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Australisch avontuur

H te Merwe · 0 · De Kantlijn

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

A Dutch farmer's son leaves for Australia to earn a living. He has many exciting experiences in the outback, but his strong faith in God provides a steadying influence. 189 pages : illustrations ; . - Delft : W.D. Meinema, [1958] - A Dutch farmer's son leaves for Australia to ea…

Domus Anguli Puensis. Librum exornavit E.H. Shepard. Liber alter de Urso Puo de anglico sermone in Latinum conversus auctore B. Staplesio.

MILNE, A.A., · 1980 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€22.00 ($24.25 | £18.35 | ¥3,872)

Methueni, Londinii, 1980. 1st ed. 159p. ills. Original blue gilt titled hard bound with dust wrps. Dust wrps as well as pages a bit yellowed. ' A.A. Milne's story construes into Latin most felicitously (...), mekes unexpectedly easy reading - and happily even the dimmest classi…

Malvern a Descriptive and Historical Poem

BOOKER LUKE · 1798 · Castle Hill Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.59 | ¥35,865)

Dudley: Printed By J Rann for Brooke and Co, 1798. . Hardcover. . X + [2] +124 +[1] , odd mark in text, heraldic bookplate of JW Willis Bund, former Chairman of Worcestershire County Council, writer and historian, recently rebound in smart brown cloth, new endpapers. Rev Luke Bo…

Les Flandres et la Révolution Belge.

BARTELS Adolphe ( 1802 - 1862 ) : · 1834 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€159.00 ($175.25 | £132.65 | ¥27,985)

Bruxelles, Imprimerie de J. De Wallens et Cie., 1834, in-8°, 600 pp , bound in comtemporary half roan, boards covered with marbled paper, marbled endpapers and edges, fine copy of the first edition. Text in French. The author was a Belgian revolutionary, writer and journalist. H…

Clara relation missionis Hollandicae et provinciarum confoederatarum ad instructionem eorum que in hac missione geruntur...

BERTIUS Abraham - DEELDER C. : · 1891 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€64.00 ($70.54 | £53.39 | ¥11,264)

"2. Roterodami, Richard Reisberman, 1891, in-8°, xi + 174 pp, red quarter moroccco, raised and gilt lettered spine, marbled endpapers, speckled edges, ex-library stamp on title. Abraham Bertius, 1610 - 1683, adopted the name father Petrus à Matre Dei as a Carmelite. He worked w…

The Star-Apple Kingdom

Walcott, Derek · 1980 · Ariel Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,992)

Jonathan Cape Carribean Author from Santa Lucia received the 1992 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is known for writing about the harsh legacy of colonialism and the complexities of living and writing in two cultural worlds. In this volume he uses the metaphors of shipwreck and Cru…

Priest-Workman in Germany

Henri Perrin · 1948 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York, Sheed & Ward, 1948. 1st edition, 1st printing. Hardcover. 230p. Ex-library hardcover book in original cloth. Label on spine; stamps and card pocket inside. Dustjacket clipping pasted inside front cover. Otherwise a clean, tight copy in good reading condition. Perrin wa…

Two Dancers in the Desert: The Life of Charles de Foucauld

Charles Lepetit · 1983 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$10.00 (€9.07 | £7.57 | ¥1,597)

Maryknoll, NY, Orbis Books, 1983. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. 118p. A hardcover book in very good condition with a like dustjacket. The spine of the jacket is a bit sunfaded. The book is clean and tight. St. Charles de Foucauld was a French priest who lived and worked i…

Organization of the House. Speech of Hon. James A. Stewart, of Maryland, in the House of Representatives, December 12, 1859

Stewart, James A. · 1859 · Kaaterskill Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

[Washington, D.C.], Printed at the Congressional Globe Office, 1859. First edition. Removed. 8 pp. 8vo. As a border state representative he argues that he must be against the Republican choice for speaker. Sabin 91684. A very good copy with historical society blind stamp on the …

David Copperfield

Charles Dickens · 2018 · Book Haven

NZ$18.50 (€9.27 | $10.22 | £7.73 | ¥1,632)

