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James Boswell The LIfe of Samuel Johnson
London: George Bell and Sons 1876 9 of 10 vols. 3/4 dark green leather ove cloth covered boards. Some rubbed, some hinges weak.
Price: USD 585.00 other currencies   order no. 9729   details     inquire
offered by: J.N. Bartfield   (USA)
James. Boswell The Life of Samuel Johnson, L.L. D.
London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1791 2 vols, 4to. Contemporary marbled calf with red labals. Engraved portrait frontispiece and two engraved facsimiles. Joints cracked but holding, an entirely unsophisticated, and attractive copy. First Edition, state with “give” reading. “Homer is not more decidedly the first of Heroic poets, Shakespeare is not more the first of Dramatists,...than Boswell is the first of Biographers.”-Macauley
Price: USD 9,500.00 other currencies   order no. 9224   details     inquire
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Richard Bovet Pandaemonium.
Adlington: The Hand and Flower Press 1951 8vo. Full red cloth stamped in gilt, yellow, blue, red, white, and black, and green. A near fine copy. Originally printed in 1684.
Price: USD 200.00 other currencies   order no. 12994   details     inquire
offered by: J.N. Bartfield   (USA)
Seigneur De. Brantome Lives of Fair and Gallant Ladies
Paris: Charles Carrington 1901 2 vols. 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards.
Price: USD 950.00 other currencies   order no. 9551   details     inquire
offered by: J.N. Bartfield   (USA)
[Brevarium] Brevarium. Romanum ex Decreto.
Venetis 1754 8vo. Full black calf. A very good copy.
Price: USD 225.00 other currencies   order no. 11869   details     inquire
offered by: J.N. Bartfield   (USA)
Robert Bridges The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges. Excluding the eight dramas.
London: Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press [1942] 8vo. 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards with gilt, t.e.g.
Price: USD 225.00 other currencies   order no. 11411   details     inquire
offered by: J.N. Bartfield   (USA)
Richard Brinsley The Works of the Late Right Honourable Richard Brinsley.
London: John Murray 1821 2 vols. 8vo. 3/4 red morocco over red boards, gilt lettered spine, a.e.g.,a fine copy.
Price: USD 650.00 other currencies   order no. 11792   details     inquire
offered by: J.N. Bartfield   (USA)
Fawn M. Brodie The Devil Drives, A Life of Sir Richard Burton
New York. Norton 1967 8vo, DJ. Later printing of the first edition of this biography, the first to draw on a then newly discovered cache of letters that escaped Lady Burton’s torch after her husband’s death.
Price: USD 62.00 other currencies   order no. 12114   details     inquire
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Walter. Brodie Pitcairn’s Island, and the Islanders in 1850... Together with Extracts from his Private Journal and a Few Hints upon California,...
Whittaker, London: 1851 8vo. Lithographic frontispiece of the author and two plates, diagram in text. Original green grained cloth, paper label, a very nice copy. Second edition. Brodie, while on his way from New Zealand to the California gold fields, was stranded on Pitcairn when his vessel was blown offshore. Includes a “List of ships which have touched Pitcairn since 1808”, and a list of the inhabitants of Pitcairn. Hill notes that two re-impressions, the second and third editions, appeared in the same year as the first. Despite this, copies of all three are uncommon in collectible condition. Hill p. 34, Howes B-797
Price: USD 850.00 other currencies   order no. 9144   details     inquire
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Bromley-Davenport W. Sport
London: Chapman and Hall. 1885 8vo, 1/4 leather over marble paper boards, gilt titles. Some foxing, but a nice copy. First edition of this classic, covering fox-hunting, covert-shooting, salmon fishing and deer-stalking. The salmon chapter takes place in Norway and is an early description (apart from Tolfrey) of sport there. Interesting illustraions by Lt. Gen. H. H. Crealocke (who wrote several fine works himself.) Laid into the front of this copy is a long poem on the chase written by Bromley-Davenport and published in The Field, Dec. 7, 1895.
