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Oeuvres by RABELAIS, François

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Title: Oeuvres
Author: RABELAIS, François
Seller: Heritage Book Shop, LLC (United States)
Description: Amsterdam: Jean Frederic Bernard, 1741. Nouvelle edition. Three quarto volumes (9 3/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 238 x 190 mm). [2, blank] [10, 4 of which are ads], [i]-xxxvi, [1]-526, [4, blank]; [2, blank], [6], xxxiv, [3]-383, [2, blank]; [8], [2, ads], [8. letter], 1-144, 147-218, [1]-150, [35, table], [3, blank] pp. Each volume with half-title. Volume I and II with engraved half-titles and volume II with engraved frontispiece. Volume III with engraved frontispiece. An additional seventeen engraved plates, four of which are folding. Three of the folding plates are engravings of Rabelais' residence and the other is a folding map. Complete with 21 engraved plates. Numerous other engraved initials, chapter titles and vignettes. Contemporary tan polished calf. Triple gilt fillet borders. Edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt. Spines with red and brown morocco spine labels lettered in gilt. Spines stamped in gilt. All edges dyed red. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown of each volume. Some old ink marginalia to final blanks of volumes I and II. Some faded ownership initials to title-pages. Some light and occasional foxing. Overall a very handsome set. "Rabelais [1494?-ca. 1553] was held in high regard by his contemporaries as an eminent physician, as a pioneer of humanism, and as the author of an entertaining Book. It is in this last capacity that he is chiefly known to posterity. He published Pantagruel, the first installment of his great work, late in 1532 or in 1533; Gargantua in 1534; the Tiers Livre de Pantagruel in 1546; part of the Quart Livre in 1548 and the whole Book in 1552. The authenticity of the Fifth Book is questionable; it certainly contains work by other hands and was perhaps worked up from fragments and imperfect or rejected drafts left by Rabelais at his death...The work does not form a single artistic whole. Composed at intervals over twenty years, it varies greatly in character as the spirit moved the author or circumstances prompted; it is loosely held together by a thread of narrative and abounds in digressions. We have in the first two Books the fantastic tale of a family of giants, written (so Rabelais tells us) in moments of relaxation for the solace of the sick, though occasion is taken to expose the author's views on education, the monks, and the theologians. In the Third Book the fantastic features are abandoned and we pass to a series of amusing and dramatic discussions of the questions of the day. The Fourth and Fifth Books take us on a voyage to Cathay and provide occasion for satire and propaganda suited to the political views of the French court. The interest of the whole lies in the vivid picture it gives not only of French society in the early days of the Renaissance but also of the Protean author himself: his enthusiastic humanism, his love of life in all its manifestations and hatred of asceticism, his interest in knowledge of all kinds, above all his contempt for monkery and scholasticism" (The Oxford Companion to French Literature). HBS 65592. $3,500.

Colonial Era Ledger Document Signed by the Prominent New England Slave Trader William Vernon, 1762 by VERNON, William; (Peter Dordin)

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Title: Colonial Era Ledger Document Signed by the Prominent New England Slave Trader William Vernon, 1762
Author: VERNON, William; (Peter Dordin)
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Newport, Rhode Island, 1762. Very Good. Manuscript Ledger Sheet in two columns (8" x 13"). Signed by William Vernon, Sept. 14th, 1762. The sheet is headed: "Capt. Peter Dordin to W. Vernon, Philadelphia Currency". Light vertical folds, a few very small closed tears at the edges, very good or better. A well-preserved account statement of charges dating from 1757-60, payable to the Newport, Rhode Island-based merchant and slave trader William Vernon from fellow merchant and slave trader Peter Dordin. Vernon's dated signature confirms that the account was settled in 1762. Several charges relate to a 1757 voyage undertaken by brigantine *Mary* to Antigua: "June 29 [1757] - To cash pd. By W. Smith in Philada. For Insurance on £200 Briggt. Mary - Trip for Antigua ..." Other recorded charges include brigantine "Cato to Stamburgh," "Sloop Prussian Hero ... to Monte Cristo," and "500 Insurance on Briggt. Mermaid & Cargo ... ." William Vernon (1719 – 1806) is best known today for his role as President of the Eastern Navy Board during the American Revolutionary War, or informally as the first secretary of the Navy: He played a leading role in the building and equipping of vessels for the newly organized American Continental Navy and in the Continental Congress' maritime activities during the war. He had first entered into business as a young man with his brother Samuel in the bilateral trade between New England and the West Indies. In 1737 they expanded to the triangle trade, otherwise known as the Atlantic slave trade, eventually becoming the most prolific slave traders of Newport. Profits were made by purchasing people in Africa with rum from the colonies, and selling those slaves in the West Indies and North America, including Rhode Island. "The Vernons then used those profits to purchase molasses from those ports before buying more rum in the colonies, continuing the triangular cycle of trade." Over the course of sixty years, the Vernons financed over forty slave voyages to the coasts of West Africa, and had at one time as many as eight vessels engaged in the trade. Peter Dordin is best known in New England as the captain or master of slave ships trading from East Africa. A scarce surviving ledger sheet documenting the workings of the Atlantic slave trade in the American colonies before the Revolutionary War.

