Cypher of Comte Henri Siméon (1803–1874)

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Comte Henri Siméon had a dis­tin­guished pub­lic career dur­ing the Sec­ond Repub­lic and the Sec­ond Empire. He also devoted years to trans­lat­ing Horace; his work pub­lished dur­ing his final years. He had a notable library, about which see Leon Tech­ener, “Le Comte Siméon,” Bul­letin du bib­lio­phile(1874) p.245–246. Twenty five of his books are found in the Library’s Horace col­lec­tion. They include edi­tions and trans­la­tions pub­lished between 1650 and 1872. Some have pre­sen­ta­tion inscrip­tions, includ­ing one from Paul Lacroix (“le bib­lio­phile Jacob.”) All are bound and marked dis­tinc­tively: the bind­ings are signed “Petit succr de Simier” and have Siméon’s cypher con­sist­ing of the ini­tial H and S in “majus­cules fleu­ron­nées” sur­mounted by a “couronne de comte.” Cor­re­spon­dence doc­u­ment­ing the Horace col­lec­tion shows that a num­ber of Siméon’s books were acquired from Maggs Broth­ers ca. 1912.

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Bookplate designed by Ze’ev Raban

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Book­plate designed by Ze’ev Raban. “From the books of Batya and Shlomo Green­berg.” On front paste­down of Rebecca Gratz (1781–1869). Let­ters …,edited, with an intro­duc­tion and notes, by Rabbi David Philip­son. (Philadel­phia, The Jew­ish Pub­li­ca­tion Soci­ety of Amer­ica, 1929). Leonard L. Mil­berg Col­lec­tion of Jew­ish Amer­i­can Writ­ers, given in honor of Pres­i­dent Harold T. Shapiro. [Call num­ber (Ex) F158.9.J5 G7 Mil­berg JAmW.] ❧ This book­plate is also illus­trated on page 14 of Not for myself alone : cel­e­brat­ing Jewish-American writ­ers, Octo­ber 21, 2001-April 21, 2002 : from the Leonard L. Mil­berg ’53 Col­lec­tion of Jewish-American Writ­ers. [Prince­ton, N.J. : Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library, 2002]. ❧

Armorial bookplate dated 1739: Francis Massy, Esq. of Rixton, Lancashire

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“Fran­cis Massy, lord of the manors of Rix­ton and Glaze­brook, born 1703, and who died unmar­ried 28 Sep­tem­ber 1748, when the fam­ily became extinct. By his will, dated 27 Feb­ru­ary, he left his estate and effects to his kins­man George Meynell of York­shire.” — Remains His­tor­i­cal & Lit­er­ary Con­nected with the Pala­tine Coun­ties of
Lan­caster and Chester. Pub­lished By The Chetham Soci­ety. Vol. CX. (1882), p. 224.
❧ Book­plate signed “I. Skin­ner, Bath, sculpt.” Jacob Skin­ner was active between 1732 and 1753.
❧ The Massy book­plate is on the front paste­down of Gabriel Harvey’s copy of Livy (Basle, 1555). Call num­ber (Ex) PA6452 .A2 1555q. A com­plete dig­i­tal scan of this remark­able anno­tated book is avail­able here, how­ever, the scan­ning project did not include full cov­er­age of this piece of own­er­ship evidence.

Armorial bookplate: Valentin Ferdinand von Gudenus (1679–1758)

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Armo­r­ial book­plate of Valentin Fer­di­nand von Gude­nus (1679–1758). Engrav­ing signed “A. Rein­hardt” (likely to be ‘the elder’, ca. 1676–1742). Pasted on verso of title page of Hugo Grotius, Annales et his­toriæ de rebus Bel­gi­cis. Amstelæ­dami, ex typographejo Joan­nis Blaeu, MDCLVII. [1657]. Call num­ber (GAX) 2004-1243q ❧

Binder’s ticket: Padeloup. Relieur du Roy.

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❧ “Relié par Pade­loup Relieur du Roy, place de Sor­bonne à Paris” pasted at foot of title page of Représen­ta­tion des fêtes don­nées par la ville de Stras­bourg pour la con­va­les­cence du Roi à l’arrivée et pen­dant le séjour de Sa Majesté en cette ville
Paris: imprimë par Lau­rent Aubert, [1745]. ❧ Call num­ber: (Ex) 1509.171.761e. ❧ Bound in mot­tled calf, with royal arms in gold at cen­ter of front and back cov­ers, arms of Stras­bourg in cor­ners of cov­ers, inner and outer den­telle, mar­bled end papers, gilt edges.

Crest of Sir Andrew Fountaine (1676–1753)

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His library sold at Sotheby’s, June 11, 1902. ❧ Crest and spine at right:
Cot­ton, Charles, 1630–1687.
Scar­ronnides: or, Vir­gile trav­es­tie. A mock-poem. In imi­ta­tion of the fourth book of Vir­gils Aeneis in Eng­lish, bur­lesque … Lon­don, Printed by E. Cotes for Henry Brome … 1665. (VRG) 2945.312 Eng664.
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In addi­tion to the above, another Vir­gil from the Foun­taine library was pur­chased by Junius Spencer Mor­gan. This has Fountaine’s crest stamped on the front cover. JSM obtained this Vir­gil from Quar­tich, who put in his date of acqui­si­tion ’16.VI.1902.‘
The nyne fyrst bookes of the Enei­dos of Vir­gil conuerted into Eng­lishe vearse by Thomas Phaer… Lon­don : Printed by R. Hall, for N. Eng­lande, 1562. (VRG) 2945.311 Eng562.
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For fur­ther details, see British Armo­r­ial Bind­ings, http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/FOU002

Ex Libris Adr. Jos. Havé

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❧ Own­er­ship stamp­ing of Adrien-Joseph Havé (1740–1817) on spine of: Hol­bach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d’, 1723–1789. La con­ta­gion sacrée; ou, His­toire naturelle de la super­sti­tion. Ouvrage tr. de l’anglois. … Lon­dres, 1768. (Ex) BF1410.xH6.
For details on Havé, see entry above from Jadart (H.) Les Bib­lio­philes Remois, leurs Ex-Libris et fers de reli­ure (1894).

