London: printed for J. Cooke, 1771. First Edition. Engraved print, framed behind glass. Print size: 215 x 133 mm, slightly cropped affecting several letters. Frame size: 342 x 263 mm. Slight foxing, some browning along edges, upper left corner slightly curled in. A striking 18th century engraving of a great..... More
London: Robert Barker, 1611. First. Folio. 7 leaves: Z3, Z5, Z6, Aa1, Aa2, Aa3, Aa4. Contents: 3 John 1:7-14, Epistles of Jude (complete book); Revelations Chapter 2:21 through Chapter 18:12. Margins frays, soiling, old repairs, portions of texts defective. With faults, and priced accordingly. Highly interesting, nearly consecutive set of..... More
Berlin: In der Mylissischen Buchhandling, 1823. Small 8vo, contemporary black velveteen stamped in gilt, tooled red leather onlay to each board with a green heart device applied to each, [vi], 378 pages, decorated paste-downs, a.e.g., gauffered edges. Contemporary decorated paste-paper decorated two-piece slipcase. Final gathering trimmed a little close, with..... 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
London: Printed by assignment from the executors of E. Wicksteed for W. Bent, 1785. Hardcover. 12mo, pp. [6], ix, [1], 156; the first leaf consisting of an approbation on the recto and an engraved frontispiece on the verso; contemporary and probably original black goatskin with decorative gilt border and similar..... More
Hagenau: Thomas Anshelm Badensis, 1518. Hardcover. Small 4to. 30 ff. Collation: aa - ff4, gg6, COMPLETE. Woodcut title page with columns and cherubs. Bound in 19th-century pale glazed boards, expertly rebacked. MARY MAGDALEN AND THE "QUARREL OF THE MAGDALENS." -- Lefevre d'Etables' "De Maria Magdalena et triduo Christi disceptatio" (1517)..... More
Oxford: Excudebat Iosephus Barnesius, 1616. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto. Collation: [par.]4 2[par.]4 A-3K4 3L*4 3L-4L4 4M2 (lacking final blank leaf 4M2). Without a binder's blank at the front, and at the back a stub bearing traces of MS annotations; this was excised at the same time as the bespoke..... More
London: Printed by Richard Hett, for the Company of Stationers, 1776. Hardcover. 8vo. (203 x 123 mm). 236, [4] pp. Collation: A-P8, COMPLETE. Contemporary Liverpool binding of full red morocco elaborately gilt; wide gilt border of urns and flowers surrounding a black inlay gilt with the name of the first..... More
New York: Carlton & Porter, 1860. Hardcover. Original publisher's brown cloth. 16mo. (3 3/8 x 5 1/4"). 278, xxiii, [9] pp. Binding tight, contents clean (front cover spotted, top edge of front cover rubbed). Overall in GOOD ANTIQUARIAN CONDITION. ¶ First Edition thus, with additional material brought up to the..... More
London: Printed for J. Hindmarsh, 1691. First Edition. Hardcover. Small quarto: [2], 106 pp. Bound in modern half calf antique over marbled boards, old wrappers bound in at end (upper wrapper with early booksellers description and evidence of previous library shelf-marks). Some dust soiling. ¶ DAVID LAING'S COPY. Laing was..... More
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Hartford: Case, Tiffany and Burnham, 1848. 2 vols. Original publisher's embossed black leather bindings, all edges gilt, endpapers plain. A few very minor, unobtrusive repairs. Occasionally heavy foxing throughout, as commonly. Incredibly, the gilt panel stamps on this binding are not recorded in Wolf, "From Gothic Windows to Peacocks: American..... More
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Hartford: D.F. Robinson and H.F. Sumner; stereotyped by James Connor and William R. Cooke, 1834. 2 vols. Vol 1: [2], 3-736, [2] = 738 pp., with frontispiece and 7 plates. Vol 2: [2], 737-995, [9], 1003-1440, [3] = 711 pp., with engraved frontispiece and 5 plates. Bound in speckled calf..... More
London: Printed by R. Young for John Bartlet, at the signe of the gilt Cup in Cheape-side, 1629. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [8], 165 pp. including full-page woodcut plate bound as frontispiece (intended to be placed between pp. 50/51). COLLATION: A-Y4, without the final blank leaf, otherwise COMPLETE. Provenance: blindstamps..... More
Paris and Mecca: 1783. Hardcover. Dates: 1783-1799. 6 volumes, large 8vo. Contemporary French red morocco, smooth spines lettered direct, all edges gilt (some wear to binding extremities, spines a little darkened). ¶ These volumes include all of Savary's accounts of his traveld to Egypt and Greece, plus his very important..... More
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London: Printed by T[homas] C[otes] for the Company of Stationers, 1635. 16mo. Collation: A-2E8, COMPLETE. 439, [9] pp. Final two gatherings waterstained, fols. E3 and R5 partially torn away with loss of some shoulder notes. Bound in contemporary British (Scottish?) brown calf, lacking first binder's blank, worn and shaken but..... More
[Edinburgh]: 1703. First Edition. Softcover. Together two volumes, small quarto. 12 pp., COMPLETE. Stitched in old blue paper wrappers at a recent date. Contemporary (or near-contemporary) author attributions in ink on title-pages, faint blind-stamps on first and final leaves of both pamphlets. BOTH editions of Sinclair's pamphlet recommending Scottish parliamentary..... More
London: Printed for J. and F. Rivington, J. Buckland, T. Longman, T. Field, E. and C. Dilly, and W. Davenhill, 1770. Hardcover. 12mo. viii + 317 + [23] pp. (final index and tables), with 8 plates of engraved music ("Tunes to the Tenor Parts"), and with the initial licence leaf..... More
