Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by Rowling, J.K

London: Day & Son 1866. (Hardcover) 842pp. Good to very good. Original cloth with illustrations and titles in gilt. 21 chromolithographs (including 2 folding maps). 9 woodcut engravings in the text. Presentation inscription dated 1868 on the front endpaper of each volume, the covers are worn at the corners and ends of the spine, there is some spotting to the plates and a few pages, some dampstaining to the covers. In mylar wrappers. Also known as Augustus F. Lindley. Locale: China. (Military, Military, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Taiping Rebellion--1850-64).

Near Fine HC in Good+ slipcase. Signed binding (Tchekeroul). Text in French/Francaise. Swirl pattern oil marbled paper over boards half bound with black morocco leather; gilt stamped titles on spine; gilt top edge; two parts bound in retain original covers and spines. Bright, clean, square covers and spine; slight, thin scrapes on spine; very slight rubbing wear on rear cover paper, otherwise Fine covers and spine; tightly bound; small 'Tchekeroul' gilt stamped on tail edge of front pastedown; small black leather label on front free end paper is gilt stamped with star of David above tower over gilt banner with 'Turris Davidica' in relief; ink gift inscription on fly leaf dated 1953 in Brussels; original card covers are clean and complete with some age darkening; interior is light and clean; leaves remain supple. Slipcase is matching marbled paper over boards with matching morocco leather at spine end caps.12mo, 413 total pp (208, 205); illustrated

New York: McDonnell Bros., 1866 Book. Fair. Hardcover. First Edition. Elephant Folio - over 15 - 23" tall. Large brown two-volume Civil War book set with a gilt cover title. Five inch top spine cover chip and a one and one half inch bottom spine chip to volume 1. Volume 2 has a top chip/slight gouge at the spine top and a small chip at the bottom spine. Covers with light to moderate worming. Shaken and cracked bindings with a few loose pages and some old taped tears. The first 8 pages (from the title page) to the second volume are loose from binding and present. Fair minus to Fair plus condition. About 16-1/2 x 12 with 836 total pages. Illustrated, plus maps. Rare two-volume Civil War set (1866 and 1868)! .

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. First Edition. hardcover. Fine. 9 3/8" × 6 1/8" × 1". The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-Craftsman; by Sparling, H. Halliday. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh. 1924. First Edition. First Printing. Tall 8vo: 9 3/8" x 6 1/8" x 1" (23.8 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. Uncut. [ix], [1], 176, [4] pp. Photogravure frontispiece portrait of Morris engraved by Emery Walker from a photograph by Sparling, with tissue guard present. Includes 16 plates and examples of types and illustrations from the Kelmscott Press. Henry Halliday Sparling (1860–1924) provides an informative history of William Morris's Press. Sparling was a former Kelmscott Press employee and as the husband of Morris's daughter, May Morris, from 1890–1898, was keenly familiar with Morris and his Press. Sparling provides a… Read More

London 1889 and 1891: David Nutt. Limited Edition. Thick Quarto. Two volumes in three limited to 108 signed and numbered copies. The present copy is number 27 signed by the publisher David Nutt. This is the original edition of William Caxton now reprinted and edited with an introduction and glossary by H. Oskar Sommer, and with an essay on Malory's prose style by Andrew Lang. Volumes one and two are the text volumes and volume three consists of studies on the sources and Andrew Lang's essay. x, [x1-xvi]424, 425-861 and xxv, 338pp. The editor, H. Oskar Sommers also bound in a note about the set. It is evident that this move was deaccessioned from a library noted by the small ink stamp to upper edges and apparently, the removal of a plate or pocket to rear pastedowns. In all regards, a handsome set bound by Mudie in 3/4 red morocco over red cloth, raised bands gilt with compartments lettered and decorated in gilt, all edges marbled with matching marbled endpapers, the front inner hinge is cracked… Read More

Leeuwarden, Hendrik Halma, 1725.2 volumes. Large folio. Contemporary blind-tooled vellum. With allegorical frontispiece, 2 title-pages printed in red and black, engraved portrait of the author, 27 engraved double-page maps and 37 engraved portraits. (12),470; 408 pp. 'François Halma (1653-1722) was boekhandelaar en academiedrukker, eerst te Utrecht, later te Amsterdam en vanaf 1710 te Leeuwarden. Het ‘Tooneel’ is een soort encyclopedie op plaatsnamen en persoonsnamen. Bij zijn overlijden was Halma bijna gereed met de tekst. Brouërius van Nidek nam toen de letters W, Y en Z voor zijn rekening en voegde een levensbeschrijving van Halma toe (Haitsma Mulier & Van der Lem 202b). With fine portraits of the earls of Holland and maps of the Netherlands. - Age-browned otherwise a very fine copy.

