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found: 11 books

 
Baber, Henry Hervey and Sir Henry Ellis, editors.
Librorum impressorum qui in Museo Britannico adservantur catalogus.
Londini: N.p. 1813-1819. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 7 volumes in 8 (volume 2 is in two parts). In contemporary calf bindings, with repairs. An excellent copy. Good.
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Book number: 1217
USD 1400.00 [Appr.: EURO 1306.5 | £UK 1117 | JP¥ 217860]

 
Boufflers, Chevalier De.
Contes du chevalier de Boufflers. Avec une notice bio-bibliographique par Ocatve Uzanne.
Paris: A. Quantin, 1878. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. LXXIV, 253 pages. Edition limited to a very small number of copies. In early twentieth-century half cloth over marbled boards, original parchment wrappers bound in. Illustrated with a frontispiece and some engraved head and tail pieces and a vignette. Some very minor foxing. Good.
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Book number: 1077
USD 75.00 [Appr.: EURO 70 | £UK 60 | JP¥ 11671]

 
[BINDING SAMPLE]. Boyd, James Penny.
Triumphs and Wonders of the 19th Century, the True Mirror of a Phenomenal Era.
Chicago: Wabash Publishing House, 1899. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. Salesman's Sample book. Decorated green cloth on upper cover and half sheep over cloth on lower cover. Illustrated. Good.
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Book number: 2418
USD 40.00 [Appr.: EURO 37.5 | £UK 32 | JP¥ 6225]

 
Crapo, Henry Howland. [WROTH'S COPY].
Address delivered by his excellency, Gov. Henry H. Crapo, at the dedication of the library building of the Ladies' Library Association of Flint.
n.p. [Flint, Michigan]: n.p. [Wolverine Citizen Steam Press], 1868, 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 16pp. Dark blue wrappers. An excellent copy. Wroth's copy. 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. Good.
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Book number: 2765
USD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 280 | £UK 239.5 | JP¥ 46684]

 
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall.
The Bibliographical Decameron: or, Ten Days Pleasant Discourse upon Illuminated Manuscripts, and Subjects Connected with Early Engraving, Typography, and Bibliography.
London: Printed for the Author, by W. Bulmer and Co. Shakspeare Press, 1817. 0. Hardcover. Tall octavo. Three volumes. I: [vi], vi, [ii], ccxxv, [i], 410, [2] pages; II: [iv], 535, [3] pages; III: [iv], 544, [4] pages. With half-title to each volume present. Quarter black calf over black cloth. Title label. Illustrated as follows: I: 16 plates facing pages xiii, xcii, cxii, cxii, cxiii, cxiv, cxv, cxxxviii, cxlii (not found in all copies, since it was not ready at publication & absent here), clxxi, clxxix, clxxx, cxcix, ccxi, ccxvi, 204-205 (double-page), textual engravings & woodcuts, and 15 prints on india paper at pages xiv, xcii, ci, cxxviii, cxlvii, cli, cliv, clxi, clxvii, clxxi, clxxii, clxxxii, ccii (etching in sepia), 44, & 340; II: 6 plates facing pages 27 (double-page), 108, 157, 175, 458, & 466, textual engravings & woodcuts, and 11 prints on india paper at pages 157, 172, 380, 395, 401,403, 417 (red pared calf with gold letterpress), 466 (two prints), 490 (etching in sepia), & 518; III: 16 plates facing pages 51, 199, 206, 249, 263, 281, 293, 302, 327, 344, 351, 368, 435, 440, 475, & 477, textual engravings & woodcuts, and 10 prints on india paper at pages 51, 177, 194 (sepia), 284, 361, 362, 364, 445, 456, & 466. Jackson 40; Bigmore & Wyman I, pp. 169-170; Lowndes II, p. 640; Windle & Pippin A28. Ex-library copy, with the library's perforated stamp on each title-page. Some browning. A very good copy. Good.
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Book number: 1616
USD 900.00 [Appr.: EURO 840 | £UK 718 | JP¥ 140053]
Keywords: DIBDIN, Bibliography

 
Fromaget, Nicolas.
Contes de Fromaget. Le Cousin de Mahomet. Avec une Notice bio-bibliographique par Octave Uzanne.
Paris: A. Quantin, 1882. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xiv, 283 pages. Limited to a small number of copies. In early twentieth-century half cloth over marbled boards, original wrappers retained. Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece, vignette illustrations and head-pieces. Good.
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Book number: 1090
USD 90.00 [Appr.: EURO 84 | £UK 72 | JP¥ 14005]

 
Hazlitt, William Carew.
A Manual for the Collector and Amateur of Old English Plays. Edited from the material formed by Kirkman, Langbaine, Downes, Oldys, and Halliwell-Phillipps, with extensive additions and corrections.
London: Pickering & Chatto, 1892. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. viii, 284, 4pp. First edition. Edition limited to 250 copies. Cream linen and paper boards. Spine chipped, corners bumped. John Kebabian's (H.P. Kraus bibliographer) copy, without his signature. Good.
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Book number: 1893
USD 125.00 [Appr.: EURO 116.75 | £UK 99.75 | JP¥ 19452]
Keywords: BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, BIBLIOGRAPHIES

 
Marchmont, Frederick.
The Three Cruikshanks. A Bibliographical Catalogue, Describing More than 500 Works...Illustrated by Isaac, George and Robert Cruikshank. The Introduction by Julian Moore.
London: W. T. Spencer, 1897. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. First edition. Edition limited to 500 copies. Rebacked attractively in a half brown morocco binding over original cloth boards. With a frontispiece and illustrations. Good.
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Book number: 125
USD 150.00 [Appr.: EURO 140 | £UK 119.75 | JP¥ 23342]
Keywords: BOOKS ABOUT BOOKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, 19TH CENTURY ENGLISH BOOK ILLUSTRATION

 
Picot, Emile.
Bibliographie Cornélienne, ou description raisonnée de toutes les éditions des oeuvres de Pierre Corneille, des imitations ou traductions qui en ont été faites et des ouvrages relatifs à Corneille et à ses écrits.
Paris: Auguste Fontaine, Libraire, 1876. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xv, [i]i, 552pp. Quarter red morocco over marbled boards. With portrait frontispiece. Besterman, column 1493. Inscribed by Picot. Good.
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Book number: 1904
USD 300.00 [Appr.: EURO 280 | £UK 239.5 | JP¥ 46684]
Keywords: Thetare, Bibliography

 
De Vinne, Theodore L.
The Roman and Italic Printing Types in the Printing House of Theodore L. De Vinne & Co.
New York: The De Vinne Press, 1891. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 145pp. Original cloth. Illustrated with plates depicting types. Inscribed by the De Vinne Press. Good.
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Book number: 1863
USD 500.00 [Appr.: EURO 466.75 | £UK 399 | JP¥ 77807]

 
Walch, Johann Georgius.
Bibliotheca Patristica Litterariis Annotationibus Instructa. Editio Nova emendator et multum Auctior adornata ab Io. Traug. Lebr. Danzio.
Jena: Sumtu Bibliopolii Croekeriani, 1834. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. xlviii, 806pp. Contemporary boards. Good.
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Book number: 1857
USD 225.00 [Appr.: EURO 210 | £UK 179.5 | JP¥ 35013]

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