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Nendeln/Lichtenstein: Klaus, 1979. Buckram. A Very Good Set Reprint. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 576 pp. v. I; 887 pp. v. II; 601 pp. v. III; 496 pp. v.IV. Originals of the congresses of 1878, 1888, 1898.

University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium, 1963. Softcover. Very Good Condition. Size: 8mo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" tall. 909 pp. Pages are tight and clean. Cover is sunned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 3-5 pounds. Category: Books on Books; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001126. . Additional shipping charges may apply..

Adelaide South Australia: Libraries Board of South Australia, 1992. First printing. Stiff Wraps. As New. Signed, limited edition of 300 - this number 55.. Pages 94, illust text. Introduction by Valmai Hankel. Contents - Check-list of facsimiles published by LBSA 1960's/70's. (South Australiana/Australiana/Miscellaneous) Condition very fine. Size 210 x 295 mm. Scarce Reference. Signed Please note: Due to International mail delivery problems, we currently supply items only to Australian or New Zealand addresses.

London: Harding, Triphook, and Lepard, 1825. Hardcover. Second Edition revised. 8vo. 2 volumes. Volume I. pp. [6], 448. Volume II. pp. [2], 449-899, [1]. Bound in modern quarter calf with marbled boards and endpapers after 19th century style. Pages are generally clean with occasional mild scattered marginal foxing; a few minor tears are professionally sealed; a tiny hole in pp. 723/24 effects a couple letters of text; a name is lightly written in an early hand on corner of front fly-leaf of each volume. Dibdin discusses the best books with which to fill an English gentleman’s antiquarian library. Primarily covers works in the humanities - history, voyages and travels, belles letters, poetry, English drama etc. Copious notes are included on many titles in regards to content, scarcity, best editions etc.

Leiden, Petrus van der Aa; Luchtmans & Haak, 1716 - 1741. (x), 500pp; (60 unnumbered ff); titlepage of supplement; pages 501-534. 2 parts in one. Folio. Title in red and black with engraved vignette.With finely engraved frontispiece representing the library interior and heads of celebrated Dutch scholars, full page plate of benefactors and plate of the Copernican Globe preserved in the library. Preface and index. Full contemporary mottled sheep (rubbed, corners lightly bumped, head & foot of spine chipped, lower back joint cracked). Red morocco title shield. The present catalogue was first published in 1716. When the supplement was completed in 1741 a newer and fuller titlepage was substituted in the copies then unsold, but still dated 1716. The supplement has a separate titlepage: Supplementum Catalogus librorum tam impressum quam manuscriptum Bibliothecae publicae Universitatis Lugduno-Batavae. Leiden (Samuel Lugtmans & Cornelius Haak), 1741, but the pagination is continuous (the supplement occupies… Read More

London: Printed For The Author By W. Bulmer And W. Nicol, 1821. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary calf ruled in gilt, raised bands, black leather backstrip title and volume labels lettered in gilt, rebacked with original spines laid-down. Aeg gilt. 3 Vols. Very good. 462 (lxxIx), 555, 621 (lxii). 28 x 19 cm. 83 engraved plates, one hand-colored, two double-page, engraved vignettes (many on India paper), woodcuts within text. Index bound in Vol. I with printed ticket, and Supplement at end of Vol. III. Dibdin's most extravagant work which went a long way toward ruining him, plates alone purported to cost 5000 pounds. This copy with the rare "Diane of Poictiers" plate inserted, which was supposedly destroyed after only 50 copies were printed (LOWNDES II, p. 641). With manuscript letter in ink, signed by Bernard Quaritch, June 17, 1890 attesting to the genuineness of the Poicters engraving, with another Quaritch letter dated Jan. 28, 1881 letter attesting to the collation, noting where three… Read More

(Vedere la parte inferiore dell'elenco per la traduzione in italiano.) RARE. Four consecutive paperback volumes with original pictorial dust jackets. Text in Latin. Sparsely illustrated. Each volume has an Index (scans are available upon request). Volume 1958 includes a small card which reads "OMAGGIO del Rettore Magnifico della PONTIFICIA UNIVERSITA' DEL LATERANO". Ex-library but showing only penciled numbers and small date stamps.Books show some edgewear, including minor bumping to tip and heel of spines, and the binding starting in a couple of places, but are otherwise Very Good+ to Near Fine. Dust jackets have some shelfwear, including tears at tip and heel of spines, and some discolouration/staining, but are otherwise in Very Good. Please see listing images for more detail. Customer may be asked to approve additional shipping costs before order is accepted, due to size and weight (approximately 8.5 x 12 x 4.5 inches, 7 lbs.).In Italiano (di Google Translate): RARO. Quattro volumi tascabili… Read More

One of 500 copies. Cobleskill NY: Kathryn I. Rickard, 11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, leather-textured fabric covered boards with gold lettering on the spine, dust jacket. viii, 250 pages. The first bibliography of miniature books, written by the Head of the Catalogue Department of the Newberry Library. Near fine, with a very slightly bumped corner and very slight wrinkles of the otherwise near fine dust jacket.

Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1962. Second edition. Cloth bound in very good condition; Two small blemishes to rear cover; Glue residue of removed bookplate on front end paper.. xxxviii, 264 pages.

