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The works of Edmund Spenser É with the principle illustrations of various commentators. To which are added, notes, some account of the life of Spenser, and a glossarial and other indexes. By the Rev. Henry John Todd

The works of Edmund Spenser É with the principle illustrations of various commentators. To which are added, notes, some account of the life of Spenser, and a glossarial and other indexes. By the Rev. Henry John Todd

by SPENSER, EDMUND

London: F.C. and J. Rivington [et al.], 1805. 8 volumes, large 8vo (ten inches tall - an old penciled note on the endpaper calls this a Large Paper copy), engraved frontis portrait in vol. 1, contemporary full polished paneled tan calf, neatly rebacked, black morocco labels on spine, a.e.g.; edges a little worn, title-p. and frontis in vol. 1 browned, a few minor spots and stains, else very good and sound. Lowndes, p. 2477.
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A$1,544.55
[Miniature] Az ember tragédiája / The Tragedy of Man / Die Tragödie des Menschen / Трагедия человека : Részletek [Excerpts]

[Miniature] Az ember tragédiája / The Tragedy of Man / Die Tragödie des Menschen / Трагедия человека : Részletek [Excerpts]

by Imre Madách; János Kass

Budapest: Képzőművészeti Alap Kiadóvállalata [Fine Arts Fund Publishing Company], 1975. Very Good. Budapest: Képzőművészeti Alap Kiadóvállalata [Fine Arts Fund Publishing Company], 1975. First Edition. Miniature smaller than 32mo (6x4x1cm); unpaginated [136pp]. Illustrated with 15 etchings by János Kass. Text printed in four parallel languages: Hungarian, English, German, and Russian. Black leather with gilt lettering on spine and front panel. Kass etching stamped in white on front panel.... Read more about this item
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A$79.01
Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America

Frank Forester's Fish and Fishing of the United States and British Provinces of North America

by (Fore-edge) Herbert, Henry William ["Frank Forester"]

London: Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1849. First edition. Illustrated. xvi, 445 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. In publisher's presentation pebbled green gilt morocco, with emblematic gilt tooling, a.e.g., a few scuffs to covers. With inscription to Francis Gilbert Dyke Acland on leaving Eton 1861. First edition. Illustrated. xvi, 445 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's Binding with American Trout Fishing Fore-edge. With a later fore-edge painting of trout fishing on the Chateaugay Lake, Franklin... Read more about this item
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A$1,975.12
A Declaration of My Last Sentiments on the Different Doctrines of Religion... Published in French, from the MS. of the Author, by William Bell. a Faithful Translation; to Which is Prefixed, an Account of Dr. Courayer.

A Declaration of My Last Sentiments on the Different Doctrines of Religion... Published in French, from the MS. of the Author, by William Bell. a Faithful Translation; to Which is Prefixed, an Account of Dr. Courayer.

by Courayer, Pierre Francois Le

London: J. Johnson. Very Good+. 1787. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. 16mo 6" - 7" tall; Mottled calf, ornate gilt spine, gilt rule on boards, lxxxiv, 125p. .
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A$197.51
Death Comes for the Archbishop.

Death Comes for the Archbishop.

by Willa Cather

Unique & attractive full orange morocco with gilt particulars to cover and spine. Four raised bands;gilt top edge. Fore edge deckle. Marbled endpapers. A nice clean copy with no previous owners' names or other markings. 6.5 x 8 in
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A$521.43
Memoirs of the Life and Reign of King George the Third in three volumes

Memoirs of the Life and Reign of King George the Third in three volumes

by John Heneage Jesse

London: Tinsley Brothers, 1867. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Three volume set. 22 x 14.5 cm. Octavo. x 601pg x 562pg ix 616pg. Bound in full brown leather with blue and red spine labels. Marble foredges and endpapers. Some scuffing to the spine labels. Some light rubbing to the joints. Indentation to front cover of volume 2.
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A$316.02
Sonnets pour Helene

