‎Anglais‎

‎Pauw, Linda Grant De.‎

‎FOUR TRADITIONS: Women of New York During the American Revolution.‎

‎pp. v, 39. Illustrated. 8vo. Original pictorial wraps. Fine. IROQUOIS WOMEN; DUTCH WOMEN; NEGRO WOMEN; ENGLISH WOMEN; CAMP FOLLOWERS AMERICANA BOX 9‎

‎Sydney (Sidney), Algernon; Hollis, Thomas; Civil War Era Manuscript Political Commentary.W/‎

‎THE WORKS OF ALGERNON SYDNEY. A New Edition. [Edited by Thomas Hollis].‎

‎pp. (8), 540, (2), 22, 56, 57, 65 , 32, 33 + A handsome bust portrait engraved by Basire, after Cipriani. Portrait offset on to the unusual title page. Some old foxing. Large 4to. 295 mm. x 240 mm. Modern plain full leather binding. Hardbound. Very good. ** WITH AMERICAN CIVIL WAR ERA (1863) MANUSCRIPT NOTES AND ANNOTATIONS. Edited by the great 'Republican' Thomas Hollis, with additions and corrections by Joseph Robertson, this edition includes: Memoirs of the Life of Algernon Sydney; Discourses Concerning Government; Letters of Algernon Sydney, taken from Thurloe's State Papers; The Protector's Advice to Algernon Sydney; Letters of Algernon Sydney, taken from the Sydney papers; Letters of A. Sydney to Henry Savile, Ambassador in France; The Trial of A. Sydney; The Apology of A. Sydney in the Day of his Death; and A General view of Government in Europe. This is an important book in the history of the ideas that founded the American republic, but what is perhaps most interesting about this copy are the manuscript notes and annotations written, in a careful small hand, in America, during the Civil War (1863). A few of these struck our eye, and we're glad to reproduce a few selections here: "I have lately undertaking to read Algernon Sydney on government. There is great difference in reading a book at four and twenty and at eighty eight. As often as I have read it and fumbled it over, it now excites fresh admiration that this work has excited so little interest in the literary world. As splendid an edition of it as the art of printing can produce, as well as for the intrinsic merits of the work, as for the proof it brings of the bitter sufferings of the advocates of liberty from that time to this, and to show the slow progress of moral, philosophical, political illumination in the world, ought to now be published in America" - John Adams to Thomas Jefferson 17 September, 1823. ".the danger in America. arises from (1) the indifference of the people to the character of their deputies; (2) the disinclination of good men to go as deputies; (3) and the inclination of bad men to go as such. The rottenness of our law making bodies has reached such a point that if it shall not soon be cured it can not longer endure." - 1863. "Among the causes, which have brought the USA to their present unhappy condition, may be reckoned, as a leading one, the predominance in their councils of mere municipal lawyers. The low morals and the crass ignorance (of these) are not equal to the work of government, filched by them from a blindly confiding people. A profession proverbially selfish and dishonest can not produce statesmen, however fecund it may be of politicians. The conduct of government is the work of statesmen - of unselfish, honest, high-hearted, great-minded men = that class has disappeared and has given way to small country lawyers whose minds exercise only upon petty squabbles of the neighborhood, incapable of grasping the vast concerns of a nation. Bad as this is, there is something worse. and that is that the profession of the law is every year sinking lower in ignorance and in contempt, while at the same time it is rising in power." - 1863. These manuscript annotations make this copy UNIQUE, and very worthy of further study. W150. **PRICE JUST REDUCED!‎

