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By: N/A
Price: $65.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Walter Lewis: 1935
Edition: 1st ed
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. View more info
![Image for Illuminated Manuscript: Pope Joan / A Historical Text based upon “Bower’s History of the Popes [1748]” /](/assets/images/product/BB - 69.jpg)
By: Anonymous. [Anastasius Scriptor]
Price: $1,850.00
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. View more info
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. View more info
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. View more info
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... View more info
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... View more info
Price: $125.00
Publisher: London, Longman´s: 1907, 1909, 1912
Edition: Mixed set
Seller ID: vl190723d
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... View more info
![Image for Mein Kampf [in scarce 1st state d/w]](/assets/images/product/k200120b_1)
By: Hitler, Adolf
Price: $275.00
Publisher: Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, : 1939
Edition: 1st thus.
Seller ID: k200120b
Condition: Very good
First complete publication in English. 8vo, red cloth, 1003 pp. A special edition with proceeds to a fund for refugee children. Mein Kampf had a complicated publishing history with several editions in English between 1933 and 1937. After the Munich crisis in September 1938, Reynal & Hitchcock decided it imperative to have an unexpurgated edition available to the public. They found that a team of scholars at the New School of Social Research were preparing such a translation and they approached both this committee and American publisher Houghton Mifflin about publishing the translation under a ... View more info
![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.]](/assets/images/product/150310_8da4796f67f01d6adb3b66114cbbcb09.jpg)
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 ... View more info
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. View more info
Price: $47.50
Publisher: NY, Frederick A. Stokes Company: 1901
Edition: 1st ed.
Seller ID: DG1709061
Condition: Very Good
2 volume set, 8vo., a.e.g. 295 pp., Black cloth with gilt lettering and design along spines and front covers. Includes 24 photogravure illustrations and 32 half-tone engravings. Very good: very light edgewear, lettering on covers and spine bright. Interior clean and tight with no marks or tears. View more info
Price: $85.00
Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton: 1937
Edition: 1st
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. View more info
By: ROTCH, Benjamin.
Price: $115.00
Publisher: London, The Leadenhall Press for Henry Sotheran: 1893
Edition: 1st ed.
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... View more info
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 ... View more info
By: Welles, Orson
Price: $575.00
Publisher: Free World Magazine: 1944
Edition: 1st
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. View more info
![Image for Costumes Civil et Militaires de la Monarchie Francaise depuis 1200 jusqu’a 1820 [Civil and Military Costumes of the French Monarch from 1200 to 1820]](/assets/images/product/k200111h_1)
By: [Costume] F. Depech / Hippolyte LeComte
Price: $600.00
Publisher: Paris: F. Depech : 1821
Edition: 1st ed
Seller ID: k200111h
Condition: Fair
[Costume] F. Depech / Hippolyte LeComte Costumes Civil et Militaires de la Monarchie Francaise depuis 1200 jusqu’a 1820 [Civil and Military Costumes of the French Monarch from 1200 to 1820] An incomplete set of 78 original hand colored lithographs of the robes and costumes worn by French aristocracy, clergy, and judiciary from the 13th - 19th centuries. From a series of 380 lithographs executed by Hippolyte Le Comte and published 1820-21 by Francois Delpech. Delpech operated the most popular lithographic print shop in Paris; LeComte was a French painter best known for his large scale h... View more info
![Image for Olympia 1936. Die Oliympischen Spiele 1936 in Berlin und Garmisch-Partenkirchen. Band I. [The1936] Olympic Games in Berlin Vol I]](/assets/images/product/BBPh - 33.jpg)
By: [Olympics]
Price: $325.00
Publisher: Berlin, Cigareten-Bilderdienst, Hamburgo : 1936
Edition: 1st
Seller ID: k180331a
4to, Publisher's blue boards with bright gilt design and black lettering. 128 pp. plus folding map. The first only of two volumes; this volume for the winter olympics. Several hundred glossy photographs tipped-in to their pages; mostly b/w but some color. A good+ copy overall. Text block and photos are very good-fine with some light toning to page margins. Covers are rubbed at corners and top of spine with a 2" white crayon mark on front cover and some rubbing to the gilt logo. View more info
By: [Photographs]
Price: $225.00
Seller ID: k180331f
92 photos of Life in camp, behind the lines; touring the fronts [Western & Eastern] No battle scenes. A additional 30-40 photos in the latter half of the album are personal photos long after the war into 1990 and of little to no value. View more info
