Search Results: Authors starting with L from Bountiful Books

Lugd. (Leiden, Lugdunum); Batavor (Batavorum): Officina Elzeviriana. Original vellum binding shows usual soiling, else sound and tight. A later stamping of title on spine is partially rubbed off. Engraved frontispiece with shield and winged creature shows a touch of wear to top edge, otherwise pages are unmarked. Author is not shown, but the book is known to have been written by famed geographer and director of the Dutch West Indies Company Joannes de Laet. De Laet's History of the New Word has sometimes been judged the best 17th century description of the Americas. This small tome on Portugal describes her many colonies as well, including the largest one, Brazil. 460 pages + 9 page Index. . Very Good. Vellum. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1641.

New York: Putnam . A clean, sound, unmarked copy in like dust jacket, SIGNED by Lanchester on title page. True first edition, preceding the English edition. Pictorial end papers show map of Hong Kong and environs. Spans seven vivid decades of Hong Kong history, brought to life by the author, who was raised there. . Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 2002.

Pisa, Italy: Niccolo Capurra. Bindings are 3/4 vellum with marbled boards, brown and gilt spine labels. All bindings are clean and tight, boards are rubbed, a few small chips to spine labels. Ex-library with faded stamps to top and bottom edges of some volumes, and stamps to front paste-downs of all 6 volumes. Some volumes show minor foxing to endpapers, else all 6 text blocks are clean, sound and unmarked. This is the 4th edition (Edizione Quarta) of this classic history of Italian painting by famed art historian and archeologist Luigi Lanza (first published 1792 - 96). Vol. 1 - 366 pps.; 2 - 361; 3 - 290; 4- 254; 5 - 190; 6 - 396. A beautiful little gem of a set. . Very Good. 3/4 Vellum. 4th Edition. 1815.

New York: Harcourt, Brace. Gray wraps are clean and tight. Text block is pristine, but for a touch of soiling on fore-edge. A near fine, unread copy of the UNCORRECTED PROOF of Lethem's first novel, hard boiled sci fi at its best. Unpaginated. . Near Fine. Soft cover. 1st Edition. Uncorrected Proof. 1994.

U.K.: Castle Books. Both volumes are clean and crisp, appear AS NEW. This is volume 1 and 2 of a six volume set on the commanders of the Belgian Campaign, which is itself part of Linck's study of "the lives and military careers of the commanders of the Grande Armee". Vol. 1: 50 pages; Vol. 2: 52 pages. . Fine. Soft cover. 1990.

New York: The Century Company. This is the true first edition, first issue of London's collection of short stories that contained the inspiration for Tarzan. Blue-green boards with gilt and black embossed spine and front cover are clean and sound, with minor bumping to spine ends and a light scratch on rear board. Interior is pristine, with no markings of any kind. In a hand-made protective slipcase in matching cloth, with spine illustration on fore-edge, in fine condition. Frontispiece color illustration, one page of ads in back. A beautiful copy of this American classic. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1913.

Boston: Meador Publishing Company. A sound copy in bright yellow boards, with bumping to spine ends and two very small dings to front fore-edge, o/w clean and tight. INSCRIBED by the editor, William Love, on ffep, includes 23 colorful Irish tales, 130 pages. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1938.

London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. Brown calf spines with black and gilt spine labels, gray papered boards, gilt edges, colored end papers. Spine heads bumped on both volumes, top corners bumped on volume 2, else both volumes sound and tight. Top edges dusty, occasional foxing and soiling throughout. Last 2 pages of volume two are handwritten, or printed to look like handwriting. Contains 4 colored illustrations, 2 in each volume (including frontispieces). Vol. 1: xii + 351; Vol. 2: xi + 372 . Very Good. 1/2 Leather. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1851.