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Fascinating Collection of Three 1856 French News Bullietins, Moniteur Des Communes, with Focus on the Crimea War

FRENCH GOVERNMENT · 1856 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$479.99 (€435.49 | £363.32 | ¥76,648)

France, 1856. Ephemera. On offer are three interesting public bulletins printed by the French government during the CrimeanWar. The documents are entitled Moniteur Des Communes or Community Monitor. The Moniteur published official and unofficial texts of the French Second Empire…

The Historie of the World, commonly called the Naturall Historie.London, Adam Islip, 1634. 2 parts in one volume. Folio (23.5 x 32 cm). Elaborate woodcut device on title-page; woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces. Contemporary calf, spine in six compartments, tooled and lettered in gilt.

PLINIUS Secundus, Gaius (Pliny the Elder) · 1601 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€15,000.00 ($16,532.73 | £12,513.99 | ¥2,640,063)

(58), 614, (42) pp. (12), 632, (86) pp.Pliny's renowned Natural History in its second publication in English (repeating, with corrections, the 1601 first publication), translated by Philemon Holland, the greatest translator of the Elizabethan age. The "Naturalis Historia" is one…

Album Des Charges Du Jour [and] Les Cosaques Pour Rire

DAUMIER, Honoré; CHAM (pseudonym of Amédée de Noé); VERNIER, Charles · 1859 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$9,500.00 (€8,619.27 | £7,190.76 | ¥1,517,027)

Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari..et chez Martinet, 1859. The Moroccan Sultan, Monsieur Prudhomme and the Chinese Emperor Thirty Fine, Humorous Lithographs by Honoré Daumier Bound together with Les Cosaques Pour Rire Forty fine lithographs by Daumier, Cham & Vernier DAUMIER, Honoré…

Al-Shaykh Dari qatil al-Kulunl Lichman fi Khan al-Nuqtah. [English title:] Sheik Dhari, assassin of Lieut-Col. G.E. Leachman at Khan el-Nuqta.Baghdad, Maktab al-’Alwaji wa-alHajjiyah, 1968. 8vo. With the English title on the back wrapper and the recto of the final leaf, main text set in Arabic type throughout. With 16 black and white photographic illustrations (on 5 leaves). Original lime green printed wrappers.

'ALWACHI ('Abd al-Hamid). · 1920 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

158, [2] pp.First edition. A fascinating defence of Sheikh Dari, who killed the British intelligence officer Gerard Leachman on 12 August 1920. It includes brief but detailed biographies of both men (that of Leachman includes his travels to Arabia and Iraq), an exposition of the…

Merovingian Letters and Letter Writers

Alice Tyrrell · 2019 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, xxxi + 386 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:2 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503583587. Summary Primary sources from the Frankish kingdom during the Merovingian era (ca. 500-750) are few and far between. This volume is a survey of mo…

The Mount Lavinia Grand Hotel

No author · 0 · The Book Merchant Jenkins, ANZAAB / ILAB

A$88.00 (€54.09 | $59.62 | £45.13 | ¥9,521)

No publisher [Ceylon] First Edition Near Fine Condition 10cm x 15.5cm. [28] pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial saddle-stapled wrappers. 1920s booklet for the Mount Lavinia Grand Hotel and associated hotels and activities in Ceylon (present-day Sri Lanka), illustrate…

Mr H Rider Haggard ; She. Issue 968. (First Edition Before the Bound Volumes. )

Spy (Sir Leslie Ward, 1851-1922) (Lith.) · 1887 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

London: Vanity Fair, 1887. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27cm (15.75 x 10.6 inches). Very Good. Minor toning in margins, not affecting image. Dated May 21, 1887. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Sir Henry Rider Haggard, KBE, Kt (/?hæ??rd/; 22 June 1856 - 14 May 1925…

Star Wars: Dark Force Rising

Zahn, Timothy · 1992 · Pat Cramer, Bookseller

$139.50 (€126.57 | £105.59 | ¥22,276)

Book Very Good + Near Fine Signed by Author(s) First Edition/First Printing Bantam Dell Pub Group New York A square solid tight very carefully read copy. This copy has some very minor page edge soil, the black cloth binding is dusty. The 18.50 priced jacket has some light rubbin…

Naturalis historiae opus ... (Colophon: Cologne, Eucharius Cervicornus, 1524). Folio. With both the title page and part-title in a decorated woodcut border in four pieces, further with decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Late 16th of early 17th-century gold tooled calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold.

PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius. · 1468 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€22,500.00 ($24,799.10 | £18,770.98 | ¥3,960,095)

[16], 311, [60] ll.First edition of Pliny’s Natural history as edited by Johannes Caesarius (1468-1550), a humanist and close friend of Erasmus. Pliny's Natural history is one of the largest single works to have survived from the Roman Empire to the modern day and purports to co…

1986 Detailed Diary of a Visit to Cold War Ussr (Soviet Union) Kept by an Observant Louisiana Educator

PEGGY PUGH · 1986 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$2,155.99 (€1,956.11 | £1,631.92 | ¥344,284)

Moscow, Russia, Ussr, Soviet Union: Cold War Russia, Soviet Union, USSR, Travel Diary, 1986. Hardcover. On offer is an interesting travel journal of an American couple who travelled to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, a time of intense circumstances between the USA led by R…

1923-24 Diary of an Observant San Francisco Teen Insightfully Discussing Her Personal Life, the Arts, Local and World Events

GLADYS MARGARET FINNEY · 1926 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$955.99 (€867.36 | £723.61 | ¥152,659)

San Francisco, California, Notre Dame High School. Softcover. On offer is an interesting journal kept by a motivated and organized young woman attending the all-girls Notre Dame High School in San Francisco, California in the early 20th century. The diary is written by a high sc…

Tamerlane the Earth Shaker

Harold Lamb · 1929 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

London, Thornton Butterworth , 1929. Cloth. Harold Lamb offers a fascinating study of Tamerlane in this scarce volume. An early edition of Harold Lamb's interesting study of Tamerlane, the fourteenth century Turco-Mongol conqueror and founder of the Timurid Empire. With fou…

THE SCOTTISH REGIMENTS 1633-1996.

Mileham, Patrick, · 1996 · A Book for all Reasons

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,797)

Spellmount, Staplehurst, 1996, new edition, 304pp, half tone photo pictorial half title, half tone pictorial double title, 40pp coloured ills., double page map and half tone ills. in text, large format (11 x 8 inches approx.), green cloth lettered in gilt at spine, decorative h…

AmaZulu

Golightly, Walton · 2008 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£17.90 (€21.46 | $23.65 | ¥3,776)

Quercus. First UK paperback edition-first printing. Book. Near fine condition.Quercus Publishing,2008.First UK paperback edition-first printing(10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1).Large format paperback(two small nicks and creases on the edges of the cover and spine) in near fine condition.Il…

Coronation Cook Book - Dr. Allan Blair Chapter, I.O. D.E. , Regina, Saskatchewan

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1953 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$195.00 (€176.92 | £147.60 | ¥31,139)

Regina, Saskatchewan: Dr. Allan Blair Chapter I.O.D.E, 1953. First Edition. Paperback. "The Regent and members of the Dr. Allan Blair Chapter, I.O.D.E. [Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire], are pleased to present to you the Coronation Cook Book. Some of the recipes are old a…

Le Duc de Richelieu en Russie

Pingaud, L. · 1882 · Moby Dick

€260.00 ($286.57 | £216.91 | ¥45,761)

Extrait du Correspondant. Paris Jules Gervais 1882. Small 4to., rebound in red cloth, 44 pages., Stamped on half-title page: “From the library of Le Duc De Richelieu 1875-1952”.It is said that Peter the Great when in Paris at the tomb of the Cardinal De Richelieu exclaimed that …

Nouvelle carte itinéraire, qui indique d'une manière très-exacte les routes et stations, ainsi que les distances des principales villes de France et d’Allemagne.Amsterdam, E. Maaskamp, [ca. 1810]. An engraved map printed on linen (ca. 33.5 x 43 cm.), partly coloured by hand in red and blue ink. Folded.

[MAP - FRANCE - GERMANY]. · 1815 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

Extremely rare itinerary map of Northwestern Europe in the time of Napoleon, printed on linen. It encompasses the north of the French empire, including present day Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and northern France down to Paris, as well as the confederation of the Rhine (pre…

Alte Denkmaler aus Syrien, Palastina und Westarabien. 100 Tafeln mit beschreibendem Text.Berlin, Georg Reimer, 1918. Folio (34.5 x 24 cm). WIth 100 plates with 143 reproductions of photographs. Original red publisher's cloth, with the title in Arabic and German on the front board.

DJEMAL PASCHA, Ahmed and Theodore WIEGAND. · 1864 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

10 pp., 100 ll.First and only edition of a bilingual work with 143 photographs of archeology in the Middle East, compiled by the well-known German archaeologist Theodore Wiegand (1864-1936). The publication was ordered by Ahmed Djemal Pasha (or Jamal Basha, 1872-1822), the Ottom…

Napoleon for Dummies

MARKHAM, DAVID · 2005 · Little Lane Books

A$18.00 (€11.06 | $12.20 | £9.23 | ¥1,947)

USA, Wiley Publishing. 2005. Paperback with dust jacket, 24 Cm. Book, 364pp & 700g to post Explains his influence on the military, law, politics, and religion Get the real story of Napoleon Bonaparte Not sure what?s true about Napoleon? This easy-to-follow guide gets past the st…

[Fireworks display celebrating the end of the Thirty Years' War in Nuremberg in 1650].[Nuremberg, ca. 1750]. Ca. 39.5 x 71.5 cm. One large etching. Kept in a white passe-partout.

[FIREWORKS - NUREMBERG - after Peter TROSCHEL and Michael HERR]. · 1650 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

Large etching with a spectacular night view of the fireworks display held during the Nuremberg Peace Festival. The festival took place in July 1650 to celebrate the end of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), one of the most devastating conflicts in European history. It was intend…