Cerca libri

Pensées de Cicéron, traduites pour servir à l'éducation de la Jeunesse; par M. l'Abbé d'Olivet. Nouvelle édition, revue et corrigée avec soin.

CICERO. · 1804 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

Lyon, Chez Tournachon-Molin, 1804. 12mo. 317,(1) p. Calf 17.5 cm (Details: Back ruled gilt, boards with gilt borders. Marbled endpapers) (Condition: Binding scuffed, back rubbed, corners slightly bumped. Stamp on the verso of the front flyleaf. Paper slightly yellowing) (Note: …

Georgij Buchanani Scoti ad viros sui seculi clarissimos, eorumque ad eundem Epistolae. Ex Mss. accurate descriptae, nunc primum in lucem editae.

BUCHANANUS, GEORGIUS. · 1711 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€190.00 ($209.41 | £158.51 | ¥33,441)

London (Londini), Impensis D. Brown (ad Insigne Cygni Nigri extra Portam vulgo dictam Temple-Bar) & G. Taylor, 1711. (X),93 p. 20th century half brown morocco 17.5 cm (Ref: J. Durkan, 'Bibliography of Buchanan', Glasgow 1994, no. 271) (Details: Woodcut printer's mark on the tit…

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

BURR, Aaron · 231817 · Charles Agvent

$5,000.00 (€4,536.46 | £3,784.61 | ¥798,435)

Albany. A two-page letter on both sides of a single sheet (7-7/8" x 9-7/8") SIGNED "A. Burr" to Capt. Samuel C. Reid of New York, with a separate cover addressed in Burr's hand and with postmark and red seal. Burr writes a cynical letter on political patronage to War of 1812 her…

TYPED MANUSCRIPT SIGNED: The Descent of Charlie Fuller into Pulitzer Land

BARAKA, Amiri (LeRoi JONES) · 231982 · Charles Agvent

$8,125.00 (€7,371.74 | £6,149.99 | ¥1,297,457)

TYPED MANUSCRIPT (12 pages) of a critical article on Charles Fuller, concentrating on his Pulitzer Prize-winning play A SOLDIER'S STORY which debuted in 1982, as well as the current nature of Black Theater. Although the play enjoyed a long run, Fuller said it never played on Bro…

INSURGENT MEXICO

REED, John · 1914 · Charles Agvent

$2,500.00 (€2,268.23 | £1,892.31 | ¥399,218)

New York & London. D. Appleton and Company. First Edition. Gilt-decorated and lettered orange-red cloth in pictorial dustwrapper. From the dustwrapper: "A true story of the real Mexico. By a series of vivid pictures of the Mexican peons in war and peace, the author has tried to …

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)

CHANDLER, Raymond · 271947 · Charles Agvent

$3,125.00 (€2,835.28 | £2,365.38 | ¥499,022)

La Jolla, CA. Two-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED as "Ray" on Chandler's personal 8-1/2" x 11" 6005 de la Costa letterhead to "Swanie," his literary agent H. N. Swanson about a contract with Paramount and a possible plagiarism suit in England. In part: "The question I raised with Barro…

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) to Louis B. Mayer of MGM

MANN, Thomas · 51941 · Charles Agvent

$2,500.00 (€2,268.23 | £1,892.31 | ¥399,218)

Pacific Palisades, CA. A superb three-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) on Mann's personal stationery to Louis B. Mayer, president of MGM Studios, commending Mayer for the Studios' contracting of 5 refugee writers in order to allow their immigration to the United States to escape d…

THE CUSTOM OF THE COUNTRY

WHARTON, Edith · 1913 · Charles Agvent

$9,375.00 (€8,505.85 | £7,096.15 | ¥1,497,066)

New York. Charles Scribner's Sons. First Edition. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper: "'For Miss Reubell/from Edith Wharton/Nov. 1913." A scarce book to find signed, this is to Henrietta "Etta" Reubell, described by Wha…

Birds in the Ancient World. Winged Words.

MYNOTT, J, · 2020 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,040)

Oxford University Press, 2020, XXV,451p. ills.(Full colour photographs and reproductions as well as B&W line drawings). Paperback. Nice copy. Like new. 'M.'s book provides a comprehensive introduction and overview of the role of birds within ancient society. The book is distinc…

One Hundred and One Ways

YOSHIKAWA, MAKO · 1999 · Kalamos Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,395)

New York, Bantam Books. 1999, ARC/Advance Reading Copy. (ISBN: 0553110993) Original Wraps. Book, Advance Reading Copy. "I may have spent most of my life in New Jersey, but the blood of a geisha courses through me yet." So writes Mako Yoshikawa in this extraordinary debut novel .…

The Trojan War: A New History

STRAUSS, BARRY S. · 2006 · Kalamos Books

$26.00 (€23.59 | £19.68 | ¥4,152)

New York, Simon & Schuster. 2006, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 9780743264419) Hardcover. Book, "The Trojan War is the most famous conflict in history, the subject of Homer"s Iliad, one of the cornerstones of Western literature. Although many readers know that this literary masterwork …

Pre-Tang Ceramics of China: Chinese Pottery from 4000 BC to 600 AD

Watson, William · 1991 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Book Very Good Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition Faber and Faber Limited, London English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 20 x 25.5 cm; 1.062 Kg; 237 pages with black-and-white and colour illustrations; Used book with minor signs of wear, namely on the dust jacket.; China has …

