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The Director Should've Shot You: Limited Trade Edition #/1000

Foster, Alan Dean · 2021 · Pat Cramer, Bookseller

$79.50 (€72.13 | £60.18 | ¥12,695)

Book New New First Edition/First Printing Centipede Press A square solid tight clean unread unopened copy still in publisher's original shrink wrap. SYNOPSIS Few people have aggravated as many major film studios as author Alan Dean Foster. A Grand Master of Media Tie-In…

Guests: Signed Limited Slipcased Artist Edition #/750

Burke, Kealan Patrick · 2022 · Pat Cramer, Bookseller

$309.50 (€280.81 | £234.27 | ¥49,423)

Book As New Fine Signed by Author(s) First Edition/First Printing Suntup Editions A square solid tight clean unread unused copy. A child who can turn your reality into an unspeakable nightmare. A monster from childhood with wire-hangers for hands. A baby blanket that will suck…

His Finest Hours. The War Speeches of Winston Churchill.

STEWART, Graham · 2007 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Quercus Publishing 2007, 207pp. Illustrated. Hardcover, with dust jacket. 27x19,5cm. In very good condition. The greatest British statesman and a truly outstanding orator, Winston Churchill steered his nation through the bloodiest war in history. His famous speeches raised the m…

Irisses - Basilius Besler, 1613

Besler-- Basilius · 1613 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€1,750.00 ($1,928.82 | £1,459.97 | ¥308,007)

THREE IRISES FROM THE HORTUS EYSTETTENSIS "Iris lutea variegata Lobelij", "Iris latifolia decima Clusii", and "Pseudo Iris palustris". Copper engraving from the "Hortus Eystettensis" by Basilius Besler, published in Nuremberg in 1613. Coloured by a later hand. Size (platemark):…

Southeast Asia - Hondius/Janssonius, 1647

Hondius-- Henricus · 1636 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€1,950.00 ($2,149.25 | £1,626.82 | ¥343,208)

Indiae que Orientalis dicitur, et Insulae Adiacentes, copper engraving first published by Henricus Hondius/Johannses Janssonius [Jansson] in 1636, here from the Atlas Novus edition of 1647. With original hand colouring. Verso: Latin text. Size: 39,8 x 49,2 cm. Henricus Hondius' …

Spain and Portugal - Frederick de Wit, ca. 1680

Wit-- Frederick de (1630-1706) · 1680 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€475.00 ($523.54 | £396.28 | ¥83,602)

SPAIN AND PORTUGAL “Accuratissima Totius Regni Hispaniae Tabula”. Copper engraving published c. 1680 by Frederick de Wit in Amsterdam. With original hand colouring. Size: 50 x 58,5 cm. Attractive full color example of this rare map of Spain, Portugal and the Baleric Islands, col…

Oxford University - William Woollett, 1755

1755 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€275.00 ($303.10 | £229.42 | ¥48,401)

BALLIOL COLLEGE AND TRINITY COLLEGE, OXFORD, 1755 “A View of Baliol College, Trinity College, &c. in the University of Oxford”. Etching and engraving by William Woollett after a drawing by architect and draughtsman John Donowell, published in London by John Tinney in February…

Closer to Vermeer

Loon, Annelies van & Pieter Roelofs e.a.: · 2025 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€69.95 ($77.10 | £58.36 | ¥12,311)

07 2025, (21,5 x 26,5 cm), 432 pp. English, full colour ills., hardcover. Closer to Vermeer explores the world of Johannes Vermeer, a painter whose work continues to fascinate more than 350 years after his death. Taking the landmark 2023 Rijksmuseum exhibition as a point of depa…

Wild Flowers Month by Month in their Natural Haunts. Vol. 1-2

Step, E. · 1905 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Frederick Warne London [vi], 200, [vi], 199, [1], 2 col frontispeices, 192 b/w plates, b/w photos. . HB. 2 vols bound in 1, 8vo, cont. half morocco, rubbed/worn, raised bands to spine, marbled endpapers + edges. Some foxing. Good. With bookplate of British lepidopterist, Paul So…

How to Read a Tree: Clues & Patterns from Roots to Leaves

Gooley, T. · 2023 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£22.00 (€26.37 | $29.07 | ¥4,641)

Sceptre 320, 16 plates with col photos, b/w illus. 350x218mm. HB. NEW. . Do two trees ever appear identical? No, but why? Every small difference is a clue.Each tree we meet is filled with signs that reveal secrets about the life of that tree and the landscape we stand in. The cl…

The Last Butterflies: A Scientist's Quest to Save a Rare and Vanishing Creature

Haddad, N. · 2019 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£16.50 (€19.78 | $21.80 | ¥3,481)

Princeton University Press 264, 16 col plates + 7 b/w illus. . HB. NEW. . A remarkable look at the rarest butterflies, how global changes threaten their existence, and how we can bring them back from near-extinction.Most of us have heard of such popular butterflies as the Monarc…

Lakes, Loughs & Lochs (New Naturalist 128)

