than moderate; light waterstaining in upper margins of vol. I; one leaf in vol. VII with lower outer portion torn away, with loss of words from about 18 lines on each side. Vol. II with printer's error replacing pp. 1065–72 with duplicates of pp. 1057–64; pagination erratic in other places. Most vols. with ownership mark as above; vol. VI with one pencilled and one inked marginal annotation.  (25862)

The English and Dublin editions all give as the author on the title-page, “Practitioner in the law,” but the American editions omit it.

Uncommon in commerce.

•  Evans 13786; Hildeburn 3140; ESTC W21104.   Contemporary tan sheep, dry, joints cracked. Ex-library: call number on binding, bookplate on front pastedown, rubber- and pressure-stamps, pencilling on verso of title-page. Some spotting, not a great deal; a dried flower laid in. Now sporting a cranberry-colored paper jacket and housed in a red cloth clamshell case with cafe au lait-colored spine labels.  (24514)

The "Story of the Country-Mouse and the City-Mouse," Prior's satiric and politically motivated response to Dryden's "Hind and Panther," is not included, but the long pieces "Solomon on the Vanity of the World" and "Alma" are present. The "Life of Mat. Prior" in the first volume commences beneath a small engraved portrait.

Binding:  Later sprinkled calf, covers gilt-ruled with gilt inner dentelles, spines gilt extra with gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels. All edges saffron.

Provenance:  Both volumes with armorial bookplates of Sir Robert D'Arcy Hildyard.

•  On Prior, see: Dictionary of National Biography, 397–401. Leather cracking over joints with hinges tender; spine tips a little dry and pulled; upper and outer edges of all covers somewhat darkened; light wear to extremities. Light foxing to some pages. In fact a very handsome pair.

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Provenance:  Front free endpaper with inked ownership inscription dated 1943 and with rubber-stamp of Kanter's Magic Shop, a famed but now-defunct emporium in Philadelphia.

•  Publisher's gray-brown cloth without dust-jacket, front cover with black-stamped title and dummy vignette; spine very slightly darkened, edges and extremities with minor shelfwear. Front free endpaper as above. Pages age-toned. A nice copy.  (26622)

Binding/Provenance: Prize binding of contemporary vellum, covers framed and panelled in gilt rolls with gilt-stamped corner fleurons and gilt central vignette with the crest of the city of Amsterdam, spine with gilt-ruled raised bands and gilt-stamped decorations in compartments. The partially printed, partially inscribed, bound-in prize certificate reads “Ingenuo magnaeque spei adolescenti, Henrico Gerteler propter insignes in artibus humanioribus progessus, in classe tertia . . . Quod testor R. v. Ommeren [/] Gymnasii publici Amstelaedamensis Rector,” dated 1791.

•  Brunet, IV, 905; Dibdin, I, 385–86; Graesse, V, 460; Sandys, II, 455; Schweiger, II, 831. Binding as above, vellum slightly darkened, lacking ties; spine with gilt dimmed and traces of a now-absent label and inked call number at foot of spine. Lower edges with institutional rubber-stamp; title-page with shadow of a pencilled numeral. Front free endpaper with paper adhesions from a now-absent bookplate; back pastedown with rubber-stamp and small adhesion. Pages clean save for offsetting to upper margins of a few, from a laid-in slip.

Provenance: The first work's title-page has “Ex dono Autoris” inscribed in the upper margin in an early hand.

•  Pycroft: ESTC T144698; Allibone 1712. Addenbrooke: ESTC T88427.   Recent marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with gilt-stamped leather title-label. Pycroft half-title lacking; title-page with annotation as above. Pages slightly age-toned, with light spotting to final leaves of Enquiry and throughout Essay. (20760)