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Price: $65.00
Publisher: Paris, Mme Ve Courcier: 1818
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 36968
Condition: Very Good-
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 197 pages; 1818 Mme Ve Courcier, Paris. Soundly bound 12mo in period polished, speckled calf with decorative ruling tooled in gilt to board edges amd extra gilt spine. Leather title label to spine. Leather lightly nicked and pulled at spine ends. Marbled paper endpages with some offset toning from leather turn ins. Prior ownership blind stamp of the Am Antiquarian Society of Worcester, MA. Few mild spots of toning to first few leaves. Includes articles, "Histoire de l'Expedition qui avait ete´ chargee en 1816 d'explorer le fleuve Zaire ..." and Nouveaux d... View more info
By: Byron, George Gordon; Lord Byron
Price: $395.00
Publisher: London, Printed By Thomas Davison, Whitefriars: 1821
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 26342
Condition: Very Good
Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 218 pages; 1st edition, the large-paper 8vo. [6], [3]-218, [2]pp. Uncut in original drab green paper covered boards with a modern green qurtercloth rebacking titled in gilt. Retains half-title and front blank with 1820 watermark and prior manuscript ownership of John Jobson. Boards lightly rubbed with mild bumping to corners; some mild scattered spotting. Randolph p 74. VG View more info
By: Byron, Lord [George Gordon].
Price: $265.00
Publisher: London, John Murray; Printed by T. Davison: 1813
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 28949
Condition: Very Good-
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 41 pages; 1st edition, 2nd issue. Recased in modern 1/4 brown polished calf and brown cloth boards. 2nd issue, the trade printing, with Byron's name on title page but without watermark in the paper of the text block. Lacking half-title page. Contents clean and generally bright, though with a very mild and faint damp line in the lower spine corner of the title and dedication leaves and with trace rippling to the same portion of the book's pages. A well done rebinding if somewhat utitlitarian. Trace rub to cloth at corner tips. Davison imprint between double rules on t... View more info
Price: $495.00
Publisher: Lugduni Batavorum, Samuelem Luchtmans: 1726
Edition: Sixth Edition
Seller ID: 28804
Condition: Good+
Engraved plates and map, folding; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 392 pages; 6th edition, corrected and enlarged. [16], 392 pp. With 15 lates, including one folding table, one folding map, eight folding pictorial plates and five single page engraved plates. Extra engraved title page at front not included in the number of plates. Soundly bound in period leather with gilt tooled designs in spine compartments fading; morocco title label to spine. Shallow chipping and loss to leather to base of spine; less so at crown. Marbled endpages with remnant of armorial bookplate to front; some damp evidence ... View more info
By: Cato, Marcus Porcius and Johann Matthias Gesner;
Price: $110.00
Publisher: Mannhemii; Mannheim, Societas Literata: 1781
Seller ID: 23664
Condition: Very Good
Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 324 pages; [2] Bl. , 324 Pp. Snugly bound in sponge patterned paper covered boards with a hand lettered title label to spine. Light to moderate shelf rubbing to paper over spine and board edges. Board material showing through rubbed paper at corners. Engraved title page includes a profile bust portrait in woodcut of Cato. Contents bright and fresh. VG View more info
By: Charro, Peter [Pierre Charron] and Samson Lennard (translation)
Price: $450.00
Publisher: London, Printed for Luke Fawne: 1658
Edition: Later edition
Seller ID: 23636
Condition: Good
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 524 pages; 1658 Printed for Luke Fawne, London. A later edition. [28], 524, [18] p. Early leather boards with a recent but complementary rebacking, Four raised bands to spine; title lettering tooled in gilt. Original, engraved title page is chipped and missing an inch or more swath from the gutter forward including about 1/4 inch from the engraved illustration - but all title lettering and imprint lettereing remains. A narrow jagged chip of loss from the top edge into the image surface. Full title page supplied in facsimile and tipped to a stub. Front and rear paste... View more info
By: Church Of England; Thomas Newcomb & Henry Hills (Printers)
Price: $450.00
Publisher: London, Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills: 1710
Seller ID: 35082
Condition: Good
; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 1710 Assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, London. Folio printing, 39cm (15") tall. Text printed in two columns, with ruling in red and black throughout. Extra engraved title frontis. Signed a-a3, b-b4, A-I4, K-U4, X-Ii4, Kk - Uu4, XX-Aaa4; Bb2. In rebacked period calf covered boards. Lacking one leaf - a4. First 25 or so leaves rubbed and furred at edges with some older paper remargining and mending. B1 missing large area from lower front corner; D1 missing a swath along the front edge and lower front corner with loss of some text. T2 & T3 with some m... View more info
By: Clark, Samuel
Price: $945.00
Publisher: London, Printed [By J. R. ] for W[Illiam]. B[Irch]. and Are To Be Sold By Tho. Sawbridge At the Three Flower-De-Luces in Little-Britain, and By William Birch At the Peacock At the Lower-End of Cheapside: 1675
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 32601
Condition: Good+
Copperplate; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 1675, printed [by J. R. ] for W[illiam]. B[irch]. And are to be sold by Tho. Sawbridge at the Three Flower-de-luces in Little-Britain, and by William Birch at the Peacock at the lower-end of Cheapside, London. 3rd edition, corrected and somewhat enlarged as noted on main title page, with separate title pages for 3 discretely paged parts of the work identified as the second edition. Title page printed in red and black. Lacking the engraved frontis and the terminal printed leaf of the book, paged 303 - Rr1 . [24], 27, [1], 179, 200-504, [4]; [8], 116, ... View more info
By: Cobbett, William; Peter Porcupine
Price: $325.00
Publisher: Reading , PA, Gottlob Jungmann Und Comp: 1797
Seller ID: 17684
Condition: Fair
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 198 pages; 1797 Gottlob Jungmann und Comp; Reading, PA. In period binding material with later basic repairs. Pigskin leather spine and wall-paper over boards. Paper skinned at front board with about 1/3 of paper covering lost. Boards scuffed at edges; corners bumped and bruised. Unlettered leather spine is solid. Replacement endpages at front and rear, rather too generously glued to adjoining leaf - at front, the title page. Front endpage split showing replacement crash under leather and resewn binding. Some several signatures starting and rubbed at protruding edges.... View more info
By: Coffin, James H.
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Washington, Smithsonian Institution: 1853
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 13918
Condition: Very Good
Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, Vol VI; Lithograph plates, maps, one large folding; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 197 pages; Disbound from Vol VI of Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge. Pages, plates and maps are in Fine condition. Supple bright and neat. Disbound copy with no covers or boards. ,... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping. View more info
Price: $300.00
Publisher: Antverpiae [antwerp], Jakob Meursius: 1669
Seller ID: 13052
Condition: Very Good
R. P. Cornelio Cornelii a Lapide E Societate Jesv, Sacrae Scripturae Olim Louanii, Postea Romae Professore; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 314 pages; Antwerp, Jakob Meursius; 1669. Collects and reprints commentaries earlier issued in seperate volumes. This volume paged as one. [4] Bl., 314 S., [22] Bl. Folio 13" tall. Period full vellum; spine in six compartments with five raised bands. Title lettering inked in manuscript to second compartment with inked devices drawn in the 1st and 3rd compartments. Woodcut title page vignette, tailpieces and first letters to each commentary and index. Sp... View more info
Price: $200.00
Publisher: London, Printed By John Nutt, Assignee of Edw. Sayer Esq ; for Tho. Bever ; and Tho. Osborn: 1711
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 29496
Condition: Good
4to 11" - 13" tall; 464 pages; Tall 4to. Rebound in institutional brown buckram; ex-library with bookplate to new endpages/pastedown and call number painted base of spine. Lacking front and rear endpages but with text complete; first page of the book is the title-page. 464 pp with "Table" of [20] pp at rear. Expected light toning and spotting to pages. Library cloth is slightly irregular and bubbled lower inch or two from a damp episode, also visible as a tide line and ripple to the newer endsheets but with no discernible effect to the pages of the text. Prior ownership in man... View more info
By: Dacier, Andre´
Price: $185.00
Publisher: Amsterdam, J Covens & C Mortier: 1733
Edition: Second Revised Edition
Seller ID: 36967
Condition: Very Good-
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 556 pages; "Nouvelle Edition" Revised from the 1692 original. Full period calf with gilt work in spine compartments; title label missing but titles remain in blind to leather. Leather splitting over joints but boards holding to cords. Some light rubbing and bumping to board edgesWith engraved frontis and engraved vignette to title page, printed in red and black. Xxxviii, [10], 556 pp. Front and rear blanks present. Prior owership; pictorial woodcut bookplate of H B Charlton, presumably the Shakesperian scholar. Contents clean and generally quite neat. VG- ... View more info
