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New York: Jocelyn, Darling, 1831. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. 1/4 leather, worn and scraped but sound, over paper boards with a green label. Some staining to boards. Light scattered foxing but otherwise clean internally; the first signature is slightly loose, small tear to the margin of page 175. One of the earliest national directories, it was published again in 1832 - both years are rare. 395pp with the errata at the rear. The first section lists business geographically, the second by trade and the third alphabetically. The last section discusses various industries and tariffs. Index at rear. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 039827.

Mard: Don Joaquin Ibarra, 1798. First Edition. Hardcover (rebound in cloth). Fair Condition. Rebound in half blue cloth over marbled boards. Internally worn, foxed in spots, text block coming loose from binding, with the extra engraved title worn with tape repairs to verso, but lacking the final text page (417/418) and 2 of the 58 plates (numbers 16 and 58). three plates with tears, two of them with a bit of loss, many with old practice letters on the blank versos, plate section coming disbound and a few plates are loose. An attractively printed book Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044066.

Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino, 1998. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition. Very faint wear to green cloth. Still the best bibliography of Friuli. Reprint of the 1861 edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Books for Writers; Reference. ISBN: 1578980909. ISBN/EAN: 9781578980901. Inventory No: 046370.

Louvain: Zegers, 1643. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Early acid calf neatly rebacked with original spine laid down, mild wear at edges, spine a bit dry, scattered minor age toning and foxing, a few notes in an early hand on preliminaries and title - a very good, sound copy of an early edition of the first bibliography of Belgian authors. [16], 110, [22], 900 pp Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046647.

Vatican City: Tipografia Poliglotta Vaticana, 1967. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. Original brown cloth, top corners a little bumped, otherwise unmarked. Inscribed from Cardinal Tisserant "following my birthday party for him in Rome on March 24, 1971" to Gilbert Denman Jr. with Tisserant's signed typed note laid down on the front endpaper. 64 plates. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Books on Books; Reference. Inventory No: 045739.

Cambridge: E.W. Metcalf, 1831. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Original paper covered boards, worn, spine strip weak, corners bumped. Slightly foxed. Occasional pencil marks. viii, 224. Sabin 30730 Phillips, Maps of America in the LOC 45. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 038390.

Frankfort & Leipzig: I.G. Stiebneri, 1793. Later Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Fair Condition. Vellum backed marbled boards, vellum worn, lacking bottom section and front portion, Very good internally and binding still held by cords. 914pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Previous owner's inscription in ink, neat. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 045268.

Mansfield Centre: Martino, 2012. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition. Reprint of the original edition. Remainder spray to bottom edge, otherwise unmarked. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; ISBN: 1578981131. ISBN/EAN: 9781578981137. Inventory No: 044778.

London: R. and J. Dodsley, 1759. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. 2 volumes in contemporary calf, hinges cracked, one board detached, others loose. Very clean internally, old armorial bookplate of "Nic. Heath, Oxon,", engraved frontis in volume 1 and a leaf of engraved music at the end of volume 2. [16], 247, [5]; [2], 250, [6]pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Previous owner's book-plate inside front cover. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Books on Books. Inventory No: 045248.

Martino, 1990. Revised Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition. Reprint of the 1907 edition in green cloth. Limnited to 100 copies - undated ca. 1990. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; ISBN: 1199639214. ISBN/EAN: 9781199639219. Inventory No: 043603.

Mansell Information Publishing for U of Oklahoma, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. 2 volumes in brown cloth; light wear. Photos of the card catalog of the University of Oklahoma Science collection., Size: Folio. 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 048055.

Gottingen: Vandenhoeck et Ruprecht, 1839. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. 2 volumes in contemporary quarter leather over marbled boards. Boards a little rubbed, corners bumped; quite sound overall. Scattered foxing and minor marks in pencil. 541pp; 866pp. Bookplate of Colonel Victor De Guinzbourg, from his proverb library. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Language & Linguistics. Inventory No: 045737.

Madrid: Libreria de Gaspar, 1855. Early Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition. 2 volumes in later half red leather over red cloth with added marbled endpapers. Slight foxing and minor stains internally - mostly quite clean; an attractive pair. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Medicine & Health. Inventory No: 045269.

