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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 : 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
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
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
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: John W. Parker, West Strand, 1848. 8vo, [iv], 271 pp. with 8pp. ads at rear. Original blue-gray cloth, paper label on backstrip. A sharp, near fine copy with only slight toning to the backstrip, in a custom quarter red morocco box. Gift inscription on the half title "Ellen Burmester..... More
London: Printed in the Year of our Lord God 1699: and Re-printed in the year 1764. Sm. 4to, vii, (viii, errata), 179pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece, not always present. Original blue boards, white paper backstrip rather soiled, ff. iv-v also soiled, otherwise a good copy as issued entirely untrimmed. § Second..... More
Wittenbergae recusa: Literis Jo. Godofredi Meyerus, 1718. Sm. thin 4to, [88]pp. Later blue-grey wrappers, browned throughout. § Only edition, very rare, of this treatise on the history and technique of foot-kissing the Pope. Two copies in the USA, Concordia and Chicago. No copy located as ever having been sold. A...... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. 4to, [xx], [264] pp. Illustrated. Original blue patterned cloth and card slipcase. Faint occasional spotting; a very good copy in a slipcase that is somewhat toned and worn. § Number 666 of an edition of 1500 copies signed by the illustrator. The first English..... More
London: Sold by J. Johnson, 1806. Disbound 8vo, 48 pp. Half title detached and worn, two contemporary newspaper clippings relating to the trial of Rev. Stone pasted to its verso; stamp of the Royal Institution of Great Britain on the title page. Good. § A scarce pamphlet, apparently scandalous in..... More
London: J. Peele, 1727. 8vo, 68 pp., disbound. New red wrappers. Title page a little foxed, some toning throughout, good. § First edition, scarce. DNB: “Sykes was a latitudinarian divine in the manner of Bishop Hoadly, and a voluminous writer of controversial pamphlets.” He was also a friend to Isaac..... More
Boston: Printed by Richard Draper, Printer to His Excellency the Governor, and the Honorable His Majesty's Council, New-England, 1773. Small 4to, [1(half-title)], [2(blank)], [3(title-page)], [4(Council Order)], [5]-45(text), [46(blank)] pp. Original self-wrappers, preserved in modern brown cloth folding box with plexiglas lid.Disbound, probably from a larger volume, dampstained, with some marginal..... 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
