Binding: Leather

De L'esprit [ct 3 Vols In One]

Price: $243.00

Publisher: A La Haye, Chez Pierre Moetjens : 1759

Seller ID: 38286

Binding: Leather

Bound in full morocco leather. Three red and black title pages. Front cover attached by binding cords. Inside front cover scraped by removal of bookplate. An ideological work with heretical and subversive opinions. Possibly a pirate edition.
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A New Dictionary Of The English Language 1778

By: (William Kendrick) 1725-99ca

Price: $450.00

Publisher: London, John and Francis Rivington, William Johnston, Thomas Longman, and Thomas Cadell : 1778

Seller ID: 39729

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

quarto; Ownership signed by John Kenrick jr. Who was likely the son of the author. John shows up frequently in the family history but it is not at all clear exactly who he was, other than a trustee of the Kenrick estate at that time. Contemporary leather with edges worn and deep crack at the last page. Covers attached but back hinge weak. Unpaginated. First blank is tattered. One of the first to show pronunciation guide lines.
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Campaigns In The West. 1856-1861 Limited 148/300 With Double Jacket Folio

By: . Du Bois, Colonel, John Van Deusen edited by George P. Hammonda

Price: $333.00

Publisher: Tucson AZ, Produced for the Arizona Pioneers Historical Society By the Grabhorn Press : 1949

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 40171

Binding: Leather

Condition: Near Fine in Good dust jacket

16 B/w and colored; Folio folio; Campaigns in the West. 1856-1861. List of plates. Folding map. Folio, morocco-backed boards, plain dust jacket (chipped & scraped at spine) , cloth jacket provided; moderate wear. ONE OF 300 COPIES SIGNED BY HAMMOND & EDWARD EBERSTADT. Howes D521; Eberstadt 127: 165. U/R corner lightly bumped. Folding map to the rear and numerous colored illustrations. No markings. Printed on bright white rag paper.
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A Natural History Of English Song-birds, Including Such Foreign Birds As Are Usually Brought Over...1779 Illustrated

By: 39221_

Price: $585.00

Publisher: London, Printed for T. Lowndes, No 77, in Fleet-Street, and S. Bladon, in Paternoster-Row, : 1778

Edition: Seventh Edition

Seller ID: 39219

Binding: LEATHER

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Copper plates; [4], 107, [3] pages; "...and esteemed for their singing: Their proper Management, Diseases, and Cures. To which are added, figures of the Cock, Hen, and Egg of each species, exactly copied from nature, by Mr. Eleazar Albin, and curiously engraven on copper. With several improvements, under the article of Canary-Birds." Contains all 23 copper engraved plates but lacking frontispiece. However final leaf of advertisements is included. Bound in full contemporary sheep leather with morocco spine label. Royal crown watermark on chain laid paper. Nicely bound, hinges firmF first publis...
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Xixe Siecle, Texte Et Dessins Many Comic Plates

By: A. Robida (1848-1926)

Price: $270.00

Publisher: Paris,, Decaux : 1888

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 39319

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Color, tinted and b/w; (4), III, 404, (4), pages; HAND COLORED: B & W and hand colored engraved plates, gilt decorative binding. Blue cloth. Mm. 295 x 200 , 7 pounds. Blue marbled boards with morocco spine with 5 ribs. Quite nicely illustrated with colored, tinted and b/w full page comic plates as well as numerous textural cuts.
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Synonymes François, Leurs Différentes Significations, Et Le Choix Qu'il En Faut Faire Pour Parler Avec Justesse. En Deux Tomes [ct 2 Vls]

By: Abbe Girard

Price: $180.00

Publisher: Paris, Le Breton : 1769

Seller ID: 38221

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

xxx, 490, [2]; xxxix, 485 pages; 3/4 leather over marbled boards. Solid bidings, contents clean, wear to extremities but still VG,
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Richard Wagner : Sa Vie Et Ses Oeuvres NEB

By: Adolphe Jullien; Henri Fantin-Latour

Price: $270.00

Publisher: Paris And London, Jules Rouam and Gilbert Wood : 1886

Edition: 1

Seller ID: 39295

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Lithographs; Large 4to 8.5" x 12.5". . French text. Fourteen lithographs by Fantin-Latour, other plates and illustrations. Three-quarter maroon leather, marbled boards. Weight 6 lbs. Condition Good to very good. Covers rubbed and scratched with some losses, leather cracking at spine. First few leaves sprung, including frontispiece. Binding weak at center, several tissue guards. Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his mature works were later known, "music dramas"). Unlike most opera composers, Wagn...
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Bible Illustrated 1870 40 Full Page Plates

By: Alexander Fletcher Illustrations by Dore , Leonardo Da Vinci Et Al

Price: $243.00

Publisher: NY, Virtue and Yorston, : 1870

Seller ID: 38537

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

engravings; Both testaments have an engraved title page. In addition to those and the engraved general title there are 38 full page steel engravings totaling 41 in all. There are 4 pages for family records which have no entries. The leather covers are worn and detached, these have been treated with cellugel to prevent further deterioration. Contents are generally good and bright, Large 16 pound Bible.
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A Collection Of Essays, Epistles And Odes.

