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Item #GRM0109 The war between the United States and Mexico illustrated, embracing pictoral...

Kendall, George Wilkins

The war between the United States and Mexico illustrated, embracing pictoral drawings of all the principal conflicts, by Carl Nebel, author of “A picturesque and archaeological voyage in Mexico,” with a descripion of each battle, by Geo. Wilkins Kendall, author of “The Texan Santa Fé Expedition,” etc., etc.

New York: Appleton & Company, 1851. First edition. Large Folio (23 ¼” x 17 ¼”, 590mm x 440mm): π2 1–132 [$1 signed]. 28 leaves, pp. i–iii iv 1 2–52. With a lithographed map and 12 hand-colored lithographed plates heightened in gum arabic. Rebacked in red straight grain morocco (an old.....

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Item #GRM0108 Americæ pars quinta. Nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni...

De Bry, Theodor

Americæ pars quinta. Nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni Mediolanensis Hia: secundæ sectionis Hispanorum, tum in Nigrittas seruos suos, tum in Indos crudelitatem, Gallorumq piratarū de Hispanis toties reporata spolia; Aduentū item Hispanorū in Novam Indiæ continentis Hispaniam, eorumq, contra incolas eius regionis sæuitiam explicans. Addita ad singula sere Capira scholia, in quibus res Indiæ luculenter exponuntur. Accessit præterea Tabula Chorographica Novæ Hispaniæ in India Occidentali.

Frankfurt: Theodor De Bry, 1595 [but 1617]. Second edition. Folio in 4s (14" x 9 1/2"): a–h4 i6 A–F4, 2 binder’s blanks [$3 signed; f3 signed “f2”]. 62 leaves, pp. [2] (title, blank) 1–72 [4] (2pp. blank, title, blank) foll. 1–22 [2] (2pp. blank). With two engraved title-pages, a folding.....

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Item #JLR0890 De Nola Opusculum. Distinctum Plenum Clarum Doctum Pulcrum Verum Graue Varium &...

Leone, Ambrogio

De Nola Opusculum. Distinctum Plenum Clarum Doctum Pulcrum Verum Graue Varium & Vtile

THE BEGINNING OF ARCHAEOLOGY Ex-coll. ÉTIENNE BALUZE and HONORÉ, 8th duc de LUYNES Leone, Ambrogio. De Nola Opusculum. Distinctum Plenum Clarum Doctum Pulcrum Verum Graue Varium & Vtile. Venice: Giovanni Rosso, 4 September 1514. First edition. Folio in 6s (11 ½” x 8 3/16”, 292mm x 209mm): 2 binder’s blanks.....

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Item #GRM0105 A relation of a Journey begun An: Dom: 1610. Four bookes. Containing a description...

Sandys, George

A relation of a Journey begun An: Dom: 1610. Four bookes. Containing a description of the Turkish Empire of Ægypt, of the Holy Land, of the Remote parts of Italy, and Islands adjoyning. The 6th Edition. [Sandys Travells]

London: for Philip Chetwin [and Robert Clavel], 1670. Sixth edition. Folio in 6s (7 1/8” x 11”, 181mm x 279mm): A4 B–X6 [$3 signed; A4 signed A3]. 124 leaves, pp. [8] (title, blank, 2pp. epistle dedication, 2pp. to the reader, 2pp. dedication to the prince) 1–240. With an engraved title.....

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Item #GRM0102 Die geuerlicheiten und eins teils der geschichten des loblichen streitbaren und...

Pfintzing, Melchoir (ed.); Maximilian I.

Die geuerlicheiten und eins teils der geschichten des loblichen streitbaren und hochberumbten helds und Rotters Twerdannckhs [Theuerdank].

Pfintzing, Melchoir (ed.); Maximilian I. Die geuerlicheiten und eins teils der geschichten des loblichen streitbaren und hochberumbten helds und Rotters Twerdannckhs [Theuerdank]. Augsburg: Johannes Schonsperger, 1519. Second edition (first edition available to the public). Folio (13” x 8 5/8”, 330mm x 220mm): a8(–a8) b8(–b1) c8 d6 e–h8 i6 k–n8 o6.....

