London: R. Baldwyn, 1681. First Edition. Small quarto; removed pamphlet with perished stitching and gatherings subsequently loose; 40pp. (A-E4). Extremities rather toned and dust-soiled; Good overall. Scathing religious tract questionably attributed to the early Whig politician Anthony Ashley Cooper, First Earl of Shaftesbury (1621-1683). The tract excoriates what..... More
London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, ca. 1870s. Large, thick quarto; contemporary half gilt-ruled morocco over cloth, gilt spine in six compartments, marbled endpapers; xxviii,737pp.; 118 plates, hundreds of text illus. throughout. Boards scuffed with exposure at corners, spine sunned and leather dried, stock a bit toned and brittle due to..... More
Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, [1956]. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's white decorative card wrappers printed in green and white; 362pp. Light dust-soil with some bumping at tail of spine. Forms part of the series "Les Temps et les Destins." More
![Item #14038 Moral Maxims [Limited Edition]. Duke de la Rochefoucault, Robert Gibbings, printer](/pictures/thumb/14038.jpg?v=1661869291)
Twyford, Berkshire: Golden Cockerel Press, 1924. First Thus, Limited to 325 copies of which this is no. 16. Octavo; publisher's parchment-backed paper-covered boards, front cover and spine embossed in gilt; 133pp. Parchment rather discolored and foxed with heavy smudging down spine, board margins toned, faint glue residue to front pastedown..... More
In 'sGraven-Hage [The Hague]: D.H. van Wallsdorp [H. Verdussen], 1650. First edition. Small quarto (18.5cm.); removed; 24pp. [A-C4]; woodcut title page device, text printed almost entirely in Dutch blackletter. Imprint provided by KNUTTEL 6855. Third gathering separated but present, stock rather toned and dusty, else Good, the impression quite..... 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
Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1985. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in blue dust jacket lettered in white; 342pp. Light shelf wear including tiny chip at jacket spine foot not approaching text, ownership signature to half title page, else a Very Good or better copy. 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
[Westminster, MD: Family Line Publications, 1991]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's grey pictorial glossy card wrappers; vii,[1],241pp. Very light wear from handling, else Fine. More
![Item #14094 History of the Reformed Church of Germany, 1620-1890 [Inscribed and Signed]. James I....](/pictures/thumb/14094.jpg?v=1662654702)
Reading, PA: Daniel Miller, 1894. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's black blind-embossed cloth, gilt-lettered spine, floral endpapers; 646pp.; hand-colored double-paged map frontispiece, eleven leaves of plates. Ex-Library of the Schiff Society of Ursinus College with their contemporary rubber-stamps throughout textblock but otherwise free of markings, boards rather scuffed with exposure at..... More
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 549. Two volumes; octavo; publisher's blue decorative cloth stamped in gilt, top edges gilt, in paper covered slipcase, decorative paper spine label; xx,[2],265; xiv,398pp.; engraved half titles, vignettes throughout. Spines a shade sunned..... More
![Item #13679 The Pilgrim's Progress [Limited Edition]. John Bunyan, William Blake, G B. Harrison,...](/pictures/thumb/13679.jpg?v=1658841784)
New York: Spiral Press / Limited Editions Club, 1941. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 956. Quarto; publisher's green cloth, black gilt-lettered spine label, in original paper-covered slipcase; xxxii,[2],213pp.; twenty-nine (29) tipped in color illus. (collated and complete). Cloth spine a shade toned, light rubbing..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1954. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's navy blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine; xi,[1],292pp.; frontispiece, one additional plate. Corners bumped, textblock a shade toned, contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper below a short but rather obtrusively redacted earlier signature, the ink slightly bleeding onto facing pastedown and half title..... More
![Item #13886 Paradise Lost and Paradise Regain'd [Limited Edition, Signed by Petrina]. John...](/pictures/thumb/13886.jpg?v=1660920961)
