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1820042947Dublin: W. Folds 1820. Early Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Good Condition. Half leather heavily worn binding shaken and reinforced with old cloth tape on the rear joint but still holding scattered foxing and browning. 7 plates Earl of Cork plate foxed the rest mostly clean. 6 478 xcvii pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Archaeology. Inventory No: 042947. <br/><br/> W. Folds hardcover books
1974131978San Francisco: Marxist-Leninist Education Committee SF Bay Area 1974. Pamphlet. 32p. wraps old price on front wrap else very good condition 5.25x8.5 inchers. Marxist-Leninist Education Committee (SF Bay Area) unknown books
1781045095Geneve 1781. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Contemporary calf spine and hinges rubbed but binding sound. Volume 1 of 2; 252pp. Size: duodecimo 12mo. One volume of the 2-volume set. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045095. <br/><br/> hardcover books
1720045088Amsterdam: Michel Charles le Cene 1720. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full contemporary calf rubbed one corner creased but quite sound. Endpapers a little soiled a few minor stains but generally quite clean internally. One of three posthumous works by Madame de La Fayette author of La Princess de Clèves. viii 210pp. Likely published in France despite the imprint. Graesse M71. Size: Octavo 8vo. Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Literature & Literary. Inventory No: 045088. <br/><br/> Michel Charles le Cene hardcover books
199227647Phoenix: Oryx Press. Near Fine. 1992. Paperback. 089774716X . First edition paperback. Near fine in illustrated wraps. . Oryx Press paperback books
1894044954Paris: Charavay Mantoux Martin 1894. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition. Montader. Light wear and rubbing to publisher's decorative cloth rear hinge slightly split. Light browning internally a few torn tissue guards otherwise unmarked. Size: Octavo 8vo. Illustrator: Montader. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Children; History. Inventory No: 044954. <br/><br/> Charavay, Mantoux, Martin hardcover books
1562046899Antwerp: Bellerum 1562. Second Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Old colored vellum worn lacking front endpaper title browned and stained mild browning and a few light stains scattered marginalia in an early hand; generally clean. The second edition of the abridgment of Magnus's important history of the Northern people. 8 192 leaves with in text illustration throughout.<br/><br/>Magnus's history of Sweden and the North was enormously successful and popular and was translated early on into Italian German English and Dutch. It describes much folklore and customs not recorded elsewhere - including the first description of making the questionable Northern delicacy lutefisk. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Travel & Places; History. Inventory No: 046899. Bellerum hardcover books
1567046211Petri: Heinrich 1567. Early Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. Modern half leather over marbled boards author penned to page edge lacking any blanks and lacking the full page map of Northern Europe with a facsimile tipped in. Collijn in his Swedish Bibliography suggested that the map was printed and inserted separately and only in some copies of the Basel edition. First Basel and Second Latin edition a reprint of the Rome edition of 1555. Illustrated with small woodcuts throughout. Dampstain to upper right from around page 500 on a few scattered dampstains modest foxing - generally a clean copy. 96 854 2 pp. Brunet III 1302. Magnus's history of Sweden and the North was enormously successful and popular and was translated early on into Italian German English and Dutch. It describes much folklore and customs not recorded elsewhere - including the first description of making the questionable Northern delicacy lutefisk. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Travel & Places; History. Inventory No: 046211. <br/><br/> Heinrich hardcover books
187242282Madison WI: Atwood & Culver. Very Good. 1872. Pamphlet. Madison Wis.: Atwood & Culver 1872. 50 pages. The interior is clean and bright and the paper wrappers are crisp with some soiling to the edges. Overall a very good copy. . Atwood & Culver unknown books
1629045230Dilingen: Caspari Sutoris Kaspar Sutor 1629. Later Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Contemporary vellum soiled but sound with the remains of leather ties. Old signature to title mild persistent foxing some wormholes in the right margins just touching a few letters mostly clean. A nice little Jesuit edition of Livy. 2646pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Inventory No: 045230. <br/><br/> Caspari Sutoris (Kaspar Sutor) hardcover books
