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Venice: Orinus de Luna, Papiensis, 9 June 1497. 19th century mottled pastepaper boards with morocco label to spine. Some rubbing and general wear; rear joint cracked and front joint starting..... (Item #4525)
Venice: Orinus de Luna, Papiensis, 9 June 1497. 19th century mottled pastepaper boards with morocco label to spine. Some rubbing and general wear; rear joint cracked and front joint starting..... (Item #4525)
London: Thomas M'Lean, 1823. First editions. First editions, a fine trio of highly attractive works by "the dominant sporting artist of the early nineteenth century" (ODNB), here most handsomely presented..... (Item #4043)
Nurmberge (Nuremberg): J. Weissenburger, [1510]. Octavo (159 × 123 mm). Modern green morocco, spine lettered in gilt, boards single ruled in blind, edges green. Housed in a custom-made green slipcase..... (Item #1111)
Basel: Johann Amerbach, 1489. First Amerbach edition. Fifth edition with the commentary. The first printing of the first Amerbach edition of De Civitate (issued 13 February), of which there would..... (Item #4531)
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London: George Allen, 1894. First Thus. Iconic original green publisher's cloth binding stamped ornately in gilt to spine and front board with the peacock design. All edges gilt. Green coated..... (Item #5325)
Venice: Johannes and Gregorius de Gregoriis, de Forlivio, 18 August 1492; 26 March 1491. First collected edition. First collected edition of Boethius's works, including the first printing of De Institutione..... (Item #4437)
Chicago: A. C. McClurg & Co., 1914. First edition. A bright, Nearly Fine copy of this classic work, introducing the world to one of its great heros. First issue binding..... (Item #4733)
London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855. First edition. Finely bound by Bayntun in half calf over cloth, with gilt to spines. Top edges brightly gilt. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of..... (Item #3087)
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London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1880. First edition. Accompanied by three original illustrations for the work by the highly influential artist Randolph Caldecott, each initialled by him, and..... (Item #4850)
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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. Original pink cloth, titles to front board and spine in blue, top edge blue. With dust jacket. Negligible rubbing to board edges..... (Item #4485)
London: Printed by H. Bynneman, 1571. First English language edition. A translation of L'histoire de Chelidonius Tigurinus sur l'institution des princes chrestiens, & origine des royaumes by Pierre Boaistuau. With..... (Item #3026)
London: A. Strahan for T. Cadell, 1802. First English language edition. The first complete translation into English of Dante's "Divine Comedy." Bound in recent, full maroon straight-grained morocco, smooth spines..... (Item #4829)
London: W. Pearson, 1718. First edition. Small folio (240 x 200 mm). Collates [4], xiv, 175, [1, blank]: complete, with an engraved vignette on title-page, numerous engraved head and tail..... (Item #3173)
London: Saunders and Otley, 1838, 1840. First English language edition. Third Edition of Part One and First Edition of Part Two. Four octavo volumes (pages: 198 x 120 mm) bound..... (Item #3178)
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London: Saunders and Otley, 1840. First English language edition. Two octavo volumes collating: xvi, 333, [2 ads]; viii, 365, [2 ads]. Contemporary half calf over marbled boards, marbled end papers..... (Item #5307)
London: Merrill & Baker, 1900. First Thus. Edition des Bibliophiles. Limited to twenty-six lettered and registered copies (this copy being Letter “H,” Printed for Sadie Belle Lufkin). Thirty-two octavo volumes..... (Item #3597)
London: Chapman and Hall, 1874-1891. Reprint of the Illustrated Library Edition. Thirty octavo volumes ( 221 x 141 mm.). Late 19th century full polished calf by Tout (stamp-signed on the..... (Item #3598)
London: Printed for W. Webb, 1742-44. First edition. Bound to style in 19th century sheep with morocco and gilt to spines. Measuring 168 x 96mm and with occasional mispagination but..... (Item #5133)
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1941 - 1943. The author's original hand-corrected typescript for his most important work, "Journey in the Dark," which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1944. Donated..... (Item #1098)
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London: Printed by Thomas Cotes for Andrew and William Crooke, 1639 [i.e. 1640]. First edition. First edition of "the best essay of Fletcher in the comedy of London life" (Schelling..... (Item #4858)
London: Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, 1854. First English language edition. The early first translation into English of Gogol's masterpiece, Dead Souls. This translation appears decades before the mass translation of..... (Item #5269)
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Salisbury: Printed by B. Collins for F. Newbery, 1766. First edition. Finely bound by Riviere & Son in full crushed morocco ornately stamped in gilt to spine and boards. All..... (Item #5067)
London: Published by the author, 1880. First edition. First and sole edition. The Pittidae, or Pittas, are a colourful family of around 40 species of forest-dwelling birds from tropical India..... (Item #4498)
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1896-1903. First Thus. Autograph Edition. Limited to 350 numbered copies, signed by the author and dated “Septem. 1896.” Nineteen octavo volumes (8 3/8 x 5..... (Item #3667)
Learn More about The Writings of Bret Harte (Autograph Edition in 19 vols
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First Edition. First printing in early issue dust jacket with green bar on rear panel extending through nine lines of the blurb. A Very..... (Item #5255)
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