Bacon's Essays

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Full title: The Essays, or Councils, Civil and Moral, of Sir Francis Bacon... With a Table of the Colors of Good and Evil. And a Discourse of the Wisdom of the Ancients.

London. Printed by E. Holt for George Sawbridge at the Three Flower de Luces in Little Brittain, 1701.

3/4 leather binding; spine and tips of glossy vermilion, marbled boards and endpapers. Slightly darkened tips of front. Vivid gold design on spine (possibly restored, possibly just well-preserved). Includes a ribbon marker. Text incredibly clean, only very sparse foxing along the edges of pages.

$475.00

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The Natural and Civil History of Vermont by Samuel Williams

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Walpole, NH: Isaiah Thomas & David Carlisle, 1794,
first edition.

1/2 Leather over Marbled Boards. Very Good, First Edition. . Recently expertly rebound. Folding map; 416 pages; nice old library stamp on title page; gilt lined spine w/ gilt letters; mildly foxed.

$1000.00
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The Inferno of Dante Alighieri

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Translated by the Reverend Henry Francis Cary and Illustrated with the Seven Engravings of William Blake.

Printed by Richard W. Ellis for Cheshire House in New York, 1931.

This luxuriant, magnificent volume have very large covers bound in brown leather (softened at tips and lightly flaking in some places along the edge). Five raised bands and red leather label on spine. Text completely clean, a distinctly attractive copy above all.

$750.00

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Diccionario de la Lengua Espanola

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Madrid: Real Academia Espanola, 1925

Fine binding with ornate gilt decorations and illustrations, red and black leather labels on the spine. Large format; very handsome full leather book!

$325.00
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