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The Wood Engravings of John Farleigh. With a Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.

POOLE Monica · 1985 · Island Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Gresham Books, [Henley-on-Thames, 1985]. Folio, First Edition, with an engraved frontispiece in red and black, and very numerous fine engravings (a number full-page and many in red and black) in the text; blind-blocked cloth, gilt back, a fine copy in the dustwrapper. Collects o…

The Sing of the Shore.

WOOD, Lucy · 2018 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€14.00 ($15.43 | £11.68 | ¥2,464)

4th Estate 2018, 229pp. Hardcover, with dust jacket. In very good condition. "An uncanny, startlingly beautiful story collection steeped in the Cornish landscape, from the award-winning author of Diving Belles and Other Stories and Weathering. At the very edge of England, where …

YOUNG CAPTAIN TOM DRAKE; or, In Search of the Pirate's Home. The Five Cent Wide Awake Library. No. 878. Vol. 1

[Maritime Fiction]. By the Author of "Captain Tom Drake," "Privateer Tom," "Young Tom Drake," etc., etc. [Emmet, H. C.] · 1889 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$54.45 (€49.40 | £41.21 | ¥8,695)

New York: Frank Tousey, Publisher. 34 & 36 North Moore Street, 1889. Later printing, with rear cover series advert listing through # 944. Printed paper wrappers. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. 15, [1] pp. Front cover with large wood engraving of a pirate at a desk,…

Studying New Zealand History

G. A. Wood · 1992 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,543)

University of Otago Press 1992 Paperback, 164pp. Who made Lane's Emulsion? Where should we look to find out? No matter how obscure your question, if it's about a New Zealand topic, there's a new book to help you find the answers. Studying New Zealand by Dr G.A. Wood is an invalu…

Thyme and Bergamot

Chritsopher Sandeman · 1947 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, The Dropmore Press, 1947. First edition. Cloth. A charming Limited Edition first person account of the pleasures of a travelling botanist, illustrated throughout with the engravings of John O'Connor. A limited edition work printed on handmade paper, this is no. 159 …

FIRST READER Compiled under the Direction of the State Board of Education. California State Series of School Text-Books.

Kinne, H. C. [Henry Clay 1830- ?] · 1886 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$22.00 (€19.96 | £16.65 | ¥3,513)

Sacramento CA: Printed at the State Printing Office, 1886. Original brown cloth binding stamped in black. 128 pp. Illustrated with wood cuts. 12mo. 7-5/8" x 5" An uncommon item: at the time of cataloguing, only one institutional copy (UC Berkeley) found in an OCLC search. VG+ (p…

America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s

Barter, Judith A. · 2016 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago, 2016. hardcover. Navy blue boards with white lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket. 204 pp. Color and BW illustrations. This book hightlights 50 American painting master works to illustrate the conditions of the 1930s. Through 50 masterpiece…

Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in the Japan,

Robert Jarman · 2009 · The Book Merchant Jenkins, ANZAAB / ILAB

A$687.50 (€422.60 | $465.78 | £352.56 | ¥74,379)

Edition Renard Melbourne Special Edition Fine Condition 23cm x 15cm. xii, vi, 318 pages, portrait frontispiece. Full leather, gilt lettering, slipcase. employed in the Sperm Whale Fishery, under the Command of Capt. John May. First published at Beccles and London in 1838. Edited…

Journal of a Voyage to the South Seas, in the Japan,

Robert Jarman · 2009 · The Book Merchant Jenkins, ANZAAB / ILAB

A$302.50 (€185.94 | $204.94 | £155.13 | ¥32,727)

Edition Renard Melbourne Deluxe Edition Fine Condition 23cm x 15cm. xii, vi, 318 pages, portrait frontispiece. Quarter leather, black lettering. employed in the Sperm Whale Fishery, under the Command of Capt. John May. First published at Beccles and London in 1838. Edited, with …

A COMPENDIUM Of DOMESTIC POSTAGE And POSTAL LITERATURE

[Postal History]. Patterson, John H. - Editor United States Mail · 1886 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$82.50 (€74.85 | £62.45 | ¥13,174)

Chicago: United States Mail Publishing Co, (n. d.). Ca 1886. Printed grey wrappers. Rear wrapper with facsimile letter lauding this Compendium. Booklet now housed in an archival mylar sleeve. 32 pp. Frontis of Patterson & illustrated (primarily with wood cuts), 8vo. 7-5/8" x 4-7…

Worlds of Tomorrow: June 1963 ("Dolphin Island")

WORLDS OF TOMORROW (KEITH LAUMER; MACK REYNOLDS; C. C. MACAPP; JOHN BRUNNER; DAMON KNIGHT; L. J. STECHER, JR.; ARTHUR C. CLARKE; R. C. W. ETTINGER) · 1963 · Books from the crypt

