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Memoria Technica: or, A New Method of Artificial Memory:

Grey, Richard · 1790 · Laguna Auctions

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Applied to, and Exemplified in, Chronology, History, Geography, Astronomy: also Jewish, Grecian, and Roman Coins, Weights, Measures, &c, with Tables proper to the respective Sciences; and Memorial Lines adapted to each Table. small 8vo bound in contemporary calf with gilt decor…

The Annual Register Or A View Of The History, Politics And Literature For The Year 1768.

1796 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€115.00 ($126.75 | £95.94 | ¥20,240)

London, J. Dodsley, 1796, 5th edition, 285+280pp. Full leather binding, back hinge suffering but still attached, wear and tear to spine, gilt title on spine, gilt tooled edges of binding,. Impressive armorial bookplate of the famous Right Hon.ble Lord Keith K.B. Vice Adm.l F.R.S…

Dr Robert Farquharson Mp; West Aberdeenshire. Issue 1387. (First Edition Before the Bound Volumes. )

Spy (Sir Leslie Ward, 1851-1922) (Lith.) · 1895 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

London: Vanity Fair, 1895. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm (15.75 x 10.6 inches). Very Good. Minor toning and wrinkling in margins, not affecting image. Dated May 30, 1895. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Robert Farquharson (1837 - 8 June 1918) was a Scottish d…

Rome 1944. First Edition of the Broadside

Basaldella, Mirko · 1947 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1947. Reproduction of the drawing. 30.2 x 40.5 cm. As published in Portfolio V , edited by Mirko Basaldella was born in 1910 in Udine. From an early age he learned how to whittle wood together with his brothers Dino and Afro at his uncle's sh…

Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement

Rodney Rothman · 2006 · Book Haven

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

Simon & Schuster 2006 Paperback, 256pp. Everyone says they would like to retire early, but Rodney Rothman actually did it -- forty years early. Burnt out, he decides at the age of twenty-eight to get an early start on his golden years. He travels to Boca Raton, Florida, where he…

Early Bird: A Memoir of Premature Retirement

Rodney Rothman · 2006 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Simon & Schuster 2006 Paperback, 256pp. Everyone says they would like to retire early, but Rodney Rothman actually did it -- forty years early. Burnt out, he decides at the age of twenty-eight to get an early start on his golden years. He travels to Boca Raton, Florida, where he…

Collector's Encyclopedia of Cowan Pottery

Saloff T. & J. · 1994 · Phoenix Books (Joanne's Used Books)

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Collector Books, 1994. First Edition. Hardcover. 0891455337. Collector's Encyclopedia of Cowan Pottery by T. & J. Saloff Collectors Books, 1994, lst. ISBN:0891455337 Hardback in good+ condition. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight. Cover very clean. This is a book on Cowan…

GREEN BOY

Cooper Susan · 2003 · Fantastic Literature

£12.95 (€15.52 | $17.11 | ¥2,732)

Aladdin 1st printing. On their idyllic Bahamian island, Trey's little brother, Lou, is different -- he doesn't speak and he suffers frightening seizures. near fine b-format paperback, Steve Rawlings cover

THE HIGHWAYMAN

Salvatore R A · 2005 · Fantastic Literature

£7.95 (€9.53 | $10.50 | ¥1,677)

CDS Books 1st printing. Long ago, in a distant land, a lonely young man struggles to discover who he is and where he belongs. near fine paperback copy,

SIGN OF THE UNICORN

Zelazny Roger · 1976 · Fantastic Literature

£17.95 (€21.52 | $23.71 | ¥3,787)

avon 1st printing. He who rules Amber rules the one true world. He who thwarts Amber invites the wrath of Amber betrayed. very good paperback, spine crease

Solomon the Rusty Nail.

Steig, William, · 1988 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Trumpet, (1988). 1st ptg thus. VG PB. Solomon was an ordinary rabbit except he could turn into a rusty nail anytime he wanted to.

