Birmingham: John Baskerville, 1774. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Rebound in full brown calf in an antique style. A few surface marks darkening the leather on the cover, otherwise fine. Slight scattered foxing and browning, generally quite clean; with the attractive frontis. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Text is clean and unmarked..... More
Paris: Antoine de Sommaville, 1649. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary calf, elaborately gilt spine. Corners bumped and rounded, hinges rubbed, wear at spine ends, inner joint cracked, occasional damp stains, mostly mild, scattered foxing. Small library label on the front board and an old bookplate inside the front..... More
Geneva: Samuel de Tournes, 1680. Second Edition. Softcover. Old thick paper covers, light wear. The second collected edition in Latin following the first of 1677 with 7 additional works also published by de Tournes, dated 1685-95. Old ownership signature and mark from removed bookplate to front pastedown, scattered foxing, dampstains..... More
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Paris: Piget, 1739. Hardcover (Full Leather). 7 volumes bound in 4 in contemporary sponged calf. Joints a bit rubbed, wear at edges, old stamps on titles, occasional minor foxing and browning, a few tremoins, but very good overall and a nice group. Table des memoires, 1739, (8), 461, (1), lxxvi..... More
Amsterdam: Johannes Oosterwyk, 1713. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Full contemporary vellum, light soiling and bowing. Extra engraved title, title page vignette, in text illustrations and 11 full page engravings of scenes and coins. Brouerius was an antiquarian and legal scholar. The added plates are browned, but intact. (14), 348pp. Size..... More
London: W. Phorson, 1791. Full Calf. Leather shows some bumping and chipping along the edges of the boards, as well as the hinges of the spine. Boards and hinges are tight. Just some simple gilt lines to spine with a red leather title plate. Text block is clean and bright;..... More
New York: S.W. Benedict, 1851. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). First Spanish edition of the California constitutional convention of 1849. Full contemporary calf, hinges slightly cracked, a few surface scars to leather but generally attractive. Foxing to endpapers and slight scattered foxing and browning to the text. 436pp, XIII pp..... More
London: Rob. Gosling, 1716. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary paneled calf, front board detached but present, rear cracked. Loss to spine ends, lettering piece largely missing, old seminary library spine label and title stamp. 592pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean..... More
London [Londini]: Guil. Bowyer, 1721. Early Edition. Full Leather. Bound in soft suede like leather which has split at the front and rear hinges. A few cords torn but boards still firmly attached and binding is tight and square. Some simple blind stamping to boards with little other decoration. Internally..... More
Paris: Chez L'Auteur at Didot, Barrois, Belin, 1783. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Early leather backed marbled boards , light wear and rubbing, title page spotted with tiny hole in the upper right - light dampstains in the upper margin of a few plates, but generally very fresh and bright..... More
Weimar: Landes-Industrie-Comptoirs, 1823. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). 2 volumes in 19th century half calf over marbled boards - old seminary library spine label and stamp to titles, otherwise unmarked. Joints splitting but held by cords - bindings generally sound. Mild foxing, including to the 7 folding maps, plans, and..... More
London: Ric. Chiswell, 1696. Second Edition. Hardcover (rebound in cloth). In green library cloth with a spine label and bookplate but no other library marks. Frontis chipped at the edges, a few pencil marks, otherwise quite clean. 197pp with 3 1/2 pages of ads. Mary II became Queen following the..... More
Venice: Giovanni Fiorina, 1592. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Early vellum, worn and stained. Lacking first blank and A1 (the first text page but otherwise complete). [4 leaves], 52 (of 53) leaves, 4pp table, 2 blank leaves. Rear blanks are worn. Light dampstains throughout, heavier in spots, but not obscuring any..... More
Paris: Crapart, Caille et Ravier, 1803. Second Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). 1/4 modern leather over period marbled boards. Degré takes up the first 162 pages, the rest is miscellaneous writings on various subjects (hospitals, Mirabeau, the guillotine etc.). Attractively respined. 537pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Scattered..... More
Milan: Garzanti, 1984. First Edition. Softcover. Slight wear and foxing to original thick wraps. First edition of Calvino's late collection of meditations on the bizazrre, the disquieting, and the fantastic - inscribed to author, journalist and psychoanalyst Contardo Calligaris and dated 30.10.84. Touching on the Codex Seraphinianus, Roland Barthes, and..... More
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Frankfurt: Johannis Ammony, 1654. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Rebound in half modern calf over marbled boards. Generally modest foxing throughout, heavier in spots, a few minor paper repairs in the outer margin, but otherwise clean and unmarked and with good margins. 4 parts in 1: (6), 6pp, 5-102 leaves;..... More
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London: Bernard Quaritch, 1880. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). 1880, 1881, 1884. 6 volumes in green cloth, the first two volumes are the second issue, uniform in size with the others. Bookplates and bookseller tickets on front pastedowns, volumes 3 and 4 (Camoens: His Life and His Lusiads) more heavily..... More
Paris: Legras, et Cordier, 1802. Fourth Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 3 volumes in contemporary acid calf with attractively gilt spines, wear at corners and a bit of loss at spines ends. Marbled endpapers, engraved frontispiece in each volume. 198pp, 198pp, 220pp. Size: duodecimo (12mo). 3-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1..... More
Madrid: Imprenta Real de la Gaceta, 1765. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Full contemporary vellum worn and browned with unattractive but effective repairs in white leather to the spine and one corner, external cords replaced, inner hinges strengthened, old catalog entries pasted to endpapers, small spot of biopredation to the lower..... More
Venice: Vincentium Valgrisium et haeredes Baldassari Constantini, 1558. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). ca 18th century 1/4 vellum over marbled boards. Wear to edgs of first few pages with neat repairs to the corner of the title and 2 following leaves. Dampstain at rear with damage to the final leaf and..... More
Frankfurt and Leipzig: Officina Gleditschiana, 1748. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Full contemporary vellum with a leather spine, slightly cracked and dry, and red morocco lettering piece, old seminary library label to spine and bookplate. Attractively marbled endpapers added, frontis portrait of Carpzov laid down (apparently on an original endpaper) with..... More
London: The Authors, 1774. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). 2 volumes in contemporary half calf rubbed and worn at corners, hinges cracked but bindings intact. Tear to the corner of the title page, scattered foxing and offsetting but generally quite clean. Old ownership marks, a few marginal notes in an..... More
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Rome: Jacobi Mascardi, 1625. First Edition. Hardcover. [12], 101, [6]pp. Engraved title-page and illustrations, 22 full page; light staining in the margins of many leaves, variable foxing, heavy browning to two text leaves at rear. Modern paper boards; hinges cracking, spine covering torn at foot of spine, corners worn. First..... More
New London: Ebenezer P. Cady, 1807. Soft Cover. In tattered original wraps, a few creased pages, occasional staining and age toning, but generally VG internally and complete save for last page (136pp of, apparently, 137). An interesting and early CT almanac. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Quantity..... More
Utrecht: Rudolph Zyll, 1680. Hardcover (Vellum). Full contemporary vellum, slight soiling, old label at base of spine, an attractive binding. Loss to the first few page edges, scattered foxing, otherwise fine internally. A nice copy of this collection of Latin poetry with Scaliger's commentary. Extra engraved title, (xxii), 638 (2)..... More