Livorno: Shlomo Vilforti (Salomone Belforte), 1838. Hardcover (Full Leather). The five volumes of the Pentateuch in contemporary full leather bindings, modest wear at the edges, light fading, endpapers stained at edges, scattered minor foxing and browning, a few dog ears and temoins; an attractive and sound set. An early Pentateuch... More
New York: E. Hutchinson, 1852. Early Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Bound in original brown cloth with gilt decoration on front and spine. Cloth is cracked and worn and split at the hinges. Interior has significant foxing and browning. Scattered pencil marks in margins. Previous owner's name. Early edition published two... More
Washington: Washington Government Printing Office, 1916. Hardcover. Prepared by the War Department, Document number 564. Spine is worn at edges. 270pp. Bitting 575 (1910 edition). This edition is expanded. Contains fold out tables for keeping track of rations used and men fed, illustrated with plans for building various field stoves... More
Paris: N. Wolff, 1510. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf over wooden boards, neatly rebacked and restored, 2 stamped figures on the front board, one on rear (the other obscured by a repair), clasps intact. Wormtrack early on touching a few letters, worm hole to rear blanks, light browning... More
Geneva: Henri Stephanus (Estienne), 1592. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Two volumes in one, the Arrianus bound first and published in 1575. The second, but first complete edition of Arrianus, Estienne published the first in 1551 before the Iberica and Hannibalica sections had been found, and added 72 pages of... More
Seville: Fernando Diaz, 1588. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Later tree calf, worn, front hinge split, rear starting, front endpaper torn at the top corner as is the title with an old repair and manuscript UZIA in the title to replace the missing letters. A few paper repairs in the... More
Lyon: Guglielmo Rouillio, 1556. Early Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary overlapping vellum, darkened, spine perished, binding a little loose, light wear to last few pages, early underlining in a few discrete spots, light scattered foxing, otherwise clean internally. A charming little edition with woodcuts throughout. Rare. Adams 1667, Graesse A198. Size... More
1893. First Edition. 3/4 Leather. A pre-publication unrevised copy of Edwin Arnold's work inscribed and signed by him to Augustine Daly, a contemporary of his and playwright of "Under the Gas Light" and "Woffington" which helped him achieve fame in his time, though ultimately, more famous as a bibliphile and... More
The Hague: Henri van Bulderen, 1692. Second Edition. Hardcover. Early speckled boards with a letter spine label, light wear at edges. First title stained, otherwise very clean and bright in three parts, each with a separate title page. 186pp; 178pp; 228pp Most famous for her fairy tales, Aulnoy's narrative of her... More
Philadelphia: Charles Cist, 1793. Second Edition. Full Calf. The first part only of this grammar bound in full calf with some chipping and worming along spine and some heavy wear and bumping to corners. Internally there is some light soiling in places but otherwise text block is clean and binding... More
Paris: Editions Jules Tallandier, 1923. A. Robida. Hardcover (Vellum). In a Chivers style binding of full painted vellum with ties and added paste paper endpapers, with an elaborate scene on the front cover, and decorative leather hinges laid on. Undated ca. 1923 - with full page and vignette illustrations by... More
Paris: Louis Conard, 1912. Later Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). 37 volumes in half brown morocco over marbled boards, original wrappers bound in. A few spines worn, light occasional foxing, a lovely set. Published 1912-1932. Size: Octavo (8vo). 37-volume set (complete). Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped... More
London: Knapton et al, 1734. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Five volumes in contemporary calf, worn, a few boards detached and the rest having been crudely reattached at some point, surface scrapes. Quite clean internally with light scattered foxing. Finely printed with headpieces and wide margins. Portrait in volume one... More
London: Longman et al, 1816. Hardcover (Full Leather). Tall octavo in full purple straight grained morocco, mild wear at corners, spine darkened; a very attractive binding. With an finely executed fore edge painting of San Francisco Bay (as identified on an endpaper) at sunset. Probably copied from an engraving, the... More
Paris: Les Freres Guerin, 1744. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). 2 volumes bound in one in contemporary 1/4 calf, worn with a split to the spine leather and lacking the lettering piece, but intact and still an attractive period binding, now housed in a custom cloth clamshell box. Old notes... More
Paris: L'Edition D'Art, 1922. Robert Engels. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full red gilt morocco over original wraps; added silk endpapers. Light rubbing to joints, spine slightly darkened, but a lovely binding. One of 650. Color illustrations by Engels originally prepared for the 1900 edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Illustrator: Robert... More
The Hague: Adrian Vlac, 1653. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Later full morocco with inset crest, front board cleanly detached, rear hinges rubbed, bookplates of de Guinzourg and William Stirling and one other. Rare first edition of Bellingen's book of Proverbs later expanded in 1656. (16), 133, (2)pp. Brunet I.... 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
Rouen: Jean Berthelin, 1604. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 19th century quarter blue morocco over marbled boards. Scattered minor stains, corner of one leaf torn with no loss of text, a number old marginal paper repairs mostly patching small wormholes. The second volume of Belleau's works, containing his translation of Anacreon's... More
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Venice: Gabrielem Hertz, 1732. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary vellum, light wear and soiling, small tear to spine; modest foxing though most of volume, otherwise clean, With 7 full page plates within the pagination and a frontis portrait of the author. Styled the second Venetian edition, the first was 1708... More
Valencia: HJoseph Thomas Lucas, 1753. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Full contemporary vellum, discolored, remains of ties, title penned to spine Scattered minor foxing and stains - sound and clean overall. 200pp Scarce work by the Spanish jurist - all editions (first was 1738) are uncommon. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1... More
Paris: Estienne Loyson, 1665. Second Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Rebound in full modern calf, inner joint cracked, scattered minor foxing, a few small paper repairs at edges, scattered light stains, trimmed close in spots hitting the running title, overall a very attractive biblical emblem book. 2 parts in 1... More
Paris: Pierre-Laurent, 1760. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full calf, worn at edges with what appears to be a burn hole on the front board - still tight and intact. Endpaper torn, foxing to early pages, otherwise clean. A biography of the famed early Renaissance knight "without fear and beyond... More
Barcelona: Joseph Giralt, 1739. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary vellum rebacked, repair to title page in the gutter. Title, (30), 720, (48), blank. Front blank not present. Scattered browning, small occasional dampstains, mostly in the margins, small stamp to first page. Ma text in two columns. Housed in an attractive 1/4 leather... More
San Francisco: John H. Carmany & Co., 1871. First Edition. Paper Wraps. January - June, 1871 (Issues 1-4, 6) of The Overland Monthly. Light wear to wraps. corners bent and a few short tears to edges of issue 2. Rear of issue 6 detached but present. The Grizzly Papers are... More