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Chiromantia 1 Physiognomia, ex aspectu membrorum hominis. 2 Periaxiomata, de faciebus signorum. 3 Canones astrologici, de judiciis aegritudinum. 4 Astrologia naturalis. 5 Complexionum noticia, juxta dominium planetarium.(Colophon: Strasbourg, Johann Schott, 1534). Folio (31 x 21.5 cm). With a large woodcut portrait of the author on the title page, the author's full-page woodcut coat of arms on the recto of the otherwise blank last leaf, about 93 woodblock illustrations (including 3 hand blocks and a few square astrological diagram blocks used repeatedly with varying content). 20th-century half maroon goatskin morocco.

INDAGINE VON HAGEN (ROSENBACH), Johannes. · 1522 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)

126, [1], [1 blank] pp.Rare third edition in the original Latin, printed with the woodblocks of the first (1522) edition by the same publisher, of a classic account of palm reading, physiognomy (determining personality from facial features and the shape of the head) and several …

Karate for Young People

RUSSELL KOZUKI · 1983 · Mike Long Books

$44.75 (€40.60 | £33.87 | ¥7,147)

Sterling Publishing. 1983. Hard Cover. Hardcover/pub.1983/Gd. condition/128 pages - A text for young children who want to practice karate. [TA832078]. Good.

Solution Training

JAMES R. BAUGH · 1980 · Mike Long Books

$44.75 (€40.60 | £33.87 | ¥7,147)

Pelican Publishing. 1980. Hard Cover. Hardcover/pub.1980/Gd. condition/256 pages - This text discusses a way in which to help you overcome blocks in problem solving. [AE827266]. Good.

The Engravings of Eric Gill. Volume I: Engravings P1 - P548 (1907-1928); Vol. II: Engravings P549 - P993 (1928-1940). [With separate portfolio of 8 prints taken from the original wood-blocks, plus facsimile sheet of Gill's handwriting.] 85 COPIES WERE PRINTED; WITH PORTFOLIO OF PRINTS

GILL Eric · 1983 · Island Books

£1,240.00 (€1,486.55 | $1,638.49 | ¥261,677)

Christopher Skelton, 1983. Together 3 vols., folio, First Edition, on rag paper, with illustrated titles in green and black, and over 1000 fine reproductions (a number folding or full-page; several tinted); main volumes in burgundy hessian, morocco backs lettered in gilt, burgun…

The New Woodcut: The Studio Special Spring Number 1930

Malcolm Salaman [ed. by C. Geoffrey Holme] · 1930 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, The Studio, 1930. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated global tour of how woodcuts are expressed across the globe, delving into the practices and artworks of different countries. The New Woodcut: The Studio Special Spring Number 1930, a charming volume on wood…

BAXTER TIMES [together with] BP COLLECTOR AND BAXTER TIMES [together with] BOOKS PRINTS AND PICTURES: 41 issues

[George Baxter] · 1927 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$54.14 (€34.43 | $37.95 | £28.72 | ¥6,060)

1st printing 'The Baxter Times', which describes itself as 'A Journal for Nineteeth Century Colour Print Collectors', commenced monthly publication in early 1923. It was succeeded in 1925 by 'The BP Collector and Baxter Times' in 1925 which, in late 1927, was replaced by the mon…

PETER WILLIAM BRADLEY. Now Nearing His Fifth Birthday, Began the Drawings for this Folio in July 1964. The Original Drawings Were Executed in Pencil on Paper, then Transferred to Linoleum Blocks and Cut by his Father. Peter's Works Include - Vehicles, Houses, a Portrait, and A Christmas Tree

[Publication Anouncement] · 1964 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$13.75 (€12.47 | £10.41 | ¥2,196)

San Francisco: Bird in Hand Press, 1964. 1st edition. LIMITED to 35 copies, this copy unnumbered. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Single sheet folded once. Small color illustration to front side. 9-7/8" x 6-3/8". Folded. Note: Does not include the folio, this is jus…

Buy Me! Buy Me!

