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An Account of Several Late Voyages and Discoveries

Sir John Narbrough; Abel Tasman; Tancred Robinson [ed.] · 1711 · Rooke Books

£2,900.00 (€3,476.11 | $3,831.31 | ¥611,810)

London, D. Brown, 1711. Leather. The very scarce second edition of these first hand accounts of four important seventeenth century voyages, featuring extracts from Captain Tasman's journal as he discovers New Zealand and Tasmania. The very scarce second edition of Sir John …

Histoire Generale Et Particuliere Des Anomalies de L&Apos;Organisation Chez L&Apos;Homme Et Les Animaux Atlas Contenant 20 Planches Avec Leur Explication, Et Table Generale Des Matieres

Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire · 1837 · Rooke Books

£1,450.00 (€1,738.05 | $1,915.65 | ¥305,905)

London, J. B. Bailliere, 1837. First edition. Leather. The scarce atlas and table of contents to Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's influential teratological work, with twenty engraved plates. First edition. Atlas volume. Being volume four of a four volume set. With twenty pl…

The Architecture of George Pace 1915-75

Peter G. Pace · 1990 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London , B. T. Batsford, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful first edition copy of this comprehensive exploration of the works of George Pace. A detailed and richly illustrated account of the architectural work of George Pace and a study on the fundamentals of ecclesiastical…

The Laboratory: Or, School of Arts

G. Smith · 1770 · Rooke Books

£1,175.00 (€1,408.42 | $1,552.34 | ¥247,889)

London, Stanley Crowder; B. Collins, 1770. Leather. An exploration of many different artistic trades, an illustrated volume, including with two folding plates. An educational treatise on art, exploring many different fields of art, and how to work with them. Discussing working w…

FRANCES PARTRIDGE DIARIES 7 Volumes A Pacifist's War 1939-1945, Everything to Lose 1945-1960, Hanging On 1960-1963, Other People 1963-1966, Good Company 1967-1970, Life Regained 1970-1972, Ups and Downs 1972-1975

PARTRIDGE Frances · 1978 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£300.00 (€359.60 | $396.34 | ¥63,291)

Hogarth Press Victor Gollancz Collins Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978-2001 1st edn 1st printings with the author's signed short handwritten letter loosely inserted in final volume. 7 vols. 8vo. Original gilt lettered cloth (VG), dustwrapper (VG in protective covers, not price clippe…

Letters on the Elements of Botany. Addressed to a Lady. Translated into English With Notes, and Twenty-Four additional Letters, fully explaining the System of Linnaeus. By Thomas Martyn...The Second Edition, with Corrections and Improvements.

ROUSSEAU (Jean Jacques): · 1787 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London: Printed for B. White..., 1787 Large 8vo, 214 x 127 mms., pp. xxv [xxvi blank], 500 [501 - 530 indexes], contemporary calf, red leather label; front joint cracked and tender. The letters were addressed to Madame Delessert. Martyn's edition of Rousseau's work was firs…

El Doctor Don Martín Gil Y Garces, Dean de la Santa Iglesia Catedral de Michoacán: Manifiesta Los Hechos é Irrefragables Constancias Que Evidenciaron la Escandalosa Arbitrariedad Con Que Su Cabildo Sede-Vacante Lo Ha Despojado Del Beneficio Que Canonicamente Obtiene; Y Combatiendo El Especioso é Infundo Dictámen de Los Letrados, á Quienes Estudiosamente Se Consulto Al Efecto, Se Somete Al Juicio de Los Sabios, Y Al de Los Imparciales Y Sensatos, a Quienes, Como á Todo El Respetable Público, Prot

Gil y Garcés, Martín · 1831 · Kaaterskill Books

$450.00 (€408.28 | £340.61 | ¥71,859)

Mexico, Impr. del ciudadano A. Valdés, 1831. First edition. Three quarter red morocco over blue cloth boards. Illus. with b/w photos. 8vo. A conservative catholic who long opposed Iturbide and had been a staunch supporter of the Spanish crown, Martín Gil y Garces, Dean of Church…

Noble Words and Noble Deeds Translated from the French of E Muller

Dora Leigh · 1877 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)

London, Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1877. Leather. An English translation of this collection of religious essays. In a binding for Douai Abbey School, Woolhampton with their crest gilt stamped to front board. Translated from the French of E Muller by Dora Leigh.…

The Economist and General Adviser, Containing Important Papers on the Following Subjects: The Markets, Marketing, Drunkenness, Gardening, Cookery, Travelling, Housekeeping, Management of Income, Distilling, Baking, Brewing, Agriculture, Public Abuses, Shops and Shopping, House Taking, Benefit Societies, Annals of Guling, Amusements, Useful Receipts, Domestic Medicine, &C. &C. &C.

Various · 1825 · Rooke Books

£1,990.00 (€2,385.33 | $2,629.07 | ¥419,828)

London, Knight and Lacey, 1825. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of the collection of the home economics periodical 'The Economist and General Adviser', complete here as two volumes in one. The first edition of this work. A very scarce work and an or…

MONARCHY ASSERTED, To be the best, most Ancient and legall form of Government, in a conference had at Whitehall, with OLIVER, late Lord Protector & a Committee of PARLIAMENT: Made good by the Arguments of Oliver St. Iohn, Lord Chief Justice. Lord Chief Justice Glyn. Lord Comm. Whitlock. Lord Comm. Lisle. Lord Comm. Fines. Lord Broghall. Mr. of the Roles. Sr. Charles Wolseley. Sr. Richard Onslow. Colonel Iones. } Members of that Committee

Whitlocke, Bulstrode [1605 - 1675 (or 76)]. Fiennes, Nathaniel [1608? - 1669]. Cromwell, Oliver [1599 - 1658] · 1660 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$654.50 (€593.82 | £495.41 | ¥104,515)

