Search Results: Titles starting with R from Sanctuary Books

Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Blue cloth, lettering and decoration in gilt on spine; dust jacket; 8vo; illustrated in b/w throughout. Spine tips and corners bumped, resulting in slight wrinkle to bottom corner of first few leaves. Dust jacket sunned along spine; scuffed along the edges; lightly chipped at spine tips and corners; not price-clipped, in mylar. An excellent working copy, internally clean and unmarked.

Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1944-1949. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Blue cloth, lettering and decoration in gilt on spine; dust jacket; 8vo; illustrated in b/w throughout. All volumes in VG or better condition, with bumped spine tips and corners, in about VG dust jackets, with sunned spines, some light creasing and chipping along the edges. An excellent working set, with clean and unmarked text blocks, and jackets displaying nicely in mylar.

Norimbergae: Sumptibus Johannis Andreae Endteri Filiorum, 1690. Hardcover. Very Good. Folio, engraved allegorical frontispiece by Johann Jacob Sandrart, full-page plate of royal arms through the ages; plus three full-page plates of armorial achievements. Numerous genealogical tables throughout. 234 pp. - though last page reads 254. 6 pp. index follows. Full contemporary leather binding, worn, especially along spine.

New York: The Century Co., 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. VG in pictorial DJ. First U.S. Edition. Scarce book, especially in jacket.

London: Macmillan, 1873. Hardcover. Very Good. Red calf, gilt-stamped border and lettering on boards and compartmented spine, green leather spine label, all edges marbled. Boards rubbed, a bit scuffed along joints, edges, and at corners; contemporary gift inscription on front flyleaf (very nice script, in black ink). A pretty binding, tight and internally clean.

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1981. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. A fine copy in full brown leather, signed by the author. Previous owner's blindstamp to front endpaper, otherwise fine.

Rome: Cuccioni, [1842]. Hardcover. Good+. Contemporary half morocco; oblong 8vo; with engraved title-page and 77 (of 80?) plates. Binding worn; plates detached from binding, and a little foxed, but overall clean, and suitable for display. A nice breaker copy, sold as is.

Rome: Cuccioni, 1831. Paperback. Good+. Original printed wrappers; oblong 8vo; with engraved title page and 58 plates. Wraps and first two leaves with significant edgewear; otherwise, corners a little dog-eared, and some light spotting. Sold as is.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. Cloth; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 153. Small bump and brown spot at bottom edge of front board; ownership signature on FFEP; otherwise book is fine. Dust jacket faintly rubbed; scratch on rear panel; price-clipped; VG in mylar, nice and bright.

New York: Random House, 1949. First Edition, First Printing Stated. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good+. Cloth; full-color illustrated dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 590. Spine tips and corners lightly bumped; front endpapers tanned, with ownership signature. Dust jacket chipped at spine tips and corners (eliminating a portion of the spine text); two closed tears at top edge of rear panel; front flap detached, but appears whole under mylar; price-clipped.

Paris: Isidore Liseux, 1889. Hardcover. Fine. Six dialogues in two volumes, complete, with a reproduction of the author's portrait engraved by Mark Antony Raimondi. Quarter black calf and blue marbled paper, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, blue topstain. Corners very lightly bumped; John Kobler's (tasteful) bookplate on front paste-down. A very handsome set.

Schenectady, New York, 1950s. Hardcover. Very Good+. Cloth-covered boards, blindstamped lettering on upper board ("Dietzgen / Engineers' Field Book / No. 403"), with "Miscellaneous Information" faintly penned by hand atop it; 12mo (180x112mm); 79 leaves hand-numbered on the recto only, plus 8 leaves of printed charts and graphs at rear; graph paper, full of notes and illustrations by W. J. Schramm of D&H RR (Delaware and Hudson Railroad) Corporation, in pencil and ink. He records the availability of work equipment, phone numbers, emergency stock, snow fighting equipment, motor cars, fuel tanks, feet of rail of car loads, switch heaters, guard rails, stone ballast data, types of anchors (with drawings), engine lengths and weights, measures of curves (and bends, braces, slides), and much, much more. Nearly every page is full. A must-have for the rail historian or enthusiast, offering a richly detailed look at practical minutiae. Front joint torn and frayed, but board is… Read More