Price: USD 200.00 other currencies   order no. 10417   details     inquire
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Geoffrey Brooke Training Young Horses to Jump
New York: E. P. Dutton. 1913 8vo, original gilt decorated red cloth. First American edition.
Price: USD 60.00 other currencies   order no. 12580   details     inquire
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Joe Brooks Bermuda Fishing
Harrisburg, PA. Stackpole 1957 8vo, DJ First edition. SIGNED and INSCRIBED “To Jake, with best wishes to a good friend—Joe Brooks. Islamorada, Fla, Dec. 7, 1958.” One of the first books to concentrate on Bermuda. Big bones, wahoo, pompano, mostly fly fishing. Photos of Jessica Tandy with a big bonefish and a guy in the surf chumming for Pompano with a loaf of bread tied to his head stand out in a book that seems dedicated to fun.
Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 13565   details     inquire
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Joe Brooks Greatest Fishing
Harrisburg, PA. Stackpole. 1957 8vo, DJ First edition of this early work on exotic fishing by one of the pioneers of the sport. Brooks takes us from the Yukon to Tierra del Fuego for bonefish, Arctic grayling, grouper, sea-run trout and more. Exciting photos. Wear to dust jacket.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 11154   details     inquire
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Robert B. Brough Beranger’s Songs of The Empire, The Peace, and the Restoration.
London: Addey and Co. 1856 8vo. 3/4 red morocco over red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 12363   details     inquire
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Henry Collins Brown The Lordly Hudson.
London: Charles Scribner’s Sons [1900 ca.] 4to. Full white cloth, brown morocco rectangle at centerof cover, stamped in gilt, brown label on spine. Some slight fading and shelfwear to cover, else a fine copy.
Price: USD 750.00 other currencies   order no. 12187   details     inquire
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Horatio Brown John Addington Symonds. A biography compiled from his papers and correspondence.
London: John C. Nimmo 1895 2 vols. 3/4 green morocco over green cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., else uncut. Illustrated. A fine set.
Price: USD 495.00 other currencies   order no. 11953   details     inquire
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Horatio F. Brown John Addington Symonds
London: John C. Nimmo 1895 2 vols. 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards.
Price: USD 495.00 other currencies   order no. 9554   details     inquire
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Robert Brown The Races of Mankind: Being a Popular Description of the Characteristics , Manners and Customs of the Principal Varieties of the Human Family
London: Cassel, Petter, & Galpin [1868 ca.] 4 vols. 4to. Full brown calf, stamped in blind and gilt, a.e.g. Profusely illustrated. Some minor wear, a very attractive set.
Price: USD 750.00 other currencies   order no. 13252   details     inquire
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J. Ross. Browne Etchings of a Whaling Cruise...
New York: Harper & Bros., 1846 8vo. Engraved frontispiece and seven engraved plates, numerous woodcut illustrations in text. Original cloth, embossed and gilt. Very skillfully rebacked retaining original spine, gilt rather bright, a very good copy. First edition.This book was reviewed by Melville in Harper’s Weekly and likely had some influence on Moby-Dick. In the preface, Browne refers to Dana’s Two Years Before The Mast, explaining that he thought his subject (life on a whale ship) complements Dana’s Narrative which describes life on a Merchant vessel. There is much on California in this book as well.
Price: USD 1,450.00 other currencies   order no. 9397   details     inquire
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Elizabeth Barret Browning Sonnets From The Portuguese.
Mount Vernon: Peter Pauper Press [1910 ca.] 8vo. 3/4 brown morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt. A fine copy.
Price: USD 250.00 other currencies   order no. 13863   details     inquire
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Robert Browning Asolando: Fancies and Facts
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 15 Waterloo Place 1890 8vo. Red cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Original edition, issued the day of Browning’s death, it has since become scarce.
Price: USD 130.00 other currencies   order no. 11388   details     inquire
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Robert Browning Dramatic Romances and Lyrics
London: Ballantine Press [1897] Tall 8vo. 3/4 green morocco over marbled boards, spine elaborately decorated in gilt, faded to brown, t.e.g., others uncut. A fine copy.
