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Prodromus florae Novae Hollandiae et insulae Van-Diemen exhibens characteres plantarum, quas annis 1802-1805 ...Nuremberg, Leonard Schrag, 1827. With: (2) BROWN, Robert. Supplementum primum prodromi florae Novae Hollandiae: exhibens Proteaceas novas quas in Australasia legerunt DD. Baxter, Caley, Cunningham, Fraser et Sieber; ...London, Richard Taylor, 1830. 2 works in 1 volume. Large 8vo. 20th-century half brown morocco, marbled sides, title in gold on spine, red sprinkled edges.

BROWN, Robert. · 1802 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

xiv, 460; 40; [2] pp.Second edition of Brown's famous first systematic account of Australian flora, the result of his botanical research in Australia in the years 1802 to 1805 together with Matthew Flinders (1774-1814) who led the first circumnavigation of Australia. Brown colle…

A Collection of Charming Cookery Books

Various · 1934 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London; New York, The Literary Press Ltd.; Thomas Y. Crowell Company; The Macmillan Company; John Lehmann Ltd.; Spring Books; Random House; Arco; , 1934-1966. First edition. Cloth. London; New York: The Literary Press Ltd.; Thomas Y. Crowell Company; The Macmillan Company; John …

Findens' Tableaux of the Affections; [with: ] Finden's Tableaux

FINDEN, William; FINDEN, Edward; MITFORD, Mary Russell, Editor; PERRING, W., Painter · 1839 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$3,500.00 (€3,175.45 | £2,648.78 | ¥558,972)

London: Charles Tilt, 1839; 1840. Two of the Exceptionally Rare Hand-Colored Deluxe Issues for 1839 and 1840" FINDEN, William and Edward. Finden's Tableaux or the Affections; A Series of Picturesque Illustrations of the Womanly Virtues. From paintings by W. Perring. Edited by Ma…

Hartford. The "City of Hartford" Arriving from New York at the Foot of State Street in 1870. Signed

Stobart, John (1929-2023) · 1993 · Wittenborn Art Books

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

Maritime Heritage Prints. 1993. Color print One of 950 signed and numbered impressions. 17 × 33 in.. Hartford, State Capital of Connecticut, lies on the west bank of the winding Connecticut River at the head of deep water navigation, some sixty miles north of its confluence with…

The Week-End Cookery Book, and, Cunning Cookery

G. M. Boumphrey; Geoffrey Boumphrey · 1932 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, The Soncino Press; Thomas Nelson and Sons LTD, 1932-38. First edition. Cloth. Two scarce editions of the same cookery work by Geoffrey Boumphrey, including the first edition, and a later reissue under a new title. Two editions of the same cookery work by Geoffrey Boumphr…

Buffon's Natural History of the Globe, and of Man; Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Reptiles, and Insects. From the Writings of Buffon, Cuvier, Lacepede, and other eminent Naturalists; to which are added, Elements of Botany. Corrected and enlarged by John Wright, F

Buffon, G.L.L. · 1831 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£220.00 (€263.74 | $290.70 | ¥46,427)

Printed for Thomas Tegg, J. Cumming, R. Griffin London; Dublin; Glasgow vi, 448; 396; 509; 500, c. 400 engravings, 4 vignettes. . HB. 4 vols, 12mo, (178×110 mm), publisher's orig. boards, printed paper labels to spines, spines worn with splitting and some loss to paper covers; t…

Eroticism in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance Magic, Marriage, and Midwifery

Moulton, L. (ed.) · 2016 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€77.00 ($84.87 | £64.23 | ¥13,554)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2016 Hardcover with dusjacket, XV+171 p., 17 b/w ill., 152 x 229 mm, Languages: English. ISBN 9782503567884. The essays in this volume explore varied manifestations of medieval and early modern sexuality. Magic rings; seductive she-devils; satyrs bo…

Mendelssohn and the Organ

William A. Little · 2010 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.05 | ¥10,562)

Oxford University Press, 2010, Gekartonneerd met stofomslag, 486, Although Mendelssohn was most famous during his lifetime as a composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor, he also enjoyed an enviable reputation as a highly skilled organist. The instrument had fascinated - one mig…

Historie, ende het leven van den aldermachtichsten ende victorieusten keyser Caerle de Vijfde van dien name. Inden welcken niet alleen beschreven en zijn de hooge ende seer vrome daden vanden selven Prince, maer oock de merckelijckste saken die over alle de werelt/ insonderheyt inde Oost ende West-Indyen geschiet zijn. Eerstmael in Italiaensche tale beschreven.Amsterdam, Jacob Pietersz. Paets [printed by Isaac Jansz. Canin in Dordrecht?], 1610. Folio. With the engraved architectural frame on the title-page signed with a BD monogram (Baptista van Doetecum?) and 16 full-page and 2 smaller engraved portraits of contemporary lords and rulers by Nicolaes de Clerck (1569/70-1623). Contemporary vellum.

