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

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

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

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

Boston: Rogers & Fowle, 1743. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary sheep , well worn, front hinge starting to split. Lacks the endpapers if it had them, title page browned and chipped and soiled at the edges. Tear to the corner of the dedication with a loss of text... 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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