1599. Pindarou Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia: Meta exe?ge?seo?s palaias panu ophelimou kai skolio?n omoio?n. Pindari Olympia. Pythia. Nemea. Isthmia. Adiuncta est interpretatio Latina ad verbum. Cum indicibus necessarijs. Geneva, Oliva Pavli Stephani, 1599. 4to. 24 x 16 cm. [16], 487, [3] index pp. ([par]4, A-Z4, AA-ZZ4, AAA-PPP4, QQQ2). Text.....
1657. BACON, Francis. Resuscitatio, or, Bringing into Publick Light Several Pieces of the Works... 18th century calf, worn, front board largely detached and pulling on first signature of textblock. Some toning. but generally a very good copy internally. . Ownership bookplate on front pastedown of the Byron family, in.....
1677. [HUMOR] Admiranda Rerum Admirabilium Encomia, sive Disserta & Amoena Pallas, Disserens Seria sub Ludicra Specie. Hoc est, Dissertationum Ludicarum... Noviomagi Batavorum (Nijmegen): Ex Typographia Reineri Smetii, 1677. 12mo. [12], 660 pp. With an added engraved title page and 8 striking full-page copper-engraved satirical plates, each captioned and numbered. Contemporary.....
1773. 18th Century American Charity Work for Women and Children Abstract of the Proceedings of the Corporation for the Relief of the Widows and Children of Clergymen of the Church of England in America. Including a detailed list of members and benefactors with their contributions, along with accounts of.....
1824. SMITH, Aaron. The Atrocities of the Pirates; or, A Faithful Narrative of the Unparalleled Sufferings Endured by the Author During His Captivity Among the Pirates of the Island of Cuba, with an Account of the Excesses and Barbarities of Those Inhuman Freebooters. New York: Published by Robert Lowry, 135.....
1862. BANCROFT, Hubert Howe (publisher). Bancroft’s Hand-Book Almanac of the Pacific States, for 1862. San Francisco: H.H. Bancroft & Company, 1862. 12mo (165 x 115 mm). 192 pp. RARE. InvRBGSus Original tan pebble-grain cloth, gilt-stamped; some rubbing and light wear to extremities, internally clean with expected light toning from.....
1726. Rogers, Woodes. A Cruising Voyage Round the World: First to the South-Sea, thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708, and Finish’d in 1711. Containing a Journal of all the remarkable Transactions, particularly of the Taking of Puna and Guiaquil, of the.....
1898. EXTREMELY RARE — EARLIEST KNOWN MAP OF CONSOLIDATED GREATER NEW YORK (1898) HYDE, E. BELCHER & CO. Map of the City of New York, the Imperial City of the New World, embracing the entire city limits. Based upon official surveys. Brooklyn: Hyde & Company, 1898. Folio atlas comprising.....
The famed Weschel edition or the Aristotelis Opera was a landmark in the study of Aristotle This great edition of the complete works of Aristotle in Greek was the highest achievement of Aristotelian studies in the sixteenth century and a standard for subsequent ages, has been described at length.....
1858. THE FIRST REAL 3D BOOK — PIONEERING STEREOSCOPIC PHOTOGRAPHY IN BOOK FORM SMYTH, C. PIAZZI. Teneriffe, an Astronomer’s Experiment; or, Specialities of a Residence Above the Clouds. London: Lovell Reeve, 1858. INVRBGSUS First edition. 8vo (approx. 19 x 12 cm). Half-title; engraved map; publisher’s advertisements; 20.....
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1687. [MANUSCRIPT] English 17th century Scientific Manuscript, in Latin in paper, with some additions in Greek. c. 1687-88. Small 8vo. approx. 18 x 11 cm, 82 lvs., written throughout on recto and verso in a neat legible hand, with a few blanks. Provenance: Signed on rear paste-down in.....
PIX, M. The Beau Defeated: Or, The Lucky Younger Brother. A Comedy. As it is now Acted by His Majesty’s Servants at the New Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields. By Mary Pix. London: Printed for W. Turner at the Angel, at Lincolns-Inn-Back-Gate; and R. Basset at the Mitre, against Chancery-Lane in Fleetstreet.....
1847. Phelps's National Map of the United States, A Travellers Guide. Embracing the Principal Rail Roads, Canals, Steam Boat & Stage Routes, Throughout the Union, 1847. 14 x 9 cm. Full black calf and gilt, some light rubbing, few small stains to title page, some stains to map. Rear board.....
1870. “PRINTED ON THE TRAIN”: THE FIRST TRANS-CONTINENTAL NEWSPAPER, ISSUED EN ROUTE, 1870 [RAILWAY PRINTING – STEELE, W. R. (ed.)]. The Trans-Continental. Published Daily on the Pullman Hotel Express, between Boston and San Francisco [caption title]. [Niagara Falls; Omaha; Cheyenne; Ogden; Salt Lake; Summit of the Sierras; San Francisco;.....
1544. Rare 1544 Latin Bible with Holbein Woodcuts Biblia Sacrosancta Testamenti Veteris et Novi. Lugduni [Lyon]: Apud Hugonem & haeredes Aemonis a Porta, 1544. Folio (34 x 24 cm). Illustrated edition featuring numerous in-text woodcuts, originally designed by Hans Holbein and first published in the 1538 Icones historiarum veteris.....
Cerati Antonio Elogio di Sua Altezza Reale Donna Isabella Infanta di Spagna Arciduchessa d'Austria ec. ec. ec. 8vo. 21 x 13 cm., [16], 85, [2] Parma. Printed By Giambattista Bodoni , 1780. 18th century mottled calf, some wear to corners, marbled endpapers., internally some occasional edge toning, occasional minor stains.....
1776. A SCARCE 1776 MAGAZINE PRINTING OF THE DECLARATION—WITH A FOLDING MAP OF PHILADELPHIA DURING THE OPENING OF THE REVOLUTION The Scots Magazine. Edinburgh, January–December 1776. 12 monthly issues with Appendix, bound in one volume. 8vo. Contemporary half calf over boards; spine gilt-lettered “Scots Magazine 1776.” Lacking the.....
A SYRIAC BIBLE PRINTED IN LONDON FOR USE IN INDIA SYRIACA -- BIBLES -- (OLD and NEW TESTAMENT in Syriac, The, ed. by S. Lee). Lond., 1823-26. 2 in 1 vol. (4), 705; (2), 360 pp. 4o. Library buckram with seminary marks and bookplate. Some general toning . See.....
John Parker, West Strand, 1842. First edition. NAPIER, Charles Sir. War in Syria. London: John Parker, West Strand 1842. 8vo., 19 x 12 cm. [xlviii, 300; xii, 333], bound without the advertisements. Full polished calf, spines gilt, small chip to upper hinge spine of volume 2, some slight spine discoloration.....