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Tacitus. Augoror ... historias tuas immortales futuras. I prophesy that your histories will be immortal. Pliny Ep.7.33.

MARTIN, R., · 1981 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Batsford Academic and Educational, London, 1981. 288p. Hard bound with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Dust wrps to spine discoloured. Neat pencil markings in colour. 'Opinions on Tacitus are still sharply divided, some viewing his work primarily as literary entertainments, whil…

The Truths of Spiritualism Immortality Proved Beyond a Doubt By Living Witnesses

WILSON, E. V. , THE SEER · 1879 · S. Howlett-West Books

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

Chicago, IL: Hazlitt & Reed, 1879. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. Second printing (dated 1879 on the title page, instead of the 1876 which is shown on the original printing). The book is in Very Good- condition and was likely issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of…

New Legends . Poems By Hervey Allen .

ALLEN, HERVEY [ WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN 1889-1949] / PRIESTLEY, J. B. (SIGNED) . · 1929 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

New York : Farrar & Rinehart Incorporated, On Murray Hill, MCMXXIX [ 1929 ] . 0. Signed first edition. 19.5cm x 5.25" x 2.0cm [7.75" x 5.25" x 0.75"]. pp.13/pp.168 . Original black cloth covered boards, edges lightly rubbed, with bright gilt titles to front board. Spine titles f…

Léon Spilliaert. (English with dustjacket)

Adriaens-Pannier Anne , Goldman Noémie , Locke Adrian · 2020 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Brussels, Royal Academy of Arts, 2020 Hardcover with dustjacket, 176 pages, 29 x 22 cm. English text. *Fine condition. ISBN 9781912520220. Belgium symbolist painter and graphic artist. Watercolourist, pastellist, painter (gouache), draughtsman. Portraits, genre scenes, still-lif…

De Vita & Rebus Gestis Serenissmiae Principis Mariae Scotorum Reginae, Franciae Dotariae, Quae Scriptis Tradidere Autores Sedecim, in Duo Volumina Distributa Et Ad Optimae Fidei Codices Recensita a Samuele Jebb.

Samuele Jebb · 1725 · Rooke Books

£900.00 (€1,078.95 | $1,189.23 | ¥189,927)

London, Jacob Woodman and David Lyon, 1725. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of De Vita & Rebus Gestis Serenissmiae Principis Mariae Scotorum Reginae. Two Volumes, complete. This work is the life of Mary, Queen of Scots, in Latin. The binding could do with strength…

The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia, and the Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs

Sir Samuel W. Baker · 1867 · Rooke Books

£425.00 (€509.50 | $561.58 | ¥89,688)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1867. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Samuel Baker's important exploration work on the Nile, an interesting work illustrated throughout. The first edition, with the printing mistake to the illustrations index page, stating that the plate…

The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi

John Addington Symonds (Trans.) · 1890 · Rooke Books

£360.00 (€431.58 | $475.69 | ¥75,971)

London, John C. Nimmo, 1890. Leather. The limited illustrated edition of John Addington Symonds' translation of the memoirs of the Italian playwright Count Gozzi. Number 87 of 210 copies with hand coloured plates. Symonds wrote a number of biographies of writers and artists…

Tom Wesselmann : Passion in Steel, Paper and Canvas

Brian Kenny ; Sara Cedar Miller ;Jo Wetzels · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

, Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery, 2024 Hardcover, 164 pages, ENG. edition, 310 x 240 x 23 mm, NEW, illustrated dustjacket, beautifull illustrations in sharp colours and b/w. ISBN 9789464202267. Tom Wesselmann (1931-2004) became one of the leading American Pop artists of the 1960s…

Michiel Coxcie (1499-1592) and the Giants of His Age

Jonckheere, K. (ed.) · 2013 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€199.00 ($219.34 | £165.99 | ¥35,030)

, Brepols, 2013 Hardback,208 p., 220 x 275 mm,Languages: English. ISBN 9781909400146. Studies in Medieval and Early Renaissance Art History, Michiel Coxcie lived to the age of 93 and witnessed all the important political, religious, economic and artistic upheavals of the sixte…

Histoire des Revolutions de l'ile de Corse, et de l'élévation de Théodore I sur le trône de cet etat, tirée de mémoires tant secrets que publics. A La Haie, chéz Pierre Paupie, 1738.

