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London: Hodder And Stoughton Limited, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. Light blue cloth with rondel portrait of a gentleman on white background in clear plastic over wrapper. Very good. 343 pages. 19 x 13 cm. This story is set in London, Venice, Vienna and Paris concerning two English brothers and their connection to a secret society planning the assassination… Read more about this item

Lexington, Ky: Anvil Press, 1954. Hardcover. Publisher plain cream boards with spine paper label printed in red. Fine. Unpaginated. 20.5 x 13.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 73 of 225 with text of the Chaucer Society First Series edited by F.J. Fournival from the manuscript in the Bodleian Library. Partly unopened. Jacob Hammer set the type in period English. Title page… Read more about this item

London & New York: Alf Cooke Ltd. & Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1901. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards and red cloth spine. Very good. Unpaginated. 29 x 23 cm. Full page color plates and black and white illustrations in the text. Bright, clean copy with interior contents sharp.

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1924. Hardcover. Three quarter red levant and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine. 481 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 20 of 25 on India Paper, "has been printed for presentation to friends." Title page in red and black, several engraved facsimiles including frontispiece and captioned tissue guards. Originally published 1705 as satire… Read more about this item

Paris: Goupil, 1900. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter maroon morocco. Teg. Near fine. 189 pages. Small folio, 32 x 25 cm. 47 black and white and color lithograph frontispiece of Leczinska and Le Daupin. All plates with lettered tissue guards. Limited edition, copy 49 of 1000 on Sur Papier A La Cuve. Ex-library. Bookplates of Marie-Louise Le Bel… Read more about this item

London: H.S. Nichols & Co, 1895. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth front cover gilt decorated, spine lettered in gilt and slightly darkened. Very good. 390 pages. 22.5 x 15 cm. Limited edition, one of 500 copies. Title page printed in red and black, frontispiece of Catherine II. Appendix. Mostly unopened. Presents customs and manners of the Russian… Read more about this item

North Sydney: The Macmillan Company of Australia, 1972. First edition. Stiff Wraps. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers. Fine. 118 pages. 25 x 24.5 cm. Illustrated mostly with color plates. Chronological Table. Maps. General Bibliography. Index.

London: Charles Harper & John Amery, 1674. The Second Edition much corrected & amended. leather_bound. Contemporary dark brown calf. Very good. (24) 686 pages (2). Engraved frontispiece. English translation by Edward Dacres. First published in 1640, this new edition, a readable and vigorous translation with a lively introduction, adumbrating the concept of "Machiavellian," a perceptive treatise on political leadership via… Read more about this item

Milan: Gio. Battista Bidelli, 1645. leather_bound. Contemporary full vellum, remants of spine label. Very good. 228 (32) (a4-c4). 25.5 x 19 cm. Two parts in one volume. Engraved title by Blanc, portrait of the author on front leaf. Folded map of Cremona, folded plan map dated 1583, six engravings on four folded plates of Cremona Cathedral, the Torrazzo. Magnificently illustrated… Read more about this item

New York: Vendome Press, 1997. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream basket weave cloth lettered in gilt. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 299 pages. 33 x 25.5 cm. Profusely illustrated in color -- maps and historical documents. The vast Spanish New World delineated. Bibliography. Index.

London: Charles Cox, 1847. First edition. Hardcover. Contemporary half calf and marbled boards. Very good. 272 pages. 38 x 26 cm. 12 colored full page engravings and a host of woodcuts -- multiple head shots of the notables described herein. Scattered toning mostly at margins and some offsetting of latter to text. Binding tight and firm. Wear to… Read more about this item

Mexico City: Banamex, 1999. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. mustard cloth lettered in blind. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 319 pages. 32 x 24 cm. Illustrated with color plates on high quality glossy stock (Phoenix Imperial crema semiate de 150 gramas). Articles by experts. Bibliography. Index of illustrations. Text in Spanish.

London: Richard Bentley, 1856. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter brown morocco, marbled boards and matching marbled endpapers. Fine. 202 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Mrs. Fitzherbert, a Catholic widow secretly married the Prince of Wales in 1785. George later denied it and married Princess Christina prompting something of a scandal and a good deal of "blimey". Mrs. Fitzpatrick… Read more about this item

Paris: Furne, Libraire-Editeur, 1855. Hardcover. Brown leather spine and brown cloth. Aeg. Near fine. 598 pages. 27 x 17 cm. Twenty four full page high quality steel engraved plates with tissue guards. Chapter headings with Initial letters, List of the Doges of Venice Text generally very clean and bright. scattered light toning to margins of front fold-out map… Read more about this item

Np: Frederick Arthur Crisp, 1915. First edition. Wraps. Orig. gray illustrated wrappers. Near fine. 30 pages. 20 x 15 cm. The author, a noted book collector, genealogist, printer and academic. Contents include Parish Registers, A List of Genealogical and other works entitled "Visitation Of England And Wales." Appears to be a self promotional work. Interior clean and fresh.… Read more about this item

Vercelli: White Star, 2001. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated boards. Fine in matching fine slipcase. 136 pages. 30.5 x 24.5 cm. Profusely illustrated in color on glossy stock with a few fold-outs. Text in English. Index.

London: Merrell, 2000. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth. Fine in fine dust wrapper. 288 pages. 30 x 26 cm. Profusely illustrated in black and white and color. Articles by experts. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Edinburgh: Archibald Constable And Company, 1818. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter blue morocco and marbled boards. Teg. Near fine. 344 pages. 19 x 11 cm. Included herein: trial of Andrew Wilson, William Hall, and George Robertson, before the High Court of Justiciary.; Authentic extract of the proceedings in the trial of Captain John Porteous.; Proceedings in the trial… Read more about this item

London: S W Fores, 1803. Wraps. Very Good. Wiiliams, Charles. 24 x 35.5 cm. Hand colored engraved print. Lord Moira (Rawdon), dressed as Rolla the Peruvian hero of Sheridan's 'Pizarro' (1799), stands in profile to the left, right arm extended in a declamatory gesture, left hand on his short sheathed sword. The barbaric dress, with bare brawny arms… Read more about this item

Worcester: Achille J. St. Onge, 1959. leather_bound. Orig. black morocco front cover lettered in gilt. Aeg. Fine. 30 pages. 7 x 5 cm. Half title. Frontispiece a tipped-in black and white photograph of JFK. Printed on Lutcetia type in an unstated limited edition by Joh. Enschede en Zonen, Haarlem, Holland. Marbled endpapers. As new copy.