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Delle guerre fatte tra popoli della Morea, et gli Atheniesi, nuovamente dal Greco idioma, nella lingua Thoscana, con ogni diligenza tradotto, per Francesco di Soldo Strozzi Fiorentino. L'annotatione, & dichiaratione di tutti i luoghi difficili, con la tavola copiosissima di tutte le guerre, le paci, gli accordi, le triegue, le leghe, le battaglie navali, le giornate, le citta prese, i por tenti accaduti, i pronostichi fatti, i luoghi spianati, arsi, & distrutti, che nell'historia si contengono: posti tutti per ordine dell'alphabeto.[Venice], Laocoonte, [1550]. 8vo. With a woodcut printer's device depicting the Laocoön Group on the title page and final leaf, and several historiated woodcut initials in the text. Contemporary Italian gold-tooled brown morocco.

THUCYDIDES and Francesco di Soldo STROZZI (translator). · 1545 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,000.00 ($4,408.83 | £3,336.58 | ¥704,117)

[12], 440 ll.First Italian translation of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War, one of the earliest scholarly works of history produced in the Western world. Unlike its predecessors, it not only recorded the events of the war year by year in chronological order, but also…

The Godfather: Slipcased Signed Limited Artist Edition #/750

Puzo, Mario · 2023 · Pat Cramer, Bookseller

$263.50 (€239.07 | £199.42 | ¥42,083)

Book Art Werger New New Signed Copy First Edition/First Printing Suntup Editions With its brilliant portrayal of the Corleone family, The Godfather by Mario Puzo burned its way into our national consciousness as the definitive novel of the Mafia underworld. Don Vito Corleone is …

Gwendy's Magic Feather: Slipcased Signed Limited #552/600

Chizmar, Richard · 2021 · Pat Cramer, Bookseller

$159.50 (€144.71 | £120.71 | ¥25,473)

Book Glenn Chadbourne, Vincent Sammy Fine Fine Signed Copy First Edition/First Printing SST Publications Birmingham Gwendy's Magic Feather: A Novel by Richard Chizmar Featuring a foreword by Stephen King discussing this first novel ever set in Castle Rock written by another aut…

The Unquiet Dreamer: A Tribute to Harlan Ellison

Edited by Preston Grassman · 2019 · Pat Cramer, Bookseller

$119.50 (€108.42 | £90.44 | ¥19,085)

Book Yoshika Nagata Fine Fine First Edition/First Printing PS Publishing Hornsea A square solid tight clean unread unused copy. Illustrated boards and endpapers. THIS COPY IS IN MY POSSESSION AND NORMALLY SHIPS NEXT DAY. It was sometime in the mid-nineties at Dangerous Visio…

Antwerp - Braun & Hogenberg, 1572

Braun-- Georg · 1572 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€975.00 ($1,074.65 | £813.29 | ¥171,629)

“Antverpia”, copper engraving made for the first volume of the "Civitates Urbis Terrarum," published in 1572 (or later) by Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg. Coloured by a later hand. Latin text on the verso. Size: 34 × 47.5 cm. We see the city on the Scheldt in bird’s-eye view. …

Netherlands, Seventeen Provinces - Matthias Quad + Johann Bussemacher, 1600

1600 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€550.00 ($606.21 | £458.78 | ¥96,816)

“Belgium,” copper engraving made in 1600 by Matthias Quad and published by Johann Bussemacher as part of the “Geographisches Handbuch”. Coloured by a later hand. Size (print): 22 × 30.5 cm (frame: 47 × 54 cm). In the sixteenth century, humanist scholars revived the Roman name…

Kingdom of Hungary - Pieter Schenk after Luigi Marsigli, 1717

Schenk Jr.-- Pieter · 1717 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€7,500.00 ($8,266.55 | £6,256.09 | ¥1,320,219)

RARE WALL MAP OF THE THEATER OF WAR IN HUNGARY, DEDICATED TO AUGUSTUS II THE STRONG "Nova et accurata Tabula sedis belli in Regno Hungariae. Accendunt cetera Regna Sclavonia, Croatia, Bosnia, Servia, Dalmatia, Bulgaria et Romania ut et Princip: Septimontium, Moldavia et Valac…

