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Grotesque architecture, or Rural amusement, consisting of plans, elevations, and sections, for huts, retreats, summer and winter hermitages, terminaries, Chinese, Gothic, and natural grottos, cascades, baths, mosqes, moresque pavilions, grotesque and rustic seats, green houses, & c., many of which may be executed with flints, irregular stones, rude branches, and roots of trees. The while containing twenty-eight new designs, with scales to each. To which is added, an explanation, with the method of executing them

WRIGHTE, William (active 1790–1802) · 1802 · Fine Editions Ltd

$874.00 (€792.95 | £661.44 | ¥139,583)

London Printed by W. Stratford, Crown-Court, Temple-Bar; For J. Taylor, at the Architectural Library Early Reprint A New Edition of this enchanting pattern book of architectural follies, describing designs for huts, hermitages, grottoes, and other rural retreats in which many …

The Deserted Village, A Poem

GOLDSMITH, Oliver (1728-1774) · 1770 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,399.00 (€1,269.27 | £1,058.76 | ¥223,429)

London Printed for W. Griffin, at Garrick's Head, in Catharine street, Strand First Edition First Issue (with erroneous catchword "Careless" for "Thus" on p. 9) of one of the most influential poems of the eighteenth century, condemning the enclosure of land into vast landscape…

Relation du voyage de la mer du Sud aux côtes du Chily et du Perou, fait pendant les années 1712, 1713 & 1714 : dediée à S.A.R. Monseigneur le Duc D'Orleans, Regent du Royaume / par M. Frézier, ingenieur ordinaire du roy ; ouvrage enrichi de quantité de planches en taille-douce.

FRÉZIER, Amédée François (1682-1773) · 1716 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,249.00 (€1,133.18 | £945.24 | ¥199,473)

Paris chez Jean-Geoffroy Nyon, quay de Conti, au coin de la rue Guenegaud, au Nom de Jesus, Etienne Ganeau, rue Saint Jacques, aux Armes de Dombes, vis-à-vis la Fontaine de S. Severin, Jacque Quillau, imprimeur-juré-libraire, rue Galande, aux Armes de l'Université, First Editio…

Statical essays: Containing vegetable staticks; or, An account of some statical experiments on the sap in vegetables. Being an essay towards a natural history of vegetation . . . ; [offered with:] Statical essays: containing haemastatics; or, an account of some hydraulic and hydrostatical experiments made on the blood and blood-vessels of animals. . . . To which is added, an appendix, . . . With an index to both volumes [PMM]

HALES, Stephen (1677-1761) · 17381740 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,999.00 (€1,813.63 | £1,512.83 | ¥319,253)

London Printed for W. Innys and R. Manby, at the West-End of St. Paul’s; T. Woodward, at the Half-Moon over-against St. Dunstan’s Church in Fleet-street; and J. Peele, at Locke’s Head in Amen-Corner A superb set of these classics of experimental science, milestones in the histor…

Il mondo ingannato da falsi medici. Discorsi del Dottor Giuseppe Gazola, Veronese, Medico Cesareo, ed Accademico Alethofilo. (Opera postuma)

GAZOLA, Giuseppe · 1716 · Librería Miguel Miranda

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

[PRIMERA EDICION ?].- In Trento, Per Gio: [Giovanni] Antonio Brunati, Con Licenza de' Superiori, [ca. 1716].- [6 h.], 200 p., [1 h.]: Letras y viñetas capitulares grabadas en madera; 8º menor (15,7 cm); Texto enn italiano; Enc. en Pergamino época con título manuscrito en lome…

Nihon kokon meika zukai. 日本古今名家図解 Short Biographies of Emineni [sic] Japanese in Ancient and Modern Times, each with a Characteristic Illustration. Two volumes (all publ.). Tokyo, Kyushun-dõ, Meiji 20 & 23 (1887 & 1890).TOGETHER WITH: Pictorial Descriptions of Famous Places of Japan in Japanese and Chinese. Volume one (all publ.) Tokyo, Kyushun-dõ, (1888).

MIKI, TEICKI (TEIICHI) & TAKAHASHI, GORÕ (Transl.): · 1562 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

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

A rare collection of the three volumes containing twenty biographies of celebrated Japanese people and ten famous places of Japan. According to the preface the editors originally planned to print ten volumes in this series but us we understand only these three volumes were publi…

Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, July 20, 1957 - Sir Roy Dobson Pushed Us Into the Jet Age / Tanya Moiseiwitsch Is the Designing Woman of Stratford / Prospector Viola Macmillan

EARL, MARJORIE; SANGSTER, DOROTHY; FRAYNE, TRENT; CROFT, FRANK; MCCALL, CHRISTINA; HOCKLEY, VERNON; ET AL · 1956 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.64 | £223.25 | ¥47,113)

Montreal: Maclean Hunter / Key Publishers, 1956. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Illustrated by Macpherson (cover);. 64 pages. Features: Cover painting by Macpherson shows Aerobee rocket taking off from Fort Churchill, Manitoba, to study the Northern Lights; Colour-photo C…

An Introduction to Historical Linguistics.

