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Racine et Shakspeare
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Racine et Shakspeare

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A Paris: Chez Bossange, Delaunay, Mongie & Les Marchands de Nouveautés, 1823. M. de. [Beyle, Henri]. Racine et Shakspeare. [and] No. II. À Paris: Chez Bossange père, DeLaunay, Mongie, [and] Les Marchands De Nouveautes, 1823, 1825. Very scarce first edition of both volumes. Two octavo volumes in one (8 3/16 x 5 inches; 209 x 127 mm). [1]-55, [1, blank]; [4], [3, advertisements], [1]-103, [1, errata] pp. Half-titles for both volumes. Bound together in twentieth-century half brown levant morocco over marbled paper boards by Stroobants. Spine decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Top-edge gilt, others partially uncut. Red silk page-marker. A few pages trimmed shorter at the fore-edge, but with no loss of text. Some minor marking to back board. A bit of very light foxing. Overall an excellent, near fine copy. Marie-Henri Beyle, known under his pseudonym, de Stendhal, was born in Grenoble, France in 1783 and died in Paris in 1842. Although employed at various military and… Read More
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Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial
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Rae's Philadelphia Pictorial: Directory & Panoramic Advertiser.

by RAE, Julio

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Pennsylvania: Julio H. Rae, Publisher, 1851. RAE, Julio. First edition. Oblong quarto. (Measures 9 3/8 x 13 3/4 inches). 23 pp. and 16 lithographed plates, several folding. Contemporary brown cloth with newer maroon cloth, original black and gold label on front cover. Original black and gold wrappers bound in. Covers bumped on corners with some marginal staining. Very good and scarcely found complete. This beautiful city directory illustrates eight blocks of Chestnut Street in downtown Philadelphia with sixteen lithographs. Each plate accompanied with advertisers on that street. HBS 67303. $3,000.
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Rationale of Circulating Numbers
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Rationale of Circulating Numbers: With the Investigations of All the Rules and Peculiar Processes used in that Part of Decimal Arithmetic. To Which are added, Several Curious Mathematical Questions; With Some useful Remarks on Adfected Equations, and the Doctrine of Fluxions. Adapted to t

by CLARKE, Henry

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London: Printed for the Author; and sold by Mr. Murray, 1777. The Rationale of Circulating Numbers. With the Investigations of All the Rules and Peculiar Processes used in that Part of Decimal Arithmetic. To Which are added, Several Curious Mathematical Questions; With Some useful Remarks on Adfected Equations, and the Doctrine of Fluxions. Adapted to the Use of Schools. London: Printed for the Author; and sold by Mr. Murray, 1777. First edition. Octavo (8 3/16 x 5 inches; 209 x 127 mm). xvi, [2, table of contents], [15]-146, [4, blank], 147-148, [4, blank], 149-215, [3, publisher's ads], [1, errata], [1, blank] pp. With seven folding engraved plates. We could find no copies of this at auction in the past fifty years. According to ESTC " The contents leaf after p.xiv is possibly an insert" thus explaining the lack of pagination. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine. Remnants of a red spine label. Outer hinges repaired. Some rubbing and scuffing to boards. With about eight pages of a… Read More
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Recherches et considerations sur les finances de France
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Recherches et considerations sur les finances de France

by FORBONNAIS, François Véron Duverger de

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Basel: Aux Dépens des Freres Cramer, 1758. FORBONNAIS, François Véron Duverger de. Basel: Aux Dépens des Freres  Cramer, 1758.  First edition. Two quarto volumes. viii, 594; viii, 662 pp. Sixteen folding tables. Titles  printed in red and black. Decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials.  Contemporary Frencb mottled calf. Spines decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments  with tan and olive morocco gilt lettering labels, board edges tooled in gilt, edges  stained red, marbled endpapers. Occasional browning and very minor marginal  dampstaining. A few minor marginal paper flaws. Small ink spot at foot of p. 387 in  Volume II. A wonderful copy.  "After initial employment in industry and trade in Nantes, [Forbonnais's (1722-1800)]  desire to obtain an official position in the government services (successful in 1756 when  he was appointed general inspector of currency) inspired his career as a writer on  economic and financial subjects. These all have a strong mercantilist… Read More
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Record of Ancient Histories, Entituled in Latin, Gesta Romanorum
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Record of Ancient Histories, Entituled in Latin, Gesta Romanorum: Discoursing of Sundry Examples, for the Advancement of Vertue, and the Abandoning of Vice. Very Pleasant in Reading, and Profitable in Practice.