Sonnets pour Helene

by [Jou, Louis] Ronsard, Pierre de

Paris: Les Livres de Louis Jou, 1927. One of 225 copies on papier verge from a total issue of 258 copies. Page size: 10 7/8 x 7 5/8 "; 26.5 x 19.3 mm. Bound after design by LOUIS JOU, executed by Mercier fils: hand-painted vellum binding the title in red broken by an elaborate intertwining vine in heavy gold gilt, a single vine border repeated at top and bottom of front cover, author and title in red on spine separated with gilt leaves, gilt vine rondel on back panel. Top edge gilt, original wrappers... Read more about this item
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A$5,530.35
The Transfiguration of Miss Philura

The Transfiguration of Miss Philura

by Florence Morse Kingsley; Margaret Armstrong [binding]

New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1902. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Funk and Wagnalls Company, 1902. Later printing with "Fourteenth Edition" to title page. Octavo. 81 pp. + 2 pp. series advertisements. Illustrated dust jacket. Beige publisher's cloth decorated in pink and black and with Margaret Armstrong's monogram to front. A few minor nicks to edges of jacket with general rubbing and smudging. Discoloration to bottom and top edges of boards and preliminaries. Binding sound. Ownership... Read more about this item
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A$158.01
The Comic History of Rome

The Comic History of Rome

by Gilbert A. A'Beckett; John Leech [illus.]

London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, 1898. Near Fine. London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., [ca. 1898]. Reprint. Quarto. 418 pp. Ten hand-colored steel engravings; numerous in-text illustrations. Bound in 20th century half green morocco ruled in gilt; five raised bands; gilt lettering to spine; top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Light rubbing to boards and raised bands. Binding is sound. A few smudges and a couple short tears to pages but otherwise clean and unmarked. A Near Fine copy in an attractive binding of... Read more about this item
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A$316.02
The Waverley Novels [Twenty-four volume set with] Ivanhoe, Heart of Mid-Lothian, Bride of Lammermoor, et al.

The Waverley Novels [Twenty-four volume set with] Ivanhoe, Heart of Mid-Lothian, Bride of Lammermoor, et al.

by Sir Walter Scott

New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company, 1880. Very Good +. New York: Lovell, Coryell & Company, [ca. 1880s]. Reprints. Twenty-four volume set. Octavos. Frontis to each volume. Uniformly bound in maroon quarter calf over marbled boards with five raised bands and gilt decoration to spine; top edges gilt; marbled endpapers. Spines sunned, general scuffing, and light wear to extremities. Bindings sound. Pages are toned and a bit brittle with recent ownership stamp to front fly-leaf of each volume. A Very Good... Read more about this item
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A$948.06
The Reign of Princess Naska

The Reign of Princess Naska

by Amelia Hutchison Stirling; Paul Hardy [illus.]; Talwin Morris [binding]

London: Blackie & Son, Limited, Old Bailey, E.C., 1899. Very Good +. London: Blackie & Son, Limited, Old Bailey, E.C., 1899. First Edition. Octavo. 208 pp. + 34 pp. publisher's advertisements. Black and white illustrations. Publisher's blue cloth boards decorated in green, gilt, and white, designed by Talwin Morris. Gray endpapers. Light rubbing to extremities. Boards slightly bowed, but binding is sound. Prize gift inscription from the Tenterfield S.P. Girls' School to front fly leaf (to Jane Bailey... Read more about this item
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A$316.02
The Life of Benvenuto Cellini Written by Himself (Two Volumes)

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini Written by Himself (Two Volumes)

by Benvenuto Cellini; John Addington Symonds [trans.]; Royal Courtissoz [intro.]

