Sign in
Register
notifications_none notifications Alerts

We found 118894 price guide item(s) matching your search

Refine your search

Year

Filter by Price Range
  • List
  • Grid
  • 118894 item(s)
    /page

Bellmans
Lot 618

BAUM (L.F.) The Patchwork Girl of Oz. First Edition (early printing). coloured pictorial half title, frontis. & num. text illus. (incl. 20 full-page & coloured); coloured pictorial cloth & coloured pictorial e/ps. (by J. R. Neill), roy. 8vo. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1913; together with BAUM (L.F.) The Land of Oz: a sequel to The Wizard of Oz. First Edition (early printing). 16 coloured plates & num. b/w. text illus. (some full page); coloured pictorial cloth & pictorial e/ps. (by John R. Neill), roy. 8vo. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1904. Illustrated

More details

Bellmans
Lot 619

BAUM (L.F.) The Road to Oz. First Edition (early printing). pictorial half title / frontis. & num. other b/w. illus., some full-page (by John R. Neill); pictorial coloured cloth & pictorial e/ps., roy. 8vo. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1909: together with these other first editions in the series - Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (1908); Ozma of Oz (1907); Tik-Tok of Oz (1914) Illustrated

More details

Bellmans
Lot 620

BAUM (L.F.) The Emerald City of Oz. First Edition (early printing) 16 coloured plates & num. other illus.; coloured pictorial illus. mounted on upper cover, coloured pictorial e/ps., roy. 8vo. Chicago: The Reilly & Britton Co., 1910; sold with 3 other editions in this series.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 624

[BONNEFONS, Nicholas de] The French Gardiner: instructing how to Cultivate all sorts of Fruit Trees, and Herbs for the Garden . . . translated into English, by John Evelyn . . . whereunto is annexed, The English Vineyard Vindicated, by John Rose . . . First English Edition. pictorial engraved & printed titles, 4 plates (1 folded) & English Vineyard title; rebound gilt-ruled speckled calf with panelled spine, sm. 8vo. 1669. * the English Vineyard has been published separately in 1666. Illustrated

More details

Bellmans
Lot 635

ORWELL (G.) Animal Farm: a fairy story. First Edition. half title; green cloth & d/wrapper, sm. 8vo. Secker & Warburg, 1945. * first issue - with 'Searchlight Books' d/wrapper, & 'Early List' advert. on back portion. Illustrated

More details

Bellmans
Lot 649

MILNE (A.A.) Winnie-the-Pooh. First Edition. num. illus. (by E.H. Shepard), half title; gilt-pictorial cloth, pictorial e/ps., d/wrapper, sm. cr. 8vo. 1926; together with the author's Now We Are Six (1927) & The House At Pooh Corner (1928), first editions in same format.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 651

POTTER (B.) The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes. First Edition (1st or 2nd printing). coloured illus. throughout, half title; original white-lettered brown paper boards, coloured pictorial illus. mounted on upper board, coloured pictorial e/ps., sm. 8vo. Frederick Warne and Co., 1911; POTTER (B.) The Tale of Pigling Bland. First Edition (1st or 2nd printing). coloured illus. throughout, half title, original white-ruled, decorated & lettered maroon paper boards, coloured pictorial illus. mounted on upper board, coloured pictorial e/ps., sm. 8vo. Frederick Warne & Co., 1913; together with early printngs of 2 other titles in the series.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 653

MALET (Capt.) Annals of the Road or Notes on Mail and Stage Coaching in Great Britain . . . First Edition. 10 colour lithographed plates, text illus., errata slip; gilt-pictorial cloth. 1876; together with an attractive miscellany of interesting books.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 659

BETAGH (Capt. Wm.) A Voyage Round the World. Being an account of a remarkable enterprize, begun in the year 1719, chiefly to cruise on the Spaniards in the Great South Ocean . . . First Edition. folded plate & 1 text illus.; rebound half calf & marbled boards, gilt-ruled & panelled spine, sm. cr. 8vo. 1728. * i.e. George Shelvocke's official privateering expedition; Betagh (his capt. of marines) causing his arrest for attempting to defraud the major shareholders in the affair of their rightful share of the (considerable) prize money. Illustrated

More details

Bellmans
Lot 664

SHAW (H.) Dresses & Decorations of the Middle Ages. First Edition, 2 vols., numerous coloured plates & other illus.; gilt red half morocco & marbled boards, panelled spines, marbled e/ps. William Pickering, 1843; another set (same date, inferior binding).

