London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1908. 8vo (195 x 128 mm). xii, 288 pp., including frontispiece and several illustrations in text. Bound in fine contemporary dark-purple-blue morocco, boards with gilt embossed floral decoration and ruling, spine has 5 raised bands with gilt-lettering and floral decoration in compartments, all edges gilt... More about Scouting for Boys: A handbook for instruction in good citizenship. Complete edition, revised and...

Paris: Compagnie des libraires, 1716. 12mo (162 x 93 mm). [16], 447 [1]; [8], 509, [3] pp., engraved frontispiece facing title-page in each volume and 18 engraved plates by Antione Clouzier (8 in vol. I and 10 in vol. II), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, errata leaf to each volume... More about Nouvelles avantures de l'admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche / Composées par le licencié...

Cologne: Ulrich Zell, 1470. Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c. 1470. 4to (210 x 145 mm). 262 unnumbered and unsigned leaves (complete). Collation: [a-z⁸ A-I⁸ K⁶]. Gothic Type in 27 lines. Red-painted lombards. Contemporary South German calf binding over wooden boards with fine single stamps (flower pot, two-headed eagle, krowned Maria initials)... More about Summa collationum, sive communiloquium

Venice: Jacobus à Burgofrancho, 1537. I. Ilias, Andrea Divo justinopolitano interprete, ad verbum translata. Herodoti Halicarnassei libellus, Homeri vitam fidelissime continens, Conrado Heresbachio interprete... Venice: Jacobus à Burgofrancho, March 1537. Title within woodcut architectural border. [8], [8], [6], 3-277, [3] leaves, including colophon leaf and 2 blanks at end. Signatures... More about Ilias, Andrea Divo justinopolitano interprete, ad verbum translata... / Odyssea Andrea Divo...

London: William Crook, 1676. Homer's Iliads in English / By Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury. To which be added Homer's Odysses Englished by the same author. London: Printed by J. C. for W. Crook, at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar, 1676. [12], 384 pp. Signatures: A-Z⁶, Aa-Kk⁶ (A4-6, advertisements; U1 incorrectly... More about Homer's Iliads in English / By Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury. To which be added Homer's Odysses...

Bologna, Rome: Franciscus Plato de Benedictis for B. Hector, 1489. 1. April 1489. 64 unnumbered leaves. Signatures: a⁴ b-c⁸ d-i⁶ k^{8. 25 lines, type 1:113R. Colophon on A4v ('Romae die. XX octobris M.cccc.lxxxvii') and on K8r. 4to (195 x 136 mm). Bound in 18th-centruy full vellum, spine with gilt-lettered morocco...} More about Contra poetas impudice loquentes carmen. De suorum temporum calamitatibus

La Haye [i.e. Paris]: Coustellier, 1742. 12mo (160 x 96 mm). [6], 137 [1] pp. Signatures: *⁴ A-E¹² F⁸ G² (-G2). Title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, 9 engraved vignettes by Fokke after De Sève, bound without the final blank leaf G2. Contemporary French mottled calf, plain spine... More about Histoires ou Contes du Tems Passé, avec des Moralités. . . Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une...

London: various, 1733. POPE, Alexander. I. An Essay on Man. In Epistles to a Friend, Corrected by the Author, Epistles I-IV. London: printed for J. Wilford, [1733]. [7] 8 5-17 [1]; [7], 6-18; [5] 6-20; [5] 2-18, [2] pp. Half titles for Epistles II & III only as called for... More about Important Sammelband of 13 works by Pope, Swift and contemporaries

London: Isaac Jaggard, Edward Blount and others, 1623. San Francisco: printed by the Grabhorn Press for David Magee, 1935. Folio (370 x 247 mm). [30] pp. With an original leaf from each of the four folios tipped in; and facsimiles of the titles of the four folios. The original leaves... More about Original Leaves from the First Four Folios of the Plays of William Shakespeare, 1623, 1632, 1663,...

New York: Works Publishing Company, 1939. 8vo (229 x 152 mm). viii, [2], 400 pp., including half title. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt-lettered spine and front cover, including the original first issue dust jacket (light rubbing and soiling of cloth, dust jacket with some paper restorations of former tears... More about Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism