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The Harris Free Public Libraries and Museum, Preston: Catalogue of Manuscripts, Lithographs, and Printed Copies of the Scriptures, Exhibited to Illustrate the Means by Which the Bible Has Been Transmitted, Until the Production in A.D. 1611 of the "Authorised Version.

W. T. Whitley · 1911 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

Preston, George Toulmin & Sons, Limited, 1911 . First edition. Paperback. A very scarce first edition of this enlightening illustrated catalogue presenting the early history of the Bible. First edition. Very scarce.   In the publisher's original soft covers.   Illustrated…

The English Novelists: A Survey of the Novel by Twenty Contemporary Novelists

Various; Derek Verschoyle [ed.] · 1936 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1936. First edition. Cloth. A very smart first edition, in uncommon dust wrapper, which attempts to encapsulate some of the most prominent novel writers of Britain's history. A very smart first edition copy. Bound in publisher's original green …

The Queen&Apos;S Book of the Red Cross

Various · 1939 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1939 . First edition. Cloth. A scarce luxuriously bound first edition of this tribute to the work of the Red Cross by fifty British authors and artists, in the original presentation box. The first edition. A scarce luxury edition, in the publisher&a…

The Collected Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1869 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

London, Strahan and Co, 1869-73. Leather. A uniformly-bound collection of the poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Containing: The Holy Grail and Other Poems Gareth and Lynette Enoch Arden Idylls of the King The Princess: A Medley In Memoriam Maud and Other Poems Maud and Other Poem…

The West Indies

John Henderson · 1905 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1905 . First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition of John Henderson's a vivid colonial-era study of the West Indies and neighboring islands, illustrated with colour plates by A. S. Forrest. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth b…

Encomio Della Pazzia, Composto in Forma Di Declamazione Per Erasmo, E Tradotto in Italiano.

[Erasmo] Desiderius Erasmus · 1761 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Basilea , A Spese della Saviezza, 1761 . Leather. A very scarce work containing French and Italian translations of 'Encomio della Pazzia', or 'In Praise of Folly', by Erasmus of Rotterdam. The first edition thus, being the first work to contain the French-Ita…

Country Contentments: Or, the Husbandsmans Recreations

Gervase Markham · 1633 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Thomas Harper, 1633. Cloth. An early edition of Gervase Markham's seventeenth century work on sporting and recreation, a scarce work in any edition. A fascinating seventeenth century work on sports and recreation of upper class English men, including hawking, tennis…

The Book of Trades; or, Circle of the Useful Arts

1838 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

Glasgow; London, Richard Griffin & Co.; Thomas Tegg & Son, 1838 . Cloth. A highly illustrated guide to a range of trades and arts for younger readers. Fourth edition. In the publisher's original green cloth binding. Featuring an engraved frontispiece, additional vignette ti…

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…

Robin Hood in Greenwood Stood Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition,

S. Knight (ed.); · 2012 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€99.90 ($110.11 | £83.34 | ¥17,583)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Hardback, XVIII+234 pages., 21 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503540542. New studies of the changing meaning of the myth of Robin Hood, from the Middle Ages to the present. The Robin Hood tradition is a rich assembly of exciting stories, more than five …

Corpus Christianorum. Guillelmus de Luxi Postilla super Baruch, Postilla super Ionam,

A. T. Sulavik (ed.); · 2006 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€137.50 ($151.55 | £114.71 | ¥24,201)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2006 hardback, XCII+178 p., 155 x 245 mm. ISBN 9782503051918. Composed between the years 1267 and 1275 by the Dominican and Parisian Master, William of Luxi, Postilla super Baruch and Postilla super Ionam were produced to provide ideal material for equipping p…

Tom Walls

[20th Century Photographer] · 1930 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

London: Gaumont-British, [Ca. 1930s]. Original B&W photograph issued as a postcard. 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Very Good. Minor wear on surface. Printed in England by Raphael Tuck & Son's; No. 43. Scarce. Thomas Kirby Walls (18 February 1883 - 27 November 1949), known as Tom Walls, was a…

I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year

Waters, Fiona; Preston-Gannon, Frann (Illus) · 2018 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£20.00 (€23.97 | $26.42 | ¥4,219)

