London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, [c.1855]. 8vo, 2 vols. in 1: xviii, 320; 304 pp. Title-page printed in black and red, complete with 10 hand-colored steel engravings and numerous in-text wood engravings in each volume, including frontispieces. Full tan crushed morocco, all edges gilt, with original backstrip and upper panel..... More
![Item #126998 A Critical and Historical Review of Fox's [Foxe's] Book of Martyrs, Shewing the...](https://johnwindle.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/126998_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1770851284)
London, W. E. Andrews, 1824-1826. 8vo, (4), 412, (4), 430 pp. Illustrated with woodcuts. Early diapered calf with gilt rolls, backstrip elaborately gilt. Binding rubbed and slightly worn but sound, some foxing and browning. Very good. § First edition in book form of volumes one and two, comprising 51 parts..... More
London: Printed for G. Kearsly, 1782. 4to. 19th century white buckram, red morocco spine label, gilt lettering. Without half-title. Buckram somewhat soiled and a little rubbed; prelims a bit dust-soiled; a very good copy. § First and only edition. Dishing the dirt on the wheeler-dealing of the English nobility. A...... More
[New York, N.Y.] : London: printed: New-York, re-printed by Childs and Swaine. Sold by Berry and Rogers, New-York; the principal booksellers in Philadelphia; Thomas and Andrews, Boston; and W.P. Young, Charleston, South-Carolina, 1791. 8vo, 93, (2, ads) pp. Modern binding of quarter leather and marbled paper boards, backstrip lettered in..... More
Rochester: Published by S. Caddel, Gazette Office, 1831. Lithograph, 5.5 x 7.5 inches. Very good condition, mounted on a piece of worn blue paper. § John Any Bird Bell was the youngest person officially to be hanged in the 19th century, at the age of 14. His crime was the..... More
Paris: Denis Mariette, et al., 1721. 2 vols., 4to., xxxviii, 626 pp.; xx, 770 pp., 70 plates including one engraved map of Europe from the Atlantic to the Black Sea (vol. 2). Contemporary rebacked full calf, red edges, internally bright with minor foxing; very good. § First edition of this..... More
Mantes: Imprimerie du Petit Mantais, 1883. 8vo, vii, 596, (4) pp. Large paper copy. Engraved plate, folding map, and several in-text illustrations. Quarter blue morocco, marbled paper covered boards, marbled endpapers, backstrip with raised bands, titled in gilt. Backstrip faded, scattered foxing particularly of first and final leaves, very good..... More
London: Printed for William Miller by W. Bulmer and Co., 1808. 4to., xl, 293 pp., v, cli, engraved frontisportrait. Rebacked, full diced calf, gilt rules, dentelles, marbled edges and endpapers, backstrip with raised bands stamped in blind and gilt. Corners and edges of boards are rubbed and chipped, minor foxing..... More
London: October 19, 1737. Single folio leaf (14.5 x 9.5"), recto, 20 lines in neat, legible secretarial hand, witnessing signatures and statements in various hands in the margins, vertical official strike through the main text, not affecting legibility; verso with signed statement by Godophin "Rec'd the full contents within mentioned..... More
London: Strahan for the author, 1802. Large 4to, [3], (iv-xx), [1], 2-112 pp, (pages 61-112 printed music). With a hand-colored engraved frontispiece, drawn by Ibbetson and J. Smith and engraved by Rowlandson, and an uncolored tailpiece. Original leather-backed boards, printed label, all somewhat worn but sound. § First edition of..... More
New Delhi: February 1949. Printed invitation on a letterhead sheet with typewritten additions, approximately 10 x 15 cm. Printed dinner seating plan on letterhead sheet, approximately 12 x 19 cm. In fine condition, attractively framed together. Frame measures 32 x 27 cm. Not examined out of frame. Original mailing envelope..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1968. Folio, (8), 81 pp. Printed in red and black, illustrated with woodcuts from the original edition. Original quarter gray-colored cloth over decorated boards. Stuart B. Schimmel bookplate. A touch of sunning to the upper board, very good. Original prospectus, announcement and other ephemera..... More
[Tucson: Manufacturing Stationers, Inc, 1930]. 8vo, 94pp. With 16 drawings and photographs including three maps. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt on the upper cover. Pamphlet laid in at the back causing browning. A very good copy. § First edition. The story of the founding of Tuscon from the Spanish..... More
Cincinnati: Bangs and Company, 1856. 8vo, 332 pp. Frontis. and 7 plates. Original green cloth, a version of the frontis. stamped in gilt on upper board and in blind on lower board. Backstrip sunned, a few spots on the upper board, foxing throughout, new endpapers. Author identified in pencil on..... More
London: printed by T. Bensley for Cadell & Davies, etc., [1801-]1813-1815. 3 parts in one volume, huge folio, 23 x 17 1/4 inches 3 additional color-printed and hand-finished engraved vol. titles, engraved dedication, 7 engraved part titles, 6 of which color-printed and finished by hand, 4 engraved leaves of lists..... More
Lyons: Jacques Muguet, 1669. 4to, (xvi), 400 pp. with the 2 cancels (C2-3) included in the preliminaries. Illustrated with an engraved title page vignette (variant featuring crest in an architectural setting), dedication vignette, 22 headpiece vignettes, some signed by Derbage (several repeated) and 23 historiated initials. 19th century tree calf..... More
![Item #125130 Arms of the English [Scotch] [Irish] Nobility, with supporters, crests, motto's: and...](https://johnwindle.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/125130.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1679952376)
London: John Millan, 1751. Sm. 8vo, 54; 32; 32 pp, each leaf being copper plate engravings of family crests. Original calf, red morocco label, a very good copy upper joint cracked but sound. § First printing -- another edition came out in 1752. A lavishly illustrated collection of British coats..... More
Publications of the Society of Bibliophiles at Brandeis University. Number 4. Waltham, Massachusetts, MCMLXX. 4to, 24pp. Black and white illustrations throughout. Brown wrappers lightly worn, else fine. § An English translation by Dr. Edmund Rosen of the story of creation as told in the Nuremberg Chronicle with the Latin text..... More
