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Robin Hood: A Collection of All the Ancient Poems, Songs, and Ballads, Now Extant, Relative to That Celebrated English Outlaw: To Which Are Prefixed Historical Anecdotes of His Life

RITSON, JOSEPH (ED) · 1820 · Round Table Books, LLC

$500.00 (€453.65 | £378.46 | ¥79,844)

London: Ludgate-Hill, 1820. Second Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Thomas Bewick. Half calf, gilt, over marbled boards. Spine in five compartments, separated by raised bands, title in gilt, decoration at head and heel; cover borders gilt-tooled with small flo…

Pacific Motor Boat [Magazine] February [Feb] 1950, Vol. 42, No. 2 - Miss Seattle Cover Photo

WALTER, CLARENCE E.; BARBER, LAWRENCE; MILLER, LEO E.; SCUTTIE BUTT PETE; · 1950 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$395.00 (€358.38 | £298.98 | ¥63,076)

Seattle, WA: Miller Freeman Publications, 1950. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Willis, Mary. Features: Great cover photo of Miss Seattle speeding across Lake Washington at over 100 mph. Features: Cruising Mexican Waters - From the Sea of Cortes to Acapulco …

C1830-C1900 25 Vols a Collection of Acting Editions and Theatrical Pamphlets

Gioachino Rossini; Richard Brinsley Sheridan; William Shakespeare; John Baldwin Buckstone; John Maddison Morton; Tom Taylor; Jacques Offenbach; William Barnes Rhodes; Charles Mathews; [Thomas Haynes Bayly] · 1830 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London; New York , T. Brettell; J. Dicks; John Cumberland; Thomas Hailes Lacy; Samuel French, Ltd.; T. Henry French, c1830-c1900. Paperback. A characterful collection of twenty-four nineteenth-century acting plays and pamphlets, including Cruikshank-illustrated pieces and a hand…

Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, 1 September 1945, Vol. 58, No. 17: The Price of Housing / Russia's Quarrel with Japan / Arthur Rank

BAXTER, BEVERLEY; SMITH, JOHN CAULFIELD; DINGMAN, HAROLD; THOMAS, MARCEL; LECOCQ, THELMA; DAVIS, JEROME; SHAPIRO, L.S.B.; LINDLEY, E.K.; MAYSE, ARTHUR; BERRIEN, F.K.; MARX, J.; MARX, A.; ORMOND, CLYDE; COATES, ELEANOR; CAMPBELL, HELEN · 1945 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.65 | £223.29 | ¥47,108)

Toronto: Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company Limited, 1945. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Gunther-Lipney; Skemp, R.; Jousset; Timmins; Sheppard, Mac. Features: Color ad for International Harvester inside front cover features smoky combat scene and speaks of …

Fra Mauro's Mappa mundi and Fifteenth-Century Venice ,

A. Cattaneo; · 2011 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€99.90 ($110.11 | £83.34 | ¥17,583)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2011 Hardback, 470 p., 3 b/w ill. 16 colour ill., 210 x 270 mm. ISBN 9782503523781. Fra Mauro's mappamundi, drawn around 1450 in the monastery of San Michele on Murano in the lagoon of Venice, is among the most relevant compendia of knowledge of the Earth a…

AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs)

WILDER, Thornton · 19301935 · Charles Agvent

$1,562.50 (€1,417.64 | £1,182.69 | ¥249,511)

Hamden, CT. Two early AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED (ALSs) to Henzie Browne, the wife of British theater director E. Martin Browne on 5 total pages, 5-3/4" x 8-1/2" and 6" x 8", dated 20 June 1930 and 11 June 1935. The earlier handwritten letter, in full: "Indeed I am very happy that…

Maclean's Magazine, October (Oct. ) 1, 1966 - John Garrity Spied for the Canadian Jewish Congress

GARRITY, JOHN; EDMONDS, ALAN; FRASER, BLAIR; HARRIS, MARJORIE; ALLEN, R.T.; RUDDY, JON; TOYNBEE, MANSON; ET AL · 1966 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$750.00 (€680.47 | £567.69 | ¥119,765)

Toronto: Maclean-Hunter Limited, 1966. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Ehricht, Horst (cover); McLeod & Yee; Cowley, Mike. Features: My sixteen months as a Nazi - John Garrity got a 16 month look inside the Canadian Nazi Party - he bugged their meetings, pho…

This Orient Isle - Elizabethan England And the Islamic World

Jerry Brotton · 2016 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Allen Lane 2016 Hardback, 384pp. In 1570, when it became clear she would never be gathered into the Catholic fold, Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the Pope. On the principle that 'my enemy's enemy is my friend', this marked the beginning of an extraordinary English alignment w…

Time Magazine (Canadian Edition), July 6, 1970 - Fight over the U.S. Flag

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1970 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.50 | ¥23,945)

