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1911-1915 Simple Journals of an Avid Horseman and Hunter from Baltimore, Listing His Horses and Hunting Seasons

UKNOWN HORSEMAN, HUNTER AND HORSE RACING FAN · 1911 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$599.99 (€544.35 | £454.07 | ¥95,822)

Baltimore Maryland MD. Hardcover. On offer are five diaries dating to the early years of the 20th century written by an avid horseman and hunter. On April 18, 1911 our author gives a brief outline of his personal history, however he does not state his name. We know he was born i…

Memories of a Hostess a Chronicle of Eminent Friendships Drawn Chiefly from the Diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields

HOWE, M. A. DE WOLFE (MARK ANTONY DE WOLFE HOWE) · 1922 · S. Howlett-West Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Boston, MA: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1922. 2nd Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book is in mostly clean bright condition. The spine ends and corners of the book covers have some light bu…

A Memorial Of Ancient Braintree. NIcholas Udall, Vicar. Part I. By The Rev. J. W. Kenworthy, Colchester (Sometime Vicar of Braintree).

KENWORTHY, J. W. [ KENWORTHY, JAMES WRIGHT ] . · 1913 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

[Chelmsford]: Essex Review, 1913 . 0. A scarce original pamphlet. 8.75" x 5.5". Green printed covers, lightly rubbed and sunned. Inscription along the top edge: "Robert, July 22nd, 1913." Clear English text throughout on lightly toned paper. Part I. (with rusted staples) : pp.14…

An English Garner Ingatherings from Our History and Literature

Edward Arber, F.S.A. · 1897 · Rooke Books

£179.99 (€215.78 | $237.83 | ¥37,983)

London , Archibald Constable and Co. 1897. Cloth. An early eight volume set of An English Garner by Edward Arber. Bound in cloth with gilt lettering and decoration. Eight volumes, complete. Edward Arber, 1836 – 1912, was an English academic and writer. From 1854 to 1878 he work…

A Collection of Novels by George Macdonald Fraser

George MacDonald Fraser · 1980 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London, Collins; HarperCollins, 1980-2007. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of four first edition volumes from Scottish author George MacDonald Fraser. Four volumes. First edition. Written by George MacDonald Fraser, a Scottish author and screenwriter best known for a se…

Lawrie Todd; or, the Settlers in the Wood. In Three Volumes

John Galt · 1830 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London , Henry Colburn, 1830. First edition. Leather. A first edition and complete set of Galt's novel about the founding of a New York settlement. First Edition. Complete in three volumes. John Galt (2 May 1779 – 11 April 1839) was a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and p…

Les jardins. Plans et vues dessines par Verdeau et Paul Vera. Vignettes dessinees et gravees par Paul Vera. [One of 27 deluxe copies of the second limitation on better paper, with a separate extra suite of the plates].

[Gardens]. Vera, Andre, Vera, Paul (illustrations). · 1919 · Fahrenheit 451

€325.00 ($358.22 | £271.10 | ¥57,210)

Paris, Emile-Paul Freres, 1919, 143,(17) pag., garden plans and views by Verdeau and Paul Vera, vignettes by Paul Vera, printed in 536 numbered copies on papier chine (27), modern cloth with original front- and backside of dustjacket laid down, folio (.34,8 x 27 cm.). = One of …

Twenty Years in the Himalaya

Bruce, Major The Hon. C. G. · 1910 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$487.60 (€310.06 | $341.76 | £258.64 | ¥54,580)

London Edward Arnold 1st edition pp. xiv, 335. Royal 8vo. Handsomely re-bound with a polished red calf spine over marbled boards. New endpapers. The spine is nicely tooled, with five raised bands. Frontispiece photo of the author (in local costume) is present with tissue guard. …

Litterarische Fantasien en Kritieken

BUSKEN HUET, CONRAD, · 1868 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€103.50 ($114.08 | £86.33 | ¥18,219)

Haarlem, H.D. Tjeenk Willink, [1868-1888], complete set in 25 volumes with separate register, bound in uniform half leather bindings, marbled boards, red edges on all sides, leather corners,titles in gilt on spines, some spines with some damage, first volume with portrait of Bus…

Portrait of Jean Appelman

1672 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€115.00 ($126.75 | £95.93 | ¥20,243)

Mezzotint of Jean Appelman. Jean Appelman was mayor of Amsterdam. His political career began when Stadtholder William III reorganized Amsterdam’s city government in 1672. Appelman was appointed as a Councilor and, a year later, became Schepen (alderman), a position he would hol…

Portrait of Jean Appelman

1672 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€40.25 ($44.36 | £33.57 | ¥7,085)

Engraving of Jean Appelman. Jean Appelman was mayor of Amsterdam. His political career began when Stadtholder William III reorganized Amsterdam’s city government in 1672. Appelman was appointed as a Councilor and, a year later, became Schepen (alderman), a position he would hol…

Speidel nicht erwunscht.

