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A Political Survey of Britain: Being a Series of Reflections on the Situation, Lands, Inhabitants, Revenues, Colonies, and Commerce of This Island.

Dublin: T. Ewing and C. Jenkin, 1775.

Rare second edition of John Campbell’s classic survey of late sixteenth century Britain. Octavo, four volumes, bound in full contemporary calf, raised bands, red and green morocco spine labels,...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-81166

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Milton, John. Edited by Sir Egerton Brydges, Bart

The Poetical Works of John Milton.

Boston: Phillips, Sampson, 1857.

Finely bound example of this compilation of Milton’s poetical works. Octavo, bound in full morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, all edges gilt, illustrated with engra...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-131221

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Virgil; Translated by Robert Fagles

The Aeneid of Virgil.

New York: Viking, 2006.

First edition of Fagel’s translation of Virgil’s masterpiece and widely considered the finest piece of Latin literature. Quarto, original boards, illustrated endpapers. Signed by Robert Fa...

$600.00 Item Number: RRB-150141

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Hardy, Thomas

The Heritage Press edition of Thomas Hardy’s tenth published novel. Octavo, bound in three quarters modern morocco over cloth covered boards by Morrell with gilt titles to the spine in six compartment...

$550.00 Item Number: RRB-151173

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Cooke, John Esten

Wearing of the Gray; Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War.

Augusta, Georgia: Southern Publishing Company, 1870.

First edition of this collection of experiences during the Civil War. Octavo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in four compartments within gilt bands, mor...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-150356

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Churchill, Winston S

The World Crisis: The Eastern Front.

London: Library of Imperial History, 1974.

The Centenary Limited Edition of the fifth volume of Churchill’s The World Crisis. Octavo, bound in full modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised band...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-148616

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Shakespeare, William

The Works of William Shakespeare.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1887.

The Victoria edition of the works of William Shakespeare. Octavo, two volumes, bound in full polished calf with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt ba...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-151128

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Hardy, Thomas; Clare Leighton [Illustrator]

The Return of the Native.

London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1929.

Macmillan signed limited edition of Hardy’s sixth published novel. Octavo, bound in half vellum over boards with gilt titles to the spine, top edge gilt, frontispiece, with black and white woodcut ill...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-148848

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Godey, Louis Antoine

Godey’s Lady’s Book for 1850.

Philadelphia: L.A. Godey, 1850.

Finely bound example of this 19th-century American magazine known for its collection of poetry, illustrations, and articles by prominent female authors and artists. Octavo, volume 40, bound in three q...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-149127

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Guns, Joseph. [Translator]

The Form of Daily Prayers According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. [Hebrew Prayer Book].

Vienna: Published by Jos. Schlesinger, 1857.

First edition of Joseph Guns’ translation of the primary prayers of the German and Polish Jews. 12 mo, original mounted bone onlays over celluloid boards, elaborately decorated front panel with...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-136085

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Poe, Edgar Allan

The Fall of the House of Usher.

New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1985.

The Limited Editions Club limited edition of one of Poe’s most famous short stories. Folio, bound in quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine, illustrated with two color...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-148581

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Kean, Thomas H. and Lee H. Hamilton [Alvin S. Felzenberg]

Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.

Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2006.

Signed limited first edition of the Easton Press edition of this work by the co-chairmen of the 9/11 Commission. Octavo, original black leather with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compart...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-149779

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Dos Passos, John

Most Likely to Succeed.

New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc, 1954.

Signed limited first edition of the author’s semi-autobiographical novel. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-127665

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Claudius Claudianus; Nicolaas Heinsius; L'Ancien Pieter Burman

Claudii Claudiani Opera, Quae Exstant, Omnia Ad Membranarum Veterum Fidem Castigata.

Amstelaedami: Ex Officina Schouteniana, 1760.

Quarto, original vellum, gilt tooling and stamping to the front and rear panels and spine. In very good condition.

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-2821

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Wilde, Oscar

Oscar Wilde: Recollections by Jean Paul Raymond & Charles Ricketts.

Bloomsbury: The Nonesuch Press, 1932.

First edition of Ricketts’ recollections of Wilde, published posthumously with a design reminiscent of the Vale Press. “The only Nonesuch book linked in a personal way with the private pre...

$500.00 Item Number: RRB-139784

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Hay, Roy and Patrick M. Synge

The Dictionary of Garden Plants in Colour with House and Greenhouse Plants.

