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J. Jacques Rousseau, citoyen de Geneve, à Chritophe [!] de Beaumont, archevêque de Paris, duc de St. Cloud ... avec sa lettre au Conseil de Geneve.Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1765. Ads 1-2: 12mo (ad 1 in 8s); ad 3: 8vo. (all: 17x ca. 10.5 cm). Ad 1: with a woodcut vignette on the title page, and some decorated initials and headpieces built up from typographical ornaments. With: (2) LINGUET, Simon Nicolas Henry. Requète au Conseil du Roi, pour M. Linguet, Avocat. Contre les arrêts du Parlement de Paris, des 29 mars & 4 février 1775. Amsterdam, Marc-Michel Rey, 1776.(3) [LINGUET, Simon Nicolas Henry]. Collection complette des oeuvres de M. Linguet, Dont les quatre premiers volumes ...[1777].Near-contemporary mottled calf, gold-tooled spine with a red morocco title-label lettered in gold, gold-tooled board edges, marbled endpapers, red edges.

ROUSSEAU, Jean Jacques. · 1712 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XLVII, [1 blank], 143, [1]; [1], [1 blank], 260; XXIV pp.Ad 1: Very rare edition of one of the last works written by Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), the major Genevois, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism. His political philosophy influenced the French Revolutio…

Selection of Just William Novels: William - the Conqueror; William and the Evacuees; Just William; Sweet William; William - the Detective; William&Apos;S Crowded Hours; William - the Showman; William and the A.R. P. ; William - the Fourth; William - the Outlaw; William Again; Still William; William - the Pirate; William - the Bad; William - the Dictator; William - the Rebel; William; William - the Good; William&Apos;S Happy Days; William - the Gangster; William - in Trouble; More William.

Richmal Crompton · 1927 · Rooke Books

£1,975.00 (€2,367.69 | $2,609.69 | ¥416,783)

London, George Newnes, 1927-1940 . Cloth. A charming collection of works by Richmal Crompton featuring her popular fictional character, Just William. This collection feature twenty-two editions of Just William stories. Each volume is in the original cloth binding, with the origi…

English Place-Names

Various · 1935 · Rooke Books

£975.00 (€1,168.86 | $1,288.33 | ¥205,754)

Cambridge , Cambridge University Press, 1935-74. First edition. Cloth. A scarce collection of thirty-seven first editions by the English Place-Names Society, covering the place names of numerous English counties. The English Place-Name Society is a learned society, concerning wi…

A Collection of Travel Books on the Middle East

Various · 1930 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, Ernest Benn, Limited; Naval Intelligence Division; Faber & Faber; Hodder & Stoughton; Collins; Longmans; Cassell & Co. 1930-1965. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of ten volumes on the Middle East, with historical commentary and illustrations throughout. Ten volu…

The Works of Dick Francis

Dick Francis · 1957 · Rooke Books

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

London, Michael Joseph, 1957-2000. First edition. Cloth. A complete run of the works of the prolific equestrian author, Dick Francis, with three signed by the author, including the early work 'For Kicks&apos. An exceptional set for any collector. Contains: The Sport of Quee…

The British Novelists; with an Essay and Prefaces Biographical and Critical

ed. Mrs. Barbauld · 1820 · Rooke Books

£4,200.00 (€5,035.10 | $5,549.72 | ¥886,324)

London, F. C. and J. Rivington; W. Lowndes et al. 1820. Leather. A gorgeous collection of British novels from the seventeenth and early eighteenth century, comprising such writers as Maria Edgeworth, Fanny Burney, Samuel Johnson and Daniel Defoe. Bound in contemporary full leath…

Suites d'Homère de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance

Diane Cuny, Arnaud Perrot (eds) · 2025 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€110.00 ($121.24 | £91.76 | ¥19,363)

, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, 371 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:4 col., 4 tables b/w., Language(s):French, English. *new ISBN 9782503607559. Summary This book is the result of an international conference organized by the University of Tours in May 2021. It sets out to ex…

1881 French Woman Novelist Letter to Aunt Revealing Her Pen Name, Complaints on Literary Publicity, Octave Feuillet & Aime Giron at le Figaro

