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A Strange Career: Life and Adventures of John Gladwyn Jebb

Mrs. Jebb [intro. by Henry Rider Haggard] · 1894 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood and Sons, 1894. First edition. Cloth. The first edition to the biography of an adventurer in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains, including tales of treasure hunting and brushing with bandits. The first edition of a fascinating biography on the explorer J…

A Final Answer to the Remarks on the Craftsman's Vindication; and to All the Libels, Which have come, or may come from the same Quarter against the Person, last mentioned in the Craftsman of the 22nd of May.

THE CRAFTSMAN. [BOLINGBROKE (Henry St. John), Viscount]: · 1731 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London: Printed for R. Francklin..., 1731. 8vo (in 4s), pp. 32. BOUND WITH: [PULTENEY (William), Earl of Bath]: An Answer to One Part of a late Infamous Libel, Intitled, Remarks on the Craftsman's Vindication of his two honourable Patrons; In which the Character and C…

Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind

John Caspar Lavater; Henry Hunter · 1810 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.78 | $2,510.59 | ¥400,956)

London, T. Bensley, 1810. Leather. A nicely illustrated set of Johann Kaspar Lavater's fascinating work looking into the pseudoscience physiognomy. Complete in five volumes, being three volumes bound in five. Collated, complete. A fascinating work on the science of physiogn…

American Marriage and Family Relationships.

GROVES, Ernest Rutherford, and OGBURN, William Fielding. · 1928 · The Book Firm

A$27.00 (€16.60 | $18.29 | £13.84 | ¥2,921)

Henry Holt and Co., 1928. Hardcover. Ex-library, some marks and rubbing to edges of cover, a touch of fraying to ends of spine and several corners, some wear to inner hinges, otherwise good (no markings to text). No DJ. 497pp.

Letters Received by the East India Company

Frederick Charles Danvers; William Foster · 1896 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, & Company Limited, 1896-97. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this work collecting two hundred and fifty letters which had been sent to the East India Company. The first edition.Very scarce.Volumes I and II of a total of six volumes.This wo…

Manwood&Apos;S Treatise of the Forest Laws

John Manwood; William Nelson [ed] · 1741 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

In the Savoy, Henry Lintot, 1741 . Leather. A bright example of the fifth edition of William Nelson's expansion of John Manwood's 16th century account on the forest laws of England. Originally published in 1598 as 'A treatise and discourse of the lawes of the forr…

Astrarchia Stephaniae, Finsch. [Stephanie's Astrapia] from Monograph of the Paradiseidae, or Birds of Paradise, and Ptilonorhynchidae, or Bower Birds . First Edition

Hart, William; Mintern Bros. ,Imp · 1891 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,200.00 (€1,088.72 | £908.15 | ¥191,647)

London: Taylor & Francis for Henry Sotheran & Co. London: 1891-98. Original handcolored lithograph on rag paper. 562 x 391mm. Very good. Matted. Rectangular line around image offset from a previous mat. Claus Nissen, Die Illustrierten Vogel-Buecher, no. 865; Sachervell Sitwell, …

Our Land Laws of the Past; the Land Question: What It Is, and How Only It Can Be Settled. An Appeal to Nations; Shewing the Evils of Private Property in Land and the Need for the Nationalisation of the Land; "Progress and Poverty" a Criticism of Mr. Henry George, Being Two Lectures Delivered in St. Andrew&Apos;S Hall, Newman Street, London; Mr Henry George&Apos;S Unproved Assumption or the Pauperism of Capital Being a Politico-Economical Sonata in Four Movements; the English Land Question; the B

W. E. Baxter; Henry George; Arnold Toynbee; F. J. Bruce; Havelock Fisher, et al. · 1880 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

London , Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.; William Reeves; Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.; Simpkin, Marshall & Co, et al. 1880-84. Leather. An interesting sammelband of eighteen pamphlets regarding politics, socialism and land ownership, bound in smart half morocco. A sammelband of eight…

Attested Copy Release - Being 1st part of a Lease & Release relating to the Sale of 7 houses in Sudbury .

18TH CENTURY LEGAL DOCUMENT - FROM THOMAS GREIVE, TO SOLOMON HENRY ( TENANTS: INCLUDING SAMUEL HASSELL, SAMUEL SMITH, THOMAS GOODWIN, WILLIAM SHERMAN, CHRISTOPHER BOURNEY, JOHN BERRY) . · 1768 · Chilton Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

22nd July, 1768 . 0. 1768 - 7 Houses in Suffolk - Attested copy of Release. Being 1st part of a Lease & Release relating to the Sale of Property by Thomas Greive, Swithins Lane, London, Gentleman, to Solomon Henry, Swithins Lane, London, Merchant. The properties located in Corna…

A History of Inventions, Discoveries and Origins (2 vols set)

John Beckmann; William Francis; J. W. Griffiths · 1846 · Salsus Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Book Good 4th Edition Henry G. Bohn London 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 2 vols set, xxiii 518; xii 547pp hardback, publisher's textured green cloth gilt, frontispiece portraits tissue-guarded, publisher's list to end-papers,some loss to head of spine of vol. II title etc intact,

Angelo's pic nic with twenty-four illustrations from contemporary drawings and prints in the collection of Joseph Grego with a prefatory note on the Angelo family.London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co Ltd., 1905. 2 vols. Large-8vo. With a frontispiece in vol. 1 and 110 illustrations mounted on separate leaves. Red cloth.

