Madrid: Rev. de Archivos, 1924. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full tree calf, endpapers dampstained and inner hinge slightly cracked, bumping and wear to bottom right corner of last 50 pages in the margin - clean otherwise and still an attractive copy overall. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under..... More
Madrid: Rev. de Archivos, 1924. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Calf backed cloth boards, light wear to spine, slight age toning to pages. An attractive copy. Bookplate of Colonel Victor De Guinzbourg, from his proverb library. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Reference; Language & Linguistics. Inventory..... More
London: W.H. for Abel Roper, 1650. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full calf rebacked and cornered, worn at the edges and much used but sound. A later edition of Cotgraves Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (1611), the first, though, with Howell's additions. Both the inclination to put such..... More
London: W.H. for Abel Roper, 1650. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Contemporary paneled calf, some surface scrapes, front hinge rubbed and cracking but largely held by cords, rear rubbed but sound. Front endpaper torn and abraded (apparently from removing wax seals used as ownership markings). A later edition of Cotgrave's..... More
Madrid: Libreria de Gaspar, 1855. Early Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). 2 volumes in later half red leather over red cloth with added marbled endpapers. Slight foxing and minor stains internally - mostly quite clean; an attractive pair. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1..... More
Lyon: Les Freres Deville, 1737. Later Edition. Hardcover (rebound in cloth). Rebound neatly, if not entirely appropriately, in calf backed cloth with the original spine label laid on; new endpapers attached in the gutter to the engraved title. Scattered foxing and uniform browning, but generally quite clean. A nice impression..... More
Mansell Information Publishing for U of Oklahoma, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). 2 volumes in brown cloth; light wear. Photos of the card catalog of the University of Oklahoma Science collection., Size: Folio. 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 048055... More
London: Sternberg, 2012. Softcover. Shelf wear. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; ISBN: 3943365352. ISBN/EAN: 9783943365351. Inventory No: 300041. More
Paris: Roberti Stephani (Estienne), 1537. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). 17th century full calf spine gilt in compartments, inner dentelles, front hinge cracked but held by cords, modest wear at corners. Title page laid down repairing a small hole in the blank margin, very clean otherwise - an attractive copy..... More
Baltimore: W.B. Cram, 1831. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary leather, worn at edges, hinges rubbed, binding sound and attractive overall. Light browning to pages, some foxing and discoloration. 280pp Size: 16mo . Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Language & Linguistics. Inventory No: 046024..... More
Ohio: More, Clarke, 1854. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Stamped cloth, lacking front endpaper. A few portraits, scattered minor pencil marks. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Language & Linguistics. Inventory No: 046034. More
London: B. Barker, 1732. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full contemporary paneled calf, front board cleanly detached, spine rubbed and leather loose in one spot; very good otherwise and very clean internally. Scarce collection of proverbs and aphorisms. x, 297, (5)pp. From De Guinzbourg's proverb library with his bookplate -..... More
Andover: Codman Press, 1824. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Full period acid calf, small split on bottom of rear hinge, mild edgewear otherwise. Scattered browning and foxing, slightly loose but intact and attractive. Old seminary library spine label and bookplate. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available..... More
Vatican City: Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Original brown cloth, top corners a little bumped, otherwise unmarked. Inscribed from Cardinal Tisserant "following my birthday party for him in Rome on March 24, 1971" to Gilbert Denman Jr. with Tisserant's signed typed note laid down on the..... More
London: Edward Jeffery, 1811. Later Edition. Hardcover. Contemporary cloth backed boards, boards worn at the corners, front endpaper loose, endpapers browned; bright internally. 124pp Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Reference. Inventory No: 045755. More
New York - Berkeley: AMS / University of California Press, 1978. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Volumes 1-16 of the AMS reprint in red cloth. Volume 15 includes an index of volumes 1-15. "The American Name Society was founded in 1951 to promote onomastics, the study of names and naming practices, both..... More
Philadelphia: Benjamin and Thomas Kite, 1826. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Hinges splitting but boards still attached. Full leather. Scattered foxing and discoloration; top of endpaper removed. 188pp. This is the first USA edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo..... More
New York: Christies, 1998. Hardcover. 3 volumes, slight bumping to corners, otherwise bright and unmarked. Bringing together all three volumes of the landmark Haskell sale. Size: Quarto (4to). 3-volume set (complete). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Reference; Books on Books. Inventory No..... More
Martino, 2001. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Smudge to front board, otherwise unmarked. Reprint of the 1925 edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; ISBN: 1578983061. ISBN/EAN: 9781578983063. Inventory No: 044770. More
Jena: Impensis Haeredum C. H. Cunonis, 1783. First Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Modern half morocco. A touch of soiling early on and a few abrasions to the first title, mild foxing, a good clean copy. Two parts in one, (4), 130pp; (16), 276pp. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped..... More
Leipzig: D. Richter, 1742. First Edition. Hardcover. Early paste paper boards, modest wear, corners worn, binding sound. General even toning to pages, scattered foxing. Scarce and substantial collection of proverbs. Duplessis 311, 624 Size: Quarto (4to). Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1993. Hardcover. Fine in quarter cloth over paper boards. With an original leaf from the 1914 edition. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 044493. More
University of Pennsylcania. Softcover. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 047929. More
Paris: Georges Jeanne, 1927. Later Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Half brown leather over marbled boards, light wear, top corners bumped. With 300 facsimiles of title pages. Size: Quarto (4to). Text is clean and unmarked. Scattered foxing, but text mostly clean. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference;..... More
Amsterdam: 1787. Later Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). 2 volumes in leather backed marbled boards - wear to spines, hinges cracked but bindings sound, mild sctatered foxing wear and soiling internally. A good set. Old stamps to first title. Bookplate of Colonel Victor De Guinzbourg, from his proverb library. 612pp; 606pp..... More