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Foure Bookes of Du Bartas I. The Arke II. Babylon III. The Colonnyes IV. The Columuesor Pyllars

William L'Isle of Wilburgham · 1637 · Rooke Books

£500.00 (€599.42 | $660.68 | ¥105,515)

London, T. Paine, 1637. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of L'Isle's translation of the works of Du Bartas Rebacked with a new spine label and gilt lettering. With a large commentary by Simon Goulart de Senlis. Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–July …

The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments And other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, According to the Use Of the Church of England. Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David. Pointed as they are to be Sung or Said...

18TH CENTURY - ILLUSTRATED - WILLIAM EMMETT (BRITISH ENGRAVER, 1671–1736). · 1719 · Chilton Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London: Printed by John Baskett, Printer to the Kings most Excellent Majesty, And the Assigns of Thomas Newcomb, and Henry Hills, deceas'd. 1719. Cum Privilegio. 0. Original 18th century full leather binding and 51 full-page engravings (Engraving No. 50 is absent). 8vo. 18.8cm x…

Astounding Science Fiction: September, Sept. 1950

ASTOUNDING (FRITZ LEIBER; LAWRENCE O'DONNELL - AKA HENRY KUTTNER; WILLIAM MORRISON; WILLIAM T. POWERS; H. B. FYFE; L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP) · 1950 · Books from the crypt

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Street & Smith. 1950. Wraps. Magazine, Vol. XLVI, No. 1. Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. Cover art by Miller for "The Lion and the Lamb" (novelette) by Fritz Leiber. Includes "Paradise Street" (novelette) by Lawrence O'Donnell (Henry Kuttner & C. L. Moore); "The Sack" by Wil…

Speculum: A Journal of Mediaeval Studies, April, 1958, Vol XXXIII, no 2

Miller, Charles R.D. (ed.), H.M. Smyser, William M. Jewell and Richard N. Frye (assist. eds.) · 1958 · Books on the Web

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Cambridge: The Mediaeval Academy of America, 1958. Paper bound in gray wrappers, April 1958 issue only, Pp177-338. Contents: Florence and Henry of Luxemburg, King of the Romans: The Rebirth of Guelfism by William Bowsky; Mediaeval Art and Aesthetics in The Canterbury Tales by P…

Poems

John Lee Lewes · 1811 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

Liverpool, James Smith, 1811. First edition. Hardback. Signed by the author, this scarce collection of poems is by John Lee Lewes, son of the comic actor Charles Lee Lewes. The first edition of this poetry collection. In the publisher's original boards. Several leaves remai…

The Pilgrim&Apos;S Progress, from This World to That Which Is to Come & a True Relation of the Holy War Made by King Shaddai Upon Diabolus

John Bunyan; Rev. Robert Maguire; Rev. William Brock · 0 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1870. Leather. Two allegorical works from English writer and nonconformist preacher John Bunyan, bound into one volume. Two volumes bound into one. With a frontispiece to each volume and numerous illustrations. Written by John Bunyan, a prol…

With Kitchener in the Soudan

G. A. Henty · 1903 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

London, Blackie & Son, 1903. First edition. Cloth. First edition of this historical novel by George Alfred Henty, with illustrations by William Rainey. The first edition of this work, published in 1902 at six shillings before being reissued later in a cheaper edition. As usual w…

Close Encounters: the Sculptor's Studio in the Age of the Camera

WOOD, JON · 2001 · William Glynn

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Leeds, Henry Moore Institute. 2001, First Edition. Card Covers. 96 pages, b/w illustrations. Artists include Auguste Rodin, Barbara Hepworth, Sir William Hamo Thorneycroft, Henri Bouchard, Hans Arp. Henry Moore, F E McWilliam, Constantin Brancusi, Ossip Zadkine, Henri Gaudier-Br…

Fantastic Adventures: June 1951

FANTASTIC ADVENTURES (IVAR JORGENSEN; WILLIAM F. TEMPLE; WILLIAM P. MCGIVERN; ALFRED COPPEL; ROBERT MOORE WILLIAMS) · 1951 · Books from the crypt

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.24 | ¥2,795)

NY, Ziff Davis. 1951. Wraps. Magazine, Vol. 13, No. 6. Pulp magazine. Edited by Howard Browne. Cover art by Walter H. Hinton for "Whom the Gods Would Slay" (novel) by Ivar Jorgensen (Paul W. Fairman). Includes "You Can't See Me" by William F. Temple; "Conditioned Reflex" by Will…

Fantastic Adventures: June 1951

FANTASTIC ADVENTURES (IVAR JORGENSEN; WILLIAM F. TEMPLE; WILLIAM P. MCGIVERN; ALFRED COPPEL; ROBERT MOORE WILLIAMS) · 1951 · Books from the crypt

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.24 | ¥2,795)

NY, Ziff Davis. 1951. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 13, No. 6. Pulp magazine. Edited by Howard Browne. Cover art by Walter H. Hinton for "Whom the Gods Would Slay" (novel) by Ivar Jorgensen (Paul W. Fairman). Includes "You Can't See Me" by William F. Temple; "Conditioned Refle…

Fantastic Adventures: June 1951

FANTASTIC ADVENTURES (IVAR JORGENSEN; WILLIAM F. TEMPLE; WILLIAM P. MCGIVERN; ALFRED COPPEL; ROBERT MOORE WILLIAMS) · 1951 · Books from the crypt

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.24 | ¥2,795)

NY, Ziff Davis. 1951. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 13, No. 6. Pulp magazine. Edited by Howard Browne. Cover art by Walter H. Hinton for "Whom the Gods Would Slay" (novel) by Ivar Jorgensen (Paul W. Fairman). Includes "You Can't See Me" by William F. Temple; "Conditioned Refle…

MERLIN - THE POWER BEHIND THE SPITFIRE, MOSQUITO AND LANCASTER.

Hoyland, Graham, · 2020 · A Book for all Reasons

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

William Collins, London, 2020, 1st edn.., 358 pp. in text and full page half tone photo ills., exploded line drwing of the 1280hp Merlin angine at endpapers, dark blue cloth lettered in silver at spine, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, an account of the conception, birth…

The rivers of France, from drawings by Turner

Joseph Mallord William TURNER - Leitch RITCHIE · 1857 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€700.00 ($771.54 | £583.90 | ¥123,220)

Henry G. Bohn | London 1857 | 18.50 x 28 cm | relié | Nouvelle édition, après la première parue en 1835 (semblant être la troisième issue) et illustrée d'un titre gravé avec une vignette du chateau Gaillard et de 61 hors-texte sur acier par Turner et gravés par Higham, Brendard,…

Athenian Letters: Or, the Epistolary Correspondence of an Agent of the King of Persia, Residing at Athens During the Peloponnesian War

Philip Yorke; Charles Yorke et al. · 1798 · Rooke Books

£2,950.00 (€3,536.56 | $3,898.02 | ¥622,537)

London, T. Cadell Jun. And W. Davies, 1798. Leather. The first illustrated edition of this epistolary work consisting of fictional letters purportedly written during the Peloponnesian War. A delightfully bound two volume edition of this collaboratively produced work of Ancient G…

The life of Lorenzo de Medici

Roscoe, William; revised by his son, Thomas Roscoe · 1846 · Acanthophyllum Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Henry G. Bohn, London. 8th edition. V.g.. No Jacket. Publisher's green embossed cloth covers, bumped at corners, vol. 1 starting to split along edge of spine. Engraved frontispiece by Hinchliff after Vasari; no guard. Bookplate "ex libris Edwardus Evans". Roscoe, a Unitarian by …

A Doctor's Odyssey: A Sentimental Record of le Roy Crummer: Physician, Author, Bibliophile, Artist in Living, 1872-1934

BEAMAN, A. GAYLORD · 1935 · Bookshop Baltimore

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

The Johns Hopkins Press, 1935. Hardcover. 340 pages. Frontispiece portrait of Dr Crummer by Harold Knight. 14 illustrations. Mild spine crack when opening the book. G .

Arabian Nights&Apos; Entertainments

1868 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1868. Leather. A wonderfully illustrated leather bound copy of the 'Arabian Nights' Entertainments', with engravings by the Brothers Dalziel. Bound in half calf on cloth boards.Illustrations include 'upwards of two hundred illus…

Fantastic Universe _ Ocotober 1956 _ Vol 6 No. 3

Santesson, Hans Stefan; et al (text) · 1956 · San Francisco Book Company

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

New York King-Size Publications Paperback Octavo wraps, 128 pp, cover slightly worn, creased and soiled Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Good

Copy of Lease & Release for the Sale of Properties.

18TH CENTURY LEGAL DOCUMENT - SOLOMON HENRY, SAMUEL MOULTON [ TENNANTS: JOHN MURRELS, JAMES WEBB, WILLIAM PARISH, SHADRICK BROWN ] . · 1768 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

Sudbury: 21st July, 1768 . 0. Copy of Lease & Release for the Sale of Properties by Solomon Henry, New Basinghall St, London, to Samuel Moulton the elder, Sudbury, Lath River. The properties located in Cornard End, Cornard Street Sudbury, Suffolk. Tenants: John Murrels, James We…

The Plain Truth: A Dialogue between Sir Courtly Jobber [... ] and Tom Telltruth

James Ralph · 1741 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)

London, J. Huggonson, 1741 . First edition. Leather. An exceptional example of the very scarce first edition of this mid-18th century political satire arguing for restrained foreign policy on the continent. The very scarce first edition of this work. Last seen at auction in 1968…