Alexandro, Alexandri Ab [1461 - 1523]

ALEXANDRI Ab ALEXANDRO, Iurisperiti Neapolitani, Genialivm Diervm Libri Sex, Varia ac Recondita Ervditione Referti, Accuratius & maiore side quàm antehac vsquam impressi, cum duplici indice

Parisiis [Paris]: Apud Ioannem Roigny vi Iacobea, sub insigni Basilisci, & Quatuor Elementorum, 1550. Early edition, 1st published in 1522. Not in Adams, though see entry 721 for a 1549 edition by Roigny. Contemporaneous binding, composed of waste vellum which shows a faint hint of manuscript lettering. Title hand-inked to spine, as well as text-block bottom edge. Cords visible. Remnants of leather ties to covers' 3 edges. 76], 370 pp. T.p. woodcut device, "Prelum Ascensianum". Folio: a - e^6 f^8 A - 2H^6 [- 2H6, a blank]. 12-3/4" x 8-1/2". General soiling to binding. Wear to spine ends. Age-toning to paper. Very minor worming to lower margin at rear of text block. A solid VG copy. Alexandro, Italian jurist of Naples, studied law at Naples and Rome, later practicing in both cities. Subsequently, he became dissatisfied with the corrupt administration of justice, quiting the bar & devoting himself to literary pursuits. His "Genial Days" discusses his growing disgust with pervasive injustice, ignorance & arbitrary disregard of the laws, citing several cases as examples. The work also touches on religious matters, government, grammar & textual criticism, superstition social customs, military affairs, history & philosophy, and even Roman antiquities. This work a popular one, and here we offer an early 16th C edition, in an interesting period binding, of the widely circulated title, which went through many editions during the 16th & 17th C. especially in Italy & France.

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Book number: 33756

Catalogue: Literature

Alfieri, Maria

ISLAMIC ARCHITECTURE Of The INDIAN SUBCONTINENT

London: Laurence King Publishing, 2000. 1st Edition. Black cloth binding. Dust jacket. 320 pp (including Index). Much color illustrations, with photographic imagery by Federico Borromeo. 12" x 9-1/2". A Fine copy in a Fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 50225

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Alford, Henry [1810 - 1871]

The POETICAL WORKS Of HENRY ALFORD

Boston: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1853. 1st US Edition. Publisher's deluxe maroono half leather binding with matching marbled boards, edges & eps. Elaborate gilt decorated spine. xv, [16] - 424 pp. Preface specially written for the US edition. 12mo. Modest wear. Spine panel lightly sunned. Very Good.

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Book number: 45870

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[European History / Napoleon]. Fremeaux, Paul. Rieu, Alfred and Fremeaux, Paul - Translators

The DRAMA Of SAINT HELENA

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1910. 1st American edition (presumed). Red cloth lettered in gilt, with blue, white and gilt ornament to front board, t.e.g. Red dust jacket printed in black. xx, 373, [1] pp. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-3/4". Modest wear; minor soil to page block; light toning to endpapers. Interior clean and otherwise bright, binding tight. Dj worn/ slightly chipped to extremities; spine sunned. VG+/ VG. A bright copy of this uncommon title, in the scarce dust jacket. We find no copies of this edition on OCLC, and only one of the British edition (Andrew Melrose, 1910).

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Book number: 43947

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Alger, Horatio

LUKE WALTON. Victory Alger Series #8

Chicago: M. A. Donohue & Co, (n. d.). Circa 1920s. Pale green cloth binding. Yellow dust jacket. 168, [16] pp, Frontispiece. 12mo. VG+ (square & tight)/VG (closed tear to rear panel top edge). A respectable copy.

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Book number: 51204

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[Algren, Nelson. 1909 - 1981]. Bruccoli, Matthew J.

NELSON ALGREN A Descriptive Bibliography

Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburg Press, 1985. 1st edition. Blue cloth binding with silver stamped lettering. Issued w/o dj. xiii, [1], 185, [1] pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Fine Pittsburgh Series in Bibliography.

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Book number: 8254.1

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Alighieri, Dante. Johnston, David - Translator

A TRANSLATION Of DANTE'S PURGATORIO

Bath: Printed at the "Chroncile" Office, 1867. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy from the translator to 'Mrs Stanley". Original publisher's pebbled maroon cloth binding with gilt title stamping to spine & dual gilt edge perimiter rules to boards. Bevelled edges. AEG. Yellow eps. vii, [1], 203, [1] pp. Frontis an albumen photograph of the Fresco of Dante by Giotto in the Bargello at Florence, discovered in 1841. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2". Some modest wear to binding extremities, with removal evidence of a small spine label. A VG copy.

