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1 Vol. Dante Alighieri, The Vision: or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise
Located in New York, NY
1 Vol. Dante Alighieri, The Vision: or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise (with a Life of Dante). The Albion Edition. Translated by Henry Francis Cary. Vellum bound, Vellucent Binding. Co...
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19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather
Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1925 - IN A FINE FULL BINDING!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: SHELLEY, Percy Bysshe.
TITLE: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley.
PUBLISHER: London: Oxford University Press, 1925.
DESCRIPTION: 1 vol., 912pp., 7-1/4" x...
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1920s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
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Leather
Poems of Samuel Taylor COLERIDGE, Third Edition, 1803
Located in Middletown, NY
London: T. N. Longman and O. Rees, 1803.
Third Edition.
12mo, 6 1/4 x 4 inches (160 x 114 mm); pp. xii + 202. Half-bound in tan calf with raised bands and gilt decorations, black l...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
The Works Of J. M. Barrie. PETER PAN EDITION - LIMITED SIGNED EDITION - 14 vols
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: BARRIE, J. M.
TITLE: The Works Of J. M. Barrie.
PUBLISHER: NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929.
DESCRIPTION: THE PETER PAN EDITION - LIMITED SIGNED EDITION. 14 vols., 9-7/1...
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1920s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
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Leather
William VAN DER WEYDE. The Life
Works Of Thomas Paine. PATRIOT
S EDITION 1925
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: VAN DER WEYDE, William.
TITLE: The Life And Works Of Thomas Paine.
PUBLISHER: NY: Thomas Paine National Historical Association, 1925.
DESCRIPTION: PATRIOT'S EDITION. 10 v...
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1920s American Vintage Animal Skin Books
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Leather
Scandinavian Antique Leather-Bound Books, 2000 Books in Brown And Red Available
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A large collection of Scandinavian decorative antique library leather-bound books
Please note that the pictures listed are a sample of the books available and not the exact 50 books available. We will send pictures of the actual books before shipping them out.
An attractive collection of 2000 mid-size antique leather-bound books. This lot of books on literature from Sweden are wrapped in leather-bound covers, comprised of varying rich, warm tones and gold leaf print embossing. The books seated side-by-side measures 2,5 meters, approximate 8´2 foot run. This collection of antique Swedish books are ready to ship and take their place, handsomely adorning your bookcase or library shelves...
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Early 20th Century Swedish British Colonial Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Paper
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, E. Fitzgerald transl. – 1889 – Petrus Ruban binding
Located in Middletown, NY
This is the first McCarthy translation of this popular text by the Persian polymath.
London: David Nutt / Chiswick Press, 1889.
12mo, 6 3/4 x 4 1/8 in (170 x 105 mm) pp. lxii + clv...
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Late 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Paper
19th Century Album Containing Drawings, Memorabilia, and Botanical Samples
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely example of an intimate 19th century memorabilia album illustrating the era's sensibilities for nature and antiquities, and bound in an exquisite blank album with miniature v...
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Early 18th Century Italian Antique Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
SPARROW. British Sporting Artists From Barlow To Herring - IN AN ONLAY BINDING !
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: SPARROW, Walter Shaw.
TITLE: British Sporting Artists From Barlow To Herring.
PUBLISHER: London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd., 1922.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 1 vol.,...
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1920s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
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Leather
HERBERT - Life And Reign Of King Henry The Eighth - 1683 - FOURTH EDITION
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: HERBERT, Edward Lord, Of Cherbury.
TITLE: The Life And Reign Of King Henry The Eighth.
PUBLISHER: London: for many, 1683.
DESCRIPTION: FOURTH EDITION. 1 vol., folio, 11-1...
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1680s British Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather
Ernest Hemingway
s Three Earliest Novels: First Editions Published by Scribner
s
Located in San Francisco, CA
A grouping of three first editions of Hemingway's earliest novels:
"The Sun Also Rises", published Scribner's 1927. This is an exploration of the lives of disillusioned American Brit...
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Early 20th Century American Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
A Rare Folio of Swiss Civil
Military Costumes after Hans Holbein the Younger
Located in Middletown, NY
Holbein, Hans the Younger (after) Chrétien de Méchel
Recueil de XII costumes suisses civils et militaires, hommes et femmes, du seizième siècle. Gravés d'après les dessins originaux ...
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Late 18th Century Swiss Antique Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
John Ruskin, OF QUEENS
GARDENS
Located in Middletown, NY
London / Edinburgh: George Allen / Ballantyne Press, 1902
8vo, 8 x 5 3/4 inches (203 x 145 mm), (4), 68, (1) pp. Printed on handmade Arnold paper with a flower and vine border on eac...
