Antwerp: Typographia Plantiniana (Plantin Press), 1718. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf, wear at corners, spine a little dry with wear at the ends, clasps intact - quite attractive overall. Printed in red and black, scattered light browning internally. A nice copy. (72), 616, ccxliv, (4)pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available... More
Amsterdam: S. de Grebber, 1838. Later Edition. Softcover. Original paper wraps, worn, covers detached, spine degraded. Internally very good with slight foxing, generally quite bright. Attractive frontispiece of a kitchen scene, a few notes in margins. The two plates illustrating carving are torn but complete. A later edition of one... More
Zutphen: W.C. Wansleven, 1800. Softcover. An unusually well preserved copy of this early Dutch ABC book. Undated, ca. early to mid 19th century. Printed on heavy paper, folded, with a red rooster on the verso of the title page and a woodcut of a classroom scene on the title. 16... 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
![Regla del bienaventurados Augustin, que nuestro padre s. Domingo escogio para sus frayles, y sorores [Dominican Rules]. anon.](/pictures/thumb/044603.jpg?v=1450374135)
1612. Hardcover (Vellum). Full contemporary vellum well worn, remains of ties, old decorative elements rubbed and obscured. Scattered wormholes, browning, especially from a few old tape repairs, a few more recent paper repairs in the margins, light dampstain affecting the upper part of most of the work, short tears, three... More
![Sefer Bereshit min Chamisha Chumshai Torah im Haftorot kol hashana k'minchag kol kehillot hakodesh etc. [Hebrew Pentateuch]. anon.](/pictures/thumb/046066.jpg?v=1461646016)
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
![Historiarum. Punica, Parthica, Iberica, Syriaca, Mithridatica, Annibalica, Celticae & Illyricae fragmenta quaedam. Item, De bellis civilibius libri V [with] De Expeditione Alexandri Magni. Historiarum Libri VIII. Appianus, Arrianus.](/pictures/thumb/046070.jpg?v=1461898069)
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
Antwerp: Henricum Aertsens, 1662. Later Edition. Hardcover. Wide format small octavo in old leather backed boards. A bit of browning and chipping to page edges, scattered minor foxing and stains, old signature to last leaf, quite clean overall. Barlement's dictionaries and conversation guides were widely printed with increasing numbers of... 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
![The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use of the Church oi England...[Fore Edge Painting of San Francisco Bay]. Sir John Bayley, notes.](/pictures/thumb/044335.jpg?v=1450374086)
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