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Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Silva: or a Discourse of Forest-Trees by John Evelyn
Located in Middletown, NY
Silva: or, a Discourse of Forest-Trees, and the propagation of timber in His Majesty's Dominions; As it was delivered in the Royal Society on the 15th day of October, 1662, upon Occa...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
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Gold Leaf
A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, 1786 - 2 volumes
Located in Middletown, NY
A Dictionary of the English Language; In Which the Words are Deduced From Their Originals and Illustrated In Their Different Significant By Examples From the Best Writers. To Which are Prefixed a History of the Language and an English Grammar
London: printed by John Jarvis and sold by John Fielding...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
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Gold Leaf
The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, early edition 1786
Located in Middletown, NY
4th Edition of the magnum opus of the Scottish economist and moral philosopher Adam Smith.
Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
London: A. Strahan and T. Cade...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
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Gold Leaf
19th Century Album Containing Drawings, Memorabilia, and Botanical Samples
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely example of an intimate 19th century memorabilia album illustrating the era's sensibilities for nature and antiquities, and bound in an exquisite blank album with miniature v...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Chinoiserie by Dawn Jacobson (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A hardback book with original dust jacket. Chinoiserie is one of the strongest, mostt consistent strains in western taste. It has affected every area of decor and design from Chippen...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
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Paper
Schmetterlinge 'Butterflies' by Carl Gustav Jablonsky & J.F.W. Herbst
Located in Middletown, NY
An exceedingly rare and beautifully-illustrated work by Carl Gustav Jablonsky and JFW Herbst, whose Natursystem is one of the first attempts at a complete survey of exotic and European butterflies, and edited following the system of Carl Linnaeus (1707 – 1778), the father of modern taxonomy, as stated in the subtitle of the work.
Jablonsky, Carl Gustav & J.F.W. Herbst. Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insekten: Schmetterlinge; Nach dem System des Ritters Carl von Linné...
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German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Paper
Inverary Set of Fifteen Leather Bound Books
Located in New York, NY
Inverary set of fifteen leather bound books. The Annual Register or A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for the year comprising the years 1765-1792: volume 8, 9, 10, 11,...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Pliny, Gaius Secundus: HISTORIE OF THE WORLD
Located in Middletown, NY
A rare and complete first English edition of this seminal work.
Pliny, Gaius Secundus / Plinius, Gaius Secundus (23-79 AD) / Translated by Philemon Holland.
The Historie of the Wor...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Rider's British Merlin 1726; Adorned with many delightful Varieties and Useful.
Located in Middletown, NY
A precursor of Benjamin Franklin's famous and popular POOR RICHARD's ALMANAC
Rider, Cardanus
Rider's (1726) British Merlin; Adorned with many delightful Varieties and Useful Veritie...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Very Early Illustrated Book on Birds, Giovanni P. Olina: "Uccelliera", 1622
Located in Middletown, NY
Giovanni Pietro Olina. UCCELLIERA; Overo discorso della natura e proprietà di diversi uccelli e in particolare di que' che cantano, con il modo di prendergli, conoscergli, allevargli, e mantenergli.
Rome: Andrea Fe, 1622. FIRST EDITION.
Large Octavo, 9 3/16 x 6 7/8 inches (232 x 175 mm);pp. XI + 161 + [12], including 66 full-page engraving of which 43 represent individual birds and 23 illustrate the materials about trapping and caring for birds; woodcut initials & tail-pieces, light offsetting as typical, a little browned, a few stains, A7 lacking small portion from inner margin, E4 with small paper flaw holes at head just touching head-line; 18th century diced russia, rebacked, flat spines divided into panels by single gilt rules, gilt title and publication year, rubbed, corners worn, gilt-rolled turn-ins, marbled endpapers.
Front pastedown with the engraved armorial bookplate of Thomas Philip Earl de Grey...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Voltaire's Candide True First Edition & First London Edition
Located in Savannah, GA
A rare example of a first edition Candide, published in Geneva by Cramer, 1759.