Price: USD 550.00 other currencies   order no. 13429   details     inquire
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Robert Browning Dramatis Personæ; & Dramatic Romances & Lyrics.
London: Chatto & Windus 1909 Original vellum gilt. Illustrated with color reproductions of paintings by Eleanor Brickdale. One of 260 copies.
Price: USD 200.00 other currencies   order no. 9853   details     inquire
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Robert. Browning, The Pied Piper of Hamlin.
[n.p.] The Chamberlain Press, 1980 Original marbled paper boards, leather label running the length of the backstrip. Fine. "Sarah Chamberlain designed and printed the book and cut the wood engravings which illustrate it". One of 150 numbered copies, signed.
Price: USD 250.00 other currencies   order no. 13102   details     inquire
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Robert. Browning Works.
New York, Fred Defau & Co. 1910 12vols, 8vo. 3/4 red morocco gilt over cloth covered boards. A fine set. The Florentine edition limited to one thousand numbered sets.
Price: USD 3,500.00 other currencies   order no. 9298   details     inquire
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Robert Brun Le Livre Illustré en France.
Paris: Libraire Félix Alcan 1930 4to. Full green morocco elaborately stamped in blind and gilt. Probably an amateur binding, t.e.g., else uncut. Illustrated. A very attractive copy. First edition. A catalogue of the principal books illustrated in France during the sixteenth century in ten chapters, followed by a annotated bibliograpy. Illustrated and indexed. 1250 books are described.
Price: USD 850.00 other currencies   order no. 12905   details     inquire
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George S. Bryan Mystery Ship. The Mary Celeste in fancy and in fact.
Philadelphia and New York: J.B. Lippincott Company 1942 8vo. 320 pp. Green cloth stamped in blue lettering on spine. End papers contain a long view photograph of the East River in the 1870s. Light spotting to cloth on edges of cover, nevertheless, a fine tight copy. First edition. Famous as the greatest mystery ship of all time, the Mary Celeste has aroused the interest of the world for many years. A brigantine under American registry, captained by one Benjamin Briggs of Marion, Mass., was found abandoned 300 miles of the coast of Portugal in 1872. Newspapers claimed there was nothing to furnish any hint or clue as to why she was in such a state, thus creating the legend and mystery of the vessel.
Price: USD 45.00 other currencies   order no. 10009   details     inquire
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William Cullen Bryant Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In. A Delineation By Pen and Pencil of The Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Canons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of our Country.
New York: D. Appleton and Company 1872] 2 vols. 4to. Full brown morocco, gorgeously decorated in gilt, a.e.g. Some shelve wear still a very attractive copy.
Price: USD 1,750.00 other currencies   order no. 13887   details     inquire
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Nash Buckingham Game Bag.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons. 1945 8vo. First edition. #587/1250. SIGNED and INSCRIBED. Slight tear to top of front cover. [1084]
Price: USD 275.00 other currencies   order no. 10404   details     inquire
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Nash Buckingham Mark Right! Tales of Shooting and Fishing.
New York: The Derrydale Press 1936 8vo. Maroon leather. Copy #151 of 1250.
Price: USD 300.00 other currencies   order no. 10543   details     inquire
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Sir E.A. Wallis Budge The Mummy. A handbook of Egyptian funerary archaelogy.
Cambridge: University Press 1925 4to. Original purple cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Dust jacket present but worn. A very good copy. Second edition.
Price: USD 75.00 other currencies   order no. 13273   details     inquire
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C.J. Bulliet Venus Castina. Famous female impersonators celestial and human.
New York: Covici, Friede 1928 Large 8vo. 3/4 red morocco over boards with gilt lettered spine, t.e.g.
Price: USD 450.00 other currencies   order no. 11481   details     inquire
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Henry Lytton Bulwer Historical Characters
London: Richard Bentley 1868 2 vols. 3/4 calf over marbled boards.
