Antique & Collectible Books

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1896. Marble boards with gilt with three quarter leather cover. Spine has raised detail along spine and gilt titles with anchor design. There is rubbing to the spine. Marbled endpapers. Book is separated from leather cover, there are no breaks in the boards. 359 pages. Almost no tanning to pages. Pencilled price on blank page following. Rotogravures with tissue coverings intact. This is the Author's Connoisseur Edition: "This Edition is limited to seventy-four numbered and Twenty-six lettered copies of which this is No. 15" With introduction by W. A. Courtney, MA, LLD. The condition is close to good. For more information on Captain Marryat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Marryat Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase price benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Numbered. Three-Quarter Leather. Fair/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.

Boston: Dana Estes & Company, 1896. Marble boards with gilt with three quarter leather cover. Spine has raised detail along spine and gilt titles with anchor design. Half the exterior spine is missing. Marbled endpapers. Front cover is mostly detached. Pages remain tightly bound. 242 pages. Almost no tanning to pages. Pencilled price on blank page. Rotogravures with tissue coverings intact. This is the Author's Connoisseur Edition: "This Edition is limited to seventy-four numbered and Twenty-six lettered copies of which this is No. 15" With introduction by W. A. Courtney, MA, LLD. For more information on Captain Marryat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Marryat Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase price benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Three-Quarter Leather. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: Printed for L. Debrett Opposite Burlington House, Piccadilly. Very Good+. 1803. 3rd. Hardcover. Previous owner's name and stamp on front endpaper. Slight rubbing to edges of spine. Some pencilled ticks in the margins. ; Two volume set in 1/2 burgandy leather cover and spine. Bright gilt lettering on the spine. An article entitled, "The Romance of Heraldry," by Francis H. Davies, is tipped in on the front endpaper. Rare. [See Notes] Ca 1803; B&W Illustrations; 16mo 6" - 7" tall .

Tight in possibly contemporary binding with later? title label: "Medical Topography, 1830", previous owner's name and one line comment on FEP. 2 or 3 pages with some red pencil underlining, one printer's ink stain and two pages with small repaired tears. Otherwise superb printing on now slightly yellowed pages.Seller accepts reasonable offersPostage free worldwide

Amsterdam: Thomas Lombrail, 1707 Book. Very Good. 3/4 Leather. Contemporary rebinding of 3/4 leather in excellent condition; beautiful rebinding job. Minor rubbing to corners, o/w FINE. Marbled endpapers, 14 steel engravings, foldout chart, light foxing.

To be over a hundred years old, this book is in remarkably good condition. There is some wear to the cover and the corners are worn and bent. There is writing on the inside front cover and the first page.There are also markings on the pages inside the book. Tanning of pages. A beginner's book for the study of the German language. From the German alphabet, quantity and pronunciation, division of words into syllables, and German script, this begginers book provides lessons and exercises.

Leipzig: J. A. G. Weigel, 1814. RARE treatise on the metres of Pindar. August Boeckh, or Bockh (1785-1867) was a German classical scholar and antiquarian and the founder of classical and ancient studies. Near Fine, handsomely bound in recent marbled boards, prior owner bookplate front paste down, small prior owner stamps title page and verso of title page. Pagination: 582 p. + folding table. Page block quite clean and lovely. . Marbled Boards. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

1785 Buffon Natural History SCIENCE Color Illustrated Evolution Microbiology 5v

"Virtually all the well-known writers of the Enlightenment were 'Buffonians'"
― Ernst Mayer

The monumental work by Comte de Buffon, "Histoire Naturelle," was fascinating 18th-century collection of articles and encyclopedia entries on material sciences, physics, chemistry, technology, as well as the history of animals. Buffon wrote the volumes with the intent of addressing all-natural history, but after realizing the grandeur of the work, he focused on the individual orders of living things. The DSB mentions that
"Buffon's order is formed by a philosophical bias rather than by science."
This beautiful five-volume German example features 17 impressive hand-colored engravings depicting the development of humankind and the human form!
Item number: #11178
Price: $795
BUFFON, Georges Louis Lecrec
Herrn von Buffons allgemeine Naturgeschichte
Troppau : Joseph Georg Trassler, 1785.

