Category: Fine Bindings, Distinctive Press, Early Printing

The Knowledge of Medals: or, Instructions for Thos Who Apply Themselves to the Study of Medals, Both Ancient and Modern

By: A Nobleman of France [Jobert, Louis] (1937-1719). Translated By Roger Gale. Essay By Joseph Addison.

Price: $295.00

Publisher: London, Printed for E. Curll and T. Caldecott : 1715

Seller ID: 044456

Condition: Fair

London: Printed for E. Curll and T. Caldecott, 1715. Stated second edition, title page dated 1715, the second edition in English [first was 1697]. A treatise on medals including the metals of which they are made, descriptions of heads and reverses, inscriptions, preseravtion, ornamentation and symbolism, counterfeits, more. Addison's essay concerns the error in distributing modern medals. Full panelled leather, rebacked, 156 pages. Text includes decorative initials and borders, a couple of small and very basic illustrations. Original covers have expected wear, printing on the spine is a little...
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The Comic History of England; The Comic History of Rome. Three Volumes in Two

By: A'Beckett, Gilbert A. Illustrated By John Leech

Price: $165.00

Publisher: London, Bradbury, Evans, and Co. : 1865

Seller ID: 027978

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 1865. Undated, ca. 1865. Comic History of England is two volumes bound as one; Comic History of Rome bound separately. All thirty hand colored engravings by Leech are present and in very good condition. Tan polished calf over marbled boards, blue-black spine labels lettered in gilt, vertical circle and dash allover gilt design on both spines, marbled edges and endpapers. Covers heavily rubbed at the edges with some scuffing an dlight chipping to the covers, lighter rubbing to the marbled boards, joints good, text blocks sound, gift notations on the prelimi...
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Homeward Songs by the Way

By: A. E. - Russell, George William (1867-1935). Designs and Headbands By Bruce Rogers

Price: $145.00

Publisher: Portland, ME, Thomas B. Mosher, Printed By Smith & Sale : 1895

Seller ID: 046302

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Portland, ME: Thomas B. Mosher, Printed By Smith & Sale, 1895. Second edition, 1895, limited to 925 copies. Title first published by Chiswick Press in 1894. Off-white hardcover with upper and outer yapped edges, printing in brown, title page in black and vermilion. Covers age-darkened with chips around perimeters of the spine, some far inner margin sticking between the endpapers and adjacent pages, two attached leaves at center detached from binding but present, pages clean, no names or other markings.. Limited Edition. Hard Cover. Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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The Sunday Visitant; or, Weekly Repository of Christian Knowledge. Volumes I & II, 1818-19

By: A. Fowler

Price: $450.00

Publisher: Charleston, SC, A. Fowler : 1818

Seller ID: 034227

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Charleston, SC: A. Fowler, 1818. First edition, 1818-19 (only years published), complete run of 52 weekly issues per year, missing one page. Blue paper covered boards with brown leather spine, black spine label, 10.75" tall, 208 + 208 pages. Covers worn and hanging on by the binders' cords, spine dried with chipped ends, text block sound, rear free endpaper missing, as is page 112/13, which is the first page of volume I, no 29. Pages age-toned with light to heavy uniform foxing, minor old transparent stains to lower margins of a few pages and lower corners of a few toward the front of the v...
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English Music. The Signed First Edition Society Series

By: Ackroyd, Peter

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, PA, The Franklin Library : 1992

Seller ID: 042745

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1992. Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society series. First edition, signed by the author on a page at the front. Full grained rich brown leather lettered and extensively decorated in gilt, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, decorative marbled endpapers, attached ribbon bookmark. Fine condition, looks feels and even smells new and unread, unfaded leather, tight binding, clean pages, no bookplate, no names or other markings.. Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.
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Sacred Allegories

By: Adams, William. With Engravings from Original Designs By Charles W. Cope, John C. Horsley, Samuel Palmer, Birket Foster, and George E. Hicks

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, E. H. Butler & Co. : 1858

Seller ID: 005035

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Philadelphia: E. H. Butler & Co., 1858. New edition [1858]. Handsomely bound copy of these inspirational writings, beautifully illustrated with highly detailed engravings. Includes a memoir of the author followed by: The Shadow of the Cross; The Distand Hills; The Old Man's Home; and the King's Messengers. Full calf convincingly colored to emulate tree calf, black spine label lettered in gilt, raised spine bands, gilt decorated compartments, decorative gilt design borders to the covers, all edges gilt, ribbon bookmark, 317 pages. Some light edgewear, some crackling to the spine and spine...
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Miscellaneous Works, in Verse and Prose, Of the Late Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Esq. In Three Volumes. With Some Account of the Life and Writings of the Author By Mr. Tickell

