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The Grand Imposter Discovered: Or An Historical Dispute Of The Papacy And Popish Religion; : Divided in Four Parts : 1. of Bishops, 2. of Arch-Bishops, 3. of an Oecumenick Bishop, 4. of Antichrist ...

By: S. C. [Colvil, Samuel]

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, His Majesties Printers for the Author: 1673

Seller ID: 27875

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; Full speckled calf boards with paneled frame in blind. Artfully rebacked with black leather title label in the 2nd of five compartments. Mild smoke to text block edges. Contents clean and complete save for refreshed endpages. Unusual pagination a result of printer error, as specified in the erratum on the terminal printed page. Pagination [64]; [1] , 2- 171, [blank], 187 -226; 1 -92, [2]. Collation: []2, A - G4, H2; A - X4, Y2, Aa - Ee4; A - L4, M3. Snug and neat. Prior ownership of New College Edinburgh with bookpate at front stamped "sale duplicate". No oth...
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Pharmacopoeia Bateana, Or, Bate's Dispensatory. Translated from the Last Edition of the Latin Copy, Published by Mr. James Shipton. Containing His Choice and Select Recipe's ...

By: Salmon, William & James Shipton & George Bate

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, Printed for S. Smith and B. Walford, St. Paul's Churchyard: 1694

Seller ID: 39540

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good

Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 965 pages; [16], 965, [19] pp Full period leather, paneled calf covered boards. Circa mid-20th century rebacking of supple lighter colored calf; titles unimpressively in gilt to spine. Endpages refreshed. First original leaf is the title page; one original blank at rear. Two groups of signatures up to pp 176, are loose from the binding with evidence of prior attempt to reseat the gatherings. Prior manuscript ownership to top edge of leaves A2 and B1 clipped away; A2 mended with blank antique paper and B1 unmended. Collated with no sheets found lacking. Includ...
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Unterweisung Der Proportion Und Stellung Der Possen, Nurnberg 1542. In Getreuer Nachbildung

By: Schon, Erhard and Leo Baer (Intro. )

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Frankfurt am Main, Joseph Baer & Co: 1920

Seller ID: 32498

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Woodcuts and tipped in plates; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 64 pages; 1920 Joseph Baer & Co. . Frankfurt. Limited edition of 300 copies. Facsimile of Schon's 1542 instructional book on proportion and geometry, illustrated with his woodblock prints. [64] unnumbered pages. Some several Illustrations on glossy stock tipped in, but by and large pages are reproduced as originally printed with woodcut diagrams and scenes faitfully reproduced. Soundly bound in original light brown paper covered boards with red and black printed title label to upper board. Mild nicking to paper boards at spine ends. Con...
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The Lady of the Lake

By: Scott, Sir Walter

Price: $435.00

Publisher: Edinburgh & London, John Ballantyne and Co. and Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller: 1810

Seller ID: 26304

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good-

4to 11" - 13" tall; First edition, first impression. 290, cxxix pp. 4to. Snug and sound in a tasteful, recently rebacked binding retaining period marbled paper covered boards. This copy lacks the half-title page but retains the large engraved frontis of Scott and his dog, Camp executed by Heath after Saxon. Mild soiling and foxing to front and rear endpages; a shallow damp line across the top corner of the frontis and the last several leaves. A very shallow tea toned damp line visible along the very front edge of some pages of the text. Engraved armorial bookplate of Diana Russell mou...
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The Bridal of Triermain, or the Vale of St. John. in Three Cantos

By: Scott, Sir Walter

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, John Ballantyne and Co.: 1813

Seller ID: 42291

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

12mo 7" - 7" tall; 233 pages; Early issue. Xvii, [1], errata, 233 pp. 12mo rebound in 1/4 modern polished leather and brown cloth boards with titles blocked in gilt to spine. Errata slip tipped in between the preface and the text. Resewn with cords visible at front end rear; very shallow trimming apparent with still generous margins. Perior gift inscription along the top edge of the title page. VG thus
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Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border; Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland : with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition; 3 Volumes

