Hardcover. Cloth-bound, 13.5 inches tall, recording in pencil the daily menus for a restaurant in Bern. In French, several hundred pages, menus from September 1957 through October 1958. Very good, light wear, the handwriting is hard to read for us. We don't know the name of the restaurant, but there.....
Paris: Librairie Hachette, (1919). First printing. Paperback. First printing of this translation, 1919, wraps, very good, unopened, with an inscription by Silvain and his colleague Jaubert (hard to read the name of the recipient); probably inscribed in advance of the performance, only the anticipated recipient was a no-show, as this.....
London: Richard Bentley, 1863. Second edition. Hardcover. 8vo, period half dark brown morocco gilt, green cloth boards, very good, light wear and rubbing, 451 pp, illustrated including folding map of South Africa, 32 pp. publisher's catalog at rear. Light foxing.
Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 1991. Reprint. Hardcover. Inscribed by Bowden! Gilt stamped brown cloth boards, octavo, not illustrated. Book has handsome boards and tight binding, text clean and unmarked. No DJ.
London: John W. Parker, 1846. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1846. Quarto, later half leather, somewhat worn, text plus 62 plates some in color, additionally a chromolithographed title page as well as printed title page. Good copy, text very good, occasional foxing, plates collated complete, binding somewhat rubbed and worn.....
Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. First printing. 3 quarto cloth-bound volumes of programs from the first ten years of the CLO, by no means a complete set of the first years' productions (it skips from one production in 1947 of Rosalie to 1949's Naughty Marietta with nary a single.....
Wolffenbuttel: np, 1738-1739. Paperback. 1738-1739, six parts bound together, Epistola Itineraria LXXII-LXXVII. This gathering removed from a larger volume. 4 copper engraved plates (topographical fold-out, seed pods, fossils, bones and teeth fold-out), including two folding. 12, 8, 12, 31, 12, 16 pp. Latin text, although a section of the fourth.....
Paris: L. Carteret, 1948. First printing. Hardcover. 4th and 5th volumes only. Small quarto, 10 x 7.5 inches, finely bound in half navy morocco, raised bands, gilt spine, binding unsigned. Original wraps bound in, 413 pp & 208 pp, no illustrations: a bibliography of livres d'artiste and illustrated books published.....
Paris: Imprimerie De Ch. Houel, 1798. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1798, 23 volumes complete. 8vo, contemporary speckled calf gilt, with red and black gilt spine labels. Good solid set with minor library marks (bookplates on pastedowns, barcode stickers to rear flyleaves, blindstamp to title pages), bindings with some wear.....
Pittsburgh: Cramer and Spear, 1818. Hardcover. 10th Edition, 1818. 8vo, original half leather and marbled boards, 304 pp., with strip river maps and maps of Pittsburgh and the Falls of the Ohio. Very good, light professional restoration to leather, very neat strengthening to inner hinges, contents very good, brighter and.....
Boston: James R. Osgood, 1881. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1881. Tall 8vo, 281 pp, four folding maps (loose but in VG condition overall). VG tight copy, inscribed by author: 'The Comte de Paris, as a slight contribution to his records of the American civil conflict, which he has so.....
Berlin W. Rohrscheid & Ebbecke, ca. 1898. First printing. Hardcover. Presumed first, ca. 1898. 14 photographs measuring 8 3/8" x 10 5/8", mounted on thick boards, 9 1/2" x 11 5/8", with curved corners and gilt edges. Housed in green cloth folding box with a lithographed title plate. As the.....
Paris: Dufour, Mulat et Boulanger, 1857. Hardcover. Lacks volume five. Includes volumes 1-4 and 6-8 of the Histoire and two volumes of plates. 1857. Hardcover, 8vo. in leather backed patterned paper boards, with gilt title and fleur-de-lis decoration on spine. Varying paginations. Monuments volume contains engravings of famous buildings and.....
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1874. Hardcover. Vols One and Two of 3 volumes, 1874. 8vo, original dark red limp calf gilt with wraparound wallet-style binding, the belt to tuck the flap through missing from first volume. General wear to bindings, good set, with maps in pockets as called for.....
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1869. First English language edition. Hardcover. First English language edition, 1869, hardcover with brown cloth boards, small octavo, 505pp., not illustrated. Book good with tape residue to front board, rubbing, edgewear to boards, binding tight, inner hinges have been reinforced with tape, text clean and.....
Paris: Michael Toulouse for Denis Roce, 1499. Hardcover. 8vo (8 inches tall) bound in quarter niger over marbled boards. Leaf size 186 x 127 mm. a-g6, h5; 38-40 lines per page. Incomplete, 47 of 76 leaves; leaves VIII, IX, X, and XI bound out of order between leaves V and.....
Pittsburgh: Patterson & Hopkins, 1812. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1812, 8vo, original dark brown calf with spine label, 366 pp. with both bound in errata and tipped in smaller errata slip, good copy, moderate to heavy wear and rubbing to spine, joints cracked but holding firm, most of spine.....
Pittsburgh: Fisher and Stewart, 1887. Hardcover. 1887. Hardcover, 8vo., in original cloth-backed boards with advertisements. 120 pp., plus 19 page section for Wilkinsburg. Very Good. Edgewear to the boards; clean contents; strong binding. Many great ads throughout, including Iron City Brewery. Rare -- OCLC locates only 1 copy.
New York: White and Allen, 1889. First printing. Hardcover. First edition, 1889. Two-toned cloth hardcover with black and gilt decorations on the front cover, all edges gilt, illustrated (including a tipped-in color plate), unpaginated, Fair copy, straining to the front inner hinge with wear to the first blank there including.....
Pamplona, Spain: Fundacion para la Conservacion del Patrimonio Historico de Navarra, 2006. First edition. Hardcover. Complete set in 2 volumes. 2006, First Edition. Hardcover, folios. Spanish text. 967 pp. Illustrated throughout in color with over 270 images. Near Fine. Minor shelfwear. A lovely set. Due to the size of this.....
Kyoto: Ky to Hangain, 1954. Hardcover. 12 x 9.5 inch hardcover portfolio with tie, housing 6 woodblock prints in color, about fine, minor tanning to borders, a booklet "Kabuki Explanation and Stories, Series 2" and a folder titled "Kabuki Actors, Six Decorative Prints Ready for Framing" holding 6 prints measuring.....
London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1906. 12mo, original wraps, good plus with some wear and tanning to covers, contents good to very good, iv, 126 pp, folding charts. Very RARE, and only 1 copy located by OCLC: US Army War College. This copy with ink note on inside front cover.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011. First printing. Hardcover. Large quarto in boards with dust jacket. Gentle bumping to corners; near fine copy. 548 pp, illus. in color and b/w. We can't imagine there's a better book on the subject.
Cambridge: Deighton, 1844-1850. Hardcover. 4 volumes bound in a single volume, contemporary half leather, cloth boards, good copy with some wear and rubbing to binding, inner hinges show neat strengthening and outer joints also neatly strengthened, now bound sturdily. Contents VG, a bit of age toning. The two volumes by.....
Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1974. Second enlargedf. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards in dust jacket, octavo, 884pp., not illustrated. Book as new, still in publisher's wrapper. DJ new.