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C. 1870 Letters to Aimé Giron from French Clergy Regarding a 24-Statue Altar, Roman Pilgrimage & Behind-the-Scenes Cathedral Speechwriting

A ROBERTS & NOEL ROUX, FRENCH CLERGY · 1870 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$245.00 (€222.28 | £185.45 | ¥39,111)

Paris, France, 1870. Ephemera. On offer is a complementary pair of nineteenth-century French Catholic letters addressed to author and journalist Aimé Giron (1836–1907) , revealing the practical and literary assistance he provided privately to members of the clergy. Written by tw…

Plaisirs Et Occupations de la Vie de Chateau

QUILLENBOIS, pseudonym of Charles Marie de Sarcus · 1850 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$1,500.00 (€1,360.92 | £1,135.38 | ¥239,455)

Paris: Chez Aubert & Comp.ie, 1850. The French Bourgeoisie as Depicted by Quillenbois QUILLENBOIS, pseudonym of Charles Marie de Sarcus. Plaisirs et Occupations de la vie de Chateau par Karl (Quillambois.). Paris: Chez Aubert & Comp.ie, [1850]. Folio (12 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches; 323 …

Letter to Georges Rémond (1877-1965) Discussing Dreyfus, Jesus Christ and God. Als

Bloy, Leon (1846-1917) · 1898 · Wittenborn Art Books

$450.00 (€408.27 | £340.61 | ¥71,836)

2 Sept. 1898. Als. 2 pages. 21 x 13.5cm. Courte résumé:: LAS, datée 2 septembre 1898, adressée au journaliste Georges Rémond, 2 pages in-12 et 3 lignes. "C'est l'époque de la muflerie grandissime et triomphante (..) Nous avons renoncé à la fois à la maison de Fontenay-aux-Roses,…

[Photography - Spain]. Toledo, Córdoba, Granada.1890. Large oblong album (32 x 40 cm). 89 original photographs, mostly 20 x 26 cm. Half blind-tooled greenish brown calf and grey/green net grained cloth over boards, with the title in gold on the front board, red edges and decorated endpapers.

GARZÓN RODRÍGUEZ, Rafael. · 1863 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€28,000.00 ($30,861.57 | £23,359.70 | ¥4,926,629)

[52] ll. interleaved with tissue paper.In 711, a Muslim army led by Tariq ibn Ziyad conquered most of the Iberian Peninsula, which was then part of the Visigothic Kingdom. This region became known as Al-Andalus, with Cordoba serving as its capital. In 756, Abd ar-Rahman I establ…

M. Terentii Varronis, Pars librorum quattuor et viginti de lingua latina. Ex Bibliotheca Antonii Augustini.

VARRO. · 1557 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€1,100.00 ($1,212.42 | £917.70 | ¥193,546)

Rome (Romae), Apud Vincentium Luchinum, 1557. (Colophon at the end: Romae, Apud Antonium Bladium impressorem Cameralem, 1557) 8vo. (XXIV),211,(1 blank),(43 index),(1 blank),(99 index),(1 blank) p. Modern cloth 17 cm (Ref: EDIT16 CNCE 35852; Schweiger 2,1118; Brunet 5,1092; Grae…

Chinese Art Through The Eye of Sakamoto Goro (10 CATALOGUES: Sculpture, Lacquer, A Bronze Owl HU, The Clark Ding, Asian Lacquer, Song Ceramics, Porcelain, Ceramics, Early Chinese Art, Early Buddhist Bronzes)

Sotheby's Hong Kong and Sotheby's New York; introductory texts by Hantover, Jeffrey and Chow, Nicholas; with texts by Tao, Wang (Bronze Owl HU); Krahl, Regina (The Clark Ding, Song Ceramics, Porcelain); Komatsu, Taishu (Asian Lacquer) · 0 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€1,800.00 ($1,983.96 | £1,501.70 | ¥316,712)

Book Good No Jacket Sotheby's Hong Kong and Sotheby's New York English, Chinese and Japanese introductory texts, with captions in English and Chinese.; Hardcover (nine cloth catalogues without dust jacket - as issued) and one paperback (Asian Lacquer).; All catalogues with colou…

[Manuscript Account of] MEMORIES OF THE 1914-19 WAR. Written by ...

