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KNULP. Drei Geschichten aus dem Leben Knulps

HESSE, Herman · 0 · Charles Agvent

$1,250.00 (€1,134.09 | £945.99 | ¥199,633)

Zürich. Fretz und Wasmuth. First Edition thus. Light blue cloth with printed paper labels on the front cover and spine, in the original dustwrapper. With 16 full-page illustrations by Niklaus Stoecklin. These three stories were first published in 1915. Laid in is a very personal…

Kulturphilosophie. Verfall und Wiederaufbau der Kultur

Albert SCHWEITZER - (envoi à Isidor PHILIPP) · 1923 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€800.00 ($881.77 | £667.32 | ¥140,823)

Envoi d'Albert Schweitzer à son professeur de piano parisien | Paul Haupt | Berne 1923 | 14.5 x 21.3 cm | Reliure de l'éditeur | Edition originale de Verfall und Wiederaufbau der Kultur, le premier volet de la Kulturphilosophie d'Albert Schweitzer.  Reliure de l’éditeur à la Bra…

[First], Second, Third Report and Forth Report of the Geological Survey in Kentucky made during the years 1854 and 1855; 1856, 1857, 1861 [with] Atlas

Owen, David Dale · 1857 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

415; 391; 589, 617, sections + maps (folded). . HB. 4 vols + portfolio atlas, roy. 8vo, orig. cloth. Withdrawn from an institutional library, with stamps, etc. Good. Numerous maps, mostly folded, (some partly torn). Printed label to atlas states 'Maps and illustrations referred …

Hysterie Et Traumatisme: Paralysies, Contractures, Arthralgies, Hystero-Traumatiques; de L&Apos;Apoplexie Hysterique; Atrophie Musculaire: D&Apos;Origine Cerebrale, Avec Integrite Des Cornes Anterieures de la Moelle Et Des Nergs Moteurs; Publications Du Progres Medical: Recherches Servant a Etablir Que Certaines Manifestations Hysteriques; Du Role Du Reve Dans L&Apos;Evolution Du Delire; Contribution a L&Apos;Etude Pathogenique de L&Apos;Amyotrophie Tabetique; de L&Apos;Etiologie Hereditaire de

Dr. Paul Berbez; Charles Achard · 1886 · Rooke Books

£6,500.00 (€7,792.41 | $8,588.85 | ¥1,371,692)

Paris, Aux Bureaux du Progres; A. Delahaye et Lecrosnier et. al. 1886-1887. Leather. A smart medical Sammelband offering scarce 19th-century French studies on the nervous system, including a rare offprint written by prominent professor of neurology, Joseph Babinski. An impressiv…

A Collection of Science Fiction Novels from Sphere Books Ltd.

Damon Knight; Keith Laumer; Daniel Galouye; Sarban [John William Wall]; Mark S. Geston; Vincent King; Sir John Hackett; Patrick Tilley; William Clark · 1967 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

London, Sphere Books Ltd. 1967-1985. Paperback. Ten very neat volumes of science fiction novels published by Sphere Books Ltd. Ten volumes. Analogue Men by Damon Knight, 1967. The Millennium is here. No more wars, no more gang killings, no more drunken accidents. Because you hav…

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Shloyme Bastomski · 1933 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

Vilnius, איינמא×ÂÂoeיקע אויסגאבע פון צענטראַ×ÂÂoeן ב, 1933 . First e…

The Works of Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer · 1880 · Rooke Books

£1,600.00 (€1,918.13 | $2,114.18 | ¥337,647)

London, Williams and Norgate , 1880-1907. Leather. A brilliant collection of uniformly leather-bound works from Herbert Spencer, including the first edition of his two-volume autobiography. From the library of Foyle's co-founder, W. A. Foyle. An impressive collection of wor…

The Birds of Scotland Their History, Distribution, and Migration

Evelyn V. Baxter; Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul · 1953 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Edinburgh; London, Oliver and Boyd, 1953. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Baxter and Rintoul's extensive study on Scottish ornithology, a unique copy with two signed letters from the authors, addressed to fellow ornithologist Dr. Ian Pennie. The first edition.Com…

A Scarce Set of Retrospective Poetry: From 1923-1949

D.S. Hancock; Dent Dormer; John Freeman [int. by J.C. Squire]; Geoffrey Fyson · 1923 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, Arthur H. Stockwell; Macmillan and Co.; Parthian Press, 1923-1949. First edition. Cloth. A scarce set of poetry published between 1923-1949, from the comic to the melancholy. All first editions, including signed copies. A Scarce Set of Retrospective Poetry: Published bet…

16 Vols a Collection of the Works of Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kipling · 1899 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited , 1899–1937. Cloth. A substantial sixteen-volume collection of Rudyard Kipling"s works, including several first editions and illustrated volumes, charting his literary career. Uniformly bound in the publisher's original red cloth binding, …

Select Fables of Aesop, Esop, and Other Fabulists

Esop; Aesop; Robert Dodsley · 1824 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