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

NY, Galaxy. 1963. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 1, No. 2. Edited by Frederik Pohl. Cover art is uncredited for "A Guest of Ganymede" (novelette) by C. C. MacApp. Includes "The Star-Sent Knaves" (novelette) by Keith Laumer; "Spaceman on a Spree" (novelette) by Mack Reynolds; "T…

Worlds of Tomorrow: June 1963 ("Dolphin Island")

WORLDS OF TOMORROW (KEITH LAUMER; MACK REYNOLDS; C. C. MACAPP; JOHN BRUNNER; DAMON KNIGHT; L. J. STECHER, JR.; ARTHUR C. CLARKE; R. C. W. ETTINGER) · 1963 · Books from the crypt

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Galaxy. 1963. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 1, No. 2. Edited by Frederik Pohl. Cover art is uncredited for "A Guest of Ganymede" (novelette) by C. C. MacApp. Includes "The Star-Sent Knaves" (novelette) by Keith Laumer; "Spaceman on a Spree" (novelette) by Mack Reynolds; "T…

Worlds of Tomorrow: June 1963 ("Dolphin Island")

WORLDS OF TOMORROW (KEITH LAUMER; MACK REYNOLDS; C. C. MACAPP; JOHN BRUNNER; DAMON KNIGHT; L. J. STECHER, JR.; ARTHUR C. CLARKE; R. C. W. ETTINGER) · 1963 · Books from the crypt

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

NY, Galaxy. 1963. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. 1, No. 2. Edited by Frederik Pohl. Cover art is uncredited for "A Guest of Ganymede" (novelette) by C. C. MacApp. Includes "The Star-Sent Knaves" (novelette) by Keith Laumer; "Spaceman on a Spree" (novelette) by Mack Reynolds; "T…

The Changing Status of the Artist

Barker, Emma · 1999 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1999. Hardcover. Navy boards with gilt spine lettering. Glossy color illustrated dust jacket with black lettering. 260 pp. Color and BW illustrations. Contents as follows: "Little desire for glory" : the case of Ambrogio and Pietro Lo…

A History of British Birds, with coloured Illustrations of their Eggs. Vol. I-III + Plates

Seebohm, Henry · 1883 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

R.H. Porter, for the author London xxiii, 614; xxxiii, 600; xxiv, 684; [ii], 18, 68 col plates, wood engravings to text. . HB. 4 vols, roy. 8vo, orig. brown half morocco by R.H. Porter, raised bands and gilt titles to spines, marbled boards, top edges gilt. Minor rubbing/scuffin…

Art Deco 1910-1939

Benton, Charlotte: Tim Benton and Ghislaine Wood · 2003 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

London, V&A Publications, 2003. Hardcover. Black cloth, gilt letters on spine, gray & photographic dust jacket, 464 pp. many BW & color illustrations throughout. Issued in conjunction with an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Features 40 illustrated essays …

[Three Tours of Doctor Syntax, the]

ROWLANDSON, Thomas; COMBE, William · 1812 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$3,500.00 (€3,175.52 | £2,649.23 | ¥558,905)

London: Pub..at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1812. The Three Tours of Doctor Syntax [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]. [COMBE, William]. The Tour of Doctor Syntax, in Search of the Picturesque. A Poem. London: Pub..at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 1812. First edition,…

Archaeology of Colour. Technical Art History Studies in Greek and Roman Painting and Polychromy

Hariclia Brecoulaki (ed) · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€132.08 ($145.58 | £110.19 | ¥23,247)

, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 450 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9789603710899. Summary Ancient polychromy speaks a language of ?the visible? and ?the invisible?, through signs of pigments, brushstrokes and forms. Another reminder of our classical past, colour i…

The Little Grey Men: A Story for the Young in Heart

"BB" [Denys Watkins-Pitchford], 1905-1990 (Illust.) · 1942 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$74.00 (€67.14 | £56.01 | ¥11,817)

London Eyre and Spottiswoode (Publishers Ltd.) First Edition, First Printing pp. 201, + [one leaf of a musical score and poem]. Slim 8vo., measuring 5.75" x 8.5". Lovely illustrated wood-block frontispiece. Adorned with many additional in-text and full-page wood-block illustrati…

A History of British Birds, with coloured Illustrations of their Eggs. Vol. I-III + Plates

Seebohm, Henry · 1896 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£160.00 (€191.79 | $211.38 | ¥33,755)

John C. Nimmo; R.H. Porter, for the author London xxiii, [1], 614; xxxiii, [1], 600; xxiv, 684; 18, 68 col plates, wood engravings to text. . HB. 4 vols, roy. 8vo, mixed bindings: Vol. I-III: orig. cloth, lightly rubbed, gilt title to spines; page edges uncut, spotting/foxing th…