Allen, Mrs. S.S., Rev. C. Stone & William C. Brown editors

THE MOTHER'S ASSISTANT AND YOUNG LADY'S FRIEND.

Boston, Cyrus Stone 1853-1854 Illustrations (31, inc. 28 as listed for 1853 of which 5 are hand-colored plates of flowers, and 3 for 1854 inc. finely engraved frontis of "The Royal Fan" showing Queen Victoria, Prince Albert & their children. . Octavo three-quarter calf, paper label pasted on spine, tips worn. Fifteen bound monthly issues of this 19th century women's periodical, 1853 Nos. 1-12 & 1854 Nos. 1-3, in 3 Parts bound out of date order: Part I (1853) pp5-68, 73-136, 141-204; Part I (1854) pp5-72, 77-204; Part II (1853) pp5-72, 77-140, 145-204. Occasional foxing but clean and complete for 1853 with first 3 issues for 1854. *Fifteen issues from the final two years of this entertaining periodical, founded in 1841 to "assist mothers in the difficult and peculiarly responsible work of governing and educating their children .. It will suplly a desideratum, in the periodical literature of New England, which has long been seen and deeply lamented" (J. Porter, Boston, Jan 14, 1841).

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Book number: V74813

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Allestree,Richard) (but no Author given on TP)

WORKS ie Whole Duty of Man, Gentleman's Calling, Ladies Calling, Government of the Tongue, Art of Contentment + Lively oracles given to Us + more (see below)

Oxford & London, Norton for Paulet 1704 Copperplate frontis by Vander Gucht and another fine large copperplate of Oxford with emblems of learning (caduceus, set square, larel wreath etc.) . 2 Volumes in One folio comprising 7 works Including the Whole Duty of Man, Cause of the decay of Christian piety, The Gentleman's Calling, The Ladies Calling, the Government of the Tongue, Art of Contentment,Lively oracles given to us etc. Contemporary panelled calf rebacked, tips worn esp. lower corners/minor scuffing) (x)+456pp (xvi)+324pp +(vipp) All the works in this book have additional separate TPs or half titles as well as the General Titles to both volumes. Signature of General Whitmore. A Nice clean crisp copy of this major religious and deportmental work of the seventeenth century. ESTC, T102260

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Almanac

HELVETISCHER ALMANACH fur das Jahr 1816: Topographisch/ Statistische Beschreibung des Cantons AARGAU

Zurich, Ortell & Fussli 1815) Hand-colored Costume Plate "Bauerin aus dem Frikthal", hand colored folding map of the Canton of Aargau by J.J. Scheurmann and 5 other copperplate-etched Views by J. Wezel and F. Hegi . 16mo (in 8s) 113x80mm bound in printed boards (backstrip defective with some loss) sewing & binding are sound, tight & holding, tips rubbed/bumped (viii,Calendar) +206pgs+(i); lacking only the hand-colored plate of the Farmer (to match the Farmer's Wife, which is present) and the slip-case (as usual). The frontispiece shows Castle Habsburg, there is a decorative engraved Titlepage, and 4 folding Views showing Baden, Aarau, Schloss Hallwyl and the vicinity of Brugg & Windisch. All but one of the plates have their original tissue-guards. This little volume is remarkably clean & crisp with the folding plates and the hand-colored plates in fine condition. There is a Table of Contents; the book is packed with information from lists of Ferry Crossings to explanations of the Postal Service, Weights & Measures (differing from place to place), Currency & Coinage in circulation (various); Provision for the Poor & Sick (inoculation against Smallpox), Agriculture, Forestry, Hunting, Political Legal Police Military, Folk Customs, Religion, Music, and an Appendix discussing the medicinal waters of Baden etc. *This sought-after series of almanacs was issued for more than 20 years, each annual issue devoted to a different Canton.

