Les Delices De L'Italie, Qui Continnent Une Description Exacte Du Pays, Des Principales Villes, De Toutes Les Antiquitez, & De Toutes Les Raretez, Qui S'y Trouvent ... Derniere Edition, Revue, Augmentee De Nouveau, Beaucoup Plus Correcte ... Vol. 1 [only] by De Rogissart, Alexandre, And Abbe Havard [Ownership Signature Of George Ellery Hale] - 1709

Paris: Furne et Cie, 1849. Hardcover. Very Good +. Vol 1 � vii, 528 pgs. Vol 2 � 502 pgs. Vol 3 � 510 pgs. Vol 4 � 494 pgs. Text in French.6 x 9 in. Half chocolate-brown morocco with red marbled shiny paper boards. 4 raised bars on spine with gilt lettering and designs. Brown marble endpapers. Marbled edges to text block. Brown silk bookmark. Tissue-protected frontis illustration. Vol 4 has fold-out map at end. Condition of books is VERY GOOD+ ; leather and gilt on spines very clean and bright, some very slight wear, very faint cracking. Some wear to paper boards. Tops of text block darkened with age. Foxing sporadic throughout text. Large David B. Ogden bookplate on front paste down. Wear to and very small tears to corners. Very tight Vol 1 � slight damage to raised bars on spine, wear to front board.Vol 3 � tiny damage to one raised band of spine.

London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1887. Hardcover. Fair. Gift inscription signed by author on half-title page - dated March 2, 1888. No chips, tears, creases to pages. Green boards with gilt lettering on spine. Boards have bumping at corners and fraying at head and tail of spine. Book is cocked. Hinges are exposed. Front board partially separated from text block. 355 pp.

London: Richard Field (1594), 1599. Second English Edition . Quarter Calf. Good +. 943, [X]. Quarter Calf. Second English Language Edition. Folio. Quarter Calf Over Marbled Boards. Pages 10 3/4" Tall, All Three Edges Watered. Leather Is Quite Worn, Joints Cracked, Frayed At Corners With Small Losses, Paper Covering The Boards Is Partly Worn Away At Edges. Lacks Initial Blank. Contemporary Gilt And Embossed Compartmented Spine. Signs Of Removed Bookplate On Front Pastedown. Hinges Cracked But Firm. Title Page, With Complex "Anchora Spei" Ornamental Engraving, Missing Lower Right Corner, About One Square Inch Total, With No Loss Of Text Or Ornament. Text Divided Into Twenty Books, With Woodcut Ornaments And Initials For Each; Unpaginated Ten Page Table (Index) At End. Dedication To Queen Elizabeth I By Fenton. Small Waterstains Showing Irregularly At Bottom Of Some Pages, Well Below Text Block. First Page Missing Lower Corner Adjacent To Spine, With No Loss Of Text. Light 1/2" Ink… Read More

London: Henry Colburn, 1818. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xi,339 Pp. First English Edition And First English Translation (1818), Following The 1817 First Edition Published In France. Half Calf, Colored Morocco Spine Labels, Gilt (One Recent), Calf Tips, Over Peach Cloth, Marbled Endpapers, 5 Bands, Gilt Spine With Center Tools, Top Edge Gilt. Light Wear, Fraying At Tips, Small Repaired Chip At Lower Left Edge Of Spine, Refurbished. Stendhal's Too Frank Travel Observations, Scarce In This First English Translation. His Observations At Geneva Begin "The Prudery Of The Women At Geneva Is Incredible And Truly Ridiculous. I Have Observed That They Say Exactly The Same Thing To Every Stranger Presented To Them... To Repeat A Certain Formula Taught Them By Their Nurses... I Would Fain Know Who The Traveler Is That First Asserted There Was Such A Thing As Liberty In Switzerland. At Geneva And Berne There Are Four Hundred Surveillans... If You Offend Them… Read More

ANZIA YEZIERSKA: 1932, Brewer, Warren & Putnam, First Edition, 1932. Printed and bound in the U.S.A. by Chas. H. Bohn & Co. . USED. Good/ No DJ Included. About the author: "Yezierska's fiction focuses on Jewish immigrant life at the turn of the century, and she sees herself as giving voice to her people".

