Views of the Great Falls of Niagara [wrapper title]
Views of the Great Falls of Niagara [wrapper title]

by [Vivian, W]

Philadelphia: Published by Kennedy & Lucas Lithographers ... R. H. Hobson and S. M. Stewart, 1830. First American edition. 5 lithographed plates printed on chine collé and mounted, as issued. With the original tissue guards. Oblong small folio (11-1/2 x 15 inches). Stitched lettered wrappers, minor foxing, minor chips at edges. Housed in a cloth box. First American... Read More

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Opreght ende Klaer Tegen-beright Tegen 't Libel by den Kamperen Remonstranschen Leeraren Thomam Goswinium, Everardum Voscuilium, Assuerum Matthisium, Joannem Schutlerum in druk verveerdight, onder den schonen titel van Opreght ende Claer berigt, etc ... Belijder ende Leeraer der ware Gereformeerde leere, inde Gemeente ... tot Hasselt .
Opreght ende Klaer Tegen-beright Tegen 't Libel by den Kamperen Remonstranschen Leeraren Thomam Goswinium, Everardum Voscuilium, Assuerum Matthisium, Joannem Schutlerum in druk verveerdight, onder den schonen titel van Opreght ende Claer berigt, etc ... Belijder ende Leeraer der ware Gereformeerde leere, inde Gemeente ... tot Hasselt .

by Vogellium, Hieronymmum

Amsterdam: By Marten Jansz, Brandt, boeckverkooper, woonende in de Gravestraet, by de Nieuwe-Kerck, in de ghereformeerde Catechismus, 1618. Black Letter. [28]. 269, [1]pp. Small 4to. Old vellum. Black Letter. [28]. 269, [1]pp. Small 4to. OCLC (2 copies with this imprint: Luther & Yale)

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Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt in French. 24, November, 1935. [With two further inscriptions]
Autograph Note Signed to Alfred Eisenstaedt in French. 24, November, 1935. [With two further inscriptions]

by Vogel, Lucien

[Paris, 1935. Pen and ink on paper. 1 vols. 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. Fine. Pen and ink on paper. 1 vols. 5 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches. From the influential French publisher and photographer Lucien Vogel, "En toute jalousie un confrère admiratif Lucien Vogel. 24 Novembre 1935 La Faisanderie [Acheis?]" Vogel (1886-1954) is renowned as... Read More

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Catalogus historico-criticus liborum rariorum jam curis quartis recognitus et copiosa accessione ex symbolis et collatione bibliophilorum per Germaniam doctissimorum adauctus
Catalogus historico-criticus liborum rariorum jam curis quartis recognitus et copiosa accessione ex symbolis et collatione bibliophilorum per Germaniam doctissimorum adauctus

by Vogt, Johannes

Hamburg: Christiani Heroldi, 1753. Fourth Edition. Woodcut tailpieces, headpiece. [32], 736 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary half vellum and boards. Some minor edgewear, pencilled notations on endleaves, else very good. Fourth Edition. Woodcut tailpieces, headpiece. [32], 736 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. "A second variety of bibliographical compilation based largely on catalogues of private libraries serves both scholars and... Read More

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Arrest de la Cour de Parlement pour la Reünion au Domane du Roy, confiscation & vente des biens des Ducs de Nevers, de Vendosme, de Mayenne, Mareshal de Buillon, Marquis de Corurue, President le lay & leurs adherans

by (Louis XIII) Voisin

Paris: Par Fed. Morel & P. Mattayer, 1617. 6 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Disbound, leaves loose, light marginal browning, else very good. 6 pp. 1 vols. 12mo. Concerning the confiscation of lands and sales.

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Volkswagen Brochure. "The Volkswagen Transporter Line

by (Volkswagen)

Wolfsburg, 1953. Color Illustrations, folding flap at end. [18] pp. 1 vols. Oblong 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. Very good. Color Illustrations, folding flap at end. [18] pp. 1 vols. Oblong 12mo. This is brochure for the first generation of the VW Type 2 (Bus) with the split windshield, called the Microbus or Splittie among modern fans, was produced from... Read More

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Réincarnation du Père Ubu
Réincarnation du Père Ubu

by Vollard, Ambroise

Paris: Ambroise Vollard 28, rue de Martigny, 1932. First edition, no. 231 of 250 (of 355 total) copies on verge d'auvergne de la Manufacture Royale de Vidalon. 22 etchings and 104 wood engravings by Georges Rouault. Folio. Pictorial wrappers. Fine in original glassine. In blue cloth drop box, hinge off. Rouault, Georges. First edition, no. 231 of 250... Read More

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Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Suivi d'eclaircissemens sur la Floride, sur la colonie Française au Scioto, sur quelques colonies Canadiennes, et sur les Sauvages
Tableau du climat et du sol des Etats-Unis d'Amerique. Suivi d'eclaircissemens sur la Floride, sur la colonie Française au Scioto, sur quelques colonies Canadiennes, et sur les Sauvages

by Volney, Constantin François Chasseboeuf, Comte de

Paris: Courcier and Dentu, 1803. First edition. One folding plate, one full-page folding map plate, two folding plates. 8-page Miami vocabulary at end paged consecutively with the rest of the text. 1-300, [4]; [301]-532 pp. 1 vols. 8vo (8 x 5 inches). Contemporary quarter calf. Rebacked preserving spine, new endsheets. Very good. First edition. One folding plate, one... Read More

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Mémoires. Suivis de Mélanges Divers et Précédés de Voltaire Démiurge par Paul Souday

by Voltaire, Francois M. A.

