From payson at oldbooks.com  Sat May  1 10:31:22 2004
From: payson at oldbooks.com (Clare Murphy)
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 10:31:22 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Books about Ireland
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1.  ANON. (CARLETON, WILLIAM).  TRAITS AND STORIES OF THE IRISH 
PEASANTRY. Dublin., 1830. Illustrated by etchings by W. H. Brooke. 
First edition. 2 volumes. Contemporary full polished calf with raised 
bands, leather labels and gilt decorations in the spine compartments. 
12mo. [275, 304 pgs] Fine. Carleton's father was a poor Irish tenant 
farmer. After gaining some useful education from his hedge 
schoolmasters, he and his parents and 13 siblings were evicted. 
Carleton took to the road and some wild living.

On his way from Ulster to Dublin, he picked up many stories from 
other peasants which were first published in the Christian Examiner, 
a brutally anti-Catholic rag. Carleton, by this time, had married a 
Protestant girl and became a Protestant himself. However , he was not 
really a bigot but  a practical man who wrote for whomever would pay 
him."One immense value in his work is that he gives the normally 
inarticulate peasant's viewpoint, wishing Godspeed to the idealists 
and damnation to the foreigner while concetrating on getting in the 
hay." Brady and Cleeve. Irish Writers. pg. 18. Very scarce. <BR> <A 
HREF='http://www.oldbooks.com/images/71922.jpg>   <BR><BR>.  $1200.00

2.  HALL, MR & MRS. S.C.  IRELAND: ITS SCENERY, CHARACTER, ETC. . New 
York: A. W. Lovering, ca 1880. Illustrated by 3 steel engraved titles 
pages, 47 full-page steel engravings with tissue guards by Wm. 
Bartlett and others, 4 maps in color and 6 color plates. Later 
edition. 3 volumes. Original green cloth, highly decorated in gilt 
designs. Small 4to. [436/468/512 pgs] Near fine. Complete. Gorgeous 
books with only a bit of soiling to boards. Contents clean with no 
foxing. Plates excellent. Three owner's signatures. <BR> <A 
HREF='http://www.oldbooks.com/images/71832.jpg'>   <BR>.  $450.00

3.  JOYCE, P[ATRICK]. W[ESTON] (1827-1914).  ANCIENT IRISH MUSIC. 
Dublin: M. H. Gill , 1912. Later edition. Green cloth with gilt 
lettering. 4to. [104 pgs] Near fine. "Comprising One Hundred Irish 
Airs Hitherto Unpublished; Many of the Old popular Songs: and Several 
New Songs". Contains the music and words of many of these old Irish 
tunes. Born at Ballyorgan, Co Limerick; "ed. in hedge-school and at 
Kilfinane, Kilmallock, Galbally (Co. Limerick), and Mitchelstown, Co. 
Cork; later at TCD, BA 1861, MA, 1864; at first taught in Clonmel; 
mbr. Society for Preservation of the Irish Language; entered 
Commission of National Education, 1845; appointed to a commission 
charged with reforming the management of the National Schools, 1856; 
head of Central National Model Schools, 1860; MRIA, 1863; Pres. Royal 
Soc. of Irish Antiquarians, 1906-08; Principal of Marlborough St. 
Teacher Training College, 1874-1893; chiefly remembered for Irish 
Names and Places, 3 vols. (1869, 1875, 1913), significantly founded 
on the records of the Ordnance Commission's Topography Dept. and 
later cited facetiously by James Joyce in "Gas from a Burner" 
Princess Grace Irish Library (Monaco): 2001A couple of scratches to 
front board and a small finger mark, otherwise bright and clean. 
Scarce.  $250.00

4.  KENNEDY, PATRICK, 1801-73.  LEGENDARY FICTIONS OF THE IRISH CELTS 
. London: Macmillan and Co, 1866. Illustrated by W. Small. First 
edition. 3/4 contemporary green polished calf with green and red 
marbled cloth boards, gilt decorated raised bands and florets in 
spine compartments with red leather title label and gilt lettering. 
All edges marbled. [352 pgs] Fine. Some of a sub-genre of Irish 
stories and legends covered here are: Household Stories, Legends Of 
The "Good People". ;Witchcraft, Sorcery, Ghosts,and Fetches; Ossianic 
and Other Early Legends; and Legends Of The Celtic Saints. Gorgeous 
book. <BR> <A HREF='http://www.oldbooks.com/images/71920.jpg'> 
<BR><BR>.  $250.00

5.  LARMINIE, WILLIAM, (COLLECTED AND TRANSLATED BY).  WEST IRISH 
FOLK-TALES AND ROMANCES. London: Elliot Stock, 1893. First edition. 
Half burgundy cloth with green boards and gilt lettering and 
pictorial emblem on front board. Edges uncut. [258 pgs] Very good. 
Former owner's signature. Some soiling to the front board and 
darkening to the page edges. Part of the Camden Library Series. 
Laminie traveled the west of Ireland, collecting tales from the 
peasants and translating them into english. He gave the names and 
towns of the story tellers. Scarce original edition.  $275.00

6.  MOONEY, THOMAS.  HISTORY OF IRELAND: FROM ITS FIRST SETTLEMENT TO 
THE PRESENT TIME INCLUDING A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF ITS LITERATURE, 
MUSIC, ARCHITECTURE, AND NATURAL RESOURCES; WITH UPWARDS OF TWO 
HUNDRED BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF ITS MOST EMINENT MEN INTERSPERSED 
WITH A GREAT NUMBER OF IRISH MELODIES ORIGINAL AND SELECTED, ARRANGED 
FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, A. Boston: Privately published by the 
author, 1845. Illustrated by many fine quality engravings and 
lithographs. First edition. 2 volumes. Orig. decorated cloth gilt. 
Large 8vo. [1652 pgs] Near fine. Edgewear to spine extremities of 
Volume I, otherwise clean, tight, unfoxed and unfaded. Contains many 
old Irish tunes, both words and music. Also an interesting list of 
Boston subscribers.  $275.00

7.  NICHOLSON, A.  IRELAND'S WELCOME TO THE STRANGER OR AN EXCURSION 
THROUGH IRELAND, IN 1844 & 1845, FOR THE PURPOSE OF PERSONALLY 
INVESTIGATING THE CONDITION OF THE POOR. New York: Baker and 
Scribner, 1847. First edition. Brown cloth with blind embossed 
designs to boards, bright gilt lettering at spine. 7.5" x 4.5". 
[456/22 pgs] Near fine. Mrs. Asenath Nicholson was an American woman 
from Vermont, who was a Quaker. She wrote very sympathically about 
the suffering Irish peasants. She spent four years with them. A few 
small light stains to front board.  One corner of head of spine is 
chipped.  Minor scattered foxing to otherwise bright tight binding 
with minor scattered foxing to some pages. Minor shelf wear.  $425.00

8.  (STAFFORD, SIR THOMAS).  PACATA HIBERNIA, IRELAND APPEASED AND 
REDUCED. London: Robert Milbourne , 1633. Illustrated by 17 folding 
plates and maps, but, but alas not including the famous and rare map 
of Munster (Mounster) by Speed; 2 ports . First edition. Original 
full leather, expertly rebacked. All original end papers. All edges 
marbled. Raised bands with leather title label, gilt. Gilt rules to 
boards. Some roughening to leather on boards. Old damp-stain, 
affecting top portion of most pages. This is sometimes very light and 
sometimes darker. Folio. [391 pgs] Very good. Has the armorial 
bookplate of Marquis William Kerr I of Lothian and another label with 
the shelf placement in his castle "The Newbattle Abbey".

  Full title: Pacata Hibernia. Ireland appeased and reduced. Or, an 
historie of the late vvarres of Ireland, especially within the 
province of Mounster, vnder the government of Sir George Carew, 
Knight, then Lord President of that province, and afterwards Lord 
Carevv of Clopton, and Earle of Totnes, &c. VVherein the siedge of 
Kinsale, the defeat of the Earle of Tyrone, and his armie; the 
expulsion and sending home of Don Iuan de Aguila, the Spanish 
generall, with his forces; and many other remarkeable passages of 
that time are related. Illustrated with seventeene severall mappes, 
for the better understanding of the storie.

Stafford was probably the natural son of Sir George Carew (1555-1629 
) under whom he served as a captain in Munster during the campaign 
against Hugh O'Neill; Carew (c. 1629) bequeathed him a vast 
collection of MSS relating to Ireland, thirty nine vols. of which are 
in Lambeth Library, and four vols. of which are in the Bodleian. 
Stafford alleges that the original of Pacata was written by Carew 
'out of his retiyred Modestie' but the consensus is that the book was 
composed by him, drawing on Carew's papers; Stafford was knighted by 
Chichester 1611.The author of the entry on Stafford considers that he 
may have been an Anglo-Irishman since 'it is as an Irishman not an 
Englishman that he speaks'.  DNB OCIL <BR> <A 
HREF='http://www.oldbooks.com/images/71842.jpg'>   <BR>.  $3500.00

9.  STOCKWELL, LA TOURETTE.  DUBLIN THEATRES AND THEATRE CUSTOMS, 
1637-1820. Kingsport, Tennessee: Printed by Kingsport Press, 1938. 
Illustrated by fifteen b&w plates. First edition. Limited to 500 
copies, this is #294. Green cloth with paper title labels at front 
board and spine. Inscribed by the author at the title page. 9" x 
5.75". [406 pgs] Near fine. Spine is lightly sunned and soiled. 
Contents are tight and clean.  $225.00

10.  THACKERAY, William Makepeace.  IRISH SKETCH BOOK. London., 1843. 
First edition. 2 volumes. Original green embossed cloth housed in 
custom-made tri-fold pull-cases within a half morocco slipcase with 
gilt lettering, raised bands and gilt rules. Near fine. The 
half-title pages, which are often absent in this title are here 
present. The binding has been professionally and almost invisibly 
reinforced at outer hinges. Residue to pastedowns where bookplates 
have been removed. Contents clean and tight, nearly free of foxing. 
Scarce in this lovely condition. VAN DUZER 96.
<BR> <A HREF='http://www.oldbooks.com/images/71921.jpg'> 
<BR><BR><BR> <A HREF='http://www.oldbooks.com/images/71921a.jpg'> 
<BR><BR>.  $950.00


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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Sat May  1 13:31:25 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 13:31:25 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: "Histoire du Ciel"  Paris: 1742
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[Pluche, Noel]. HISTOIRE DU CIEL, ou l?On Recherche l?Origine de l?
Idolatrie, et les Meprises de la Philosophie, sur la Formation des Corps Celestes, & de 
Toute la Nature. Troisieme Edition. Paris: La Veuve Estienne. 1742. 12mo. 2 
vols. xxxvii,(3),518,(2);(4),496,(2)pp. Indices. Vol. I illus. with a copper 
engraved frontis. and 24 plates. Cont. mottled calf, a bit worn, gilt decorated 
spines, extremities chipped, (Vol. II with paper label at head of spine).     
$350.00 (trade discount allowed)

Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
P.O. Box 464
Santa Monica, CA 90406
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From matheson at boo.net  Sat May  1 19:38:10 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Sat, 01 May 2004 19:38:10 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  A few bibliographies with unusual attributes
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For consideration:  a selection from the many bibliographies listed on our 
website.

Davis, Lavinia.  A bibliography of the writings of Edith 
Wharton.  Portland, Maine, The Southworth Press, 1933. Original cloth. 
Lightly rubbed at the extremities, otherwise near fine. 325 copies printed. 
The Seven Gables Bookshop reference copy with pencilled additions and 
corrections on 12 pages and the rear p astedown. Included in the "Principal 
Works about Wharton" Appendix in Stephen Garrison's, Edith Wharton, a 
descriptive bibliography (1990). 62 pp. $150.

Growoll, Adolf.   Three centuries of English book trade bibliography, an 
essay on the beginnings of booktrade bibliography since the introduction of 
printing and in England since 1595.  New York, Published for The Dibdin 
Club by M. L. Greenhalgh, 1903. In a recent binding of quarter morocco and 
tan cloth. Fine. Inscribed by the author on a front endpaper: "A. H. Clark, 
with the regards of / A. Growoll / October 15, 1903". Arthur H. Clark, 
1868-1951, was an American antiquarian bookseller and publisher of 
consequence. See Dickinson's Dictionary of American antiquarian 
bookdealers, p. 33-4. One of 550 numbered copies. The title continues: Also 
a list of catalogues, &c., published for the English booktrade 1595-1902, 
by Wilberforce Eames, p. [101]-173. 195 pp. $150.00

Johnson, Merle.  American first editions: bibliographical check lists of 
the works of 199 American authors. Third edition, revised and enlarged by 
Jacob Blanck.  New York, R. R. Bowker Company, 1936. Original cloth. The 
reference copy of English bookseller Thomas Warburton of Manchester. 
Annotated in pencil by Warburton with detailed collations, information on 
month and day of publication, edition size, binding color, etc. Hundreds of 
clippings laid in from dealers' catalogs, Publisher's weekly, other trade 
sources, as well as book prospectuses and pages of Warburton's additional 
notes. The sections on John Esten Cooke, James Huneker, Thomas Nelson Page, 
and Edith Wharton are particularly heavily annotated. The binding is intact 
but the book is greatly swollen from all the laid in materia l . Four 
editions of the work were published 1928-1942, varying in the authors 
included. The book could very usefully be consulted by anyone undertaking a 
similar compilation or bibliographies of the le ss well-known authors. 
Tanselle / Basic Collection (the 1942 edition).  $150.00

Slocum, John J.  A bibliography of James Joyce [1882-1941] by John J. 
Slocum and Herbert Cahoon.  New Haven, Yale University Press, 1953. 
Original gray cloth. Lightly rubbed at the head of the backstrip, otherwise 
fine, without dust jacket. Inscribed by both authors on the front free 
endpaper: "For Franz Bader / The authors take great pleasure in inscribing 
this book / John Slocum / Herbert Cahoon / Bloomsday and after 1953". 195 
pp.  $150.00


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From matheson at boo.net  Sun May  2 19:01:05 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 19:01:05 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Hermann Zapf
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In addition to the following, we have other Zapf material available.  Visit 
our website at http://www.mathesonbooks.com .

Zapf, Hermann.   Hermann Zapf, ein Arbeitsbericht. Herausgegeben von der 
Lehrdruckerei der Technischen Hochschule Darmstadt.  Hamburg, 
Maxmilian-Gesellschaft [c1984]. Original blue cloth. Small calligraphic 
book label of Johnand Jean Michael on the front pastedown. Fine. 177 pp. 
Introduction by Walter Wilkes, p. 7-10. Many facsimiles of Zapf's work, 
some in color, some tipped in.  $100.00

Zapf, Hermann.   Hunt Roman: the birth of a type. Commentary and notes by 
Hermann Zapf and Jack Werner Stauffacher.  Foreword by George H. M. 
Lawrence.  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, The Pittsburgh Bibliophiles, 1965. 
Original gray paper boards, printed paper on the backstrip. Fine in lightly 
soiled dust jacket, lightly darkened at the bottom edges, with a short 
closed tear. One of 750 numbered copies. 24 pp., followed by 
illustrations.  $75.00

Zapf, Hermann.   Manuale typographicum. 100 typographical arrangements with 
considerations about types, typography and the art of printing selected 
from past and present in eighteen languages.  New York, Frankfurt, 
Z-Presse, 1968. Original quarter parchment and gray cloth. Fine in chipped, 
internally repaired dust jacket missing a three-quarter inch piece at the 
foot of the front panel and with several short tears. One of 975 numbered, 
signed copies. 117 numbered leaves. English translations by Paul Standard. 
A new work, not a reprint of the 1954 edition with the same title.  $400.00

Zapf, Hermann.  Pen and graver: alphabets & pages of calligraphy by Hermann 
Zapf. With a preface by Paul Standard. Cut in metal by August 
Rosenberger.  New York, Museum Books Inc. [1952]. Original quarter vellum 
and brown paper boards. Small calligraphic book label of John and Jean 
Michael on the front pastedown. Fine. One of 2,000 copies. Oblong format. 
Published in German in 1950 as "Feder und Stichel".  $400.00

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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Sun May  2 23:03:23 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 03:03:23 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-Evidence [III] 
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A selection of works which we have in stock on evidence and
related subjects; for others, please feel free to browse our web
site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word or
phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  PHILLIPS, S. March.  A Treatise on the Law of Evidence.
Volume
the Second.  Gould and Banks, New York, 1823.  Volume Two only.
[41331]                                                  $ 125.00

2.  [RAM ON FACTS].  James Ram.  A Treatise on Facts as Subjects
of Inquiry by a Jury. Second American Edition by John Townshend.
Baker, Voorhis & Company, 66 Nassau Street, New York, 1870.  Later
3/4 morocco, a bit chafed, one leaf backed, still good. [56808
L40L54]                                                  $ 350.00

A work characterized as presenting a 'philosophy of evidence'
drawing significantly on literary sources both classical and
contemporary; with a chapter on advocacy and an appendix containing
'Golden Rules for the Examination of a Witness'.

3.  Report of the Case of Joshua Stow vs. Sherman Converse, For a
Libel; Containing a History of Two Trials Before the Superior Court
and Some Account of the Proceedings Before the Supreme Court of
Errors.  New Haven, 1822.  [15856]                       $ 125.00

3.  SALTZBURG, Stephen A. and Kenneth R. Redden.  Federal Rules
of Evidence Manual. Second Edition.  Michie Company,
Charlottesville, 1977.  Blue cloth, a good copy. [30556] $ 25.00

4.  STANTON, Earle Kezartee.  Handbook of California Evidence.
Callaghan and Company, Chicago, 1931.  [19944 9L39]       $ 25.00

5.  STARKIE, Thomas.  A Practical Treatise on the Law of Evidence,
and Digest of Proofs in Civil and Criminal Proceedings. Sixth
American Edition. Two Volumes.  P.H. Nicklin & T. Johnson, Law
Booksellers [etc.], Philadelphia, 1837.  Contemporary sheep,
rubbed, some embrowning, but a sound set. [62879 L57E]   $ 250.00

6.  SULLIVAN, Francis C. and Paul Hardin III.  Evidence, Cases and
Materials.  The Foundation Press, Inc., Mineola, 1968.  [17076 L37]
                                                          $ 25.00

7.  THAYER, James Bradley.  A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at
the Common Law.  Little, Brown and Company, Boston, 1898.  Original
blue cloth, gilt, somewhat rubbed, but a good clean copy. [68519
L73EL78E]                                                $ 250.00

Original edition of the work for which Thayer is remembered, the
classic of legal history which Holmes characterized to Pollock as
an "admirable piece of work . . . [y]ou feel sure that Thayer has
examined everything he can lay his hands on".

8.  THAYER, James Bradley.  A Preliminary Treatise on Evidence at
the Common Law. Part I. Development of Trial by Jury.  Little,
Brown, and Company, Boston, 1896.  Original buckram boards, the
front board gilt, showing wear and a bit strained, light browning,
yet a usable copy. [69741 L78]                           $ 250.00

The first part of Thayer's famed treatise, characterized by Holmes
to Pollock as an "admirable piece of work", separately issued two
years before the main work appeared in 1898, with Thayer's
explanatory prefatory note, excluded in the 1898 edition.

9.  THROCKMORTON, Archibald H.  Illustrative Cases on Evidence.
West Publishing Co., St. Paul, 1913.  Original buckram, rubbed but
quite sound. [30122]                                      $ 35.00

A Companion Book to McKelvey on Evidence.

10.  WIGMORE, John Henry.  A Treatise on the Anglo-American
System of Evidence in Trials at Common Law [etc.]. Second
Edition. Five Volumes.  Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1923.
Original tan buckram, a bit of wear, but quite a good set. [69151
L75]
                                                         $ 450.00

The first revision of Wigmore's masterpiece, "the most
comprehensive and the most majestic single treatise of law" in
Felix Frankfurter's words, this edition for the first time
expanding Wigmore's coverage to all of Anglo-American law.







From agvent at erols.com  Mon May  3 11:02:30 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 11:02:30 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Letters on the Crusades, etc.;
 1486 with fine illuminated initial and rubricated throughout
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One of 45 fine items from our list of Spring New Arrivals.  All 45 can 
be seen at http://www.erols.com/agvent

AENEAS SYLVIUS PICCOLOMINI (POPE PIUS II). FAMILIARES EPISTOLE AD 
DIVERSOS. (Nuremberg): (Anton Koberger) (17 July 1486). Large octavo 
(6-1/4" x 8-3/4") bound in contemporary blind-stamped goatskinover 
wooden boards with metal clasps (ties lacking) and blind-stamped small 
oval central insets on each cover, Christ on the front and apparently 
the Virgin Mary on the rear. With dedication letter to the readers of 
Niklas of Wyle and with poem on the Virgin Mary. Later Edition of this 
important collection of letters by the eminent Italian humanist who 
later became Pope Pius II. Piccolomini corresponded with many scholars 
of his time, including Emperor Frederick III and King Wenceslaus of 
Bohemia, about a variety of matters religious, political, and social, 
from family problems to the Crusade against the Turks. Goff P-719; 
Hain 154. With 245 (of 246) leaves, lacking the initial blank, with 
the printing information contained on the colophon page which is 
present. Black letter type, 52 lines, with a 15-line initial on leaf 
b2 illuminated in gold, red, green, and blue; other initials 
rubricated or asurized throughout. Very occasional contemporary 
marginal annotations. Six consecutive leaves with a short tear in the 
margin just extending into the text without loss. Inside of rear board 
once split vertically and now repaired; some chipping to the spine 
tips and small areas of leather lost from the rear board. Near Fine in 
a Very Good early binding.    $9000

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From office at joslinhall.com  Mon May  3 11:21:56 2004
From: office at joslinhall.com (Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 11:21:56 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] May 19-22 On-Line Book Fair / Celebration of the Book 
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VIRTUAL CELEBRATION OF THE BOOK / ON-LINE BOOK FAIR

                MAY 19th- 22nd, 2004

The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) will celebrate
its 57th birthday by hosting a ?virtual celebration of the book? online at
www.ilab.org, May 19 ? 22, 2004. The four day event will include a virtual
auction, book fair, lectures, appraisals, and a ?Biblio Quiz? where
entrants can win prizes by testing their book knowledge.

ILAB will also launch new features on its website, including educational
resources for book collectors and highlighting its powerful new search
engine which searches a database of over 3 million books, maps, prints and
autographs from nearly 2000 booksellers from all over the world.

The celebratory event will kick off Wednesday, May 19, 2004, at 6:00 p.m.
Amsterdam time ? the site of ILAB?s first conference in 1947 ? with a
virtual auction to benefit the U.S. Fund for Unicef, a non-profit
organization helping children in need around the world, and will continue
through May 22nd. Donated by ILAB booksellers, books and prints will be up
for auction at www.ilab.org during the four day event.

Thousands of antiquarian books, prints, maps and autographs will be
available for purchase from trusted ILAB booksellers through the Virtual
Book Fair, beginning at 6:00 p.m. Amsterdam time on Thursday, May 20th and
running until 10:00 p.m. May 22nd. Visitors to the book fair at
www.ilab.org can also test their book knowledge and compete for prizes
such as gift certificates during the Biblio Quiz on May 22nd.

Friday, May 21st, brings Education Day to www.ilab.org. Guests will find a
large resource of information related to the book collecting hobby,
libraries, and ILAB, as well as the opportunity to post their own favorite
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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Mon May  3 12:04:09 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 12:04:09 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Architectural monograph of a Paris vaudeville
	theatre. 1873
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(ARCHITECTURE) Magne, M. A.   MONOGRAPHIE DU NOUVEAU THEATRE DU VAUDEVILLE 
ERIGE PAR LA VILLE DE PARIS Sous la Direction de M. A. Magne. Paris: Ducher et 
Cie. 1873. Lg. folio (19-1/2? x 14-1/2?). 14pp. Plus 24 engraved plates 
(bearing numbers 1-30), but complete (3 plates are double numbered, including one in 
color, and 1 plate has 4 numbers).   Cont. red morocco over marbled boards, 
corners worn, spine chipped, front cover detached. Needs rebinding. Priced 
accordingly. Very scarce.     $375.00 (trade discount allowed)

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From matheson at boo.net  Mon May  3 20:02:34 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 20:02:34 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  On Watermarks
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20040503195925.01fc67e8@boo.net>

Greetings,
     For consideration on a watery day in Maryland :

Renker, Armin.   Das Buch vom Papier.  [Wiesbaden] Insel-Verlag [1951]. 
Original quarter cloth and paper boards. Ownership signature, place, and 
date of Alan Fern on the front free endpaper. Lower front corner lightly 
bumped, otherwise fine with publisher's wrap-around band. The fourth, newly 
edited edition. 230 pp., followed by 46 numbered plates, followed by 
reproductions of watermarks, followed by paper samples, some tipped 
in.  $100.00

Geraklitov, A. A.  Watermarks of the XVIIth Century in paper of manuscript 
and printed documents of Russian origin.  Moscow, Publishing House of the 
Academy of Sciences, USSR, 1963. Original cloth. Very good in chipped dust 
jacket with internally repaired tears. Title-pages in English and Russian. 
Text in Russian. [28] pp., followed by the Atlas (reproductions of 
watermarks), p. 31-226. Contents page in Russian and English. [259] pp. $100.00

Herdeg, Walter, ed.   Art in the watermark / Kunst im Wasserzeichen / L'art 
di filigrane. Introduction by Armin Renker.  Zurich, Walter Herdeg, Graphis 
Press [c1972]. Original white cloth. Fine. First published 1952. Text in 
English, German, and French. 103 pp. 363 numbered illustrations of 
watermarks with brief descriptions.  $75.00

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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Mon May  3 22:41:43 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 02:41:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-A Selection from Stock, with Images 
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.40.0405040241200.57746-100000@meyerbos.com>

A selection of works which we have in stock, with images of them;
for others, please feel free to browse our web site, where you
may search our entire inventory by any word or phrase:
www.meyerbos.com

1.  A'BECKETT, Gilbert.  The Comic Blackstone.  Bradbury, Agnew &
Co., 8,9,10, Bouverie Street, London, 1887.  Blue pictorial cloth
gilt, the spine faded, yet a sound copy. [58806 L44L64E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58806     $ 350.00

The prettiest and most lavish of all the 'Comic Blackstones',
revised and extended by Gilbert A'Beckett's son, Arthur William
A'Beckett (a barrister of Gray's Inn, as was his father); with many
illustrations, ten in full color, by Henry Furniss.

3.  BURLAMAQUI, J.J.  The Principles of Politic Law: Being a Sequel
to the Principles of Natural Law.  Printed for J. Nourse, opposite
Katherine Street in the Strand, London, 1752.  Contemporary calf,
worn, joints cracked, label lacking; usable. [58065 L44] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58065     $ 650.00

First edition in English of one of the two principal works of
Burlamaqui "demonstrably, a primary source of the theory voiced in
the Declaration of Independence", written with considerable
lucidity and clarity of thought; the only separate issuance.

4.  C[ARTER], S[amuel].  Lex Custumaria: or, A Treatise of
Copy-hold Estates, In respect of the Lord [and the] Copy-holder.
Wherein The Nature of Customs in general . . . are explained. And
also Of Actions by Lord or Tenant . . . To which are Annexed
Presidents [etc.]. Wing C665.  Printed by the Assigns of Richard
and Edward Atkins [etc.], London, 1696.  Contemporary calf,
rebacked, a good clean copy. [58414 L51] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58414     $ 650.00

First edition of the work which Holdsworth singles out as the
principal successor to Coke's seminal treatise on copyhold,
elucidating the important form of land tenure which Carter
estimates then accounted for about 1/3 of English
property-holdings.

5.  [CALIFORNIA].  California Codes. Parts of the Codes That Take
Effect Prior to January 1st, 1873.  T.A. Springer State Printer,
[Sacramento], [1872].  Contemporary sheep, rebacked in cloth, worn
but usable. [57757] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=57757     $ 250.00

With an introductory note by the three commissioners (Creed
Haymond, John C. Burch and Charles A. Tuttle) stating that the work
"is published in obedience to the requirements of an Act of the
Legislature"; arranged by Code.

6.  [CALIFORNIA].  The Penal Code of California.  T.A. Springer,
State Printer, Sacramento, 1872.  Contemporary sheep, some cracking
to the joints; usable. [57756 L38] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=57756     $ 350.00

The original 1872 code, still the essential foundation of
California's present law.

7.  CARDOZO, Benjamin N.  The Nature of the Judicial Process.  Yale
University Press, New Haven, 1921.  Original cloth, a bit worn, but
still quite sound. [58112 YL53EL58EL] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58112   $ 4,500.00

The copy of Justice Cardozo's most famous work which was once in
his library, bearing on the front pastedown the posthumous
bookplate made for insertion (by Judge Irving Lehman) in all of the
books remaining on his death.

8.  [EXCISE].  A Collection Of all the Statutes now in Force,
Relating to the Duties upon Candles, Leather, Sope, Paper, Silks,
Callicoes [and various other goods], With An Abridgment of the said
Statutes and a Table of the Rates [etc.].  Printed by William Brown
and John Mosman [etc.], Edinburgh, 1724.  Modern calf, definite
foxing, else quite a usable copy. [58552] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58552     $ 650.00

Only edition of an early, substantial effort to catalogue much of
the realm's excise taxes, arranged by subject and then
chronologically, with a valuable appendix alphabetically digesting
the legislation by subject; no copy in the British Library.

9.  [GILBERT, Geoffrey].  The Law of Tenures; Including the Theory
and Practice of Copyholds . . . With An Historical Introduction on
the Feudal System . . . by Charles Watkins [etc.]. Fourth Edition.
Printed by A. Strahan . . . for J. Butterworth, Fleet-Street,
London, 1796.  Contemporary calf, rebacked, the old spine laid
down; attractive. [58415 L42] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58415     $ 650.00

Written "with great learning and acuteness" in Holdsworth's view,
supplying an analysis of the feudal relationship in the land law
lacking in Coke and Littleton and to be borrowed by Blackstone;
this edition the first to bear Watkin's introduction.

10.  GROTIUS, Hugo.  De Veritate Religionis Christianae. Editio
tertia, prioribus auctior & emendatior. Ter Meulen and Diermanse
947.  Ex officina Ioannis Mairs, Lugduni Batavorum, 1633.
Contemporary vellum, quite worn, but a sound copy. [58044 L39L49]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58044
                                                         $ 350.00

One of the earliest editions of Grotius' enormously popular defence
of Christianity, and one of a handful to appear during his
lifetime, with its subsequent translation from the Latin into some
ten European languages.
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From zita at speakeasy.net  Tue May  4 00:24:40 2004
From: zita at speakeasy.net (Laderman)
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 00:24:40 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] OFFER:18TH  CENTURY RUNAWAY BEST SELLER!
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TRENCK, FRIEDRICH: MEMOIRS OF FREDERICK BARON TRENCK. WRITTEN BY HIMSELF. 
Translated from the German original, by an officer of the royal artillery
 
[THOMAS HOLCROFT] London, Printed for T. and J. Egerton, 1788 . 2 Vols. 
Front.[portrait], 222, 221 Pp. 19 cm. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Trenck 
tells a story of himself that is full of lively illustration of the days of 
Frederick the Great. He claims that Frederick the King owed him a grudge, 
because Frederick of Trenck had, when eighteen years old, fascinated the 
Princess Amalie at a ball. But as Frederick Trenck was in 
correspondence  with his cousin Franz at the time when that his cousin was 
planning to seize Frederick the Great, there may have been better ground 
for the Trenck's arrest than he allows us to imagine. After his release 
from imprisonment in 1763, he married a burgomaster's daughter, and went 
into business as a wine merchant. Then he became adventurous again. His 
adventures, published in German in 1786-7, and in his own French version in 
1788, formed one of the most popular books of its time. Seven plays were 
founded on them, and ladies in Paris wore their bonnets a la Trenck. But 
the French finally guillotined the author, when within a year of threescore 
and ten, on the 26th of July, 1794. He had gone to Paris in 1792, and 
joined there in the strife of parties. At the guillotine he struggled with 
the executioner. It was also a best seller in the United States.Here is a 
chronicle of the American Editions : 1789, 1790, 1792 [2.], 1793[2], 
1794[2], 1798, 1799[2], 1804[3], 1806,  1808, 1810, 1814, 1815, 1816, 1818, 
1826, 1827, 1828[2], 1829, 1830, 1834, 1847, 1853, 1854, 1886[2].There seem 
to have been nearly as many editions in the UK. In both countries juvenile 
versions were also produced. It was also influential on contemporary 
fiction, for example it was used by Godwin for his novel. "Caleb Williams, 
or Things as they are," by far his finest and most influential novel. This 
First Edition though is quite a rare book.  ESTC, N10610 RLIN/OCLC, 4 Locs. 
in the USA [YUS, HHG, NDD, UWO].Between COPAC and OCLC, only  2 copies are 
found in the UK, at the BL and at Bod. A Very Good copy in later marbled 
boards, cloth backstrip and printed title. $885.00

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From agvent at erols.com  Tue May  4 10:42:10 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 10:42:10 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  First Cook Book of American Authorship
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  One of 45 fine items from our list of Spring New Arrivals.  All 45 
can be seen at http://www.erols.com/agvent

               [SIMMONS,  Amelia].  AMERICAN  COOKERY: OR  THE  ART  OF
          DRESSING  VIANDS,  FISH,  POULTRY, AND VEGETABLES....  BY  AN
          ORPHAN.  Woodstock, VT: A. Colton 1831. Small octavo  (2-3/4"
          x 4-1/2")  bound in the original cloth-backed blue boards; v,
          (6)-110,  (2)  pages. Bitting (p. 435); Lowenstein 138:  "The
          first part  of this book seems to be a reprint of the work of
          the 'American  orphan,  Amelia Simmons.'" The  FIRST  COOKERY
          BOOK PUBLISHED  IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN  AUTHORSHIP,
          this title  was first published in 1796 with this edition  of
          1831 being  the  last  contemporary  printing  of  this  most
          important    and  scarce  book,   especially  in   reasonable
          condition  in  an  original  binding. OCLC  fails  to  locate
          another  copy  of  the  1831 edition  in  any  library.  This
          edition  appears  to  be  the   only  one  illustrated,  here
          containing  eight engravings illustrating the section  titled
          "Rules  for  Carving at Dinner Parties." A two-page index  is
          at the  conclusion. Completely original but for a small piece
          of board  at  the  upper corner of the front cover  that  was
          recently  repaired. Minor worming to title page; about a half
          dozen pages  with  clean  tears and no loss.  Very  Good  and
          quite uncommon.                                      $3500.00

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From: RareBookCellar at aol.com (RareBookCellar at aol.com)
Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 15:06:24 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] [b] FA: stated 1st SALINGER CATCHER IN THE RYE 
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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Tue May  4 12:48:03 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 12:48:03 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Manilus' Astrology. Paris: 1768
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(ASTROLOGY) Manilius, Marcus. ASTRONOMICON. LIBRI QUINQUE; Accessere Marci 
Tullii Ciceronis Arataea, cum Interpretatione Gallica et Notis: Edente Al. G. 
Pingre. Paris: Via et Aedibus Serpentinis. 1786. 2 vols. bound in 1. 
lii,310;(4),348pp. Several woodcut headpieces (one of which shows a large telescope). 
Cont. mottled calf, gilt decorated spine, brown calf label, a bit worn. 
Extremities of spine chipped, front hinge with 1? splits at head & foot.          
$400.00 (trade discount allowed)

Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
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From office at joslinhall.com  Tue May  4 15:03:16 2004
From: office at joslinhall.com (Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:03:16 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: To be in Paris when the Silver is Shining...
Message-ID: <2514.12.76.172.178.1083697396.squirrel@www.joslinhall.com>


Nocq, Henri. LE POINCON DE PARIS. Repertoire des Maitres-Orfevres de la
Juridiction de Paris depuis le Moyen-Age jusqu'a la Fin du XVIIIe siecle.

Paris; Leonce Laget, Edituer: 1968. Limited to 400 sets.

A facsimile of the 1926-1931 limited edition set. Henri Nocq, a very
respected authority on French silver who wrote several other books on the
subject, would find, were he alive today, that no comparable study has
displaced this one as an authoritative reference to Parisian goldsmiths of
the 18th century and their work. This is a small niche of the scholarly
world to be sure, but this set still stands firmly astride it. Hardcovers.
5 volumes. 8.5"x11", 325 ; 370; 441; 291; 96 pages; with numerous b/w
illustrations and plates; several color plates; light wear, but overall a
very nice set. [03134] $1800.00

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From office at joslinhall.com  Tue May  4 15:09:17 2004
From: office at joslinhall.com (Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA)
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 15:09:17 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: 'Father Himalaya',
	the father of Solar Energy in Portugal...
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  A Copy Owned by 'Father Himalaya',
  the father of Solar Energy in Portugal-

Charleton, Arthur G. TIN: DESCRIBING THE CHIEF METHODS OF MINING, DRESSING
& SMELTING IT ABROAD. With Notes upon Arsenic, Bismuth and Wolfram.

London; E. & F.N. Spon: 1884.

A scholarly study of European methods of mining, dressing and smelting
tin, chiefly in Bohemia and Saxony. Charleton was a member of the American
Institute of Mining Engineers.

This copy bears the ownership signature of Manuel Antonio Gomes 'Himalaya'
[1868-1933(?)]. "Father Himalaya" is considered to be the father of solar
energy in Portugal, and a visionary pioneer in the field of renewable
energy. After taking Holy Orders in the Society of Jesus he studied
natural sciences, physics, chemistry, mathematics and astronomy, and
traveled to France where he studied with the noted chemist Marcelin
Berthelot.

In 1899 he was granted a patent by the French government for a device to
produce heat by focusing the sun's rays; in 1900 he constructed a test
device in the Pyrenees and attained a temperature of 1100 degrees
centigrade. In 1902 an experiment in Lisbon attained 2000 degrees, and he
made a final, startling demonstration of the power of such a device at the
St. Louis Exposition in Missouri 1904.  There he constructed his
"Pireliofero", a 3-story high parabolic mirror mounted on a monstrous iron
framework which focused sunlight on an oven mounted at the top of the
structure. The oven reached a temperature of 3500 degrees, melting a test
chunk of basalt, and Father Himalaya won a Grand Prize for his efforts.

He promoted other forms of renewable energy as well, including tidal
energy and hydroelectric power, wind power, and geothermal power. Alas,
there was plenty of cheap coal and oil available, and his work was
generally ignored and forgotten.

Father Himalaya retired to become chaplain at Viana Castle, a charity
home, where he died at the age of 65. His work has excited interest in
Europe in recent years, and his ideas have only lately attained a measure
of the respect which eluded them in his lifetime. Hardcover. 6"x9", 83
pages with 2 b/w plates and several text illustrations, plus 17 folding
plates of plans and elevations. Light wear, a little rubbing to the tips,
etc., text a bit browned, endpaper slightly spotted, but a very nice copy;
ownership inscription "Rev. M.A.G. Himalaya, Braga, Portugal, 1907" on the
title page. [05444] $200.00

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From matheson at boo.net  Tue May  4 15:55:22 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 15:55:22 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Cambridge Christmas books
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20040504155342.01feb0b0@boo.net>

For consideration this spring:


Crutchley, Brooke.   Two men: Walter Lewis and Stanley Morison at Cambridge.
Cambridge, University Printer, 1968. Original quarter cloth and decorated 
paper boards. Fine in original box bumped at the foot of the backstrip. A 
Cambridge Christmas book. [48] pp., followed by 7 tipped-in specimens. 
Cover design by Re ynolds Stone. A number of the illustrations 
full-page.  $100.00

Crutchley, Brooke.   A printer's Christmas books 1930-58.  Cambridge, 
Privately Printed, 1959. Original marbled paper wrappers, vellum label on 
the front wrapper. Fine. Edition size not indicated, but 500 copies. The 
Cambridge Christmas book for 1959.  $50.00

Morison, Stanley.   A tally of types cut for machine composition and 
introduced at the University Press Cambridge.  Cambridge, privately 
printed, 1953. Original cloth. Lightly bumped at the head of the backstrip, 
otherwise fine. One of 450 copies. Dec. 1953 John Dreyfus t.l.s. to Donald 
D. Jackson, the University of Illinois Press, laid in (conveying the book 
and pointing out the possibility of using the types for books Jackson's 
press might wish to produce). Cambridge Christmas book. Carter / Second 
handlist 152. [102] pp. Types from Centaur roman to The Times New Roman and 
italic.  $150.00

Rylands, George, ed.   A distraction of wits nurtured in Elizabethan 
Cambridge, an anthology selected and introduced by George 
Rylands.  Cambridge, Printed by the University Printer for friends in 
printing & publishing, Christmas, 1958.Original comb patterned beige paper 
boards, red leather label on the backstrip. Fine. Cambridge Christmas book. 
Eleven full-page two-color drawings by Michael Ayrton. One of 500 
copies.  $75.00




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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Tue May  4 22:47:18 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 02:47:18 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-Family Law [I] 
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A selection of works which we have in stock on family law and
related subjects; for others, please feel free to browse our web
site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word or
phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  CHE, Wai-Kin.  The Modern Chinese Family.  R & E Research
Associates, Inc., Palo Alto, 1979.  Printed over-sized wraps,
showing wear, but sound; 155 pages. [69440 L78]           $ 65.00

With an introductory overview of the Chinese family before 1911,
several chapters on age and gender heirarchy, and several more on
education, with an emphasis on the civil code of 1930 and the
Marriage Law of the People's Republic of China.

