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Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects

Jeremy Collier · 1707 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

London, Daniel Brown; Richard Sare; J. Nicholson; B. Took; G. Strahan; et al, 1707-09. First edition. Leather. A mixed edition set of the brilliant wide-ranging essays of Jeremy Collier, this set including a first, second, and sixth edition. Complete in three volumes.Jeremy Coll…

indiamodern: Traditional Forms and Contemporary Design

Ypma, Herbert J.M. · 1997 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Book Good Dust Jacket Included Phaidon Press Ltd, London English text.; Paperback (with dust jacket).; 25.5 x 29., 1.5 kg.; 240 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The exterior shows edge wear, scuffs and scratches. Minor bumps…

Caithness Family History

Henderson,John · 1884 · Richard Thornton Books

£264.00 (€316.49 | $348.84 | ¥55,712)

David Douglas This is a Very Good Copy of this book in quarter brown leather over green linen coloured boards with five raised bands to spine and with gilt lettering to 2nd compartment along spine.Remnant white paint runs along one fore-edge of the book (is easily removed carefu…

Death Has Many Doors

Frederic Brown · 1951 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, Incorporated, 1951. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the fifth Ed and Am Hunter novel, this novel seeing the uncle and nephew set up their own detective agency. The first edition, first printing.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.T…

Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, sive praescriptorum chilias, in qua remediorum elegantium & efficacium paradigmata, ad omnes fere medendi intentiones accommodata, candidade proponuntur.Amsterdam, R. & J. Wetstein & G. Smith, 1731. 8vo. Title in red and black with woodcut device. Contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine, red edges, marbled endpapers.

FULLER, Thomas. · 1702 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

[32], 382, [34] pp.The eight edition (Blake, p. 163) of the very popular Latin Pharmacopoeia extemporanea, first published at London in 1702 and in the Netherlands from 1709, when the Wetsteins published the first Amsterdam edition. It contains remedies for numerous ailments, fr…

On Artificial Manures; Their Chemical Selection and Scientific Application to Agriculture

M. Georges Ville; William Crookes [ed.] · 1879 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, Longmans, Green and Co. 1879 . First edition. Cloth. A very scarce copy of the first edition of the English translation of this illustrated series of lectures by French agronomist and plant physiologist. The very scarce first English edition of the work.In publisher&ap…

CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH Of A SAILOR

[19th C. San Francisco East Bay Photographer] · 1890 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$269.50 (€244.51 | £203.96 | ¥43,041)

Vallejo, Cal: Chas. McMillan, (n. d.). Ca 1890s. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Image shows a mustashioed, albeit otherwise unidentified, man, in his sailor garb, hands at hips, standing on what appears to be a battleship deck [but is actually a staged background].…

British Novelists

Mrs Barbauld [Anna Laetitia Aiken] · 1820 · Rooke Books

£4,400.00 (€5,274.86 | $5,813.99 | ¥928,530)

London, F C & J Rivington, W Lowndes, Scatcherd and Letterman et al. 1820. Leather. A selection of novels by British authors. In charming red morocco bindings and in a pocket-sized format. The new edition of these works. Forty-nine of the original fifty volume set only. Lacking …

A Collection of Maggs Bros Catalogues

Maggs Brothers · 1911 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Maggs Bros, 1911-14 . First edition. Cloth. A collection of eight Maggs Bros catalogues from 1911-1914 bound together, with the original wraps and illustrations bound in. A collection of eight catalogues published by Maggs Bros, bound together in cloth with the original …

Araneia. Epeira [spider]. Tab. 25.

