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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
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
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1853. New Edition, "with additions and corrections by the former editor." Two volumes; octavos; publisher's purple blind-ruled cloth, gilt-lettered spines, brown glazed endpapers; xviii,[2],514; 504pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece at head of Vol. I, Vol. II extra-illustrated with two mounted mid-20th century plates. Spines uniformly sunned..... More
London: Printed by T. Mabb, for Joseph Nevill, and are to be sold at his Shop at the signe of the Plough in the New-Buildings in Paules Churchyard, 1660. Third Edition. 12mo. [xvi], 431, [xxi] pp. Contemporary quarter calf with gilt lettering to spine. Incomplete, lacking N1 signature... 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