Amsterdam, Jacob Pietersz. Paets, 1610.Folio. Contemporary vellum. With printed title within engraved border and 18 engraved portraits by N. de Clerck in text. (2),221,(8) lvs.Second Dutch edition, first Italian edition was published in Venice in 1560 La vita dell' invitissimo imperator Carlo Quinto, first published in Dutch in Antwerp in 1570. - 'A general history of the time of Charles V, noting European expansion in both eastern and western hemispheres and its impact in Europe' (James Ford Bell Library U8). 'This highly esteemed biography of Charles V, includes an account of all the events, which took place during the years 1500-1560, and especially of all the achievements of the Spaniards in America' (Muller, America, p.365). Dealing at length with the conquests of the Spaniards in Mexico and Peru. - (Margins first 2 lvs sl. dam.; tear in 1 leaf; some wormholes; waterstained). - Rare.Cf. Cat. NHSM I, p.565; Not in Tiele; Sabin 97678; European Americana 610/111.

Paris, Maradan, 1794.8 volumes + atlas volume. 8vo and large 4to. Contemporary half calf (some extremities of spines sl. dam.). Atlas volume with 108 engraved plates and maps, many folding or double-page.Second French edition, first published in 1788-1793; translation of the German edition Reise durch verschiedene Provinzen des Russischen Reichs. St. Petersburg 1771-1776 . - The German naturalist Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg and at the request of Catherine, he was placed in charge of an academy expedition into Russia and Siberia. The expedition set out from Moscow in April 1768 with five naturalists and seven astronomers. Pallas arrived back in St. Petersburg in July 1774 with a vast amount of data and many fossil specimens, but broken in health (Howgego p.784). His expedition was concerned with natural history in the widest sense, including geography, agriculture, and other disciplines. Also included descriptions of journeys in the… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1924. First Edition. hardcover. Fine. 9 3/8" × 6 1/8" × 1". The Kelmscott Press and William Morris Master-Craftsman; by Sparling, H. Halliday. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited. Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh. 1924. First Edition. First Printing. Tall 8vo: 9 3/8" x 6 1/8" x 1" (23.8 x 15.6 x 2.5 cm). Bound in publisher's original hardcover quarter Holland-backed blue paper boards, with white linen spine and paper title label. Uncut. [ix], [1], 176, [4] pp. Photogravure frontispiece portrait of Morris engraved by Emery Walker from a photograph by Sparling, with tissue guard present. Includes 16 plates and examples of types and illustrations from the Kelmscott Press. Henry Halliday Sparling (1860–1924) provides an informative history of William Morris's Press. Sparling was a former Kelmscott Press employee and as the husband of Morris's daughter, May Morris, from 1890–1898, was keenly familiar with Morris and his Press. Sparling provides a… Read More

Frankfurt & Berlin: J.J. Speier, 1765. First Edition . Half Leather. Very Good. 4to. 1. Theil und 2. Theil bound together. 124pp+123pp.First part called "'Ir Heshbon," on Arithmetic and Algebra; the second part : "Berure Middot," on Geometry. MODERN HALF LEATHER BINDING WITH MARBLED BOARDS. Title page with stamp, , some old handwriting and markings. Upper corner of title page some 3 cm missing and replaced with old repair. Pages with some browning and occasional minor soiling. First pages of the second part trimmrd to text. Last page of the second part with repair to edges, End papers with some old writing and minor soiling . OTHERWISE VERY GOOD.AN EXTREMELY RARE AND INTERESTING WORK of MATHEMATICS in HEBREW. (this work is mentioned in Zeitlkin, Bibliotheca Hebraica....)- Elijah ben Moses Gershon Zahalon was a Jewish Talmudist, mathematician and physician living in Pinczcow, Russian Poland.