Formerly owned by Sir Hans Sloane

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Ear­lier today researchers with the Sloane Printed Books Project con­firmed that the Prince­ton copy of G. Lock­hart, Mem­oirs con­cern­ing the Affairs of Scot­land (Lon­don, 1714; call num­ber RCPXR 14825.592.11) is from his library. The project’s web­site explains a num­ber of ways to rec­og­niz­ing his books, cf. “Iden­ti­fy­ing Sloane’s books.” The book­stamps “Mvsevm Britian­nivm” and “British Museum Sale Dupli­cate 1787″ are one instance of evi­dence (verso of title page show­ing through.) How­ever, key evi­dence is that Sloane’s man­u­script cat­a­logue lists this work (vol. 5 f 232 r) as “a 2015.” At the foot of the title page the “a” and the “2” are vis­i­ble. ❧ Other embosse­ments and mark­ings sig­nal Princeton’s acces­sion of this book in the 19th century. ❧

Monogram binding stamp: ER with coronet: Comte Roger du Nord (1803–1881)

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Roger, Édouard Léon, comte Roger du Nord, 1803–1881, diplo­mat, sen­a­tor. His books auc­tioned: Cat­a­logue des livres rares et pré­cieux com­posant la bib­lio­thèque de feu M. le comte Roger (du Nord) (Paris: Ch. Por­quet, 1884) ❧ At far right, exem­plar printed on front cover of 1884 cat­a­logue. ❧ Prince­ton holds lot 419: Cicero. Epis­to­lae ad famil­iares [Venice]: Nico­laus Jen­son, 1471. At cen­ter, detail from front cover, gilt on red morocco. [Lot num­ber 32 is in the Chapin Library, Williams College].

Supralibros of Jeanne Baptiste d’Albert de Luynes, comtesse de Verrue (1670–1736)

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Her arms stamped on the cov­ers of: François Par­faict (1698–1753) His­toire du théâtre françois depuis son orig­ine jusqu’à présent. Avec la vie des plus célébres poëtes dra­ma­tiques, des extraits exacts, & un cat­a­logue raisonné de leurs piéces, accom­pa­g­nés de notes his­toriques & cri­tiques. Paris, A. Morin [etc.] 1734–49. Call num­ber: (THX) PQ500 .P3 (vol. 1–2)
❧ For fur­ther details on this col­lec­tor see Ernest Quentin-Bauchart, Les femmes bib­lio­philes de France (XVIe, XVIIe, & XVI­IIe siè­cles)(Paris, 1886), T. 1, p. 411–428.

Minerva presents prize books

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Detail of stamp on cov­ers of an 18th cen­tury Dutch prize book: an award from the Latin school of the city of Amers­foort.
❧ Pliny, the Younger. Epis­to­larum. Libros decem, cum notis selec­tis; Jo. Mariae Catanaei, Jac. Schegkii [et al], Recen­suerunt suisque ani­mad­ver­sion­ibus illus­trarunt Got­tlieb Cor­tius et Paullus Daniel Lon­golius... Amste­laedami, apud Janssonio-Waesbergios, 1734. Call num­ber: RCPXR 2905.311.234. For fur­ther par­tic­u­lars see J. Spoelder, Pri­js­boeken op de lati­jnse school, (Ams­ter­dam, 2000), espe­cially page p. 479.

Booklabels of James Toovey († 1893)

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❧ Oval book label printed in gilt: Burn­ham Abbey Bucks; mono­gram within ‘IT’ with a cross, on front paste-down of Vir­gil. Opera.
Rome : In domo Petri de Max­imo [Con­radus Sweyn­heym and Arnoldus Pan­nartz], 28 Feb. 1469.
Junius Mor­gan Col­lec­tion (VRG) 2945.1469q		 ❧ Cir­cu­lar book label printed in gilt with mono­gram ‘IT’ with a cross, sur­rounded by wreath and scroll with motto “Inter Folia Fruc­tus.” On front paste down of Con­sti­tu­tions des treize États-Unis de l’Amérique.
A Philadel­phia et se trouve a Paris, : P. D. Pier­res, imprimeur. ; Pis­sot, pere & fils, Libraires, 1783. Call num­ber (EX) 7583.01.267.11 copy 1. This copy pre­sented by Junius Mor­gan, acces­sioned 10 May 1897.
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For more on Toovey see W. Roberts, The Book-Hunter in Lon­don (1895), page 253 ff

