Paris: Lucas Breyel, 1588. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary calf, heavily worn, hinges cracked, front board nearly detached and held by one cord, rear by two, rear bottom corner degraded and broken. Old names inked out on title, light toning to title and early pages, very clean internally... More
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
(Bexhill-on-Sea, England): Silver Thimble Books, 1987. Gordon Murray. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Clothbound in slipcase, signed by publisher Murray. Hand colored, #10 of 32 Size: Miniature. Illustrator: Gordon Murray. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Signed by person(s) connected with book. Inventory No: 046490. More
![Inula Pulicaria. Small Fleabane [from Flora Londinensis, 1789-1798]. Curtis William.](/pictures/thumb/044588.jpg?v=1450374129)
London: Curtis, 1798. Hand colored plate from Curtis's Flora Londinensis. ca. 1798. Finely hand colored, image size if 13" x 6 3/4". With the accompanying letterpress text description (worn and torn at edges). Slight wear and browning at edges. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Prints, maps, broadsides; Inventory No: 044588. More
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
![Hand Colored Engraving from a German Language Edition from De Bry's "Grand Voyages to the Americas [ca. 1591]: Plate XXXII, How a ship came from Brickioka. Theodor de Bry, Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues.](/pictures/thumb/045844.jpg?v=1476331826)
1591. A single sheet from an early German edition of De Bry. Hand colored scene of indigenous people's meeting with a Frigate. Contemporary or early hand coloring, chipping at edges, some browning and bleed through from text on verso, crease to upper portion through text; lovely touches of silver on... More
![A True State of the Difference Between Sir George Rook, Knight and William Colepeper, Esq; Together with an Account of the Tryal of Mr. Nathanael Denew, Mr. Robert Britton, and Mr. John Merriam Before the Right Honorable Sir John Holt, Knight, Lord Chief Justice of England on an indictment for the designs and attempts therein mentioned against the life of the said William Colepeper on behalf of the said Sir George Rook. Part I. [no more published]. Daniel Defoe, misattributed.](/pictures/thumb/043843.jpg?v=1450374042)
London: 1704. First Edition. Disbound. Often attributed to Defoe but apparently falsely and disputed by Furbank and Owens. There is a section that discusses Defoe by name and talks about his imprisonment (the source of his famous A Hymn to the Pillory), and the overall tone is faintly humorous, no... More
Toulouse: Manavit, 1818. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary acid calf, worn with a tear at the head of the spine; binding sound. Clean internally. Scarce work on hunting and fishing laws. lix, 367, 91)pp. One folding table. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category... More
Paris: Capelle et Renand, 1808. First Edition. Hardcover. Rebound in 1/4 cloth over marbled boards. Early pages worn, light dampstain to the frontis and elsewhere, mostly the latter half of the book including the plates. A well used but survived example of his classic text on hosting - from carving... More
Paris: Joseph de Boffe, 1804. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). 9 volumes, published 1804-1806, bridging the use of the French Republican calendar and the return to the Gregorian, in uniform half calf bindings. Modest general wear, some chipping at spine ends, all bindings intact, stamps to titles. 358pp, 1 folding... More
London: Henry & Co. 1897. Lucien Pissarro, William Strung, Gustave Moreau, et al. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Gilt cloth, light wear at spine ends, corners a little bumped. Bright internally, some foxing to the Pissarro designed endpapers. Size: Quarto (4to). Illustrator: Lucien Pissarro, William Strung, Gustave Moreau, et al.... More
Paris: G. Masson, 18. Third Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). 2 volumes in leather backd marbled boards, scattered minor foxing and wear - a nice pair., attractively illustrated. 1008pp; 1115pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Farming & Rural Life. Inventory No: 046231. More
London: S and J Sprint, 1703. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full leather, quite worn, front board detached. With 10 plates (9 numbered plus another), the frontis portrait and the map. All quite bright except the map which is worn along the top margin and with a long repaired tear... More
