Books with significant age and/or beautiful binding. Here you will find the leather bound and vellum pieces from our collection.
![Item #1618 The Divine Comedy: [Comprised of] Inferno; Purgatorio; Paradiso. Dante Alighieri,...](https://laureatefinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1618.png?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1783543548)
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1867. First American Edition [BAL 12146]. Beautifully Rebound in Full Green Morocco with Gilt Tooling Evocative of Original Cloth, Top Edge Gilt, Fore and Bottom Edges Uncut, Marbled Green Endpapers. A Very Good Set Complete in Three Volumes, Freshly Rebound. Text blocks are moderately toned at.....
London: W. Lowndes, 1793. Unknown. A New Edition. Publisher's Half Calf Over Marbled Boards. Marbled Endpapers. Five Raised Bands with Flower Blind-Stamping. [Binder Unknown]. A Very Good Book Rebound in a 19th Century Binding. Moderately shelf worn with rubbing causing wear to tail, crown, and corners. A few blemishes and.....
London: Bradbury & Evans, 1853. H. K. Browne [Engraved Plates and Frontispiece]. First Edition, First State/Issue. Finely Bound by Birdsall, Northampton & London, in Full Blue Calf, Gilt Tooling, Five Raised Bands. A Very Good Book, Beautifully Bound in Full Blue Calf by Birdsall. Book is moderately shelf worn to.....
Boston: Ticknor & Fields, 1850. First Edition, First Issue [BAL 7600]. Rebound in Full Brown Calf, Blind-Stamped with an "A" to Front Board, Gilt Detailing to Spine. Marbled Endpapers. A Very Good Book, Freshly Rebound in Full Calf by Green Dragon Bindery. Text block is moderately toned with sporadic light.....
Norwalk: The Easton Press, 1992. Collector's Edition. Publisher's Full Blue Leather with Gilt Stamping to Front Board and Spine. A Leatherbound Volume in Fine Condition. Binding tight and square. Publisher-issued bookplate laid in and unused. Internally clean and unmarked. Hardcover. Octavo. [xviii], 213 pp. Beautiful Collector's Edition Published by Easton.....
Paris: Jean Longis & Robert le Mangyer, 1559. Third French Edition [Second Complete French Edition]. 19th Century Mottled Calf, Gilt Detailing. A Very Good Book in an Attractive 19th Century Mottled Calf Binding. Bottom corner of front board, bumped and worn. Front joint starting with a two inch split near.....
London: Rudolph Ackermann, Eclipe Sporting Gallery, 1843. Wildrake, Henderson, Alken. First Edition, First Impression. Bound by Riviere & Son in Full Red Levant Morocco, Luxurious Gilt Detailing, Five Raised Bands, Gilt Top Edge. A Near Fine Book Issued Without a Dust Jacket. A stunning example from famed binder Riviere &.....
Paris: Chez Jean Guidard, 1699. First Edition. 2 Volumes Bound in Vellum. Bound In Two Volumes. Vellum Binding is Very Good to Near Fine. General rubbing and bumping is present to extremities and there are instances of some soiling. Page xi / xii of Volume 1 has a dime-sized tear.....
Paris: Fermin Didot, 1855. First Edition of famous typesetter Firmin Didot. Contemporary Red Morocco with Stunning Gilt Detailing and Five Raised Bands. A Very Good or better example of a stunning piece of typesetting history. Luxurious Red Morocco presents beautifully despite some rubbing to corners, tail, and crown. Binding remains.....
Philadelphia: Printed for Thomas Dobson, at the Stone House, no. 41 South Second Street, by John Bioren, 1801. First American Edition. Contemporary Full Calf with Gilt Detailing. A Fair Book, Incomplete, Issued without a Dust Jacket. Missing first 8 pages, folding plates, title page. Book is generally shelf worn with.....
![Item #106 Du Contrat Social [The Social Contract]. Jean-Jacques Rousseau](https://laureatefinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/106.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1720817637)
Amsterdam [Paris]: Chez Marc Michel Rey [Pirated], 1763. 1763 Pirated Edition, Believed to be the First Parisian Imprint [Leigh 56 & 58]. Craft Custom Binding of Paper Covered Boards. A Very Good copy with a curious custom binding, date unknown. Text is bright and fresh with good margins. Title page.....
London: Printed for A. Bettesworth, 1726. First Edition. Full, Supple Speckled Calf, Five Raised Bands, Red Spine Label, Gilt Detailing. A Very Good Book, Freshly Rebound in an Exceptionally Handsome Speckled Calf. Text block is bit darkened with sports of dust soiling and thumbing. Most leaves with rounded corners, some.....
Auburn, New York: The Auburn Publishing Company, 1865. Deluxe Edition, [First Volume Published as a Standalone Volume in 1863]. Publisher's Decorative Morocco, Gilt Detailing. Hardcover. A Good Set Complete in Two Volumes. Books are moderately shelf worn to extremities. Spines and hinges have been professionally restored. Marbled edges to text.....
![Item #1736 [Margaret Armstrong Bindings]; [Works]; [Comprised of] Walden; Cape Cod; The Maine...](https://laureatefinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1736.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1783531556)
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Company, 1908, 1909, 1910, 1911, Illustrated by Clifton Johnson. Margaret Armstrong Designed Publisher's Bindings in Green Cloth, Gilt, Red & Pink Detailing. A Collection of Four Volumes in Very Good Condition. Some rubbing and bumping to extremities. Spines darkened and corresponding gilt faded from.....
![Item #1684 [Works: Nine Volumes]; [Comprised of:] War & Peace; Anna Karenina; Sevastopol...](https://laureatefinebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1684.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1781806974)
New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1886, 1887, 1888. Early Printings Thus. Publisher's Royal Blue Cloth, Gilt Detailing. A Very Good or Better Set Featuring All Nine Volumes from Crowell's Original Publication Run of Tolstoy's Works. Books are moderately rubbed, sunned, and dust soiled to extremities. Text blocks somewhat.....