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1 Volume. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Poetical Works.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Poetical Works. Cambridge Edition. Bound in 3/4 tan calf and marbled boards. Raised band spine gilt-tooled with red and green morocco labels...
Category
Early 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Charles Dickens, Dombey & Son.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Charles Dickens, Dombey & Son. First Edition. Bound by Bayntun in full blue morocco with the covers and raised band spine gilt-tooled. All edges gilt with gilt-tooled turn-...
Category
Mid-19th Century Antique Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Francis Parkman, The Oregon Trail. Author's Edition. Bound in 3/4 navy morocco and marbled boards with gilt-tooled covers and raised band spine. top edge gilt with marbled ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Books
Materials
Leather
3 Volumes. Isaac Disraeli, Curiosities of Literature.
Located in New York, NY
3 Volumes. Isaac Disraeli, Curiosities of Literature. Bound in full tan calf. The covers and raised band spines display gilt-tooling with brown and green morocco labels. All edges ar...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler. Edition de Luxe. Bound in full black morocco with the covers displaying gilt-tooled titular lettering and a d...
Category
Early 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Samuel Pepys, Diary 1660-1669.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Samuel Pepys, Diary 1660-1669. Bound by Riviere & Son in full green morocco with gilt-tooled detailing on the covers and raised band spine. The cover also displays a multi-color inlay figure. All edges gilt with gilt-tooled dentelles and marbled endpapers. Edited by O.F. Morshead with 60 illustrations by Ernest H...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Leather
3 Volumes. William Shakespeare, The Histories and Poems.
Located in New York, NY
3 Volumes. William Shakespeare, The Histories and Poems. Bound by Oxford Binding in full tree calf, gilt-tooling, and red morocco labels. All edges gilt with gilt-tooled turn-ins and...
Category
Early 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
3 Volumes. Richard Muther, The History of Modern Painting.
Located in New York, NY
3 Volumes. Richard Muther, The History of Modern Painting. Bound by Sotheran in 3/4 brown morocco and linen boards with the covers and raised ban spines gilt-tooled. Top edges gilt w...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. The Court of St. Petersburg, Secret Memoirs.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. The Court of St. Petersburg, Secret Memoirs. Limited Edition. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in 3.4 green calf and marbled boards. Raised band spine gilt-tooled with a red morocco lab...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
2 Volumes. N.P. Willis & J. S. Coyne, The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. N.P. Willis & J. Stirling Coyne, The Scenery and Antiquities of Ireland. Bound in full green morocco, gilt-tooled detailing, and raised band spines. All edges gilt with gi...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Austen Dobson, Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Austen Dobson, Ballad of Beau Brocade and Other Poems. Bound by Kelliegram in full green morocco. The covers display a gilt-tooled border and a multi-color inlay figure. Th...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. (Anon) The Greatest Plague of Life.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. (Anon) The Greatest Plague of Life or The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant. Bound by Kelliegram in full wine morocco with multi-colored inlay on the covers....
Category
19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
6 Volumes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Poetical Works.
Located in New York, NY
6 Volumes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The Poetical Works. Bound in full blue morocco with the covers and raised band spines displaying gilt-tooled detailing. The top edge is gilt wi...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
2 Volumes. Humphrey Ward & W. Roberts, Romney.
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. Humphrey Ward & W. Roberts, Romney. Bound by Bickers & Son in full navy morocco with the covers displaying a gilt-tooled border. The spines display raised bands, bordering...
Category
Early 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders. Bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in full tan morocco with the covers and raised band spines decorated in gilt and open-tooled detailing. All edge...
Category
Early 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
10 Volumes. Giuseppe Verdi, The Great Operas.
Located in New York, NY
10 Volumes. Giuseppe Verdi, The Great Operas. The Verdi Edition. Bound in 3/4 morocco (various colors) and silk boards bordered in gilt-tooling. The spines display variously colored ...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Books
Materials
Leather
Collection of Evelyn Annenberg Hall, 640 Park Ave Christie's, NY, 2006, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
Collection of Evelyn Annenberg Hall from 640 Park Ave: Christie's, New York, 17 May, 2006. Louis XIV, XV and XVI Furniture, Chinese Porcelains, 18th & 19th c bronzes, antique rugs an...
