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Boundaries of Holiness, Frontiers of Sainthood. Negotiating the Image of Christian Holy Figures and Saints in Late Antiquity

Julia Doroszewska, Mateusz Kusio (eds) · 2025 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€90.10 ($99.31 | £75.16 | ¥15,860)

, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, 284 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 4 col., 1 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503614212. Summary Many excellent studies have been published on the phenomenon of holy (wo)men and saints. As a rule, however, they focus on success…

Les cires et mannequins d'art de Pierre Imans. Statuaire Ceroplaste. [Beautiful trade-catalogue for mannequins of the highest standard].

[Fashion]. Imans, Pierre. · 1926 · Fahrenheit 451

€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)

Paris, Bureaux et Salons d'Exposition Pierre Imans, 1926, 43,(1) pag., richly illustrated in b/w, sewn in original coloured and decorated wrappers, quarto (30,2 x 15,4 cm.). = A beautifully preserved and fascinating catalogue for the mannequin sculptor and modeler Pierre Imans,…

Bishops' Identities, Careers, and Networks in Medieval Europe

Sarah Thomas (ed) · 2021 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.90 | ¥14,962)

, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, ix + 312 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 10 tables b/w., 3 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503579108. Summary Bishops were powerful individuals who had considerable spiritual, economic, and political power. They were not just reli…

Case History: Obdachlos in der Ukraine

Boris Mikhailov (Autor) · 1999 · LLU Buchservice

€229.90 ($253.40 | £191.77 | ¥40,469)

, Scalo Zürich, 1999. 256, 24,2 x 18 x 4,2 cm, Hardcover. Zustand: 2. Boris Mikhailov, geboren 1938 in der Ukraine, ist Fotograf und rückte in den letzten Jahren zusehends ins Rampenlicht der Kunstwelt. So hatte er Einzelausstellungen im Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in der Photo…

L'Ordine Della Messa che deve tener il Sacerdoto quado celebra seza cato, & senza ministri secodo l'uso delia S. Romana Chiesa

BUCHARD (Johann): · 1568 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£2,000.00 (€2,397.66 | $2,642.72 | ¥422,059)

In Novaro appresso Fr. Sessalli, Col privileg. di Milano per anni x, 1568. 16mo, 103 x 63 mms., foliated [2] 3 - 107 [108 - 109 index, 110 -113 blank]. BOUND WITH: HEYNLIN VON STEIN(Johannes): Resolutorium dubiorum circa celebrationem missarum occurrentium, Ex sacrorii canon …

De l'excellence et de la supériorité de la femme

Henri Corneille AGRIPPA - François PEYRARD · 1801 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,200.00 ($1,322.65 | £1,000.97 | ¥211,235)

de l'Imprimerie de Delance | Paris 1801 | 10.50 x 18.50 cm | relié | Très rare édition originale de ce texte du XVIème siècle, traduit et commenté par Roétitg, pseudonyme de François Peyrard. Reliure postérieure en demi maroquin rouge à coins, dos à cinq nerfs orné de filets dor…

A Collection of Volumes from the Oxford Historical Society

Margaret Evans [editor]; Lilian M. Quiller Couch [editor]; Thomas Hearne; C. E. Doble [editor]; D. W. Rannie [editor] · 1885 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

Oxford, The Oxford Historical Society, 1885-1921. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of first edition volumes from the Oxford Historical Society. Ten volumes. First edition or first thus. From the Oxford Historical Society. This set contains: Letters of Richard Radcliffe a…

Portrait of William Z. Foster (1881-1961) One 12 American Communists in 1949. Trial of: Henry Winston; Eugene Dennis; Benjamin Davis; Gus Hall; John Williamson, Carl Winter; Irving Potash; John Gates; Robert Thompson; Jack Stachel. Original Photograph

New York Times Photos, Paris · 1949 · Wittenborn Art Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

New York: Circa Sept. 1949. Silver print. French text on separate sheet pasted to verso. Photographer's stamp verso. 13 x 18cm.. A major figure in the history of twentieth-century American radicalism, William Z. Foster (1881-1961) fought his way out of the slums of turn-of-the-c…

Mr Robert Dalglish Mp; the Most Popular Man in the House of Commons. No. 330. (Original Lithograph. )

Spy (Sir Leslie Ward, 1851-1922) (Lith.) · 1873 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

London: Vanity Fair, 1873. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 sheet of description. Very Good+. Published in Vanity Fair, 7 June 1873. Robert Dalglish (4 January 1808 - 6 June 1880) was a Scottish Radical politician. He was the Member of Parliament M…

Battle of Nieuwpoort - Matthias de Sallieth after Dirk Langedijk, 1783

Sallieth-- Matthias de · 1600 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

THE BATTLE OF NIEUWPOORT “De Glorierijke Overwinning behaald bij Nieuwpoort in Vlaanderen door de Troepen …der Verenigde Nederlanden, onder het Opperbevel van … Maurits, Prins van Oranje … op de Spaansche Legerbenden onder het Bevel van de …Albertus van Oostenrijk, benevens de …

ARCHIVE OF 3 AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) with an Original Photograph Portrait and 3 Letters from his Daughter to the Editor of THE DIAL Magazine

HOWELLS, W[illiam] D[ean] · 18881912 · Charles Agvent

$937.50 (€850.57 | £709.50 | ¥149,725)

The three letters by Howell total 7 pages and are SIGNED "W. D. Howells" and include two hand-addressed envelopes and a cabinet card albumen photograph (4-1/4" x 5-7/8") by Reynolds Photograph Co. These letters, as well as the later letters by Mildred Howells, are addressed to F…

Libro de los inventores del arte de marear, y de muchos trabajos que se passan enlas galeras. ... Tocanse enel muy excellentes antiguedades, y avisos muy notables para los que navegan en galeras.Antwerp, Martin Nutius, [ca. 1545/46]. Small 8vo (13.5 x 10 cm). With Nutius's woodcut device on the title-page. Set in rotunda gothic type with a few words in a large roman. Blind-tooled brown goatskin (1920s?) in 16th-century style by Victor Arias (1856-1935) in Madrid, gold-tooled turn-ins.

