Geneva: Jean Girard, 1543. Hardcover. Full 18th century calf with gilt title and decorative stamping on spine. 3 1/2" x 5 5/8". 105p. Book in very good condition. Some abrading at gutters. Corners bumped. Slight rubbing on covers. Gorgeous marbled endpapers intact. Binding tight. Text block clean. Dampstaining on opening... More
London: 1836. First edition. Folio. With 12 b/w engraved plates. Bound with leather spine and boards. A good copy. Rare work on dogs; not listed in Schwerdt. Contains 12 engraved portraits of dogs' heads by Edwin Landseer, A. Cooper and Charles Hancock. More
NY: Scribners, 1914. First American edition. A very good hardcover book in a good dustjacket. Neat former owners name on front endpaper; spine of book slightly dulled else clean and tight. Dustjacket is faded along spine with some 1/4-inch chips at spine ends. First American edition of this early mystery... More
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1888. William Gibb. Limited Edition. 3/4 cloth. Approx 220p total. Ltd. ed., signed. Ex-library copy of an oversize gilt hardcover book in good condition; partially rebound in 3/4 red cloth with portions of the original red leather spine still present. Contains the usual library stamps... More
NY: Street & Smith, [1925]. 2nd ed. Pictorial wraps. Pulp paper browned. Title page partially separated from textblock. A fragile work in only good condition. One of Terhune's rarest works which was issued only as a cheap paperback novel. This is the second edition as per the Rais bibliography. A.... More
NY: Doran, 1925. First edition. Full limp leather in publisher's slipcase. Fine. Inscribed by the author in 1929. Also includes a postcard photograph of Terhune also inscribed to the same person. More
Boston: Silver Burdett, 1896. First edition. 1st ed 1st printing. First edition of the author's first book in fine condition. The future best-selling author wrote this account of his adventures in the deserts of Syria in the late 1890s. This copy is in green decorated cloth; the book is also... More
NY: Harper, 1930. First edition. Hardcover. Black cloth. Spine faded. Good. INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR. Dated 1940. More
Austin: Privately Printed, 1930. First edition. Folio: measures 12x17 inches. Brown cloth. Ex-libris with shelf number inked on front cover and a few library stamps else a clean tight hardcover book in very good condition. ONE OF 55 COPIES THIS BEING NUMBER C. Signed by Carlos Castaneda. Contains an essay... More
London: Chapman & Hall, 1838. 1st Edition. Wraps. 1st ed, 1st state. 20 parts in 19. Original blue-green wraps. A used and well-worn set. #1 lacks final ad and rear wrap; #3 lacks rear wrap and front wrap is detached; #5 lacks front wrap; front wrap and ads on #8... More
Chicago: Daprato, 1928. ONE OF THE GREAT WORKS OF CATHOLIC CHURCH ART. This is an original 1928 printing of the illustrated catalogue for Daprato Statuary Company. Daprato was the leading American manufacturer of ecclesiastical art for Catholic Churches throughout the great era of church building in the late 19th and... More
Madrid: Don Antonio de Sancha, 1788-1795. First edition. Complete two-volume set. Bound in full 18th century leather; marbled endpapers; spines hubbed and decorated in gilt. Ex-library with library name stamps on endpapers and title pages; ink call numbers on spine; else generally clean. Tight binding. Books did not circulate and... More
London: Henry Colburn, 1825. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Set of two volumes bound in full diced leather; rebacked with new leather spines. Bookplate else unmarked. Very good condition. IMPORTANT ACCOUNT OF NAPOLEON'S DEATH BY HIS PERSONAL PHYSICIAN. One of the key sources for the investigation into whether Napoleon died of poison. More
Rome: Dominici Manelphi, 1649. 1st Edition. Leather bound. 407p + index. Quarto. Bound in full limp vellum. Title lettered on spine in old ink manuscript hand. Scattered toning to text else interior in good condition. Front pastedown has large circular hole where something (a bookplate?) was cut out exposing the... More
Mexico: Jens & Zapiain, 1877. Scarce. Hardcover. Ex library half leather on marbled boards. Plates. 8 1/2" x 12 1/4". xvi, 252p. Book in good condition. Crown of spine abraded and chipped. Cover edges rubbed and corners bumped. Library markings on spine, endpapers, title page, and first page. Foxing here... More
Guadalajara: La Republica Literaria, 1891. Leather. 886p plus 27p index. Ex-library copy of a 1/2 brown leather hardcover book in good condition. Library markings and stamps inside, on spine, and on edges of text block. Edges rubbed. Scattered small pencil marks in margins. However, the vast majority of the pages... More
NY: McGraw Hill, 1952. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. INSCRIBED BY THE VENERABLE ARCHBISHOP FULTON J. SHEEN. Inscribed and signed by Sheen with his blessing in his customary flourishing hand on the front free endpaper. The book itself is in fine condition with a very good, lightly shelf worn dustjacket. One of... More
Suffolk: Brightly & Childs, 1815. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Two volume set. A pair of thick quartos, measuring approx. 9x11 inches and 2-3 inches thick. Bound in full leather, restored with new matching leather spines. Very good condition. In-depth history of the Napoleonic Era from the French Revolution through Napoleon's exile... More
New York: Hugh Gaine, 1800. 2nd edition. Hardcover. Bound in full leather. Mild rubbing and shelf wear. Pages are uniformly browned from age. Good condition. FROM THE PRESS OF THE 'TURN-COAT PRINTER OF THE REVOLUTION'. Hugh Gaine was a colonial printer who supported the colonists at the beginning of the... More
Basel: John Herwagen & John Operinus, [1553]. First edition. Second edition of his History of the Roman Emperors bound with the first edition of his AUSTRIA. Folio: 1-726; 44. Final page with printters device shows some old paper restoration. Older vellum; binding firm and tight. Old name written on title... More
Ohio State Dental Association, 1919. Three framed black-and-white cartoons by John H. Striebel. Their dimensions are approx. 9" x 7.5", 12" x 10", and 12" x 10." Each one is clean and bright, free of tears and soiling. The smallest has a faint vertical crease down the center, but this... More
Boston: Hardy, Pratt & Company, 1899. Limited Edition. Leather bound. COMPLETE SET OF 18 VOLUMES BOUND IN 3/4 LEATHER. THE VERSAILLES EDITION, BEING #62 OF 800 NUMBERED SETS. Each volume bound in 3/4 and marbled boards; top edges gilt, silk ribbon bookmark in each volume. The leather was originally a.... More
London: The Verona Press, [1947]. First edition. #931/1200 COPIES WITH COLOR LITHOGRAPHS BY MARIE LAURENCIN. Neat bookplate on inside front cover else clean and unmarked. A fine hardcover book in a near fine dustjacket and slipcase. The jacket is slightly darkened on its spine and the light gray paper shows... More
NY: Scribner's, 1925. Maxfield Parrish. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Large quarto, measuring 11.5 x 14 inches. ILLUSTRATED BY MAXFIELD PARRISH. 46pp text, complete with all Parrish illustrations: decorated endpapers, ownership page, title page, cast page, nine pages with border vignettes, and eleven full-page color plates. Original pictorial boards, good condition, with... More
London: W. Bulmer, 1816. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Quarto. Bound in three-quarter leather and marbled boards, expertly restored with covers reattached preserving the original binding. Very good condition. Complete with all seven b/w plates engraved by William Daniell from the drawings of Samuel Davis. An important illustrated account of the island... More
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