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Item #JLR0885 Views in Egypt, from the Original Drawings in the possession of Sir Robert Ainslie,...

Mayer, Luigi

Views in Egypt, from the Original Drawings in the possession of Sir Robert Ainslie, taken during his embassy to Constantinople by Luigi Mayer: Engraved by and under the Direction of Thomas Milton: with historical observations and incidental illustrations of the Manners and Customs of the Natives of that Country

MAYER’S EGYPT with the PLATES in TWO STATES THE COMTE de la BÉDOYÈRE–COMAR COPY London: Thomas Bensley for Robert Bowyer, 1801 (plates dated 1801–1803). First edition. Folio (19 1/8” x 13 ½”, 484mm x 343mm): A2 B-2D2 [$1 signed]. 54 leaves, pp. [4] (title, blank, dedication, blank) 1 2-102 [2].....

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Item #GRM0100 Voyage dans l’Amérique septentrionale, ou description des pays arrosés par le...

Collot, Georges Henri Victor, General.

Voyage dans l’Amérique septentrionale, ou description des pays arrosés par le Mississipi, l’Ohio, le Missouri et autres rivières affluentes; observations exactes sur le cours et les sondes de ces rivières; sur les villes, villages, hameaux et fermes de cette partie du nouveau-monde; suivi de remarques philosophiques, politiques, militaires et commerciales; et d’un projet de lignes frontières et de limites générales. Avec un atlas de 36 cartes, plans, vues et figures. Par feu le Général Collot, Ex-Gouverneur de la Guadeloupe. Tome premier [- second]

Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1826. First edition. Text: octavo (7 7/8” x 4 15/16”).Vol. I: π2 1–268 [$2 signed]. 210 leaves, pp. [4] (half-title, advertisement, title, blank) i ii–vi vii–ix 10–416.Vol. II: π2 2π8 1–248 258 (–825) 26–278 [$2 signed; –227]. 224 leaves, pp. [4] (half-title, imprint, title, blank) i ii–viii.....

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Item #JLR0878 Three studies of the Tennis Court Oath (Serment du jeu de paume) on two sheets....

[David, Jacques-Louis?]

Three studies of the Tennis Court Oath (Serment du jeu de paume) on two sheets

Ca. 1792–1797. Sheet 2 (7 5/8” x 12 7/16”, 194mm x 316mm) recto: grey ink and wash over graphite, verso: “2” in brown ink. Watermark: arms of Le Tellier.Sheet 3 (7 9/16” x 12 ½”, 193mm x 317mm) recto: grey ink and wash over graphite with black chalk, verso: grey.....

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Item #GRM0097 Treaty of peace, Good Correspondence & Neutrality in America, Between the most...

[Treaty of Whitehall]

Treaty of peace, Good Correspondence & Neutrality in America, Between the most Serene and Mighty Prince James II. By the Grace of God, King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the faith, &c. And the most Serene and Mighty Prince Lewis XIV. The Most Christian King: Concluded the 6/16th Day of Novemb. 1686. Published by His Majesties Command

THE BIRTH OF AMERICAN SOVEREIGNTY Savoy: Thomas Newcomb, 1686. First edition. Small quarto (7 5/16” x 5 ½”, 186mm x 140mm): binder’s blank, A–B4 C2, binder’s blank[$half signed; –A1]. 10 leaves, pp. 1–2 3–19 [1] (advertisement). Bound in modern calf with a triple gilt fillet to the boards and gilt.....

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Item #JLR0758 Georgii Agricolae de re metallica libri xii. Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinæ,...

Agricola, Georgius

Georgii Agricolae de re metallica libri xii. Quibus Officia, Instrumenta, Machinæ, ac omnia denique ad Metallicam spectantia, non modo luculentissimè describuntur, sed & per effigies, suis locis insertas, adiunctis Latinis, Germanicisque appelationibus ita ob oculos ponuntur, ut clarius tradi non possint. Eiusdem de animantibus subterraneis Liber, ab Autore recognitus: cum Indicibus diuersis, quicquid in opere tractatum est, pulchrè demonstrantibus

Basel: Hieronymus Froben and Nicolaus Episcopius, March 1556. First edition. Folio in 6s (11 ¾” x 8”, 300mm x 204mm): 3 binder’s blanks, α4 χ1 a-z6 A-Bb6, 5 binder’s blanks [$4 signed]. 293 leaves, pp. [10] (title, French privilege, 4pp. epistle, 4pp. verses to the reader) 1-501 538 [74] (21pp.....

