Search Results: Authors starting with V from Nelson Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1918. First Edition. Very good with some bumping to edges/corners in a fair dust jacket with significant chipping and open tears to corners with loss to the top and spine.. First edition. Early work by Van Vechten with even scarcer dust jacket. A 1919 review in the journal Hispania somewhat bittersweetly quipped that "the book is not complete, nor free from mistakes, nor are most of the data or the impressions in it gathered at first hand; but it is the first attempt in English at a general survey of the field."

Lyon: Pierre Masson, 1929. First Edition. Good with scattered foxing and some loss at the spine in a fair glassine dust jacket with numerous tears and loss.. First edition. 4to. 184pp.: ill., 20 folded leaves of plates. An interesting work on the cathedral's gothic architecture.

London: Lackington, Allen, and Co, 1805. A good copy in dampstained and heavily worn contemporary paper covered boards backed in an amateur repaired modern cloth, some penciling and mild foxing throughout.. Second Edition. Notable for containing a lengthy biography of Mary Wollstonecraft by the feminist biographer Mary Hays (1759-1843). 8vo. v, [3], 653pp., [11, index, errata, ad]. Scarce with less than a dozen copies held worldwide per Worldcat in May 2021.

La Haye [The Hagers]: Henri Scheurleer, 1727. Fourth Edition. Ownership incriptions of Admiral Sir August Phillimore and several other contemporaries in Vol. I, torn ffep in Vol 2., otherwise very good in contemporary leather with gilt spines.. Scarce Hague printing of Vertot's work. Includes at the end of vol. 3 "Difficultez touchant la constitution du Senat Romain, proposées par Milord Stanhope, Sécretaire d'Etat de la Grande Bretagne, et résolues par Monsr. l'Abbé Vertot ... ". This has separate titlepage, pagination and signatures and is dated 1721; was also issued separately.