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A VOYAGE TO THE SOUTH SEAS UNDERTAKEN BY COMMAND OF HIS MAJESTY FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONVEYING THE BREAD-FRUIT TREE TO THE WEST INDIES IN HIS MAJESTY'S SHIP BOUNTY COMMANDED BY LIEUTENANT WILLIAM BLIGH INCLUDING AN ACCOUNT OF THE MUTINY ON BOARD THE SAID SHIP AND THE SUBSEQUENT VOYAGE OF PART OF THE CREW IN THE SHIP'S BOAT FROM TOFAO, ONE OF THE FRIENDLY ISLANDS, TO TIMOR, A DUTCH SETTLEMENT IN THE EAST INDIES

BLIGH, Capt. William · 1975 · Charles Agvent

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.61 | ¥19,955)

Adelaide, South Australia. Limited Editions Club. Tall folio (9-5/8" x 14") bound in full tan homespun linen with the covers printed in terra cotta with nautical silhouettes by Geoffrey Ingleton; 176 pages. Printed at the Griffin Press; introduction by Alan Villiers. One of 2000…

TALES OF THE SOUTH PACIFIC

MICHENER, James · 1947 · Charles Agvent

$2,500.00 (€2,268.19 | £1,892.30 | ¥399,091)

New York. The Macmillan Company. First Edition. Michener's first book and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. This copy with a very early INSCRIPTION dated 27 May 1947 SIGNED by the author: "Dear Jim,/The first serious writing I/did came your way. This one/had a better fortune, thanks…

DongDaSong and DaSeen Jeon

CHO-UI SEONSA [CHOYEE] (1786-1866) · 2009 · Kalamos Books

$350.00 (€317.55 | £264.92 | ¥55,873)

Seoul, Korea, DamWonGallery. 2009, First Thus. Boxed Set. Ill.: Damwon Kim Chang-bae. Book, Boxed set of two volumes describing and illustrating aspects of Traditonal Korean Tea Ceremonies . [1] Cho Ui's book Dongdasong (Praise for Eastern Tea) is written in verse - in 17 Cantos…

The Glory of Hera : Greek Mythology and the Greek Family

SLATER, PHILIP E. · 1992 · Kalamos Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press. 1992, 1st Pbk Ed.. (ISBN: 0691002223) Soft cover. Book, The ancient Athenians were "quarrelsome as friends, treacherous as neighbors, brutal as masters, faithless as servants, shallow as lovers--all of which was in part redeemed by thei…

The Peloponnesian War

KAGAN, DONALD · 2003 · Kalamos Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,184)

New York, Viking. 2003, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0670032115) Hardcover. Book, For almost three decades at the end of the fifth century B.C. Athens and Sparta fought a war that changed the Greek world and its civilization forever. A conflict unprecedented in its brutality, the Pelo…

Greece, the Hidden Centuries: Turkish Rule from the Fall of Constantinople to Greek Independence

BREWER, DAVID · 2010 · Kalamos Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,982)

London, I.B. Tauris. 2010, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 9781848850477) Hardcover. Book, For almost four hundred years, between the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the Greek War of Independence, the history of Greece is shrouded in mystery: distorted by Greek writers and largely neg…

A House in Sicily

PHELPS, DAPHNE · 1999 · Kalamos Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Carroll & Graf. 1999. (ISBN: 0786706562) Soft cover. Book, 'Forword by Denis Mack Smith "Near Mount Etna in Sicily lies Casa Cuseni, a beautiful house built in golden stone - and the home which Daphne Phelps was astonished to find she had inherited in 1947. At the age …

The Road to Delphi: Scenes from the History of Oracles

WOOD, MICHAEL · 2003 · Kalamos Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,789)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2003, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0374526109) Hardcover. Book, For thousands of years, and in many different cultures, cities, and states, individuals have consulted oracles in time of need. In this fascinating exploration of the history and endur…

Twelve Days of Christmas: A Christmas Novel

MACOMBER, DEBBIE · 2017 · Kalamos Books

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,596)

New Yok, Ballantine Books. 2017, First Pbk.Ed. (ISBN: 0553391755) Pbk. Book, Friendly and bubbly, Julia Padden likes nearly everyone, but her standoffish neighbor, Cain Maddox, presents a particular challenge. No matter how hard she's tried to be nice, Cain rudely rebuffs her at…

Schulz pod kluczem = Schulz under lock and key

BUDZYN?SKI, WIESLAW · 2001 · Kalamos Books

$55.00 (€49.90 | £41.63 | ¥8,780)

Warsaw, Grupa Wydawnicza Bertelsmann Media. 2001, 1st Polish Edition. (ISBN: 9788372275936) Hardcover. Book, Perfectly documented, enriched compared to the previous edition from 2001, a unique, revealing biography of Bruno Schulz. It presents the fate of an artist who was forgot…

