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Published 1979 by The Viking Press, 625 Madison Avenue, New York. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Signed by author on Title Page. Original binding. Condition: Fine. Original Mylar protected Dust Jacket. Condition: Good. DJ has some general wear to the bottom edge and top of back cover.

Washington: Robert Armstrong. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1853. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo; 31 + 320 pages; Contemporary full sheep binding with rubbing, few small stains, spine labels chipped, hinges cracked, but holding well and some scattered foxing. All plates are present and bound in at the rear. The 2 large folding maps tipped in at rear. The 1st map does have a closed tear, otherwise both are near fine condition. .

Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1981. First Edition thus. Near fine. Various sizes, mostly octavo and small quarto. A complete set of the 100 Greatest Books Ever Written, compiled by an original subscriber to the Easton Press series, which was issued monthly over a period of seven years, from 1975-1981 (inclusive). Each volume is bound in full gilt-tooled leather, with raised bands, all edges gilt, silke moire endpapers, and silk ribbons. Condition is generally very near fine; "The Red Badge of Courage" has a bump at one corner, a few volumes have the spines gently cocked, and there is occasional light scuffing to the edges of some page blocks; all forgiveable on a set which is otherwise tight, crisp, unmarked, and with a brilliant shelf presence. Most of the books are illustrated, and many of those contain the illustrations that were used in the Limited Editions Club series. As the series title suggests, this is a list of some of the most celebrated and recognizable books in the fields of literature,… Read More

London: John Murray, 1854. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 8 volumes (complete), illustrated with several folding maps, most hand-colored. A very good set in contemporary full polished calf, with morocco spine labels, gilt compartments all edges gilt, and marbled endpapers. Outer joints neatly repaired in volume 5, some other joints with thin partial cracks, and a notable chip to the top of volume 8. Other minor edgewear, and occasinoal foxing to prelims, but a clean, sound, handsome set. Occasional tiny stress tears to maps at their hinges, but no foxing, and the color fresh. An appealing mid-19th century edition of Gibbon's masterwork, uncommon in this elaborate binding.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 2010. Facsimile Edition. Full Leather. Near Fine. Massive two volume set. 37 x 27 cm. 364pp, 362ppk. Bound into full dark brown cowhide leather, importated from Italy by Cortina Leathers of New York. Bindings decorated in gilt and red by BindTech. AEG, 4 raised bands to spines, moire endpapers, silk ribbons. Interior is a facsimile of the George Barrie edition. Illustrated with 100 wood engravings by Gustave Doré. An Easton Press Deluxe Limited Edition, limited to just 600 sets of which this is set 364. COA laid-in. A few small scratches to the gilt foredges are the only flaws I note in this set. Substantial extra charges will be required for orders outside of the US.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1995. Full Leather. Fine. Nine volume set. 21 x 14.5 cm. Bound into full red leather, gilt design, lettering, and foredges. Connecting gilt design on spines. Moire endpapers, silk ribbon, 3 raised bands to spines. Illustrations by Garth Williams. Beautiful set in unread condition. Titles: "Little House in the Big Woods", "Farmer Boy", "Little House on the Prairie", "On the Banks of Plum Creek", "By the Shores of Silver Lake", "The Long Winter", "Little Town on the Prairie", "These Happy Golden Years", "The First Four Years". The complete main series.

1686 GREEK & ROMAN Military Dutch Netherlands Wars Elephants Woodcuts Paffenrode

Jan van Paffenrode was a 17th-century Dutch soldier who was much better known for his poems and writings on military tactics than his military service. After the successes of his poems and his translation portions of Ovid's 'Metamorphoses', Paffenrode wrote a treatise on Greek and Roman military at the onset of the Franco-Dutch War in in the 1670s. This work, "Greek and Roman Military Trade" compared ancient classical battle tactics to modern Dutch techniques.

This 1686 edition includes numerous engravings depicting gear and weaponry used in ancient battles – footwear, helmets, scepters. However, the illustration of the War Elephant is easily the most interesting of all of the engravings found in this work!

Item number: #25409
Price: $950

PAFFENRODE, Jan van

Der Grieken en Romeynen krygs-handel: ofte Beschrijvinge van de Griekse en Roomse land-militie

tot Leiden: by Pieter vander Meersche Boek-verkooper tegen over… Read More

Harper & Row. Very Good- in Fair dust jacket. 1976. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Quarter black cloth cover with black boards is frayed on two corners and bumped at two corners with modest sunning along top and bottom edge but in very good- condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Faint foxing and light soiling to page edges. Former owner's name on front paste down. Signed by author, David Durk, on front end sheet. Modest thumbing and soiling to about a half dozen pages. Pages are otherwise clean and very good. Light soiling to back end sheet and paste down. Dust jacket is worn, torn, chipped, and lightly soiled. Publisher's price of $8.95 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. ) ; Signed by Author .