Paris: émile Hazan, 1927. No. 778 of 800 copies, printed on Vergé de Rives. [4], xxx, 218, [3] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Three quarter olive-green morocco, marbled paper boards, gilt spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers, t.e.g. Beautiful copy. No. 778 of 800 copies, printed on Vergé de Rives. [4], xxx, 218, [3] pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

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La Princesse de Babylone suivie de Contes Divers

by Voltaire, Francois M. A.

Paris: éditions du Trianon, 1930. First edition this, unnumbered copy on vélin du fil. Illustrated with 6 pochoir plates by Keller after watercolors by Léon-Zack. 1 vols. 8vo (8-1/2 x 6-1/4 inches). Three quarter red morocco and decorated paper boards, with the original publisher's green wrappers bound in. Very slight rubbing to tips of spine, otherwise fine. First... Read More

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La Henriade
La Henriade

by [Voltaire, Francois M. A.]

Paris: Chez la Veuve Duchesne, Saillant, Desaint, Panckoucke et Nyon [de l’imprimerie de Barbou], 1770. “Nouvelle édition,” first edition with Eisen’s illustrations. Engraved frontispiece and title with medallion portrait of Voltaire, 10 plates and 10 head-pieces engraved by Longueil after Charles Eisen, all bound in vol. I. xl, 272; 316, [4] pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Contemporary full red morocco,... Read More

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Codicille d'un Viellard,ou Poésies Nouvelles d'Augustin Ximenez

by (Voltaire, François Marie Arouet de) Ximenez, Augustin Louis de, Marquis

Paris: Chez Madame Vaux-Fleuri [De l'Imprimerie de L. Potier de Lille], 1792. First edition. [1-2 (title, verso blank), leaf paged [63]-64 with "Avis" and "Errata", 3-74, small woodcuts. 1 vols. 8vo. Later boards, uncut. Spine and extremities rubbed with chipping, a few leaves with spots, else a very good copy. First edition. [1-2 (title, verso blank), leaf paged... Read More

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The Philosophical Dictionary, for the Pocket. Translated from the French Edition. Corrected by the Author
The Philosophical Dictionary, for the Pocket. Translated from the French Edition. Corrected by the Author

by [Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de]

Catskill: Printed by T. and M. Croswell for selves and J. Fellows & E. Duyckinck, New York, 1796. First American edition. This edition was first published in 1764. Engraved title with vignette portrait by P. R. Maverick of New York. 1 vols. 12mo. Contemporary sheep, morocco label; front joint cracked. Marginal browning of text, browning or staining of endpapers,... Read More

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Profits, Interest and Investment and Other Essays on the Theory of Industrial Fluctuations
Profits, Interest and Investment and Other Essays on the Theory of Industrial Fluctuations

by Von Hayek, Friedrich A.

London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd, 1939. First edition. 266 pp. 8vo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt; dust jacket. Light shelfwear to head and tail of spine, bookseller's ticket and penciled notes to f.f.e; jacket soiled, chipping at head and tail of spine, 7/6 ticket to lower right of front flap; spine with chipping and holes, and... Read More

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Stanford's Compendium of Geography and Travel for General Reading. Based on Wellwald's 'Die Erde und ihre Völker' : Australasia. Translated by A. H. Keane, M. A. I. Edited and extended by Alfred R. Wallace, F.R.G.S., author of 'The Malay Archipelago,' 'Geographical Distribution of Animals,' etc. With ethnolocgical appendix by A. H. Keane, M.A.I.

by Von Hellwald, Friedrich

London: Edward Stanford, 1884. Fourth edition. Engraved frontispiece, maps, 14 folding (colored), wood engravings throughout; xx, 672pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Bound in three-quarters modern dark brown polished calf, brown marbled boards, spliced spine with gilt tooling and red leather label onlay. Fine. Fourth edition. Engraved frontispiece, maps, 14 folding (colored), wood engravings throughout; xx, 672pp. 1 vols. 8vo.... Read More

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Autograph Letter, Signed, "A Humboldt," to French Orientalist and Early Sanskrit Scholar Antoine-Léonard de Chézy, on
Autograph Letter, Signed, "A Humboldt," to French Orientalist and Early Sanskrit Scholar Antoine-Léonard de Chézy, on

by Von Humboldt, Alexander

[Paris?], 1811. 2 pp., with integral address leaf. 8vo. Faint scattered foxing, horizontal fold. 2 pp., with integral address leaf. 8vo. Letter written in French to de Chézy, who was the first professor of Sanskrit at the College du France (beginning in 1815, although his formal study of the language began in 1803, after his studies of Arabic... Read More