299pp. Woodcut ornaments and Voltaire's corrected pages (pp. 31...
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Swiss Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare by Montagu, Mrs. (Elizabeth)
Located in Middletown, NY
Montagu, Mrs. (Elizabeth), 1718-1800
An Essay on the Writings and Genius of Shakespeare; An essay on the writings and genius of Shakespeare, compared with the Greek and French dramat...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Aesop's Fables - 1793 Stockdale ILLUSTRATED EDITION, Bedford binding
Located in Middletown, NY
Aesop (S. Croxall transl.)
The Fables of Aesop; With a Life of the Author; and Embellished with one Hundred & twelve Plates
London: John Stockdale, 1793.
FIRST EDITION - 2 vol., La...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Journals of the First and Second Continental Congress, by R. Aitken, Vol I, 1776
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Journals of Congress. Containing the Proceedings From Sept. 5. 1774. to Jan. 1. 1776. Philadelphia: Printed and Sold by R. Aitken, 1777. Volume I. First Edition. 8vo. Rebound in ¼ br...
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American American Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather, Fabric, Paper
A Parallel of Antient Architecture with Modern by John EVELYN
Located in Middletown, NY
Evelyn, John translator; Fréart, Roland de Chambray
A Parallel of Antient Architecture with Modern,; In a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have Written upon the Five Orders, P...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
De re hortensi libellus, a 16th Century Children's Gardening Book
Located in Middletown, NY
Estienne, Charles
De re hortensi libellus (A small book on gardening); . . . vulgaria herborum, florum ac fruticum qui in hortis conseri solent nomina latinis vocibus efferre docens ...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Dumfries House: A Chippendale Commission (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
These are the now very scarce set of two catalogues produced by Christie's for the sale of the contents of Dumfries House which contained a large collec...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Paper
20 Vol. Leatherbound Set- Bell's Edition, Dramatik Writings Of Will. Shakespeare
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Published London, 1788, John Bell. Nicely leather bound in brown with fine tan, brown and gilt spines. Watery green inside the boards.
5 3/4" H x 3 7/8" W x 1" D
Condition: the spi...
Category
English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
1st US Edition of ‘Enquiry Concerning Political Justice’ by W Godwin 1796
Located in Dallas, TX
PRESENTING AN EXTREMELY RARE FIRST US EDITION hardback copy of “Enquiry Concerning Political Justice and Its Influence on Morals and Happiness by William Godwin, First American from ...
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American George III Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Jonathan SWIFT. The Hibernian Patriot. 1730 - 2ND COLLECTED & 1ST LONDON EDITION
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: (SWIFT, Jonathan).
TITLE: The Hibernian Patriot: Being a Collection of Drapier's Letters to the People of Ireland, Concerning Mr. Wood's Brass Half-Pence. Together with Con...
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British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather
Thomas, Antoine Jean-Baptiste – Un an à Rome et dans ses environs....
Located in Middletown, NY
Thomas, Antoine Jean-Baptiste
Un an à Rome et dans ses environs; Recueil de dessins lithographiés, représentant les costumes, les usages et le cérémonies c...
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Persian Manuscript Page - Garden Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
Persian Manuscript Page depicting a garden scene. Circa 18th century.
Hand painted scene depicts a hilly outdoor landscape where people are congre...
Category
Persian Islamic Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
$600 / item
BARCLAY. An Apology for the True Christian Divinity - 1678 - 1ST ED IN ENGLISH
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: BARCLAY, Robert.
TITLE: An Apology for the True Christian Divinity, as the Same Is Held Forth, and Preached by the People, Called, in Scorn, Quakers.
PUBLISHER: [Aberdeen(...
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British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather
Goldsmith's Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God M.DCC.LXXXIV. 1784
Located in Middletown, NY
Goldsmith, John
An Almanack for the Year of Our Lord God M.DCC.LXXXIV. 1784
London: Company of Stationers, 1784
48mo, 4 x 2 1/2 in. (113 x 53 mm); pp. 48 + blank pages for each mont...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
A Rare Folio of Swiss Civil & Military Costumes after Hans Holbein the Younger
Located in Middletown, NY
Holbein, Hans the Younger (after) Chrétien de Méchel
Recueil de XII costumes suisses civils et militaires, hommes et femmes, du seizième siècle. Gravés d'après les dessins originaux ...
