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The New Sporting Magazine, Volume 9 - 1835 May to October

H. B. Sawbridge, Salmoneus, Deccan, Stephen Oliver, Jorrocks, Cymro, Nimrod, John Dockery, Tom Oakleigh, · 1835 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£62.00 (€74.32 | $81.91 | ¥13,080)

R. Ackermann, London, 1835. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Half leather with marbled covers and banded spine with gilt lettering and decoration. Marbled end-papers. Slightly bumped corners and very light wear at spine-ends. Covers rubbed and marbled pap…

A history of the late siege of Gibraltar. With a description and account of that Garrison, from the earliest periods. By John Drinkwater, captain in the late seventy-second regiment, or Royal Manchester Volunteers, and an honorary member of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester [Untrimmed Subscribers Copy]

DRINKWATER, John (1762-1844) · 1786 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,099.00 (€997.11 | £831.86 | ¥175,496)

London Printed by T. Spilsbury, Snowhill; and sold by J. Johnson, No 72, St. Paul’s Church-Yard; T. and J. Egerton, Charing-Cross; and J. Edwards, No 102, Pall-Mall Third Edition of this fascinating eyewitness account of the longest siege ever endured by British forces. 4to: xx…

The Apparition. A Cabinet Picture from the Downing Street Collection. 1. Lord Lyndhurst 2. Lord Ellenborough 3. Mr. Peel 4. Lord Bathurst 5. Duke of Wellington 6. Mr. Canning

Doyle, John ("H.B.") (1797-1868) · 1829 · Wittenborn Art Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,953)

London: Thomas MacLean, 1829. Original lithograph. 13 x 10.5 inches. Very Good. Inserted into light matting. Sitters: Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (1762-1834), Statesman. George Canning (1770-1827), Prime Minister. Edward Law, 1st Earl of Ellenborough (1790-1871), Politicia…

Designs for Different Futures

Hiesinger, Kathryn B.; Fisher, Michelle Millar; Byrne, Emmet; Lopez-Pastor, Maite Borjabad · 2019 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Philadelphia / Minneapolis / Chicago / New Haven, The Philadelphia Museum of Art / Walker Art Center / The Art Institute of Chicago / Yale University Press, 2019. Softcover. Quarto. Softcover. Illustrated wraps. 271 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits (some color) ; 30…

Report of Findings Relating to Identification of Sir Francis Drake's Encampment at Point Reyes National Seashore a Research Report of the Drake Navigators Guild

AKER, RAYMOND · 1970 · S. Howlett-West Books

$500.00 (€453.65 | £378.46 | ¥79,844)

Point Reyes, CA: Drake Navigators Guild, 1970. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations & Charts; This book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in generally clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corne…

Het groot tafereel der dwaasheid ...[Amsterdam], 1720. Folio. With the title page printed in red and black, 78 mostly double-page or folding engraved plates with caricatures on the 1720 Bubble, and a double-page hand-coloured plate of the foundations of a house near Leiden loosely inserted in the back. Contemporary gold-tooled half blueish green roan, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine, blue paste paper sides.

[TAFEREEL DER DWAASHEID]. LAW, John (subject). · 1719 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank], 25, [1], 52, "31" [= 29], [1 blank], 8, 9, [1 blank] pp. and engraved ll.A famous collection of texts and plates satirising the Englishman John Law, his Mississippi Company, and the international land and trading speculation in worthless shares of the South Sea B…

reliquaires du Proche-Orient et de Chypre a la periode protobyzantine (IVe -VIIIe siecle) Types, emplacements, fonctions et cultes,

M. C. Comte; · 2012 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€104.50 ($115.18 | £87.18 | ¥18,392)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Paperback, approx. 520 p., 582 b/w ill., 220 x 280 mm. ISBN 9782503542126. After the Peace of the Church, the cult of martyrs, which had previously been forbidden and observed only clandestinely in cemeteries, was officially recognised and practised in c…

Drawings of Peter Paul Rubens, A Critical Catalogue, VOLUME THREE 1621-1640 Part One: Text and Part Two: Plates, 2 vols.

Anne-Marie Logan, Kristin Lohse Belkin · 2025 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€259.00 ($285.47 | £216.07 | ¥45,585)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardback, 2 vols. 555 Pages: 2 vols, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:172 b/w, 342 col., Language: English. *new. ISBN 9782503599564. This is the final volume of the catalogue raisonné of the drawings by Peter Paul Rubens, covering the years 162…

Ut pictura meditatio The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500-1700,

W. S. Melion, R. Dekoninck, A. Guiderdoni-Brusle (eds.); · 2012 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€148.50 ($163.67 | £123.89 | ¥26,137)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2012 Hardback, XXXVII+482 p., 155 b/w ill. + 10 colour ill., 15,6 x 23,4. ISBN 9782503535838. Ut pictura meditatio: The Meditative Image in Northern Art, 1500 -1700 examines the form, function, and meaning of pictorial images produced and/or circulated in the …

Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History from 458 A.D. To 1905. Based Upon the Plan of Benson John Lossing. With a Preface on the Study of American History by Woodrow Wilson. Complete in Ten Volumes

(Lossing, Benson John [1813-1891]). Harper & Brothers; Wilson, Woodrow; Fisk, John; et al. · 1907 · Kaaterskill Books

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.34 | ¥13,573)

New York, Harper & Brothers, 1907. Later printing. Cloth. Illus. with b/w drawings. Maps. Portraits, Documents, Plans. Thick 8vo. An updated and expanded version of Lossing's "Cyclopedia of United States History" first published in 1881 with contributions by many notable authori…

[Sammelband of five plays, comprising] Xerxes. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal in Lincoln’s-Inn-Fields; The tragical history of King Richard III. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane. Alter’d from Shakespear by C. Cibber; Perolla and Izadora. A tragedy. Acted at the Theatre Royal, by Her Majesty’s servants; Ximena: Or, The heroick daughter. A tragedy. As it is acted at the Theatre-Royal by His Majesty’s servants; [and] Cæsar in Ægypt. A tragedy. At [sic] it is acted at the Theatre-Royal in Drury-Lane, by His Majesty’s servants

CIBBER, Colley (1671-1757) · 1736 · Fine Editions Ltd

$274.00 (€248.60 | £207.40 | ¥43,754)

London Early Reprints Collection of five plays by Cibber, of various editions, dates, and imprints, each with copper-engraved frontispiece and title page printed in red and black (except Perolla and Izadora). 12mo: 72; 71[1]; 70,[2]; xxxvi,[2],58; 83,[1]pp. Xerxes: printed for W…

1951 Detailed Travel Diary of a Halifax Woman’S Train Tour Across Canada and Into the Western United States

ELIZABETH HELEN MAHON · 1951 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$785.99 (€713.12 | £594.93 | ¥125,512)

Regina, Seattle, Vancouver,, 1951. Softcover. On offer is a wonderfully detailed description of a classic train trip across Canada in the middle of the 20th century, often reading as a love letter to Canada as it was shortly after the second world war, as the baby boom was in fu…

Lewis Carroll: The Man and His Circle

Edward Wakeling · 2015 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, I B Tauris, 2015. First edition. Cloth. A fine first edition examination of the life of Lewis Carroll, by an international authority on the author. A first edition in the original unclipped dustwrapper.Edward Wakeling, the former chairman of the Lewis Carroll society, is…

Resolutions of the Associated Architects; with the Report of a Committee by Them Appointed to Consider the Causes of the Frequent Fires, and the Best Means of Preventing the Like in Future

Association of Architects · 1793 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

[London], Not Stated , 1793. First edition. Paperback. A fascinating 18th-century report provided by the Association of Architects, investigating the causes and preventative methods for house fires. First edition.  In the original blue wrappers, with several leaves uncut.  EST…

The Antiquaries Journal, Being the Journal of The Society of Antiquaries of London, Volume I 1921,

Sir Hercules Read, A W Clapham etc. · 1921 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£54.00 (€64.73 | $71.34 | ¥11,392)

Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, London, Glasgow etc. 1921. First Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Clean firm brown cover, gilt lettering on the spine, clean pages. Sound binding. Many black and white illustrations. Original card covers are bound in. …

The Life of Abraham Newland, Esq. Late Principal Cashier at the Bank of England

[John Dyer Collier] · 1808 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.75 | $251.02 | ¥40,084)

London, B. Crosby and Co. 1808 . First edition. Leather. A very scarce work presenting the life and achievements of the Bank of England's chief cashier, Abraham Newland, written by John Dyer Collier. The first edition. Very scarce work.Written by successful journalist and r…

From an Old House

Joseph Hergesheimer · 1926 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of Joseph Hergesheimer's record of the history of a Pennsylvania Dutch farmhouse, in the very scarce original dust wrapper. The first trade edition of this work, which was published in a limited…

Longleat 400": An Anniversary During 1980 Commemorating the Completion of Longleat House in 1580. Minutes of the First Meeting.

Marquess of Bath; Lord Christopher Thynne; B. M. Austin; Pam Goodger, et al. · 1978 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,384)

Longleat House, Not Stated, 1978 . Paperback. A very scarce copy of the minutes of the first meeting organising the celebrations intended to commemorate four hundred years since Longleat House was completed. A very scarce copy of the 'minutes of the first meeting concerned …

LES BÉATITUDES

COLOMB,M. · Moby Dick

€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)

Paris n.d., 16 pp., not ill., not a nice book (code B-18)

ROLANDA

TEIRLINCK,H. · 1979 · Moby Dick

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Bucuresti 1979, 272 pp., not ill., not a nice binding (code B-440)