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Classic literature 1668 I Euripides. Feniciaensche of Gebroeders van Thebe. Treurspel. Amsterdam, for the widower Abraham de Wees, 1668, 63+[1] pp.

Euripides; Vondel, Joost van den (trans.) · 1630 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€76.30 ($84.10 | £63.65 | ¥13,431)

19^th century cardboard binding, second copy modern carton binding. 200 x 160 mm, 4º: A-H#4, 63 [1] pp. Title page with printer’s mark (well) and “Elk zyn beurt” (everyone gets his turn).First edition of the translation by Vondel of the tragedy ‘Phoenissae’ by the Gree…

A Collection of Select Epigrams In which are Many Originals never before printed, By the Most Eminent Hands. Published by Mr. Hackett.

HACKETT (John): · 1757 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)

London: Printed for C. Hitch and L. Hawes, in Pater-nosterrow; and for W. and J. Flackton, in Canterbury. 1757. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 162 x 92 mms., pp. [iv], 151 [152 blank], small circular stamp of Cornwell House on recto of front free end-paper, contemporary polishe…

Delights & Shadows

Kooser, Ted · 2004 · The Wild Muse

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Copper Canyon Press Signed first edition, seventh printing. Trade softcover. Published Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2004. 8vo. wrappers, xii+84pp. Signed by author on name label attached to half title. As new. Ted Kooser, who served as United States Poet Laureate (2…

Oxford Poetry

Various · 1926 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1926-1932. First edition. Hardback. Five smart first edition volumes from the Oxford Poetry collection for the years 1926 to 1932. Five volumes. First edition. A collection of poetry from the Oxford Poetry collection which was issued from 1915. With cont…

The English Poets Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers and a General Introduction by Matthew Arnold

Thomas Humphry Ward · 1900 · Rooke Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London and New York, The Macmillan Company, 1900-1902. Cloth. A set of student edition books on English poets published over two years. Complete in four volumes. With introductions by Matthew Arnold (24 December 1822 – 15 April 1888), who was an English poet and cultural critic…

The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems with Gertrude of Wyoming; a Pennsylvanian Tale and Other Poems

Thomas Campbell · 1803 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.77 | $257.67 | ¥41,151)

London, T. Bensley, 1803-1809. Leather. Two collections of poetry by Thomas Campbell, bound together in one volume. Including Pleasures of Hope, Lines Written on Visiting a Scene in Argyleshire, Ode to Winter, The Beech Tree's Petition, The Soldier's Dream, Stanzas to …

The Works of Shakspere Imperial Edition Edited by Charles Knight [and] a Biography of William Shakspere

William Shakespeare; Charles Knight (Ed) · 1791 · Rooke Books

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

London, J. S. Virtue and Co, c1900. Leather. A desirable copy of the Imperial Edition of the Works of Shakespeare, profusely illustrated throughout. This particular volume is two volumes bound in three. In a uniform half calf binding, with gilt detailing to the front board of ea…

COWPER, Illustrated by a Series of Views, In, or Near, The Park of Weston-Underwood, Bucks.

(Cowper). · 1803 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£1,000.00 (€1,198.83 | $1,321.36 | ¥211,030)

Vernor and Hood ...James Storer and John Greig ... 1803. 1st Ed. Large paper copy. 11.5 x 8.5 inches. Additional engraved title page, 12 plates engraved by Grieg and Storer after their illustrations. Light age toning, rebound in C20th gilt fillet edged red half calf with brown c…

Hanc circuli quadraturam invenit.Antwerp, Petrus Bellerus (Peter Belaert), 1591. Small 4to (19.5 x 14 cm). With a woodcut of Euclid (or possibly Archimedes) with an enormous pair of dividers in his right hand and a book in his left, and between the two legs of the dividers a sceptre passing through a crown, and 29 woodcut diagrams. 20th-century half calf.