ULLOA, Alfonso de. · 1500 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[2], 221, [9] ll.Rare second Dutch edition of the first biography of the Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), originally published in Italian in Venice, 1560. The first Dutch edition was published at Antwerp in 1570. The present second Dutch edition of 1610 appeared in three issues: t…

31 signatures of mainly American famous people.

AUTOGRAPH COLLECTION · 1874 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.41 | ¥17,603)

Various formats, from complete letters to cut-off signatures and autographs written on collector's cards. 19th and 20th centuries. From writers and painters to politicians, talk show hosts and even a humorist and a great picture collector. Laura Adams Armer (1874-1963), American…

. Theophrasti Characteres Ethici; Ex Recensione Petri Needham, Et Versione Latina Isaaci Casauboni.

Theophrastus [ The phrastos]; Peter Needham (1680-1731); Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) · 1743 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$795.00 (€721.28 | £601.65 | ¥126,966)

Glasguae [Glasgow] In Aedibus Academicis Excudebat Robertus Foulis Academiae Typographus. First Edition pp. [2], 105. 12mo., measuring 20 cm tall. Unassuming, modest brown leather over boards; four raised bands to spine, five compartments. Printed in Greek type with the Latin tr…

Magni Des. Erasmi Roterodami vita; partim ab ipsomet Erasmo, partim ab amicis aequalibus fideliter descripta. Accedunt Epistolae illustres plus quam septuaginta, quas aetate provectiore scripsit, nec inter vulgatas in magno volumine comparent, P. Scriverii, & fautorum auspiciis.

ERASMUS. · 1642 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€175.00 ($192.89 | £145.98 | ¥30,805)

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Ioannis Maire, 1642. 12mo. (XXXIV),394,(2 blank) p. Overlapping vellum 13 cm (Ref: Breugelmans p. 494, 1642:7) (Details: Boards with blind double fillet borders. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting a farmer stamping a shovel i…

[Maritime] The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor; or, a Key To the Leading of Rigging, and To Practical Seamanship

LEVER, Darcy (1760?–1839) · 1808 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,774.00 (€1,609.50 | £1,342.55 | ¥283,319)

London Printed for John Richardson, under the Royal Exchange; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury booksellers to the honourable East India Company; and William Heather, Leadenhall Street Rare First Edition, second issue, of this key work on maritime and nautical procedures and equipment…

A Japanese and English Dictionary; with an English and Japanese Index. Shanghai (Yokohama), American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1867.

HEPBURN, JAMES CURTIS: · 1830 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

4to. Pp. xii, 557, one blank, (Index) pp. 132. With titles in Japanese and English. Partly stained, titles and a few leaves at the end more severe. Contemporary half calf on cloth boards, restored, spine with four raised bands, lettered in gilt. Interesting provenance: Stamp of …

Carrie Mae Weems

Lewis, Sarah Elizabeth · 2020 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Cambridge, Massachusetts, The MIT Press, 2020. Hardcover. Purple and white boards with b&w-photo illustration and white and black lettering; xviii, 202 pp.; 16 unnumbered pages of plates; richly illustrated. "Since the 1980s, the artist Carrie Mae Weems has challenged the status…

Ozenfant Paintings 1945

1946 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.33 | ¥13,575)

New York, Passedoit Gallery, 1946. Original. Ephemera. Single folded cream sheet with black lettering. No illus. "Catalogue" from the exhibition of March 25 through April 13, 1946 of 8 paintings by Amedee Ozenfant. All works were completed in 1945 and are listed by title, with m…

The Museum As Muse: Artists Reflect

McShine, Kynaston · 1999 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1999. Softcover. Grey color illustrated wraps with silver lettering on spine. 296 pp. Numerous color & bw plates. "The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect surveys the ways in which artists, mostly of the present century, have addressed the museum,…

The Unkind Word, and Other Stories

ANONYMOUS (PSEUDONYM OF MRS. CRAIK - NEE DINAH MARIA MULOCK) · 1870 · S. Howlett-West Books

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)

New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1870. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Several of the stories included in this compilation are supernatural or fantastic in nature. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book a…

The Survey of Cornwall. And An Epistle concerning the Excellencies of the English Tongue. Now first Published from the Manuscript. With the Life of the Author, By H*** C***** Esq. [Pierre Des Maizeaux].

CAREW (Richard): · 1723 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£2,000.00 (€2,397.66 | $2,642.72 | ¥422,059)

London, Printed for Samuel Chapman, at the Angel in Pallmall; Daniel Brown jun. at the Black Swan without Temple-Bar; and James Woodman, at Camden's-Head in Bowstreet, Covent-Garden. 1723. FIRST EDITION. Large 8vo, 225 x 172 mms., pp. [ii] [ii] iii - xix [xx blank], [viii], t…

Life of Captain Joseph Fry the Cuban Martyr

WALKER, JEANIE MORT · 1875 · S. Howlett-West Books

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.33 | ¥13,575)

Hartford, CT: The J. B. Burr Publishing Co, 1875. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Good condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The book covers have bumping, rubbing, edge wear, spots of fraying and noticeable generalized bi…