Chronicles of England, France, Spain and the Adjoining Countries
by Froissart, John, and Henry Noel Humphreys
London: WIlliam Smith, 1848. Hardcover. Near fine. Two volumes in four, extra-illustrated with the insertion of the illuminated plates from Humpheys' "Illuminated Illustrations of Froissart" in addition to the hand-colored plates of this edition. Dark green levant morocco, spines in five compartments, intricately gilt, board tooled in gilt and blind, inner dentelles, gilt, linen endpaper, all edges gilt. Bindings signed The Knickerbocker Press and G. P. Putnam's Sons. The handcolored plates are heightened with... Read More
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Domestic Slavery Considered as a Scriptural Institution
by Fuller, Richard, and Francis Wayland
New York: Lewis Colby, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. viii, 254pp. Black cloth, gilt spine title. Edges, corners and spine tips well worn else a very good copy. The authors' letters published in a Boston newspaoer from 1844-1845 are here collected and published in book form for the first time. The letters were "revised and corrected by the authors." .
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The History of Little Fanny, Exemplified in a Series of Figures. The Fifth Edition
by Fuller, S. and J.
London: S. and J. Fuller, 1810. Stiff card wraps. Very good. 4 by 5 inches. 16pp. Printed wrappers. Complete with handcolored figures as follows: removable head, seven costume and three hats. The costumes have a pocket built into the reverse to accommodate Fanny's head as she takes on each persona in the storyline. Title leaf, followed by thirteen pages of rhyming verse then a final blank. Housed in original printed slipcase. The booklet is lightly soiled and worn... Read More
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Sermon Preached on Easter Monday MMXXI ... At St. Paul's Church, Whitley Bay, Northumberland
by Gage, Robert
Whitley Bay (Tacámbaro): The Warkworth Press (Martín Pescador), 2021. Limited edition. Wraps. Fine. Tall 8vo. Unpaginated (12pp). Finely printed letterpress, heavy brown paper wraps with flaps. A beautiful example of printing by Juan Pascoe in Michoiacán, Mexico. One of 50 copies/ I fine copy. .
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De Ratione Curandi ad Glauconem Libri Duo, Interprete Martino Akakia Catalaunensi..
by Galenus, (Claudius) (Galen)
Venice (Venetiis): Apud Iuntas (Giunta), 1542. Hardcover. Very good. Small 8vo. (8),365,(1)pp. Fine printer's device to title and full page device to last page. Woodcut initials. Original limp vellum binding with the use of 15th Century manuscript for binding. With the commentary of the French physician Martin Akakia (1500-1551). Vellum lightly soiled, ties perished, else a very good copy with a fine text block and a fine example of Akakia's translation of Galen's important treatise on the theory... Read More
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An Academy for Grown Horsemen, Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling.; Illustrated with Copper Plates, and Adorned with a Portrait of the Author
by Gambado, Geoffrey (Henry William Bunbury)
London: Printed for W. DIckinson, et al., 1787. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Henry William Bunbury. Folio. vi,(3),vi-xx,38pp. Eleven pates plus frontispiece: full page copper engravings by Bunbury. Wanting B1 of the prelims, and apparently issued that way, As the ESTC notes, "Possibly deliberately mis-signed in order to support the ’missing’ portion of the author’s preface - see editor’s note." Bound to style in half calf, red leather lettering label, gilt; marbled paper boards. Two signatures have been... Read More
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Problemes en Action
by (Children's Game)
French: n.p., 1825. Very good. 11 engraved cut-out figures or objects including ferryman, three couples, wolf, goat, cabbage and boat, to be slotted into boat, , original box with engraved pictorial label colored by hand, A rare children's game, possibly printed by the Parisian publisher Nepveau. Contained in the box measuring 14cm x 7cm x 1cm is a complete set of figures for the two river crossing puzzles known as the 'Jealous Husbands Problem', and 'Goat, Wolf and... Read More
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The House Beautiful
by Gannet, William C., and Frank Lloyd Wright
Park Forest, Illinois: W. R. Hasbrouck, 1963. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. A facsimile of the limited edition published in 1897. Printed on fine paper in red and black, and bound in quarter brown cloth, gilt, with green cloth sides. Complete with the booklet of 14 pages sewn to the front end paper containing illustrations reproducing Wright's photographs of dried weeds. A fine copy, scarce in its own right. Neat previous ownership seal on the front paste... Read More
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Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery Under the Command of Capt.Lewis and Capt. Clarke of the army of the United States
by Gass, Patrick
Philadelphia: Matthew Carey, 1812. Hardcover. Good. The Fourth Edition, with six engravings. Contemporary full sheep, black leather lettering label, gilt. The binding is rubbed, scratched and stained, an d the gilt on the spine has largely perished form age. The textblock, including the plates, is generally yellowed with age, stained, and lightly foxed. Only a good copy. Without the map which was added to this edition. With a hand-written note on the front free endpaper: "Blanford Second Liby.... Read More
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The Complete Family-Piece: and, Country Gentleman, and Farmer's Best Guide
by (Gastronomy)