More details

Bellmans
Lot 665

[WILKES, J.] The North Briton. To which is added . . . the Letters which passed between the Rt. Hon. Earl Talbot, & c. and John Wilkes . . . First Dublin Edition, 3 vols. contemp. calf-backed marbled boards, gilt-ruled spines & red labels, 12mo. 1763. * vol. 3 - 'printed for E. Sumpter; Dublin: reprinted . . . by the Booksellers, 1763'; the journal founded 1762 to attack the King's Scottish favourite, Lord Bute.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 666

LEWIS (C.S.) Hamlet: the Prince or the Poem? Annual Shakespeare Lecture of the British Academy, 1942. First Edition. 18pp. original printed wrappers. (1942). * 'from the Proceedings of the British Academy. Volume xxviii . . . '; inscribed by author on upper wrapper to C.J. Sisson (the much regarded Shakespearean scholar) together with (addressed to him) a contemp. 35 line especially relevant note ('May 21st 42 - Magdalen') from the author; at the time Sisson was Lord Northcliffe Professor in Modern English Literature at UCL., & also editor of The Modern Language Review. Illustrated

More details

Bellmans
Lot 668

JAMES (P.D.) The Black Tower. First Edition. d/wrapper, cr. 8vo. 1975. * author's contemp. inscription; together with 7 others by this author (some inscribed).

More details

Bellmans
Lot 672

RATHBONE (Aaron) - The Surveyor in Foure bookes. First Edition. engraved pictorial title (by Wm. Hole), portrait of the author & portrait of Charles, Prince of Wales (the dedicatee), num. text diagrams, headpiece decorations, contemp. gilt & blind-ruled decorated calf, panelled spine & gilt emblematic device on covers, 4to. printed by W. Stansby for, W: Burre, 1616. * i.e. Bookes 1 - 3 only, the fourth being concerned with legal & manorial issues; an important & influential text; one apparently being taken on the 'Mayflower' to the New World. Illustrated

More details

Bellmans
Lot 674

KIPLING (R.) The Second Jungle Book. First Edition. num. illus. (by J. Lockwood Kipling); pictorial gilt cloth. 1895; together with 12 other illustrated books.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 680

GOSSE (P.H.) The Birds of Jamaica. First Edition. advert. leaf, errata slip; gilt-lettered & blind-decorated cloth, cr. 8vo. 1847. * author's contemp. inscription on title.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 685

YOUNG (A.) A Six Weeks Tour, through the Southern Counties of England and Wales . . . with descriptions and models of such invented Implements of husbandry as deserve to be generally known . . . First Edition. half title, text engravings; rebound polished calf, panelled spine with red labels. 1768. * includes East Anglia; with notes on manufactures, etc.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 688

HUTCHINS (Rev. J.) The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset . . . First Edition, 2 vols. folded map, 59 other plates & plans, 10 folded tables & some text engravings; rebound 20th cent. blind-tooled calf, panelled spines gilt-lettered direct, folio. 1774. * old Sparks family ownership names on titles; assidously prepared from local & other records - including those in Oxford, London & the diocesan registry in Salisbury. Providentially, prior to publication the author's uncompleted ms. & notes were saved from a disastrous fire at his Wareham rectory.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 692

[BOURGEVIN DE VIALART, C.E., Comte de St. Morys] Voyage Pittoresque de Scandinavie . . . First Edition. 24 sepia aquatint plates; (?) contemp. morocco-backed gilt boards, 4to. (for the Author, by G & W. Nicol, 1802). * very scarce; noticed, though not described in Brunet - possibly in this Revolutionary period there was no French edition as such.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 699

FORSTER (E.M.) Alexandria: a history and a guide. First Edition. frontis., 2 folded plans, a folded, coloured plan in end pocket & several full-page text illus.; printed buff paper boards, sm. 8vo. Alexandria: Whitehead Morris, 1922. Illustrated

More details

Bellmans
Lot 710

MILTON (J.) Joannis Miltoni Angli Artis Logicae Plenoir Institutio, Ad Petri Rami Methodum concinnata . . . First Edition. decorated initial letters & headpieces, errata leaf, (lacks the 2 initial blanks - the 2nd with portrait on verso); old calf (distressed), 12mo. impensis Spencer Hickmann . . . 1672. * one of the author's 2 pedagogical texts published towards the end of his life.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 714

