Chez Durand (Paris), 1774-01-01. Hardcover. 3-volume set. Full calf covers with gilt decoration and lettering on the spines. Covers show minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, soiling and discoloration, top board of volume 1 is detached. Marbled endpapers. Pages show minor scattered foxing, text is intact and unmarred... More

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

Editions Albin Michel, 1930-48. Hardcover. 5-volume set. Covers show minor wear and rubbing, original wrappers bound in. Pages are clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. 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

Philadelphia: T.S. Manning, 1818. Hardcover. Half-leather cover with marbled boards, shows moderate wear and tear, rubbing and edgewear, missing the backstrip, cracked joints. Marbled edges and endpapers. Name of former owner in the prelims. Pages are tanned with minor scattered foxing. More

T. Brainard, 1839-01-01. Hardcover. 2-volume set, complete. Full leather covers show moderate wear and tear, rubbing. Marbled endpapers, faded. The prelims in volume 2 are detached. Pages show minor foxing, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. More

London: Robert Jennings, 1826. 1826-01-01. Hardcover. Full calf with decoration in gilt and blind, raised bands, top board is detached, major erosion on the spine, some discoloration and rubbing. Marbled endpapers, bookplate of former owner on the front pastedown, contemporary signatures in the prelims. Pages and plates are lightly tanned..... More

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1904-01-01. Hardcover. Half-leather cover with raised bands and gilt, marbled boards, shows minor wear and fading, rubbing. Top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Pages are clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. More

[The China Publishing Company], 1937-01-01. Hardcover. Seventh Impression of Edition Deluxe, Sept 1938. - Signed by Madame Chiang Kai-shek on a Presentation Page ( with her red 4 character seal mark beneath signature). - Bound in original red silk, gold lettering to front; floral print to spine; bound with purple..... More

Published By James P. Parke, No. 1808-01-01. Hardcover. Volume 1 only, scarce 1st American edition of English abolitionist Thomas Clarkson's book about the progress in abolishing the slave trade, published only a year after the passage of the Slave Trade Act in 1807. Bound in full polished calf, cover shows..... More

Anderson & Archer, 1866-01-01. Hardcover. Bound in full green leather with decoration in gilt, raised bands on the spine, gilt dentelle turn-ins. Cover shows minor wear and tear, edgewear and cracked joints, discoloration. All edges gilt. Pages are lightly tanned and mostly clean. More

Faulder, 1810-01-01. Hardcover. 2-volume set. Full leather covers show heavy wear and rubbing, cracking and erosion, missing the top board and backstrip of volume 1. Signatures of former owner on the title pages, pages are clean, fold-out maps are in great condition. More

London: J. Davis, 1814. Hardcover. 2-volume set; the work of the ancient Greek historian from between 60 and 30 BCE. Upholstery cloth covers show minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, soiling. Pages with minor scattered foxing. Translated by G. Booth, published in 1814. More