London: A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, 1737. Hardcover. Very good. Second edition, improved. 12mo. xii, 526,(62) pp. Contemporary spotted calf, spine gilt with red leather lettering pieces. Hinges neatly repaired, some rubbing and scuffing of edges and bands, else a very good copy. The first edition was published in 1736. Engraved fishing bookplate of Dean Sage on the inside front board. Contents: Part I. containing a ... collection of above one thousand well-experienced practical family-receipts ...... Read More
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The Love of Truth and Peace. A Sermon Preached Before the Honourable House of Commons Assembled in Parliament.; November. 29. 1640
by Gauden, John
London: G. M. for Andrew Crooke, 1641. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. (vi), 46pp. Bound to style in full calf; red leather lettering piece, gilt; the boards tooled in blind. Title page remargined (no loss) else a fine copy. With the statement at the foot of the title page: "Published by order of that House." The headpiece on page one consists of repeating crowns over a Tudor rose, a fleur-de-lis, a Scottish thistle and an Irish harp.... Read More
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The Book of Ballads
by Gaultier, Bon; Alfred Crowquill
London: Wm. S. Orr and Co, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. (14), 152pp. Finely bound by BIrdsall of Northampton and London in full scarlet morocco. Spine in six compartments, gilt; gilt rules on the boards; gilt inner dentelles; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; original covers bound in at rear. Chromolithographed frontispiece and title. Illustrated by Alfred Crowquill, A fine copy in a fine binding. The BIrdsall firm began in 1792 with the purchase by William Birdsall... Read More
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Fables. By the late Mr. Gay
by (Gay, John)
London: Tonson & Watts; Knapton, 1755. Early Edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. Two volumes. Contemporary full leather; spines in six compartments, gilt rules; red lettering pieces, gilt. Illustrated with engravings. The lettering labels have been replaced and the hinges have been neatly and nearly invisibly repaired; this is a very good set. Volume 1 is the seventh edition; volume 2 is the fifth edition. Even though the editions differ, the binding are clearly intended to make this a... Read More
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The Tale of a Nun
by Geiselbrecht, Brother (L. Housman and L. Simons, transl.)
Philadelphia: Monk's Head, 1901. Limited edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 12mo. (44) pp. Vellum spine, paper over boards, printed label on the upper board. Finely printed letterpress on Van Gelder handmade paper in a numbered editioni of 250 copies. This is number 82. Title page and the following page are hand colored. Some spotting to the first few pages but a very good copy. According to the colophon this is a translation out of the Old... Read More
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The Comic Military Alphabet: Army, Navy, National Guard
by (Gen. Pennypacker's Copy) Falls, De Witt C.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1894. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. Thin 8vo. Each letter of the alphabet has a full page full color illustration of a member of the military in caricature, and a comic caption on the following page. Bound in red, white and blue cloths, gilt spine title, full color paste-on to the upper board in a gilt frame. Only a trace of soil; a near fine copy. With a handwritten presentation... Read More
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The British History, Translated into English from the Latin of Jeffrey of Monmouth
by (Geoffrey of Monmouth, Jeffrey of Monmouth) Galfridus, Monumentensis, Bishop of St. Asaph
London: J. Bowyer, et al., 1718. First edition in English. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. (ii),cxi,(xvii),401,(lv)pp. In a lovely contemporary binding of sprinkled calf. The spine is in six compartments, gilt, light brown lettering label, gilt, edges sprinkled red. The errata page is present in the rear. The List of Subscribers is present (including Isaac Newton). A fine copy with only light rubbing to the hinges and edges. Geoffrey's Historia dates from the 12th century and purports to... Read More
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The British History, Translated into English from the Latin of Jeffrey of Monmouth
by (Geoffrey of Monmouth, Jeffrey of Monmouth) Galfridus, Monumentensis, Bishop of St. Asaph
London: J. Bowyer, et al., 1718. First edition in English. Hardcover. Fine. 8vo. (ii),cxi,(xvii),401,(lv)pp. In a lovely contemporary binding of sprinkled panelled,calf. The spine is in six compartments, gilt, red morocco lettering label, gilt. The errata page is present in the rear. The List of Subscribers is present (including Isaac Newton). Spine tips neatly restored, hole to title page with loss of a few letters, pp. xlv/xlvi with small chip and small chip at head slightly affecting letters,... Read More
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Hymns for Little Children
by Gilbert, Ann (née Ann Taylor)
New-York: Printed and Sold by S. Wood at the Juvenile Book-store, 1812. First edition. Wraps. Very good. 16mo. (2½ x 4 inches.) 26,(2)pp. The final 2pp are publisher's advertisements. Printed wraps, string binding. Illustrated with woodcuts. Four alphabets printed inside front cover: Roman capitals and lower case; Italic capitals and lower case. Cover with a vignette of a plant, title page almost the same but the vignette is a palm tree. Pagination agrees with Welch: [1], [2-3], 4-26.... Read More
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The Epistle of Gildas, the Most Ancient British Author: Who Flourished in the Yeere of our Lord, 546. ..
