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Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley
Leonard Huxley · 1900 · Rooke Books
£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1900. Cloth. A second impression of this biographical work containing the letters of Thomas Henry Huxley, a biologist. Thomas Henry Huxley was an English biologist specialising in comparative anatomy and a strong advocate of Darwin's theor…
The Phoenix
Lawrence Bachmann · 1955 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)
London, Collins, 1955 . First edition. Cloth. A signed first edition, first impression of this Laurence Bachmann novel, set in Berlin after the Second World War. The first edition, first impression of this novel by Lawrence Paul Bachmann, American film producer who also served i…
Recollections of a Detective Police-Officer
Waters; [William Russell] · 1856 · Rooke Books
£1,100.00 (€1,318.52 | $1,453.25 | ¥232,066)
London, J. & C. Brown & Co. 1856. First edition. Leather. The first edition of this influential short story collection by William Russell, named by Ellery Queen as one of the most important detective pieces of the nineteenth century. The first edition of this collection.Illustra…
A Letter from the Right Hon Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord on the Attacks Made Upon Him and His Pension, by the Duke of Bedford and the Earl of Lauderdale, Early in the Present Sessions of Parliament.
Edmund Burke · 1796 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
London, J Owen, 1796. First edition. Disbound. A first edition, early printing of Edmund Burke's public rebuttal regarding attacks made regarding his pension. Disbound.This is a first edition, early impression. Wanting the half-title as is common with this work. However, th…
History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada
James Anthony Froude · 1872 · Rooke Books
£1,600.00 (€1,917.85 | $2,113.82 | ¥337,550)
London, Longmans, Green, and Co, 1872-5. Leather. A beautifully bound set of James Anthony Froude's extensive and popular history of England. Complete in twelve volumes. An extensively detailed history of England from around 1530 to 1588. The author worked on this series fo…
Notes on a Journey Through France, from Dieppe Through Paris and Lyons, to the Pyrennees, and Back Through Toulouse, in July, August and September, 1814, Describing the Habits of the People, and the Agriculture of the Country
Morris Birkbeck · 1815 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London, Printed and Sold by William Phillips, 1815. Cloth. A very scarce work of travel writing by Morris Birkbeck discussing the agriculture of France in the nineteenth century. Fourth edition, with an appendix. Rebound in a full cloth binding, with new endpapers. With the book…
Of the Tumbler of Our Lady & Other Miracles
Alice Kemp-Welch · 1908 · Rooke Books
£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.51 | ¥20,042)
London, Chatto and Windus, 1908. First edition. Hardback. The first edition thus of this devotional work on the Virgin Mary, originally written by Gautier de Coinci, here translated by Alice Kemp-Welch. The first edition thus of this work, being the first edition of this transla…
A Political Index to the Histories of Great Britain and Ireland; or, a Complete Register of the Hereditary Honours, Public Office, and Persons in Office, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time
Robert Beatson · 1786 · Rooke Books
£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)
Edinburgh, William Gordon et al. 1786. First edition. Hardback. A uncommon work of British and Irish History, documenting the important clerical, political and military figures over three centuries. In three parts. First edition (Copac). An interesting work by the miscellaneous …
Lecons Theoriques Et Cliniques Sur la Scorfule Consideree En Elle-Meme Et Dans Ses Rapports Aved la Syphilis, la Dartre Et L&Apos;Arthritis
Er. Bazin · 1861 · Rooke Books
£245.00 (€293.67 | $323.68 | ¥51,687)
Paris, Adrien Delahaye, 1861. Leather. An interesting work of a collection of lessons on diseases by the French physician Ernest Bazin, with a folding table of information. The second edition of this work. In the original French. This work is a collection of clinical lessons of …
The British Islands and Their Vegetation
A. G. Tansley · 1939 · Rooke Books
£45.00 (€53.94 | $59.45 | ¥9,494)