193923592NY: Macmillan 1939. Seventh printing. Dorothy Lathrop. 8vo pp. 211. Illustrated by Dorothy Lathrop. Foreword by Padraic Colum. Cover little scuffed and worn o/w a very good tight copy. Poems for children. Macmillan unknown books
1585046650Antwerp: Christopher Plantin 1585. Early Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. 3 volumes bound in 1 in old full calf 1585 1585 and 1588; a few dents at the edges wear to corners quite sound overall old catalog entry pasted to endpaper. The first two titles continuously paginated. Minor staining here and there paper repair in one margin trimmed a bit close at the top edge just touching page numbers and running title occasionally. 6 plates 3 folding in Amphitheatro/Amphitheatris. One folding plate missing the third section one with a repaired tear at the fold. 14 plates 12 of them folding in Saturnalium; plates lettered A-M and two large unlettered plates. Some wear and soiling to plates generally at the edges a few of the larger plates creased in spots but very good overall. 105 3pp; 8 175pp. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046650. Christopher Plantin hardcover books
1833039785Boston: Allen & Ticknor 1833. Early Edition. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Good Condition. 1/4 leather over marbled boards - edges of the boards are bumped heavily and worn with significant loss. Tear to page 40 lacking half of page 131/132 lacking blanks otherwise complete. 156pp. Terrific engravings. Size: Octavo 8vo. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Education; History. Inventory No: 039785. <br/><br/> Allen & Ticknor hardcover books
1849046751Mexico: La Voz de la Religion 1849. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Full acid calf spine label a bit worn small burn mark to front cover title penciled to an added endpaper old withdrawn bookplate from Yale at rear. Details an episode where a Chilean ship the Natalia was stopped in Mazatlán during the Mexican-American war when it was believed to be carrying contraband meant for the Americans in California. Eventually it was searched and allowed to continue to Hawaii. 78pp<br/><br/>Sabin 40135 Catálogos de la Biblioteca nacional de México 321 Size: duodecimo 12mo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Americana. Inventory No: 046751. La Voz de la Religion hardcover books
1875418771875. C.1875 French Lecture Notes on Family and Constitutional Law Legal Education. L'Enseignement de L'Histoire du Droit en Doctoral: Caractere Utilite Esprit de cet Enseignement. Choix d'un Sujet: Le Droit des Gens Maries. various paginations. n.p.: s.n. c.1875. And Droit Constitutionnel 1re Annee. 247 pp. n.p.: s.n. c.1875. Photo-reproduced autograph lecture notes bound in contemporary quarter cloth over marbled boards. Moderate shelfwear front hinge of first volume cracked but secure fading to spines light browning to texts. Occasional underlining and a few annotations interior otherwise clean. $250. These are two volumes from the series Repetitions Ecrites which offered general lecture notes on various academic topics to university and professional school students. The second volume's subtitle states: "Summary: Object of constitutional law. The state. Its role in the representative system. Course plan. Four parts: Sources of constitutional law theoretical sources the canonists the legists the economists. The theories of St. Thomas Aquinas Hobbes Francois Hotman Jean Bodin Locke Montesquieu and Rousseau. Sources of positive constitutional law. Written and unwritten constitutions. The British constitution: compacts statutes treaties. Written constitutions" 2 Valuable guides to the general state of these areas in France at the time these volumes will reward further research. unknown books
1966039838Brattleboro VT: Stephen Green Press 1966. ix 246p. b/w illus. dj. Stephen Green Press unknown books
1665039491Leyde: Jean Sambix 1665. Second Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Good Condition. 2 volumes volume 1 is the second edition volume 2 the first. The Memoires were originally published in 1663. Rebound in later full leather now worn spines dry and cracked and the front board on volume 1 loose. Slight foxing internally and a few spots of minor discoloration - a nice pair of these memoires that the Encylopedia Brittanica described as "written with naive frankness and are extremely interesting". 431 and 385pp. Size: duodecimo 12mo. 2-volume set complete. Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 039491. <br/><br/> Jean Sambix hardcover books
