Search Results: Titles starting with S from Sam Gatteno Books

n.p. [New York]: n.p. [The Bibliographical Society of America], n.d. [1937].. Soft cover. Very Good. Octavo. 9, [i]pp. Reprinted for private circulation from 'The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America,' Volume Thirty-one, Part One, 1937. Printed paper wrappers. With a tipped-in sheet of three passport-size photographs of Eames, Sabin, and Vail. Presentation from Vail to Wroth. This item came from a large collection of bibliographical items belonging to Lawrence Wroth, along with items from A.N.L. Munby and Thomas Streeter's collections.

New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1857.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 552pp. Contemporary brown morocco. All edges gilt. With several engraved plates.

Parma: Dalla Reale Stamperia, 1801.. Hardcover. Good. Large quarto. 2 ff., 487 pages. Title-page in red and black. Partially unopened. Modern light brown calf over marbled boards. Brown title label. Brooks 844. A very good copy. Since this item is good-sized, standard postage quotes do not apply. Shipping cost will be determined by destination and mode of transport.

Sandys, George. A relation of a iourney begun an: Dom: 1610. Foure bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and ilands adioyning. London: Printed [by Thomas Cotes] for Andrew Crooke, 1637. Folio. [iv], 309, [iii]pp. Last leaf is blank. Fourth edition. Dedication is signed: George Sandys. Contemporary calf. With engravings, maps, and two plates, one folding. The engraved title-page is signed: Francisco Delaram sculp. ESTC S116686; STC 21730.$3,200. Hardcover. Very Good. Sandys, George. A relation of a iourney begun an: Dom: 1610. Foure bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire, of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the remote parts of Italy, and ilands adioyning. London: Printed [by Thomas Cotes] for Andrew Crooke, 1637. Folio. [iv], 309, [iii]pp. Last leaf is blank. Fourth edition. Dedication is signed: George Sandys. Contemporary calf. With engravings, maps, and two plates, one folding.… Read More

London: Faber and Faber, 1950.. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. 187pp. First edition. Cloth. Dustwrapper.

Stockholm: Albert Bonniers, 1947.. Soft cover. Near Fine. Octavo. 367 pages. Decorated stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated. Fine.

Edinburgh: Printed and Published by K. and H. Beveridge, 6, Great Stuart Street, 1806.. Soft cover. Good. Yellow wrappers, lower wrapper lacking. Contents listed on the upper cover. With five illustrations; one in the text, and four on two leaves (recto and verso). No copies recorded in WorldCat, Copac UK, and National Library of Scotland. The institution may possibly be the Edinburgh Institution for Languages and Mathematics, now Stewart's Melville College, except that Melville College appears to have been founded in 1832.

New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1976.. Soft cover. Very Good. Large quarto. xxxii, 142 pages. Decorated stiff paper wrappers. With 8 colored and 96 black-and-white illustrations.

V Sanktpeterburgie: Pri Imperatorskoi Akademii Nauk, 1762 Goda.. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. [2], 14, [16], 176pp. Contemporary mottled calf. Portrait of the author by E.G. Vinogradov, in excellent facsimile. From the library of V.N. Kovaldin, with his stamp on the title-page. Sopikov 10151; Bitovt 1418; Smirdin 8188; Kilgour collection 486; Svodnyi kat. russ. knigi grazhd. pechati XVIII v., 2788. 18th century satire poetry by the father of modern Russian literature (acc. to Belinsky): Antiokh D. Kantemir (1708-1744). "His work reflects the scope and purpose of Peter the Great's European style reforms, standing out as a contribution to the integration of Russian culture into the world circuit of Classicism". Kantemir was a Russian diplomat in London and Paris, where he was a close friend of Voltaire and Montesquieu. Besides his own writing, he translated letters and poetry by, among others, Horace, Fontenelle, Boileau and Juvenal. Kantemir is known for his fables and poetry but his fame… Read More

Philadelphia: H. Hooker, 1850.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. 273pp. Brown cloth, triple fillet borders in blind of varying sizes. Floral design encircling the façade of a Gothic cathedral, all in blind. Pattern repeated on the lower cover. Title and publisher's name in gilt on spine.