CROWLEY, T., · 1994 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€28.00 ($30.86 | £23.36 | ¥4,929)

Oxford University Press, Oakland (...), 1994. (Reprint 1st ed.). 331p. Paperback. Nice copy. Appears unread. ‘The field of linguistics began as historical linguistics, and historical linguistics began as Indo-European linguistics. Although a complete conceptual separation of th…

Liebe und Lyrik. Zur Funktiom des erotischen Diskurses in Horazens erster Odensammlung.

EICKS, M., · 2011 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.90 | ¥14,962)

De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston, 2011. X,376p. Original grey cloth. Light remains of pencil striks of front cover. A lot of reviewer's pencil markings and annotations. Series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 291. ‘In 2011 Mathias Eicks’ ‘Liebe und Lyrik. Zur Funktion des erotisch…

Intertextuality and the Reading of Roman Poetry.

EDMUNDS, L., · 2001 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London, n.d.(>2001). XX,201p. Paperback. 'Lowell Edmunds has written a book that provides what is expected and appreciated in a theoretical study: the scholarship is extensive and well organized into arguments which are themselves des…

Georgia O'Keeffe: American and Modern

Eldredge, Charles C. · 1993 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1993. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. White cloth in white illustrated jacket. 226 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm. Georgia O'Keeffe has become a legend in modern western culture. As an artist, she was able to garner and sustain the…

Mississippi Blood

Greg Iles · 2017 · Book Haven

NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)

Harper Collins 2017 Paperback, 694pp. '1 New York Times Bestselling Author The endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi--Greg Iles's epic tale of lov…

Fleurs, fruits et feuillages choisis de la flore et de la pomone de l'ile de Java. peints d'après nature. Ouvrage dédié à s majesté la reine de Hollande.

Hoola van Nooten, B. · 1863 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€18,500.00 ($20,390.83 | £15,431.68 | ¥3,256,541)

Bruxelles, Émile Tarlier, 1863. Large folio (55.6 x 40.8 cm). Title page, [ii] pp. (preface), dedication leaf; 41 chromolithographed plates, some finished by hand, with explanatory text leaves. Contemporary half calf over over burgundy linen boards. Spine blind-tooled with four …

Die diluviale Vorzeit Deutschlands.

Schmidt, R. R. · 1912 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€500.00 ($551.10 | £417.07 | ¥88,015)

Stuttgart, E. Schweizerbart (Nägele und Dr. Sproesser), 1912. Very large 4to (35.5 x 30.0 cm). xiii, 283 pp.; 47 engraved or heliogravure plates with explanatory text leaves, loose in rear pocket. Original quarter vellum over cloth boards. Gilt title on front board; gilt-lettere…

Pomologia Batava of afbeelding en beschrijving van onderscheidene soorten van appelen en peeren, welke in de Nederlandsche gewesten worden gekweekt. Allen naar het leven in kleuren geteekend en beschreven.

Noort, M. van · 1830 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)

Leiden, C. C. van der Hoek [1830-ca. 1844]. 4to (26.6 x 21.6 cm). [iv], 4, 80 pp.; 80 (of perhaps 85) fine lithographic plates, finely coloured by hand, and each with accompanying letterpress text leaves. Contemporary black polished half morocco over marbled boards, spine rich g…

[Archive of Eleven Illustrated CIVIL War Song Sheets]

Magnus, Charles, lithographer · 1864 · Kaaterskill Books

$875.00 (€793.86 | £662.20 | ¥139,743)

[New York], Charles Magnus, 1864. First editions thus. 1 sheet each. Broadsides. Approx. 8 x 5 inches. Charles Magnus (1826 -1900) a printer based in New York, though not known for his original designs, as were Currier & Ives, was admired greatly for the quality and color of his…

Van Gogh: Up Close

Homburg, Cornelia · 2012 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Ottawa / Philadelphia / New Haven, National Gallery of Canada / Philadelphia Museum of Art / Yale University Press, 2012. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Red cloth in an illustrated jacket. xvii, 288 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. "This sumptuously illustrated book of…

Poussin Et Dieu

Milovanovic, Nicolas and Mickael Szanto (editors) · 2015 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Paris, Hazan / Musee du Louvre, 2015. Hardcover. Sage and color illus. glossy boards, 488 pp. many color illus. Text is in French. Issued in conjunction with a 2015 exhibition that explored the Christian dimensions of the art of French Baroque painter Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665)…

Dissertazione Ragionata sul Teatro Moderno.

[DELLA LENA (Innocenzo): · 1791 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£1,500.00 (€1,798.25 | $1,982.04 | ¥316,544)

In Venezia, Presso Giacomo Storti..., 1791. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 202 x 134 mms.,pp. [2] 3 - 111 [112 blank], B1 and leaves G1 - 4 unopened and G1 attached to a stub, contemporary paper binding, with brown covers and blue paper on spine, orange label; some general wear…

Zingis: A Tartarian History. Written in Spanish, and Translated into English, by J. M. Humbly Dedicated to the Earl of Dalkeith, Apparent Duke of Bucclugh.

LA ROCHE GUILHEM (ANNE DE, attributed to)] · 1692 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£1,250.00 (€1,498.54 | $1,651.70 | ¥263,787)

London, Printed for Francis Saunders in the New Exchange, and Richard Parker at the Royal Exchange 1692, FIRST EDITION OF THE ENGLISH TRANSLATION. Small 8vo, 168 x 103 mms., pp. [iv], 176, contemporary sheepskin; no endpapers, title-page soiled, worn, and creased with portion…