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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CANADIAN IMPRINTS 1751-1800.
University of Toronto Press, 1999. Photo reprint of the edition of 1952. Octavo, pp (xxx), 705. Blue cloth, without jacket, as issued. Fine copy. A fully descriptive bibliography of all books (known at the time) from the first fifty years of printing in Canada. The press came late to Canada. Virtually every book listed in this bibliography is rare to very rare today. The standard reference on the subject. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may br required. 0802042198
Book ID: 6387More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HORACE WALPOLE
London: Dawsons of Pall Mall, 1973. Facsimile reprint of the Yale 1948 edition. Black cloth. pp 189. Facsimile title pages, index. Bump to upper outer corners of covers, yellowing to page edges, else fine. Jacket has a very lightly sunned spine, else fine. ; Quarto
Book ID: 50940More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
London: Times Books, 1979. Two volumes in one facsimile reprint of the first edition of 1755. Maroon leather grain cloth. spine elaborately decorated in gilt, sprinkled page edges. Spine a bit concave, else fine, no owner marks. Maroon leather grain card slipcase has small rubbed spots, VG otherwise. Note: 10 kg, 43 x 28 x 10 cm parcel, extra postage at cost will definitely be charged.; Large folio 0723002282
Book ID: 51741More details Price: USD $195.00 USD $175.50 -
A JUNIUS BIBLIOGRAPHY: With a Preliminary Essay on the Political Background, Text and Identity ; a Contribution to 18th Century Constitutional and Literary History. Revised edition
New York: Burt Franklin, 1974. Maroon cloth without jacket, as issued. pp (10), (xxii), 137. Fine copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50329More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
A LITERARY MAP OF BALTIMORE, the Almost Athens of the Upper South., 1729-1969
Cockeysville, MD: Baltimore County Historical Society, no date (1969?). Large sheet folded to make sixteen 4 1/2 x 9 1/8 inch panels. VG, clean copy.
Book ID: 41870More details Price: USD $20.00 USD $18.00 -
A MEMOIR OF THE REVEREND SYDNEY SMITH. By his daughter, Lady Holland. With a selection from his letters, edited by Mrs. Austin. In two volumes
Edition: First US Edition
Book ID: 42702More details Price: USD $45.00 USD $40.50 -
A PRIMER OF BURNS
Edition: First printing
London: Methuen, 1896. Green cloth. pp (8), (188) + 40 pp Feb 1907 catalogue. Yellowing to page edge else a VG+ copy. Useful Burns checklist at rear. ; 12mo
Book ID: 50257More details Price: USD $16.95 USD $15.26 -
A REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE BIG BOOK OF ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
Seattle: Recovery Press, 1987. Green plasticized card covers. pp 148. With handwritten letter from the publisher to William French, book reviewer for Toronto's Globe & Mail soliciting a review. Fine copy. An index to the Big Book. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52455More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
A TALE OF A TUB. Written for the universal improvement of mankind. To which is added, on account of a battle between the antient and modern books in St. James’s Library
London: Printed for Charles Bathurst, and sold by T. Woodward, C. Davis, C. Hitch, R Dodsley, and W. Bowyer, 1751. The 10th edition. pp [2],xvi,[6],220 + frontispiece and 7 other plates. Bound in 19th century half calf and brown cloth; spine with red label, raised bands, decorations in blind; all edges red. Lighr rubbing to spine, scuffing to outer corners, ink name at top of title page, small tan spot to frontispiece, minor soiling and foxing in text; a VG copy, text clean, tight and unworn. Published anonymously. Volume 12 of the second edition of SWIFT'S MISCELLANIES. ESTC T49838.Teerink-Scouten, 69. ; 12mo
Book ID: 49744More details Price: USD $175.00 USD $157.50 -
A VOYAGE TO ABYSSINIA...Containing the history, natural, civil, and ecclesiastical, of that remote and unrequited country, continued down to the beginning of the eighteenth century...
