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Colossus Rise & Fall Americas Empire. The Rise and Fall of the American Empire

Niall Ferguson, Niall Ferguson · 2009 · Klondyke BV

€4.95 ($5.46 | £4.13 | ¥871)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2009; Peng; 220pp.; Conditie: Goed; Is America the new world empire? Presidents from Lincoln to Bush may have denied it but, this book shows, the US is in many ways the greatest imperial power of all time. This title reveals, is an empire running on empty, we…

The Number Mysteries. A Mathmatical Odyssey Through Everyday Life

Marcus Du Sautoy · 2010 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Hardcover, hardcover; 2010; HarperCollins Publishers; 320pp.; krabbel met pen Franse pagina -- Conditie: Goed; From the most famous mathematician in Britain comes the ultimate handikit to mathematics. From hopscotch to Wayne Rooney with lots and lots of games to play, The Number…

The Farmer’s Letters to the People of England: containing the sentiments of a practical husbandman, on various subjects of great Importance... London: Printed for W. Nicoll, 1767. First edition, 8vo, [4], 323, [1]pp. [Bound with:] A letter to Lord Clive, on the great benefits which may result to the publick from patriotically expending a small part of a large private fortune: particularly in promoting the interests of agriculture, by forming an experimental farm. Containing A practical Course of

[YOUNG (Arthur)] · 1767 · Forest Books

£424.63 (€509.06 | $561.09 | ¥89,609)

London: Printed for W. Nicoll, 1767. First edition, [2], 56pp., one folding engraved ‘Plan of an Experimental Farm’. 2 Works in one, 8vo (220 x 125 mm), margins of title page light browned from turn-ins, contemporary calf, leather spine lettering piece, a nice copy. In Young’s…

The Natural History of Barbados. In Ten Books.

HUGHES (Griffith) · 1750 · Forest Books

£2,628.38 (€3,150.99 | $3,473.04 | ¥554,666)

London: Printed for the Author, 1750. First edition, 4to (378 x 245 mm), [4, title, dedication leaf], [10, list of subscribers], [2, contents leaf], vii [preface], [1, errata], 250, *251-*254, 251-314, [8, explanatory notes], [4, addenda], [8, index]pp., large engraved fold-o…

Views of the Seats of the Noblemen and Gentlemen in Suffolk. From Drawings by Henry Davy. Part First [all published].

SUFFOLK. DAVY (Henry) · 1827 · Forest Books

£424.63 (€509.06 | $561.09 | ¥89,609)

Southwold: Published by the Author, 1827. First edition, 4to (320 x 250 mm), [44]pp., without the list of subscribers, one of 65 large paper copies, 20 steel engraved plates from drawings by the author, each accompanied by a leaf of descriptive text, light water-staining to uppe…

The Ruins of Palmyra, otherwise Tedmor, in the Desart [sic Desert].

WOOD (Robert) · 1753 · Forest Books

£3,440.00 (€4,123.98 | $4,545.48 | ¥725,942)

London: [Published for the Author], 1753. First edition, large folio, [6], 50pp., printed in thick paper, the text is followed by 59 etched and engraved plates, the first plate consists of three coppers, forming together a panoramic view of the ruins (sometimes found pasted toge…

La Reliure, Poëme Didactique en Six Chants... Paris: Chez Lesné,1820. First edition, [6], 246pp., half-title signed by the author. [Bound with:] ----. Épitre a Thouvenin.

LESNÉ [(Mathurin Marie)] · 1823 · Forest Books

£962.13 (€1,153.43 | $1,271.32 | ¥203,038)

Paris: Imprimerie de Firmin Didot, 1823. First edition, [4], 20pp., with half-title. 2 vols., bound in one, 8vo (193 x 120 mm), cont. calf backed marbled boards, spine tooled in gilt and blind, matching slip-case, an excellent copy, possibly bound by Lesné, whose style is simila…

Atlas of the Diseases of the Skin: in a Series of Illustrations from Original Drawings with Descriptive Letterpress.

