Amsterdam: I. T. Schipper, 1668. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary paneled calf, rebacked, one corner damaged, old owner signature to endpaper, 132 leaves printed in two columns. An attractively printed Dutch New Testament in a nice period binding. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion..... More
1800. Disbound. Persian manuscript with gouache on paper, likely from the epic poem The Shanameh. Some wear and age toning, minor stains; quite attractive overall. Undated but ca. early 19th century. 12" x 8 3/8" Night scene with five figures. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Inventory..... More
Paris: Chez Tiger, 1800. First Edition. Hardcover. Original plain card covers, worn at edges, chipping to wraps, bottom edge of frontis lacking, but not touching the plate area. Browning and light wear to page edges, otherwise very clean internally. 108pp. Quite scarce, just 4 copies in Worldcat. Size: Octavo (8vo)..... More
Paris: Libraires Associés, 1771. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary full calf, modest wear and rubbing, surface marks to cover, rear joint a little weak and binding slightly cracked in the center of the text block, but sound overall. Scattered light foxing and browning internally. With an engraved frontis and..... More
Strassburg: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 1496. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Modern full calf, hinges rubbed, spine dry. Bookplate and catalog entry on the added endpapers. Lacking the six word title page and the blanks (the eighth and final two leaves) but otherwise complete. Dampstains..... More
Venice: Petrus Liechtenstein, 1503. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). 19th century half calf over marbled boards. Slight occasional toning, scattered marginal annotations in an early hand, one table with 4 columns of manuscript additions, old bookseller stamp to title and final page, scattered minor stains and toning, tiny wormhole for..... More
Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). 9 volumes in quarter brown calf over pebbled brown cloth, 1940-1946 - spines gilt in compartments. Light rubbing to spines and hinges, a touch of edgewear and a few corners bumped, slight dampstain to rear board and page edge of volume 3..... More
New York: Burgess, Stringer, 1845. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Publishers cloth worn and torn with significant loss at the head of the spine and top and bottom of rear board. Moderate foxing, heavy in spots, binding sound and clean otherwise. xii, 260pp with 4 plates of surgical tools at..... More
London: W. and J. Innys, 1727. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Volumes 2 and 3 of 3 bound as one. Full leather bound over an earlier full leather binding - wear at edges. v.. 2 with 12 folded leaves of plates. Plate at page 373 torn and detached, small tear..... More
Manila: Sugar News Press, 1937. Second Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Half leather over decorative paper, rubbing to paper boards, bright internally, hinge slightly cracked at page 12, but binding very sound. Illustrated throughout with photos and line drawings, 2 color plates and 3 portraits tipped in. 395pp An interesting cookbook first..... More
London: Longmans Green & Co., 1893. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). 2 volumes in original olive-brown cloth, light wear at the edges, a few surface marks, generally quite sound. Occasional foxing, but mostly clean internally. A nice set, complete with 10 plates. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Previous owner's..... More
London: Printed for the Author, 1809. Second Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Contemporary marbled boards, respined and recornered in leather. Modest foxing and browning, otherwise clean. The expanded second edition with an answer to The Dun Cow (also written anonymously but by his brother, Walter Savage Landow) published a year earlier..... More
Mexico: Vicente G Torres, 1848. Softcover. Original wraps, mild wear, a few light stains internally. Details a convoluted property dispute during the US occupation of Mexico City. 47pp. Rare. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; History. Inventory No: 046752. More
London: JohnRichardson, 1819. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf backed boards, covers detached but present, modest wear and discoloration to bards, modest browning internally, a few small dampstains in the outer margins. 124pp, 113 plates and engraved title. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category..... More
Syracuse: J.G.K. Truair, 1689. Third Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Original green cloth, worn at corners and spine ends, portrait guard torn, old signature to endpaper,light dampstain to portrait, scattered foxing and browning, heavy in a few spots. In a custom clamshell box. The third edition with the added appendix, 454pp..... More
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Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, 1493. Single 12" x 8 1/2" leaf in Roman letter with text surrounded by commentary. Light browning at edges, one tiny wormhole to text. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Incunabula; Poetry. Inventory No: 044999. More
Venice: Prodotti, 1693. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary vellum, discolored but sound, scattered minor browning; lacking pages 35-38, otherwise very good. (14),342 (1)pp Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 046682. More
Lyon: Muguet, 1616. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Full contemporary vellum rebacked in leather, worn, discolored, with a number of wormholes in the boards, inner joint cracked. Old notes to title, scattered sometimes heavy foxing and browning, marginal worming, a few minor paper repairs; generally sound internally. 3291pp plus index in..... More
New York: Harper & Row, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Slight edgewear, a bit of rubbing and dulling to turquise cloth. Unclipped - a very attractive copy of his third book to be published in English. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction;..... More
Frankfort & Leipzig: I.G. Stiebneri, 1793. Later Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Vellum backed marbled boards, vellum worn, lacking bottom section and front portion, Very good internally and binding still held by cords. 914pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category..... More
San Luis Potosi. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Rebound in modern leather backed marbled boards, browning to pages and heavy degradation and chipping to outer margins, but no loss to text. Final leaf with errata torn with some loss to text. In text illustration and a portrait of the author..... More
Paris: Claude Chevallon, 1534. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary vellum, age toned, stain to rear cover, rippled, lacking ties, but quite sound. Second edition after the 1524 first, and first Paris edition. Small stain or burn mark to leading edge, scattered very minor foxing and staining to pages, quite clean..... More
Leipzig: Goezianis, 1692. First Edition. Hardcover. Later leather backed cloth, slight foxing, otherwise fine. Blanks added to fill out the binding. Sm. quarto, unpaginated, A-E2. 18pp. Pagination added in an early hand. Scarce collection of proverbs, only a few separate copies in OCLC. Bookplate of William Stirling and De Guinzbourg..... More
Paris: Petri Chevalier, 1608. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full early calf, nicely rebacked. Some soiling in margins, tabs added and some have torn off, occasional early notes and underlining and a few small ink droplets. A nice, wide margined, scholarly edition of Tacitus and Velleius, with a host of notes from..... More
New York: The Dial Press, 1924. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Green cloth, light wear at edges, corners very slightly bumped, spine lettering a touch rubbed - a nice, attractive copy. Previous owner's bookplate and with a signed inscription from Wescott "Inscribed to Ingle Barr with the author's best wishes..... More