2.  DE FRANCIS, Vincent.  The Court and Protective Services, Their
Respective Roles.  American Humane Association, Denver, 1960.
Printed, stapled wraps; 19 pages. [30682]                 $ 12.50

3.  FINLAY, H.A. and J.E. Sihombing.  Family Planning and the Law.
Second Edition.  Butterworths, Sydney, 1978.  Printed wraps, a bit
faded, but very sound. [30502]                            $ 20.00

4.  FOLBERG, Jay (ed.).  Joint Custody and Shared Parenting.
Bureau of National Affairs, Washington, 1984.  Wraps, a sound copy;
350 pages. [30225]                                        $ 25.00

5.  KATZ, Sanford N.  Child Snatching, The Legal Response to the
Abduction of Children.  American Bar Association, Chicago, 1981.
Printed wraps, a bit faded and worn, but sound; 206 pages. [30477]
                                                          $ 65.00

6.  KRITZER, Herbert M.  Adult Guardianships in Wisconsin: An
Empirical Assessment.  Elder Law Center, Madison, 1992.  Wraps; 105
pages. [30908]                                            $ 35.00

7.  LEVINE, Carol and Gary L. Stein.  Orphans of the HIV Epidemic,
Unmet Needs in Six U.S. Cities.  Orphan Project, New York, 1994.
Printed wraps; 62 pages. [30453]                          $ 45.00

8.  LYSTAD, Mary (comp.).  Violence at Home, An Annotated
Bibliography.  National Institute of Mental Health, Rockville,
1974.  Stapled wraps, sound; 95 pages. [90121]            $ 45.00

9.  MAHONEY, Margaret M.  Stepfamilies and the Law.  University of
Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1994.  A very good copy in the
dustjacket. [31039]                                       $ 25.00

10.  PAULSEN, Monrad G.  Cases and Selected Problems in Family Law
and Poverty. Second Edition.  West Publishing Company, St. Paul,
1973.  Printed wraps; 197 pages. [30547]                  $ 20.00

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From ivressedelivres at free.fr  Wed May  5 08:08:43 2004
From: ivressedelivres at free.fr (Ivresse de Livres)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 14:08:43 +0200
Subject: [Rarebooks] TOULLIER, Le droit civil
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From agvent at erols.com  Wed May  5 09:05:44 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 09:05:44 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Signed Photograph of Teddy Roosevelt with
	his family
Message-ID: <4098E6A8.9050703@erols.com>

One of 45 fine items from our list of Spring New Arrivals.  All 45 can 
be seen at http://www.erols.com/agvent

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE (TEDDY). SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH WITH FAMILY. Fine 
photograph by W. S. Ritch of New York (4-5/8" x 5-7/8") tipped to a 
6-1/4" x 9-3/8" mat of Theodore Roosevelt and several members of his 
family taken one year before Roosevelt's death. Pictured are his 
grandson Archibald, Jr., in Theodore Roosevelt's arms; his 
daughter-in-law, wife of son Archibald (not present); Roosevelt's 
second wife, Edith; and his daughter, Ethel Derby, with baby daughter 
Edith and son Richard Derby, Jr. Neatly SIGNED on the mat below the 
image by Theodore Roosevelt with the other names written in an unknown 
hand and dated May 1918 over the photographer's blindstamp. Minor 
creasing to the upper portion of the mat not affecting the photograph 
or the signature. Fine image on Near Fine mat.    $3500

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From Knigi at aol.com  Wed May  5 10:57:07 2004
From: Knigi at aol.com (Knigi at aol.com)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 10:57:07 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] Roger Bannister FIRST FOUR MINUTES (1955) signed
Message-ID: <88.a04d2c4.2dca5ac3@aol.com>

    
    Bannister, Sir Roger Gilbert 
    First four minutes 
    London: Putnam & Co Ltd, 1955 

? FIRST EDITION OF THE QUINTESSENTIAL RUNNING BOOK; being Bannister's own 
account of his running career 1946-54 and especially of the famous race at Oxford 
on 6 May 1954, when he became the first man to run a mile in less than four 
minutes--a stunning achievement that has been compared with climbing Mount 
Everest or landing on the Moon: "In a way," says Frank Deford, "Roger Bannister 
was the last hero in sport. All that have followed, however great, have only 
been celebrities, stars, superstars." 

? This is the first printing, SIGNED by the author on the titlepage, and VERY 
SCARCE thus. 


Now $100.00: 

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4208856355





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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Wed May  5 12:46:10 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 12:46:10 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Ptolemy's astrology translated by Ashmand. London:
	1822
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(ASTROLOGY) Ptolemaeus, Claudius. PTOLEMY?S TETRABIBLOS, OR QUADRIPARTITE: 
Being Four Books of the Influence of the Stars. Newly Translated from the 
Paraphrase of Proclus. With a Preface, Explanatory Notes, and an Appendix, 
Containing Extracts from the Almagest of Ptolemy, and the Whole of His Centiloquy; 
Together with a Short Notice of Mr. Ranger?s Zodiacal Planisphere, and an 
Explanatory Plate. By J. M. Ashmand [trans.]. London: Printed and Published by Davis 
and Dickson. 1822. (4),xxviii,240pp. (including 1 page of publisher?s ads). 
Illus. with a text diagram and several tables (but not the plate called for in 
the title ? which is also lacking in the Library of Congress copy). Cont. sheep, 
scuffed & chipped, over marbled boards (rubbed). Front hinge partially split 
but holding.     $350.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first edition of this translation. It is dedicated to Sir Walter Scott in 
appreciation of his restoring interest in astrology in ?Waverly.?

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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Wed May  5 22:49:56 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 02:49:56 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-Family Law [II] 
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.40.0405060249350.84046-100000@meyerbos.com>

A selection of works which we have in stock on family law and
related subjects; for others, please feel free to browse our web
site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word or
phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  REDDEN, Kenneth R.  Federal Regulation of Family Law.  Michie
Company, Charlottesville, 1982.  Russett cloth, a clean ex-library
copy. [30173]                                             $ 45.00

2.  Report of the Joint Subcommittee on Surrogate Motherhood to
the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia.  Commonwealth of
Virginia, Richmond, 1991.  Stapled wraps, sound; 68 pages. [30384]
                                                          $ 35.00

3.  SEPAROVIC, Zvonimir and Wanda Jamieson (eds.).  Domestic
Violence.  N.p., 1988.  Wraps, well-preserved; 107 pages. [90083]
                                                          $ 45.00

Selected papers given at the International Workshop on Domestic
Violence 1988 in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.

4.  STONE, Helen D. and Jeanne M. Hunzeker.  Education for Foster
Family Care: Models and Methods for Foster Parents and Social
Workers.  Child Welfare League of America, Inc., New York, 1974.
Printed wraps, oversized, a bit worn, but sound; 108 pages. [30605]
                                                          $ 25.00

5.  TEICHMAN, Jenny.  Illegitimacy, An Examination of Bastardy.
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1982.  [52966 L39EL49]
                                                          $ 35.00

7.  WESTRUP, C.W.  Introduction to Early Roman Law, Comparative
Sociological Studies. The Patriarchal Joint Family. Five Volumes
[complete].  Einar Munksgaard [and] Oxford University Press,
Copenhagen [and] London, 1934-54.  Original printed sewn wraps,
somewhat worn, the bindings not quite uniform (likely as issued),
a good set, once J.M. Kaye's with his ownership signature. [71422]
                                                         $ 350.00

With the earlier volumes devoted to the House Community, the
Community of Cult, Joint Family and Family Property, and Patria
Potestas, and the final two volumes to Sources and Methods, both
primary and of the ancient Roman tradition.

8.  WOLFGANG, Marvin E., et al. (comps.).  Domestic Criminal
Violence, A Selected Bibliography.  U.S. Department of Justice,
Washington, 1981.  Oversized wraps, a bit wrinkled, but quite
sound; 363 pages. [90124]                                 $ 65.00


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From zita at speakeasy.net  Thu May  6 00:24:49 2004
From: zita at speakeasy.net (Laderman)
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 00:24:49 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] OFFER:19TH CENTURY BROADSIDE POETRY, OCCASIONAL.
Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.2.20040506002033.00b0dcd8@mail.speakeasy.net>

1.	ANON.~ ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF MR. ASAPH WALLING, WHO WAS INSTANTLY KILLED 
IN HARTFORD, COUNTY OF WASHINGTON (STATE OF NEW YORK) BY THE FALL OF A 
TREE, on the 7th June, 1810, in the 21st year of his age. ~/ six lines of 
quoted poetry/  Written, for amusement, by a friend, and published by 
request of the mourners. ~Broadside, 45 x  18.4 cm. It consists of 32 
stanzas of 4 lines each, printed in double columns, separated by a line of 
type ornaments.~ The first stanza as follows: The task be mine for to 
relate/ That awful scene which was of late:/ A lovely youth, all in his 
bloom / Has gone unto the silent tomb./ Under the poem there is a 
postscript in prose, Viz.: "The deceased, just before he took his departure 
to the world of disembodied spirits, was heard to remark, on the sudden 
death of his mother, which happened about five years past; from which it 
appears rational to conclude that his mind was in some degree conversant 
with death." ~There is no copy recorded in AI, nor OCLC, MWA, HLS, Brown, 
NYP, BPL, CIC, Melvyl, YUS.~ This copy has some faint water stains, and a 
few horizontal folds but is in Very Good + condition. ~$850.00~

2.	ANON. THE FOURTH ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE CARRIERS OF THE YONKERS HERALD, 
JANUARY 1, 1856. 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 50 x 31 cm. Yonkers Herald 
Print.  It consist of several lines of decorative types face inside a 
rectangle with rounded corners made up of type elements. Within are twelve 
verses each of 8 lines. Wide margins clean now tanning or foxing. The 
poetry was unique and occasional, made up for this purpose and no other. 
Often the newspapermen themselves wrote the poetry, I have not been able to 
find a copy in any of the major collections.[MWA, RBR, HLS, PUL, NYP, LC, 
MELVYL, CIC]. It is folded in the center, with some tearing at the folds, 
but not the slightest loss. One corner a bit beat up, but not much. About 
VG.  $750.00

3.	ANON. CARRIER'S ADDRESS OF THE EVENING BULLETIN. CHRISTMAS, 1861. NEW 
YEAR, 1862. [Philadelphia] : M'Laughlin Brothers, printers, 112 South Third 
Street, Philada., [1861] 1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 47 x 32 cm. At head and 
flanking title: "Our whole country!" "Now and forever!" Below this in the 
center is a wood engraving, unsigned, showing the carnage of war. The text 
in in two columns divided by a column of the next year's calender. There is 
a copy at the MWA, as well as at the Free Library, and NYP. However I have 
found no others. About Fine. $575.00

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From agvent at erols.com  Thu May  6 08:47:47 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 08:47:47 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Illustrated Folio History of Beastes & Serpents,
	1607-08
Message-ID: <409A33F3.3060004@erols.com>

One of 45 fine items from our list of Spring New Arrivals.  All 45 can 
be seen at http://www.erols.com/agvent

               TOPSELL,  Edward.  THE HISTORIE OF FOURE-FOOTED  BEASTES
          bound with  THE HISTORIE OF SERPENTS: OR, THE SECOND BOOKE OF
          LIUING  CREATURES. London: William Jaggard 1607 & 1608. First
          Edition.  Two  volumes bound together; folio (7-3/4"  x  13")
          bound in  early calf with blind-stamped central panels; [42],
          759, [21]  pages;  [10], 307 (of 315, lacking pp. 3-10),  [9]
          pages.  Largely  derived  from Konrad von  Gesner's  HISTORIA
          ANIMALIUM  (Zurich:  1551-58),  which in  turn  included  the
          whole of  Johannes Caius's ON ENGLISH DOGGES (London:  1576).
          Among the  many  creatures described and illustrated are  the
          horse (with  a  number of pages on curing  their  illnesses),
          the giraffe,  the  camel,  the  dragon,  and  the  half-human
          half-lion  Lamia  consisting of a lion's body with  a  female
          human head  and  breasts  and male genitalia. The  book  also
          contains  perhaps the last account of the unicorn: "There was
          nothing  more  horible than the voice or braying of  it,  for
          the voice  is  strained  above measure." These two  books  by
          Topsell    provided  most  of  the   beast  lore   found   in
          Shakespeare's  plays.  Welcome I, 6323-4; Wood P. 599:  "This
          book was  the great picture book of the seventeenth  century,
          and is  consequently  nearly always tattered,  dog-eared  and
          imperfect."  Our  copy  does not disappoint. Two  leaves  are
          lacking  from  the first volume and five from the second.  In
          addition  there  are occasional tears with some loss of  text
          to one  page. All in all there are 132 fantastic woodcuts  in
          the first  volume and 37 in the second with numerous engraved
          initial  capitals,  headpieces, and tailpieces. Some loss  of
          leather  to the front board which is a little loose but still
          secure.  Old,  rather  light dampstain on the  top  third  of
          nearly  all  pages.  Good  working  copies  of  these  scarce
          titles.                                              $4500

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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Thu May  6 13:39:00 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 13:39:00 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Ploss' 2 vol. work on "Das Weib in der Natur..."
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(WOMEN) Ploss, Hermann Heinrich. DAS WEIB IN DER NATUR- UND VOLKERKUNDE. 
Anthropo-logische Studien. Sechste Umgearbeitete und Stark Vermehrte Auflage. Nach 
dem Tode des Verfassers Bearbeitet und Herausgegeben von Dr. Max Bartels. Mit 
11 Lithographischen Tafeln und 539 Abildungen im Text. Leipzig: Th. Grieben?s 
Verlag (L. Fernau). 1899. Lg. 8vo. 2 vols. xvi,768;viii,764pp. Index. Plus 11 
lithographic plates, each with a facing page of description. Text illus. with 
539 figures (many full-page). 20th cent. burgundy morocco, gilt, over marbled 
boards. Fine.     $300.00 (trade discount allowed)
The sixth edition.

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From matheson at boo.net  Thu May  6 16:08:11 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 16:08:11 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Sadakichi Hartmann
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20040506152251.01fd93c0@boo.net>

For your consideration today:

Hartmann, Sadakichi.   My Rubaiyat.  Saint Louis, The Mangan Printing 
Company [c1913]. Original white paper boards. Boards rubbed at thecorners, 
darkened on the covers, stained on the front cover, fold over at the top of 
the spine missing. Frontispiece portrait of the author. "Drawings " by 
Delberta Weiss. Unidentified inscription on the front free endpaper: "To 
introduce my friend" followed by Japanese characters. 79 pp.  $200.00

Hartmann, Sadakichi.   Confucius, a drama in two acts.  Los Angeles, Cal., 
Privately Printed, 1923. Front hinge cracked, paper wrap-around label 
chipped, corners rubbed, otherwise very good. Blue cloth, red printed 
wrap-around label, tied with cloth in the Japanese style. One of 500 
copies. Inscribe d by Hartmann "To Wyn Schindler" on the recto of the leaf 
following the title-leaf.  $175.00

Hartmann, Sadakichi.   Confucius, a drama in two acts.  Los Angeles, 
Privately Printed, 1923. Joints cracking and cords beginning to fray, as 
usual, otherwise very good. One of 500 copies. Japanese-style binding 
stab-bound with cord ties. Small broadside about Hartmann tipped to the 
front past edown. 90 p.  $85.00

Batchelor, John, comp.  The Sadakichi Hartmann papers, a descriptive 
inventory of the collection in the University of California, Riverside, 
Library.  Riverside, University of California, 1980. Original printed 
wrappers. Lower corner bumped, otherwise near fine in lightly soiled 
wrappers. Introduction by Harry Lawton. Compiled by John Batchelor. Edited 
by Clifford Wurfel. 140 pp.  $35.00

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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Fri May  7 02:19:02 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 06:19:02 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-A Selection from Stock, with Images 
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A selection of works which we have in stock, with images of them;
for others, please feel free to browse our web site, where you
may search our entire inventory by any word or phrase:
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1.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England. Four
Volumes [Second Editions of Volumes One and Two, First Editions of
Volumes Three and Four].  Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1766-69.  [59066
Y] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=59066
                                                       $ 4,500.00

A well preserved mixed edition of the most famous of all works on
English law, bound in a full contemporary calf, a bit of cracking
to some joints, a tad of foxing, one label chipped, yet generally
quite fresh, clean and wide-margined.

2.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England. The
Fourth [sic] Edition. Eller 6.  Printed for John Exshaw [and
others; imprint varies], Dublin, 1771.  Contemporary calf, rubbed,
a few repairs, new labels; a sound set. [60114 TAS] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=60114   $ 1,500.00

A very early Dublin-printed, pirated edition (the second) of
Blackstone's classic work, appearing during the same year as the
first American edition, and the first in Ireland in which all four
volumes were published during the same year.

3.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Tracts, Chiefly Relating to the
Antiquities and Laws of England. Third Edition.  At the Clarendon
Press, Oxford, 1771.  A handsome copy, in a modern speckled calf,
extra gilt. [60301 L57E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=60301     $ 850.00

4.  CAMPBELL, John Lord.  The Lives of the Chief Justices of
England. From the Norman Conquest till the Death of Lord Tenterden.
Five Volumes.  Edward Thomson, Long Island, 1894.  [59068] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=59068   $ 1,250.00

The most sumptuous and elaborate of all the editions of the
Campbell's Chief Justices, with many full-page plates, some in
color and others folding; with the crimson dustwrappers, well
preserved, in the original slipcases, somewhat worn.

5.  DODERIDGE, Sir John.  The English Lawyer. Describing A Method
for the managing of the Lawes of this Land.  And expressing the
best qualities requisite in the Student Practizer Judges and
Fathers of the same.  Printed by the Assignes of I. More Esq.,
London, 1631.  Modern calf, gilt, definite browning; a sound copy.
[59011 XYL64] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=59011   $ 2,250.00

First and only early edition of Dodderidge's singular attempt to
determine the qualities of the lawyer and law student, and to probe
the fundamental nature of law, including its essential grounds and
maxims.

6.  [FREDERICK AUGUSTUS, DUKE OF YORK].  A Circumstantial Report of
the Evidence and Proceedings upon the Charges Preferred against His
Royal Highness the Duke of York in the Capacity of Commander in
Chief . . . With all the other Documents produced in the Course of
the Investigation [etc.].  Printed for James Cundee, Ivy-Lane,
Paternoster-Row, London, 1809.  Later 3/4 morocco, rubbed, some
embrowning; quite a good copy. [59041 L51] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=59041     $ 250.00

The transcript of the proceedings in the House of Commons forcing
the resignation of George III's second son, Frederick Augustus, as
Commander in Chief, unwittingly caught in the web of his mistress's
successful influencing-peddling efforts.

7.  [GILBERT, Geoffrey], Baron.  The Law of Distresses and
Replevins, Delineated . . . To which is added, An Appendix of
English Precedents in Replevin.  Printed by Henry Lintot . . . for
J. Worrall [etc.], [London], 1757.  Modern calf, the original label
preserved, small hole in title (fram an erasure) not affecting the
text, else quite a good copy. [59103 L49L63E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=59103     $ 450.00

8.  [INNS OF COURT].  W[illiam] Herbert.  Antiquities of the Inns
of Court and Chancery: Containing Historical and Descriptive
Sketches Relative to Their Original Foundation, Customs,
Ceremonies, Buildings, Government . . . With a Concise History of
English Law.  Printed for Vernor and Hood, Poultry [etc.], London,
1804.  Contemporary? 3/4 calf, rebacked, an attractive copy; with
the twenty-four plates, with varying degrees of foxing. [59038
L55E] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=59038
                                                         $ 650.00

9.  JACOBSEN, Frederick J.  Laws of the Sea, with Reference to
Maritime Commerce, during Peace and War [translated] from the
German . . . by William Frick.  Published by Edward J. Coale,
Baltimore, 1818.  Contemporary sheep, some staining and tears; a
usable copy. [60309] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=60309     $ 450.00

10.  [MILTON, JOHN].  [George Walker].  Substance of the Speech of
the Rev. Mr. Walker . . . to Which is Added Mr. Thomson's Preface
to a Speech of Mr. John Milton, for the Liberty of Unlicensed
Printing, to the Parliament of England. First Published in the Year
1644. McCoy T101.  Printed . . . By the Society for Constitutional
Information, [London], 1780.  Modern 1/4 black morocco, the edges
cut close, else a fresh copy. [59257 L68] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=59257     $ 450.00

The proposals for Parliamentary reform delivered by Walker,
polymath associate of Newton and John Millar whose forensic
abilities were compared with Cicero's, coupled with James Thomson's
famed preface to Milton's masterwork first published in 1738.
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From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 10:52:46 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Julia Ward Howe: Mother's Day Gift
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HOWE, Julia Ward AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS)
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SIGNED by Howe and dated 15 January 1887: "Then spake the Angel of 
Mothers/To me, in gentle tone:/'Be kind to the children of others,/And 
thus deserve thine own.'" Howe, active in the women's suffrage 
movement, is perhaps best known as the author of another poem, "The 
Battle Hymn of the Republic," written at night in a dark tent near the 
beleaguered capital of Washington at the beginning of the Civil War. 
It earned her the grand total of $4 upon its publication in THE 
ATLANTIC MONTHLY along with the added bonus of instant and lasting 
fame. Later she became president of the New England Woman Suffrage 
Association as well as the Association of the Advancement of Women. 
Howe was honored as the first woman elected to the American Academy of 
Arts and Letters in 1908, two years before her death at 91. Beautiful 
lyric, and what a great Mother's Day gift!    $1000

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From matheson at boo.net  Fri May  7 12:10:16 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 12:10:16 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Lauri-Volpi inscribed autobiographies
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20040507120203.01fb3db0@boo.net>

For your consideration today, both in Italian :

30668. Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo.   A viso aperto.  Milano, "Corbaccio: 
dall'Oglio, editore [1953]. Dust jacket over printed wrappers. Embossed 
ownership stamp on the title-page, cheap text paper and wrapper paper 
browned and foxed, dust jacket rubbed and missing pieces along the top 
edge. First edition. Farkas / Opera and concert singers 729. A sequel to 
L'equivico. Inscribed by the author to Toino Giordani on the half-title in 
Italian and Latin, guigno 28, 1953. $60.00

30669. Lauri-Volpi, Giacomo.  L'equivoco.   Milano, Edizioni Corbaccio 
[1938]. Embossed ownership stamp on the title-page, ink names on the front 
endpaper, half-title and title-page, book-plate on the half-title, paper 
browning, wrappers chipped and missing a 2" triangular piece. First 
edition. Inscribed by Lauri-Volpi on the title-page: "Al Gr. Uff. Generale 
Giuseppe Boella devotamente G. Lauri-Volpi / XVII". Farkas / Opera and 
concert singers 731 ("...fascinating reading with a wealth of detail, not 
only about the tenor's career, but also about his fellow artists, 
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Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 13:01:05 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Gherardo da Cremona's astrology. Paris: 1691
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(ASTROLOGY) Gherardo, Da Cremona. GEOMANCIE ASTRONOMIQUE de Gerard de 
Cremone. Pour Savoir les Choses Passes, les Presentes, & les Futures? Traduite par le 
Sieur de Salerne. Et Augmentee en Cette Derniere Impressions de Plusieurs 
Questions, & d?Autres Curiositez. Paris: Laurent d?Houry. 1691. 12mo. 
(10),258,(6)pp. Illus. with a woodcut table and several woodcut diagrams. Note: another 
work of 144pp. on Geomancy, also translated by le Sieur de Salerne, is bound 
at the back, but unfortunately lacks its title page. Early vellum, hand 
lettered spine.     $450.00 (trade discount allowed)

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From: ivressedelivres at free.fr (Ivresse de Livres)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 19:13:27 +0200
Subject: [Rarebooks] Exposition universelle de Paris (1900)
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From law at lawbookexchange.com  Fri May  7 17:33:58 2004
From: law at lawbookexchange.com (The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 17:33:58 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] A Selection of Lawbook Exchange Titles
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Friday, May 07, 2004, 5:33 PM:

The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. is pleased to offer the following items.
For other works, and for our current Recent Acquisitions
and Special Offers catalogue, please feel free to browse our website:
www.lawbookexchange.com

1.          Dictionary of Roman Terms and Phrases by Brisson
Brisson, Barnabe [1531-1591]. [Conradi, Francisci Caroli (Franz Karl)
(1701-1748), Editor]. De Formulis et Solemnibus Populi Romani Verbis
Libri VIII. Accedunt Praefatio Nova Vita et Elogia Barnabae Brissonii
Conspectus Universi Operis et Summaria Auctorumque, Formularum Rerum
et Verborum Indices. Halle and Leipzig: Sumptibus Ern. Gottl. Krugii,
1731. [iv], 18, 40, 728, [54] pp. Copperplate portrait frontispiece.
Folio (8" x 12-3/4"). Contemporary calf, raised bands, lettering
piece, gilt ornaments to spine, speckled edges. Moderate rubbing with
wear to board edges, corners and spine ends, front board partially
detached, rear joint cracked but secure. Title page printed in red and
black. Attractive woodcut title page device, head-pieces, tail-pieces
and decorated initials. Offsetting to margins of endleaves, faint
dampstaining to portions of text block's upper corner, occasional
light foxing and browning, minor worming to fore-edges of a few
leaves. Later owner bookplate to verso of front free endpaper,
interior otherwise clean. $1,200.
* Third edition. Brisson was a renowned French jurist and philologist.
Widely respected, he was appointed president of the Parliament of
Paris in 1588. In 1591, however, he was hanged by The Sixteen, a group
of insurgents who captured Paris in a bizarre coup. His De Verborum
Significatione (1557) was the standard general legal dictionary of its
day, and it remained an authoritative source for hundreds of years.
First published in 1581, De Formulis et Solemnibus is a compendium of
Roman language, customs, ordinances, religion and government. It
includes detailed definitions of words and phrases with points on
usage and sample passages. Conradi was a German legal scholar and
professor at the Universities of Wittenberg and Helmstadt. British
Museum Catalogue (Compact Edition) 4:160.
(Inventory # 39987)

2.            Important Seventeenth-Century Law Dictionary
Calvinus, Johannes (Kahl, Johannis). [c.1550-c.1610]. Magnum Lexicon
Juridicum: Juris Nimirum Caesarei Simul, & Canonici, Feudalis Item,
Civilis, Criminalis, Theoretici ac Practici: & in Schola, & in Foro
Usitatarum, ac Tum ex Ifso Juris Utriusque Corpore, Tum ex Doctoribus
& Glossis, Tam Veteribus, Quam Recentioribus Collectarum Vocum Penus:
Simul & Locorum Communium, & Dictionarii Vicem Sustinens. Feudale
Lexicon; Leges ac Magistratus Romanos, & Caetera Huic Operi Adjecta
Vide in Complemento, Post Sinum Operis Ipsius. Collectum Vero est Hoc
Opus ex Collatis Inter Sese Juridicus, Quotquot Hactenus Fere
Prodierunt, & Antiquioribus & Recentioribus Lexicis. Auctum Deind,
Expolitum et Emendatum, ex Hactenus Editis Accuratissimis
Locubrationibus DD. Jac. Cujacii, Barn. Brissonii, Hug. Donelli,
Franc. Duareni, Dion. Gothofredi, Jul. Pacii, Herm, Vulteii, Joh.
Corrasii, Pet. Fabri, Matth. Wesembecii, Aliorumque Praestantissimorum
Virtorum: Quorum Catalogum Mox Post Praesationes Invenies. Cum
Praefationibus Clar. & Emin. Juris-Consultorum Dion. Gothofredi &
Herm. Vulteii. Editio Postrema, Auctior, & ab Innumeris Mendis
Expurgata. Geneva: Sumptibus Fratrum Cramer, 1759. Two volumes. Folio
(9" x 14"). Contemporary limp vellum, hand-lettered title in early
hand to spines. Light soiling to binding, some wear to top and bottom
edges, a few chips to fore-edges, ties lacking. Woodcut printer device
to title pages, woodcut head-pieces, tail-pieces and decorated
initials. Chip to head of front free endpaper of Volume I, faint
dampstaining to lower corner of text block of Volume II. Minor worming
to both volumes with no loss to text. Light browning to a few leaves,
interior otherwise fresh. An impressive set. $1,250.
* Reissue of the enlarged and corrected 1670 edition. With prefaces by
Denis Godefroy [1549-1622] and Hermann Vulteius [1565-1634]. Jonannes
Calvinus (Kahl) was a German jurist and professor of law at the
University of Heidelberg who wrote several books on politics, Jewish
law and Roman law. The Lexicon Juridicum proved to be his most honored
and durable publication. First published in 1600, it went through
numerous editions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. It
draws on several authors, including Albericus, Brisson, Cicero,
Hotoman and Tacitus. A scholarly work, it contains an extensive list
of sources. The definitions are admirably clear and concise, and they
conclude with a list of citations. Walker, Oxford Companion to Law
170. This edition not listed in the British Museum Catalogue.
(Inventory # 37326)

3.                     "The Best Edition"--Lowndes
Grotius, Hugo [1583-1645]. Barbeyrac, Jean [1674-1744], Editor. The
Rights of War and Peace, in Three Books. Wherein are Explained, The
Law of Nature and Nations, and The Principal Points Relating to
Government. Written in Latin by the Learned Hugo Grotius, And
Translated into English. To Which are Added, All the Large Notes of
Mr. J. Barbeyrac. London: Printed for W. Innys [et. al.], 1738. xxxvi,
817 [i.e. 813] pp. Folio (9-1/4" x 14-1/2"). Later three-quarter calf
over pebbled cloth, raised bands, lettering piece, gilt ornaments to
spine compartments, gilt fillets to spine bands and boards, marbled
edges and endpapers. Light rubbing with some wear to spine ends,
corners bumped with some scuffing and wear, joints just starting at
ends. Light foxing to preliminaries, interior otherwise remarkably
fresh. Ex-library. Tiny location number to foot of spine, residue from
label and card pocket to front pastedown and front free endpaper,
small embossed stamp to foot of title page, tiny inkstamp to foot of
following leaf. A very handsome copy. $2,000.
* With indexes of scriptural passages, authors, Greek and Latin terms
and subjects. The "best edition" according to Lowndes. First published
in Paris in 1625, it established the system of modern public
international law, based on the concept of "droit naturel," a
morality-based law that superseded the laws of individuals or nations.
Though based on Christian natural law, Grotius advanced the novel
argument that his system would still be valid if it lacked a divine
origin. In this regard Grotius pointed to the future by moving
international law in a secular direction. This treatise influenced the
leaders of the American Revolution. Jefferson and Washington owned
copies of this edition, which includes extensive annotations by Jean
Barbeyrac, an important authority on natural law. A jurist and
professor of law at Lausanne and Groningen, he was esteemed for his
commentaries on Noodt, Grotius and Pufendorf. His translations played
a crucial role in the dissemination of their work. Lowndes,
Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature, Rev. ed. III:950. Sweet
and Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of
Nations I: 595. Sowerby, Library of Thomas Jefferson 1404. Boston
Athenaeum, Catalogue of the Washington Collection 531. Printing and
the Mind of Man 125.
(Inventory # 41136)

4.   "Indispensible to the Student of Congressional Procedure"
[United States Congress]. Hinds, Asher C., Compiler. Hinds' Precedents
of the House of Representatives of the United States: Including
References to Provisions of the Constitution, the Laws, and Decisions
of the United States Senate. Washington: Government Printing Office,
1907. 5 volumes.
[Together with]
Cannon, Clarence, Compiler. Cannon's Precedents of the House of
Representatives of the United States. Washington: Government Printing
Office, 1935. 6 volumes. Together 11 volumes, complete as issued.
Original cloth, moderate shelfwear, internally clean. Ex-library.
Shelf numbers to spines, institution name to front boards, bookplates
to pastedowns, stamps to endleaves. A nice copy. $2,500.
* Uncommon complete set. "Indispensable to the student of
Congressional procedure... Hind's Precedents, as the collection is
popularly known, is a mine of information on practically every
question of parliamentary procedure which has arisen in the House and
Senate.": Brown, Manual of Government Publications, United States and
Foreign 215 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New
York University (1953) 215.
(Inventory # 41137)

5.                  1854 Study of the Chief Justices
Van Santvoord, George [1819-1863]. Sketches of the Lives and Judicial
Services of the Chief-Justices of the Supreme Court of the United
States. New York: Charles Scribner, 1854. viii, 533 pp. Frontispiece.
12-page bookseller catalogue bound between final index leaf and rear
free endpaper. Octavo (6" x 9-1/4"). Contemporary blind-stamped cloth.
Moderate rubbing, some wear to spine ends, board edges and rear joint,
corners bumped, front hinge cracked-but secure. Light foxing, text
otherwise bright. $125.
* Biographies of John Jay, John Rutledge, Oliver Ellsworth, John
Marshall and Roger B. Taney. The section on Taney, which draws on Van
Santvoord's personal observation, is particularly interesting because
it was written during his tenure (two years before Dred Scott v.
Sanford). Van Santvoord was an attorney and politician who practiced
in Kinderhook, New York. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law
2204.
(Inventory # 41133)

6.      Handsome Copy of Notable Eighteenth-Century Dictionary
Vicat, B[eat]-Phil[ippe] [1715-1770], Compiler. [Ferrigno, Pasquale
(fl. 1760), Editor]. Vocabularium Juris Utriusque ex Variis Ante
Editis, Praefertim ex Alexand. Scoti, Jo. Kahl, Barn. Brissonnii, et
Jo. Gottl. Heineccii Accessionibus. Auctior Atque Emendatior. Naples:
Sumptibus Joannis Gravier, 1760. Four volumes. Copperplate pictorial
frontispiece. Octavo (4-3/4" x 7-1/2"). Contemporary vellum, gilt
title labels with hand-colored compartments, speckled edges, ribbon
markers. Light shelfwear and soiling with a few negligible stains,
"290" and "S91" in faint early hand to spine of Volume I. Light
foxing, interior otherwise fresh. A well-preserved copy in a handsome
contemporary binding. $1,500.
* Second edition. As Vicat explains in his preface, he compiled this
dictionary from those of Francois Hotoman, Barnabe Brisson, Johannes
Calvinus (Kahl) and, especially, Alexander Scotus to bring their
"excellent" work to a wider audience. More important, by combining
these works and filling the gaps with original entries he was able to
create a dictionary that covered the whole language of the law.
Vicat's definitions are brief, but they contain comprehensive
reference to authorities and texts, as well as conjugations, common
phrases using the words, metaphors, alternate definitions and
antonyms. The first edition was published in 1759. Vicat was a jurist
and the director of the University of Lausanne from 1749 to 1762. A
pioneer in library science, he was the first to issue a printed
library catalogue. British Museum Catalogue (Compact Edition) 26:118.
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From gerard at shore.net  Fri May  7 20:11:39 2004
From: gerard at shore.net (Gerard Gormley)
Date: Fri, 07 May 2004 20:11:39 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Making of Atom Bomb
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20040507201040.029a23e0@gerard@shell2.shore.net>




For your kind consideration ---



Rhodes, Richard~.  THE MAKING OF THE ATOMIC BOMB~.  NY NY, USA:
Simon & Schuster, 1986.  Keywords: Firsts with DJ by no means
numerous -- Hardcover edition out of Print -- History --
Illustrated -- Illustrated (photos) -- Military-War-Spy --
Politics & Government -- Science & Technology -- Atomic Bomb --
Nuclear Warfare -- comprehensive history of the bomb, & a work of
literature  -- rave reviews from Carl Sagan, Isaac Asimov, Tracy
Kidder, Eugene P.  Wigner (Nobel Laureate), Emilio Segre (Nobel
Laureate), Luis Alvarez (Nobel Laureate), & Gerard Gormley
(bookseller) -- English language.  First Printing (Number series,
"1" present) + uncorrected erratum ('between' missing on page
619, line 2).  Hardcover.  Dust jacket present, price clipped
(original trade edition, though -- no club blind-stamp, gutter
code or jacket mention).  886 pages: Notes, Bibliography, Index,
black & white photographs & illustrations throughout.  Binding
height: 9-1/2".  Book Fine: lightest bump to top back fore-
corner.  Dust jacket Near Fine: price-clip, lightest rubbing &
scoring to front (barely perceptible to back).  ISBN:0671441337.
[Digital JPEG image (3.5) available on request].  2191~.
US$99.95


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From trilliumbooks at sympatico.ca  Fri May  7 20:40:03 2004
From: trilliumbooks at sympatico.ca (trilliumbooks at sympatico.ca)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 20:40:03 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Message-ID: <3EBAF574-A088-11D8-A5F3-0003937FD9DC@sympatico.ca>

Trillium Antiquarian Books offers today:

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Presented by 
Willy Pogany. London: George Harrap, n.d. [1910]. First edition thus (in 
seven sections, unpaginated) with 20 mounted colour plates by Pogany; 
line drawings and decoration on section titles and interspersed 
throughout; with colourful, gothic manuscript-style title and half-title 
pages; gothic lettering throughout.  Gray cloth with impressed gilt 
decoration and gothic lettering on front cover and spine. With the 
small, round sticker of its Canadian publisher (i.e., retailer) Clarke 
Irwin pasted on the inside lower front paste-down.  A brilliant, fresh 
copy.  400 USD

Cordially,

William Van Nest

Trillium Antiquarian Books
1285 Albertus Avenue
Peterborough, ON  K9J 6A4
Canada
705-749-0461
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From gilmott at snet.net  Fri May  7 21:18:23 2004
From: gilmott at snet.net (Gil Mott)
Date: Fri, 7 May 2004 21:18:23 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] Scarce Ecclesiastical Conference Report
Message-ID: <NHBBJNALCLEMPMJIAPPKAEMFCPAA.gilmott@snet.net>


1.  Redford, R.A. (ed.). Christendom from the Standpoint of Italy
Proceedings of the Ninth General Conference of the Evangelical Alliance Held
in Florence, 1891. London: T. G. Johnson, 1891. Cloth chipped at head and
heel.   Coners rubbed.  Toning.  Interior clean.  Tight.  337 pp.
Ecumencial conference on the state of Christianity around the world.
Hardbound. Very Good/no DJ.  (24025) $100.00

Gil Mott
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From ivressedelivres at free.fr  Sat May  8 03:56:54 2004
From: ivressedelivres at free.fr (Ivresse de Livres)
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 09:56:54 +0200
Subject: [Rarebooks] 57 =?iso-8859-1?q?nouveaut=E9s_depuis_le_3?= mai
Message-ID: <200405080956.54950.ivressedelivres@free.fr>

Bonjour,  
 
Cette semaine, nous avons r?f?renc?s 57 titres (voir les liens ci-apr?s), dont 
: 
 
LIT.H.098.17 / HUYSMANS J.-K. / En m?nage / Edit? par Henri Jonqui?res et Cie, 
Paris / Ann?e 1923 / Broch?. Illustrations de Jodelet. Exemplaire sur papier 
de rives num?rot? ? la presse. / Format 150x200 mm / 336 pages / Couverture 
un peu fatigu?e. Demeure tr?s correcte. 
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PRIX : 39 euros* 
 
LIT.L.106.17 / [LOTI Pierre] LE TARGAT Fran?ois / A la recherche de Pierre 
Loti / Edit? par Seghers dans les cahiers Insolites (n?3) / Ann?e 1974 / 
Broch?. Edition originale. L'un des num?ros hors commerce not? "HC" par 
l'auteur et accompagn? d'une d?dicace de sa main. / Format 190x260 mm / 142 
pages / Bon ?tat 
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http://site.voila.fr/photos001/17/LIT.L.106.17/envoi.JPG 
http://site.voila.fr/photos001/17/LIT.L.106.17/titre.JPG 
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From ivressedelivres at free.fr  Sat May  8 05:07:45 2004
From: ivressedelivres at free.fr (Ivresse de Livres)
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 11:07:45 +0200
Subject: [Rarebooks] RABELAIS =?iso-8859-1?q?illustr=E9_par_ROBIDA?= ...
Message-ID: <200405081107.45421.ivressedelivres@free.fr>

Bonjour,

Nous vous proposons :

LIT.R.020.LAU (XIX) / RABELAIS F. [ROBIDA] / Oeuvres : La vie treshorrificque 
du grand Gargantua p?re de Pantagruel. Pantagruel roy des dipsodes. Le tiers 
livre des faicts et dicts h?ro?ques du bon Pantagruel. Le quart livre ... . 
Le cinquiesme et dernier livre ... / Deux volumes ?dit?s par La Librairie 
Illustr?e, Paris / Ann?es 1885-1886 / Demi-chagrin marron bradel ? 5 nerfs et 
caissons orn?s de motifs ors. Dor? sur t?te. Tr?s nombreuses illustrations 
dans et hors texte de Robida / Format 230x315 mm (in-4) / 494 pages + 484 
pages / Bon ?tat g?n?ral. Rares rousseurs. Belles pi?ces.
Voir photos :
http://site.voila.fr/photos001/17/LIT.R.020.LAU/couverture.JPG
http://site.voila.fr/photos001/17/LIT.R.020.LAU/titre.JPG
http://site.voila.fr/photos001/17/LIT.R.020.LAU/illus1.JPG
http://site.voila.fr/photos001/17/LIT.R.020.LAU/illus2.JPG
PRIX : 490 euros port France m?tro compris

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From ivressedelivres at free.fr  Sat May  8 09:59:37 2004
From: ivressedelivres at free.fr (Ivresse de Livres)
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 15:59:37 +0200
Subject: [Rarebooks] ... Monseigneur =?iso-8859-1?q?Lev=EAque_de?= Soissons,
	=?iso-8859-1?q?Mazi=E8res?= , 1718
Message-ID: <200405081559.37581.ivressedelivres@free.fr>

Bonjour,

Nous vous proposons :

EST.P.016.LAU (XVIII) /  / Premi?res instructions pastorales contenant le 
premier avertissement de Monseigneur Lev?que de Soissons / Deux tomes en un 
volume ?dit? par Raymond Mazieres / Ann?e 1718 / Plein cuir. Dos orn? de 5 
nerfs de caissons orn?s de fers ors et d'une pi?ce de titre. Tranche marbr?e. 
/ Format 200x260 mm / 124 pages + 155 pages / Rares ?pidermures du cuir. 
Manque coiffe sup?rieure. Couverture fatigu?e, mais demeurant convenable. 
Contenu propre et sans manques.
Voir photos :
http://site.voila.fr/photos001/17/EST.P.016.LAU/couverture.JPG
http://site.voila.fr/photos001/17/EST.P.016.LAU/titre.JPG
PRIX : 150 euros port France m?tro compris

Notre catalogue d'ouvrages du XVIIIe : http://site.voila.fr/idl/18e.html

Merci de votre attention et bonne journ?e,
J?r?me.
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From gilmott at snet.net  Sat May  8 10:38:14 2004
From: gilmott at snet.net (Gil Mott)
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 10:38:14 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] Rare naturalist's notes
Message-ID: <NHBBJNALCLEMPMJIAPPKIEMKCPAA.gilmott@snet.net>


1.  Higgins, Henry H. Notes by a field naturalist in the Western Tropics.
>From a journey kept on board the Royal Mersey steam yacht 'Argo.'.
Liverpool: Edward Howell, 1877. Decorative green cloth, gilt design and
spine titles.  Edgeworn.  Chipped at bottom edge.  Bookplate.  Foxing to
prelims.  Plates and folding map all present.  Clean and tight.  205 pp.
Hardbound. Good+.  (23986) $500.00

Gil Mott

GH Mott, Bookseller
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Ridgefield, CT  06877
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From matheson at boo.net  Sat May  8 12:00:39 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Sat, 08 May 2004 12:00:39 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Memoirs of an 18th C. bookseller
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20040508115457.01e2a130@boo.net>

Today's offering :

Lackington, J .  Memoirs of the first forty-five years of the life of James 
Lackington, the present bookseller in Chiswell-Street, Moorfields, London, 
written by himself. In a series of letters to a friend.  London, Printed 
for and sold by the Author, No. 46 and 47, Chiswell-Street; W. Bulgin, 
Bristol; andall other Booksellers [1791]. Contemporary quarter leather and 
worn marbled boards. Book-plate of collector/ Grolier Club member / author 
Lee Edmonds Grove on the front pastedown. Later (but early) leather 
reinforcement to the head and foot of the backstrip. Japanese paper repair 
to the front hinge. Otherwise very good, edges untrimmed. Despite the 
flaws, a very good-looking copy in an appropriate binding. The uncommon 
first edition. 1804 a.l.s. from John Malham to Messrs. Lackington Allen and 
Co. laid in (telling of woes and offering the possibility of supplying his 
sermons or arithmetic to "balance the account"). Robin Myers / The British 
book trade ("a valuable source of information about bookselling in 
different parts of the country"). 344 pp.  $400.



