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Description of Greece: Translated from the Greek. With Notes, in Which Much of the Mythology of the Greeks is Unfolded from a Theory Which Has Been for Many Ages Unknown 3 Volumes by Pausanias Notes Half bound in maroon leather w/marbled paper over boards;Fore-edges have speckled red stain;Title etc. in gilt on spine w/green leather spine labels. Good (Top fore-edges slightly darkened;Leather rubbed at corners & spine ends;spines faded from exposure... (read more) Your price: $500.00 Rare Books - Leather 
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Odes and Epodes of Horace, 8 Volumes in 10: Signed Limited Edition by Horace and Howard Pyle and W H W Bicknell Notes Boston: Bibliophile Society (1902-03). Number 228 of 467 produced. 8 volumes in 10 each in a double slipcase. Quarter Japon vellum paper over boards. Signed by Howard Pyle W H W Bicknell & E H Garrett. This set is unopened. General light wear to bindings.... (read more) Your price: $800.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Carmina by Michel Giuseppe Morei Notes Rome: Joannis Zempel 1740. Octavo contemporary full vellum. Chipping at foot of spine; soiling to covers. xii 158pp. Bookplate to front pastedown endpaper; previous owners' names in contemporary ink to ffep; tearing to pastedown eps; foxing; leaf 3/4... (read more) Your price: $350.00 Rare Books - Vellum
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Roland Furieux, Poeme Heroique, 4 Volumes by Lodovico Ariosto and Louis d'Ussieux and Nicholas De Launay and Nicholas Ponce Notes Paris Chez Brunet 1775-1783. (Volume 4 Chez Laporte). 4 volumes 8vo (222x144mm) 19th century tree calf red morocco title labels gilt decorations in panels on spine. Frontis and 92 engraved plates by De Launay & Ponce after GB Cipriani CH Cochin Charles... (read more) Your price: $2500.00 Rare Books - Leather
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Merkwurdige Alterthumer Durch Mythologische, Historische und Andere Anmerkungen Erlautert by Jobst Wilhelm Munker and George Paul Nusbiegel Notes Nuremberg: G P Nusbiegel 1767 & 1776. 4to. 248 (10)pp. With 32 numbered plates one of which is partially hand-colored. 2 volumes bound together with separate title pages dated 1767 & 1776; text is numbered sequentially. Binding is slightly bowed with... (read more) Your price: $700.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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La Divina Comedia, 2 Volumes by Dante Alighieri Notes Mexico: Union Tipografica Editorial, (1958). 2 volumes. Text in Spanish. Full decorated green cloth, stamped in gilt & blind. Pictorial endpapers. Illustrated by Gustave Dore. Wear to bindings at extremities, age-toning to text. Translated from the... (read more) Your price: $300.00 Rare Books - Leather
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La Divine Comedie by Dante Alighieri Notes Paris: Garnier Freres, 1879. xii, xxiii, 592pp. Quarter leather, pebbled blindstamped cloth over boards. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Possibly rebound retaining original decorated spine & contemporary (though not matching) boards. Profusely... (read more) Your price: $200.00 Rare Books - Leather
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Ueber die Homerrecension des Zenodot by Adolf Romer Notes Half bound in cloth w/marbled paper over boards. Good/NI (Spine label faded & rubbed to the point of illegibility;Cloth of spine faded particularly near top;Board edges rubbed;Very tips of corners rubbed through outer cloth;Diagonal crease runs through... (read more) Your price: $250.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Opera Ioanis Despauterii Niniuite by Johannes de Spauter Notes Paris: Francois Regnault 1533-4. Quarto 14 x 18 cm. 7 parts in 1. Contemporary vellum boards stamped in blind spne gilt. 5 engraved title pages 4 with Regnault's elephant device. Engraved initials & colophons. Gothic type. Corners edges and spine ends... (read more) Your price: $1200.00 Rare Books - Vellum
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A Collection of Scarce and Vaulable Tracts, on the Most Interesting and Entertaining Subjects: but Chiefly Such as Relate to the History and Constitution of These Kingdoms. 2nd Edition, 13 Volumes by Walter Scott Notes London: T Cadell & W Davies 1809 - 1815. 4to. 13 volumes uniformly bound in brown pebbled cloth red morocco labels on spine. VG/- This the second edition was the first to have Walter Scott as editor. He added 81 new tracts to the edition. MP/cs 2 volumes... (read more) Your price: $1400.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Le Morte Darthur: the Book of King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table, 4 Volumes by Thomas Malory Notes London: The Medici Society 1910-11. 4 volumes. 4to. Full vellum with blue paper dustjackets. Green silk ties top edge gilt. Title pages printed in blue and black. 48 full color plates tipped in. All volumes in original blue paper covered slipcases... (read more) Your price: $2100.00 Rare Books - Vellum
