WOMEN 
Presentation
Copy
Fit
for a Queen
Melgarejo
y Salafranca, José, Conde del Valle de San Juan.
Consideraciones sobre la iglesia en sus relaciones con la sociedad... Obra dedicada
a S.M. el Rey. Madrid: Zacarias Soler, 1851. 8vo (23 cm, 9"). [6], 316, [2] pp.;
1 plt.
• First edition of this uncommon defense of the Church and its involvement
with contemporary politics. The work is preceded by a portrait of the Count,
here depicted in his study, with cigarette in hand.
Binding:
Signed binding (with Bilbao’s ticket on front pastedown) of oxblood
morocco, front and back covers framed in a wide gilt roll surrounding gilt-stamped
coat of arms of Francesco de Assisi de Bourbon, Duc de Cadiz (consort to Isabella
II of Spain); spine with four raised bands, compartments gilt extra, with
author, title, and date gilt-stamped. Board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls;
all page edges gilt; blue moiré endpapers.
Provenance: Front pastedown with bookplate of Maria Christina, Queen of Spain.
• Palau 350495. Binding as above, showing light wear, spine slightly
faded; pastedowns with some offsetting, endpapers with spots of foxing. 
Rare
and attractive.
Mere Angélique &
Her Works Memoires pour servir a l'histoire de
Port-Royal, et à la vie de la Reverende Mere Marie Angelique de Sainte Magdeleine Arnauld reformatrice de ce monastere. Utrecht: Aux depens de la Compagnie, 1742. 12mo. 3 vols. I: [2] ff., xx, 611, [1] pp. II: [2] ff., 621, [1] pp. III: [2] ff., 618 pp.
Click the interior image for an enlargement. • Contemporary mottled calf, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-labels, spine compartments with gilt-stamped floral decorations; covers mildly acid-pitted and considerably abraded, with leather lost at head of spine, corners, and joints. Spines with paper shelving labels or remnants thereof; front pastedowns each with bookplate. All edges marbled. Faint pencilled marginalia and bracketing; intermittent offsetting. (22804)
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The
Female School at Fuh-Chau Methodist almanac, for the year ... 1852 ... comprising also a summary view of Methodism throughout the world ... New York: Lane & Scott (Joseph Longking, Pr.), [1851]. 12mo. 60 pp., plus wrapper. 
• Original front wrapper present, but not rear one. Some chipping and definite wear, especially along spine. Old ink notations. A good copy. (9383)
Printed
by
Lydia Bailey
— Hannah's Youthful
Feminism?
[More, Hannah]. The search
after happiness: A pastoral drama. To which is added, Joseph made known to his
brethren: a sacred drama. Philadelphia: Pr. [by Lydia R. Bailey] for Johnson
and Warner, 1811. 12mo. Frontis., 72 pp.
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.
Defending Marie de Médici Morgues, Matthieu de. Diverses pieces pour la defence de la reyne mere du roy tres-Chrestien Louis XIII ... [Paris?], 1643. 8vo (16.8 cm, 6.6"). Vol. I only (of 2). ã8é8A–Z8Aa–Ee8 (-Ee8 [final blank]); [26], 446 [i.e., 456] pp. 
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Uncommon. Searches of OCLC, RLIN, and NUC Pre-1956 find only three U.S. holdings of this edition.
• Contemporary vellum, spine with early inked title; vellum darkened, front cover with faded early inked inscription. Back free endpaper and final blank leaf lacking; front free endpaper with early inked inscription, title-page with contemporary inked ownership inscription in lower margin. Some light foxing; one early inked marginal annotation. Vol. I only; the set rare enough to make offering the “odd” volume reasonable!
“Wretched Flea Was a Dear, Round-Faced Chinese Baby Boy” Muller, Mary [pseud. of Lenore Elizabeth Mulets]. Wretched Flea or, the story of a Chinese boy. Chicago & New York: A. Flanagan Co., © 1901. 4to. Frontis., [2], 158 pp.; illus.
Click the images for enlargements. 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)
19th-Century Education inEnglish INDIA Murdoch, John (comp.). The Indian teacher's manual: With hints on the management of vernacular schools. Madras: Christian Vernacular Education Society, 1885. 12mo. v, [1 (blank)], 320 pp.
A section discusses, among other Indian social matters, the place and education of women.
Click the images for enlargements. Murdoch, a Scot, arrived in India in 1844, dedicated himself to educating young Indians, and became agent for the Christian Vernacular Education Society for India which a group of pious people in England founded as a memorial of the Indian Mutiny.
No copy of this edition in WorldCat or COPAC.
• Contemporary half red cloth binding with marbled paper sides; printed paper spine label. Ex-library: call number on spine, bookplate, charge pocket, one numric rubber-stamp, pressure-stamps. Edge wear to boards. A nice, clean copy. (26150)
20 CHROMOSMurray, Hannah Lindley & Mary. The
toilet. Washington, DC: William Ballantine [Ballantyne], 1867. 8vo (21 cm, 8.25"). [4] pp.; 20 col. plts.
Click the interior images for enlargements. Provenance: Inscription to Ellie Bond Robinson (from her cousin Elizabeth); elegant small booklabel, “Gardner.”
• Publisher’s textured cloth, framed in blind, front cover with gilt-stamped title; covers and corners showing very slight traces of wear. Front free endpaper with small booklabel and with inked gift inscription dated 1887. One flap (“Circumspection”) lacking, with all other flaps present and working. An attractive copy of an uncommon item.
“Rank Confusion” — That’s a Joke![Nares, Edward]. Heraldic anomalies; or, rank confusion in our orders of precedence, With disquisitions, moral, philosophical, and historical, on all the existing orders of society. By It Matters Not Who. London: G. and W.B. Whittaker (pr. by R. Gilbert), 1823. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). 2 vols. I: xxii, [2], 334, [2 (1 blank)] pp. II: [4], 372 pp.
