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Journal de l'expedition de Monsieur de la Feuillade, pour le secours de Candie. Par un volontaire.Lyon, Jean Thioly, 1669. 12mo. With woodcut printer's device on title-page, some woodcut initials and head-and tailpieces and 1 engraved folding plan of the fortification of Candia (20 x 28.5 cm). Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine and sprinkled edges.

[LA FEUILLADE, François Aubusson de]. · 1625 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,750.00 ($5,235.48 | £3,962.19 | ¥836,139)

[8], 198, [2] pp.Rare first edition of a journal of an expedition to Candia (Heraklion), Greece, commanded by François d'Aubusson, duc de la Feuillade (1625-1691), to help the Venetians during the Siege of Candia (1645-1669) against the Ottoman Empire. De la Feuillade had alread…

[Autograph letter by Dirk van Hogendorp to the Amsterdam solicitor J. de Vries jr.].[Amsterdam], 12 July 1833. 8vo (ca. 19,5 x 22,7 cm). Text within a black border, which does not continue along the lower edge of the sheet.

HOGENDORP, Dirk van. · 1797 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

[4] pp.Letter by a member of one of the most respectable families of the Netherlands, Dirk van Hogendorp (1797-1845), the son of Gijsbert Karel van Hogendorp (1762-1834), one of the famous “Driemanschap” (Triumvirate) that invited Willem Frederick, the eldest son of Stadtholder …

Cloris en Roosje. Verkeerd apropos-spel. Met 42 gekleurde naïve vignetten voor vrienden van vrolijkheid en scherts.Amsterdam, Steendrukkerij van C. Goos, [ca. 1840]. Set of 42 lithographed miniature playing cards, 21 for Cloris, printed in grey, and 21 for Roosje, printed in blue. The cards are kept in the original publisher's marbled slipcase (ca. 4.8 x 7.2 cm) with 2 engraved labels, one with the title and imprint, and one with the rules of the game.

[CARD GAME]. · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)

Most charming set of miniature playing cards for use of a somewhat daring party game between young people of both sexes. The 42 cards, each with an illustration of a couple and a four-line verse, are either titled "Cloris" or "Roosje". The Cloris cards were divided between the b…

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) with AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AM) by a 17-Year-Old Future Pulitzer Winner

LURIE, Alison · 101943 · Charles Agvent

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

Cambridge. Superb, very early three-page handwritten letter on two 5-1/2" x 6-3/4" sheets of personal stationery to a former teacher and mentor SIGNED "Alison." Lurie, just 17 at the time, had just begun her freshman year at Radcliffe College: "I've tried not to write until I go…

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) to William Winters

BURROUGHS, John · 151915 · Charles Agvent

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

West Park, NY. A two-page handwritten letter to drama critic and author William Winters on one side of two sheets of 5-1/2" x 8-1/4" "Riverby" stationery, SIGNED in full by Burroughs at the conclusion. In full: "I have had one letter from you during my long life, but you have ha…

Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870-1979

Stoler, Ann Laura · 1985 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

Book Good Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition Yale University Press, New Haven and London English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 16.4 x 24.1 cm; 0.634 kg; 244 pages, including some black and white images.; Used with signs of wear on the dust jacket and on the interior. The dus…

Kali: La force au feminin

Mookerjee, Ajit · 1995 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.73 | ¥14,082)

Book Very Good No Jacket Thames & Hudson SARL, Paris French text; Hardcover; 18 x 25 cm; 0,6 kg; 112 pages with 104 illustrations, 18 in colour.; Used with minor signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The exterior shows minor edge wear, scuffs and scratches on the front cov…

Hiroshige / Eisen: The Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kisokaido

Izzard, Sebastian · 2007 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

Book Very Good Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition George Blaziller Publisher, New York English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 35.5 x 26.5 cm; 1.6 kg; 159 pages with 71 colour illustrations.; Used with minor signs of wear. Minor wear mark on the rear of the dust jacket. The sp…

Good Food. Month by Month Recipes

HEATH, Ambrose; BAWDEN, Edward, 1903-1989 (Illustrates) · 1939 · Fine Editions Ltd

$251.00 (€227.72 | £189.96 | ¥40,086)

London Faber and Faber First Edition [from 1932] Third Impression of this first in a series (and arguably the finest) of cookery titles the two men collaborated on. Crown 8vo (200 x 131mm): 279,[1]pp, with title-page vignette within ornamental border and 19 black-and-white illus…

Rudimentary Dictionary of Terms used in architecture, civil, architecture, naval, building and construction, early and ecclesiastical art, engineering, civil, engineering, mechanical, fine art, mining, surveying, etc. To which are added explanatory observations on numerous subjects connected with practical art and science

WEALE, John (1791-1862) · 1849 · Fine Editions Ltd

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.12 | ¥55,737)

London J. Weale Scarce First Edition of this dictionary of architectural terms, summing up mid-century practice and terminology. Complete in four parts over two volumes. Foolscap 8vo (177 x 109mm): 4,276pp; 277-564pp, with frontispiece, tables, and numerous text engravings. Publ…

