![La Divina Commedia [The Divine Comedy] (3 Volumes). Dante Alighieri, Luigi Portirelli, Girolamo...](/pictures/thumb/5745.jpg?v=1574188455)
Milano: Societa Tipografica de Classici Italiani, 1804. First Thus. Three Volumes. Octavo. I: lxvii, 336pp, [2]; II: li, 441pp., [3]; III: 453pp., [3]. Three black and white illustrations plus frontispiece. Quarter contemporary leather with marbled cardboard boards. Brown leather spine labels. Speckled edges. Includes life of Dante written..... More
![The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire [Six Volumes]. Edward Gibbon](/pictures/thumb/5669.jpg?v=1572985634)
London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1783. "A New Edition;" First Octavo Edition; Six Volumes; I: xiv, 456pp; II: xv, 496pp; III: viii, 412pp; IV: viii, 443pp; V: vii, 432pp; VI: viii, 420pp. Frontispiece and two fold-out maps to vols. I and II. Originally published in three quarto volumes, here..... More
New York: Covici-Friede Publishers, 1929. "Privately Printed for Subscribers Only." "This edition is limited to thirteen hundred numbered copies of which this is copy number 1387"--a numerical impossibility which may indicate over-subscription or acknowledged over-run. Folio; Vol I xl + 515pp; Vol II extends pagination through p. 865; Vol III..... More
![Salem Vessels and Their Voyages [Series 1 through 4]. George Granville Putnam](/pictures/thumb/5687.jpg?v=1572981229)
Salem: The Essex Institute, 1924. Reprinted from the Essex Institute Historical Collections Volumes LVII and LVIII. Four volumes. Octavos; 173pp, 168pp, 164pp, 175pp.. Black and white photographs throughout. Blue paper-covered boards and navy cloth spine with mounted black and white ship illustration to fronts and gilt lettering to spines... More
![Alfred Lord Tennyson: A Memoir by His Son [Four Volumes]. Hallam Tennyson](/pictures/thumb/5750.jpg?v=1574187188)
Boston: Dana Estes and Company, 1897. Limited 'Connoisseur' Edition, this being #37 of 250. Four volumes bound in three quarter leather over marbled paper boards; spines lettered in gilt; five raised bands; marbled endpapers; top edge gilt. Frontispiece and black and white illustrations to each volume. Includes selections of Alfred..... More
New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1846. Stated "Three Volumes in Two." Octavo; Vol I 536pp; Vol II 509pp [+ 9pp of publisher prospectuses bound in]. Brown cloth. Gilt stamped emblem on front panel of both volumes; gilt lettering on spines. Both spines battered crown and foot, some peeling..... More
![Life and Writings of Thomas Paine [10 volume set]. Thomas Paine, Daniel Edwin Wheeler](/images/noimage.png)
Limited Edition. New York: Vincent Parke and Company, 1908. Complete ten volume set of the Independence Edition. This is number 306 of 500, and volume 1 is signed by the editor, Daniel Edwin Wheeler. Mounted frontispiece portrait in volume one, surrounded by decorative floral pattern. Bound in charcoal-grey boards with..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1842. Four Volumes from the Fourth (British) Edition. Octavos. Lacks maps. Full contemporary sheep; five raised bands to spine; spine titled and ruled in gilt. Bookplate of Alexander Little Page Green to front pastedowns of volumes 2, 3, and 4. Appears to have been..... More
London: Nathaniel Cooke, 1854. Four volumes. Octavos. Black and white illustrations. Blind-tooled plum cloth is faded at spine and edges and worn at spine ends. Fourth volume dampstained across top front, with stain continuing along top of front endpapers and half title, but disappearing by the full title page. Some..... More