by GESTA ROMANORUM

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London: Printed by T.H. for R. Scott, T. Bassett, R. Chiswell, and J. Wright, 1681. GESTA ROMANORUM. Early English edition. Small octavo [5 5/8 x 3 1/2 inches; 143 x 89 mm]. [236] pp. Bound without front and back blank, same as the British Library copy. Text in black letter. Besides this copy, we could only find two other copies at auction in the past 100 years. And no earlier, complete copy has ever come up at auction on ABPC or Rare Book Hub. Full contemporary sheep, rebacked to style. Board ruled in blind. Spine lettered and ruled in gilt. Spine stamped in blind with lozenges, including a crest of John Caley. All edges dyed red. A few leaves trimmed close at top edge, occasionally touching headline. Previous owner's old ink signatures on front free endpaper. Bookplate of Fairfax Murray on front pastedown. Overall very good. "A rare edition of this classic collection of fictions, of which there were more than 20 editions in English before 1700." (Quaritch) "An English translation, probably based… Read More
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Recueil de testes de caractere & de charges
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Recueil de testes de caractere & de charges: dessinées par Leonard de Vinci Florentin, & gravées par M. le C. de C.

by LEONARDO DA VINCI

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Paris: J. Mariette, 1730. LEONARDO DA VINCI; CAYLUS, ANNE CLAUDE PHILIPPE, COMTE DE. A Set of Plates by Caylus after Leonardo [LEONARDO DA VINCI]. [Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, Comte de [illustrator]. Recueil de testes de caractere & de charges. dessinées par Leonard de Vinci Florentin, & gravées par M. le C. de C. Paris: J. Mariette, 1730. First edition. Quarto (11 3/8 x 8 5/8 inches; 289 x 219 mm.) 22, [2, catalog] pp. With engraved sepia title-page after Agostino Carracci and 59 numbered engravings on 31 plates. Most engravings are 2 to a page. And a final sepia engraving entitled "di mano di Lodovico Cigoli." Contemporary red morocco, elaborately tooled in gilt. Binding with some professional restoration. Spine stamped and lettered in gilt. All leaves bound on stubs. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Overall very good. A set of plates by Caylus after Leonardo's grotesque face studies. The number of plates can vary, but this copy contains all the engravings described in the printed… Read More
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Red Pony
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Red Pony

by STEINBECK, John

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New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1937. Full Description: STEINBECK, John. The Red Pony. New York: Covici Friede Publishers, 1937. First edition, one of 699 copies signed by John Steinbeck, this being number 629. Large octavo ( 9 7/8 x 6 7/8 inches; 251 x 175 mm). 81, [1, limitation page] pp. Printed on handmade paper by the Pynson Printers, New York, under the supervision of Elmer Adler. Vignette of a pony in orange and gray on title-page. Original full beige cloth, stamped in gray and orange. Vignette of a pony in ornage repeated from the title-page on front cover, with date in orange roman numerals below. Spine lettered in yellow. Bottom and fore-edge uncut. With previous owner's bookplate on front free endpaper. Cloth lightly foxed as usual. Still, a near fine copy. Housed in publisher's original cardboard slipcase with printed paper label. Label with matching limitation number 629 om spine. Some minor splitting to bottom of case. Still about fine. This story, containing three episodes (I.… Read More
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Reference Library: Familiar French Quotations and Proverbs. Familiar Latin Quotations and Proverbs.

