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The Peerage of Ireland: Or, an Exact Catalogue of the Present Nobility [with] The Signification of Most Things that are Born in Heraldry, with the Explanation of their Natural Qualities. Crossly Aaron.

The Peerage of Ireland: Or, an Exact Catalogue of the Present Nobility [with] The Signification of Most Things that are Born in Heraldry, with the Explanation of their Natural Qualities...

Crossly Aaron

Dublin: Thomas Hume, 1725. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary calf rebacked, one corner repaired, leather a little dry but sound, soiling to endpapers, occasional slight foxing, quite clean otherwise. Two volumes bound in one dated 1725 and 1724 respectively. (14), 260pp (i.e. 262pp), (2), 86, (13)pp. Extensive errata in... More

Price: $2,500.00

De Oraculis Gentilium et in Specie de Vaticiniis Sibyllinis libri tres. Daniel Clasen, Sébastien Castellion, Onofrio Panvinio.

De Oraculis Gentilium et in Specie de Vaticiniis Sibyllinis libri tres

Daniel Clasen; Sébastien Castellion; Onofrio Panvinio

Helmstedt: Henningum Mullerum, 1673. First Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Full contemporary vellum, a bit soiled but sound and attractive. Light browning internally, but a clean, crisp copy; lacking the front blanks. 2 volumes in 1. (16), 824, 104, 43pp.First edition of Clasen's work on the Sibylline oracles which also adds Sébastien... More

Price: $650.00

Icones, id est Verae Imagines Virorum Doctrina Simul et Pietate Illustrium. de Beza Theodore.

Icones, id est Verae Imagines Virorum Doctrina Simul et Pietate Illustrium

de Beza Theodore

Geneva: Johannes Laon, 1580. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Half red morocco by Lhuinte, light wear at edges and hinges, first few and scattered other pages, including title, faded (likely from being washed), Some minor foxing and soiling. Several paper repairs to margins, occasional small edge tears and few closed... More

Price: $1,950.00

Hand Colored Engraving from a German Language Edition of Hans Staden's Voyages [ca. 1591 from De Bry's "Grand Voyages to the Americas"]: Plate XXXIX. Theodor de Bry, Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues.

Hand Colored Engraving from a German Language Edition of Hans Staden's Voyages [ca. 1591 from De Bry's "Grand Voyages to the Americas"]: Plate XXXIX

de Bry, Theodor; Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques

1591. Hand colored engraving, modest foxing and soiling, paper thinned in upper margin from prior mounting, small tape marks. A famous plate depicting the cannibals Staden described in Brazil. In the foreground a butcher is working on a partially butchered body, a tribesman is dragged off to be bludgeoned, a.... More

Price: $750.00

Hand Colored Engraving from a German Language Edition of Le Moyne's Brevis narratio [ca. 1591 from De Bry's "Grand Voyages to the Americas"]: Plate XXIII. Bringing in Wild Animals and Other Stores. Theodor de Bry, Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues.

Hand Colored Engraving from a German Language Edition of Le Moyne's Brevis narratio [ca. 1591 from De Bry's "Grand Voyages to the Americas"]: Plate XXIII.Bringing in Wild Animals and Other Stores

de Bry, Theodor; Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques

1591. Hand colored engraving, light foxing and soiling, paper thinned in upper margin from prior mounting, damage to the text section with significant loss, repaired with paper.It reads (translation from Discovering the New World, Based on the Works of Theodore de Bry, Harper & Row, 1976): "At a certain time... More

Price: $500.00

Hand Colored Engraving from a German Language Edition of Le Moyne's Brevis narratio [ca. 1591 from De Bry's "Grand Voyages to the Americas"]: XXVII. Floridians Crossing Over to an Island to take their Pleasure. Theodor de Bry, Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues.

Hand Colored Engraving from a German Language Edition of Le Moyne's Brevis narratio [ca. 1591 from De Bry's "Grand Voyages to the Americas"]: XXVII. Floridians Crossing Over to an Island to take their Pleasure

de Bry, Theodor; Le Moyne de Morgues, Jacques

1591. Hand colored engraving, light foxing and soiling, paper thinned in upper margin from prior mounting.It reads (translation from Discovering the New World, Based on the Works of Theodore de Bry, Harper & Row, 1976): As can be seen from the preceding illustrations, this area abounds with very agreeable little... More

Price: $650.00

Volume Premier (-Troisieme) Des Chroniques D'Enguerran de Monstrelet. de Monstrelet Enguerrand.

Volume Premier (-Troisieme) Des Chroniques D'Enguerran de Monstrelet

de Monstrelet Enguerrand

Paris: Pierre Mettayer, 1595. Early Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). 4 volumes bound in 2, rebound in modern half red leather over decorative paper in an antique style. Old library stamps to title, index and occasionally to the top right corner. Slight soiling to title, quite clean otherwise and an attractive... More

Price: $1,700.00

A Generall Historie of France Written by John de Serres Unto the Yeare 1598, Much Augmented and Continued to This Present, Out of the Most Approved Authors That Have Written of that Subject. John De Serres, Ed Grimeston, cont.

