Category: Biography

Image for Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters, or Remarkable Persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the End of the Reign of George II. (4 volumes) Collected from the Most Authentic Accounts Extant. In Four Volumes.

Portraits, Memoirs, and Characters, or Remarkable Persons, from the Revolution in 1688 to the End of the Reign of George II. (4 volumes) Collected from the Most Authentic Accounts Extant. In Four Volumes.

Price: $1,000.00

Publisher: London, H. R. Young and T. H. Whitely : 1819-1820

Seller ID: 006320

Binding: Full Straight-Grained Red Morocco

Condition: Very Good

8vo. 24 by 14.5 cm. 155 engraved plates of decidedly colorful characters -- freaks, buskers, street performers, cheats, rogues, con men, criminals, etc. The biographies are told in an arch, entertaining manner. Full red morocco binding, with gilt rolled decoration, raised bands, gilt floral devices in spine compartments. Condition: rubbing along the joints. Minor abrasion spots on leather. A few darkened streak lines on board of one volume. Occasional soiling within. A few pages with a light corner dampstain.
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The Life of Benvenuto Cellini (2 Volumes) A New Version by Robert H. Cust

By: Cellini, Benvenuto. Robert H. Cust.

Price: $150.00

Publisher: London, Navarre Society, Limited. Printed at the Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh : 1927

Seller ID: 006844

Binding: Half Morocco.

Condition: Fine

One of 1,500 copies. 8vo. 20.5 by 14 cm. xlii, 390, xx, 533 pp. With many plates, all in b/w. Bound by Brian Frost & Company, Bath. A lovely copy.
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Image for Correspondance Indite et Secrte de Benjamin Franklin, Ministre Plnipotentiaire des Etats-Unis d'Amrique prs la cour de France Depuis l'Anne 1753 jusqu'en 1790 . . . (Two volumes)

Correspondance Indite et Secrte de Benjamin Franklin, Ministre Plnipotentiaire des Etats-Unis d'Amrique prs la cour de France Depuis l'Anne 1753 jusqu'en 1790 . . . (Two volumes)

By: Franklin, Benjamin

Price: $350.00

Publisher: Paris, Janet Pre : 1817

Seller ID: 006875

Binding: Quarter Morocco. Marbled paper on boards.

Condition: Near Fine

8vo. 21 by 14 cm. 542, 480 pp. Frontis portrait, vol. 1, fold-out copy of facsimile letter as frontis, vol. 2. Bookplate of E. Preire fils. Light wear.
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A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus (4 Volumes)

By: Irving, Washington

Price: $300.00

Publisher: London, John Murray. Printed by Thomas Davison. : 1828

Seller ID: 006880

Binding: Full Calf

Condition: Very Good Minus

8vo. 22.5 by 14.5 cm. xiii, 473, [4], 490, viii, 413, vii, 489 pp. Two fold-out maps, one in vol. 1, other, vol. 2. Attractive bookplate of Amy Bend Bishop, with illustration of balloon, air plane, etc. Condition: several joints repaired, and in two instances, fabric used to reattach boards is visible. One board with small lifted piece of calf pasted back down. Several other minor blemishes. Calf otherwise generally healthy. Mostly clean within.
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Memoirs of Charles Mathews, Comedian (4 Volumes)

By: Mathews, Mrs.

Price: $1,250.00

Publisher: London, Richard Bentley : 1839

Seller ID: 006881

Binding: Half Crushed Levant Morocco. Marbled boards.

Condition: Very Good

Extra-illustrated, with 172 plates in all, 10 hand-colored, 15 folding or double paged, most of the hand-colored being folding. Also five autographed letters and a copy of one of Mathew's entertainments bound in. 4to. 23 by 15 cm. xi, 433, xi, 469, xii, 650, xii, 503 pp. Binding by Ringer for A. C. McClure & Co. With appealing bookplate of Harry Bache Smith, once a well-known writer who wrote libretti for Victor Herbert operettas and was a significant contributor to several editions of the Ziegfeld Follies. The bookplate depicts a Medieval jester holding a quill pen to his chin in contem...
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Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography

By: Osbaldeston, Squire

Price: $100.00

Publisher: London and New York, John Lane, Bodley Head; Scribner's : 1926

Seller ID: 000002

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Book. 4to - over 9¾. 259 pages; 16 color plates, 75 black and white illustrations, plus map. Foxhunting classic of early Victorian sportsman, with illustrations featuring some of the best known masters of equestrian and sporting art such as Henry Alken, Ferneley, Pollard, et. al. Dust jacket has some tears and chips; protected with mylar. Book itself in excellent condition, with heavy stock paper. One black and white plate has slight bubbling in upper center.
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Squire Osbaldeston: His Autobiography

By: Osbaldeston, Squire

Price: $250.00

Publisher: London and New York, John Lane, Bodley Head; Scribner's : 1926

Seller ID: 004511

Binding: Half Morocco, Cloth Boards

Condition: Fine

Beautiful Bayntun, Riviere half brown morocco binding! 4to. 29 by 22 cm. 259 pages; 16 color plates, 75 black and white illustrations, plus map. Foxhunting classic of early Victorian sportsman, with illustrations featuring some of the best known masters of equestrian and sporting art such as Henry Alken, Ferneley, Pollard, et. al. Dust jacket has some tears and chips; protected with mylar. Book itself in excellent condition, with heavy stock pape
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The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (Two Volumes)

By: Trevelyan, George Otto

Price: $125.00

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green, and Co. Printer: Spottiswoode and Co. : 1876

Seller ID: 006870

Binding: Half Vellum. Pebbled Cloth on Boards

Condition: Very Good

Distinctive half vellum binding. 8vo. 22.5 by 15.5 cm. xi, 475, viii, 480 pp. Condition: some cracking of vol. 1. front joint vellum. Light soil on vellum.
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Category: Biography