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[Manuscript Archive] Letters by Gersdorff & His Grandson Concerning Goethe and Family

[Goethe] Gersdorff, Ernst August von; Gersdorff, Carl von · 1891 · Kaaterskill Books

$3,000.00 (€2,721.81 | £2,270.39 | ¥479,118)

1891. 44 pp. In the last decade of the 19th century Lily Braun, feminist and writer, was beginning her research on Weimar in Goethe's era and her family's relationship to Goethe and Napoleon, which would become her book about her grandmother, "Im Schatten der Titanen" (1908). Bu…

BOYLE, Earl of Orrery (John): Remarks on the Life and Writings of Dr. Jonathan Swift, London: Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin, in a Series of Letters from John Earl of Orrery to his son, the Honourable Hamilton Boyle.

[MAYHEW (Jonathan), former owner.] · 1752 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£1.00 (€1.20 | $1.32 | ¥211)

London: Printed for A. Millar, opposite to Catharine-Street in the Strand, MDCCLII. 1752 FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 202 x 120 mms., pp. [ii], 339 340 blank, 341 - 349 index, 350 blank], K4 and K7 leaves are cancels (as usual), engraved portrait of Swift as frontispiece, contemporary…

Lewis Carroll: Photos Et Lettres Aux Petites Filles

Carroll, Lewis; Henri Parisot, translator; Maria Franco Ricci, editeur · 1976 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$212.00 (€192.34 | £160.44 | ¥33,858)

Paris, France, Franco Maria Ricci, 1976. Special Limited Edition. Hardcover. Size: 4to 11" - 13" tall. Special Limited Edition of 3000 exemplaires, text whollyin French, this being #445 and SIGNED by the publisher at the Page of Limitation in pen in a short cursive, quite fine.…

1936-1940 Pennsylvania Diary Highlighting the Immense Burden and Resilience of Middle Aged Womanhood and the Power of Community

ELIZABETH CALAWAY · 1936 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,159.99 (€1,052.42 | £877.87 | ¥185,258)

Girard, Pennsylvania Penn PA, 1936-1940. Hardcover. On offer is the Five Year "A Line A Day" diary of Mrs. Elizabeth Strobel Calaway (1889-1983) from Girard, Pennsylvania. Calaway was a teacher and she wrote religiously and extensively from 1936-1940, when she was aged 47 throug…

PRACTICAL MENSURATION by the pen and slide rule, wherein the lines on the rule are explained so as to be perfectly known and applied to the measuring of superficies and solids including board and timber, : accompanied with finding their contents by the pen; directions for taking lengths and girts, with the allowances made for bark, and for faults in timber; also for measuring hewn timber. : How to reduce superficial and run measure to cube, and cube measure to superficial and run. Observations on the customary girt measure of timber, and what is called true measure; and on English hewn timber. A correct method of measuring timber much tapering : How to find the price per foot superficial of board and the price per foot of scantling form the cube price, and the price cube from the superficial and run prices. A particular method of finding the superficial price of board and the run price of scantlings from the cost or valued price of timber, allowing for all waste, expenses, and a per centage for profit. : Mensuration by the pen and slide rule, applicable to carpenters, brickl;ayers, plasterers, and painter's work, gauging &c.Also useful problems on finding the dimensions of regular bodies of capacity from the contents given, with an appendix on land measuring.

Martin, Thomas. · 1831 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London Printed for the Author ... 1831. 1st Ed. Crown 8vo. viii + 236pp. With the signature of ‘Wim. Coombes Sept 1833’ and another to flyleaf, light browning, rebound in modern half calf with marbled boards, gilt lettered spine. Scarce.From the Library of P. A. Martin a noted…

Tarot Revisioned.

LEIGH J. MCCLOSKEY, · 2003 · Sacred Science Institute

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.76 | ¥11,978)

Olandar Press, 2003. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall, Hardcover, Hardcover, with dustjacket, New/Dust Jacket Included. ¶ High Quality Cloth w/Dust Jacket. In TAROT reVISIONed, Leigh J. McCloskey has created an entirely new and unique series of drawings representing the twenty-two arch…

Beyond Imagination: Treasures of Imperial Japan from the Khalili Collection 19th to early 20th centuries

The Khalili Family Trust (catalogue entries); essays by Forrer, Matthi; Irvine, Gregory; Jackson, Anna; Schiermeier, Kris · 2017 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

Book Very Good No Jacket 1st Edition Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and The Moscow Kremlin State Historical and Cultural Museum and Heritage Site English and Russian text.; Hardcover (without dust jacket - as issued).; 25 x 30 cm.; 1.7 kg.; 260 pages with colour i…

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS) of Concluding Lines of THANATOPSIS

BRYANT, William Cullen · 1872 · Charles Agvent

$6,250.00 (€5,670.44 | £4,729.97 | ¥998,164)

n.p.. Handwritten sixteen-line conclusion of Bryant's most famous poem and one of the best-known poems of the 19th century--"Thanatopsis"--on a 6-1/4" x 9" lined sheet of paper SIGNED "William Cullen Bryant" and dated "December 1872" at the conclusion. There are several word and…

