Stanley Paul & Co, 1910. Hardcover. Frontispiece, xiv, 327p; viii, 329-696p. Burgundy morocco boards and a slightly brown spine. Richly gilt dentelles along the marbled end papers. BINDING SIGNED RIVIERE & SONS. INCLUDES A GIFT INSCRIPTION BY THE DUKE SIGNED "From John Xmas 1910" ON THE INSIDE FRONT BOARD. The.....
Cambridge: John Hayes, 1688. Engraved frontispiece, (xviii), 911p. Contemporary calf with a gilt spine and gilt ruled boards. Professionally rebacked preserving the original spine. Includes three of the five full page engravings. Joshua Barnes (1654-1712) became Professor of Greek at Cambridge in 1695. See Sandys p57. Lowndes p116 "An elaborate.....
Edinburgh: F.C. and J. Rivington, 1812. Fourteen volumes. Early three quarter mottled brown calf gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers. Later edition of the collected works of these contemporaries of Shakespeare. The playwrights Beaumont and Fletcher were regarded in their time as two men so closely in harmony as.....
London: J.D. for Richard Chiswell, 1682. 110p, [8], 328p, 235p, [7]. 20th century quarter brown morocco with marbled backed boards and marbled end papers. Binding signed Zaehnsdorf on the inside blank. Complete with the Appendix work A Collection of Letters. Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715) was a Scottish philosopher and historian, and.....
New York: Burgess. Stringer & Co, 1844. Contemporary brown cloth decorated in blind. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 480p. From the Library of New Jersey Presbyterian Minister, Poet and Historian, Joseph Fulford Folsom with bookplate on the inside front board. Some foxing on the title page and a few spots on.....
Gettysburg: Robert Harper, 1811. Frontispiece, 516p. Contemporary leather with a gilt ruled spine. From the Library of the American philatelist, historian and publisher Hiram Edmund Deats (1870-1963) with bookplate on the inside front board. American Imprints 22609. Maytas #11-01 with the page number errors. Scattered foxing throughout. Released by the.....
Philadelphia: Matlack & Harvey, 1885. x, 392p. 19th century quarter morocco over marbled boards with marbled end papers and a richly gilt spine. Limited to 300 numbered copies, whereof this is #180. From the Library of the Philadelphia book collector and bibliophile Clarence H. Clark with bookplate in volume 1.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1925. Frontispiece, xxxvi, 311p. Tan leather over boards ruled in blind. Black leather spine labels. Slight color variation in the leather on the lower part of the front board otherwise a fresh clean copy. From the Library of the American jurist specializing in military justice.....
Paris: A. Claudin, Editeur, 1863. Hardcover. iv, 260p, [32]. French bibliophile periodical. Includes an article on library of Pithou brothers. Also includes an interesting bibliography of bibliographies with indications as to the publication limitations of some of the entries. The last 32 pages includes a publisher's catalogue. A fresh clean.....
London: John Murray, Albemarble Street, 1849. Hardcover. xvi, 287p. Contemporary half black leather over green patterned boards with a richly gilt spine and blue speckled foredge. Later reprint and first printed in 1828. See Lowndes col#1457. From the Library of William Maul Measey with his armorial bookplate Bibliotheque du Chateau.....
London: J. Almon, 1773. Contemporary calf with red spine labels.
Bologna: Bologna: Societa Tipographica Gia Compositori, 1886, 1886. Boards. Boards. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 16p. A rather scarce bibliography of the early editions of Euclid. From the Lord Lindsay library with the Bibliotheca Lindesiana bookplate. A fresh clean copy. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾".....
Frontispiece, viii, 479p: iv, 480p: iv, 501p. Contemporary tan calf over boards with marbled end papers. Marbled foredge. From the Library of American Lawyer and writer Henry W. Taft (1859-1945) with bookplates in all three volumes. He was also the brother of President William Howard Taft. Spine labels chipped and.....
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1833. Frontispiece, lxiii, 403p: 503p: 480p. 19th century polished calf with marbled end papers and gilt spine. Hazen in his bibliography of Horace Walpole p8 writes "Walpole's work is of major importance to all who are in any way concerned wit the political, social, or.....
London: Henry Colburn, 1846. Frontispiece, xxiii, 452p: Frontispiece, vii, 452p. Contemporary half leather over cloth boards with gilt ruled spine and marbled end papers. Second edition. From the Library of Cosmo Nevill with armorial bookplate on the inside front boards. Gilt armorial emblem on the front boards. Small booksellers sticker.....
Germantown: Michael Billmeyer, 1820. Frontispiece, [6]. 39p, 412p, [2], 21p. Contemporary calf. Professionally rebacked, Preserving one of the two clasps. Includes an original hand painted German Mennonite fraktur bookplate dated 1821 professional mounted on the inside front blank. Third edition. First printed in 1803. Some even browning to the paper.....