LIST 238: WOMEN - Philadelphia Rare Books and Manuscripts

LIST 238: WOMEN
Women as Writers, Editors, Translators, Illustrators, & Printers Books By, For, & About Women
1. Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell. The sick-a-bed lady. And also Hickory dock, The very tired girl, The happy-day, The runaway
road, Something that happened in October. New York: Century Co., 1911. 8vo. [10], 371, [1] pp. (frontis. lacking);
8 plts. First edition. Publisher’s cloth stamped in green, teal, and pink; spine gently faded, otherwise clean and
bright, without the dustwrapper. Lacking frontispiece (with no traces or signs other than present guard-leaf). (12893)
$35.00
2. Adams, Hannah. An abridgement of the history of New-England, for the use of young persons. Boston: Pr. by A.
Newell for the author, & for sale by B. &. J. Homans, & John West, 1805. 12mo. iv, 185, [1 (blank)] pp. First edition
of this abridgment for children from her Summary History of New-England. Adams’ eyesight suffered because of her work
on the Summary History and another setback occurred when Jedidiah Morse published a competing abridged history of
New England prior to Adams’s getting her children’s book into print. A controversy ensued over Morse’s failure to terminate
his project in favor of a needy spinster. Shaw & Shoemaker 7830; not in Rosenbach; not in Welsh. Later
19th-century quarter sheep with paper of covers in imitation of treed sheep. Insect damage to leather of front cover with
small loss of leather paper. A little rubbing and tiny holes on spine. Some wear to edges and corners. Minor insect damage
to first two leaves and small loss of paper in outer margin of one leaf. Ownership signature on front free endpaper.
Foxing. (701) $250.00
3. Alpha, The. Vol. IX, No. 12. Washington: 1884. 8vo. 14 pp. Newspaper addressing gender equality, the importance
of sex education and family planning, and the question of ordination for women. This issue dates from the paper’s ninth
year of publication, and contains Gertrude Hitz’s essay, “The Importance of Knowledge Concerning the Sexual Nature.”
Sewing mostly gone, leaves separated, edges slightly ragged. One pencilled correction. (2320) $25.00
4. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Negro women in the judiciary. Heritage series number 1. Chicago: Alpha Kappa Alpha
Sorority, 1968. 8vo. 24 pp.; illus. This is the first brochure in the Negro Heritage Series on the individual achievements
of black women in various fields. Contains 11 short biographies of black female magistrates and judges. Illustrated
with photographs. Stapled, in illustrated wrappers. With rubber stamps on the front cover. Near fine. (5445) $18.00
5. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Women in business. Heritage series number 3. Chicago: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
1970. 8vo. [4 (3 blank)], 24 pp.; illus. This is the third Heritage Series booklet on the individual achievements of black
women in various fields. Contains 41 brief biographies of black female entrepreneurs. Illustrated with photographs. Stapled,
in illustrated wrappers. With rubber stamps on the front cover. Near fine. (5447) $18.00
6. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Women in medicine. Heritage series number 4. Chicago: Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority,
1971. 8vo. 32 pp.; illus. This is the fourth Heritage Series booklet on the individual achievements of black women in
various fields. Contains 27 one-page biographies of black female physicians. Illustrated with photographs. Stapled, in
illustrated wrappers. With rubber stamps and ink jottings on the front cover. Near fine. (5446) $18.00
7. American Association for the Advancement of Education. Proceedings of the third session of the American Association
for the Advancement of Education, held at Pittsburgh, Pa., August 9th, 10th, 11th & 12th, A.D. 1853. Newark, NJ:
A. Stephen Holbrook, Printer, 1854. 8vo. 116 pp. The proceedings include papers endorsing liberal education for
women and discussing the utility of the English language and the educational possibilities of the Smithsonian Institution.
Good. Sewn; in printed green wrappers. Spine and wrappers chipped, not affecting printed area of front wrapper, and
with some soiling and staining. Corners bumped, and pages with a few spots of browning and staining. (1268) $40.00
8. Andrews, John. Remarks on the French and English ladies, in a series of letters; interspersed with various anecdotes,
and additional matter arising from the subject. Dublin: Walker, Beatty, Burton, et al., 1783. 12mo (17.7 cm, 7"). [2],
307, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacking half-title). First Irish edition, printed in the same year as the London first. The author’s perspective
is that of an Englishman abroad, writing for an English audience, so his primary emphasis is noting the charms,
quirks, and so-Not English circumstances of upper-class Frenchwomen — with the conduct and state of their English counterparts
described for the most part only where contrast is required. Topics that come under Andrews’s consideration include
manners, morals, dress, general physical appearance, and attitudes towards children; occasionally he digresses into
more general discussions on marriage and on music, for example. The French ladies are cited as being “remarkably addicted
to poetry” (p. 28) — as well as romances and plays — with much accompanying discussion of their literary predilections.
Andrews’s “anecdotes” can be lengthy, and rather literary creations in themselves. Among the most striking are a
tragic story of two beautiful young girls cruelly forced into a convent by their unfeeling parents and the extended, really
harrowing tale of a sweet, “sprightly” young woman who is wed by her parents to a “morose” and “churlish” older man.
ESTC T129626. Recent marbled paper-covered boards, spine with gilt-stamped leather title and place labels. Half-title
lacking. Title-page silked; leaves age-toned, with a few pages stamped by a now-defunct institution. (10884) $450.00
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9. Anonymous. Wayside sketches. Narrative of a journey in 1843, now first published from the manuscript for the
Clements Library Associates. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, 1967. 8vo. [6 (4 blank)], 29, [1 (blank)] pp. An
anonymous young woman’s account of her mid-nineteenth century pleasure trip through Northern New Jersey, the Pocono
ridge of Pennsylvania, the Finger Lakes region in New York, and back to New York City via the Hudson River. Published
from the autograph manuscript acquired in 1939 by the Clements Library. Internal evidence suggests the journey was
made circa 1843. Of interest are her descriptions of the inconveniences of travel (by stage coach, railroad, lake ferry, canal
boat, and river steamboat) and local lodging, and her observations of the local social life and customs. The introduction
is by Howard Peckham. Original wrappers. Ex-library, with shelving label on front cover and bookplate on inside of
front cover. Bookplate rubber-stamped “deaccessioned.” Near fine. (7290) $15.00
10. apRoberts, Ruth. The Biblical web. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, (copyright 1994). 8vo. 191, [1
(blank)] pp. A study of the Bible as literature, in seven essays. Essay topics include “Hebrew Poetry: The Translatable
Structure;” “Handel's English Masterwork;” “Waiting for Gödel: Or Hierarchy and the Book of Job;” “Robert Lowth and
Biblical Literary Criticism;” and “Isaiah in England.” Publisher's black cloth, stamped in silver on the spine; dust jacket
with one corner of rear flap folded. As new, in a near fine dust jacket. (4372) $25.00
11. Arnold, Clara, ed . The juvenile keepsake. A gift book for young people. Boston: G.W. Cottrell & Co., (copyright
1853). 8vo. Frontis., engr. half-title, 144 pp.; 5 colored plts. Prose and poetry in large print for the young reader, and
nicely illustrated with plates based on events in the stories. The plates are handcolored. Publisher’s textured cloth,
stamped in blind. Covers rubbed and with a few dark spots; tips of spine off. Spots of foxing to front endpaper and first
two leaves; dark stains in upper margins from pp. 97 to end; else, scattered light soiling and small spots. Short tear to rear
endpaper, bottom edges of pp. 85-92 irregular with a little loss of paper (though not to text). (705) $90.00
12. Arthur, T.S. The home mission. Boston: L.P. Crown & Co., 1853. 8vo. Frontis., [2], 213, [1] pp. First edition of
these domestically themed short stories. Wright, II, 100. Publisher’s red cloth, covers blind-stamped, front cover and
spine gilt-stamped; very slightly cocked, cloth rubbed over corners, with gilt a bit dimmed, but overall clean and attractive.
Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription. First and last leaves with a few spots of foxing, pages otherwise clean.
(13673) $100.00
13. Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn. Ancestors. A novel. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1907. 8vo.
[4], 709, [1] pp. First edition. Publisher's cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, red, and gilt; extremities very
faintly worn, with a small scrape to the front cover, otherwise bright and fresh. Very clean internally. (12952) $40.00
14. Authentic and interesting memoirs of Mrs. Clarke, from her infancy to the present time. Likewise, a faithful account
of Mr. Wardle’s charges relative to his Royal Highness the Duke of York: Together with a summary of the evidence, as
taken in the House of Commons. New York: George Forman, 1809. 8vo. 44 pp. Early American printing (there was
one Boston printing in the same year) of this account of Mrs. Clarke’s career as a courtesan, published after she was put on
trial for taking advantage of her position as mistress to the Duke of York to sell various commissions and patronage favors.
The title-page claims that the work is “illustrated with a beautiful portrait of Mrs. Clarke,” but this phrase appears to be a
holdover from the English edition, as no holdings of this New York printing seem to have the aforementioned portrait.
Shaw & Shoemaker 16885. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Title-page with pencilled notations.
Edges untrimmed; pages with some dog-earing, mild offsetting and spotting. (6046) $145.00
15. Baird, Robert. Transplanted flowers, or memoirs of Mrs. Rumpff, daughter of John Jacob Astor, Esq. and the Duchess
de Broglie, daughter of Madame de Stael. New York: John S. Taylor, 1847. 12mo. Frontis., 159, [1] pp. Later edition
of these accounts of the lives of Eliza Astor Rumpff and Albertine Ida Gustavine de Stael-Holstein, Duchess de
Broglie, preceded by an engraved portrait of the former and by Lydia Sigourney’s poem “Transplanted Flowers.” Memorialized
more briefly are Mrs. Grandpierre and Mrs. Monod. Publisher’s blind-stamped textured cloth, spine gilt-stamped;
binding lightly worn, with spine gilt rubbed and dimmed. Front pastedown with bookplate of J.E. Vanderhoef, front free
endpaper with early inked inscription of Susan A. Baker. Some foxing to endpapers and a few scattered spots to pages;
internally mostly clean. (8958) $87.50
16. Barr, Amelia E. A daughter of Fife. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., (c. 1886). 12mo. 335, [1] pp. First edition:
Scottish romance from a popular novelist and women’s rights activist. Wright, III, 317. Publisher’s cloth, front cover and
spine stamped in black and silver; binding slightly cocked, with corners and spine extremities a touch rubbed. Front
fly-leaf with pencilled gift inscription dated 1899, front free endpaper with later pencilled inscription. (12905) $48.00
17. Barr, Amelia E. Master of his fate. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., (c. 1888). 8vo. Frontis., [4], 293, [1] pp.
First edition: Novel set in Manchester and West Riding country, by a popular author and women’s rights activist. Wright,
III, 333. Publisher’s cloth, spine and front cover stamped in yellow, white, and black; a very bright and fresh copy, with
only a touch of rubbing to the back joint and the outer front edge. (12917) $32.50
18. Barrow, Aunt Fanny [pseud.]. Funny pop-guns: Being the fourth book of the series. New York: Sheldon & Co.,
1864. 8vo. Frontis., 154 pp., [1 (ad)] f.; 3 plts. First of several editions of the popular Victorianum: Four charming little
children’s stories, each with a lesson, or what the author refers to as a “pop-gun.” Each tale begins with a vignette of a
nanny firing a rifle at a group of children, the powder of the explosion containing a maxim. These maxims are “mischief
is not always wicked” (a lesson for parents), “be kind to dumb animals,” “brothers be kind to little sisters,” and “never go
out without permission.” Publisher’s cloth, intricately embossed in blind replicating the feel of blind-embossed leather gift
books of the 1840s and 1850s; spine stamped and lettered in gilt. Top and bottom of spine pulled with loss. Pencilling on
front free endpaper. (4302) $165.00
19. Beazley, Ninette. Turning wheel: A handful of village verse by Ninette Beazley. Drawings by Victoria Thomson.
Selbourne, Hampshire, U.K.: Published by Julian Holland, 1980. 8vo. 69, [1] pp.; illus. First edition: Inscribed paperback.
Fine condition. (6693) $15.00
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20. Bechmann, Johann Volkmar, praeses. Dissertatio inavgvralis. De privilegiis mvliervm, von den Weiblichen
Frey=und Gerechtigkeiten.... Witembergae: Ex Officina Hakiana, 1745. 4to. [2], 118 pp. Dissertation: Diss.
inaug.--Jena (Johann-David Feyerabend, respondent). Originally submitted in 1667. Reprinted several times. Removed
from a bound volume. (7787) $100.00
21. Bedford, Dr. The hospital system of Scotland. A paper read at the Congress of the National Association for the Promotion
of Social Science, held at Edinburgh, October 12th, 1863. London: Emily Faithfull, [1863]. 12mo. 10, [2] pp.
First edition of this treatise on institutions “where boys and girls are boarded and educated out of some charitable fund.”
Apparently rare: Not traced via OCLC, RLIN, National Library of Scotland, etc. Not in NSTC. Removed from a nonce
volume, now in a Mylar folder; leaves separated. (11058) $70.00
22. Beecher, Catharine E. An essay on the education of female teachers. Written at the request of the American Lyceum,
and communicated at their annual meeting, New York, May 8th, 1835. New York: Van Nostrand & Dwight, 1835. 8vo.
22 pp. [bound with] McDowell, James. Address delivered before the Alumni Association of the college of New Jersey,
September 26, 1838. Princeton: John Bogart, [1838]. 8vo. 51, [1] pp. First editions of both addresses. Removed from
a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Title-page of the first work with light spotting and an institutional stamp. (11207)
$100.00
23. Behn, Aphra. Emperor of the moon: A farce. London: Pr. by R. Holt for Joseph Knight and Francis Saunders,
1687. 4to. 67, [1] pp. (lacking half-title and title-page). First edition of the last of Behn’s plays published within her lifetime.
Despite the absent half-title and title-page, this is still an uncommon and desirable item. Wing (rev.) B1727; ESTC
R3833. Removed from a nonce volume. Lacking half-title and title-page. Pages waterstained; a few pages with early inked
marginalia. Leaves with short tear from inner margin, running between lines of text in most cases. (14938) $450.00
24. Bickersteth, Robert, bishop of Ripon, and others. Marriage with a deceased wife’s sister.... London: Hatchard &
Son. 8vo. 12 pp. NSTC 2B32948. Removed from a nonce volume. Spine rebacked with tissue. A little shallow chipping,
not touching impression. Lightly age-toned with some fine spotting and traces of soiling. (9054) $50.00
25. Bingham, Katharine. The Philadelphians as seen by a New York woman. Boston: L.C. Page & Co., 1903. 8vo.
227, [1] pp.; 16 plts. First edition: Lightly fictionalized tale of life in turn-of-the-century Philadelphia. The story originally
appeared in “Ladies’ Home Journal”; this first book-form publication is illustrated with 16 plates including photographs
of Philadelphia landmarks, and an image of young people playing golf. Publisher’s olive cloth, gilt-stamped with
title and author; spine darkened, otherwise a clean and crisp binding. (11394) $25.00
26. Boehmer, Justus Henning, praeses. Dissertatio inavgvralis ivridica. De ivre prinicipis evangelici circa divortia....
Halae Magdeburgicae: Stanno Grunertiano, 1715. 4to. [2], 70 pp. This is the first edition of this inaugural dissertation
presented at the University at Halle an der Saale. Johann Friedrich Kayser was the respondent. The thoughts of the Evangelists
on divorce are examined. In recent German-style speckled wrappers. (7807) $95.00
27. Bottome, Margaret. Our Christmas tree. New York: Powers & Stein, [ca. 1890]. 8vo. 16 pp. Scarce: Meditations
on the meaning of Christmas, written after the death of the author’s son. Bottome (née McDonald) was the organizer of
the Order of the King’s Daughters and Sons, a network of Christian study and service groups, as well as a columnist whose
work appeared in the “Ladies’ Home Journal” and elsewhere. Original printed paper wrappers, one edge slightly darkened,
front wrapper-fold reinforced on the interior with cellophane tape. Page edges untrimmed. (8925) $50.00
28. Bowdler, Miss (Jane). Poems and essays, by Miss Bowdler. Boston: Wells & Lilly, 1827. 8vo. 268 pp. Second
American edition, following the 1811 first U.S. printing, of these popular Christian-themed pieces by the sister of Thomas
Bowdler — the Bowdlerizing Bowdler. Shoemaker 28258. Plain contemporary binding: quarter tan cloth over tan paper-covered
sides, spine with printed paper label; binding worn and lightly stained. Early pencilled inscription on front
free endpaper. Page edges untrimmed, with foxing ranging from mild to moderate. (12534) $150.00
29. Bowen, Elizabeth. Heat of the day. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1949. 12mo. 372 pp. First American edition of
her fourth novel. Publisher's green cloth with dustjacket. Dustjacket has creases and short tears along the top edges of the
spine and front cover; price clipped. VG/G. (1949) $25.00
30. Bowen, Elizabeth. Ivy gripped the steps and other stories. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. 12mo. 233 pp.
First American edition. Publisher’s blue cloth with dust jacket, latter with piece torn from lower portion of front cover
costing portions of letters in the word “Paris.” Small chips from edges of d/j. VG/G. (1947) $32.50
31. (Bowen family). Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Family portrait. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1970. (6554) $17.50
32. Bradley, Eliza. An authentic narrative of the shipwreck and sufferings of Mrs. Eliza Bradley, the wife of Capt. James
Bradley, of Liverpool, commander of the ship Sally, which was wrecked on the coast of Barbary, in June 1818. Boston:
James Walden, 1820. 12mo. Frontis., 108 pp.; 1 plt. Probably the first edition. According to “Mrs. Bradley,” she was
separated from her husband and held captive for six months before being ransomed by the British consul; her account of
her trials is here illustrated by an oversized, folding frontispiece and one plate. The book closes with a description of Arabia
and the Arabs. Generally held to be a fictive account, with sections of the narrative from an James Riley’s account of
life among the Arabs. Shoemaker 4822 (for 1821 ed.). Good; in faded cloth library binding with covers pressure-stamped.
Front free endpaper separated. Frontispiece with some foxing, upper outermost corner lost, short split
along outermost fold. Title-page and three others stamped by a now-defunct institution. (1876) $150.00
33. Brady, John H[enry]. Plain advice to the public, to facilitate the making of their own wills.... London: George B.
Whitaker, 1828. 8vo. xvii, [3 (2 blank)], 88 pp. (lacks pp. 81/82). Second edition. “With forms of wills, simple and
elaborate, adapted as far as possible to the circumstances of persons of all ranks, and containing almost every description of
bequest; especially the various modes of settling property for the sole use and benefit of married women for their lives,
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with powers of appointment to them by deed or will: Tables of the stamp duties on probates and letters of administration;
special rules and tables regarding the wills, and letters of administration, of petty officers, seamen, and marines; and a
chapter of useful hints to persons about to make their wills; the whole illustrated with explanatory notes and remarks: Being
an intelligible and complete, though summary explanation of the law of wills and testaments.” NSTC 2B45680. Original
wrappers, browned and waterstained, spine chipped, back cover with short tear, front cover loosening and stamped with a
six-digit number. Title-leaf torn in gutter margin and separating. Lacking pp. 81/82, most of pp. 87/88 torn away. Foxed
and waterstained. (7604) $15.00
34. Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. The Haworth edition...with an introduction by Mrs. Humphry Ward. New York &
London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. 8vo. Frontis., xxxv, [1], 555, [1] pp.; 8 plts. Reprint of the first out of seven
Haworth “Life and Works of the Sisters Bronte” volumes. Publisher’s cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped; edges a
touch rubbed. Front free endpaper with pencilled gift inscription dated ’02; half-title partially separated. (12896) $25.00
35. Brook, Mary. Reasons for the necessity of silent waiting, in order to the solemn worship of God...third edition. London:
Mary Hinde, 1775. 8vo (20 cm, 7.9"). [2], 31, [1 (blank)] pp. Third edition of Brook’s explication of the principles
underlying Quaker worship practices, issued by a woman printer — Mary Hinde, successful printer and publisher of numerous
Quaker items. ESTC T65811. Recent wrappers. Pages age-toned, with a few small spots. (9302) $325.00
36. Brooke, Mrs. Frances. Siege of Sinope. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Covent-Garden. London:
T. Cadell, 1781. 8vo. vii, [1], 71, [1] pp. First edition of this historical tragedy, which was Brooke’s first theatrical
piece staged. Mrs. Brooke is sometimes called Canada’s first novelist, though she spent most of her life in England; her
popular novel The History of Emily Montague was written while she was living in Quebec. ESTC T106995. Sewn in plain
paper wrappers with sewing now all but gone, wrappers and leaves separated. Page edges ragged and browned. (10517) $150.00
37. Burke, Jane Revere. The one way. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., (copyright 1922). 8vo. xx, [4], 149, [1] pp.
First trade printing, following a private printing of 1921: Christian spiritualism, recorded via “automatic writing” and allegedly
dictated by the ghost of William James. Publisher’s textured cloth, front cover and spine gilt-stamped; boards
slightly sprung, with stamping very faded. One signature awkwardly separated. (12923) $27.50
38. Burlington, New Jersey. Ladies. [drop-title] Memorial of the ladies of Burlington, New Jersey, praying that Congress
would protect the Indians in their rights, and in the possession of their lands. February 23, 1830. Ordered to lie on
the table, and be printed. [Washington]: 1830. 8vo. 1 f. Opposes the removal of Indians from their lands. The
memorialists state, “although unused to interference in the concerns of the public . . . deem it no departure from the reserve
and decorum befitting their sex, briefly and unpresumingly to make known their opinions of measures, fraught . . .
with injustice and oppression . . .” Mentions the tribes’ progress toward “civilization” and adoption of Christianity. Government
document: 21st Congress, 1st Session. 66. Removed from a nonce volume; inner edge a little irregular. Light
spotting. Inked numeral in top margin of first page. (12004) $25.00
39. Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Little Lord Fauntleroy. London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1890. 8vo. xi, [1 (blank)],
269, [1] pp.; 14 integral plts. (incl. frontis.), illus. Early English edition (the first was New York, 1886) of this American
author’s most famous novel, wildly popular well into the 20th century and memorably made into a film starring Freddy
Bartholomew. This edition is amply illustrated with plates (integral to pagination) and in-text pictures also. Binding: Publisher's
red pictorial cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, brown, and gilt. BAL 2064. Good++: Some soiling
to binding; light to moderate foxing internally. (8539) $150.00
40. Burnett, Frances Hodgson. Little Saint Elizabeth and other stories. London: Frederick Warne and Co., 1890. 8vo.
x, [2], (13)–160 pp.; 17 integral plts. (incl. frontis.). First London edition, following the New York edition of 1890: A
collection of children’s stories by the author of the wildly popular Little Lord Fauntleroy and (later) The Secret Garden. In
addition to the title story, the other stories here are “The Story of Prince Fairyfoot,” “The Proud Little Grain of Wheat,”
and “Behind the White Brick.” This edition is also amply illustrated with plates (integral to pagination) by R. B. Birch,
Alfred Brennan and O. A.. BAL 2076 (not having found a copy!). Publisher’s red pictorial cloth over beveled boards,
front cover and spine stamped in black and gilt, front also stamped in blue. Some soiling to binding, spine darkened and
frayed at head and foot. Front cover illustration rubbed, fore-edge discolored. Hinges (inside) starting. Waterstains
throughout in lower margins, a few scattered spots. (8628) $35.00
41. Butler, Frances Ann Kemble. The star of Seville, a drama, in five acts. New York: Saunders & Otley, 1837. 8vo.
[6], 130, [6 (adv.)] pp. First American edition of this tragedy by highly successful actress Fanny Kemble, scion of a theatrical
family that included Charles Kemble and Sarah Siddons. Written while the author was living in the U.S. and married
to Pierce Butler, the play was published in London and New York in 1837 by the same firm (Saunders & Otley). NSTC
2K2476. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder, with some leaves separated. Moderate foxing throughout;
title-page and one other stamped by a now-defunct institution. (9306) $75.00
42. Butler, William Allen. Nothing to wear. An episode of city life. New York: Rudd & Carleton, 1857. 12mo. 68
pp.; 8 plts. (included in pagination). First book form edition: Originally published in “Harper’s Weekly,” this little verse
chides the high society ladies of New York for their slavish devotion to fashion and their selfish extravagance. The popular
piece inspired a host of imitations and sequels; it is here illustrated with a frontispiece and seven other plates by A.
