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NO MOON TONIGHT.

Charlwood, Don, · 1956 · A Book for all Reasons

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Angus and Robertson, London, 1956, 2nd imp., 221pp, navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, pictorial dustwrapper, an account of the WW2 experiences of a Royal Australian Air Force observer/navigator with RAF Bomber Command. He was one of a group of 20 Australians trained un…

NO MOON TONIGHT.

Charlwood, Don, · 2010 · A Book for all Reasons

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Goodall, London, 2010, reprint, trade paperback, 224pp, 8pp half tone photo picorial ills., half tone photo pictorial upper wrapper, an account of the WW2 experiences of a Royal Australian Air Force observer/navigator with RAF Bomber Command. He was one of a group of 20 Austral…

Persia - Frederick de Wit, ca. 1680

Wit-- Frederick de (1630-1706) · 1680 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)

“Nova Persiae Armeniae Natoliae et Arabiae Descriptio” copper engraving published by Frederick de Wit around 1680. With original hand colouring. Size: approx. 47 x 56 cm. This beautifully engraved and colored map extends from Constantinople and the Nile River Valley in the west,…

Autograph Letter from Kate Greenway, to Frederick-Locker-Lampson Written from John Ruskin's House

Greenway, Kate (1846-1901) · 1884 · Wittenborn Art Books

$450.00 (€408.28 | £340.61 | ¥71,859)

Brantword. Coniston, Cumbria: 1884. Als. 2pp.15.4x 9.8cm to the poet of "London Lyrics "for which the artist had provided a "Little dinky." .........................In 1878, with the publication of her unpretentious collection of verses and pictures titled Under the Window, Kate…

The Illustrated London News, December (Dec. ) 14, 1935: Naval Armament Treaty Negotiations

CHESTERTON, G. K.; ET AL · 1935 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.65 | £223.29 | ¥47,108)

London: The Illustrated London News, 1935. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Spurrier, Steven; Cundall, Charles. Pages 1077-1116. Features: Cover photo of the five-power conference to negotiate a new international treaty for the limitation of naval armaments; Illustration…

Daumier

PASSERON, ROGER · 1981 · Pegasus Books

$52.75 (€47.86 | £39.93 | ¥8,423)

New York: Rizzoli, 1981. ISBN: 0847803678. B&W and Color; 10 1/4 x 11 1/4 x 1 1/2\"; 329 pages; Hard cover is yellow cloth. Slight rubbing to boards. DJ has slight rubbing, bumping. Pages are clean and tight. Lavishly illustrated with 226 pictures, some in color. Originally publ…

Maclean's Magazine, March 1, 1941 - Features Article by Douglas Reed

REED, DOUGLAS; ET AL · 1941 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$199.95 (€181.41 | £151.35 | ¥31,929)

Toronto: The Maclean Publishing Company, Limited, 1941. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. 52 pages. Contents: Fantastic colour illustrated ad for Heavy-Duty K-Line International Harvester Trucks - built at Chatham, Ontario; Spy Against the Reich - Part 1 of 8, by Michael Ann…

[Manuscript travel guide].[Qajar Iran, ca. 1850s]. 8vo (12.5 x 22 cm). Persian manuscript on polished paper. Black nasta'liq script in 15 lines per page, ruled in green and blue, with rubricated chapter headings and marginal medallions. Contemporary limp leather and woven floral-patterned cloth.

[PERSIA - TRAVEL GUIDE]. · 1855 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

26 ll.A beautifully presented Persian manuscript, comprising a unique guide to the barren crossing from Kerman to Kandahar in mid-19th century Qajar Persia. The guide, perhaps actually used by two Russian owners whose inscriptions are extant on the front free endpaper, in fact c…

[Drop title:] Verdadera relacion de la gran Vitoria que ha tenido la Armada de la Serenissima Republica de Venecia, contra la Armada del Turco en el Puerto de Foqui en doze de Mayo de mil y seiscientos y quarenta y nueue, embiada al Excelentissimo señor Embaxador de dicha Serenissima Republica. Traduzida de Italiano, en CastellanoMadrid, Domingo Garcia Morrás, 1649. Folio (20.8 x 29.2 cm). With the large woodcut Royal Spanish coat of arms on the first page and a woodcut decorated initial. Disbound.

[SPANISH - RELACIONES] · 1649 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

[4] pp.The title translates as "True account of the Great Victory that the Navy of the Most Serene Republic of Venice had against the Turkish Navy in the harbour of Foqui on the twelfth of May, one thousand six hundred and forty-nine. Translated from Italian, into Spanish".The n…

Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia - Guillaume Delahaye + Robert de Vaugondy, 1751

Vaugondy-- Robert de · 1751 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€395.00 ($435.36 | £329.54 | ¥69,522)

Les Indes Orientales où sont distingués les Empires et Royaumes qu'elles contiennent, tirées du Neptune Oriental [The East Indies, showing the empires and kingdoms they contain, taken from the Neptune Oriental sea atlas.] Copper engraving by Guillaume Delahaye after the 1751 des…

Onze gevangenschap in Abessinië. Met eene schets van koning Theodorus, zijn land en zijn volk. Naar het Engelsch van Henry Blanc.

