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Price: $100.00
Publisher: London, Jones & Co.: 1833
Seller ID: 9025
526 pp. Colored frontis with view of the House of Lords, hand-colored title page with a view of the Bay of Naples and 9 other hand-colored plates. Dark green calf leather with gilt double ruling. Spine in compartments with blind decoration as well as gilt, two red labels, one with title and one with "Vol. II." Gilt edges and edge dentils. First free end paper torn out, some foxing especialy near the plates but otherwise clean and unmarked, nice and sturdy. Gorge... View more info
By: Almada, Pedro J.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Mexico, Ediciones Botas: 1943
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 9222
243, [vi] pp. In Spanish. Bright yellow red and black soft cover with minor wear. Interior paper a little browned, pages never separated. Good copy of this look at Lazaro Cardenas, the president of Mexico between 1934-1940, and part of the Mexican Revolution. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 243 pages View more info
Price: $22.00
Publisher: Cambridge, Cambridge University Press: 2002
Seller ID: 8218
xi, 350pp + 7 unnumbered pages. Index. Book has red cloth cover with gold text on spine. Dark blue dust jacket with photographs and white text on covers, white text on spine. Very slight wear on covers. Dust jacket has very slight wear on corners. Text is clear and unmarked. ; Camden Fifth Series; 8.58 X 5.59 X 1.18 inches; 378 pages View more info
By: Assisi, Saint Francis; Alger, Abby Langdon, Translator
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Mount Vernon, Peter Pauper Press: before 1962
Seller ID: 9026
141 pp. with red decorations by Valenti Angelo throughout. Bound in 3/4 dark red leather with red ruling, 5 raised bands with gilt fleurons in the compartments, in a slipcase with a red pastedown. Slipcase has some rubbing. Leather covers are clean and bright, interior clean and bright, gift inscript dated 1961, last 3 pages have a very small bump at the top edge, hard to see, otherwise very good, a lovely copy in this scarce special binding. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall;... View more info
By: Aycough, John; [Bickerstaffe-Drew, Francis Browning]
Price: $65.00
Publisher: London, Smith, Elder & Company: 1914
Edition: Second Edition
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 6029
Xvi, 324 pp + ads. With a gift inscription from the author "from John Ayscough who is proud to think any book of his had held the high office of lightening the hour in a hero's life" to Donald J. McDougall. Black cloth covers with red library tape spine, covers are bit tired, old library sticker marks, edges bit rubbed. Interiors have had library pockets rather roughly taken out leading to scarring and lacks on the end papers, interior paper bit toned but otherwi... View more info
By: Barnes, Reginal H.; Brown, Charles E.
Price: $99.00
Publisher: London, Macmillan: 1885
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 004074
This book is a hardcover, 7 1/2" by 5", 104 pages, plus several unnumbered preliminaries and 4 pages of facsimile letters before the title page; in fair condition. Cloth covers show rubbing at the corners, spine tip chipping. Interior hinges cracked, the 4 pages of facsimile letters are detached and the last fly is similarly cracking away from the binding at the gutter. There are old "Mercantile Library" stamps on the title page and a few other pages... View more info
By: Bizet, Georges. Preface De Louis Ganderax
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Paris, Calmann-Levy:
Seller ID: 002451
liii + 325 pp + table. No date, circa 1900. The letters of composer Bizet, in French. 1/2 leather. Handsome leather spine with 4 raised bands, gilt decorations, leather bit dry and faded. Marbled boards with some rubbing at edges. Interior marbled end papers are clean, paper is a little browned, occasional foxing, but otherwise unmarked. ; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall View more info
By: Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Leipzig, Kummer: 1829
Seller ID: 000325
264 pp. Seventh of ten books. The first German translation of Mémoires sur Napoléon, le Directoire le Consulat, l'Empire et la Restauration. Written by Napoleon's Private Secretary Bourrienne (1769-1834), who was a childhood friend of the great man. As an 1836 review of this famous book said, "M. de Bourrienne shows us the hero of Marengo and Austerlitz in his night-gown and slippers--with a 'trait de plume' he, in a hundred instances, places the real man before... View more info
By: Busson, Henri
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Librairie Ancienne Honore Champion: 1923
Seller ID: 5311
+ (16) 201 + (4) french language, contains 1 plate, bibliography and index, previous owner attached wax paper DJ which is torn around head, tail, edges and on back cover, book in good condition with pages lightly browned, clear, unmarked and uncut; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 201 pages View more info
By: Cantimpre, Thomas De; King, Margot H. , translator
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Toronto, PEREGRINA: 1991
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 5393
207 pp. End notes, bibiliography. Illustrated with frontis medieval portrait of Lugard. Cream and Wedgewood blue card covers are clean and unmarked, hint of shelf wear, interior clean and unmarked. Nice copy ; Peregrina Translations Series, Matrologia Latina; Vol. 9; 207 pages View more info
By: Cantimpre, Thomas De; King, Margot H. , translator
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Toronto, PEREGRINA: 1991
Edition: Revised Edition
Seller ID: 5394
207 pp. End notes, bibiliography. Illustrated with frontis medieval portrait of Lugard. Cream and Wedgewood blue card covers are clean and unmarked, hint of shelf wear, interior clean and unmarked. Nice copy ; Peregrina Translations Series, Matrologia Latina; Vol. 9; 207 pages View more info
Price: $55.00
Publisher: Chiswick; London, HARDING, TRIPHOOK, AND LEPARD,: 1825
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 7385
xxxii, 344; lxxii, 304 pp. Frontis portrait of Wolsey in Vol I, and Anne Boleyn in Vol. II. Original smooth calfe with gilt ruling is very handsome, spines have been neatly repaired with black library tape. Spines have white library #s at bottom of black tape. Marbled edges. Interior marbled end pages with hinges cracked but library tape secures all. First volume has a taped in envelope with old newpaper clippings about Cardinal Wolsey. Text is clean and nice. A very ... View more info
By: Cibber, Colley (Lowe, Robert W., Ed.)