Category
Early 2000s American Books
Materials
Paper
1 Volume. Gilbert Abbott A. Beckett, The Comic History of England.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Gilbert Abbott A. Beckett, The Comic History of England. First Edition. Bound by Bayntun in full red calf. The covers and raised band spine are gilt-tooled with green and p...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
6 Volumes. Edmund Lodge, Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain.
Located in New York, NY
6 Volumes. Edmund Lodge, Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Bound in full red morocco. The Covers and raised band spines display ornate gilt-tooling with black mor...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. H. Noel Williams, The Fascinating Duc de Richelieu.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. H. Noel Williams, The Fascinating Duc de Richelieu. First Edition. Bound by Bayntun in 3/4 wine morocco and marbled boards bordered in gilt-tooling with a gilt-tooled raise...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of English Verse.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, The Oxford Book of English Verse. Bound by Riviere in full brown Morocco with the covers and raised band spines gilt-tooled. All edges are gilt wi...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. W.S. Gilbert, The "Bab" Ballads.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. W.S. Gilbert, The "Bab" Ballads. Bound by Riviere & Son in full green morocco with the covers displaying gilt-tooled detailing and multi-color inlay figures. The raised ban...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Leather
Arshile Gorky A Retrospective by Michael R Taylor, 1st Ed Exhib. Catalog
Located in valatie, NY
Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective by Professor Michael Taylor and Kim Theriault. Yale University Press, Published 2009. 1st Ed Hardcover with dust jacket exhibition catalog for show at ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Books
Materials
Paper
Au Bucheron: La Chambre à Coucher (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A soft covered trade catalogue of bedroom furniture and sets. Stylistically it looks to be dated from the late 1920s or 1930s; it would not have been before 1923 as that was the date...
Category
20th Century Books
Materials
Paper
Antique Book Set, 13 Vols Charles Dickens Novels, English, Fiction, Victorian
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique set of 13 Charles Dickens novels. An English language, comprehensive library of fiction books, dating to the Victorian period, published 1866 to 1868.
Synonymous...
Category
Mid-19th Century British Victorian Antique Books
Materials
Paper
1 Volume. Dante Alighieri, The Vision.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Dante Alighieri, The Vision. Bound in full tree calf decorated in gilt-tooling with a red morocco label. All edges gilt with gilt-tooled dentelles and marbled endpapers. Tr...
Category
Late 19th Century Antique Books
Materials
Leather
8 Volumes. Haldane Macfall, A History of Painting.
Located in New York, NY
8 Volumes. Haldane Macfall, A History of Painting. Byzantine Edition. Bound in 1/4 red morocco and marbled boards with the raised band spines displaying gilt-tooled detailing. The to...
Category
Early 20th Century American Books
Materials
Leather
The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton by J T Herbert Baily, 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Life of Emma, Lady Hamilton by J T Herbert Baily. Published by Menzies London, 1905. 1st Ed hardcover no dust jacket as published. 137 untrimmed pages with all 23 portraits of Lady Hamilton each with a tissue guard. Dame Emma Hamilton...
