The Honourable Lady Cust.

The Invalid's Own Book: A Collection of Recipes from Various Books and Various Countries

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Purports to be a recipe book "for the sick," but the waters, pastries, meats, soups and broths and salads would appear to be fine on their own . . . "Many of the recipes were collected for the use of a beloved suffering member of my own family, since deceased…by whose bedside the midnight hours were beguiled in compiling them" (The Honourable Lady Cust). A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Several pages of the Table of Contents are bound inverted. An apparent First Edition, bound in publisher's original blue cloth, blind-stamped designs to both front and rear boards, rubbed gilt lettering to spine. Small 12mo format. Toned endpapers, moderate to heavy foxing of interior, rubbed and scuffed tips and edges, but clean and unmarked. Scarce in the trade in this state and condition. The Honourable Lady Cust. was Mary Anne Cust, a.k.a. Lady Cust (born Mary Anne Boode, 23 September 1799 – 19 July 1882), eventually a British naturalist, scientific illustrator and author of both this, The Invalid’s Own Book, her first book, History and Diseases of the Cat, a 31-page book published a couple of years later and then also The voice of thanksgiving: a selection of passages, in prose and verse, from various Christian authors (1861); Thoughts upon cruelty. For the Liverpool branch of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. (1863); The Cat: It's History and Diseases, with Methods of Administering Medicine (1870); The Cat: It's History, Diseases and Management; and Drawings and paintings of flowers, fruit, fish and marine invertebrates: Three volumes comprising 205 drawings and paintings (1839 and 1866–1874). Her father, unfortunately, though he died when she was quite young, was a particularly successful trader in human beings in British Guiana. One can only wonder. xix [1], 2-144 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: recipes receipts sick invalid Lady Cust Mary Anne Cust culinary food cooking

Dobson, Austin

Eighteenth Century Vignettes, First, Second, Third Series, Fine-Paper Edition

London, Chatto & WIndus, . A New Edition, with notes. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Good-looking, structurally sound reprint edition based on the true First Edition of 1892, complete with Prefaces to the First Edition. Includes essays on "The Journal to Stella" and "The Topography of 'Humphry Clinker'" and many more. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound copies, complete in three volumes, bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned interiors at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Near pocketbook-sized item bound in brownish cloth over boards, now protected in stiff Mylar jackets, blind-stamped authors and designs to front covers, gilt designs and lettering to spines, quite fine. Multiple black-and-white illustrations including at frontis of each volume, and with decorated green and white endpapers to each volume. Edited in full by Austin Dobson (Henry Austin Dobson) (18 January 1840 – 2 September 1921) was best known as an English poet and essayist and wrote and edited poetry and prose throughout his life. First Series (1907): frontis matter, 2-308 pp.; Second Series (1906): frontis matter, 2-306 pp.; Third Series (1907): 367 pp. including a full index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: Austin Dobson eighteenth century eighteenth century literature vignettes English poetry English literature

Dodd, William

Thoughts in Prison, and Other Miscellaneous Pieces, Including a Life of the Author

London, Printed for C. Cook, . Cooke's Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Another fine contribution to the influential Cooke's Editions of English literature and poetry, geography and history. Undated, but certainly the 1790s, and with the same "superb engravings" as per usual, including vignettes at title pages, and tails, some engraved plates, some with tissue-guards intact. Short hardcover formats, full leather bindings, gilt ruling to spines, raised bands, gilt lettering over black leather spine title labels. Moderately rubbed and scuffed tips, edges, extremities, but clean and unmarked of interiors. Complete with hagiography of William Dodd.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: William Dodd Thoughts in Prison

Anon. [Fletcher, John (1729-1785)]

An Appeal to Matter of Fact and Common Sense, or a Rational Demonstration of Man's Corrupt and Lost Estate

London, Printed by R. Hawes for multiple booksellers including J. Eddowes, S. Aris, W. Piercy, T. Mills, J. Buckland et al.Printed by R. Hawes for a number of London-based booksellers, . Third Edition. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. Author is Anonymous, but is attributed to John Fletcher (1729-1785), an English philosopher and polemicist. Undated, but a contemporary inscription from a former owner is 1780, and the author preface is dated to Madeley, from 1772. Previous owner is maybe "Cleeve Hooper?" Stated Third Edition. Bound in brown leather over boards, cracking to front joint but not rear, strings showing, else still sturdy, tight and square. Gilt-stamped dentelles around inside of front and rear boards, gilt ruling to front and rear panels, ruling to spine, rubbed gilt lettering over burgundy cloth label at spine. Scuffing to tips, spine head and foot, but still stands sturdily upright on the shelf. Nicely attractive marbled endpapers front and rear, silk linen ribbon bookmark still attached. x, 11-299 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: John Fletcher morality Christianity religion philosophy

