London: C. Whittingham for the Religious Tract Society, 1835. London: C. Whittingham at the Chiswick Press for the Religious Tract Society, [n.d.c.a. 1835]. Sixteenth edition. (32 x 25 mm). Lacking all but a small piece of title-page, laid in. Full limp purple morocco. Boards ruled in gilt, spine stamped in.....
London: [By [John Charlewood and] George Robinson] for Thomas Cadman, 1587. GOLDING, Arthur, [translator]. SIDNEY, Sir Philip, [translator]. A Woorke concerning the trewnesse of the Christian Religion Written in French. Against Atheists, Epicures, Paynims, Jewes, Mahumetists, and other Infidels. By Philip of Mornay Lord of Plessie Marlie. Begunne to be.....
London: Printed by J.G. for R. Royston, 1657. "The first example of French prose as we know it today"—PMM [PASCAL, Blaise]. Les Provinciales: Or, The Mysterie of Jesuitisme. Discover'd in certain Letters, Written upon occasion of the present differences of Sorbonne, between the Jansenists and the Molinists, from January 1656.....
Basileae: Sebastianum Henricpetri, 1587. editor]. [Johannes Reuchlin, Paolo Riccio, Leo Hebraeus, Archangelus de Burgo Novo Gikatila and the Sepher Yetzirah, contributors]. Artis Cabalisticae: Hoc Est, Recondite Theologiae Et Philosophiae, Scriptorum. Tomus I. In quo Pauli Ricii Theologicos & Philosopicos libros sunt Latini pene omnes & Hebraei nonnulli praestantissimi Scriptores, qui.....
London: J. Wilford, 1733. Two Large-Paper Copies of An Essay on Man [POPE, Alexander]. An Essay on Man. Address'd to a Friend. Part I. London: J. Wilford, [1733]. First edition. Large paper copy, first issue according to Wise (second issue according to Griffith). Folio (14 3/4 x 9 3/8 inches;.....
[Lamoni, Iowa?]: I.L. Rogers, E. Robinson, 1882. Translated and Corrected by the Spirit of Revelation. [Lamoni, Iowa?]: I.L. Rogers, E. Robinson, 1867, [1882]. Second edition of Joseph Smith's revision of the Bible, often called the "Inspired Version." Thick twelvemo. 917, 286 pp. Original brown pebbled cloth, gilt-stamped spine. Front hinge.....
Liverpool: Published by F.D. Richards, 1851. First edition. Octavo. 56 pp. Contemporary quarter black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-stamped spine. Complete with all three plates, including a three-part folding plate. Covers rubbed and corners bumped. Some foxing, very faint water stain to bottom right corner of the first few pages.....
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1954. A Beautiful Example of an Early Philip Smith Designer Binding. [SMITH, Philip, binder]. Gurdjieff, G.I. All and Everything. Ten Books, in Three Series, of which this is the First Series. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, 1952. [Binding: 1954]. Second impression of Gurdjieff’s.....
Tubingen: Osiander, 1835. Tubingen: Osiander, 1835-36. First edition of this important work. Two octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 195 x 124 mm). xvi, 731, [1], [2, publisher’s ads]; xii, 750, [2, errata] pp. Publisher’s blind-ruled and beveled black cloth, spines with central gilt arabesques surrounding the gilt.....
London: Printed for John Nutt, 1704. Written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, An Account of a Battel between the Antient and Modern Books in St. James's Library. London: Printed for John Nutt, 1704. Full Description: [SWIFT, Jonathan]. A Tale of a Tub. Written for the.....
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1919. Saint Joan of Arc. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, [1919]. First edition, first issue (with the illustration on p. 18 in correct position and endpapers printed in green.) Octavo (9 3/16 x 7 inches; 234 x 179 mm). [xiii], [1, blank], [2].....
Sydney: Printed by Albert Mason, 1852. Sydney: Printed by Albert Mason, [n.d.c.a.1852]. First edition. Octavo (8 1/8 x 5 5/16 inches; 208 x 135 mm). [1]-64 pp. From what we can find, no other copy has appeared at auction since 1967. In 1957, Sotheby's described this book as "extremely rare.".....
London: Printed for James Adamson, 1689. First Edition of the First Part of this Pamphlet, Called "A Brief Historical Account of the Behaviour of the Jesuites" [WATSON, William]. [BLUET, Thomas]. A Brief Historical Account of the Behaviour of the Jesuites. and Their Faction, for the First Twenty Five Years of.....
London: John Wesley, 1781. . Sacred Harmony. or a Choice Collection of Psalms and Hymns, Set to Music in Two and Three Parts for the Voice, Harpsichord & Organ. [London: John Wesley, n.d.c.a. 1781]. First edition (?). Baker's Variant A with the "T. Bennett sculp. Holborn Hill" printed on the.....
New York: Reprinted forGeo. P. Philes, 1867. The Bhagvat-Geeta, or Dialogues of Kreeshna and Arjoon. New York: Reprinted forGeo. P. Philes at the Bradstreet Press, 1867. First American Edition of Wilkins’ translation and one of 261 copies for subscribers printed from the original London edition of 1785. Octavo (9 1/2.....
London: Printed at the Sign of The Grasshopper, by Unwin Brothers, The Gresham Press. 1877. [WYCLIFFE, John]. A New Biblia Pauperum. Being Thirty-Eight Woodcuts Illustrating the Life, Parables & Miracles of Our Blessed Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ, With the Proper Descriptions thereof, extracted from the Translation of the New.....