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The Autobiography of Francis Arago. The Traveller's Library 78.
London: Longman, Brown, and Longmans, 1855. FIRST EDITION, with rare original covers. Crown octavo, pp.[6], 122. In publisher's original cream paper wraps with black titles printed to spine and covers. Covers lightly browned; more heavily to spine. Some loss to tail of spine. Very good indeed, especially considering the rarity..... More
Nouvelle Maniere de Fortifier Les Places.
The Hague: Arnout Leers, 1684. EARLY EDITION. Foolscap octavo, pp.[10], 96 [2]. All text in French. With 12 folding plans and tables at rear. In later mottled full calf with raised bands, gilt titles to red label on spine and further gilt decoration to spine. All edges flecked red. Armorial..... More
The Pantheon, Representing the Fabulous Histories of the Heathen Gods, and Most Illustrious Heroes; In a Short, Plain, and Familiar Method, by Way of Dialogue. The Nineteenth Edition. Revised, Corrected, Amended, and Illustrated with New Copper Cuts of the Several Deities. For the Use of Schools. By Andrew Tooke, A.M. Late Professor of Geometry in Gresham College, and Master of the Charter-House School.
London: Printed for C. Hitch, C. Bathurst, M. Cooper, Etc. 1757. [Classical mythology] SCARCE. Octavo (19 x 12cm), pp.[4]; 360; [36]. With 28 copperplates, including a frontispiece. Brown full calf, with gilt double-ruling to boards and gilt-ruled raised bands to spine. Edges speckled red. Interior toned and marked, a few..... More
Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel.
London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1892. [Satirical Novels] FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Complete in two volumes. Quarto (29 x 20cm), pp.[4] xlvi [2]; 341 [7]; pp.[4] xiv; 455 [5]. With 15 photogravure illustrated plates, including a frontispiece to volume I, with tissue guards. Number 247 of 1000 copies thus. Contemporary green..... More
Gargantua and Pantagruel.
London: The Folio Society, 2019. [Satirical Novels] LIMITED EDITION, FINELY BOUND AND ILLUSTRATED. Two volumes. Folio (38 x 28cm), pp.xxviii; 454 [6]; pp.xii; 455-949 [5]. A modern translation with Dore's original in-text wood engravings. Number 169 of 500 copies thus, typeset in Bulmer and printed on Abbey Pure Paper at..... More
Ballades: French and English.
London: Allan Wingate, 1946. [Late Mediaeval French Poetry] FIRST THUS. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.96. With occasional reproductions of the original fifteenth-century woodcuts. A dual-language edition, showing the original French on one side, and English translations on the other. One of 5000 copies on ordinary paper. Publisher's red cloth with..... More
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