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Book number: V59720

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Stefano De Gli Angeli

CONSIDERATIONI SOPRA LA FORZA DI ALCUNE RAGIONI FISICOMATTEMATICHE addotte dal M.R.P. Gio.Battista Riccioli …Astronomia Riformata contro il Sistema Copericano…

Venice, Bortolo Bruni 1667 diagrams in the text + woodcut headpieces and figural initial letters. . 4to in old card covers ie interim brochure [large hole in lower cover] titlepage with woodcut floral decoration + [2p=Dedication with headpiece and woodcut intial "S" both incorporating animals {parrot etc] +[2p= To reader with headpiece and foral initial. +{2p=blank} + 134pp All pages are un-cut and unpressed with wide margins to fore-edges and foot. The last 10 leaves have a hole affecting some 3 or 4 lines with the loss of 4 or 5 letters. Damp mark to top part of gutter, mainly marginal and the paper is entirely strong and supple. The book is very clean and tightA very scarce work on Astro-physics and countering the Coperican system.

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Book number: V75605

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Anon, but attributed to Peter Walsh (1618?-1688)

THE ADVOCATE OF CONSCIENCE LIBERTY OR AN APOLOGY FOR TOLERATION RIGHTLY STATED shewing the Obligatory Injunctions and Precepts for Christian Peace and Charity.

[London acc. to Wing], Publisher not identified 1673 . Octavo (165x105mm) in darkened calf-covered boards, neatly repaired, with remnants of original spine leather, [viii]+310pp+[2]pp blank. Titlepage missing upper right corner but text not affected, staining to lower edge throughout but not affecting text. Ink ownership dated 1750/1 at top of titlepage, another ("Catherine Sponer") on verso of final blank. Fore-edge staining/soiling, mainly to beginning and end, expecially in bottom left hand corner, but not affecting readability. Corners rounded but with good margins throughout. *Peter Walsh was born in County Kildare. He was guardian of the Franciscan friary at Kilkenny 1648-1650, and then served as chaplain to Castlehaven’s army in Munster. All Catholic clergy captured by the Cromwellians were executed and Walsh, in danger of death, fled Ireland, eventually to London where he lived obscurely until the Restoration. Walsh remained a devout adherent of the Catholic Church, but kept friendly relations with the Anglicans. He wrote (1672-1684) a series of controversial letters against Pope Gregory VII's doctrine of papal supremacy, a History of the Remonstrance (1674) and various other works critical of his fellow Catholics. This book - very rare in its first edition as here - is usually attributed to him. It argues for tolerance between religious factions, calling for true liberty of conscience. It condemns persecution in relation to religion, arguing that Catholics have as much right to be tolerated as Recusants. As long as other faiths hold doctrines that are consistant with peace and government they should be allowed to follow their conscience. Such writings put Walsh at odds with the Catholic church, but before his death in 1688 may have influenced King James II`s 1687 declaration of indulgence (referenced by Wing W627).

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Book number: V75714

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Keywords: Religious toleration Catholic Ireland

Anon [acc to British Library edited by William Dodd 1729-1777]

THE CHRISTIAN'S MAGAZINE For June, 1761. Systematical Divinity. Chap. XIII. Of the Redeemer …

London, Printed pursuant to his Majesty's royal licence, for J. Newbery in St. Paul's Church Yard, and J. Coote in Pater-Noster Row 1761, June Frontis engraved portrait of Philip Melancthon, full-page plate of The Banjan, or Wonder Tree. . Octavo disbound (but with 2 original cords & remnants of brown paper covers). Frontis + pp214-288 (lacking 2 leaves pp275-278). Ownership inscription "Francis Sole" on back of frontis portrait (probably Francis Sole of Oakington).