New York: Brentano's, 1906. Very Good. New York: Brentano's, 1906. Two volumes. Octavo; Vol. I xxx + 360pp.; Vol II 387pp including index. Both volumes half-bound in brown leather with gilt seams front and back; spines with (pseudo) raised bands and gilt stamping. J.W. Meyer & Co. binding signature on verso of front free endpaper top edge. Gilt top edge of text block; deckle-cut fore-edge. Some unopened index pages. "Forty Original Portraits and Views Illustrating His Life" in sepia with pasted-in... Read more about this item
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A$126.41
Modern Development of the Dry Fly: The New Dry Fly Patterns, The Manipulation of Dressing Them, and Practical Experiences of Their Use [Two volumes signed by Halford]

Modern Development of the Dry Fly: The New Dry Fly Patterns, The Manipulation of Dressing Them, and Practical Experiences of Their Use [Two volumes signed by Halford]

by Frederic M. Halford

London: George Routledge and Sons, 1910. Very Good +. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1910. Edition De Luxe, one of 75 copies signed by Halford at title page of volume I, with an additional 50 copies published in the U.S. Two quarto volumes. Volume I with frontis portrait; 9 color plates of flies; 18 color samples; 16 photogravures. Vol. II with 33 flies on 9 recessed card mounts, though numbers 24 and 25 damaged and lacking wings and tails. Original half red calf with red cloth boards, six... Read more about this item
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A$6,320.40
The Painful Birth of the Art Book

The Painful Birth of the Art Book

by HASKELL, Frances

London: Thames and Hudson, 1987. Cloth. Fine. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY of the 1987 Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture. 8vo, pp. 64, amply illustrated in b/w. Original rust cloth, lettered and ruled in gilt. White paper plate to front pastedown: "This presentation copy of the Walter Neurath Memorial Lecture is sent with the compliments of the Directors of Thames and Hudson". Clean, tight and bright. In the original matching rust cloth slip case, gilt stamped Thames and Hudson device to front: a few... Read more about this item
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A$49.15
Hippocrate. Aphorismorum sectiones septem, ex Rabelaesi recognitione; Quibus ex Ant. Musae Commentariis adiecimus & Octauam: & quaedam alia, quae fequen indicabit pagella

Hippocrate. Aphorismorum sectiones septem, ex Rabelaesi recognitione; Quibus ex Ant. Musae Commentariis adiecimus & Octauam: & quaedam alia, quae fequen indicabit pagella

by Francois Rabelais, Hippocrates

Lugduni: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1545. Leather bound. Very good. Aphorismorum Hippocratis sectiones septem, Nicolao Leoniceno interprete.--Aphorismorum sectio octava.--Praesagiorum libri tres, Gulielmo Copo interprete.--De natura hominis, Andrea Brentio interprete.--De ratione victus in morbis acutis, seu De ptisana, Gulielmo Copo interprete.--Galeni Ars medicinalis, Nicolao Leoniceno interprete.--Hippocratis De medico, medicive officio liber.--Hippocratis Liber de lege.--Hippocratis Liber de specie, acie,... Read more about this item
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A$5,975.36
The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

by Blaise Pascal; M. Auguste Molinier; C. Kegan Paul [trans.]

London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1885. Very Good +. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1885. Reprint. Octavo. 362 pp. Frontis portrait. Full vellum boards decorated in black and red; top edge gilt. "Burn & Co." binders ticket to rear pastedown. Boards show light general rubbing and smudging and front board slightly bowed. Binding is sound. Previous owners' inscriptions and plate to preliminaries, but pages otherwise unmarked.
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A$276.52
Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei

Speculum aureum decem praeceptorum Dei

by Henricus de Herpf (c.1410-1477)

Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 10 September, 1474. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A fine copy, in an impressive binding, of the first edition, printed by Gutenberg's apprentice, Peter Schoeffer. Bound in contemporary Bamberg blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards [Kyriss 006, EBDB w000078, Bamberg Minoritenkloster], with flyleaves from vellum manuscript antiphonal, brass catch-plates with sphinxes, straps and clasps intact. Wormholes to both boards, endpapers renewed, binding a little soiled. Incipit and... Read more about this item
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A$71,104.50
Maximes

