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Cabinet de L'Art de Schulpture (sic) Par le fameux Sculpteur Francis van Bossuit exécuté en Yvoire ou Ebauché en Terre, gravées d'après les desseins de Barent Graat par Mattys Pool. Beeld-Snyders Kunst-Kabinet door den Vermaarden Beeldsnyder Francis van Bossuit. Statues or Art's Cabinet containing the Ivory works of that famous Statuary Frances van Bossuit.

Bossuit, F. van (sculptor) / B. Graat (drawings) & M. Pool (engraver) · 1727 · Hermann L. Strack, Antiquarian Book Dealer

€594.00 ($654.71 | £495.48 | ¥104,561)

1727 2 engraved title-pages, engraved dedication page, 4 engraved pages of text (biographies of Bossuit and Graat), 1 engraved index-page, 82 (of 89) engraved pls (they are numbered 9-103, but six are double numbered when depicting two subjects on one plate), 2 engraved portrait…

Zanthoriza apiifolia. Plate XXXVIII from: Stirpes novae, aut minus cognitae, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit.

Redouté, P.J. [in C.L. L'héritier de Brutelle] · 1788 · Hermann L. Strack, Antiquarian Book Dealer

€308.00 ($339.48 | £256.92 | ¥54,217)

1788 Handcoloured engraved plate drawn by Redouté and engraved by François Hubert, broadsheet or large imperial folio (45 x 60 cm). Uncut. With marginal, unobtrusive small traces of watercolour, which makes me believe that this plate (and the other ten I have for sale) were used…

Resolves, &C. Of the General Court of Massachusetts. Passed at the Session Begun and Held at Boston, on Thursday the Fifteenth Day of November, Anno Domini 1804. [with]... , on Thursday the Seventeenth Day of January, Anno Domini 1805

Massachusetts · 1805 · Kaaterskill Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

Boston, Printed by Young & Minns, 1805. First edition. Stitched, in original plain wrappers. 8 pp.; [41-96] pp. + index [7 pp]. Folio. Cabel Strong, Governor, announced the passage of the eleventh amendment which revised presidential election procedures. His long speech for the …

Estimate for the Erection and Completion of The Free Library at Malvern for the Urban District Council

CROUCH Henry A (architect), WEBSTER Geo. (surveyor) · 1904 · Inch's Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, unpublished private papers 1904 c. 64pp notebook, tables of figures with hand annotations, several relevant drawings from contemporary publications loosely inserted. 33x22, half bound calf over textured boards, marbled eps Wear to the spine and edges, contents very good…

First Report of the Commissioners Appointed to Inquire Into the Best Means of Preventing the Pollution of Rivers (River Thames)

ROYAL COMMISSION ON THE POLLUTION OF RIVERS (Chairman Robert RAWLINSON) · 1866 · Inch's Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, HMSO 1866 44pp, 12 maps and plans, most fold out, one coloured 34x21, blue paper wraps Wraps grubby with chips from spine, several pages grubby and dust marked, some foxing, corners creased and bumped, couple of pages not fully cut, maps generally good. Overall a fair c…

Rough Riders

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE · 2003 · Round Table Books, LLC

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons Company / The Lakeside Press, 2003. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Frederic Remington, et al.. Publisher's full teal cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion and border on cover. Illustrated with frontispiece,…

Door Steps: The Days, the Seasons

BLEI, NORBERT · 1983 · Round Table Books, LLC

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

Peoria, IL: The Ellis Press, 1983. 0933180446. Stated First Edition. First Printing. B&W Drawings. ISBN: 0933180446. Illustrated by Charles Peterson. First, Limited edition (this is No. 61 of only 150 copies containing an original work of art excuted in black ink and signed by t…

Mcclure's Magazine, June 1904, Vol. XXIII, No. 2: The History of the Standard Oil Company - a Modern War for Independence

TARBELL, IDA; MCGRATH, P.T. · 1904 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$1,950.00 (€1,769.18 | £1,475.75 | ¥311,427)

USA: The S.S. McClure Co, 1904. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Burns, M.J.. First appearance of A Modern War For Independence, later issued as Chapter 6 of Part 2 of Ida Tarbell's ground-breaking History of the Standard Oil Company. This 18-page chapter dea…

Mcclure's Magazine, December (Dec. ) 1903, Vol. XXII, No. 2 - the History of the Standard Oil Company - the War on the Rebate

TARBELL, IDA; BAKER, RAY STANNARD · 1903 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$2,950.00 (€2,676.45 | £2,232.55 | ¥471,133)

USA: The S.S. McClure Co, 1903. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Varian, George. First appearance of The War on the Rebate, Chapter 1 of Part 2 of Ida Tarbell's ground-breaking History of the Standard Oil Company. This 14-page chapter includes a one-page illu…