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Swiss Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Ireland House of Commons 1753 Vol. III and Statutes at Large 1703-1719 Vol. IV
Located in Morristown, NJ
Two leather bound volumes published in Dublin, Ireland in the mid 1700's.
The Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland from the Eleventh Year of King James the Fir...
Category
Irish Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
A rare 18th century VOC notebook with silver fittings VOC Chamber Rotterdam
Located in UTRECHT, UT
The black leather binding in faux shark skin, with silver fittings, unmarked, front and back centrally with a VOC ship within a symmetrical rococo cartouche, the two clasps with VOC ...
Category
Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Silver
Rider's British Merlin 1774 + The Court and City Register
Located in Middletown, NY
Rider, Cardanus
Rider's British Merlin 1774 + The Court and City Register
London: R. and M. Brown / Company of Stationers & J. Jolliffe, G. Woodfall, an...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Johannes Balbus. Catholicon, 1469, Original Leaf Printed by PETER SCHOEFFER
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author:: Balbus, Johannes.
Title: Catholicon. (An original leaf).
Publisher: Mainz: [Peter Schoeffer], 1469.
Description: An Original Catholicon Leaf Printed By Peter Schoeffer. 36.5 cm x 28.5 cm, printed in double columns with 66 lines to the page, rubricated 15 on recto and 38 on verso, printed on Galliziani paper, the half of the sheet without the watermark, but with the characteristic shadows at wire-line intervals of ca. 5 mm..
Condition: Mild toning to edges of leaf, otherwise invery good condition
Additional Information.: The first nonreligious book ever printed by the first printer. Below is an interesting translation mentioning Africa from Verso: column 2: 11th item: line 34 - "Heliotrope: A green colored stone having blood red veins. If placed in a silver dish filled with water and exposed to the rays of the sun, the water will turn blood red, and the sun will go dark. It is most brilliant when at the rising and setting of the sun it changes color. It is found in Africa."
Aside from a leaf from the Gutenberg bible this is one of the earliest possible obtainable pieces of printing associated with Johann Gutenberg.
Provenance: 1) Sir Hans Sloane...
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German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Paper
CAMDEN - The Historie of the Life & Death of Mary Stuart - SECOND EDITION - 1636
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: CAMDEN, William.
TITLE: The Historie of the Life and Death of Mary Stuart Queene of Scotland.
PUBLISHER: London: by John Haviland, and are to be sold by William Sheares, 1...
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British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather
15 Vols. William Shakespeare. The Plays
Located in New York, NY
15 Volumes. William Shakespeare. The Plays.
With corrections & Illustrations of various commentators to which are added notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. Fourth Edition Wi...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather
$7,500 / set
Four 18th Century Vellum Covered Latin Books
Located in Hudson, NY
These four books printed in Latin are covered in beautiful old vellum covers and spines. Each book contains text, margin commentary and pictorial illustration to the fronts pages. All but one is from the same library with like beautifully embossed bindings and like blue colored paper borders. These three had at one point clasp binders now gone or in a damaged state. The final book is vellum bound but not in embossed covers and spines.
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
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Paper
$2,750 / set
William Shakespeare, Othello, the Moor of Venice, a Tragedy, 1695 Sixth Edition
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
"But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve"
AUTHOR: SHAKESPEARE, William.
TITLE: Othello, The Moor of Venice. A Tragedy. As it hath divers times Acted at the Globe, and at the Black-Friers: and now at the Theatre Royal,...
PUBLISHER: London: for Richard Bentley, 1695.
DESCRIPTION: SIXTH EDITION. (ii)76pp., complete, quarto, 8-5/8" x 6-1/4", several leaves with untrimmed bottom edges, some toning and foxing to pages, closed tear to F2 mended without loss, a few headlines slightly trimmed but generally good wide margins, ex-libris Viscount Mersey of Bignor Park with book label...