Paris; 1902 and 1910: Imprimerie Nationale. Quarto. 212pp. and 108pp.Two volumes in one with two title pages, volume two with the original wrapper bound in. At the initiative of the French government, an International Conference for the Suppression of the White Slave Trade Traffic was concluded in 1904. followed by an International Convention of the same name in 1910. The agreement provided for the establishment of national machinery to coordinate information relative to the procuring "for immoral purposes" abroad of women or girls. States parties pledged to exchange this information and to take concerted measures for detecting persons involved in the traffic and repatriating its victims. In addition, the parties undertook to punish the traffickers if the victim was under twenty years old, even in cased in which the victim had consented. In the case of older women, who were presumed to be exercising the profession freely, traffickers would be punished only if they had used fraud violence or… Read More

A Paris: Chez Agasse, An V (1797).. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. viii, 392pp. []4, A8-Z8, Aa8, Bb4. Half-title present. Third edition, published by Sophie Condorcet and Daunou. Later quarter calf over boards by GKB Pynaker, Bookbinders at the Hague, with their small bookplate. A. Martin & G. Walter, Catalogue de l'histoire de la Révolution Française 8083.

Edward Arnold, London U.K., 1900s. First Edition. Hardcover. VG/--. 7 1/8 H x 5 1/8 W x 5/8 inch. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing includes PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book VERY GOOD/ Covers Good Please read my detailed description. Coated Paper. Boards and spine are blue cloth, lettering black. FRONT COVER has black embossed Britannia Seated, a depiction of what appears to be a head-on view of sailing ship sails and mast figurehead, and in black embossed lettering Arnold’s School Series, Britannia History Readers, Book II, 1s 6d (this is the price in shillings and pennies). The front cover has two bent corners one with the cloth worn and one with a small tear, some edge wear, some light soil on open side edge. The SPINE text has been worn with the years and parts are not as clear but the entire text is present and legible, the spine is worn at top and bottom with wear to the cloth on the top 1/8 inch of spine and same on bottom, the spine has a bit of edge wear to front and back edges.… Read More

London: Richard Field (1594), 1599. Second English Edition . Quarter Calf. Good +. 943, [X]. Quarter Calf. Second English Language Edition. Folio. Quarter Calf Over Marbled Boards. Pages 10 3/4" Tall, All Three Edges Watered. Leather Is Quite Worn, Joints Cracked, Frayed At Corners With Small Losses, Paper Covering The Boards Is Partly Worn Away At Edges. Lacks Initial Blank. Contemporary Gilt And Embossed Compartmented Spine. Signs Of Removed Bookplate On Front Pastedown. Hinges Cracked But Firm. Title Page, With Complex "Anchora Spei" Ornamental Engraving, Missing Lower Right Corner, About One Square Inch Total, With No Loss Of Text Or Ornament. Text Divided Into Twenty Books, With Woodcut Ornaments And Initials For Each; Unpaginated Ten Page Table (Index) At End. Dedication To Queen Elizabeth I By Fenton. Small Waterstains Showing Irregularly At Bottom Of Some Pages, Well Below Text Block. First Page Missing Lower Corner Adjacent To Spine, With No Loss Of Text. Light 1/2" Ink… Read More

London: Henry Colburn, 1818. First English Language Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Xi,339 Pp. First English Edition And First English Translation (1818), Following The 1817 First Edition Published In France. Half Calf, Colored Morocco Spine Labels, Gilt (One Recent), Calf Tips, Over Peach Cloth, Marbled Endpapers, 5 Bands, Gilt Spine With Center Tools, Top Edge Gilt. Light Wear, Fraying At Tips, Small Repaired Chip At Lower Left Edge Of Spine, Refurbished. Stendhal's Too Frank Travel Observations, Scarce In This First English Translation. His Observations At Geneva Begin "The Prudery Of The Women At Geneva Is Incredible And Truly Ridiculous. I Have Observed That They Say Exactly The Same Thing To Every Stranger Presented To Them... To Repeat A Certain Formula Taught Them By Their Nurses... I Would Fain Know Who The Traveler Is That First Asserted There Was Such A Thing As Liberty In Switzerland. At Geneva And Berne There Are Four Hundred Surveillans... If You Offend Them… Read More