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The Friend

Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1850 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

London, William Pickering , 1850. Cloth. The fourth edition of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's 'The Friend', a series of essays concerning literary, moral, and philosophic matters. Samuel Taylor Coleridge's series of essays titled The Friend, in which Coleridge s…

Earl Bathurst; a Relic. Issue No. 264. (Original Lithograph. )

Coïdé (Adriano Cecioni, July 26, 1836 - May 23, 1886) (Lith.) · 1873 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

London: Vanity Fair, 1873. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 page of letterpress description. Very Good+. Published in Vanity Fair, 22 November 1873. William Lennox Bathurst, 5th Earl Bathurst (14 February 1791 - 24 February 1878), styled The Honour…

PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World. EXTRACT from Vol. LXVII Part II.

Royal Society · 1778 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

... 1778. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. pp.(493-648). 5 folding plates and 1 folding map engraved by Basire. Disbound, without stitching, sl. stained and lightly browned. Articles comprise XXVI. Of the degrees and quantities of winds requisite to move the heavier kinds of wind machines. In …

Consuming Visions: Accumulation and Display of Goods in America, 1880-1920

Bronner, Simon J. (editor) · 1989 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

New York, W. W. Norton & Co. for The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1989. Hardcover. Blue cloth, gilt letters on spine, blue & illus. dust jacket in mylar cover, 391 pp. BW illus. A collection of 12 essays that examine "the consumer way of life in America as it unfolde…

Catalogue of the A.T. Stewart Collection of Paintings, Sculptures and Other Objects of Art

NY: American Art Association, Mar. 23-25, 28 + onward, 1887 · 1887 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$700.00 (€635.09 | £529.76 | ¥111,794)

1887. Hardbound. Black cloth with silver gilt title on spine, original gilt-embossed covers retained. 249 pp. 17 original etchings and 9 Gelatin prints, in addition to other illustrations. American artists represented include James H. Beard (2), Bierstadt (3), George B. Butler (…

History of England from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles 1713-1783

Lord Mahon · 1853 · Rooke Books

£790.00 (€947.08 | $1,043.88 | ¥166,713)

London, John Murray, 1853-4. Leather. A uniformly bound seven volume set of works by the fifth Earl of Stanhope, Philip Henry Stanhope. In seven volumes. Third edition, revised. Rebacked, and in a uniform calf binding, with tree calf boards. This work offers a fascinating insigh…

The History of England, from the Earliest Dawn of Authentic Record, to the Ultimate Ratification of the General Peace at Amiens in 1802

George Courtney Lyttleton · 1802 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.19 | $918.35 | ¥146,666)

London, J. Stratford , 1802-1803. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this copiously engraved history of England, up until the Treaty of Amiens. The scarce complete first edition of George Courtney Lyttleton's History of England.Complete in three volumes.In half ca…

Fifty Caricatures

Max Beerbohm · 1913 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, William Heinemann, 1913. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this collection of caricatures from English parodist and caricaturist Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm. First edition. Illustrated with forty-eight tipped in plates and two standard plates. The fifty ca…

Bibles, Testaments, Psalms and other Books of the Holy Scriptures in English, in the Collection of Lea Wilson.

WILSON (Lea) · 1845 · Forest Books

£806.25 (€966.56 | $1,065.35 | ¥170,143)

London: [Privately Printed for the Author by Charles Whittingham]. 1845. First edition, 4to (234 x 170 mm), viii, 135, 129*-136*, [137]-352pp., one of 100 copies privately printed for presentation only, Pickering’s own copy?, title printed in red and black, wide margins, later g…

The Arts and Crafts Movement: A Study of Its Sources, Ideals, and Influence on Design Theory

Naylor, Gillian · 1980 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Cambridge, Mass, The MIT Press, 1980. Paperback. Color-illus. wraps with black lettering on green spine. 208 pp with 101 color and bw plates. Extensive study of the principles and theories underlying the Arts and Crafts movement. "Shows how Arts and Crafts attitudes were conditi…

Amazing Stories: February, Feb. 1951

AMAZING (GERALD VANCE; CHARLES CREIGHTON; ROBERT MOORE WILLIAMS; BURT A. LISTON; KENDALL FOSTER CROSSEN; MILTON LESSER; H. B. HICKEY) · 1951 · Books from the crypt

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

NY, Ziff-Davis. 1951. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 25, No. 2. Pulp magazine. Edited by Howard Browne. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones for "Vanguard of the Doomed" (novelet) by Gerald Vance [house pseud. unattributed]. Includes "The Man Who Forgot" (novelet) by Charles Creigh…

Amazing Stories: February, Feb. 1951

AMAZING (GERALD VANCE; CHARLES CREIGHTON; ROBERT MOORE WILLIAMS; BURT A. LISTON; KENDALL FOSTER CROSSEN; MILTON LESSER; H. B. HICKEY) · 1951 · Books from the crypt

