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A Mechanical Account of Poisons in Several Essays.

MEAD (Richard) · 1747 · Forest Books

£188.13 (€225.54 | $248.59 | ¥39,701)

London: Printed for J. Brindley, 1747. Fourth edition, corrected, xlviii, 320pp., 4 engraved plates (one folding), water tidemark to front endpaers, title and advert leaf, rest of text unaffected, contemporary calf, head and foot of spine chipped, title added in gilt MS to spine…

Some Particulars of the Life, Trial, Behaviour, and Execution of Samuel Wood, who was Executed on Nottingham Gallows, on Thursday, March 16, 1826, for the Wilful Murder of his Wife. Copied from the Nottingham Review, with Considerable Additions.

TRIALS. · 1826 · Forest Books

£403.13 (€483.29 | $532.68 | ¥85,072)

Nottingham: Printed and Sold by Sutton and Son, [c.1826.] 12mo (150 x 85 mm) 24pp., new boards. Samuel Wood, resided in a small house at the back of Parliament-row, Nottingham. He had been married to his wife about nine years, and had three children. A man named Dunn lodged wi…

Hints on the Constitution of Dispensaries, with the view of their being rendered of more extensive benefit to the Labouring Population, and equally applicable and advantageous to Towns of considerable Population; to Market Towns of all denominations, and even to Rural Districts consisting of contiguous Parishes. [with an appendix].

STORER (John) · 1832 · Forest Books

£134.38 (€161.10 | $177.56 | ¥28,358)

London: J. Hatchard and Son, 1832. First edition, 12mo, [4], 92pp., presentation inscription on blank verso of half-title “To Mr. Jowett - Surgeon with Doctr. Storer’s compliments.”, library stamp on lower outer corner on blank margin, no other library markings, original printed…

Observations on an Extraordinary Case of Ruptured Uterus.

DOUGLAS (Andrew) · 1785 · Forest Books

£241.88 (€289.97 | $319.61 | ¥51,044)

London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1785. First edition, 74pp., recent quarter calf, marbled boards, red morocco title label lettered in gilt to spine. Andrew Douglas (1735/6–1806), physician and man-midwife, was born in Teviotdale, Roxburghshire, and educated at the University of…

On the Precession of the Equinoxes Produced by the Sun’s Attraction.

MILNER (Rev. Isaac) · 1780 · Forest Books

£747.13 (€895.68 | $987.23 | ¥157,667)

Printed by J. Nichols. 1780. 4to, [ii], 22pp., one folding engraved plate, small worm track to lower blank margin (not affecting text), recent half calf. No other copy located. The very rare first separately printed edition of a paper which was originally read before the Royal…

[King Faisal].[Ca. 1970]. Ca. 40 x 30.5 cm. Two large photographic prints. Housed in a clear plastic sleeve.

[PHOTOGRAPHY - KING FAISAL]. · 1906 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

[2] photographs.Two large photographs of King Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (1906-1975), during the later years of his reign (1964-1975). Faisal was the third son of King Abdulaziz, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia. His intelligence was already apparent from a young age and he …

ON TWO HEMISPHERES. Bits from the Life Story of Lewis G. Jordan, as Told by Himself

JORDAN, Lewis G · 0 · Charles Agvent

$3,750.00 (€3,402.26 | £2,837.98 | ¥598,898)

n.p.. The Author. First Edition. Printed yellow wraps (5-1/4" x 7-1/2"); 80 pages. Illustrated with photographs and a color folding map. Introduction by Adam Clayton Powell Sr. In this scarce autobiography, Lewis Garnett Jordan (1853-1939) describes his early life as a slave in …

Lord St. Claire's Angel

SIMPSON, DONNA · 1999 · Kalamos Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

New York, Zebra Books. 1999, 1st Pbk Edition. (ISBN: 0821764497) Pbk. Book, (Zebra Regency Romance) Celestine Simons was past the age where a woman could hope to marry. Still, she counted herself blessed, for she held a good position as governess in the household of the Marquess…

The Oldest Dead White European Males And Other Reflections on the Classics

KNOX, BERNARD · 1993 · Kalamos Books

$8.00 (€7.26 | £6.05 | ¥1,278)

New York, W.W.Norton. 1993. (ISBN: 039331233X) Soft cover. Book, " In three erudite essays originally delivered as lectures, Knox stresses the relevance of the ancient Greeks (the "dead white males" of the title) to the modern world. Former director of Harvard's Center for Helle…

The Oldest Dead White European Males And Other Reflections on the Classics

KNOX, BERNARD · 1993 · Kalamos Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, W.W.Norton. 1993, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0393034925) Hardcover. Book, " In three erudite essays originally delivered as lectures, Knox stresses the relevance of the ancient Greeks (the "dead white males" of the title) to the modern world. Former director of Harvard's C…

Robert Brownjohn. Sex and typography 1925-1970 life and work.

