Category: European Literature

Landscape Illustrations of the Waverly Novels with Descriptions of the Views. [Two Volumes]

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Charles Tilt : 1834

Seller ID: 8051

Condition: Very Good

Scarce two volume set. Vol. I is Waverly to Legend of Montrose , while Vol. II is Ivanhoe to Woodstock . Dark brown full morocco with debossed gilt particulars. Gilt inner dentelles. Vol. I is missing front fly. Moderate foxing throughout. Tidemark to top of Vol. I into images (see image 2). All edges gilt. Pencil markings to rear of front cover to Vol. I. No previous owners' names or other markings. 7 x 9.75 in each
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Libro de Refranes Copilado por el orden del A.B.C En el cual le contienen Quatro mil y trescientos refranes. El mas copioso que hasta hoy ha salido impreso

Price: $240.00

Publisher: Zaragoza, : 1917

Seller ID: 4363

Condition: Very Good

One of only 101 copies. This elegantly bound in half green mottled calf with fading to spine.
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Proverbes et maximes du droit germanique Etudies en eux-memes et dans leurs rapports avec le droit francais

By: A. Chaisemartin

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Paris, L. Larose et Forcel : 1891

Seller ID: 5965

Condition: Very Good

Very nice copy in quarter black grained morocco (with spine faded back to brown) over marbled paper boards and speckled edges, gilt title to spine. Marbled end papers; bookplate of famous proverb collector de Guinzbourg to front paste down. Folding inscription of Chaisemartin inserted folding page preceding half title. xxx, 585 pages, 6 x 8 3/4 inches.
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Skrifter av Albert Engstrom - 8 Vol (Skrifter av Albert Engström - 8 Vol)

By: Albert Engström

Price: $170.00

Publisher: Stockholm, Albert Bonniers Förlag : 1945

Seller ID: 5776

Condition: Very Good

Half brown calf over marbled boards. Gilt particulars to spine; top edge gilt. 8 Vol set: Äventyr och Hugskott, 166pp; En Konstig Blandning, 225pp; Ur Mina Memoarer och Annat, 211pp; Mitt Liv och Leverne,196pp; Åt Häcklefjäll minnen från en Islandsfärd, 171pp; Min 5te Bok Berättelser och Stämingar, 168pp; Vid en Milstolpe, 249pp; Mot Aftonglöden, 344pp. 5.25 x 7.5 in.
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The Adventures of Johnny Newcome in the Navy; A poem in four cantos: with plates by Rowlandson, from the author's designs

By: Alfred Burton

Price: $580.00

Publisher: London, W. Simpkin and R. Marshall : 1818

Seller ID: 5358

Condition: Very Good+

Fine example of Riviere and Son binding in exceptional condition (see image). Full deep red morocco with gilt rule to boards; 5 raised bands and intricate gilt detailing to spine. Gilt ruled edges; intricate inner dentelles; all edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece (with tissue guard) and 15 aquatint hors-texte plates throughout. Includes an advertisement page after title page stating this book would have been released earlier, but "impediments" and the plates delayed its release. There is also included a section for Notes and Errata. Without previous owners' names or other markings. 25...
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The Romance of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table Abridged from Malory's Morte D'Arthur by Alfred W. Pollard

By: Alfred W. Pollard

Price: $200.00

Publisher: London, Macmillan and Co., Limited : 1917

Seller ID: 4617

Condition: Very Good

Full blue cloth; gilt particulars to front and spine. 6 color plates. Scratch to spine (see image). Occasional foxing, otherwise nice copy without previous owners' names or markings. 509pp. 7 x 8.5 in
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Image for [Works - 31 Volumes] Autobiography; Doctor Thorne; The Warden; Framely Parsonage; Small House at Allington; The Last Chronicle of Barset; The Duke's Children; The Prime Minister; Barchester Towers; Orley Farm; Eustace Diamonds; Phineas Redux; Can You Forgive Her

