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178448527London: Rivington J. C. Et Al. Good. 1784. Leather. University library withdrawl in smooth leather much chafed but and just showing through on corners. Brown reinforcing tape along spine and to inside hinges and extending 3/4" onto boards. Previous owner has drawn a sailboat on each pastedown. Book is remarkably tight and square looking except for very slight browning to have had slight use only. Florid inscription to ffep. Clear text essentially free of any foxing or marking. 419 pp . Rivington, J. C. Et Al. hardcover
1730BA3071<p>London: Printed for B. Motte 1730. 4th. HB. Written in the Year 1709 and Addressed to the Right Honourable John Lord Roos the Present Duke of Rutland". Full brown tooled leather 12 mo. 243 pp. Front cover detached but present. 5 Raised bands on spine. Edge wear wear to corners loss top and bottom of spine. Ffep has 1/4" hole in center. No marks in book binding solid. The fourth edition with some alterations and additions. Book condition Good-.</p> Printed for B. Motte hardcover
1796235516Caspar Fritsch Leipzig 1796. Hardcover Leder Zustand: Das Vorsatzblatt fehlt das Buch beginnt mit dem Schmutztitel mit Klosterstempel. Rücken Ecken Kanten bestoßen aber ohne Schäden. Fleckenfrei. Caspar Fritsch, Leipzig, hardcover
1797030640Leipzig: G. L. Goethe 1797. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Xii 398 Pp Errata Page At End. Original Binding And Endpapers Marbled Boards. Binding Worn And Frayed At Corners And Edges But Quite Solid Entirely Intact; Pages Aged But Square And Clean No Wear Or Damage. Scarce; Only Three Institutional Holdings Identified In Worldcat. <br/> <br/> G. L. Goethe hardcover
17909828Paris Armand-Aubree c. 1790. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. Contemporary Quarter brown calf with brown marbled paper boards. Four raised bands at spine with scrolled decoration at tail and two darker brown leather spine labels with gilt lettering. 2 hand-colored engravings. Condition is VERY GOOD ; some wear to corners and edges covers slightly rubbed labels good. Lower front corner has a crack and is slightly bent. Binding firm and text clean with some mild foxing. Text in French. RGR. Paris Armand-Aubree hardcover
175238539Paris: La Veuve Didot Nyon La Veuve Damonneville Savoye & Durand 1752. Hardcover. Very Good . 4 x 7 in. Half ivory vellum with marbled paper gilt text edges marbled endpapers leather spine label. Most likely a 19th c. binding. Condition is VERY GOOD ; minor shelf wear clean spine label very good. Binding tight and text clean and unmarked possibly washed. 1918 gift message on later blank before title pg. Text in French. Fine Bind. RGR. La Veuve Didot, Nyon, La Veuve Damonneville, Savoye & Durand hardcover
179917538Paris: Pierre Didot. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1799. Hardcover. 2 vol set full calf gilt decorated spines edges lightly rubbed marbled end papers a lovely clean tight set. ; 16mo 6" - 7" tall . Pierre Didot hardcover
177630776A. J. Valpy. 1776. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Book has been rebound in 1/2 leather boards with gilt lettering to spine. Marbled boards. Some edgewear to boards. Corners a bit edgeworn. Marbled endpapers. Endpapers browned.; Preface dated 1776. Book likely published 1776-1778 .; Latin Edition; 501 pages . A. J. Valpy hardcover
174320314London: Angel in the Poultry Cheapside. 1743. Hardcover. Good in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Rebound in red buckram cloth. Dedication page repaired. Some light staining on the title and half-title some light foxing in the text and light damp-staining in the bottom margin else VG printed on crisp heavy paper. Title in red and black. Former owner's name in ink.; First edition. Vol. II only Aeneid IV-XII. Pp 202-744.; Volume 2 Only; 2; 542 pages . Angel in the Poultry, Cheapside hardcover
