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187947623Parisiis: Apud Isidorum Liseux 1879. First Thus. 12mo 15cm.; publisher's cream pictorial wrappers printed in red and black; xii89pp. Some light shelf wear and a few small soil spots tiny chips at spine ends else Very Good or better. Scarce extract from Sinistrari's larger work "De Delictis et Poenis" 1654 text entirely in Latin save for the publisher's tongue-in-cheek introduction in French. Liseux gained some notoriety a few years earlier when he published "De Daemonialitate et Incubus et Succubis" claiming to have discovered this heretofore unknown manuscript written in 1680 by the Franciscan priest Ludovico Maria Sinistrari 1622-1701. The work described the qualities of such beasts as vampires succubi and incubi though it has since been proposed that Liseux himself wrote the piece see J. Gordon Melton "The Vampire Book" 2010 p. 380. "De Daemonialitate" was eventually translated into English in 1879 and found its way into the hands of W.B. Yeats who borrowed Ezra Pound's copy and from it was inspired to compose the poem "The Black Centaur" first published in "The Tower" in 1928 Catherine E. Paul and Warwick Gould "W.B. Yeats and the Problem of Belief" "Yeats Annual" no. 21 p. 313. <br/><br/>The present work is indeed authored by Sinistrari and remains here in its unalter ed Latin form presumably to avoid censure Liseux noting in his introduction that there's a reason he decided to publish this work sans illustration. Though the publisher's advertisement on the final leaf of text and rear cover only mention "De Daemonialitate" Liseux's catalog would go on to include the Kama Sutra and Ernest Dowson's "White Stains: Containing Also the Contemporary and Most Exhaustive Love's Cyclopaedia with Five Illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley in His Most Erotic Vein. Apud Isidorum Liseux unknown books
189444281New York: D. Appleton and Company 1894. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 17.5cm; flexible dark brown cloth boards with titles stamped in gilt on spine; ii45-666pp ads. Light wear to extremities hint of softening to corners with a faint diagonal tear to rear pastedown; contemporary owners ink signature to front endpaper Gertrude H. Souther / March 1895 with holograph pencil notes relative to the weight of two babies on rear endpaper; Very Good. Influential manual for mothers and nurses by Holt 1855-1924 an American author physician and pioneer in the field of pediatrics who helped shape the New York Babies Hospital into the leading pediatric facility of its time. The book was expanded from Holt's Catechism for Nurses 1893 a pamphlet prepared for nursery-maids during their four months training at the Babies Hospital. "The nurses studied the catechism and when they graduated took it with them. There followed requests for copies from their employers and the supply was soon exhausted. It was apparent there was a popular demand for something of the kind. The catechism was expanded and in 1894 The Care and Feeding of Children made its appearance.Probably no one would have been more surprised than Dr. Holt or his publishers had they been told that they were launching a volume that was to go through seventy-five printings and which was to be translated into Spanish Russian and Chinese.The book became the mainstay of many a worried mother and exerted no inconsiderable influence on the profession as well for the practitioners had to keep abreast of the pediatric knowledge which the mothers possessed" DUFFUS R.L. L. Emmett Holt. NY 1940 pp.116-117. <br/><br/>Prior to the publication of The Care and Feeding of Children there was no standard text for pediatric care in print for laymen or medical professionals. A revolutionary volume written in clear simple language providing an orderly presentation of pediatric knowledge which empowered women to care for their children. A cornerstone work responsible for "lifting child sickness and care out of the neglect of the past" Dunn Peter M. "Dr. Emmett Holt 1855-1924 and the foundation of North American paediatrics." Archives of Disease in Childhood - Fetal and Neonatal Edition 2000. Rare in the first edition; we find no copies for sale in trade May 2019 with the last copy at auction sold at the Streeter Sale. ATWATER 1743 citing the 1895 edition; STREETER 4159; Grolier American 100 97. D. Appleton and Company unknown books