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British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather
Hand-colored 16th century copy of the famous Moerentorf Bible
By Henry Moret
Located in ZWIJNDRECHT, NL
Publisher: Daniel Vervliet and Hendrik Swingen for Jan I Moretus & Jan I van Keerberghen
Place / Date: Antwerp, 1599
Biblia sacra. Dat is de geheele heylighe schrifture bed...
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Belgian Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Wood, Paper
$29,186 Sale Price
25% Off
Hand-coloured set of Buffon’s Histoire naturelle in its most luxurious form
Located in ZWIJNDRECHT, NL
Publisher: Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc de
Place / Date: Dordrecht, Abraham Blussé, 1766-1799
Size: 38 parts in 21 volumes.
Large 4to. With more than 1100 hand-coloured engraved ...
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Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Paint, Paper
$129,318 Sale Price / set
20% Off
18th Century Rare European Vellum Book
Located in Chicago, IL
18th Century Rare European Vellum book found in Germany.
This book has aged beautifully with exquisite patina.
Vellum (derived from the Latin word vitulinum meaning "made fro...
Category
German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
Seminal guide to the East and West Indies, with 42 coloured maps and plates
Located in ZWIJNDRECHT, NL
Seminal guide to the East and West Indies, with 42 double-page and folding plates, including 6 maps, all engravings beautifully coloured by a contemporary hand
LINSCHOTEN, Jan Huygh...
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Dutch Dutch Colonial Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Paper
$269,414 Sale Price
25% Off
NALSON, John. For The Tryal of K. Charles I - FIRST EDITION - 1684
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: NALSON, John.
TITLE: A True Copy Of The Journal Of The High Court of Justice, For The Tryal of K. Charles I. As it was Read in the House of Commons, And Attested under the ...
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American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Two Volume Set, First (Thus) Edition, 1790
By Daniel Defoe
Located in Colorado Springs, CO
Defoe, Daniel. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who lived eight & twenty years all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by himself. Vol I. [With:] The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; being The Second and Last Part of his Life, And of the Strange Surprizing Account of his Travels Round three parts of the Globe. Written by Himself. Vol II. [With:] George Chalmer's "Life of Daniel Defoe". London: John Stockdale, 1790. First (Thus) Edition. Two Volumes, Octavo. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces, vignette title pages, and full-page illustrations by Thomas Stothard, engraved by Meland. Rebound in full calf with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, blind embossing to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, and a new archival slipcase.
Presented is the first (thus) edition of John Stockdale’s 1790 edition of Daniel Defoe’s classic tale of adventure. This two volume edition is beautifully illustrated with engraved frontispieces, vignette title pages, and twelve full-page illustrations by Thomas Stothard and engraved by Meland. It is presented here rebound in full brown and tan calf, with intricate blind embossing to the front and back panels, raised bands, gilt tooling and gilt titles to the spine.
Defoe’s first long work of fiction, The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe introduced two of the most-enduring characters in English literature, Robinson Crusoe and Friday. Defoe based part of Robinson Crusoe on the real-life experiences of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor...
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English Georgian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
John MILTON. A Defence of the People of England. 1692 - FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: MILTON, John.
TITLE: A Defence of the People of England, by John Milton: in Answer to Salmasius's Defence of the King.
PUBLISHER: n.p., n.p., 1692.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDI...
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British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather
Bible, Biblia Sacra, Utrecht, Cornelius Guillielmus Le Febvre, 1732
Located in Delft, NL
Bible,, Biblia Sacra, dat is, de H. Schriftuer van het Oude, en het Nieuwe Testament, Naar de laetste Roomsche Keure der gemeine Latijnsche Overzettinge, in nederduitsch Vertaeld, me...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
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Leather, Paper
The FIRST Canter Edition of AESCHYLUS
Located in Middletown, NY
Aeschylus. Edited by Willem Canter.
