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10 Bände. Thackerays´s Complete Works Illustrated

Thackeray, William Makepeace · 1870 · Celler Versandantiquariat

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

Crowell - Text in Englisch/ Enthalten: The Adventures of Philip on his way through the World/ Burlesques/ The Paris Sketch Book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh/ The History of Pendennis. His Fortunes and Misfortunes, his Friends, and his greatest Enemy/ The Newcomes. Memoirs of a most re…

Marvels of the New West: A Vivid Portrayal of the Stupendous Marvels in the Vast Wonderland West of the Missouri River. Six Books in One Volume, Comprising Marvels of Nature, Marvels of Race, Marvels of Enterprise, Marvels of Mining, Marvels of Stock-Raising, and Marvels of Agriculture, Graphically and Truthfully Described

Thayer, William M. · 1889 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Norwich, CT, Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1889. Hardcover. Green boards with gilt lettering and illustration; marbled textblock edges; xxxvi, 715, [1] pp.; richly illustrated. Nice copy of this U.S. history book. VG (Boards and textblock edges are edgeworn/scuffed/smudged; tex…

America and the Americans

Baxter, William E. · 1855 · Old Bookshelf

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

London G. Routledge & Co. First Edition 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 244pp. Half leather, marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine label. Cover worn, front cover detached but present, contents age-toned, text is clean. Much information on the American people, their country, their g…

The Life of Goethe

George Henry Lewes · 1864 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London, George Routledge & Sons Limited, No date [1864]. Cloth. This scarce second edition of The Life of Goethe, an erudite biography by George Henry Lewes who is now best known as the partner of the celebrated author George Eliot. The second edition of the work; undated, but p…

Portraits of Eminent Conservatives and Statesman

Henry Thomas Ryall · 1836 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.46 | ¥84,388)

London, George Virtue, 1836-46. Leather. A complete collection of Henry Thomas Ryall"s engraved portraits of eminent politicians in the nineteenth century, illustrated throughout with seventy-one engraved portraits. Complete in two volumes.Volume I illustrated with thirty-five p…

The Queen of Subtleties

Dunn, Suzannah · 2004 · San Francisco Book Company

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.02 | ¥3,168)

New York William Morrow and Company, Inc Cloth/dust jacket Octavo brown papered spine, gilt lettering, burgundy papered boards, dust jacket unclipped, 288 pp, first edition. Very good very good

House of Days. Poems

Parini, Jay · 1998 · Valley Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Henry Holt Complete # string. 86pp. Inscribed by the author to critic William Pritchard. 3 typed pages of notes fro a review of the book by William Pritchard laid-in. Photos on request First Edition So Staed, Comp. # String Fine NY Fine 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

(1908) Nature Poems, and Others; (1910) Farewell to Poesy, and Other Poems.

William H. Davies · 1908 · Rooke Books

£39.00 (€46.75 | $51.52 | ¥8,228)

London, A. C. Fifield, 1908-1910. First edition. Hardback. A smart collection of two poetry works from the popular Welsh poet William Henry Davies, featuring one very scarce dust wrapper. Collection comprised of: (1908) Nature Poems, and others; (1910) Farewell to Poesy, and oth…

Windsor Castle an Historical Romance

William Harrison Ainsworth · 1843 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Henry Colburn, 1843. Cloth. A three volume set of the historical romance novel 'Windsor Castle' by Windsor Castle The first separately published edition of this historical novel by William Harrison Ainsworth. With engraved frontispieces to each volume. Windsor …

Gallery to Shakspeare&Apos;S Dramatic Works

Shakspeare; William Shakespeare · 1847 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Leipsig; London, Ernest Fleischer; Dulau & Co, 1847. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this series of plates by Moritz Retzsch, showcasing eight of Shakespeare's plates. The first edition.An uncommon work.In German and English.A series of plates, depicting pivota…

Memoirs of Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Princess Royal of Prussia, Margravine of Baireuth, Sister of Frederick the Great.(Volume I only)

Wilhelmina, Frederica Sophia · 1877 · Old Bookshelf

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Boston James R. Osgood and Company First Edition 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall 268pp. Volume I only. 16mo. First Edition. Rust stamped cloth, black lettering to cover, black ornamentation and gilt lettering to spine, all edges red-stained. Wear to corners and spine, contents…

