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174050862Petropoli St. Petersburg Typis Academiae 1740. 4to. No wrappers. In: "Classes Tertia continens Historica. Commentarii Academiae Scientiarum Imperialis Petropolitanae" Tomus VII ad Annos 1734 & 1735. The whole section of "Historica"offered. Title-page to Tome VII with engraved vignette halftitle to the section a. pp. 345-426 6 engraved plates. Bayer's paper: pp. 362-426 and 5 engraved plates with numerous chinese characters. Clean and broad-margined. <br/><br/><em>First printing in part of the first Western translation of any part of Confusius' influential Chun Cieu being the fourth volume of his works. "The title Chun Cieu Chunqiu signifies the Spring and Autumn. He discourses like an historian of the expditions of diversr princes of their Virtues and Vices of the fatigues they underwent. The title is an emblematic title because that states flourish when their Princes are endowed wit Virtue and Wisdom which is represented by the Spring and that on the contrary they fall like the leaves and are utterly destroyed when their Princes are dispirated or are wicked which is represented by the Autumn."James Legge.The section also comprises Bayer. Elementa Calmucia. 1 pp. and 1 engraved plate numerous characters and Bayer. De Venedis et Eridano Fluvvio. Pp. 346-361. </em> unknown
1769002166Paris: Laurent Prault and Bailly 1769. Hardcover. Very Good. Nouvelle édition. 2 volumes: 4 xlviii 479 p.; 4 552 p.: frontispiece in vol. 1; 17 cm. Original speckled calf with six spine compartments between raised bands; red and black morocco labels with gilt-tooled title and volume in the second and third compartments. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments; gilt rules on edges. All page edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece portrait of Jean de la Bruyere is signed: De St. Jean pinx.; P. Savart sculp. 1768. Title vignettes are signed: Gravelot and M. Fessard. Engraved head-pieces and initial letters. Front fixed endpapers bear armorial bookplate of Henry J. Williams whose surname is also written at the head of the title pages. Henry Jonathan Williams 1791-1879 the son of General Jonathan Williams was married to Julia Rush a daughter of Dr. Benjamin Rush; Williams was a lawyer and served as the executor of the large estate of his brother-in-law James Rush. Contents: vol. 1: Discours sur Théophraste -- Les Caractères de Théophraste -- Les Caractères ou Les Moeurs de ce Siècle; vol. 2: Les Caractères ou Les Moeurs de ce Siècle concluded -- Discours Prononcé dans l'Académie Françoise -- Défense de La Bruyère & de Ses Caractères Contre les Accusations & les Objections de Vigneul-Marville. In Very Good Condition: loss of leather at ends of spines and corners; vol. 1 front joint separated but stitching solid; vol. 2 front joint starting; scattered light foxing; occasional light soiling; otherwise clean and tight. Laurent Prault [and] Bailly hardcover
17852176Paris: Chez Les Libraires Associes 1785. Hardcover. Good. Vol. 1- 284 pages 4 illustrations. Vol. 2- 375 pages 4 illustrations. Vol. 3- 333 pages 2 illustrations. 5 x 8 1/4 in. Leather binding with marbling on leather end papers marbled edge of text block gilt. Condition of each volume is GOOD: leather very dry and flaky leather spines missing except partially on Vol. 2 covers worn esp. at corners pages with light foxing- paper white text complete bindings fine book plate of Alexander Trotter on inside of each front cover. Vol 1- front hinge cracked. Vol. 3- front hinge cracked and book plate torn. Chez Les Libraires Associes hardcover
17992539<p>Lipsia 1799. Hardback. Very Good/No Jacket. 1874 8vo. disposto con Ordine Etimologico da Cristiano Giuseppe Jagemann Socio Corrispondente dell'Accademia Fiorentina. 2 volumes: 'Parte Prima ove le voci italiane si convertono in tedesco Parte Seconda ove le voci tedesche si convertono in italiano con una raccolta di voci italiane che hanno affinita colla lingua tedesca o con altre lingue settentrionali'. Lipsia 1799 appresso Sigefredo Lebrecht Crusius. Half leather. Condition notes: Sound clean volumes although with age-tanning to pages especially to earliest and last. External page edges protected by red tinting. Leather somewhat rubbed boards a little knocked but attractive copies.</p> hardcover
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
1732EB5681Dublin: E. Dobson 1732. HB. Translated into English from the Greek and illustrated with notes historical geographical and critical." Printed by and for E. Dobson Bookseller at the Stationer's Arms in Castle Street. Rebound in brown cloth gilt lettering on spine 8vo. lvi 320 pp. Dedicated to Hugh Boulter 1672-1742 Archbishop of Armagh. With list of subscribers and errata. First two pages of dedication loose front and rear covers scuffed at bottom. No marks in text binding solid. With armorial bookplate of Jeremiah Milles DD 1714-1784 noted eighteen century scholar Dean of Exter and President of the Society of Antiquaries. Book condition VG-. E. Dobson hardcover
