Basel: Jean Christ, 1740. Calfskin. 8vo. Language: French. Handsome in the original leather and endpapers with several woodcut ornaments. Pages bear scattered foxing throughout and some dust staining verging to age toning despite the red-tinted block edges; there is also a number penned at the top of the final endpaper..... More

New York: A. S. Barnes & Company, 1872. Full Leather. Pages clean except for a prior owner's name on the front free endpaper, one glue stain at each of the two fixed endpapers, some splitting and an abrasion at the front hinge, scattered foxing, and modest margin toning throughout; binding..... More

Paris: Tessier et Cherbuliez, 1835. Half-Leather. 8vo. Language: French. Complete in two volumes (viii + 462, 464 + 59pp.), half leather with marbled boards, marbled endpapers, the original soft covers bound in despite fairly dark gray smudging and some foxing. Pages bear modest toning and foxing; each half-title page has..... More

Paris: E. Dentu, Editeur, Libraire de la Societe des Gens de Lettres, 1864. Beaumont, E. de. Third Edition. One-Quarter Leather. 8vo. Language: French. Prior owners' names are penned on the second page, the title page, and page 165, nine small margin marks, and one soulignement; pages are also foxed and..... More

New York: John Lane Company, 1898. Beardsley, Aubrey. Cloth Hardcover. 4to. Pages bright and clean except for a few small handling prints to the initial leaves, toning at the endpapers, and a touch of dust staining along the head edges; binding square and secure, full blue cloth turned inward at..... More

Paris: Ernest Flammarion, Libraire-Editeur, 1904. One-Quarter Leather. 8vo. Language: French. No owners' marks; the top page block edge bears some dust-spotting, and the page edges are toned from age, otherwise clean; binding is somewhat relaxed, but secure; the spine is slightly canted and creased beneath the cloth, and there is..... More

London: B. Alsop & T. Fawcet, 1639. Calfskin. Full original calf, with both fixed endpapers freed from the boards but still attached to the page block; the front hinge is now covered by the large bookplate of Hugh Cecil Lowther, Fifth Earl of Lonsdale, accompanied but not obscured by a...... More

Tours: A. Mame & Cie, 1839. Hardcover. 12mo. Language: French. A bookplate at the front pastedown identifies this as having been the property of un grand maître d'escrime. The front free endpaper is absent, but the hinge remains covered; each set of endpapers has one small, white adhesion; some foxing..... More

Paris: Ed. Rouvevre & G. Blond, 1884. Half-Leather. Language: French. Pages are crisp and clean except for occasional foxing, two shallow brown spots on the foreedge, and gentle toning in the margins; binding is square and tight; half-leather cover bears some surface scratching to the marbled paper front and rear..... More