by FORE-EDGE PAINTING

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London: Asprey & Co., Ltd, 1910. FORE-EDGE PAINTING. England]: Asprey & Co., Ltd., [N.d., ca. 1910]. Twelvemo. Two volumes bound in one. viii, 116, viii, 120 pp. Beautifully bound by Asprey in full brown mottled calf, double ruled in gilt on covers and decoratively gilt-stamped on spine with a red morocco label, gilt-stamped. All edges gilt. Gilt turn-ins. Extremities rubbed, outer rear hinge starting but sound. Overall, a very good copy of this charming book. With a lovely fore-edge painting illustrating Warwick Castle in the early 1900's HBS 67693. $450.
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Regrets De La Belle Heaulmiere: Ja Parvenue Á Viellesse. Ymaiges de Joseph Hémard.

by VILLON, François

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Paris: Á La Librairie Luzezia, 1921. Ja Parvenue A Viellesse. Ymaiges de Joseph Hémard. Paris: A La Librairie Luzezia, 1921. Small quarto. Bound with original color wrappers bound in. Half blue morocco over marbled boards, gilt-stamped on spine with five raised bands. Illustrated by Joseph Hémard with 25 hand colored plates. The tiniest of wear to spine extremities. A fine copy. HBS 66494. $250.
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Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse
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Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse: fait par ordre de l'assemblée constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere et la 2e année de la République Françoise. Par le Cen. Labillardière...

by LABILLARDIÈRE, Jacques Julien Houton de

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Paris: Chez H.J. Jansen, 1800. LA PÉROUSE, Jean F.G. de. The Journey in Search of Lapérouse, with the Rare Atlas of Plates Bound by Courteval LABILLARDIÈRE, [Jacques Julien Houton de]. Relation du voyage a la recherche de La Pérouse, fait par ordre de l'Assemblée Constituante, pendant les années 1791, 1792, et pendant la 1ere. et la 2e. année de la République Françoise...Paris: Chez H.J. Jansen, An VIII de la République Françoise [i.e., 1799-1800]. First edition, quarto issue. Two quarto text volumes (11 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches; 290 x 222 mm.) and one folio atlas volume (22 1/4 x 16 3/8 inches; 565 x 415 mm.). xvi, 442; 332, 113, [1, errata] pp. Atlas with engraved title, double-page route map of the Western Pacific and Indian Oceean by Barbie du Bocage and forty-three plates engraved by Copia after drawings by Piron, the expedition artist, and the botanical plates by Redoute. Contemporary French mottled calf [by Courteval]. Covers with borders of rope-and-disc design enclosed between gilt… Read More
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Relation du voyage de la mer du sud aux côtes du Chily et du Perou
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Relation du voyage de la mer du sud aux côtes du Chily et du Perou: fait pendant les années 1712, 1713 & 1714.

by FREZIER, Amédée François

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Paris: Chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon, Etienne Ganeau, Jacque Quillau, 1716. First Edition in Contemporary Calf FREZIER, Amedee Francois. Relation du voyage de la mer du sud aux cotes du Chily et du Perou, fait pendant les annees 1712, 1713 & 1714. Paris: Chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon, Etienne Ganeau, Jacque Quillau, 1716. First Editon. Large octavo (9 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches; 252 x 191 mm). xiv, 298, [2] pp. Complete with thirty-seven numbered engraved maps and plates, some of which are folding. Beautifully illustrated with plates depicting everything from strawberries to Indian games. Excellent studies of cities and settlements of the west coast of Spanish America. Full contemporary calf, spine elaborately stamped in gilt. Red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Edges speckled red. Edges a bit rubbed and corners a bit bumped. Head and tail of the spine slightly chipped. Overall a very good copy. Plate IX, showing a Chilean in the posture of playing La Sueca, is commonly regarded as the earliest depiction of a… Read More
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Report of the Committee of Claims, on the Petition of Elizabeth Hamilton
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Report of the Committee of Claims, on the Petition of Elizabeth Hamilton: January 11, 1810. Read and Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on next.