Pfurtscheller, P. · 1910 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)

Wien, Pichler's Witwe & Sohn, ca. 1910. 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 wall chart depicting the morphology and anatomy of aspider, Epeira, now synonymized…

Alice&Apos;S Adventures in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll · 1881 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1881. Cloth. A scarce early edition of this highly influential work of children's fiction, complete with the original charming illustrations by John Tenniel. With publisher's advertisement to the rear of the work. Sixty Seventh Thousand. Compl…

Chile ilustrado. Guia descriptivo del territorio de Chile de las capitales de provincia, de los puertos principales.Valparaiso, Librerias i ajencias del Mercurio, 1872. 4to. Double-tinted lithographed frontispiece with portrait of president Frederico Errazuriz by Lasnier and printed by Lemercier, 9 double-tinted lithographs lithographed by Lasnier or F. Sorrieu and printed by Lemercier of some important Chilean people and buildings, and more than 200 engravings in the text: views, landscapes, building, natives, costumes, etc. Contemporary grained cloth.

TORNERO, Recaredo Santos. · 1842 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,600.00 ($1,763.53 | £1,334.63 | ¥281,647)

IX, [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], 495, [1] pp.First and only edition of the first lavishly illustrated description of Chile, by Recaredo Santos Tornero (1842-1902), a Chilean editor and journalist. He covers several historical, topographic and political aspects, all extensive and r…

Wellington&Apos;S Campaigns Peninsula-Waterloo 1808-15

Major-Gen. C. W. Robinson · 1914 · Rooke Books

£76.00 (€91.11 | $100.42 | ¥16,038)

London, Hugh Rees, LTD, 1914-27. Cloth. C. W. Robinson's complete study on the campaigns of the Duke of Wellington during the Napoleonic Wars, complete with folding maps. Complete in three volumes.An impressive study on the Duke of Wellington's Campaigns in 1808 to 181…

Dictionnaire Royal, Franãƒâ§Ois-Anglois Et Anglois-Franãƒâ§Ois, Tire Des Meilleurs Auteurs Qui Ont Ecrit Dans Ces Deux Langues Avec Une Dissertation Sur la Prosodie Franãƒâ§Oise Tome Premier.

A. Boyer; Mr de la S. R. · 1756 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

London, W. Innys; J. Brotherton; R. Ware; et al. 1756. Leather. A mid-18th century French and English dictionary in two parts, by well-known lexicographer Abel Boyer. The 1756 edition of this work in a full calf binding. Ink inscription to the front free end paper. Abel Boyer (c…

A Collection of Novels by Francis Brett Young

Francis Brett Young · 1930 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

London, William Heinemann, 1930-1940. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of four first edition novels from English writer Francis Brett Young. Four volumes. First editions. Written by Francis Brett Young, an English novelist, poet, playwright, composer, doctor and soldier.…

Through Asia

Sven Hedin · 1898 · Rooke Books

£280.00 (€335.67 | $369.98 | ¥59,088)

London, Methuen & Co, 1898. First edition. Cloth. The first edition in English of Sven Hedin's account of his impressive exploration of Central Asia, a brilliant illustrated work. First edition in English. This work was originally published in Swedish as 'En Färd Geno…

Snow Bound a Winter Idyl

John Greenleaf Whittier · 1866 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Boston, Ticknor and Fields, 1866. First edition. Leather. A first edition of Whittier's best known poem This is the first edition, second issue with the final page (52) unnumbered as shown above. With the original binding bound into the book at the rear, as shown above. Bou…

Ode to France

Charles Morgan · 1942 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1942. Leather. A signed limited edition poem by Charles Morgan, a beautiful ode to the country of France at the end of the war. A limited edition work, limited to five hundred copies, of which this is numbered one-hundred and fifty-five.Signed …

Seren Gomer Neu Gyfrwng Gwybodaeth Gyffredinawl I&Apos;R Cymry, Am Y Flwyddyn 1853

Various · 1853 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Caerfyrddin, Argraffwyd, Dros Y Cyhoeddwyr et al, 1853. Leather. Several issues of this Welsh-language periodical. The work contains a selection of news, novel excerpts, music, poetry and biographies. An uncommon work. 'Seren Gomer' was the first Welsh-language weekly …

English Homes

H. Avray Tipping · 1920 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, The Offices of Country Life, 1920-6. First edition. Cloth. A set of five first edition volumes from H. Avray Tipping's heavily illustrated series on English Homes throughout periods of history. The first edition to all.  A five volume set.  This set includes; "Per…