Two Ducal Supralibros

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❧ Ini­tial B sur­mounted by ducal coro­net: stamp of Henry Scott, 3rd Duke of Buc­cleuch (1746 — 1812) together with arms of Christo­pher Monck, 2nd Duke of Alber­marle (1650 — 1688). On the front and back cov­ers of Charles Sorel (1582?-1674) The com­i­cal his­tory of Fran­cion, wherein the vari­ety of vices that abuse the ages are satyri­cally limn’d in their native colours: inter­wo­ven with many pleas­ant events, and moral lessons, as well fit­ted for the enter­tain­ment of the gravest head as the light­est heart. By Mon­sieur de Moulines, sieur de Parc, a Lorain gen­tle­man [pseud.] … Done into Eng­lish by a per­son of honor. Lon­don, Printed for Fran­cis Leach, 1655. Call num­ber: EXOV 3292.5.394.5 ❧

For fur­ther details, see British Armo­r­ial Bind­ings, for Monck, http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/MON001 and for Scott, see http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/SCO005

Kelliegram Binding

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Twenty five folio vol­umes bound by Kelly & Sons, Lon­don, stamped “Kel­liegram Bind­ing.” This term dis­tin­guished a pro­duc­tion notable for cov­ers with elab­o­rate, pic­to­r­ial inlaid color leather. ❧ [Fur­ther exam­ples.] ❧
B.F. Stevens’s Fac­sim­i­les of man­u­scripts in Euro­pean archives relat­ing to Amer­ica, 1773–1783 : with descrip­tions, edi­to­r­ial notes, col­la­tions, ref­er­ences and trans­la­tions. Lon­don : Pho­tographed and printed by Malby & Sons, 1889–1898. “Issued only to sub­scribers at 4 Trafal­gar Square, Char­ing Cross, Lon­don. “The fac­sim­i­les are almost wholly of unpub­lished man­u­scripts …” — v. 25, p. xv. Lim­ited edi­tion of 200 sets; the pho­to­graphic neg­a­tives were destroyed. Gift of John H. Scheide. Call num­ber (Ex)2009-0375q

John Boyle, 5th Earl of Orrery (1707–1762)

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Bound in vel­lum stained green

A Col­lec­tion of the State Let­ters of the Rt. Hon. Roger Boyle, the first earl of Orrery (Dublin, Printed by and for G. Faulkner, 1743). Call num­ber (Ex) 1473.16.691.
❧ With his badge: “O” sur­mounted by an earl’s coro­net stamped on spine:

For fur­ther details, see British Armo­r­ial Bind­ings, http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/BOY003

❧ Inscribed on front free end­pa­per: “Orrery. Leices­ter Fields. Feb: 8th 1750–51″

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Horace
Call num­ber (PTT) 2865.321.241.
A nonce vol­ume bound for John Boyle, Earl of Orrery, for his lit­er­ary endeav­ors.
Bound in calf with spine title “Orrery’s Odes of Horace & Co.” Signed on front free end­pa­per “Orrery. Cale­don: Octo­ber 17th, 1746.“
❧ Bound together in this vol­ume are inter­leaved copies of his First Ode (ESTC T35560), Pyrrah (ESTC T46133), and Poem to the Mem­ory of Edward Sheffield (ESTC T42559) as well as 23 blank leaves at front and 23 blank leaves at back. Some of the inter­leaves have his auto­graph com­ments on the fac­ing text. More­over, on pp. 2–8 of front blanks: his two auto­graph poems: 1) “Trans­la­tion of a Copy of Verses in Mr Waller’s Poems, enti­tled On my Lady Isabella play­ing on the Lute” (in Latin with Waller’s poem in Eng­lish on the fac­ing page) and 2) “Lusus Pilae ama­to­rius. Petronii Afranii” with “Imi­tated. 1727″ on the fac­ing page. On p. 1 of back blanks: his auto­graph poem (Eng­lish): “To Mr Rys­brack. On his Buste of **********”.
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Book­plates ❧ In A Col­lec­tion of the State Let­ters

His book­plate dat­ing to 1751 or later;
John suc­ceeded his father as fifth earl of Orrery in 1731 and his kins­man as fifth earl of Cork in 1751.

❧ ❧ In The Workes of Ben­jamin Jon­son. (Lon­don, 1616) Call num­ber (EX) 3806.1616q

His book­plate with arms of Boyle impal­ing Hamil­ton to com­mem­o­rate his mar­riage in 1738 to Mar­garet, the only daugh­ter of John Hamil­ton, Esq., of Cale­don, co. Tyrone. and his ini­tials “I.O.” to left of coro­net. ❧ For fur­ther details about his book­plates see: Jour­nal of the Ex Lib­ris Soci­ety vol. 7 p.57 for “Notes on some Boyle book­plates” at
http://goo.gl/YjiKj

Garter arms of George Granville William Leveson-Gower, 1st Duke of Sutherland

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Quar­terly in eight ❧
Musæum regalis soci­etatis: or, A cat­a­logue and descrip­tion of the nat­ural and arti­fi­cial rar­i­ties belong­ing to the Royal Soci­ety and pre­served at Gre­sham Colledge. Made by Nehemiah Grew … Where­unto is sub­joyned the com­par­a­tive anatomy of stom­achs and guts. By the same author.
Lon­don, Printed for Tho. Malthus … 1685.
Call num­ber: (EX) 8001.793.41.1685q
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A fil­lip: book­plate on the verso of the title page
of Musæum regalis soci­etatis
John Gor­don, 16th Earl of Suther­land (1661–1733)
Quar­terly ❧
Mar­tial. Venice: Aldus, 1501. Call num­ber: Kane Spe­cial 1501 Mar­tial

❧ For other exam­ples see http://goo.gl/NClZs (Quar­terly in eight) and http://goo.gl/sLASN (Quar­terly).

