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Image for An Account of the Ceremony in Westminster Hall on Thursday May 9th 1935 on the occasion of the Presentation of Addresses by Both Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to His Majesty King George V Congratulating Him on the Celebration of the Silver Jubilee of His Most Illustrious Reign

An Account of the Ceremony in Westminster Hall on Thursday May 9th 1935 on the occasion of the Presentation of Addresses by Both Houses of Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland to His Majesty King George V Congratulating Him on the Celebration of the Silver Jubilee of His Most Illustrious Reign

By: N/A

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Cambridge, Walter Lewis: 1935

Seller ID: 1940

8vo, unpaginated full blue morocco with gilt lettering on front panel ("Westminster Hall 9 May 1935" ), raised bands on spine, gilt edging, b/w frontispiece, one b/w photograph with tissue guard. Matching d/w and slipcase. Absolutely pristine copy in fine d/w and very good slipcase.
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Dentelles de l'Europe Centrale [Central European Lace]

By: N/A

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Librairie Gründ, Paris : 1926

Seller ID: k200312c

Condition: Very good

Librairie Gründ, Paris n.d. [1926] 4to, 4 page Introduction & 64 black & white loose b/w photographic plates (complete) in a folder with ties; Folder is brown paper over boards, with fabric spine, black titles on front and spine. Photographic plates of lacework [dentelles] from the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs Paris 1925. Librairie Gründ, also known as "Les éditions Gründ " was a French publishing house started in 1880 by Ernest Gründ and Émile Maguet, specialising in works about art. This work is more commonly found in an edition published in 1926 by A. Levy; there is no title or...
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Illuminated Manuscript: Pope Joan / A Historical Text based upon “Bower’s History of the Popes [1748]” /

By: Anonymous. [Anastasius Scriptor]

Price: $750.00

Seller ID: k180228l

n.p. n.d. 4to, illuminated vellum wrappers; 52 leaves; stitched binding. Pen and ink calligraphy, illuminations with watercolor head and tail pieces, and in-text illustrations all on hand-made paper. The artist/author is unknown. Clean, tight and unmarked interior. Covers torn and chipped on all edges. Date unknown but probably from late 1950’s - early 1960’s.
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Aus Revolutionstagen

By: Bauer, Dr. Constantin

Price: $50.00

Seller ID: 040305

Braunschweig: Verlag von A.Graff's Buchhandlung, 1919. 8vo, 94 pp. Illustrated boards. An illustrated history of the Paris Commune, with 94 drawings and tipped-plates by Gustave Dore. Fair-Good. Interior lightly shaken but clean throughout. Front hinge partially split at bottom. Covers lightly soiled with 1/2" closed tears at top of spine. Edges and corners lightly rubbed.
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Image for The Queen's Reign, and Its Commemoration, A Literary and Pictorial Review of the Period, The Story of the Victorian Transformation, 1837-1897

The Queen's Reign, and Its Commemoration, A Literary and Pictorial Review of the Period, The Story of the Victorian Transformation, 1837-1897

By: Besant, Sir Walter

Price: $45.00

Publisher: London, The Werner Company: 1897

Seller ID: 1065

1st ed., large 4to Interior is clean and tight. Several small holes in front end-paper; binding is very sound but has numerous small scuffs and rubs.
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Image for Cento Ethicus. Ex ducentis Poetis hinc inde contextus, per Damasum Blyerburgium Batauum. Iuuentutis maxime Institutiontioni accomodatus.

Cento Ethicus. Ex ducentis Poetis hinc inde contextus, per Damasum Blyerburgium Batauum. Iuuentutis maxime Institutiontioni accomodatus.

By: Blyenburg, Damasus van.