Song Without Words: A Book of Engravings on Wood by Ward, Lynd

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Title: Song Without Words: A Book of Engravings on Wood
Author: Ward, Lynd
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York: Random House, 1936. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. SIGNED. Slim quarto [25 cm] in 1/4 parchment vellum with rose-gold foil boards and the title in red on the backstrip. Title page printed in red and black. Deckled fore-edges. With the publisher's original paper band, with small chips to the edges. Housed in publisher's cream slipcase with a gold foil wraparound. Rubbing to foiled boards, toning to backstrip, darkening to endpapers (more so the front) from gluing process during production. Interior is unmarked. In the slipcase, with moderate rubbing to the extremities, and significant areas of darkening. Illustrated by Lynd Ward with twenty-one engravings printed in black. From an edition of 1250 signed and numbered copies, of which this is number 1178. Signed by Ward on the limitation page. A story told entirely through wood engravings. This is the fifth of six wordless novels that Ward produced between 1929 and 1937. Dance 009.

Goddess of Ganymede by Resnick, Michael

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Title: Goddess of Ganymede
Author: Resnick, Michael
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: West Kingston, RI: Donald M. Grant, 1967. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Neal MacDonald, Jr.. 12mo., 246pp. Beautiful Stated First Edition, limited to 750 unnumbered copies printed. Bound in original blue cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Printing. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save a couple of gentle rubs to the spine ends but quite minor. Equally attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($4.00), is fresh and bright with no chipping, creasesm toning or tears. A gorgeous collectable copy.

Overbooked in Arizona by Gottlieb, Samuel Hirsh

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Title: Overbooked in Arizona
Author: Gottlieb, Samuel Hirsh
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780963996602
Condition: Fine
Description: Scottsdale, AZ: Camelback Gallery, 1993. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Trade Paperback 8vo., 95pp. Beautiful Unread First Paperback Edition published simultaneously with a slip-cased hardcover. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear. Fresh and bright with no creases, tears or chipping. Signed by the author on the half-title page A very pretty collectable copy.

The Family Receipt Book & useful medical adviser. 1852, For gratuitous distribution, to be had gratis of all our agents. [Title from wrapper] by [Patent Medicine Receipt Book – A.L. Scovill & Company (New York); Amon L. Scovill]

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Title: The Family Receipt Book & useful medical adviser. 1852, For gratuitous distribution, to be had gratis of all our agents. [Title from wrapper]
Author: [Patent Medicine Receipt Book – A.L. Scovill & Company (New York); Amon L. Scovill]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: [New York]: Published annually by A.L. Scovill & Co, 1851. Stab-sewn booklet (19 x 12 cm.), 36 pages. Illustrated wrapper signed, Forbes del. N. Orr. Other illustrations engraved by F.A. E. and N. Orr. The OCLC record cites a printer's statement on page [4] of the wrapper, "Printed by E.N. Grossman & Son., 59 Ann-Street, New-York." We find no such statement anywhere on this copy. Evident FIRST EDITION of the first issue of this series of household medical almanacs. We've been unable to locate an earlier Scovill almanac. Consists of receipts, testimonials and advertisements for patent and proprietary medicines sold by A.L. Scovill & Co. Publisher's notice (page 1) states, "This 'Family receipt book' is to be published annually. Its object is to explain, in a familiar manner, what every mother may do for her children, or her family, in cases of emergency, or in ordinary complaints, where it would be inconvenient or impossible to obtain the services of a doctor ... The volume for 1853 will contain matters of interest to the farmer, the gardener, the kitchen, the toilet, etc." Includes "An Indian's Testimony, Kah-ge-gah-ga-bowh, or George Copway, the Indian Chief... gives the interesting particulars of the case of Miss R___, of this city, who was cured of a severe and protracted disease of teh lungs, by a few bottles of Dr. Rogers invaluable syrup of Liverwort, Tar, and Canchalagua..."(page 8). Bit of predation to the bottom left corner of wrapper and first few leaves. Some dog-ears; damp-staining and light stains to a few pages. In publisher's printed wrappers, a bit soiled and edgeworn. Good. [OCLC locates six copies].

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