CROCKER (Henry Radcliffe) · 1903 · Forest Books

£806.25 (€966.56 | $1,065.35 | ¥170,143)

London: The Caxton Publishing Co., 1903. Second edition, 2 vols., large folio (560 x 420 mm), 96 coloured lithographed plates accompanied by descriptive leaves, some occasional light finger-soiling, inner hinges shaken, orig. half morocco, gilt, rubbed and soiled, some wear at h…

Navy List April 1919 (2 Volumes). The officers on the active and retired lists of the Royal Navy general regulations

HMSO · 1919 · www.nautiek.nl

€225.00 ($248.00 | £187.68 | ¥39,607)

1919 Royal Navy UK, hardcover 2248 pages. New hardcover by professional binder. This is a significant work of reference in that it provides the personnel state of the Royal Navy as at the end of the Great War; the list is corrected to 18th December 1918. And not just the personn…

La grande chronique ancienne et moderne, de Hollande, Zelande, West-Frise, Utrecht, Frise, Overyssel & Groeningen, jusques à la fin de l'an 1600.

PETIT, Jean François le. · 1601 · Antiquariaat Brinkman, sinds 1954

€900.00 ($991.99 | £750.73 | ¥158,426)

Dordrecht, Jacob Canin, pour l'auteur, (vol.2: De l'Impression de Guillaume Guillemot), 1601. 2 vol. Folio. [xxii],650 (=652)-[ii],240,[18] - [xvi],779 [=788],[15] pp. With two -identical- engraved title-pages, full page portrait of the author, and 56 full-length portraits of th…

Fasciculus myrre, dit is een sonderlinge devote materie van die passie ons heren Jesu Christi geheeten dat busselkijn, oft dat bondelken van myrre, vergadert van eenen geesteliken ende seer verlichten broeder van die minrebroeders oorden, van die familie der observanten, in die provincie van Colen, waer in dat hi (na veel sermonen ende geestelike oeffeningen) seer diepelijc ende claerlijc uut leyt die verborgentheden, ende die schone leeringen die in dat liden ons heren besloten zijn boven alle duytsche boecken diemen tot deser tijt toe geprent oft gescreven vint [...]. Ende is in die prente gecomen bi toedoen van eenen geleerden broeder genaemt broeder Mathijs van Dordrecht Guardiaen Thantwerpen

WEYNSEN, Matthias. · 1565 · Antiquariaat Brinkman, sinds 1954

€3,200.00 ($3,527.06 | £2,669.26 | ¥563,294)

Gheprent Thantwerpen by Peeter van Keerberghe, woonende op Onser Liever Vrouwen Kerckhof in de gulde Sonne. anno 1565 (den vierden dagh Augustii). Small 8vo. [448] pp. With 25 woodcuts in the text. Contemporary calf with roller stamp decoration (Paris, Venus, Pallas, Juno); surr…

Essai sur la métamorphose des plantes. Geneva, Paris, J. Barbezat, 1829. 8vo. Original publisher's grey printed paper wrappers.

GOETHE, Johann Wolfgang von. · 1749 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,000.00 ($1,102.21 | £834.14 | ¥176,029)

XIV, 15-87, [1 blank] pp.First edition in French of an important botanical study by Germany's greatest poet, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) into the origins and processes of life. His scientific career had actually started at the court of Weimar, where he was summoned in…

Berigt omtrent het leven, het karakter en de laatste godsdienst-aandoeningen der beruchte vergiftigster Hester Rebekka Nepping.[Amsterdam], J. Ruys for Johannes Allart, The Hague, 1812. 8vo. Contemporary grey-blue wrappers.

BROES, Willem. · 1766 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)

IV, 79, [1 blank] pp.Willem Broes (1766-1853), a minister of the church who had been appointed by the court to give spiritual counsel to the condemned woman, visited her in prison multiple times. In his book, he describes the crime, but gives even more attention to the Hester's …

Las coplas del peregrino de Puey Monçón viaje á la Meca en el siglo XVI.Zaragoza, Comas Hermanos, 1897. 8vo. With a facsimile of one page of the Arabic manuscript, a photographic view of the Kaaba, a double-page map and at the end a list of the books available in the Bibliotheca Arabico-Hispana. Contemporary black half sheepskin, letterpress title-label on spine.

PAÑO Y RUATA, Mariano de. · 1847 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

XLVI, [2], 303, [1 blank]; [8] pp.First edition of a transcript of one of the first accounts of a Spanish Muslim's journey to Mecca and Medina in the 16t hcentury, edited by the prolific and widely-interested scholar Mariano de Paño y Ruata (1847-1948) and with an introduction b…

Thesaurus Euonymi Philiatri, de remediis secretis.Lyon, Balthazar Arnoullet, 1554. 16mo (12.5 x 8 cm). With dozens of woodcut illustrations in text. Contemporary limp sheepskin parchment.