1935044928London: Jonathan Cape 1935. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/Very Good. The first trade edition. Fading to the rear board apparently from damp but with no other damage. Clean and bright otherwise illustrated with tipped in plates in text illustration and 4 maps. Light wear and a few short tears and very minor chipping to jacket edges; unclipped. Size: Quarto 4to. Slight foxing front/rear pages but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Exploration; History. Inventory No: 044928. <br/><br/> Jonathan Cape hardcover books
1844046060New York: Nafis & Cornish 1844. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Rebound in recent black buckram front blanks retained. Old signature to endpaper occasional browning and foxing light dampstain to final 10 pages frontis trimmed to plate edge but with no loss of image"Edward Stiff" inked in on title. The frontis is the earliest view of Austin. 2 blanks frontis title vii-xxii 23-275pp. Streeter I 344 1st ed. Howes L 154 Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; History. Inventory No: 046060. <br/><br/> Nafis & Cornish hardcover books
1848046752Mexico: Vicente G Torres 1848. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Original wraps mild wear a few light stains internally. Details a convoluted property dispute during the US occupation of Mexico City. 47pp. Rare. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Americana; History. Inventory No: 046752. Vicente G Torres unknown books
1817046073Madrid: Repulles 1817. Third Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. 4 volumes in contemporary acid calf modest wear at edges corners worn a little dry in spots surface scrapes to leather in spots; scattered minor dampstains foxing browning old embossed stamp to title binding for vol 3 not quite uniform. Clean and sound overall. 489pp; 586pp; 493pp; 563pp Size: Octavo 8vo. 4-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Military & Warfare; History. Inventory No: 046073. <br/><br/> Repulles hardcover books
1824044209London: J. Robins 1824. Later Edition. Hardcover Half Leather. Very Good Condition. 4 volumes in half reverse calf over marbled boards with attractively gilt spines 1824-26. Each volume with a frontis and in text illustrations throughout. Moderate foxing throughout small water droplet mark to one frontis otherwise clean. An attractively bound set of this popular history of the unsavory. iv 518 2; 500 2; 499 3; 404 2pp. Size: Octavo 8vo. 4-volume set complete. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Law & Criminal Studies; History. Inventory No: 044209. <br/><br/> J. Robins hardcover books
183038644Lexington: Printed by Joseph G. Norwood 1830. Second edition. Stitched paper wrappers removed from a larger volume. Removed from a larger volume else a good copy with a chipped front wrapper detached with the first few leaves; lacking the rear wrapper stitching loose. 52 pp. 8vo. Incribed by the author on front wrapper. 2000 copies were printed. In a period of concern over education the report analyses the methods of providing for a common education in the state. OCLC lists fourteen copies. Sabin 37507. Amer. Imprints 2107. Printed by Joseph G. Norwood unknown books
1556046281Basel: Henrichum Petri 1556. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 18th century pastepaper boards spine and edges degraded light dampstains to first few and final pages old library stamp to title and first page some worming in the gutter - generally quite clean otherwise and with front rear and internal blanks present. 16 196 4. Printer's mark at rear.<br/><br/>First published in 1553 an early original work by the polymath physician often compared to Erasmus. Scarce rare in commerce. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046281. Henrichum Petri hardcover books
1611044067Venice: Alessandro Vecchi 1611. Early Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum lacking the front endpaper and inner joint cracked a few mild creases and tears light to moderate foxing scattered light damp staining to bottom margin four pages in early or contemporary manuscript apparently a printing error pages 114 115 126 and 127. 27 366 2 296pp 175 leaves. With 26 full page woodcuts with a few repeated and numerous in text woodcuts. The first book is festooned with cuts with a few in the second and smaller vignette illustrations in the third book. A very attractively illustrated work - it went through a number of editions with similar illustrations from 1604 to the late 17th century. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044067. <br/><br/> Alessandro Vecchi hardcover books
