New York; New Haven, CT: Limited Editions Club, Yale University Press, Printing Office, [1937]. Limted Edition. Hardcover. The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1880) is a long English language poem written by "Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî", a pseudonym of the true author, Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890), a well-known British Arabist.....
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Berlini (Berlin), Germany: Aux depens d'Ambroise Haude, 1748. [First edition]. Full Calf. Translation to English: Commentary on the Gallic, Civil, Alexandrian, African, and Spanish wars of C. Julius Caesar and others. Bumped, small loss, tearing to front boards, else tight, bright, and unmarred. In mottled calf over boards, gilt decorative.....
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Patauii [Padua], Italy: Apud Josephum Corona, 1710. [First edition]. Full Calf. Translation to English: C. Valerius Catullus, Albius Tibullus ER Sex. Aurelius Propertius from the recension of Jo: Antonii Vulpii Bergomensis... With the same observations, and a very rich index. The epistle to the reader indicates what has happened in.....
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Biponti [Zweibrucken, Germany]: Ex Typgraphia Societatis, 1784. Editio accurata. Half Calf. Translation to English: The works of Claudian which are extant have been compiled into the best editions. Literary information is preferred. Studies of the Bipontine society. A detailed edition. Claudius Claudianus (Claudian for short; around 370 (?); † after.....
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Gotha: Justus Perthes, 1863. [First edition]. Full Calf. Germany, Kingdom. The Netherlands, Kingdom Belgium and Switzerland together with parts of the bordering countries to Oxford, Portsmouth, Havre, Königsberg, Odense, etc. Travel maps with designations of the railways, highways, express wagon and extra post routes, drawn jointly by Fr. von Stülpnagel.....
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Bavaria?, Germany: Lugd. Batavorum : ex officina Danielis. et Abrahami a Gaasbeeck, 1662. Editio secunda, priori emendatior et altero tanto auctior. Full Calf. Translation to English: The three books of the observations of John Fredericus Gronovius. The second edition, an improvement on the first and expanded in the second. This.....
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Bavaria?, Germany: Lugd. Batavorum : Apud Severinum Matthaei & Davidem à Lodensteyn, 1651. Editio nova accurata, accedit ejusdem authoris Praxis logica. Full Calf. Translation to English: Logical hermeneutics. Explanation of Burgersdician Synopses of Logic. Adriaan Heereboord (13 October 1613 in Leiden – 7 July 1661 in Leiden) was a Dutch.....
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Paris, France: Par la Compagnie des Libraires associez, 1709-1710 (avec privilege du Roy). Nouvelle Edition [revised, corrected & enlarged, enriched with intaglio figures]. Full Calf. Translation to English: Works of Molière. A portrait of the author by Mignard and Audran. The great French playwright. Moderate head and tail wear, some.....
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London: T. Nelson and Sons, 1866. (Later edition). Hardcover. Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) was a Scottish historical novelist, playwright and poet. The Lady of the Lake is the classic poem by Scott, first published in 1810. Set in the Trossachs region of Scotland, it is composed of six cantos, each.....
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Egypt [i.e. Cairo]: Kütübhane-i Içtihad, 1909. First Thus. Hardcover. This is the first translation of Macbeth into the Ottoman, or Osmanli language, published in Cairo. The translator was an Ottoman medical doctor of Kurdish origins, Abdullah Cevdet (1869-1932), who was known for his progressive thoughts on women’s liberation and modernization.....
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London: Printed for Joseph Davidson, at the Angel in the Poultry, 1743. [First edition]. Full Calf. Publius Vergilius Maro, usually called Virgil or Vergil in English, was an ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period. He composed three of the most famous poems in Latin literature: the Eclogues, the Georgics.....
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