Pittsburgh: Charles C. Benton, 1908. Paperback. Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, oblong octavo, 10.25" x 6.75"], illustrated in b&w. Book has soil and rubbing to wraps, toning to edges of panels, small chip to top front corner, stapled binding tight, toning to full-title and inner front panel, faint crease.....
Virginia Beach: Donning Company, 1980. Paperback. Printed paper wraps, quarto [8.5" x 11"], illustrated in b&w. Book has mild edgewear to wraps, mild rubbing to joints, binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
Shippensburg, PA: Shippensburg University Press, no date (ca. 2000). Paperback. Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, oblong quarto [11" x 8.5"], illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome wraps and stapled binding tight, text clean and unmarked.
Monongahela, PA: Patrick Connors/Historic Towns Publishing, 1998. Paperback. Printed paper wraps with stapled binding, small quarto [8.5" x 11"], illustrated in b&w. Book has handsome wraps and tight binding, text clean bright and unmarked.
New York: Clark, Austin, Maynard, 1861. Hardcover. 12mo, 5.5 x 4 inches, publisher's full brown leather, very good, light wear. Frontispiece portrait, 370 pp., all edges gilded.
Eton: E. Williams, 1814. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, contemporary calf, good copy, with very neatly written ownership signature of a John Bond, 1816, rubbing and wear to binding, half inch loss of leather to spine head, lighter wear to heel of spine, and Bond or some early student has marked.....
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press by J. Smith for John Murray, 1826. Hardcover. Vol. I only. 8vo, contemporary brown calf gilt, very good, light rubbing and wear. 569 pp. Contains 4 numbers with lots of articles on classical art, literature, politics, classics, etc. Very uncommon.
Cambridge: Typis Academicis, Impensis Corelii Crownfield, 1713. Hardcover. Early edition, first published 1710. 8vo, early 18th century Cambridge-style calf binding with unusual dyed large keyhole shape in the middle of the boards. Very good, light wear & cracking along joints, minor spine wear, internally very good, text bright and unmarked.....
Cambridge: Printed by J. Bentham for Cambridge University Press, 1744. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, contemporary calf, good or better, joints slightly worn, lacks spine label, internally very good with bookplate, old owner's name and light foxing. (8) 189 (1) (2) xvi, 112 pp. First appearance of Bentley's textual notes on.....
Glasgow: Printed for Andrew and Jacob Duncan by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1816. Hardcover. 8vo, contemporary calf gilt, very good, light wear, some light restoration along front joint and inner hinge, internally very good and bright, unmarked, light occasional foxing. (6) 445 pp. Text in Latin. With notes.....
Dresden: Meinhold and Sons, 1853. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, half leather, good copy with recent cloth over spine, some rubbing and wear to boards, contents very good but a little foxed, bookplate of signature of Celtic scholar Robert Williams (1810-1881). Tall 8vo, xvi, 172, 130, 54, 98, 62, 70 (2).....
Cambridge: Printed by M. Finner for W. Thurlbourn, 1735. Hardcover. Sixth edtion, and from what we can tell, the first edition to print three additional sermons (the fifth edition printed one additional sermon). 8vo, contemporary calf, very good, light wear and rubbing, spine label a little worn; with bookplate of.....
Glasgow: Foulis, 1751. Hardcover. First Foulis edition. Small 8vo, 6.25 x 4.15 inches, full contemporary dark brown calf with spine label, with gilt ducal stamp on front & rear cover and "P" beneath, signifying ownership of the Duke of Portland. Very good, light wear to edges and joints, small paper.....
Florence: Typis Caesareis, 1765. Hardcover. 8vo, contemporary half calf and paper-covered boards, a German binding. Very good with title page in red and black, old owner's name on verso of flyleaf, text very good, bright and crisp, in facing Greek and Latin. 106 pp. Handsome old edition of the Byzantine.....
London: George Bell, 1895. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. No. 30 of 78 on Japanese vellum, large 8vo, 9.25 x 6.25 inches, bound in full brown morocco with raised bands, wide leather turn-ins with handsome gilt decorations, stamped G. P. Putnam's Sons, bookplate of a Mary L. Edwards. Very.....
Halle; Halis Saxonum: E Libreria Orphanotrophei, 1795. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, modern calf-backed marbled boards with morocco spine label, binding in fine condition, text very good or better with slight toning. (9) iv-cclxxx, complete, with an additional leaf of handwritten notes in German in a contemporary hand numbered p. 281.....
London: Printed for T. and J. Egerton, 1790. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, 9.25 x 6 inches, bound in modern calf-backed marbled boards with morocco spine label, very good, untrimmed tall copy with the uncommon half-title; (2) xxxix, 406 pp, light foxing, old ink inscription on verso of half-title quoting Gibbon's.....
London: Printed by P. norman for R. Bickerstaff, 1797. Second Edition. Hardcover. Corrected Second Edition (first issued in 1792). 2 volumes, 9 x 5.5 inches, contemporary horizontally grained deep burgundy calf gilt, very good, minor wear and rubbing, short 3" repaired tear to folding map of Rome, contents very good.....
New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1847. Hardcover. Early American edition of both First & Second Series. 12mo, 5.25 x 3.75 inches, gilt decorated cloth, very good, light wear, Christmas 1847 inscription on flyleaf and additional pencil names on first blank. Philosophical poetry in blank verse with long lines.
New York: D. Appleton, 1834. First American Printing. Hardcover. First American edition under this title, although there was a Boston publication in 1829 entitled "Letters of Maria Jane Jewsbury, addressed to her young friends," which might have similar or same content. 8vo, contemporary black leather with ornate gilt decorations to.....
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, C. 1893. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's half undyed cream buckram, gilt with color floral decorated paper-covered boards, very good, bookplate of Eliza Thaw Edwards and her signature on flyleaf, of the distinguished Thaw family of Pittsburgh that included the deranged millionaire Harry K. Thaw, murderer of.....
London: Macmillan, 1894. First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo, publisher's dark blue cloth, heavily gilt illustrated, nearly fine sharp copy, light foxing.
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Champaign: Sagamore Publishing, 1996. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth in dust jacket, signed by Hageman on the front flyleaf, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket.
Lulu, 2006. First printing. Paperback. Wraps, clean unmarked text, near fine copy.
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New York: Villard Books, 1995. First printing. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, with a bookplate signed by Chabon inserted, clean unmarked text, near fine copy in near fine dust jacket, a bit of edgewear to the dust jacket. Related item loosely inserted.