Price: $300.00

Seller ID: 150309

16 mo, grey boards, quarter leather. Blyenburg (1558-1668), a dutch poet, published this compilation of selections from modern Latin poets. A revised edition, first published the year earlier in 1599. CONDITION: Fair; Covers quite worn, but intact, with substantial staining. Title is inked onto the spine. Inked signatures on ffep; front hinge partially split. Inked number on title page; small inked library rubber stamp image on verso of title page. 1" x 2" damp stain at bottom center of inside front cover and extending into the first dozen pages or so and again at the back cover. Other damp s...
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Image for Storie della citta di Firenze dal 1410 al 1460….. Books 1-4. [Stories of the City of Florence from the year 1410 to 1460. Written in the same times …

Storie della citta di Firenze dal 1410 al 1460….. Books 1-4. [Stories of the City of Florence from the year 1410 to 1460. Written in the same times …

By: Buoninsegni, Dom. di Lionardo.

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Florence: Nella Stamperia di Giorgio Marescotti: 1579-1580

Seller ID: 150305

Condition: Good.

Florence: Nella Stamperia di Giorgio Marescotti, 1579-1580. [The colophon is dated Florence, 1579, but the dedication to Francesco de Medici, is dated April 15, 1580.] 1st edition. Small 4to, 1/2 vellum and purple boards, inked title on spine.[38] 829 [1] pp. Text in Italian. Buoninsegni was a Florentine patrician, merchant and historian. Politically he held some of the city's most important offices and was a member of the broader circle of the early Medici regime. He spent the last ten years of his life completing this Historia Florentine; he died in Florence in March of 1466. The history ex...
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Napoleon 1er et la Garde Imperiale. [Costumes Of The French Militaire.]

By: Eugene Fieffe

Price: $275.00

Publisher: Paris, Adolphe Elahays: 1860

Seller ID: k200824e

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

First edition, first printing. (1859 on title page; 1860 on front wrapper) Imperial 4to, ¾ cloth with original paper wrappers bound in. Color plates engraved on steel by Ch. COLIN after RAFFET. 171 pp. Frontispiece, title vignette on India paper and 20 colored plates by Raffet. Text in French by Eugene Fieffe. The color plates show the uniforms of the various regiments of the Imperial Guard; frontispiece of Napoleon in uniform on horseback. The last 80 pp. are a list of all the officers of the Imperial Guard in 1813, the composition of the Guard on Elba Island, text of the decrees rela...
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An Impartial History Of The Late Revolution In France From Its Commencement To The Death Of The Queen And The Execution Of The Deputies Of The Gironde Party (Two Volumes)

By: G. G. And J. Robinson

Price: $225.00

Publisher: London, G. G. And J. Robinson: 1794

Seller ID: s200703b

Binding: 1/2 morocco and marbled boards

Condition: Good.

1st ed. xi, 518 pp.; vii, 466 pp. Original half morocco, marbled Boards. 5 raised bands, gilt titles and rulings. Marbled edges. Compiled by the publishers from a variety of sources listed in the introduction. Portions previously published in the periodical New Annual Register, 1791-1793. With Appendices Containing The New French Constitution 1791, The Declaration Of The Rights Of Man 1793, And The New French Calendar ##### Condition: good; corners and extremities lightly rubbed. faint crack in outer hinge of vol. 2; slight crack in inner hinge, vol. 1. Moderate foxing to title pages and e...
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GARIBALDI and the Making of Italy. 3 vols. [with Garibaldi´s Defence of the Roman Republic, Garibaldi and the Thousand) 1907-1912

