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Fructologie, ou Description des arbres fruitiers ainsi que des fruits que l'on plante et qu'on cultive ordinairement dans les jardins . . . [bound with] Pomologie, ou description des meilleures sortes de pommes et de poires, Que l'on estime & cultive le plus, soit aux Pais-Bas, soit en Allemagne, en France, en Angleterre, &c.

KNOOP, Johann Hermann (c.1706-1769) · 1771 · Fine Editions Ltd

$3,649.00 (€3,310.71 | £2,762.01 | ¥582,698)

Amsterdam Chez M. Magérus, Libraire First Edition thus Rare French Edition of the first compendium of fruit arboriculture with 39 folding copper-engraved plates in fine contemporary hand coloring. Two foolscap-folio volumes bound in one: [ii],160,[iv],161-205,[1], with 19 plates…

[Original Cloth] An Authentic Historical Memoir of the Schuylkill Fishing Company of the State of Schuylkill. From Its Establishment on that Romantic Stream, near Philadelphia, in the Year 1732, to the Present Time. By a Member [bound with:] Memoirs of the Gloucester Fox Hunting Club, Near Philadelphia

MILNOR, William, Jr. (1769-1848) · 1830 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,039.00 (€942.68 | £786.44 | ¥165,915)

Philadelphia Judah Dobson First Edition of this early history of America's oldest angling society, Second Issue, with portrait of Gouvernor Morris by St. Memin inserted after Introduction. Bound with the first American book on fox hunting. 8vo (220 x 140mm): viii,127,[1]; [ii],5…

[Banned Books] The Kreutzer Sonata. Translated by Benj. R. Tucker. Thirty-Sixth Thousand; [together with:] Sequel to the Kreutzer Sonata

TOLSTOI [Tolstoy], Count Leo (1829-1910); Benjamin Ricketson Tucker [translates] · 18901899 · Fine Editions Ltd

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.17 | ¥55,731)

Boston / New York Benj. R. Tucker / Thomas Crowell First American Edition (later printing) of this translation of Tolstoy's fictional account of imagined infidelity followed by brutal murder "that amounts to a tendentious diatribe against sexual passion of any kind." (Literary E…

[Sacco and Vanzetti] Facing the Chair: Story of the Americanization of Two Foreignborn Workmen

DOS PASSOS, John (1896-1970) · 1927 · Fine Editions Ltd

$86.00 (€78.03 | £65.10 | ¥13,733)

Boston Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee First Edition First (and only) Printing of this official report of the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee, written by Dos Passos after visiting the two accused in Massachusetts prisons. Demy 8vo (214 x 147mm): 128p. Original stiff olive drab…

[Photobook] Atget Photographe de Paris [Ben Shahn's copy]

ATGET, E. [Eugène, 1857-1927]; Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) · 1930 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,399.00 (€1,269.30 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,402)

New York E. Weyhe First Edition of this high point of twentieth-century documentary photography, from the library of one of the foremost documentary photographers. Preface (in French) by Pierre Mac-Orlan. Royal 8vo (267 x 207mm): [4],23,[1]pp, with frontispiece portrait of Atget…

The dramatic mirror: containing the history of the stage, from the earliest period to the present time : including a biographical and critical account of all the dramatic writers, from 1600; and also of the most distinguished performers, from the days of Shakspeare to 1807: and a history of the country theatres, in England, Ireland, and Scotland. Embellished with seventeen elegant engravings

GILLILAND, Thomas (fl. 1804–1816) · 1808 · Fine Editions Ltd

$499.00 (€452.74 | £377.70 | ¥79,684)

London Printed for C. Chapple, Pall Mall, by B. McMillan, Bow Street, Covent Garden, Printer to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales First Edition of this scarce history, a "biographical and critical account of all dramatic writers from 1660 and also of the most distinguished …

[Original Cloth] The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby . . . With Illustrations by 'Phiz'

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870) · 1865 · Fine Editions Ltd

$424.00 (€384.69 | £320.94 | ¥67,707)

London Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly [from 1839] First Edition Early Issue of Dickens's first commercial triumph, the novel that established his lasting reputation. Issued in 1865 or earlier, based on printer's imprint (verso of title page), possibly as early as 1852, when Cha…

The Turnbull Library Record. Volume 38. 2005.

2005 · Tinakori Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Wellington, The Friends of the Turnbull Library. 2005. Soft cover. Book, Card Covers. 128 pages, b/w illustrations. Articles: Tribute to Laurie Cameron by Brian Opie. Laurie Cameron, 1922-2005, gave unsurpassed service to the National and Turnbull Libraries. As the Chair of the …

MŽmoires de M. le comte de St. Germain. Ecrits par lui-mme. (RŽdigŽs par l'abbŽ de La Montagne, publiŽs par l'abbŽ Dubois).

ST. GERMAIN, (Claude-Louis) (1707-1778): · 1779 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.

CHF 150.00 (€162.25 | $178.83 | £135.36 | ¥28,557)

En Suisse (Yverdon ou Berne), Libraires AssociŽs (ou SociŽtŽ typograhique), 1779, in-8¡, 2 ff. n.n. + 291 p., non rognŽ, minimes traces de vers dans qqs feuilles, exlibris ms. Ôde ReynoldÕ, cartonnage muet original, poussiŽreux. Claude-Louis de Saint-Germain (1707-1778), trs c…

Opera minora emendata, aucta, et renovata. In 3 volumes: 1. Anatomica; ad partes corporis humani vitales, animales, naturales; 2. Ad generationem (part 1 & 2) ; 3. Accedunt opuscula pathologica aucta et recensa. (Vols. 2 and 3 are entitled: Operum Anatomici Argumenti Minorum).

