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Alethea Wiel. Two Doges of Venice. The Chiswick Press, 1891.
Price: US$20.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1891. No Edition Remarks. 142 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth board. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. Pencil markings to front free endpaper. Minor water staining to fore edges textblock. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Minor wear marks to boards.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.07 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 1891. Frontis,142pp.Chiswick Press Edition limited to 500 copies. Some foxing to e.p.s and fore-edges. Prize label to lower paste-down. Very good in original quarter vellum and grey paper covered boards. Vellum darkened and some shelf-wear, with a few small marks otherwise good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Tombland Bookshop, Norwich, NFLK, United Kingdom
WIEL, Alethea. Two doges of venice. The Chiswick press, London, 1891.
Price: US$64.14 + shipping
Description: 142pp. With a terminal colophon leaf. Original publisher's blue paper boards quarter bound over white paper lettered gilt. All edges roughly trimmed, some leaves unopened. Internally bright and clean save a little foxing to endpapers. One of 500 copies, this numbered 490. Alethea Wiel (1851-1929), British author and Italophiliac, who wrote several Italian histories throughout her career, and was married to Italian musicologist, composer and assistant librarian of the Venice Biblioteca Marciana, Cavaliere Taddeo Wiel. Size: Large 8vo
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Price: US$66.14 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, #51 of 500. Copy in the original coloured, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges are edge-nicked with some loss and dust-toned as with age. Wear around the spine cover edges. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 142 p : illus ; 23 x 17 cm. Subjects; Mocenigo, Tommaso 1343-1423. Foscari, Francesco 1373-1457. Mocenigo, Tommaso 1343-1423. Foscari, Francesco 1373-1457. Foscari, Francesco History. Mocenigo, Tommaso. Venice (Italy) History 697-1508. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$68.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard cover in Good+ to Very Good condition, squarish 8vo, 142 pages;500 copies printed, this being No.44; Green paper covered boards, 1/4 vellum-like shelf-back with gilt titles, all edges untrimmed, black and white coat-of-arms frontis plus 9 b/w plates, leaves with Chiswick watermark; Water stain on front paper board, some darkening and scuffing of spine, corners worn, contents very good and unmarked. Bookseller accession no.: 13588.
Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$71.66 + shipping
Description: Limited edition 243/500. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 142 p: illus; 23 x 17 cm. Subjects: Mocenigo, Tommaso 1343-1423. Foscari, Francesco 1373-1457. Venice (Italy) History 697-1508. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Number 415 of 500 copies printed. Plates. 1 vols. Sm. 4to. Inscribed by the Author. With a long inscription sending greeting (recipient unknown) from Venice "home of a long line of Doges," signed, dated 4 April 1901 from Venice. Original cream paper-backed blue boards. Some chipping and rubbing, mostly along joints, half of spine perished, darkening of boards, some light soiling or browning of leaves
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$82.00 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, #51 of 500. Copy in the original coloured, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges are edge-nicked with some loss and dust-toned as with age. Wear around the spine cover edges. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 142 p : illus ; 23 x 17 cm. Subjects; Mocenigo, Tommaso 1343-1423. Foscari, Francesco 1373-1457. Mocenigo, Tommaso 1343-1423. Foscari, Francesco 1373-1457. Foscari, Francesco History. Mocenigo, Tommaso. Venice (Italy) History 697-1508. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$88.00 + shipping
Description: Limited edition 243/500. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly bumped and rubbed as with age. Internally, bright and clean. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 142 p: illus; 23 x 17 cm. Subjects: Mocenigo, Tommaso 1343-1423. Foscari, Francesco 1373-1457. Venice (Italy) History 697-1508. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$94.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, 142p. Rebound in full leather with gilt to the spine, gilt image to rear board, with the binder's initials stamped in gilt to rear board. Front board with an image stamped in blind on a panel of red leather. Some darkening to board edges, and faded at the spine, with a couple of scuffs to the leather. New endpapers, previous owner's rubber stamped name to first blank. Numbers in ink to rear endpapers, with the binder's ink signature to rear pate down at bottom corner with a slice of the paste-down replaced. Bound by Greg Pfaff, 1990. Text clean throughout and overall the book is in very good condtion. Amateur rebind. This edition by The Chiswick Press is limited to 500 numbered copies, this being 458.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$104.73 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat edge-nicked and dust-toned as with age. Some wear around the spine cover edges. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: number 130 of five hundred copies printed. Physical description: 142 pages: illustrations; 23 x 17 cm. Subjects: Mocenigo, Tommaso 1343-1423. Foscari, Francesco 1373-1457. Foscari, Francesco History. Venice (Italy) History 697-1508. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$109.14 + shipping
Description: 10 illustrations. With epitome of dates and events of Doge Tomaso Mocenigo's reign. Five hundred copies printed. This is No. 371 (handwritten). With notes. 142 pag. Size: 22cmx17,5cm
Seller: FESTINA LENTE italiAntiquariaat, Lucca, Italy
Price: US$124.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy in the original illustrated, paper-covered boards. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat edge-nicked and dust-toned as with age. Some wear around the spine cover edges. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Provenance: number 130 of five hundred copies printed. Physical description: 142 pages: illustrations; 23 x 17 cm. Subjects: Mocenigo, Tommaso 1343-1423. Foscari, Francesco 1373-1457. Foscari, Francesco History. Venice (Italy) History 697-1508. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$128.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Alethea Wiel's sketches of the lives of Tomaso Mocenigo and Francesco Foscari, the 'Two Doges of Venice'. Bound in half paper vellum with paper covered boards and gilt lettering. Limited edition of five hundred copies printed, this copy hand-numbered 378. Eleven black and white plates, including two copies of the frontis, collated complete. Pages bear Chiswick Press watermark throughout. Includes epitome of dates and events of Doge Tomaso Mocenigo's reign, and a list of dates in Doge Foscari's life. In a half paper vellum binding with paper covered boards. Internally generally smart. Mild wear to extremities. Mild bumping and marks and discolouration. Internally generally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Small ink inscription by Lady Newport to front free end paper, dated 1892. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom