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Lighthouses. Their History and Romance. With many illustrations.

[Lighthouses]. Hardy, W.J. · 1895

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.06 | ¥10,560)

London, The Religious Tract Society, 1895, 1st ed., 224pag., b/w illustrations (many full-page) original gilt cloth with an illustration of a lighthouse on cover.

The Eddystone Lighthouses (new and old). An Account of the Building and General Arrangements of the New Tower. With an Abridgment of Smeaton's Narrative of the Building of the Old Tower by T. Williams.

[Lighthouses]. Edwards, E. Price. · 1882

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

London, Simpkin Marshall, and Co., 1882, VII,(1),186 pag., frontispiece, 4 plates, woodengraved illustrations, 20th cent. halfcalf with marbled boards, original illustrated wrappers bound with.

On Optical Apparatus Used in Lighthouses. Ed. J. Forrest.

[Lighthouses]. Chance, J.T. · 1867

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

London, W. Clowes and Sons, 1867, 66,(1)pag., 2 folded lithographed plates, original blindtooled and giltlettered cloth.= Rare work on lighthouse optics by the English industrialist J.T. Chance, with his dedication to Leónce Reynaud (director of the French Lighthouse Service) ...

The Forme of Cury, a Roll of Ancient English Cookery, Compiled about A.D. 1390, by the master-cooks of King Richard II, Presented afterwards to Queen Elizabeth, by Edward Lord Stafford and now in the possession of Gustavus Brander, Esq. Illustrated with Notes, And a copious Index, or Glossary. A Manuscript of the Editor, of the same Age and Subject, is subjoined. By an Antiquary.

[Gastronomy]. (Pegge, Samuel). · 1780

€1,400.00 ($1,543.05 | £1,167.97 | ¥246,406)

London, Printed by J. Nichols, 1780, IV, XXXVI,161,(1 blank),(2 publisher's cat.) pag., 1 plate with facsimile recipe, 20 cent. boards with contemporary simple wrappers bound with, large octavo, untrimmed. = Bitting p.361; Cagle, A Matter of Taste 920. Rare first editon (with ...

Photographic personal souvenir album containing 70 platinum prints - views of Tyrol (Tirol, Italy and Austria) and several of Paris (France),

Sinclair, James A. (fl. 1940). · 1909

€1,200.00 ($1,322.62 | £1,001.12 | ¥211,205)

all prints of slightly varying size, ca.8,1 x 12,6 cm. (image)/ 12 x 18,5 cm. (leaf), with manuscript captions in ink on opposite versos; the album dated in manuscript on title-page "Tyrol. August, 1909" and with initials "E.P." and "C.W.", handbound in deluxe longgrained gilt...

Koffie maken. Vertaling Anne Marie Koper en Sander Pinkse. [+ toegevoegd 5 andere druksels door Sander Pinkse/ Linea recta].

[Beschreven Bladen, De]. Zitkala Sa (= Gertrude Simmons Bonnin). · 2010

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Z.pl., HBB [Het Beschreven Blad], 2010, 9,(1) pag., linosnede portret in rood en zwart door Anne Marie Koper, gedrukt [door Sander Pinkse (Linea recta)] in een oplage van 35 exemplaren voor het jaardiner van de Beschreven Bladen, ingenaaid met origineel bedrukt omslag, 17,4 x ...

Kidnapped, being memoirs of the adventures of David Balfour in the year 1751.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. · 1886

€575.00 ($633.75 | £479.70 | ¥101,202)

London, Cassell & Company, 1886, 1st ed., (1st issuue), VIII,311,(15 adverts) pag., folding map at front, 20th cent. green cloth with original backstrip pasted on spine, fully colour matched. = First edition in book form, first issue (with publisher's advertisements dated '5G...

Als ik nu in dit land (…)./ Florens velis (Lucretius)./ Zacht is de waterkant (…). [Drie gedichten]. [Bandtitel: Voor Mirjam].

[Rijmprenten]. Gerhardt, Ida G.M, Meij, Wim van der (ets). · 1998

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Maastricht/ Eefde, St. De Lange Afstand, “4 september 1998”, geïllustreerd met een originele drogenaald-ets en aquatint (5,1 x 23,7 cm.) in bovenmarge door Wim van der Meij (Zutphen), gesigneerd “Wim van der Meij” en gedateerd “1998” en “voor Mirjam” in potlood door de kunsten...

