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 about Sefer Bereshit min Chamisha Chumshai Torah im Haftorot kol hashana k'minchag kol kehillot...

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 about Manual for Army Cooks

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 about Historiarum. Punica, Parthica, Iberica, Syriaca, Mithridatica, Annibalica, Celticae &...

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 about Orlando Furioso di M. Ludovico Ariosto Diviso in Due Parti

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; 228ppMost famous for her fairy tales, Aulnoy's narrative of her... More about Relation du Voyage D'Espagne

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 about Les Contes Drolatiques

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 about The Dictionary Historical and Critical of Mr. Peter Bayle

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 about Histoire Naturelle des Abeilles; Avec Des Figures en Taille-Douce

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 about Les Premiers Essays des Proverbes

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 about Les oeuvres poétiques de Rémy Belleau Tome Second: Les Odes D'Anacreon Teien Poete Grec,...

Oxford: Theatro Sheldoniano, 1701. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary paneled calf, neatly rebacked, corners worn, scattered mostly minor foxing and browning - an attractive copy - with the attractive frontispiece of scholars at work in the Bodleian. Unpaginated. An abridgment of William Somner's 1659 work, "Dictionarium saxonico-latino-anglicum". Size: Quarto... More about Vocabularium Anglo-Saxonicum

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 about Emblesmes Sacrez, Tirez de L'escriture Sainte, et des Peres

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 about Ave Maria: Paraiso de Oraciones Sagradas