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Dr Newton's Zoo: A Study of post-Archaic Small Jade Carvings

Morgan, Brian (catalogue); Ayers, John (introduction) · 1981 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€70.00 ($77.15 | £58.39 | ¥12,322)

Book Good No Jacket Bluett & Sons Ltd, London English text; Paperback; 21 x 29.9 cm; 0.236 Kg; 48 pages with black and white and colour illustrations; 100 lots, each with description; Used with signs of wear on the exterior, namely edge wear and wear marks on the front cover, sp…

Chinese Celadon Wares

Gompertz, G. St. G. M. · 1980 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€55.00 ($60.62 | £45.88 | ¥9,682)

Book Good Dust Jacket Included 2nd Edition Faber and Faber Limited, London English text; Hardcover (with dustjacket); 16.4 x 25.6 cm; 0.6 kg; 216 pages with black and white and also some colour illustrations; Used in good condition. The dust jacket is price clipped and protected…

Persia and China: Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1501-1738

Crowe, Yolande · 2002 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€400.00 ($440.88 | £333.66 | ¥70,412)

Book Near Fine Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition La Borie English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 25.5 x 32.5 cm; 2.5 kg; 314 pages with black and white illustrations and a few in colour.; Minor signs of wear on the dust jacket. Signed by the author with dedication to a previ…

COWPER, Illustrated by a Series of Views, In, or Near, The Park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks.

(Cowper). · 1803 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£1,000.00 (€1,198.83 | $1,321.36 | ¥211,030)

Vernor and Hood ...James Storer and John Greig ... 1803. 1st Ed. Large paper copy. 11.5 x 8.5 inches. Additional engraved title page, 12 plates engraved by Grieg and Storer after their illustrations. Light age toning, rebound in C20th gilt fillet edged red half calf with brown c…

ALMANACH DES GOURMANDS, Servant de Guide dans les Moyens de Faire Excellente Chêre; Par un Vieil Amateur.

Grimod de la Reynière, Alexandre Balthazar Laurent. · 1804 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£1,850.00 (€2,217.84 | $2,444.52 | ¥390,405)

A Paris Chez Maradan ... 1804-1812. Mixed Edition. Volume 1 3rd Ed. Volume 2, and 3, 2nd Ed. Volume 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 1st Eds. 8 vols. 12mo. Engraved frontiss. Half titles present. French text. Inner gilt dentelles, marbled e.ps. and edges, exquisitely bound in contemporary cats…

REFORMATIO LEGVM ECCLESIASTICARVM, ex authoritate primum Regis Henrici. 8. inchoata: deinde per Regem Edouardum 6. prouecta, adaucta'q[ue] in hunc modum, atq, nunc ad pleniorem ipsarum reformationem in lucem ædita.

[Cranmer, Thomas]. · 1571 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£1,500.00 (€1,798.25 | $1,982.04 | ¥316,544)

Londini : Ex officina Iohannis Daij, anno salutis humanae, 1571. Mense Aprili. 1st Ed. Sm. 4to. 19 x 13.5cm. [9], 149, [3] leaves. [Lacking blank before text]. Title page within decorative border and with John Day’s device, historiated/floriated intitial letters, dec. head and t…

King Arthur and the Battle for Britannia: Dux Bellorum and the Kings of the Britons

Tony Sullivan · 2024 · Winkles Books

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,216)

Book New New 1st Edition Pen & Sword History Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall The final book in a series researching if King Arthur is a legitimate historical figure or a mythologized legend. King Arthur and the Battle for Britannia is the last in a series of three books. The …

King Arthur and the Battle for Britannia: Dux Bellorum and the Kings of the Britons

Tony Sullivan · 2024 · Winkles Books

£10.50 (€12.59 | $13.87 | ¥2,216)

Book New New 1st Edition Pen & Sword History Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall The final book in a series researching if King Arthur is a legitimate historical figure or a mythologized legend. King Arthur and the Battle for Britannia is the last in a series of three books. The …

La Sepmaine ov Creation dv monde de Gvillavme De Salvste, seignevr dv Bartas. Reueuë & corrigée par l'auteur. Auec commentaires, argumens, & annotations, par Simon Govlard de Senlis.

Bartas,Guillaume (in full: Guillaume de Saluste du Bartas). · 1583 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€800.00 ($881.77 | £667.32 | ¥140,823)

A Paris, Chez Michel Gadovleau, M.D. LXXXIII. [1583]. [16] preliminary leaves, 452 pp. - [FOLLOWED BY:] Idem. La Iudith de G. de Saluste Seigneur Du Bartas, reueuë & augmentee d'argumens, sommaires & annotations. Ibid, Ibid, 1583. 168 pp. Bount together in contemp. full vellum b…

Nederlandsche vogelen 1770-1829. Met inleiding en wetenschappelijke inhoudsopgave. [First edition].

Nozeman,Cornelius, Martinus Houttuyn & Christiaan Sepp. · 2014 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€235.00 ($259.02 | £196.02 | ¥41,367)

Tielt, Lannoo & The Hague, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 2014. 5 parts in 1 vol. 816 pp. 250 (full-page) col. plts. Orig. boards. Folio. [54 x 36 cm]. - One corner of cover with very light shelfwear.Facsimile of: Nederlandsche vogelen; volgens hunne huishouding, aert, en eigenschappe…

The paintings of Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1617). A monograph and catalogue raisonné.

