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Göttliche Komödie [Gottliche Komodie]. Ubertragen von Philalethes. Band. 1: Die Hölle. Band. 2: Das Fegefeuer. Band. 3: Das Paradies. [Complete in 3 volumes].

Dante Alighieri. · 1914

€425.00 ($468.43 | £354.56 | ¥74,802)

München, Hans von Weber, 1914-1916, 3 volumes, (4),189,(2); (4),191; (4),196 pag., printed out of Christoph Van Dyck's Kursiv by J. Enschedé en Zonen (Haarlem, The Netherlands), original uniform original marbled paper-covered boards with mounted title-shield on frontcover and ...

Villages of Britain. The Five Hundred Villages that Made the Countryside.

Aslet, Clive. · 2010

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

London etc., Bloomsbury, 2010, 1st ed., XIII,(1),658 pag., maps, plates, illustrations, hardcover with dustjacket. = Villages of Britain is the history of the countryside, told through five hundred of its most noteworthy settlements. Many of Britain's villages are known for t...

La Australia del Espiritu Santo. The journal of Fray Martín de Munilla O.F.M. and other documents relating to the voyage of Pedro Fernández de Quirós to the South Sea (1605-1606) and the Franciscan missionary plan (1617-1627), The Hakluyt Society, Second series, Nos. CXXVI and CXXVII. Complete in two volumes.

Munilla, Martin de, Kelly, Celsus (ed.). · 1966

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,920)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press for The Hakluyt Society, 1966, 2 vols., XVII,(1),270; XV,(1),271-446, fold. frontisp., 11 full-page plates, 3 full-page and 1 fold. maps, and 3 tables of which 2 are fold, original uniform blue cloth boards giltlettered spine and gilt sail...

Biographia Navalis, or, Impartial Memoirs of the Lives and Characters of Officers of the Navy of Great Britain, from the Year 1660 to the Present Time. [Complete in two volumes].

Charnock, John. · 2011

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,320)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, 2 vols., (2),XXXI,(1),432,(8 index),(4); (4),468,(4 index),(2) pag., 2 portraits, original uniform paperbacks. = Cambridge Library Collection. John Charnock (1756-1807) was a professional naval biographer and historian. After compl...

Treatise on Navigation by Steam. Comprising a History of the Steam Engine.

Ross, John. · 2013

€55.00 ($60.62 | £45.88 | ¥9,680)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2013, (4),XXXIII,(1),182,(2); 68,(2) pag., frontispiece, original paperback. = Cambridge Library Collection. Following distinguished service during the Napoleonic Wars, the Scottish naval officer and Arctic explorer Sir John Ross (1777-1...

Greek-English Lexicon. Ninth edition, revised and augmented.

Liddell, Henry George, Scott, Robert. · 1953

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,320)

Oxford, At the Clarendon Press, 1953, 9th revised ed., (2),XLVIII,2111 pag., printed in 2 columns, original gilt blue buckram, quarto. = Normal traces of handling - very good copy.

Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary. Containing an Explanation of the Terms, and an Account of the Several Subjects, Comprized under the Heads Mathematics, Astronomy, and Philosophy, Both Natural and Experimental. [Complete in two volumes].

[Mathematics]. Hutton, Charles. · 2015

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015, 2 vols., (4),VIIII,650,(4); (8),756,(4) pag., diagrams, illustrations, printed in two columns, original uniform paperbacks, quarto. = Cambridge Library Collection. Born into a Newcastle coal mining family, Charles Hutton (1737-1823...

Directions for Sailing to and from the East Indies, China, New Holland, Cape of Good Hope, and the Interjacent Ports. Compiled Chiefly from Original Journals at the East India House. [Complete in two volumes].

Horsburgh, James. · 2015

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,320)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2015, 2 vols., (14),XIX,(1),397,(1); (10),518 pag., original uniform paperbacks, quarto. = Cambridge Library Collection. As first mate aboard an East India Company vessel, James Horsburgh (1762-1836) was shipwrecked in the Indian Ocean i...

Vocabula amatoria: a French-English glossary of words, phrases, and allusions occuring in the works of Rabelais, Voltaire, Molière, Rousseau, Béranger, Zola, and others, with English equivalents and synonyms. [Nicely bound large paper copy].

[Erotica]. Farmer, John S. (ed.). · 1896

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.42 | ¥48,401)

London, "Privately printed for subscribers only", 1896, (6),266,(2) pag., title in balck and red, printed in 2 columns, contemporary gilt red halfleather, marbled endpapers, small quarto (23,3 x19,2 cm.). = Rare edition. With the ex-libris of Donald H. Mader on upper pastedow...

