Venice: Iuntas, 1607. Hardcover. Bound in half-vellum with decorative paper boards, hand-inked title to spine, missing the bottom corner of the bottom board, otherwise shows minor wear and rubbing, edgewear and soiling. Contemporary inscription of former owner on the front free endpaper. Copper-engraved title page and nearly 600 woodcut illustrations..... More
Christiani Sigismundi Spener, 1781. Hardcover. Berlin: Christian Sigismund Spener, 1781. Latin pharmacological text, originally published 1698. This copy with German-language phamplet from 1777 tipped into the end (Bekanntmachung eines speciftken Mittels wider den tollen hundebiss). Bound in half-vellum, cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing and loss. Minor foxing throughout..... More
Hamburgi: Bibliopolio Frobeniano, 1906. Hardcover. 2-volumes-in-1. Rebound in black leather with red title label and raised bands on the spine, gilt ruling and lettering. Cover shows minor wear. Woodcut illustration of man planting a tree with the motto "Posteritati" on the title page, woodcut initials and headpieces at the chapter..... More
Paris: Baudouin, 1801. Hardcover. 10-volume set, uniformly bound in half-leather with marbled boards, gilt decoration and black title label on the spines, covers show minor wear and rubbing, edgewear and tanning. Top board of volume 10 is detached. Pages are tanned with minor scattered foxing, books are intact and unmarred..... More
London: R. Ayre & G. Moore, 1778. Hardcover. Contemporary half-leather with marbled boards, erosion to the extremities, cracked joints and rubbing. Name of former owner in prelims, pages lightly tanned. More
Chapman and Hall, 1889-01-01. Hardcover. 2-volume set. Ex-library copies with usual markings. Illustrated cloth covers show minor wear to the extremities. Pages are tanned and clean. More
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928-01-01. Hardcover. SIGNED limited edition, this is copy 39 of 525, signed by the author, James Boyd, and by the illustrator, N.C. Wyeth. Orange cloth cover with illustrated plate shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. 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
Boericke & Tafel, 1887. Hardcover. All of the individually issued parts loose in 6 protective binders. Ex-library copies with usual markings. Hardcover slips show moderate wear and tear, rubbing and soiling. Pages with some edgewear, chipping, light tanning but clean. This classic work consists of 180 full-page chromolithographic plates of..... More
Houghton Mifflin Company / Thoma, 1948-01-01. Hardcover. First U.S. Edition (Date of "1948" on title and copyright pages). - - Appears to be signed by Winston S. Churchill on a tipped in strip of paper affixed vertically to the front end paper. paper measures approx. 6.25" x 3.5" ( Signature..... More
New-York: George H. Colton, 1845. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings. All issues of volume 2 bound together without wraps, including the first printing of Poe's "Eulalie" in the July issue, an essay by Poe on American Drama in the August issue, and "The Facts of M. Valdemar's Case" in..... More
Paris: J.B. Bailliere, 1854. Paperback. 2-volume set, complete, in plain wrappers which show minor wear and staining. Unopened pages, pages show minor scattered foxing. The translator, Daremberg, was a French librarian, medical historian, and classical philologist. Galen was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire... More
Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1881-01-01. Hardcover. 2-volume set, complete. Ex-library copies with usual markings. Decorative brown cloth cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Minor foxing on the edges and prelims. Pages are tanned and clean. More
Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1925. Hardcover. 26-volume set, the complete works of Honore de Balzac, uniformly bound in handsome half-leather with raised bands, gilt decoration, marbled boards, show minor wear. Top edges gilt, deckle. Pages are lightly tanned and clean, text are intact and unmarred. This item may require extra shipping due..... More
Amsterdam: Gedrukt voor den Auth, 1692. Hardcover. Etched t.p. by Jan Luiken. Engraved port. of Cornelis Tromp. Plates by Luiken, Bastiaen Stopendael and Thomas Doesburgh. Signature Y repeated (pages 169-176). Includes index. [8], 496, [8] p., [9] leaves of plates (6 folded, one ripped) : ill. ; 20 cm. (4to)..... More
Paris: A. Belin et al, 1821. Hardcover. 10 parts in 5 volumes, rebound. Brown buckram with gilt lettering on the spines, covers show minor wear. Stamps on the title page. Pages show minor foxing, text is intact and unmarred. More
Chez Edouard Kelmarneck, 1751. Hardcover. Bound in thin boards covered in marbled paper which so some rubbing, typed label on the spine says "JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU". Tender hinges. Minor bookseller's writing on the front pastedown, handwritten author name added to the title page. Engraved frontispiece. Pages lightly tanned and clean..... More
Paris: Bureaux du Progres Medica, 1886-90. Hardcover. 9-volume set, complete. Quarter leather covers with marbled boards, raised bands and gilt lettering on the spines. Covers show some wear and tear, boards of volume 3 detached, major erosion at the crown of the backstrip of volume 5. Marbled endpapers. Pages are..... More
Johann Hofmann, 1674. Hardcover. Fourth volume pp. 238 + appendix pp. 103. Bound in original vellum, shows agewear and soiling. Peeling endpapers, writing in the front and back, some contemporary. Engraved portrait of Michael Thomas and and map of 3 cities in the Netherlands. Blackletter text. A rare volume detailing..... 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
Achebe Publications, 1975-01-01. Paperback. Stated first edition, first printing. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing, pages are clean. Scarce. More
Reilly & Lee, 1917-01-01. Hardcover. A later edition without color plates. Dust jacket is price clipped and in a removable, clear plastic slip, shows minor wear and tear, chipping and rubbing. Blue cloth with color plate, cover shows minor wear. Pages are mostly clean, text and pictures are intact and..... More
Rich & Cowan, 1937-01-01. Hardcover. Dust jacket shows minor wear and tear, chipping and rubbing, soiling and tanning. Former owner's signature on the front free endpaper. Minor foxing on the edges. Pages are clean, text is intact and unmarred. More
Nella Stamperia de Monitore, 1814. Hardcover. Napoli, 1814. 6-volumes bound in 3. Half-leather covers with marbled boards, gilt decoraton on the spine, title labels in red and volume labels in green with gilt lettering, covers show moderate wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, minor chipping on the backstrips. Pages show..... More