See also, British Armo­r­ial Bind­ings, http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/LEV002

Supralibros of Jean de la Rochefoucauld, abbé de Marmoutiers (d. 1583).

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Paolo Emili(d. 1529).
De rebvs gestis fran­corvm libri X. Anoldi Fer­roni… De rebvs gestis Gal­lo­rum libri IX ad his­to­riam Pauli Aemylii additi, Chron­i­con I. Tilii de reg­ibvs fran­coribii, a Phara­mundo usque ad Hen­ricum II. Paris: apud Vas­cosanum, 1555. Call num­ber: (Ex) 1508.324.
Also on the front paste­down:
18th cen­tury armo­r­ial book­plate: “Du Comte Antoine Facipec­ora Pavesi Sus-Intendant génèral des Eaux dans la Ville, et Duché de Man­toue.” See:
Jacopo Gelli, 3500 ex lib­ris ital­iani (Milan, 1908), p. 156.

Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe

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Omar Khayyam.
Rubi­ayat … tr. into Eng­lish verse by Edward FitzGer­ald, with an intro­duc­tion by A.C. Ben­son … Repro­duced from a ms. writ­ten and illu­mi­nated by F. San­gorski & G. Sut­cliffe.
[Bushey, Engraved and printed by André & Sleigh, 1910]
Call num­ber (EX) 2472.379.6.13q
Bound in full vel­lum with elab­o­rate gold tool­ing and jew­elled clasps; the front cover in color with a pea­cock as the cen­tral motive. In clamshell box.

Herr Heinrich Haag the Elastic-Skin Man

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Herr Hein­rich Haag the Elastic-Skin Man. New York: N.Y. Pop­u­lar Pub­lish­ing Com­pany, [ca. 1880]. Call num­ber (Ex) Item 6221469
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[title page tran­scribed] Life and Adven­tures of Herr Hein­rich Haag the Elastic-Skin Man. Being a clear and con­cise account of the his­tory of this remark­able per­son­age, his birth and early life, how his skin made him famous, his trav­els through­out Ger­many, how became a puz­zle to the doc­tors, his exhi­bi­tions before the crowned heads and nota­bil­i­ties of Europe, and who is pro­nounced by all th lead­ing physi­cians and sur­geons of Europe and Amer­ica to be the most won­der­ful phe­nom­e­non that med­ical research and sci­ence has ever dis­cov­ered. New York Pop­u­lar Pub­lish­ing Co. Main office, 37 Bond St. Col­or­ing, print­ing and engrav­ing dep’ts, 18 Rose St. A.J. Dick, E.J. Stecher, proprietors.

Fencing illustrated in 1675: “To avail themselves of the true skill”

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Marco Orozco, engraver. “En
el mapa, que mira esta plana se delin­ean todas las for­mas
espec­u­la­ti­vas, que dan luz a la prac­tica, para valerse de la
ver­dadera destreza con todo gen­ero de armas, y con­tra
todas naciones.” Large engraved plate bound before f. 69 in
Perez de Men­doza
y Quix­ada, Miguel. Resumen de la
vera destreza de las armas en treinta y ocho
asser­ciones.
Madrid: Fran­cisco Sanz, 1675.
Call num­ber (Ex) Item 5785695
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Edward Irenaeus Stevenson. His Book.

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Book­plate of
Edward Ire­naeus Prime-Stevenson (1858–1942) ❧ Signed at lower left: EIS del[ineavit]. 1891. ❧ Inscribed on open book: φρονιμος οι όφεις = wise as ser­pents (cf. Matthew 10:16). Apple in the mouth of the snake inscribed “eri­tis sicut deus” (“You shall be as god” cf. Gen­e­sis 3:5)
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On paste­down: Armo­r­ial book­plate of Sys­ton Park Library, that of Thorold, John, Sir, 9th bart., 1734–1815 and his son John Hay­ford Thorold, 10th bart., 1773–1831 of Sys­ton Park, Grantham, Lincs. Also vis­i­ble is lower por­tion of the book­la­bel of Grenville Kane (1854–1943)
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In: Mar­cus Juni­anus Justi­nus, Pom­pei Trogi exter­nae his­to­riae in com­pendium ab Iustino redac­tae. Venice: Aldus Manu­tius and Andreas Tor­re­sanus, de Asula soc., Jan­u­ary 1522. Call num­ber: (ExKa) Spe­cial 1522 Justi­nus ❧This copy sold at auc­tion of books from the Sys­ton Park Library by Sotheby (Lon­don), 12 Dec. 1884, lot 1077, to Sabin, for 18 shillings.

Manuscript subscription list made by Thomas Meade for a 1795 English pamphlet on the French Revolution

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Henry Goudemetz (1749–1826?). Judg­ment and Exe­cu­tion of Louis XVI. King of France; with a List of the Mem­bers of the National Con­ven­tion, Who voted for and against his Death; and the Names of Many of the Most Con­sid­er­able Suf­fer­ers In … Con­tinue read­ing →

John Montagu, the 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690–1749)

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Arms of John Mon­tagu, the 2nd Duke of Mon­tagu (1690–1749) on cov­ers and his badge on spine of:
Fran­cis Howgil. The Dawn­ings of the Gospel-Day, and its Light and Glory Dis­cov­ered [Lon­don: s.n.,] Printed in the year 1676. Call num­ber: (Ex) 5638.479q.

More on this owner.
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See also British Armo­r­ial Bind­ings, http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/stamp-owners/MON007

Pictorial Embellishments for the New Year

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Large, read­able dig­i­tal file of this sin­gle sheet adver­tise­ment is also avail­able.

