Presso Tommaso Cuccioni, 1840. Hardcover. Scarce. Undated, c. 1840. Quarter-bound in brown leather with textured tiny clover patterned boards. Raised bands on spine, gilt lettering. Spine is somewhat tanned due to sun/age. Slight rubbing at top of spine, could be repaired by an expert. Foxing to first page, occasional foxing..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co, 1946. Hardcover. Dust jacket shows minor wear and tear, chipping and rubbing. Pages are clean. First American edition. Scarce. More
London: Richard Tottill, 1554. Hardcover. Originally published as "L'Office et Auctoryté des justices de peas" in 1538. Fitzherbert was an English judge, scholar, and legal author. London: Richard Tottill, 1554. 173, [6] ff. (171b-174a & Table supplied in facsimile). Printed in blackletter. Dec. woodcut initials. (8vo) 140 x 93 mm..... More
Brookfield: E. Merriam & Co., 1798. Hardcover. 12mo. Scarce. First edition. Full contemporary calf shows wear and rubbing, loss on the corners. Names of former owners in the prelims, minor writing on the rear blanks. Pages are lightly tanned with minor soiling, foxing, and holing... More
Lyon: Chez Boissat & Remeus, 1666. Hardcover. Bound in full calf with 5 raised bands and gilt decoration, missing a portion of the title label. Boards are bowed and show rubbing and bumps, some erosion on the backstrip. Minor ink mark on the title page, some tanning and minor foxing..... More
W.J. Widdleton, 1868-01-01. Hardcover. First thus. Thin 4to., green cloth with gilt decoration designed by master engraver John Feely, minor wear to extremities. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Pages are clean with many plates of illustrations. More
The Olympia Press, 1959-01-01. Paperback. First edition, first printing, with "Francs: 1,500 Not to be sold in the U.S.A. or U.K." on the back, in first printing dust jacket. Dust jacket is unclipped and in a removable, clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows minor wear and tear, chipping and light tanning..... More
Chapman and Hall, 1840-01-01. Hardcover. Complete in 3 volumes, contemporary uniform binding in half-leather with marbled boards, raised bands and gilt lettering on the spines. Covers show minor rubbing and wear to the extremities. Marbled edges and endpapers. Bookplate of former owner on the front pastedowns. Pages show minor foxing..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1838. Hardcover. Bound in green calf with raised bands and gilt, cover shows minor rubbing to the edges. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, price sticker on the front pastedown. Pages are clean with minor foxing to the plates. More
New York: C. P. Gilman, 1916. Hardcover. Original collection of all 12 issues of The ForeRunner for the year 1916, and including the first edition of the serial novel "With Her in Ourland," a sequel to "Herland." Illustrated brick cloth cover shows moderate wear and tear, edgewear and staining, cracks..... More
John Murray, 1862-01-01. Hardcover. First edition, with the publisher's advertisments at the back of the book dated April, 1868. Ex-library copy with usual markings, in a library binding. Red buckram cover shows minor wear. Minor scattered foxing to pages. 12mo, with 1 folding plate and many text illustrations... More
A. Maloine, 1908-1912. Hardcover. Rare! SIGNED (on blank pages after title) first editions of all three volumes. Quarter-bound in brown leather with pretty gilt lettering and flowers on spines. Spines are rubbed along top and bottom but otherwise look very pretty on a shelf. First standard of vol. 1 loose..... More
London: W. Miller, 1807. Hardcover. First edition. Half-leather cover with marbled boards, cover shows minor wear and rubbing, tanning. Bookplate and minor writing of former owner on the front pastedown. Marbled edges. Pages are mostly clean. More
Venetia: Scipion Banca, 1669. Hardcover. 8vo. Venice, 1669, [6]+798+[13]. Contemporary vellum binding with writing cirac 1681 on front and back (contemporary notes in Italian). The binding is seperated from the textblock and the paper supine liner is crumbling. Cover is stained and warped. Textblock is square, although some of the..... More
Leipzig: Weissen Bucher, 1915. Hardcover. All issues of this avant garde German journal from the year 1915 reprinted in 4 volumes. Includes the first edition of Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis, published prior to the trade edition. Ex-library copies with usual markings. Covers show minor wear, pages are clean... More
London: S. Vandenbergh et al. 1778. Hardcover. Detached boards with heavy wear and rubbing on the cover, erosion on the spine. Pages show minor soiling, detached last page, textblock otherwise intact and square. A good candidate for rebinding. Gerard de Lairess was a Dutch Golden Age painter and art theorist..... More
Imprenta de T. Fortanet, 1870. Hardcover. A beautiful book, full of really interesting medical illustrations. Slight bumping at corners, a few light scuffs to leather boards. Raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Spine has only slight wear at edges, looks beautiful on a shelf. Pages have occasional faint foxing..... More
Oxford University Press, 1940. Hardcover. 2-volume set. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover shows minor wear and tanning. Pages are clean. Baddeley was a a British traveller, scholar and journalist. This posthumous work is dedicated to the geography, topography, history, archaeology, Natural history, and ethnology of the Caucasus, including the..... More
London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Bro, 1835 - 37. Hardcover. Complete 4 Volume Set + the Volume of plates, in Quarto. All 5 Volume are rebound in matching 1/4 black cloth with gray cloth boards, gold lettering to spines; new end papers are added. - Vols 1 & 2 are 1835;..... More
New York: M. J. Ivers & Co., circa 1860. Hardcover. Scarce mid-19th century copy. Original pictorial wrappers bound into a brown cloth hardcover. Pages are tanned and clean, text is intact and unmarred. This is a novel based on the sensational murder in 1841 of Mary Rogers, a woman who..... More
Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1878-01-01. Hardcover. First American edition, translated by Edward Roth. Green cloth cover with black and gilt illustration/decoration, cover shows moderate wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, loss at the foot and crown of the spine. Missing the front free endpaper, stamped front pastedown. Name of former..... More
N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. Hardcover. First edition with Scribner's A on the copyright page, SIGNED by the author with drawing on the half-title page, signature dated Sept. 24, 2003. Dust Jacket is in a removable clear plastic (Brodart) protector, shows minor wear, chipping, discoloration. Cover with minor tape stains..... More
Paris: Librairie de L. Hachette, 1860. Hardcover. 5-volume set, complete. Finely bound in maroon leather with raised bands, gilt decoration, covers show minor wear and rubbing, soiling. Marbled edges and endpapers, bookplate of former owner on the front pastedowns. Pages show minor scattered foxing. Musées d'Italie, Musées d'Espagne, Musées d'Allemagne..... More
Librairie Victor Masson, 1854. Hardcover. First edition. 3 volumes in sturdy green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine. Slight crinkling along edge of all 3 spines. A few very light scuffs to volumes 2 and three. Pages within all three volumes have some light foxing throughout, but this does..... More
Manuel Antonio Valdés y Munguía, 1795. Hardcover. Bound in full red- and green-dyed Spanish calf binding with gilt decorations, cover shows moderate wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing. Red edges, marbled endpapers, lacking back free endpaper. Pages are mostly clean but there is some minor holing due to biopredation... More