Antiquarian from Parigi Books, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Charles L. Webster & Company, 1885. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete in two volumes. 584pp; 647pp + errata. Original publisher's deluxe half morocco over cloth stamped in gold on the front, spine, and rear panel, sprinkled edges, marbled endpapers. Engraved portrait frontispieces, maps, facsimiles (including the one printed on yellow paper in volume 2), and illustrations. Front hinges… Read more

Hardcover. Miniature book measuring 37 x 54 mm. No date nor publisher given and no title page present. Cloth. 128pp. An iscription on the front free endpaper is dated 1889. Name in pencil on the verso of the flyleaf. Light wear to cloth. Very good. ; Miniature.

Chicago: Hill Standard Book Co, 1881. Hardcover. 401pp + [3]pp of advertisement. Engraved frontispiece, numerous illustrations. Includes sections on penmanship, spelling, use of capital letters, punctuation, composition, writing for the press, proof-reading, epistolary correspondence, notes of invitation, cards, commercial forms, legal business forms, family records, synonyms, short-hand writing, epitaphs, the laws of etiquette, book-keeping, valuable tables of reference, writing… Read more

Boston: James R. Osgood, 1875. First Edition. Hardcover. Volume Two in the Little Classics series. 207pp. Decorated green cloth stamped in black on the front panel and in gold and black on the spine panel, all edges stained red, dark green endpapers, title page printed in black and red. Collects seven stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Bulwer Lytton,… Read more

Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1872. First Edition. Hardcover. xii, 289pp + [2]pp of advertisements. Green cloth stamped in blind and gold, all edges stained red. A series of travel sketches in Europe, including Rome and Sorrento. Light wear to edges. About near fine. ; 12mo.

London: Burns & Lambert, 1858. Hardcover. xii, 821pp. Full brown morocco, covers stamped in blind and black and with inserted metal decorations, spine with raised bands stamped in blind and gold, gilt gauffered edges, inner gilt dentelles, metal clasp. Frontispiece and nine inserted plates with illustrations. Some wear to spine but overall a very good+ copy, which was nicely… Read more

Tornaci Nerviorum: Typis Societatis S. Joannis Evangelistae, Desclée, Lefebbre et Socii, 1884. Hardcover. 628, 303, [28], 74pp. Full black morocco decorated in gold on the sides, spine with five raised bands and gilt lettering, all edges gilt, decorated endpapers, silk bookmarks. Text in Latin in two columns printed in black and red. The flyleaf is missing but otherwise a… Read more

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers. Hardcover. Complete in five volumes. 610pp; 610pp; 565pp; 600pp; 565pp. Brown half morocco over marbled boards, spines with five raised bands, gold decorations and lettering, top edges gilt, others uncut. Marbled endpapers. Bindings are signed by Blackwell on the verso of the front free endpapers and were made for Brentano's. Engraved portrait frontispiece… Read more

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1892. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by White, George G.. Castlemon's War Series. iii, 456pp + 4pp of publisher's advertisements. Brown pictorial cloth stamped in black and grey on the front panel and in black, gold, and grey on the spine panel. Frontispiece and three inserted plates with illustrations by George G. White. Previous owner's name… Read more

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1864. Hardcover. The Gun-Boat Series. 256pp. Blue pictorial cloth stamped in black and red on the front panel and in black, gold, and red on the spine panel. Engraved title. Previous owner's name in ink and pencil on the flyleaf. Wear to extremities, small chip to corner of front free endpaper, name stamped on fore… Read more

Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by White, George G.. Castlemon's War Series. iii, 428pp. Brown pictorial cloth stamped in black and grey on the front panel and in black, gold, and grey on the spine panel. Frontispiece and three inserted plates with illustrations by George G. White. Previous owner's name on the front pastedown endpaper… Read more

London: Printed by Luke Hansard for J. Johnson, J. Nichols, et al., 1806. First Edition. Hardcover. Complete twelve volume set. Contemporary full tree calf, spines with gilt decorations and red and black leather labels lettered in gold, board edges with gold decorations, edges sprinkled. With the armorial bookplate of George Tudor on the front pastedown endpapers. Internally clean. Four… Read more

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1880. Hardcover. viii, 349pp; xi, 319pp. First Series, twelfth edition; Second Series, second edition. Contemporary dark green full calf bindings, sides ruled in gold and tooled in blind, spines with five raised bands, gilt decorations, red morocco labels lettered in gold, gilt inside dentelles, all edges gilt, pale green endpapers. The bindings are by… Read more

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1847. First US Edition. Hardcover. Two volumes. xl, 527pp; xix, [i], 547pp. Contemporary full calf bindings ruled in gold on the covers, gilt decorations on the edges, spines with five raised bands, elaborately decorated in gilt, and with red and green calf labels lettered in gold, inner dentelles in blind, marbled edges and marbled… Read more

Edinburgh: William and Robert Chambers / Adam and Charles Black, 1837. Hardcover. Eleven works bound in one volume. Half calf over marbled boards, spine with five raised bands, red calf label lettered in gold and decorations. Includes: 1) The Life of Robert Burns, with a Criticism on His Writings... Here Considerably Extended by Additional Particulars..., Edinburgh, William and Robert… Read more

London: Longmans, Green, and Co, 1876. First Edition. Hardcover. xi, 475pp; viii, 480pp. Contemporary brown half calf over cloth, spines with five raised bands, gilt decorations, and morocco labels lettered in gold, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. Portrait frontispiece. Likely Selkirk historian Thomas Craig-Brown's copy with a Selkirk, Scotland bookplate and his signature on it. There is a handwritten… Read more

Boston: Printed by Samuel Hall, 1791. Third Edition. Hardcover. Third edition, corrected. viii, [1], 10-323pp. Contemporary full calf with label lettered in gold on the spine. With seven maps. Howes notes: "First American school geography and first American book describing the western country." Lacks frontispiece map of the world. The maps of the solar system, Earth, United States,… Read more

Chicago: George M. Hill Company, 1898. Hardcover. 188pp + [5]pp of notes. Light blue pictorial binding stamped in gold, darker blue and orange on the front panel, and in gold and blue on the spine panel, top edge gilt. With full page and in-text illustrations. Contemporary inscription on the front free endpaper. Light toning to spine, a bit of… Read more

New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887. First Edition. Hardcover. Illustrated by Fredericks, Alfred. New and illustrated edition. xx, 389pp + [2]pp of publisher's advertisements. Maroon pictorial cloth stamped in black and gold on the front panel, in gold on the spine panel, pictorial endpapers. Frontispiece and thirty-eight full page and in-text illustrations by Alfred Fredericks. "African… Read more

Napoli: Militare, 1791. First Edition. Hardcover. Lv pp. Contemporary full speckled calf binding with gold decorations along the edges of the front and rear panels and on the spine. Engraved title vignette. Head-pieces, initials, and tail-pieces. A beautiful publica gratulatio dedicated to Ferdinand IV and Maria Carolina of Austria, King and Queen of Naples and Sicily. Front and rear… Read more