Showing 181-210 of 700
Price: $275.00
Publisher: Dai Torchj di Ranieri Prosperi: 1816
Seller ID: 2199182
Condition: Good
Fold-out included. Wrapper corners slightly curled, a few faint wrapper creases, ink name on front flyleaf, faint stain to margin of a few pages. 1816 Trade Paperback. lii, 252 pp. Buff wrappers, paper spine label. Engraving precedes text, fold-out map of Pisa bound in following text. An early 19th century celebration of the city of Pisa. A street in modern-day Pisa is now named after the author. View more info
By: Dankers, Jaspar; Sluyter, Peter; Murphy, Henry C. (Translator)
Price: $160.00
Publisher: The Society [Long Island Historical Society]: 1867
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1981951
Condition: Very Good
First edition. Board corners lightly stained, ink name on front endpaper. 1867 Hard Cover. xlvii, 440 pp. 8vo. Twelve plates, including nine fold-outs, following text. Original green cloth, gilt titles & rules, top edge gilt. A firsthand account of travels in colonial New York and vicinity, Delaware, the Hudson River, and Boston. One of 1000 octavo copies. Howes M905. View more info
By: Darley, F.O.C.
Price: $500.00
Publisher: James G. Gregory: 1862
Seller ID: 2267734
Condition: Very Good
Printed on flyleaf is the following text: 'Presented to Chas. Knickerbocker, by the Steel Plate Engravers of the Western Bank Note & Engraving Co. 'as a mark of esteem' and dated 1872, which seems to indicate this volume was custom-bound for Mr. Knickerbocker in that year. Professionally rebacked with original backstrip laid down, reinforcement to edges of first and last few pages. Two photographs and two engravings laid in. Foxed throughout, boards a bit rubbed with some drying along edges, later pencil gift note on front flyleaf dated 1903 presenting the book to J.H. Wilcox from his mother. ... View more info
By: Day, L. Meeker
Price: $60.00
Publisher: S.N.: 1833
Seller ID: 2202812
Condition: Good
First edition. Rebacked, new endpapers. Former library copy, only marks are blind-stamp and ink number on title page. Boards rubbed, spotting on a few pages. 1833 Hard Cover. viii, [9]-120 pp. 12mo bound in sixes. Two works bound together in one volume. Hoolihan 920: Day was a disciple of both Samuel Thomson and of James Morison (1770-1840), the founder of the Hygeian movement (botanic) in Britain. The bulk of The improved American family physician is extracted (with acknowledgment) from Thomson's writings, with occasional commentary by Day. View more info
By: De Amicis, Edmondo; Rollin-Tilton, C.
Price: $35.00
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons: 1882
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2150497
Condition: Good
First edition. A bit musty, ink name & date partially crossed out on front flyleaf. 1882 Hard Cover. v, 374, [2] pp. 8vo. A 19th century overview of Morocco and its citizens, with illustrations throughout text. View more info
By: De Amicis, Edmondo; Zimmern, Helen
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Porter & Coates: 1894
Seller ID: 2292774
Condition: Very Good
Includes fold-out map following text of second volume. Crayon scribbles on endpapers and one text page of volume 2, hinges just beginning to weaken, corners a bit rubbed. 1894 Hard Cover. 273, [3]; 275, [3] pp. 8vo. Green cloth, gilt titles and decorations, top edges gilt. A tour of Holland illustrated with photogravures, by the Italian author who also wrote a similar work on Morocco. View more info
By: De Buelow, Jos.; Geiger, Nep.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Jos. de Buelow: 1860
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2034867
Condition: Fair
Front hinge loose, first couple gatherings beginning to loosen, majority of spine cloth lost, boards rubbed & lightly soiled. 1860 Large Hardcover. 96 pp. 4to. Includes 48 full-page engraved plates from original ink drawings by Professor Nep. Geiger, together with historical sketches of Europe from 70-1826 A.D., compiled and edited by Jos. de Buelow. View more info
By: de Choiseul-Gouffier, Madame La Comtesse [Sophie Tisenhaus]; Patterson, Mary Berenice
Price: $20.00
Publisher: A.C. McClurg & Co.: 1900
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2290472
Condition: Good
First American edition. Hinges just beginning to weaken, front and end matter lightly foxed, ink name and date on front endpaper. 1900 Hard Cover. xx, [21]-321, [7] pp. Frontispiece of Alexander I, 4 portrait plates in text. A biography of Emperor Alexander I of Russia, by one of the first female writers in Lithuania. Born into nobility, she married a French nobleman who served under Napoleon after the French invasion of Russia in 1812. View more info
Price: $145.00
Publisher: Wm. Jas. Hamersley: 1851
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2003607
Condition: Good
First edition. Map and woodcuts present. Spine cloth split at rear joint, backstrip loose - easily repaired. Boards rubbed, scattered light foxing. Goodspeed catalog number in pencil on front endpaper. 1851 Hard Cover. xxvi, 509 pp. 8vo. Original brown cloth, gilt titles, blind-stamped borders. Includes very detailed table of contents and index, with six appendices following text. Sabin 19292. Howes D216: Best account of these tribes. View more info
By: de Marbot, Marcellin; Butler, Arthur John
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Longmans, Green, and Co.: 1892
Seller ID: 2284889
Condition: Very Good
First edition (not to be confused with early reissues, some of which were abridged). Publisher's presentation copy, with their blind stamp on each title page. Frontispieces a bit foxed, owner bookplate of Harry Sutherland on front endpaper of each volume. 1892 Hard Cover. viii, [2], 452, 24; 472 pp. 8vo. Includes three fold-out maps, portraits and maps in text. Translated from the French by Arthur John Butler. A biography of the French lieutenant-general who fought with Napoleon at Waterloo. View more info
By: De Puy, Henry W.
