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Some English Church Principles and Their Bearing on the Ritualistic Controversy

COX, WILLIAM LANG PAIGE · 1898 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

plum box, Henry Young. 1898. Unknown Binding. Condition Hardback, clean inside, boards are corner bumped, age spots along book page edge. Used: Acceptable.

The Miscellaneous Writings of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R. S. Author of Sylva, a Discourse of Forest Trees; Memoirs, &C. Now First Collected, with Occasional Notes by William Upcott, of the London Institution

John Evelyn; William Upcott · 1825 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, Henry Colburn, 1825. Cloth. A very scarce work compiling the miscellaneous writings of John Evelyn, with additional material by William Upcott. The volume is illustrated with four plates. A collection of miscellaneous writings by John Evelyn, the well known writer garden…

The Virginians

William Makepeace Thackeray · 1858 · Rooke Books

£265.00 (€317.69 | $350.16 | ¥55,923)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1858-59. First edition. Leather. A smart first issue copy of one of the popular novels of William Makepeace Thackeray, complete with his original illustrations. The first edition, first impression of this work. Issue points as follows; 'actresses&a…

The Canadian Men and Women of the Time: A Hand-Book of Canadian Biography of Living Characters

MORGAN, HENRY JAMES: EDITOR · 1912 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$249.95 (€226.77 | £189.16 | ¥39,919)

Toronto: William Briggs, 1912. Second Edition. Hardcover. 1218 pages. Black and white photographic portraits of Lord Strathcona and Sir Sanford Fleming. "A difficult task most creditably performed." - Montreal Star. Sturdily rebound in contemporary burgundy buckram. Wonderful vi…

Battles of the Peninsular War

Sir William Napier · 0 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

London, Henry Frowde; Hodder & Stoughton, c1913. Cloth. A history of the Peninsular War told by Sir Willian Napier. An undated copy. Dated from Copac. A telling of the history of the Peninsular War by Sir William Napier, British soldier and military historian. In the Herbert Str…

Treatise on some of the Insects Injurious to Vegetation

Harris, Thaddeus William · 1862 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

William White Boston xi, 640, 8 hand-col plates, text figs. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, gt, rebacked retaining the orig. backstrip, wear to extremities.. 3rd edition. The first edition of 1841 was unillustrated. This edition, published posthumously, was illustrated under the superv…

Marvels of the New West: A Vivid Portrayal of the Stupendous Marvles 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

Thayer, William M. · 1888 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Norwich, CT, Henry Bill Publishing Company, 1888. Hardcover. Green cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; color illustrated book block, green and white illustrated end papers, bw illustrated frontispiece; xxxvi, 715 pp; bw illustrations, maps and portraits. Contents include: II…

Seurat and the Science of Painting

Homer, William Innes · 1978 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Cambridge, Mass, M.I.T. Press, 1978. Softcover. White wraps with color illustration on front cover, black lettering, xvi, 327 pp, illustrated in bw and color. "In tracing Georges Seurat's theory of art and its application in his major paintings, Homer has woven every bit of evid…

A Catalogue of Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library: "As Imagination Bodies Forth

Pressly, William L. · 1993 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$70.00 (€63.51 | £52.98 | ¥11,179)

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Ocher cloth boards with black stamped spine lettering. Glossy color-illustrated and red dust jacket with white lettering. Ocher cloth-covered hardshell slipcase. x, 385 pp. BW and color illustrations. "The Folger Shak…

Macbeth. Nouvelle édition augmentée | Arvensa Editions

John McDonald, William Shakespeare, William Shakespeare · 1983 · Klondyke BV

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Paperback; 1983; Bbc Consumer Publishing; 111pp.; BBC TV paperback met fris en schoon binnenwerk. Lichte slijtage langs alle randen omslag. -- Conditie: Redelijk; Referred to by superstitious actors as 'the Scottish play', William Shakespeare's Macbeth is a tragedy in which appa…

The Naturalist´s Library - Vol. XXXIII Entomology. Beetles by James Ducan.