Moss, B. · 2015 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

Harper Collins 452, 200 col illus. . HB. NEW. . Another volume in the popular New Naturalist series, this book gives a comprehensive account of the natural history of Britain and Ireland's inland waters, many of which are popular holiday destinations.The study of life in British…

History of British Birds. Vol. I: Land Birds [and] Vol. II: Water Birds

Bewick, Thomas · Pemberley Natural History Books

£500.00 (€599.33 | $660.57 | ¥105,484)

Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick / Printed by Charles Henry Cook, for R.E. Bewick Newcastle xxx, [2], 335 [1]; xxii, 424, numerous wood engravings, vignettes, etc.. . HB. 2 vols, roy. 8vo (230x14.5mm), 19th-century full green morocco, gilt-ruled borders, raised bands…

Birds Drawn from Nature

Blackburn, Mrs Hugh [Jemima Wedderburn Blackburn] · 1862 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£2,200.00 (€2,637.05 | $2,906.51 | ¥464,132)

Edmonston & Douglas Edinburgh 6, hand-col title page, 22 hand-col plates. . HB. Folio (380x270mm), rebacked and recased in original publisher's lithographed boards, lightly soiled, corners restored. Letterpress leaves browned. Small marginal stain to the edge of the title-page a…

Synopsis of the Natural History of Great-Britain and Ireland. Containing a Systematic Arrangement and Concise Description of all the Animals, Vegetables, and Fossils, which have hitherto been discovered in these Kingdoms. Vol. I-II

Berkenhout, John · 1795 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

Printed for T. Cadell London 19, [1], 334; [4], 466, . . HB. 2 vols, small 8vo (186x120mm), contemporary tree calf, decorative gilt-tooled border to boards, gilt rules to spines, red leather title pieces. Minor rubbing to extremities. Internally very clean. An attractively bound…

A Dictionary of Chemistry and Mineralogy, with an account of the processes employed in many of the most important chemical manufactures. To which are added a description of chemical apparatus, and various useful tables of weights and measures, chemical in

Aikin, A.; Aikin, C.R. · 1807 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£850.00 (€1,018.86 | $1,122.97 | ¥179,324)

Printed for John and Arthur Arch; and William Phillips London vii, [1], 628, [4], 119; [iv], 580, (119)-176, 16 engraved plates. . HB. 2 vols, large 4to (274x218mm), later, 20th century half calf (St Michael's Abbey, 1979), raised bands to spine, gilt rules and titles, marbled b…

Ismailïa: A Narrative of the Expedition to Central Africa for the Suppression of the Slave Trade organized by Ismail, Khedive of Egypt. Vol. I-II

Baker, S.W. · 1874 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£950.00 (€1,138.73 | $1,255.08 | ¥200,421)

MacMillan and Co. London viii, 447, [1] + 55-ads; viii, 588, 2 portrait frontispieces, 2 col maps (1 folding), 50 engraved plates. . HB. 2 vols, 8vo (230x140mm), orig. green cloth, gilt titles and decoration to spines, gilt panels enclosing gilt-blocked design of a camel caravan…

Les Papillons: leur histoire, la manière de leur faire la chasse et de les conserver; Ouvrage amusant et instructif, Orné de Figures représentant un choix des plus beaux Papillons d'Europe. Dédiée à la Jeunesse

[Balland, Eugène Amédée] · 1823 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£450.00 (€539.40 | $594.51 | ¥94,936)

Blanchard et Lecerf Paris [4], ii, 74, [2], hand-col engraved frontis, 6 hand-col engraved plates. . HB. Oblong small quarto (194x252mm), recent green half calf, gt, marbled boards, original printed pink paper wrappers retained.. A rare and charming work by the Parisian booksell…

A General History of Quadrupeds [with] A History of British Birds. Vol. I-II

Bewick, Thomas · Pemberley Natural History Books

£750.00 (€898.99 | $990.85 | ¥158,227)

Printed by Edward Walker, for T. Bewick / Printed by Sol. Hodgson, for Beilby & Bewick Newcastle upon Tyne viii, 456; xxx, [2], 335, [1]; xx, 400, woodcuts to text. . HB. 3 vols, demy 8vo (213x138mm), uniform cont. mottled calf, gilt-ruled and blind-stamped decorative borders, g…

Essai sur l'Histoire naturelle des Corallines,... qu'on trouve communement sur les Cotes de la Grande-Bretagne et d'Irlande; Auquel on a joint une Description d'un Grand Polype de Mer, pris aupres du Pole Arctique, par des Pecheurs de Baleine, pendant l'E

Ellis, John · 1756 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£775.00 (€928.96 | $1,023.88 | ¥163,501)

Pierre de Hondt The Hague xvi, 125, (3), frontispiece, title printed in red & black, 39 engraved plates (5 folding). . HB. 4to, cont. full calf, sympathetically rebacked, raised bands, gilt decoration to spine compartments and leather title piece, corners repaired. Some light fo…