POLYMETIS: Or, an Enquiry concerning the Agreement between the Works of the Roman Poets, and the Remains of the Antient Artists. Being an attempt to illustrate them mutually from one another. In ten books.
SPENCE. The Rev'd. Mr. (Joseph). The third edition. Folio. (16.8 x 11.3 inches). Portrait frontispiece; 37 full and 4 double page copperplates (including 4 double-page) and 17 fine engravings in the text by Boitard. A clean and wide margined copy in contemporary full tree calf binding. Spine with red title label, lettered ruled and decorated in gilt. Spine ruled and fully decorated in gilt. Expertly re-cased with the spine laid down. Marbled endpapers. Some minor rubbing to the extremities but overall a very good and attractive copy. -- More photos available on request.- $1,041
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THE COMPLETE WORKS OF LEWIS CARROLL. With an introduction by Alexander Woollcott and the illustrations by John Tenniel.
CARROLL. LEWIS. ; ( Dodgson. Charles L ). FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.1 inches). 1165pp. Finely bound in recent full red morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands. Spine compartments ruled and decorated with gilt stamped Mad Hatter and Playing card devices. Single gilt ruled border to boards. Top edge gilt. A fine copy.- $521
- $521
THE COMPLETE WORKS OF LEWIS CARROLL. With an introduction by Alexander Woollcott and the illustrations by John Tenniel.
CARROLL. LEWIS. ; ( Dodgson. Charles L ). FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.7 x 5.1 inches). 1165pp. Finely bound in recent full deep red morocco leather. Spine with five raised bands. Black leather title label, gilt. Spine compartments ruled and decorated with gilt stamped Mad Hatter, March Hare, and Playing card devices. Single gilt ruled border to boards. Top edge gilt. A fine copy.- $521
- $521
THE INIMITABLE JEEVES.
WODEHOUSE. P. G. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. First state with only 10 titles listed on the advert leaf opposite the title page. Neat previous owner name, dated 1923, on the front blank pastedown endpaper. Some spotting to the page edges but overall a very good copy in the original publishers green cloth with dark green lettering and illustrations.- $325
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THE FAMOUS AND MEMORABLE WORKS OF JOSEPHUS.– Extra illustrated. A man of much honour and learning among the Jews. Faithfully translated out of the latin and French, by Tho. Lodge, Doctor n Physick. Whereunto are newly added the the references of the Scriptures throughout the History, and afterwards collected into a Table.
JOSEPHUS. FLAVIUS. ; Lodge, Thomas. Translates. Extra illustrated copy. (13.1 x 8.7 inches). 10, 812, 32(Table) pp. Curiously, the extra title page to part two (The lamentable and tragical history of the vvarres and utter ruine of the Jevves. Comprised in seven books) is dated 1656 and gives Abel Roper of Fleet Street as publisher. Some pagination errors but complete and this copy with six illustrations not called for, bound in at a later date. Some staining and toning to many pages. Title page with 2 previous owners names and addresses written in ink. A couple of pages with minor tears to the margins and neat strengthening to page edges but overall a very good copy in a 20th century full panelled calf binding. Spine with raised bands. Compartments decorated in blind and lettered in gilt. ---- Extra illustrated copy with six early pages bound in, not called for in the collation; 2 folding maps (A map of the Children of Israel's travels and marches in the wilderness from their going out of Egypt to their passage over the River Jordan, and The expedition of Shalmaneser King of Assyria against the Syrians and the Ten tribes of Israel) and four full page plates (The Tabernacle with its curtains; Golden candlestick with seven branches; The Brasen Laver or Bason; Table of Shen bread and Altar of burnt offerings). --- More photos available on request.- $1,041
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