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Primo Canto dell' Iliade d'Omero

Primo Canto dell' Iliade d'Omero by HOMER ROYALTY

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Primo Canto dell' Iliade d'Omero
Author
HOMER ROYALTY
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1736. (FREDERICK LOUIS, PRINCE OF WALES) HOMER. Il Primo Canto dell' Iliade d'Omero. Tradotto in Versi Italiani. London: Giovanni [John] Brindley, 1736. Slim octavo, contemporary full crushed red morocco rebacked with original elaborately-gilt decorated spine laid down, gilt arms of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, on covers, raised bands, black morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; pp. (iii), iv-xvi, 1-40. $9500.1736 copy of the first two books of Homer's Iliad in Italian, from the library of the book's dedicatee, Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales—son of George II and father of George III—with the Prince's gilt-embossed armorial coat of arms on both covers, and dedication to ""Federico… principe di Wales,"" issued and bound by Brindley, official bookbinder to the Prince and Queen Caroline.This rare 1736 edition of the first two books of Homer's Iliad, apparently produced as a text for the study of the classics, is most probably from the library of Frederick Louis, Prince of Wales, son and heir to King George II, father to King George III and great-grandfather to Queen Victoria. Containing the majestic gilt-embossed armorial coat of arms of the Prince of Wales on both ornately gilt morocco boards, this is also notable for its a printed dedication to ""Federico… principe di Wales, e Principe Elettorale d'Hanover."" The Prince of Wales, who was born in Hanover, Germany and brought to live in England at age 21 in 1728, lived most of his life amidst a highly public feud with his father, who seems to have ""hated him from the moment of his birth… For years the only time when the Prince of Wales met his father was at the christenings of his children""— among them the future George III. George II seemed especially threatened by the Prince of Wales' popularity in political circles and a fashionable social world that found the ""Prince's company far more agreeable than that of his parents."" In one of the more legendary feuds between father and son, the Prince carried his wife Augusta away from the palace while she was in labor to prevent their first child, Princess Augusta, from being born near his hated parents, and George III, Frederick and Augusta's son and heir to the throne, was born ""in lodgings in St. James' Square because George II had evicted them from their apartments in the nearby palace"" (Fraser, Lives, 274-80). William Pitt and others often opposed to George II would be devastated by the sudden death of the Frederick in 1751— predeceasing his father by nine years. With the death of George II in 1760, George III, son of the Prince of Wales and grandfather of Queen Victoria, became King. With imprint of Giovanni (i.e. John) Brindley, who established a bindery in London in 1723 and five years later opened a bookshop in New Bond Street, where his elegantly bound volumes often bore his own imprint. Brindley was appointed bookbinder to Frederick and to Frederick's mother, Queen Caroline, and also numbered among his clients Sir Isaac Newton. With woodcut-engraved title-page vignette, woodcut-engraved ornamental initials, head-and tailpieces. Text in Italian with sidenotes in Greek. Armorial bookplate.Text generally fresh with light scattered foxing, mild edge-wear, small bit of expert archival restoration to spine ends of bright gilt morocco. A very rare extremely good copy.
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Holy Bible by BIBLE

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Holy Bible
Author
BIBLE
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1765. (BIBLE). The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments. Cambridge: Printed by Joseph Bentham and sold by John Beecroft, John Rivington, James Waugh, et al., 1765. 12mo, contemporary full blue-green morocco gilt with red and green morocco onlays, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, red morocco spine label, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. $5500.1765 ""Standard Edition"" of the King James Bible, distinctively bound in contemporary onlaid and elaborately gilt-tooled morocco, with intriguing provenance detailed in six manuscript pages of family history.The King James Bible, first published in 1611, is described as ""the only literary masterpiece ever to be produced by a committee and was the work of nearly fifty translators… [who] lived at a period when the genius of the language was in full flower… [Macaulay praised it as] ""a book, which if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power"" (PMM 114). In 1762, Bentham printed what became the standard edition of that magisterial translation: ""In this Bible a serious attempt was made [by S.F. Parris] to correct the text of King James' version by amending the spelling and punctuation, unifying and extending the use of italics, and removing printers' errors"" (Darlow & Moule 854). This 1765 twelvemo Bentham printing preserves the Parris text as it stood before Blayney's revisions in 1769. Without Apocrypha; with a separate title page for the New Testament. Darlow & Moule 867. ESTC N473261. Herbert 1164. Preliminary and final leaves used as family record for the Craggs family of Leighton Buzzard (some family members described as coming from Jamaica) and subsequent owners in the Gosden and Gilbert families; the earliest birth noted with the date 1770 and the latest 1845.Binding with very slight rubbing and small areas of unobtrusive restoration. A strikingly handsome Bible.
The Turtles of Tasman

