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"Rikka Imayõ Sugata" (Manual of Ikebana Arrangement). Eight volumes. Kyoto, Nakano, Jõkyõ 5 (1688).

FUSHUNKEN, SENKEI: · 1684 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€7,000.00 ($7,715.45 | £5,839.02 | ¥1,232,205)

Large 8vo (22 x 30 cm). Lvs. 25, 23, 25, 22, 22, 21, 17, 24. Text in Japanese with numerous b/w illustrations. A few leaves in volume seven have a small marginal wormhole, otherwise internally fine. Bound in the Japanese fashion (fukuro-toji). Original decorated paper wrappers, …

Chōsen ko tōjiki-shū 朝鮮古陶磁器集 Collection of antique Korean ceramics. Kyoto, Unsõdo, Taisho 13 (1924).

SAWADA, SEICHIRO (SAWADA, KENDÕ) (Artist & Ed.): · 1920 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€2,000.00 ($2,204.41 | £1,668.29 | ¥352,058)

Oblong album with 32 leaves folded in the Japanese fashion. With thirty double-page illustrations of Korean ceramics and/or porcelain. Beautiful woodcuts printed in various gentle colours with captions in Japanese. Some discolouration. Original decorated paper wrappers, lightly …

Bref, til en vän i Sverige, innehållande historisk och geographisk beskrifning öfver colonien Sierra Leona i Afrika; jämte S.L. compagniets och coloniens formerande; ... Part one (all publ.). Stockholm, Kumelinska Tryckeriet, 1801.

[SIERRA LEONE] PADENHEIM, DANIEL WILHELM: · 1790 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

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

Pp. 130. Contemporary half calf on marbled boards, flat spine richly decorated in gilt and with title labels, rubbed. Bookplate and old ownership signature on front endpaper. Some staining. First edition, second issue, of a scarce Swedish work. Padenheim joined the Sierra Leon…

Salvia formosa. Plate XXI from: Stirpes novae, aut minus cognitae, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit.

Redouté, P.J. [in C.L. L'héritier de Brutelle] · 1786 · Hermann L. Strack, Antiquarian Book Dealer

€154.00 ($169.74 | £128.46 | ¥27,109)

1786 Handcoloured engraved plate drawn by Redouté and engraved by Jean-Baptiste Devisse, broadsheet or large imperial folio (45 x 60 cm). Uncut. Paper age-toned. With two, unobtrusive small traces of watercolour (one in the margin and one in the imprint area), which makes me bel…

Cheiranthus quadrangulus. Plate XLIV 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

€253.00 ($278.86 | £211.04 | ¥44,535)

1788 Handcoloured engraved plate drawn by Redouté and engraved by Jean-Baptiste Devisse, broadsheet or large imperial folio (42 x 60 cm). With right edge cut 2-3 cm shorter (remainder uncut), probably due to a paper accident causing loss of paper on the (blank) right margin (rep…

Robinia chamlagu. Plate LXXVII from: Stirpes novae, aut minus cognitae, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit.

Redouté, P.J. [in C.L. L'héritier de Brutelle] · 1791 · Hermann L. Strack, Antiquarian Book Dealer

€308.00 ($339.48 | £256.92 | ¥54,217)

1791 Handcoloured engraved plate drawn by Redouté and engraved by Claude Baron, broadsheet or large imperial folio (44 x 60 cm). Uncut. With marginal, unobtrusive small traces of watercolour (also at the back), which makes me believe that this plate (and the other ten I have for…

Plectranthus fruticosus. Plate XLI 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

€275.00 ($303.11 | £229.39 | ¥48,408)

1788 Handcoloured engraved plate drawn by Redouté and engraved by Pierre Maleuvre, 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…

Sida crassifolia. Plate LX from: Stirpes novae, aut minus cognitae, quas descriptionibus et iconibus illustravit.

Redouté, P.J. [in C.L. L'héritier de Brutelle] · 1789 · Hermann L. Strack, Antiquarian Book Dealer

€308.00 ($339.48 | £256.92 | ¥54,217)

1789 Handcoloured engraved plate drawn by Redouté and engraved by Pierre Maleuvre, broadsheet or large imperial folio (44 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…

Stories from a Sacred Landscape: Croghan Hill to Clonmacnoise

O'BRIEN, CAIMIN · 2006 · Round Table Books, LLC

$300.00 (€272.18 | £227.04 | ¥47,912)

Tullamore, Offaly, Ireland: Offaly County Council / Mercier Press, 2006. 185635489X. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 185635489X. Illustrated by James Fraher, et al.. Publisher's full black cloth, silver lettering and decoration on spine and cover, black endpapers. …

ILLUSTRATED LETTERSHEET. Hotel at Matagorda, Texas

[Texas Ephemera]. Holtz, Helmuth [1833 - 1915] - Artist · 1860 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$269.50 (€244.51 | £203.96 | ¥43,041)

