Add to Want List
Rare and Antiquarian Books

Rare books from Aardvark Rare Books, ABAA

Results 1 - 15 of 123
A NEW AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE DIRECT AND PRINCIPAL CROSS ROADS IN ENGLAND AND WALES ;...
More Photos

Show Details

Description:
LONDON: T.N. Longman, 1794. Tenth Edition. Leather-bound. Near Fine. Later binding of full crushed levant morocco (goatskin), of rich, dark blue. Four raised bands, decorated gilt, compartments decorated blind. Boards double-ruled and decorated in blind. Archival restoration to last leaf, at corner. Very occasional, light foxing to text. Tight, bright pages; "E. Houlditch, Marsh Gibbons, Bucks." inked on second fep. One two-page map, entitled: "A General View of the Roads of England and Wales". Better known as PATERSON'S ROADS. Daniel Paterson was the Assistant to George Morrison (to which the book is dedicated), the Quarter-Master-General of his Majesty's Forces. This Tenth Edition represented nearly Ninety Pages additional text from the previous, "including considerable Improvements in the direct Roads, many new Cross Roads, and a great Number of Noblemen's and Gentlemen's Seats.". Part of an important chapter in the history of coaching, this slim little volume was was carried by all coachmen to… Read More
Item Price
$303.00
FREE shipping to USA
PATERSON'S ROADS: A NEW AND ACCURATE DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE DIRECT AND PRINCIPAL CROSS ROADS IN...
More Photos

Show Details

Description:
LONDON: T.N. Longman, 1796. Hardcover. NEAR FINE. Two separate books in one binding. The first book of this is the Eleventh Edition of what is commonly called PATERSON'S ROADS and was an indispensable resource which all coachmen carried to find their way through the towns, hills, dales and shires. 406 pp. includes index to County Seats. Later binding of rich vermilion calf, with raised bands, contrasting black spine label with gilt-stamped title and date. Marbled endpapers.Tight, bright copy. Bound together with the Seventh Edition of THE TRAVELLER'S DICTIONARY, consisting of 215 pp., and published in 1797. Eighteenth-Century editions are quite scarce. In the preface, the publishers thusly describe the companion volume to this single-bound volume, called The Traveling Dictionary: "Having thus, to the best of our Abilities, supplied the Traveller with a full and accurate Description of a much greater Collection of Roads than was ever before attempted; yet, as the different Routs which Travellers… Read More
Item Price
$275.00
FREE shipping to USA
RANGER MOSBY (ORIGINAL LETTER AND ENVELOPE, TIPPED-IN, EACH SIGNED BY JOHN MOSBY)
More Photos

RANGER MOSBY (ORIGINAL LETTER AND ENVELOPE, TIPPED-IN, EACH SIGNED BY JOHN MOSBY)

by Jones, Virgil Carrington

  • Used
  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
Condition
Used - Very Good
Edition
Second Printing
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Eugene, Oregon
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$1,650.00
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1944. Second Printing. Hardcover. Very Good. Brown cloth, octavo. Text clean, cover is very good, very marginal nudging to corners. Stated second printing. 347 pages. Notes, appendix. Frontis plate of Mosby. 17 pages of illustrations, endpaper maps. A handwritten letter, signed by Mosby, dated Washington, December 1914, tipped-in to half-title recto. Also tipped-in, on verso of publisher's frontis portrait of Mosby, a photo plate of Mosby in uniform sitting in a wooden chair, and signed "Very Truly Yours, John Mosby. (Because the only other copy of this particular photo located bore a printed title of "Mosby in 1866", the PHOTO signature is being treated as autopen. Since the photo is pasted, without printed title, to the extant page, this description will not treat it as authentic. The partial envelope which is addressed by Mosby, with return address in top left corner reading "From John Mosby, Washington", and addressed by him to… Read More
Item Price
$1,650.00
FREE shipping to USA
PROCOPIUS CAESARIENSIS V.I. ANEKDOTA ARCANA HISTORIA, QUI EST LIBER NONUS HISTORIARUM. EX...
More Photos

