London: Richard Badger, 1635. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf, heavily worn, and crudely but largely effectively rebacked at an early date (binding a little loose and cracked at the center), lacking the original blanks, minor worming to pastedowns and table at rear, title page worn, browned, with a...... More
1950. Hardcover. Red boards, tape reinforcement to spine. Recipes in a single hand throughout, tear to first page with loss to text, some minor adhesions in the gutter, a few slight dampstains, otherwise clean and unmarked with scattered minor stains. 78 pages with blank sections between the used pages. A nice..... More
Paris: H. Lebrun, 1840. Early Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes in quarter vellum, scattered foxing, old stamps to half title, small wormtrail in lower margin, repaired. Paper repair to the first text page in the second volume and title in the first. Attractively illustrated with in text and full page plates..... More
Paris: Chez C. Lamort, 1788. Second Edition. Full Calf. Full calf edge worn through to boards at corners but generally well preserved; two volumes bound in one. Rubbing to spine with some loss to leather at tail, but gilt title generally bright. 5 raised bands. Internally fine, fontis engraving of..... More
Augsburg: Joseph Wolf, 1764. Early Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary paper covered boards, worn at the edges, binding sound. Old ownership marks to the endpapers and a few stamps, scattered generally mild foxing. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 044324... More
New York: J.W. Bouton, 1884. Lalauze, Aldolphe. Cloth. In blue cloth with moderate general rubbing, spine faded and water spotted, moderate foxing throughout, but still a nice edition of Brillat-Savarin with the 52 illustrations by Lalauze. The Laulauze illustrations were first published in the 1879 French edition. Binding a bit..... More
Paris: L'Auteur, 1841. Third Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes rebound in marbled boards. Scattered mild foxing and toning, small stain to top edge of the beginning of volume 1. With 41 plates including the extra engraved title. xcii, 399pp; 443pp. Cagle 128, Oberle 189 (1841 3rd ed.), Simon 287, Bitting 74. Remarkable..... More
New York: Scribner, 1962. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Light rubbing and darkening to jacket edges and spine - a very attractive copy, unclipped. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 043635. More
Amsterdam: François Joly, 1757. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 2 volumes in contemporary sponged calf, hinges cracked but cords holding, spines a bit dry, worn at corners, quite clean internally. An early edition of the spurious epistolary novel first published in 1750. Without the portrait sometimes present in volume one..... More
1591. Hand colored engraving, modest foxing and soiling, paper thinned in upper margin from prior mounting, small tape marks. A famous plate depicting the cannibals Staden described in Brazil. In the foreground a butcher is working on a partially butchered body, a tribesman is dragged off to be bludgeoned, a...... More
Mexico: Miguel de Ribera Calderon, 1703. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary vellum stained but sound, dampstain to bottom right corner of first few pages, light discoloration in outer margin more or less throughout. 7 copies in OCLC. (4), 81 leaves. Palau II 88. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped..... More
Clermont en-Auvergne: Les Freres Lefranc, 1752. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary leather worn at corners and spine ends, hinges cracked spine worn dry and degraded, binding still sound. Attractive armorial crest on the front board still mostly intact. A few minor paper flaws, a few wormholes early on..... More
Naples: Antonio Bulifon, 1677. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Full contemporary vellum, worm holes to spine, some discoloration, but sound overall. Portrait frontis loose with old scribbles in the margins, mild foxing, scattered light dampstains in the outer margin, a bit heavier in a few spots, finger soiling in the margins..... More
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
Edinburgh: Peter Hill, 1804. Fourth Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary calf worn, neatly rebacked. Scattered minor foxing and staining, quite clean overall. (iv), 304pp with two plates at the front, one of trussing, the other a table setting. Cagle 691 Based on Susanna Maciver's Cookery and Pastry , which was..... More
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, 1857. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in cloth). Rebound recently in full red cloth; mild foxing and a few scattered stains. Puddings, painting, killing caterpillars; anagrams, butter, vapor baths. Something for everyone. BAL 6890. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine &..... More
Charles Scribner's Sons for The Garden Club of America, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). 2 volumes - volume two with staining and fading to the rear cover, but otherwise unmarked. Jackets lightly browned and chipped at edges with occasional foxing. Bright internally - a nice pair. Size: Folio. 2-volume..... More
Antwerp: Bellerum, 1562. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Old colored vellum, worn, lacking front endpaper, title browned and stained, mild browning and a few light stains, scattered marginalia in an early hand; generally clean. The second edition of the abridgment of Magnus's important history of the Northern people. [8], 192 leaves..... More
London: Peter Lillicrap, 1664. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Rebound in modern leather, trimmed slightly close in spots on the top, scattered minor browning. Lacking the list of medicines on the final leaf (facsimile laid in), last present page with a tear on the top right touching some letters but..... More
Paris: H.L. Guerin & L.F. Delatour, 1760. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary calf, worn, front cover detached but present, rear cracked but sound, headband frayed. Well worn at the corners and with an old bookplate from the Arnold Arboretum library (marked duplicate), small stain to the rear endpaper..... More
Madrid: Guilarro, 1895. Early Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Leather backed decorative cloth, light wear to edges and corners, modest general foxing and age toning to pages. A nice copy - first published a year earlier. 862, 110, xlvii, (1)pp. Illustrations throughout. Size: 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1..... More
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Publisher's green cloth, light wear at edges. The first US edition of the collected works, published the year prior in London. Old bookplate on decorative endpapers, slight foxing to title in vol. 2, protrait frontis in vol 1. This is the..... More
Omaha: The Buttonmaker Press, 1986. John De Pol. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine in red cloth, prospectus laid in. Number 103 of 150 signed by De Pol. Faint bump to bottom edge. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: John De Pol. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays;..... More
Madrid: Gonzalez, 1789. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Later leather backed cloth. Light dampstains to first and last few pages, otherwise very clean. First edition of this much reprinted manual. 183pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; Inventory No: 045517..... More
London: R. Baldwin, 1783. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Original leather backed boards, quite worn, hinges cracked, shaken, binding still more or less sound; scattered mostly modest foxing and browing. Originally the whole year, but lacking the first 16 pages of January. July was the switch-over to being called The..... More