April SALE! All books in the Books on Books, Canadian & Arctic History, European History and Languges, Latin American History, and Maritime sections priced at $125 and under are 50% off for the month of April.
This sale excludes artists' books, private press, lots, books on William Morris & the Pre-Raphaelites, items sold on consignment, and newly acquired items.
Many prints & manscripts including framed items are also on sale for 30% off.
Links to each sale section are below:
Books on Books
Canada & the Arctic
Central & South American History
Eastern European History
English History | English Biography | English Monarchy
French History | French Language
General History | Ancient History
German History | German Language
Greek History | Roman History
Italian History | Italian Language
Irish & Scottish History
Maritime History
Medieval History | Renaissance History
Scandinavian History
Spanish & Portuguese History
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Grolier Club, 1894. Paperback. Good+ 16mo. Brown paper wrappers with red & black title to front panel. Wrappers are somewhat chipped and browned. Rear panel is detached but could easily be repaired. Interior is clean with bright text and B&W frontis. 33 pages. BOB/052704. Good +. More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. Hardcover. New. Fine in fine illustrated dust jacket with yellow spine panel and grey title to spine. Index, 315 pages. SOAMER/072610. Fine in Fine Dust Jacket. More
Berlin: 1927. Paperback. Number 41 of 100 copies. SCARCE. Very good in oblong yellow patterned paper wrappers with black title to front cover. Light foxing to front cover. Unbound as issued. Clean interior. 22 pages. In German. GER309251. Very Good. More
London: Metropolis (Antiquarian Books) Ltd., 1984. Paperback. Number 153 of 255 copies. Stiff gray papers wrappers with black title to spine and front cover. Lower corner lightly bumped, otherwise fine. First edition. 24 pages. BOB/111716. Fine. More
Nijkerk: G.F. Callenbach N.V. Hardcover. 8vo. Very good in light blue cloth covered boards with black title to spine. Minor fading to spine. Interior is clean and bright with full color illustrations. 379 pages. Dutch. DUT110041. Very Good. More
Leipzig and Berlin: Wilhelm Friedrich, 1885. Hardcover. 8vo. Three quater dark brown leather with marble paper covered boards with gilt title on black title label to spine. Gilt floral devices to spine. Minor edgewear and light rubbing to boards. Beautiful gold and black patterned end pages. Book plate of I. H. Epstein to front paste down. Interior is clean and bright, aside from pencil marking on title page. Full marbled edges. An attractive book. IN GERMAN. 219 pages. German Language. GERLANG/092508. Very Good. More
Trieste: Societa Editrice della Rivista, 1926. Paperback. Oversize beige paper wrappers with red title to spine and front cover. Crease to spine and minor browning to covers. Short closed tear to head of spine. Clean interior. 221 pages. In Italian. ITA110111. Very Good. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1939. Hardcover. Very Good+ brick red cloth covered boards with with gilt lettering to black label on front board and to spine. Frontis portrait of Pepys. English Biography. ENGBIO/2043. Very Good+. More
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1935. Hardcover. Near fine red boards with bright black and gilt title on front and spine; index; frontispiece; 457 pp. ex libris. Early British History. ENGBIO/10162. Near Fine. More
MacMillan, 1935. Hardcover. NF in NF DJ. Frontispiece and several illustrations. English History. ENGHIST15/0522. Near Fine. More
London: Collins, (1949). Hardcover. Very good+ in very good illustrated dust jacket with black title to front and spine panels. Minor wear to top edge of dust jacket. English Biography. ENGHIST23/0522. Very Good+ / Very Good. More
Garden City: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1970. Hardcover. Very good in very good minus white illustrated dust jacket. Minor rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Chipping to head of spine and small closed tear to bottom edge of rear panel. Interior is pristine with frontis. Index, 367 pages. 20th Century England. ENG/1103. Very Good / Very Good Minus. More
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1970. Hardcover. A comprehensive compilation of more than 2,600 writings about Dickinson between 1850-1968. Bound in dark green cloth in bright pink dust jacket with title to spine. Very good in chipped, price clipped dust jacket. 322 pages. BOB/102016. Very Good / Very Good Minus. More