Price: USD 650.00 other currencies   order no. 9550   details     inquire
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Gardiner, et al Bump The Ruffed Grouse: Life History, Propagation, Management
New York. New York State Conservation Department. 1947 Lg. 8vo. Definitive work on the drummer in the woods. Full of photographs and drawings by Fred Everett and Clayton B. Seagers.
Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 10837   details     inquire
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W.H. Bunting Steamers, Schooners, Cutters, and Sloops. Marine Photogrpaphs of N.L. Stebbins taken from 1884 to 1907. Selected and anotated by W.H. Bunting.
Boston: Society for the Preservation of New England Antiques by Houghton Mifflin Co., 1974 Oblong 4to. 126 pp. Blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. pictorial blind tooling of sailing boat on cover. Signifigant wear at bottom of spine. Overall in good condition. Illustrated with wonderful, historic photgraphs, reproduced from turn-of-the-century glass-plate negatives.
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 10038   details     inquire
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Charles Burdett Margaret Moncrieffe(Aaron Burr’s First Love)
New York: Derby & Jackson 1860 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards.
Price: USD 250.00 other currencies   order no. 9533   details     inquire
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W. Burdon Life and Character of Bonaparte. From his birth to the 15th of August, 1804.
London: Printed by K. Anderson 1805 8vo. 3/4 speckled calf over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, edges speckled. Extremeties bumped and rubbed, still a very good copy. Second edition, altered and improved.
Price: USD 200.00 other currencies   order no. 13606   details     inquire
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Robert H. Burgess Sea, Sails, and Shipwreck. Career of the four-masted schooner Purnell T. White.
Cambridge, Maryland: Tidewater Publishers [1970] 8vo. 132 pp. Grey/green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. With dustjacket. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Besides a small tear at the top of the dustjacket front cover, this book is in excellent condition. From the book: "The Purnell T. White, as illustrated in this book and preserved for all time, is the sole example to depict the full and somewhat rigorous life of a Chesapeake coasting schooner."
Price: USD 25.00 other currencies   order no. 10156   details     inquire
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Sir Bernard Burke Vicissitudes of Families and Other Essays.
London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts 1861 8vo. 3/4 green morocco over green marbled boards,spine decorated in gilt, t.e.g, else uncut.
Price: USD 295.00 other currencies   order no. 11876   details     inquire
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Alan Burroughs Art Criticism from a Laboratory.
Boston: Little, Brown, and Company 1938 Large 8vo. With dustjacket. Fine.
Price: USD 38.00 other currencies   order no. 12372   details     inquire
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John Burroughs Ways of Nature.
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company 1905 8vo. Full green cloth. Fine.
Price: USD 30.00 other currencies   order no. 12455   details     inquire
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John. Burroughs [Works]
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. 1904 23 vols, 8vo. 3/4 blue morocco and marbleized paper covered boards, raised bands and gilt tooled floral ornaments on spines. Very fine. The Autograph Edition, limited to 750 copies, printed by the Riverside Press. Illustrated, some in color, and an autograph manuscript letter signed by Burroughs.
Price: USD 4,500.00 other currencies   order no. 9400   details     inquire
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Sir Richard Burton The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi.
Philadelphia: David McKay Company [1931] 4to. Ful black cloth stamped in white and silver. Illustrated by Willy Pogany. Cover features a gorgeous drawing of a large hand crushing an angel. In black cloth box with silver labels, slightly worn. A fine copy.
Price: USD 250.00 other currencies   order no. 12800   details     inquire
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Charles H. Bushnell Diesel Engine Operation, Maintenance and Repair.
New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1930 8vo. 285 pp. Brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Illustrated with charts, graphs, and diagrams throughout. Extremely little shelfwear, this is an excellent copy.
Price: USD 20.00 other currencies   order no. 10084   details     inquire
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Alfred J. Butler The Ancient Coptic Churches of Egypt.
Oxford: The Clarendon Press 1884 2 vols. 8vo. 3/4 red morocco over red cloth boards, spine letteredin gilt. A fine set.
