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    • The Temple of Taste
    • Voltaire
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $923.79
    • Publisher: London: J. Hazard    Date Published: 1734
    • Description: first edition in English; xvi, 45, [2] (ads) pp., removed from a larger binding and now in self wrappers, top margin trimmed close, overall good+; inspired by Alexander Pope's Dunciad, this was Voltaire's attempt to satirize French cultural dullness. It provoked many denunciations - 18th Century Bibliography. Volumes Included: 1
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    • Item Number: 652087
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    • Des calembourgs comme s'il en pleuvoit; contenant un deluge de traits d'esprit.
    • (Ragueneau de LaChainaye, Armand Henri, sometimes as Ragueneau de la Chainaye, Armand Henri)
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $879.41
    • Publisher: Paris: Chez Barba,    Date Published: 1800
    • Description: Troisieme edition, augmentee entre autres choses de la Lettre a Madame de Kko.; 32mo (leaves slightly taller than 12 cm.); viii, 180 pp., hand colored frontispiece; later paper covered boards with leather spine now worn and detached from text block, 1847 written note on verso of frontis. explaining how it was purchased at an auction sale of books belonging to “the esteemed John Pickering” the previous year and how it was repaired “after a fashion”, signature of “Jno. Pickering jr.” mounted on inside front cover, the text portion of half title mounted on a later sheet, one leaf has a long tear with no loss, general age toning, complete but reading copy. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: French literature mw8x   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 667772
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    • Caroutche, the Celebrated French Robber. In three volumes
    • R. B. Peake
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $197.59
    • Publisher: London: Hugh Cunningham    Date Published: 1844
    • Description: first edition; 3 volumes, iv, 303 + 279 + 276 pp., bound in late 19th century quarter red leather & marbled boards; covers worn, rear hinge of the first volume is weak and starting to split, else internally clean, tight and overall good+. Volumes Included: 3
    • Subject: english literature mw8   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 648710
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    • Solomon Seesaw. With illustrations by Phiz. Vol. I & II
    • J. P. Robertson
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $77.17
    • Publisher: London: Saunders & Otley    Date Published: 1839
    • Description: volumes 1 & 2; xiv, 293 + vii, 307 pp., original gilt & blind stamped brown cloth, slight spine slants, else near very good. Volumes Included: 2
    • Subject: english literature mw8   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 668367
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    • Poetical Scraps
    • Rickman, Thomas Clio.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $101.00
    • Publisher: London: Printed for the Author (by George Hayden)    Date Published: 1803
    • Description: first edition; 2 volumes, 12mo, [title leaf], xiii, [3], 175, [1] pp., frontispiece + [title leaf], 232 pp., frontispiece; bound in contemporary black quarter leather & marbled boards, bindings rubbed at spines and tips with labels gone, old inked biographical sketch of the author to an early blank, else very good. Volumes Included: 2
    • Subject: British literature, poetry, MW8   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 647749
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    • Daniel Deronda.
    • Eliot, George.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $973.67
    • Publisher: Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons,    Date Published: 1876
    • Description: 4 volumes, small octavo, later bndings very rubbed at leather spies and corners, some joints split and one head chipped, only one spine lable remains, only light age toning to text and still well sewn. Volumes Included: 4
    • Subject: British literature, novels, MW8   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 650713
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    • An Impartial History of the late Revolution in France, from Its Commencement to the Death of the Queen, and the Execution of the Deputies of The Gironde Party.
    • Rabaut, Jean-Paul and Charles Lacretelle, attributed
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $87.78
    • Publisher: Boston: printed by Manning & Loring for B. Laerkon (etc.).    Date Published: 1794
    • Description: 496 pp.; contemporary leather binding very rubbed and front hinge broken, endpapers, verso of title, and last blank covered with pencil notes on what seems to be a problem in solid geometry, age toning and light age staining, paper not fragile and entirely readable but good- only. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: French Revolution, MW8   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 647812
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    • Montes the Matador & Other Stories.
    • Harris, Frank. (Lotta Crabtree, her copy)
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $16.97
    • Publisher: London: Alexander Moring,    Date Published: 1906
    • Description: American actress Lotta Crabtree's copy, 1912 inscription from Frank Harris to Miss Lotta on front free endpaper and an inscription from "Lotta M. Crabtree" to the "Y. D boys" on first blank, hand stamp of the YD Club of Boston and a pencil note from the previous owner that the book was purchased from the club in 1931; [viii], 254, [1] (printed at the Chiswick Press) pp.; original cloth darkened and rubbed, light general age toning to text, the title leaf is a cancel and slightly darker, overall good+. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: fiction, literature, MW8   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 647866
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    • The twins of Table mountain, and other stories
    • Bret Harte
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $4.63
    • Publisher: Houghton, Osgood    Date Published: 1879
    • Description: First Edition, 249 pp., original brown decorated cloth (hardcover), faint cock to spine, minor ownership markings to front pastedown and front free endpaper, else good+. Volumes Included: 1
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    • Item Number: 650249
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    • Maga Social Papers. Putnam's Railway Classics
    • G. P. Putnam & Son
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $2.47
    • Publisher: NY: G. P. Putnam & Son    Date Published: 1867
    • Description: 296 pp., original green cloth (hardcover), small closed tear to front free endpaper, light foxing to first few pages, else very good. Volumes Included: 1
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    • Item Number: 651124
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    • The Citizen of the World: or Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to his Friends in the East.