by HAMILTON, Alexander

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City of Washington: A. & G. Way, Printers, 1810. HAMILTON, Alexander. , [HAMILTON, Elizabeth, subject]. Report of the Committee of Claims, on the Petition of Elizabeth Hamilton. January 11, 1810. Read and Committed to a Committee of the Whole House on next. City of Washington, A. & G. Way, Printers: 1810. First edition. Unbound pamphlet. Octavo (9 x 5 3/8 inches; 230 x 138 mm). [3], [1, blank] pp. With two stab marks. Uncut. Very good. We could only find one other copy at a library and no copies at auction. "On July 11, 1804, Alexander Hamilton was mortally wounded during a duel with Aaron Burr and died the following day. Five years after Hamilton's untimely death, his widow, Elizabeth Hamilton, submitted a petition to Congress asking for a pension based on her husband's military service as Lieutenant Colonel in the Revolutionary war. In 1782, Hamilton had been a member of the Continental Congress that passed legislation establishing army pensions. For ethical reasons, he had relinquished his claim… Read More
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Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains
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Report of the Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains: in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44...Printed by order of the Senate of the United States.

by FREMONT, John Charles

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Washington: Gales and Seaton, Printers, 1845. in the Year 1842, and to Oregon and North California in the Years 1843-44... Printed by order of the Senate of the United States. Washington: Gales and Seaton, Printers, 1845. First edition, Senate issue with all the scientific data. Octavo (9 x 5 3/4 inches; 228 x144 mm). 693, [1, blank] pp. Complete. With twenty-two plates and five maps, two of which are small folding and the very large folding map in the rear pocket. Publisher's vertically-ribbed dark brown cloth. Covers with blind-stamped borders and floral loops. Spine lettered in gilt. Some foxing and toning throughout. Cloth lightly rubbed and bumped. Binding a bit skewed, causing a crease in the spine. Pocket map in very good condition with just a few small fold-line splits. Still a very good copy of this important narrative in the original binding and with the large map in the rear pocket. One of the most important publications on the history of the exploration of the American West. 'On… Read More
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Report on the Construction of a Military Road
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Report on the Construction of a Military Road: From Walla-Walla to Fort Benton

by MULLAN, Capt. John

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Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863. First edition. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 225 x 147 mm). [4], [1]-363, [1, blank], [1, errata], [5, blank] pp. With ten tinted plates and four folding maps. Bound by the US Government Bindery in green textured cloth. Boards ruled in blind. Spine lettered in gilt and blind. A bit of browning and offsetting throughout. A few small dampstains to fore-edge and to the creases of the first and second map. A tiny hole in the cloth of the back outer hinge. Three previous owner's small bookplates on front pastedown. Overall a very good copy. "[John Mullan was an] army explorer, road builder, and lawyer... he volunteered for assignment to the northern railway survey headed by Governor Isaac I. Stevens of Washington Territory. This began a ten-year period of exploration and road building in the Pacific Northwest that is the basis for Mullan's reputation. The army transferred Mullan to the topographical engineers, and Stevens assigned him to a party bringing… Read More
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Rights of Man
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Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. Second Edition. [First American]. [Together with] Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principles and Practice.

by PAINE, Thomas

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Philadelphia: Re-Printed by Samuel Harrison Smith, 1791. JEFFERSON, Thomas. Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. Second Edition. [First American]. Philadelphia: Re-Printed by Samuel Harrison Smith, 1791. [Together with] PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man. Part the Second. Combining Principles and Practice. Second Philadelphia edition. Philadelphia: Printed by and For Messrs. Printed by and for Messr. H. and P. Rice, no. 50, Market-Street, and S.H. Smith, 1792. First American Edition of part one of Thomas Paine's famous work, Rights of Man, printed the same year as the first London edition. Second American edition, printed the same year as the first American of part two. Misunderstandings of which edition Part one is are common as the title-page states Second edition, although it is the first printing in America. "The full title of the first American printing, designated on the title-page as the 'Second Edition, reads Rights of Man. Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the… Read More
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Rights of Man
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Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. [Bound with] Rights of Man; Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. [Bound with] Letter Addressed to the Addressers of the Late Proclamation.