World - Frederick de Wit, ca. 1670

Wit-- Frederick de (1630-1706) · 1670 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€5,850.00 ($6,447.91 | £4,879.75 | ¥1,029,771)

FREDERICK DE WIT'S FAMOUS DOUBLE HEMISPHERE WORLD MAP “Nova Orbis Tabula in Lucem Edita, A[uctore] F. De Wit.” Copper engraving published in Amsterdam by Frederick de Wit, here in its second state from c. 1670. Coloured by a later (?) hand. Size (plate): 47.5 x 56 cm. This is on…

Vietnam, Da Nang - William Alexander, 1796

Alexander-- William (1767-1816) · 1767 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€195.00 ($214.93 | £162.66 | ¥34,326)

View in Turon Bay” [present day Da Nang, Dà Nang]. Copper engraving by John Landseer after a drawing by William Alexander (1767-1816 ) from the “Authentic account of an embassy from the King of Great Britain to the Emperor of China; including cursory observations made, and infor…

The Creation of Humanity

Shayan, Wolhodymyr [Volodymyr Shai a , or, W odzimir Szajan] (1908-1974) · 1946 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$189.00 (€171.47 | £143.03 | ¥30,184)

Bad Wörishofen, Germany "New Epoch" [The Ukrainian Humanistic Thought] | Printed by Hans Holzmann | Edition Petro Pawlowych First Edition, First Printing pp. 8. 16mo., measuring 4" x 5.75". Single-stapled plain card covers. Comprises of Shayan's distinctly apocalyptic vision of …

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants

Moore, Charles · 2015 · De Boekentuin Alkmaar

€19.90 ($21.93 | £16.60 | ¥3,503)

Allen Lane, Harde kaft. Linnen met gave omslag. Gebonden. 2015. Kastexemplaar; oogt niet of nauwelijks gelezen. 821 blz. Met register index. Stoffige papieren omslag, Samenvatting The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady …

Michael and Natasha / The Life And Love Of Michael Ii, The Last Of The Romanov Tsars

Rosemary A. Crawford · 2000 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

HarperCollins. 2000, paperback, goed exemplaar. Michael and Natasha is both an astonishing love story and an illuminating look at the last glorious days of the Romanovs and the brutal revolution that ended their reign. Based on private diaries, letters, and documents long hidden…

The Populist Temptation. Economic Grievance and Political Reaction in the Modern Era

Barry Eichengreen · 2018 · Klondyke BV

€4.95 ($5.46 | £4.13 | ¥871)

Hardcover, hardcover; 1e druk, 2018; Tantor Audio; 262pp.; onderstrepingen en markeringen in de marge met potlood -- Conditie: Redelijk; Lucidly explaining both the appeals and dangers of populism across history, this book is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand no…

Global Shift. Reshaping the Global Economic Map in the 21st Century

Author, Peter Dicken · 2003 · Klondyke BV

€13.00 ($14.33 | £10.84 | ¥2,288)

Paperback; 4e druk, 2003; Sage; 656pp.; Herdruk 2004. Paperback met fris en schoon binnenwerk. Omslag met lichte gebruikssporen aan de randen. Rechte rug, zonder leesvouwtjes. -- Conditie: Goed; It just keeps getting better... If there was a word beyond definitive, then that wou…

No Country for Old Men: Signed Slipcased Artist Edition #/750

McCarthy, Cormac · 2025 · Pat Cramer, Bookseller

$459.50 (€416.89 | £347.75 | ¥73,385)

Book Joseph Zbukvic New New Signed Copy First Edition/First Printing Suntup Editions Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men is a stark meditation on violence, fate, and moral reckoning, played out against the desolate borderlands of Texas and Mexico. At once a relentless thril…

Damascus.[Damascus?], Field Survey Co[mpan]y. R.E., E.E.F., 7 October 1918. Map of Damascus (73.5 x 51 cm) printed in black and tan, on a scale of 1:10,000.

[SYRIA - EGYPTIAN EXPEDITIONARY FORCE]. · 1918 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)

Extremely rare British map of Damascus, with a more detailed inset map of the area around Kadem Station (to the west of the city centre), the northern terminus of the Hejaz railway between Damascus and Medina, especially rare in its present first state, published by the British …

Epistola Beati Euseby ad Damasium Portunensem Episcopum & ad Theodomum senatorem Romanum de morte gloriosi Hieronimi doctoris eximy.[d7:] Epistola Beati Augustini Episcopi ad Cirillum venerabilem Archiepiscopium Hierosolimitanum de vita obitu & miraculis Beatissimi Hieronimi prespiteri & doctoris eximy.[e5:] Epistola Cirilli Archiepiscopi ad Beatimi Augustinum Episcopium de miraculis gloriosi Hieronimi necnon & de morte Beati Euseby discipuli Sancti Hieronimi.[Blaubeuren, Conrad Mancz, ca. 1475/77]. Small folio (27.5 x 20 cm). Set in what is sometimes called a gotico-antiqua type (119 mm/20 lines, with 31 lines per page), in this case mixing some roman influences into what is largely a rotunda gothic type. With about 150 "Lombardic" initials in red ink: 2 4-line, 4 3-line, about 140 2-line (1 with pen-work decorations in brown ink) and 4 1-line, in spaces left for that purpose and capitals rubricated throughout. Modern parchment.

JEROME (HIERONYMUS), Saint (subject). · 1470 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€25,000.00 ($27,555.18 | £20,853.62 | ¥4,400,731)

[130] pp.Third(?) edition in the original Latin (the first edition in folio format) of three letters about the life, death and miracles of Saint Jerome, incorrectly attributed to Eusebius of Cremona (a 5th-century disciple of Jerome), Saint Augustine and Saint Cyril, now believe…

Hieracosophioy, sive de re accipitraria libri tres.Paris, Mamert Patisson, King’s Printer “in officina Robert Estienne”, 1584. Small 4to (22 x 15 cm). With the late Robert I Estienne's large woodcut device on the title-page. With the poem and Thou's 11-page verse letter to Philippe Huralt in italic type and the preliminaries and some end matter in roman. Half parchment (ca. 1892).

THOU (THUANUS), Jacques-Auguste de. · 1555 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,000.00 ($8,817.66 | £6,673.16 | ¥1,408,234)

[4], 95, [13] pp.First complete edition, in the original Latin, of one of the most famous and longest of De Thou's poems, a didactic verse in about 2780 hexameters devoted to hunting with falcons and other birds of prey, composed in three "libri" and addressed to François, Duke …

Getrouw verhaal van den waren toestant der meest herderloze gemeentens in Pensylvanien en aangrensende provintien. Amsterdam, Jacobus Loveringh, 1751. 4to. Finely bound in early 20th-century(?) gold-tooled, tan goatskin morocco, green morocco label covering the entire spine, gold-tooled turn-ins, gold fillets on board edges, with the original Dutch-marbled wrappers bound in.

SCHLATTER, Michael. · 1681 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€18,000.00 ($19,839.73 | £15,014.61 | ¥3,168,526)

XXII, 56 pp.Very rare first edition of the report of a mission to aid and bring order to the German Reformed congregations in Pennsylvania and neighbouring areas, prepared by Michael Schlatter at the request of the Holland Synod of the Dutch Reformed Church. King Charles II gran…

Essai sur la guerre dans le Soudan.Lyon, Imprimerie Mougin-Rusand, 1888. Large 8vo (24.5 x 16 cm). With 2 large folding chromolithographed maps (50 x 60 cm; map images 44 x 58 cm; scale 1: 1,000,000), 4 wood-engraved illustrations in the text and 3 original photographic albumen prints (10.5 x 13 cm) mounted on paperboard plates. Contemporary gold-tooled, black goatskin morocco (signed at the foot of the front turn-in by Lucien Magnin in Lyon), richly gold-tooled spine, richly gold-tooled turn-ins, double fillets on board edges, gilt edges.

SZYMANSKI, Félix. · 1879 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,500.00 ($7,164.35 | £5,421.94 | ¥1,144,190)

[4], 184 pp.A detailed eye-witness account of Senegal in the years 1879 to 1883, by Félix Szymanski (1853-1923), an artillery captain of the French marine in the Senegal campaigns of 1879 to 1883. The first half of the book provides a general description of Senegal and its peopl…