A Register of the Members of St. Mary Magdalen College, Oxford from the Foundation of the College ( Volumes 1-7, Years 1520-1910 )

Macray William Dunn · 1894 · George Jeffery Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

Henry Frowde Each volume bears the bookplate & signature of Herbert Wilson Greene former member. Bound in original publishers red cloth, cloth lightly rubbed, all bindings in very good clean soild condition, all hinge joints strong. Internally, contents holding firm, no loose pa…

The Charterhouse of London: Monastery, Palace, and Thomas Sutton's Foundation

TAYLOR William Frederick · 1912 · Inch's Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

London, JM Dent and Sons 1912 xiv, 283pp, 37 bw plates 21x16, brown cloth, glt text, glt top edge. Small bump to bottom of spine, cloth slightly marked, browing to endpapers, contents good. Founded in 1371 as a Carthusian priory, the priory at Charterhouse was dissolved by Henr…

Warrs with forregin[!] princes dangerous to our Common-Wealth: or reasons for forreign wars answered. With a list of all the confederates from Henry the first reign to the end of Queen Elizabeth. Proving that the kings of England alwayes preferred unjust peace before the justest warre.London, William Shears, 1657.Including: [COTTON, Sir Robert Bruce]. The French charity; written in French by an English gentleman, upon occasion of Prince Harcourt's coming to England; and translated into English by F.S.J.E.London, William Shears, 1655. Small 8vo. Woodcut head- and tailpieces & initials. Contemporary calf.

COTTON, Sir Robert Bruce. · 1657 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

[2], 96; [2], 10 pp.Rare first edition (here in the 1657 issue, but first published in 1655) of a political history of England written in 1610 by the famous antiquary and politician Sir Robert Bruce Cotton (1571-1631). Although the title-page names no author, he signs the text o…

A Narrative of My Professional Adventures

Sir William Henry Dillon; Michael A. Lewis [ed.] · 1953 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, The Navy Records Society, 1953-1956. First edition. Cloth. A scarce two volume set of this illustrated autobiography by the British naval officer Sir William Henry Dillon, with folding maps. A scarce complete two volume set. The first editions. In the publisher's or…

Pedigrees of the Family of James of Culgarth, West Auckland, and Barrock, and Their Kinsfolk, Corrected As Far As Possibly Up to June, 1913

[Sir Henry Evan Murchison James] [William Ashton James] · 1913 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

Exeter, William Pollard & Co LTD, 1913. Vellum. A history of the James family of Culgarth, West Auckland, and Barrock, illustrated throughout with many folding plates. In a half vellum binding. A very scarce work. An interesting look at the family of James that has lived in Culg…

The Cheltenham Mail Bag or, Letters from Gloucestershire

Peter Quince, the Younger [William Henry Halpin ed.] · 1820 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

London, John Warren, 1820. First edition. Leather. The scarce first edition of this provincial series of poems disguised as "letters", the last of which attempts to deride William Cobbett. The first edition.  Scarce. In a contemporary rebacked half calf binding, with reinforced…

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKSPERE [Shakespeare] Revised from the Original Editions with a Memoir and Essay on His Genius In Three Volumes Tragedies, Comedies and Histories & Poems [&] THE DOUBTFUL PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE Being All the Dramas Attributed to

SHAKESPEARE William, CORNWALL Barry, TYRRELL Henry, MEADOWS Kenny · 1857 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.46 | ¥84,388)

London Printing and Publishing Co., c. 1857-1859 4 vols. 4to (11 x 7½ ins). Rebound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe in uniform half morocco on cloth sides, spines gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting calf labels, boards gilt ruled, all edges gilt and new endpapers (upper bo…

An Advocate in His Study

Ostade, Adriaen van (After); William Henry Worthington (Engraver) · 1833 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

London: John Major, 1833. Stipple and line engraving. 27.5 x 16.5 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Toning along sheet edges. .

Spanish Peasant Boy

Watt, William Henry (Engraver). After Bartolome Esteban Murillo · 1833 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

London: John Major, 1833. Steel engraving. 10 1/2 x 7 in. (sheet). Very Good, some toning in sheet margins. .