Roveta [Rovetta]: Negli Occhi Santi di Bice, 1820. Three octavo volumes in one. 612 pp. + 3pp. emendazioni. Continuously paginated. Frontis portrait depicting the "Three Crowns" of Italian literature, Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio. Vellum binding decorated in gilt with hand-painted cover depicting Dante holding a copy of the Divine..... More
Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, 1903. First Thus, Limited to 450 copies printed on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Quarto; publisher's cream over blue paper-covered boards, printed paper spine label; xxxvi,[2],334pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece (tissue guard). Extremities lightly scuffed and rather toned, red spine lettering almost entirely effaced, later ownership rubber-stamp..... More
Boston: Published by Order of the City Council, 1896. First Edition. Tall octavo. 77 pp. Black and white photographs with tissue guards. Blindstamped dark brown boards decorated in gilt. Dark brown endpapers. Boards bumped at corners with some general scuffing and rubbing. Binding is sound and pages clean..... More
Philadelphia: Hopkins and Earle, 1808. Second Edition. Volume One only of a two volume set. This copy is from the library of journalist and White House speechwriter William Safire. Octavo; 596 pp. Contemporary calf binding with red and black title labels on spine with lettering in gold. All..... More
Paris: G. Masson / Librairie de l'Academie de Medecine, 1888. Troisième Édition, revue et augmentée. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's blue wrappers printed in brown; [4],341pp. Spine a bit toned, light wear to wrapper extremities, contemporary ownership signature to upper cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Masson price cancel (minor offsetting..... More
Chicago: W.E. Dibble & Co., 1890. First Edition. Thick octavo; publisher's brown pictorial cloth embossed in black and gilt; viii,[9]-473,[1](ad)pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece, illustrations throughout, many full-paged (collated complete, though view of Uncle Dick's home in the mountains misbound facing p. 281). Extremities rather scuffed with shallow loss at corners..... More
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's green cloth stamped in black and silver foil; xii,[2],378pp. A hint of wear at corners, brief white stain to rear cover, else Near Fine. More
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [10],281pp.; illus. throughout. A hint of dust-soil and wear, else Near Fine. Forms part of the Modern War Studies series. More
![Item #6871 Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine [Seven Volumes]. Douglas Jerrold, John Leech, William](/pictures/thumb/6871.jpeg?v=1597183112)
London: Published at the Punch Office, 1845-1848. Seven octavo volumes. Illustrations by John Leech. Dark brown cloth boards with lettered in decorated in gilt. Chipping at spine ends to all seven volumes, with substantial loss to two of them. Corners bumped with brief exposure and worn along joints..... More
Portland: Thomas B. Wait, 1805. Slim octavo; contemporary black sheep-backed marbled boards, gilt spine; viii,84pp. Boards and leather rather rubbed with some brief loss of paper to upper cover, preliminaries quite foxed, else Near Very Good, internally Near Fine. Didactic poem first published in 1744, the year the..... More
London: Edward Arnold, 1898. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's green cloth-backed pictorial paper-covered boards; ca. 110pp.; chiefly illus. Boards rather rubbed with exposure at corners and minor fraying at spine ends, dampstain to rear cover not bleeding into textblock, contemporary gift inscription to front free endpaper, else Good or better..... More
New York: Macmillan Company, 1928. First Thus, "Half Leather Edition." Octavo (18.5cm.); publisher's morocco over cloth boards in original orange dust jacket retaining original price on spine panel ($1.25); xx,[2],520,[4](ads)pp.; twelve (12) leaves of plates, pictorial endpapers printed in green. Fragile dust jacket separated along rear spine edge, bottom two..... More
Philadelphia: Porter & Coates, 1894. First Thus, translated from the thirteenth edition of the Italian. Two octavo volumes. 273 pp.; 275 pp. 44 black and white photographs and photogravures with lettered tissue guards, complete; color fold-out map to rear of volume II. Flexible cloth dust wrappers with gilt lettering to..... More