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Early 20th Century English Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains
Located in Middletown, NY
Among the most beautifully printed books on Chinese ceramics.
Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains
by: Bushell, Dr. Stephen W. and William M. Laffan
New York: Pr...
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Early 20th Century Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
20th Century Leather Bound Books
Located in Haywards Heath, GB
A set of ten English leather-bound books; LIFE of SCOTT.
In lovely original condition and has very good quality gilded bindings. Circa 1900s.
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20th Century English Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
$549 / set
Oscar Wilde, the Sphinx, First Edition, 1894, Illustrated by Charles Rickets
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: WILDE, Oscar.
TITLE: The Sphinx.
PUBLISHER: London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane at The Sign of The Bodley Head, 1894.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 8-1/2" x 7",...
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1890s British Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather
MARTIN GILBERT. The Life of Winston Churchill - 8 vols. 1966-88 ALL 1st EDITIONS
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CHURCHILL, Randolph S., continued by Martin Gilbert.
TITLE: The Life of Winston Churchill.
PUBLISHER: London: Heinemann, 1966-88.
DESCRIPTION: ALL FIRST EDITIONS. 8 vols....
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1960s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
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Leather
James Paine – Plans, Elevations and Section of Noblemen and Gentlemen
s Houses
Located in Middletown, NY
A fine FIRST EDITION ELEPHANT FOLIO of Jame's Paine monumental work:
Plans, Elevations and Section of Noblemen and Gentlemen's Houses, and also of Stabling, Bridges, Public and Priv...
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Mid-18th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Paper
Vanity Fair by Wm.Thackeray, Cosway Style Binding, First Edition, First Issue
Located in Middletown, NY
Vanity Fair; A Novel Without a Hero. With Illustrations On Steel and Wood By the Author.
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1848 / Vanity Fair; A Novel Without a Hero. With Illustrations On ...
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Mid-19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Paper
History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter
s Westminster by R. Ackermann
W.Combe
Located in Middletown, NY
Ackermann, Rudolph and William Combe (text).
The History of the Abbey Church of St. Peter's Westminster; Its Antiquities and Monuments.
London: R. Ackermann, 1812. First Edition, ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Paint, Paper
DICKENS. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit. FIRST EDITION - 1844
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: DICKENS, Charles.
TITLE: The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit.
PUBLISHER: London: Chapman & Hall, Ltd., 1844.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. 1 vol., 8-5...
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1840s American Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy by Mr. Yorick (Laurence Stern)
Located in Middletown, NY
Waltham Saint Lawrence: Golden Cockerel Press, 1928.
Limited Edition, numbered
8vo, 9 x 5 3/4 inches (230 x 145 mm); iv + 152 + ii pages, printed on English hand-made paper in 14 pt....
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Early 20th Century English Animal Skin Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
s "Zapolya, a Christmas Tale" in Fine Leather Binding
Located in Middletown, NY
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Zapolya: A Christmas Tale; in Two Parts: The Prelude entitled "The Usurper's Fortune;" and The Sequel, entitled "The Usurper's Fate."
London: Rest Fenner, ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
Cyrano De Bergerac, by Edmond Rostrand with Riviere Binding
Located in Middletown, NY
Cyrano's nose got in the way of his heart. A must-have for collectors of French classics.
Rostand, Edmond (1868 – 1918). Cyrano de Bergerac.
Paris: Librairie Charpentier et Fasq...
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Late 19th Century European Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
1927 Dictionary of Modern English Usage H.W. Fowler Oxford Antique Leather Book
Located in Dayton, OH
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage - by H.W. Fowler - Published by G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1927 - Printed in England at the Oxford university Press by John Johnson - Soft cover, black ...
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1920s Vintage Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
$348 Sale Price
25% Off
The Love Affairs of Lord Byron by F. Gribble – COSWAY STYLE BINDING
Located in Middletown, NY
A sumptuous extra-illustrated copy with Cosway-style binding by Bayntun of Bath.
London: Eveleigh Nash, 1910.
Octavo, 8 1/4 x 5 3/8 (210 x 137 mm),pp. i-xii, 382. Illustrated with ...
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Early 20th Century English Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paint, Paper
Collection of 22 Swedish 20th Century Leather-Bound Books
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
A collection of 22 Swedish decorative antique leather-bound library books.
The books are wrapped in leather-bound covers, comprised of a selection of warm tones and gold leaf print embossing.
The book collection measure horizontally is 80 cm, approximate 31,49 inches wide. This collection of books...