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Phinney & Co.: 1853
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2283789
Condition: Very Good
First edition (Sabin 19651; Howes D-265). Map, frontispiece, and view of Ticonderoga all included. Front matter foxed, a few other pages faintly foxed, corners a bit rubbed. 1853 Hard Cover. xvii, [18]-428 pp. 8vo. Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles and decorations on spine. Ethan Allen was a co-founder of the state of Vermont, the leader of the Green Mountain Boys militia organization, and an American Revolutionary War hero best known for capturing Fort Ticonderoga from Benedict Arnold. This biography includes an account of his life, an early history of Vermont, an engraved frontispiece o... View more info
By: De Puy, Henry W.
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Phinney & Co.: 1853
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2293113
Condition: Good
First edition (Sabin 19651, Howes D-265). Boards rubbed and a bit soiled, corners exposed, moderately foxed throughout, rear free endpaper and flyleaf removed. 1853 Hard Cover. xvii, [18]-428 pp. 8vo. Brown blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles and decorations on spine. Ethan Allen was a co-founder of the state of Vermont, the leader of the Green Mountain Boys militia organization, and an American Revolutionary War hero best known for capturing Fort Ticonderoga from Benedict Arnold. This biography includes an account of his life, an early history of Vermont, an engraved frontispiece of Kinney's sta... View more info
By: De Quincey, Thomas; Mackenzie, Shelton (Preface)
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Whittemore, Niles, and Hall: 1855
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 1980700
Condition: Good
First edition. Spine & edges faded, front board stained, boards rubbed, pages heavily toned, ink name on title page. 1855 Hard Cover. xxiv, 258 pp. 8vo. Original purple blind-stamped cloth, gilt titles. A novel by the author of Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, the famous autobiographical account of laudanum addiction. View more info
By: De Spinola, M.H.
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Chez Barbou, Imprimeur-Libraire: 1838
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2199178
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Nicely rebound in beige cloth with gilt titles and new endpapers. Owner bookplate on front endpaper. 1838 Hard Cover. 283 pp. 12mo. French text. Engraved frontispiece, one engraved plate in text. A 19th century Italian travelogue which includes descriptions of Milan, Turin, Alexandrie, Monza, Pavie, Asti, Genes, Pise, Livourne, Sienne, Florence, Modene, Reggio, Ferrare, Mantone, Peschiera, Verone, Venise, Ancone, Laurette, Rome, and Naples. View more info
By: De Thou, Jacque-Auguste [Jacques]; [le Beau, Charles; Le Mascrier; Abbe Des Fontaines]
Price: $1,750.00
Publisher: S.N.: 1734
Seller ID: 2295697
Condition: Very Good
Boards rubbed with some loss/drying of leather, corners exposed. 1734 Full-Leather. Complete in sixteen volumes. Full calf, morocco spine labels, gilt titles and tooled compartments. The life's work of the French historian and book collector who lived from the mid-16th to early 17th century. Originally published in Latin under the title Historia sui temporis, in 138 books, three years after the author's death. The work, despite controversy over some of its depictions of religious matters, quickly became regarded as a scholarly classic, characterized by exhaustive research and reference to the ... View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Van Benthuysen & Sons' Steam Printing House.: 1867
Seller ID: 2275128
Condition: Very Good
Lightly foxed throughout, edges a bit rubbed. 1867 Hard Cover. v, [3], 420 pp. 8vo. A collection of medical papers by various authors, with discussions of: embalming; materia medica; carbonaceous lungs; wound of heart; gingival margin as a diagnostic sign; obstetrical statistics; report of a case of gunshot wound of the liver; fibrinous bronchial casts; ophthalmic surgery; biliary calculus; general paresis, or incomplete progressive paralysis; recto-vaginal and recto-labial fistula; retroflexion of the unimpregnated uterus; ether; reparative autoplastic operation; excision; acute enteritis; ch... View more info
By: Defoe, [Daniel]
Price: $350.00
Publisher: C.D. Strong: 1851
Edition: Sixth Edition
Seller ID: 2280586
Condition: Good
Sixth edition. Spine toned, boards soiled and rubbed, endpapers and a couple text pages foxed, minor loss from frontispiece tissue guard, pencil name on front endpaper (Charles Brigand?). 1851 Hard Cover. vii, [2], 10-296 pp. 12mo. Includes engraved frontispiece entitled The Devil at Home. A Presbyterian view of the Devil, whom Defoe believed was a participant in world history. Originally published in 1726 as The Political History of the Devil. Defoe criticizes Milton's Paradise Lost for mistakes concerning Satan's nature and his fall from Heaven. View more info
By: Delafield, Francis; Stillman, Charles F.
