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On Horseback Through Asia Minor

Burnaby, Frederick · 1996 · The Wild Muse

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Oxford University Press First edition, trade softcover. Published Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, first printing. 8vo. wrappers, x+366pp. Age tone to the paper, mild stain on flyleaf. Very good. In the savage winter of 1876 Captain Frederick Burnaby rode 1,000 miles eas…

Ranger's Apprentice 10 : The Emperor Of Nihon-Ja

John Flanagan · 2011 · Book Haven

$15.50 (€14.06 | £11.73 | ¥2,475)

Philomel Books 2011 Hardback 438 Horace isn't meant to take sides, but he can't stand back and let an oath-breaker claim the throne. Horace is missing. Months have passed since he was sent on a military mission to the court of the Emperor of Nihon-Ja but he has failed to return.…

Magician's Gambit

David Eddings · 1984 · Book Haven

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Corgi 1984 Paperback 305 Ce’Nedra, Imperial Princess of Tolnedra, was confused. Everyone knew that the tales of the Orb that protected the West from the evil God Torak were just silly legends. But here she was, forced to join a serious and dangerous quest to recover that stolen …

Six Short Plays

John Galsworthy · 1921 · Rooke Books

£59.99 (€71.91 | $79.26 | ¥12,656)

London, Duckworth and Co. 1921. First edition. Leather. A clean first UK edition of Six Short Plays by John Galsworthy. Bound in leather with gilt lettering and border decoration. First UK Edition. Bound by Hatchards. John Galsworthy OM, 1867 – 1933, was an English novelist and…

Trails of the Hunted

James L. Clark · 1929 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

London, Chatto and Windus, 1929. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of Clark's study of African, Asian and North American animals, illustrated with photographic plates. First Edition. Featuring a photographic frontispiece. 'With forty-seven plates&apos. James L. Cla…

A Dictionary of Practical Surgery

Samuel Cooper · 1830 · Rooke Books

£89.99 (€107.87 | $118.89 | ¥18,985)

New York, J. & J. Harper, 1830. Cloth. A large edition of A Dictionary of Practical Surgery by Samuel Cooper. Two volumes bound as one. Samuel Cooper FRS (September 1780 – 2 December 1848) was an English surgeon and medical writer. He published a Surgical Dictionary which went …

Super Magical Miracles

John Booth · 1930 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.85 | $132.10 | ¥21,095)

London , Edward Bagshawe, 1930. First edition. Paperback. A scarce copy of John Booth's magical secrets revealed. First Edition. 'A collection of exclusive magical secrets invented by John Booth&apos. With illustrations by the author throughout. Publisher's advert…

A Copius and Critical Latin-English Lexicon Founded on the Larger Latin-German Lexicon of Dr. William Freund with Additions and Corrections from the Lexicons of Gesner, Facciolati, Scheller, Georges, Etc.

Harper & Brothers Publishers · 1868 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

New York, Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1868. Leather. A bright, scarce, early New York edition of Andrew's Latin-English Lexicon. Scarce. Ethan Allen Andrews, 1787 – 1858, was an American educator. He was born in Connecticut and graduated at Yale in 1810. He practiced law…

Memoires de Voltaire Suivis de Mlanges Divers Et Prcds de "Voltaire Dmiurge" Par Paul Souday

Voltaire · 1927 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

Paris, Emile Hazan, 1927. Leather. The memoir of the popular eighteenth century French writer and philosopher, Voltaire. In French. The memoirs of French philosopher Franois-Marie Arouet, better known by his pseudonym Voltaire. Paul Souday (born in Le Havre Aug. 20, 1869 and die…

A Selection from the Letters of Lewis Carroll to His Child-Friends

Lewis Carroll; Evelyn M. Hatch [ed] · 1933 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1933. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this biographical work on Lewis Carroll, featuring a selection of letters to the various children he befriended. The first edition, first impression.Illustrated with a photographic frontispiece a…

Essays Historical and Theological

J B Mozley · 1878 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.51 | $89.84 | ¥14,346)

London, Rivingtons, 1878. Leather. Two Volumes of Essays by theologian J B Mozley. With writings of notable religious figures, principles and sermons. J B Mozley was an English theologian. He was a fellow of Magdalen college and played an important part in the Oxford movement. H…

