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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine/Near fine. 8vo. 255pp. Blue cloth blocked in silver on the spine and upper board. Map endpapers. Frontispiece photograph of the plane 'Sirius'. Map vignettes in text. The maps were drawn by Charles A. Lindbergh. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has been strengthened at the spine… Ler mais sobre este item

Leiden: P. W. M. Trap, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 4to. Unpaginated. Green pinhead cloth blocked in blind and gilt. With 58 (of 60) full page highly detail hand colored illustrations of birds, and enhanced with gum arabic, followed by letterpress text in Dutch describing them. Textblock loose in binding, some page edges rough, lightly worn but… Ler mais sobre este item

Edinburgh: Gall & Inglis, 1885. Hardcover. Near fine. Illustrated with full page engravings on steel. Full green morocco. Spine in six compartments, gilt and with red leather lettering labels, gilt. Gilt rules on the board borders, All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers, and with the original decorated cloth cover as the front pastedown. A couple of pages at beginning… Ler mais sobre este item

n.p. (London): n.d. (Richard Roylston), 1648. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 112mo. Folding frontispiece. (viii), 269pp. Recent black leather, gilt spine title, and gilt crown and 'C.R.' on the upper board. Textblock generally soiled, and with stains form old tape marks, but still in good condition. The second issue, with the place of publication and publisher removed… Ler mais sobre este item

Cincinnati: Corey and Fairbank, 1832. First edition. Hardcover. Good. Thin 4to. 180pp. Original brown cloth, nicely rebacked to match. Significant wear and staining to the cloth as well as the textblock, which has foxing and some dampstaining throughout. Early discussion of cholera from a resident of Cincinnati, which suffered a great outbreak of it in the… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1939. First US edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very good. Blue cloth, gilt. Top edge red. A fine copy. The dustwrapper has some repair at the spine tips, noticeable along the top of the spine and affecting the letters of "THE", but still presents a near fine, bright appearance. Second book in White's Arthurian… Ler mais sobre este item

London: George Routledge, 1875. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. xxxi,(1),693pp. plus a 4 page undated publisher's catalogue in the rear. Full green morocco. Spine in six compartments, gilt. Gilt border rle on the boards, All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers, with the original cloth cover used as the front pastedown. Illustrated by the editor William B. Scott. The first several… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Thomas Tegg, 1810. First edition. Broadside. Fine. Hand-colored etching approximately 9-5/8 by 13 5/8 inches. Published on May 30, 1810. Framed and glazed in a simple antiqued gold wooden frame with a hunter green mat. Not examined out of frame but appears to be in fine condition. Frame size is 17 by 21 inches. There appears to… Ler mais sobre este item

Plainfield, VT: Bread and Puppet Theatre, 1974. Wraps. Very good. 8½ by 11 inches, stapled wraps. The outer wrap is on colored paper. Illustrated throughout with illustrations of the Stations of the Cross on one page and on the facing page appropriate music, generally scored for SATB or SAB or SSA. A small abrasion on the upper wrapper… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1858. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. LArge 4to. 407pp. Illustrated with full page engraved portraits of Sappho, Lucretia, Aspasia, Cleopatra, St. Cecilia, Heloise, Laura, Valentine de Milan, Joan d'Arc, Margaret of Anjou, Isabella of Castile, Lady Jane Grey, Pocahontas, La Valliere, Maria Theresa, Catherine II, Florence NIghtingale. A lovely Arts and… Ler mais sobre este item

Venice: Ducal Palace, 1601. Leaf. Fine. Single page of vellum, 12 by 16 inches, folded and with cuts along two margins to seal the page. Five lines of manuscript, the first two in Latin, then two in Italian, and the last in Latin, identifying Marino di Carvallo as the Venetian Ambassador appointed by the Doge of Venice to… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: The Altrurians, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 12mo. 127, (7)pp. THe final 6pp are announcements of Altrurian publications. Red cloth, gilt title on spine and upper board. Frontispiece portrait. A very good copy with only a trace of soil and wear. The elusive first edition, many times reprinted. Kropotkin was a scientist, writer, activist,… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Printed by H. M. and sold by T. Norris, et al., 1721. Hardcover. Very good. Volume VI of the Register. 348,(6) pp. followed by 'The Chronological DIary for the Year 1721', 44pp. 19th century half calf. Spine in six compartments, brown leather lettering label, marbled paper boards. The front blank has some ink notes dated 1737, Light… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1907. First US edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. xvi, 340pp. Red textured cloth, gilt title on spine, and upper board blocked in gilt and blind. Color frontispiece by Sargeant. Illustrated throughout with photographs. Folding map in rear. Light wear to the hinges and corners, spine lightly sunned, else this is a… Ler mais sobre este item

Des Moines: Mills & Co, 1885. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. iv, 312pp. Green printed cloth, gilt spine title, decorated endpapers. Illustrated and with a frontispiece of the author. Paper toned with age, neat ownership name and an erasure on a preliminary blank, else this is a very good copy. The binding may be a publisher's binding,… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Wesleyan Conference Office, 1836. Poor. Wooden paddle approximates 6½ by 3 inches, and probably made of Sitka spruce onto which is pasted a printed alphabet (on one side) and a list of words grouped phonetically (on the other). The printed paper is well worn and lacks edges affecting some letters which have been inserted directly on the… Ler mais sobre este item

n.p.: n.p., 19th Century (?). Hardcover. Very good. Large accordion-style book measuring 6½ by 16 by 3½ inches. Double paper pages pasted together in red and gilt covers and all edges gilt. Neatly written in Burmese script with black ink throughout. Light wear to the covers, some occasional light dampstaining, and one leaf with damage to the center… Ler mais sobre este item

New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1996. First edition, first printing. Fine. Hardcover. Thick 4to. Black cloth printed in white on the upper bard and with a color paste-on of the Count. Illustrated endpapers. A fine copy. Accompanied by a lithograph by the illustrator. It is housed in a red cloth portfolio and is in fine condition… Ler mais sobre este item

Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1925. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. xxvii, (1), 211,(1)pp. Green cloth, gilt spine title and gilt rule and device on the upper board. Glossary, Index. Corners and spine tips with light wear, else this is a very good copy. It is remarkable free from underlining or notes so often seen in this… Ler mais sobre este item

London: Wm. H. Allen and Co, 1843. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 2 volumes, 8vo. 401, 299, ciii pp. The large folding map is present. Contemporary full purple leather in a finely executed binding featuring the Scottish Wheel motif on the boards, spines in 5 compartments with raised bans, gilt, all edges gilt. gilt inner dentelles. Decorated endpapers. Frontispiece… Ler mais sobre este item