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A philosopher meditating [Heraclitus]

Baillie, William (1723-1810) after Borch, Gerard ter (1617-1681) · 0 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€172.50 ($190.59 | £144.09 | ¥30,469)

A man sitting by a table, leaning against the table top, with right hand on an opened book. A globe more to the background. Titled below: 'Engraved chiefly by memory from a picture of Terburgh' Signed on the bottom right: 'WBaillie...' with WB intertwined. l Mezzotint on laid p…

All her Glories Past, The Zetland Lifeboat

David Phillipson · 1994 · www.nautiek.nl

€16.50 ($18.23 | £13.78 | ¥2,914)

1994 UK, softcover 125 pages, illustrated.  The Zetland Lifeboat traces the two-century story of Redcar?s Zetland, widely regarded as the world?s oldest surviving lifeboat, highlighting her heroic rescues, community guardianship, and eventual preservation as a maritime icon. The…

Poèmes

Lucien DUBECH · 1928 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€120.00 ($132.58 | £100.23 | ¥21,196)

A la Cité des Livres | Paris 1928 | 15 x 21.50 cm | broché | Edition originale, un des 5 exemplaires numérotés sur japon, tirage de tête. Bel exemplaire à toutes marges malgré deux petites traces d'insolation en tête et en pied du dos. Envoi autographe signé de Lucien Dubech à l…

John Prebble's Scotland

JOHN PREBBLE · 1984 · Godley Books

£6.00 (€7.18 | $7.94 | ¥1,269)

London, Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd. 1984, First Edition. (ISBN: 0436386348) Soft Cover, 9.5 x 6.5 inches. No marks or inscriptions. A very clean very tight copy with bright unmarked unusual white card boards and no bumping to corners. Dust jacket not price clipped or marked or …

Caroline Dukes: Concealed Memories

Dukes, Caroline; Elizabeth Legge; Mary Reid; Jill Brooks; Alfred Dukes; Bev Pike; Eva Stubbs, et al. · 2008 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$39.00 (€35.30 | £29.48 | ¥6,235)

Winnipeg, Manitoba The Winnipeg Art Gallery First Edition pp. 63. Oblong Slim 8vo. Pictorial covers. Richly illustrated with many black-and-white and colour photographs, illustrations, etc. Appears unread; as new. "Caroline Dukes created a remarkable body of work that dealt with…

Winter Sea : War, Journeys, Writers

ROSS, ALAN · 1997 · Kalamos Books

$35.00 (€31.68 | £26.46 | ¥5,595)

London, Collins Harvill. 1997, First Edition. (ISBN: 1860464319) Hardcover. Book, "Part travel book, part memoir (and with a selection of his poems) a pilgrimage to places engraved in the twentieth century's history of conflict and upheaval and a meditation on how momentous even…

Panorama de la littérature contemporaine aux Etats-Unis

John Lackey BROWN · 1954 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€150.00 ($165.73 | £125.29 | ¥26,495)

Gallimard | Paris 1954 | 14 x 19.50 cm | broché | Edition originale comportant une fausse mention de 7ème édition, un des exemplaires du service de presse. Quelques petites traces de frottements sans gravité. Hommage autographe signé, en français, de John Lackey Brown sur un bri…

Two Slices Of Bread

Ingrid Coles · 2018 · Book Haven

NZ$22.00 (€11.03 | $12.19 | £9.22 | ¥1,949)

Wild Side Publishing 2018 Paperback, 296pp. ""Interned In A Japanese Concentration Camp, Evacuated To The Netherlands, Then Finding Peace At Last At The Bottom Of The World". As a young child in Holland, Ingrid's uncle offered her another slice of bread. "Two slices of bread?" s…

Hoffmann von Fallersleben auf Helgoland.

KIEFER,ANSELM. · 1980 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€250.00 ($276.22 | £208.82 | ¥44,158)

Groningen, Groninger Museum, 1980. [80] unnumbered pages with b./w. photographs. H.cloth. 4to. - Min. shelfwear & very sl. soiled.An artist's book by the German visual artist Anselm Kiefer, published by the Groninger Museum in 1980 in a limited edition of 500 copies. The work re…

An anatomy of thought. The origin and machinery of the mind

Glynn, Ian · 1999 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€18.00 ($19.89 | £15.04 | ¥3,179)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 456 pages. Text in English. As new. Drawing on a dazzlingly wide array of disciplines--physiology, neurology, psychology, anthropology, linguistics, and philosophy--Ian Glynn explains virtually every aspect of the workings…

The Unreal America. Architecture and Illusion.