JOHNSON (S.) The Rambler. (new edition), 4 vols. contemp. tree calf, gilt-decorated spines with red labels. 1798; together with JOHNSON (S.) A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. contemp. mottled calf, gilt-decorated & panelled spine, 12mo. Dublin, 1775. * published same year as the first (London) edition.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 735

ROWLING (J.K.) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. First Edition. half title, pictorial boards & d/wrapper (by Jason Cockcroft), med. 8vo. Bloomsbury, 2003. * signed by author on title.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 736

ROWLING (J.K.) The Tales of Beedle the Bard . . . Amazon Edition. text decorations & other illus.; imitation morocco with metal embellishments, marbled effect e/ps., sm. 8vo., contained in a large box with fitted interior, folio. 2008; sold with The Harry Potter boxed set (in paperback, of the first 3 titles), pictorial card slipcase, (ca. 2000)

More details

Bellmans
Lot 742

RACKHAM (A.), illustrator. Peer Gynt: a dramatic poem by Henrik Ibsen. First Trade Edition. 12 coloured plates (with captioned guards), text illus., gilt-pictorial cloth, pictorial e/ps., 4to. 1936; sold with 2 others by this artist - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1st trade edition, 1907) & Wagner's Ring of the Niblung (1st trade edition, 1939).

More details

Bellmans
Lot 750

WALTON (I.) The Lives of Dr. Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr. Richard Hooker, Mr. George Herbert. To which are added some Letters written by Mr. George Herbert . . . First Edition. 4 engraved portraits, part titles; neatly rebound mottled half calf & marbled boards, panelled spine with red label, sm. cr. 8vo. 1670

More details

Bellmans
Lot 751

WALTON (I.) The Life of Mr. Rich. Hooker . . . First Edition. imprimatur & errata leaves; old blind-ruled calf, later rebacked with panelled spine, sm. 8vo. 1665. * later issued with the author's 'Lives' (1670), see LOT 750.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 753

(EGAN, Pierce) Real Life in London . . . exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners, and amusements in high and low life. By An Amateur. First Edition, 2 vols., engraved pictorial coloured titles, pictorial printed titles & 32 hand-coloured plates; gilt-ruled red levant morocco, gilt-decorated & panelled spines, generous gilt turn-ins, g.e. & marbled boards (by Riviere). 1821.

More details

Bellmans
Lot 754

CAREY (D.) Life in Paris; comprising the rambles, sprees, and amours, of Dick Wildfire . . . including sketches of a variety of other eccentric characters in the French metropolis. First Edition. engraved pictorial title, 21 hand-coloured plates (by Cruikshank), text illus.; rebound gilt-ruled red levant morocco, gilt-decorated & panelled spine, g.e., generous gilt turn-ins & marbled e/ps. (by Riviere). 1822

More details

Bellmans
Lot 765

AMSINCK (P.) Tunbridge Wells, and its Neighbourhood, illustrated by a series of etchings, and historical descriptions. First Edition. 31 engraved plates & 12 pictorial vignette text illus., subscriber's list & half title; contemp. gilt-decorated half calf & marbled boards, 4to. 1810.

More details

Arthur Johnson & Sons Auctioneers
Lot 756

One volume, a 1752 edition of Le Parfait Negociant - The Perfect Negotiator, by Jacques Savary in 1675, recovered, first page a/f

More details

Potteries Auctions
Lot 744

Marilyn Sweet, A book "Collecting Beswick" , A guide to Horses, Ponies and Foals, no 2 and signed and The Charlton price guide to Beswick Animals first edition, signed by Marilyn & Peter Sweet and John & Diana Callow (2)

More details

Potteries Auctions
Lot 847

The Blampied edition of Peter Pan, published by Hodder & Stoughton. First Edition 1939 with 12 colour plates. A nice clean copy with clean bright boards protected by loose brown paper covering.

More details

Potteries Auctions
Lot 851

Three Harry Potter J K Rowling first edition hardback books - The Half Blood Prince, The Order of the Phoenix and The Deathly Hallows.