The Turtles of Tasman by London, Jack

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Seller: Carpe Diem Fine Books
Title
The Turtles of Tasman
Author
London, Jack
Seller
Carpe Diem Fine Books (United States)
Description
New York: The MacMillan Company, 1916. First Edition. 8vo. [iv], 268, [2], [5 pp advertisements] pp. Mauve cloth with yellow lettering on front board; gilt lettering on spine; pictorial front board and spine in black, brown and reddish-orange; in publisher's scrarce, unsophisticated illustrated dust jacket. The book is in fine condition, with a hint of wear to extremities. The dust jacket has three tiney closed tears along lower edge and one tiney closed tear at upper rear edge; minor wear to extremities; a near fine copy. A collection of 8 stories published just before London's death; the title story, “The Turtles of Tasman,” is one of the more whimsical and ironic tales in the volume. (BAL 11968; Sisson & Martens pg. 90).
EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE. Speech of His Mightiness on Opening the Second Number of Bentley's Miscellany, Edited by "Boz."

EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE. Speech of His Mightiness on Opening the Second Number of Bentley's Miscellany, Edited by "Boz." by Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870]

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Title
EXTRAORDINARY GAZETTE. Speech of His Mightiness on Opening the Second Number of Bentley's Miscellany, Edited by "Boz."
Author
Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870]
Seller
Tavistock Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Some modest thumbing & soiling, and evidence of being disbound from another volume. Unobtrusive old paper repair along spine fol
Description
[London]: [Richard Bentley], 1837. 1st printing (Eckel, pp. 173 - 174; Gimbel E-33). Printed self-wrappers. Housed in a custom brown quarter leather chemise, gilt stamped lettering to front board. Some modest thumbing & soiling, and evidence of being disbound from another volume. Unobtrusive old paper repair along spine fold. Withal, a VG copy, in a VG chemise, which shows wear & rubbing along the spine.. 1 printed sheet, folded once vertically forming a 4 pp leaflet. Masthead vignette, by Phiz, depicting a young Dickens standing next to a plump porter carrying a large consignment of Bentley's Miscellany. According to Matz, Dickens in Cartoon & Caricature, the scene engraved by John Thompson. 8-11/16" x 5-13/16" Here Dickens, the new editor for the Miscellany, "paraphrased the average Royal speech, and by the use of bombastic and ponderous expressions announced the coming of 'Oliver Twist.'" [Eckel]. The drawing of Dickens by Phiz the earliest recorded by Wilkins, who compiled Dickens in Cartoon & Caricature [1924]. According to Podeschi, and as is usually the case, the leaflet most likely removed from Bentley's Miscellany Issue III of 1 March 1837, where it had been inserted preceding that issue's Bentley's Advertiser.
Per Amica Silentia Lunae (Presentation Copy)

Per Amica Silentia Lunae (Presentation Copy) by William Butler Yeats

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Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA
Title
Per Amica Silentia Lunae (Presentation Copy)
Author
William Butler Yeats
Seller
Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
London: Macmillan and Co, 1918. Cloth. Very Good +/Very Good. The 1918 1st edition, in its uncommon printed dustjacket. Solid and VG+ (light foxing to the 2nd blank endaper, only one signature {at the preliminaries} uncut) in a bright, VG dustjacket, with mild darkening and scuffing along the spine, light creasing to the top-edges and very mild chipping at the spine ends. Still though, very presentable. A Presentation Copy to boot, with the "Presentation Copy" blindstamp to the title page.
Principii di Architettura Civile di Francesco Milizia. Quarta Edizione Veneta, Riveduta, Emendata, ed Accresciuta di Figure Disegnate ed Incise in Roma da Gio. Battista Cipriani Sanese

Principii di Architettura Civile di Francesco Milizia. Quarta Edizione Veneta, Riveduta, Emendata, ed Accresciuta di Figure Disegnate ed Incise in Roma da Gio. Battista Cipriani Sanese by Milizia, Francesco

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Title
Principii di Architettura Civile di Francesco Milizia. Quarta Edizione Veneta, Riveduta, Emendata, ed Accresciuta di Figure Disegnate ed Incise in Roma da Gio. Battista Cipriani Sanese
Author
Milizia, Francesco
Seller
Bernett Rare Books Inc (United States)
Description
3 vols., 280, 308, 263 pp. architectural treatise, notes, lists, altogether 37 plates by Cipriani showing geometric diagrams, plans, architectural renderings, structural details, etc. Some foxing throughout. 1/2 cloth and boards. Bassano (Remondini e Figli) 1823.
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The Book of the Bench; with thirty-nine reproductions in colour from paintings by "Spy" and other cartoonists

