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C. Plinii Secundi Historiae naturalis libri XXXVII Two volumes of three (Books I-XXIV only).
Edition: First Thus
Book ID: 1153More details Price: £300.00 -
Chants et Chansons Populaires de la France Nouvelle Edition Illustree d'apres les Dessins de MM. E. De Beaumont, Daubighy, Dubouloz, E. Giraud, Meissonier, Pascal, Staal, Steinheil et Trimolet. Graves par les Meilleurs Artistes.
Book ID: 1707More details Price: £170.00 -
Le diable au corps. Compositions en couleurs de Paul-Émile Bécat.
Book ID: 3843More details Price: £400.00 -
Mohammed et L'Amour.
Book ID: 3557More details Price: £125.00 -
Narratives of Peril and Suffering. In two volumes.
London: Thomas Tegg, 1840. First edition. Complete two volumes, with engraved frontis to each. Signed Morrell of London binding. Three quarters tan calf, with waxed cloth boards. Gilt to spine and boards still clean and bright. Very light rubbing to corners. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Fresh and without foxing inside. A very nice set. Contents include essays on the Duchess of Berry, Charles II, the escape of the Earl of Nithsdale, The Black Hole of Calcutta, The escape of Casanova, Daring enterprises of Spanish troops etc. etc. vi [i] 424; iv, 459 pp. 160 x 105 mm (6¼ x 4¼ inches).
Book ID: 3839More details Price: £125.00 -
Poems. With upwards of one hundred engravings on wood from designs by Jane E. Benham, Birket Foster, etc.
London: David Bogue, 1852. Scarce true First Edition. In an attractive blue Leighton, Son & Hodge blocked cloth gilt case-binding of the period. Design by John Leighton; signed JL in gilt at the base of the spine. All edges gilt. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Frontis portrait of Longfellow. Beautiful condition. Binder's ticket on lower pastedown. 334 pages. 210 x 145 mm (8¼ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3851More details Price: £650.00 -
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
London: Harper Collins, 2016. A beautiful, contemporary full leather Italian binding by Rilegatoa Mano (North Italian craft binder). Handmade leather book binding with silhouette of the master. Below that his pipe in gold, with white smoke in which also a face is visible. Title and author in gold. The book itself is a paperback reprint from 2016, which although in perfect condition, is not really the object for sale! 290 pages. 200 by 140mm (7¾ by 5½ inches).
Book ID: 2204More details Price: £180.00 -
The Book of Common Prayer: And Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David.
Edition: Reprint
Book ID: 1294More details Price: £50.00 -
The Preacher
Condition: The binding is a little rubbed and worn, particularly to the edges of the spine. Slight loss of surface red to some areas of the binding. The re-backing to the spine is slightly lifting in parts. The binding is reinforced with heavy duty archival tape to the front and rear hinge. There is intermittent foxing to the pages, and there is a faint water stain to the corner of the pages affecting the second half of the book. One leaf is loose, and half detached, but is hanging in there! Overall a Good copy+ of this scarce work.
Book ID: 2592More details Price: £500.00 -
Typographia, or the Printers' Instructor
Condition: First leaves with some light foxing, otherwise in excellent condition.
Book ID: 2048More details Price: £400.00