Cerca libri

Betica Revista Ilustrada

Various · 1914 · Rooke Books

£69.99 (€83.89 | $92.47 | ¥14,766)

Madrid , Sevilla, 1914. Paperback. A scarce copy of this Spanish periodical containing many religious articles and poetry. Ano II, Numero 10 5th April 1914. Illustrated throughout with decorative head and tail pieces, as well as photographic plates. Featuring contemporary advert…

DOT; or, The Cricket on the Hearth. A Notable Revival.; Compliments of Henry E. Abbey, Manager, Park Theatre, Broadway and 22nd Street. Dickens' Most Beautiful Idyl will be presented at this Theatre, with John E. Owens, As the Old Toy Maker, Supported by a Strong Cast, on Monday, Jan. 20th, 1879

Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870] · 1879 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$258.50 (€234.53 | £195.66 | ¥41,279)

New York: Union Square Printing Co., 46 E. 14th St, 1879. 1st Printing thus, i.e. for this performance (Bolton Cricket 85). Not in Gimbel, though see B158 for a T. B. Peterson edition, posited as ca 1872. Original publisher's printed buff paper wrappers. Now housed in an archiva…

Street Plan of Paris from Harmsworth's 1922 Atlas of the World

Edited by J. A. Hammerton; Miss H. B. Leach, H. W. Cribb and J. T. Rankin · 1922 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£19.00 (€22.77 | $25.10 | ¥4,008)

The Educational Book Co. Ltd. London, 1922. Early Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Disbound street plan of Paris from Harmsworth's Atlas of the World and Pictorial Gazetteer. Sheet is in colour and has vertical centre join. Sheet size is approximately 37 x…

Vegetable Staticks

HALES, STEPHEN (FOREWORD BY DR. M. A. HOSKIN) · 1961 · S. Howlett-West Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

London, England: Scientific Book Guild, 1961. Book Club Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations & Charts; This book is in Very Good+ condition and was possibly issued without a dust jacket. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bumping and rubbing. A bit of…

The Joy of Bees:Bees as a model of sustainability and beekeeping as an experience of nature and human history

Fontana, P. · 2019 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£42.00 (€50.34 | $55.49 | ¥8,861)

WBA 748, col + b/w illus. . HB. NEW. . Translated into English from the original Italian edtion by Paul Tout. This book examines the evolution, morphology, biology and behaviour of the history and relationship of bees and mankind. The author also examines the history and new fro…

Various sermons bound together, comprising: THE SHINING CONVERT; Or, Riches of Divine Grace, Displayed. With: A SERMON PREACHED AT THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF YORK, September 22nd, 1745; On Occasion of the present Rebellion in Scotland. With: Mercy and judgment; or, Intestine war but soon over: cattle die; but men not oblig'd to eat their carcasses. A sermon [on Isa. ix. 13] occasioned by the general fast; on Wednesday January 7, 1746. Appointed by His Majesty. To which is added, An hymn to the creator for the... victory over the rebels at Culloden, on the 16th of April, 1746... And a letter of expostulation to the ladies of Manchester, upon their late and present behaviour...; With: MARRIAGE AN HONOURABLE ESTATE. A SERMON PREACHED AT DRIFFIELD IN GLOUCESTERSHIRE, On Occasion of the Happy Marriage of Gabriel Hanger, Esq. and Mrs. Elizabeth Bond. With: POPERY ALWAYS THE SAME; Exemplified in an Account of the Persecution now carrying on against Protestants in the South of France.

TOMS, Isaac; HERRING, Thomas ( 'THOMAS, Lord Archbishop of York') ; LEWIS, Edward; HUMPHREYS, Thomas; SERCES, James · 1747 · The Minster Gate Bookshop

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London: R. Hett; York: John Hildyard; John Oswald; James Crokatt; J. Oliver 1747;1745;1747;1742; 1746; 8vo., pp.xiv,88,viii,14;35;30;100, full contemporary calf, five raised bands, gilt fillets; owner’s initials (J. B.) in gilt to both boards, owner’s engraved b…

The universal etymological English dictionary: containing an additional collection of words (not in the first volume) with their explications and etymologies ... Also an explication of hard and technical words, or terms, in all arts and sciences ... Illustrated with above five hundred cuts ... Likewise a collection and explanation of words and phrases us'd in our ancient charters, statues [sic], writs ... Also the theogony, theology, and mythology of the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, &c. ...To which is added, an additional collection of proper names of persons and places in Great Britain ... Vol. II.

BAILEY, N. · 1731 · John Turton

£139.20 (€166.85 | $183.90 | ¥29,367)

London: printed for Thomas Cox at the Lamb under the Royal-Exchange, 1731 the second edition with many additions. 20cm. [880]pp, head pieces, text figures. Main work in double columns. Contemporary full panelled calf, red calf gilt spine label. Slight wear to extremes and label,…

Temple Bar a London Magazine Volumes III, VI, IX, X, XI, XIV, XVI, XVII and XIX

Various Authors; George Augustus Sala (ed) · 1862 · Rooke Books

£690.00 (€827.07 | $911.59 | ¥145,569)

London, Office of "Temple Bar" and Richard Bentley, 1862-1867. Leather. A nine-volume set of Temple Bar, in attractive half-calf bindings with gilt detailing and marbled boards. Temple Bar was a London journal, issued monthly with a cover price of one shilling and was originally…

Corporate Splendour. A Typological, Iconographic and Social Approach to Civic Group Portraits in Brabant 1585-1800.

