A bibliographical, antiquarian and picturesque tour in France and Germany.
by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; George Robert Lewis.
London: Printed for the author, by W. Blumer and W. Nicol, Shakespeare Press, , 1821. First edition. 3 volumes, royal octavo (26 cm); I: xvi, [2], 16, [6], xxvi, [6], 462, lxxx (including extra engraved title, and Lewis's "Series of Groups"); II: [4], 556; III: [4], 622, lxii, and 83 plates (1 in color, 3 in sepia, and 5 double page), 64 india paper prints mounted in text. Extra illustrated with 52 plates by George Lewis... Read More
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Little Dorrit.
by Dickens, Charles.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition in book form. Very Good. Octavo (22 cm); xiv, 625 pages, and 40 engraved plates by H.K. Browne (a.k.a. Phiz). Bound in half calf over marbled boards by Adophus, New Orleans. Edges and joints rather rubbed, but strong. Engraved title page and frontispiece quite foxed, edges of all plates disolored, with occasional scattered foxing on plates. Overall a very good copy.
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Master Humphrey's clock.
by Dickens, Charles.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1840-41. First edition in book form. Very Good. Octavo (26 cm); three volumes bound as one. Later half calf over cloth by Williams Book Shop, Detroit. Few scuffs and bumps to binding. Contents very good indeed. Contents include "The Old Curiosity Shop" and "Barnaby Rudge," among others.
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The posthumous papers of the Pickwick Club.
by Dickens, Charles.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1837. First edition in book form. Good +. Octavo (22 cm) xiv, [2], 609 pages, and 43 plates. Extra engraved title page. In full tan polished calf, marbled edges. Binding worn at edges and along joints. Old bookplate, old ownership autograph. Frontispiece, engraved title, and most plates toned and vignetted, with foxing present on many. Otherwise a good sound copy. First edition with following points of issue: "S.... Read More
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The mystery of Edwin Drood.
by Dickens, Charles.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition in book form.. Good +. 22 cm; viii, 190 pages, portrait frontispiece and 12 full page illustrations by S.L. Fildes. No publisher's ads at end. In polished half calf over marbled boards. Marbled edges. Spine brightly gilt with red and black title labels. Marbled edges. Armorial bookplate of G. J. Crosby Dawson. Edges rubbed. Pages with variously scattered foxing, especially at beginning and end... Read More
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Our mutual friend.
by Dickens, Charles.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1865. First edition. Very Good. 2 volumes bound as one, apparently from original parts. 22 cm; xii, 320, viii, 310 pages, and 40 full page plates by Marcus Stone. Bound in polished half calf over marbled paper boards. Marbled edges. Black leather title label. Edges of binding rubbed, especially the bottom edge. Scattered blemishes on some plates and some text pages, but generally clean. Penciled note on... Read More
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Little Dorrit.
by Dickens, Charles.
London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. First edition in book form. Very Good. Octavo (22 cm); xiv, 625 pages, and 40 engraved plates by H.K. Browne (a.k.a. Phiz). Bound in full morocco stamped with elaborate gilt cornices on both boards, spine in six compartments stamped and titled in gilt. All edges gilt. Upper hinge and upper joint expertly reinforced. Lower joint a little tender. Marginal foxing on many plates. Overall an excellent copy.... Read More
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The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
by Dickens, Charles.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1870. First edition in book form. Good. 22 cm; [viii], 190, [2] pages. LACKS publisher's catalogue at end. Engraved portrait frontispiece by J.H. Baker; title vignette and 13 illustrations by Samuel Luke Fildes. In half polished calf over marbled boards, gilt tooled spine with leather labels. Some abrasion at extremities. E 4-5 loose but present. Upper hinge tender. Scattered foxing.
