C. Iulii Caesaris quae extant by Julius Caesar - 1644

Amstelodami : Typis D. Elzevirii, 1664-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 456-(56) pp., 3 maps. 24mo. Later quarter leather over marbled boards. Lacking front flyleaf. Front hinge cracked. Owners signature to pastedown of former Bishop of Cleveland, Ignatius F. Horstmann. Scattered soiling and contemporary ink underlining. "Reimpression litterale de l'edition donnee par Louis Elz??vier en 1650" (Willems, 1334).

Amstelodami. : Ex officina Elzeviriana, 1675. Hardback, full comtemporary calf. 13.5 x 8cm. [8], 526pp, [50]pp index. Engraved title, woodcut head- and tail-pieces, initials, portrait woodcut of Caeser, 5 woodcut plates and complete with 3 folding engraved maps. Text in Latin. All in good clean condition. Binding worn and rubbed. Previous owners' names on end-papers. Some old worm damage to last few leaves, mainly to index. Commentaries on Caesar's wars. . Hard Cover. Good.

Leiden:: Ex officina Elzeviriana,, 1635.. later full vellum with red gilt-lettered spine labels.. Aside from the repair to the engraved title, a beautiful clean copy.. 16mo,. Engraved title page trimmed close to the platemark and laid down; five full-page woodcut illustrations; three folding maps; portrait medallion. .

Lugduni Batavorum, Ex. Off. Elzeviriana, 1635. Original Vellum? . 16mo. [22], 561, [70] pages. [3] leaves of plates. Illus. Maps. Port. 13 cm. In Latin. CONTENTS: C. Julii Cæsaris Commentariorum de bello gallico [C. Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic war]. --C. Julii Cæsaris Commentariorum de bello civili [C. Julius Caesar's Commentaries on the Civil War]. --A. Hirtii Pansæ Commentariorum de bello Alexandrino [A. Hirtius Pansa Commentaries of the Alexandrian war]. --A. Hirtii Pansæ Commentariorum de bello africano [A. Hirtius Pansa Commentaries of the African war]. --A. Hirtii Pansæ Commentariorum de bello hispaniensi [A. Hirtius Pansa Hirtius Pansa's Commentaries of the Spanish war]. --C. Julii Cæsaris Fragmenta [C. Julius Caesar's Fragmenta]. --De galiæ divisione Aldi Manutii commentarius [The division Aldit Manutii Book]. --Nomenclator geographicus omnium galiæ, Germaniæ & Britanniæ locorum quorum Cæsarem fit mentio, excerptus ... È Thesauro geographico Abrahami Ortelii. The… Read More

Paperback. Fair. Amstelodami: apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1644. A dis-bound hardcover (text-block only); 12mo., [16], 532, [68 - index, in double columns] pages with engraved title page, 3 folding engraved maps (France, Spain, and the Roman Empire), and 5 full-page woodcuts. Occasional pen annotations and underlining, map of France split in two, Spain torn at fold, otherwise complete and in good condition. (froc)

Lugduni Batavorum, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1635. C. Iulii Caesaris [opera] quae extant. Ex emendatione Ios. Scaligeri [Joseph Juste Scaliger, 1540-1609] Illustri Domino Iacobo Skytte, Baroni Duderhovae, Domino Stromfrumi, etc. Lugduni Batavorum, ex officina Elzeviriana, 1635. Printed in same year as first printing, but lacking the misnumbering of pages noted. 1st edition. Julius Caesar war commentaries. Rare collection of civil war histories and Julius Caesar war commentaries edited and translated by Joseph Juste Scaliger. Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540 - 1609) was a French religious leader and scholar, known for expanding the notion of classical history from Greek and ancient Roman history to include Persian, Babylonian, Jewish and ancient Egyptian history. Collation complete with all pages: [24], 561, [71]. Illustrated with 3 folding maps and 6 illustrated leaves (including one medallion woodcut portrait). With engraved title page. Size 3" by 5". Very good condition. . First Edition.… Read More

Amstelodami: apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1644. Engraved title page, 3 folding engraved maps (France, Spain, and the Roman Empire), and 5 full-page woodcuts. [16], 532, [68] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Full eighteenth-century mottled calf, gilt spine with red leather label, marbled endpapers, red-stained edges. Upper joint split but cords sound, overall very attractive and internally fine. Engraved title page, 3 folding engraved maps (France, Spain, and the Roman Empire), and 5 full-page woodcuts. [16], 532, [68] pp. 1 vols. 12mo. With Maps and Superb Woodcuts.

Lugduni Batavorum: Ex Officina Elseviriana, 1635. ELZEVIER. Iulii Caesaris quae extant, ex emendatione Ios. Lugduni Batavorum: Ex Officina Elseviriana, 1635. First edition. Twelvemo (5 x 2 7/8 inches; 128 x 73 mm). Complete with three folding maps, engraved title-page, engraved portrait of Caesar and five full-page woodcuts. Early nineteenth century red straight grained morocco, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gauffred. Modern inscription on endpaper. Syston Park bookplate. Early nineteenth-century red straight grained morocco, lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, edges gauffred. Modern inscription on endpaper. Syston Park Bookplate. One of the greatest works produced by the Elzeviers. It is described by some as a work that ranks above the Pliny of the same date, the Virgil of the following year and De Imitatione Christii (without date). Willems gives it the highest praise. Ebert calls it "One of the neatest and rarest Elzevier editions, and greatly sought after." Graesse and Brunet… Read More

