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Astrologie en wetenschap. Een onderzoek naar de betrouwbaarheid der astrologie.

Vestdijk, S. · 1949

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,519)

Arnhem: van Loghum Slaterus, 1949 (1e dr.); 194pp., 8vo, gebonden, geen stofomslag. Vragenlijst op blz. 61 met potlood ingevuld, schutbladen verkleurd. Zeer goed ex. ¶ l een nuchter-sceptisch maar wel degelijk serieus werk over 'geloof' in de sociale werkelijkheid, met 113 bes...

Costume in England. A history of dress from the earliest period until the close of the eighteenth century

Fairholt, F.W. · 1860

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,918)

London: Chapman and Hall, 1860 (2nd ed.); 607pp., 8vo (19.5cm), nearly 700 wood engravings, glossary, lavendre colloured cloth with gilt embossed illustration on front cover and lettering on spine. Top spine bit worn and torn, bookblock bit loose. G+ ¶ l A very thorough handbo...

English Pottery and Porcelain.

Honey, W.B. · 1952

€15.90 ($17.52 | £13.26 | ¥2,798)

London: Adam & Charles Black, 1952 (4th ed.); 270 pp., 8vo, bibliography, index, 114 bl-w ill., cloth w. slightly worn and repaired dustwr. VG/G. ¶ l volume in the authoritative and readable Library of English Art. The author was keeper of the dept. of ceramics at the Victoria...

Tales of the Norse Gods and Heroes.

Picard, Barbara Leonie. · 1958

€13.00 ($14.33 | £10.85 | ¥2,287)

London: Oxford University Press, 1958 (1st repr.); 312 pp., alphabet. list of names, bl-w ill. and in red-bl, cloth w. decorative dustwr. F/VG ¶ l illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe. These are stories told by the Norsemen who lived in Scandinavia from about AD 1 to AD 1000.

Rip Van Winkle.

Irving, Washington [and Arthur Rackham]. · 1910

€195.00 ($214.93 | £162.68 | ¥34,310)

London: William Heinemann, 1910 [6th printing]; xii+ 61+47 pp. 47 colour ill. by Arthur Rackham, darkgreen cloth w. gilt lettering and illustration on front cover and spine. 47 illustrations pasted down on dark green stiff paper, all provided with protective tissue paper; whit...

Epikurs Philosophie der Lebensfreude.

Schmidt, Heinrich. · 1932

€6.15 ($6.78 | £5.13 | ¥1,082)

Leipzig: Alfred Kröner Verlag (c.1932, 21.-25. Tausend); viii+111+31pp., 1portrait, sm. 8vo, or. cloth. ¶ l Kröners Taschenausgabe Band 11.

The Penguin Archeology Guide.

Bahn, Paul (ed.). · 2001

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,959)

London: Penguin, 2001 (1st thus); IX+494 pp., bl-w illustrations, maps, 8vo, hardc. w. dustwr. F/F ¶ l this is the completely revised, expanded and updated ed. of the 1992 Collins dictionary of archaeology. This guide w. some 3,500 articles offers a 'superbly rich and authorit...

Wat onze handen kunnen maken. Handenarbeid voor iedereen.

Zechlin, Ruth. · 1956

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,639)

Amsterdam: Ploegsma, 1956 (5e dr.); 8vo (24cm), xvi+336 blz., talrijke zw/w illustraties, register, werkbladen, gebonden m. goedopdruk. Gebruikt maar goed exemplaar. Schaars! ¶ l Voor wie al een beetje handig is, een verrukkelijk boek om allerlei technieken, van sokkenbreien t...

Togt door het Heilige Land, vooral tot onderzoek der Jordaan en der Doode Zee.

Lynch, W.F. · 1855

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Dordrecht, P.K. Braat, 1855, 2 delen; xii+251 en xii+264pp., ieder deel 1 chromolithografie en uitvouwb. plattegrond, register (deel 2), smal 8vo, gebrocheerd in originele kartonnen bandjes. Litho's lichte vochtsporen, ruggen verzwakt, omslagpapier aldaar deels afgevallen, ver...

Griechische Heldenleben. Themistokles - Perikles - Alkibiades - Alexander - Pyrrhos.

Plutarch. · 1933

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Leipzig: Alfred Kröner Verlag, 1933 (1st ed.); xxxi+281+38pp., bibliography, notes, sm. 8vo, or. cloth. Edited and transl. by Wilhelm Ax. ¶ l Kröners Taschenausgabe Band 66.

North to the Orient.

Lindbergh, A. Morrow. · 1938

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Penguin # 161; 1938, 1st ed.; F dw G (taped sev. places but compl.) ¶ l vintage Penguin

I Find Four People.

Frankau, P. · 1938

€4.55 ($5.02 | £3.80 | ¥801)

Penguin # 141; 1938, 1st ed.; VG ¶ l vintage Penguin no. 141

Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill.

Walpole, H. · 1938

€5.70 ($6.28 | £4.76 | ¥1,003)

Penguin # 132; 1938, 1st ed.; VG+ (exlibris) dw VG (flaps loosening) ¶ l vintage Penguin no. 132

The Havering Plot.

Keverne, Richard. · 1938

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Penguin # 127; 1938 1st repr.; VG, dw G (sm. pces chipped off) ¶ l vintatge Penguin no. 127

Disraeli.

Maurois, André. · 1938

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1938 (4th repr.); 12mo (18 cm), 278(+8)pp., index, paper, both flaps of dustwrapper. VG, v. small chip at top of spine missing. ¶ l vintage Penguin no. 110

The Fiddler.

Millin, S.G. · 1937

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Penguin # 109; 1937 1st ed.; VG+ (bright) dw G- (fr. flap missing) ¶ l vintage Penguin no. 109

Private worlds.

Bottome, Ph. · 1938

€4.00 ($4.41 | £3.34 | ¥704)

Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1938 (3rd impr.); 12mo (18 cm), 280(+6)pp., paper w. dustwrapper. VG/G (dw. worn and traces of moisture, first front flap dw. loose, inserted). Scarce. ¶ l vintage Penguin no. 107

Die oberitalienischen Maler der Renaissance.

Berenson, Bernhard. · 1925

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München: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1925 (1.-3. Tausend); 253+42pp., index, 42 bl-wh ill., sm.8vo, or. cloth.

Mantrap.

Lewis, Sinclair. · 1938

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Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1938 (2nd repr.); 12mo (18 cm), 248(+8)pp., paper w. dustwrapper. VG+/VG ¶ l Vintage Penguin no. 105, in the orange-white 'Fiction' series.

A Tall Ship.

'Bartimeus'. · 1937

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Penguin # 103; 1937, 1st repr.; VG+ dw VG ¶ l vintage Penguin no 103