PROCOPIUS CAESARIENSIS V.I. ANEKDOTA ARCANA HISTORIA, QUI EST LIBER NONUS HISTORIARUM. EX BIBLIOTHECA VATICANA ; THE SECRET HISTORY

by Procopius (Translated by Nicolas Alemannus)

  • Used
  • good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Good
Edition
First Edition (Editio Princeps)
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Eugene, Oregon
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$2,750.00
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Lyon, France: Andreae Brugiotti, 1623. First Edition (Editio Princeps). Vellum-Bound. Good. IN LATIN AND GREEK. Tall 4to. a6, e4, i4, o4, A-R4, a-u4. [12], xxiv, 136, 142, [20]. Full old vellum, remains of more recent leather label with title in gilt lettering, peeling from spine, revealing older title in manuscript. Vellum boards cocked. Gorgeous printer's device on title page, 8 woodcut text illustrations. Engraved head and tail pieces. Light to moderate browning and foxing,with occasional dampstain. Remains of bookplate and old name in manuscript to front pastedown. Titlepage in black and red inks. Small notch to bottom margin of O4,lower right corner of e4 and m2 missing,and rough bottom edges on m1, n2, and n3, all without affecting text. Worming in bottom margins of a2-E1 and o1-u4, not affecting text. Diglot, double-column format, in Greek and Latin. A nice copy. Procopius, a Byzantine scholar known for his works on "The Wars of Justinian" and "The Buildings of Justinian", was the secretary… Read More
Item Price
$2,750.00
FREE shipping to USA
THE TRAVELS OF SIR JOHN CHARDIN INTO PERSIA AND THE EAST INDIES. THE FIRST VOLUME, CONTAINING THE...
More Photos

THE TRAVELS OF SIR JOHN CHARDIN INTO PERSIA AND THE EAST INDIES. THE FIRST VOLUME, CONTAINING THE AUTHOR'S VOYAGE FROM PARIS TO ISPAHAN : TO WHICH IS ADDED THE CORONATION OF THIS PRESENT KING OF PERSIA, SOLYMAN THE THIRD

by Chardin, John (Sir)

  • Used
  • good
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Good
Edition
First Edition in English
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Eugene, Oregon
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$4,400.00
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
London: Printed for Moses Pitt in Duke Street, Westminster, 1686. First Edition in English. Leather-bound. Good. Quarto. Contemporary English panel calf boards 417 + 5 pp. index. (11 7/8" x 7 1/2"), sympathetically rebacked in mottled calf, on hempen cords. Contrasting spine label of gilt on maroon Rubbing to extremities. Marbled endpapers and edges. 12' x 20' elaborate foldout frontis map of the Black Sea. Handwritten in two places: "Marshall Lister's Book 1785", once on the verso of the (mounted) title page, bordered by elaborate doodles, followed by a line of what appears to be shorthand; the second inscription at the top of the first page. Most curiously, opposite the "Epistle Dedicatory" are printed the words: "Let this BOOK be Printed". The dedicatory itself, rather over the top adulatory, addressed to the King, concludes: "I might advance in this parallel, where. Your Majesty has so much the advantage, if I did not find my Eyes dazled, when I attempt to fix them upon Your Majesty." LARGE… Read More
Item Price
$4,400.00
FREE shipping to USA
SOME THOUGHTS CONCERNING THE PRESENT REVIVAL OF RELIGION IN NEW-ENGLAND, AND THE WAY IN WHICH IT...
More Photos

Show Details

Description:
Edinburgh, Scotland: T. Lumisden and J. Robertson, and sold at their Printing-house in the Fish-market, 1743. First British (Second Overall). Leather-bound. Very Good. Octavo. Contemporary speckled calf. (6 5/8" x 4 1/4"). Author's name hand printed to front board. Spine repaired and reinforced Rubbing and wear to extremities. Internally clean. iv + 221pp. Name of "Rev. Thomas Smith" in pencil to front free endpaper. iv,124,129-221,[1]. Mis-paginated qwith pp. 129 following pp. 124. Text continuous, despite this error in pagination. OCLC/WorldCat locates just one copy of this 1743 first British edition, in any library worldwide, although ESTC says different. Edwards wrote this when serving as the Pastor of the Church of Christ, at Northampton. Clean, tight copy of a scarce title by one of the most well-known (if not THE archetypal) old, New England exhorter/preacher.
Item Price
$6,600.00
FREE shipping to USA
LAKESIDE CLASSICS (110 VOLUMES)

