Adventures in Americana 1492-1897
New York: Cooper Square Publishers Inc, 1964. Size: folio, Volume: 3 volumes, Category: Book Bibliography & Reference Books;. Size: folio, Volume: 3 volumes, Category: Book Bibliography & Reference Books;.
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Hortus Indicus Malabaricus.
Amsterdam: Joannis van Someren et Joannis van Dyck. 1678. Binding: Unbound., Notes: Hortus Indicus Malabaricus (Garden of Malabar) is a comprehensive treatise that deals with the properties of the flora of the Western Ghats region principally covering the areas now in the Indian states of Kerala, Karnataka and Goa, and.....
An Elephant Up A Tree
New York: Simon and Schuster, c. 1933. Binding: Original publisher’s green cloth. Colour illustration pasted on top cover. Gilt title on spine. Pasted and free illustrated endpapers. Illustrated colour dust jacket. , Notes: A charming story “for bright children and extremely intelligent adults” from the early 20th century. Hendrik Willem.....
Bibliotheca Indosinica- Dictionnaire Bibliographique Des Ouvrages Relatifs A La Peninsule Indochinoise.
Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Fine Books. Binding: Original publishers' cloth in turquoise. Flat spine with gilt lettered red label., Notes: Reprint. This reprint is strictly limited to 100 copies, not numbered., Size: 8vo., Volume: 5 parts in 3 volumes., Category: Book Bibliography & Reference Books;. Binding: Original publishers' cloth in.....
Quinti Curtii Rufi de Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni, Regis Macedonum, Libri Superstites.
Adrianum Beman, Samuelem Luchtmans, 1724. Binding: contemporary full calf, 6 densely gilt compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on three, red morocco label on two. All edges speckled, ex-libris on paste down end papers., Notes: Text in Latin, Size: 4to, Illustration: Title in red and black, elaborate end pieces, 17.....
Cantos North Vol I-XII
Alexandria, Ontario (North Glengarry): Ayorama Editions, c. 1980-81. Binding: Publisher’s stiff paper wrapping. Each portfolio has an illustrated cover., Notes: This is number 58 from an edition of 420 copies; each volume is signed by the author and the artist and includes a signed and numbered print, Size: Folio (355x292mm).....
Life of Quintus Horatius Flaccus
London: John Murray, c. 1854. Edition: A New Edition., Binding: Contemporary full red morocco. Gilt decorative emblem of the University of Toronto on covers. Spine in six compartments of raised bands. Gilt rules on all. Gilt text on 2. Gilt dentelles on all edges. All edges gilt. Pasted and free.....
Types of Canadian Women: Women Who Are or Have Been Connected with Canada
Toronto: William Briggs, 1903. Edition: First Edition, Binding: Original cloth boards with gilt lettering and design. , Illustration: Illustrated profusely with black&white plates., Category: Book Canada;Book Biography;. Edition: First Edition, Binding: Original cloth boards with gilt lettering and design. , Illustration: Illustrated profusely with black&white plates., Category: Book Canada;Book Biography;.....
Leighton Court. A Country House Story.
London: Chapman and Hall. c.1872. Binding: contemporary ¼ calf over marbled boards, title in gilt on morocco label on spine, spine with 5 raised bands and decorated with gilt rules., Notes: Henry Kingsley (1830 – 1876) was an English novelist, brother of the better-known Charles Kingsley. He was an early.....
Russian Central Asia: Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv by Henry Lansdell, D.D. M.R.A.S., F.R.G.S. Author of Through Siberia / With Frontispiece, Maps, and Illustrations / In Two Volumes
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, c. 1885. Edition: First American edition, Binding: Publisher’s decorative grayish-blue cloth boards, volume 1 rebacked expertly preserving original spine and boards, upper board with gilt, blind and silver title and vignette, flat spine with gilt title and blind vignette, endpapers purple. Some leaves unopened....
Early English Poetry: Selected And Edited With A Critical Introduction And Notes, By H. Macaulay Fitzgibbon
Walter Scott. (C. 1887). Binding: Printed paper boards with gilt and pink design on white, half-bound with red cloth. Cloth at board corners cut in decorative design with elaborate gilt work. Cloth at spine densely gilted with matching pattern. Title in gilt on spine. Paste-in and free endpapers light brown.....
Propos de Ville et Propos de Theatre; Le Pays Latin
Michel Levy Frere, c.1858. Edition: New Edition, Binding: Original quarter morocco with matching speckled cloth boards. Blind tooled rules. 4 raised bands in 5 compartments, tooled gilt lettering and design on the spine, Free and pasted end papers, all edges gilt., Notes: Text in French. Louis-Henri Murger (1822- 1861) was.....
A View of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy.
London: S. Palmer. 1728. Binding: contemporary half brown calf over marbled boards, flat spine, title in gilt on black morocco on spine, spine with decorative gilt divided compartments and devices. , Notes: Henry Pemberton (1694–1771) was an English physician and man of letters. He became Gresham Professor of Physic, and.....
