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Watching the World.

biographical sketch by Mrs. Raymond Clapper, · 1944 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

London, Whittlesey, (1944). VG. "His mind was pliable but his integrity was unshakable.more than anything he was a crusader for the right of people to. think things out for themselves and make their own decisions, and he spent his life giving them information that would help the…

Comeback.

Dravecky, Dave, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Grand Rapids, MI, Zondervan, (1990). BCE. VG in VG DJ. When doctors removed a cancerous tumor from his pitching arm, they removed muscle as well giving him near-zero changes of. ever pitching again. Six months later he pitched again & won. Then 5 days later he pitched again and …

Running West.

Houston, James, · 1996 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Kensington, (1996). 1st ptg thus. VG lg sz PB. Unjustly banished from his Scottish homeland & indentured to Canada's Hudson Bay Company, he never dreamed he was embarking. on an heroic trek across the frozen northern wilderness guided by a woman of extraordinary courage. Bas…

The Door in the Wall.

de Angeli, Marguerite, · 1990 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

NY, Yearling, (1990). 17th printing. G PB. Ft cover creased at corner. Robin has been told what is expected of him as the son of a nobleman. But Robin falls ill. and loses the use of his legs. He is taken to a hospice where he learns woodcarving, patience & strength.

The Dan Quayle Quiz Book: for people who think they are smarter than the Vice-President.

Soloman, Jeremy and Ken Brady, · 1989 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

NY, Little Brown, (1989). 1st ptg. VG PB. Price inked out. Does Quayle live in this century, does he prefer golf to sex, who named him Elvis, did Bush say he was no. Spiro Agnew?.

Shadow's Lure

Jon Sprunk · 2011 · Porcupine Books

£4.50 (€5.39 | $5.95 | ¥950)

Gollancz 2011 First Edition First Printing (Trade Paper) . Fine Book . ''In Othir he was... An assassin beyond compare... But Caim left that life behind when he helped an empress claim her throne. Now, searching for the truth behind the murder of his parents... Caim finds himsel…

The Coveting Christian.

ELDRIDGE, RICHARD. · 1998 · Chilton Books

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Kettering: Henry Cauline. 1998. 1st ed. "The author sees as crucial the way in which Christian faith applies to the everyday material world. He relates present life, with its rampant consumerism, to Christian belief, which he outlines in refreshing terms". Pp 127. P/b. Illustrat…

Mr Js Balfour Mp; Burnley. Issue 1220. (First Edition Before the Bound Volumes. )

Spy (Sir Leslie Ward, 1851-1922) (Lith.) · 1892 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

London: Vanity Fair, 1892. Original colour lithograph. 40 x 27 cm (15.75 x 10.6 inches). Very Good. Some toning in margins, not affecting image. Dated March 19, 1892. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lith.). Scarce. Jabez Spencer Balfour (4 September 1843 - 23 February 1916) was an En…

La Promise. First Edition of the Lithograph

Gottlob, Fernand Louis · 1898 · Wittenborn Art Books

$300.00 (€272.18 | £227.04 | ¥47,912)

Paris: L'Estampe Moderne, publiée en juin 1898. Lithograph tipped onto support sheet. 245 x 240 x mm. Tissue guard with descriptive text attached at edge. 13 11/16 × 9 3/4 in. (34.8 × 24.8 cm) Fernand Louis Gottlob was born in Paris in 1873. He studied under the painter-decorato…

[Typed Letter Signed] New York Publisher Mitchell Kennerley Rejects Benjamin Butler Davenport's "the Doubter's Faith

Kennerley, Mitchell · 1914 · Kaaterskill Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

New York, 1914. 1 sheet. 7.5 x 9 inches. Dated April 8th, 1914, on letterhead for "The Forum" periodical. Publisher Mitchell Kennerley writes to Benjamin Butler Davenport, to explain that he cannot publish his play, "'The Doubter's Faith', as my list is very crowded at present. …

Tannhauser; or the Battle of the Bards, a Poem EDWYN TEMPLE'S COPY

TEMPLE Neville & Edward Trevor · 1861 · Fortuna Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Chapman and Hall second edition in original blind decorated gilt titled cloth, this has been damped in the past and the glue has perished so there is some lifting to the upper board, also some soiling and fading, probbly due for a recovering, internally VG with the bookplate of …

Autograph letter signed 'J. Geoffroy St Hillaire'and dated 'Paris, le 19 mars [1829]' in which Saint Hillaire writes to a Dutch scientist and translator ['Votre Tableau du règne animal est-il traduit et déjâ publié en hollandois?' [=....?]. Things seem to have gone wrong w. a particular publication St. Hillaire wanted to send to ... He blames it on the publisher and partly on himself. Saint Hillaire discusses recent and expected publications: Edwards, 'Sur les Races humaines'; 'la premiere livraison de l'iconographie de Regne Animale [F.E.Méneville-Guérin]... [ a book by] un médecine de la marine, M. Raynaud entierement nouveaux parmis les mollusques et zoophytes [=1830] ...Dans un ou deux mois nous aurons ... un voyage autour du Monde par mm. [Jean Rene Constant] Quoy et [Joseph Paul Gaimard [=Dumont d'Urville, L'Astrolabe, 1826 - 1829]...' Best regards also from his father 'Mon père me charge de vous offrer ses compliments.'

