Venice: Leonardus Wild, for Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1478. Single 10 1/4" x 7 1/2" leaf printed in two columns with blue initial letters. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Incunabula; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045001. More
Hardcover (Full Leather). Modern full calf, light occasional wear, soiling, chips to page edges, generally at beginning and rear, a few pages rumpled at rear, scattered minor dampstains, a few old underlinings - generally very clean and an attractively printed, wide margined work. Adams A960. (2), 325, (71)pp. Errata and... More
Venice: Nicolo Pezzana, 1669. Later Edition. Hardcover (Vellum & Cloth). Contemporary vellum, some exterior worming, loss to spine, old library marks, front blank torn, small worm hole to final page and endpaper, slight age toning, foxing, but otherwise fine internally. Attractive extra engraved title(16), 676, (28)pp First published in 1659 -... More
New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2008. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine in a fine, unclipped jacket. Signed by Wimmer on the title page. A lovely copy of Bolano's sprawling , posthumous magnum opus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category... More
London: W.H. for Abel Roper, 1650. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full calf rebacked and cornered, worn at the edges and much used but sound. A later edition of Cotgraves Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (1611), the first, though, with Howell's additions. Both the inclination to put such... More
Hierat. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary rolled pigskin over wooden boards, worn, reamins of clasps, one intect, front hinge cracked inside and out, scattered worming to binding and a few worm holes through the text block touching letters, heavier worming at beginning and end, endpapers a little loose, a.... More
Lyon: Jean Certe, 1712. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 2 volumes in contemporary sheep, spines gilt in compartments. Mild edgewear, hinges slightly worn and just starting on volume one, but quite sound overall. Old note to title, slight scattered foxing - very clean overall with 11 folding maps. (12), 336pp;... More
London: J. Brind, 1733. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary sheep recently rebacked. Title slight soiled with a few creases, a few minor spots of browning and staining, tear with loss of a bit of text to 67/8 and 69/70 and bottom corner torn of 69/70 and 71/72; lacking final... More
Paris: la Veuve Desaint, Libraire, 1783. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). The first French edition of Ferguson's influential work on civil society. A friend of Hume, Adam Smith and Voltaire, and a major figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, Ferguson published Essay on the History of Civil Society in 1767. It... More
Cambridge: W. Heffer, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Original richly gilt cloth. A lovely scholarly edition of an undated (but ca. 1572 and not after 1575) cookbook in the library of Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. Slightly over opened at the break between the preface and the cookbook proper... More
London: Paul & Isaac Vaillant, 1738. Hardcover (Full Leather). 3 volumes in contemporary calf, gilt. Hinges a bit rubbed, wear at corners, ding to one spot on the spine of volume 1, leather repair to one corner - an attractive set overall. Title pages in red and black, scattered light... More
London: John Hatchard, 1818. Second Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Rebacked in calf over original marbled boards. Scattered foxing , heavier to endpapers, otherwise a clean, bright copy. With the marketing table as frontis and the Anacreontic Song at the rear. lvii, 58-592, 8pp. Cagle 798, Bitting 262. Famous for his... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). The first trade edition. Fading to the rear board, apparently from damp, but with no other damage. Clean and bright otherwise illustrated with tipped in plates, in text illustration and 4 maps. Light wear and a few short tears and very... More
London: Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, 1809. R. Smirke. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Four volumes in reverse calf, neatly rebacked early on, gilt ruled spines, modest edge wear, heavier at the corners, scattered surface marks. Illustrated with 24 plates after Smirke. Scattered foxing, heavier to the plates, esp. in... 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
Munich: Kurt Wolff, 1922. First Edition. Hardcover. 327 of 800 copies, half green morocco, front hinge cracked but joint intact. Light rubbing to spine, endpapers browned. Fine and bright internally. The first edition of one of Masereels early novels without pictures - a huge influence on later artists like Lynd... More
London: Baldwin Cradock, 1830. Hardcover (Half Leather). Half black leather over cloth, wear at edges and hinges, scattered foxing, heavy to a few text pages, 24 plates with 96 images generally bright and clean. Undated ca. 1820s-30s. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Gardening; Inventory No: 046683. More
New York: The Overlook Press, 2017. Hardcover. Remainder dot to bottom edge. Available inscribed, please email with inscription. Size: Octavo (8vo). Multiple copies available this title. Quantity Available: 2. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; History. Signed by Author. ISBN: 1468314416. ISBN/EAN: 9781468314410. Inventory No: 046367. More
Amsterdam: J.B. Elwe, 1798. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Early Dutch edition of Pallas's work on Corals first published in 1767 (and first published in Dutch as Lyst der plant-dieren, 1768. This appears to be an exact republication) It details the discoveries that he made in the Dutch Museum, including several new... More
Florence: Michele Nestenus e Francesco Moucke, 1729. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary vellum, slight wear and soiling - faint scattered foxing - a lovely copy. 47pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 046680. More
Cambridge: E.W. Metcalf, 1831. First Edition. Hardcover. Original paper covered boards, worn, spine strip weak, corners bumped. Slightly foxed. Occasional pencil marks. viii, 224. Sabin 30730 Phillips, Maps of America in the LOC 45. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 038390. More
London: George Routledge, 1886. Maurice Leloir. First Edition. Hardcover. 1/4 vellum with original wraps bound in but a little chipped, some surface marks to boards, worn at the corners. Browning to page edges, otherwise clean and bright with vignette illustrations on nearly every page as well as full page plates... More
Amsterdam: J. Louis de Lorme, 1695. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary calf, worn at the spine ends but sound. First signature loose and with a light dampstain to one corner, scattered light foxing and occasional light dampstain in the right margin, but mostly clean internally. The first French... More
Louvain: Zegers, 1643. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Early acid calf neatly rebacked with original spine laid down, mild wear at edges, spine a bit dry, scattered minor age toning and foxing, a few notes in an early hand on preliminaries and title - a very good, sound copy of... More
Wien: 1856. Second Edition. Softcover. Second edition with new material by the author and photographer, first published the year before. Original wraps worn adn torn, bottom right corner missing, mostly minor foxing otherwise, generally clean internally. 68pp. Heidtmann (Bib of Phot) 03485 Scarce, just one copy of the first edition and... More