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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior

by von Neumann, John & Oskar Morgenstern

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947. Second Edition, published 3 years after the first edition of 1944 and with new preface and "an Appendix containing an axiomatic derivation of numerical utility." pp. 617-632. [6], v-xviii, 1- 641 pp. 8vo. Publisher's original brown cloth over boards, gilt stamped title label. tear at back upper outer hinge. Second Edition, published 3... Read More

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Happy Birthday, Wanda June: A New Play
Happy Birthday, Wanda June: A New Play

by Vonnegut, Kurt

The hampstead Theatre Club Swiss Cottage Centre, 1970. Revised Final Script. Printed recto only. [85] leaves. 4to. Grey stiff wrappers. Revised Final Script. Printed recto only. [85] leaves. 4to. Preceds film and first book publication in 1971. OCLC 3 copies

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Typed Filmscript (photocopied) of his short film "Fortitude
Typed Filmscript (photocopied) of his short film "Fortitude

by Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.

[Published in New York: Playboy magazine, 1968. Cover sheet (with pencilled comment "file #3808 2nd copy") and 16 pp. on rectos of typing paper. Publisher's working copy with numerous editorial corrections throughout in pencil. 1 vols. 8-12 x 11 inches. Publisher's file copy, with a Playboy label affixed to the first page giving publication info, directions to the printer,... Read More

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Fräulein
Fräulein

by von Unwerth, Ellen, and Ingrid Sischy

Cologne: Taschen, 2009. First edition, Collector's edition, number 546 of 1,500 numbered copies (nos. 201–1,700), signed by the photographer. 482 pp. Elephant Folio. Half simulated lizard-skin leather spine and printed paper covered boards. Near Fine in matching drop box, which is a bit shaken from the size of the production. First edition, Collector's edition, number 546 of 1,500... Read More

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[Cherished Portraits of Thoroughbred Horses, from the Collection of William Woodward. Colorists’ Models]
[Cherished Portraits of Thoroughbred Horses, from the Collection of William Woodward. Colorists’ Models]

by Vosburgh, W.S. (Ed.)

[New York: Privately Printed by Eugene V. Connett, 3d, at the Derrydale Press, 1929. Models for Connett’s edition of 21 copies with hand colored plates. Comprising 35 [of 68] engraved plates, proofs after letters, after the original paintings by Stubbs, Herring, Hall, Sartorius, and others, colored by hand, most marked “Approved WW” in ink or pencil in margins, with... Read More

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l'Oeuvre Gravé de Vuillard

by (VUILLARD, EDOUARD [1868-1940]) Roger-Marx, Claude

Monte Carlo, 1948. 2138 of 2500 sur gran velin. 67 lithographs/ etchings in b/w & color, 5 double page, tissue guards. 173 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Colour illustrated wrappers. Fine in slipcase. VUILLARD, EDOUARD [1868-1940]. 2138 of 2500 sur gran velin. 67 lithographs/ etchings in b/w & color, 5 double page, tissue guards. 173 pp. 1 vols. 4to.... Read More

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Biblia. Hebraea, Chaldaea, Graeca & Latina nomina virorum, mulierum, populorum, idolorum, vrbium, fluuiorum, montium, caeterorúmque locorum quae in Bibliis leguntur, restituta, cum Latina interpretatione
Biblia. Hebraea, Chaldaea, Graeca & Latina nomina virorum, mulierum, populorum, idolorum, vrbium, fluuiorum, montium, caeterorúmque locorum quae in Bibliis leguntur, restituta, cum Latina interpretatione

by (Bible. Latin. Vulgate)

Paris: Ex officina Roberti Stephani typographi Regii, 1540. Third edition, and the first with these illustrations. Printer’s device on title pages, woodcut illustrations in text, including 5 (full-page), ornamental initials. [10], 268; [1], 104 [i.e. 103, error in pagination omitting leaf 83]; 90; 92 ff. Collation: *10 a-z⁸ A-I⁸ K-L⁶ Aa10 Bb-Mm⁸ Nn⁶ AA-KK⁸ LL10 2a-2l⁸ 2m⁴. Early manuscript... Read More

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Mediterranean & Near Eastern Embroideries from the Collection of Mrs. F. H. Cook. [Foreword by Beatrice Cook. Feburary 1935]
Mediterranean & Near Eastern Embroideries from the Collection of Mrs. F. H. Cook. [Foreword by Beatrice Cook. Feburary 1935]

by Wace, A.J.B.

London: Halton & Company Ltd. 57, Haymarket, 1935. First edition, no. 151 of 250 copies. 1 Double page map, xiv, [1], 87, [3] pp.; Vol. 2 plates 135, Plate One folding and linen backed. 2 vols. Folio. Green cloth. Very Fine in green cloth open-faced slipcase. First edition, no. 151 of 250 copies. 1 Double page map, xiv,... Read More

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