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Virgidemarum. Satires in Six Books.
by Hall (Joseph)
- Condition
- Used - Very Good +
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- 1753
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- Contemporary calf with gilt decoration, marbled end-papers.
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New York, New York, USA
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$1,450.00
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Very Good +. Oxford, printed for R. Clements, 1753. In-12, [ii; xii; half-title, verso blank; prologue; pages 13 -108; 2 final blanks]. Brackets drawn on a few lines on pages 55 and 67. Complete. Contemporary calf with gilt decoration, marbled end-papers. The first three books of tooth-lesse satires, attacking institutions, were published in 1597, with reprints… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,450.00
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C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi Epistolarum Libri X et Pangyricus. Accedunt ariantes Lectiones.
by Elzevier
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- Used - Good
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New York, New York, USA
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$1,100.00
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Good. Lugd[uni] Batavorum, Ex Officinâ Elseviriorum, 1640. 12mo. [xxiv; 1-289 ; 300-414 ; xxviii] Numbers 290-299 not used in pagination. Printers device on the title page. (Dedication to Ioanni de Laet by Bonaventure and Abraham Elzevier, Lugd-Batav.Kal.Sept. MDCXL. Praefatio, C. Plinii Caecilii Secundi Vita per Ioannem Mariam Catanaeum composita. Eiusdem Vita ex epistola collecta. Ex Onuphrii Panuini… Read more about this item Item Price
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PINDARIANA; or PETER'S PORTFOLIO. Containing Tale, Fable, Translation, Ode, Elegy, Epigram, Song, Pastoral, Letters. With Extracts from Tragedy, Comedy, Opera, &c. By Peter Pindar, Esq.
by [Wolcot, John], Pindar, Peter
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1794
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- Quarter vellum on marbled boards.
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New York, New York, USA
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$1,000.00
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Very Good. London: Printed by P. Spilsbury and Son, for J. Walker, Paternoster-Row; J. Bell; J. Ladley, Mount-Street, Berkeley-Square; and Mr. Jeffrey, Pall-Mall. M.DCC.XCIV. [1794] Quarter vellum on marbled boards, now scuffed. Quarto, 242 pages, 28 cm. First edition. An early twentieth century owner wrote an interesting entry on the front fly-leaf about the various available editions and… Read more about this item Item Price
$1,000.00
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Publius Terentius Afer
by Pickering Miniature Classics
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- Used - Fine
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- Contemporary red morocco, raised bands, gilt edges.
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New York, New York, USA
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$950.00
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Fine. Publius Terentius Afer, Londini impensis Gul. Pickering, 31, Lincolns Inn Fields, MDCCCXXII. Contemporary red morocco, raised bands, gilt edges, 83 mm x 46 mm, 3 7/16 in x 2 1/16 in, one of Pickerings famous miniature classics, containing all six of Terentius' surviving comedies: Andria, Eunuchus, Heauton Timorumenos, Hecyra, Adelphi, Phormio. [iv; … Read more about this item Item Price
$950.00
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Blackwood's Comic Zadkiel; An Almanac at once Prophetical, Quizzical and Physical, Ombrological and Symbolical, Astronomically Comical, and Comically Astronomical, for the Year 1855: A Work Devoted to All the "Ologies" Except Tautology, and Containing Full Prophecies upon Everything which Nobody Wishes to Know; and Truthfully Foretelling Every Future Event, from the Winner of the Derby to the Next Revolution in the Wheel of Time.
by Friswell, Hain, Editor
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- Used - Near Fine
- Published
- 1855
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- Original paper boards were laid down on stiff pasteboard and the linen spine added
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New York, New York, USA
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$850.00
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Friswell, Hain, Editor, Blackwood's Comic Zadkiel; An Almanac at once Prophetical, Quizzical and Physical, Ombrological and Symbolical, Astronomically Comical, and Comically Astronomical, for the Year 1855: A Work Devoted to All the "Ologies" Except Tautology, and Containing Full Prophecies upon Everything which Nobody Wishes to Know; and Truthfully Foretelling Every Future Event, from the Winner of the Derby to… Read more about this item Item Price
$850.00
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Sunday in London. .
by [Wight, John],
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- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- First
- Published
- 1833
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- Quarter tan calf on marbled boards. Hinges cracked and rubbed.
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New York, New York, USA
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$750.00
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Very Good. London, Effingham Wilson, 1833. Cohn 846. This copy has the plate "People of Condition on a Sunday" bound in at p. 42. Bookplate of Thomas Stillman. Quarter tan calf on marbled boards. Hinges cracked and rubbed but holding. Sold with an ALS from Wight to George Cruikshank, his illustrator, dated November 2, 1826. … Read more about this item Item Price
$750.00
Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London.
by Gay, Mr. [John],
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- Used - Very Good +
- Edition
- First edition, first issue.
- Published
- 1716
- Quantity Available
- 1
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New York, New York, USA
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$3,500.00
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Gay, Mr. [John], Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London. London, Bernard Lintott, [1716]. First edition, first issue, one of 250 fine paper copies. 8 5/8 in x 5 1/2 in. [initial blank; title-page A1; advertisement A2; 80 pages; index G1-6; concluding blank] Foxon G82. Rebacked, original backstrip preserved, gilt-trimmed all around, full tan calf. Signed… Read more about this item Item Price
$3,500.00