Hoppin. BAL 2228. Publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, much faded and somewhat worn, front cover with gilt-stamped title
and publisher’s monogram. Preliminary advertising leaf between front pastedown and free endpaper has been removed.
Pages with a very few light spots, generally clean. (4351) $55.00
43. Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Esther: A book for girls. New York: A. L. Burt, n.d. Small 8vo. Frontis., iv, 305, [1
(blank)], [8] pp.; illus. Publication date not stated, though probably circa early 1900's. Illustrated with a frontispiece.
Publisher’s ads in the back. Publisher’s cloth, rubbed, cocked spine. Hinges (inside) starting, front free endpaper and
frontispiece loosening. Endpapers foxed, pages browned with light spotting and soiling to some pages. A few small
dog-ears and short tears. Top edges gilt. Fair. (5812) $13.50
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44. Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Averil. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co, 1892. 12mo. 256 pp. Early U.S. edition, following
the London first of 1891. 19th-century library-style quarter sail cloth with marbled paper sides; binding abraded.
Ex-library with paper call number label on spine, stamps, bookplate, and charge pocket at rear. (1511) $15.00
45. Carey, Rosa Nouchette. Merle’s crusade. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1889. 12mo. 352 pp. Early
U.S. edition: True first appeared in London in in the same year. Publisher's cloth, rubbed; skewed in binding. Ex-library
with paper call number label on spine, stamps, bookplate, and charge pocket at rear. (1512) $15.00
46. (Cassatt, Mary). Hale, Nancy. Mary Cassatt. Garden City: Doubleday & Co., 1975. Publisher’s cloth. (6470) $15.00
47. Catherine, of Siena, St. Dialogo dela seraphica virgine santa Catharina da Siena: el qual profondissimamente tratta de
la divina provide[n]tia: de quasi tutti li peccati mortali & de molte altre stupende: & maravigliose cose. [Venetia: Marchio
Sessa, 1540]. Small 8vo (16 cm). [32], 224 ff.
St. Catherine of Siena (1347-80) at the age of sixteen took the habit of the Dominican Tertiaries and almost immediately
mystical experiences became a part of her life, consequently making her a major figure in Mysticism during the late Middle
Ages/early Italian Renaissance. Her "Dialogue", or "Treatise on Divine Providence" is a major document in Italian literature
and is written in the beautiful Tuscan vernacular of the fourteenth century. It was first printed in 1472, but there
were, in fact, few editions between that printing and this one.
This edition is densely printed in roman type bythe Sessa Press and has a large title-page woodcut of St. Catherine receiving
the Stigmata and a small xylograph on the colophon page of the famous Sessa printer's devise of the cat and mouse.
All pre-17th-century editions are scarce if not rare. Of this edition we trace only four copies in the U.S., and this is one
of that quartet.
Index Aurel. 134.030; Essling 739; Sander 1819; Shaaber C268. Ex-library with bookplate on front pastedown and rubber
stamp on the closed bottom edges. Later vellum. Early excellent repair to margin of last leaf. (12228) $3275.00
47a. Catherine, of Siena, St. Lettere devotissime della beata vergine santa Caterina da Siena, nuovamente con tutta la
diligentia che si ha potuto ristampate. Venetia: Nella contrada di Santa Maria formosa, al segno della speranza, 1562.
Small 4to (21 cm). [4], 373, [1 (blank)] ff. St. Catherine of Siena’s letters were first published (with title “Epistole”) in
1492, an expanded edition appearing from the Aldine press in 1500, and a third, with added orations, in 1548. This is the
first edition with this title (i.e., “Lettere” instead of “Epistole”) and claims to be corrected over earlier ones. It bears a
reprinting of the 1500 dedication by Aldus Manutius. The text is printed in italic type, double-column format, with occasional
historiated woodcut initials. There is a decent size woodcut printer’s device on the title-page, and this copy with an
added engraved portrait (death portrait) of St. Catherine, dated 1752, before the title-page. Adams C1107; Index Aurel.
134.035. Early limp vellum. Ex-library with call number label on spine, book plate, library name rubber-stamped on
lower edges of closed book and rear pastedown. Two 19th-century European library stamps on title-page. A good+ copy.
(12423) $875.00
48. Centlivre, Susanna. The busy body. A comedy...with remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. London: Longman, Hurst, Rees &
Orme, [1808]. 12mo. Frontis., 82, [2 (adv.)] pp. With a preliminary biography of Centlivre written by Mrs. Inchbald,
whose comments on necessity driving women to adopt “masculine” employments are of interest given her own background.
The frontispiece depicts a scene not from this play, but from another of Centlivre’s works, A Bold Stroke for a
Wife. Good; disbound from a nonce volume. One corner of plate waterstained; offsetting to title-page from plate. Two
leaves with inner margins reinforced. (2417) $50.00
49. Centlivre, Susannah. The busy body. A comedy. Taken from the manager’s book at the Theatre Royal
Covent-Garden. London: Pr. by R. Butters, [ca. 1770]. 12mo. 48 pp. [bound with] Dryden, John. All for love. Or the
world well lost. A tragedy, in five acts. London: Pr. for R. Butters, [ca. 1770]. 12mo. 51 pp. Removed from a nonce
volume; sewing loosening. Title-page soiled and nearly separated from spine. Library stamps. Only a few very small
spots. Outer margins of a several pages uneven. Without the frontispieces. (352) $60.00
50. Chambers, Marianne. The school for friends. A comedy, in five acts. As performed with distinguished success by
their Majesties servants, at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane. London: Barker & Son, 1805. 8vo. 93, [3] pp. First edition:
Sir Edward Epworth, a worthless scoundrel, is forced to realize his wrongdoings when his friend Lord Belmour falls for
his abandoned wife. Very good; disbound from a nonce volume, with sewing holes. Very faint waterstaining to upper inner
margins of first few leaves; short edge tears to last few leaves. (2330) $75.00
51. Cheap, Eliza. The first day of the week. By the author of “The last day of the week,” “Week completed,” and
“Commandment with promise.” New York: Robert Carter & Brothers (R. Craighead, printer), n.d. [1851–1879?].
16mo. Frontis., 83, [1 (blank)] pp.; 3 plts. Sunday school literature. This edition not in OCLC. Seems to have been first
published in 1851, at New York for the Sunday-School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Publisher’s brown
cloth, stamped in blind on both covers, gilt-stamped on the spine. Top right corners of back (blank) pages torn away.
Small hole in fore-margin of pp. 41–42, without intruding upon text. Foxed throughout. Extensive pencilling and staining
to rear endpapers. Slightly cocked. In mylar. (8578) $30.00
52. Cheng, Nien. Life and death in Shanghai. New York: Grove Press, 1986. Publisher’s cloth. Dust jacket somewhat
faded over spine, otherwise in good condition. (6562) $17.50
53. Chickering, Martha. Into free Poland via Germany. New York: National Board of the Young Women's Christian
Associations, 1920. 12mo. 25 pp., illus. “Miss Martha Chickering was the leader of the first unit of Polish Grey Samaritans
to be sent into Poland.” Includes information on formation of that sub-organization and details of the mission. Virtually
every other page is a photographic illustration. Very good. Stapled in original illustrated wrappers. (4092) $25.00
54. (Churchill, Clementine). Soames, Mary. Clementine Churchill: The biography of a marriage. Boston: Houghton,
Mifflin & Co., 1979. 8vo. Illus. Later American edition. Biography of Clementine and Winston Churchill by their youngest
daughter. Publisher's cloth. Water stained, pages cockled. Fair condition. (6563) $8.50
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55. (Churchill, John, first duke of Marlborough). Cowles, Virginia. The great Marlborough and his duchess. New
York: Macmillan, 1983. Publisher's cloth. Ownership signature, dust jacket worn; waterstained and with photos sticking
from water damage. (6565) $5.00
56. (Churchill, Winston Spencer). Bonham-Carter, Violet. Winston Churchill: An intimate portrait. New York: Harcourt,
Brace & World, 1965. History Book Club edition. (6566) $10.00
57. Clack, Louise. Our refugee household. New York: Blelock & Co., 1866. 12mo. 226, [2] pp. First edition. A novel,
by a Southern writer. Publisher's ads in back. Wright, II, 527. Half library leather, marbled paper sides; worn, abraded,
front cover detached, both covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library; spine leather separated from front joint,
torn, paper shelving label at bottom. Front (blank) pages, title-leaf, dedication leaf loose and chipped. Pages (5)–20 hanging
by a thread, pp. (5)–30 chipped in top outer corners. Rubber stamps and library charge pocket inside. (7448) $15.00
58. Clacy, Ellen. Pattie Durant: a tale of 1662. By Cycla, .... New York: Virtue & Yorston, (1868). 16mo. Frontis., iv,
236 pp. Sole edition of a scarce item—OCLC lists only 2 holdings, at Northwestern Univ. and Boston Public Library. Author
is best remembered for her eye-witness account ("A Lady's Visit to the Gold Diggings in Australia) of the Australian
gold rush. Library quarter sheep over marbled paper boards, spine with paper shelving label, front and back covers pressure-stamped
by a now-defunct library. Binding rubbed and abraded, small leather loss at head of spine, front cover separated.
Frontispiece, title-page, and several other pages rubber-stamped. Rear free endpaper with library charge pocket.
Lacks front free endpaper. Occasional faint spots of foxing and waterstains. (8547) $100.00
59. Clarke, Mary Anne. The rival princes; or, a faithful narrative of facts, relating to Mrs. M. A. Clarke's political acquaintance
with Colonel Wardle, Major Dodd, &c. &c. &c. who were concerned in the charges against the Duke of York;
together with a variety of authentic and important letters, and curious and interesting anecdotes of several persons of political
notoriety. In two volumes. London: C. Chapple, 1810. 2 vols. 8vo. I: xi, [1 (blank)], 216 pp. II: [4 (3 blank)], 307,
[1 (blank)] pp. First edition. Mrs. Clarke's own version of the scandalous case concerning the use of her influence over her
lover Frederick, the Duke of York, on behalf of some army officers in return for various sums of money. In 1809, Colonel
Gwillym Lloyd Wardle brought up eight charges against the Duke in the House of Commons, accusing him of improper
use of his military patronage. Although these charges were found not proven it did result in the Duke's temporary resignation
of his post as commander-in-chief. DNB states that Mrs. Clarke here "freely discussed the attitude towards each other
of the Dukes of York and Kent, and attacked the leaders of the party who had brought on the investigation, especially
Wardle, M.P. for Salisbury, and Lord Folkestone." NSTC C2252. Library half cloth over paper-covered boards, spine
with paper shelving label, front and back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library; soiled, light edge wear. Small
oval rubber-stamp on the title-page and several other pages. Title-page browned and soiled. Pages of vol. I generally
clean, some mild spotting to vol. II. (7655) $80.00
60. Clarke, Mary Anne Thompson. Letter addressed to the Right Honourable William Fitzgerald, Chancellor of the Irish
Exchequer, one of the lords of the Treasury, &c. London: J. Williams, 1813. 8vo. 63, [1] pp. Sole edition of this document
relating to Fitzgerald's role in the scandal created by the Duke of York's connection with Mrs. Clarke. Sewn, edges
untrimmed, now in a Mylar folder. Title-page with numerical stamp and some chipping at inner margin. (5438) $75.00
61. Clarke, Mary Cowden. The girlhood of Shakespeare’s heroines. London: Bickers & Son, 1880. 8vo. vi, [4], 456,
16 (adv.) pp.; 9 plts. New edition, edited by the author’s sister, Sabilla Novello, of these invented tales of the formative
childhood experiences of Portia, Lady Macbeth, Desdemona, Ophelia, and other female characters from Shakespeare’s
works. The volume is illustrated with nine plates, mounted images done in “permanent photography” after paintings by
W.S. Herrick and T.F. Dicksee. Publisher’s binding, spine and front cover gilt- and black-stamped; corners and edges
lightly rubbed, else bright and clean. Front free endpaper with pencilled gift inscription dated 1885. Two leaves separated;
first and last few leaves foxed, with a few tiny spots scattered elsewhere. (12249) $180.00
62. Congdon, Caroline M. Guardian angel; and other poems. Auburn: William J. Moses, 1856. 8vo. viii (i.e., x),
9–250 pp. (lacking frontispiece). First edition of these poems by “the youngest daughter of a poor widowed mother, who
resides in Amber, in Otisco, Onondaga County, N.Y.” (from the “Sketch of the Authoress”). Congdon was an invalid,
confined to her bed, who used a frame arrangement enabling her to write while lying flat on her back. Publisher’s cloth,
front cover and spine gilt-stamped, binding faded and worn, slightly cocked. Lacking frontispiece. Some spotting, darker
staining to lower inner margins of last few leaves. Front pastedown with bookplate. (4349) $40.00
63. Cooper, Diana. Trumpets from the steep. Boston & Cambridge: Houghton Mifflin Co. (Riverside Press), 1960. 8vo.
Illus. First American trade edition, first issue. Publisher’s cloth. Very good condition, no dust jacket. (6575) $20.00
64. Corm, Charles. Bibi Zogbé. [Beyrouth: Imprimerie Catholique, 1948]. Folio. [2 (1 blank)], [4] pp., [12] ff. of
plts., [2 (1 blank)] pp.; 14 plts. Limited edition, of which this is copy no. 204. Imprint derived from the colophon.
Seems to be uncommon: OCLC lists four holdings (one in the United States) for a 1951 edition. The four-page introductory
text is in French, and is by Charles Corm. Illustrated with 14 mounted color plates of Madame Zogbé’s paintings of
the flowers of Argentina. Two plates are used as head- and tailpieces, the remainder are mounted on one side of the 12
blank leaves following the text. Author’s presentation inscription (in Spanish) appears in ink on the title-page, and her signature
appears again on the colophon. Loose, as issued, in original beige portfolio. Near fine, in a very good, but slightly
torn, glassine wrapper. (8096) $85.00
65. Cowley, Mrs. Hannah. A bold stroke for a husband. A comedy, in five acts...with remarks by Mrs. Inchbald. London:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, [1808]. 12mo. 81, [1], 54 pp. With Mrs. Centlivre’s A Bold Stroke for a Wife,
the inspiration for Mrs. Cowley’s play. In each, women act deceptive parts to win or keep their lovers (in the second, two
lovers pretend to be Quakers). Mrs. Inchbald introduces both works. Good; disbound from a nonce volume, first title-page
faintly stamped by a now-defunct institution, second title-page lacking. Lacking frontispieces. Inner corners repaired
to a few leaves in the first work, occasionally obscuring a few letters. Ink spot to one outer margin; early ownership
inscription to upper margin of title-page. (2355) $75.00
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66. Cowley, Mrs. Hannah. The runaway. A comedy: As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. London: Pr. for
the author, 1776. 8vo. [8], 72 pp. Probably the first printing. The author warmly thanks Garrick, whom she calls “the
ornament of the eighteenth Century,” for his assistance in promoting her play; he also wrote the epilogue. Good; disbound
from a nonce volume with first few leaves separated. First and last pages somewhat darkened. One page lightly stamped
by a now-defunct institution. (1645) $50.00
67. Cowley, Mrs. Hannah. Which is the man? A comedy, as acted at the Theatre-Royal in Covent-Garden...the fifth edition.
London: Pr. for C. Dilly, 1785. 8vo. [4], 54, [2] pp. Early printing: Lady Bell Bloom, a young and wealthy
widow, is courted by a foppish beau. NCBEL, II, 831. Good; disbound from a nonce volume, with sewing holes. Intermittent
foxing. (2401) $45.00
68. Curie, Eve. Madame Curie: A biography by Eve Curie. Translated by Vincent Sheean. Garden City: Doubleday,
Doran & Co., 1937. Inscription. (6576) $17.50
69. Dahlgren, Madeleine Vinton. Etiquette of social life in Washington. Washington, D.C.; Lancaster, Pa.: Inquirer
Printing and Publishing Company, 1873. 8vo. 29 pp., [1] f., 5, [5 (blank)] pp. First of five editions. Mrs. Dahlgren, the
daughter of Samuel Finley Vinton (1792–1862), a Whig congressman from Ohio, was an acknowledged authority on social
etiquette and a notable anti-suffragist. Lacking wrappers. Very small chips to a few pages. Ink and pencil mark on title-page.
(319) $150.00
70. Dalzell, Ruth. Articles on the early history of women trade unionists of America. Chicago: National Women’s Trade
Union League of America, [1914]. 8vo. 16 pp. “Illustrated with historical industrial charts compiled by Dorothy Sears
and Frances Porter from the Government Report on the conditions of women and child wage earners in the United States,
and from the Documentary history of American Industrial Society.” Good articles, interesting illustrations and timelines.
Ex-historical society with cloth tape on spine and same reinforcing fore-edge of page 16, obscuring some dates. A fair
copy. Very scarce. (4086) $25.00
71. Daughter’s own book, The. Or, practical hints from a father to his daughter. Sixth edition. Philadelphia: Grigg &
Elliot, 1838. 16mo. Frontis., 240 pp. Early printing: A father’s advice to his motherless daughter on etiquette, morals,
and education, with a strong Christian bent. Contemporary half blue morocco over red morocco sides, spine with
gilt-stamped title; binding worn over extremities, back cover separated and front joint cracking, leather lost over foot of
spine, spine with paper shelving label. Frontispiece, title-page, and several others stamped by a now-defunct library; back
free endpaper with pocket. Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription. (4286) $40.00
72. Davidson, Lucretia Maria. Poetical remains of the late Lucretia Maria Davidson, collected and arranged by her
mother. With a biography, by Miss Sedgwick. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard, 1841. 8vo. xv, [1], 33-312 pp. (lacking
207/208, otherwise complete). First edition of these verses by a precocious but much-loved poet who died of tuberculosis
at the age of 17. Contemporary quarter morocco and marbled paper sides, worn and abraded, covers separated, front and
back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library, leather lost over bottom half of spine. Title-page and several others
stamped, front pastedown with bookplate, back free endpaper with pocket. Scattered spots and pencil marks. (4174)
$100.00
73. De Kroyft, Helen Aldrich. The story of Little Jakey. New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1875. 8vo. xxx, 9-132, 4 pp.;
7 plts. Sad, supposedly true tale of an orphaned blind boy, told in his own German-accented words and illustrated by seven
engraved plates. Excellent; binding showing only light traces of wear, with front cover and spine bright. All edges gilt.
Inscription dated 1920 to front flyleaf. Complete despite pagination. (1930) $50.00
74. Deland, Margaret. Dr. Lavendar’s people. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1903. 8vo. 370, [6 (adv.)]
pp.; 12 plts. First edition, illustrated with twelve plates by Lucius Hitchcock. Binding signed by The Decorative Designers
(Henry and Lee Thayer) and with their distinctive intertwined capital Ds. Publisher’s white- and terra cotta-stamped
cloth, with the pictorial design signed; spine slightly darkened, with light wear to the extremities. Back hinge cracked.
(11429) $28.75
75. Deland, Margaret. The awakening of Helena Richie. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1906. 8vo. Col.
frontis., 356, [1] pp.; 8 plts. First edition, illustrated by Walter Appleton Clark. Publisher’s red cloth, front cover and
spine blind- and gilt-stamped; binding slightly cocked, with cloth lightly worn over covers and spine, lacking the
dustwrapper. Front pastedown with inked inscription dated 1906. (12942) $38.50
76. Devereux, Mary. Lafitte of Louisiana. Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1902. 8vo. Frontis., viii, [4], 427, [1] pp.; 4
plts. First edition, illustrated by Harry C. Edwards. Publisher’s cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt and white;
spine stamping a touch rubbed, otherwise clean and bright. Front pastedown with bookplate, front free endpaper with pencilled
owner's name. (13025) $40.00
77. (Dickinson, Austin, & Todd, Mabel Loomis). Longsworth, Polly. Austin and Mabel: The Amherst affair and love
letters of Austin Dickinson and Mabel Loomis Todd. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1984. Publisher’s cloth. Dust
jacket good. (6577) $17.50
78. (Dillon, Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin). Dillon, Henriette-Lucy. Memoirs of Madame de La Tour du
Pin. Harcourt, Felice, ed. & tr. New York: McCall, 1971. Previous owner’s name in ink on fly-leaf. (6578) $17.50
79. Drury, Anna Harriet. Eastbury. A tale. New York: Harper & Bros, 1856. 12mo. 298 pp. Second U.S. pirated
edition; the first was 1851, also by Harper. 19th-century library-style quarter calf with marbled paper sides; binding
abraded. Ex-library with paper call number label on spine, stamps, bookplate, and charge pocket at rear. A reading copy
only. (1513) $7.50
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80. Ducange, Victor Henri Joseph Brahain. Therese; or, the orphan of Geneva. An interesting romance: translated from
the French...by Sarah S. Wilkinson.... London: Pr. & sold by Dean & Munday, n.d. [ca. 1820]. 12mo. 34 pp. “On this
story are founded, no less than five melo-dramas, performed at the principal and minor theatres of the metropolis with unprecedented
success.” NSTC 2D20923 (?); 2V3338 (?); 2W21074 (?) 2B45479 (?). Removed from a volume, in later
wrappers. Foxed and stained. A mediocre copy, lacking the frontispiece. (8444) $35.00
81. Dulles, Eleanor Lansing. Eleanor Lansing Dulles: Chances of a lifetime, a memoir. Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice-Hall, 1980. Publisher’s cloth. Dust jacket shows wear, otherwise good. (6580) $17.50
82. Eastlake, Elizabeth Rigby, Lady. Livonian tales. The disponent. The wolves. The Jewess. London: John Murray
(Pr. by William Clowes & Sons), 1846. 12mo. [4], 178 pp. First edition. In these stories, the author draws upon her
experiences in Russia as she did in an an earlier work, Letters from the Baltic. NSTC 2R10978. Disbound; spine cocked.
