Anna Karenine: Roman traduit du Russe; Comte Léon Tolstoi by Tolstoy, Leo - 1886

Chester, England: J. Fletcher, 1804. Hardcover. Fair +. Printed by J. Fletcher; and sold in London by E. Williams, Bookseller of Wales. xxiii, [i], 62, [2] p.; 17 cm. Original brown paper spine and grey paper over boards. Wood-engraved head pieces and tail pieces. First edition. The author, Richard Llwyd (1752-1835), was a Welsh poet known as the "Bard of Snowdon." In Fair+ Condition: paper over spine is lacking; covers are soiled and faintly dampstained; tail of spine and lower corners of boards and pages have rodent damage, without affecting text; pages are clean and bright. An extremely scarce work.

New York: John Furman, 1800. Hardcover. Near Fine. Translated by William Roscoe. "Re-printed for William Cobbett." 30, 44, 34 p.; 14 cm. (18mo). Signatures: A-I6. Contemporary binding: half speckled calf with marbled paper over boards. Gilt rules on spine; black morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title: The Nurse. All page edges speckled. English translation only, from Roscoe's bilingual edition of 1798. Includes Roscoe's introduction on the life and works of Tansillo, largely adapted from G.A. Ranza's Italian edition of 1767, with Latin passages from book 12 of the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius. Evans, 38604. In Near Fine Condition: corners rubbed; pages are clean and tight. An attractive early 19th-century binding.

Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers, 1868. Paperback. Good. [2], 396, [2] p.; 25 cm. Original printed wrappers. Woodcut illustration on front wrapper drawn by Henry Anelay and engraved by H. Carter. Date of publication inferred from publisher's advertisement on first page following text: "Get up your clubs for 1869!" Printed wrappers and final leaf contain publisher's advertisements. Some unopened leaves. Very scarce in original illustrated wrappers. In Good Condition: wrapper fore-edges and lower edges chipped; wrapper separating from head of front joint for 3 cm. and from tail of back joint for 10 cm.; wrapper is slightly soiled; fore-edges of front wrapper and pages through p. 116 damaged, without loss of text; occasional light foxing; otherwise clean and tight.

S.l.: s.n., 1928. Hardcover. Very Good -. [6], 365, [1] p.; 25 cm. Original black faux-leather cloth with blind-stamped title at head of spine between double blind rules. Front board has blind-stamped emblem within triple-ruled border. Title vignette of eagle in front of stars, holding arrows and a olive branch, within a laurel wreath, the latter only printed in red. Title page is preceded by two pages: another title page repeating the eagle emblem without the wreath and adding "privately printed"; and a page of limitation stating that the edition was limited to 500 copies, but without a copy number or signature. This is the third of the pirate editions described by Lawrence in "My Skirmish with Jolly Roger." In Very Good- Condition: joints, center of spine, and corners rubbed; head of spine frayed; a few pages opened carelessly (resulting in chip out of upper edge of title page); slightly soiling along a few margins; back endpapers stained; slightly cocked but solid.

New York: G.P. Putnam & Co, 1853. Hardcover. Very Good. iv, 703, [1] p., 1 leaf of a plate showing the residence of J.P. Kennedy, Ellicott's Mills, Md., 1 double-page wood-engraved view of New York City: in-text illustrations, map; 24 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-stamped title in second compartment: "Putnam's Magazine vol. 1." All page edges red. Marbled endpapers. Edited and with contributions by Charles Frederick Briggs, George William Curtis and Parke Godwin. George Putnam sought to focus on American writers and American literature in the magazine he established in 1853. This volume includes first appearance of two poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Galgano, the latter a verse translation of a story from Il Pecorone by Giovanni Fiorentino; The Fountain of Youth by James Russell Lowell; Old Ironsides by James Fenimore Cooper; Ornithomanes by Henry… Read More

