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Item #123233 La Sainte Bible en latin et en françois, avec des notes litterales, critiques et...

[Bible in Latin and French]. Calmet, Dom Augustin.

La Sainte Bible en latin et en françois, avec des notes litterales, critiques et historiques : des préfaces et des dissertations tirées du Commentaire de Dom Augustin Calmet, Abbé de Senones, de M. l'Abbé de Vence, & des auteurs les plus célébres : pour faciliter l'intelligence de l'Écriture Sainte. Seconde édition augmentée, enrichie de figures en taille-douce & cartes géographiques.

1767. Paris: Boudet, Desaint et Avignon, Merande, 1767-1773. 17 vols, 4to, 33 engraved plates (some folding), 6 letterpress tables (some folding). Contemporary/original mottled calf, spines gilt and gilt-lettered. A bit dry and worn but quite sound. § A lovely quarto edition of the Bible in Latin and French, also issued..... More

Price: $1,750.00

Item #124669 The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; Revised and Corrected by the Author....

Bickerstaff, Isaac.

The Lucubrations of Isaac Bickerstaff, Esq; Revised and Corrected by the Author.

1723. London: Printed for E. and R. Nutt, et al, 1723. 4 vols. 12mo, vi, 336, (10); iv, 376, (12); viii, 352, (16); vi, (4), 352, (12) pp. Full contemporary paneled calf, raised bands, volume numbers stamped on backstrips, vol. 4 with additional label lettered "Tat / lers". Hinges cracked..... More

Price: $150.00

Item #107915 The Plays of William Shakspeare [sic] accurately printed from the Text of the...

Blake, William.

The Plays of William Shakspeare [sic] accurately printed from the Text of the corrected Copy left by the late George Steevens [sic], Esq. With a Series of Engravings, from Original Designs of Henry Fuseli… and a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes, From the most eminent Commentators; a History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c. by Alexander Chambers…

1805. London: C. and J. Rivington, 1805. 10 volumes, royal 8vo, with a portrait frontispiece of Shakespeare and 37 separate engravings after drawings by Fuseli by Neagle, Cromek, Rhodes, Dodsley, and two by William Blake. Original calf, rather worn with some hinges cracked. Gilt on raised backstrip, also rather worn..... More

Price: $2,750.00

Item #124916 [Complete works] The Nonesuch Dickens.: Published under the editorial direction of...

Dickens, Charles.

[Complete works] The Nonesuch Dickens.: Published under the editorial direction of Arthur Waugh, Hugh Walpole, Walter Dexter and Thomas Hatton.

1937. London: The Nonesuch Press, 1937-39. 25 vols. in all, 23 volumes of text, one volume containing an original steel plate engraving, and the companion volume "Nonesuch Dickensiana" in blue cloth. Original buckram in various colors, black morocco label to spines, top edges gilt on the rough, others untrimmed. A...... More

Price: $10,000.00

Item #109964 Works... New Edition. Charles Dickens

Dickens, Charles.

Works... New Edition.

1857. London: Chapman & Hall or Bradbury & Evans, 1853-1876. 19 vols., 8vo, . Uniformly bound in half crushed green morocco over green pebbled cloth, covers with gilt rules, backstrips with five raised bands, ruled and titled in gilt, marbled endpapers and edges. Each vol. with the bookplate and ink..... More

Price: $1,250.00

Item #6146 The Works... with an Essay on the Life and Genius of the Author. Henry Fielding

Fielding, Henry.

The Works... with an Essay on the Life and Genius of the Author.

2017. London: Strahan [and 20 others], 1775. 12 vols., small 8vo, variously paginated. With a portrait frontispiece of the author in vol. 1. Contemporary calf restored, every volume repaired at head and foot, backstrips restored, lacking 4 labels, some intermittent foxing and browning in several volumes. A good reading set..... More

Price: $975.00

Item #108431 The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin...

Franklin, Benjamin.

The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics, and Morals, of the Late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Now Collected and Arranged, with Memoirs of His Early Life, Written by Himself.

1806. London: Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme, Paternoster-Row, 1806. Three vols., 8vo., xiv, [1]-440, [36 index]; vi, [1]-468; [x], [1]-552 pp., one engraved frontis portrait and three vignette titles, 12 engraved plates as issued, some fold-out, and one fold-out table. Contemporary half..... More

Price: $2,750.00

Item #108378 The Writings of Bret Harte. Bret Harte

Harte, Bret.

The Writings of Bret Harte.