One leaf torn, affecting several letters. Several pages with small brown spots. Small chip at fore-edge of final leaf. A
good copy. (11071) $30.00
83. Edwards, Annie. Susan Fielding. A love story. New York: G.W. Carleton & Co.; London: Richard Bentley, 1883.
Tall 8vo. 279, [1 (blank)] pp. First edition. The author, a now obscure American novelist who was held in high regard in
her time, presents a sentimental story about a woman who seeks a life “barren of riches, excitement, ambition, of all save
love” (p. 279). Not in Wright! Publisher’s cloth. Minor wear to edges and fraying to spine top and bottom, some stitching
exposed on front and back hinges, and covers lightly scuffed. Tiny nicks to bottom paper edges and a small hole on the
front fly-leaf, which is partly separated from hinge. Rear free endpaper loose. (4306) $85.00
84. Eliot, George. Romola. An historic novel. Chicago & New York: Rand, McNally & Co., [ca. 1900?]. 8vo. 274
pp.; 12 plts. Illustrated with images of Italian and Italian-themed artworks. Publisher’s cream-colored cloth, front cover
embossed with gilt arabesque designs, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorations; cloth showing minor soiling, with spine
slightly darkened. Last text leaf and back free endpaper separated; one leaf with lower corner torn away, resulting in loss
to sense — a pretty book and one nice to read despite this sad interruption. (14736) $15.00
85. (Elizabeth I). Jenkins, Elizabeth. Elizabeth the Great. New York: Coward-McCann, 1959. (6585) $10.00
86. Ellis, Sarah Stickney?. False pride. Or, two ways to matrimony. A companion to “Family Pride,” and “Family Secrets.”
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., copyright 1866. 8vo. [2], 19-265 (complete), [1] pp. Uncommon romantic
novel comparing frivolous and worldly women to those who lead domestically accomplished lives, with some musings on
the issue of working women. Possibly also published under the title Two Ways to Wedlock, although the alternate title and
the authorial attribution are questionable. Contemporary quarter morocco and marbled paper sides, worn and abraded,
front and back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library, spine with paper shelving label. Hinges tender. Title-page
and several others stamped; title-page with inked marginalia. Several leaves with stray pencil marks, light spotting;
portion torn away from lower margin of last leaf. (4504) $45.00
87. Ellis, Sarah Stickney. Somerville Hall. Or, hints to those who would make home happy. New York: D. Appleton &
Co., 1843. 12mo. Frontis., 174, [16 (adv)] pp. The evils of drink and rash business speculation. With another piece by
Ellis, “The Rising Tide.” Very good; gilt-stamped spine slightly dulled at head and foot, small discoloration to front
cover. Early inked gift inscription to back of plate. Small areas of foxing throughout. (1917) $75.00
88. Evans, Augusta Jane. Beulah. New York: Carleton, 1866. 8vo. 510, [6 (adv.)] pp. Early reprint, following the
first edition of 1859. Wright, II, 2762 (first ed.). Contemporary quarter leather over cloth-covered sides; spine and edges
rubbed and worn. Pages lightly to moderately foxed. Front free endpaper with pencilled owner’s name. (12983) $85.00
89. Ewing, Juliana Horatia. Blue & red. Or the discontented lobster: His history related in verse. London: Society for
Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1883]. 8vo. 32 pp.; illus. First edition of this poem for children, with numerous
chromolithographed illustrations by R. Andre. Original printed paper-covered boards, spine reinforced with cloth tape,
edges chipped. Small color illustrations affixed to the front free endpaper and upper margin of the title-page. Pages separated,
with edges chipped, but color illustrations clean and beautiful. A less than perfect copy of a gorgeous and scarce
book. (12932) $100.00
90. Faderman, Lillian. Surpassing the love of men. Romantic friendship and love between women from the Renaissance
to the present. New York: William & Morrow Co., 1981. 8vo. 496 pp.; illus. As stated on the back cover, “Drawing
on a rich variety of sources — some never before published — Lillian Faderman has constructed a fascinating cultural history
of women’s passionate friendships with each other. Literature — ranging from Casanova and Henry James to Ladies’
Home Journal and Adrienne Rich — trial records, love letters, pornography, and the proclamations of ‘experts’ across the
centuries vividly illustrate the changing status and patterns of romantic friendship.” Paperback. Lower outer corner of
front cover bent; back cover also bent a little. A couple of short indentations remain in the back cover as a result of the
pressure of a pencil or pen being placed upon it. Pages clean and in very good condition, but showing obvious signs of
having been read. (4366) $15.00
91. Farnham, Eliza W. Life in prairie land. New York: Harper & Bros., 1846. 12mo. 408 pp. An account of the author’s
travels and experiences in the West, centering on northern and central Illinois in the early 1840s. She has much to
say about the life of women on the frontier, about the difficulties of transitioning from their former lives to the isolation
and privation of prairie life, of the isolation, of being ill-prepared. Sabin 23862. 19th-century library-style quarter calf
with marbled paper sides; binding abraded, with loss of paper leather on boards. Ex-library with paper call number label
on spine, stamps, bookplate, and charge pocket at rear. Front hinge open. Fair copy only. (1603) $150.00
92. Foster, Hannah Webster. Coquette. Or, the life and letters of Eliza Wharton. A novel: founded on fact. By a lady of
Massachusetts. With an historical preface, and a memoir of the author. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., [1866]. 8vo.
[2], 18-302 pp. (complete). Later printing of this fictionalized version of the sad story of Elizabeth Whitman, told in epis-
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tolary style. The seduced and abandoned heroine was a cousin of the author’s; the Hon. Pierpont Edwards is here disguised
under the guise of “Major Sanford.” BAL 6241 (for first ed.; III, p. 212 for later editions). Contemporary quarter
morocco and marbled paper sides, much worn and abraded, spine reinforced with library cloth bearing paper shelving label.
Title-page and several others stamped by a now-defunct institution. Pages waterstained, with inner margins reinforced
in a few instances. (4098) $45.00
93. Fowler, Karen Joy. The sweetheart season: A novel. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998. 8vo. [10], 352, [16] pp.
First Ballantine Books edition. Included is a “Reader’s Guide” at the end in the form of a transcription of a conversation
with the author and questions for a reading group. Paperback. Light crease to upper right corner of front cover; in very
good condition. (6723) $9.00
94. Fremantle, Anne. Three-cornered heart. New York: Viking, 1971. 8vo. Illus. First edition. With a signed and
handwritten note by the author declining a lunch invitation with the former owner of the book. Fremantle tells her own
story and that of her mother, the daughter of Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff, Liberal Member of Parliament under
Gladstone. Publisher’s cloth. Very good condition, in a good dust jacket with some creases and stains. (6591) $32.00
95. Fuller, Ada Elizabeth. Sunshine and shadow. Poems by Ada Elizabeth Fuller. Niagara Falls, Ontario: [Pr. for the
author], (copyright 1919). 8vo. 64 pp. Sole edition: Canadian author’s own copy of this uncommon, self-published poetry
collection, with her inked inscription dated 1922 on the front free endpaper and with errata slip affixed to the front
pastedown. Fuller gave the book to Jack Taylor, “the Lone Camper,” who inscribed the front free endpaper and wrote a
brief note on the fly-leaf about his encounter with Fuller. Publisher’s cloth, front cover stamped in tan; edges worn, with
stamping now greatly dimmed. Inscriptions as described above. Occasional small pencil marks to text, otherwise clean.
(12925) $55.00
96. Fullerton, Georgiana. Lady-Bird. A tale. Three volumes in one. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1855. 8vo.
328 pp., [4 (ads)] ff. Upon her conversion to Catholicism in 1846, Lady Georgiana Fullerton, daughter of the first Earl of
Granville, co-founded a religious order and devoted the rest of her life to charity, donating the profits from her book sales
to the poor. In Lady-Bird, she explores this theme of religious devotion through her heroine, who gives her life to the
Church after failing in love. Publisher’s cloth stamped with an interesting pattern. Top of spine frayed, bottom tender.
Signature containing pp. 3–23 loosely laid in. (4295) $65.00
97. Fullerton, Georgiana. Too strange not to be true. A tale. Three volumes in one. New York: D. Appleton & Company,
1865. Tall 8vo. Frontis., 276 pp., [2 (ads)] ff.; 2 plts. Historical novel of the supposedly true story of Princess
Charlotte Sophia’s flight from her abusive husband, the eldest son of Peter the Great, to Louisiana, and her life there.
Publisher’s cloth in imitation of morocco. Fraying to top and bottom of spine, cloth splitting on bottom edge of back
cover. Gilt on spine darkened. Some foxing to endpapers and title-page. (4307) $65.00
98. Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford. With a preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie and illustrations by Hugh Thomson. London:
Macmillan & Co., 1894. 8vo. Frontis., xxx, 297, [1] pp.; illus. Early reprint of the first edition with Thomson’s
illustrations (which first appeared in 1891). Publisher’s cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gilt; binding cocked, with
a touch of rubbing to spine and corners, front cover clean and bright. Half-title with inked inscription dated 1899; pages
with a few stray pencil marks. (12897) $48.50
99. Giles, William. The guide to domestic happiness. New Haven: From Sidney’s Press, for Increase Cooke & Co.,
1804. 12mo. [2 (blank)], frontis., [2 (1 blank), (iii)–xiii, [1 (blank)], (15)–185, [5 (blank)] pp. First American edition,
from the fifth London edition, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece. Advice on marriage, written in the form of letters
to various men and women. Shaw & Shoemaker 6384. Lacks covers, leather spine stamped in gilt, much worn and
chipped at the head. Some offsetting from frontispiece onto title-page. Moderate foxing throughout. One corner of p.
139/140 chipped away, with loss of two page numbers. Tear in outer margin of pp. 140/141 intruding just a bit upon text.
(7637) $40.00
100. Giles, William. The victim, in five letters to Adolphus. Hartford: Lincoln & Gleason, 1807. 12mo. 72 pp. First
edition? This work was printed in Hartford and Pittsfield in the same year. On the evils of prostitution, with a bow to seduction,
hygiene, and sexual ethics. Uncommon: OCLC locates only one holding with this edition and only one of the other
as well. Shaw & Shoemaker 14121. Covers lacking; spine all but gone; broken into two sections. Lightly browned and
brittle with several shallow tears and chips and light spotting. Small hole to one page, affecting a couple of letters only.
Ex-library, with rubber-stamps, including on title-page. Title-page separating from binding. (14516) $90.00
101. Glasgow, Ellen. Vein of iron. New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1935. 8vo. [6 (1 blank)], 462 pp. First edition.
Depression-era novel set in rural Virginia. With illustrated endpapers. Publisher’s black cloth; spine cocked. Upper
edges somewhat dusty. Minor paper damage to half-title. Very good condition. (5144) $12.50
102. Goodwin, Maud Wilder. White aprons. A romance of Bacon’s Rebellion, Virginia 1676. Boston: Little Brown &
Co., 1897 (c. 1896). 8vo. Frontis., 339, [1] pp.; 4 plts. Very early issue, following the first edition of 1896. Wright,
III, 2212 (first ed.). Publisher’s gilt-stamped cloth, spine gilt slightly dimmed. (12888) $25.00
103. Grant, Julia Dent. The personal memoirs of Julia Dent Grant. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1975. 8vo. 346
pp. First edition. Illustrated, with an introduction by Bruce Catton and “The First Lady as an Author” by Ralph G.
Newman. Edited by John Y. Simon. Publisher’s cloth. Very good in original dust jacket, slightly worn. Inscription in ink
on front free endpaper. (6595) $17.50
Jane Aitken Imprint
104. Gray, James. A dissertation on the coincidence between the priesthoods of Jesus Christ & Melchisedec.... Philadelphia:
Pr. by Jane Aitken, 1810. 12mo. ix, [1], 121, [1 (blank)] pp. First edition. Author’s presentation inscription in ink
on recto of front fly-leaf. Contemporary sheep, spine divided into compartments by single gilt rules with a fleuron in each,
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a red leather title label, gilt-lettered and -rolled; edges of covers with remnants of gilt: rubbed and abraded with loss over
corners; spine leather dry; front joint open, but sewing holding; rear joint starting. Browning from turn-ins onto first and
last few leaves; pages with occasional light brownspotting. Front free endpaper lacking. Ownership inscriptions in pencil
on front pastedown. (5712) $85.00
105. Greatheed, Bertie. The regent. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. London: J. Robson &
W. Clarke, 1788. 8vo. iv [i.e., vi], [2], 75, [1] pp. First edition, variant state with “*” pressmark on p. 74 and flower
garland at the bottom of p. 75. The epilogue was written by Mrs. Piozzi and spoken by Mrs. Siddons. Greathead was one
of the Della Cruscans and as a member was known as Gifford the Reuben. ESTC T11081. Removed from a nonce volume,
now in a Mylar folder. Title-page with small inked number and with upper margin torn away, with loss of “The.”
Some offsetting and foxing; lower margins of the first few leaves waterstained. (10218) $100.00
106. Greenwood, F. W. P. Sermon delivered on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Boston Female Asylum. September
23, 1825. Boston: Office of the Christian Register, 1825. 8vo. 20 pp. Extended thoughts on the benefits of educating all
children and giving specific information on the benefits accrued to the state by the Asylum’s dedication to educating its
children. Shoemaker 20757. Removed from a nonce volume. Foxing. Respined with archival tissue. (3466) $45.00
107. Grey, Elizabeth Caroline. Alice Seymour. A home tale...complete in one volume. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson &
Bros., [ca. 1840]. 8vo. [2], 7-99, [1] pp. [With the same author’s] The baronet’s daughters; and Harry Monk...complete
in one volume. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., [ca. 1845]. 8vo. 126, [2] pp. [and] The belle of the family. Philadelphia:
T.B. Peterson & Bros., [ca. 1845]. 8vo. [2], 7-99 (69-86 bound out of order) pp. Collection of four “silver
fork” novels by a popular author, here in their first U.S. editions; the final work is a bitter condemnation both of marrying
for money and of believing women’s gossip. 19th-century library half-sheep with paper-covered sides; binding much
worn, front and back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution, front cover separated and back joint cracked,
leather lost over corners, paper abraded and cracking. Front pastedown with bookplate, last advertising page with pocket.
Pages age-toned with some light waterstaining and cockling; a few edge tears and stray pencil marks. (7402) $150.00
108. Grey, Elizabeth Caroline. Hyacinthe. Or, the contrast. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., [ca. 1840]. 8vo. [2],
7-100 pp. [With the same author’s] The gipsy’s daughter. A tale. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., [ca. 1850]. 8vo.
[2], 7-113, [1] pp. Two works by a popular and prolific “silver fork” novelist, here in their first U.S. editions. Pretty
May, brought up as a farmer’s daughter, discovers that she is really a wealthy heiress, but fashionable London life holds no
charms for the virtuous and religious maid; in the second work, a beautiful young gypsy marries an English count, but
leads an unhappy life after his death. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Back free endpaper with
library pocket. Some light waterstaining, cockling; pages with occasional edge chips, short tears. (7373) $80.00
109. Grey, Elizabeth Caroline. Lena Cameron. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., [ca. 1850]. 8vo. [2], 7-129, [1]
pp. “Silver fork” novel by the niece of Miss Duncan, a well-known actress; in addition to more than 30 published novels,
Grey is also remembered for writing the first published vampire story by a woman. This appears to be the first U.S. edition
of this work, a sentimental novel about the romantic entanglements of four sisters with a mother keen to marry them
well. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Back free endpaper with library pocket. First signature
separated. Stray pencil marks; some staining. (7370) $40.00
110. Grey, Elizabeth Caroline. Little wife. A record of matrimonial life. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., [ca.
1850]. 8vo. [2], 7-113, [1] pp. First U.S. edition of this “silver fork” novel from a popular and prolific author; the sentimental
tale warns of the dangers of ill-advised attachments and praises the joys of happily married life. Removed from a
nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Last leaf separated. Light waterstaining and occasional spotting. Three leaves with
closed incisions; one lower corner torn away with loss of a few letters. Front free endpaper with pencilled remarks on
printing; pages with some stray pencil marks, edge chips. (7423) $35.00
111. Grey, Elizabeth Caroline. The duke and the cousin. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., [ca. 1845]. 8vo. 112
pp. “Silver fork” novel by the niece of Miss Duncan, a well-known actress; in addition to more than 30 published novels,
Grey is also remembered for writing the first published vampire story by a woman. Apparently the first U.S. edition of
this virtuous tale of licit and illicit love. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Some light waterstaining,
a few stray pencil marks. One leaf torn. (7371) $40.00
112. Grey, Elizabeth Caroline. The manoeuvering mother. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., [ca. 1850]. 8vo. 119,
[1] pp. [With the same author’s] Lena Cameron. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, [ca. 1850]. 8vo. [2], 7–129,
[1] pp. Two “silver fork” novels by the niece of Miss Duncan, a well-known actress. In addition to more than 30 published
novels, Grey is also remembered for writing the first published vampire story by a woman. Apparently, these are
both first U. S. editions, the latter a sentimental novel about the romantic entanglements of four sisters with a mother keen
on marrying them well. Printed in double-column format. 19th-century library quarter sheep over marbled paper boards,
spine with (chipped) paper shelving label, front and back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library. Binding much
worn: Rubbed, spine leather chipped, front joint starting, back cover detached. Back free endpaper with library pocket.
Waterstained, dark stains; early pages chipped in inner margins; occasional tears, sometimes extending into text but without
loss of text. One chip resulting in loss of several letters but without affecting sense, another in loss of page numbers.
Front free endpaper torn. Paper repair to final page, with loss of several words to about to 20 or so lines. (10851) $60.00
113. Grey, Elizabeth Caroline. The old Dower House. A tale of by-gone days. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros.,
[1844]. 8vo. [2], 7-115 (complete), [1 (adv.)] pp. [With the same author’s] Sybil Lennard. A record of woman’s life.
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., [1848]. 8vo. 120 pp. [also with] The young prima donna: A romance of the opera.
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, [1867?]. [2], 7-129, [1] pp. “Silver fork” novels by the niece of Miss Duncan, a well-known
actress; in addition to more than 30 published novels, Grey is also remembered for writing the first published vampire
story by a woman. First U.S. editions of the first two works, and a later edition of the third. Library cloth, slightly dusty,
showing extremely minor signs of wear to corners and spine extremities, front and back covers pressure-stamped by a
now-defunct institution, spine with stamped title and shelving number. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate, back
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free endpaper with pocket, front free endpaper separated. Small repairs, short tears, and spots scattered throughout; binding
sturdy, pages somewhat fragile. (4360) $150.00
114. Grey, Elizabeth Caroline. The old Dower House, a tale of by-gone days. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros.,
[1844]. 8vo. [2], 7-115, [1] pp. First U.S. edition: Silver fork novel by the niece of Miss Duncan, a well-known actress; in
addition to more than 30 published novels, Grey is also remembered for writing the first published vampire story by a
woman. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Three pages stamped by a now-defunct institution; last
(advertising) page with pocket. A few stray pencil marks, some browning and spotting. (7392) $35.00
115. Griffith, Mrs. Elizabeth. Times. A comedy. As it is now performing at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. London:
Fielding & Walker, et al., 1780. 8vo. viii, 80 pp. (lacking half-title). First edition of this adaptation of a French comedy,
featuring a well-meaning couple deeply involved in debt. ESTC T1544. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar
folder, with title-page reinforced along inner margin and last signature separated. Lacking half-title. Title-page and one
other stamped by a now-defunct library; title-page also with portions torn away from lower inner margin. Moderate spotting
throughout. (6988) $75.00
116. Grolier Club (New York). Catalogue of a collection on engravings, etchings and lithographs by women. [New
York: Grolier Club], 1901. 12mo. viii, 119, [1, blank] pp. This exhibit included works from such diverse artists as
Mary Cassatt and Queen Karolina Maria of Naples. Good. Front wrapper printed in brown and green. Untrimmed and
partially unopened. Wrappers with some chipping, not affecting printed area. (1221) $95.00
117. Grubb, Sarah. Some account of the life and religious labours of Sarah Grubb. With an appendix, containing an account
of the schools at Ackworth and York, observations on Christian discipline, and extracts from many of her letters.
Trenton: Isaac Collins, 1795. 12mo. 418 pp. Early American edition (one of two printed in the same year), following the
first Dublin edition of 1792. ESTC W19910; Evans 28776; Felcone 110; Sabin 86577. Contemporary sheep, spine with
gilt-stamped title-label; binding rubbed, with edges darkened, leather cracked over spine and chipped over spine extremities,
joints starting from bottom. Front fly-leaf with gift inscription reading “A present from Sarah Barny to her friend
Hannah Mott 1797.” Sewing loosening, with some leaves starting to separate. Pages foxed, with light waterstaining to
early leaves. (14970) $60.00
118. Guilloré, François. Ritiramento per le dame con gli esercizii da farsi in esso...trasportati dalla lingua Francese
nell'Italiana. Ferrara : Bernardino Pomatelli, 1687. 12mo (15 cm, 5.9"). [8] ff., 473, [1 (blank)] pp. (lacking final blank
f.). Very uncommon: One of two Italian versions appearing in 1687 of Guilloré’s Retraite pour les dames, with this translation
done by Carlo Maria Maggi. Originally published in 1684 and inspired by St. Ignatius’s Spiritual Exercises, these
meditations are meant for use by women. RLIN and OCLC find no holdings of this edition; NUC Pre-1956 shows one
U.S. location. DeBacker-Sommervogel, III, 1939. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine gilt extra and with gilt-stamped
title; leather scuffed, with joints opening from top and bottom. Front free endpaper with early inked ownership inscription.
Two leaves separated from spine but present; lacking final blank leaf (only). A few leaves with light spots of foxing, most
clean. (14399) $350.00
119. Gunning, Miss [Elizabeth]. The gipsy countess. A novel...second edition. London: T.N. Longman & O. Rees,
1799. 12mo. Vol. III: [4], 239, [1] pp. Vol. IV: [4], 231, [1] pp. Vols. 3 and 4 only, out of four, from the second edition
(the first London printing). Provenance: Bookplate of William Priestman; later bookplate of Charles Priestman, Philadelphia;
later stamp of Charles Priestman, Jr.; still later in the collection of Mercantile Library of Philadelphia. ESTC
T139665. Contemporary half leather over marbled paper-covered sides, spines with gilt-stamped leather title-label; bindings
rubbed and worn, with covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution. Title-page and several others stamped;
front pastedowns with private bookplate. Pages age-toned. (13451) $100.00
120. (Hamilton, Anna H.). Glover, Livingston Maturin. “She hath done what she could” A discourse delivered at the
funeral of Mrs. Anna H. Hamilton, in the First Presbyterian Church, of Jacksonville, by the pastor, Rev. L. M. Glover,
D. D. Jacksonville, Ill.: Pr. at the Journal Book and Job Rooms, 1871. 8vo. 12 pp. A scarce item: OCLC lists only 4
holdings. Original wrappers, with very light creases, a slight tear over spine, and a small chip at one corner of back wrapper.
