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
Princeton: Princeton University Press, Bollingen Series LXXXIX, 1977. Octavo (23.5x15.5x2.5cm); xxxviii + 580pp, including general index and indexes for Greek, Sanskrit and Pali terminology. Twenty-three B&W images. Coated card covers with photograph on front. Near Fine. One small lacuna to coating on rear surface; spine uncreased and uncracked; textblock clearly..... 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
Hollywood: Marcel Rodd, 1945. First Edition. Octavo; [viii],452pp. Illustrated dust jacket over brick cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Price-clipped dust jacket shows a few shallow chips and tears along edges, corners, and spine ends, with a few scuffs to surface. Small dampstain visible on jacket interior at bottom front..... 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
Naples: Riccardo Ricciardi Editore, 1927. First Edition, one of 200 copies printed. Octavo (25x17x1cm); 79pp, including appendix and index. Laid paper wrappers of warm limestone gray, imprinted with publisher's elegant naval emblem and motto: Ventis Secundis—Under Favoring Winds. B&W portrait of Vico as frontispiece. Entirely in Italian. Wrapper shows..... 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. You've already deduced that παιδεραστής = pederast, haven't..... More
Paris: Delance et Lesueur, 1804. Nouvelle Édition. 12mo; full contemporary tree calf, gilt spine with two red onlays, marbled endpapers; [4],301pp. Boards a bit scuffed with brief exposure at corners, a few late leaves with closed horizontal tear mid-fore-edge touching text without loss of sense, else a Very Good copy..... More
London: Pluto Press, 1976. First Edition. Octavo. 172 pp. + advertisements. Photographic wraps. Covers edgeworn, spine faded, bit of creasing towards edges with sticker to rear. Wraps curl slightly towards edges. Binding is sound. Black marker to fore-edge, stamp and black marker marks to half to half title..... More
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1969. First Thus. Octavo. 222 pp. Printed dust jacket with $7.50 price present. Red boards stamped in gilt. Laid in at front are 18 pages of double-sided hand-written notes with "Memo from Herbert A. Deane," printed on the top of each page..... 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
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1964. First U.S. Edition. Tall octavo. 468 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Green boards stamped in black and gilt. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Dust jacket chipped and creased along edges with one larger chip along spine. Institutional sticker to spine and ghost of tape..... More
New York: Sheed & Ward, [1946.] First Thus. Octavo. 300 pp. Printed dust jacket with $3.50 price present. Orange boards stamped in black. Dust jacket chipped along edges, with one large patch missing at bottom edge. General rubbing and bit of intermittent spotting. Boards lightly shelfworn and bottom..... 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
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
Paris: Corbet, 1821 [but 1822]. Nouvelle Édition. 12mo (18cm.); full contemporary gilt-tooled sheep, gilt spine with red gilt onlay, marbled endpapers; 396pp.; added engraved title page dated 1822, hand-colored frontispiece and three hand-colored plates. Leather rather scuffed and dried with brief peeling to upper cover and surface scratches to rear..... More
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. First American Edition. Octavo (24x17x6cm); xxv + 821pp, including indices. Dust jacket with portrait photographs. Deep purple cloth with silver spine stamping and Arendt's and Jasper's signatures blind stamped on front panel. Both unclipped jacket and volume are impeccable, with no signs..... 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