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List #92 Summer Miscellany First Venice edition of the Gabriel Gerberon editing of Anselm’s works, first published in Paris in 1675. Saint Anselm of Canterbury (1033-1109) was born in SUMMER Aosta, in Piedmont. After study in Burgundy and France, he entered the Benedictine order and became prior and later abbot of Bec. He succeeded his teacher Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093. A much admired theologian and MISCELLANY philosopher who has been called the father of scholasticism, Anselm is best known his ontological argument for the Consisting of 100 Books, Mostly Recent existence of God, advanced in his Proslogion (1077-78). He stood strongly against anti-intellectualism, insisting that rational Acquisitions, but with a Few Older Items, analysis of the Christian faith did not necessarily lead to Including Many with Reduced Prices scepticism. Instead, he believed that intelligent study and discussion led to a better understanding of that faith and could MICHAEL THOMPSON BOOKS, 8242 West make it stronger. He was canonized in 1494 and named Third Street, Suite 230, Los Angeles, CA 90048 Doctor of the Church in 1726. Phone: (323) 658-1901; Fax: (323) Printed for the Roxburghe Club 658-5380; e-mail address: [email protected] Member, ABAA, ILAB 4. BACKHOUSE, Janet. John Scottowe’s Alphabet Bookes. [London:] Printed for the Roxburghe Club at the Scolar Press, List Number 92 1974. Folio. [2], 16 pp., plus twenty-eight facsimile plates, many with gold illuminations. Red morocco, gilt, over cloth. Some uneven fading to front cover. Otherwise fine. The John 1. [ALLEN PRESS]. Four Fictions. Joseph Conrad: The Sparrow/Hellmut Friedlaender copy. On the roster of Lagoon; Gustave Flaubert: The Legend of Saint Julian; Henry Roxburghe Club members, John Sparrow’s name is printed in James: The Jolly Corner; Luigi Pirandello: The Annuity. red to indicate that this copy was reserved for him. With the Kentfield, California: Allen Press, 1973. Folio. 155 pp. Illus- monogram bookplate of noted New York collector Hellmut trations and paper are by different craftsmen for each story; Friedlaender on the front pastedown. $250 illustrators include Blair Hughes-Stanton, Michèle Forgeois, Complete facsimile of an English sixteenth-century Joseph Low, and Paolo Carasone. Cream and yellow-gold dec- writing manual owned by The British Library (Harleian Ms. orative boards. A fine copy in the original acetate dust jacket, #3385), with commentary. with original prospectus laid in. $750 One of 137 copies. 5. [BEATTIE, James]. FORBES, William. An Account of These stories were chosen as examples of the best fiction the Life and Writings of James Beattie, LL.D. Late Professor of from America, England, France and Italy. Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College and University Allen Bibliography 39. of Aberdeen. Including many of his original letters. Edinburgh: Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. and William 2. [ALLEN PRESS]. MAGEE, David. The Ballad of the Creech…[et al.], 1806. Two volumes, quarto. [12, including Hollow Leg. [Kentfield, California: The Allen Press, 1955]. imprimatur leaf, title-page, dedication, directions to the binder Broadside, 15 ¼” x 20 ¼.” Large initial “T” wood engraving and erratas for each volume], 409, [1, blank]; [4, imprimatur by Mallette Dean, previously used of Balzac’s The Hidden leaf and title-page], 431, [1, blank], pp. Engraved frontispiece Treasure. One crease in center. Just the hint of foxing. A very in Volume I, seven facsimile plates, and one plate of music. good copy. Without half-titles. Contemporary calf over marbled boards, $250 rebacked to style. Gilt-decorated flat spines. Contemporary One of about thirty copies, according to Lewis Allen. booksellers’ labels of T. Wickham, Maidstone. Some light Allen Press Bibliography, p. 113. staining to boards, light foxing to first and last few leaves, some offsetting from plates. A very good, clean copy. $950 Attractive Folio Edition of the Works of the Father of Scholasticism First edition of this early biography of poet, moral philosopher and literary critic James Beattie (1735–1803). 3. ANSELM, Saint. Sancti Anselmi Ex Beccensi Abbate Compiled by a close friend, it is largely made up of Beattie’s Cantuariensis Archiepiscopi. Opera Omnia nec non Eadmeri letters, linked together by comments from Forbes. Monachi Cantuariensis Historia Novorum et alia opuscula: Labore ac studio D. Gabielis Gerberon…Venetis: Typis Josephi 6. BELL, Alexander Melville. Visible Speech: The Science of Coronae, 1744. Two volumes, folio. [12], xl, 484; xxiv, 366, Universal Alphabetics; Self-Interpreting Physiological Letters, for [2], 243, [1] pp. Engraved frontisportrait in Volume I, title- the writing of all languages in one alphabet. Illustrated by page of Volume I in black and red. Woodcut headbands, tail- tables, diagrams, and examples. Inaugural Edition. London: pieces and initial letters. Text in double columns. Simpkin, Marshall & Co…[et al.], 1867. Large octavo. 