WITTELIEB, M. VON: · 1736 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

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

12mo. Pp. (xii), 323, (1). With engraved frontispiece (portrait of Theodore I of Corsica) and title page printed in red and black. Contemporary calf, spine richly gilt and with title label, r.e., marbled endpapers. Binding lightly rubbed, internally fine.Scarce first edition. …

Croquis Pour L'Amusement Des Enfans

RAFFET, [Denis August Marie] · 1829 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$450.00 (€408.27 | £340.56 | ¥71,868)

Paris: Gihaut Frères, 1829. Sketches for the Amusement of Children An Early Work by Raffet RAFFET, [Denis August Marie]. Croquis pour l'amusement des enfans.. Paris & London: Chez Gihaut Frères & McLean, 1829. First edition [first series only]. Oblong quarto (12 3/8 x 9 inches; …

Sam Tchakalian. Poster

Tchakalian , Sam (1929-2004) · 1989 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea: 1989. Color poster. 32 x 24 inches. Marginal tear without loss. Sam Tchakalian (1929-2004) was a second generation abstract expressionist painter working in San Francisco. Working alongside David Park, Richard Diebenkorn, Hassel Smith,…

Carl Meyer; CM. Issue 2107. (Rare Colour Half-Tone Gravure. )

Spy (Sir Leslie Ward, 1851-1922) · 1909 · Wittenborn Art Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

London: Vanity Fair, 1909. Original colour half-tone gravure. 38 x 26 cm (15 x 10 inches). Good. Minor chip in top right corner, and half inch tear in right margin, not affecting image. Accompanied by 1 sheet of description, Very Good. Published in Vanity Fair, 17 March 1909. He…

Plantarum Umbelliferarum distributio nova, per tabulas cognationis et affinitatis ex libro naturae observata & detecta

Morison, Robert · 1672 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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

E Theatro Sheldoniano Oxonii [Oxford] [10], 91, [1], [3 - letterpress explanations to plates], [1], 8 engraved tables (letterpress explanations printed to verso), 12 engraved plates (1 folding). . HB. Folio (410x260mm), rebound in modern brown half morocco, raised bands, gilt ti…

The decline and fall of LLoyd George (3 foto's)

Beaverbrook Lord · 1963 · De Boekentuin Alkmaar

€19.90 ($21.93 | £16.60 | ¥3,503)

Collins clear-type press, Goed, hardcover linnen, 1963, 1e druk, 320 pagina's. Hoekjes kaft hebben kleine kneepjes. Engelstalig., As the year 1921 opened, few would have dissented from Bonar Law's opinion: 'Lloyd George can be Prime Minister for life if he likes.' Lloyd George h…

Exit Ghost

Philip Roth · 2007 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Hardcover, hardcover; 1e druk, 2007; Cape; 304pp.; Conditie: Goed; Like Rip Van Winkle returning to his hometown to find that all has changed, Nathan Zuckerman comes back to New York, the city he left eleven years before. Alone on his New England mountain, Zuckerman has been not…

In primam totam fen primi libri canonis Avicenn[a]e dilucidissima & expectatissima expositio. Nunc primum in lucem edita, illustrata, & completa assiduo labore, & longo studio Marci Oddi medici eiusdem filii.Venice, Paolo and Antonio Meietti, 1575. 4to. With a woodcut device on the title page, a woodcut headpiece, 3 large and 17 smaller woodcut decorated initials, and a small woodcut decoration (plus 1 repeat). Contemporary limp vellum, with manuscript title on spine.

ODDI, Oddo degli. · 1478 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)

[8], 499, [33] pp.Rare first and only edition of a commentary on book I, fen (section) I of Avicenna's Canon by Oddo degli Oddi, including the Latin version of the text by Andrea Alpago and Jacob Mantino. Like most of Oddi's work it was published posthumously by his son Marco de…

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT (AM)

HARTE, Bret · 1902 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,701.13 | £1,418.99 | ¥299,449)

[London]. Two-page AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT on Harte's 109, Lancaster Gate, W. stationery (8-7/8" x 9-1/8"), not signed but completely in Harte's hand, consisting of 6 four-line stanzas on two integral pages. Titled "Scotch Lines to A. S. B./From an Unintelligent Foreigner," the poe…

Rhymes of a PFC [Inscribed to Edith Sedwick Gibson] [Baldpate]

KIRSTEIN, Lincoln (1907-1996) · 1964 · Fine Editions Ltd

$274.00 (€248.59 | £207.36 | ¥43,759)

New York New Directions First Printing First Edition (so stated). Square 8vo: [viii],179,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven beige cloth, spine lettered in black, brown paper-covered boards decorated in blind with PFC stripes, brown laid end papers, brown pictorial dust jacket print…

The Samurai Castle Master: Warlord Todo Takatora

Chris Glenn · 2022 · Winkles Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Book New New 1st Edition Frontline Books Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall When the samurai warlord and respected castle architect Todo Takatora died in 1630, the funeral attendants responsible for preparing his body were shocked to note that there was not a single part of his …