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Okuma Shigenobu : Statesman of Meiji Japan.

LEBRA, Joyce C. · 1973 · The Book Firm

A$23.00 (€14.14 | $15.58 | £11.79 | ¥2,489)

Australian National University Press, 1973. Hardcover. Ökuma Shigenobu (1838-1922) was one of the most outstanding statesmen in Japan in modern times. He was one of a small group of oligarchs who, through a series of remark ably successful r…

First John.

Turner, Philip B. (inscribed by author), · 1991 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Bar Harbor, Maine, Acadia Publishing Company, (1991). VG PB. The only book to be banned by a Bishop! Turner was born on a dairy and potato farm in Mapleton, Maine in the early 1920s. After high school he left for the University of Maine because he could no longer stand the cows!…

The Phenomenon of Man.

De Chardin, Teilhard, introduction by Sir Julian Huxley, · 1959 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Great Britain, Collins, (1959). G PB. "This is a great book. Its subject is the sum of things: nothing less than God and the universe." Arnold Toynbee. Chardin was born in Auvergne in France in 1881 and died in 1955. He was a biologist, a paleontologist of world renown and also …

Trowel and Error

Titchmarsh, Alan · 2002 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£18.30 (€21.94 | $24.18 | ¥3,862)

Hodder & Stoughton. First UK edition-first printing. Book. Fine/Near fine.Hodder & Stoughton,2002.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine,small nick on the edges of the spine) in fine condition,with Dj(a couple of nicks,…

Matthew Smith: Fifty Two Colour Plates

SMITH, MATTHEW · 1962 · Round Table Books, LLC

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.62 | ¥8,784)

London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1962. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Matthew Smith. Publisher's full red linen boards, with robin's egg blue lettering on spine and cover. Illustrated with 52 full-color plates of works by Matthew Smith. Sir Matthew Smith, CBE (187…

The Man Who Never Died. A Play About Joe Hill.

STAVIS, BARRIE. · 1972 · Chilton Books

£18.00 (€21.58 | $23.78 | ¥3,799)

South Brunswick and New York: A.S.Barnes and Company, 1972. 0498075389. Revised edition with introduction by Pete Seeger. "Joe Hill was shot by the State of Utah on November 19, 1915. He had been found guilty on the charge of murder. Yet no connection was ever made between Joe H…

Franklin. It Is a Principle Among Printers That When Truth Has Fair Play, It Will Always Prevail over Falsehood. First Edition of the Rampant Lions Press Broadside

Franklin, Benjamin; Sebastian Carter, printer · 1960 · Wittenborn Art Books

$400.00 (€362.91 | £302.72 | ¥63,882)

Cambridge, England: Rampant Lions Press , circa 1960s. Letterpress on rag paper watermarkd A. Millboard.Signed presenation copy to Raymond Gid.. "Statement of Editorial Policy" The Pennsylvania Gazette, 24 July 1740: It is a Principle among Printers that when Truth has fair Play…

Über Kathodenstrahlen in Gasen von Atmosphaerischem Druck und im äussersten Vacuum.

Lenard, P. [E. A. von] · 1893 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€600.00 ($661.32 | £500.49 | ¥105,618)

Berlin, Königliche Akademie der Wissenschaften (Georg Reimer), 1893. 8vo (26.5 x 19.0 cm). 5 pp. [numbered 3-7]. Original printed wrappers. = A very important contribution to physics (which contributed to him becoming a Nobel laureate in 1905) conceived and written by the German…

Monumenta Antiqua Judaica, Augustae Vindel. reperta, & enarrata, cum Mantissa III. Monum. vetustorum Roman., operis Velseriani de antiquis Monum. August. appendice quadam. Studio Matthiae Friderici Beckii.

