biography
The Thespian Dictionary; or, Dramatic Biography of the Present Age; Containing Sketches of the Lives, Lists of the Productions, Various Merits, &c. &c. of all the Principal Dramatists, Composers, Commentators, Managers, Actors and Actresses of the United Kingdom: Interspersed with Numerous Original Anecdotes, Forming a Complete Modern History of the English Stage
London: James Cundee, 1805. Twelvemo, measuring 6.75 x 4 inches: iv, [396]. Contemporary full tree calf, Greek key borders to boards, spine ruled and decorated in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges stained yellow. Engraved pictorial title page before letterpress title, 38.....
Price: $1,000.00
Bolívar, le Libérateur
Paris: Tolmer, Éditeur, 1929. Oblong volume, measuring 8 x 9.5 inches: [12]. Original color pictorial boards, yellow cloth spine, green pictorial pastedowns, color illustrations on every page. Lightest soiling and shelfwear to boards.
Price: $250.00
Louisa May Alcott: A Souvenir
Boston: Samuel E. Cassino, 1888. Large quarto, measuring 10.75 x 8.25 inches: [2], 28. Original heavy cream wrappers hand-lettered in gold paint, bound with later cream ribbon. Three engraved plates, including portrait frontispiece; twelve additional illustrations throughout text. Two tiny chips to painted title, repair to inner edge of frontispiece.....
Price: $950.00
Audubon
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1936). Single volume, measuring 8.75 x 6.25 inches: [10], 342. Original blue cloth boards lettered in silver, original clipped typographic dust jacket. Twelve full-color plates after Audubon prints, black-and-white illustrations throughout text, biographer’s note and index at rear. Bookplate to front pastedown. Dust jacket.....
Price: $150.00
Favissæ Utriusque Antiquitatis tam Romanæ quam Græcæ in quibus Reperiuntur Simulacra Deorum, icones magnorum Ducum, Poetarum, Virorumque in quavis arte illustrium, accedunt fæminæ tam virtutibus quam vitiis illustres
Ultrajecti [Utrecht]: Typis Gerardi Muntendam, 1707. Quarto, measuring 7.5 x 6 inches: [8], 199, [1]. Modern shagreen spine, marbled boards, endpapers renewed. Woodcut initials and ornaments throughout text, 99 engraved portraits, index and errata. Occasional early ink annotations, including a sketch. Faint tidemark to lower corner of opening signatures (not.....
Price: $950.00