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New Opera's, with Comical Stories, and Poems, on Several Occasions, Never before Printed. Being the Remaining Pieces, Written by Mr. D'Urfey.

D'URFEY (Thomas), Mr.: · 1721 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London: Printed for William Chetwood, at Cato's Head in Russel-Street, Covent-Garden, 1721. 8vo, 190 x 118 mms., pp, [10], 88,[4], 89-349, 348-382, in each with a separate title-page; the pagination and register are continuous, pages 348-349 repeated in pagination, but text is…

The Best of Sci-Fi 6

Merril, Judith (ed); Clarke, Arthur, C; Brunner, John; Anvil, Christopher & more · 1963 · Caerwen Books

A$40.00 (€24.59 | $27.10 | £20.51 | ¥4,328)

Book Very good- 1st Edition Mayflower England Really hard to find #6 . This copy has a creased spine. Contents; Introduction (The 6th Annual of the Year's Best S-F) . (1961) . by Judith Merril Double, Double, Toil and Trouble . (1960) . short story by Holley Cantine The Never…

The Genealogist. A Quarterly Magazine of Genealogical, Antiquarian, Topographical, and Heraldic Research. New Series. Vol. VII (7) 1890

Edited by Keith W Murray · 1890 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

George Bell and Sons;, London, 1890. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean dark red covers with gilt lettering on spine. Very light shelf-wear to corners and spine-ends. Darkened end-papers. Sound binding. Clean pages. Contents include: Pedigrees co…

Saga of a Hoosier Boy: A Collection of Pictorial Tributes by the Contemporaries of John T. McCutcheon, the Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer Prize Winner and Dean of American Cartoonists.

MCCUTCHEON, JOHN T. (HONOREE AND SIGNER), CLEVELAND, CHESTER W. (EDITOR). CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDE: JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG, MILTON CANIFF, GEORGE MCMANUS, HAROLD GRAY, RUBE GODBERG, CARL ANDERSON, RUDOLPH DIRKS, CHESTER GOULD, FONTAINE FOX, PAUL A. PLASCHKE · 1940 · Erik Hanson (Books & Ephemera)

$430.00 (€390.13 | £325.42 | ¥68,674)

Indiana Society of Chicago. 1940, 1st Edition. Soft cover. Scarce tribute volume for Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist John T. McCutcheon, and SIGNED by him on the titlepage as most copies of the low edition book probably were. Most of the leading cartoonists of the day, both th…

Newsweek Magazine, January 3, 1938

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1938 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

Dayton, Ohio, USA: Weekly Publications, Inc, 1938. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. 44 pages. Contents: Tokyo Apologizes to U.S, Speeds up Conquest of China - Yuletide Notes End Crisis Over (U.S.S.) Panay While Japanese Blast Out New Triumphs; Congress, Special Session Ends…

Official Detective Stories Magazine, October 15, 1936, Vol. II, No. 11 - the Camden Dobbins Murder / Sex Behind Bars

DAVIS, RICHARD E.; KLEIN, GERTRUDE; DICKSON, VANCE; KEEGAN, JOHN J.; VINCENT, HARRY; ET AL · 1936 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$695.00 (€630.55 | £525.97 | ¥110,996)

Chicago: Official Detective Stories, Inc, 1936. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. If vintage true crime is your thing, you just hit the jackpot! 48 pages of fascinating cover-to-cover articles on sensational crimes of the day and related topics, all generously illustrated wi…

Collier's Magazine, August 23, 1947 - the Story of Eddie Condon

HAYCOX, ERNEST; TAYLOR, SAMUEL W.; MEYER, ERNEST L.; JEPSON, SELWYN; PHILLIPS, JOHN RANDOLPH; MANN, PEGGY; CONDON, EDDIE; ET AL · 1947 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

USA: Crowell-Collier, 1947. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Maury; Chiriacka, Ernest; Bischoff, H.E.; Martin, Fletcher. 82 pages. Features: Nice RKO photo ad advertises 'I Remember Mama', 'Tycoon', 'If You Knew Susie' and 'Magic Town'; 1-page ad for Philco entertainment pr…

The Illustrated London News (Iln) Magazine, October 30, 1954 - Cover Photo of Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery of Alamein at the Salute After Unveiling Alamein Memorial on October 24

BRYANT, ARTHUR.; SQUIRE, SIR JOHN; FALLS, CYRIL · 1954 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$199.95 (€181.41 | £151.32 | ¥31,933)

London: The Illustrated London News & Sketch Ltd, 1954. First Edition. Paperback. Clifford, V.C.; Carnon, Roy. Pages 485-524.. Features: Unveiling the El Alamein Memorial; Nice colour-photo ad inside front cover for Imperial Leather features lady with fan - #3 of a series; Nice …

Wild Life on a Norfolk Estuary. With a Prefatory Note by Her Grace The Duchess of Bedford.