FALCO, Jacobus (Jaime Juan FALCÓ y SEGURA). · 1882 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)

29, [1] pp.Second edition of an early treatise claiming to have squared the circle (geometrically constructed a square matching the surface area of a given circle, shown to be impossible in 1882). Falco (Valencia 1522-Madrid 1594), a humanistic poet and mathematician, and a Knig…

Dream Craters. (INSCRIBED and corrected)

Rosenblatt, Joe. · 1972 · Inno Dubelaar Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Press Porcepic, 1972. 1972. 1st Edition. Soft cover. 0888780311. Signed by Author(s). First printing. 8vo, card covers. Scarce state with a few inked corrections to the text by the poet. INSCRIBED by the poet on the title page. Fine copy except for some spotting to the front cov…

Histoire Contemporaine. Le Mannequin D&Apos;Osier

Anatole France · 1897 · Rooke Books

£44.00 (€52.75 | $58.14 | ¥9,285)

Paris, Calmann Levy, 1897 . Leather. A smart copy of the twenty-first thousandth of this novel by Anatole France, published in the same year as the first edition. In the original French.An early copy of the second volume of France's tetralogy 'Histoire Contemporaine&ap…

FRONTIER'S GENERATION

Smith Tevis Clyde · 1982 · Fantastic Literature

£17.95 (€21.52 | $23.72 | ¥3,788)

Tevis Clyde Smith 1st printing, enlarged edition. Author and Poet Clyde Smith, one of Author and Poet Robert E Howard's closest friends, found his niche by interviewing many Old Timers in Brown and the surrounding counties about the history and stories of the area fine b-format …

Fables

John Gay · 1793 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, John Stockdale, 1793. Leather. An early edition of John Gay's influential 'Fables', a nicely illustrated editions with some plates engraved by William Blake. First Stockdale edition later issue, with a short "s" throughout.A collection of the fables of Joh…

Four Eighteenth Century Comic Plays

Colley Cibber; George Farquhar; Isaac Bickerstaff · 1766 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, J. and R. Tonson; T. Lowndes; John Bell, 1766-1781 . Leather. A charming volume of four comic plays, from Colley Cibber, George Farquhar and Isaac Bickerstaff, illustrated with a frontispiece to each volume. The first two plays in this volume are the work of popular Rest…

Minnevlam, brandende in 't hert van Thyrsis, om de schoone Amaril.Amsterdam, Baltes Boekholt, 1659. 2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo. With an engraved title page, a woodcut vignette on the letterpress title page, a half-page engraved emblem in the text, and several decorated woodcut initials. Contemporary overlapping vellum.

BLEU, François le. · 1620 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€850.00 ($936.88 | £709.02 | ¥149,625)

[16], 415 pp.Second edition of a rare collection of erotic and autobiographical poetry by François Le Bleu (ca. 1620-1655), written while he was a student at Leiden University. First published in 1642, probably at the author's own expense, the work relates the love of Thyrsis, r…

Poems

Thomas, R S [ Ronald Stuart ] · 2002 · Eastleach Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Phoenix Poetry 2002 2nd impression. Cloth, dj, F/F xii+122pp, a fine copy. An anthology, selected by fellow poet Anthony Thwaite, of the poems of Ronald Stuart Thomas [ 1913 - 2000 ] the Welsh poet and Anglican priest.

Yesterday's Memories, Today's Smiles

GENE HAZZARD · 1979 · Mike Long Books

$161.70 (€146.71 | £122.37 | ¥25,824)

Vantage Press. 1979, First Edition. Hard Cover. Gd. condition - "the play that is the drama of life" in verse .. Loving and Losing , Getting and Giving ... Good.

The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. In Verse and Prose with a Selection of Explanatory Notes and Account of His Life by Dr. Johnson

Alexander Pope and Samuel Johnson · 1812 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

London , Nichols and Son, 1812. Leather. A scarce set of The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose with a Selection of Explanatory Notes and Account of his Life by Dr. Johnson First edition thus. Seemingly the first edition to contain solely the notes of Samuel Johnso…

Les Souffrances Du Jeune Werther

Goethe, Madame Bachellery, Paul Stapfer · 1886 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

Paris, Librairie des Bibliophiles, 1886. Leather. A French translated edition of Les Souffrances du Jeune Werther by Goethe, with illustrations. Translated from the original German into French by Madame Bachellery. With a preface by Paul Stapfer. A new translated edition.  The…

Alfred; an Epic Poem, in Six Books.

Henry James Pye · 1801 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

London, W. Bulmer and Co. 1801 . First edition. Hardback. The first edition of Poet Laureate Henry James Pye's epic poem about King Alfred the Great's struggles against the Danes. A scarce first edition. An epic poem about King Alfred the Great and his struggle against…