Germany: 1713. Broadsheet ordering the cancellation of festivities due to the war and the " highly dangerous warlike, foodless" times. ca. 8 1/4" x 14". Probably the Rhine campaign at the end of the War of the Spanish Succession. Browned at edges, light soiling. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under..... More
Madrid: La Imprenta Real, 1807. Later Edition. Hardcover (Half Cloth). 3 volumes in later 19th century cloth backed marbled boards, recornered, modest wear at edges. Volume one lacking pages 435-438 and volume 3 lacking 33-40, both apparently binding errors, the latter with blanks bound in. Otherwise clean and bright, a...... More
Amsterdam: Johannem Allart, 1805. Hardcover. First edition of the first official Dutchj pharmacopeia. (20), 21, L, 302, 33, (12). With the list of subscribers. Half cloth over marbled boards, worn at edges. small split on spine and a bit soiled. Light soiling to the edge of the title page, but..... More
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1860. Broadside. Single sheet ca. 10" x 7", foxed, mild staining, wear at edges; very thin paper, generally well preserved. Two English songs here in an American printing, likely ca. 1860 judging from the English editions of the poems (though the paper and typography suggest an earlier date). Two attractive..... More
Paris: J. Hetzel et Paulin, 1842. Grandville. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Two volumes in contempoary leather backed boards, wear at edges, old repairs at corners, some rubbing in spots, very sound overall. Scattered mostly minor foxing throughout, including to the plates, a few minor stains and tears, endpapers stained..... More
London: WEdward Sayer, 1739. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Two volumes in contemporary polished calf, corners a little worn, bumped, a few scrapes, wear at spine ends, but an attractive and sound pair; light scattered browning & foxing internally. Complete, unpaginated. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1..... More
Paris: P. Didot, 1797. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 2 volumes in contemporary calf, light rubbing to joints and corners, scattered light foxing and browning; an attractive pair. A nice illustrated edition of this popular epistolary novel. Told through the eyes of an Incan princess during the Spanish conquest of..... More
Paris: Claude Barbin, 1690. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary full calf worn, dry and chipped with significant loss. Modest browning and soiling to pages, some signatures a little loose, paper slightly brittle. With 2 folding plates in volume one and 11 plates in volume 2. Lacking the portrait but..... More
Lisbon: Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1783. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary elaborately gilt red morocco, densely tooled with an array of fleur de lis and other fleurons. Light wear and rubbing, mostly at the corners. Minor worming to endpaper, minor stains to title and a few other spots. Lacking..... More
Paris: MIchel Levy Freres, Libraires Editeurs, 1863. Half-Leather. 15 volumes bound in 8 in 1/4 teal morocco with only minor shelf wear to top and bottom of spine and a touch of rubbing. Marbled boards with light wear, page edges gilt. Paper age toned in spots, but clean otherwise. Excellent..... More
Madrid: Viuda de Ibarra, 1791. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Early acid calf, wear to ends with a bit of loss to the leather at the head, old paper label at base of spine, browning to endpapers, otherwise very clean internally. 2 volumes in one, the first edition of a...... More
Boston: Adams and Nourse, 1787. First Edition. Disbound. Small folio, disbound, pages 546-627 with a rear blank, comprising 32 acts, many relating to the rebellion in Western Massachusett's called Shays' Rebellion. Light foxing, otherwise clean. The United States was still operating under the Articles of Confederation and was unable to raise..... More
London: Colin Fenton, 1958. Reynolds Stone. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Slight wear to original black cloth. Inscribed by "the old Philadelphia firm of Namleda & Co." who printed the original broadside "Flying Scrolls" that are reprinted here. Foxing to endpapers, signed by Reynolds Stone who made the lovely wood..... More
Buenos Aires: Santiago Rueda, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. The first Spanish edition of Ulysses, number 66 of 300 copies in two volumes on special paper. There was also a lettered edition on Liverpool Ledger and an ordinary edition in one volume of 2200 copies. Both volumes has been neatly rebacked..... More
Venice: Graziosi, 1794. First Edition. Softcover. Later marbled card covers, modest foxing, otherwise clean. 119pp and one folding plate with 10 for performing different tasks. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Inventory No: 046675. More
London: Awnsham and John Churchill and Samuel Manship, 1694. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary paneled calf, worn, rebacked and with small repairs to the corners, new endpapers added. Lacking the portrait and with an old repair in the gutter of the title a little yellowed and the first..... More
1731. Garard-Jean-Baptiste Scotin. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary calf, front board detached with the gilt arms of Carre de Saumery on both boards. Scattered foxing. An attractive edition with an extra engraved title and 8 plates by Scotin. Marginal dampstain occasionally and to a number of plates, bookplate..... More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Early Edition. Hardcover. The eighth printing of McCuller's novel - in a purple jacket. Undated, ca. 1960 with $4.95 on the jacket flap. Green cloth - just about fine, slight rubbing and sunning to jacket, with a previous owner's signature to the front endpaper. Size: Octavo..... More
Paris: Guillyn, 1755. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary mottled calf, spine attractively gilt in compartments, mild wear at corners, lacking lettering piece. Quite clean internally - volume 1 of 4. xii, xxii, privilege leaf, 404pp. Vicaire 591, Cagle 344. The first volume of one of the great, sprawling cookbooks..... More
London: Bickers & Son, 1897. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). In a prize binding of crushed red morocco, hinges rubbed, wear to spine ends, spine slightly sunned; still attractive. Abridged from Napier's history. With 10 illustrations in "permanent photography" and a folding map colored in outline. Bright and fine internally..... More
London: Routledge. Hardcover (Full Leather). Bull polished calf prize binding, undated ca. 1869 "new edition". With tipped in plates and illustration throughout. Light wear to boards at edges, a few light scratched; an attractive binding with "studio sapientia crescit" (wisdom grows by study" inscribed on a banner on the cover..... More
New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Jacket chipped at edges with a bit of loss at spine ends and corners, remains of stickers adhered to flaps, slight wear to book, endpapers slightly discolored, front joint slightly tender, unmarked internally. An attractive copy of a...... More
New York: Knopf, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a just about fine jacket with very faint shelfwear to edges. Unclipped - signed by Mandel and dated November 13, 2014, New York City with the first line of the novel written out below. A lovely copy with a nice signature..... More
New York: Knopf, 1954. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Light wear and rubbing to jacket, chipping to top edge, spine a little sunned. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 046204. More
Paris: Pour les Membres de la Societé, 1911. First Edition. Softcover. Années 1-14 nearly complete in original wraps and envelopes except for volume 1 which is in quarter leather. Moderate wear to most of the wraps and envelopes, some with tears, but internally very good or better, plates clean and..... More