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324468Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1980. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. All six volumes Very Good Leather Bound. Book accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints to ensure the highest quality binding. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines. Foxing on text block edges of all six volumes.; Great Books of The Western World. Franklin Library hardcover
178928218Basle: J. J. Tourneisen. Very Good. 1789. Reprint. Hardcover. 9 volumes of 13 vol. Set. Missing vols. 1 23 4. Brown morocco leather Arabic numerals on spine bands. Last volume #13 states "Notes to the six first volumes." Maroon spine label six bands. Boards mildly bowed corners turned inward slightly spine edges lightly rubbed. Inner pages show foxing sunning but are otherwise unmarked. Extra postage will be required for this multi-volume set. . J. J. Tourneisen hardcover
55140London: Printed for W. Allason; B. Whitrow and Co.; C. Chapple; W. Barton; J. Evans and Son; J. Greenhill; J. Harwood; R. Hill; G. Hebert; W. Harris; T. Mason; R. Scholey; J. Maynard; T. Bohn; and 11 others 1819. 12 vols. 'A New Edition' 8vo. First vol. with portrait frontispiece vols. I and II each with a folding map. A little toned offsetting from the plates very occasional light foxing but generally clean. Contemporary tan diced calf neatly rebacked spines attractively gilt with titles vol. numbers and dates gilt borders marbled edges drab endpapers. Lightly rubbed a little staining to boards corners frayed but a very good good-looking set. Armorial bookplate of William Jeffrey Lockett to front pastedown of each volume. The shield depicts the arms of Lockett and Johnson implying this is William Jeffrey Lockett 1768-1839 whose mother Hannah was a Johnson. Lockett was a Derbyshire solicitor and Deputy Clerk of the Peace who was instrumental in organising the trial of the Luddite Pentrich Rebels in 1817. Gibbon's 1737-1794 masterpiece originally published 1776-1788. Volume I contains a 'Life of Edward Gibbon Esq.' on pp.3-16 volume XII contains a general index on pp.429-508. Each volume has its own contents page. Printer statement to title-page verso: Plummer and Brewis Printers Love-Lane Little Eastcheap. London: Printed for W. Allason; B. Whitrow and Co.; C. Chapple; W. Barton; J. Evans and Son; J. Greenhill; J. Harwood; R. Hill; hardcover
1920683Philidelphia: John Morris Co 1920. Diocleation. John Morris Co unknown
201025Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library 1983. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. All 6 volumes Near Fine Leather Bound Accented in 22kt gold. Printed on archival paper with gilded edges. The endsheets are of moire fabric with a silk ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints. This book is in full leather with hubbed spines.; The Great Books of the Western World. Franklin Library hardcover
1829139663London: Joseph Cross Simpkin and Marshall and Effingham Wilson 1829. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. London Joseph Cross Simpkin and Marshall and Effingham Wilson 1829. Large duodecimo x 222 xxiv appendix pages plus a folding map of the world printed surface approximately 210 × 350 mm. Recent period-style half speckled calf and marbled boards retaining an early leather title-label and endpapers complete with the binder's stamp of 'Eedy Binder 37 Tavistock St'; minimal signs of age and use; essentially a fine copy. Written and published while Wakefield was serving a three year sentence in Newgate Gaol for abduction it first appeared as letters to the 'Morning Chronicle' from August to October 1829. Although Wakefield was not the originator of the theory of systematic colonization 'his was one of the earliest and clearest visions of an empire-by-consent' Pike. In this influential work he 'argued that if settlement were concentrated waste lands of the crown could be readily sold and the proceeds applied to the emigration of labourers preferably young married couples thereby giving maximum population relief in Britain and ensuring a balanced fruitful colonial society. Sufficiency of labour and a congenial society would attract capital encourage emigration assure prosperity and justify the rights of a colony to elect representatives to its own legislature' 'Australian Dictionary of Biography'. <p>The map in this copy is from the first issue dated 29 October 1829. <p>Provenance: Dr Robert Edwards AO 1930-2023; earlier 'withdrawn' stamp of Lincoln's Inn Library; with the bookplate of lawyer and antiquary Charles Purton Cooper KC 1793-1873 who in 1834 'presented to Lincoln's Inn Library two thousand volumes on civil and foreign legal works having previously presented a hundred and fifty volumes of American Law Reports' biographical fact-sheet from the Provincial Grand Lodge of Mark Master Masons of Kent accessed on the United Industrious Lodge 31 website. Joseph Cross, Simpkin and Marshall, and Effingham Wilson hardcover
