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The Gentleman Instructed, In The Conduct Of A Virtuous And Happy Life. Written for the Instruction of a Young Nobleman. To Which is Added, A Word to the Ladies. In Two Volumes.

[ WILLIAM DARRELL, 1651-1721 ] / [ HICKES, GEORGE 1642-1715 ] . · 1755 · Chilton Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London: Printed for R. Ware, J. Knapton, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, J. Hodges, J. and J. Rivington, J. Ward, R. Baldwin, M. and T. Longman, J. Waugh and W. Fenner, and M. Cooper. M DCCLV. [ 1755 ] . 0. "The Twelfth Edition." A very good two volume set in the original full leather bi…

Pompeiana. The Topography, Edifices, and Ornaments of Pompeii

Sir William Gell; John P. Gandy · 1852 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Henry G. Bohn, 1852 . Cloth. The impressively illustrated third edition of William Gell and John P. Gandy's important study of 19th century excavations at Pompeii. The third edition of this archaeological study of Pompeii, first published in 1832. A continuation of …

The Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hamner, Bart. With a Memoir of His Life. To Which Are Added, Other Relicks of a Gentleman&Apos;S Family

Sir Thomas Hamner; Sir Henry Bunbury [ed.] · 1838 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Edward Moxon, 1838. Cloth. A very scarce collection of the correspondence Sir Thomas Hanmer, 4th Baronet, with a memoir of his life. A very scarce work, rebound in a cloth binding. Ink inscriptions to pages 448 and 509. Illustrated with a folding plate depicting the pedi…

The History and Topography of Holland and Belgium

Nicolaas Godfried van Kampen (Professor Of Dutch History And Literature At Amsterdam.) , William Henry Bartlett 212636, William Gray Fearnside 212637 · 1837 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

1837, Leder band, 204, Goed

Middlemen And Brokers In Oceania (Asao Monographs, No. 9)

Dorothy Ayers Counts and William L. Rodman · 1982 · Book Haven

NZ$43.50 (€21.80 | $24.03 | £18.19 | ¥3,838)

University of Michigan Press 1982 Hardback, 307pp. The Government Is The District Officer / James A. Boutilier -- Gaps, Bridges, And Levels Of Law / William L. Rodman -- Legitimacy Of Elected Officials As Middlemen In A Colonial System / Daniel T. Hughes And Debra Connelly -- A …

A Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum. With Index of Persons, Places and Matters. Printed by Command of His Majesty King George III, in pursuance of an Address of The House of Commons of Great Britain. [Preface by Henry Ellis] REMARKABLY FRESH, CRISP COPY IN INSTITUTIONAL BINDING

LANSDOWNE MANUSCRIPTS · 1819 · Island Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)

[British Museum], 1819. Large folio, First Edition, some moderate age-staining, a handful of leaves expertly remargined; strongly bound in early twentieth-century terracotta buckram, gilt back, uncut, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. Sold from an institution with its book…

INVESTIGATION OF THE MOTION OF HALLEY’S COMET FROM 1759 TO 1910.

COWELL, P.H.; CROMMELIN, A.C.D. Under the direction of: CHRISTIE, Sir William Henry Mahoney. · 1910 · The Minster Gate Bookshop

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Edinburgh: Printed for His Majesty’s Stationery Office by Neill and Co., Limited, 1910. Folio, pp.84, cloth with printed paper title label to spine; crease and large closed tear to lower margin of final leaf, light foxing to endpapers, a very good copy.

Narrative of the War in Germany and France in 1813 and 1814.

VANE, Lieut.-General Charles William Marquess of Londonderry - Henry and Mary Ponsonby ( provenance ) : · 1830 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€364.00 ($401.20 | £303.63 | ¥64,075)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bently, 1830, in-4°, xvii pp + 420 pp + one large folding coloured map + one full page battle plan outside the text. Bound in modern brown cloth, gilt title on spine, binding slightly worn and soiled, first and last pages with some light foxing.…

Turf Celebrities I Have Known

Day,William from the Library of Henry Winston Peregrine Spencer Churchill (1913-2002 · 1891 · Richard Thornton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

F.V. White and Co This is a Good Copy of this Book in original red cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.No dust-jacket.This copy came from the Library of Henry Winston Peregrine Spencer Churchill (1913-2002) Nephew of Winston Churchill and second son of Major John 'Jack' Chu…

Oxford Musical Essays: Early Tudor Composers: Biographical Sketches of Thirty-Two Musicians and Composers of the Period 1485-1555

FLOOD, WILLIAM H. GRATTAN; PREFACE BY SIR W. HENRY HADOW, C.B.E., MUS. D. · 1968 · Clausen Books

$9.95 (€9.03 | £7.53 | ¥1,589)

Freeport, NY, Books for Libraries Press. 1968, Reprint. Blue Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Music. Ex-Library Hardcover, Retired library copy, usual stamps, stickers and labels; Textblock very clean and tight; Minimal edge wear; Library label on spine; 121p. Essay Index…

Illustrations of Thomson's Castle of Indolence (bound with) The Pilgrims Progress

William Rimer (bound with) Bunyan, John George Godwin & Lewis Pocock Selous, Henry Courtney · 1844 · The Victoria Bookshop

£57.33 (€68.73 | $75.75 | ¥12,098)

London, Art Union M. M. Holloway:, 1844. First Edition. Hardcover. Selous, Henry Courtney. Oblong Folio two volumes in one 12 plates and xxviii. 90. pl. 22. XX. Front board almost detache3d spine torn with loss Fair.