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

NY, Ziff-Davis. 1951. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 25, No. 2. Pulp magazine. Edited by Howard Browne. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones for "Vanguard of the Doomed" (novelet) by Gerald Vance [house pseud. unattributed]. Includes "The Man Who Forgot" (novelet) by Charles Creigh…

Air Trails and Science Frontiers Magazine, August 1947 - Navigating the Weather Map

PECK, JAMES L.H.; BOONE, ANDREW R.; BENNIS, STEPHEN J.; SOSTMAN, HENRY E.; CAMPBELL JR., JOHN W.; PECK, JAMES L.H.; WARD, ROSWELL; FRIEDMAN, WILLIAM; HUNTINGTON, ROGER; CLOUGH JR., ROY L. STRUHL, DICK; ET AL · 1947 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.48 | ¥23,948)

USA: Street and Smith, 1947. First Edition. Paperback. 118 pages. Many great black and white photos. Features: Navigating the Weather Map; Douglas DC-6; Glider Training; The Aerial Photograph; Atomic Cyclone - the Cycloptron - article with photos, including full-page color photo…

The Dearborn Independent - Chronicler of the Neglected Truth, July 17, 1926 - Missionaries and Machine Guns

SCOTT, C.W.; MALON, WINIFRED; CLARK, MARIAN BRUCE; JOHNS, E.B.; LEWIS, JAMES H.; NEIL, JUDGE HENRY; FINGER, CHARLES J.; HOPP, WILLIAM F.; HEURLAUX, CAPTAIN ALFRED; BARNET, HARRY E.; LOWDEN, CARL SCHURZ; WHITTIER, JOHN G. · 1926 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

Dearborn, Michigan: The Dearborn Publishing Co, 1926. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Harper, George; Graham, J.. 32 pages. Features: A Wasted Sugar Supply - Honey from Honeybees; Wild Youth Proves a Myth - 'girls and boys' between 35 and 45 are rolling up the crime wave; …

Wall's Etched Monthly. Vol. 4. No. 1 First Edition. Signed. Signed Etchings of John Borroughs; George Barr Mccutcheon ;"Blind Man's Buff (Signed by Mccutcheon) & His Portrait; President Harding "My Hobby;" a Fifth Ave. Chateau of Vanderbilt; Edwin Markham; Cullen Yates, N.A. ; Lionel Atwell in "Deburau;" April Fools

Wall, Bernhardt (1872-1956) and Cullen Yates, N.A. (artist) and George Barr McCutcheon · 1921 · Wittenborn Art Books

$875.00 (€793.86 | £662.20 | ¥139,743)

New York: Bernhardt Wall, April, 1921. 4to. 8x 10.75 inches. Edition of 125 copies; original dark brown wraps with etched cover label; signed, dated Feb. 1921 and annotated in pencil "Copy no 8." 16 etchings (plus cover label and 1 etched ad leaf). Several signed and dated 1937 …

Who Cried Against the Wall. (Written in New Jersey State Prison. ) First Edition of the Broadside

Becker, Edwin J. · 1947 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1947. Letterpress on paper.2pp 40.5 x 30.2cm. As published in Portfolio V , edited by Caresse Crosby.. See: "It carries the battle forward": An Unpublished Letter from William Carlos Williams to Edwin J. Becker, prisoner-poet Todd Giles......…

Three Hundred Years of American Painting

ELIOT, ALEXANDER · 1957 · Round Table Books, LLC

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York: Time Inc, 1957. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Quarter bound in publisher's brown cloth over tan cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine & cover. Profusely illustrated with over 250 full-color reproductions. Includes a list of One Hundred Collections of America…

Poems, Odes, Prologues, and Epilogues, Spoken on Public Occasions at Reading School. Second Edition.

[VALPY (Richard)], editor: · 1826 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£500.00 (€599.42 | $660.68 | ¥105,515)

London: Printed by A. J. Valpy...Sold by G. B. Whittaker, Longman and Co.; Baldwin and Co; Cowslade Reading...; 1826. Large 8vo, 228 x 138 mms., pp. vii [viii blank], 208, uncut, original boards; front free end-paper creased, spine slightly worn, joints with some paper missing…

The Genealogist. A Quarterly Magazine of Genealogical, Antiquarian, Topographical, and Heraldic Research. New Series. Vol. XXIX (29) 1913

Edited by H W Forsyth Harwood · 1913 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£29.50 (€35.37 | $38.98 | ¥6,225)

George Bell and Sons; William Pollard & Co Ltd, London; Exeter, 1913. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean dark red covers with gilt lettering on spine. Free front end-paper pasted down to inside front cover, covering bookplate. Split to webbing be…

History of Cheadle, in Staffordshire, and Neighbouring Places

Robert Plant [contributions by Charles Lynam and W. Molyneux] · 1881 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

Leek, Staffordshire, William Clemesha, 1881. Cloth. A scarce local history of the peaceful market town of Cheadle in Staffordshire, which was a manufacturing and agricultural center during the Industrial Revolution. A scarce local history of Cheadle in Staffordshire, written by …