1734066933Paris France: Etienne Ganneau Librairie 1734. Book. Very Good. Full-Leather. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Full original deep brown calf 6 spine panel compartments with clamshell device 5 raised bands edges decorated in gilt. Leather nicely intact with surface loss along portions of back cover fore-edge mild rubbing to back cover and rear joint. xiv751 pp. with errata printed on final page of text. Etienne Ganneau Librairie Hardcover
17824105Paris: Philippe-Denys Pierres 1782. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover 1st a very nice copy in contemporary leather. Mottled leather with triple-rule border dentelles marbled endpapers edges gilted over red stain giving a coppery effect. All text pages are bright straight and clean. The gilted edges are a bit dulled as is the gilt-stamped spine. Corners bumped and worn; there is a gilt rule on the very edge of the boards and it is rubbed or broken in numerous places. Overall vg despite the wear on the binding. Engraved frontis and title vignette; different from the vignette in the Valade-Cazin edition published later the same year. A poem outlining the author's philosophy of outdoor design this book was terribly popular and went through many printings and translations very quickly. It was a major influence on British garden design which can still be detected today. 143 pp. French text. <br/> <br/> Philippe-Denys Pierres hardcover
171127824Amsterdam: Apud Henricum Schelte. 1711. Hardcover. Very Good- in No Dust Jacket dust jacket. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover G. P. Goold. Bound in quarter-leather with 5 raised bands to spine. Marbled boards are faded and rubbed. Minor chipping to a edges of a few pages. Slight waviness to boards. Inked date to ffep 1771 with initials inked to titlepage. Minor browning to titlepage.; 48 174 pp. Full title continues: "Est genus hominum qui esse primos se ommium rerum volunt Nec sunt Terentius"; Nova Scriptorum Latinorum Bibliotheca; 222 pages . Apud Henricum Schelte hardcover
1734002218Amsterdam: Aux Depens de la Compagnie 1734. Hardcover. Very Good -. xxiv 501 1 p.; 17 cm. Signatures: 12 A-X12 12mo. Half polished calf 18th- or early 19th-century with brown speckled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled leather labels in second and third compartments reading: Oeuvres du P. Du Cerceau; Tom. II. This was probably originally bound as a set with the author's Recueil de Poësies Diverses as volume 1. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Title page printed in red and black. Woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Includes the play Les Incommodites de la Grandeur. Front fixed endpaper bears an unusual engraved bookplate with the name Norrie and the head of an African man framed by two arms from a coat of armor. In an old hand on the title page: Poulet. In Very Good- Condition: lacking 1 cm. leather from head of spine; corners are heavily rubbed with loss of leather; boards rubbed; lightly foxed; occasionally lightly soiled in margins; otherwise clean and tight. Aux Depens de la Compagnie hardcover
1745002216Paris: Frères Guerin & Prault Fils 1745. Hardcover. Very Good -. 3 volumes 6 xxxiv 4 458 p.; 4 548 p.; 4 476 60 p. v. 1 frontispiece signed: "Et Jeaurat del. Et Fessard sculp."; 17 cm. Contemporary full polished calf; six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled leather labels in second and third compartments with title and volume numbers. Gilt-tooled decoration in remaining spine compartments and on board edges. All page edges speckled red. Woodcut title vignettes head-pieces and tail-pieces. Sometimes attributed to the abbé Joachim Legrand whose notes are said to have been used by Duclos cf. Quérard La France Littéraire. Includes index. Front fixed endpaper bears armorial bookplate with the motto: "Aedes Carthusianae in usum Carthusianorum" and an added label indicating that the books were donated by G.J. Allen Carthusiani in 1880. In Very Good- Condition: slight loss of leather at head of spines; joints are cracked; spines are rubbed; pages are clean and tight. Frères Guerin & Prault, Fils hardcover
171918448The Hague: Printed for Isaac Vaillant 1719. Small 8vo. pp. 16 293 11 with English and French on facing pages. Rebound in contemporary paperboards with white spine paper and hand-written spine label. Internally crisp and clean with only very minimal foxing and browning. First bilingual edition also published in the same year in English only. Dufresny dedicates the book to his pupil John Merrill junior to whom he was teaching French. Included in the book are 179 jests and sayings with the English version on the left hand side and the French translation opposite. Attractive red and black title page. OCLC lists three copies only . First Edition. Very Good. Printed for Isaac Vaillant hardcover
1796042229Lyon: Bruyset 1796. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. Frontispiece In Volume 1. Three Volumes . X Ii 407 Pp. Perhaps An Excised Leaf Between X And Ii; 395 I; 418 I. Original Spotted Calf Spines Gilt With Elaborate Decorations Original Title And Volume Numbers; Marbled Endpapers And Edges. Well Preserved Gilt Brilliant Although Frayed At Tips And With A Few Small Chips. <br/> <br/> Bruyset hardcover