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Book number: V76276

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Anon [attributed to Sir George Nayler]

A COLLECTION OF COATS OF ARMS Borne by the Nobility and Gentry of the County of Glocester

London, J. Good, 159 New Bond Street 1792 Copperplates (62) + Titlepage vignette (with coat of arms of Gloucester and its cathedral in background) in total 370 coats of arms engraved by Ames of Bristol. . Small folio linen spine with contemporary blue paper wraps. Engraved titlepage + 62 plates of coats of arms. Titlepage partly torn across and repaired on back and hinge strengthened, else a neat copy with only a little light freckling. There is no text or subscribers list in this version (the book was sold both with and without 49 pages of text which listed and briefly described the coats of arms pictured in the plates). The arms of Gloucestershire families are derived from Sir Robert Atkins' History (1712) and a few from Rudder's New History (1779). Printed 6 per page, they are alphabetical first from Atkyns up to plate 53 which has only 4 arms ending in "Yate". Then the alphabet begins again with A from Rudder but ends with "Cassey". A further volume was intended but the work was never completed. *Generally attributed to Sir George Nayler (born at Stroud), Garter King of Arms, but the Dict. Nat. Biog. xl.130 states that "it was in reality the work of one Ames, an engraver at Bristol".

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Book number: V74333

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Anon. [But the author was William Shippen 1673-1743]

FACTION DISPLAY'D a Poem from a corrected Copy.

London, H.Hills 1709 . Octavo 19th century disbound. 16pp. This issue with the the second line of imprint starting under the N of "and" in the first line of imprint. There is also an issue with the line starting under the R of "Printed" Initially attributed to Matthew Prior who denied he was the author it is also sometimes attributed to Daniel Defoe [1661 -1731] but it is in any case another of Hills' pirated editions from a first edition of 1704. It was Shippen's first publication and attracted much attention and was published in a pirated edition within days of the first edition of 1704. This second printing, also a counterfeit is squeezed into 16 pages instead of the 20 of the original in that th type font from the top of page 13 to the end on page 16 is noticeably smaller as is the line spacing. Referenced by: ESTC, T35132 and Foxon, S436

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Book number: V75296

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Keywords: Tory political satire conterfeit pirate copy

Anon

France, Vol. VIII

England, 1860 approx) 158 plates, each neatly annotated in MS with place, artist and engraver T. Allom, J.M.W. Turner, C. Stanfield et al. . One volume of a collection of engravings made in the mid-19th century, folio half leather, ex libris Eugene Byford Okarma

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Book number: V60196

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Anon

France continued, Belgium, Holland & Switzerland, Vol. IX

England, 1860 approx) 169 plates, each neatly annotated in MS with place, artist and engraver T. Allom, W.H. Bartlett et al. . One volume of a collection of engravings made in the mid-19th century, folio half leather, ex libris Eugene Byford Okarma

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Anon [William Combe 1742-1823]

A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD, Its Colleges, Halls, and Public Buildings. In Two Volumes. (Vol.I, Vol.II)

London printed L. Harrison & J.C. Leigh., R. Ackermann 1814 Hand-coloured plates (81) + uncoloured portrait of the dedicatee by Westall, Pugin, Nash, Mackenzie, Turner & Sir J. Reynolds costume plates by Unwins. . Large quarto (36x28.5cm page size/binding height 38cm) contemporary sugar paper covered boards rebacked with printed labels (tips worn & lower edge somewhat shelf worn/corners a bit bumped). Half title + coloured frontisplate + title + uncoloured Grenville portrait + dedication leaf + [vi]-xiv (subscribers & plate list) +1-xxv (the city) +275pp +[6]p index; Vol.II half title + colour frontisplate + title +262pp +[6]pp index. Without the Founders' portraits which are not called for in the plate list and which Tooley notes were 'not issued till a later date' so the book is complete without these. Some off-setting of plates to adjacent text leaves but not affecting legibility. More than a dozen plates carry the watermark of WHATMAN 1812 and most plates are uncut (ie not trimmed) thus with slight narrow edge tanning. Ex Library with circular blind stamps (1.6cm) throughout. The verso of both titlepages have 3x4mm stamp with accession & shelf number and "enf.trans.4/70" filled in neatly. It does not show through to recto of leaf and there is now a gift book plate tipped over this. The pastedown has bookplate of F.W. Searle + initials & 1" red ink circle. Newer free endpaper watermarked 1833 and is not part of the pastedown or next free sheet. *Beautiful and very clean copy with large margins, clean unsmudged coloring on thick crisp paper (Abbey Scenery 278).

