WOMEN 
Damnation
sans
Gender
Limitation
[Combe,
William]. The diaboliad...also,
the diabo-lady: Or, a match in Hell. London pr., Dublin repr.,
1777. 8vo (18.7 cm, 7.4"). 97, [1 (blank)] pp.
• ESTC T77101; NCBEL, II, 647. Marbled paper–covered boards, front cover with printed paper label. Half-title spotted, title-page and two others stamped by a now-defunct institution, title-page also with traces of paper affixed to upper margin; pages otherwise clean. One ESTC listing calls for plates; most holdings, however, do not report any and OCLC listings do not note any.
Saints
of
SIENNA
[Conti, Sebastiano &
Giambattista Ferrari]. Fasti senenses. [Senis: Per Academiam Intronatorum,
1660]. Folio (35.5 cm, 14"). *4 (-*1) **4 A–Z4
Aa–Mm4 1 (=*1). [1 (blank)], [7] ff., 279, [1] pp., [1 (errata)]
f.; frontis., 2 plts. 
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St.
Catherine (not the only woman found herein).
The detailed engraved frontispiece, by “Gio. Batta Sintes” after
“Nicolo Gadim,” shows St. Catherine leading Pope Gregory XI back
into Rome after his decision to leave Avignon. There are also two finely engraved
plates by Guillaume Vallet. The first, after Raphael Vanni, shows the B.V.M.
looking down with favor on an allegorical figure of Siena. The other, after
Carlo Maratta, shows (under the title of this work) a woman watering the tree
of the arts from which cherubs gather fruit. This is the first of two editions,
a second having appeared in 1669. It is handsomely printed in a large roman
type with a few woodcut historiated initials and a tailpiece, and it is rare.We
find only two copies reported.
Provenance: Huge (27.8 x 18.3 cm, 11" x 7.25") armorial bookplate of “William Stirling Maxwell” on the front pastedown; his arms also appearing as a supra-libros stamped in blind on the front cover, and his monogram similarly stamped on the rear cover.
• DeBacker-Sommervogel, II, 1390–91 & III, 678 (imprint and authorship information found here). Vellum with two forms of supra-libros as above, rebacked in leather toned to approximate vellum with gilt-stamped maroon leather title-label and gilt-dotted raised bands; boards slightly sprung, edges rubbed, vellum lightly soiled around edges. Pencilled notations on recto of front pastedown, and further notation, in ink and denoting authorship, on verso of front free endpaper. Pages lightly cockled; occasional foxing and soiling; all edges speckled red. (4203)
“I am anxious you should do a writing portrait . . . ” Cook, Eliza. A.L.s. (“Eliza”) to “My dear Sec.” London: 6 June 1860. 12mo (7.25" x. 4.5"). 1 p.
Click the image for an enlargement. a Chartist poet, author, and proponent of political and sexual freedom for women. She writes, “I am again here for a few days . . . and want to know if you can receive me on Friday about eleven. I am anxious you should do a writing portrait to see which will afford you most satisfaction. I will bring the proofs of the sonnet with me.”
Provenance: Residue of the stock of Seven Gables Bookshop (1930–79), via the son of Michael Papantonio (2009).
• Very good condition. Tipped onto a slightly larger sheet. With the integral blank. (25726)
PrudentNew England-Style DOMESTICITY Cornelius, Mrs. Mary Hooker. The young
housekeeper's friend; or, a guide to domestic economy and comfort. Boston: Charles Tappan;
New York: Saxton & Huntington, 1846. 12mo (18.2 cm, 7.2"). 190 pp.
Click the images for enlargements. The endpapers bear several additional recipes pencilled in an early hand, including a “Cure for Felon.”
• American Imprints 46-1830; Bitting 100; Brown, Culinary Americana, 1491 (1860 ed.); Cagle & Stafford 187; Lowenstein 399. Publisher's quarter brown cloth and printed light green paper–covered sides; edges rubbed, sides lightly stained. Endpapers as above; title-page with early pencilled annotation in upper portion; foxing and staining, but no tears or tattering. In fact a good copy, the more interesting as showing it was used. (26685)
A
Woman DeadYet
“Living”Cox, Samuel Hanson. The dead are the living. A sermon preached on Lord's day afternoon, October 1, 1843, on occasion of the funeral of Mrs. Mary L., the wife of the Rev. Ward Stafford, A.M.[,] of this city. New-York: John F. Trow & Co., Printers, 1843. 8vo. 30 pp., [1 (blank)] f.
• Good. Ex-historical society copy (rubber-stamps, "New Jersey Historical Society," on front cover and title-page). Pencil marks to front cover. Some chipping to front cover and first page. (290)
San Francisco Cookery in aHigh-Flying Era Craig, John C., ed. The recipe book of
Lillie Hitchcock Coit. Introduction by Carol Hart Field. Berkeley, CA: The Friends of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1998. 8vo. [2 (blank)], frontis., 5–65, [5 (3 blank)] pp. 
