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Memoirs of the Empress Josephine with Anecdotes of the Courts of Navarre ad Mailaison
London: Henry Colburn, 1829. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes. 8vo. xii,364; 306pp. Half polished calf by Morrell of London, blue cloth sides. Spines in six compartments with raised bands, gilt; brown leather lettering pieces, gilt. Top edges gilt. Spine compartments tooled in an eagle, bee and an 'N' surrounded by a wreath. Blue calf has aged to a pleasant shade of tan on the spines, and also on the boards, but in places a bit unevenly. But for the the sunning, and traces of wear at...
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$750.00
Tragicum Theatrum Actorum & Casuum Tragicorum Londini
by [Du Moulin, Peter, Attrib.]
Amstelodami (Amsterdam): Jodocum Jansonium, 1649. 1-85, [3], 85-320pp, plates. Later full morocco by Cuzin, raised bands, spine in six panels, title in gilt to second panel, place and date to third with volute corner pieces, remaining panels gilt, with volute corner pieces and floral spray centre piece, covers with triple fillet border, double fillet to board edges, six gilt rolls to inner edges, a.e.g., combed marbled endpapers. Externally very good indeed, internally very lightly browned, small ink...
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£500.00
Out West, an Anthology of Stories
by Schaefer, Jack
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Compamy 1955. 8vo. xiii, 331 pp., Bound in a pleasant polished brown half calf by Sotherans, with brown cloth boards and marbled endpapers. TEG, black morocco title labels on spine. Prev owner's initials monogrammed on corner of front board. Hinges rubbed, minor scuffing to spine. Signed on the free endpaper by Jack Schaefer. . Very Good. Half Calf. First Edition. 1955.
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£150.00
LA CHANSON DES GUEUX
by RICHEPIN, Jean
1915. RICHEPIN, Jean. LA CHANSON DES GUEUX. Paris: Bibliotheque Charpentier, 1915. Small 8vo., brown quarter-morocco leather spine & marbled boards; gilt-tooled spine with five raised bands; marbled endpapers; 313 pages. New Edition. French poetry. Very Good (little wear edges; contents clean & tight with an inscription to a student, presenting this book as a prize in 1934). $50.00.
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$50.00
![WITS AND BEAUX OF SOCIETY. QUEENS OF SOCIETY. THE LITERATURE OF SOCIETY [ EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED IN 6 VOLS. ]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/445/230/357230445.0.b.jpg)
WITS AND BEAUX OF SOCIETY. QUEENS OF SOCIETY. THE LITERATURE OF SOCIETY [ EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED IN 6 VOLS. ]
by Wharton, Grace and Philip
London: James Hogg and Sons and Tinsley Brothers, Nd; Nd; 1862. An extra-illustrated set. Hardcover. Very good/No dust jacket. London: James Hogg and Sons and Tinsley Brothers, Nd; Nd; 1862. 6 vols. An extra-illustrated set. Illustrated by H. K. Browne and James Godwin; Charles Altamont Doyle and the Brothers Dalziel. 322+ 2 ad; 292+ 4 ad; 339+ 4 ad; 337+ 4 ad; 315; 315+ 4 ad pp. Hardcover. 8vo. Full dark green polished morocco by Tout Binders. Elaborately gilt spines, tooled in compartments....
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$3500.00
Sense and Sensibility
by Austen, Jane
London: The Folio Society 1997. 8vo. 299 pp. Recent half maroon morocco over marbled boards, with raised bands to spine, gilt decoration and green leather title label. New red endpapers. Bound by J. S. Fellowes. Fine condition, clean inside and out. Illustrated with wood-engravings by Joan Hassall. . Fine. Half Morocco. 1955.
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£150.00
Innocents Abroad
by Twain, Mark
Connecticut, Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1870. 2nd Printing. Elegant 3/4 tan leather binding with raised bands, gold rules. Endpapers match the binding cloth. Fine condition. First edition, second printing.
