[London]: Published at the Punch Office, 1847; 1848. John Leech. First edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. 8vo. [3], vi-xii, [1], 2-320, [2]; [3], vi-viii, [3], 2-304, [2] pp. Full polished calf with gold-tooled borders on the boards, gold tooling on the turn-ins, spines in six compartments each with gold tooling and..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers [1879], 1879. Reprint. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [9], 14-328, [1]-7, [1] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Purple cloth with black lettering on the boards and spine, gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece of the Empress Josephine and with six full-page wood..... More
Boston: L.C. Page & Company, 1907. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-x, 1-455, [1] pp. Green cloth with a gold border on the front board, gold lettering and gold and red decorations on the front board, gold lettering and gold rules and decoration on the spine; top edge gilt. Illustrated..... More
New York: Simon and Schuster [1965], 1965. First printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 7, [1], 9-319, [1] pp. Gold lettering on the spine and front board, gold topstain. Price of $5.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Includes ten black and white photographs of portraits of Henri the VIII..... More
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Bielefeld und Leipzig: Verlag von Velhagen & Klasing, 1893. Hardcover. Folio. [4], 1-166, [2] pp. Half textured cloth over brown paper boards; all edges sprinkled red. Brown decorative endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with numerous maps, with a geographical index at the rear of the volume. Herausgegeben von der Geographischen Anstalt..... More
London; Birmingham: E. Arber, 1877; 1879; 1880; 1882; 1883. First edition. Hardcover. 7 vol. 8vo. [5], 6-656; [4], 5-656; [4], 5-656; [4], 5-656; [5], 6-656; [4], 5-656; [4], 5-656 pp. Bright blue cloth with gold decorations and lettering on the front boards and spines. This set illustrated with facsimile title..... More
London: Macmillan & Co., 1887. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], ii-iii, [2], 2-227, [1] pp. Brown pebbled publisher's cloth with black rules to the boards and spine, a gold decoration on the front board, spine lettered in gold. Black coated endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with five..... More
New York: Dial Press Inc., 1938. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], v-xiv, [2], 3-407, [1] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine; navy topstain. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Compiled, translated in part, and edited by Frederika Blankner. A study of Scandinavian..... More
London: John Sharpe, 1822. Later edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [5], 6-208 pp. Purple publisher's cloth (ca. 1840) with decorations in blind on the boards, gilt lettering on the spine. Yellow endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with a vignette title page and with three engraved plates. Spine sunned, two names on the..... More
Mount Vernon, New York: The Peter Pauper Press, ca. 1968. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], 10-228, [4] pp. Quarter grey cloth over pink patterned paper boards with gold lettering on the spine. Price of 4.95 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With decorative in-text ornaments and numbers printed..... More
London: The Folio Society, 2005. First Folio Society edition. Hardcover. 2 vol. Elephant Folio; Large 8vo. The elephant folio is unpaginated, the large 8vo has a pagination of [4], v-vii, [4], 4-87, [1] pp. Both volumes housed in a maroon cloth clamshell, lettered in gilt on the front, with a...... More
Coloniae Agrippinae [= Cologne]: Ioannem Wilhelmum Friessem, 1688. Later edition. Hardcover. 4 vol. (8 vol. bound in 4). Folio. [8], 2-452, [2]; 1-238 (with a section of these leaves mispaginated); [4], 2-499, [2]; [4], 2-916, [1]; [2], 2-815; [2], 2-851; [4], 2-486, [1]; [4], 2-967, (a lengthy, unpaginated index of..... More
London: J.M. Dent & Co., 1906. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], v-ix, [1], 232 pp. White cloth with decorations in red, gold, and green on the front board and spine; top edge gilt. Title page printed in red and black. Illustrated with a color frontispiece and with twenty-four color plates..... More
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1857. Later edition. Hardcover. 12mo. [3], iv-vi, [1], 8-252, [4] pp. Half contemporary brown morocco over marbled paper boards, boards ruled in gold, with the spine in six compartments, gold lettering and design on the spine; top edge gilt. Light blue endpapers and pastedowns..... More
New York: The Century Co. (1928), 1928. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-ix, [5], 3-315, [5] pp. Blue cloth with silver lettering and decoration on the front board and spine. Price of $4.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. With a frontispiece and with nineteen full-page illustrations by..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. History Book Club Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xviii, [2], 3-414, i-x, [4] pp. Quarter red cloth over blue cloth with a design in blind on the front board, gold lettering on the spine; yellow topstain. Price of $6.75 on the front flap of the..... More
Paris: Librairie Félix Juven, ca. 1920. First French language edition. Paperback. 8vo. [7], viii-x, [3], 14-323, [3] pp. Grey paper wrappers with a glassine wrapper folded over them. Illustrated with twelve full-page portraits of each courtesan, printed in orange on plates but incorporated into the pagination. Translated into French by..... More
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1835. Later edition. Hardcover. 10 vol. Small 8vo. [5], vi-xxiv, [2], 3-325, [3]; [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-344, [2]; [5], vi-ix, [2], 2-323, [3]; [5], vi-xii, [1], 2-343, [1]; [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-341, [3]; [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-342, [2]; [5], vi-viii, [1], 2-381, [3]; [5], vi-xi..... More
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1885. First American edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], viii-xvi, 1-342, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Brown publisher's cloth with black lettering and gilt and black decorations on the front board, gilt lettering and black decorations on the spine; top edge gilt. Brown coated endpapers..... More
London: Collins, 1962. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [4], 5-768 pp. Red cloth with gold lettering blocked in blue on the spine. Price of 45s. net on the front flap of the dust jacket. Several plates of black and white photographs. A biography of the founder of the Royal Air Force..... More
London: The Folio Society, 1988. First Folio Society edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [9], x-xviii, [1], 2-278 pp. Brown and blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Housed in a beige paper slipcase. Tan endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with several plates of black and white photographs. Introduction by Philip Ziegler. Nash..... More
Oxford: Clarendon Press [1998], 1998. Later edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [7], viii-xiv, [1], 2-328, [2] pp. Navy cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Illustrated with two full-page maps. The first printing of the Sandpiper Press edition, this title first published by Oxford in 1993 (the Oxford imprint is retained on..... More
London: The Folio Society (2003), 2003. Tenth printing. Hardcover. 8vo. [3], 4-245, [3] pp. Orange cloth with gold, red, and black decorations on the front board and spine, gold lettering on the spine; orange topstain. Housed in a black paper slipcase. Maps on the endpapers and pastedowns. Illustrated with plates..... More
Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1862. First edition. Hardcover. Small 8vo. [3], vi-viii, [1], 2-384 pp. Quarter contemporary sheep over red cloth, gold lettering and two gold borders on the spine. Binder's ticket on the rear pastedown shows the book to be bound by Burn, in this case Robert Burn..... More
Riga: Verlag von Jonck u Poliewsky, ca. 1910. Paperback. Small 4to. 51.5 cm x 42 cm. [29], 30-136, 1-48 pp. Grey wraps printed in black, white, blue, and brown. The front wrapper with an illustration of a tree. With several in-text illustrations (all in black and white). The calendar contains..... More