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QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS. From Pickering's Diamond Classic series
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Londini [London]:: Gul. Pickering,. 1821.. 3-1/4" x 1-3/4". 1st edition thus (Kelly 1820.2; Keynes, p. 73). [2], 185, [1] pp.. Bound in later brown full calf, with gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Speckled red edges. Marbled paper eps.. Front joint a bit tender. Spine crown leather pulled. A VG copy.. Billed as a "typographical tour de force", Pickering's famous Diamond Classic series was his first major effort in the publishing business, with this title the first book issu... more information
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$350.00
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The PHILOSOPHY Of PLATO. The Jowett Translation. Edited, with an Introduction, by Irwin Edman. Modern Library #181
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New York:: The Modern Library,. (1928).. 12mo. Ca 1950. xlviii, 577, [15] pp.. Grey linen cloth binding. Pale green topstain. Gray & orange dust jacket.. VG+/VG.. ... more information
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$15.00
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C. SALLUSTI CRISPI OPERA Omnia, Qu¾ extant, Interpretatione et Nois Illustravit Daniel Crispinus, in usum Serenissimi Delphini
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Londini:: Typis Gul Strahan (& 12 others),. 1758.. 8vo: a8, [*]1, A-V8, X7. 2nd edition. 234 pp + Index + Vocabulorum.. Full calf binding, with modern respining to style. Maroon spine label lettered in gilt.. VG (new ffep/extensive contemporary marginalia/gathering 'A'. protrudes a bit, though quite secure).. Title page printed in red & black. ... more information
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$200.00
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C. SALLUSTIUS CRISPUS cum veterum Historicorum fragmentis
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Lugduni Batavorum:: Ex Officina Elzeviriana,. Anno 1634.. 24mo: *^8 O^12 P^6. P5 & P6 blanks. 5-1/4" x 2-7/8". 2nd (of 4 Elzevir) Editions with the 1634 date (cf. Willems 412). [16], 310, [38] pp.. Period full vellum binding, with title hand-inked to spine crown.. Bookplate. Faint, unobtrusive discoloration to lower half of text-. block. A VG+ copy.. NB. Willems terms the 1st edition "La plus rare". . Engraved title leaf, by C C Duysent [signed in the plate]. Mediallion image *... more information
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$225.00
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The COMPLETE WRITINGS Of THUCYDIDES. The Peloponnesian War. Modern Library #58. The Unabridged Crawley Translation with an Introduction by Joseph Gavorse
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New York:: The Modern Library,. 1934.. 12mo. 1st ML edition. xxviii, 516 pp.. Brown cloth binding (style #7). Dust jacket (later issue, ca 1939).. VG (spine sunned)/VG (spine panel darkened/some edgewear).. Color fold-out map. ... more information
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$30.00
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The DEVIL'S OTHER STORYBOOK
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New York:: Farrar, Straus & Giroux,. (1987).. 8vo. 1st edition. 81 pp.. Red cloth binding. Red dust jacket.. VG+/VG+ (modest wear/short closed tear to top edge of front panel).. Illustrated. ... more information
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$12.50
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The HEART Of GEORGE WASHINGTON. A Simple Story of Great Love
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Philadelphia:: Lippincott,. 1932.. 8vo. 1st edition. 328 pp,. Blue cloth with gold lettering. White dust jacket.. VG+/VG (minor edgwear/faint soiling/old tape reinforcement to lower. front panel corner/pc).. color frontis by Gayle Hoskins, ... more information
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$50.00
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SILAS STRONG. Emperor of the Woods
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New York & London:: Harper & Brothers,. 1906.. Crown 8vo. 1st edition (Smith B-28). 339, [1] pp.. Red cloth binding with gilt stamping. Dust jacket.. A VG+ copy in the rare jacket, which shows modest chipping to the. extremities.. A tale set in the Adirondacks. . Frontis map with tissue guard. ... more information
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$150.00
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The ILLUMINATED PAGE. Ten Centuries of Manuscript Painting in the British Library
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Toronto:: University of Toronto Press,. 1998.. Folio. 1st US edition. 240 pp.. Blue cloth binding with gilt spine lettering. Dust jacket.. A Fine copy in a similar jacket.. Fully illustrated in color. ... more information
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$75.00
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A PRIVATE STATE. Stories
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Ahmearst:: University of Massachusetts,. (1998).. 8vo. 1st edition.. F/F. Winner of the 1998 Pen Hemingway Award. ... more information
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$60.00
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The HISTORIE Of The REIGNE Of KING HENRY The SEVENTH. Written by the Right Hon: Francis Lo : Virulam, Viscount S. Alban. Whereunto is now added a very useful and necessary Table
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London:: Printed by I.H. and R.Y. and are to be sold by Philemon Stephens and Christopher Meredith,. 1629.. Folio: [A]^2 B - 2I^4 2K^5. Sheets from the 1628 edition, with the title leaf ([A]1) a cancel. 11-1/8" x 7-1/8". 2nd Edition, 3rd issue (Gibson 118; STC 1161) [4], 248, [10] pp. "Table" comprises last 10 pages. P. 40 misnumbered 04; 208 as 218.. Period full speckled brown leather binding with later repair to joints & portion of upper front board. Later red leather title l... more information
