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A NEW HISTORY Of CHINA, Containing a Description of the Most Considerable Particulars of That Vast Empire. Written by Gabriel Magaillans of the Society of Jesus, Missionary Apostolick. Done Out of French

Magalhães [also Magaillans], Gabriel de [1609 - 1677] · 1688 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$3,575.00 (€3,243.57 | £2,706.00 | ¥570,881)

London: Printed for Thomas Newborough, at the Golden Ball, in S. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1688. 1st Edition in English (T.C. II, 230; Wing M-247). Variant without comma after 'Magaillans' on t.p. Modern full brown calf binding, executed in a period style with maroon-leather, gilt-sta…

A Treatise of Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene: Designed for Colleges, Academies, and Families. With One Hundred and Fifty Engravings

Cutter, Calvin · 1853 · Parigi Books

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Boston, Benjamin B. Mussey and Co, 1853. Hardcover. Revised stereotyped edition. 466pp +[9]pp + 5pp of publisher's advertisements. Contemporary full sheepskin, black morocco label lettered in gold on the spine. Last section of the book is titled Key to Anatomical Outline Plates.…

Journeys to the Other Side of the World: Adventures of a Young Naturalist

Attenborough, David · 2017 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£12.50 (€14.98 | $16.51 | ¥2,637)

Two Roads xvi, 398, b/w illus. . HB. Vg in d/w. Rear book flap pasted down.. Following the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions, in the late 1950s onwards a young David Attenborough embarked on further travels in a very different part of the world. From Madagascar and N…

Spenser’s Faerie queene. A new edition with a glossary, and notes explanatory and critical by John Upton . . . In two volumes [Extra-Illustrated]

[John Upton] SPENSER, Edmund (1552?-1599) · 1758 · Fine Editions Ltd

$2,149.00 (€1,949.77 | £1,626.63 | ¥343,168)

London printed for J. and R. Tonson First Edition thus First Annotated Edition, illustrated (grangerized) with the full suite of 32 double-page plates by William Kent for the 1751 edition of Spenser’s Faerie Queene, published by Stephen Wright and John Brindley (ESTC T35152). 4t…

Roman Names in the Cyclades. Part I

Lina G. Mendoni, Sophia B. Zoumbaki (eds) · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€56.60 ($62.38 | £47.22 | ¥9,962)

, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 504 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:47 col., Language: English. new ISBN 9789603710776. Summary The second volume of the study on the Roman names in the Cyclades completes the contribution to the social history of a marginal zone of the Roman…

The Country Minister, A Poem, in Seven Cantos: Containing The First and Second Parts of the Original Work, with Additional Poems and Notes. A Second Edition.

BRETTELL (Jacob): · 1827 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)

London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker..., 1827. 8vo (in 4s), 172 x 98 mms., pp. [ii], 200 [201 notice from author, 202 Errata], contemporary hard grain morocco, title in gilt on spine; ex-library bookplate of County Borough of Warrington Municipal Library on front paste-do…

The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser; Rev. Alexander B. Grosart · 1844 · Rooke Books

£285.00 (€341.62 | $376.52 | ¥60,126)

-, Printed for Private Circulation , 1844-1884. First edition. Cloth. A privately printed set of the complete works of Edmund Spenser. With illustrations, and a biographical introduction to the sixteenth century poet. A privately printed set of the complete works of Edmund Spens…

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JACKSON, B. R. & DOLL, T. E. · 1970 · Pegasus Books

$14.25 (€12.93 | £10.79 | ¥2,276)

Fallbrook, CA: Aero Publishers, 1970. Softcover. ISBN: 0816805806. Illustrated by James Dietz. Aero Series Series; Vol. 21; B&W and Color; 7 1/4 x 10 1/4\"; 60 pages; Soft cover has blue spine with white lettering. Covers have slight rubbing, bumping. Pages are clean and tight. …

The Instructor: Or, Young Man&Apos;S Best Companion. Containing, Spelling, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic, in an Easier Way Than Any Yet Published; and How to Qualify Any Person for Business, without the Help of a Master.

George Fisher · 1775 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, J. Fuller; W. Strahan; J. and F. Rivington; et al. 1775. Leather. The scarce, 1775 edition of Fisher's fascinating work for the self-improvement and education of promising young men, smartly illustrated. The twenty-second edition of this work. First published c1735.…

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl (Modern Library Isbn Series, Spine 15)

FRANK, ANNE · 1977 · Bluebird Books

$46.50 (€42.19 | £35.20 | ¥7,425)

New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1977-80]. Hardcover. ISBN: 0394604512. Anne Frank's World War II diary described the plight of the teenage girl and her Jewish family as they hid from the occupying Nazis in Amsterdam before they were caught and taken to a concentr…

The Complete Book of Chess Strategy: Grandmaster Techniques from A to Z.

