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Heath's Oddities

HEATH, Henry · 1830 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$12,500.00 (€11,341.14 | £9,461.53 | ¥1,996,088)

London: W.Spooner, 1830. A Most Delightful Group of Characters by Henry Heath HEATH, Henry, illustrator. Heath's Oddities. London: W. Spooner, [c.1830]. Large quarto (11 3/4 x 9 1/4 inches; 298 x 235 mm.). Hand colored lithograph title and twenty-two numbered hand colored lithog…

British North America. Reports of Progress; Together with a Preliminary and General Report on the Assinniboine [sic] and Saskatchewan Exploring Expedition, Made Under Instructions from the Provincial Secretary, Canada

Hind, Henry Youle · 1860 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$397.29 (€252.59 | $278.40 | £210.73 | ¥44,457)

London Printed by George Edward Eyre & William Spottiswoode for H.M.S.O. pp. 217. 1/2 black cloth over grey paper-covered boards. Gilt lettering to spine. 2 plates and 6 folding hand-coloured maps. Corners and spine ends frayed, old tape to verso of title page has caused a yello…

Picturesque Ceylon. Colombo and The Kelani Valley. Inscribed by the author.

Cave, Henry W., · 1893 · Kunstantiquariat Joachim Lührs

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

London, Sampson Low, Marston and Co. 4 Bll., 69 S., 1 Bl. Mit 36 Illustrationen auf 30 Lichtdrucktafeln. 4°, 28,4 x 22 cm, original full leather with gilt title to spine and front cover, decorative border on both covers, all edges gilt, and marbled endpapers. With a handwritten …

TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST

DANA, Richard Henry · 1947 · Charles Agvent

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

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 #355 of 1500 copies illustrated by Hans Alexander Mueller with …

TWO YEARS BEFORE THE MAST

DANA, Richard Henry · 1947 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

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 #845 of 1500 copies illustrated by Hans Alexander Mueller with …

The History of the Art of Writing. Part IV Modern Series

Williams, Henry Smith · 0 · The Victoria Bookshop

£34.40 (€41.23 | $45.45 | ¥7,257)

1111. 1st thus. hardback. A reference copy only. Slightly battered brown cloth portfolio with faux leather corners, some spots of white paint on front cover, detns and wear to corners and split to spine cover edges. Contains Chapters 25-28 with 44 plates listed (we have not coun…

Bibliography of American literature. Compiled by Jacob Blanck for the Bibliographical Society of America. Daraus einzeln: Vol. 1: Henry Adams to Donn Byrne. Mit Abbildungen auf Tafeln.

Blanck, Jacob: · 1955 · Antiquariat Bürck

Spedisce da Germania · non spedisce in Russia

€39.10 ($43.10 | £32.62 | ¥6,882)

New Haven u. London: Yale University Press. 1955. XLVIII Seiten, 2 Blatt, 474 Seiten. Schwarze Orig.-Leinwand mit vergold. Rückentitel. Klein-Quart, 26 x 19,5 cm. (etwas bestossen und angestaubt, hint. Deckel im oberen äusseren Rand mit kleiner Wasserspur, wenig störend, inn…

La fiera delle vanità. Romanzo senza eroe.

Thackeray,William Makepeace. · 1968 · Libreria Editrice Chiari

€9.90 ($10.91 | £8.26 | ¥1,742)

Illustrazioni dell'Autore. Prefazione e note di Henry Furst. Traduzione di Anna Banti. Milano, 1968, Longanesi Collana I Libri Pocket,127, 12 cm.11,5x18, pp.282,292,281, brossura con copertina figurat 3 voll. in custodia,

The Wolves and the Lamb + Lovel the Widower + Denis Duval + Roundabout Papers

Thackeray, William Makepeace · 0 · Barter Books Ltd

£7.60 (€9.11 | $10.04 | ¥1,603)

G : in good condition without dust jacket. Cover faded London Henry Frowde / Oxford University Press Reprint 190mm x 130mm (7" x 5"). xxxi, 696pp. Numerous b/w illustrations.

