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A Curio Album from R.L. D. Maunsell

R. L. D. Maunsell · 1910 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Not Stated, None, 1910-1914 . Leather. A delightful early 20th century curio album featuring three original photographs of early 20th century propellor planes, in a smart half morocco binding. A very scarce 'Curio Album' from a man named R. L. D. Maunsell, who has prov…

The Synagogue in America - a Short History

RAPHAEL, MARC LEE · 2011 · Pegasus Books

$35.50 (€32.21 | £26.87 | ¥5,670)

New York & Tokyo: New York University Press, 2011. Hardcover. ISBN: 0814775829. Book Club Edition; B & W ; 5 3/4 x 8 1/2\"; vii, 246 pages; Hard cover is black with gold lettering on the spine. DJ. Pages are clean and tight. Appears as if unused. Has a few pictures. 'In 1789, wh…

Motivos artisticos Timorenses e a sua integração.

Cinatti,Ruy. · 1987 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

Lisboa, Instituto de Investigação Cienti´fica Tropical, Museu de Etnologia, 1987. 186,[6] pp. Num. b./w. ills (includes drawings on a green background by Fernando Galhano). Orig. softcover. Square 8vo. - Cover with light shelfwear.Text in Portuguese. - This work is a fundamental…

The Return of A. J. Raffles [Signed]

GREENE, Graham (1904-1991) · 1975 · Fine Editions Ltd

$274.00 (€248.59 | £207.36 | ¥43,759)

London Bodley Head Limited Edition No. 132 of 250 signed limited-edition copies bound in boards (of which only 170 were for sale); the first trade edition was issued as a paperback original. Small, slim 8vo (189 x 113mm): 80pp. Publisher's copper-colored paper over boards, spine…

America's Century. A Year by Year from 1900 to 2000

DK Publishing · 2000 · Klondyke BV

€9.00 ($9.92 | £7.51 | ¥1,584)

Hardcover, hardcover; 2000; Dorling Kindersley Publishing, Inc.; 464pp.; Conditie: Goed; Beginning with 1900, four (usually) pages of text and pictures are devoted to each year of the 20th century. Lesser events have one-sentence descriptions; more important events are presented…

The Spectator. A New Edition with Biographical Notices of the Contributors

Steele, Richard; Addison, Joseph; &c · 0 · Barter Books Ltd

£64.00 (€76.73 | $84.57 | ¥13,506)

G : in good condition without dust jacket. Minor rubbing and scuffing to leather cover. Prelims and endpapers lightly foxed London William Tegg First Edition thus 250mm x 160mm (10" x 6"). xxxii, 722pp. B/w frontis plate. Bound by Bickers & Sons. A collection of writings and let…

Corona Fúnebre a la Memoria de Don Claudio Vicuña 1833-1907

[Vicuña Guerrero, Claudio]. J. Rafael Balmaceda, introduccion · 1907 · Kaaterskill Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Santiago de Chile, Imprenta Barcelona, 1907. First edition. Full black morocco, raised bands, gilt title and decorations, marbled endpapers. 319 pp. Illus. with b/w photos. Sm. 4to. Claudio Vicuña Guerrero (1833-1907) was a politician, journalist and presidential candidate in th…

Abstraction: Towards a new art : painting 1910-20

Peter Vergo · 1980 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

, Tate Gallery Publications, 1980 Paperback, 128 pages, ENG.,300 x 210 mm, in good condition, illustrated in colour / b/w. ISBN 9780905005072. Strictly speaking, the word abstract means to separate or withdraw something from something else. The term can be applied to art that…

THE QABALISTIC TAROT - A Textbook of Mystical Philosophy

Wang, Robert · 1983 · Robert W. Reiner

$80.00 (€72.58 | £60.54 | ¥12,776)

York Beach, Maine, Samuel Weiser, 1983. [ ] Hardback, small quarto, appx 7 1/4 x 10 1/8 inches, xviii + 286 pages, Near or About VG in like dj (dj in new protective mylar). DJ only a couple of problems not too serious: mostly nice appearance including spine and great-looking fro…

The Bankside Shakespeare the Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies of Mr. William Shakespeare As Presented at the Globe and Blackfriars Theatres, Circa 1591-1623

William Shakespeare; Appleton Morgan [ed.]; Albert R. Frey; William Reynolds; B. Rush Field; et al. · 1888 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.78 | $2,510.59 | ¥400,956)

New York, The Shakespeare Society of New York, 1888-1891. Leather. An attractive fifteen volumes of the limited edition Bankside Shakespeare, edited by Appleton Morgan, and uniformly bound in half calf. One of 500 limited edition copies of the Bankside Shakespeare. Fifteen volum…

Catherine of Siena The Creation of a Cult,

J. Hamburger, G. Signori (eds.); · 2013 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€99.00 ($109.12 | £82.58 | ¥17,427)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2013 Hardback, approx. X+353 p., 30 b/w ill., 2 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503544151. Focusing on the critical case of Catherine of Siena (d. 1380), the essays in this volume consider the role of texts, translations and images in various media in con…

The Merchant of Yonkers : A Play [Hello Dolly!]

