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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

New York: Harper & Row, [1971] First U.S. edition. Cloth. Octavo. Fine in very good dust jacket. Jacket has some light wear at corners and spine ends.

Venice: Francisco Lorenzini, 1563 A scarce edition of the esteemed Italian translation by Agostino Ortica Della Porta (active 1512, exact dates unknown). OCLC notes four copies in America: Berkeley, Duke, Columbia, and Yale. Not in Adams or the BL Italian STC. Contemporary limp vellum, soiled and with a few wormholes. Edges stained blue. . Octavo. Woodcut publisher's device on title. With five full-page woodcuts and double-page maps of Spain and France. With both blanks HH2 and II8. Minor marginal worming, text with minor old soiling. Contemporary ownership inscription at foot of title-page, old small ink drawing on a blank between the text and the index. A very good copy. There were a number of illustrated editions of Caesar in the sixteenth century, beginning with the Aldine edition of 1513 Mortimer, 96) and the Giunta edition of 1514. These illustrations clearly draw on those from earlier editions, though they are not identical to any that we have located. The present edition is said to have been… Read More

Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis, 10 November, 1500 The sixth and final fifteenth-century edition of Eusebius's Preparation of the Gospel, first published by Jenson in 1470. . Nineteenth century half vellum over boards, covered with printed leaves from an incunabulum. . Folio. Complete with the final blank. Woodcut initials throughout. Covers lightly soiled, bookplate removed from front pastedown, first leaf with contemporary ownership inscription. With early fabric tabs or remains of fabric tabs at twelve places in the text. A very good, clean copy, preserved in modern brown cloth clamshell slipcase. The Preparation for the Gospel is a significant work by Eusebius Caesariensis (AD 260/265 – 339/340), who is best known for writing the first surviving history of the Christian Church as a chronologically-ordered account, complete from the time of the Apostles to his own time. The Preparation is an introduction to Christianity for pagans, in which the author attempts to prove the excellence of… Read More

New York: Morgan & Morgan, [1971] First published in 1901. Cloth. Quarto. Black and white photographic reproductions. Fine in very good dust jacket with one short tear.

Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press, [1982] First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Color and black and white illustrations throughout. Fine in fine d.j. In publisher's plain cardboard slipcase.

Stamford, CT: Overbrook Press, [1963] One of 150 copies. Publisher's sea green cloth with spine stamped in gilt and front cover in blind. . Quarto. Spine a bit faded, small bookseller's label on front pastedown. Near fine. Altschul, the founder of the press, notes in his foreword that his love for printing began when, as a boy, he was given a printing press for Christmas. Even though his mother took the press away a few days later, after she "found smears of printer's ink all over the house," Altschul continued printing as a hobby until it finally became his profession. green cloth with gilt spine titles.

London: George Redway, 1897 First edition. Publisher's brown cloth stamped in gilt. Light soiling to cloth and rubbing to head of spine. Octavvo. A large copy with edges untrimmed. Contemporary ink signature to front flyleaf (Edmund C. Barnett). Foxing to endpapers and first and last few leaves. Otherwise quite clean throughout. A good, tight copy of this collection of the author's "most important feminist articles." "With its belief that legal, social and political equality would effect change from within…The Morality of Marriage and Other Essays (1897), [is] a collection of [Mona Caird's] most important feminist articles…Caird's work explores the themes most characteristic of the time: rights (of citizenship) versus duties (morality, rationality); the nature of womanhood (equal or different?); the sexual division of labour; and independence versus protection (e.g., relating to employment laws). "Writing from within a tradition of Enlightenment thought, Caird asserted women's right to full… Read More

Pittsburgh: Hunt Institute for Botanica Documentation, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1979 First edition. Pictorial boards. Quarto. Black and white and color illustrations. Minor soiling. Near fine.

Madrid: En la imprenta de la viuda de Don Joaquin Ibarra, 1802 Second edition, revised, of this celebrated book on writing. The plates show the geometric construction of the alphabet and the proportions for various sizes of script, as well as giving specimens of different types of letters, some with elaborate decoration. The section on arithmetic is remarkable. Contemporary limp vellum with title in gilt on spine. Small quarto. With fifty-eight engraved plates designed by the author, engraved by Asensio, Castro, Gangioti. Engraved title-page. Tear in vellum repaired on front cover. Contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper, library rubberstamp on printed title, rubberstamped numeral on half-title. One gathering browned, a little light foxing otherwise. Overall a good, clean copy. Torio (1759-1820) was a member of the Royal Society for Economics in Madrid, and keeper of archives to the Marques de Astorga. He "was a man of extensive culture who had studied several languages, an uncommon… Read More

