The Chinese Spy; or, Emissary from the Court...
London: Printed for S. Bladon, in Pater-Noster-Row, 1765. First edition in English. Novel satirizing European society by depicting... Read More
Price: $2,500
Sets & Fine Bindings
Bindings and library sets of first editions and rare books across genres such as literature, poetry, and philosophy.
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L'Imitation de Jesus-Christ. Traduction Nouvelle par l'Abbé F. de Lomennais.
Quebec: Zech & Fils, nd. Read More
Price: $100
Large Paper Copy
The Spectator.
London: S. Buckley and J. Tonson, 1712-15. First collected edition (except second edition of Volume 2), LARGE PAPER ISSUE. Large Paper Copy. Lovely copy of the famous journal in the rare LARGE PAPER ISSUE. "Volumes I and 2, printed in octavo, were bound up, and, dedicated to Lord Somers and Lord... Read More
Price: $5,000
The Spectator. A New Edition, carefully corrected from the Original with Historical, Biographical, and Explanatory Notes, Contents and a General...
London: Printed for J. Bumpus, Holborn-Bars, 1819. Printer W. Wilson. Read More
Price: $1,500
The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory Notes.
London: Thomas Bosworth, 215, Regent Street, 1853. Read More
Price: $150
Aeliani variae Historiae libri xiiii.
Coloniae Allobrog. (Geneva): pud Ioan. Tornaesium, 1613. Read More
Price: $450
Memoirs of the Court of James the First.
London: Printed for Longman. Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1822. First edition. Read More
Price: $150
Museum of Painting and Sculpture, or Collection of Principal Pictures, Statues and Bas-Reliefs in the Public and Private Collections. Musée...
London & Paris: Rossange, Barthes and Lowell; Audot, Éditeur, 1829-1834. Read More
Price: $750
Spring-Tide; or, The Angler and His Friends.
London: Richard Bentley, 1850. First edition. "Never in our recollection, says a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, "has the contemplative man's recreation been rendered more attractive, nor the delight of a country life set forth with a truer or more discriminating zest than in these pleasant pages." (Westwood & Satchell) Inscribed... Read More
Price: $150
Spring-Tide; or, The Angler and His Friends.
London: Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, 1852. Second edition. "Never in our recollection, says a writer in the Gentleman's Magazine, "has the contemplative man's recreation been rendered more attractive, nor the delight of a country life set forth with a truer or more discriminating zest than in these pleasant pages."... Read More
Price: $200
The Neale M. Albert Collection of Miniature Designer Bindings. With a Preface by Albert and an Essay by Priscilla Juvelis.
New York: Grolier Club & Piccolo Press, 2006. First edition. Designed by Joe Marc Freedman at The Sarabande Press. Read More
Price: $75
The Poetical Works of Geoffrey Chaucer. With a memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas.
London: George Bell and Son, 1893. Read More
Price: $200
The Aldine Edition of British Poets.
London: George Bell & Sons, York St., Covent Garden. New York: 112, Fourth Street, 1891-1901. The poets (and number of volumes) are: Akenside (1), Beattie (1), William Blake (1), Burns (3), Butler (2), Chatterton (2), Chaucer (6), Churchill (3), Coleridge (2), Collins (1), Cowper (3), Dryden (5), Falconer (1), Goldsmith... Read More
Price: $7,500
IN DUSTJACKET
Wayfarers in the Libyan Desert.
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1912. IN DUSTJACKET. Preface: "For two women to start upon a camping trip in the desert, with only an Arab retinue to protect them seems to some of our friends to show a high sense of adventure..." The two women are our author and her co-author... Read More
Price: $300
The Burgomaster of Berlin. Translated from the German...[by William Atkinson Gardner].
London: Saunders and Otley, Conduit Street, 1843. First Edition in English, with half-titles. Read More
Price: $450
The Principles of Population, and their Connection with Human Happiness.
Edinburgh: William Blackwood and Sons: and Thomas Cadell, London, 1840. First edition. A critique of Malthus' ESSAY ON THE PRINCIPLE OF POPULATION, which "hinted at a progressive Tory programme of poor relief, diffusion of property, and penal reform (ONDB). Read More
Price: $500
History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the bourbons in 1815.
Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1847. Seventh Edition. Read More
Price: $500
Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton...with notices of his Hunting, Shooting, Driving, Racing, and Extravagant Exploits, by...
London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1835. First edition in book form. The career of "Mad Jack" Mytton (1796-1834) is the apotheosis of Regency eccentricity. Born to wealth and position, he plunged into a life of headlong extravagance, and his fearless, heedless nature drew him to exploits that approached, and later transcended, the... Read More
Price: $2,500
![The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. [Bound with:] The Gentleman's Calling [And:] Private Devotions. Richard Allestree.](/pictures/thumb/226745.jpg?v=1438724714)
The Causes of the Decay of Christian Piety. [Bound with:] The Gentleman's Calling [And:] Private Devotions.
London: R. Norton for T. Garthwait, 1667. First edition. Read More
Price: $2,500
Almanach de Gotha. Annuaire Diplomatique et Statistique pour l'Année 1867.
Gotha: [Engelhard-Reyher] for Justus Perthes, 1867. Read More
Price: $225
Amiel's Journal. the Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel. Translated ith an Introduction and Notes by Mrs. Humphry Ward.
London: MacMillan and Company, 1894. Second edition in English. Read More
Price: $150