Mrs Brookfield and Her Circle

Charles and Frances Brookfield · 1905 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

London , Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons LTD, 1905. Cloth. A scarce biography of Mrs Brookfield Illustrated with full page engravings throughout Charles Hallam Elton Brookfield (19 May 1857 – 20 October 1913) was a British actor, author, playwright and journalist, including for The S…

La Chevalerie: Nouvelle Edition Accompagnee D&Apos;Une Table Par Ordre Alphabetique Des Matieres

Leon Gautier · 1891 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

Paris, Charles Delagrave, 1891. Leather. An uncommon history of the Knights Templar in French. An uncommon history of the Knights Templar in French. New edition. Illustrated throughout with numerous vignette engravings. mile Thodore Lon Gautier (8 August 1832 - 25 August 1897) w…

Etudes Sociales Et Politiques Vers Un Ordre Social Chretien Jalons de Route 1882 - 1907

Marquis De La-Tour-Du-Pin La Charge · 1877 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Paris, Nouvelle Librairie Nationale, c1921. Cloth. A copy of this socio-political work in French. A copy of this socio-political work in French. To a Christian Social Order. Francois Rene de La Tour du Pin, Marquis de la Charce, was a French Military Officer, Politician and Soci…

Cainge Y Gog; Neu Amryw Gyfansoddiadau, Ar Wahanol Destunau

William Moses · 1824 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.91 | $92.48 | ¥14,768)

Merthyr Tydfil, J. James, 1824. First edition. Hardback. The first edition of this very scarce collection of poetry by the Welsh poet William Moses. The first edition of this very scarce work, rebound in boards with a paper spine label. Ink inscriptions to the first blank page. …

Warned Off; a Romance of the Turf

Robert Standish Sievier · 1910 · Rooke Books

£220.00 (€263.70 | $290.65 | ¥46,413)

London, The Winning Post, 1910. First edition. Leather. A romance novel set within the world of racehorsing and gambling, by the racehorse owner Robert Sievier. 'Warned Off' is a romance novel set in the world of racehorses, a world which the author, Robert Sievier, ha…

Orationes Varii Argumenti. Accedit Praeter alias ejusdem Dissertationes Consilium in causa Postliminii.

Cunaeus, Petrus (1586-1638). · 1640 · Fahrenheit 451

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

Leyden, Isaac Commelin, 1640, 1st ed., (24),307 pag., woodcut printer's mark, vignettes and initials, contemporary vellum with title in ink on spine, duodecimo. = Rare first edition. Petrus Cunaeus was the pen name of the Dutch Christian scholar Peter van der Kun. His book The …

The dreamtime book. Australian Aboriginal myths in paintings and text

Roberts, Ainslie, Charles P. Mountford · 1974 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.02 | ¥3,168)

Reader's Digest, 1974 Cloth, with dust jacket. 175 pages. Text in English. Clean copy with minimal signs of use. When Ainslie Roberts met Charles P Mountford, he soon became fascinated by the Aboriginal myths which the famous etnologist had collected during his research expediti…

The Art of Painting in all its Branches, Methodically demonstrated by Discourses and Plates, and exemplified by Remarks on the Paintings Of the best Masters: And their Perfections and Oversights laid open. Translated by Frederick Fritsch, Painter.

Lairesse, Gerard de · 1778 · Grimbergen Boeken Antiquariaat

€1,045.00 ($1,151.78 | £871.81 | ¥183,924)

London, S. Vandenbergh (a.o.). 1778. 504pp., engr.frontis.by J. Carnitham after G. de Lairesse, 69 (fold.) engr. plates (counted as 71). Later boards w. paper letterpiece. 4to Slightly yellowed; frontispiece slightl. foxed and browned. [= Arntzen/ Rainwater H100 (note)]. Good co…

To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape

Charles Spencer · 2017 · Book Haven

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

William Collins 2017 Paperback 314 "In January 1649, King Charles I was beheaded in London outside his palace of Whitehall and Britain became a republic. When his eldest son, Charles, returned in 1651 to fight for his throne, he was crushed by the might of Cromwell’s armies at t…