By: Addison, Joseph (1672-1719)

Price: $745.00

Publisher: Dublin, Ireland, R. Reilly, on Cork-Hill, for George Risk, George Ewing, and William Smith, Booksellers in Dame-Street : 1735

Seller ID: 020836

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dublin, Ireland: R. Reilly, on Cork-Hill, for George Risk, George Ewing, and William Smith, Booksellers in Dame-Street, 1735. Complete three volume set in contemporary calf bindings with armorial seal with the script "Coll. Sanctae Individuae Trinitatis Reg. Elizab. Juxta Dublin" in gilt on each front and rear cover, raised spine bands bordered in gilt with gilt decoration in compartments, elaborate Jacobean armorial prize bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume, the name Richard Dickinson filled in by hand in each. Decorative design woodcuts in volume I, ten plates of "medals illustr...
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Private Lies. The Signed First Edition Society Series

By: Adler, Warren

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Franklin Center, PA, The Franklin Library : 1991

Seller ID: 042612

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library, 1991. Franklin Library Signed First Edition Society series. First edition, signed by the author on a page at the front. Full grained warm brown leather lettered and extensively decorated in gilt, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, decorative marbled endpapers, attached ribbon bookmark. Fine condition, looks feels and even smells new and unread, unfaded leather, tight binding, clean pages, no bookplate, no names or other markings. . Signed by the Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition.
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The Complete Fables - Aesop. Collector's Edition

By: Aesop. Translated By Olivia and Robert Temple

Price: $245.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press : 1999

Seller ID: 046370

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1999. Part of The Greek Classics series by Easton Press. Midnight black leather with lettering and decoration in gilt, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, moire silk endleaves, attached ribbon bookmark. Fine condition, looks and feels new and unread with tight binding, clean pages, no names, no bookplates and no other markings. Includes publisher's note leaflet.. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Alger's Perry. The Orthoepical Guide to the English Tongue, Being Perry's Spelling-Book Revised and Corrected, with Walker's Pronunciation Precisely Applied on a New Scheme. Containing also, Moral Lessons, Fables, and Much Useful Matter...

By: Alger, Israel. Perry, William

Price: $245.00

Publisher: Boston, Richardson and Lord, Printed By J. H. A. Frost : 1825

Seller ID: 035369

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Boston: Richardson and Lord, Printed By J. H. A. Frost, 1825. First edition, 1825. Worn copy of this early American primer in original blue paper over thin wooden boards, brown cloth spine, frontis engraving, 168 pages, about 7" tall. Covers worn and chipped, about an inch from the top and outer edges of the rear cover chipped away, rear cover barely attached, lower cord of binding broken near the end of the book but top cord intact and holding well, pages age-browned but readily legible. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Fair. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Edition.
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Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks. In Three Volumes

By: Allen, Alexander V. G.

Price: $165.00

Publisher: New York, E. P. Dutton and Company : 1901

Seller ID: 040917

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1901. Title pages dated 1901. Three volume set illustrated with portraits and other illustrations. Three quarter black morocco leather over marbled boards, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Good to very good with some light external wear, rear hinges lightly internally cracked but secure, text blocks firm, pages very clean with no names or other markings.. Hard Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners. In a Serious Treatise; Shewing, I. What Conversion is not, and Correcting Some Mistakes about it. II. What Conversion is, and Wherein...

By: Alliene, Joseph (1634-68)

Price: $325.00

Publisher: Boston, N.E. [New England], Re-printed and Sold By S. Kneeland : 1764

Seller ID: 015202

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Boston, N.E. [New England]: Re-printed and Sold By S. Kneeland, 1764. Published 1764. Scarce. Full sheep, (2), xxii, 197, (3), 4-88, final text page and free endpapers absent. Covers heavily rubbed and worn, text block sound, pages age-toned but in generally good condition, main titles traced over neatly in ink, name of Jonathan Willson on front pastedown. Evans 9567.. Hard Cover. Fair. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall.
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Flowers of Instruction

By: Anonymous

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, T. T. Ash : 1840

Seller ID: 034467

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fair

Philadelphia: T. T. Ash, 1840. Undated, ca. 1840. Short essays and poems, intended for instruction of older children and adults, illustrated with a handful of woodcuts or wood engravings. Brown cloth with decorative yellow label on the front cover, 5.5" tall, 128 pages. Covers heavily rubbed with some shelf soil, joints chipped, front cover attached but binder's cords, text block sound, pages foxed with occasional faint old unobtrusive dampstains, closed tear to one margin. Includes such topics as Instances of Sagacity in the Inferior Animals; Venetian Police; Wonderful Power of the Imaginat...
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The Factor's Garland, and Verses on the Death of Mrs. Mary Hayward of Boston