More details

Potteries Auctions
Lot 939

Wedgwood & Bentley prestige First Days two handled vase gold on blue Jasper. Boxed, limited edition of 50. 27.5cm high

More details

Littleton Auctions
Lot 126

Collection of first edition Teletubby soft toys

More details

Lockdales
Lot 695

Trevor Ford Scarce copy of his autobiography "I Lead The Attack" first edition with dust jacket 1957, sold with signed magazine cut out 8"x6" as a Sunderland player, at one time footballs most expensive player, Swansea, Aston V, Wales, Sunderland, Cardiff (2)

More details

G.W. Railwayana Auctions
Lot 482

Poster VSOE VENICE SIMPLON ORIENT EXPRESS PARIS by Fix Masseau 1982. A wonderful, art-deco image of the train superimposed on the delightful set table with Pullman Lamp dominating. First edition Double royal 25in x 40in and in excellent condition.

More details

G.W. Railwayana Auctions
Lot 83

THE BOOK OF BRITISH RAILWAY TOTEMS by Dave Brennand & Richard Furness, First Edition copy published in 2002 and sold out almost straight away. ISBN 0750929979. This is a mint copy of the must have book if you are a collector of totems.

More details

Chaucer Auctions
Lot 418

Manchester United 1952 Football An Edition Of Sport Magazine Dated November 1951, The Front Cover Depicts United's 1951/52 Squad (Which Would Go On To Win The First Division), It Has Been Signed By Don Gibson Using A Fine Blue Marker. Good Condition. All signed items come with our certificate of authenticity. We combine postage on multiple winning lots and can ship worldwide. UK postage from £3.99, EU from £5.99, Rest of World from £7.95

More details

Sportingold Limited
Lot 1466

BERWICK RANGERS Magnificent hard backed book, Berwick Rangers Football Club, The Borderers 1881-1981 Centenary Book, gilt inscription on front and spine of the book.. 122 pages and scarce as only a limited number of first edition copies were printed. Comes with a compliments slip from the club. Good

More details

Sportingold Limited
Lot 1515

ASTON VILLA Interesting Villa collection comprising rare First Edition of book "Aston Villa" by Percy M Young with dust cover (1960 history) and a sheet of Villa autographs 1935-36 including colour cigarette cards of Astley and Griffiths who are amongst the signatories which include Massie, Hodgson, Cummings, Broome etc. Good

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 1

Macaronic Poetry.- [Folengo (Teofilo)] [Opus Merlini Cocaii], collation: A-Z, AA-MM8, lacking signatures A, M, MM (?index) and Ll4 & 5, with 52 full-page woodcuts only (of 54), browned and stained, wormed with some loss, trimmed shaving some side-notes, a few leaves loose, contemporary ink inscription below colophon (crossed out) and another to verso, later bookplate of Robert Weiss, 17th century sprinkled calf, spine gilt, rather worn, spine defective, [Adams F687; EDIT 16 CNCE 19359], small 8vo (121 x 79mm.),Toscolano, Alessandro Paganino, 1521; sold not subject to return⁂ First collected edition and the first edition to include this series of woodcuts. Folengo was the leading practitioner of macaronic poetry (the blending of the vernacular with Latin, often in burlesque writings), and here we find his master-piece Baldus. This tale was the inspiration for Rabelais' Panurge and Gargantua. It includes the merciless satirising of the clergy and a number of highly memorable scenes, such as the battle of the flying ants.

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 10

Turning.- Plumier (Charles) L'Art de Tourner..., first edition, engraved additional title, title in red and black with engraved vignette, Privilege leaf misbound after Preface, engraved head-pieces and 71 plates, one folding, plate 65 shorter and loose (supplied from another copy), one with marginal tear, title lightly soiled, some browning and marginal water-staining, staining to a few plates, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt, spine gilt with red morocco label, rubbed, joints split, spine a little worn at head, [Berlin Kat. 1246], folio, Lyons, Jean Certe, 1701.⁂ The first book on turning.

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 100

Strawberry Hill Press.- Gray (Thomas) Odes, first edition, half-title, title with engraved vignette, book label of Estelle Doheny, later attractive crushed green morocco, gilt by Birdsall, spine faded, light rubbing to extremities, [Hazen 1; Rothschild 1067], 4to, Stawberry Hill, 1757.⁂ An attractive copy of the first book printed at Strawberry Hill.

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 102

Ireland.- Scale (Bernard) An Hibernian Atlas; or General Description of the Kingdom of Ireland, first edition, engraved title, dedication, index and 36 only of 37 hand-coloured engraved maps (1 plate supplied in facsimile), without engraved advertisement for Scale & Co. facing title, light offsetting, a few ink marks, occasional light spotting, contemporary calf, gilt key pattern border, marked, slight stains, sympathetically rebacked and recornered, [Chubb VIII], 4to, for Robert Sayer and John Bennet, 1776; sold not subject to return.

