Nineveh and its Palaces. The Discoveries of Botta and Layard applied to the elucidation of the Holy Writ by BONOMI J - 1852

Complete in 4 volumes. Half dark brown calf leather over brown marbled paper (Spanish Pattern, moire type); spines with 5 raised bands, gilt stamped on bands with fine guilloche motif and in panels with titles and floral and tendril designs; top edges gilt; end papers of matching marbled pattern. Bright, clean covers and spines; leather remains supple; slight rubbing wear at some fore corners; tightly bound; each volume with owner bookplate on front pastedown 'Ellen Mudge Butler'; bright, clean interiors; all vols with many leaves unopened at fore edges - never been read. 12mo, 1820 total pp; paged 443, 480, 476, 421. Index in vol 4. Cf, OCLC #9592699. Owner Butler was mother-in-law of Ellsworth Bunker. From the collection of Ellsworth Bunker (U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Italy, India, Nepal, South Vietnam, Organization of American States, and twice recipient of U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom).

Henry Frowde. London. 1904. Frontispiece portrait. Contemporary binding of 1/4 vellum with gilt roses and branches along the spine length. Tan morocco title label with gilt, lettering, ruling and leaves. Smaller label has "Oxford" within gilt ruling. Beige cloth on boards. Top edge gilt. Previous owners five line inscription from1919, written neatly in ink on front free endpaper. .A very good, bright copy.

Faber and Faber Limited.�London. 1955. REPRINT OF 1946 EDITION. 8vo. (8 x 5.3 inches). Illustrated with two portraits of Brooke by Jacques and Gwen Raverat. A lovely bright and clean copy, finely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe of London, in half red morocco. Spine with raised bands, each with gilt piping. Compartments ruled and lettered in gilt. Red cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. All edges gilt. A pleasing copy.

Longmans, Green and co. London. 1887. FIRST EDITION. 8vo. (7.6 x 5.2 inches). Illustrated with 20 mono plates engraved on wood by J. Cooper from drawings by C. H. M. Kerr. A very good copy bound in early twentieth century half dark green morocco, spine with raised bands, gilt. Compartments decorated and lettered in gilt. Green cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Previous owners armorial bookplate to the front pastedown endpaper. A very good copy in a fine leather binding.

Macmillan and co. London. 1928. Reprint of 1897 edition. 8vo. (7.4 x 4.9 inches). Illustrated with 39 full page line illustrations by Pegram. Tissue guard to the frontis. Creasing to the top outer corner of 20 leaves, otherwise a vary good copy in a fine early leather binding by Riviere and son. Half blue calf. Spine with raised bands, the compartments decorated and lettered in gilt. Blue cloth on boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. School arms and motto stamped in gilt to the front board and a school prize label, from Woodlands School in Deganwy in North Wales, to the front pastedown endpaper. A little rubbing to the extremities but overall a very good and attractive copy.

Francestown: Typographeum, 1997. Limited private press edition. First edition. Hardcover. Fine copy. 8vo. Bound by Francis Brown in quarter brown morocco with brown buckram sides. Marbled end-papers. T.e.g. One of 10 lettered copies hand-set and printed letterpress and signed by the author. Preserved in a slip-case. No dust-jacket as issued. Includes an essay about what it may have been like to be a printer in the 15th Century, and two more about important printers from that period: Nicolaus Jenson and Aldus Manutius. There is also a chapter of autobiography, about the author's first years in Francestown. Finally there is a reminiscence of a much loved bookseller, David Low.

'First thin paper edition'. Association copy. Good+ leather bound HC. Zaehnsdorf signed binding in full red-brown hard grain morocco, covers framed with gilt stamped double rule; spine with 5 raised bands, gilt rule framed panels and letters; all edges gilt; marbled end papers in combed nonpareil pattern; India paper. This has been rebound with old hard-grain morroco under saved original spine and covers; the newer and older leathers are a near match; 'Bound by Zaehnsdorf, London England' stamped in gilt on the front cover turn-in at the tail edge appears to be on the newer leather. Covers and spine are clean, lightly scuffed; the original covers and spine have slight chipping at edges; light rubbing at cover fore corners; joints are supple; tightly bound; interior hinges are cloth; owner name in pencil on front fly leaf 'E Bunker'; clean interior; text pages very slightly age darkened at edges. 350 illustrations by author. From the collection of Ellsworth Bunker (U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, Italy,… Read More

Venetiis [Venice]: Simon Occhi, 1773. Hardcover. Near Fine. Editio secunda. 2 volumes in 1: 148, 144 p.; 18 cm. Contemporary vellum with ink spine title in an old hand. Woodcut title vignettes (printer's device?), initials, and endpiece. Edited by Johann Erhard Kapp. Inscription in an old hand on one page of first part, and marginal notation on p. 110 of second part in same hand. Occasional mark in light blue or red pencil. In Near Fine Condition: vellum is slightly rubbed; marginalia, as described; otherwise clean and tight.

Portland, OR: Nazraeli Press, 2012. Original archival color print signed by Stephen Shore on the back is tipped in. First edition / First printing. Limited edition. 500 copies. This copy is an Artists Proof. Taupe laminated boards. Very fine. Issued without dust jacket. The 73th publication in the Nazraeli Press One Picture Book series.

London: Frederick Warne and Co. [no date], Albion edition. (Leather binding) 519pp. Near fine, no dust jacket. Tree calf leather with gilt decorations to the covers, raised bands and gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. All edges art-gilt, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, indices, ribbon bookmark. There is a previous bookseller's discreet sticker on the rear endpaper. "James Russell Lowell was born on the 22nd of February 1819, at cambirdge, Massachusetts. He was descended on the father's side from a family of English gentlemen, one of whom, Percival Lowell, emigrated to America in 1639, and died at Newbury, Massachusetts, in 1665. The Lowells prospered" - from the Prefatory Memoir. Includes The Biglow Papers. Series: Albion Edition. (Poetry, Fine Bindings, Poetry).