1896. Boston: Houghton Mifflin and Company, [1896]-1914. 20 volumes, 8vo., xix, [1]-444; xxxv, [1]-440; [viii], [1]-430; [vii], [1]-460; [viii], [1]-482; [viii], [1]-460; [viii], [1]-488; [viii], [1]-483; x, [1]-474; [viii], [1]-447; [viii], [1]-445; [xi], [1]-441; [vii], [1]-327; [vii], [1]-331; [viii], [1]-382; [viii], [1]-381; [viii], [1]-355; [viii], [1]-363; xxvi, [1]-433; xxvii, [1]-432..... More

Price: $1,975.00

Item #122690 The Works. Standard Edition. Herman Melville

Melville, Herman.

The Works. Standard Edition.

1922. London: Constable, 1922-24. 16 vols., 8vo, finely bound in full red hard-grain morocco extra (two volumes repaired) some volumes lightly rubbed along the joints but generally very good. Red morocco bookplate of Lucy Smith Battson in each volume. § A magnificent set of Melville's complete works; the first collected..... More

Price: $9,750.00

Item #124127 Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century... An Incidental View of the Progress...

Nichols, John. Nichols, John Bowyer.

Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century... An Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Country... [with] Illustrations of the Literary History of the Eighteenth Century. Consisting of Authentic Memoirs and Original Letters of Eminent Persons and intended as a Sequel to the Literary Anecdotes...

1812. London: Nichols, son, and Bentley, 1812-1816 and 1817-1858. 17 vols, thick 8vo, numerous engraved portrait plates (some folding) throughout both sets. Uniformly bound in contemporary russia gilt, marbled edges a superb set in almost flawless condition with only a couple of joints with small splits. Bookplate of Joseph Neeld..... More

Price: $4,500.00

Item #105608 The Works of Alexander Pope in Verse and Prose. Containing the Principal Notes of...

Pope, Alexander. Bowles, Rev. William Lisle.

The Works of Alexander Pope in Verse and Prose. Containing the Principal Notes of Doctor's Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers, and Others. To Which are Added Now for the First Time Published Some Original Letters with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author [Ten Volumes Complete].

1806. London: Printed for J. Johnson [and others]...1806. Ten vols., 8vo, cxxxiv, 389; viii, 447; vi, 439; vi, 476; vi, 423; vi, 422; xxxvi, 431; xix, 486; xvi, 499; xi, 387, [48] pp., with three frontisportraits and 18 engraved plates printed to recto only. Full contemporary polished calf, roll-tolled in..... More

Price: $595.00

Item #108379 Waverley Novels. Sir Walter Scott

Scott, Sir Walter.

Waverley Novels.

1842. Edinburgh: Robert Cadell; London: Houlston & Stoneman, 1842-47. Twelve vols., large 8vo., viii, [1]-674; viii, [1]-676; vi, [1]-[670]; viii, [1]-685; viii, [1]-580; vi, [1]-617; viii, [1]-727; vii, [1]-600; viii, [1]-728; viii, [1]-588; vi, [1]-614; vii, [1]-524 pp., each volume with a steel engraved frontis with tissue guard, and woodcut..... More

Price: $1,250.00

Item #106377 The Plays and Poems... with the Corrections and Illustrations of various...

Shakespeare, William.

The Plays and Poems... with the Corrections and Illustrations of various Commentators: comprehending a Life of the Poet and an enlarged History of the Stage, by the late Edmund Malone. With a new glossarial Index.

1821. London: Printed for F. C. and J. Rivington [etc.], 1821 21 vols., 8vo, early mottled calf, skillfully rebacked in tan calf with red and black labels lettered in gilt. A very good set. § Only printing of the so-called ‘Boswell’s Malone’, upon which Colin Franklin comments in “Shakespeare Domesticated”..... More

Price: $4,500.00

Item #105064 The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray in Twenty Two Volumes. William Makepeace...

Thackeray, William Makepeace.

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray in Twenty Two Volumes.

1869. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1869. 22 vols., 8vo. Uniformly bound in handsome full tree calf, delicate floral gilt border on covers. Gilt backstrip with red and dark-brown morocco labels. Gilt turn-ins. Marbled endpapers and edges. Hugh Hopkins, Glasgow, bookseller ticket on front pastedown of each volume. Occasional rubbing..... More

Price: $2,750.00

Item #108474 The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray. William Makepeace Thackeray

Thackeray, William Makepeace.

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray...

1518. London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 15 Waterloo Place, 1899. 13 vols., 8vo., xliv, 676; xlvii, 752; xli, 646; xxxvi, 711; xliii, 772; xxxvii, 759; xlvi, 725; xl, 806; lx, 340; xliii, 809; xlvi, 640; xl, 568; lxxxii, 751 pp., 558 plates including frontispieces of which 7 are portraits, many..... More

Price: $1,250.00

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