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194913511Los Angeles: Limited Edition Club 1949. First Edition in this Format; Limited Edition. Hardcover. Book condition is Very Good bound in 1/4 leather and paper covered boards housed in a Very Good slipcase. Minor edge wear and a few weak smudges to slipcase. Sunning to slipcase. A few smudges to covers. A few small weak scuffs to spine of each volume. Text is clean and unmarked. Illustrated throughout. Limited to 1500 copies this set numbered 822. ; Signed by the engraver Carl Schultheiss on the Limitation page. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 690 pages. Limited Edition Club hardcover
44717NY: Atheneum 1963. First edition; sm 4to; orange cloth covered boards hardcover; 57 pages; colored engravings by Philip Reed; lightly rubbed board edge else a very good clean tight copy in a lightly soiled dustjacket. <br/><br/> NY: Atheneum, 1963 hardcover
42710London: W. Nicol 1832. 8vo 2 57 1pp. title and terminal leaf dust soiled blank margins a little chipped stitched as issued 1109 lots. [London: W. Nicol], 1832 unknown
19302104300050Lewis Historical Publishing Co 1930-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 4 volume set. Quartos. Bound in publisher's 3/4 black cloth over green cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Unmarked pages. Some discoloration to rear cover of v.1. This is an oversized or heavy book which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US. Lewis Historical Publishing Co hardcover
1982306969NY: RANDOM HOUSE. Fine. 1982. First Edition. 0394525019 . First American Edition. SIGNED Limited Edition. Copy #455 of 500 numbered copies. Signed by V.S. Pritchett. Fine in green cloth in an orange cloth slipcase with the original price sticker at the bottom righthand corner. . RANDOM HOUSE. hardcover
194556138John Marshall Press. As New. 1945. Hardcover. FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - AS NEW THE TEXT BLOCK IS PRISTINE CLEAN UNMARKED AND IN EXCELLENT CONDITION - - 233 pages. -- with a bonus offer-- . John Marshall Press hardcover
157447005Venice Venetia: Printed by Simon Calignani 1574. First edition. Hardcover. Very good condition. Quarto. 8 109 1pp. Rebound in full leather with ornate period blind-stamped decor on covers gilt lettering on spine; raised bands. Red edges. Title page with elaborate architectural framing. Historiated woodcut initials. Twenty-three headpiece copper engravings 3 3/4 x6" for each chapter and tailpiece vignettes. Contains author's dedication to Ottaviano Manini and five page table of notable facts Index with errata note. Woodcut on colophon at rear is the printer's device initialed S. C. K. with his motto "The Tower and the Strength of my God."<br /> <br /> Famous work on ancient customs of funeral rites and ceremonies among Romans Egyptians Greeks Indians Scythians Cavemen and Christians by author and cartographer Thomaso Porcacchi illustrated by Girolamo Porro. Written as a dialog between author and two characters praising the talent of Girolamo Porro and the quality of his work. Porro who's eyesight was impaired is also credited with the design of a "flying machine" able to transport many man. Porro also illustrated Porcacchi's 1572 publication "Isole piu famose del Mondo Most Famous Islands of the World." Porcacchi's work on funeral rites known to have been consulted in arranging high profile funerals e.g. that of Cosimo I. de Medici. Text in Italian. Page 51 misnumbered 15. Binding with light wear along edges light streaking to boards. Some offsetting along edges of free endpapers form leather binding. Original endpapers and title page with some age-toning else only minor blemishes in block. Printed by Simon Calignani hardcover
1759848041759. T. Kinnersley. London. 1759. In Two Volumes II and III and contains the whole set for the year 1759. Bound in 18th century quarter brown calf gilt very worn and rubbed and lacking portions of leather from heads and tails of spine. Joints tender but holding. Vol. II; ii 372 pages plus 4pages of index. Vignette to general title-page and engraved head-piece for each month. 6 engraved plates of unusual and more ordinary fauna including the dodo the rhinoceros sea hedge-hog the horned didapper flying fish and cassowary. 1 portrait plate of Magliabechi 14 full page engraved maps and plans. Vol. III; ii. 404 pages plus 4 page index. Engr. vignette to general title-page and engraved head-pieces or decorations to each month 4 engraved plates of fauna one portrait plate of Major General Wolfe 1 incredible engraved plate displaying the Torments Inflicted by the Dutch on the English in Amboyna plus the engraved frontis. to Pope's Essay on Man. Three engraved plates - 1 map and 2 plans. A wonderful insight into what interested people in the mid-18th century. Pages browned and occasionally foxed but otherwise a very useful set. hardcover
