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Montevideo Bajo El Azote Epidemico

Heraclio C. Fajardo · 1857 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Montevideo, Imprenta del Sr. Rosete, 1857. First edition. Cloth. Colorado Party politician Heraclio C. Fajardo's contemporary account of the mid eighteenth century Uruguayan Yellow Fever epidemic. The very scarce first edition. In the original Spanish.The very scarce first …

Poems, Chiefly Religious

Henry Francis Lyte · 1833 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, James Nisbet, 1833. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this collection of Anglican poems by Anglican divine, hymnodist and poet Henry Francis Lyte. The very scarce first edition of this work, a charming volume of religious poetry, with titles includin…

Mr. Sponge&Apos;S Sporting Tour

Robert Smith Surtees · 1853 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, Bradbury, Agnew, & Co. [1853]. Cloth. A decoratively bound volume of Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Victorian novelist and sporting writer Robert Smith Surtees A decoratively bound volume of Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Victorian novelist and sporting writer Ro…

John Pettie

Martin Hardie · 1908 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1908. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this fascinating biography of the renowned Scottish painter John Pettie; copiously illustrated throughout. Renowned for his heroic and historical scenes of Scottish History with their rich colour…

Poems

William Hayward Roberts · 1774 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, J. Wilkie, 1774. Leather. The scarce poetical collection of William Hayward Roberts, an English schoolmaster, poet and Provost of Eton College. A new edition. First published in 1774. Bound in full embossed calf, with raised bands and marbled endpapers. Bound with the or…

Old Faces in New Masks

Robert Blakey · 1859 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, W. Kent and Co, 1859 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this intriguing collection of essays, including 'Fishwives', 'Dances of Death' and 'Historical Sketch of British Caricature', by Robert Blakey. The first edition in the publis…

Bonniers Konversations Lexikon

Various · 1922 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Stockholm, Albert Bonniers Förlag, 1922-1928. Leather. An attractive copy of this uncommon Swedish encyclopaedia. With folding maps and illustrations throughout. An attractive copy of this illustrated encyclopaedia published by leading Scandinavian encyclopaedia publishers Alfr…

Two Happy Years in Ceylon

C. F. Gordon Cumming [Constance Gordon-Cumming] · 1893 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1893 . Cloth. A smart copy of Constance Gordon-Cumming's account of two years spent alongside her brother in late nineteenth century Ceylon. Illustrated by the author herself. An early edition of this work, published the year after the first. First …

Histoire du Monde. Seconde edition, revûë, corrigée & augmentée de plusieurs Tables Chronologiques.

CHEVREAU, Urbain · 1698 · Antiquariaat Berger & De Vries

€600.00 ($661.32 | £500.49 | ¥105,618)

La Haye (The Hague) Chez Abraham de Hondt / Jean & Jacob van Ellinkhuysen Second edition. Five volumes (Complete set). 12mo (Duodecimo). "Seconde edition, revue, corrige". In a very good condition. Minor rubbing to extremities, corners slightly bumped, joints sl. loosening but f…

1901 Haupt-Katalog der Sanitas Actiengesellschaft in Hamburg. [Bathroom and toilet furniture catalogue].

[Trade-Catalogue] Sanitas Actiengesellschaft · 1901 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€300.00 ($330.66 | £250.24 | ¥52,809)

Hamburg, Sanitas Actiengesellschaft, 1901. Folio (28.9 x 22.7 cm). 96 pp.; numerous steel-engravings, including several printed in colour. Original Jugendstil (Art Nouveau) style printed wrappers. = A richly illustrated catalogue, mainly showing bath tubs and toilets, urinals, c…

Mel Ramos: Exceptional Editions

Hilger, Ernst and Anke Wiedmann · 2015 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Wien, Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2015. Hardcover. Purple cut-out boards revealing color-illustration. 72 pp. Color illustrations. Exceptional Editions complements and continues the catalogue of works published in 2013 by Verlag Moderner Kunst Mel Ramos. Exhibitional Prints. It in…

Bow Porcelain

Adams, Elizabeth and David Redstone · 1981 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

London, Faber and Faber, 1981. Hardbound. Blue cloth with bright blue color-illustrated dustjacket. 251 pp. 16 color and 135 bw plates. "Bow porcelain is perhaps the best known and most characteristically English porcelain ever produced in this country. For its direct appeal and…

Walls Of Silence

Philip Jolowicz · 2002 · Book Haven

NZ$18.50 (€9.27 | $10.22 | £7.73 | ¥1,632)

Bantam 2002 Paperback, 463pp. ""Walls of Silence" is a wild rollercoaster ride from the drama of its opening pages to its breathless and shocking conclusion. It marks the stunning debut of an important new thriller writer for the twenty-first century. From his office on Wall Str…

A New Method of Measuring Solids by Models and Instruments:

Murray, Sir Alexander · 1733 · Creaking Shelves Books

£82.00 (€98.30 | $108.35 | ¥17,304)

J.Roberts, 1733. Hardcover. Sometimes included with An abstract of an essay on the improvement of husbandry and working of mines. In a letter to the Right Honourable Sir Robert Walpole. To which is added, a new method of measuring lands, hills, houses, towns, rivers, standing-wa…

Poems of Walter Scott and John Greenleaf Whittier

Walter Scott; John Greenleaf Whittier · 1906 · Rooke Books

£77.00 (€92.31 | $101.74 | ¥16,249)

London, Caxton Publishing Co, 1906. Cloth. Two 'Golden Poets' volumes containing the popular poetry of Sir Walter Scott and John Greenleaf Whittier, both volumes illustrated beautifully in colour throughout. Two volumes from Caxton Publishing Company's 'The G…

Della Probita Naturale. Libri Due. Di Giambatista AB. Conte Roberti. RARE TURIN PRINTING

ROBERTI G. · 1825 · Island Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

Alliana E Paravia, Torino, 1825. 2 books in one vol., 8vo., text in Italian, on laid paper, some very light spotting (mainly marginal); neat nineteenth signature on front free endpaper; contemporary pebble-grain cloth, calf back with five bands ruled in gilt, second compartment …

Praeterita. Outlines of Scenes and Thoughts Perhaps Worthy of Memory in My Past Life [ Complete in 3 Volumes ]

Ruskin John · 1886 · George Jeffery Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

George Allen Books measure 9 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches. Collation, vii, [1], 432pp, 442pp, viii,182,vi,171pp, with 3 plates including frontispieces. Volume1, published, 1886, volume 2 published, 1887, volume 3, published 1900, with Two Plates. Consists of the Four Chapters published by…

Selected Stories of Andre Dubus

DUBUS, ANDRE · 1988 · S. Howlett-West Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York: David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc, 1988. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0879237368. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. T…

Summer Songs and Sketches

E Nesbit and Robert Ellice Mack · 1886 · Richard Thornton Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Griffith Farran & Company Produced and Printed By Ernest Nister.Rare title graded Very Good + in the Rare Dust-Jacket graded Very Good + with red silk bow binding with coloured pictorial Summer scene to the front cover.All the page edges are in gilt.These Summer songs and sketch…

Pressure Die Castings in Light & Heavy Non-Ferrous Alloys. (Excluding Copper Base Alloys).

"BIRMAL". · 1903 · Chilton Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Birmingham: Birmingham Aluminium Casting (1903) Co.Ltd, nd. "Written to emphasise the technical and commercial advantages of the process and to indicate the limitations and pitfalls that can be avoided by the observation of certain simple but important rules." Pp.63, black & whi…