(BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron). Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte. 8th edn.. John Murray. 1814, 1814.
Price: US$36.39 + shipping
Description: Half title, final ad. leaf. Disbound. 17pp. See Randolph p.41; Wise I.100.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
(BYRON, George Noel Gordon, Baron). Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte. 4th edn.. John Murray. 1814, 1814.
Price: US$42.89 + shipping
Description: Half title. Disbound. Booklabel & signature of Alex Bridge. 15pp. Randolph p.41; Wise I.100.
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$67.58 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: LONDON : 1814. Fifth Edition. Pamphlet; paper-covered spine. Bright, tight and clean. No owner name or internal markings. NEAR FINE. 17pp. No half-title prior to title-page. **Reduced shipping on this item. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Price: US$227.42 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: An uncommon collection of biographical works, celebrating the lives of prolific poet Lord Byron, and French military and political leader Napoleon Bonaparte. Two volumes bound in one. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte is the ninth edition, being the last anonymous edition, printed the same year as the first. George Burges was an English classical scholar born in India. He edited some of the dialogues of Plato with English notes including Meno, Parmenides, Statesman, and The Laws, and translated nearly the whole of that author and the Greek anthology for Bohn's Classical library. Rebound in a half long grain morocco binding with marbled boards. Externally, a little rubbed, with loss to the spine. Rear joint is starting and the front board is detached. Neat pencil notes to the front pastedown. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages are intermittently bright, with the odd spot and handling mark. Paper repairs to the title page. Fair
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Byron, George. Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte. John Murray, London, 1814.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No signatures. No wrappers. Minor foxing. Disbound from a volume of assorted unrelated tracts. ; Stated "Tenth Edition" (printed in same year as first edition). [20] pages. Contents: [1] half title, [2] blank, [3] title, [4] blank, [5] quote from Gibbon poem, [6] blank, [7] Fly-Title "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte", [8] blank, [9]-17 text of the poem, [18] - [19] blank, [20] advertisements "Lately were published, New Editions of the following Poems, By the Right Hon. Lord Byron [.]". No wrappers. Dimensions: 8" x 4 7/8". [References: Randolph (1979) pp. 40-41].; 8vo
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Ode To Napoleon Buonaparte. John Murray, London, 1814.
Price: US$1125.00 + shipping
Description: 14 pages. 21 x 13.5 cm. With half title and one page advertisement. With Francis Lewis Randolph's bookplate and shelf label. "Very rare, in any condition -- the half-title is usually lacking." RANDOLPH p.40. "Of all the pamphlet-poems published by John Murray in octavo size the Ode to Napoleon is by far the rarest. It is now almost impossible to find a copy in the original printed paper wrappers." TINKER p.545. WISE BYRON, I pp.98-99. Interior contents clean and fresh. Contemporary quarter red morocco, backstrip lettered in gilt and marbled boards. Fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1268.36 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in early twentieth century green crushed half morocco, marbled boards with gilt rules, backstrip lettered in gilt, gilt top, marbled endpapers, BY ZAEHNSDORF, uncut, very neatly rebacked with old backstrip laid down, a very good, clean copy. The binding is signed by Zaehnsdorf on front free endpaper verso. As usual, this copy is bound without the half-title and advertisement leaf. 'Very rare, in any condition - the half-title is usually lacking. A copy in wrappers is an extreme rarity' (Randolph). Randolph p. 40; Wise I, p.100.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Byron George Gordon, Lord. THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HON. LORD BYRON. London John Murray 1814-16, 1814.
Price: US$2035.00 + shipping
Description: Together 2 volumes. First Collected Edition of "Poems", First Editions of "The Corsair", "Hebrew Melodies", "The Siege of Corinth" and early editions of a number of the other works including "Child Harold's Pilgrimage", "The Giaour", "The Bride of Abydos", "Ode to Napoleon Bonaparte" and "Parisina". Illustrated with a folding manuscript leaf in fine facsimile. 8vo, very handsomely bound at the time in full polished speckled calf, the spines gilt tooled with wide gilt tooled bands separating the compartments, two compartments lettered in gilt green labels, others with central gilt ornamental device, edges of the boards diced in gilt, fine period marbled endleaves xii, [2], 300, folding manuscript leaf; [2], [4], 66, [4], 71; xi, 100; 17; [6], 53; [2], 89, [2] pp. An unusually handsome and well-preserved set, internally clean and in a very handsome period binding. Beautifully preserved, and an excellent example. RARE AND UNIQUE WITH A NUMBER OF FIRST EDITIONS INCLUDED. A beautifully bound collection of Byron first editions with additional poems and printings included. A very early and scarce collection of Byrons works, a number of the poems published for the first time and added to this grouping. The collection was originally produced in 1815 in two volumes as stated on the title pages of Volumes I and II. A very pleasing and excellent example of this rare collection.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.