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Parma: Dalla Stamperia Reale, 1777. First Edition. Hardcover. xix, [1], 224pp. Contemporary vellum backed paper covered boards with gold lettering on the spine. Some stains to covers, stain affecting lower corner of boards and of leaves, previous owner's name to front pastedown endpaper and to title page, small wormhole to front pastedown endpaper. A very good copy. In the Italian language. ; Octavo.
Le Antichita di Ercolano by Tomasso Piroli - 1789-90: The Antiquities of Herculaneum
by Tomasso Piroli
Le Antichita di Ercolano: The Antiquities of Herculaneum
by Tomasso Piroli
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Set of first three volumes on frescos or wall paintings from the 6-volume set of Piroli's iconography of items from the ancient cities of Herculaneum, Stabia and Pompeii unearthed in the mid-18th century. Later volumes covered bronze statues and busts (Vols. 4 and 5) and lamps and candelabra (Vol. 6).
Vol. 1: 48 copperplates with 48pp text explanation; Vol. 2: 47 (of 48) copperplates with 48pp text explanation; Vol. 3, 30 copperplates with 30pp text explanation. The plates are based on those in Ottavio Antonio Bayardi's seminal work of 1752, and depict scenes from Greek and Roman mythology, cupids playing, Bacchantes dancing, etc.
Condition: Bindings scuffed and hinges worn, but good crisp impressions of the copperplates throughout. Volume two with some waterstaining to plates 24-48.
Text in Italian describes the content of each fresco, and often includes details of the date and location of its discovery within the ruins. The author's name does not appear on the title pages, but only in the Avisso of each volume.
Tomasso Piroli (1752-1824) was an Italian engraver, editor and publisher. He was a friend of Giovanni Battista Piranesi and his son Francesco.
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Vol. 1: 48 copperplates with 48pp text explanation; Vol. 2: 47 (of 48) copperplates with 48pp text explanation; Vol. 3, 30 copperplates with 30pp text explanation. The plates are based on those in Ottavio Antonio Bayardi's seminal work of 1752, and depict scenes from Greek and Roman mythology, cupids playing, Bacchantes dancing, etc.
Condition: Bindings scuffed and hinges worn, but good crisp impressions of the copperplates throughout. Volume two with some waterstaining to plates 24-48.
Text in Italian describes the content of each fresco, and often includes details of the date and location of its discovery within the ruins. The author's name does not appear on the title pages, but only in the Avisso of each volume.
Tomasso Piroli (1752-1824) was an Italian engraver, editor and publisher. He was a friend of Giovanni Battista Piranesi and his son Francesco.
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- Place of Publication Rome
- Date Published 1789-90
- Keywords illustrated, Roman civilization, Pompeii, Herculaneum, fresco, mural
- Size Quarto, 27 x 20cm
Vita del beato Gioanni di Parma settimo general ministro di tutto l'Ordine de' Minori
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An Interesting Small Archive of French Revolutionary Era Newspapers
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Paris, 1789. First Edition. Self-wraps. Folded sheets, stitched. The archive includes twenty items. Titles as follows: 1) Journal de Perlet #s 33 to 37, 39, 911 to 915; Paris, C. Perlet, various years; Suite du Journal de Perlet #356; Paris, C. Perlet, 1793. 2) Journal des débats et des décrets #344; Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1792. 3) Annales universelles et méthodiques, concernant la Politique, la Législation, le Commerce, l'Agriculture, l'Economie, la Marine, les Finances, les Sciences, la Littérature, les Arts Méchaniques & Libéraux, &c. #s IV (November 14), 133 (September 9, 1790), 2 (January 6, 1791), 7 (but perhaps 17?) (January 17, 1791), 18 (January 18, 1791), 19 (January 19, 1791); Paris, De l'Imprimerie des Annales Universelles. 4) Bulletin politique du N. 126 des Annales Universelles; Paris, August 25, 1790. Some sporadic foxing. The Perlet issues and one of the Annales Universelles have a faint stain affecting the upper corner; a couple of the Perlet issues…
