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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 Dentelles de l'Europe Centrale [Central European Lace]](/assets/images/product/k200312c_1)
By: N/A
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Librairie Gründ, Paris : 1926
Edition: 1st ed.
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... 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 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
![Image for Giornale dell'eruzione dell'Etna avvenuta alli 27 maggio 1819 [Journal of the eruption of Mt Etna, May 27, 1819]](/assets/images/product/k200301d_1)
By: Mario Gemmellaro
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Catania: Dall Stampria dei Regi Studi: 1819
Edition: 1st edition
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... 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: Palmer, Marjorie
Price: $185.00
Publisher: Traders Press, New York: 1987
Edition: 1st edition
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. View more info
Price: $200.00
Publisher: New York - London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893: 1893
Edition: 1st edition
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; ... 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
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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
By: [Fine Bindings]
Price: $650.00
Publisher: n.p.: n.d.
Seller ID: k200325f
Condition: Good
19th century hand-painted binding. 10”x13”x1-3/4”. Multi-colored inks on ¼” thick brown calf panels, ribbed spine, all edges gilt. No indicia, but from the watermark on the endpapers probably German or Austrian. Vintage unknown, but a penciled notation inside states probably 19th century -- the blank pages appear to be of such vintage paper. Further embelllished with gilt blind-stamp figures and borders; brass studs. Interior consists of several hundred blank pages with first 20 or so clipped out -- possibly used as a ledger or journal. Condition: light to moderate surface wear... View more info
