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1840 Manuscript Letter from the Wife of a Maine Sea Captain Sailing on the Solomon Saltus Discussing the Voyage and Business Back Home

LUCY GRAY (NEE DRINKWATER) · 1840 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,455.99 (€1,321.01 | £1,102.07 | ¥232,503)

Maine, New England, Usa, AT Sea, Baltimore, Maryland, 1840. Non-Book. On offer is an outstanding piece of early maritime history from the heart of 19th century America’s great whaling seaports. The letter was written in 1840 by Lucy Gray (nee Drinkwater) (1790-1884). It is addre…

English Children&Apos;S Books 1600 to 1900

Percy Muir · 1954 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, B. T. Batsford Ltd, 1954. First edition. Cloth. A charming first edition of this colourfully illustrated work on English children's books from 1600 to 1900. First edition. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and one hundred and seven figures on plates, many of wh…

The Antiquaries Journal, Being the Journal of The Society of Antiquaries of London, Volume XXII, 1942, Numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. January, April, July and October 1942

S M Collins; A W Clapham etc. · 1942 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, London, Glasgow etc. 1942. First Edition, Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean firm brown cover, gilt lettering on the spine, sound binding, clean pages. Many black and white illustrations including fold-out plans and di…

The Antiquaries Journal, Being the Journal of The Society of Antiquaries of London, Volume XXVI, 1946, Numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4. January, April, July and October 1946

Sir Cyril Fox; I A Richmond etc. · 1946 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£28.00 (€33.56 | $36.99 | ¥5,907)

Oxford University Press; Geoffrey Cumberlege, London, Glasgow etc. 1946. First Edition, Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean firm brown cover, gilt lettering on the spine, sound binding, clean pages. Many black and white illustrations including fold-out plans and…

The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England and the Summer Isles

SMITH, CAPTAIN JOH, A. L. ROWSE AND ROBERT O. DOUGAN · 1966 · S. Howlett-West Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Cleveland, OH: World Publishing Company, 1966. Facsimile; 1st Edition. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This is a Facsimile edition of the London,1624 edition. This book is in Near Fine condition and was issued without a dust jacket but with a traycase which is also in Near Fine co…

The Fables of Flora

Dr John Langhorn; F. Blagdon · 1804 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London, B. Crosby and Co, 1804. Leather. A nicely illustrated collection of the fable poetry of Dr John Langhorne, illustrated with beautiful vignettes. In a signed binding by Bickers. A collection of Dr John Langhorne's fables, Illustrated with numerous vignettes. Written …

Investigations of the aquatic resources and fisheries of Porto Rico. Second Part.

Rathbun, M. J. and J. E. Benedict a.o. [B. W. Evermann (ed.)] · 1902 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Washington, DC, United States Fish Commission, 1902. 4to (26.8 x 18.7 cm). viii, 431 pp.; 72 plates (heliotypes, photographs, two fine chromolithographs of crabs), numerous text figures. Contemporary red pebbled half calf over red pebbled boards. Spine with five raised bands and…

A Liturgical Discourse of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass Containing a Clear, Facil, Solid Explanation in General and Particular, of Its Substance, Nature, Quality, Antiquity, Use, Rites and Ceremonies, Deduced out of the Sacred Scripture, Apostolical Tradition, Holy Councils, Orthodox Fathers, Continual Practise of Gods Church, and Unanimous Consent of All Christian Nations. The First and Second Parts

Richard Mason, Angelus a Sancto Francisco · 1669 · Rooke Books

£1,865.00 (€2,235.50 | $2,463.93 | ¥393,457)

London, Not Stated, 1669-1670. First edition. Leather. A scarce first edition of A Liturgical Discourse by Richard Mason, known as Angelus a Sancto Francisco. A scarce first edition of A Liturgical Discourse by Richard Mason, known as Angelus a Sancto Francisco. Bound in quarter…

LYNDON BAINES JOHNSON TESTIMONIAL [Spine Title]

