![Item #14704 The Persian Letters [Limited Edition]. Charles de Secondat Montesquieu, John...](/pictures/thumb/14704.jpg?v=1670284321)
Philadelphia: George Barrie, [ca. 1900]. First Thus, Limited to 1000 copies printed on Japanese vellum paper of which this is no. 377. Two volumes; octavo; half green morocco over cloth, gilt spines in five compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers; lxviii,202; vi,233pp.; double engraved frontispieces, seven illustrations bound in two..... More
Hartford: Silas Andrus, 1827. Small octavo; contemporary gilt-ruled rainbow calf, red gilt spine label; xiv,[15]-360pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece and added title page with printed signature in image by J.B. Longacre, six (6) leaves of plates. Leather a bit dried and scuffed, brief peeling to rear cover, textblock toned and foxed..... More
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; x,[2],260pp. Moderate wear to jacket extremities, spine panel a shade sunned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1887. First American Edition. Three volumes; octavos; uniformly bound in publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spines, purple glazed endpapers. Faint cracks starting along hinges of first volume but bindings all sound, light shelf wear to all volumes, top textblock edges dust-soiled, discreet modern (1988) ownership signature..... More
Zurich: Artibus Asiae Publishers, Museum Rietberg, 1999. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x24x3cm); 344pp, including appendices, bibliography, glossary, and index. Illustrated with 222 photographic images in color and B&W. Note that this is the true first edition, in hardcover, not the 2008 reprint from Paul Holberton Publishing, which bears the same ISBN..... More
London: Printed by J. Flesher, for W. Morden Bookseller in Cambridg [sic], 1660. First Edition. Quarto; full contemporary blind-tooled calf, recently rebacked with mottled calf, red gilt spine label, new endpapers; liii,[3],526,[2]pp. (¶^4 - 3¶^4 * - 3*^4 A - 3X^4, collated presumed complete with publisher's advertisements on final leaf);..... More
![Item #25313 Collected Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester [Limited Edition]. Earl of...](/pictures/thumb/25313.jpg?v=1675031191)
[London]: Nonesuch Press, 1926. First Thus, Limited to 975 copies of which this is no. 821. Quarto; publisher's brown cloth over blue-grey paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label; l,[2],407pp. Boards a bit scuffed and lightly dust-soiled, corners bumped, tiny chip to spine label, else a Very Good, sound copy overall..... More
Oxford: Leon. Lichfield, Printer to the University, and are to be sold by James Good, 1672. "Fifth Edition, Corrected and Augmented, and three usefull Indexes added." Small quarto (20cm.); full 19th century parchment, maroon gilt-lettered spine, all edges stained red, later marbled endpapers; [8],256,[2],257-350,[38],57,[1],58,[3]pp. ([*]4 A-3B4 3C2 A-H4). Minor dust-soil..... More
London: Thomas Roycroft, 1668. Second Edition. Two volumes in one; large folio; full contemporary calf rebacked in the 19th century, gilt-tooled spine in seven compartments, maroon morocco spine label; [4],211;[4],231pp.; two frontispieces, including portrait of Ogilby signed in image "P. Lilly Pinxit. / Guil. Faithorne Sculp.," plus one hundred and..... More