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8vo., First Edition; original pictorial wrappers, a near fine copy. The catalogue contains 437 items with selective subject index.
Roy. 8vo., with frontispiece and 6 other fine plates of splendid bindings, and numerous facsimiles (a number full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, a very good, clean copy. The catalogue lists 445 notable items, including substantial holdings of Apollinaire, Balzac, Baudelaire, Colette, Flaubert, Hugo, Maupassant, Proust, Sand, Stendhal and Verlaine among many others.
8vo., First Edition, text in French, with facsimiles in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists 178 items.
8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in green buckram, upper board letterd in gilt, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a fine copy The catalogue lists over 3,164 items.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece, title-vignette and very numerous fine coloured and monochrome facsimiles (many full-page) in the text; black cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. The frontispiece depicts the front page of the first Maggs catalogue, issued in 1870.
Roy. 8vo., First Edition, with fine sepia-toned frontispiece, very numerous sepia-toned facsimiles in the text and 2 splendid folding sepia-toned facsimiles; printed boards, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, crisp copy. Robinson catalogues from the immediate post-war period are acclaimed as much for their intrinsic production values as for their reflection of the last 'golden age' of rarities. No. 77 is no exception containing as it does no fewer than 194 outstanding items, including the first book printed in the English language - Caxton's History of Troy (1485) - a MS of Bede's Ecclesiastical History (c. AD 820), a broadside ballad from Virginia (1623) constituting the earliest known American verse and Hariot's Artis Analyticae Praxis (1631) - the fundamental work on algebraic equations. As usual the catalogue is compehensively indexed
3 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with plates; printed wrappers, all fine copies. The world-famous stamp company began trading in antiquarian books in September 1978. The first catalogue is designed by Ruari McLean.
4to., First Edition, with frontispiece and numerous facsimiles (the majority full-page) in the text; original printed wrappers, sewed as issued, vertical strip offset on upper wrapper else a remarkably bright, clean copy. This major catalogue lists 684 items dating from 1469 to 1926; includes an index of authors. THIS COPY INCLUDES THE VERY SCARCE TRIBUTE TO BENJAMIN DAWSON MAGGS WHICH WAS LOOSELY INSERTED IN THIS CATALOGUE BUT IS NOW OFTEN MISSING. 'Ben' Maggs (1862-1935), eldest of the brothers and second President of the ABA, died on 4 October 1935; the tribute comprises a two-leaf insert with mounted photograph.
8vo., First Edition; strongly bound in red buckram, upper board lettered in gilt, ORIGINAL WRAPPERS PRESERVED, a near fine copy. The catalogue lists over 1,314 items.
4to., First Edition, with numerous fine full-page photographs in the text; original pictorial wrappers, a very good, bright, clean copy. The catalogue lists 308 notable bindings.
Sm. folio, First Edition, with portrait frontispiece and 10 full-page reproductions in the text; original pictorial wrappers, wire-stitched as issued, a near fine copy. FRANK HAMMOND'S COPY WITH THE FIRM'S STAMP ON FRONT WRAPPER. With the separately printed price list loosely inserted. This remarkable catalogue lists one copy of each of the four folios, together with the third folio of the 'Works' and separate quartos of 'Lucrece', 'King Lear' and 'A Yorkshire Tragedie'.