Price: $75.00
Publisher: London, John C. Nimmo: 1889
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 000170
In 2 volumes, 337 pp & 416 pp, 26 original mezzotint portraits by R.B. Parkes and 18 etching by Adolphe Lalauze, limited edition of 510 copies, this is number 307. A new edition of the 1740 original autobiography of Colley Cibber, "interspersed with characters and anecdotes of his theatrical contemporaries, the whole forming a complete history of the stage for the space of forty years". Cibber was the Poet Laureate of England (a purely political appointment app... View more info
By: COUTO, MARIA
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, MacMillan Press: 1988
Seller ID: 6645
X + 264 pp. Interview with Graham Greene, appendix, notes, bibliography, and index at rear. Black DJ with picture of Graham Greene on front. DJ in good condition, clean with no marks or wear. Black cloth boards. Book near fine, in excellent condition with no marks or wear. ; X X ; 264 pages View more info
By: Darwin, Charles
Price: $40.00
Publisher: US, The Humboldt Pub. Co,: 1883
Seller ID: 001785
46 pps. Contents page in back. Binding is softcover: cloth wrapped boards. Wear to corners, buff label age darkened. Interior has book plate of William Schroeder, M.D. along with his presentation to a Medical Society library dated 1911. Some library stamps. All text pages have a small hole which was patched with cello tape many years ago, some pages affecting text yet all is readable. Old library clipping attached to last page. Still sturdy.; Ex-Library; 8" x 4&#... View more info
By: Davis, Thomas; Curran, John Philpot
Price: $185.00
Publisher: Dublin, James Duffy: 1845
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 6367
Xliv, 603 pp. Frontis plate of Curran. Green buckram with red and gilt cloth spine label is generally aged, bit grubby but not particularly rubbed, some wear at spine tips. Interior has new endpapers. Original yellow blank at the front is partially glued to the new endpaper and has a large hole, this yellow page is in turn glued to the half title which has been completely glued down to the frontis plate page (which appears to be missing part of its bottom corner) . Front... View more info
By: Dawson, Glen
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Los Angeles, Muir Dawson: 1948
Edition: Limited Edition
Seller ID: 9126
14pp + 10 unnumbered pages. Book has brown cloth hardcover with gold text on spine. Text is clear and unmarked. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 24 pages View more info
By: De Urbe, Antoniani, editor
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Rome, Pontificium Athenaeum Antonianum: 1970
Seller ID: 5371
298 pp + index. Bibliography of Balic. Frontis portrait plate of Balic. In German, English, Latin, etc. Kraft card covers are a bit browned, pencil erasure to front cover, paper inside a little toned but otherwise clean and nice. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 298 pages View more info
By: De Urbe, Antoniani, editor
Price: $20.00
Publisher: Rome, Pontificium Athenaeum Antonianum: 1970
Seller ID: 5372
298 pp + index. Bibliography of Balic. Frontis portrait plate of Balic. In German, English, Latin, etc. Kraft card covers are very lightly browned at the edges, paper inside a little toned but otherwise clean and nice. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 298 pages View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Toronto, Peregrina Publishing Co.: 1994
Seller ID: 5406
152 pages + (8) contains illustrations, tables, endnotes and bibliography, cream and blue covers with black lettering, book slighly curved with minor wear to corners, pages clear and unmarked; Peregrina Translations Series; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 152 pages View more info
