Venice: Bernardino de Vitali, 1505. Hardcover. Nine parts, small quarto. [pi]4 a-t4, A-D4 [chi]2 (= 98 unnumbered leaves). 12 woodcut initials (11 arabesques; 1 depicting a noble and attendant on black ground). Recent limp boards. Faint waterstain in the margin of a few pages, else fine throughout. Rare early Latin..... More

London: Thomas Bassett, 1687. Second (first collective) edition. Hardcover. Two parts, folio (35.5 by 22.5 cm). [28], 228 (pp. 60; 122 blank), 351-445, 452-587, [1, blank], 737-960, [12]; [1025]-1091, [1, bookseller's catalogue] pp. Text in two columns. Main title page in red and black, within double-ruled border; separate dated title..... More

Zwolle: Barent Hakvoord and the widow of Gysbert de Groot, 1700. First edition. Hardcover. Sammelband of two works, octavo. I: [star]4 A-L8 (blank L8), 92 leaves, pp. [8], 172, [1, errata], [3, blank]; additional engraved title, printed maginalia. II: [star]4 A-2D8 2E4, 224 leaves, pp. [8], 440; printed marginalia. Texts..... More

Antwerp: C. Plantin, 1568. First Edition. Hardcover. Two parts, jointly issued, octavo. Collation: A-M8, N4 (= 100 leaves); Α-Ν8, [xi]4 (= 108 leaves). 194, [6, index]pp. (errors: 21 for 31, 117 for 119); 213, [1, privilege], [1, colophon], [1, blank]pp. (errors: 44 for 43). Separate title for each part, with..... More

Wichita, Kansas: The Wichita Publishing Co., 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 101pp. Green cloth, in original printed dust wrapper. Dust wrapper reads, "Dianetics, beginning with this present volume- now published for the first time,- constitutes an organized and codified body of knowledge and techniques, which can be taught in a...... More

A Londres [i.e., Strasbourg?]: [N.p.], 1787. First edition. Hardcover. Two parts, octavo. [68],130pp. Cancel title page. Contemporary tree calf; gilt spine in compartments, morocco lettering piece; marbled endleaves; silk ribbon marker. Light soiling at title and a few leaves, occasional mild foxing. A very good copy, handsomely bound. First edition..... More

London (Amsterdam): NP, 1775. Ex-Library, Nouvelle edition. Hardcover. Octavos. Vol.1: 400pp. Vol.2: 448pp. Period brown calf with gilt ruling along the edges of the covers and gilt tooling on the spine. Gilt lettering over red and black labels on the spine. A small stamp of "The John Crerar Library" in..... More

Leipzig: Bernhard Christoph Breitkopf, 1756. Second revised. Hardcover. Octavo. [20], 884, [16, indices]pp. Woodcut printer’s device at title, head- and tailpieces throughout, printed marginalia. Contemporary half tree calf over marbled boards, gilt morocco lettering piece at spine, speckled edges. Covers lightly rubbed at extremities; occasional mild, mostly marginal, foxing. A...... More

Londini (London): M. Clark, 1680. Fourth edition (Editio quarta). Hardcover. Large octavo. [4], XVI, [18], 731, [1]pp. Original spotted calf, with gold lettering and tooling on spine. Raised bands. All edges red. Marbled endpapers. Engraved frontispiece portrait of Antoine Le Grand. Decorative initials. Originally published in 1672, this work was..... More

Tel-Aviv: Antikommunistischen Liga, (1951). First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 160pp. Original turquoise half-cloth over light blue paper-covered boards with handwritten address on black-framed paper label of cover; protected by modern mylar. Inscribed in German 'dedicated to the editors of the Mitteilungsblattes with the wish to be reviewed, with greetings the author..... More