A.L. Bancroft & Co., January 1883. First Edition. Leather Binding. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Bancroft's complete 3-volume 'History of Central America' all volumes in original full brown calf, spines with original black leather labels (hinges starting or splitting; Volume II lacks most of one label, some nicking to..... More

Privately Printed By Nathan Haskell Dole, 1903. First Edition. Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall (tall). Slight wear to extremities (chiefly to spine edge of upper cover); slight rubbing and browning to covers (leather over boards; chiefly to edges); slight internal browning to edges and endpapers. [6], 214..... More

Privately Printed By The Burton Club, 1900. First Thus. Hardcover. 16 volumes, complete as issued. Copy #145 of 950 sets of the Baroda edition. Beautifully bound in heavy green 3/4 morocco over green cloth boards by Stikeman & Co., spines with raised bands and elaborate gilt decoration including four Crescent..... More

The Economist, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. HAS GREAT PROVENANCE: From the library of noted British journalist and author Alan Watkins (who coined so many great phrases), with three volumes being presentation copies, each signed and inscribed to him by editor St. John Stevas (volumes 5, 9, and 12), with Volume..... More

Little, Brown, 1872. First Edition. Leather Binding. 10 volumes, complete as issued). aAttractively bound in period 3/4 tan calf over red marbled boards, gilt-stamped spines with raised bands and contrasting gilt-stamped black and dark red morocco labels, matching marbled edges and endpapers. In very good condition with good shelf presence..... More

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First Thus. Hardcover. 18 volumes, complete as issued with matching numbers, with the first 14 volumes issued in 1929, and the latter 4 volumes being completed through 1941. Includes Scribner's original 4-page prospectus. A very fine set in original tan linen over brown boards, paper spine..... More

F. A. Brockhaus, 1925. Unknown. Tall 8vos. [ca. 750] pages per volume + plates. Text in German. Later issues of the 'sechste ganzlich umgearbeite und wesentlich vermehrte Auflage von Brockhaus' Kleinem Konversations-Lexikon' (title pages); dated between 1921 and 1923 on versos of title pages; third volume dated 1926 (recto; remainder..... More

Royal Society of South Africa, 1977. First Edition. Leather. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Copy #6 of 100 numbered copies of the De Luxe Collector's Edition, signed by the editor on special leaf. Also signed on title page by Archie Sloan, President of the Royal Society of South Africa..... More

at the Clarendon Press [Oxford University Press], 1816. New Edition. Leather Binding. 4 bound volumes, composed of two 'volumes' of 2 parts each (of an original 3 'volumes' of 2 parts each); so in essence 4 volumes of 6. Bound in full brown period calf, spined with gilt tooling, twin..... More

John Murray, 1832. First Edition. Unknown. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" 17 volumes, complete as issued. Additionally intended to be 14 volumes, this work was extended by the inclusion of additional work to 17. Attractively bound in 3/4 burgundy morocco over marbled boards, spines with gilt-tooled raised bands and..... More

Elzevir Society, [1892]. First Thus. Leather Binding. 3 volumes, this title complete as issued. Attractively bound in period 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt floral tooling within compartments surrounded by gilt scrollwork, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers (slight wear). These volumes are from the..... More

Elzevir Society, [1892]. First Thus. Leather Binding. This title complete as issued in a single volume. Attractively bound in period 3/4 red morocco over marbled boards, spines with raised bands and gilt floral tooling within compartments surrounded by gilt scrollwork, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers (slight wear). This volume is..... More

William Reeves, 1890. First Thus. Leather Binding. 2 volume set. Attractively bound in 3/4 brown polished calf over marbled boards, spines with raised bands, contrasting red and green morocco labels, and gilt floral tooling within gilt-ruled compartments, marbled edges and endpapers (rubbing). Engraved frontispiece portraits in each volume. ALthough Worldcat..... More