The recipes collected by Mrs. Coit reflect the “cosmopolitan character of San Francisco” during the 1870's and 1880's and show “the influence of the French, Spanish, Mexican, and English traditions in the cookery of the period.”
Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait and one additional illustration.
• Paperback. Fine. (5461)
Christianity
Abroad,
at Home, &
among the (Jewish?) Native
Americans
Crawford, Charles.
An essay on the propagation of the Gospel; in which there are numerous facts
and arguments adduced to prove that many of the Indians in America are descended
from the Ten Tribes ... the second edition. Philadelphia: James Humphreys, 1801.
12mo (18.3 cm, 7.2"). [1] f., 154 pp., [1] f. [with] Woodward,
William Wallace. Increase of piety, or revival of religion in the United
States of America; containing several interesting letters not before published.
Together withthree
remarkable dreams, in succession, as related by a female in the Northern Liberties
of Philadelphia to several Christian friends, and handed
to the press by a respectable minister of the gospel. Philadelphia: W.W. Woodward,
1802. 12mo. [1] f., 114 pp.
Click the interior images for enlargements. The second item here is the first edition of Woodward's collection of revival-themed letters to and from various clergymen, closing with an account of Mrs. Rebecca Ashburn's mysterious dreams. In these dreams a minister unknown to Mrs. Ashburn attempted to save her soul; she later identified her would-be converter as one Dr. William Rogers. This work is very uncommon in print form. OCLC and NUC Pre-1956 find only five U.S. institutional holdings of this Philadelphia printing, although it is widely held in microform.
• Essay: Sabin 17433; Shaw & Shoemaker 370; Rosenbach, American Jewish Bibliography, 123; Singerman, Judaica Americana, 0136. Increase: Shaw & Shoemaker 2587; Sabin 105172. Period-style half mottled calf and marbled paper–covered sides, spine preserving original gilt-stamped leather title-label. Title-page and first text page institutionally pressure-stamped. Pages lightly age-toned, somewhat more so in second work; one leaf with tear from outer margin extending into text. (25209)
Full Set of Her Works, IncludingVillancicos in Nahuatl & an African Language Cruz, Juana Inés de la, Sister. Poemas de la unica poetisa americana, musa dezima, Soror Juana Ines de la Cruz ... Tercera edicion, corregida, y añadida por su authora. [with others, as below]. Barcelona: por Joeph Llopis, 1691. 4to (21 cm; 8.25"). [8] ff., 426 pp., [5] ff. [with the same author's] Segundo tomo de las obras de Soror Juana Ines de la Cruz. Madrid: Impr. de Angel Pasqual Rubio, 1725. 4to (20 cm; 8"). [4] ff., 438 pp., [3] ff. [with the same author's] Fama, y obras posthumas del fenix de Mexico, dezima musa, poetisa americana. Madrid: Impr. de Angel Pasqual Rubio, 1725. 4to (20 cm; 8"). [10] ff., 352 pp., [2] ff.
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For a sense of her range of subjects, click to enlarge our images. She invented a decasyllabic meter and cultivated dramatic poetry: Among her works are sonnets, redondillas, décimas, villancicos, and plays, as well as prose works, including the famous Carta athenagorica in which she criticizes the great Luso-Brazilian preacher and defender of the Brazilian Indians, Antônio Vieira. The contents here are mostly Spanish-language, but some portions are in Latin — and a few, as is seldom recognized, are in the black language of “Guinea” (e.g., Villancico VIII of the “Villancicos que se cantaron en la Sta. Iglesia Metropolitana de Mexico en honor de Maria Santissima Madre de Dios . . . y se imprimieron año de 1679") or in Nahuatl (e.g., Villancico V of the “Villancicos que se cantaron en la Santa Iglesia Metropolitana de Mexico, en honor de Maria Santissima Madre de Dios . . . año de 1687, en que se imprimieron”).
In the offering here, vol. I was printed during the great poet's lifetime, and is one of the last to hold that distinction. 
With slight faults only, this is a handsome set of this major writer's works. (26753)
Sor
Juana &
Her Arch Enemy
Cruz, Juana Inés de la, Sister.Manuscript
Document Signed. In Spanish, on paper. Mexico City, 21 November
1692. Folio (31.3cm; 12.25"), 1 p. (in a larger document extending to 4 pp.)
Able to bully the most gifted member of his religious community only following the return to Spain of her last viceregal patron and protector, the Marquis de la Laguna, Aguiar y Seijas applied increasing pressure to Sor Juana and the prioress of her Hieronymite convent. It took him from 1688 until 1693 to put “la decima Musa” “in her place.”
Documents signed by the polymath Sor Juana are very rare and highly sought
after; this one desirably shows the trust her Sisters placed in her. 
The
pairing of her signature with her arch enemy's is chilling and visually impactful.
• In very good condition.
“This
Teaches Us . . . ”Daskam, Josephine Dodge. Fables for the fair. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1902. 8vo. vi, 125, [1] pp. 
