The British Gardener's Calendar, Chiefly Adapted to the Climate of North-Britain : directing the necessary works in every month, in the kitchen, fruit and pleasure-garden...to which is added a dissertation of forest trees and a catalogue of seeds, roots por Justice. James - 1759

London: Ernest Nister/ E.P. Dutton New York Printed in Bavaria No. 853, 1897 approx.. Hardcover. Good. Doublepage pop-up scenes (5) full of children - blind man's buff, boating, bicycling, farmyard etc.. Folio cloth spine pictorial boards (spine worn to head & foot/covers edge worn) 31pp. Titlepage torn without loss but with old cellotape marks, gutters of 3 leaves reinforced with newer linen tape, a few edge tears never touching printed or pop-up areas but 3 with old tape removal marks (less than 1" into margin). The pop-ups are all complete and in working order with only part of one stag's horn in facsimile. One pony's tail re-attached from the back & a few wrong folds strengthened on back (invisibly). All sorts of fragile pieces such as duck heads, ribbons flying, fingers etc are all intact. The text page edges have fared less well with some edge fingering and some edge chips but never affecting any print. The pop-up leaves are on thicker and better quality paper and have edge rubbing but no… Ler mais

Published by George C. Leighton, London, 1874. 620 numbered pages, illustrations and advertisements throughout, with 25 of 26 supplements. Content includes 33 double and many more single page engravings. Subject matter includes (along with many others..) The Tichborne Trial, Black Watch Forest Ashanti war, Portrait engravings of Gladstone and Disraeli, Royal Marriage - Duke & Duchess of Edinburgh, Fine Art Supplement 1874.2 copies available:Good to V.Good, spine rubbed but binding intact, pages clean with some light foxing, previously missing pages 123, 619, Nursery Tales (supplement) have been replaced with bound-in copies. Half red morocco spine, plum cloth sides, gilt year on spine of folio hardback.Fair, missing pages replaced with digitally reproduced copies bound in place.Note: This volume is heavy (42x32x6cm, approx 6kg). Arrangements can be negotiated for the most cost effective method of delivery.

Harper & Brothers, New York 1938. NF/VG RARE First editonPrice of $2.75 on dj. Blue boards with gilt titles on front and spine. Also a white etching of a horse and buggy on front board. Book is in NF condition, tight, no marks, no smells, no foxing. Original b & w photos throughout depicting a physician's life in over 100 years ago. Rare dust jacket. Water color illustration on front of by Salter showing a physician in a horse and buggy traveling down a country lane. Normal edge and spine wear for a book nearly 100 years old. One small tear in dj at bottom of spine.Here in a book of enchanting intimacy and homely humor is the story of an American country doctor- of countless country doctors all over America. A colorful figure in the medical word today, head of the Hertzler Clinic at Halstead, Kansas, "Pop" Hertzler began his career forty years ago under conditions of pioneer hardship - when it was a case of "root hog or die" for children and adults alike.

First edition of Volume 1, 1737, London. Volume 1 of 2. Modern fine binding of quarter leather and marbled boards by Starr Bookworks. Interior is good. Library stamp on title page, some notations on preface, occasional pencil notes in text. Title page is backed with rice paper. Some edges chipped not affecting text. Last page is high quality facsimile. Paginates: [12], 420. Modern blanks. Extremely rare. OCLC locates 10 physical copies. Auction records do not find any sold at auction. Please see scans of the book you will receive. Feel free to inquire.

Venice: Appresso Gio Battista, Marchio Sessa, & fratelli, 1573. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Fair. In Italian and Latin. 8vo. 8 1/4 x 6. Elaborate printer's device depicting a cat between cherubs on title page. Collated and complete. [vi], 389 ff. Binder's copy. Front board loose, 1 inch chip from spine base, boards rubbed with some loss from corners, ownership stamps and numerous handwritten names on front & rear flyleaf, minor tape repairs to front hinge, minimal marginalia. A collection of poems by the Roman poet Horace, with commentary by Italian humanist Giovanni Fabrini, a grammarian and linguist whose skills earned him a position teaching members of the aristocracy in Venice. This second edition was published seven years after the 1566 original which, along with his publications of works by Cicero, Terenzio, Virgil, etc., was credited with popularizing classical Latin during the Renaissance era. Horace's poems were extremely well-regarded by contemporary scholars (Quintillian stated, 'He can be… Ler mais

1938. Good. DUNTHORNE, GORDON. Flower and Fruit Prints of the 18th and Early 19th Centuries. Their History, Makers and Uses, With a Catalogue Raisonne Of The Works In Which They Are Found. Washington, DC: published by the author, 1938, First edition, limited to 2500 copies. Folio, pp.xiv, 275, illus. w. 37 color plates and 35 halftone plates. Index. Orig. coated linen cloth with leather spine label and gilt dec. leather inset on front cover. Slipcase. Signed by the author. Some remnants of scotch tape adhesive on front free end paper, otherwise a very nice copy. This is one of the 750 copies to have a fold-out color plate listing the subscribers.

1773 Wurttemberg German Holy Roman Empire Sattler COINS Protestant Reformation
Christian Sattler's 'History of the Duchy of Wurttemberg' is a rare 18th-century historical account describing the politics of one of the major territories of the Holy Roman Empire. This region was notable for its long-lasting survival, especially during the Protestant Reformation. This 1773 account is important for its inclusion of illustrated coins and medallions featuring portraits of famous figures as well as flags and coats-of-arms.
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Price: $499
SATTLER, Christian Friedrich
Christian Friderich Sattlers ... Geschichte des Herzogthums Würtenberg unter der Regierung der Herzogen. Theil 6 Mit 69. Urkunden und einigen Kupfern bestärket

Ulm: Stettin, 1773.

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1693 French Emblemata Charles de la Rue Poetry Louis XIV France EMBLEM Royalty

A rare 17th-century illustrated book of poetry and emblemata by Charles de la Rue. La Rue, a Jesuit writer, was known mostly for his works on panegyrics, this book includes illustrated emblems and medals, poetry, dramatic and tragedy plays, as well as Jesuit liturgical works. A fine complete edition.

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RUE, Charles de la
Caroli Ruaei e Societate Jesu Carminum libri quatuor.
Antverpiae: Apud Balthasarem Moretum, 1693.

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London: Charles J. Skeet, 1859. First edition. A rare personal account of the Crimean War, written soon after the events described. Orange red buckram, with gilt titles to the spine. Darkened to the spine and with some marks to the boards. Binding is a little shaken, with a slight lean. Pages are a little darkened, with some foxing spots. Errata. Adverts for recent publications to rear. [vi], 351 [i], [4]. pp The author (anonymous here but Charles Townshend Wilson) was with the Coldstream Guards. He purchased his commission in 1839, was an Ensign by 1842, a captain in 1846 and Lt Colonel in 1854. He served at Alma, Balaclava and Inkemann, as well as at the Siege of Sebastapol. He received the Crimea Medal with 4 bars, and retired by sale in 1855. Died in 1887. 200 by 130mm (7¾ by 5 inches).