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). First edition, with the TF device solid at the base of the spine and unbattered type as described by Blanck. Light wear to cloth at corners, slight fraying at spine ends. BAL 12150. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's inscription in... More
New York: The Overlook Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. New book, may have slight shop wear. Available inscribed, please email with inscription. More
Augsburg: Mang, 1606. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full reverse calf worn and stained, the remains of ties and clasps, hinge cracked but binding is still largely sound and attached by the cords. Foxing internally, library marks and a pocket at rear, title loose, last few pages browned and chipped... More
Piacenza: Ignazio Orcesi, 1805. First Edition. Softcover. Marbled card covers, wear at edges, soiling, spine strip lacking, binding loose, scattered foxing, heavier in spots, a few minor marginal marks. A good copy of a scarce book of proverbs.140pp Guinzbourg's bookplate on endpaper from his proverb collection. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available... More
Madrid: Convento de Santo Thomas de Madrid, 1720. First Edition. Disbound. Disbound from a larger volume in early or original wraps. Light staining and soiling, generally clean and unmarked. Pages 1-94 only of ? - rare, no other copy located. Size: 16mo . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1... More
Frankfurt: Wilhelm Richler, 1863. First Edition. Pamphlet. Scarce first edition of Sander's work on the American Civil War. 121pp - first edition - later editions (1865, etc.) had maps and some added material. Sabin 76345. Front cover detached but present - wraps generally in good condition, light chipping at edges... More
Heidelberg: Bibliopolio Commeliniano, 1621. Hardcover (Half Leather). Later half leather over cloth, modest shelfwear at edges, hinges worn but binding sound. Old notes to endpapers, foxed throughout but otherwise clean. 3 parts bound in 1, each with a separate title and pagination. The third part is by Scaliger's son the... More
Cummington, MA: Cummington Press, 1943. Second Edition. Hardcover. Faint discoloration to boards, one of 330. An attractive copy. 45pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 044160. More
![[Sporting Novels] Jorrocks Jaunts and Jollities * Hawbuck Grange * Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour * Handley Cross * Ask Mamma * Plain or Ringlets * Hillingdon Hall. Surtees Robert Smith.](/pictures/thumb/036545.jpg?v=1457990671)
Walter Spiers. Longman, Nimmo, Bradbury and Evans, 1838. John Leech, H.K. Browne etc. Hardcover (Half Leather). 7 volumes bound uniformly in half black leather over green cloth - apparently all rebacked uniformly from an earlier rebinding with the earlier spines laid down - 5 raised bands, gilt compartments, etc.. Housed... More
New York: Arno Press, 1973. Hardcover. 27 cookbooks in 15 volumes, complete. Gold stamped burgundy paper boards, modest wear, gilt dulled on a few volumes. A nice group of regional cookbooks including a number of important American cook books - Cooking in Old Creole Days by Eustis; Miss Leslie's Directions... More
![Le Parnasse François, Dedié au Roi [with] Description du Parnasse François Exécuté en Bronze, a la Gloire de la France et de Louis le Grand (1760). Titon du Tillet M., Édvard.](/pictures/thumb/034597.jpg?v=1450373860)
Paris: Jean-Baptiste Coignard, 1732. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 2 volumes: Volume 1 (1732) 832pp, xciii , vol 2 (1760) 122pp in two parts. 13 plates plus plates of the author and a frontis. 12 plates of medallions (49 medallions) in the first volume and 16 plates (the first 12... More
![[Bibliotheca Aldina] A Catalogue of an Extensive and Extraordinary Assemblage of the Productions of the Aldine Press, from its First Establishment at Venice in 1494, together with Lyonese and Venetian Counterfeits, the Giunta and Other Works Illustrative of the Series. Toovey James.](/pictures/thumb/045551.jpg?v=1450374388)
London: James Toovey, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Contemporary 1/4 morocco over marbled boards. Corners worn, scattered marginal pencil notations, foxing to endpapers, otherwise very clean internally. One of the first great collections of Aldine Press books. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category... More