Sargent and Paris

Herdrich, Stephanie L; Sargent, John Singer; Corbeau-Parsons, Caroline; Elenowitz-Hess, Caroline; Hirshler, Erica E; Kilmurray, Elaine; Ormond, Richard; Perrin, Paul; Viraben, Hadrien · 2025 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

New York / London, The Metropolian Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2025. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Black cloth spine with gilt titles over illustrated paper boards. 255 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 30 cm. "Sargent and Paris explores the early care…

CLOSING ARGUMENT Of ADOLPH SUTRO, on the Bill Before Congress to Aid THE SUTRO TUNNEL, Delivered Before the Committee on Mines and Mining of the House of Representatives of the United States of America, Monday, April 22, 1872

Sutro, Adolph [Heinrich Joseph. 1830 - 1898] · 1872 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$137.50 (€124.75 | £104.06 | ¥21,960)

Washington, D.C.: M'Gill & Witherow, Printers and Stereotypers, 1872. 1st printing. Blue, cloth-covered flexible boards, with gilt stamped title lettering & miner image to front cover. Red edgestain. 96 pp. 8vo. 8-5/8" x 5-1/2" "The Sutro Tunnel is a drainage tunnel connected to…

Veiled Desire. Augustine on Women.

POWER, K., · 1996 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Continuum, New York, 1996. XI,328p. Original black hard bound with pictorial dust wrappers. Spine gilt titled. Nice copy. Like new. ‘Kim Power has given us a worth while resource on Augustine’s ideas about women and the feminine in her volume ‘Veiled Desire: Augustine on Women’…

Plato's Republic. A Dialogue in Sixteen Chapters, with a Prologue and an Epilogue. Translated by S. Spitzer.

BADIOU, A., · 2012 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€47.00 ($51.80 | £39.20 | ¥8,273)

Polity, Cambridge UK / Malden US, 2012. XXXVI,372p. Original hard bound with pictorial dust wrappers. Spine silver titled. Nice copy. Appears unread. Plato's Republic is one of the best-known and most widely-discussed texts in the history of philosophy. But how might we get to …

Julian the Apostate.

BOWERSOCK, G.W., · 1978 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Duckworth, London, 1978. 1st ed. XII,135,(8). ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Original red gilt stamped cloth with pictorial dust wrps. Cloth a little bit mottled to the edges. Signature in pencil on title page. ‘Professor Bowersock’s book is a fine contribution to th…

De rerum natura libri sex. Edited with Introduction and Commentary by W.E. Leonard and S.B. Smith.

LUCRETIUS, · 1942 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€125.00 ($137.78 | £104.27 | ¥22,004)

University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, 1942. 886p. Original red cloth. Spine gilt titled. Cover scratched. Corners a bit bumped. Library marks and labels to first pages. Occasionally some light, erasable pencil underlinings. (Rare). ‘The new edition of Lucretius is ‘the result…

Odyssey. Books VI-VIII. Edited by A.F. Garvie.

HOMER, (HOMERUS), · 1994 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€42.00 ($46.29 | £35.03 | ¥7,393)

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994. Reprint 2003. VIII,368p. Paperback. Appears unread. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. "It is not simply because it is the shortest book in the two epics that Odyssey 6 is a popular choice for beginning Homerists; attractive…

The Songs of Homer.

KIRK, G.S., · 1962 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

University Press, Cambridge, 1962. XIV,424p. ills. (Maps and Plates). Bound with dust wrps. Corners cover bit bumped. Small pen strike on lower corner front dust wrps. Signature on free endpaper. 'The title, which should be 'Songs of the Homers', suggests something less austere…

Tibull und Delia. Erster Teil. Tibulls Elegie 1,1. Zweiter Teil. Tibulls Elegie 1,2.

WIMMEL, W., · 1976 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1976/83. 2 vols. XII,120;VIII,130p. Sewn. Card board. Series: Hermes, Einzelschriften, Heft 37/47. 'A knowledge of the group to which a poem belongs and its place within that group is, according to W. essential for its interpretation. His whole …

Philosopher-Kings. The Argument of Plato's Republic.

REEVE, C.D.C., · 1988 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1988. Xv,350p. Original green cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Dust wrps slightly worn. Last endpapers slightly rust stained. 'Although the philosopher-kings of Reeve's title are central to the argument of this handsomely produced…

Jesus as Philosopher. The Moral Sage in the Synoptic Gospels.

THORSTEINSSON, R.M., · 2018 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€34.00 ($37.48 | £28.36 | ¥5,985)

Oxford University Press, 2018. X,212p. Hard bound with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Jesus as Philosopher: The Philosophical Sage in the Synoptic Gospels examines the possible ways in which the authors of the Synoptic Gospels, Mark, Matthew, and Luke, were inspired by contempor…