Paris: Lehuby, 1838. First Edition. Hardcover. 326pp + 12pp of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary full tree calf, spine decorated in gold and with black leather label lettered in gold, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. Engraved title, frontispiece, and two inserted plates. Light scattered foxing, some fading to spine, mild wear to extremities..... More

Malines: P. J. Hanicq, 1844. First French Edition. Hardcover. vi, 304pp. Contemporary full mottled calf decorated and lettered in gold on the spine. Frontispiece and nineteen inserted plates. Small bookstore label to front pastedown, library markings on half-title and title page, otherwise clean. Rear joint is almost completely cracked, wear..... More

New York: Union Publishing House, (1872). First Edition. Hardcover. 528pp. Gray pictorial cloth stamped in black and gold on the front and the spine. Decorated endpapers. Frontispiece, full-page and in-text illustrations. Text block is toned. Cloth is soiled, spine panel toned, front hinge a bit weak. A good+ copy. ;..... More

Paris: Briasson, 1771. First Edition. 9pp + 35 plates. Disbound. Includes thirty-five engraved plates on fishing by Benard and Groussier. Originally contained in one of the volumes of plates, which was part of the Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers. One tiny wormhole to inner..... More

London: Chapman and Hall. Hardcover. The Charles Dickens Edition. Half blue calf over marbled boards, spine elaborately decorated in gold and with red leather labels lettered in gold, marbled edges and endpapers. Frontispiece and seven isnerted plates. Dickens commemorative stamp affixed to one page. Light fading and wear to leather..... More

London: Chapman and Hall, N.D. Hardcover. The Charles Dickens Edition. Half blue calf over marbled boards, spine elaborately decorated in gold and with red leather labels lettered in gold, marbled edges and endpapers. Frontispiece and seven isnerted plates. Previous owner's name and date (1878) on the flyleaf, Dickens commemorative stamp..... More

Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 1857. Hardcover. 159pp; 160pp. Brown cloth stamped in blind on the sides, spine lettered and decorated in gold. Yellow endpapers. Complete with fifteen plates with hand-colored illustrations (seven in the first book, eight in the second). Translated from the German. Contemporary inscription and small bookstore label..... More

Genova: Presso Bernardo Tarigo, N.D. Hardcover. Mid to late 1700s. xxxvi, 156pp. Contemporary full calf, edges decorated in gold, spine decorated in gold and with leather label lettered in gold, marbled edges, marbled endpapers. A collection of aphorisms on morality with sections on the obligations of man, passions, women, differences..... More

New York: The Mershon Company Publishers. Hardcover. Unauthorized edition from 1897 (as per Christmas inscription on the front free endpaper). Predates the editions by this publisher mentioned in Green and Gibson by two years. Blue pictorial cloth stamped in red on the front, and in red and gold on the..... More

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1870. Hardcover. 260pp + 4pp of publisher's advertisements. Brown pictorial cloth stamped in gold on the front panel and the spine panel, brown endpapers. Frontispiece and thirty illustrations (some are full page). Contemporary name on the flyleaf. Small bookstore label of Louis Lewin &..... More

Philadelphia: James Kay, Jun. & Brother, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. 136pp. Contemporary full calf with red leather label lettered in gold on the spine. Previous owner's name on title, covers are almost completely detached, some foxing to endpapers. A good- copy. Uncommon. ; Octavo. More

Cahors: J.-P. Cambarieu, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. 318pp. Contemporary quarter calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. A history of the town of Cahors during the Middle Ages. Rubbing and stains to covers, wear to extremities, scattered foxing, stain to fore edge of the last several leaves. A solid good+ copy..... More

Milano: Giuseppe Bernardoni, 1853. Second Edition. Hardcover. Dark red half-morocco, leather label stamped in gilt to front cover, ornate gilt spine, marbled edges and marbled endpapers. A description of the architecture of the Carthusian monastery of Pavia. Seventy copper engravings, eight of which are double spreads. Heavy wear to corners..... More