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The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

Charles Kingsley · 1819 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, Paris and New York, Raphael Tuck & Sons, c1917. Cloth. A lovely illustrated edition of this important piece of children's fiction, with a pictorial cover and colour plates by Mabel Lucie Attwell. 'The Water-Babies' was originally written as part-satire to …

The Water-Babies

Charles Kingsley · 1916 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

New York, Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1916. Cloth. A colourfully illustrated edition of Charles Kingsley's immensely popular Victorian children's novel, illustrated in colour throughout by Jessie Willcox Smith. The first thus of Jessie Willcox Smith's illustrations.&ap…

The Water-Babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-Baby

Charles Kingsley · 1863 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.37 | $1,849.91 | ¥295,441)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1863 . First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound, first edition of Charles Kingsley's celebrated piece of children's literature, bound by Bayntun-Riviere in half crushed morocco. Bound by Bayntun-Riviere in an elegant half crushed morocco. T…

Latitude Zero: Tales of the Equator

Guadalupi, Gianni · 2001 · The Wild Muse

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Carroll & Graf First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Carroll & Graf, 2001. 8vo., xiii+258pp. As new in as new dust jacket. It extends 24,000 miles, farther and longer than any other measure on earth. Yet the equator is a wholly imaginary const…

Le Pilote du Brésil, ou Description des côtes de l'Amérique méridionale, comprises entre l'île Santa-Catarina et celle de Maranao, avec les instructions nécessaires pour attérir et naviguer sur ces côtes ; par le Baron Roussin (…) commandant l'expédition hydrographique entreprise par ordre du Roi, et exécutée en 1819 et 1820, sur la corvette la Bayadère et le brig le Favori ; publié sous le ministère de M. le comte de Chabrol de Crouzol, pair de France, ministre de la marine et des colonies.

Albin-Reine ROUSSIN · 1827 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

Imprimerie Royale (1815-1848)) | Paris 1827 | 15.8 x 24.7 cm | Relié | Edition originale rare (cf Borba de Moraes II, 753 : "famous book of navigational bearings". Rodrigues 2144.) Légères rousseurs marginales sur les gardes, agréable état intérieur. Reliure en demi basane fauve…

Le village aérien. Les histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin

Jules VERNE · 1901 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€650.00 ($716.43 | £542.19 | ¥114,419)

Hetzel | Paris 1901 | 18 x 28 cm | relié | Première édition collective illustrée, de 38 dessins de Georges Roux, 12 grande gravures en couleurs. Une carte. Cartonnage d'éditeur dit "Au globe doré" de type 3 ; second plat de type Engel h. Dos au phare. Belle première plaque, aux …

Utopian Fantasy: A Study of English Utopian Fiction Since the End of the Nineteenth Century (Routledge Library Editions: Utopias)

GERBER, RICHARD · 1955 · Pegasus Books

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,996)

London: Routledge, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-Library; 7.9 X 5.3 X 0.6 inches; xii, 162 pages; First edition from 1955. Hard cover is green cloth with faded gold lettering on spine. No DJ. Former library book, with typical markings. Boards have markings, sunning, fading,…

Weissrüsselbär. EINZELBLATT mit einer farbigen lithographischen Abbildung. Blattgrösse: 25 x 17 cm, Bildgrösse: ca. 20 x 13 cm. Aus: Brehms Thierleben. Allgemeine Kunde des Thierreichs. 2. Auflage, kolorierte Ausgabe. Säugethiere. 2. Band. Inhalt: Raubthiere, Kerfjäger, Nager, Zahnarme, Beutel- und Gabelthiere.

Brehm, Alfred: · 1883 · Antiquariat Bürck