28917London G. Kearsley 1789. Octavo Vol I:xii570 pages Vol II:xii562 pages original boards bound in calf gilt lettering and raised bands on spine marbled edges and endpapers rubbed lightly foxed some chipping to the spine of both volumes some bumped corners a very good copy. First edition abridgement London, G. Kearsley, 1789 hardcover
23413for Longman Brown Green & Longman & others . London 1848. Portrait and folding maps. 8vo 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches contemporary full tan calf sides ruled in gilt spines gilt extra in 4 compartments with black lettering piece & burgundi numbering piece inset with red numerals within gilt decoration all edges marbled. Upper joint of volume 1 cracked but firm on cords. Overall a handsome set in good condition & generally very clean internally. Please excuse the reflection in the photograph of one of the covers. Very heavy extra overses shipping will therefore be requested. for Longman, Brown, Green, & Longman [ & others ]. London, 1848. unknown
151831741London: I Lackington Allen and Co. et al; II Printed for John Murray 1815 1814. Seventeen volumes 8vo "Decline and Fall." 12 volumes with a portrait frontispiece and 2 folding maps "Miscellaneous Works" second edition 5 volumes with a portrait frontispiece 4 plates and a folding genealogy. Some occasional light foxing particularly to the maps marbled endpapers and edges bookplates of Baron Dimsdale. Uniformly bound in contemporary calf corners with some wear neatly rebacked "Decline and Fall" retaining the original green morocco labels "Miscellaneous Works" with new labels. "This masterpiece of historical penetration and literary style has remained one of the ageless historical works. Gibbon brought a width of vision and a critical mastery of the available sources which have not been equalled to this day." Printing and the Mind of Man 222. Norton p.115 & no. 134. London: [I] Lackington, Allen and Co. [et al]; [II] Printed for John Murray unknown
189573476chLakefield Ont. 1895. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4th Edition. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. A variant of the fourth edition bound in original medium green buckram not pebbled cloth hard covers with beveled edges. Decorative stamped gilt front board; rear is blind-stamped the same. All edges gilt; silver and green patterned rampant lions coated endpapers. Hand-coloured title-page plus 10 hand-coloured plates. This copy neither signed nor numbered and while including the "Introductory Note to the Fourth Edition" the title-page does not indicate fourth edition and bears neither the Briggs imprint nor the copyright notice at the bottom. Slightest toning to upper edge of boards. Mild toning toward edges of text. Tissue-guard at title-page is lost; others show some creasing and/or tearing to edges. Skiff of original green watercolour to verso title-page; short closed tear to top margin of p.37-8. Otherwise clean tight and unmarked. Very neat -- a really beautiful bright sound copy of the fourth edition. . Hardcover
200760587EB: Chronicle Books. Very Good. 2007. Hardcover. Hardcover. Folio. Chronicle Books San Franciso CA. 2007. 720 pgs. Illustrated throughout with color photographs. First Edition/First Printing. Issued in a publishers padded leather briefcase. Briefcase is chipped worn and scuffed. Bound black cloth boards with gilt titles present to the spine and Playboy bunny front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. With the first Centerfold who just happened to be the radiant Marilyn Monroe Hugh Hefner masterminded a cultural icon: Playboy's Playmate of the Month. Now for the first time ever Playboy has gathered together every Centerfold from every issue into one luxurious collector's edition. That's over 600 beauties. We've reproduced these Centerfolds exactly as they appeared in the magazine to create a full-size deluxe volume. Paging through this colossal chronological collection provides a breathtaking view of our evolving appreciation of the female form: from the fifties fantasy of voluptuous blondes to the tawny beach girls of the seventies to the groomed and toned women of today. Housed in a handsome leather briefcase lined with velvet this impressive tome is the ultimate indulgence for every passionate collector. EB; 25.0 X 13.2 X 4.1 inches; 720 pages . Chronicle Books hardcover