LAKESIDE CLASSICS (110 VOLUMES)

by Various

  • Used
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Good Plus to Near Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Eugene, Oregon
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$3,850.00
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Chicago, IL: Lakeside Press (R.R. Donnelly and Sons), 1903. Hardcover. Good Plus to Near Fine. 110 volumes of the Lakeside Classics. Missing 7 early books in the series., but does include the very first title -- the rather scarce 1903 Franklin's autobiography. Missing Items : 1904 Inaugural Addresses; 1905 Inaugural Addresses; 1906 Fruits of Solitude by Penn; four volumes of Memorable American Speeches. "...Lakeside Classics is a series started in 1903 that reprinted neglected classic works. Thomas E. Donnelley, then president of the company, was impressed by a set of seven razors presented to him by one of the company's suppliers, and wanted to create a gift that would similarly represent his own company's product and could not be purchased on the open market. The company did not sell the books to the public, but gave each of the company employees a copy at Christmas, making the series valued collectors items. Thomas Donnelley wrote in the introduction to Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, the… Read More
Item Price
$3,850.00
FREE shipping to USA
THE POEMS OF W. B. YEATS (2 VOLUMES, SIGNED); The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Definitive...
More Photos

THE POEMS OF W. B. YEATS (2 VOLUMES, SIGNED); The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Definitive edition with the Authors Final Revisions

by Yeats, W.B.

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
Condition
Near Fine in mylar, and housed in a slipcase.
Edition
Limited, Numbered, Signed Edition (9/375)
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Eugene, Oregon
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$4,950.00
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
London, England: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1949. Limited, Numbered, Signed Edition (9/375). Hardcover. Near Fine in mylar, and housed in a slipcase.. Quartos. (10 3/16" x 6 1/4"). Two-volume set in beveled green cloth with bright gilt monogram device to front boards. . This edition limited to 375 copies, of which 350 were for sale. No. 9 of 375, signed by the author on the limitation page, published after his death. Printed on specially made Glastonbury Ivory Toned Antique Laid Paper, manufactured by Messrs. John Dickinson and Co. Ltd. The type selected is Fournier. The work was published on November 25, 1949. A tissue-guarded frontispiece of Volume I is a reproduction of a drawing by John S. Sargent of a young Yeats, and in Volume II, the frontis is from a painting of an older Yeats, by Augustus John.Very faint rubbing to lower corners, and a tiny bump to the outer edge of Volume II. Housed in a beige, cloth-covered and suede-lined slipcase, with some brown staining to one side. Prospectus laid… Read More
Item Price
$4,950.00
FREE shipping to USA
THE WORKS OF HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT (COMPLETE AND GORGEOUS: 39 LEATHER VOLUMES WITH MARBLED EDGES)
More Photos

THE WORKS OF HUBERT HOWE BANCROFT (COMPLETE AND GORGEOUS: 39 LEATHER VOLUMES WITH MARBLED EDGES)

by Bancroft, Hubert Howe

  • Used
  • near fine
  • Hardcover
Condition
Used - Near Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Eugene, Oregon
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$6,600.00
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
San Francisco, CA: The History Company, 1886. Leather-bound. Near Fine. Thirty-nine matching volumes. Octavo, 9.3 in. x 6 in. ORIGINAL leather bindings with gilt title on two black panels to spine. Marbled edges. Hands down, this is the loveliest set we've come across in nearly thirty years. A few recent nips and tucks in the capable hands of our book restoration guru and this full set looks the masterpiece it is. (See pictures.) Note: We will not compromise on superb and well-protected shipping. "Colossal cooperative undertaking; nothing approaching it has ever been attempted in this country..." (Howes B 91). Volumes 1 - 5: Native Races Volumes 6 - 8: History of Central America Volumes 9 - 14: History of Mexico Volumes 15 - 16: History of the North Mexican States and Texas Volume 17: History of Arizona and New Mexico Volumes 18 - 24: History of California Volume 25: History of Nevada, Colorado, and Wyoming Volume 26: History of Utah Volumes 27 - 28: History of the Northwest Coast Volumes 29 - 30:… Read More
Item Price
$6,600.00
FREE shipping to USA
THE MAZE (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SALVADOR DALI); Illustrated by Salvador Dali
More Photos