‎Macaulay [Thomas Babington, First Baron Macaulay] (1800-1859).‎

‎THE MISCELLANEOUS WRITINGS OF LORD MACAULAY In Two Volumes.‎

‎Two Volumes. pp. xvi, 395; vii, 440 + Engraved frontis portrait. 8vo. Some light foxing to preliminary leaves. Handsome full leather binding, decorated in gilt. Marbled endpapers. All edges gold gilt. Engraved armorial bookplate of Lewis Loyd. A handsome set of the First Edition. Edited by T.F. Ellis, this set includes some of his earliest and latest works, among them: Macaulay's Poems and Inscriptions, 'Criticisms On the Principal Italian Writers', 'Mill On Government', 'Sadler's Law Of Population', 'On Mitford's History Of Greece', Utilitarian Theory Of Government', articles on John Dryden, John Bunyan, Oliver Goldsmith, Samuel Johnson, William Pitt, &c. Many of them were originally articles written for the Knights Quarterly Magazine, the Edinburgh Review, and the Encyclopaedia Britannica. A handsome set. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! SW2‎

‎Mainzer, Dr. Joseph.‎

‎MUSIC AND EDUCATION.‎

‎pp. xv, 111 + Publisher's advertisements dated April, 1847 (32 p.). Thin 8vo. Original full cloth binding, decorated in blind. Soiled. PRESENTATION COPY of the first edition: "James B. Syme from Dr. Mainzer." An influential essay by a German singing master and music teacher who came to England in 1839. Mainzer dedicates his book to the Members of the Educational Institute of Scotland 'because the Institute has, despite the national prejudices, acknowledged music as a branch of public instruction, as an element in the education of youth'. He discusses (in a Scottish context): the Present System of Musical Education; Musical Teaching in Boarding Schools; Vocal Music, its Influence Upon the Health of Children; Infancy the Best Age for Singing; Moral Influence of Music; Music in Infant Schools (and) in Schools for Children, Young Ladies, and Classical Students; Etc. This copy was presented to Dr. James Syme (1799-1870) of Edinburgh. As a student at Edinburgh University he found a way of dissolving rubber which later had many commercial applications. Syme opened a school of Anatomy and later opened a very successful private clinic. In 1833, he became Professor of Surgery in Edinburgh and held that position until his death. Syme is known for introducing conservative alternatives to the major amputations that were common at the time. In 1831, he released a booklet, which detailed cases where joint excision could be used instead of amputation for grossly diseased joints. In 1842, Syme described an amputation at the ankle. This amputation still bears his name, as it replaced a portion of below knee amputations, which were ordinary practice at that time. JUN2C / SE 1/2‎

‎(Fawcett, Benjamin; Lydon, A.F.).‎

‎GEMS FROM THE POETS, ILLUSTRATED. From Original Designs by A. F. Lydon.‎

‎pp. [4], 61, [1] + Plus 28 beautiful plates printed in colours from wood blocks; and an added title page, with a colored vignette, lettered in gold gilt. Each leaf on heavy board-like paper. All edges gilt. Large 8vo. 260 mm. Some damp stain on the light fly leaves and plate tissues, but generally quite clean. Original full green morocco leather binding, handsomely decorated in gold gilt, designed by Albert Henry Warren. Pencil autograph ownership of H. Allen Anderson (who was the author of 'The Chief : Ernest Thompson Seton and the changing West.' Benjamin Fawcett (1808-1893) was one of the finest of English nineteenth century woodblock colour printers. The son of a ship's master, he was apprenticed at age 14 for seven years to William Forth, a Bridlington bookseller and printer. In 1831 he started his own business in Driffield, as music seller, bookbinder and printer, bookseller and stationer. He became a master of hand-coloured wood engraving. The process started with an accurate painting of the subject. (In this case the paintings were by F.A. Lydon, a local youth who served his apprenticeship with Fawcett and stayed with him until 1883). The picture was then carved, with meticulous attention to detail, on a wooden block of pear or boxwood (which he imported, matured, sawed and sliced and surfaced by his own hands). Placed in a printing press the block gave a black-and-white print, which was then hand-coloured with high-grade inks (often by Fawcett's 'clever' wife with his participation and direction). Many of his books were were published by Groombridge, of London. This work is usually found with that imprint. Indeed, we have been unable to locate any other copy anywhere with Bell and Daldy as publishers. This work is mentioned in many references including: Burch.'Colour Printing and Colour Printers'; McLean. 'Victorian Publishers' Book-bindings in Cloth and Leather'. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! W45 BINDINGS‎

