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London: Mandrake Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Reprinted from the original English edition, translation of Bartholomew Young (1587) Now edited with an Introduction by K. H. Josling and decorated in colour by M. Leone. Green pictorial vellum with gilt. A E G. Limited to an edition of 550 of which this is #149. Colophon. Vellum has faded. Illustration coors are very bright. .

Presbyterian Board of Publication. Good with no dust jacket. [1853]. Hardcover. POETRY; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 156 pages; No date- circa 1853. Full brown morocco leather and guilt with deeply carved boards. Interestingly gauffered pattern gilt text block edges. A fine binding. A little wear to covers but not bad at all. Contents clean with some light chipping to title page. Lacking uppper right corner tip of title page . Binding cracked as seen in photo. Front cover detached .

London: Longmans, Green and Co. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1890. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Trevelyan Edition. Vol II only. Bound in full leather for Bristol Grammar School. .

Venice: Remondini. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1783. Hardcover. contenente la vita de' Padri, e de' Dottori della chiesa; degl'interpreti migliori della Sagra Scrittura, Ebrei, e Cristiani; de' teologi morali, mistici, polemici, anche eterodossi, ch'abbiano scritto in materie non controverse; de' canonici, e de' comentatori delle decretali, e del corpo di giure canonico; degli storici, bibliografi, biografi e agiografi ecclesiastici... 1 Volume, containing 2 vols only covering (A-G). Vol I: XXIV, 284 pp. Vol II: VIII, 236 pp. Later 3/4 vellum and marbled board, with more recent leather spine label. Very good. .

Franklin Center Pennsylvania: Franklin Library. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1964. 1st Thus; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Provenance- Harris Hollin, color bookplate. .

Philadelphia: Printed for Private Circulation By J. B. Lippincott,. Good with no dust jacket. 1907. First Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 259 pages; The Journal of Dr. John Morgan of Philadelphia from the City of Rome to the City of London 1764, Together with a Fragment of a Journal Written at Rome 1764 and a Biographical Sketch. Limited leather edition of 165. Morgan is noted for his address in 1765 propounding the institution of medical schools in America. Bound in full gilt ruled red pigskin leather, matching eps. Spine with gilt appointments and 4 raised bands. Inked gifting on first white blank. Book slightly warped from water damage. Written as he toured Europe in 1764. .

Boston: Philips and Samson. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Lithos; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 276 pages; Black morocco leather heavily gilded with all edges gilt. Color litho decorations on first two pages. Four b/w plates with heavy foxing largely to the margins. Ohterwise contents VG and clean. .

Paris: Hachette. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1922. Hardcover. Science Fiction; B&W Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 211 [2] pages; Le Docteur Ox. Maitre Zacharius, Un hivernage dans les glaces, Un drame dans les airs. Les Voyages Extraordinaires. . A reasonably spectacular bright red heavily gilded decorative cloth. Engraved title page, numerous engravings throughout the book. A number of b/w plates. French Language text. The known and the unknown worlds. .

London: Longmans, Green, and Co.. Very Good with no dust jacket. [1910]. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 106 pages; Nicely bound in calf leather with rubbing to extemites. Prize bookplate inside front cover. .

Paris: Éditions, Albin Michel. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1908. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 504, [2] wraps pages; Wraps bound in. Contents with light toning, still just VG. 76 illustrations, some full page, as issued. Oriignally a paperback book but now finely bound in 3/4 tree calf leather over matching marbled boards and eps. French language text. .

London, New York: Downey; J E Taylor. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1897. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; xv, 287; 288-604 pages; One of Them which originally appeared in parts in 1860 and published in book form in 1861. This consists of 2 only volumes with original waterclours, hand colored plates, extra illustrated, very ornate tooled leather. The final set onsisted of 37 volumes. Green morocco leather faded to olive on spines. All gilt is bright, binding is quite striking. Inner covers are also full leather with green frames surrounding a red morocco blank [back and a tooled story related drawing 4.5 x 7.5". Volumes are 6 x 9. Double end papers consist of silk and also watercolor marbling. Binding by Becourt stamped in gilt inside front cover. Possibly this was done in collaboration with Zahnsdorf as Z bound editions in 1902 and 1911. Limited to 10 special copies of which this is the Publisher's proof copy especially prepared for D C Goodwin. No autographed letter so this is… Read More

London: George Routledge,. Very Good with no dust jacket. ca1890. Hardcover. Sir John Lubbock's Hundred Books. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 566, 18 :527, [1]; pages; Two vols in one. Finely bound in 3/4 brown calf leather with 5 raised bands. T E G. Text edges lightly browned, o/w VG. .

Budapest Hungary: M. E. Lowy's,. Very Good with no dust jacket. 5653 - 1893. Hardcover. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 374 pages; PRAISES OF GOD: DAILY PRAYERS OF THE ISRAELITES WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION [ORNATE COVER]. Highly ornate three dimensional plastic-like or composite and metals in white, black, silver and gold colors. First [of two] title page torn with paper loss [2"], in upper left corner. Contents firm with toning. Binding solid. One clasp lacking it's latching crossbar. Intricate design with floral gold bands, silver metal edging and dividers, a central tablet on a black foliated background the whole secured with tiny brads. Spine with chipping at head and foot with 3/4 inch loss to top side. Still an eminantly interesting, unusual and collectible binding. .

Library of America. Fine with no dust jacket. N.D.. Leather. 2 volumes patterned leather ruled in gilt. Slight wrinkling to first blanks of 'Later Works'. Otherwise as new. .

NY: Liveright Publishing Corp.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1942. Hardcover. We fit archival quality clear acrylic covers for additional protection whenever possible. ; B&W Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 487 pages; Custom bound in full brown morocco, spine with 8 raised bands, custom slipcase (slipcase is GOOD+). Bound for the library of the noble John Lynford Viles. .