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Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. Elettra Marconi has inscribed to former owner, signed, and dated on the front free endpaper. Signed Copy.

Condizione: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, oxidised blocked and lettered silver back, top edge dyed red. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. The Hundred Years' War was a series of armed conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France during the Late Middle Ages. It originated from disputed claims to the French throne between the English royal House of Plantagenet and the French royal House of Valois. Over time, the war grew into a broader power struggle involving factions from across Western Europe, fuelled by emerging nationalism on both sides. Contains (xxix), 376 pp with 3 monochrome maps, 2 tables. Spine sun faded, small name dated 1952 to the front free end paper and in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH HISTORY.

Condizione: Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black cloth covered boards, blocked and lettered silver back, top edge dyed red. 8vo. 9'' x 6''. The Hundred Years' War was a series of armed conflicts between the kingdoms of England and France during the Late Middle Ages. It originated from disputed claims to the French throne between the English royal House of Plantagenet and the French royal House of Valois. Over time, the war grew into a broader power struggle involving factions from across Western Europe, fuelled by emerging nationalism on both sides. Contains (xxix), 376 pp with 3 monochrome maps, 2 tables. The dyed page tops has bled onto the front free end paper and titles, in Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. ENGLISH HISTORY.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good Plus. 1st Edition. Boston: Fields & Osgood, 1868 [hardbound Volume 6, July to December 1868 of the magazine]. Taves & Michaluk V001. 10.25" x 6.75", 828 pp. Ex-Tacoma Public Library; half black calf with marbled paper boards. Quite scuffed, particularly at the corners and hinges. Pages are age toned, some are wrinkled, one page is torn but complete [not a page within the Verne issue]. Strongly bound. Somewhat worn (see scans) but still quite strong, better than Good, just short of very good by reason of one or two too many scuffs. Fascinating and quite rare Jules Verne English-language first/first. Just a few pages buried within this hefty collection of six months of Every Saturday: A Journal of Choice Reading - a Fields & Osgood double-column weekly issue - treat Verne's first novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon. At the time, the magazine editors were apparently of the opinion that Verne [who was then largely unknown to the American public] was describing actual events, rather than fictitious ones, in his tale of African adventures undertaken via the vehicle of a hot-air balloon. Here, in the five pages of this first appearance (see scan of the first one), only certain passages of the novel occur, along with a synopsis by the apparently intrigued editor, who concludes with the line: "All I can say is, that it was shameful of our newspapers, which profess to record everything that passes, to treat this important event with such utter silence." Verne is even mis-identified by the flummoxed staff, who refer to him as "M. Jules Berne." For this title, this piece is exceeded in English-language rarity only by its own softbound variant - i.e., the same piece not bound together in six-monthly tomes such as this, which was the habit of the era, which few have presumably largely perished. Taves & Michaluk at V001 note that "The London" sourcing reference for the Verne article remains unknown. See all scans. L53n.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: fine. Signed first English language edition of Helgoland by Carlo Rovelli. This work is translated by Erica Segre and Simon Carnell. (illustratore). First English Edition, First Printing. Octavo, viii, 187pp, [7]. Black hardcover, title in silver on title page. Stated "This translation first published 2021" on copyright page. Solid text block, appears unread. In the publisher's dust jacket, £20.00 retail price on front flap, fine condition. Includes "signed copy" sticker to front panel. Signed by Carlo Rovelli on title page. Signed.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: near fine. Signed first English language edition of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli. This early printing was translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre. (illustratore). First English Edition, Early Printing. Octavo, 86pp. Black hardcover, title in orange on spine. Stated "First American Edition published by Riverhead Books 2016" on copyright page. "13" printed on number line, indicating 13th printing. Solid text block, fine condition. In the publisher's dust jacket, $18.00 retail price on front flap, lightly shelf worn. Signed by Carlo Rovelli on the title page. Signed.

Leather bound. Condizione: Fine. First English language edition of The Love Affairs of Napoleon by Joseph Turquan, translated by J. Lewis May. (illustratore). First English Language Edition. Octavo, xii, 378pp, [2pp ads]. Three-quarter red morocco, red cloth covered boards, thin gilt trim to boards. Five raised bands, title in gilt on spine, decorative compartments. Bound by W. Root and Son, with imprint on verso of free endpaper. Previous ownership bookplate on front endpaper. Solid text block, fine condition. Complete with 23 full-page plates, including the frontispiece.