RENéE (OR RENé) DE VIC · 1881 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$325.00 (€294.86 | £245.96 | ¥51,905)

Paris, France, Valee DE La Vesubie, France, 1881. Ephemera. On offer is a remarkable four-page literary letter written from the Vallée de la Vésubie on August 4, almost certainly in 1881, and signed simply Antoinette. The writer can be identified with considerable confidence a…

Ce Qu'on Dit Et Ce Qu'on Pense [What One Says and What One Thinks]

[SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel] J.S- · 1829 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$5,500.00 (€4,989.99 | £4,162.37 | ¥878,384)

Paris: Gihaut Frères, 1829. 'What One Says And What One thinks' Thirty-Six Fine Hand-Colored Lithograph Plates by Jean-Gabriel Scheffer [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel]. Ce qu'on dit et ce qu'on pense [What one says and what one thinks]. Paris: Gihaut Frères, [1829-30]. Oblong folio (9 …

Recueil Des Scènes Familiéres, Et de Société de Paris

[SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel] J.S-; PIGAL; &c · 1824 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$12,500.00 (€11,340.88 | £9,459.94 | ¥1,996,327)

Paris: n.p. [Chez Martinet], 1824. An Extraordinary Survival of Restoration-Era Paris Thirty-Six Brilliant Hand-Colored Lithographs of Parisian Society by Jean-Gabriel Scheffer [SCHEFFER, Jean-Gabriel]. J.S -, PIGAL, &c. &c. Recueil des Scènes Familiéres, et de Société de Paris.…

Sozialpsychologie: Eine Einführung Springer-Lehrbuch

Klaus Jonas (Herausgeber), Wolfgang Stroebe (Herausgeber) social psychology Professor of Social Psychology University of Utrecht social and health psychology, Miles Hewstone (Herausgeber) Professor of Social Psychology University of Oxford, M.R.C. Hewston · 2014 · LLU Buchservice

€79.90 ($88.07 | £66.65 | ¥14,065)

, Springer, 2014. 691, 193 x 260 mm, Hardcover. Zustand: 2. Warum verhält sich jemand aggressiv? Wieso helfen viele Zuschauer bei einem Unfall nicht? Soll ich aufhören zu rauchen, weil es meiner Gesundheit schadet? Wie bildet sich ein Gruppenanführer heraus? Das alles ist Sozial…

Elizabeth Taylor: My Love Affair with Jewelry

Elizabeth Taylor (Autor) · 2002 · LLU Buchservice

€199.90 ($220.33 | £166.75 | ¥35,188)

, Simon & Schuster, 2002. 240, 2,7 x 25,6 x 31,3 cm, Hardcover. Zustand: 2. For the first time, Taylor discusses many of the most beautiful pieces in hercollection, sharing witty and intimate stories about who gave them to her andabout what was going on in her life at the time. …

Groningen - Johannes Janssonius, 1657

Janssonius-- Johannes · 1657 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€1,450.00 ($1,598.20 | £1,209.51 | ¥255,242)

MID-17TH CENTURY PLAN OF THE CITY OF GRONINGEN "Groeninga vulgo Groeningen", published by Johannes Janssonius in 1657. Coloured by a later hand. Size: 41.5 x 51 cm. Janssonius acquired 363 copper plates from the Cologne publishers Georg Braun and Franz Hogenberg and decided i…

[Culicidae Papers - compiled by F.V. Theobald]

Theobald, F.V. · 1891 · Pemberley Natural History Books

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

, . . HB. 35 vols, cloth, some worn, some with torn/damaged spines.. A unique collection of 35 bound volumes (numbered and with spine titles) of approximately 150 papers, mostly on the Culicidae, compiled by the well-known entomologist, Frederick Vincent Theobald (1868-1930). A …

Philodicus, sive Dialogus de ptisana, ...Venice, “ad signum Leonis” [= heirs of Curzio Troiano Navò], 1591 [all but the prelims printed by Francesco Osanna, Mantua, 1584]. With: (2) PARMA, Ippolito. Introductionis ad chirurgiam libri duo. ...Padova, Pietro Paolo Tozzi (printed by Lorenzo Pasquato), 1612. 2 works in 1 volume. 4to. Ad 1: with the title page printed in red and black in an illustrated woodcut border, a woodcut headpiece, 4 woodcut initials with pictorial decoration, decorations built up from arabesque typographic ornaments, and a small acorn. Ad 2: with Tozzi’s(?) woodcut Minerva device in a scrollwork cartouche on the title page, numerous woodcut headpieces, tailpieces and other decorations, 6 woodcut decorated initials and arabesque typographic ornaments. Half calf (French, ca. 1750), gold-tooled spine with a label (with both titles), plain paper sides, green headbands.

