Time and the End of Time in Two Discourses, the First About Redemption of Time, the Second About The Consideration of Our Latter End by Fox, John ( Foxe )

COLUMBUS, OHIO: THE WESTBOTE COMPANY, STATE PRINTERS, 1889 RARE BOOK ON THE NATIONAL CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION OF THE EARLY SETTLEMENT OF THE TERRITORY NORTH WEST OF THE RIVER OHIO, AND OF THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT THEREIN, HELD AT MARIETTA, OHIO, JULY 15-19 INCLUSIVE, 1888. INCLUDING VERBATIM REPORTS AND SPEECHES AND TRANSACTIONS OF THE OCCASION. NICE LOOKING DARK BLUE COVERGOLD DESIGN FRONT, GOLD PRINT SPINE. NOTE IN FRONT GIVING BOOK TO THE PREVIOUS OWNER, TIGHT WITH NOTES IN PENCIL ON THE BACK BLANK PAGES REFERENCING FRENCH , ENGLISH, LIBERTY AND CONSTITUTION. REFERENCE ON FIRST PAGE TO SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 21 THAT CIVIL GOVERNMENT WAS ESTABLISHED AT MARIETTA, OHIO, UNDER ORDINANCE OF 1787, BY GOVERNOR ST. CLAIR, JULY 15, 1788. SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 28. COMMISSIONERS LISTED, HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION 25. GREAT DETAIL SHOWING COMMITTES, LOCAL ORGANIZATION, TOWNSHIP DETAIL AT TIME. HISTORICAL PAGEANT LISTING. DETAIL OF THE HISTORY. FIRST REFERENCING 1749. NAMES, INFORMATION AND… Read More

N.A. Kovach. A beautiful crisp clean hardcover first edition copy in very good condition, expected age toning and light foxing to textblock and age toning to cloth at top edge. No. 25/25 limited edition copies offered for sale. Signed by Lyle H. Wright (who wrote introduction), John B. Goodman (Illustrator) and Nicholas Kovac (Publisher). DJ in good plus condition with mild age toning and small chip at spine tail, now in protective mylar cover. . Very Good. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 1946.

French Text translated by Lionel Mirisch. 1971. 1st edition. Hardcover. First vol. has 4 inch tear in spline cover. No dustjackets. Volumes 1 to 4 in red leatherette boards. With 1295 Plates and black-and-white illustrations. International orders will require extra shipping charge.

Paris: Vaugirard, 1907. A lovely copy of this first edition, with lengthy gift inscription and unrecorded poem. Attractive red half leather binding with marbled boards. Attractive gilt decoration to the spine. There is cracking / splitting to the top edge of the front board, and it is in danger of becoming detached. Marbled endpapers and ex libris of Yves Refoule. Legrand has inscribed a 12 line poem and gift inscription to his friend Refoule. In addition, there are a few handwritten annotations and corrections to the text of the poems. It would appear that these were corrections made by Legrand. 30 pages. Music hall administrator, critic and historian, a specialist in circus and music-hall performances between the wars, Legrand collaborated closely with Jean-Marcel Chabrier and they produced many works as Andre Legrand Chabrier. Bel exemplaire de cette première édition, avec une longue inscription de cadeau et un poème non enregistré. Jolie reliure demi-cuir rouge à plats marbrés. Jolie… Read More

No Dust Jacket
No Slipcase

Book: Blemishes - Small discoloration on the front board (photo). Shelf rub on the spine top (photo). Small puncture on backboard gutter (photo). The remainder of this special edition copy of this vintage is in remarkable condition.

Has 16 color full-page lithographs (photo) by Federico Castellon, drawn on the stones by him and printed under his supervision at the Atelier of Edmund and Jacques Desjobert in Paris.

String binding and heavy rough cut paper, replicating the original publication in 1842. A book by a contemporary publisher's first effort that was built to last and endure.

The sturdy boards are brown linen backed with black cloth with gilt seam (photo). The spine title is also gilt encased in gilt double border (photo), spine lettered in gilt, slipcase. No. 223/500 copies, designed by Bert Clarke, printed by Clarke and Way in New York.

Signed by the artist at the colophon (photo) .

Cleveland: The Arthur H. Clark Company. First Edition, 1928, Two Great and Their Pawnee Battalion, The Experiences of Frank J. North and Luther H. North, Pioneers in the Great West, 1856-1882, and their defense of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad. 299 pages, 2 page map, "Map Showing Routes of Expeditions of the North Brothers" frontispiece. Book is near Fine, ultra clean ribbed red cloth with bright gilt title to spine, very light wear to corners as well as to head and heel of spine, Tight and square with No previous owner bookplate. Writing on inside cover may be pertinent to history. No other writings or marks in the book., or writing. Top edge gilt, foredge and bottom edge untrimmed, Interior is Fine in never read condition. Ultra clean and most presentable in custom mylar cover. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1928.

Light brown embossed design calf with gilt title on the spine. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Volumes I, II, II.

Brown leather binding with maroon title plates, gilt decoration and lettering on the spine. Two volumes.
Translated by Samuel Clark. Greek and Latin. Good clean examples of bookmaker's craft. Homer was the reputed author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the two epic poems that are the foundational works of ancient Greek literature. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential writers of all time. The Iliad is set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy by a coalition of Mycenaean Greek kingdoms. It focuses on a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles lasting a few weeks during the last year of the war. The Odyssey focuses on the ten-year journey home of Odysseus, king of Ithaca, after the fall of Troy. Many accounts of Homer's life circulated in classical antiquity, the most widespread being that he was a blind bard from Ionia, a region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey. Modern scholars consider these accounts legendary. The Homeric… Read More

Red leather binding with raised and gilt banding, gilt decoration and title on the spine. Gilt decoration on both boards. All edges gilt. Contains coloured plates. Dimensions are for one volume. Revamped edition.

Tan leather binding with raised banding, brown title plate and gilt lettering on the spine. Gilt "Society of Writers to the Signet" emblem on both boards.