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Though
Nares is quite capable of picking nits with a level of scrupulousness to
match that of the most pedantic of scholars, he is also prone to flights
of fancy such as pondering—after noting that a married woman’s moveable goods are unquestionably the property of her husband— “whether
the female tongue is to be reckoned among the moveables . .
. I believe it is pretty generally held to continue ‘in potestate Mulieris,’ even after marriage, and I know nothing to prevent it” (p.
148). This is followed up with references to Ovid, the Wife of Bath, and
the much-storied Flitch of Bacon!
• Contemporary half calf with marbled paper sides, spines with gilt-stamped helm decorations and gilt-stamped leather title and volume labels (the volume labels recently supplied, in sympathetic style). Board edges showing light to moderate wear, with leather cracking at joints and crackled over the spines generally. Top edges gilt. Front pastedowns with bookplates now partially torn away; title-page of vol. II with an early inked ownership inscription in the upper margin. Delightful reading, as well as an overall attractive set.
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Saving the Souls of the Rich via
CHARITY Nelson, Robert. An address to persons of quality and estate ... To which is added, an appendix of some original and valuable papers. [with another related title, as below]. London: A. & G. Way, prs., 1715. 8vo (21.9 cm, 8.6"). Frontis., xxxi, [1], 267, [1], 55, [7] pp. [with] A poem in memory of Robert Nelson Esquire. London: Pr. by Geo. James for Richard Smith, at Bishop Beveridge’s-Head, 1715. 8vo. 21, [3] pp.
establishing
houses for the improvement of ladies (both proper and fallen).
The appendix provides texts of various proposals as well as statistics on numbers
of residents in hospitals and schools.
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the images for enlargements.
The frontispiece portrait of Nelson was engraved by George Vertue after a painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller. The volume also includes all publisher's advertisements as well as the rather uncommon Poem in Memory of Robert Nelson Esquire.
This
was produced to be a handsome work, printed in large type on good paper with
wide margins — the better to appeal to a “quality” audience?
• ESTC T85360; Goldsmiths’-Kress 5249. Poem: ESTC T25431; Foxon P538. Contemporary speckled calf, framed and panelled in blind with blind-tooled corner fleurons; rebacked with speckled calf, spine with gilt-stamped leather title-label, raised bands, and blind-tooled foliate compartment decorations. Original leather abraded, front cover with small chip to outer edge and area of faint discoloration from a now-absent label; title-page institutionally rubber-stamped (no other markings). Some signatures browned and foxed, most pages clean. (25999)
Marriage Law from aNoted
Mysogynist . . . Nevizzano, Giovanni. Sylvae nuptialis libri sex: In quibus ex dictis moder. materia matrimonii, dotium, filiationis, adulterii, originis, successionis & monitorialium plenissimè discutitur: vnà cum remediis ad sedandum factiones Guelphorum & Giebelinorum. Item modus iudicandi & exequendi iussa principum. Ad haec, de authoritatibus
doctorum, priuilegiisque miserabilium personarum. Quae omnia ex quaestione, an nubendum sit, vel non, desumpta sunt. [Geneva?]: Ioannes Lertotius, 1592. 8vo. [32], 601, [5], pp.
Click the interior image for enlargement. • Not in Adams. Contemporary vellum with yapp edges and remnants of ties, spine with inked title: spots of staining, light soiling, and (on spine) traces of a paper label. Lightly age-toned with occasional light soiling. Early inked notations on front pastedown and title-page. Inked call number on title-page. (11869)
Caroline Norton's SoleKeepsake Effort Norton, Caroline, ed. The keepsake for MDCCCXXXVI. London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman, [1835]. 8vo (18.9 cm, 7.45"). Add. engr. t.-p., [4], 324 pp. (pagination skips 300–303); 18 plts.
Click the images for enlargements. The volume is illustrated with 18 steel-engraved plates and an additional engraved title-page.
Binding: Crimson straight-grain morocco, covers framed in blind and panelled in quadruple gilt fillets with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, board edges and turn-ins with gilt rolls. All edges gilt.
• Faxon 1497. Binding as above, edges and extremities lightly rubbed with corners bumped, joints and edges darkened, lower spine compartment discolored. Title-page and two others institutionally pressure-stamped. Pages gently age-toned with a few scattered light spots, generally clean. (26033)
“CLOUD-LANDS” Oakley, Amy. Cloud-lands of France. New York: Century Co., 1927. 8vo. xxiii, [1], 497, [1] pp.; illus. 
• Publisher's cloth, covers and spine gilt-stamped; corners and extremities very slightly rubbed, dust-jacket lacking, otherwise a beautiful copy. (18414)
BRITTANY Oakley, Amy. Enchanted Brittany. New York: Century Co., 1930. 8vo. Frontis., xix, [1], 437, [1] pp.; illus. 
• Publisher's blue cloth, front cover and spine with gilt-stamped title; spine slightly sunned, dust-jacket lacking. (18410)
A Hard-Laboring Poet ofCumberland County Oliver, Isabella. Poems, on various subjects. Carlisle: A. Loudon, 1805. 12mo. 5, [1], [vi]–ix, [11]–220 pp.
Click the image for an enlargement. 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)
A
Woman &
Her WoesOriguela, Elvira de, & others. Manuscript documents. On paper, in Spanish. Los Reyes [i.e., Lima], Peru, and Seville, Spain, 23 April 1620 – 26 November 1662. 4 cahiers. Folio (31.5 cm; 12.5"). 7, [1 (blank)] ff; 5, [1 (blank)] ff.; 12 ff.; 16, [4 (blank)] ff. 
• Sewn. All four in very good condition.
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