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Chicago: Privately Printed, 1922. First. hardcover. very good(+). Illustrated with diagrams, including 1 folding plate, and 4 color plates, protected with tissue. 106 pages + 43 page appendix. 8vo, gilt-lettered blue cloth with lamen embossed at lower corner; beveled boards, uncut edges, top edge gilt. Chicago: Privately Printed for the Author, (1922/1925). Limited Edition - Signed by the author on the dedication page.<br/><br/> Binding is very lightly edgeworn and evenly faded, still a very good(+) copy of this unusual book. Copyright states "C. Stansfeld Jones, 1922," but 1925 is printed at foot of spine.<br/><br/>

Utrecht: Franciscum Halmam, 1693. Second. hardcover. near fine. Extra-engraved title page and 13 other fine copperplates, 7 folding, including 1 map. [46], 785, [164] pages. Two volumes in one with continuous pagination. Very thick 8vo, full contemporary vellum with gilt & blind-stamped covers and manuscript title on spine. Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: Apud Franciscum Halmam, 1693. Second edition. A near fine copy with clean plates.<br/> <br/> A good, annotated edition of De Rebus gesti Alexandri Magni, a biography of Alexander the Great, by the first century A.D. Roman rhetorician. This is one of the primary sources on the Macedonian king's life. Brunet II 449.<br/> <br/>

Utrecht: Franciscum Halmam, 1693. Second. hardcover. very good(+). Extra-engraved title page and 13 other fine copperplates, 7 folding, including 1 map. [46], 785, [164] pages. Two volumes in one with continuous pagination. Very thick 8vo, full contemporary vellum with manuscript title on spine; hinges cracked but still sound. Trajecti ad Rhenum [Utrecht]: Apud Franciscum Halmam, 1693. Second edition. A very good(+) copy with clean plates.<br/><br/> A good, annotated edition of De Rebus gesti Alexandri Magni, a biography of Alexander the Great, by the first century A.D. Roman rhetorician. This is one of the primary sources on the Macedonian king's life. Brunet II 449.<br/><br/>

Hague, 1708. hardcover. very good(+). Extra-engraved title page and 18 other fine copperplates, 11 folding, including 4 maps. [68], 468, [2], 469-855, [170]pp. Two volumes in one with continuous pagination. Very thick 8vo, full contemporary vellum with handsome gilt-stamped coat of arms on both covers; small gilt decorations on spine. Hagae Comitum [Hague]: Apud Petrum van Thol, 1708. Third edition. Very good (+).<br/> <br/> Presentation copy: an 1801 prize to a gymnasium student, neatly inked on the flyleaf. A good, annotated edition of De Rebus gesti Alexandri Magni, a biography of Alexander the Great, by the first century A.D. Roman rhetorician. This is one of the primary sources on the Macedonian king's life. Brunet II 449.<br/> <br/>

Florence, 1779. unbound. Engraving. Image size 7.25 x 7.75 inches. Sheet size 9 x 11.5 inches.<br/><br/> The letter Q, Quinto Curzio Vero, in a dynamic flaming scene, from A Dilettanti delle Bell' Arti, a decorated alphabet book. In very good condition. Shows some light staining. Stitching holes at left edge. Numeral 17 in pencil at right top corner. The first edition of an inventive engraved alphabet book in which each floridly elaborate letter stands independently in a landscape where it is accompanied by a figure from Greek or Roman mythology whose name begins with the letter in question.<br/><br/>

New York: Free Press, 1998. First. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(+). Illustrated in black and white. 545 pages. Large 8vo, black cloth-backed boards with gold lettering, d.w. (lightly edgeworn). New York: The Free Press, (1998). First edition. Remainder mark at bottom edge. Very good(+) in a very good(+) dust wrapper.<br/> <br/> Edited by Mary Gribbin. Illustrations by Jonathan Gribbin. Timelines by Benjamin Gribbin.<br/> <br/>

New York: Norton, 1985. hardcover. near fine/near fine. Illustrated, mostly in color. 176 pages, square 4to, red cloth, d.w. New York: Norton, (1985). A near fine copy in a near fine dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1999. hardcover. good/very good. Illus. 8vo, maroon cloth, d.w., cloth soiled. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, (1999).<br/><br/>

China: Shanghai Museum, 2005. First. hardcover. fine/fine. Well-illustrated throughout, mostly in color. 144 pages. 4to, blue cloth, d.w. China: Shanghai Museum, Beijing Museum and Art Museum, The Chinese Museum of Hong Kong, (2005). First edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Scarce exhibition catalogue with text in English and Chinese.<br/> <br/>