Ben­jamin Henry Day was pub­lisher of Brother Jonathan from 1852 to 1862. Pub­li­ca­tion dates of the “cheap books for sale” sug­gests that this adver­tise­ment was issued early dur­ing Day’s tenure as pub­lisher.

The Library has recently built up a col­lec­tion of 15 issues pub­lished in this newspaper’s lav­ishly illus­trated extra “Pic­to­r­ial Jubilee.” New York, 1851–1861. Usu­ally issued twice yearly: July 4 as well as Christ­mas and New Year’s. A typ­i­cal opened issue mea­sures 29 x 42 inches. Call num­ber for the adver­tise­ment and the col­lec­tion of fif­teen: (Ex) Flat files A floor. ‘Brother Jonathan’

Supralibros of Marco Antonio Foscarini, doge of Venice, 1695/?6–1763

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Arms of
Marco Anto­nio Fos­carini, doge of Venice, 1695/?6–1763. Noted his­to­rian and bib­li­og­ra­pher.
“He left a rich and very select library of books and man­u­scripts, which was sold after the fall of Venice in 1799. The Emperor of Aus­tria pur­chased the col­lec­tion of man­u­scripts for 10,800 livres, and they are now in the impe­r­ial library at Vienna. A cat­a­logue of the his­tor­i­cal part of the col­lec­tion, con­sist­ing of nearly 400 man­u­scripts, which were among the mate­ri­als by the aid of which Fos­carini com­piled his his­tory of Venet­ian lit­er­a­ture, is given at tho end of [his]Sto­ria Arcana (pub­lished post-humously, Flo­rence, 1843)” [C.Knight, Biography:or, Third divi­sion of “The Eng­lish ency­clo­pe­dia” (Lon­don, 1867), II, col. 961–962].
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Erizzo, Sebas­tiano. Espo­si­tione di m. Sebas­tiano Erizzo nelle tre can­zoni di m. Francesco Petrarca, chia­mate le tre sorelle. Nuoua­mente man­data in luce da m. Lodouico Dolce.(Venice: Andrea Arriuabene, 1561.) Call num­ber (Ex)3134.66. ❧ Another exam­ple of a Fos­carini armo­r­ial bind­ing is in the Graphic Arts Col­lec­tion:
Barozzi, Pietro. De modo bene moriendi. (Venice: in Aed­ibus Io. Antonii & Fratrum de Sabio, 1531). Call num­ber (GAX) 2004-3555N

Claude Crespigny of the South Sea House

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Claude Crespigny of the South Sea House
❧ Armo­r­ial book­plate, sig­na­ture, crest, cipher, inscrip­tion. ❧
Sir Claude Cham­pion de Crespigny (1734–1818).
Cre­ated first Baronet of Crespigny in 1805. Died at age 83 on 28 Jan­u­ary 1818.
For his por­trait see http://goo.gl/TcyNM
On spine his cipher (inter­laced C’s) and crest (On a cha­peau, gules, turned up, ermine, a enhit arm erect, hold­ing a broad sword, proper).
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Inscribed on paste­down: “This book was given me by the Hon.ble John Spencer Esq.r A.o 1745.” ❧
Johann Hein­rich Cohausen (1665–1750).
Her­mip­pus redi­vivus : or, The sage’s tri­umph over old age and the grave. Wherein, a method is laid down for pro­long­ing the life and vigour of man. Includ­ing a com­men­tary upon an antient inscrip­tion, in which this great secret is revealed; sup­ported by numer­ous author­i­ties. The whole inter­spersed with a great vari­ety of remark­able, and well attested rela­tions.
Lon­don : Printed for J. Nourse, 1744.
Call num­ber: (Ex)3437.93.345.6

Thomas Frewen, of Lincoln’s Inn, in the County of Middlesex, Esqr., 1711.

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Book­plate: Thomas Frewen, of Lincoln’s Inn, in the County of Mid­dle­sex, Esqr., 1711.
Cita­tion: Franks 11412. [(Arms. Frewen quar­ter­ing Scott,
Longhurst and Wolver­stone.]
❧ This is Thomas Frewen (1687–1738), accord­ing to ESTC T132060, copy held at Ham House.
Source of this book­plate: Call num­ber (Ex)3826.36.333.14q. [Fables of Aesop, Lon­don, 1699]

Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829)

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Book­plate and book­stamp of
Fran­cis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridge­wa­ter (b. 1756, d. 1829). More than 40 of his books in the Library, many includ­ing with a pre­sen­ta­tion inscrip­tion from the work’s author. Evi­dently this plate (“The Hon­ourable Fran­cis Henry Egerton, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, &c, &c, &c”) dates from his years in Paris, after 1802. A num­ber of books also carry the red stamp ‘Ashridge Library,’ per­haps indi­cat­ing that these came to Eng­land and were kept at Ashridge House, the Egerton fam­ily seat in Hert­ford­shire. To find these 40+ books, search in the main cat­a­logue: “Bridge­wa­ter, Fran­cis Henry Egerton, Earl of, 1756–1829, for­mer owner.“

1752 Irish prize binding

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Prize book­plate from Trin­ity Col­lege, Dublin to William Stop­ford, pre­sented by Brabazon Dis­ney, at the begin­ning of Michael­mas Term, 1752. Armo­r­ial stamp of Trin­ity Col­lege, Dublin, on front and back cov­ers.