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$567.00
THE SEVEN LAMPS OF ARCHITECTURE
by Ruskin, John
London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 1849. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Large Octavo, 205, [1], 16 pages. In Fine condition. Bound in full blue morocco by Zaehnsdorf with gilt tooling and titling to paneled spine. Single gilt rule to edges of boards, with gilt dentelles to border of doublures. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers, name in ink to top of half-title. Tipped-in ad for 'The Stones of Venice,' 1850. WM Consignment; Shelved in Case 3. 1348129. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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$1000.00
An Analysis Of Sources Of Information On The Population Of The Navaho. Smithsonian Institution Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 197
by Johnston, Dernis Foster
Washington: U.S. Printing Office. 1966. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. AVery Good copy. No dustjacket. Olive cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration to spine. Black & white tables and maps including a fold-out map. Stamps of previous owner (Royal Society of South Australia) to Title page and front free endpaper. Ink number to upper corner of front pastedown. iii, 220 pages. A comparative investigation of two major sources of information on the population of the Navaho, namely the...
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A$20.00
The New Newgate Calendar
by Birkett, Sir Norman (Edited and Selected)
London: The Folio Society. 1960. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No Slipcase. Illustrated with Black and White plates. 260 pages. The trials and punishments for crimes in nineteenth century London. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. . 1st Edition. Hardback.
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A$18.00
TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA
by James Chapman
James Chapman's TRAVELS IN THE INTERIOR OF SOUTH AFRICA, Comprising Fifteen Years' Hunting and Trading; With Journeys Across the Continent From Natal to Walvisch Bay, and Visits to Lake Ngami and the Victoria FallsFacsimile reprint of the 1868 Bell & Daldy, London, First Edition: 2 volumes: bound by hand in half-leather, marbled end papers. A handsome set, as-new and unread, and ready for your reading pleasure and collection. Because the bindings of these volumes were created by hand, they are not...
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$199.99
Chronicles of Yaddo
by Katrina Trask
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Rare. The De Vinne Press (printed, not published). Copy No. 35 of an unknown number. Introduction by Katrina Trask's husband, Spencer Trask. Signed by Spencer Trask. Vellum paper. Velvet end papers. Locking clasp. Written by Katrina Trask after two of her children died tragically, 3 days apart - Spencer, Jr., age 5 and Christina, age 11. In 1888, Katrina Trask suffered from diphtheria. A doctor allowed Christina and Spencer Jr. to visit her. Both...
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$1800.00
Nineveh and its Remains
by Austen Henry Layard
London: John Murray, 1849. Leather Bound. Very good/Very good. London: John Murray, 1849. Leather Bound. H: 8 3/4", D: 5 1/2", W: 1 1/2" 2 Volumes. Austen Henry Layard, Nineveh and its Remains. Bound in full tan calf with the boards displaying a double.....
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$1500.00
Verbum Sempiternum.>>RARE MINIATURE EDITION<<
Printed by F. Collins for T. Ilive at the Nag's Head, in Jewen-street Re-printed by W. Davy, [London]., 1818 Unpaginated. [286] printed pages. Woodcut English title, "Holy Bible"; typographic English title; original and reprint imprimatur; typographic reproduction of original title, "Verbum Sempiternum. London : Printed by F. Collins for T. Ilive at the Nag's Head, in Jewen-street, 1693". New Testament has English section title, and typographic reproduction of the 1693...
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£600.00
The Comedies of William Shakespeare
by Shakespeare, William
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1980. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Hardcover, full tan genuine leather binding, decorated in gold with raised spine. All edges gilt, dark salmon silk moire end-papers and silk ribbon marker bound-in. Printed on archival acid-neutral paper. 1120 pages. Edited, with an introduction to each play and a glossary, by Peter Alexander. A preface to the Comedies by Tyrone Guthrie. Illustrated by Edward Ardizzone. First...
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$40.00
Traite de Meteorologie.
by Cotte, Louis
Paris., 1774 4to, first edition. xxxvi, 635 [1] printed pages. 14 engraved copper plates, one folding, by C. & E. Haussard. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Historic stains on upper corner of the margins for a series of leaves from the title page on & towards the second half of the book. Contents:1. L'histoire des observations horologiques. 2. Un traite des meteores. 3. L'histoire & la description du barometre, du thermometre, & des autres instrumens meteorologiques. 4. Les...
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£750.00
The Return of the Native
by Hardy, Thomas
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library. As New with No dust jacket as issued. 1978. Limited Edition. First Printing. Leather. Publisher's full brown leather, spine in four compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in remainder; gilt borders and foliate tooling on covers, all edges gilt, moire silk endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with B&W plates by Roy Anderson. Notes from the Editors laid-in.. The volume is in perfect,...