Cambridge, Cambridge at the University Press, 1939. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this large illustrated volume devoted to the contemporary plant life of Britain. A smart first edition. An exploration of Britain's rural landscape and the plant life which po…
The Works of Mr. John Oldham
John Oldham · 1703 · Rooke Books
£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)
London, Dan. Brown, 1703. Leather. An intricately blind tooled sixth edition copy of the posthumously collected works of John Oldham. The sixth edition of this work, first published in 1686 by John Hindmarsh. Bound in full calf with intricate blind tooling to boards. ESTC T1355…
Early Engraving and Engravers in England (1545-1695): A Critical and Historical Essay
Sidney Colvin · 1905 · Rooke Books
£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)
London, Printed by Order of the Trustees; Sold at the British Museum, Longmans and Co. et. al. 1905. First edition. Leather. A rare large folio study of early English engravers, complete with forty-one fine reproductions in photogravure. The first edition of this very scarce his…
Lust for Life: A Novel of Vincent Van Gogh
Irving Stone · 1937 · Rooke Books
£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)
New York, The Heritage Reprints, 1937 . Cloth. A smart copy of this well illustrated edition of Irving Stone's first major publication, a biographical novel on the acclaimed artist Van Gogh. In the publisher's original decorative cloth binding, in the original unclippe…
History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
John William Draper · 1877 · Rooke Books
£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)
New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1877. Cloth. An important work on the conflict thesis by John William Draper, signed by the author. Signed by the author to the title page.Volume XII in 'The International Scientific Series'A fascinating study exploring the historic c…
A Nation's Heritage
Rawnsley,H.D. · 1920 · Richard Thornton Books
£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)
George Allen & Unwin Ltd This is a Very Good Copy of this book in Publisher's original blue cloth boards with paper title label to the head of the front cover.This copy has one small previous owner's name to the front endpaper.Complete with 8 black and white plates of Westbury C…
The Dutch Politicians. Original mezzotint,
Anonymous. · 1790 · Fahrenheit 451
€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)
"Printed for Carington Bowles No.69 in St. Pauls Church Yard; London.", undated (ca.1790), image 13,5 x 11,2 cm. (plate 15 x 11,3 cm.), framed under passepartout, oak frame (25 x 20,7 cm.). = A miniature droll depicting two men sat, surrounded by darkness perusing the "Gazzete …
De helden van het circus.
[Circus]. Haan, Maartje de (ed.), e.a. · 2006 · Fahrenheit 451
€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)
Haarlem, Teylers Museum, 2006, 176 pag., illustraties in kleur en zw/w, paperback met flappen, quarto. = Enkele aantekeningen, verwijzingen en paginanummers in balpen. Het circus is een belangrijk onderwerp in de beeldende kunst. Vanaf circa 1870 is het voor avant-garde kunsten…
The lost Diaries.
Brown, Craig. · 2010 · Fahrenheit 451
€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)
London, Fourth Estate, 2010, XI,(1),404 pag., hardcover with dustjacket (as new). = The Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world's greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown. Arranged on a day-to…
Art-Rite special #13 by Alan Suicide.
[Suicide (band)]. Alan Suicide (or Alan Vega, or Boruch Alan Bermowitz (1938-2016)). · 1977 · Fahrenheit 451
€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)
New York, Art-Rite Publishing Co., 1977, (24) pag. (incl. wrappers), illustrations (of i.a. Iggy Pop and Mink DeVille), original stapled wrappers with lettering in red, quarto (26,6 x 20,3 cm.). = Backwrapper with diagonal fold. "We dedicate this issue to the average American i…
Tracehumance. Cheminement photographique de Jacques Pugin. Preface Daniel Girardin.
Pugin, Jacques, Girardin, Daniel (ed.), Woerdehoff, Esther (ed.). · 2020 · Fahrenheit 451
€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)
Bulle, Sturm & Drang/ Musée gruérien, 2020, 1st ed., 240 pag., photographic illustrations in colour and b/w by Jacques Pugin, French and English text, sewn in original illustrated card wrappers.= Catalogue of the Exposition au Musée gruérien. Throughout his artistic journey, Pug…