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Paris: Libraires Associes, 1770 - 1771. 3 volume set, 11.75 inches tall. A splendid set in full cat's paw calf with raised bands, twin labels and floral gilt tooling to the panels. With all 100 engraved plates, mostly folding. An interesting work covering civil, military and naval architecture. A very good looking set. With a small stamp on the title pages and small ticket of 'Domus Aquensis Societatis Jesu' on the pastedown endpapers. In the original French.

Paris: Salliant & Nyon and Desaint, 1770-1798. 16 volume set, 10.5 inches tall. Fine full calf bindings, typical of the late 18th century with gilt raised bands, twin labels and floral gilt tooling to the panels. Pink edges. This a complete set though evidently made up from two sets, as can be seen by the variation in the bindings. There is some ancient minor worming but the volumes are in excellent bright condition with no splitting or loss. A great looking set of this classic history of France.

Paris: Armand Magnier, 1898. 2 volume set, 10.25 inches tall. 2 magnificent full morocco bindings by Stroobants. The spine is superbly tooled in the aesthetic manner with morocco onlays, the boards are bound with a natural tan morocco. Gilt top edges. This set in number 3 of 12 copies ,out of a limited edition of 300, on 'imperiales du Japon' with the plates in 4 states and the vignettes in 3. An unsentimental and gripping account of military life with the concept of honour vanishing from the post Napoleonic army. A superb set in pristine condition. In the original French.

Glasgow: Foulis, 1778. 2 volumes bound in 1, 14.5 inches tall. An impressive later full morocco by Period Binders of Bath, and with their ticket. Gilt raised bands, handsome gilt panels and boards, dentelles and all edges. A very clean copy of this finely printed folio, though lacking the half titles and list of subscribers. In the original Latin.

Paris: 'Disciples d'Hippocrate', 1942. Half crushed morocco, 11 inches tall. A simple binding with gilt tooled titles, fleurons and top edge. One of 250 copies on 'velin de rives', this being number 245. With 13 explicit illustrations in black and white and 12 in colour, with an extra suite of the 12 colour lithographs. A fine copy.

London: Arthur L. Humphreys, 1903. 2 volume set, 6.5 inches tall. A superb full crushed morocco binding for Hatchards. With raised bands and very fine gilt tooling to the panels and boards. Gilt dentelles and all edges. The text is in both French and English. Beautifully printed on handmade paper by Humphreys (see our other examples).

Vellum wallet, 4.5 inches tall. Very fine gilt tooling by Guilio Giannini, the famous Florentine binders, covering a double pocket watered silk lining.

Paris: Hetzel, n.d. c.1873. Full calf, 11 inches tall. Very early edition bound in an English full calf 'prize' binding. Gilt raised bands, extra gilt panels, label and gilt embossed device on the upper boards. Ink 'prize' inscription on first blank. Foxing to preliminaries, then clean throughout. Some rubbing and scuffing. Finely illustrated. Folding map at rear.

Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1914. 2 volume set, 9 inches tall. A very fine binding with wide gilt raised bands, elegant gilt tooling to the spine and gilt top edge. A handsome set of the Works of Henry Vaughan, the 17th Century Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet.

Paris: Belin, 1794. 3 volume set, 6.5 inches tall. Full mottled calf with raised bands, twin labels and gilt filets. Slight worming affecting the first few leaves in the bottom corner of volume one, otherwise a fine copy in a completely pristine binding.

Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1869. Half calf, 8.75 inches tall. A handsome copy of this memoir of this celebrated Scottish Metaphysician. Portrait. Half calf with gilt raised bands, label and gilt panels.

London: Charles C. Arnold, 1825. Full calf, 5.5 inches tall. A delightful little binding in full straight grain calf with gilt raised bands, twin labels and delicate gilt tooling to the panels. The boards framed within gilt fillets and a gilt roll. Engraved frontispiece. Neat ink inscription dated 1833 on first blank and previous owner's name on the title page, dated 1864. Voltaire's epic poem on the evils of religious extremism and civil disorder in French, printed and bound in England.

Paris: Ollendorff, 1897. Half crushed morocco by Durvand, 7.5 inches tall. With raised bands, label and gilt top edge. The foredge has not been trimmed. Causing a rather eccentric effect with some leaves extending about an inch further than others, a deluxe style of the period. There is an inscription from the author to an A.M.R. Rolo. A lovely. copy.

London: Molini et al, 1795. Full speckled calf, 5.5 inches tall. Delightful little binding with gilt bands, sun burst centre tools and label. Speckled edges. Engraved frontispiece.

Liverpool & London: Young & Simpkin, 1916. Full morocco, 5.25 inches tall. A delightful little volume with raised bands, blind fillets and rolls and gilt titles, dentelles and all edges. The text on India paper. An anthology of words of wisdom for each day of the year.

London: The Religious Tract Society, c.1860. Half morocco, 6 inches tall. A fine mid-Victorian binding with gilt raised bands and neat gilt pallets and centre tools to the panels.