Includes Modern Reprints and Translations.
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![Item #16499 Facéties du Comte De Caylus [Folk Tales / Pranks]. Anne Claude de Caylus](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16499.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1673977289)
Paris: A. Quantin, 1879. Limited Edition. Full Leather. Comte De Caylus was a French antiquarian, proto-archaeologist and man of letters. Caylus had quite another side to his character. He had a thorough acquaintance with the gayest and most disreputable sides of Parisian life and left a number of more or.....
Germany: Halle, Joham, Gebauer, 1756. Background Information:The map shows the conflicts in Mauretania and the province of Africa Proconsularis during the early first century AD. Gaetulien.The Romanised name of an ancient Berber tribe inhabiting Getulia, covering the large desert region south of the Atlas Mountains, bordering the Sahara. Mauretania (also.....
London: W. Mears, 1718. Full leather in a slipcase. Full Title: New improvements of planting and gardening, both philosophical and practical; explaining the motion of the sapp and generation of plants. With other Discoveries never before made Publick, for the Improvement of Forest-Trees, Flower-Gardens or Parterres; with a New Invention.....
London: A. Millar, 1752. Hardcover. Background Information:"An essay on the universe" was first published in "Poems on various subjects," 1739 and "Sunday thoughts" was first published in 1749. Moses Browne, born in Severn Stoke, Worcester, published his early poetry under the patronage of Viscount Molesworth; after the death of his.....
![Item #013845 [Stonehenge] A Tour through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland Made...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/013845.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1647341509)
London: Printed at the Minerva Press, Leadenhall-Street, for R. Edwards, 1793. 1st Edition. Near Fine. Beginning in Portsmouth, Hampshire, the tour continues through Wiltshire, Cornwall and all surrounding counties, ending in Middlesex.Edward Daniel Clark an English clergyman, naturalist, mineralogist, and traveller in 1790 after his traditional schooling began tutorships common.....
London: John Walthoe et.al. 1740. The plate is from a collection of voyages and travels, some now first printed from original manuscripts, others now first published in English. To which is prefixed, an introductory discourse (supposed to be written by the celebrated Mr. Locke) intitled, The whole history of navigation.....
London: Nicholas Tindal, c1745. This Map is From: "The Continuation of Mr. Rapin's History of England: From the Revolution to the Present Times" by Nicholas Tindal (a translation of Rapin-Thoyras's "Histoire d'Angleterre"), an atlas presenting a history of the military engagements and campaigns of the War of the Spanish Succession.....
![Item #16381 [Wine, Cordial Water, Malt Liquors Recipes] The London Art of Cookery, and...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16381.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1670955614)
London: J. Scatcherd and J. Whitaker, 1789. Very Good in Leather. "Farley's claim to fame has rested solely on his cookery book, although this is now known to be the work of a hack writer, Richard Johnson.The majority of The London Art of Cookery was compiled from the two eighteenth.....
USA: IndyPublish.com, 2001. Hardcover. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his Memoirs. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death.....
New York: Alfred A Knoff, 1973. Deluxe Edition. A Fine Hardcover in a Very Good Slipcase. The Prophet is a book of 26 prose poetry fables written in English by the Lebanese-American poet and writer Kahlil Gibran. It was originally published in 1923 by Alfred A. Knopf. It is Gibran's.....
![Item #013689 Faust - Tragédie. [Faust - Tragedy]. Goethe, Albert Stapfer, a, P. Stapfer, J Wolfgang](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/013689.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1647344620)
Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1885. Hardcover. Faust is considered by many to be Goethe's magnum opus and the greatest work of German literature a tragic play in two parts, usually known in English as Faust, Part One and Faust, Part Two. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the.....
Ohio: Kent State Univ Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover in Dust Jacket. The Danse Macabre of Women is a 15th-century French poem found in a lavishly illuminated late medieval manuscript. The only Dance of Death devoted entirely to women, it was written by an anonymous author and subsequently.....
