Paris: Chez Pierre le Petit, 1683. Hardcover. Luxury binding in full red leather with raised bands and gilt decoration, metal clasps. Cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing, minor crack and loss at the crown of the spine, top clasp is broken. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Minor writing on..... More
London : Printed or W. and J. In, 1725-01-01. Leather Bound. First Edition ( Thus). Complete 3 Volume Set. Rebound into black buckrum cloth with gold letteirng to spines - Vol. 1. [2]; XLIII, 730p.; Vol. 2. XX, 726p. Illustrated with 18 of 19 Folding Plates; ( lacking plate #..... More
Paris: Chez Nicolas Buon, 1614. Hardcover. Wood-engraved illustrations of anatomy, surgical instruments, monstrous children, sea creatures and monsters, terrestrial creatures and monsters, and portraits of Hippocrates and Galen. Title page is repaired and affixed to a blank prelim with man signs of erosion and biopredation. Minor holing to the first..... 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
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
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 1841-01-01. Leather Bound. 2-volume set. Ex-library copies with usual markings. Volume 1 cover bound in black cloth and shows minor wear and rubbing, rebacked spine, heavily bent top board. Volume 2 cover bound in red buckram and shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are tanned with minor..... More
New York: C. P. Gilman, 1913. Hardcover. Volume 4 of The ForeRunner, all issues from 1913. Illustrated brick cloth cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. Gift inscription in the prelims. Ex-library copy with usual markings. 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
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
New York: Charles Scribner's Son, 1925-01-01. Hardcover. New York: Charles Scribners, 1925. First edition, first state with “chatter” p.60, “northern” p.119, “sick in tired” p.205, and “Union Street station” p. 211. Octavo, original dark green cloth. Minor rubbing, soiling, and tidemarks on the cover. Bookplate and signature of former owner..... More
Madrid: Imprenta de Ariztia, 1727. Hardcover. Bound in full vellum which shows wear and discoloration, missing leather ties. Loose hinges, engraved frontis chipped and detached but repaired with some minor writing in pencil on the back. Light tanning with scattered soiling. More
Genevae: Sumptibus Petri Chouet, 1651. Hardcover. 3-volume set, bound into two volumes. Vellum binding is sturdy and shows minor wear and tanning, soiling, handwritten titles on the spines show minor rubbing. Ex-library copy with labels and stamps on the front pastedowns. Parts 1 & 2 in the first volume, part..... 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
London: Truslove & Hanson, 1896. Hardcover. 2-volume set, complete. Ex-library copies with usual markings, from an un-circulating research library in a museum collection. Green cloth covers with gilt lettering show minor wear. Pages are tanned and clean. Profusely illustrated with rare photographs. Scarce, limited to 700 copies... More
Casterman, 1944. Hardcover. 1st collected edition, published in occupied in Belgium. Cover shows moderate to heavy wear and tear, rubbing and edgewear, cracks and loss on the spine. Loose/torn hinges. Pages are tanned and clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. 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
N.Y./London: Harper & Brothers, 1900. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Decorative red cloth cover shows minor wear. Pages are mostly clean. First U.S. edition. Six stories: The Russian Cipher, Le Diable, The Abducted Ambassador, Prince Ferdinand's Entanglement, A Deal with China, and Monsieur Roche's Defeat. A scarce early book..... More
London: W. Thacker and Co., 1854. Hardcover. 2-volume set, inscribed and signed by the author to his sister. An account of travels through India and the Second Anglo-Sikh War, James served under Major Herbert Edwardes and these volumes were published only a few years after Edwardes's account titled "A Year..... More
New York: Bernhardt Wall, 1922. Hardcover. Pictures and decorations etched by J. Duncan Gleason, text compiled and written by Dorothy Gleason, text etched by Bernhardt Wall. Signed by all three on the limitation page, stated number 52 of 325, but probably no more than 100 pulls were made from the..... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. Hardcover. Green cloth cover with decoration in blind to the boards, gilt to the spine, cover shows minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, loss on the spine. Loose/torn hinges. Pages are lightly tanned with minor scattered foxing, 1 page detached in the center of..... 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
Doubleday, 1962-01-01. Hardcover. First Edition is Stated. Signed, Inscribed Association Copy. Inscribed on the half-title by Joan Crawford, " To Lill/ and Barrett / with devotion/ Joan" There is also a 3 paragraph typed letter from Joan Crawford on her stationary dated, "June 26, 1962" also hand signed. The Co-Author..... More
D. Appleton and Company, 1881. Hardcover. First edition. Two volumes in beautiful condition. Very rare full Moroccan leather binding on both volumes. Elaborate stamped design on boards, raised bands on spine, vibrant gilt lettering and dentelles. Light shelf wear along edges of boards. Light rubbing to raised bands on spine..... More
Peter Jackson, Late Fisher, Son, 1842. Hardcover. 3-volumes-in-1. Half-leather with detached boards and backstrip, show rubbing and edgewear, textblock is square and intact, a good candidate for rebinding. Marbled endpapers. 120 steel line engravings by W.H. Bartlett, William Purser, and Thomas Allom, minor foxing throughout. More