    • Goldsmith, Oliver.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $59.15
    • Publisher: London: printed by E, Spragg, for J. Good,    Date Published: 1793
    • Description: 2 volumes in one, [title leaf], v, [5], 264 pp. + [vi], 239 pp.; light age staining, only a detached side remains from a later binding but block still sewn, reading copy. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: British literature, MW8   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 647775
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    • The Man about Town. In two volumes
    • Cornelius Webbe
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $49.48
    • Publisher: London: Henry Colburn    Date Published: 1841
    • Description: two volumes in one; [vii], 336, 383 pp., bound in contemporary quarter leather & marbled boards, covers worn, . Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: mw8 english literature   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 647930
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    • Reminiscences of Samuel Dexter: Originally written for the Boston Evening Transcript. By Sigma
    • Lucius M Sargent
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $34.04
    • Publisher: A. Williams    Date Published: 1857
    • Description: 96 pp., contemporary full leather (hardcover), a.e.g., spine and covers worn at edges, else good+. Volumes Included: 1
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    • Item Number: 649233
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    • THE ARGONAUTS OF NORTH LIBERTY
    • Bret Harte
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $21.00
    • Publisher: Houghton Mifflin    Date Published: 1888
    • Description: First Edition, 206 pp., original brown decorated cloth (hardcover), very good. Volumes Included: 1
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    • Item Number: 650250
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    • Prose italiane di Giovannandrea Barotti. dedicate, e consacrate all'illustrissimo, e reverendissimo signore monsignore Giammaria Riminaldi ...
    • Barotti, Giovanni Andrea (1701-1772)
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $6,562.76
    • Publisher: In Ferrara: Nella stamperia Camerale    Date Published: 1770
    • Description: 3 volumes, quarto (22 cm. tall), xii, [2], 360 pp. + [title leaf], 319 pp. + [title leaf], 321 pp.; paper covered board sides with vellum spines and hand lettered labels; bindings soiled with spines darkened and labels worn, minor worming at or near some hinges with no penetration into text, one interior leaf has a dark vertical line and minor holing along fore edge (probably a press problem) but no letters hit, a few sections age toned but an overall bright text on good quality paper and an untrimmed set. Volumes Included: 3
    • Subject: Italian literature, literary criticism mw8x   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 666652
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    • The New London Magazine; being An Universal and Complete Monthly Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment. Vol. I.
    • A Society of Literary Gentlemen, of London
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $1,798.57
    • Publisher: London: Printed for Alex. Hogg    Date Published: 1785
    • Description: Volume 1, July through December 1785 and Supplement; vi, 392 pp., frontispiece and all 20 copper-plates called for, with two of them folding; modern half morocco by Wallis but rubbed and front cover detached, text block still well sewn, margins cut down shaving text at top of frontis., bottom of title, and one plate but no letters entirely removed and all words readable, light general age toning with an occasional age spot. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: British literature, literary magazines mw8x   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 666710
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    • The Humours And Conversations Of The Town, Expos'd in Two Dialogues. The First, of the Men. The Second, of the Women
    • (Wright, James. 1643-1713)
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $1,070.84
    • Publisher: London: Printed for R. Bentley and J. Tonson,    Date Published: 1693
    • Description: 16mo (leaves 14.5 cm. tall), [6 leaves, beginning with title, A1), 139, [5] (ads) pp; contemporary full leather worn with front cover detached and bowed, signature of a previous owner (Jane Modgford) on title and first text page top margin cut short shaving a few page numbers but no letters touched, general age toning with title dark at margins, last leaf of advertising chipped at fore edge with loss of letters, light overall pucker, reading copy; Wing H3720. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: British literature, humor mw8x   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 667774
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    • The Secret History of the Court and Cabinet of St. Cloud. In a series of letters from a resident in London. Written during the months of August, September and October, 1805. Third edition
    • Stewarton or Lewis Goldsmith
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $4.27
    • Publisher: Philadelphia: John Watts    Date Published: 1806
    • Description: xii, 232 pp., disbound; foxing throughout, about good only. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: france french revolution mw8   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 647940
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    • Catalogue of the Works of Antoine-Louis Barye Exhibited at the American Art Galleries. ... Under the Auspices of the Barye Monument Association. Also of Paintings by J. F. Millet, Th. Rousseau ... (et al.)
    • Barye Monument Association of New York.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $85.26
    • Publisher: NY: American Art Association    Date Published: 1889
    • Description: "a limited edition" but limitation not stated; quarto, [vi], 114, [1] pp., portrait, facsimile letter, small vignette of a hare in text, no other illustrations, as issued; parchment finish boards darkening and starting to bow, age speckling on portrait, still overall very good and on good quality paper. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: French art, exhibitions, MW8   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 647870
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    • Poems.
    • Bryant, William Cullen.
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    • ISBN: NA   Price: $46.33
    • Publisher: Boston: Russell, Odiorne, & Metcalf,    Date Published: 1834
    • Description: second edition, with new poems added; small octavo, xi, [1], 240 pp.; spine covering of later calf gone and sides detached, no front free endpaper or blank, early leaves detached and a reading copy only; BAL 1609, imprint A. Volumes Included: 1
    • Subject: American literature, poetry, MW8   Show items similar to this.
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    • Item Number: 650614
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