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Book number: V74766

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Anon

INCENSE TO OUR INFANT KING

Munich & New York, Obpacher Brothers 1890s) Chromoliths (6 + both covers each different). . 125x100mm card covers spine with gold colored metalic thread and with red silk bow All Edges Silvered. Book made of 8 card leaves each opening having a chromolith and a verse in decorative calligraphic script. Very similar to those printed by Nister or Castell for the gift market.

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Anon. [But by Richard Blackmore] & Normanby,John Sheffield,Duke of Buckingham and Normanby.

THE KIT-CATS a Poem to which is Added THE PICTURE in imitation of Annacreon's Bathillus. As Also the COQUET BEAUTY by the Rt.Hon.the Marquis of Normanby

London, H.Hills 1709 . Small Octavo disbound 16pp usual paper tabbing with last page abit more so. Atribution of the Kit-Cats to Richard Blackmore is made by Halkett and Laing. This is the second of Hill's pirated editions, the first being in 1708. These poems also appeared in anthologies for example in "A Collection of the best English Poetry, by several hands" published in 1717 and again later in S.J.Pratt's "Cabinet of Poetry" etc. Foxon B262 ESTC T29488 *Named the Kit-Cats after the so called Kit-Cat club, a whig-protestant club promoting a limited-monarchy and a strong parliament. Named so because their meetings were held in a London tavern run by Christopher Catt, who`s mutton pies became known as "Kit-Cats".

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Anon [text], engravings after Franz Stöber [not named here]

DER MYTHOS ALTER DICHTER in sechzig bildlichen Darstellungen. Dritte umgeararbeitete Auflage.

Wien (Vienna), Mayer & Compagnie 3rd revised edition. 1841 Frontisplate + 59 other steel-engraved plates (lacking pl.50 Sisyphus) originally engraved on copper in 1815 by Franz Stöber (1795-1858). . Large octavo (24cm x 15.5cm) newer linen-spined boards with old paper relaid on covers and spine (has title but lacks original paper at spine head and foot). Unpaginated, but each numbered plate has tissue guard and facing leaf of text in German to explain each myth. Lacks plate 50 (maybe cut out by censor). Some foxing, and light marginal damp marks at gutter not touching engraved part of plates. *The steel-engraved images of gods, nymphs and heroes are quite small (9.5cm x 6.5cm), printed on strong paper at centre of each plate, but of very fine quality and detail. They are closely based on similarly numbered copperplate engravings by Franz Xaver Stöber, first published Vienna 1815 in similar large octavo format, but with completely different anonymous German text. The detail of these later steel engravings only differs from Stöber's original 1815 copperplates by covering up some female breasts, better to comply with 1840s more prudish moral code. They still retain the strongly erotic impression given by many of the originals, thus helping to maintain their popularity over more than 25 years.

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Book number: V74754

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Keywords: myths gods heroes erotic Greek Roman

Anon

SACRAE LITANIAE VARIAE. Quibus parva officia singulis hebdomadae diebus congruentia praeponuntur. Cum Previ piaque quotidiana exercitatione in gratiam Catholicorum. Ensemble l'Office de la Conception. Avec les Rubriques en Francois.

Paris, Sebastien Hure 1648 copperplates (8 full-page) + TP copperplate + 2 large woodcuts printed in two colors as well as all pages printed in red and black with large capitals in red or black,words in red all within red rules. . 105 x 55mm disbound ALL EDGES GILT (gilt worn) 382pp+(ii)of index. BOUND WITH: Coton's ORAISONS DEVOTES, appropriees a toutes sortes d'exercices & actions Chrestiennes. Paris,Sebastien Hure 1647 24pp+ manuscript musical notation in red and black (square notes on 4 line staves) and italic manuscript verses and refrain with Red initial letter to each of 12 verses.+ final prayer all on (5)unnumbered pages.

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Book number: V56445

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Keywords: Catholic litany rubricated throughout early two color printing