Le Comte de Monte-Cristo. 1845 1846. Supplément au Journal « Le Siècle, 28 septembre 1845 au 1er février 1846 by ALEXANDRE DUMAS - 1845

Rome: Rochus Bernabo at the expense of Laurentii & Thomae Pagliarini, 1728. Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplates (47 full-page numbered but with pl 35 & 37 replaced in good facsimile) + nice large plate of public dissection on TP + 50 large woodcut initials with country & hunting scenes etc.. Folio (378x251mm) newer calf with 5 raised bands, spine compartments gilt, gilt rules, black label with gilt titling. Titlepage in red & black XXVIII +79pp +[x] index & publisher's catalogue + 47 leaves of plates ex collation but numbered in the plate 1-47 (a4 mistakenly bound after b4). Bookplate of Dr.F.A. Sondervorst on marbled endpapers. A clean wide margined copy, no tears, very unobtrusive pale foxing to a few pages, some pages rehinged at gutter, a few with marginal dusting/damp marks but not affecting printed area except in index. Pl.20 minor offsetting from facing text page. As usual without the unnumbered page meant to be cut out and used to rule the scale. Fine thick quality paper, impressions clear &… Read More

London: Albion Press Printed : Published by James Cundee, 1805. First Edition. Hardcover. xxiii, [1], 467, [9]pp index + 3pp of publisher's advertisements. Recent deep brown half calf, five raised bands, spine ruled, decorated and lettered in gold. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Frontispiece and eight engraved plates by J. Barlow after drawings by the author, letter facsimile, folding map of the island of St. Domingo, folding plan of the city of Cape Francois as it existed before the revolution. Includes A Succinct historical View of the Colonies of Hispaniola and St. Domingo, Origin of the Revolutionary Spirit of this Period in St. Domingo, Account of the Progress and Accomplishment of the Independence of St. Domingo, State of Manners on the Independence of the Blacks in St. Domingo, View of the Black Army, and of the War between the French Republic and the independent Blacks of St. Domingo, On the Establishment of a Black Empire, and more. Margins very slightly trimmed, faint stain to the verso… Read More

London: Printed for Iohn Grismand, 1621. First Edition. Hardcover. [26], 317 (but actually 315), [11], 182, 185-264, [12]pp. Recent chocolate brown half calf over marbled boards, blind tooling on the sides, spine with five raised bands, gold lettering and decorations. Engraved title in compartments representing the history of creation by Simon van de Passe, head-pieces, initials and tail-pieces, text enclosed in borders. Index and errata for the first and second week at end. The English translation of Simon Goulart's Commentaires et annotations sur la semaine de la création du monde de G. de Saluste, sieur du Bartas. Title page edges and fore edges of eleven leaves skillfully repaired. Sporadic foxing, an occasional spot and minor soiling, previous owner's name in ink on title. A very good copy. ; Folio.

London: Mr. Bowyer, Historic Gallery, Letter-press by T. Bensley, from Figgins's types., 1794. Hardcover. Very Good. Copperplates (29 views of India) drawn by Robert Home engraved by Hawksworth, Skelton et al. + folding Plans (3 of 4, lacks Plan of Bangalore).. Royal quarto (33.5x28.5cm) speckled leather spine gilt ruled with orange gilt spine title label. Covers of wood-grain marbled paper (edges rubbed with vellum tips showing). First leaf of Urdu script (facing titlepage), vii (inc. titlepage, dedication & Preface) +[1]p blank) +[1] leaf of Inscriptions (on monuments shown in Plate 7) + 48pp of text, with 12 leaves of Urdu script keyed to first page number of each section (versos blank) and 29 plates as called for, + folding Plan of Ootradoog, folding Plan of the Carnatic and Mysore drawn by M. Armstrong June 1792, and finally larger folding Plan showing position of Confederate Armies under Earl Cornwallis before Seringapatam in February 1792. Small repair without loss to 1 inch of this final… Read More

All the Year Round. A Weekly Journal. Volume 1. (Containing the first publishing of 'A Tale of Two Cities). From April 30, 1859 to October 22, 1859. Being from No 1 to No 26. All images are of the actual item. Library photographs are never used. Front board is present but detached. Some of the spine covering is missing but pages are all tight to the spine. Marks to boards. Bumping/rubbing to edges/corners. Pages are on the whole clean and bright throughout with some foxing to endpapers and lightly intermittent throughout. No inscriptions. No missing pages. No loose pages. Pages are in Very Good condition. Very scarce. Please view the photographs for more information. All items will be posted within 1 to 2 working days after payment has been received. Items are guaranteed to be very well packaged prior to postage. Tracking details will be forwarded to the purchaser.