179051606Brussels: Chez Emmanuel Flon 1790. Full leather. Good . 3 x 5 1/2 in. Full contemporary calf with calf spine labels and numbers. Vol 1 has a frontis and each has a few plates. Condition is GOOD ; covers clean with wear to corners and spine ends. Vols 3 and 4 have some starting to front hinge both are holding fine vol. 1 has a little just at the top. Corners worn vols 13 and 4 have a bit of loss to spine head. All bindings very solid. Vol. 1 has some faded gray stains to the text throughout all are quite readable. All have an early name in pencil and a later one in copperplate. Text in French. RGR. Chez Emmanuel Flon hardcover
175943712Paris: Briasson Parault. Duchesne. Tillard 1759. Full leather. Very good. 4 x 6 1/2 in. 293 pp. of text with errata etc. Full brown calf contemporary binding with inke decorations gilt rules and flowers. Marbled endpapers marbled text edges. Maroon calf spine labels. Condition is VERY GOOD ; leather supple with some surface crackelure a little loss to spine ends. Binding tight and text bright and unmarked a touch of foxing. Rare. RGR. Briasson, Parault. Duchesne. Tillard hardcover
180053586Jena: Jena: Friedrich Frommann 1800-1803. First German language edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 7 x 8 1/2 inches high. Vol. I 1800 167 pages Vol. II 1801 183 pages Vol. III 1802 155 pages Vol. IV 1803 199 pages. Quarter calf with tan boards brown cloth corners 5 raised bands and red leather label on spine edges of text block red. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Light wear to boards some gilt lettering & decoration in compartments on spine has been rubbed off binding is tight light water stain to bottom corner of text block does not extend into text area otherwise text is very clean with no foxing etc. Text in German STK. Jena: Friedrich Frommann hardcover
1792000587Paris: Didot l'Ainé 1792. Hardcover. Good . 2 volumes of 3: vol. 1: xvi 236 p.; vol. 3: 240 p.; 13 cm. Half polished black calf with marbled paper over boards. Red leather gilt-tooled spine labels; gilt-tooled spine ornamentation. All page edges speckled red. Terra cotta endpapers. Front fixed endpapers bear engraved armorial book plate of George Paget with the Paget family motto "Per il suo Contrario." This was presumably Lord George Augustus Frederick Paget 1818-1880 who served in the Crimean War as a senior officer of the Light Cavalry brigade under Lord Cardigan and was present at the infamous Charge of the Light Brigade; he was later made Inspector General of Cavalry. In Good Condition: edges and boards are somewhat rubbed; leather corners are scraped with most of leather lacking from upper corners of vol. 1; part of leather spine label lacking from vol. 3; pages are clean and tight. An attractive if incomplete set of this romantic retelling of Gonzalo Fernandez de Cordoba 1453-1515 and the conquest of Granada by French writer Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian 1755-1794. Didot l'Ainé hardcover
17676057Braunschweig: Braunschweig: Schroders Erben 1767. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 x 8 inches high. 383 pages. Full calf decorated with green & brown stains to make an unusual sort of 'camoflage' effect 5 raised bands and red leather label on spine edges of text block red. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Light wear to exterior one of 2 labels missing on spine binding is tight pages are lightly but uniformly toned otherwise text is very clean with no foxing etc. Volume I only. Text in German STK. Braunschweig: Schroders Erben hardcover
1778274500chez D.J. Changuion Amsterdam chez Pissot Paris 1778. Softcover Nur tome XII. Zustand: keine Eintragungen. Rücken Ecken Kanten stark bestoßen berieben und randrissig. Einband mit Fehlstellen Rücken fast gänzlich abgeschabt. Block mit Eselsohren. Druckbögen sind unbeschnitten. Bindung ist sehr schwach. Einband und Schnitt etwas angestaubt. In allem original. chez D.J. Changuion, Amsterdam + chez Pissot, Paris, paperback
17876047Leipzig: Leipzig: Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius 1787. First German language edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 478 pages. Tan paint decorated sponged boards red leather label on spine edges of text block are dyed red. Condition of book is VERY GOOD; Wear to edges & corners of covers & spine binding is tight occasional light toning & light foxing all text is very legible. Bookplate of Victor Lange on front pastedown. Text in German. STK. Leipzig: Siegfried Lebrecht Crusius hardcover
