Paris: Librairie des Amateurs, F. Ferroud, 1912. 8vo. 54, [2] pp. Fine engraved frontispiece, vignettes by Leon Lebegue. Contemporary red niger morocco (upper cover with two light scratches), lower turn-in with gilt pallet-stamp "M. Marshall" upper cover with the monogram, crest and motto of the first owner Lily E.C. Routh..... More

Philadelphia: W.W. Harding, 1865 (or after). Album 5 x 6 x 2.5 in. Title-page (a little foxed, verso blank), Index to portraits (2 pp.), followed by 25 thick cards creating 50 slots; all are filled, with 47 cartes-de-visite, 2 views, and one chromolithograph (a little foxed). Bound in original blue-green..... More

London: Ad 1: John Bill and Christopher Barker; Ad 2: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1663. 8vo. Ad 1: Engraved title + A-4K8 [unpaginated]. COMPLETE, with OT ending on 3P2v and NT ending on 4K8v. Ad 2: 102, [2] pp. A-F8 G4, apparently COMPLETE. Some foxing and blemishes throughout..... More

The Hague: C. Fritsch, 1718. 8vo. xliv, 728, [2] pp. (text lightly foxed). Collation: a-b⁸ c⁶ A-2Y⁸ 2Z⁶ (-2Z6, a blank) as per the Emory Pitts copy. Bound in 18th-century red morocco, boards elaborately gilt à la dentelle, spine elaborately gilt with raised bands, morocco label, a.e.g. (spine and extremities..... More

Madrid: 1790. Peter Marin. Small 4to. 224 pp. Bound in contemporary horsehide (?) -- on covers a flower tool has been impressed in gold to form a cross, in the outer edges a rope-work roll, at the corners the same flower tool, four raised bands on spine, in the compartments..... More

Weathersfield, Vermont: Eddy and Patrick, 1814. First Edition. 12mo. 102 pp. (typical foxing, lacking final endleaf). Contemporary scaleboard binding: quarter sheep over scaleboard covered with drab blue paper (binding extremities and corners worn, lower fore-corner bumped and partially defective, back cover stained, with portions of the paper covering and leather..... More

Paris: C. Barrois, 1810-1811. First Edition. Together 2 vols., 8vo printed on LARGE PAPER. Ad 1: [4], xxx, 266 (recte: 166) pp., inexplicably lacking one leaf (pp. 111/112) which has been supplied from a small paper copy. Bound by Rosa in contemporary red diced morocco: single floral roll gilt round..... More

S.l. (Germany): n.d. (19th-century). A pair of professionally framed book covers, being the front boards of two publisher's bindings (brown cloth embossed and gilt) lettered "FAUST VON GOETHE I" and "FAUST VON GOETHE II." Frame size 46 x 37 cm. Cloth with some minor blemishes and signs of age, but..... More

London: Gul. Sandby, 1749. 2 vols., 8vo. Title-pages in red and black (both with large engraved portrait of the Horace), [x], 166; [2], 167-353 pp. With engraved dedication to George, Prince of Wales (later George III), and 35 full-page engraved plates (including frontispiece). Contemporary French red morocco, triple gilt rule..... More

Philadelphia: Samuel F. Bradford. Vol 1 printed by H. Maxwell; vol 2 printed by Robert Carr, 1804. 8vo in 4's. 2 vols. 219 x 143 mm. Pagination: I: vi pp., 1 f.. blank, 313, [7] pp. II: [4], 466, [3] pp. Collation: vol. I: [A]4, B-3G4 3H8 (-3H8, a blank)..... More

Basel: Nicolaus Kessler, 1502. 4to (235 x 160 mm). 260 ff., COMPLETE. Lovely flourished Lombard initials rubricated throughout (some quite large), headings rubricated and underlined (some insignificant thumbing to first leaves, slight marginal worming to last 8 ff., unimportant spotting here and there). Contemporary Bamberg blind-tooled pigskin binding over bevelled..... More

Paris: Lefevre, 1836. Large 8vo. (243 x 155 mm). With 5 full-page steel-engraved plates printed on India paper and mounted on thick paper (tissue guards foxed as commonly, with offsetting on plates and text opposite). Contemporary French dark red polished calf, covers scuffed spine darkened and a little worn at..... More

London: Saunders and Otley, 1835. First Edition. 8vo. In three volumes. [5], xiii, [1], 302; [2], 364; [2], 356pp. With tipped-in errata slips but without half-titles. BOUND BY JOHN TATE OF BELFAST in contemporary half-calf, marbled boards, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled edges (trifle rubbed, some gatherings inexplicably proud)..... More