Zurich: Christoffel Froschouer 1st edition, 1556. Hardcover. Good. Woodcuts (104), many first used in the Schweizer-Chronik of 1548 with scenes of battles, sieges of cities, convocations, portraits &c. . Small folio (29.4 x 19.5mm) in sixes, 19th century half-calf with marbled boards, spine labels with gilt title in French and date 1556 (edges worn, labels chipped). Titlepage with woodcut printer's mark, 2 leaves (A2-A3) dedication & argument + CXXXVII leaves of German text, illustrated with woodcuts throughout. Lacks 7 preliminary leaves (Sources A4, Register B-B6) and one final blank leaf, otherwise collated complete. Title and the 2 preliminary leaves have small edge-tears and are re-hinged on newer paper stubs, text pages mostly clean and crisp with occasional small marks and light browning. Bookplates: "ex Libris Ludovic Blondin" and armorial "Friedemann Graf und Herr von Werthern". *Rare early Protestant treatise intended to show the harmful effects of Papacy, partly based on sources collected… Read More

Paris (Lutetiae): Robertus Stephanus Cum privilegio Regis, 1551. Hardcover. Very Good. Nice Estienne printer's device on titlepage of basilisk wound round vine and floral headpiece and initial on first page of life of Pompey the Great.. Small quarto (23.5x14mm) half 19th century morocco on 5 bands gilt ruled with Greek title and brown marbled boards, marbled endpapers with neat Greek Athens bookseller's label, 357pp +[3]pp Variae Lectiones & Errata. Beautifully clean and crisp, handsome Greek typography. *Editio princeps of the epitome of Dio's Roman history, abridged in the 11th century by Joannes Xiphilinus, the only source for Dio's lost books 61-80, dealing with events from 47 B.C. to 235 A.D. Robert Estienne issued this epitome to compliment his folio edition of Dio Cassius of 1548. Printed in the gros-romain font of the "grecs du roi", cut by Claude Garamond.

London: Day & Son 1866. (Hardcover) 842pp. Good to very good. Original cloth with illustrations and titles in gilt. 21 chromolithographs (including 2 folding maps). 9 woodcut engravings in the text. Presentation inscription dated 1868 on the front endpaper of each volume, the covers are worn at the corners and ends of the spine, there is some spotting to the plates and a few pages, some dampstaining to the covers. In mylar wrappers. Also known as Augustus F. Lindley. Locale: China. (Military, Military, Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Taiping Rebellion--1850-64).

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1914. 1st Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Good-Box. Jessie Willcox Smith. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 1st edition. A Near Fine copy, in Good box. Oblong 4to., 173 pp., illustrated with a color frontispiece and 16 color and b&w plates; text further illustrated with drawings. Bound in black cloth with title on the spine in white; color illustration pasted onto the front board. Housed in the publisher's card stock box, with illustrated edges and printed publisher information. An excellent copy, with just a hint of wear to the spine lettering. The box has been reinforced on all edges with tape (see photo). A beautiful copy, Near Fine in the Good publisher's box. *** The classic work illustrated by perhaps the finest illustrator from the Golden Age of Illustration. Jessie Willcox Smith illustrated numerous books of the era, and did every cover work for Good Housekeeping from 1917 to 1933. She was only the second women to be inducted into The Hall of Fame of the Society of… Read More

London: Printed by Stephen Couchman, For W. Curtis, 1793. First edition thus. Leather. Very Good. 1st edition, thus. Volume 1 only. A Very Good copy. 8vo., with engraved frontispiece and 40 hand coloured plates. Bound in half red morocco and marbled paper over boards, with title on spine in gilt. 3 front blank end papers, 5 blank rear end papers. Handsome bookplate. Boards lightly rubbed, spine more so. Front paste down foxed. Frontispiece dampstained, transferring to a lesser degree to the title page. Text and plates generally clean, with occasional off-setting and a dot of foxing. A Very Good copy. *** Originally issued in monthly parts, each consisting of three plates and accompanying letterpress text: this edition a reprint in annual volumes. Text leaves are bound facing the plates they describe and numbered to correspond to that plate. Drawings for the plates were made by: James Sowerby, Sydenham Edwards and Francis Sansom; coloring supervised by William Graves.*** Bookplate of known book… Read More