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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Sat May  8 12:42:48 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 12:42:48 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: On the flooding of the Nile. Paris: 1665
Message-ID: <131.2d89187d.2dce6808@aol.com>

La Chambre, Martin Cureau de. DISCOURS SUR LE CAUSES DU DESBORDEMENT DU NIL. 
Paris: De l?Imprimerie d?Edme Maritn. 1665. 4to. (30),272pp. Added engraved 
allegorical title and an engraved plate in the text on the sources of the Nile. 
Cont. calf, gilt ruled covers, worn, lower half of spine backstrip lacking, 
front cover a bit warped. Some old water stains at inner margin of text.     
$650.00 (trade discount allowed)
The engraved title reads ?Debordement? which is the more correct spelling of 
the word.

Kenneth Karmiole, Bookseller, Inc.
P.O. Box 464
Santa Monica, CA 90406
Tel. (310) 451-4342; Fax. (310) 458-5930
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From matheson at boo.net  Sun May  9 11:24:50 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 11:24:50 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Japanese paper making
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20040509112318.01fd3ec0@boo.net>

For consideration today :

Jugaku, Bunsho.   Paper-making by hand in Japan.  Tokyo, Meiji-Shobo, 
Publishers, Limited, 1959. Original parchment boards. Attractive small 
leather book label on the front pastedown. Lower front corner bumped, 
otherwise fine in rubbed, internally repaired dust jacket, creased on the 
front panel and with good-sized scraped patches on the back panel. 75 
numbered text pages, followed by photographs, followed by 24 numbered, 
mounted paper samples.  $400.00

Jugaku, Bunsho.  Japanese way to make paper by hand.  n.p., Takeo Paper Co. 
Ltd., 1969]. Original yellow wrappers. Upper rear corner lightly bumped, 
otherwise fine. Introduction in English, p. 1-25 [or 151-175] (the book 
uses two numbering systems). Text in Japanese, p. [1]-147. Unillustrated. 
Presentation card from Takeo Paper Co. Ltd. laid in.  $75.00

Jihei, Kunisaki.   Kamisuki chohoki: a handy guide to 
papermaking.  Berkeley, The Book Arts Club, University of California, 1948. 
Quarter cloth and marbled paper boards. Corners and head and foot of 
backstrip lightly worn, otherwise very good. After the Japanese edition of 
1798 with a translation by Charles E. Hamilton. One of 1 ,000 copies.  $75.00

Visit our website (www.mathesonbooks.com) for other books on the art of 
paper-making.


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From gerard at shore.net  Sun May  9 20:00:54 2004
From: gerard at shore.net (Gerard Gormley)
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 20:00:54 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Greek Bible, Renaissance Philosophy
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20040509195756.00a403b0@gerard@shell2.shore.net>




For your kind consideration ---


ABSTRACTS


THE NEW TESTAMENT IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK.  NY: Macmillan, 1946.
Very, very hard to find -- Out of Print.  Edition unknown.

Cassier, Ernest et al (Editors)~.  Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico,
Pomponazzi, Vives: THE RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY OF MAN~.  U. of
Chicago Press, 1948.  Very, very hard to find -- Hardcover Out of
Print.  First Printing.



DETAILS


~.  THE NEW TESTAMENT IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK: the Text Revised by
Brooke Foss Westcott & Fenton John Anthony Hort~.  NY NY, USA:
Macmillan, 1946.  Keywords: Very, very hard to find -- Out of
Print -- Non-Fiction -- Religion & Theology -- English language.
Edition/Printing unknown.  Hardcover.  No dust jacket.  618
pages: 7 Appendixes in English -- Principles of Textual Criticism
and Their Application, Summary of Documentary Evidence,
Orthography, Notation, List of Suspected Readings, List of
Noteworthy Rejected Readings, Quotations from the Old Testament.
Binding height: 8-3/4".   Publisher's blue full cloth, spine gold-
stamped.  Book Very Good to Near Fine: front free end paper torn
out, light bumping to 1 fore-corner (moderate same to spine-
top/bottom, editor/publisher names partly rubbed.  Binding strong
& tight, insides o/w Fine.  [Digital JPEG image (2.5) available
on request].  2250~.  US$50.-


Cassier, Ernest et al (Editors)~.  Petrarca, Valla, Ficino, Pico,
Pomponazzi, Vives: THE RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY OF MAN~.  Chicago
IL, USA: U. of Chicago Press, 1948.  Keywords: Very, very hard to
find -- Hardcover Out of Print -- Renaissance -- Philosophy --
English language.  First Printing ('Published 1948') + (No
Additional Printings indicated).  Hardcover.  Dust jacket
present, price intact.  405 pages: Bibliography, Index.  Binding
height: 8-3/8".  Publisher's blue full cloth, spine gold-stamped.
Book Near Fine: front free end paper torn out, light bumping to
spine-top/bottom.  Binding strong & tight, cloth & gold-stampings
as new, insides o/w Fine.  Dust jacket Very Good to Near Fine:
spine & front fore-edge sunned yellow, 3/8" closed tear (barely
noticeable) to top front edge, light rubbing to fore-corners
(moderate same to spine-top/bottom with slight loss at
extremeties of joints.  Dust jacket pluses: absolutely no
rubbing, scratching or scoring to front, spine or back -- looks
great on book.  [Digital JPEG image (2) available on request].
2251~.  US$50.-


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From gerard at shore.net  Sun May  9 20:06:06 2004
From: gerard at shore.net (Gerard Gormley)
Date: Sun, 09 May 2004 20:06:06 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: 3 signed novels
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20040509200504.00a4a090@gerard@shell2.shore.net>




For your kind consideration ---



ABSTRACTS


Cormier, Robert~.  I AM THE CHEESE~.  Pantheon, 1977.  Signed
firsts very, very hard to find -- Hardcover out of Print --
Children (Young Adult) -- Signed Presentation copy -- Association
Copy.  First Printing.

Cormier, Robert~.  AFTER THE FIRST DEATH~.  Pantheon, 1979.
Signed Presentation firsts very, very hard to find -- Hardcover
out of Print -- Children (Young Adult) -- Signed Presentation
copy -- Association Copy.  First Printing.

Parker, Robert B~.  THE WIDENING GYRE: A Spenser Novel~.
Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1983.  Signed Presentation firsts
very hard to find -- Hardcover out of Print -- Signed
Presentation copy -- Association Copy.  Third printing.



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Cormier, Robert~.  I AM THE CHEESE~.  NY NY, USA: Pantheon, 1977.
Keywords: Signed firsts very, very hard to find -- Hardcover out
of Print -- Children (Young Adult) -- Fiction (novel) -- Signed
Presentation copy ('To Ted [Vrettos] with great admiration [rest
illegible] Bob Cormier [date illegible] -- Association Copy from
library of Author/Professor Theodore Vrettos who, among other
accomplishments, conceived and directed the New England Writers
Conference, an annual event at which various well known writers
appeared as guest lecturers -- Many signed books for Vrettos and
his wife, Vas, with whom most of them became fast friends --
Vrettos is close friend of Bernays, Beattie, Fowles, King,
Updike, & many others -- English language.  First Printing
(Number series, "1" present).  Hardcover.  Dust jacket present,
price intact.  233 pages.  Binding height: 8-1/2".   Book Near
Fine: light bumping to 1 fore-corners & spine-top/bottom, 1 score
across leaf fore-edges.  Binding strong & tight, insides Fine.
Dust jacket Very Good to Near Fine: light rubbing to fore-
corners, moderate wrinkle to spine-top/bottom, light rubbing over
half-cloth boundaries, moderate scoring to back.
ISBN:0394834623.  [Digital JPEG image (1.75) available on
request].  TV65~.  US$95.95


Cormier, Robert~.  AFTER THE FIRST DEATH~.  NY NY, USA: Pantheon,
1979.  Keywords: Signed Presentation firsts very, very hard to
find -- Hardcover out of Print -- Children (Young Adult) --
Fiction (novel) -- Signed Presentation copy ('To Ted [Vrettos]
with my great best wishes,  Robert Cormier -- Association Copy
from library of Author/Professor Theodore Vrettos who, among
other accomplishments, conceived and directed the New England
Writers Conference, an annual event at which various well known
writers appeared as guest lecturers -- Many signed books for
Vrettos and his wife, Vas, with whom most of them became fast
friends -- Vrettos is close friend of Bernays, Beattie, Fowles,
King, Updike, & many others -- English language.  First Printing
(Number series, "1" present).  Hardcover.  Dust jacket present,
price intact.  233 pages.  Binding height: 8-1/2".   Book Near
Fine: Random House stamp on top leaf-edges, lightest bumping to
spine-top/bottom.  Binding strong & tight, insides Fine.  Dust
jacket Very Good to Near Fine: moderate wrinkle to spine-
top/bottom (light tearing to top), lightest scoring to front
(light to back).  ISBN:0394841220.  [Digital JPEG image (1.75)
available on request].  TV66~.  US$95.95


Parker, Robert B~.  THE WIDENING GYRE: A Spenser Novel~.  NY NY,
USA: Delacorte/Seymour Lawrence, 1983.  Keywords: Signed
Presentation firsts very hard to find -- Hardcover out of Print -
- Fiction (novel) -- Signed Presentation copy ('Vas & Ted, thanks
for everything (initials, as Parker always signs) -- Association
Copy from library of Author/Professor Theodore Vrettos who, among
other accomplishments, conceived and directed the New England
Writers Conference, an annual event at which various well known
writers appeared as guest lecturers -- Many signed books for
Vrettos and his wife, Vas, with whom most of them became fast
friends -- Vrettos is close friend of Bernays, Beattie, Fowles,
King, Updike, & many others -- English language.  Third printing.
  Hardcover.  Dust jacket present, price intact.  183 pages.
Binding height: 8-1/2".   Book Near Fine: light bumping to 1 fore-
corners (lightest to spine-top/bottom).  Binding strong & tight,
insides Fine.  Dust jacket Near Fine: lightest wrinkle to top
edges, lightest scoring to back, lightest rubbing over half-cloth
boundaries.  ISBN:0385292201.  [Digital JPEG image (1.5)
available on request].  TV41~.  US$59.95


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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Sun May  9 21:40:38 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 01:40:38 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-First Amendment [I] 
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A selection of works which we have in stock on the First
Amendment and related subjects; for others, please feel free to
browse our web site, where you may search our entire inventory by
any word or phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  DAVIS, Derek.  The Perspective of William H. Rehnquist on the
First Amendment Religion Clauses in the Light of the Original
Intent of the Framers.  Privately Printed, Waco, 1988.  Original
green buckram, gilt, double-spaced typescript, photocopied on the
rectos only, oversized, well-preserved; one copy only in OCLC.
[70517 L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70517     $ 150.00

Mr Davis' Master's Thesis at Baylor, forming the basis for his 1991
work "Original Intent, Chief Justice Rehnquist and the Course of
American/Church State Relations", and leading to his association
with Baylor's Institute of Church-State Studies.

2.  [FATHER OF CANDOR].  A Letter Concerning Libels, Warrants, and
the Seizure of Papers [etc.]. Third Edition [bound with] A Letter
>From Candor, to the Public Advertiser: Containing a Series of
Constitutional Remarks on . . . Trials and . . . Civil Liberty.
Second Edition.  Printed for J. Almon, opposite Burlington House in
Piccadilly, London, 1765 & 1764.  Contemporary marbled boards,
rebacked, worn but decently preserved. [44660 XYL25EL44EL68EL71]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=44660
                                                         $ 450.00

One of the most famous polemics in the long struggle for freedom
the press, emphasizing the distinction between words and acts, and
anticipating Erskine's defense of Thomas Paine.

4.  [FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT AND MARIO SAVIO].  People of the State of
California versus Mario Savio and 571 others; On appeal from the
Municipal Court Berkeley-Albany Judicial District Honorable Rupert
Crittenden, Judge.  Brekas Typesetting, Inc., Berkeley, 1966.
Original sewn printed wraps, worn but sound; 445 pages. [13796
L12L41E]                                                 $ 200.00

5.  [FREEDOM OF THE PRESS].  El Nuevo Derecho de Prensa e Imprenta.
Imprenta del Servicio de Publicaciones del M.I.T., Madrid, 1966.
Printed, sewn wraps, a bit worn, but sound; 224 pages. [58530 L47]
                                                          $ 45.00

6.  HOWARD, A.E. Dick.  Toward the Open Society in Central and
Eastern Europe.  University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City, 1995.
Printed wraps; 71 pages. [30471]                          $ 45.00

Reprinted from the Tanner Lectures on Human Values, Volume 16.

7.  KALVEN, JR., Harry.  A Worthy Tradition, Freedom of Speech in
America.  Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1988.  A very good
copy, in the dustjacket. [66849 L70]                      $ 35.00

8.  LAWSON, Linda.  Truth in Publishing, Federal Regulation of the
Press's Business Practices, 1880-1920.  Southern Illinois
University Press, Carbondale, 1993.  [55442]              $ 29.95

9.  [MILTON, JOHN].  [George Walker].  Substance of the Speech of
the Rev. Mr. Walker . . . to Which is Added Mr. Thomson's Preface
to a Speech of Mr. John Milton, for the Liberty of Unlicensed
Printing, to the Parliament of England. First Published in the Year
1644. McCoy T101.  Printed . . . By the Society for Constitutional
Information, [London], 1780.  Modern 1/4 black morocco, the edges
cut close, else a fresh copy. [59257 L68] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=59257     $ 450.00

The proposals for Parliamentary reform delivered by Walker,
polymath associate of Newton and John Millar whose forensic
abilities were compared with Cicero's, coupled with James Thomson's
famed preface to Milton's masterwork first published in 1738.

10.  MILTON, John.  Areopagitica, A Speech of Mr. John Milton for
the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England.
Deighton, Bell and Company, Cambridge, 1973.  Original black
buckram, gilt, well-preserved; one of 400 copies. [67780 YL72]
                                                         $ 250.00

Quite a lovely, modern private press printing of Milton's classic,
even transcendant, advocacy of freedom of the press and the right
to publish without prior restraint; printed on mould-made paper,
and designed by Sebastian Carter.
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From payson at oldbooks.com  Mon May 10 07:20:34 2004
From: payson at oldbooks.com (Clare Murphy)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 07:20:34 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: 4 on Glass
Message-ID: <p06002000bcc515abb373@[192.168.1.102]>

Thanks for browsing.

1.  DUDLEY WESTROPP, M. S.  IRISH GLASS. London: Lippincott with 
Herbert Jenkins Ltd, 1921. Illustrated by 40 full-page plates. First 
edition. Green buckram with beveled boards and gilt lettering. 4to. 
Fine. Spine is mildly sunned but a lovely book still. Covers 
glass-making in several areas of Ireland from the sixteenth century 
to 1920.  $225.00

2.  HUGHES, G. BERNARD.  ENGLISH, SCOTTISH & IRISH TABLE GLASS FROM 
THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY TO 1820. New York: Bramhall House, 1956. 
Original cloth and dj. 7 1/2 x 10 octavo. [408 pgs] Near fine. Over 
300 photographs and illustrations.  $75.00

3.  STANNUS, MRS. GRAYDON.  OLD IRISH GLASS. New York: Frederick A. 
Stokes Company, ca. 1922. Illustrated by 60 pages of plates. Burgundy 
cloth with picture inset to front cover. Small folio. Very good. 
Ex-lib but few marks. One of the The Connoisseur Series.  $65.00

4.  VON WITZLEBEN, ELISABETH.  STAINED GLASS IN FRENCH CATHEDRALS. 
New York: Reynal & Co., 1968. First American Edition edition. Tall 
quarto. Fine/Fine/Near fine. In slipcase. Gorgeous plates printed in 
full color on transparent sheets, showing to great advantage the the 
stained glass windows. The dust jacket is also transparent printed on 
the front panel with a plate of a stained glass window. Very unusual 
book design and, probably, a very expensive one to produce.  $325.00

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From office at joslinhall.com  Mon May 10 08:26:09 2004
From: office at joslinhall.com (Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:26:09 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: John Wilkes Booth is dead... well, no... well,
	maybe...
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Bates, Finis L. "The Escape and Suicide of John Wilkes Booth, or the First
True Account of Lincoln's Assassination containing a complete confession
by Booth many years after the crime..."

Naperville; J.L. Nichols & Company: [1907].

"
Giving in Full Detail the Plans, Plot and Intrigue of the Conspirators,
and the Treachery of Andrew Johnson, then Vice-President of the United
States. Written for the Correction of History."

Well!

In 1872 young Finis Bates, teenage lawyer, set up shop in Grandberry, a
rural Texas town. He soon became acquainted with, and was eventually hired
by, a storekeeper named John St. Helen, a man who quoted Shakespeare,
liked to strike theatrical poses, and had an inordinate fear of federal
courts and former Union Army officers. In 1877, believing he was on his
deathbed, St. Helen confessed to Bates that he was actually John Wilkes
Booth, a confession Bates took with more than a grain of salt.
St.Helen/Booth recovered, and over the next several years expanded on his
confession, describing in detail the plot to kidnap Lincoln, the
assassination, and his subsequent escape. Among St. Helen's claims was
that he met with Vice President Johnson the day of the assassination and
that it was Johnson who told him to kill Lincoln, not kidnap him. Bates
continued to be doubtful, and in 1878 he moved to Memphis and lost track
of St. Helen, who left Texas for parts westerly.

In 1897 a newspaper article concerning Booth's escape and death reawakened
Bates' interest in the case, and he wrote to a number of persons connected
with it. In fact, Bates at this point asserts that he became convinced
that St. Helen was in fact, Booth, a conviction partly based on a tintype
he said St. Helen had given him years before. He tried to interest the
government in the matter and got nowhere, and there things stood until
January of 1903, when a man named David E. George took poison and died in
a hotel in Enid, Oklahoma. George took a while to die, and while he was
doing it he confessed to several of his attendants that he was actually
John Wilkes Booth. In his effects there was a letter to Finis Bates, who
was sent for to help clear up the mystery.

Upon arriving in Enid, Bates found his former client, John St. Helen, now
David E. George, pickled and set up in the back room of a furniture store
that doubled as a morgue. It seems that St. Helen wandered widely through
the west after leaving Texas, finally winding up in El Reno, Oklahoma in
1899. He bought a house and said he was a house painter, although he only
ever painted one house. He apparently divulged to more than one person
there that he was John Wilkes Booth, and appears to have attempted suicide
at least once before he succeeded at the hotel in Enid.

Upon recognizing his former client, Bates got custody of the body, had it
properly preserved, and began displaying it and promoting the Booth story.
The body was exhibited at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, and Bates wrote
this book, which became very popular. Bates then began renting out the
mummified corpse to carnival promoters and others with an interest in it.
In 1920, while the body was being shipped to California, the train it was
on was wrecked and the corpse disappeared. Bates eventually recovered it,
and it was sold by his widow after his death. Current whereabouts:
unknown.

Although thousands of copies of this book were printed by several
different printers, it has become scarce, especially in decent condition,
because the quality of the binding and paper were deplorable. The story of
Bates, St. Helen and "The Enid Myth" was popularized nationally through
such magazines as Harper's, Life and the Saturday Evening Post, and the
book itself has been reprinted several times in paperback editions in the
1990s. There continue to be people who are convinced by Bates' book,
although some of St. Helen's/George's story contradicts the facts of the
Booth case. Hardcover. 5.5"x7.75", 309 pages, portrait frontispiece of
Bates, b/w plates and text illustrations; a nice copy with very minor
bumps at the tips, minor spine soil, and text browned and brittle, as is
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From office at joslinhall.com  Mon May 10 08:28:44 2004
From: office at joslinhall.com (Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:28:44 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: Sometimes A Photograph is NOT worth 1000 words... 
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Boulton, M.P.W. "Remarks concerning Certain Pictures supposed to be
Photographs of Early Date".

London; Bradbury & Evans: 1865.

"In November, 1863, Mr. Smith, Curator of the Museum of Patents at South
Kensington, laid before the Photographic Society evidence purporting to
show that photography had been practised at Soho in the last century, and
pictures were exhibited supposed to be specimens of the photographs then
made. These consisted of two classes, viz., several paper pictures and two
metal plates. The paper pictures were generally admitted to be of the date
assigned, and to be specimens of a peculiar mode of making copies
practised at Soho about 1780. The metal plates were generally admitted to
be photographs; but the date of their production was questioned".

At which point M.P.W. Boulton stepped into the "picture"...

Matthew Piers Watt Boulton was the grandson of Matthew Boulton who, with
his partner, James Watt, had invented a steam engine, an electroplating
process for silver, and many other useful things in Soho at the end of the
18th century and beginning of the 19th. M.P.W. Boulton soon found himself
intimately involved in the controversy over the "photographs", as it was a
servant of his named Price who had first come up with them, claiming they
had been given to him by a Miss Wilkinson, Boulton's aunt, after having
lain undisturbed in her library at Soho for 50 years. The man Price was
thought to be honorable, which made for a confused case, since his
assertion that Miss Wilkinson's library had been shut up for 50 years was
demonstrably untrue, as Boulton knew. Price also alleged that the Lunar
Society, a group composed of Matthew Boulton, James Watt, Joseph Priestly,
Josiah Wedgwood, Erasmus Darwin, William Hershel, and others, had made the
photographs in a tent using a method that sounded something like a camera
obscura.

At about this time it was discovered, in an entirely different affair,
that Price was not as honorable as all that after all, and that he had
"engaged in most dishonest practices carried on under the cover of gross
falsehoods". Price promptly fled the country to avoid prosecution, and
Boulton published the first edition of this pamphlet in 1864, relating
these points and supplying several illustrations showing that the
photographs in question did not, in fact, represent the houses they were
claimed to represent in 1780, and there the matter should have dropped,
except that somehow such matters never do.

The original pamphlet brought on criticisms and replies, to which Boulton
replied, and so on, and so on, to several editions, each a bit lengthier
than the one before, culminating in this 74-page, 3rd edition in 1865. By
the time we got here much of the material was of the "he said, she said"
variety, a scholarly refutation of critics' points, parsed subordinate
clause by subordinate clause. Boulton was still unable to convince certain
people that Price was lying about the library, which understandably
annoyed him.

Of more interest, perhaps, is the continued discussion about the two paper
pictures, "specimens of a peculiar mode of making copies practised at Soho
about 1780". What this "mode" was cannot quite be determined, but it seems
to have been a mechanical reproduction technique using films and pigments
which allowed color reproductions to be made, mechanically, from original
paintings. The argument after that devolves into discussions of
mezzotints, hand-coloring, pricing, catalogs and other technicalities all
of a more or less speculative nature as Messrs. Boulton and Watt never did
really describe the technique satisfactorily and abandoned it after a
short time as not being especially profitable.

The discussion will be of great interest to historians of art, I am sure,
while fans of photographs and fakes may take satisfaction in the enjoyment
of a good tale of a rather brazen attempt at photographic fraud of an
especially early date. Matthew Piers Watt Boulton would go on to be every
bit as inventive and industrious as his famous grandpapa, translating
classics, producing papers on solar heating and metaphysics, and coining
the name "aileron" and getting a patent for this important aerial advance.
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From agvent at erols.com  Mon May 10 09:56:38 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 09:56:38 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Early North Pole, Alaska,
	& the first portrait of Mozart
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               BARRINGTON,  Daines.  MISCELLANIES. London:  J.  Nichols
          1781. First  Edition.  Quarto  (8-3/4" x 11-1/4"),  uncut  at
          fore and  bottom  edges, bound in later green  boards  backed
          with tan  cloth  and a morocco gilt-lettered  spine  label. A
          curious  and compelling collection illustrated with two maps,
          two portraits,  and five charts. Hill p. 15; Howes B-177; New
          Howes B-173   "dd";  Sabin  3628;   Streeter  2445.  Includes
          "Journal of a Voyage in 1775 to Explore the Coast of America,
          Northward  of  California,"  with map,  which,  according  to
          Lada-Mocarski  34, is the first and only contemporary account
          in English  of the first Spanish voyage into Alaskan  waters.
          Also included  are the important essay on "The Possibility of
          Approaching  the  North Pole," first published separately  in
          1775-76  and  not published again until 1818, and one of  the
          earliest  accounts  in English, reprinted from a 1770  volume
          of Philosophical  Transactions, of the young Mozart  complete
          with an  engraving  of the musician at the age of seven,  the
          first published   portrait  of  the   prodigy.  Other  essays
          include  a  treatise on whether the Turkey was  known  before
          the discovery  of America as well as essays on the  reindeer,
          the bat,  the cuckoo, and botanical subjects. It is  believed
          that through  Barrington's  encouragement, Gilbert White  was
          induced  to  write  the NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE.  A  Near
          Fine, large and largely unopened copy.               $3000

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From gerard at shore.net  Mon May 10 10:13:45 2004
From: gerard at shore.net (Gerard Gormley)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:13:45 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SOUTHERN CULTURE
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For your kind consideration ---



Wilson, Charles Reagan & William Ferris (editors)~.  ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF SOUTHERN CULTURE~.  Chapel Hill NC, USA & London UK:
University of North Carolina Press, 1989.  Keywords: organized
around 24 thematic sections, including history, religion,
folklore, language, art & architecture, recreation, politics, the
mythic South, urbanization, literature, music, violence, law &
media -- Americana -- Dixie -- Illustrated -- Illustrated
(photos) -- Southern Culture -- Reference Encyclopedia  --
English language.  Sponsored by the Center for the Study of
Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.  First
Edition, Second Printing.  Hardcover.  Dust jacket present, no
price ever printed (typical of university presses).  Xvi + 1634
pages: 34-page 3-column Index, black/white photographs, art
reproductions & illustrations throughout.  Binding height: 11-
1/8".   Publisher's full cloth, title etc.  black-stamped.  Book
Near Fine: faintest 1/2" stain to back.  Binding strong & tight,
insides Fine.  Dust jacket Near Fine: faint but lengthy score to
back.  ISBN:0807818232.  [Digital JPEG image (9) available on
request].  2255~.  US$69.95


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From gerard at shore.net  Mon May 10 10:21:21 2004
From: gerard at shore.net (Gerard Gormley)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 10:21:21 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: HOMERIC STORIES FOR YOUNG READERS
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Hall, Frederic Aldin~.  HOMERIC STORIES FOR YOUNG READERS~.  NY
NY, USA: American Book Company, 1903.  Keywords: hard to find --
Out of Print -- Ancient History (Greek Mythology) -- Antiquarian
(100+ years) -- Architecture -- Art -- Children (Juvenile) --
Greece -- Illustrated -- Marine-Nautical -- Military-War-Spy --
Politics & Government -- Religion & Theology --  Travel-
Description-Exploration -- English language.  First Printing (No
Additional Printings indicated).  Hardcover.  No dust jacket
(none issued, I believe).  200 pages + ads: Appendix (Proper
Names Pronounced), black & white art reproductions &
illustrations throughout.  Binding height: 7-1/2".   Publisher's
decorative full cloth.  Book Very Good: name penned on front free
end paper, moderate bumping to fore-corners (light to spine-
top/bottom), spine sunned, white-out along bottom edges.  Binding
strong & tight, insides Fine.  [Digital JPEG image (1.5)
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From matheson at boo.net  Mon May 10 13:47:34 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:47:34 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Papyri
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For consideration today:

Baikie, James.   Egyptian papyri and papyrus hunting.  New York, Chicago, 
Fleming H. Revell Company [1925]. Original cloth. Book-plate removed from 
front free endpaper, otherwise very good. Book I, Ancient papyri, pp. 
[11]-222. Book II, Graeco-Roman papyri, pp. [223]-320. Undated. Date taken 
from WorldCat.  $75.00

Olmsted, Duncan H., comp.  Papyrus: some notes concerning the origins of 
writing materials in the West. Part I.  Orinda, CA, Press of the Golden 
Key, 1979. Original printed wrappers. Very good. Decoration by Valenti 
Angelo. Signed by the compiler on the title-page. One of 150 copies. 
Papyrus sample tipped in.  $30.00

British Museum.   The written word on papyrus by T. S. Pattie and E. G. 
Turner, an exhibition held in The British Museum 30 July-27 October 
1974.  [London] Published for The British Library Board by British Museum 
Publications Limited [1974]. Original printed wrappers. Fine. 48 pp. 
Illustrated. $20.00

University of Michigan Library.   Manuscripts & papyri, an exhibition 
arranged for the XXVII International Congress of Orientalists.  Ann Arbor, 
1967. Original printed wrappers. Fine. 21 pp. 80 items described.  $20.00


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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Mon May 10 13:54:31 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:54:31 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Astrological work by William Lilly. London: circa
	1766
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(ASTROLOGY) Lilly, William. THE BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE; TREATING OF THE WISDOM OF 
THE ANCIENTS. In Four Parts? I. Shewing? Operations of the Signs and Planets? 
II. Prognostications? to Keep the Body in Health? III. An Abstract of the 
Art of Physiognomy and Palmistry? IV. The Farmer?s Kalender: Containing, 1. 
Perpetual Prognostications for Weather? 3. The Compleat and Experienced Farrier 
and Cowleech, Etc. Written by Erra Pater [pseud.], a Jew Doctor in Astronomy? 
Born in? Judea. Made English by W. Lilly? To Which Is Added, the Dealer?s 
Directory? a Catalogue of All the Markets, and Days on Which They Are Held. 
London: Printed by L. Hawes and Co. No date (circa 1766). 12mo. 168pp. Illus. with a 
woodcut frontis. and several text woodcuts and tables. Cont. sheep, worn, 
rebacked in modern tooled calf. 2 leaves with a 1? tear to corner of top 
fore-margin (some text loss). A few other leaves closely trimmed at fore-margin. 
Bottom margin of title trimmed (eliminating the imprint date).     $300.00 (trade 
discount allowed)

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From office at joslinhall.com  Tue May 11 07:36:01 2004
From: office at joslinhall.com (Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 07:36:01 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: Suggestive Paintings...
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Sherman, Frederic Fairchild. "Sonnets Suggested by Paintings"

Springfield; 1937. One of 25 copies "privately printed for Ruth and Carl
Ekberg and their friends by the Pond-Ekberg Company during the month of
December MCMXXXVII".

Frederic Fairchild Sherman (1874-1940) was a well-heeled collector and the
editor-publisher of 'Art in America', who also published
beautifully-printed, extremely limited edition studies of American art and
artists in the 19-teens, 20s and 30s. This Christmas offering was printed
in several very limited editions, of which we have seen two- both for
friends of the printer, Pond-Ekberg (one for Pond, one for Ekberg). It
features sonnets apparently written by Sherman himself, each suggested by
a painting which is pictured on the facing page. Botticelli's 'Primavera'
begins the selection, followed by 'Homer', "suggested by a portrait by
Caravaggio"; then come three Albert Pinkham Ryder paintings and sonnets-
'Sunset at Sea', 'The Road of Life', and 'The Spirit of Autumn'. 'Mother
and Child' by Robert Loftin Newman ends the series.

If this is nothing else it is an intriguing Ryder item for the completest-
Sherman was a fan of the eccentric American artist, and wrote the first
book-length monograph on his work in 1920. Hardcover. 8"x10", [i] + 6
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From: office at joslinhall.com (Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 07:40:21 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: A Chair! A Chair! My Kingdom for a Chair !! (nicely
 upholstered)
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Small, John W. "Ancient & Modern Furniture"

Edinburgh; John W. Small: 1883. Limited to 500 copies.

A wonderful example of historicism and revivalism in Victorian furniture
design from plonk in the middle of the period. Small, an architect and
furniture designer, even outlines in straightforward terms the "everything
that's old is new again" thinking behind all that Revivalism in his
Preface-

"Modern designers of furniture, in consequence of the never ending cry for
'something new', have had to fall back on the store-houses of the past,
and draw inspiration from old work of all periods, to enable them to bring
out new designs. I have thought it advisable to devote one-half of the
present volume to examples of old work of various periods, hoping these
may by as useful to those who have anything to do with designing,
manufacturing, or buying, as they have proved to myself. Apart from
bringing these old examples under contribution for modern purposes, I
trust the putting of them on record in this form may help to preserve them
for future use, when the articles themselves may very possibly have been
lost sight of or perished".

After illustrating examples of furniture from the 15th-18th centuries, he
then presents his own designs, based upon them-

"In the latter half of the volume, I have shewn examples of Modern
Furniture which, during the last few years, have been designed and
executed for manufacturers and others, from full-sized drawings supplied
by the author. Some of them have had great success in the trade, so far as
the number made forms any criterion. Others are of such a nature, that
they have only been made once. I trust this half of the book will be of
use to those who may be thinking of embellishing their homes with 'cunning
workmanship' in wood."

The list of 159 subscribers' to the book also makes interesting reading,
and is largely made up of architects, upholsterers, decorators and
"manufacturers"; also appearing on the list are a brass worker and a glass
stainer; several libraries, including the Boston Public Library and
Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art; several booksellers, including B.T.
Batsford, Bernard Quaritch, and Little, Brown & Co., and Dr. Irvine (sic)
W. Lyon of Hartford, U.S.A., the noted collector of American furniture and
author of "Colonial Furniture of New England".

Hardcover. 10"x12.5", [viii] pages plus 50 lithographed plates; pictorial
board covers; covers somewhat worn, with some chipping, bumping, rubbing,
etc; hinges a bit wonky; internally a minor bit of soil and wear, but
overall a nice copy of this fragile book and binding in its original
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From agvent at erols.com  Tue May 11 09:44:03 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 09:44:03 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Signed Teddy Roosevelt book
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               ROOSEVELT,   Theodore  (Teddy).   THE  ROOSEVELT   BOOK.
          SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. New York:
          Charles  Scribner's  Sons  1904.   First  Edition.  Decorated
          cloth;  xviii,  189  pages. Introduction by  Robert  Bridges.
          Illustrated  with  photographs. INSCRIBED and SIGNED  by  the
          subject  "with regards of/Theodore Roosevelt/Jan. 23rd  1907"
          on the  front  free endpaper. An uncommon book  aimed  toward
          "Young   Americans,"  this  compilation   of  extracts   from
          Roosevelt's  writings is virtually unheard of signed. Laid in
          is a photocopy  of a letter on the U.S. Senate stationery  of
          W. M. Crane  arranging  a meeting with Roosevelt.  Near  Fine
                                                               $5000.00

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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Tue May 11 13:03:47 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 13:03:47 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: "A Rationale Upon the Book of Common-Prayer..."
	London: 1664
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(CHURCH OF ENGLAND) Sparrow, Anthony.   A RATIONALE UPON THE BOOK OF 
COMMON-PRAYER OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND. London: Printed for T. Garthwaite. 1664. 12mo. 
(10),408,(12)pp. Index. Each page within a ruled border. Illus. with an added 
engraved title, engraved frontis. and 1 engraved plate. Cont. full red 
morocco, gilt ruled covers and spine panels. A.e.g. A very pretty copy.     $500.00 
(trade discount allowed)
Wing S4830.

