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Leyendas y Narraciones Japonesas. [A Collection of Japanese Fairy Tales in Spanish]. Ten volumes. Tokyo, Hasegawa, Taisho 3 (1914).

GONZALO JIMÉNEZ DE LA ESPADA (Transl.) / HASEGAWA,TAKEJIRÕ (Ed.): · 1853 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€4,800.00 ($5,290.56 | £4,004.52 | ¥844,565)

A remarkably well-preserved crêpe paper book collection of Japanese fairy tales translated into Spanish. Hasegawa published two Spanish sets each of ten volumes. This set titled "Leyendas y Narraciones Japonesas" contains following works: 1. La Boda De los Ratones; 2. La Sierpe …

The Parrot's Training. (Translated by the author from its original Bengali). Calcutta and Simla, Thacker & Spink & Co., 1918.

TAGORE, RABINDRANATH: · 1861 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€4,500.00 ($4,959.90 | £3,754.24 | ¥791,780)

4to. Pp. (12). With eight full-page plates drawn by Abanindranath Tagore (nephew of Rabindranath Tagore). Some staining. Original pictorial paper wrappers designed by Nanda Lal Bose, one of Tagore's most famous pupils. Rare first English edition. The Bengali original "Tota Kahin…

Five Months on the Yang-tsze; with a Narrative of the Exploration of its Upper Waters, and Notices of the Present Rebellions in China. London, J. Murray, 1862.

BLAKISTON, THOMAS WRIGHT: · 1832 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€1,000.00 ($1,102.20 | £834.28 | ¥175,951)

Pp. xiv, (ii), 380. With frontispiece, fifteen wood-engraved plates, two folding maps, seven text illustrations and a page from the author's field book. Occasionally some staining. Publisher's gilt cloth, somewhat faded and extremities lightly rubbed. Bookplate.First edition o…

Voyage de M. de Lesseps au Kamtschatka, en quittant M. de la Pérouse. (Abrégé de l'histoire générale des voyages. Tomes 24-25). Two volumes. Paris, Bossange & Co., 1791.

LESSEPS, JEAN BAPTISTE BARTHÉLÉMY BARON DE: · 1790 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€1,500.00 ($1,653.30 | £1,251.41 | ¥263,927)

Pp. (vi), viii, 280; (iv), 380, vi, (1). With two folding engraved maps and one engraved plate by Choffard (with small tear). Contemporary calf, spines with five raised bands, richly decorated in gilt and with title labels, lighlty rubbed, small repair (expertly) to one rear cov…

Die Farbstoffe mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Anwendung in der Färberei und Druckerei. Two volumes. Berlin, Robert Oppenheim, 1868-70.

SCHÜTZENBERGER, PAUL: · 1866 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.14 | ¥87,976)

Pp. (vi), 544 + one folding engraved plate, 12 woodcuts and 10 plates with 40 mounted textile samples; pp. (ii), 624 + 26 woodcuts, 10 plates with 38 mounted textile samples and one additional plate with one sample (no. 41 belonging to volume one). Complete but both titles misbo…

The illuminations

Andrew O'Hagan · 2012 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Faber & Faber 2012 Paperback. How much do we keep from the people we love? Why is the truth so often buried in secrets? Can we learn from the past or must we forget it? The Illuminations, Andrew O'Hagan's fifth work of fiction, is a powerful, nuanced and deeply affecting novel a…

The Greek Experiment. Imperialism and Social conflict 800-400 BC.

LITTMAN, R.J., · 1974 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€14.50 ($15.98 | £12.10 | ¥2,551)

Thames and Hudson, London, n.d.(>1974). 180p. ills. Cloth wrps. Series: Library of European Civilization. Until recently the tendency of historians to dwell on the cultural achievements of ancient Greece has obscured other aspects of the Greek experience. Most importantly, the …

Terug naar de Klassieken. Uit het Engels vertaald door G. Lammers.

DENBY, D., · 1997 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Forum, Amsterdam, 1997. 522p. Paperback. Spine with slight reading trace. ‘Great Books, with its quixotic and somewhat cumbersome subtitle, ‘My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf, and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World’, intimates that Denny will offer both a…

On the Cultures of Exile, Translation, and Writing.

BARTOLONI, P., · 2008 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,158)

Purdue University Press, West Lafayette, 2008. VIII,166p. Paperback. Series: Comparative Cultural Studies. ‘Paolo Bartolini links translation to time, exile, and writing, presenting them as ‘modes and categories of being’ in the framework of a critical discussion of Western met…

Latin Book One.