126, [4, Contemporary stiff vellum with gilt brown calf labels. ads] pp. Extremities a bit rubbed, circular library stamp on half-title of With sixteen lithographic plates of the “Visible Speech” Volume I and title-page of Volume II. Some light alphabet, plus numerous figures in text. Original brown dampstaining and browning, mostly marginal. A very good set. textured cloth. Covers ruled in blind, front cover and spine $1,250 stamped in gilt. Small chips on extremities of spine, but a remarkably fine, tight copy. Housed later quarter brown Second edition. First printed in the Journal of the Society morocco slipcase and chemise. $750 of Arts, July, 1901. First edition. This report focuses on the deterioration of leather over Alexander Melville Bell (1819-1905) was the father of the years. There are two major sections: one giving a report on Alexander Graham Bell. This book is dedicated to another son, libraries and bookbinding and the other on preparation of Edward Charles Bell (1848-1867), “one of the first proficients leathers for bookbindings. The appendices provide hints to in ‘visible speech.’” Alexander Melville’s alphabet was designed owners and keepers of libraries, thoughts on the fading of to mimic the physiological shapes and positions of the mouth colors from leather, etc. and tongue in forming sounds. In actual use, it proved hopelessly complicated and was abandoned, but not before 10. [BOOKBINDING]. PICKERING & CHATTO. An Alexander Graham Bell used it to teach deaf mutes to speak. Illustrated Catalogue of Old and Rare Books: Illuminated Manu- scripts, Specimjens of Fine Old and Modern Bindings, &c. With 7. [BIBLE IN ENGLISH. FORE-EDGE PAINTING.] Descriptions, Sale Prices, and Bibliographical Notes. Seven The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, coloured Plates, and six hundred and seventy-six and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of Reproductions of portraits, frontispieces, plates and old and The Church of England. [Together with:] Psalter, or Psalms of modern bookbin-dings. London: Pickering & Chatto, [n.d., ca. David, Painted as they are to be sung or said in Churches. [Together 1909]. Thick quarto. 712 pp. Color and black and white plates, with:] The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments: plus numerous text illustrations. Burgundy crushed morocco Newly Translated out of the Original Tongues and with the over oak boards. Title in blind on spine, blindstamped floral Former Translations diligently Compared and Revised. borders on covers. A fine copy. Binding by Garth While. Appointed to be read in Churches. Oxford: Printed by T. $1,000 Wright and W. Gill, Printers to the University, 1770. Quarto. Garth While, is from South East London and was Unpaginated. Text in double columns. Eighteenth-century full trained at Morley College, London. He has won and placed in dark blue calf with raised bands. Spine gilt in compartments, numerous competitions. He has in recent years given up with red morocco label. Gilt cover borders with intricate binding to concentrate on silver-smithing. Some of his silver design featuring flowers and urns, gilt turn-ins. Printed work is housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum. bookplate ("Edward Russell, July, 1772…") Two preliminary blanks bear ink annotations of the birth and death dates, all One of Fifty Copies on Handmade Paper dates being in the eighteenth century. Minor water-staining to lower cover of a few pages, not affecting text. A little minor 11. [BOOKPLATES]. ALLEN, Charles Dexter. Ex Libris. wear, but this sumptuous binding is in beautiful condition. Essays of a collector. With Twenty-One Copperplate Prints. This Bible contains a split double fore-edge painting Boston: Lamson, Wolffe, and Company, 1896. Octavo. xxvi, with two views on each side, for a total of four views. The [2], 158 pp. With twenty-one copper engraved plates, as subjects includ Adam and Eve, Noah, the Nativity, and the indicated on the title-page, plus three extra plates, found only Crucifixion. $5,000 in this special edition, including a color frontispiece. Index. Not in Herbert, who lists a folio and an octavo Bible Full limp vellum with brownish-pink silk ties. Title in gilt on from the same publisher the same year. spine. Foot of spine slightly bumped. Otherwise a fine copy. $500 8. Bibliotheca Lindesiana: Catalogue of English Broadsides One of fifty copies printed on Kelmscott handmade 1505-1897. [Aberdeen:] Privately printed, 1898. Quarto. xl, paper out of a total edition eight hundred copies. This special 526, [1] pp. With a list of printers, publishers, and booksellers, edition is signed by the author and publisher. and index. Blue-green cloth, gilt spine, gilt crown device on front free endpaper. Light shelfwear, spine lightly faded, fly- Broadside, Signed by Burroughs leaves browned. A very good copy. Bookplate of Palo Alto 12. BURROUGHS, William S. Where Naked Troubadours bookseller William P. Wreden. $450 Shoot Snotty Baboons. Northridge, CA: Lord John Press, 1978. One of 100 copies. Catalogue of over 1800 items, from Folio broadside.
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