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From finebook at pacbell.net  Tue May 11 15:30:57 2004
From: finebook at pacbell.net (Robert Erwin)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 12:30:57 -0700
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Bestseller Mystery Magazine: The Adventures of Sam
	Spade
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Today we are offering:

Hammett, Dashiell.     Bestseller Mystery Magazine: The Adventures of 
Sam Spade and Other Stories.
New York. Bestseller Mystery / The American Mercury, Inc. 14 April 1944. 
125 pp. plus 3 pp. adverts. 5.25" x 7.75". Bestseller Mystery, No. B50. 
Introduction by Ellery Queen. Seven Hammett short stories: Too Many Have 
Lived, They Can Only Hang You Once, A Man Called Spade, The Assistant 
Murderer, Nightshade, The Judge Laughed Last, and His Brother's Keeper. 
Stories originally appeared in Black Mask, Collier's, The American 
Magazine, and Mystery League. Very good in wrappers. Tight with spine 
slant and rubbing to wraps. Text toned.
10354   $90.00

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From zita at speakeasy.net  Tue May 11 17:56:49 2004
From: zita at speakeasy.net (Laderman)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 17:56:49 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] OFFER: AMERICAN AND BRITISH JUDAICA PART I. [INCLUDES
 ANTISEMITICA].
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1.	ASHWORTH, CALEB:~ THE PRINCIPLE RULES OF HEBREW GRAMMAR; compiled from 
some of the most considerable Hebrew grammars and particularly adapted to 
Bythner's Lyra Prophetica~London, 1785, 20 Pp., 22.5 cm. Interleaved with 
blanks on which very neat almost scribal notes have been made.  This 
edition was privately printed in a very small number. To quote the note on 
the verso of the TP : "This Abstract was made, and a few Copies of it 
printed, only for the use of the of the Compiler, and a few Persons whom he 
has occasion to instruct
".  There is a copy at BL of the 1763 edition 
only,  photocopies in the USA. BOUND WITH Ashworth, Caleb :  Compleat 
paradigms of the Hebrew verbs, with an example of the affixes as they are 
joined to them. :Cambridge :printed by J. Bentham; sold by W. Thurlbourn & 
J. Woodyer, and T. & J. Merrill, in Cambridge; J. Fletcher, and D. Prince 
at Oxford; and J. Buckland, London,  1763. [20]p. ; 8?, 22.5 cm., ~ESTC, 
T183533 . Unnoted in Roth, Magna Biblio. Anglo-Judaica. Copies at Bodleian, 
WTU, EU, [1 American Loc.] Not at BL, COPAC, H.  Modern buckram, gilt 
title.~The last page of  the text is lacks a corner,  I suspect had roots 
of the verb Lomaid [Lamed, Mem, Daleth], ergo, lacking two words. OW fine 
copies.~$1275.00~

2.	BIBLE, HEBREW~ BIBLIA HEBRAICE : secundum ultimam editionem Jos. Athiae, 
a Johanne Leusden denuo recognitam, recensita variisque notis ltinis 
illustrata ab Everardo van der Hooght.   ~Philadelphi? : Cura et impensis 
Thom? Dobson edita ex ?dibus lapideis, 1814 (Philadelphi? : Typis Gulielmi 
Fry).   2 Vols.,  23 cm.   At head of the title, in Hebrew: Torah, Nevi'im, 
v'Ketuvim. ~The First Complete Hebrew Bible Printed in America.  Rosenbach, 
American Jewish Bibliography 171, Shaw & Shoemaker 30857. This issue has an 
unpointed text.~ Tree calf, 5 raised bands, gilt crossing lines and inset 
contrasting labels for volume no. and title. The binding on volume 1 is a 
modern copy of that on volume 2 which is original. The texts are clean, 
tight and Fine, bindings now near Fine. ~$8750.00~

3.	COHEN, S. I. [Solomon Jacob]:~ ELEMENTS OF FAITH FOR THE USE OF JEWISH 
YOUTH, OF BOTH, SEXES.~ London, 5575, 1815. Octavo, 116Pp., 6Pp. 
subscriber's list. ~In English and Hebrew with a TP in both languages. The 
English translation by Joshue van Oven. The first book written for  English 
speaking Jewish children, teaching them the traditions of Judaism, printed 
in England and the first with English translations of the Hebrew texts. 
Every opening consists of one page of Hebrew with overleaf its translation 
in English. A series of important topics for Judaism are thus presented in 
both languages. The first two American printings of books of this sort were 
both pirated editions of this work: Richmond, VA in 1817, and Philadelphia 
in 1822. Although the London printing was imported and used in America, 
there are no copies of our title listed in the BL, or RLIN/OCLC. All 
editions are rare. No copies have appeared at auction since World War II. 
The book was controversial and at its first appearance produced a pamphlet 
war. Some Sephardim could deal with Judesmo and preferred to have their 
children learn from works printed in Amsterdam which using that language, 
or who preferred only Hebrew and Aramaic. Like most text books, Children 
destroyed it while using it. Also, in both England and America, in 1830, 
works which replaced our title were published and in all probability the 
remaining copies were destroyed, probably by placement ina now lost 
Genizeh. A contributing factor to its rarity is the fact that for Orthodox 
Judaism, Hebrew with Yiddish [the Ashkenazi language] was preferred. Late 
eighteenth and nineteenth cventury immigration of Jews into England came 
primarily from Yiddish speaking ashkenazic regions. And a work in "Godless" 
english would have been spurned.  A rare and important work, it is the 
first of a very large number of texts which continue to be brought out 
today usng the two languages for English speaking Jewish children.  With a 
little underlining in pen [now faded], and a little in light pencil. The 
subscribers list includes English speaking Jews in England and elsewhere in 
the empire and members of the intellectual elite in Europe, and one with a 
western hemisphere address, Curacoa [Sic].~Unrecorded in RLIN/OCLC, COPAC, 
not in Theological Seminary Library, not in HUC, HLS, STF, Brandeis, BL; 
Roth, 428, B 2. No copies have appeared at auction since World War II. ~ 
Pub.'s Bds., Rbkd. in calf, VG.~$8825.00

4.	 [CROUCH, NATHANIEL : ROBERT BURTON PSEUD.: ~JUDAEORUM MEMORABILIA, OR, 
MEMORABLE REMARKS UPON THE ANCIENT AND MODERN STATE OF JUDEA AND THE JEWISH 
NATION: Containing accounts of the Holy Land, Of the Ten Tribes who were 
carried Captive,
 Of the Present Condition of Palestine,Two Journeys to 
Jerusalem, Containing, Of the Travels of Two Englishmen to Jerusalem...Of 
the travels of fourteen Englishmen in 1669, ... Of the great council of the 
Jews in the plains of Hungary in 1650, of the Jews from 1650 to 1666, Of a 
False Messiah in Smyrnah,  ... Also accounts of the Masacres of the Jews in 
York, Lisbon and Persia, The Proceeedings of the Jews under Oliver 
Cromwell. ~ Printed and Published by By W.Matthews No 62 Broad Mead and 
also by the booksellers in Town and Country, Bristol 1796. Frontis.  vi. 
221, 12o. ~Roth, Anglo Judaica, Contemporary Jewish Life and Customs, No. 
35, OCLC: 12863124 [VXJ, HUC] and 1 in the UK [BL], Unloc. at COPAC.  Last 
edition  of a work originally published in the 1685. ~Original marbled. 
boards, rebacked in cloth, printed paper label, Frontis laid down, OW VG.~ 
$675.00~

5.	CURTIS, M. B.: ~THE LEGEND OF SAM'L OF POSEN : from early days in 
fatherland to affluence and success in the land of his adoption, 
"America".  ~New York : Printed and illustrated by the Graphic Co., [1885]. 
37, [3] p. : ill. ; 9 x 20 cm.: Half title reads: "Comps of M. B. Curtis, 
Sam'l of Posen".  Advertisements for C. B. & Q. Railroad, one in verse: [3] 
p. at end and p. [4] of cover.  In verse. The covers are chromos., every 
second page is an illustration, all are sequentials  Meant as a flier for a 
theatrical performance in which the comic character who is both "Deutsch" 
and a Jew, becomes a success even though he is blown apart in an 
accident.  Although not anti-Semitic in tone, the prominent hook nose, 
comic nature of the stereotype, and his position as a peddler who becomes 
rich, has anti-Semitic overtones.  It shows the German Jewish anti-Semitic 
character in the US, developing from the earlier "Dutchman". . OCLC/RLIn, 1 
Loc. [Brown].   WITH a "Cabinet Card" by Collins of M.B. Curtis as Sam'l of 
Posen.  VG, unfaded condition, a little foxed.  Although photographically 
reproduced, it is a portrait drawing of the actor in character.  An early 
American graphic and poetic antisemiticum! ~VG.~$1225.00~

6.	[DEINARD, EPHRAIM]:~ SEFER HA-PLOIDERZAK. : o, , Me'urat ha-tsif`onim: 
gazet.a kelalit be-ad kol ha-olam...: ~Baltonavka [fictitious place] : 
s.n., [1890?] 100 Pp., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm. Notes : A 
satiric account and caricature of contemporary Jewish newspapers in the 
United States by Ephraim Deinard, published in Newark in 1890. It includes 
caricatures and comic illustration as well as text. [Encyclopedia Judaica & 
Bet eked sefarim, mahad. 2] However it attacks and pokes fun not only at 
secular life and the Jewish theatre, but also at Rabbis, religious 
disputation, and Kabbalah [with a diagram]. All in good haskalah 
Hebrew.  It remains on the restricted shelf at the Jewish Theological 
Seminary, and there is no copy at HUC, Yeshiva University, Brandeis or 
Stanford, nor in the big ten schools. OCLC Finds 2 Locs. [CUY, NYP], but 
there is also a copy at HLS.  He published upwards of 20 other titles all 
dealing with important themes in Jewish life and lore, all in Hebrew.  They 
can be found in many library collections. This title is very rare. In the 
nineteenth and early twentieth century, when libraries would go to Jewish 
dealers, it was routinely destoryed, something which its fragile binding 
made easy. The illustration pages printed on heavier stock then the text. 
~This copy, originally purchased from an atheist yiddishist dealer in 
original plain green cloth inner boards strengthened with archival tape. 
Otherwise a Very . Good copy.~$1350.00~

7.	 [Edrehi, Isaac] LOWMAN MOSES:~  AN ARGUMENT TO PROVE THE UNITY AND 
PERFECTIONS OF GOD A PRIORI. ~London : Printed for J. Noon, 1735.  32 p. ; 
21 cm.[Attributed to Moses Lowman]  In plain blue wraps, oversewn.  RLIn, 1 
Loc.  The autograph statement on the inner front wraps is signed by Isaac 
C. Edrehi. An orthodox rabbi of Philadelphia and son of a rabbi, with whom 
he traveled, who began his career in Morocco, moved to Jerusalem and 
finished his career in London.  Edrehi writes: "My personal conception of 
God is the following: He is the Creator of everything beside him. He is 
immanent and Transcendental, personal and superpersonal. He never decrees 
evil, but He is continuosly doing and bestowing good. [SIF]."  The pamphlet 
is scarce.  Edrehi's remarks were made circa 1850. The pamphlet was 
purchased with other books from his descendents. Lowman was an important 
orthodox Anglican who wrote extensively, on Hebrew subjects.  He was the 
finest Anglican Hebrew scholar of his generation. ~ESTC, T33015, OCLC, 10 
copies at 9 Libs. in the USA,[VXJ, GTX, CLU, YUS, CGU, BAT, HLS 2, MNU, 
MUU]. ~ It is not surprizing that Edrehi knew his work and added his 
beliefs in his copy of the pamphlet. ~Original wraps, Very Good.~ $575.00

8.	EDREHI, MOSES:~ HISTORY OF THE CAPITAL OF ASIA AND THE TURKS; together 
with an account of the Domestic manners of the Turks in Turkey.  ~Boston, 
reprinted for I. Edrehi, 5618 [1858, cop. 1855].  2 Vols. in 1. Port. Of 
the younger Edrehi in Turkish costume and  6 Full page tinted lithographs 
by Bufford.140, 147, 148Pp.  24 cm. BOUND WITH  Edrehi, Moses. : AN 
HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE TEN TRIBES, SETTLED BEYOND THE RIVER SAMBATYON IN 
THE EAST; with many other curious matters relating to the state of the 
Israelites in various parts of the world, etc., etc., etc. Tr. from the 
original manuscript, and comp. by the Rev. Dr. M. Edrehi.  London, Printed 
for the author; Boston, Reprinted for I. Edrehi, 5618 [1858], 290p. front. 
(port.) 22cm. ~The Moses Edrehi Historical Account of the Ten tribes when 
reprinted in Hebrew is noted in Friedberg as Mem 1744.[Maaseh Nisim]  many 
locations of both, separately in OCLC/RLIn, but none of this combined 
issue. ~Orig. Bds., AEG, Rbkd. in modern cloth, Mro., label, gilt. ~ $375.00~

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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Tue May 11 22:21:07 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 02:21:07 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-First Amendment [II] 
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A selection of works which we have in stock on the First
Amendment and related subjects; for others, please feel free to
browse our web site, where you may search our entire inventory by
any word or phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  MILTON, John.  Areopagitica, A Speech of Mr. John Milton for
the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing, to the Parliament of England.
The Grolier Club, New-York, 1890.  Blue boards, spine sunned and
chipped, front joint cracked; sound. [59138 L54EL70EL72E]
                                                         $ 125.00

Milton's classic, even transcendant, advocacy of freedom of the
press and the right to publish without prior restraint; with a
substantial introduction by James Russell Lowell, this edition
limited to 325 copies on Holland paper.

2.  PESTANA, Carla Gardina.  Liberty of Conscience and the Growth
of Religious Diversity in Early America, 1636-1786.  The John
Carter Brown Library, Providence, 1986.  Printed stapled wraps; 49
pages. [64764 FBW]                                        $ 20.00

A more modest, abridged version of the catalogue immediately above,
issued on the occasion of the exhibition mounted for the May, 1986
meeting of the Associates of the Library; 75 items,
cross-referenced as appropriate to the larger catalogue.

3.  REMBAR, Charles.  The End of Obscenity, The Trials of Lady
Chatterley, Tropic of Cancer and Fanny Hill. Second Printing.
Random House, New York, 1968.  A very good copy, in a somewhat worn
dustjacket. [66121 L67]                                   $ 45.00

The "personal account of a revolution", namely Rembar's exposition
of the three major obscenity trials in which he was chief defense
counsel, with significant portions of the trial transcripts and
briefs reproduced.

4.  SCHROEDER, Theodore.  "Obscene" Literature and Constitutional
Law, A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press.  Privately
Printed, for Forensic Uses, New York, 1911.  Original cloth,
definitely worn, but usable. [55740 L29L41L54EL74E]      $ 125.00

The work which has been called the magnum opus of Schroeder,
founder of the Free Speech League and the "maverick radical [and
lawyer, who] ventured further than any of his contemporaries in
exploring the meaning of . . . freedom of expression".

5.  SCHROEDER, Theodore.  "Obscene" Literature and Constitutional
Law, A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press.  Da Capo Press,
New York, 1972.  Original cloth, showing wear; a usable copy.
[58281 L41EL54L74E]                                       $ 45.00

The facsimile reissue of the 1911 edition, with a new and
substantial introduction by Jerold S. Auerbach, who quotes with
approval the description of Schroeder as "probably the most
prolific champion of free speech and press in American history".

6.  SCHROEDER, Theodore.  "Obscene" Literature and Constitutional
Law, A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press.  Privately
Printed, for Forensic Uses, New York, 1911.  Original green cloth,
worn and taped, yet usable. [68606 L74]                  $ 150.00

Leonard Levy's copy of the magnum opus of Schroeder, who "ventured
further than any of his contemporaries in exploring the meaning of
. . . freedom of expression"; with Professor Levy's ownership
signature ("Leonard W. Levy") on the front blank.

7.  [SEARCH AND SEIZURE AND GENERAL WARRANTS].  Considerations On
the Legality of General Warrants, and The Propriety of a
Parliamentary Regulation of the same.  To which is added, a
Postscript on a late Pamphlet concerning Juries, Libels &c. The
Second Edition with Additions. McCoy C512.  Printed for W. Nicoll
. . . in St. Paul's Church-Yard, London, 1765.  Modern calf, the
title and last leaf dusty, else a good copy. [70880 BLS1006L78]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=70880
                                                         $ 750.00

An important part of the literature resulting in the dramatic
extension of the rights of personal liberty in England, with their
essence (that no warrants should issue except upon probable cause)
embodied in the Fourth Amendment of the Bill of Rights.

8.  SHIFFRIN, Steven H.  The First Amendment, Democracy, and
Romance.  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1990.  A very good
copy, in the dustjacket. [64417]                          $ 35.00

A work which Lawrence Tribe described as "a lucid and original
contribution to the literature of free speech", proposing that
Emersonian ideals are theoretically fundamental to the first
amendment.

9.  SMITH, Jeffrey A.  Printers and Press Freedom, The Ideology of
Early American Journalism.  Oxford University Press, New York,
1988.  [41024 L25L51]                                     $ 35.00

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From matheson at boo.net  Tue May 11 22:43:42 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 22:43:42 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] 
 FS:  Some Festschrifts: Rowoht, Clark, Benzing, Presser,
 Brown, Kraus
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We offer today the following celebrations of scholarship :

Unseld, Siegfried, ed.  Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt zuliebe, Festschrift 
zu seinem 60. Geburtstag am 12. Maerz 1968 herausgegeben von Siegfried 
Unseld.  [Reinbek bei Hamburg, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH, 1968]. Original boards. 
Boards very lightly soiled. Among the predominantly German-language 
tributes are contributions by James Baldwin, John Dos Passos, and Henry 
Miller. Illustrated with photographs.  $50.
Clark, John Willis.   Fasciculus Ioanni Willis Clark 
dicatus.  Cantabrigiae, typis academicis impressus, 1909. Original cloth. 
Book-plate on the front pastedown, corners bumped, cloth covers lightly 
marked, otherwise very good. One of 500 numbered copies. Festschrift for 
John Willis Clark whose writings on a w ide variety of topics are listed in 
the "short bibliography" at the end of the volume. Clark was the author of 
the 1899 Sandars lecture, The care of books. 577 pp. Contributions by M. R. 
James, Franc i s Jenkinson, F. Madan, Charles Sayle, Viscount Esher, Sidney 
Colvin, Edmund Gosse, H. F. Wilson, A. C. Benson, and many others. $100/
Geck, Elisabeth, ed.   Festschrift fuer Josef Benzing zum sechzigsten 
Geburtstag 4. February 1964. Herausgeber Elisabeth Geck und Guido 
Pressler.  Wiesbaden, Guido Pressler, 1964. Original orange-red cloth. 
Black label on the backstrip rubbed, otherwise near fine. Pencilled note on 
the front free endpaper: "E. P. Goldschmidt's copy". Includes Elisabeth 
Geck's "Verzeichnis der V eroefflentlichungen von Josef Benzing in den 
Jahren 1928-1963". Contributions by Ferdinand Geldner, Abraham Horodisch, 
Alfred F. Johnson, Claus Nissen, Dennis E. Rhodes, Victor Scholderer, Hans 
Widma n n, and many others. [498] pp. $75.
Geck, Elisabeth, ed.   Festschrift fuer Josef Benzing zum sechzigsten 
Geburtstag 4. February 1964. Herausgeber Elisabeth Geck und Guido 
Pressler.  Wiesbaden, Guido Pressler, 1964. Original orange-red cloth. 
Black label on the backstrip rubbed, otherwise near fine. Pencilled note on 
the front free endpaper: "E. P. Goldschmidt's copy". Includes Elisabeth 
Geck's "Verzeichnis der V eroefflentlichungen von Josef Benzing in den 
Jahren 1928-1963". Contributions by Ferdinand Geldner, Abraham Horodisch, 
Alfred F. Johnson, Claus Nissen, Dennis E. Rhodes, Victor Scholderer, Hans 
Widma n n, and many others. [498] pp. $100.
Brown, Carleton.   Essays and studies in honor of Carleton Brown.  New 
York, New York University Press, London, Humphrey Milford / Oxford 
University Press, 1940. Original orange cloth. Mary Isabelle O'Sullivan's 
ownership signature and August 9, 1940 date on the front free endpaper (her 
name is in the list of subscribers). Lower corners lightly bumped, cloth 
lightly rubbed, otherwise near fine. 336 pp. Festschrift honoring the 
author of A Manuscript Index of Middle English Verse. Bibliography of 
Brown's writings, p. [330]-332. Brown's writings are "eminently 
Chaucerian", as the first essay notes, and the volume appropriately 
contains a number of essays on Chaucer. $45.
Mayor, A. Hyatt.   Drawings for unidentified book illustrations by 
Tiepolo.  [Berlin, Gebr. Mann Verlag, 1967]. Original stapled wrappers. 
Fine. Offprint from Homage to a bookman (a Festschrift for H. P. Kraus). 2 
page text with 6 full-page plates. Inscribed by the author to Agnes Mongan 
at the head of the text: "Dear Agnes / Merry Xmas! / Hyatt". Mayor has 
underlined Fogg Art Museum in the second paragraph of the text, the Museum 
with which Agnes Mongan was variously associated. $35.



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From gilmott at snet.net  Tue May 11 23:03:39 2004
From: gilmott at snet.net (Gil Mott)
Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 23:03:39 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] Pynchon first
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 Pynchon, Thomas. V: A Novel. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1963. First edition.
ISBN: 0397003013. DJ chipped, edgeworn, dampstained, scratched.  Light damp
stains to cloth.  Interior clean.  Tight.  1st printing (no usual Lippincott
statement of First Ed.; no reviews on DJ).  492 pp. Hardcover. Very Good in
Good DJ.  (24021) $400.00

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From zita at speakeasy.net  Wed May 12 03:09:31 2004
From: zita at speakeasy.net (Laderman)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 03:09:31 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] OFFER: THE POPE'S PHYSICIAN WELL AHEAD OF HIS TIME!!
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LANCISI, GIOVANNI MARIA; ASSALTUS, PETRUS, ED. ~OPERA : QUAE HACTENUS 
PRODIERUNT OMNIA; DISSERTATIONIBUS NONNULLIS ADHUC DUM INEDITIS 
LOCUPLETATA, & ab ipso auctore, recognita atque emendata. Collegit, ac in 
ordinem digessit Petrus Assaltus ...: ~Genevae : J.A. Cramer, 1718. 2 vols. 
in 1 (1090 in variaous pagings) : ill., etched folding plates, 22 cm. ~ 
FIRST EDITION, G. & M. 71. "Lancisi great Italian clinician was the first 
to describe cardiac syphilis; he was also notable as an epidemiologist, 
with a clear insight into the theory of contagion."  He noted that Malaria 
decreased when swamps were drained, and made the connection between swamps 
and mosquitoes, laying plans to drain swamps in order to prevent malaria. 
In our text he discusses the spread of disease by insect vectors, with 
which he was well acquainted.~ OCLC, 2 Locs. [GTU,   DRB], although there 
is a copy at the NLM. Welcome III P. 441, Heirs of Hippocrates 691, and a 
notable rarity. Original full calf, raised bands, gilt title piece, but 
although with all original blanks, without ownership signature or 
bookplate. The binding is well worn, corners bumped and worn, but still 
solid and serviceable.This copy lacks the portrait which by all  evidence 
was clearly never bound in. The book is completely unsophisticated and in 
its original state.  ~$2150.00~

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From office at joslinhall.com  Wed May 12 07:50:12 2004
From: office at joslinhall.com (Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 07:50:12 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: Merchant Tailors in a Box...
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Fry, Sir Frederick Morris, & R.T.D. Sayle. THE CHARTERS OF THE MERCHANT
TAYLORS' COMPANY. London; Printed for private circulation: 1937.

In 1935 they opened the box containing the charters of the Merchant
Taylors Company and discovered that the historic documents needed dusting
and cleaning. The event also begged for a history of the Company and its
charters to be written, and so this one was, by the former Master and the
former Warden of the Company. Everything you wanted to know about the
history of tailoring in London through the ages, but were afraid to ask...
Hardcover. 9"x11.75", ix + 62 pages, 8 b/w folding plates; light wear,
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Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 07:52:55 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: Holy Hooked Rugs, Batboy !
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E. Ross & Co. Manufacturers of Rug Patterns. 1886 (catalog).

Toledo; E. Ross & Co.: 1886. A wonderful, colorful trade catalog of "folk
art" Turkish hooked rug patterns for the handy Victorian lady or child to
create. These patterns are illustrated in naively printed colored plates,
and show all sorts of floral designs, as well as designs featuring cats,
dogs, lions, birds, horses, deer, and cows, as well as some Oriental-type
patterns. The illustrated catalog is accompanied by two small,
un-illustrated paper pamphlets, one titled "Catalogue of Turkish Rug
Patterns" which lists many patterns, and the other titled "Rug Machines
and Turkish Rug Patterns" which advertises the "machine", an upright
frame, and more patterns. Both covers are illustrated with a lady seated
in front of the rug frame, making a rug. A very interesting, fragile set
of catalogs. 7"x4", 35 pages, 55 rug patterns illustrated in colors.
Covers chipped and worn, rear cover torn; last page partially perished,
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From gerard at shore.net  Wed May 12 11:01:29 2004
From: gerard at shore.net (Gerard Gormley)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 11:01:29 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: INTRO TO ROMAN LAW
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For your kind consideration ---



Hadley, James~.  INTRODUCTION TO ROMAN LAW in Twelve Academical
Lectures~.  NY NY, USA: D. Appleton and Company, 1873.  Keywords:
Very hard to find -- Out of Print -- Ancient History (Roman Law)
-- Antiquarian (100+ years) -- Non-Fiction -- Politics &
Government -- English language.  First Printing (Same Date on
title-page & copyright-page).  Hardcover.  No dust jacket (none
issued).  332 pages + ads: Index.  Binding height: 7-1/2".
Publisher's full cloth, title etc. gold-stamped.  Book Very Good:
front free end paper torn out, light bumping & rubbing to fore-
corners (moderate to spine-top/bottom), 1" split to top back of
spine), ripples to cloth front & back.  Binding strong & tight,
insides Fine.  [Digital JPEG image (1.75) available on request].
2261~.  US$70.-


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From finebook at pacbell.net  Wed May 12 12:44:52 2004
From: finebook at pacbell.net (Robert Erwin)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:44:52 -0700
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Charles Kingston - The Guilty House - 1929
Message-ID: <40A25484.7080906@pacbell.net>

Today we are offering:

Kingston, Charles (pseudonym of Charles Kingston O'Mahoney).
The Guilty House.
New York. E. P. Dutton & Co. 1929. 310 pp. 8vo. Hardcover in heavy weave 
blue cloth boards. First U.S. Edition.
The prolific author's 4th novel. Set in England, the novel focuses on 
what drives a criminal to commit a major crime in order to conceal a 
minor one. Outstanding Wm. Siegel dust wrapper illustration of man 
behind the mask of respectability.
Book is tight and clean. Pages bright with no darkening. Boards bright. 
Slight spine lean and light dust soil to edges. Jacket edge worn with 
large 7/8" chip at head of spine and smaller chips on edges. Jacket 
illustration bright and not worn or rubbed. Darkening to white 
background of rear panel listing Dutton Amazing Mysteries.
12412   $75.00

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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Wed May 12 15:15:56 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:15:56 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] 
	FS: Lilly's "Supernatural... Apparitions Seen in London,
	June 30, 1644"
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(ASTROLOGY) Lilly, William. SUPERNATURALL SIGHTS AND APPARITIONS SEEN IN 
LONDON, JUNE 30. 1644. INTERPRETED. With a Mathematicall Discourse of the Now 
Imminent Conjunction of Jupiter and Mars, 26 July, 1644. the Effects Which Either 
Here or in Some Neere Countries From Thence May Be Expected. London: Printed 
and are to be sold by I. S. for T. V. 1644. Sm. 4to. 16pp. Illus. with 2 
woodcut astrological diagrams. Old ruled calf, a bit scuffed, spine extremities and 
morocco label chipped, front cover   detached. Bookplates on front pastedown.  
   $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
Wing L2249.

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From agvent at erols.com  Wed May 12 15:18:24 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:18:24 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Frank Benson's Etchings with Original Signed Etching
Message-ID: <40A27880.6070200@erols.com>

           [BENSON,  Frank  W.] PAFF, Adam. ETCHINGS AND  DRYPOINTS
          BY FRANK  W.  BENSON.  Volume  3  (of  4).  Boston:  Houghton
          Mifflin  1923.  First Edition. Folio (9" x 12-1/2") bound  in
          linen-backed  boards;  xxii,  100  pages. Copy  #258  of  525
          numbered  copies  with an ORIGINAL SIGNED ETCHING  by  Benson
          bound in  at the front. Illustrated with detailed information
          about Benson's  work.  In the scarce dustwrapper which  other
          than a  thumb-sized  chip  at  the   head  is  in  very  nice
          condition.  Fine  in  a  Near   Fine  dustwrapper  and  quite
          uncommon as such.                                    $1500

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From gerard at shore.net  Wed May 12 18:31:15 2004
From: gerard at shore.net (Gerard Gormley)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 18:31:15 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: 2 on Hydraulics
Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20040512182908.00a4a160@gerard@shell2.shore.net>



For your kind consideration ---



Hughes, Hector J. & Arthur T. Safford~.  A TREATISE ON
HYDRAULICS~.  NY NY, USA: The Macmillan Company, 1935.  Keywords:
By no means numerous -- Out of Print -- Illustrated --
Illustrated (photos) -- Non-Fiction -- Science & Technology --
Engineering, Hydraulics, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering,
Physics, Canals, Fluid Dynamics, Fluids, Hydromechanics -- Book
contents include History of Hydraulics, Introduction, Fluid
Pressure, Fluid Pressures of Varying Intensity, Equilibrium of
Floating Solids, Fundamental Principles of Hydromechanics, Flow
of Water, the Pitot Tube, Piezometers, the Pitometer, the Venturi
Meter, Orifices, Special Forms of Orifices, Nozzles and Fire
Hose, Weirs, Float and Current Meter Measurements, Flow of Water
in Pipes and Conduits, the Flow of Water in Open Channels,
Dynamic Action of Flowing Water, Water Wheels and Pumps -- Tipped
in at rear is fold-out log diagram for computing flow of water in
open channels by Chezy, & Cutter formulas -- English language.
Revised & abridged by Safford.  Jackson and Hedrick, Editors.
Hardcover.  No dust jacket.  374 pages: Appendix, Index, black &
white photographs & illustrations throughout.  Binding height: 8-
7/8".   Publisher's full cloth, spine gold-stamped.  Book Very
Good: penciled notes on front free end paper, moderate bumping &
rubbing to fore-corners & spine-top/bottom, gilt faded, 2 small
ink blots front & back.  Binding strong & tight, insides Fine.
[Digital JPEG image (2.25) available on request].  2266~.
US$60.-


Williams, Gardner S. & Allen Hazen~.  HYDRAULIC TABLES: The
Elements of Gagings and the Friction of Water Flowing in Pipes,
Aqueducts, Sewers, etc. as Determined by the Hazen and Williams
Formula and the Flow of Water over Sharp-edged and Irregular
Weirs, and the Quantity Discharged as Determined by Bazin's
Formula and Experimental Investigations upon Large Models~.  NY
NY, USA: John Wiley & Sons, 1937.  Keywords: Hard to find -- Out
of Print -- Illustrated -- Illustrated (photos) -- Non-Fiction --
Science & Technology -- English language.  Third Edition,
Revised.  Hardcover.  No dust jacket.  115 pages: black & white
photographs (frontis) & illustrations (throughout).  Binding
height: 9-1/4".   Publisher's blue full pebbled cloth, decorative
blind-stamping to front, spine gold-stamped.  Book Very Good to
Near Fine: heavy bumping to bottom fore-corners (moderate to
spine-top/bottom).  Cloth & gold-stamping beautiful, binding
strong & tight, insides Fine.   [Digital JPEG image (1.75)
available on request].  2269~.  US$60.-


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From matheson at boo.net  Wed May 12 19:32:03 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 19:32:03 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Theodore Roethke
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20040512192951.01f90ec0@boo.net>

These are a few titles by Roethke among others that can be seen on our website.


44390.   Roethke, Theodore.   I am! Says the lamb. Drawings by Robert 
Leydenfrost. Garden City, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. Fine in dust 
jacket. First edition. $150.00

44391.   Roethke, Theodore.   The lost son and other poems. Garden City, 
Doubleday, 1948. Bumped at the head and foot of the spine and corners, 
otherwise very good in chipped, rubbed, internally reinforced dust jacket 
with closed tears and a one-inch peeled patch on the front panel. First 
edition. Signed by the author in his usual green ink on the front free 
endpaper. $200.00

44393.   Roethke, Theodore.   The lost son and other poems. Garden City, 
Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1948. Fine in price-clipped, lightly chipped and 
soiled, attractive dust jacket with short closed tears. Second impression. 
McLeod, Theodore Roethke, a Bibliography notes that there were corrections 
to the text in the second impression. $50.00


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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Wed May 12 22:14:13 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 02:14:13 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-Felix Frankfurter 
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.40.0405130213531.15913-100000@meyerbos.com>

1.  [FRANKFURTER, FELIX].  Archibald G. Thacher.  The Lawyer's
Part in National Defense, A Paper Read before the New York Law
School [etc.].  Privately Printed, [New York?], [1941?].
Printed stapled wraps; 45 pages. [62665 FBWL59] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62665 $ 250.00

Presentation copy from Justice Frankfurter, who no doubt rightly
supposed Mr. Thacher's address would be of high interest to Colonel
Wiener (and with one of Colonel Wiener's own articles cited in the
bibliography); inscribed "Fritz / See passim / FF".

2.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Address . . . at the Inauguration of Dr.
Harry N. Wright, Sixth President of the City College of the College
of the City of New York [etc.].  Privately printed, [New York?],
[1942?].  Printed stapled wraps, a trifle embrowned; 16 pages.
[62026 FBWL59L59E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62026     $ 350.00

Presentation copy of Justice Frankfurter's lecture in praise of
publicly-supported education to realize the American ideal of equal
opportunity, passionately delivered by him at his undergraduate
alma mater, inscribed "For Fritz Wiener / from FF".

3.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Chief Justices I Have Known.  Virginia
Law Review Association, Charlottesville, 1953.  From the November
issue, a little faded; stapled wraps, 30 pages. [62019 FBWL59]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62019
                                                         $ 650.00

Presentation copy of the Justice's informal talk delivered at
Virginia Law School, devoted with great charm and insight to Chief
Justices Fuller, White, Taft, Hughes and Stone--"For Fritz Wiener
/ from his friend / Felix Frankfurter / Xmas 53".

4.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  The Conditions for, and the Aims and
Methods of, Legal Research.  Iowa Law Review, Iowa City, 1930.
Reprinted from the year's second issue; yellow wraps, 12 pages.
[62296] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62296
                                                         $ 650.00

5.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  The Health of the Society.  The Journal
of the Society of Public Teachers of Law, [London?], 1950.  From
the fourth issue; stapled self wraps, 6 pages. [62018 FBWL59]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62018 $
350.00

Presentation copy of Justice Frankfurter's speech, delivered at
Lincoln's Inn Hall in July, 1950, full of warmth and of reflections
on the teaching of law and famous law teachers, the inscription
entirely in the Justice's hand "For / FBW / from FF".

6.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Mr. Justice Holmes and the Supreme
Court.  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1938.  Original
light blue cloth, the spine faded, a bit rubbed; sound. [62041
FBWL56EL59EL74E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62041 $ 650.00

Another copy of Frankfurter's 1938 Harvard lectures delivered
shortly before his elevation to the Court; inscribed on the front
free endpaper (the invariable location) "For Fritz Wiener / valued
critic / and friend / With all fond / wishes from / FF".

7.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Some Observations on the Nature of the
Judicial Process of Supreme Court Litigation.  Privately printed?,
[Philadelphia?], [1954?].  Printed stapled wraps; 16 pages. [62028
FBWL59] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62028
                                                         $ 650.00

Presentation copy of Justice Frankfurter's lecture read before the
American Philosophical Society, with much on due process, on
judicial restraint, and some penetrating comments on Justice
Cardozo; inscribed "For Fritz Wiener / from his friend / FF".

8.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Some Reflections on the Reading of
Statutes [etc.].  The Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, New York, 1947.  Reprinted from the Association's Record;
stapled wraps, 25 pages. [62023 FBWL59] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62023     $ 650.00

Presentation copy of Justice Frankfurter's Cardozo Lecture
delivered in New York in March, 1947, a lovely, warm
inscription--"For Fritz Wiener, guardian of my accuracy / and
otherwise sturdy critic, from his obliged / friend / Felix
Frankfurter".

9.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  The Supreme Court in the Mirror of
Justices, Being the First Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School [etc.].  Privately printed,
[Philadelphia?], [1957?].  Printed green stapled wraps,
well-preserved; 21 pages. [62031 FBWL59] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62031     $ 650.00

A major lecture by the Justice, focusing on the history of the
Court and the qualities necessary to serve upon it; inscribed "For
Fritz, with the hope / that his generosity in / clearing the track
was / not frustrated, and / the regards of FF".

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From admin at backcreekbooks.com  Wed May 12 22:51:24 2004
From: admin at backcreekbooks.com (Back Creek Books)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 22:51:24 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: Norman Maclean's obscure 1st book
Message-ID: <016801c43895$2dd828c0$6701a8c0@BCBOFFICE>

Greetings All,

For your consideration:
~
(No. 7261 )  Maclean, Norman F[itzroy]. and Everett C[laire]. Olson (Carey
Croneis, Series Editor). MANUAL FOR INSTRUCTION IN MILITARY MAPS AND AERIAL
PHOTOGRAPHS (HARPER'S GEOSCIENCE SERIES).
New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, (1943). First printing, Full cloth,
Octavo, xxvi, 138 pages + plates, black & white aerial photos, text figures.
Very Good.
      Little known first book by Norman Maclean, author of "A River Runs
Through It". This manual grew out of a course taught by Maclean and Olson
for The Institute of Military Studies at the University of Chicago, and
provides a thorough and concise outline of instruction intended to provide
World War II soldiers with what he should know about map reading and aerial
photographs. Maclean's interest in maps began when he worked for the U. S.
Forest Service in his youth, and at Chicago he was a respected teacher in
subjects ranging from lyric poetry to rifle marksmanship. Maclean was the
Acting Director of The Institute of Military Studies when this manual was
published. Stated "First Edition" with correct Harper code on copyright
page. This manual was reprinted later in 1943, and first printings in
collectable condition are quite uncommon. The five folded black and white
aerial photographs on perforated stubs are intact and in place at rear.
Bound in grey cloth over boards with red and blue stamped spine and upper
board, minor extremity wear. Upper board has a mild bump at top fore corner
and fore edge. Hinges sound. Bright and clean copy.    $125.00
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From agvent at erols.com  Wed May 12 15:16:27 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 15:16:27 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Frank Benson's Etchings with Original Signed Etching
Message-ID: <40A2780B.3070003@erols.com>

           [BENSON,  Frank  W.] PAFF, Adam. ETCHINGS AND  DRYPOINTS
          BY FRANK  W.  BENSON.  Volume  3  (of  4).  Boston:  Houghton
          Mifflin  1923.  First Edition. Folio (9" x 12-1/2") bound  in
          linen-backed  boards;  xxii,  100  pages. Copy  #258  of  525
          numbered  copies  with an ORIGINAL SIGNED ETCHING  by  Benson
          bound in  at the front. Illustrated with detailed information
          about Benson's  work.  In the scarce dustwrapper which  other
          than a  thumb-sized  chip  at  the   head  is  in  very  nice
          condition.  Fine  in  a  Near   Fine  dustwrapper  and  quite
          uncommon as such.                                    $1500

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From gilmott at snet.net  Wed May 12 23:04:51 2004
From: gilmott at snet.net (Gil Mott)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 23:04:51 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] Ancient Egypt
Message-ID: <NHBBJNALCLEMPMJIAPPKKEAADAAA.gilmott@snet.net>


1.  Hornung, Erik and Elizabeth Bredeck (trans.). Idea into Image: Essays on
Ancient Egyptian Thought. Timken Pub, 1992. ISBN: 0943221110. 209 pp.  No
DJ.  Clean and tight.  Illustrated.   Hardcover. Very good.  (24228) $90.00

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From admin at backcreekbooks.com  Wed May 12 23:19:27 2004
From: admin at backcreekbooks.com (Back Creek Books)
Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 23:19:27 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: Signed Michener, "The Watermen"
Message-ID: <017601c43899$19870f90$6701a8c0@BCBOFFICE>

Greetings All,

For your consideration:
~
(No. 5602 )  Michener, James A. (Illustrated by John Moll). THE WATERMEN
(SIGNED BY MICHENER AND MOLL).
New York: Random House, (1979). First printing, Full cloth, Quarto, xii, 193
pages, Black & white pencil sketches, endpaper maps. Good in a good dust
jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      SIGNED by both Michener and Moll on half title page. The book consists
of selections from Michener's novel "Chesapeake." The resulting narrative
stands nicely on its own and is here matched beautifully with the fine
drawings of John Moll depicting watermen, wildlife, oystering, boats, etc.
Bound in dark blue cloth over boards with green stamped spine lettering and
blind stamped illustration to upper board. Top edges of both boards are
extremely faded along a 1" or so margin. Lower fore corners of both boards
have shallow bumps. Jacket has sun faded edges, two short edge tears at head
of spine, and some shallow edge wrinkling. The binding is straight and
sound.    $100.00
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From agvent at erols.com  Thu May 13 09:32:47 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:32:47 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Superb Autograph Quote Signed by Susan B. Anthony
Message-ID: <40A378FF.4040909@erols.com>

ANTHONY,  Susan  B.  AUTOGRAPH  QUOTATION  SIGNED  (AQS)
          Regarding  Perfect Equality of Rights. Exceptional  quotation
          by Anthony  on  a  5-1/2" x 2-7/8" piece of paper.  In  full:
          "Perfect    equality    of    rights/for   women--civil   and
          political--/is  the  demand  of/Susan  B.  Anthony/Rochester,
          N.Y./Nov.  1,  1889." Would make an outstanding  presentation
          framed  with a portrait. Paper somewhat aged but still  Fine.
                                                               $2500

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From office at joslinhall.com  Thu May 13 11:09:27 2004
From: office at joslinhall.com (Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:09:27 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: Ancient Ceramics
Message-ID: <2468.12.76.172.209.1084460967.squirrel@www.joslinhall.com>

>From our selection of books on CERAMICS
<http://www.joslinhall.com/certp.htm>

and ANCIENT ARTS
<http://www.joslinhall.com/ancient.htm>

_______________________________________


Charleston, R.J. ROMAN POTTERY. New York; Pitman Publishing Corp.:nd
(1950s). The U.S. edition of a Faber title.  Hardcover.   6.5"x10", 48
pages plus 4 color and 96 b&w plates, worn dj. [19288] $85.00

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[Greau Collection] COLLECTION J. GREAU. Catalogue des Terres Cuites
Grecques. Vases Peints et Marbres Antiques. Paris; Maurice Delestre & M.H.
Hoffmann: May 11-16th, 1891.

The auction sale of this major but short-lived collection of Greek
terra-cottas from the Golden Age of 19th century European collectors.
Julien Greau drew his specimens from new excavations in Asia Minor, and
his collection was composed almost exclusively of items of Lydian and
Phrygian origin. "Most of the groups and figures that came into his
possession from these sources showed such an unwonted and surprising
character that their authenticity was warmly contested. Froehner advocated
their genuineness in the introductory notice [to his volume on the
collection] and later on in many other writings" [Solon, pp. 183]. Solon
notes of this auction catalog-

"Like many collections of that time, this was rapidly formed and
dispersed, but the volumes in which their content was illustrated, and the
catalogs of the sales remain to us as a testimony of their importance, and
as a valuable assistance to the study of ancient Greek art".