Price: $225.00
Publisher: William Wood: 1878
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2203739
Condition: Good
First edition. Both illustrations included. Front hinge weakening, pencil name and ink owner stamp on front endpapers, ink owner stamp on preface page. 1878 Large Hardcover. 30 pp. A medical guide which, according to the preface, is intended for the use of those who have to teach and to learn the art of physical diagnosis... The drawings have been prepared by Dr. Stillman, and are original... The object of the entire work is to furnish a sort of skeleton, to which each one may add the facts furnished by his own observation. Includes two anatomical charts: one with several color overlays depict... View more info
By: Delanney, Ferd.
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Ch. Chardon: 1863
Seller ID: 2205080
Condition: Very Good
Matted for framing, taped to board at corners. Appears trimmed at lower edge. Image is free of stains, tears, and foxing, and the paper has not toned. 1863 Single Sheet. A hand-colored lithograph by Ferd. Delanney, measuring 6 5/8 x 4 3/4, on a 10 5/16 x 6 3/4 sheet (possibly trimmed). Printed in 1863 in Paris, it depicts President Lincoln in the East Room of the White House, receiving several Comanche chieftains. The Native Americans are highlighted with bold, bright colored clothing; comparatively, Lincoln and his attendants appear drab and colorless, so it is clear the Comanches were inte... View more info
By: Demosthenes; Holmes, Arthur
Price: $10.00
Publisher: John Allyn, Publisher: 1872
Seller ID: 2199449
Condition: Good
Free endpapers removed, pencil notes in text. 1872 Hard Cover. xxviii, 195 pp. Greek text with English notes. The most famous judicial oration by the ancient Greek statesmen and orator, originally delivered in 330 B.C. View more info
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Lee & Shepard: 1878
Seller ID: 2292199
Condition: Very Good
Boards lightly soiled. 1878 Hard Cover. 371, [1] pp. 8vo. By the author of 'That Husband of Mine'. Mary Andrews Denison's first publications were short sketches printed in the Boston Olive Branch where her husband, a Baptist minister and active abolitionist, was assistant editor. In 1847 Denison published her first novel, Edna Etheril, the Boston Seamstress. This potboiler began her prolific career as author of pulp fiction and dime novels. Denison published over 80 novels during her lifetime. Many of them do not deserve close scrutiny; they can be divided into a few groupings. Denison exploit... View more info
By: Dicey, Edward
Price: $250.00
Publisher: Macmillan and Co.: 1867
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2285903
Condition: Near Fine
First edition. Spine a bit faded, corners lightly rubbed. Binding tight, interior clean and bright. 1867 Half-Leather. viii, 248 pp. 8vo. Maroon leather spine and corners over coral cloth boards, black morocco spine labels, gilt titles and rules, gilt designs in spine compartments. A firsthand account of the marriage of Emperor Alexander III to Grand Duchess Maria Federovna (a Danish princess, and sister of Queen Alexandra of Great Britain). Mounted photographs of both on frontis and title page. Edward Dicey was a traveling journalist whose work appeared in Macmillan's Magazine, Spectator, Dai... View more info
By: Dickens, Charles
Price: $15.00
Publisher: D. Appleton and Company: 1868
Seller ID: 2200083
Condition: Very Good
Minor loss from spine head, front hinge just starting. 1868 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 326; 257; 194, 12 pp. 8vo. Includes three complete novels: The Pickwick Papers, Barnaby Rudge & Sketches by Boz. Vol. 1 of a 6-volume set. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised ... View more info
By: Dickens, Charles
Price: $15.00
Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.: 1868
Seller ID: 2200084
Condition: Good
