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Travels Through the Interior Parts of North America, in the Years 1766, 1767, and 1768 ; By J. Carver, Esq., Captain of a Company of Provincial Troops During the Late War in France; Illustrated with Copper Plates

Carver, Johnathan, Esq. (1710-1780) · 1779 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$1,295.00 (€1,174.92 | £980.05 | ¥206,819)

Dublin Printed for S. Price, R. Cross, W. Watson, W. and H. Whitestone, J. Potts, J. Williams, W. Colles, W. Wilson, R. Moncrieffe, C. Jenkin, G. Burnet, T. Walker, W. Gilbert, L.L. Flin, J. Exshaw, L. White, J. Beatty, and B. Watson First Irish Edition pp. [10], xiii, 508. 8vo.…

Fifteen Plates of Composition Ornaments, Made at Langwith Manufactory, Grantham, Lincolnshire.

LANGWITH MANUFACTORY, GRANTHAM, LINCS. · 1790 · Forest Books

£12,894.63 (€15,458.50 | $17,038.47 | ¥2,721,148)

Stamford: Printed by W. Harrod, 1790. Oblong folio (335 x 500 mm), printed on thick laid paper, letterpress title with wood-engraved decorations, approximately 250 illustrations of architectural ornaments, including stock numbers (not in order), engraved on fifteen well executed…

A Full and True Relation of Two Very Remarkable Tryals at the Quarter-Sessions of the Peace for the City and Liberty of Westminster held in the Great Hall, on Monday the third of October, and ending the eleventh of the same. The one, for scandalous words, by one Shippon : the other, of a priest in the Gate-house, for spoiling a girl of nine years old. By way of a letter to a friend.

TRIALS. · 1680 · Forest Books

£1,021.25 (€1,224.31 | $1,349.44 | ¥215,514)

[Colophon] London: Printed for W. H. and T. F. 1680. First edition, folio (295 x 190 mm), 4pp., drop-head title, a well margined copy with just slight signs of a water stain, sewn in recent marbled wrappers, preserved in a custom-made folding cloth case, leather spine label let…

Collection des costumes des provinces septentrionales du Royaume des Pays-Bas | Verzameling der kleederdragten in de nordelijke provincien van het Koningrijk der Nederlanden.Amsterdam, Frans Buffa and sons; Paris, Engelmann et cie. (printed by Thierry brothers). 1828[-1829]. With lithographed title-page, lithographed index and 20 numbered lithographed plates, all captioned in French and Dutch below and all richly and beautifully coloured by hand.With: (2) [GREEVEN, Hendrik, Luigi CALAMATTA and others]. Souvenirs de la Hollande.Amsterdam, Buffa brothers and co., 1838. With a hand-coloured engraving mounted on the title-page and 14 hand-coloured lithographed plates (7 of Dutch views and 7 of women's folk costumes). 2 works in 1 volume. Large 4to (32 x 24 cm). Contemporary boards with marbled sides.

GREEVEN, Hendrik (artist) and Justin Vallou VALLON DE VILLENEUVE (lithographer). · 1838 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,500.00 ($6,062.14 | £4,587.80 | ¥968,161)

[24] ll. text in French and English.Ad 1: Finely coloured series of folk costumes from the Netherlands (then forming the northern part of a united kingdom with what is now Belgium and Luxemburg), with a preface and explanatory text in French and English. It shows mostly women an…

Epistolarum libri X. ad exemplar manuscriptum Rodol. Agricolae diligentiss. recogniti ...Including: (2) SUETONIUS TRANQUILLIUS. De viris illustribus liber. (3) OBSEQUENS, Julius. Ab anno urbis conditae quingentesimoquinto, prodigiorum liber imperfectus.(4) CATANAEUS, Johannes Maria. C. Plinii Caecilii secundi Vita.Antwerp, Antonius Dumaeus [= Anthonis van der Haeghen], 1542. 8vo. With several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary blind tooled pigskin, sewn on 3 supports with the corresponding raised bands on the spine, both boards tooled in a panel design with floral motives in the 2 central panels, surrounded by a border with portraits on the front, and passion scenes and saints on the back, the manuscript initials "E.K" on the front, remnants of white leather closing ties.

