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The Genealogist. A Quarterly Magazine of Genealogical, Antiquarian, Topographical, and Heraldic Research. New Series. Vol. XXXIV (34) 1918

Edited by H W Forsyth Harwood · 1918 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£29.50 (€35.37 | $38.98 | ¥6,225)

George Bell and Sons; William Pollard & Co Ltd, London; Exeter, 1918. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean dark red covers with gilt lettering on spine are slightly bowed. Darkened end-papers. Sound binding. Clean pages. Contents include: Chapman o…

Time Magazine (Canadian Edition), March (Mar. ) 12, 1979 - Robin Williams (Mork) Cover Photo

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1979 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$99.95 (€90.68 | £75.64 | ¥15,963)

Canada: Time, 1979. Canadian Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Dressler, Michael (cover). 80 pages. Features: Carter and Begin meet for one last try to save peace talks; Jerry Brown's Budget Balancing Act; Jane Byrne knocks out Mayor of Chicago; American foreign policy in the m…

Newsweek - the Magazine of News Significance, January 27, 1947: Cover Photo of Ingrid Bergman;

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1947 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$249.95 (€226.77 | £189.16 | ¥39,919)

USA: Weekly Publications, 1947. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Olinsky, Ivan; MacPherson, Orison. 96 pages. Features: Nice color ad for Pan American World Airways inside front cover features travel to Guatemala; B.F. Goodrich ad features photo of huge artic…

Heroes of the Nation

Evelyn Abbot [ed.]; H.W. Carless Davis [ed.] · 1900 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

New York, G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1900-1908 . Cloth. A smart ten volume set of biographies of famous and influential figures from the 'Heroes of the Nations' series, profusely illustrated throughout. A ten volume set.  Part of the 'Heroes of the Nations' se…

Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Journal. Volume XIII, 1895

Sir Stephen Glynne; A S Ellis; F R Fairbank; Richard Holmes; Alex D H Leadman; etc. · 1895 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

Under the Direction of Yorkshire Archaeological and Topographical Association; Printed for the Association by Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ltd. Whitefriars, London, 1895. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Dark red half-leather over red boards, banded spine w…

Illustrations of the zoology of South Africa; consisting chiefly of figures and descriptions of the objects of natural history collected during an expedition into the interior of South Africa, in the years 1834, 1835, and 1836; fitted out by "The Cape of Good Hope Association for Exploring Central Africa". Published under the authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury. Mammalia. Aves. Reptilia. Pisces. Invertebratae. [Complete].

Smith, A. · 1838 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)

London, Smith, Elder and Co., [1838]-1849. Five volumes in five. Large 4to (31.6 x 26.6 cm). Reptilia: (ii [index], 28 [appendix] pp., errata leaf; 78 plates (75 plates hand-coloured, plates 30, 42, and 48 plain as intended); Mammalia: vii pp. (including index); 52 plates (numbe…

The Elastic Membrane. Mixed Media First Edition. Signed

Kidner, Michael (1917- 2009) · 1979 · Wittenborn Art Books

$2,750.00 (€2,494.99 | £2,081.19 | ¥439,192)

Guildford, England: Sovereign Arts, 1979. A production in three parts by this 'system artist', contained in a wooden box with perspex cover. The first part, a 'Practical', is an example of a home-made computer used to generate the images which follow (made from wood, perspex, an…

Select Fables of Aesop, Esop, and Other Fabulists

Esop; Aesop; Robert Dodsley · 1824 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London; Gainsborough, William Osborne & J. and H. Mozley; Henry Mozley; C. and J. Rivington, c1788-1824. Leather. A smart set of three different editions of Aesop's 'Fables', edited by Robert Dodsley, smartly bound copies. A striking set of three different edition…

Annales de chimie; ou recueil de mémoires concernant la chimie et les arts qui en dépendent. Périodique illustré, du n° 1 à 9, et 11 à 15

Antoine-Laurent DE LAVOISIER - Louis-Bernard GUYTON DE MORVEAU - Gaspard MONGE · 1789 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,200.00 ($1,322.65 | £1,000.97 | ¥211,235)

Tête de collection de la revue « Annales de chimie », vecteur de la nouvelle chimie, dirigée à sa création par Antoine de Lavoisier | Rue et Hôtel Serpente | Paris 1789-1792 | 12.8 x 19.6 cm | Relié | Édition originale, très recherchée au XIXe siècle, de 14 tomes des 15 premiers…

1830-1861 Stunning Antebellum Autograph Album Featuring the Signatures of 262 American Senators and Congressmen, Including Many of Impressive Historical Significance

