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The Art of Garden Design in Italy

H. Inigo Triggs · 1906 · Rooke Books

£340.00 (€407.60 | $449.26 | ¥71,750)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1906. First edition. Cloth. A monumental study of Italian garden design by English formal garden designer H. Inigo Triggs, copiously illustrated throughout. First edition. Rebacked, with the cloth from the original boards and spine laid down. Ret…

British Poetry Anthologies of Pope, Jonson, Spenser, Milton, Cowper and Dunbar

Professor Edward Arber [Ed.]; et al. · 1899 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Henry Frowde, 1899-1901 . First edition. Cloth. A six volume set of first editions from the British Anthology series, edited by Professor Edward Arber. First editions of this collection of six volumes from the British Anthologies series. There were ten volumes published …

Cambridge Illuminations. The Conference Papers

George Henderson, ?Introduction?; Andrea Worm · 2007 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€99.00 ($109.12 | £82.58 | ¥17,427)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2007 HARDCOVER 334 p., 283 b/w ill. + 17 colour ill., 210 x 280 mm, Languages: English, Italian. ISBN 9781905375172. George Henderson, ?Introduction?; Andrea Worm, ?The Gospel Book in the Fitzwilliam Museum, MS McClean 21: Some New Aspects of the Art…

Mr H Greeley; Anything to Beat Grant. Issue No. 194. (Original Lithograph. )

Nast (Thomas Nast, September 27, 1840 - December 7, 1902) (Lith.) · 1872 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

London: Vanity Fair, 1872. Original colour lithograph. 13.5 x 8.5 inches, accompanied by 1 page of description. Good. Bottom line of text has been trimmed off the page, else fine. Published in Vanity Fair, 20 July 1872. Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 - November 29, 1872) was a…

Proceedings of The Society of Antiquaries of London, 23 November 1916 to 28th June 1917, Second Series Vol XXIX

G F Hill;H Swainson Cooper etc · 1917 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Frederick Hall for The Societies of Antiquaries, London; Oxford, 1917. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean firm brown cover, gilt lettering on the spine, clean pages. Sound binding. Many black and white illustrations. Occasional pages are unopened. Con…

[Celeberrimi legati ad pacificandum Christiani nominis orbem, legati ad Monasterium et Osnabrugas ex omni pene gentium nationumque genera missi. Ad vivum Anselmi v. Hulle penicillo expressi eiusque cura et aere per ingeniores huius aevi sculptores caelo representati].[Antwerp, Daniel Middeler, ca. 1649]. Folio. With 76 full-page engraved portraits mounted onto the leaves of an album, engraved by Petrus de Jode (25), Cornelis Galle Jr. (23), Paulus Pontius (10), Matthias Borrekens (7), Conrad Waumans (5), Antonius van der Does (2), Petrus de Baillieu (2), and 2 unsigned, after the original paintings by Anselmus Hulle. Contemporary gold-tooled marbled calf.

[HULLE, Anselmus]. · 1648 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.93 | £3,753.65 | ¥792,132)

[76] ll.Second edition of a famous, albeit very rare suite of portraits in an early state, containing 76 beautifully engraved portraits of the ambassadors, legates and negotiators present at Münster to sign the famous Westphalian Peace Treaty in 1648.The commission to portray th…

Gek van Surrealisme. Dalí, Ernst, Magritte, Miró... uit de collecties van Roland Penrose, Edward James, Gabrielle Keiller en Ulla en Heiner Pietzsch.

Ades, Dawn & en anderen Richard Calvocoressi, Désirée de Chair, Elizabeth Cowling, Hubertus Gassner, Annabelle Görgen, Keith Hartley, Saskia van Kampen-Prein, Antony Penrose: · 2017 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€44.95 ($49.54 | £37.49 | ¥7,913)

February 2017 (29 x 29 cm), 396 pp. Dutch text, binder in slipcase. Deze rijk geïllustreerde tentoonstellingscatalogus verschijnt ter gelegenheid van de gelijknamige tentoonstelling in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (11 februari – 28 mei 2017). Gek van surrealisme toont een grote…

Benedictus, Abbas Petroburgensis, de Vita & Gestis Henrici II. et Ricardii. E Codice ms. in Bibliotheca Harleiana descripsit; Et nunc primus edidit Thomas Hearnius Accesserunt alia.