189544165New York December 8th 1895. Autograph letter signed on recto and verso of single cream laid sheet 22x14.5cm.; approx. 85 words; dated 26 West 61st N.Y. Dec 8th and simply addressed to "Parker" presumably Stanton's friend and fellow-suffragist Parker Pillsbury 1809-1898 who with Stanton had co-edited the women's rights newsletter "The Revolution" twenty years earlier. Faint mail folds small unobtrusive archival paper remnants to two corners from having been previously mounted else Near Fine and still quite fresh. Brief contemporary 1897 pencil note at bottom edge "Mrs. Stanton - born Nov. 12 1815 Now past 82 - C.E.R." though based on contents we would place this letter as having been written around 1895. Brief but significant missive addressed to Parker Pillsbury the American minister and women's suffrage advocate regarding a copy of Stanton's "Woman's Bible" she had just sent him. "I wonder if I could interest them a "Mrs. White" and one other sufficiently in the Woman's Bible to sell ten or twenty copies in there sic respective woman's clubs It is published at my expense hence I am trying to push its circulation." The controversial "Woman's Bible" a series of commentaries pertaining to the portions of the Bible relating to women was published in two parts in 1895 and 1898 and composed almost entirely by Stanton alone her committee of Bible revisors finding the project too controversial and harmful to the cause of women's suffrage. Clearly at the time of writing this letter the book was still meeting with resistance thus our placing the date at around 1895 Stanton turning to Pillsbury as a potential source of influential and wealthy patrons she inquires "Is Mrs. White still living & working Is that rich woman that Mr. illegible used to visit in Maine living". But by 1897 the book had become a best seller though many of the members of the women's suffrage movement would continue to distance themselves from it. This letter quite significant as a testimony to the aging Stanton organizer of the historical 1848 Seneca Falls Convention and her continuing indefatigable efforts and initial lack of support in getting this work circulated. See Tracy A. Thomas "Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundation of Family Law" 2016 pp. 15 & 223. unknown books
187043875N.p. n.d. but ca. 1870s. Autograph letter on seven leaves of blue laid sheets 25x20.5cm. rectos only "Kent" blind-stamped at top left-hand corner of each leaf; occasional faint soil spots minor shallow creases and faint fold lines else Very Good or better. Extensive and rather rambling unsigned letter or lyceum address draft "To the President" though which President and of what is not stated in which the author quite possibly a public figure based on references to his "detractors" strongly argues against women's suffrage: "would we have our females eschewing their more gentle nature hardening the finer sensibilities of her mind by rushing to the ballot box And mingling in the excitement of an election thereby throwing off the garb of female modesty and timidity I think not." Though the first leaf has the appearance of a clean copy the author's hand begins to turn sloppy with a number of manuscript corrections in the later leaves. Due to a lack of contemporary references Mary Wollstonecraft is the only person explicitly mentioned we cannot place with certainty a date or author for the item though the hand ink and paper and reference to women tending to wounded soldiers during wartime indicate this was penned within a few years of the Civil War as the women's suffrage movement was beginning to gather steam in the 1870s. unknown books
184444191Bath NY: R. L. Underwood & Co 1844. Second Edition. 18mo 15.5cm.; publisher's full sheep red gilt morocco spine label; viii9-288pp.; portrait frontispiece. Boards rather worn and joints cracked but holding old dampstain to rear cover very slightly bleeding into textblock some soil to early leaves else a Good or better copy overall. Account of the life of Jemima Wilkinson 1752-1819 the Rhode Island-born Quaker and Evangelist who claimed after a long illness to have died and been risen from the dead. Through her preaching she became known as the "Universal Friend" creating a Shaker-like sect that practiced celibacy and poverty on a massive property she named "Jerusalem." Some have argued that Wilkinson was an imposter who accrued vast wealth from her followers Howes describes her as "the first religious charlatan of her sex in America". Indeed the sect would not survive after her death. This work first published in 1821 attributed to David Hudson SABIN 33485 and HOWES H-761. See also "Appleton's Cyclopaedia of American Biography" Vol. 6 p. 512. R. L. Underwood & Co unknown books