Hardcover.   9.5"x12", vi + 292 pages with many b&w line illustrations in
the text, plus 75 plates (numbered 1-70), most of them phototypes, a few
of them colored lithographs or line illustrations; many double-page
plates. An ex-library copy bound in old, handsome quarter leather with
raised bands and gilt spine emblems. Some cover rubbing. Contents with
some perforations, a stamp or two, each plate neatly stamped on the back;
minor soil and a few chips, one text signature loose. Overall a very neat
and useful copy. [28127] $400.00

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Hull, M.R. THE ROMAN POTTERS' KILNS OF COLCHESTER. Oxford; printed at the
University Press for The Society of Antiquaries:1963. A scholarly study of
excavated kiln sites and their contents. Both the kilns themselves and the
pottery found there are illustrated and discussed, and the construction
and use of ancient kilns is also addressed. This publication was the
"Report of the Research Committee of The Society of Antiquaries of London,
No.XXI".  Hardcover.  8.5"x11", 195 pages, 107 b&w figures with hundreds
of illustrations, plus 22 b&w plates. [21156] $85.00


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(Loeb) Chase, George H. THE LOEB COLLECTION OF ARRETINE POTTERY. New York;
Metropolitan Museum of Art:1908. "Arretine pottery takes its name from the
ancient city of Arretium...in Tuscany, some fifty miles southeast of
Florence." A collection of fine ancient pottery, including many fragments
and some intact examples.   Hardcover.  9"x12", 167 pages, plus 23 b&w
plates; paper covered boards, paper separating along the hinges; with a
second, custom bound volume containing 19 tipped-in photographs. $275.00

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Walters, H.B. HISTORY OF ANCIENT POTTERY. Greek, Etruscan and Roman.
London; John Murray: 1905. Henry Beauchamp Walters, F.S.A., was an
Assistant in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British
Museum and wrote catalogs of the Museum's Greek and Etruscan vases, Roman
pottery, and the terra-cottas. He writes in his introduction to this set-

"To many of us what is known as a classical education seems perhaps in
these utilitarian times somewhat antiquated and unnecessary, but at the
same time "the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome" have
not lost their interest for us, and can awaken responsive chords in most
of our hearts. Nor can we ever be quite forgetful of the debt that we owe
to these nations in almost every branch of human learning and industry".

This set certainly shows the full contribution the ancients made to the
ceramics arts. It was based on the general format introduced by Samuel
Birch in his groundbreaking 1857 study of ancient pottery. In addition to
a sweeping and comprehensive study of the pottery itself, Walters includes
an extensive and helpful bibliography, grouped by pottery type. Although a
hundred years old now, Walters' work continues on, dated but unfazed.
Hardcover. 2 volumes. 6.5"x9", xxxvi + 1,092 pages, 8 color and 61 b/w
plates, 230 b/w illustrations. Covers a bit rubbed at the hinges, tips,
etc., small hole in spine of Volume 1. [05315] $150.00

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Walters, H.B. CATALOGUE OF THE ROMAN POTTERY IN THE DEPARTMENT OF
ANTIQUITIES, BRITISH MUSEUM. London; Longmans (et al): 1908. A complete
catalog of the Roman wares in the Department of Greek and Roman
Antiquities in the British Museum as it existed then. Most of the material
had been acquired by the Museum in the 19th century, and included what was
at the time probably the largest amount of ancient Roman pottery recovered
from a single site, the result of Roach Smith's excavations in the city of
London.

The catalog is complete and scholarly, with special attention paid to
decorative motifs and potters' and other impressed marks, which are often
illustrated. Henry Beauchamp Walters, F.S.A., was an Assistant in the
Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the British Museum and also
wrote catalogs of the Museum's Greek and Etruscan vases, and the
terra-cottas, as well as a well-regarded two-volume history of ancient
Greek, Roman and Etruscan pottery. He wrote, in his introduction to that
set-

"To many of us what is known as a classical education seems perhaps in
these utilitarian times somewhat antiquated and unnecessary, but at the
same time "the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome" have
not lost their interest for us, and can awaken responsive chords in most
of our hearts. Nor can we ever be quite forgetful of the debt that we owe
to these nations in almost every branch of human learning and industry".

Hardcover. 8"x10", liv + 464 pages, with 283+ line illustrations in the
text, plus 32 b/w and tinted plates and 12 plates of line illustration;
all plates with tissue guards. Covers with some very minor soil and a
little wear; contents with some foxing on the top, fore and bottom edge
and on the edges title page and preliminaries, but except for this a very
nice, neat copy of a scarce book often found ex-libbed and beat to hell.
[05314] $375.00

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From office at joslinhall.com  Thu May 13 11:09:54 2004
From: office at joslinhall.com (Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 11:09:54 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: Ancient Glass
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>From our selection of books on GLASS
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and ANCIENT ARTS
<http://www.joslinhall.com/ancient.htm>

_______________________________________


Eisen, Gustavus A. (& Fahim Kouchakji). GLASS, ITS ORIGIN, HISTORY,
CHRONOLOGY, TECHNIC AND CLASSIFICATION TO THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. New York;
William Edwin Rudge: 1927. Edition limited to 500 sets.

A monumental and important study of ancient glass, focusing primarily on
glass of the Roman period up to about the Fifth Century, although
developments from the 6th-16th Centuries are also discussed and outlined.
Eisen studied examples from numerous private and public collections, but
his most important source was the collection of Mrs. W.H. Moore of New
York, on which he based a large part of the work.

What can one say about Gustavus Eisen? A profoundly inquisitive, seemingly
inexhaustible antiquary, an immigrant from Sweden with his brother,
Francis, with whom he founded a vineyard in California... Eisen also was a
specialist in ancient textiles who was sent by Phoebe Hearst, in 1902, to
Guatemala, and returned with 200 ancient examples, forming the world's
largest and best-documented collection of 19th century Guatemalan
textiles, and, not incidentally, a bevy of photographs. He authored one of
the most authoritative studies of portraits of George Washington, a
massive three-volume study; he injected himself into the controversy and
research involving the Holy Grail and Shroud of Turin and wrote a
monograph on the controversial Great Chalice of Antioch. And, as we
present here, he authored one of the cornerstone studies of ancient glass.
Is "impressive" the word I am looking for? Why yes, I believe it is...

Hardcover. 2 volumes, 7.5"x10", 768 pages, 10 color and 188 b/w plates,
284 line figures in the text; slipcased. Books fine; glassine somewhat
worn, case somewhat worn. [05469] $400.00

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Engle, Anita (ed.). READINGS IN GLASS HISTORY. Volume 1 - 8. Jerusalem;
Phoenix Publications:1973-77. These volumes include many articles on
ancient mideastern glass and glass archeology of the area, as well as some
on 17th and 18th century European glassmakers and techniques. It is the
Mid-Eastern focus, especially in the early issues, that makes this such a
valuable resource.  Softcpver.  8 volumes. 6.5"x9.5", 80-140 pages each,
b&w and line illustrations, softcovers; ex-institutional, with stamps on
the covers and title pages; some light cover wear, but internally clean.
[27911] $300.00

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Mariacher, G. ITALIAN BLOWN GLASS, FROM ANCIENT ROME TO VENICE. New York;
McGraw Hill:1960. A magnificent and colorful survey of Italian blown
glass, with a good text. The 85 tipped-in color plates are large and
breathtakingly beautiful.   Hardcover.  10"x12", 239 pages, 85 tipped-in
color plates and 59 b&w illustrations, dj. Light wear and a little soil;
worn jacket with several taped tears and several chips (one large).  
[02957]  $150.00

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Neuburg, Frederic. GLASS IN ANTIQUITY. London; Salisbury Square: 1949. The
first edition of this standard study of ancient glass. Organized by type,
coverage includes Egypt, Greece and Rome, Syria, Palestine and Jewish
glass, and Byzantium. Neuberg had access to some of the world's great
collections, and especially to several important Middle Eastern museums.
Translated by R.J. Charleston. Includes a short but very interesting
bibliography, especially strong on European works. Hardcover. 7.5"x10",
xxi + 72 pages, plus 32 b/w plates, light cover soil and rubbing, light
internal age-toning. [05190] $100.00

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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Thu May 13 14:32:36 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 14:32:36 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Three works related to the Greek Bible bound
	together. London: 1653-63
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(BIBLE) IN SACRA BIBLIA GRAECA EX VERSIONE LXX. INTERPRETUM SCHOLIA; Simul et 
Interpretum Caetorum Lectiones Variantes. London: Excudebat Rogerus Daniel? 
apud Joannem Martin & Jacobum Allestrye. 1653. Sm. 8vo. (2),186,(2)pp. Greek & 
Latin text. BOUND WITH: The final portion of the R. Daniel , London 1653, 
Greek Bible, pp. 1057-1280 (a part of the first edition of the Septuagint printed 
in England). Double column Greek text. BOUND WITH: THE WHOLE BOOK OF PSALMS: 
Collected into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins and Others? to 
Be Sung in All Churches? & Moreover in Private Houses? Laying Apart All 
Ungodly Songs and Ballades: Which Tend Onely to the Nourishing of Vice, and 
Corrupting of Youth. London: Printed for the Companie of Stationers. 1663. 
(2),78,(16)pp. Index. Double column text. Title within a decorative woodcut border. One 
leaf with an old, faded water stain. The 3 works bound together in cont. 
black morocco, elaborately gilt tooled paneled covers, tan calf spine label. 
A.e.g.     $750.00 (trade discount allowed)
The first work is Wing I122, the last is Wing B2481A.

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From zita at speakeasy.net  Fri May 14 01:51:40 2004
From: zita at speakeasy.net (Laderman)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 01:51:40 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] OFFER: ANDERSON ILLUSTRATED BY ELEANOR VERE BOYLE STILL
 MINE AFTER MY LAST JUVENILE CATALOG WENT OUT! WHAT!!
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ANDERSON, H. C. (Hans Christian)  :  FAIRY TALES BY HAND CHRISTIAN 
ANDERSON. ILLUSTRATED BY 10 LARGE DESIGNS IN COLOUR AFTER ORIGINAL DRAWINGS 
BY E.V.B. Newly translated by H.L.D.[Harry Leigh Douglas] Ward and Augusta 
Plesner ...  New York, Scribner & Welford, ND,1880[?].  vi, 76 Pp. col. 
ill. 32 cm.  Half-title. E.V. B. is the Honorable ELEANOR VERE BOYLE  So, 
this edition features the lovely illustrations which are florid 
Pre-Raphaelite in quality of  the Hon. Eleanor Vere Boyle, wife of the 
Reverend Richard Boyle. She lived in the Maidenhead area and exhibited 
figure subjects at the Grosvenor Gallery and elsewhere from 1878-81. She 
Illustrateded  many children's books using the initials EVB. Most of them 
were printed in color by chromo- lithography, as here,  by Emrik & Singer, 
Chromolith. East London. See Dictionary of Victorian Painters. This book 
is, however, particularly prized.  Original glazed, pictorial boards, 
showing another design not repeated within, corners worn, inner rear hinge 
repaired. Inscribed on the Fr. Fr. EP "Miss Lizzie Mullan Christmas 1885" 
in a large round hand. ]. Both the English and this American issue are 
rare. Unnoted by OCLC,  Melvyl, CIC, H, Y, KVK, NYPL, BL,  COPAC, Opie, 
Osborne[ the last four lacking the English Edition]. An About Very Good 
copy.  $650.00

The English edition had two more plates and it was printed in 1872. It is 
now being offered at a price which makes this one, from my last juvenile 
catalog seem like a bargain, even if you halve the price one finds it at in 
some hands. And, of course, dear colleagues, I always honor "usual trade 
discounts," too.

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From agvent at erols.com  Fri May 14 10:59:40 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 10:59:40 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Bruce Rogers--Geofroy Tory in superb Averill Cole
	binding
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BERNARD,  Auguste  Joseph [Bruce ROGERS].  GEOFROY  TORY
          PAINTER  AND ENGRAVER: FIRST ROYAL PRINTER:... AN ACCOUNT  OF
          HIS LIFE  AND  WORKS.  (Boston and New York):  The  Riverside
          Press 1909.  First  Edition. Quarto (7-5/8" x 11-1/4")  bound
          by American  binder Averill Cole in full green levant morocco
          with blind-tooled  border  and  a large center panel  on  the
          front cover  with  onlays of brown and green morocco  brought
          out by   a  background  of   brilliantly  dotted  gold;  wide
          doublures  with  a  pattern of small circle  onlays  matching
          those on  the cover and endleaves of drab watered silk,  gilt
          top, uncut.  xxii,  332, (8) pages. Copy #20 of 370  designed
          by Bruce  Rogers with illustrations taken from original  Tory
          books and  retouched  or  redrawn by  Rogers.  Translated  by
          George  B.  Ives. While not a copy or even an  adaptation  of
          Tory's    work,   Cole's  binding   design   shares   similar
          characteristics  and features Tory's printer's mark, the  Pot
          Casse,  on  the central onlay on the front cover.  A  similar
          binding  by Cole on the same title was featured in an article
          by Robert   Seaver,  "Some   Interesting  Bookbindings"  that
          appeared  in  THE AMERICAN PRINTER circa 1910.  Inscribed  in
          pencil  by  Walter  L.  Harden in  1912  to  noted  collector
          William  F.  Gable,  whose contemporary bookplate is  on  the
          verso of   the  front  endpaper.   A  later  bookplate   of a
          descendant  is  on the verso of the first  blank.  Prospectus
          with order  form  laid  in. A fine example of  a  beautifully
          printed  book in a lovely binding by Cole, who studied  under
          Louis Jacob  in  Brussels and who was in charge of  the  hand
          bindery  at  Riverside from 1908 to 1920. Cole was  awarded a
          gold medal  for her bindings at the Panama-Pacific Exposition
          in San  Francisco  in 1915. Sumptuous copy in a  fleece-lined
          slipcase with fine provenance.                       $6500

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From law at lawbookexchange.com  Fri May 14 17:22:28 2004
From: law at lawbookexchange.com (The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:22:28 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] A Selection of Lawbook Exchange Titles
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Friday, May 14, 2004, 5:21 PM:

The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. is pleased to offer the following items.
For other works, and for our current Recent Acquisitions
and Special Offers catalogue, please feel free to browse our website:
www.lawbookexchange.com

1.                Darrow's Plea for Loeb and Leopold
[Darrow, Clarence (1857-1938)]. Plea of Clarence Darrow, August 22nd,
23rd & 25th, MCMXXIIII, In Defense of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold,
Jr. on Trial for Murder. Authorized and Revised Edition Together with
a Brief Summary of the Facts. Chicago: Ralph Fletcher Seymour, [1924].
Octavo (5-1/2" x 8"). [2], 121 pp. Frontispiece photograph of Darrow.
Handsome red and black printed wrappers, deckle fore and bottom edges.
Some rubbing with wear to spine ends, and corners, a few creases and a
tiny tears to covers. First gathering somewhat loose but secure, chips
to fore-edges of two leaves with no loss to text. Internally clean. A
nice copy. $150.
* The famous plea for clemency that spared the defendant's lives for
their attempt to commit a "perfect crime." Marke, A Catalogue of the
Law Collection at New York University (1953) 993. Hunsberger, Clarence
Darrow: A Bibliography 1265.
(Inventory # 41191)

2.        First Report of the Landmark Dartmouth College Case
[Dartmouth College Case]. Farrar, Timothy [1788-1874], Reporter.
Report of the Case of the Trustees of Dartmouth College Against
William H. Woodward: Argued and Determined in the Superior Court of
Judicature of the State of New-Hampshire, November 1817. And on Error
in the Supreme Court of the United States, February 1819. Portsmouth:
Published by John W. Forster and Weste, [1819]. Octavo (5" x 9"). [4],
406 pp. Original tan quarter-paper spine with printed label over gray
paper-covered boards, deckle fore-edge. A few tiny stains to binding,
light rubbing to boards, corners bumped, joints cracked but secure,
moderate wear and a few vertical splits through spine, binding secure.
Chip to fore-edge of a leaf with negligible loss to text, interior
otherwise fresh. An appealing unsophisticated copy. $1,500.
* First published report of the landmark case involving the contract
rights of corporations. With all the material related to the case,
including the arguments of Webster and Wirt and the opinions of Chief
Justice Marshall and Justices Story and Washington, and an appendix
containing teh texts of related documents. The New Hampshire
legislature passed a bill in 1816 that revoked Dartmouth College's
original charter and converted the college from a private to a state
institution. The college challenged the constitionality of this act in
the state supreme court without success, but the U.S. Supreme Court
reversed the state's decision in a landmark opinion based on the
contract clause of the Constitution (Article I, Section 10). "By
construing the contract clause as a means of protecting corporate
charters from state interventions, Marshall derived a significant
limitation on state authority. As a result, various forms of private
economic and social activity would enjoy security from state
regulatory policy. Marshall thus encouraged, through constitutional
sanction, the emergence of the relatively unregulated private,
autonomous economic actor as the major participant in a leberal
political economy that served the commonwealth by promoting enligtened
self interest": Alfred F. Konefsky, "Dartmouth College v. Woodward" in
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court 218-219. Sabin, A Dictionary
of Books Relating to America 23887. Cohen, Bibliography of Early
American Law 11614.
(Inventory # 41235)

3.       A Rare Set of Reports on the French Secret Police
[Delavau, Guy [1788-1874] and M. Franchet]. [Police de Paris]. Livre
Noir de messieurs Delavau et Franchet, ou Repertoire Alphabetique; de
la Police Politique Sous Le Ministere Depolrable; Ouvrage Imprime
D'apres les Registres de L'administration. Introduction by M. Annee
[1770-1846]. Second edition. Paris: Moutardier, Libraire-Editeu, 1829.
Four volumes. Octavo (5-3/8"x 8-3/8"). Contemporary gilt stamped
marble boards with light blue letterpieces. Gilt library stamp at foot
of spine. Corners rubbed. A rare set. Very good. $750.
* This set contains anonymous reports that people filed with the
French secret police. Interesting for the mine of information of those
suspected of anti-governmental activities. Goldsmiths' Library of
Economic Literature no. 26008.

4.                 Uncommon American Law Dictionary
Grattan, Robert, Compiler. Glossary of Technical Words, Phrases,
Maxims, and Abbreviations Found in the Text of the Popular or
Students' Edition of The Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure. New York:
The American Law Book Company, 1909. 230 pp. Original limp textured
cloth, rounded corners, title in gilt to front board. Some shelfwear,
faint stain to front board, front hinge just starting. Owner stamp to
front free endpaper, internally clean. An appealing copy of a very
uncommon title. $250.
* "[T]he author has collected and defined such words and phrases as
occur in latter-day legal literature, and has arranged them for the
convenience of the student and the lawyer. No attempt has been made to
exhaust the field of legal dictionaries, glossaries and Latin
lexicons. Only the unusual and, more particularly, the foreign words
and phrases found in the text of [William Mack's] Cyclopedia of Law
and Procedure are here presented in concise form.": Preface [3]. OCLC
locates one copy.
(Inventory # 41184)

5.                Elzevier's Typographical Masterwork
[Justinian (483-565 C.E.)]. Godefroy, Denis [1549-1621], Editor. [Cujas,
Jacques (1522-1590)]. [Leeuwen, Simon van (1626-1682)]. Corpus Juris
Civilis, Pandectis ad Florentium Archetypum Expressis,
Institutionibus, Codice et Novellis, Addito Textu Graeco, ut & in
Digestis et Codice, Legibus et Constitutionibus Graecis, Cum Optimis
Quibusque Editionibus Collatis. Cum Notis Integris, Repetitae Quintum
Prelectionis. Praeter Justiniani Edicta, Leonis & Aliorum Imperatorum
Novellas, Ac Canones Apostolorum, Graece & Latine, Feudorum Libros,
Leges XII. Tabul. & Aliosad Jus Pertinentes Tractatus, Fastos
Consulares, Indicesque Titulorum ac Legum: & Quaecunque in Ultimis
Parisiensi vel Lugdunensi Editioninus Continentur, Huic Editioni Nove
Accesserunt Pauli Receptae Sententiae Cum Selectis Notis J. Cujacii et
Sparsim ad Universum Corpus Antonii Anselmo, Observationes Singulares,
Remissiones & Notae Juris Civilis, Canonici, & Novissimi ac in Praxi
Recepti Differentiam Continentes; Denique, Lectiones Variae & Notae
Selectae Augustini, Bellonii, Goveani, Duareni, Ruffardi, Hottomanni,
Contii, Roberti, Raevardi, Charondae, Grotii, Salmasii & Aliorum.
Opera & Studio Simonis van Leewen. Amsterdam and Leiden: Johann Blaeu,
Louis & Daniel Elzevier, F. Hackius, 1663.  Two Vols. [18], 796 pp.;
[12], 388, [12], 300, [92], [39] pp. Large Folio (9-1/2" x 15-3/4").
Extra engraved title page by C. van Dalen. Contemporary calf, raised
bands, decorative gilt spines with contrasting gilt spine, lettering
pieces. Edges rouged, joints of Volume Two just starting, some
rubbing, marbled endpapers, ownership inscriptions of Aegidius De
Backer of the Society of Jesus, 1779. Very minor stains. Printed in
double columns with extensive printed marginal glosses and
explanations. In Latin, with sections in Greek and Latin. A clean
fresh copy. $2,000.
* "Justinian's codification as a whole, including the Novels, is now
called by the general descriptive name of Corpus Juris Civilis, an
expression which came into use late in the 16th century from the
famous French jurist Denis Godefroy (Gothofredus) [the editor of the
present work], who first used this term in his 1583 edition of
Justinian's monumental codification. This expression "Corpus Juris,"
so familiar and frequent in modern legal literature, is but a correct
shortened form of Godefroy's title" (Marke).
     This edition is particularly appealing for its exquisite design,
which harmoniously combines an imposing array of typographical matter
in both Latin and Greek. Indeed, this work has been called the most
beautiful book ever issued by the Elzeviers. It also contains
additional material by Cujas and van Leeuwen, two of the most
distinguished early modern scholars of Roman law. Marke, A Catalogue
of the Law Collection at New York University (1953) 114. Willems, Les
Elzevier: Histoire et Annales Typographiques 1299. Brunet, Manuel du
Libraire et de L'Amateur de Livres III, 608. Graesse, Tresor de Livres
Rares et Pr?cieux ou Nouveau Dictionnaire Bibliographique III:503.
(Inventory # 33893)

6.              The First English Treatise on Contracts
Powell, John Joseph [?1755-1801]. Essay Upon the Law of Contracts and
Agreements. Walpole: Printed, At the Press of Thomas & Thomas, by
Cheever Felch, 1802. Two volumes in one, each with title page. Recent
period-style quarter calf over cloth, lettering piece, endpapers
renewed. Early owner signature to title page, light foxing to text. An
uncommon title in a handsome binding. $750.
* Second American edition of the first treatise on the subject. Powell
wrote several distinguished treatises that were used widely in England
and America, including this one. Though mildly critical of its
organization, Holdsworth considers it "an able book" that "is much
more than a digest of cases" because "[i]n all cases the author tries,
with considerable success, to state principles, and to illustrate them
by cases.": History of English Law XII:392. Cohen, Bibliography of
Early American Law 3662.
(Inventory # 41233)

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Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:39:27 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Claude de Saumaise's work on astrology. Leyden: 1648
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(ASTROLOGY) Saumaise, Claude de. DE ANNIS CLIMACTERICIS ET ANTIQUA ASTROLOGIA 
DIATRIBAE. Leyden: Ex Officina Elzeviriorum. 1648. Sm. 8vo. (128),844,(18)pp. 
Index. Illus. with several woodcut diagrams and tables. Title printed in red &
 black with a woodcut vignette. Cont. vellum, hand lettered spine, a bit 
soiled. Small rubber stamp on verso of title.     $500.00 (trade discount allowed)
Willems #644.

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From matheson at boo.net  Fri May 14 19:57:45 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 19:57:45 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Two important 20th Century Spanish poets
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For your consideration today:

Alberti, Rafael.  A la pintura: canta de la linea y del color.  Buenos 
Aires, Imprenta Lopez, 1945. Original paper boards. Joints lightly rubbed, 
occasional minor foxing, paperclip mark on the front free endpaper, 
otherwise fine in publisher's box. Card of Jose M. Lopez Soto, Imprenta 
Lopez (the printer of the book) laid in. The card is inscribed: 
"Cordialmente". The printed statement opposite the colophon reads: 
"Ejemplar especialmente impreso para Miss Agnes Mongan", from whose library 
the book comes. Poems on 33 pp., followed by plates, a number in color. The 
Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literature, second edition, says of Spanish 
poet, Rafael Alberti (born 1902): "[a]fter the defeat of the Spanish 
Republic in 1939, Alberti settled in Argentina and produced some of the 
best poetry of exile ever written in Spanish".  $200.00

Alberti, Rafael.  The lost grove. Translated and edited by Gabriel 
Berns.  Berkeley, Los Angeles, London, University of California Press 
[c1976] Fine in fine dust jacket. First English translation. Sub-title on 
the dust jacket: Autobiography of a Spanish poet in exile. Glossary of 
names and places. 323 pp.  $35.00

Salinas, Pedro (1891-1951).   Fabula y signo.  [Madrid] Editorial Plutarco 
S. A., 1931. Unopened. White wrappers unevenly darkened with several soil 
marks, yapp edges lightly worn. First edition. Of 1,000 copies one of 975 
numbered 26 to 1,000.  Considered one of the most important Spanish poets 
of the 20th Century.  $400.00



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Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 11:35:10 +0200
Subject: [Rarebooks] =?iso-8859-1?q?Nouveaut=E9s_de_la?= semaine
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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Sat May 15 13:21:40 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 13:21:40 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Finella's "scientific reading" of fingernails.
	Naples: 1649
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(PALMISTRY) Finella, Filippo. DE QUATUOR SIGNIS, QUAE APPARENT IN UNGUIBUS 
MANUUM. Naples: Typis Jacobi Gaffari. 1649. Sm. 8vo. 68,(4)pp. Woodcut portrait 
of author on verso of title, and 4 woodcut text diagrams depicting the signs 
that appear on the fingernails. Early 20th cent. 1/2 brown morocco, gilt, over 
marbled boards. Small tear at bottom corners of C2 & C3 (affecting a few 
letters of 2 words, but not their readability). Occasional light browning. Title 
somewhat soiled. Quaint ?Palmistry? bookplate on front pastedown.     $750.00 
(trade discount allowed)

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From matheson at boo.net  Sat May 15 16:53:56 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 16:53:56 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Mark Twain
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Fill in the crevices of your Mark Twain collection with:

Taylor, Coley B.   Mark twain's margins on Thackeray's "Swift".  New York, 
Gotham House, 1935 Tan cloth, printed paper label on the front cover. Very 
light wear at the corners, otherwise fine. Of 1,000 copies one of 50 set 
aside for the use of the literary critics. In place of a number the author 
has written in "review". Inscribed by the author beneath the limitation 
notice. BAL 3703 ("Contains some material by Clemens here first in book 
form").  $75

Clemens, Samuel Langhorne.   Mark Twain's burlesque 
autobiography.  Larchmont, Peter Pauper Press, 1930. Original green cloth, 
printed paper label on the backstrip. Label darkened, otherwise near fine. 
[25] pp. 525 copies printed at the Walpole Printing Office in New Rochelle. 
"Of these five hundred are for sale by Random House, New York City". 
McBride / Mark Twain, a bibliography, p. 17.  $50

Meine, Franklin J.   Mark Twain's first story.  [Iowa City] Prairie Press 
[1952]. Original dust jacket over plain wrappers (beige dust jacket 
lettered in red). Fine. 19 pp. Designed, hand set and printed by Carroll 
Coleman. William M. McBride / Mark Twain, a bibliography of the collections 
of the Mark Twain Memorial and the Stowe-Day Foundation, p. 301.  $50

Simpson, Alan.   Mark Twain goes back to Vassar, an introduction to the 
Jean Webster McKinney family papers.  [n.p.] published for the dedication 
of the Francis FitzRandolph Rare Book Room in the Helen B. Lockwood 
Library, 1977. Original printed wrappers. Fine. 20 pp. Illustrated. 
Includes a facsimile of a Mark Twain letter, a reproduction of a lithograph 
portrait of Twain, and a facsimile of an early autograph page of The 
Celebrated Jumping Frog.  $25


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From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 10:30:15 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: True First Printing of Joyce's ULYSESS, 1922
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JOYCE, JAMES. ULYSSES. Paris: Shakespeare and Company 1922. First 
Edition. The true First Printing of this modern classic. Copy #482 of 
750 numbered copies printed on handmade paper of a total edition of 
only 1000. Bound in half brown morocco with matching corners, spine 
lettered in gilt, with a matching half morocco slipcase. A very nice 
copy priced very attractively because the half title and title pages 
are in expert facsimile. There is also a facsimile corner repair to 
one page. If you can live with this, you will have on your shelf 
perhaps the most notable work of fiction written in the twentieth 
century at a price you are not likely to encounter elsewhere. Despite 
the defects, Near Fine in a handsome slipcase.   $6000

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From matheson at boo.net  Sun May 16 15:33:18 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 15:33:18 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Gravure en France
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website:  www.mathesonbooks.com

Blum, Andre.   Les origines de la gravure en France. Les estampes sur bois 
et sur metal. Les incunables xylographiques.  Paris et Bruxelles, Librairie 
nationale d'art et d'histoire, G. Vanoest, Editeur, 1927. Original printed 
wrappers. Ownership signature of E[lizabeth] Mongan on the front endpaper. 
Some early leaves including the title-page foxed, joints rubbed, wrappers 
darkened at the edges and soiled, otherwise very good, largely unopened. 92 
pp., followed by 78 full-page plates. $100

Duplessis, Georges.   Histoire de la gravure en France.  Paris, Rapilly, 
Libraire-Editeur, 1861. Original blue printed wrappers. Fine, unopened, an 
amazing survival in this condition. Bigmore & Wyman, v. 1 ("This is the 
standard work on the history of French engraving"). 408 pp. $100

Blum, Andre.   The origins of printing and engraving. Translated from the 
French by Harry Miller Lydenberg.  New York, Charles Scribner's, 1940. 
Original two-colored cloth. Fine in dust jacket missing piece at head of 
backstrip. Translation of Les origines du papier, de l'imprimerie et de la 
gravure. First American edition.  $65

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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Sun May 16 21:50:43 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 01:50:43 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-A Selection from Stock, with Images 
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A selection of works which we have in stock, with images of them;
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1.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Some Observations on the Nature of the
Judicial Process of Supreme Court Litigation.  Privately printed?,
[Philadelphia?], [1954?].  Printed stapled wraps; 16 pages. [62028
FBWL59] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62028
                                                         $ 650.00

Presentation copy of Justice Frankfurter's lecture read before the
American Philosophical Society, with much on due process, on
judicial restraint, and some penetrating comments on Justice
Cardozo; inscribed "For Fritz Wiener / from his friend / FF".

2.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  Some Reflections on the Reading of
Statutes [etc.].  The Association of the Bar of the City of New
York, New York, 1947.  Reprinted from the Association's Record;
stapled wraps, 25 pages. [62023 FBWL59] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62023     $ 650.00

Presentation copy of Justice Frankfurter's Cardozo Lecture
delivered in New York in March, 1947, a lovely, warm
inscription--"For Fritz Wiener, guardian of my accuracy / and
otherwise sturdy critic, from his obliged / friend / Felix
Frankfurter".

3.  FRANKFURTER, Felix.  The Supreme Court in the Mirror of
Justices, Being the First Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture at the
University of Pennsylvania Law School [etc.].  Privately printed,
[Philadelphia?], [1957?].  Printed green stapled wraps,
well-preserved; 21 pages. [62031 FBWL59] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62031     $ 650.00

A major lecture by the Justice, focusing on the history of the
Court and the qualities necessary to serve upon it; inscribed "For
Fritz, with the hope / that his generosity in / clearing the track
was / not frustrated, and / the regards of FF".

4.  GENTILI, Alberici.  De Legationibus Libri Tres. S.T.C. 11737.
Excudebat Thomas Vautrollerius, Londini, 1585.  Later 1/2 calf,
rubbed, some embrowning; a sound copy. [61929] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=61929   $ 2,500.00

The rare first edition of Gentili's first substantial work,
anticipating Grotius as "the first writer who systematically worked
out this part [the rights of ambassadors] of the ius gentium";
three copies in the NUC, none in a law library.

5.  [HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL, JR.].  Felix Frankfurter.  Foreward
to Holmes-Laski Letters, The Correspondence of Mr. Justice Holmes
and Harold J. Laski 1916-1935.  Privately printed, [Cambridge?],
[1952?].  Single folded sheet; 4 pages. [62021 FBWL60] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62021     $ 250.00

A separate issuance of the Justice's insightful foreword to the
Holmes-Laski correspondence, exploring the two men's relationship
and the merits of the letters they exchanged, the inscription
entirely in the Justice's hand--"For / FBW / from FF".

6.  HOUGH, Charles Merrill (ed.).  Reports of Cases in the Vice
Admiralty of the Province of New York and in the Court of Admiralty
of the State of New York, 1715-1788.  Yale University Press, New
Haven, 1925.  Modern speckled goatskin morocco, some browning, else
an attractive copy. [62188 W0*FBWL60L78] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62188     $ 250.00

Judge Hough's capable editing of, and the first publication of,
what he terms "the oldest law book in North America", containing
the records of the oldest maritime cases in this country; with
portraits of the judges then on the admiralty bench.

7.  HOWARD, John.  The State of the Prisons in England and Wales,
With Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign
Prisons and Hospitals. The Third Edition.  Printed by William
Eyres; and sold by T. Cadell [etc.], Warrington, 1784.  Modern 1/4
calf, half title backed, ex-library?, repairs; usable. [62392
L64EL78E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62392     $ 750.00

8.  MOILE, N[icholas] T[hirning] [i.e. Henry Bliss].  State
Trials. Second Edition.  Simpkin, Marshall and Co., London, 1842.
Original blue-green embossed cloth, showing wear, but sound.
[62294] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62294
                                                         $ 350.00

The only work of its kind I am aware of, rendering into verse three
of the better known state trials, including that of Mary Queen of
Scots.

9.  STARKIE, Thomas.  A Practical Treatise on the Law of Evidence,
and Digest of Proofs in Civil and Criminal Proceedings. Sixth
American Edition. Two Volumes.  P.H. Nicklin & T. Johnson, Law
Booksellers [etc.], Philadelphia, 1837.  Contemporary sheep,
rubbed, some embrowning, but a sound set. [62879 L57E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62879     $ 250.00

10.  WHEATON, Henry.  Elements of International Law: With a
Sketch of the History of the Science.  Carey, Lea & Blanchard,
Philadelphia, 1836.  Original cloth, repaired and rebacked, some
foxing; sound. [62068 L68E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62068 $ 650.00

First American edition of Wheaton's most important work, translated
into many languages (including Chinese and Japanese); "for the
first time the principles underlying international law were brought
together in a book written in English".


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Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Signed Thomas Edison Boy's Life
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               [EDISON,  Thomas]  MEADOWCROFT, William. THE BOY'S  LIFE
          OF EDISON.   New  York:  Harper   &  Brothers  (1911).  First
          Edition.  Early  but  not first  printing.  Publisher's  sage
          green pebble-grain  cloth  with front cover stamped in  blind
          and lettered  in  gilt  with oval  photographic  portrait  of
          Edison  pasted to center. Illustrated with eight photographic
          plates  including  a frontispiece portrait of Edison.  SIGNED
          by Thomas  Edison  with his umbrella signature on  the  front
          flyleaf.  Gilt on spine a little dull, small stain on  bulked
          fore-edge  of text. Slight offsetting from a newsclipping  to
          two facing  text  pages.  Owner  inscription  on  front  free
          endpaper  dated 1911 with a small ink stamp dated August  20,
          1913, on  the  front flyleaf well below  Edison's  signature.
          Near Fine                                            $3500.00

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From law at lawbookexchange.com  Mon May 17 17:26:59 2004
From: law at lawbookexchange.com (The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.)
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:26:59 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] A Selection of Lawbook Exchange Titles (With Digital
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Monday, May 17, 2004, 5:25 PM:

The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. is pleased to offer the following items.
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1.         Bacon's Maximes of the Common Law, 1636
Bacon, Sir Francis [1561-1626]. The Elements of the Common Lawes of
England, Branched into a Double Tract: The One Containing A Collection
of Some Principall Rules and Maximes of the Common Law, With Their
Latitude and Extent. Explicated for the More Facile Introduction of
Such as are Studiously Addicted to That Noble Profession.
[With]
The Use of the Common Law, for the Preservation of our Persons, Goods,
and Good Names. According to the Lawes and Customes of this Land.
London: Printed by the Assignes of J. More, 1636. [xx], 94 [i.e. 90],
[8], 72 pp. Quarto (5-3/8" x 7-1/4"). Early nineteenth century diced
Russia, rebacked in period style with gilt-edged raised bands and
lettering piece. Some rubbing with minor wear to corners, tiny
inkstain to front board. Later armorial bookplate to front pastedown,
attractive woodcut head-pieces and decorated initials. Light foxing to
margins of a few leaves, clean tear to a leaf expertly repaired, minor
worming to foot of text block, interior otherwise fresh. An appealing
copy. $1,500.
* Second edition. Bacon, one of the great intellectuals of the age,
held the posts of Solicitor General, Attorney General and Lord
Chancellor during the reign of James I. The Elements of the Common
Laws of England is the general title for a work that is comprised of
two different treatises: A Collection of Some Principall Rules and
Maximes of the Common Lawes of England and The Use of the Law,
Provided for the Preservation of Our Persons, Goods and Good Names.
The first contains twenty-five maxims, or regulae. They are remarkable
for their stylistic vigor, intellectual rigor, meticulousness and
clarity. It was the first part of De Regulis Juris, a codification of
English law that Bacon never completed. This is quite unfortunate,
observes Holdsworth, because "he alone had the philosophical capacity,
the historical knowledge and the literary taste needed to select the
subject matter and shape the form of the books. (...) [Had he
completed the book] there would be many who would question whether, as
a lawyer, he was not Coke's superior." The second treatise is a review
of the history and practical application of criminal law, estate law,
personal property law and the law of slander. Holdsworth, A History of
English Law V:498-499. Pollard and Redgrave, A Short-Title Catalogue
of Books Printed in England, Scotland, and Ireland 1136.
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2.                Handsome Set of Campbell's Lives
Campbell, John, Lord [1779-1861]. [Cockcroft, James, Editor]. The
Lives of the Chief Justices of England: From the Norman Conquest Till
the Death of Lord Tenterden. New and Revised Edition, With
Illustrations and Numerous Annotations. Northport: Edward Thompson,
1894-1899. Five volumes in slipcases. Original red and white cloth in
red gilt-stamped cloth dust jackets, top edges gilt. Light scuffing,
wear and spotting to dust jacket spines, slipcases worn, fabric
lacking from spines. Attractive color frontispieces, title pages
printed in red and black, text tight and clean. A handsome set.
$1,200.
* An invaluable source of biographical information unavailable
elsewhere. "[H]is works form an indispensable part of every lawyer's
library, and...they are read because they are eminently readable. They
form the greatest existing storehouse, however the contents have been
acquired, of legal anecdote and biography. If his jocosity is not
always seasonable, or in taste, it seldom fails to amuse.": Atlay, The
Victorian Chancellors II:181-183 cited in Marke, A Catalogue of the
Law Collection at New York University (1953) 151.
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3.                  Connecticut Acts and Laws, 1784
[Connecticut]. [Sherman, Roger (1721-1793) and Law, Richard (1733-
1806), Editors (Attributed)]. Acts and Laws of the State of
Connecticut, In America. New London: Printed by Timothy Green, Printer
to the Governor and State of Connecticut. 1784. 8, 6, [2], 265 pp.
Small folio (7" x 11-1/2"). Contemporary sheep, raised bands. Wear to
edges, tips and rear joint. Chipping to foot of spine, front joint
starting. Faint early annotation to front board, hinges cracked but
secure, minor worming to pastedown and fore-edges of some leaves.
Woodcut Connecticut state seal to title page. Front free endpaper
partially detached, rear endleaf lacking, clean tears to a few leaves.
What appears to be an early tax assessment of an unspecified village
neatly lettered to front endleaves. Faint dampstaining and spotting,
interior otherwise clean. A solid copy. $1,500.
* With a catalogue of acts and the texts of the colonial charter and
the Articles of Confederation. This fascinating collection addresses a
variety of topics, such as adultery, bail, burglary, cattle, children,
counterfeiting, debtors, divorce, dogs, dowry, dueling, drunkenness,
election, equity, executions, felonies, fornication, frauds and
perjuries, fraudulent conveyances, gaming, horse racing, Indians,
insolvent estates, jurors, lotteries, marriage, maritime affairs,
murder, oaths, poor laws, rape, rogues, rum, the Sabbath, sheep,
slaves, taverns, tobacco, treason, usury and vice. According to Bates
and Evans, the Connecticut seal on the title page indicates that this
is the second issue of this work. Bates, Connecticut Statute Laws 250.
Benedict, Acts and Laws of the Original Thirteen Colonies and States
50. Evans, American Bibliography 18410. Tower, The Charlemagne Tower
Collection of American Colonial Laws 84.
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4.          1671 Edition of Dugdale's Origines Judiciales
Dugdale, William [1605-1686]. Origines Juridiciales, or Historical
Memorials of the English Laws, Courts of Justice, Forms of Tryal,
Punishments in Cases Criminal, Law-Writers, Law-Books, Grants and
Settlements of Estates, Degree of Serjeant, Innes of Court and
Chancery. Also a Chronologie of the Lord Chancelors and Keepers of the
Great Seal, Lord Treasurers, Justices Itinerant, Justices of the Kings
Bench and Common Pleas, Barons of the Exchequer, Masters of the Rolls,
Kings Attorneys and Sollicitors, and Serjeants at Law. [London]:
Printed by Tho. Newcomb, for Abel Roper, John Martin, and Henry
Herringman, 1671. [vii], 336, [4], 117, [1] pp. Plates, those
depicting Coke, Clenche and Heath lacking. Folio (8-3/4" x 13-3/4").
Recent period-style quarter-calf over cloth, raised bands, lettering
piece. Title page printed in red and black. Woodcut head-pieces.
Occasional light foxing, minor worming to the latter half of text near
top-edge, closed tear to one leaf. Interior otherwise fresh. Handsome.
$1,250.
* Second edition, with additions. Dugdale's Origines provides a wealth
of information about the sources of both English law and English legal
institutions, including the Inns of Court for which it is a chief
authority. Copies of the manuscripts are located, and, in many
instances, the sources of the information for the printed book entries
are given. Sweet & Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British
Commonwealth of Nations I:22(13). Catalogue of the Library of
the Law School of Harvard University (1909) I:579. Marvin, Legal
Bibliography (1847) 279. Wing, Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed
in England, 1641-1700 D2489.
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5.   Last and Best Edition of the First English Law Dictionary
[Rastell, John (d. 1536)]. Les Termes de la Ley: Or, Certain Difficult
and Obscure Words and Terms of the Common and Statute Laws of This
Realm, Now in Use, Expounded and Explained. Corrected and Enlarged,
With the Addition of Many Other Words; Particularly of Those
Introduced into the Statute Law of Great Britain, Never Printed in Any
Other Impression. [London]: Printed by Eliz. Nutt and R. Gosling,
1721. [iv], 592 pp. Octavo (5" x 8"). Contemporary calf, later
lettering piece, blind-stamped frame to boards, blind-stamped fillets
along joints. Corners bumped, joints starting, chipping to spine ends,
faint early owner signature to rear board, hinges cracked.
Dampstaining to margins of first few leaves, a few splits to text
block, minor worming to about 30 leaves. Early owner signatures to
endleaves and title page, text notably clean and bright. A solid copy.
$500.
* Last and best edition. Corrected and greatly enlarged with Law
French and an English translation in Parallel columns. This edition
was translated by his son, William Rastell [1508?-1565]. First
published in 1527, originally composed in French, with a Latin title
page, Expositiones Terminorum Legum Anglorumae. The first English law
dictionary, it "reflects the common law at the close of the year-book
period with much fidelity.": Marvin, Legal Bibliography (1847) 599.
Marke, A Catalogue of the Law Collection at New York University (1953)
1203. Cowley, A Bibliography of Abridgments, Digests, Dictionaries and
Indexes to the Year 1800 208.
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6.        Only Translation of Savigny's Treatise on Possession
Savigny, [Friedrich Carl von (1779-1861)]. Von Savigny's Treatise on
Possession; or the Jus Possessionis of the Civil Law. Sixth Edition.
Translated from the German by Sir Erskine Perry. London: R. Sweet,
1848. xvi, 432 pp. Octavo (6" x 9"). Three-quarter calf over cloth,
rebacked in period style with gilt-edged raised bands and lettering
piece. Light rubbing to boards, some wear to corners, hinges
reinforced. Two early owner signatures to front pastedown, occasional
light foxing, mostly to endleaves, interior otherwise clean. A
handsome copy. $750.
* Only English translation. Treatise on the nature of the legal
concept of possession by the significant German jurist, scholar of
Roman law and principal founder of the historical school of
jurisprudence, which opposed the doctrines of natural law. Originally
published in German in 1803, it established Savigny as a jurist of the
first order. Walker, Oxford Companion to Law 1103. Sweet & Maxwell, A
Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations I: 316.
Catalogue of the Library of the Law School of Harvard University
(1909) I:386.
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From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 17:54:38 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Gadbury's astrological reading for Louis XIV.
	London: 1680
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(ASTROLOGY) [Gadbury, John]. THE NATIVITY OF THE MOST VALIANT AND PUISSANT 
MONARCH LEWIS THE FOURTEENTH, KING OF FRANCE AND NAVARRE, ASTRONOMICALLY AND 
ASTROLOGICALLY HANDLED. London: No pub. Printed in the Year, 1680. Sm. 4to. 36pp. 
Illus. with 6 astrological diagrams and numerous tables. 19th cent. 1/2 brown 
calf, scuffed, minor chips at extremities, over pebbled cloth.     $750.00 
(trade discount allowed)
Wing G90.