Title-page with a bit of pencilling at top, a couple of crayon marks, and the rubber-stamp of the New Jersey Historical
Society. (10299) $35.00
121. Hamilton, Gail [pseud. of Dodge, Mary Abigail]. Child world. Illustrated by Billings, Bush, and Merrill.
Boston: Shepard and Gill, 1873. 16mo. [2 (blank)], frontis., engraved half-title, [4 (1 blank)], 5-213 pp.; 4 plts. Illustrated
with frontispiece, engraved half-title, 4 engraved plates, and decorative headers. Animals play a prominent role in
this children’s story written under the pseudonym Gail Hamilton. BAL 4275. Publisher’s pictorial green cloth, elaborately
stamped in gilt and black on the spine and front; gilt bright. Half-title loosening from binding. Lacking rear free
endpaper. Bookplate on front free endpaper. Tissue guard present in between frontispiece and engraved half-title. Light
foxing to only a few leaves. In mylar covering. A very nice binding. (4652) $85.00
122. Hammond, Mrs. L.M [a.k.a. Whitney, Luna M. Hammond]. Trials and triumphs of an orphan girl; or the biography
of Mrs. Deiadamia Chase, physician and phrenologist. Cortland (NY): Van Slyck & Hitchcock, 1859. 8vo.
Frontis., [8], 12-230. [Bound with] Fowler, O.S. Synopsis of phrenology; and the phrenological developments, together
with the character and talents of... two hundred and twenty-fifth thousand. New York: Fowler & Wells, [ca. 1860]. 8vo.
19, [5] pp.; illus. First edition of this admiring account of Mrs. Chase, a physician, mesmerist, clairvoyant, and phrenologist;
the work trumpets Chase’s triumphs not only over medical ailments but also failing marriages and financial crises.
Some home remedies are included. Accompanying the biography is Fowler’s Synopsis of Phrenology, including five pages
of diagrams of heads and skulls. A bookseller’s ticket from Oneonta, NY is affixed to the back pastedown. Publisher’s
blind-stamped textured cloth, front cover showing mild water damage, binding overall generally only lightly worn with
extremities rubbed and gilt-stamped spine title dimmed. Front free endpaper lacking. Complete despite pagination. Some
spots of foxing, most notably to first few leaves but scattered throughout. (7360) $175.00
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123. Hanning, John. Rights of women vindicated in the following sermon. New York: Pr. by T. Kirk for the author,
1807. 12mo (19 cm, 7.5"). 12 pp. First edition of this uncommon early American sermon on women’s rights. The Rev.
Hanning argues in favor of the “respect due to the sex in general,” using Biblical and historical examples of worthy women
to bolster his points. Provenance: Title-page verso with early inked ownership inscriptions of James Bemiss and Nelson
Bemiss. Shaw & Shoemaker 12709 (describing the second edition only). Uncut copy. Removed from a nonce volume and
now in a Mylar folder. Pages lightly age-toned, with a few small spots of foxing. Some short edge tears and dog-eared
corners. Inscriptions as described above. (8132) $650.00
124. Harris, Miriam Coles. Rutledge. New York: Derby & Jackson, 1860. 12mo. 504 pp. First edition. Wright, II,
1110. Publisher’s textured cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding cocked, with cloth moderately
worn. Title-page with inked inscription dated [18]60. (12984) $35.00
125. Heller, Helen West. Woodcuts U.S.A. New York: Oxford University Press, 1947. 8vo. [44] pp.; illus. First
trade edition of this booklet by an American poet and artist. A series of woodcuts of (mostly) rural scenes are here accompanied
by quotations from T.S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, and others. Publisher’s printed paper wrappers, showing next to
no wear save for a touch of rubbing to the back cover and the foot of the spine. A very attractive copy of a striking set of
woodcuts. (12397) $25.00
126. Helms, Cynthia. An ambassador’s wife in Iran. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1981. Publisher’s cloth. Dust
jacket very slightly worn, otherwise good. (6596) $17.50
127. Hemans, Felicia. Poems, by Mrs. Felicia Hemans. A new collection. Boston: Hilliard, Gray, Little, & Wilkins,
1828. 12mo. 2 vols. I: xxxv, [1], 348 pp. II: v, [1], 341, [3] pp. Early American edition of this two-volume collection
of Mrs. Hemans’s early verses, here in attractive contemporary bindings. Shoemaker 33520. Publisher’s embossed textured
cloth, corners bumped, overall lightly worn but still attractive. Endpapers with pencilled notations. Two leaves partially
torn away, one with loss of text. Instances of light to moderate foxing throughout. (8960) $125.00
128. Hemans, Felicia. The poetical works of Mrs. Felicia Hemans. New edition. Illustrated with steel engravings.
Boston: Phillips, Sampson, & Co., 1854. 12mo. Frontis., 394 pp.; 2 plts. Collection of Hemans’s popular poetry, here
in a fine example of American Victorian binding of the 1850s style and illustrated with three engraved portraits of women
(including the author). Publisher’s textured cloth, covers and spine ornately gilt-stamped; cloth showing minor wear over
corners and spine extremities, portions of gilt tarnishing. All page edges gilt. Front free endpaper with pencilled gift inscription.
Some offsetting from plates, pages with a few scattered other spots but otherwise clean. (5785) $155.00
129. Hentz, Caroline Lee. Helen and Arthur; or, Miss Thusa’s spinning-wheel. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros.,
[1870]. 12mo. [2], 13-238, 26, [2] pp. From Peterson’s “uniform edition” series of Hentz’s works: The sweet, docile
daughter grows up to find true love, while the reckless and selfish daughter’s passion is blighted. Publisher’s textured,
black-stamped cloth, cocked, worn and rubbed with spine faded; hinges cracked. With library stamps. (2456) $20.00
130. Hentz, Caroline Lee. Helen and Arthur; or, Miss Thusa’s spinning-wheel. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros.,
copyright 1853. 12mo. Frontis. [2], 13-238 pp. From Peterson’s “uniform edition” series of Hentz’s works: The sweet,
docile daughter grows up to find true love, while the reckless and selfish daughter’s passion is blighted. Library cloth,
covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution, spine with paper shelving label, front pastedown with bookplate.
Free endpapers absent. Title-page and a number of others stamped; scattered spots. Lacking final advertising leaves, but
text is complete and frontispiece present. (2703) $15.00
131. Hentz, Caroline Lee. Rena; or, the snow bird. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., copyright 1869. 12mo. 2,
[2], 13-273, [1], 16, [6] pp. From Peterson’s “uniform edition” series of Hentz’s works: Old family secrets affect the
lives of two young women. Publisher’s blind-stamped, textured cloth; cocked, worn, hinges tender, gilt-stamped spine
rubbed. With library stamps and bookplate. (2462) $20.00
132. Herman, Leonora Owsley. Rather personal. Brattleboro (VT): Stephen Daye Press, [1935]. 8vo. Frontis., 126
pp. First edition, second printing from this Philadelphia poet, inscribed by the author in January 1940 and with a laid-in,
warmly personal manuscript letter from the author to Moncure Biddle, the prominent Philadelphia book collector. Publisher’s
red cloth, front cover and spine with silver-stamped title; lacking dustjacket, cloth in generally good condition with
spine slightly faded and corners gently worn. Front free endpaper with small stamped numeral and inked author inscription,
laid-in letter as described above, inner margin of dedication leaf with pencilled owner’s name. Two hand-inked corrections,
pages otherwise clean. (6356) $20.00
133. Hill, Elizabeth Chase. Gleanings: Girlhood and womanhood. Concord, NH: Republican Press Association, 1887.
4to (19.2 cm, 7.5"). Frontis., [2], 76, [2] pp. Uncommon, posthumously printed writings from Mrs. John M. Hill, a
Concord, NH, resident who grew up in South Berwick, Maine (the first permanent settlement in that state) and attended
school in Exeter, NH. The work was privately printed as a holiday gift for friends of the author; the poems and short
pieces display intelligence, but not much by way of polished craft — unsurprising given that most of them were written
during Hill’s adolescence. One unfinished poem ends abruptly with “. . . my Muse would plume her wing, / And higher
as she rises sweeter sing — ”; the note beneath reads “Muse did n’t get any further up that trip” (p. 25). Provenance:
Front pastedown with bookplate of Burton W.F. Trafton, Jr.’s library at Old Fields in South Berwick, ME; pastedown also
with binder’s ticket from Crawford & Stockbridge of Concord, NH. Front fly-leaf with inked gift inscription dated Christmas,
1887. Publisher’s brown cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped title and dark brown–stamped decorative bands, bottom
band labelled “Christmas 1887”; corners and spine extremities rubbed, binding showing very little wear otherwise. First
two signatures with sewing loosening; pages very slightly age-toned but otherwise clean. (13883) $280.00
134. Hofland, Barbara. The young cadet: Or Henry Delamere’s voyage to India, his travels in Hindostan, his account of
the Burmese war, and the wonders of Elora. New York: Orville A. Roorbach (pr. by W.E. Dean), 1828. 12mo.
Frontis., x, 206 pp.; 4 plts. First American edition, printed the year following its first appearance in London. Great ad-
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ventures, interesting personalities; very English and imperial in its attitudes. Fun. Shoemaker 33576. Publisher’s quarter
sheep with printed and illustrated paper on sides. Paper sides scratched with only a little loss of printing, edges worn.
Spine with a 2" crack at lower end; missing pieces at top and bottom of spine; joints abraded and starting. Hinges (inside)
open, with some pages loosening. Foxing. (924) $95.00
135. Holloway, Laura C. Ladies of the White House. Or, in the home of the presidents. Being a complete history of the
social and domestic lives of the presidents from Washington to the present time — 1789-1881. Philadelphia: Bradley &
Co., 1881. 8vo. 736 pp.; 28 plts. Early printing of an updated edition of romantically written biographies of the presidents’
wives, illustrated with engraved portraits and depictions of homes including the White House. Publisher’s red cloth,
front cover and spine decoratively stamped in gilt and black; spine slightly faded, with hinges tender. Front fly-leaves with
institutional stamp and inked donation statement; one page (not the title) stamped in the lower margin. Two guard leaves
with doodles (plates untouched). (12552) $125.00
136. Hooper, Lucy Hamilton. Poems. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1871. 12mo. Frontis., 196 pp. First edition, following
Hooper’s previous publication of another book of poetry, also containing a number of translations from German.
Publisher’s green pebbled cloth, front cover gilt-stamped; worn and abraded over edges and spine extremities, front and
back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library, spine darkened and with paper shelving label; slightly cocked.
Frontispiece portrait, title-page, and several others stamped; back free endpaper with pocket. Scattered instances of pencilled
underlining. (5512) $35.00
137. Horton, M.B., Mrs. The wife’s messengers. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1869. 12mo. 323 pp. First edition.
Wright, II, 1270. 19th-century library-style quarter calf with marbled paper sides; binding abraded. Ex-library with
paper call number label on spine, stamps, bookplate, and charge pocket at rear. (1518) $30.00
138. Hosmer, Margaret. Blanche Gilroy. A girl’s story. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co, 1871. 12mo. 330 pp. First
edition. Wright, II, 1274. 19th-century library-style quarter calf with marbled paper sides; binding abraded, with loss of
paper. Ex-library with paper call number label on spine, stamps, bookplate, and charge pocket at rear. (1519) $17.50
139. Household narratives, for the family circle. Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss, 1854. 8vo. Frontis., [2],
7-300 pp.; illus. First edition. Includes Emma C. Embury’s “The Lover’s Appeal, or, the Double Error” and several
other original stories. Illustrated with numerous engraved plates, included in the pagination. Wright, II, 1278. Publisher’s
cloth, covers blind-stamped, spine gilt-stamped; binding very slightly cocked, with cloth moderately worn over
edges and sides, spine gilt rubbed. A few small stains, mostly to page margins. (12949) $65.00
140. Howe, Maud. Two in Italy. Boston: Little Brown & Co., 1905. 8vo. [10], 274, [4 (adv.)] pp.; 6 plts. First edition of
these Italian vignettes. Publisher’s gilt-stamped cloth, extremities rubbed but front cover bright and attractive. Front
pastedown with bookplate, front free endpaper with gift inscription of 1906.A few signatures unopened. (11431) $15.00
141. Inchbald, Elizabeth. Every one has his fault. A comedy, in five acts...as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent
Garden. London: Pr. by T. Davison for Longman, Hurst, Rees, & Orme, [ca. 1800]. 16mo. 88 pp. (lacking frontis.).
“Printed under the authority of the managers from the prompt book. With remarks by the author.” Good; disbound from
nonce volume. Some offsetting to title-page from now-lacking frontispiece. (1079) $35.00
142. Inchbald, Elizabeth. I’ll tell you what. A comedy, in five acts, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1786. 8vo. [6], 88 pp. With prologue and epilogue written by George Colman. Good;
disbound from nonce volume. (1080) $35.00
143. Inchbald, Elizabeth. The wedding day. A comedy; in two acts. As performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
London: G.G. & J. Robinson, 1794. 8vo. [4], 44 pp. First edition: Innocent Lady Contest doesn’t understand the complexities
of city life, but does understand that she doesn’t much like the elderly husband she’s just acquired. NCBEL, II,
843. Very good; disbound from a nonce volume, with sewing holes. First and last few leaves foxed. (2389) $72.50
144. Inchbald, Elizabeth. I’ll tell you what. A comedy, in five acts, as it is performed at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
London: G.G.J. & J. Robinson, 1786. 8vo. [8], 88 pp. First edition. ESTC T36987. Disbound from a nonce volume,
now in a Mylar folder. Half-title with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin. One text page stamped by a
now-defunct institution; first and last few leaves darkened and stained; scattered other spots. (5170) $30.00
145. Ingelow, Jean. Poems. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1864. 12mo. 256 pp. Fromback of title-page: “Author’s edition.
Sixth thousand.” Early U.S. edition. Contemporary half calf, rubbed. Round spine, raised bands, black spine label. Nice
copy. (2743) $40.00
146. Ingelow, Jean. Poetical works of Jean Ingelow. Including The shepherd lady and other poems. New York: John W.
Lovell Co., [1880]. 8vo. Frontis., 520, [2] pp.; 4 plts. Attractive edition, with frontispiece and four engraved plates after
designs by Greenaway and others. All pages red-ruled. Publisher’s green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black and
gilt; extremities show a touch of rubbing, with small scuff to spine. Front fly-leaf with inked owner’s name, dated 1884;
title-page with another inscription using same last name. Pages slightly age-toned, clean; all edges gilt. (14705) $75.00
147. James, Marian. A lord of the creation. First issued in America in Littell’s Living Age. Boston: John P. Jewett &
Co., 1856. 8vo. [2], 80 pp. Innocent, orphaned Caroline has a fiance more concerned with money than he ought to be.
Printed paper wrappers, back cover starting to separate, early inked ownership inscriptions to front cover and title-page.
Some offsetting, and a few spots of foxing to early leaves. (518) $70.00
148. James, Mrs. Edwin. Wanderings of a beauty. A tale of the real and the ideal. New York: Carleton, 1863. 8vo.
Frontis. port., [4 (1 blank)], v-viii, 9-243 pp., [1 (blank)] p., [4 (ads)] ff., [1 (blank)] f. Third edition of a romance novel
set in Italy, with a new and interesting authorial preface. The stunning engraved frontispiece portrait is by Jackman after a
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miniature by Thorburn. Publisher’s textured green cloth. Head and foot of spine slightly frayed. Gilt darkened. Ownership
indicia in pencil on front fly-leaf. A very good copy. (4301) $35.00
149. Jameson, Anna Brownell. Characteristics of women, moral, political, and historical. Boston: Ticknor & Fields,
1857. 12mo. Frontis., 467, [1 (blank)] pp. Portia, Beatrice, Desdemona, Cordelia, Catherine of Aragon, Lady Macbeth,
and other real and fictional famous women rub shoulders in this volume. Their “characteristics” are presented in quotations
and in interpretation. An early U.S. edition. Provenance: Ownership signature of Elizabeth M. Merriam, library
stamp of G. Ernest Merriam, and bookplate of the circulating library of George F. Merriam. Publisher’s cloth. Top and
bottom of spine and corners of covers frayed. Small puncture at edge of back cover breaking the paper as far as page 425,
with marks becoming progressively fainter on pp. 424-405. Some foxing to frontispiece and title-page. All edges gilt. A
good-plus copy. (4300) $60.00
150. Jameson, Anna Brownell. Characteristics of women, moral, poetical, and historical. ...From the last London edition.
New York: John Wiley, 1850. 8vo. Frontis., xl, [2], 340 pp. A spirited account of both the strengths and the
weaknesses of womanhood, conducted through literary analysis of Shakespeare's heroines. Although the title-page calls
for twelve engravings (a holdover from the London edition), this American printing has only its frontispiece, a lovely J.W.
Wright engraving of Imogene. Brown cloth, front and back covers gilt-stamped with foliate/arabesque motifs surrounding
an urn of roses, spine decoratively gilt-stamped; board edges and spine faded, light edge and corner wear. All edges gilt.
Varying degrees of foxing and offsetting to some pages; lacking all plates except frontispiece (with no visible signs of their
absence). Front pastedown with inked ownership inscription, front free endpaper with earlier pencilled inscription. (5082)
$75.00
151. Jameson, Anna Brownell. Characteristics of women, moral, poetical, and historical. New York: John Wiley, 1850.
Tall 8vo. xl, [2], 340 pp.; 11 plts. Early American edition, reprinted “from the last London edition,” of this spirited account
of both the strengths and the weaknesses of womanhood, conducted through literary analysis of Shakespeare’s heroines.
Although the title-page calls for 12 engravings, this printing has only 11, and does not include the portrait of Imogen
used as the frontispiece of some other editions (the frontispiece here is Portia); the lovely images were engraved by J.W.
Wright, K. Meadows, A. Jolmston, and J. Hayter after designs by various artists. This is Wiley’s deluxe, large-paper issue,
printed in the same year as a smaller issue without the full complement of plates. Contemporary sheep in imitation of
morocco, framed in blind and panelled in gilt with gilt-stamped corner fleurons, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorations
on the raised bands; leather scraped and abraded. All edges gilt. Pages clean. (12251) $60.00
152. Johnson, Frederick C. The pioneer women of Wyoming, an address before the Wyoming Valley Chapter, D.A.R.
.... Wilkes-Barre, Pa.: 1901. 8vo. 35, [1 (blank)] pp. Original printed front wrapper (back wrapper missing), loose and
chipped. With printed slip (“Compliments of the author”) tipped in. First several leaves with a short tear in inner margin.
Light wear to outer corners. In a Mylar folder. (9200) $20.00
153. Keith, Alyn Yates [pseud. of Morris, Eugenia Laura Tuttle]. A spinster’s leaflets. Wherein is written the history
of her “doorstep baby,” a fancy which in time became a fact and changed a life. Boston: Lee & Shepard, 1894. 8vo.
137, [1] pp. First edition. Wright, III, 3843. Publisher’s cloth, front cover and spine stamped in silver; binding gently
faded, back cover with small stain. (12935) $35.00
154. Kendrick, Charlotte Phelps. The religious development of Poquonock and Rainbow. A thesis by submitted to the
faculty of the Hartford School of Religious Education, Hartford Seminary Foundation in candidacy for the degree of Master
of Art, Department of Education... May 27, 1936. [Windsor, CT: 1955]. 8vo. [6], 88 pp.; illus. Illustrated with a
photograph of Ms. Kendrick. Original wrappers. Spine sunned. Ex-library, with spine shelving label and bookplate (rubber
stamped “deaccessioned”) on inside of front cover. (7288) $12.00
155. Kenney, Lucy. [drop-title] A death blow on Campbellism. [Washington?: s.n., 1830?]. Small 8vo. 8 pp. [bound
with] Kenney, Lucy. [drop-title] Alexander the great, or, The learned camel. [Washington, D.C., 1830?]. Small 8vo.
12 pp. Ms. Kenney signs her pieces at the end, but at the beginning of A Death Blow she styles herself as “A Lady of
Fredericksburg.” Both publications deal with Alexander Campbell (1788-1866) and his Disciples of Christ movement.
The first item is a prose attack on John Thomas and Campbellites, the second is a poetical satire slashing of Campbell himself.
Both pieces are very uncommon. Original blue wrappers; stitched. First item heavily foxed; second sparkling clean.
(14968) $200.00
156. Knight, Ellis Cornelia. Dinarbas. A tale. Brattleboro: Holbrook & Fessenden, 1826. 16mo. 191 pp. Second
Brattleboro edition and an early American one. Shoemaker 25046. 19th-century library quarter cloth. (1521) $35.00
157. Knowles, Sarah E. Orlean Lamar, and other poems. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1864. 8vo. 167, [1] pp.
First edition of these poems; the title piece and several others are Civil War-themed. Publisher’s textured cloth, covers
framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding lightly rubbed, with spine title faded, cloth chipped over spine head,
and shelving number written on spine foot. Front pastedown with historical society bookplate. (12922) $75.00
158. Lamb, Ruth Buck. It isn’t right. Or, Frank Johnson’s reason. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, copyright
1867. 12mo. Frontis., 280 pp.; 2 plts. First edition: Honest laborer Frank Johnson endures hardship made worse by
unfair business competition and by borrowing money at high interest rates. With engraved frontispiece and two plates.
Good; spine gently faded with gilt dulled, corners and extremities lightly worn. Front free endpaper with pencilled gift
inscription dated 1868. Plates somewhat darkened. (1916) $55.00
159. Lattimore, Eleanor L.; & Ray S. Trent. Legal recognition of industrial women. New York: Issued by the Industrial
Committee, War Work Council of the National Board of Young Women’s Christian Associations, (copyright 1919).
