New York: Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Company, 1885. Jessie Shepherd. Second Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Stamped and gilt olive cloth, quite bright and attractive. Old library spine labels, pocket at rear and scattered embossed stamps. A curiously pedantic work incorporating songs, questions and answers, menus and diagrams, and illustrations amidst..... More

Parma: Stamperia Reale, 1773. First Edition. Hardcover. Full navy cloth bearing gilt Harvard University stamp on spine, bookplate on pasted endpaper, and library stamp on first page. Some discoloration to spine where sticker was removed, minor wear to corners, extra engraved titlee, dedication to Duke Ferdninand I and Archduchess Maria..... More

Paris: Michaelis Vascosani, 1553. Hardcover (Vellum). Full contemporary vellum, soiled but sound. Attractive floral pastepaper pastedowns. Light foxing here and there, first and last blanks a little soiled, over opened at 288/289 but sound otherwise. An attractively printed early French Isocrates. [10], 510, [2, blank], [39]pp with front and rear..... More

Dublin: Whitestone et al, 1779. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Original full calf, mild bumping to corners, rubbing to hinges, surface marks. Previous owner's name to the top of the title page. The first edition, first issue with the points (partaking his posterity, Milton for Butler), of the first of..... More

Basel: Henrichum Petri, 1556. Second Edition. Hardcover. 18th century pastepaper boards, spine and edges degraded, light dampstains to first few and final pages, old library stamp to title and first page, some worming in the gutter - generally quite clean otherwise and with front, rear, and internal blanks present. (16)..... More

Hague & Rotterdam: Arnoldum, Regnerum Leers, 1683. Hardcover (Full Leather). Collection of satires including all 16 of Juvenalis's known satyrical poems with a life of each of the poets: 199pp. A later, probably 19th century, rebinding in an ornate, antique style. 5 raised bands on the spine, elaborate tooling of..... More

Philadelphia: Joseph Cruikshank, 1783. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). The first American edition of Payne's translation of Kempis's Imitation of Christ. In full contemporary tree calf, worn a bit at the corners, with the joints neatly strengthened and in a custom slipcase. Some foxing and browning to the endpapers and..... More

Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1675. Coenraet Decker et al. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf worn, inner joint weak, scattered foxing, a few minor marginal notes and marks in an early hand, including a few sketches of the animals. One double page plate detached, a few with creases..... More

Cologne: Jodocus Kalcoven, 1643. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Early blind tooled English calf, rebacked, rubbed at edges, corners a little bumped, endpapers and title browned at the edges from the leather turn ins, old ownership marks to front blank, scattered mostly minor browning and staining to pages,a few marginal..... More

Amsterdam: Jansson-Waesberge, 1680. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in leather). Rebound in modern full calf, added marbled endpapers, modest browning, stain in top margin here and there, foxing, old ownership marks to title, Houghton Library stamp to verso. Generally bright otherwise with in text illustration throughout; lacking the added engraved title..... More

Leipzig: WIoannem Wendlerum, 1755. Hardcover (Half Vellum). Half vellum over paper boards, old library spine label and stamp to pastedown. 414pp plus the index. Scattered foxing and a few ink drops, but generally clean. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo..... More

Venice: Aldi, et Andreae Soceri, 1515. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Rebound in half polished calf over brown cloth, early notes on title and scattered marginalia in an early hand, some trimmed when rebound, early underlining in red scattered thorugh. Old endpapers retained with notes on the text. Very clean..... More

Leyde: Jean Sambix, 1665. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 2 volumes (volume 1 is the second edition, volume 2 the first. The Memoires were originally published in 1663). Rebound in later full leather, now worn, spines dry and cracked, and the front board on volume 1 loose. Slight foxing internally..... More