Epistolarum Liber IX. X. XI. XII. XIII. XIV. XV. XVI. Tomus II. Epistles Book IV to XVI. Volume II. by Cicero (Marcus Tullii Ciceronis) - 1676

The 1852 edition of Jacob Abbott's The History of Romulus, part of the Abbott's Histories series. Red cloth, blindstamped on both front and back. Gilt on spine. Famed full-color frontispiece is intact, as is tipped-in protective tissue. All eighteen B&W engravings are intact (five of them plates), including frontispiece.Spine is discolored and darker than rest of jacket, with significant wear on top. Cracking on both top hinges and fraying near bottom hinge. Bumping and fraying on corners. Pages are age tanned and have small stains. Endpapers are stained and have small writing. Cracking at 98-99.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Compnay, 1935. 672 pages.. Measures 7 1/2" x 10". Bookblock is solid, but there is very bad chipping found on the spine. Cover is disbound for three inches at the top front cover. From there on all pages are bound well, none missing, and really in pretty good condition. Pages are crisp and clean. It's a First Edition, thus the still high-end price for a collector's item. Someone adept at re-binding can have themselves a wonderful book after a little attention. After all, it is "Lawrence of Arabia." . First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. History.

Andrew E. Lang , a rare book of his poetry. Ban and Arriere Ban USED. 1st Edition, 1894, Longman's Green and Co. Deckle edge, tanning. Beveled green boards with gold gilt ornamentation. The Author's name appears in gold at the front lower right.board. . 118 pages. Illustrated by Henry Justice Ford. illustrator of the Fairy Books. Per wiki "Arrière-ban, in French customs, is a general proclamation whereby the king summons to war all his vassals and their vassals. To the Provost of Paris belongs the convoking and commanding of the arrière-ban. In the Medieval usage, arrière-ban denoted a general levy, where all able-bodied males were summoned into arms. List of contents available upon request.: ."Many of the verses of this collection appeared in magazines prior to appearing here". INCLUDES ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION PUBLISHERS STATEMENT, 4 3/8 x 2 3/8: "Messrs Longmans intend this book to be sold to the Public at the advertised price and supply it to the Trade on terms which will not allow discount."… Read More

Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: Harvard University Press and William Heinemann Ltd., 1980. Two volumes are numbers 70 and 79 in the Loeb Classical Library. Vol. I: xxvii, 475, 8 pages; vol. II: ix, 499, 7 pages. Volume I is a 1968 printing; volume II, 1980. In these 2 volumes (along with a companion work, On the Causes of Plants), the Greek philosopher Theophrastus of Eresus produced the most important botanical work of both the Ancient World and the Middle Ages. Both books are in almost as-new condition. The clean and bright dust jackets have some minor edgewear, with a hint of fraying at head os spine of one dj.. Reprints. Hardcover. Fine-/Very Good. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Book.

Philadelphia: Thomas Wardle, 1831. Reprint . Hardcover. Very Good. X, 11-492 Pp. Two Large Folding Maps At Front, Printed By William Sims Of New York. Full Speckled Calf, Black Morocco Spine Label, Gilt. Light Wear, Binding Tight And Still Very Securely Bound, But Tiny Chip At Top Of Spine, And Boards Worn Through At Corners Of Two Upper Tips With 1/4" Loss Of Leather At Each Tip. Interesting Association, With Large Ownership Initials And Full Signature Of John W. Faires Dated Oct. 1, 1834; Faires Was The Director Of The Classics School Of Philadelphia, An Important Preparatory School.

Grosset & Dunlap 1905. Very Good with no dust jacket. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. First trade edition, first printing. Very good book. Bound in dark red ribbed leather. Pages have a dark gilt to top edges. Former owner name, and dedication penned on back of front cover and another owners name penned on front pastedown. Shelf wear to edges, no jacket. Fairly scarce. 8vo .441 pages. Illistrated.

John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly London, 1867. HB NODJ,1867, stated second edition, Blue Pictorial Cloth with Gold Gilt decorations, Hinge slightly Starting, Minor Rub, Wear Scuff mainly on edges, Slight Fox Here & There, Former owner Name,Tiny chips base & top Spine, VG+/VG-, AS-IS, NODJ, Small Corner Bump, 266 pgs, index,Ads in Back Bk, . Hard Cover.

Venetiis: Ex typographia Remondini, 1751. Hardcover. See Description. 12mo. pp. 143, [1]. Title page is printed in red and black. Bound in modern quarter brown cloth with brown patterned paper boards. The edges of the leaves are untrimmed and ragged. The interior displays some marginal soiling and wear with occasional chipping and corner creasing. A tear on the lower part of page 19 is professionally and neatly sealed. The upper corner to the final leaf of the index is chipped/torn perhaps affecting a few numbers or letters. The imprint statement on the title page contains some rubbing which obstructs two letters in the word "typographia." A few brief instances of marginalia are written in a miniscule old hand. The corner of the head cap is neatly patched. Generally this is a well read copy. Cornelius Nepos (c. 99-24 b.c.e) was a Roman writer and historian. His surviving work Vitae execllentium imperatorum or Lives of outstanding commanders consists of a collection of short biographies of… Read More

McCarter, Margaret HillThe ReclaimersHardcoverPublisher: A.L. BURT, 1Used - Good. Hardcover. green cloth boards that are worn and rubbed, especially at corners, along edges and at spine ends where there is some threadbareness. Some soil on closed edges. Bottom fore edge corners of pages are yellowed and bumped, A few other corners and edges are bumped or creased. Age toned. Binding sound. Text clean of highlighting, underlining or other pen/pencil marks, but has previous owners name in pencil on both cover pages. Has loose hinge on front cover but otherwise binding is still in tact.

Ex officina Weidmanniana, 1739. Hardcover. See Description. 12mo. pp. [10] 348 [12]. Title printed in red and black. Crudely illustrated frontispiece. Annotated by Johann Minellii. This edition of Sallustius was probably meant for Latin students. The entire book is inter-leaved with blanks, presumably for note taking. Several blanks contain notes in a miniscule old hand. Bound in full vellum (darkened spine). [Schweiger II, p.881].