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

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: Librairie Militaire de J. Dumaine, 1845. Guerin, Th. One-Quarter Leather. 8vo. Language: French. A prior owner or perhaps the publisher has corrected a sentence on p. 160; no other owners' marks; the pages are foxed, palely but frequently, throughout, and there is a slight ripple through the page block..... More

Berlin: Winckelmann & Söhne, 1856. Cloth Hardcover. Language: German. Pages remain bright, though foxed throughout and bearing three owners' names on the reverse of the frontispiece; binding is square and tight, though with an internal repair fixing the bound edge of the front free endpaper to the following (blank) page..... More

Paris: Manzi, Joyant, 1906. First Edition. Original Wraps. Language: French. There is a prior owner's stamp and signature on the first (blank) page and another small stamp on the half-title; some noticeable foxing on the first and final signatures, otherwise pages are clean and neatly preserved. The signatures remain securely..... 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