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French-language edition with three short pieces by Voltaire, illustrated by Robert Polack. 217 pp. Six watercolor illustrations on glassine. Former library book with markings on spine and inside front and back covers. The cover is in a fragile condition with brown paper starting to peel away from the cream wraps. All six illustrations on glassine are included, although one has pulled free of the binding.

This hardback copy remains in very good condition with a small aount of shelfwear. Binding is tight and interior pages are free of extraneous writing, marks, underlining. APPEARS UNREAD. Perfect for a gift. No dust jacket.

As the Library of Congress listing explains: "John Baily was an Englishman who lived for many years in Central America. He was employed in 1837-38 by the government of Nicaragua to survey a potential canal route from the Caribbean Sea to the Pacific Ocean. In 1850 Baily published this book and a separate map of Central America that showed four proposed routes for an isthmian canal ... The chapter devoted to Nicaragua is by far the longest and contains a detailed discussion of the proposed route for an inter-oceanic canal through the country." This offering is for the book only. It does NOT include the map, which was published separately. The book does include all three "views" of various places in Central America.

Signed by author on first free fly leaf. Illustrated with 15 pages of photographs. Pages clean with no extraneous writing, marks, or stamps; spine tight. Dust jacket edges, top and bottom, worn with chips at top and bottom of the spine. The DJ is now in a protective mylar cover.

Binding in full leather with five raised bands on the spine. Cover edges and corners are worn. The hinges are broken but the cords are holding the covers well. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown: "William Charles De Meudon Earl Fitzwilliam." Also, inked letters at top left of pastedown: B: 5: 51 (marked through) E. VI. 5. No title on spine. Gently effaced library ownershp stamps on bottom title page and first text page. Paper clean and unfoxed. 147 pages followed by a 2-page index, and an appendix of 30 pages plus 12 plates illustrating gold coins of the kings of England.

"A Chronological VIew of the World" was intended by the author to accompany and illustrate Friedrich Strass's "Stream of Time." A Prussian historian and schoolteacher, Strass envisioned time as metaphorical bodies of flowing water. This copy of Haskel's "Chronological" was printed in New York in 1845. It is bound in green cloth over boards. The cover is scuffed with rubbing to top and bottom of the spine and corner tips. Spine is badly sun tanned. Interior pages foxed, heavily at front and back. Binding remains tight. Previous owner's names written in ink on first free fly leaf; another owner's name is written in ink at top of title page.

Small volume (6.5 by 5.5 by .5 inches, 70 pages) in soft red leather binding, which is slightly curled at the edges. No date but there is a bookmark dated 1910. Dodge Publishing Company, was founded in 1895 in San Francisco as the Dodge Book and Stationery Store. The business moved to New York 1989, and continued there until 1928. The title page of "Compensation" contains the description: Makers of Unique Books.

HANDSOME COPY+ in good condition. This is a first edition published in 1916. NOT A FACSIMILE OR REPRINT. Lettering on cover spine has faded and there is some discoloration. Cover title in gilt that remains bright and legible. Interior pages are clean and not marred by notes or folds of any kind.