La Decouverte du Monde: Cartographes et Cosmographes
La Fondation Macdonald Stewart, 1984. Binding: Paperback, Illustration: 18 full-colour plates, monochrome illustrations, Pages: 88 pp, Category: ; Book Bibliography & Reference Maps.
Books
Philip's Great World Atlas
London, England: George Philip Ltd., 1990. Binding: Hardcover with jacket, Illustration: 144 full page maps, Pages: 144 pp (plus 144 pp index), Category: ; Book Bibliography & Reference Maps.
America: Early Maps of the New World
Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1992. Binding: Hardcover with plastic-covered dust jacket, Notes: First published in German on the occasion of the exhibition "America -- Early Maps of the New World" held at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, 1992, Illustration: 90 full-colour and 96 duotone illustrations, Pages: 192 pp, Category: ;.....
America: Early Maps of the New World
Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1992. Binding: Hardcover with plastic-covered dust jacket, Notes: First published in German on the occasion of the exhibition "America -- Early Maps of the New World" held at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, 1992, Illustration: 90 full-colour and 96 duotone illustrations, Pages: 192 pp, Category: Book.....
America: Early Maps of the New World
Munich, Germany: Prestel, 1992. Binding: Hardcover with plastic-covered dust jacket, Notes: First published in German on the occasion of the exhibition "America -- Early Maps of the New World" held at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, 1992, Illustration: 90 full-colour and 96 duotone illustrations, Pages: 192 pp, Category: ;.....
[10 volumes] The Works of Edgar Allan Poe
New York and London: Standard Book Company. 1933. Binding: Full navy cloth boards. Spines lettered in gilt. , Notes: Edgar Allan Poe (1809 – 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic who is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales involving mystery and.....
Complete stories of Edgar Allan Poe
New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1966. Binding: contemporary full blue paper boards, title in gilt on flat spine, spine with gilt ruling and decorative gilt motifs, upper board with decorative gilt ruling and gilt central devices. , Notes: Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and.....
Tarzan: Lord of the Jungle
Grosset & Dunlap. 1928. Binding: Full green illustrated paper boards. Illustrated pasted and free endpapers. Top edges green. No dust jacket. , Notes: Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 – 1950) was an American writer, best known for his prolific output in the genres of adventure, science fiction, and fantasy. Tarzan is.....
The Beasts of Tarzan
New York: A.L. Burt Company. 1916. Binding: Full green cloth boards. Upper and spine with white lettering, rubbed. , Notes: Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 – 1950) was an American writer, best known for his adventures, science fiction, and fantasy books. He created the renown characters Tarzan and John Carter....
Here and Beyond
New York: D. Appleton & Company. 1926. Edition: First Edition, First Printing., Binding: Full blue-black moire cloth boards. Upper stamped in gilt, spine rubbed. Illustrated endpapers. No dust jacket. , Size: 8vo.(200 x 145 mm), Category: Book Literature;.
Planches Enluminees d’Histoire Naturelle
(Paris): c.1765. Binding: Half brown calf over marbled paper boards. Spine with 5 raised bands, red morocco label in second compartment, green morocco label in fourth compartment, gilt rolls on bands. , Notes: Edme-Louis Daubenton (12 August 1730 – 12 December 1785) was a French naturalist. Daubenton was the cousin.....
A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
London: R. and J. Dodsley. 1761. Edition: Third Edition., Binding: Full speckled calf boards. Spine with 5 raised bands, morocco label in second compartment, gilt decoration in remaining. Gilt rolls on board edges. , Notes: Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was an Anglo-Irish politician, journalist, and philosopher who is regarded as the.....
The Last Days of Pompeii
Chicago: Rand McNally & Company. c. 1834? Binding: contemporary blue cloth, title in white ink on upper board, flat spine, upper board with decorative blue rulings and decorative white ink flowers. , Notes: The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl.....
New Studies in Literature: New Edition
London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, 1902. Binding: Contemporary full blue calf boards with gilt initials within straight gilt borders, spine in six compartments of gilt raised bands, gilt naval motifs, with red morocco label on two, board edges gilt and inner blind dentelles. Edges and endpapers marbled....