Recueil d'esquisses et de fragmens de compositions, tire´s du portefeuille de Mr. Hennequin, peintre d'histoire, contenant un choix de sujets dans le style grec, romain et moderne lithographie´s par lui.

Hennequin, Philippe-Auguste (1762-1833). · 1825

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

Tournai, Payen-Allard De l'imprimerie de Ch. Casterman-Dieu, 1825, 50 lithographed plates (including lithographed title-page), partly with mention of Charles Aubry as lithographer, contemporary gilt halfcalf with marbled boards, oblong large folio, 28,5 x 46 cm. = Very rare, ...

Winchester Folios.

[Alembic Press]. Bolton, Clare. · 1982

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥22,001)

Winchester, The Alembic Press, 1982, (21) pag., 8 coloured nature prints (actual leaves and plants), printed on a Golding press in a limited, numbered and signed edition of 50 copies, original wrappers with handmade paper dustjacket with vignette printed in blue, folio (38 x 2...

(Harbour scene at sunset, or Vue maritime). handcoloured engraving by Thomas Major after Claude Lorrain,

Major, Thomas (1714-1799), Lorrain, Claude (1600-1682 (after)). · 0

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

34 x 44 cm. (paper size), backed with paper. = Trimmed to or inside the platemark, possibly with loss of caption; frayed; the corners on the right side lacking small portions.

The Lore of the Unicorn.

[Unicorns]. Shepard, Odell. · 1982

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

New York, Avenel Books, 1982, 312 pag., plates/ illustrations, hardcover with dustjacket (fine).

"Paix signée entre Romulus, roi de Rome, et Tatius, roi des Cures" original stipple engraving by Jean Thouvenin after Henry Singleton,,

Thouvenin, Jean (ca.1765-1828), Singleton, Henry (1766-1839 (after)). · 1795

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

engraved text below, approx. 42 x 59 cm. (image size), Paris, Tessari, (1795). = Some age-toning; small hole in the image (ca.4 mm. diameter).

The Netherlands Indies and Japan. Their relations 1940-1941.

Mook, H.J. van. · 1944

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,040)

London, George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1944, 1st ed., 114,(2) pag., original green cloth with purple (price-clipped) dustjacket. = With Japanese bookseller's ticket: Kitazawa Bookstore.

The World Set Free. A Story of Mankind. [Rare first edition].

Wells, H.G. (1866-1946). · 1914

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

London, Macmillan and Co., 1914, 1st ed., (8),286,(10 publisher's cat.) pag., original gilt and blindstamped green cloth, top edge gilt. = The World Set Free is a prophetic science-fiction novel that imagines the discovery of atomic energy and its eventual use in warfare. Wel...

Highways and Byways of the Lake District. With illustrations by Joseph Pennell.

[Lake District]. Bradley, A.G. · 1903

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

London, Macmillan & Co., 1903, XII,332 pag., folded map, frontispiece and illustrations by Joseph Pennell, contemporary blue calf with gilt supralibros with device "Schola Grammatica Begensis Edmundi Grinda Archiepiscopi Cant. 1587", gilt decorative border, spine richly gilt w...

Collectie van 7 originele handgedrukte nieuwjaarskaarten,

Zuithoff, Ate. · 1996

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,040)

1996-2001, vormgeving en kleurendruk door Ate Zuithoff, 14,8 x 10,6 tot 18,2 x 12,8 cm. = Mooie kaarten, qua kleur en compositie beïnvloed door Werkman.

Boyhood. Scenes from Provincial Life.

Coetzee, J.M. · 1997

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

New York, Viking, 1997, 1st ed., (4),166 pag., hardcover with (unclipped) dustjacket. = Owner's entry on divisional title. Spine-ends of dustjacket bumped.

Murder in Amsterdam. The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance.

Buruma, Ian. · 2006

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

New York, Penguin, 2006, 1st ed., (10),278 pag., hardcover with dustjacket (as new).

The Eighth Crusade - Uncensored Disclosures of a British Staff Officer.

[Anti-Semitism]. (Taylor, Waters, Lt. Col. (Bertie Harry Waters Taylor.)). · 1939

€1,150.00 ($1,267.51 | £959.41 | ¥202,405)

Berlin, Internationaler Verlag, 1939, 2nd ed. (Sept. 1939), 205,(1) pag., original giltlettered red cloth with yellow belly-band. = The first edition was published in August 1939. Extremely rare - especially with the wraparound or belly-band which was added to the book after ...