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1936-1940 Incredible Diary Chronicling a Rural New York Farm Girl’S Life from Age 11 to 16, Meeting Her Husband and Becoming a Woman

PAULINE E. GELSER · 1936 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,450.00 (€1,315.54 | £1,097.35 | ¥231,574)

Duncan, Short Tract, Hornellsville, Canaseraga, New York, Rural New York, 1936-1940. Cloth. On offer is the outstanding five-year manuscript diary of bright, chatty and boy-crazy Pauline E. Gelser (b. July 26, 1924) kept from age 11 through 16, as she completes her schooling, da…

When courts & congress collide. The struggle for control of America's judicial system

Geyh, Charles Gardner · 2006 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

The University of Michigan Press, 2006 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 332 pages. Text in English. Small crease in the dust jacket, otherwise as new. ''This is quite simply the best study of judicial independence that I have ever read; it is erudite, historically aware, and politic…

Album of Ephemera

Various · 1860 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

None, None, c1826-1860. Leather. A fascinating and unique collection of ephemera from the nineteenth century, with sketches, hand-written poetry and more. From the library of noted art historian, Patricia Milne Henderson. With a letter loosely inserted addressed to this album"s …

Works of the Late Reverend William Romaine

William Romaine; William Bromley Cadogan · 1809 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, P. Wright, 1809. Leather. A scarce set of the Works of the evangelical preacher William Romaine, a highly influential Anglican preacher in eighteenth century England. The Whole Works of the Late Reverend William Romaine, including his evangelical trilogy The Life, The Wa…

Lavengro; the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest

BORROW, George · 1851 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$2,750.00 (€2,494.99 | £2,081.19 | ¥439,192)

London: John Murray, 1851. Extra-Illustrated with an Original Watercolor Cycle A Fully Realized Victorian Vision of Lavengro BORROW, George. Lavengro; The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest. London: John Murray, 1851. First edition. Three octavo volumes (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 194 …

The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison

Edited by Preston Grassman · 2019 · Pat Cramer, Bookseller

$119.50 (€108.42 | £90.44 | ¥19,085)

Book Yoshika Nagata Fine Fine First Edition/First Printing PS Publishing Hornsea A square solid tight clean unread unused copy. Illustrated boards and endpapers. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. It was sometime in the mid-nineties at Dangerous Visio…

Animadversiones sive commentarius in quatuor evangelia, in quo collatis, Syri imprimis, Arabis, evangelii Hebræi, Vulgati, Erasmi & Bezæ versionibus ...Leiden, Ex officina Bonaventura & Abraham Elzevir, 1631. With: (bound before ad 1): (2) CHRISTEN, Johannes. Speculum harmonicum ... Bern, Georgius Sonnleitnerus, 1642. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page, 3 woodcut decorated initials, 2 woodcut headpieces and a woodcut tailpiece. Ad 2 with a frame built up from typographical ornaments on the title page, 3 woodcut decorated initials, a woodcut headpiece, plus 8 headpieces and 2 tailpieces built up from typographical ornaments. Contemporary blind-tooled overlapping vellum, with the manuscript title on the head of the spine, blue edges.

DIEU, Louis de. · 1590 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[16], 87, [1 blank]; [16], 548, [19], [1 blank] pp.Ad 1: First edition of a rare work with commentary on the four Gospels by an important Orientalist. The work is partly printed in Syriac, Arabic, Hebrew and Greek. Louis de Dieu (1590-1642), who was well-versed in all these lang…

Confessionale sive libellus modum confitendi pulcherrime co[m]plecte[n]s, necessarius atq[ue] utilis, & cuilibet recte confiteri vole[n]ti, & ipsis sacerdotibus, qui aliorum confessiones audire habe[n]t. Editus a celeberrimo academie Lovanien[sis]. ... Denuo ab eodem recognitus et castigatus anno mil. CCCCC. XIX. men. Junii. die. xxvii.(Colophon: Antwerp, Michiel Hillen van Hoochstraten, 8 July 1519). Small 8vo (14 x 10 cm). Title-page in red & black with a red woodcut rebus of the author's name at the foot. 17th-century(?) vellum with the vellum.

ROSEMONDT, Godschalc. · 1483 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)

251, [5] ll.Rare third edition of an interesting Latin work on confession by the highly respected Louvain (moderate) inquisitor and professor of theology Godschalc Rosemont (1483-1526). He corresponded with Erasmus (cf. Allen Ep. 1153, 1164 & 1172), who called him in one letter:…

French Invasions of Britain and Ireland 1792-1815: The Revolutionaries and Spies Who Sought to Topple the Government of King George

Paul L. Dawson · 2023 · Winkles Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Book New New 1st Edition Frontline Books Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Not since 1066 - at least in popular myth - has an enemy force set foot on British soil. The Declaration of War with Revolutionary France in 1793 changed all that. In Ireland, the desire for home rule le…

Kinetische Theorie der Vorgänge in Mässig verdünnten Gasen. I. Allgemeiner Teil. Inaugural-Dissertation.

