Amsterdam: Chez Changuion, 1765. Octavo; viii + 268pp. Marbled calf with matching grisaille marbled textblock edges. Double-ruled gilt panel borders with ornaments at panel corners; gilt-embossed spine and title-lettering—though spine title now largely chafed away. Gilt inner dentelles, vestiges of gilt edge tooling. Both panels stamped with gilt crest. Striking..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1980. First Edition. Octavo. 205 pages. Maroon and white dust jacket over black boards with gilt lettering. Jacket shows some toning, creasing, and some light chipping along edges. Black boards are stamped in gilt. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. More
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1888. Third Edition, Revised. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's green cloth, gilt-lettered spine; viii,[2],307,[1],[2](ads)pp. Light shelf wear and a few surface scratches, corners rather bumped, else Very Good, internally clean and sound. Treatise on natural theology by the American engineer, best known for his work..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980. First Edition. Tall Octavo. 481 pages. Green and black dust jacket over black boards with gilt lettering. Jacket shows some creasing and toning along edges and some wear at corners. Boards lightly shelfworn. Small square of sticker residue on front free endpaper, else pages unmarked..... More
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Reprint Edition. Oxford: Oxford University at the Clarendon Press, 1969. Two volumes. Reprint of the 1932 printing. Octavo; 532, 498pp. Printed dust jackets over purple boards with spine in gilt. Price-clipped dustjackets show a few chips and small, closed tears along edges, with toning to spines and a...... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1920. 12mo (16cm.); full contemporary maroon morocco by Bayntun, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, gilt dentelles (offsetting to endpapers), all edges gilt, marbled endpapers; xli,[1],190pp.; frontispiece. Leather a bit rubbed and darkened at extremities, especially along joints, paper flaw to front pastedown from previously removed ex..... More
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1987. Reprint. Octavo. 120 pages. Illustrated dust jacket. Brown boards with black label to spine and stamped in gilt. Unclipped dust jacket is crisp with only a hint of wear along top edge. Sturdy and square in binding and pages unmarked. More
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Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1949. First Edition. Octavo; 339pp + 2pp of publisher's prospectuses. Broché in ochre wraps with title in red on cover and title-page. Note that this volume is complete in itself, but is only the first of the two volumes Nicolini published under this title..... More
New York: John R. Alden, 1887. Small 12mo (161cm.); publisher's brown pictorial cloth stamped in black; 217,[1],[6](ads)pp. Light shelf wear, corners gently bumped, contemporary ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else a Very Good, sound copy in attractive publisher's cloth binding. More
New York: The Free Press, 1992. First Edition with full numberline. Octavo; 418 pp. Printed dust jacket with $24.95 price intact; book in dark merlot cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Near fine, with jacket showing only a tiny abrasion along top edge and faint nudging at head of spine..... More
Paris: Dunod, 1964. First Edition. Octavo (22.5cm.); publisher's grey cloth, spine stamped in blue and gilt; xi,[5],372pp. French-language throughout. Ex-Lancaster Theological Seminary with their usual markings, paper flaw to rear pastedown from previously removed label, else Very Good and sound. Forms part of the series Collection SIGMA. More
Hardcover. Napoli: Dalla Tipograpfia Masi, 1817. Octavo; [iv], 402p +1 errori at back. Engraved portrait frontis. Brown boards with leather spine and gilt lettering. Joints splitting with amateur rust-colored tape repair over spine ends and down front joint. Boards otherwise edgeworn with a few bumps and the starts of a...... More
[Washington, DC]: University Press of America, [1979]. First Edition. Slim octavo (23.5cm.); original printed wrappers bound in library cloth-backed card binding; x,113pp.; text printed from typescript. Ex-Lancaster Theological Seminary with their usual markings, paper flaw to rear wrapper verso from previously removed label, else Good, internally clean and..... More
Edinburgh: A. Millar, London; and A. Kincaid & J. Bell, Edinburgh, 1765. Third Edition. Volume I only of two volume set. 500 pages. Full contemporary calf with five raised bands and red leather label to spine. Ruled and lettered in gilt. Home, a central figure of the Scottish..... More
London: The Hogarth Press, 1980. First Edition. Octavo. 219 pages. Signed by Berlin on front free endpaper, "For Kenneth Snowman / with my warm regards / Isaiah Berlin / Oxford, July 1981." A collection of vignettes on twentieth century scholars and statesmen. British jeweler and Faberge expert Snowman..... More
[Missoula, MT]: Scholars Press for the American Academy of Religion, [1978]. First Edition. Slim octavo (24cm.); original decorative wrappers bound in library cloth-backed card binding; vi,[2],86pp. Ex-Lancaster Theological Seminary with their usual markings else a Very Good, sturdy copy. Studies in Religion Series no. 14. More
Boston: William V. Spencer, 1866. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 182 pages. Brown cloth stamped in gilt. Square inch chip at top of spine. Three inch strip of cloth chipped and loose at bottom of spine. Cracked at joints. Corners bumped with exposure. Some general rippling and scuffing. Front board..... More
Bristol, [UK]: Printed for J. Brooks, the Editor, by S. Farley, 1770. 12mo. xxvi, 325 p. Full contemporary speckled calf ruled in gilt with red leather spine label. A collection of maxims and aphorisms, first published under the title "Politeuphuia" and attributed to Nicholas Ling. Spine ends are..... More
New York: International Publishers, 1986. Octavo. 785 pages. Volume 22 of the Collected Works of Marx and Engels. No printing statement. In illustrated dust jacket with no price present. Bound in red cloth with spine and front cover in gilt. Includes fold-out maps of battles of the Franco-Prussian War and..... More
New York: International Publishers, 1983. Octavo. 743 pages. Volume 40 of the Collected Works of Marx and Engels. No printing statement. In illustrated dust jacket with no price present. Bound in red cloth with spines and front cover in gilt. Dust jacket lightly creased at spine ends, and..... More
Istanbul: Kader Basimevi, 1947. Side-stapled printed wraps. Tall Octavo. 21 pages. Scarce scholarly monograph of the itinerant 11th-century polymath. "To Dr. Maurice Pechet," handwritten at top of wrapper title. Pechet was an inventory, scientist, doctor, and professor at Harvard. Uzman, known for his research into Gargoylism at Harvard..... More
Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1975. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's blue gilt-lettered cloth; viii,416pp. Corners bumped with very brief exposure, spine gilt a bit dulled, ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else Very Good, internally clean and fresh. More
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New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1967-1970. First Edition (Vol. I) / Book Club Edition (Vol. II). Large octavos. 342; 496 pages. Black and white photographs and illustrations. Printed dust jackets. Red boards stamped in black and gilt; gray boards stamped in navy and gilt. Both dust..... More
Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1964-1969. Schriften I: Later Printing; Schriften II: First Edition; Schriften III: First Edition. Octavo; Schriften I 545pp; Schriften II 348pp; Schriften III 266pp. Parchment cream jackets lettered in black and red. Burgundy boards with off-white spine labels, stamped in black. Gray textblock topstain. Entirely..... More
Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1956. First Edition. Octavo. 204 pages. Dual-language format with German on verso and English translation on recto throughout. Unclipped dust jacket over navy boards with gilt lettering. Jacket is lightly chipped along edges with one closed tear along rear flap and slight toning to spine. Boards..... More