184844314Paris: Au Bureau du Populaire 1848. Cinquième Édition. 12mo 18cm.; contemporary plum morocco-backed marbled boards spine in five compartments green morocco spine label marbled endpapers; 4viii600pp. Spine sunned boards a hint scuffed else a Very Good to Near Fine copy. First published in 1840 "Voyage en Icarie" presented in novelistic form the theories of Cabet's Icarian movement in which "society.placed all economic activity under the guidance and control of elected officials and made the family the only other politically influential unit" Richard C.S. Trahair "Utopias and Utopians" 1999 p. 199. By the year of the Revolution of 1848 and the publication of this edition there were some 400000 Icarians in France a handful of whom established a community in Denton County Texas Cabet joining them shortly after in 1850. The Icarians suffered in Texas their numbers far fewer than they had hoped for after the fall of Louis Philippe and the rise of the Second Republic. Furthermore most members chose to reside in New Orleans and the land alloted them was not the million acres they had been promised but two disparate tracts totallying only 10000 acres see Robert S. Fogarty "Dictionary of American Communal and Utopian History" 1980 p. 147. Upon Cabet's arrival in the United States the group now totalling only 200 migrated to Nauvoo Illinois which had recently been evacuated by the Mormons. After a short period of prosperity schisms errupted and by 1856 Cabet and his followers had formed a splinter group moving on to Cheltenham Missouri where Cabet died shortly thereafter. ADAMS p. 45 citing this edition though with variant title page; NEGLEY 175; SABIN 9787 also cites the fifth edition though with a different imprint and subtitle. Au Bureau du Populaire unknown books
189044169New York: D. Appleton and Company 1890. "Authorized" edition. Original publisher's light brown cloth binding with dark brown blue & gilt stamping. Pale green eps. General shelf-wear. One proud gathering. Bookplate & booklabel to front paste-down. Evidence of pocket removal to rear paste-down. Withal a VG copy. x 417 5 pp. 4 pages of publisher adverts conclude volume. 111 illustrations by Townsend. Crown 8vo. <br/><br/> D. Appleton and Company hardcover books
189446539Toronto Canada & Milwaukee Wisconsin: Printed by Hunter Rose & Co 1894. 1st Printing. Red paper wrappers black lettering stapled now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some chipping and tears to wrappers age toning to leaves overall clean and bright. 64 pp. Illustrated. 10" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>A picture of Rev. John Cairns to title leaf. Printed by Hunter, Rose & Co unknown books
189446540Toronto Canada & Milwaukee Wisconsin: Printed by Hunter Rose & Co 1894. 1st Printing. Red paper wrappers black lettering stapled now housed in a mylar sleeve. A VG copy. Some chipping and tears to wrappers age toning to leaves overall clean and bright. 65 66 - 94 pp. Illustrated. 10" x 6-3/4" <br/><br/>A picture of Mrs. Mary S. Henry to title leaf. Printed by Hunter, Rose & Co unknown books
185944076Bangor: Wheeler & Lunde Printers 1859. 1st Printing. Original publisher's printed yellow paper wrappers sewn. Average wear & soiling. Faint vertical fold line. Very Good. 12 pp. 8vo. 9-1/4" x 5-5/8" <br/><br/> Wheeler & Lunde, Printers unknown books
183731185New York: Saunders and Otley Ann Street 1837. 2nd edition American Imprints 44114. Not in Amerine & Borg. Original publisher's green ribbon-embossed cloth. Spine lettered in gilt. Overall VG modest wear/usual bit of foxing to paper. vi 2 6 - 208; 220 pp. 12mo. <br/><br/> Saunders and Otley, Ann Street hardcover books
188955988Zürich: Orell Füssli & cie 1889. 7 vols. 12mo. Contemporary half green morocco spines gilt original wrappers bound in. Spines uniformly toned some minor rubbing else very good. 7 vols. 12mo. Orell, Füssli & cie unknown books
185160887London 1851. Hardcover. Very Good. frontis illustrations v 214p. Cloth. 17cm. A few small spots on an otherwise bright cover. Spine slightly sloped. Gift inscription. Scattered foxing. <br/><br/> hardcover books
18605280fdLondon: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge n.d. ca. 1860. Oblong quarto decorated stiff orange wrappers 49 pp. Illustrated with twenty-two wood engravings by Josiah Wood Whimper. Good; cover shows wear front hinge broken interior clean and complete. Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, n.d. [ca. 1860]. unknown books