By: Anonymous

Price: $145.00

Publisher: Wrentham [Mass.], Printed for Joseph Ward : 1812

Seller ID: 045931

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Poor

Wrentham [Mass.]: Printed for Joseph Ward, 1812. Plain softcover, 12 pages. Covers tattered, names written on them with holes from ink acidity, pages age-toned with the first and final leaves torn and restitched with blue thread, spotting, chipped edges, other closed tears.. Soft Cover. Poor. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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The United States and Canada, in 1832, 1833, and 1834. In Two Volumes

By: Arfwedson, C. D. [Carl David] (1806-1881)

Price: $950.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley : 1834

Seller ID: 035309

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

London: Richard Bentley, 1834. First edition, 1834. Handsome two volume set in exquisite contemporary binding in light brown polished calf (spines faded to a pleasing tan), dual black spine lables, lightly raised spine bands, spine and cover embellishments in gilt and in blind, gilt tooled inner dentelles, marbled edges and endpapers, frontis engraving in each volume. Armorial bookplate of Tremayne - Heligan on each front pastedown, gift notation on preliminary blank of volume I: John Tremayne from his friend C. P. Johudon [sp?] on his leaving Eton, Christmas 1842. Some edgewear and uneven fad...
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Four Comedies - Aristophanes. Collector's Edition

By: Aristophanes. Translated By Dudley Fitts. Frontispiece By Richard Sparks

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press : 2000

Seller ID: 046449

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Part of The Greek Classics series by Easton Press. Midnight black leather with lettering and decoration in gilt, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, moire silk endleaves, attached ribbon bookmark. Fine condition, looks and feels new and unread with tight binding, clean pages, no names, no bookplates and no other markings. Includes publisher's note leaflet.. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics. Collector's Edition

By: Aristotle. Translated By J.A.K. Thompson

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Norwalk, Connecticut, The Easton Press : 1999

Seller ID: 046369

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1999. Part of The Greek Classics series by Easton Press. Midnight black leather with lettering and decoration in gilt, raised spine bands, all edges gilt, moire silk endleaves, attached ribbon bookmark. Fine condition, looks and feels new and unread with tight binding, clean pages, no names, no bookplates and no other markings. Includes publisher's note leaflet.. Hard Cover. Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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John Speed's England. A Coloured Facsimile of the First Edition. Part Two: The Home Counties and East Anglia

By: Arlott, John

Price: $85.00

Publisher: London, Phoenix House Limited : 1954

Seller ID: 000819

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

London: Phoenix House Limited, 1954. Color facsimiles of the maps and text from the "Theatre of the Empire of Great Britaine", first edition, 1611. This is the second of four parts published, this one including double page full color maps of Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire, Middlesex, Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire, with accompanying text. Three quarter olive cloth overe patterned paper boards, paper label on front cover, spine lettering in gilt, slipcase in matching patterned paper. The book is near fine with just a touch of wear to the spine ends and a tiny bum...
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Sechs Bucher Vom Wahren Christentum; Bound with Paradiesgartlein, Others

By: Arndt, Johann (1555-1620); Johann Chrstian Storren

Price: $485.00

Publisher: Stuttgart, Germany, Gebruder Mantler : 1750

Seller ID: 038659

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Stuttgart, Germany: Gebruder Mantler, 1750. In German. Sixth edition. No publication date, ca. 1750. Includes indices. Paradies-Gartlein has separate title page and pagination and is followed by Kindliche Seufzer um die Weisheit von Oben, also with separate pagination. Very thick book in what appears to be darkened pigskin with decoartive borders, raised spine bands, remnants of lower clasps, 7.5 inches tall, about 4 inches thick. title page in black and red, with 15 full page engravings, twelve of which represent months of the year. Pagination: [3],4-1426, [16], [3], 4-290, [20],[2], 3-26. Co...
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Our Homes; Their Cares and Duties, Joys and Sorrows

By: Arthur, T. S.

Price: $110.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Theodore Bliss & Co. : 1866

Seller ID: 043575

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Philadelphia: Theodore Bliss & Co., 1866. Title page dated 1866. Handsomely leather bound collection of domestic stories, illustrated with black and white plates on thick paper, conveying how behavior of a home's inhabitants influence well-being of children and other household members. Full dark brown leather with raised decoration on both covers and spine, gilt spine lettering, all edges gilt, 7.25 inches tall. Externally very good with only light rubbing to extremities, hinges good at the endpaper but there is a non-structural crack between the copyright page and preface, text block sound, p...
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Category: Fine Bindings, Distinctive Press, Early Printing