The Horse of the Desert [the Arabian Horse]

BROWN, WILLIAM ROBINSON; HARBORD, MAJOR GENERAL JAMES G. (INTRODUCTION); OSBORN, HENRY FAIRFIELD (INTRODUCTION) · 1947 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.48 | ¥23,948)

New York: The MacMillan Company, 1947. Reprint. Hardcover. "It is thought by the author that at a time when public interest is awake to the importance of producing a superior saddle horse in America, and, in particular, increasing the number of desirable mounts available for the…

ANECDOTE BIOGRAPHIES Of THACKERAY And DICKENS. Bric-A-Brac Series

[Dickens, Charles. 1812 - 1870]. [Thackeray, William Makepeace. 1811 - 1863]. Stoddard, Richard Henry - Editor · 1875 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$30.25 (€27.44 | £22.89 | ¥4,831)

New York: Scribner Armstrong and Company, 1875. Decorative cloth. xxiv, 305, [3] pp (including Index). Publisher advert at rear. 12mo. Gd (sp darkened somewhat/wear at extremities & corners/hinges cracked). Has facsimile of Thackeray letter not found in the 1874 first edition.

GOOD STORIES MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 1928

Good Stories · 1928 · Gibson

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

Good Stories Augusta, ME Very Good- with no dust jacket; Household Chats, Fiction by Walter Prichard Eaton, William Henry Wright, Joseph Hocking, Poetry, Recipes and more. Filled with great illustrations and period advertising. Magazine is in good condition, slight wear at edges…

Jacob Steendam, Noch Vaster. A Memoir of the First Poet in New Netherland, with Translations of His Poems Descriptive of the Colony.

Jacob Steendam; William Loring Andrews [ed.] · 1908 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

New York, Dodd, Mead and Company, 1908 . Cloth. A delightfully bound Limited Edition English language translation of the work of this Dutch poet, claimed to be the first poetry written in Manhattan, known at the time as New Amsterdam. An English language translation of the work …

L'Arbalète. Revue de Littérature imprimée tous les six mois sur la presse à bras de Marc Barbezat.

CALDWELL (Erskine), Gertrude STEIN, Dorothy BAKER, Peter CHENEY, Ernest HEMINGWAY, Horace MAC COY, William FAULKNER, Henry MILLER, Damon RUNYON, William SOROYAN. · 1944 · Bablon, Béatrice (Livres de A à Z, Paris)

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.10 | ¥21,124)

A Lyon chez Marc Barbezat, 9 automne 1944. In-4 ; 266 pp, broché, couverture avec une composition photographique, à rabats grise et illustrée d'un dessin de Jean Martin. Numéro spécial consacré à la littérature américaine et contenant 22 contes et nouvelles traduits en français.…

The Call of the Running Tide. Marine Paintings over Three Centuries

COLLINS, IAN · 2006 · William Glynn

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

London, Messum's. 2006, First Edition. Wrappers. 72 pages, colour illustrations, catalogue of 86 exhibits. Features works by Henry Lamb, James Dodds, Henry Luscombe, T Wallis, Joseph Stannard, John Callow, Frank Brangwyn, Oswald Brierly, William Wyllie, Martin Mackrill, Derek Ga…

DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS Volume II for the Years 1665-1669

Pepys, Samuel · 1942 · Gibson

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Illustrated by William Sharp Heritage New York NY Very Good- with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine weak and cracked. Volume II only. ; Transcribed by the Rev. Mynors Bright from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and edited with addi…

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SPEECH

CODY, William F. (BUFFALO BILL) · 0 · Charles Agvent

$75,000.00 (€68,045.29 | £56,759.64 | ¥11,977,962)

Original AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a speech given by Buffalo Bill on 31 August 1898 in Omaha during the Trans-Mississippi Exposition on Cody Day, a day of tribute to the man and his Wild West show, about two miles from where its first performances were held in 1883. A total of fiv…

Lewis Carroll's the Hunting of the Snark: The Annotated Snark, by Martin Gardner; the Designs for the Snark, by Charles Mitchell; the Listing of the Snark, by Selwyn H. Goodacre

Carroll, Lewis, Martin Gardner, Charles Mitchell, Selwyn H. Goodacre; James Tanis and John Dooley, eds. · 1982 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$27.20 (€24.68 | £20.58 | ¥4,344)

Los Altos, California, William Kaufmann, in cooperation with Bryn Mawr Library, 1982. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Sterling condition hardcover copy bound in very dark blue cloth covers, with unbruised tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing o…