![Item #013848 [17th Century Travel, England] Picturesque Views on the Upper or Warwickshire Avon,...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/013848.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1647345720)
London: R. Faulder and T. Egerton, 1795. First Edition, First Printing. A Fine Hardcover. An important travalogue describing the locations and views along the River Avon from its source at Naseby to its junction with the Severn at Twekesbury.Also notable for some racy accounts which includes a brothel and a......
Paris: Chez Desaing & Saillant and Durand, 1759. Engraved by Laurent Cars. The work was edited by C. P. de Monthenault d'Egly and published in Paris by Chez Desaing & Saillant and Durand between 1755 and 1759. The engravings were by Cochin, Tardieu, Prevost, Chedel, Lempereur and others after the.....
John Ogilby (1600 - 1676). Background Information:John Ogilby (1600 - 1676) was the first cartographer to make use of strip-maps for roads. A Scottish translator, impresario and cartographer. Best known for publishing the first British road atlas, he was also a successful translator, noted for publishing his work in handsome.....
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, [1905]. Photographs of Adelaide Hanscom. First Edition, Thus. A Good Hardcover. The Rubaiyat already a popular book from the late 19th century, was given a fashionable modern look for a new generation of readers in the early 20th-century by employing fine art photographs to illustrate.....
![Item #15420 [Vale Press, Charles Ricketts] The Amber Witch, The most interesting trial for...](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/15420.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1649881450)
London: Vale Press at the Ballantyne Press, 1903. Designs by Charles Ricketts. Limited Edition. This quasi-historical tale of witchcraft purported to be a true chronicle set down by William Meinhold. Oscar Wilde praised Lady Duff Gordon’s translation, first published in German in 1843.The Amber Witch was for some time held.....
London: Amber Books Ltd, 2012. Designed by Rick Fawcett. A Fine Hardcover. Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian diplomat, author, philosopher and historian who lived during the Renaissance. He is best known for his political treatise The Prince, written about 1513 but not published until 1532. He has.....
London: Thames & Hudson, 1981. First Edition, First Printing. Fine Hardcover in a Fine Slipcase. Background Information: The Wharncliffe Book of Hours was illuminated in France by a celebrated artist, Maître François. It was named for Nicholai Joseph Foucault, a 16th century Earl of Wharncliffe. It is now in the.....
![Item #014366 [Vale Press] Doctor Faustus. Christopher Marlow, Thomas Sturge Moore](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/014366.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1647346875)
London: Vale & Ballantyne Press For Hacon and Ricketts, 1903. Illustrated by Charles Ricketts (1866-1931). Limited Edition. A Very Good Hardcover. The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, commonly referred to simply as Doctor Faustus, is an Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlowe, based on German stories.....
c1276. The commentary which this leaf was a part discussed the Islam Religion, how it started, difficulties and other factors in other religions that contributed to of opposed the Islamic religion.Found in Jerusalem by Stanley S. Slotkin, Chairman of the Board of Abbey Rents Co.The original book from which the.....
Boston: Printed at the Apollo Press by Belknap and Young, for David West. 1792. A Very Good Hardcover. This volume and his subsequent volume of travels in Italy were immensely popular. This book relates, via series of letters, Moore's observations of his travels with the Duke of Hamilton through France.....
Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1907. Limited Edition. Fine Hardcovers in a Very Good Dust Jackets. Deemed as one of the most excellent works of its kind, one of the greatest contemporary European accounts of its period and "a valuable and much esteemed work." [1]Collectible and rare in this condition.....
New York: Random House, 1947. Mahmoud Sayah. Hardcover.
![Item #16568 Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [Edmund Dulac Color Plates]. Omar, Khayyam, Edward Fitzgerald](https://blindhorsebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/16568.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&v=1675547617)
New York and London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912]. Illustrations by Edmund Dulac. A Very Good Hardcover. This book of poetry is attributed to Omar Khayyam, a highly respected Persian astronomer and mathematician, who lived in the 11th and 12th centuries. Generically, rubaiyat describes a collection of a specific type of.....