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Precaution, a Novel

Precaution, a Novel by COOPER James Fenimore

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Title
Precaution, a Novel
Author
COOPER James Fenimore
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1820. First Edition. COOPER, James Fenimore. Precaution, a Novel. New York: A.T. Goodrich, 1820. Two volumes. Small octavo, 20th-century full brown morocco gilt, marbled endpapers. $5500.First edition of Cooper's first novel, published anonymously, handsomely bound by Bennett.""Playfully challenged by his wife's cousin to write a better book than one he was reading aloud, Cooper, after a false start, produced Precaution (1820), an imitation of an English novel of manners, which… brought him to the attention of the New York literary world"" (ANB). Until the publication of Precaution, Cooper had been a gentleman farmer with large debts. His literary career was so immediately successful that his financial problems were solved by 1826, the year in which The Last of the Mohicans appeared. His writing career continued until 1850, one year before his death. ""His worldwide fame attests his power of invention, for his novels have been popular principally for their variety of dramatic incidents, vivid depiction of romantic scenes and situations, and adventurous plots. But a more sophisticated view caused a revival of interest in the mid-20th century concentrating on Cooper's novels in their creation of tension between different kinds of society, between society and the individual, between the settlement and the wilderness, and between civil law and natural rights"" (Hart, 165-66). Bound without errata leaf. Spiller & Blackburn 1. BAL 3825. Bookplates. Contemporary owner signature on first page of text in Volume I partly trimmed away.Scattered foxing and dampstaining, more so in Volume I. A rare Cooper title.
Reflections sur Quelques Parolles de Jesus-Christ: Particulierement sur les sept dernieres qu'il à[!] prononcées sur la croix. Pour servir d'un saint entretien à l'ame chrétienne pendant la messe [Dedication Copy in Madame de Maintenon's armorial binding]

Reflections sur Quelques Parolles de Jesus-Christ: Particulierement sur les sept dernieres qu'il à[!] prononcées sur la croix. Pour servir d'un saint entretien à l'ame chrétienne pendant la messe [Dedication Copy in Madame de Maintenon's armorial binding] by [Madame de Maintenon] "N.D.T." [Jacques Bénigne Bossuet?]

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Reflections sur Quelques Parolles de Jesus-Christ: Particulierement sur les sept dernieres qu'il à[!] prononcées sur la croix. Pour servir d'un saint entretien à l'ame chrétienne pendant la messe [Dedication Copy in Madame de Maintenon's armorial binding]
Author
[Madame de Maintenon] "N.D.T." [Jacques Bénigne Bossuet?]
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Paris: N. Bonnart, 1690. Very Good. Paris: N. Bonnart, [ca. 1690]. First Edition. 12mo (15.5cm.); armorial binding of Madame de Maintenon, full crimson morocco adorned with her coat-of-arms on both covers, triple-ruled in gilt with diminutive repeating rampant lions at each corner, elaborate gilt spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; 100pp.; illus. and calligraphic text printed entirely from copper-plates, this copy featuring the more often-found depiction of an empty cross within a crown of thorns printed on title page verso. Light rubbing to extremities, brief discoloration to upper cover from exposure to damp, inoffensive surface abrasion to front pastedown from previously-removed ex libris, slightly later ink note in Latin to front flyleaf, else a Very Good or better copy of an exquisite production in a desirable presentation binding. Though dedication signed in text "N.D.T.," a sermon of this title can be found in the complete works of Jacques Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704), tutor of the same children to whom Maintenon had served as governess. Small and beautifully-produced prayer book dedicated to Madame de Maintenon (1635-1719), by then the morganatic not-so-secret second wife of Louis XIV, published for the use of the Maison Royale de Saint-Louis, a boarding school Maintenon founded in St. Cyr for the education of the orphans and children of the poorer French nobility. The text, printed entirely from copper-plates, is interspersed with delicate vignettes of flowers, views of the French countryside, and soothing religious imagery (the lamb asleep on the cross), details presumably dotting the text to keep Maintenon's wards engaged while deep in prayer. Volumes bound in the Maintenon armorial bindings are relatively scarce, their owner having not organized any semblance of a personal library until quite late in life. Though married to the king of France for over thirty years, Madame de Maintenon (née Françoise d'Aubigné, later Madame Scarron) came from a modest background she never forsook. Raised in the Calvinist church, the young Aubigné was orphaned at an early age and subsequently educated in an Ursuline convent where she converted to Catholicism, her devotion to the Church one of her most notable qualities throughout her long and increasingly illustrious career. By the time she reached womanhood, her straitened circumstances led her to marry the significantly older and paralytic author Monsieur Scarron, noting that "I have entered a union in which the heart requires little and the body, in truth, nothing at all" (my translation). Widowed within less than a decade, the beautiful and pious Madame Scarron had by now seduced the French nobility at court and was quickly summoned by the Marquise de Montespan to be governess to the children she had borne Louis XIV out of wedlock. It was in this role that she caught the king's attention, who bestowed upon her the money which she used to purchase the Chateau de Maintenon as well as the title of Marquise de Maintenon. During the decade of the 1670s the king spent more and more of his time with his children's governess, causing a predictable rupture between her and the Marquise de Montespon, though Maintenon forever avowed that she never stooped to the level of mistress. In 1683 Louis XIV and Madame de Maintenon were married in a secret ceremony, and while she never filled the role of Queen of France, she was the king's chief advisor until the end of his days. (See Ernest Quentin-Bauchart, "Les Femmes Bibliophiles de France" (1886), pp. [269]-272.) A note about the binding: The example of the Maintenon coat-of-arms depicted on this volume not listed in Olivier-Hermal-Roton, presumably having been produced specially for this, the dedication copy--the British Library notes a similar example of another unique cut, on their dedication copy of Cordemoy's "Divers Traitez de Controverse" (1701).
Vetustiora Latinorum Scriptorium Chronica [Two Volume Set]