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Books
Materials
Paper
1 Volume. Robert Frost, A Masque of Mercy.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Robert Frost, A Masque of Mercy. First Trade Edition. Bound in the publisher's blue cloth. Signed by the author. Housed in a 1/4 blue morocco and linen board slipcase with ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Robert Frost, You Come Too.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Robert Frost, You Come Too. First Edition. Bound in the publisher's orange cloth with decoration and lettering in brown. Wood engravings by Thomas W. Nasson. Housed in a ta...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Books
Materials
Leather
3 Volumes. Samuel Rush Meyrick, Ancient Armour.
Located in New York, NY
3 Volumes. Samuel Rush Meyrick, Ancient Armour. Bound in full tan calf with the covers displaying gilt-tooled borders and an open-tooled cross-hatching pattern. Respines in purple mo...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. John Brown, The Self-Interpreting Holy Bible.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. John Brown, The Self-Interpreting Holy Bible. Bound in full black morocco with the covers and raised bands displaying gilt-tooled detailing. All edges gilt, gilt-tooled den...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Books
Materials
Leather
25 Volumes. Sir Walter Scott, The Waverley Novels.
Located in New York, NY
25 Volumes. Sir Walter Scott, The Waverley Novels. Centenary Edition. Bound in full tan calf with gilt-tooled bordering on the covers. Raised band spine with gilt-tooled detailing an...
Category
Late 19th Century Scottish Antique Books
Materials
Leather
2 Volumes. Colonel Wilson, Picturesque Palestine, Sinai & Egypt.
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. Colonel Wilson, Picturesque Palestine, Sinai & Egypt. Bound in full black morocco with open and gilt-tooled detailing on the covers and raised band spines. All edges gilt ...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dramatic Poems.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Dramatic Poems. Bound in full wine morocco with the covers displaying a gilt-tooled border. Raised band spine with gilt-tooled detailing. Top edge gil...
Category
20th Century American Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Charles Eliot Norton, The New Life of Dante Alighieri.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Charles Eliot Norton, The New Life of Dante Alighieri. Bound in full red morocco with the cover displaying a gilt-tooled border. The spine displays raised bands and ornate ...
Category
Early 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Edward Fitzgerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Edward Fitzgerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Bound by Whitman Bennet Binderies in 3/4 purple morocco and decorative boards, bordered...
Category
Early 20th Century American Books
Materials
Leather
19 Volumes. Bret Harte, The Writings.
Located in New York, NY
19 Volumes. Bret Harte, The Writings. Riverside Edition. Bound in 3/4 green Morocco and marbled boards bordered in gilt-tooling. Spines display gilt-too...
Category
Early 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler. First Rackham Trade Edition. Bound by Bayntun in full green calf; covers bordered in gilt-tooling. Raised ban...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Leather
9 Volumes. Horace Walpole, The Letters.
Located in New York, NY
9 Volumes. Horace Walpole, The Letters. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco and marbled boards, bordered in gilt-tooling. Raised band spines with gilt-tooled det...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Emma Roberts, Hindostan.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Emma Roberts, Hindostan. Bound in full red morocco with the covers displaying open-tooled central details, and gilt-tooled floral bordering details. The spines display raised bands, label lettering, bordering, and panel details, all gilt-tooled with some open tooling. All of the edges are gilded with floral gilt-tooled dentelles. Includes landscapes, palaces, tombs, temples, the shores of the Red Sea, and the sublime and romantic scenery of the Himalayan Mountains. Illustrated in a series of views drawn by Turner, Stanfield, Prout, Cattermore, Roberts, Allom, etc. Published by Peter Jackson...
Category
19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Rachel Annand Taylor, Leonardo the Florentine.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Rachel Annand Taylor, Leonardo the Florentine. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco and decorative boards bordered in gilt-tooling. Raised band spine with gilt-tooled detailing. Top ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Books
Materials
Leather
4 Volumes. J.R. Green, A Short History of English People.
Located in New York, NY
4 Volumes. J.R. Green, A Short History of English People. Illustrated Edition. Bound in 3/4 red morocco and marbled boards bordered in gilt-tooling. The...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
17 Volumes. Guy De Maupassant, The Works.
Located in New York, NY
17 Volumes. Guy De Maupassant, The Works. Academie Edition. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco and marbled boards, bordered in gilt-tooling. The spines displ...
