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James Baldwin / Living in Fire

Bill Mullen · 2019 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Pluto Press. 2019, hardcover with dust jacket, good cond.. <b>"A scrupulous biography."―<i>Publishers Weekly</i></b> <p><b>"A fresh, incisive, and uplifting biography."―<i>Kirkus</i></b> <p> Bill Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great American writer who …

Institutionum dialecticarum libri octo. Emendatius quam antehac editi. Quibus accesit eiusdem auctoris Isagogae philosophica. Cum librorum argumentis, indice copiosissimo capitum & rerum.

FONSECA, PEDRO DA (PETRUS FONSECA) · 1611 · Antiquariaat Isis, NVvA/ILAB

€950.00 ($1,047.07 | £792.55 | ¥167,204)

Ingolstadt, Adam Sartorius, 1611. Frontispiece. Vignettes. Vellum. 8vo (II), 684 (34) pp. binding loosening (contains a small wrapper of an old medieval manuscript ), librarysticker inside 'Residentiae Culemburgensis S.J.', otherwise good condition 'Pedro da Fonseca, (Societas …

Better Angels of Our Nature. The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes

Steven Pinker, Steven Pinker · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; PEN, Penguin LCC US; Paperback met fris en schoon binnenwerk. Recht boekblok. Gave omslag. Voorplat wipt lichtjes omhoog. Omslag heeft gebruiksspoortjes. -- Conditie: Redelijk; This riveting, myth-destroying book reveals how, contrary to popular belief, humankind has …

Die Milch Strasse - Rosei, Peter

Rosei, Peter · Klondyke BV

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Pocket; 306pp.; Conditie: Goed; This book is not really a novel (but then many 20th century novels are not really novels) but rather seven linked short stories (the seventh being letters to Ellis from the six characters, a sort of update on where they are). The link is Ellis who…

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Virtual Teams: Make a Success of Your Virtual Global Workforce.. 2014

Paul Frederick Alexander · 2017 · Klondyke BV

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Paperback; 2017; Solomon Key Publishing; 100pp.; Conditie: Goed; Think you know what it takes to run a successful virtual team? You may want to think again. Managing team members you have never met face-to-face, but who are key to your business, presents a unique challenge. Don'…

Popes. A History

John Julius Norwich, Viscount John Julius Norwich · 2011 · Klondyke BV

€11.00 ($12.12 | £9.18 | ¥1,936)

Pocket; 2011; Vintage Publishing; 528pp.; Gebonden boek (in prima staat) met losse stofomslag (wat gelig + lichte gebruiksspoortjes) -- Conditie: Goed; Well known for his histories of Norman Sicily, Venice, the Byzantine Empire and the Mediterranean, John Julius Norwich has now …

Children of the Mind

Orson Scott Card, Scott Orson · 1997 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 1e druk, 1997; Tor Science Fiction; 370pp.; Tor pocket mass market ed. 1997/1. Fris en schoon binnenwerk. Licht scheef gelezen boekblok, met fijne leeslijntjes. Randen omslag met hier en daar een plekje slijtage / gebruiksspoortje. -- Conditie: Goed; Orson Scott Card …

Misbehaving. The Making of Behavioural Economics

Richard H. Thaler, Richard H. Thaler · 2016 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2016; Audible Studios On Brilliance Audio; 432pp.; Penguin, 2016, met fris en schoon binnenwerk. Recht boekblok. Omslag met scherpe randen en rechte hoeken. Rug met een leeslijntje en wat verschoten. -- Conditie: Goed; When economics meets psychology, the imp…

Pomona: or, the Fruit-Garden Illustrated. containing sure methods for improving all the best kinds of fruits now extant in England : calculated from great variety of experiments made in all kinds of soils and aspects : wherein the manner of raising young stocks, grafting, inoculating, planting, &c. are clearly and fully demonstrated : with directions I. for pruning... II. For nailing... III. For preserving... IV. Rules for the thinning... V. For preserving... VI. To give them their true taste an

LANGLEY (Batty) · 1729 · Forest Books

£2,897.13 (€3,472.67 | $3,827.51 | ¥611,204)

London: Printed for G. Strahan, 1729. First edition, folio (392 x 260 mm), xviii, 150pp., title printed in red and black, 79 numbered engraved plates several on double leaves, old neat paper repair to verso of plate xxv, slightly offset onto the following plate xxvi, plate Liii …

The Derbyshire Miners’ Glossary; or, An explanation of the technical terms of the miners, which are used in the King's Field, in the hundred of High Peak, in the County of Derby, and in the open customary lordships within the same; of those also within the Soc or Wapentake of Wirksworth or Low Peak. together with the mineral laws and customs. To which is subjoined, an appendix, containing the customaries or bye-laws, made and confirmed at the barmote courts, held within the manors of High and Lo