Paris: Ancienne Maison Quantin, Librairies-Imprimeries Reunis, 1895. First printing. LIMITED FRENCH EDITION SUMPTUOUS COLLECTION OF STORIES ILLUSTRATED WITH ORIGINAL ETCHINGS, LITHOGRAPHS, AND PHOTOGRAVURES INCLUDES "THE END OF BOOKS"--PREDICTING TODAY'S eBOOKS AND AUDIOBOOKS. 12 inches tall hardcover, 3/4 green pebbled leather binding, gilt rules, marbled paper covered boards, decorative gilt title to spine, marbled endpapers, 2x2.5 inch photographic bookplate to front free endpaper, "Ex. Lib. E. C. 1895," original art deco color lithographed paper covers by Auriol bound in, title page with hand colored vignette by Robida and facing limitation notice (volume 467 of 1000 printed on Japanese vellum), iv, 230 pp, colophon (printed on presses of the former Quantin, Paris, November 27, 1894). 17 plates (comprising 2 original etchings by Robida and 15 photogravures or lithographs including 4 handcolored), 170 figures in text. Wear to cover edges and corners, binding tight, light browning to pages, text and… Read More

3 opere in tre volumi in-12°: (mm 123x70); cc.70, (2); marche tipografiche al frontespizio (Z537) e in fine (Z543); capilettera e fregi silografici; (mm 126x70); cc. 72; marche tipografiche al frontespizio (A117) e a c. F12v (Z543); capilettera e fregi silografici; (mm 126x72); cc. 112, (8); marche tipografiche al frontespizio (di Scoto, V464) e presso il colophon (di Marcolini, U 546). Eleganti legature tardo-ottocentesche in marocchino verde con impressioni in oro ai piatti, sguardie marmorizzate e taglî dorati. Belle copie (la terza con margini sobri).
A very nice set of of the first complete edition of the first bibliography of Italian literature. The first two volumes contain the first and the second edition of the first part of the "Libraria" (the first is distinguished from the second, published in the same year, for the notice to readers - longer and placed on page 44rather than 43v - and for the suppression of the name of Lodovico Domenichi, "against whom [...] the enmity of Doni had broken… Read More

London: The Bodley Head, 1966 A Catalogue of the Collection made by Dorothy Glover and Graham Greene. Bibliographically arranged by Eric Osborne and introduced by John Carter.

London: The Bodley Head, 1966. Limited to 500 copies, this is copy no. 299. Signed by Graham Greene, Dorothy Glover and John Carter. Both Carter and Osborne were friends of Greene's and
Victorian book specialists at Sotheby's auction house.

Book is unclipped and fine. Clean and crisp.
Dustwrapper is near fine with slight sunning to the spine.

Scarce limited edition with the signatures of a well-known author and his friends.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1999. No 277 of the De Luxe edition limited to 376 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray each containing a previously unpublished broadside poem by Bukowski. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Black Sparrow Press 1999, First Edition. Sharp copy of the definitive bibliography of Bukowski's work from 1946-1999. Limited Issue, No 277 of the De Luxe edition limited to 376 copies handbound in boards by Earle Gray, each containing the previously unpublished broadside poem "Crime and Punishment," this being copy no.26. Octavo (23.75cm); printed paper-covered boards and teal cloth backstrip, with title label applied to spine; publisher's original acetate dustjacket; 204,[4], with [92]pp of black and white photos of Bukowki's works bound in at center. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. -- Ships with free Priority Mail upgrade (within US).

Two volume set in slipcase. Book covers like new, slight wear at end caps - pages clean, bright and unmarked – spines like new.
Jackets glossy and like new. Slipcase like new, sticker mark on side.
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Examining Brigham Young's legacy requires an understanding of his raw ambition and religious zeal. A formidable leader in both his church and country, Young's abilities coincided with the colonizing zeitgeist of nineteenth-century America. Thus, by 1877, some 400 Mormon settlements spanned the western frontier from Salt Lake City to outposts in Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Wyoming, and California. As prophet of the LDS Church and governor of the proposed State of Deseret, Young led several campaigns for Utah statehood while defending polygamy and local sovereignty. His skillful and authoritarian leadership led historian Bernard de Voto to classify him as an "American… Read More

Dust Jackets: Description applies to all volumes except as noted. DJ's are original to each volume and clean with no flap clipping and no toning. Minor shelf wear on panel surfaces. Structurally sound.
Vol. 3 - the spine is toned due to prolonged light exposure while shelved and there is a small tear at the top of the spine (photo).
Vol. 2 - 2" "bookmark" crease on the top of the front flap. Caused by carelessness when closing the book.

Volumes: Description applies to all books except as noted. The boards and spines are firm and strong, no structural weaknesses. Board edges are unblemished, tips are not bent. Gilt "TJ" medallions on the front boards and lettering on the spine is bright and unblemished.
Light uniform page toning, a minimal defect considering the books' vintage. Illustrations throughout all volumes are fully preserved.

Volumes are chronological and as follows: Jefferson the Virginian; Jefferson and the Rights of Man; Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty; Jefferson the President:… Read More