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Paris: Publié Aux Frais De L'auteur, 1934. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. Fontaine, Anne-Marie. Copy No. 1 of an edition of 300. With 25 plates after paintings (watercolors, gouaches) by Anne-Marie Fontaine. INSCRIBED by the Artist. Covers are browning along the edges. Chipping along spine. Interior in fine condition. See photos for detail. RARE Only 3 copies in WorldCat 12/2018.

Montreal: B. Dawson, 1852. Soft cover. Poor/not applicable. (17.5x11 cm). - 96 pages. plates. - Original printed illustrated wrappers. - Soiling and marginal chipping to wrappers. With map of Montreal as frontispiece. - Profusely illustrated with wood engravings, some full page.- With 12 pages of advertisements; many illustrated. - EXTREMELY RARE: WorldCat locates only the Queens University copy. Link to photos available on request.

Venetiis [Venice]: Aldus Iunior, 1571. Hardcover. Fine/not applicable. With a separately paginated section, entitled "Pauli Manutii Praefationes Quibus Libri Ad.Illustres.Viros aut.ad.Amicos Missi Commandatur" - 16mo (15.5x10.5 cm). - (16),470,(2);139,(13) pp. - Contemporary full vellum, title hand- lettered in contemporary ink on spine. (Spine darkened and slightly creased; small bump on back cover. - Small ink smudges on the last two pages of preface, else very fine.) - With woodcut portrait of Aldus Manutius Senior on verso of title-page, and large woodcut Aldine anchor & dolphin device, with legend Aldus Iunior, on the title page; and a smaller device, with legend Aldus, on the last page. - Preface printed in Roman letters, the rest in Italics.

Torino: Sebastian Franco e Figli, 1862. Hardcover. Good. Quarto (30.5x23 cm). - 2 pages, 83 full-page maps, many folding, most of them colored. - Half-leather, dark green boards; spine with $ raised bands, and with decorations and title in gilt. - Upper corner of back cover lacks a 3x1 cm piece, end-papers with some soilied spots. - EXTREMELY RARE: WorldCat locates only 3 copies (College de France, Paris; Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Rome; Biblioteca Civica de Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy)

Roma: Giovanni Zempel, 1789. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. - (20,xvi,232 pp. - Contemporary 3/4 leather, spine with 4 gilt bands and floral decoration, as well as title in gilt on dark brown leather label; marbled paper boards. - Title-page within engraved borders, and with engraved vignette showing both sides of an Emperor Constantine coin. - Fine; interior very fine, with all edges dyed red. - OCLC locates only 4 copies. - Shelf No.: c 337.

Parisiis: Apud Hieronymum de Marnef, 1560. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. 48mo (10.5x7.5 cm). - 208, [3] leaves. - Contemporary calf, covers with double gilt borders; rebacked, spine with 4 raised bands and title in gilt on red leather label. Corners and edges somewhat worn, else fine. - A tight copy. - On the title-page and in the colophon, Marnef's famous printer's device: a pelican, on its nest, feeding its young, along with the motto: In me mors, in me vita". - Many engraved initials. - Interior fine, except for the tops of few pages (including the title-page) are being very slightly shaved off . - On the title-page, ownership note in old ink: "Joannes Seager. Coll. / Pembr. Oxon. / ..." - Marginal comments in Seager's hand, in English, especially at the end. - The poet Martian, of Spanish origin, is well remembered for his witty description of daily human life in Rome, as well as for his satire. - In the present book, of special… Read More

Wien: Gilhofer & Ranschburg, 1920. Hardcover. Very Good/not applicable. (46x35.5 cm). - [4] and 10 signed plates in a folder. - Half-cloth, with hard black cover, author's name embossed in gilt on front cover. - Very good; edges and corners slightly worn. - No.31 of 100 copies on French hand made paper (out of a total of 120). - Plates are very fine. - EXTREMELY RARE: WorldCat locates only a single copy [Princeton[.