1897 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€34.50 ($38.03 | £28.78 | ¥6,073)

Small one side printed leaflet 7,5x10cm, in protest against the appointment of General Hans Speidel as . Hans Speidel (28 October 1897 - 28 November 1984) was a German general, who was one of the major military leaders of West Germany during the early Cold War. The first full Ge…

(Raul) [Marroquin Roman] Marroquin Font. SIGNED COPY

Marroquin, Raul (Bogota, 1948). · 1991 · Antiquariaat Berger & De Vries

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

Rotterdam Zeger Reyers/Reijers' Multiples Cardboard box with letterpress-title 'Marroquin Font' on lid, 31,5 x 21,5 x 3,1 cms., containing a colophon leaf, signed, numbered from an edition of 20 and dated '1991' in pencil + unnumbered (60) acetate sheets showing silkscreen compu…

De theologia libri quinque, nuper è Graeco sermone in Latinu, à Petro Mosellano protegense traducti.(Colophon: Basel, Johann Froben, 1523). Folio. With a woodcut printer's device on the title page and final leaf, and 12 fine historiated woodcut initials. Later blind-tooled calf.

GREGORY, Saint, of Nazianzus and Petrus MOSELLANUS (translator). · 1519 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[46] ll.Third edition of Petrus Mosellanus's Latin translation of Gregory of Nazianzus's (ca. 329-390) five theological orations, first published in Leipzig in 1519. These sermons, delivered at Constantinople in 380, rank among Gregory's most important works and earned him the t…

Engravings by Leo Wyatt. First Edition of the Rare Large Format Suite. Edition of 75. Signed

Wyatt, Leo (1909-1981 · 1960 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,750.00 (€1,587.72 | £1,324.39 | ¥279,486)

[New Castle on Tyne : Leo Wyatt, circa 1960s-1970s]. Portfolio of 4 wood-engravings. One of 75 signed and numbered impressions, likely on Barcham Green paper. One with watermark of a B with dash. 33.2 x 26 cm...13 x 10.25 inches. (There is a more common smaller format edition). …

Saul Steinberg Derrière le Miroir No. 53-54 - Mars-Avril 1953. First Edition with the Original Lithographs

Steinberg, Saul (1914-1999) · 1953 · Wittenborn Art Books

$450.00 (€408.27 | £340.56 | ¥71,868)

Paris: Maeght Éditeur, 1953. Original; wraps. 38.1x28.1 cm (15x11"). With 22 lithographs (16 in color), of which 4 are double-page spreads, including covers. Note that since at least 1981 Maeght has been selling a facsimile (Réédition) of the original... It can be identified by …

James Roosevelt at the Paris Screening of Les Hauts de Hurlevent - Wuthering Heights in 1939. Original Photograph

Photo Henri Manuel Paris.; James Roosevelt II(December 23, 1907 - August 13, 1991 ) · 1939 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

Paris: May 3, 1939. Silver print. French text on verso. Photographer's stamp verso. 18 x 13 cm..................... James Roosevelt film les hauts de Hurlevent wuthering heights" was the 1939 film adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel Wuthering Heights. The French title "Les Hauts …

Stephen Somerstein: Marching for Freedom: Selma to Montgomery, 1965. Exhibition Poster

Somerstein, Stephen (born 1941) · 2003 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

San Francisco: Modernism, 2003. Poster. 81x 451cm. "Photographs of Stephen Somerstein, documenting the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March in March 1965. Somerstein was a student in City College of New York's night school and Picture Editor of his student newspaper when he tr…

Rue Baltard, Paris... Décollages. 1959-2000. Jacques Villeglé Exhibition Poster

Villeglé, Jacques (Iborn 1926) · 2003 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,200.00 (€1,088.72 | £908.15 | ¥191,647)

San Francisco: Modernism, 2003. Poster. 81 x 49cm.. For over seventy years, Jacques Villeglé's work has played an important role in redefining what constitutes a work of art. He is an artist who was instrumental in bringing the streetscape into the space of the exhibition..La ru…

Letter from Maurice Donnay to Vincent to Jacques Des Roches, (Pseudonym of Jean-Gabriel Vacheron)

Donnay, Maurice (1854*-1945)), writer and Jacques Des Roches, (pseudonym of Jean-Gabriel Vacheron, 1897-1936), recipient · 1939 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

Paris: 1939. Als. one page regarding a planned meeting.. The following biography was originally published in The Continental Drama of Today. Barrett H. Clark. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1914. p. 145.. Maurice Donnay was born in 1854 at Paris, of a well-to-do middle-class …