by Gildas
London: T. Cotes for William Cooke, 1638. First edition in English. Hardcover. Fine. 12mo. (134),327pp. Engraved frontispiece of Gildas by William Marshall. First edition in English, translated from the Latin by Thomas Habington. Early handwritten notes on the front blanks. Bookplate. Nicely bound in full brown morocco, spine in six compartments, tooled in blind and with the title in gilt; boards intricately tooled in blind. Marbled endpapers. Title page, frontispiece and preliminary blank remargined (no loss). Some... Read More
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The Poems of Richard Watson Gilder
by Gilder, Richard Watson
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1908. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. xxii, 485pp. Finely bound by Hatchards of Picadilly in half crimson morocco, spine in six compartments with raised bands, gilt; red cloth sides; top edge gilt. A near fine copy with only a trace of rubbing, Presentation copy, with "Compliments of the Author: card tipped onto the half title. Gilder was a prominent American poet as well as editor of The Century Magazine. Included in this... Read More
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Waldensian Researches During a Second Visit to the Vaudois of Piemont
by Gilly, William Stephen
London: C. J. G. & F. Rivington, 1831. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 8vo. viii, (2), 560pp. Full purple straight-grain morocco by Goodwin of Tetbury. Spine in six compartments, gilt, with teo deep red lettering labels, gilt. Gilt rules on the boards, blind inner dentelles, marbled endpapers and edges, Folding map and plates present. Light rubbing to the hinges else a fine copy, with the bookplate of Estcourt Library on the front pastedown. .
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Sphera del Universo
by Rocamoro y Torrano (Ginés)
Madrid: Juan Herrera, 1599. First edition. Hardcover. Near fine. 4to. (14), fol. 1-271, (1). Woodcut of the arms of Don Luys Faxardo on the title page. Full vellum, ties, manuscript spine title Illustrated with woodcuts, including several full page plates of the sphere of Ivan Sacrobosco, another illustrating both solar and lunar eclipses, and a large woodcut of the solar system showing the earth in the center and the sun revolving in an orbit between Venus and Mars.... Read More
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50 Decorations of the Principal Orders of Knighthood and Chivalry of the World
by Allen & Ginter
Richmond, VA: Allen & Ginter, 1890. Stiff card wraps. Fine. Twelve 8vo pages of cardstock, including the covers. Bound with cord. Each page is printed chromolithographically on one side in vibrant color. The interior pages reproduce cigarette cards issued by the tobacco company. Facing the pages with the illustrations is letterpress explanatory text. A fine example of a very scarce item. .
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The Itinerary of Archbishop Baldwin Through Wales , A. D. MCLXXXVIII; Translated into English, and Illustrated with Views, Annotations, and a Life of Giraldus, by Sir Richard Colt Hoare, Bart
by Giraldus, Cambrensis
London: Printed for William Miller, 1806. First edition in English. Hardcover. Very good. Large 4to. 2 vols. (12),cxcii,220,(4);(6),440,(4)pp. Indices. Complete with 59 engraved plates (including a hand-colored folding map) and a second large, hand-colored folding map at rear of Vol. II. Errata page is present. Old calf over marbled boards (rubbed), tips worn. Spines in 6 compartments with raised bands; gilt. A few of the plates are foxed. A very attractive wide-margined copy. Lowndes says that the editor's... Read More
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Oz: The Hundredth Anniversary Celebration
by Glassman, Peter, ed., (Frank Baum)
NY: Books of Wonder, Harpercollins, 2000. Limited edition. Hardcover. Fine. Large octavo. 11 1/4 x 8 3/4″ – 55 pages. Publishers’ emerald cloth boards with the spine stamped in gilt and housed in the original matching slipcase. A full color pictorial label on the upper board by Maurice Sendak, and inscribed by him to Justin Schiller and his partner Dennis Davud: “For Justin and Dennis – With Love! Maurice Sendak.” Inscribed by the editor to Justin and Dennis... Read More
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