By: George Macaulay Trevelyan

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Longman´s: 1907, 1909, 1912

Seller ID: vl190723d

Binding: 1/4 leather

Condition: Good

Complete set of Trevelyan´s “Garibaldi”, published in three separate volumes between 1907-1912. 8vo. Mixed Impressions, with 3 frontispieces, 114 plates, 9 maps in the text and 7 folding maps in color. Marbled boards and all page edges gilt. The set comprises: 1. Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic 1848-9 (1907); 2. Garibaldi and the Thousand May 1860, (1911); 3. Garibaldi and the Making of Italy June-November 1860 (1912). Condition: Good. Internally clean and tight overall. Covers have moderate wear and staining/spotting. Vol I is a first edition; occasional foxing, but lightl...
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Image for Bibliographie Instructive Ou Notice de Quelques Livres Rares Singuliers Et Difficiles Trouver, Avec Des Notes Historiques, Pour Connotre Et Distinguer Les Diffrentes Editions, Et Leur Valeur Dans Le Commerce; disposee par Francois de Los-Rios, Libraire a Lyon. [Unique and Hard to Find Rare Books With Historical Notes To Distinguish the Different Editions, And Their Value In The Trade.]

Bibliographie Instructive Ou Notice de Quelques Livres Rares Singuliers Et Difficiles Trouver, Avec Des Notes Historiques, Pour Connotre Et Distinguer Les Diffrentes Editions, Et Leur Valeur Dans Le Commerce; disposee par Francois de Los-Rios, Libraire a Lyon. [Unique and Hard to Find Rare Books With Historical Notes To Distinguish the Different Editions, And Their Value In The Trade.]

By: Los-Rios, Jean Francois de.

Price: $450.00

Seller ID: 150310

Avigon et Lyon, Seguin et chez l’auteur, 1777. 12mo, full vellum. 207 pp. An early guide to rare-book collecting; a priced-catalog of books sold by Jean-François de Los Rios, with annotations. de Los Rios (1727-1820) was a noted bookseller in Lyon, famously taking advantage of the dispersion of Jesuit libraries after the order was expelled from France in 1764. The Bibliographie instructive was one of his early works, published after more than 17 years as a bookseller in Lyon. The bilbiografía is organized as a directory with 639 entries briefly discussed and 190 references in the included ...
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Giornale dell'eruzione dell'Etna avvenuta alli 27 maggio 1819 [Journal of the eruption of Mt Etna, May 27, 1819]

By: Mario Gemmellaro

Price: $250.00

Publisher: Catania: Dall Stampria dei Regi Studi: 1819

Seller ID: k200301d

Condition: Good

1st ed., 12mo, stitched wrappers. 30 pp. plus three folding plates depicting the phases of Etna eruption, after Mario Gemmellaro and engraved by Antonio Zacco. Gemmellaro “was a local naturalist who had long been studying the volcano; he and his brother Carlo had even built a refuge at the foot of the summit cone, to which they regularly took the more energetic of visiting savants” (M.J.S. Rudwick, World before Adam, pp. 98-99). Scarce -- only two copies of this first edition in OCLC. ##### Condition: Very good. Appears to be disbound, but all bibliographic references refer to the ide...
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Europe After 8:15

By: Mencken, H.L>, Nathan, George Jean; Wright, Willard Huntington.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: NY, John Lane Company: 1914

Seller ID: c170630b

12mo, orange cloth, black titles and décor. Satiric essays about travel in Europe, written on the brink of World War I. Very good, llight edgewar, spine darkened; bookplate on front pastedown.
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Invertebrate Spain

By: Ortega Y Gasset, Jose

Price: $85.00

Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton: 1937

Seller ID: 015002

8vo, black cloth. Very good-near fine copy in VG d/w. Book has some light staining inside covers, otherwise fine. The staining appears to be an image transfer from the yellow d/w flaps. D/w has edgewear and a few small nicks but no significant tears or chips.
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1918-1923 German Hyperinflation

By: Palmer, Marjorie

Price: $185.00

Publisher: Traders Press, New York: 1987

Seller ID: k200312a

Condition: Near Fine

1st ed. 24mo, 2-5/8”x3”,78 pp. Limited to 2500 copies. Printed at The Little Press of Jack R. Levien. Bound in pictorial boards depicting a 10,000 mark note, paper label on frontis. ,Engraved half-title and frontispiece, b/w photos, and with several charts recording the daily value of the mark in relation to the dollar from 1919 to1923. A near-fine copy. Small, light stain on the front cover label, prior owner’s book seal at bottom of ffep.
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An Atlas of the Campaign of Waterloo.