Book ID: 46094More details Price: USD $450.00 USD $405.00 -
ABOUT FICTION: Reverent reflections on the nature of fiction with irreverent observations on writers, readers & other abuses
Edition: First printing
New York: Harper & Row, 1975. Inscribed by Author; Cloth and boards. Yellowed damp spots to top page edges, short narrow abrasion to upper edge of rear board, brown marks to upper edge of front pastedown; VG+ otherwise. Price-clipped jacket has new publisher price sticker beside the clip, internal damp stains along the top edge, nick at head of spine, VG+ and bright otherwise. Inscribed by the author to noted Canadiian author Leon Rooke and his wife Connie "For Connie, for Leon, and for peace in the family, Wright & Jo, July 1982". Constance Rooke was a Canadian author and academic who write her PhD dissertation on Morris. ; Octavo; Signed by Author 0060130822
Book ID: 53298More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
ALEXANDER POPE'S 'OPUS MAGNUM' 1729-1744.
Edition: First Edition
Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1977. Black boards. (xvi), 187 pp + frontispiece. Former owner's blind stamp to bottom outer corner of title page, else fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. "This study assembles and evaluates all available evidence bearing on the ambitious ethic system that Alexander Pope planned to erect upon the foundations of AN ESSAY ON MAN."
Book ID: 4966More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
AMERICA AND BELGIUM. A Study of the Influence of the United States Upon the Belgian Revolution of 1789-1790
Edition: First Edition
London: Unwin, 1925. Dark blue cloth. xii, 316 pp, indexed. Bookplate on front pastedown, otherwise fine, no owner marks, in a VG dust jacket, quite a nice copy of an uncommon book.; Octavo.
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 22763More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
AN ACCOUNT OF CORSICA: the journal of a tour to that island and memoirs of Pascal Paoli.The second edition
Book ID: 49746More details Price: USD $595.00 USD $535.50 -
AN ESSAY ON THE WRITINGS AND GENIUS OF SHAKESPEAR, with the Greek and French dramatic poets, with some remarks upon the misrepresentations of Mons. de Voltaire
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 49764More details Price: USD $350.00 USD $315.00 -
AN INQUIRY INTO THE SHARE, WHICH KING CHARLES I HAD IN THE TRANSACTIONS OF THE EARL OF GLAMORGAN, afterwards the Marquis of Worcester for bringing over a band of Irish rebels to assist the King in the years 1645 and 1646...
Book ID: 49755More details Price: USD $195.00 USD $175.50 -
AN INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY. In a Series of Letters from a Preceptor to his Pupil....Illustrated with Copper-Plates. The Second Edition, Corrected and Improved.
London: J. Johnson, 1787. Second edition, enlarged (first edition was in 1786). Old brown calf sides with more recent rebacking in tan calf with two labels. pp (viii), (438), (2, ads), (2, blank) + frontispiece and 19 folding plates (complete). No half-title leaf. Surface of sides rubbed away, leaving the leather like reverse calf; outer corners worn; inner hinges neatly repaired with rice paper; misfolding to many of the plates, some with a bit of wear & darkening to fore margins but images unaffected; VG otherwise, tight in the binding. Bonnycastle was Mathematical Master and Lecturer in Geography and Philosophy at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He also published instructional books of arithmetic, geometry, and algebra. The present title was reprinted a number of times.
Book ID: 8915More details Price: USD $350.00 USD $315.00 -
ART MADE MODERN: Roger Fry's Vision of Art
London: Courtauld Gallery / Merrell Holberton, 1999. Glossy card covers. Pp 224. Colour reproductions. Index. Fine copy. 1.3 kg parcel ; Quarto
Book ID: 51808More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
BÉLISAIRE
Book ID: 13316More details Price: USD $125.00 USD $112.50
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BELISAIRE. Par M. Marmontel, de l'Académie Françoise
Book ID: 47246More details Price: USD $225.00 USD $202.50