Philadelphia: E.C. Biddle, 1836. unbound. very good. Lehman and Duval. Portrait. Lithograph with original hand coloring. Page measures 20" x 14".<br/><br/> Beautiful portrait from the folio edition of McKenney and Hall's "History of the Indian Tribes of North America". As Superintendent of the Indian Trade Bureau, Thomas McKenney wanted to document the rapidly disappearing culture of the American natives. He activated the project, sponsored by the War Department, by commissioning writer James Hall and Charles Bird King, a renowned American portraitist. King painted the prominent Indians while they visited Washington D.C. as treaty delegates. Most of the original oil paintings were destroyed by fire in the Smithsonian Museum in 1865. These lithographs, published 1842-58, are all that remain and are still hailed as one of the best visual records of influential Native Americans of the nineteenth century. Qua-ta-wa-pea had fought on the side of the colonies against… Leer más

Ware: Quabbin Book, 1951. hardcover. very good(+). Edited by Roger Nye Lincoln. Sketches by Elizabeth Howe Lincoln, many black-and-white photographs. xviii + 631 pages. Large 8vo, green cloth; lettering on front cover and spine faded. Ware: The Quabbin Book House, 1951. Internally fine, a very good(+) copy.<br/> <br/>

Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1929. hardcover. Illustrated, 356pp. 8vo, black cloth, somewhat faded. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1929. Very good.<br/> <br/> Patronized by all classes, from King to Peasant, in Tudor and Stuart times, advertising was the mainspring of their success. This fascinating book is rich in reproductions in word and picture of their quaintly-worded advertisments. GM 6643.<br/> <br/>

Chicago: Volland, 1916. First. hardcover. very good(+). Charming color illustrations on every page by Johnny Gruelle. Slim 8vo, yellow pictorial boards, lightly rubbed at corners and small repair on back hinge. In the original pictorial box, the box is quite broken but it has saved the book. Chicago: Volland (1916). First Edition. Scarce. Very good (+).<br/><br/> The story of the toy duck and his other toy friends. Small neat gift inscription on fly leaf.<br/><br/>

New York: Lockwood, 1870. hardcover. very good(+). 3 volumes. Illustrated with 155 glorious hand-colored lithographic plates, protected by tissue guards. xvi, 383, [1 blank]; [iv], 334; vi, 348 pages. Royal 8vo, bound in original full brown morocco with ornate blind-stamped decorative covers and spines; marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. (Beautiful bindings are slightly rubbed; virtually spotless interiors). New York: George R. Lockwood, (no date, circa 1870). Fourth octavo edition.<br/><br/> The folio edition containing 150 plates was published between 1845-48. A supplementary volume with only 6 plates came in 1854. These were hastily followed by the octavo in 31 parts (1849-51-54), "A miniature copy of the large edition" as the Audubons described it. The bound octavo edition has the same dates and contains 155 plates, being all those from the original folio, plus 5 of the 6 from the supplement. This edition, circa 1870, is published by Lockwood who took possession of the… Leer más

New York: V.G. Audubon, 1854. hardcover. very good(+). Audubon, John James.. 3 volumes. Illustrated with 155 glorious hand-colored lithographic plates with tissue guards. viii, 383 [1]; ii, 334; viii, 348pp. Royal 8vo, wonderfully bound in contemporary red pebbled morocco; ornate gilt-decorated covers and spines; inner and outer dentelles, a.e.g. (bindings are just a bit rubbed; light scattered foxing throughout, but the plates are virtually spotless). New York: V.G. Audubon, 1852, 1854, 1854. Early edition.<br/> <br/> The folio edition containing 150 plates was published between 1845-48. A supplementary volume with only 6 plates came in 1854. These were hastily followed by the octavo in 31 parts (1849-51-54), "A miniature copy of the large edition" as the Audubons described it. The bound octavo edition has the same dates and contains 155 plates, being all those from the original folio, plus 5 of the 6 from the supplement. Bound copies of the octavo edition with the V.G.… Leer más

First Edition. pamphlet. 23 pages. Short slim 4to, modern wrappers. Montpellier, 1777.<br/><br/> Inaugural Diss., Univ. of Montpellier.<br/><br/>

pamphlet. 12 pages. Short slim 4to, modern wrappers. Montpellier, 1778.<br/><br/> Medical Dissertation, Univ. of Montpellier.<br/><br/>

paperback. 20pp. Slim small 4to, modern wrappers. Montpellier, 1781.<br/><br/> Inaugural Diss., Univ. of Montpellier.<br/><br/>

Montpelier: Martell, 1749. hardcover. very good. 8 parts in one. Small 4to, full contemporary calf; (spine worn). Monspellii: Joannem Martell, 1749-53. First Editions. Very good.<br/><br/> Eight dissertations submitted for vacant departmental professorships at the University of Montpellier. Blake, p.414.<br/><br/>

London: Longmans, 1894. hardcover. very good. Vol. II Part I: Osteology-Arthrology and Vol. II Part II: Arthrology- Myology-Angeiology. Each volume complete in itself. 479 engravings, some in color. 2 vols. (of 3), tall 8vo, cloth. London: Longmans, 1894, 1899. Reprinted from the Tenth Edition. Very good.<br/><br/>