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DINNER To The RIGH HONOURABLE SIR ESME WILLIAM HOWARD; His Britannic Majesty's Ambassador to the United States by the Lotos Club New York April 9th 1924

[Souvenir Event Menu]. Howard, Esme William [1863 - 1939] - Honoree. Sindelar, Charles James [1875 - 1947] - Artist · 1924 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$247.50 (€224.55 | £187.31 | ¥39,527)

[New York]: , 1924. 1st Printing. SIGNED by the Ambassador. Now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. Broadside, with a 'plate' impression applied. Image of Howard, with credits & accomplishments listed underneath, as well as the evening's menu. Graphics by Chas. Sindelar [signed …

1806 Certificate of Positive Financial Standing for a Mortgage Applicant in Lille, France

THERIOUX · 1806 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$169.99 (€154.23 | £128.65 | ¥27,148)

Lille France, 1806. Ephemera. On offer is a superb mortgage document dating from the beginning of the 19th century in northern France. The document is a certificate confirming that one Louis Jean Baptiste Joseph Demarieres has no mortgages or other debts registered against him i…

Maclean's, Canada's National Magazine, 15 July 1945, Vol. 58, No. 14: Vivid Close-Up of Harry Truman

MICHIE, CHARLES A.; FRAYNE, TRENT; JEFFRIES, HUGH; SHAPIRO, L.S.R.; MAYSE, ARTHUR; KEATE, STUART; MERGENDAHL, CHARLES; BARLOW, JORDAN; KING-HALL, STEPHEN; LEBOURDAIS, D.M.; WIRSIG, WOODROW; · 1945 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.64 | £223.25 | ¥47,113)

Toronto: Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company Limited, 1945. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Gloyne; Buresch, Joe E.. Features: Nice Ford ad inside front cover features colour illustration of an old-time barn raising; Man From Missouri - A vivid close-up of Harry S. Truman, t…

Tractatus physico-anatomico-medicus de respiratione usuque pulmonum, In quo, praeter primam respirationis in foetu inchoationem, aëris per circulam propulsio statuminatur, attractio exploditur; experimentaque ad explicandum sanguinis in corde tam auctum quam diminutum motum in medium producintir. B.u.w. 2) THRUSTON, M. De respirationis usu primario, diatriba. B.u.w. 3) MAYOW, J. Tractatus duo, quorum prior agit de respiratione: alter de rachitide.

SWAMMERDAM, Johannes.- THRUSTON.- MAYOW.- Respiration.- · 1679 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€3,250.00 ($3,582.17 | £2,710.97 | ¥572,095)

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden]; Ibid; Ibid., Apud Joannem vander Linden; Felicem Lopez de Haro, Cornelium Driehuysen; idem, 1679. - 1671, 1671. 8vo. 3 vols. in 1. The Swammerdam w. engr. title ['G.W.Scul' = G. Wingendorp] (some browning), small woodc. engr. vign. on printed tile &…

Ye "Olde Cock Tavern."

TENNYSON, ALFRED . · 1930 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

(London) : Camden Press, (1930?). 0. Scarce 7 page booklet. Publication details from COPAC (British Library online). [2pp.]/pp.3/[2pp.] . 8.5" x 6.5". Illustrated paper cover, with a scene of Tennyson writing his monologue in the Old Cock Tavern. rear paper cover with a full-pag…

Grande Course Au Clocher Académique. Suite de Cinq Planches. ("the Long March to the Académie Française's Bell Tower. ") Complete Set of the 5 Lithographs. First Editions

Grandville (Jean-Ignace-Isidore Gérard, dit) (1803-1847);, dessinateur-lithographe; Auguste Desperet ou Desperret, (en 1865), dessinateur-lithographe Aubert (Imprimeur, lithographe, éditeur), imprimeur-lithographe; Benard, Jean-François (Paris, 28-07-1796 · 1839 · Wittenborn Art Books

$4,500.00 (€4,082.72 | £3,405.58 | ¥718,678)

Paris: 1839-1840. A suite of 5 handcolored lithographs, framed. 35 x 50cm sheet sizes. The very rare 4th and 5th prints look similar to the 2nd and 3rd but there are changes to some of the figures and the text.. Three of the prints appeared in La Caricature Provisoire deuxième s…

Les plus anciennes chartes russes. Fonds des Archives municipales de Riga, XII-XIV s.

