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Stories from Hans Andersen
London: Hodder and Stoughton, (1911). Quarto, measuring 12 x 10 inches: [2], viii, 250, [2]. Original full vellum, front board and spine lettered and stamped in gilt with design by Dulac, ties renewed, olive-patterned pictorial endpapers, top edge gilt, all other edges uncut. Limitation page signed by Dulac before frontispiece.....
Price: $2,400.00
Contes d'Andersen
Paris: Henri Laurens, (1941). Slim quarto, measuring 11 x 9 inches: [4], iv, 115, [5]. Original pink cloth spine lettered in gilt, color pictorial boards stamped in gilt. Illustrated with eight color plates and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Lightest shelfwear to boards, text block toned.
Price: $125.00
Endgame
London: Faber and Faber, 1958. Octavo, original orange cloth boards lettered in pale blue, original clipped photographic dust jacket.
Price: $350.00
The Grand Instructions to the Commissioners Appointed to Frame a New Code of Laws for the Russian Empire: Composed by Her Imperial Majesty Catherine II. Empress of all the Russias
London: T. Jefferys, at the Corner of St. Martin’s Lane, Charing-Cross, 1768. Quarto, measuring 11 x 8.25 inches: xxiii, [1] 3-258. Contemporary three-quarter calf, raised bands ruled in gilt, traces of gilt decoration to spine compartments, marbled paper boards, no spine label, text block uncut. Woodcut initials and headpieces throughout.....
Price: $5,000.00
Celebrated Crimes
London: H.S. Nichols, 1895. Eight octavo volumes, contemporary full plum crushed morocco gilt, boards ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments elaborately tooled in gilt with a fleur-de-lis motif, top edges gilt, other edges uncut. Title pages in red and black, text printed on vellum, all volumes illustrated with photogravures.....
Price: $3,800.00
The Maias
London: The Bodley Head, 1965. Single volume, measuring 7.75 x 5 inches: 633, [1]. Original dark blue textured cloth lettered in gilt, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket designed by Arthur Barbosa. Lightest edgewear to jacket.
Price: $40.00
All the Works of Epictetus, Which Are Now Extant; Consisting of His Discourses, Preserved by Arrian, in Four Books, The Enchiridion, and Fragments
London: S. Richardson, 1758. Large quarto, measuring 11 x 9 inches: [18], xlii, 505, [11]. Contemporary calf, raised bands ruled in gilt, red morocco spine label lettered in gilt, edges speckled red. Preliminaries include an ode to Epictetus, twelve-page list of subscribers, Carter’s introduction, and Arrian’s letter; index and appendix.....
Price: $2,500.00
The Colloquies, or Familiar Discourses of Desiderius Erasmus of Roterdam, Rendered into English
London: E.T. and R.H. for H. Brome, B. Tooke, and T. Sawbridge, 1671. Octavo, measuring 6.5 x 4.25 inches: [8], 555, [1]. Contemporary Cambridge-style full speckled calf, boards ruled and ornamented in blind, raised bands, red morocco spine label lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge stained. Engraved frontispiece portrait.....
Price: $4,000.00
Hansel and Gretel, and Other Stories by the Brothers Grimm
London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1925]. Single volume, measuring 11.75 x 9.5 inches: [10], 276. Publisher’s full white pictorial cloth, front board stamped in gilt and blue with design by Nielsen, spine decorated in gilt and blue, top edge gilt, patterned red and gilt endpapers designed by Nielsen. Limitation page signed.....
Price: $6,000.00
The Story of The Barber of Seville
New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, (1966). Single volume, measuring 10 x 7.75 inches: 64. Original color pictorial paper boards, original clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Color and black-and-white illustrations throughout text. Biographical note on Rossini at rear. Light edgewear to jacket with tiny chip to head of spine.
Price: $25.00
New Poems
New York: New Directions, 1976. Octavo, original brown cloth lettered in black, original unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Signed by Eugenio Montale on the half-title. Lightest toning to jacket edges.
Price: $450.00
Preces Niersis Clajensis Sedecim-Linguis
Venice: In Insula S. Lazari, 1818. Eighteenmo, measuring 4.25 x 3 inches: 204. Contemporary pale pink vellum boards decoratively bordered in gilt, spine stamped in gilt, color-printed patterned endpapers, all edges gilt. Copper-engraved portrait frontispiece, additional title page in Armenian, text printed in sixteen languages. Light shelfwear to vellum.
Price: $650.00
Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Latin and English, Translated by the Most Eminent Hands. With Historical Explications of the Fables by the Abbot Banier
Amsterdam: Printed for the Wetsteins and Smith, 1732. Two folio volumes, measuring 17.5 x 12 inches, continuously paginated: [24], 1-247, [1]; [2], 249-524, [4]. Contemporary full mottled calf rebacked, raised bands, spine compartments ruled in gilt, crimson and green morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, boards gilt-ruled with central gilt.....
Price: $7,000.00
A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
London: Baldwin, Craddock, and Joy, 1815. Two octavo volumes, measuring 8.25 x 5 inches: xv, [1], 391, [1]; iv, 390. Contemporary speckled calf, boards double-ruled in gilt, raised bands, spine compartments decorated in gilt, morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, all edges speckled red. Armorial bookplates of Frances Mary Richardson.....
Price: $1,800.00
Mirror for Magistrates (three volumes); WITH: The Palace of Pleasure (three volumes)
London: Printed for Lackington, Allen, and Co. Finsbury Square; and Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row; Reprinted for Robert Triphook, St. James's Street, by Harding and Wright, St. John's Square, 1815, 1813. Six quarto volumes, contemporary full brown crushed morocco gilt, gilt-ruled blindtooled boards, raised bands decorated in.....
Price: $7,500.00