New York: G. P Putnnam & Sons: Knickerbocker Press, 1917. First Edition; Limited Edition. MEMOIRS OF THE COMTE DE MERCY ARGENTEAU. GEORGE S. HELLMAN. Published by New York: G. P. Putnam Sons: The Knickerbocker Press. 1917. First edition, limited to a 510 numbered set.'Napoleon's Chamberlain and his Minister Plenipotentiary to.....
1881. Hardcover. VOYAGE AU PAYS DES BOYARDS. ÉTUDE SUR LA RUSSIE ACTUELLE. OLYMPE AUDOUARD. 1881. (4), 367, (3) pp. With wood-engravings and illustrations in the text. Bound in quarter period green morocco cloth sides and marble end papers, uncut. Copy with an autograph dedication by the author to Antatole France.....
Boston & Tokyo: J.B Millet & Company, 1901. Library Edition. hardcover. J. B. Millet Company, Boston and Tokyo, 1901. Library Edition 883/1000. Complete with numerous illustrations and fold out maps. Volumes 1, 2 and 8 published 1901; the remaining volumes published 1902. in very good condition without dust jacket. Spines.....
London: Parker, Son and Bourn, 1861. hardcover. MISCELLANEOUS AND POSTHUMOUS WORKS OF HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE. HENRY THOMAS BUCKLE. Published by Parker, Son, and Bourn: London. 1861. 7 volumes in 3 titles. Beautifully bound in half red Morocco full gilt spines, with burgundy gold vein marble sides and ends, top edge.....
Edinburgh: T. Cadell, Jun and W. Davies, 1801. Second Edition. Hardcover spiral bound. Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies; Edinburgh: W. Creech, 1801 Second edition, revised. 4 Vols, 8vo Original full tree calf bindings, marble end papers, Frontice portrait; four different woodcut vignette title-pages. Very clean and bright.....
Pierway Inc., 2001. Limited Facsimilie Edition. Softcover. Limited facsimile edition. Small 8vo, 82pp, 2 coloured folding maps, red cloth backed printed Orange/brown boards. This facsimile edition is limited to 500 numbered copies. The original edition was published to coincide the first modern day Olympics in Athens in 1896 and is.....
London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1951. Clifford Webb. First Edition. Hardcover. JULIUS CAESAR'S COMMENTARIES: A MODERN RENDERING. SOMERSET DE CHAIR. Published by: Golden Cockerel Press, London. 1951. One of 320 copies. Illustrated with 14 wood-engravings by Clifford Webb, maps on endpapers. pp312, 4to. Original crimson and blue buckram.
London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1898. First Edition. Original cloth. MALAKAND FIELD FORCE The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War Winston S. Churchill Published by Longmans, Green and Co., London (1898) Housed in a beautiful recent Cosway style clamshell box Original green cloth, spine lettered.....
London: Richard Phillips, 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. ITINERANT TRADES OF LONDON. WILLIAM MARSHALL CRAIG. Bound by Zaehnsdorf, London, and published by Richard Phillips, London. ca. 1085. First edition. 'Description of the Plates Representing the Trades of London in Their Ordinary Costume'. 4to., 25x19 cm. 3pp of adverts at the rear.....
London: John Murray, 1843. First Edition. Hardcover. First edition complete in three volumes. Matching red morocco half binding with marbled boards. Marbled edges. Spine decorated in gilt compartments between 5 raised bands, decorated with vignettes and gilt lettered title and volume compartments. Marbled paste down and end papers. Frontispiece of.....
London: Dickinson's, 1904. First Edition. Hardcover. Dickinson s, London, 1904. Hardcover. Book Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Book. Folio - over 12. No. 16 of 175 of the Edition de Luxe printed on Japon Vellum paper, Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, with 11 hand-colored plates, 51 other black and.....
London: Richard Bentley & Son, 1873. Christian Frederick Zincke. Hardcover. A LADY OF THE LAST CENTURY A Lady of the Last Century (Elizabeth Montagu): Illustrated in Her Unpublished Letters; Collected and Arranged with a Biographical Sketch and a Chapter on Blue Stockings Extra Illustrated & Inscribed by the Author Doran.....
London: William Pickering, 1846. First Edition. 1/2 Morocco. NOBLE BRITISH FAMILIES Large Folio First Edition, With Many Hand-Colored Plates. William Pickering, London 1846 Histories of Noble British Families. London: William Pickering, 1846. Two volumes. Large folio Half maroon Roan, cloth boards expertly re-backed using old spine layed down and repaired corners raised bands.....
London: William Taylor, 1711. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First Edition. Contemporary calf, gilt-stamped lettering in red leather spine label (5 raised bands); 3 volumes, 8vo (5 x 7.5 inches); pp. iv, [4], 364; 443; [4], 344, [88] (index) All volumes: Spines Re-backed at some point light bumping and scuffing.....
Houghton Mifflin, 1898. Hardcover. The Works of John Fiske 1898 - 1899 Handsome edition - gilt top edge of the text block; ½ brown Morocco binding; marbled end papers and sides; illustrations and maps (some are fold-out and some are in color). Each volume complete as stands from a larger.....
NY: Harper and Brothers, 1891. 1st American. Cloth. James Boswell's biography of the noted English author Dr. Samuel Johnson has been described as "the greatest biography written in the English language." This 6-volume set was edited by George Birkbeck Hill, and published in 1891 on the centennial of the first.....
1831. Limited Edition. Softcover. SULLE MUMMIE DI VENZONE. MEMORIA. MARCOLINI Francesco Maria. Published by dalla Società Tipografica de' Classici italiani, Milano (1831) Milan, 1831. Edition of only 300 copies (as indication on the back wrapper). The title page reads; Di F.M. Marcolini primary doctor of the civic hospital of Udine.....