Barcelona: 1846. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary tree calf, wear at corners, rubbing to spine, small paint droplet on rear cover. Quite attractive, generally. (iii)-viii, 466 (467) (375 repeated), lithographed throughout. A remarkable history of Spanish paleography with 5 folding plates (one hand colored) outside of the pagination..... More

Cologne: Maternum Cholinum, 1560. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary full calf, varnished, hinges cracked, lacking ties; still a nice example of an early calf binding with gilt insets, edges gilt. Endpapers loose, old note to free endpapre, modest foxing and wear; sound and good overall. 705pp Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available..... More

Paris: Claude Chevallon, 1534. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary vellum, age toned, stain to rear cover, rippled, lacking ties, but quite sound. Second edition after the 1524 first, and first Paris edition. Small stain or burn mark to leading edge, scattered very minor foxing and staining to pages, quite clean..... More

Paris: De L'Imprimerie Royale, 1679. Willem Swidde. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary full mottled calf, gilt with armorial stamp to both boards. Dry and cracked, hinges weak but holding. Tide mark to bottom corner of the volume, heavy at the beginning, largely effecting the text, but lightly to the plates..... More

Basil: Froben, 1539. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary full vellum, some worming at edges, small tear to vellum at head of spine, rear hinge split and held by cords, front hinge just starting. Title stained with an old paper repair to bottom right, dampstain to bottom right corner through first..... More

Paris & Lausanne: Michel de Vascosan & François le Preux, 1575. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Early French editions of Plutarch's Morals and Lives published in 1575 and 1574-5 respectively (originally published in 1572 and 1559). Uniformly bound in early (17th/18th century) acid calf, modest wear, surface scrapes, one corner..... More

Amsterdam: Henri Bordesius, 1711. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 6 books bound in three volumes, leather backed boards. Spines and spine labels rubbed but bindings sound. Scattered foxing but generally clean and unmarked. With an extra engraved title, portrait, 3 folding plates and a folding map - light wear to..... More

Philadelphia: E.H. Butler & Co., 1851. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Later edition, modern quarter black calf over marbled boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Interior occasionally toned but overall clean and unmarked. 180pp plus 10 pages of advertisements (browned), Lowenstein 531, Bitting 388.Later edition of one of the most influential American cook..... More

Mexico: Por los herederos de la viuda de Francisco Rodriguez Lupercio, 1728. First Edition. Softcover. Disbound pamphlet, title and final page a bit soiled, scattered worming touching many letters but not affecting any sense. Trimmed a little close on the bottom edge. (16), 20pp.Scarce pamphlet, 4 copies in OCLC, finely..... More

West Roxbury MA: Brook Farm Press, 1845. Newspaper. 7 individual issues of the Brook Farm newspaper, issued weekly. Browning, occasional light dampstains, many pages splitting at the folds, chipping and wear and a few small tears to the edges of a few of the issues, scattered foxing, tear to the..... More

Antwerp: Plantiniana, 1606. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Modern quarter leather over marbled boards, light wear to spine; internally browned, page edges chipped and rounded at beginning and end. old notes and bookplate to endpapers; very good otherwise. 206, (1)pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1..... More

London: J.M. for Thomas Dring and John Starkey, 1666. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). A translation of Rochefort's Histoire naturelle et morale des iles Antilles de l’Amerique. Small folio rebound in recent 1/4 leather over green cloth. Browned with a persistent dampstain throughout and occasional light staining from mold..... More

Parma: Co' Tipi Bodoniani, 1798. Hardcover. Marbled calf with gilt border and page edges. Hinge is cracked at top edge, front hinge loose, small tear on spine, edges worn. Marbled end papers, front loose end paper partially detached. Two bookplates: ex libris a.r.s. & Peter A. Wick, inscription on page..... More