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From matheson at boo.net  Mon May 17 18:28:30 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 18:28:30 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Chandler The Little Sister
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For consideration today at a special price :

Chandler, Raymond.   The little sister.  London, Hamish Hamilton [1949]. 
Name in ink on the front free endpaper, text block slightly cocked, 
otherwise near fine in rubbed dust jacket (not price-clipped), missing 
small pieces on the spine and with several closed tears. The red cloth and 
the gold on the spine are very bright and fresh.  A very nice copy.  First 
edition (English edition precedes). Bruccoli / Raymond Chandler, a 
descriptive bibliography A8.1.a.  A scan of the dust jacket is available on 
request.   $350.



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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Mon May 17 22:53:22 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 02:53:22 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-French law [I] 
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A selection of works which we have in stock on the French law and
related subjects; for others, please feel free to browse our web
site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word or
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1.  ANCEL, Marc.  La "Common Law" D'Angleterre.  Librairie Arthur
Rousseau, Paris, 1929.  Printed wraps, quite worn and embrowned,
usable only; 223 pages. [16770 L19L66]                    $ 50.00

Collections d'Etudes Theoriques et Pratiques de Droit Etranger, de
Droit Compare & de Droit International.

2.  [BEAUCHAMP, Alphonse de].  Memoirs of Joseph Fouche, Duke of
Otranto, Minister of the General Police of France. Translated from
the French. Not in Cohen.  Wells and Lilly--Court-Street [etc.],
Boston, 1825.  Contemporary calf, extra gilt, joints cracked, else
a good copy. [66747 L69] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66747     $ 450.00

First American edition of the sole contemporary work in English on
Fouche, compiled in part from his notes, providing chilling insight
into the French revolutionary who "set the guillotine and cannon to
work with a rigour which made his name odious".

4.  BURLAMAQUI, J.J.  The Principles of Politic Law: Being a Sequel
to the Principles of Natural Law.  Printed for J. Nourse, opposite
Katherine Street in the Strand, London, 1752.  Contemporary calf,
worn, joints cracked, label lacking; usable. [58065 L44] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=58065     $ 650.00

First edition in English of one of the two principal works of
Burlamaqui "demonstrably, a primary source of the theory voiced in
the Declaration of Independence", written with considerable
lucidity and clarity of thought; the only separate issuance.

5.  CHRISTELOW, Allan.  Muslim Law Courts and the French Colonial
State in Algeria.  Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1985.
[46195 L17L46]                                            $ 40.00

7.  [CODE NAPOLEON].  George Spence (trans.[?]).  The Code
Napoleon; or, The French Civil Code. Literally Translated from the
Original and Official Edition, Published at Paris, in 1804.
William Benning, Law Bookseller, London, 1827.  Modern 1/4 maroon
cloth, some markings, title foxed, yet sound. [68812 L74]
                                                         $ 650.00

One of two early English translations of the most influential
modern effort at codification, "one of the most notable events in
all legal history", serving as a model throughout the world, in
Europe, Asia, Northern Africa and in this hemisphere.

8.  [CODE NAPOLEON].  George Spence (trans.[?]).  The Code
Napoleon; or, The French Civil Code. Literally Translated from the
Original and Official Edition, Published at Paris, in 1804. Cohen
5273.  Halsted and Voorhies, New-York, 1841.  Modern cloth,
definite browning and staining; a usable copy. [69316]   $ 650.00

Only American edition

9.  COMFORT, W.W. (trans.).  The Clermont Assizes of 1665, A Merry
Account of a Grim Court. Being a Translation of Abbe Flechier's
Memoires sur les Grands Jours d'Auvergne.  University of
Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1937.  Maroon cloth, gilt, a
sound copy. [70310 L77]                                   $ 45.00

10.  CORAS, Jean de.  The Qualifications and the Duties of a Good
and Complete Judge . . . Translated and Edited with an Introduction
by Walter S. Johnson.  J.D. de Lamirande & Co., Montreal, 1934.
Maroon cloth, gilt, the spine faded, front hinge strengthened,
definite browning; a usable copy only. [71525]           $ 125.00

Only edition in English of a seminal work written by the 16th
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affair) containing "most, if not all, that had been said through
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From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:21:42 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Eugene O'Neill Photograph Inscribed to his Wife
 Carlotta PLUS related material
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              O'NEILL,  Eugene.  SIGNED  PHOTOGRAPH INSCRIBED  TO  HIS
          WIFE with  SIGNED VAN VECHTEN PHOTOGRAPH OF HIS WIFE CARLOTTA
          and SIGNED  PHOTOGRAPH  OF  HIS  SON. Fine  7-3/4"  x  9-3/4"
          studio  portrait  by  Pinchot  of New York  of  the  brooding
          O'Neill  INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the four-time Pulitzer Prize
          Winner  to  his  wife:  "To   Carlotta--/with  all  my  love,
          /Sweetheart!/Gene/Feb.  '35," the year before O'Neill  became
          the first  American playwright to win the Nobel Prize. Signed
          photographs  of  O'Neill  are distinctly  uncommon.  This  is
          perhaps the finest in existence. Accompanied by a 6-1/2" x 8-
          3/4" Carl  Van  Vechten photograph of Carlotta  O'Neill  with
          Van Vechten's  ink  stamp identification on the rear and  red
          ink annotations.  INSCRIBED  and SIGNED on the front  of  the
          photograph    by  Carlotta  "To   Dorothy  &   Saxe--/Dearest
          love/Carlotta  1933."  Saxe  Cummins was  editor  to  William
          Faulkner  among others. Also included is a scarce 5" x 7-1/2"
          photograph  of  Eugene O'Neill, Jr., the playwright's  eldest
          son by  his  first of three wives, Kathleen Jenkins  (O'Neill
          had one  other  son,  Shane,  an  emotionally  unstable  drug
          addict  who  committed suicide and a daughter, Oona, who  was
          cut out  of O'Neill's life when at the age of 18 she  married
          the 54-year  old  Charlie Chaplin.). INSCRIBED and SIGNED  by
          the playwright's  son  to  noted collector  LaFayette  Butler
          "with gratitude  & best wishes." O'Neill's namesake committed
          suicide  in 1950 at the age of 40, likely not very long after
          signing  this photograph and three years before his  father's
          death.  This photograph is tipped at the top verso to a board
          but is    otherwise   Fine.  Near  Fine   to  Fine   and   an
          extraordinary collection.                          $25,000

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From admin at backcreekbooks.com  Tue May 18 11:27:21 2004
From: admin at backcreekbooks.com (Back Creek Books)
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:27:21 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: Original Kennedy PT-109 story
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Greetings All,

For your consideration:
~
(No. 7270 )  [Kennedy] (Hersey, John). A REPORTER AT LARGE: SURVIVAL (NEW
YORKER MAGAZINE, VOL. XX, NO. 18, JUNE 17, 1944, PP. 27-38).
New York: F. R. Publishing Corporation, 1944. Magazine, Quarto, 72 pages,
color & black and white illustrations, ads. Very Good.
      This is a complete, original issue of the 'New Yorker' magazine
containing the first appearance of John Hersey's story of John F. Kennedy
and the ramming of PT-109 by a Japanese destroyer in 1943. Hersey was a
Kennedy family friend, and this article--particularly as subsequently
condensed for the widely circulated 'Reader's Digest'--established the war
hero image that was crucial to the successful launch of JFK's political
career in 1946. Many veteran PT commanders suspected that negligence led to
the quick and maneuverable PT-boat not getting out of the way of a much
larger and slower vessel. Indeed, this is the only time a PT-boat was sunk
after being rammed by the enemy in World War II. Despite that debate,
however, there is no question that young Lt. Kennedy acted with heroism in
the aftermath of the sinking. The 'New Yorker' appearance of the Hersey
story is unabridged and more scarce than the condensed 'Reader's Digest'
version published two months later. This copy of the magazine remains in
very good condition. Staples are beginning to pull through covers at spine,
though covers are still well attached. There is some separation of the
covers along the bottom 1 1/2" of the spine, some minor edge rubs, two short
tears at bottom edge of first advertising page, and a faint vertical crease
at middle of front cover. Interior pages are a bit age toned. A handsome
example of this essential Kennedy item.    $200.00
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From admin at backcreekbooks.com  Tue May 18 11:44:35 2004
From: admin at backcreekbooks.com (Back Creek Books)
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 11:44:35 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: Trumpy yachts
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Greetings All,

For your consideration:
~
(No. 7205 )  Tolf, Robert (Illustrated by Robert Picardat). TRUMPY.
(St. Michaels, MD): Tiller Publishing, (1996). First printing, Full cloth,
Oblong Quarto, 224 pages, Color plates, black & white photos, drawings. Very
Good in a Very Good Dust Jacket, Jacket in Mylar protector.
      History of the fine yachts crafted by John Trumpy, first at the Mathis
Yacht Building Company in Camden, New Jersey, and later at John Trumpy &
Sons in Annapolis. Illustrations include wonderful color plates from
paintings by Robert Picardat, numerous historic photographs, and plans of
some of the yachts. Appendices give a wealth of information on boats built
by the Trumpy family, including length, year built, original and subsequent
owners, surviving yachts, etc. Bound in rust-colored cloth over boards with
gilt-stamped spine title, illustrated endpapers. Some tiny rubs at spine
ends. Jacket has some shallow edge wrinkles and a few scratches to rear
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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Tue May 18 13:28:19 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 13:28:19 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Sacrobosco's astronomy. Florence: 1550
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(ASTRONOMY) Sacrobosco, Joannes. ANNOTATIONI SOPRA LA LETTIONE DELLA SPERA 
DEL SACRO BOSCO, Dove Si Dichiarano Tutti e Principii Mathematici & Naturali, 
Che in Quella Si Possan? Desiderare? Con le Infrascritte Cose, Cio, e, una 
Nuova & Fedele (ad Verbum) Traduttione di Detta Spera. Una Spera Theologica 
Divina, & Christiana. Una Spera Platonica? Una Nuova Inventione, & Astronomico 
Instrumento? (Florence: L. Torrentino. 1550). Sm. 4to. 220pp. Illustrated with 
numerous text woodcuts (some full page), title with a large woodcut diagram of the 
celestial spheres (repeated in the text), and many large woodcut initials. 
Modern full calf, gilt, tooled in antique style. Old light water stain at bottom 
blank margin. R1 with a paper repair at inner margin, barely touching a few 
letters. Faded round library stamp on title.     $1,500.00 (trade discount 
allowed)
Sometimes listed under ?Mauro, Fiorentino.? BL Italian p. 427. Houzeau & 
Lancaster #2518.

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From matheson at boo.net  Tue May 18 22:42:41 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 22:42:41 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  American literary scholarship, 1963-2000
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For your consideration today :


66414.   American literary scholarship, an annual 1963-2000.   Durham, 
North Carolina, Duke University Press, 1965-2002. 38 v. A consecutive run 
from the 1963 volume, the first in the series, through the volume for 2000. 
Annuals for 1963-66 and 1972-4 in printed wrappers, annuals for 1967-71 and 
1975-78 in dust jackets, and volumes 1979 to 2000 in black cloth, without 
dust jacket. Small stamped name of one of the contributors on the front 
endpaper of one volume. The wrappered annuals near fine, the others fine. 
Annuals 1963-88 largely edited by either James Woodress or J. Albert 
Robbins, many of the 1989-2000 issues edited by David J. Nordloh. From 
James Wood ress's Foreword to the initial volume: "It seemed to me that 
there was a real need for an annual review in which various scholars would 
survey the past year's work in American literature within their particular. 
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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Tue May 18 23:03:48 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 03:03:48 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] French law [II] 
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A selection of works which we have in stock on the French law and
related subjects; for others, please feel free to browse our web
site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word or
phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  DOUBLET, Jacques and Hubert de Villedary.  Law and Population
Growth in France.  Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Medford,
1973.  Stapled wraps, a sound copy; 87 pages. [30943]     $ 35.00

2.  DUMONT, Etienne.  Recollections of Mirabeau, and of the Two
First Legislative Assemblies of France.  Carey & Lea--Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia, 1833.  Original boards, quite worn, hinges
strengthened; a working copy. [65597 L63]                $ 125.00

First American edition of one of the best contemporary sources of
the French Revolution and the 'great Mirabeau', whose "life forms
the best history of the first two years of the Constitutuent
Assembly", written by his close friend, Etienne Dumont.

3.  EMERIGON, Balthazard Marie.  A Treatise on Insurances.
Translated from the French; with an Introduction and Notes by
Samuel Meredith, Esq.  Henry Butterworth, 7, Fleet Street [etc.],
London, 1850.  Original (American) sheep, rubbed but quite
well-preserved, with an eight-page Little Brown advertising
prospectus inserted before the title. [71091]            $ 450.00

Only edition in English of a work uniformly praised, termed by Lord
Tenterden (in his own treatise on maritime law) "peculiarly
valuable", Emerigon one of the few 18th century European
writers--Holdsworth also notes Pothier--translated into English.

4.  ERAY, Salim.  La Nature Juridique des Fiancailles.
Imprimerie La Concorde, Lausanne, 1945.  Printed sewn wraps, worn
and marked, but sound; 103 pages. [55154 L26] $ 45.00

5.  [FRENCH LAW BOOKS].  Bibliographie Pratique d'Ouvrages de
Droit, Jurisprudence Economie Politique Sociologie [etc.].
Librairie du Recueil Sirey 22, Rue Soufflot, Paris, 5e, Paris,
1932.  Printed sewn wraps, quite embrowned and fragile; 48 pages.
[17403 L39L66]                                            $ 20.00

The annual catalogue, arranged by subject and extensive,
exclusively new books; with an index by author and another by
subject.

6.  GAUBERT, Raoul.  La Capacite Penale des Psychopathes.
Editions Medicales 7, Rue de Valois, 7, Paris, 1924.  Original
printed wraps, quite worn and browned, the spine perishing; a
fragile item, largely uncut, 111 pages. [71098] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=71098     $ 150.00

Dr. Gaubert's rare first work, his doctoral thesis submitted to the
Faculty of Law at the University of Paris, with chapters devoted to
alcoholism, epilepsy, hysteria, intoxicants, and drugs; three
copies in OCLC, one in this country.

8.  GUILBON, N.A.  Traite Pratique de la Competence Civile des
Juges de Paix en Matiere Contentieuse.  Chez A. Durand,
Libraire-Editeur, rue des Gres, 7 [etc.], Paris, 1864.  1/4 black
morocco, worn but still attractive. [11375 L12L32L49]    $ 125.00

9.  HOLT, Guy (ed.).  Jurgen and the Law, A Statement With
Exhibits, Including the Court's Opinion, and the Brief for the
Defendants on Motion to Direct an Acquittal.  Robert M. McBride and
Company, New York, 1923.  [54762 L24EL36EL53EL66E]       $ 125.00

Limited edition of 1,080 of which this is number 214.

10.  LACOUR, Leon.  Precis de Droit Commercial.  Paris, 1921.
[12851]                                                   $ 50.00

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From agvent at erols.com  Wed May 19 11:48:30 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 11:48:30 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Beautifully printed 1554 commentary on Cicero
Message-ID: <40AB81CE.2040005@erols.com>

               VETTORI,  Pietro.  PETRI   VICTORII  VARIARUM  LECTIONUM
          LIBRI XXV....  Lyon: Ioannem Temporalem 1554. Second Edition.
          QUAE CORRUPTA,  MUTILA,  & PRAEPOSTERE SITA  ADMISERAT  PRIMA
          EDITIO,    HAEC  SECUNDA  SEDULO   CASTIGAUIT,  SUOQUE   LOCO
          RESTITUIT.  CUM  INDICE  LENISSIMO.  Large  octavo  (6-1/8" x
          9-5/8")  bound in early vellum with gilt rules and  lettering
          on the  spine;  [12],  486, [2, blank],  [59]  pages.  Nicely
          printed  with  printer's device on title  page,  head-pieces,
          and numerous  charming  woodcut initials. Text in Latin  with
          quotations  and  examples  in Greek. Critical  commentary  on
          Cicero  by  this noted Italian classical scholar.  Fine  copy
          with just minor soiling to the vellum.               $1000

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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Wed May 19 12:26:06 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 12:26:06 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Samuel Johnson's exceedingly rare "Vanity of Human
	Wishes" 1st ed.
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Johnson, Samuel. THE VANITY OF HUMAN WISHES. The Tenth Satire of Juvenal, 
Imitated. London: Printed for R. Dodsley. 1749. First edition. 4to. 28pp. Full 
red morocco, gilt, binding by Riviere & Son. Slightest bit of rubbing at 
extremities of spine.     $4,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
A very clean copy of this exceedingly rare first edition; the first work to 
bear Johnson?s name. Courtney & Smith p. 22-24; Rothschild 1233.

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From matheson at boo.net  Wed May 19 13:07:46 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 13:07:46 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:   H.P. Kraus,  inscribed
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20040519130454.01f97f08@boo.net>

For consideration today :

Homage to a bookman: essays on manuscripts, books and printing written for 
Hans P. Kraus on his 60th birthday, Oct. 12, 1967.  Berlin, Gebr. Mann 
Verlag [1967]. Original red cloth. Lightly bumped at the foot of the 
backstrip and lower corners, otherwise fine. Book-plate of the recipient of 
Hans P. Kraus's inscription on the front pastedown. Inscribed by Kraus 
under his frontispiece photograph: "For Victor! [Guinzbourg] / With best 
wishes / New York Nov 18 1967 / Hans". 271 pp. Edited by Hellmut 
Lehmann-Haupt. Includes essays by Erwin Rosenthal, Dorothy E. Miner, Thomas 
E. Marston, Curt F. B?hler, Edwin Wolf, Ernst Kyriss, Valerian 
Lada-Mocarski, A. Hyatt Mayor, Martin Bodmer, and a number of others. 
Prospectus for the book, invitation to the reception at which the book was 
presented to Hans P. Kraus, and newspaper clipping from the New York Times 
about the presentation laid in.  $200

Ives, Samuel A.   An English 13th Century bestiary, a new discovery in the 
technique of medieval illumination by Samuel A. Ives & Hellmut 
Lehmann-Haupt.  New York, H. P. Kraus, 1942. Original green paper boards. 
Near fine. Inscribed by H. P. Kraus to Elizabeth Mongan on the half-title. 
In his autobiography, A rare book saga, Kraus tells of his 1941 visit to 
Lessing Rosenwald and of its successful outcome, one which convinced his 
future father-in-law that perhaps there was something to be said for the 
rare book business after all, leading to his marriage to Hanni. It would be 
natural for him to inscribe this copy to Rosenwald's curator and trusted 
adviser. 45 pp., followed by 8 plates. One of 300 copies. Dickinson, 
Hellmut Lehmann-Haupt, a bibliography, p. 17.  $150

Kraus, H. P.   Fifty rare & important books with fifty illustrations.  New 
York [1942]. Original quarter cloth and paper boards. Presumably a special 
binding, original wrappers bound in. Lower corners bumped, boards somewhat 
bowed, otherwise fine. The firm's catalog 21, one of the earliest issued in 
America (the first such catalog was 19, 1939). Inscribed on the front 
endpaper: "With compliments / May 29, 1941 / H. P. Kraus". The recipient 
was probably Elizabeth Mongan, from whose library the book comes, at that 
time Lessing Rosenwald's recently appointed curator.  $150






From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Wed May 19 22:42:33 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 02:42:33 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-A Selection from Stock, with Images 
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A selection of works which we have in stock, with images of them;
for others, please feel free to browse our web site, where you
may search our entire inventory by any word or phrase:
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1.  BALCH, Thomas.  International Courts of Arbitration. Fourth
edition.  Allen, Lane and Scott, Philadelphia, 1912.  1/4 morocco,
worn but sound. [63521] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63521     $ 125.00

2.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England . .
. from the Last London Edition. With the Last Corrections of the
Author; and with Notes and Additions by Edward Christian . . .
Downing Professor of the Laws of England in the University of
Cambridge. Four Volumes.  Printed and Published by Thomas B. Wait,
& Co., Portland, 1807.  Original publisher's paper-backed
light-blue boards, paper labels. [62886] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=62886     $ 750.00

An early American edition (the fifth), a completely
unsophisticated, unrestored set in its original American
publisher's binding, bottom and foredges untrimmed, cracking to the
joints, bottom of one spine perished, labels slightly different.

3.  [BREACH OF PROMISE AND THE THEATRE].  Fairburn's Edition of the
Trial Between Maria Foote, the Celebrated Actress, Plaintiff, and
Joseph Hayne, Esq., Defendant, for a Breach of Promise of Marriage;
Including the Evidence at Full Length. . . and the Whole of the
Love Letters [etc.].  Published by John Fairburn [etc.], [London],
[1824].  Modern red pebbled cloth, stained but sound. [63581]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63581
                                                         $ 250.00

4.  [CALIFORNIA].  Ellen M. Colton, Plaintiff, vs. Leland Stanford
et al., Defendants. Argument of Hall McAllister, Counsel for the
Defendants. Part I [Embracing the First Seven Days].  Superior
Court of Sonoma County, n.p, [1880's?].  Printed sewn wraps,
chipped and worn, crudely repaired with tape. [63569] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63569     $ 250.00

5.  COKE, Edward.  La Vnz[ie]me Part des Reports . . . Resolutions
& Iugements donez sur solennes arguments & auec grand deliberation
& conference des tresreuerend Iuges & Sages de la Ley [etc.].
S.T.C. 5522.  Printed for the Societie of Stationers, London, 1616.
Contemporary calf, a bit chipped, one margin torn away; very fresh.
[63669] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63669
                                                       $ 1,250.00

6.  CUMMINGS, John.  Poor-Laws of Massachusetts and New York, With
Appendices Containing the United States Immigration and
Contract-Labor Laws.  Macmillan & Company [for the American
Economic Association], New York, 1895.  3/4 morocco, the spine
quite faded, embrowning; a usable copy. [63410] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63410     $ 125.00

Dr. Cummings' doctoral thesis submitted at the University of
Chicago the preceding year, thoroughly treating from the mid 17th
century forward the poor laws of the two states; publications of
the Association, Volume X, Number 4.

7.  HALE, Matthew.  The History of the Common Law . . . With Notes,
References, and Some Account of the Life of the Author by Charles
Runnington. The Fourth Edition Corrected.  Printed for James Moore,
45, College-Green, Dublin, 1792.  Modern 1/4 calf, lightly
embrowned, margins cut close; a good copy. [63001
L64L65EL68EL73EL77E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63001     $ 650.00

Runnington's edition, with his notes and his extensive biographical
essay upon Hale prefacing the work; Hale's "Analysis of the Law",
though not called for by the title page, is appended with a
separate index.

8.  [HOLMES AND THE CARDOZO FAMILY].  Oliver Wendell Holmes.  The
Common Law.  Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1881.  Original
reddish-brown cloth, showing some wear, but quite sound. [63702
YL64EL72EL73EL77E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63702   $ 3,500.00

The Cardozo family copy once owned by Justice Cardozo's nephew,
Michael H. Cardozo II and presented by his grandson, Michael H.
Cardozo IV, to his son, Michael H. Cardozo V, one of whom has
boldly signed the title page.

9.  [LORD ELGIN AND CRIMINAL CONVERSATION].  An Authentic Account
of the Proceedings. . .in Which the Right Hon. the Earl of Elgin
was Plaintiff, and William Ferguson, Esq., Defendant, for Criminal
Conversation with the Plaintiff's Wife [etc.].  J. Hatchard,
London, 1808.  Modern red buckram, a bit worn and blistered, but
usable. [63578] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63578     $ 450.00

10.  OKE, George C.  The Magisterial Synopsis: A Practical Guide
for Magistrates, Their Clerks, Attornies and Constables; Summary
Convictions and Indictable Offences, with Their Penalties,
Punishments, Procedure [etc.]. Tenth Edition. Two Volumes.
Butterworths, 7, Fleet Street, Law Publishers [etc.], London, 1868.
Original embossed cloth, a bit of foxing, but a very good set.
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From agvent at erols.com  Thu May 20 11:06:24 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 11:06:24 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Remarkable copy of THE DAY OF THE LOCUST
Message-ID: <40ACC970.5050506@erols.com>


               WEST,  Nathaniel.  THE  DAY  OF THE  LOCUST.  New  York:
          Random  House  (1939).  First Edition. Superb  copy  of  this
          scarce  (apparent printing of only 3000 copies) and legendary
          Hollywood  novel about the moral decay of fame-seekers in the
          Depression  era  Land of Unreality. Made into an  interesting
          film directed   by  John  Schlesinger   and  starring  Donald
          Sutherland  and  Karen Black. The red color of both book  and
          dustwrapper    is   piercingly   bright.   The   dustwrapper,
          absolutely  free  of intrusive restoration, is complete  with
          only trivial  wear to the spine tips and corners and a  trace
          of rubbing  at the rear. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper.
          Remarkable copy!                                   $15,000

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From office at joslinhall.com  Thu May 20 12:02:20 2004
From: office at joslinhall.com (Forrest Proper)
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:02:20 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] [topic] My Uncle Irving
Message-ID: <3229.12.76.172.57.1085068940.squirrel@www.joslinhall.com>

My Uncle Irving was a bookman's bookman.  He was the sort of bookman who
would walk into an unknown bookstore, stop just inside the door, sniff the
air, and declare in a low, determined voice, "Smells like there are
Hemingway firsts in here, by golly".

He once spent three days waiting in line so he could be the first at a
library sale.  People laughed at him as he sat there in the snow in his
WWII Army-surplus pup tent, with his cot and Coleman stove, eating baked
beans out of a can.  What's more, when the sale opened, Uncle Irving
didn't buy anything!  He wandered around the room, peering at this and
that, holding a few books for a moment before putting them back.  "I know
there's something here," he told me, "I can feel it in my bones.  I
wonder...".  He wandered over to a small table piled high with copies of
"Little Journeys" and "The Bibelot", rummaged around for a moment, then
pulled out an inscribed copy of Poe's Tamerlane.  On his way toward the
door he topped the bag off with a pile of early 19th-century western
exploration pamphlets which had been stuck in amongst a pile of ex-grammar
school geography books.

"I can feel it in my bones," he explained later.  "I knew there was
*something* there".

My Uncle Irving was always ahead of the curve.  He collected early
botanical color plate books in the 1940s, when everyone else thought they
were expensive, stocked up on inscribed Gertrude Stein and Hemingway
firsts in the 1960s, and put away a case of the first printing of an
obscure kid's book by some woman named "Rowling" when it first hit the
stores here a few years ago.  My Uncle Irving could not only sniff out
what was currently rare and desirable, he could look ahead and spot a
coming trend.

I remember the last time I saw my Uncle Irving.  He was in a hospital bed,
surrounded by stacks of AB Bookmans and Swann catalogs.  He had been badly
injured in one of those freak accidents that could only happen to my
uncle, run down by the local bookmobile as he crossed the street for
lunch.

"Come here," he whispered as I entered the room.  "I have something to
tell you."

I drew closer and he seemed to take on renewed strength, almost sitting
up.  He took my hand and held it in his viselike grip.  Decades of pulling
books off shelves had given my Uncle Irving hand muscles that had the
strength of pneumatic car-crushers.

"I've tried to teach you everything I know," Uncle Irving wheezed.  "How
to collate a plate book, how to tell a second printing by touch, how to
smell forged cancel leaves, and the most arcane secrets of
bibliography..."

His voice trailed off, and there was a teardrop at the corner of my eye.
My Uncle Irving had taught me all those things, and so much more.

His hand tightened again.  "I have one more thing to tell you," he said. 
"This is the most important thing of all.  I've seen many things, my boy,
but this one makes all the rest look like week-old gefilte fish.  If you
remember it and take advantage when the time comes, your way as a bookman
is made!"

He pulled me down so that my ear was just inches from him.

"When the time comes", he whispered, "get in early on..."

His words were interrupted by an attack of coughing- rough, hacking
coughs.  I knew that the end was rapidly approaching for my Uncle Irving. 
He got his breath back and continued, his words even lower and more
urgent.

"It's an opportunity some may be tempted to pass up at first," he croaked.
 "But you shouldn't miss it, or you'll be sorry.  When the time comes", he
whispered urgently, "get in early on virtual book fairs."

And then he died.

Considering that it was 1974 and the internet had not been invented yet, I
had no idea what my Uncle Irving was talking about.

       But I've always remembered his words.

          And now I can put them to use.


      The Virtual Book Fair has just opened-
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VIRTUAL CELEBRATION OF THE BOOK / ON-LINE BOOK FAIR

                MAY 19th- 22nd, 2004

The International League of Antiquarian Booksellers (ILAB) will celebrate
its 57th birthday by hosting a ?virtual celebration of the book? online at
www.ilab.org, May 19 ? 22, 2004. The four day event will include a virtual
auction, book fair, lectures, appraisals, and a ?Biblio Quiz? where
entrants can win prizes by testing their book knowledge.

ILAB will also launch new features on its website, including educational
resources for book collectors and highlighting its powerful new search
engine which searches a database of over 3 million books, maps, prints and
autographs from nearly 2000 booksellers from all over the world.

The celebratory event will kick off Wednesday, May 19, 2004, at 6:00 p.m.
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through May 22nd. Donated by ILAB booksellers, books and prints will be up
for auction at www.ilab.org during the four day event.

Thousands of antiquarian books, prints, maps and autographs will be
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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Thu May 20 12:45:15 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 12:45:15 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Observations on Egyptian antiquities. Oxford: 1801
Message-ID: <1cf.21720a63.2dde3a9b@aol.com>

(EGYPTOLOGY)   White, Joseph. AEGYPTICA: OR, OBSERVATIONS ON CERTAIN 
ANTIQUITIES OF EGYPT. In Two Parts. Part I [all published]. The History of Pompey?s 
Pillar Elucidated? Oxford: At the University Press, for the Author. 1801. Lg. 
4to. (4),xiv,(2),128pp. Text mostly in English but with some Greek, Arabic and 
Latin. Illustrated with 5 engraved plates and 2 engraved maps (one folding). 
Cont. speckled calf, red morocco spine label. Front hinge starting but quite 
sound. A few minor scuffs.     $400.00 (trade discount allowed)

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From admin at backcreekbooks.com  Thu May 20 17:31:19 2004
From: admin at backcreekbooks.com (Back Creek Books)
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 17:31:19 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: Pennsylvania RR lettering/painting schemes
Message-ID: <00bc01c43eb1$cb739660$6701a8c0@BCBOFFICE>

Greetings All,

For your consideration:
~
(No. 7276 )  Blardone, Charles, Jr. and Peter Tilp. PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD
PASSENGER CAR PAINTING AND LETTERING.
(Upper Darby, PA): Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society,
(1988). First printing, Spiral bound, Oblong folio, 126 pages, Color and b&w
photographs, drawings. Very good.
      Extensively researched book that compiles many previously unpublished
photographs, numerous painting and lettering drawings, color charts, scale
drawings of cars, etc. The result is a comprehensive history of Pennsylvania
Railroad paint schemes used in the middle of the twentieth century. An
excellent resource for modelers, restoration work, and anyone else
interested in this segment of railroad history. Glossy pictorial paper
covers with black spiral wire binding. Copyright page states "first
printing" and indicates that this is one of 5000 copies. Covers show some
minor wear and a few scattered creases.    $125.00
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From admin at backcreekbooks.com  Thu May 20 17:33:30 2004
From: admin at backcreekbooks.com (Back Creek Books)
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 17:33:30 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: Washington & Old Dominion RR
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Greetings All,

For your consideration:
~
(No. 7258 )  Williams, Ames W.. THE WASHINGTON AND OLD DOMINION RAILROAD.
(Alexandria, VA): Meridian Sun Press, 1977. Second printing, Wrappers, Small
quarto, [x], 161 pages, black & white photographs, tables, illus.. Fine.
      Nicely illustrated history of this historic northern Virginia railroad
line, whose antecedents are traced back to the Alexandria and Harper's Ferry
Railroad Company incorporated in 1847. Coverage of the effects of the Civil
War and aftermath, subsequent bankruptcy and operation of the line by the
Southern Railway, the emergence of the W & O D, dieselization, and final
years of operation under the C & O. Appendices include a roster of equipment
with details on locomotives and rolling stock and information on the line's
bridges and structures. Many historic photographs and illustrations, some of
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From matheson at boo.net  Thu May 20 18:31:36 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 18:31:36 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Winship inscribed by A.S.W. Rosenbach
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20040520182941.01f9a718@boo.net>

  For consideration today:

Winship, George Parker.   Printing in the Fifteenth Century.  Philadelphia, 
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1940. Original red cloth. Lower front 
corner bumped, backstrip lightly faded, otherwise very good, without dust 
jacket. 158 pp. Inscribed on the front free endpaper: "Elizabeth Mongan / 
with the warm regards and best wishes of A. S. W. Rosenbach / December 20, 
1940". It would be natural for Rosenbach who had in Lessing J. Rosenwald 
such a good customer to inscribe a book to Rosenwald's first curator who 
played such an important role in developing the collection. In her 1989 
National Gallery of Art oral history interview she says of Rosenbach: "The 
Doctor, as everybody called him, certainly had the most important influence 
on Lessing of anybody at all". A Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography 
publication.  $200

and an associated item:

To Doctor R.  Essays here collected and published in honor of the 
Seventieth Birthday of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach, July 22, 
1946.  Philadelphia, 1946. Original red cloth. Pencilled ownership 
signature of Elizabeth Mongan on the front free endpaper. Lettering on the 
backstrip faded, upper rear corner bumped, otherwise solid, very good. 
Except for a few essays, largely unopened. Includes an amazing assemblage 
of distinguished names: Randolph G. Adams, Clarence S. Brigham, Curt F. 
Buehler, Mary Hyde, William A. Jackson, Donald G. Wing, Lawrence C. Wroth, 
Edwin Wolf, etc., etc. Includes "A bibliography of the book, contributions 
and articles written by A. S. W. Rosenbach" by John Fleming. Illustrated. 
Frontispiece photograph of Dr. Rosenbach. 301 pp. Card of Philip H. 
Rosenbach, laid in. In her position as Lessing Rosenwald's curator 
Elizabeth Mongan was a natural recipient of a copy of a book honoring 
Philip's brother. $150.00

Other Rosenbach related books may be found on our 
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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Thu May 20 22:45:30 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 02:45:30 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-French Law [III] 
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.40.0405210245120.1229-100000@meyerbos.com>

A selection of works which we have in stock on the French law and
related subjects; for others, please feel free to browse our web
site, where you may search our entire inventory by any word or
phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  LICHTENBERGER, Henri.  Relations Between France and Germany.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington, 1923.
[52836 15L17L28L48]                                       $ 35.00

2.  MANDON, J.A.  Histoire Critique de la Folie Instantanee,
Temporaire, Instinctive, ou Etude Philosophique . . . Medicale et
Legale des Rapports de la Volonte avec l'Intelligence pour
Apprecier la Responsabilite des Fous Instinctifs, des Suicides et
des Criminels [etc.].  Chez J.-B. Baillere et Fils, rue de l'Ecole
de Medecine, Paris, 1862.  Later 3/4 morocco, spine repaired, else
quite attractive. [15740 L20L36]                         $ 250.00

Sole edition, the National Union Catalogue locating three copies.

3.  MARTIN, Benjamin F.  Crime and Criminal Justice Under the
Third Republic, The Shame of Marianne.  Louisiana State University
Press, Baton Rouge, 1990.  [57099 L39L49]                 $ 35.00

4.  MONTES[QUIEU], M. de Secondat, Baron de.  The Spirit of
Laws.
Translated from the French [etc.] in Two Volumes. The Fourth
Edition.  Printed by A. Donaldson, Edinburgh, 1768.  Contemporary
mottled calf, extra gilt, rubbed but still pretty. [66083] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66083     $ 450.00

First English translation in an early Edinburgh printing, a work
which Holmes opined "probably has done as much to remodel the world
as any product of the eighteenth century [the reading of which] is
one of the last achievements of a studious life".

