A journey round the library of a bibliomaniac: or, cento of notes and reminiscences concerning rare, curious, and valuable books
by DAVIS, WILLIAM
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: for W. Davis, bookseller, 1821. First edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 96; late 19th century brown morocco-backed black pebble-grain cloth, gilt-lettered spine; front joint starting, else good or better. Approx. 125 bibliographical excursions by the famed bookseller: the best edition of Bacon's works, Bruno's Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast; the Ibarra edition of Cervantes, Coryat's Crudities, Hakluyt, Purchase, Shakespeare's portrait, by Droeshout, and Virgil's Opera, largest paper, Elzevir 1676.
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- Bookseller
- Rulon-Miller Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20983
- Title
- A journey round the library of a bibliomaniac: or, cento of notes and reminiscences concerning rare, curious, and valuable books
- Author
- DAVIS, WILLIAM
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- for W. Davis, bookseller
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1821
- Keywords
- Libraries , Printing History , Bibliomania , Rare Books
- Bookseller catalogs
- Books on Books;
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