GOLTZIUS,HENDRICK. Nichols,Lawrence W. · 2013 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€125.00 ($137.78 | £104.27 | ¥22,004)

Doornspijk, Davaco Publishers, 2013. 466 pp. 207 plts & ills (145 in colour). Orig. hardcover, d./j. (Aetas Aurea. Monographs on Dutch & Flemisch Painting, Vol. XXIII). - - New copy !!This long-awaited volume is a comprehensive study of the paintings of Hendrick Goltzius (1558-1…

[Juvenile] The Wonders of the Telescope. By the Author of "The Wonders of the Microscope"

[PHILLIPS, Sir Richard, 1767-1840] · 0 · Fine Editions Ltd

$499.00 (€452.73 | £377.64 | ¥79,693)

London William Darton & Son, Holborn Hill Scarce early edition of this beautifully illustrated children's book. 12mo (144 x 89 mm): iv,5-156pp, with folding engraved frontispiece of the solar system and 13 further plates, most folding and all but two dated 1823. Of special note …

Travels through Spain, in the Years 1775 and 1776. In which Several Monuments of Roman and Moorish Architecture are illustrated by Accurate Drawings taken on the Spot [R. J. Hayhurst's copy]

SWINBURNE, Henry (1743-1803) · 1779 · Fine Editions Ltd

$2,149.00 (€1,949.72 | £1,626.35 | ¥343,209)

London Printed for P. Elmsly, in the Strand A superb First Edition (in period binding) of this account of a sojourn to Spain, "an exact investigation of the soil, cultivation, government, commerce, and manners." 4to (283 x 220mm): xv,[1],427,[15]pp, with folding engraved map and…

[Geology] XI. An Account of Observations, made by Lord Webb Seymour and Professor Playfair, upon some Geological Appearances in Glen Tilt, and the adjacent Country [Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]

SEYMOUR, Lord Webb (1777-1819); PLAYFAIR, Professor John (1748-1819) · 1815 · Fine Editions Ltd

$251.00 (€227.72 | £189.96 | ¥40,086)

Edinburgh and London Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. and Cadell and Davies Original article disbound from Volume VII of Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (not a reprint, facsimile reproduction, or photocopy). Roman numerals preceding title refer to order of …

[Fox Hunting] [Sports and Pastimes] A panorama of the progress of human life : fashionably displayed, illustrating "Shakespeare's Ages" and exhibiting the manners, costume, character and field sports of the English people ; the whole illustrative of modern character, in a series of many hundred moving figures [Signed]

ALKEN, Henry Thomas (1785-1851); C. F. G. R. Schwerdt (introduces) · 1930 · Fine Editions Ltd

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.60 | ¥31,782)

London published by S. and J. Fuller, 34 Rathbone Place / privately printed [by Waterlow & Sons Limited] by the Author of "Hunting Hawking Shooting" First Edition thus First Paperback Edition of Alken's most detailed work, the forerunner of Nimrod's The Life of a Sportsman. Oblo…

The Merchant of Yonkers : A Play [Hello Dolly!]

WILDER, Thornton (1897-1975) · 1939 · Fine Editions Ltd

$499.00 (€452.73 | £377.64 | ¥79,693)

New York Harper & Brothers First Printing First Edition (so stated) of Wilder's classic play and basis for "Hello Dolly." 8vo: [8],180pp. Publisher's peach-colored cloth, burgundy title block stamped gilt laid onto spine and front cover; illustrated end papers by Donald McKay, w…

[Maritime] Traité complet de la navigation : contenant les propositions & pratiques de geometrie, de la sphere & d'astronomie, les tables du mouvement du soleil . . . & plusieurs autres, nouvellement calculées, & reformées pour le siecle prochain . . . les regles generales de la navigation . . . avec des cartes marines . . . le tout clairement expliqué . . . [the Streeter copy]

BOUGUER, Jean (d. 1714) · 1698 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,774.00 (€1,609.50 | £1,342.55 | ¥283,319)

A Paris, et se vend à Nantes chez P. de Heugueville, marchand libraire, à la Bible d'Or. Et chez l'auteur, au Croisic First Edition Rare First Edition of this early treatise on navigation (all of which, especially those of the Bougeurs, Jean and his son Pierre, have become incr…

Wessex Poems and Other Verses

HARDY, Thomas (1840-1928) · 1898 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,024.00 (€929.05 | £774.96 | ¥163,539)

London Harper & Brothers, 45 Albemarle Street First Edition First Impression of the author's first collection of poems, one of only 500 copies. Crown 8vo (200 x 131mm): xi,[1],228pp, with 31 illustrations (13 full-page, including frontispiece) reproduced from drawings by Hardy. …

A dictionary of the first, or oldest words in the English language: from the semi-Saxon period of A.D. 1250 to 1300. Containing an alphabetical inventory of every word found in the printed English literature of the 13th century

COLERIDGE, Herbert (1830-1861) · 1863 · Fine Editions Ltd

$476.00 (€431.86 | £360.23 | ¥76,020)

London John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly First Edition thus First Edition (under this title) of this "foundation stone" of The New English Dictionary. Slim demy 8vo (219 x 139mm); vii,[1],102,[2]pp. Contemporary green quarter roan over marbled paper-covered boards, recent red leat…

Mosquitoes : A Novel

FAULKNER, William (1897-1962) · 19271933 · Fine Editions Ltd

$551.00 (€499.91 | £416.99 | ¥87,998)

New York Liveright Publishing Corporation Second Edition of Faulkner's second novel, set in New Orleans and following a group of artists on a four-day yacht excursion on Lake Pontchartrain. Crown 8vo (186 x 125mm): [10],9-349,[1]pp, "apparently from the original plates." (Peters…