BROWNJOHN,ROBERT. King,Emily. · 2005 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.05 | ¥10,562)

London, Laurence King, 2005. 239 pp. Col. & b./w. ills. Orig. hardcover (pictorial paper-covered boards). Large 8vo. [ISBN: 9781856694643].An important monograph on Robert Brownjohn (August 8, 1925 - August 1, 1970), an American graphic designer who achieved considerable cult st…

Finding Margaret: Solving the mystery of my birth mother

PIERCE, ANDREW · 2025 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€20.65 ($22.76 | £17.23 | ¥3,635)

Biteback Publishing 2025 Our country: as it was and as it is: from 1606 to 1888. Vols. 30-42 336 p. SOFTCOVER: (Or.paperback. VERY GOOD At the age of fifty, and despite feeling like he was betraying the adoptive parents who loved him so much, journalist and broadcaster Andrew …

Divan-i Izzet. Bulaq, Maṭbaʻat Ṣāḥib al-Saʻādah, A.H. 1255 [1840].

KEÇECI-ZÂDE IZZET MOLLA: · 1785 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€2,600.00 ($2,865.74 | £2,168.78 | ¥457,676)

Small folio. Lvs (236). Text in Ottoman Turkish. Contemporary Turkish leather binding with envelope flap, beautifully decorated in gilt with rectangular centrepieces on covers with a design of cross-work in the form of leaves within decorated borders, lightly rubbed, expertly re…

Eco-pioneers : practical visionaries solving today's environmental problems

Steve Lerner · 1997 · De Kantlijn

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

476 pagina's; gebonden - bound - hard cover; met stofomslag - with dust wrappers - dust jacket - Massachusetts: MIT Press - The idea for Eco-Pioneers came to Steve Lerner while he was attending the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Although he was moved by the vision of susta…

Die homerische Frage. Ein Bericht über die Forschung der letzten Jahrzehnte.

HEUBECK, A., · 1974 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt, 1974. 1st ed. XV,326p. Paperback. Spine yellowed. Pages slightly yellowed. some smoker's smell. Series: Erträge der Forschung, 27. ‘In ‘Die Homerische Frage’ Professor Heubeck summarizes the ‘Fachberichte’ (which appears in the per…

La Perpetuité de la foy de l'Église Catholique touchant l'Eucharistie defendue contre le Livre du Sieur Claude, Ministre de Charenton. Seconde édition.

ARNAULD Antoine - NICOLE Pierre ( ) : · 1670 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€421.00 ($464.03 | £351.18 | ¥74,108)

" Paris, chez Charles Savreux, 1670, in-4°, 24,5 x 18 cm, title with copper-engraved vignette + (6)nn pp (with engraved coat of arms of Pope Clemens IX) + xxxii pp + 856 pp + 84 pp, contemporary full calf, raised gilt back, binding worn, extremities and spine with some damage, t…

[Original manuscript on the true identity of the snake, Naja celebensis Ahl].

Mertens, R. · 1961 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€180.00 ($198.40 | £150.15 | ¥31,685)

[Frankfurt am Main, 1961]. Handwritten in ink on rectos of three large, uniform, loose, ruled leaves (29.7 x 21.0 cm). = The original manuscript of Robert Mertens's work titled Was ist "Naja celebensis AHL" in Wirklichkeit? Published in Senckenbergiana Biologia 42, pp. 5-7-510 P…

[Original manuscript on the elegant sand racer, Psammophis elegans (Shaw), a snake from West Africa].

Mertens, R. · 1973 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€125.00 ($137.78 | £104.27 | ¥22,004)

[Frankfurt am Main, 1973]. Handwritten on rectos (two discarded texts on versos) of six uniform, loose, ruled leaves (20.8 x 14.8 cm). = The original manuscript of Robert Mertens's work titled "Psammophis elegans, eine bemerkenswerte 'Sandrenn-Natter' aus Westafrika", published …

[Original manuscript of his fourth paper on reptile hybrids]

Mertens, R. · 1968 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)

[Frankfurt am Main, 1968]. Handwritten on rectos of 49 uniform, loose, ruled leaves (21.0 x 14.9 cm). = The original manuscript of Robert Mertens's publication on reptiles, Über Reptilienbastarde IV. Published in Senckenbergiana Biologica, volume 49, pp. 1-12. Professor Robert M…

The expanding knowledge of mycology since Linnaeus. Presidential address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Linnean Society of London, on the 24th of May, 1939.

Ramsbottom, J. · 1941 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.73 | ¥14,082)

London, Francis & Taylor, 1941. Small 8vo (21.7 x 13.8 cm). 89 pp;, three plates. Original printed wrappers. = The rare offprint. The author, the British mycologist John Ramsbottom (1885-1974) gives a detailed, annotated review of the modern history, since Linnaeus, of the study…