[BENEDICT, Abbot of Peterborough]: · 1735 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.59 | $462.48 | ¥73,860)

Oxford E Theatro Sheldoniano, MDCCXXXV. 1735. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes 8vo, 232 x 135 mms. (large-paper copy), pp. lxxi [lxxii errata], 380, [381] - 873 [874 blank, 875 advert, 876 blank], later 18th century calf, gilt borders on cvoes, spine gilt in compartments (but rubbed an…

Men of Nottingham and Nottinghamshire: Being Biographical Notices of Five Hundred Men and Women Who Were Born, or Worked, or Abode, or Died in the County or City of Nottingham, and Who, in Some Way, Were Distinguished for Usefulness to Others.

Robert Mellors · 1924 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Nottingham, J. & H. Bell, 1924-1925. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce, first edition of this comprehensive biographical dictionary of 500 notable Nottinghamshire figures, including medical, civic, and scientific leaders, with supplement. In the publisher's original green…

153 Letters from W. H Hudson

W. H. Hudson; Edward Garnett (ed.) · 1923 · Rooke Books

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

1923, The Nonesuch Press, 1923. First edition. Cloth. A limited edition copy of the letters of Anglo-Argentine author, W.H Hudson. A limited edition of this work, being copy seven hundred and forty four of one thousand numbered copies. In the original publisher's brown clot…

The Library of Historic Characters and Famous Events of All Nations and All Ages

A. R. Spofford; et al. · 1895 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.72 | $317.13 | ¥50,647)

London, William Finley & Co, 1895-1900. Leather. A scarce complete limited edition set of this illustrated series on important historical characters and events, bound in half morocco. The limited edition "Imperial Edition", being number 344 out of one thousand copies. A twelve …

The Print Collector&Apos;S Quarterly

Various; Campbell Dodgson [ed.] · 1911 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,798.25 | $1,982.04 | ¥316,544)

London, J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd , 1911-1931. Leather. A pleasing set from the Print Collector's Quarterly, a lavishly illustrated periodical exploring an array of etchers and engravers. Offering the complete first twenty years being Vols 1-18 out of an eventual 30 volumes p…

Our Conservative and Unionist Statesmen

1896 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Newman, Graham & Co. c1896. Cloth. A collection of photobooks containing 19th century British conservative and unionist statesmen, replete with oversized carbon photographic plates. A collection of beautifully illustrated photobooks of conservative and unionist British s…

The Dialogue Concerning Tyndale by Sir Thomas More Reproduced in Black Letter Facsimile from the Collected Edition (1557) of More&Apos;S English Works

Sir Thomas More; ed. by W.E. Campbell; A.W. Reed, M.A., D. Lit. · 1927 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London , Eyre And Spottiswoode Limited, 1927. Cloth. A scarce facsimile of Sir Thomas More's dialogue concerning Tyndale, with a frontispiece portrait. A scarce facsimile edition, reproduced in black letter from the collected edition (1557) of More's English works.In p…

The Female Approach & Back to the Slaughterhouse

Ronald Searle; Max Beerbohm · 1954 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, MacDonald, 1954. Cloth. Two later impressions of these humorous works from the St. Trinian's series by English satirical cartoonist Ronald Searle. Two volumes. From the St. Trinian's series. Illustrated throughout. Written and illustrated by Ronald William Ford…

In Clover and Heather

Wallace Bruce · 1890 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Edinburgh; London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1890. Vellum. A limited edition anthology of poems by Wallace Bruce, presented by the author to the Colonial Club of New York. Limited to two hundred and fifty copies printed on large paper, of which this is numbered one hundred and…

The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer and Others

Geoffrey Chaucer; Walter W. Skeat · 1905 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London; Oxford, Alexander Moring, Limited; The De La More Press; Henry Frowde; Oxford University Press, 1905. Cloth. A limited edition facsimile of the important 1532 folio collecting together the works of Chaucer. A limited edition of one thousand copies, of which this is numbe…

Forty Days in the Desert on the Track of the Israelites

W. H. Bartlett · 0 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Bell and Daldy, c1850. Cloth. A richly illustrated travel title, with folding map, in striking original binding. Undated, dated approximately from a copy held by the University of Edinburgh Libraries. An uncommon work, in the striking original green cloth, richly decorat…

The Diary of Ralph Thoresby & Letters of Eminent Men Addressed to Ralph Thoresby

Ralph Thoresby; Joseph Hunter · 1830 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, 1830-1832. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound collection of first edition volumes from English antiquarian Ralph Thoresby. Four volumes. First edition. This set includes: The Diary of Ralph Thoresby, Author of the Topography of Lee…

The Comic History of England

Gilbert Abbott A' Beckett · 1847 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, At the Punch Office , 1847-8. First edition. Leather. A beautiful first edition of this celebrated humorous history of England by Gilbert A Beckett and John Leech, in one beautiful morocco bound volume signed Hatchards. Initially published in parts between 1846 and 1848.…