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Vita Gasparis Barzaei...Antwerp, J. Trognesius, 1610. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, some woodcut ornamental head- and tailpieces, and some woodcut decorated initials. Modern vellum.

TRIGAULT, Nicolas. · 1515 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)

[1], [1 blank], [12], [2 blank], 338, [20], [2 blank] pp.Scarce first edition, in the original Latin, of Gaspar Berse's biography, a famous Dutch Jesuit known for his missionary work in Ormuz (island in the Persian Gulf) and Goa, India. Berse (1515-1553, also known by several sp…

David Georgen ausz Holand deß Ertzkätzers warhafftige Histori, seines Lebens, unnd verfürischen Leer, . . . Basel, (colophon: printed by Hieronymus Curio, September 1559), 1559. Small 4to. With 2 large woodcut gothic decorated initials (56 mm). Set in schwabacher types with incidental fraktur and the year of publication in Roman numerals. Disbound.

JORIS, David (subject). · 1533 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[63], [1 blank] pp.First German edition, of a rare and important early biography of the famous Dutch heretic and Anabaptist David Joris. Banished from Holland for his overt rejection of the abuses of the Roman Catholic Church, Joris fled to Friesland, where he met the Anabaptist…

The Night Gardener

PELECANOS, GEORGE P. · 2006 · Kalamos Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Boston, Little Brown & Co. 2006, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0316156507) Hardcover. Book, When the body of a local teenager is found in a community garden, homicide detective Gus Ramone relives intense memories of a case he worked twenty years earlier. When he was still a rookie, Ram…

I Shall Sign as Loui

GALANAKI, RHEA [REA GALANAKE] · 2000 · Kalamos Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

U.S.A. Northwestern University Press. 2000, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 0810117371) Hardcover. Ill.: Helen Dendrinou Kolia. Book, It is Christmas Eve, 1888, and the poet-revolutionary Andreas Rigopoulos (1821-89) is writing to a friend of years past, with whom he is still in love. He is…

François Diday 1802-1877 : Fondateur de L'école Suisse de Paysage : Contribution à L'Histoire de L'Art Du Xixme Siècle

Schreiber-Favre, Alfred ; A Schreiber-Favre; François Diday · 1942 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$110.00 (€99.80 | £83.25 | ¥17,568)

Geneva, Switzerland, Alexandre Jullien, 1942. Softcover. Loose wraps over plain board, b+w illustration and red text on wraps. (10) 11-98 pp. features 46 b+w printed illustrations. Several glued printed images present in book as well. "Diday's first voyage to the Bernese Oberlan…

Russia Mobilizes for Armageddon

TALBOT, LOUIS T. · 1953 · S. Howlett-West Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Los Angeles, CA: Bible Institute of Los Angeles, 1953. 5th Edition. Paperback. This is a smaller than trade sized booklet with illustrated covers and a stapled spine. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book…

First Writings Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner 1906

LOVECRAFT, H. P. (EDITED BY MARC. A. MICHAUD · 1976 · S. Howlett-West Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

West Warwick, RI: Necronomicon Press, 1976. Limited Edition; 1st Edition. Paperback. Limited to 500 numbered copies, this is # 244. This is an oversized paperback book with cardstock covers and side stapling. This book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jac…

The Sunset Warrior

VAN LUSTBADER, ERIC · 1977 · S. Howlett-West Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1977. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 038512967X. Remainder. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends of the book covers have …

Adventures of an Innocent in the Spanish Civil War

CANDELA, ANTONIO · 1989 · Little Lane Books

A$105.00 (€64.54 | $71.14 | £53.84 | ¥11,361)

Penzance, Cornwall, United Writers Ltd. 1989. (ISBN: 9781852000202) Hardcover with dust jacket, 22cm. Book, Adventures of an Innocent in the Spanish Civil War is 222pp & less than 500g to post. Taped inside is a photocopy from the "Express & Echo" of an item about the author. Th…

Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta Celebrated California Bandit