56324Copenhagen 1763-81. . 8 Copper-Engraved plates from this massive Danish atlas. Original folds some marginal tears several are mounted on larger sheets with spots of glue at upper margins; clean and very good for the most part. Sizes are about 12 x 9 inches; some are trimmed smaller. Titles are: H. Zebaoths Kirke / Fridrichshafns Castell-Kirke / Friderichsberg Slotsgaard 2 copies - one is colored / Harboes Frue-Closter / Fridrichs Tydske Kirke paa Christianshavn / Arrest-Huset / Vor Frelseres Kirke paa Christianshavn partly colored. <br/><br/> Copenhagen, 1763-81. unknown
18992335181011007A.L. Burt 1899-01-01. Hardcover. Acceptable. Nice looking book has edge wear. has tears on spine & cover faded. A.L. Burt hardcover
174318928Utrecht: Hermanus Besseling 1743. Second edition. Hardcover. g- to vg. Folio 15 6/8 x 10 1/2". XVIII 652 pp; folding engraved map. Text in Dutch. Contemporary full calf with gold lettering and tooling to spine front joint tender. Raised bands. Additional engraved title by Bernard Picart. Title in red and black lettering. Publisher's vignette on title page. Decorative head- tailpieces and initials. This handsome second edition of "Biblia Sacra" is splendidly illustrated throughout with 35 double-page engraved plates of 36 lacking plate #1 depicting the Creation from Johannes Luyken's "Icones Biblicae Veteris et N.Testamenti 1729" as well as 2 folded maps and one folded plan of Jerusalem. This is the first volume containing the entire Old Testament. Binding rubbed along edges and on covers. Head and tail of spine partly chipped. Minor age-toning along paper margin. Text in Dutch with plate captions in Dutch and French. A good copy with clean fresh plates throughout. Hermanus Besseling hardcover
0504OTFRIWVUnknown Binding. Very Good. SIGNED by the author Harry Worcester Smith with a dedication on the front fly to John Cary Randolph who when he rides is "a thoroughbred on a thoroughbred." Dr. Archibald Cary Randolph a landed surgeon whose family helped settle Virginia was hunt master of the Piedmont Hunt until his death in 1959. Very good red cloth brighter gilt and doecot on front board than on spine; No reader remainder or ex-library marks. first ed. 1st printing in no dustjacket. Foxing at textblock and dusting at top edge only. Illus. excellent throughout. unknown
172130780Londini London: Typis Gulielmi Bowyer 1721. Very Good-. Londini London: Typis Gilielmi Bowyer 1721. First Edition. Octavo 24cm; contemporary paneled calf gilt spine in six compartments all edges speckled; 6646444pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece and two leaves of plates including one other portrait and a folding table. Leather quite scuffed and rather dried joints rubbed with exposure of spine chords spine gilt mostly effaced 20th-century ownership inscription to front free endpaper else a Good to Very Good internally clean and sound copy. Preliminary text includes the extensive list of subscribers.<br /> <br /> Posthumously-published biography of the late Dean of St. Paul's John Barwick 1612-1664 by his brother Peter 1619-1705. "Begun in 1671 Vita was clearly intended as more than simply a memoir of Barwick's brother; it is perhaps better understood as a statement of his own commitment and lifelong zeal for the restored Anglican church and its royal head" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.<br /> <br /> ESTC T088503. Typis Gulielmi Bowyer unknown
1981ABE-11095721627Gryphon Press Sussex 1981 SIGNED by the author and dated February 1995. This is an unread first printing of an elegant non standard landscape format by this superb small press book. Beautiful marriage of word and image lyrical poetry complemented by the engravings of Nicholas Perry. As new privately printed a first rate collectable. Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng. Signed by Author. 1st Edition. Soft cover. As New/As New. Gryphon Press, Sussex paperback
1881027568Paris / Poitiers: H. Oudin Freres 1881. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine. 14 3/4" Tall. 238 Pp. Fine Engravings Pasted In Or Printed In As Issued. Fine Quarter Morocco Over Marbled Paper Also Full Marbled Paper Endpapers Gilt Lettering On Spine And Top Edge All Gilt. Gilt Brilliant. First Printing 1881 Stated Of Volume Iii Of This Finely Made Original Work 14 3/4" X 11". No Names Or Marks. A Few Light Rubs To Morocco No Chips Or Tears Gilt Brilliant; Wear At Tips And Edges Of Boards With Loss Of Paper At Tips Only. Pages Clean Lightly Aged No Foxing Spots. <br/> <br/> H. Oudin Freres hardcover