8vo. xiv, 91, [3 (blank)] pp. In brown paper wrappers, with title/author label on front. Ex-Newark (New Jersey) Free
Public Library and New Jersey Historical Society copy, with rubber stamps. Title-page torn in several places, without
loss. Some leaves creased. Light waterstaining in some margins. Very good. (4480) $25.00
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160. Lee, Sophia. Chapter of accidents. A comedy, in five acts, as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the
Hay-Market. London: T. Cadell, 1780. 8vo. [2], vii, [1], 98 pp. (lacking half-title, adv. leaf). First edition: A young
girl loses her virtue, but is redeemed. The preface speaks of the author’s having accompanied her father into prison and of
her difficulties in having her literary work accepted by the theatrical establishment. ESTC T30410. Removed from a
nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. Two pages (not including title) stamped by a now-defunct library. Title-page taped
along inner margin. Lacking half-title and final advertisement leaf. Minor spotting. (6945) $75.00
161. Lee, Sophia, & Harriet Lee. Canterbury tales: [First series]. In two volumes. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea &
Blanchard, 1833. 12mo. I: 195, [1 (blank)] pp. II: 212 pp., [5 (ads)] ff. Two volumes. Not a retelling of the famous
Chaucerian work but a modern collaborative effort by two English sisters to use the framing-tale genre — and it worked,
for the Tales enjoyed great success on both sides of the Atlantic. The first edition appeared in London in 1797. Although
this was published by the famous Philadelphia firm of Carey, Lea & Blanchard, the printer was another famous, but not
Philadelphia-based firm: G. & C. Merriam, of Merriam-Webster fame. Publisher’s quarter cloth over paper-covered
boards. Both volumes: Paper spine labels chipped, cloth faded and worn, sides darkened, scuffed, and worn along edges
and corners; ink signatures on front covers. Light foxing throughout, confined mostly to margins. Vol. I: Rear fly-leaf
and free endpaper torn. Vol. II: Front fly-leaf missing, back hinge cracked. Corner of pp. 174-75 off, without loss of
text. (4311) $135.00
162. Lee, Sophia. The chapter of accidents. A comedy, in five acts, as it is performed at the Theatre-Royal in the
Hay-Market. Dublin: The Company of Booksellers (pr. by J. & R. Byrn), 1781. 12mo. xi, [1], 71, [1] pp. First Irish
printing. With a prologue written by George Colman, who encouraged Miss Lee in getting the play produced. Very good;
disbound from a nonce volume, with spine reinforced. One page stamped by a now-defunct institution, some offsetting
from stamp to previous page. (2398) $55.00
163. Leslie, Eliza. Pencil sketches. Or, outlines of character and manners...third series. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea &
Blanchard, 1837. 12mo. [4], 283, [1] pp. First edition of the third volume in a popular series collecting Miss Leslie’s
fugitive works; this book contains “The Red Box,” “Constance Allerton,” “The Officers,” “The Serenades,” “The Old
Farm House,” “That Gentleman,” “Chase Loring,” and “Alphonsine.” Several stories are set in or around Philadelphia;
the pieces generally reflect Leslie’s concern with the burdens of women’s lives. Wright, I, 1657. 19th-century quarter
morocco and marbled paper sides, worn and abraded with much paper torn away over back cover, front and back covers
pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library, spine with paper shelving label, joints cracked. Title-page and a few others
stamped. Page edges brittle with occasional short tears; some browning and spotting, and a few stray pencil marks. (4730)
$70.00
164. Lucas, Margaret. An account of the convincement and call to the ministry of Margaret Lucas, late of Leek, in
Staffordshire. Stanford, N.Y.: Pr. by Daniel Lawrence, for Henry and John F. Hull, 1803. 12mo. vi, (7)–111, [1] pp.
Autobiography of a Quaker convert. An earlier edition was printed at Philadelphia by B. & J. Johnson, in 1800. Publisher’s
ad on final page. Shaw & Shoemaker 4562. Removed from a nonce volume. Age-toned, scattered spots. Title-leaf
browned and loosening. (8361) $75.00
165. Lunt, Mrs. George. Behind the bars. Boston: Lee & Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, 1871.
12mo. 356, [2 (blank)] pp. A critical examination of the treatment of patients in insane asylums. Publisher’s green cloth,
front cover gilt-stamped with window and iron bars decoration, spine gilt-stamped with title and ornaments, small cloth
loss over front joint, top part of spine (with loss of two letters from the title), spine extremities, and corners. Hinges starting,
weak. Covers wobbly. Long razor-thin tear to pp. 257-8, without loss. (4401) $95.00
166. Machray, Robert. The night side of London. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1902. 8vo. Frontis., xii, 300 pp.; 28
plts. (incl. in pagination), illus. First U.S. edition. London promenades, restaurants, coffee shops, concerts, boxing
matches, dance halls, and New Year’s Eve festivities recorded in prose and art: Author Machray and artist Tom Browne
teamed up for this illustrated volume of descriptions of “things seen in London by night,” many of which seem to feature
demi-mondaines. Publisher’s yellow cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black; spine darkened, with smudges to covers.
Front pastedown with institutional bookplate; title-page plus one other page and four plates stamped by private collector.
Sewing loosened towards front of volume, with some signatures pulling away from spine. A few pages with
thumbprints in outer margins; one leaf with short tear from lower margin, not touching text. (14066) $35.00
167. Malet, Lucas [pseud. of Mary St. Leger Kingsley Harrison]. The history of Sir Richard Calmady. A romance.
New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co. (The Claxton Press), 1902. 8vo. vii, [1 (blank)], 687, [1 (blank)] pp. Second U.S. edition
of this 1901 bestseller — probably the author’s best-known work. Publisher’s tan cloth, with borders and letters
stamped in black, green, and red; binding showing slight wear and soiling over edges and corners, otherwise clean and
bright. Front cover with a rectangular full-color illustration on-lay of a country estate. Previous owner’s signature on the
front free endpaper, owner’s bookplate on the front pastedown. Clean, tight. Very good. (5799) $25.00
168. Mann, Alice. Mann’s black book of the British aristocracy; or, an exposure of the more monstrous abuses in the
state and the church; with black lists of pensioners, royal, aristocratic, legal, civil, diplomatic, hereditary, military, clerical,
etc. Philadelphia: Herman Hooker (William S. Young, pr.), 1848. 12mo. 72 pp. First U.S. edition of this scandal
publication: An attempt to shame those perceived of as parasites into giving up treasury-draining payments for pensions and
sinecures. Ancillary was the hope of social reform. Original printed wrappers. Front wrapper detached; six-digit number
stamped on same. Some waterstaining. (500) $125.00
169. Marguerittes, Julie. Parisian pickings; or Paris in all states and stations. Philadelphia: J.S. Cotton & Co., 1859.
8vo. 415 pp. Stories concerning the social life of Paris and the position of women in 19th-century French society. Provenance:
Ownership signatures of Catharine Long, one in pencil and one dated 1867. Publisher’s blue cloth, blind-stamped
and -embossed. Some fraying to top and bottom of spine, and minor wear to corners, edges, and over joints. Occasional
spotting, and waterstains on outer margins of last 30 or so pages. Blank and free endpaper torn out at back. Bookseller’s
embossed stamp on front free endpaper (Westhaeffer of Lancaster, Pa.). (4296) $57.50
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170. (Marie Antoinette). Erickson, Carolly. To the scaffold: The life of Marie Antoinette. New York: William Morrow,
1991. (6613) $17.50
171. Marshall, Charles. The way of life revealed, and the way of death discovered: Wherein is declared, man’s happy
estate before the fall, his miserable estate in the fall, and the way of restoration out of the fall.... London: Pr. by Mary
Hinde, 1772. 8vo. [2] ff., 59, [1] pp., [1] f. (of which final leaf of advertisements wanting). Unusual as a woman who
printed under her own name, Mary Hinde was a successful printer and publisher of numerous Quaker items. Removed
from a nonce volume. Wanting final leaf of advertisements. Light foxing and traces of soiling. Closely trimmed by the
binder, with loss of last letters of lines on a few pages, but without loss of sense. (9216) $200.00
172. Martin, Jane Ann. The bloody visions of my life are ended, and the cruelty is completed. Plainfield, NJ: Published
for the benefit of the author, 1859. 8vo. 63, [1] pp. Extremely uncommon deathbed writings of a Christian woman who
claimed to predict deaths and other forms of suffering. Removed from a nonce volume. Title-page with inked numeral in
upper corner; pages clean. (14887) $150.00
173. Martineau, Harriet. A history of the American compromises. Reprinted, with additions, from the Daily News.
London: [Pr. by Savill & Edwards for] John Chapman, 1856. 8vo (19.7 cm, 7.75"). 35, [1] pp. Sole separate edition.
Harriet Martineau (1802–76) was an intelligent, independent woman who successfully supported herself as an author and
was a pioneer in observational sociology as well as a champion of women’s rights. Issues of particular importance in her
writings include religion (she grew up in a devoutly Unitarian household, but declared herself an atheist later in life), care
and education of the disabled (she began to lose her hearing as an adolescent), and above all else slavery, she having become
an ardent Abolitionist after her 1834 tour of the U.S. Here she traces for her English readers the history of legal
compromises that allowed slave and free states to exist in the same Union, and points out their ultimate unworkability.
Sabin 44936; NSTC 2M17391. On Martineau, see: DNB, XXXVI, 309–14; The Feminist Companion to Literature in English
724. Removed from a nonce volume. Light soiling on title-page and shallow chip from top margin of title-leaf. Inked
numeral in upper outer corner of title-page. (11172) $300.00
174. May, Caroline. American female poets. With biographical and critical notices. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston,
1856. 12mo. Frontis., add. engr. t.-p., viii, [2], ix-559, [1] pp.; 1 plt. (4 lacking). Hefty compendium of American
women poets, including Phillis Wheatley and Lydia Huntley Sigourney as well as more obscure names; the first edition
appeared in 1848. Contemporary quarter morocco and marbled paper sides, front cover lost and back cover separated.
Title-page, plates, and several other pages stamped by a now-defunct library. A few poems with stray pencil marks; several
plates lacking. (4248) $40.00
175. May, Katharine E. Alfred and his mother; or, seeking the kingdom. Boston: Henry A. Young & Co., [ca. 1875].
12mo. Frontis., 153, [1 (blank)] pp.; 2 plts. Scarce tale of a young boy and his struggle against bullies, poverty, and privation
in general. Publisher’s green cloth handsomely stamped in black and gold. Slight wear to corners and tips of spine.
Light foxing and waterstains on endpapers. Pencilled signature on front free endpaper, “Dec. 25, 1879[.]” (970) $55.00
176. May, Sophie. Dotty Dimple at home. Boston: Lee & Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, (copyright
1868). 12mo. Frontis., engr. half-title, 168 pp., 5 plts. Part of the “Dotty Dimple Series.” Publisher’s red cloth elaborately
and handsomely stamped in gold and black. Binding clean and bright on the front, faded a bit on the spine and
lightly frayed at top end. Light foxing to endpapers, tissue guard, frontispiece, and title-page; elsewhere, light age-toning
and scattered spots. A very nice and attractive cover. (990) $55.00
177. May, Sophie. Dotty Dimple at school. Boston: Lee & Shepard;, 1869. 12mo. Frontis., engr. half-title, 168 pp., 2
plts. First edition. Part of the “Dotty Dimple Series.” Publisher’s green cloth stamped in gold on spine and in blind on
covers; binding very good, with minor cloth splitting at corners and very light wear to spine extremities. Small spots of
soiling inside and one corner chipped. (1024) $55.00
178. May, Sophie. Dotty Dimple. Boston: Lee & Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, (copyright 1865).
12mo. Frontis., engraved title, 176 pp.; 5 plates. Part of the “Little Prudy Series.” Illustrations are by Thomas Nast and
N. Brown. Story about a younger sister and her life and adjusting to a sibling. Despite copyright date, binding points to
having been printed and bound ca. 1880. Publisher’s red cloth, stamped in blind on covers and in gilt on spine. Very good
copy. (1820) $27.50
179. May, Sophie. Fairy book. Boston: Lee & Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, (copyright 1865).
12mo. Frontis., engraved title, 173 pp.; 5 plates. Little Prudy Series. Illustrations are by Thomas Nast and N. Brown.
Fairy stories, just as the title implies: European, none from more exotic places. Despite copyright date, binding points to
having been printed and bound ca. 1880. Publisher’s red cloth, stamped in blind on covers and in gilt on spine. Very good
copy. (1822) $27.50
180. May, Sophie. Sister Susy. Boston: Lee & Shepard; New York: Lee, Shepard & Dillingham, (copyright 1863).
12mo. Frontis., engraved title, 189 pp.; 5 plates. Little Prudy Series. Illustrations are by Thomas Nast. Story involves a
child with a dislocated hip joint. Despite copyright date, binding points to having been printed and bound ca. 1880. Publisher’s
red cloth, stamped in blind on covers and in gilt on spine. (1817) $27.50
181. (Mazarinade). Contract de mariage dv parlement avec la ville de Paris. [Paris: la Veufue I. Guillemot, 1649]. 4to.
8 pp. One of a corpus of coruscating political pamphlets — often anonymous — written for and against cardinal and prime
minister Jules Mazarin during the highly troubled years of 1648 to 1651, when the Fronde and the king were at odds over
questions of taxation, intendants, and lettres de cachet. Civil war and shifting alliances characterized the era: Mazarin was
one day the enemy and the next day the ally, depending on one’s side. While emphatically not “fine press” productions, a
number of the pamphlets did have attractive and era-typical ornaments — initials, head- or tailpieces, and title-page devices.
Moreau writes of this: “Les partis son de maîtres bien durs.” The subject is only metaphorically marriage; but this
was printed by a woman, the Widow Guillemot. Moreau 783. Sewn into much later wrappers. (8698) $57.50
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182. (Mazarinade). Factum, servant av procez criminel fait av Cardinal Mazarin, touchant ses intelligences auec les estrangers
ennemis de l’estat. [Paris: Veufve I. Gvillemot , 1649]. 4to. 8 pp. Another Mazarinade printed by the widow
Guillemot. Moreau 1368. Removed from a nonce volume. Lightly age-toned; faint waterstain in upper margins; two small
wormholes in blank area of lower margin. (8711) $52.00
183. Mazuchelli, Nina Elizabeth. The Indian Alps and how we crossed them. Being a narrative of two years’ residence
in the Eastern Himalaya and two months’ tour into the interior. By a lady pioneer illustrated by herself. London:
Longmans, Green, & Co., 1876. 4to. Frontis., xiii, [3], 612 pp.; illus., fold. map, & 10 color plts. (incl. frontis.). First
edition of this first-person account of an English lady’s travels in the Himalayas. Illustrated with 10 color plates depicting
various landscapes — including Mt. Everest at sunrise, Mt. Kinjinjunga (Kanchenjunga), and two views of the Singaleelah
(Singalila) mountain range — plus numerous text drawings of scenes from the book and of local inhabitants in native dress,
as well as a folding map of Sikkim tracing the route of her party. Publisher’s green cloth, spine with gilt lettering and picture,
front cover stamped with gilt title and decorative border, and illustrated in gilt with a central vignette of the author in
a sedan chair carried by several coolies. Much of spine chipped away, with remaining spine cloth all but off; spine gilt
dimmed. Joints open, with covers barely holding. Corners and edges of covers worn exposing small amounts of boards.
Some light waterstaining and cockling of paper, and few leaves with shallow tears. Ex-library, with library name
blind-stamped on both covers, paper shelf label on spine, a couple of rubber-stamps. A few edges slightly ragged; several
instances of soiling, mostly in margins, a bit of very minor brown spotting, and heavy offsetting from plates. Pencilled
notation in a couple of margins, a bit of pencilling on one of the plates. Map with short tear, not reaching into illustration.
(14349) $375.00
184. McCall, Sidney [pseud. of Mary McNeill Fenollosa]. Truth Dexter. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1901. Small
8vo. viii, 375, [7 (3 blank)] pp. The bulk of the novel was written in 1897, and takes place during the last years of the
Cleveland presidency. The author states in the foreword that the novel presents “a picture of feelings and relations really
subsisting between North and South just before that crisis in our history which brought the two sections, let us hope forever,
into a common enthusiasm for a common national cause”; the crisis referred to was the Spanish-American War.
Mary McNeill served as secretary to her husband, Ernest Fenellosa, curator of Oriental art at the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts. Four pages of ads in the back. Publisher’s green cloth, with gilt lettering and floral decorations stamped in gold and
two shades of green. Front hinge starting, front cover wobbly. Spine cocked. Ex-library with rubber stamps and library
charge pocket. In mylar. (4400) $25.00
185. Meinhold, Wilhelm. Mary Schweidler, the amber witch. The most interesting trial for witchcraft ever known,
printed from an imperfect manuscript by her father... [with] Undine, and Sintram and his companions. From the German
of Friedrich de la Motte Fouque. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1845. 8vo. xi, [1], 238 pp. First American edition of
Lucie Duff Gordon’s translation of the fictional tale Die Bernsteinhexe, which enjoyed great success in Germany; Lady
Duff Gordon was known for her travels to the Cape of Good Hope and to Egypt, which she wrote about in Letters from
Egypt. Publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding slightly worn over edges and extremities.
Front fly-leaf with faint pencilled inscription dated 1848. (12926) $125.00
186. Melford, Charlotte. The twin sisters; or, two girls of nineteen: Being the interesting adventures of Sophia and Charlotte
Melford. An affecting narrative. Written by Charlotte, one of the sisters. To which is added, the orphan of the castle;
a Gothic tale, or, the surprising history and vicissitudes of Allan Fitz-Robert, the orphan heir of the Castle of Lindisfarne.
Philadelphia: Freeman Scott, 1827. 24mo. 72 pp. Shoemaker 29719. Plain paper-covered boards. Leaves browned.
Front hinge (inside) partly open, but sound. Paper loss to outer margin of title-page, without loss of text. (4673) $80.00
187. Messerli, Douglas. Djuna Barnes: A bibliography. [New York]: David Lewis, 1975. 8vo. xx, 131, [1] pp. Limited
to 500 letterpress copies; printed at the Stinehour Press. The standard bibliography of this important writer. Very
good copy in publisher’s cloth. (3171) $50.00
188. Minstrel, The; or, anecdotes of distinguished personages in the fifteenth century. Three volumes in one. First
American, from the latest London edition. Philadelphia: S. Akerman (pr. by Cochran & McLaughlin), 1802. 12mo. iv,
5-333, [1] pp. First American edition of this historical novel, originally printed in 1793; the preface strongly implies that it
was written by a woman. Shaw & Shoemaker 2666. Contemporary quarter sheep and marbled paper sides, worn and
abraded, front cover separated and back joint cracked. Title-page with early inked ownership inscription in upper margin;
first text page with library stamp; scattered spots to pages. (4667) $125.00
189. Mitford, Mary Russell. The works of Mary Russell Mitford. Prose and verse. Philadelphia: James Crissy (pr. by
C. Sherman & Co.), 1841. 8vo. 672 pp. First American edition: Mitford’s collected pastoral tales, as well as poems and
plays. Publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding cocked, with corners and spine extremities a
touch rubbed. Title-page with small ownership inscription dated 1842. A few scattered spots of light foxing, mostly confined
to page margins. (12556) $48.50
190. Montalembert, Charles Forbes, comte de. Life of Saint Elizabeth, of Hungary, Duchess of Thuringia. Translated
by Mary Hackett. New York & Boston: D. & J. Sadlier & Co., 1867. 12mo. Frontis., 427, [1] pp. Early U.S. edition
of Mary Hackett's translation. Publisher’s cloth, covers and spine blind-stamped, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding
faded (spine especially so) and slightly cocked, with cloth torn over spine. Sewing starting to loosen. Front pastedown
with institutional bookplate. (14099) $35.00
191. Montgomery, Robert. Woman, the angel of life. A poem. London: John Turrill, 1833. 12mo. [2], 198, [4 (ad.)] pp.
First edition of this long poem in praise of the eternal feminine. 19th-century library quarter sheep and paper-covered
sides, worn, abraded, discolored; front cover separated, back cover lost, leather almost entirely lost over spine. Title-page
and several others stamped, back free endpaper with pocket. Preliminary advertising leaf separated. (6838) $45.00
192. Morgan, Sydney, Lady. Letter to Cardinal Wiseman, in answer to his “Remarks on Lady Morgan’s Statements Regarding
St. Peter’s Chair.” Third edition, with a postscript. London: Charles Westerton, 1851. 8vo. 49, [1 (blank)] pp.
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Irish patriot and novelist Lady Morgan here defends her remarks critical of the authenticity of St. Peter’s chair in the Vatican
Basilica, against the opposing position of the Catholic archbishop of Westminster. NSTC 2O7607. Removed from a
nonce volume. Very good condition: clean except for a faint pencil mark on title-page. (9026) $110.00
193. Muelbach, Louisa. Joseph the Second and his court. An historical novel. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1867.
Tall 8vo. Frontis., iv, 343, [1 (blank)], [4 (ads)] pp., 3 plts. Written by one woman and translated by another, this historical
novel about Joseph II of Austria, son of Maria Theresa, was translated from the German by Adelaide DeV. Chaudron.
Complete in one volume, printed in double-column format. Publisher’s cloth. Bottom edges and corners worn. Advertisement
of historical novels by this author pasted to front free endpaper. Tear near hinge of title-page, and minor foxing and
soiling to a few pages. Ownership indicia on front fly-leaf. (4309) $55.00
194. Muelbach, Louisa. Louisa of Prussia and her times. An historical novel. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1867.
Tall 8vo. Frontis., [2] ff., 277, [6 (ads)] pp.; 3 plts. Translated from the German by F. Jordan. Complete in one volume.
Historical novel about Queen Louisa of Prussia set during the period of Napoleon’s invasion of Germany. Publisher’s
cloth. Spine slightly rubbed, with a little loss of gilt. Some spots on front cover, and light wear to lower edges and corners.
Advertisement for historical novels by this author pasted to front free endpaper. Stitching exposed between pp. 2
and 3. (4310) $55.00
195. Murfree‚ Mary Noailles. Story of old Fort Loudon. By Charles Egbert Craddock. New York & London:
Macmillan & Co., 1899. 8vo. [6], 409, [3] pp.; 8 plts. First edition, BAL state A (with advertisements on both sides of
the final leaf) of this novel set in Cherokee territory. Written by Murfree and published under her nom de plume, the work
was illustrated by Ernest C. Peixotto. BAL 14813. Publisher’s tan cloth, front cover stamped in gilt and pale blue, spine
with gilt-stamped title; binding showing slight rubbing overall, with front cover vignette a bit dimmed. Front free
endpaper with inked owner’s name dated 1899 and with upper corner clipped, front pastedown with small bookplate. Some
outer page margins with light spotting. (13037) $47.50
196. National League of Women Workers. History of the National League of Women Workers. 1914. Brooklyn, NY:
The Pearl Press, [1914]. 8vo. 37, [3 (2 blank)] pp. Original wrappers, spine rebacked with archival tape. Ex-New Jersey
Historical Society and Newark (New Jersey) Free Public Library copy, with rubber stamps. Minor soiling, stamps,
and ink underlining on covers; one corner chipped. Very good. (4479) $27.50
197. National Women’s Trade Union League of America. Proceedings. Eleventh convention (first triennial). Washington,
D.C., May 6–11, 1929. National Women’s Trade Union League of America[,] 1929–1932. Chicago: National
Women’s Trade Union League of America (Gentry Printing Company), 1929. 8vo. 117, [1 (blank)] pp. The WTUL
(eventually dissolved in 1950) was an organization dedicated to improving working conditions for women and to promoting
more female employment at a time when AFL unions often moved to exclude women from the workplace and from unions.
