London: R. Ackermann, 1812. 2 vols, large 4to, [i-xx], [1]-330 including appendix, [6, index]; [i-iv], [1]-275, [1, blank],[4, index]pp. 83 plates in all, viz: 1 plan and 1 portrait both uncolored, 1 colored line engraving and 80 full-page aquatints. Old half red morocco, rebacked preserving original gilt-pannelled backstrip, marbled sides..... 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
Londres [i.e. Amsterdam?] : Aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1738. 12mo, (4), 179pp. Title- printed in red and black. Ink signature “Carteret Harvey” on A1. 19th-century blue cloth, red label, red edges, very good. § OCLC: 12073708: “Miscellany, comprising a grotesque fairy tale, a philosophical epistle and a series of..... More
[London : Dalla Stamperia di Gul. Bulmer, 1801]. Thick 4to, [2], [1], 1-721 pp. Printed in English and Italian. Contemporary red straight-grained goatskin, flat spine banded with double gilt rules, single gilt rule to the margins of the boards, all edges gilt, some foxing to the preliminaries, binding repaired and..... More
Cambridge: Printed by John Baskerville, Printer to the University, 1763. Royal folio, 573 unnumbered leaves. A2, 1, B-13D2, *a-*e2, *f1. English binding of contemporary full blue-green morocco, covers with elaborate gilt border, backstrip richly gilt with red morocco lettering pieces stamped in gilt "HOLY BIBLE" and at the foot "BASKERVILLE"..... More
San Francisco: Book Club of California, 1937. Slim folio, [i], xxii, [2] pp., original leaf from the Apocrypha tipped in between pages 16 and 17. Double columns printed in red and black throughout, initials hand-illuminated in red, blue, yellow, and gold. Original quarter cloth, paper backstrip label. A very good..... More
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 in..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1935. 3 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth, decorated in gilt, top edge stained blue. A very good copy, vol.1 cloth slightly sunned in the original, lightly worn, card slipcase. § Edition of 1500 copies designed for reading by George Macy and printed at the printing..... More
![Item #108231 [A leaf from...] The Holy Bible: Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New: Newly...](https://johnwindle.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/108231.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1586562456)
London: Robert Barker, 1613. Single leaf 15 1/2 x 11”, printed on both recto and verso in two columns, with woodcut initials. Mounted; very good. § From the second Barker edition, with 72 lines as opposed to 52 for the first edition. “John: 11:1, Christ raiseth Lazarus...” One of the..... More
Stockholm: Stockholm Royal Library, 1955. Folding cloth portfolio with printed pastedowns containing 42 separate specimens of varying design, together with a small staple-bound catalogue in red wrappers, and a printed announcement from the French printer apologizing that his entry is running late. Light soiling to the portfolio; contents fine. §..... More
London: Trianon Press, 1970. 4to, with 10 facsimile leaves, 5 pp. commentary by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, plus 32 pp. of the progressive collotype printings. Full green morocco, near fine with green marbled slipcase. § Copy III of 36 de luxe copies. The total edition was of 662 copies including 36..... More
New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1935. Large 4to, text, illustrations including 63 color facsimile plates, in six fascicles in original wrappers with labels; near fine copy, small stain to one wrapper, enclosed in the original blue cloth box, rather worn. § A magnificent production, showing for the first time the..... More
London: Harrison and co., [1780-81]. Single plate, 10 x 7.5 ins. Browned and foxed. § First edition thus, issued originally in parts and perhaps thus of great rarity. The last copy to change hands was in 1993 when Essick bought his copy; he has not recorded another copy in the..... More
London: Harrison and co., [1780-81]. Single plate, 10 x 7.5 ins. Browned, margins foxed and chipped. § First edition thus, issued originally in parts and perhaps thus of great rarity. The last copy to change hands was in 1993 when Essick bought his copy; he has not recorded another copy..... More
London: Fielding and Walker, 1780 and J. Fielding: 1781. Two vols. in one, large thick folio, vol. 1 frontispiece, title page printed in red and black, 6, 632 pp., with 46 plates including 5 maps and a plan; vol. 2 with title page dated 1781, 494 pp., with 33 plates..... More
London: printed by John Baskett, and by the assigns of Thomas Newcomb and Henry Hills, 1715. Folio, [380], 23, [3] pp. unpaginated (text ends on Aaa4 as per ESTC). Engraved frontispiece by Loggan after Caspars. Title-page printed in red and black, ruled in red throughout. Contemporary red morocco, covers tooled..... More
London: Published by the Proprietor, J. P. Neale, 1818. 2 vols, 4to (large paper?). Vol. 1: (18), [1-3], 4-72, (10), [1]-227, (19)pp. with engraved title, frontispiece, separate title page, 10 plates as called for plus one not mentioned in the Directions to the Binder ("Doorway to Oratory"). Vol 2: (2)..... More
London: T. Payne, 1775/1776. 3 vols, 4to, xx, 516; [2], vi, 535; viii, 602 pp, with 31 engravings on the 30 listed plates. A very good and attractive set in clean condition, bound in original calf with gilt decorated rules to covers, and gilt decoration to spine panels, with six..... More
New York: Bollingen Foundation, 1954-1960. 4 vols. thick 8vo, pp. xvi, 492, with 3 b/w plates; xvi, 476, with numerous b/w plates and line drawings; x, 414, with 4 b/w plates; xxi, 506, with numerous line drawings. Original quarter cloth and hessian boards, dust-jackets, signature in each volume of Jacqueline..... More
Greenbrae: The Allen Press, 1986. 8vo, 53 pp. Blue cloth lettered in rust colored ink on upper cover and backstrip. A fine copy in acetate dust jacket with the original prospectus laid in. § Edition of 140 copies. A Christianized telling of the life of the Buddah, translated and first..... More
Glasgow: David Bryce and Son, 1894. 4to, xvi, 316 pp. followed by Frederick Laing's colored hieroglyphic Bible, consisting of 94 plus 184 mounted plates, four to a page, comprising stories from the Old and New Testaments. Original tan linen buckram over beveled boards, decoratively stamped in gilt and black. Top..... More
N.d. [before 1804]. Single folded letter sheet bearing 8 lines in ink signed "M. St". Handwriting clear and unfaded, paper faintly soiled and creased; very good. § A short note in the hand of the French political theorist and woman of letters, Madame de Staël (1766-1817): "Lisez ce papier monsieur..... More
Cambridge: Hilliard, Metcalf, and Company, 1827. 8vo, 67 pp. Modern decorative wrappers with handwritten label on upper wrapper. Occasional foxing, toned; very good. § "An important review of unfavorable published accounts on the American Protestant mission in Hawaii... The author was one of the principal founders and the corresponding secretary..... More
San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1949. Folio, [vi], 15, [2]pp. Quarter cloth over decorative floral paper boards. Paper label to spine and decorative paper label to front board. A fine copy in the moderately worn original plain paper dust-jacket which is unevenly sunned and has some chips to..... More
London, Edinburgh, & Boston: T.N. Foulis, 1914. 8vo, [104], (2, ads) pp. 8 color plates of various sizes tipped to grey interleaved paper 36 monochrome drawings. Publisher's colorful pictorial boards illustrated by Jessie M. King, lettered in gilt, dust-jacket with mounted color plate, ribbon marker. Slight loss to gilt lettering..... More
