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By: Boswell, James
Price: $1,225.00
Publisher: Bath, George Bayntun: 1925
Edition: First Edition Thus
Seller ID: 462B
Condition: Fine with no dust jacket
Inv. #462B. 2 volumes. 3/4 brown morocco over brown boards, bound by Bayntun-Reviere of Bath. Marbled endpapers. T.E.G. Newly edited and with notes by Roger Ingpen. With 576 illustrations, facsimiles, and maps, including 13 photogravures. This is a beautifully illustrated edition of Boswell's classic biography of Johnson, with portraits of all the major persons in the work.; Photo-gravure; 4to 11" - 13" tall View more info
By: Doran, John
Price: $1,500.00
Publisher: Boston, Francis A. Niccolls & Co.: N.D.
Edition: Limited/Numbered Edition
Seller ID: 452A
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
#452A. 18 vol. 3/4 turquoise leather over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. T.E.G. Pages untrimmed at side and bottom. Connoisseur Edition. #22 of 150 copies.; 8vo View more info
By: Junius
Price: $700.00
Publisher: London, G. Woodfall: 1814
Edition: Second Edition
Seller ID: 030919
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
Inv. # 030919. 3 volumes bound in full tan leather by Zaehnsdorf; marbled endpapers, all edges yellow; brown labels on spine. "Junius: Including Letters by the Same Writer, under other signatures, (now first collected.) To which are added, his Confidential Correspondence with Mr. Wilkes, and his Private Letters addressed to Mr. H.S. Woodfall. With a Preliminary Essay, Notes, Fac-similes, &c." According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, this is "the first new edition [since the 1772 Stat nominis umbra authorized edition] of real importance [and] was issued by the Woodfall Family in 1... View more info
Price: $950.00
Publisher: London, Richard Bentley: 1837
Edition: Second Revised Edition
Seller ID: P-030701
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
#P-030701. 3 volumes. 3/4 red leather, with marbled endpapers. T.E.G. Signed binding by W. Worsfold, London. Edited by her Great-Grandso n, Lord, Wharncliffe. Lady Mary Montagu was one of the most fascinating women in hstory. She married the richest man in England, then left him to live in Italy with a handsome young lover. She also lived in Turkey. She has been credited with first suggesting that smallpox could be prevented by injecting people with a small dose of the disease. Later, Jenner improved on this suggestion by using cowpox instead of smallpox. ; 8vo View more info
By: Pepys, Samuel
Price: $750.00
Publisher: NY, Random House: N.D.
Seller ID: 4385D
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
#4385D. 2 vol. 3/4 red leather over red cloth boards. T.E.G.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall View more info
Price: $1,050.00
Publisher: London, Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green: 1830
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1226N
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
#1226N. 2 vol. 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards. Part of "The Cabinet Cyclopaedia, conducted by the Rev. Dionysius Lardner, LL.D., F.R.S., etc., assisted by Eminent Literary and Scientific Men." This is The History of Scotland, by Sir Walter Scott, Bart.; 16mo 6" - 7" tall View more info
Price: $950.00
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott: 1893
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: P-040517
Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
#P-040517. 8 vol. 3/4 tan leather over marbled boards. Marbled endpapers. T.E.G. Black and red leather labels with gilt lettering. Gilt decoration on spine.; Etching; 8vo 8" - 9" tall View more info
By: Taine, H.A.
Price: $750.00
Publisher: London, Chatto & Windus: 1890
Seller ID: T-444B
Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket
#T-444B. 3/4 brown leather over marbled boards & endpapers. T.E.G. Signed binding by Chas. E. Lauriat. Translated from the French by H. van Laun. A classic history of English literature by a Frenchman.; 8vo View more info
By: Walpole, Horace
Price: $875.00
Publisher: London, Henry Colburn: 1847
Edition: Second Revised Edition
Seller ID: 3775B
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Inv. # 3775B. 3 vol. bound in full tan leather, with marbled edges and endpapers, leather labels, and spine decorated in gilt. Horace Walpole was "the youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Oxford." This is the second revised edition of the Memoirs, edited, from the original manuscripts by Lord Holland. Six illustrations, two in each volume. ; 8vo View more info
By: [Wilson]
Price: $775.00
Publisher: London, A. Fullarton & Co.:
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 459A
Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket
Inv. #459A. 2 volumes. 3/4 red leather over marbled boards; marbled endpapers. All edges marbled. Illustrated with engravings of Wellington's contemporaries. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall View more info