Blanc,Henry. · 1869 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

Zwolle, Van Hoogstraten & Gorter, 1869. IV,357,V pp. - [BOUND UP WITH:] Waldmeier,Theophil & Johann Martin Flad. Ons zendingswerk in Abessinië. Met eene beschrijving der laatste regeeringsjaren van koning Theodorus. Zwolle. Van Hoogstraten & Gorter, 1870. [VI],242 pp. Bound tog…

Description de la Ville D'Amsterdam En Vers Burlesques. Selon la Visite de Six Jours D'Une Semaine. First Edition

Le Jolle, Pierre de, author; Jean-Claude Bozérian, book binder · 1666 · Wittenborn Art Books

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

Amsterdam,: Chés Jaques Le Curieux [i.e. Elsevier], A L'an 1666. 12mo, 7.5 x 13cm. Gilt tooled roan binding with lozenges. See detailed binding description below in French. Physical Description: [14], 317, [3] p. ; 14 cm. (12mo) OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:OCLC Number / Uniq…

The Trojan War: A New History

STRAUSS, BARRY S. · 2006 · Kalamos Books

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

New York, Simon & Schuster. 2006, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 9780743264419) Hardcover. Book, "The Trojan War is the most famous conflict in history, the subject of Homer"s Iliad, one of the cornerstones of Western literature. Although many readers know that this literary masterwork …

Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, February 15, 1945 - Vancouver Pin-Up Yvonne de Carlo

FRISCHAUER, WILLI; FRASER, BLAIR; SHAPIRO, L.S.B.; HEMMING, ALBERT; STURSBERG, PETER; BAXTER, A. BEVERLEY; SINCLAIR, GORDON; "BUNJE"; DUDLEY, FREDDA; FRAYNE, TRENT; CARSE, ROBERT; FINDLAY, D.K.; CAMPBELL, HELEN G.; PRIMEAU, JOE · 1945 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$299.95 (€272.14 | £227.04 | ¥47,898)

Toronto: The Maclean Publishing Company, 1945. First Edition. Paperback. Machtey. 52 pages. Features: Nice cover painting by Adrian Dingle shows a typical rural winter scene - man pumping water from well with workhorses and barn in background; Austria's Underground Fights for Li…

Riyaz ül-muhtar, mirat ül-mikat ve 'l-edvar.Cairo, Bulaq Matbaasi, 1303-1313 AH [= 1885-1896 CE]. 3 volumes bound as 1 (plates, text, and appendix). Large 4to (29.5 x 21 cm). Text in Ottoman Turkish, set in a naskh Arabic type, most pages in a thin-thick-thin-rule frame. With a separate title page and 36 full-page, numbered plates (including 1 double-page) on 36 leaves at the beginning of the book and 1 folding plate at the end. Later elaborately gold- and blind-tooled brown calf, each board with a blind ornamental frame with corner pieces and a gold centre piece. Spine with the title in gold Arabic lettering in the 2nd of 6 compartments, the other 5 with blind ornaments and gold fillets on the 5 raised bands, marbled endpapers, red ribbon marker.

PASHA, Ahmed Muhtar. · 1886 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

[10], 378, [1 blank]; 58 pp.Rare second edition of a remarkable and richly illustrated work on modern astronomy and the calculation of time in the Islamic world, together with a very rare appendix (printed in 1304 AH [= 1886/87 CE]) including an additional folding plate. The aut…

New York

Edward Rutherfurd · 2010 · Klondyke BV

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Paperback; 2010; Central Book House / Rh; 1020pp.; Conditie: Goed; The bestselling master of historical fiction weaves a grand, sweeping drama of New York from the city's founding to the present day. New York; the world's greatest city and the world's greatest story. Edward Ruth…

Poland, Lithuania - Reinier Ottens, c. 1720

Jaillot-- Hubert · 1720 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€850.00 ($936.85 | £709.13 | ¥149,604)

“Tabula Regni Poloniae, Ducatus Lithuaniae &c. ad usum Serenissimi Burgundiae Ducis.” Copper engraving made after a design by Hubert Jaillot and published by Reinier Ottens in Amsterdam around 1720. Contemporary hand colouring, with later additions. Size: 49.5 × 61 cm. This map…

Liège and Limburg - Abraham Ortelius, 1587

Ortelius-- Abraham · 1587 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€625.00 ($688.86 | £521.42 | ¥110,003)

THE PRINCE-BISHOPRIC OF LIÈGE AND LIMBURG IN THE 16TH CENTURY – ABRAHAM ORTELIUS “Leodiensis Dioecesis Typus” [Map of the Diocese of Liège], copper engraving by Johannes Baptista van Doetecum after a map by Jan van Schille, published by Abraham Ortelius in Antwerp in 1587, as…

[Portfolio with photographic prints of landmarks in Turkey, Palestine, and Egypt].1898. With 32 albumen prints (ca. 18.5 x 25.7 cm and ca. 23.5 x 27.7 cm) mounted on cardstock, most signed and captioned in French the negative, a German manuscript caption in red ink below. Contemporary portfolio, half green morocco and dark blue pebble-grained cloth sides, with "Orient-Reise 1898" and "H. B." stamped in gold on the front board, lined with floral paper, green closing ties.

IRANIAN, Mihran; Maison BONFILS; ZANGAKI BROTHERS & AMERICAN COLONY PHOTOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT. · 1898 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,000.00 ($5,510.91 | £4,171.33 | ¥880,021)

Collection of 32 albumen photographs of Turkey, Palestine, and Egypt, assembled by a German traveller who took part in an organised journey accompanying Kaiser Wilhelm II's state visit to the Ottoman Empire in 1898. Preserved in a portfolio with the title "Orient-Reise 1898. H.B…

Atlas title page - Abraham Ortelius / Christophe Plantin, ca. 1592-1612

Ortelius-- Abraham · 1592 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€175.00 ($192.88 | £146.00 | ¥30,801)

GEOGRAPHY IS THE EYE OF HISTORY – ORTELIUS’ PARERGON, 1592–1601 “Parergon, sive Veteris Geographiae aliquot tabulae” [Supplement, or several maps of ancient geography], title page for the Parergon of Abraham Ortelius, printed in Antwerp by Christophe Plantin, ca. 1592–1612. Woo…