Franklin, Benjamin

The Essays, Humourous, Moral and Literary of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin

Boston, E.G. House, printers, for John Wst and Co., 1811. . Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. An illuminating collection of "essays" but mostly in the form of letters to trusted friends, family and colleagues, discoursing upon death, religion, industry, too early marriage, lying, alcohol consumption and manifold personal social ills. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and still quite sturdy. Calf over boards, rubbed gilt ruling to spine, rubbing to, scuffing of tips, edges, cracking to front joint, else tightly bound. Beyond extensive inscriptions at first free endpaper, clean of interior. No other copies of this edition apparently available on-line, and not in Worldcat dot org, either. Toning to endpapers, moderate toning to, foxing of interior, but clean and unmarke. 182 pp. with two-page Index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: Benjamin Franklin essays morals literary essays U.S. history

Goldsmith, Oliver

The Deserted Village

London, England, Noel Douglas, 1927. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Another fine contribution to the The Noel Douglas Replicas series, reprising here Oliver Goldsmith's The Deserted Village, originally published in 1770, the year that saw publication of five separate quarto format editions released. This reproduction is from the original First Edition as held by the British Museum (Colophon). Tan paper over boards, orange lettering to spine, clean and unmarked of interior but for dealer-stamp at bottom near spine of first free endpaper. Moderately foxed but yet quite readable. Fine black-and-white engraving in facsimile at title page, "The San Historian of the Pensive Plain." vii pp. Dedication, then 22 pp. epic poem.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Very Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: Noel Douglas Replicas The Deserted Village Oliver Goldsmith

Saffo [Vincezo Imperiali]

La Faoniade Inni Ed Odi Di Saffo. Saffo (Vincenzo Imperiali)

Ancona, Italy, D'Alla Typografia Sartori, 1808. . Softcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Wholly in Italian, poetry and prose by the poet Sappho, a perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Printed stiff card stock wraps, small hole through front cover, rough-cut page edges all around, heavy rubbing to and slight soiling of wraps, else clean of interior, with neither underlining nor highlighting. Perfectly readable, usable copy. Printed for the publisher by F. Leonardus Minotti, quite finely. Rubbing to, cracking of backstrip. 79 [2] pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: Italian language Sappho Saffo

Epicteti [Epictetus]; Omnia Hieronymo Wolfio Interprete

Epicteti Stoici Philosophi Enchiridion: Unã  Cum Cebetis Thebani Tabula Quibus Adjiciuntur Hac Editione Simplicii Commentarios in Enchiridion Epicteti Item Arriani Commentariorum de Epicteti Disputationibus, Lib. IV.

London, Typis Jacobi Flesher, prostant apud Guilielmum Morden Bibliopolam Cantarigiensen, 1670. . Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Greek text and Latin translation of the Enchiridion in 79 chapters, in parallel columns. Still handsome, stands easily on the shelf by itself. Bound in full leather, appears to be contemporary (see Julia Miller, Books Will Speak Plain), blind-stamped rectangular panels, four fleurs-de-list stamped to corners front and rear, four raised bands to spine, gilt and black horizontal ruling, rubbed, barely visible, slight bowing to front board. Penned inscription inside front flap: E.L.G.S.A.S.S. 1692. Red-stained all around. Chipping to leather at tips, edges, spine. A few page edges torn, unobtrusively so, slight damp-staining to a few edges but with no signs of odor or moisture, light soiling to endpapers, else mildly toned interior, paper being quite fine, clean, unmarked. Two title pages, one printed in red and black, another in black. Double column text, Latin on the left, Greek on the right, reversed, verso. Biography of Epictetus in Latin at outset. In short, the title, Enchiridion, comprises Epictetus’s wisest teachings as gleaned from and written down by Arrian, his star pupil; it contains all the fundamentals of his philosophy of and that represents best the Stoic philosophy. Epictetus argued that a Stoic principle is that one should not be concerned with what is out of one's control, and neither should we lust after that which we cannot have. Virtue is good, acceptance near divine. Extensive frontis matter, 2-430 pp., [19] pp. of Index.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: Epictetus Latin Greek philosophy Hieronymo Wolfio

