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The Romance Of The Inward Light by L. V. Holdsworth. with six drawings by G. E. Chambers.

HOLDSWORTH, L. V. [ LUCY VIOLET HODGKIN, LATER HOLDSWORTH, 1869–1954 ] . · 1932 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, [1932] . 0. First edition signed by the author, plus two small letters also signed by L. V. Holdsworh. 7.75" x 5.25" x 1.00. pp.14/[2pp.]/pp.191 . Original grey cloth covered boards. Spine darkened with bright gilt titles. Edges lightly rubbed and …

Lewis & Co's Selection of Their Comic Black Jokes from the Designs of the Most Eminent Artists

SUMMERS, W.; HUNT, G., engraver · 1834 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$2,500.00 (€2,268.18 | £1,891.99 | ¥399,265)

London: Published by Lewis & Co. 1834. Six of the Incredibly Rare Tregear's Black Jokes "A Series of Laughable Caricatures on the March of Manners Amongst the Blacks" SUMMERS, W. illustrator. Lewis & Co's Selection of their Comic Black Jokes from the Designs of the Most Eminent …

POEMS From SIR KENELM DIGBY'S PAPERS. In the Possession of Henry A. Bright. Roxburghe Club

Digby, Sir Kenelm [1603 - 1665] · 1877 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$825.00 (€748.50 | £624.36 | ¥131,758)

London: Nichols and Sons, 25, Parliament Street, 1877. 1st Edition, a paper copy. Original brown quarter leather binding over red paste-paper boards. Gilt stamped title lettering to spine. [6], vi, [2], 51, [1] pp. T.p printed in red & black. Laid in at front a printed slip, "Ei…

Pre-Christian Religions of the North. Research and Reception, Volume II: From c. 1830 to the Present

Margaret Clunies Ross · 2019 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€145.00 ($159.82 | £120.95 | ¥25,524)

, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, xxiii + 635 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:9 b/w, 10 col., 4 tables b/w., 2 Musical Examples, Languages: English, Old Norse. ISBN 9782503568805. Summary Over more than a thousand years since pre-Christian religions were actively practised, Eu…

Analogical Identities: The Creation of the Christian Self. Volume 1: Beyond Spirituality and Mysticism in the Patristic Era

Nikolaos Loudovikos · 2020 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.73 | ¥14,082)

, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, xvi + 386 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Languages: English, Greek, Latin. ISBN 9782503578156. Summary Is it possible for nihilism and an ontology of personhood as will to power to be incubated in the womb of Christian Mysticism? Is it possible that the m…

Nouvelles extraordinaires de divers Endroits. Jahrgang 1794, Nummer 1 bis 104 (ohne die Nummern 10 und 86, sonst vollständig).

1794 · Antiquariat Bürck

Spedisce da Germania · non spedisce in Russia

€1,092.50 ($1,204.16 | £911.30 | ¥192,312)

Leiden: Etienne Luzac. 1794 Nicht paginiert, 840 Seiten. Pappband der Zeit mit handschriftlichem Rückenschild und dreiseitigem Rotschnitt. Oktav, 20,5 x 15 cm (Zwei Nummern fehlen, Einband leicht berieben und bestossen, Rücken mit Spuren von entferntem Schild und entfernter Si…

[Memoirs of Count Grammont. ]

HAMILTON, Anthony; GRAMMONT, Count · 1808 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$2,850.00 (€2,585.72 | £2,156.87 | ¥455,163)

London: John White, 1808. A Rare Series of Plates depicting the Characters of Seventeenth Century England and France [HAMILTON, Anthony]. [Memoirs of Count Grammont.] A series of thirty-nine stipple plates printed in colors. [London: John White, 1808]. Quarto (11 3/4 x 8 1/2 inc…

De homini figuris et latinate donatus a Florentio Schuyl. [Bound before:] II. IDEM, Opera Philosophica. Editio quarta.

DESCARTES, R.- SCHUYL, F.- DE HOMINE.- OPERA.- · 1662 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

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

Lugduni Batavorum; Amsterdam, Apud F. Moyardum & Petrum Leffen; Elzevier, 1662. 1664 - 1670. 4to. 7 parts in 1 vol. W. in 'De homine' a woodcut vign. on title & 10 (4 fold., 1 w. superimposed flaps [being a repeat of textill. 'Fig. I') copperengr. pls., 33 engr. textills. & 23 w…

A Complete Collection of the 58 Monographs Published by the Friends of Photography Under the General Title: Untitled. First Editions

Weston, Edward; Dody W. Thompson; Fred R. Parker; Anthony Hernandez; Joseph Jachna; Andre Kertesz, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Heinecken; Wynn Bullock, Peter Thompson; Cheryl Douglas; Rodney C. Stewart,; Albert Renger-Patzsch ; James Enyeart,; Ansel Adams · 1972 · Wittenborn Art Books

$2,500.00 (€2,268.18 | £1,891.99 | ¥399,265)

Carmel, CA [and] San Francisco, CA : Friends of Photography, 1972-1994. See complete list below. Many in original cardboard mailers. Friends of Photography was a nonprofit organization started by Ansel Adams and others in 1967 to promote photography as a fine art. During its exi…

A New System Of Domestic Cookery: Founded Upon Principles Of Economy; And Adapted To The Use Of Private Families. By A Lady. A New Edition, Corrected.