176030869Gotth. Theophili Georgi & Udalr. Christianus Saalbach. 1760. Hardcover. Fair in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Full leather binding. Corners edgeworn. Spine browned. Ex-library copy with usual stamps call numbers. Boards are worn. Front board almost detached but holding. Rear board starting to weaken with crack along upper part of joint. A few small ink stains to textblock. Former owner's name to ffep and obverse of titlepage. Last page has lower corner torn no loss of text. A few tiny holes through pages insect damage. Foxing passim. Minor pencilling to a few pages. Pages tanned. Fair to good.; Xxvi 507 pp; Vol. 1 Only; 1; 506 pages . Gotth. Theophili Georgi & Udalr. Christianus Saalbach hardcover
1753066477Hamburg Germany: Johann Carl Bohn 1753. Book. Good. Half-Leather. 2nd Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Original 1/2 leather mottled paper-covered boards paper author label mounted on upper spine panel 4 raised bands. Leather rubbed on spine and along joints with chip of loss at heel of spine rubbed at corners and portions of edges with mild exposure. Text block edges partially marked with what appears to be black marker for reasons unknown possibly to obscure an institutional stamp. Handwritten notation in Latin inside front cover otherwise unmarked. Illus. main title shows vintage instituational stamp. xxxii33410 pp. Johann Carl Bohn Hardcover
1710001486France 1710. Paperback. Very Good . Traduit de l'Anglois." 24 p.; 20 cm. Signatures: A-C4 4to. No publication information. At foot of p. 24: "Londres le 10 20 Février 1710" although largely trimmed off in this copy. Knuttel 15905. The identity of the English-language original if it exists has not been established. A very scarce pamphlet from the War of the Spanish Succession arguing that the stronger claim to the Spanish throne lay with the Austrian claimant Archduke Charles rather than with the French claimant Philip based on blood and degree rather than on Salic Law. In Very Good Condition: stitched edge slightly rubbed; light foxing in some margins; otherwise clean and bright. paperback
1762002919Avignon France: Antoine-Ignace Fez 1762. Hardcover. Very Good -. xii 4 622 2 p.; 17 cm. Signatures: pi8 A-2C12 12mo. Contemporary full calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title "Vie de S. Vinc. de Paul" on red morocco label in second compartment. Gilt-decoration in remaining compartments. All page edges red. Error in signing: Qv signed Qvi. Printed paper label on front fixed endpaper for bookseller Louis-Guillaume Labottiere Bordeaux. In an old hand on title page: "ex libris Congregationis Missionis domus Burdigalensis Catalogo inscriptus." Short inscription on front fixed endpaper. The author Pierre Collet 1693-1770 wrote this biography following the beatification in 1729 and canonization in 1737 of St. Vincent de Paul 1581-1660. It was first published anonymously in 1748; in this somewhat abridged version it became very popular. In Very Good- Condition: leather rubbed with minor loss at tail of spine; corners heavily rubbed; lower corners bumped; some loss of gilt on spine; faint dampstain at upper page corners; otherwise clean and tight. Antoine-Ignace Fez hardcover
1739002874Hamburg Ger: T.C. Felginers Wittwe und Joh. Carl Bohn 1739. Hardcover. Good -. Title continued: "Wobey zugleich die Eigenschaften der Geister überhaupt mit erörtert." Zweytes Stück Dritte Betrachtung. 8 xvi 543 1 p.; 21 cm. Signatures: 4 a-b4 A-Y4 4to. Original brown cloth spine and marbled paper over boards. The four-leaf dedication to a former mayor of Hamburg Johann Anderson signed 4 and dated May 4 1740 is inserted following the title page. Woodcut title vignette printer's device signed C. Fritzsch sc Christian Fritzsch 1695-1747. Woodcut head- and tailpieces. Druckfehler on final unpaginated page. In Good- Condition: the original binding is quite worn: most of cloth lacking from spine and fore-edge of front board partially lacking; pp. 193-240 signatures 2B-2G are detached from text block as a unit; occasional light foxing and faint dampstain at upper edge or fore-edge; otherwise clean and complete. T.C. Felginers Wittwe und Joh. Carl Bohn hardcover