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Item #JLR0871 Uncle Tom's cabin; or, life among the lowly. Harriet Beecher Stowe

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Uncle Tom's cabin; or, life among the lowly

“Make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is” Ex-coll. a prominent New Hampshire abolitionist Two volumes. Hobart and Robbins for Boston: John P. Jewett & Company and Cleveland: Jewett, Proctor & Worthington; 1852. First edition in book form, first issue. Duodecimo in 6s (7 ½” x 4 5/8”.....

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Item #JLR0259 A Journey into Greece, by George Wheler Esq; In Company of Dr Spon of Lyons. In Six...

Wheler, George, Sir and Jacob Spon

A Journey into Greece, by George Wheler Esq; In Company of Dr Spon of Lyons. In Six Books. Containing I. A Voyage from Venice to Constantinople. II. An Account of Constantinople and the Adjacent Places. III. A Voyage through the Lesser Asia. IV. A Voyage from Zant through several Parts of Greece to Athens. V. An Account of Athens. VI. Several Journeys from Athens, into Attica, Corinth, Boeotia, &c. With variety of Sculptures. BOUND WITH The history of the city and state of Geneva, From its First Foundation to this present Time. Faithfully Collected from several Manuscripts of Jacobus Gothofredus, Monsieur Chorier, and Others. By Isaac Spon, doctor of physick, and one of the fellows of the colledge of Lyons. . .

Wheler, George, Sir. A Journey into Greece, by George Wheler Esq; In Company of Dr Spon of Lyons. In Six Books. Containing I. A Voyage from Venice to Constantinople. II. An Account of Constantinople and the Adjacent Places. III. A Voyage through the Lesser Asia. IV. A Voyage from Zant.....

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Item #JLR0851 Voyage en Morée, a Constantinople, en Albanie, et dans plusieurs autres parties de...

Pouqueville, François Charles Hugues Laurent

Voyage en Morée, a Constantinople, en Albanie, et dans plusieurs autres parties de l'Empire Othoman, pendant les années 1798, 1799, 1800 et 1801. Comprenant la description de ces pays, leurs productions, les mœurs, les usages, les maladies et le commerce de leurs habitans; avec des rapprochemens entre l'état actuel de la Grèce, et ce qu'elle fut dans l'antiquité. Par F. C. H. L. Pouqueville, docteur en médecine, membre de la commission des science et des arts d'Égypte, etc. Ouvrage enrichi d'un Précis historique et géographique sur l'ancienne Épire, et de Cartes dressées par M. Barbié du Bocage, Géographe des Relations Extérieures, accompagné de Pièces justificatives, et orné de Figures et de Vue [sic] nouvelles. Dédié a S. M. l'Empereur

Three volumes. Paris: Marchant for Gabon et Compagnie, 1805. First edition. Octavo (8 ½” x 5 7/16”, 215mm x 139mm).Vol. I: π4 (π4 trimmed to a stub) a4 1-338 34-354 (354 trimmed to a stub) [$2 signed; –344]. 278 leaves, pp. [6] (half-title, imprint, title, blank, dedication, blank) i ii-vii.....

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Item #JLR0847 Indian treaties, and laws and regulations relating to Indian affairs: to which is...

[Hamilton, Samuel (ed.)]

Indian treaties, and laws and regulations relating to Indian affairs: to which is added an appendix, containing the proceedings of the old Congress, and other important state papers, in relation to Indian affairs. Compiled and published under orders of the Department of War of the 9th February and 6th October, 1825

THE FIRST COMPENDIUM OF INDIAN TREATIES Ex-coll. SIR THOMAS PHILLIPPS UNOPENED IN BOARDS Washington City (D.C.): Way & Gideon, 1826. First edition. Octavo in 4s (9 ¼” x 5 7/8”, 236mm x 150mm): binder’s blank, a4 b4 c2 14 2-634 642 214 22-34 (34 blank), binder’s blank [$1 signed]. 276 leaves.....