Price: USD 750.00 other currencies   order no. 13006   details     inquire
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Samuel Butler Hudibras; A Poem.
London: Thomas Mclean, Bookseller and Publisher 1819 2 vols. 8vo. Full brown morocco decorated in blind and gilt with gilt lettered spine, a.e.g. Minor shelfwear, overall very good condition. 12 color plates. In this mock-heroic poem modeled on Don Quixote, Butler ridiculed Puritan extremism, berating hypocrisy, bigotry, and selfishness. Hudisbras is the source of many expressions that have become household phrases, such as “looking a gift-horse in the mouth.”
Price: USD 950.00 other currencies   order no. 11485   details     inquire
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Samuel Butler Hudibras; A Poem.
London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co., Whitef Riars 1822 2 vols. 8vo. Full light green calf, tooled in blind and gilt on covers and spine. Illustrated with 12 hand colored plates. Rebacked with original spines laid on, spines faded, outer signatures lightly foxed, a good copy. In this mock-heroic poem modeled on Don Quixote, Butler ridiculed Puritan extremism, berating hypocrisy, bigotry, and selfishness. Hudisbras is the source of many expressions that have become household phrases, such as “looking a gift-horse in the mouth.”
Price: USD 1,450.00 other currencies   order no. 11484   details     inquire
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Samuel Butler Hudibras. A poem by Samuel Butler with notes, selected from Grey and other authors; to which are prefixed, a life of the author, and a preliminary discourse on the Civil War.
London: Printed by W. lewis, 21, Finch-lane for Thomas Mclean 1819 2 vols. 8vo. 3/4 red morocco on red cloth with gilt spine, t.e.g. 12 color plates.
Price: USD 650.00 other currencies   order no. 11387   details     inquire
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Samuel Butler Hudibras. A poem by Samuel Butler with notes, selected from Grey and other authors; to which are prefixed, a life of the author, and a preliminary discourse on the Civil War.
London: Thomas Mclean 1819 2 vols. 8vo. 3/4 red morocco on red cloth with gilt spine, t.e.g. Illustrated with 12 color plates. Fine.
Price: USD 850.00 other currencies   order no. 11662   details     inquire
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Samuel Butler Hudibras. With notes, selected from Grey and other authors; to which are prefixed, a life of the author, and a preliminary discourse on the civil war.
London: W. Lewis, 21Finch Lane. 1810 2 vols. 8vo. Green morocco, elaborately decorated in blind andgilt. Illustrated with hand colored plates.
Price: USD 950.00 other currencies   order no. 11352   details     inquire
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Samuel] [Butler The Poetical Works of Samuel Butler.
London: R. Clay, Son, and Taylor, Printers 1835 2 vols. Small 8vo. Full green morocco gilt, elaborately decorated, a.e.g. lllustrated title page. Lightly rubbed.
Price: USD 135.00 other currencies   order no. 11359   details     inquire
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T.B. Butler The Philosophy of The Weather. And A Guide To Its Changes.
New York: D. Appleton & Company 1856 8vo. Full brown cloth stamped in blind, spine lettered in gilt. A near fine copy.
Price: USD 300.00 other currencies   order no. 13864   details     inquire
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[by an Old Man] Bubbles from the Brunnens of Nassau.
London: John Murray 1835 8vo. 3/4 red calf over marbled boards, edges marbled, spine lettered in gilt with black label. General wear, a very good copy. The third edition.
Price: USD 150.00 other currencies   order no. 13302   details     inquire
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Richard Evelyn Byrd Discovery. The story of the second byrd antarctic expedition.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1935 8vo. Full blue cloth with gilt lettering. A fine copy. First edition.
Price: USD 200.00 other currencies   order no. 11928   details     inquire
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George Gordon, Lord. Byron Works
London: John Murray, 1832 14 vols, small 8vo.. 3/4 blue leather and cloth covered boards, gilt tooling on spine and covers.t.e.g. Very minor rubbing to six vols, else Fine.
Price: USD 4,250.00 other currencies   order no. 100137   details     inquire
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James Branch Cabell Gallantry. An Eighteenth Century Dizain in Ten Comedies, with an Afterpiece.
