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The Life and Exploits of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote De La Mancha
by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De
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- 1801
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NZ$1,516.95
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London: printed for William Miller, 1801 Four volumes. Illustrated with 19 b/w engraved plates, frontispiece plate to Vol. I, and a fold-out map of Spain to Vol. I. Translated from the original Spanish by Charles Jervas (incorrectly printed in editions of Don Quixote as "Jarvis"). First edition thus. Finely bound by Brentano's in full red morocco, with boards double-ruled in… Read more about this item Item Price
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Miscellanies in Prose and Verse (The First Volume; The Second Volume; The Last Volume)
by Swift, Jonathan; Pope, Alexander.
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- First Edition
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NZ$505.65
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London: Printed for Benjamin Motte, 1727-1728. Three volumes. First edition thus, with a preface by Swift and Pope. Contemporary full brown calf, spines lettered in gilt, red labels to spines, and red speckled edges. Good set, with heavy flaking to calf, spine ends lightly chipped, some wear to corners, some rubbing to edges, a bit of loss to spine label… Read more about this item Item Price
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Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts
by Swift, Jonathan
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- First Edition
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- 1726
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NZ$7,584.75
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London: Printed for Benj. Motte, 1726 Illustrated with two maps in Volume I, and three maps and a diagram in Volume 2. Four parts in two volumes as issued. First edition, third issue (Teerink's "B" Edition), with frontispiece portrait of Gulliver in the second state (legend lettered around an oval frame, and vertical chain lines), as usual. This is the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-Errant Don Quixote of the Mancha
by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De
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NZ$6,320.62
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 1907 Eight volumes. Translated from the Spanish by Thomas Shelton. Illustrated by Daniel Vierge with tissue guarded plates and in-text illustrations. With an introduction by Royal Cortissoz. First edition thus. One of 140 copies printed on Imperial Japan paper "with two additional full-page illustrations, and with extra prints, before letter, of all the… Read more about this item Item Price
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Paradise Regain'd. A Poem in IV Books. To Which is Added Samson Agonistes
by Milton, John
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- First Edition
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- 1671
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- Hardcover
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NZ$15,169.50
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London: Printed by J. M. for John Starkey at the Mitre in Fleetstreet, near Temple-Bar, 1671 First edition, second issue, with "loah" corrected to "loth" on p. 67 of Paradise Regain'd; complete with licensing and errata leaves. Bound in contemporary brown calf, with five raised bands to spine, boards and spine ruled in blind. Very good, with some wear and… Read more about this item Item Price
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Opera Philosophica (Principia Philosophiae; Specimina Philosophiae; Passiones Animae)
by Descartes, René
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- 1656
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- Hardcover
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NZ$6,742.00
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Amsterdam: Ludovicum & Danielem Elzevirios, 1656 Third edition. Contemporary brown calf with sides ruled in blind, four raised bands to spine, and red leather label lettered in gilt to spine. Very good, with light wear and chipping to calf on joints and edges, rebacked, 19th century inscriptions to front fly leaf and half-title page, biographical clippings affixed to front endpapers,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Workes of Our Ancient and Learned English Poet, Geffrey Chaucer, Newly Printed
by Chaucer, Geoffrey
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- 1602
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- Hardcover
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London: Printed by Adam Islip, 1602 Edited by Thomas Speght and revised with the help of Francis Thynne. Illustrated with two title pages, John Speed's full-page portrait of Chaucer with genealogical border, woodcut initials, ornaments, and head-and-tail pieces throughout, and knight and lance woodcut to Fol. 1. Folio. Second Speght edition (Seventh collected edition overall), with errata leaf. Finely bound… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Works of Alexander Pope, Efq; in eight volumes, with his last corrections, additions, and improvements, together with all his Notes
by Pope, Alexander
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- 1770
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- Hardcover
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NZ$1,601.22
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London: S. Crowder, C. Ware, and T. Payne,, 1770 Eight volumes. Finely bound in brown calf, five raised bands to spine, compartments decorated, lettered, and ruled in gilt, red leather label to spine, and red speckled edges. Very good set, with mild dimming to spine gilt, light margin offsetting to endpapers, shallow chipping and splitting to spine joints, some light… Read more about this item Item Price
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The History of the World, in five books.