London: Printed for P. Dodsley, R. Owen, and other Booksellers, 1794. Very Good. Full contemporary calf, gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine labels (one label detached and laid in), gilt-stamped detail on spine; complete in 4 volumes. Spine tips and corners scuffed; front board of volume one loose; boards, in general, are dry; joints tender. Armorial bookplate of Walter Hawkins; his signature to the title dated 1811. Later gift inscription dated 1862 from Charles James Vyner to Sarah Dorothea Vyner. Engraved Plates by Stothard.

New York, et al: J. & H. G. Langley, et al, 1843. Third edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. Contemporary cloth, gilt-stamped lettering on spine; 8vo; pp. 304, plus numerous plates in b/w. Boards rubbed; spine and edges of boards a bit sunned. Previous owner's bookplate and signature, plus an old price ($150, handwritten in black ink); otherwise internally nice and clean.

Peterburg: Alkonost, 1921. Paperback. Near Fine. Original wraps; pp. [32]. Covers a bit tanned along the edges, otherwise fine. Kilgour 133.

Moscow / Leningrad: Gosudarstvennoye izdatel'stvo [State Publishers], 1929. First Edition, one of only 3000 copies. Hardcover. Very Good/Good+. Original beige cloth; illustrated dust jacket. Spine tips and corners lightly soiled and bumped. Dust jacket a bit scuffed; small chips and tears along the edges. Poem in sequence.

London: William Charlton Wright, n.d. [1834]. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, gilt-stamped ornament on raised bands and in spine compartments, inside gilt dentelles, t.e.g.; 12mo (4.25 x 7.25 inches); pp. [i]-vii, [1] (blank), [3]-220, plus full-color folding frontispiece. Light scuffing along joints and edges of boards; tiny chips at spine tips. Frontispiece torn along creases, leaving 2 whole and intact panels bound in, and the rest detached, but complete, and laid-in. An easy repair. The rest of the text block is nice and bright, with just a few instances of some very faint foxing. A nice copy of an uncommon title.

1826. Paperback. Good+. [12 May 1826]. In 1825, Ledebur was appointed apostolic vicar of Hildesheim and was later bishop of Paderborn. He was also appointed Vicar Apostolic of the Northern Missions (Mejer, propaganda, II. 508) in 1826. This brief seems to be dealing with the reorganization of mission territories in post-Reformation Germany under Ledebur’s authority. Names of church districts and dates given. Stamped “L.S.” and imprint “Das apostolischen Vicariat v. Ledebur.” Text in German. (Size: 425 x 330mm).

New York: Ray Long & Richard Smith, 1933. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Original orange cloth lettered in blue. Dust jacket is present, but spine faded with several tears to rear panel and a chip to base of spine.

London: Hector M’Lean, 1819. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to (256 x 205mm). [iii], 197pp. Engraved frontispiece and three engraved plates by Abraham Raimbach (1776-1843) done from paintings by Robert Smirke (1743-1845). Bound in full green straight-grain morocco with period tooling of lozenge around the covers in gilt and blind, spine lettered and stamped in gilt in compartments, all edges gilt; (somewhat foxed, mainly to margins, uniformly toned, hingel plitting at front; edges rubbed, joints weak). Samuel Johnson wrote Rasselas during the evenings of one week in 1759 to pay for his mother’s funeral and settle her outstanding debts. The novel explores and exposes the vanity of the human search for happiness. In it, Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, goes to Egypt with his sister Nekayah, her attendant Pekuah and the philosopher Imlac, in order to study the various conditions of men’s lives. In their encounters, they meet with scholars, astronomers, shepherds, hermits, and poets, become… Read More