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Item #JLR0842 Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell’Accademia del Cimento sotto la protezione...

[Magalotti, Lorenzo, Conte (ed.)]

Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell’Accademia del Cimento sotto la protezione del Serenissimo Principe Leopoldo di Toscana e descritte dal segretario di essa accademia

“THE BEGINNING OF MODERN PHYSICS” UNSOPHISTICATED IN WRAPS Florence: Giuseppe Cocchini, 1666 [but 1667]. First edition, first issue. Folio (14 3/16” x 10”, 361mm x 2563mm): π-2π2 ✠4 A-Ll4 *6 χ2 (χ2 blank) [$2 signed; –A2, C1, C2, D2, E2, F1, F2, G1, G2, H1, H2, I2, K1, K2, L1.....

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Item #JLR0843 Lutetiæ, vulgo, Paris, urbis Galliarum primariæ, non Europæ solius, sed orbis...

Berey, Nicolas after Noël Cochin

Lutetiæ, vulgo, Paris, urbis Galliarum primariæ, non Europæ solius, sed orbis totius celeberrimæ prospectus

THE RAREST VIEW OF THE SUN KING’S PARIS “The most famous city not just of Europe but of the World” Paris: Alexis-Hubert Jaillot, 1669. Third state. Twenty-four sheets joined: 8 woodcut sheets for the title, 10 etched-engraved sheets for the view (the panorama in 4, detail views in 4, vignettes.....

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Item #JLR0837 Narrative of a journey in the Morea. William Gell, Sir

Gell, William, Sir

Narrative of a journey in the Morea

THE JACQUES LEVY COPY London: A. & R. Spottiswoode for Longman, Hurst, Reese, Orme, and Brown; 1823. First edition. Octavo (8 3/8” x 5 3/8”, 212mm x 136mm): binder’s blank, A4 (A4+π1) B-CC8 DD4 EE2, binder’s blank [$4 signed]. 211 leaves, pp. i-v (title, imprint, dedication, blank, preface) vi-ix.....

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Item #JLR0835 Geographia. Ptolem, trans. Jacobus Angelus ed. Nicolaus Germanus

Ptolemy[, ed. Nicolaus Germanus, trans. Jacobus Angelus]

Geographia

THE CAPILUPI COPY Rome: Petrus de Turre, 4 November 1490. Second Rome edition. Folio in 8s (16 ½” x 11 1/8”, 420mm x 284mm): a10 (a1 blank) b-g8 h4 (h4 blank) A8 (A1 blank) B-C8 D-E6 (E6 blank) 2a-b8 c6 (c6 blank) [$half signed; –a1, A1, 2a1; D2 signed as.....

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Item #JLR0831 [Tôn Diônos rhômaikôn historiôn eikositria biblia] Dionis Romanarum...

Cassius Dio

[Tôn Diônos rhômaikôn historiôn eikositria biblia] Dionis Romanarum historiarum libri XXIII, à XXXVI ad LVIII vsque

THE [DUPORT–BARROW–]HUTH–PARCÉ COPY of the EDITIO PRINCEPS of DIO’S ROMAN HISTORY with EXCEPTIONAL MARGINS Των Διωνος ρωμαικων ιστοριων εικοσιτρια βιβλια [Tôn Diônos rhômaikôn historiôn eikositria biblia] Dionis Romanarum historiarum libri XXIII, à XXXVI ad LVIII vsque. Paris: Robert Estienne, 31 January 1548. Editio princeps. Folio in 6s (13 5/8” x 9”.....

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Item #JLR0827 The World Crisis 1911-1914 [--1915, --1916-1918 Part I[--2], --The Aftermath, --The...

Churchill, Winston Spencer, The Rt. Hon.