THE MAZE (SIGNED BY ILLUSTRATOR SALVADOR DALI); Illustrated by Salvador Dali

by Sandoz, Maurice

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • Signed
  • first
Condition
Used - Very Good / Very Good Plus
Edition
STATED FIRST EDITION
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Eugene, Oregon
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$1,540.00
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, and Co., Inc, 1945. STATED FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good Plus. Salvador Dali. Octavo, 8.4 in. x 5.7 in., pp. 111. Boldly signed by famous Surrealist artist to front free endpaper -"Salvador Dali, 1945", in thick black ink to front free endpaper. Gray cloth beveled boards with embossed maze design, in blind and with gilt title on red stamped panel to front and spine. Light fraying to extremities and sunning to spine. One or two small smudges to front board. Bottom corners lightly rubbed-through. Unmarked interior. Sunning to edges of dustjacket, with fully-intact price of $2.50 to top of front flap. Protected in mylar. Stated First Edition. Maurice Sandoz was born on April 2, 1892 in Basel, Switzerland. He was a writer, known for The Maze (1953) and Spring-Heeled Jack (1950). He died in 1958 in Lausanne, Switzerland. The book tells the story of a Scots who abruptly breaks off his engagement to pretty Kitty and moves to his uncle's castle in the… Read More
Item Price
$1,540.00
FREE shipping to USA
NOVUS ORBIS REGIONUM AC INSULARUM VETERIBUS INCOGNITARUM UNA CUM TABULA COSMOGRAPHICA, & ALIQUOT...
More Photos

NOVUS ORBIS REGIONUM AC INSULARUM VETERIBUS INCOGNITARUM UNA CUM TABULA COSMOGRAPHICA, & ALIQUOT ALLIS CONSIMILIS ARGUMENTI LIBELLIS, QUORUM OMNIUM CATALOGUS SEQUENTI PATEBIT PAGINA. HIS ACCESSIT COPIOSUS RERUM MEMORABILIUM INDEX - ATA UIAM INUENIENT

by Huttich, Johan & Grynaeus Simon

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Good Plus
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Eugene, Oregon
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$7,150.00
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Basel: Basileae Apud Io. Hervagium, Mense Martio, 1532. First Edition. Leather-bound (Vellum). Good Plus. Folio.IN LATIN. No Map. Vellum.Text 30.5 x 20 cm. Manuscript title to spine. Vellum stained (as per usual) and apart from a very small tear near top of spine, is in lovely and solid condition. Lacks the (rarely seen) woodcut map of the world ("Typus Cosmographicus Universalis"), and lacks Jehan Petit's printer's device to title page, but this device (bust on a pedestal) is present on verso of last leaf. Very light toning throughout, and darkening and tidelines to first 170 or so pages, but restricted to very wide margins (not text). Additional tidelines at bottom to final 30 pages, and again, with no effect upon the clarity of the text. Pages are supple with a nice, easy-to-read typeface. Simon Grynaeus wrote the preface ("Declaratio") but John Huttich alone compiled this massive and invaluable historical work. (Later editions dropped this preface because it contained text critical of The… Read More
Item Price
$7,150.00
FREE shipping to USA
TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AND SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, EAST AND WEST FLORIDA, THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY,...
More Photos

Show Details

Description:
London: Reprinted for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1792. First British Edition. Leather-bound. Good. Missing Map. This first British edition reprinted for J. Johnston. Full contemporary calf (21 1/2 x 13 1/2 cm.) Recent spine label in burgundy, with gilt lettering and borders. Faintly marbled edges. Marbled endpapers, rear free endpaper being a photographed facsimile. Tooling in gilt and blind to borders of boards. gilt roll to edges of boards. Marbled endpapers Frontis etching of Mico Chlucco the Long Warrior, or King of the Seminoles, plus 7 numbered copper etchings, one folding. Text clean, pages supple. Only very occasional light spotting. MISSING map, and maybe the first (marbled) front free endpaper. First published in Philadelphia by James and Johnson in 1791.
Item Price
$1,650.00
FREE shipping to USA
OZMA OF OZ; A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the...
More Photos

