Washington, D.C.: [Artisanal], [1990s]. Unique copy. Pristine. Medium folio (46x32x5cm; 18"x12.5"x2"); 180 leaves (360pp). Half leather in full-grain aniline black; boards covered in laid mulberry stock. All paperblock edges marbled with crimson and black mottling. Endpapers in Turkish marbling of green and metallic gold against amaranth red. Leaves of heavy..... More

Boston: Lee and Shepard, copyright 1873 but ca. 1920 reprint. Octavo (19cm); publisher's cloth in grey pictorial dust jacket; 221,[5](ads)pp.; frontispiece, six leaves of plates. Dust jacket margins rather chipped and worn with long closed tear at top edge of upper panel touching text without loss of meaning, rather extensive..... More

Marburg: Heinrich Ludwig Bronner, 1776-1777. Two volumes in one; 12mo; contemporary gilt-tooled roan, gilt spine in five compartments, papier-peint pastedowns, housed in contemporary paper-covered slipcase; 106,[2]; 291,[5]pp.; music throughout text. General rubbing to margins, spine gilt rather dulled, contemporary ownership notes to front free endpaper verso, old paper repairs to..... More

London: Walter Scott, n.d. [ca. 1900]. Octavo (18cm); full contemporary blue gilt-tooled prize calf by Relfe Brothers of London, gilt spine in six compartments with red spine piece, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; viii,369pp., frontispiece, facsimile letter fragment by Gordon tipped in at rear of volume. Leather a bit scuffed..... More

Napoli [Naples]: Nella Tipografia di Angelo Trani, 1814. "Prima edizione napoletana." Octavo; full contemporary elaborately gilt-tooled crimson morocco with "N.A." on both covers within gilt floral border, green gilt-lettered spine label, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; 588pp.; text printed in double columns. Leather a bit scuffed along margins, small ink..... More

Philadelphia: Johnson & Warner, No. 147 Market-Street. Brown & Merritt Printers, 24, Church-alley, 1809 [but 1821]. Small quarto (13cm.); slightly later straight-grained gilt-tooled brown morocco, marbled endpapers; 16pp.; engraved frontispiece and seven leaves of plates (collated complete). Dark tide mark affecting textblock as well as plates, stock uniformly toned due..... More

Firenze [Florence]: Tipografia Magheri, 1831. First Edition. 32mo (11.5cm); full contemporary teal gilt-ruled calf, gilt spine in four compartments, all edges speckled red, lavender endpapers; [4],284pp. Light wear to margins, sadly lacking spine label, contemporary ownership signature to front flyleaf, else a Very Good copy in a lovely contemporary binding..... More

Paris: J. Langlumé / Théodore Lefèvre, n.d., ca. 1850s. Nouvelle Edition. 12mo; publisher's white paper-covered boards printed chromolithograph in four colors; viii,207pp.; engraved frontispiece and added title page, ten (10) leaves of plates, collated complete. Very light rubbing to board margins, spine a bit toned, else a Very Good or..... More

Bavaria, Germany: 1742. Folio (30cm); stitched wrappers of a nearly full sheet of gold on green Bronzefirnispapier (bronze varnish paper); [8]ll. filled nearly to completion with five manuscript calligraphic chronograms, the Roman numerals accomplished in gold with red shading, the rest of the text in black. Light soil to upper..... More

New York: Fleming H. Revell Company,1905 [but ca. 1913]. Presumed Eleventh Edition. Octavo; contemporary full crushed teal morocco double-ruled in gilt, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, housed in custom cloth slipcase; [2],339pp.; photographic frontispiece, fifteen (15) leaves of plates, folding map bound in rear. Spine leather toned..... 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

London: Published for W. Allason; B. Withrow and Co.; C. Chapple et al., 1819. A New Edition. Twelve octavo volumes. Frontis portrait; fold-out maps of Eastern and Western Empires. Bound in full contemporary scarlet morocco; four raised bands to spine; gilt ruling and lettering; all edges gilt; red endpapers. Light..... More

London: Caradoc Press, 1906. First Caradoc Edition. Slim 12mo; full contemporary blue gilt-ruled calf by Riviere & Son, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers with gilt turn-ins, housed in cloth slipcase; [52]pp.; woodcut decorations and initials by H.G. Webb. Spine faded, textblock a bit browned, else..... More