Poems

Henry H Methuen · 1843 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

London, William Pickering, 1843. First edition. Cloth. An extremely scarce first edition of Henry H Methuen's poetry. Signed by the author to his friend Alfred Dolman. From the library of Bernard Warrington, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. The bookplate states &a…

The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare the Tragedies of Shakespeare the Comedies of Shakespeare

William Shakespeare · 1922 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London, Humphrey Milford Oxford University Press , 1922-1924. Leather. An attractive leather bound set of Shakespeare's works in three volumes. This set is bound in signed full calf by Oxford Binding with gilt detailing. A lovely collection of Shakespeare's works in a…

The History of the Commonwealth of England, from Its Commencement to the Restoration of Charles II. Volumes I and IV

William Godwin · 1824 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London , Henry Colburn, 1824. Disbound. Volumes one and four of the radical intellectual's history of the Commonwealth. Godwin was one of the first proponents of Utilitarianism, as well as of Anarchism, and was married to the feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft. His daughte…

Three Plates in Colour from Shakespeare&Apos;S Tragedy of Hamlet

William Shakespeare · 1910 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

London , Hodder and Stoughton Ltd. 1910. First edition. Unbound. A first edition of this very scarce, beautifully produced folio of three colour plate illustrations from W. G. Simmonds, highlighting key dramatic moments from the play. In the publisher's original green paper…

The Waldenses or Protestant Valleys of Piedmont, Dauphiny and the Ban de la Roche

William Beattie · 1838 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, George Virtue, 1838. Leather. An early edition of William Beattie's wonderfully illustrated account of his travels in the land of the Waldenses in the early 19th century. First published in 1836, this is an early edition of this work.Illustrated with a frontispiece,…

The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn Esq. F.R. S

William Upcott · 1825 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.81 | ¥37,974)

London, Henry Colburn and Co, 1825. Leather. This text feature all manner of writings by Evelyn including his translation of "Of Liberty and Servitude" and "The Ladies Dressing-Room Unlock'd". Evelyn is mostly known for his diaries or Memoirs, which are largely contemporane…

Poems, Chiefly of Early and Late Years; Including the Borderers, a Tragedy

William Wordsworth · 1842 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Edward Moxon, 1842. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce anthology of poetry by William Wordsworth, including his verse tragedy 'The Borderers&apos. The first edition of this scarce work.An anthology of the brilliant poetry of William Wordsworth.Th…

Switzerland Illustrated in a Series of Views, Volume I

William Beattie · 1836 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, George Virtue, 1836. First edition. Cloth. Volume I from this collection of beautiful engravings created expressly for this work by British artist W.H. Bartlett. A lovely series of engravings by nineteenth-century British artist William Henry Bartlett, created expressly …

A Letter from the Facetious Dr. Andrew Tripe at Bath, to his Loving Brother the Profound Greshamite [John Woodward], shewing, That the Scribendi Cacoethes is a Distemper arising from a Redundancy of Biliose Salts, and not to be Eradicated, but by a Diurnal Course of Oyls and Vomits. With an Appendix of Socrates his Clyster, and The Use of Clean Linnen in Controversy.

[WAGSTAFFE (William)] · 1719 · Forest Books

£134.38 (€161.08 | $177.53 | ¥28,350)

London: Printed for J. Morphew, 1719. First edition,48pp., small stain on title, slight browning of the text, uncut, disbound. “This Letter is an attack on John Woodward, Professor of Physic at Gresham College, who repeatedly came into conflict, on scientific subjects, with me…

The Life and Death of Jason: A Metrical Romance

Morris, William · 1917 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$68.00 (€61.70 | £51.47 | ¥10,859)

New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound in hardcover format, generally clean, lightly toned at worst, minimal rubbing to extremities. Bound handsomely in brown cloth over over boards, still sha…

The White Continent: The Story of Antarctica

HENRY, THOMAS R · 1950 · Bookshop Baltimore

$38.00 (€34.48 | £28.76 | ¥6,068)

William Sloane Associates, 1950. Hardcover. Illustrated by Rafael Palacios, Map Drawing. SIGNED / inscribed by the author on the blank endpaper to Mr ... With sincere regards, Thomas R. Henry. 257 pages. Clean, good binding. The author's personal experience in the Antarctic in19…