Description:
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, eleventh edition, 1910. Full Flexible Leather with Vertical Case. Very Good +. Large 4to, complete with 29 volumes, 8.75 x 11.75, about 1000 pages each. The ultimate encyclopedic reference for the historian (or any other scholar who wishes to discover the \"state of knowledge\" in his or her specialty before 1910). When we found that precious edition at a yard sale in Minnesota (more than 40 years ago, when we were a lowly graduate student), we almost wet our pants. Of course we bought it, even though it cost us nearly two months\' rent, and we\'ve been hauling it around with us ever since. Now it is time to pass it on to someone who will love as much as we [the Royal] we did! A Collectors\' item. The interiors of all volumes are about as good as it gets. Original burgundy flexible leather covers are very good. They were very good when I bought them more than forty years ago, and they have received several applications of preservative oils since then.…
Read More Universal World History by Edited by J.A. Hammerton - 1939: Encyclopedias
by Edited by J.A. Hammerton
Universal World History: Encyclopedias
by Edited by J.A. Hammerton
- Used
- Hardcover
This second edition 10 book set of encyclopedias are published by Wm. H. Wise & Co., in 1939 in NY. This is a beautiful set of ten books. The covers are royal blue leatherette (some have minor shelf wear or scuffs as shown in the photos) with gold embossed lettering. They are tightly bound, minor yellowing of pages, with little wear, very good condition. Their spines show some fading from light, while the covers are bright. The top pages are dyed red. This is a used set, but in very good condition, with interesting and beautiful archaic printing, photos and illustrations. Some photos are in color. A wonderful addition to a home library or for someone who just loves gilded books and the color Blue!
- Bookseller Independent bookstores (US)
- Illustrator varied
- Format/Binding Minor shelf wear, solid spines, traditional
- Book Condition Used - Very Good-
- Quantity Available 1
- Edition second
- Binding Hardcover
- Publisher Wm. H. Wise & Co.
- Place of Publication NY, NY
- Date Published 1939
- Keywords Encyclopedia of World History
- Size 5.75"x8.5"x1"
- Shipping cost $15.00
- Weight 20lbs
More Photos
The Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th (eleventh) Edition
by Chisholm, Hugh, ed., for Chancellor of the University of Cambridge
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Oceanport, New Jersey, United States
- Item Price
-
$5,950.00
Show Details
Item Price
$5,950.00
More Photos
Epistolarum Liber IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. Tomus II. Epistles Book IV to XVI. Volume II.
by Cicero (Marcus Tullii Ciceronis)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
- Item Price
-
$400.00$340.00Save $60.00!
Show Details
Description:
Amsterdam/Batavia: Daniel Elsevier/P.J. & Cornelius Hackios, 1676. Hardcover. Very Good. Volume 2 only. A vg copy internally, bound in soiled vellum (probably later) that is beginning to warp. Handwritten spine. Red speckled edges, the top very much darkened. Pages are clean with only very minimal foxing. Title page has the publisher's sigil of an eagle flying in an oval with the word 'Movendo'. The 'books' are paginated separately. About the final third of the book is filled with commentaries, indices, and a variorum for both volumes.
Item Price
$400.00$340.00
Save $60.00
!
More Photos
Trilingual Nomenclature: an English, Latin and Greek Vocabulary. Being a Combination of Howard's Greek and Greenwood's Latin Vocabularies, with Many Additional Notes on Science and Classical Literatur
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket, As Issued
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Granville, New York, United States
- Item Price
-
$175.00
Show Details
Description:
Philadelphia: J. Whetham, 1839. First edition. Full leather. Published Philadelphia: J. Whetham, 1839. 12mo., 4 1/2" x 7 1/2", viii+160pp. Full calf with leather spine label. Scuffing/wear to the leather, sweating stain to top corner of first 20 pages, top corner of page 60 chipped with slight loss to text (supplied in facsimilie), mild foxing, label on fly leaf. Binding tight, text unmarked. Good. Scarce. . 1st. Hard. Good/No Jacket, As Issued. 12mo.
Item Price
$175.00
More Photos
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BOOK.|THE
by Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781884718144 / 1884718140
- Quantity Available
- 265
- Seller
-
New Castle, Delaware, United States
- Item Price
-
$49.95
Show Details
Description:
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. paperback. small 4to. paperback. 576 pages. With a new introduction by Donald Farren. Paperback edition. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1979. The breadth of this work is remarkable. Encyclopedia contains almost 4,000 terms and definitions used in bookbinding, printing, papermaking and the book trade. Biographical details of printers, authors, bookbinders and bibliophiles are included as well as precise notes on machinery and equipment, famous books, printing societies, book-related organizations, customs of the trade and other related information. This work aims at providing "a reference companion to be constantly available during the study or processes of bookmaking" and is particularly essential for the "bibliophile, apprentice printer and binder, publisher, bookseller, papermaker or librarian." However, all those involved in the profession or study of books and publishing will find this book indispensable. Encyclopedia is equipped with five appendices, showing…
Read More Item Price
$49.95
More Photos
Political Economy: Volume VI of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana
by Nassau William Senior
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
- Item Price
-
$73.91
Show Details
Description:
Richard Griffin and Company, London and Glasgow, 1854, Third edition, Fair Hardcover / no dustjacket, 230 pages, 5" x 7.5", text block complete except for last 2 pages of index and rep, edgewear on boards. The Encyclopædia Metropolitana was an encyclopedic work published in London, from 1817 to 1845, in all it came to 30 volumes. Nassau William Senior (1790 - 1864), was an English lawyer known as an economist. He was also a government adviser over several decades in the areas of economic and social policy, on which he wrote extensively.