MINADOI, Giovanni Tommaso. · 1549 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[8], 124, [2 blank]; [8], 196 pp.First edition, second issue, of a dialogue set in Aleppo on the use of barley infusions (often together with other medicines) for the treatment of various illnesses and ailments, written by the personal physician of the Venetian counsul to Syria …

Les genealogies et anciennes descentes des Forestiers et Comtes de Flandre, avec brieves descriptions de leurs vies et gestes le tout recueilly des plus veritables, approvees et anciennes croniques et annales qui se trouvent...Antwerp, (colophon: Andre Bax for) Pierre Balthasar (also known as Pieter Balten), [1580]. Folio. With an engraved title-page, a full-page engraved plate with the dedication, a full-page engraved plate showing the coats-of-arms of the Foresters of Flanders and the counts of Flanders and a map of Flanders, a full-page engraving showing verse below an allegorical scene of death, 40 full-page engraved portraits of the Foresters and Counts of Flanders, 30 small coats-of-arms in the text, and numerous woodcut decorated initials. All illustrations (except for the initials) are expertly coloured by hand. Contemporary parchment, sewn on 4 supports laced through the joints, with remnants of green closing ties.

MARTIN, Cornelis and Pieter BALTEN (illustrator and publisher). · 1459 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[6], 119, [2], [1 blank] pp.Rare, beautifully illustrated and contemporary hand coloured copy containing the biographies and portraits of the rulers of Flanders since the 9th century CE. The work details the genealogy of the Counts of Flanders, supposedly - according to the so-c…

[Collection of communist essays for the Arabic-speaking and Middle Eastern market].China, Israel, Russia (USSR), United States, [various publishers], 1968-1984. 16 publications. Several fold-out maps and some works with photographic plates. Including (in chronological order):(1) LANE-POOLE, Stanley. Coins of the Amawi Khalifehs. Catalogue of the collection of Oriental coins belonging to Col. C. Seton Guthrie.Chicago, Argonaut Publishers, 1968.(2) [SOVIET REVISIONISTS versus the CHINESE PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY]. [Title in Arabic:] Down with the new tsars! Soviet revisionists' anti-China atrocities on the Heilung and Wusuli Rivers.Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1969.(3) [AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE]. [Title in Arabic:] Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.Philadelphia, 1970.(4) [AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE]. [Title in Hebrew:] Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.Tel Aviv, 1970.(5) [AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE]. Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.[New York], [Hill and Wang], 1970.(6) [AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE]. Search for peace in the Middle East: a report prepared for the American Friends Service Committee.New York, Hill and Wang, 1971. (7) MAO ZEDONG. [Title in Arabic:] On the correct handling of contradictions among the people.Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1971.(8) MAO ZEDONG. [Title in Persian:] People of the world, unite and defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs!Beijing, Foreign Language Press, 1971.(9) MAO, ZEDONG. [Title in Persian:] Talks at the Yenan forum on literature and art.Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1971.(10) [1972 NEW YEAR'S DAY EDITORIAL?]. [Title in Arabic:] Unite to win still greater victories.Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1972.(11) [RENMIN RIBAO (editor)?]. [Title in Arabic:] A vicious motive, despicable tricks: a criticism of M. Antonioni's anti-China film "China".Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1974.(12) [NATIONAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS - CHINA]. [Title in Arabic:] Documents of the first session of the fourth National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China.Beijing, Foreign Languages Press, 1975.(13) LENIN, Vladimir Ilyich. [Title in Arabic:] A letter to American workers.Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1978.(14) LENIN, Vladimir Ilyich. [Title in Arabic:] Two tactics of social-democracy in the Democratic Revolution.Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1978. (15) ENGELS, Friedrich. [Title in Arabic:] Anti-Dühring.Moscow, Progress Publishers, 1984.(16) [REVOLUTIONARY INTERNATIONALIST MOVEMENT]. [Title in Arabic:] Declaration of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement.[1984?].Mainly works in their original publisher's printed paper wrappers, occasionally in a hardcover binding.