[Works - 31 Volumes] Autobiography; Doctor Thorne; The Warden; Framely Parsonage; Small House at Allington; The Last Chronicle of Barset; The Duke's Children; The Prime Minister; Barchester Towers; Orley Farm; Eustace Diamonds; Phineas Redux; Can You Forgive Her

By: Anthony Trollope

Price: $3,500.00

Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and Company : 1904-1906

Seller ID: 5352

Condition: Fine

Thirty-one volumes as issued from 1904 to 1906. Half maroon morocco over marbled boards with gilt rule and 5 raised bands; gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; marbled endpapers; white silk ribbons. Each volume contains a frontispiece with tissue guard. Samuel Mather ex-libris plate present to front paste-down in each volume. Complete listing of titles: Autobiography; Doctor Thorne (2 vol.); The Warden; Framely Parsonage (2 vol.); Small House at Allington (3 vol.); The Last Chronicle of Barset (3 vol.); The Duke's Children (3 vol.); The Prime Minister (3 vol.); Barchester Towers (2 vol.);...
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Image for Obras Completas de Don Francisco Quevedo Villegas Edición Crítica, Ordenada é Ilustrada por D. Aureliano Fernández-Guerra y Orbe de la Real Academia Española - 3 Volume Set Con Notas y Adiciones de D. Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo

Obras Completas de Don Francisco Quevedo Villegas Edición Crítica, Ordenada é Ilustrada por D. Aureliano Fernández-Guerra y Orbe de la Real Academia Española - 3 Volume Set Con Notas y Adiciones de D. Marcelino Menéndez y Pelayo

By: Don Francisco Quevedo Villegas

Price: $430.00

Publisher: 1897, Impr. de E. Rasco : 1897, 1903, 1907

Seller ID: 3314

Condition: Very Good

Three Volume Set. Publisher's original wrappers bound in quarter morocco. Gilt particulars and decorations to spine, five raised bands, marbled end papers, deckled edges. Luis Bardon, Madrid, bookplate to front paste-down. Vol. I: 591 pp., Vol II: 400 pp., Vol. III: 458 pp.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
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Image for The Novels and Romances of Edward Bulwer Lytton (Complete 40 Vol. Set) I-II. The Caxtons.--III-VI. My novel.--VII-IX. What will he do with it?--X-XI. Pelham. Falkland.--XII-XIII. The disowned.--XIV-XV. Paul Clifford.--XVI. Godolphin.--XVII. Ernest Maltravers.--XVIII. Alice.--XIX-XX. Night and morning.--XXI. Lucretia.--XXII-XXIII. Kenelm Chillingly. The coming race.--XXIV-XXV. The Parisians.--XXVI. Eugene Aram.--XXVII. The pilgrims of the Rhine. The ideal world. Zicci.--XXVIII. Zanoni.--XXIX-XXX. A strange story. The haunted and the haunters.--XXXI-XXXII. Devereux.--XXXIII. The last days of Pompeii.--XXXIV-XXXV. Rienzi.--XXXVI. Leila. Calderon the courtier. Pausanias the Spartan.--XXXVII-XXXVIII. The last of the barons.--XXXIX-XL. Harold

The Novels and Romances of Edward Bulwer Lytton (Complete 40 Vol. Set) I-II. The Caxtons.--III-VI. My novel.--VII-IX. What will he do with it?--X-XI. Pelham. Falkland.--XII-XIII. The disowned.--XIV-XV. Paul Clifford.--XVI. Godolphin.--XVII. Ernest Maltravers.--XVIII. Alice.--XIX-XX. Night and morning.--XXI. Lucretia.--XXII-XXIII. Kenelm Chillingly. The coming race.--XXIV-XXV. The Parisians.--XXVI. Eugene Aram.--XXVII. The pilgrims of the Rhine. The ideal world. Zicci.--XXVIII. Zanoni.--XXIX-XXX. A strange story. The haunted and the haunters.--XXXI-XXXII. Devereux.--XXXIII. The last days of Pompeii.--XXXIV-XXXV. Rienzi.--XXXVI. Leila. Calderon the courtier. Pausanias the Spartan.--XXXVII-XXXVIII. The last of the barons.--XXXIX-XL. Harold