‎Jerrold, Douglas; Keene, Charles‎

‎MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES. Illustrated by Charles Keene.‎

‎pp. xx, 190 [10]. Small quarto. 210 mm. All edges gilt. Unusual color chromolithographed frontis and 60 wood engraved text illustrations by Charles Keene. Title printed in red and black. Original publisher's full plum cloth binding, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind. Binding slightly rubbed, but still attractive. The complex binding design is by John Leighton, and was executed by Edmonds & Remnants (with their label). Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was an English dramatist and writer who, from the 1830s to 1850s, was absolutely at the centre of literary London. A friend of Dickens and Thackeray, both pall-bearers at his funeral. Jerrold was an editor, playwright, journalist, novelist and public wit and among the most popular writers in Britain. It was 'Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures' that really captured the public's imagination. Serialized in Punch, they were lively studies of female domination in Victorian society. The illustrations here by Charles Kenne (1823-1891), who began to draw for Punch in 1852, are considered a masterpiece in book illustration. Ray. 'Illustrator and the Book in England' #188. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! BINDINGS NW52‎

‎Burger, Gottfried August; Snekul, Heinrich Yalc.‎

‎LEAN' NORA: Supernatural, though Sub-pathetic Ballad. A Good Long Way (almost Ninety-Seven years) After The German Of Gottfried August Burger. By Heinrich Yalc Snekul.‎

‎84 p. Poems in German and English. XLib stamp on title and elsewhere. Blind XLib stamp on title page. Dropsie College Library label on paste down. Mayer Sulzberger' label also on paste down. Inked ownership of Jacob Sulzberger on first fly leaf. Wide margins. Top edge gilt. 4to. Original full orange buckram binding lettered in gold gilt. Extremities rubbed and slightly worn. First Edition. Very good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA SHELF 04A‎

‎Herr, John.‎

‎THE ILLUSTRATING MIRROR; OR A FUNDAMENTAL ILLUSTRATION OF CHRIST'S SERMON ON THE MOUNT. Translated From the German.‎

‎pp. 395, (1) [Errata]. Damp stained. Age stained. 12mo. 150 mm. Original full leather binding. Spine decorated in gold with original leather spine label. Front board fragile. Binding rubbed and worn. Johannes Herr (1781-1850), was the founder of the Reformed Mennonite Church. Around 1800 his father (Francis) was expelled from the Mennonite Church in West Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, PA. Francis began to conduct religious services in his home as a lay brother. He died in 1810, leaving a family of eight children, none of whom had been baptized as members in any church. Among those who associated with him in his lay services were Abraham Landis and David Buckwalter, both of whom had withdrawn from the Mennonite Church. After Francis Herr's death the meetings continued and his son John was asked to lead the services, although he was not yet baptized. In a meeting on 30 May 1812, at John Herr's home John was elected pastor and bishop, and Abraham Landis was elected to baptize him. Herr in turn baptized Landis and Abraham Groff, Groff being elected deacon. Soon thereafter Abraham Landis was chosen preacher, followed by John Groff as preacher. In 1812 the first meetinghouse was dedicated, called Longenecker's. John became a vigorous leader of the new group. He traveled widely, especially to Western New York and Ontario, where congregations of his group were established. Scarce First Edition. PA SHELF 011A‎

‎Simon, Menno.‎

‎THE COMPLETE WORKS OF MENNO SIMON, TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL DUTCH OR HOLLAND.‎

‎In Two Parts: pp. 288; 455 + Portrait Frontis. All edges marbled. Text in double columns. 4to. 270 mm. Original leather spine over cloth covered boards. Spine worn with loss of leather at joints. Very good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA SHELF 012B x3‎

‎Boaden, James.‎

‎AN INQUIRY INTO THE AUTHENTICITY OF VARIOUS PICTURES AND PRINTS, which, from the Decease of the Poet to our Own Times, Have been Offered to the Public as Portraits of Shakespeare.‎

