CARMEN SÆCULARE TO THE KING... de [ Prior, Matthew] - 1701

London: J Buckland, R and J Dodsley, G Woodfall, W Owen, E Dilly, T Field, C Henderson, 1770. First Edition . Disbound. Poor. 10" Tall. Illustrated Title and Final Pages; Decorations. Half title or front cover (with printed one shilling price); Title page; 24 pp. Lacking the top half of the last page (23/24), with loss of text, and lacking the errata, but with very old hand corrections to pp 16, 17, 20, 21, and 22. Worn, pages browned, half title with short crease at lower tip, both half title and title pages with 1/2" tear at center of spine edge.

NY: Harper and Brothers. Very Good with no dust jacket; Bookplates on front pastedowns, some . penciled underlining and notes, boards lightly worn.. 1868. Later Printing. Hardcover. Three volume set uniformly bound in brown cloth with titles in gilt on spines. Frontispiece engraved portrait of Addison in wig in Volume I. Volume I: xvi, 456pp; Volume II: 459pp; Volume III: 535pp. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

Voyageurs, Robes Noires, et Coureurs de Bois. By C.U. Clark. 1934 1st Edition Columbia University Institute of French Studies, Inc. FRENCH LANGUAGE. Stories from the French Exploration of North America, selected and edited by the venerable and renowned Charles Upson Clark, Ph.D: English title is: Travellers, Black Robes, and Wood-runners. Scarce. HARDCOVER. USED. Good Condition/ No DJ Included. Navy blue cloth boards with large gilt titling. No titling remains on spine. 5 ¾ X 8. 374 pages, indexed. Time period covered is 17th and 18th Centuries. JESUITS. ANTHROPOLOGY. SOCIAL SCIENCES. HISTORY OF FRANCE. HISTORY OF CANADA. CANADIANA. ABOUT THE EDITOR: Dr. Clark was the first archaeologist in the world to translate The Badianus Manuscript, aka The Codex Barberini, an Aztec compendium on traditional herbal medicine dating from the Fourteenth Century. Will ship from Oregon.

SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS. By Wanda Ga'g. 1938. Coward-McCann, Inc. First Edition, 18th Impression Thus. EXLIB. Good- Condition/ Good- Condition DJ. A clean, solid copy. Summary: "The beloved tale as the Grimm Brothers set it down, accompanied by perfect pictures." Translated and illustrated with woodcuts by author Wanda Ga'g. DJ flaps have been trimmed by library. DJ protected by mylar. (Please see our photos.) Back panel of the green, red and white dust jacket is a book list of Wanda Gag titles.

Red on boards with gold print front and spine. Some wear and spot on front.

Condition: Very Good. Full calf. Small stain to front of textblock, but it does not soak through to pages. Slight edgewear to upper front board. Toning to inside boards and endpapers. Some light foxing, particularly on the title page. A collected edition of the poems of William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649), which opens with a short account of his life and writings. 12mo

Very Good with no dust jacket; Pages toned but very clean and bright, boards lightly worn.. nd, Later Edition. Hardcover. Volumes I and II bound together, along with A Political Romance, Addressed to _______ ______, Esq; of York, no publisher, place of publication, or date noted. Printed on laid paper with lots of "f's" for "s's", so appears a late 18th- early 19th century imprint. Rebound in dark green buckram with title stamped in gilt on spine. Top edges gilt. Sabin 91342 notes that this title was originally anonymously published in London in 1770 as the work of a recently deceased literary genius, widely thought to be Laurence Sterne, but later found out to be a literary hoax and the handiwork of Robert Griffith. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 227 pages .

The Spectator was a two or three page paper written by Addison and Steele that was published from 1711-1712 in London, England. Eight bound volumes of The Spectator were published in later runs, each volume containing about 200 daily editions.
Boards are rubbed, scuffed and soiled and most of the gilt spine titles and red band backgrounds have faded. Corners are bumped. Volume two's rear board and volume eight's front board have seperated from the spine but have a very clean break and could be reattached with some basic rebinding. Raised spine ribs. Endpapers and title pages show minor browning with age, but all other pages are clean and bright for their age. Indexes at the rear of the texts.
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Scribner, 1988-01-15. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8x5x1. First edition, First Printing, Full Number Line Displayed. 1987, Macmillan. 404 pgs. Unmarked. Text free of highlighting, underlining /writing. Dust jacket included, shows some smudging, small tear at base spine, edge and shelf wear from use/ storage. Cover boards in vg condition. Binding solid. Ships quickly in box with care. Thank you for shopping with us!

Hardcover Condition: VG. Internally clean. Marbled end papers.