PLINIUS CAECILIUS SECUNDUS, Caius. · 1530 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)

494 [=496], [39], [1 blank] pp.Rare early Antwerp edition of the Letters by Plinius Secundus, in a beautiful contemporary pigskin binding. This edition is virtually a reprint of the edition by Johannes Sichardt published in 1530 by Andreas Cratander at Basel. Sichardt (ca. 1499-…

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SPEECH

CODY, William F. (BUFFALO BILL) · 0 · Charles Agvent

$75,000.00 (€68,045.29 | £56,759.64 | ¥11,977,962)

Original AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a speech given by Buffalo Bill on 31 August 1898 in Omaha during the Trans-Mississippi Exposition on Cody Day, a day of tribute to the man and his Wild West show, about two miles from where its first performances were held in 1883. A total of fiv…

Armorial Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century

Tudor-Craig, Algernon; with a foreword by Burke, Sir Henry Farnham · 1925 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

Book Good No Jacket 1st Edition The Century House, 100, Knightsbridge, London English text.; Hardcover (without dust jacket - as issued).; 24.5 x 30 cm.; 1.1 kg.; 136 pages with black and white and colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. All …

Kura: Design and Tradition of the Japanese Storehouse

Itoh, Teiji; Terry, Charles S. (adapted by); Takai, Kiyoshi (photographs) · 1973 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.07 | ¥15,843)

Book Very Good No Jacket 1st Edition Kodansha International Ltd., Tokyo and Kodansha International/USA Ltd., New York, San Francisco English text.; Hardcover (cloth - lacks the dust jacket).; 26.5 x 34 cm.; 2.2 kg.; 251 pages with black and white illustrations.; Lacks the dust j…

The New South. Vol. 2. No. 32. Port Royal, S.C. Saturday, April 16, 1864. Whole No. 84

[South Carolina] [Civil War] Sears, Jos. H. · 1864 · Kaaterskill Books

$300.00 (€272.18 | £227.04 | ¥47,912)

Port Royal, S.C. Jos. H. Sears, 1864. First edition. Self wrappers. 4 pp. Folio. 13 x 9 1/2 inches. Articles on the New Banking System; Fort Pulaski; Lists of Prisoners; Affairs in Florida; Excitement about Torpedoes; advertisements. As Chronicling America, Library of Congress, …

Discourses on Various Subjects, including several on Particular Occasions.

PRIESTLEY (Joseph): · 1787 · John Price Antiquarian Books

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

Birmingham, Printed for the Author, by Pearson and Rollason..., 1787. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 212 x 129 mms., pp. xvi, 464 [465 - 468 adverts], recent full plum calf, gilt spine, red morocco label; some foxing of text. Inscribed on title-page, \"The Author to / Bellas & Latitia…

Angeli Politiani Operoum. Tomus Primus. Epistolarum libros XII, ac Miscellaneorum Centuriam I, complectens.

POLIZIANO (Angelo): · 1539 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

Luguduni Apud Seb Grypiaum, 1539. 12mo, 161 x 100 mms., pp. [xx], 699 [670 blank], with the engraved vignette of the printer Sebastian Gryphius on the title-page, contemporary (or near contemporary) panelled calf; front joint cracked but holding, and with a recent \"Ex Libris\" …

Van Cleef & Arpels. Treasures and Legends.

VAN CLEEF & ARPELS - Meylan, Vincent: · 2014 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

May 2014, (24,5 x 29,5 cm), 344 pp. English text, 247 colour & 150 b/w. ills., hardcover. From Empress Farah and the secrets of the treasure of Iran, to Queen Marie Amélie's missing emeralds, via Fantômas and the blood-red rubies of the kings of Burma, entering the world of Van …

1793 Reference Letter for a Foreign-Trained Doctor Seeking Work in France

UNKNOWN · 1793 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$478.99 (€434.57 | £362.50 | ¥76,498)

France, 1793. Ephemera. On offer is a fascinating appeal from a German doctor living in revolutionary France to the Committee of General Security. The letter was written “ Year 2” of the new French Republic – 1793 by the Gregorian calendar. The letter appears to be a reference f…

Industrial British Columbia 1945

VANCOUVER SUN STAFF · 1945 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$495.00 (€449.10 | £374.61 | ¥79,055)

Vancouver, B.C.: Sun Publishing Co. Ltd. (The Vancouver Sun), 1945. First Edition. Plastic Comb. 152 pages. Large oblong book measuring 10" x 14.5". "Because war censorship forbade publicity there is a widespread lack of knowledge of the outstanding production job for the war ef…