by PAINE, Thomas

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London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row, 1792. Full Description: PAINE, Thomas. Rights of Man. Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution. [Bound with] Rights of Man; Part the Second. Combining Principle and Practice. [Bound with] Letter Addressed to the Addressers of the Late Proclamation. London: Printed for H.D. Symonds, Paternoster-Row, 1792. Very early reprints of the first two titles; first Symonds edition of the third title. Twelvemo (7 9/16 x 4 1/4 inches;192 x 109 mm). [2], 78; 91, [3, appendix]; 40 pp. First edition of the Symonds/Rickman 40-page edition of the Letter Addressed to the Addressers, title page with "Proclamation" measuring 5.4 cm. long. This title was issued the same year in London by Jordan in a 40-page edition and by Symonds in a 78-page edition, although no copies are known to exist of the Jordan edition. Bound without half titles for all works. Full contemporary sheep, rebacked. Newer red morocco spine label, lettered in gilt. Boards a bit… Read More
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Rime di Michelagnolo Buonarroti
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Rime di Michelagnolo Buonarroti: Raccolta da Michelagnolo suo Nipote

by MICHELANGELO

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Florence: Appresso i Giunti, 1623. BUONAROTTI. Rime di Michelagnolo Buonarroti. Raccolta da Michelagnolo suo Nipote. Florence: Appresso i Giunti, 1623. First edition. Small quarto (9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches). [12], 88 pp. Woodcut device on title-page, decorative woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials, typographic ornaments throughout. Uncut and bound in modern full brown speckled calf decoratively blindstamped on covers, gilt-stamped on spine with five raised bands. Minimal foxing throughout. Very good. We read in the preface that the intent of Michelangelo's heirs was to publish a definitive volume of verses as an antidote to the many spurious editions produced since his death. Michelangelo's grandnephew goes on to say that these verses were in large part taken from a manuscript in the Vatican Library, most of which is in his granduncle's hand. While this book is now hailed as a classic in modern gay literature, for many years this was not the case due to some creative editing by Michelangelo the… Read More
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Rime of the Ancient Mariner: With ten engravings on copper by David Jones.

by COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor

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Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon at the Fanfare Press, 1929. JONES, David; FANFARE PRESS. One of 400 Copies, with Ten Copper Engravings JONES, David, [illustrator]. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. FANFARE PRESS. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. With ten engravings on copper by David Jones. Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon at the Fanfare Press, 1929. Full Description: JONES, David, [illustrator]. COLERIDGE, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. With ten engravings on copper by David Jones. Bristol: Douglas Cleverdon at the Fanfare Press, 1929. First edition illustrated by David Jones. One of 400 numbered copies, this being number 384 out of a total of 470. Quarto (12 1/2 x 10 inches; 319 x 255 mm). [x], 37, [1, colophon] pp. With ten copper engravings by Jones, eight of which are full-page. Publisher's quarter white buckram over blue-green paper boards. Spine lettered in gilt . Very light darkening and foxing to buckram. A few tiny chips to board edges. Internally very clean. Overall a very good and very… Read More
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Roof of the World
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Roof of the World: Being the Narrative of a Journey Over the High Plateau of Tibet to the Russian Frontier and the Oxus Sources on Pamir

by GORDON, T. E.

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Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1876. First edition. Octavo (10 x 7 inches; 256 x 180 mm). [1, blank], xiv, 172 pp. With a folding map and 24 additional engraved plates, four of which are printed in color and one of which is folding. Publisher's full green cloth, pictorially stamped with rams in gilt on boards and spine. Spine lettered in gilt. Brown coated endpapers. Plate facing page 22 with margin repaired. Light dampstaining to plate facing page 23. Folding plate with tears at creases, but with no loss. A bump at bottom corner causing minor indentation of pages. Very good. "The author was Honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Viceroy of India, attached to the Special Mission to Kashgar. Gordon was one of the first Europeans to explore and hunt sheep in the Tian Shan and Pamir highlands." (PBA). HBS 68621. $1,500.
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Roose's Companion and Guide to Washington and Vicinity
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Roose's Companion and Guide to Washington and Vicinity

by ROOSE, William S.

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Washington: Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1876. Washington]: Gibson Brothers, Printers, 1876. First edition. Small octavo. 94 pp. Original printed purple paper boards, spine chipped at bottom. With fold-out map in front and numerous black and white illustrations throughout. Very good and early travel guide. . HBS 66635. $450.
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