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Syrie centrale. Inscriptions sémitiques publiées avec traduction et commentaire.Paris, J. Baudry, 1868. Folio With 16 plates reproducing inscriptions, plates 1-4, 6, 7, 12, 14 and 15 are engravings and plates 5, 8-11, 13 and 16 are lithographs. All are after drawings by Melchior de Vogüé and all except no. 12 were engraved or lithographed by E. Roussaux and printed by J. Grandjean in Paris. Plate no. 12 was engraved by L. Dardel and printed by Lamoureux in Paris. With additional illustrations in the text and parts of the text in Hebrew, Arabic, and Greek type. Modern half calf, marbled boards, silver lettering on spine.

VOGÜÉ, Melchior de. · 1861 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)

[4], II, [2], 132 pp.Numerous inscriptions, mostly in Aramaic, can or could be found at the historical and archaeological sites in Syria and further south in the Middle East; for example, in places such as Palmyra and the Hauran region in Syria and the historical Nabatean Kingdo…

THE MANUSCRIPTS OF THE MARQUIS OF ORMONDE, Preserved at the Castle, Kilkenny. Vols. 1 & 2 & Index; [With] CALENDAR ... Preserved at Kilkenny Castle. New Series I-VII [only of 8].

(Ormonde). · 1895 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

HMSO 1895-1912. 10 vols. in all. Some light browning, some spotting, ex-libris Cefntilla Court, ink stamp to rear pastedown, original upper wrapper bound in, rebound in brown cloth with title by hand in black ink to spine, some minor marking and wear. Historical Manuscripts Com…

Modern British Sculpture.

Poretlli, Guy: · 2005 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€92.50 ($101.95 | £77.16 | ¥16,283)

2005, (23,5 x 31,5 cm), 320 pp. English text, 650 colour ills., clothbound. dustwrappers. A comprehensive study of modern sculpture developments in Great Britain, this beautiful and important new book showcases 95 leading sculptors from the second half of the 20th century. Chron…

Maclean's Magazine, May 1, 1952 - Yaroslav Stetzko and the Anti-Bolshevik Bloc of Nations (Abn)

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1952 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$395.00 (€358.37 | £298.93 | ¥63,084)

Canada: Maclean-Hunter, 1952. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Cahen, Oscar (Cover Art). Features: Oscar Cahen cover art; Great colour-photo ad for International Trucks inside front cover; Rab Butler's Bid for Power - in London Letter; Biggest Man on the Bigg…

The Antiquaries Journal, Being the Journal of The Society of Antiquaries of London, Volume XVIII 1938, Numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. January, April, July and October 1938

Sir Leonard Wooley; Sir Frederic Kenyon etc. · 1938 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£34.00 (€40.76 | $44.93 | ¥7,175)

Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, London, Glasgow etc. 1938. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean firm brown cover, gilt lettering on the spine, sound binding, clean pages. Many black and white illustrations including fold-out plans and di…

British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel. /Telus) Telephone Talk: Bound Issues January/February 1943 Through November/December1944

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1944 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$1,500.00 (€1,360.91 | £1,135.19 | ¥239,559)

British Columbia: British Columbia Telephone Company, 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Half-leather binding. Telephone Talk was the glossy bimonthly publication of the British Columbia Telephone Company. It was written by employees for employees to present information of interest…

Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity, Published by the Society of Antiquities of London, Vol. V (5). 1779

John Strange, Mr. Barrington, John Watson, Mr. Pegge, Mr. West, Mr. Lort, Edward King, John Charles Brooke, etc. · 1779 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Society of Antiquaries of London; Printed by J Nichols, London, 1779. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Brown diced leather covers re-spined with red leather, raised bands and black leather spine labels, gilt lettering on spine, gilt decoration on edg…

The Gentleman's Diary, or the Mathematical Repository; An Almanack For the Year of our Lord 1806: Being The Second after Bissextile or Leap Year. Containing many useful and entertaining Particulars, peculiarly adapted to the ingenious Gentlemen engaged in the delightful Study and Practice of the Mathematicks. The Sixty-sixth Almanack published of this Kind; and the Fifty-fourth of the New Style in England.

SEVEN ALMANACS. 1806. · 1806 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London: Printed for the Company of Stationers, By Nichols and Son...And Sold by George Greenhill..., 1806. 12mo, 160 x 98 mms., pp. 48. BOUND WITH: The Ladies' Diary: Or Woman's Almanack, for the Year of our Lord 1806. Containing New Improvements in Arts and Sciences, and M…

A Collection from the Early English Text Society

Various; Fredrick J. Furnivall; Rev Walter W. Skeat et al [ed.] · 1865 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

London , N. Trubner and Co. 1865-1893. Cloth. A terrific collection of uniformly bound early English texts, published for the Early English Text Society. An impressive collection of twenty-two volumes from the Early English Text Society, a society founded in 1864 dedicated to th…

Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home a New Edition [with] a Diary [with] Nature and Art [with] Two Years Before the Mast [with] Narrative of the Mutiny of the Bounty [with] the Complete English Tradesman [with] Picciola

Miss Sedgwick et al. · 1841 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)

London, Edward Moxon, 1841. Leather. A sammelband of nineteenth century publications. Being a variety of topics from travelogues to adventure novels, to a diary on every day life through the eyes of an early feminist. Six of the works to this volume have the same typographical l…

A Treatise Concerning the Manner of Fallowing of Ground, Raising of Grass-Seeds, and Training of Lint and Hemp, for the Increase and Improvement of Linnen-Manufactories in Scotland. Publish&Apos;D for the Benefit of the Farmers in That Kingdom, by the Honourable Society for Improving in the Knowledge of Agriculture.

