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Forty-Six Plates Illustrative of Nobleman and Gentlemen&Apos;S Seats, and Public Buildings in Lancashire

None · 1836 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Fisher, Son, & Co., 1836. Cloth. A scarce volume of forty-six plates of Lancashire, a topographical work of plates from Baines' history of the county. A scarce volume of plates on Lancashire.Illustrated with forty-six plates.Collated, complete. An impressive work o…

The Story of Napoleon

Mabell S. C. Smith · 1928 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

New York, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A scarce first edition biography on the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, colourfully illustrated with a range of maps and plates drawn by Baron Myrbach. First Edition, Scarce. Illustrations include a frontispiece, fift…

A Book of French Song for the Young

Bernard Minssen · 1899 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, J.M.Dent, 1899. Cloth. A charmingly illustrated copy of this children's poetry work, in French. An anthological work, with numerous poems by popular French authors. Selected by Bernard Minssen. With poems by the likes of Victor Hugo, De Lamartine, Alphonse Daudet an…

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay

George Otto Trevelyan · 1876 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co , 1876. First edition. Leather. The first editions, complete in two volumes, of Trevelyan"s Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, chronicling Macaulay"s literary and political career, elegantly bound in full tree calf. In the full tree calf binding w…

Pilgrimages to English Shrines

Mrs S. C. Hall; Anna Maria Hall · 1850 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Arthur Hall, Virtue & Co, 1850. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated exploration of various shrines of historical figures in England by Anna Maria Hall. The first edition.Originally published as a serial in 'The Art Journal&apos.A work by Anna Maria Hall in …

LOST LINKS IN THE INDIAN MUTINY.

Malet, H.P. · 1867 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

T. Cautley Newby 1867. 1st Ed. Sm. 8vo. [iv] + 314pp. + [ii] publ. adverts. From the Library of Professor Malcolm Yapp, title page browned, sl damage to pp.113-4, ink stamp of Thomas Caswell to ded. leaf, original gilt lettered blind embossed green cloth, some minor marking, cor…

The Works of Shakspere [Shakespeare]. Imperial Edition. Edited by Charles Knight. With Illustrations on Steel. BRIGHT, CLEAN, FIRM COPY IN PUBLISHER'S HALF MOROCCO

SHAKESPEARE William · 0 · Island Books

£585.00 (€701.32 | $773.00 | ¥123,452)

Virtue, [1873-76]. 2 vols., large folio First Edition thus, text in double column, with engraved frontispieces, engraved and printed titles, and 37 fine engraved plates (all original tissue guards present), frontispieces mildly browned; strongly bound in publisher's black half m…

The Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle. Volume LVII. For the Year Mdcclxxxvii. Part the Second. . [with One of the Earliest English Printings of the American Constitution]

Urban, Sylvanus = Edward Cave · 1787 · Wittenborn Art Books

$3,000.00 (€2,721.81 | £2,270.39 | ¥479,118)

London: David Henry and Eliz, Newbery, 1787. 8vo. 13 x 21 cm, Half goatskin binding by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov; original label preserved. 12 engraved plates including 2 folding.. ***Featuring one of the earliest English printings of the American Constitution, beginning …

The Trials of Henry Sanderson, for Shooting Wm. Carr, and Robt. Bamford, Adam Adie, and William Knight, for the Murder of John Timms, at Nottingham Lent Assizes, 1822; with some Particulars of their Lives, Behaviour, and Execution.

TRIALS. · 1822 · Forest Books

£317.13 (€380.19 | $419.04 | ¥66,924)

Nottingham: Printed by R. Sutton, [c.1822.] 12mo (150 x 85 mm) 37, [1]pp., several leaves mounted on stubs, new boards. Henry Sanderson, Adam Adie and Robert Bamford, were for murder, on Friday, March 22, 1822. Sanderson was out shooting pheasants, when he was apprehended by W…

STYLE. A TALE IN THIRTEEN CHAPTERS

FROST, A(rthur) B(urdett) · 0 · Charles Agvent

$9,375.00 (€8,505.66 | £7,094.96 | ¥1,497,245)

First Edition. Oblong Folio (12" x 10-1/2") bound in modern full rust-colored morocco leather with gilt rules to the covers and gilt lettering on the front cover and spine, housed in a clamshell box with gilt-lettered morocco spine. A collection of 18 ORIGINAL INK-AND-PENCIL DRA…

Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, 1 August (Aug. ) 1959 - I Survived the Sinking of the Lusitania

KATZ, S.; NEWMAN, PETER C.; STEVENSON, DR. G.S.; BOULTON, SIR HAROLD; ET AL · 1959 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.64 | £223.25 | ¥47,113)

Toronto: Maclean Hunter / Key Publishers, 1959. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Woods, Rex (cover). 52 pages. Features: Rex Woods cover illustration of deck scene on freighter at Port Arthur; Eric Nicol suggests that, if hangings are to continue, they should…

The Seaweeds of Dale

Jones, W. Eifion & Ronald Williams · 1966 · Bookbarrow

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

Booklet The Field Studies Council,, London, 1966. Reprint, Softcover. Very Good Condition. Academic Journal Offprint reprinted from Field Studies Vol. 2, No. 3 (July, 1966 pages 303 to 330); green card covers with green cloth spine; The Dale district while not as rich as some mo…

Catalogue of the marine mollusks of Japan with descriptions of new species and notes on others collected by Frederick Stearns.

Pilsbry, H. A. · 1895 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)

Detroit, Frederick Stearns, 1895. 8vo (22.3 x 13.8 cm). viii, 196 pp., 11 lithographed, engraved, and phototype plates. Later blue buckram with gilt lines and title on the spine. = The preface states that Frederick Stearns (1831-1907) visited Japan twice and collected many new a…

Studies from Old English Mansions: Their Furniture, Gold and Silver Plate Etc. (Complete 4 Volume Set, Series 1-4)

Richardson, Charles James · 1848 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$350.00 (€317.54 | £264.88 | ¥55,897)

London, Thomas McLean, 1848. Hardcover. Each vol: green cloth, red leather spine, gilt lettering, decorative or illustrated title pages, tissue guards over each plate. Series (vol) 1: 24 plates (mostly two- or three-tones, 4 chromolithographs) + TP and dedication, with smaller-s…

Lord Selkirk's Work in Canada

MARTIN, CHESTER BAILEY · 1916 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$195.00 (€176.92 | £147.58 | ¥31,143)

Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. "[The fifth Earl of Selkirk's] life came to an end in the midst of a bitter conflict. His vindication was not attempted for more than half a century, not because it was uncalled for or impossible, but because it w…

Memoirs of the Life of The Rev. Richard Price, D. D. F. R. S.

PRICE (Ridhard). MORGAN (Willliam): · 1815 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London: Printed for R. Hunter..., 1815. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 213 x 124 mms., pp. [iii] i viii, 189 [190 blank, 191 adverts, 192 blank], contemporary half calf, marbled boards (rubbed and worn), red leather label; end-papers a little soiled, joints cracked, extremities …

The Public Life of Eugene Semple Promoter and Politician of the Pacific Northwest

HYNDING, ALAN · 1973 · S. Howlett-West Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1973. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustration; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author, with a 5 line inscription, on the reverse of the front endpaper. The book and its contents are in clean, bright con…

Blinded By the Right

David Brock · 2002 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Scribe Publications 2002 Paperback, 352pp. In a powerful and deeply personal memoir David Brock, the original right-wing scandal reporter, chronicles his rise to the pinnacle of the conservative movement and his painful break with it. David Brock pilloried Anita Hill in a bestse…

Natural History of Selborne

WHITE, Gilbert · 1813 · Boston Book Company

$750.00 (€680.45 | £567.60 | ¥119,780)

1813. WHITE, Gilbert. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE, by the late Rev. Gilbert White, A. M. Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford. To which are added, The Naturalist's Calendar Miscellaneous Observations, and Poems. A new edition, with engravings. In two volumes. London: Printed for …

Mathematik. Ein Auszug aus dem ersten Theile seiner Elementa Matheseos Universae, ... ins Deutsche übersetzt ... durch Joseph Nagel, ... worinn die Rechenkunst, Geometrie, Trigonometrie, Algebra ... enthalten ist.

WOLF(F), Christian (Johann) von. · 1777 · Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

CHF 3,800.00 (€4,110.82 | $4,530.98 | £3,429.02 | ¥723,625)

1777 With 17 engr. folding plates. XVIII, 546 pp. Contemp. red morocco, gilt supralibros of Empress Maria Theresa, gilt floral borders, outer edges and spine gilt, all edges gilt. Vienna, Johann Thomas Edler von Trattner, 1777. Excerpts from Wolff's "Elementa matheseos universae…