The Antique Bookshelf
Books and paper from 1624 to the middle of the last century. The oldest pieces in the shop live here.
Books ship anywhere in the United States, wrapped and boxed, with the card.
Rodin "The Thinker" Bookends Pair Cast Metal Brass Finish
1928
This pair of vintage bookends provides a classic academic aesthetic, reproducing Auguste Rodin's iconic 1902 sculpture, "The Thinker." The figures are cast with athletic...
$95.00
IM-0054Histoire de Gil Blas de Santillane, Tome V, Toulouse 1788, with the plates
Toulouse, France, 1788
Gil Blas was the most read French novel of the eighteenth century, a picaresque about a Spanish valet who rises through every kind of...
$75.00
IM-0053Les Exiles, Tome VIII of the Works of Madame de Villedieu, Paris 1741
Paris, France, 1741
Marie-Catherine Desjardins, who published as Madame de Villedieu, wrote novels, plays and verse in Paris in the 1660s and 1670s and put her own...
$85.00
IM-0051Menagiana, Tomes II and III, Amsterdam, Pierre de Coup, 1713 and 1716
Amsterdam, 1713 and 1716
Gilles Menage was a scholar in seventeenth-century Paris who talked well and knew it. After he died in 1692 his friends wrote down what...
$195.00
IM-0050Les Confessions de S. Augustin, Arnauld d'Andilly's translation, Paris, later seventeenth century
Paris, France, 1669 by later manuscript note; title page lacking
Augustine's Confessions in French, in the translation Robert Arnauld d'Andilly made for the readers around Port-Royal, the abbey that spent the seventeenth century arguing...
$275.00
IM-0049Histoire Particuliere du Siege de Montauban, 1624, dedicated to the Duc de Rohan
France, after a Leiden edition, 1624
In the autumn of 1621 the Protestant city of Montauban shut its gates against the army of Louis XIII and held them shut for...
$965.00