Basileae: [Robert Winter], 1539. Octavo. The first portion of the text is in Greek and the following text is in Latin. 13[2]; a-z8, A-R8; [13] blank; 1-397pp. The text is by Arrian of Nicomedia (c. 86/80--c. after 146-160 A.D.). The Anabasis of Alexander by Arrian is considered the best source..... More
London: H.S. Nichols, 1897. Large Octavo. The translation by Sir. R.F. Burton, with seventy-one original illustrations which are from the original oils painted by Albert Letchford. Housed in the original casket with the Arabic title gilt-stamped [Alf Laylah wa Laylah, English transliteration which translates: Thousand Nights and a Night], measuring..... More
London: Macmillan and Co., 1927. Octavo. Half-title, Color frontispiece, 299(1)pp., (continous pagination) with 92 illustrations by John Tenniel including 8 in color. This was the book that made Lewis Carroll famous. Soon after writing Alice, he went on to write Through the Looking Glass which became another best seller. Alice..... More
Cambridge: The Printers of the Universitie, 1633. First Edition. Small Quarto. [14], 181, 102, 3rd title page, 104-130pp. Title pages in red and black with decorative borders. This was Fletcher's magnum opus, a poem in twelve cantos describing allegorically the physiological structure of the human body and the mind of..... More
(New Castle, Virginia; 1984): Cheap Street. Limited Edition. Octavo. 75(1) pages. The Publisher's Edition limited to 12 lettered copies . The present copy is letter "C" signed by Andre Norton and Judi King-Rienieta. Printed on Frankfurt text with handmade Japanese sugikawa endpapers and chiri senka flyleaves. Theis book was handbound..... More
Edinburgh/London: Printed for John Ballantyne and Co., Edinburgh, and Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, and William Miller, London, by James Ballantyne and Co. And Longman, Hurst, Rees and Orme and William Miller, 1810. First Edition. Quarto. Half-title, portrait frontispiece of Scott by Heath after a painting by Saxon. 290 pages..... More