JOANN OPPENHEIM · 1987 · Mike Long Books

$29.75 (€26.99 | £22.51 | ¥4,751)

Pantheon Publishing. 1987. Soft Cover. PB/pub.1987/Gd. condition/311 pages - The bank street guide to choosing toys for children. [TA731963]. Good.

En busca del caballo Árabe. Comisión á Oriente. Turquía, Siria, Mesopotamia, Palestina. Memorias del viaje. Madrid, Tip. "Sucesores de Rivadeneyra" 1915. Large 8vo. With photographic illustrations printed from halftone relief blocks in the text throughout and a lithographed map showing the sailing route in blue. Original publisher's printed and illustrated paper wrappers.

AZPEITIA DE MOROS, Luis. · 1904 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,800.00 ($3,086.18 | £2,335.61 | ¥492,882)

297, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [2], [2 blank] pp.Rare first edition, in the original Spanish, here in the original publisher's illustrated paper wrappers, of an important work on Arabian horses, describing a voyage made in 1904 of a Spanish commission to Turkey, Syria, Mesopota…

Dutch student drinking game, early 20th century | Erin geloopen, no 2104, Trading Co Late Perry & Co, Ketelstraat 35 Arnhem, 1 box and 10 wooden blocks, complete game. Oprechte Dordrechtschen Almanach Na de Nieuwe en Oude Stijl / Op het jaar (...) 1698 door Pieter Rembrantsz. van Nierop, By S. Onder de Linde [Dordrecht], [32] pp. (Copy)

Perry & Co, Warenhuis Perry (Sport) · 1934 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€98.10 ($108.13 | £81.83 | ¥17,268)

Dutch student drinking game, published by Warenhuis Perry (later Perry sport) who brought Monopoly game to The Netherlands. Eight cheerful students are sitting together at a table in a tavern, with two empty seats left. Two men ask if they may join, and are gladly allowed—but wi…

Mastering Masonry

KENNETH NOLAN · 1980 · Mike Long Books

$44.75 (€40.60 | £33.87 | ¥7,147)

Jonathan David Publishing. 1980. Hard Cover. Hardcover/ pub.1980/Gd. condition/306 pages- How to work with bricks, blocks, concrete and stone. (AR99603). Good.

Savages and Kings

KENNETH DUFFIELD · 1945 · Marion Pitman Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London, Macdonald. 1945, First Edition. Hardcover. Ill.: Various. Book, Black cloth rather faded, boards slightly warped, corners and spine ends frayed, rear joint and hinge split a bit, name on flyleaf. 35 b/w plates by various illustrators. Memoirs and reminiscences from the A…

Catalogue of Water Colour Drawing, Printed Drawings and Wood Blocks by William Blake, Sold by Order of the Surviving Trustee of the Late John Linnell, Esq. , Senior, the Executor of the Late Miss S.H. Pease and Miss Enid Morse, Modern Pictures & Drawings, the Properties of the Late Dr. Bond, the Late Mrs. E.M. Smith, the Late Miss Edith Wood Reed and Others

1938 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

London, Christie, Manson & Woods, 1938. Softcover. Sewn beige wraps with black lettering. 28 pp. with no illus. Catalogue of 155 works of art, 9 by William Blake, extensively annotated, sold at auction on Friday, December 2, 1938 at Christie's in London. Clean, tight contents. E…

A Soprano on Her Head.

