1681 Rare Latin French Book - Solomon Book of Proverbs from the Old TestamentAuthor: Louis Isaac Lemaistre de Sacy. Title: Les Proverbes de Salomon. Traduits en Franois, Avec une explication tire des SS. Pres, & des Auteurs Ecclsiastiques. Publisher: Paris, Chez Pierre Le Petit, Imprimeur & Libraire ordinaire du Roy, 1681. Language: Text in Latin and French. Size: 8" x 5. 5". Pages: 783 pages. Binding: Attractive and very good exquisite contemporary full mottled calf binding. Spine with five raised bands richly gilt in floral

no date (circa 1891)

The book: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is one of Jules Verne’s most celebrated adventure novels

name of a previous owner erased on upper margin of the half-title page - as shown)

and yellow instead of black&white in the second issue

each filled with moral lessons or whimsical adventures

The book: Attractive and rare Deluxe first edition of this gentle and traditional tale of Bartholomew the Green

Author: William Meinhold

Illustrations: Complete with all the beautiful full-page illustrations by Gordon Browne and Lewis Baumer

A very rigid clergyman of that city had a very decent shoemaker for an elder

His stories remain widely read and continue to influence modern detective fiction

particularly "Corinne or Italy"

Pages: 502 pages + publisher's catalog