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A Grammar of the Sunscrit Language, on a New Plan. Calcutta, Printed and sold by the Baptist Mission Press, 1820.

YATES, WILLIAM: · 1792 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€450.00 ($495.96 | £375.43 | ¥79,199)

Pp. viii, v-xxviii, 426. Missing last leaf; page 427 and the errata. Small wormholes running through the text. Expertly rebound in half calf (by Bernard Middleton). With inscription by the author. First edition. William Yates (1792-1845), British baptist missionary and renowned …

Fosterling

Emma Neale · 2011 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Vintage New Zealand 2011 Paperback. A young man is found unconscious in a remote forest. He is over seven-feet tall, his skin covered in thick hair, which reminds onlookers of an animal's pelt. When he wakes in a city hospital, he is eerily uncommunicative. Speculation begins. D…

Fauna coleopterorum Helvetica. Pars I [all published].

Heer, O. · 1839 · Hermann L. Strack, Antiquarian Book Dealer

€203.50 ($224.28 | £169.78 | ¥35,815)

1839-1841 xii, 652 p., contemporary half sheepskin leather (basane) with marbled boards, author/title and decorations blind-stamped on spine. Some wear on extremities. Ex library H. Müller (with his small bookplate on half-title), ex library H. Bickhardt (with his stamp). Rare.…

Mao: The Unknown Story

Jung Chang and Jon Halliday · 2005 · Book Haven

NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)

Jonathan Cape 2005 Hardback, 884pp. Based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao's close circle in China who have never talked before - and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him - this is the most authoritative life of M…

Political Trials in Ancient Greece.

BAUMAN, R.A., · 1990 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€35.00 ($38.57 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

Routledge, London / New York, 1990. XIII,222p. Original black silver titled cloth with dust wrps. Nice copy. 'R.A. Bauman has spent much of his career working on 'impietas' and 'maiestas' in rome, exploring the connection between religious and political offences, and in this bo…

Yarrott Benz : Photographs

Benz, Yarrott · 1997 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

Brooklyn, NY, Y. Benz, 1997. Softcover. 1 portfolio (13 sheets) : chiefly bw illustrations. "Yarrott Benz was born in 1954 in Nashville, Tennessee. He received a B.S. degree from Vanderbilt University studying art history and poetry and received a M.F.A. degree in sculpture from…

An Exhibition of Late Works by Will Henry Stevens

Stevens, Will Henry · 1968 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Greenville, SC, Greenville County Museum of Art, 1968. Softcover. White stapled wraps with black text. 12 unnumbered pages. 1 Color illustration and many bw illustrations. "Will Henry Stevens was born in Vevay, Indiana, in 1881. Unlike many of his contemporaries who traveled and…

Felix Vallotton, 1865-1925 : Critique D'Art

Vallotton, Félix ; Rudolf Koella; Katia Poleti · 2012 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$65.00 (€58.98 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Milan, Italy, 5 Continents, 2012. Softcover. Bw illustrated wraps with yellow text. 256 pp. Small color illustrations. Text in French. "A Lausanne native who had been living in Paris for several years, Félix Vallotton was twenty-four years old when he wrote his first art review.…

Kindred Styles: The Arts and Crafts Furniture of Charles P. Limbert

Bartinique, A. Patricia (editor) · 1995 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

New York, Gallery 532 Soho, 1995. Softcover. Brown & illus. wraps, 128 pp. 107+ BW illus. "Charles P. Limbert [1854-1923] -- furniture salesman and furniture maker -- saw in the Arts and Crafts Movement a popular idea in furniture that he could produce and sell profitably. He al…

Notes on Gramineae.

Bentham, G. · 1881 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€150.00 ($165.32 | £125.14 | ¥26,400)

London, The Linnean Society of London, 1881. 8vo (22.1 x 14.2 cm). 121 pp. [numbered 14-134]. = An important contribution to the knowledge of grasses, written by the British botanist George Bentham (1800-1884). "Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had…

Die ornithologische Tagebücher, 1847-1887, von H. Gaetke.