The 1852 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of Romulus, part of the Abbott's Histories series. Red cloth, blindstamped on both front and back. Gilt on spine. Famed full-color frontispiece is intact, as is tipped-in protective tissue. All eighteen B&W engravings are intact (five of them plates), including frontispiece.Spine is discolored and darker than rest of jacket, with significant wear on top. Cracking on both top hinges and fraying near bottom hinge. Bumping and fraying on corners. Pages are age tanned and have small stains. Endpapers are stained and have small writing. Cracking at 98-99.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Compnay, 1935. 672 pages.. Measures 7 1/2" x 10". Bookblock is solid, but there is very bad chipping found on the spine. Cover is disbound for three inches at the top front cover. From there on all pages are bound well, none missing, and really in pretty good condition. Pages are crisp and clean. It's a First Edition, thus the still high-end price for a collector's item. Someone adept at re-binding can have themselves a wonderful book after a little attention. After all, it is "Lawrence of Arabia." . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. History.

Andrew E. Lang , a rare book of his poetry. Ban and Arriere Ban USED. 1st Edition, 1894, Longman's Green and Co. Deckle edge, tanning. Beveled green boards with gold gilt ornamentation. The Author's name appears in gold at the front lower right.board. . 118 pages. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. illustrator of the Fairy Books. Per wiki "Arrière-ban, in French customs, is a general proclamation whereby the king summons to war all his vassals and their vassals. To the Provost of Paris belongs the convoking and commanding of the arrière-ban. In the Medieval usage, arrière-ban denoted a general levy, where all able-bodied males were summoned into arms. List of contents available upon request.: ."Many of the verses of this collection appeared in magazines prior to appearing here". INCLUDES ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PUBLISHERS STATEMENT, 4 3/8 x 2 3/8: "Messrs Longmans intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow discount."… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd., 1980. Two volumes are numbers 70 and 79 in the Loeb Classical Library. Vol. I: xxvii, 475, 8 pages; vol. II: ix, 499, 7 pages. Volume I is a 1968 printing; volume II, 1980. In these 2 volumes (along with a companion work, On the Causes of Plants), the Greek philosopher Theophrastus of Eresus produced the most important botanical work of both the Ancient World and the Middle Ages. Both books are in almost as-new condition. The clean and bright dust jackets have some minor edgewear, with a hint of fraying at head os spine of one dj.. Reprints. Hardcover. Fine-/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle, 1831. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. X, 11-492 Pp. Two Large Folding Maps At Front, Printed By William Sims Of New York. Full Speckled Calf, Black Morocco Spine Label, Gilt. Light Wear, Binding Tight And Still Very Securely Bound, But Tiny Chip At Top Of Spine, And Boards Worn Through At Corners Of Two Upper Tips With 1/4" Loss Of Leather At Each Tip. Interesting Association, With Large Ownership Initials And Full Signature Of John W. Faires Dated Oct. 1, 1834; Faires Was The Director Of The Classics School Of Philadelphia, An Important Preparatory School.

Grosset & Dunlap 1905. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First trade edition, first printing. Very good book. Bound in dark red ribbed leather. Pages have a dark gilt to top edges. Former owner name, and dedication penned on back of front cover and another owners name penned on front pastedown. Shelf wear to edges, no jacket. Fairly scarce. 8vo .441 pages. Illistrated.

John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly London, 1867. HB NODJ,1867, stated second edition, Blue Pictorial Cloth with Gold Gilt decorations, Hinge slightly Starting, Minor Rub, Wear Scuff mainly on edges, Slight Fox Here & There, Former owner Name,Tiny chips base & top Spine, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ, Small Corner Bump, 266 pgs, index,Ads in Back Bk, . Hard Cover.

No dust cover and the book back cover has a light bend and a light shelfwear to the edges. The back page look like it had a book plate removed see photos

Venetiis: Ex typographia Remondini, 1751. Hardcover. See Description. 12mo. pp. 143, [1]. Title page is printed in red and black. Bound in modern quarter brown cloth with brown patterned paper boards. The edges of the leaves are untrimmed and ragged. The interior displays some marginal soiling and wear with occasional chipping and corner creasing. A tear on the lower part of page 19 is professionally and neatly sealed. The upper corner to the final leaf of the index is chipped/torn perhaps affecting a few numbers or letters. The imprint statement on the title page contains some rubbing which obstructs two letters in the word "typographia." A few brief instances of marginalia are written in a miniscule old hand. The corner of the head cap is neatly patched. Generally this is a well read copy. Cornelius Nepos (c. 99-24 b.c.e) was a Roman writer and historian. His surviving work Vitae execllentium imperatorum or Lives of outstanding commanders consists of a collection of short biographies of… Read More

McCarter, Margaret HillThe ReclaimersHardcoverPublisher: A.L. BURT, 1Used - Good. Hardcover. green cloth boards that are worn and rubbed, especially at corners, along edges and at spine ends where there is some threadbareness. Some soil on closed edges. Bottom fore edge corners of pages are yellowed and bumped, A few other corners and edges are bumped or creased. Age toned. Binding sound. Text clean of highlighting, underlining or other pen/pencil marks, but has previous owners name in pencil on both cover pages. Has loose hinge on front cover but otherwise binding is still in tact.