A Generall Historie of France Written by John de Serres Unto the Yeare 1598, Much Augmented and Continued to This Present, Out of the Most Approved Authors That Have Written of that Subject

De Serres, John; Grimeston, Ed. (cont.)

London: George Eld, 1611. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary blindstamped calf, well worn at the edges, a number of surface scratches and gouges, lacking ties. Intact, generally, and still a fairly attractive period binding. Endpapers worn, chipped and soiled, pastedown loose, title and first few and last few pages... More

Price: $1,200.00

Servitude et Grandeur Militaries. de Vigny Alfred.

Servitude et Grandeur Militaries

de Vigny Alfred

Paris: Charpentier, 1845. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Quarter red leather; rubbing to boards, moderate foxing internally. 277pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Military & Warfare. Inventory No: 045079. More

Price: $35.00

Demostehnous Logoi Eklektoi. Demosthenis Selectae Orationes. Ad Codices MSS. recensuit, Textum, Scholisaten et Versionem plurimis in locis castigavit illustravit Ricardus Mounteney. Demosthenes, Richard Mounteney.

Demostehnous Logoi Eklektoi. Demosthenis Selectae Orationes. Ad Codices MSS. recensuit, Textum, Scholisaten et Versionem plurimis in locis castigavit illustravit Ricardus Mounteney...

Demosthenes; Mounteney, Richard

London: J. Rivington, 1791. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary calf, external hinge cracking but held by cords and secure. Modest wear at corners. Fold out map with light browning at edges but otherwise bright. An attractive copy of this scholarly edition of Demosthenes in Greek and Latin. Armorial... More

Price: $650.00

A Collection of Proverbs and Popular Sayings Relating to the Seasons, the Weather, and Agricultural Pursuits, Gathered Chiefly from Oral Tradition. Denham M. A., Michael Aislabie.

A Collection of Proverbs and Popular Sayings Relating to the Seasons, the Weather, and Agricultural Pursuits, Gathered Chiefly from Oral Tradition

Denham M.A. (Michael Aislabie)

London: The Percy Society, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Original brown cloth, bookplate of De Guinzbourg, from his proverb library on the front pastedown. Modest foxing; a very nice copy. The first of Denham's tracts published between 1846 and 1859. Scarce. iv, 73pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1... More

Price: $350.00

Tratado Sobre a Origem, Enatureza do Testamentos...D. João de Bragança. Desa José Antonio.

Tratado Sobre a Origem, Enatureza do Testamentos...D. João de Bragança

Desa José Antonio

Lisbon: Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1783. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary elaborately gilt red morocco, densely tooled with an array of fleur de lis and other fleurons. Light wear and rubbing, mostly at the corners. Minor worming to endpaper, minor stains to title and a few other spots. Lacking..... More

Price: $650.00

Colección de Crónicas Españolas. Diez de Games Gutierre.

Colección de Crónicas Españolas

Diez de Games Gutierre

Madrid: Espasa-Calpe, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). 9 volumes in quarter brown calf over pebbled brown cloth, 1940-1946 - spines gilt in compartments. Light rubbing to spines and hinges, a touch of edgewear and a few corners bumped, slight dampstain to rear board and page edge of volume 3... More

Price: $1,200.00

Dionis Cassii Cocceiani Historiae Romanae Libri XLVI, Partem Integri Partim Mutili, Partim Excerpti. Dio Cassius.

Dionis Cassii Cocceiani Historiae Romanae Libri XLVI, Partem Integri Partim Mutili, Partim Excerpti

Dio Cassius

Hanau: Typis Wechelianis, Apud Claudium Marnium & haeredes Ioan. Aubrii, 1606. Early Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Full contemporary vellum with gilt decoration, soiled and worn, hinges split but binding sound. With two library and one earlier bookplate internally, and a spine label, but no other library markings; wear to endpapers. One... More

Price: $1,200.00

Historia Anglo-Scotica: or an Impartial History of All that Happen'd Between the Kingdoms of England and Scotland. Drake James.

Historia Anglo-Scotica: or an Impartial History of All that Happen'd Between the Kingdoms of England and Scotland...

Drake James

London: John Hartley, 1703. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary paneled calf, worn and dry, rear board detached, scattered minor browning and foxing, generally quite clean internally. (16), 423, (1)pp. In a custom leather backed slipcase and chemise. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's book-plate on endpaper. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped... More

Price: $250.00

A Particular History of the Five Years French and Indian War in New England and Parts Adjacent, from Its Declaration By the King of France, March 15, 1744, to the Treaty with the Eastern Indians, Oct. 16, 1749 - Sometimes Called Governor Shirley's War. Samuel Adams Drake.

A Particular History of the Five Years French and Indian War in New England and Parts Adjacent, from Its Declaration By the King of France, March 15, 1744, to the Treaty with the Eastern Indians, Oct. 16, 1749 - Sometimes Called Governor Shirley's War

Drake, Samuel Adams

Albany: Joel Munsell, 1870. First Edition. Cloth. Nice copy with a few library markings. Moderate wear to green cloth boards with heavier wear at the corners and the head and tail of the spine. One puncture hole through cloth in the middle of the spine but not affecting gilt lettering... More

Price: $95.00

An Historical Memorial of the Negotiation of France and England, from the 26th of March, 1761, to the 20th of September ... with the vouchers. Translated from the French original, published at Paris by authority. Duc de Choiseul Etienne François.