ANGELO, Henry and Rev. Charles SWYNNERTON. · 1834 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XXXVII, [1], 122; [2], 123-267 (=145), [1] pp.A limited (1 of 500 copies), extra illustrated, 2 volume edition of Henry Angelo's Pic Nic. The present work is a new edition of Angelo's pic nic; or, table talk, including numerous recollections of public characters, who have figure…

Description des fêtes populaires données à Valenciennes les 11, 12, 13 mai 1851, par la Société des Incas

Arthur DINAUX - William MARKS · 1853 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€2,300.00 ($2,535.08 | £1,918.53 | ¥404,867)

E. Vanackere Imp. de Mangeon Imprimerie de Louis Henry | Lille • Paris • Valenciennes s. d. [1853] | 36.2 x 27.8 cm | Relié | Très rare édition originale de cet album comportant 24 planches gravées par le graveur valenciennois William Marks. En effet, la grande figure imprimée s…

PORTER'S SPIRIT OF THE TIMES. A Chronicle of the Turf, Field Sports, Literature and the Stage. Volume I, Nos. 1 - 26

[BASEBALL] PORTER, William T · 1856 · Charles Agvent

$5,000.00 (€4,536.35 | £3,783.98 | ¥798,531)

New York. [Wm. Porter & George Wilkes]. First Edition. Folio (10-3/4" x 16") in the original cloth rebacked with a recent brown morocco leather spine, lettered in gilt, and corners; original morocco label with the name "James Burnside" in gilt on the front cover; 416 (of 424) pa…

Picturesque America, the Land We Live in: A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Lakes, Forests, Water-Falls, Shores, Cañons, Valleys, Cities, and Other Picturesque Features of Our Country. 2 Volumes

Bryant, William Cullen (editor) · 1872 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$450.00 (€408.27 | £340.56 | ¥71,868)

NY, D. Appleton & Company, 1872. Hardcover. 3/4 leather with gilt embossed Publisher's cloth over thick board covers. All Edges Gilt. Marbled endpapers. Volume 1 (1872): vi, 568 pages, 24 unnumbered leaves of plates Volume 2 (1874): viii, 576 pages, [25] leaves of plates) 47 ste…

Anna\'s Book

PAPAS, WILLIAM & FYNN (PSEUDONYM OF SYDNEY GEORGE HOPKINS) · 1987 · S. Howlett-West Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, NY: Henry Holt & Co, 1987. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0805004300. Illustrated by William Papas. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright con…

A Book of Favourite Modern Ballads: Choice Pictures and Choice Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Sir Walter Scott; Eliza Cook; Alfred Tennyson; et al. · 1865 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1865]. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully colour illustrated collection of poems from noted writers such as Tennyson and Longfellow, with illustrations by Birket Foster and many other talented artists. A very scarce illustrated collection of poems.…

Original Watercolour Painting - Mill on Armsey near Sudbury, Suffolk .

William Bestoe Smith (1796-1889) · 1837 · CHILTON BOOKS

£600.00 (€719.30 | $792.82 | ¥126,618)

Sudbury, Suffolk: William Bestoe Smith, August 1837 . 0 William Bestoe Smith (1796-1889), watercolour painting of a Mill on Armsey, near Sudbury, Suffolk. Aperture size of 6.5ins x 9.7ins, with an overall size of 14.5ins x 17 ins. Details to a card on the rear of the painting…

The thousand and one nights, commonly called, in England, the Arabian nights’ entertainments.London, Charles Knight and Co. (back of title-page volume 1 & 3: William Clowes and sons; volume 2: Whitehead & Co.), 1840 (vol. 2)-1841 (vols. 1 & 3). 3 volumes. 8vo in 4s. With a different lithographed title page for each volume and hundreds of wood-engraved illustrations in the text. 19th-century red morocco (signed on flyleaf: “Jefferies & Sons, Bristol” - the sons joined the firm in 1863), richly gold-tooled spines, boards, board edges, and turn-ins, gilt edges.

[ARABIAN NIGHTS]. LANE, Edward William (translator). · 1801 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

XXXII, 618; XII, 643, [1]; XII, 763, [1] pp.Attractively bound set of the first accurate English translation of the Alf laylah wa-laylah, commonly known in English as the Arabian Nights. The British orientalist Edward William Lane (1801-1876) lived in Egypt for several years and…

A Biographical History of England, from Egbert the Great to the Revolution Consisting of Characters Disposed in Different Classes, and Adapted to a Methodical Catalogue of Engraved British Heads

The Rev. J. Granger · 1824 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London , William Baynes and Son, 1824. Leather. A biographical history of influential Englishmen from Saxon times to the eighteenth century. Fifth edition, with upwards of four hundred additional lives. 'Intended as an essay towards reducing our biography to system and a he…

Photo Metro: Vol. 5, Issue 45. December 1986 / January 1987

Brimmer, Henry (pub.); Photo Metro (San Francisco) · 1986 · Wittenborn Art Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

San Francisco, CA: Photo Metro, 1986. Folio. 35 pp. Soft, stapled color and black and white pictorial wraps. Very good with marginal crease lines along middle of page. Color and black and white plates. Includes works by Henry Bowers, Frederick Coombs as well as an interview and …