[COMMUNIST ESSAYS]. · 1970 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

Unique collection of predominantly Marxist-Leninist works of the 1970s and 1980s, mainly in Arabic and Persian. It provides an exceptional view into the efforts made to persuade the people of the Arabian Peninsula of leftist viewpoints. The works do not represent one common poli…

Sermones per adventu[m] domini cu[m] multis aliis inclusis. sermocionanti per utiles. famosissimi predicatoris Maiistri Ruberti de Licio Italici ordinis minoru[m]. [= Sermones de adventu, Sermo de S. Joseph, Sermo de Beatitudine, Sermones de divina caritate, Sermones de immortalitate animae].Including: BOLLANI, Dominico (Dominicus BOLLANUS). De co[n]ceptione gloriosissime Virginis Marie [= De conceptione Beatae Virginis Mariae]. [Strasbourg, Martin Schott, 1484]. Small (Chancery) folio mostly in 8s (28.5 x 20.5 cm). Printed in 2 columns, set in 2 sizes of rotunda gothic type that Schott used for the first time in the present publication. With spaces left (without guide letters) for perhaps a hundred 3-line and dozens of larger manuscript initials, not filled in in the present copy. Near contemporary (ca. 1500?), richly blind-tooled pigskin over square-edge boards (Eindbanddatenbank workshop w002296, active in Bavaria ca. 1473(?)-1502). With the remains of one strap-fastening (brass anchor-plate, remnants of the alum-tawed leather strap, but catchplate and clasp lost), blue-green edges. Vellum manuscript waste used for reinforcement, showing bits of Isaias 5:8-26 from a Vulgate Bible in a large textura hand.

CARACCIOLO, Roberto. · 1425 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,000.00 ($7,715.45 | £5,839.02 | ¥1,232,205)

[100], [17], [1 blank] ll.The last of six incunable editions, all in the original Latin, of a collection of about 70 sermons by the celebrated Italian Franciscan bishop and preacher, Roberto Caracciolo da Lecce (ca 1425-1495), published together with Dominico Bollani’s treatise …

[Album containing coats of arms of Flemish, Dutch and French noble families].[France, Flanders and the Netherlands, 17th and 18th century]. Folio. With 390 coats of arms (plus another 49 blank shields) of which 13 on vellum, all but 25 contemporary hand-coloured of which 17 painted with gold and 1 with silver and all but 3 drawn by hand. Mostly all coat of arms are captioned in brown ink in contemporary 17th- or 18th-century cursive hands, in which also the sometimes added manuscript text (on the same or another leaf) is written. Coats of arms on paper and vellum in various sizes, mounted on later folio-sized paper leaves. 18th-century half red roan (sheepskin), brown sprinkled paper sides over boards, manuscript title label on the front board.

[HERALDRY - FLANDERS - NETHERLANDS - FRANCE]. · 1452 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)

All loose leaves and quires mounted/stored on [29] ll, the quires loosely stored in a paper slip mounted on a leaf.Album containing a collection of 390 coats of arms, almost all executed by hand and mostly contemporary hand-coloured, of many important West-European noble familie…

Nippon. Archiv zur Beschreibung von Japan und dessen Neben- und Schutzländeren. Jezo mit den südlichen Kurilen, Krafto, Kooraï und den Liukiu-Inseln, nach japanischen und europäischen Schriften und eigenen Beobachtungen. Atlas.

Siebold, P. F. von · 1832 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€36,500.00 ($40,230.56 | £30,446.29 | ¥6,425,068)

Leiden, privately published by the author, [1832]-1835. Seven parts in three. Folio (54.8 x 35.4 cm [loose plates]; 58 x 39 cm [bound volumes]). Allegorical frontispiece (much larger and far more finely engraved than the similar one in the quarto edition), 2 pp. "Erklärung des T…

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