[Gaetke, H.] Blasius, R. (ed.) · 1906 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€200.00 ($220.43 | £166.86 | ¥35,199)

Leipzig, L. A. Kittler, 1906. 8vo (23.1 x 14.9 cm). 175 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Heinrich Gaetke, or Gätke (1814-1897) was a German ornithologist and painter. "In 1837 he travelled to the island of Heligoland for the first time. From 1841 he decided to live there and fro…

Report of the Secretary of War, to Whom Was Referred the Memorial of William Tatham, and the Papers Accompanying the Same. July 14th, 1813. Printed by Order of the Senate of the United States

United States, War Dept.; Armstrong, John · 1813 · Kaaterskill Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.70 | ¥15,969)

Washington [D.C.], Printed by Roger C. Weightman, 1813. First edition. Removed. 4 pp. 8vo. Since 1806 William Tatham had been trying to sell the maps he had made to the government. In this memorial he is asking for "remuneration as may be deemed just," that the maps be evaluated…

Second Speech of Mr. Rantoul, of Massachusetts, on the Coalition in Massachusetts, Delivered in the House of Representatives of the United States, March 9, 1852, in Reply to Hon. George T. Davis

Rantoul, Robert · 1852 · Kaaterskill Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Washington, D. C. Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1852. First edition. Self wrappers. 8 pp. Sm. 4to. Rantoul argued that he is not part of any 'corrupt group' and that he has always been an opponent of the Fugitive Slave Law, but he is against the government interveni…

John Heartfield: Leben Und Werk. Dargestellt Von Seinem Bruder

Herzfelde, Wieland · 1976 · Kaaterskill Books

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Dresden, Veb Verlag Der Kunst, 1976. Dritten auflage. Cloth. 386 pp. [2]. Illus. with 95 plates + 87 additional photos and drawings. Sm. 4to. John Heartfield, born Helmuth Herzfelde (1891-1968), German photomontagist, draughtsman, typographer, and stage designer. During the Weim…

Carpaccio, Bellini Und Die Frührenaissance in Venedig

Follmann, Christine ; Annette Hojer; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart · 2024 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Munich, Germany, Hirmer, 2024. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards with white text. 288 pp. Features many color illustrations. "Vittore Carpaccio is known as a unique 'storyteller' of urban life in Venice. He impresses with colorful and detailed picture narratives, which he skil…

Carpaccio, Bellini Und Die Frührenaissance in Venedig

Follmann, Christine ; Annette Hojer; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart · 2024 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Munich, Germany, Hirmer, 2024. Hardcover. Color illustrated boards with white text. 288 pp. Features many color illustrations. "Vittore Carpaccio is known as a unique 'storyteller' of urban life in Venice. He impresses with colorful and detailed picture narratives, which he skil…

Comrade X.

Tokaev, G.A. · 1956 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, Harvill Press, 1956. Hardcover. Octavo. Hardcover. Bound in red cloth with black titles on spine. Bumping to corners an some small tears at head of spine. 370 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits, maps, 22 cm. "In 1935, when the story begins, Tokaev was alread…

The Fouquets of the Conde Museum at Chantilly

Fouquet, Jean: Etienne Chevalier and Henri Malo · 1920 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Paris, Editions Verve, 1920. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on front cover; [26] pages including [11] mounted color plates. English edition. Introduction by Henri Malo. Reproductions of miniatures (cut away from the text)--which are in the Musée Condé. Étienne …

The World of Charles Ricketts

Darracott, Joseph · 1980 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.69 | ¥4,786)

New York, Methuen, 1980. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt letters on spine, white & color illus. dust jacket, 200 pp. many BW illus. some color illus. "Charles Ricketts [1866-1931] was a man of remarkable versatility. In the 1890s he ranked with Aubrey Beardsley as a powerful influe…

Wonder

R. J. Palacio · 2017 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Penguin UK 2017 Paperback, 320pp. The unforgettable and life-affirming story of August Pullman - a boy who's desperate to blend in, but is destined to stand out.'My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse.'Auggie wants to …