Paris: Tavernier Fils, 1917. Hardcover (Vellum). Full decorative vellum, darkened with age. Number 127 of 550. 128pp plus colophon and index. An attractively printed edition of the burlesque poem from 1643 itself based on the famed 11th century poem Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum, espousing the health and dietary precepts of the world's... More
Puebla: Narciso Bassols, 1895. Fifth Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Contemporary in 1/4 leather over marbled boards, two volumes bound as one. Mild foxing and age toning, a few small stains, light wear internally. 447pp, 342pp. Not in Cagle, Bitting, Vicaire, etc La Cocinera Poblana takes a middle path between the nationalism... More
Paris: Auguste Vincent, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes in worn portfolio bindings of cloth backed marbled boards with ties. Cloth splitting on spines, light age toning, a few finger marks, light wear and a few tears to plate edges but mostly clean and inact. Text and 137 plates &... 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
Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Mackenzie and Dent, 1825. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full blindtooled black calf, light wear at the corners and spine ends; ca. 1825 (most editions undated on the title page). Old stamp to front blank and lacking the title page, frontis, final text page (on renting lodgings) and the... More
The Ballantyne Press, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. 2 volumes in original paper covered boards, 653 of 675 copies, 1889-1890. Modest wear to boards, scattered foxing, heavy in a few spots but mostly clean, page edges browned. Spines darkened and worn. Dragging the pudding: Getting the sack just before Christmas. To Broach the... More
Venice: Cesarem Arriuabenum Venetum, 1518. Hardcover (Vellum). [16], 143, [1] ff. (8vo) 14.2x9.5 cm. Full early vellum with minor repairs and wear to the spine, a bit of worming to blanks. An attractive early copy of Bonaventure writing on salvation. Saint Bonaventure was canonized in 1482, but not made a.... 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
Amsterdam: Chez Freres Chatelain Libraries, 1708. Attractively engraved map with historical detail on the royalty. Image size is 18" x 14". from Chatelain's Atlas Historique. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Prints, maps, broadsides; Inventory No: 044562. More
London: Kegan Paul, 1892. Hugh Thomson. Second Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Half green leather over marbled boards with elaborately gilt spine in compartments. With the bookplates of Chicago department store magnate Rodman Wanamaker and Canadian bibliophile Lawrence Lande. Light wear at corners, rubbing to hinges. 50 illustrations by Hugh Thomson... More
Bordeaux: P. Chaumas, 1853. Third Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Original quarter leather over pebbled cloth, light shelf wear, old bookseller stamp to half title, signed by the editor. 29 plates of chateaus of the region, 2 engraved half titles, 5 fold out tables at rear and 2 small maps and... More
London: J and R Tonson, 1767. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 2 volumes in full calf with gilt spine in compartments, red morocco spine label. Modest wear, spine slightly dry. An attractive pair - slight foxing, generally clean internally, one plate with a short tear. Illustrated with plates. Size: Octavo... 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
New York: Stage Magic Company, 1928. Fifth Edition. Softcover. The deluxe edition, two volumes in gold cloth covers. Inscribed by Hull to fellow magician George Corregan and dated 1933. Slight wear at edges. 92 pages, continuously paginated. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Magic... More
New York: Horace Liveright, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover. Chipping to jacket edges with a bit of loss along top and bottom edge and front fold, spine a bit darkened; still quite attractive. With a card signed "sincerely" by Jeffers laid in. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under... More
Northampton, MA: Gehenna, 1974. Leonard Baskin. First Edition. Hardcover. A few faints marks to boards, one corner bumped, otherwise fine in 1/4 vellum. One of 150 signed by Kunitz. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Leonard Baskin. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 043201. 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
London: Marshall's School of Cookery, 1902. Later Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Leather backed simulated leather, endpaper and frontis loose, light dampstain to corners of title and page edges, touching the corners again at the rear ads, final leaf a bit soiled; with 284 illustrations. 656pp with 38 pages of numbered... More
Paris: Comité de Salut Public, 1794. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Vellum). Later half vellum over decorative paper boards. 4 tables and 60 plates, mostly folding. Some browning and discoloration to the plate margins where they protrude from the book, scattered creasing to plates, but otherwise bright and unmarked. Monge, the... More
New York: The Overlook Press, 2017. First Edition. Hardcover. New book, may have slight shop wear. Available inscribed, please email with inscription. More
Antwerp: Plantiniana - Balthasar Moreti, 1622. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary overlapping vellum, wear at the corners and some soiling. Notes to endpapers in an early hand, scattered light foxing and browning, otherwise quite clean internally. An attractive copy of the works of the early Christian convert and poet. 896pp plus index... More
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London: E. Curll et al, 1720. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary paneled calf, wear at edges but quite attractive. Scattered foxing, a few light dampstains including early on in Cyder, mostly very clean internally. A nice copy of this group of John Philips titles including his famous Cyder. 1719 and 1720... More
Venice: Aldus & Andreas Torresano, 1519. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf, worn, paneled with a central Venetian device. Corners worn through, rubbing to hinges, old paper spine labels, lacking ties, but sound overall. Very light dampstain in top margin in latter sections, scattered very minor foxing, heavier to... More
Philadelphia: James & Johnson, 1791. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary leather, worn at the edges and hinges, a few surface scrapes, joints splitting put intact, some adhesions on rear cover. Mild browning and offsetting itnernally, small dampstain near the end. Evans 23729 Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1... More
Ambrosium & Hieronymum Drouart, 1604. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 5 volumes bound in 9 in contemporary calf. Worn at the edges and corners, spines a little dry, but intact and attractive overall. Volume 1 with a single title page (some copies were apparently bound with a second title page... More