Los Mozárabes de Toledo en los Siglos XII y XIII (Vol. I, II y III) de Angel Gonza´lez Palencia - 1926-8

Vernona: Antonio Portese, 1542. Octavo. 55 (1)pp. Woodcut printer's device on title page. Saraina was an Italian humanist, historian and patron. He was the author of the first printed book on the history and antiquities of Verona, published in 1540, with woodcuts after drawings by Giovanni Battista Caroto that are still extant After Torello completed De Orine et Amplitudine Civitatis Veronae, he pushed this volume on the history of Verona. Bound in full vellum, title on spine in brown ink. There are some light damp staining to lower corner of leaves(more so to last few leaves) lacks one front blank.

No. 108 of 150 large paper, hand-colored copies. Hand-colored inserted dedication page (to Don Caesar Frank Fiori); top-edge gilt; deckle edges; hand-colored plates; five distinctly raised bands; gilt decor to front, rear and spine compartments. A nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 4to; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Lauren Ford. This interesting little book is excerpted from Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. On 29 December 1938, Churchill wrote to his wife regarding his initial draft about this part of his history: "I have just finished writing about Joan of Arc. I think she is the winner in the whole of French history. The leading women of these days were more forceful and remarkable than the men." Profusely illustrated, this slim volume contains 17 illustrations by the distinguished artist Lauren Ford. Though 16 of these illustrations had previously been published as black and white drawings, this is their first appearance in color. The illustration on the dust jacket front cover and frontispiece is original to this edition. This little-known edition is scarce and thus missing from many collections. Many of the copies that do come on the market are ex-library with attendant flaws, very often including library stickers or… Leer más

Naples: Francesco Savio, 1648. Leather_bound. Very Good. [8], 450 [i.e. 462], [10] p.; 22 cm. Signatures: a4 A-3N4 (4to). Contemorary limp vellum with handwritten spine title. Errors in pagination: p. 458-459 misnumbered 454-455; p. 462 misnumbered 450. Woodcut tail-pieces and initials; printed marginal notes. Includes index. The first edition of the first two parts of the author's history of Spain under the Goths and the Moors. The third and fourth parts of the history were published in 1653. In Very Good Condition: fore-edge of front cover curling up; occasional light soiling; some pages browned.

London, England: Smith, Elder & Co. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1848. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 611 pages: 5 x 8 in.: 2.4: KB#011175: No Jacket As Issued. "St. Paul's To St. James's. With Forty-Five Illustrations." per the title pages, but, besides quite a few small chapter head illustrations, the two books contain frontispieces in each volume, plus a total of 26 large illustrations engraved by C. Thurston Thompson, from drawings by J. W. Archer and C. T. Thompson. Volume 1 contains 300 pages and Volume 2 has 311 pages, followed by a 12-page catalog of other works published by Smith, Elder & Co. Boards are original blind stamped, dark orange cloth, with gilt lettering on spine. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked (no writing, marks, or bookplates found at all), bright, tightly bound (except for beginning cracking of hinge in front of title page in vol. 1) and sharp cornered (except for some light wear at spine edges). Scarce, Out… Leer más

Vernona: Antonio Portese, 1542. Octavo. 55 (1)pp. Woodcut printer's device on title page. Saraina was an Italian humanist, historian and patron. He was the author of the first printed book on the history and antiquities of Verona, published in 1540, with woodcuts after drawings by Giovanni Battista Caroto that are still extant After Torello completed De Orine et Amplitudine Civitatis Veronae, he pushed this volume on the history of Verona. Bound in full vellum, title on spine in brown ink. There are some light damp staining to lower corner of leaves(more so to last few leaves) lacks one front blank.

No. 108 of 150 large paper, hand-colored copies. Hand-colored inserted dedication page (to Don Caesar Frank Fiori); top-edge gilt; deckle edges; hand-colored plates; five distinctly raised bands; gilt decor to front, rear and spine compartments. A nice clean copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 4to; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail. .

New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1969. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Lauren Ford. This interesting little book is excerpted from Churchill's A History of the English-Speaking Peoples. On 29 December 1938, Churchill wrote to his wife regarding his initial draft about this part of his history: "I have just finished writing about Joan of Arc. I think she is the winner in the whole of French history. The leading women of these days were more forceful and remarkable than the men." Profusely illustrated, this slim volume contains 17 illustrations by the distinguished artist Lauren Ford. Though 16 of these illustrations had previously been published as black and white drawings, this is their first appearance in color. The illustration on the dust jacket front cover and frontispiece is original to this edition. This little-known edition is scarce and thus missing from many collections. Many of the copies that do come on the market are ex-library with attendant flaws, very often including library stickers or… Leer más

Naples: Francesco Savio, 1648. Leather_bound. Very Good. [8], 450 [i.e. 462], [10] p.; 22 cm. Signatures: a4 A-3N4 (4to). Contemorary limp vellum with handwritten spine title. Errors in pagination: p. 458-459 misnumbered 454-455; p. 462 misnumbered 450. Woodcut tail-pieces and initials; printed marginal notes. Includes index. The first edition of the first two parts of the author's history of Spain under the Goths and the Moors. The third and fourth parts of the history were published in 1653. In Very Good Condition: fore-edge of front cover curling up; occasional light soiling; some pages browned.

London, England: Smith, Elder & Co. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1848. First Edition: First Printing. Hard Cover. 611 pages: 5 x 8 in.: 2.4: KB#011175: No Jacket As Issued. "St. Paul's To St. James's. With Forty-Five Illustrations." per the title pages, but, besides quite a few small chapter head illustrations, the two books contain frontispieces in each volume, plus a total of 26 large illustrations engraved by C. Thurston Thompson, from drawings by J. W. Archer and C. T. Thompson. Volume 1 contains 300 pages and Volume 2 has 311 pages, followed by a 12-page catalog of other works published by Smith, Elder & Co. Boards are original blind stamped, dark orange cloth, with gilt lettering on spine. Boards and pages are clean, unmarked (no writing, marks, or bookplates found at all), bright, tightly bound (except for beginning cracking of hinge in front of title page in vol. 1) and sharp cornered (except for some light wear at spine edges). Scarce, Out… Leer más