by Raleigh, Sir Walter
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- 1628
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- Hardcover
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London: Printed [by Humphrey Lownes] for H. Lownes, G. Lathum, and R. Young,, 1628 Fourth edition. Title page with engraving of Cicero's Magistra Vitae holding up the earth by Renold Elstracke dated 1614, portrait of Raleigh engraved by Simon de Passe, "Minde of the Front" leaf, and eight folding maps as issued (pages 56, 108, 152, 218, 350, 270, 386,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Paradise Lost; Paradise Regain'd
by Milton, John
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- 1758
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NZ$2,528.25
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London: Printed by John Baskerville for J. and R. Tonson, 1758 Two volumes. First Baskerville edition. Bound in full brown calf with gilt borders with designs in four corners to boards, gilt designs to edges, spines with five raised bands and designs in gilt to each compartment, black labels with titles in gilt to spines, brown topstains and speckled edges,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Exercitatio anatomica de cordis et sanguinis motu. Cum praefatione Zachariae Sylvii Medici Roterodamensis. Accessit Differtatio de Corde Doct. Jacobi de Back, Urbis Roterodami Medici Ordinarii
by Harvey, William
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- 1648
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Rotterdam: Arnold Leers, 1648 12mo. Fourth edition. With additional engraved title page and 2 full-page engraved illustrations. Contemporary speckled brown calf, double ruled in blind to covers, horizontal rules in blind and paper library labels to spine, red speckled edges. Very good, with shallow chipping to bottom of spine, light wear to hinges and corners, sound binding with strong hinges,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Les Caracteres de Theophraste, avec les caracteres, ou les Moeurs de ce siècle.
by Bruyère, Jean de là
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- 1784
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- Hardcover
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London, 1784 Three volumes. Later edition. Finely bound in contemporary speckled light brown calf, boards triple ruled in gilt, spines decorated in gilt with gray leather spine labels lettered in gilt, board edges and turn-ins tooled in gilt, text block edges gilt, red and blue marbled endpapers. A near fine set with a touch of light rubbing to extremities, small… Read more about this item Item Price
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Chefs-d'Oeuvre Dramatiques de P. & zt. Corneille, Avec le Jugement des Savans à la suite de chaque Pièce
by Corneille, Pierre and Thomas
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- 1783
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- Hardcover
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NZ$758.48
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London, 1783 24 mo. Five volumes. Early edition. Finely bound in contemporary tan mottled calf, boards triple-ruled in gilt and spines stamped in gilt, board edges and turn-ins gilt, text block edges gilt, red and blue marbled endpapers; green silk markers in each volume. A near fine set with just some light wear to extremities, most pronounced in Vol. II,… Read more about this item Item Price
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Account of a New Hygrometer
by Deluc, Jean Andre
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- 1774
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- Paperback
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NZ$3,371.00
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London: Printed By W. Bowyer and J. Nichols, 1774 Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to noted British astronomer and mathematician Thomas Hornsby to front pastedown: "Pour Mons. Hornsby de la part d l'Auteur". Small 4to. [2], 57, [1] pp. First separate edition, originally published in the periodical Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in the previous year. Containing one… Read more about this item Item Price
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Letters Concerning Toleration
by Locke, John
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- 1765
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- Hardcover
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NZ$4,213.75
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London: A. Millar, 1765 Modern three-quarter dark brown calf over tan cloth boards, with five raised bands and red morocco spine label lettered in gilt. A very good or better copy, with some foxing and soiling to frontispiece and title page, small chip to top corner of frontispiece, text block otherwise clean and complete, boards slightly bowed, binding bright and… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale
by Goldsmith, Oliver
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- 1766
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- Hardcover
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Corke: Printed for Eugene Swiney, 1766 Pirated Corke edition. Bound in contemporary full brown calf, with five raised bands to the spine, contrasting red calf label to the spine, lettered and decorated in gilt, board edges tooled in blind. Very good, with some wear to the extremities, light rubbing to the boards and spine, minor spotting to the fore edge,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift
by Swift, Jonathan
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- 1808
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- Hardcover
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London: for J. Johnson, 1808 19 volumes. 8vo., bound in contemporary three-quarter dark calf over blue boards with gilt spines, marbled pastedown and endpapers. A very good to near fine set with light rubbing and a few small stains to covers; internally very tight and clean with only some light scattered foxing, mostly to the preliminary pages of text. A… Read more about this item Item Price
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