Beatrijs Wolters van der Wey: · 2015 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€233.45 ($257.30 | £194.76 | ¥41,088)

2015, (19 x 25 cm), 508 pp. English, 150 b/w - and 154 colour ills., hardcover. Civic group portraits depicting militia and craft guilds, urban authorities, charitable institutions and religious confraternities were better represented in the Duchy of Brabant during the ancien r…

Energy and Conflict the Life and Times of Edward Teller

BLUMBERG, STANLEY A. & OWENS, GWINN · 1976 · S. Howlett-West Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

New York, NY: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 039911551X. B&W Photographs; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the Biographee - Edward Teller, along with a longish inscription, on the front endpaper. The book is in Very Good+ condi…

Collier's Magazine - the National Weekly: 18 April, 1931 - 14,000 Miles Through Russia without a Guide

DAVIS, ELMER; DAVENPORT, WALTER; JOSSELYN, TALBERT; KAHLER, HUGH MACNAIR; MARQUIS, DON; ROHMER, SAX; FLYNN, JOHN T.; LEMAY, ALAN; HOBEN, LINDSAY; WADSWORTH, ROTH F.; RICE, GRANTLAND; MACHARG, WILLIAM; FOSTER, FRELING; WORK, MILTON C. · 1931 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.65 | £223.29 | ¥47,108)

USA: P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1931. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Llanuza; Timmins, Harry L.. 70 pages. Features: Color Texaco ad inside front cover; Oakland 8 and Pontiac 6 ad on page 1; Classy color full-page ad for Maxwell House coffee; Mr. Peters makes his Train (…

The Magazine Antiques, April 1986 - Winslow Homer's Watercolors

SPRIGG, JUNE; COOPER, HELEN A.; MURPHY, JOHN K.; STEIN, SUSAN R.; ALLEN, GLORIA SEAMAN; SHERRILL, SARAH B. · 1986 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$79.95 (€72.54 | £60.52 | ¥12,767)

USA: Brant, 1986. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 0894680870. Illustrated by Homer, Winslow; Rocheleau, Paul (cover). Pages 724-878. Features: The Development of Shaker Design; Winslow Homer's Watercolors; History in Towns - Beaufort, South Carolina; Some of the New York City Ho…

THE TALE OF THE FUTURE From the Beginning to the Present Day A Check-List of Those Satires Ideal States Imaginary Wars and Invasions Political Warnings and Forecasts Interplanetary Voyages and Scientific Romances..

CLARKE I.F. · 1961 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Library Association, 1961 1st edn. 8vo. Original gilt lettered green cloth (VG), dustwrapper (light wear at edges - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 165, illus with b&w plates (no inscriptions).

Music in the Carolingian World. Witnesses to a Metadiscipline, Essays in Honor of Charles M. Atkinson

Graeme Boone (ed) · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 455 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:33 b/w, 12 col., 19 tables b/w., 23 musical examples, Language(s):English, French. ISBN 9782503603308. Summary Music in the Carolingian World stems from a conference honoring the career and wide-ranging res…

New Principles of Gardening: or, The Laying Out and Planting Parterres, Groves, Wildernesses, Labyrinths, Avenues, Parks, &c. After a More Grand and Rural Manner, Than Has Been Done Before

Langley, Batty · 1739 · Barter Books Ltd

£1,600.00 (€1,917.85 | $2,113.82 | ¥337,550)

G : in good condition. Rebound with new eps. Five plates with tears (no loss) and some marginal chips (not impinging) London A Bettesworth; C Hitchin; and others Second Edition 260mm x 190mm (10" x 7"). xvi, [xviii], 207pp [i]; 191pp, [i] + plates. 27 [of 28] fold out b/w plate…

Landscape and Figure Painters of America and American Painters of Yesterday and Today

Frederic Fairchild Sherman · 1917 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

New York, Privately Printed, 1917-19. Cloth. A two volume set of these limited edition works on American art and paintings, by Frederic Fairchild Sherman. This set includes:'Landscape & Figure Painters of America' published privately in 1917. This is one of only 500 co…

The British Kitchen, Country Cookery, & Country Weekends

Doreen Yarwood; Kathleen Thomas; John Tovey · 1981 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, B. T. Batsford Ltd; Treasure Press; Ebury Press, 1981-1988. Cloth. Three smart volumes on British cooking and the British countryside, with recipes throughout. Three volumes. This set contains: The British Kitchen: Housewifery Since Roman Times, 1981. First edition. Illu…

History, Landscape, and Language in the Northern Isles and Caithness. 'A'm grippit dis laand'. A Gedenkschrift for Doreen Waugh

Ryan Foster, Christian Cooijmans (eds) · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,320)

, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 196 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:12 b/w, 12 col., 4 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503600130. Summary Doreen Waugh was a native Shetlander and a well-renowned scholar of Old Norse and Gaelic place-names in Northern Scotland and th…

Street Plans of Edinburgh and Glasgow from Harmsworth's 1922 Atlas of the World - Single Sheet

Edited by J. A. Hammerton; Miss H. B. Leach, H. W. Cribb and J. T. Rankin · 1922 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£13.00 (€15.58 | $17.17 | ¥2,743)

The Educational Book Co. Ltd. London, 1922. Early Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Single disbound map page from Harmsworth's Atlas of the World and Pictorial Gazetteer. Single sheet only which is divided into 2 panels, plans are in colour and sheet is sui…

Street Plans of Liverpool and Manchester from Harmsworth's 1922 Atlas of the World - Single Sheet

Edited by J. A. Hammerton; Miss H. B. Leach, H. W. Cribb and J. T. Rankin · 1922 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£13.00 (€15.58 | $17.17 | ¥2,743)

The Educational Book Co. Ltd. London, 1922. Early Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Single disbound map page from Harmsworth's Atlas of the World and Pictorial Gazetteer. Single sheet only which is divided into 2 panels, plans are in colour and sheet is sui…