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Seven Letters from Charles Lamb to Charles Ryle of the East India House 1828-1832

Charles Lamb · 1931 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Oxford , Oxford University Press, 1931. Hardback. A limited copy of these seven letters sent from English poet, Charles Lamb, to the executor of his will, Charles Ryle. One of two hundred and fifty copies printed at the University Press, Oxford.In the publisher's original q…

The Poets of Merchant Taylors&Apos; School (Founded 1561): Their Best Songs and Shorter Poems

John Gawsworth [ed.] · 1934 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

London, Rich & Cowan Ltd. 1934 . First edition. Cloth. A presentation copy of the first edition of this collection of songs and poetry from notable alumni of the Merchant Taylors' School. The first edition. A presentation copy, inscribed by the author to the half title page…

The Peach Blossom Fan (T'ao-hua-shan). Translated by Chen Shih-hsiang and Harold Acton.

[China]. K'ung Shang-jen (1648-1718). · 1976 · Fahrenheit 451

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Berkeley etc., University of California Press, 1976, XIX,(1),312 pag., illustrations, paperback. = Owne;s name. A tale of battling armies, political intrigue, star-crossed romance, and historical cataclysm, The Peach Blossom Fan is one of the masterpieces of Chinese literature,…

The Swan of Usk. A Historical Novel. With a dust wrapper design by Rex Whistler.

HELEN ASHTON. Rex Whistler. · 1940 · Clearwater Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Collins, London, 1st Edition, Rex Whistler., First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 320pp. Purple cloth (faded to brown at the upper and lower boards), with slightly dulled gilt lettering to the spine. The board margins very slightly dust soiled, and with a sliver of light toning …

Gayton Wake, or Mary Dod; and Her List of Merits

Richard Llwyd · 1804 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)

Chester, J. Fletcher; E. Williams, 1804 . First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of Welsh poet Richard Llwyd's charming brief poem about a local festival in the Wirral village of Gayton Wake. The very scarce first edition of this poem from 'The Bard of Sno…

Het onbekent en wonderlijk Eyland Utopia, ontdekt door Rafaël Hythlodeus, en by t'samenspraeke beschreven.Rotterdam, François van Hoogstraten, 1677. 18mo. With an engraved portrait. Contemporary vellum, sewn on 5 supports laced through the joints, with the manuscript author and title on the spine.

MORE, Thomas and François van HOOGSTRATEN (translator). · 1700 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[24], 263, [1] pp.First edition of Van Hoogstraten's translation of Utopia, which was only the second translation into Dutch. Considered a "beautiful and fluent translation" (Van Bunge), it reached a wide audience in its own time, and was even republished in 1700. François van H…

Amwell: A Descriptive Poem. By John Scott, Esq. The Second Edition.

SAMMELBAND: SCOTT (John). KEATE (George). GERRARD (John) · 1776 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£500.00 (€599.42 | $660.68 | ¥105,515)

London: PrinTed for Edward and Charles Dilly. 1776. 4to, 271 x 210 mms., pp.[iv], 28, including title-page, engraved vignette on title-page, engraved tail-piece. BOUND WITH: KEATE (George): The Monument in Arcadia: A Dramatic Poem, In Two Acts. London: Printed for J. Dodsley…

The Contributions of Q.Q. To a Periodical Work: With Some Pieces Not Before Published.

Jane Taylor; Isaac Taylor [ed.] · 1826 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, B. J. Holsworth, 1826. Leather. The fascinating second edition of this scarce work by the composor of the familiar children's nursey rhyme, 'Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star' The second edition of this work, first published two years prior, in 1824. Scarce in …

The Letters of Samuel Johnson with Mrs. Thrale&Apos;S Genuine Letters to Him

Samuel Johnson; R. W. Chapman [editor] · 1952 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

Oxford, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1952. Cloth. Three volumes of the letters of writer and critic Samuel Johnson, with illustrations. Includes the original unclipped dust wrappers. Complete in three volumes. These volumes were planned as a supplement to Boswell's great …

1957 Margaret the First: A Biography of Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle 1623-1673

Douglas Grant · 1957 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

London, Rupert Hart-Davis, 1957. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biography on Margaret the First by Douglas Grant, in the original vanishingly scarce dust wrapper and previously owned by the author, with a letter addressed to him. The first edition. Previously ow…

England&Apos;S Topographer: A New and Complete History of the County of Kent

W. H. Ireland [William Henry Ireland] · 1828 · Rooke Books

£380.00 (€455.56 | $502.12 | ¥80,191)

London, G. Virtue, 1828-1830. First edition. Leather. The first edition of W. H. Ireland's study of the history and topography of the county of Kent. Illustrated with a folding map and 124 further beautifully engraved plates. The complete four volume first edition of Englis…

Designed for Pleasure: The World of Edo Japan in Prints and Paintings, 1680-1860

Meech, Julia and Jane Oliver (Editors) · 2008 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.19 | ¥10,381)

