![Item #26257 Montaigne's Essays in Three Books. With Notes and Quotations [Three volume set]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/26257.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1681766549)
London: Printed for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, G. Strahan, B. Barker et al., 1738, with date to third volume only. Fifth Edition, corrected and amended. Three 12mo volumes. [xix] 2-394 pp. [xxvi]; [v] 2-521 pp. [xxxi]; [v] 2-402 pp. [xxviii]. Frontispiece to volumes I and II. Contemporary calf with..... More
London: Atlas Press, 1990. First English Trade Edition, part of a print run of 1800. Octavo. 174 pp. + appendix. Illustrated wraps. Light rubbing to edges and very slight curling to corners. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. A Near Fine copy of this surrealist novel, originally written in the..... More
La Haye: Martinus Nijhoff, 1966. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, grey topstain; [6],221pp. Corners bumped, spine a shade sunned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Issued as Phaenomenologica Vol. 20. More
Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie., 1889. First Edition. Quarto (29cm.); contemporary red morocco-backed marbled paper-covered boards, gilt spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; [4],240pp.; 24 color plates, additional half-tone illus. throughout text, many full-paged. Light shelf wear, corners a bit bumped, stock unevenly foxed, else Very Good or..... More
![Item #9012 Œuvres de Molière [Mixed Edition]. Molière, François Boucher](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9012.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1616703145)
Paris: Grangé / Duchesne / Poirion, 1750-1753. Eight volumes; 12mo (14.5cm.); near-uniformly bound in mottled calf, gilt spines with tan or brown gilt-lettered onlays, all edges marbled save those of Vol. V (edges stained red); thirty-one engraved plates signed in image by Rococo painter F. Boucher. Light scuffing to extremities..... More
Paris: Librairie Garnier Frères, n.d. [ca. 1890]. Nouvelle Édition. Two volumes; small, thick octavos; contemporary crimson goat over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spines in six compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, original front wrappers bound in; [4],viii,803; [4],823pp.; hand-colored engraved frontispieces and eight hand-colored plates. Boards a bit scuffed at..... More
Paris: Librairie Hachette, [1914]. Sixième Édition. 12mo (18.25cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, marbled endpapers; [6],318pp. Spine a bit sunned, textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper stock, else Very Good or better. More
Paris: Chez la Veuve Dutillet, 1775. Nouvelle Édition, revue, corrigée, & augmentée par l'Auteur. Two volumes; quarto (26cm.); full contemporary mottled sheep, marbled spines in six compartments with red and tan onlays, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; [2],xxxviii,558; [2],602pp.; woodcut title page vignettes, head- and tail-pieces. Leather dried and scuffed..... More
Paris: Nouveau Quartier Latin, 1966. First Edition. 12mo; publisher's white card wrappers printed in black and purple; 225pp.; illus. throughout. Text in English. Light wear from handling, faint dust-soil and tiny abrasion to front cover very slightly touching text, about a third of textblock toned due to inferior paper quality..... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935. First American Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue decorative price-clipped dust jacket, black topstain; xxviii,292pp.; frontispiece, sixteen leaves of illus. printed on rectos and versos. Jacket extremities rather chipped and worn at extremities with coin-sized loss at top margin of front jacket panel affecting..... More
Milano: Presso Luigi Cioffi Editore-Libraio, 1860. Seconda Edizione. Small 12mo (16cm.); contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, gilt spine, all edges speckled (briefly bleeding to text block); 215pp.; woodcut frontispiece. Some general shelf wear, small contemporary private library spine label; overall Very Good and sound. Uncommon edition of this popular account..... More
![Item #27313 Nicephore Niepce 1765-1833: L'invention de la photographie [Signed Card Laid in]....](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27313.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1695164178)
Paris: Belin, [1999]. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white pictorial card wrappers; 591pp.; eight leaves of color illus. printed on rectos and versos, half-tone illus. throughout text. Minor wear from handling, else Very Good or better. Presentation card inscribed and signed by the author laid in. Text entirely in French..... More