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 105

Gibbon (Edward) The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 vol., first edition, vol. 1 second state with 2 cancels, vol 2-6 with cancels as called for, half-titles (some misbound after contents), errata to vol. 1, 2 & 3, errata to vols. 4, 5 & 6 at end of vol. 6 as called for, engraved portrait frontispiece to vol. 1, 3 engraved folding maps, 3C3 lower corner neatly restored (vol. 2), some very occasional light spotting, bookplate of Philip Sassoon of Port Lympne, ink signatures to title head, later half calf, lightly rubbed spines, [Rothschild 944], 4to, W. Strahan & T. Cadell, 1776-88.⁂ Philip Sassoon (1888-1939), a patron of the arts was Chairman of the Trustees of the National Gallery (1933-35) and Minister for Works in the 1930s, giving both private and public commissions to artists such as Rex Whistler, Edwin Lutyens and John Singer Sargent.

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 107

Burns (Robert) Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect, third [first London] edition, half-title, engraved frontispiece portrait, some occasional light spotting, partially erased ink ownership inscription of Rev. Thomas Hammond Foxcroft to title, bookplates, contemporary half calf, recornered in vellum, rubbed, 8vo, 1787.

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 109

Burke (Edmund) Reflections on the Revolution in France, first edition, first impression, presentation inscription 'To The Rev.d D.r Kearney From the Author' to front free endpaper, [PMM 239], J.Dodsley, 1790 bound with Price (Richard) A Discourse on the Love of Our Country..., fourth edition, lacking half-title, George Stafford for T. Cadell, 1790, together 2 works in 1 vol., occasional spotting or foxing, second work with browning to corners of final few ff., autograph notes by Kearney to front free endpaper "the spirit & vigour of his pursuit always gives delight; & the reader follows him, without reluctance, thro' his mazes, in themselves flowery & pleasing, & ending at the point originally in view", bookplate of Kearney and library label with shelf marks to pastedown, contemporary half calf, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label, joints cracked but holding firm, a little rubbed, preserved in brown morocco pull-top box lettered in gilt (extremities a little rubbed), 8vo. ⁂ Presentation copy of Burke's masterpiece, one of the most influential works in modern English history. Michael Kearney (1733-1814), fellow at Trinity College Dublin, met Burke upon the author's return to Dublin in 1761.

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 116

Hunt (Leigh) The Descent of Liberty, a Mask, first edition, presentation inscription "To Signor Gaetano Polidori, with the author's thanks, in every sense of the word, for his translations of some of the minor poems of Milton" to half-title, hinges sympathetically strengthened and repaired, original boards, rebacked, rubbed, 8vo, Printed for Gale, Curtis, and Fenner, Paternoster Row, 1815.⁂ A very good presentation copy to the father of John Polidori.

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 118

Limericks.- History of Sixteen Wonderful Old Women (The), first edition, 16 leaves, hand-coloured engravings with verse below, printed on one side only, slightly browned and marked, some colour show through, ink inscription dated 1823 on inside of upper cover, with later ink inscription 1921, original printed wrappers, soiled, slight wear, 8vo, 1821.⁂ Thought to be the first printed book of Limericks. "There was an Old woman named Towl; Who went out to Sea with her Owl: But the Owl was Sea-Sick; And scream's for Physic; Which sadly annoy'd Mistress Towl."

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 12

Mechanical Devices.- Grollier de Serviere (Gaspard) Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Mathematique et de Mecanique, ou Description du Cabinet..., first edition, title in red and black with woodcut device, dedication with engraved coat-of-arms and initial, woodcut ornaments and initials, 85 engraved plates numbered to LXXXVIII (plates XXXIX, XLVIII & LXXVI not issued), errata leaf at end, title a little soiled and water-stained at inner margin, marginal tear to dedication, a few plates lightly browned, engraved bookplate of Bryan Faussett, contemporary calf, worn, rebacked preserving part of gilt spine, [Berlin Kat. 1784], 4to, Lyons, David Forey, 1719.⁂ A description of the collection of mechanical instruments formed, and predominantly made, by the author's grandfather, Nicolas Grollier de Serviere (1593-1686). He was a mirror-maker and descendant of Jean Grolier the bibliophile. The collection included clocks, bridges, locks, water-raising devices, mills, military engines, a revolving bookcase, wheelchair etc.

