Myths & Legends of Japan
G.G. Harrap, 1928-01-01. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Decorative blue cloth cover shows minor wear and rubbing, bumped corners. Pages are clean. With 32 full-page illustrations by Evelyn Paul. More
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The HIstory of the Devil and the Idea of Evil from the Earliest Times to the Present Day.
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trub, 1900. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings in a library binding. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing, portion of original cloth on the top board with illustrated vignette. Profusely illustrated, pages are lightly tanned and clean with minor annotation. More
Curso Teórico-Práctico de Operaciones de Cirugía, en que se contienen los más célebres descubrimientos modernos. Compuesto para el uso de los Reales Colegios. Parte Primera.
Madrid: Benito Cano, 1797. Hardcover. Full leather cover with bowed boards and heavy wear/rubbing. Red edges with marbled endpapers. Name of former owner on the title page. Minor chipping to the fold-out plate. , pages are mostly clean with a few spots and minor tears, tidemarks. More
A Treatise on the Fevers of Jamaica with the Observations on the Intermitting Fever of America
campbell, 1795-01-01. Hardcover. Full leather binding, cover shows minor wear and tear, rubbing and soiling. Name label of former owner on the front pastedown. Pages with minor foxing and tanning. More
A Short Account of the Life and Religious Labours of Patience Brayton, Late of Swansey, in the State of Massachusetts. Mostly Seleected from her own Minutes.
N.Y./London: William Phillips, 1802. Hardcover. Bound in plain hardcover boards with label on the spine, cover shows wear and rubbing to the corners, chipped joints, minor loss on the spine. Name of former owner on the title page. Pages with minor soiling and foxing. More
ASTRO-THEOLOGY: OR A DEMONSTRATION OF THE BEING AND ATTRIBUTES OF GOD, FROM A SURVEY OF THE HEAVENS, Illustrated with copper plates
printed for W. Innys, at the Pri, 1715-01-01. Hardcover. Rebound in half-leather cover, raised bands on the spine, leather title label, gilt lettering, textured cloth boards. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Name of former owner and some ex-library markings in the prelims, lacking front free endpaper. Pages are mostly..... More
On the Various Contrivances by Which British and Foreign Orchids are Fertilised by Insects, and On the Good Effects of Intercrossing.
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
Midwifery Illustrated. Translated from the French, with Notes. With Eighty-Two Plates. Fifth Edition, with Additional Matter and Plates.
New-York: Harper & Brothers, 1842. Hardcover. 1842 edition, rebound in half-leather with marbled boards. Cover shows minor wear, pages show minor scattered foxing. More
The Buddhism of Tibet,: Or Lamaism, with its mystic cults, symbolism and mythology, and in its relation to Indian Buddhism
W.H. Allen & Co, 1895-01-01. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Shows minor wear. More
Windjammers
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
A Voyage Round the World, In the Years MDCCXL, I, II, III, IV. The Fifteenth Edition.
London: W. Bowyer & J. Nichols, 1776. Hardcover. Poor condition, with detached boards bound in full tree calf, cracked spine, split textblock. All pages are present, including 42 copper-plate engravings (4 maps, 9 charts, 29 vies) and a folding frontispiece with notable map of the world (missing portions of northwestern..... More
The Presuppositions of Critical History.
Oxford: James Parker and Co., 1874. Hardcover. Scarce 1874 first edition. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover shows minor wear and rubbing. Pages are clean. The first work of British idealist philosopher F.H. Bradley. More
The End of Elfintown
London: Macmillan & Co., 1894. Hardcover. A book of lovely fairy poetry by Irish writer Jane Barlow, illustrated by Housman. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Yellow cloth cover with extensive gilt decoration shows minor wear. Pages are clean. More
A Book of Scotish Pasquils &c. / A Second Book of Scotish Pasquils &c. / A Third Book of Scotish Pasquils &c.
Edinburgh, 1827. Hardcover. 3 selections with 3 individual title pages bound together, dated 1827 to 1828. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Rebacked spine, half-leather cover with marbled boards, cover shows minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing. Marbled endpapers. Pages are mostly clean. Scarce. A true first collection of Maidment's..... More
Geschichte der Halbinsel Morea während des Mittelalters. Erster & Zweiter Theil.
Verlag der J.G. Cotta'schen Buch, 1836. Hardcover. Volumes 1-2, 1830 & 1836. German language edition. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Bound in full red leather with raised bands, decorations in blind and gilt. Cover with moderate edgewear and rubbing. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Pages with minor scattered foxing, some..... More
CLIMBING AND EXPLORATION IN THE KARAKORAM-HIMALAYAS. WITH THREE HUNDRED ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. D. McCORMICK AND A MAP.
NY: Appleton, 1894-01-01. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Rebacked spine, cover shows minor wear and edgewear, rubbing. Pages are clean. More
A record of Buddhistic kingdoms being an account by the Chinese monk of his travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline
Clarendon Press, 1886-01-01. Unknown Binding. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Rebacked spine, heavy edgewear and rubbing, soiling. Pages are lightly tanned and clean. More
Mme B. Chantre. A travers l'Arménie russe
Hachette, 1893-01-01. Reliure inconnue. Half-leather cover with marbled boards, raised bands and gilt on the spine, cover shows minor wear and edgewear/rubbing. Marbled endpapers. Pages are lightly tanned with very minor scattered foxing. More
Tyrol and the Skirt of the Alps
Harper & Brothers, 1880-01-01. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Illustrated cloth cover with decoration in black, green, and gilt shows minor wear. Pages are clean. More
De l'Horloger, ou Guide des Ouvriers qui s'occupent de la construction des machines propres a mesurer le temps.
Paris: Encyclopedique de Roret, 1830. Hardcover. Leather spine with marbled boards, cover shows minor wear wear and rubbing, warping and edgewears. Some writing int he prelims. Pages show minor scattered foxing. With fold-out diagrams/illustrations. A guide to watch-making and reapir. More
Traité du Nivellement, contenant la Théorie et la Pratique de cet Art. Avec la Description d'un Niveau nouvellement inventé.. Le tout enrichy de Figures.
Pais: Chez Nicholas Langlois, 1689. Hardcover. Bound in full leather with raised bands and gilt on the spine, cover shows minor wear and rubbing, edgewear. Minor writing in the prelims. Pages are clean. With 11 folding engraved plates and one text engraving. Stamp on the rear pastedown... More
Memoirs of a Captivity in Japan, During the Years 1811, 1812, and 1813; with Observations on the Country and the People. In Three Volumes.
London: Henry Colburn and Co., 1824. Hardcover. 3-volume set, complete. Half-leather with marbled boards and raised bands, covers show minor edgewear. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Pages show minor scattered foxing. 2nd English-language edition. More
A Volunteer's Scramble through Scinde, the Punjab, Hindostan, and the Himalayah Mountains. 2-volumes.
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
A Description of the Collection of Ancient Marbles in the British Museum. Parts 1 & 2.
London: W. Bulmer, 1812. Hardcover. Bound in 1/2 tan leather with marbled boards; gilt ruling to front and back; spine with 5 raised bands, extensive gilt decorations, ruling and titles. - Top edges are gilded; marbled end papers. Bookmark bound-in. Includes tan cloth slipcase with leather title label on spine..... More
Historie d'Edouard Manet et de son oeuvre
H Floury, 1902-01-01. Hardcover. Rebound with original wraps. Leather spine with raised bands in red with marbled boards and gilt lettering, cover shows minor wear and rubbing, fading. Marbled endpapers. Pages are clean with minor scattered spotting. Lacking 2 of the plates. More