Item Price
$73.91
More Photos
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE BOOK.|THE
by Glaister, Geoffrey Ashall
- Used
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9781884718144 / 1884718140
- Quantity Available
- 265
- Seller
-
New Castle, Delaware, United States
- Item Price
-
$49.95
Show Details
Description:
New Castle: Oak Knoll Press, 2001. paperback. small 4to. paperback. 576 pages. With a new introduction by Donald Farren. Paperback edition. Reprint of the 2nd edition of 1979. The breadth of this work is remarkable. Encyclopedia contains almost 4,000 terms and definitions used in bookbinding, printing, papermaking and the book trade. Biographical details of printers, authors, bookbinders and bibliophiles are included as well as precise notes on machinery and equipment, famous books, printing societies, book-related organizations, customs of the trade and other related information. This work aims at providing "a reference companion to be constantly available during the study or processes of bookmaking" and is particularly essential for the "bibliophile, apprentice printer and binder, publisher, bookseller, papermaker or librarian." However, all those involved in the profession or study of books and publishing will find this book indispensable. Encyclopedia is equipped with five appendices, showing…
Read More Item Price
$49.95
More Photos
Political Economy: Volume VI of the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana
by Nassau William Senior
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Fair
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
- Item Price
-
$73.91
Show Details
Description:
Richard Griffin and Company, London and Glasgow, 1854, Third edition, Fair Hardcover / no dustjacket, 230 pages, 5" x 7.5", text block complete except for last 2 pages of index and rep, edgewear on boards. The Encyclopædia Metropolitana was an encyclopedic work published in London, from 1817 to 1845, in all it came to 30 volumes. Nassau William Senior (1790 - 1864), was an English lawyer known as an economist. He was also a government adviser over several decades in the areas of economic and social policy, on which he wrote extensively.
Item Price
$73.91
More Photos
Evclide Megarense Philosopho: solo introdvtttore delle Scientie Mathematice; diligentemente Reassettato, et alla integrita ridotto per il degno Professore di tal Scientie Nicolo Tartalea, Brisciano, Secondo le due Tradottioni: e per commune commodo & ... - [FIRST "EUCLID" IN THE VERNACULAR BY TARTAGLIA.]
by EUCLID OF ALEXANDRIA.
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Copenhagen, Denmark
- Item Price
-
$7,155.00
Show Details
Description:
1543. (Colophon: Venice, Venturino Rossenelli, 1543). Folio. (30,5x22 cm.). Contemporary full Italian limp vellum. Remains of ties. Old handwritten title on spine. Upper part of frontcover slightly creased. A few small nicks to hinges at cords. Vellum with brownspots. 242 leaves (2-241 numb. II-CCXXXIX). Misnumbering of leaves in sign. A (10 lvs.), due to the insertion of corrections on f A5. (Collation corresponds to that given by Thomas-Stanford No. 34). Large margins profusely illustrated with diagrams. Upper right corner of title gone with loss of of 3 letters "NSE" in MEGARENSE, f A2-A6 with upper right corners and a wormtract-hole in lower margin repaired. A wormtract in lower margin on the next 11 lvs. A1-A6 mounted skillfully on thin opaque parchment-paper. A rather faint dampstain in upper right corner throughout. Last 5 leaves with a small nick in right margin, no loss. Otherwise remarkable clean and printed on good strong paper. On the title a large woodcut device with arms with G.T.…
Read More Item Price
$7,155.00
More Photos
Encyclopædia, or, A dictionary of arts, sciences, and miscellaneous literature : constructed on a plan by which the different sciences and arts are digested into the form of distinct treatises or systems, comprehending the history, theory, and practice of each according to the latest discoveries and improvements; and full explanations given of the various detached parts of knowledge, whether relating to natural and artificial objects, or to matters ecclesiastical, civil, military, commercial, &c.; including elucidations of the most important topic relative to religion, morals, manners, and the oeconomy of life : together with a description of all the countries, cities, principal mountains, seas, rivers, &c. throughout the world; a general history, ancient and modern, of the different empires, kingdoms, and states; and an account of the lives of the most eminent persons in every nation from the earliest ages down to the present times; compiled from the writings of the best authors, in several languages; the m: 18 volumes.
