Amstelodami: Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1658. Early edition. Hardcover. 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. [xii], 573 pages of text. Original or very early full leather binding with primitive blind ruling and leather spine label with gilt ruling; front hinge repaired with compatible Japanese tissue. Measures 13.5 cm (5.25 inches)..... 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
New York: Simon & Schuster; Editions Verve, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. [viii] pages of introductory text, followed by 114 black & white gravures, followed by [vii] pages of text. The original hardcover binding with bright color design by Miro is minimally shelfworn, with minimal browing to the spine which..... More
Quebec, Canada: C. Darveau, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). 470 pages. Rebound in green cloth with a brown leather spine label. Illustrated with a frontisportrait of Letellier. Bound-in is a two page letter dated 1889 handwritten and signed by Casgrain. The letter is addressed to James V. Campbell (1823-1890)..... More
Argentorati [Strasbourg], France: Theodorici Lerse, 1708. First Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. [xxiv], 197 pages of text, followed by [x] pages of index and [i] page of corrigenda. Original full vellum binding with minor shelfwear and soiling. Measures 158mm x 95mm. Complete with a fold-out chart..... More
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Unknown place: Agapito Franzetti, 1820. Early edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. 130 engravings on 65 sheets. Each sheet (page) meausures 113mm x 140mm. No title page (if issued). No date of publication is listed, circa 1820. Original 3/4 leather binding with moderate shelfwear, spine worn with..... More
London: Strahan, Cadell, Davies, 1796. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (4to). English literature; biography; first edition; 2 volumes; 27.8cm; modern 3/4 maroon leather binding by Corey; volume 1 frontispiece silhouette portrait of author, English historian; volume 1 errata leaf facing page 1; volume 2 errata leaf after index; supplementary volume 3..... More
London: Printed for T. Osborne, et al. 1764. Third edition. Hardcover. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Two volume set. The revised and considerably enlarged 3rd edition, complete with 39 engraved plates (including the frontisportrait in Vol. II) and 22 engraved maps by finely engraved by or after Emmanuel..... More
Washington: no publisher, 1803. Unbound. Quarto (4to). One page letter, folded several times, with breaks in the folds, and heavy ink staining. Attractively framed with a small black-and-white portrait of the President. The letter, listed in Vol. 41 of "The Papers of Thomas Jefferson" (PTJ) reads "Washington July 18, 1803;..... More
Rotterdam: Reinier Leers, 1690. First Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. [xiv], 453, [xi] pages. Full leather binding; small chips to spine extremities and overall minor to moderate shelfwear to original binding. Previous owner's engraved armorial bookplate on front paste-down endpaper "The Earl of Ilchester." Another engraved..... More
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1954. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 279 pages. Number 167 of 391 copies, signed by Maugham on the limitation page. Grey hardcover binding with minimal browning/sunning to the spine. Top edge gilt; others page edges are untrimmed, leaving many pages uncut and unopened. The..... More
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Paris, France: Ancienne Mon Aubert, 1850. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (4to). Two volumes containing a total of 365 beautifully hand-colored plates depicting the historic dress of villagers from various countries. Minor foxing to numerous plates, occasionally entering into the image but mostly confined to the margins. Plates measure 10+3/8 inches..... More
Philadelphia, PA: Printed by Eleazer Oswald, at the Coffee-House, 1786. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). Earliest American translation of Horace. xli, [i] blank, [1]-149 pages of text (Odes), [i] blank, 150-175 (Epodes), [i] blank, [177]-190 (Carmen Seculare), [191]-319 (includes Translations from the Greek and Latin including Odes of Anacreon, Elegies..... More
London: Not published, 1850. First Edition. Unbound. Octavo (8vo). Three page letter written and signed by English architect George Gilbert Scott. Written to Rev. Edwin Baines? Dated August 10th, 1850, it reads "My dear Sir, I ought to have apologized for sending an imperfect drawing of the roof. I found..... More
Springfield, IL: Lanphier & Walker, 1853. Early reprint edition. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). 15th Session: 182 pages of text, xii pages of index. 16th Session: 240 pages of text, [ii], xxii pages of index; also printed in 1853 with no mention of reprinting. Original paper-covered boards, rebacked in ordinary library cloth..... More
Roverto: Stab. Tip. Di Vigilio Sottochiesa, 1876. First Edition. Paperback. Quarto (4to). 402 pages of text. Original green printed paper wrappers are quite worn, chipped, and torn; protected in fitted archival Mylar. Measures 293mm x 203mm. With an inscription on the half-title page from the author to Ministro della Pubblica..... More
London: Gaberbocchus Press Ltd., 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Folio. [iv], 16 pages of text. White staple-bound paperback binding with red and green lettering and illustrations; lightly creased on two corners, with minor soiling, shelfwear and a few small stains. A very small and light spot of staining to the bottom..... More
no place: No publisher, 1906. First Edition. Unbound. Quarto (4to). Two page note of approximately 80 words, handwritten and signed by the great conductor Toscanini in red ink. Included is an envelope, addressed to Augusto Berger (Coreografo) Hoftheater Dresden. It appears to be postmarked 4/12/1906. The envelope has another ten..... More
Lugduni Batavorum (Leiden Netherlands): Apud Franciscum Hackium, 1651. Early edition. Hardcover. frontispiece, [xvi], 855 pages of text, [1] page colophon, followed by 32 un-numbered pages containing an index. Original un-restored full leather binding with vertical creasing/cracking, and minor shelfwear, remaining intact and attractive. The engraved title page (by R. A...... More
Antwerp: Christopher Plantin, 1574. Early edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Three important early textbooks in ethics, physics, mathematical geography; in De sphaera are eleven illustrations; bound in early vellum, rebacked; edges colored red with some bleeding into leaves and some staining, not affecting text. Title pages..... More
Paris, France: De L'Imprimerie du Depot des Lois, 1793. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Two works bound in one volume. First work: [iv] pages, xvi, 302 pages. Second work: [ii], xvi, 165 pages. Bound in the original decoratively speckled paper-covered boards; the binding is worn..... More
Stuttgart/New York: Fritz Eggert/George Wittenborn, 1958. First Edition. Hardcover. Quarto (4to). Unpaginated, containing 200+ pages of text. Original half linen (hardcover cloth) binding has minor discoloration, with printed paper-covered boards, with minimal scuffing and shelfwear including a small bump to one corner; protected in custom stiff archival mylar. The only..... More
Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1871. First edition, second issue. Hardcover. Octavo (8vo). American poetry; 1st book edition [i.e. first edition, second issue]. This was first published in the form of a broadside in Washington, DC, 1871. 24, [4] pages; 19.8cm; original limp brown cloth binding; gilt title; protected in a...... More
Philadelphia, PA: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, 1873. Hardcover. Americana; Pennslyvania; photography; 419 pages; 19.6cm; original blind stamped cloth binding, rebacked by Corey; original spine laid on; gilt decoration; corners bumped; edges rubbed; illustrations listed pages 23-4; owner marks. Alumnus of Dickinson College and member (D) of the U. S...... More