Parisiis: Apud Ioannem Iost, 1637. Editio Quarta. Thick quarto; full contemporary triple-ruled sheep, unadorned spine in five compartments, all edges speckled red, retaining original endpapers as well as a wastepaper front free endpaper; [4],1011,[61]pp.; engraved title page vignette and head- and tail-pieces, text printed in double columns. Leather somewhat edge..... More
![Item #27527 The Search After Truth [...] Elucidations of the Search After Truth. Nicolas...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/27527.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1696354422)
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, [1980]. First Thus. Thick octavo; publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket retaining original price ($50.00); xxxii,861pp. Light shelf wear, minor dust-soil to textblock edges, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Very Good or better. More
Paris: Librairie Nationale d'Art et d'Histoire, 1923. First Trade Edition. Octavo (25.5cm.); publisher's grey pictorial wrappers; 142pp.; illus. throughout. Wrappers a bit chipped and dust-soiled, small loss at spine crown not quite approaching text, faint creases to rear wrapper, else a Very Good, internally sound copy. Provenance: Attractive..... More
Strasbourg: Musées de Strasbourg, [1997]. First Edition. Square quarto; publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers; 214pp.; illus. throughout. Light wear and dust-soil to wrapper margins, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. More
Paris: E. Cretté, 1828. Seconde Édition, revue avec soin, corrigée et augmentée. Two volumes; 12mo (17.5cm.); full contemporary mottled sheep, gilt spine with black gilt inlays, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers; xi,[1],367; [4],358pp.; engraved frontispieces, six leaves of plates. Extremities rather scuffed, both spine crowns a bit pulled with cracking..... More
![Item #9431 Men Before Ten A.M. [Limited Edition, Signed]. Pam Houston, Véronique Vial,...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/9431.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1620064560)
Hillsboro, OR: Beyond Words Publishing, 1996. First Edition, Limited to 100 copies signed by Houston of which this is no. 15. Large square quarto (28cm.); publisher's photo-illustrated card wrappers, French flaps; 141pp.; chiefly half-tone photographs. Near Fine condition. Signed by Houston on limitation page. Photographic portraits of nearly one..... More
[Paris]: Éditions Bloud et Gay, [1961]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's white cloth lettered in red; 255pp.; illus. throughout, including photographs. Brief soil spots to upper cover, else Fine. Pictorial biography of Louis IX (1214-1270). More
Paris: Librairie Paul Ollendorff / Société d'Éditions Littéraires et Artistiques, 1913. Second Edition. Small octavo (18.5cm.); contemporary red cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [2],302pp.; photographic frontispiece. Spine a bit faded, textblock uniformly toned, contemporary ownership inscription in pencil on front flyleaf, else Very Good and sound. Account of the life and works..... More
New York: Arno Press / New York Times Company, 1976. Facsimile reprint of the first (1887) edition. Octavo; publisher's pale green cloth, upper cover and spine lettered in dark blue; [2],vi,[2],188pp. Contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Near Fine. Forms part of the series History of..... More
![Item #10614 Paul Wallach [Autograph Letter Signed by Wallach Laid In]. Paul Wallach, Doris von...](https://capitolhillbooks-dc.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/10614.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1629400584)
Besanceuil, Bonnay, France: Galerie Bruno Mory, 2001. First Edition. Slim quarto (28cm.); publisher's grey printed card wrappers; [48]pp.; color photographs throughout. A hint of shelf wear, else Near Fine. Bilingual text in French and German. Exhibition catalog featuring eighteen works by the American sculptor Paul Wallach (b. 1960)..... More
Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, [2006]. First Edition. Large quarto; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xiv,[4],349pp.; color illus. throughout. Light bow to front board; a bit of shelf wear, corners gently bumped. Splendid exhibition catalog issued to coincide with the centenary of the artist's death in 1906. More
Paris: Librairie Académique Perrin, [1966]. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm.); publisher's simulated cloth in decorative dust jacket; 317pp.; 8 leaves of photographic illus. printed on rectos and versos. Light shelf wear and chipping to jacket extremities, brief bubbling of jacket lamination to upper panel, contemporary ownership inscription (Saigon, 1967)..... More
Paris: Éditions Maurice Ponsot, [1944]. First Edition, limited to 800 copies of which this is no. 633. Folio (31cm.); loose as issued in green pictorial die-cut wrappers housed in publisher's green mottled paper-covered chemise, printed paper spine label and matching slipcase; 197pp.; sixteen aquarelles plates, additional illus. throughout text printed..... More