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Early 20th Century Swedish British Colonial Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord M.DCCC.XXXII 1832 – John Goldsmith
Located in Middletown, NY
Goldsmith, John
An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord M.DCCC.XXXII 1832
London: Company of Stationers, 1831. 24mo; 4 1/8 x 2 1/4 in. (107 x 60 mm); pp. 64 + 12 blank sheets front and...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
Novels of Charlotte, Emily,
Anne Bronte - 6 Vols - 1922 - ILLUSTRATED BY DULAC
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: BRONTE, Charlotte, Emily and Anne.
TITLE: The Novels of Charlotte, Emily, & Anne Bronte.
PUBLISHER: London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1922.
DESCRIPT...
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1920s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
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Leather
Italian Sketches and New Italian Sketches by John Addington Symonds
Located in valatie, NY
This set of antique books were published in England by Leipzig Gernhard Tauchnitz in 1883 and 1884. The two volumns contain Italian sketches by a ...
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19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather
A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and its Vicinity by James Merigot
Located in Middletown, NY
A wonderfully illustrated collection of important Roman views.
Merigot, James
A Select Collection of Views and Ruins in Rome and its Vicinity ; Recently Executed From Drawings Made ...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
A Tillyloss Scandal by J. M. Barrie, creator of PETER PAN
Located in Middletown, NY
\New York: Lovell, Coryell and Company, 1893.
First Edition, Second Issue.
Small 8vo., 7 3/8 x 5 inches (188 x 127 mm), pp. 270. Beautifully bound by Root & Son in red calf with go...
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Late 19th Century American Antique Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
Marseille Ancienne et Moderne - FIRST ED WITH THE GILT ARMS OF NAPOLEON - 1786
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: M. Guys [Pierre-Augustin].
TITLE: Marseille Ancienne et Moderne.
PUBLISHER: Paris: Veuve Duchesne, 1786.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION WITH THE GILT ARMS OF NAPOLEON. 1 vol....
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1780s French Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather
A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, 1786 - 2 volumes
Located in Middletown, NY
A Dictionary of the English Language; In Which the Words are Deduced From Their Originals and Illustrated In Their Different Significant By Examples From the Best Writers. To Which are Prefixed a History of the Language and an English Grammar
London: printed by John Jarvis and sold by John Fielding...
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Late 18th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, E. Fitzgerald transl. – 1926 – Zaehnsdorf binding
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely edition of the poetry of Omar Khayyám, whose verses fed the orientalist craze of fin-de-siècle Europe.
Khayyám, Omar / Translated by Edward Fitzgerald / Decorated by Thomas...
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Early 20th Century English Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Paper
PLANCHE - The Vampire; or Bride of the isles - 1820 - FIRST AND ONLY EDITION
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: PLANCHE, James Robinson: Pierre-Frederic-Adolphe Carmouche.
TITLE: The Vampire; or, Bride of the isles, A Tale, founded on the popular superstition of Caledonia.... From wh...
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1820s British Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather
Antiquities of Norfolk by John S. Cotman – 1818, with THREE additional etchings
Located in Middletown, NY
Antiquities of Norfolk; A Series of Etchings Illustrative of the Architectural Antiquities of Norfolk, with References to the Authors who have Described or Figured them.
London: Lon...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Paint, Paper
Costumes of Spain – ILLUSTRATED by Antonio Rodríguez, 1803
Located in Middletown, NY
Colección General de los Trajes que en la actualidad se usan en España: principiada en el año 1801
Madrid: Librarias de Castillo, 1801.
First Edition
8vo (12mo?); 6 1/2 4 1/8 inche...
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Early 19th Century Spanish Antique Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
20 Vols. R.L.Stevenson. The Works
Located in New York, NY
20 Volumes.Robert L. Stevenson. The Works.
"Pentland Edition" With Bibliographical notes by Edmund Gosse. Bound in full red morocco, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, raised bands, ...
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Early 20th Century English Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather
$10,500 / set
The Complete Newgate Calendar. Stories of sin, crime, criminals - 5 vol. illustr
Located in Middletown, NY
Rayner, J.L. and G.T. Crook, editors
The Complete Newgate Calendar; Being Captain Charles Johnson's General History of the Lives and Adventures of the Most Famous Highwaymen, Murdere...
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Early 20th Century English Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, with His Life, Written by Himself, 1835
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Franklin, Benjamin. The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Consisting of Essays, Humorous, Moral, and Literary, with His Life, Written by Himself. Exeter: J & B Williams, 1835. In origi...