GUEVARA, Antonio de. · 1912 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€12,000.00 ($13,226.48 | £10,009.74 | ¥2,112,351)

XXIX, [1], [2 blank] ll.Rare (first?) separately published edition of an early discourse on the art of sailing and navigation, in the original Spanish, first published as part of Libro llamado Menosprecio de Corte. The book discusses the invention and use of the galley, mariners…

[Binding title:] Peines [et] supplices.[France/Belgium, early 20th century]. 4to (23.5 x 20 cm). Album containing 24 small contact prints and 153 albumen or gelatin silver prints, 16 photographic reproductions of paintings or drawings, 2 albumen prints of nudes and 17 silver gelatin prints of sadomasochistic scenes. Contemporary black cloth, with the title ("H. Rabier - peines - supplices") on the spine.

[PHOTOGRAPHY – EROTICA – SADOMASOCHISM]. RABIER, Hector (compiler). · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)

[52 pp.]Captivating erotic photo album containing both original photographs and reproductions on the themes of "punishment and penance", which in most cases means flagellation. This specific album was probably compiled by a certain H[ector] Rabier, whose name is inscribed on the…

[Cover title:] Persian Gulf Command. Iran.[Ca. 1943-1945]. Ca. 32.5 x 26 cm. With 150 gelatin silver photographs (various sizes). Contemporary embossed brown cloth, with the title embossed in silver on the front board, and the green shoulder sleeve insignia of the Persian Gulf Command embedded in the front board

[PERSIAN GULF COMMAND]. STEFANO, John (compiler/ photographer). · 1943 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

[16], [11 blank] ll.Unusual military photo album with 150 photographs of the activities of the Persian Gulf Command (PGC) at the base in Andimeshk, Iran. The PGC was a branch of the United States Army established to facilitate the supply of material from the U.S. Lend-Lease pro…

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): TO WALT WHITMAN

MILLER, Joaquin [Walt WHITMAN] · 0 · Charles Agvent

$2,500.00 (€2,268.18 | £1,891.99 | ¥399,265)

Two 7-3/4" x 11-1/2" ruled sheets written on rectos only of an original poem by Miller consisting of 5 nine-line stanzas, completely in Miller's hand and SIGNED by him at the conclusion. First published in the January 1877 issue of THE GALAXY, the poem begins: "O Titan soul, asc…

"The Olden Time" in THE NEW YORK MIRROR. A Weekly Journal Devoted to Literature and the Fine Arts. Volume XII : 5 July 1834 -- 27 June 1835

WHITMAN, Walt · 18341835 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,701.13 | £1,418.99 | ¥299,449)

New York. Wilson & Company. First Edition. Folio (10-1/2" x 14-1/4") bound in contemporary sheep-backed marbled boards with the gilt-lettered red morocco ownership label of Maria Youngs on the front cover; 416 pages including index. Includes the first printing in the 29 November…

The Wide World, the Magazine for Men, January [Jan. ] 1916, Vol. 36, No. 213: Down the Amazon / Housekeeping in Far Japan

FRASER, R.J.; BROWNE, J.E.; COLSTON, LAURA FRANCES; TRENCH, PAUL; HAROLD, S.J.; MURPHY, E.J.; GATES, DAVID A.; BESLEY, J. CAMPBELL; GROEPER, A.D.; MCGOVERN, MRS. JANET B.; BROWN, CAPTAIN GEORGE · 1916 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$395.00 (€358.37 | £298.93 | ¥63,084)

New York: The International News Company, 1916. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Henry; Pape, Frank C.; Pryde, S.; Wigfull, W.E.. Abundant black and white illustrations and reproductions of photos. Features: The Doctor's Story - Thrilling narrative from Hudson's Bay country…

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1924 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, The Waverley Book Company Limited, 1924-1925. Cloth. A nine volume set from the Waverley edition of the works of Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson. Nine volumes of a twenty-six volume set, containing volumes II, VII, VIII, IX, X, XV, XVI, XX, and XXII only. Waverley…

Tabula Asiae VIII

Sebastian MÜNSTER · 1550 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,000.00 ($1,102.21 | £834.14 | ¥176,029)

s. l. • [Bâle] s. d. [circa 1550] | 42.10 x 33 cm | une feuille | Carte originale, titrée et rehaussée en couleurs à l'époque. Elle est parue pour la toute première fois en 1540 dans la Geographia de Sebastian Munster. Une pliure centrale. Deux restaurations à l'aide de bandes d…

Healing and Anti-Aging for Your Back & Neck Pain

DANTO, DO, C-NMM/OMM, JAY B. · 2008 · Pegasus Books

$11.75 (€10.66 | £8.89 | ¥1,877)

Novi, MI: Samjill Publishing Company, 2008. First Edition. First Printing; Paperback. ISBN: 0977673723. Softcover is heavy, glazed paper. Pages are clean and tight. This is a NEW book. Illustrated with dozens of b/w photographs and drawings. Personal testimonial: 'I'm a long tim…