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Delle Commedie Del Signor Carlo Goldoni Avvocato Veneto. Pere servire di continuazione al Nuovo Teatro Comico Del Medesimo Autore.

Bologna: A. S. Tommaso d'Aquino, 1762-1765.

Rare eighteenth century Italian printing of Goldoni’s Commedie. Octavo, two volumes bound in full vellum. In good condition. A rare printing published during Goldoni’s lifetime.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-129022

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Gunther, John

Death Be Not Proud.

London: Hamish Hamilton, 1949.

First British edition of this deeply moving book, a father’s memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy, bound for the author. Octavo, bound by the author in full morocco by Sangorski and...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-137985

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Dickens, Charles

Oliver Twist.

London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846.

Early edition of Dickens’s classic second novel. Octavo, bound in full calf, full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to t...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147626

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Scott, Captain Robert Falcon

Scott’s Last Expedition.

London: Smith, Elder & Co, 1913.

First edition of Scott’s diaries from his ill-fated expedition to the South Pole. Quarto, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth with gilt titles to spine and front panel, top edge gilt, tissue...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148925

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Ovid; Hans Erni [Engraver]; Giovanni Mardersteig [Printer]

Ovid’s Metamorphoses: In Fifteen Books.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1958.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Sir Samuel Garth’s translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, with engraved book pages. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutc...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148535

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Vasi, Mariano; Antonio Nibby

New Guide of Rome, Naples and Their Environs.

Rome: Sold by Monaldini, English Library and Reading Room, 1843.

Finely bound edition of this revised version of Giuseppe Vasi’s original work, a 19th-century travel guidebook of the monuments and works of art of Rome for tourists visiting Italy. Small octavo...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151176

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Eliot, T.S

The Cocktail Party.

London: Faber & Faber, 1950.

First edition of Eliot’s most popular play published in his lifetime. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Asprey, gilt titles to the spine, raised bands, inner dentelles. In fine condition.

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-121029

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Hawthorne, Nathaniel

The Marble Faun: or, the Romance of Monte Beni.

Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1860.

First edition, first issue, with 16-page catalog dated March, 1860 inserted at rear of Volume one of Hawthorne’s last major work of fiction. Octavo, original cloth, 2 volumes. In near fine condition....

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-119422

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Doyle, Richard [John Maynard Keynes] [J.M.]

Manners and Customs of ye Englyshe.

London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co., 1876.

Finely bound edition of this satirical collection of 40 humorous sketches and illustrations that parody mid-19th-century Victorian life, from the collection of British economist John Maynard Keynes. O...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-150643

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Goldsmith, Oliver

The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale. [Fore-edge Painting].

London: Bickers and Son, 1880.

Finely bound example of one of the most popular and widely read novels among Victorians. Octavo, bound in full pebbled morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine and panels, gilt turn-ins and i...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-138744

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Plato; Hans Erni [Illustrator] Giovanni Mardersteig [Printer]

The Trial and Death of Socrates.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1962.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of this collection of four dialogues written by Plato recounting the death of Socrates. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco by Sangorski & Sutclif...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148539

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Kipling, Rudyard

Kim.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901.

First English edition of what many consider Kipling’s masterpiece. Octavo, original cloth. Illustrated with photographs of clay reliefs by John Lockwood Kipling including tissue-guarded frontispiece,...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-134755

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Dumas, Alexandre [Alexander]

Les Trois Mousquetaires.

Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 1921.

Finely bound example of Dumas’ classic work in the original French. Octavo, two volumes bound in three quarter crimson crushed levant morocco with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six comp...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-145243

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Long, William Simon

Five Thousand Miles Around the Southern Cross: A Popular Review of Life and Customs in Cuba, Jamaica, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Ancient Yucatan, with a Survey of the Great Panama Canal.

Camden, NJ: The Long Photographic Art Studios, 1912.

First edition of this early twentieth century travelogue of Caribbean islands and Latin American countries. Quarto, original blue cloth with gilt titles to the front panel, triple ruling stamped in bl...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148826

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Sassoon, Siegfried

The Heart’s Journey.

New York: Crosby Gaige, 1927.

First signed limited edition of Sassoon’s classic poetry collection. Octavo, bound in full tan crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compa...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149133

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Spenser, Edmund

The Fairy Queen. With a Glossary, Explaining the Old and Obscure Words.

London: J. and R. Tonson, 1758.

Finely bound edition of this classic work. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in full calf, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, with nine full page engraved plates by Louis du Geurnier. In very...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-144293

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Sophocles; Translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; Harry Bennett [Illustrator]

Sophocles: Antigone.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1975.

The Limited Editions Club signed limited edition of Sophocles’ classical Greek tragedy. Quarto, bound in three-quarters modern morocco by Morrell over cloth covered boards with gilt titles to th...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-148542

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Freeman, Frederick

The History of Cape Cod: The Annals of Barnstable County and of Its Several Towns. Including the District of Mashpee.

Boston: Printed For the Author, 1858-1863.

First edition of the classic history of Cape Cod. Octavo, ten parts as issued bound into four volumes in half morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with tissue-guarded...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-130559

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Dickens, Charles

Little Dorrit.

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857.

First edition, first issue in book form of one of Dickens’ most outstanding novels with the three line errata on page xiv, “William” for “Frederick” on page 317 line 27, B2 ins...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-149676

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Kingsley, Charles

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby.

London and Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 1863.

First edition of this Victorian moral fantasy. Octavo, bound in three-quarter crushed levant over marbled boards with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, gilt...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-151121

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Scott, Sir Walter

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott. [Fore-Edge Painting].

London: Frederick Warne and Co, n.d.

The Lansdowne Poets edition of the poetical works of Sir Walter Scott. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles to the spine and front panel, inner dentelles, all edges gilt, illustrated, tissue...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-136573

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Pickard, Samuel T. [John Greenleaf Whittier]

The Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier.

Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1895.

Riverside edition of the collected writings of abolition advocate John Greenleaf Whittier. Octavos, nine volumes bound in three quarters morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-109568

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Copland, Robert [Translator] Wynkyn de Worde; Robert Hoe

The History of Helyas Knight of the Swan.

The City of New York: The Grolier Club, 1901.

Limited edition of the Grolier Club’s beautiful and literal facsimile reprint of Robert Hoe’s unique copy of the 1512 edition of the classic medieval tale. Octavo, original publisher...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147203

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Richardson, Lady Constance Stewart

Dancing, Beauty and Games.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1913.

First edition of this work exploring the relationship between physical movement, dance, and beauty. Octavo, bound in full crushed purple morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe with gilt titles to the sp...

$975.00 Item Number: RRB-147845

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