1827322776London: Thomas M'Lean; James Goodwin; W. Sharpe and Son; G. and J. Robinson 1827. Hardcover. Very Good. 12 vols. IN THE ORIGINAL BOARDS. A complete set of twelve hardcover books bound in 1/4 brown cloth and the original plain boards. Very good condition across the set. Corners of boards are scuffed and lightly bumped. Some fairly mild abrasions spotting and creases to the paper spine labels. Pages are lightly foxed although there is heavier foxing on the frontispiece portrait of Gibbon in volume 1. Small closed tear in the folding map in volume 1. Early owner's neat signature on title page of volume 3; this volume's boards are slightly bowed. Edge of volume 5's back cover is lightly bumped. Small dent at bottom of volume 8's back cover; boards slightly bowed here as well. Otherwise a clean tight sturdy set. "A New Edition" as stated on the title page published in 1827 the first edition was published incrementally from 1776-1788. This copy of the set contains the bookseller ticket of Foyle's of London. The first two volumes contain folding maps. As issued in the original boards. Early 19th century British books were normally issued in plain bindings of cloth spines and paper-covered boards; the intent was that the buyer would have the books rebound in custom leather to their own liking. As a result books with the original publisher's bindings of plain boards are quite scarce. Thomas M'Lean; James Goodwin; W. Sharpe and Son; G. and J. Robinson hardcover
1848111111114725Printed for Longman Brown Green and Longmans 1848. Leather. Very Good. Printed for Longman Brown Green and Longmans; London 1848. Hardcover. Complete 8 Volume Set. Family Set. Herbert Claiborne Pell bookplate affixed to front pastedown. Herbert Claiborne Pell was an American diplomat and public servant whose career included service as United States Minister to Portugal and later to Hungary. He was known for his interest in international cooperation and for his work with the United Nations War Crimes Commission during the final years of the Second World War. Pell came from a prominent Rhode Island family with long standing ties to public life and his legacy continued through his son Claiborne Pell who became a well-known United States Senator. A Very Good full leather binding with gilt ornate design on spines gilt lettering on spine labels spine labels are chipped with loss marbled text block edges and endpapers/pastedowns some age toning to pages leather spines a bit age/sun toned ribbon markers some age spotting to leather boards bit of rubbing along board edges bit of scattered foxing to front and back matters slightly starting hinges crease bottom corner last three pages of Volume 3 fold out map in Volume 1 present. A nice and clean set. 8vooctavo or approx. 6 x 9 inches. Vol.1 509pp. Vol.2 488pp. Vol.3 571pp. Vol.4 533pp. Vol.5 555pp. Vol.6 501pp. Vol.7 555pp. Vol.8 545pp. index. We pack securely and ship daily with delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scans are available for any item please inquire. Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans hardcover
198368356Franklin Library. 1983. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good. Full brown leather binding all edges gilt silk moiré endpapers three raised spine bands. Includes three publisher booklets produced for this "25th Anniversary Edition of the Great Books of the Western World." . Franklin Library hardcover
1872903009Covent Garden London: Bell & Daldy 1872 A beautiful 7 volume set of Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman empire. All 7 volumes are half bound light brown leather. with 'feathered' coloured boards endpapers and page edges. The spines are five banded stamped with gilt decoration and the title gilt on a black background. All volumes are remarkably well preserved showing very little shelfwear rubbing or bumping. Volume one has various notes including those of Guizot Wenck Schreiter and Hugo included as a preface. A bound in 'Notice' after the copyright page about 'Bohn's British Classics" as well as two maps at the rear of the book both complete and attached however one has a closed tear. The frontispiece a picture of Gibbon is protected by the original tissue.This volume dated 1872. Volume two dated 1872.Volume 3 dated 1870 Volume 4 dated 1874 volume 5 dated 1871 volume 6 dated 1871 and volume 7 dated 1874. All volumes have the same bookplate pasted in on the front verso and dated 1878 A school prize giving for Latin and signed and dated by the then Headmaster of 'The Fre Gramar Schole of King Iames in Allmonbury' now the King James Grammar in Almondbury West Yorkshire England. A beautiful collectors set. Bell & Daldy hardcover
1838282389London: Cadell 1838. hardcover. very good. A new edition in 8 volumes. Frontispiece portraits and 3 large folding maps. 8vo bound in full brown polished calf ornate gilt-decorated spines with orange & brown morocco spine labels t.e.g. somewhat rubbed. Volume 3 not uniformly bound but with a rustier color and chipped label. London: T. Cadell 1838. Very good.<br/><br/> Cadell unknown books
181924100031819. new edition. hardcover. very good. Stated "A New Edition" on title page. Printed for various persons. All volumes very good. All volumes have an attached bookplate to the front paste-down. unknown
1934548992London: Jarrolds Publishers 1934. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Spine gilt slightly dull else about fine in attractive slightly spine-toned near fine dust jacket. The third volume in the author's 'Scots Quair' trilogy. Jarrolds Publishers hardcover
178936164London.: G Kearsley 1789. First Edition thus. Hardback. .2 volumes both in Good condition. Edgewear and corners bumped with vertical cracks down spine of Vol. 1 and volume label absent. Chipping to spine of Vol. 1. Vol. 2 is bumped at extremities vertical crack down back edge of spine. Both vols. have very light foxing to outer pages. Pages crisp and bright. 2 solid volumes. With bookplates of the politician and banker Thomas Somers-Cocks. 1st abridged edition. 8vo full contemporary calf with red gilt title labels and green volume labels. The picture on this listing page is of the actual book for sale G Kearsley hardcover
20161382051Norwalk CT: The Easton Press 2016. Limited Edition: #123/600. Hardcover. Large Octavos Two Volumes. In Very Good minus condition. Housed in publisher's green cloth slip case lightly worn. Bound in publisher's decorated green leather with paneling and gilt lettering to spine. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine edges and corners of boards. Mild scuffing to spine of Volume I and to rear board of Volume II. Edges of textblocks gilt mildly scratched. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Case 13. The textblock is "a facsimile re-creation of the edition published in 1880 by J.S. Virtue and Co. London" featuring all of the original plates in black and white. 1382051. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Easton Press hardcover
20073<p>Playboy: The Complete Centerfolds Hardcover – November 22 2007<br />by Robert Coover Author Maureen Gibbon Author Jay McInerney Author Daphne Merkin Author Robert Stone Author Paul Theroux Author Dave Hickey Introduction Hugh M. Hefner Foreword<br /><br />Product detailsPublisher : Chronicle Books; Box edition November 22 2007<br />Language : EnglishHardcover : 720 pages<br />ISBN-13 : 9780811860598Item Book Weight : 34.1 pounds<br />Dimensions : 22.75 x 2.5 x 10.88 inches<br /><br />Brand New in original carton. Large folio enclosed in publisher's briefcase. This is 30 pounds of centerfolds The size of each page is the size of the original centerfold. The box was only opened once for taking pictures in this listing.</p><p><strong>As new</strong>. This book and briefcase are in the publisher's shipping box. The publisher's shipping box was opened to confirm the contents and once confirmed it was immediately resealed.</p><p><strong>Book is in padded briefcase and still in original box. Very heavy to ship 37 lbs. Shipping cost will be determined upon purchase. Printed in Italy</strong></p> Chronicle Books hardcover
