Paris: Eugène Figuière, [1924]. First Edition. Limited to an unspecified number of which this is no. 56. Octavo (19cm.); publisher's cream card wrappers lettered in black and red; xiii,[1],175pp. Light dust-soil, red spine lettering sunned, else Near Fine. Inscribed and signed by the author on title page "Peggy from Preston.".....
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Cambridge: John Owen, 1842. First Edition. Octavo (25cm.); publisher's black cloth, gilt-lettered spine; [4],459pp. Cloth a bit rubbed, spine crown pulled, rear endpaper quite browned, stock extremities foxed, else Very Good or better. Oft-reprinted monograph by the noted entomologist and botanist. SABIN 30524. Provenance: Contemporary engraved armorial ownership bookplate of Boston...
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Paris: Librairie Commerciale, Aristide Quillet, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 4to; pp. [6], 71; three color plates depicting six moveable models with overlaying flaps on stiff boards; additional text illustrations, many photographic, throughout; original olive pictorial cloth embossed in white, green, gilt, and brown. Endpapers foxed, spine ends a touch rubbed...
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Papeete, Tahiti: Loge Unie des Theosophes, 1935. Première Traduction Française de la onzième Edition Anglaise. 12mo; publisher's blue textured cloth, printed tan sheep label affixed to upper cover; [6],xvii,[3],200pp.; illus.; text printed mimeograph. Errata bifolium laid in. Light shelf wear, tiny dampstain to textblock fore-edge, else Near Fine. First French.....
Paris: Éditions du Trianon, 1923. First Thus. Limited to 450 copies printed on vélin a la forme de Rives of which this is no. 179. Six volumes; octavo (20cm.); uniformly bound in white pictorial card wrappers in cloth-backed paper-covered chemise and matching slipcase, printed paper spine label to chemise; 20...
[Verona]: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, [1948]. Nuova Editione, Ampliata e Aggiornata. Two volumes; quarto (25.75cm.); publisher's red gilt-embossed pictorial cloth; xv,[1],509,[2],[510]-1002pp.; 10 leaves of color plates (tissue guards), illus. throughout of text. Some internal and external foxing, front hinge of Vol. 1 a bit weak, else Very Good and sound. "This...
Chicago: Americanization Department, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, [1925, 1936]. Hardcover. 12 volumes; octavo (21.5cm.); uniformly bound in publisher's pictorial cloth, all in original drab die-cut dust jackets; frontispieces. Dust jackets somewhat worn, some more so than others, and rather brittle from poor stock quality, spines uniformly...
Kirkby Stephen: J.W. Braithwaite, 1884. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); publisher's maroon cloth triple-ruled in black and lettered in gilt, yellow glazed endpapers; [2],134,[1],[33](ads)pp.; color folding map frontispiece, text illus., pictorial ads printed on various colored stock bound in rear. Cloth a bit soiled and slightly rubbed, spine rather faded, a......
Paris: Didier, 1840. Troisième Édition. Four volumes (21.25cm.); publisher's dark blue morocco-backed marbled boards, gilt-lettered spines. General shelf wear, brief peeling to leather of Vol. IV but otherwise a Very Good or better set.
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Londres: 1781. Octavo; publisher's drab card wrappers, manuscript spine title; 204pp. Some worming to upper cover with small loss at top fore-edge corner, a few small chips to spine, inoffensive 19th-century shelf labels to title page, else a Very Good, untrimmed copy in the original binding. This edition issued a....
Paris: Masson et Cie. 1905. First Edition. Paperback. Large 8vo; pp. [4], xv, [1], 454pp.; original buff printed wrappers (a bit a faint dampstaining along top edge and some soil spots); cracking to spine paper at crown without loss, else a very good, sound copy. Presumably the author's copy with...
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Paris: Gallimard, 1980. First Trade Edition. Octavo (20cm); publisher's cream card wrappers printed in red and black; 369pp. Some minor foxing and tiny soil spot to rear cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Inscribed with an autograph quote signed by Gary on half title addressed to Edmond and another...