London, Eng: Luke Hansard & Sons, 1810. Hardcover. Very Good. Fittler, James. A New Edition, in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on his Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy. Printed by Luke Hansard & Sons [vols. 9-12 printed by J. Nichols and Son] for J. Nichols and Son; F. & C. Rivington [etc]. 12 volumes: vol. 1 has engraved frontispiece portrait by James Fittler after Sir Joshua Reynolds; 23 cm. Contemporary full polished calf with six spine compartments between raised bands. Gilt-tooled title in second compartment reading "Johnson's Works" and gilt-tooled volume number in fifth compartment, with gilt-tooled and blind-tooled decoration in the remaining compartments. Decorative border on each board consisting of double blind rules and a decorative blind roll, with a gilt dot at each corner at the intersection of the double blind rules; gilt-tooled decoration on the edges at the corners. Gilt-tooled Greek key pattern on all turn-ins. All page edges are marbled; marbled… Read More

New York: John Furman, 1800. Hardcover. Near Fine. Translated by William Roscoe. "Re-printed for William Cobbett." 30, 44, 34 p.; 14 cm. (18mo). Signatures: A-I6. Contemporary binding: half speckled calf with marbled paper over boards. Gilt rules on spine; black morocco spine label with gilt-tooled title: The Nurse. All page edges speckled. English translation only, from Roscoe's bilingual edition of 1798. Includes Roscoe's introduction on the life and works of Tansillo, largely adapted from G.A. Ranza's Italian edition of 1767, with Latin passages from book 12 of the Noctes Atticae of Aulus Gellius. Evans, 38604. In Near Fine Condition: corners rubbed; pages are clean and tight. An attractive early 19th-century binding.

Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson and Brothers, 1868. Paperback. Good. [2], 396, [2] p.; 25 cm. Original printed wrappers. Woodcut illustration on front wrapper drawn by Henry Anelay and engraved by H. Carter. Date of publication inferred from publisher's advertisement on first page following text: "Get up your clubs for 1869!" Printed wrappers and final leaf contain publisher's advertisements. Some unopened leaves. Very scarce in original illustrated wrappers. In Good Condition: wrapper fore-edges and lower edges chipped; wrapper separating from head of front joint for 3 cm. and from tail of back joint for 10 cm.; wrapper is slightly soiled; fore-edges of front wrapper and pages through p. 116 damaged, without loss of text; occasional light foxing; otherwise clean and tight.

S.l.: s.n., 1928. Hardcover. Very Good -. [6], 365, [1] p.; 25 cm. Original black faux-leather cloth with blind-stamped title at head of spine between double blind rules. Front board has blind-stamped emblem within triple-ruled border. Title vignette of eagle in front of stars, holding arrows and a olive branch, within a laurel wreath, the latter only printed in red. Title page is preceded by two pages: another title page repeating the eagle emblem without the wreath and adding "privately printed"; and a page of limitation stating that the edition was limited to 500 copies, but without a copy number or signature. This is the third of the pirate editions described by Lawrence in "My Skirmish with Jolly Roger." In Very Good- Condition: joints, center of spine, and corners rubbed; head of spine frayed; a few pages opened carelessly (resulting in chip out of upper edge of title page); slightly soiling along a few margins; back endpapers stained; slightly cocked but solid.

Paris: Arnauld de Vresse, 1862. Hardcover. Very Good. [8], 329, [3] p.; 17 cm. Contemporary dark green calf spine with gilt-tooled spine title and decoration. Marbeled paper over boards. A novel partially set in England. On a preliminary page, the author thanks Docteur Duchesne-Duparc for caring for the author's father and notes that one of the characters was inspired by the doctor. Louis Lefloch was the author of Mahomet, Al Koran, Algérie: Etudes Historiques, Philosophiques et Critiques in addition to this work and several other novels. Extremely scarce. In Very Good Condition: spine slightly faded; boards are rubbed; upper corner of front board bumped; pages are slightly browning and foxed; clean and tight.