By: Edward Bulwer Lytton

Price: $2,200.00

Publisher: Boston, Little Brown & Co. : 1896-1898

Seller ID: 6145

Condition: Very Good

Very handsome forty volume complete limited edition set in green grained half morocco with spine reverted to brown. Five raised bands and gilt author and title as well as gilt decoration; top edge gilt. Number 109 of only 1,250 copies. Marbled endpapers and red silk ribbons. All books measure 5 3/4 x 8 inches.
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The Chronicles of Enguerrand de Monstrelet: (Two Volumes) containing an account of the cruel civil wars between the houses of Orleans and Burgundy; of the possession of Paris and Normandy by the English; their expulsion thence; and of other memorable events that happened in the kingdom of France, as well as in o

By: Enguerrand de Monstrelet; Thomas Johnes (Translator)

Price: $280.00

Publisher: New York, George Routledge And Sons : 1865

Seller ID: 4945

2 volumes (xxxvi, 640, xvi, 552 pages): illustrations . Marbled boards & endsheets. Half red morocco. Top edge gilt, others deckle. Previous owners name sprawled on front page. 7 x 10.5 in.
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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (7 Volumes - Complete)

By: Geoffrey Chaucer, Edited from numerous manuscripts by Walter W. Skeat

Price: $400.00

Publisher: Oxford, The Clarendon Press : 1972

Seller ID: 7047

Black cloth boards with copper particulars to front board and spine. Cream paper dust jacket with text and design. All 7 dust jackets protected in mylar. Volumes contents are as follows: Vol. 1: Romaunt of the Rose and Minor Poems; 2: Boethius, Troilus; 3: House of Fame, Legend of Good Women, Astrolabe, and Sources of Canterbury Tales; 4: The Canterbury Tales (Text); 5: The Canterbury Tales (Notes); 6: Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes; 7: Chaucerian and Other Pieces. Small liquid stain to bottom of the front of volume 1 dj; abrasion with mark to bottom of back of volume 3 dj; very light st...
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Image for Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio, da tutte le cose al buon costume nocive con somma diligenza purgato; Alla sua vera lezione ridotto, e con varie note dilucidato. Per uso principalmente de' Modesti Giovani della Toscana lingua studiosi (2 parts bound in 1)

Decamerone di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio, da tutte le cose al buon costume nocive con somma diligenza purgato; Alla sua vera lezione ridotto, e con varie note dilucidato. Per uso principalmente de' Modesti Giovani della Toscana lingua studiosi (2 parts bound in 1)

By: Giovanni Boccaccio

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Venice, Domenico Deregni : 1754

Seller ID: 5730

Condition: Very Good

18th century full vellum with red morocco title label to spine. 2 parts bound as one: part 1: 179 pp., [1]; part 2: [181]-403 pp., [3]. Italian text throughout. OCLC shows only one other copy of this version published by Deregni at the National Library of Scotland. Marginal notes in pencil to last 9 pages, otherwise no previous owners' names or other markings. 3 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches.
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The Novels, Tales, and Sketches of J. M. Barrie (12 Volumes - Complete)

By: J. M. Barrie (James Matthew)

Price: $240.00

Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner's Sons : 1909

Seller ID: 5853

Condition: Very Good

Author's edition, with facsimile signature to copyright page. Half green morocco with light green cloth boards and gilt rule; 5 raised bands with gilt particulars to spine; top edge gilt. Titles include, but are not limited to: Auld Light Idylls, When a Man's Single, A Window in Thrums, The Little Minister I and II, Sentimental Tommy I and II, My Lady Nicotine, Tommy and Grizel I and II, The Little White Bird, and Peter and Wendy. General wear to exterior, losses to head of spine of volumes 7, 9 and 10 (see image). 6 x 8 1/2 inches.
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The Laird and Ither Kent Fouk and Gear (SIGNED by author)

