CARMEN SÆCULARE TO THE KING... by [ Prior, Matthew] - 1701

Paris & Bruxelles: Charles Gilliet, 1880. First printing. Paperback. Good/good. 8 small booklets In paperback, covers with d/j's. Each full volume has an etching in the frontispiece. A small amount of foxing here and there but nothing really to indicate that these volumes are 130 years old. Text is in French Volume I: 62 pages, the DELIGHTS of the Holy Spirit and the bed warmer. THE CHALICE of MADAME DE TRIGONEC –- Les délices de l'Esprit-Saint et la bassinoire ; Le calice de Madame de Trigonec volume II: 67 pages, a marriage of CONSTANTINOPLE. A POINT...Tapestry –Un mariage à Constantinople ; Un point. de tapisserie. volume III: 73 pages, a Seraglio for sale. THE PENANCE of the parish priest of TILLY – - Un sérail à vendre ; La pénitence du curé de Tilly.Volume IV: 66 pages, the CHASTE SUZANNE. A white mass –- La chaste Suzanne ; Une messe blanche. volume V: 82 pages, the amends. THE TELPEHONE- L'amende honorable ; Le téléphone. volume VI: 81 pages, the curator. THE necessary and the… Read More

Paris: Mercure de France, 1791. Soft cover. Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. 5 issues each about 100 pages : No. 18, 30 Avril 1791; No. 39, 24 Septembre 1791; No.45, Novembre 1791; No.48, 26 Novembre 1791; and No. 5010, Décembre 1791. Blue wraps, sewn binding. All have light soiling and some have small tears along spines, 2 volumes have dampstaining to upper corner and portions of text. Couvertures souples.

Three Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Translated and illustrated with woodcuts by Wanda Ga'g, author of "Millions of Cats". 1943 Coward-McCann, Inc. First Edition, Stated Fifth Printing Thus. RARE in the original dust jacket. Exlib. Good+/Good- DJ protected in mylar wrap. Green decorated library binding. A solid, clean copy in a Rare/Scarce original unclipped $2.00 dust jacket. BRIGHT RED jacket is not sunned. The dj spine is missing 1 inch of the top of its spine, otherwise very nice. Back panel states: Books By Wanda Gag list from Millions of Cats through More Tales From Grimm. Coward-McCann, Inc.

Albany: Re-printed by Barber and Southwick, for Thomas Spencer, book-seller, 1794. Hardcover. Very Good -. 458, vii, [1] p.; 17 cm. Contemporary calf with six spine compartments between gilt-rolled bands; red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title. First American edition. Early American Imprints, 1st ser. (Evans), 27057. Attributed to Oliver Goldsmith in the Dictionary of National Biography. Former owner's name at head of title page: "Francis Blakes." Faint circular stamp on title page. Another former owner's name at head of first page of Preface: J.B. Caldwell. In Very Good- Condition: slightly rubbed; lacking upper corner of front free endpaper and title page, without loss of text; light soiling, foxing, and browning; solid.

London: Printed By J. Dodsley. Good; Outer joints cracked, front boards nearly detached, musty, foxing.. 1792. Leather. Bound in marbled calf with gilt ruled borders on front and rear boards and gilt-tooled spine with leather label. Marbled endpapers. Two engravings, portraits of Tasso and Hoole. xix, 326 pp + [14] pp index. Hoole's English translation of this epic poem written by the 16th century Italian poet, worked on while Hoole was supposed to be studying law. Front pastedown bears bookseller label and two previous owner bookplates, including that of Philip Hone, Federalist Mayor of New York from 1825-1826 and one of the founders of the New York Mercantile Library (rechristened the Center for Fiction in 2005). ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Paris & Bruxelles: Charles Gilliet, 1880. First printing. Paperback. Good/good. 8 small booklets In paperback, covers with d/j's. Each full volume has an etching in the frontispiece. A small amount of foxing here and there but nothing really to indicate that these volumes are 130 years old. Text is in French Volume I: 62 pages, the DELIGHTS of the Holy Spirit and the bed warmer. THE CHALICE of MADAME DE TRIGONEC –- Les délices de l'Esprit-Saint et la bassinoire ; Le calice de Madame de Trigonec volume II: 67 pages, a marriage of CONSTANTINOPLE. A POINT...Tapestry –Un mariage à Constantinople ; Un point. de tapisserie. volume III: 73 pages, a Seraglio for sale. THE PENANCE of the parish priest of TILLY – - Un sérail à vendre ; La pénitence du curé de Tilly.Volume IV: 66 pages, the CHASTE SUZANNE. A white mass –- La chaste Suzanne ; Une messe blanche. volume V: 82 pages, the amends. THE TELPEHONE- L'amende honorable ; Le téléphone. volume VI: 81 pages, the curator. THE necessary and the… Read More

Three Tales from the Brothers Grimm, Translated and illustrated with woodcuts by Wanda Ga'g, author of "Millions of Cats". 1943 Coward-McCann, Inc. First Edition, Stated Fifth Printing Thus. RARE in the original dust jacket. Exlib. Good+/Good- DJ protected in mylar wrap. Green decorated library binding. A solid, clean copy in a Rare/Scarce original unclipped $2.00 dust jacket. BRIGHT RED jacket is not sunned. The dj spine is missing 1 inch of the top of its spine, otherwise very nice. Back panel states: Books By Wanda Gag list from Millions of Cats through More Tales From Grimm. Coward-McCann, Inc.

Albany: Re-printed by Barber and Southwick, for Thomas Spencer, book-seller, 1794. Hardcover. Very Good -. 458, vii, [1] p.; 17 cm. Contemporary calf with six spine compartments between gilt-rolled bands; red leather label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title. First American edition. Early American Imprints, 1st ser. (Evans), 27057. Attributed to Oliver Goldsmith in the Dictionary of National Biography. Former owner's name at head of title page: "Francis Blakes." Faint circular stamp on title page. Another former owner's name at head of first page of Preface: J.B. Caldwell. In Very Good- Condition: slightly rubbed; lacking upper corner of front free endpaper and title page, without loss of text; light soiling, foxing, and browning; solid.

Paris: A. Maestricht and J. P. Roux & Compagnie. Very Good with no dust jacket; Boards rubbed, light foxing and toning to . text block.. 1791. Hardcover. An 18th century biography of the French aristocrat born in the 17th century, rebound in a 19th century binding. Text in French. Uniformly rebound in three-quarter dark green cloth with black and white marbled sides. Black leather spine labels with titles stamped in gilt and floral flourish stamped in gilt in center spines. xvi, 316 pp; 342 pp; 314 pp. Silk ribbon markers. A set as dashingly handsome as its subject, Louis-Francois-Armand du Plessis, Duc de Richelieu (1696-1788) , who was (often) a member of King Louis XV’s court, a soldier, diplomat, and celebrated womanizer. It is thought that the notorious character of Valmont in the 1782 classic novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses is based on Richelieu. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

A Paris Au Palais: Chez Guillaume Saugrain, dans la grand-Salle, A l''Ange Gardien. 1724.. Hardcover. Very Good. xxxix,430,7 (Table des chapitres, fautes a corriger, and approbation). Full polished 18th century calf, marbled endpapers, gilt on spine in compartments, maroon titling label. Old library label at base of spine. Marbled endpapers. Contents very tight and clean. An excellent copy.