Exton, William. · 1888 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£500.00 (€599.32 | $660.57 | ¥105,451)

10 cm x 8.5cm. 36 leaves written in a neat legible hand. Enclosed in worn leather interlaced in leather to edges with a sizeable portion of lacing lacking detached to lower edge, tudor rose in blind to upper board. William Exton, born at Withnell, near Blackburn, Lancashire 20t…

The Prince of Abissinia. A Tale.

JOHNSON (Samuel): · 1759 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£2,750.00 (€3,296.28 | $3,633.15 | ¥579,983)

London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley...and W. Johnston..., 1759. FIRST EDITION. 2 volumes. Small 8vo, 150 x 94 mms., pp. [iii] iv - viii, 159 - 160 blank; [iii] iv - viii, 165 [166 blank], with leaf a2 in volume 2 reading \"CONTENTS/ OF THE/ SECOND VOLUME,\" and on page 161 …

Proue prime fatti a l'aqua forte da N. Lanier a l'eta sua giouenile di sessanta otto anni 1656.

LANIER (Nicholas): · 1825 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£1,250.00 (€1,498.31 | $1,651.43 | ¥263,629)

[No place] [No Publisher] [c. 1825]. 231 x 147 mms., 31 full-page engraved plates (including the foxed first leaf functioning as title-page), 2 folding engraved plates, bound in early 19th century quarter roan, with \"Lanier's Drawing Book 1656\" tooled in gilt on spine, plain …

Memoirs of **** Commonly known by the Name of George Psalmanazar; A Reputed Native of Formosa. Written by himself In order to be published after his Death. Containing An Account of his Education, Travels, Adventures, Connections, Literary Productions, and pretended Conversion from Heathenism to Christianity; which last proved the Occasion of his being brought over into this Kingdom, and passing for a Proselyte, and a Member of the Church of England.

PSALMANAZAR (George): · 1765 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£750.00 (€898.98 | $990.86 | ¥158,177)

Dublin: Printed for P. Wilson, J. Exshaw, E. Watts, B. Cotter, J. Potts, and J. Williams. M,DCC,LXV. 1765. FIRST DUBLIN EDITION. 12mo, 160 x 95 mms., pp. [iv], 234, later 18th century calf, panelled in blind, spine with raised bands, sides with blind fillet borders. A very goo…

Helmholtz and the conservation of energy : contexts of creation and reception.

Caneva, Kenneth L. · 2021 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€24.00 ($26.45 | £20.02 | ¥4,223)

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2021. Hardcover. Dustjacket. xix, 735 pp. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - An examination of the sources Helmholtz drew upon for his formulation of the conservation of energy and the impact of his work on nine…

1840 Manuscript Letter from the Wife of a Maine Sea Captain Sailing on the Solomon Saltus Discussing the Voyage and Business Back Home

LUCY GRAY (NEE DRINKWATER) · 1840 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,455.99 (€1,320.99 | £1,102.07 | ¥232,429)

Maine, New England, Usa, AT Sea, Baltimore, Maryland, 1840. Non-Book. On offer is an outstanding piece of early maritime history from the heart of 19th century America’s great whaling seaports. The letter was written in 1840 by Lucy Gray (nee Drinkwater) (1790-1884). It is addre…

19th Century Manuscript Transcription of Accounts of Two Battles Fought in the French and Indian War

UNKNOWN · 1754 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$955.99 (€867.35 | £723.61 | ¥152,611)

Massachusetts. Hardcover. On offer is an intriguing manuscript transcription of firsthand accounts of two battles fought during the French and Indian War in North America (1754-1763). From the library of Arthur DeMerick Marble (1853-1934) , this beautiful transcription was compl…

De homini figuris et latinate donatus a Florentio Schuyl. [Bound before:] II. IDEM, Opera Philosophica. Editio quarta.

DESCARTES, R.- SCHUYL, F.- DE HOMINE.- OPERA.- · 1662 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€7,500.00 ($8,266.49 | £6,257.06 | ¥1,319,633)

Lugduni Batavorum; Amsterdam, Apud F. Moyardum & Petrum Leffen; Elzevier, 1662. 1664 - 1670. 4to. 7 parts in 1 vol. W. in 'De homine' a woodcut vign. on title & 10 (4 fold., 1 w. superimposed flaps [being a repeat of textill. 'Fig. I') copperengr. pls., 33 engr. textills. & 23 w…

Traitté des ceremonies superstitieuses des juifs tant anciens que modernes.Amsterdam, Jacob Smith [= (Israel de Paull for) Jan Rieuwertsz. Sr.], 1678. 12mo. With a woodcut vignette on the title page (ornament E in the description of Van de Ven). Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf.