London: printed by E. Cotes for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane, 1664.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [4], 112pp. With the printer's device on the verso of the half-title. Contemporary calf, with the arms of the Bagot family stamped on the covers in blind. ESTC R215032; Wing (2nd ed., 1994), C6391A. Bound with: Scudamore, James. Homer a la mode. A mock poem upon the first, and second books of Homer's Iliads. Oxford: printed by H[enry]. H[all]. for Ric. Davis, 1664 or 1665. Both items are quite difficult to find in the trade.

London: printed for C. Brome, at the Gun in St. Paul's Church-yard, 1700.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. [ii], 150pp. Eighth edition. The imitation of the fourth book has separate dated title-page; pagination and register are continuous. Contemporary sheep, very worn. Covers loose. ESTC R14511; Wing (2nd ed., 1994), C6398A.

Vitembergae: Apvd Ioannem Lvdov. Meiselivm, 1715.. Soft cover. Good. Quarto. [iv]ff. []4. Disbound. Highly uncommon; On-line WorldCat identifies five institutions with copies, all in Europe.

Wien: Druck und Verkag der K. K. Hof und Staatsdruckerei, 1879.. Hardcover. Good. Large folio. 7pp. Loose in a portfolio. With 29 plates. Significant shipping cost, especially overseas because of size and weight.

Dublin: printed for John Exshaw, on Cork-Hill, and Richard James, in Dame-Street, 1753.. Hardcover. Good. Duodecimo. xvi, 304, [viii]pp. First Irish edition. Part of title-page cut out to remove a previous owner's name; paper replaced and repaired, not affecting text. Contemporary calf, repaired. ESTC T119321. The first English edition, also printed in 1753, the same year that the original French one was published, is quite common - ESTC identifies five in the British Isles and twelve in North America; ESTC identifies eight copies in the British Isles and only one in North America of the Dublin edition.

Edinburgh: Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderson, Printer to His most Sacred Majesty, Anno Domini, 1680.. Soft cover. Good. Large quarto. [viii], 98, [i.e. 102], [v]pp. Disbound. With 30 plates. Last page of index damaged, lacking a small part of the page.

New York: Paul Eriksson, 1968.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. First edition. Red cloth. Dustwrapper, with very small chip on spine. Illustrated.

London: Printed for S. Harding, on the Pavement in St. Martin's-Lane, 1747.. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. xii, 112, [i], 112-225, [i]pp. A6, B12-K12, L6 (- L6 blank). First edition. With a folding chart at the end. Publisher's advertisement, [1] p. at end. Pages 111-112 repeated in numbering; signature F has 13 leaves. Contemporary calf, double rule fillets, repaired. With ten engraved plates of the techniques of engraving. Large folding letterpress table of artists bound between pp. 162 & 163, and numerous metalcut artists' marks and cyphers to the text. Bigmore & Wyman II, 332; Levis, The Bibliography of Engraving, p. 37; ESTC T84861. From the library of Sir Edward Littleton, Barrister.

n.p. [Berkeley]: n.p. [University of California Press], n.d. [1974].. Soft cover. Very Good. Octavo. 31, [i]pp. Reprinted from: Literary Criticism -- Idea and Act: The English Instittue, 1939-1972, Printed paper wrappers. Most likely A.N.L. Munby's copy. Munby died the same year as the publication date of the article, but his passing did not occure till December 26 of that year. Although there are no ownership inscriptions, this item came from a large collection of bibliographical items belonging to Lawrence Wroth, along with items from A.N.L. Munby and Thomas Streeter's collections.

Reutlingen: Druck und Verlag der G. Kurtz'schen Buchhandlung, 1840.. Hardcover. Good. Quarto. Three parts. I: 848pp.; II: 80pp.; III: 216pp. With separate title-pages to parts II and III. In contemporary boards. Illustrated with a frontispiece & many emblematic engravings in part I and a frontispiece to part III. Not in LANDWEHR.