The Federal Book Company / R. B. Peterson & Brothers. Hardcover. Red cloth with gilt text on spine. Top edge gilt. Some staining to boards, and to outer page-edges. Three leaves toward the back torn, one of them badly. Red cloth with gilt text on spine. Top edge gilt. Some.....
Alfred A. Knopf, July 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition. Pages clean (besides erased pencil price on ffep), binding tight. Remainder mark on bottom edge. Bottom edges of boards have white markings presumably from a shelf. Small spot of light soiling at bottom edge of front board and inside.....
New American Library / Signet, January 1951. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Stated first printing, January 1951. Some shelfwear to wraps, with a small stain on the front. Binding tight. Pages foxing. Stated first printing, January 1951. Some shelfwear to wraps, with a small stain on the front. Binding tight.....
1784. Hardcover. Leatherbound. The book is badly worn, with bits flaked off, and the front cover is coming loose. In December, 1960, a woman named Susan decided it would be appropriate to gift-inscribe a nearly 200-year-old book on the front flyleaf. Unfortunately, that was this book. Leatherbound. The book is.....
Carlton & Lanahan. Hardcover. No date given, but looks like the mid to late 1800s. The entire book is water-damaged and warped, and has the pencil scribblings of a young child, including a traced hand in the first couple blank leaves. The pages seem to have come loose, but have.....
K. Tompkins, 1874. PAMPHLET. A pamphlet bound by string. Very small, very thin. A pamphlet bound by string. Very small, very thin.
J. Richards, 1834. Hardcover. Leatherbound. Boards and spine worn. A few pencil notes inside. Pages foxed. Sticker damage to back cover. Leatherbound. Boards and spine worn. A few pencil notes inside. Pages foxed. Sticker damage to back cover.
Librairie de L. Hachette Et Cie, 1859. Hardcover. Half-leather. Front hinge of first volume starting. Wear to edges, including bumping. Pages foxed. Last page and endpaper of first volume are coming loose. TEXT IN FRENCH. Half-leather. Front hinge of first volume starting. Wear to edges, including bumping. Pages foxed. Last.....
Hachette. Hardcover. TEXT IN FRENCH. Jacket, in a mylar wrap, has several chips and tears, including large ones. TEXT IN FRENCH. Jacket, in a mylar wrap, has several chips and tears, including large ones.
Hachette. Hardcover. TEXT IN FRENCH. Jacket, in fresh mylar wrap, has a large chip in the front and a few smaller chips. TEXT IN FRENCH. Jacket, in fresh mylar wrap, has a large chip in the front and a few smaller chips.
PRINTED FOR D. BROWNE. Leather. 1727 full leather. Spine says EICON BASILICE . FEP coming loose. Includes a worn and cracking folded-up print of an engraving 16 wide by 13 tall. Hinges cracked especially front. Head of spine chipped. Rubbing and bumping to edges foxing to some pages. Some writing.....
HARPER & BROTHERS. Hardcover. CENTRAL AMERICA CHIAPAS AND YUCATAN (2 VOLUMES). CENTRAL AMERICA CHIAPAS AND YUCATAN (2 VOLUMES).
PUBLISHER UNKNOWN. VELLUM. ANTIQUARIAN HISTORY. Tacitus Cornelius. The Annales Histories Germania Agricola Orationes. 1630. all books bound in one volume with complete index vellum binding with tear along bottom front crease which has been repaired with tape wormhole on back of front board bookplate of Edmond Nollet affixed to same.....
CHEZ PIERRE MARTEAU - COLOGNE. Leather. ANTIQUARIAN First edition with the inscription Knowsley Library on the inside of the front cover along with the bookplate of Cortlandt F. Bishop gilt tooled spine red mottled edges binding worn and with some wormholes backstrip chipped at the head and tail. Les Dames.....
UNKNOWN PUBLISHER. VELLUM. full vellum binding with some rather interesting text writting throughout the binding some blistering on the front binding tight text block with some internal soiling and creasing of the pages. full vellum binding with some rather interesting text writting throughout the binding some blistering on the front.....
DE L'IMPRIMERIE. Leather. FRENCH CONSTITIUTION HISTORY 83 pages gilt decorations on boards with decorative leaves in corners small piece missing at the head of the spine decorations along same newspaper clipping tipped in on fep and previous owners stamp opposite some minor internal foxing all edges gilt. FRENCH CONSTITIUTION HISTORY.....
CHEZ PIERRE MARTEAU - COLOGNE. Leather. INQUISITION RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION In French a history of the Inquisition from 1693. Leather binding rubbed and corners bumped hinges starting raised band at spine marbled endpapers bookplate some writing on feps mild foxing throughout chipping at spine ends still a rarity in any condition.....
BIBLIOTHEQUE ARTISQUE ET LITTE. Leather. fine BINDING ILLUSTRATIONS beautifully rebound in full leather gilt triple fillet border on both boards what appears to be like a floral pattern on the leather boards gilt decorations and date stamped on spine 'Court Jester' figure in gilt on front board floral endpages original.....
BIBLIOTHEQUE ARTISQUE ET LITTE. Leather. FIND BINDING ILLUSTRATIONS beautifully rebound in full leather gilt triple fillet border on both boards what appears to be like a floral pattern on the leather boards gilt decorations and date stamped on spine blue floral (almost brocade) endpages original wraps bound within beautiful gilt.....
EX OFFICINA FRANCIFCI HACKII. Leather. BINDING PHILOSOPHY LATIN full leather binding date stamped on spine wear at the hinges binding tight marbled endpages all edges gilt book slighlty warped. Latin Text Commentary on the orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero. BINDING PHILOSOPHY LATIN full leather binding date stamped on spine wear.....
CHEZ JEAN GUIGNARD - PARIS. Leather. FRENCH HISTORY ROYALTY BINDING LOUIS THE GRAND marbled endpages gilt decoration on spine raised cords frontispiece of Louis le Grand binding tight wear at the corners and at the head and tail of the spine. FRENCH HISTORY ROYALTY BINDING LOUIS THE GRAND marbled endpages.....
CHEZ LA VEUVE DUCHESNE. Leather. FRENCH HISTORY ROYALTY BINDING LOUIS XV gilt decorations on the spine raised cords on same wear at the head of the spine on all volumes front board on vol. 1 is just starting to crack. Tablettes Historiques et Anecdotes Des Rois De France Depuis Pharamond.....
HUMPHREY MOSELEY. Leather. COLLECTED WRITINGS LEATHER BINDING ANTIQUARIAN Beautifully rebound in brown morocco leather with gilt work on the raised spine this collection of sonnets letters etc was printed first in 1646 this is the second printing of 1648. Engraved portrait lacking but supplied in facsimile; small repaired tear in.....