San Francisco: Printed for the Members of The Limited Editions Club by John Henry Nash, 1936. First Thus, Limited to 1500 copies of which this is no. 861. Folio; publisher's linen-backed textured boards, printed paper spine label, in custom paper-covered slipcase; xiii,[3],441pp.; full-page half-tone illus. throughout. Spine rather toned and..... More
Zurich: Artibus Asiae Publishers, Museum Rietberg, 1999. First Edition. Quarto (30.5x24x3cm); 344pp, including appendices, bibliography, glossary, and index. Illustrated with 222 photographic images in color and B&W. Note that this is the true first edition, in hardcover, not the 2008 reprint from Paul Holberton Publishing, which bears the same ISBN..... More
Paris: Librairie Félix Alcan, [1925 or 1926]. First Edition. Octavo; Vol I xl + 473pp; Vol II continues pagination through 944 + 1p of errata. Broché with laid-paper wraps. Remarkably good copies, though showing age-tanning throughout. Only the wrappers have any signs of foxing, and that is minimal. The textblock..... More
![Item #9012 Œuvres de Molière [Mixed Edition]. Molière, François Boucher](/pictures/thumb/9012.jpg?v=1616703145)
Paris: Grangé / Duchesne / Poirion, 1750-1753. Eight volumes; 12mo (14.5cm.); near-uniformly bound in mottled calf, gilt spines with tan or brown gilt-lettered onlays, all edges marbled save those of Vol. V (edges stained red); thirty-one engraved plates signed in image by Rococo painter F. Boucher. Light scuffing to extremities..... More
Paris: Librairie Garnier Frères, n.d. [ca. 1890]. Nouvelle Édition. Two volumes; small, thick octavos; contemporary crimson goat over marbled paper-covered boards, gilt-lettered spines in six compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers, original front wrappers bound in; [4],viii,803; [4],823pp.; hand-colored engraved frontispieces and eight hand-colored plates. Boards a bit scuffed at..... More
Paris: Librairie Hachette, [1914]. Sixième Édition. 12mo (18.25cm.); contemporary red cloth-backed marbled boards, marbled endpapers; [6],318pp. Spine a bit sunned, textblock uniformly toned due to poor paper stock, else Very Good or better. More
Detroit: Howard Publishing Company, 1895. First Edition. Octavo; publisher's gilt-lettered cloth; [8],104pp.; frontispiece. Cloth extremities a bit toned and corners bumped, mid-20th century ownership inscription and rubberstamp to front free endpaper, else Very Good and sound. Part of the Shakespeare-Baconian authorship conspiracy theory puzzle. Owen claimed to have discovered..... More
New York: Carl Fischer, [1945]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm); publisher's grey staple bound card wrappers lettered and ruled in blue; [4],35pp.; music throughout. Light edge wear and toning, faint rubber-stamp at bottom margin of upper cover, else Very Good or better. More
![Item #6936 Théâtre de Corneille [Horace B. Sargent's Copy]. Pierre Corneille](/pictures/thumb/6936.jpg?v=1596744412)
Paris: Garnier Frères, n.d., ca. 1870. "Nouvelle Édition Collationnée sur la Dernière Édition Publié du Vivant de l'Auteur." 12mo (18cm.); contemporary brown morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt spine in five compartments, marbled endpapers; [4],502pp.; engraved portrait frontispiece. Boards rather rubbed, leather a bit dried and spine crown pulled, else..... More
Troy, NY: Printed and Sold by the Rensselaer Book-Store, by Wright, Goodenow, & Stockwell, 1806. First American Edition. 12mo (18cm.); publisher's full sheep, gilt-ruled spine; xi,[1],286,[15]pp. Leather quite dry, and subsequently rubbed and chipped at extremities including shallow losses at spine ends, front joint cracked but just holding, some faint..... More
![Item #8663 Milton: Annual Lecture on a Master Mind [Henriette Hertz Trust]. T S. Eliot](/pictures/thumb/8663.jpg?v=1613494897)
[New York (?)]: [Haskell House (?)], [ca. 1965]. Unauthorized Edition. Octavo (23.5cm.); publisher's grey printed staple bound card wrappers; 19pp. Top margins of wrappers rather toned, the whole a bit cockled from exposure to damp, else Very Good and sound. The later unauthorized reprint of Eliot's address on Milton..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1928. First Thus. Octavo; publisher's red cloth, front cover and spine lettered in gilt; xvii,[1],195pp. Light shelf wear and soil to cloth, spine and textblock a shade toned, partly redacted ownership inscription to front free endpaper, else a Very Good, sound copy overall. Forms part of..... More