41318London. Printed for A. Strahan and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies Successors to Mr. Cadell in the Strand. 1796. 4to 28.5cm The First Edition in 2 volumes XXV1Errata7031 & viii7262Errata and publishers' ads. in contemporary full diced calf boards panelled with gilt rosettes borders expertly reback in calf with gilt decorated raised bands gilt decorations and borders in the panels gilt titles gilt roll inner dentelles original marbled endpapers and edges inner linen hinges ownership signature on titles "John Jefferys 1811" and armorial bookplate "William Henry Smith" on the front paste-down endpaper frontis silhouette portrait in volume one some occasional light unobtrusive damp staining in the text some occasional wear on the boards a fine set ds1. ~ This is an invaluable autobiography of the controversial historian Edward Gibbon 1737-1794 author of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1776-1788. Editor John Baker-Holroyd 1st Earl of Sheffield 1735-1821 Gibbon's close friend and literary executor remarks in the preface: "Few men have ever so fully unveiled their own character by a minute narrative of their sentiments and pursuits with a genuine confession of his little foibles and peculiarities and a good-humoured and natural display of his own conduct and opinions." These memoirs are most interesting for Gibbon's reflections on the development of his 'History' which sparked so much outrage from the public and the Church relative to its historical treatment of Christianity. They are also rich in commentary about his contemporaries and the political regimes in England and Revolutionary France. The two volumes are the first editions; a third volume was published separately in 1815 by John Murray. London. Printed for A. Strahan, and T. Cadell Jun. and W. Davies (Successors to Mr. Cadell) in the Strand. 1796 unknown
121979London Ward Lock and CO. c.1900. . 2 vols; large 8vo 23 x 15 cm; full-page wood-engraved illustrations including frontispiece to each vol. prize-plate to front pastedown of vol. I bookbinder's tickets to pastedowns a little toned; contemporary pebble-grain green morocco prize-binding by J. Low for The Law Society gilt arms to upper-covers gilt spines all edges gilt<br /> An excellent example of Gibbon's celebrated history in a green morocco prize-binding by J. Low for The Law Society.<br /><br />A monumental work spanning nearly 1500 years of history which has remained controversial since its first appearance. Gibbon argued that Rome's fall was the 'natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay; the causes of destruction multiplied with the extent of conquest; and as soon as time or accident had removed the artificial supports the stupendous fabric yielded to the pressure of its own weight' c.38 p.523. As a result this hollow empire succumbed easily to the twin forces of barbarianism and Christianity which had been gaining momentum over the course of the fourth century AD.<br /><br />Although attacked for his perceived irreligion Gibbon's work received many positive reviews and has since become a cornerstone text in the study of Western history. Writing to Gibbon in December 1788 his friend Adam Smith noted that 'by the universal assent of every man of taste and learning. Decline and Fall sets you at the very head of the whole literary tribe at present existing in Europe' ODNB.<br /><br />Illustrated with three folding engraved maps showing the extent of the Roman Empire.<br /> London, Ward, Lock and CO., [c.1900]. unknown
176420791London: printed for T. Beckett and P.A. De Hondt 1764. First edition in English of Gibbon's first published work 12mo pp. 8 168 including ads; contemporary full speckled calf ruled in gilt leather spine label lettered in gilt previous owner's name written neatly in ink on title else a very good copy. In 1753 Gibbon a young man of twenty-five was sent by his father to Lausanne to study with the Calvinist minister Pavillard and did not return until 1758. By this time he had already begun his Essai sur l'Etude de la Litterature which he finished in England in 1759 where it was published on the urging of his father in 1761. Published in French the work found little audience in England but succeeded apparently abroad and it was reprinted in both Paris and Geneva in 1762. After its publication in English in 1764 it became highly sought after but Gibbon refused to republish it himself. Only one other contemporary edition appeared in 1788 in Dublin which was pirated. Contains a touching 5-page dedication to his father. Norton 6; Rothschild 939: The translation was not made by Gibbon though it was announced as being prepared "under the inspection of the author" Norton p. 4. <br/><br/> printed for T. Beckett and P.A. De Hondt hardcover books
179623989London: A. Strahan & T. Cadell 1796. First edition 2 vols. 4to pp. xxiv 703; viii 726 2; silhouette frontis portrait of Gibbon; full contemporary tree calf neatly rebacked red and black morocco labels on spines; very good and sound. U1 in Vol. I is a cancel as usual. A supplementary third volume published in 1815 is not present. Rothschild 949; Norton 131. <br/><br/> A. Strahan & T. Cadell unknown books