New York and London: Harper & Brothers 1907 Tall 8vo. Grey/green cloth boards stamped in gilt, silver, and beige, pictorial endpages, t.e.g., others uncut.Illustrated with color frontispiece and 3 tipped in color plates with tissueguard. In blue cloth chemise, and 1/4 green morocco slipcase. A fine copy. First edition.
Price: USD 500.00 other currencies   order no. 13907   details     inquire
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Georges Cain Nooks & Corners of Old Paris.
London: E.Grant Richards 1907 Large 8vo. 3/4 red morocco over red boards, spine decorated in gilt, t.e.g., else uncut. With over a hundred illustrations. A fine copy.
Price: USD 495.00 other currencies   order no. 12077   details     inquire
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L. S. Caine Game Fish of the South and How To Catch Them
Boston. Houghton Mifflin 1935 8vo, DJ. First edition. Sections on fish, equipment, methods, bait, etc. Fresh and salt water. DJ sunned, but scarce in DJ. “Luis Marden,” famed angler, appears to have been the owner.
Price: USD 50.00 other currencies   order no. 13561   details     inquire
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H.A. Calahan Learning to Cruise. Illustrated.
New York: The Macmilla Company 1945 8vo. 286 pp. Bright blue cover with silver gilt (also on spine). A very nice copy of this book. Later edition. A very readable and enjoyable primer on leisure cruising. Ripe with fun anacronysms (for example, Tobacco features prominently in discussion of provisions,) the book nevertheless has a great deal of information that is still useful for today’s cruiser.
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 10003   details     inquire
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John Lord. Cambell Lives of the Chancellors
London: John Murray 1856 10 vols, 8vo. Full calf, black labels, spine gilt rubbed.
Price: USD 700.00 other currencies   order no. 9446   details     inquire
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Will. Carleton Farm Festivals.
Franklin Square: Harper & Brothers, [1881] 8vo. Original cloth, extremities slightly rubbed. First edition.
Price: USD 40.00 other currencies   order no. 10466   details     inquire
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Thomas Carlyle Collected Works.
London: Chapman and Hall (Limited) [1831] 34 vols. 8vo. 3/4 tan calf over marbled boards by Zaehnsdorf, spine elaborately decorated in gilt with red labels. Some mild shelfwear, still a fine set.
Price: USD 5,500.00 other currencies   order no. 12983   details     inquire
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Rosenfeld Carrick Defending The America’s Cup.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1969
Price: USD 15.00 other currencies   order no. 11583   details     inquire
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Lewis. Carroll The Game of Logic.
L. and NY: Macmillan and Co., 1887 Small 8vo. Original red cloth titled in gilt on spine and frontcover. Printed envelope,card and five (of nine) counting pieces (three red and two grey), diagrams in text throughout. Minor bubbling to front cover, spine darkened, a very good copy. First published edition, the first printed was suppressed by carroll due to his dissatisfaction with the printing quality.
Price: USD 850.00 other currencies   order no. 9198   details     inquire
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Julia Cartwright Beatrice D’este. Duchess of Milan 1475-1497.
New York: J.M. Dent & Sons 1926 8vo. 3/4 blue morocco over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., else uncut. A fine copy.
Price: USD 200.00 other currencies   order no. 13258   details     inquire
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Julia Cartwright Christina of Denmark Duchess of Milan and Lorraine. 1522-1590
London: John Murray 1913 3/4 red morocco over red cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g. others uncut. Illustrated with 22 plates. Joints slightly tender but holding fine, else a very good copy.
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Julia Cartwright Isabella D'este
London: John Murray 1923 2 vols. 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards.
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Casserius Tabulae
[1900s ca.] Large 4to. 1/4 maroon cloth over tan boards, spine lettered in gilt with tan labels. A wonderful facsimile of the original 1627 edition, in tan slipcase. Fine condition. "Includes some of the finest copperplates produced in the seventeenth century. A wonderful union of scientific accuracy and artistic perfection." "Casserius (1561-1616) was a pupil of Fabricius. His work is one of the historical landmarks in anatomy."