Category
Early 20th Century Books
Materials
Leather
6 Volumes, M. Rollin, the Ancient History
Located in New York, NY
6 Volumes. M. Rollin, The Ancient History. Bound in full tan calf with the covers displaying a gilt-tooled border and open-tooled cross-hatching. The spines display red and green mor...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
12 Volumes. The Brontë Sisters, Novels.
Located in New York, NY
12 Volumes. The Brontë Sisters, Novels. Thornton Edition. Bound by Root & Son in 3/4 tan morocco and linen boards, double bordered in gilt-tooling. The spines are faded to brown and ...
Category
Early 20th Century British Books
Materials
Leather
2 Volumes, J.J. Foster, The Stuarts
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. J.J. Foster, The Stuarts. Limited edition. Bound in full red morocco with covers displaying ornate gilt tooling on the borders and central familial crests. Raised bands gi...
Category
Early 1900s English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
The House and Garden Book of Classic Rooms, First Edition
Located in valatie, NY
The House and Garden Book of Classic Rooms by Robert Harling, Leonie Highton, and John Bridges. Vendome Press, NY, 1990. First Edition hardcov...
Category
20th Century American Books
Materials
Paper
8 Volumes. Charles C.F. Greville, The Greville Memoirs.
Located in New York, NY
8 Volumes. Charles C.F. Greville, The Greville Memoirs. Bound by Bayntun in full navy morocco with the covers displaying gilt and open-tooling. The spines display raised bands, borde...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
2 Volumes. Samuel Rogers, The Writings.
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. Samuel Rogers, The Writings. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in full navy calf with the covers displaying a double border with floral corner flourishes, both gilt-tooled. The spines d...
Category
Early 19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Edward Fitzgerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Edward Fitzgerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Bound in full blue morocco with the cover displaying a central floral crest in gilt-too...
Category
Early 20th Century American Books
Materials
Leather
5 Volumes. George C. Williamson, Bryan's Dictionary of Painters & Engravers.
Located in New York, NY
5 Volumes. George C. Williamson, Bryan's Dictionary of Painters & Engravers. Bound in 3/4 purple morocco and linen boards, bordered in gilt-tooling. The spines display raised bands, ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Books
Materials
Leather
1 Volume. Walton & Cotton, The Complete Angler.
Located in New York, NY
1 Volume. Walton & Cotton, The Complete Angler. Bound by Bayntun in 3/4 tn calf and marbled boards. The Spine displays raised bands, figurine panel details, bordering, and label lett...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
2 Volumes. Colonel Wilson, Picturesque Palestine, Sinai & Egypt.
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. Colonel Wilson, Picturesque Palestine, Sinai & Egypt. Bound in 3/4 brown morocco and linen boards with gilt-tooled borders and title lettering. The spines display raised b...
Category
Late 19th Century American Antique Books
Materials
Leather
2 Volumes. Madame Campan, The Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette.
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. Madame Campan, The Memoirs of the Court of Marie Antoinette. Limited Edition. Bound in 3/4 blue morocco and linen boards double bordered in gilt-tooling. The spines displa...
Category
Late 19th Century English Antique Books
Materials
Leather
Antique Book, Thoughts on Hunting by William Beckford, English, Georgian, 1810
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is an antique book, Thoughts on Hunting by William Beckford. An English language hard bound compendium of sporting letters, dating to the Georgian period, published 1810.
An En...
Category
Early 19th Century European Georgian Antique Books
Materials
Paper
28 Volumes. Theodore Roosevelt, The Works.
Located in New York, NY
28 Volumes. Theodore Roosevelt, The Works. Elkhorn Edition. Bound in 3/4 wine Morocco and marbled boards, bordered in floral gilt-tooling. The spines di...
Category
Early 20th Century American Books
Materials
Leather
2 Volumes. John Fiske, The Life and Letters.
Located in New York, NY
2 Volumes. John Fiske, The Life and Letters. Bound in 3/4 wine morocco and marbled boards, bordered in gilt-tooling. The spines display raised bands, bo...
Category
Early 20th Century American Books
Materials
Leather
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