Vetustiora Latinorum Scriptorium Chronica [Two Volume Set] by Thomas Roncallius [ed.]

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Vetustiora Latinorum Scriptorium Chronica [Two Volume Set]
Author
Thomas Roncallius [ed.]
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Patavii [Padua]: Apud Jo. Baptistam, et Filios Penada, 1787. Very Good. Patavii [Padua]: Apud Jo. Baptistam, et Filios Penada, 1787. First Edition. Two volumes; large quartos (29cm.); contemporary parchment over block-printed paper-covered boards, tan gilt-lettered spine labels, all edges speckled red; collated complete; text printed in double columns. Ex-St. Charles Seminary Library with spine shelf labels and rather extensive rubber-stamping throughout text blocks, parchment quite dust-soiled, boards a bit scuffed at margins, else a Very Good, internally fresh and sound set.
Approaches to Writing [Inscribed and Signed to Henry Steele Commager]

Approaches to Writing [Inscribed and Signed to Henry Steele Commager] by Paul Horgan; James Kraft [bibliography]

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Approaches to Writing [Inscribed and Signed to Henry Steele Commager]
Author
Paul Horgan; James Kraft [bibliography]
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, [1973]. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($10.00), pictorial endpapers printed in green; xi,[3],331pp. Light toning and soil to jacket, corners tapped, textblock margins rather heavily foxed, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Lengthily inscribed and signed to American historian Henry Steele Commager in which Horgan admits that he is breaking Commager's law, "which forbids an author to give away his books.
State of Mexico and Surrounding Country [caption title]

State of Mexico and Surrounding Country [caption title] by [Mexican Revolution]

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State of Mexico and Surrounding Country [caption title]
Author
[Mexican Revolution]
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McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition
About very good.
Description
Chicago: Rand McNally, 1913. About very good.. Color printed map, approximately 16 x 22 inches. Previous folded, lacking card wrappers (with some residue on otherwise blank verso). Two contemporary ink stamps. Light toning. An odd and scarce map that details American understanding of the situation in Mexico during the Revolution of the 1910s. Starting with a garden-variety Rand-McNally map of the country, an entrepreneurial employee has made extensive use of red overprinting to show the "chief centers of the rebellion and names of leaders," the "principal garrisons of Federal-Mexican troops in the North," major American forts along the border, and the locations of U.S. consular offices across Mexico. The map was produced in 1913, before any American involvement in the conflict following the Tampico Affair and the subsequent occupation of Veracruz in 1914. Still, the overall impression is that the United States possessed the overwhelming force to play a major role in the Revolution, when it was in fact largely an internal affair. The map was issued as a promotional by the Travelers Insurance Company of Hartford, Connecticut, who no doubt wanted to demonstrate the dangers of international travel at that point in time and the desirability of their products, and bears the small ink stamps of a Portland, Oregon, sales agent.
Le Robinson suisse ou journal d'un père de famille naufragé avec ses enfan, traduit de l'allemand de M. Viss et terminé par la baronne de Montolieu. Nouvelle édition, ornée de figures et de la carte de l'ile déserte