5.  MORIARTY, Gerald P. (trans.).  The Paris Law Courts, Sketches
of Men and Manners.  Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1894.  Blue
cloth, gilt, showing wear, but quite sound. [57776 L37]
                                                          $ 85.00

6.  Memoire pour la Demoiselle Le Guay d'Oliva, Fille Mineure,
Emancipee d'Age, Accussee, Contre M. Le Procureur General,
Accusateur [etc.].  N.p, n.p, 1786.  Later boards, unevenly faded,
but a fresh copy. [63568] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63568     $ 350.00

7.  PITTS, Jesse R. and Olivier Zunz (eds.).  The Tocqueville
Review, La Revue Tocqueville, Volume 7, 1985/86.  Tocqueville
Society, Charlottesville, 1986.  A very good copy in the
dustjacket. [30322]                                       $ 25.00

8.  [RAVISHMENT].  Proceedings in a Cause Lately depending before
the Parliament of Paris, In the Nature of a Ravishment of Ward:
Wherein Philip Journeaulx. . .was Appellant; and Richard Quane. .
.and others were Defendants [etc.].  Printed for R. Hett, in the
Poultry [etc.], London, 1743.  Contemporary calf, rebacked, worn,
some foxing; usable. [57557 DUS]                         $ 450.00

9.  REINHARDT, Steven G.  Justice in the Sarladais, 1770-1790.
Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, 1991.  A very good
copy, in the dustjacket. [57350 L35L55]                   $ 35.00

Professor Reinhardt's thorough exploration of the three principal
criminal justice systems (popular, seigneurial, and royal)
co-existing in a remote, poor district in late 18th century France,
detailing the sure transition to royal predominance.

10.  ROEBUCK, Derek (trans. and intro.).  The Charitable
Arbitrator, How to Mediate and Arbitrate in Louis XIV's France.
HOLO Books, The Arbitration Press, Oxford, 2002.  Original cloth,
a very good copy, in the dustjacket; with eight plates and the
French text following the English translation. [70205 L77]
                                                          $ 65.00

The first English translation of the 17th century French manual on
arbitration "written by a priest with a flair for salty language,
handy tips, engaging anecdote and strong argument for reform"; with
Mr. Roebuck's equally illuminating introduction.

11.  STAUNTON, Georges Thomas (trans.).  Ta-Tsing-Leu-Lee, Ou les
lois Fondamentales du Code Penal de la Chine . . . originairement
imprime et publie a Pekin . . . Mis en Francais, avec des Notes,
par M. Felix Renouard de Sainte-Croix [etc.]. Two Volumes.  Chez
Lenormant, Libraire, Rue de Seine, n 8 [etc.]., Paris, 1812.  1/4
crimson morocco, gilt, light foxing and browning; a good set.
[69046] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=69046
                                                       $ 1,500.00

The French edition of the first work translated from Chinese into
English (printed at London in 1810), China's Fundamental Law, both
constitutional, civil & penal, with the emphasis upon the last; a
rare work, two copies in the National Union Catalog.

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From agvent at erols.com  Fri May 21 09:20:36 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 09:20:36 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: First Combined Edition of Juvenal & Persius in
 English, 1673, with maps
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               HOLYDAY,  Barten (translator). DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS,
          AND AULUS  PERSIUS  FLACCUS  TRANSLATED AND  ILLUSTRATED,  AS
          WELL WITH  SCULPTURE AS NOTES. Oxford: W. Downing 1673. First
          Edition.    Folio  (7-1/4"  x   11-3/4")  bound   in   modern
          calf-backed  boards with gilt rules and a gilt-lettered black
          morocco  spine label; [12], 341, [2, blank], [1] pages.  With
          the scarce  final  label leaf. Title page printed in red  and
          black.  THE FIRST COMBINED EDITION OF JUVENAL AND PERSIUS  IN
          ENGLISH.   Illustrated  with  four   full-page  plates   (two
          folding)  and numerous engravings in the text including maps.
          Wing J-1276. New endpapers. Near Fine                $1100

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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Fri May 21 13:16:21 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:16:21 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: 18th cent. American imprint on mathematics
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(MATHEMATICS) Fenning, Daniel. THE AMERICAN YOUTH?S INSTRUCTOR; OR A NEW AND 
EASY GUIDE TO ARITMETIC? To Which Is Added a Postscript for the Use of Country 
Youths? Shewing How to Measure Any Regular Piece of Timber? Dover, NH: 
Printed by Samuel Bragg, jun. at the Sun Office. 1795. 12mo. (4),260pp. BOUND WITH: 
FEDERAL MONEY. 8pp. (without a separate title page, as published). Cont. 
sheep, scuffed. A few old light stains and occasional light foxing.     $450.00 
(trade discount allowed)
Evans #28665 and #47416 (bound at back).

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From matheson at boo.net  Fri May 21 13:23:01 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 13:23:01 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Inscribed Breslauer
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For you consideration today:

Breslauer, B. H.  Count Heinrich IV zu Castell, a German Renaissance book 
collector and the bindings made for him during his student years in 
Orleans, Paris, and Bologna.  Austin, W. Thomas Taylor, 1987. Original pale 
green paper boards stamped in gold. Fine in publisher's box. One of 175 
numbered copies. Inscribed by the author on the second front endpaper: "To 
Felix Rosenthal on his eightieth birthday with all the good wishes of his 
friend the author / Bernard Breslauer / 12:I:1997". Felix Rosenthal, son of 
Erwin Rosenthal, and brother of antiquarian booksellers Albi and Bernard 
Rosenthal, was director of L'Art Ancien, Zurich, for a number of years 
(there is further information about the Rosenthal brothers in. Bernard 
Rosenthal's "Cartel, Clan or Dynasty" in this catalog). 38 pp. Four tipped 
-in numbered color plates, plus a tipped-in color frontispiece.  $350.

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From ivressedelivres at free.fr  Sat May 22 03:19:59 2004
From: ivressedelivres at free.fr (Ivresse de Livres)
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Bonjour,  
 
Cette semaine, nous avons r?f?renc?s nouveaux 48 titres (voir les liens 
ci-apr?s), dont : 
 
VEM.S.068.THI (XIX) / SIMOND Louis / Voyage d'un fran?ais en Angleterre / Deux 
volumes ?dit?s par Treuttel et W?rtz, Paris / Ann?e 1816 / Demi-cuir ? dos 
lisse orn?s de 8 s?ries de double filets ors et de modestes motifs ors. 
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450 pages / Nombreuses rousseurs ... si non ouvrages demeurant convenables et 
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PRIX : 515 euros* 
 
RUR.P.059.17 (XX) / POURRAT Henri / Les montagnards. Chonique paysanne de la 
Grande Guerre (mars 1916) / Edit? par Payot, Paris / Ann?e 1919 / Broch?. 
Not? "2e mille" / Format 145x195 mm / 125 pages / Bon ?tat 
PRIX : 48 euros* 
 
PPH.T.136.THI (XVIII) / TIPHAIGNE DE LA ROCHE pr?c?d? de PERNETTY Jacques / 
L'amour d?voil? ou le sist?me des simpathistes ; pr?c?d? de : Lettres 
philosophiques sur les physionomies / Deux livres distincts reli? en un 
volume ?dit?s par Jean Neaulme, Paris / Pernetty, Ann?e 1748 ; Tiphaigne, 
Ann?e 1749 / Plein veau ? 5 nerfs aux caissons ornb?s de fers ors. Simple 
filets ? froid sur les plats.  Pernetty illustr? d'un frontispice grav? ; 
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From nkane at kanebooks.com  Sat May 22 11:03:38 2004
From: nkane at kanebooks.com (Norman Kane)
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 11:03:38 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] St. Croix, Virgin Islands: 3 scarce imprints
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We offer the following scarce St. Croix imprints:

COLONIAL LAW FOR THE DANISH WESTINDIA ISLANDS.  Christiansborg, the 27th
November, 1863.[vignette of royal seal]. St. Croix: Printed at Mrs.
Harriett Hatchett's Printing Office, n.d. [1864?]
30pp.  Self-wraps, cover-title.   A little worn.  NN only in NUC.  (In
effect, a Constitution, setting out rules for elections, the judiciary,
taxation, &c, plus a bill of rights. It is worth noting that the printer
was a woman.)   $175.00

STATISTICS REGARDING LANDED PROPERTIES  IN THE ISLAND OF ST. 
CROIX                           . . .  showing the quantity of sugar 
shipped . . . to 1857.  (St. Croix:
published with the sanction of the Royal Government by P. B. Hatchett;
printed at the "Avis" Office, 1859.)  Sewn, 68, [11]pp. Caption-title;
imprint on p.68.  Tears, mostly marginal; somewhat worn & fragile.   Name
of Joseph Carson, Baltimore, at top of title. We find no listings of this
valuable document, which gives an historical record of each property, the
number of slaves (in the earlier period), improvements such as windmills,
acres under cultivation, land transfers, &c.  At the end there are 11
tables showing who shipped how much sugar year by year for the periods
1835-49 & 1850-57.   $225.00

REPORT ON SUGAR MANUFACTURING IN ST. CROIX, etc. 1874.  Rendered by Cand.
Polyt.J. WULFF. (Translated from the Danish original.)  [We presume this is
(Johan Frederik) Julius WULFF, 1852-1924.]  N.p., {Christiansted?
1874?}  Caption-title, 17pp. fastened with a brass pin, legal length,
double-columns, folded. Modest wear.  Here again we find no record of this
piece.   $225.00


	
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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Sat May 22 12:42:27 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 12:42:27 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Gauricus' astrological predictions, Venice, 1533
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(ASTROLOGY) Gauricus, Lucas. EPHEMERIDES RECOGNITAE ET AD UNGUEM CASTIGATAE? 
Eiusdem Schemata & Praedictiones ad Annum Usque Virginei Partus, 1552. Eiusdem 
Isagogicus in Totem Ferme Astrologiam Libellus? Venice: (Sumptibus Lucentonii 
Juntae Typographi. 1533). Sm. 4to. Unpaginated (approx. 620pp.). Mostly 
astrological tables with woodcut decorations. Some woodcut astrological diagrams 
and depictions of lunar eclipses. Small woodcut printer?s device on title and a 
larger version of it on the final leaf. 18th cent. mottled calf, a bit rubbed, 
hinges with small (1?) splits at head of spine but holding soundly. Spine 
with a red calf label and an old paper label. Inked note at bottom blank margin 
of title.     $2,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
Gardner #488. Lucas Gauricus (1476-1558) was a Neapolitan astrologer employed 
by Catherine de Medici. This work has tables that cover the years 1534 
through 1551 (each year with its own title). A note at the bottom of the main 
title-page indicates that this work was ?calculated evidently for the meridian of 
Tubigen??

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From gerard at shore.net  Sun May 23 10:58:30 2004
From: gerard at shore.net (Gerard Gormley)
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 10:58:30 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: 2 fine old fiction
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For your kind consideration ---




Fothergill, Jessie~.  THE FIRST VIOLIN~.  NY NY, USA: Henry Holt,
1878.  Keywords: Very hard to find -- Out of Print -- Antiquarian
(100+ years) --  Fiction (a musical novel) -- Literature --
English language.  First US Printing (No Additional Printings
indicated) + (Same Date on title-page & copyright-page).
Hardcover.  No dust jacket.  432 pages.  Binding height: 6-3/4".
Publisher's gold full cloth, titles black-stamped, ads on end
papers.  Book Very Good: bookplate on front fixed end paper, name
penned on front fly leaf, light bumping to fore-corners, moderate
rubbing (with slight loss) to spine-top/bottom, titles a bit
faded front & back, spine sun-darkened, light soiling overall,
spine cocked.  Binding strong & tight, insides Fine.  [Digital
JPEG image () available on request].  2272~.  US$60.-


Jewett, Sarah Orne~.  THE TORY LOVER~.  Boston MA, USA: Houghton
Mifflin, 1901.  Keywords: Americana -- Antiquarian (100+ years) -
- Fiction -- Illustrated --  Literature -- Marine-Nautical --
Military-War-Spy -- Travel-Description-Exploration -- A novel set
in 1777, based on travels of 'The Ranger' & its captain John Paul
Jones, & concerning 'a young American officer during the
Revolution and his conflicting duty to his king and to his native
land' -- English language.  First Edition, Later State with 1901
date on title & copyright pages but without the September 1901
publisher's statement on copyright page; 33 lines of text on p.
154; & spelling "lackyng" on p. 278.  Hardcover.  No dust jacket.
405 pages: 4 black & white plates from illustrations by Marcia O.
and Charles Woodbury.  Binding height: 7-7/8".   Publisher's full
blue linen cloth decoratively gold-stamped to front (coat of
arms) & spine.  Book Fine: lightest rubbing to fore-corners.
Binding strong & tight, cloth & gold-stampings bright &
beautiful, insides Fine.  [Digital JPEG image (2) available on
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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Sun May 23 14:53:16 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Sun, 23 May 2004 14:53:16 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Scarce work by Wendelin. Cambridge: 1648
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(ASTROLOGY, etc.) Wendelin, Marcus Frederik. CONTEMPLATIONUM PHYSICARUM 
Sectio I. Quae Physiologia Generalis, De Principiis & Affectionibus Corporis 
Naturalis: [Sectio II. Quae Cosmologia? Sectio III. De Corporibus Caelestibus, 
Continens Uranologiam. Et Astrologiam?]. Cambridge: Ex officina Rogeri Danielis. 
1648. 3 parts in 1, each with its own title page. Sm. 4to. (18), 
242;(10),(243)-392;(10),(393)-648pp. Double column text. Added engraved title. Section III 
with an astrological diagram and table. Cont. ruled calf, worn, rebacked in 
antique style, burgundy morocco spine label. Old water stain in parts of 
fore-margin, occasional foxing and browning. Old ownership signatures in top blank 
margin of the added engraved title.     $1,000.00 (trade discount allowed)
Wing W1349.

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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Sun May 23 22:42:04 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 02:42:04 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-A Selection from Stock, with Images 
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A selection of works which we have in stock, with images of them;
for others, please feel free to browse our web site, where you
may search our entire inventory by any word or phrase:
www.meyerbos.com

1.  RICHARDSON, William M.  The New Hampshire Town Officer. Cohen
8299.  Published by Jacob B. Moore, Concord, 1829.  Contemporary
sheep, quite scuffed and worn, but a usable copy. [63823 XL56]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63823
                                                         $ 125.00

An unusual instance of an intensely practical work written by an
appellate court judge, in this case appearing about midway through
Richardson's tenure as Chief Justice of New Hampshire for over two
decades; not in the 1909 Harvard Law Catalogue.

2.  SCOTT, William.  Judgment Pronounced in the Consistory Court
of London, In the Case of Dalrymple v. Dalrymple.  Thomas Clark,
Edinburgh, 1836.  Modern brown buckram, a good clean copy. [63579]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63579
                                                         $ 150.00

3.  SPOONER, Lysander.  An Essay on the Trial By Jury.  John P.
Jewett and Company, Boston, 1852.  Ex-library, crude cloth repairs,
some pages loose; a working copy. [63414] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63414     $ 350.00

Unquestionably the most radical treatise ever written on the
American jury, examining Magna Carta and a host of other historical
sources to sustain the claim that jurors should be chosen from the
entire population and be judges of both fact and law.

4.  [TICHBORNE CASE].  Arthur Sketchly [pseud.] [George Rose].
Mrs. Brown on the Tichborne Case.  George Routledge and Sons, The
Broadway, Ludgate, London, [1872?].  Original printed illustrated
boards, defective; a fragile survivor. [63641] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63641     $ 350.00

Rose's most famous creation, the character of "Mrs. Brown", said to
be "an obvious adaptation of Dickens's Mrs. Gamp" and reminiscent
of (and predating) Finley Peter Dunne's Mr. Dooley in this country;
in the publisher's "fancy boards".

5.  [TRIALS FOR ADULTERY].  The Trial of Robert Gordon, Esq. for
Adultery with Mrs. Biscoe, Wife of the Plaintiff, Joseph Seymour
Biscoe, Esq. [bound together with ten other separately published
adultery trials].  [Imprints vary], London, 1794?-1808.
Contemporary(?) calf, gilt, generally well-preserved. [63586]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63586
                                                       $ 1,750.00

Eleven late 18th and early 19th century trials for adultery and
related matters, a complete list of which will be gladly provided;
complemented by a suite of thirty engravings from "Trials for
Adultery" (London, 1779-1781).

6.  [WHITE COLLAR CRIME].  Report of the Trial of the Directors of
the City of Glasgow Bank Before the High Court of Justiciary,
Edinburgh.  The Edinburgh Publishing Company, Edinburgh, 1879.
Contemporary 1/4 sheep, a bit rubbed, but a good, clean copy.
[63801 XYL56] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63801     $ 350.00

One of the great commercial scandals in Scots history, called
"probably the most important [trial] which has taken place in
Scotland", reckless investments collapsing Scotland's largest bank,
the books cooked in extremis; uncommon, four copies in NUC.

7.  WILLIAMS, Walter.  Jus Appellandi ad Regem Ipsum a
Cancellaria: Or, A Manifestation of the King's Part and Power to
Relieve His Subjects against Erroneous and Unjust Decrees in
Chancery [etc.]. Wing W2775.  Printed for Walter Davis in
Amen-Corner, near Pater-Noster-Row, London, 1684.  Modern 1/4
sheep, title trimmed, some embrowning, yet usable. [63114 L54L56]
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                                                         $ 850.00

An uncommon work written by a Middle Temple bencher (and the Keeper
of its library in the early 18th century) putting a strongly
grounded historical case for the King's personal review of
Chancery; two American locations in Wing, Yale and the Folger.

8.  WILMOT, John Eardley (ed.).  Notes of Opinions and Judgments
Delivered in Different Courts, by the Right Honourable Sir John
Eardley Wilmot . . . Late Lord Chief Justice of the Court of
Common Pleas and One of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy
Council.  Printed by Luke Hansard, and Sold by T. Cadell, Jun.
[etc.], London, 1802.  Modern 1/4 morocco over marbled boards, a
sound attractive copy. [63820 L56L64] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63820 $ 450.00

A fine selection of the opinions of the colleague of Lord Mansfield
whom Holdsworth termed "the ablest of the very able band"; this
copy presented by the editor (Wilmot's son) to his clerk and
thence, twenty-five years later, to the Law Society.

9.  Memoire pour la Demoiselle Le Guay d'Oliva, Fille Mineure,
Emancipee d'Age, Accussee, Contre M. Le Procureur General,
Accusateur [etc.].  N.p, n.p, 1786.  Later boards, unevenly faded,
but a fresh copy. [63568] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63568     $ 350.00

10.  The Trial of James Watson, the Elder, Before the Court of
King's Bench, in Westminster Hall . . . for High Treason.  Printed
by William Aitchison, for Alex. Jameson [etc.], Edinburgh, 1817.
Modern russet cloth, original dusty wraps bound in; a good copy.
[63804] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63804
                                                         $ 250.00
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From agvent at erols.com  Mon May 24 09:34:42 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 09:34:42 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Superb Arthur Johnson binding with multiple morocco
	onlays
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              HELPRIN,  Mark.  REFINER'S  FIRE   in  a  superb  custom
          binding  by  Arthur  Johnson.  New York:  Knopf  1977.  First
          Edition.  INSCRIBED  and  SIGNED by the author  on  the  half
          title page  in  the  year of publication for  collector  Saul
          Shapiro,  whose  bookplate  is on the  front  pastedown.  Mr.
          Shapiro  collected signed Modern First Editions with a Jewish
          connection  (Helprin served in the Israeli Air Force and also
          wrote Bob  Dole's  Senate retirement speech) which  he  would
          have signed  by  the author and then rebound by a variety  of
          fine binders.  This  title  is magnificently  bound  in  full
          burgundy  morocco  and  covered with morocco onlays  of  red,
          orange,  brown,  yellow,  and purple creating  an  effect  of
          flames.  The  binding by Arthur Johnson is signed  "A.J."  at
          the rear  pastedown  and  dated  1981. With  a  custom  cloth
          clamshell  box  lined  in  felt. Fine in  a  striking  custom
          binding.                                             $3500

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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Mon May 24 12:42:03 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 12:42:03 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Early 17th cent. work on palmistry
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(PALMISTRY) [Guess, Wolf]. TABULAE CHIROMANTICAE LINEIS MONTIBUS ET 
TUBERCULIS MANUS CONSTITUTIONEM HOMINUM, & FORTUNAE VIRES OFTENDENENTES? No place: No 
pub.. 1613. Sm. 4to. 24pp. Full page woodcut diagram of the palm of the hand on 
verso of title. 20th cent. full mottled calf, gilt. Some light foxing.     
$600.00 (trade discount allowed)
This work was issued both separately and as part of the author?s ?Methodus 
Curandorum Morborum Mathematica.?

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From finebook at pacbell.net  Mon May 24 16:17:26 2004
From: finebook at pacbell.net (Robert Erwin)
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 13:17:26 -0700
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: E.R. Braithwaite TLS
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Today we are offering:

Braithwaite, E(ustace). R.
Typed Letter Signed. By the Author of "To Sir With Love."
Dated November 8, 1973. Single Sheet. 8.5 x 11. One side. Stationary 
imprinted, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306.

Addressed to Mr. Philip Dosse, publisher of Books and Bookmen, in 
London. Two paragraphs. "Greetings with my thanks for your letter and 
the magazines. I am further intrigued by the contents of your letter and 
am anxious to read Onyeama's (probably Dillibe Onyeama) book. I share 
your concern at the devisive <sic> possibilities of racially biased 
writing and promise to appraise it as objectively as I can." Second 
paragraph: "For many reasons I am solely tempted to return to England 
and overview the interracial scene, adding a small voice to those who 
seek some measure of tolerance and harmony." "With my best wishes," 
Signed boldly in blue ink, E.R. Braithwaite.

Light mailing folds & minor wrinkling.
14656   $65.00

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From matheson at boo.net  Mon May 24 19:29:09 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 19:29:09 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  The King Library Press
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For consideration today, 2 beautiful books :

Allen, James Lane.   I. Mountain passes of the Cumberland--James Lane 
Allen. II. Civilizing the Cumberlands: a commentary--Wendell 
Berry.  [Lexington, The King Library Press, University of Kentucky, 1972]. 
Original gray-green paper boards, printed paper label on the backstrip. 
Very fine. One of 100 numbered copies.  $400.00

Milward, Burton.   William (King) Solomon.  Lexington, The King Library 
Press, University of Kentucky, 1974. Original marbled paper boards. Very 
fine in very fine dust jacket. One of 100 numbered copies. $200.00


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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Mon May 24 21:51:48 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 01:51:48 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-Fraud 
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.40.0405250151040.16663-100000@meyerbos.com>

A selection of works which we have in stock on fraud and its
legal implications and related subjects; for others, please feel
free to browse our web site, where you may search our entire
inventory by any word or phrase: www.meyerbos.com

1.  [AMERICA'S OLD BAILEY].  The New-York City-Hall Recorder,
Volume III, No. 11.  N.p., [New-York], 1818.  Self-wraps, disbound
and browned, ex-library, a working copy; 32pp. [68661 L74] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=68661     $ 125.00

Early American crime reporting comparable to the Old Bailey
Proceedings, those held at the New York City's Mayor's Court, four
cases, including one substantial matter involving lottery
swindling, with Ogden Hoffman representing the defendant.

2.  [ERNST, MORRIS].  Leonard Walter McIntosh vs. People of the
Virgin Islands, Opinion [of the Third Circuit] [with] Brief for
Defendant-Appellant [McIntosh] [with] Supplemental Brief for
Defendant-Appellant.  The Ballou Press, New York, 1935-36.
Original stapled self-wraps, some browning, the opinion a bit
crinkled, else sound copies; Col F B Wiener's copies, with a note
serving one brief. [71726]                                $ 75.00

One of Ernst's earliest cases, in which "in a bigotry case" he
counseled Drew Pearson's father (then Governor of St. Thomas in the
Virgin Islands), his client's conviction on fraud charges upheld
despite obvious irregularities in the trial.

3.  [FALSE ADVERTISING].  Ivan L. Preston.  The Tangled Web They
Weave, Truth, Falsity, and Advertisers.  University of Wisconsin
Press, Madison, 1994.  Advance, uncorrected page proofs, spiral
bound wraps; 220 pages. [48425 L37L53]                    $ 25.00

4.  [FRAUD IN THE EXCHEQUER].  The Case of the Bona Fide Holders of
the Repudiated Exchequer Bills, Briefly Stated.  William Blackwood
and Sons, 22, Pall Mall, London, 1842.  Disbound, 14 pages, just
usable. [69138 L75]                                      $ 125.00

The persuasive argument supporting the duped holders of exchequer
bills, victims of six years' worth of systematic fraud by an
Exchequer clerk who issued hundreds of fake bills; not common, two
copies in RLIN, four in OCLC, none in England.

5.  Fraud.  American Society for Industrial Security, Arlington,
1992.  Oversized wraps; 81 pages. [90529]                 $ 45.00

Some two dozen articles on fraud prevention and investigations,
with an emphasis on insurance and finance.

6.  GRABOSKY, Peter N. (ed.).  Complex Commercial Fraud.
Australian Institute of Criminology, Canberra, 1992.  Printed
wraps, a bit rubbed, but still a good copy; 218 pages. [90426]
                                                          $ 45.00

Inscribed on the half-title to Gilbert Geis, noted criminologist
and authority on all aspects of social deviance: "To Gil Geis, with
warmest wishes. Kingston, Ont., November 1992 -- Peter Grabosky".

7.  [GRANNAN, Joseph C.].  Grannan's Warning Against Fraud and
Valuable Information. A Treatise upon Subjects Relating to Crime
and Business [etc.].  The Werner Ptg. & Litho. Co., Akron, 1890.
Original russet cloth, hinges cracking, else a good copy. [66948
L70] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=66948
                                                         $ 150.00

A seemingly unrecorded edition of the popular work issued by
Grannan's Detective Agency, with substantial portions on swindling
games and tricks, on counterfeiting, on crime generally, and on
extradition; not in the NUC, OCLC, or RLIN.

8.  [MUNICIPAL CORRUPTION].  Report on the Causes of Municipal
Corruption in San Francisco, as Disclosed by the Investigations of
the Oliver Grand Jury, and the Prosecution of Certain Persons for
Bribery and Other Offenses Against the State.  Reprinted. . .by the
California Weekly, San Francisco, 1910.  Original wraps, pages 25
and 26 defective; 54 pages. [43352 L19]                   $ 25.00

9.  [PERJURY AND COMMERCIAL FRAUD].  An Authentic Report of the
Trial of Michael Stocks, Esq. for Wilful and Corrupt Perjury, at
the Yorkshire Lent Assizes, 1815, Before The Honorable Sir
Alexander Thompson, Knt. Chief Baron of his Majesty's Court of
Exchequer, and a Special Jury.  Sold by the Principal Booksellers
in London [etc.], Huddersfield, 1815.  Original wraps, quite
chipped and worn, a bit of foxing, else a good untrimmed,
unsophisticated copy; 112 copies. [71613]               $ 250.00

A rare trial, well reported, charging Stocks, a Yorkshire
magistrate, with perjury in perpetrating a large-scale commercial
fraud (securing 10,000 tons of coal to his own use), then seeking
to cover it up; one copy in RLIN, none in OCLC or KVK.

10.  [PRINCE OF SWINDLERS].  The Northern Hero; Being a faithful
Narrative of the Life, Adventures, and Deceptions, of James George
Semple, commonly called Major Semple . . . Together with An Account
of his Trial, Before Mr. Justice Gould and the Recorder, at the Old
Bailey [etc.].  Printed for G. Kearsley, No. 46, Fleet-Street
[etc.], London, 1786.  Later 1/4 calf over marbled boards, rubbed,
title and last leaf quite dusty, a few marginal repairs, else a
clean copy; without the plate. [70147 L77]               $ 850.00

The rare first edition of an account of Semple's life and trial,
deftly recounting dozens of frauds earning him the sobriquet 'The
Prince of Swindlers', with an account of his trial transporting him
to Australia; three copies in RLIN, none in England.

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From zita at speakeasy.net  Mon May 24 22:46:41 2004
From: zita at speakeasy.net (Laderman)
Date: Mon, 24 May 2004 22:46:41 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] OFFER, MISCELLANY RECENTLY ARRIVED.
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1.	AHMED VASIF EFENDI:  MAHASIN UL-ASAR VE HAKAYIK UL-AHVAR (Vasif 
Tarihi)". Istanbul : Dar?ttibaat ?l-?mire, 1804-5 [A.H. 1219] 2 v. in 1 ; 
28 cm. small quarto. Ottoman Turkish/ Also known under title: Tarih-i V?sif 
and V?sif tarihi. From the official annals of the reign of  Mustafa III, 
[1757-1773].  "The greater part of the second volume is from the pen of 
Enver?." Encyclopedia of Islam, v. 4 (1934), p. 1127; title from colophon. 
This was one of the  the first works printed in Istanbul after the death of 
Muttaferika, the Hungarian convert to Islam who began Turkish printing in 
the 18th century. He also printed works like this, which had been 
heretofore manuscripts in the Royal library, and were significant to the 
Turkish ruling class.  OCLC 3 Locs in the USA, [CUY, CGU, PUL] but there is 
another copyat HLS.  Original calf, gilt Dec. $1375.00

2.	ANDERSON, H. C. (Hans Christian)],   "THE HISTORY OF THE UGLY LITTLE 
DUCK  OR THE BEAUTIFUL SWAN. / Illustrated with six drawings by Harrison 
Weir"   [New York] : John McLoughlin (Successor to Elton & Co.,) Publisher, 
New    York., Stereotyped by Vincent Dill, Jr. 21 & 23 Ann Street, New 
York. [Ca.-1853] Note, only the printed, pictorial  [and hand colored, as 
issued] yellow covers mention the McLoughlin name. The title page has Elton 
as publisher with a decorative wood engraved  logo. The second issue of the 
First American Edition of Anderson's "The Ugly Duckling."  The entire book 
is as Elton published it a year earlier, including the title page,  but 
with the name of the publisher on the cover changed. See the AAS entry, 
which has our edition but not the Elton. RLIn notes one Loc [Clements at 
UMI for the Elton, none for this; Unlocated at OCLC] in either issue.  Our 
copy a little very light water stain on the cover and first few pages with 
no tide mark OWVery Good.  $675.00

3.	ANDERSON, HANS CHRISTIAN; BOYLE, ELEANORE VERE Boyle; Harry Leigh 
Douglas Plesner, Augusta: FAIRY TALES BY HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON 
Illustrated by twelve large designs in colour after original drawings by 
E.V.B. Newly translated by H.L.D. Ward and Augusta Plesner. London, Sampson 
Low, Marston, Low, and Searle; 1872. Large 4to, 12 chromolithographed 
plates. First Edition, thus. E.V. B. is the Honorable Eleanor Vere 
Boyle.[Gordon] Besides being an excellent new translation, this edition 
features the lovely illustrations which are Pre-Raphaelite in quality 
of  the Hon. Eleanor Vere Boyle, wife of the Reverend Richard Boyle lived 
in the Maidenhead area and exhibited figure subjects at the Grosvenor 
Gallery and elsewhere from 1878-81.  She also exhibited a number of strange 
works which would have to be described as symbolist paintings. These have 
more to do with Odilon Redon than her English contemporaries. She 
Illustrateded  many children's books using the initials EVB. Most of them 
were printed in color by chromo- lithography, as here,  by Emrik & Singer, 
Chromolith. East London. See Dictionary of Victorian Painters.   Contents: 
The Wild Swans. The Ugly Duckling. The Fellow Traveller. The Little 
Mermaid. Thumbkinetta. The Angel. The Garden of Paradise. The Snow Queen. 
London: 1872. Large quarto. 12 chromolithographed plates. Both the English 
and this American issue are rare. OCLC, 12 Locs.,  unnoted at Melvyl, CIC, 
H, Y, KVK, NYPL, BL,  COPAC, Opie, Osborne[ the last four lacking the 
English Edition].  Original blue cloth decoratively gilt-stamped. Very 
good. $1250.00

4.	ANDERSON, H. C. (Hans Christian)  :  FAIRY TALES BY HANS CHRISTIAN 
ANDERSON. ILLUSTRATED BY 10 LARGE DESIGNS IN COLOUR AFTER ORIGINAL DRAWINGS 
BY E.V.B. Newly translated by H.L.D.[Harry Leigh Douglas] Ward and Augusta 
Plesner ...  New York, Scribner & Welford, ND,1880[?].  vi, 76 Pp. col. 
ill. 32 cm.  Half-title. E.V. B. is the Honorable Eleanor Vere 
Boyle.[Gordon] Besides being an excellent translation, this edition 
features the lovely illustrations which are Pre-Raphaelite in quality 
of  the Hon. ELEANOR VERE BOYLE, wife of the Reverend Richard Boyle lived 
in the Maidenhead area and exhibited figure subjects at the Grosvenor 
Gallery and elsewhere from 1878-81. She Illustrateded  many children's 
books using the initials EVB. Most of them were printed in color by chromo- 
lithography, as here,  by Emrik & Singer, Chromolith. East London. See 
Dictionary of Victorian Painters.  Original glazed, pictorial boards, 
showing another design not repeated within, corners worn, inner rear hinge 
repaired. Inscribed on the Fr. Fr. EP "Miss Lizzie Mullan Christmas 1885" 
in a large round hand. ]. Both the English and this American issue are 
rare. Unnoted by OCLC,  Melvyl, CIC, H, Y, KVK, NYPL, BL,  COPAC, Opie, 
Osborne[ the last four lacking the English Edition]. An About Very Good 
copy.  $550.00

5.	~ANON EDITOR~ ILLUSTRATOR ANON.:~ HYAKUSENSHU  [Collection of 100 
Oracular pronouncements at a Shinto Shrine]; ~NP ~Shotoku 3 (1713)~ 4.25 x 
6 inches. Title page, 90 Pp. + colophon. The illustrations are unsigned and 
the artist is unidentified. More than half the pages in the volume are 
illustrated with two small humorous cuts in an early Uk'o'ye style showing 
the circumstance for a specific divination. Together with these 8 
descriptions of divination are included, below, on each page.  ~ This is a 
Shingon Buddhist work. The sacred oracle using a box and stick, however, 
comes from the tradition of Shintoism. Buddhism and Shintoism were united 
through the Shingon sect and their blended practices are witnessed here. 
The sacred oracle of the shrine controlled good-or-ill-luck fortune - when 
a numbered stick was pulled out of the hole of a wooden box into which they 
had been placed randomly. Chance was equated with the power of  Buddha and 
of the Kami. The use of numerical oracles, however, shows Chinese 
influence, as in the use in China of the Yi Ching in which groups of sticks 
were thrown and then analyzed. ~In the West fortune telling at this time 
was limited to dream books, Tarot cards, Astrology and hand reading. In 
Japan dreams, astrology, and both physiognomical and hand reading were 
practiced. But since Japan had an ongoing tradition of Shinto, now blended 
with Shingon Buddhism, the use of oracles continued. ~Unnoted at OCLC, 
Harvard Yenching, Melvyl, LC, NYP, YUS, DLC, CIC. Unnoted in KSM and a very 
rare, ephemeral publication of fortune telling interest.  ~Original wraps, 
much worn. Lacks title slip but does have the original title page [which is 
unusual for a book of this age, [since they were usually thrown away when 
the front board was replaced], with a flaw in the blank margin of about 1 
inch by 1/4 inches; corners dog-eared, without loss. With some water/or oil 
stains in the first 20 leaves, progressively smaller and lighter towards 
the center of the volume. Wrappers very worn with surface loss, this 
extensive for the rear wrapper, much less so for the front wrapper, partly 
resewn, OW VG minus. ~$1075.00~

6.	~CATLIN, GEORGE : ~THE BREATH OF LIFE ; or, Mal-respiration, and its 
effects upon the enjoyments & life of man. / by George Catlin ; With 29 
illustrations from drawings by the author.  ~New York : John Wiley, 1861 
(New York : R. Craighead, printer, stereotyper, and electrotyper). 76, [1] 
p. : ill. ; 23 cm.  A wrappers copy, the wrappers glued to boards at some 
point in the nineteenth century, cloth spine, printed paper title. "Catlin, 
the famous American artist, was the first American to call attention to the 
bad effects of mouth-breathing. He based his book on observations of 
American Indian practices, and illustrated the book with humorous 
sketches."(G & M) ~G. & M. 3267, First Edition, Twyman 1.62, cataloging the 
1862 London edition, but noting ours. At the National Med. Lib.  Not at 
Harvard, RLIN, AAS only.  ~A little underlining in the last few 
[unillustrated] pages, OW VG. ~$450.00~

7.	GENLIS, STEPHANIE FELICITE, COMTESSE DE: THE HISTORY OF THE DUCHESS OF 
C--, from Adela and Theodore. Newport, R.I. : Printed by O. Farnsworth for 
Asaph Chilson, 1804. 106 Pp. FP Frontis. A tale for children of life at the 
French court, with an added ballad in which a near miss to the Romeo and 
Juliet ending occurs, but both lovers are saved. The Frontis. and final 
wood engraved vignette are both neatly hand colored. The Frontis. shows a 
wise old woman [dressed, also like a witch] who is offering a girl a large 
bunch of herbs. Shaw & Shoemaker, 6477, OCLC 2 Locs in  the USA [COO, RA8], 
and one in the UK [CUD]. But there also is a copy at MWA. Original marbled 
paper, with a recovered spine which blends very well with the boards. With 
the ownership signature in ink, Thus: Miss Emily Connell's Book [with a 
charming calligraphic swirl below]. With her name in pencil twice on the 
rear EP; a Fine copy. $450.00

8.	KATEI TAKI: KOKOKAN GATO. Tokyo, Meiji 17 [1884] 4 Pen [volumes], 
complete. In original wrappers, printed title slips.  A collection of 
woodblock prints after his own paintings meant as an art instructional 
manual. The artist was famous for flower and bird, landscape and figure 
paintings, so all of these are included. Katei, was one of the most famous 
Meiji painters, the three engravers, Kimura Tokutaro, Mitsui Chojo, Kaneda 
Marsukichi, famous for their work, complete their work in his studio under 
his personal supervision. His part of the work, writing the text, and 
completing the paintings, took a year to complete. Takei was trained by 
Nanga and Shijo painters and constantly went back to Chinese sources as 
well as to nature for inspiration. Only one other book of his was produced 
so zealously, but it consisted of a single volume, only. It consisted 
entirely of Kashoga [bird and flower paintings]. Mitchell spends a great 
deal of time discussiong his work and this book, although he did not have a 
copy in his collection and no other copy is noted in any other Western 
collection. Reported in the catalog of the National Diet Library 
of  Japan[which is the greatest repository of Meiji books in Japan]; 
Mitchell Pp. 87-88; 372[but not in Mitchell!]. Unnoted in Ryerson, Brown, 
BM. Fine copy with just a few wormed pin holes, in the original chitsu. 
$3250.00

9.	MARSDEN, WILLIAM. THE HISTORY OF SUMATRA containing an account of the 
government, laws, customs and manners of the native inhibitants, with a 
description of the natural productions, and a relation of the ancient 
political state of that island. The third edition, with corrections, 
additions, and plates. London, J. M''Creery, 1811. 4to. Folding map (490 x 
415 mm.) of the Island Sumatra by W. Marsden, engraved by J. Walker and 28 
full-page engraved plates by J. Swain, W. Williams, J.Stadler and A. Cardon 
after the drawings by the author, M. de Jonville, W. Bell,T. Heaphy and 
others, including 9 botanical and 12 zoological plates, 4 viewsand 
portraits, 2 with weapons and one with the alphabets used on the island. 
VIII, 479, (8) pp. Third corrected and enlarged [and best] edition on large 
paper.  This was the first great work in English asbout Southeast Asia. By 
the ranking English student of Malay culture. Marsden was educated in 
Dublin, and when he was appointed to the civil service of the East India 
Company,  he was first posted to Benkulen, Sumatra, in 1771. There he 
quickly became the principal secretary to the government. During his eight 
years' residence on the island he studied diligently to acquire a sound 
knowledge of the Malay language and culture. When he returned to England in 
1779 with a pension, he wrote his History of Sumatra, which was first 
published in 1783 and is considered as his most important work. A second 
edition appeared in 1784 and in 1788 the book was translated into French by 
Parraud and in the same year into German as well. Marsden was appointed in 
1795 second secretary and afterwards first secretary to the admiralty. In 
1807 he retired and published his Grammar and Dictionary of the Malay 
Language in 1812,  which was also a great advance over any other Malay 
English dictionary, and in some ways fuller than Malay Dutch dictionaries 
as well. In 1818 his translation of the Travels of Marco Polo was 
published. He became treasurer and then vice-president of the Royal 
Society. Fine large paper copy. Graesse IV, p. 417; Hill Collection of 
Pacific Voyages, I, p. 193;  DNB 36, p. 206-7. Original green marbled 
boards, more recent green quarter calf, spine with 5 raised bands and 
morocco title-label, gilt. $2,650.00

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From agvent at erols.com  Tue May 25 10:28:58 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 10:28:58 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: First Edition of A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES
Message-ID: <40B3582A.9010206@erols.com>

              TOOLE,  John  Kennedy.  A CONFEDERACY OF  DUNCES.  Baton
          Rouge:  Louisiana  State  Univ. Press  1980.  First  Edition.
          Foreword  by  Walker  Percy.  Scarce first  book,  the  first
          printing  consisting of a mere 2500 copies, and winner of the
          Pulitzer  Prize.  An uncommon Review Copy with two  different
          mimeo letters   from  an  editor  at   Grove  Press  laid  in
          announcing  the  hardcover publication by LSU Press in  March
          and stating  that  Grove  Press has  acquired  the  paperback
          reprint  rights.  We have handled two Review Copies  of  this
          marvelously  funny  novel in the past, but this is the  first
          with material  from Grove Press that we have encountered.  In
          an attractive   example  of  the   first  issue  dustwrapper,
          price-clipped  with only trivial wear to the spine tips and a
          short closed  tear  on  the rear panel near the  spine.  Near
          Fine in  a Near Fine, price-clipped first issue  dustwrapper.
                                                               $3500

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From nkane at kanebooks.com  Tue May 25 12:03:16 2004
From: nkane at kanebooks.com (Norman Kane)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 12:03:16 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Scarce 19th Cent. book of Japanese poetry
Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20040525110011.0214b340@mail.comcast.net>

We offer this scarce Anglo-Japanese work of Japanese poetry:

>DICKINS, F. V.
>. . . HYAK NIN IS'SHIU, or stanzas by a century of poets, being Japanese 
>lyrical odes translated into
>English with . . . text in  Japanese and Roman characters . . .  London: 
>Smith, Elder 1866.  1st edn.
>Pp. ix,52,[1],xviii,xv,[1],[6],[1],19-1.  Orig pictorial cloth, lettered 
>and decorated in gilt. a.e.g., light rubbing at extremities of spine, name 
>and address of former owner on brown end paper, and thus quite 
>inconspicuous, otherwise a bright copy.  Index, errata, Appendix, Notes. 
>(Odes from seven to eleven hunded years or more past "written in the old 
>Yamato language, free from any intermixture of Chinese derivatives, a very 
>noble and harmonious tongue...")   $625.00
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From zita at speakeasy.net  Tue May 25 17:31:49 2004
From: zita at speakeasy.net (Laderman)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 17:31:49 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] OFFER GREAT, RARE MODERN MOVABLE BOOK.
Message-ID: <5.1.1.6.2.20040525172934.00b1aab8@localhost>

SEIDMANN FREUD: DAS ZAUBERBOOT. EIN BILDERBUCH  ZUM DREHEN, BEWEGEN UND 
VERWANDELN (DAS NEUE WUNDERHAUS). Berlin, Stuffer Verlag; (7. bis 10 
Tausend): 1930. 4to. Cloth backed pictorial boards. Seidman-Freud, 
Sigmund's niece, was one of the most innovative book illustrators of her 
period. She was far and a way the most original movable book designer of 
her time. But all of her books came out just before Nazism's rise, and the 
books, by a Jewish modernist, therefore objectionable on artistic as well 
as "racial" grounds were actively destroyed after 1933, and are now very 
rare. Among her movable plates in this book, are a movable wheel and a 
Punch and Judy show. Also included is a grid with cutouts which allow the 
reader to invent his/her own story or stories from a single page. The piece 
of red, transparent plastic which is supposed to come with this in a packet 
at the back of the book is often missing, but it is present in this copy. 
This is used on two pages which have a wonderful story, to make parts of 
the illustrations disappear. Hurliman P. 216-217 discusses these books, 
which are not only remarkable for their moveable book innovations, but also 
for development of appropriate texts illustrated with modernist artistic 
quality. OCLC finds 3 locations, but only of a later reprint! Two of these 
are in the USA [BNY, WAU] the other is in the UK[AVA]. The covers are near 
Fine, with just the slightest trace of use on the rear cover. The lower 
edge of the first page just shows an edge  repair which could be made 
invisible. OW Fine throughout. $1250.00

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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Tue May 25 18:44:55 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 18:44:55 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Very scarce Dominican service book with all the
	music. 1610
Message-ID: <111.32925a7f.2de52667@aol.com>

(CATHOLIC CHURCH. LITURGY AND RITUAL. PROCESSIONAL, DOMINICAN) 
PROCESSIONARIUM JUXTA RITUM SACRI ORDINIS PRAEDICATORUM S.P.N. DOMINICI? Rome: Ex 
Typographia Alphonsi Ciacconi. 1610 (colophon 1609). 8vo. (16),532,(2)pp. Title within a 
copper engraved border. Title and text printed in red & black. Extensive 
printed music in Gregorian notation. Large woodcut illus. of the musical notation 
hand. Beautifully bound in cont. full black morocco, both covers and spine 
elaborately gilt stamped with a crown above a coat-of-arms which contains a 
shield with two cats; numerous gilt panels. Some rubbing to spine & covers, but a 
very attractive cont. binding, hinges perfectly sound. A.e.g.     $2,500.00 
(trade discount allowed)
A very scarce early Dominican service book with all of the music & words. The 
first gathering of 8 leaves is complete (including 2 blanks) but is 
mis-folded. The N.U.C. records 1 copy of this edition.