The platform of the WTUL included the organization of workers into trade unions, equal pay for equal work regardless of
sex or race, an eight-hour day and the 44-hour work week, an “American standard of living,” full citizenship for women,
the “outlawry” of war, and close affiliation with women workers of all countries. Original printed wrappers, rebacked
with archival tape. Corners creased. Ex-historical society and library copy, with rubber stamps of the Free Public Library
of Newark, NJ and the New Jersey Historical Society. Pencilling to front cover. Good+. (5481) $25.00
198. Nevizzano, Giovanni. Sylvae nuptialis libri sex: In quibus ex dictis moder. materia matrimonii, dotium, filiationis,
adulterii, originis, successionis & monitorialium plenissimè discutitur: vnà cum remediis ad sedandum factiones
Guelphorum & Giebelinorum. Item modus iudicandi & exequendi iussa principum. Ad haec, de authoritatibus doctorum,
priuilegiisque miserabilium personarum. Quae omnia ex quaestione, an nubendum sit, vel non, desumpta sunt. [Geneva?]:
Ioannes Lertotius, 1592. 8vo. [32], 601, [5] pp. Legal treatise on civil (i.e., Roman) and canon law on marriage, family,
and inheritance, “with remedies to settle the parties of the Guelphs and the Ghibellines.” Not in Adams. Contemporary
vellum with yapp edges and remnants of ties, spine with inked title: spots of staining, light soiling, and (on spine) traces of
a paper label. Lightly age-toned with occasional light soiling. Early inked notations on front pastedown and title-page.
Inked call number on title-page. (11869) $575.00
199. Newell, Fanny. Memoirs of Fanny Newell; written by herself, and published by the desire and request of numerous
friends... To which are now added, numerous interesting letters, and a particular account of her last sickness and death.
Springfield, Mass.: O. Scott & E. F. Newell, Springfield, and Francis S. Wiggins, New York; Springfield: G. & C.
Merriam, printers, 1833. 12mo. [2], (5)–216 pp. Stated third edition, following the first edition published in 1824.
Sabin says that the “statement on the title of the so-called third edition, that it has ‘Corrections and Improvements,’ is, on
the part of the publishers, a pious fiction. It is simply a reprint of the second edition.” Christian autobiography, of Fanny
Newell (1793–1824). Provenance: This copy comes from the archives of the Merriam Company, the printers of this book
and the firm known for publishing Webster’s dictionary, and is stamped “G. & C. Merriam Co.” on the front pastedown
and on the verso of the title-page. Examples of 19th-century books retained in the libraries of their printers or publishers
are now uncommon finds. Sabin 54952. Contemporary sheep, spine with gilt-stamped leather title label and paper shelving
label; binding worn and abraded. Pages age-toned, waterstained, moderately foxed. Free endpapers loosening. Rubber
stamps of the G. & C. Merriam Co. on front pastedown, verso of title-page. One corner of pp. 65–66 and pp.
139–140 torn away, without loss of printing. Lacks one leaf bookseller’s advertisement. (7165) $80.00
200. Newell, Fanny. Memoirs of Fanny Newell; written by herself, and published by the desire and request of numerous
friends... To which are now added, numerous interesting letters, and a particular account of her late sickness and death.
Springfield: O. Scott and E. F. Newell (G. & C. Merriam, printers); New York: Francis S. Wiggins, 1833. 12mo. ii,
(3)–216 pp. From the library of the printer! Examples of 19th-century books retained in the libraries of their printers or
publishers are now uncommon finds. Christian autobiography, of Fanny Newell (1793–1824). Stated third edition. Sabin
says that “The statement on the title of the so-called third edition, that it has ‘Corrections and Improvements,’ is on the part
of the publishers, a pious fiction. It is simply a reprint of the second edition.” First edition published in 1824. Sabin
54952. Full 19th-century sheep, spine gilt-stamped on a brown leather label, spine with paper shelving label; covers separated,
rubbed over edges and spine, very small chip to spine. Rubber-stamped and handwritten “Property of G. & C.
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Merriam Co. ...” inside. Pp. 3–10 loose, several signatures loosening. Pp. 23–24 and 85–88 with short tears at
fore-edge, extending into text but without loss. Variable foxing and staining. (10191) $80.00
201. O'Gorman, Edith. Trials and persecutions of Miss Edith O’Gorman, otherwise Sister Teresa de Chantal, of St. Joseph’s
Convent, Hudson City, N.J. Hartford: Connecticut Publishing Co., (copyright 1871). 8vo. Frontis., viii, 7-264,
[6 (adv.)] pp. First edition of this anti-Catholic “memoir.” Almost certainly fictional and part of the then-popular genre of
“convent horror tales.” Publisher’s cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped decoration, spine with gilt-stamped title; corners
and spine extremities rubbed, with spine sunned. Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription dated 1877. Frontispiece
lightly foxed. (12947) $55.00
202. O'Gorman, Edith. Trials and persecutions of Miss Edith O’Gorman, otherwise Sister Teresa de Chantal, of St. Joseph’s
Convent, Hudson City, N.J. Hartford: Connecticut Publishing Co., (copyright 1871). 8vo. Frontis., viii, 7-264,
[6 (adv.)] pp. First edition of this anti-Catholic “memoir.” Almost certainly fictional and part of the then-popular genre of
“convent horror tales.” Publisher’s cloth, front cover with gilt-stamped decoration, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding
cocked, with spine sunned and extremities rubbed. Front pastedown with institutional bookplate; front free endpaper with
pencilled inscription dated 1876. Frontispiece very faintly foxed. (14773) $50.00
203. Oates, Joyce Carol. Because it is bitter, and because it is my heart: A novel. New York: Dutton, 1990. 8vo. [10
(4 blank)], 405, [1 (blank)] pp. First edition. Paperback. Near fine. (4818) $10.00
204. Oberholtzer, Sara Louisa. Violet Lee, and other poems. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1873. 12mo. 143, [1] pp.
First edition. Publisher’s green cloth, front cover black- and gilt-stamped, back cover blind-stamped; moderately worn,
both covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library, spine with paper shelving label and cloth tearing in several places.
Hinges tender; a few leaves separated. Title-page and several others stamped, back free endpaper with pocket. Some
stray pencil marks. (5495) $45.00
205. Ogden, Mrs. C.A. Into the light; or, the Jewess. Boston: Loring, 1868. 8vo. [2], 322 pp. Uncommon first edition.
Wright, II, 1815. Publisher’s green cloth, covers framed in blind, spine with gilt-stamped title; binding cocked, with
cloth slightly rubbed and foot of spine stained; hinges starting. Front free endpaper with early, neatly stencilled owner’s
name. First and last few pages lightly spotted. (12945) $75.00
206. Oliphant, Mrs. Hester. A story of contemporary life. Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1884. 3 vols. 8vo. I: 287,
[1] pp. II: 279, [1] pp. III: 288 pp. First Leipzig edition, following the first London of 1883, of this interesting novel
about two strong women from different generations of the same family, struggling to deal with the family banking business
and the traumas connected to it. Contemporary quarter red morocco over marbled paper-covered sides, spines with
gilt-stamped titles; bindings going to red and shedding surface leather, especially over joints and spine extremities. One
leaf with long tear in outer margin, not touching text. (14487) $65.00
207. Oliphant, Mrs. The makers of Florence. New York & Boston: H.M. Caldwell Co., [ca. 1895?]. 8vo. Frontis., xi,
[1], 338 pp.; illus. Reprint, illustrated with photographic plates. Publisher’s green cloth, front cover and spine stamped in
maroon and gilt; corners slightly bumped, with spine stamping dimmed. Front free endpaper with early inked owner’s
name; front hinge starting. A clean, attractive copy. (12948) $48.50
208. Onderdonk, H. U. Considerations of marriages prohibited by the law of God. Philadelphia: Pr. by Jesper Harding,
1841. 8vo. 16 pp. Having to do with “the intermarrying of persons too nearly related.” Written by the bishop of the diocese
of Pennsylvania, who is not pleased with what the laws of the land, especiaIly those of Pennsylvania, allow. Lacks
wrappers. A few pencil marks. Light foxing. Lightly creased down the middle. (3651) $67.50
209. Opie, Amelia. The warrior’s return, and other poems, by Mrs. Opie. New York: Inskeep & Bradford (Pr. by Robert
Carr), 1808. 12mo. vi, 7–191, [1 (blank)] pp. Collection of poems by English-born novelist and poet Amelia Opie,
née Amelia Alderson. The DNB describes her poetry as being “simple in diction” and says that “two or three of [her poems]
are deservedly found in every anthology.” First American edition, published the same year as the first London edition.
Shaw & Shoemaker 15805. Lacks covers, spine leather rubbed and abraded, front (blank) leaf and title-leaf loose.
Foxed throughout, several pages heavily soiled. Title-page rubber-stamped by a now-defunct library, front and back pages
rubber-stamped “stack.” Very small edge chips to title-leaf and a couple of leaves in the back, front (blank) leaf torn and
chipped. (10232) $40.00
Another Woman Printer
210. Oviedo, Juan Antonio de, comp. Elogios de muchos hermanos coadjutores de la Compañia de Jesus. Mexico: En la
imprenta de la viuda de d. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, 1755. Vol I of II. 4to (21 cm, 8.25"). [8] ff., 512 pp. Compilation
of short biographies of Jesuits noted for their sanctity: The entries are arranged by month (presumably the month of
death) and include accounts of these Jesuits’ work in Latin America, the Philippines, Japan, India, Africa, and Europe,
with some account of the persecuted Jesuit mission in England. Juan Antonio de Oviedo (1670–1757), Jesuit, was born in
Bogota and served as professor of theology and philosophy in Mexico City and Guatamala City; he was a procurator for the
Society of Jesus in Madrid and Rome, visitor of the Society in the Phillippines and its rector in Mexico City, and twice
provincial superior in Mexico. He wrote a number of devotional and hagiographical works in addition to this one.
DeBacker-Sommervogel, VI, 49; Medina, México, 4274; Palau 207722; Sabin 58000. Recent marbled paper over light
boards; red leather label on spine, with gilt double rules above and below gilt-lettering. Title-page a little wormed and
chipped touching woodcut border and parts of letters, partially repaired with tissue on verso. Occasional instances of staining
and light soiling; some paper loss or tears in margins, not affecting impression. Vol. I only, Jesuits January through
June. (9681) $900.00
211. Owen, Frances Belle. A prairie winter. By an Illinois girl. New York: Outlook Co., 1903. 8vo. [6], 164 pp. First
edition of this poetic recording of the joys and hardships of September through May, the author’s only published book.
Owen, who kept house on a farm in Mokena, Illinois, here shares her delight in the simple domestic pleasures of garden-
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ing, cooking and listening to birdsong. Publisher’s white- and gilt-stamped paper-covered boards, spine and front cover
gently faded. A few pages with small spots of light foxing, most clean. (11427) $90.00
212. Owen, Mary Alicia. Ole rabbit’s plantation stories, as told among the Negroes of the Southwest. Collected from
original sources by Mary Alicia Owen. Philadelphia: George W. Jacobs & Co., 1898. 8vo. xv, 310 pp., illus. Owen
(1850?-1935) was the daughter of a well-to-do St. Joseph, Mo., slave-owning family and the tales recounted here are
among those she learned as a child. The work, considered a classic among folklorists, is liberally and well-illustrated by
the author’s sister Juliette A. Owen (1858 - 1953) and by Luis Wain, and has an introduction by Charles Godfrey Leland,
the famous folklorist. The first edition appeared in 1893 with the title Voodoo tales as told among the Negroes of the
Southwest. This is the second edition, there also having been an edition published in England in 1893. Publisher’s green
cloth lettered in black on the spine and front cover, and stamped in dark red on the front cover with an illustration featuring
a rabbit, owl, black bird, feathers, and a black woman with bandana and glasses. Binding soiled, especially spine. Clean
and sound interior. Bookplate of a famous Philadelphia literary club. (1853) $175.00
213. Pennsylvania. Ladies. [drop-title] Memorial of ladies, inhabitants of Pennsylvania, praying that the Indians may be
protected in their rights, and in the possession of their lands. March 3, 1830. Ordered to lie on the table and be printed.
[Washington]: 1830. 8vo. 1 f. Opposes the removal of “more than fifty thousand of our fellow Christians” [i.e., American
Indians] from their ancestral lands. The ladies begin their memorial stating that they view “any presumptuous interference,
on the part of their own sex . . . with the ordinary political affairs of the country, as wholly unbecoming the character
of American females.” However, they continue, “there are times when duty and affection call on us to advise and
persuade . . . in the cause of mercy and humanity, may we not hope that even the small voice of female sympathy will be
heard?” Government document: 21st Congress, 1st Session. 76. Removed from a nonce volume; inner margin a little irregular.
Very light spotting. First page with inked numeral in upper margin. (12097) $15.00
214. (Pension de Mme. Dauverné). Les découvertes les plus utiles et les plus célèbres: Agriculture.... Lille: L. Lefort,
Imprimeur-Libraire, 1854. 8vo. [3 (1 blank)], frontis., [2], 5–190 pp., [1 (blank)] f. A volume from the library of the
Pension de Mme. Dauverné, supplied for the reading pleasure of her lodgers. Stamped in gold on the front cover, “Pension
de Mme. Dauverne R. St. Benoit. 6.” Contains chapters on the discovery of gun powder, the daguerrotype, and
more. Publisher’s elaborately blind-embossed and gilt-stamped paper in imitation of leather. Spine chipped and worn at
tips. Some loss of paper to covers, with a half-inch off on bottom front corner. (8004) $67.50
215. Percival, Emily, ed. The amaranth, or token of remembrance. A Christmas and New Year’s gift for 1854. Boston:
Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1854. 8vo. [2], 288 pp.; 6 plts. First edition thus, with contents matching 1854’s Garland according
to Faxon. Faxon 24. Publisher’s sheep in imitation of morocco, covers and spine gilt extra with arabesque and
foliate designs; leather worn over edges and joints, with joints starting. First and last few leaves foxed, with some additional
foxing in proximity to plates, and pages gently age-toned. (12953) $75.00
216. Percival, Emily, ed. The garland. Or, token of friendship. A Christmas and New Year’s gift. New York: George
A. Leavitt, 1869. 12mo. Frontis., 288 pp.; 4 plts. Eighth in the popular Garland series of American gift books. Although
Faxon claims that the plates have been omitted from this retitled version of 1854’s Amaranth, this copy has four
plates in addition to the frontispiece. Faxon 259. Publisher’s red cloth, covers embossed and gilt-stamped, each cover
with chromolithographed paper illustration affixed, spine gilt extra; binding slightly dimmed overall, with wear to to edges
and joints. All edges gilt. Front free endpaper with owner’s inscription dated 1869. A few spots of foxing, mostly in
proximity to plates. (12931) $85.00
217. Perks, Mae. The him book. New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1912. Small 8vo. [60 (1 blank)] ff. A diary
for girls, specifically designed for keeping records of the boys and men in their lives. The pages have spaces left blank for
writing information about “him,” such as name, address, and “my opinion of him.” There is also space for clippings,
notes, and snapshots. Page-titles include “father,” “brother,” “brother-in-law,” “cousin,” “school hims,” “college hims,”
“ideal hims,” “hims of summer,” “other girls’ hims,” “engagement diary,” “wedding,” “guests,” “gifts,” etc. Unpaginated.
Publisher’s tan cloth, gilt-stamped and lettered in blue on the front; no dust jacket. Covers soiled a bit, pages clean
and not written upon. Minor damage to top margins of two leaves. Near fine. (5067) $35.00
218. Pettem, Silvia. Separate lives: the story of Mary Rippon. Longmont, Colorado: The Book Lode, 1999. 8vo. viii,
280 pp. Second printing. “Biography of the first woman professor and one of the most beloved and respected University
of Colorado faculty . . . ,” quoted from back cover. Paperback. Lower outer corner of front cover bent. Very good, but
showing obvious signs of having been read. (13811) $7.50
219. Phillips, Catherine. Memoirs of the life of Catherine Phillips: To which are added some of her epistles. Philadelphia:
Pr. by Budd & Bartram, for Robert Johnson & Co., 1798. 8vo. 384 pp. First American edition. An autobiography
of this English-born Quaker preacher, first published (posthumously) in London, in 1797. Phillips began her itinerant
preaching in 1751, travelling through Wales, Cornwall, and Ireland, and Scotland in 1752. She arrived in Charlestown in
1753, travelling through Carolina and then New England, returning to Europe in 1756. The DNB describes the memoirs as
a “strictly edifying work, testifying to the writer’s conviction of divine guidance in every circumstance of life.” She died
in 1794. Evans 34371; ESTC W26116. Contemporary sheep, title gilt-stamped on a red leather label; rubbed and
abraded, joints cracked, covers held by threads. Early inked inscriptions and signatures by previous owners on front
(blank) pages. A couple of signatures loosening a bit. (9339) $70.00
220. Pinckney, Cotesworth, ed. The lady’s token. Or gift of friendship. Boston: J. Buffum, copyright 1848. 8vo.
Frontis., 128 pp. First edition: A gift book of readings for women, focusing on domestic and religious themes. The volume
opens with a hand-colored floral frontispiece. This copy bears a bookseller’s ticket from Charles H. Kingsford of
New Bedford on the front pastedown. Faxon 454. Publisher’s cloth, covers and spine gilt-stamped with arabesque and
floral motifs; binding slightly cocked, with spine faded and gilt moderately rubbed. All edges gilt. One leaf with tear
from lower margin, not touching text; pages with intermittent spots of foxing, and a few scattered pencilled marks. (13850)
$65.00
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221. Post, Loretta J. Scenes in Europe. Or, observations by an amateur artist. Cincinnati: Walden & Stowe, [1874].
8vo. 336 pp. 12 plts. Impressions of a grand tour of Europe, with engraved plates. Good; front cover bright with short
scratches to upper portion, spine moderately faded, corners and spine extremities lightly worn. Hinges tender. Frontispiece
and title-page with small areas of light staining. (1874) $55.00
222. Procter, Adelaide A. The poems of Adelaide A. Procter. Complete edition. With an introduction by Charles Dickens.
New York: Worthington Co., 1887. 8vo. Frontis., 442 pp.; 1 plt. Later American printing, illustrated with a frontispiece
portrait of Procter and an engraved plate, of the works of one of the most important and successful women poets of
the 19th century. Dickens, for whom Procter wrote a number of pieces under the pseudonym Mary Berwick, provided the
introduction. Publisher’s red cloth, front cover and spine stamped in black, spine with gilt-stamped title; cloth very slightly
rubbed over corners and spine extremities, with a small smudge to front cover near head of spine and spine stamping a bit
dimmed. Reverse of frontispiece with inked gift inscription dated [18]87. One leaf with short tear from outer margin, not
quite touching text. (14353) $65.00
223. Quackenbush, John V. P. An address delivered before the students of the Albany Medical College, introductory to
the course on obstetrics, November 5, 1855. Albany: B. Taylor, printer, 1855. 8vo. 21, [1 (blank)] pp. A motivational
speech for future obstetricians. Contains much advice and remarks on the importance of the field and the nature of
woman. “Published by the students,” stated on the title-page. NSTC 2Q44. Removed from a nonce volume; without
wrappers. Short gutter tear to title-page and a couple of tiny chips to fore-edge of last few pages. Rubber-stamp of the
Union Theological Seminary Library, in New York. Overall very good. (10997) $87.50
224. R., L. N. (Ranyard, Ellen Henrietta). The book and its story. A narrative for the young. On occasion of the jubilee
of the British and Foreign Bible Society... thirteenth thousand. London: Samuel Bagster & Sons, 1854. 8vo. Frontis.,
xiv, 490, 6 (adv.) pp.; illus. Early issue of the second edition: Bible stories and history of Christianity retold for a juvenile
audience, illustrated with in-text cuts. Publisher’s blind-stamped textured cloth, spine with gilt-stamped decorative title;
cloth rubbed over edges and corners. All edges marbled. Front free endpaper with pencilled inscription dated 1854 and
inked inscription dated 1893. Pages very faintly age-toned, with first few leaves starting to separate. (13043) $50.00
225. Radcliffe College. The Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America. 1976–1978.
Cambridge: Radcliffe College, [1978]. 8vo. 45 pp. Report concerning Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library’s growth in the
size of its holdings, and the production of scholarly work using the Library’s resources. The Black Women Oral History
Project is discussed on pp. 11–12. Contemporary typewritten form letter (with self-addressed envelope), laid in. Stapled,
in original wrappers. Near fine. (7056) $12.50
226. Reavis, Logan Uriah. Thoughts for the young men of America; or, a few practical words of advice to those born in
poverty and destined to be reared in orphanage. [bound with, as issued, the same author’s] Thoughts for the young women
of America.... New York: Samuel R. Wells, 1871. 12mo (19.4 cm, 7.6"). [2], 62, 40, [4 (adv.)] pp. First editions of
both works, which are generally found separately in later issues. An Illinois-born editor and journalist, Reavis is best
known today for his dedication to two causes: promoting emigration to Missouri, and encouraging moving the national capital
to St. Louis. Reavis’s family background may have contributed to his concern for orphans; he and his brother Elisha
(who later achieved notoriety as “the Hermit of Superstition Mountains”) were raised by uncles following the death of their
father. In the present paired books of advice for young men and young women, the author strongly recommends education,
hard work, and Christianity — as well as avoiding novels in favor of studying physiology, hygiene, and phrenology.
OCLC locates only three copies of the first editions! Publisher’s textured cloth, front cover gilt-stamped with title within a
decorative frame; binding slightly rubbed overall, with front cover gilt dimmed. Front free endpaper, fly-leaf, half-title,
title-page, and a few other pages with lightly pencilled owners' names; back fly-leaf with upper portion torn away. Some
pages lightly foxed and sewing starting to loosen in some signatures. (14358) $500.00
227. (Relentlessly Improving). The lady’s pocket library.... Philadelphia: Mathew Carey, 1809. 12mo. 330 pp. Contains,
“1. Miss More’s essays. 2. Dr. Gregory’s legacy to his daughters. 3. Rudiments of taste, by the Countess of
Carlisle. 4. Mrs. Chapone’s letter on the government of the temper. 5. Swift’s letter to a young lady, newly married. 6.