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1830s American Federal Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Fabric, Paper
The Republican Court of American Society in the Day of Washington Rufus Griswold
Located in San Francisco, CA
A lovely embossed red leather 4to size copy of Rufus Wilmot Griswold's account of the American Republican court during the presidency of George Washington. The exquisite embossed re...
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Mid-19th Century American Victorian Antique Animal Skin Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
The Works Of Martin Luther - PHILADELPHIA EDITION - 6 vols. - IN A FINE BINDING!
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: LUTHER, Martin.
TITLE: The Works Of Martin Luther.
PUBLISHER: Philadelphia: Muhlenberg Press, 1943.
DESCRIPTION: THE PHILADELPHIA EDITION. 6 vols., bound in 1/4 green cal...
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1940s American Vintage Animal Skin Books
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Leather
MILNE. The House At Pooh Corner. LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY CHRISTOPHER MILNE !
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: MILNE, A. A.
TITLE: The House At Pooh Corner. London: Methuen Children's Books, 1978.
DESCRIPTION: LIMITED EDITION SIGNED BY CHRISTOPHER MILNE. 1 vol, 7-1/2" x 5-1/4", limi...
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1970s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
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Leather
Richard BURTON. The Book Of The Thousand Nights. 12 vols. 1897 IN A FINE BINDING
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: BURTON, Richard.
TITLE: The Book Of The Thousand Nights And A Night.
PUBLISHER: London: H. S. Nichols, Ltd., 1897.
DESCRIPTION: 12 vols., 1...
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1890s British Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather
1st US Edition of ‘Enquiry Concerning Political Justice’ by W Godwin 1796
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING AN EXTREMELY RARE FIRST US EDITION hardback copy of “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness by William Godwin, First American from ...
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Late 18th Century American George III Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Paper
Geometrical and Graphical Essays by George Adams (1750-1795)
Located in Middletown, NY
Geometrical and Graphical Essays [and] Plates to the Geometrical and Graphical Essays.; By the late George Adams, Mathematical Instrument Maker to his Majesty, & c.
London: W. & S. Jones, 1813. Fourth Edition. Two volumes, 8vo, 9 x 5 3/4 in. (228 x 145 mm). Text volume: pp. frontispiece, xii, 534, [16] ads; Plates vol.: pp. title page and 34 folding plates. Previous owner's name penned on the first free flyleaf. Uniform contemporary paper-covered boards, untrimmed, housed in a felt-lined custom clamshell box, 9 x 5 1/2 in. Occasional browning to the edges of some of the plates in Vol. 2, 1/2 inch tear to fold of Pl. VIII and 1 inch tear to the edge of Pl XIV, none of these minor flaws affecting the images. Frontispiece "The Great Theodolite, by Ramsden, Used by the late Gen.l Roy &c. in the great English Trigonometrical Operations." This is the "Fourth Edition, corrected and enlarged by William Jones, F. Am. P. S.
[ESTC T88416, 1791 edition].
The last chapter of these fascinating volumes includes conversion tables to various standard national measure ranging from the Paris foot to the Russian archine, to the Venice braccio, the Egyptian stadium to 'The mathematical foot of China'.
GEORGE ADAMS the younger (1750–1795) was an English scientist, optician and scientific writer. In politics Adams was a Tory, and as such was received with favour at court by George III, who made him his official mathematical instrument maker, succeeding his father George Adams in the post. George III was personally interested in instruments and had Adams produce items for him exclusively, many in silver. These instruments now form a collection which is housed in London's Science Museum Royal collection Adams was also known for making globes, and for inventing the lucernal microscope, a type of projection microscope where the image is projected on a screen by a large oil lamp...
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Early 19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
Saumel Roger
s Italy, a Poem
Poems
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb set of poetical works by Samuel Rogers (1763 – 1855) from the esteemed library of bookseller/collector William A. Foyle. The verses in "Italy" were the fruit of Rogers' trav...
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19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Paper
$2,400 / set
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway, First Edition, 1940
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom the Bell Tolls. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1940. First edition, first printing. Octavo. Rebound in full leather boards, with blind embossing to fr...
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Fabric, Paper
Joseph TAYLOR. Apparitions; Or, the Mystery of Ghosts. FIRST EDITION - 1814
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: TAYLOR, Joseph.
TITLE: Apparitions; Or, the Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed. Being a collection of entertaining stories founded on fact; and sel...
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1810s British Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather
John Ruskin, OF QUEENS
GARDENS
Located in Middletown, NY
London / Edinburgh: George Allen / Ballantyne Press, 1902
8vo, 8 x 5 3/4 inches (203 x 145 mm), (4), 68, (1) pp. Printed on handmade Arnold paper with a flower and vine border on eac...
