1920. Hardcover. 6.5" x 4.5" in marbled notebook, 34 pages in more than one hand. Early 20th century, long detailed, professional seeming recipes for: aspic, fondant para los bombones de chocolate, pasta de almendra, foie gras, Size: 12mo . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine..... More
Antwerp: Architypographia Plantiniana, 1743. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary calf, rubbed with some surface marks, but sound and with clasps and catches intact. Attractively printed in red and black - quite clean internally; later pamphlet tipped in between page 328 and 329, a few pencil notes. Old manuscript note on..... More
Cooperstown: H. & E. Phinney, 1829. Early Edition. Softcover. Original plain wraps, worn, frontispiece of the proverb "Never too Old to Learn" on the verso of the front wrap is chipped with loss along top edge, and the top text of the final proverb on the inside of the rear..... More
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1998. Jane Freilicher. Hardcover (Original Cloth). A fine copy in a just about fine felt lined slipcase. Finely illustrated with watercolor woodblocks by Freilicher. Morocco label to cover and matching label to slipcase spine. Number 90 of 300. Prospectus laid in. Size: Folio. Illustrator..... More
Philadelphia: Anthony Finley, 1816. First Edition. Hardcover. The First American edition from the Second London. Original marbled boards respined in red morocco. 3 parts bound as one with 28 numbered plates and 4 additional "outline" plates. 108pp, 123pp, with 3 separate title pages and the second and third parts paginated..... More
London [Londini]: Guil. Bowyer, 1721. Early Edition. Full Leather. Bound in soft suede like leather which has split at the front and rear hinges. A few cords torn but boards still firmly attached and binding is tight and square. Some simple blind stamping to boards with little other decoration. Internally..... More
New York: Doubleday, 1977. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library with marks from tape removal on boards and endpapers; discard stamp and pocket on front endpapers; no other marks, no spine label; jacket has been re-covered and is lovely and unmarked. Inscribed by Butler on the title page. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is..... More
Venice: Vincentium Valgrisium et haeredes Baldassari Constantini, 1558. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). ca 18th century 1/4 vellum over marbled boards. Wear to edgs of first few pages with neat repairs to the corner of the title and 2 following leaves. Dampstain at rear with damage to the final leaf and..... More
Edinburgh: A. Donaldson, 1771. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary sheep, worn at corners, hinges cracked but held by cords, old repair to front inner hinge. Some age toning, lacking rear endpaper and final text page stained, generally clean and unmarked. Styled the 24th edition of this popular and much..... More
Venice: Lucio Spineda, 1605. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Early plain calf, worn, lacking spine label, endpapers refreshed and title adhered to added endpaper in the gutter with a small tear, bidning a touch shaken. Scattered minor foxing, toning and staining, final leaf with a tear in the blank margin..... More
Lyon / Grenoble: Claude Naulot; Faure et Fils, 1692. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Later leather backed boards, spine rubbed, hinges cracked. The Geometrie Pratique bound here last, is a quite rare book on surveying, but missing the final page (? - the text seems to end on 48 but other copies..... More
Paris: Joseph de Boffe, 1827. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). 3 volumes in 1/4 red calf over marbled boards, a few library marks to spines and titles, moderate general wear. 448pp 1 folding plate, 448pp 2 folding plates, 448pp 1 folding plate. Pouillet on electricity Kupffer on magnetism Berzelius on..... More
Mexico: A. V. Arroyo, 1909. Unbound. Chipping to bottom edge, pink paper. Size: ca. 8" x 11". Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Art & Design; Inventory No: 047027. More
Amsterdam: Abraham van Someren, 1698. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf, worn through at corners, hinges cracked, lacking lettering piece, but sound overall. Scattered minor foxing, tear to two pages in the intro with loss in the margin, a few of the inserted pages at 313 loose, notes to..... More
Paris: Pierre Prault, 1731. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 2 volumes in contemporary calf with a gilt coat of arms bookplate (Biblioth. de Livarost) stamped to both boards of each volume. Wear at corners, through to boards, hinges starting. Still an attractive pair. With engraved plates illustrating his life. 452pp..... More
Amsterdam: Michel Charles le Cene, 1720. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary calf, rubbed, one corner creased, but quite sound. Endpapers a little soiled, a few minor stains, but generally quite clean internally. One of three posthumous works by Madame de La Fayette, author of La Princess de Clèves..... More
London: J. Bell, 1793. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary tree calf with a later rebacking and new endpapers. Lettering piece chipped, scattered foxing, last few pages heavily browned and final page with a number of tape repairs; still about very good. xxiv, 342pp. Cagle 872, Bitting 554, Simon..... More
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Paris: Buisson, 1791. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 2 volumes bound in one in contemporary mottled calf; worn, leather chipped at the head of the spine, scattered mild foxing, small stain to first title. Complete with the half titles, reuniting the two parts of Paine's treatise on democracy and revolution..... More
London: Henry Frowde, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Wear to spine, but binding intact. With 26 illustrations of manuscripts and other plates. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Inventory No: 042369. More
Venice: Simone Occhi, 1743. First Edition. Softcover. Later marbled wraps, dampstain to upper corner of title and a couple pages of preliminaries - otherwise light scattered foxing.78p Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 046681. More
Paris: Librairie Académique Didier, 1900. Second Edition. Softcover. 3 volumes in original printed wraps - mild discoloration and wear to edges of wraps, slight browning, but clean internally. Undated ca. 1900 Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Inventory..... More
London: Secker & Warburg, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Light shelfwear, chipping to jacket edges with slight loss and one very small tear. Still a very attractive example. A bit of discoloration to edges of brown cloth. Stapledon remains a singular figure in early science-fiction, taking on sprawling, nebulous..... More
London: 1715. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary paneled calf, rubbed but sound, first few pages loose, title a bit stained with an old signature, rear endpaper worn and loose with old writing, some scattered foxing and some creasing and old stab holes (presumably from its brief life as an..... More
Boston: J. Draper, 1739. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary sheep, worn, hinges cracked, modest browning to pages, lacking 8 leaves (A2-5, K3-4, T3-4). Old ownership signature crossed out (but legible - Daniel Bell, 1769). 220pp but lacking leaves as above. Rare early American imprint, just two copies in OCLC, two others in..... More
Paris: Julliard, 1960. First Edition. Softcover. With an interview and a portrait of Wright. One of 30 copies on Marais, this number 27. Faint wear to edges, in original glassine wrapper. Uncut. Wright lived in Paris from 1946 until his death in late 1960 - he became a French citizen..... More