Mrs. Anna Jameson

Diary of an Ennuyee

Boston, Lilly, Wait, Colman, and Holden, 1833. . Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. A cute, little sentimental volume of "A Lady's" diary set mostly in Europe, "published exactly as it was found after the death of the Author, varied only by the omission of certain names. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in brown paper over boards, some loss thereof at spine head and foot, gilt-stamped title to spine. Chipping to, scuffing of spine head and foot, cracking to joints at head and foot. Lightly foxed of interior, else clean and unmarked. According to her Wikipedia entry, Anna Brownell Jameson (17 May 1794 – 17 March 1860) "was an Anglo-Irish art historian whose work spanned art and literary criticism, philosophy, travel writing, and feminism. She became very well known for her extensive writings. Jameson was connected to some of the most prominent names of the period including Joanna Baillie, Fanny Kemble, Elizabeth Barrett-Browning and Robert Browning, Harriet Martineau, Ottilie von Goethe (the daughter-in-law of Goethe), Lady Byron, Harriet Hosmer, Ada Lovelace, Charles and Elizabeth Eastlake, and Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon." Born in Dublin, Ireland, 17 May 1794. When age 16, "she became governess in the family of Charles Paulet, 13th Marquess of Winchester." The genesis of the book was that she accompanied a pupil after ending an engagement on a trip to Italy and wrote the following as an "autobiographical" narrative "under the guise of an unnamed and ailing young woman who eventually dies." The diary was given to a bookseller who published it as The Diary of an Ennuyée (1826). Her solo traveling and rejection of a suitor were considered scandalous. [1] ix [1] 2-268 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Sonstige Stichworte: Mrs. Anna Jameson travel solo scandal Europe Italy

Jung, Johan Heinrich

En Formaning [an Exhortation]

Christianstad, Sweden, Fredr. J. Eedergreen, 1814. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being only one additional copy available in an academic library, and that's it. Swedish-language tract. Title page translates as "An Exhortation, by Dr. Johan Heinrich Jung, Translation from D. graue Mann, 3 Stück pag. 184 et seq. Christianstad, 1814. Printed at Fredr. F. Cedar green. In serviceable condition but wish string on spine pulling gently. Johann Heinrich Jung (12 September 1740, in Grund – 2 April 1817, in Karlsruhe), is perhaps better known by his assumed name, Heinrich Stilling, a German author of no little rank, born in the village of Grund (now part of Hilchenbach) in Westphalia. Jung became, "at his father's wish," says his Wikipedia entry, "a schoolmaster and tailor." Having completed his vocation in teaching for a time he went in 1768 "to study medicine at the University of Strasbourg," meeting Goethe there and who introduced him also to Herder. He became a physician and oculist of no little note and began to do cataract surgeries. "He performed over 3,000 cataract operations during his lifetime," but then branched out into "agriculture, technology, commerce and veterinary medicine in the newly established College of Cameralism (Hohe Kameral-Schule) at Kaiserslautern, a post which he continued to hold when the school was absorbed into the University of Heidelberg." Light foxing to wraps, clean and unmarked paper, quite soft and fine, with a fine publisher's device at title page, and nice heads and tails. A sharp satisfying bite to the font.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: Swedish language Johan Heinrich Jung

Juvenal

Decii Junii Juvenalis A. Persii Flacci Satyre

Londini, J. Brindley, 1744. . Hardcover. Size: 64mo 3" - 4. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Short skinny tome, Latin language throughout, bound in contemporary calf leather, four raised bands to spine, rubbed gilt lettering there. Moderately toned interior, clean, unmarked. Rear pastedown cracked, board still holding firm. 116 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: Juvenal Latin language

Kellgren

Om Affix-Pronomen I Arabisken, Persiskan Och Turkiskan Samt Ibn-Maliks Allmija Med Text-Kritik Och Anmarkningar

Helsingfors, Finland, J.C.Frenckel & Son, 1854. First Edition. Softcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete, being a Finnish and Persian language primer from a noted philologist and member of the faculty of Kejserlika Alexanders-Universitetet. Moderately worn and soiled cover paper, upper tip missing, previous owner's signature in pen to title page. First three signatures have come loose from the hand-sewn strings, light staining at bottom tie. Clean and unmarked interior. A language primer on Turkish, Arabic and Farsi. 74 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Fair