‎206 p. + One mezzotint by Charles Turner after Cornelius Jansen and four engraved portraits. Foxed. One plate with a repaired tear. Foxed. Slim 8vo. Half leather binding. XLib. Along with the debate over the true identity of Shakespeare has been a controversy over exactly what he looked like. This work contains a careful examination of the evidence by which the pretended portraits have been rejected, [and] the genuine confirmed and established. First Edition. Including discussion of the portraits by Droeshout, Zucchero, Jansen, and Marshall, the Stratford bust, the Chandos head, the Felton head, etc. Jaggard pp. 586-87. The book is quite uncommon and still of great value and interest. SCARCE. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! JUN2C / NW23‎

‎Bailey, Nathan; Klausing, Anton Ernst (1739-1803); Arnold, Theodor.‎

‎A COMPLEAT ENGLISH DICTIONARY, oder vollstandiges Englisch=Deusches Worterbuch. Funfte Auflage.‎

‎Two volumes in one. pp. [vi], 958; 612. Includes: A catalogue of the most usual proper, Christian and nick-names of men and women with those of the chief places in the world, English, Latin and German. Thick 8vo. 220 mm. Date excised from the first title page, Old marginal damp stain. Virtually disbound, but one leather backed board and the marbled endpapers remain. An interesting German-English dictionary; with a curious catalog of pproper names. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! GER-GER1‎

‎Milton, John; Young, Edward; Gray, Thomas; Beattie, James; Collins, William.‎

‎THE POETICAL WORKS OF MILTON, YOUNG, GRAY, BEATTIE, AND COLLINS. Complete in One Volume.‎

‎pp. xliii, 467 in various pagings. Engraved frontis portrait plate (offset on to title). Publisher's catalogue for Grigg & Elliot (8 p.). 8vo. 225 mm. Original full leather binding; just slightly rubbed. PALIB 6‎

‎Fenelon, Francois de Salignac de La Mothe (1651-1715); Dibdin, Thomas Frognall.‎

‎A TREATISE ON THE EDUCATION OF DAUGHTERS: BY FENELON, Arch-Bishop Of Cambray. Translated From The French; And Adapted To English Readers. With An Original Chapter, On Religious Studies. By The Rev. T.F. Dibdin.‎

‎214 p. + Frontis. Early manuscript ownership of A. Hatzfield on title page. In block letters on rear fly leaf "From the ruins of "Old Main" of Westminster College Burned Jan. 24, 1927, 1861-1927." This refers to the college located in New Wilmington, PA, where two 'Old Main' had burned to the ground in 1861 and 1927. First fly leaves and verso of Frontis light smoke damage. Top edge darkened. 24mo. 145 mm. Original very worn leather binding. Front board detached. Boards stained. Spine very worn with loss. S&S/AI 5326. Hardbound. AI BX 5‎

‎Spenser, Edmund (1552?-1599).‎

‎THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER. [Facsimile of the original edition of 1579].‎

‎56 leaves. Paper browned and very brittle. Top edge gilt. Though once ribon tied into boards, this is now disbound and fragile. This is likely part of the edition of only five hundred and twenty copies printed for England and America combined. This example apparently lacks the preliminaries, including the introduction. Still, it is interesting as an illustration of the look of early English printing. SW5 Lower Left‎

‎Moore, George; Blair, Robert; Gray, Thomas; Wright, George.‎

‎EVENING REFLECTIONS WRITTEN IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY; to which are added Night Thoughts Among the Tombs, by the Revd Mr. Moore of Cornwall, The Grave, by R. Blair, & Gray's Elegy in a Country Church Yard; with occasional Notes & Illustrations.‎

‎pp. [2], 60 + Engraved title page. Foxed. Small 12mo. Original full leather binding; spine gone; boards detached. Autograph ownerships of: F. Piercy, July 1875; and J.M. Shinn, Nov. 1925. Though this is the sole version of this compilation and format, the engraved title page calls it the 'Fourth Edition with additions by the Author of Solitary Walks. &c.' = ie. George Wright, Esq. ESTC T183298. POETRY 4‎