OZMA OF OZ; A Record of Her Adventures with Dorothy Gale of Kansas, the Yellow Hen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Woodman, Tiktok, the Cowardly Lion and the Hungry Tiger; Besides Other Good People too Numerous to Mention Faithfully Recorded Herein

by Baum, L. Frank

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used
Edition
1st Edition
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Eugene, Oregon
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$1,815.00
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1907. 1st Edition. Hardcover. John R. Neill. Tan boards with red, blue and yellow design featuring Ozma and Dorothy (cradling Billina the talking Hen in her left arm) all framed within a huge red letter "O" shot-through diagonally with a great, yellow "Z". Scuffing, spotting and soiling to boards, with shelf rubbing to top and bottom of spine. No plates per se, but the book is loaded with color images -- 40 full page color illustrations, including the lovely frontispiece of Ozma. Binding B, with the letter "O" missing from Author's Note, p. 11, line 5, (as found in later copies of the first printing) Reilly & Britton lacking the "The" (Bienvenue). All illustrations present and accounted for.Only two advertisements on verso of ownership page AND on p. 272 -- The Land of Oz (1904), and John Dough and The Cherub (1906). .P. 221 printed in color Fabulously wild colored front and rear endpapers depicting all characters of this adventure. (Bienvenue & Schmidt, p.… Read More
Item Price
$1,815.00
FREE shipping to USA
THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ
More Photos

THE MARVELOUS LAND OF OZ

by Baum, L. Frank

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Good Only
Edition
FIRST PRINTING
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Eugene, Oregon
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$3,135.00
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
Chicago, IL: The Reilly & Britton Co, 1904. FIRST PRINTING. Hardcover. Good Only. John R. Neill. Octavo, 9.25 in. x 7 in., pp. 287. Illustrated with sixteen full-color plates and many black and white ink drawings. Binding A: Green-colored cloth. Front title is without silver outline. On copyright page: last typeset line reads "All rights reserved". Illustration facing p. 23 captioned "I DON'T WANT TO BE A MARBLE STATUE". Thickness of book is almost 1.25 in. (Bienvenue 21-22; Hanff 45-46) Green cloth boards with black title and a design in black, gray and green of The Scarecrow and The Tin Woodsman shaking hands. Black title and soldier standing on a green emerald to spine. Rubbing to extremities; soiling to boards. Spine legible, but well worn. Corners nudged. Chips to top/bottom of spine; cracking along front joint. Green pictorial endpapers. Previous owners' name to verso of frontis. Fingerprint smudges to title page, and occasionally throughout. Bottom of p. 125 shows repair of small closed… Read More
Item Price
$3,135.00
FREE shipping to USA
THE BLACK STALLION
More Photos

THE BLACK STALLION

by Farley, Walter

  • Used
  • Hardcover
  • first
Condition
Used - Near Fine in Good Dustjacket
Edition
Stated First Printing
Binding
Hardcover
Seller
Eugene, Oregon
Seller rating:
This seller has earned a 5 of 5 Stars rating from Biblio customers.
Item Price
$4,400.00
FREE shipping to USA

Show Details

Description:
New York: Random House, 1941. Stated First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in Good Dustjacket. Keith Ward. The Black Stallion is in its own special corral at the pinnacle of beloved children's stories. This timeless novel for young-or-not-so-young- adults remains a shimmering electric-black archetype in the center of the field, long after others horse tales have faded from memory. Author Walter Farley's initial tale of a boy (Alec Ramsay) and a spirited horse surviving a shipwreck on an island in Africa eventually inspired more than thirty additional horse tales. Octavo. Stated First Printing. Beige boards with black horse-head profile to front board, and black lettering with red stripes to spine. This is a spectacular copy, nearly fine but for the top corners of two leaves (pp. 101/102, and 103/104 which were bent over by a reader in need of a bookmark). Just the slightest bit of discoloration to bottom and top edges. Corners sharp, lettering bright. The dustjacket is generally bright with the… Read More
Item Price
$4,400.00
FREE shipping to USA