HALLER, Albertus v(on) (1708-1777): · 17626768 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.

CHF 950.00 (€1,027.60 | $1,132.60 | £857.29 | ¥180,861)

Lausann¾ (Lausanne), sumptibus Francisci Grasset, 1762-67-68, in-4to, XXII + 1 leaf + 608 p., 13 plates; VI + 311p. + 6 p. + p. 312-607 + 6 plates + 1 table; 388 p. + 17 plates, titles in red and black, first title with engr. medals (e.a. Haller's portrait), beautiful marbled e…

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds

DENNETT, DANIEL C. · 2017 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€34.81 ($38.37 | £29.04 | ¥6,127)

W. W. Norton & Company 2017 First Edition XVIII + 476 p., bibliography, index, notes HARDCOVER: (Orig. gilt. lettering. Dust jacket some tiny stains. . Book AS NEW) How did we come to have minds? For centuries, this question has intrigued psychologists, physicists, poets, and ph…

Propaladia / de Bartolomé de Torres Naharro. Dirigida al Ilmo. Señor El Sr. D. Fernando Dávalos de Aquino, Marqués de Pescara, Conde de Lorito, gran Camarlengo del Reino de Nápoles, etc.; Reimprímela, seguida de observaciones acerca de su importancia en la historia del teatro español, acompañada de noticias bibliográficas, é ilustrada con sumaria explicación de los vocablos oscuros, D. MANUEL CAÑETE, individuo de número y Censor de la Real Academia Española [el TOMO I.]. Y con un estudio crítico preliminar de CLIII pags. por D. M. Menéndez y Pelayo, de la Real Academia Española [el TOMO II.]

TORRES NAHARRO, Bartolomé de · 1880 · Librería Miguel Miranda

€700.00 ($771.53 | £583.99 | ¥123,203)

Madrid: Librería de los Bibliófilos, Fernando Fé, 1880 y 1900.- 2 VOLS. (X, 429 p., [7 h.]; [3 h.], CLIII, 417 p., [1 h.]): En el Tomo I. se incluye el facsímil de la portada de la edición de 1517 a dos tintas; 8º (18,6 x 12,3 cm); Excelente impresión sobre papel de hilo verju…

Dagbok öfwer en ostindisk resa åren 1750, 1751, 1752. Med anmärkningar uti naturkunnigheten, främmande folkslags språk, seder, hushållning, m.m. AND: TORÉN, OLOF: En ostindisk resa til Suratte, China &c. Från 1750 April 1. til 1752 Jun. 26. Stockholm, Lor. Ludv. Grefing, 1757.

OSBECK, PEHR: · 1750 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)

Pp. (viii), 376, (16). With twelve engraved botanical plates (one of a fish). Contemporary half calf, worn. Hinges weak and partly split, spine ends worn. Partly with some browning. First edition. Comprises reports by two Swedish naturalists and disciples of Carl von Linné about…

Korea and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, with Korean, Japanese and Israelitish Illustrations. Yokohama, Published for the Author partly at C. Levy and the Sei Shi Bunsha Co., 1879.

MCLEOD, NICHOLAS (or (NORMAN). · 2003 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€2,000.00 ($2,204.36 | £1,668.53 | ¥352,008)

Oblong 4to. Pp. (vi), 23 and twenty-three wood-engraved plates, one blank leaf. Seven of the plates are devoted to Korea. Original green silk brocade over card, lettered in gilt on upper cover, some holes to rear cover. Inner hinges strained and endpapers browned. First editio…

China, probably end of 18th century.

[CHINA - WOOD PANEL WITH ANCIENT COINS AND CHARMS]. · 1735 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€4,200.00 ($4,629.16 | £3,503.92 | ¥739,218)

Wooden panel (59 x 35 cm) with 25 bronze casts of ancient Chinese coins and amulets inserted. A solid piece of wood with small scratches and minor wear, parts of old Chinese label on reverse. Mounted in a later wooden frame. The collection shows examples of old coins and charms …

Puns and Poetry in Lucretius' De Rerum Natura'.

SNYDER, J. McINTOSH, · 1980 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.91 | ¥14,960)

Grüner, Amsterdam, 1980. 151p. Paperback. Cover pinched (probably already when published). Still a nice copy. ‘After Paul Friedländer’s brilliant discovery of the ‘atomologies’ governing the pattern of sound in Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (…) a study such as this was inevitable.…

Myth. Its Meaning and Functions in Ancient and Other Cultures.

KIRK, G.S., · 1978 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Cambridge at the University Press, Cambridge / University of California Press, Berkeley/Los Angeles, 1978. Reprint 1st paperback ed. 299p. Sather Classical Lectures 40. Paperback. Spine with light reading trace. Name, date and blind tooling ex libris on half title. 'One of the …

Die Odyssee. Epos zwischen Märchen und Roman.

HÖLSCHER, U., · 1988 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Beck, München, 1988. 360p. Original grey cloth with pictorial dust wrps. Upper and fore edge a bit yellowed. ‘In the book under review, almost the entire poem and most of the important issues related to it (ethical outlook, historical context, the relationship to the Il.) pass …

Reading Seneca. Stoic Philosophy at Rome.

INWOOD, B., · 2005 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2005. XVI,376p. Original blue cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Signature and date on free endpaper. Some vague remains of pencil markings and annotations. 'Inwood has given us a serious Seneca, a deeply learned philosopher whose allegiance to th…

Die Ciris im Kontext der Augusteischen Dichtung.

WOYTEK, E., · 2018 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,920)

Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien, 2018. 261. Paperback. A lot of pencil markings and annotions made by a reviewer. Series: Wiener Studien, Beiheft 39. In his monograph Erich Woytek tackles the Cirisfrage - the question of the authorship and the date…