Accord­ing to William B. Todd in “Note 571 Aca­d­e­mic Prize Books” (Book Col­lec­tor 49:3 (Autumn, 2000) p. 442–444, William Stop­ford in the same year was also awarded as a prize book: Juve­nal & Per­sius, Dublin, 1746. (Illus­trated in Prof. Todd’s 1961 cat­a­logue Prize Books)

Ter­ence. Comoediæ. (Dublin: Typographia Acad­e­miæ, 1745)
Call num­ber (Ex) Item 6201299

Three 18th century Irish bindings attributed to Joseph Leathley’s binder

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Adja­cent at right is entry 49 in J. McDon­nell and P. Healy, Gold-tooled Book­bind­ings Com­mis­sioned by Trin­ity Col­lege Dublin in the Eigh­teenth Cen­tury (Leixlip, 1987); there illus­trated in black and white.
Horace [ed. J. Hawkey] Dublin, 1745. Call num­ber (PTT) 2865.1745 c.1. [John Boyle, Earl of Orrery (1707–1762), for­mer owner.] 		Horace [ed. J. Hawkey] Dublin, 1745. Call num­ber (PTT) 2865.1745 c.3. [Philip Dormer Stan­hope, Earl of Chester­field (1694–1773) for­mer owner.] Juve­nal [ed. J. Hawkey] Dublin, 1746. Call num­ber (ExV) 2873.1746

Early 18th century cottage-roof style

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Early 18th cen­tury cottage-roof style bind­ing cov­er­ing Horace, Carminum libri quinque [edited by George Wade] (Lon­don: William Boyer, 1731). Accord­ing to the ESTC, Bowyer’s records show 24 copies printed in quarto, and 250 in octavo. This is one of the 24 quar­tos. A small cap­i­tal ‘D’ in iron gall ink is at cen­ter of the verso of the titlepage. Book­plate of George John War­ren Ver­non, 5th Baron Ver­non (1803–1866) on front paste­down.. Acquired by donor Robert W. Pat­ter­son from Maggs before 1921. Call num­ber (PTT) 2865.321.231.

Marcas de Fuego ❧ Convento de San Cosme y San Damián de Puebla (Mexico)

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Accord­ing to the Catál­ogo Colec­tivo de Mar­cas de Fuego, these are “mar­cas de fuego” of the Con­vento de San Cosme y San Damián de Puebla (Mex­ico; Mer­ci­dar­ian Order)
See http://goo.gl/F8QKZ and
http://goo.gl/x9jxs
for details.

Call num­ber (Ex) 5959.612q
Mal­don­ado, Angel, bp., 1660–1728.
Ora­ciones evan­gel­i­cas … dadas à la estampa por d. Balthasar de Mon­toya Mal­don­ado … En Mex­ico, Por los herederos de J.J. Guil­lena Car­ras­coso, 1721.

Acknowl­edge­ment to Madi­son C. Bush, Class of 2014, for mak­ing this identification.

Stamped with the arms of Graf Hans Günther von Schwarzburg-Sondershausen (1532–1586)

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Arms sur­rounded with inscrip­tion:
HANS GUNTTER • DER • VIER • GRAFFEN •
DES • REICHS • GRAFFE • ZU SCHWARCZBURG • HERRE • ZU • ARNSTADT • SUNDERSHAUS • UND LEUCH

❧ Edges gauf­fered and gilt. Clasps.

❧ Call num­ber (Ex)BX8069.K57 1584q ❧ Tim­o­theus Kirch­ner, Gründliche warhafftige His­to­ria von der Augspur­gis­chen Con­fes­sion (Leipzig: Defner, 1584.)

For another exam­ple see:
Wap­penein­band aus dem Besitz des Grafen
Hans Gün­ther von
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen. Nach 1566
http://www.museum-digital.de/thue/pdf/publicinfo.php?oges=991

Constanter 1658

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“Con­stan­ter 1658″ the ex lib­ris of Con­stan­tine Huy­gens (1596–1687) on the title page of Willem Piso, De Indiae utriusque re nat­u­rali et med­ica, libri quatuordecim (Ams­ter­dam: L. and D. Elze­vir, 1658) Call num­ber (Ex) 8607.723q.

  For more details on the library of Con­stan­tine Huy­gens, see:
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/fsw/verduin/constanter/.

See fur­ther par­tic­u­lars about Con­stan­tine Huygen’s copy of the First Folio A.J. West’s arti­cle pub­lished in Folio­ma­nia! (Wash­ing­ton, DC: Fol­ger Shake­speare Libary, 2011.)