Vintage Classics 2018 Paperback, 976pp. When David Copperfield escapes from the cruelty of his childhood home, he embarks on a journey to adulthood which will lead him through comedy and tragedy, love and heartbreak and friendship and betrayal. Over the course of his adventures,…

Philip Jamison and His Collection

Valerio, William · 2013 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Philadelphia, Penna, Woodmere Art Museum, 2013. Softcover. Black & color illus. wraps, 32 pp. color illus. Issued in conjunction with a 2013 exhibition of artwork rendered by and collected by Pennsylvania artist Philip Jamison (b. 1925). With an artist interview conducted by Wil…

Buzz Aldrin: Reaching for the Moon

Aldrin, Buzz · 2005 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, Harper Collins Publishers, 2005. Hardbound. Pictorial laminate boards w/ mirror pictorial DJ, unpaginated; approx. 40pp, prolific color illustrations. A wonderfully illustrated childrens book, written by Buzz Aldrin. He tells the story of how he went from a small child…

The Necessary Angel

C. K. Stead · 2017 · Book Haven

NZ$16.50 (€8.27 | $9.11 | £6.90 | ¥1,455)

A&U New Zealand 2017 Paperback, 220pp. Max Jackson, a New Zealander living and lecturing in Paris, has a complicated arrangement with his estranged French wife, Louise. In love with his younger Sorbonne colleague Sylvie, he finds himself entangled with Helen, a troubled young En…

The Cobras of Calcutta the First Volume of the Decipherer\S Chronicles

SUTHERLAND GRANT · 2010 · Little Lane Books

A$22.00 (€13.52 | $14.91 | £11.28 | ¥2,380)

Macmillan, London. 2010, 1st Edition. (ISBN: 9780230736221) Hard Cover , 24cm. Heavy Book Over 500gms, Set in Calcutta in the 1750's Young Alistair Douglas is caught between belligerent superiors, a married woman he adores and the cannon fire of the enemy, he must try to survive…

Borderlands

Gutteridge, Don · 1975 · Judith Patton

CA$9.95 (€6.33 | $6.97 | £5.28 | ¥1,113)

[Oberon Press] First Edition. Fine 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. The story of a place and time; the northwest coast of America from 1778-1805. John Jewitt was taken prisoner by Maquina, chief of the Nootkas, near what is now Vancouver. For three years he lived with the Natives before …

The Eye Of The Wind

Peter Scott · 1968 · Book Haven

NZ$21.50 (€10.77 | $11.87 | £8.99 | ¥1,896)

Brockhampton Press 1968 Hardback, 246pp. Peter Scott (1909 - 1989) was a British ornithologist, conservationist, painter, naval officer, broadcaster and sportsman. The only child of Robert Falcon Scott, he was knighted in 1973 for his contribution to the conservation of wild ani…

The Wanton Princess

Dennis Wheatley · 1966 · Book Haven

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

Book Club Associates 1966 Hardback. 1 Jan 1800 - 30 Nov 1805 Pauline Leclerc: the loveliest, most licentious woman in Paris – and sister to Napoleon himself. Roger Brook is back in France – playing a deadly game as Prime Minister Pitt's most daring secret agent. But when he is o…

Escape From Amsterdam

Barrie Sherwood · 2007 · Book Haven

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

Granta 2007 Paperback, 284pp. Aozora has been playing too much mah-jong and now he's deep in debt. But when a rich aunt leaves Aozora and his sister Mai a priceless inheritance, he thinks his troubles are over. So begins a fast-paced adventure that takes Aozora to the surreal en…

Mister Johnson (Carfax Edition)

Joyce Cary · 1952 · Book Haven

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

Michael Joseph 1952 Paperback, 227pp. "Johnson, a young native in the British civil service, is a clerk to Rudbeck, Assistant District Officer in Nigeria, and imagines himself to be a very important cog of the King's government. He is amusingly tolerant of his fellow Africans, t…

Video Night In Kathmandu: And Other Reports From The Not-So-Far East

Pico Iyer · 1989 · Book Haven

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

Black Swan 1989 Paperback, 429pp. Why did Dire Straits blast out over Hiroshima, Bruce Springsteen over Bali and Madonna over all? The author was eager to learn where East meets West, how pop culture and imperialism penetrated through the world's most ancient civilisations. Then…