Pierre Gonneau, Alexsandrs Ivanovs, Anatoly Kuznetsov · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€470.00 ($518.04 | £392.05 | ¥82,734)

, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, x + 410 pages, Size:305 x 440 mm, Illustrations:201 b/w, 28 tables b/w., 1 maps b/w, Language(s):French, Russian. ISBN 9782503590035. Summary Publication of 27 original documents, which are the oldest testimonies of the diplomatic practice of medieval…

Egypt Under The Pharaohs. A History Derived Entiely from The Monuments By Heinrich Brugsch-Bey. A New Edition Condensed And Thoroughly Revised By M. Brodrick. with Maps, Plans, And Illustrations.

BRUGSCH-BEY, HEINRICH / BRODRICK, M. · 1891 · Chilton Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, 1891 . 0. First edition with an interesting provenance. 8vo. 23cm x 15cm x 4cm. pp.28/pp.469/pp.28 Original black cloth covered boards. Gilt image of a Pharaoh to the front board and gilt titles an decoration to the spine. Boards and spine …

Comparative Meltonians, As They Are, and As They Were... [&] Hunting, or Six Hours' Sport, by Three Real Good Ones... [&] Shooting, or One Day's Sport of Three Real Good One's. .

ALKEN, Henry · 1823 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$19,500.00 (€17,691.78 | £14,757.51 | ¥3,114,270)

London: Thomas M'Lean, Repository of Wit and Humour, 1823. Newcomers to the Meltonian Hunt who Dress like Dandies and have no Thought for their Horses "A Very Rare Series, Amongst the Largest and Finest of Alken's Plates." (Tooley) ALKEN, Henry. Comparative Meltonians, As they a…

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

TOKLAS, Alice B · 61947 · Charles Agvent

$2,187.50 (€1,984.65 | £1,655.49 | ¥349,357)

Paris. Superb closely written four-page AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED composed within a year after Gertrude Stein's death on an 8" x 10-1/2" sheet folded into fours to friend Tony Scott SIGNED "Alice Toklas." With the original envelope addressed in Toklas's hand and SIGNED by her. Fin…

Historische reisbeschryving van geheel Zuid-America; gedaan op bevel des konings van Spanje, door Don George Juan ... en door Don Antonio de Ulloa ...Goes, Jacobus Huysman (colophon: printed in The Hague by Jacobus van Karnebeek), 1771-1772 (colophon volume 2: 1773). 2 volumes. Large 4to (ca. 28.5 x 22 cm). With both title-pages printed in red and black with engraved vignettes by H. Vinkeles, an engraved allegorical frontispiece by H. Vinkeles in volume 1, a head-piece above the dedication by J. Huysman after S. Fokke, 15 folding maps and plans (including a large map of the Pacific by J. van Jagen, dated 1771), 2 folding engraved plates, 8 full page engraved plates, and many head pieces built up from typographical ornaments and several woodcut tail pieces. Contemporary half sprinkled calf.

ULLOA, Antonio de and Jorge JUAN SANTACILIA. · 1716 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], [4], XXIV, 428; [1], [1 blank], VIII, IV, 406, [1], [1 blank] pp.First and only edition of the Dutch translation of this description of South America by the Spanish naval officer and mathematician Antonio de Ulloa (1716-1795), dedicated to the Gov…

Historia septem sapientum Rome.Cologne, Johann Koelhoff the Elder, of Lübeck, (before 6 November) 1490. 4to (200 x 128 mm), 34-37 lines, gothic type, rubricated in red. Illustrated with a large armorial woodcut printer’s device at the end and 23 full-page woodcuts, with two of the woodcuts repeated several times. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled full calf over wooden boards. Remains of clasps. Endpapers from a rubricated incunabular edition of the Biblia cum glossa ordinaria.