• Signed binding with unfortunately unidentifiable initials! Publisher's quarter brown cloth over paper-covered sides, printed pictorial paper front cover, spine with gilt-stamped title; cream-colored paper slightly darkened, with very minor rubbing over corners. (15006)
A Practical Yet Picturesque View ofthe U.S. & Canada De Roos, Frederick Fitzgerald [a.k.a. De Ros, John Frederick Fitzgerald]. Personal narrative of travels in the United States and Canada in 1826 ... with remarks on the present state of the American Navy. London: William Harrison Ainsworth, 1827. 8vo (21.8 cm, 8.55"). xii, 207, [1] pp.; 14 plts. (1 fold.).
Click the images for enlargements. women,
and interactions with “the conquered Indian” (p. 165).
The volume is illustrated withan
oversized, folding panoramic view of Quebec along with 13 other plates,
including two maps of the Niagara Falls region; views of Bristol, DE, and
Chester, MA; and a bucolic depiction of the “Water Works of Philadelphia
on the Schuylkil,” all engraved after De Roos's own designs.
Binding: Contemporary hunter green diced calf, covers framed in gilt double fillets and an interior blind rule with small gilt-stamped corner fleurons; spine gilt extra in five compartments. Board edges and turn-ins decorated with gilt rolls; rich blue marbled endpapers; all edges marbled.
• Howes D268; Sabin 19677. Binding as above, corners/joints
scuffed and back joint starting from head; spine a little sunned, evenly and
attractively. Scattered light foxing, pages and plates otherwise clean. An
admirable book in a nice copy. (26665)
Illustrated Explorations of theCountryside Dibdin, Charles. Observations on a tour through almost the whole of England, and a considerable part of Scotland, in a series of letters, addressed to a large number of intelligent and respectable friends. London: G. Goulding & John Walker (pr. by T. Woodfall), [1801–02]. 4to (28.9 cm, 11.4"). 2 vols. I: 404 pp.; 27 plts. II: [2], 406, [2] pp.; 33 plts., 1 fold. map, 1 fold. chart.
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illustrated with 60 copper-engraved and aquatint plates, one folding map, and one folding chart. The copper engravings are done in two different styles; one set consists of large renditions of scenery, the other of smaller depictions of people and everyday life — the former done from Dibdin's own paintings, and the latter from drawings by his daughter Anne.
• Anderson, Book of British Topography, 373; Lowndes 638; NSTC D1044. Not in Abbey, Life in England; not in Ray, The Illustrator & the Book in England. On Dibdin, see: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online. Recent quarter caramel morocco and ochre cloth. Light to moderate foxing; mild offsetting around plates; four pages with patch of offsetting from now-absent laid-in item. Plates depicting people all with small area of waterstaining to upper inner portions, just touching corner of platemark without affecting images; scenic plates unaffected. All edges marbled. A solid, handsome, satisfying set. (26939)
Who
Wrote theBook
of Mormon?
Dickinson, Ellen E. New light on Mormonism. New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1885. 8vo. [8], [11]–272, 16 pp.
Beyond matters of authorship, there is quite a lot of general Mormon history here, including a good deal on polygamy; the perspective is not friendly.
Provenance: From the libraries of the Rev. C. C. Bitting and Crozer Theological Seminary.
• Flake & Draper 2832. Publisher's green cloth, spine chipped at head and foot. Title-page separated from binding, but present; shallow chipping along edges. Short closed tears to top edge of pp. 29–32 and 103–106 and outer edge of one page chipped; several page corners chipped/creased. Ex-library with bookplate, card and pocket, pressure-stamp on title-page, inked numeral, penciled notation, two rubber-stamps. A few penciled check-marks. (24434)
Pleasingly Bound & IllustratedDickinson, Emily. Letters of Emily Dickinson. New York and London: Harper & Brothers, [1931]. 8vo (22.4 cm, 8.75"). xxxi, [1] pp. [1] f., 457, [1 (blank)] pp.; 19 plts (incl. frontis.). 
• BAL 4685. Handsome green publisher’s cloth; front cover gilt-stamped with title at top and Indian Pipes in lower right corner: corners rubbed with a little loss of cloth. Some very shallow chipping on corners, and traces of soiling on edges and endpapers. An attractive book.
Earnest & Illustrated
Duchaussois, Pierre. The Grey Nuns in the far north. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, (copyright 1919). 8vo. [4], 287, [1] pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. This is illustrated with a good many half-tones.
• Publisher's green cloth, front cover and spine with black-stamped title; spine sunned and with inked call number, spine head chipped, corners slightly rubbed. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, front free endpaper faintly rubber-stamped. (24822)
Daughter Jean is theInteresting
One The Duke of Gordon's daughters. To which is added, The challenge. Stirling: W. Macnie, [1820-1830]. 12mo. 8 pp. 
• NSTC 2G14282. Removed from a nonce volume. Pages slightly age-toned, with some minor offsetting to first and last leaves, else clean. (16823)
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