Bottom corner lightly stained. 1868 Hard Cover. We have more books available by this author!. 340; 343; 112, 6 pp. 8vo. Volume 4 of a 6-volume set. Includes: Our Mutual Friend; Little Dorrit; Reprinted Pieces. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era, and he remains popular, responsible for some of English literature's most iconic characters. Many of his novels, with their recurrent concern for social reform, first appeared in magazines in serialised form, a popular format at the time. Unlike othe... View more info
By: Dickens, Charles
Price: $125.00
Publisher: Bradbury & Evans: 1857
Edition: First Edition
Seller ID: 2271960
Condition: Fair
First edition (three-line errata on p. xiv, William for Frederick on p. 317). Sold as is, an ideal copy for restoration to your specifications. Text block separated from cover, most of spine label lost, boards rubbed. Pencil name on front flyleaf. 1857 Half-Leather. We have more books available by this author!. 625, [3] pp. 8vo. Half-leather, marbled boards. Illustrations by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). Amy Dorrit’s father is not very good with money. She was born in the Marshalsea debtors’ prison and has lived there with her family for all of her twenty-two years, only leaving during the ... View more info
By: Dickinson, Mahlon H.; Biddle, Cadwalader
Price: $150.00
Publisher: Office of Eastern Executive Committee: 1888
Seller ID: 2159936
Condition: Good
Boards rubbed, rear hinge beginning to loosen, ink initials and pencil gift note on front endpaper ('M.F. Kooser, Presented by The Hon. J.L. Pugh'). 1888 Hard Cover. cxlv, 226 pp. 8vo. An early source of statistical information related to jails and penitentiaries, insane asylums, miners' hospitals, immigration, almshouses, and other institutions related to rehabilitation or special needs (e.g., The Pennsylvania Institution for the Instruction of the Blind). View more info
By: Dinks; Mayhew, Edward; Hutchinson, W.N.; Forester, Frank
Price: $75.00
Publisher: Geo. E. Woodward.: 1873
Seller ID: 2201092
Condition: Near Fine
Spine faded, ink name on front endpaper. 1873 Hard Cover. vi, 663 pp. Three classic guides to the care of dogs as pets or as sporting companions, collected in one volume with new illustrations by Frank Forester. BAL 8158. View more info
By: Dodd, Mead & Co.
Price: $10.00
Publisher: Dodd, Mead & Co.: 1880
Seller ID: 2290966
Condition: Good
Figure on front board missing face, boards a bit rubbed, front and end matter lightly foxed, ink gift note and later pencil gift note on front endpaper and flyleaf. 1880 Small Hard Cover. 96 pp. 16mo. 6 x 4. Numerous illustrations. The story of an idle, lazy boy named Gilbert and his adventures and lessons. View more info
By: Dodge, Mary Mapes; Alcott, Louisa May; Jewett, Sarah Orne; et al
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Scribner & Co.: 1876
Seller ID: 2195570
Condition: Good
Boards rubbed. 1876 Hard Cover. viii, 808 pp. This volume, despite stating it includes November 1875 - November 1876 on the title page, includes the November 1875 issue through the October 1876 issue (all issues 1-12 present, so this is clearly just an issue of semantics). Leather spine & corners, gilt titles & rules, marbled boards. Stories, poetry, and illustrations by various contributors, including: Amy Lovell; Frank R. Stockton; J.T. Trowbridge; Sarah Orne Jewett; Susan Coolidge; Rebecca Harding Davis; Louisa May Alcott (first appearances of Helping Along and Marjorie's Birthday Gifts]; B... View more info
By: Dodsley, J.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: J. Dodsley, Pall-Mall / T. Davison, Lombard-Street, Fleet-Street: 1800
Seller ID: 2200981
Condition: Fair
Formerly the property of Lenox Library (bookplate dated Feb. 1874 on front paste-down). Most of spine leather lost, title remains. Boards rubbed, page ridges lightly foxed, text unmarked and binding remains sound. 1800 Hard Cover. 339; 207. 8 1/2 x 5 3/8. 8vo. Original quarter-leather, marbled boards. Paginated in two separate sections, chapters include History of Europe; Chronicle; State Papers; Characters; Natural History; Useful Projects; Antiquities; Miscellaneous Essays; Poetry; Account of Books for 1781. Topics discussed include Indians of Porto de la Trinidad; John Law and the 1717 Miss... View more info