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The Whitbread Library. [The set comprises 1: Whitbread's Brewery; 2: Your Local; 3: Inn-Signia; 4: The Brewer's Art; 5: Whitbread Craftsmen; 6: Inns of Kent; 7: Inns of Sport; 8: Receipts and Relishes; 9: Your Club; 10: Inn Crafts and Furnishings; 11: Word for Word.] THE WHITBREAD LIBRARY COMPLETE; WITH CHAIRMAN'S LETTER

WHITBREAD and Co. · 19471953 · Island Books

£360.00 (€431.58 | $475.69 | ¥75,971)

Whitbread and Co., [1947-1953]. 11 vols., 8vo., First Edition, with very numerous coloured, tinted and monochrome illustrations (many full-page) throughout, some mild offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers, one or two volumes with neat signatures on endpapers; original serie…

Wanderings in the great forests of Borneo. Travels and researches of a naturalist in Sarawak. [First edition].

Beccari,Odoardo. · 1904 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€475.00 ($523.55 | £396.22 | ¥83,614)

London, Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd., 1904. XXIV,424 pp. B./w. frontispiece & 61 b./w. figs & 3 fold. b./w. maps. Orig. publishers hardcover binding (dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine & gilt dec. on upper board, top edges gilt). 8vo. - A very good copy.Translated by…

Zeldzaam-Jij bent wat korrelig vandaag (3 foto's)

Steegstra, Jos · 1977 · De Boekentuin Alkmaar

€19.90 ($21.93 | £16.60 | ¥3,503)

Holmsterland Groningen, Slappe kaft, 1977, 52 blz., boek is in redelijke staat. Met dedicatie en handtekening auteur op voorschutblad. Vlekken en verkleuring op de kaft, vergeelde bladsnede, stickerresten op achterkaft., Formaat: 15 x 21 cm. Gedichten en grafisch werk. Jij bent …

Voyage Of The Narwhal

Andrea Barrett · 2000 · Klondyke BV

€4.95 ($5.46 | £4.13 | ¥871)

Paperback; 2000; Flamingo; 400pp.; LET OP LET OP ander omslag !!! Flamingo overseas ed. 1999 -- Conditie: Goed; `A great, shivery, seductive read.' Elle "Zeke Voorhies is commanding an expedition which sets sail from Massachusetts to discover the fate of Sir John Franklin who va…

Voyages du professeur Pallas, dans plusieurs provinces de l'empire de Russie et dans l'Asie septentrionale; Traduits de l'allemand par le C. Gauthier de la Peyronie. Nouvelle Édition, Revue et enrichie de Notes par CC. Lamarck ... et Langlès...Paris, Maradan, an II [1794]. 8 text-volumes and 1 atlas-volume. 8vo (text) and large 4to (atlas). With 8 title-pages and 8 half-titles, 108 engraved plates and maps, of which 22 folding and 2 double-page. Uniform contemporary mottled calf, richly gold-tooled spines.

PALLAS, Peter Simon. · 1768 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)

[8], 422, [2]; [4], 490; [4], 492; [4], 499; 448; 455; 448; [4], VIII, 463 pp.Second French edition of Pallas's 1768-1774 journeys through Russia. Peter Simon Pallas (Berlin 1741-1811) studied medicine and natural history in Germany, Holland, and England. In 1767 he went to St P…

Principles of political economy : considered with a view to their practical application

MALTHUS, Thomas R. (1766–1834) · 1820 · Fine Editions Ltd

$2,899.00 (€2,630.18 | £2,193.95 | ¥462,988)

London John Murray, Albermarle-Street First Edition First Edition, with the rare 4-page publisher's catalog, dated April 1820, of this classic of economic theory. 8vo: vi,601, 1]pp. "London: Printed by C. Roworth, Bell-yard, Temple-bar." on colophon and title-page verso, as call…

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

DENNETT, DANIEL C. · 2017 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€34.81 ($38.37 | £29.04 | ¥6,128)

W. W. Norton & Company 2017 First Edition XVIII + 476 p., bibliography, index, notes HARDCOVER: (Orig. gilt. lettering. Dust jacket some tiny stains. . Book AS NEW) How did we come to have minds? For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and ph…

Silberkondor über Feuerland., Mit Segelkutter und Flugzeug ins Reich meiner Träume.,

PLÜSCHOW, GUNTHER · 1953 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€38.35 ($42.27 | £31.99 | ¥6,751)

Berlin : Brockhaus 1953 285 p., 16 plates with b/w photo's HARDCOVER: Orig.cl.with pictorial front cover. Nice es-libris with small part of edge removed. Name end paper. VERY GOOD) Gunther Plüschow (1886 in München; 1931 in Argentinien) war ein deutscher Marineoffizier. Bekannt…

The Zoologist. A popular miscellany of natural history conducted by Edward Newman, F.L.S., Z.S., &c. Volumes 1-11.

