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: Joannem Janssonium, 1671. Second Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Full vellum soiled, spine heavily worn, inner joint cracked, text browned throughout with scattered mostly minor wear and soiling, with 3 engraved plates (lacking the portrait of Johann Friedrich Graf Wladstein, and the folding Jesuit horoscope). Worn spot to title. (32), 810..... More

Amsterdam: Janssonio Waesbergiana, 1676. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Contemporary vellum, soiled, back strip reattached, endpapers refreshed; sound overall. Scattered browning, foxing, heavy in spots, dampstain in upper margin here and there, mild offsetting, generally clean internally. Illustrated in text throughout and with 5 plates (2 folding, 1 double page) outside..... More

Leeuwarden: Ferwerd, 1790. Early Edition. Hardcover. Leather backed boards, modest wear, endpaper browned, lettering piece missing; first title page slightly creased, fine internally with very occasional light foxing. 39 engraved folding plates, handcolored. (2),36; (4),70; (4),87,(5)pp.Knoop lost his job in Frisia designing gardens in 1749 due to his love of..... 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