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[Maria Theresa of Austria]. Fraganeschi, Ignazio-Maria. Descrizione de Solenni Funerali…di Ma- ria-Teresa Imperatrice…colla Orazione Funebre recitata dal Sig. Ab. D. Antonio Torregiani… Cremona: Lorenzo Manini, [1780].
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4to in 6s. 34, [2] pp., thick paper printed in decorative woodcut borders except final blank. Woodcut head- and tailpieces, footnotes. Bound in contemporary cat’s paw calf with gilt roll boarder and small fleuron at each inner corner, spine ruled in gilt, black endpapers and edges (extremities very lightly rubbed, small stain to front cover). …
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Handsome set of the dozen volumes that comprise an important, influential early addition to English women’s history, to English politics and the monarchy, to Great Britain’s Court and courtiers, and to its Kings and rulers, Queens and fortunes.
The O.D.N.B. entry for her notes that the work evidences the author’s turn in the 1830s (and that of her sister, the co-author, Elizabeth) towards biography, history and the original manuscripts that she and her sister were shown in the British Museum Library. This is the New Edition, with Corrections and Additions, published by Henry…
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G. Maspero, History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, A.H. Sayce, ed., translated by M.L. McLure, published by The Grolier Club, New York, 1903.
Still a particularly lovely exemplar of a set, complete in 13 volumes, of G. Maspero’s monumental historical survey of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria. The title page registers Maspero’s affiliations with Queen’s College, Oxford, he being a member then also of the Institute and Professor at the College of France. Augmented with over 1,200…
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Margit J. Smith, The Medieval Girdle Book, Oak Knoll Press, 2017.
Brand-new, still in shrink-wrap. I am proud to consider the author, Margit Smith, a librarian and hand bookbinder who retired in 2010 from the Helen K. and James S. Copley Library at the University of San Diego, a personal friend. Bound in an Imperial octavo hardcover format, with a brilliant, illustrated dust jacket and that is…
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Andrew Garran, ed., Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, Picturesque Atlas Publishing, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1888.
This monumental undertaking was designed to commemorate the Centennial of the founding of Australia. An unusually sturdy and attractive set, complete in three folio-sized volumes measuring 17 3/4″ tall by 13 3/4″ wide. Bound handsomely in original publisher’s full dark-green leather, rounded edges and tips, gilt-ruled, -lettered and -illustrated quite nicely. Bound by William Detmold, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,…
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Douglas Southall Freeman, Lee’s Lieutenants, The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1991.
As fine-looking a set of Douglas Southall Freeman’s magisterial study of Robert E. Lee’s lieutenants and the military history of the American Civil War as you’ll ever find. Sterling condition hardcover copies, complete in three volumes, handsomely produced as per usual Easton Press Collector’s Edition standards, with unbruised tips, tight bindings, and clean internals, showing…
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M. de Voltaire, The History of Charles XII King Of Sweden, Printed for Alexander Lyon, Covent-Garden, London, England, 1732.
SIGNED by Christopher Wren, Jr.? Stated Second Edition, Corrected (the original edition in the original French having been published the year prior), and includes “A New and Correct Map of Sweden,” in fold-out, up-front, two-panel and quite fine in clarity and sharpness. A perfectly serviceable reference copy; nothing fancy, but complete. Bound in a short…
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The Works of William Prescott, 15 volumes, complete, J.B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia.
A remarkably handsomely bound, sturdy, uniform set of the works of William H. Prescott, complete in fifteen (15) volumes. Hardcover format, measuring 7 1/2″ x 5 1/4″ in height and width, respectively, bound in creamy, light-brown half calf-leather (over tips and spine), fine marbled paper over boards, gilt-ruled spine, five raised bands to spines, each…
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Georges FOURNIER, Traité des fortifications, ou architecture militaire, tiré des places les plus estimées de ce temps, pour leurs fortifications, divisé en deux parties. La première vous met en main les plans, coupes & élévations de quantité de places fort estimées, & tenuës pour très-bien fortifiées. La seconde vous fournit des pratiques faciles pour faire de semblables. Quatriesme édition, Jean Henault, 1667, Paris
2 parts in 1 very small volume in-12 (11.5 x 8 cm), full vellum of the time (skillfully restored, small losses of skin on the headcaps), renewed covers and guards, scattered waterstains at the beginning and end of the volume (upper corner). – First part: 186 pp. (including the title-frontispiece, the title, privilege, dedicatory epistle…
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Belknap Jeremy, The history of New-Hampshire.
Volume I. Comprehending the events of one complete century from the discovery of the River Pascataqua. Volume II. Comprehending the events of seventy five years, from MDCCXV to MDCCXC. Volume III. Containing a geographical description of the State, with sketches of its natural history, productions, improvements, and present state of society and manners, laws and…