Pair of bare-knuckle fighting or boxing prints featuring legend Jack Randall: I. “Jack Randall”./ II. “The great match between Randal and Martin”.

[Boxing]. Anonymous, Randall, Jack (1794-1828). · 1820

€1,125.00 ($1,239.95 | £938.55 | ¥198,005)

Ad I: “Jack Randall”. Mezzotint etching, oil paint and glass, ca. 40 x 24,5 cm., published by Fores, London, 1820, framed. * Some signs of wear characteristic for this technique and age. Not examined outside frame.With engraved text below, reading: "Jack Randall born Nov. 25, ...

The Regatta Mystery and Other Stories. [First American edition in original rare early issue dustjacket].

Christie, Agatha. · 1939

€2,450.00 ($2,700.35 | £2,043.95 | ¥431,210)

New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1939, 1st collected American edition, (6),229 pag., original orange/ red cloth with black lettering and original dustjacket w. "Grosset and Dunlap" as publisher. = With the extremely rare dustjacket preserved, with "Grosset and Dunlap" as publi...

The Effects of Cross and Self Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom./ The Various Contrivances by which Orchids are Fertilised by Insects. [Two important works in second edition].

Darwin, Charles (1809-1882). · 1878

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

London, John Murray, 1878, 2nd edition/ 2nd rev. ed. (3rd thous.), 2 vols., VIII,487,(1); XVI,300 pag, 1 diagram and 109 tables within text (first work)/ numerous woodengravedillustrations (second work), contemporary uniform gilt calf with two contrasting leather title-shields...

Memoires de Madame de Remusat - 1802-1808 - publies par son petit-fils Paul de Remusat Troisieme Edition [Three Volumes Complete].

Remusat, (Claire Élisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes, Comtesse de, Remusat, Paul de (ed.). · 1880

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1880, 5th ed., 3 vols., (4),413; (4),420;(4),XXIII,(1),416 pag., contemporary uniform three quarter brown morocco, spine gilt with raised bands, marbled board covers, all edges marbled, marbled endpapers. = The Mémoires de Madame de Rémusat offer an intim...

Oeuvres. [Finely bound set of the first truly collective edition].

Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662), Bossut, Charles (ed.). · 1779

€2,250.00 ($2,479.91 | £1,877.10 | ¥396,009)

The Hague, Detune (= Paris, Nyon), 1779, 5 vols., engraved frontispiece portrait (vol.1) and 14 fold. plates with illustrations (9 in vol.4 and 5 in vol.5), contemporary uniform marbled calf with triple gilt fillet-line along cover-edges, spines gilt with raised bands and two ...

"Monsieur". Autograph letter signed "a Mr L Berardi", dated "St. Petersbourg, 19 Fev. 1880",

Turgenev (Tourgeniev; Toergenjev), Ivan Sergeyevich (1818-1883). · 1848

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

1 page (recto only), 16mo (13,5 x 10,5 cm.), black ink on verged paper, in French, signed "Ivan Tourguéneff". = In the letter Turgenev grants his permission to Mr. Leon Berardi, editor of the Belgian periodical l'Independance belge, for publication of his short story "Monsieur...

Dreams from Bunker Hill. [First edition hardcover].

Fante, John (1909-1983). · 1982

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1982, 1st ed., 146,(5) pag., title in black red and green, original clothbacked decorated boards with glassine dustjacket as issued. = Final volume of the Bandini-quartet. Owner's name in pen on preliminary leaf listing author's works. Glas...

Cat Among the Pigeons. [First edition].

Christie, Agatha. · 1959

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1959, 1st ed., 255 pag., original red boards lettered in black.

Nemesis. [First edition].

Christie, Agatha. · 1971

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1971, 1st ed., 256 pag., original giltlettered red boards. = Upper pastedown with mounted front blurb of dustjacket and owner's entry; author's portrait of jacket backwrapper tipped onto first free endpaper. Spine sunfaded.

The Thirteen Problems.

Christie, Agatha. · 1934

€55.00 ($60.62 | £45.88 | ¥9,680)

London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1934, 1st ed., 4th impression (May 1934), 250,(6) pag., original black cloth with giltlettered spine. = Fine copy.

A Murder is announced. [First edition].

Christie, Agatha. · 1950

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,320)

London, The Crime Club by Collins, 1950, 1st ed., 252,(4) pag., original red cloth lettered in black. = Upper pastedown with mounted front blurb of dustjacket and owner's entry; author's portrait of jacket backwrapper tipped onto first free endpaper. Spine sunfaded