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Conversations of James Northcote, Esq. , R.A.

William Hazlitt · 1830 · Rooke Books

£260.00 (€311.65 | $343.50 | ¥54,852)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of William Hazlitt's popular work describing his conversations with the British painter, James Northcote. First edition. With a portrait frontispiece, engraved by T Wright…

Spook Country

William Gibson · 2007 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,543)

Viking 2007 Trade Paperback, 371pp. In New York, what you've got on your iPod can be bad for your health. Tito, a young and athletic Cuban, has been asked to pass iPods to the 'old man' in Washington Square. He doesn't know why and he's not stupid enough to ask, either. But the …

The natural history of the Tineina.London, John van Voorst, 1855-1873. 13 volumes. 8vo. With 104 hand-coloured lithographed plates. Contemporary publisher's blind-stamped blue cloth.

STAINTON, Henry Tibbats. · 1822 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

Each volume around 250-380 pp.A complete set of this monumental 19th-century entomological work, first and only edition, comprising 13 volumes published over nearly two decades and illustrated with 104 finely hand-coloured lithographed plates. With the text arranged in parallel …

The Physiology of Temperance & Total Abstinence. Being an examination of the effects of the excessive, moderate, and occasional use of alcoholic liquors on the healthy human system.

CARPENTER (William B.) · 1858 · Forest Books

£37.63 (€45.11 | $49.71 | ¥7,939)

London: Henry G. Bohn, 1858. 8vo (165 x 105mm), vi, 184pp., rebound in later maroon cloth.

The Nile boat; or glimses of the land of Egypt. 4th ed.

Bartlett,William H. · 1861 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Londonm Henry G.Bohn, 1861. VII,229 pp. Num. steel- en woodengravings. Raised & gilt h.leather. - Some foxing. Exlibris.

TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST

DANA, Richard Henry · 1947 · Charles Agvent

$81.30 (€73.76 | £61.54 | ¥12,983)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Tall octavo (7" x 10-1/2") bound in full ship's canvas over boards with a gold-stamped blue leather label on the spine. Introduction by William McFee; designed by Richard Ellis. Copy #95 of 1500 copies illustrated by Hans Alexander Mueller with w…

Geraldina

PAYNE, ALBERT HENRY, · 1847 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€74.75 ($82.39 | £62.36 | ¥13,156)

Portrait of a richly dressed lady, holding a jewelled necklace on her lap. Steel engraving on wove paper, sheet size 220 x 170 mm. Engraved by Albert Henry Payner after Edmund Thomas Parris, published in 1847. Albert Henry Payne (London 1812-1902 Leipzig) was a steel engraver, …

Picturesque Ceylon. Kandy and Peradeniya. Inscribed by the author.

Cave, Henry W., · 1894 · Kunstantiquariat Joachim Lührs

€750.00 ($826.64 | £625.70 | ¥132,003)

London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co. 5 Bll., 91 S. Mit 33 Lichtdrucktafeln. 4°, 28,5 x 22 cm, original full red leather with gilt title to spine and front cover, decorative border on both covers, all edges gilt, and marbled endpapers. With a handwritten inscription by the author…

An English and Singhalese Lesson Book on Ollendorff's System; Designed to teach Singhalese through the medium of the English language. Colombo (ca 1880).

CARTER, CHARLES HENRY: · 1860 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

Pp. 167, interleaved copy. First part of the book filled with scholarly annotations on the blank leaves. Contemporary half calf, worn, hinges cracked. Ownership inscription on title page: "Major A. Ewing Colombo". Library stamps. Bookplate. Rare, short useful manual in Sinhale…

Chronology Of The Tinplate Works Of Great Britain (together with Appendix to Chronology of the Tinplate Works of Great Britain 1665-1949)

BROOKE Edward Henry · 1944 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Cardiff, William Lewis Printers (for the Author) 1944, 1949 178pp (chronology), 179-242pp (Appendix), two separate volumes 22x15, both volumes red cloth with black text Spine rather faded of the Chronology volume, papers low quality as normal for books printed during wartime, c…

A Harvest of Myrrh and Spices gathered from the Mysteries of the Lord's Passion (1610)

William H. Draper · 1898 · Salsus Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Book Very Good Henry Frowde London 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall npp, small format, hardback, red cloth gilt, frontispiece, printed in red and black

Kate: The Woman Who Was Hepburn

Mann, William J. · 2006 · Judith Patton

CA$15.95 (€10.14 | $11.18 | £8.46 | ¥1,785)