262 ANTEBELLUM SENATORS AND CONGRESSMEN FROM ACROSS THE USA · 1830 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$3,995.00 (€3,624.55 | £3,023.40 | ¥638,026)

United States Legislature. Hardcover. On offer is an autograph album circa 1830-1861, coinciding with the 29th through 34th United States Congresses, which ran from 1845 to 1857. The autographs contained within include 262 United States Senators and Congressmen. The majority of …

The Letters of Junius (Two Volumes, Complete)

JUNIUS (PSEUD); [SIR PHILIP FRANCIS?] · 1792 · Round Table Books, LLC

$600.00 (€544.36 | £454.08 | ¥95,824)

London: A. Hamilton, 1792. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Leather. Two full leather volumes, spines in six compartments separated by gilt borders and decoration, gilt lettering on red labels in one compartment. Junius is the pseudonym of the still unidentified author of a s…

The history of the heavens, considered according to the notions of the poets and philosophers, compared with the doctrines of Moses [Provenance]

PLUCHE, Noël-Antoine (1688-1761) · 1741 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,024.00 (€929.05 | £774.96 | ¥163,539)

London prinied [sic] for J. Osborn; and sold by C. Rivington, C. Davis, T. Longman, T. Astley, S. Austen [and 7 others in London, 1 in Bath] Second Edition Translated from the French of the Abbé Pluche by J. B. de Freval, in two volumes. 8vo: [2],x,[2],288,[8]; [2],312,[8],92pp,…

Dare-Devil Aces November 1939

POPULAR PUBLICATIONS · 1939 · S. Howlett-West Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Chicago, IL: Popular Publications, 1939. Magazine. B&W Illustrations; This magazine is slightly larger than a trade sized paperback. The magazine is in Fair condition. The front cover is still attached to the book, but has large chips missing and has several tears. The rear cove…

Philosophical Psychology in Late-Medieval Commentaries on Peter Lombard's Sentences. Acts of the XIVth Annual Colloquium of the Société Internationale pour l'Étude de la Philosophie Médiévale, Radboud Universiteit, 28-30 October 2009

Monica Brinzei, Christopher Schabel (eds) · 2020 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.39 | ¥12,322)

, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, xxii + 445 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9782503589091. Summary The proceedings of the SIEPM Colloquium at Nijmegen published in this volume bring together new evidence for how the corpus of late-medieval commentaries on the Senten…

Northern Lights: The Official Account of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition 1930-1931

F. Spencer Chapman · 1932 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this illustrated record of the British Arctic Air Route Expedition of 1930 to 1931. First edition. Illustrated with sixty-four plates and four folding maps. Collated complete. A detailed commentary, being th…

Travels in Upper and Lower Egypt, Undertaken by Order of the Old Government of France

C. S. Sonnini · 1800 · Rooke Books

£485.00 (€581.43 | $640.86 | ¥102,349)

London, J. Debrett, 1800. First edition. Leather. A smart English edition of Sonnini's vividly detailed travel work on his time spent in Egypt, a lovely illustrated edition with a cloth-backed folding map. The first English edition of this work published in one volume. A 17…

Critical Essays on the Dramatic Excellencies of the Young Roscus

J Bisset · 1805 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

Birmingham; London, Knott and Lloyd; J Johnson, 1805. First edition. Leather. A well bound, very scarce first edition of this tract looking at the dramatic talents of William Henry West Betty, or 'The Young Roscius&apos. Rebound, in a stunning half calf binding with marbled…

The Prime Ministers of Queen Victoria

Stuart J. Reid [ed.] · 1890 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1890-1895. Vellum. A very scarce nine volume set of these limited edition illustrated biographies of the prime ministers during the reign of Queen Victoria. A very scarce limited edition nine volume set, limited to 250 copies.  …

Extracts from the Essex Review

Various Authors · 1908 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London , The Essex Review, 1908-14. Cloth. A collection of essays from the Essex Review. Comprising of the following: The Sampler by Florence Lewer from Volume XVII July 1908 The Flail by H W Lewer from Volume XVII October 1908 The Poet of Husbandry by H W Lewer, volume XVIII, A…

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain. Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility and the Public Collections of the Country. With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions

Edmund Lodge · 1835 · Rooke Books

£485.00 (€581.43 | $640.86 | ¥102,349)

London, Harding and Lepard , 1835. Leather. Edmund Lodge's copiously illustrated biographical series, offering portraits and memoirs of illustrious figures of Great Britain. Complete in twelve volumes, bound into six. In a handsome full signed morocco by Bickers & Son, wit…