London: Abelard-Schuman, [1959]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket retaining original price (25 /- net); 223pp.; portrait frontispiece, plates and illus. throughout. Moderate wear to jacket margins; a Near Fine copy in Very Good jacket. Forms part the series The Life of Science Library. More

New York: Macmillan Company, 1935, 1939. First American Editions from the British sheets. Thick octavos; publisher’s cloth in printed dust jackets; Vol 1: 692pp, frontispiece, thirty-six (36) leaves of plates printed on rectos and versos, hundred of text illus. throughout; Vol 2: 813pp. frontispiece, sixty-six (66) leaves of plates &..... More

Venetia [Venice]: Nicolo Pezzana, 1674. "In questa ultima Impressione, con ogni diligenza rivisti, e corretti." 12mo (15cm.); full contemporary speckled calf, gilt-tooled spine in four compartments, all edges speckled red; 650,[20](collated complete); added engraved title page depicting St. George slaying the dragon, woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Binding a...... More

Paris: Chez Edme Couterot, rue S. Jacques, au bon Pasteur, 1697. Nouvelle Edition, revue & corrigée par l'Auteur. 12mo; full contemporary calf, gilt spine in six compartiments; [48],500pp. (collated complete); woodcut title page emblem, initials, head- and tail-pieces. Ex-Congregation de Notre Dame de Verdun with their rubber-stamp to title page..... More

London: Printed, and Sold by E. Whitlock, near Stationers-Hall, 1696. First English Edition. Small octavo (17cm.); full contemporary speckled paneled calf, spine in five compartments; [16],134,[2]pp. (collated complete). Leather quite dried, especially at margins and spine with exposure at corners and top spine chord, textblock a bit toned and foxed..... More

N.p.: Catholic Historical Review, 1946. Offprint from Vol. XXXII, no. 1, April, 1946. Octavo (23cm); publisher's green printed staple bound wrappers; [2],28-46pp. Wrappers chipped and quite toned along margins, damp stain affecting bottom edge of wrappers but not bleeding into textblock; Good to Very Good overall. Not separately catalogued in..... More

Genève: Librairie Droz, 1983, 1994. First Editions. Large octavos (25.5cm.); publisher's red cloth, gilt-lettered spines; [4],xvii,[1],548; [2],xix,[1],938pp.; facsimiles throughout. Minor wear from handling, corners bumped, two white smudges to Vol. II upper cover, textblocks lightly dust-soiled, else a Very Good, sound set. Issued as Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance Nos. CXCII..... More

Paris: Chez la Vefve [Veuve] de Sebastien Hure, et Sebastien Hure, rue S. Jacques, au Coeur bon, 1655. First Edition. Octavo (18.5cm); full contemporary calf, gilt spine in six compartments; [10],468pp.; woodcut initials, head- and tail-pieces throughout. Leather quite worn at margins with early and pleasingly crude stitching along bottom..... More

Paris: Chez Claude Aveline, 1923. First Thus, One of 35 copies printed on papier du Japon of which this is no. 2. Octavo; publisher's stiff brown pictorial card wrappers printed in black and red; xii,228pp.; one full-page woodcut illus. printed in black and grey, half-tone vignettes at the head of..... More

Antverpiae: Ioannem Meursium, 1635. Four titles bound in one volume. Small octavo (16cm.); 19th-century paste-paper boards, manuscript spine label, all edges stained red; mixed pagination (all titles collated complete); Jesuit device on title pages of first two titles, woodcut initials throughout. Ex-library (institution unknown) with spine call number crudely painted..... More

[London]: [Thomas Parkhurst], [1702]. First Edition. Folio (31.5cm.); seven volumes in one; full unadorned contemporary calf; each volume with separate title page and pagination. Lacking first gathering including title page (title and imprint provided by the ESTC), as well as the map plates and final two leaves of..... More

University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, [1982]. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in white and purple pictorial dust jacket; xii,[2],249pp. Light wear, dust jacket very slightly wrinkled from exposure to damp, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series "Studies in..... More

Paris: Chez la Veuve Bordelet, rue Saint Jacques, à Saint Ignace, 1758. First Veuve Bordelet Edition. 12mo (17cm.); full contemporary mottled calf, gilt spine in six compartments, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xix,[5],528pp. (collated complete); woodcut initials and decorative head- and tail-pieces throughout. Ex-Congregation de Notre Dame de Verdun with..... More