Twenty-seven (27) volumes of the Works of Rudyard Kipling, including many first editions plus two (2) works about Kipling, uniformly bound in contemporary 3/4 leather with marbled boards, raised spine bands, and gilt titles, dates, and accents. Each stamped “Bound by Zaehnsdorf” inside front endpaper. For the hardcovers, Zaehnsdorf preserved the books’ original spines and […]

Ethiopian Coptic Bible or Prayer Book on vellum with wooden covers, written in Ge’ez script used in modern languages such as Amharic and Tigrinya.  Red ink is used for headings and section dividers, or the phrases the priest / reader leads in a service, while black ink for the body of the text. The call-and-response […]

THE HISTORIE OF PHILIP DE COMMINES, KNIGHT, LORD OF ARGENTON, Philippe de Commines. London: (Imprinted for) John Bill, 1614. Translated by Thomas Danett (1543-1601). Folio, [xvi], 366 pp. Contemporary full calf, intricate publisher’s woodcut title page, as well as numerous smaller woodcut designs and capitals. An early English translation of Commines’ (1447-1511) influential work of European […]

1604 publication of Publius Cornelius Tacitus’ Annals and Histories, in a single volume, translated into “the Tuscan vernacular” by Adriano Politi. Venice: Paolo Meglietti, 1604. 12mo., contemporary limp vellum over boards with leather thong sewing; yapp-edge covers; handwritten title on spine; printer’s woodcut device on title. 5 1/4 in. x 3 1/4 in. x 2 in. Note: Tacitus, a 1st-century Roman politician […]

1567 book of Cato’s (Marcus Porcius) agricultural treatise concerning plant and animal husbandry, edited by Swiss physician Theodor Zwinger. METHODUS RUSTICA CATONIS ATQ. VARRONIS. Praeceptis aphoristicis per Locos communes digestis a Theodoro Zwingero typice delineata & illustrata. (Publisher) Basilae: Petri Pernae opera atque impensa. Cum Privilegio. No date (1567). Small 8vo., 494pp (22pp index), contemporary limp vellum over boards with leather thong […]

ORLANDO FURIOSO, Ariosto Ludovico, Venice: by Gabriel Giolito de Ferrari, 1547. 8vo, bound in later full brown leather with gilt design to covers, gilt foliate and lettering to spine. Title page within an elaborate woodcut frame; with multiple illustrations inside the text at the beginning of each canto and throughout. 6 1/4 in. x 8 1/2 in. x 2 […]

THE MILITARY ANNALS OF TENNESSEE: CONFEDERATE by John Berrien Lindsey. Nashville, TN: J. M. Lindsley & Co, 1886. First Edition. 910pp.  Original publisher’s gilt-pictorial boards, gilt spine and marbled endpapers. The book reviews in detail regimental histories with their military operations and memorial rolls. Numerous portraits throughout. Notations by George W. Samuel, a member of […]