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Teducation: Selected Poems (First edition-first printing)

Joans, Ted · 1999 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

Coffee House Press. First paperback edition-first printing. Book. VGC. Coffee House Press, 1999. First paperback edition-first printing (10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1). Paperback (a couple of creases and small nicks on the edges of the cover and spine) in VGC. Illustrated with b/w plates…

Novels 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying; Sanctuary; Light in August; and Pylon

FAULKNER, WILLIAM · 1985 · Round Table Books, LLC

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

NY: The Library of America, 1985. 0940450267. First Edition Thus. Sixth Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0940450267. Publisher's full dark red cloth, gilt lettering on spine and on black label on spine, printed endpapers, ribbon marker bound in. "Between 1930 and 1935, William Faulkn…

Les Enfans Terribles

GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier] · 1838 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$3,500.00 (€3,175.45 | £2,648.78 | ¥558,972)

Paris: Bauger et Cie. 1838-42. Gavarni's "Terrible Children" Fifty Superb Hand Colored Lithographs Including the Pictorial Title-Page GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]. Les Enfans terribles. Paris: Bauger et Cie. [n.d. 1838-1842]. First edition. Large qua…

Les Enfans Terribles

GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier] · 1838 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$9,500.00 (€8,619.07 | £7,189.55 | ¥1,517,209)

Paris: Bauger et Cie. 1838-42. Gavarni's "Terrible Children" Fifty Superb Hand Colored Lithographs Including the Pictorial Title-Page GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]. Les Enfans terribles. Paris: Bauger et Cie. [n.d. 1838-1842]. First edition. Large qua…

Gerald Massey: 16 E-Books eBooks On CD Media! Book Of The Beginnings, Light of the World Vol.1 and 2, Egyptian Book Of The Dead, Gnostic, Lectures, Poems and Ballads, Historical Jesus and Mythical Christ, Natural Genesis Vol. 1 and 2

GERALD MASSEY, MYSTIC MAGUS (EDITOR) · 2018 · Les Livres The Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Sedona, AZ, Mystic Magus. 2018. (ISBN: 808939680184) Digital Electronic Books. E-Books on DVD, 16 Digital E-Books by Gerald Massey electronic format - Ebooks PDFs, Mobi, Epubs, azw3, in varying degree of quality, Most are great! All at least readable. This listing includes all 1…

Ars magna sciendi, in XII libros digesta, qua nova & universali methodo ... [vol. 2 half-title:] Artis magnae seu combinatoriae sciendi, ... [titles on the frontispieces:] Ars magna sciendi sive combinatoria [vol. 1] Artis magnae combinatoriae [vol. 2].Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge and the widow of Elizaeus Weyerstraten, 1669. 2 volumes bound as 1. Royal folio (46 x 30 x 5.5 cm). With 2 richly engraved allegorical frontispieces, an engraved plate with a full-page portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I, an engraved plate showing all knowledge of the universe organised as a tree, 2 engraved volvelles (with 4 rotating dials), 20 further engravings on integral leaves and a couple dozen woodcut figures in the text. Contemporary richly gold-tooled red goatskin morocco decorated a petit fers, gold-tooled turn-ins, board edges and raised bands, giving a total of more than 1500 impressions of about 14 stamps and 3 rolls, edges gilt over red and blue squiggles. Janssonius van Waesberge, who published Kircher's books in Amsterdam from 1664/65 to 1682, arranged to have copies of several luxuriously bound for Kircher to present to leading figures and this is almost certainly one of them, presented to Giovanni Paolo Oliva, Superior General of the Jesuit Society.

KIRCHER, Athanasius. · 1602 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€50,000.00 ($55,110.35 | £41,707.25 | ¥8,801,462)

[18], 482, [10] pp. (including 2 integral frontispieces), plus 4 inserted tables & 2 plates.First edition of a 17th-century attempt to organise all knowledge of the universe into a classified system with nine primary categories (represented by icons made for the present edition)…

The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical

Alexander Chalmers · 1802 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

London, J. Johnson; J. Nichols; R. Baldwin; et al, 1802 - 1803. Leather. A thirty-nine volume collection of essays from prominent British Essayists. Incomplete, as lacking volumes VII, XVII, XXIX, XXXI, XXXVIII, and XLII, with thirty-nine volumes present here in this set. '…

