Nouvelles a la Main sur la Comtesse du Barry, Trouvees dans les Papiers du Comte de ***
Paris: Henri Plon, 1861. Hardcover. Blue library buckram. Original wraps bound in. 441 pp. Three monochrome plates. In French. More
Paris: Henri Plon, 1861. Hardcover. Blue library buckram. Original wraps bound in. 441 pp. Three monochrome plates. In French. More
Cambridge/Teaneck: Chadwyck-Healey, 1985. Hardcover. Grey cloth with mounted black title cards, with gilt lettering; xxi, 297 pp.; 1 unnumbered leaf of plates; illustrations. Scarce! More
Buxelles: T. J. I. Arnold, 1864. 32 of 100 copies. Hardcover. Brown marble boards. xlvi + text; TEG. Reproduction of his text of Silva Carminum, printed at Gouda in 1513. Includes a partial map of the Gouda area, where Erasmus was born, and biographical information in the introduction. Introduction in..... More
London: John Murray, 1938. Stated First. Hardcover. Terracotta cloth/boards; gilt lettering. 327 pp. with bw frontis and 10 additional bw images. Memoirs of Baron Lord Ernle, writer, agricultural expert, and cricketer, who also was the President of the Board of Agriculture under David Lloyd George. More
New York: Viking, 2012. Hardcover. Pale green and tan boards with green lettering on spine, illustrated dj, 279 (2) pp, bw illustrations. Recounts the story of the author's career as a woodcarver and traces the challenging and philosophically passionate year spent replacing a Grinling Gibbons masterpiece that was destroyed in..... More
New York: Random House, 1992. First US Edition. Hardcover. Black boards with black cloth spine with gilt lettering; small red design on front board. Yellow and red dust jacket with BW illustrations; BW ill. on spine with red lettering. xxvi; 465 pp. 26 BW, 16 color illustrations. Meredith Etherington-Smith has..... More
Salem, Massachusetts: Peabody Museum of Salem, 1969. First. Hardbound. Dark blue cloth boards w/ white pictorial DJ, [x] 130pp, 10 BW plates. From the jacket--This biography is the first to be based on the enormous cache of DesBarres papers acquired by the Public Archives of Canada a decade ago. With..... More
New York: Vantage Press, 1979. Hardcover. Burgundy buckram with gilt lettering. Pale cream dust jacket with green lettering and design. xvii; 464 pp. 32 BW illustrations. An autobiography written by the adopted daughter of a Tibetan lama. More
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1909. Hardcover. Blue cloth. 411 pp. BW plates and drawings reproduced in sienna, black and white. Includes Whitney memorial bookplate. More
New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1906. Hardcover. Green ribbed cloth, with gilt letters on spine, gilt and embossed decorations on front cover, 289 pp., 8 BW illus. Doubtless, you know of George Washington. But you may never have heard of Tobias Lear. Lear (1762-1818) served as Washington's personal secretary..... More
New York: G.H. Doran, 1923. Hardcover. Black cloth boards. Spines have paste on title blocks with black lettering. Frontispieces and many black & white illustrations. Full 8 volume set (1793-1821). More
Baltimore, Maryland: Press at the Maryland Historical Society, 2003. Hardcover. Grey cloth boards; gray dj with color illustrations. [xvi], 496 pp. with color plates and bw illus. Lavishly designed with many full color illustrations, the Faris Diary offers a craftsman's view of early America with daily entries from 1792 to..... More
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. Hardcover. Red boards, black glossy ill. DJ. xiii, 560 pp. Numerous bw ills. More
Paris: Hachette, 1934. Hardcover. Teal cloth library re-binding. Gilt spine lettering. 446 pp. with 10/16 bw plates. Text in French. The history of the famous du Barry family before, through and after the French Revolution. With notes and appendices. More
Bologna: Zanichelli Editore, 1940. Softcover. Cream wraps with bw illustration and red lettering; 406 pp. with no illustrations;. Text in Italian; the life of poet Giacomo Leopardi. More
San Francico: Grabhorn Press, 1954. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering, Brown spine with blue title block and gilt lettering. 142 pages : illustrations, color coats of arms, facsimiles, portraits. Contents: My family in California -- Random notes -- La Granja, my old home in Monterey -- Dr. Manuel..... More
London, England: W. Strahan / J. Rivington And Sons / T.Payne Etc, 1784. Leather bound. half leather brown spine & corners w/ inlaid marbled blue-grey paper, gilt trim; leather spine w/ five gilt raised bands & six gilt compartments. top edge gilt. blue-grey marbled pastedowns & endpapers. 512 pgs w/..... More
London, England: W. Strahan / J. Rivington And Sons / T.Payne Etc, 1784. Leather bound. half leather brown spine & corners w/ inlaid marbled blue-grey paper, gilt trim; leather spine w/ five gilt raised bands & six gilt compartments. top edge gilt. blue-grey marbled pastedowns & endpapers. 480 pgs w/..... More
London, England: W. Strahan / J. Rivington And Sons / T.Payne Etc, 1784. Leather bound. half leather brown spine & corners w/ inlaid marbled blue-grey paper, gilt trim; leather spine w/ five gilt raised bands & six gilt compartments. top edge gilt. blue-grey marbled pastedowns & endpapers. 525 pgs w/..... More
London, England: W. Strahan / J. Rivington And Sons / T.Payne Etc, 1784. Leather bound. half leather brown spine & corners w/ inlaid marbled blue-grey paper, gilt trim; leather spine w/ five gilt raised bands & six gilt compartments. top edge gilt. blue-grey marbled pastedowns & endpapers. 431 pgs w/..... More
London, England: W. Strahan / J. Rivington And Sons / T.Payne Etc, 1784. Leather bound. half leather brown spine & corners w/ inlaid marbled blue-grey paper, gilt trim; leather spine w/ five gilt raised bands & six gilt compartments. top edge gilt. blue-grey marbled pastedowns & endpapers. 534 pgs w/..... More
London, England: W. Strahan / J. Rivington And Sons / T.Payne Etc, 1784. Leather bound. half leather brown spine & corners w/ inlaid marbled blue-grey paper, gilt trim; leather spine w/ five gilt raised bands & six gilt compartments. top edge gilt. blue-grey marbled pastedowns & endpapers. 537 pgs w/..... More
London, England: W. Strahan / J. Rivington And Sons / T.Payne Etc, 1784. Leather bound. half leather brown spine & corners w/ inlaid marbled blue-grey paper, gilt trim; leather spine w/ five gilt raised bands & six gilt compartments. top edge gilt. blue-grey marbled pastedowns & endpapers. 480 pgs w/..... More
London, England: W. Strahan / J. Rivington And Sons / T.Payne Etc, 1784. Leather bound. half leather brown spine & corners w/ inlaid marbled blue-grey paper, gilt trim; leather spine w/ five gilt raised bands & six gilt compartments. top edge gilt. blue-grey marbled pastedowns & endpapers. 455 pgs w/..... More
New York: Fischers foreign letters, Inc., 1912. Hardcover. Tan cloth boards with gothic title script. Gilt lettering on spine. 348 pages illustrations. "This library edition sold by subscription and limited to one thousand copies." This copy not numbered. More