SECRET COURT MEMOIRS (EDITION DE GRAND LUXE) St Petersburg; Henry IV; Louis XIV; Louis XV-XVI; Empress Josephine; Cardinal De Retz; Madame De Montespan; St. Cloud; Berlin; Marie Antoinette; Sweden & Denmark; Marguerite of Valois (Complete 20 Volume Set) (Leather Bound) by VARIOUS, - 1900

Paris: Chez La Veuve Estienne & Fils, 1748. In French. Ten of thirteen volumes, including volumes 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12 and 13 (volumes 1, 3 and 11 absent). Three folding plates. Full mottled French calf, dual spine labels, raised spine bands, gilt decorated compartments, marbled edges and endpapers. Most likely original, or at least contemporary, bindings. Expected external wear including quite a bit of rubbing to the extremities, all lower spine labels absent, three upper spine labels absent, some rubbing and light chipping to the joints but all joints secure and text blocks sound, no loosened pages. Pages clean with almost no foxing, no names or other markings. Some pastedowns have lifted from the covers, readily repairable, but nicely showing the some of the early vellum manuscript fragments used in the binding process. Volumes 7 and 12 have some light-colored dampstains throughout most of the contents. A worn but attractive set, internally near very good.. Hard Cover. Good.… Read More

New York, New York: Abradale Press. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. 3656 pages: 7.5 x 9.75 in.: 33.4: KB#006434: No Jacket as Issued. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. LCCN# 76-166507 and SBN 810902869. Set Consists of Twenty Volumes. Spines and front board of books are slightly tanned due to age. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Set contains over 2,000 clear, informative photographs and drawings, many in full color. This is a heavy book set, but price INCLUDES FULL EXTRA COST of Media Delivery; however USPS Priority would incur additional charge due to weight. "There are seven easy keys to finding information. All entries are arranged alphabetically. Each volume has a Table of Contents. Volume 1 has a Table of Contents for all 20 volumes. Volume 20 has a Complete Index to all volumes. Volume 19 contains a Glossary. Cross references are listed under major entries. A complete… Read More

(Vedere la parte inferiore dell'elenco per la traduzione in italiano.) RARE. Four consecutive paperback volumes with original pictorial dust jackets. Text in Latin. Sparsely illustrated. Each volume has an Index (scans are available upon request). Volume 1958 includes a small card which reads "OMAGGIO del Rettore Magnifico della PONTIFICIA UNIVERSITA' DEL LATERANO". Ex-library but showing only penciled numbers and small date stamps.Books show some edgewear, including minor bumping to tip and heel of spines, and the binding starting in a couple of places, but are otherwise Very Good+ to Near Fine. Dust jackets have some shelfwear, including tears at tip and heel of spines, and some discolouration/staining, but are otherwise in Very Good. Please see listing images for more detail. Customer may be asked to approve additional shipping costs before order is accepted, due to size and weight (approximately 8.5 x 12 x 4.5 inches, 7 lbs.).In Italiano (di Google Translate): RARO. Quattro volumi tascabili… Read More

London: Printed for subscribers Only, 1884. Complete 9 volume set. Limiter to 500 numbered copies on Holland paper. Set number 276. Published London: Printed for sunscribers only, 1884. 8vo., 6 1/2" x 9 1/4", each volume approximately 400pp., with twenty-one eaux-fortes by M.A. Lalauze. Most plates lacking, only four are present, text complete. Bound in full cream vellum with gilt titles and designs, top edge gilting, Printed on heavy Holland laid paper, some sheets uncut. Closed tear at the title head of volume six, vellum rough on volume one, light cover soil, usual offset darkening inside covers. Bindings strong, still attractive. Internally near fine, pages bright, unmarked. . Hard. Good. 8vo.

The Folio Society, 2003. Book. Like New. Hard Cover with Slipcase. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Eight hardcovers with slipcases. Books are bound with purple cloth spine with red labels with gilt lettering; boards covered in pictorial paper; red pictorial slipcases. Each book has an erasure on a blank page near the front, otherwise like-new. Slipcases very good to very good plus; a bit of streaking or scuffing, mostly on the bottom; one with a scratch to the side. Will require extra for shipping.

New York, New York: Abradale Press. Very Good with No Dust Jacket as issued. 1972. First Edition. Hard Cover. 3656 pages: 7.5 x 9.75 in.: 33.4: KB#006434: No Jacket as Issued. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book. LCCN# 76-166507 and SBN 810902869. Set Consists of Twenty Volumes. Spines and front board of books are slightly tanned due to age. Otherwise, boards and pages are clean, unmarked, brightly colored, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Set contains over 2,000 clear, informative photographs and drawings, many in full color. This is a heavy book set, but price INCLUDES FULL EXTRA COST of Media Delivery; however USPS Priority would incur additional charge due to weight. "There are seven easy keys to finding information. All entries are arranged alphabetically. Each volume has a Table of Contents. Volume 1 has a Table of Contents for all 20 volumes. Volume 20 has a Complete Index to all volumes. Volume 19 contains a Glossary. Cross references are listed under major entries. A complete… Read More

London: J. Dodsley, 1774. Hardcover. Good +. The Third Edition. "Together with Several Other Pieces on Various Subjects. Published by Mrs. Eugenia Stanhope, from the Originals now in her Possession." 4 volumes (xvi, 352 p.; [4], 355, [1] p.; [4], 376 p.; [4], 364 p.); 22 cm. Half 19th-century? blue calf with marbled paper over boards. Five spine compartments between raised bands; gilt-tooled volumed numbers in third compartments. Marbled endpapers matching boards. Without the frontispiece portrait found in some editions of this popular work. In Good+ Condition: the leather author-title labels are lacking almost entirely from the second and fourth spine compartments; vol. 2 leather splitting from head of back joint; lacking leather from head of vol. 3 spine and from first compartment of vol. 4; the blue calf has darkened and begun to crack on the spines; boards are rubbed; a few leaves are browning and foxing; otherwise, clean and solid.

1893-1899. George Bell & Sons. Nine Volume set - Vols. I thru VIII plus "Pepysiana". Edited by Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A. Ivory and tan boards with gold lettering. Condition overall is good. Moderate foxing on inside of front and back covers and some foxing throughout text, mostly on photo plates. Deckle edges show the brown coloring of age. First volume has statement "only 250 copies of this Volume are printed on Large Paper, of which this is No. 146" with the 146 handwritten in ink. Vol. II doesn't have this statement; Vols. III through VIII & "Pepysiana" show the printed statement but no number.

1947. F.E.Compton and Company. Black boards with green lettering on spine. Light edgewear and scuffing to boards and on some volumes title lettering has faded. Spines are sturdy. Text is clean and unmarked.

(Vedere la parte inferiore dell'elenco per la traduzione in italiano.) RARE. Four consecutive paperback volumes with original pictorial dust jackets. Text in Latin. Sparsely illustrated. Each volume has an Index (scans are available upon request). Volume 1958 includes a small card which reads "OMAGGIO del Rettore Magnifico della PONTIFICIA UNIVERSITA' DEL LATERANO". Ex-library but showing only penciled numbers and small date stamps.Books show some edgewear, including minor bumping to tip and heel of spines, and the binding starting in a couple of places, but are otherwise Very Good+ to Near Fine. Dust jackets have some shelfwear, including tears at tip and heel of spines, and some discolouration/staining, but are otherwise in Very Good. Please see listing images for more detail. Customer may be asked to approve additional shipping costs before order is accepted, due to size and weight (approximately 8.5 x 12 x 4.5 inches, 7 lbs.).In Italiano (di Google Translate): RARO. Quattro volumi tascabili… Read More