London; Gainsborough, William Osborne & J. and H. Mozley; Henry Mozley; C. and J. Rivington, c1788-1824. Leather. A smart set of three different editions of Aesop's 'Fables', edited by Robert Dodsley, smartly bound copies. A striking set of three different edition…

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, the Iliad, the Odyssey

Alexander Pope; Homer · 1804 · Rooke Books

£1,950.00 (€2,337.72 | $2,576.65 | ¥411,508)

London, F. J. du Roveray; T. Bensley; J. and A. Arch; E. Lloyd, 1804-06. Leather. A striking and lavishly illustrated set of the works of Alexander Pope, including his translations of Homer's epics. Complete as eighteen volumes bound in nine.Volumes I to III contain 'P…

Vice Versa, or, a Lesson to Fathers

F. Anstey; Thomas Anstey Guthrie · 1882 · Rooke Books

£390.00 (€467.54 | $515.33 | ¥82,302)

London, Smith, Elder, & Co, 1882. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Thomas Anstey Guthrie's popular comical 'Freaky Friday' novel, including a handwritten letter from the author loosely inserted. The scarce first edition of this popular novel.Handw…

Winnie the Pooh, Now We Are Six, House at Pooh Corner When We Were Very Young

A A Milne · 1926 · Rooke Books

£5,900.00 (€7,073.11 | $7,796.03 | ¥1,245,074)

London, Methuen and Co, 1926-29. Fine Binding. A beautifully bound set of A A Milne's classic children's works featuring his anthropomorphic bear Winnie the Pooh. From the library of Julian's Park, which was once home to the Socialite Audrey Pleydell-Bouverie. Com…

Law Is a Bottomless-Pit. Exmeplify&Apos;D in the Case of the Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, and Lewis Baboon. Who Spent All They Had in a Law-Suit John Bull in His Senses: Being the Second Part of Law Is a Bottomless-Pit John Bull Still in His Senses: Being the Third Part of Law Is a Bottomless-Pit an Appendix to John Bull Still in His Senses: Or, Law Is a Bottomless-Pit a Complete Key to the Four Parts of Law Is a Bottomless-Pit, and the Story of the St. Alban&Apos;S Ghost

John Arbuthnot · 1712 · Rooke Books

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

London, John Morphew, 1712. Leather. A collection of the five satirical pamphlets relating to the figure John Bull, created by John Arbuthnot, a selection of firsts to fourth editions. A rare collection of the five politically satirical pamphlets relating to John Bull.'La…

Artachthos or a New Booke Declaring the Assise or Weight of Bread Not Onely by Troy Weight, According to the Law, But by Avoirdupois Weight the Common Weight of England at What Price Soever, Not Exceeding Five Pound the Quarter of Wheate, Shall Be Sold in the Market and Conteining Divers Orders and Articles Made and Set Forth by the Right Honourable the Lords and Others of His Majesties Most Honourable Privie Councell

John Penkethman · 1638 · Rooke Books

£6,500.00 (€7,792.41 | $8,588.85 | ¥1,371,692)

London, E Griffin; R Bishop; Stationers Shops , 1638. First edition. Vellum. A very scarce and detailed work regarding the Assize of Bread during the seventeenth century. Retaining the charming engraved title page, which provides a step-by-step guide to making bread. A very scar…

The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson Limited Edition

Robert Louis Stevenson; Edmund Gosse [ed.] · 1550 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.31 | $786.21 | ¥125,563)

London, Cassell & Company Limited. Cloth. A very scarce complete limited edition twenty volume set of this collection from the author of Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. A very scarce complete twenty volume set of works by Robert Louis Stevenson, …

The Works of George Meredith & Letters of George Meredith

George Meredith · 1909 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

London, Constable and Company Ltd. 1909-1912. Cloth. A full set of the works of English novelist and poet, George Meredith, with a two volume set of his letters. Total of twenty-nine volumes. Written by George Meredith, an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era who was g…

Dombey and Son

Charles Dickens · 1848 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, Bradbury and Evans, 1848. First edition. Leather. An early mixed issue of one of the popular novels of Charles Dickens, complete with the original striking plates of Phiz. Bound in two volumes, with the engraved title to Volume I, and typed title to Volume II.The first e…

The Works of That Learned and Judicious Divine, Mr. Richard Hooker, in Eight Books of Ecclesiastical Polity, Compleated out of His Own Manuscripts; with Several Other Treatises by the Same Author, and an Account of His Life and Death. Dedicated to the Kings Most Excellen Majesty, Charles IIã‚â· by Whose Royal Father (Near His Martyrdom) the Former Five Books (Then Only Extant) Were Commended to His Dear Children, As an Excellent Means to Satisfie Private Scruples, and Settle the Publick Peace of

Richard Hooker · 1676 · Rooke Books

£1,770.00 (€2,121.93 | $2,338.81 | ¥373,522)

London, R White, 1676. Leather. An early edition of the works of Richard Hooker, a noted English priest, regarded as one of the most influential English theologians of the sixteenth century. This work contains his highly provocative refutation of Puritanism. ESTC Citation No. R2…