Monumento à Elevação da Colonia do Brazil a Reino, e ao Estabelecimento do Triplice Imperio Luso. As obras de Pùblio Virgilio Maro, traduzidas em verso portuguez, e annotadas por by LEITÃO, Antonio José de Lima - 1818-19

Belfast: Linen Hall Library, 2005. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies signed by Heaney on the limitation page. Copy #29. Sewn card printed wraps in decorated paper dustwrapper with printed label. Typeset in Baskerville and printed by Nicholson and Bass, Ltd. on Colorplan Birch. Black thin card envelope with printed label and publisher's stamp. Text is a tribute to Michael McLaverty delivered by Heaney at the Linen Hall Library in September, 2004. Includes Heaney's poem "An Evening at Killard" first published in 1969 by The Irish Press in their "New Irish Writers" series. Envelope is in Fine condition. The book is an unread copy in Fine condition. Very few available.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Limited Edition.

Smith, Elder, & Co. London. 1907. TWO VOLUMES IN ONE. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.6 inches). Portrait frontis engravings showing Browning as a young man (dated 1835) opposite the title page of volume 1, and as an old man (1881) for volume 2. Finely bound by Truslove and Hanson of London in contemporary full blue morocco. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt ruling. Compartments with double ruled and single dotted lines. Four red corner dots in each compartment. Boards with double rule and single dot borders, again with red dots to the corners. Front board decorated with elaborate decorative pattern in gilt embellished with another 39 red dots. Rear board has the same outer border as the front but with a similar smaller panel design in the centre, with three red dots to each corner. Four gilt ruled borders to the inner boards. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. Some minor foxing to the frontispieces and the tissue guards opposite them otherwise a fine copy in a very attractive decorative leather binding with a… Read More

Hurst & Blackett, LONDON, Ltd. Publ. Paternoster House, E. C. ., 1923 HBDJ, 1923. 1st British Edition, VG/GOOD+, Blue Decorated Cloth Hard Cover Boards light Rub, Wear, & Tiny Corner Ding, Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: GOOD+ with Lite Soil wear & small chips Tears Edges. . Book is very clean, bright, tight and square. Tiny amount of wear at bottom of spine and bottom corners. Lovely copy. Dust wrapper is not clipped, is faded on the spine. Also has a small piece missing across top of spine (about 1/8" deep) and a rectangular piece about 1"x1/4" missing from top of rear panel. Closed tear about 2" long at bottom of rear panel. Enclosed in protective clear film Mylar . This original dust wrapper is very scarce. Unusual to find such a lovely copy in the original jacket. 5.6 X 3.5 inches Light Wear, Interior Nice Tight with Light FOXing , Wear, Back DJ small Tear Chips, DJ Spine FADE & ends tiny Chipping, , 143 pgs , NO Ads in Back, , then at… Read More

London: Chatto & Windus. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards lightly sunned and worn, silverfish . damage to boards.. 1921. First Edition; Second Printing. Hardcover. Introduction by Siegfried Sassoon. Red cloth with printed paper spine label. Photogravure frontispiece portrait of Owen with tissue guard. xi, 34pp. Some pages unopened. A collection of Owen’s poems published posthumously after he was killed in action in France in 1918. The iconic World War I poem “Dulce et Decorum est” is included in this volume (but is printed on one of the unopened pages.) Verso of half-title notes that “For the preparation of this book thanks are primarily due to Miss Edith Sitwell. ” ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: Faber & Faber, 1932. First Edition. First Edition. Original light blue paper covered boards, red lettering on spine. In original yellow dust wrapper with bold lettering on front cover and spine, back cover list of "Faber Library." First issue binding and wrapper with "2. 6d. net." An uncommon title, book and wrapper are near fine.

1721 Batrachomyomachia GREEK Homer Iliad Frogs & Mice Isaac Newton One of 204
"Batrachomyomachia" or 'Battle of the Frogs and Mice' is a parody of Homer's famed Greek epic poem the 'Iliad'. This story follows the tale of a mouse-prince who encounters the legendary Frog King. Originally thought to be written by Homer himself, numerous other figures are considered to be the author of this work, including Pigres of Halicarnassus, Lucian, or even the Queen of Caria.
This 1721 Maichael Maittaire edition was printed as part of a very limited print run, one of only 204 copies given to subscribers. Notable names included in the subscriber list include Richard Mead, the Bishop of Winchester, and even Isaac Newton!
Item number: #19496
Price: $599
HOMER [attributed]
Batrachomyomachia Graece ad veterum exemplarium fidem recusa: glossa Graeca ; variantibus lectionibus ; versionibus Latinis ; commentariis & indicibus illustrate
Londini. : Typis Gulielmi Bowyer., M. DCC. XXI. [1721]. Limited edition.