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. New Edition. With Forty-Two illustrations by John Tenniel
by CARROLL. LEWIS. ; Tenniel. John. Illustrates
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Macmillan & Co. New York. 1889. New edition. 12mo. (7.5 x 5.2 inches). xii, 192, 12 pp publishers catalogue. Also an extra gathering bound in so that pages 117 to 124 appear twice. One gathering slightly sprung. Publishers dark green cloth with gilt and black decorative band across the top of the front board and the top and bottom of the spine. Black decorative roll to the bottom of the front board. Title on gilt to the middle of the front board. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Rear board with blind stamped floral roll to the top and bottom. Floral decorative endpapers. Neat two line inscription to the front free endpaper. The rear endpapers have an early previous owner's name and address written in red crayon to the free endpaper and a few short lines to the pastedown. Cloth a bit rubbed to the edges and a couple of small marks to the boards but overall a very good copy. An uncommon and attractive nineteenth century edition, printed in New York by J. J. Little and Co. This 1889 new edition was…
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Iliad
by Homer
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Homeri Opera graece et latine. Graeca ad principem H. Stephani, ut & ad primam omnium Demetrii Chalcocondylae editionem... Curante Jo. Henr. Lederlino, Stephano Berglero. 619 pp + Index in Iliadem + one engraving and one engraved map (Ab. Ortelii) h.t.. 14,7x8 cm. Ex Officina Wetsteniana, Amstelaedami, 1707. --- The Iliad of Homer (complete). Leather binding (pigskin), very tight. Name written on frontispiece. No foxing. Text in ancient greek and latin. Introduction and Index in latin.
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An Exposition of the Kings prerogative,: collected out of the great Abridgement of Justice Fitzherbert, and other old Writers of the Lawes of England,
by Stanford, (by the right Worshipfull) Sir William Knight, "lately one of the Justices of the late Queenes Majesties Court of Common Plees (sic)"
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Small octavo (7 5/8 by 5 1/2 inches) London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1607. sixth edition. 85 leaves (leaf 46 is misnumbered), text printed in black letter; nineteenth century marbled boards, half leather, raised bands, leather corners, title in gilt on red label on spine, author and date in gilt on brown label on spine, good condition (mild shelf wear not affecting contents) a few leaves with marginalia in a neat hand; ESTC S117811 (manuscript references in pencil on front fly leaf: "S.T.C. 23218; COPIES REPORTED ONLY AT Oxford, Huntington, and HARVARD.") Dedicated to "... his singular friend Nicholas Bacon, the Kings Attorney of his Court of Wards , and Keeper of the Great Seale of England." Bacon was the father of the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon.(This book is) "Concerned with the property rights of the crown rather than with constitutional principles. Fulbeck justly said of Stanford's books in 1600 that they were of: 'force and weight, and no common kind of stile; in… Read More
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Vita del beato Gioanni di Parma settimo general ministro di tutto l'Ordine de' Minori
by Affò, Ireneo
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Parma: Dalla Stamperia Reale, 1777. First Edition. Hardcover. xix, [1], 224pp. Contemporary vellum backed paper covered boards with gold lettering on the spine. Some stains to covers, stain affecting lower corner of boards and of leaves, previous owner's name to front pastedown endpaper and to title page, small wormhole to front pastedown endpaper. A very good copy. In the Italian language. ; Octavo.
