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CAINE, HALL · 1934 · Little Lane Books

A$14.00 (€8.61 | $9.49 | £7.18 | ¥1,515)

UK, Cassell & Company. 1934. Hardcover , 18 Cm. Book, Sir Thomas Henry Hall Caine CH, KBE (14 May 1853 - 31 August 1931), usually known as Hall Caine, was a British author. He is best known as a novelist and playwright of the late Victorian and the Edwardian eras. In his time he…

Index to James&Apos; Naval History Letters and Papers Relating to the War with France 1512-1513 Letters and Papers of Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thos. Byam Martin Volume I Volume II Volume III Selections from the Correspondence of Admiral John Markham During the Years 1801-4 and 1806-7 Letters and Papers of Charles, Lord Barham Admiral of the Red Squadron 1758-1813 Volume I Volume II Volume III

Various · 1895 · Rooke Books

£335.00 (€401.61 | $442.66 | ¥70,695)

N/A, The Navy Records Society , 1895-1911. Cloth. A mixed volume set of publications by the Navy Records Society, from 1895 to 1911. The Navy Records society publish rare and original documents on naval history. It was established in 1893 and has to this day published over 160 v…

The Literary Magazine and British Review

Various · 1788 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,997.08 | $3,303.40 | ¥527,574)

London, C. Forster, 1788-94. First edition. Cloth. A scarce complete run of this literary magazine, an illustrated work including articles of historical interest. A scarce complete run of all published of 'The Literary Magazine and British Review', complete in twelve v…

Rationale divinorum officiorum.Strasbourg, [Johann Prüss], 1486. Chancery folio (32.5 x 22 cm). Printed in 2 columns, with 48 lines to the column. Set in 2 sizes of rotunda gothic types, Prüss types 2 (180G) and 3 (90G), with spaces left (some with and some without printed guide letters) for manuscript initials (1 8-line, 2 7-line, 4 6-line, 3 5-line and numerous 3- and 4-line). From the beginning to h3r these spaced have been filled in with manuscript lombardic initials in red and the text has been rubricated (the first fifth of the book). Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden (beechwood?) boards by an Augsburg bindery (Eindbanddatenbank workshop w002998, active ca. 1488-1497).

DURAND, Guillaume (Guillelmus DURANDUS or DURANTI). · 1459 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€13,500.00 ($14,879.79 | £11,260.96 | ¥2,376,395)

[3], 272 ll.Written around 1280, the Rationale divinorum officiorum is considered one of the principal sources for the western church liturgy. It focuses on the allegorical interpretation of the liturgy based on Amalario's work, and Duanti is recognized as an excellent compiler.…

Essays, by a Society of Gentlemen, at Exeter. Vol. I. Part I. Vol. I. Part II.

[DOWNMAN (Hugh)]: · 1796 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£2,500.00 (€2,997.08 | $3,303.40 | ¥527,574)

Exeter, Printed by Tewman and Son, no date, [1796] FIRST EDITION, [?second issue]. 2 volumes. 8vo, 247 x 148 mms., pp. [vi] - viii, 270; [2], 271 - 573 [574 blank], including half-title, engraved plates at pages 110 (foxed), 115, 118 (foxed), 124 (foxed), and 312 (slightly fo…

Memoirs of **** Commonly known by the Name of George Psalmanazar; A Reputed Native of Formosa. Written by himself In order to be published after his Death. Containing An Account of his Education, Travels, Adventures, Connections, Literary Productions, and pretended Conversion from Heathenism to Christianity; which last proved the Occasion of his being brought over into this Kingdom, and passing for a Proselyte, and a Member of the Church of England.