Moore’s fables for the female sex.” Contemporary sheep. Spine rubbed and abraded at bottom edge; joints abraded and
starting; covers rubbed and chipped; corners exposed and edges heavily worn. Ink signature on front pastedown, front
fly-leaf mostly torn out, paper edges soiled, and endpapers stained; occasional foxing. Faults recognized, still a good,
solid copy. (3559) $100.00
228. Repplier, Agnes. Set of 4 works: Books and men; Essays in miniature; In the dozy hours and other papers; Points of
view. Boston & NY: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 1894-95. 8vo. I: [4], 224 pp. II: [2], ix-237, [1] pp. III: [6], 235, [1]
pp. IV: [4], 239, [1] pp. Attractive set of four volumes of essays by Repplier, an author and critic whose affection for
children and children's literature features prominently in the collection. Contemporary half calf over marbled paper sides,
spines gilt extra. Spines, joints, and edges lightly rubbed. Some signatures uncut. (12326) $120.00
229. Robinson, Mrs. B. L. The responsibility of being led. An address delivered February 10, 1927, before the Women’s
Patriotic Conference on National Defense, at Washington, D.C. Trenton, NJ: Manufacturers’ Association of New Jersey,
[1927]. 8vo (8.5" x 4"). 19, [1 (blank)] pp. Mrs. B. L. Robinson tells her audience that they should find out if the organizations
they belong to are being led by Communists. She advises them to “take up the national defense against destructive
propaganda” by refusing to be led by a “red clergyman” or a “radical teacher” or to send their girls to “colleges dominated
by socialists.” Stapled; issued without wrappers. Waterstained. (4582) $15.00
230. Roland de la Platiere, Marie-Jeanne Plipon. An appeal to impartial posterity: by Madame Roland, wife of the
Minister of the Interior: or, a collection of tracts written by her during her confinement in the prisons of the abbey, and St.
Pelagie, in Paris. In four parts. Translated from the French original, published for the benefit of her only daughter, deprived
of the fortune of her parents by sequestration. New York: Pr. by Robert Wilson, for A. Van Hook, 1798. 8vo. ix,
[2], 12–202, 164 pp. Stated first American edition — corrected. Present is vol. I, containing parts I and II (of 2 vols. in 4
parts). “Advertisement from the editor,” signed in-type “Bosc” [i.e., Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc]. Paris, germinal
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2d, in the year of the Republic 3 [April 9, 1975]. ESTC W4179; Evans 34483. Quarter library cloth over marbled paper
boards, spine with paper shelving labels, front and back covers pressure-stamped with the library name. Spine darkened,
chipped at head and foot, covers rubbed. Title-page and several other pages rubber-stamped by a now-defunct institution;
back free endpaper with library charge pocket. Closely trimmed at top and bottom edges, resulting in the partial loss of
several page numbers and catchwords. Chip to bottom corner of two leaves, with loss of catchword to one page; chip to
fore-margin of two leaves, resulting in the loss of several letters to all four pages (but without loss of sense of text). Short
tear at bottom of one page, with tear extending into text but without loss. Foxing, dog-earing. (12907) $85.00
231. (San Ignacio, Maria Anna Agueda de). Bellido, José. Vida de la V.M.R.M. Maria Anna Agueda de S. Ignacio,
primera priora del religiosissimo Convento de dominicas recoletas de santa Rosa de la Puebla de Los Angeles. Mexico:
Impr. de la Bibliotheca mexicana, 1758. 4to. [14] ff., port., 311, [3], 58, [8], 410 pp., [6] ff. .
The subject of this biography has been described as "the other Mexican muse," by way of comparing her to Sor Juana
Inés de la Cruz and also of rapidly situating her historically and literarily. Sor Maria Ana was a Dominican nun and mystic
and a native of Puebla. Her published works include spiritual texts and she has been the subject of several recent biographies
and studies.
One of the most substantial biographies written and published in Mexico during the colonial era. The author (1700--83),
a native of Granada, takes as his subject one of the outstanding figures of colonial Pueblan history. In addition to a good
biography of Sor Maria Ana, Bellido also includes 410 pages of the "Obras" of the nun.
Includes a fine engraved portrait of Sor Maria Ana, by Ortuño.
Palau y Dulcet 26854; Medina, Mexico, 4454; DeBacker-Sommervogel, I, 1220. Recased in contemporary cockled vellum
with remnants of button and loop closures. New endpapers. Dirty water staining to some pages at end, often in only
margins. (14657) $2275.00
232. Samson, Becca Middleton. A devotee and a darling. Or, the difference between them. Chicago: David C. Cook
Publishing Co., (copyright 1898). 4to. 95, [1 (adv.)] pp.; illus. Sole edition of this Christian tale, accompanied by the
short story “Something Mother Found on Her Travels,” with illustrations by Augustus Beck. Not in Wright. Publisher’s
half cloth with marbled paper sides, front cover with gilt-stamped title; boards a bit sprung, with edges and extremities
lightly rubbed and spine title dimmed. Front free endpaper with inked inscription dated 1904 (12924) $28.50
233. Sánchez, Tomás. Disputationum de sancto matrimonii sacramento...editio haec postrema superiorum auctoritate
correcta. Antuerpiae: Apud Martinum Nutium colophon: Ex typographia Henrici Aertsi], 1626. Folio (36 cm, 14.2").
[20], 500, 404, 408, [66 (index)] pp. Early edition, following the first complete printing of 1605 (preceded by a partial
printing in 1602), of this sometimes controversial, oft-reprinted treatise on marriage, morality, and sexual sin. Each of the
three books has its own separate title-page. Brunet calls this “un ouvrage célèbre, à cause de quelques passages singuliers
qui s’y trouvent,” while Englisch notes that “Dieses Werk enthalt alle moglichen Variationen uber die Geschlechtssunde in
umstandlichster und eingehendster Behandlung,” and Sommervogel simply states that the work caused its author “quelques
chagrins” despite the purity and austerity of his personal life (a Jesuit from the time he was 17 years old, the Cordova-born
Sánchez was said by his spiritual director to have “carried his baptismal innocence to the grave,” according to the Catholic
Encyclopedia online). Brunet, V, 115; De Backer-Sommervogel, VII, 532; Englisch, Der erotischen literatur, 145; Palau
294482. Contemporary alum-tawed pigskin, tooled in blind, spine with inked title; binding darkened and scuffed, with
clasps now lacking and with leather torn over head and foot of spine (lacking at foot, with underlying vellum showing).
Title-page with inked ownership inscriptions dated 1715, later institutional stamp in lower margin, and faint shadows of
pencilled notations; front pastedown and one text page also with institutional stamps. Small spots of worming to lower
margins of a number of leaves. Pages age-toned, with some instances of marginalia and underlining in early inked hands
and occasionally in pencil (a handful of leaves in part III extensively annotated within text); a few spots of foxing, and one
leaf with paper flaws partially obscuring a few letters. A big, solid volume. (14459) $600.00
234. Sangster, Margaret Elizabeth Munson. Talks between times. New York: American Tract Society, (1901). 8vo.
Frontis., 151, [1] pp. First edition of these Christian meditations, including “Yule-tide Musings.” Publisher’s cloth
stamped in white/gilt; extremities, front gilt vignette slightly rubbed, else fresh and bright. Pages clean. (12603) $35.00
235. Sarles, John W. Memorial of Mary E. Smalley, late the wife of John W. Sarles, pastor of the Central Baptist
Church, Brooklyn. New York: Holman, 1867. 12mo. Frontis., vi, [2], 217, [1] pp. Lovingly written tribute to a
much-mourned wife, distinguished not only for her contributions to the Baptist community of Brooklyn but also for her
poetry and essays, which she began to compose at a very early age. Publisher’s green cloth, front cover with
blind-stamped frame and gilt-stamped central sun motif, back cover blind-stamped, spine gilt-stamped with decorative title;
binding showing light wear with small rippled areas in front cover cloth. Slight age-toning and a very few light spots;
some offsetting from now-absent laid-in item; pages mostly clean. (4355) $70.00
236. Sherwood, Mary Martha. Hang-li zaeh-lok [i.e., History of little Henry and his bearer, in Chinese]. [Shanghai?:
No publisher, ca. 1856]. Narrow 8vo (24 cm). 65 pp. Mrs. Sherwood goes to SHANGHAI???!? This missionary press,
xylographic production of this classic piece of Christian literature for children is here translated into Shanghai dialect by
Caroline P. Keith (1821–62), block printed within ruled borders on double leaves in traditional Chinese book-form, and
expressed in roman characters — for those in the conversion process and familiar with that alphabet. How admirable in
earnestness, and how surely-obtuse and sweetly quixotic, that in the 1850s it seemed like a good idea to somebody — we
don't know who, exactly — to publish this very English children’s work about India, in Chinese for readers in China. Why
did they imagine that a story about Indians was particularly appropriate to present, with such laborious care, to the Chinese???
The 21st-century mind boggles, and that’s not a bad thing for it to do, sometimes. An arresting missionary production,
this is also a remarkable entry in the history of the children’s book. Mrs. Sherwood was an Englishwoman of
considerable interest from a number of points of view, and she is one increasingly studied; her American woman translator,
here, herself had an interesting, evocative life. Marvelously “exotic” in format, general look, and imaginative appeal,
this is a heady, imagination-grabbing expression of western imperialism both religious and general-cultural. Rare: We
trace only this copy via OCLC, RLIN, and NUC. On this translation, see: Wylie, Memorials of Protestant Missionaries to
the Chinese, p. 213. Stitched as issued; stitching perishing. Deaccessioned from a divinity school library; no markings.
In truly extraordinary condition. (12322) $8500.00
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237. Siddons, Anne Rivers. Colony: A novel. By the author of Outer Banks. New York: Harper Collins, 1992. 8vo.
First trade edition, third issue. Inscribed on the title-page by the author. Publisher’s cloth. Very good condition, in a very
good dust jacket. (6776) $25.00
238. Sigourney, Lydia Howard. Letters to young ladies. Fourth edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1837. 12mo.
259, [1], 8 (adv.) pp. Fourth edition of the beloved poet’s thoughts about women as educators of themselves and others.
Not in BAL, but see 17681 for the first complete edition, and 17702 for the third edition, also 1837. Publisher’s brown
cloth, spine with decorative gilt-stamped title; cloth chipped over spine extremities, with spots of light discoloration to covers.
Front pastedown with institutional bookplate. Pages foxed. (14227) $45.00
239. Sigourney, Lydia Howard. Select poems. Third edition, with illustrations. Philadelphia: Frederick W. Greenough,
1838. 12mo. 305, [1] pp. Third edition. BAL 17719. Library quarter cloth and marbled paper sides; worn and abraded
over edges and extremities, front and back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution, spine with chipped paper
shelving label. Front free endpaper separated; lacking additional engraved title-page. Title-page, several others stamped;
back free endpaper (separated) with pocket. A few stray pencil marks; varying degrees of foxing. (5533) $55.00
240. Sinclair, Catherine. Flirtations in fashionable life. Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros., [ca. 1860]. 8vo. [2],
19-424 (text complete) pp. A merican reprint of Modern Flirtations, a popular novel by this Scottish-born writer. Contemporary
half morocco and marbled paper sides, worn and abraded, front cover separated, front and back covers pressure-stamped
by a now-defunct library. Pages lightly waterstained, with scattered spots of foxing; title-page and several
others stamped. (4665) $20.00
241. Smith, Charlotte. Elegiac sonnets, and other poems, by Charlotte Smith. Vol. II. London: T. Cadell, Jr. & W.
Davies, 1797. Vol. II only. 8vo. Frontis., [16], xv, [5], 117, [3] pp.; 4 plts. Later edition, with a frontispiece and four
plates engraved by J. Neagle and J. Heath. Lowndes 2418; ESTC T32500 (really! a separate listing for volume 2!!!).
19th-century library half sheep over paper-covered sides, rubbed and abraded, covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct
institution, spine with paper shelving label. Title-page and several others stamped; back free endpaper with pocket. Some
pages faintly foxed. (13506) $100.00
242. Smith, Elizabeth. Fragments, in prose and verse, by Miss Elizabeth Smith. With some account of her life and character:
by H.M. Bowdler. Burlington (NJ): D. Allinson & Co., 1811. 12mo. Frontis., 261, [1] pp. Early American edition,
second only to a Boston imprint of 1810. The biography of Smith was written by Henrietta Maria Bowdler, sister of
Thomas Bowdler. Shaw & Shoemaker 23943; not in Felcone, New Jersey books. 19th-century library half sheep and paper-covered
sides, covers separated and leather lost over spine, front and back covers pressure-stamped. Title-page and
several others stamped. Frontispiece separated and foxed. Varying degrees of age-toning; one pencilled marginal notation.
(6360) $30.00
243. Smith, Mary P.W. The Browns. Boston: Roberts Bros., 1896. 8vo. Frontis., viii, 266, [12 (adv.)] pp. Reprint.
Publisher’s brown- and gilt-stamped cloth, fresh and bright with only very minor wear to corners. (12889) $25.00
244. Smith, Miss M.M. Kick him down hill. Or, ups and downs in business. New York: United States Publishing Co.,
1875. 8vo. [2], vi, 312 pp. First edition: Novel about greed, swindles, etc. Surely one of the world’s great titles??
Wright, II, 2270. Publisher's maroon cloth, front cover stamped in black and gilt, spine with gilt-stamped title; edges and
extremities rubbed. (12938) $175.00
245. Smith, Mrs. E. Francis. Wellington lyrics. London: Effingham Wilson, 1852. 8vo. 19, [1] pp. Highly uncommon
poems in honor of Wellington. 19th-century quarter sheep in imitation of morocco and paper-covered sides, worn,
covers separated and leather lost over spine, covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library, front cover with paper
shelving label. Spotting and staining to endpapers, first few leaves; title-page and several others stamped, back free
endpaper with pocket. Pages slightly age-toned, edges embrittled. (6783) $75.00
246. Southworth, Mrs. E.D.E.N. Nearest and dearest. A novel. New York: A.L. Burt Co., (copyright 1889). 8vo.
290, [14 (adv.)] pp. Later printing of this sentimental romance by an extremely popular author. Readers should be warned
that the novel ends as something of a cliffhanger, with the plot continuation to be found in Little Nea’s Engagement.
Wright, III, 5095 (for first ed.). Publisher’s cloth, front cover and spine stamped in green and red, front with a chromolithographed
vignette. Slightly cocked. Sewing loosening a bit, but pages very clean. (7049) $30.00
247. Spain. Ministerio de Hacienda. Presupuestos generales de gastos é ingresos para el año de 1850, segun la ley
sancionada en 20 de Febrero del mismo año. Madrid: La Viuda de Burgos, 1850 [i.e., 1849]. 8vo signed in 4s (22.1 cm,
8.65"). 761, [1 (blank)] pp. Bound for presentation by Queen Isabella. Complete budgetary accounting for the year 1850,
issued by the Spanish government, printed by a woman printer of Madrid, and here in an early example of the work of
noted Madrid binder Ginesta. Binding: Signed presentation binding by Miguel Ginesta II of Madrid, of oxblood
straight-grain morocco, covers framed in double gilt fillets surrounding gilt-stamped arabesques and the gilt-stamped coat
of arms of Queen Isabella II of Spain; spine with gilt-stamped title and arabesques. Board edges and turn-ins gilt-stamped,
pink moiré endpapers, all edges gilt. Provenance: Isabella II of Spain; Infante Duc de Montpensier (sixth son of King
Louis Philippe), husband of the Infanta Maria Louisa (Queen Isabella's sister), with his bookplate. Palau 236716 . Binding
as described above, covers showing only very minor wear, spine slightly faded. Front pastedown with bookplate described
above. Pages gently age-toned, a few showing mild foxing but most clean. Very attractive. (5749) $2750.00
248. Spencer, Canning, Mrs. Early and late recollections: By Mrs. Canning Spencer... London: Pr. by Thomas E.
Bradley, 1853. 8vo. 111, [1] pp. Sole edition. Musings of an Englishwoman on Catholicism and living a Catholic life.
In prose and verse. NSTC 2S33668. Full blue cloth, spine chipped, joints starting, cloth darkened. Ex-library, with paper
shelving labels on spine, with front and back covers pressure-stamped, with title-page and several others rubber-stamped.
Front free endpaper separating. Marginal tear. One leaf (pp. 81-82) chipped at lower margin. Pages unopened.
(13712) $50.00
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249. Sprague, Mary. An earnest trifler. Boston: Houghton, Osgood & Co. (pr. by Riverside Press at Cambridge), 1880.
8vo. [2], 249, [1] pp. First edition. Wright, III, 5139. Publisher’s black- and gilt-stamped cloth, cocked and lightly
rubbed. Front free endpaper with owner’s stamp; newspaper clipping about Sprague affixed to title-page. (12890) $27.50
250. Spurrell, James. Miss Sellon and the “Sisters of Mercy.” An exposure of the constitution, rules, religious views,
and practical working of their society; obtained through a “sister,” who has recently seceded. London: Thomas Hatchard
(Pr. by W. Nicol), 1852. 8vo. [2], 41, [1 (blank)] pp. First edition. An unsympathetic tract attacking Priscilla Lydia
Sellon (1821–1876), founder and Mother Superior of the Society of Sisters of Mercy of the Holy Trinity, in Devonport.
Rev. James Spurrell, vicar of Great Shelford, armed with information supplied to him by an ex-novice, here accuses the
Anglican Sisterhood of adopting certain ritual practices of the Church of Rome. Miss Sellon wrote a reply to Rev. James
Spurrell, which passed through seven editions, and Spurrell, in turn, wrote a rejoinder to that reply. NSTC 2S35349 &
2S12939. Disbound. A very good copy. (11102) $100.00
251. Stall, Sylvanus. What a young husband ought to know. Purity and truth: Self and sex series. Philadelphia: Vir,
(1897). 8vo. Frontis., 300, [20 (adv.)] pp.; 8 double-sided plts. First edition. The plates are “Commendations from Eminent
Men & Women.” Some bits sweet — some bits WAY retrograde. Publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, spine with
gilt-stamped title; cloth slightly worn over the corners and edges. (12465) $10.00
252. Steinem, Gloria. Moving beyond words. New York: Simon & Schuster, (copyright 1994). 8vo. 296 pp. First trade
edition, first issue. Publisher’s cloth over paper boards; fine dust jacket; not price-clipped. A fine book. (14414) $14.50
253. Steiner, Wendy. Exact resemblance to exact resemblance: The literary portraiture of Gertrude Stein. New Haven &
London: Yale University Press, 1979. 8vo. Frontis., x, 225, [3 (blank)] pp. Second printing. No. 189 from the “Yale
Studies in English” series. Publisher’s cloth. Dust jacket with only a few very small tears. Fine copy, in a very good dust
jacket. (4128) $22.50
254. Stephens, Ann Sophia. A noble woman. Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, c. 1871. 12mo. [2], (19)–208
pp. (lacking pp. 209–479). First edition. Wright, II, 2365. Library cloth and paper sides, pressure-stamped by a
now-defunct library. Rear cover missing, front cover and title-leaf separated, spine gone. Soiling, staining, rubber
stamps, tape repairs in some margins. Title-page with inked inscription. Piece of pp. 129/130 torn out with loss of a few
words. Lacks pp. 209–479. A worn copy. (7602) $10.00
255. Stickney, Sarah. Poetry of life. In two volumes. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1835. 12mo. I: 220 pp.
II: [4], 216 (lacking 143-190) pp. First U.S. edition: Musings by Mrs. Ellis on the nature of poetry and on the poetic qualities
to be found in various subjects; her essay on the poetry of woman includes many insightful comments on the reality of
women's lives in the 19th century. Almost entirely disbound from later library bindings, covers lacking, spines cracked
and with paper shelving labels. Lacking pp. 143-190. Title-pages and a number of others stamped by a now-defunct library.
Two leaves with repairs to inner margins, in one case obscuring a few letters; instances of pencilled underlining
and bracketing throughout. (4756) $30.00
256. Stone, William Leete. Letter to Doctor A. Brigham, on animal magnetism: being an account of a remarkable interview
between the author and Miss Loraina Brackett while in a state of somnambulism. New York: George Dearborn
(Scatcherd & Adams, printers), 1837. 8vo. 75, [1 (blank)] pp. Second edition, with additions. First edition published the
same year. Letter describing a blind young woman who had demonstrated clairvoyant powers while in a trance-like state.
Brackett, whose sight and speech had been lost from a near fatal blow to the head by an iron weight, was able to speak normally
and discern certain objects and light from darkness following treatment by Dr. George Capron of Providence, Rhode
Island, using animal magnetism. William Leete Stone (1792–1844) was a journalist, editor of the Commercial Advertiser,
advocate of slave emancipation and Greek independence, historian of colonial New York and New England, and first superintendent
of public schools in New York City. Very scarce. NSTC 2S41964; Sabin 92135. See Dictionary of American
Biography for much on Stone. Disbound. Mild foxing to first and final leaves. Chip to fore-margin of one leaf, without
loss of text. Nonetheless, a very good copy. (11023) $225.00
257. Stuart, Ruth McEnery. Aunt Amity’s silver wedding and other stories. New York: Century Co., 1909. 8vo. [10],
228 pp.; 14 plts. First edition, in a signed binding by Decorative Designers (“DD”). Publisher’s green cloth, front cover
stamped in gilt and light green, spine gilt-stamped; corners and spine extremities a touch rubbed, otherwise clean and
bright. Front free endpaper with pencilled gift inscription dated [19]10. (12946) $50.00
258. Stuart, Ruth McEnery. Sonny a Christmas guest. New York: Century Co., 1904. 8vo. Frontis., viii, 135, [1]
pp.; 12 plts. Early reprint of this sentimental tale about a rambunctious young boy whose eventual success surprises his
hometown, but not his doting parents. The novel is illustrated with twelve engraved plates by Fanny Y. Cory, making this
an entirely woman-created book production (see binding notes below). Binding: Signed binding designed by Emma
Redington Lee Thayer of Decorative Designers and stamped with the “DD” monogram, of green cloth with front cover
stamped in light green, white, and gilt, spine stamped in gilt and light green. Binding as above, slightly cocked, with cloth
a touch worn over corners and spine extremities, otherwise clean and attractive. A handsome copy. (13581) $75.00
259. Sunbeam, Susie [pseud. of Mrs. Henry S. Mackarness]. The picture alphabet, with stories. Boston: Locke &
Bubier, [1856]. 32mo. [2 (blank)], 96, 96, [4 (blank)] pp.; illus. First U.S. edition. Scarce: OCLC lists only one copy
of this book with this imprint. Illustrated children’s book, the first part being an alphabet book, with stories. The second
part is a collection of prayers and didactic verse entitled, “Little Poems for Little Readers.” Illustrated with engraved initials
(A to Z) and full-page engravings (included in pagination). Spine title: “Learning with Pleasure.” Publisher’s terra
cotta colored cloth, stamped in black on front cover, spine stamped with gilt lettering and decorations. Center of front
cover bears a full-color illustration on-lay (soiled and chipped in two corners) of a dancing boy playing an accordion.
Spine slightly cocked, stained, lightly rubbed over joints, and cloth tearing a bit at head and foot. Corners bumped. Front
hinge (inside) loosening a bit from the spine, front cover wobbly. Lacks front free endpaper. Presentation inscription on
front fly-leaf (“Fred from Aunty Bertha”). Good+. (7481) $100.00
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260. Taylor, Mrs. Ann Martin. Practical hints to young females, on the duties of a wife, a mother, and a mistress of a
family. Second American edition. Boston: Wells & Lilly, 1820. 16mo. vii, [1], 189, [1] pp. Second U.S. edition, following
the first American of 1816 and the first English of 1815: Manual for prospective wives, covering conduct, economy,
and the handling of servants. A chapter aimed at husbands reminds them of their obligations as well. Shoemaker
3388. Contemporary mottled sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title label; binding worn and abraded, joints partially cracked.