Enskog, D. · 1917 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€3,600.00 ($3,967.95 | £3,002.92 | ¥633,705)

Uppsala, Almqvist & Wiksell, 1917. 8vo (22.4 x 14.4 cm). [ii], 160 pp. Original printed wrappers. = The "too good to be understood" thesis of the Swedish mathematical physicist David Enskog (1884-1947), who helped develop the kinetic theory of gases by extending the Maxwell-Bolt…

The Illustrated London News, June 20, 1936: Cover Photo Portrait of the Late G.K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton / Arab Riots in Palestine

CHESTERTON, G. K.; ET AL · 1936 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

London: The Illustrated London News, 1936. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Spurrier, Steven. Pages 1097- 1142. Features: Cover photo portrait of "G.K.C.", The late Gilbert Keith Chesterton, writer of "Our Note-Book" for 31 years, essayist, novelist, poet, dramatist, cri…

The Illustrated London News (Iln), March (Mar. ) 17, 1945 - Captured Cologne / First Rhine Crossing

BRYANT, ARTHUR; ET AL · 1945 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$299.95 (€272.14 | £227.00 | ¥47,904)

Loganville, Pennsylvania: The Illustrated London News & Sketch Ltd, 1945. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by De Grineau, Bryan; Bateman, H.M.. Pages 281-308. Features: Great cover photo of Patton, Eisenhower, Hodges and Bradley standing side-by-side in uniform;…

The Illustrated London News, August (Aug. ) 4, 1945: Great Coverage of Wwii Aftermath / Mitchell Bomber Strikes Empire State Building

BRYANT, ARTHUR; SQUIRE, SIR JOHN; FALLS, CYRIL; ET AL · 1945 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$299.95 (€272.14 | £227.00 | ¥47,904)

London: The Illustrated London News, 1945. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Davis, G.H.. Pages 113-140. Features: Cover photo of smiling Churchill leaving Downing St. for Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation; Four photos of France's Marshall Petain in court, and t…

Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image

CAXTON CLUB · 2018 · Round Table Books, LLC

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press / The Caxton Club, 2018. 022646850X. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 022646850X. Publisher's full red cloth, silver lettering on spine, silver star medallion embossed on cover. Profusely illustrated with color and B&W photograp…

Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image

CAXTON CLUB · 2018 · Round Table Books, LLC

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press / The Caxton Club, 2018. 022646850X. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 022646850X. Publisher's full red cloth, silver lettering on spine, silver star medallion embossed on cover. Profusely illustrated with color and B&W photograp…

Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image

CAXTON CLUB · 2018 · Round Table Books, LLC

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press / The Caxton Club, 2018. 022646850X. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 022646850X. Publisher's full red cloth, silver lettering on spine, silver star medallion embossed on cover. Profusely illustrated with color and B&W photograp…

Chicago by the Book: 101 Publications That Shaped the City and Its Image

CAXTON CLUB · 2018 · Round Table Books, LLC

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Chicago: University of Chicago Press / The Caxton Club, 2018. 022646850X. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 022646850X. Publisher's full red cloth, silver lettering on spine, silver star medallion embossed on cover. Profusely illustrated with color and B&W photograp…

The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond : A Picture Of Monastic Life In The Days Of Abbot Samson Newly Editied By Sir Ernest Clarke. [ The King's Classics ].

CLARKE, SIR ERNEST . · 1903 · Chilton Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

London: Alexander Moring, The Dela More Press, 298 Regent Street, W, 1903 . 0. First edition. 12mo. 15.8cm x 12cm x 2.5cm (6" x 5" x 1"), pp.44/285. Original white papered spine (now soiled) with original paper label (browned), over grey-blue boards. Top edge gilt, others untrim…

The Blacke Bookes Messenger. (1592). and 'Cuthbert Conny-Catcher' The Defence of Conny-Catching. (1592).

GREENE, ROBERT. · 1924 · Chilton Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London: John Lane, Bodley Head, 1924. Facsimile reprint.The original of this text is in the Bodleian Library (Malone 575), issued as Vol X in the Bodley Head Quartos series. Pp.65/errata page/ 2(ads), toning to endpapers. Dark fawn cloth, blue titles to front board and spine, sp…

Henry VIII and James I and VI

A. F. Pollard; T. F. Henderson · 1902 · Rooke Books

£945.00 (€1,132.90 | $1,248.69 | ¥199,423)

London, Goupil & Co, 1902 - 1904. First edition. Cloth. A set of two limited edition volumes looking at two historic British monarchs, Henry VIII, and James I, illustrated throughout with coloured frontispiece and contemporary portraits of prominent figures. Both volumes are lim…