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Dombey and Son.
by Dickens, Charles.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848. First edition in book form. Very Good. Octavo, xvi, 624 pages, and 38 engraved plates by H. K. Browne (i.e., Phiz). In maroon calf over marbled boards. Spine faded to tan. Somer scratches an abrasions to covers. Plates generally stained at edges and variously foxed.
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Bleak House.
by Dickens, Charles.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. First edition in book form.. Very Good. Octavo, xvi, 624 pages, frontispiece, engraved title, and 39 engraved plates by H. K. Browne (a.k.a. Phiz). In original publisher's maroon cloth, sunned to tan on spine. Scattered foxing to plates, as usual, but text is clean. Charles Dickens Centenary Testimonial stamp dated 1912 on front free endpaper. Ownership autograph on front free endpaper. Few stains and cello-tape ghosts on pastedowns.... Read More
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The birds of El Salvador
by Dickey, Donald R.; A J Van Rossem.
Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1938. First edition, inscribed by Van Rossem to Allan Brooks. Very Good. 24 cm; 609 pages, frontispiece plate of bobwhites after a painting by Allan Brooks. Maps and figures in text. Bound in original publisher's wraps. Inscribed on upper wrap to "Allen Brooks, with my very best regards. A.J. van Rossem, May 16, 1939." Pages unopened. Later bookplate of Ian McTaggart Cowan, the Canadian science television... Read More
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Illustrated pronouncing pocket dictionary of the English language.
by [Dictionary].
New York, London, and Glasgow: Published for the Trade, 1877. Later printing. Poor. 14 cm; 318 pages. Text in three columns in 4-point type. Bound in stamped cloth, quite worn and creased. Early owner's inscription on front blank.
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Indian Art of the Americas.
by Dockstader, Frederick J.
New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1973. First edition. Very Good. 27 cm; 304 pages. Illustrated. Bound in red pictorial cloth. No dust jacket, as issued. "Review Copy" stamped on front blank. Spine a bit bleached, but otherwise an unread, unblemished copy.
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Progne, Tragedia.
by Domenichi, Lodovico (1515-1564); Gregorio Correr.
Florence: I Giunti, 1561. First edition. Very Good. Octavo (15 cm); 66 pages (misnumbered 68), A-D\8 E\2 this copy LACKS final blank leaf E2. Printer's giglio device on title page, woodcut initials in text. In later (c18 or early c19) vellum over boards. Bookseller's notes in pencil on front pastedown. Traces of old tickets removed on front pastedown and front blank. First and last leaves bear some stains, while interior pages are relatively... Read More
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La libraria del Doni Fiorentino [with] La seconda libraria del doni
by Doni, Anton Francesco.
Venice: Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari; Francesco Marcolini, 1550-1551. First editions. Very Good. Two volumes bound in one. 12mo (14 cm); 70, [2] leaves, last blank; 112, [7] leaves, (lacking blank K/12?). Giolito devices on first title page and on verso of F/12; Marcolini devices on tp of second title and on verso of K/11. Woodcut initials in first title. Italic and Roman type. In vellum over boards, titled in manuscript on spine, "Doni Libreria... Read More
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Poesies.
by Charles D'Orleans.
Paris: Honore Champion, 1971. Wraps. 2 vols. 661 p. continuously numbered. Wraps, unopened. Wrote love poems to his wife from a prison cell in London. The best of the 15th century poetes courtois.
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The treasury note: the lever by which to raise the world.
by Dougherty, John.
Philadelphia: J.R. Chandler, 1862. Very Good. Title continues: "The duty of government to give remunerative employment to the returned volunteers when peace shall have disarmed treason. A little work devoted to the General Interest, and dedicated to Misfortune." 25cm, 32 pages. Printed wraps, with mechanical illustration of an innovative rail car on lower wrap. Author attribution based on the name attached to the "advertisement" at the end of the text. The premise of this... Read More
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Anthology and Bibliography of Niagara Falls.
by Dow, Charles Mason.