By: Dahl, Svend & Louis Barthou (Preface)
Price: $17.50
Publisher: Paris, Jules Lamarre: 1933
Seller ID: 31604
Condition: Good
Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 326 pages; HC in beige paper covered boards with title stamping to spine dulled and only dimly legible. Soundly bound ex-library copy wit call label and light ownership attachments. Page stock with expected general toning. Heavily illustrated with photograph reproductions of incunabula; early bindings and books of antiquity. Good View more info
By: Darnell, Elias
Price: $325.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo & Company: 1854
Edition: Fourth Edition
Seller ID: 20580
Condition: Very Good-
16mo 6" - 7" tall; 98 pages; Hardcover in original cloth backed title lettered, paper covered boards. 4th edition. Sound, solid copy with the publisher's trade binding. Brown cloth spine with 4 horizontal rules in gilt; unlettered, as issued. Light general toning and light soiling to decorative title lettered boards. Short, mild scrapes to board edges; corners lightly bumped. A small gouge to the lower edge of the rear board. Missing the front free endpage, the book opens to the title page. Some foxing scattered in text; generally light but heavier to the first 10 or so leaves. Three ... View more info
Price: $185.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. Towar & D. M. Hogan: 1830
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 26083
Condition: Very Good-
12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 428 pages; 2nd edition issued by this publisher. (First was in 1828). Soundly bound in original full calf leather with a chipped morocco title label to spine. Label is missing the front 1/3 with reamining lettering - Ameri / Constitu/ - . Prior owner's mid 19th century (Ohio) bookplate mounted to front pastedown; an adhesion abrasion/chip to the front endpage. Endpages complete. An early leaf has a closed horizontal tear across the page which we have mended with archival japanese tissue paper. Leather is lightly surface rubbed at spine with a few tiny pits to the ... View more info
Price: $265.00
Publisher: Alnwick, W. Davison: 1822
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 26104
Condition: Good
1822; Plans and engravings; 7 folding; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 334 pages; Hardcover in what appears to be the original trade cloth binding of pebbled green cloth - with paper title label at spine specifying the publisher's price for editions in cloth. Front board detached; all cloth surfaces complete. Damp mottling/soiling to the top 1.5 inches of the upper board, not showing any effect to the endpages or contents. Unusual pagination conforms to the usual [5], 10 - 334 p. Illustrated with 5 plans, 1 folding and 14 engraved plates, 6 folding. Some woodcuts in-text. Final two pages of the boo... View more info
Price: $185.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, Abraham Small: 1808
Seller ID: 25092
Condition: Very Good-
8vo 8" - 9" tall; 3 volumes, complete. Xl, 417; vii, 504; ii, 493 pages. Snugly bound in period speckled calf boards but rebacked with professional faux leather spines for institutional purpose. Prior ownership of the Bryce Thompson Institute of Plant Research, with bookplates at front and card pockets at rear. Crude gilt title lettering to faux leather spines includes LOC catalog numbering stamped in gilt. Includes frontis and 4 folding plates from copperplate. Snugly bound and clean; expected light toning and foxing scattered through contents, heaviest to endpages. Mild rubbing to l... View more info
By: Downes, John
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Washington, D. C., Smithsonian Institution: 1853
Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Seller ID: 13917
Condition: Very Good
Tables; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 35 pages; Disbound monograph. From Smithsonian Institution Contributions of Knowledge, Vol VI, 1853. Extensives data tables reproduced in the text. The pages are bright and supple. Nice copy but disbound from original binding and lacking covers. View more info
By: Dwight, Theodore
Price: $180.00
Publisher: New York, G & C Carvill: 1828
Edition: Third Edition
Seller ID: 14819
Condition: Very Good-
Maps and engravings; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 403 pages; 1/2 leather and marbled paper over boards. Solid and complete copy, the 3rd edition of this popular early touring guide. Illustrated with 19 copper engraved maps, one a double page map, and 12 copperplate views. Views bound in out of order, per the binder instructions and table of contents. The frontis is "Notch House." Boards light to moderately rubbed edges and surfaces. Original gilt decorated leather spine a bit surface and edge rubbed; gilt details a bit dulled but readily legible. Prior owner inscriptiuons to front and ... View more info