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An Interesting Small Archive of French Revolutionary Era Newspapers
by [French Revolution]
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Paris, 1789. First Edition. Self-wraps. Folded sheets, stitched. The archive includes twenty items. Titles as follows: 1) Journal de Perlet #s 33 to 37, 39, 911 to 915; Paris, C. Perlet, various years; Suite du Journal de Perlet #356; Paris, C. Perlet, 1793. 2) Journal des débats et des décrets #344; Paris, De l'Imprimerie Nationale, 1792. 3) Annales universelles et méthodiques, concernant la Politique, la Législation, le Commerce, l'Agriculture, l'Economie, la Marine, les Finances, les Sciences, la Littérature, les Arts Méchaniques & Libéraux, &c. #s IV (November 14), 133 (September 9, 1790), 2 (January 6, 1791), 7 (but perhaps 17?) (January 17, 1791), 18 (January 18, 1791), 19 (January 19, 1791); Paris, De l'Imprimerie des Annales Universelles. 4) Bulletin politique du N. 126 des Annales Universelles; Paris, August 25, 1790. Some sporadic foxing. The Perlet issues and one of the Annales Universelles have a faint stain affecting the upper corner; a couple of the Perlet issues…
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ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. New Edition. With Forty-Two illustrations by John Tenniel
by CARROLL. LEWIS. ; Tenniel. John. Illustrates
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Macmillan & Co. New York. 1889. New edition. 12mo. (7.5 x 5.2 inches). xii, 192, 12 pp publishers catalogue. Also an extra gathering bound in so that pages 117 to 124 appear twice. One gathering slightly sprung. Publishers dark green cloth with gilt and black decorative band across the top of the front board and the top and bottom of the spine. Black decorative roll to the bottom of the front board. Title on gilt to the middle of the front board. Spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Rear board with blind stamped floral roll to the top and bottom. Floral decorative endpapers. Neat two line inscription to the front free endpaper. The rear endpapers have an early previous owner's name and address written in red crayon to the free endpaper and a few short lines to the pastedown. Cloth a bit rubbed to the edges and a couple of small marks to the boards but overall a very good copy. An uncommon and attractive nineteenth century edition, printed in New York by J. J. Little and Co. This 1889 new edition was…
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Iliad
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Homeri Opera graece et latine. Graeca ad principem H. Stephani, ut & ad primam omnium Demetrii Chalcocondylae editionem... Curante Jo. Henr. Lederlino, Stephano Berglero. 619 pp + Index in Iliadem + one engraving and one engraved map (Ab. Ortelii) h.t.. 14,7x8 cm. Ex Officina Wetsteniana, Amstelaedami, 1707. --- The Iliad of Homer (complete). Leather binding (pigskin), very tight. Name written on frontispiece. No foxing. Text in ancient greek and latin. Introduction and Index in latin.
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An Exposition of the Kings prerogative,: collected out of the great Abridgement of Justice Fitzherbert, and other old Writers of the Lawes of England,
by Stanford, (by the right Worshipfull) Sir William Knight, "lately one of the Justices of the late Queenes Majesties Court of Common Plees (sic)"
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Small octavo (7 5/8 by 5 1/2 inches) London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1607. sixth edition. 85 leaves (leaf 46 is misnumbered), text printed in black letter; nineteenth century marbled boards, half leather, raised bands, leather corners, title in gilt on red label on spine, author and date in gilt on brown label on spine, good condition (mild shelf wear not affecting contents) a few leaves with marginalia in a neat hand; ESTC S117811 (manuscript references in pencil on front fly leaf: "S.T.C. 23218; COPIES REPORTED ONLY AT Oxford, Huntington, and HARVARD.") Dedicated to "... his singular friend Nicholas Bacon, the Kings Attorney of his Court of Wards , and Keeper of the Great Seale of England." Bacon was the father of the philosopher and statesman Sir Francis Bacon.(This book is) "Concerned with the property rights of the crown rather than with constitutional principles. Fulbeck justly said of Stanford's books in 1600 that they were of: 'force and weight, and no common kind of stile; in… Read More
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Secret Splendor (Silhouette Classics, No 11)
by Claire, Erin St (Sandra Brown)
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Silhouette, 1992. Paperback. Very Good. Sandra Brown writing as Erin St. Claire, 253 pgs
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Bloody Sunrise
by Spillane, Mickey
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1965 - First Edition stated - A Tiger Mann Mystery - "...for Tiger is told on his wedding day that he is needed for Operation Plato." - book: very good - tight, sound, and square - no previous owner markings - dj: vibrant colors with some rubbing to the black base and abstract sun - interesting black and white photo of Spillane on the back cover - a few chips repaired with archival tape - dj in protective mylar sleeve
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The Birth and Death of Meaning: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on the Problem of Man
by Becker, Ernest
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New York: The Free Press, 1971. Second Edition. Contents include: The Man-Apes; The Origins of the Mind; The Distinctive Human; The Inner World; Socialization: the Creation of the Inner World; The New Meaning of the Oedipus Complex; Self-Esteem; Culture and Personality; Social Encounters: The Staging of Self-Esteem; Culture: the Relativity of Hero-Systems; What is Normal?; What Would A Science of Man Then Be?; Religion: The Quest for the Ideal Heroism. 228 pages. Edgewear; light wear to covers; worn corners and light creases on spine. Deeply creased spine opens flat at pages 60/61. Thanks for shopping with us! 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and lifelong learning.. 2nd. Soft Cover. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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More Than Forever
by McLean, Jay
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2014. Book Four in the More Than Series 8vo size trade paperback; 369 pages Please note: This book has a Mature Readers Advisory. From back: "Lucy - There is love so fierce it cannot be measured... Cameron - Forever. Everlasting. Eternal. THere is no measure of time... But our forever isn't always." Creased back cover and last few pages, worn corners. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Private Press.