Rotterdam: La Compagnie des Libraires, 1702. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Three volumes plus the supplement (published 1722 in Geneva to supplement the editions of 1702 and 1715) in full calf. Quite worn, dry, corners bumped, hinges cracked, boards still attached by cords but nearly detached on the front boards of volumes 2 and 3, surface scrapes etc. Internally very good or better - scattered foxing, browning, minor marks, small dampstain briefly in the far right margin of the third volume.A nice set of what was at the time the greatest work of encyclopedic scholarship and set the stage for Diderot and D'Alembert's end of century triumph.Originaly conceived in exile as a counterpoint to Moréry's essentially counter-reformation work "Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique", "Bayle championed reason against belief, philosophy against religion, tolerance against superstition...For over half a century, until the publication of the Encyclopédie, Bayle's Dictionnaire… Read More

London: J. Nourse, 1778. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. 19th century Spanish tree calf, matching endpapers, modest wear at edges. Old ownership marks from O'Donovans to title with a long inscription dated 1921 conveying the book from Richard O'Donovan to Luis Barreiro.Note that the old endpapers were removed. Further ownership makrs on first page of advertisement and the first text page. Title chipped and repaired, last page of ads worn, scattered foxing (heavier at start and end), but very clean otherwise. Though styled the Second Edition because of Baretti's debt to Giral Delpino's 1763 work, this is the first of the Baretti and substantially different from earlier works (including a great number of words added from Baretti's friend Samuel Johnson's dictionary). 2 parts in one volume, unpaginated. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Reference; Language & Linguistics. Inventory No: 045425.

Paris: Antoine de Sommaville, 1649. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full contemporary calf, elaborately gilt spine. Corners bumped and rounded, hinges rubbed, wear at spine ends, inner joint cracked, occasional damp stains, mostly mild, scattered foxing. Small library label on the front board and an old bookplate inside the front cover. An attractively printed and curiously organized dictionary - an early attempt at encyclopedic completeness that led to Bayle's Dictionaire Historique et Critique (1697) and Diderot and D'Alembert's great Encyclopédie. Organized by word endings and published 14 years after Cardinal Richlieu called for the creation of a French Dictionary but 45 years before the first edition of the Dictionnaire de l'Académie Française. Title page in red and black, (6) 1198, (70)pp. Rare in commerce (no copies at auction recorded in the usual databases) and only 3 copies in OCLC. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos.… Read More

London: Rousseau, 1800. Early Edition. Hardcover (rebound in cloth). Very Good Condition. Early edition, later printing of the first edition (1777-80) and before the second (1806) - with errata, notes on omissions and a list of subscribers. Rebound in brown buckram, a few seminary library marks, call numbers to base of spines, slight scattered foxing, some staining to titles, circular stain in top margin of volume 2 for first 100 pages or so; quite clean overall. xlviii, (14), 2144 (numbered by column); xix, (6), 2286 (columns). Originally issued for use by the East India Company, it was published with various additions, notably by Charles Wilkins, until 1892. Size: Folio. 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 046742.

The Ballantyne Press, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. 2 volumes in original paper covered boards, 653 of 675 copies, 1889-1890. Modest wear to boards, scattered foxing, heavy in a few spots but mostly clean, page edges browned. Spines darkened and worn. Dragging the pudding: Getting the sack just before Christmas. To Broach the claret (pugilistic): ...a pelt in the smeller. Loco-foco: A self igniting match or cigar; the Democratic party. Size: Octavo (8vo). 2-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Reference; Inventory No: 042611.

London: Knapton et al., 1734. Second Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. Five volumes in contemporary calf, worn, a few boards detached and the rest having been crudely reattached at some point, surface scrapes. Quite clean internally with light scattered foxing. Finely printed with headpieces and wide margins. Portrait in volume one. Old catalog entry pasted to the first title page. It includes the preface to the first French edition and a Life of Bayle. A major enlightenment text and a great leap towards Diderot's Encyclopedia. "Bayle championed reason against belief, philosophy against religion, tolerance against superstition...For over half a century, until the publication of the Encyclopédie, Bayle's Dictionnaire dominated enlightened thinking in every part of Europe." Printing and the Mind of Man 155. Size: Folio. 5-volume set (complete). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Reference; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 045024.

Oxford: G.H. and G.D. Prostant, 1671. Later Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. 1671 Oxford edition of Estienne's classic dictionary incorporating Lloyd's substantial additions. Full contemporary calf heavily worn at edges, hinges cracked but cords attached; sm. folio. Old marks and staining to endpapers, but clean internally. Title page ruled in red, old ownership note to title. 830pp in two columns. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Reference; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 043207.