The Zoologist [H. W. Bates] · 1843 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

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

London, John van Voorst, 1843-1853. 11 volumes in 11. 8vo. (21.4 x 13.6 cm). 4156, cciv pp.; illustrations in the text. Contemporary uniform black half calf over marbled boards. Spines with gilt title, volume year, and decorative lines. Speckled edges. = The English explorer and…

Eight Children&Apos;S Works from Juliana Horatia Ewing

Juliana Horatia Ewing; Horatia K. F. Gatty · 1884 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1884-1887 . First edition. Hardback. Eight charmingly illustrated works by and about celebrated Victorian era children's author Juliana Horatia Ewing. A lovely collection of works from English writer of children's stor…

Narrative of the Surveying Voyage of H.M. S Fly, Commanded by Captain F.P. Blackwood, R.N. In Torres Strait, New Guinea, and Other Islands of the Eastern Archipelago, During the Years 1842-1846: Together with an Excursion Into the Interior Part of Java

J Beete Jukes · 1847 · Rooke Books

£5,900.00 (€7,073.11 | $7,796.03 | ¥1,245,074)

London, T and W Boone, 1847. First edition. Leather. A lovely example of the first edition of this important exploration narrative. One of the earliest accounts of coastal Australia, this work is famed for its descriptions of the Great Barrier Reef. Written by Joseph Beete Jukes…

Parables from Nature

Mrs. Albert Gatty [Margaret Gatty] · 1864 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Bell and Daldy, 1864. Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated collection of children's parables by Margaret Gatty, containing black-and-white illustrated plates by a range of artists including Millais and presented in a lovely gilt cloth binding. 1864 'New Edition&apo…

Die Grossen. Leben und Leistung der sechshundert bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten unserer Welt. 25 Bände

Fassmann, Kurt (Hrsg.) · 1977 · Celler Versandantiquariat

€72.00 ($79.36 | £60.06 | ¥12,674)

unbekannt - Enthalten: Band I/1: 3. Jahrtausend bis 6. Jahrhundert vor Christus; Imhotep um 2780 vor Christus bis Aischylos 525 vor Christus. Band I/2: 5. bis 2. Jahrhundert vor Christus; Phidias 500 vor Christus bis Cicero 106 vor Christus. Band II/1: 1. Jahrhundert vor Christ…

Scientific results of the Elder Exploring Expedition. II. [AND] III (last).

Tate, R. (ed.) · 1893 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.66 | ¥70,412)

Adelaide, W. C. Rigby (for the Royal Society of South Australia), 1893-1896. Two volumes (of three) in two. 8vo (21.3 x 14.0 cm). 317 pp. [numbered 69-386]; 38 plates (numbered II-XXXIX), of which seven in chromolithography, and three larger, folded. Very large, partly coloured …

Pomona Italiana, Ossia Trattato Degli Alberi Fruttiferi, Di Giorgio Gallesio. 4 Vols. First Edition

GALLESIO, Giorgio (1772-1839); Artists: Giuseppe CAROCCI, Alessandro CONTARDI, Francesco CORSI, Paolo FUMAGALLI, Luigi GARIBBO, Luigi GIARRE, Carlo LASINIO, Tomaso NASI, Giuseppe PERA, Stefano RINALDI, Bernardino ROSASPINA, Antonio SERANTONI, Antonio VERI · 1817 · Wittenborn Art Books

$85,000.00 (€77,118.00 | £64,327.59 | ¥13,575,024)

Pisa: Co' Caratteri de' FF. Amoretti, Presso Niccoló Capurro, 1817- [1839]. 4 folio volumes, 31 x 44.4 cm. Large paper copy. 19th Century half green morocco with marbled boards. Some pages with stains and foxing. but most very fresh. The plates were printed in colors which was t…

Alfred Wegener: Science, Exploration, and the Theory of Continental Drift

Greene, Mott T. · 2015 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

Johns Hopkins University Press Baltimore xvi, 675, 42 line drawings, 28 bw illus. . HB. Vg in d/w.. Alfred Wegener aimed to create a revolution in science which would rank with those of Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Darwin. After completing his doctoral studies in astronomy at…

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

[Chambers, Robert] · 1853 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

John Churchill London xii, 325, [3], lxvii, [1], 107 wood-engraved text illustrations. . HB. 8vo, contemporary half morocco, neatly rebacked preserving original spine, marbled boards, edges, and endpapers, a little rubbed at extremities with some wear to marbled paper at board e…

The Greatest Show on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution

Richard Dawkins · 2009 · Book Haven

NZ$18.50 (€9.27 | $10.22 | £7.73 | ¥1,632)

Bantam Press 2009 Paperback, 470pp. 'It is no accident that we see green almost wherever we look. It is no accident that we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life; no accident that we are surrounded by millions of other …

Ueber Bedeutung und Tragweite des Darwin'schen Selectionsprincips.

Plate, L. [H.] · 1900 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€180.00 ($198.40 | £150.15 | ¥31,685)

Leipzig, Wilhelm Engelmann, 1900. Large 8vo. 153 pp. Later burgundy buckram with gilt title on the spine. Original printed wrappers bound in. = A seminal work by the German zoologist and Darwinist Ludwig Hermann Plate (1862-1937), a "disciple of Ernst Haeckel. He wrote a "thorou…

The Greatest Show on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution

Richard Dawkins · 2009 · Book Haven

NZ$20.50 (€10.27 | $11.32 | £8.57 | ¥1,809)

Bantam Press 2009 Paperback, 470pp. 'It is no accident that we see green almost wherever we look. It is no accident that we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life; no accident that we are surrounded by millions of other …