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Early 20th Century English Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
NALSON, John. For The Tryal of K. Charles I - FIRST EDITION - 1684
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: NALSON, John.
TITLE: A True Copy Of The Journal Of The High Court of Justice, For The Tryal of K. Charles I. As it was Read in the House of Commons, And Attested under the ...
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1680s American Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather
Franklin Library Vintage Leather Books Set of 8
Located in Newtown, CT
Franklin Library Vintage Leather Books Set of Nine. From the late 70's and 80's. One signed the others classic 100 books of all time. Good used condition some markings on gilt edge a...
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1980s American American Classical Vintage Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Paper
Izaak WALTON. The Compleat Angler. Illustrated by Arthur Rackham FIRST TRADE ED
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: WALTON, Izaak.
TITLE: The Compleat Angler.
PUBLISHER: London: George C. Harrap & Co., 1931.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST TRADE EDITION. 1 vol., 9-3/4" - 7-9/16", illustrated by Art...
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1930s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
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Leather
Set of Old Bound Books, 19th Century
Located in Beuzevillette, FR
Set of old books dating from the 19th century. From an old protestant library near Le Havre in France. These books are entitled "Histoire du protestantisme français" (History of Fren...
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19th Century French Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Paper
$153 Sale Price
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Uncensored Anthology Gathered from Many Questionable Sources, Leather, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
An Uncensored anthology gathered from many questionable sources.
Illustrated by Joseph Wynn. Published by The Peter Pauper Press, Mount Vernon, New York, 1939. The only copy in leat...
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1930s American Vintage Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Paper
Horace WALPOLE. The Castle Of Otranto, A Gothic Story. SECOND EDITION - 1765
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: WALPOLE, Horace.
TITLE: The Castle Of Otranto, A Gothic Story.
PUBLISHER: London: for William Bathoe and Thomas Lownds, 1765.
DESCRIPTION: SECOND EDITION. 1 vol., 7-1/8" ...
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1760s British Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather
An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare by Montagu, Mrs. (Elizabeth)
Located in Middletown, NY
Montagu, Mrs. (Elizabeth), 1718-1800
An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare; An essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare, compared with the Greek and French dramat...
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Mid-18th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Gold Leaf
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, E. Fitzgerald translation, Club Bindery
Located in Middletown, NY
From the library of John A. Spoor an elegantly bound Rubáiyát by Club Bindery.
Omar Khayyám, Translated by Edward Fitzgerald.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám; The Astronomer-Poet of Persia. Rendered into English Verse.
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1872. Third Edition.
8vo, 8 1/4 x 6 inches (210 x 153 mm); xxiv, 36, (xiv) pp. Beautiful dark maroon morocco binding by Club Bindery 1892 (gold stamped on bottom of inside cover), gilt titling and gilt fillets on turn-ins and board edges, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Pictorial bookplate of John A. Spoor 1921 on inside front cover by Emery Walker. Elegantly printed with text within decorative frames on each page. Spine lightly rubbed, small tear to the inside front endpaper.
[Potter, 137]
Condition: Near Fine
Edward Fitzgerald continually revised and rearranged his version of the Rubáiyát, which was first published privately by the author in 1859, through four distinct editions during his lifetime. This third edition settled on 101 quatrains (as opposed to 75 in the first edition and 110 in the second), which is how it solidified. 500 copies were printed. A RARITY.
In this third edition the translator is not credited on the title page, nor is the introductory text. Fitzgerald said of his Persian translations that they were "All very well, but very little affairs..." (from the Bibliographical Note in the 1926 Shakespeare Head Press edition, which we are offering, inventory #416)
This copy bears the bookplate of Chicago business mogul John A. Spoor. An avid book collector, he assembled a notable and impressive book collection during the late 19th and early 20th century, which was auctioned in 1939 by Parke-Bernet New York over the course of 6 days. The Morgan Library holds a number of books with the Spoor bookplate in its collections. This bookplate was engraved by Emery Walker (1851 – 1933), an engraver, publisher and photographer active in the Arts and Crafts movement, whose work in type design inspired the evolution of private presses in the UK, among them William Morris' Kelmscott...
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Mid-19th Century English Antique Animal Skin Books
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Leather, Paper
MALORY / Rackham, The Romance Of King Arthur, SIGNED IN A FINE ONLAY BINDING !
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: MALORY, Thomas, (Arthur Rackham).
TITLE: The Romance Of King Arthur And His Knights Of The Round Table.
PUBLISHER: London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1917.
DESCRIPTIO...
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1910s British Vintage Animal Skin Books
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Leather
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