[JOHNSON, Lyndon Baines] ELLISON, Ralph; McNAMARA, Robert; ROCKEFELLER, Nelson; et. al · 131969 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,701.17 | £1,419.23 | ¥299,413)

New York. First Edition. Folio (10" x 15") in contemporary blue morocco-backed cloth by James MacDonald, housed in cloth chemise and matching blue morocco-backed slipcase. The 1969 date comes from the limitation leaf at the front, but likely assembled in 1973. An assembled album…

Harper&Apos;S New Monthly Magazine

Various · 1894 · Rooke Books

£179.99 (€215.75 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

New York, Harper & Brothers,, 1894. Leather. A selection of Harper's monthly magazine, featuring George Du Maurier's gothic horror, 'Trilby&apos. Volume LXXXVIII No. DXXIV January 1894 - Vol LXXXIX No. DXXXI. Bound in full soft leather, with gilt lettering to the …

Domestic Management; or, the Healthful Cookery-Book. To Which Is Prefixed a Treatise on Debit, As the Surest Means to Preserv Health, Long Life, &C. With Many Valuable Observations on the Nutritious and Beneficial As Well As the Injurious Effects of Various Kinds of Food; Also Remarks on the Wholesome and Pernicious Modes of Cookery. Intended As an Antidote to Modern Errors Therein. To Which Is Added, the Method of Treating Such Trifling Medical Cases As Properly Come Within the Sphere of Domest

[Annabella Plumtree] · 1813 · Rooke Books

£1,150.00 (€1,378.46 | $1,519.31 | ¥242,614)

London, B. and R. Crosby & Co, 1813. Hardback. Unheard of in the original boards, a second edition of this uncommon cookery book and treatise on diet and health, written by the writer and translator Annabella Plumtree. Illustrated with a frontispiece. The second edition of this …

Voyage du sieur Paul Lucas fait par ordre du Roi dans la Grèce, L'Asie Mineure, La Macedoine et L'Afrique. Contenant la description de la Natolie, de la Caramanie, & de la Macedoine.Amsterdam, aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1714. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece and a title-page printed in red and black for each part, 9 folding engraved plates with pyramids, archeological findings, the Holy Grave, and inscriptions, 2 folding engraved maps of the Levant (engraved by B. Ruyter), and of Fioum, the Nile and surroundings in Egypt, and 8 full-page engraved plates. Contemporary half calf.

LUCAS, Paul. · 1664 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

[1], [1 blank], [28], 323, [1 blank]; [1], [1 blank], [8], 328 pp.Second edition of an interesting travel account through Greece, Asia Minor, The Holy Land, and Egypt by Paul Lucas (Rouen 1664-1737), merchant, naturalist, antiquary and physician during his second tour from 1705 …

[Album amicorum of a Miss van Boetzelaer (?)].Heerenveen, 1831-1849. Oblong 4to. Manuscript with many contributions in French and English, a single contribution in Dutch and a four-line verse in German, mainly written in the same hand, probably of the owner of this album. With 45 mounted or occasionally loosely inserted drawings, paintings and prints in various formats, some coloured by contemporary hands. Contemporary gold- and blind-tooled brown morocco, each board richly decorated with frames and an oblong lozenge-shaped centrepiece, gilt edges.

[ALBUM AMICORUM & SCRAPBOOK - THE NETHERLANDS]. · 1815 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,850.00 ($4,243.40 | £3,211.92 | ¥677,616)

[96] ll.A beautiful example of a richly decorated and illustrated album amicorum, a book of poetry and a scrapbook in one. Alba amicorum were a popular and pleasant pastime at this time, as the first sentence of the album immediately makes clear: "Albums are all the rage, and sc…

Le miroir des Francois, compris en trois livres. contenant l'estat et maniement des affaires de France ... Et generalement tous les secrets qu'on a peu recueillir pour l'ébelissement, & enrichissement du royaume, & soulagement du public. Le tout mis en dialogues par Nicolas De Montand. A la royne regnante. [Geneva/France?], 1581. Bound after: (2) [Nicolas BARNAUD], Le cabinet du Roy de France, dans lequel il y a trois perles precieuses d'inestimable valeur: par le moyen desquelles sa maiesté s'en va le premier monarque du monde, et ses suiets du tout soulagez. [Geneva/France?], 1582. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Ad 1 with some woodcut head- and tailpieces and initials. Ad 2 with a small woodcut initial. Contemporary overlapping vellum.

