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Parker, Robert B. The Godwulf Manuscript.
Boston Houghton Mifflin Company 1974 First Edition Hardcover
186pp. Brown decorated cloth lettered in gold on the spine panel. The first mystery featuring Spenser. A fine copy in near fine dustjacket with a hint of wear to the edges and mild rubbing to front panel. ; Octavo
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400.00 USD
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Pas, Crispijn van de Hortus Floridus in quo rariorum & minus vulgarium florum Icones ad vivam veramque formam accuratissime delineatae.
Arnhem Ioannem Ianssonium 1614-7 First Edition Hardcover
Five parts in one volume. Text in Latin. Contemporary full brown calf with five raised bands, gold lettering and gold decorations on the spine, edges stained red, marbled pastedown endpapers. Leaves measure 27 x 17.5 cm. Calf shows some wear but overall in very good condition, the corner of one leaf is torn. The book was professionally restored. There are many differences between copies of this title which differ in number of plates included. Unless otherwise specified the title pages, etc., follow the copy catalogued in Hunt Botanical Catalogue 199. This copy is as follows: BOOK I. VER. i. Title page (blank on verso); ii. Hepatica flore niveo w/ engraved garden on verso; iii. 51 numbered plates - plates #10 and 25 have been excised -- the last description in Latin is numbered 52. BOOK II. AESTAS. i. Title page - Differs slightly from Hunt - with Arnhemi - Ex Officina Ioannis Ianszonij, Anno 1617 (Index Aestivus on verso); ii. Paeonia w/ engraved garden on verso; iii. 20 numbered plates - last leaf is blank on recto. BOOK III. AUTUMNUS. i. Title page (blank on verso); ii. Clematidis altera species w/ engraved garden on verso; iii. 28 plates numbered as follows: number 1 to 11, number 13 to 23, number 12, number 25 (Narcissus marinis), number 24 (Crocus byzantinus), number 25 (Bulbus narcisci marini), Radix cyclamini (marked #13 and 14), Hyacintus germ. (marked d.12 - this is actually part of the Hyems and was bound here incorrectly); iv. Epigramma (blank on verso). BOOK IV. HYEMS. (title page lacking); i.Chamelaea laureola with engraved garden on verso; ii. 12 numbered plates (for plate d.12 see above). BOOK V. ALTERA PARS. i. Title page with Ad Lectorem on verso; ii. Engraved plate Cognoscite Lilia; iii. 61 numbered plates (missing #53) - names of almost all plants inscribed in Latin, French, English and German; Finis Coronat Opus printed on verso of last plate. "Blunt calls this the most celebrated and influential of early florilegia, and one of the finest." Hunt 199. S. Savage The Hortus Floridus of Crispijn vande Pas the Younger, in Trans. of the Bibliog. Soc., N.S., Vol. IV, No. 3, Dec., 1923.; Oblong quarto
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10250.00 USD
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Peabody, Richard R. The Common Sense of Drinking
Boston Little, Brown and Company 1937 Hardcover
Later printing. Red cloth stamped in yellow and black on front panel and black on spine panel. Tiny spots to cloth on front panel, spine panel is faded, endpapers and text block mildly toned. A clean very good+ copy. ; Octavo
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1850.00 USD
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Philips, Katherine Poems. To Which Is Added Monsieur Corneilles, Pompey & Horace, Tragedies. With Several Other Translations out of French.
London Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringman 1678 Hardcover
[34], 198, [8], 124pp. Recent green full calf, sides decorated in blind, spine with four raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold, edges sprinkled red. Engraved portrait frontispiece. Early 18th century signature on the flyleaf. Tiny corner tear to one of the leaves else a bright, fine copy.; Folio
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3000.00 USD
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Picasso, Pablo Guernica.
New York Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers 1990 First Edition Hardcover
42 preliminary studies on paper reproduced in facsimile. Introduction and commentaries by Marie-Laure Bernadac, curator of the Picasso Museum of Paris. There is a short tear to the passe-partout of one of the images else fine in the original slipcase that is also in fine condition. ; Folio
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1100.00 USD
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Poe, Edgar Allan The Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe.
New York Society of English and French Literature 1902 First Edition Hardcover
Seventeen volumes. Limited to 1000 copies. Original tan cloth with paper labels affixed to the spines. Edited by James A. Harrison. Neat bookplates on the front pastedown endpapers. Spines uniformly toned, light overall wear. A near fine set. ; Octavo
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1000.00 USD
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Poe, Edgar Allan The Purloined Letter in The Gift: A Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Present. MDCCCXLV. (1845).
Philadelphia Carey and Hart 1845 First Edition Hardcover
The first appearance of the Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, later published in Tales. 300pp. Publisher's full red morocco richly decorated in gold on the covers and the spine, all edges gilt. Frontispiece, title portrait and six inserted plates with tissue guards. Other contributions by Henry W. Longfellow, R. W. Emerson, Joseph C. Neal, et al. Light wear to spine ends and corner tips, minor scattered foxing. An appealing copy. BAL 16143. Heartman and Canny, p. 88. ; Octavo
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2000.00 USD
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Poe, Edgar Allan The Purloined Letter in The Gift: A Christmas, New Year, and Birthday Present. MDCCCXLV. (1845).
Philadelphia Carey and Hart 1845 First Edition Hardcover
The first appearance of the Purloined Letter by Edgar Allan Poe, later published in Tales. 300pp. Publisher's full black calf richly decorated in gold on the covers and the spine, all edges gilt. Frontispiece, title portrait and six inserted plates with tissue guards. Other contributions by Henry W. Longfellow, R. W. Emerson, Joseph C. Neal, et al. Some wear to extremities, a couple of short closed tears to the spine panel, light scattered foxing, first signature loose. A good+ copy. BAL 16143. Heartman and Canny, p. 88. ; Octavo
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950.00 USD
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Powys, T. F. Mr Weston's Good Wine.
London Chatto & Windus 1927 First Edition Hardcover Signed by Author
Edition limited to 660 numbered copies. Signed by Powys on the limitation page. 315pp. Black cloth lettered in gold on the spine. Drawings by George Charlton. With the bookplate of S. K. Poole on the front pastedown endpaper. Old stain to the rear free endpaper partially affecting the last leaf. A very good+ copy in very good + dustjacket with toning to edges and spine panel and very minute chipping to the upper edge. ; Octavo; Signed by Author
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200.00 USD
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