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New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1914. First Ed Good, extr. good. <p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px;"> </span></p><p> </p><p>Pantaloon; The Twelve-Pound Look;</p><p>Rosalind; The Will</p>

New York: Knopf, 1948. Third printing August 1948. Good. New York: Knopf, 1948. Third printing August 1948. Good.

London: Macmillan, 1915. First Edition. Fair. London: Macmillan, 1915. Volume 1 only of a two volume set. Very rare first edition. Pp. xxvi, 544; Lacks the maps from the back pockets. .A few loose pages Blue cloth with gilt vignettes to front covers, very worn.. First Edition. Fair.

London: Routledge, 1907. Fair/No Jacket. London: Routledge, 1907. Edited with intro. by T.F. Henderson. 838 2-column pages. Fair/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Internally exceptionally clean: no foxing, watermarks, underlining. Contact seller for full description.

London: Macmillan, 1966. First Edition. Very Good/Good. London: Macmillan, 1966. Rubbings and faded spine on price-clipped DJ. First Edition. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1990. Fine/Very Good +. New York, New York, U.S.A.: Henry Holt & Co, 1990. Fine/Very Good +.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/good. Novel of a man in Tsarist Russia in Kiev during a period of violent anti-semitism. Price clipped dust-jacket; worn edges.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. First Edition. Good/Good. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966. First Edition. Good/Good.

Conversations sur l'Economie Politique, dans lequelles on expose d'une manière familiere les élémens de cette science, par l'Auteur des Conversations sur la Chimie'. Traduites de l'Anglois.
This is a very clean, very good copy of the rare first edition published in 1817 in Geneva. A few pages are lightly browned but there is no foxing and no annotations.There is a contemporary owner's signature - Calandrini, on the half title page. Book is complete including preface, table of contents, errata and alphabetic listing. XIV plus 518 pages. Nineteenth century unspectacular marbled hardboard and cloth cover.Contact seller for more photos, a detailed description. Reasonable offers considered.

Chambery: Imprimerie Chatelain, 1884. in-8°, br., 5 tab. dépl., 1\~plan dépl.. Fair. <p><span style="font-size: 11px; color: #5a666f;">Contient une étude statistique composée de tableaux, et un plan. - Tableau IIe : Mouvement des recettes et des dépenses ordinaires de 1861 à 1882. - Tableau 12e : Mouvement des revenus en nature et du produit de travail des aliénés de 1861 à 1882. - Tableau 13e : Moyenne de la population de 1861 à 1882. - Tableau 14e : Mouvement de la population dès 1861 à 1882. - Tableau 15e : Mouvement des recettes et des dépenses de toute nature de 18861 à 1882. - Un plan de l'Asile public des aliénés de Bassens, près de Chambéry (Savoie)</span></p>

In three 8vo. volumes.Vol. 1: Three unnumbered title pages + vi-viii, pp.287 + 32 pp. Publisher's catalogues No.1 & 2, dated October, 1842;Vol. 2: 269pp. plus identical 32 pp. catalogues;
Vol. 3: 225pp. and an additional note by author.
With an engraved frontispiece to each volume, numerous engraved illustrations in the text, and publisher's advertisement catalogues to Vols. I and II. Spines lightly sunned. Original publisher's bindings by Westleys & Clark, London. Light yellow FEPs with original owner's neat signatures (Marie Tronchin) on all three volumes. Internally very clean. The first edition of Frederick Marryat's (1792-1848) three volume naval adventure for children, following the Seagrave family and their experiences surviving on an island after shipwreck.
Marryat began writing books for children in 1839 when his own children asked him to write a continuation of their own favourite The Swiss Family Robinson. But when Marryat came to examine Wyss's tale, he considered it so implausible, so… Read More

The Settlers in Canada is a children's novel written by Frederick Marryat, and published in 1844. The novel is set in the wilderness of Upper Canada in the 1790s. It describes the adventures of an immigrant family who settle near Lake Ontario, despite the threats from the native people and wild animals (see Wikipedia).
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1844. Two volumes. small 8vo.Vol 1: pp. 356 + 32-page Publisher's Catalogue dated October 1845.Vol 2: pp. 374. First Edition, printed in London by J. & H. Cox, brothers, bound by Wesleys & Clark and sold by S. Clarke, Booksellers at No. 13, Pall Mall East. First owners name -Adele de la Rive- on both FEPs.Marryat, a British naval captain, visited Canada and the United States in 1837-38, publishing an account of the trip in three volumes in 1839.In the present work of juvenile fiction, "he showed that a family that had emigrated and settled near Kingston, Upper Canada, was delighted when the opportunity came to return to England to claim an… Read More

© Copyright 1990, Art Internationale Kunstmesse Basel Konzept und Gestaltung: Urs Albrecht, Basel
Satz: Gygax Filmsatz, Basel
Lithos: LAC AG für Kunstreproduktion, Basel Druck: Kirschgarten-Druckerei AG, Basel
Printed in Switzerland

Bastian Heiner and Erich Marx

Art of the eighties from the Marx Collection.
Basel Art Fair. 1990 approx. 90 p. soft cover. Text in German / English. Condition: Used, Very Good.

Resumé of Jewish presence in Egypt over 3000years. iv + 74 pp. Etat : convenable.

New York, NY: William Sloane Associates, INC., 1947. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good/very good. Mauldin, Bill. <p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: 13px; white-space: pre;">First Printing of this classic in very good condition.. First Edition. Cloth. Illus. by Bill Mauldin.</span></span></p>

First edition thus, 8vo, pp. xxiv, 25-348; 4 plates within text block, 8 folding charts depicting a vertical section of the Atlantic, depth chart, paths of hurricanes, sea drifts, winds and routes, and the gulf stream, and 1 folding table of a pilot's sheet - all in perfect condition barring one small tear(4 cm.) on Plate VIII; original navy blue cloth, corners rubbed and bumped, textblock bright and sound. Considered the first textbook of modern oceanography, this work was among the first to recognize the sea as a separate branch of science. Maury was a distinguished naval officer and a prolific writer on oceanography and naval subjects; he was instrumental in establishing an international system for recording oceanographic data, based on worldwide cooperation of naval vessels and the merchant marine. This work went through many editions; here on offer is the first printing of an enlarged and revised sixth edition - "An Entirely New Edition" - first published and entered on the Congressional Register… Read More

London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1900. Fair. London: Sampson Low, Marston, 1900. Fair.

Nyon, 1970. Fine. Nyon, 1970. Private printing of 150 copies. With signed inscription by author. Ask bookseller for full description.. Fine.

London: Harmsworth, 1897. Good. London: Harmsworth, 1897. Good.