Oxford: Published by Clarendon Press / Humphrey Milford, 1925. Later Edition. Blue morocco leather over boards with gilded shape design on covers. Gilded spine with five raised bands and cells read, “Oxford Book of English Verse,” “1250-1900,” “1925.” Fully gilded fore edges. Gilded turn-ins. Deep blue marbled paper interior. Full.....
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. First/First Printing. First edition, first issue of this seminol and influential excursion book by Henry David Thoreau. Finely bound in full levant morocco by Bennett of New York, with original cloth covers and spine mounted to leaves at rear. Covers are green lightening to tan.....
Amsterdam: anonymous, 1769. 1st Edition. Illustrated with five engraved plates after Le Prince and Gravelot, etched title-page fleuron, and vignettes by Choffard. Bound by Emile Rousselle in full brown crushed morocco, a.e.g., the spine with gilt titles, doublures of blue crushed morocco with wide gilt tooled dentelle border and oval.....
Lugduni (Lyon): Simonis Vincentii, 1538. Later Edition. Fine binding. The name, “Edward White Benton,” is inscribed on the front flyleaf. Each section begins with a woodcut capital letter. Late 17th century full calf rebaked with original spine laid-down, gilt tooled in a fleur de lis seme pattern with a central.....
Venice: Aedibus Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri (Aldine Press), 1528 (April). A rare Aldine edition of this work which includes the Dream of Scipio, from Book VI of Cicero's De Republica, and is the most well known exceprt as it survivded in its entirety. It was Macrobe's commentary on this.....
Antwerp: Ioannem Bellerum, 1562. Jakob Holl. 2nd Abridged Edition. Copy in contemporary binding of this famous description of the Scandinavian countries. This is a Latin translation, abbreviated by Cornelius Scribon Grapheus, of the original published in 1555. It is very richly illustrated with woodcuts, including legendary animals and monsters. It.....