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 No: 046379. More about Persian Manuscript Leaf with Gouache on Paper
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" Scene of three men on horseback playing polo. Light chipping to paint in spots, one figures... More about Persian Manuscript Leaf with Gouache on Paper
Chicago: Brothers of the Bok, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). 1/4 leather over marbled boards. Collecting drink recipes purportedly found in 1784 book entitled "The Squire's Recipes" - it was actually nothing of the sort, but is a likable collection of a dozen drink recipes. Attractively printed on fine... More about The Squire's Recipes
New York: Doubleday, 1966. Hardcover. Light shelf and reading wear to book and jacket. Signed by Barth on the half title - later printing of the first edition. A very strange sort of a campus novel by the author of The End of the Road and The Sot-Weed Factor. Size... More about Giles Goat-Boy
The Hague: Adrian Vlac, 1653. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Later full morocco with inset crest, front board cleanly detached, rear hinges rubbed, bookplates of de Guinzourg and William Stirling and one other. Rare first edition of Bellingen's book of Proverbs later expanded in 1656. (16), 133, (2)pp. Brunet I.... More about Les Premiers Essays des Proverbes
London: W. Phorson, 1791. Full Calf. Leather shows some bumping and chipping along the edges of the boards, as well as the hinges of the spine. Boards and hinges are tight. Just some simple gilt lines to spine with a red leather title plate. Text block is clean and bright;... More about Sacred Tropology: Or A Brief View of the figures; and Explication of the Metaphors Contained in...
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Frankfurt: Johannis Ammony, 1654. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Rebound in half modern calf over marbled boards. Generally modest foxing throughout, heavier in spots, a few minor paper repairs in the outer margin, but otherwise clean and unmarked and with good margins. 4 parts in 1: (6), 6pp, 5-102 leaves;... More about Symboloru[m] & Emblematum ex re Herbaria desumtorum centuria una collecta
Venice: Palese, 1800. Early Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Light soiling to vellum, light scattered foxing. (8),102 (2)pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 046679. More about Favole
Paris: Laplace, 1869. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Front joint split and board loose; attractive colored costume plates throughout. Scattered mild foxing, including to the plates. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 044379. More about Oeuvres de P. Corneille, Théatre Complet...Ornée du Portrait en Pied Colorié
Lyon: Jean-Marie Bruyset, 1779. Later Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). 19th century half leather, hinges cracked, binding sound but rubbed. Scattered mostly minor foxing, old catalog entry pasted to front blank; generally clean internally. 10 folding plates. A nice copy. First published in 1752. xxxvi, 236, (4)pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity... More about Elemens de Musique Theorique et Pratique, suivant les Principes de M. Rameau
Bordeaux: Simon Millanges, 1605. Second Edition. Hardcover. Later quarter vellum over marbled boards, title page stained with repairs, first leaf with a repaired corners, a few marginalia in an early hand, scattered minor foxing, trimmed a little close in spots almost touching the running title. The second Latin edition of... More about Fabula Joannae quae pontificis Romani sedem occupasse falso credita estd
London: Jacob Tonson, 1694. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Small quarto, rebound in 1/4 red morocco over red cloth. Wear and rubbing to edges, light foxing and discoloration, a few pages more heavily browned, small tear to one page corner not touching any text, but a generally clean, unmarked copy... More about Love Triumphant; or Nature Will Prevail. A Tragi-Comedy
Paris: Baudry's Eureopean Library, 1840. Early Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). 8 volumes in brown cloth backed boards. Wear to the cloth with tears and loss on a few of the spines, two of the spines laid back down, bindings generally sound. Mild to moderate foxing throughout, owner stamps on titles... More about The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Paris: Guillaume Morel, Gulillaume Guillard, et Almaricum Warancore, 1561. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary armorial calf, very worn, corners worn through, spine perished and cords exposed, one head band detached, binding still generally sound. Upper corner of front blank excised, scattered foxing and early marginalia, rules line in outer margin in... More about Historiae Francorum libri decem. In quibus non solum Francorum res gestæ, sed etiam Martyrum cum...
London: Thomas Osborne, 1744. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary mottled calf, rebacked. Scattered minor browning. xl, 432pp; 6 folding plates. one torn at the first fold and lacking the remainder. Cagle 803a (the 1736 ed.), Originally published in English in 1733 (La Chapelle had been poached by Lord... More about The Modern Cook: Containing Instructions for Preparing and Ordering Public Entertainments for the...
Bolgna: Giacomo Monti, 1638. Hardcover (Half Leather). Later half red sheep, 4 1/2" x 2 1/2". The first Bolognese edition of Lengueglia's courtesy book first published in Venice (and then Rome) the previous year. Quite scarce, no copies of this edition and only 6 copies of any edition in Worldcat... More about L'Aldimiro del Cavaliere
Paris: Leclerc, 1768. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf respined but not recently, worn at edges, hinges rubbed and a little weak, but binding remains sound overall. Nouvelle edition, originally published in 1750. With the fish bookplate of British food writer Alan Davidson. (vii), 525, (27). 1 folding plate... More about La Science du Maitre d'Hôtel, Confiseur, a L'Usage des Officier, Avec des Observations Sur la...
Paris: Boivin & Cie, 1910. Job. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Lovely, bright, full color illustrations. Slight wear to edges of decorative boards, a few light surface marks, upper corners lightly bumped, scattered browning, largely to page edges. An attractive copy of a lovely book. Size: Folio. Illustrator: Job. Quantity... More about Bonaparte
New York: The Overlook Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. New book, may have slight shop wear. Available inscribed, please email with inscription. More about Food Fights & Culture Wars: A Secret History of Taste
San Francisco: John Henry Nash for William Andrews Clark, Jr., 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes in a slipcase, one large, one small - the smaller a facsimile, the larger finely printed. Slight wear and sunning to boards and slipcase, offsetting from frontis, otherwise fine. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available... More about An Essay on Criticism
New York: Visionaire, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Red box version, 90 of 2800 copies with 13 inserts, the booklet and the dress pattern, the latter two unopened. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: 046732. More about Visionaire 20: Comme des Garçons
Amsterdam: Danielem Elsevirium (Elsevir), 1671. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). The second edition of this important numismatic book by the scholar, ambassador and tutor to Charles I Louis, Elector Palatine. In text illustrations of coins throughout. Vellum cracked at joints and soiled, but binding intact and firm. [46], 917, [51 (index)]... More about Dissertationes de praestantia et usu numismatum antiquorum. Edition secunda
New York: E.P. Dutton, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very slight bumping to upper corners, light wear and slight chipping to jacket edges, small chip missing to jacket at head of spine - still at least very good and a nice, bright copy of the first US edition. This... More about Odd John
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Paris: François Julliot, 1617. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary (with the 2nd work) speckled calf, edges lightly worn, hinges a touch rubbed, sound and attractive overall. Old signature crossed out on title, old bookplate to pastedown, notes on front blank. (14), 295, (21)pp; 76pp The first is the classic account... More about Traicte de L'Apparition des Esprits a Sçavoir des âmes séparées...[with] Dissertation sur ce...
Leipzig: Johannis Herebordi Klosii [Johann Herbert Kloss], 1691. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary full calf, spine label chipped and nearly gone, worn at corners with some loss at spine ends and light cracking to hinge, but still a fairly well preserved binding. Originally published in 1677. The Responsa Medica, originally published... More about Opera Medico-Practica: I. Casus & observationes practicae triginta sex annorum. II....