A LADY [ RUNDELL, MARIA ELIZA (NEE KETELBY), 1745-1828 ]. · 1810 · Chilton Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London: Printed by S. Hamilton, Weybridge, ForJohn Murray, 32 Fleet Street..1810 . 0. A very good half leather binding complete with all engravings. 8vo. pp.54/.pp.571. 6.50" x 4.25 x 1.25". Black polished calf over marbled boards (scuffed). Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Engr…

A Bound Volume of Eighteenth Century Local, Personal and Private Acts

Various · 1783 · Rooke Books

£230.00 (€275.73 | $303.91 | ¥48,537)

Not Stated, Not Stated, 1783-93. Leather. A Bound Volume of Eignteenth Century Local, Personal and Private Acts. There are a total of twenty-four acts in total. With a hand-written index to the front of the volume. The volume consists of: An Act to Enable His Majesty to grant th…

Grand Leicestershire Steeple Chase

ALKEN, Henry · 1830 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$4,850.00 (€4,400.26 | £3,670.46 | ¥774,575)

London: R. Ackermann, Junr. Sporting Gallery, 1830. The Grand Leicestershire Steeple Chase Eight Magnificent Hand-Colored Plates by C. Bentley after Henry Alken ALKEN, Henry. Grand Leicestershire Steeple Chase. On the 12th. of March, 1829. London: R. Ackermann, Junr.Sporting Gal…

Caii Plinii Caecilii Secundi Opera quae supersunt omnia. Ad fidem optimarum editionum diligenter expressa. (Liber I-X: ex recensione Cortii et Longolii. Panegyricus Nervae Trajano Augusto dictus, ex editione T. Hearne)

PLINIUS MINOR. · 1751 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€240.00 ($264.53 | £200.19 | ¥42,247)

Glasgow (Glasguae), In aedibus academicis excudebant Robertus et Andreas Foulis, Academiae typographi, 1751. 12mo. 3 volumes in 2: (IV),1-275,(1 blank); (IV),277-633(1 blank),(23 p. index),(1 blank) p. Vellum 13 cm (Ref: Gaskell no. 208+ (p. 163), and especially no. 208 (p. 419…

Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, 11-16.09.2022, Warsaw: Vol. III: Medieval Numismatics

Jaroslaw Bodzek, Aleksander Bursche, Anna Zapolska (eds) · 2025 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€137.80 ($151.88 | £114.95 | ¥24,257)

, Brepols, 2025 Paperback, Pages: 373, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:265 b/w, 13 col., 5 tables b/w., Languages: English, French, German. ISBN 9782503616742. Summary The XVI International Numismatic Congress, held in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2022, was a landmark event, …

The History of England

David Hume; Tobias Smollett; T. S. Hughes · 1834 · Rooke Books

£700.00 (€839.18 | $924.95 | ¥147,721)

London, A. J. Valpy, 1834 - 1836. Cloth. A twenty volume set documenting the history of England, from B.C. 55 to A.D. 1813 Incomplete in twenty volumes out of twenty-one. Lacking Volume XX, which documents to years 1814 to 1824. "The History of England" by David Hume From the In…

The Publications of the Harleian Society

Various · 1881 · Rooke Books

£850.00 (€1,019.01 | $1,123.16 | ¥179,375)

London, The Harleian Society, 1881-1916. Cloth. Twenty four fascinating volumes of parish registers published by the renowned Harleian Society; in the publisher's uniform cloth binding, with gilt crest of the Harleian Society to the front boards. 'The Harleian Society&…

The Inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. First Edition of the Print

Covarrubias, Miguel (1904 - 1957) · 1933 · Wittenborn Art Books

$850.00 (€771.18 | £643.28 | ¥135,750)

1933. Color half-tone. Mounted on an old support sheet with printed text pasted verso. Damage to lower right corner. Without the printed text beneath the image...Mexican caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias produced this rendering of Roosevelt's inauguration for Vanity Fair, which bi…

Collected Works of the New Sydenham Society

Various · 1859 · Rooke Books

£2,200.00 (€2,637.43 | $2,907.00 | ¥464,265)

London, The New Sydenham Society, 1859-1901. Cloth. A very scarce and important medical collection comprising sixty-one volumes including an index, printed by the New Sydenham Society, with many of the works appearing in the English language for the first time. The New Sydenham …

The Spirit of Laws. Translated from the French of M. De Second At, Baron de Montesquieu. The Sixth Edition.

MONTESQUIEU (Charles Louis de Secondat), Barone de La Brède: · 1762 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£1,500.00 (€1,798.25 | $1,982.04 | ¥316,544)

Edinburgh: Printed by A. Donaldson and Sold at his Shop, No. 48, East corner of St. Paul's Church-yard; and at Edinburgh. 1762. 2 volumes. 12mo, 170 x 100 mms., pp. [iv], xxiv, 396 [397 - 436]; xii, 454, with a note to the binder on the last page of the first volume to put t…

The Holinshed Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland in Six Volumes, Grafton&Apos;S Chronicles in Two Volumes and Monstrelet&Apos;S Chronicles in Five Volumes

Raphael Holinshed et al. · 1807 · Rooke Books

£5,750.00 (€6,893.29 | $7,597.83 | ¥1,213,420)

London , J. Johnson, F. C. and J. Rivington et al, 1807-9. Leather. Three scarce complete sets of early nineteenth-century publications of influential Medieval and Early-Modern Era chronicles, uniformly and finely bound. Holinshed's Chronicles, also known as Holinsheds Chro…