Other copies of his books at Prince­ton:❧
Bacon, Fran­cis, 1561–1626.
Resus­ci­ta­tio, or, Bring­ing into pub­lick light sev­er­all pieces of the works, civil, his­tor­i­cal, philo­soph­i­cal & the­o­log­i­cal, hith­erto sleep­ing; of the Right Hon­ourable Fran­cis Bacon, baron of Veru­lam, Vis­count Saint Alban. Accord­ing to the best cor­rected cop­pies. Together with his lord­ships life. By William Row­ley …
Lon­don, Printed by Sarah Grif­fin for W. Lee, 1657.
RHT copy has inscrip­tion on t.p.: Con­stan­ter 1660. (Own­er­ship inscrip­tion of Sir Con­tan­tijn Huy­gens, 1596–1687) RHT copy with the auto­graph of Jas. Rigg on front fly­leaf, and with the armo­r­ial book­plate of Down­field [seat of the Rigg fam­ily; Franks cat­a­logue no. 25049]. (18th cent) There are no mark­ings for 19th cent own­ers. 20th cent mark­ings are as fol­lows: dealer’s code for Ximenes Rare Books, NYC, and then RHT book­la­bel. Call num­ber
(RHT) 17th-701.
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Gay­ton, Edmund, 1608–1666. Pleas­ant notes upon Don Quixot. Lon­don, Printed by W. Hunt, 1654.Call num­ber (EXOV) 3170.686
Ex copy has inscrip­tion on t.p.: Con­stan­ter Lon­don Aug. 1663. (Own­er­ship inscrip­tion of Sir Con­tan­tijn Huy­gens, 1596–1687). This copy was auc­tioned in the sale of March 15, 1688.
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New­cas­tle, Mar­garet Cavendish, Duchess of, 1624?-1674. The Worlds Olio
Lon­don, J. Mar­tin and J. Allestrye, 1655. Call num­ber (RHT) 17th-753. RHT copy has inscrip­tion on t.p.: “Con­stan­ter” and the fol­low­ing record of pre­sen­ta­tion from the author “Antver­piae 17 jul. 1655 dono March. New­cas­tle mar­iti autoris.” Huygen’s jour­nal for 17 July 1655 states “Saluto mar­chionem NEW CASTEL.” This copy was auc­tioned in the sale of March 15, 1688.

Daniel Russell (ca. 1642–1679) bequeaths a book to Thomas Shepard (1658–1685)

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Inscrip­tion on front free end paper: ‘Tho: Shepard’s booke being part of the 10th legacy of my H[onore]d Friend Mr D[aniel] Rus­sell who died of the small pox in Charlestown after his accep­tance of a call to join with myself in the work of the min­istry there. 15. 3o. 1679.’ In a dif­fer­ent hand: ‘The Price of this Book is 13 shillings.‘
In
Bacon, Fran­cis, 1561–1626.
Sylva syl­varum; Lon­don, 1670.
Call num­ber (Exov) 3614.389
Also has addi­tional inscrip­tions on sec­ond and third front free end paper: ‘Daniel Rus­sell, His Book, 1675.’ ‘Daniel Rus­sell, His Book, No 303, 22.2.1675.’

To all lovers of angling

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To all lovers of angling: Gre­gory, fishing-tackle maker, at the Dial and Fish, oppo­site St. Clement’s Church in the Strand, Lon­don, makes and sells all sorts of mul­ti­ply­ing and stop wheels
[Lon­don? : s.n., 1773?]
Notes: Broad­side adver­tise­ment, 28 cm tall
Prince­ton copy dated by hand on verso: April ye 7th 1773.
Call num­ber: (ExKi) SH453 .G73 1773
Higher res­o­lu­tion image avail­able at
http://goo.gl/AboLa

Girl who reads sensation story papers

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Title: The girl who reads sen­sa­tion story papers : [broad­side sheet]
Published/Created: [s.l., circa 1891]
Descrip­tion: 1 sheet : ill. ; 37 x 23 cm.
Notes: First line: How charm­ing the girl who end­lessly glo­ries.
Prove­nance: Writ­ten in blue pen­cil: “No harm int­eded [sic].” Accom­pa­nied by enve­lope addressed to Miss M. C. Mer­shon, Prince­ton, N.J. with post­mark 1891.
Source of acqui­si­tion: Pur­chase; J. Howard Woolmer, 2005.
Subject(s): Sen­sa­tion­al­ism in jour­nal­ism –United States.
Youth –Books and read­ing –United States.
Form/Genre: Broad­sides, Story papers
Call num­ber: (Ex) Broad­side 382
Pub­lished ca. 1891.
Higher res­o­lu­tion image avail­able here
http://goo.gl/98GuB

Bookplate of Cha: Read, Esq. of New Jersey

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Book­plate on front paste­down of
Lilly, John, 18th cent.
Mod­ern entries: being a col­lec­tion of select plead­ings in the Courts of King’s Bench, Com­mon Pleas and Exche­quer. Dec­la­ra­tions, Pleas in Abate­ment and in the Bar, Repli­ca­tions, Rejoin­ders, etc. Demur­rers, issues, ver­dicts, judg­ments, forms of mak­ing up records of Nisi prius, and entring of judg­ments, etc. in most actions. Many of them drawn or per­sued by Mr. Brod­er­ick … and other learned Coun­sel. As also spe­cial assign­ments of Errors, and Writs and Pro­ceed­ings there­upon, both in the said Courts and in Par­lia­ment. With the method of suing to and revers­ing out­lawries by Writ of Error or oth­er­wise. To which is added a col­lec­tion of writs in most cases now in prac­tice, by John Lilly.
[ Lon­don] In the Savoy: Printed by Henry Lin­tot, 1741. Call num­ber: (Ex) 7891.586q

“Read, Charles, lawyer, jurist, founder, was born Feb. 1, 1715. in Philadel­phia, Pa. His father, of the same name, was mayor of Philadel­phia in 1725, sher­iff of the county in 1729–31, col­lec­tor of excise in 1725 34, About 1760 he became an asso­ciate jus­tice of the supreme court of New Jer­sey, which office, as well as that of col­lec­tor, he held till the rev­o­lu­tion, act­ing for a time as chief jus­tice in 1764, He was sev­eral times mayor of Burling­ton. He was cho­sen colonel of a reg­i­ment of mili­tia in 1776. He was one of the founders of the Amer­i­can Philo­soph­i­cal Soci­ety. He died about 1780 in North Car­olina.” — Herringshaw’s National Library of Amer­i­can Biog­ra­phy (1914), p. 560.