Hamburg: Ed. Lang, (n. d.). Ca early 1860s. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Single sheet, lined horizontally, unused. 7 b/w wood-engraved images at top, 6 captioned; the entire "Drawn from nature by Helmuth Holtz". The 6 views of Matagorda township including; the ch…

Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine - May 12, 1956, Volume 69, Number 10 - Golf Wife Moreen Balding / Christpher Plummer

ORR, MRS. MARY; COLLINS, ROBERT; GRIFFIN, ALICE; TYRWHITT, JANICE; HUTCHISON, BRUCE; MCLEOD, DUNCAN; CRONIN, FERGUS; NASH, JOHN; STAEBLER, EDNA; FRAYNE, TRENT; STEPHENSON, BILL; ROE, IVAN; HAIG-BROWN, RODERICK · 1956 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.20 | ¥39,927)

Toronto: Maclean-Hunter Publishing Company Limited, 1956. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Little, John. Features: Cover art by John Little shows ballerina on urban balcony; Let's face our color problems first - editorial says Canadian smugly look across the …

Mcclure's Magazine, February 1904, Vol. XXII, No. 4: The History of the Standard Oil Company - Cutting to Kill

TARBELL, IDA; BAKER, RAY STANNARD; SCHELL, FRANK H. · 1904 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

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

USA: The S.S. McClure Co, 1904. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. First appearance of Cutting to Kill, later issued as Chapter 3 of Part 2 of Ida Tarbell's ground-breaking History of the Standard Oil Company. This 14-page chapter deals with J.D. Rockefeller's fervent desire …

The Child: Works by Gottfried Helnwein

Johnson, Robert · 2004 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

San Francisco, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, 2004. Hardcover. Blue cloth casebound book with light blue text down the spine. Pages: (6), 7-149, (1). Profusely illustrated with color images. Signed by the artist on the last page. This is numbered 684 of 1500. "The Fine Arts …

Italian Paintings of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

De Grazia, Diane and Eric Garberson · 1996 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Washington, DC, The National Gallery of Art, 1996. Hardbound. Copper cloth with gold lettering and illus. dj; 392 pp. with 54 color plates and 79 bw illustrations. With extensive text and notes on each individual work of art. Text in English. The National Gallery's collection of…

A Railway History of New Shildon: From George Stephenson to the Present Day

George Turner Smith · 2019 · Winkles Books

£7.50 (€8.99 | $9.91 | ¥1,583)

Book New New 1st Edition Pen & Sword Transport Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall On the 27th September 1825, the first public railway steam train left New Shildon for Stockton-on-Tees. The driver was George Stephenson and the engine he was driving was the Locomotion No.1'. It s…

Megalithic Research in the Netherlands, 1547-1911. From 'Giant's Beds' and 'Pillars of Hercules' to accurate investigations.

BAKKER, J.A., · 2010 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€32.00 ($35.27 | £26.69 | ¥5,633)

Sidestone Press, Leiden, 2010. VII,317p. Large paperback. Spine with light reading trace. With gift intention and signature from the author to Wout Arentzen. From the library of the late archaeologist Wout Arentzen. ‘From many perspectives, Jan Bakker’s new book on megalithic r…

Opera Omnia. Cura et studio M.M. Kors. Cum epistoloram translatione H. Rolfson.

GERLACUS PETERS, · 1996 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€180.00 ($198.40 | £150.15 | ¥31,685)

Brepols, Turnhout, 1996. 580p. Original gilt stamped terra-cotta cloth. Upper edge publisher's stained. small sticker glued to paste-down endpaper. Series: Corpus Christianorum, Continuatio Mediaevalis CLV. Gerlach Peters (d. 1411) was a member of the so-called Devotio moderna.…

The Greek Phoenix.

BRADDOCK, J., · 1972 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,873)

Constable, London, 1972. 1st ed. XII,233p. Original red hard bound with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Dust wrps protected with adapta-roll. Small stamp on paste-down endpaper. ‘Regrettably, at least for the serious historian, Joseph Braddock’s ‘Greek Phoenix’ adds another title…

Geld und Wirtschaft im Römischen Reich des vierten Jahrhunderts n. Chr.

MICKWITZ, G., · 1965 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.22 | ¥11,442)

Hakkert, Amsterdam, 1965. Photomechanical reprint ed.1932. XV,232p. Original red gilt titled cloth. Ex libris stamp TR on title page. Upper corner pp.first pages till p.XV slightly creased. Some pencil underlinings and strikes from TR. (Rare). ‘This is an important contribution…

VIRGIL. Bucolica. Georgica. Aeneis.

KLINGNER, F., · 1967 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

Artemis Verlag, Zürich / Stuttgart, 1967. 607p. Original blue cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Dust wrps to spine a bit stained and to head spine a bit damaged (repaired with acid free adhesive tape). ‘Obviously, this big book is an event: here is Klingner’s mature judg…