By: Ropes, John Codman

Price: $200.00

Publisher: New York - London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893: 1893

Seller ID: k200312i

Condition: Good

Large folio; Consisting of 14 double-page maps. "Designed to Accompany the Author's "Campaign of Waterloo - A Military History" (only the atlas here); approx. 15 1/2" x 12 3/4; bound in dark green cloth, pebbled spine and corners. The maps are taken from Charra's "Atlas of the Campaign", Jomini's "Atlas of the Wars of the Revolution", and other sources. Each show the positions and movements of the English, Prussian and French armies during the campaign. A few maps feature overprinting, as color emphasis for troop placement & town details. Condition: Good; some light wear & rubbing to boards; ...
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Image for Manners & Customs of the French. Fac-simile of the scarce 1815 edition. With ten whole-page amusing and prettily tinted illustrations printed from the original copper plates

Manners & Customs of the French. Fac-simile of the scarce 1815 edition. With ten whole-page amusing and prettily tinted illustrations printed from the original copper plates

By: ROTCH, Benjamin.

Price: $115.00

Publisher: London, The Leadenhall Press for Henry Sotheran: 1893

Seller ID: k190114g

Condition: Good.

8vo. Original half linen over blue boards, decorated spine and cover; pp. [viii], 43, 15 (advertisements) ten hand-colored engravings; A facsimile of the 1815 publication “Letters from France: written by a Modern Tourist”, re-using the original copperplates which were then destroyed. A humorous look at life and society in Paris during the brief period Napoleon's was on Elba. 'Who the author was is doubtful; but the writer [Henry Sotheran] has heard his father say that he was one Benjamin Rotch, a Middlesex Magistrate' (from the preface). No. 250 of 250 numbered copies, signed by H.C.Millar...
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CORPS D'EXTRAITS DE ROMANS DE CHEVALERIE. [Extracts from Novels of Chivalry]

By: TRESSAN Comte de

Price: $85.00

Publisher: A Paris chez Pissot : 1782

Seller ID: k200427d

Condition: Fair

1st ed. 12mo, 4 volumes. Contemporary calf, but heavily worn. Contains a “Preliminary speech on French novels.” , excerpts from a variety of works, and an essay on the origin of novels invented before the Christian era. The Count of Tressan was a French soldier, physicist and writer, known mainly for his adaptations of medieval novels of chivalry. He was a childhood friend of Louis XV, then became lieutenant-general and aide-de-camp to the king at the Battle of Fontenoy. Appointed governor of Toul and called by King Stanislas to the court of Lunéville, he received the title of grand mar...
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Memoires of the Reign of King Charles I With a Continuation to the Happy Restauration of King Charles II

By: Warwick, Sir Philip

Price: $85.00

Publisher: London, R. Chiswell: 1702

Seller ID: k1707058

Second edition; first published in 1701. 12mo, brown calf. 437 pp. plus front and back matter. Warwick fought on the Royalist side at Edgehill and served Charles I until the king's execution in 1658. He then went on to become a knight under Charles II, and the diaries continue into this period. Internally good with a tight text block and generally little foxing. Title page is worn and soiled as are a number of the pages in the adits at rear. Title page and fep partially detached but fully intact. Front hinge split but intact. Covers very heavily rubbed and chipped with most of the lettering ...
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Editorials for a Free World

By: Welles, Orson

Price: $575.00

Publisher: Free World Magazine: 1944

Seller ID: k180315e

Free World Magazine, 1944. 1st ed., 8vo, brown cloth. 28 pp. Several of Welles' political writings first published in FREE WORLD magazine between April-December 1994. Welles was an avid supporter of President Roosevelt and his views were often well in advance of political thinking of the time. Very rare: no others online, none in OCLC, no auction records. One copy, with a gift inscription to Welles, is in his papers at the University of Michigan.
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