Gerona: Narcisco Oliva, [n.d., ca. 1770] Second edition, following the Barcelona edition, published by Carlos Saperá in 1768. The same engravings appear in both editions. In the present edition, the second calligraphic plate appears in a second state, with horizontal ruling added. The present edition has two additional chapters, other textual additions, and extra licenses not found in the first edition, but lacks the two-leaf "Alphabeto de letras mayusculas floreadas. Contemporary limp vellum with title in manuscript on spine. . Folio. Engraved frontisportrait of the author within an elaborated calligraphic background, engraved dedication leaf (to Don Carlos Tercero) and twenty engraved plates of calligraphy. Large woodcut text illustration on p. 57. Decorative headbands, tail-pieces and initial letters. Text in double columns. The last four pages consist of various printed alphabets. Covers soiled, chip at foot of spine. Light stamp on title-page and at a couple of other points. Some plates… Read More

London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts 1861 Third edition, with no variations from the first edition, published in 1854. Publisher's brown cloth with central gilt-stamped device, tooled decoratively in blind, beveled edges. All edges gilt and gauffered, brown endpapers. Quarto. Engraved borders, initial letters, and vignettes by Mary Byfield. Per the author, "the style of ornamentation adopted in this little volume is that of A Book of Christian Prayers printed by John Day, 1569, usually called Queen Elizabeth's Prayer Book. The side-pieces on pages 1, 2, 6, 13 are [facsimiles] of woodcuts in that work" (p. 8). Binding lightly worn, cloth slightly soiled, minor fraying to head and tail of spine. Light foxing. A very good copy We were able to find little information about William Calvert, except for his dates (1819-1880). The Wife's Manual contains nearly fifty prayers and meditations.

London: Houston, [various dates, 1836-1842] Includes the following: The Little Dog Flora, with Her Silver Bell (London: Houlston and Co., 1842) 15 pp, "Twenty-first edition"; The Two Lambs (London: Houlston and Stoneman, 1842), 42 + [4, ads] pp., "Twenty-fourth edition; The History of Little Frank and his Sister (London: Houlston and Son, 1837), 47 pp. "Fifth edition"; Amelia (London: Houlston and Co., n.d.), 47 pp., "Eighth edition"; The Strawberry-Gatherers (London: Houlston and Co., 1838), 15 pp., "Sixteenth edition"; A Visit to an Infants-School (London: Houlston and Co., n.d.), 32 pp., "Third edition"; The Three Flower-Pots (London: Houlston, 1840), 30 pp., "A New edition"; The Bunch of Violets (London: Houlston and Co., n.d.), 15 pp., "Eighth edition"; The Nosegay of Honeysuckles (London: Houlston and Co., 1838), 15 pp. "Twentieth edition"; The Warning Clock (London: Houlston and Co., n.d.), 15 pp., "Fourteenth edition"; The Kind Little Boy (London: Houlston and Son, 1838), 15 pp., "A new… Read More

Milano: Nella Stamperia di Antonio Agnelli, 1760 First edition of a rare treatise on marriage by the Italian priest Tommaso Campastri (d. 1778), published eleven years before his more famous work, La Donna qual si Vorrebbe. . Contemporary stiff vellum with title and erroneous author ("Roberti") written in manuscript on spine. The name "Roberti" also appears in ink after "Abate N.N." on the title-page. . Octavo. Engraved frontisportrait, engraved vignette on title-page, woodcut headband, initial letter, and tail-pieces Covers a bit soiled, with minor stains, and vellum patch at foot of spine. A few small wormholes on binding near back joints.Back free endpaper detached, light worming at gutter margins of endpapers, extending to lower margin of last two leaves of text, but not touching text. Overall a very good, crisp copy. La felicità del matrimonio discusses the problems of choosing a wife based on physical beauty, the nature of women, and the inherent inequalities of the sexes, especially when… Read More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1952 Includes many verse translations by Campbell of Lorca's poetry, many published here for the first time. 1st edition. . Fine in near fine d.j. D.j. has light soiling and one tiny tear.

NY: Putnams, [1992] Boards/. Octavo. Fine in fine d.j. Signed by the author.

New York: Lincoln MacVeagh, The Dial Press, 1931 First American edition. Clothbacked boards. Octavo. Near fine in very good dust jacket with a couple of small spots.

London: Barrie & Jenkins, [1992] First edition. Boards. Quarto. Bottom corners slightly rubbed, oitherwise as new in fine d.j.

London: Macmillan, 1896 Cloth. Octavo. Front joint cracking, light shelfwear. A very good, clean copy.

London: Effingham Wilson, 1834 First edition. Half early twentieth-century tan calf over marbled boards, gilt spine with tan and grey morocco labels, edges sprinkled red. . Two volumes, octavo. . Engraved frontisportrait by Thomas Lupton after a painting by Thomas Lawrence. Spines lightly faded, first and last few leaves of each volume foxed, minor foxing otherwise. A very good copy. Dedicated to Samuel Rogers: "I have heard you say, that, rare as it was to meet with so gifted a genius as that of Mrs. Siddons, it was almost equally so to meet in human nature with so much candid and benignant singleness of mind as belonged to her personal character. Though this was always my own conviction, yet I was gratified to hear it strongly expressed by one so well acquainted with her, and possessing so much perspicacity." According to a letter from Rev. Alexander Dyce to Sir Egerton Brydges, once in the possession of G. Thorn-Drury, Campbell was assisted by Dyce in the writing of this work. Dyce did not wish… Read More