Bap­tiste Colard, ex-soldat du train, un des prévenus de l’assassinat de Mr. Fualdès. Rouen : Imprimerie de C. Blo­quel … , [1817]. 5, [3] p. : port. (wood­cut) ; 21 cm. (8vo) Inter­nal cap­tion title: Cause célèbre : assas­si­nat de M.Fualdès. Printed on laid paper. Call num­ber: (Ex) 2012-0169N

For details on this recent acqui­si­tion, see
http://www.simonbeattie.kattare.com/blog/archives/749

In the United States, city and coun­try news­pa­pers from Maine to Vir­ginia, such as The New York Spec­ta­tor and Isa­iah Thomas’s Mass­a­chu­setts Spy car­ried news of the trial and the ensu­ing convictions.

“The writ­ings of the Anglo-Latin poet best known on the Con­ti­nent in the early sev­en­teenth cen­tury were never printed in Eng­land. Eliz­a­beth Jane Weston is nowa­days com­pletely ignored by lit­er­ary his­to­ries; but in her day, she was widely cel­e­brated and earned for her­self the sobri­quet ‘the Maid of Eng­land.’” — J.W. Binns, Intel­lec­tual Cul­ture in Eliz­a­bethan and Jacobean Eng­land: The Latin Writ­ings of the Age (Leeds, 1990), p. 111. ❧ ❧ Parthenicôn Elis­a­bethæ Ioannæ West­oniæ, vir­gi­nis nobilis­simæ, poëtriæ flo­ren­tis­simæ, lin­guarum pluri­marum per­tis­simæ, liber I-[III] operâ ac stu­dio G. Mart. à Bald­hoven … col­lec­tus; & nunc denuò ami­cis desider­an­tibus com­mu­ni­ca­tus.Pragæ: Typis Pauli Ses­sij, [ca. 1606]. Call num­ber (EX) PA8595.W452 P3.

Bucol­ica Vir­gilij cum com­mento famil­iari. (This title above a wood­cut of Vir­gil, his patron Pol­lio, and his patron’s son Saloni­nus. This scene is framed by four rec­tan­gu­lar orna­ments in the lower one of which is Caxton’s device.) Colophon: Impressa Lon­dini in jed­ibus VVinandi de VVorde. Annno (sic) domini M.CCCCC. xxix. ad cal­cu­lum Romanum. xij. die Mar­tij. Call num­ber: VRG 2945.325.029. Cita­tion: ESTC S95695

Berthold’s Polit­i­cal Hand­ker­chief.
No. 1. Lon­don, Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber 5, 1831.

Henry Berthold led the National Union of Work­ing Classes, aim­ing at uni­ver­sal male suf­frage. He printed his news­pa­per on cot­ton to evade the gov­ern­ment tax on paper.

“To the Boys of Lan­cashire. We have no patent for this new pocket hand­ker­chief, because we intend to advo­cate the inter­est of the work­ing peo­ple, and con­se­quently do not intend to pay any tax for our knowl­edge to the tyranny that oppresses us. You shall be all as busy as bees if our Whig Tax­ers do not, by the omnipo­tence of an Act of Par­lia­ment, declare cot­ton to be a paper, and a hand­ker­chief to be a pam­phlet or a news­pa­per.” .…
… “Cot­ton For Ever!
Cot­ton makes very bad paper, as we may see in all that comes from the United States of Amer­ica; but when finely woven, it is a very pretty thing to print on. See of how much more worth is our news, than that which is printed on paper, as to the fab­ric on which it is printed. Paper is torn and wasted; but a piece of printed cot­ton may be read and then used for a thou­sand dif­fer­ent pur­poses. It is pos­si­ble, if the ink will wash out, that after six months read­ing, we may be able to buy back and use over the cot­ton again. We shall per­form won­ders with cot­ton. Truly, knowl­edge is spir­i­tual and will per­vade every thing. Knowl­edge is power. It makes every­thing min­is­ter to its pur­poses. What shape will the Whig despo­tism take to reach us? It is spir­i­tual also; a black spirit. Our spir­i­tu­al­ism is from the angels of light, who are clothed in white cot­ton gar­ments. Every let­ter is breeched and show us only its face, which may be more appro­pri­ately termed the sooty face divine, than that human­ity may boast of its human fall divine.” (p. 3)

❧ Berthold’s Polit­i­cal Hand­ker­chief. No. 1, Lon­don, Mon­day, Sep­tem­ber, 5, 1831. 4 p. ; 44 x 29 cm. Printed on cot­ton cloth. Bind­ing note: Ex copy: In recessed and padded white card­board port­fo­lio, in bluish gray cloth clamshell box (51 x 35 cm.). Call num­ber:
(Ex) Over­size 2011-0015E

Illus­tra­tion by Thomas Row­land­son for Tom Jones pub­lished in Edin­burgh by James Sib­bald in 1791, vol­ume 1, page 55: Cap­tion: Par­tridge cru­elly accused and mal­treated by his Wife & co. [Alter­nate cap­tion: The aston­ished Par­tridge meets the vengeance of the whole sex.] ❧ The Library has long had the 1792 reis­sue of the sheets of James Sibbald’s 1791 Edin­burgh edi­tion. Recently acquired is the 1791 orig­i­nal. Each vol­ume has four plates by Thomas Row­land­son. ❧ Field­ing, Henry, 1707–1754. The His­tory of Tom Jones, a foundling. By Henry Field­ing, Esq. Edin­burgh: printed by and for J. Sib­bald, 1791. 3v.,plates; 8⁰. Call num­ber (Ex) 2011-0440N.

