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  • Description de l'Aérostate, l'Académie de Dijon, contenant en detail des...

    Description de l'Aérostate, l'Académie de Dijon, contenant en detail des procédés, la théorie des opérations, les dessins des machines &...

    [HISTORY OF SCIENCE - EARLY FLIGHT] [MONTGOLFIER, Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne] GUYTON DE...

    Dijon: Causse, 1784. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); late 19th-century speckled calf over cloth, gilt spine in six compartments, maroon morocco gilt onlays, marbled endpapers; vi,[1],224pp.; four leaves of plates of which three are folding. Leather quite dried and upper cover starting to separate, corners bumped with brief loss, top spine.....

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  • A Treatise on Some of the Insects of New England, which are Injurious to Vegetation

    A Treatise on Some of the Insects of New England, which are Injurious to Vegetation

    HARRIS, Thaddeus William [John Amory Lowell, previous owner]

    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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  • La Chasse et la Table: Nouveau traité en vers et en prose donnant la manière de...

    La Chasse et la Table: Nouveau traité en vers et en prose donnant la manière de chasser, de tuer et...

    JOBEY, Charles

    Paris: Furne et Cie. n.d. [1864]. First Edition. Paperback. Octavo (18cm.); original blue pictorial wrappers; [4],294pp. Some light edge wear, small chip to spine crown, contemporary ownership signature to upper wrapper, minor later (early 20th century?) repair to loose signature, else a Very Good copy, interior quite fresh. Collection of.....

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  • Jeux Olympiques, Amsterdam 1928, 28 Juillet - 12 Août [Cover title: 1928 IXe Olympiade...

    Jeux Olympiques, Amsterdam 1928, 28 Juillet - 12 Août [Cover title: 1928 IXe Olympiade Amsterdam]

    [OLYMPIC GAMES - AMSTERDAM 1928] ROVERS, Jos, cover illus.

    Haarlem: Joh. Enschedé en Zonen, 1927 or 1928. First French Language Edition. Octavo; publisher's white pictorial staplebound card wrappers printed in color, adorned with lithographic illustration reproducing the IX Olympiade's official poster design by Jos Rovers; rear cover advertising the 1928 International Exposition in Amsterdam, the design by Jan Wijga;.....

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  • Poems by C. Churchill [Signed by John Churchill

    Poems by C. Churchill [Signed by John Churchill]

    CHURCHILL, C[harles]

    London: Printed for John Churchill, (Executor to the late C. Churchill) and W. Flexney, 1769. Fourth Edition. Two volumes; octavos (21.5cm.); contemporary full calf, gilt spines in six compartments, red gilt morocco spine labels; [4],369; [2],330pp.; [A]2 B-2A8 2B2 & [A]2 B-X8 Y6. Boards rubbed along hinges with some exposure.....

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  • Odes

    Odes

    HUGO, Victor

    Paris: Persan, 1823. Seconde Édition. "Augmentée de deux odes nouvelles." 12mo (16.5cm.); later 19th-century black morocco over marbled boards, gilt-tooled spine, marbled endpapers, original blue printed wrappers reinforced with wastepaper bound in, publisher's advertisements present; ix,[10]-122[but 222]pp. Leather joints and corners a bit rubbed, brief paper flaw to front pastedown.....

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  • Guide du pélerin a Roc-Amadour

    Guide du pélerin a Roc-Amadour

    Anonymous [Cheval, abbé?]

    Montauban: Victor Bertuot [...] A Roc-Amadour au Magasin de Marie, [1862]. First Edition. 8vo; pp. [2], ix, [1], 89; sepia-tinted frontispiece, 8 plates, 3 tinted; additional text illustrations throughout; contemporary calf-backed marbled boards, spine in six compartments, black gilt-lettered morocco spine label, marbled endpapers. Extremities and spine bands rubbed, leather.....

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  • Nicolai Caussini Trecensis, e Societate Iesu, De Eloquentia Sacra et Humana, Libri XVI

    Nicolai Caussini Trecensis, e Societate Iesu, De Eloquentia Sacra et Humana, Libri XVI

    CAUSSIN, Nicolas

    Parisiis: Apud Ioannem Iost, 1637. Editio Quarta. Thick quarto; full contemporary triple-ruled sheep, unadorned spine in five compartments, all edges speckled red, retaining original endpapers as well as a wastepaper front free endpaper; [4],1011,[61]pp.; engraved title page vignette and head- and tail-pieces, text printed in double columns. Leather somewhat edge.....

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  • A series of thirty eight plates after Lancret-Boucher-Eisen-Pater etc. Illustrating the tales of...

    A series of thirty eight plates after Lancret-Boucher-Eisen-Pater etc. Illustrating the tales of La Fontaine. Proof impressions on Japanese paper...

    [LA FONTAINE, Jean] Depollier, F., engraver

    N.p. ca. 1900. Hardcover. Folio; 38 engraved plates mounted to thick card stock; loose as issued in grey printed cloth chemise (rather soiled); chemise spine perished, edges scuffed; one plate separated from mount, else contents fine. A collection of illustrations from early editions of the Tales of La Fontaine, all.....

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  • De Morbis Venereis Libri Novem...In quibus disseritur tum de origine, propagatione, &...

    De Morbis Venereis Libri Novem...In quibus disseritur tum de origine, propagatione, & contagione horumce affectum in genere: tum de singulorum...

    [MEDICINE] ASTRUC, Joanne [Jean] et al

    Venetiis: Thomam Bettinelli, 1760. Novissima Editione. Two volumes in one; quarto (24.5cm.); contemporary vellum, manuscript spine label, all edges speckled red and brown; xx,420; 171[i.e. 471]pp. (*10 A-2A8 2B4 2B-2C4 2D6 A-2C8 2D-2I4); woodcut head- and tail-pieces and initials. Vellum soiled and corners bumped with brief exposure, faint contemporary manuscript.....

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  • Original Manuscript Wedding Gift Album

    Original Manuscript Wedding Gift Album

    COLE, Henry and Katherina Bullock

    Denver? 1930. Small oblong quarto; gilt-tooled padded die-cut calf with celluloid lozenge inserted into middle of upper cover carved with birds and flowers, all edges gilt, moiré endpapers; extremities quite rubbed and leather starting to peel from boards, several surface scratches, else Good, internally sound and quite legible. A token.....

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  • The Story of Bill Hylan's Threatened Baldness as Told by Bill and Set Down by His Grateful...

    The Story of Bill Hylan's Threatened Baldness as Told by Bill and Set Down by His Grateful Customer Lester Adams...

    HYLAN, Bill; Lester Adams, intro.

    Greenwood Mt., Maine: 1942. Slim octavo (26cm.); black cloth-backed paper-covered boards; [12] mimeographed leaves, ten original tipped in photographs. Boards rubbed with some biopredation to fore-edge paper of upper cover, foxing and dampstaining, textblock uniformly toned, else interior fine. Near Very Good overall. Presumably the only copy ever produced as.....

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