Classics from Charles Agvent
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THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE & FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE
by GIBBON, Edward
- Condition
- Used - Mild rubbing to the spine tips of a few volumes, the leather supple and bright. Near Fine example of a title usually found with
- Published
- 1946
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$4,213.75
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1946. Hardcover. Mild rubbing to the spine tips of a few volumes, the leather supple and bright. Near Fine example of a title usually found with much wear. The slipcase, usually lacking, is present and in Good condition, mostly intact with splitting and wear to the top edge. Gian Battista Piranesi. Seven quarto… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$4,213.75
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BENVENUTO CELLINI
by CELLINI, Benvenuto
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- Used - Minor wear, spine sunned and a bit marked. Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Published
- 1932
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$73.82
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New York: Greenway Publishing Company, 1932. Reprint. Hardcover. Minor wear, spine sunned and a bit marked. Very Good. Octavo (5-1/4" x 8") bound in 3/4 blue polished leather and blue boards, a gilt-decorated and lettered spine, top edge gilt, patterned endpapers; [iv], 506 pages. The English translation is uncredited.
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NZ$73.82
THE ILIAD OF HOMER
by HOMER
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- Used - Small owner name on front endpaper, hinges intact; spine lightly soiled and faded, as usual. Very Good or better in an intact, l
- Published
- 1931
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$632.06
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Haarlem: Limited Editions Club, 1931. Hardcover. Small owner name on front endpaper, hinges intact; spine lightly soiled and faded, as usual. Very Good or better in an intact, lightly soiled Very Good yellow slipcase. Tall quarto (8" x 12") bound in full red linen, gold-stamped. Translated with an introduction by Alexander Pope. Copy #594 of 1500 printed by… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$632.06
THE PRINCE
by MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo
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- Used - Fine, bright copy in a Near Fine slipcase
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- 1954
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$737.41
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Hardcover. Fine, bright copy in a Near Fine slipcase. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full green, hand-crushed and rolled Florentine morocco leather with gilt stamping on the spine and a gilt-stamped fleuron pattern on the covers copying the design of a book in the library of Lorenzo the Magnificent. Translated from… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$737.41
L. FLORI DECADUM XIIII. TITI LIVII PATAVINI. EPITOME
by FLORUS, Lucius. LIVIUS, Titus [LIVY]
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- Used - Lacks original endpapers and final two blanks; slight aging of text, faint water stains to margins of some pages at end. Near Fi
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- Early Edition
- Published
- 1554
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$526.72
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Lugduni [Lyons]: Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1554. Early Edition. Hardcover. Lacks original endpapers and final two blanks; slight aging of text, faint water stains to margins of some pages at end. Near Fine. Small octavo (2-7/8" x 5") in 19th century vellum-backed and cornered marbled boards, gilt-ruled spine, gilt-lettered morocco spine label, all edges gilt; woodcut on title page… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$526.72
LITTLE BROTHER & LITTLE SISTER AND OTHER TALES
by [RACKHAM, Arthur] GRIMM BROTHERS
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- Used - Scattered foxing and soiling internally, text mostly clean and plates fine; 1976 owner inscription; spine is a bit rubbed with a
- Edition
- First Trade Edition
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- (1917)
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- Hardcover
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- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$737.41
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London: Constable & Co. Ltd., (1917). First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Scattered foxing and soiling internally, text mostly clean and plates fine; 1976 owner inscription; spine is a bit rubbed with a few tears along the edge and wear to the head. Very Good. Arthur Rackham. Large octavo (7-3/4" x 10-1/4") in publisher's decorated cloth. Illustrated with 12 full-page… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$737.41
THE SPRINGTIDE OF LIFE. POEMS OF CHILDHOOD
by [RACKHAM, Arthur] SWINBURNE, Algernon Charles
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- Used - Small calling card with gift inscription pasted to the front endpaper. Near Fine
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- First Trade Edition
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- 1918
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$210.69
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Philadelphia & London: J. B. Lippincott Company & William Heinemann, 1918. First Trade Edition. Hardcover. Small calling card with gift inscription pasted to the front endpaper. Near Fine. Arthur Rackham. Large octavo (7-1/4" x 10") in publisher's gilt-lettered cloth. Illustrated with 8 full-page color plates by Arthur Rackham, all with captioned tissue guards, as well as a number… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$210.69
THE ECLOGUES
by VIRGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO)
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- Used - Fine in worn glassine and a close to Fine slipcase
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- 1960
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$210.69
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Fine in worn glassine and a close to Fine slipcase. Marcel Vertes. Large quarto (9- 1/8" x 12-1/4") bound in imported gold-toned Shiki silk, bearing on the front cover a drawing by Vertes, with a matching linen spine stamped in gold. Translated by Charles Stuart Calverley with an introduction by Moses… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$210.69
THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS
by PETRONIUS
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- Used - Fine in a Near Fine slipcase
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$126.41
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase. Antonio Sotomayor. Quarto (7-1/8" x 11") bound in vellum-backed red cloth with a gilt-stamped satyr design on the front cover and the spine stamped in gilt. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. William Burnaby's translation of the classic satire of life in ancient Rome… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$126.41
THE PRINCE
by MACHIAVELLI, Niccolo
- Condition
- Used - Spine slightly darkened. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with slight loss of paper on the top edge
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- 1954
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$526.72
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1954. Hardcover. Spine slightly darkened. Near Fine in a Very Good slipcase with slight loss of paper on the top edge. Octavo (6-1/4" x 9-3/8") bound in full green, hand-crushed and rolled Florentine morocco leather with gilt stamping on the spine and a gilt-stamped fleuron pattern on the covers copying the design of… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$526.72
THE HISTORY OF TOM JONES, A FOUNDLING in a Charles Lewis binding
by FIELDING, Henry
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- Used - Light, scattered foxing. Rubbing to joints, covers firm. Near Fine in a handsome Charles Lewis binding
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Published
- 1749
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$6,320.62
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London: A. Millar, 1749. Second Edition. Hardcover. Light, scattered foxing. Rubbing to joints, covers firm. Near Fine in a handsome Charles Lewis binding. Six volumes bound in early full paneled calf leather with gilt-decorated boards and elaborately gilt-decorated spines with contrasting morocco spine labels: lxiii, [i], 214; [2] 324; [2] 370; [2] 312; [2] 294; [2] 304 pages.… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$6,320.62
THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS
by PETRONIUS
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- Used - Bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$158.10
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Bookplate on the front pastedown. Fine in a close to Fine slipcase. Antonio Sotomayor. Quarto (7-1/8" x 11") bound in vellum-backed red cloth with a gilt-stamped satyr design on the front cover and the spine stamped in gilt. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. William Burnaby's translation of the classic… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$158.10
THE SATYRICON OF PETRONIUS
by PETRONIUS
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- Used - Fine in a Fine slipcase
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- 1964
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$158.10
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine slipcase. Antonio Sotomayor. Quarto (7-1/8" x 11") bound in vellum-backed red cloth with a gilt-stamped satyr design on the front cover and the spine stamped in gilt. Printed at the Press of A. Colish. William Burnaby's translation of the classic satire of life in ancient Rome revised… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$158.10
ODES AND EPODES OF HORACE
by HORACE
- Condition
- Essentially New in torn glassine, lacking the folio facsimile volume and the slipcase
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- 1961
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$73.82
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1961. Hardcover. Essentially New in torn glassine, lacking the folio facsimile volume and the slipcase. One of two volumes in octavo (5" x 7-1/4") bound in half buckram with highly distinctive hand-marbled paper sides by Putois Freres of Paris. The smaller of the two volumes, printed in red and black, consists of the… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$73.82
CANDIDE
by VOLTAIRE
- Condition
- Used - Fine in close to Fine slipcase
- Edition
- First Edition
- Published
- 1949
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$52.76
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New York: Hermitage House, 1949. First Edition. Fine in close to Fine slipcase. Sydney Joseph. Decorated boards. Voltaire's classic with mildly erotic illustrations by Sydney Joseph. One of 1500 copies, this copy not numbered as apparently many were not.
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NZ$52.76
THE ECLOGUES
by VIRGIL (PUBLIUS VIRGILIUS MARO)
- Condition
- Used - Fine in lightly worn glassine and a Fine slipcase
- Published
- 1960
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$284.51
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New York: Limited Editions Club, 1960. Hardcover. Fine in lightly worn glassine and a Fine slipcase. Marcel Vertes. Large quarto (9- 1/8" x 12-1/4") bound in imported gold-toned Shiki silk, bearing on the front cover a drawing by Vertes, with a matching linen spine stamped in gold. Translated by Charles Stuart Calverley with an introduction by Moses Hadas.… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$284.51
THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH, AND OTHER POEMS
by LONGFELLOW, Henry Wadsworth
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- Used - Pencil signature of Virginia Beasley dated 1858 on the first blank. Touch of wear to spine tips, light spotting of covers. Near
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- First Edition
- Published
- 1858
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- Hardcover
- Quantity Available
- 1
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Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, USA
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NZ$842.75
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Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1858. First Edition. Hardcover. Pencil signature of Virginia Beasley dated 1858 on the first blank. Touch of wear to spine tips, light spotting of covers. Near Fine. Original brown cloth with brown endpapers. BAL 12122. First Printing with the October catalogue and "treacherous" for "ruddy" on line 3 of page 124. One of the… Read more about this item Item Price
NZ$842.75