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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Tue May 25 22:15:17 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 02:15:17 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-Recent Acquisitions 
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.40.0405260214570.17096-100000@meyerbos.com>

A selection of recent acquisitions which we have in stock; for
others, please feel free to browse our web site, where you may
search our entire inventory by any word or phrase:
www.meyerbos.com

1.  [ARTICLES OF RELIGION].  [Thomas? Randolph].  A Summary View of
the Laws Relating to Subscriptions, &c. With Remarks, Humbly
Offered to the Consideration of the British Parliament.  N.p.,
London, 1771.  Modern boards, somewhat dusty, ex-library, a usable
copy only; 36 pages. [15855]                             $ 200.00

Randolph's careful review of the Thirty-Nine Articles (to which the
clergy of the Church of England are still required to assent)
examining thoroughly if partially their history and whether
university undergraduates may be required to subscribe.

2.  AVINS, Alfred (ed.).  The Reconstruction Amendments' Debates,
The Legislative History and Contemporary Debates in Congress on the
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.  Virginia Commission on
Constitutional Government, Richmond, 1967.  Oversized printed sewn
wraps, showing a bit of wear, but a good copy; 764 pages. [71650
WRT]                                                     $ 125.00

3.  BLACK, Hugo LaFayette.  A Constitutional Faith.  Alfred A.
Knopf, New York, 1969.  Original cloth, prior owner's stamps on the
front pastedown, else a very good copy, in the dustjacket, with
Dean Warren's complimentary slip tipped in. [71625]       $ 65.00

Justice Black's sole book-length work, a revision of his Carpentier
Lectures delivered at Columbia Law School in 1968, his "juridical
testament" (in the words of his biographer), and one of the few
instances we have of his extra-judicial utterances.

4.  CLARKSON, Paul S. and R. Samuel Jett.  Luther Martin of
Maryland.  The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1970.  Original
cloth, a very good copy, in the dustjacket. [71702]       $ 45.00

5.  GOODWIN-GILL, Guy S.  International Law and the Movement of
Persons between States.  Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1978.  Original
blue cloth, gilt, a very good copy, in a slightly worn dustjacket.
[71656 WRT]                                               $ 85.00

Based in part on Mr. Goodwin-Gill's Doctor of Philosophy degree at
Oxford under the supervision of Ian Brownlie and completed while he
was Legal Adviser in the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees.

6.  HOWARD, John.  The State of the Prisons in England and Wales,
With Preliminary Observations, and an Account of Some Foreign
Prisons and Hospitals. The Third Edition. Baumgartner 3 [calling
for 22 plates, all of which are present here, many folding].
Quarto.  Printed by William Eyres; and Sold by T. Cadell [etc.],
Warrington, 1784.  Modern 3/4 calf over marbled boards, crimson
morocco label, gilt, a bit of browning and foxing, but generally a
very good copy; without the half-title. [71715]        $ 1,250.00

Howard's masterwork, displaying the enormous empirical data upon
the treatment of prisoners amassed by him just as the major reforms
of English criminal law began, this edition completely revised and
much expanded following Howard's journeys in 1780.

7.  JONES, W.J.  The Elizabethan Court of Chancery.  Clarendon
Press, Oxford, 1967.  Original cloth, gilt, a few pages just
chipped, else a good copy. [59378]                       $ 125.00

8.  KENT, James.  Commentaries on American Law. Eleventh Edition,
Edited by George F. Comstock. Four Volumes.  Little, Brown, and
Company, Boston, 1867.  Original sheep, contrasting crimson and
black labels, gilt, a bit worn and a little foxing and staining,
but in general a well-preserved, attractive set. [71624]  $ 650.00

Later edition of a pre-eminent work of American law, praised by
Story and, in Lawrence Friedman's words, "immediately [becoming]
the standard general treatise on law in the United States",
devolving on Kent the sobriquet of "The American Blackstone".

9.  LILLICH, Richard B. (ed.).  Humanitarian Intervention and the
United Nations.  University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville,
1973.  Original light blue cloth, a very good copy. [71686 WRT]
                                                          $ 85.00

10.  MONTESQUIEU, M. de Secondat, Baron de.  The Spirit of Laws.
Translated from the French . . . By Thomas Nugent. The Fourth
Edition, Carefully revised and improved with considerable Additions
by the Author. Two Volumes.  Printed for J. Nourse, and P.
Vaillant, in the Strand, London, 1766.  Modern 1/4 calf over
marbled boards, the spine extra gilt; quite a pretty set. [71643]
                                                         $ 650.00

The first English translation in a later edition of the work which
Holmes opined "probably has done as much to remodel the world as
any product of the eighteenth century [the reading of which] is one
of the last achievements of a studious life".

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From agvent at erols.com  Wed May 26 09:24:33 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 09:24:33 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Skinner's Peru, 1805, with hand-colored plates
Message-ID: <40B49A91.6090605@erols.com>

               [SKINNER,    Joseph].  THE  PRESENT   STATE   OF   PERU:
          COMPRISING   ITS  GEOGRAPHY,   TOPOGRAPHY,  NATURAL  HISTORY,
          MINERALOGY,  COMMERCE....  London:  R  Phillips  1805.  First
          Edition.  THE  MODERN  TRAVELS  OF THE  MISSIONARIES  IN  THE
          HERETOFORE    UNEXPLORED  MOUNTAINOUS   TERRITORIES.   Quarto
          (8-1/2"  x  10-1/2")  bound  in  later  brown  morocco-backed
          marbled  boards with morocco corners and gilt decorations and
          lettering  on  the spine. Drawn from original  and  authentic
          documents,  chiefly  written  and compiled  in  the  Peruvian
          capital   and  embellished  with   18  (of  20)  hand-colored
          engravings,  mostly  of  natives   in  costume.  Lacking  the
          engravings  of  llamas  and an Indian warrior,  which  appear
          never to  have  been bound in. Plates and text  fresh;  minor
          rubbing to joints and corners. Very Good or better.  $1500

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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Wed May 26 14:44:53 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:44:53 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Rare early English trans. of Boethius. London: 1609
Message-ID: <ac.58f3d3cc.2de63fa5@aol.com>

Boethius, Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus. FIVE BOOKES OF PHILOSOPHICAL 
COMFORT, WRITTEN 1000. YEERES SINCE. Newly Translated Out of Latine, Together 
with Marginal Notes, Explaining the Obscurest Places. London: Printed by John 
Windet, for Matthew Lownes. 1609. ff.(8),144. A1 blank. Each page within a 
ruled border. Woodcut title page device. Some woodcut initials and decorative 
headpieces. A very attractive copy in cont. ruled speckled calf, nicely rebacked, 
red morocco spine label. Bottom corner of 1 leaf repaired (text unaffected). 
Old, faded ownership signature on title page. Housed in a custom red cloth 
portfolio and full red morocco slipcase.     $2,750.00 (trade discount allowed)
STC #3202.

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From matheson at boo.net  Wed May 26 18:18:57 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 18:18:57 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Hans Christian Andersen & Willi Harwerth
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20040526181542.01fa4ec0@boo.net>

For consideration today:

Andersen, Hans.   The red shoes, with coloured wood-engravings by Willi 
Harwerth.  Bristol, Douglas Cleverdon, 1928. Original cream paper boards. 
Backstrip lightly rubbed, otherwise fine. One of 460 numbered copies. 
Printed by Wilh. Gerstung in the Grosse-Antiqua type of Rudolf Koch. [31] 
pp.  $150

Willi Harwerth was also a celebrated designer, as evidenced in

Gebr?der Klingspor, firm, Typefounders, Offenbach am Main Schoenheit im 
Buchdruck.  Offenbach, A.M. [1930s]. Original printed wrappers. 2 v. 
One-inch pieces missing from the head and foot of the backstrip of v I, 
otherwise very good. Narrow backstrip on v 2 partially split, otherwise 
very good. V. 1: Leisten und Einfassungen nach Zeichnungen von Willi 
Harwerth. V. 2: Vignetten und Zierstuecke nach Zeichnungen von Willi 
Harwerth. Specimen books. The second part is included in the checklist in 
The art of the type specimen in the Twentieth Century. Two locations 
WorldCat (for volume 1 only).  $100.


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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Wed May 26 21:04:12 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 01:04:12 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-A Selection from Stock, with Images 
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.40.0405270103580.7562-100000@meyerbos.com>

A selection of works which we have in stock, with images of them;
for others, please feel free to browse our web site, where you
may search our entire inventory by any word or phrase:
www.meyerbos.com

1.  AMES, James Barr and Jeremiah Smith.  A Selection of Cases on
the Law of Torts. Second Edition [of Volume One]. Two Volumes.
Harvard Law Review Publishing Association, Cambridge, 1893-1900.
Brown cloth, very worn, hinge cracked, underlining; a working set.
[65278] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65278
                                                         $ 125.00

2.  B[LACK], W[illiam].  The Privileges of the Royal Burrows, As
contained in their particular Rights, and the Ancient Laws and
Records of Parliament, and their General Convention [etc.].
Printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson [etc.],
Edinburgh, 1767.  Modern unlettered calf, some dustiness, else
quite attractive. [64082 L57] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=64082     $ 450.00

Only edition of one of two early works on the Scottish gild
merchant and its royal burghs, much more powerful than their
English counterparts and of importance until this century; with
much on their courts and regulation of international commerce.

3.  BLACKSTONE, William.  Commentaries on the Laws of England
[etc.]. Twelfth Edition.  Four Volumes. Eller 21.  Printed by A.
Strahan and W. Woodfall [etc.], London, 1793-95.  Contemporary 1/2
calf, rubbed, serviceably rebacked; a clean set. [64573 Y] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=64573   $ 1,500.00

One of the most desirable of all the early editions, famous for its
inclusion of thirteen full page engravings, the first of only two
editions to have them, including those of Coke, Fortescue, Hale and
Mansfield, among many others.

4.  [COKE, Edward].  A Book of Entries: Containing Perfect and
approved Presidents [etc.]. The second Edition carefully Corrected.
Printed by John Streater, James Flesher [etc.], London, 1671.
Modern 1/4 morocco, a few margins frayed, else a crisp copy. [64084
L57L64] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=64084
                                                       $ 1,750.00

The third of Coke's three major works, joining his "Reports" and
his "Institutes", rounding out his effort to set forth the totality
of English law and disclosing his mastery of the plea rolls; with
citation to the pertinent report where applicable.

5.  [CRIMINAL CONVERSATION AT SCOTS LAW].  Report of Trial in the
Action of Damages for Crim. Con. Poor Alexander Bell, Teacher,
Dundee, versus William Murray, Now or Lately Rector of the Dundee
Academy . . . Containing a Discussion upon the Law of Intercepted
Correspondence.  N.p., [Edinburgh?], 1834.  Modern canvas backed
marbled boards, ex-library?, sound; 63 pages. [64090 L57] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=64090     $ 250.00

A trial ingeniously hinging on the admissibility of a letter said
to have been sent by the wife to her alleged paramour, never
received by him, showing clearly the judicial disabilities
frequently suffered by women in cases involving sexual issues.

6.  DAVIES, John.  Historical Tracts . . . To Which Is Prefixed a
New Life of the Author, from Authentic Documents.  Printed by
William Porter, for Mess. White, Gilbert [etc.], Dublin, 1777.
Contemporary tree calf, the covers abraded, else a fresh copy.
[65326] PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65326
                                                         $ 450.00

7.  DOUGLAS, William O.  Of Men and Mountains.  Harper & Brothers
Publishers, New York, 1950.  Light-green cloth, gilt, somewhat
rubbed, but a good copy. [64239 L57L64EL70] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=64239     $ 250.00

A copy of Justice Douglas' first book-length work presented by him
during its first year of publication, five lines entirely in his
hand on the half-title "For Steven / with warm regards / and best
wishes / Wm O Douglas / July 19, 1950".

8.  ELMES, James.  A Practical Treatise on Ecclesiastical and Civil
Dilapidations, Re-instatements, Waste . . . With an Appendix
Containing Cases Decided, Precedents of Notices to Repair, Examples
of Valuations [etc.]. Third Edition, Considerably Enlarged.  Samule
Brooke, Law Printing-Office, 35, Paternoster Row, London, 1829.
Cloth-backed boards, rebacked, quite rubbed, but a sound copy.
[64350 L57] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=64350     $ 250.00

Best edition of a work of potential interest to anyone interested
in the legal and historical aspects of architecture and
construction particularly as applied to churches, with comparisons
drawn to Roman and French law and much reliance on Lord Coke.

10.  FOSS, Edward.  Memories of Westminster Hall, A Collection of
Interesting Incidents, Anecdotes and Historical Sketches, Relating
to Westminster Hall, Its Famous Judges and Lawyers and Its Great
Trials.  Two Volumes.  Frederick D. Linn & Company, Jersey City,
1874.  Green cloth, gilt, a bit rubbed, some stray marks, but a
crisp set. [64569 XY] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=64569     $ 250.00

A good gossipy collection of materials about Westminster Hall, the
seat of English justice over the centuries, with Foss's more
serious introduction and interspersed notes and with accounts of
some of England's most famous trials there conducted.

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From agvent at erols.com  Thu May 27 09:12:07 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 09:12:07 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Signed Limited Eleanor Roosevelt
Message-ID: <40B5E927.9050108@erols.com>

               ROOSEVELT,  Eleanor.  THIS I REMEMBER. New York:  Harper
          (1949).  First  Edition. Illustrated with  photographs.  Copy
          #920 of  1000 numbered copies SIGNED by the author, with  the
          original  glassine  present  and whole.  Bright,  Fine  copy,
          lacking the slipcase.                                $1000

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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Thu May 27 13:13:36 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 13:13:36 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Rare 1st French trans. of Descartes'
	"Meditationes." Paris: 1647
Message-ID: <105.47a06a17.2de77bc0@aol.com>

(PHILOSOPHY) Descartes, Rene. LES MEDITATIONS METAPHYSIQUES. Touchant la 
Premiere Philosophie, dans Lesquelles l?Existence de Dieu, & la Distinction Reelle 
Entre l?Ame & le Corps de l?Homme, Sont Demonstrees. Traduites du Latin de l?
Auteur par M. le D. D. L. N. S. [le Duc de Luynes]. Et les Objections Faites 
Contre Ces Meditations par Diverses Personnes Tres-Doctes, avec les Reponses 
de l?Auteur. Traduites par Mr. C. L. R. [Clerselier]. Paris: Chez la Veuve Jean 
Camusat, et Pierre le Petit. 1647. First French translation. 4to. 
(16),606,(2)pp. 19th century thin gilt ruled vellum with red morocco spine label, lightly 
soiled. A very attractive copy.     $3,000.00 (less a 20% trade discount)
The rare first French translation of Descartes? original Latin text, ?
Meditationes de Prima Philosophia.? Paris: 1641. Descartes (d. 1650) corrected the 
translation himself and further clarified the meaning of several of the more 
obscure Latin passages.

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From rarelaw at meyerbos.com  Thu May 27 22:42:35 2004
From: rarelaw at meyerbos.com (Joe Luttrell)
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 02:42:35 +0000 (GMT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs-A Selection from Stock, with Images 
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.40.0405280241390.44673-100000@meyerbos.com>

A selection of works which we have in stock, with images of them;
for others, please feel free to browse our web site, where you
may search our entire inventory by any word or phrase:
www.meyerbos.com

1.  [FOX AND THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE].  Speech of the Right Hon.
Charles James Fox, on the Speech delivered to the House of Commons,
at the Opening of Parliament, Dec. 13, 1792, Commonly Called the
King's Speech.  Printed for J. Ridgway, York-Street, St.
James's-Square, London, 1792.  Sewn self wraps, neatly repaired, a
bit of pencilling; 19 pages. [64913 FBWL59L75E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=64913     $ 650.00

The rare first edition of Fox's impassioned speech seeking to
preserve the liberties of the English people in the face of the
King's (and Pitt's) efforts to enact legislation leading to the
infamous sedition trials; two copies in RLIN, none in the UK.

12.  H[OWELL], J[ames].  Cottoni Posthuma: Divers Choice Pieces of
that Renowned Antiquary, Sir Robert Cotton [etc.]. Edited by Edmund
Goldsmid. Four Volumes.  Privately Printed, Ediburgh, 1884.
Original vellum wraps, untrimmed; one of 75 large-paper sets.
[65076 L63L67E] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65076     $ 125.00

The best sampler of the varied talents of Cotton, whose famed
library was later incorporated into the British Museum; with essays
on the legality of combats and duels and on sovereignty and the
respective rights and powers of Parliament and the King.

13.  HECTOR, L.C. and Michael J. Hager (eds.).  Year Books of
Richard II, 8-10 Richard II, 1385-1387.  The Ames Foundation,
Cambridge, 1987.  Original brown cloth, gilt, a very good copy.
[64446 FBWL60] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=64446      $ 95.00

14.  [JENKINS, David].  Jenkinsius Redivivus: Or the Works of . .
. Judge Jenkins whilst A Prisoner in the Tower, and Newgate . . .
Wherein is plainly set forth, the Just Power and Prerogative of the
King, the Priviledge of Parliament, the Liberty of the Subject
[etc.].  Printed for Jo. Hindmarsh at the Black Bull in Cornhill,
London, 1681.  Polished calf, joints rubbed, frontispiece mounted,
still pretty. [64105 L57] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=64105     $ 450.00

The principal collection of Jenkins' political and constitutional
theory, almost all written while he was imprisoned during the
Interregnum, ably defending the King in Parliament, and both
reflecting Coke and anticipating the Glorius Revolution.

15.  [LINCOLN'S INN].  William H. Spilsbury (comp.).  The Catalogue
of the Printed Books in the Library of the Hon. Society of
Lincoln's Inn.  Printed for the Society, London, 1859.  Original
pebbled cloth, rebacked, some foxing, but quite sound. [65297 L63]
PHOTO: http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65297
                                                         $ 650.00

The copy presented by Lincoln's Inn to Chetham's Library,
Manchester, with its pictorial bookplate recording the presentation
on the front pastedown and its discreet circular ownership stamp
elsewhere.

16.  [MARITIME LAW].  Extracts, From the Several Treaties
Subsisting between Great Britain and Other Kingdoms and States, of
Such Articles and Clauses, as relate to the Duty and Conduct of the
Commanders of His Majesty's Ships of War. The Third Edition.  N.p.,
London, 1758.  Contemporary speckled calf, a trifle rubbed, but a
very good copy. [64062 L57] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=64062     $ 650.00

The third of four editions compiling the maritime treaties between
Great Britain and just over a dozen other states going back some
three centuries and more, arranged by country and then
chronologically; with the engraved plate lacking in many copies.

17.  MAZZINGHI, Thomas John de.  Sanctuaries.  Halden & Son, 44,
Greengate Street, Stafford, 1887.  Brown embossed cloth, gilt,
somewhat rubbed and faded, but sound. [63852] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=63852     $ 250.00

An uncommon work on the peculiar institution of sanctuary under
English law, the principles of which extend to diplomatic immunity
as well as criminals; with a brief treatment of ambassadors and of
fugitive slaves.

18.  REEVE, Tapping.  The Law of Baron and Femme; of Parent and
Child; of Guardian and Ward; of Master and Servant; and of the
Powers of Courts of Chancery.  With an Essay on the terms, Heir,
Heirs, and Heirs of the Body.  Printed by Oliver Steele, New-Haven,
1816.  Modern 1/4 calf, some embrowning and inking to borders;
sound. [65319 XYL63L64EL] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65319   $ 1,250.00

First edition of the first American work devoted to the law of
women, written by Tapping Reeve, founder of the first American law
school, at Litchfield.

19.  [SEVEN BISHOPS CASE].  The Proceedings and Tryal in the Case
of . . . William Lord Archbishop of Canterbury [and the six other
bishops] In the Court of Kings-Bench at Westminster [etc.].
Printed for the Booksellers in Town and Country, London, 1739.
Contemporary calf, joints cracked, cover stained, else a good copy.
[65289 XYL63] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=65289     $ 650.00

Last 18th century edition of one of the great cases of English
constitutional history, confirming the right of Parliament to
legislate without subsequent Royal derogation and strengthening the
power of the jury as the ultimate constitutional arbiter.

20.  SMITH, John Sidney.  A Treatise on the Practice of the Court
of Chancery. . .Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. Two Volumes.
Saunders and Benning, London, 1837.  Original gray boards, paper
labels, somewhat chafed, but fresh. [64212] PHOTO:
http://www.meyerbos.com/bookListing.cgi?bookNo=64212     $ 350.00

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From shop at aboutbks.com  Fri May 28 08:26:07 2004
From: shop at aboutbks.com (About Books)
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 08:26:07 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: CYCLOPEDIA OF TELEPHONY AND TELEGRAPY
Message-ID: <4.2.0.58.20040528080233.00ba2910@mail.bmts.com>

We can offer:

American Technical Society.  CYCLOPEDIA OF TELEPHONY AND TELEGRAPHY.  A 
General Reference Work on Telephony, Substations, Party-Line Systems. 
Protection, Manual Switchboards, Automatic Systems, Power Plants Special 
Service Features, Construction, Engineering, Operation, Maintenance, 
Telegraphy, Wireless Telegraphy and Telephony, Etc.    Prepared by a Corps 
of Telephone and Telegraph Experts, and Electrical Engineers of The Highest 
Professional Standing.  Chicago: American Technical Society, 1911.   4 
Vols.   409; 337; 393 & 394 pp.   Illus with over two thousand engravings; 
photos throughout and portrait frontis pieces.  Quarter red leather over 
red cloth boards; spine lettering gilt.  Marbled edges and endpapers.  4" 
split to spine leather at top gutter of vol 1.  Chipping to spine tips, 
else a very good copy bright , sound and clean.  US$250.00

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From agvent at erols.com  Fri May 28 09:06:46 2004
From: agvent at erols.com (charles agvent)
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 09:06:46 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Eisenhower Signs Order for D-DAY
Message-ID: <40B73966.8020602@erols.com>

EISENHOWER, Dwight CRUSADE IN EUROPE
Garden City Doubleday 1948 First Edition First Edition preceding the 
trade edition. Copy #1344 of 1426 deluxe numbered copies SIGNED by the 
author on the facsimile page of the D-Day Order to send the troops to 
storm the beaches of Normandy, which begins: "You are about to embark 
upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many 
months. The eyes of the world are upon you." The slipcase is intact 
with overall rubbing. Fine in original acetate and Near Fine slipcase, 
scarce thus.   $3500

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From Karmbooks at aol.com  Fri May 28 18:51:55 2004
From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:51:55 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Plantin Press printing of Pope Gregory IX's
	"Epistolae..." 1570
Message-ID: <148.2ad688d0.2de91c8b@aol.com>

Gregory IX, Pope. EPISTOLAE DECRETALES SUMMORUM PONTIFICUM? Paris: Jacobum 
Puteanum. 1570. 8vo. (32),912pp. Index. Colophon on final verso. 18th century 
calf over marbled boards, gilt spine, a bit rubbed.     $600.00 (trade discount 
allowed)
This book bears the imprint of the Parisian printer J. du Puis, but it was in 
fact printed by Plantin in Antwerp. See Voet #1030, noting that du Puis took 
500 copies from Plantin. Adams G 1226.

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From matheson at boo.net  Fri May 28 18:57:39 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 18:57:39 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  Type foundries of America
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20040528185704.01fabec0@boo.net>

For your consideration today:

Annenberg, Maurice.   Type foundries of America and their 
catalogs.  Baltimore and Washington, Maran Printing Services, 1975. 
Original cloth. Fine in dust jacket. The first edition of this admired 
book. One of 500 numbered copies. 245 pp. Reviews from The Kemble 
Occasional and AB Bookman's Weekly and an order form for the book laid in. $100

American Type Founders.   The book of American types.  Elizabeth, New 
Jersey [c1941]. Original red cloth. Repaired at the head of the backstrip, 
repaired splits at the foot of the front joint and the middle portion of 
the rear joint, corners rubbed, otherwise very good, hinges sound. 191 pp. 
1941 supplement to The book of American types in a pocket on the front 
pastedown (fine in original wrappers). Annenberg / Type foundries of 
America and their catalogs, p. 44.  $50

Barnhart Brothers & Spindler.   Preferred type faces. [Specimen] book 
number 10.  Chicago [c1913]. Original green cloth. Lightly chipped at the 
head and foot of the backstrip, corners rubbed, otherwise very good. 172 
pp. Annenberg / Type Foundries of America and Their Catalogs (1994 
edition), p. 59.  $100


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From trilliumbooks at sympatico.ca  Fri May 28 20:41:06 2004
From: trilliumbooks at sympatico.ca (trilliumbooks at sympatico.ca)
Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 20:41:06 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: Atlantic Salmon Fishing (Charles Phair)
Message-ID: <DF04348C-B108-11D8-8ACC-0003937FD9DC@sympatico.ca>

Today we are pleased to offer:

Phair, Charles.  Atlantic Salmon Fishing.  New York: Derrydale Press, 
1937. First edition (?Regular Edition? of 950 copies, xx, 182 pp., 
index). An exceptionally handsome book illustrated by Ogden M. Pleissner 
and Robert Nisbet. Small folio with 69 illustrations including eight 
full-page colour plates, two etchings, and two maps all with tissue 
guards, in dark green cloth with gilt decoration.  Chapters on Salmon 
Water, Selection of Guides, Tackle, Flies and their Uses, Wet and Dry 
Flies, Salmon Rivers.  Spine is slightly faded with a few spots; covers 
and text, including illustrations, are tight and clean.  USD 450.00

Cordially,

William Van Nest

Trillium Antiquarian Books
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From ivressedelivres at free.fr  Sat May 29 04:33:54 2004
From: ivressedelivres at free.fr (Ivresse de Livres)
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 10:33:54 +0200
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Cette semaine, nous avons r?f?renc?s nouveaux 78 titres (voir les liens 
ci-apr?s), dont : 
 
ART.G.064.17 (XX) / GUENNE Jacques / Portraits d'artistes : Bosshard - Favory 
- Gromaire - Gu?rin - Kisling - Lhote - Matisse - Simon-L?vy - Vlaminck / 
Edit? par Marcel Seheur, Paris / Ann?e 1927 / Broch?. Illustr? de 48 hors 
texte et de 9 reproductions de dessins, eaux-fortes et lithographies in?dits 
/ Format 195x255 mm / 307 pages / Bon ?tat, hormis de l?g?s et petits d?fauts 
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ERO.C.016.17 (XIX) / [CHANSONNIER] / Le chansonnier des graces pour 1838 avec 
les airs nouveaux grav?s / Edit? par Mme Louis, Paris / Ann?e 1837 / Pleine 
basane pourpre ? dos lisse orn? de motifs ors. Plats orn?s d'un double filet 
or et de motifs ors aux coins. Charmant motif ? froid rectangulaire au centre 
des plats. Coupes orn?s de motifs ors. Toute tranche dor?e. Gravure en 
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From matheson at boo.net  Sat May 29 13:51:46 2004
From: matheson at boo.net (Nina W. Matheson)
Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 13:51:46 -0400
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS:  From the Latin
Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.0.20040529135028.01e81928@boo.net>

For consideration today:

Apuleius.   Cupid and Psyches, the excellent narration of their marriage 
translated into English by William Adlington out of the Latin Bookes of the 
Golden Asse by Apuleius / 1556.  [London] Newly printed and published in 
Soho by the Nonesuch Press, 1923. Original quarter red paper and decorated 
paper boards. Fine in rubbed publisher's box with repaired joints. One of 
625 numbered copies. The borders were designed by Geofroy Tory circa 1524. 
As used in the book they are "enlarged a little". Not paginated.  $75

De Bury, Richard.   Philobiblon. Edited from the best manuscripts and 
translated into English with an introduction and notes by Andrew Fleming 
West.  New York, Printed for The Grolier Club, 1889. Original full vellum 
with a gold seal on the front cover. Very fine in publisher's boxes (lower 
edge of the box for v. 3 strengthened). 3 v. Grolier Club 1884-1984, item 
87. V. 1: the Latin version. V. 2. the English version. V. 3: Introductory 
matter and notes. Printed by the De Vinne Press. One of 300 copies.  $300

Theobaldus, Episcopus.   Physiologus de naturis duodecim animalium. The 
Latin text. An English translation by Willis Barnstone, with woodcuts and 
lithographs by Rudy Pozzatti.  Bloomington, Indiana University Press 
[c1964]. Unbound signatures in original oversize 15" x 22" folding box, as 
issued. Large printed label on the front cover of the box. Box lightly 
marked, contents fine. One of 325 numbered copies signed by Poz zatti. The 
woodcuts were pulled at Il Torcoliere in Rome. The book was designed by 
George Sadek. The text was hand set and printed with woodcuts from the 
original blocks by Joseph Blumenthal at the Spiral Press. Included in the 
Grolier Club exhibit, American illustrated books 1945-1965.  $300

Virgil.   Georgics of Virgil. Translated from the Latin into English by J. 
W. Mackail, fellow Balliol College, Oxford.  [Cambridge, Massachusetts] The 
Riverside Press [1904]. Original quarter vellum and decorated paper boards. 
Book label of bookdealer Philip C. Duschnes on the rear pastedown. Corners 
rubbed, residue from a removed book-plate on the front pastedown, otherwise 
near fine. [110] pp. One of 330 numbered copies. Designed by Bruce Rogers. 
Warde / Bruce Rogers, Designer of Books 50. The title-page is reproduced in 
Stanley Morison's Four centuries of fine printing.  $125

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From: Karmbooks at aol.com (Karmbooks at aol.com)
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 13:39:24 EDT
Subject: [Rarebooks] FS: 17th cent. work on Physiognomy
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(PHYSIOGNOMY) Rubeis, Dominicus de. DOMINICI DE RUBEIS CIVIS VENETI TABULAE 
PHYSIOGNOMICAE. In Quibus Claro Ordine, Summaq; Facilitate tum Antiquorum, tum 
Recentiorum Physiognomorum Axiomata Vigent? Venice: Apud Gasparem Corradicium. 
1639. Sm. 8vo. (16),144pp. Index. Cont. vellum, a bit soiled, hand lettered 
spine, small chips on spine and fore-edges, ties lacking. Small paper label at 
foot of spine. Minor stain on title & half-title. Occasional light foxing.     
$750.00 (trade discount allowed)

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From office at joslinhall.com  Mon May 31 14:44:18 2004
From: office at joslinhall.com (Joslin Hall Rare Books, ABAA)
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 14:44:18 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: THE Most Important Book on Glass... nice edition
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Neri, Antonio L'ARTE VETRARIA DISTINTA IN LIBRI SETTE... Milano; Giovanni
Silvestri: 1817. First published in Florence in 1612.

"Having regard to the influence of this book on future writers on the
subject, especially upon those who sought to make glass by Venetian
methods in England and elsewhere, it may without doubt be given the
premier place as the most important work that has ever appeared on the
preparation of glass" (Dillon).

We know little of Antonio Neri (1576-1614), except that he was a
Florentine priest and chemist who broke tradition by publishing the first
printed book solely devoted to the art of the glassmaker. These arts were
trade secrets, and you didn't fool around with trade secrets. The
Venetians (for instance) guarded their own glassmaking formulas and
techniques so jealously that they had announced a death penalty for any
glassmaker who traveled abroad and shared them.

In his "L'Arte Vetraria" Neri documented and described the formulas for
glass derived from his own long association with the glassworks in
Florence and Antwerp; Ferguson notes that he also worked at the Murano
glasshouses. Neri began in Florence under the patronage of Antonio de
Medici, to whom he formally dedicates this book in the usual florid style
of the day. Neri later moved to Pisa and Antwerp, before returning to
Florence around 1611. Neri's book was translated into English (1662),
Latin (1668), German (1678), and Spanish (ca.1778). The book also became
the basis for a number of later works. OCLC lists just 6 examples of this
Milan 1817 edition.

Softcover. 4"x6.5", xxiv + 279 + [i] pages. Issued as part of the
Biblioteca scelta d'Opere Italiane series, and with the original orange
paper covers with the series title imprinted on the front cover and Neri's
title imprinted on the spine. Covers soiled and somewhat worn, spine with
large chip taking out the top third, but it is very pleasing that these
fragile paper covers have survived at all; tips thumbed, some light
internal spotting and soil. Despite the flaws, a very pleasing copy in its
original state. [05318] $375.00

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Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 14:57:18 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: [Rarebooks] fs: A Selection of Books on Glass
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Barlow, Raymond E. & Joan E. Kaiser. A GUIDE TO SANDWICH GLASS - 6
volumes. Barlow-Kaiser Publishing Company: 1987-1993. Six of the handy
"type of glass" guides, with illustrations and information drawn from
their hardcover books. This pile consists of- 'Vases, Colognes &
Stoppers'; 'Kerosene Lamps and Accessories'; 'Whale Oil Lamps and
Accessories'; 'Blown Tableware, Pressed Cup Plates and Salts'; 'Pressed
Tableware'; and 'Witch Balls, Containers & Toys'. Softcover. 6 volumes.
9"x12", about 150 pages each; filled with color and b/w illustrations;
near fine copies. [01982] $125.00

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Boswell, P.G.H. A MEMOIR OF BRITISH RESOURCES OF SANDS AND ROCKS USED IN
GLASS-MAKING, with notes on certain crushed rocks and refractory
materials. London; Longman's, Green and Company: 1918. 2nd ed. A thorough
and technical study on the use of sand and rocks for glass-making in
England. The first edition was published in 1917, followed by a
supplementary volume; then they were combined to make up this 2nd edition.
Hardcover. 5.75"x8.75", 183 pages, 10 plates including a folding map;
light soil, spine just a little sunned, but a very nice copy. [04749]
$75.00

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Hodgkiss, Donald. WOODSTOCK GLASS. Woodstock; Grafix: 1971. The story of
the South African Glass Company (Ltd.), makers of Woodstock Glass, which
was born, lived and died, in the 1880s. The informal but informative text
is augemted by period newspaper quotes and b/w photos of the glass they
made. In the sort of colophon which could only have been produced in the
early '70s, the flap of the jacket proclaims- "This book was typed on an
IBM SELECTRIC "Golfball" typewriter". And it looks it... Hardcover. 6"x9",
102 pages, b/w illustrations, dj; light wear. Some jacket soil. [03426]
$150.00

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Jefferson, Josephine. WHEELING GLASS. Mount Vernon; The Guide Publishing
Co.: 1947. A study of the glass factories and workers of Wheeling, West
Virginia. Hardcover. 6"x9", 86 pages, b/w and line illustrations, dj.
Jacket with light wear; a small water stain at the lower inside corner
affects the first few pages and results in a slight separation at the
bottom of the title page. [03404] $50.00

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Meyer-Heisig, Erich. DER NURNBERGER GLASSCHNITT DES 17. JAHRHUNDERTS.
Nurnberg; Verlag Nurnberger Presse: 1963. An astounding study of 17th
century engraved glass from Nurnberg, most of it artist attributed, with
individual chapters on a number of known engravers and their work. The
illustrations, photographs shot against mostly black backgrounds, are
large, clear and brilliant. A joyous book for the lover of engraved glass.
  Hardcover.   9"x11.5", 227 pages, tipped-in frontispiece and 200+ b&w
illustrations; dj; a fine copy in a very lightly worn dj. [29980] $225.00

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Pelliot, Marianne. VERRES ANCIENS. Paris; Editions G. van Oest:1929. A
rather scarce and beautifully produced survey of outstanding 18th century
European engraved and enameled glass, some of it Russian, from private
collections. Duncan notes: "Describes glasses hidden in private
collections; notably those of G. Moser-Millot; Alexander Popov;
Zolonitzky; Madame Wannieck; Madame Felix Lemaire and Madame Lucien
Sauphar; also glasses in the Museum Pierre Stchoukine, Moscow". The text
includes an essay on Russian glass. This is followed by the 48 plates,
each of which is fully described. An elegant collection of fine antique
European decorated glass.   Hardcover.  10"x13", 153 pages plus 48 b&w
plates. Original softcovers bound into a very handsome gilt-decorated
quarter leather binding which is fairly new but done in an authentic 18th
century style. A very handsome copy and binding. [16851] $550.00

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