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Livy. His Historical Aims and Methods.

WALSH, P.G., · 1961 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,872)

Cambridge University Press, London (...), 1961. XI,301p. Original green cloth with dust wrappers. Dust wrappers bit worn. Lower part front cover slightly bumped. 'Livy's reputation, both as writer and as historian, has languished. (...) What is to be said in Livy's favour? That…

The Life Of De'Ath

Majella Cullinane · 2018 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Steele Roberts Aotearoa Limited 2018 Paperback, 244pp. After a family tragedy, Theodore De'Ath moves to Otago to live with his grandparents. He becomes fascinated by the Underworld, reading the Inferno, Paradise Lost and Faust. When war breaks out in Europe, unlike his peers, Th…

Eyeless in Gaza

Huxley, Aldous · 1938 · Bookbarrow

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Chatto & Windus, London, 1938. Second Impression, Hardcover (Original Brown Cloth). Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Second Impression. London: Chatto & Windus, 1938. Considered by some to be Huxley's greatest novel. First published in 1936; this is a Very Good copy of the Se…

Petite histoire italienne. ( text & lithographs of Jan Cox ).

COX Jan ( 1919 - 1980 ) : · 1950 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€1,600.00 ($1,763.49 | £1,334.83 | ¥281,607)

S.l. ( Antwerpen ) , s.d. (1950), in-folio , 36 x 25,5 cm, 4 folded loose folio leaves kept in a loose cover of the same paper. With 7 original lithographs of which 6 tipped on. Original edition of 30 copies printed by the artist and signed by him. Rare early work by Jan Cox. T…

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DELAHAUT Jo ( 1911 - 1992 ) - Bernard VILLERS ( silk screen printer ) - Jacques EVRARD ( typography ) : · 1970 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€780.00 ($859.70 | £650.73 | ¥137,283)

" Bruxelles, Bernard Villers sériegraphe, Jacques Evrard ( mis en page ) , 1970, in-folio, 35 x 24,5 cm, 32 nn pp , loose as issued, contains 6 double page abstract coloured silksreens with text. Printed in 100 numbered copies, signed by the artist in the colophon. Kept in a p…

Hadrianus VI. sive analecta Historica de Hadriano Sexto Trajectino, Papa Romano.

BURMANN Caspar - Pope Adrian VI : · 1727 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€468.00 ($515.82 | £390.44 | ¥82,370)

12. Trajecti ad Rhenum ( Utrecht ) , apud Jacobum à Poolsum, 1727, in-4°, 24,5 x 19,5 cm, engraved portrait frontispiece + title (printed in red and black and with engraved vignet) + (44) nn pp + 541 pp + (1)(errata) + large engraved portrait (folding) + large folding plate of …

Hymenopterorum ichneumonibus affinium, monographiae, genera Europaea et species illustrantes. Volumen Primum, Ichneumonidum Braconoideorum et Alysioideorum, tum evanialium monographias complectens. [AND] Volumen secundum, Pteromalinorum, Codrinorum et Dryineorum monographias complectens.

Nees von Esenbeck, C. G. [D.] · 1834 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Stuttgart and Tübingen, J. C. Cotta, 1834. 8vo (21.1 x 12.4 cm). 784 pp. (xii, 320; [iv], 448). Contemporary half calf over marbled boards. Spine with gilt bands and title. Edges speckled red. = A complete copy of one of the major contributions to entomology by the German natura…

Graecum Lexicon Manuale, Primum a Beniàmine Hederico Institutum, Post Repetitas Sam. Patricii Curas, Auctum Myriade Amplius Verborum, Innumeris Vitiis Repurgatum, Plurimisque Novis Significatibus Verborum Locupletatum Cura Io. Augusti Ernesti, Nunc Denuo Recensitum, Et Quamplurimum in Utraque Parte Auctum a T. Morell, S.T. P. Thesauri

Hederich, Benjamin. Morell, Thomas, ed · 1766 · Kaaterskill Books

$275.00 (€249.51 | £208.15 | ¥43,914)

Londini [London], excudit H. Woodfall, impensis, H. Woodfall, J. Beecroft, C. Bathurst, J. Rivington, [and 18 others in London], 1766. First edition thus. Later full vellum, five raised bands, brown morocco lettering piece. [2],viii, [862] pp. Coll. a4-5r3. Title page in red and…

Cornucopia: Essays in Architecture, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts in Honour of Terry Friedman (1940-2013)

Friedman, Terry and James Lomax, et al. · 2015 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