By: Scott, Walter

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, James Ballantyne for Longman and Rees: 1803

Seller ID: 26339

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; Mixed edition with Volumes I and II the 2nd edition of 1803 and Vol III the fith edition of 1812. Uniformly bound in a recent, handsome 1/2 morocco over marbled paper covered boards. Gilt tooled title labels to spines. Contents bright and neat; half-titles lacking from each. [4] clxvi [4], 291; [4] 426; [5], 488 pp. Handsome and solid. VG+ ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or international shipping.
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Rokeby; a Poem

By: Scott, Walter

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, John Ballantyne and Co: 1813

Seller ID: 26279

Binding: 1/4 leather

Condition: Good+

4to 11" - 13" tall; 330 pages; 1st edition (1st impression thereof). [10], [1]-330; [i]-cxvi, 3 ads, with imprint at the bottom of p. Cxvi. In period 1/2 leather and marbled paper boards. Leather chipped at tail and stressed and rubbed to spine surface. Board edges rubbed with furring to the marbled paper; corners bumped with loss of leather through abrasion. Boards attached but leather splitting at joints. Contents complete including half-title. Prior owner (Joseph Fry) bookplate to front pastedown. Some light to moderate foxing and toning to the supple pages. An excellent candidate ...
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Rokeby; a Poem [Engraved Title Page and Illustrations by Stothard]

By: Scott, Walter and Thomas Stothard (Illustrator)

Price: $225.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, James Ballantyne: 1813

Seller ID: 26276

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good+

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 413 pages; 2nd edition (1st impression thereof). Bound with the extra-illustrated title page at front and six engraved illustrations by Stothard. Handsome in 19th C. Full grained red morocco with wide gilt garland and double filet gilt rules to boards; spine in six with decorative tooling over bands and in compartments. All edges gilt. Spine a little darkened with some light rubbing and superficial flaking over the joints. Includes half-title. 4 of 6 plates and engraved title page retain tissue guards. A few scattered pages with foxing and toning but by and large fre...
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The World Displayed; Or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels, Selected from the Writers of all Nations. 20 Volumes

By: Smart, Christopher & Oliver Goldsmith & Samuel Johnson (compilers)

Price: $750.00

Publisher: London, J. Newbery : J. Newbery & J. Hoey: 1760

Seller ID: 40735

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good

Copperplate engravings and maps, some folding; 16mo 6" - 7" tall; 4200 pages; 1760/1761 J. Newbery, London. 16mo Mixed 2nd & 1st editions. Uniformly bound in period speckled calf with volume numbers and double gilt rules bracketing raised bands to spine. A Complete set. Profusely illustrated with copperplate views and scenes, some folding and including 2 large folding maps and some plans. Vol I front board detached and lacking title page. Vol II lacks front board and front endpage. Most vols have cracking and splitting to the leather at the front joint with some tenuously attached by cords. V...
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The World Displayed ; Or, a Curious Collection of Voyages and Travels [7 Volumes]

By: Smart, Christopher & Oliver Goldsmith & Samuel Johnson;

Price: $500.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Dobelbower, Key, and Simpson: 1795

Seller ID: 32193

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good+

Copperplate engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1795 * 1796 Dobelbower, Key, and Simpson; Philadelphia. 7 volumes (of 8) ; Lacking Vol 2. 1st American edition. Selected and compiled by Smart, Johnson & Goldsmith. Plates engraved by Harrison, Thackars, Scot, Allardice, Reiche, Seymour, Shallus, Trenchard and Barker. Printed by Thompson; colophon in V. 1, 3, 6, y. Vols 3-5 published in 1795; Vols 1, 6 & 8 published in 1796. Title pages engraved; title page for Vol 6 is missing. Vols 5 & 7 have the table of contents and plate listings at rear. In the complete 8 volume set 57 engraved plates ar...
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Rejected Addresses: or the New Theatrum Poetarum

By: Smith, Horace and James. ]