PSALMANAZAR (George): · 1765 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

Dublin: Printed for P. Wilson, J. Exshaw, E. Watts, B. Cotter, J. Potts, and J. Williams. M,DCC,LXV. 1765. FIRST DUBLIN EDITION. 12mo, 160 x 95 mms., pp. [iv], 234, later 18th century calf, panelled in blind, spine with raised bands, sides with blind fillet borders. A very goo…

Northern and Southern Hemisphere - Guillaume De L’Isle + Reinier and Josua Ottens, after 1739

Isle-- Guillaume de l' · 1714 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)

PAIR OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE MAPS “Hemisphere septentrional pour voir plus distinctement les terres arctiques.” Copper engraving by Guillaume De L’Isle, first published in 1714, here in an edition by Renier and Josua Ottens published after 1739. With original hand co…

Small Churches and Religious Landscapes in the North Atlantic c. 900-1300

Jette Arneborg, Orri Vésteinsson (eds) · 2025 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€148.40 ($163.57 | £123.79 | ¥26,123)

, Brepols, 2025 Paperback, Pages: 352, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:37 b/w, 49 col., 12 tables b/w., 27 maps b/w, 8 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503605258. Summary In recent years, archaeologists working at Norse sites across the North Atlantic have excavated a …

Book Collecting Reference Works

F. A. Mumby [ed]; P.H. Muir; Iolo A. Williams; R. Farquharson Sharp; George Laurence Gomme · 1889 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Elliot Stock; George Redway; George Routledge; Elkin Mathews; Gramol Publications Ltd, 1889-45. First edition. Cloth. London: Elliot Stock; George Redway; George Routledge; Elkin Mathews; Gramol Publications Ltd, 1889-45. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 9" by 6"; 8" by …

The Cambridge History of English Literature

Various [Eds. by A. Ward, A.R. Waller] · 1932 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.67 | $376.59 | ¥60,143)

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1932-1934. Cloth. The complete set of a comprehensive exploration of the successive literary movements between the Middle Ages and the Victorian era in English history. A significant work within literary criticism. The complete set of the C…

Music and the Politics of Censorship From the Fascist Era to the Digital Age

James Garratt · 2025 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€140.00 ($154.31 | £116.78 | ¥24,644)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardback, Pages: xvi + 464 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:15 b/w, 1 tables b/w., Language:English, *new. ISBN 9782503618463. In relation to music, the word censorship immediately calls to mind the totalitarian regimes of the twentieth c…

Music and Liturgy for the Benedicamus Domino c.800-1650

Catherine A. Bradley (ed) · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.22 | ¥11,442)

, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 398 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:5 b/w, 18 col., 23 tables b/w., 65 music examples, Language: English. ISBN 9782503614861. Summary For more than a millenium, singers in churches, monasteries, and private chapels across Europe have closed t…

Signs of Life. Ancient Egyptian Script, Language, and Writing: Studies in Honour of Orly Goldwasser

Niv Allon (ed) · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€140.00 ($154.31 | £116.78 | ¥24,644)

, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 252 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:89 b/w, 14 col., 42 tables b/w., 1 maps b/w, Languages: English, French. ISBN 9782503608631. Summary In recent decades, the Ancient Egyptian realm of pictorial script and meta-textuality has been the focus …

Beethoven the European. Transcultural Contexts of Performance, Interpretation and Reception

Malcolm Miller, William Kinderman (eds) · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.10 | ¥21,124)

, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, xix + 410 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:27 b/w, 71 musical examples, Language: English. ISBN 9782503602905. Summary Beethoven's music, stemming from its 18th- and 19th-century European context, communicates values of the Enlightenment bearin…

Low Countries at the Crossroads Netherlandish Architecture as an Export Product in Early Modern Europe (1480-1680)

Ottenheym, K. A. / K. De Jonge (eds. · 2013 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€125.00 ($137.78 | £104.27 | ¥22,004)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2013 Paperback, X+514 pages ., 350 b/w ill., 220 x 280 mm, Languages: English * NEW . ISBN 9782503543338. This book focuses on the diffusion of architectural inventions from the Low Countries to other parts of Europe from the late fifteenth until the…

