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B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1/1/1903. Hardcover. Acceptable. Large, heavy book with many plates. Clean, unmarked pages. Hardcover. No dust jacket. Wear to cover. Rubbing to edges. Ships daily.

Henry Rhodes, 1688. Leather Bound. Very Good. 3 volume set. Henry Rhodes, 1688, 2nd edition. Large leather folios. Contemporary leather. Clean, unmarked pages. Good bindings and covers. Hardcover. Minor edge/rubbing wear to edges. Ships daily.

New York : Knapp Company, 1910. Hardcover. Good. Elephant folio, 36 x 55 cm. Unnumbered copy of 750. Contemporary 3/4 red leather. Rubbing, minor chipping. Splitting to joints. Plates clean. Comprises 8 pages of introductory text followed by 27 bifolia with commentary on second page and color relief half-tone of carpet on facing third page.<br> Charles Tyson Yerkes, the infamous banker who was responsible for building a large part of Chicago's transit system, had visions of an elaborate catalogue of hand-painted reproductions illustrating the finer examples of oriental carpets in his collection. His death in 1905 prevented the project from being finished, and in 1910, when the bulk of his estate was to be sold, this catalogue was published. BMC XXVII, 697.196

Paris: A. Durand et Pedone-Lauriel, 1877. Hardcover. Good. Paris: A. Durand et Pedone-Lauriel, 1877. 1st Edition. French. Collated. Half calf. Octavo, viii + 402 pp. Bound in a 19th century red leather binding, with moderate wear. Minor cover wear. Internally, very good-, with minor foxing. Damp stain on first end page and frontis. A 19th century account of the life of Francois-Dominique Toussaint L'ouverture (1743-1803), a former slave who became the dynamic leader of the Haitian Revolution that liberated Haiti from France, he created and ruled the first black-ruled Republic, but who was captured by the French and died in captivity in France. The author of this book was able to read the secret family papers of Louverture that were preserved by his son Isaac Louverture and he provides a detailed and comprehensive description of L'Ouverture, and the events that terrified slave-owners worldwide and shocked Europe and the Americas.

Medicina Rara, 1972. Hardcover. Like New. Signed. Fine. *Signed by the artist, Leonard Baskin.* Large folio, 57 cm. Imperial folio. 13 plates. Clean, unmarked pages. Fine binding and cover. Hardcover and slip case. Portfolio format. Notes: Title page printed in red and black.Prints produced from Baskin's original pen and ink drawings, signed and dated. Plate IV has an bright orange washed background and plate VI has a brown wash.Page [2] initialed by Leonard Baskin."Twenty-eight hundred portfolios of Leonard Baskin's Ars anatomica were printed for the members of Editions Medicina Rara, Ltd. at The Curwen Press Ltd., London, England, on a specially made paper bearing the private watermark of Medicina Rara and manufactured by E. Towgood & Sons, Sawston, Cambridgeshire, England. The plates for the printing were made from thirteen original drawings, commissioned by Medicina Rara expressly for this purpose. Three hundred double suites have been placed in boxed portfolios and covered in… Read More

Macmillan and Company, 1882-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Clean, unmarked pages. Macmillian, 1882. 756 pp. Green cloth. Hardcover. Harvard University Peabody Museum book plate inside cover. Scuff on cover. 10 fold outs, 2 in color. Front hinge weakened. Ships daily.

Namibia Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft, 1997. Hardcover. Like New. Clean, unmarked pages. Good binding and cover. Hardcover. German. Ships daily.

1854. Hardcover. Good. Lithograph map with original hand-colored highlights. Approximately 12 1/4 X 12 1/2" on 18 X 18" sheet with extensive printed text at all margins. Title and credit in the map at upper right, good condition with some aging at folds. <br> Original slim 12mo dark green leather-covered board folder with gilt lettering at upper cover. Some scuffing and wear at edges. Additional smaller lithograph map with hand-colored highlights mounted at inside of upper cover. Lengthy 1858 pencil notation of purchase ("on the Field of Waterloo") from Cotton's niece on verso of map.

Baudry's European library, 1836. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Baudry's European library, 1836. Clean, unmarked pages. Hardcover. Leather spine. Rubbing to cover. Ships daily.

Academiae Litterarum, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. Blue cloth with black leather spine label and head & tail lines. Fine binding and cover. Tanning. Ships daily.