Aeschyli Tragoediae VII. In quibus praeter infinita menda sublata, carminum omnium ratio hactenus ignorata, nunc primum proditur; opera Gulielmi C...
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European Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Furniture Collections in the Louvre (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
This is a deluxe edition in two volumes which does justice to the splendour of this incomparable collection. This collection has never before been the subject of such an important wo...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Paper
Theatrum Machinarum Generale. by Jacob Leupold - FIRST EDITION
Located in Middletown, NY
The most complete compendium on the technical sciences of the era.
Leupold, Jacob
Theatrum Machinarum Generale. Schau-Platz des Grundes Mechanischer Wissenschaften, das ist: Deutlich...
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German Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
17th C. Sheet Music "Feria vi. Paschae" (page 191 and 192)
Located in Soquel, CA
17th C. Sheet Music "Feria vi. Paschae" (page 191 and 192)
Excellent example of Latin sheet music for Catholic church services. Bold red title and notations, with red staff lines. N...
Category
European Baroque Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Paper
Cervantes, Miguel de — Don Quixote — 4 volume set
Located in Middletown, NY
4 vols.; 8vo, 6 1/2 x 4 in. (165 x 102 mm) , vol. 1: (6), xl, 293; vol. 2: (1), 314; vol. 3: 910, xi, 331; vol. 4: 91), 322. With 28 copperplate engravings designed by F. Hayman and engraved by G. V. Neist; all are signed by both artist and engraver; all have “Vol” and “p.” indications, except those for Vol. I., which have “p." indications only. Three-quarter tan calf binding with marbled paper, all edges stained yellow, gilt title, decorations and raised bands on spine. The antique bindings...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
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Leather, Paper
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1783
Located in Middletown, NY
London Almanack for the Year of Christ 1783
London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, 1783.
64mo, 1 1/4 x 1 3/8 in. (57 x 33 mm), 24pp. Original cream morocco elaborately gilt...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Bowles's New Collection of English Moths and Butterflies by Benjamin WILKES
Located in Middletown, NY
Bowles's New Collection of English Moths and Butterflies; In Twelve Prints, All Drawn from Life Representing near 300 different Species of those Beautiful Insects. Elegantly and accurately Engraved and disposed in an Ornamental Order To each Print is added:-A Description of their Names, Food, and times of Change, By Benjamin Wilkes.
London: Carington Bowles, 1764.
Second Edition.
Folio, (15 1/2 x 11 3/4 in, 394 x 300mm) Second edition, 1 title page and 12 plates engraved and hand-colored, trimmed to plate-mark at fore-edge, lightly browned, some spotting, later 3/4 red morocco with title and fillets in gilt, rubbed and a little stained, rebacked, corners worn.
The plates were engraved by Henry Roberts as evidenced in the markings of each plate the first edition, but omitted in the second edition.
[Nissen 4411; Linsey 183].
EXTREMELY RARE, COMPLETE BOUND SET of...
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English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
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Gold Leaf
Torquato TASSO, Gerusalemme Liberata
Located in Middletown, NY
An early illustrated edition of Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso (1544 – 1595)
"La Gerusalemme Liberata; Di Torquato Tasso – Figurata da Bernardo Castello – con le annotationi ...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather, Paper
17th Century Dutch Book, Oost-Indien, 1694
Located in Delft, NL
17th Century Dutch Book, Oost-Indien, 1694 by Frikius, Hesse and Schweitzer, Simon de Vries
Dutch translation by Simon de Vries of the accounts of three Ge...
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Dutch Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
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Paper
William BLACKSTONE. Commentaries on the Laws of England. 1770 - FOURTH EDITION
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: BLACKSTONE, William.
TITLE: Commentaries on the Laws of England. In Four Books.
PUBLISHER: London: At The Clarendon Press, 1770.
DESCRIPTION: FOURTH EDITION. 4 vols., squ...
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British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
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Leather
Richard Hooker Works in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity 1682 1ST COMPLET ED
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: HOOKER, Richard.