[SINDBAD - SEVEN SAGES]. · 1475 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€125,000.00 ($137,775.88 | £104,268.12 | ¥22,003,656)

[50] ff. [a–g6, H8].Very rare Cologne edition of “The Seven Sages of Rome”, a popular mediaeval cycle of stories about wise counsellors and wicked women which has its ultimate roots in the Middle East, where it is usually known as “The Book of Sindbad”. This Latin edition (the s…

Theology Pope 1722 | Complete copy with the folding plate of the (female) pope giving childbirth: 't Leven van Johanna, Paus van Rome, onder den Naam van Johannes den Achtsten (...), Amsterdam Smets 1722, (16)+407+(11 bladwijzer) pp.

[A.M.] · 1691 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€294.30 ($324.38 | £245.49 | ¥51,805)

Good copy about the legend that a woman was pope in the 9th century under the name of Pope John eighth. Illustrated with 5 (spicy) engravings. Some folds on the titlepage and therefore some weak paper, right top fortified with some laid paper. Modern endpapers. Further in good c…

The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray; Anne Ritchie [intro.] · 1899 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Smith, Elder & Co. 1899-1901. Leather. A complete thirteen volume set of the biographical edition of the illustrated works of William Makepeace Thackeray, bound by Riviere & Son. Complete in thirteen volumes. The biographical edition. Bound in half green calf. A signed b…

Photographie originale où posent notamment Georges Auric, Jean Cocteau, Valentine et Jean Hugo, Bolette Natanson et Raymond Radiguet en tenue de bain sur la plage du Piquey.

Georges AURIC - Jean COCTEAU - Valentine HUGO · 1923 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,200.00 ($1,322.65 | £1,000.97 | ¥211,235)

Paris s. d. [1923] | 14.50 x 9.50 cm | une photographie | Photographie originale représentant, en tenue de bain et sur une plage, le groupe d'amis que formaient Bolette Natanson, Valentine Hugo, Jean Cocteau et Georges Auric (le seul en costume de ville). Tirage d'époque. Très b…

Fragment recto verso de l'office des morts • [LIVRE D'HEURES - ENLUMINURES]

1500 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€800.00 ($881.77 | £667.32 | ¥140,823)

fin XVe- début XVIe s. | 12.20 x 16.70 cm | feuillet sur parchemin | Fragment recto verso d'un livre d'heures manuscrit sur parchemin avec encadrements somptueusement enluminés à pleine page. Cette division en compartiments des ornements est représentative de la production des a…

Fragment recto verso de l'office des morts • [LIVRE D'HEURES - ENLUMINURES]

1500 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€800.00 ($881.77 | £667.32 | ¥140,823)

fin XVe- début XVIe s. | 12.20 x 16.70 cm | feuillet sur parchemin | Fragments recto verso d'un livre d'heures manuscrit sur parchemin avec encadrements somptueusement enluminés à pleine page. Cette division en compartiments des ornements est représentative de la production des …

Quarante-huit

(à Marcel PROUST) - Robert DREYFUS · 1907 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

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

les Cahiers de la Quinzaine | Paris 1907 | 13 x 19 cm | broché | Edition originale sur papier courant. Petits manques en tête et en pied du dos, quelques piqûres et taches claires sur les plats. Exceptionnel envoi autographe signé de Robert Dreyfus à son ami : « À Marcel Proust.…

Histoire de l'Ambassade dans le grand duché de Varsovie en 1812

Dominique Dufour de PRADT · 1815 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€600.00 ($661.32 | £500.49 | ¥105,618)

Chez Pillet | à Paris 1815 | 12 x 20 cm | relié | Edition originale. Reliure de l'époque en pleine basane blonde racinée. Dos lisse orné de motifs géométriques, de fleurons et de dentelles dorés. Pièce de titre de maroquin vert. Filet à froid en encadrement des plats. Roulette d…

Die Jünge Parze - Exemplaire d'Edgar Jené • [La jeune Parque - Exemplaire d'Edgar Jené]

Paul CELAN (Trad.) - (envoi à Edgar JENÉ) - Paul VALÉRY · 1960 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€2,300.00 ($2,535.08 | £1,918.53 | ¥404,867)

Insel verlag | Wiesbaden 1960 | 21.50 x 33.50 cm | broché sous étui | Edition originale de la traduction allemande établie par Paul Celan et imprimée sur vergé. Légères piqûres sans gravité sur un plat de l'étui. Agréable exemplaire. Envoi autographe daté et signé de Paul Celan …