[GESSNER, Conrad]. · 1516 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,000.00 ($5,511.04 | £4,170.72 | ¥880,146)

[44], [4 blank], 499, [8], [5 blank] pp.Third edition in the original Latin, of the first part of Conrad Gesner's very popular book of secrets. It primarily concerns distillation and its use in making medicines, with most of the woodcuts illustrating furnaces, glassware and othe…

Around the coasts of Arabia.London, Constable & Co., 1930. 8vo. With a pictorial map as frontispiece, 31 photographic half-tone plates and a full-page map on an integral leaf. Original publisher’s black cloth, with title in gold on spine.

RIHANI, Ameen. · 1876 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

X, [2], 364 pp.First edition, British issue, of a travelogue by the distinguished Lebanese Arab-American writer Ameen Rihani (1876-1940). This work is part of a trilogy: Around the Coasts of Arabia (1930), Arabian Peak and Desert: Travels in Al-Yaman (1930) and Ibn Sa'oud of Ara…

Die Gastropoden der Gosaugebilde in den nordöstlichen Alpen. [...] Aus den Abhandlungen der k.k. geologischen Reichsanstalt. 1. Band. 2. Abtheilung, Nr. 2. Mit 24 lithographirten Tafeln.Wien, K. K. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei bei Wilhelm Braumüller, 1852. Folio. With engraved coat-of-arms of the Austrian Empire flanked by two eagles on the title-page and 24 numbered full-page plates of (snail-) shells with more than 400 figures, lithographed by J. Strohmaijer, Zehner, Heinrich Backer and A. Paschinger. Contemporary half calf.

ZEKELI, Lukas Friedrich · 1852 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

[4], 124 pp.Rare original edition of the thesis ("Habitilation thesis"), previously published as an article in the journal Abhandlungen der k.k. geologischen Reichsanstalt in the same year 1852 by Lukas Friedrich Zekeli (1823-1881), a paleontologist teaching at the University of…

Les hylophtires et leurs ennemis, ou description et iconographie des insectes les plus nuisibles aux forèts, ainsi que des autres animaux causant des dégâts dans les bois, avec une méthode pour apprendre à les détruire et à ménager ceux qui leur font la guerre.Nordhansen, Leipzig, B.G.H. Schmidt, 1842. Large 8vo. With 4 folding tables, 2 woodcuts in text and 6 full-page engraved plates, one with useful insects and five with harmful insects, all six hand-coloured by the publisher. Original green publisher's printed paper wrappers over stiff boards.

RATZEBURG, Julius Theodor Christian (Edgar Bourée de CORBERON, transl.). · 1841 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€325.00 ($358.22 | £271.10 | ¥57,210)

XXXIV, 246 pp.French translation of a pioneering ecological treatise and one of the earliest scientific studies on noxious wood insects. It was first published in German as Die Waldverderber und ihre Feinde in 1841, followed by a second expanded edition in 1842. Count Edgar Bour…

A grammar of the Chinese colloquial language commonly called the Mandarin dialect. ... Second edition.Shanghai, Presbyterian Mission Press, 1864. 4to. Contemporary red half roan (sheepskin).

EDKINS, Joseph. · 1857 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[2 blank], [2], VIII, 297, [1] blank pp.Second edition of a handbook that was essential for English speaking persons who wished to obtain competence in Mandarin Chinese with the required knowledge of vocabulary and functional grammar and an awareness of the main types of verbal …

Clipperfregatschip met hulpstoomvermogen "Utrecht", kapitein A. Hoogenstraten.London, William Foster, 1869. Double-tinted lithograph, finished in colour (ca. 48 x 66.5 cm) in a passepartout and framed (ca. 67.5 x 88.5 cm).

[PRINT]. DUTTON, Thomas Goldsworth. · 1868 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

Rare portrait of the ship Utrecht, a full-rigged clipper with auxiliary power and screw propellers, built in 1868 for the firm of Van Zeylen & Decker in Rotterdam and capable of carrying 2009 tons. During the subsequent years, the ship made several voyages between Rotterdam and …