Albany: State of New York (J. B. Lyon), 1921. First edition. 23 cm; 2 volumes. xvi, 1423 pages, [49] leaves of plates (three of them in color), map, folded chart. Bound in original blue buckram, in very good condition.
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Manners and Customs of ye Englyshe.
by Doyle, Richard; Patrick Leigh; Punch Magazine.
London: Bradbury & Evans, [1849]. First edition. Good +. Oblong (280 x 225 cm); [42] leaves and 40 full-page illustrated plates. Title in red and black. In half red crushed morocco over blue marbled paper boards. Doyle's passerine monogram on spine and on upper board. Red leather title label on upper board. All edges gilt. Upper joint quite tender yet holding. Marbled paper a bit scratched and worn at edges. Little... Read More
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Orbis Phaeton sive de universis vitiis linguae.
by Drexel, Jeremias.
Cologne (but Amsterdam?): Cornel. ab Egmond, 1634. 12mo (12 cm); [xxiv], 949, [10], [2 blank] pages, with engraved title and 23 engravings in the text, and tables. In plain vellum, yapp edges, titled in manuscript on spine. Vertical fissures in vellum along length of spine. References: Landwehr 254 (804 pages), Jantz 864, De Backer and Sommervogel III, 192, #11 (1018 p). Cf. Praz, p.320 (1629 ed.). A well-illustrated edition of this curious and... Read More
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Mississippi Question : Report of a debate in the Senate of the United States on the 23d, 24th, & 25th February, 1803,
by Duane, William (1760-1835).
Philadelphia: W. Duane, 1803. Fair. 24cm; [2], 198 pages. Bound in mid 20th-century paper-covered boards, joints split with spine mostly peeled away. Despite the unfortunate binding, a very nice untrimmed copy, tanned only with a pervasive light dampstain through signatures C to E and Q to Z (apparently dampened in manufacture, prior to sewing). References: Sabin 20990 ; Howes D-517; Shaw & Shoemaker 4113. On Spains violation of the article in the... Read More
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Sonnets [de l'Olive]
by Du Bellay, Joachim; Jean Berque.
Paris: Jean Berque and Philippe Gonin, 1938. Hard cover. Very Good. Folio (34 cm); [iv], 127 pages, and 36 original dry-point illustrations, 20 of them printed on separate leaves laid into the text, the remaining 16 printed in text. Edition limited to 200 copies, the first 100 on vélin antique, of which this is number 92, signed in pencil by Berque on the justification page. Leaves laid in loose in original publisher's vellum-backed portfolio, preserved in... Read More
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The case against the Papacy for possession of the Duchy of Urbino
by Duchy of Urbino.
Pesaro (?), circa 1710. 3 volumes, small folio (200 x 282 mm). Manuscript on paper in various hands. Provenance: all three volumes bear the bookplate of Frederick North, prime minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782. In the 19th century, the books were purchased by the British book collector Thomas Phillipps and are listed in the Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum in bibliotheca D. Thomæ Phillipps, Bart., A. D. 1837. All have a small, numbered label... Read More
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Excavations at Kerma, Part VI.
by Dunham, Dows.
Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Department of Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art, 1982. Very good. 27 cm; xi, [3], 257 pages, including half tone plates. Bound in blue printed wraps. Front wrap corners bumped. Includes reports on subsidiary Nubian graves excavated by George A. Reisner in 1915-16, not published in his Excavationa at Kerma I-V (1926).
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Sentimens d'une âme pénitente sur le pseaume Miserere mei Deus
by Du Noyer, Madame 1663-1719. (Anne Marguerite Petit).
Paris: Chez Nicholas Gosselin, 1715. Seventh edition. Good +. 16mo (14 cm); 136, 259 pages, engraved frontispiece and 9 engraved plates. In full calf, spine decorated in gilt. Edges and extremities worn, but binding is strong and entire. Ownership inscription on flyleaf dated 1897, another later one on the verso of the flyleaf. Very good overall.
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