London : Printed for J.J. and P. Knapton, et al, 1734-01-01. 2nd. Hardcover. Good. Folio. 5 Volumes. Vol. 1: [10], 17, [1], cxxviii, 803, [1] p.; v. 2: [2], 880 p.; v. 3: [2], 973, [1] p.; v. 4: [2], 944 p.; v. 5: [2], 872, 143, [1] p. Includes index. Bound in fine modern brown leather. Gilt spine and boards. Maroon leather spine labels. 5 raised bands. Marbled endpages. New endpapers. Fine binding and covers. Small owners stamp to bottom of original FFEP. Dampstain affecting title pages and first few pages margins, affecting text to Vol. I-III and V. Per Printing in the Mind of Man 155b: "For over half a century, until the publication of the Encyclopedie, Bayle's Dictionnaire dominated enlightened thinking in every part of Europe". <br><br> Pierre Bayle's Dictionary is effectively constituted one of the first encyclopaedias of ideas and their originators. In the Dictionary, Bayle expressed his view that much that was considered to be "truth" was actually… Read More

Geneva : Eustathium Vignon, 1580. Hardcover. Good. Octavo 15.2 x 9.8 cm. Bound in later quarter leather over patterned boards. Restoration to spine and corners, rehinged. [16], 213 pp. Some toning. Early underscoring, old inscriptions on front endpaper and title, white stains in lower margin of pages 96-97. <br> "As a Protestant, Lavater rejected the idea of Purgatory. as an outdated Catholic concept. This greatly complicated the idea of 'ghosts', often thought to be visitations by human souls that were not at rest, such as those who died unbaptized or in tragic or violent circumstances. Without Purgatory, ghosts could only be visitations from Heaven or Hell. Lavater felt they were more likely to have come from Hell, and this meant that many ghosts were demonic and their requests dangerous: they could be trying to lure humans into damnation, for example by persuading them to commit murder or suicide" (British Library)." This work on ghosts is one of the earliest works… Read More

Barre Massachusetts: Barre Publishers, 1965. Hardcover. Good. Atlas portfolio. Loose in publisher's large portfolio box, as issued. Shelf wear to box. Limited edition of 500 copies. 25 colored plates, one map of Central America Yucatan, 24 page booklet. All the plates are printed on heavy paper (520 x 419 mm), some have been mounted by Mickelson's Fine Art Framing (of Washington DC) on heavy card stock. 26 plates total, but one plate in duplicate, lacking plate 8. "Reprinted by Barre and the Meriden Gravure co. from a hand-colored set of the 1844 London edition in the library of Edwin Shook, Harvard, Massachusetts. L.C.C. No. 65-16659." Catherwood's work

London : Richard Bentley, 1836. Hardcover. Very Good. [Gorgeous Bindings, signed in gold by the firm of George Bayntun of Bath, England. Extra-Illustrated, with additional mounted plates throughout] 4 thick octavo volumes. Bound in crushed blue morocco. Bindings are sound, but have some minor shelf wear. Triple gilt ruled covers with Napoleon's coat of arms at each end. All edges gilt. Gilt spines. Gilt turn ins and dentelle. Some of the plates are hand colored. The pages are clean and unmarked. Translation of "Memoires sur Napoleon, le directoire, le consulat, l'empire et la restauration." <br> Suitable for a superior library. A lovely set.

C. Scribner's Sons, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 20 volumes. Green cloth. Hardcover and dust jacket. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. Some wear to djs. Good binding and cover. Clean, unmarked pages. Frontispiece (portrait) illustrations, maps 21 cm. Top edges gilt. Contents:v. 1. Hunting trips of a ranchman. Game shooting in the West. Good hunting; v. 2. The wilderness hunter; v. 3. Outdoor pastimes of an American hunter; v. 4. A book-lover's holiday in the open. Ranch life and the hunting trail; v. 5. African game trails ; an account of the African wanderings of an American hunter-naturalist; v. 6. Through the Brazilian wilderness, and Papers on natural history; v. 7. The naval war of 1812, the history of the United States Navy during the last war with Great Britain, to which is appended an account of the battle of New Orleans; v. 8. Thomas Hart Benton. Gouverneur Morris; v. 9. Hero tales from American history, by Henry Cabot Lodge, Theodore Roosevelt. New York, by Theodore… Read More