After Magritte

STOPPARD, Sir Tom · 1971 · Fine Editions Ltd

$64.00 (€58.07 | £48.43 | ¥10,221)

London Faber & Faber First Edition First Impression of the playwright's one-act farce inspired by a surrealist painting. Crown 8vo (199 x 113mm): 47,[1]pp. Publisher's wrappers with French flaps over cream-colored stiff card (no case bound issue published) printed in yellow and …

Tenant Farmer [Signed]

CALDWELL, Erskine (1903-1987) · 1935 · Fine Editions Ltd

$251.00 (€227.72 | £189.96 | ¥40,086)

New York Phalanx Press First Edition Caldwell's scalding indictment of tenant farming and sharecropping in the Depression-era South, reserving especial contempt for Eugene Talmadge, then governor of Georgia. Signed by Caldwell on the title page. Slim 8vo (195 x 135mm): 30,[2]pp.…

[Homelessness] The Milk and Honey Route : A Handbook for Hobos by Hobos

[Nels Anderson (1889-1986), writing as:] STIFF, Dean · 1931 · Fine Editions Ltd

$574.00 (€520.77 | £434.40 | ¥91,671)

New York Vanguard Press First Edition First Printing of this pioneering study by the noted Chicago-School sociologist. Crown 8vo (190 x 130mm): xiii,[3],13-219,[1]pp, with 16 full-page drawings (including frontispiece) by Ernie Bushmiller. Publisher's black cloth spine with pape…

The Men Who Killed the News:

BEECHER, ERIC · 2024 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€26.55 ($29.26 | £22.15 | ¥4,674)

Scribner Australia 2024 The Inside Story of How Media Moguls Abused Their Power, Manipulated the Truth and Distorted Democracy XI + 400 p., notes, index SOFTCOVER: (Orig. paperb. VERY GOOD) Nominated for the 2025 Sperber PrizeNever before has the media played such an active pa…

Amboinsche Rariteitkamer (d'), behelzende eene Beschryvinge van allerhande zoo weeke als harde schaalvisschen, te weeten raare krabben, kreeften, en diergelyke Zeedieren, als mede allerhande hoorntjes en schulpen, die men in d' Amboinsche Zee vindt...

RUMPH Georg Eberhard - Georgius Everhardus Rumphius (1627 - 1702) : · 1705 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€7,984.00 ($8,800.02 | £6,659.81 | ¥1,405,418)

Amsterdam, François Halma, boekverkoper in Konstantijn de Grote, 1705, (first edition), in-folio, 41,5 cm x 26,8 cm, half title + engraved title + title printed in red & black with engraved vignette + (28)(dedication, preface, table of contents) + engraved portrait + 340 pp + (4…

COMMISSION APPOINTMENT Twenty Third Regiment of Colored Troops

[Civil War Ephemera]. Hoover, John. Dana, Charles Anderson [1819 - 1897] - Assistant Secretary of War · 1864 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$544.50 (€494.01 | £412.08 | ¥86,960)

: , 1864. Now all housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Parchment broadside, with mss ink entries for names, unit assignment & date of commission. Masthead eagle. Certificate: 15-3/4" x 9-3/4" This original 1864 Civil War parchment appointment is for John Hoover First Lieuten…

American frog and American lizard [Plate 76 of Seba's Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio Volume I].

Seba, A. · 1734 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€325.00 ($358.22 | £271.10 | ¥57,210)

Amsterdam, Jansson-Waesberg, J. Wetsteen and William Smith, 1734. Large folio (55.9 x 49.5 cm). Double-sized engraved plate. = A fine herpetological plate from one of the largest and most splendid natural history works from the mid-18th century, fully titled: Locupletissimi reru…

Giant snake [Plate 101 of Seba's Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio Volume II].

Seba, A. · 1735 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)

Amsterdam, Jansson-Waesberg, J. Wetsteen and William Smith, 1735. Large oblong folio (49.5 x 55.9 cm). Double-sized engraved plate. = A very rare, fine herpetological plate from one of the most splendid and largest natural history works from the mid-18th century, fully titled: L…

Giant lizard, snake, small lizard and bird [Plate 99 of Seba's Locupletissimi rerum naturalium thesauri accurata descriptio].

Seba, A. · 1734 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€325.00 ($358.22 | £271.10 | ¥57,210)

Amsterdam, Jansson-Waesberg, J. Wetsteen and William Smith, 1734. Large folio (58.3 x 49.5 cm). Double-sized engraved plate. = A fine herpetological plate from one of the most splendid and largest natural history works from the mid-18th century, fully titled: Locupletissimi reru…

Catalogue of the coleopterous insects of Madeira in the collection of the British Museum.

Wollaston, T. V. · 1857 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)

London, The Trustees of the British Museum, 1857. 8vo (22.0 x 13.8cm). xvi, 234, 8 pp.; one lithographed plate. Publisher's blind-stamped cloth with gilt title on the spine. = The first thorough work on the insects of Madeira, Porto Santo and some adjacent islets. The material w…