MANDER (James) · 1824 · Forest Books

£510.63 (€612.07 | $674.61 | ¥107,727)

Bakewell: Printed at the Minerva Press, for the author, by Geo. Nall, 1824. First edition, royal 8vo (256 x 160 mm), iv, [12], 131, [1]pp., with a list of subscribers, one of 100 large paper copies printed on ‘superfine royal paper’, woodcut frontispiece, contemporary printed bo…

A Description of all the Bursae Mucosae of the Human Body; their structure explained, and compared with that of the capsular ligaments of the joints, and of those sacs which line the cavities of the thorax and abdomen; with remarks on the Accidents and Diseases which affect those several Sacs, and on the Operations necessary for their cure. Illustrated with tables.

MONRO (Alexander, secundus) · 1788 · Forest Books

£1,021.25 (€1,224.13 | $1,349.21 | ¥215,452)

Edinburgh: Printed for C. Elliot, T. Kay, and Co., 1788. First Edition, folio (470 x 290 mm), [5], 6-60pp., 10 engraved plates (4 folding on 2 sheets joined) after A. Fyfe and Thomas Donaldson, plates II and III with short tears not touching the image, plate V a little creased w…

raxis Geometriae, worinnen nicht nur alle bey dem Feld-Messen vorkommende Fälle, mit Stäben, dem Astrolabio, der Boussole, und der Mensul, in Ausmessung eintzeler Linien, Flächen und gantzer Revier, welche ... eine Land-Carte ausmachen, auf ebenen Boden und Gebürgen, die Abnehmung derer Höhen und Wasser-Fälle, nebst beygefügten practische Hand-Griffen, deutlich erörtert... Neunte Edition. With: (2) PENTHER, Johann Friedrich. Zugabe zur Praxi Geometriae, worinn noch verschiedene zur ausübenden Geometria nützliche Stücke, dabey auch zweyerley Arten architectonische Schnecken ... zu zeichnen angeweisen werden, und endlich eine Zusammensetzung einer guten Wasser Waage, wie auch derselben Gebrauch mitgetheilet wird. Augsburg, J.M. Probst, 1788-1790. 2 parts in 1 volume. Folio. With 2 engraved frontispieces, second title-page with half-page engraved town view, and 39 folding engraved plates. Contemporary half calf.

PENTHER, Johann Friedrich. · 1693 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

[6], 97, [5]; 55 pp.Ninth edition of "one of the most popular German works on surveying" (Sotheran). Johann Friedrich Penther (1693-1749), professor of mathematics and economy at the university of Göttingen) deals with geometry and its application in surveying. He discusses the …

Alt-orientalische Teppiche.Vienna & Leipzig, Anton Schroll & Co. and Karl W. Hiersemann for the Österreichischen Museum für Kunst und Industrie, 1926-1928. 2 volumes bound as 4. Imperial folio (60.5 x 44 cm). With 120 collotype plates (67 colour and 53 black & white, 7 of the latter double-page) by Max Jaffé (1845-1939), and 14 wood-engraved full-page illustrations on the integral leaves. Later half calf with cloth sides.

SARRE, Friedrich and Hermann TRENKWALD. · 1936 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,500.00 ($8,266.36 | £6,257.00 | ¥1,320,032)

21, [3], [29]; [31]; 43, [28]; [32] pp.First and only edition of "the most important recent publication with wonderful reproductions of the best known carpets" (Ettinghausen 1936), here in very good condition, rebound in 4 high quality half calf volumes. The project was initiate…

Marine militaire ou recueil des differens vaisseaux qui servent a la guerre suivis des manoeuvres qui ont le plus de raport au combat ainsi qua l'ataque et la deffense des ports.Paris, Chereau, [ca. 1775]. Large 8vo (25 x 17 cm). A wholly engraved book, with 50 engraved plates (1 folding), including a title-page in an architectural frame and 44 leaves with illustrations of ships. 18th-century brown half morocco, with owner's (?) initials at the foot of the spine "I.G.".

OZANNE, Nicolas-Marie. · 1728 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

50 engraved ll.Second edition of a wholly engraved and well-illustrated account of battleships, other naval vessels, and naval manoeuvres. The title-page is followed by two leaves containing the "Avertissement" and a table of contents, leaves 4 to 50 illustrate and describe batt…

Mémoires de littérature, tirés des registres de l'Academie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.... tome quarante-huitième.Including: SILVESTRE DE SACY, Antoine Isaac. Mémoire sur divers événemens de l'histoire des Arabes avant Mahomet.Paris, Imprimerie Impériale, 1808. 4to. Set in roman, italic, Greek and Arabic type. With a folding engraved plate of a Greek inscription and 5 letterpress tables. Contemporary half calf.