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Unreal Tournament Bradygames Official Strategy Guide
by Marcus, Phillip
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Bradbury & Evans, 2007. Covers PC-CD ROM/DVD ROM & Playstation 3 Computer Entertainment System 4to sized softcover; 271 heavy glossy pages with color illustrations throughout Brand new, but note some edgewear and blemish to top of back cover. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits charity and supports literacy and life-long learning.. Trade Paperback. New/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.
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Shoemakers Best Selections Number 5 For Readings and Recitations
by Shoemaker, J. W
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Rare original poetry book with cloth covered boards, copyright 1880 by J. W. Shoemaker & Co. This edition published in 1906 by the Penn Publishing company, Philadelphia. From the estate of my great-great grandfather.Includes many unique poems and recitations such as "To a skull", "Uncle Daniel's Introduction to a Mississippi Steamer", "The Leak in the Dyke", etc. More well-known poetry includes "Song of Birds", "Old Ironsides", and "Bannock Burn" by Robbie Burns. Light rubbing and bumps to outside spine edges. Back cover and interior cloth covered board has a stain at top. Original owner's name and address from 1908, but no other writing or marks. First 2 pages have a stain at top, but text of 192 pages of poetry and recitations is totally clean with light tanning of pages.
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A Million Miles from Boston
by Day, Karen
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2011. 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; 215 pages. Signed by author on title page. Stated First Edition From jacket: "(Lucy) wants to get out of Boston and forget her worries about starting middle school and about her father's new girlfriend. Pierson Point is where she feels most like herself, and where memories of her mother, who died when Lucy was six, are strong and sacred. But this summer, nothing is the same. Ian, a boy from home in Boston, comes to Pierson Point...Lucy's father wants his girlfriend to become a bigger part of Lucy's life. Though Lucy struggles against change, she gradually realizes that sometimes, change is for the better. Average wear to jacket; bumped corners and head and heel of spine, owner's name on fep. Autographed Copy sticker on front of jacket; one previously folded page corner. Quotes are for illustrative purposes only and remain the property of their copyright holders. Thanks for shopping with us. 100% of your purchase benefits…
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
by Verne, Jules
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Good in Fair dust jacket. 1923. Hardcover. Red cloth with pictorial paste down on the cover. The pastedown is clean and bright. 427p. Illustrated with a full color frontispiece and 3 black and white plates. Hinges starting to crack, ends lightly worn. General tone with lightly soiled endpages. The dust jacket is missing a large portion from spine and back panel. The front panel is heavily creased. A clear, removable, protective cover has a computer generated title adhered to it. From the "Series for Young People" first published with this cover in 1918.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
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The Republic Of Plato: A New Version Founded On Basic English
by Richards, I.A
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1942 - noted on the copyright page as "A WARTIME BOOK This complete edition is produced in full compliance with the government's regulations for conserving paper and other essential materials" book: very good -tight, sound, and square, no previous owner marks - moderate edgewear plus rubbing to the boards - some toning from age - no dj - includes a vintage (pre - "The Google") Buccaneer Books Laguna Beach, CA out-of-print book search card
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A study of child-nature from the Kindergarten Standpoint
by Elizabeth Harrison
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A study of child-nature from the Kindergarten Standpoint by Elizabeth Harrison. Published by Chicago Kindergarten College; 4th edition (1892). 207 pages. Interior clean and unmarked except for previous owner's name and date of Aug 1893 on fly page. Another fly page has "Compliments Chicago Kindergarten College Co." in handwriting. Edge of several pages have slight bend and small tear. Hardback with no dj if offered. Slight bumping on edges and spine. Blue cloth cover and spine has some fading. Condition: Good. Measures 7.5" x 5"
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