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1715 1st ed LEEDS England Topography Architecture Thoresby MAP Geography London
Ralph Thoresby was a 17th-century English historian who is best remembered for his books on the history of Leeds, England. In 1715, Thoresby published "The Topography of the Parish of Leeds" – a description of the history, geography, architecture, and monuments of Leeds. Thoresby published the first edition of 'Leeds' with a descriptive catalogue of the "artificial rarities" found in his Leeds museum.
This impressive first edition includes the folding map of Leeds which is often lacking.

Item number: #11879
Price: $795
THORESBY, Ralph
Ducatus leodiensis: or, The topography of the ancient and populous town and parish of Leedes, and parts adjacent in the West-riding of the county of York ... extracted from records, original evidences, and manuscripts; to which is added ... A catalogue of his museum ... also a catalogue of manuscripts; the various editions of the Bible, and the books published in the infancy of the art of… Read More

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: Printed for T. Becket, 1760. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Atlas Folio - over 23 - 25" tall. First English-language edition thus. 186pp. Re-bound in 1/4 brown leather with marbled boards, gilt title on the spine, new endpapers, and 4 raised bands. An excellent copy..

New York.: Works Publishing., 1950. 1st Edition, 13th printing.. Navy blue cloth, gilt spine title, blind cover title.. Very good, light spotting to cover, lightly bumped corners.. 21.2x14 cm.. Folded sheet with places and times of AA meetings in southern California dated 1951 laid in. weight: 1.2 lb.

New York: Munn & Co., 1859. First Edition First Printing . Hardcover. Very Good. Folio - over 12 - 15" tall. Folios. Variously paginated. The bindings measure 13 3/4 inches tall by 10 inches wide. Hardcovers bound in early black half leather with burgundy marbled paper-covered boards. Moderate wear to the bindings. Volume I has a tear at the foot of the spine and some wrinkles on the spine. Volume III has some heavy scuffing on the rear hinge and there is cracking on the rear hinge running about 7 inches up from the foot. The rest of the bindings have some bumping and scuffing but are generally quite sound and serviceable. The text is variously toned and has some occasional foxing. Many of the interior issues have center folds. We've seen one page that has a tear at the fore edge running into the text, but overall the text is sound and undamaged. Illustrated throughout. An incredible collection of the first 6 volumes of the New Series (each volume contains about 26 issues,… Read More

1591 RARE Breviary of Speyer 1ed Catholic Church Germany Hymns Bible Spirense
A rare 16th-century Catholic Breviary!
Published in 1591 in Cologne, Germany, this book was a breviary for the city of Speyer and the Diocese of Speyer and is filled with countless prayers for all occasions, scripture passages, hymns, and much more. Many of the passages are printed in red inks as well.
Item number: #25004
Price: $795
Catholic Church
Breviarium Spirense… Pars Aestivalis
Coloniae: Calenius & Quentelius, 1591.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages
o [34], 612; 187, [1]
· References: USTC 617123
· Language: Latin
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
o 1 functioning clasp
· Size: ~6.5in X 4.5in (16.5cm x 11.5cm)
· Quite rare
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1845 DANTE Alighieri Divine Comedy Inferno Purgatory Paradise Ichabod Wright 3v
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Dante's "Divine Comedy" is one of the most important and long-lasting works for literature. This mid-19th-century English edition was translated by Ichabod Wright, an edition of Dante which was considered to be one of the best translations. This beautiful three-volume set was published in London in 1845.
Item number: #24800
Price: $795
ALIGHIERI, Dante
Dante
London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1845.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes
o 'Inferno' – xxxii, 306
Includes engraved frontispiece
o 'Purgatorio' – xii, 319, [1]
o 'Paradiso' – xvi, 317, [1], xxvii, [1]
· Provenance: Armorial bookplate – Edward Francis Witts
o Likely Edward Francis Witts (1813-1886), rector of Upper Slaughter in Gloucestershire. He was also the father of George Backhouse Witts (1846–1912), a British civil engineer and… Read More