Edizioni dello Zibaldone, 1951. Paperback. Number 72 of 100 in serie 11a with signature of the author in pencil. Very good in grey paper wrappers with red title to front cover. Browning to spine and edges of covers. No title to spine, but there is a number "2" in printed in red. Minor browning to margins of interior pages, else clean and bright. Pages are unopened. 62 pages. ITA/062615. Very Good. More
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1960. Hardcover. 12mo. Very good in grey clothcovered boards with gilt title to spine. Minor fading to spine and edges. Interior is clean and bright. In original clear mylar price clipped dust jacket. Small open tear to top edge of jacket. 30 pages. Books on Books. BOB2/3252. Very Good. More
New York: Dover Publications, 1959. Hardcover. 8vo. Brown cloth boards with blue title to spine. Clean, tight interior with many fold out maps. Green dust jacket with black title to spine. Minor fading to spine of jacket and minor wear to edges. Index, 743 pages. Geography. GEO/050406. Fine in Very Good dj. More
Cleveland: The World Syndicate Publishing Company, 1939. Hardcover. 8vo. Grey cloth boards with title pastedown to spine and front boards. Slight bump to spine ends; very small tear to head of spine. Interior is very clean with many B&W plates. Tight binding. Orange and black dj with wear/creasing to edges. Chipping to spine ends of jacket. Small open tear to spine of jacket. Price-clipped jacket. 240 pp. PSY/020205. Very Good in Very Good Minus dj. More
19th century. Hardcover. 12mo. From the English of John Bunyan, this is a German version of Pilgrim's Progress. Very good+ in beautiful brown full-leather covered boards. Gilt title and gilt ruling to spine. frontis. Foxing throughout though text is bright. 232 pages. German, text in fraktur. GER210021. Very Good+. More
London and Wolfeboro, New Hampshire: Grant & Cutler, 1986. Paperback. SCARCE. 8vo. Fine in bright lime green paper wrappers with black title to front wrapper and to spine. 76 pages. BOB/090315. Fine. More
Leipzig: R.F. Ulbrecht, 1882. Hardcover. Second edition. Front board, German account of Stanley's travels through Africa. Red cloth spine with illustrated paper covered boards. Gilt title to spine and white title to front cover. Spine ends have been restored with modern cloth. Split to cloth along rear hinge. Minor wear to edges of boards. Color frontispiece. Previous owner stamp to front cover and to several pages. Front endpapers are very soiled, pages are somewhat brittle but readable, small chips to edges of some pages, browning to pages. Cracked hinges. 157 pages. German language. GER1008281. Very Good. More
New York: Dover Publications, 2002. Paper Wrappers. 8vo. In illustrated tan paper wrappers. Interior is clean and bright. 382pp. MARI/100504. Near Fine. More
Port Washington: Kennikat Press, (1973). Hardcover. Fine in green cloth covered boards with black title to spine. Pristine interior. First published in 1924. Index, 159 pages. History. HIS109271. Fine. More
London: Chapman and Hall, 1852. Hardcover. Ex-library from W. Wilson Moffat's English, French, and Italian Circulating Library, Edinburgh. According to his bookplate, Mr. Moffat was a bookseller, printer, and binder. His bookplate in the front of both volumes and the number 77 in ink on the front pastedown are the only evidence that this was part of a circulating library. Very good in original maroon cloth boards with gilt titles to spines and embossed decoration to spines and boards. Minor wear to edges of boards. Both bindings are slightly rolled. Clean interiors with only a few light smudge marks and notes in pencil on the rear free endpage of volume one. 310 pages in volume 1; 319 pages in volume 2. SCOT/061311 This set may require an extra shipping fee. Very Good. More
Basel: Buchdruckerei der National Zeitung AG, 1936. Paperback. SCARCE. Very good in yellow wraps, a bit faded around the edges with black title to front cover. Chipping to spine, pen mark to rear cover, and small chip to front cover. This copy belonged to Ottokar Weiss, an associate of James Joyce - with Weiss's ownership inscription dated 1941. Includes charts. 97 pages. German. GER1/01191. Very Good. More
München: Friedr. Bassermann, 1943. Very good in yellow paper covered boards with brown cloth spine titled in black. Black title and light foxing to front cover. Minor wear to edges of boards. Minor browning to edges of pages and occasional smudge marks to interior. Includes109 illustrations. In German. GER31212. Very Good. More