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$1,250.00
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A HARMONY Of The ESSAYS. Etc. Of FRANCIS BACON. English Reprints #20. Edited by William Arber
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London:. 1871.. Foolscap 8vo. 17cm x 11cm. 1st edition thus. 584 + 16 pp catalogue @ rear.. Stiff chocolate wrappers. Edges untrimmed; some leaves unopened.. VG (average wear/thin vertical cracks down spine/pencil notations @. catalogue & rear eps).. Contains the texts: "Essayes. Religious Meditations. Places of perswasion and disswasion., London, 1597 (10 essays)." "Of the Coulers of good and euill a fragment, 1597." " The writings of Sir Francis Bacon Knt: The Kinges Solli... more information
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$105.00
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The HISTORY Of The REIGNS of Henry the Seventh, Henry the Eighth, Edward the Sixth, and Queen Mary
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London:: Printed by W[illiam]. G[odbid]. for R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, R. Chiswell, and J. Edwyn.. 1676.. Folio: A6 B - 2Y4. 11-1/2" x 7-5/8". 1st edition thus (Gibson 121; Wing B300). [12], 138, [12], 201, [1] pp. Printed t.p. begins each individual monarch section, all dated 1675.. Period full calf binding.. Lacking leather in top & bottom spine compartments. Ffep excised.. 1677 ownership signature at top of t.p. of one Thomas Pierce. [possibly the 17th C divine, and Chaplain-in-Ord... more information
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$850.00
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SIR FRANCIS BACON'S CIPHER STORY. Discovered and Deciphered by Orville W. Owen, M. D
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Detroit and New York:: Howard Publishing Company,. 1893 - 189x.. 8vo. 1st edition. 4 (of 5) volumes. Lacking volume V.. Original brown publisher's cloth with gilt lettering. Floral patterned paper eps.. Some PO notes & commentary in margins. A VG+ set.. ... more information
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$75.00
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BIG GEORGE, The GIANT Of The GULCH; or, The Five Outlaw Brothers. Beadle's New York Dime Library. Vol VII. No. 88. February 25th, 1880
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New York:: Beadle & Adams, 98 William St.. (1880).. 4to. 12-1/4" x 8-1/2". Separate appearance, ca 1884 (cf. Baird & Greenwood 129; Johannsen BEADLE I, 88-DL). Work first appeared in the Saturday Journal, October 21, 1876 - January 13, 1877. 30, [2] pp. Adverts last 2 pages.. Printed self-wrappers, stapled.. Paper becoming brittle, with chipping to edges. A VG copy of a rare. title, now housed in an archival mylar sleeve.. Brought to justice are the 3 "Pepper Brothers", remn... more information
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$195.00
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BELGIUM And HOLLAND Including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg
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Leipzig:: Baedeker,. 1905.. 12mo. 14th edition, revised and augmented. lxx, 474 pp (including index).. Red cloth stamped in gilt. Marbled edges.. Nr Fine.. 15 maps and 30 plans. ... more information
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$32.50
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CENTRAL ITALY And ROME. Handbook for Travellers
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Leipzig:: Baedeker,. 1909.. 12mo. 15th revised edition. 525, [1] pp. Index at rear.. Flexible red cloth with gilt lettering; marbled edges. Buff printed dust jacket.. Nr Fine/VG+ (light chipping to spine ends/pos to top of front panel).. A very nice copy in the uncommon jacket. . 19 Maps, 55 plans & views and the Arms of the Popes since 1417. ... more information
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$100.00
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NORWAY, SWEDEN And DENMARK With Excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen. With 'Sketch of Norwegian and Swedish Grammar, with Vocabulary and List of Phrases.'
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Leipzig:: Baedeker,. 1909.. 12mo. 9th edition, revised & augmentedition. 468 pp (including index). 38 pp Grammar at rear.. Flexible red cloth with gilt lettering. Marbled edges. Buff printed dust wrapper.. Nr Fine (pencil tick marks by guide book on ep listings)/VG+ (paper. sticker remnants on front panel).. A very nice copy in the uncommon dust jacket, and Grammar intact [often missing, as it was designed for removal]. . . 43 maps, 26 plans & 3 panoramas. ... more information
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$195.00
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BELGIUM And HOLLAND Including the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. Handbook for Travellers
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Leipsic:: Baedeker,. 1894.. 12mo. 11th edition, revised and augmented. lxii, 423 pp (including index).. Red cloth binding with gilt lettering. Marbled edges.. VG+ (sq & tight/spine cloth dull).. 13 maps and 21 plans. ... more information
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$47.50
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SUD DEUTSCHLAND. Oberrhein, Baden, WŸrttembert, Bayern und die Angrenzenden Theile von Osterreich
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Leipzig:: Baedeker,. 1890.. 12mo. 6th edition, revised & augmented. 322 pp (including index).. Flexible red cloth with gilt lettering. Marbled edges.. VG (some extremity wear to binding/pos on ffep & title page/old tape. repair to frontis map/occasional ragged edge to map or plan).. 20 maps & 10 plans. ... more information
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$175.00
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