By: Alexander Pope

Price: $189.00

Publisher: London, . James. : 1762

Seller ID: 39991

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Includes Rape of the Lock and Essays on Man. Brief penned note at base of first blsnk stating that it was aquired in Madride in 1962, Light penciled ownership at top of title page. Nicley rebound in pebblegrain green cloth backed by black morocco leather with gilt devices. Text sound and complete. Uniform light aging to text. Print is quite legible. Some wear to extremities/
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Chemical Instructor: Presenting A Familiar Method Of Teaching The Chemical Principles And Operations. 1826

By: Amos Eaton 1776- 1842

Price: $63.00

Publisher: Alban Y. NY, Websters & Skinners : 1826

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 39731

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

12mo 5.25 x 7.5"; 260+ index & errata pages; Title page notes It will be interesting to Farmers and clergymen. Leather backed paper covered boards. Front hinge hanging by a thread. . Contents VG and clean. Presumed 1st ed.
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Letters To The Argyll Family, From Elizabeth Queen Of England, Mary Queen Of Scots...[for Maitland Club]

By: Argyll (Family)

Price: $405.00

Publisher: Edinburgh, (Printed By T. Constable) : 1839

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 39084

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

4to ; . ..King James VI, King Charles I, King Charles II, and others. From Originals preserved in the General Register House. With an Appendix. Collection of letters transcribed and reproduced in facsimile by Alexander Mac Donald, at the request of the Duke of Argyll, for the use of the Maitland Club. Includes cyphers, foldouts etc. 3/4 calf leather over cloth. Scraped. Red morocco spine label. Contents sound and clean with light aging.
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Obras De Albeyteria, Primera, Segunda, Y Tercera Parte Aora Nuevamente Corregidas, Y Añadidas.

By: Arredondo, Martín (1598-1670)

Price: $1,530.00

Publisher: Madrid, Por Francisco De Hierro : 1723

Seller ID: 39622

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Woodcuts; Arredondo, Martín (1598-1670) Obras de Albeyteria, Primera, Segunda, y Tercera Parte Aora Nuevamente Corregidas, y Añadidas. Madrid: por Francisco de Hierro, 1723. Folio, title page printed in red and black within typographical ornament border, large woodcut printer's device on title page, ¶6, A-Z6, Aa-Ii6; two large woodcuts showing the horse's physical astrology (aka the zodiac horse- pp 147], ) and another labeling its body parts; large woodcut head- and tail-pieces; bound in lovely modern decorative full calf, tooled in blind with gilt lettering; some browning and spotting to con...
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Travel Journal.hand Written Journal Of A Trip Through Europe By B. M . Gibson, 1900. Includes Pasted In Tour [post] Cards And Plant Specimens

By: B M Gibson

Price: $144.00

Publisher: : c1900

Seller ID: 40227

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Scrapbook; Small 8 vo; Pasted In Tour [post] Cards And Plant Specimens. Prominently featuring the Matterhorn, Geneva , Grand Hotel. Spine frayed. Contents G/VG. About 30 pages in total.
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Francisci Baconis De Verulamio, Vice-comitis Sancti Albani

By: Bacon (François] (1561-1626)

Price: $315.00

Publisher: Apud Franciscum Moiardum Et Adrianum Wijngaerde : 1645

Seller ID: 38164

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

engraved title page; 749, [72] pages; . .. De dignitate et augmentis scientiarum, libri IX. Lugd. Batav. Originally published in English in 1605 with the title "On the Proficiency and Advancement of Learning" and then translated into Latin in 1623. The first part of the " Is devoted to the exaltation of science, while the second part examines the progress of science. De augmentis, concerned with the classification of philosophy and the sciences develops Bacons view of the connection between science and theology. Bound in later [prob 18th century] smooth green calf leather ruled in gilt. All ed...
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Franc Baconis De Verulamio Summi Angliae Cancellarii Novum Organum Scientiarum