‎Anonymous; Pasquinade.‎

‎PASQUIN AND MARFORIO ON THE PEACE : Being A Discussion, by those celebrated Statues at Rome, of the general Conduct of England, but particularly pending the late War, and in negotiating the present Peace. Translated from Italian, and inscribed to the Earl‎

‎64 p. 16 mo. Some leaves with the top margins too closely shaved. 160 mm. Disbound [removed]. Age stain. Scarce. ESTC T043734. OCLC shows only the example at the National Library of Scotland. A famous essay (satire) in opposition to the Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) which ended the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748). In Britain, George II and his ministers were seen by many as having conducted the war and the peace to the best advantage of Brunswick-Luneburg (of which George was Elector) rather than Britain. George and Britain did gain from the treaty in one respect: that one clause of it had finally compelled the French to recognize the Hanoverian succession to the British throne and expel the Jacobites from France. The ciphered name on the title and dedication are often taken to stand for Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of Chesterfield (1694-1773). Here, in pencil, is identified the likely dedicatee - the military Commander, John Lindsay, twentieth Earl Crawford (1702-1749). The same pencil hand identifies the anonymous author as Henry Fielding. This is unlikely to be correct. W129. Small Box 8‎

‎Hannavy, John.‎

‎ROGER FENTON OF CRIMBLE HALL.‎

‎184 p. + Portrait Frontis. Illustrated with numerous photographs. 4to. Original full cloth binding. Original dust jacket, price clipped. First Edition. Godine Photographic Monographs No: 3. Roger Fenton (1819-1869) was a pioneering British photographer, who is most famous as one of the first war photographers (Crimean War). Hardbound. Very good. W101‎

‎Beattie, James; Falconer, William.‎

‎THE MINSTREL: Or, The Progress Of Genius. Bound With: THE SHIPWRECK. With a Sketch of the Life of each Author.‎

‎Two works bound in one. Continuous pagination. pp. ix, 125. Age stain. Fly leaves and last few leaves browned and stained from leather binding. Early manuscript ownership and inscription of Elizabeth Stroud, 1822, "The gift of her beloved brother George M. Stroud" and "Mother of Susan S. Roberson to her nephew Samuel L. Nicholson 9/30, 1896." 24mo. 145 mm. Original full leather binding. Original leather spine label. S&S/AI 25392. Hardbound. Very good. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 8‎

‎Complete Letter Writer.‎

‎THE COMPLETE LETTER-WRITER, CONTAINING FAMILIAR LETTERS, ON THE MOST COMMON OCCASIONS IN LIFE.‎

‎288 p. Early manuscript ownership partially effaced from title page and elsewhere. Slight loss at top corner of title page. A few pages fly speckled. Lacks front fly leaves. Lightly XLib. 12mo. 160 mm. Original worn full leather binding. Front board detached. Spine very worn with loss. Title continues: "Also, A Variety of Elegant Letters for the Direction and Embellishment of Style, Business,.Love, Courtship, Marriage. To which is prefixed, A Plain and Compendious Grammar Of The English Language. English Spelling Dictionary." Evans 25403. Hardbound. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! PA 64‎

‎Christian Economy.‎

‎THE CHRISTIAN ECONOMY. Translated from the Original Greek of an Old Manuscript, Found In The Island Of Patmos, Where St. John Wrote His Book Of The Revelation.‎

‎72 p. Damp stain. Age stain. 24mo. 145 mm. Original worn paper covered boards. Spine perished. Early manuscript ownership on front board "The Property of Henry C. Cline Presented by Mr. Hayes June 14th, 1845." Manuscript ownership of H.C. Cline on rear fly leaf. Rare. OCLC records only two examples in American libraries. S&S/AI 15755. Hardbound. Good. AI BX 7‎

‎Cruise, William (d. 1824).‎

‎A DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND, RESPECTING REAL PROPERTY. First American Edition, Carefully Corrected From The London. The whole of Vol. I. and part of Vol. II of the English Edition.‎