18764763London: T. Nelson and Sons 1876. First Edition. Chromolithograph frontispiece and vignette title-page. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth gilt. Fine. First Edition. Chromolithograph frontispiece and vignette title-page. 1 vols. 8vo. With presentation inscription on the half-title from the author dated April 7 1876 Edinburgh: "To Archibald H. Bryce Esq. D.C.L. & L.L.D. With the sincere esteem of the Author A. Young." The collected hymns and poems of this author - "a work which entitles him to high rank among Scottish minor poets." DNB. T. Nelson and Sons unknown books
1825221769London: Printed for Knight and Lacey 1825. First edition. Two hand-colored engraved plates. 8 111 1 24 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Boards uncut rebacked with new black cloth spine. Early stab marks in inner margin one signature sprung. First edition. Two hand-colored engraved plates. 8 111 1 24 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The Jury of Scottish Common Sense. Fletcher was the Scottish-born minister of the United presbyterian Church who In April 1824 was prosecuted in the civil and ecclesiastical courts for breach of promise to marry Miss Eliza Dick. According to the DNB "In the king's bench no verdict was given but in the meeting of the United Associate Synod at Edinburgh he was suspended from the exercise of his office and from church fellowship. The trial and suspension provoked a spate of publications ."<br/><br/>One of those publications was this very amusing satire of the trail of the Reverend before a "Court of Common Sense" with a 'special jury" consisting of a dozen illustrious Scots including Sir Walter Scott who was elected Foreman; Sir James Mackintosh; J. W. Croker; Thomas Campbell; Thomas Moore Samuel Rogers; John Galt; and William Blackwood. Much of the fun consists of the conversations between the members of the jury wehn called upon to examin a witness. The Jury's final verdict after a deliberation of 5 minuttes is delivered by the forman Sir Walter Scott: "My Lord we unanimously find the defendant Guilty upon the whole counts of the indictment. Printed for Knight and Lacey unknown books
1847WRCAM41208Lima 1847. 371pp. Removed from a bound volume. Last page is foxing lightly. Text is bright and clean. Signatures of the two authors on the second to last page. Very good. San Roman was the President of the Council of State from 1845 until 1849. This document is a list of acts and resolutions made by the council. San Roman went on to become the President of Peru in 1862. This copy is signed in ink by both San Roman and his Secretary Flores on the second to last page. unknown books
18794026Paris. Librairie Hachette. 1879. Bound in extravagantly ornate gilt pictorial red Morocco depicting gilt tooled Roman emblematic seals and large embellishment of armour eagles and statuary to front and rear covers. Gilt tooled spine compartments embellished with seals and laurel leaves. Raised bands. White silk moire endsheets. a.e.g. Thick 4to. New Edition. Illustrated with 50 brilliantly illuminated full page tissue-guarded chromolithographic plates. Further illustrated with over 3400 gravure engravings and 30 colour maps. A monumental work in a most impressive Hachette gilt binding - truly one of the most stunning bindings we've encountered. Sumptuously illustrated with eye-boggling iridescent Chromolithographs this extremely rare set is a true work of design art. Some chipping to head and tailpieces to various volumes with some small bits lacking hinges rubbed on various volumes some corners bumped through front cover of Vol. 1 starting mild scattered foxing throughout else Very Good. A bright crisp gleaming gilt gem.Featured Sets. Librairie Hachette. hardcover books
1805WRCLIT43639London: Printed and Published by Keating Brown and Co. et al 1805. 27pp. Octavo. Extracted from bound volume. Stamp of a defunct mercantile library half-title detached bit of offset to blank verso of final leaf a few creased and dusty corners; a good copy. First London printing petitioning for the removal of the discriminatory and exclusionary statutes still in effect. An unidentified editor has provided copious footnotes to the petition. A contemporary reader has penned several comments of the "there can be no doubt" sort in the margins. BRADSHAW 7661. Printed and Published by Keating, Brown and Co. [et al] unknown books