Arms of Jean-Alexandre van den Broecke, fl. 1646

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Arm on cov­ers of Gesta Dei per Fran­cos, siue Ori­en­tal­ivm expe­di­tionvm, et regni Fran­corvm hierosolim­i­tani his­to­ria a variis, sed illius æui scrip­toribus, lit­teris com­men­data: nunc primùm aut edi­tis, aut ad libros vet­eres emen­datis. Auc­tores præ­fa­tio ad lec­torem exhi­bet. Ori­en­talis his­to­riae tomus primus [et secun­dus] Hanoviæ, typis Weche­lia­nis, apud here­des I. Aubrii, 1611. Call num­ber: (Ex) 14084.388q
cf. Armo­r­ial belge du bib­lio­phile (1930), v.3, p. 680–681.
   Arms also appear on copy of J. A. de Thou, His­to­ri­arum sui tem­po­ris (Geneva, 1620–26)
http://www.auction.de/_scripts/nax_object.php?id=59811&language=e

The Country Book-club 1788

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Illus­trated titlepage:
Shillito, Charles.
The coun­try book-club. A poem.
Lon­don, 1788.
Illus­tra­tion on t.-p. etched by Thomas Row­land­son.
Call num­ber: (GA) Row­land­son 1788
Call num­ber: (RCPXR) 3930.12.327
Excerpt: “The rural book­seller of aspect pale, And bent with age, comes
tott’ring down the vale… Who but has heard his tale, so often told, Of famous men,
whose names he once enroll’d. How those illus­tri­ous mem­bers spoke and thought,
What ale they tip­pled, and what books they bought.”

Blue morocco 18th century English gold tooled binding with green silk ties and gold thread tassels.

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Blue morocco 18th cen­tury Eng­lish gold tooled bind­ing with green silk ties and gold thread tas­sels.•
In Chancery. Bre­vi­ate. John Penn, Thomas Penn, and Richard Penn, esqrs; plain­tiffs: Charles Calvert esq; Lord Bal­ti­more in the king­dom of Ire­land, defen­dant : for the plain­tiffs
[Lon­don, 1742] • Call num­ber (Ex) 1212.675f • Quar­tich cat­a­logue entry tipped into this book.

Trotter family library copy • armorial bookplate with motto: In promptu

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Trot­ter fam­ily library copy • armo­r­ial book­plate with motto: In promptu
Inscribed: ‘I bought this book from Jo[h]n Val­lange meerly for ye Style w[hi]ch being affected pedan­ti­cal & Latinized was it would seem the mode in these times wherein it was writt.’ This is evi­dently by John Trot­ter, d. 1718, whose sim­i­lar inscrip­tions of prove­nance appear on a num­ber of books he pur­chased between the 1690s and 1707.
Baron, Robert, b. 1630.
Ero­topaignion, or, The Cyprian acad­emy.
Lon­don, Printed by W. W. and are to be sold by J. Hard­esty, T. Hunt­ing­ton, and T. Jack­son, 1647.
Call num­ber: (Ex) 3620.64.332

Riviere binding

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Bound by Riv­iere & Son.
Goodall, Charles, 1671–1689. Poems and trans­la­tions, writ­ten upon sev­eral occa­sions, and to sev­eral per­sons. By a late scholar of Eaton … Lon­don: Printed for Henry Bon­wicke … 1689.Call num­ber: Ex 3756.53.1689. Gift of Robert W. Pat­ter­son. Acces­sioned June 11, 1907. Priced in pen­cil on front free end­pa­per  10/10/-  (that is, 10 guineas).

Author prohibitus • Bale

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Fore-edge of:
Bale, John, 1495–1563.
Illus­trium Maioris Bri­tan­niae scrip­to­rum, hoc est, Angliae, Cam­briae, ac Scotiæ summariu[m], in quas­dam cen­turias diuisum, cum diuer­si­tate doctrinaru[m] atq[ue] annoru[m] recta sup­pu­ta­tione per omnes ætates a Iapheto sanc­tis­simi Noah filio, ad annum domini. M.D.XLVIII. Autore Ioanne Bal­aeo SudouolcaGippeswici [Ipswich]: per Joan­nem Over­ton, 31 July 1548.
With this is bound Con­tarini, G.P. His­to­ria de bello nuper Venetis à Selimo II. Tur­carum Imper­a­tore illato : liber unus Basileae: Perna, 1573.
Call num­ber: (Ex) 3616.7.349

Introduction

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An in-progress reg­istry of book his­tor­i­cal infor­ma­tion from the rare book col­lec­tions of the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library. Post­ings are doc­u­men­tary: images of his­toric bind­ings, images of mark­ings of own­er­ship, such as sig­na­tures, inscrip­tions, etc., and other notable marks in books.

“Nota­bilia” is kin to such other blogs at the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library as:

. Cot­sen Children’s Library
News and announce­ments from the Cot­sen Children’s Library, Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity
http://blogs.princeton.edu/cotsen

. Graphic Arts
Exhi­bi­tions, acqui­si­tions, and other high­lights from the Graphic Arts col­lec­tion, Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity
http://blogs.princeton.edu/graphicarts

. Rare Book Col­lec­tions @ Prince­ton
News of acqui­si­tions, hold­ings, and activ­i­ties of the Rare Book Divi­sion
http://blogs.princeton.edu/rarebooks