Ada Louise Huxtable. · 1999 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€12.50 ($13.81 | £10.44 | ¥2,208)

New York The New Press 1999 Softcover, 188pp., 20.5x25.5cm., richly illustr. in b/w., in very good condition (covers with light traces of use). ISBN 9781565844278. In The Unreal America, the distinguished American architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable examines the growing Am…

The Grass Catcher: a Digression About Home

Ian Wedde · 2014 · Book Haven

NZ$25.50 (€12.79 | $14.13 | £10.68 | ¥2,259)

Victoria University Press 2014 Hardback. From early childhood in postwar Blenheim to the remote regions of Bangladesh, from an English boarding school to 1960s Auckland, and from Jordan during the civil war of 1969-70 to family homes full of children, this dazzling book traces t…

The Lake of Dreams

Kim Edwards · 2011 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.48 | £5.66 | ¥1,196)

Viking 2011 Paperback 384 At a crossroads in her life, Lucy Jarrett returns home to upstate New York from Japan, only to find herself haunted by her father's unresolved death a decade ago. &Old longings stirred up by Keegan Fall, a local glass artist who was once her passionate …

Zoologische Forschungsreisen in Australien und den Malayischen Archipel. Mit Unterstützung des Herrn Dr. Paul von Ritter ausgeführt in den Jahren 1891-1893 von Richard Semon. Zweiter Band: Monotremen und Marsupialier. Mit 39 lithographischen Tafeln und 86 Abbildungen im Text.

Semon, R. [W.] (ed.) · 1894 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€650.00 ($718.16 | £542.93 | ¥114,812)

Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1894-1897. Two parts in two [text and atlas]. Large 4to and folio (both 35.6 x 27.6 cm). 433 pp.; 39 lithographed plates, of which many tinted or in chromolithography, and all with explanatory text leaves; 86 text engravings. Uniform printed wrappers. = The…

Old Bohemian and Moravian Jewish Cemeteries.

Petr Ehl, Arno Parik, Jiri Fiedler, Greta Sylvia Matouskova (transl.). · 1991 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€9.50 ($10.50 | £7.94 | ¥1,678)

Prague Paseka 1991 Bound, cloth with original dustjacket, 172pp., 23,5x27,5cm., richly illustr. in b/w., in good condition (dustljacket with light traces of use, edges of binding a bit foxing, inside very good). ISBN 9788085192124. This photographic and historical publication d…

Die letzte Reise. Sterben, Tod und Trauersitten in Oberbayern.

Sigrid Metken. · 1984 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€12.00 ($13.26 | £10.02 | ¥2,120)

München Hugendubel 1984 Bound, 388pp., 22,5x24cm., richly illustr. in col. and b/w., in good condition (binding with some traces of use, corners slightly bumped, inside in very good condition) . ISBN 9783880342477. This exhibition catalogue, edited by Sigrid Metken, presents a …

Africa: The Art of a Continent.

Phillips, Tom · 1999 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€29.50 ($32.59 | £24.64 | ¥5,211)

Munchen-London-New York Prestel 1999 Softcover, 615pp., 25x30cm., richly illustr. in col., in good condition (covers and spine with light traces of use, interior very good). ISBN 9783791320045. Ranging from the oldest known human artifact, circa 1.6 million BC, to pieces made w…

A History of Modern Israel.

Shindler, Colin · 2008 · Antiquariaat Spinoza

€27.25 ($30.11 | £22.76 | ¥4,813)

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2008. XXVIII, 371 pp. Very good copy. Clean, no name, underlinings, stamps or any other markings. Paperback. The state of Israel came into existence in 1948. Colin Shindler's book traces Israel's history across sixty years, from its optimi…

Small Memories

Jose Saramago · 2009 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.59 | £6.49 | ¥1,373)

Harvill Secker 2009 Hardback, 180pp. 'Let yourself be led by the child you were' - The Book of Exhortations. Born in Portugal in 1922 in the tiny village of Azinhaga, Jose Saramago was only eighteen months old when he moved with his father and mother to live in a series of cramp…

Saure Wochen, frohe Feste. Fest und Alltag in der Sprache der Bräuche.

Ingeborg Weber-Kellermann. · 1985 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€12.00 ($13.26 | £10.02 | ¥2,120)

München / Luzern, Bucher, 1985 Bound, cloth with original dustjacket, 239pp., 22x27,5cm., richly illustr. in col. and b/w., in good condition (dustjacket and binding with some traces of use, dustjacket somewhat discolorated, inside book in very good condition). ISBN 9783765804…