The World Crisis 1911-1914 [--1915, --1916-1918 Part I[--2], --The Aftermath, --The Eastern Front]

CHURCHILL’S MAGNUM OPUS A RARE UNIFORM SET OF FIRST PRINTINGS Five parts in six volumes. London: Butler & Taylor for Thornton Butterworth Limited; April 1923–October 1923–1927–1927–1929–1931. First British editions, first printings. Octavo (8 5/8” x 5 7/8”, 220mm x 149mm).Vol. I: binder’s blank, π4(–π1 blank) A-KK8 LL4, binder’s blank [$1.....

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Item #GRM0057 Commentaire sur l’ordonnance des eaux et foréts, Du mois d’Août 1669. Daniel...

[Jousse, Daniel]

Commentaire sur l’ordonnance des eaux et foréts, Du mois d’Août 1669.

Paris: Father Debure, 1772. First edition. Duodecimo (6 7/16” x 3 13/16”, 164mm x 97mm): binder’s blank, a12 (–a12) A–X12 Y6, binder’s blank [12s $6 signed; –a1, a2, 6s $3 signed]. 269 leaves, pp. i–iv (half-title, blank, title, blank) v–vii (3pp. table of contents) viii (blank) ix–xix (11pp. preface) [3].....

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Item #CWK0002 Legislative and documentary history of the Bank of the United States including the...

Clarke, Matthew St. Clair & D. A. Hall.

Legislative and documentary history of the Bank of the United States including the original Bank of North America.

Washington: Gales and Seaton, 1832, First edition. Octavo in 4s (8 ¾” x 5 ½”, 222mm x 140mm): binder’s blank, 14 (14 blank) 2-994 1004(-1004) a-d4 e2 1014, binder’s blank. 421 leaves, pp. [2] (2 blanks) i-iii (title, blank, preface) iv-vi 9 10-832 2799 2800-808. (=viii, 834). Bound in contemporary.....

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Item #JLR0774 A sporting tour through various parts of France, in the year 1802: including a...

Thornton, [Thomas,] Colonel; illust. [Joshua] Bryant

A sporting tour through various parts of France, in the year 1802: including a concise description of the sporting establishments, mode of hunting, and other field-amusements, as practised in that country with general observations on the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, Husbandry, and Commerce: strictures on the customs and manners of the French People; with a view of the comparative advantages of sporting in France and England. In a series of letters to the Right Hon. The Earl of Darlington. To which is prefixed, an account of French wolf-hunting. By Colonel Thornton, of Thornville-Royal, Yorkshire, Illustrated with upwards of eighty correct and picturesque delineations from original drawings from nature, by Mr. Bryant, and other eminent artists. In two volumes

Two volumes. London: James Cundee at Albion Press for Longman, Hurst, Reese, and Orme; and C. Chapple; 1806. “First and only edition.” Quarto (12 1/8” x 9 ½”, 307mm x 242mm).Vol. I: a4 b-h4 i1 B-Y4 Z2 χ1 [$2 signed]. 120 leaves, pp. i-vii (half-title, blank, title, blank, dedication, blank.....

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Item #JLR0769 Art du paumier-raquetier, et de la paume. François-Alexandre Pierre de Garsault

de Garsault, François-Alexandre Pierre

Art du paumier-raquetier, et de la paume

[Paris?] 1767. Folio (18” x 12”, 458mm x 305mm): π2 A-H2 I2(–I2) [$1 signed]. 19 leaves, pp. i-ii (title, blank) iii-iv 1-34. With 5 engraved plates. Bound in contemporary grey wrappers. All edges of the text-block untrimmed. Entirely unsophisticated, with some peripheral chips or wear. Text-block more or less tanned.....

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Item #JLR0766 Andreae Vesalii bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinæ professoris, de Humani...

Vesalius, Andreas

Andreae Vesalii bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinæ professoris, de Humani corporis fabrica Libri septem

THE RENAISSANCE OF ANATOMY, THE ANATOMY OF THE RENAISSANCE Basel: Johannes Oporinus, June 1543. First edition. Folio in 6s (15 11/16” x 10 3/8”, 399mm x 264mm): *6 A-Z6 a-l6 m8(+χ1) n-z6 Aa-Ll6 Mm8 [$4 signed; –*1; +Mm5; p5 signed “p4”]. 359 leaves, pp. [12] (woodcut title, blank, 6pp. dedication.....

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