Cavalarice, or, the English Horseman: Contayning All the Art of Horse-Manship, Asmuch As Is Necessary for Any Man to Understand, Whether Hee Be Horse-Breeder, Horse-Ryder, Horse-Hunter, Horse-Runner, Horse-Ambler, Horse-Farrier, Horse-Keeper, Coachman, Smith, or Sadler. Together, with the Discovery of the Subteil Trade or Mystery of Horsecoursers, an an Explanation of the Excellency of a Horses Understanding: Or How to Teach the to Do Trickes Like Banks His Cutrrall: And That Horses May Be Made

Gervase Markham · 1617 · Rooke Books

£9,500.00 (€11,388.91 | $12,552.93 | ¥2,004,781)

London, Edward White, 1617. Leather. The second edition of this immensely important work on Arabian horses, written by the man, Robert Markham, who brought the now common breed to England for the first time. Illustrated with in-text woodcuts throughout. A very important work. Th…

A Report from the Committee Appointed by Order of the House of Commons to Examine Christopher Layer, and Others [with] the Particular and Inventory of All and Singular the Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, Goods, Chattels, Debts, and Personal Estate Whatsoever, of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Sutton [with] a True and Exact Particular and Inventory of All and Singular the Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, Goods, Chattels, Debts, and Personal Estate Whatsoever, Which I Sir Archibald Grant.

The House of Commons; William Pulteney · 1722 · Rooke Books

£625.00 (€749.27 | $825.85 | ¥131,893)

London, Jacob Tonson, 1722-88. First edition. Leather. A scarce collection of legal works comprising of two separate works on two famous trials and several accounts of the inventory of many landowners in the eighteenth century. Being eight works bound as one, but being three sep…

Rome 1450. Capgrave's Jubilee Guide. The Solace of Pilgrimes

John Capgrave, Peter Lucas (ed) · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.07 | ¥15,843)

, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, xcv + 442 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:63 b/w, 1 col., Language(s):English, Middle English. ISBN 9782503594675. Summary The scene is Rome in the fifteenth century, Golden Rome, a magnet drawing pilgrims by its architectural attractions and…

Issue of Five Drawings, an

BEARDSLEY, Aubrey · 1906 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$9,500.00 (€8,619.07 | £7,189.55 | ¥1,517,209)

London: Leonard Smithers, 1906. Too Free for Circulation" Beardsley's Suppressed Juvenal & Lucian Drawings A Clandestine Portfolio of Decadent Eroticism, Limited to 120 Copies BEARDSLEY, Aubrey. An Issue of Five Drawings Illustrative of Juvenal and Lucian. London: [Leonard Smith…

Les Chattes Parisiennes

DAMOURETTE, Ed · 1850 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$2,500.00 (€2,268.18 | £1,891.99 | ¥399,265)

Paris: Aubert & Cie., 1850. Rare Album with Twenty Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates Satirical Depictions of Parisian Women DAMOURETTE, Ed. Les Chattes Parisiennes. Dessinées par Ed. Damourette. Paris: Aubert & Cie. [ca. 1850]. Folio (13 1/8 x 9 7/8 inches: 333 x 251 mm.). Lithogra…

Les Débardeurs

GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier] · 1840 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$14,500.00 (€13,155.42 | £10,973.53 | ¥2,315,739)

Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari, 1840. Sixty-Six Magnificent Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates by Gavarni Depicting "The Stevedores" GAVARNI, Paul [pseudonym of Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier]. Les Débardeurs. Paris: Au Bureau du Charivari, [n.d. 1840-1842]. Folio (13 7/8 x 10 3/8 in…

Das Maximum-Prinzip: Mehr Erfolg, Freizeit und Einkommen - durch Konzentration auf das Wesentliche

Brian Tracy Frank Scheelen Brigitte Kleidt · 2003 · LLU Buchservice

€44.99 ($49.59 | £37.53 | ¥7,920)

, Campus Verlag Gmbh Campus Hörbuch, Auflage: 1 (15. September 2003). , , Hardcover. Zustand: 2. Wer sein Leben verändern möchte, steht vor einem scheinbar unlösbaren Problem: Wo soll man anfangen? Brian Tracy weiss, wo man ansetzen muss, um das Beste aus sich und seinem Leben z…

Rum

Dave Broom Jason Lowe · 2003 · LLU Buchservice

€49.99 ($55.10 | £41.70 | ¥8,800)