186614672Baltimore: Kelly & Piet 1866. 8vo. Frontis. 2 liv 244 pp.; 2 fold. illus. <br><br>Sole edition. Archbishop Spalding of Baltimore presided over the Second Plenary Council as Delegate Apostolic of the Holy See and he appears in this volume's frontispiece group photograph an albumen print along with Archbishops Odin Blanchett McCloskey and Purcell. The two folding engravings show the procession of prelates and clergy to the cathedral and the opening scene inside the cathedral of the Second Plenary Council. Title-page printed in black and red ink. Publisher's cloth gilt-stamped on the spine and front blind-stamped on the back. Spine and edges sunned and rubbed rear joint with areas of loss to cloth. Internally clean. => Photograph in excellent condition. Kelly & Piet hardcover books
1884021436New York: Harper and Brothers 1884. First Edition. Octavo. In two volumes 594pp errata; 691pp. Beauregard was a graduate of West Point. He served as an engineer during the Mexican-American War and a U.S. military officer entering the Civil War as the Confederacy's first brigadier general and was placed in command of the defenses of Charleston South Carolina. In this role he ordered the first shots of the Civil War during the bombardment of Fort Sumter April 12-14 1861. Bound in green pebble grained cloth lettered in gilt spine lettering and top edges gilt some rubbing to cloth spine ends with a bit of wear of tiny chips rear inner hinge of volume two starting contemporary owner's name and plate. A very good set. Harper and Brothers unknown books
189644448Mexico: Imprenta del Museo Nacional 1896. Stitched paper wrappers. Very good extremities worn split at tail of spine contents faintly browned otherwise clean. xv 35 pp. 1 pp. aviso on verso of rear wrapper. Illus. with 57 b/w drawings. 8vo. Museo Nacional Catálogo no. 4. Human and animal abnormalities such as Siamese twins etc. Illustrated. Palau 246824. Imprenta del Museo Nacional unknown books
189932998San Francisco: Sunday Examiner 1899. First Edition. Folio 35.5cm.; pictorial bifolium printed in green yellow and black author photograph printed on the upper panel. Closed tears and shallow losses along wrapper extremities the whole rather toned due to poor paper stock. About Very Good and sound overall. Published as a supplement to the San Francisco Sunday Examiner 1899. Poem famously inspired by the contemporaneous painting "L'homme a la houe" by the French artist Jean-François Millet. The piece was first read at a New Year's Eve party in 1898 launching Markham's career as a poet and lecturer to the working class. The painting recreated on the upper panel of the present edition shows a laborer bent over by the weight of his toil his face anguished and somehow simultaneously expressionless. Of him Markham wrote: "Bowed by the weight of centuries he leans / Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground / The emptiness of ages in his face / And on his back the burden of the world." Presumed first published appearance of the poem according to Markham's biographical history in the Online Archive of California. The poem would also appear in a volume of Markham's poetry the same year The Man with the Hoe and Other Poems. Sunday Examiner unknown books
190017236Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin and Company 1900. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo 19cm; gray pictorial cloth with titles stamped in black on spine and decorative panel in black and orange on front panel; 244pp. Hint of a lean with some soiling and staining to spine right edge of rear panel and upper edge of textblock; light general edgewear and lacking the rear endpaper; Very Good. The second of Friedman's three works of long fiction a sentimental tale of local-color about a Chicago tenement's inhabitants. Discussed by Rideout though not cited among his list of radical novels and quite uncommon. RIDEOUT p.14. Houghton, Mifflin and Company unknown books
189814090Chicago: Charles H. Kerr 1898. Later Printing. 12mo 18cm. Original decorated wrappers; 289923pp. Covers rubbed and acidic text paper tanned as usual; still a complete tightly-bound copy Good. A long-forgotten but once popular Socialist future utopia originally published serially in the Chicago Times. The title page of this copy states "Twenty-Fifth Edition" and given the extraordinary lengths to which the publisher went to promote the book - including a six-page section of endorsements and order blanks for additional copies at rear at ten cents the copy - we don't doubt that Kerr may have sold out 24 previous printings. The catalog at rear also notes that copies were issued in cloth but we have only ever encountered the wrappered issue. The book was cheaply printed and despite the reputed profusion of printings is seldom encountered in good condition. BLEILER Checklist p.18; NEGLEY 10; SARGENT p.56; LEWIS p.1. Charles H. Kerr unknown books
