Paris: Bossange Frères, n.d. [ca. 1825]. Presumed First French Edition. Oblong octavo (14.5 x 23 cm); publisher’s pictorial lilac paper-covered boards adorned with vignettes of two young girls, one skipping rope, the other playing badminton; iii,[4]-134pp.; six leaves of hand-colored aquatint plates. Ex-library with the early 20th-century gift bookplate to..... More

London: Enitharmon Press, 1976. Limited First Edition of 660 copies, this being number 7 of 60 specially bound and numbered copies. Publisher's blue and white cloth with black lettering to spine; in clear acetate jacket. Printed on blue paper, with illustrated frontis on glossy white. Boards are clean and square..... More

Venezia [Venice]: Nella Stamperia Baglioni, 1775. 12mo; full contemporary elaborately gilt-tooled calf with green oval inlays, gilt spine in five compartments, green silk pastedowns; xxiii,[1],633,[3]pp.; six full-paged copper engravings in text (collated complete). Light rubbing to leather margins, later (1860s) ownership signature of Ricardo with his brief scribbles to endpapers..... More

Paris: Chez Deterville, 1820. First Edition. Two volumes; large, thick quartos; contemporary half parchment over marbled paper-covered boards, contemporary manuscript spine titling, all edges stained red; [4],viii,1093,[1]; [4],1063pp.; text printed in triple column. Parchment rather grayed from dust-soil, margins scuffed, contemporary ownership signature to title pages, else a Very Good..... More

Padova: Nella Stamperia del Seminario, 1742. First Italian Edition. Two copies of the same title (see below). Octavos; [12],203,[7]pp. (both copies evidently lacking half title page, otherwise collated complete).  Copy A: 19.5x13cm. Bound in original stitched thick rustica wrappers, spine titling in contemporary manuscript. Light soil to wrappers, the..... More

New York: Covici, Friede, 1928. Limited First Edition. Signed by the author and numbered 97 of 275 copies on colophon. Octavo; 265pp. Special full-color frontispiece by the author, with black and white illustrations throughout. Patterned boards with black cloth spine and gilt lettering. Housed in blue cloth-covered slipcase. Boards faintly..... More

Paris: Garnier Freres, [1870s]. Five Volumes of a seven volume set. Octavo; V1: cxxix, 368 pp, 4 plates; V2: [vi], 507 pp., 4 plates; V4: [vi], 425 pp., 4 plates; V5:[vi], i-xliv, 516 pp., 2 plates; V7: cxiv, 488 pp., 2 plates. Mustard marbled paper-covered boards with brown leather spine..... More

Paris: Devambez / Au Masque d'Or, 1921. First Thus, Limited to 1000 copies on vélin de Rives of which this is no. 708. Small, slim octavo (18cm.); contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine in six compartments, green spine onlay, marbled endpapers, original wrappers bound in; [2],xxxii,29pp.; frontispiece reproducing Poussin's "La..... More

Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1955. Deuxieme Edition Revue [second revised edition]. Large, thick quarto; publisher's cream pictorial wrappers printed in brown, teal, and black; [6],554pp.; ten leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos, numerous maps and plans throughout. Wrappers a bit worn and quite toned, substantial dampstaining..... More

Venezia: Presso lor. e ant. Fratelli Gattei tip. edit., 1844. First Italian Edition. Two quarto volumes; rebound in brown 20th-century leatherette with gilt stamping to spine; 716, 880, [4]pp.; lacking endpapers. 19 (of 20) hand-colored plates, lacking frontispiece to volume II. Boards edgeworn and bumped with mild rippling. Bindings sound;..... More

[Lausanne, Switzerland: Galerie l'Entracte, 1981.] First Edition, Limited to 60 copies of which this is no. 19. Quarto; publisher's cord-bound printed card wrappers; [6]pp.; bound with original lithograph by Quinche . Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, small scrape to upper cover not approaching text, else Very Good, contents fine..... More

New York: Farrar, Straus & Company, 1964. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo (21cm), [ix], 276pp. Color illustrated dust jacket with price intact and author’s photograph on rear in black and white. Quarter bound with light red paper and brown cloth spine with yellow, blue, and red stamping on the..... More

Washington, DC: Jean Targete, 1972. First Edition. Quarto. 226 pp. Two black and white photograph reproductions. Printed wraps with black cloth spine. Wraps edgeworn and sunned with staining and previous owner's name, address, and phone number to front; curling to corners. Binding sound. Marginal toning, else interior unmarked; a Very..... More