Maximes

by La Rochefoucauld

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902. Very Good+. London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1902. 12mo (16.5cm.); full contemporary black gilt-tooled morocco by Matchard's, spine in six compartments, top edge gilt; [4],209pp. Just a hint of wear, textblock very lightly foxed, later ownership rubberstamp to front pastedown, else a Very Good or better example in an attractive fine binding.
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A$395.03
Up From Slavery

Up From Slavery

by Washington, Booker T

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1970. Collector's Edition. Full Leather. Fine. 26.5 x 18.5 cm. Royal octavo. 212pp. Bound in full black leather with gilt design, lettering, and foredges. 4 raised bands to spine. Silk moire endpapers and ribbon. With illustrations by Denver Gillen. Part of the Masterpieces of American Literature Series.
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A$71.10
Nouvel Abrege Chronologique de l'Histoire de France [Vols. I and III only]

Nouvel Abrege Chronologique de l'Histoire de France [Vols. I and III only]

by [Endpapers] [Charles-Louis-François Henault, [attr.]]

Paris: Prault pere et al., 1774. Very Good. Paris: Prault père et al, 1774, 1775. Nouvel Édition. Two volumes; small octavos (16.75cm.); contemporary full double gilt-ruled sheep, tan and olive gilt calf spine labels (misspelling the author's name "Hainault"), all edges stained red, elaborately designed papier-peint endpapers in mauve and green; engravings in text throughout Vol. I, including woodcut endpieces. Leather dried and starting to darken and flake, contents fresh, engraving impressions... Read more about this item
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A$118.51
Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Of Unicornes Hornes. Illustrated by Alan James Robinson. Introduction by Jan van Dorsten

Pseudodoxia Epidemica: Of Unicornes Hornes. Illustrated by Alan James Robinson. Introduction by Jan van Dorsten

by Cheloniidae Press. Browne, Sir Thomas

[NP: but Williamsburg, MA]: Cheloniidae Press, 1984. First Edition, Artist Proof issue, one of 5 copies only, all on obsolete Whatman paper (blue-white laid ca. 1962), this copy inscribed to noted collectors Mimi and Arnold Elkind, and signed by Alan James Robinson, the printer, Harold P. McGrath, the binder, Gray Parrot, from a total issue of 225, as follows: 5 AP copies (this copy) in an elegant full limp vellum non-adhesive binding, title in gilt on spine, an extra suite (14), each print inscribed,... Read more about this item
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A$3,950.25
The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

The Temple: Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations

by George Herbert; [Chiswick Press]

New York: Scott-Thaw Co, 1904. Very Good +. New York: Scott-Thaw Co., 1904. Limited Edition of 350 numbered copies, this being #98. Square octavo. 243 pp. Frontis portrait with tissue guard. Bound in white cloth and decorated in gilt with Chiswick Press trademark to front board and colophon at rear. Text printed in black with margin titles in red. Light general smudging to boards with very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Tissue guard toned but overall pages clean and unmarked. Scarce.
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A$197.51
The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

The New Testament of Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

by Bible. N. T

Hartford: William Andrus. Very Good-; Extremeties lightly rubbed.. 1842. Hardcover. 64mo 3" - 4½" tall; Black straight grained morocco gilt, four panel spine, all edges gilt, 454p. **Large gilt scene of communion altar. .
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A$276.52
Young Boswell, Chapters on James Boswell the Biographer, based largely on new material

Young Boswell, Chapters on James Boswell the Biographer, based largely on new material

by Chauncey Brewster Tinker

Half dark brown morocco over marbled boards with gilt rule. 5 raised bands, 3 green morocco labels, and gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Deckled edges. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, Robert Wetherill, Jr., otherwise no previous owners' names or other markings. Black and white hors text plates throughout. [viii], 266 pp. 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches.
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A$268.62
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