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, Printed By Pople for John Miller 25 Bow-Street Covent Garden: 1812

Seller ID: 40770

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good-

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 126 pages; 1812 printed by Pople for John Miller 25 Bow-Street Covent Garden, London. 1st edition. [i-v], vi-xiii, [xiv-xvi], [1]-126, [2] pp. Soundly bound in original drab paper covered boards, artfully rebacked with original paper laid down over the spine edge. Board edges with rubbing at corners and with a few shallow nicks to edges. Half-title page presnt and 1 sheet of ads at rear. An old catalog entry for this edition mounted to the front pastedown. An extremely popular collection of parodies which was issued in numerous editions within months of first publica...
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Horace in London, Consisting of Imitations of the First Two Books of the Odes of Horace [and], Rejected Addresses, or the New Theatrum Poetarum.

By: Smith, James & Horace Smith

Price: $50.00

Publisher: London, Printed for Gale & Fenner: 1815

Seller ID: 32125

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good+

16mo 6" - 7" tall; 2 volumes bound as 1. pp xi, 173; xiii, 127. 16th edition of the second work (Rejected Addresses). Bound in early straight grained red morocco leather with gilt paneled boards and heavy gilt stamped spine w/ 5 raised bands. AEG, gilt innner dentelles. Early armorial bookplate of James Lorimer Graham. Front board detached at hinge; rear hinge tender. Spine a bit darkened; corners lightly rubbed and slightly bumped. G+
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The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser. (Eight Volumes in 4)

By: Spenser, Edmund

Price: $245.00

Publisher: London, John Bell // Apollo Press: 1778

Seller ID: 40734

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good

Bell's Edition the Poets of Great Britain; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 8 volumes in 4. Soundly bound in uniform 1/2 polished calf with red and green morocco title labels to spines; marbled paper over boards with marbling to page block edges. Frontis portrait of Spenser; each volume fronted with an extra engraved pictorial title page. Light rubbing to leather at extremities and to baords at edges. Spine with extra detail in blind and faded gilt. Spines appear to have been lightly varnished at some point in titme. VG set ... Oversize book may require additional charges for expedited or interna...
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A relation of a conference held about religion at London, the third of April, 1676 by Edw. Stillingfleet ... and Gilbert Burnet, with some gentlemen of the Church of Rome.

By: Stillingfleet, Edward and Gilbert Burnet

Price: $175.00

Publisher: London, Printed and Are To Be Sold By Moses Pitt: 1676

Seller ID: 28070

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 193 pages; [5], 193; [blank] ,[2] pp. Wing B5861. ... 1st edition. In period worn calf boards, front board detached. lacking front and rear pastedowns and front endpage. Rear free endpage missing a large portion and the final of three printed pages of ads for Pitt published titles appears to have been removed. Contents bright and clean. Insect predation to leather along front edge of cover board; scuffs, darkening and rubbing to boards and spine. Prior owner’s application of PVA to front external hinge without benefit.Clean fresh contents deserve a recasing or r...
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Synopsis of the Marine Invertebrata of Grand Manan: Or the Region about the Mouth of the Bay of Fundy, New Brunswick

By: Stimpson, William

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Washington, D. C., Smithsonian: 1853

Seller ID: 13916

Binding: Disbound

Condition: Very Good-

Lithograph plates [3]; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 66 pages; Washington, DC, Smithsonian Institution; 1853. Original monograph disbound from the Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge Vol VI. Complete and very fresh - being the contents only of Stimpson's well regarded monograph - with full text, title page, and 3 large lithograph plates. Pages creamy and bright with no marks. The condition of this disbound monograph is Fine, such as it is. A qualified binder could place the whole in boards for $25-50. Original green cloth spine panel of the larger volume is laid in, as are the front matter...
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Sacrorum Sacrificiorum Gentilium. Brevis et Accurata Descriptio, Universae Superstitionis Ethnicae Ritus Cerimonias Complectens

By: Stuckio, Johann Wilhelm [Stucki]

