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LONDON: Being an Accurate History and Description of the British Metropolis and its Neighbourhood, to Thirty Miles Extent, From an actual Perambulation.

Hughson, David [Pseudonym Edward Pugh]. · 1820 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.28 | ¥52,742)

London: Printed and Published by Joseph Robins 57 Tooley Street ... N.d. c.[1820]. 6 vols. 140 engraved plates, 5 folding maps and plans (with some repairs), numerous text ills. Some browning and foxing, ex.-libris Fiona Williams, marbled e.ps., contemporary gilt fillet edged di…

Paul Klee Catalogue Raisonne: Volumes 1 -9. Nine (9) Volume Set

Paul Klee Foundation and Museum of Fine Arts Bern · 2004 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$4,900.00 (€4,445.73 | £3,708.92 | ¥782,467)

New York, Thames & Hudson, 2004. 9 Volumes in dustjackets. Appx. 5000 total pages! 9600 bw images and countless color plates and reproductions. Text is in English. With almost 10,000 documented works from 1883-1940, which include not only those from Klee's own oeuvre catalogue, …

Im Schmetterlingsreich. [1. Aufl.].

Olfers,Sibylle von. · 1916 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

Esslingen & München, Verlag von J.F. Schreiber, [1916]. [15] pp., inckl. 7 col. lithogr. plts. Orig. publisher's h.cloth binding with paper-covered boards). Oblong 4to. - Edges very slightly worn; title page (verso & recto) / endpapers a bit spotted; owne's name on pastdown. - O…

Stéphan Crasneanscki. Medea.

CRASNEANSCKI,STEPHAN. Smith,Patti & Philippe Grandrieux. · 2023 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,920)

Stockholm, Libraryman, 2023. 250 pp. Chiefly col. ills. Hardcover.Text French & English. - In his artistic research, Ste´phan Crasneanscki (b. 1969, French) combines sound, image, and text. Medea is no exception to this rule: the project developed during a crossing of the Black …

Gateways to empire. Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664.

Weeks,Daniel J. · 2019 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,960)

Berhlehem, Lehigh University Press, [etc.], [2019]. X,461 pp. Orig. hardcobver (boards). 8vo. [ISBN: 978-1-61146-279-1]. - As new.In Gateways to Empire: Quebec and New Amsterdam to 1664, historian Daniel Weeks has provided the first comprehensive comparative study of the North-A…

Original albumen cabinet-photographs: Sugarcane-plantation in Suriname [&] Grote Combeweg in Paramaribo.

Muller,Julius. [attributed to]. · 1898 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€300.00 ($330.65 | £250.28 | ¥52,801)

Paramaribo, [ca. 1898]. Two albumen photographs [sizes: 22,5 x 27,8 cm. & 14,0 x 22,0 cm.], skillfully matted and detached from original boards. * Extremely rare and early photograph of women walking on a road in between plantations and another rare photograph depicting the road…

Nicolaus Knupfer (1603/09-1655). An original artist. Monograph and catalogue raisonné of paintings and drawings,

KNUPFER,NICOLAUS. Saxton,Jo. · 2004 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥22,001)

Doornspijk, Davaco Publishers, 2004. 295 pp. 245 plts & ills (32 in colour) & 61 figs. Hardcover, d./j. (Aetas Aurea. Monographs on Dutch & Flemisch Painting, Vol. XIX). - - New copy !!. Nicolaus Knupfer (1603/09-1655) was one of the most inventive artists active in the Northern…

Constructing Messapian landscapes. Settlement dynamics, social organization and culture contact in the margins of Graeco-Roman Italy.

Burgers,G.-J.L.M. · 1998 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Amsterdam, J.C. Gieben, 1998. 327 pp. 22 b./w. plts on [16] lvs. Orig. hardcover ( gilt lettered red cloth). 8vo. (Dutch monographs on ancient history and archaeology, Vol. 18).Over the last three decades, archaeologists have progressively embarked on field-walking projects all …

Amazing Stories: May 1948

AMAZING (CRAIG BROWNING - AKA ROG PHILLIPS; S. M. TENNESHAW; WARREN KASTEL; GUY ARCHETTE - AKA CHESTER S. GEIER; LEE FRANCIS - AKA FRANCES YERXA) · 1948 · Books from the crypt

$27.50 (€24.95 | £20.82 | ¥4,391)

NY, Ziff-Davis. 1948. Wraps. Magazine, Vol. 22, No. 5. Pulp magazine. Edited by Raymond A. Palmer. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones for "Armageddon" by Craig Browning [aka Rog Phillips, or Roger P. Graham]. Includes "Doom Globe" by S. M. Tenneshaw (house pseud.); "Illusion on Ca…

AMAZING Stories: May 1948

Amazing (Craig Browning - aka Rog Phillips; S. M. Tenneshaw; Warren Kastel; Guy Archette - aka Chester S. Geier; Lee Francis - aka Frances Yerxa) · 1948 · Books from the Crypt