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Willa Cather April Twighlights and Other Poems.
New York: 1923 8vo. Original tan cloth with flowered pattern cover. A very good copy.
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Willa Cather Shadows on the Rock.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1931 8vo. Original green cloth. Covers slightly faded, interior is tight and bright. A near fine copy.
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George Catlin Catlin’s notes of eighty years’ travels and residence in Europe, with his North American Indian collection. With anecdotes and incidents of travel and adventures of three different parties of American Indians whom he introduced to the courts of England, France, and Belgium, in two volumes, octovo with numerous illustrations.
London: Published by the author at his Indian collection, No. 6, Waterloo Place. 1848 2 vols. 8vo. Full blue cloth (faded to green), stamped in gilt. Illustrated. First edition.
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George Catlin La Vie Chez Les Indiens. Scenes et aventures de voyage parmi les tribus des deux ameriques.
Paris: Libraire de L. Hachette et cie 1863 8vo. Contemporary French 1/2 green morocco, spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated with 25 plates. Near fine. First edition of this French translation.
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George Catlin [Promotional prospectus for Catlin’s North american Indians: or, Letters and Notes...with thrilling incidents and adventures by George Catlin.]
Philadelphia: Jones, Brothers & Co., 600 Chestnut Street 1865 8vo. Full red calf, decorated in gilt. Bound in at back is an elaborate subscription sheet describing the volume as “...one thick and handsome super royal octavo, of about 800 pages...embellished with nearly 200 engravings...fo designs by Darley, Catlin and others. The prospectus contains 48 pages of Catlin text, plus 16 engravings by Bodmer, Seymour and others. Internally sound although spine has been repaired. Encased in felt lined, full red morocco gold stamped modern folding box. Ex-library. Very elaborate and rare promotional 48-page prospectus for this famous work. Rare..
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George Catlin The Lifted and Subsided Rocks of America with their influence on the Oceanic, Atmospheric, and Land currents, and the Distribution of races.
London: Trubner & Co., 60 Patterson Row 1870 8vo. Full red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Impresseddecoration on cover. Foling map. Very good condition. First edition.
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James. Caulfield Caufield’s remarkable persons
London: H.R. Young & T.H. Whitely 1819 4 vols, 8vo. Contemporary full blue morocco, gilt on covers and spine. Illustrated. Some very mild scratching/shelfwear to the covers, occasional foxing to the interiors. Overall in near fine condition.
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Edith Cavell La Vie at la Mort de Miss Edith Cavell.
Paris: Fontemoing & Cie, editeurs 1915 8vo. Original wrappers (badly worn) in red cloth chamise and1/2 red morocco gilt slipcase.
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William, trans. Caxton The Metamorphoses of Ovid.
NY: George Brazilier with Magdelene College, 1968 Full brown calf, gilt on spines with red labels, covers gilt with central coats of arms, in a cloth slipcase. The binding approximates the binding on the Pepys ms. A fine facsimile of the Phillips and Pepys manuscripts respectively, which originally formed a single whole. Translated and written out by William Caxton, well known for being the first printer on english soil.
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Anne Claude Philippe de Tubières de Grimoard, comte de. C... [Suite of plates for the Oeuvre Badines Complètes.]
Amsterdam and Paris: Charles Visse, 1787 8vo., 198 x 116mm. Engraved portrait, 24 plates by Baquoy,Dambrun, Fessard and others after Marillier, later printed title inserted. Full red morocco, gilt on spine, both covers, board edges and inner dentelles, by Riviere. A very fine copy. A A beautiful suite of 18th century french illustrations, bound in a lovely fine binding by Riviere.
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Herbert Cecinsky English Furniture of the Eighteenth Century.
London: The Waverly Book Company, Limited [1890 ca.] 3 vols. 4to. 3/4 black morocco over green boards, spine lettered in gilt. Illustrated from drawings by the author and from photographs. Some slight shelfwear, a very attractive set.