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Los Libros de Marco Tulio Ciceron: De los Oficios, De la Amicicia, De la Senetud; con la Economica de Genofon by Marcus Tullius Cicero Notes Valencia: Benito Monfort 1774. Small quarto 16 x 21.5 cm. xii 471pp. Full contemporary vellum with hand-lettering on the spine. A translation into (Castilian) Spanish of the books of Cicero along with Xenophon's Economics. Translated by Francisco Thamara.... (read more) Your price: $200.00 Rare Books - Vellum
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Orationes Selectae XXVII by Jacobi Facciolati Notes Padua Joannem Manfre 1767. First edition. octavo contemporary vellum 404pp. Engraved device on title page engraved initial letters and vignettes throughout. Some stains to vellum insect damage to rear paste down and end paper notes in ink on front free... (read more) Your price: $100.00 Rare Books - Vellum
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Hippocratis Coi: Medicorum omnium principis, opera quae apud nos extant omnia by Ianum Cornarium Notes Paris: Apud Carolam Guillard 1546. Octavo 18 x 11cm. lxxvi 540pp. Bound in 18th-Century quarter leather with vellum tips and marbled paper over boards. Title and band rules on spine stamped in gilt tooling in blind. Boards and spine in worn condition... (read more) Your price: $1700.00 Rare Books - Leather
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Comoediae by Publius Terentius Notes Birmingham: John Baskerville 1772. 4to. 364pp. Contemporary full blindstamped vellum. Front hinge cracked. With the bookplate of George Tichnor the founder of the Boston Public Library. MPA/kb... (read more) Your price: $450.00 Rare Books - Vellum
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Des Wijtberoemden Hoochgeleerden Ouden Philosophi Ende Natuurcondigers Boecken Ende Schriften In Drie Deelen Onderscheyden... 1st Edition by Caius Plinius Secundus Notes Arnhem: Jan Janszen 1610. 4to. 1l. 612 6pp. 18.5cm. Modern half calf over paper covered boards all edges stained red. Colored title vignette of Noah's Ark woodcuts of animals throughout. Neatly repaired tear to title page some annotation in neat old hand... (read more) Your price: $4200.00 Rare Books - Leather
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The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans 4 Volumes by Plutarch Notes Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1979-81. 4 volumes, complete. Octavo, 16 x 23 cm. Original black leather stamped in gilt, all volumes with grey leather spine labels stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. Grey moire endpapers, ribbon markers sewn in. The... (read more) Your price: $250.00 Rare Books - Leather
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The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha, 2 Volumes by Miguel de Cervantes Notes Franklin Center: The Franklin Library, 1982. 2 volumes. Full leather stamped in gilt. All edges gilt, moire endpapers, marker ribbon sewn in. Front board of volume 2 very lightly scuffed. Very good condition. LTB/kb... (read more) Your price: $125.00 Rare Books - Leather
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Readings of the Inferno of Dante Based upon the Commentary of Benvenuto Da Imola and Other Authorities by William Warren Vernon Notes London: Methuen & Co. (1906) Two volumes. Second Edition. Blue cloth over boards, title to spines in gilt. Boards with light wear, corners bumped. Rear board of volume 2 indented, showing where the set has been rubber banded together. Heart shaped piece... (read more) Your price: $150.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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Mittellateinisches Worterbuch: bis zum ausgehenden 13. jahrhundert Band I A - B by Otto Prinz Notes 2nd volume - Abkurzungs- und Quellenverzeichnisse G/G (unbound in publisher's blue cloth binding cases with dust jackets. Band I contains 10 paperbound fascicles plus title pages & foreword to be bound in w/complete volume; some staining to dj spine... (read more) Your price: $70.00 Rare Books - Hardcover
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