Full calf. Condizione: Very good. The first American edition of The Effects of the Principal Arts, Trades, and Professions, on Healthy Living, by Charles Turner Thackrah. The first English-language treatise on occupational medicine. (illustratore). First American Edition. Twelvemo, 202pp. Full sheep, title stamped in gilt on the spine, over black morocco label. Light foxing to endpapers, scattered toning throughout. Small chip at head of the spine, solid text block. The work is divided into four sections: on workmen, shopkeepers, merchants and master-manufacturers, and professional men. "It attracted attention from both medical men and laymen at the time it appeared, and played an important part in stimulating the factory and health legislation which mitigated some of the worst features of the industrial revolution. The book also includes important information on the harmful effects of child labor." (Garrison-Morton 2123) (Shaw-Shomaker 9393). Published the same year as the first English edition, this first American edition included explanations of the scientific terminology and the French and Latin phrases used in the text. (Norman 2064).

Hardcover. Condizione: Near fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: very good. First English language edition of The Revolt of the Masses by Jose Ortega Y. Gasset. (illustratore). First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 204pp. Black hardcover, title in green on front cover and spine. Top edge dyed green. Stated "First Published in English 1932" on copyright page. Solid text block, previous bookseller's label affixed to front endpaper, rubbing to corners and edges of spine. In the publisher's dust jacket, price-clipped. Sunned spine, faint toning to top edge of front panel, a few short closed tears. A nice copy of a notable work by the Spanish philosopher, detailing his study of the "mass-man." The Revolt of the Masses was translated from Gasset's original Spanish title; "La Rebelion de las Masas.".

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Frezier [Amédée-François].A voyage to the South-Sea, and along the coasts of Chili and Peru, in the years 1712, 1713, and 1714. Particularly describing the genius and constitution of the inhabitants, as well Indians as Spaniards: their customs and manners, their natural history, mines, commodities, traffick with Europe with a postscript by Dr. Edmund Halley and an account of the settlement, commerce, and riches of the Jesuites in Paraguay. London, Jonah Bowyer, 1717. 4to. [14] + 335 + [9]p. Title in red and black. 22 maps and plans (16 folding), and 15 plates engraved by N. Guerard le fils. Typographical ornaments and initials. Some musical notation in the text. Antiqued mottled sheep. First edition in English, valued for the additional 3-page postscript by Halley correcting some geographical errors made by Frézier; it also contains an English translation of a critical report on the Jesuit missions in Paraguay (on pp323-335), first published anonymously in French in 1712 (see Leclerc 1912). The plates are the same as those used for the Paris original edition, mostly retaining the French captions. Two neat repairs in blank margins of first 2 leaves, some light traces of marginal foxing, but generally a fresh, attractive copy. Borba de Moraes I, 329; Hill, p115; Palau 94965; Sabin 25926.

First edition in contemporary calf, raised bands to the spine. 8vo. 7½'' x 5''. Contains [xvi] 118, [ii] 117 [xvi] printed pages of text, engraved portrait frontispiece. Includes a Catalogue of the Lord-Wardens of the Cinque Ports. Somner's earliest work was The Antiquities of Canterbury; or a Survey of that ancient Citie, with the Suburbs and Cathedral, London, 1640, dedicated to Archbishop Laud (reissued 1662; 2nd edit, by Nicholas Batteley, London, 1703). At the suggestion of Meric Casaubon he acquired a knowledge of Anglo-Saxon, and then wrote Observations on the Laws of King Henry I, published by Roger Twysden in 1644, with a new glossary. He made collections for a history of Kent, but abandoned this undertaking; this book being a portion of the work published at Oxford in 1693 by the Rev. James Brome, with notes by Edmund Gibson, and a life of the author by White Kennett. Joints cracked, rubbing to the covers, lengthy text to the front free flypaper, paper clean and fresh with only minimal age toning to the paper edges. Member of the P.B.F.A. KENT [Antiquarian].