[SPINOZA, Benedictus de]. · 1670 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,750.00 ($4,133.25 | £3,128.53 | ¥659,816)

[1], [1 blank], [28], 531, [30], [1 blank], 30 pp.First French edition of Spinoza's famous Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (1670), printed by Israel de Paull for Jan Riewertsz. Sr. in Amsterdam, but appearing with the false imprint of "Hamburg, Henricus Künrath". The original Lat…

Caramuelis apparatus philosophicus quatuor libris distinctus, in primo de omnium scientiarum quae schlastice tractari possunt quidditate, dignitate, ordine, utilitate, de artibus vanis, superstitiosis, viribus naturae & daemonis conjurationibus, hominum pactis, divinationibus per Deum, astra, ignem, aquam, manum, terram, aerem, sacra, sortes, literas &c. ...Cologne, Johann Arnold Cholinus, 1665. Folio. With a small woodcut ornament on the title page, and several woodcut decorated initials, head- and tailpieces. Further with some tables in the text. Stiff paper wrappers with (remnants of) a manuscript title label at the head of the spine.

CARAMUEL Y LOBKOWITZ, Juan. · 1606 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€18,000.00 ($19,839.58 | £15,016.95 | ¥3,167,119)

[1], [1 blank], 144, [1], [1 blank] pp.Rare philosophical and scientific work by one of the most prolific Spanish philosophers of the 17th century, with the very rare variant title page mentioning the name of the publisher. Juan Caramuel y Lobkowitz (1606-1682) was a Catholic sc…

Historia naturalis.Venice, Reynaldus de Noviomago, 1483. Small folio. With the initials and book numbers alternatingly painted in red and blue. 17th-century blind-tooled sheepskin.

PLINIUS SECUNDUS, Gaius (PLINY the elder) [and Philippus BEROALDUS (editor)]. · 1483 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€65,000.00 ($71,642.94 | £54,227.88 | ¥11,436,817)

[355] ll.Beautifully rubricated 1483 edition of Pliny’s encyclopaedia of all knowledge in the ancient world (PMM), edited by the Italian humanist Philippus Beroaldus (1453-1505). Divided into 37 books, the text is one of the largest works to survive from the Roman Empire, encomp…

The Archbishop of Goa and the Congregation de Propaganda Fide.“New-Goa” [= Panaji, near Goa], “printed at the national press”, 1862 (wrapper 1863). 8vo in 4s with double-size sheets, giving 4to proportions (20.5 x 16 cm). With the original publisher’s front wrapper, printed letterpress on blue paper, repeating the title page but in a decorative frame built up from typographic ornaments, with a different decorated swelled rule and dated 1863 rather than 1862. The imprint is set in back-sloping roman capitals. Half navy blue, gold-tooled goatskin morocco (later 19th-century).

[CUNHA RIVARA, Joaquim Heliodoro da]. · 1862 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,750.00 ($1,928.85 | £1,459.98 | ¥307,914)

92 pp.Fourth copy located of the first and only English edition (translated from the first and only Portuguese edition by the same publisher, also in 1862) of a defence of Joao Chrysostomo de Amorim Pessoa (1810-1888), Archbishop of Goa, in response to a printed attack on him pu…

The Works of George Borrow

George Borrow; Clement Shorter [editor] · 1923 · Rooke Books

£480.00 (€575.35 | $634.15 | ¥101,233)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1923. Cloth. A smart limited edition set of the works of English writer, George Borrow. With the original dust wrappers. Ten volumes of a sixteen volume set. Lacking volumes eleven to sixteen. Limited to seven hundred and seventy-five copies of…

Notable English Trials

E. R. Watson; D. N. Mackay; H. L. Adam; G. H. Knott · 1911 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.76 | $231.20 | ¥36,908)

Edinburgh, William Hodge & Company, 1911-13. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of four popular volumes from the series 'Notable English Trials', discussing the trials of Lord Lovat, William Palmer, Dr. Lamson, and Eugene Aram. Complete with illustrations. The fir…