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1755 ENGLISH ed Works of VIRGIL Aeneid Bucolics Eclogues Joseph Trapp 3v SET
"If I cannot move heaven, I will raise hell."
― Virgil,
The Aeneid

A rare and highly desirable 18th-century edition of the works of Virgil. Virgil is regularly considered one of the greatest Roman poets because of his poems, 'Eclogues,' 'Georgics,' and 'Aeneid' – some of the most important works of western literature. This 1755 English edition was translated into English with commentary by Joseph Trapp.
Item number: #20175
Price: $599
VIRGIL
The works of Virgil : translated into English blank verse
London : printed for W. Meadows, 1755.

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Collation: Complete with all pages
o Vol. 1 – [2], xciv, [2], 240
o Vol. 2 – [2], 420
o Vol. 3 – [2], 430, [2]
o Engraved frontispiece in each volume
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Provenance:
o Handwritten –
John Gaskarth, 1770
o Armorial Bookplate – S&B
Includes a styled '&' of rope, with an English earl's coronet.
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Language: English
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1692 French Theatre Dramatic Poems of Thomas Corneille Plays Drama 5v SET Paris
Thomas Corneille was a 17th-century French writer who best-known for his lyric poetry and plays. Younger brother of the more famous Pierre Corneille, Thomas composed numerous plays and other works of French literature including works such as 'Don Bertrand de Cigarral'. This and many other dramatic plays are included in his 1692 set of the works of Thomas Cornille.
Item number: #20621
Price: $750
CORNEILLE, Thomas

Poemes dramatiques
Paris: Chez Pierre Traboüillet, 1692.

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· Collation: Complete with all pages; 5 volumes
o Vol. I – [2], 592, [4]
o Vol. II – 545, [3]
o Vol. III – 511, [1]
o Vol. IV – 642
o Vol. V – 598
· Language: French
· Binding: Leather; tight and secure
· Size: ~6.5in X 4in (16.5cm x 10cm)
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1834 DANTE Convivio The Banquet Monarchia Medieval Poetry Italian 5v Set RARE
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
While best-known for the famous 'Divine Comedy', Dante Alighieri also wrote two lesser-known works such as 'Convivio'. 'Convivio', or 'The Banquet' is a collection of Dante's own knowledge, a sort of encyclopedia of philosophy, religion, science, history, and astronomy. This collection of Dante's minor works includes Convivio and 'Monarchia' – a treatise on political philosophy.
This five-volume Italian edition of Dante's works was published in Florence. A fine five-volume set!
Item number: #24839
Price: $950
ALIGHIERI, Dante
Opere minori
In Firenze [Florence]: Leop. Allegerini e G. Mazzoni, 1834-39. 1st edition
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes in 5 tomes
o Vol. I
Part 1 – cccliv, [2]
Part 2 – [2], 356
o Vol. II
Part 1 – xxxvii, [1], 324
Part 2 – [2], 325-696
o Vol. III – xii, 358, [2]
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1845 DANTE Alighieri Divine Comedy Inferno Purgatory Paradise Ichabod Wright 3v
"Abandon all hope, ye who enter here."
― Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy
Dante's "Divine Comedy" is one of the most important and long-lasting works for literature. This mid-19th-century English edition was translated by Ichabod Wright, an edition of Dante which was considered to be one of the best translations. This beautiful three-volume set was published in London in 1845.
Item number: #24800
Price: $795
ALIGHIERI, Dante
Dante
London : Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman, 1845.
Details:
· Collation: Complete with all pages; 3 volumes
o 'Inferno' – xxxii, 306
Includes engraved frontispiece
o 'Purgatorio' – xii, 319, [1]
o 'Paradiso' – xvi, 317, [1], xxvii, [1]
· Provenance: Armorial bookplate – Edward Francis Witts
o Likely Edward Francis Witts (1813-1886), rector of Upper Slaughter in Gloucestershire. He was also the father of George Backhouse Witts (1846–1912), a British civil engineer and… Read More