Madrid: En Madrid : Por Iulian Izquierdo, 1675. Hardcover. Good/not applicable. Wide crown octavo (20.5x15 cm). - [24], 417, [79] pages. - Contemporary vellum, with title in old brown ink on spine; worn, soiled, somewhat creased; wormholes through about one third of the book (at the end; mostly marginal only). - Engraved armorial illustration on the first page of dedication.A small manuscript note in old hand laid in. - This is the most famous work of the Renaissance humanist and grammarian Caro y Cejudo (1639-1712); a remarkable compendium, entitled "Sayings, and ways of speaking Castilian, with the Latinos that correspond to them, together with the glossa, and explanations of those who need it ..." - A very influential book on grammatical doctrines, reprinted with a slightly different title in 1792.

Bologna: C. Zenero, 1650. Hardcover. Very Good. Thick 16mo (16x8 cm). - [14], 858, [3] pages. - Contemporary hard vellum, with title in manuscript on spine. Closed tear between front cover and front end-paper; the upper corner (5.5x4 cm) of Page 245 torn off, with loss of some text; rest of interior fine. - With allegorical frontispiece, 7 full-page and 1 half-page engravings. - Very good to near fine. On the last page, Carlo Zenzero's printer's device. - THE RARE FIRST EDITION.

new York: Time-Life Books, 1976. Hardcover. Near Fine. Quarto (30x24 cm). - A portfolio of ten tissue-guarded images folders, each with a photo (with authentication by blind stamp), and a number (1680/2500). - Another folder, describing the collection, signed by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt, as trustee of the Collection. - In a box, cover resembling marbling, title pressed in gilt. - Very fine; folders and plates very fine; some of the tissue papers over the photos are slightly creased. - Ten images, about 3 x 5" each, tipped onto 8 x 10" heavy folded sheets: Abraham Lincoln, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Samuel F.B. Morse, William Tecumseh Sherman, Henry Wood Beecher, Phineas Taylor Barnum, Edwin Thomas Booth, David Glasgow Farragut, Mary Todd Lincoln, and Oliver Wendell Holmes. - In addition, there is a full-size portrait of Lincoln.

Philadelphia: The International League of Press Clubs, 1904. Hardcover. Fine. Thick large quarto (32x23 cm). - XIII, 406 pages, and a profusion of plates with tissue guards. - Uncut. - An exceptional deluxe binding: dark green morocco, with title in gilt on front cover, as well as floral decorations in gilt within a four-fold gilt border on both covers. - Somewhat faded spine with tittle in gilt - On verso of front cover, logo of "The International League Of Press Clubs, over marbled paper; on verso of back cover, illustration in many vivid colors - both within illustrated gilt double-borders, and with light bron silk guard. - With a dedication page illustrated in 4 colors: "This volume is Number Five and especially printed for THE SUN". - With over 150 articles on all kinds of topics, starting with "Joseph Pulitzer - A Character Sketch" by A. T. A. (Arthur T. Abernethy), along with a full-page photo of him. -

London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, 1869. Hardcover. Fair. Small 8vo. - xv,(1),299,(1),4 pp. - Publisher's original burgundy cloth, with decorations and title in gilt, within a black double frame, on front cover; title in gilt on spine. Front cover detached, spine darkened and damaged; interior very fine. - With splendid color frontispiece :"QUIDDI WIDDI LAKE, St. Johns, Newfoundland". - Sabin 4316. - Shelf No.: c 256.

Columbus: Isaac N. Whiting, 1840. Soft cover. Good. 16mo. (16x10 cm). - 156 pages. - Original yellow wrappers, with printed title" Bishop McIlvaine on Justification", and with owner's signature, in ink: "G K Perry". Worn, !/3 of spine missing; some water damage and foxing on first few pages. - On title-page, in same handwriting as on cover, in pencil: "G K Perry from the author". - "Errata" printed on bottom of Page 3. - In 1832, Charles Pettit McIlvaine (1799-1873) became the second president of Kenyon College, and the second Episcopal Bishop of Ohio. - He was a leading advocate of Evangelicalism, and - as in this work - extremely critical of the Catholic leaning Oxford Movement. - He was so highly respected internationally that shortly after the outbreak of the Civil War, President Lincoln asked him to go to England to argue against British recognition of the Confederacy. - He died in Florence, Italy in 1873, and, on its way home as… Read More

New Orleans: Searcy & Pfaff, Ltd., 1929. First Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Good/not applicable. Title continues: "With A Bibliography of the Issues of the Louisiana Press". - Large 4to. - 151 pp. - Searcy & Pfaff Ltd., New Orleans, 1929. - No. 78 of "four hundred ten copies only on French Arches paper". - Original decorative paper-covered boards, with gilt-stamped red cloth spine. (Corners slightly bumped, front inner hinge with small crack, else fine). - With frontispiece facsimile, and 22 facsimiles in text. - Boldly inscribed on front free end-paper, in ink: "To J. Christian Bay / with the warm regard/ of / Douglas C. McMurtrie". - With engraved bookplate, showing a reading monk among three nuns, of Irving S. Cutter. Link to additional photos available on request.

