Alciatus, Andrea.

Emblemi di Andrea Alciato Huomo Chiarissimo dal Latino nel Vulgare Italiano Ridotti Contenenti il Fiore et la Sostanza de' più Scelti Scrittori ...

Padova: Per P.P. Tozzi, 1626. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. [viii], 343pp. [dagger]4, A8-X8, Y4. Vellum. With 212 emblematic woodcuts. Old repair to title-page. Previous owner's ink stamp on title-page verso. Light foxing. Some worming in lower margins at front and rear (text and illustrations not affected). Good.

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Book number: 828

Catalogue: Seventeenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Keywords: Artbooks

Alexander, ab Alexander.

Andreae Tiraquelli Regii in Curia Parisiensi Senatoris. Semestria in Genialium Dierum Alexandri ab Alexandro Iurisperiti Neapolitani, Lib. VI.

Lyon: Apud Hæredes Gulielmi Rouillii, 1614. 0. Hardcover. Folio. [12], 748, [74]pp. *6, AAA6-ZZZ6. Title vignette. Head pieces and initials. Title-page printed in red-and-black. Contemporary armorial calf with the arms of Cardinal Savio Mellini. Good.

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Book number: 2475

Catalogue: Seventeenth Century Books, Fine Bindings

Sharaf al-Din 'Ali, Yazdi.

Histoire de Timur-Bec, connu sous le nom du grand Tamerlan, empereur des Mogols & Tartares: en forme de journal histoique de ses victoires & conquêtes dans l'Asie & dans l'Europe.

A Delf: Chez Reinier Boitet, 1723. 0. Soft cover. Duodecimo. Octavo. Four volumes. I: [viii], xxxix, [xxiii], 475pp. (pp. 460-461 omitted from pagination); II: [viii], 431pp.; III: [ii], 421pp.; IV: [vi], 303pp. I: A11, B12-C12, A12-T12, V10 (- V10 blank); II: a4, A8, B4, C8, D4, E8, F4, G8, H4, I8, K4, L8, M4, N8, O4, P8, Q4, R8, S4, T8, V4, X8, Y4, Z8, Aa4, Bb8, Cc4, DD8, Ee4, Ff8, Gg4, Hh8, Ii4, Kk8, Ll4, Mm8, Nn4; III: []2 ([]1 blank), A8, B4, C8, D4, E8, F4, G8, H4, I8, K4, L8, M4, N8, O4, P8, Q4, R8, S4, T8, V4, X8, Y4, Z8, Aa4, Bb8, Cc4, Dd8, Ee4, Ff8, Gg4, Hh8, Ii4, Kk8, Ll4-Nn4 (- Nn4 blank); IV: A12-N12 (- N12 blank). Title-pages in red-and-black. Uncut and unopened. Original paper wrappers. With a frontispiece portrait of Timur to volume I and five maps. Woodcut head-pieces. Good.

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Book number: 2031

Catalogue: Eighteenth Century Books, Illustrated Books

Allacci, Leone.

Socratis, Antisthenis, et aliorum Socraticorum epistolae. Leo Allatius hactenus non editas primus GraeceÌ vulgauit; LatineÌ vertit; notas adiecit; dialogum, de scriptis Socratis, praefixit.

Parisiis: Sumptibus Sebastiani Cramoisy, typographi regij, via Iacobaea, sub Ciconiis. 1637. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [viii], 258, [vi]pp. a4, A4-Z4, Aa4-Kk4. Engraved title-page vignette (Cramoisy's device). Errata on recto of final printed leaf. First edition of the letters supposedly written by Socrates. Contemporary vellum. Woodcut head-pieces; initials. From the collection of Otto Jahn, with his bookplate. Brunet, V, 424; Hoffmann, II, 31 ("Sehr selten"); Legrand, I, no. 262 ("Tres rare"). "Epistolae" in Greek with parallel Latin translation; introduction and notes in Latin. Good.

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Book number: 2313

Catalogue: Seventeenth Century Books

Allen, Edward Weber.

Jean François Galaup De Lapérouse. A Check List.

San Francisco: Lawton R. Kennedy, 1941. 0. Soft cover. Octavo. 18 pages. Reprinted from The California Historical Society Quarterly. Volume XX, No. 1, March 1941. In the publisher's original wrappers, soiled and lightly chipped. Stapled as issued. With a frontispiece portrait. Good.

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Book number: 1037

Catalogue: Books about Books

Allestree, Richard.

The Necessity of Caring for the Soul.

Dublin: n.p. 1700. 0. Soft cover. Duodecimo. 24pp. Uncut and unopened. Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), A1155A; ESTC R175422. According to ESTC, only two copies: Liverpool University Library, and National Library of Ireland. Damaged, affecting text on pages 13-6, and 21-22. Fair.

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Book number: 2172

Catalogue: Seventeenth Century Books, Religion

Almon, John.

Anecdotes of the life of the Right Honourable William Pitt, Earl Chatham; and of the principal events of him time: with his speeches in Parliament, from the year 1736 to the year 1778.