By: Baconis, Franc [Bacon Francis]

Price: $540.00

Publisher: Amsterdam, Sumptibus Joannis Ravensteinii : 1660

Edition: 2nd Amsterdam edition

Seller ID: 38162

Binding: Leather

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

frontis; [xxiv], 404 pages; 2.825" x 5.375". Early printing of this seminal work. Bound in 17th or 18th century leather. Spine strip lacking, covers heavily worn and held by binding cords. Engraved title page with two ships. Front end paper frayed at edge. Last blank detached and toned. Collates complete. A philosophical work by Francis Bacon, written in Latin and published in 1620. This is an early printing of that book. " title page of Novum Organum depicts a galleon passing between the mythical Pillars of Hercules that stand either side of the Strait of Gibraltar, marking the exit from the ...
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Balzac, Honoré De (1799-1850)

By: Balzac, Honoré De (1799-1850)

Price: $630.00

Publisher: Paris: ., Levavasseur : 1830

Edition: First

Seller ID: 39969

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

8VO; [Physiology of Marriage or Meditations of Eclectic Philosophy] 2 volumes. 8vo, contemporary calf-backed boards, spines decorated in gilt and blind; rubbed, tips worn, some foxing. Half-title wrinkled at bottom left, generally sound otherwise.. Talvart & Place I, page 148 (16A). Terxt in French. Both essay, meditation and story, the text oscillates between the study of manners and the analytical treatise and is part of a genre that will develop, that of physiology . It is in this last genre that the fifth edition of the work ( Furne ) will classify the work in 1846 in the Analytical Studie...
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Dactylologie Et Langage Primitif. Restitués D'apres Les Monuments [illustrated Frtench Language]

By: Barrois, Joseph

Price: $449.96

Publisher: Paris, (Typographie De Firmin Didot Frères) : 1850

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 38810

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Color and b/w; 8, [1], 360, xi. 35 pages; 1/2 leather over marbled boards. Gilt decorated spine, raised bands. Front hinge repaired. Contains 61 lithograph plates with 2 in color. Illustrated by li thos of Lalanne drawings. Uncut large paper copy. A study of ancient art. Greek Lexicology pertaining to primitive languages and hand signs. Worldwide ancient art largely mythological representations in line drawings. Brunet I: 668 . This is the basic work of Barrois . Contents clean and firm, no markings. Provenance- from the library of Dr Arthur Teller
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Chronicon Helveticum. Oder Gründliche Beschreibung Der So Wohl In Dem Heil. { Swiss Chronicle. 1734-6 #40073 2 Vols

By: Basel: Bischoff, 1734-36

Price: $1,080.00

Publisher: Gedruckt ZU Basel : IN Verlegung Hanss Jacob Bischoff,, In Verlegung Hanss Jacob Bischoff, : 1734-36

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 40073

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

folio; First edition, two folio volumes, title pages printed in red and black, folding frontispiece in first volume; bound in uniform contemporary full sheepskin with gilt-tooled spines, surface rubbing, losses at heads and tails, joints cracked, ex library Crozer Theological Seminary at Bucknell Library, with bookplates and some blind stamps, 15 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (2) Tschudi's history of the Swiss Confederation is known in English as the Swiss Chronicle. It contains fifty important historical documents that have not survived in any other form and is the most important source work for the story ...
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Gnomon Novi Testamenti...editio Secunda. 1759

By: Bengel, Johann.

Price: $270.00

Publisher: Tubingae, Henr. Phillippi Schramm II : 1759

Seller ID: 40148

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Gnomon Novi Testamenti...Editio Secunda. Engraved portrait frontispiece. [34], 1343, [17] pages. 4to, contemporary calf-backed boards; spine-ends chipped, library spine number, bookplate, generally sound otherwise. Headpieces, endpieces.
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La Guide Du Ciel, Selon L'esprit Des Ss Pères,

By: Bona (Giovanni).

Price: $382.50

Publisher: Paris, Ean Baptiste Coignard : 1583

Edition: First Edition

Seller ID: 38920

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

! pages; . .. Et les plus pures maximes des anciens philosophes. La vie de ce Cardinal [. ] et son testament. Traduction nouvelle par M. François du Suel. Ull leather [calf? ] binding with wear to spine. Shelf location pasted to base of spine. Finenly written ownershio and shelf location stamped in blue ink to front end paper. Cardinal Giovanni Bona [1609-1674] translated this first edition to French. Nice sound copy.
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