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Amyot, Jacques, trans. • Œuvres de Plutarque.
Paris: Jean Baptiste Cussac, 1783-87

Apocrypha,
from The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New.
London: Robert Barker, 1611

Apocrypha,
from The Holy Bible, Conteyning the Old Testament, and the New.
London: Robert Barker, 1611-1613

Astle, Thomas • The Origin and Progress of Writing
London: Printed by T. Bensley, for J. White, 1803

Boccaccio, Giovanni • Rime di Messer Giovanni Boccacci
Livorno: Tommaso Masi e Compagno, 1802.

Bonaparte, Napoleon • Courier Extraordinaire envoyé par Buonaparte
[Paris]: de l’Imprimerie de Leguay, [n.d. but 1797].

[Borrow, George Henry (translator)] • Faustus: His Life, Death, and Descent into Hell
London: W. Simpkin and R. Marshall, 1825

Brach, Pierre de • Oeuvres poetiques [Ouevres inedites...] de Pierre de Brach, Sieur de la Motte Montussan
Paris: Auguste Aubry, 1861-1862

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett • The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
London: Smith, Elder, & Co., 1889-1890.

Buffon, Comte de • Histoires Naturelles. Textes Choisis [ill. Hans Erni].
Lausanne: André Gonin, 1954

Byzantine Institute • Mosaics of Haghia Sophia at Instanbul
Boston: Byzantine Institute, 1950

Cazotte, Jacques • Le diable amoureux
Paris: Éditions Janick, 1946.

Cellini, Benvenuto • The Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture
London: Edward Arnold for Essex House Press, 1898

Cunningham, Allan • Lord Roldan, A Romance.
London: John Macrone, 1836

Detouche, Henry • Les Péchés Capitaux
Paris: Librairie Artistique / Boudet Éditeur, 1900

Douglass, Frederick [Welwood, John, ed.] • Frederick Douglass. A Selection from His Writings Compiled by John Welwood
Brunswick, Maine: Tragos Press, 1965.

Dubouchet, Henri-Joseph • le Monument du Costume
Paris: L. Conquet, 1881-1883.

Edwards, Bryan • The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies.
London: John Stockdale, 1793 (vols. I and II), 1801 (vol. III)

Fabre, Lucien; Valéry, Paul • Connaissance de la Déesse. Avant-propos de Paul Valéry
Paris: Société Littéraire de France, 1920

Franklin, Benjamin • La science du bonhomme Richard par Benjamin Franklin Paris: C.L.F. Panckoucke, 1827.

Gide, André • Œdipe. Drame en trois actes.
Paris: Editions de la Pléiade, 1931

Hubbard, Elbert • The Book of Job
As Translated from the Original by Rabbi Abraham Elzas
East Aurora: The Roycroft Shop, 1897

Hunt, J[ames] H[enry] Leigh • The Old Court Suburb
London: Freemantle & Co., 1902

Irving, Washington • Bracebridge Hall
London: Macmillan & Co., 1877

Irving, Washington • Old Christmas: From the Sketchbook of Washington Irving
London: Macmillan & Co., 1876

Jefferson, Thomas • Report of the Secretary of State, On the Subject of the Cod and Whale Fisheries, in Gazette of the United States, Vol. III, Nos. 2 - 14, 17 - 19 (Whole Nos. 210 - 222, 225 - 227).
Philadelphia: John Fenno, May 4 - June 15, June 25 - July 2, 1791

Johns, C.H.W. • Ur-Engur. A Bronze from the Fourth Millennium in the Library of J. Pierpont Morgan.
New York: Frederic Fairchild Sherman, 1908.

Le Vacher de Charnois, Jean Charles • Recherches sur les costumes et sur les theatres de toutes les nations, tant anciennes que modernes; ouvrage utile aux peintres, statuaires, architectes, decorateurs, comediens, costumiers, en un mot aux artistes de tous les genres
Paris: Drouhin, 1790

Marchand, Prosper • Histoire de l'origine et des prémiers progrès de l'imprimerie
La Haye [The Hague]: chez la veuve Le Vier, et Pierre Paupie, 1740.

Mardrus, J.-C. (transl.) • Le Livre de la Vérité de Parole [ill. F.-L. Schmied].
Paris: F.-L. Schmied, 1929

Marie de France • Poésies
Paris: Chasseriau, 1820

Méon, Dominique-Martin, ed. • Le Roman du Renart, Publié d'après les Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque du Roi des xiiie, xive et xve Siècles
Paris: Treuttel et Wurtz, 1826.

Petitot, Jean, engravings by Luigi Ceroni • Jean Petitot Enamels 1607-1691
Paris, n.d. but 1862-1864

Pezay, Alexandre-Frédéric-Jacques Masson, marquis de • Lettre d'Ovide à Julie, précédée d'une lettre en prose à M. Diderot
[N.p. but Paris]: [n.n. but Sebastien Jorry(?)], 1767

Pfnor, Rodolphe • Architecture Decoration et Ameublement Epoque Louis XVI Paris: A. Morel, Libraire-Editeur, 1865.

Raymond, George • Memoirs of Robert William Elliston, Comedian
London: John Mortimer, 1844

Renard, Jules • Histoires Naturelles de Jules Renard [ill. Hans Erni]
Lausanne: André Gonin, 1953

Rilke, Maria Rainer • TRANSLATIONS OF RILKE: Poems; Auguste Rodin; Les Roses; Six Lettres à A.A.M. Stols; Stories of God; Sonnets to Orpheus / Duino Elegies; Translating Rilke
V.p., v.d.

Rogers, Bruce • An unHoly BRible Story
New York: Maverick Press, 1936

Sandford, Francis; Stebbing, Samuel • A Genealogical History of the Kings and Queens of England
London, M. Jenour for John Nicholson and Robert Knaplock, 1707.

Solis de Ribadeneyra, Antonio de • The History of the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards.
Translated from the Original Spanish of Don Antonio de Solis, Secretary and Historiographer to His Catholick Majesty, By Thomas Townsend, Esq;
The whole Translation Revised and Corrected by Nathanael Hooke, Esq.
London: printed for H. Lintot, J. Whiston and others, 1753

Tussaud, Marie • Madame Tussaud's Memoirs and Reminiscences of France, Forming an Abridged History of the French Revolution
London: Saunders & Otley, 1838

Ulloa, Don Antonio de (with Juan [y Santacilia], Don George [Jorge]) • Historische Reisbeschryving van Geheel Zuid-America
[‘s Gravenhage]: Jacobus Huysman, 1771 (vo. 1), 1773 (vol. 2).

Valéry, Paul • Album de Monsieur Teste par Paul Valéry
Avec des gravures de l'auteur
Paris: Éditions de la Galerie Charpentier, 1945

Valéry, Paul • Collection of Ten Limited Edition Copies 1920 -1945 and Bibliography

Virginia General Court • Manuscript document signed, assigning Richard Cary and Cuthbert Bullitt as District Court Judges

Westmacott, Charles Molloy [as Bernard Blackmantle] • The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous.
London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825 (v. I); Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, 1826 (v. II).

Wheatley, Henry B. • Remarkable Bindings in the British Museum
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington; Paris: Gruel & Engelmann, 1889

Wilde, Oscar • The Sphinx
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1920

Woolman, John • A Journal of the Life and Travels of John Woolman in the Service of the Gospel
London: Edward Arnold for Essex House Press, 1901

Yolla Bolly Press: Three Storytellers • Under an Aztec Sun (Harriet Doerr), This is My Blood (James Laughlin), Boss Dog (M.F.K. Fisher)
Covelo: The Yolla Bolly Press, 1989 - 1990