London: Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1826. Thurston, Thompson. Hardcover (Half Leather). Undated ca. 1826. Half leather over marbled boards, leather worn at corners, hinges cracked, but binding intact. Scattered foxing, tissue guards largely intact. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Thurston, Thompson. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre..... More
Paris: Fredericum Leonard, 1659. Second Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Contemporary calf backed boards, wear at edges, spine ends, hinges splitting but binding sound. Very minor foxing, a few tiny water stains at corners, otherwise an extremely fresh copy with engraved illustrations, maps and plans, throughout, often full page, and a...... More
Paris: Legras, et Cordier, 1802. Fourth Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 3 volumes in contemporary acid calf with attractively gilt spines, wear at corners and a bit of loss at spines ends. Marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece in each volume. 198pp, 198pp, 220pp. Size: duodecimo (12mo). 3-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1..... More
Reggio Emilia: Dionysius Bertochus, 1496. Fourth Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Later but old full vellum, penned title to spine, 272 leaves, 3 wormholes through text and others in the margin, touching letters all the way through but not affecting sense, generally. Widening out for around 20 leaves in the..... More
Naples: Fratelli Raimondi, 1774. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary parchment, stained, two light circular marks to cover, spine torn but binding sound. Scattered mostly minor foxing and staining internally. Lettera Sopra La Riforma... is separately paginated with a half title. xxxii, 230, (2), 14pp. Originally written in 1743/44 and circulated..... More
1591. Hand colored engraving, light foxing and soiling, paper thinned in upper margin from prior mounting. It reads (translation from Discovering the New World, Based on the Works of Theodore de Bry, Harper & Row, 1976): As can be seen from the preceding illustrations, this area abounds with very agreeable little..... More
1952. Softcover. Typescript in plain boards of an apparently unpublished work inscribed by Deckman. Little enough philosophy here, generally confined to the pages introducing different sections of recipes. 94 leaves printed one page per side, recipes on most pages. A collection of mostly mid century modern middle American type recipes..... More
Paris: Gallimard, 1937. First Edition. Softcover. Faint shelfwear - fine, bright copy, largely uncut. Number 136 of 142 copies on Holland. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: 044681. More
Saint-Malo: 1764. First Edition. Hardcover. In contemporary plain boards, worn but sound. Old signature to front endpaper, small marginal repair to first numbered text leaf, scattered light browning. xvi, 286, (1)pp. More a novel than travel book, Fleuriot uses the frame of a travel memoir to attack the old institutions of..... More
Amsterdam: Ioh. Ianssomium, 1651. Later Edition. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Full contemporary sheep, worn at the corners, hinges cracked but binding holding; a few marginal pencil marks, light foxing, small wormtrail in the gutter of the rear half of the book. 303pp with the extra engraved title. A collection of Facetiae -..... More
Paris: L'Arbalète, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Number 370 of 475 in beige cloth on Rives - light wear, faint soiling to boards - internally bright and largely uncut. The first edition of one of Genet's central works - along with Thief's Journal and the great short film Un..... More
Hague & Rotterdam: Arnoldum, Regnerum Leers, 1683. Hardcover (Full Leather). Collection of satires including all 16 of Juvenalis's known satyrical poems with a life of each of the poets: 199pp. A later, probably 19th century, rebinding in an ornate, antique style. 5 raised bands on the spine, elaborate tooling of..... More
Barcelona: Typ. Sierra ac Marti, 1820. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary tree calf, spine gilt, scattered foxing internally. An attractive little edition with a few small woodcuts in the text. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; Inventory No: 045593. More
Leiden: Johan. Arnold Langerak et Johan. & Herm. Verbeek, 1728. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full calf worn heavily at edges and corners, hinges cracked, spine dried, all six cords still holding. Title page in red and black loose but present. Scattered foxing heavier in places, one engraved plate. A...... 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;..... More
Philadelphia: Robert Bell, 1783. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Volumes One and Two of the first American edition, first published in London in 1779. Later half leather worn, rear hinge split, text block loose from spine, modest foxing, mostly clean. With the extra title page from the serial edition not..... More
Lubeck: Petri Buckmanni, 1714. Third Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Full contemporary vellum a bit soiled but quite sound; all parts bound in one volume. Scattered foxing and browning, heavier to endpapers, but generally quite clean internally. With a frontis of Morhof. (vi),1072, 604pp, and a separate index for each book. An astounding..... More
Mexico: Murguia, 1917. Third Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Black cloth with leather corners, modest wear, corners worn. Clean internally with a few illustrations including two photos of the author. 247pp. Not in Cagle, Bitting, etc. Pardo was a graduate of Parisian and Madrid cooking schools and collects his finest mostly European..... More
Venice: Domenico Lovisa, 1712. Later Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary full vellum, light wear, a few light marks and stains. Title and a few other pages with degradation on the bottom edge and corners, not touching any text, old signature to title. Lacking the final text leaf (I6) but otherwise complete..... More
London: Badger, 1640. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf, rebacked, rubbed at edges. Minor repair to inner margin of title and following page. Modest age toning, foxing, light dampstains, and minor discoloration; a good copy overall. Rare version of the Psalms in Latin and Anglo-Saxon. Unpaginated. Size: Octavo (8vo)..... More
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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
Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Original brown cloth, wear at corners and spine ends with some loss of cloth, slightly shaken, rear joint starting, scattered minor foxing, but mostly clean. First state as per BAL 3337 and McBride, ad on last page (not necessarily a...... More
Paris (i,e. Amsterdam): 1755. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Respined in 1/4 calf in an antique style over original marbled boards. One of six editions of Voltaire's famously bawdy mock epic surreptitiously published in 1755. The first were reputedly the Louvain (actually Frankfurt) editions, but they are all scarce. It..... More
Ratisbonae & Viennae: Baderi, 1756. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full tooled pig over wooden boards worn and rubbed but intact, old paper label adhered to spine, with both clasps intact but only one of the nails. Old notes to pastedown and rear endpapers, staining to title, lacking front blank, scattered ink..... More
London: For the Proprietors, 1763. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full Contemporary polished calf, corners and spine ends a little bumped, joints splitting but binding still intact. Lacking the front endpaper, otherwise complete. Scattered foxing and browning. A book with substantial importance to 18th century colonial trade - as evidenced..... More