Search Results: Titles starting with F from Pazzo Books

Paris: Furne et Cie, 1865. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary quarter leather over pebbled cloth - light sunning and edge wear, corners a bit bumped. Modest foxing throughout including to the plate edges - attractively illustrated and a nice, sound copy. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Myths, Legends & Folklore. Inventory No: 045841.

Paris: N. Renaudiere, 1801. First Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Full contemporary acid calf, gilt borders and fleurons on spine. Joints cracked but cords attached firmly. Marbled endpapers, old bookplate to pastedown. Mild foxing and browning throughout, but otherwise clean. Scarce collection of fables in the style of La Fontaine dedicated to Napoleon Bonaparte by Haumont ("un vieux Militaire Invalide") who had been injured during his service in the Navy. Published in year 9 of the French Republican calendar. 270pp with errata bound at rear. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Myths, Legends & Folklore. Inventory No: 042755.

Paris: Savy, 1875. First Edition. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Original wraps, light wear at edges, newer glassine wrapper over it. Light dampstain to top edge, otherwise unmarked. Old vinegar company library stamp to title. 60pp with a detailed folding plate at rear. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000825.

Gerona: Antonio Oliva, 1792. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary tree calf, wear at corners, old stamp and stain to title, scattered foxing, generally clean internally. 144pp plus index. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 045594.

London: Thames & Hudson, 1972. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. Gift inscription and a few marks on front blank, otherwise a fine, bright, copy. Size: Quarto (4to). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Photography; Inventory No: 048261.

Amsterdam: Ioh. Ianssomium, 1651. Later Edition. Hardcover (in Slipcase). Very Good Condition. Full contemporary sheep, worn at the corners, hinges cracked but binding holding; a few marginal pencil marks, light foxing, small wormtrail in the gutter of the rear half of the book. 303pp with the extra engraved title. A collection of Facetiae - humorous anecdotes and stories - by the polymath Frischlin as well as more common ones by Bael and Bracciolini, among others. The final section is Henrichmann's Prognostica which was often collected with Babel. Size: duodecimo (12mo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Humour; Poetry. Inventory No: 044733.

Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 1493. Early Edition. Hardcover (Vellum). Very Good Condition. Bound in an old manuscript parchment leaf, vellum spine, degraded, stained. An old, ca 17th or early 18th century, rebinding. Pastedowns wormed, Dampstain to first 20 leaves, scattered browning, heavy to some leaves, minor ink stains. Notes, manicules and underlining in a contemporary hand throughout but not pervasive. (3), 206 leaves (0f 210, lacking rear blank). Rear blank replaced with laid paper with fleur de lis watermark. A finely printed incunable edition of Valerius Maximus's stories of Roman society. Set in a humanist typeface with the commentary of Oliverius Arziganensis which first appeared in 1487. Maximus's collection of around 1000 short tales and anecdotes of Roman life was foundational to the Renaissance as it provided often the sole pool of information about aspects of Roman life that were being widely emulated, especially in Italy and France. This edition was printed 9… Read More

Baltimore: Bacchus Press, 1992. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Burgundy boards - a facsimile of the 1880 first edition limited to 500 copies. Fine and apparently unopened. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: 047117.

Baltimore: Bacchus Press, 1992. Hardcover. Fine Condition. Burgundy boards - a facsimile of the 1876 first edition limited to 500 copies. Fine and apparently unopened. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: 047118.

London: H[umphrey]. L[ownes]. for Mathew Lownes, 1617. Early Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Good Condition. Contemporary calf rebacked and recornered, marbled endpapers added, hinges reinforced with cloth tape but binding quite sound overall. Lacking the general title and Faerie Queen part two title but with separate title pages for most of the individual parts and an old manuscript Faerie Queen title tipped in at the beginning. Light tide mark occasionally in bottom right corner, heavier in last dozen or so pages. Scattered minor browning, small marginal repair to C3, right edge of Foure Hymnes Title replaced - generally very good or better internally. Faerie Queen colophon dated 16012. ESTC S122304 with points B3r stanza 1 begins "Young Knight"; R3r catchword "And". Lacking blank at end of Faeirie Queen; a confusing book to collate, but collates as follows: 363pp, (10), 56pp, blank, (4), 5-16, (14), blank, (26), (22), (14), (10), (14), (12), (10), (6), (10), (8)pp.Faeries Queen, The… Read More

Edinburgh: Martin & Wotherspoon, 1768. Later Edition. Hardcover (Half Leather). Very Good Condition. Later half leather binding, worn at edges and spine ends but intact and sound. 70pp plus unpaginated epilogue and ads. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 039492.

New York: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Fine in a fine and unclipped jacket. First printing of the first edition. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; ISBN/EAN: 9780374152017. Inventory No: 047067.

1711. Disbound. Very Good Condition. Disbound from a larger volume, pages 1153-1223, but complete with the frontis. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Theatre & Plays; Inventory No: 042340.

London: Longman, Hurst and Co, 1822. Fourth Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition. Turn of the century burgundy cloth, scattered foxing and age toning internally, repaired tear on 145/6, frontis worn at edge and laid down. xvi, 350pp, frontis and 1 folding plate. Cagle 973 (1824 Dublin ed.)Published during the rancorous lawsuit between Rundell and her publisher John Murray, this edition appeared without Rundell's name on it through Longman. The suit was eventually resolved and the book continued to be published by Murray as "A New System of Domestic Cookery" in 1824. These Longman editions are all scarce. Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Inventory No: CAT000525.

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1923. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Written in collaboration with Lavinia S. Schwartz. binding is sound, mild age toning to page edges, occasionally illustrated with photographs. 523pp. Quite scarce. Bitting 164 Size: 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Cooking, Wine & Dining; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: CAT000003.

New York: Random House, 1975. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. First edition of Matthiessen's fifth novel, signed on the title. A bit of edgewear and sunning to edges of book and jacket, front hinge a touch weak and front free endpaper loosening. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 047540.

Pittsburgh: W.S. Haven, 1856. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition. Wm. Schuchman. Original green blindstamped cloth, gilt. Faint dampstain to endpapers and first few pages but otherwise a fine copy. With the three large folding plates at the rear showing "upwards of 150" grains and plants; a few minor creases to plates, otherwise fine. 127pp, errata Size: Quarto (4to). Illustrator: Wm. Schuchman. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Farming & Rural Life; Science & Technology. Inventory No: 040213.

London: Macmillan, 1881. Cloth. Very Good. Bound in reddish brown cloth with black lettering to front board and gilt lettering to spine. Some soiling and light discoloration to boards. Text is bright and for the most part clean aside from one page which has a number of pencil markings to one of the illustrations Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Inventory No: 033293.

London: H. Gardner, 1787. Third Edition. Hardcover (Full Leather). Very Good Condition. Contemporary acid calf, light wear at the edges, spine cracked in the center and book a bit over opened but binding still sound. Identified as the Third Edition on the title, though it went through a few editions with slightly different titles since it was first published in 1754. 2 volumes bound as 1; 211pp; 210pp. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Language & Linguistics; Inventory No: 045863.

Venice: J. Strada, 1557. First Edition. Hardcover (Quarter Leather). Very Good Condition. 19th century leather backed boards, front hinge cracked, corners worn, remains of library spine label, binding sound overall. Private library plate on pastedown, minor scattered foxing, index leaf foxed and with a stain in the bottom margin; overall quite clean internally. Printed in red and black with engraved emblems throughout. (12), 228pp, index, blanks intact. Adams P 195. Size: Folio. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 046552.