![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
Philadelphia: Joseph Allen, 1859. Octavo; xv + 560pp + Index of Important Topics 6pp (separately paginated) + Index of Complete Vocabulary 61pp (separately paginated). Entirely in Latin. Rebound in green cloth with gilt lettering on spine; no trimming of leaves or reduction of gutter during rebinding. Pages of principal..... More
![Peoples of the Sea [Ages in Chaos Series]. Immanuel Velikovsky](/pictures/thumb/5264.jpg?v=1564765559)
First Edition. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, 1977. Stated First Edition. Signed by Velikovsky on flyleaf to author and columnist William Safire with inscription "A ramming rod to break down the centuries old 'history' of the ancient east. // For slow reading only. Read first the Alexander chapter -- he..... More
![Un Bal chez les Étoiles [A Dance Among the Stars]. Mathilde Vonwiller, Colette Sauter](/images/noimage.png)
Lausanne: Roth et Sauter/Au Verseau, 1966. First Edition. Quarto; unpaginated [32pp]. Thirty-two full-layout illustrated pages with incorporated "hand cursive" text. Bound in stiff card with deep reverse flaps. Binding and pages printed throughout in wedgewood blue on off-white, with text in red. Entirely in French. Binding edge-folds show some..... More
Third Edition. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1893. Third Revised Edition. Octavo; xxxix, 149pp. Red leather with gilt stamped "Schola Civitatis Londinensis" (City School of London) crest on front, with gilt dentelles and spine ornamentation, gauffered edges, and a small black leather title card to spine. Marbled page edges. Boards lightly..... More
![Quintilian's Institutes of the Orator [Institutio Oratoria] in Twelve Books. Translated from the...](/pictures/thumb/5794.jpg?v=1575486471)
London: B. Law, 1774. First Thus. Octavo; Vol I xii + 404pp; Vol II xii + 441pp + 2pp of publisher's prospectuses bound in. Contemporary tree calf with gilt lettering and ornaments on spine. Gilt filleting on all board edges, and additional trio of small gilt stamps on spine crowns..... 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