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[Trade Catalogue - Patterned Paper] · 1968 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€400.00 ($440.87 | £333.71 | ¥70,402)

Paris, Bénard et Cie, [ca. 1968]. Oblong folio (11.3 x 16.3 cm). Title page, 102 paper samples. Stiff, patterned wrappers. Front wrapper with red and gilt label (with Bénard logo), mounted. = An unusual catalogue, of "Exclusive Designs", containing glossy paper samples (designs …

Rosemary Isle and Other Rhymes

Dorothy Una Ratcliffe · 1949 · Richard Thornton Books

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Thomas Nelson and Sons This is a Very Good Copy of this book in original blue cloth with gilt title lettering to spine and upper cover.No Dust-Jacket.The book has NO previous names or inscriptions present.The book has a firm binding with NO hinge weakness and there is NO leaning…

Man and Nature on Tidal Waters

Patterson, A.H. · 1909 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

Methuen & Co. London xiv, [2], 315, 47-ads, 4 b/w plates, 26 b/w illus. . HB. 8vo, orig. cloth, slightly rubbed to extremities, gilt title to spine and front board. Endpapers lightly browned, some scattered foxing; binding cracked but firm. Bookplate of John Hanson to endpaper. …

Return of Owners of Land, 1873.

George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode · 1873 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.34 | $653.96 | ¥104,430)

London, George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode , 1873. Leather. A thorough two volume survey of land ownership in England and Wales. The return intended to show the numbers and names of owners of land of one acre and upwards, annual estimated gross of rental property, numbe…

Cambridge

M. A. R. Tucker · 1907 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Adam and Charles Black, 1907. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this beautifully illustrated study of Cambridge, adorned with many colour plates. The first edition of this work. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding. A richly illustrated hi…

Backwards and Forwards

Summer Spring · 1905 · Rooke Books

£960.00 (€1,150.71 | $1,268.29 | ¥202,530)

London, Henry J. Glaisher, 1905 . First edition. Cloth. A signed presentation copy of the first edition of this very scarce early twentieth century science fiction novel. With the inscription 'with the author's compliments Xmas 1910' to the verso of the front free…

Annales de Chimie Et de Physique

Gay-Lussac; Arago · 1817 · Rooke Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

Paris, Chez Crochard Libraire, 1817. Leather. An uncommon volume of this French scientific journal, illustrated with a demonstrative folding plate and containing a scarce work by French mathematician Joseph Fourier. Uncommon. Volume six of series two, Series two was published be…

Monsieur Nongtongpaw

[Mary Shelley] · 1830 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

London, Alfred Miller, 1830. Paperback. The first illustrated edition of this anonymously penned poem, thought to be written by a young Mary Shelley. The scarce first illustrated edition.Illustrated with an engraved title, and six plates, by Robert Cruikshank. Four pages of adv…

English Bards and Scotch Reviewers a Satire

Lord Byron · 1811 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London , James Cawthorn, 1811 [1816] . Cloth. An early nineteenth century copy of Lord Byron's satirical poem. Great to see this in the original publishers' boards. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. A …

Pilgrimages to English Shrines

S. C. Hall · 1853 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.90 | $99.09 | ¥15,823)

London, Arthur Hall, Virtue , & Co. 1853. Leather. The first and second series of Anna Maria Hall's account of her pilgrimages to the shrines of noted individuals Bound in a half green morocco with gilt detailing and vibrant blue morocco boards, with the second series being…

A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature

I. D'Israeli · 1823 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

London, John Murray, 1823. First edition. Fine Binding. The first edition of Isaac D'Israeli's second series of literary curiosities, complete in three uniformly and handsomely bound volumes. Isaac D'Israeli's cornucopia of essays on a variety of literary and…

Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects in Two Parts

Jeremy Collier · 1700 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

London, Richard Sare, 1700. Leather. A scarce early edition of these essays by Jeremy Collier. Two volumes bound as one, Jeremy Collier was an English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian.His essays were popular to a contemporary audience. He wrote anti-theatrical pol…

Fables of Aesop and Others

Aesop; Samuel Croxall · 1782 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, W. Strahan; J. F. and C. Rivington; et al, 1782. Leather. An illustrated collection of Aesop's fables, his most popular moral tales, an important translation by Samuel Croxall. The fables of Aesop, here translated and edited by Samuel Croxall.Illustrated with a fron…

Surrey

A Hope Moncrieff · 1912 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, A and C Black, 1912. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated work on the county of Surrey, held in the original pictorial cloth binding. An attractive reprint of this work. With 75 plates and a folding map to the rear. Collated, complete. Illustrations to this work are by the E…

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark with Excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen Handbook for Travellers

Karl Baedeker · 1912 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

Leipzig, Karl Baedeker, 1912. Cloth. A revised tenth edition of this comprehensive pocket sized Baedeker's travel guide, with 26 folding maps and 35 further maps. The revised and augmented tenth edition of the work.In publisher's original red cloth binding. With 26 fol…

Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely

Rev. E. Conybeare · 1910 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Macmillan, 1910 . First edition. Cloth. The Limited Edition first edition of topographical study of Cambridge and Ely, illustrated throughout and with folding maps from F. L. Griggs. The first edition of this study of the highways and byways of Ely and Cambridge. The Lim…

My Favourite Wife

Tony Parsons · 2008 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Harper 2008 Paperback, 368pp. The Worldwide, Mega-Selling Author Of Man And Boy Is Back With A Sizzling, Shanghai Tale Of Sex, Romance And Second Wives. Hotshot Young Lawyer Bill Holden And His Wife Becca Move With Their Four-Year-Old Daughter To The Booming, Gold-Rush City Of S…

Adair of Starlight Peaks

SUMMERS, ESSIE · 1978 · S. Howlett-West Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Toronto, Canada: Harlequin Books, 1978. Paperback. ISBN: 037302133X. Mass Market PB. This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is some beginning bumping and wear to the spine ends and corners of the book…

Georg Jensen, Scandinavian Design for Living.

Fisher, Alison & Maggie Taft & Thomas C. Thulstrup: · 2018 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€49.95 ($55.05 | £41.67 | ¥8,791)

July 2018, (23,8 x 26,7 cm), 240 pp. English text, 189 colour ills., & 37 b/w ills., hardcover, A beautifully illustrated look at how Georg Jensen pushed the boundaries of modern domestic design. In 1904 Danish silversmith Georg Jensen (1866–1935) founded one of the world’s mo…

Phil May&Apos;S ABC: Fifty-Two Original Designs Forming Two Humorous Alphabets from a to Z

Phil May · 1897 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, The Leadenhall Press , 1897. First edition. Cloth. One of a limited edition copy of this humorous alphabet illustrated by caricaturist Phil May. The first edition of this work. A series of fifty two caricatures illustrating two alphabets by caricaturist Phil May, pioneer…