THE PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: THE COMEDIES, HISTORIES & TRAGEDIES: 37 volumes

SHAKESPEARE, William · 1939 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,701.13 | £1,418.99 | ¥299,449)

New York. Limited Editions Club. Thirty-seven folio (8-3/4" x 13") volumes bound in gold-stamped half natural buckram, top edges gilt, with the paper sides, printed in four colors. Edited by Herbert Farjeon, who created the Nonesuch edition text of Shakespeare, to restore the or…

AUTOGRAPH QUOTATION SIGNED (AQS) and AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

HOLMES, Oliver Wendell · 101888 · Charles Agvent

$1,250.00 (€1,134.09 | £945.99 | ¥199,633)

Boston. On a 6-7/8" x 9" piece of paper the author has written the following seven-line stanza from one of his best known poems "The Chambered Nautilus": Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,As the swift seasons roll!Leave thy low-vaulted past!Let each new temple, no…

Olympie, tragédie nouvelle de M. de Voltaire. Suive de remarques historique.

Voltaire. · 1763 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

A Francfort et Leipsick, De l'Imprimerie de Knoch & Esslinger, 1763. 91,XVI pp. Bound in early 19th century marbled calf binding, three gilt frames on covers, spine and cover along the inner edges lavishly gilded, red mor. letterpiece on spine, marbled endpapers. 12mo. - With sm…

Wee MacGreegor: A Scottish Story

Bell, John Joy · 0 · Round Table Books, LLC

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Very Good No dust jacket as issued Grosset & Dunlap First American Edition Publisher's full red cloth, white lettering on spine, white lettering, borders,, and ribbon medallion on cover. A large (16x11") article from the November 1903 edition of The Ladies Home Journal entitled …

Peaks, passes and glaciers; being excursions by members of the Alpine Club. Second series. In 2 vols.

KENNEDY, Edward Shirley (ed.) (1817-1898): · 1862 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.

CHF 550.00 (€594.99 | $655.80 | £496.31 | ¥104,735)

London, Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts, 1862, in-8¡, XIV + 445 p. with 8 maps + 22 wood-engravings (+ 1 ill. title & 5 full page ) / VIII + 541 p. with 6 maps + 34 wood engravings (1 ill. title & 7 full page), small owners stamp ,GarstinÕ on first white leaf / exlibris Peter …

Tango.

Collier, Simon, Artemis Cooper, Maria Suzanna Azzi, Richard Martin, Ken Haas · 1995 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.01 | ¥3,169)

Thames & Hudson, 1995 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 208 pages. Text in English. As new, with minimal signs of use to the dust jacket. Born in the slums of Buenos Aires in the last decades of the nineteenth century, the tango--the most erotic, most passionate, most melancholy of d…

Robert Louis Stevenson, A Biography

Harman, Claire · 2005 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Harper Collins, 2005 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 503 pages. Text in English. As new. The most authoritative, comprehensive, perceptive biography of R. L. Stevenson to date, using for the first time his collected correspondence - which has been unavailable to all previous writer…

The White House World. Transitions, Organization, and Office Operations

Kumar, Martha Joynt, Terry Sullivan · 2003 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€13.00 ($14.33 | £10.84 | ¥2,288)

Texas A & M University Press, 2003 Paperback. 405 pages. Text in English. As new, a few marker lines at the front of the book (not in the text). When George W. Bush and his staff finally got word he had officially won the 2000 presidential election, they only had 37 days left to…

Foreign Policy Begins at Home. The Case for Putting America's House in Order

Haass, Richard · 2013 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€23.00 ($25.35 | £19.19 | ¥4,049)

Basic Books, 2013 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 195 pages. Text in English. As new. The biggest threat to the United States comes not from abroad but from within. This is the provocative, timely, and unexpected message of Council on Foreign Relations President Richard N. Haass's …

Soviet cinema

Dickinson, Thorold, Catherine de la Roche · 1948 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

The Falcon Press, 1948 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 136 pages. Text in English. Clean copy with light signs of use to the dust jacket, the book itself nearly as new. Original photo-illustrated dust-jacket over decorative paper covered boards. This volume consists of two essays o…

Paley&Apos;S Works; Consisting of Evidences of Christianity, Moral and Political Philosophy, Natural Theology, and Horae Paulinae

William Paley · 1840 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Charles Daly, 1840 . Leather. A fascinating early edition of four theological works from William Paley, bound together in contemporary half calf. Early edition. Bound in contemporary red half calf. With the bookplate and signature of Peter J Southgate, author of a number…

The Court-Secret: A Melancholy Truth

[George Lyttelton] · 1741 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.66 | $383.19 | ¥61,199)

London, T. Cooper, 1741. First edition. Disbound. A scarce first edition of this intriguing anti-Walpole Oriental satire, attributed to George Lyttelton. Disbound.  First edition. Published anonymously as the work of "an Adept in the Oriental Tongues" and attributed to George Ly…