The Planter's Guide: A Practical Essay on the Best Method of Giving Immediate Effect to Wood by the Transplanting of Large Trees and Underwood.
Edinburgh: John Murray, c. 1828. Edition: Second edition., Binding: Contemporary ½ calf with marbled boards, skilfully rebacked saving the original spine in 5 compartments of gilt tooled bands, gilt lettering on two and four, all edges speckled. , Size: 8vo, Illustration: With 6 engraved plates., Pages: P. frontis, title, blank.....
The Marvelous Wonders of the Polar World. Being a complete and authentic history of voyages and discoveries in the polar regions, . . .
Toronto and Whitby: J.S. Robertson & Bros, 1885. Binding: Original full gilt morocco with profuse blind floral motifs, spine in 5 raised bands, gilt text on 2 and 4., Notes: Rather handsome copy in full original morocco., Size: 4to, Illustration: With a profusion black and white illustrations., Category: Book Arctic.....
Catalogue of Persian Manuscripts in the Library of the India Office.
Oxford: Horace Hart & Clarendon Press, 1903 & 1937. Edition: First edition, two volumes published separately, Binding: Contemporary cloth boards, flat spine with gilt lettering., Notes: Pagination: Numbers on page correspond to column numbers (not page numbers), so “2” is on the front side of the first leaf, 2nd column.....
Herodoti Halicarnassei Historiarum Libri IX Codisem Sancrofti Manuscriptum. . .
Oxford: Joseph Parker, c. 1830. Edition: Second edition. , Binding: Contemporary full calf with triple-lined gilt border, spine in six gilt compartments of raised bands, red morocco label on two and green morocco label on three, edges and endpapers marbled. , Notes: Text in Greek with some Latin. The Histories.....
Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allan Poe
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1934. Binding: Cloth hardback, silhoutte portrait of Edgar Allan Poe on top board and faded title on spine. , Size: 8vo, Illustration: With a profusion of photogravures., Pages: P. (2), half-title, advertisement, title, printer’s imprint, dedication, (1), preface vii-xiv, contents xv-xvi, illustrations xvii-xix, (1), half-title.....
An Impartial History of the Naval Military and Political Events in Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution to the Entance of the Allies into Paris and the Conclusion of a General Peace Including A Copious Original Narrative of the Origin of the Progress of that Revolution. Biographical Memoirs of Bonapart & other Principle Persons. Together with A Comprehensive Account of the Transactions in America and the East & West Indies.
Bungay (Suffolk): Brightly & Childs, 1815. Binding: contemporary full calf, spine with 6 compartments of gilt tooled bands, red morocco label on two and black morocco label on four., Notes: Published shortly after the momentous Battle of Waterloo and hence the conclusion of the Napoleonic Wars, this handsome two-volume work.....
Eden: or, a Compleat Body of Gardening.
London: Printed for the Author in St. James’s Street;, c. 1773. Edition: The Second Edition, Binding: Contemporary full calf; with six raised bands; compartments with blind floral ornament; gilt lettered red morocco label on 2. All edges red. , Notes: John Hill lived from 1712 or 1714 – 1775; he.....
A History of Engraving and Etching from the 15th Century to the year 1914
New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1963. Binding: paperback, Illustration: 111 Illustrations, Pages: 487 pp, Category: Book Bibliography & Reference Prints. Binding: paperback, Illustration: 111 Illustrations, Pages: 487 pp, Category: Book Bibliography & Reference Prints.
Musical Instruments: Historic, Rare and Unique
Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, c.1888. Binding: Half morocco over cream vellum boards, with gilt ruling at joints. Decorative gilt embossed centerpiece with title on upper board. Spine in six compartments of raised bands with titles on two and three. All edges gilt. , Notes: Alfred James Hipkins (1826-1903) was.....
Poesies
c. 1832. Edition: First Edition , Binding: original half morocco with matching speckled boards, tooled gilt rules, five raised bands in 6 compartments, tooled gilt floral design and lettering on spine, marbled pasted and free endpapers. Bottom and front edges uncut, top edges gilt. , Notes: Ex Libris Abel E......
Catalogue des Cartes, Plans, et Cartes Marines
Ottawa, Canada: Imprimerie Nationale, 1912. Binding: later full cloth over the original paper wrappers with flat spine, title in gilt on spine., Illustration: No Illustration, Pages: 685 pp, Category: ; Book Bibliography & Reference Maps. Binding: later full cloth over the original paper wrappers with flat spine, title in gilt.....
English Glass
London: William Collins, 1946. Binding: Illustrated publisher’s paper boards., Size: 8vo., Illustration: Illustrated with 8 plates and 26 illustrations. , Category: Book Crafts & Trades; Book Bibliography & Reference Books; Book Europe United Kingdom;. Binding: Illustrated publisher’s paper boards., Size: 8vo., Illustration: Illustrated with 8 plates and 26 illustrations....