Paris: Chez Gogue & Nee de La Rochelle, 1785. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. (195 x 130 mm). xxxvi, 366, 80 pp. (Index). Contemporary French green glazed boards, smooth spine gilt, brown lettering piece in second compartment, headcap chipped with loss, extremities worn all round, portion of outer blank margin of..... More

New York: Sold at Auction by George A. Leavitt & Co., 1878-1897. First Edition. Five volumes, large 8vo. (10 3/8" by 7"). Original wrappers (chipping to extremities and partially defective). Interestingly, along top edges a former owner has written the number of the volume: I, II, III, IIII, IIIII (see..... More

Paris: [Mme Huzard for] J.-S. Merlin, 1828. First Edition. 8vo. x, 530 pp., 1 f. (advertisement), 5245 lots described. Bound by Kohler in contemporary smooth quarter calf, marbled boards (front cover bumped at fore-edge, flat spine divided by gilt fillets into six compartments, title and date lettered direct, marbled pastedowns..... More

Leiden: Haak et Socios, 1814. First Edition. Softcover. 8vo. [3], 131 pp. (final two leaves in facsimile on old paper; several tax-stamps in ink; on p. 127 the blind-stamp of the Theological Institute of Connecticut (now known as the Hartford Seminary). NB: In 1976 a collection of more than 200,000..... More

Cambridge: University Press, 1931. First Edition. Large 4to. Engraved frontispiece ("La belle ecriture demande un esprit gai"), xl, 226 pp. 81 plates. Original light-brown quarter cloth over decorated ("marbled") cloth boards (very small abrasion at tail of spine). Top edges gilt, others untrimmed. Dust-wrapper soiled and defective, inside lined with..... More

Paris: Techener, 1840. First Edition. 17 x 26.5 cm. 8vo. Hardcover. 83 pp. with 5 plates (of which 3 are folding). Contemporary beige quarter calf, patterned brown cloth sides (hinges somewhat worn), gilt armorial device of the Duc d'Arenberg on both covers (some foxing throughout as is true in all..... More

Paris: The Author, 1805-1809. MANUSCRIPT on paper: folio (308 x 225 mm). [6] pp. written in brown ink on 3 ff., composed of a single leaf and a bifolium attached together by a pin (likely original). Watermark with a cross within a floral ornament with below "BELLANDO" and countermark "GB."..... More

Ad 1-3: The Hague, Nijhoff, 1938-1964. Ad 4: Paris, Fondation Custodia, 1987. Ad 5: Amsterdam and The Hague, Nijhof, 1956 (facsimile reprint of the 1921 edition). Ad 6: Ibid, 1956, 1938-. Together 6 vols., large 4to., all bound in original publisher's cloth. In UNMARKED and UNSPOILED condition. NOT ex-library! BEAUTIFUL..... More

London: Sotheby's, 1937. Softcover. Large 8vo., bound in original printed wrappers. 205 pages, with 38 additional leaves of plates. 1478 lots. Covers chipped at spine ends and corner. Small spot on front cover. ¶ AN IMPORTANT SALE FOR THE STUDY OF THE HISTORY OF BOOKBINDING, featuring a remarkable series of..... More

Paris: (Jean-Baptiste) Gogue & (Jean-François) Nee de La Rochelle, 1776. First Edition. Hardcover. Dates: 22 January and following. 8vo. iv, 8 [Ordre des livres], xxxii [Avertissement + Table systematique], 382 pp., 4542 lots [livres] + 51 lots [estampes], of which 3059 lots are PRICED in a contemporary hand. French calf..... More

Venice: Carolo Palese (sold by Lorenzo Basilio), 1787. First Edition. 8vo. 6 volumes. 54, 377 pp., 1 blank f., engraved frontispiece portrait of Pinelli ("F. Bartolozzi del. et sculp."); 4, 468 pp.; 4, 367 pp., 1 large folding plate ('Specimen scripturae in papyro') with small stain; 56, 471 pp.; 8..... More

London: Bernard Quaritch, 1889. First Edition. Hardcover. Folio. 222 pp., 1512 items described. Modern neat brown cloth (NOT ex-library). Still valuable for tracing the provenance of 1,500 notable bindings, this is the enlarged edition of Quaritch's famous Catalogue 93 (first issued in November 1888), here containing the addition of three..... More

Cambridge, Mass. (?): 1846. 1 small leaf (137 x 201 mm) written on wove paper, top and left edges straight, right and bottom cleanly torn (from another leaf?). Evidence of four folds which once created a small pocket-sized square (65 x 72 mm). Some even toning, in very good condition..... More