Leeds, Leeds Art Fund, 2015. Paperback. Color illustrated wraps with bright blue spine, with white, black and blue lettering; xv, 207 pp.; richly illustrated. "Dr. Terry Friedman was a distinguished are historian, curator and teacher. Born in Detroit he came to leeds in 1969 and…

Aditus Novus Ad Occultas Sympathiae Et Antipathiae Causas Inveniendas Per Principia Philosophiae Naturalis, Ex Fermentorum Artificiosa Anatomia Hausta

Rattray, Sylvester · 1660 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$750.00 (€680.47 | £567.69 | ¥119,765)

Tubingae, Johannis Henrici Reisii, 1660. Vellum. Vellum covered boards with inked titlee on upper spine. 216 pp, followed by two blanks. Text is entirely in Latin. A small book (12mo) measuring 3 3/16" x 5 5/16. From Hartung and Hartung Auctions: "Rattray's biography is meagre..…

Atlantic City

Goldberger, Paul · 2019 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

London, Circa Press, 2019. Blue cloth boards with inlaid color illustration and white lettering. 128 pages. Color illustrations. Atlantic City was born in the mid-nineteenth century and grew so big, so fast, that it captured the American imagination. It was 'the World's Playgrou…

Exposition Arthur-William Heintzelman Estampes-Dessins = Arthur-William Heintzelman : Estampes, Dessins

Varenne, Gaston · 1929 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

Paris, Galerie Marcel Guiot, 1929. Softcover. Pale yellow wraps; red/black lettering. 20 pp. followed by 52 works in duotone. Price list laid in. Text in French, but preface (by Varenne) in French and English. "Born in Newark, New Jersey, Arthur William Heintzelman was a painter…

Father Lindesmith's Collection: History Into Art and Anthropology

Mack, Joanne M. Bethany Montagano and Candace S. Greene · 2012 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

South Bend, Ind, Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, 2012. Softcover. White & blue & color illus. wraps, 140 pp. profusely illus. chiefly in color. Issued in conjunction with a 2012 exhibition of the collection of Native American art and other pieces assembled by Fath…

The Forgery Of Venus: A Novel

Michael Gruber · 2008 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Harper Collins 2008 Hardback, 318pp. Chaz Wilmot is a painter born outside his time. He possesses a virtuosic command of the techniques of the old masters. He can paint like Leonardo, Goya, Gainsborough—artists whose works sell for millions—but this style of painting is no longe…

The Sounds of the French Language Their Formation, Combination and Representation. Translated, with Special Texts for English-Speaking Students by D L Savory and D Jonessecond Edition, Revised.

PASSY, Paul (D L Savory, Daniel Jones) · 1913 · Marijana Dworski Books

£9.00 (€10.79 | $11.89 | ¥1,899)

Oxford, at the Clarendon Press, 1913. Small 8vo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered black, viii+134pp. 7 figures. Spine ends worn, two light marks to upper board, occasional pencil underscoring. A clean tight copy. Important early work on phonetics. Translation of "Les sons du…

Atlantic Conquest; the Men and Ships of the Glorious Age of Steam

TUTE, WARREN · 1962 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, NY: Little, Brown & Company, 1962. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book is in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket has e…

Wild Food

PHILLIPS, ROGER & NICKY FOY & JILL BRYAN & JACQUI HURST · 1986 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, NY: Little Brown & Co, 1986. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. ISBN: 0316706116. B&W and Color Photographs; This is an oversized paperback book with illustrated covers and a glued spine. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The s…

A Traitor To Memory

Elizabeth George · 2001 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Hodder & Stoughton 2001 Paperback, 664pp. Virtuoso violinist Gideon Davies has lost his memory of music and his ability to play the instrument he mastered at the age of five. One fateful night at Wigmore Hall, he lifted his violin to play in a Beethoven trio. and everything in h…

Valley of Lights

GALLAGHER, STEPHEN · 1987 · S. Howlett-West Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

London: New English Library, 1987. 1st British Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0450406644. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The text pages are mostly clean and bright, t…

Bombshell : The Secret Story of America\S Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy

ALBRIGHT, JOSEPH & KUNSTEL, MARCIA · 1997 · Little Lane Books

A$26.00 (€15.98 | $17.62 | £13.33 | ¥2,813)

Times Books. 1997. Hardcover with dust jacket, 24.5cm. Book, Ted Hall was a physics prodigy so gifted that he was asked to join the Manhattan Project when he was only eighteen years old. There, in wartime Los Alamos, working under Robert Oppenheimer and Bruno Rossi, Hall helped …