The First Edition

Good +. Pencil marks to title page.
inscribed to previous owner by the author.

Near Fine in Near Fine Dust price clipped DJ
Signed by Woody Hayes

First edition of the report on Iceland by the French diplomat Isaac de la Peyrère (1596-1676).
Condition:
Vellum Binding in Fair Condition. Top right corner with extensive damage but does not affect any of the text block throughout. Paper yellowed uniformly with age. Light marginalia throughout. Previous ownership marks. Map is excellent and in quite clean/bright condition
Deals in particular with history, population, geography and trade. With a general map of Iceland by Pierre Duval. - Through his acquaintance with Christina of Sweden and the Danish scientist Ole Worm, La Peyrère gained access to numerous old manuscripts and chronicles. From 1644 to 1646 he traveled to Scandinavia on diplomatic mission. He subsequently published, in addition to a work on Greenland (first edition 1647), the present description of Iceland, both of which he wrote in letter form to F. de la Mothe le Vayer.
BINDING: Contemporary parchment. 16 x 11.5 cm. - ILLUSTRATION: With one folded copperplate map.
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Very Good. Inscribed "With Best Wishes, from the author to previous owner(an editor from U.S. News and World Report).

The Works Of The Late Right Honorable Henry St. John, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke. In Five Volumes ( Complete, Quarto, Full Calf)
St. John, Henry, Lord Viscount Bolingbroke
Publisher: David Mallet, London 1754
1st Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition Thus. Five Volumes, Complete In The Scarce Quarto Printing, 9.5" by 11.5" Tall. Full Calf, Five Bands, Spine Labels (barely visible), All Edges Colored Red. Heraldic Ink Stamps On Front Pastedowns Of The Earl of Ellenboroughs. Also there is a previous owners embossed blind stamp of JMA (John M. Aden - Author/Professor. Inscription to top of FFEP. Bindings Worn, Covers Occasionally Frayed At Corners And Worn At Edges, SomeJoints Cracked Or Partly Cracked, But Cords Holding Well And Bindings Intact. Pages Clean, Square, And Bright with Large Margins; Edges Of Page Blocks Retain Original Polish But Some Fading To Red Coloring. A very presentable set! Great Provenance!
From Wikipedia:
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Very Good. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham.

Very Good. Color Maxfield illustrations.

Very Good.

Very Good, Illustrated with one hundred twenty chromo views.

Near Fine, Pamphlet, 12 mo. 33 pp, Maps, 12 photographs.

Very Scarce, Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 12mo, 20pp.

Small stitched pamphlet. 100p. Illustrated. Covers characters from farmers, clowns and minstrel characters.

Very Scarce
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 12mo, stapled wrappers, 40pp, offensive Afro-American caricature on cover and through out. It contains the whole apparatus for a show from black face make up, to skits, costumes, ad cards. Previous owners name to cover.

Anti-Mormon Content:
20 Issues (originals in wraps)
(1834) Volume 5, No's. 1-7, 10, 11.
(1839). Volume 3, No's 1-5, 7-12.
The Millennial Harbinger was a religious magazine established by the early Restoration Movement leader Alexander Campbell in 1830. Campbell viewed the magazine as an important vehicle for promoting the religious reforms that he believed would help usher in the millennium.
More photos on request

Very Scarce, Unbound, Very Good.

Scarce Edition, Very Good, 2 Volume Set, teg, tiny nick to cover of Vol 1.

Very Scarce First Edition

Very Scarce
As New
Delaware County Historical Society, Inc.; Delaware, 1999
Limited Edition of #112 of 150

1st Edition, Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket

Very Good

Fine

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. New York: Random House, 1982. 16 x 21". Illustrated cover on glossy paper, pop-up book.

Fine

Very Good