Boolak, Cairo, Egypt: Mehemet Ali, 1830. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Believed to be printed ca. 1810-1840 in Boolak, the port town of Cairo on a printing press established by Mehemet Ali. The printing establishment was renowned for its productions in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. Previous owner's name "T. Laurie..... More
Hamburg, Germany: B. S. Berendsohn, 1840. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Oblong book containing 50 engraved plates plus a quad-fold view of Hamburg. Original boards, rebacked in leather with endpapers renewed. Most plates are separated by a variety of different colored tissue guards. Title page in gold. Two plates contain..... More
Dublin: Thomas Larkin, 1818. Early edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). 58 pages of text. Original paper boards, detached; buckram tied folder with leather title on spine. Measures 23.3cm (height. Contains a folded map. Printed from the last edition published in Philadelphia. Morris Birkbeck (1764-1825). Americana; travel. More
Santa Rosa, CA. First Edition. No Binding. Four autograph letters. More
Publishing place not stated: Publisher not stated, 1687. Early edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. [244] pages of text. Original full leather binding with minor to moderate shelfwear, and a small wormhole on the spine. Endpapers are somewhat browned, especially at the edges. The gutter margin is..... More
Brooklyn, NY: Not published, 1925. First Edition. Unbound. Quarto (4to). One page letter dated May 8, 1925. Signed in ink "Will Durant." Typed on Labor Temple School stationery. Addressed to Rabbi Grossman in Cleveland, Ohio regarding a speaking engagement in March of 1926. Durant mentions four new lectures "An Amendment..... More
Amsterdam, Netherlands: Coloniae, Prostant apud I. a Meurs Amstelodami, 1655. Early edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. [viii], 683 pages of text, follwed by [xxiv] pages of index. Original full vellum binding, with ordinary soiling and shelfwear. A few pages (near page 500) are misbound. Engraved title..... More
Bedford Park, Chiswich, Great Britain: Caradoc Press, 1903. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Two volume set. Bound by Wood in London in gilt-stamped and decorated leather, with minor shelfwear, and minor cracking to the hinges at the top of the spine. Both volumes are illustrated with a frontisportrait signed in..... More
London: Printed for W. Strahan; and T. Cadell, 1785. Third edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Four volume set. Each volume newly rebound in brown quarter leather with five raised bands, two gilt-stamped leather labels, with marbled paper-covered boards. Original engraved bookplate in two volumes lifted and remounted onto the inside front..... More
London: Hurst, Robinson, 1824. Later edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). 2 volume set. Hardcover; bound in original paper covered boards, covers detached. Protected in an attractive custom clam-shell box with a leather spine. Contains 2 errata slips; appendix, volume 2; bookplates; private/personal library book pockets. Howes H560: "best edition". Measures 23.6cm..... More
London: Printed for Henry Herringman at the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New Exchange, 1668. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo (8vo). [viii], 71 pages of text, followed by [i] publishers advertisement. Removed from bound volume, with stitching attached and functional. Title page and last leaf with heavy soiling and..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1896. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (4to). xx, 436 pages of text. Original maroon hardcover binding with a printed paper spine label. The spine is moderately sunned and rubbed, and there is other minor shelfwear; protected in custom-fitted archival mylar. Limited to 500 copies printed, this..... More
Napoli, Italy: Gabinetto Bibliografico e Tipografico, 1823. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo (8vo). xix, [i] blank, 208 pages of text, followed by [viii] including an errata, etc. Original printed paper wrappers, with new archival paper-covered spine. Protected in a custom-made clamshell box with leather spine label. Contains four lithographed fold-out plates..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). xxviii, 234 pages of text. Hardcover half-leather binding with marbled boards; moderate rubbing to extremities, and spine is darkened, sunned and crackling, with missing spine labels. Interior is in excellent condition, with minor browing to edges of several pages..... More
Washington, DC: Not published, 1940. First Edition. Unbound. Quarto (4to). An 8 x 10 inch black-and-white photograph of Eleanor Roosevelt in formal dress as First Lady, sitting at a desk in the White House under the James Monroe portrait. Inscribed "To Mr. Max Abelman, with good wishes, [signed] Eleanor Roosevelt..... More
Hannover, Germany: Verlag von Manz & Lange, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Five contiguous volumes of this publication. Published between 1891 and 1895 which was the final issue. Small portfolios with [iv] pages consisting of a title page and an index of plates, followed..... More
Napoli, Italy: Giuseppe Severini, 1734. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (4to). [xvi], 224 pages of text, followed by [iv] pages of errata. Original vellum binding with wear to the extremities and damage to the bottom of the spine from a label or shelf mark removal. Institutional stamp on title page and..... More
New York, NY: Grosset and Dunlap, 1925. Reprint edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 448 pages of text, followed by [ii] pages of publisher's advertisement. The date of publication is not stated, but is estimated to be circa 1925. Green cloth binding with white and black lettering..... More
New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1895. First thus edition. Hardcover. Quarto (4to). Four volume set. Three quarter leather binding; spines with raised bands, gilt tooling and theatre-themed decorations; marbled paper-covered boards. Top edge gilt; other edges untrimmed. The bindings have minimal shelfwear mainly confined to the leather corners which..... More
London: Country Life, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. xl (introduction) followed by 402 pages of text including an index. Blue hardcover cloth binding with heavy sunning and heavy flecking (irregular loss of color) to the spine, moderate/heavy rubbing to the extremities, and other minor shelfwear. Gilt spine lettering is not..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1877. First Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Three volume set. Bound in half maroon leather by B.H. Blackwell Ltd. Oxford with minor to moderate shelfwear and uneven sunning to the spines. A dozen or so pages have a few small spots of..... More
Washington, D. C. Not published, 1843. First Edition. Unbound. Large handwritten document (measuring approximately 14" x 9.5") signed while John Tyler was president, with an embossed Federal seal attached, and countersigned by A.P. Upshur as Secretary of State. 27 line handwritten document signed October 10, 1843, granting Executive Clemency, pardon..... More
Richmond, VA: Printed by Thomas Nicolson and William Prentis, 1785. First Edition. Hardcover. 235 pages of text. The original patterned paper boards are worn, stained and soiled but intact, with old ink ownership notation on board: B.W. Leigh [Virginia politician Benjamin Watkins Leigh (1781-1849)]. Folio: measures 12 7/8 x 8..... More
Lepzig: Friedr. Christ. Wilh. Vogel. 1814. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). xvi, 360 pages of text. Original quarter leather binding with the beginning of cracking of the front hinge, and bump to the top corner, remaining intact and attractive. This copy is interleaved with blank pages, which extend about two..... More