Chinese Ceramics from Datable Tombs and Some Other Dated Material: A handbook

Addis, J.M. · 1978 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.03 | ¥5,280)

Book Good Fair 1st Edition Sotheby Parke Bernet Publications by Philip Wilson Publishers Limited, London English text; Hardcover (with dust jacket); 189 pages with various black and white illustrations; 21.3 x 28 cm; 1.402 Kg; Used book with signs of wear, namely on the dust jac…

PORTRAITS OF THE CABUL PRISONERS

Eyre, Sir Vincent. · 1844 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£5,000.00 (€5,993.29 | $6,605.70 | ¥1,054,845)

[London John Murray 1844]. Oblong octavo (270 x 220mm). 32 lithographic plates including 1 folding) coloured by a contemporary hand and mounted on card (lightly foxed), each plate titled by hand in ink. From the Library of Professor Malcolm Yapp, original moiré three flap cloth …

SCIENCE IN STORY. Sammy Tubbs, The Boy Doctor and “Sponsie,” The Troublesome Monkey.

Foote. E.B. · 1874 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£1,000.00 (€1,198.66 | $1,321.14 | ¥210,969)

New York: Murray Hill Publ. Co. 1874-6. 1st Ed. 5 vols. Crown 8vo. 33 plates, leaves with red ruled frame. Pp.213-4 of vol. 1 with closed tear, Ex.-Free Public Library of Hopewell New Jersey with bookplate and card pouch to front and rear e.ps and occasional ink stamps to text o…

A COMPLETE HISTORY OF DRUGS. Written in French By ... Chief Druggist to the late French King Lewis XIV. To which is added what is farther observable on the same Subject, from Mess. Lemery and Tournefort, Divided into Three Classes, Vegetable, Animal, and Mineral; With their Use in Physic, Chemistry, Pharmacy, And several other Arts. Illustrated with above Four Hundred Copper-Cuts, curiously done from the Life; and an Explanation of their different Names, Places of Growth, and Countries where they are produced; with the Methods of distinguishing the Genuine and Perfect, from the Adulterated, Sophisticated, and Decayed; together with their Virtues, &c. A Work of very great Use and Curiosity. Done into English from the Originals

Pomet, Monsieur. · 1748 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

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

London : printed for J. and J. Bonwicke, S. Birt, W. Parker, C. Hitch, and E. Wicksteed 1748. 4th Ed. carefully corrected, with large Additions. Sm. 4to. 2 vols. bound in 1 as issued. Second volume without seperate title page but with caption title as issued. Sm. 4to. xx + 220pp…

Van de ovdheydt der Batavische, nv Hollandsche republique. Beschreven door Hvgo de Groot.

Groot,Hugo de [or Hugo Grotius]. · 1641 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

Ghedruckt te Haerlem, By Adriaen Roman, 1641. 40 pp. - [AND:] H. Groti vrye zeevaert, ofte Bewys van het recht dat de inghesetenen deser vereenighde Nederlanden toekomt, over den Oost ende West-Indische koop-handel. Nu uyt den Latijne op een nieuw vertaeld door A. Iekerman. Idem…

[Catholic Church] Per la erezione d'un momumento a monsignor Gabrio Maria Nava fu vescovo di Brescia posto nel giardino di recreazione dell'oratorio dell'Addolorata in Sant'Ambrogio : allocuzione letta ai giovani di quell'oratorio il 30 settembre 1838.

[NAVA, Gabrio Maria, 1758–1831] · 1838 · Fine Editions Ltd

$574.00 (€520.79 | £434.47 | ¥91,660)

Milano Tipografia e libreria Pirotta e C First and only edition, extremely rare, of this celebration of the memorial in honor of Gabrio Maria Nava, bishop of Brescia, with a splendid full-page lithograph illustrating the proposed monument. Royal 4to (320 x 240mm): 8pp, with fron…

The manner of raising, ordering, and improving forest-trees: With directions how to plant, make, and keep woods, walks, avenues, lawns, hedges, &c. Also rules and tables shewing how the ingenious planter may measure superficial figures, divide woods or land, and measure timber and other solid bodies, either by arithmetick or geometry: with the uses of that excellent line, the line of numbers, by several new examples; and many other rules, useful for most men

COOK, Moses · 1717 · Fine Editions Ltd

$649.00 (€588.83 | £491.24 | ¥103,637)

London Printed for Daniel Browne, Andrew Bell, John Darby, Arthur Bettesworth, John Pemberton, Charles Rivington, John Hooke, R. Cruttenden and T. Cox, Jer. Battley, Edward Symon Early Reprint Second Edition, "very much corrected," of this influential treatise by the head garden…

[Armorial Binding] Praedium Rusticum

VANIÈRE, Jacques (1664-1739) · 1707 · Fine Editions Ltd

$476.00 (€431.87 | £360.29 | ¥76,011)

Paris [Lutetiae Parisiorum] Apud Joannem Le Clerc First Edition 12mo: [6],268,[12], with engraved initials and head and tail pieces, and 10 charming full-page plates by Laurent Cars after Dumesnil, one at the beginning of each book. In Latin. Full speckled calf, contemporary to …