WILDER, Thornton (1897-1975) · 1939 · Fine Editions Ltd

$499.00 (€452.73 | £377.64 | ¥79,693)

New York Harper & Brothers First Printing First Edition (so stated) of Wilder's classic play and basis for "Hello Dolly." 8vo: [8],180pp. Publisher's peach-colored cloth, burgundy title block stamped gilt laid onto spine and front cover; illustrated end papers by Donald McKay, w…

Histoire naturelle des poissons. Tome 18. Cyprinoïdes.

Cuvier, G. & A. Valenciennes · 1846 · Hermann L. Strack, Antiquarian Book Dealer

€49.50 ($54.56 | £41.29 | ¥8,713)

1846 (reprint 1969) xix, [3], 505 p., 34 b/w pls (several folded), cloth. A small label at verso side of the back cover indicates that this book comes from the library of Dr. M. Boeseman (1916-2006) ex curator of fishes at the Leiden Museum. This is a good quality and well boun…

Order in Space and Society: Architectural Form in its Context in the Scottish Enlightenment

MARKUS, Thomas A. (editor) · 1982 · Cotswold Internet Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,276)

Mainstream Publishing, 1982. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket . 1982 1st edition with numerous B&W illustrations; tightly bound in brown boards with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket not price-clipped with light wear to top edge. A few pale marks to page fore-e…

[A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs] Within A Budding Grove [Remembrance of Things Past]

PROUST, Marcel (1871-1822) · 1924 · Fine Editions Ltd

$724.00 (€656.86 | £547.92 | ¥115,627)

London Chatto & Windus Part Two (complete in two volumes) of this masterpiece of modernity, "a milestone in the study of human consciousness and a revolution in the history of prose writing." (Literary Encyclopedia) Translated from the original French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. C…

The New Haven Railroad's Old Colony Division [Volume 1]

LILJESTRAND, ROBERT A. · 2000 · Pegasus Books

$25.50 (€23.14 | £19.30 | ¥4,073)

Ansonia, CT: Outer Station Project, 2000. . B & W ; 8 1/2 x 11\"; 48 pages; Soft cover is green stapled wraps. Slight rubbing to covers. Volume number is not on the cover, as this is before there was a 2d volume. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Lavishly illustra…

Unfamiliar Streets – The Photographs ... The photographs of richard avedon, charles moore, martha rosler, and philip-lorca dicorcia

Katherine A. Bussard · 1800 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

Yale University Pres, Hardback, 232, City scenes have been chronicled in photographs since the early 1800s, but street photography as traditionally defined has captured a relatively narrow field of these images. Revolutionizing the history of street photography, \"Unfamiliar S…

Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale and Other Poems

Thomas Campbell · 1809 · Rooke Books

£130.00 (€155.85 | $171.78 | ¥27,434)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1809. First edition. Leather. A first edition of Thomas Campbell's poetical work, 'Gertrude of Wyoming&apos. With rare errata slip to half-title. Thomas Campbell was a Scottish poet chiefly remembered for his sentimental poetry. …

WELLINGTON'S MEN REMEMBERED A Register of Memorials to Soldiers Who Fought in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo Volume 1 A to L [&] Volume 2 M to Z.

BROMLEY Janet, BROMLEY David · 2012 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

Praetorian Press (Pen & Sword), 2012 [&] 2015 1st edn. 2 vols. 4to. Original gilt lettered black cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. xiv + 610 [&] xiv + 661, illus with coloured and b&w plates + CD with each vol (no inscriptions).

A CATALOGUE OF PRINTED BOOKS IN THE WELLCOME HISTORICAL MEDICAL LIBRARY I: books printed before 1641

THE TRUSTEE OF THE WELLCOME TRUST · 1996 · Moby Dick

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.22 | ¥11,442)

New York 1996, 406 pp., not ill. (code B-443)