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Disbound copy lacking boards & blank endpapers, but with frontis and half title. A foldout plan of the Bastille is included. No previous owners' names or other defacements. Scarce. 5.25 x 8.25 in

Original hand colored engraving from Blaeu's Le Theatre du Monde ou Nouvel Atlas Contenant, Les Chartes et Descriptions de tous les Pais de la Terre Mis en lumiere published in 1635. The map measures 19.5 x 15 in (49.5 x 38 cm) with the page measuring 22 x 18.25 in (56 x 46 cm). Text to rear.

Mémoires de la Société Royale de Géographie d'Egypte. Cream linen-covered boards; morocco labels to spine. vii, 149, [1], viii plates. Eight folding maps, six of which are colored. Small loss to cartouche of plate four & Tables des Matieres (nether affecting text). Foxing & thumbing to covers; losses to fore-edge (see images). 10 x 13.9 inches

Quarter morocco over marbled paper boards, raised bands and gilt spine with title, marbled endpapers. Wear to fore edge corners, foxing throughout. 568 pgs. ; 6 1/4 x 9 inches.

Quarter calf. 66 engraved plates (some double) with 152 pp of text interleaved. An additional four engraved plates & two maps in the Preface with Frontispiece. In all 73 engraved plates and maps. Occasional foxing. Lacks spine casing; boards detached.; Folio 10x16 in (265x410mm; [xvii],152 pages; Additional images and further information provided upon request.

Half red calf over marbled boards with gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Five (5) fold-out maps throughout, one of which has been long ago professionally reinforced with linen backing. No previous owners' names or other markings. Page 23/24 dog eared on bottom corner; closed tears and folds to pages 25-28; moisture mark to top exterior corner… Read more about this item

Limited to 990 copies, this being #295. Vibrant blue cloth boards with gilt particulars to front board and spine. Deckled edges. All 10 color sur blanc plates throughout, some with silver and majority in duo-tone printing. Previous owner's name (John Donald Hotchkiss) to front pastedown, otherwise no other names or markings. Bumping to head and tail of spine, and very… Read more about this item

Half dark brown morocco over cloth boards and 5 raised bands with gilt particulars to spine. Marbled endpapers. Previous owner has included several elegantly handwritten continuations of come chapters on separate sheets of paper and has interleaved them according to the chapter they associate with. Folding genealogical charts with hand colored key coding at front. No previous owners' names or… Read more about this item

Swedish version of Diderot's Nun nicely bound in supple half calf & profusely illustrated. "Based in the Eighteenth century, Suzanne Simonin is an intelligent and sensitive sixteen-year-old French girl who is forced against her will into a Catholic convent by her parents. Suzanne's parents initially inform her that she is being sent to the convent for financial reasons, stating… Read more about this item

Scarce first edition of this publication. Half black morocco over marbled boards, and 5 raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers. Hors texte plates with tissue guards throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. Occasional foxing. Vol. 1 is organized into 3 books, and each subsequent volume with the following books: Birth, Youth… Read more about this item

Nuremberg Chronicle page featuring a half page woodcut of Paris featuring a 1400s caravel ship on the Sienne with Latin text above as well as a half page woodcut of Mainz to verso with Latin text above. Hinged on map board. Woodcut by Pleydenwurff and Wohlgemut. 12 3/4 x 18 inches (Folio leaf).

Handsome, supple set in quarter morocco over marbled boards. Marbled end papers and gilt title to spine. Foxing throughout. 337 & 391 pgs; 5 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches.

Part of the Home and Colonial Library. Quarter morocco over marbled boards.. Five raised bands and gilt particulars to spine. Small loss to bottom corner of page 145/146. Heavy foxing to last page (176). [viii], 176 p. 5 x 7 1/4 inches.

Cellulose inset cover medallion of Bernhardt as La Princesse Lointaine (after Mucha) enveloped by poppies on wood-veneered boards. Twenty-eight fin-de-siecle celebrities, each in photograph (by Nadar, Boyer, et al.) surrounded by colored art nouveau motifs (by Habert-Dys, Orazi and Fraikin) and facsimiles of autographed script. Included are Victorien Sardou, Sarah Bernhardt, François Coppée,… Read more about this item