St. Bartholomew's Church, New York [Park Avenue, between 50th and 51st Streets]. Original Etching

Szekessy, Curt (active 1918-1931) · 1918 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,200.00 (€1,088.72 | £908.15 | ¥191,647)

New York: circa 1918-1920. Etching and drypoint 19 x 14 inches plate size ; i 27 x 20.25 inches sheet size. Good impression on rag wove paper. Watermarked F J Head & Co. Small marginal tears and small time stain in right margin. Signed in pencil lower right. Copyright without da…

Wonders of the Peak District. Revisited. In the Footsteps of Daniel Defoe.

Darbyshire, Jayne · 2010 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

DB Publishing 2010, 192pp. Illustrated. Hardcover, with dustjacket. In very good condition. "This is a book for the more discerning tourist (or the curious resident), who want to enrich their visit by delving deeper into the history and culture behind the places they visit or li…

LATHAMS FALCONRY: Or, The faulcons lure, and cure: in two books. The first, concerning the ordering and training vp of all hawkes in generall; especially the haggard faulcon gentle. The second, teaching approued medicines for the cure of all diseases in them. Gathered by long practice and experience, and published for the delight of noble mindes, and instruction of young faulconers in things pertaining to this princely art. 3rd Reissue. [24], 147, [1] p. Large title page woodcut, dec. headpieces and initial letters. Minor worm trail to gutter hinge at tail of first work barely affecting catch word between pp.77-130, inscription to margin of pp.74. [Bound with] LATHAMS NEW AND SECOND BOOKE OF FALCONRY: Concerning the ordering and training vp of all such havvkes as was omitted or left vnmentioned in his printed booke of the haggard faulcon and gerfaulcon, namely, the goshawke and tassell, with the sparhawke, the lanner and lanneret, as they are diuided in their generation: the hobby and marlyn in their kindes: teaching approued medicines for all such infirmities and diseases as are incident to them. Published for the delight of noble mindes, and instruction of yong faulconers in all things pertaining to this art. 2nd Reissue. [22], 148, [4] p. [lacking first blank]. Title page device, many woodcuts, dec. headpieces and initial letters.

Latham, Symon. · 1633 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£4,500.00 (€5,394.75 | $5,946.13 | ¥949,633)

London : printed by Thomas Harper, for Iohn Harison 1633. 2 vols. in 1. Sm. 4to. 5.5 x 7.4 inches. Some sporadic waterstaining, Bbth works with some browning, some corners creased and some with minor loss, rebound in modern calf with blind fillet to edges of boards, some marking…

An Index to Mankind: Or Maxims Selected from The Wits of all Nations, For the Benefit of the Present Age, and of Posterity: Intermix'd with some Curious Reflections, with a Preface by the late Mr. Pope. [The Student's Companion: Being a Collection of Historical Quotations From the best Ancient and Modern Author, on All Sorts of Subjects, Alphabetically Digested, page 85].

[SMART (Christopher)] · 1754 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

Dublin: Printed by and for James Hoey..., 1754. FIRST DUBLIN EDITION. 12mo, 168 x 96 mms., pp. [x] 9 - 176, with additional sectional title at page 85, as above, contemporary calf, neatly rebacked, with red leather label; annotations in pencil on verso of leaf before title-pag…

Town & Country Magazine, July 1953, Vol. 107, No. 4370 - Fur Fashions

FREDERIC, WILLA; RYAN, J.D.; OBLENSKY, HELENE; ROBINSON, IONE; LESIEUR, HENRY J.; LUCAS, DIONE; SERT, MISIA; RODGERS, RICHARD · 1953 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.64 | £223.25 | ¥47,113)

New York: The Hearst Corporation, 1953. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Dutkovich, Martin. 108 pages. Cover photo of Italy's Isola dei Pescatori. Features: Many beautiful photo fashion ads in black and white and color; Five photos of the Moonlight Mist Ball …