An Historical Memorial of the Negotiation of France and England, from the 26th of March, 1761, to the 20th of September ... with the vouchers. Translated from the French original, published at Paris by authority.

Duc de Choiseul Etienne François

London: D. Wilson, and T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, 1761. First Edition. Disbound. Disbound from a larger volume but still sewn together - lacking endpapers with slight browning to title page, punctures in gutter, probably from an earlier string binding, but otherwise bright and unmarked. The English language edition of... More

Price: $1,200.00

Massacres of the Mountains: A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West. Dunn J. P.

Massacres of the Mountains: A History of the Indian Wars of the Far West

Dunn J.P.

New York: Harper's Brothers, 1886. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Original olive cloth, a bit dulled, shaken, rear joint cracked and pastedown torn; two pages browned from something left in the book, otherwise bright internally. Well illustrated and including the folding colored map. Howes D575 Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available... More

Price: $100.00

Geometrie Pratique Contenant La Maniere de Toiser Arpenter & Reduire les Pieds a la Toise. [bound with] Calendrier Ecclésiastique Militaire et Civil de la Province de Dauphiné Pour L'Année 1769 [bound with] Calendrier & Etat Civil de Dauphiné, ou Almanach du Palaise pour L'Année Bissextile 1788. Claude Curel Duverbois.

Geometrie Pratique Contenant La Maniere de Toiser Arpenter & Reduire les Pieds a la Toise. [bound with] Calendrier Ecclésiastique Militaire et Civil de la Province de Dauphiné Pour L'Année 1769 [bound with] Calendrier & Etat Civil de Dauphiné, ou Almanach du Palaise pour L'Année Bissextile 1788

Duverbois, Claude Curel et al

Lyon / Grenoble: Claude Naulot; Faure et Fils, 1692. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Later leather backed boards, spine rubbed, hinges cracked. The Geometrie Pratique bound here last, is a quite rare book on surveying, but missing the final page (? - the text seems to end on 48 but other copies... More

Price: $350.00

Les Moeurs des Israelites & Les Moeurs des Chrestiens. Fleury Abbé.

Les Moeurs des Israelites & Les Moeurs des Chrestiens

Fleury Abbé

The Hague: Adrian Moetjens, 1682. Early Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). In full period vellum, worn and soiled. Front endpaper loose, binding loosening but intact. First published in 1681, Fleury's treatise on the ancient Israelites was hugely popular for over 100 years in both French and English. It is often paired with... More

Price: $300.00

La Rochelle d'autrefois et d'a présent. Foletier F. de Vaux de.

La Rochelle d'autrefois et d'a présent

Foletier F. de Vaux de

Paris: Pijollet, 1923. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Quarter leather over marbled boards - an attractive binding. Scattered mostly minor foxing internally. Illustrated with phorogravures. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Travel & Places; History. Inventory No: 045105. More

Price: $150.00

The Ministers of Connecticut in the Revolution - the Report Of the Committee Appointed By the General Association of Connecticut. Wm. Chauncey Fowler.

The Ministers of Connecticut in the Revolution - the Report Of the Committee Appointed By the General Association of Connecticut

Fowler, Wm. Chauncey

Hartford: Press of the case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1877. Cloth. Light edgewear else unmarked. #American History# Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 043742. More

Price: $35.00

L'Ancien Régime. Funck-Brentano Frantz.

L'Ancien Régime

Funck-Brentano Frantz

Paris: Artheme Fayard, 1926. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Leather over marbled boards. Leather a bit dry and rubbed but the binding is sound. Signature to title, otherwise unmarked internally. 574pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045078. More

Price: $30.00

Collectio Geniturarum: Or, A Collection Of Nativities, In CL Genitures; Viz, Princely, Prelatical, Causidical, Physical, Mercatorial, Mathematical, Of Short Life, Of Twins, &c. Gadbury John.

Collectio Geniturarum: Or, A Collection Of Nativities, In CL Genitures; Viz, Princely, Prelatical, Causidical, Physical, Mercatorial, Mathematical, Of Short Life, Of Twins, &c.

Gadbury John

London: James Cottrel, 1662. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Small folio. 18th century full calf worn and dry, corners heavily rubbed and rounded, spine dry, rehinged in white cloth, front endpaper cracked. Modest browning and foxing, top of title excised and replaced, but otherwise clean internally. With neat and expertly... More

Price: $750.00

Epistolarum libri X ; eiusdem Panegyricus Traiano dictus. Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Pliny the Younger.

Epistolarum libri X ; eiusdem Panegyricus Traiano dictus

Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)

Geneva: Paulus Stephanus (Paul Estienne), 1600. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Early paneled calf, rebacked ca. 19th c., endpapers refreshed, hinges worn and cracked, held by cords, corners bumped, wear at edges, title foxed, scattered mostly light foxing and browning - generally quite clean internally and an attractively printed Estienne... More

Price: $650.00

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