BECK,M.F. · 1686 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€225.00 ($248.00 | £187.68 | ¥39,607)

Augsburg, (Augustae Vindel.), Apud Viduam Theoph. Goebelii, Typis Koppmayerianis impressa, 1686. 8vo. 62,(2) p., 2 engraved plates. Modern marbled boards. 16 cm (Ref: VD17 1:060593L) (Details: Title in red and black. Occasional Hebrew texts and inscriptions. Two engraved plates…

Manuscript Highlighting Achievements of France’S Great Pharmacist, Pierre-Irenee Jacob

UNKNOWN · 1782 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$265.99 (€241.32 | £201.30 | ¥42,480)

France. Ephemera. On offer is a fascinating and brief description of one of France’s great Pharmacists in the NapoleonicWars, Pierre-Irenee Jacob. This manuscript appears to be an excerpt of a larger document. The author of the document is unknown. The subject however, is not. P…

The Life of My Choice

THESIGER, WILFRED · 2000 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£230.00 (€275.73 | $303.91 | ¥48,537)

t upstairs, Harpercollins. 2000. (ISBN: 9780002161947). Hardcover, 15.5 x 2.8 x 28.2 cm. Condition good, clean with dust jacket which may be different to what you see. Signed. Third print 1987. Ref ZKVQ Wilfred Thesiger, this century’s greatest living explorer, reveals the event…

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Firearms

Ian V. Hogg · 1991 · Rooke Books

£24.99 (€29.96 | $33.02 | ¥5,274)

London , New Burlington Books, 1991. Cloth. A comprehensive reference guide to military and civil firearms. Bound in paper-covered boards with gilt lettering, and an unclipped dust wrapper. Ian V. Hogg (1926 – 2002) was a notable British author of books on firearms, artillery, …

The Testament of Beauty a Poem in Four Books

Robert Bridges · 1930 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

London, Clarendon Press, 1930. Leather. A nice clean copy of Bridge's The Testament of beauty for which he received the Order of Merit. A half vellum hardback with marbled boards. Robert Seymour Bridges (1844 - 1930) was an English poet, and poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.…

A General Treatise of Morality Formed Upon the Principles of Natural Reason Only

Richard Fiddes, D.D. · 1724 · Rooke Books

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

London, Billings, 1724. Leather. A traditionalist defence of God's benevolence and the innate distinction between good and evil. Richard Fiddes (1671-1725) was educated at Oxford, where he first earned his reputation as a hard drinker. He was nominally rector of Hailsham fr…

Man of Property

John Galsworthy · 1911 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.78 | $251.06 | ¥40,096)

London, William Heinemann, 1911. Leather. A late-Edwardian copy of the first novel in the Forsyte Sage by John Galsworthy. In this first novel of the Forsyte Saga, after introducing us to the impressive array of Forsytes headed by the formidable Aunt Ann, Galsworthy moves into t…

The Given Day. An Amsterdam Mystery.

Gulik, Robert van. · 1964 · Fahrenheit 451

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

Kuala Lumpur, Art Printing Works, 1964, 1st ed., (6),132 pag., 7 full-page illustrations, endpapers design and original illustrated card wrappers by Robert van Gulik. = Van Gulik's only crime novel not set in ancient China. One of four of his crime novels that were first publi…

DANGEROUS POLITICS The Appeals to Passion and their Possible Results / A Thoughtful Discussion of the Methods of Bryan and His Associates

WHITE, Andrew Dickson · 1896 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$19.26 (€12.25 | $13.50 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

pp. 16. 8vo. An original stapled printed pamphlet,The author, Andrew Dickson White (1832-1918) was an American historian and educator, who was the co-founder of Cornell University and served as its first president for nearly two decades. He was known for expanding the scope of c…

The essence of the thing

St. John, Madeleine · 1997 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Fourth Estate, 1997 Paperback. 234 pages. Text in English. Clean copy with minimal signs of use. There's no nice way to say this ... I've decided - that is to say, I've come to the conclusion - that we should part ...' And with that conclusion. Nicola's troubles begin. She only …

Edvard Munch love and angst

Giulia Bartrum · 2019 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€24.50 ($27.00 | £20.44 | ¥4,313)

, Thame and Hudson, 2019 HB, 280 x 230 mm, 224 p, 150 colour illustrations ENG. edition.*fine. ISBN 9780500480465. Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is best known today as a painter, but his reputation was in fact established through his prints, which were central to his creative proces…

Frank Auerbach

Feaver, William · 1931 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€295.00 ($325.15 | £246.07 | ¥51,929)

Rizzoli Universe Int. Pub, Linnen band met stofomslag in cassette, 359, This is the most comprehensive publication to date, and the only book in print, on the work of Frank Auerbach, a painter who has become one of the pre-eminent artists of our age, widely admired for his vivid…