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Sonstige Stichworte: Finnish language|H. Kellgren|Ibn-Maliks Allamija

King, Constance Eileen

The Price Guide to Dolls: Antique and Modern

Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom, Antique Collectors' Club, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. A definitive guide to antique and modern doll collection and sale, and with a laid-in price-guide revision to May 1978. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Very slight forward cock to blue cloth spines, sharp and distinctive gilt lettering to cover and spine. Bookplate to Antique Showcase at first free endpaper, embossed stamp at title page. 380 black-and-white illustrations, 16 in full color, printed on high-gloss paper, at [34] 2-482 pp. Well over 400 dolls represented.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine/Near Fine,

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Sonstige Stichworte: Constance Eileen King|price-guide|antique dolls|collectible dolls|modern dolls

A Lady

The Tyrolese Minstrels, or the Romance of Every Day Life

Boston, Massachusetts, George W. Light, 1841. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Uber-scarce in the trade, there being currently no additional copies available on-line beyond P.O.D.s. of this First Edition; "1841" appears on both title and copyright page. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Publisher's original blind-stamped decorations to front and rear covers, bound in brown cloth, newly backed in creamy brown cloth, gilt-ruled and gilt lettering over black label, quite sharply so. Slight forward cock to spine. Moderate rubbing to covers, tips, extremities, light scuffing along top edges, lighter along bottom, bruising of but not breaking of tips. Lightly waffled text-block, light foxing and toning thereto. Beautiful black-and-white lithograph at frontis, signifying early use thereof of this medium, drawn by Miss C. Neagus and pulled by W. and J. Sharp of Boston. The lithograph is tissue-protected, depicting perhaps a Tyrolean maiden wearing typical dress, a tight bodice, a flouncy hat, and ferns and forest at the back, quite fine. 200 pp. plus [4] pp. of other publisher's newest books. The identity of "A Lady" is alleged by some to be Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 - April 30, 1879), an American woman "writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book" (Wikipedia), author of children's rhyming books, an early campaigner for what became known as Thanksgiving, a supporter of George Washington and the restoration of Bunker Hill as a national monument. As well, she was a friend to and contemporary of the publisher George W. Light and who also published a number of works of poetry and light Americana devoted to housekeeping and rural ways, works such as Keep Cool, Go Ahead; The House-Keeper; The Young Wife, or, the Woman in the Marriage Relation; and others. "From Beef Bouillon to Chromolithography," posted by Julie L. Mellby on September 6, 2007 to the Princeton University web-site devoted to "Graphic Arts," notes that the first American chromolithograph was a portrait of Reverend F. W. P. Greenwood and that it was pulled by one of C. Neagus's colleagues, William Sharp, in 1840 and that the first American book to feature chromolithographs was published in that same year by Morris Mattson (1809-1885), The American Vegetable Practice, or, A New and Improved Guide to Health, Designed for the Use of Families (Boston: Published by Daniel L. Hale). That volume contained 26 plates; 24 were drawn by the author, by Sharp and by Miss C. Neagus and Mrs. Anne Hill. All in, a Good condition, sturdy exemplar, rebound, of a title scarcely found in the trade. The title, however, does not appear in the Allibone Critical Dictionary entry for her (pp. 758-759). For now, the true identity of "A Lady" remains unknown.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: A Lady Tyrolese music Tyrol musicians Tyrolese minstrels

Fedro [Phaedrus]

Le Favole Di Fedro Liberto Di Augusto

Bassano, Italo, Remondini, 1746. Seconda Edizione. Hardcover. Size: 12mo 7" - 7. The title page continues, "in volgar prosa toscana recate a riscontro del testo latino, ed illustrate con note di varie maniere per Sebastiano M. Zappala'. Stated Seconda Edizione. Text thus entirely in Italian and Latin, title translated into English as "The Fables of Phaedrus freedman of Augustus purged in Tuscan vulgar prose brought to the Latin text and illustrated with notes of various manners for Sebastiano M. Zappala ... for use by the schools of the Episcopal Seminary of Catani. Published in 1746 by Remondini. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete and sturdy. Bound in an ancient vellum, perhaps the original, with mottling and discoloration mostly along bottom edge, else quite tightly bound and bright of interior, with a wavy text-block, clean and unmarked. Penned title to white cloth tape to spine. xxiv [3], 4-308 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good

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Sonstige Stichworte: Fedro Sebastiano M. Zappala' Fedro Phedra fables stories legends Italian language Latin language