Chicago: Eyncourt Press, 1930. First . Hardcover. Fine. Title continues: "With a bibliography of the known issues of the Baptist Mission Press at Shawanoe, Stockbridge, and Ottawa, 1834-1854", - 169 pp. - Eyncourt, Chicago, 1930. - Royal octavo (26x17 cm). - Original red cloth, title in gilt on spine. - Very fine. - Uncut. - No. 189 of 650 copies only. - With tipped-in frontispiece portrait of Meeker, and many reproductions of title-pages. - With inscription in ink: " To J. Christian Bay / with the high esteem / of Douglas C. McMurtrie" on the front free end-paper. - Tipped-in bookplate of Irving S. Cutter on front end-paper. - The Danish-American writer and bibliographer Jens Christian Bay (1871-1862) was chief librarian of the John Crerar Library in Chicago, 1928 through 1947.

Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1884. Hardcover. Fair/not applicable. 431 pgs "Containing a classified list of all trades, professions and pursuits in the City of Chicago, alphabetically arranged together with city and county record, United States Offices, and churches. " Original binding. Front cover is separating from binding. Wonderful period business directory with a number of illustrated ads. RARE 1 copy in WorldCat (10/18)

Stuttgart und Tubingen: Cotta, 1833. Hardcover. Very Good. Crown octavo (20x12.5 cm). - XII, 185, [1] pages. - Contemporary mottled gray hard boards, title in gilt on red-brown label on spine. Very good. - Interior very fine, except for some slight foxing of Pages 2 and 3. - On last page: "Berichtigungen und Zusatze". - Ownership signature, in ink, on front free end-paper: "Muller"; and a few comments , in light pencil, on some pages. - The renowned German scholar Gebhard Mehring (1798- 1890) [from 1867 Gebhard von Mehring], provides a detailed study of formalism in law, as well as in philosophy. Among the main ideas discussed in detail are: rights, state rights, freedom, unity, moral unity, democracy, despotism, patriarchy, theocracy, constitutional monarchy and the principle of equality.

Pest: M. E. Lowy's Sohn, 1859. Hardcover. Fine. Duodecimo (19x11.5 cm). - 83, [1] pages. - Original blind-stamped decorated dark grey cloth with a gilt frame, with embossed gilt letters: "J T". - Exceptionally fine, almost as new. - Bright green end-papers. - On the back free end-paper, in old fading ink: " Von .. Onkel Johan Jonas .. 1859". - In German. - In the "Vorbemerkung", Wolf Alois Meisel authorizes the Verlagshandlung M. E. Lowy[s Sohn in Pest to publish a new edition of his work, which he has revised; signed "Stettin, im Sivan 5619. / Dr. Meisel". - A collection of 89 numbered Jewish prayers and songs. - Extremely rare: WorldCat locates only 3 copies [Cincinnati, Jerusalem and Budapest]

Lubecae (Lubeck): Wiedemeyer, 1699. First edition . Hardcover. Fine/not applicable. 8vo. 922.5X17 cm). - (10),63 pp. - Wiedemeyer, Lubecae, 1699. - Leather over wooden boards (wood slightly broken on front and back covers, leather somewhat worn). Spine with 6 raised bands. Paper partially browned (but not affecting plate), else fine. - With a folding plate, showing both sides of 18 gold coins, each with the portrait of a Hungarian king, from Ludovicus through Leopoldus (1689). - With some initials and an elaborate endpiece. - In Latin. - Apponyi III, 1468.

Wien: Sebastian Hartl, 1785. First . Soft cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. (17x10.5 cm). - 79 pp. - Near fine, in contemporary strong grey wrappers. - Small ownership stamp on title-page.