SCOTT, H.F., and A. HORN, · 1942 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,158)

Scott, Foresman and company, Chicago (...), n.d.(>1942). (Revision of 'First Latin Lessons, revised ed., 1928). 448p. ills.(B&W as well as full colour pictures). Pictorial cloth bound. Pictorial endpapers. Name and date on free endpapers. Blind tooling name stamp on title page. …

Liber in partibus Donati. Cura et studio B. Löfstedt, L. Holtz, A. Kibre.

SMARAGDUS, · 1986 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.74 | ¥14,076)

Brepols, Turnhout, 1986. LXXXVI,313p. Original gilt stamped orange cloth. Upper edge publisher's stained. Cover a little bit scratched. Small stain to paste-down endpaper as well as free endpaper. Series: Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, LXVIII. 'Smaragdus belongs,…

Coins and their Cities. Architecture on the ancient coins of Greece, Rome, and Palastine.

JESSOP PRICE, M., and B.L. TRELL, · 1977 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€115.00 ($126.75 | £95.94 | ¥20,234)

Friary Press, Dorchester / London, 1977. 298p. Richly ills.(B&W as well as full colour photographs). Hard bound with dust wrps. 'At the end of this book is a full list cataloguing representations of buildings on coins of the ancient world, omitting only the city of Rome 'becaus…

Staying Roman. Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700.

CONANT, J., · 2015 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€31.50 ($34.72 | £26.28 | ¥5,542)

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (...), 2015. 1st paperback edition. XVIII,438p. Paperback. 'Concentrating on the question of identity, on what it meant to be 'Roman' in different contexts in North Africa between the 4th and 7th centuries, Jonathan Conant's book has a uniq…

Aspects of Greek Medicine.

PHILLIPS, E.D., · 1987 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€37.50 ($41.33 | £31.29 | ¥6,598)

Charles Press, Philadelphia / Croom Helm, London (...), 1987. Reprint ed.1973. 240p. ills.(B&W photographs). Cloth wrps. Wrps with small tear, repaired with acid adhesive tape at the inside. Gift intention on free endpapers. Else fine. ‘Greek medicine’ is a welcome addition to…

The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World. Responses to Greek and Roman Dance.

MACINTOSH, Fiona, (ed.), · 2012 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,196)

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012. 532p. ills. Paperback. When the eighteenth-century choreographer Jean-Georges Noverre sought to develop what is now known as modern ballet, he turned to ancient pantomime as his source of inspiration; and when Isadora Duncan and her contem…

Dancing in Chains: The Stylistic Unity of the Comoedia Palliata.

WRIGHT, J., · 1974 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,956)

American Academy in Rome, Rome, 1974. XIII,230p. Cloth wrps. With author’s dedication on free endpaper. Series: Papers and Monographs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol. XXV. (Rare). 'Wright begins by making Plautus illustrate Plautus. Most. 1-8 is a vivid and spontaneous-seem…

Euripidean Drama. Myth, Theme and Structure.

CONACHER, D.J., · 1967 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.23 | ¥11,437)

University of Toronto Press / Oxford University Press, London, 1967. XIII,355p. Cloth wrps. Wrps bit worn. With signature from Prof. W.G. Arnott on free endpaper. 'Aeschylus and Sophocles, as Conacher sees them, 'dramatized the essential element of freedom and necessity in trag…

That Woman: the Life of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

Anne Sebba · 2012 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.77 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Phoenix 2012 Paperback, 384pp. Book Description Bestselling biography of the enduringly fascinating Wallis Simpson Product Description One of Britain's most distinguished biographers turns her focus on one of the most vilified women of the twentieth century. Historian Anne Sebba…

Thomas Eakins

Sewell, Darrel (editor) · 2001 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,784)

Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001. Softbound. Pictorial Illustrated wraps. xlii, 446 pp. 220 bw and 295 color plates. Contents as follows: Thomas Eakins and American art / Darrel Sewell -- Chronology / Kathleen Brown -- Eakins's early years / Amy B. Werbel -- Studie…

Royal Mysteries of the Anglo-Saxons and Early Britain

Timothy Venning · 2021 · Winkles Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,164)

Book New New 1st Edition Pen & Sword Military Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Royal mysteries never fail to intrigue readers and TV viewers. The 'mysteries', unravelled and analysed, are of enduring fascination and full of tragedy, suffering and pathos but also heroism and ro…