Traite de Palaephate, touchant les histoires incroyables, traduit du grec avec une preface et des notes du trad. C.-G.P.D.B. by PALAEPHATE [Palaephatus]; Charles-Godefroi-Etienne POLIER DE BOTTENS (1753-1782) - 1771

Kyev: Ynstytut Ystoryy Akademmy Nauk USSR 1978. (4to) 794pp. Very good in very good dust jacket. One volume from a series of 26 covering the history of the cities and villages of each district of the province. Maps, photographs, illustrations, notes, index. There is some chipping and edgewear to the dust jacket and minor bumping to the corners of the cover. Series Editor Tron'ko. P.T. Text in Ukrainian Language. Locale: ; Lviv Oblast--Ukraine. (History--Ukraine, History--Ukraine, Local History--Ukraine).

Boston: Jenks, Hickling, and Swan. Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned, boards worn, dampstained and . sunned, vol. 1 gift inscription and dampstaining to lower half of boards . and text.. 1854. Hardcover. A married set in two volumes (volume one in ribbed dark brown cloth while volume two is in patterned lighter brown cloth). Uniform gilt lettering and designs on spines, boards stamped in blind. 332; 355 pp. An early American edition of Dickens’ only book written for children - his own, in fact - which provides his lively view of English history from ancient times through the beginning of Queen Victoria’s reign. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall .

Lugduni [Lyon]:: Seb. Gryphium, 1556., 1556. Small 8vo. Pagination: 473, [23] pp. Signatures: a-z8, A-H8. Printer’s device on the title page, woodcut initials, printed marginalia; editor's name on title and p. 2 are lined out in ink, three small worm holes from title-page. Nineteenth century quarter gilt-ruled calf, red paper board boards. Early ink name on title of "Carolus . . ." and occasional marginalia (pp. 58, 61, 62, 80-83 [heavy notes] - in the same hand. Very good. Beautifully printed early pocket edition printed by Sebastianus Gryphius (1493-1556), of Suetonius' most famous work and one of the few of his texts that survive, with excellent annotations by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. Commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, the work contains a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first eleven emperors of the Roman Empire [Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian]. It is a primary source for the study of Roman history.… Read More

Leiden:: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium (Louis Elzevier), 1614., 1614. 2 works in 1 volume. Small quarto (approximately 8.25 x 6.25 inches; 208 x 160 mm.). [8], 319, [1, blank] (pages 212, 213, 216, and 217 mis-numbered 202, 203, 206, and 207); [10], [2, blank], 67, [1, blank] pp. Signatures: )(4, A-Z4, Aa-Rr4; 6, A-H4, I2. Errata. First work with title-page printed in red and black with woodcut device; decorative woodcut initials. Second work with typographic ornament on title; decorative woodcut tail-pieces and initial; historiated woodcut initial; printer's imprint at foot of page 67: "Matriti, Apud Joannem Flandrum, Anno M. DC. X." In the Del Rio, the Approbation by Spanish Jesuit Diego Daca, or Daza (1579-1623), once covered by paper in this copy, has been exposed revealing the text [apparently contemporary with imprint]. A small clipped manuscript leaf is mounted to the foot of the title: "De Meursii rarum belicarum historia, qua . . . Halens. Collect. Libr. Rarior . . . p. 33. Manuscript leaf on… Read More

London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. First edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. 8vo. xii, [2], 226 pp. Bound in glossy green illustrated boards. No dust jacket, as issued. Black and white map and illustrations. Includes bibliography and index. Near Fine, bumping to corners, minor scuffing to boards, internally bright and crisp.

Kyiv: Holovna Redaktsiia Ukrains'koi Radians'koi Entsyklopedii an URSR 1969. (4to) 785pp. Very good, no dust jacket. One volume from a series of 26 covering the history of the cities and villages of each district of the province. Black and white and color photographs, illustrations, maps, notes, index. There is a previous owner's name on the front endpaper. Series Editor Tron'ko. P.T. Text in Ukrainian Language. Locale: ; Zakarpattia Oblast--Ukraine. (History--Ukraine, History--Ukraine, Local History--Ukraine).

Lugduni [Lyon]:: Seb. Gryphium, 1556., 1556. Small 8vo. Pagination: 473, [23] pp. Signatures: a-z8, A-H8. Printer’s device on the title page, woodcut initials, printed marginalia; editor's name on title and p. 2 are lined out in ink, three small worm holes from title-page. Nineteenth century quarter gilt-ruled calf, red paper board boards. Early ink name on title of "Carolus . . ." and occasional marginalia (pp. 58, 61, 62, 80-83 [heavy notes] - in the same hand. Very good. Beautifully printed early pocket edition printed by Sebastianus Gryphius (1493-1556), of Suetonius' most famous work and one of the few of his texts that survive, with excellent annotations by Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. Commonly known as The Twelve Caesars, the work contains a set of twelve biographies of Julius Caesar and the first eleven emperors of the Roman Empire [Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian]. It is a primary source for the study of Roman history.… Read More

Leiden:: Apud Ludovicum Elzevirium (Louis Elzevier), 1614., 1614. 2 works in 1 volume. Small quarto (approximately 8.25 x 6.25 inches; 208 x 160 mm.). [8], 319, [1, blank] (pages 212, 213, 216, and 217 mis-numbered 202, 203, 206, and 207); [10], [2, blank], 67, [1, blank] pp. Signatures: )(4, A-Z4, Aa-Rr4; 6, A-H4, I2. Errata. First work with title-page printed in red and black with woodcut device; decorative woodcut initials. Second work with typographic ornament on title; decorative woodcut tail-pieces and initial; historiated woodcut initial; printer's imprint at foot of page 67: "Matriti, Apud Joannem Flandrum, Anno M. DC. X." In the Del Rio, the Approbation by Spanish Jesuit Diego Daca, or Daza (1579-1623), once covered by paper in this copy, has been exposed revealing the text [apparently contemporary with imprint]. A small clipped manuscript leaf is mounted to the foot of the title: "De Meursii rarum belicarum historia, qua . . . Halens. Collect. Libr. Rarior . . . p. 33. Manuscript leaf on… Read More

London: John Lane, the Bodley Head. Very Good with no dust jacket; Hinges cracked, boards rubbed, owner . signature on front flyleaf, foxing to endpapers.. 1911. First Edition. Hardcover. Green cloth with green heraldic designs and titles stamped in gilt on front boards and spine. Top edges gilt. xxxv, 472pp, index. Folding map at rear. Frontispiece illustration and 104 photograph plates. Three years before World War I broke out, the author and his new bride took an automobile tour around the Balkans. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Harper & Brothers, 1901. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Very Good ; No jacket. 1901 Harper & Brothers. Edited from the German. Introduction by Sidney Whitman. Hardcover has blue cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering and royal crest on cover. Tissued frontispiece. Top edges gilt. Deckle fore and bottom edges. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Head of spine has a small vertical tear. Small loss of gilt to words 'of the" on spine. Covers lightly rubbed. Imprinted bookplate on front endpaper. Front free endpaper has a few impressions from erased pencil marks. Pages clean and unmarked. 460 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.