RISTAD, ELOISE. · 1993 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Moab, Utah: Real People Press, 1993. 0911226214. Right-side-up reflections on life and other performances. "Eloise Ristad discusses the problems of nervousness and/or nervous energy with a physiological understanding of human behaviour under stress, imaginative and original psyc…

Prozessbericht über die Strafsache des antisowjetischen "Blocks der Rechten und Trotzkisten" ; verhandelt vor dem Militärkollegium des Obersten Gerichtshofes der UdSSR vom 2.-13. März 1938. Vollständiger stenographischer Bericht. Gegen N. I. Bucharin, A. I. Rykow, G. G. Jagoda, N. N. Krestinski, Ch. G. Rakowski, A. P. Rosengolz, W. I. Iwanow, M. A. Tschernow, G. F. Grinko, I. A. Selenski, S. A. Bessonow, A. Ikramow, F. Chodshajew, W. F. Scharangowitsch, P. T. Subarew, P. P. Bulanow, L. G. Lewin,

Volkskommissariat für Justizwesen: · 1938 · Antiquariat Bürck

Spedisce da Germania · non spedisce in Russia

€103.50 ($114.08 | £86.33 | ¥18,219)

Moskau: Volkskommissariat für Justizwesen der UdSSR. 1938 4 Blatt, 872 Seiten. Orig.-Halbleinen. Oktav, 22,5 x 15 x 5,5 cm (etwas berieben und bestossen, ordentlich erhalten). Erste Ausgabe. Es erschienen noch zwei weitere "Prozessberichte". "Als Moskauer Prozesse werden vi…

7 farbige 4-seitige Prospekte: 1. Shorter Reach to Paper Feed. - 2. Trigger Action. Instantly automatically reverses the typewriter ribbon. - 3. The Carriage Floats between 2 Steel Rails. The 20 roller bearings of the carriage eliminate vibration. - 4. The Typewriter with Individual Key Action Tuning. - 5. Can Save 800 ft. of Reach Every Day (Over Two Blocks). - 6. The Efortless Motion of a Single Hand. Operates the Woodstock Tilting Paper Table. - 7. The Woodstock Improved, Self-Cleaning Type B

SCHREIBMASCHINEN - WOODSTOCK TYPEWRITER COMPANY, CHICAGO. · 1930 · Antiquariat Manfred Nosbüsch

€144.00 ($158.72 | £120.12 | ¥25,348)

Chicago, Woodstock, 1930er.

Wohnhochhäuser

Paulhans Peters · 1959 · Antiquariaat Tanchelmus bv

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Language: German. High-rise residential buildings, point blocks, tower blocks, 26 x 21 cm, 104 pages, may include b/w illustrations, plans and photos, hardcover, good condition Verlag Georg D.W. Callwey, Munchen, 1959 Condition: Good

Kaffe's California Patches.

Kaffe Fassett for Rowan, · 0 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$18.00 (€16.33 | £13.62 | ¥2,875)

W. Yorkshire, England, Rowan Yarns, nd. VG lg sz PB. California patches, tumbling blocks, right angles sweater, checkerboard blocks, tropical stripes,. needlepoint as he shares the creative processes behind his fabulously rich and textured designs.

Born for the Mat

KEIKO FUKUDA · 1973 · Mike Long Books

$634.75 (€575.89 | £480.38 | ¥101,373)

Keiko Fukuda Publisher. 1973. Hardcover -. Hardcover/pub. 1973/Gd. condition- A Kodokan Kata Textbook for Women. (KH22752z). Good.

Hore [= Horae beate Marie Virginis] secundum usum Romanum ad longum.(colophon: Paris, Thomas Kees), [ca. 1511, with an almanac for the years 1511-1530]. 8vo (18 x 12 cm). Printed on vellum in red and black throughout, with illustrations printed from (mostly metal?) relief blocks: 17 nearly full-page plus 1 repeat, 27 small plus 2 repeats in the text, many additional small in the decorated border pieces that surround nearly every page. Dark brown gold- and blind-tooled goatskin morocco (ca. 1870?), signed "HARDY-MENNIL" in the foot of the front turn-in.

[BOOK OF HOURS]. · 1511 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€25,000.00 ($27,555.18 | £20,853.62 | ¥4,400,731)

[216] pp.Second known copy, apparently the only known copy printed on vellum, of a Paris book of hours in Latin, probably published in 1511 (the almanac and calendar for 20 years covers the years 1511 to 1530), the only known book of hours printed by Thomas Kees (or Caseus) from…