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The Book of the Bench; with thirty-nine reproductions in colour from paintings by "Spy" and other cartoonists
Seller
ReadInk (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: James Mackenzie Limited. Very Good. 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. (embossed royal blue cloth; no dust jacket) [front hinge cracked but holding, otherwise a good sound copy; moderate wear to cloth at extremities, one-inch tear in cloth at top rear hinge, another tiny tear in cloth at top of spine; internally quite clean, with all plates present and in excellent condition]. (tipped-on color plates) An illustrated directory of prominent British judges and lawyers of the time, with each color plate accompanied by a one- or two-page biography. It starts at the top, with The Right Honourable Lord High Chancellor and The Right Honourable Lord Chief Justice of England, and proceeds through seventeen additional Right Honourables, fifteen mere Honourables, and an assortment of other characters such as The Recorder of London and His Honour Judge Francis Bacon -- and even a couple of guys who are apparently not Honourable at all. By these accounts, however, they were all a bunch of fine, upstanding fellows. A sample comment: "He is a quiet, kindly, considerate gentleman, wholly free from conceit, in whose keeping the wholesome traditions of the English Bench for good sense in civil matters and for humanity in criminal are quite safe." ("Humanity in criminal"? Perhaps a Freudian typo?) ***NOTE: Additional shipping charges for this heavy book may apply for non-U.S. customers, or for Priority Mail shipping within the U.S.; if this causes you concern, please inquire before placing your order.*** .
Splater Three Gorky Park (SIGNED)

Splater Three Gorky Park (SIGNED) by GONZALES, Mark

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Title
Splater Three Gorky Park (SIGNED)
Author
GONZALES, Mark
Seller
Harper's Books (United States)
Condition
Creasing to the top right corner which runs through most of the pages, with a small tear to the bottom of the spine. Else very c
Description
New York: Self Published, 2016. Creasing to the top right corner which runs through most of the pages, with a small tear to the bottom of the spine. Else very close to near fine in side-stapled wrappers.. First Edition. SIGNED by Gonzales. A self published black-and-white photocopy zine featuring Nestor Judkins, Tia Romano Gonzales, Donald Bruno and Guilherme Machdo. An assemblage of found text with cut out black-and-white photographs. Edition size not stated. Scarce.
The Sport of Queens

The Sport of Queens by Dick Francis

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Title
The Sport of Queens
Author
Dick Francis
Seller
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Stated First US Edition; A Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket with only a faint vertical crease to the front flap and one tiny closed tear near the spine foot, else a crisp and clean fine copy. An exceptional copy of this autobiography from Dick Francis, his first published work (originally published by Michael Joseph in 1957). Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a new sturdy box.
Drumbeat (later Screaming Eagle) [three issues]

Drumbeat (later Screaming Eagle) [three issues]

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Title
Drumbeat (later Screaming Eagle) [three issues]
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Portola Valley, CA: Screaming Eagle Press, 1980. Newspaper. Three issues of the tabloid format newspaper, all with horizontal fold, paper evenly toned, otherwise very good. Issues present are vol. 3 no. 1 of Drumbeat, followed by vol. 3 nos. 3 and 4 after the name changed to Screaming Eagle. Printed in cooperation with Oakland's Intertribal Friendship House. Includes articles on cultural and political events (Stanford Powwow, American Indian Music Festival, protests against construction at a burial ground, and much more).
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Willie and Joe: The WWII Years, 2 Volumes by Mauldin, Bill; DePastino, Todd

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Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB
Title
Willie and Joe: The WWII Years, 2 Volumes
Author
Mauldin, Bill; DePastino, Todd
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Fantagraphics, 2008. Fine. Mauldin, Bill. Willie and Joe: The WWII Years, 2 Volumes. DePastino, Todd. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2008. 307 ; 385pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Green cloth with pictorial embossing on slipcase. Book condition: Near fine.. Green cloth slipcase also embossed with the titular Willie and Joe on the front board with a stickered ""office dispatch"" on rear board..
To A Friend Condemnded To Prison

To A Friend Condemnded To Prison by WRIGHT, James

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Title
To A Friend Condemnded To Prison
Author
WRIGHT, James
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
np: np. Single sheet folded once to create 4 pages. Includes 2 black and white illustrations and a 24 line poem. A very good copy with a miniscule chip to one corner and some other slight wear. Scarce with no copies listed in OCLC or anywhere else.
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MEDITATIONS ON MIDDLE-EARTH by HABER, Karen, ed

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Title
MEDITATIONS ON MIDDLE-EARTH
Author
HABER, Karen, ed
Seller
Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description
NY: St. Martin's, 2001. First Edition. John Howe. 8vo, pp 235. Includes brief bios of the authors. Illustrated by John Howe. Fine in slightly scuffed dj. This collection contains: Introduction by George R. R. Martin; On Tolkien and Fairy Stories by Terri Windling; The Radical Distinction - A Conversation with Tim and Greg Hildebrandt by Glenn Hurdling; The Mythmaker by Lisa Goldstein; The Tale Goes Ever On by Charles de Lint; How Tolkien Means by Orson Scott Card; Tolkien After All These Years by Douglas A. Anderson; The Longest Sunday by Diane Duane; Rhythmic Pattern in The Lord of the Rings by Ursula K. Le Guin; A Bar and a Quest by Robin Hobb; Cult Classic by Terry Pratchett; The Ring and I by Harry Turtledove; If You Give a Girl a Hobbit by Esther M. Friesner; A Changeling Returns by Michael Swanwick; Awakening the Elves by Poul Anderson; and Our Grandfather: Meditations on J. R. R. Tolkien.

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