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School Days

Robert B Parker · 2006 · Klondyke BV

€4.95 ($5.46 | £4.13 | ¥871)

Paperback; 2006; Oldcastle Books Ltd; 304pp.; Pocket 2006. Jaartal met pen o de Franse pagina. Vinkjes met viltstift bij het overzicht van alle Spenser thrillers. Scheef gelezen pocket met schoon en fris binnenwerk. Gaaf omslag, afgezien van de leeslijntjes in de rug. -- Conditi…

Le Beguin de Go

J. A. Coulangheon · 1904 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Paris , Societe du Mercure de France, 1904 . Hardback. The very scarce first edition of Coulangheon"s final collection of fin-de-siecle fiction, published only days before his early death, and accompanied by an autograph letter signed by the author. Bound in later colourful pape…

A Caricature of Germanic Couple with a Crocadile Logo. "Et Puis Je Vous Apprendrai à Jouer à la Bataille. " Pochoir

Ramier, Jean (French, active 1930s) · 1928 · Wittenborn Art Books

$350.00 (€317.54 | £264.88 | ¥55,897)

Montereau : circa 1928-1932. Pochoir. 64 x 49cm..Signed and dated in the plate.. Jean Ramier is a forgotten artist. He was a caricaturist. He did a series of walkers at Chamonix. He was an artist for the French firm "Rustic," and did their calendar for 1928. He did caricatures r…

Two Dapper Gents, One with Huge Teeth. Pochoir

Ramier, Jean (French, active 1930s) · 1935 · Wittenborn Art Books

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

Paris or Montereau : 1935. Pochoir. 59 x 30cm. Marginal tears..Signed & dated in the plate.. Jean Ramier is a forgotten artist. He was a caricaturist. He did a series of walkers at Chamonix. He was an artist for the French firm "Rustic," and did their calendar for 1928. He did c…

Oeuvres de Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac · 1912 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1912-51. Leather. A set of four brilliant novels in Balzac's "La Comedie Humaine" series, in the original French. A five volume set of the works of Balzac, all in the original French. These four novels are all part of his forty-eight volume series o…

Original Poems and Translations

Francis Fawkes · 1761 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, R. and J. Dodsley; J. Newbery; L. Davis and C. Reymers; T. Davies; H. Dell, 1761. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this scarce poetical anthology by Francis Fawkes, including the impressive list of subscribers which includes figures such as Smollett, Johnson,…

Maritime Warfare.

Thomas Gibson Bowles · 1878 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, W. Ridgway, 1878. Cloth. A very scarce work by Thomas Gibson Bowles, criticizing the Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law of 1856. Whilst the diplomatic policy was agreed between fifty five nations, the declaration was primarily written by France and Great Britain w…

English Music

W. J. Turner · 1941 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

London, Penns in the Rocks Press by William Collins, 1941. First edition. Leather. A beautifully bound first edition copy of this charming history of English music, bound for Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. The first edition of this work.A charming volume of t…

A Journey from Aleppo to Jerusalem at Easter, A.D. 1697

Henry Maundrell · 1732 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Oxford, The Theatre, 1732. Leather. A wide-margined fifth edition of Maundrell"s celebrated account of his 1697 pilgrimage from Aleppo to Jerusalem and travels in Mesopotamia, illustrated with numerous engraved plates, bound in a contemporary full calf binding. In a contemporary…

Marion Alive

Vicki Baum · 1943 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Michael Joseph, 1943. Fine Binding. A finely bound, early English language edition of Vicki Baum's novel 'Marion Alive&apos. From the library of socialite and patron of the arts Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. From the library at Julians Park, the former home of Audr…

Expositions of Great Pictures

Richard Henry Smith · 1863 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, James Nisbet and Co, 1863 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Richard Henry Smith's study of eight old masters, illustrated with eight mounted albumen prints. In this charming and scarce work, the author discusses seven works of art by the Old Master…

Not So Deep As a Well Collected Poems

Dorothy Parker · 1937 · Rooke Books

£270.00 (€323.68 | $356.77 | ¥56,978)

London, Hamish Hamilton, 1937. First edition. Fine Binding. A finely bound, first UK edition of this poetry collection by Dorothy Parker. Dorothy Parker was an American poet and satirist. She was a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Gift inscription to the recto of fr…

Sweets Without Sugar

White, Marion · 1942 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$145.00 (€131.55 | £109.74 | ¥23,157)

New York M.S. Mill Co., Inc. Fifth Printing pp. 103, [1]. Small 8vo., measuring 5.5" x 8". Original tan cloth over boards with dark-gray lettering to the spine, and front board. An uncommon American cookery title, published in response to the rationing measures instituted as a r…

Anthozoa Polyactinia. Octactinia [precious or red coral]. Tab. 10.

Pfurtscheller, P. · 1903 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€800.00 ($881.77 | £667.32 | ¥140,823)

Wien, Pichler's Witwe & Sohn, [1903]. Very large (140 x 130 cm) broadsheet. Lithographed on two half-sheets, combined into one. Printed in chromolithography on one side. = A very rare pictorial teaching chart depicting the morphology and anatomy of a precious or red coral (in th…

[Holograph Manuscript] Draft of Discharge Request of New Hampshire Major General Moses Dow to Governor John Taylor Gilman

[New Hampshire]. Dow, Moses · 1798 · Kaaterskill Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

Haverhill, [NH], 1798. 1 sheet. 7.75 x 13 inches. Dated June 4th, 1798, Haverhill, NH. Unsigned draft of a resignation letter to Governor John Taylor Gilman requesting to be discharged from service with the New Hampshire State Militia. "It is now almost fourteen years since I wa…

Councils and Ecclesiastical Documents Relating to Great Britain and Ireland, Volume II Part I

Edited after Spelman and Wilkins by Arthur West Haddan and William Stubbs · 1873 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Oxford at the Clarendon Press; Henry Frowde, Oxford, 1873. 1st Edition, Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket. Firm brown covers with gilt lettering on spine, slightly darkened with lightly rubbede corners and spine ends, number handwritten in white ink on spine, bookplate of (?) …

Notes on Indian Ants; Descriptions of a New Species of Indian Aculeate Hymenoptera; Descriptions of a New Species of Bees

George Alexander James Rothney; Frederick Smith · 1875 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Entomological Society, 1875-1895. Leather. Four essays on scientific discoveries regarding ants, bees and other insects, signed by respected entomologist George Rothney. Four essays in a half calf binding. Inscribed by the author George Alexander James Rothney to the fir…

Histoire Des Celtes, Et Particulierement Des Gaulois Et Des Germains

Simon Pelloutier · 1740 · Rooke Books

£1,175.00 (€1,408.63 | $1,552.60 | ¥247,960)

A La Hague [The Hague], Isaac Beauregard, 1740. First edition. Leather. The very scarce first edition of this two volume mid eighteenth century French language study of the history of the Celts, from 'the fabulous times' to the capture of Rome. In the original French.T…

Paris Herself Again in 1878-9

George Augustus Sala · 1880 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London and New York, Remington and Co.; Scribner and Welford, 1880. Cloth. A bright fifth edition of George Augustus Sala's literary travelogue of Paris, richly illustrated throughout the text. An ode to the author's love for the city of Paris at the time of the French…

Tom Cringle&Apos;S Log

Michael Scott · 1833 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

Edinburgh, William Blackwood, 1833. First edition. Leather. A handsome first edition two volume set of Tom Cringle's Log, in full calf with a slipcase. A first edition two volume set of this novel in a full calf binding. Volume I has been rebound with the original leather l…