Henry Holt and Co. 1st Edition 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall pg. 621 with index b/w plates clean tight copy minuscule edge and corner wear to d/j Near Fine Near Fine

Switzerland Illustrated in a Series of Views Taken Expressly for This Work by W.H. Bartlett

William Beattie · 1836 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

London, George Virtue, 1836. First edition. Leather. An illustrated study of the history and geography of Switzerland. First editions. Illustrated throughout with one hundred and six plates taken from views by W. H. Bartlett, including one folding map. William Henry Bartlett (Ma…

Later Novels & Stories: The Chateau / So Long / See You Tomorrow / Stories & Improvisations, 1957-1999 (LOA No. 184)

Maxwell, William · 2008 · The Wild Muse

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Library of America First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Library of America, 2008. 8vo., 994pp. Marker stripe on bottom edge, else as new in as new dust jacket. On the centennial of William Maxwell's birth, here is the second volume in a two- …

Stroman & Stromab

FRENCH, WILLIAM, · 1815 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€46.00 ($50.70 | £38.38 | ¥8,096)

\"Upstream & Downstream\". Couple of charming engravings with a couple in a rowing boat. In the first (Stroman - Upstream) the man is poling the skiff against the stream. A packet of food and wine `waits on the prow, while the woman is seated demurely with her hands folded. In t…

The Freedom Tree

BEDFORD, WILLIAM · 1997 · Kalamos Books

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

London, Abacus / Little Brown & Co. 1997, Uncorrected Proof. (ISBN: 0316639893) Original Wraps. Book, "An uncorrected proof copy from Abacus" In the Summer of 1874, Matthew Lidgard travels to the busy port of Whitby seeking work on the treacherous trawler fleets. His father was …

THE CLERGY-MAN’S LAW: Or, the Complete Incumbent, Collected from the Thirty-nine Articles, Canons, Decrees in Chancery and Exchequer, as also from all the Statutes and Common-Law Cases, Relating to the Church and Clergy of England: Digested under proper Heads for the Benefit of Patrons of Churches, and the Parochial Clergy; And will be Useful to all Students, and Practitioners of the Law. With a Table of the Contents of the Chapters, and another of the Principal Matters. To which are added the Names of the present Bishops, and other Chief Dignitaries of the Church of England.

Watson, William. · 1747 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

In the Savoy: Printed by Henry Lintot ... 1747. 4th Ed., with large Additions and Alterations. Folio. (24 cms x 36 cms x 5.5 cms). [xii] + 656pp. + [lxi] table + [i]. Sporadic browning and spotting, lib. accession nos. and ink stamp to verso of title page, sl. loss to upper lead…

The Traveller's Oracle; or, Maxims for Locomotion: Containing Precepts for Promoting the Pleasures and Hints for Preserving the Health of Travellers. Part 1. Comprising Estimates of the Expenses of Travelling on Foot - on Horseback - in Stages - in Post Chaises - and in Private Carriage: With Seven Songs, for One, Two, and Three Voices

Kitchiner, William · 1827 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$115.00 (€104.34 | £87.05 | ¥18,364)

London, Henry Colburn, 1827. Hardcover. Bound in 3/4 brown leather and color paper boards, 5 raised bands on spine with gilt lettering and tooling; top edge gilt; color end papers; viii, 264 pp with unpaginated pieces of music. This is Part 1 of a 2 part set only. pt. I. Compris…

To Remember Arnold Bennett Hall, President University of Oregon, 1926 - 1932. Numbered 84 [of 100]

Henry D. Sheldon (ed.); John Henry Nash · 1942 · Wittenborn Art Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,953)

Eugene, Oregon: John Henry Nash Fine Arts Press, 1942. Folio. Beige Wraps, Letterpress on Deckled Watermarked Heavy Wove, 29 pp. Good with marginal tears to wraps, otherwise Near Fine. Scarce. Contents: Arnold Bennett Hall, 1881-1936, a biographical sketch / the editor -- Dr. Ar…

Charles Dickens and Maria Beadnell ("Dora") Private Correspondence between Charles Dickens and Mrs. Henry Winter (Née Maria Beadwell), the Original of Dora Spenlow in 'Daviod Copperfield' and Flora Finching in 'Litle Dorrit'

Baker, George Pierce, editor · 1908 · Brookline Village Books

$173.00 (€156.96 | £130.95 | ¥27,626)

St. Louis, MO, Privately printed for William K. Bixby, 1908. Hardcover. 152p. plus plates. One of 250 copies printed by the Bibliphile Society for William K. Bixby the owner of the letters, after 493 copies were printed for members of the Society. Very good condition, in worn sl…