R., Eav. L. (Luigi Rossi), compiler
BIBBIA PER LA GIOVENTU O SIA COMPENDIO DELLA STORIA DEL POPOLO ELETTO [VOLUME 1]
Milano: Batelli e Fanfani; Libraio A. F. Stella 1817. First?. VG/no DJ small Octavo; brown leather spine with gilt lettering impressed rulings and filigree; shelf wear and bumping; text block clean; some moisture discoloration, tail-edge corners; edges, speckled red; 408 pp.; illus., 74 color engravings; back hinge, split start; edges, chipping; boards, rubbed; binding, shaken; else very good; [Bible Stories for Young People: Genesis to Chronicles]; ---TEXT IN ITALIAN. [Book #9-114-1152467]
$500

Thomae Hobbes Malmesburiensis (Thomas Hobbes)
OPERA PHILOSOPHICA, QUAE LATINE SCRIPTIS, OMNIA: ANTE QUIDEM PER PARTES, NUNC AUTEM, POST COGNITAS OMNIUM; OBJECTIONES, CONUNCTIM & ACCURATIUS EDITA (COMPLETE SET, 8 PARTS BOUND IN 3 VOLUMES)
Amstelodami (Amsterdam): Ioannem Blaev (Johannes Blaeu) 1668. 3-volume set. Octavos, VG/no DJs (as issued), half vellum with decorative paper-covered boards. Gray-tan spines with gilt text on brown spine labels. Exceptional condition for age of set: joints/hinges of covers solid, bindings excellent. Covers rubbed & soiled w/ chipping to edges & spine labels, bumping to corners. Neat ink notes in Latin on endpapers; occasional pencil to margins of Vol I&II, pencil throughout Vol III. Text blocks are not entirely flat, but does not affect integrity of the books; minor age-toning. Each part separately paginated. CONTENTS: Vol I--Part 1. Libros tres de Corpore; Part 2. Librum de Homine; Part 3. Libros tres de Cive (261+86+174pp; 15 plates, 6 fold-out plates & frontis). Vol II--Part 1. Dialogos sex de emendatione Geometriae hodiernae; 2. De Natura Aeris; 3. Probelmata Physica, una cum magnitudine Circuli & duplicatione Cubi; 4. De Principiis & Rationcinatione Geometrarum (146+42+44+64pp; 8 plates, 1 fold-out plate). Vol III--Leviathan, sive de Materia, Forma & Potestate Civitatis Ecclesiasticae & Civilis (365pp text+14pp unpaginated index). [Book #9-39-1152625]
$3,000

Quinquarboreum, Ioannem [Aurilacensem linguarum Hebraicae & Caldaicae Regium professorem]; etal., Isaac, Iohannes [Amplissimi Senatus Coloniensus publico professore]
INSTITUTIONES IN LINGUAM HEBRAICAM, [SIVE EPITOME OPERIS DE RE GRAMMATICA HEBRAEORUM CANDIDARIS FOELICITER HEBRAICARI CUPIENTIBUS APPRIME UTIILIS & NECESSARIA]
Paris; Coloniae: Martinum Iuuenem [Sub insigni D. Christophori, e regione gymnasij Cameracensium]; Iacobi Soteris 1559; 1557; 1558. Square Octavo; vg/none; vellum spine with black handwritten text; ex libris, inscription in ancient hand, title-page; shelf wear and bumping; text block, clean; light toning and foxing spots; mixed pagination; 298 pp.; three bokks bound as one; ---[1], INSTITUTIONES, 135 pp.; ---[2], PERFECTISSIMA [Hebraea Grammatica, commodo admodum ordine in tres libros distincta; Quorum primus simpliciora tamtium docet: Secondus perfectiora & grauiora paulo: Tertius difficillima quaequae absolutissime & accuratissime tradit; 111 pp.; ---[3], MEDITATIONES HEBRAICAE IN ARTEM GRAMMATICAM, per integrum librum Ruth explicatae, una cum aliarum rerum nonnullis accessionibus, huius linguae tyronibus cum primus utilibus ac necessariis]; 52 pp.; right to left pagination; hand-bound stitching; head and tail edges, stamped with primary title, Institutiones; hinges, split starts; spine, crown, chipped; tail, library holographic shelfing number; else very good; ---TEXT IN HEBREW AND LATIN. [Book #9-114-1152531]
$1,500

Atelier Populaire
MAI 68: DEBUT D'UNE LUTTE PROLONGEE (POSTERS FROM THE REVOLUTION, PARIS, 1968)
London: Dobson Books Ltd. 1969. Folio in cream wraps with bold red text and cover design. VG- condition. Features full-page reproductions of posters created by the Atelier Populaire, a militant artist collective, during the worker and student strikes in Paris in May, 1968. Posters are printed in single colors: black, red, purple, green, orange, several shades of blue, and brown. Translations of poster texts into English, Italian, Spanish, and German. Includes introductory statement by the Atelier Populaire, as well and notes and a postscript. The book shows moderate shelfwear, including rubbing to covers, light general soiling, some age-toning, and a slight curling at edges. Light foxing to pages, but interior is mainly clear. Posters still bright and vivid. Cracking to gutter at center of book; corresponding crease to spine. Binding currently still in one piece. 96 pp. Posters suitable for framing and display, though this runs counter to the Atelier Populaire's revolutionary intentions: "To use [the posters] for decorative purposes, to display them in bourgeois places of culture or to consider them as objects of aesthetic interest is to impair both their function and their effect." [Spine is cream with black text. [Book #9-114-1152436]
$300

Pynchon, Thomas
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
New York: The Viking Press 1973. First Edition. VG+/VG+ Octavo in orange-red cloth over boards, DJ illustrated with white and teal text on mostly orange-red spine. Minor shelfwear; ever so slightly bumped at corners, head and tail of spine. DJ corners barely chipped; original $15.00 price present [now in mylar]. Previous owner's bookplate on ffep. Pynchon's controversial, post-modern novel has been nominated for many awards and is the subject of volumes of criticism. Interior clean and bright, binding solid. [Book #9-114-1152250]
$650

Burden, Philip D
THE MAPPING OF NORTH AMERICA: A LIST OF PRINTED MAPS, 1511-1670
Rickmansworth, England: Raleigh Publications 1996. [First Edition]. Folio in maroon cloth. VG+/VG+. Minor shelfwear. DJ crisp and clean, with only minor wear to edges. Front board has very small tear in cloth; boards otherwise very good. Interior is clean. Black and white maps throughout. Binding square and tight. A handsome, authoritative volume. 568 pp. [Book #9-214-1152277]
$175