London: Printed for J. S. Jordan, No. 166, Fleet-Street, 1794. 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 3 volumes. I: xvi-499pp.; II: vii-524pp.; III: [vi], 388pp. Fourth edition. "A list of the general changes of the ministry, from the year 1742 to the end of the reign of George the Second . ": folded leaf at end of text in volume 3, and "Testimonies in favour of this work": on pages 385-388, also in volume 3. Contemporary calf; most covers of volume I and II loose. ESTC N30260. EX-library copy; very clean internally. Good.

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Book number: 1832

Catalogue: Theater

Tristan de Saint-Amant, sieur, Jean.

Commentaires historiques contenans l'histoire generale des empereurs, imperatrices, caesars et tyrans de l'Empire romain.

A Paris: Chez S. Hure, au Coeur-Bon, et Frederic Leonard, a l'Escu de Venise, rue Saint Iacques, 1657. 0. Hardcover. Folio. Three volumes. I: [xii], 16, [xiv], 757, [i], [xxiv]pp.; II: [ii], 681, [i], 4pp.; III: [ii], 748, 4, [lxiv]pp. With a half-title to volume one. Title-pages in red-and-black. Contemporary calf. Illustrated. Good.

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Book number: 2587

Catalogue: Seventeenth Century Books, Illustrated Books, Numismatics

Amory, Hugh.

First Impressions. Printing in Cambridge, 1639-1989. An Exhibition at the Houghton Library and at the Harvard Law School.

Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University, 1989. 0. Soft cover. Small quarto. 64pp. First edition. Original printed stiff paper wrappers. Illustrated. Good.

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Book number: 1854

Catalogue: Books about Books, Americana

Keywords: Books About Books, Americana

Amory, Hugh.

Steven Day's First Type.

Lunenburg, Vermont: Printed at The Meriden-Stinehour Press for The Houghton Library, 1989. 0. Soft cover. Large quarto. [8]pp. Edition limited to 1,000 copies. Blue wrappers. Good.

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Book number: 1855

Catalogue: Books about Books, Americana

Keywords: Books About Books, Americana

Anawalt, Patricia Rieff.

Indian Clothing Before Cortes: Mesoamerican Costumes from the Codices.

Norman, Oklahoma: University of Oklahoma Press, 1981. 0. Hardcover. Large quarto. 232 pages. First edition. Original cloth. With the dustwrapper. Illustrated with over 350 illustrations. Good.

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Book number: 1233

Catalogue: Artbooks, Illustrated Books

Keywords: Costume

Bonnefoi Livres Anciens.

Collection of 9 Catalogues.

Paris: Bonnefoi Livres Anciens, various dates. 0. Soft cover. Folio. No pagination. 9 items. Catalogues are: 56-57, 60, 64, 66, 69, 76, 78, and 81. Decorated stiff paper wrappers. Good.

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Book number: 2648

Catalogue: Books about Books

Andersen, Hans Christian.

The Shoes of Fortune, and other Stories.

New York: Published by James Miller, N.d. [before December 9, 1865], 0. Hardcover. Octavo. 187pp. Probably second edition. First published by John Wiley in New York in 1848. Publisher's original drab cloth, stamped in blind on both covers. Spine gilt. With a frontispiece and two other engravings as well as woodcuts in the text. According to the American Antiquarian Society, published between 1861 and 1868. I would like to acknowledge one of our internet colleagues, Leakey's Bookshop Ltd. from Inverness in the United Kingdom, for his/her on-line entry, where it is mentioned that the specific copy has a 'signature & [a date] 9th Dec 1865 to ffep.' in guiding me to date my copy. Good.

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Book number: 1307

Catalogue: Decorative Bindings, Nineteenth Century Books, Juvenilia

Anderson, James.

The Constitutions of the Antient and Honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons. Containing their History, Charges, Regulations, &c. Collected and Digested by Order of the Grand Lodge from their Old Records, Faithful Traditions and Lodge-Books, for the Use of the Lodges.

London: printed for Brother J. Scott, at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster Row. MDCCLVI. In the Vulgar Year of Masonry 5756, [1756]. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. [iv], 339, [i]pp. Title-page in red-and-black. Contemporary black polished morocco, gilt. With a frontispiece, trimmed slightly at the top. Fred G. Ketcheson bookplate by James Jervis Blomfield, a Canadian artist and designer best known for his design of the Vancouver coat-of-arms. A previous owner's signature on title-page. ESTC T84756. Good.

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Book number: 1834

Catalogue: Theater

Anderson, James.

The History and Constitutions of the most ancient and honourable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons: Containing an Account of Masonry. I. From the Creation, throughout the known Earth, till true Architecture was demolished by the Goths, and at last revived in Italy...

London: printed; and sold by J. Robinson. In the vulgar year of masonry, 5746 [i.e. 1746]. 0. Hardcover. Quarto. x, [ii], 230, [ii]pp. Contemporary red polished Morocco, lower cover somewhat wormed. Title label. With the royal coat-of-arms in a vignette and a plate by Frater James Thornhill sculpted by J. Pine. Fred G. Ketcheson bookplate by James Jervis Blomfield, a Canadian artist and designer best known for his design of the Vancouver coat-of-arms. A previous owner's signature on title- page. ESTC N33030. Extensive worming in text, but surprisingly, affecting text only slightly. Repair to title-page. Good.

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Book number: 1836

Catalogue: Theater