With fund­ing from the Rare Book Divi­sion, the Friends of the Library, and the His­toric Maps Col­lec­tion, in March 2009, the Library acquired a copy of the Philippe Van­der­mae­len, Atlas uni­versel de géo­gra­phie physique, poli­tique, sta­tis­tique et minéralogique … (Brus­sels, 1827), con­sist­ing of approx­i­mately 380 folio fold­out sheets of maps and 40 pages of sta­tis­ti­cal tables. This is the first atlas to have been printed using lith­o­g­ra­phy; it is also the first to show the whole world in maps using a uni­form scale (about 26 miles to the inch).

The atlas was dig­i­tally pho­tographed at high res­o­lu­tion in 2010, and is now avail­able in two forms: in the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Dig­i­tal Library [link] and on a stand-alone web­site, which includes a video show­ing a vir­tual rotat­ing globe con­structed from the Van­der­mae­len con­ti­nen­tal maps: the world as it was mapped in 1827 [link].

“There­upon Mar­cus Cur­tius, … mounted on a horse caparisoned with all pos­si­ble splen­dour, he plunged fully armed into the gulf” Livy, The His­tory of Rome, Book 7, Chap­ter 6, illus­trated in Six­teen Humourous Designs, to Illus­trate Vir­gil, Horace, and Livy. With Mot­toes in Latin and Eng­lish. For Pri­vate Cir­cu­la­tion Only. [(Eng­land), n.p., n.d., c. 1840]. Call num­ber: (Ex) 2009-0431Q

“Aula Nasso­vica.” Cop­per­plate engrav­ing, 3.75 x 6.25 inches. Artist and engraver unknown. Illus­tra­tion oppo­site p. 104 of New Amer­i­can Mag­a­zine, No. XXVII (March 1760), Wood­bridge, in New Jer­sey: Printed and sold by James Parker. Sold also at the new printing-office in Beaver-Street New-York, and by Thomas Coombs, in Front-Street, Philadel­phia. Call num­ber: (Ex) 0901.525 ❧ Link to larger file.

Wrap­pers for skeins of ‘nun’s thread’ — a “finer thread, called ounce or nun’s thread, from its hav­ing for­merly been made by nuns in France and Flan­ders” (A.J. War­den, The Linen Trade, Ancient and Mod­ern (1867), p. 539). Three exam­ples from more than 536 trade labels, chiefly for the linen thread trade (both export and domes­tic) pasted into three albums with title Hout­sne­den door Izaak van der Vinne [Wood­cuts by Isaac van der Vinne (1665–1740)]. Call num­ber: (Ex) NC1002.L3 V56f [These wrap­pers: vol­ume 1, leaf 16.]

Ream wrap­per for ‘fine’ (fyn = fijn) grade paper made by Luber­tus van Ger­revink. ❧ W.A. Churchill, Water­marks in paper in Hol­land, Eng­land, France, etc. in the XVII and XVIII cen­turies, (1935), p. 36 describes this as “Gar­den of Hol­land, lion alone” and dates his copy at 1749. This ream wrap­per is one of more than 536 trade labels, chiefly for the linen thread trade, pasted into three albums with title Hout­sne­den door Izaak van der Vinne [Wood­cuts by Isaac van der Vinne (1665–1740)]. Call num­ber: (Ex) NC1002.L3 V56f [This wrap­per: vol­ume 3, leaf 8.]

First two parts of Sweeney Todd, the Demon Bar­ber of Fleet Street [Lon­don, ca. 1880]. The Library’s copy is com­plete in 48 illus­trated parts, total­ing 576 pages. Call num­ber: (Ex) Item 6220613q.
   

Leaf pre­ced­ing title-page of New and com­plete instruc­tions for the haut­boy : con­tain­ing the eas­i­est & most improv’d rules for learn­ers to play : to which is added a favorite col­lec­tion of airs, marches, min­uets, duets, &c. also the favorite rondo per­formed at Vaux­hall by Mr. Fis­cher. Lon­don : Printed & sold at A. Bland & Wellers Music Ware­house … , [1800?] Call num­ber (EX) MT362 .N38 1800q ❧ Scene depicts a con­cert in Vaux­hall Gar­dens, Lon­don. The plate also served as an adver­tise­ment for A. Bland & Weller, Piano Forte Mak­ers, No. 23 Oxford Street.

“Tab­ula VII” of a suite of 17th cen­tury engrav­ings graph­i­cally rep­re­sent­ing con­tem­po­rary sci­ence and phi­los­o­phy. In addi­tion to both his­toric and alle­gor­i­cal fig­ures there are a num­ber of ren­der­ings of sci­en­tific instru­ments: barom­e­ters, ther­mome­ters, clocks, scales, hygrom­e­ters and chem­i­cal appa­ra­tuses.
Palatium sapi­en­tiae. Parisiis: Apud Stephanum Gantrel Via Jacobea sub signo Sti. Mauri, [ca. 1680]. 26 plates includ­ing engraved title-page. Call num­ber: (EX) 2011-0248Q

Con­tes pour les Bib­lio­philes par Octave Uzanne & Albert Robida.
Paris: Anci­enne Mai­son Quan­tin, Librairies-Imprimeries Reunies, 1895.
Call num­ber: (Ex) 3295.27.326q. Front cover illus­tra­tion by George Auriol.

Jus­tus Vel­sius (1502–1582). In Cebetis The­bani Tab­u­lam com­men­tar­i­o­rum libri sex
(Lyon, 1551). Call num­ber: 2011-0654N

See a brief descrip­tion of the Tablet of Cebes.

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’