Chicago: Cassandra Editions/Academy Press, 1977. Hard Cover. [18], 304 p.: frontispiece; 16 cm. Publisher's green cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. No dust jacket. Originally published in 1883 under the pen name Ralph Iron; this is a reprint of the 1924 edition published by Collins, London. Includes a glossary of Dutch... More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1895. Hardcover. ix, [1], 194, [4] p., frontispiece; 16 cm. Beige cloth with dark brown spine and cover titles and publisher's owl emblem on front cover. Top page edges gilt. List of titles in the publisher's Buckram Series on half title verso including this... More
New York: Clarkson N. Potter, 1987. Hardcover. xi, [1], 287, [1] p.: primarily color photographs; 26 cm. Red paper over boards with white spine title. Dust jacket designed by Stafford Cliff with color photographs by Gilles de Chabaneix. Beautifully presents all the elements of modern Japanese style, including architecture, interior... More
![La Gierosalemme Libberata [books one and two]. Torquato Tasso.](/pictures/thumb/001915.jpg?v=1472082218)
Naples, Italy: Giuseppe-Maria Porcelli, 1786. Hard Cover. One volume containing both books with separate title pages and pagination. 260, 254 p.; 16 cm. 20th-century polished calf spine with five spine compartments between raised bands. Black morocco spine label in second compartment with gilt-tooled title; blind-tooled decoration in remaining compartments. Marbled... More
New York: Coward McCann, 1928. Hardcover. [10], 182 p.: frontispiece, 19 full-page illustrations included in pagination; 23 cm. Green cloth with dark blue stamped spine and cover titles. Illustrated yellow dust jacket printed in red and black; in mylar cover. Illustrated endpapers. The story of a boy, Abdul Aziz, living... More
London, Eng. His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1916. Hardcover. Printed by Joseph Causton and Sons. xliii, 684 p.: tables; 24 cm. Dark blue cloth with gilt-stamped spine title. Blue endpapers. At head of title page: Miscellaneous no. 31 (1916). With the 4-page "Guide to the Reader" pointing out the most important... More
![Cinq Semaines en Ballon: Voyage de Découvertes en Afrique par Trois Anglais; illustrations par Mm. Riou et de Montaut [Voyages Extraordinaires, 1]. Jules Verne.](/pictures/thumb/004512.JPG?v=1472082365)
Paris: Collection Hetzel, 1914. Hardcover. [2], 267, [1] p., 3 leaves of color plates: many in-text illustrations, 1 2-page map; 28 cm. Publisher's red cloth with gilt-stamped title and decoration on spine and front board; publisher's emblem blind-stamped on back board. All page edges gilt. Light blue-green endpapers. Series title... More
Munich: Georg Müller, 1908. Hardcover. [8], 70 p.: illustrations; 27 cm. Brown paper over boards with black cover title: König Bob: Ein Tiermärchen von Theodor Volbehr; illustriert von Paul Neuenborn. Brown and black front cover illustration. Contains both full-page and in-text illustrations; pages with neither have decorative borders. Former owner's..... More
New York: John Day Co., 1948. Hardcover. xi, [1], 100 p.: illustrations; 24 cm. Grey cloth with gilt-stamped spine and cover titles over turquoise background, with gilt-stamped decoration. Illustrationed dust jacket with publisher's advetisements on back section. Signed by the author on front free endpaper, dated Sept. 1955. Contains 21... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1943. Hardcover. [8], 374 p.; 20 cm. Light grey cloth with blue spine and cover titles; gilt-stamped illustration of a plant on front cover. Lacking dust jacket. Former owner's name on front free endpaper: Anna Stern Clewell, 1944. Attached to the front fixed endpaper is... More
London, Eng. Darton and Harvey, 1806. Hardcover. iv, [4], 424 p.: folded engraved frontispiece map, 3 folded leaves of engravings; 18 cm. Full calf with six spine compartments between gilt rules. Front fixed endpaper bears former owner's name: E.J. Deane. At head of title page is inscription: G.A. Finch 1807... More
London, Eng. Bradbury and Evans, 1857. Hardcover. xvi, 282 p.: color frontispiece, 1 color plate, many in-text and full-page woodcut illustrations; 19 cm. Original purple cloth with gilt-stamped spine title and decoration, and front cover medallion; blind-stamped decorative borders on both covers and center medallion on back cover. All page... More
![A Popular Account of the Ancient Egyptians, revised and abridged from his larger work, by Sir. J. Gardner Wilkinson [2 volumes]. J. Gardner Wilkinson.](/pictures/thumb/004154.JPG?v=1472082337)
London: John Murray, 1890. Hardcover. New Edition. "Illustrated with Five Hundred Woodcuts." 2 volumes: xvi, 419, [1] p., frontispiece; x, 438, 32 p., folded frontispiece: many in-text woodcuts; 20 cm. Black cloth with gilt-stamped spine title: The Ancient Egyptians. Blind-stamped spine decoration and blind-ruled borders on each board. Dark brown... More
Boston: Phillips, Sampson & Co., 1850. Paperback. "Improved edition." 1 atlas of 7 leaves containing 10 hand-colored maps; 32 cm. Yellow wrappers with wrapper title printed in black within a Greek key pattern border. No date of publication; the firm published as Phillips, Sampson & Co. from 1850 to 1859... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1908. Hardcover. Reprinted October 1908. xvi, 207 p., frontispiece portrait of Sir Harry Lumsden and 15 leaves of plates; 23 cm. Red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; armorial emblem of the Queen's Own Corps of Guides is gilt-stamped on front cover. Includes index. Gift inscription on... More