Front pastedown with small bookplate partially removed. Some spotting, more notable in back half of volume. Outer page
edges with early inked inscription. (7220) $75.00
261. Taylor, Mrs. Ann Martin. Practical hints to young females, on the duties of a wife, a mother, and a mistress of a
family ... from the third London edition. New York: A. Ming, Jr., 1829. 12mo (14.5 cm, 5.75"). vii, [1], 16, 41–52,
29–188 pp. Early American edition of this popular domestic manual for the young bride. This copy was incorrectly bound
with six duplicate leaves, leaving the “Conduct to the Husband” chapter incomplete and the “Domestic Economy” chapter
out entirely. Shoemaker 40609. Contemporary quarter morocco over marbled paper-covered sides, moderately worn and
rubbed. Pages with foxing ranging from mild to moderate; pp. 17–28 lacking, replaced by duplicates of pp. 41–52.
(10123) $100.00
262. Tenney, Mrs. Sanborn. Pictures and stories of animals for the little ones at home. Sea-stars, jelly-fishes,
sea-anemones, and corals. New York: Sheldon & Co., 1868. 12mo. Frontis., 150 pp.; illus. Natural history for kids,
with 83 wood engravings. Publisher’s red cloth, stamped in gilt on spine and embossed in blind on covers. Covers with
black stains, loss of cloth at tips of spine, corners bumped, and light rubbing to edges. Pencilling and small waterstains to
front endpapers; text clean. (1132) $45.00
263. Thayer, Caroline Matilda Warren. Gamesters. Or, ruins of innocence. An original novel, founded in truth.
Boston: J. Shaw, 1828. 16mo. 300 pp. Second edition, following the original publication in 1805, of this fictionalized
anti-gambling (but pro-womanly virtue) tale of ruin and woe. Wright, I, 2553; Shoemaker 35485. Contemporary speckled
sheep, spine with gilt-stamped title and decorative motifs; worn and abraded, front cover separated, back joint cracked,
spine leather cracking with gilt dulled. Pages age-toned with varying degrees of spotting. (6067) $150.00
264. Thomas Brown Redivivus [pseud. of Cornwallis, Caroline Frances]. An exposition of vulgar and common errors
adapted to the year of grace MDCCCXLV. London: William Pickering (Chiswick: Pr. by C. Whittingham), 1845. 12mo.
[6 (2 blank)], 132 pp. First edition. This is the seventh number (of 22) in the series “Small Books on Great Subjects,”
conceived and (mostly) written by the English polymath Caroline Frances Cornwallis (1869–1858). The series encompassed
a wide variety of subjects such as Greek philosophy, theology, psychology, geology, organic chemistry, criminal
law, and grammar. Here, the author points out the fallacies of many time-worn sayings and the commonly made mistakes
in English grammar. Other topics include the nature of genius, evil spirits, the position of women in society, and disease
and medicine. This Pickering Press edition bears the firm’s device incorporating the Aldine dolphin and anchor, and the
legend “Aldi Discip. Anglvs.” and was printed following Pickering’s move, in 1884, to 177 Piccadilly where he remained
until his death. NSTC 2B53102. Library cloth, front and back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library, spine
with (chipped) paper shelving labels, front cover and spine with paper title label. Chipped at corners and at head and foot
of spine. Front hinge (inside) cracking just a bit. Title-page and several other pages rubber-stamped. Small bookplate in
one corner of front pastedown. Early inked signature at top of title-page and p. 27. A couple of stray pencil marks and
spots of foxing. Spine slightly cocked. (8607) $35.00
265. Thorseth, Matthea. Color of ripening. Seattle: Superior Publishing, (1949). 8vo. 343 pp. Novel of Wobbly lumberjacks
in the Pacific Northwest, incorporating the Everett Massacre of Nov. 5, 1916 as a climax to the story. This copy
is a conundrum: either a review copy or an early remainder that was never bound. Consists of uncut, unopened text block,
sewn, with endpapers, but never bound into a hardback binding. Original dust wrapper attached to the endpaper with staples.
Very reminiscent of the style review copies of Tender is the Night. Uncut, unopened, never fully bound. See above.
(3404) $30.00
266. Tonna, Charlotte Elizabeth. Osric, a missionary tale. With The garden and other poems...fourth edition. New
York: Baker & Scribner, 1849. 12mo. 146 pp. [with] Izram, a Mexican tale. New York: Baker & Scribner, 1849.
12mo. 121, [1] pp. Early American editions of poems by a very popular Victorian writer generally known by her first
two names; each title piece has a missionary theme, one being set among Indians in the United States and one in Mexico.
Publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, lovely spine with gilt-stamped title and cathedral decorations; binding, with faint traces of
wear, overall clean and attractive. Pages with occasional small spots of foxing; front free endpaper with inked date of
1850. (8981) $75.00
267. Townsend, Elizabeth W. The white dove, and other poems for children. Philadelphia: C.G. Henderson & Co.,
1858. 12mo. 128, 16 (adv.) pp.; 4 plts. Early edition of these sweet verses for children, illustrated with four engraved
plates. Publisher’s blind-stamped textured cloth, faded, cloth lost over bottom half of spine, front and back covers faintly
pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library. Frontispiece, title-page, and several others stamped. (4231) $25.00
268. Trick for trick, or, the admiral's daughter. A farce, in two acts: As performed with unbounded applause at the
Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, July 2, 1812. For the benefit of Miss S. Booth. London: John Miller, 1812. 8vo. 40 pp.
Uncommon sole edition. NSTC T1607. Removed from a nonce volume, now in a Mylar folder. One page (not the title)
stamped by a now-defunct institution. (10526) $50.00
269. United States. House of Representatives. Alphonsa F. A. Blake. [Washington, DC: 1840]. 8vo. 9, [1] pp. Daughter
of William Carmichael, who served as U.S. chargé d’affaires in Spain during the late 18th-century, here seeking compensation
from Congress. With a table of expenses. H.R. doc. 634, 26th Cong., 1st sess. Removed from a nonce binding,
now in a Mylar folder. Title-page with inked numeral in upper corner. (11934) $27.50
270. Villamor, Pedro Pablo de. Vida, y virtudes de la venerable Madre Francisca María de el Niño Jesus, religiosa
professa en el Real Convento de Carmelitas Descalzas de la ciudad de Santa Fe. Dedicada a la serenissima reyna de los
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Angeles María Santissima de el Carmen. Madrid: 1723. 4to. [11 of 12] ff., 364 [i.e., 394], [25] pp. (lacks 3 ff.). A
truly rare book, even in a much-to-apologize-for copy: The first and best biography of one of the most famous female pious
figures of colonial Bogotá, Colombia. Madre Francisca was born in Bogota in 1665 as Francisca María Leonel de
Caycedo. The author, Villamor, studied at the Jesuit college in Bogota, then worked in hospitals in Panama and Cartagena
and pursued medical studies in those same places. The volume is illustrated with head- and tailpieces. Medina (BHA
2492) stated this edition probably did not exist and that Vergara was confused with an edition of 1724. Actually, the pagination
of the two seems to be different, if Medina’s collation of the 1724 edition is correct. Our copy agrees with the 1723
edition. Searches of OCLC, RLIN, and NUC locate only the copies at the Lilly Library and the University of Pennsylvania,
both once upon a time owned by Bernardo Mendel! Internationally, we locate only the copy at the National Library of
Colombia; of the 1724 the only copy we locate anywhere is at the Universidad de Sevilla. Alden & Landis, European
Americana, 723/168; Sabin 99655; Medina, BHA, 2492 (doubting such an edition) & 2533 (for the 1724 reprint); Vergara
y Vergara, Historia de la literatura en Nueva Granada, 184. Not in Palau. Contemporary vellum, with remnants of ties,
heavily soiled, hinges (inside) broken, worn. Bookplate of a female book collector on inside of front cover. Staining, foxing,
soiling. Lacks title-leaf and pp. 47–50. First leaf torn and chipped, with loss of text, following dozen leaves torn in
margins and loosened from binding. Early leaves and some later leaves with chipped corners, dog-ears, tears in inner margins,
fore-edges curling inwards. Pages 31–46 with tear extending into text, affecting text but without loss of it, pp.
143–162 and pp. 175–176 torn in inner corners and margins, pp. 183–186 torn in fore-margins. Final leaf torn and tattered,
with much early inked writing. Pages loosening. Occasional inked marginal notations and markings. A worn copy.
(10661) $650.00
271. Waite, Cora, ed. Cook book of tested recipes compiled by the ladies of the Mission Band of Emmanuel Church Little
Falls, N.Y. Little Falls, NY: Herkimer County News, [ca. 1890]. 8vo. 47, [1] pp. Uncommon church cookbook,
compiled by the Mission Band of Emmanuel Church women’s group, with all recipes bearing attributions. Stapled in original
printed paper wrappers; wrappers lightly stained, and chipped over edges and spine. Pages age-toned but generally
clean, a few with short edge tears. (13751) $65.00
272. Wakefield, Priscilla (Bell). Mental improvement: or the beauties and wonders of nature and art. In a series of instructive
conversations. New Bedford, MA: Pr. by A. Shearman, Jr., 1809. 12mo. ix, [3], (13)–278, [2] pp. Second
American edition, from the fifth London edition. Shaw & Shoemaker 19128. Contemporary sheep, spine gilt-stamped with
title on a black leather label; rubbed and abraded, especially over joints and corners; some leather loss at head and foot of
spine. Inking and pencilling on front pastedown. Lacks front (blank) leaves, back fly-leaf torn. Stains on some pages.
(8575) $45.00
A German Woman Printer
273. Walch, Johann Georg. Io. Georgii Walchii Bibliotheca patristica litterariis adnotationibus instructa. Ienae: Sumuv
Viduae Croeckerianae, 1770. 8vo. [8], 582, [26] pp. Sole edition of this bibliography of the church fathers. Illustrated
with engraved title-page vignette, head- and tail-pieces, and initials. 19th-century sheep, with gilt-rules and ornaments,
spine with white-lettered library call number. Gilt edges. Marbled endpapers. Binding rubbed and abraded, leather dry
and cracking, soiling, corners bumped and worn, with loss of leather. Covers nearly separated from binding, held in place
with black tape. Bookplate on front pastedown. Library charge pocket, card, and slip at the back. Occasional pencil
marks in margins. Marginal chip or two. (14209) $125.00
274. Ward, Mrs. Humphry. The case of Richard Meynell. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1911. 8vo. Frontis.,
viii, [2], 630 pp.; 4 plts. First U.S. edition of this novel about an Anglican clergyman put on trial for allegedly heretically
liberal views. Illustrated by Charles E. Brock. Publisher’s blind-stamped cloth, front cover and spine with white-stamped
title; stamping on spine slightly rubbed, cloth lightly worn over corners. Reverse of frontispiece with rubber stamp.
(13014) $25.00
275. Warfield, Catherine Ann. Sea and shore. A sequel to “Miriam’s Memoirs.” Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Bros.,
(copyright 1876). 8vo. [4], 21-332 (complete), [4 (adv.)] pp. First edition of the sequel to Miriam Monfort, which was the
sequel to Monfort Hall: Miriam is shipwrecked, falsely imprisoned as a lunatic, and takes responsibility for a crippled orphan
boy in this melodramatic romance. Warfield, born in Mississippi, was raised in Philadelphia after her mother was
institutionalized. Not in Wright. Contemporary half morocco and marbled paper sides, worn and abraded, text block detached
from spine and front cover, front and back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library. A few pages with
very faint stamps. (4385) $40.00
276. Watanna, Onoto. A Japanese nightingale. New York & London: Harper & Brothers, 1902. 8vo. [6], 225, [1] pp.;
3 col. plts. Early issue, following the first edition of 1901. Illustrated with three chromolithographed plates by Genjiro
Yeto, with delicate Japanese-themed designs printed in the background of each page. Watanna was the pen name used by
Winnifred Eaton, daughter of a Chinese mother and English father, and the first published Asian-American novelist; the
present work was her most popular novel, eventually made into both a Broadway play and a silent movie. Publisher’s
cloth, front cover stamped in pink, green, and gilt, spine gilt-stamped; binding cocked, spine and corners a touch rubbed.
Plates with upper margins waterstained; still a very pretty copy. (12911) $50.00
277. Watanna, Onoto. The love of Azalea. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Co., 1904. 8vo. [2], 239, [1] pp.; 6 plts. First
edition. Illustrated with six color plates by Gazo Foudji, with delicate Japanese-themed designs printed in the background
of each page. Watanna was the pen name used by Winnifred Eaton, daughter of a Chinese mother and English father, and
the first published Asian-American novelist. Publisher’s light blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in pink, white,
green, and gilt; binding slightly cocked, with spine a bit dimmed. Upper edges gilt. A lovely copy. (14934) $35.00
278. Webster, Jean. Daddy-long-legs. With illustrations by the author. New York: Century Co., 1912. 8vo. [6], 304
pp.; illus. First edition. Peter Parley to Penrod 130. Publisher’s blue cloth stamped in green and white; binding a bit
cocked, with white portions rubbed as is common. Front pastedown with small owner’s ticket and pencilled name. A
clean, attractive copy of a much-loved classic. (12892) $75.00
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279. Weeden, Howard. Bandanna ballads, including “Shadows on the Wall.” Verses and pictures by Howard Weeden.
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. Sm. 8vo. Frontis., xvi, 90 pp., 23 plts. First edition of this author’s second
book. Despite the implication of her masculine-appearing name, Miss Weeden [Maria Howard Weeden] was definitely
a noteworthy female poet and artist and is a recent inductee into the Alabama Women’s Hall of Fame. The volume includes
an introduction by Joel Chandler Harris, along with poems in “black dialect” and almost photographic-like illustrations
of blacks. BAL 7144. Publisher’s green cloth. Ex-library: stamps, paper call number label on spine, library name
stamp in blind on covers, charge pocket at rear. Really, a very nice copy of an important book. (3345) $100.00
280. Weinberger, Jane. As ever: A selection of letters from the voluminous correspondence of JaneWeinberger
1970–1990. Mt. Desert, ME: Windswept House Publishers, 1991. 8vo. Illus. First edition. A compilation of letters by
the wife of the Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan, Casper Weinberger. Paperback (no hardcover edition issued).
Very good condition. (6645) $25.00
281. (Wellington). Longford, Elizabeth. Wellington: Pillar of state. New York: Harper & Row, 1972. (6648) $17.50
282. (Wellington). Longford, Elizabeth. Wellington: The years of the sword. New York: Harper & Row, 1969. History
Book Club edition. Spine crumpled. (6647) $15.00
283. Wharton, Edith. Ethan Frome. Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, [1967]. 8vo. [4], 128, [4] pp.; illus. One of 300
copies printed for private distribution, with drawings by Edward A. Wilson. A printed presentation slip is laid in. Publisher’s
cloth, spine gilt-stamped, in glassine dustjacket. As new. (13083) $125.00
284. White, Alexina B. Little-folk songs. New York: Hurd & Houghton, (copyright 1871). 8vo. vi, 94 pp.; illus. Children’s
verse of the “Sippity sup, sippity sup, / Bread and milk in a china cup” variety. Illustrated with a number of in-text
engravings. Good in publisher’s cloth, front cover stamped in gilt and black, back cover blind-stamped, both covers pressure-stamped
by a now-defunct library; spine darkened, with paper shelving label and cloth chipped over head and foot.
Some staining to endpapers; back free endpaper with pocket. Title-page and several others stamped. (4024) $30.00
285. Whitlock, Genevieve Hale. Poems. With an introductory sketch by Alex. F. Irvine. New Haven: Clifford E.H.
Whitlock, 1906. 8vo. Frontis., xi, [1], 126 pp.; 1 plt. Uncommon sole edition of this volume by the wife of the founder
of the famous New Haven book institution, Whitlock’s Book Barn. Publisher’s cloth, front cover and spine with simple
gilt-stamped title and author's name, in original glassine wrapper; wrapper with edges chipped, binding clean and all but
unworn. (13017) $30.00
286. Whitney, Adeline Dutton Train. Odd, or even? Boston: Houghton, Osgood, & Co., 1880. 12mo. [1 (ads)] f., 505, [1
(blank)] pp. First edition. Most of Whitney’s adult novels (she was known mostly for girls’ books) dealt with domestic life,
which she believed to be the primary concern of women. Not in Wright! Publisher’s cloth stamped in black/gold. Light
wear; a little discoloration to back cover and some spotting confined to first few pages. A good-plus copy. (4303) $35.00
297. Whitney, Adeline Dutton Train. Real folks. Boston: James R. Osgood & Company, 1872. 12mo. Frontis., iv,
308 pp.; 6 plts. First edition. One of four novels composing the enormously popular Real Folks Series. The copyright
date is 1871, as is the inscription noted in our next paragraph. Provenance: Gift inscription, “Hattie E. Walker from
Mother. Nov. 7th 1871.” Wright, II, 2717. Publisher’s green cloth stamped in black and gold. Top and bottom of spine
slightly frayed. Light foxing to a few pages in the middle of book. (4304) $37.50
288. Whittlesey, Elsie Leigh. Elyria. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1877. 12mo. 335, [1] pp. First edition
of this sweet romance novel, in which the action begins in New England and moves to Pennsylvania and Cape May;
one supporting character is an amateur entymologist. Wright, III, 5940. Contemporary half morocco and marbled paper
sides, worn and abraded, front and back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library, spine with paper shelving label.
Title-page and several others lightly stamped; sewing loosening. A few stray spots and pencil marks. (4412) $35.00
289. Wilde, Jane Francesca Elgee, Lady. Poems by Speranza (Lady Wilde). Dublin & London: James Duffy, 1864.
12mo. vii, [1 (blank)], 233, [1 (blank)] pp. First edition. Beginning in 1845, Lady Wilde contributed both prose and verse to
the Irish nationalist journal The Nation, under the pseudonym “Speranza,” until it was suppressed for sedition in 1848. In
that journal’s final issue she penned a militant essay entitled “Jacta alea est,” which was used as evidence in the unsuccessful
prosecution of its editor, Charles Gavan Duffy, for sedition. Her Poems, dedicated to her two sons “Willie” and Oscar, includes
much nationalist verse. NSTC 2W20318; New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, III, 1905. Library
quarter leather over marbled paper boards; rubbed and abraded, some leather loss at head of spine. Spine with paper shelving
label, front and back covers pressure-stamped by a now-defunct library. Bookbinder’s plate at front pastedown, library
charge pocket at rear free endpaper. Title-page and several others rubber-stamped. Pp. 97-98 loose, pp. 99-110 loosening
from binding. A few pencil marks, more extensive pencilling on p. 30 (without touching text). (8530) $250.00
290. Wilson, Henrietta. Little things. Revised by the Committee of Publication. Philadelphia: American Sunday-School
Union, copyright 1852. 12mo. Frontis., 71, [1] pp. For a juvenile audience: Christian meditations on the small acts of kindness
and beauty that make life pleasurable for ourselves and those around us. Publisher’s blind-stamped textured cloth, spine
gilt extra, clean but somewhat dimmed overall with gilt oxidized and cloth slightly rubbed over extremities. Tissue guard
once present opposite the frontispiece, removed. Front fly-leaf with pencilled gift inscription, 1858; front free endpaper and
fly-leaf with contemporary annotations recommending the volume as a “beautiful book” and adding, “Take care / of this /
Sally.” Pages with light age-toning and a very few scattered small spots of foxing, otherwise clean. (13889) $55.00
291. Winthrop, R.C., Jr. A difference of opinion concerning the reasons why Katharine Winthrop refused to marry
Chief Justice Sewall. Boston: Privately printed, 1885. 8vo. 25, [1] pp. “A few words in defence of an elderly lady,”
written by a descendant of the lady in question. Amusing, very personal look at history. Original printed paper wrappers,
split over spine, front wrapper with inked and pencilled marks. Title-page with pencilled notations. Sewing partially gone,
leaves loose; pages clean. (6227) $35.00
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292. (Wister, Mrs. Annis Lee, tr.). Werner, E. Saint Michael. A romance. Translated from the German of E. Werner
by Mrs. A. L. Wister. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1888. 12mo. 411, [1 (blank)] pp., [4 (ads)] ff. A novel
about duty, country, and the honor of an aristocratic German family, set in the Alpine countryside. Mrs. Wister was a
dedicated translator and opposite the title-page is a full-page listing of her translations from the German. Publisher’s green
cloth stamped with a tree branch design in black on front cover, and with the title in gold. Light wear to binding.
Pencilling and ink signature on front fly-leaf. A very good copy. (7935) $25.00
293. Wortley, Emmeline Stuart. Visionary. London: Joseph Rickerby, 1839. 8vo. [8], 343, [1] pp. Presentation copy,
title-page inscribed “The Editor of the Atlas from the Author”; a portion of The Visionary was printed in 1836, but this is
apparently the first edition of the completed piece. Plain library buckram, lightly worn over edges/extremities, both covers
pressure-stamped by a now-defunct institution, spine with paper shelving label. Lacking front free endpaper; front pastedown
with bookplate; back free endpaper (separated) with pocket. Title-page and a number of others stamped, some perforation
and some ink; title-page inscribed as described above. Some pencilled underlining and check marks. (5534) $50.00
294. Yearsley, Ann. Royal captives. A fragment of secret history: Copied from an old manuscript. Philadelphia: William
W. Woodward, 1795. 12mo. [8], 273 pp. Early American edition, from the first year of publication. The author, a
dairywoman rescued from obscurity by Hannah More, apologies in her preface for the rather abrupt ending of this melodramatic
tale; two other volumes appeared in England, but the American version stopped with the present volume. The
story, set in France, is based on the legend of the Man in the Iron Mask. Evans 29934. Contemporary half morocco and
marbled paper sides, worn and abraded with front cover separated; front and back covers pressure-stamped by a
now-defunct library, spine with paper shelving label and loss of leather over head. Front fly-leaves and half-title separated.
Title-page and several others stamped; stray pencil marks; some light spotting. (4382) $200.00
295. Yechton, Barbara [pseud. of Lyda Farrington Krausé]. Fortune’s boats. Boston & New York: Houghton, Mifflin
and Company (The Riverside Press, Cambridge), 1900. 8vo. [9], 357, [1] pp. First edition: A romance novel for adolescent
girls. Wright locates four copies and states that the majority of the author's books were for girls. Wright, III, 3193.
Publisher’s blue cloth, front cover and spine stamped in gold and silver, with a sail ship design on the front; head and foot
of spine with just a touch of rubbing. Pages clean and crisp. A very nice copy. (13488) $67.75
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