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
New York: Dodge Publishing Company. 1914. Binding: Full original brown suede covers. Title embossed in gilt design on upper. Brown pasted and free holographic endpapers. Top edges gilt. , Notes: Omar Khayyam (1048 – 1131) was a prominent Persian polymath, astronomer, historian, and poet. , Size: 12mo.(150 x 120 mm)......
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
London: Collins. 1947. Binding: Publisher’s full red cloth boards. Title in gilt on black label inside floral gilt border on upper. Title in gilt on black label on spine. Top edges red. , Notes: Edward Fitzgerald (1809 – 1883) was an English poet and writer. His most famous work is.....
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(London): Hodder & Stoughton. n.d. (c.1919). Binding: Full red cloth boards. Upper and spine decorated in gilt. , Notes: Omar Khayyám (1048 – 1131) was a prominent Persian polymath, astronomer, historian, and poet. Edmund Dulac (1882 – 1953) was a French-British naturalised magazine illustrator, book illustrator and stamp designer. Born.....
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
New York: Grosset & Dunlap / Cameo Classics. n.d. (c. 1920). Binding: Full blue cloth boards. Upper with yellow lettering and white cameo of Johann Gutenberg. Spine with yellow lettering. Top edges blue. No dust jacket., Notes: Very good example. Illustrated in black and white. , Size: 8vo.(210 x 140.....
A Literary History of Persia
United States, Maryland, Bethesda: Iranbooks Inc., 1997. Binding: Contemporary full red cloth, flat spine with gilt title and publisher’s device., Notes: A complete set of the important work of Prof. Edward G. Browne on the history of Persian literature. This book was first published by T. Fisher Unwin in 1902.....
Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings; Eugene Aram A Tale; Godolphin and Calderon the Courtier; Pelham or The Adventures of a Gentleman; The Caxtons A Family Picture; What Will He Do With It?; The Parisians; The Disowned; Night and Morning; Falkland The Pilgrims of the Rhine Pausanias, the Spartan; My Novel or Varieties in English Life (a three volume series in two books); Alice or the Mysteries; The Last of the Barons.
London: George Routledge and Sons. c.1887-1889. Binding: half light brown calf over red marbled paper boards, spine with five raised bands, spine decorated with decorative gilt motifs, title in gilt on red morocco label on spine, marbled upper and lower free end papers. , Notes: Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton.....
Miscellaneous Works of Edward Gibbon, Esquire. With Memoirs of his Life and Writings Composed by Himself.
London: A. Strahan, T. Cadell jr., & W. Davies, c. 1796. Edition: First edition, Binding: Contemporary full tree calf with gilt greek-tooled border, rebacked expertly in seven compartments of gilt-tooled bands and gilt floral motifs, gilt red and yellow morocco labels on two and five respectively. , Notes: During his.....
Natural History of the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
Houghton Mifflin Company, c. 1939. Binding: Original cloth boards with blind tooled lettering., Size: 4to, Volume: 2 Volumes, Category: Book Natural History. Binding: Original cloth boards with blind tooled lettering., Size: 4to, Volume: 2 Volumes, Category: Book Natural History.
Mozart’s Operas: A Critical Study.
London: Geoffrey Cumberlege / Oxford University Press. 1947. Edition: Second Edition., Binding: Full blue cloth boards. Spine lettered in gilt. With publisher’s dust jacket, clipped. , Size: 8vo. (220 x 150 mm), Illustration: Very good example. With frontispiece of Mozart, other photographs throughout. Ownership stamped on front free endpaper and.....
Lawrence: The Story of His Life
London: Oxford University Press, c. 1935. Binding: Original brown cloth with title and illustration on cover. Text and illustration on spine. Top edge dyed red. , Notes: A book detailing the life of T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia, as he was known) with an introduction by his brother A.W......
[3 volumes] The Thousand and One Nights Commonly Called the Arabian Nights’ Entertainments
London: Chatto & Windus. 1912. Binding: Half maroon morocco over matching cloth boards. Spines with 4 raised bands decorated with gilt rules and fleur-de-lis, gilt lettering in compartments 2 and 4. Marbled pasted and free endpapers. Top edges gilt, front and bottom uncut. , Notes: Edward William Lane (1801-1876) was.....