Price: $950.00

Publisher: Tiguri [Zurich], Apud Iohannem Wolphium: 1598

Seller ID: 22592

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good

4to 11" - 13" tall; Large 4to in circa 17th century leather. ) (8, a - b6, A - Z6, Aa - Cc6, Dd4, Ee6. [20], 166 leaves. Bound with six cords. Leather covering is dried, rotting and chipping away at edges of the front board. Leather at spine largely intact but cracked and aged with gilt tooling dimmed and with surviving label dull. Boards tenuously attached by cords. Marbled paper pastedowns but missing marbled flyleaves at front and rear. Two blanks at both front and rear. Prior ownership of Loyola College Baltimore with a 19th century bookplate to the front pastedown and a pair of s...
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A Tale of a Tub. Written for the Universal Improvement of Mankind To Which is Added, an Account of a Battel between the Ancient and Modern Books in St. James's Library

By: Swift, Jonathan

Price: $225.00

Publisher: London, Benjamin Motte: 1728

Seller ID: 40733

Binding: 1/2 leather

Condition: Very Good-

12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 220 pages; 7th edition. 12mo in 1/2 polished calf backed boards of marbled paper with leather corners. Circa early 19th century binding with gilt ruling and tiles to spine with decorative stamping in gilt. Binding is sound and snug with a superficial gap between the last two printed leaves and one signature starting slightly. Lacks front free endsheets and half title; first leaf is A1, the title page. Illustrated with seven copperplate engravings, Contents bright and clean with a few pages showing a mild stain or burn. VG-
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Commendations of Second Division American Expeditionary Forces France 1917-1919 Germany

By: The Second Division Association; United States Army

Price: $75.00

Publisher: Cologne, The Second Division Association: 1919

Seller ID: 13395

Binding: Wraps

Condition: Good

8vo 8" - 9" tall; 61 pages; 1919 The Second Division Association. Paperback in pictorial, title lettered card stock covers. Saddle stapled binding. Contents clean and neat. Front cover had detached but is archivally mended with japanese tissue repair over the separation at the spine fold. Several small areas of chipping and loss to the front cover edges. Uncommon contemporary divisional publication recording the successes of the 2nd during WWI. Contents VG but with wear and chipping to the covers.
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Annales Sacri & Profani : Ab Orbe Condito, Ad Eundem Christi Passione Redemptum, Cum Sacrosanctæ Scripturæ & Ethnicorum Collatis Inter Se Ad Veritatem Temporibus Vere Ordinateque Dispositi.

By: Tornielli, Agostino

Price: $950.00

Publisher: Frankfurt, Ioannem Theobaldum Schon Wetterum: 1611

Seller ID: 26047

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Very Good

Copper plate engravings; maps; woodcuts in text; Folio 13" - 23" tall; Two volumes in one. Folio oversize in contemporary vellum binding with decorative corner and center devices impressed to boards. Double fillet ruling to borders and decorative tooling over the spine compartments. 19 copper plate engravings present of the 24 called for. Includes ten double page copperplates, one folding; two are laid in. One of the double page plates is an outline of Ortelius 1570 World map. Some smaller woodcuts in text. Some minor worming in the gutters of the pastedown and first several leaves. M...
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Napoleon Le Petit

By: Victor Hugo

Price: $220.00

Publisher: Londres, Jeffs: 1852

Seller ID: 13060

Binding: Vellum

Condition: Very Good

32mo 4" - 5" tall; 448 pages; Londres, Jeffs; 1852. 32mo; 10 cm tall. 448 pp. Paged in 8's with 28 signatures. An unusual example; I have not found any other copies noted with this makeup of pagination and signature delineation. Period 3/4 vellum with marbled paper covered boards. Oval inkstamp of a Firenze bookseller placed on the free front endpage and the half-title page. No mention of edition, nor of any other publisher or printer than Jeffs. Title is hand painted in black to otherwise unlettered vellum spine. This presumably was an early copy smuggled back to France. Binding soun...
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