SILVESTRE DE SACY, Antoine-Isaac, and others. · 1758 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

[1], [1 blank], [1], [1 blank], IV, 775 784 pp.Early work of the famous French orientalist Silvestre de Sacy (1758-1838), printed in a collection of articles by members of the French Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres. In his article, read before an audience in 1…

Perspectiva hierinnen auffs kürtzte beschrieben ...Nürnberg, Dietrich Gerlach, 1571. Small folio (29 x 19 cm). With the title within a woodcut border, 10 full-page woodcuts within collation and 1 double-page woodcut within collation (the latter not included in page numbering). Decorated black and red boards (ca. 1900).

LENCKER, Hans. · 1523 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)

[6], XXIX ll.First and only edition of a well illustrated manual on perspective by the Nuremberg goldsmith Hans Lencker (1523-1585), intended for craftsmen. It was the technical counterpart to Lencker's playful Perspectiva literaria (1567) and it would earn him a position at the…

[Herbier de champignons].[Paris and Maison-Laffitte], 1862-1912. 4to & folded folio leaves in a 4to portfolio (23 x 18 cm). A mushroom herbarium comprising samples of 23 varieties of mushroom, each mounted on paper, with manuscript notes and an occasional pencil drawing, the two earliest mounted and written on a pre-printed form. Loosely inserted in a contemporary half green cloth portfolio.

[HERBARIUM - MUSHROOMS]. BERTILLON, [Louis-Adolphe] & F[rançois]. · 1862 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,500.00 ($1,653.27 | £1,251.40 | ¥264,006)

[26] ll., the 2 folio ll. folded in half.A collection of original samples of 23 varieties of mushroom, mounted on paper leaves or bifolia and dried, with manuscript notes providing information about the samples and with an occasional pencil drawing. Most give the name of the mus…

Supplementum chronicarum.Brescia, Boninus de Boninis, 1. XII. 1485. Small folio (21 x 31 cm). Double rules along inner margins of text and between table columns, rubricated throughout. Contemporary richly blind-tooled vellum over wooden boards, bound in the monastic shop of the Würzburg Benedictines, two clasps.

FORESTI DE BERGAMO, Jacobus Philippus. · 2016 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€65,000.00 ($71,641.83 | £54,227.29 | ¥11,440,274)

[1 blank], [18], [1 blank], [3], 358, [1] ll.Early edition of a popular world chronicle by an Augustinian cleric, a fine copy in a monastic binding. In his chronicle Foresti proposed to bring together the most important historical facts from each year, starting with Genesis. Alt…

Itinerarium Sacrae Scripturae. Dat is: het reysboek der Heyligher Schrift.Including: BÜNTING, Heinrich. Een besonder tractaet ende onderwijsinghe van de munte ende ghewichtre der Heyligher Schrifturen... [BÜNTING, Heinrich]. Itinerarium Novi Testamenti. Dat is: een reysboeck, over het Nieuwe Testament. Het tweede deel...BÜNTING, Heinrich. Harmonia evangelistarum, dat is: eene seer schoone ende eendrachtige over-een-stemminge der heyliger vier evangelisten...Amsterdam, Hendrik Laurentsz., 1635. 4 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With 5 woodcut and 2 engraved folding maps. Contemporary vellum, modern endpapers.

BÜNTING, Heinrich and Matthias HASAERT. · 1545 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[16], 355, [9]; [2], 36; [4], 163, [3]; 24 pp.Rare eighth(?) edition of the Dutch translation of a work on Biblical travels, written by the German Protestant pastor and theologian Heinrich Bünting (1545-1606), first published in German in 1581 and translated by Matthias Hasaert …

Gran Cairo.With: (2) Alessandria.Bologna, Longhi, 1670 [and 1670s]. 94.5 × 62 cm, 106.5 × 57.8 cm. Engraved views, each on 2 sheets joined; letterpress text pasted below with publisher's imprint. Both views matted, framed and glazed.

LONGHI, Gioseffo. · 1517 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€48,000.00 ($52,904.74 | £40,044.77 | ¥8,448,203)

Unrecorded in the standard bibliographies and without counterpart in western libraries: unique, large-scale views of Cairo and Alexandria. The Muslim influence may be discerned in the people's clothing in the foreground as well as in both cities' architecture. On the river Nile,…