PATTERSON, ARTHUR H. · 1907 · Chilton Books

£48.00 (€57.54 | $63.43 | ¥10,129)

London: Methuen & Co, 36 Essex Street, 1907 . 0. First edition. A good tight binding. pp.15/1p.]/pp.352/pp.40 [Catalogue of books]. Original blue cloth with bright gilt titles to front board. Edges lightly rubbed and bumped. Spine dulled with gilt titles and small white blemishe…

Archaeologia: Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity

1866 · Rooke Books

£675.00 (€809.21 | $891.92 | ¥142,445)

London, Society of Antiquaries of London; Nichols and Sons, 1866-73. Cloth. Volumes forty to forty-four of the Society of Antiquaries of London's 'Archaeologia', profusely illustrated throughout with numerous folding plates and colour plates. In eleven volumes. &a…

The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart

FORE-EDGE PAINTING; SCOTT, Sir Walter · 1822 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$1,800.00 (€1,633.09 | £1,362.23 | ¥287,471)

Edinburgh: Printed for Arch. Constable and Co. 1822. Two Fine Early-to-Mid Twentieth Century Fore-Edge Paintings Depicting Two Scottish Castles [FORE-EDGE PAINTING]. SCOTT, Sir Walter. The Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. [The Lady of the Lake [&] The Bridal of Triermai…

1919 Diary of the Business-Minded Matriarch of the la Fox, Illinois Potter Family Who Were Integral in the Region’S Growth in the Late 1800s

ANNIE M. BARKER POTTER · 1919 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$2,855.99 (€2,591.16 | £2,161.40 | ¥456,119)

La Fox, Illinois, Kane County, 1919. . On offer is the incredible 1919 diary of Annie M. Barker Potter (1840-1933) , kept when she was the 79-year-old widow of La Fox, Blackberry Township, Kane County, Illinois visionary Lemuel Milk Potter (1830-1897). Originally of the Plymouth…

The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster & Portfolio of Fragments Relative to the History and Antiquities, Topography and Genealogies of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster

Edward Baines; John Harland [editor]; Brooke Herford; Matthew Gregson · 1868 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1868-1870. Cloth. Three volumes on the history of Lancaster, a city in Lancashire, England, with illustrations and maps. Three volumes. This set contains: The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, 1868-1870. Complete in two volum…

Letters Writ by a Turkish Spy, Who Lived Five and Forty Years Undiscovered at Paris

Giovanni Paolo Marana; Anonymous · 1770 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, A. Wilde; J. Brotherstone and Sewell, C. Bathurst; et al, 1770. Leather. A smart set of this curious epistolary novel about a Turkish spy who lived for forty years in the court of Louis XIV. Complete in eight volumes.Illustrated with a frontispiece to Volume I.The twenty…

The New Naturalist: A Survey of British Natural History

V. S. Summerhayes; J. A. Steers; L. A. Harvey; D. St. Leger-Gordon; E. B. Ford; W. S. Bristowe · 1951 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Collins, 1951-1958. First edition. Cloth. Five very smart first edition volumes from the New Naturalist series, with illustrations throughout. Five volumes. First edition. From the New Naturalist series. This set includes: Wild Orchids of Britain, 1951. Illustrated with …

A Collection of Illustrated Works on British Sport

E. D. Cuming; Lieut.-Col. M. F. McTaggart; Will H. Ogilvie; Richard Greville Verney · 1912 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Hodder and Stoughton; Country Life Ltd.; Constable and Company Ltd. 1912-1925. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of four first edition volumes on British sporting, with illustrations throughout, many of which are in colour. Four volumes. First edition. This set co…

New York City - George Hayward, 1858

Hayward-- George · 1740 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€525.00 ($578.66 | £437.93 | ¥92,415)

VIEW OF NEW YORK CITY FROM THE SOUTHWEST “A View of Fort George with the City of New-York from the S.W. 1740.” Lithograph made by George Hayward for David Thomas Valentine’s “Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York” of 1858. Coloured by a later hand. Size: 16,5 x 39…

La Premiere [Seconde] Partie de l'Histoire entiere des Poissons

Rondelet, Guillaume · 1558 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£3,750.00 (€4,495.62 | $4,955.11 | ¥791,361)

Mace Bonhome Lyon [12], 418, [14]; [4], 181, [11], . . HB. 2 title pages with woodcut printer’s device, woodcut portrait of the author at end of preliminaries of each part, c. 420 text engravings. Two parts bound in one volume, 4to, nineteenth-century calf, blind-stamped rules a…

Plans, Elevations, and Sections; with Observations and Explanations, of Forcing-Houses, in Gardening. By James Shaw, Gardener to the Right Hon. Lord Mulgrave.

SHAW (James) · 1794 · Forest Books

£5,912.50 (€7,088.10 | $7,812.55 | ¥1,247,712)

Whitby: Printed by T. Webster, Sold by the Author; and W. Tesseyman, Bookseller, York. 1794. First edition, large folio (520 x 355 mm), [32]pp., with a list of subscribers, and an initial leaf stating “Entered at stationers’ Hall”, 11 engraved plates (some lightly offset), each …

Epistolae ad diversos, & aliquot aliorum ad illum, per amicos eruditos, Ex ingentibus fasciculis schedarum collectae.Basel, Johann Froben, 31 Aug. 1521. Folio. With a decorative woodcut border on the title page by Urs Graf, 2 decorative woodcut borders in the text by Ambrosius Holbein, numerous decorated woodcut initials, and a woodcut printer's device at the end of the work. Modern blind-tooled red morocco.

ERASMUS, Desiderius. · 1485 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)

12, "668" [=618], [6] ppFirst complete edition of the letters of Desiderius Erasmus, containing 171 letters which had never been published before, with correspondence with many of the most prominent figures of the 16th century. The work has been beautifully illustrated with a sp…