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A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas
With Illustrations by John Leech.
Book ID: 4047More details Price: £2,500.00
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A Christmas Carol in Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Yule-Tide
Book ID: 4139More details Price: £900.00
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A Dictionary of the English Language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar.
In Two Volumes. The Tenth Edition, Corrected and Revised.
Book ID: 4068More details Price: £400.00
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Amadis de Gaule.
Le tiers livre de Amadis de Gaule, contenant les guerres & dif.
Book ID: 3227More details Price: £2,050.00
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Contes et nouvelles en vers. Two Volumes
Book ID: 2736More details Price: £550.00
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De Historie van Docter Johannes Faustus.
Die een uitnemenden grooten Tovenaar in zwarte Konsten was. Van zyn Duivelsche verschryvingen, van zyn Onchristelyk Leven, wonderlyke Avonturen, van zyn schrikkelyk en gruwelyk Einde, en Afscheid. Meestendeel uit zyn eigene Schriften byeen vergaderd. Alle Hovaardigen, Opgeblazene, Stouten en Goddelozen Menschen, als een Schrikkelyk Voorbeeld en Waarschuwing.
1750. Rare printing of Doctor Faust's chapbook in Dutch. Woodcut on title, 58 (repeated) woodcut illustrations. A total of 60 vignettes. Complete. More recent paper covers. These are somewhat rubbed with significant rubbing and loss to the spine. Written number to the front cover. The date c.1750 is printed on the remnant of a catalogue label stuck to the front cover. The impressions of the engravings are somewhat are somewhat blurred. P. 41, repeated on p. 76, the illustrations are not woodcuts but metalcuts. The shape of the heads of the nails with which the plates were mounted on wood are printed on many of them. A nice example. 86 (2) pp. 205 x 165 mm (8 x 6½ inches). Bibliography: Engel 280, Kippenberg 2089
Book ID: 3318More details Price: £480.00 -
Dombey and Son.
Dealings with the firm of Dombey and Son, Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation.
Book ID: 2070More details Price: £225.00
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El Ingenioso Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha.
Segunda Edicion en Miniatura
Book ID: 4044More details Price: £1,400.00
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Fragment of a Novel [Sanditon]
written by Jane Austen, January - March 1817. Now first printed from the manuscript.
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925. First edition of this partial novel, written just before Jane Austen's death. It tells the story of Charlotte Heywood, a young woman from the countryside, as she encounters the people of a sophisticated and cynical developing British seaside town called Sanditon. In grey hardback boards with pale cloth spine. Label to spine reads Sandition. Inscription to front FFEP. In good, cleran condition. 170 pages - plus notes regarding the manuscript. 180 x 125 mm (7 x 5 inches).
Book ID: 4177More details Price: £25.00 -
Galerie des Personnages de Shakspeare reproduits dans les Principales scenes de ses pieces
Book ID: 3837More details Price: £100.00
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Gallery to Shakspeare's Dramatic Works in outlines. Complete in One Volume.
Erlaeuterungen der umrisse von Moritz Retzsch von C.A. Boettiger & Carl Borromaeus von Miltitz.
Book ID: 3483More details Price: £250.00
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Index verborum ac phrasium Luciani sive Lexicon lucianeum ad editiones omnes maxime novissimam Westenianam concinnatum a Car. Conr. Reitzio
Book ID: 2799More details Price: £150.00
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Le Mariage de Figaro
édition collationnée sur le test original
Book ID: 4083More details Price: £60.00
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Les Cinq livres de F. Rabelais avec une notice par le bibliophile Jacob. Variantes et Glossaire par P. Chéron
Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1885. A very nice set of this work. First Edition. Four volumes bound in half red morocco with gilt titles. Red marbled boards. A touch of rubbing only, but overall very presentable. Internally sound, with a little darkening / foxing throughout. 180 x 120 mm (7 x 4¾ inches). XX, 333, [iii]., 368., 312., 308. pp.
. Un très bel ensemble de cet ouvrage. Première édition. Quatre volumes reliés en demi-maroquin rouge avec titres dorés. Plaques marbrées rouges. Un peu de frottement seulement, mais dans l'ensemble très présentable. L'intérieur est en bon état, avec un peu de noircissement et de rousseur. 180 x 120 mm. XX, 333, [iii], 368, 312, 308 pp.
Book ID: 4079More details Price: £100.00 -
Les Comedies de Shakespeare.
Les comédies traduites par Suzanne Bing et Jacques Copeau, illustré de nombreux dessins dans et hors texte par Charles Berthold Mahn.
Book ID: 2955More details Price: £150.00
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Les Rougon-Macquart - Germinal
Notes et Commentaires de Maurice Le Blond
Book ID: 4328More details Price: £130.00
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Madame De Maintenon, Peinte Par Elle-Même.
Book ID: 2959More details Price: £60.00
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Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice. An historical tragedy in five acts, with notes. The Prophecy of Dante, a poem.
London: John Murray, 1821. First Edition. This is the first UK edition. Nicely bound in grey boards, and light brown spine with paper label. Text body is clean. Binding is tight. Moderate foxing throughout. Edges slightly browned. xxi, 261 [2] pp. 230 x 145 mm (9 x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 2062More details Price: £280.00 -
Oeuvres de Maitre François Rabelais, publiées sous le titre de Faits et Dits du Géant Gargantua et de son fils Pantagruel
Limosin, la Crême Philosophale, deux Epîtres à deux Vieilles de moeurs & d'humeurs différentes, & des Remarques Historiques & Critiques de Monsieur le Duchat, sur tout l'Ouvrage
Book ID: 4215More details Price: £1,400.00
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Select Fables; with cuts, designed and engraved by Thomas and John Bewick and others, previous to the year 1784; together with a memoir; and a descriptive catalogue of the works of Messrs. Bewick.
Newcastle: S. Hodgson for Emerson Charnley, and Baldwin, Cradock and Joy, 1820. First edition. A nice copy of this collection of fables with the attractive Bewick engravings. Frontis portrait of Thomas Bewick, title with engraved vignette. Half leather with marbled boards and gilt titles to spine. Slight rubbing to the edges. of the binding. Internally clean and tidy, with just a little darkening to the page edges. [4]; xl; 332 pp. 225 x 145 mm (8¾ x 5¾ inches).
Book ID: 3879More details Price: £200.00