[Robert Maxwell · 1724 · Rooke Books

£1,100.00 (€1,318.72 | $1,453.50 | ¥232,133)

Edinburgh, Robert Fleming, 1724. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce work regarding husbandry, fallowing and grass-seeds. A fascinating insight into eighteenth century agriculture, and one of the earliest Scottish works on flax and hemp. The author of this w…

Private press signed by Schinkel presented to Holtrop 1856 | Nadere bijzonderheden betrekkelijk Constantijn Huygens en zijne familie 2e stuk, z.pl. 1856, 43 pp. Limited edition of 125 copies. Signed by the author.

Schinkel, A.D. · 1806 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€76.30 ($84.10 | £63.65 | ¥13,431)

Presentation copy from the author to J.W. Holtrop (1806–1870), librarian of the Royal Library at The Hague and one of the foremost nineteenth-century bibliographers of early Netherlandish printing, inscribed by Schinkel on the front flyleaf: ‘Aan mijn vriend J.W. Holtrop. A.D. S…

Le Mort

Doyle, John ("H.B.") (1797-1868) · 1830 · Wittenborn Art Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

London: Thomas MacLean, 1830. Original lithograph. 11 x 15 inches. Very Good. Light toning. Inserted into light matting. Sitters: Elizabeth Conyngham (née Denison), Marchioness Conyngham (1769-1861), Mistress of George IV; wife of Henry Conyngham, 1st Marquess of Conyngham. John…

A Broad Hint

Doyle, John ("H.B.") (1797-1868) · 1829 · Wittenborn Art Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

London: Thomas MacLean, 1829. Original lithograph. 13.5 x 10 inches. Very Good. Inserted into light matting. Sitters: Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778-1868), Lord Chancellor. John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst (1772-1863), Lord Chancellor and politician; son…

The History of England, From the Invasion of Julius Caesar...[to the Revolution in 1688].

HUME (David): · 1754 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£2,500.00 (€2,997.08 | $3,303.40 | ¥527,574)

London and Edinburgh, Hamilton 1754 - 1762. FIRST EDITION of volumes 1 - 5, second edition of volume. 6 volumes. 4to, pp. viii, 424; viii, 446 [447 Errata, 448 blank]; viii, 402; [ii], [403] - 739 [740 adverts]; vi, 473 [474 advert]; v [vi blank], 459 [460 adverts], including…

1907-1908 Diary of a Young Ohio Woman About to Marry Her First Husband

LOIS VEREEN LESLIE · 1907 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$565.99 (€513.51 | £428.34 | ¥90,392)

Ohio, 1907. Softcover. On offer is an interesting diary kept by a young mid-western American woman during the last years of WWI, in the months leading up to her first marriage. The author of this diary was Lois Vereen Leslie (1889-1986) of Ohio. She was married to William Andrew…

Archaeologia or Miscellaneous Tracts relating to Antiquity, Published by the Society of Antiquaries of London, Vol. LIX (59). Parts 1 and 2, 1904. Second Series volume 9

Trice Martin; Ormonde Dalton; Arthur Hill; J. G. Waller; T. F. Kirby; Charles Hercules Read; etc. · 1904 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Society of Antiquaries of London, London, 1904. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean firm brown covers with gilt lettering on the spine, light wear to edges, sound binding, clean pages and clean darkened end-papers. Very many black and white or bro…

The Illustrated London News, Saturday, November (Nov. ) 6, 1948: Decisive Israeli Victory in the Negev

BRYANT, ARTHUR; SQUIRE, SIR JOHN; FALLS, CYRIL; ET AL · 1948 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$199.95 (€181.41 | £151.32 | ¥31,933)

London: The Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd, 1948. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by de Grineau, Bryan. Pages 505-532. Features: Cover photo of statesmen charged with reconstructing and uniting Europe - Bevin, Marshall, and Schuman; Photos f minority candidates for…

The Illustrated London News, Saturday, November (Nov. ) 27, 1948: Canada's New Prime Minister, Louis St. Laurent / U.S. Navy Tests "Salamander" Remote-Controlled (Drone) Tank

BRYANT, ARTHUR; SQUIRE, SIR JOHN; FALLS, CYRIL; ET AL · 1948 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$199.95 (€181.41 | £151.32 | ¥31,933)

London: The Illustrated London News and Sketch Ltd, 1948. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Davis, G. H.. Pages 593-620. Features: Cover photo of Mr. J. W. Belcher, a leading figure at the tribunal of inquiry into allegations of irregularities involving minist…

The New York Times Magazine, June 7, 1964 - Vietnam War Cover Photo

HUGHES, RICHARD; ROSENTHAL, A.M.; REAGAN, MICHAEL D.; ROSTOW, W.W.; SHABAD, THEODORE; OLSEN, ARTHUR J.; HACKER, ANDREW; CLURMAN, HAROLD; MULLER, HILGARD; KILLENS, JOHN OLIVER; MAUROIS, ANDRE; SMITH, SHERWIN D. · 1964 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.64 | £223.25 | ¥47,113)

New York: The New York Times & Arno Press, 1964. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Alice; Zimmer, Fred. 136 pages. Features: Nice color Jade East ad; Omega watch ad inside front cover; Gorgeous color fashion ads; Bankers Trust ad with photo of John Leahey; Chairman Mao - Nat…