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$50.00
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
by Charles Dickens
Hardcover Condition: Fine. First edition, first issue of Dickens' final novel. Octavo. Bound in full morocco, gilt titles and trim to covers and spine. Five raised bands. Top of text block in gilt. 12 engraved plates by S.L.Fildes. Internally spotless with no foxing but for elegant ownership sticker to pastedown. Lighting rubbing to tips, top of spine, and middle raised band. 190 pages + 2 adverts. A beautiful copy.
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$725.00
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
by Dickens, Charles
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First Edition. Full calf. Octavo (20.8 x 13cm), pp. viii, 190, 14 illustrations including portrait frontispiece and vignette title-page, 2pp tipped in front wrapper of the original Part V of Edwin Drood, August 1870. Handsomely bound in full tan polished calf with five raised bands to the spine, tooled and gilt blocked panels, title panel in slightly darker tan and author panel in black leather, gilt lettered, double gilt borders on the boards, marbled endpapers, gilt...
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A$1200.00
Works of Art in the Collections of England
by LIÈVRE, Édouard; HOLLOWAY, binder
London: Holloway and Son, 1873. One of a Very Few Copies Specially Bound by Holloway LIÈVRE, Édouard. Works of Art in the Collections of England. Drawn by Édouard Lièvre author of: "Collections Célébres D' Oeuvres D'Art en France" and engraved by Bracquemond, Courtry, Flameng, Greux, Le Rat, Lhermitte, J. Lièvre, Muzelle, Rajon, Randall and Valentin. London: Holloway and Son, [1873]. One of 100 Proof Copies printed on fine paper. Large folio (19 15/16 x 13 5/8 inches; 507 x 345 mm.). [i,...
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$1850.00
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Embellished with Engravings from Designs by Thomas Stodhart, Esq. R.A.
by [Defoe, Daniel]
Two Volumes. Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies. London. 1820. Large Octavo. xcii, 429pp. Extra illustrated with Frontispiece portrait of Defoe by Michael Vandergucht, engraved by J. Thomson. Title page engraved vignette, 10 further engraved plates; v, 415pp. Engraved Frontispiece (Robinson Crusoe taking leave of his father and mother), 9 further plates. All indexed plates by Thomas Stothard, engraved by C. Heath. Large Paper Edition in a contemporary unsigned elegant full maroon morocco binding,...
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£675.00
Pride and Prejudice
by Austen, Jane; Dobson, Austin (introduction)
London: Macmillan and Co., Limited 1904. 8vo. 352 pp. Bound in maroon half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Top edge guilt. Full-page illustrations by Charles E. Brock. Small black marking to rear board, but otherwise in lovely clean condition . Near Fine. Half Morocco. Reprint. 1904.
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£225.00
CABALA: SIVE SCRINIA SACRA. MYSTERIES OF STATE & GOVERNMENT
London: printed for G. Bedel, and T. Collins, and are to be sold at their shop at the Middle-Temple-gate in Fleetstreet, 1654. Hardcover. Quarto, [16], 347, [13]; [12], 160, 181-355 [i.e. 255], [9] pages; VG-; Bound by Jon Robbins in modern period-style diced calf; spine lightly tanned. Text block with gilt edges. Case 7; JR Consignment. ESTC R21971; Wing C184. 1345276. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
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$1000.00
The Works of William Shakespeare in 3 Volumes
by Shakespeare, William
London: George Routledge and Sons 1865. 4to. 3 volumes, 745, 768 and 814 pp, illustrated in b/w, gilt spines are faded and some foxing internally, all 3 bindings are showing wear and ink name on endpaper. 26 cms tall. Volume 1 with slightly different decoration to the other 2 volumes. . Very Good. Half-Leather. 1865.
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£225.00
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
by [Dickens, Charles], Boz, (Ed) & Charles Whithead (Revisions) & George Cruikshank (Illust)
London: Richard Bentley. Near Fine. 1846. New edition. 1/2 leather. Colored frontis and engraved plates; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 458 pages; 1846 Richard Bentley, London. New Edition with some revision by Charles Whithead to the 1838 text edited by Dicken from the manuscript left by Grimaldi. This new edition bound as two volumes in one, paged Xvii, 230; 211 pp. Very handsomely bound in 1/2 yellow morocco and marbled paper sides; top edge gilt and spine bands gilt rolled. Hand colored frontispiece;...
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$165.00