‎Two volumes in one. pp. xxxi, 558; 255. Misbound with some signatures repeated. Maybe missing one or two leaves of text in title 10. Mixed signatures and pagination. Signed twice with the manuscript autograph of the original owner, Garret Dorset Wall (1783-1850). Wall was an attorney who commanded a New Jersey regiment in the War of 1812. In 1829 he was elected Governor of New Jersey, but declined to serve. He was U.S. Senator for New Jersey form 1835-1841. Foxed. Damp stain. 240 mm. Original worn full polished roan binding with scroll on edges of boards. Original leather spine label. Spine very worn with loss. Extremely important text on the law of Real-Estate issued for an American audience. This edition (two volumes in one) seems to be quite scarce and much rarer than the (five volume?) edition issued in the same year by Alsop, Brannan and Alsop. S&S/AI 14804; Cohen 9459. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! AI BX 7‎

‎Everett, James.‎

‎THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH, OR, PIETY AND USEFULNESS EXEMPLIFIED; In A Memoir Of The Life Of Samuel Hick, Late Of Micklefield, Yorkshire. With an Introduction by Rev. G.G. Cookman. From the Fourth London Edition.‎

‎300 p. Very age stained. Some leaves browned but not brittle. Page 289 torn without loss. Early ownership stamp of J. Donavin on title page. 12mo. 180 mm. Original worn leather binding. Rear joint cracked. Loss at head of spine. Samuel Hick (1758-1829) was a popular Methodist preacher in around York, England. S&S/AI 37353. First American Edition - From the Fourth London Edition. Hardbound. Good. AI BX 6‎

‎Lamartine, Alphonse De.‎

‎THE PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE OF THE REPUBLIC. Translated from the French of Alphonse De Lamartine.‎

‎pp. 163, 4 [Publisher's catalogue]. Lightly foxed. 12mo. 200 mm. Original full purple cloth binding. Spine slightly faded and slightly worn at head and tail. First American Edition. Hardbound. Very good plus. AI BX 8‎

‎Hervey, James (1714-1758).‎

‎MEDITATIONS AND CONTEMPLATIONS, Containing His Meditations Among The Tombs, Reflections On A Flower Garden, etc. Together With The Life Of The Author. Two Volumes In One.‎

‎Two volumes in one. Continuous pagination: 240 p. Foxed. Withdrawn XLib stamp of Lebanon County Historical Society on first fly leaf. 24mo. 130 mm. Original full leather binding. Edges rubbed. Spine decorated and lettered in gold gilt. Slight loss at head of spine. S&S/AI 37999. Hardbound. Very Good. AI BX 7‎

‎Koch, Christophe Guillaume (1737-1813); Muhlenburg.‎

‎HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTIONS IN EUROPE, FROM THE SUBVERSION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE WEST, TO THE CONGRESS OF VIENNA. From The French Of Christopher William Koch. In Two Volumes.‎

‎Two Volumes Bound In One: pp. viii, 13-280; 389. Volume I: Frontis + 8 Full page plates; Volume II: 10 Full page plates. First plate in Volume II loss bottom margin, last page & fly leaf lacks bottom margin, no loss of text. Some plates and pages loose. Damp stain. Age stain. All edges marbled, faded. Manuscript ownership of Frederick Augustus Muhlenburg, Jr. on title page in Volume I. Early manuscript inscription on first fly leaf "To W. Mathist from his sincere friend F.A. Muhlenburg, Jr. 1826." Frederick Augustus Muhlenburg (1818-1901) was the first president of Muhlenberg College 1867-76. 12mo. 195 mm. Original leather binding, very worn. Front board detached. Spine perished. Title continues: "With A Continuation To The Year 1815, By M. Schoell. Revised And Corrected By J.G. Cogswell. With A Sketch Of The Late Revolutions In France, Belgium, Poland, And Greece. Embellished with Engravings." S&S/AI 38427. Hardbound. AI BX 4‎