New York: Frank Leslie, 1876. Hardcover. Folio. Half-leather cover shows minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing. Pages are lightly tanned and clean, 1 color plate in the title page. 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
Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1895. Hardcover. Presentation copy inscribed and SIGNED by the author in the prelims. FIRST edition, 1895. This is the author's first work of social criticism (title translates as "The Garden of Epicurus"). French language text. Bound into full leather hardcover with original wraps bound in. Raised bands and..... 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
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
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
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
Paris: l'Imprimerie Impériale, 1867. Hardcover. Vellum spine with marlbed boards, cover shows heavy wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, cracked joints and tape repair, soiling. Marbled endpapers, rubbed. Repaired title page with a stamp on it. Pages are clean with minor scattered foxing. More
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trub, 1890. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings, from an uncirculating museum research library. Half-leather in red with raised bands and gilt, cover shows minor wear to the extremities and fading to the spine. Tope edges gilt. Light tanning to the pages. 1st edigion, this copy..... More
-, 1773-01-01. Hardcover. 3-volume set, bound together in one volume. Marbled boards with leather spine, gilt decoration, cover shows minor wear. Minor writing/signatures in the prelims. Pages are mostly clean. More
Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1921. Hardcover. Green cloth cover with pictorial gilt and gilt lettering, shows minor wear. First edition, second printing (M-V). Illustrated endpapers, name label of former owner on the front pastedown. Pages are clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. 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
Powell Publishing Company, 1929. Hardcover. 9-volume set. Covers are uniformly bound, show minor wear and rubbing. Pages are clean, text and pictures are intact and unmarred. More
Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1885. Hardcover. 4th edition, 8vo. Olive cloth with gilt and black decoration. Ex-library copy with usual markings, from an uncirculating museum research library. Minor wear to the extrimities of the cover. Loose/torn hinges, pages shaken, minor foxing on the edges, tanned pages. Fold-out map in color..... More
Scribner, 1876-01-01. Hardcover. A fine binding, protected by a custom slipcase. Full leather with raised bands and gilt lettering on the spine, minor rubbing to the corners. Panel decoration and gilt dentelle on the pastedowns, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Pages are clean. More
William Heinemann, London, 1898-01-01. Hardcover. Ex-library copies with usual markings, from an uncirculating museum research library. Illustrated green cloth covers with gilt show minor wear and rubbing, fading and bumped corners. Pages are lightly tanned with minor scattered foxing. More
John Murray, 1893-01-01. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings, from an uncirculating museum research library. Shows minor wear, tanning. More
Washington: Beverley Tucker, 1856. Hardcover. Loose/torn hinges, binding is detached from the textblock, cover shows minor wear and rubbing, bumped corners, textblock is square and intact. Minor writing and bookplate on the front endpaper. Pages are mostly clean with minor scattered foxing. More
T. Spilsbury and Son, 1794. Hardcover. Original 1794 printing in original binding! Backstrip is almost entirely missing, but the remnants of the paper title label are visible on spine. Grey and white cloth boards have some foxing. Uncut edges. The pages are incredibly clean and bright, almost NO foxing, just..... More
London: Rivington & Fletcher, 1759. Hardcover. 2-volume set, complete. 8vo., [20] 455pp. and [8] 387pp. First English-language edition. 4 engraved plates, each with 2 images, plus a folding copper-engraved map. Mid-20th century binding in full leather with gilt decorations, covers show very minor edgewear. Patterned endpapers. Pages lightly tanned with..... More
Paris: Maurice Dreyfous, 1887. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Half-cloth cover with marbled boards, leather title label on the spine, cover shows minor wear and soiling. Pages show minor scattered foxing. More
R. W. Ziegler & Co., 1876-01-01. Hardcover. Blue cloth cover with decoration in black and gilt, cover shows minor wear and tear, edgewear and rubbing, some tape on the bottom joint at the crown. Profusely illustrated, pages are lightly tanned and clean. More
Harper, 1874-01-01. Hardcover. 2-volume set, 2nd edition. Ex-library copies with usual markings, from an uncirculating museum research library. Green cloth covers with gilt decoration shows minor wear. Pages are lightly tanned with minor scattered foxing in the prelims. More
E. Arnold, 1906-01-01. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual markings, from an uncirculating museum research library. Blue cloth with gilt decoration. Pages are tanned with minor scattered foxing in the prelims. More
London: T. Boys, 1823. Hardcover. 3-volume set, in slipcases. Bound in red leather with original wraps bound-in, gilt decoration, raised bands on the spines, covers show minor wear and rubbing, slipcases show minor shelfwear. Pages are lightly tanned with minor foxing and tidemarks. Includes fold-out map of London laid-in, with..... More