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States
- Item Price
-
$3,800.00
Show Details
Description:
Vol I: 799p, 31 pl. [i]; Vol. II: 799p, 60 pl. Pp 594-600 tear into text without loss; Vol III: 806p, 20pl.; Vol IV. 793p, 26 pl.; Vol V: 807p, 24 pl.; Vol VI: 794p, 22 pl.; Vol VII: 797p, 38 pl. Neatsfoot oil stained pages,; Vol VIII: 800p, 18 pl.; Vol IX: 800p, 31 pl. lacking plate 260; Vol X: 788p, 22 pl.; Vol XI:814p, 19 pl. Several neatsfoot oil stained pages, plate 299 bound in Vol XII on page 78; Vol XII: 799p, 35 pl.; Vol XIII: 799p, 32 pl.Deep neatsfoot oil stains to fore edge, ; Vol XIV: 797p, 16 pl.Initial and last pages with neatsfoot oil stains ; Vol XV: 799p, 41 pl. Several pages detached but present; plates 433-434 bound in Vol XVI; Vol XVI: 799p, 12 pl.; Vol XVII: 827p, 37 pl.Several pages detached but present,; Vol XVIII: 945p, 59 pl. 486 placed at end. Despite internal oddities, a handsome set in the original sturdy calf. Sabin 22555
Item Price
$3,800.00
More Photos
Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally Of Fugitive Rhymes
by Lang, Andrew
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ Included
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
- Item Price
-
$100.00$60.00Save $40.00!
Show Details
Description:
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 Item Price
$100.00$60.00
Save $40.00
!
More Photos
The History of Romulus: With Engravings
by Jacob Abbott
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Plano, Texas, United States
- Item Price
-
$40.00
Show Details
Description:
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.
Item Price
$40.00
More Photos
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
by T.E. Lawrence
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Roanoke, Virginia, United States
- Item Price
-
$39.99
Show Details
Description:
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.
Item Price
$39.99
ENQUIRY INTO PLANTS and Minor Works on Odours and Weather Signs (2 volumes)
by Theophrastus (translated By Sir Arthur Hort)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Fine-
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Reprints
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Williamsburg, Virginia, United States
- Item Price
-
$50.00
Show Details
Description:
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.
Item Price
$50.00
More Photos
Ban and Arriere Ban: A Rally Of Fugitive Rhymes
by Lang, Andrew
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ Included
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Salem, Oregon, United States
- Item Price
-
$100.00$60.00Save $40.00!
Show Details
Description:
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 Item Price
$100.00$60.00
Save $40.00
!
The History Of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies And Conquests, From Their Earliest Accounts Till The Division Of The Macedonian Empire In The East
by Gillies, John (Ownership Signature Of John W. Faires); Two Large Folding Maps Engraved By William Sim Of New York
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Pasadena, California, United States
- Item Price
-
$99.00
Show Details
Description:
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.
Item Price
$99.00
More Photos
The Story of My Life: THE STORY OF MY LIFE WITH HER LETTERS (1887-1901) AND A SUPPLEMENTARY ACCOUNT OF HER EDUCATION, INCLUDING PASSAGES FROM THE REPORTS AND LETTER OF HER TEACHER, ANNE MANSFIELD SULLIVAN BY JOHN ALBERT MACY
by Hellen Keller
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dj
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Salina, Kansas, United States
- Item Price
-
$105.00
Show Details
Description:
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.
Item Price
$105.00
Diamonds & Precious Stones Their History, Value, & Distinguishing Characteristics with Simpler Tests for Their Identification , with new Table of the Present Value of Diamonds
by Harry Emanuel F. R. G. S. , With Beautiful Blue & Gold Title Page
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
LONG BEACH, California, United States
- Item Price
-
$102.00
Show Details
Description:
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.
Item Price
$102.00
Nepotis quae extant omnia a mendis accuratissime expurgate.
by NEPOS, Cornelius
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - See Description
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Concord, Massachusetts, United States
- Item Price
-
$120.00
Show Details
Description:
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 Item Price
$120.00
More Photos
The Reclaimers
by Margaret Hill McCarter
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No dj
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Salina, Kansas, United States
- Item Price
-
$122.00
Show Details
Description:
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.
Item Price
$122.00
Opera omnia in usum ivuentutis scholasticae emendate admodum edidit notisque ad modum Ioh. Minellii explicuit et intellectu facillima reddidit M. Christ. Iuncker.
by SALLUSTIUS, Crispus Caius; [Sallust]
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - See Description
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Concord, Massachusetts, United States
- Item Price
-
$125.00
Show Details
Description:
Ex officina Weidmanniana, 1739. Hardcover. See Description. 12mo. pp. [10] 348 [12]. Title printed in red and black. Crudely illustrated frontispiece. Annotated by Johann Minellii. This edition of Sallustius was probably meant for Latin students. The entire book is inter-leaved with blanks, presumably for note taking. Several blanks contain notes in a miniscule old hand. Bound in full vellum (darkened spine). [Schweiger II, p.881].
Item Price
$125.00