London: Printed by John Redmayne for Philip Chetwin, 1660. 1st edition (Abbott, W. Bib. of O. Cromwell, #1060; Halkett and Lang, IV, 107 [attributing the work's publication to Fiennes]; Wing W-1988). Period full calf. [6], 112 pp 8vo: [A]^4 (-A1, presumed a blank) B - 4U^4 4X - …

Archives, the Journal of the British Records Association, Vol. XII No. 54, Autumn 1975

edited by A E B Owen. Contributors: Urzula Tayska; Robert H Wheatley; S G Kerry; E K Timings; K J Stringer · 1975 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

The British Records Association, London, 1975. First Edition, Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean crisp grey card covers with red lettering, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. Contents include: British Records Association Announcements; The Archives Sect…

Costumes parisiens. Robe de satin pékiné à volants de nansouk (pl.138, Journal des Dames et des Modes, 1914 n°61)

André STEFAN · 1914 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.40 | ¥12,320)

S. n. | Paris 1914 | 14 x 22.50 cm | une feuille | Estampe originale en couleur, tirée sur papier vergé, signature en bas à gauche de la planche. L'une des premières revues de mode françaises, parue quelques temps avant la fameuse Gazette du bon ton et réunissant les grands arti…

Materia Medica Caroli Linnaei Liber I. De Plantis Secundum Genera, Loca, Nomina, Qualitates, Vires, Differentias, Durationes, Simplicia, Modos, Usus, Synonyma, Culturas, Proearata, Porentias, Composita

Carl Linnaeus · 1749 · Rooke Books

£7,700.00 (€9,229.67 | $10,172.78 | ¥1,624,461)

Holmiae, Laurentii Salvii , 1749. Cloth. A scarce medical work, exploring the use of plants within medicine, from influential botanist and physician, Carl Linnaeus. A very influential text.Rarely seen at auction- twice over the last 40 years. Soulsby 442 and Wellcome II p 526.Fe…

Chirps and Chimes in Various Keys

D. Bruce Mackie · 1892 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

Brechin, Edinburgh and Glasgow, D. B. Mackie; John Menzies & Co. 1892 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this collection of songs from Brechin in the late nineteenth century. First edition of Chirps and Chimes in Various Keys by D. Bruce Mackie in the original c…

Our Fathers (1870-1900)

Alan Bott · 1932 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

London, William Heinemann, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A first edition fourth impression of Alan Bott's 'Our Fathers&apos. With 201 engraved illustrations. Following a career as a special correspondent Alan Bott (1893-1952) wrote accounts of WWI and historical publicat…

Collection de Planches [for] Voyage Fait Par Ordre de L'Impératrice de Russie, Catherine II, Dans le Nord de la Russie Asiatique, Dans la Mer Glaciale, Dans la Mer D'Anadyr, Et Sur Les Côtes de L'Amérique, Depuis 1785 Jusqu'En 1794, Par le Commodore Billings / Rédigé Par M. Sauer... Et Trad. De L'Anglais Avec Des Notes, Par J. Castéra ; Avec Une Collection de 15 Planches. First Edition

Billings, Joseph, 1761-1806; Martin Sauer; J Castéra,1749-1838; B. Tardieu · 1802 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,100.00 (€998.02 | £832.61 | ¥175,656)

Paris, Chez F. Buisson, Imprimeur-Libraire, an X (1802). 4to. Contemporary qtr. roan and marbled boards and eps. Table of plates and 15 engraved plates including a map "Carte de Détroit qui sépare l'Asie de l'Amérique.." Map 44.5 x 63 cm. by Tardieu. Map with loss lower right ce…

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Francis Hodgson Burnett · 1901 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Frederick Warne & Co. 1901. Cloth. A wonderfully illustrated edition of this celebrated work by Francis Hodgson Burnett, with a pictorial cover. Francis Hodgson Burnett (1849-1924) was a British novelist whose later works included 'A Little Princess' and '…

Book Collections as Archaeological Sites. A Study of Interconnectedness and Meaning in the Historical Library of the Canonesses Regular of Soeterbeeck

Hans Kienhorst, Ad Poirters · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 716 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:15 b/w, 267 col., 3 tables b/w., Language: English. FINE ISBN 9782503604589. Summary In 1997 the canonesses regular of Soeterbeeck moved from their convent in Deursen (the Netherlands) to a nursing home in Nu…

Jacob Jordaens (1593-1678). Volume I Paintings and Tapestries. Catalogues by R.-A.d'Hulst, Nora De Poorter and Marc Vandenven.

R. A. D'HULST - Marc VANDENVEN - Nora DE POORTER (cataloguers) - Hans DEVISSCHER - N. de Poorter (editors) : · 1993 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€34.00 ($37.47 | £28.37 | ¥5,984)

0. Antwerp, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 1993, in-4°, 309 pp, sewn, orig. stiff wrapper, numerous b/w + col. ills, bibliography. Published on the occasion of an exhibition, describes 100 items. Volume I of the exhibition catalogue, dealing with the paintings and tapest…

Reisen in Afrika 1875-1886. Nach seinen Tagebüchern unter Mitwirkung von R. Buchta. (3 vol. set).

JUNKERS, WILHELM, · 1889 · Charbo's Antiquariaat

€550.00 ($606.20 | £458.85 | ¥96,802)

Wien, Eduard Hölzel, 1889-1891. (1st ed.). 3 vols. XVI+585+(1); XVI+560; XVI+740 pp. With 25 maps, 120 b/w plts., 185 ills., 2 fold. geneal. tables. Index. Hardcover. Contemp. quarter leather bindings with gilt spines, neatly rebound. (Old lib. stamp on verso of titles; all m…