, Mitchell Beazley, 2003. 176, 28,6 x 24,8 x 2,2 cm, Hardcover. Zustand: 2. Ob pur oder in Cocktails, Rum ist im Munde all derjenigen, die gute Spirituosen zu schätzen wissen und die mit seinem Genuss ihre Urlaubserinnerung wieder aufleben lassen möchten. Es gibt nicht nur eine …

Africa - Willem + Joan Blaeu, c. 1640

Blaeu-- Joan · 1640 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)

BLAEU'S FAMOUS MAP OF AFRICA "Africae nova descriptio", copper engraving published in Amsterdam by Willem Jansz. and Joan Blaeu, ca. 1640. Coloured by a later hand. Verso: German text. Size: 41 × 55.5 cm. This is one of the most recognisable and decorative maps of the continen…

Northern and Southern Hemisphere - Guillaume De L’Isle + Reinier and Josua Ottens, after 1739

Isle-- Guillaume de l' · 1714 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)

PAIR OF NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE MAPS “Hemisphere septentrional pour voir plus distinctement les terres arctiques.” Copper engraving by Guillaume De L’Isle, first published in 1714, here in an edition by Renier and Josua Ottens published after 1739. With original hand co…

De re medica libri tres. Jacobo Sylvio medico interprete. Cum annotationibus & scholiis eiusdem. Index locupletissimus cum capitum, tum omnium quae scitu digna sunt operi praefixus est.“Paris” [= Venice], [Girolamo Scotto], 1553. 8vo. With Scotto’s woodcut device on the title page (showing what are probably two of the wild mares of King Abderus being devoured by the mares of King Diomedes of Thrace devouring either Abderos or Diomedes himself) and about 22 woodcut decorated (nearly all pictorial) initials (7 series) plus a few repeats. Contemporary vellum, traces of ties.

MASAWAIH AL-MARDINI (MESUE the younger). · 1478 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

248, [4] ll.Rare Venetian edition with a false Paris imprint, of Mesue’s three seminal pharmacological works, including his great pharmacological handbook, the principal model for the European pharmacopoeias, translated into Latin by Jacques Dubois/Jacobus Sylvius (1478-1555), w…

De gli habiti antichi, et moderni di diverse parti del mondo, libri due, ..., & con discorsi da lui dichiarati.Venice, Damiano Zenaro, 1590. 8vo (19 x 12 x 4.5 cm). With an elaborately decorated woodcut scrollwork border on the title page (incorporating 4 costume figures for the 4 continents, Zenaro’s salamander device and the coat of arms of the dedicatee, Count Pietro Montalbano), a divisional title with a 4-piece woodcut border, an emblematic woodcut medallion, 5 full-page woodcut views of Venice, 413 full-page woodcut costume figures from around the world (each in a 4-piece woodcut border), ca. 35 woodcut decorated initials plus hundreds of repeats (3 series, the main one covering nearly the complete alphabet with a few letters in more than one version). 19th-century gold-tooled red morocco (Paris, ca. 1865), signed in the front turn-in “HARDY-MENNIL”, each board with the crowned and supported arms of the Prince d’Essling above crossed branches (oak and palm) in the centre and a stylised flower (thistle? Queen Anne’s lace?), the monogram "AM" (for André Masséna, Prince d’Essling).

VECELLIO, Cesare. · 1664 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)

[24], 499, [1 blank] ll.First edition, in the original Italian, of a famous early work on ancient and modern costumes, with hundred of woodcuts. This edition shows the fine woodcuts at their freshest, revealing many details of the costumes. The third edition (1664) attributes th…

[The riding school or exercise of cavalry].[Leiden, workshop of Jacob II de Gheyn, 1599]. Oblong folio (25 x 32 cm). With 22 numbered engraved plates (varying sizes, ca. 15.4-16 x 19.7 x 21.5 cm), including the engraved title page. The illustrations are designed by De Gheyn and possibly engraved by him or by Zacharias Dolendo. Contemporary gold-tooled calf with the large gold-tooled coat of arms of the Stuart Princes of Wales (Stuart Prince of Wales, Henry Frederick (1594-1612)) within a gold- and blind-tooled double fillet frame on both boards, with small gold-tooled flowers on the spine, gold-tooled board edges.

GHEYN, Jacob II de. · 1598 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€38,000.00 ($41,883.87 | £31,697.51 | ¥6,689,112)

[22 engraved plates].Very rare first edition of this magnificent series of cavalrymen and lansquentes in various positions, bound for Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (1598-1612) with his coat-of-arms on the boards. All plates are signed by Jacob II de Gheyn ("IDGheyn in. et ex.…