Cape Town: A.A. Balkema, 1958. First Edition. Small, slim octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; 128pp.; portrait frontispiece, five leaves of plates including one in color, additional text illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, jacket spine panel sunned, else Very Good or better. Inscribed and signed by Frank Bradlow to..... More
Brookline, MA: Edward Atkinson, 1902. Seventh Edition. Quarto (27.5cm.); staplebound self-wrappers; 19pp.; tables printed in text. Slightly ex-Hartford Theological Seminary with their faint contemporary pressure stamp to first two leaves and small call number rubberstamp to upper cover, the whole rather dust-soiled, a few shallows chips to extremities, else Good..... More
New York: Edward L. Wilson, [1881]. Presumed First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's plum pictorial cloth stamped in gilt; xv,[16]-366pp.; photographic frontispiece plus one additional leaf of plates, text illus. throughout. Cloth rather scuffed and discolored at extremities, some spotting to sizing, rear hinge starting, later (1941) ownership signature to half..... More
New York: John A. Gray & Green, Printers and Stereotypers, 1864. Octavo. 80 pages. Removed. Biopredation along edges of front and rear. Some scuffing and toning. Holding in binding. A serviceable copy. More
Boston: Lockwood, Brooks and Company, 1878. First Edition. Octavo. 406 pages + advertisements. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Plaid endpapers. Light wear to extremities.Top of spine is tugged and bottom nudged. Some faint rippling and staining in spots. Binding is sound. Stain to fore edge of text..... More
Boston: Lee & Shepard, Publishers, 1875. First Edition. Octavo. 165 pp. + 21 pp., including Constitutions and Officers of the Order of the Sovereigns of Industry. Lacking front fly leaf. Burnt umber boards stamped in gilt; brown endpapers. Boards edgeworn with some general spotting and scuffing. Binding is..... More
Brattleboro': William Fessenden, 1805. First American Edition. 12mo; full contemporary calf, gilt-ruled spine; iv,[5]-352pp. Light scuffing to leather extremities, lacking spine label and endpapers, dark dampstaining to margins of first twenty and final ten leaves, 20th century ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown; nevertheless, a Very Good, still quite attractive and..... More
New York: Sponsored by the Phelps-Stokes Fund, 1966. First Edition. Quarto; publisher's cloth tape-backed printed wrappers, gilt-lettered spine; [3],[1]-201pp. xeroxed from typescript. Ex-University of Mary Washington with their usual markings, wrappers rather wrinkled and corners curled, else a Good reading copy overall. Detailed overview of the history and activities..... More
New York: Isaac T. Hopper, 1832. Second Edition. Octavo. 451 pp., collated and complete. Frontis portrait. Contemporary mottled calf ruled in gilt with spine somewhat crudely treated. Light wear to boards, binding sound, foxing and ownership inscription to preliminaries, though pages otherwise unmarked. Hicks was a quite popular..... More
![Item #13313 Sonnets from the Portuguese [Limited Edition]. Elizabeth Barrett Browning](/pictures/thumb/13313.jpg?v=1655142047)
London: Riccardi Press Books, 1914. Limited to 1000 copies of which this is no. 376. Slim octavo; publisher's linen-backed boards, front cover and spine lettered in gilt; 27pp.; p. [5] printed within decorative border. Vertical split spanning the length of the rear spine margin, extremities and spine cloth rather toned;..... More
Philadelphia: WM. Rutter & Co., 1875. Two Quarto Volumes. 990 p.; 1054 p. Black and white illustrations. Green cloth stamped in black and gilt. Worn at extremities; corners cracked. Rear joint of volume 1 cracked and separation at spine but binding is holding. Two inch tear to front..... More
Princeton, MA: Co-Operative Publishing Co., 1876. "Thirtieth Thousand." Octavo; publisher's pink wrappers printed within decorative border; 23,[1](ads)pp. Light wear and dust-soil to wrappers, dampstaining affecting margins of first four leaves, else Very Good and sound. Economic tract by the individualist anarchist, women's suffragist, and free love advocate Ezra H...... More