Bookplate designed by Ze’ev Raban

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

“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)

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 ❧

Ex Libris Adr. Jos. Havé

❧ 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

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. ❧

Booklabels of James Toovey († 1893)


❧ 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

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

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

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

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.

Edward Irenaeus Stevenson. His Book.

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)

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)

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.

Claude Crespigny of the South Sea House

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).

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.

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)

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

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


Bookplate of Cha: Read, Esq. of New Jersey

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.

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

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