Bart, Sir William Jardine: · 1835 · Antiquariat Buchseite

€315.00 ($347.20 | £262.76 | ¥55,449)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1835. first Edition 269 S. 8°, Linen new privat Binding, Frontispiz, 30 Tables with colored engravings, pictures in text, good condition

The Works of Shakspere

William Shakespeare; Barry Cornwall · 1843 · Rooke Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London, Robert Tyas, 1843. Cloth. A lovely illustrated collection of the works of William Shakespeare, with wood engravings by Kenny Meadows. Illustrated with wood engravings throughout the text designed by Kenny Meadows.Ownership inscription of Charles M. Bishop to the front en…

Animadversions on a Late Paper, Entituled, a Letter to a Dissenter Upon Occasion of His Majesties Late Gracious Declaration of Indulgence

H.C; [Henry Care] · 1687 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, John Harris, 1687. First edition. Disbound. A very scarce first edition of Henry Care's pamphlet writing against George Savile's 'Letter to a Dissenter&apos. Care supported James II and his wish to make a system of free religion in Britain. A very scarce w…

Free-Masons' Magazine, Or, General and Complete Library. Vol: VI. For January 1796. Embellished with an elegant portrait of Mr. William Preston, P. M. Lodge of Antiquity, No. I.

18TH CENTURY MASONIC MAGAZINE . · 1795 · Chilton Books

£300.00 (€359.65 | $396.41 | ¥63,309)

London: Printed for the Proprietor, & Sold by J. Parsons, No. 21, Paternoster Roq, & all Booksellers in Town & Country, 1795 . 0. Original magazine: Vol. VI. January 1796 - June 1796. 6 issues bound together with continious pagination. 8vo. 8.25" x 5.25" x 1.4". pp.452/[4pp.] - …

The Correspondence of Sir Philip Sidney and Hubert Languet, Now First Collected and Translated from the Latin with Notes and a Memoir of Sidney.

PEARS (Steuart A.) · 1845 · Forest Books

£48.38 (€58.00 | $63.93 | ¥10,210)

London: William Pickering, 1845. First edition, 8vo, 240pp., + adverts, frontis., offset onto title, foxing to prelims and adverts as usual, orig. cloth, printed paper title label to spine. Provenance: With the Munden House armorial bookplate, Holland, Henry Thurstan, first V…

American Stoneware

Ketchum, William C. Jr. · 1991 · Klondyke BV

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

Gebonden, hardcover, inclusief stofomslag; 1991; New York : Henry Holt & Company; 179pp.; Conditie: Goed; Original boards, silver lettered spine, dust jacket, illustrated with numerous colour photographs, 4to.; Engels; ISBN10: 080501263X, ISBN13: 9780805012637

Specimens of Ancient Furniture Drawn from Existing Authorities

Henry Shaw; Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick · 1836 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, William Pickering, 1836. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this impressive study of ancient furniture and their style and design, illustrated by the antiquary Henry Shaw. Extra-illustrated with an additional ten plates. The first edition of this work. A schola…

The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

W. M. Thackeray · 1858 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1858-1859. First edition. Cloth. The first book edition of William Makepeace Thackeray's illustrated historical novel, which forms the sequel to 'Henry Esmond&apos. First edition, first issue in book form, with 'actresses' for &apo…

A Treasury of Grand Opera: Don Giovanni, Lohengrin, la Traviata, Faust, Aida, Carmen, Pagliacci [Sheet Music and History]

SIMON, HENRY W. (EDITOR) · 1946 · Bluebird Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946. Softcover. The most famed operatic works in the repertoire are presented in this softcover work. Editor Henry Simon describes the stories, history and music in detail. Illustrated by Rafaello Busoni, with piano arrangements by Albert Sirmay an…

Catalogue of the Icelandic Collection Bequeathed by Willard Fiske

Halldor Hermannsson · 2001 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Conneticut , Martino Publishing, 2001. Cloth. A very interesting facsimile edition of the 1914 Catalogue of Icelandic Collection. This reference catalogue is formed from a collection of books bequeathed by Willard Fiske, American librarian and scholar. Fiske was the university l…