TITLE: The Works Of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity, Compleated out of his own Manuscripts.
...
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British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather
1788 The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakspere
Located in Bath, GB
A beautiful and scarce 'Bell's Edition of Shakespeare', the vanishingly scarce large paper variant, illustrated with engraved plates.
The very scarce complete twenty volume set. A large paper edition, uniformly bound in full morocco.
In 1785, John Bell began to issue the 36 separate plays of Shakespeare individually, collecting them here in twenty volumes in 1788 as the 'Dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere'. The set is scarcely found complete.
The first two volumes here are a remarkably comprehensive and broad 'Prolegomena' to Shakespeare's works, and offer interesting analysis of Shakespeare from an era where many of his plays were often interpreted differently, both in their production and in their critical reception.
The subsequent eighteen volumes consist of the plays themselves, along with notes from Samuel Johnson and George Stevens, a highlight of this particular edition.
Volumes I & II: Prolegomena To The Dramatick Writings of Will. Shakespeare. Nine plates to volume I, and eight to volume II.
Volume III: The Tempest and Two Gentlemen of Verona. Four plates.
Volume IV: The Merry Wives of Windsor and Much Ado About Nothing. Four plates.
Volume V: Measure for Measure and A Comedy of Errors. Four plates.
Volume VI: Love's Labour's Lost and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Four plates.
Volume VII: The Merchant of Venice and As You Like It. Four plates.
Volume VIII: The Taming of The Shrew and All's Well That End's Well. Four plates.
Volume IX: Twelfth Night and Winter's Tale. Four plates.
Volume X: Macbeth and King John. Four plates.
Volume XI: King Richard The Second...
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British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
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Paper
HABINGTON, William. The Historie Of Edward The Fourth - FIRST EDITION - 1640
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
AUTHOR: HABINGTON, William.
TITLE: The Historie Of Edward The Fourth, King Of England.
PUBLISHER: London: by Tho. Cotes, for William Cooke, 1640.
DESCRIPTION: FIRST EDITION. 1 vo...
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American Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather
Antique German Bible 1738 Martin Luther Old and New Testament European Germany
Located in Greer, SC
Collectible antique German Luther Bible, also known as " Lutherbibel " in Germany. The Lutherbibel is a German translation by the Protestant reformer Martin Luther, a New Testament t...
Category
German Other Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Wood, Paper
Aedium Farnesiarum Tabulae, Annibale CARRACCI, 1753 - oversized folio
Located in Middletown, NY
Carracci's frescoes at Palazzo Farnese in Rome
Rome: Venantius Monaldinus, 1753.
First Edition.
Oversized folio, 17 1/4 x 12 inches (438 x 304 mm); half title, engraved portrait o...
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Italian Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Furniture of Versailles, 17th and 18th Centuries '2 Volume Box Set' (Book)
Located in North Yorkshire, GB
A beautifully photographed 2 volume box set of books which presents this prestigious collection of furniture in a way that cannot be seen by visitors to the palace. Versailles was th...
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Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Paper
A New System of Modern Geography by William Guthrie - 1782
Located in Middletown, NY
A New System of Modern Geography; or, a Geographical, Historical, and Commercial Grammar; and Present State of the Kingdoms of the World. Maps engraved by Mr. Kitchin, C. Dilly and G...
Category
English Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Gold Leaf
Le moyen de parvenir by François Béroalde de Verville, (1556-1626)
Located in Middletown, NY
Le moyen de parvenir; oeuvre contenant la raison de tout ce qui a esté, est & sera : avec démonstrations certaines et nécessaires, selon la rencontre des effects de vertu .
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French Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
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Gold Leaf
Ariosto 'Lodovico', Orlando Furioso, the First English Language Edition, 1634
Located in Hillsborough, NJ
Author: Ariosto (Lodovico).
Title: Orlando Furioso In English Heroical Verse. By Sir John Harington of Bathe, Knight. Now thirdly revised and amend...
Category
British Antique 18th Century and Earlier Books
Materials
Leather
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