1791001293Munich: Joseph Lentner 1791. Hardcover. Very Good -. Sur la seconde Edition." 8 243 1 p.: copper-engraved frontispiece; 16 cm. Signatures: 4 A-P8 Q2. Full red morocco; black morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title. Blind-tooled Greek key pattern on spine; both boards have blind-tooled border. Binder is unidentified but appears to be a late 18th- or early 19th-century binding. All page edges gilt. Green endpapers. Frontispiece engraved by Wassenhahn. Copper-engraved title vignette and tailpiece. Every page is printed within a decorative typographical border. Translation of: Gott ist die Reinste Liebe. Blind-tooled on front board: Le Cte. de la Laurentie. Light armorial stamp at head of table of contents reading: Couvent des Religieuses Dominicaines. In Very Good- Condition: leather is rubbed primarily along edges; very small scrape at head of front board; leather along lower fore-edge of front board is darkened; occasional light soiling of pages. A solid and nicely bound copy. Joseph Lentner 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
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
177254350Paris: J.P. Costard 1772. First Edition. Card_book. Very good. Each volume 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches. Vol. 1 1772; Abduction - Assertion 661 pages Errata page and fold-out chart ' Belle Lettres' Vol. 2. 1771: Assimilation - Cycle 718 pages Errata page and 4 page Approbation and Privilege du Roi. Vol. 3 1772: Dactyle - futur 664 pages. bound in original gray/green cardboard. Condition is Very Good: spines lightly faded covers lightly soiled previous owner's name on title pages otherwise unmarked binding is tight. Case RGR J.P. Costard unknown
179018615Halle: Hemmerdesche Buchhandlung. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1790. Hardcover. Bound in tan half calf edges and boards rubbed text block very good clean and tight. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall . Hemmerdesche Buchhandlung 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
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
17939418Paris: P. Didot. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1793. Hardcover. Full speckled tan calf edges lightly rubbed black title label gilt titles small piece of calf chipped away from head bookplate Folkestone black and green marbled endpapers. This is an attractive and quite scarce early edition of Florians work. ; 16mo; 208. pages . P. Didot hardcover
178931688Amsterdam: J. G. Treuttel. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1789. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Military; Maps Military; French Revolution; 18th Century; Patial color and b/w; Folio 13" - 23" tal; Recueil des plans de batailles sieges et combats arrives dans les expeditions memorables da la guerre de sept ans pour servir a l'intelligence des oeuvres Posthumes de Frederic II roi de Prusse. Contemporary boards worn. Binding sound. 17 x 13.5". Engraved partly hand-colored table 17 18 of 19 total engraved partly hand-colored battle maps 1756-1759- primarily large double-page & folding. Occasionally slightly toned but generally clean of markings and tears. On good quality paper. Ex-library - blind stamp on title page. . J. G. Treuttel hardcover
17976075Berlin & Stettin: Berlin & Stettin: No publisher or date stated 1797. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 X 7 inches high. 217 pages. Marbled boards with tan leather label on spine not the original binding--looks like early 20th C. Condition of the book is VERY GOOD; Very light wear to covers & spine pages are very clean with no foxing or staining binding is tight bookplate of Victor Lange on front pastedown. Text in German. STK. Berlin & Stettin: No publisher or date stated hardcover
179281178Edinburgh: Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 1792. First Edition. . Half-Leather. Very Good/No Jacket as issued. Extract from Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 1792 pages 402-468 with home-made title page professionally bound in brown leather/cloth with gilt decoration and titling. Light rubbing to spine; top edge gilt; light tanning to fore-edge. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall <br/> <br/> Society of Antiquaries of Scotland hardcover
18006073Berlin: Berlin: No publisher stated 1800-1804. Hardcover. Very Good. Each volume 4 1/4 X 7 inches high. Series published between 1800 and 1804. Vol. I 1800 viii 256 pages Vol. II 1800 239 pages Vol. III 1801 252 pages Vol. IV 1801 222 pages Vol. V 1804 240 pages. Half brown calf with marbled boards red leather labels on spines. Condition of books is VERY GOOD; The present bindings appear to be bound over an earlier bindingmoderate wear to covers & spine ends text is very clean with no foxing or toning bindings are tight. Bookplate of Victor Lange on front pastedowns. Text in German. STK. Berlin: No publisher stated hardcover