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 120

[Baring-Gould (Sabine)] Mehalah A Story of the Salt Marshes, 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, advertisement f. at end of vol.1, occasional spotting, later dark blue half crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf, gilt, spine in compartments and with floral decorations, [Sadleir 162; Wolff 271], 8vo, 1880.⁂ 'Truly rare book' (Wolff). The work is set on the 19th century Essex coast, with its marshes, smugglers, wildfowlers and local characters. Swinburne compared it to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 121

*** Please note, the description of this lot has changed ***Beardsley.- Malory (Sir Thomas) Le Morte Darthur, 2 vol., one of 1500 copies, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, pastiche vellum boards, elaborately stamped in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, 1893-94; [The Morte Darthur Portfolio] Reproductions of Eleven Designs omitted from the First Edition...illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley, number 69 of 300 copies, original tan calf-backed vellum, elaborately stamped in gilt to a design uniform with the first item, joints cracking, 1927, 4to (3)Please note: Lot 121 “The binding is a pastiche of the original vellum binding”

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 122

James (M.R.) A Warning to the Curious and other Ghost Stories, first edition, neatly repaired tear to pp.121-124, some minor splitting to gutter but gatherings and joints holding firm, some very occasional light foxing, original cloth, lettered in brown, spine slightly faded, a little rubbed, dust-jacket, spine rubbed and lightly faded with 1/2" portion of loss to head affecting title and chips to foot affecting imprint, corners chipped, some very light creasing to head and foot, but still a very good example of a scarce jacket, 8vo, 1925.⁂ M.R. James' last collection, and one of his bleakest, rare in the macabre dust-jacket. We can trace no other copy at auction in the last 30 years.

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 129

Astronomy.- Scherffer (Karl) Institutiones Astronomiae theoreticae, first edition, woodcut printer's device to title, 19 folding engraved plates, library markings to title, a few plates with margins repaired, some browning and spotting, contemporary vellum, rebacked in modern vellum, Vienna, Trattner, 1777; and 2 others, Astronomy & Optics, 4to et infra (3)

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 134

Medicine.- Samson (William, surgeon) Rational Physic; or, The Art of Healing..., to which is added, A Family Dispensary..., first Dublin edition, Dublin, for J. Exshaw and Tho. Ewing, 1765 bound with Godfrey (Boyle) A Treasure of Useful Discoveries, [ESTC cites the Library of Congress copy only; not in National Library of Ireland], Dublin, James Hunter, 1761 bound with Theobald (John) Every Man his Own Physician, half-title, B11 & 12 corners torn away not affecting text, [ESTC cites the BL and New York Academy of Medicine copies only], Dublin, Peter Wilson, 1764 bound with 2 other medical works, together 5 works in 1 vol., slightly browned throughout, small stain affecting last work, some soiling, contemporary patterned calf, 8vo.

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 135

Aldrovandi (Ulisse) De animalibus insectis libri septem, first edition, engraved title, woodcuts within text, lacking engraved portrait of author, water-stained, later binding using an early ms. leaf over limp boards, remains of silk ties, short split to head of spine, some light staining, [Nissen ZBI 66], folio, Bologna, J.B. Bellagamba, 1602.

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 144

America.- Bradbury (John) Travels in the Interior of America...including a Description of Upper Louisiana..., first edition, errata slip, very occasional spotting, contemporary prize certificate from Belfast Academical Institution on front pastedown, contemporary half mottled calf, spine ruled in gilt with red morocco label, very slightly rubbed, an excellent copy, [Sabin 7207], 8vo, Liverpool, for the Author, 1817.⁂ Bradbury was sent by the Liverpool Botanical Garden to search for plants in America.

More details

Forum Auctions
Lot 145

America.- Canada.- Keating (William H.) Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter's River, Lake Winnepeek..., 2 vol., first edition, half-titles, engraved folding map, 8 engraved plates including one of music, 3 folding meteorological tables and 10pp. vocabulary at end of vol.2, some foxing and offsetting, contemporary sprinkled calf, gilt, slightly rubbed, handsomely rebacked, red and black morocco labels, 1825 § Brown (James B.) Views of Canada and its Colonists, second edition, advertisement leaf, half-title, folding hand-coloured map, text lightly browned, modern morocco-backed marbled boards, Edinburgh, 1851, [Sabin 37137 & 8501]; and another on Canada, 8vo (4)

More details
Loading...Loading...
  • 118894 item(s)
    /page

Recently Viewed Lots