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
![Symboloru[m] & Emblematum ex re Herbaria desumtorum centuria una collecta. Camerarius Joachim.](/pictures/thumb/046448.jpg?v=1499807313)
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
![Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads) [with] Camoens: His Life and His Lusiads [with] The Lyricks. 6 volumes. Luis Vaz de Camoens, Richard Francis Burton, trans.](/pictures/thumb/044673.jpg?v=1450374145)
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
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
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
![Exactissima Descriptio Rariorum Quadrundam Plantarum, Qu[a]e continentur Rom[a]e in Horto Farnesiano. Pietro Castelli, Tobia Aldini.](/pictures/thumb/044451.jpg?v=1450374109)
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
![Catulli, Tibulli, Properti. Nova Editio [bound with] Castigationes in Catullum, Tibullum, Propertium. Tibullus Catullus, Propertius, ed Joseph Scaliger.](/pictures/thumb/044730.jpg?v=1450374161)
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
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
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
Cologne: Joannem Wilhelmum Friessem, 1674. Vellum. Mild general wear to vellum, remains of what appears to be library marks on spine but no other marks internally. Lovely frontis of Louis XIV with cherubim. Ownership marks to rear of frontis and top of title. 454pp, [2] pages ads, 4 blank pages... 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
Paris: Deterville, 1795. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 3 volumes in contemporary calf, spines gilt with red morocco labels - an attractive set published year 3 of the Republic. Scattered light foxing, wormhole in the outer margin in volume II, light stain to the lower corner in volume III but... 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
New York: C.S Francis, 1845. Cloth. First Edition state 2 (BAL 3152). Bound in original brown T- cloth with yellow endpapers and simple blindstamping around the edges. Boards show slight rubbing through cloth at the edges and corners with minor bumping. Very slight chipping at head and tail of spine... 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
Paris: Jean Petit, 1523. Early Edition. Hardcover (Half Vellum). Later half vellum over marbled boards, added endpapers, boards rubbed, scar and tear to spine and lettering piece. 2 volumes in 1, books five and six of the works of the 4th century Archbishop, containing Homilies and Sermons - the second... More
Venice: Paulum Manutium Aldi Filium (Aldus), 1559. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Rebound in full blue morocco by Bradstreet's, all edges gilt, ina 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 binder... More
Venice: Vincenzo Valgrissi, 1561. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Later full vellum, with a red morocco lettering piece. Slight wear and discoloration. Scattered minor foxing, some wear to endpapers, corner of page 23 torn - a fine, bright copy overall. (16), 552pp. Adams 2047, Graesse II 189 A sort of hermetic encyclopedia... More
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