London: J.S. Virtue & Co., Limited, 294 City Road, 1885. In 15 Original parts. Illus. WITH Notice about the binding of the whole is pasted on the 15th Part's upper cover. 4to. Gray blue wrappers 1-8, Parts 9-15 are c in ream wrappers. Some internal repairs and the back wrapper of Part XV laid down. In cloth folding box. In 15 Original parts. Illus. WITH Notice about the binding of the whole is pasted on the 15th Part's upper cover. 4to. IN PARTS.

Philadelphia: William Duane, 1818. First American Edition of William Temple Franklin's collected works of Franklin. Engraved titles in each vol., 16 engraved plates (sold folding) [complete]. 6 vols. 8vo. Contemporary tree calf, flat spines with red and green morocco labels, worn. Provenance: Isaac Collins (signatures, booklabels). First American Edition of William Temple Franklin's collected works of Franklin. Engraved titles in each vol., 16 engraved plates (sold folding) [complete]. 6 vols. 8vo. "Franklin by his will left the bulk of his books and manuscripts to his grandson, William Temple Franklin, who at once (1790) came to London and began the preparations for and announced an edition of his grandfather's writings. The times were so unpropitious for an elaborate work, however, that a publisher could not be found ... and so the enterprise dragged along til 1818, when both quarto and octavo editions were printed [in London]" (Ford 561). "This [Philadelphia] edition was begun in 1808 but owing… Read More

Boston: Ticknor & Co, 1850. First edition. Title printed in red and black. iv, 322 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown cloth, spine titled in gilt, boards ruled in blind, March ads. Tiny scuff at head of spine. Contemporary ownership signature of A.D. Wild, Jr., Cambridge, Mass. Fine copy boxed. First edition. Title printed in red and black. iv, 322 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. The great novel of the Puritan American conscience. Hawthorne's most widely read work, and a book now less accessible in agreeable condition than it was a decade ago. BAL 7600; Clarke A16.1; Grolier American Hundred 59

London: MacMillan and Company, 1866. TENNIEL, Sir John. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland [With:] Through the Looking Glass. London: MacMillan and Company, 1866. Full Description: CARROLL, Lewis. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. London: MacMillan and Company, 1866. First published edition, with inverted "s" on the last line of the contents page. Octavo. (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 186x 123 mm.). [xii], [1]-192 pp. With forty-two illustrations by John Tenniel including frontispiece. With the original cloth binding bound in at the end. The original blue endpapers are also bound in at the end. [Together with] CARROLL, Lewis. Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There. London: MacMillan and Company, 1872. First edition. Octavo. (7 x 4 3/4 inches; 176 x 120 mm.). [xii], [1]-224, [2] pp. With the misprint "wade" instead of "wabe" on page 21. Fifty illustrations by John Tenniel including frontispiece. Without the page of publisher's advertisements. With the original cloth binding bound in at… Read More

London: John Murray, 1871. Full Description: DARWIN, Charles. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. With illustrations. London: John Murray, 1871. First edition, first issue, with "transmitted" appearing as the first word on p. 297 of Volume I, and with twenty-five errata (seventeen for Volume I and eight for Volume II) on the verso of the title leaf to Volume II, and with the leaf (pp. [ix-x]) containing Darwin's note on "a serious and unfortunate error" tipped in leaf after p. viii in Volume II. Two small octavo volumes (7 1/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 180 x 122 mm). [iii]-viii, 423, [1, printer's imprint]; [iii]- viii,[ix-x, "Postscript"], 475, [1, printer's imprint] pp. Bound without half-titles and publisher's ads in both volumes. Numerous wood-engraved text illustrations. Both volumes with the bookplate for Francis Wedgwood, Barlaston on front pastedown. Francis Wedgwood was the brother of Emma Wedgwood, Charles Darwin's wife (and first cousin). Francis, Emma and their seven other… Read More

Edinburgh: John Grant, 1908. 37 etchings by Ad. Lalauze, colored frontis. 4 vols. Large 8vo. Bound in three quarters rewd levant and marbled boards, t. 37 etchings by Ad. Lalauze, colored frontis. 4 vols. Large 8vo.