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[Celebrities] Celebrities at Home.
London: Robson and Sons. 1877 2 vols. 8vo. 3/4 green calf over marbled boards, spine lettered in gilt, edges marbled. A very good set.
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Benvenuto [Cellini] The Life of Benvenuto Cellini
New York: Brentano’s [1906] 8vo. 2 vols. in 1. 8vo. Full red calf, spine lettered in gilt with tan labels, a.e.g. A fine copy.
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Paul B. Du Chaillu A Journey to Ashango-Land and Further Penetration into Equatorial Africa.
New York: D. Appleton and Company 1867 8vo. 3/4 tan calf over marbled boards. Black label on spine,decorated in gilt, edges marbled. With map and Illustrations. Slight bumping and rubbing to exremities, still a fine copy.
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Alexander. Chalmers The Spectator
New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1864 6 vols. 3/4 tan morocco over marbled boards. A very good set.
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Amédée de.] Cham. [Noé A la Guerre comme a la Guerre [ bound after] Le Grand Magasin d’Images.
Paris: Chez Aubert & Cie., Editeurs du Journal les Modes Parisiennes, [1850’s, ca., n.d.] Oblong 4to. 94pp. (Le Grand Magasin, this profusely illustrated with black and white plates), [2], Illustrated title and thirty lithographed colorplates heightened with gum arabic, [4]pp. Contemporary 1/4 green calf over marble boards. Title with tear from gutter, a few other marginal minor tears, but the plates bright. A typical French parody of war scenes, apparently from the French colonies in North Africa.
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Chambers. Chambers's Repository of instructive and amusing tracts.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott and Co. 1856 5 vols. 3/4 dark brown morocco over marbled boards.
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Sarat. Chandra Journey to Lhasa and central Tibet.
London, John Murray... 1904 3/4 green calf gilt with red label over cloth cover boards, t.e.g., others uncut. This book covers the travels of Das, a Pundit of the Indian Survey, through Sikkim and Lhasa during the years 1879-1881. Das was considered by many to be one of the greatest Pundits ever. His recordings were later edited by W.W. Rockhill. This marvelous primary resource covers the journey from Darjiling to Tashilhjunpo, residence there, on to Dongtse, residence at Tashilhunpo & preparations for journeuy to Lhasa, from Tashilhunpo to Yamdo Samding thence to Lhase. Residence at Lhasa, government of Lhasa, customs, festivals, etc. Return to Tashilhunpo & Ugyen-Gyatso's visit to the Bonbo Sanctuary of Rigyial Sendar. Funeral of Panchen Rinpoche, visit to the Great Lamasery of Samye and to Yarlung. He visits to Sakya & returns to India and explores ideas of social divisions, marriage, funerals, medicine & festivals. A tremendous work and travellogue.
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Mary Ellen. Chase Donald Mckay and the Clipper Ships.
Boston: The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1959 8vo. 181 pp. Light green cloth with dark green lettering. With DJ (slightly torn on edges). Illustrated with photographs. Excellent condition. "When gold was discovered in California, there was an overnight demand for swifter sailing ships to carry much needed merchandise to the miners. . . . The answer to the demand for speed-at-any-cost was the extreme clipper ship. . . . Donald McKay was the greatest builder and designer of these handsome vessels. From his yards in East Boston came some of the swiftest and most beautiful sailing ships the world has ever seen."
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[Chinese Poetry] A Lute of Jade. Being A Selection of Classical Poets of China. Rendered with an Introduction by L. Cranmer-Bying
London: John Murray [January 1926] Small 8vo. Full green calf, spine lettered in gilt, spine and board edges sunned to brown, t.e.g., else uncut. A very good copy.
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Pennel H. Chomondeley Fishing: Salmon and Trout.
Boston: Little, Brown and Co. and London: Longmans, Green and Co. 1885 8vo, pict. cloth. First printing of the small paper edition of this classic in the Badminton Library of Sports and Pastimes. A must for the angling historian.
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