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 about Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads) [with] Camoens: His Life and His Lusiads [with] The Lyricks. 6 volumes

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 about Tratado de la Regalia de Amortizacion

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 about Apparatus Historico Criticus Antiquitatum Sacri Codicis et Gentis Hebraeae. Uberrimis...

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 about Exactissima Descriptio Rariorum Quadrundam Plantarum, Qu[a]e continentur Rom[a]e in Horto Farnesiano

Lutetiae (Paris): Rob. Stephani (Robert Estienne), 1577. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Later but early calf, worn at the corners, front board detached, rear hinge cracked but sound. A few marginal notes in an early hand, scattered minor stains, front blank a little loose - mostly quite clean. The first... More about Catulli, Tibulli, Properti. Nova Editio [bound with] Castigationes in Catullum, Tibullum, Propertium

London: Thomas Basset, 1662. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full early sheep, worn and chipped, rebacked. Endpapers browned and chipped, chipping to egdes of portrait frontis, generally clean and sound otherwise. Rare. (10), 120pp. Reformed minister who preached against King killing (in the included sermon) and was imprisoned briefly. He... More about The Life and Death of that Holy and Reverend Man of God Mr. Thomas Cawton...To Which is Annexed a...

Liege: J.F. Bassompierre, 1776. Charles Coypel; Bernard Picart, et al. Hardcover. Original plain boards, worn at edges, neatly rebacked in period style, old signatures to title from the de Bellefoids, endpapers a little soiled. Light browning to deckle edges, scattered minor foxing and creasing, opened poorly in a few spots... More about Les Principales Aventures de l'Admirable Don Quichotte

Amsterdam: Chatelain, Zacharias, 1708. Disbound. ca. 1708 from the Atlas Historique an anonymous work which until recently was usually attibuted to Henri Chatelain but now tends to be attributed to the publisher, Zacharias Chatelain. Plate measures 25x19 and includes a map of England surrounded by tables with an inset of... More about Nouveau Carte De L'angleterre Dans Laqu'elle L'on Observe Les Comtez Les Archives Chez Les...

Paris: Guillyn, 1762. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary mottled calf, worn at corners, spine dry and rubbed, lettering piece fragmentary, neatly rebacked some time ago. Marbled endpapers, signature to title. Light scattered foxing, otherwise unmarked internally with marginal illustrations throughout and six folding plates, browned at the edges but... More about Dictionnaire des Monogrammes, Chiffres, Lettres Initiales, Logogryphes, Rébus, etc

Venice: Paulum Manutium Aldi Filium (Aldus), 1559. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Rebound in full blue morocco by Bradstreet's, all edges gilt, in a velvet lined clamshell box. With the morroco bookplate of famed book collector Henry William Poor who, like J. Pierpont Morgan, was known to favor the small... More about Epistolae ad Atticum, ad M. Brutum, ad Quinctum fratrem, cum correctionibus Pauli Manutii

Paris: de Marnef, 1509. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Rebound in full red morocco with a black morocco label to the front board, new endpapers. No printer listed, but the printer's mark of de Marnef on the title page. A few minor stains, bright and clean overall. 35 leaves.A.... More about Libellus de coetu poetarum ab Ascensio medis plusculis tersus et diligenter explanatus

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1874. First Edition. 3/4 Leather. Mild general edgewear to leather, slight bumping of corners; faintly shaken - marbled boards worn through at edges. Scarce True first dated 1874 with copyright notice printed upside down on rear of title page (title page printed correctly). Size: 8vo -... More about Caleb Krinkle a Story of American Life

Amsterdam: Daniel Elzevir, 1661. Hardcover (Full Leather). Attractively rebound (ca. late 19th century) in mottled calf in an antique style. Scattered foxing, light dampstain to last page, added endpapers. An attractive copy of the Elzevir edition of Comenius's classic language text originally published in 1629. Comenius believed that languages could... More about Janua Linguarum Reserata Quinque-Linguis [The Door of Languages Unlocked