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Boston: Ginn & Co., 1902. (First published in 1901.) Natural history and legends of the wild birds of America. Decorative, signed publisher's cloth binding with gilt lettering and decoration. Signed with the samped initials "TBH" [Theodore Brown Hapgood, Jr., 1871-1938, noted American designer of books, bookplates, posters, and type ornaments.] 8vo. ix, 310 pp., + brief glossary of Indian names.… Read more about this item

Paris: Charpentier, 1879. A large, heavy volume in a fine binding. The works of Musset, French dramatist, poet and novelist. Frontispiece portrait and engraved plates throughout. 735 pp., + 55 pp., of posthumous works and letters. Text is in French and printed in double columns. Quarto, 11.5 by 8.25 inches. Morocco leather (spine and corners) and decorative marbled boards. Gilt… Read more about this item

NY: Macmillan, 1941. "Complete Edition with Recent Poems" by the UK poet laureate. xvii, 673 pp., frontispiece portrait. 8vo fine binding of leather and marbled paper boards. Matching endpapers. Binding is sturdy but with moderate wear and a good amount of fading, as shown. Spine is aged to a warm brown; covers are unevenly faded. Small number "57" label on… Read more about this item

Firenze: G.C. Sansoni, (1972.) 1st edition in a custom binding. Scholarly papers presented at Villa I Tatti in Florence in 1969 to mark the 500th anniversary of Machiavelli's birth. Text is in English, Italian, and French. In five sections: Introductory Papers; Interpretations; Machiavelli and his Contemporaries; Sources and Problems; and Comment and Discussion. Titles include Machiavelli and the World of… Read more about this item

A decorative German edition of Vasari's classic study of the great artists of the Renaissance. Berlin: Verlag von Julius Bard, 1923. First published in 1550. Frontispiece and 15 double-sided plates. All text is in German. 446 + (6) pp. 12mo hardcover in printed paper boards. VG with light wear, minor darkening at the spine. Text pages, but not the illustrations,… Read more about this item

Montreal: Les Amis de l'Histoire, 1969. Vol. I only of this standard history of French Canada. Covering the discovery and early history of the continent, from 1492 to 1689. All text is in French. Red leather binding with maple leaf and fleur-de-lys decoration. Gilt lettering and top edge. Red ribbon page marker. 402 pp. Illustrated with portraits and facsimiles. An… Read more about this item

NY: Privately Printed, 1898, in a small edition. Essays and poetry by Ralph Weinberg (1877-1898.) Published as a memorial volume after his untimely death from tuberculosis the year after he graduated from the College of the City of New York. Weinberg was a prize-winning writer, and subjects in this volume include the Holy Grail, William Seward, Cuba, the American Revolution,… Read more about this item

Paris: Alphonse Lemerre, Éditeur, 1872. 1st edition in a fine binding. A scarce, complete suite of 16 original etchings by Bracquemond to illustrate the Lemerre edition of the works of Françoise Rabelais (d. 1553.) No text, apart from a captioned leave in French preceding each etching. The first is a portrait of Rabelais, and the others depict scenes from The… Read more about this item

Firenze: Nella Stamperia di S.A.R. Per i Tartini, e Franchi, 1735. 1st edition. A dictionary of quotations from the works of Plautus and Terence, comic playwrights of Ancient Rome. Arranged alphabetically, with entries in both Latin and Tuscan Italian. xxiii, [1], 311, [1] pages, Errata on p. 311. Decorative wood-cut initials, head- and tailpieces throughout. 12mo. 6 x 4.25 inches.… Read more about this item

Boston: Little, Brown and Co., (1961.) 1st edition. In a custom fine leather binding. A sports mystery story by Matt Christopher (1917-1997), prolific author of books and stories for young readers. In this novel, a boy sets out to crack the case of who is stealing from his locker during basketball practice. 128 pages. Illustrated. 7.5 x 5.25 inches. Handsomely… Read more about this item

Leipzig: J.G. Schelter & Giesecke, 1923. 1st edition. Limited to 500 copies on handmade paper. This is number 412. Three letters from Leipzig artists to Daniel Chodowiecki, 1726-1801, Polish painter and printmaker who spent most of his life in Germany. The letters are from Johann Friedrich Bause, Christian Gottlieb Geyser, and Johann Georg Penzel. Text is in German and printed… Read more about this item

Praha: Vlasntním Nákladem, 1927-31. Three volumes of this scarce illustrated journal of the Czech Association of Bibliophiles. Vols. V, VI, and VIII, each containing six issues. [Ten volumes in all were published during the 1920s-30s.) Title translates as "Showcase on Beautiful Books, Bindings, and Other Nice Things." Handsomely bound in half leather and buff Fabriano paper. Gilt lettering and top… Read more about this item

Philadelphia: John C. Winston Co. Undated, but circa 1905. A very nice set. Complete in two volumes with the original stiff cloth dust jackets. A novel of the Italian Renaissance, set in Florence in the late 15th century. Illustrated by 60 fine photogravure plates with captioned tissue guards. 475 and 478 pp. 8vo hardcovers. Cream and red cloth with gilt… Read more about this item

Boston: Oliver Ditson. No date, but circa 1880. A book of popular music for the pianoforte by German Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47.) 128 pp.of music. Folio, 12.5 by 9.75 inches.Half leather (spine and corners) and patterned paper boards. Attractive red leather cover label with two reclining women in a floral border. Good with general wear and rubbing. Leather cracked… Read more about this item

Berlin: Neufeld & Henius. No date but circa 1930. Translated by Gustav Morgenstern. A handsomely bound German edition of this novel by Swedish writer Gustasf af Geijerstam (1858-1909.) German text in fraktur. 205 pp. 12mo. Half leather (spine and corners) and patterned paper boards. Black leather spine label, lettered in gilt. Red top page edge. VG+ with light wear, some… Read more about this item

(Stockholm): Zemgale, (1960.) Printed in Sweden. Apparent 1st edition. All text is in Latvian. xvii, 794 pages, with bibliography and index. Well-illustrated with numerous maps, charts and photographs. Thick sturdy hardcover. About 9.5 by 7.25 inches. Handsomely bound in one-quarter cream leather (spine and corners) over blue paper-covered boards. Gilt-lettered blue leather spine label. Minor wear to the extremities, but… Read more about this item