[Imprint on printed title-page:] London: Printed for James Cawthorn, British Library, No. 24,. Cockspur Street, and Sharpe and Hailes, Piccadilly, 1810. Title-page printed in gold and black + 121 pp. of text in a fine, cursive hand. 1 vols. 4to. Full black Regency morocco, gilt, covers with wide, gilt-rolled and blind-stamped borders, gilt-tolled and lettered spine, edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Corners a little bumped, else fine. Old auction description on pastedown, and small bookticket of previous owner ("H. Dunn"). Title-page printed in gold and black + 121 pp. of text in a fine, cursive hand. 1 vols. 4to. A fine manuscript, beautifully bound, accompanied by a most unusual and splendidly printed title-page issued by James Cawthorn, the original publisher of the book. text copied transcribed from of the first authorized fourth edition, along with Byron's Notes, the critique from the Edinburgh Review which prompted Byron's angry response in "Scotch Reviewers", along a transcription of Byron's… Read More

Dix & Edwards, 1856. First Edition. 431, [7] pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo. Purple stamped cloth with yellow endpapers. Spine toned, some light staining to covers, head and foot of spine with slight wear, dampstaining to edge of last few leaves. Bookplates of Frederic Skiff, Estelle Doheny (paper), and another former owner. First Edition. 431, [7] pp. ads. 1 vols. 8vo. An unsophisticated copy. One the great collections of short fiction in American literature, containing Melville's most famous short stories, including "Bartleby," "Benito Cereno," "The Encantadas", etc., most of which had originally been published in Putnam's. The nicer of two copies from Doheny's collection, a nice copy of a book rarely seen in decent condition. BAL 13669; Doheny, Perryville 358

Has had some regluing on spine and strenghtening in places there since binding was shaky. Has a page with a stain and some with small dog-ears. Name from child on front-free endpage. Has a few pencil-markings that can be erased if wished but i dont dare to do that in case it might be from Ian (It is probably from someone else though). Bought from Peter Harrington who takes the authenticity of their autographs very seriously. The following is taken from description from Harrington.Inscribed by Sir Ian McKellen with an original drawing of Gandalf First edition, fourth impression, inscribed by Sir Ian McKellen on the half-title, "Charlotte, Ian McKellen, 2007", together with an original drawing of Gandalf by McKellen. This copy was inscribed for the granddaughter of McKellen's understudy, David Weston, during the 2007 tour of King Lear with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Weston later published a memoir of the tour titled Covering McKellen: An Understudy's Tale (2007). Although the fourth impression is… Read More

1678 Genealogy of FERRARA Italy Illustrated MAPS Heraldry Maresti Italian RARE
Alfonso Maresti's "Genealogy and History of Illustrious Families of Ferrara" is a fascinating and important survey of nobles in Ferrara, Italy. This work features numerous family trees and genealogical connections outlining the famous members of noble families. It is, however, the illustrations that make this works so desirable – full-page maps, city views of Ferrara, and large family crests and coats-of-arms.
This rare volume from 1678 covers families including the Boschetti, Bertazzi, Bentivoglio, Anguscioli, Areosto, and many others.
Item number: #24958
Price: $1,095
MARESTI, Alfonso
Teatro geneologico et istorico dell'antiche, & illustri famiglie di Ferrara del conte, e caualiere Alfonso Maresti ferrarese tomo primo
Ferrara: Nella Stampa Camerale, 1678.
Details:
· Collation: complete with all pages
o [8], 264
P. 215-218 provided in facsimile
· Language: Italian
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size:… Read More

Nantucket, 1851. 1-1/4pp, on a folded 4to sheet. Minor staining at bottom left. 1-1/4pp, on a folded 4to sheet. Sending the Proofs of her First Academic Paper. "On the evening of October 1, 1847, while using a small telescope on the roof of the family home, Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) spotted a comet where one had not been before. Word of this achievement spread quickly through the scientific community. The American Journal of Science declared her 'the first American entitled to the honor of the original discovery of a comet.' Some months later, thanks in part to Harvard College President Edward Everett, she received a gold medal from the King of Denmark, thus becoming one of the first Americans to win any sort of medal for science. She was unanimously elected an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the first (and for many years the only) woman so honored" (https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/maria-mitchell-and-smithsonian). Just two years after her comet discovery, Mitchell… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co, 1872. Second edition (and the first published English edition) of Alice; first edition of Through the Looking Glass, first issue. Illustrations by John Tenniel; 192 pp.; viii (including half-title), 224 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Modern polished calf with gilt borders on covers, raised bands, and modest gilt on spine, aeg with gauffered designs on all edges; front hinge of. Tenniel, John. Second edition (and the first published English edition) of Alice; first edition of Through the Looking Glass, first issue. Illustrations by John Tenniel; 192 pp.; viii (including half-title), 224 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. A nice set of Dodgson's Alice books, landmarks of nineteenth-century children's literature that have fascinated and influenced writers, artists, and readers ever since their first appearance. Williams, Madan and Green 44 & 84; PMM 354 (note); Grolier 100 Children's Literature 35 (1865 issue)