282202Reeves and Turner 1886. TWO VOL SET super octavo brown buckram boards gilt lettering to spine gilt lettering & motif of Newgate Prison to front boards frontispieces with tissue guards vol 1- xii 592pp vol 2- viii 636pp illus/engravings with tissue guards- not counted but presumed all present VG-/scruffy very heavy chipping to spine extrems with considerable loss to each volume spine moderate to heavy chafing to boards moderate to heavy tanning to page edges moderate tanning & foxing to prelims moderate cracking to gutters throughout 9cm closed tear to top of pg vii of vol 2 light foxing to illus & tissue guards but unobtrusive pencil inscription to verso of fep of vol 1 Reeves and Turner 1886 hardcover
1935365888US: Putnam 1935. Putnam 1935 Limited Edition Very Good/ This Limited Edition issued in 1938 with new format and wood engravings by Asa Cheffetz. Light wear to greeen cloth with illustrated front in black and gold and gold spine lettering. Spine lightly tanned. NO DUST JACKET NO SLIP CASE. Tight unmarked illustrated text. 43386 pages signed on page 340 by "Asa Cheffetz" artist the copy number "1384". LARGE HEAVY ITEM 2.25 Pounds. Size: 9 3/8 x 7 3/8 x 1 1/8 inches. Signed by Author. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. No Exp. Putnam Hardcover
199512350Lewisburg PA: The Press of Appletree Alley 1995. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Large octavo 48pp. illustrated. From The Bucknell University Fine Editions: A Series in Contemporary Poetry edited by John Wheatcroft. A near fine copy in the publisher's printed boards with very dark navy cloth spine. Spine just a tinge sunned top edge gently foxed but the contents fresh and lovely. Per the colophon: "This book was set in Spectrum type and printed on English Somerset mould-made paper with a No. a Vandercook press. The edition was designed type-set and printed by Juanita Bishop Barnard Taylor and Kathy Pino a Bucknell University graduate student. The engravings were printed directly from the blocks. Don Rash and Nicolyn Rosen hand bound each book with printed paper over boards." This is number 34 of 125 limited copies SIGNED by Peacock on the limitation page. Publisher's prospectus laid-in. The Press of Appletree Alley hardcover
63836333Indiana University Press USA . Papeback. New. Indiana University Press (USA) unknown
15-5747Ann Arbor MI.: Passim Editions 1998. 12mo. Thirteen Book Marks Very Good with some creasing. Envelope addressed to Peter Howard & of Serendipity Books present. Thirteen bookmarks letterpressed on handmade paper with wood-engravings. Ann Arbor, MI.: Passim Editions, 1998. unknown
1528215133.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
193015344The Macmillan Company 1930. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. This old book with Original slipcase is clean solid and in great shape! This is a Signed Limited Edition hardcover book with 318 pages including many illustrations. This book is #310 of 350 copies printed. The binding is strong with all pages firmly attached. The author and illustrator both signed the second end paper. The pages are clean with no soiling writing or tears. The copyright page shows 1930 as the published date. The black slipcase shows just a hint of edgewear and some light soiling. The covers are clean and in great shape. This old book with slipcase looks and feels great! We always ship in a sturdy cardboard box! The Macmillan Company hardcover
172944168London: Printed for J. Tonson 1729. First edition. Hardcover. vg. Duodecimo. 1 plate 24pp. 1 plate 348pp. 11 plates with tissue guards. 19th century three-quarter calf with gilt lettering on black label of spine over marbled boards with guilt ruling; raised bands protected by modern mylar. Gilt top edge. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece engraving. Historiated and decorative head and endpieces. Decorative initials.<br /> <br /> Content: Sapho to Phaon; The Fame wholly translated by Mr. Pope; Canace to Macareus Edward Poley; The same by Ed. Floyd; Hypermnestra to Linus; Ariadne to Theseus; Hermione to Orestes; Leander to Hero; Hero to Leander; Laodamia to Protesilaus; O Enone to Paris; A Paraphrase on O Enone to Paris; Paris to Helen; Helen to Paris; Penelope to Ulysses; The Fame by Mrs. Wharton; Hypsipyle to Jason; Medea to Jason; Phaedra to Hippolytus; Dido to Aeneas; The fame by another hand; Briseis to Achilles; Dejanira to Herculus; The fame by another hand; Acontius to Cydippe; Cydippe to Acontius; Ulysses to Penelope; Demophoon to Phillis; Paris to E Enone; Ovid's Amours. In Three Books. Illustrated with thirteen steel plate engravings with tissue guards. Binding with some scuffing along edges. Block somewhat age toned. Binding and interior in overall very good condition. Printed for J. Tonson hardcover
80922Melbourne Australia: Joseph Waters. circa 1954. Perhaps it may be missing a rear colophon as there is no date listed. Australian edition. Very Good book in a Tissue overwrap. In worn slipcase. Joseph Waters unknown
0332304299.Gpaperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback
