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\"Pain the Cause of human Volition, and, of all Voluntary Motion; as Pleasure the End design'd by all Voluntary Activity / By Philo-Veritas.\"

MANUSCRIPT. PHILO-VERITAS (pseudonym): · 1780 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£3,000.00 (€3,596.50 | $3,964.08 | ¥633,089)

Manuscript. 8vo, 8vo. 75 mms. x 125 mms. 64 numbered pages,. 175 mms. x 125 mms, 32 leaves, written mostly on recto and verso, two rectos blank, two of last three leaves blank, two visible stubs after main text with some writing on them, bound in contemporary limp sheep. The…

Political Thought and Eleventh-Century Populism. The Meek, the Many, and the Meritorious during the Age of the Gregorian Reform

Jason MacLeod · 2026 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.24 | ¥16,723)

, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: 336, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language(s):English, Latin. ISBN 9782503614304. Summary The populist movements of the eleventh century (the Peace of God, Gregorian Reform, and the First Crusade) did not simply mark an important pivot in the greater his…

Handwritten Notebook

E. A. Falk · 1896 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

None, None, 1896. Vellum. A very scarce notebook, with many handwritten entries of poetry, and speeches, in English, Greek, and Latin. The notebook of E. A. Falk of Kings College, dated by himself as July 16th 1896.This notebook contains writing to eighty-five leaves, the rest o…

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R. S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reign of Charles II and James II. Comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669, Deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, A.B. Of St. John&Apos;S College, Cambridge, from the Original Short-Hand Ms. In the Pepysian Library, and a Selection from His Private Correspondence

Samuel Pepys; Richard Lord Braybrooke (ed) · 1825 · Rooke Books

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

London, Henry Colburn, 1825. First edition. Leather. The first printed edition of this famous diary, and therefore contemporaneous account of the fire of London. Edited by Lord Braybrooke using John Smith's transcription of the original diary. Illustrated, with a frontispie…

The History of England by Hume and Smollett with a Continuation to the Present Time

David Hume and Tobias Smollett · 1754 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.63 | $422.84 | ¥67,529)

London , Virtue and Co. c1878. Cloth. An illustrated History of England with steel engravings and colour maps. The History of England from the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the end of the Reign of James II By David Hume; continued From the Reign of William and Mary to the Death o…

A Collection of Science Fiction Paperbacks

Nigel Kneale; Piers Anthony; Larry Niven; Michael Moorcock; Trevor Donohue · 1960 · Rooke Books

£88.00 (€105.50 | $116.28 | ¥18,571)

London; New York; Manchester; St. Kilda, Penguin Books; Avon; Ballantine Books; Savoy Books; Cory & Collins, 1960-1977. First edition. Paperback. A collection of five smart first edition paperback science fiction works. Five volumes. First edition. This set includes: Quatermass …

5 Vols the Zincali: Or, an Account of the Gypsies of Spain; the Romany Rye: A Sequel to "Lavengro. "; Romano Lavo-LIL: Word-Book of the Romany, or, English Gypsy Language.

George Borrow · 1841 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London, John Murray, 1841-1874 . Cloth. An interesting five-volume set of works on Romany life and language by George Borrow, from the first edition Zincali to the later Romano Lavo-Lil. In the publisher's original blue cloth bindings.  Each volume retaining the half-title.…

Pharmacopoeia Londinensis or the New London Dispensatory

William Salmon · 1682 · Rooke Books

£1,700.00 (€2,038.01 | $2,246.31 | ¥358,750)

London, Th Dawks; Th Basset et al, 1682. Leather. The scarce second edition of Thomas Salmon's translation of the noted medical text 'Pharmacopoeia Londinensis&apos. The first owner of this work was Dr Philip Wyatt Crowther (1752-1804) and Dr William Lodwick Crowther (…

The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis Baron de Pollnitz

Karl Ludwig Pollnitz; Charles-Lewis Baron de Pollnitz · 1739 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)

London, Daniel Browne, 1739. Leather. The complete four volume set of these memoirs by Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz. The second edition of this work, which was originally issued in two volumes. These four volumes are the observations the Baron of Pollnitz made during his lat…

Reinventing the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Constructions of the Medieval and Early Modern Periods,

W. F. Gentrup (ed.); · 1998 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€60.50 ($66.68 | £50.47 | ¥10,650)

Turnhout, Brepols, 1998 Hardback, XX 243 p., 7 b/w ill., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503508047. The fourteen essays presented in this volume take an historicized approach to constructions of the past, and all of them focus on how and why the present of any period uses the past to pr…

Imagines deorum, qui ab antiquis colebantur: in quibus simulacra, ritus, caerimoniae, magnaque, ex parte veterum religio explicatur: olim a Vincentio Chartario Rhegiensi ex variis auctoribus in unum collectae, atque in Italica lingua expositae: nunc vero ad communem omnium utilitatem Latino sermone ab Ant. Verderio domino Vallisprivatae, &c. expressae, atque in meliorem ordinem digestae. Quibus acc. duo indices: prior, imaginum: posterior, rerum atque verborum, quae toto libro continentur.Lyons, Etienne Michel (colophon: printed by Guichard Julliéron), 1581 (colophon: August). 4to. With Michel's woodcut publisher’s device on the title-page (an Ottoman man and a fruit tree with motto “virtutes sibi invicem adhaerent”), a full-page woodcut portrait of Antoine du Verdier, a small woodcut illustration and 89 beautiful large woodcuts (13 x 9.5 cm) of classical mythological gods and heroes in the text. Modern sheepskin parchmen.

CARTARI, Vincenzo [& Antoine du VERDIER]. · 1556 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8], 359, [57] pp.First edition of the Latin translation of a famous manual on the imagery of the classical gods and heroes, first published in Italian (without illustrations) at Venice in 1556, and intended as a source book for artists. The present Latin edition, translated and…

HARDBALL INK. Photograph Portfolio / Notebook / Scrapbook of Work Done / Designs Available

[California Tattoo Shop Documentation] · 1990 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$330.00 (€299.40 | £249.74 | ¥52,703)

Orange CA: , (n. d.). Ca 1990s / early 2000s. Black leather notebook, with red devil head graphic pasted to front cover. Faint lettering of "Illustrations" at top of front cover. 25 leaves of transparent plastic sleeves. 136 amateur color photogrphic images, ranging in size from…

Whitney Binnial, 2012

Sussman, Elizabeth (and) Jay Sanders · 2012 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2012. Softcover. A burnt orange softcover with French flaps. The title is printed in a dull gold across the front cover and down the spine. The inside of the cover is a rich red. Pages: (8), 9-319, (1). Illustrated with hundred of true-t…

St. Louis: An Informal History of the City and Its People, 1764-1865

Ravenswaay, Charles van and Candace O'Connor (ed.) · 1991 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$43.00 (€39.01 | £32.54 | ¥6,867)

St. Louis, MO, Missouri Historical Society Press, 1991. Hardcover. Red cloth boards with gold gilt lettering, green and color illustrated dust jacket with orange and yellow lettering, ix, 568 pp. bw and color illustrations. "Founded as a fur trading post in 1764, St. Louis grew …

The Dramatic and Poetical Works of the Late Lieut. Gen. J. Burgoyne; to which is prefixed, Memoirs of the Author. Embellished with Copper-Plaes.

BURGOYNE (Lieutenant General John): · 1808 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London: Printed by C. Whittingham, for Scatcherd and Letterman, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme; R. Scholey; P. and W. Wynne; J. Booker; J.J. Stockdale; J. Booth; J. Carpenter; R. Ryan; G. Richards; C. Chapple; and H. Ebers., 1808. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 207 x…

Obras Chronologicas de Don Gaspar Ibanez de Segovia Per alta I Mendoza, Cavallero de la Orden de Alcantara, Marques de Mondejar, de Valhermoso, i de Agropoli, Conde de Tendilla, Alcaide que sue de la Alhambra, i Capitan General de la Ciudad, de Granada, &c. Las Publica de Orden, i a Expensas de la Academia Valenciana....

MONDEJAR (Gaspar Ibáñez de Segovia; publicadas por Gregorio Mayans y Siscar, Marques de): · 1744 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£600.00 (€719.30 | $792.82 | ¥126,618)

Valencenia, per Antonio Bordazar de Artazu, Impresso Academico, 1744. FIRST EDITION. Folio, 298 x 208 mms., pp. [xiv], xcvi, 279 [280 blank], including half-title, contemporary vellum; half-title partially detached at inner margin, binding a little soiled, but a good to very …

The Oxford Companion To Twentieth-Century Literature In English

Jenny Stringer · 1996 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

OUP Oxford 1996 Hardback, 784pp. Oxford Companions are known for their authority, comprehensiveness, and browsability--'the best reference books in the language,' according to Harper's . Perhaps the most well-known Companion of all has been The Oxford Companion to English Litera…

MR. DICKENS And MR. BENTLY. [accompanied by] ANs [3] by Richard Bentley [1839], 2 to Rev Richard Barham

Bentley, George. Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870] - Subject. Bentley, Richard [1794 - 1871] - Subject & ANs Correspondent. Barham, Richard Harris [1788 – 1845] - Letter recipient · 1871 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$1,650.00 (€1,497.00 | £1,248.71 | ¥263,515)

London: , 1871. 1st separate printing. Not in Gimbel. Self-wrappers, now housed in a custom red cloth chemise & slipcase. Leaflet: 4 pages. Each ANs, 2 pages [each one sheet, writing both sides]. ANs dates: Saturday May 6 1837 [to Rev R. H. Barham], July 28 1837 [to Rev R. H. Ba…

FREE EXAMINATION Of The SOCINIAN EXPOSITION Of The PREFATORY VERSES Of St. JOHN's GOSPEL. [including] Appendix, Containing Observations on the Argument Advanced ... by Mr. Lindsey, Against the Doctrine of the Pre-existence of Christ

Shepherd, Rev. Richard [1732? - 1809]. Lindsey, Theophilus [1723 - 1808] - Subject.  · 1781 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$1,485.00 (€1,347.30 | £1,123.84 | ¥237,164)

London: Printed for W. Flexney, Bookseller, opposite Grey's-Inn-Gate, Holburn, 1781. 1st edition. OCLC records 8 institutional holdings. Period bindings of full light brown spotted calf with elaborate gilt decorated spine; dentelles & marbled paper eps. Pale yellow edge stain. […

REFLECTIONS On The DOCTRINE Of MATERIALISM And The RELIGIOUS PURPOSES To WHICH MODERN PHILOSOPHERS HAVE APPLIED IT

Shepherd, Rev. Richard [1732? - 1809]. Priestley, Joseph [1733 - 1804] - Subject · 1779 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$1,485.00 (€1,347.30 | £1,123.84 | ¥237,164)

London: Printed for W. Flexney, Holborn, 1779. 2nd edition, revised and corrected. OCLC records only 2 institutional holdings. Period bindings of full light brown spotted calf with elaborate gilt decorated spine; dentelles & marbled paper eps. Pale yellow edge stain. [1], vii, 2…