RIDGE, JOHN ROLLIN & YELLOW BIRD (WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY JOSEPH HENRY JACKSON) · 1977 · S. Howlett-West Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1977. Trade Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0806114290. This is a smaller than trade sized paperback book. The book is in Very Good- condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some rubbin…

Confinement

Carrie Brown · 2004 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Algonquin Books 2004 Hardback, 368pp. On a snowy night in the winter of 1946, Arthur Henning arrives at a New York banker's country estate. All he has with him are his young son, his sewing machine, and the painful history of the refugee—the home in Vienna he left behind, the wi…

A Day with Charles Dickens

CLARE, MAURICE [PSEUDONYM OF MAY CLARISSA GILLINGTON BYRON] · 1900 · Round Table Books, LLC

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

NY: Hodder & Soughton, (cir. 1900). First Edition. Later Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by L. Raven Hill. Publisher's gray paper-covered boards, red lettering on spine and cover, color onlay on cover. Illustrated with five full-color, full-page plates by L. Raven Hill. The il…

Mr. Munchausen an Account of Some of His Recent Adventures

BANGS, JOHN KENDRICK · 1901 · S. Howlett-West Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Boston, MA: Noyes, Platt & Company, 1901. 1st Edition; 4th Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Peter Newell. Color and B&W illustrations; This is a First Edition, 4th printing (with Noyes, Platt & Company (Incorporated) on the copyright page, and eight pages of mixed adverts at …

WINGS ON MY SLEEVE.

Brown, Captain Eric, · 2007 · A Book for all Reasons

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Phoenix, London, 2007, 1st printing thus, trade paperback, half tone photo frontis, 296pp, numerous half tone photo ills. in text, coloured upper wrapperr, the WW2 experiences of a young RNVR officer. When WW2 broke out the author was already a trained pilot of the RAFVR who wa…

1941 Letter from Author and Historian George G. Patterson, Touching on His Recent Published Book and the War

GEORGE G. PATTERSON · 1941 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$129.99 (€117.94 | £98.38 | ¥20,760)

New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, 1941. Non-Book. On offer is a handwritten and signed letter by notable Canadian, George G. Patterson (1864-1951) on his personal letterhead. In this letter, which is dated December 4, 1941 in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, Patterson writes to "My dear Ross".…

More Ballads of Field and Billet and Other Verses

W Kersley Holmes · 1915 · Creaking Shelves Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Alexander Gardner, 1915. Hardcover. William Kersley Holmes was born in England and came to Scotland as a boy with his family, which settled in Dollar. He was educated at Dollar Academy, and took a job in a bank until war broke out, when he joined the Lothian and Borders Horse re…

Eagle Boy

BENNETT, RODNEY · 1989 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£8.35 (€10.01 | $11.03 | ¥1,762)

Dutton Childrens Books. 1989. (ISBN: 9780233980447). Hardcover. In this unusual fantasy, Stephan, lame since birth and mute, is befriended by a golden eagle. The eagle finds Stephan in the cave where his parents hid him when his life was endangered by a rumor that his infirmitie…

The Wrecker

Cussler, Clive; DuBrul, Jack · 2009 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£19.50 (€23.38 | $25.77 | ¥4,115)

Michael Joseph. First UK edition-first printing. Book. VGC.Michael Joseph,2009.First UK edition-first printing.Black hardback(two tears on the to edge of the spine,silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(two small tears on the edges of the Dj cover),both in VGC.Illustrated with b…

Pietro's Pilgrimage. A Journey to India and Back at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century. (Signed).

BLUNT, WILFRID. · 1953 · Chilton Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London: James Barrie, 1953. 1st edition. "Pietro Della Valle was in the East for some twelve years. He knew Constantinople well in the sunset of its glory; he visited Cairo, Jerusalem, Damascus, Aleppo and Baghdad; he explored Ctesiphon and Babylon; he spent seven years in Persi…

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Buchantiquariat Clerc Fremin

€5.60 ($6.17 | £4.67 | ¥986)

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