Nosy Crow 336, col illus. 284x255mm. HB. NEW. . Winner of the Waterstones Children's Gift of the Year 2018, this lavish poetry collection is a perfect present for any age. I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree: A Nature Poem For Every Day Of The Year, named after the first line of Ju…

Coleoptera Atlantidum, being an Enumeration of the Coleopterous Insects of the Madeiras, Salvages, and Canaries

Wollaston, T. Vernon · 1865 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£595.00 (€713.20 | $786.08 | ¥125,527)

John van Voorst London xlvii, [1], 526, [2]-blank, 140, 1 map. . HB. 8vo, orig. blind-stamped, brown cloth, endpapers foxed, otherwise clean. Recent owner's small ex libris label to pastedown. Vg.. First edition. Rare. 'Considering that scarcely more than a year has elapsed sinc…

Observations on the Structure and Diseases of the Testis

Cooper, Astley · 1830 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, & Green London (10), 55, (20); (2), 245, (1), (28), 24 hand-col plates (2 folding). . HB. 4to, cont. green half morocco, raised bands, gt, marbled boards, rubbed/scuffed; slight chafing to head of spine. title page soiled, with repair to inner margin.…

Mutants: Eleven Stories of Science Fiction

Silverberg, Robert (Compiled and Ed. by) · 1974 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$19.00 (€17.24 | £14.38 | ¥3,034)

New York Thomas Nelson Inc., Publishers Book of the Month Club Edition pp. 182. 8vo. Terracotta boards, gilt lettering to the spine, untrimmed page edges. Remarkably well-preserved, and entirely without blemish; near fine and housed near fine lightly rubbed dustjacket. Overall, …

Erasmus, de ster aan Gutenbergs firmament / een literair essay over Erasmus, het humanisme en de zestiende-eeuwse mediarevolutie

Nina Burton · 2017 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€7.00 ($7.72 | £5.84 | ¥1,232)

Ad. Donker. 2017, hardcover met stofomslag, goed exemplaar. De uitvinding van de boekdrukkunst, halverwege de vijftiende eeuw, maakte het opeens mogelijk boeken in grote oplagen te verspreiden. Voor het eerst konden kennis en ideeën ongebreideld worden uitgedragen. Geïnspireerd …

Shakespeare The Biography

Peter Ackroyd · 2006 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€6.00 ($6.61 | £5.01 | ¥1,056)

Vintage. 2006, paperback, goed exemplaar, good copy. With his magisterial and ingenious re-creations of the lives of Chaucer, Dickens, T. S. Eliot, William Blake, and Sir Thomas More, Peter Ackroyd has long been recognized as today's foremost practitioner of the literary biograp…

A Book of Old Testament Illustrations of the Middle of the XIIIth Century. Sent by Cardinal Bernard Maciejowski to Shab Abbas the Great, King of Persia, Now in the Pierpont Morgan Library at New York. Described by Sydney C. Cockerell. With an Introduction by Montague Rhodes James, and Notes on the Armour by Charles J. Ffoulkes.

ROXBURGHE CLUB. · 1927 · Forest Books

£1,607.13 (€1,926.40 | $2,123.24 | ¥339,055)

Printed by W. Lewis, at the University Press for the Roxburghe Club. 1927. Large folio, [xii],148pp., one of a small number (probably not more than 50) printed for members of the Roxburghe Club, 92 full-page facsimile plates by Emery Walker Ltd., including 10 in fine colour with…

Relacion del viage, que por orden de su magestad, y acuerdo de el real consejo de Indias ... Including: ECHELEVAR, D. Manuel de, J.M. y J. Instruccion exacta, y util de las derrotas, y navegaciones ...Cadiz, Don Manuel Espinosa de los Monteros, Impressor de la Real Marina, [1766?-1769]. 4to. With a folding map of the Strait of Magellan drawn and engraved by D.M. de Rueda, dated 1769. 2 parts in 1 volume. 4to. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment by the Cadiz printing office's own bindery.

NODAL, Bartholome Garcia de & Gonzalo. · 1574 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€18,000.00 ($19,839.28 | £15,016.79 | ¥3,168,076)

[18], [2 blank], "162" [= 164], [2], [2 blank]; 41, [2], [1 blank] pp.Second edition of an account of the voyage to the Strait of Magellan and Strait of Le Maire (which they named Strait of San Vicente) and the first extensive exploration of the latter and its surroundings, by t…