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London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1968 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in price-clipped d.j.

New York: Academy Ediions, Ernst & Sohn, [1993] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Fine in fine d.j.

Berkeley: Howell-North Books, 1962-3 Volume I is a second printing, Volume II is a first printing of the first editiion. Cloth. Two volumes, quarto. Half-tone illustrations. Very good in price-clipped, lightly chipped dust jackets.

London W. Darton, jun. 1819 First edition of a collection of stories cautioning against cruelty to animals by the prolific children's writer, Mary Belson Elliott (1794?-1870). Original red roan backed marbled boards, rubbed. Twelvemo. [2], 177, [1, adverts] pp., with Darton's engraved advertisement leaf at the end. Engraved frontispiece and two plates. Corners lightly worn, front free endpaper removed, old ownership signature and date on back pastedown. A good copy.

[n.p.:] [c2004] First edition in English. Boards. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j. Coordinator: Juan Pi; Design and setting: Joan Ferrer; Biographical text: Isidre Rosset. English translation: Marta Canizares.

New York: Abramsl [1972] First edition, presentation copy, inscribed by Soyer "To Gail & Steve in friendship. Raphael. 1979. N.Y." Soyer has also included an original pen and ink drawing of two nude figures, a man and a woman. Both are pictured from the waist up. Ecru linen, stamped in brown. Folio. With 290 illustrations, including 77 in full color. Fine in near fine d.j. The spine of the jacket is lightly faded.

Paris: Crapart, Caille et Ravier, An X [1802] Contemporary quarter calf over batik boards, gilt-lettered spines, speckled edges. . Two volumes, octavo. Hinges cracking, spines a bit scuffed, but a very good copy overall. In cloth open-end slipcase. This is Cabaniss (1757-1808) principle work. It is comprised of twelve Mémoires, the first six of which were read at sessions of the Institut de France. Cabanis sets forth a psychology and an ethical system based on the necessary effects of an animals organization upon its relationships with its environment. Even the unlimited perfectability of the human species, which renders it capable of all things, derives from the fact that man is undoubtedly the most subject to the influence of exterior causes. As a physician, Cabanis considered, in the seventh memoir of the Rapports, the influence of illnesses on the formation of ideas and values. The text is a summary of his physiological and medical conceptions. Borrowing the word from the German… Read More

Boston: Ginn and Company, 1908 First edition. Cloth with paper spine label. Octavo. Frontispiece, title-page vignette. Facsimiles in text. Light shelfwear, label a little toned. Very good.

[Mansfield Centre, CT: Maurizio Martino, [n.d., 1996] Reprint of 1908 edition. This edition consists of 100 copies. Cloth. Octavo. Fine.

Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press/Philosophia Verlag, Munchen, [1985] First edition in English. Octavo. Cloth.

Strassburg: [Johann Pruss], 1486 Contemporary blindtooled pigskin over oak boards. . Folio. Text in double columns, Gothic type. Rubricated throughout, including a 6-line initial letter with a page long flourish on a4 (folio 1). Binding a bit soiled, spine with old white paint. Lacking fore-edge ties. Two line title with old inscriptions of a Salzburg cloister, The Convent of St. Peter, and of "Domus S. Missionis Benedictinae Schwarzachii." GTwo leaves with a few lines inked out (censored) on folio 245 and 249. Text with some contemporary marginalia. A very clean, wide-margined copy. Guillelmus Duranti (ca. 1237-1296) was a "canonist and one of the most important medieval liturgical writers." He studied at Bologna under Bernard of Parma and then taught at Modena. He spent most of his life in the service of the Pope. This is his most famous work, first published by Fust and Schoeffer at Mainz in 1459. It was reprinted at least forty times before 1500. Its eight books contain a detailed account of the… Read More

Amsterdam: Printed for the Widow of J.J. Schipper, 1712 Second edition, not so stated, dedicated to the author's "dearest daughters," with a long quote from Locke's On Education on the title-page. The work is a significant distillation of the principles of toleration, first published in 1687. . . Contemporary mottled calf. Gilt spine, tooled in compartments, yellow silk ribbon marker. . Twelvemo. Edges sprinkled red. Binding extremities slightly worn and boards a bit scratched. Front joint cracked, but sound. The Macclesfield copy, with the blindstamps, shelf marks, and the South Library bookplate. A very good copy, clean copy. William Popple (1638-1708) was the nephew of Andrew Marvell and was educated under his guidance. He was a successful merchant in Hull before moving to Bordeaux, where he lived from 1670 to 1688. After returning to London he met William Penn, and became secretary of the Dry Club, established by John Locke to debate issues of religious liberty. He also translated Locke's… Read More

Paris: à la Librarie d'Education 1817 Second edition, revised, corrected, and updated with six new recreations and six new illustrations. The first edition, published in 1810, is also scarce. Contemporary calf with a gilt-tooled spine and gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Edges sprinkled red. Octavo. Engraved frontispiece; five engraved plates. Binding extremities lightly rubbed with a few small chips to boards and a minor crack to crown of spine. Light foxing to text and plates. The occasional small chip or stain. Slight creasing to pp. 105-110, touching text, but not affecting legibility. A very good, tight copy of a scarce book. Félicité de Choiseul-Meuse (ca. 1770-1824) is best know as the author of Julie, ou j'ai sajuve ma Rose (1807), which has been called the first erotic novel to have been written by a woman. She wrote many other erotic works, and three of them were censored during the French Revolution. The present work is a collection of moral stories for girls between the ages of… Read More

New York: Farrar, straus and Giroux, [1973] Cloth. Octavo. Bookplate. Very good i n very good, lightly soiled d.j.

London: Leadenhall Press, 1891 First edition. Half vellum over blue paper boards, gilt spine, gilt coat-of-arms on front cover. Covers stamped in black and red. . With 32 facsimiles of nautical song broadsides mounted on brown paper stubs. With a total of 200 half-page illustrations, initials, headpieces, and tailpieces (some by Joseph Crawhall). Some yellowing to vellum, as usual. Some wear to seam where vellum meets paper on front board. Front hinge somewhat tender. Some rubbing to extremities. Edges untrimmed. Some toning to endpapers and some occasional toning to leaves from brown paper stubs. Twentieth century bookplate (Ex Libris Oliver Collection) to front pastedown. Overall a very good, clean copy of this lively and ambitious Leadenhall Press production. The present work collects almost 130 sea shanties and other songs written by sailors from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. The songs are organized into sections according to relevant themes in the nautical life: sea fights, press… Read More

New York: Scribners, 1938 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Former owner's ink inscription. Very good in price-clipped d.j. Spine of d.j. browned.

[Madison:] University of Wisconsin Press, [1996] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1947 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Spine slightly faded. Very good.

Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, [1990] First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Else fine in fine d.j.

New York: Knopf, 1962 First edition. Cloth. Octavo. Bookplate. Near fine in like d.j. Spine of d.j. very lightly faded.