SAINT HILLAIRE, Isidore Geoffroy.- ALS.- Unknown Dutch recipient.- 1829.- · 1829 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)

Paris, autograph, 1829. [No year but 1829, see the publication dates in the note below!]. 8vo. [Meas. appr. 12.5 x 20 cm.]. 4to sheet folded once horizontally to 12.5 x 10 cm letter size. 53 lines of text w. 1 signature. (3 pp. text, 1 (blank) p.). Isidore Geoffroy Saint Hillai…

Autograph letter in English to the Admiralty Commissioners [indicated lower left in ink] signed by both Admiral Robert Blake [1599 - 1657] and General-at-Sea Richard Deane [1610 - 1653 (1 June)], aboard the 'Triumph', dated February 8, 1652, just a few months before the Battle of Dover in May 1652. Patrolling the Channel and protecting British Trade. Maarten Harpertsz Tromp ordered by the States General to do exactly the same for Holland. This letter being written at the very height of activities surrounding the fitting out, capturing and building of ships by both the Dutch and the English, December 1651 to May 1652. General-at-Sea Robert Blake reaches a previously appointed point of Rendezvous w. a fleet of 40 sails. He complains of the 'want of seamen' and urges the Admiralty into action. Blake needs ships and men urgently. For a postcriptum see note below.

BLAKE, Robert.- ALS.- R. DEANE.- Generals-at-Sea.- · 1652 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

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

1652. 'From aboard the Triumph in the Swinn Feb: 8th, 1652 [Stilo antiquo?] Your affectionate freinds and Servants Rob: Blake R I Deane.' Folio. [Meas. appr. 21 x 30 cm.]. Single leaf w. appr. 42 lines of text in Blake's hand. 3 horizontal folds. (Paper w. light foxing and som…

Autograph letter opening top left 'Paris, Le Citoyen Renouard l'ainé', top right: 'Parme ce / le 14 Aout 1798'. Signed 'Jean George Handwerck'. The recipient is the famous French bibliographer, bibliophile and collector A.A. Renouard. In the well written letter Handwerck, Director of the l'imprimerie Royale, mentions a number of Bodoni editions, recently produced and / or in the process of printing: 'Je viens de faire une très belle edition de Boethius Consolatione Philosophiae in grand in 4to et in 4o piccolo. cette edition dont on n'a tiré que 300 exemplaires [4to] e 200 in [4to piccolo] est LA PLUS BELLE DE TOUS LES OUVRAGES sortis des presses de cette imprimerie... J'imprime actuellement la traduction italienne de Varchi de cet ouvrage... J'ai réimprimé Characterum Ethicorum Theophrasti Eresii Capita Amadutia 1. volume in 4o... '. He sends 'Le Baptisterre' [Christening gift?] from his friend Feneulle to Citoyen Regnault. The Cossali arithmetica not printed yet.

BODONI.- RENOUARD.- HANDWERCK, J.G.- A.L.S.- 1798 · 1798 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

Parma, autograph, 1798. 4to. 1 sheet recto w. text and remains of red lacquer seal, verso w. address and postal markings in ink. [Meas. appr. 19.7 x 24. 2 cm]. Folded once into letter format of 8.7 x 10.7 cm. Some damage to righthand corner w. loss of a few letters, due to open…

Horae Belgicae 1 - 12 complete

HOFFMANN VON FALLERSLEBEN, AUGUST HEINRICH · 1830 · Antiquariaat Tanchelmus bv

€800.00 ($881.77 | £667.32 | ¥140,823)

Half-leather (hardcover), 21 bx 13 cm, German, 11 volumes, book condition: Good, 11 volumes, parts 1 and 2 are bound together, parts 3 to 12 have uniform bindings, the bindings are still sturdy but show clear signs of wear, foxing in all volumes. German philologist and poet, pro…

The Log Of The Water Lily (Thames Gig), During Two Cruises, In The Summers Of 1851-52, On The Rhine, Neckar, Main, Moselle, Danube, And other Streams of Germany. By Robert Blachford Mansfield And Illustrated By Alfred Thompson.

MANSFIELD, ROBERT BLACHFORD (1824-1908) . · 1854 · Chilton Books

£110.00 (€131.87 | $145.35 | ¥23,213)

London: Nathaniel Cooke, Milford House, Strand, 1854 . 0. "Second Edition Revised and Enlarged." Well bound in half leather. 8vo. 7.5" x 5.0" x 0.25". pp.124. Dark green calf covered spine and corners over marbled boards. Edges rubbed and bumped. Smooth spine with black leather …

ELEMENTE DER LYRIK

KILLY,WALTHER · 1972 · Moby Dick

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Munchen 1972, 190 pp., (underlinings in he text) (code B-310A)

PLAYING WITH MAGIC

STERCKX,EDDY · 2014 · Moby Dick

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Breda 2014, 98 pp., photos, softcover (code He-1)

What's the time in Dhaka? : the new photography thinking

Johan M. Swinnen ; Thomas Crombez ; Els De Bruyn · 2010 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€27.50 ($30.31 | £22.94 | ¥4,841)

, K.A.S.K.A / Eric Ubben, 2010 Paperback, 96 pages, ENG, 245 x 170 mm, in fine condition, with photo's in b/w. ISBN 9789490521066. Johan Swinnen studied photography, film and video at the Hogeschool Sint-Lukas Brussels, cultural sciences at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and a…

MOMENTS Photography by Marc T.

Marc T. · 2021 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€49.50 ($54.56 | £41.29 | ¥8,713)

, ander]-zijds , 2021 Hardcover, HB, 230 x 345 mm, 144 p, 63 illustrations Eng./ NL/ IT edition . ISBN 9789082808087. Photographer Marc T. left Antwerp for London at a very young age, where he started working as an assistant for Cecil Beaton, known for his fashion photos and …