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Book number: 40577

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Allen, Lewis & Dorothy

The ALLEN PRESS BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Facsimile with Original Leaves and Additions to Date Including a Checklist of Ephemera

San Francisco: The Book Club of California, 1985. 1st Edition thus. Limited to 750 cc. Brown cloth binding with blind stamped press to front board and gilt title lettering stamped to spine. 114, [14] pp. T.p. printed in color. Index at rear. Untrimmed. Illustrated. 14" x 9-1/2". Only light wear, a Nr Fine copy.

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Book number: 43603

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Allen, Paul. Egan, Beresford - Subject

BERESFORD EGAN. An Introduction to His Work

Lowestoft, Suffolk: Scorpion Press, 1966. 1st Edition. White cloth binding. White dust jacket printed in black & green. 87, [1 (blank)] pp. Prospectus slip laid-in. Bibliography at rear. Illustrated. 8vo. VG+/VG (age-toning, light wear & soiling).

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Book number: 51331

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Allen, Benjamin Shannon - Editor

CALIFORNIA. From 1769 to 1909. An Illustrated History. Volume II. Issued in Commemoration of the Portola Festival.; With Special Writers from All the Leading San Francisco Papers

(n. p.): , 1910. 1st edition (Cowan IV, 6). Brown imitation-leather cloth binding with gilt stamped lettering to front board. Patterned-paper eps. 90 pp. 180 b/w photographic-style portraits, protected by silk-moire tissue guards. 14" x 11". Minor extremity wear & some unobtrusive spotting to boards. A VG copy.

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Book number: 32463

Catalogue: Americana

Allen, Tim

DON'T STAND TOO CLOSE To A NAKED MAN

NY: Hyperion, 1994. 1st edition. 8vo. F/F.

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Book number: 10866

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[Allen, Ethan. 1738 - 1789]. Holbrook, Stewart H[all. 1893 - 1964]

ETHAN ALLEN

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1940. 1st edition. PRESENTATION copy, with warm 1940 inscription from Holbrook as "Green Mountain Hols", with full signature underneath, to close Seattle-based friends Jim & Theresa Stevens. Blue cloth binding. Yellow dust jacket. viii, [2], 283, [3 (blank)] pp (including Index). 8vo. VG (bump to top of front board/bookplate)/Gd (edgewear/tape repaired tear to front panel).

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Book number: 34587

Catalogue: Americana

[Theology]. Allen, Rev. Benjamin [1789 - 1829]

HISTORY Of The REFORMATION. Being an Abridgment of Burnet's History of the Reformation of the Church of England. Together with the Sketches of the Lives of Luther, Calvin and Zuingle, The Three Celebrated Reformers of the Continent

Washington City: Printed for the Author, by Jacob Gideon, Junior, 1820. 1st edition (American Imprints 80). Period brown full sheep binding. 297, [1] pp. 12mo. 7-1/8" x 4-1/4". Binding rubbed. Front joint held by cords. Period pos to front eps. Errata affixed to front paste-down. A Good copy.

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Book number: 28560

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'By an Old Housekeeper' [pseudoynm for Allen, Ann H.]

The HOUSEKEEPER'S ASSISTANT, Composed Upon Temperance Principles, with Instruction in the Art of Making Plain and Fancy Cakes, Puddings, Pastry, Confectionary, Ice Creams, Jellies, Blanc Mange, Also for the Cooking of All the Various Kinds of Meats and Vegetables; with a Variety of Useful Information and Receipts Never Before Published

Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1845. 1st edition (American Imprints 45-136; Axeford, p. 213; Lowenstein 358; Wheaton & Kelly 83). Not found in Amerine & Borg, Bitting, nor Cagle. OCLC records 11 holding institutions. Uncommon in the trade. Flexible brown cloth covers with title gilt stamped to front cover. 142, v, [1] pp. Index at rear; eratta last page. 12mo. 7-3/8" x 4-5/8". An imperfect copy, lacking the first leaf of the 3rd gathering [pp. 25/26]. Spine cloth renewed. Prior owner signature; pencil annotations to eps. Occasional cooking stains throughtout. With a nod to the lacking leaf, and all else, an About VG copy, sold w.a.f.

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Book number: 37476

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Allen, E.A.

LABOR And CAPITAL: Containing an Account of the Various Organizations of Farmers, Planters, and Mechanics, for Mutual Improvement and Protection Against Monopoly

Richmond: Louis Rich and Co, 1891. Green publishers cloth with black and gold designs spine to front. 536 pp. Illustrated with 18 plates. Thick 8vo. 23cm x 16.5cm. VG- (ex-library copy/ extremities and panels rubbed/ pos at front & rear endpapers/ gutter break at rear/ missing 1 illustration [L.L. Polk]).

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Book number: 21560

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