London: A. Millar, 1740. Vols II - IV only (missing Vol I). Octavos; II: xx, 619pp +2pp ads; III: [x], 491pp +1pp ads; IV: [viii], 458pp +[140pp] index. Rebound in uniform later brown cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Ex-libris stamp of the Paulist Fathers Library of Washington, D.C. on..... More

Birmingham: W.J. Cosby / Universal Press, 1893. Re-issue of the 1822 Triphook and Rodd Edition, limited to 600 copies (one of 500 on antique paper). Octavo (9" x 6.35"); xix, 213p +5p "Passages Suppressed" addendum. Rebound by Whitman Bennett, N.Y. in dark green leather with blindstamped branch decoration..... More

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967. First thus. Octavo. 319 pages. Printed dust jacket. Green boards stamped in gilt. Koestler's first book, originally published in 1939, is the story of Spartacus and the slave revolt of 73-71 BCE. First in Koestler's political trilogy of idealism gone wrong, along..... More

New York: American Book Company, 1900. First Edition. Signed "by the author" with inscription to previous owner on front free endpaper. Octavo. 190 pages. Green cloth stamped in gilt. Text in Greek and English. Gildersleeve was a soldier for the Confederacy in the Civil War and would go on..... More

[London: Phaidon, 2001]. First Edition. Quarto (25cm.); publisher's textured boards in decorative dust jacket; xi,[12]-352pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear to jacket extremities, a few tiny scratches to spine, shallow crease at top fore-edge of front free endpaper, else Very Good or better. More

London: Vernor, Hood & Sharpe, 1806. "A New Edition." Twelve Octavo Volumes Complete. Frontis portrait and two fold-out maps to volumes 1 and 2. Full contemporary tree-calf with black and red labels and gilt decoration to spine. Worn along edges, with bumping to corners and some loss to..... 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

Paris: F. Patris, 1805. First Thus. Four volumes; 12mo (17cm.); contemporary full mottled sheep, gilt spines with red gilt onlays. Leather rather scuffed with significant worm-holing (not affecting text); neat and legible ownership annotations to rear flyleaf of Vol. I; though externally less than ideal, internally quite clean and sound;..... 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

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

Genevæ: Sumptibus & Typis Samuelis Chouët, 1659. Editio novissima prioribus accuratior & emendatior. Quarto (25.5cm.); full contemporary sheep, gilt spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; mixed pagination (collated thus: ¶4 A-N8 O4 P1 2A-3G8 2A-2T8 2V7 3A-3Y8 3Z3 A-M8 N4); added engraved title page, woodcut initials and head- and tail-pieces..... More

Milano: Nicolò Bettoni, 1828. Two volumes in one; 24mo (12.5cm.); contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards, elaborately gilt-tooled spine, all edges speckled; 163, 141pp. Light wear to spine edges with tiny chips at crown, small early 20th-century private library spine label, faint foxing to preliminaries, else a Very Good, internally fresh copy..... More

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..... More