New York, Asia Society and Museum / University of Washington Press, 2008. Paperback. Color-illustrated wraps with black lettering on green spine. French flaps. 256 pp. with color illustrations throughout. "This book examines the floating world of popular culture centered in Edo …

Menu for the 70th Birthday of André Salmon (1881-1969) Signed by Piet Mondrian and Other Luminaries and Designed by Marie Laurencin. Original Document

Mondrian, Piet, (1872-1944).. et al.; Marie Laurencin, artist · 1951 · Wittenborn Art Books

$950.00 (€861.91 | £718.96 | ¥151,721)

Paris: La Coupole, 1951. Original menu signed by artists and writers. 4pp. Short tear... André Salmon (Paris, 1881-Sanary, France, 1969): Writer, poet, and art critic André Salmon was an impassioned supporter of modern art and a central figure in the early historiography of the …

The antiquities of South Arabia being a translation from the Arabic with linguistic, geographic, and historic notes of the eighth book of Al-Hamdani's Al-Iklil, reconstructed from Al. Karmali's edition and a MS in the Garrett collection Princeton University Library.Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1938. 8vo. With 1 page with the text of fol. 22(a) of the Princeton MS; p. 73 shows inscriptions of Himyarite characters; 1 map titled "Ancient Arabia Peoples, places and routes". The notes are partially in Arabic and Hebrew (and possibly other types of) script. Black cloth, with title information on spine.

AL-HAMDANI [transl. and ed. Nabih Amin FARIS]. · 1906 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

[6], 119, [1 blank] pp.First edition of this annotated translation of volume 8 of Al-Hamdani's al-Iklil by Nabih Amin Faris (1906-1968), who was a historian and professor of Arab history at the American University of Beirut. The al-Iklil (in full: Kitab al-Iklil min akhbar al-Ya…

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Rendered into English by Edward Fitzgerald. Illustrated by Marie Preaud Webb.

OMAR KHAYYAM · 1910 · Godley Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, James Hewetson & Son. 1910. Leather, 7 x 6 inches. Ill.: Marie Preaud Webb. No marks or inscriptions. A clean slightly foxed copy with uncreased oversize soft red suede leather boards, gilt top of page edges, rubbed/faded gilt lettering to spine, very clear gold embossin…

The Iliad. Translated by Alexander Pope. A new edition, with additional notes, critical and illustrative, by Gilbert Wakefield. BAND 3 (von 6).

Homer [Homeros] [Homer]. · 1796 · Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel

€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)

London, T. Longman, 1796. [4], 367 S. Gr.-8vo (22,5 cm). OGanzleder mit 2 Rückenschildchen u. floraler Goldprägung. Band 3 mit den Büchern VIII - XII. Aus der erweiterten Ausgabe der zuerst 1725-1726 erschienenen Übersetzung. - Alexander Pope (1688-1744), englischer Poet, Schri…

Memoirs of Celebrated Female Characters, Who Have Distinguished Themselves by Their Talents and Virtues in Every Age and Nation; Containing the Most Extensive Collection of Illustrious Examples of Feminine Excellence Ever Published; in Which the Virtuous and the Vicious Are Painted in Their True Colours.

[Mary] Pilkington · 1804 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)

London, Albion Press, 1804. First edition. Leather. A pleasing copy of this wonderfully scarce, nineteenth-century biography of celebrated women; illustrated with twelve engraved portraits. A wonderful first edition copy of this scarce work by Mary Pilkington. Bound in contempor…

Sappho and Alcaeus. An Introduction to the Study of Ancient Lesbian Poetry.

PAGE, D., · 1955 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1955. IX,340p. Cloth wrps. Wrps bit worn. Pencil annotation from WGA on p.301. With initials from Prof. W.G. Arnott on free endpaper. Page's book on Sappho and Alcaeus is a companion to 'Poetarum Lesbiorum Fragmenta', and it is advisable that those who …

Het nieuwe werk van Karel Appel / The new work of Karel Appel 1979-1981. Museum Biymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam 1982 (Allen Ginsberg association)

Wim Beeren and Cor Bok (Karel Appel) (Allen Ginsberg association) · 1982 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$4,950.00 (€4,490.99 | £3,746.14 | ¥790,546)

Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, A 44-page catalogue of a museum exhibition of Appel's recent work. Profusely illustrated in color. The inside rear cover, unprinted, features A WONDERFUL FULL-PAGE (30 x 22 cm) SIGNED ACRYLIC PAINTING BY APPEL, SIGNED, DATED, AND AFFECT…

The Illustrated London News, March (Mar. ) 21, 1964 - Funeral of King Paul of Greece / 60 Years of the Anglo-French Accord

BRYANT, ARTHUR; FALLS, CYRIL; ET AL · 1964 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$249.95 (€226.77 | £189.16 | ¥39,919)

London: The Illustrated London News & Sketch Ltd, 1964. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Nannett, Juliet. Pages 413-468 plus 4 pages of ads. Features: Cover Photo portrait Of The new King of the Hellenes, Constantine II, with Queen Frederika, at the funeral of his father…