17630005877Glasgow: Aedibus Academicis / Robert & Andrew Foulis 1763. New edition. Hardcover. Fair. 16mo 237pp. contemporary full calf raised bands red morocco label front joint splitting; X-library with bookplate rubber-stamped on contents page & p. 25; also ex libris Hon. T. Fose Jr. and "the celebrated Dr. Archibald Cameron". Archibald Cameron of Lochiel 17077 June 1753 was a doctor and a prominent leader in the Jacobite rising of 1745. On 7 June 1753 at Tyburn he was the last Jacobite to be executed for high treason. <br/><br/>Attributed to Dionysius Halicarnassus and Cassius Longinus altho probably by neither man. It is a classical treatise on aesthetics and the effects of good writing written as a series of epistles. A bi-lingual edition with Greek and Latin. Also contains his FRAGMENTA with a two-page publisher's catalog at the end. Lowndes 1394 . Aedibus Academicis / Robert & Andrew Foulis hardcover
17704095Paris: Chez Lotlin/Chez La Combe 1770. Hardcover. Good. Instructions for Lords and their Valets". Possibly a 1st edition; the 'Approbation' is dated 1769. This is extremely scarce; we haven't heard of another copy. I had no luck finding the identity of Monsieur "R" but I don't read French. Good plus in a very old binding possibly contemporary. Full leather finished with a marbling effect boards slt. bowed gilt borders gilt title and many devices on spine marbled endpapers red chalk edges. Corners worn and bumped spine ends worn external front hinge weak so that leather is beginning to split. 2" near the top. The text has been trimmed for the binding but the margins were quite large. The tail of a trimmed-off owner's name appears at the top of the title page. The 18th-century marbled paper is quite beautiful; the binder was a bit clumsy and there are creases in both pastedowns. A splay of foxing on the half-title page but nowhere else. Text pages in French very clean and bright. Printed by Lottin one of the more prolific publishers of 18th-century France. 278 pp. An interesting guide to recommended behavior published just 19 years before the Revolution. <br/> <br/> Chez Lotlin/Chez La Combe hardcover
177720879Paris: P. Fr. Gueffier 1777. Hardcover. Good. 632 p. 4 fold out illustrations at rear. 5 1/4 x 7 3/4 in. Brown quarter leather binding with mottled tan boards gold printing on spine. Condition of the book is GOOD: wear and soiling to covers and spine corners worn spine edges worn though still securely attached edges of text block darkened pages clean fold-out illustrations at rear clean though improperly folded at some point one page dog eared binding fine a few stamps from a religious institution Residentia Rothomagensis inside front cover and on title page. RGRR P. Fr. Gueffier hardcover
1786001297Heilbronn Germany: Eckebrechtischen Buchhandlung 1786. Hardcover. Very Good -. Zweyte unveränderte Auflage. Published at Heilbronn and Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Vol. 1 parts 1 and 2. 14 908 p.; 20 cm. 8vo. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between gilt rules; red morocco spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title: Mosheim's Kirchengeschichte. Small black morocco label in third compartment with gilt-tooled volume number. Front free endpaper bears former owner inscriptions in German script indicating that Joseph Laross purchased the book in 1821 for $12 and sold it to Isaac Schelhammer in 1828. Both a Joseph Laross and an Isaac Schelhammer were Pennsylvania residents in this period indicating that this volume had entered the American book market. Volume contains both the first and second parts of the first volume. Pagination is continuous. The title page for part one specifies "Erster Theil welcher die drey ersten Jahrhunderte enthält" and that for part two notes "Zweyter Theil welcher das vierte bis auf das siebende Jahrhundert enthält." Wood-engraved tail pieces. In Very Good- Condition: rubbed with slight loss of leather at ends of spine; front joint separating from head of spine for 7 cm.; a few page corners are creased; pages are clean and tight. Eckebrechtischen Buchhandlung hardcover