Jeremy Silman. · 1998 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,960)

Los Angeles Ca., Siles Press, 1998 Softcover, 360pp., 15.5x23cm., ills. in b/w., in very good condition. . ISBN 9781890085018. In The Complete Book of Chess Strategy, International Master Jeremy Silman presents an accessible reference guide to the fundamental principles of ches…

Mss: Can a Photograph Have the Significance of Art... (Manuscripts Number 4)

Strand, Paul and Alfred Stieglitz (presumed Editors) · 1922 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$450.00 (€408.28 | £340.61 | ¥71,859)

New York, MSS, 1922. Paperback. Folded sheets loose. 20 pp. no illustrations. Includes responses, or shorter or greater length, by: Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Pennel (two responses), Alfred Russell (for Charles Chaplin), Carl Zigrosser, Charles Sheeler, Charles Demuth, Carl Sandburg…

The Lone Scout of the Sky the Story of Charles A. Lindbergh

WEST, JAMES E. · 1928 · S. Howlett-West Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Philadelphia, PA: Boy Scouts of America / the John C. Winston Co, 1928. 1st Edition; Early Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Good condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have numerous spots of ground-in dirt, along with bumping, rubbing and …

The Science of Self Defence a Treatise on Sparring,Wrestling and Training

Price,Edmund · 1874 · Richard Thornton Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

Dick & Fitzgerald This is a Good Only Copy of this Book in Publisher's original pictorial paper backed boards with green cloth spine.Half title page present with publisher ads to the front pastedown and front endpaper.There is one previous owner's name to the top of the title pa…

How to Read a Tree: Clues & Patterns from Roots to Leaves

Gooley, T. · 2023 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

Sceptre 320, 16 plates with col photos, b/w illus. 350x218mm. HB. NEW. . Do two trees ever appear identical? No, but why? Every small difference is a clue.Each tree we meet is filled with signs that reveal secrets about the life of that tree and the landscape we stand in. The cl…

Nomina. Vol. 1 - 1977, A newsletter of name studies relating to Great Britain and Ireland

Peter McClure (Ed.) · 1977 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

English Name-Studies with the support of the Council for Names Studies in Great Britain & Ireland, 1977. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Crisp yellow card covers with black plastic binding. Type-style text. Clean pages. Contents include: In Memoriam…

The Ornaments of Late Chou Bronzes: A Method of Analysis.

George W. Weber Jr. · 1973 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€49.50 ($54.56 | £41.30 | ¥8,712)

New Brunswick, New Jersey Rutgers University Press 1973 Bound, cloth with original dustjacket, xxi+631pp., 21.5x28.5cm., richly illustr. in b/w., in good condition (dustjacked laminated by previous owner) . ISBN 0813507014. George W. Weber presents a systematic study of the orn…

Dutch Golden Age(s): The Shaping of a Cultural Community

Jan Blanc (ed) · 2021 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,960)

, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 243 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:5 b/w, 60 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503591070. Summary For a long time, the Dutch Golden Age has been regarded as a historiographical construction or reconstruction dating from the second half of th…

BIRDS OF THE ATLANTIC ISLANDS Volume One Birds of the Canary Islands and of the Salvages [&] Volume II History of the Birds of Madeira the Desertas and the Porto Santo Islands

BANNERMAN David A., BANNERMAN W. Mary · 1963 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

Oliver & Boyd, 1963 [&] 1965 1st edn. 2 vols. Tall 8vo (10 x 7¾ ins). Original gilt lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (near Fine in protective covers, not price clipped). Pp. xxxi + 358 [&] xlviii + 207, illus with coloured plates and b&w drawings by D.H. Reid-Henry (light…

Le cheval extérieur ...Paris, J-B. Baillière & Sons, 1886. 2 volumes. 4to. With 16 lithographed plates in the atlas volume showing the anatomy of horses, including 13 with movable parts, all in colour, the text volume contains 172 illustrations in the text by Édouard Cuyer. Contemporary half blue calf (or sheepskin?), marbled sides, with the title lettered in gold on the spine.

ALIX, Eugène and Édouard CUYER. · 1852 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.46 | £2,085.66 | ¥440,011)

XXIV, 703, [1 blank]; 44, [4] pp. and 16 lithographed plates.Elaborately illustrated and encyclopaedic work on horses by the veterinarian Eugène Alix (dates unknown). All aspects of the horse are described, for example their appearance, different races, their reproduction, their…