Teacher Man: A Memoir

Frank McCourt · 2005 · Book Haven

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Fourth Estate 2005 Hardback 258 In Teacher Man Frank turns his attention to the subject that he most often talks about in his lectures - teaching: why it's so important, why it's so undervalued. He describes his own coming of age - as a teacher, a storyteller and, ultimately, a …

Pericles

William Shakespeare · 1995 · Book Haven

$8.50 (€7.71 | £6.43 | ¥1,357)

Wordsworth Editions 1995 Paperback 103 Pericles, the young Prince (ruler) of Tyre in Phoenicia (Lebanon), hears the riddle, and instantly understands its meaning: Antiochus is engaged in an incestuous relationship with his daughter. If he reveals this truth, he will be killed, b…

[Antique print, etching] The Egham lock (Hydraulic engineering), 1864.

Seymour-Haden, Sir Francis (1818-1910) · 1864 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€1,210.00 ($1,333.64 | £1,009.46 | ¥212,965)

View on the lock of Egham, close to London. In this state, the print was published in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts nr. 17, 1864. This is one of the first known etchings of Haden's production. He was a surgeon by profession but he chose etching as a hobby. As a skilled amateur, he …

Ink Sketch of Woman and Man Engaging in a Kiss, with a Man Kneeling Before the Woman Pleasuring Her Nether Region. With Drawing of a Classically Robed Woman on Verso

Henri Le Lieur (1831-1914) (ed.) · 1875 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

[Rome, Italy: Le Lieur, [ca. 1875]. Ink on rag. 21.7 x 16.8 cm. VG. Scarce. Henri Le Lieur (1831-1914) was a French photographer and collector who mostly worked in Italy, where he had settled in 1859. He first travelled there following the French army of Napoleon III, during the…

Richard de Middleton, sa vie, ses oeuvres, sa doctrine.

RICHARD OF MIDDLETON.- HOCEDEZ,E. · 1925 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€38.00 ($41.88 | £31.70 | ¥6,688)

Louvain, Paris, Spicilegium Sacrum Lovaniense, Honoré Champion, 1925. XVI,555 p. Wrappers. 25.5 cm (Ex library copy; cover shabby, back plasticized) (Richardus de Mediavilla was a member of the Franciscan Order, a theologian, and scholastic philosopher. He flourished at the end…

Into The Shadows

Catherine MacPhail · 2006 · Book Haven

NZ$12.50 (€6.26 | $6.90 | £5.23 | ¥1,102)

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 2006 Paperback, 291pp. Ram has no memory of who he is, his background or where he has come from. He awakes in a darkened corridor of a block of flats with no idea of how he has got there. And then the lift doors nearby open and inside is a dying man. Ra…

Binge

Tyler Oakley · 2015 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Simon & Schuster 2015 Hardback, 307pp. For someone who made a career out of over-sharing on the internet, Tyler Oakley has a shocking number of personal mishaps and shenanigans to reveal in his first book: he experienced a legitimate rage blackout in a Cheesecake Factory; he had…

The Rainbow People of God South Africa\S Victory over Apartheid

TUTU, ARCHBISHOP DESMOND · 1994 · Little Lane Books

A$16.00 (€9.84 | $10.84 | £8.21 | ¥1,731)

London, Doubleday. 1994. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24.5cm. Book, review - Desmond Tutu, as revealed in his sermons, speeches, and letters, demonstrated the qualities worthy of a hero, yet he remained a very humble man. He was more than a theologian, statesman,and patriot. He d…

Toad Heaven

Morris Gleitzman · 2001 · Book Haven

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

Puffin Books 2001 Paperback, 192pp. 'Ouch,' said Limpy. 'Why's my back hurting?' A horrible thought hit him. Perhaps it was a fork wound. Perhaps while he was unconscious the human had tried to eat him. He looked around. 'Stack me,' said Limpy. All he could see was blue plastic.…