Canada: Time, 1970. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Ringelheim, Paul Von (cover). 60 pages. Features: Ad for the Peugeot 504; Challenges for Ed Schreyer in Manitoba; Nova Scotia fishworker labour strife; Photo of offshore drilling rig 'Sedco H" leaving Halif…

Country Gentleman - America's Foremost Rural Magazine, March (Mar. ) 1948: A Farmer Talks to General Marshall

OWEN, JEAN Z.; LINFORD, DEE; BALL, ZACHARY; ET AL · 1948 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$179.95 (€163.27 | £136.21 | ¥28,736)

USA: Curtis Pub Co, 1948. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Ludekens, Fred. 184 pages. Features: Farmer Claude Pagles talks to General Marshall; How to choose a cow; We're inviting a foot-and-mouth disaster; A home for small flocks; Soil conservation needs a c…

Magni Philosophi Thomae Hobbes Malmesburiensis Vita. Partim per se ipsum & Reliqua per Dr. R.B. [=Richard Blackburne] Conscripta]. cum elencho Authorum qui pro & Contra ipsum Scripsere. Et Catalogo Librorum per eundem editorum & Scriptorum.

HOBBES.- R.B.- BLACKBURNE, R.- AUBREY.- Vita.- 1682.- · 1682 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€1,050.00 ($1,157.29 | £875.98 | ¥184,804)

(London), no publisher. 'Juxta Exemplar Londini Impressum', 1682. 12mo. [meas. appr. 8 x 13.5 cm]. Small woodc. vign. on printed title. In simple 20th c. marbled paper covers, some discol. [A - F12, G10]. (164 pp.). (A1,2,3 righthand and lower blank margin a dark [ink?] spot ca …

père du siècle: The Early Modern Reception of Jean Gerson (1363-1429). Theological Authority between Middle Ages and Early Modern Era

Yelena Mazour-Matusevich · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€110.00 ($121.24 | £91.77 | ¥19,360)

, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 522 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 2 tables b/w., Language(s): English.*new ISBN 9782503602257. Summary This volume provides the first wide-ranging investigation of the post-fifteenth-century reception of Jean Gerson (1363-1429), chanc…

29 Vols Oxford Historical Society Publications

Various · 1885 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.73 | $1,255.08 | ¥200,421)

Oxford; Chippenham, The Clarendon Press, Printed for the Oxford Historical Society; Antony Rowe Ltd, 1885-1935. Cloth. A substantial twenty-nine volume collection published for the Oxford Historical Society, offering comprehensive documentary insight into the history, topography…

Versailles. The Great and Hidden Splendours of the Sun King's Palace

Catherine Pegard 751915 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€58.50 ($64.48 | £48.80 | ¥10,296)

00, Hardback, 272, ‘The Château de Versailles is a real photographic challenge because it is so huge: there is an infinite number of possible points of view and they are never the same, depending on the time of day, the weather or the season… There are always new photos to take,…

The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey

George Cavendish · 1905 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

Boston; New York, Houghton Mifflin and Company, 1905. Cloth. A smart limited edition copy of Cavendish's important biography of Cardinal Wolsey, with illustrations by Holbein. One of 1030 limited edition copies printed at the Riverside Press, Cambridge, in the publisher"s o…

The Book of the Bench

Various · 1909 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, James Mackenzie Limited, 1909. Vellum. A colourful volume of portraits of the legal figures of Edwardian England, a deluxe edition of this work by Leslie Ward. The deluxe edition, bound in full vellum.A volume of striking plates depicting many influential legal figures o…

The Recreations of Christopher North

Christopher North [John Wilson] · 1842 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Edinburgh & London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1842. First edition. Leather. A complete three volume first edition set of this collection of essays from Scottish writer John Wilson. Complete in three volumes. First edition. A collection of essays written under the pseudonym of …

Saul; a Poem, in Two Parts

William Sotheby · 1808 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Boston, John West, by David Carlisle, 1808 . First edition. Hardback. The very scarce first US edition of this work of poetry from English poet and translator William Sotheby. The very scarce first US edition. The very scarce first edition was published the year prior in London.…

Our Native Land Its Scenery and Associations a Series of 36 Walter-Colour Sketches After Rowbotham, Read, Needham, and Other Eminent Artists with Descriptive Notes

1879 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, Marcus Ward & Co. 1879. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this celebration of scenic views across the British Isles in a series of stunning water-coloured plates. The first edition of this work.  Rebound in a modern emerald, half morocco binding. Illustrated wit…

A Descriptive Catalogue of the Printed Maps of Gloucestershire (Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society for 1912)

T. Chubb · 1912 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)

Not Stated , Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society , 1912. Leather. A smartly bound bibliography from the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, chronicling the printed maps of Gloucestershire. An offprint from the Transactions of th…