$27.50 (€24.95 | £20.82 | ¥4,391)

Very Good+ Ziff-Davis NY Vol. 22, No. 5. Pulp magazine. Edited by Raymond A. Palmer. Cover art by Robert Gibson Jones for "Armageddon" by Craig Browning [aka Rog Phillips, or Roger P. Graham]. Includes "Doom Globe" by S. M. Tenneshaw (house pseud.); "Illusion on Callisto" by War…

A Treatise on Pocket Knives

CHENEY, Wm. M. (William Murray, 1907-2002) · 1964 · Fine Editions Ltd

$124.00 (€112.50 | £93.86 | ¥19,801)

Los Angeles [Printed at the Press in the Gatehouse] First Printing First Edition of this paean to the pocket knife, enumerating its benefits, shortcomings, and types (including the curved bistoury blade used by surgeons and the seventeenth-century typesetter's coping blade). Foo…

Proses et bois originaux

BELOT, Gabriel (1882-1962) · 1919 · Fine Editions Ltd

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.22 | ¥28,105)

Paris E. F. D'Allignan One of 300 numbered copies on Rives à la forme, from a limited edition of 347, of Belot's fourth book. Text in French. 8vo (285 X 210mm): [68]pp on double-fold sheets, divided into seven sections and profusely illustrated with woodcuts in black and illumin…

Baby Doll

[Thomas Lanier Williams, writing as] WILLIAMS, Tennessee (1911-1983) · 1957 · Fine Editions Ltd

$101.00 (€91.64 | £76.45 | ¥16,128)

London Secker & Warburg First UK Edition First Impression of the script for Williams's first original screenplay. Small 8vo: 140pp, with black-and-white stills from the film. Publisher's scarlet V cloth, spine lettered in silver, illustrated dust jacket priced 12s/6d. A Very Fin…

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet and Other Poems [Nathaniel Tarn's copy]

BERRYMAN, John (1914-1972) · 1959 · Fine Editions Ltd

$139.00 (€126.11 | £105.21 | ¥22,197)

London Faber & Faber First Impression First Edition of this selection by Berryman from two of his previous books, including Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, "one of the most unique poems in modern American literature." (Literary Encyclopedia) Demy 8vo (216 x 134mm): 111,[1]pp. Pub…

Monday or Tuesday

WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941) · 1921 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,249.00 (€1,133.21 | £945.40 | ¥199,449)

New York Harcourt, Brace First Printing First American Edition, one of 1,500 copies. Crown 8vo: [4],116pp. Publisher's sage-green quarter cloth over mottled light brown paper-covered boards, white paper spine label printed in black, fore- and bottom edges rough-cut; original buf…

The Ballroom of Romance and Other Stories

TREVOR, William (1928-2016) · 1972 · Fine Editions Ltd

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.63 | ¥31,778)

London The Bodley Head First Edition First Impression of the Irish author's second collection, including "A Choice of Butchers" and "O Fat White Woman." 8vo: 269,[1]pp. Publisher's olive-brown boards, spine lettered in gilt, price-clipped illustrated dust jacket. An excellent ex…

[Photobook] [Field Guide] The Birds of Berkshire and Buckinghamshire: a Contribution to the Natural History of the Two Counties

KENNEDY, Alexander W. M. Clark (1851-1894) · 1868 · Fine Editions Ltd

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

Eton / London Ingalton and Drake / Simpkin, Marshall First Edition of apparently the first field guide to birds to use photographs as illustrations. 8vo: xiv,[2],232pp, with four hand-colored and varnished albumen photographs of stuffed birds mounted on heavy card stock. ("It wa…

[Exhibition Catalog] Posters by E. McKnight Kauffer

KAUFFER, E. McKnight (Edward), 1890-1954; HUXLEY, Aldous [Introduces] · 1937 · Fine Editions Ltd

$251.00 (€227.73 | £189.99 | ¥40,081)

New York The Museum of Modern Art First Printing One of 2,750 copies printed by the Spiral Press, with notes by Kauffer on technique and foreword by Aldous Huxley, of this catalog for an exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art from February 10 to March 7, 1937. Royal 8vo (…

The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication [Survival of the Fittest]

DARWIN, Charles (1809-1882) · 1882 · Fine Editions Ltd

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

London John Murray Second Edition (Revised), Fifth Thousand, two volumes complete in fine original bindings, featuring first occurrence of the phrase "survival of the fittest." Crown 8vo (188 x 118): xiv,473,[1]; x,495,[1]pp, with 43 woodcut illustrations. Publisher's green clot…

Tactical Exercise [Love Among the Ruins]

WAUGH, Evelyn (1903-1966) · 1954 · Fine Editions Ltd

$139.00 (€126.11 | £105.21 | ¥22,197)

Boston Little, Brown First Printing First and only Edition (never published in the United Kingdom), including the first American appearance of Love Among the Ruins (published in England as a separate book). 8vo: [6],289,[1]pp. Publisher's finely woven sea-green cloth, spine lett…