The Drama of Quality : Selected Essays

LORENZATOS,ZISSIMOS · 2000 · Kalamos Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,385)

Limni,Evvia,Greece, Denise Harvey. 2000, First Thus. (ISBN: 9607120159) Hardcover. Ill.: Trans. By Liadain Sherrard. Book, (New - will be sent to you direct from the publisher in Greece) Zissimos Lorenzatos (1915-2004) was considered to be the most important man of letters of hi…

Meander: East to West Along a Turkish River

SEAL, JEREMY · 2012 · Kalamos Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,587)

London, Chatto & Windus. 2012, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0701183470) Hardcover. Book, The course of the Meander is so famously indirect that the river's name has come to signify digression - an invitation Jeremy Seal is duty-bound to accept while travelling the length of it in a on…

The Soul Slayer

DOHERTY, PAUL · 1998 · Kalamos Books

$7.00 (€6.35 | £5.30 | ¥1,117)

London, Headline. 1998, 1st Pbk Edition. (ISBN: 0747258724) Pbk. Book, Soul Slayer: from medieval lore and legend, if a magician can take out the heart of his victim before death, and the victim does not die in a state of grace, the warlock can call upon that soul to do his bidd…

Lords of the Horizons ; a History of The Ottoman Empire

GOODWIN, JASON · 1998 · Kalamos Books

$12.50 (€11.34 | £9.46 | ¥1,995)

London, Vintage. 1998, 1st.US Edition. (ISBN: 0099994003) Trade Paperback. Book, "Since the Turks first shattered the glory of the French crusaders in 1396, the Ottoman Empire has exerted a long, strong pull on Western minds. For six hundred years, the Empire swelled and decline…

Blond's Roman Emperors

BLOND, ANTHONY · 1995 · Kalamos Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,991)

London, Quartet Books. 1995, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0704370026) Hardcover. Book, "Anthony Blond pens portraits of the Emperors of Ancient Rome that are revealing and, at times, hilarious. Julius Caesar, founder of the dynasty, shows up as an arrogant charmer and a swank; Augustu…

Okimono: Japanese Porcelain Figures from the Edo Period

Jorge Welsh (ed.); and Jörg, Professor Christiaan (introductory article) · 2022 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,393)

Book New No Jacket 1st Edition Jorge Welsh Research and Publishing English text.; Hardcover.; 23.5 x 29.7 cm.; 1.9 Kg.; 256 pages with 229 colour and 4 black & white illustrations.; Limited edition of 400 copies.; Exhibition catalogue dedicated to the theme of Japanese porcelain…

The Traditional Crafts of Porcelain Making in Jingdezhen

Ming, Bai · 2002 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,038)

Book Good Dust Jacket Included Jangxi Fine Arts Publishing House Chinese and English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 16 x 23.5 cm.; 1 kg.; 278 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear. The dust jacket is worn, shows edge wear, and has tears on the front cov…

Jan Menze van Diepen Stichting: A Selection from the Collection of Oriental Ceramics

Jorg, Christiaan J.A. · 2002 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,918)

Book Very Good No Jacket Signed by Author(s) 1st Edition Jan Menze van Diepen Stichting English and Dutch text; Paperback.; 22.5 x 30 cm; 1.1 Kg; 214 pages with colour illustrations throughout.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior, namely some scuffs and scratches on the fro…

THE RELIQUARY; A Depository of Precious Relics-Legendary Biographical and Historical. Illustrative of the Habits, Customs and Pursuits, of Our Forefathers.

Jewitt, Llewellynn. (Editor). · 1860 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,472)

London: John Russelll Smith ... 1860-71. 12 vols. bound in 6. [only, see note]. 288 plates [only of 296 listed] including 9 colour and some folding, numerous ills. Volume 10 without list of ills., upper wrapps bound in, the earlier issues with pencil signature of Miss Parker or …

TRAVELS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES OF THE EAST; More Particularly Persia. A work wherein the author has described, as far as his own observations extended, the state of those countries in 1810, 1811, and 1812; and has endeavoured to illustrate many subjects of antiquarian research, history, geography, philology and miscellaneous literature, with extracts from rare and valuable oriental manuscripts.

Ouseley, Sir William. · 1819 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£1,200.00 (€1,438.37 | $1,585.38 | ¥253,084)

London: Printed by Rodwell and Martin ... 1819. 1st Ed. 3 vols. 4to. 3 folding maps (1 silked to verso) [only of 4], 73 plates including 18 folding [only of 82]. 1 folding plate with loss to fold and repaired to verso, Vol 2 with pp.251-4 with loss to edges silked and sm. hole t…