Log of the proceedings. HMS "Cyclops". W. J. S. Pullen Esq. Captain. Commencing Monday 7th February 1859, ending Wednesday 22nd of May, 1861. Kept by Thos. McKinnell, Mast. Asst.HMS Cyclops: Oman, Khuriya Muriya Islands, Yemen, Egypt, Red Sea, Arabian Sea, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and other places, 1857-1861. Folio (20 x 31.5 cm). Over 360 pp. of manuscript entries, written with brown ink in a legible hand on watermarked laid paper with a blue cast. With 8 pen and ink nautical charts and 5 sketches of coastal sites, including the city of Muscat (8 on the logbook pages and 5 on separate thick album leaves). Contemporary brown cloth over boards, rebacked in period-style black calf with the spine lettered in gold: "Log H.M.S. Cyclops".

[OMAN NAVIGATION LOGBOOK]. MCKINNELL, Thomas, assistant master. · 1859 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€45,000.00 ($49,599.31 | £37,536.52 | ¥7,921,316)

[ca. 360], [32 blank] pp.Historically significant manuscript logbook, containing a detailed record of the first attempt to lay a submarine telegraph cable to connect London with British India. The expedition took place from May 1859 (the Red Sea leg from Suez to Aden) to Februar…

Suma de Geographia que trata de todas las partidas y provincias del mundo: en especial de las Indias.Seville, Jacobo Cromberger, 1519. Folio (27.5 x 19.6 cm). 17th- or 18th-century vellum over boards, manuscript title on the spine.

FERNANDEZ DE ENCISO, Martin. · 1519 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€220,000.00 ($242,485.54 | £183,511.90 | ¥38,726,435)

75 ll.First edition, a cornerstone for the history of Pacific discovery and Americana: the Suma. It appeared in 1519, only six years after Vasco Núñez de Balboa reached the ocean from Darién and before Magellan’s voyage had crossed it and established the name by which it would b…

Croquis. Eaux-Fortes, Héliogravures, Lithographies. H. De Grandmaison. First Edition

Grandmaison, H. de; Henri Auguste Babin-Grandmaison, 1834-1906 · 1872 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,600.00 (€1,451.63 | £1,210.87 | ¥255,530)

France: H. de Grandmaison, 1872-1887. The artist's own collection of his graphic works on 83 hand numbered pages. 23 x 29 cm. His ex libris on the inside front cover. Qtr. green morocco.. Henri de Grandmaison (aka Major Henri de Grandmaison; Henri Auguste Babin de Grandmaison) (…

Les Diables de Lithographies

LE POITEVIN, [Eugène] · 1832 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$9,000.00 (€8,165.44 | £6,811.16 | ¥1,437,355)

Paris / London: Chez Aumont / Charles Tilt, [1832]. Scarce Complete Devils Having Diabolical Fun In a Very Unusual Binding LE POITEVIN, [Eugène Modeste Edmond]. Les Diables de Lithographies. Paris / London: Chez Aumont / Charles Tilt, n.d. [1832]. First edition, complete. Oblong…

Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry

Elizabeth Taylor (Autor) · 2002 · LLU Buchservice

€199.90 ($220.33 | £166.75 | ¥35,188)

, Simon & Schuster, 2002. 240, 2,7 x 25,6 x 31,3 cm, Hardcover. Zustand: 2. For the first time, Taylor discusses many of the most beautiful pieces in hercollection, sharing witty and intimate stories about who gave them to her andabout what was going on in her life at the time. …

[Autograph letter from Dumont D'Urville to Pierre Adolphe Lesson].Paris, 19 September 1829. 13 x 10.2 cm.With:(2) DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César. [Autograph letter from Dumont D'Urville to Mr. Rousset].Paris, 14 December 1841. 21 x 13 cm.(3) [DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César]. [Autograph note by Dumont D'Urville].[France?, first half of the 19th century?]. 8 x 10 cm.Written in French, in a neat early 19th century cursive in brown ink. Folded.

DUMONT D'URVILLE, Jules Sébastien César. · 1890 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,000.00 ($6,613.24 | £5,004.87 | ¥1,056,176)

Ad 1: [1], [2 blank], [1]; ad 2: [1], [2 blank], [1]; ad 3: [1], [1 blank] pp.Ad 1: Autograph letter, signed, by the great French explorer Jules Sébastien César Dumont d’Urville (1890-1842) written a half year after he returned from his famous second journey of exploration with …