Le Robinson suisse ou journal d'un père de famille naufragé avec ses enfan, traduit de l'allemand de M. Viss et terminé par la baronne de Montolieu. Nouvelle édition, ornée de figures et de la carte de l'ile déserte by Wyss, Johann David

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Le Robinson suisse ou journal d'un père de famille naufragé avec ses enfan, traduit de l'allemand de M. Viss et terminé par la baronne de Montolieu. Nouvelle édition, ornée de figures et de la carte de l'ile déserte
Author
Wyss, Johann David
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
Genève: Lador, 1833. 3 volumes in 1, small 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 253, [3]; 279, [1]; 276, [2]; engraved folding map (short tear entering from the stub), and 16 lithograph plates; contemporary black morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt lettering on gilt-paneled spine, later maroon morocco label on the upper cover noting a "Prix d'Exames" for one Fanny Jaquemet; fore-edge swelled due to a tight rehinging; otherwise good and sound. The 2-volume Montolieu continuation is not present.
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IMMORTAL MENTOR: or Man's Unerring Guide ...

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IMMORTAL MENTOR: or Man's Unerring Guide ...
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1810. THE IMMORTAL MENTOR: or Man's Unerring Guide to a Healthy, Wealthy, & Happy Life. In Three Parts.... Mill-Hill, near Trenton: Daniel Fenton; printed by Brown and Merritt, Philadelphia, 1810. [4], 323 p. + [6] p. list of subscribers' names + [2] p. Fenton advts. Contemporary sheep (hinges broken). A Mason L. Weems production, with a recommendation by George Washington. Includes Franklin's "The Way to Wealth." For additional information see Felcone, New Jersey Books (2nd edn.), 903.
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Bigelow, John

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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Bigelow, John
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Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
The Franklin Library, 1979. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Bound in premium full leather. Accented in 22kt gold. Gilt title and 2 raised bands to spine with all page edges gilt. High-quality patterned paper with gilded edges, orange ribbon marker, and orange silk moire endpapers. Limited Edition as stated on title page. Near fine book, scratches on forend and bottom edges, light soiling on top edges, and scuff marks on bottom edge of front and back cover, corners, spine, and back cover.
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Studies from the Tokugawa Institute Vol. V, No. 2

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Studies from the Tokugawa Institute Vol. V, No. 2
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Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
Japanese, German and English text. VG. Light exterior toning.
Description
Tokyo: The Tokugawa Institute for Biological Research, 1940. Staplebound. Japanese, German and English text. VG. Light exterior toning.. Quarto. Staplebound. Plain paper wraps with black titles and seal. English entries: Yuasa, Akira; Studies in the Cytology of Pteridophta Yuasa, Akira; Critical Observations on the Origin of the Blepharoplast and Centrosome in Plants.
Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde - 1st Edition/1st Printing
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Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Wright, Thomas

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Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author
Wright, Thomas
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Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN
9780805089936
Condition
Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description
New York: Henry Holt and Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2008. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0805089934 . A Fine first Edition/First Printing in a like dust-jacket, each of which has two small indentations on the front surfaces and mild edgewear; In this detailed and captivating biography, Wright tells the story of Oscar Wilde, one of the most brilliant and prolific writers in English history. From his earliest years, Wilde was consumed by reading, devouring any and all books he could get his hands on. Wright explores the influence reading had on Wilde's life and work, detailing his life as a writer, his scandalous trials and tribulations, and his lasting legacy.; 8vo; 370 pages .
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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de febre intermittente. . . by WEST, Arthur.

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Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de febre intermittente. . .
Author
WEST, Arthur.
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Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
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Edinburgh:: P. Neill, 1825., 1825. 208 x 131 mm. 8vo. [viii], 23 pp. Self-wraps. Fine.

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