London: The Arcadia Press, 1970.

Signed limited edition of this photographic plant dictionary. Quarto, bound in the original full crushed morocco by Zaehnsdorf of London with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments within raised...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-145563

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Cruikshank, George

George Cruikshank’s Fairy Library: Hop-O’My-Thumb and the Seven-League Boots.

London: David Bogue, 1853.

First edition of this retelling of the classic French fairy tale. Duodecimo, bound in three-quarters morocco by W.J. Mansell with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in three compartments within rais...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-148885

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Boswell, James

The Life of Samuel Johnson. [Boswell’s Life of Johnson].

London: Office of the National Illustrated Library, n.d. [c. 1880].

Finely bound 19th century illustrated printing of the most celebrated biography in the English language, elucidated by copious notes. Octavo, four volumes bound into two in contemporary three quarters...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-141549

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Lesage, Alain-René

Histoire De Gil Blas De Santillane, Par Lesage.

Paris: De L'Imprimerie De Didot Jeune, n.d.

Finely bound example of Lesage’s famed picaresque novel. Octavo, four volumes bound in three quarter crushed levant morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six c...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-145006

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Walton, Izaak and Charles Cotton. Introduction by James Russell Lowell

The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation, of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton.

Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1889.

Limited edition of this classic of English literature. Octavo, two volumes, original publisher’s cloth decorated in gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispiece to each volume, illustrated with en...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149802

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Buchan, John

Huntingtower.

London: Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd, 1946.

Finely bound edition of this classic adventure novel, the first to follow Dickson McCunn. Duodecimo, bound in three quarters calf over marbled boards with gilt titles to the spine in six compartments...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-150774

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Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaucer’s Romaunt of the Rose Troilus and Creseide and the Minor Poems.

London : William Pickering, 1846.

First edition of this exemplary collection of poems. Octavo, three volumes, bound in full contemporary tan calf with blue and black morocco labels stamped in gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-146339

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Apcar, Amy

Melodies of Five Offices in Holy Week According to the Holy Apostolic Church of Armenia: Being the Offices for Palm Sunday Evening for the Third, Sixth, and Tenth Hours of Holy Thursday and for the Tenth Hour of Good Friday Together with the Office for Candlemas Eve.

Leipzig: Printed by Breitkopf & Haertel, 1902.

Early edition of this rendering of sacred melodies into modern musical notation. Octavo, written in English and Armenian, bound in full brown cloth with gilt titles to the spine, gilt cross vignette t...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-149501

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Sandburg, Carl

Remembrance Rock.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948.

First trade edition of Sandburg’s self-described “epic, weaving the mystery of the American Dream with the costly toil and bloody struggles that have gone to keep alive and carry further t...

$475.00 Item Number: RRB-127433

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Fine Bindings & Rare Book Collections or Sets for Sale Online

A Political Survey of Britain: Being a Series of Reflections on the Situation, Lands, Inhabitants, Revenues, Colonies, and Commerce of This Island.

The Poetical Works of John Milton.

The Aeneid of Virgil.

The Mayor of Casterbridge.

Wearing of the Gray; Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War.

The World Crisis: The Eastern Front.

The Works of William Shakespeare.

The Return of the Native.

Godey’s Lady’s Book for 1850.

The Form of Daily Prayers According to the Custom of the German and Polish Jews. [Hebrew Prayer Book].

The Fall of the House of Usher.

Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.

Most Likely to Succeed.

Claudii Claudiani Opera, Quae Exstant, Omnia Ad Membranarum Veterum Fidem Castigata.

Oscar Wilde: Recollections by Jean Paul Raymond & Charles Ricketts.

The Dictionary of Garden Plants in Colour with House and Greenhouse Plants.

George Cruikshank’s Fairy Library: Hop-O’My-Thumb and the Seven-League Boots.

The Life of Samuel Johnson. [Boswell’s Life of Johnson].

Histoire De Gil Blas De Santillane, Par Lesage.

The Complete Angler, or the Contemplative Man’s Recreation, of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton.

Huntingtower.

Chaucer’s Romaunt of the Rose Troilus and Creseide and the Minor Poems.

Melodies of Five Offices in Holy Week According to the Holy Apostolic Church of Armenia: Being the Offices for Palm Sunday Evening for the Third, Sixth, and Tenth Hours of Holy Thursday and for the Tenth Hour of Good Friday Together with the Office for Candlemas Eve.

Remembrance Rock.