By: Jeffrey Inglis

Price: $300.00

Publisher: Dundee, Scotland, A. B. Duncan & Co. : 1918

Seller ID: 7186

Condition: Very Good-

Signed by author to title page in June 15, 1922. Brown paper wraps with text and sewn binding. Written in Scottish Gaelic throughout. No previous owners' names or other markings. 1/2 inch closed tear to top edge and crease to front wrap; light soiling to wraps (see image). 4 3/4 x 6 1/4 inches. Shipped through USPS Priority insured mail. First Edition.
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Proverbes Vendeens (INSCRIBED by Author)

By: Jehan de la Chesnaye

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Paris, Revue du Traditionnisme : 1906

Seller ID: 6265

Condition: Good

Inscribed by author to title page and signed "J. de la Chesnaye". Paper wraps with text to front wrap. Collection of various idioms, colloquialisms, and sayings entirely in French. Preface by Beaurepaire-Froment. Limited edition, #54 of 1000. 302 proverbs in total. Front wrap detached and various losses to wraps (see image). Aside from author inscription, no previous owners' names or other markings. viii, 45 pp. 6 1/2 x 10 inches. First Edition.
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Sitten-Lehre [Sittenlehre] der Heiligen Schrift Siebenter Theil (7th Volume)

By: Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, Johann Peter Miller

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Halle und Helmstadt : 1765

Seller ID: 5278

Condition: Very Good

Half vellum over hand-colored boards. Gothic German text throughout. Losses to board paper and some light soiling. 24, 697 pp. 7 1/4 x 8 3/4 inches.
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The Duchess of Malfi

By: John Webster

Price: $95.00

Publisher: London, Sylvan Press : 1945

Seller ID: 6518

Condition: Fine

Full midnight blue grained morocco with gilt emblem to front board and gilt particulars to spine. Top edge gilt; deckled edges. Marbled endpapers. Catalogue No. 24 of Editions de Luxe Limited, The Collector's Book Club. Introductory essays by George Rylands and Charles Williams. Illustrated by Michael Ayrton. Full page black and white illustrations throughout. Pages bright and clean. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Book plate of Irving Belt to front pastedown, otherwise no previous owners' names or other markings. Light wear to exterior (see image). xxii, 88 pp. 6 1/2 x 10 1/4 inches.
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Cuestion Social y las Manifestaciones Obreras

By: Justo Fornovi

Price: $85.00

Publisher: Madrid, Gregorio Juste : 1891

Seller ID: 6399

Condition: Fine

Quarter black morocco with grey cloth boards; 5 raised bands and gilt particular to spine. Decorative endpapers. Wraps bound in. Previous owner's name to front endpaper and half title page, otherwise no other markings. Pages bright and clean. Light soiling to cloth boards (see image). 203 pp., [1]. 5 x 7 1/2 inches. First Edition.
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Kjernefulde Ordsprog

By: Peder Syvs

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Copenhagen, A. & S. Soldin : 1807

Seller ID: 6099

Condition: Very Good

Very nice copy, 19th century polished half calf over marbled boards, 4 raised bands. Gilt author and title to spine, with marbled endpapers. This copy of Danish proverbs is in Danish. xl, 259 pgs, 5 x 7 1/2 inches.
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Life in London; or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and Corinthian Tom, Accompanied by Bob Logic, The Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through Metropolis.

By: Pierce Egan (Illustrators: Geroge Cruikshank and I. R. Cruikshank)

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, : n.d.

Seller ID: 5311

Condition: Good

First edition, second issue. Lacking binding, therefore loose signatures. 36 hand-colored hors textes plates. Includes fold-out sheet music. xvi, 376 pp. 6 1/4 x 9 3/4 inches.
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Category: European Literature