Baillet's life of Descartes, with the rare portrait frontispiece

[BAILLET, ADRIEN] La Vie de Monsieur Descartes. Paris: Daniel Horthemels, 1691. First edition, two parts in one volume. Mottled calf, gilt heraldic device of Alexandre de la Rochefoucauld Duc de la Ro

Life and Reign of Lewis XIV, Late King of France and Navarre, engraved portrait frontispiece, woodcut head-pieces and initials, 3pp. publisher's catalogue at end, armorial bookplate of Sir Robert John

A wonderful Majapahit head from Java, ca. 1300 - 1500 AD. This 9-1/2 in high terracotta head was turned red with iron oxides and depicts a deceased king. These rare life-like portrait sculptures were

FULLER, Thomas (1608-1661). The History of the Worthies of England. London: F. C. and J. Rivington…, 1811. 2 volumes, 4to. With rare copperplate frontispiece portrait of Fuller in volume I. With

Johnson (Samuel) A Dictionary of the English Language, 'Harrison's Edition, with his Life of the Author', engraved portrait frontispiece and title printed in red and black (both laid down), 5F1 with l

212. (Stark, General John Stark).Reminiscences of the French War; containing Rogers' Expeditions...to which is added an account of The Life and Military Services...Frontispiece portrait by Miss Crowni

DESCRIPTION: Antique photogravure published by Otto Wiecker, after an 1860 original by Joseph Baker. At bottom: "Abraham Lincoln / Reproduced from a rare Portrait drawing, the first from life, / made

RODIN, Auguste (1840-1917). LAWTON, Frederick. The Life and Work of Auguste Rodin. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906.   8vo. Portrait frontispiece. (Damp-staining to margins not affecting image.) Num

H[arington] (J[ohn]) The History of Polindor and Flostella. With other poems, second edition, woodcut head-pieces and decorative initials, later (not called for) engraved portrait frontispiece, lackin

Corrado (Vincenzo) Il Credenziere di Buon Gusto, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, title and woodcut printer's device within woodcut decorative border, engraved folding plate of a desert

Balkans.- Albania.- [Beauchamp (Alphonse de)] The Life of Ali Pacha, or Janina, Vizier of Epirus, first English edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, scattered faint spotting, occasional marginal p

Paine (Thomas).- Sherwin (W.T.) Memoirs of the life of Thomas Paine...To which is added an appendix, containing several of Mr. Paine's unpublished pieces, engraved portrait frontispiece, additional en

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman and Hall, 1839.   8vo (206 x 129 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece and 39 engraved plates by Hablot K

BOSWELL, James (1740-1795). The Life of Samuel Johnson. London: Henry Baldwin for Charles Dilly, 1793. 3 volumes, 8vo (213 x 133 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece of Johnson by J. Baker after Sir Jo

NO RESERVE Haggard (H. Rider).- Jebb (Mrs. John Gladwyn) A Strange Career: Life and Adventures of John Gladwyn Jebb, first edition, ALs from Haggard tipped-in, portrait frontispiece, scattered spottin

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870). The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. London: Chapman & Hall, 1839. A second copy. 8vo (210 x 130 mm). Engraved portrait frontispiece in the first state with publ

Meyer, Henry. Life Staked at Cards. New York: Author, 1895. Publisher's soft brown cloth stamped in black and gilt. Portrait frontispiece behind tissue. Illustrated with plates. 12mo. Very good.

Harry Houdini (Erhich Weiss) 1908. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece of Houdini. Illustrated. Fraying to edge of spine and light damp stain top front cover. Binding tight.

Scarce copy. 'Pioneer Missionary'. Publishers pictorial cover with black title. Black title with vignette to spine. Portrait frontispiece plate. Full-page illustrations. A very nice copy. Publisher: H

Half-leather over green buckram boards with gilt library vignette. Morocco gilt title and raised bands to spine. Mottled page-blocks. Portrait frontispiece + title vignette. Library lending rules past

A Roving Commission' First edition thus. Publishers buff cloth with gilt title label to spine. Portrait frontispiece. Full-page and in-text illustrations and maps. A very nice copy. Publisher The Repr

Publishers red cloth with gilt title to spine. [some wear] Portrait frontispiece with tissue-guard. A very nice copy. Publisher Hodder & Stoughton., London Author George Adam Smith Date Published 1899

New York: Da Capo Press, 1976. Hardcover in pictorial dust jacket. First Edition, First Printing. Photographs by Peter Hujar. Introduction by Susan Sontag. Text in English. Square quarto. 9¾"-12"

NO RESERVE Ashmole (Elias) and WIlliam Lilly. The Lives of those Eminent Antiquaries, Elias Ashmole... and Mr William Lilly, Written by Themselves, first edition, engraved portrait frontispiece, light