[BARNAUD, Nicolas]. · 1538 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,000.00 ($4,408.73 | £3,337.06 | ¥704,017)

[1], [1 blank], [7], "497" [=495], [1 blank]; [16], 647, [1 blank], [10], [2 blank] pp.This convolute brings together two closely related satirical political texts by, or attributed to, Nicolas Barnaud (1538-1604), a Protestant, and more specifically Huguenot, theologian and phy…

The Antiquaries Journal, Being the Journal of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Vol XX, No. 3, July 1940

A W Clapham; E T Leeds; Philip Corder & C F C Hawkes; J B Ward Perkins; James G Mann · 1940 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£11.00 (€13.19 | $14.53 | ¥2,321)

Society of Antiquaries of London; Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, 1940. First Edition, Soft cover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Grey paper covers are worn at edges. Sound binding. Clean pages and plates. Contents include: Anniversary Address, by A W Clapham; A …

The Life of Benvenuto Cellini: A Florentine Artist. Containing A Variety of Curious and Interesting Particulars, relative to Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and The History of his own Time. Written by Himself in the Tuscan Language, and translated form the originla by Thomas Nugent.

CELLINI (Benvenuto). NUGENT (Thomas): · 1771 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

London: Printed for T. Davies..., 1771. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. 8vo, 212 x 113 mms., pp. [v] vi - x, 512; [xlvi including contents of both volumes, one gathering in duplicate], 403 [404 Errata],fine engraved portrait of Cellini as frontispiece in volume 1, contemporary calf…

The Dunciad. With Notes on Variorum, and the Prolegomena of Scriblerus

Alexander Pope · 1729 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, Lawton Gilliver, 1729 . Leather. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece of a donkey, this is the uncommon second Gilliver edition of Pope's mock-heroic, described by Pope himself as being the eighth edition. An early edition of Pope's mock-heroic narrative p…

Historic Wall-Papers: From Their Inception to the Introduction of Machinery

Nancy McClelland; Henri Clouzot [intro.] · 1924 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1924. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated historical study of wallpapers, in the original dust wrapper and box, by an authority on the subject, Nancy McClelland. A limited edition first edition of this work in the publisher&apo…

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain · 1883 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1883. First edition. Cloth. The first U.K. edition of Mark Twain's memoir on his experiences on trips along the Mississippi River. The first U.K. edition, first impression, with thirty-two pages of adverts to the rear, dated March 1883.Illustrated w…

Nieuw Nederlandtsch caertboeck. Waer in volkomentlijcker als oyt te voren vertoont werden de XVII. Nederlanden, soo in ’t geheel, als elck besonder met grote neersticheyt ende kosten gesneden ende in ’t licht gebracht. Mitsgaders een nieuwe beschryvinge uijt verscheyden autheuren ordentlyck tsamen gestelt door Reinier Telle … .Amsterdam, Abraham Goos in de Kalverstraet, [1616]. Oblong 4to (ca. 16 x 21 cm). With an engraved title page (signed by P.S[erwouter] scul.’ (bottom right) after ‘D.V[inck] B[oons]’ (bottom left)), 23 full page maps, several decorated woodcut initials and woodcut tailpieces. 19th-century quarter calf.

GOOS, Abraham. · 1628 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.82 | £3,754.20 | ¥792,019)

[7], "305" [=294], [2], [1 blank] pp.Rare first edition of one of the first atlases of the Low Countries, with 23 very detailed maps. It is the only atlas published by the mapmaker, Abraham Goos, himself. At the time the present atlas was published, the Seven United provinces (T…