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Bishop Burnet&Apos;S History of His Own Time Volumes I - VI

Bishop Burnet · 1823 · Rooke Books

£599.99 (€719.18 | $792.67 | ¥126,579)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1823. Leather. A bright, clean complete set of the 1823 edition of Burnet's History of His Own Time. Bound in half-leather and marbled paper-covered boards, with gilt lettering and decoration. With the Suppressed Passages of the First Volume, and No…

Photography carte-de-visite | Portrait photo of actress Maude with tangled hair by photographer Jose Maria Mora from New York, ca 1870?, 1 p.

Mora, Jose Maria from New York. · 1849 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€96.80 ($106.69 | £80.76 | ¥17,037)

Photography, Vintage albumen print. A photo of the actress Maud / Maude Branscombe with tangles in her hair by the American photographer Jose Maria Mora, 707 Broadway, New York. He was a photographer of the Rich and Famous during the Gilded age.Mora was a young dashing Cuban ref…

A Cheap Loaf, But No Money To Buy It, Or, The Question Of The Corn Laws Plainly Considered. By A Plain Man In Plain Language, Addressed To The Working Classes. Ninth Edition.

ANON. [ "A Plain Man" ] - · 1841 · CHILTON BOOKS

£60.00 (€71.92 | $79.27 | ¥12,658)

Sudbury: G. W. Fulcher / London: Longman & Co., 1841 . 0 Disbound original pamphlet. 6.0" x 4.0" pp.24.Clean throughout. VG. Referenced by: OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) :18082852 ** The phrase "A cheap loaf, but no money to buy it, or, The question of the corn laws pl…

Meet Alexis Fajardo. Cartoonist and Suthor, Kid Beowulf. The Blood-Bound Oath. Original Exhibition Poster

Fajardo, Alexis · 2016 · Wittenborn Art Books

$300.00 (€272.19 | £227.08 | ¥47,906)

Kansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2016]. Poster mounted on foam core. Used at a book signing event in Oakland, CA. 35.7 x 23.25 inches. Wear along corners. Shipped flat; about $50.00 to ship... Alexis E. Fajardo is an Eisner award-winning editor and cartoonist.…

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's 21-Year-Old John Roosevelt, Causes an Altercation with Mayor Pierre Nouveau of Cannes in 1937. Original Photograph

Photo France Presse, Paris.; John Aspinwall Roosevelt (1916-1981) · 1937 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

Cannes, France: Aug. 19, 1937. Silver print. French text on verso. Photographer's stamp verso. 18 x 13 cm.....................Shows John leaving a taxi in Paris after causing the following contetemps in Cannes........ Time Magazine: Monday, Aug. 30, 1937... This took place at Ca…

A Striking View of Richmond. [American Born William 'Bill' Richmond (1763-1829) Was a Champion Boxer and Britain's First Black Sporting Superstar. ]. First Edition of the Color Aquatint

Dighton, Robert, (1752-1814), artist; Bill Richmond (1763-1829) , boxer · 1810 · Wittenborn Art Books

$950.00 (€861.93 | £719.08 | ¥151,703)

London: Dighton, March, 1810. Color aquatint 32.5 x 24.7cm. sheet size.Signed and dated in the plate..'Drawn, Etchd, & Pubd, by Dighton, 6, Charg Cross, March. 1810'.. Crease in lower right corner..."Bill Richmond, the black pugilist, stands directed to the right, left leg advan…

The Scarborough Guide, (fifth edition) containing an accurate description of the town, the castle, & the environs; Dr. Belcombe’s observations on the spaw-waters and sea-bathing; with occasional remarks, anecdotes, and characters.

[AINSWORTH (William)] · 1815 · Forest Books

£91.38 (€109.53 | $120.73 | ¥19,278)

Scarborough: Printed by T. Whiting for W. Ainsworth, 1815. Fifth edition, small 8vo, [4], 143, [1]pp., large folding engraved map frontispiece, one further engraved double-page page, previous name to head of title page, later half morocco, marbled boards, a nice copy. “This Gu…

A New Scarborough Guide, Containing details of the Amusements, Lodging-Houses, and every information necessary or interesting to the visitant. Scarborough: Printed and sold by and for G. Broadrick, 1812. [Bound with:] The Scarborough Guide.

[HATFIELD (John)] · 1820 · Forest Books

£263.38 (€315.70 | $347.96 | ¥55,565)

Scarborough: Printed and sold by Matthew Galtery, 1820. 2 Vols., in one, 12mo, vi, [7]-68pp., engraved frontispiece; vi, [7]-194pp., 2 folding maps (one with closed tear), contemporary calf, rubbed. “This Guide-book is curious from the circumstance of being written by JOHN HAT…

Travels in Europe, Africa and Asia, made between the years 1770 and 1779.London, printer for F. and C. Rivington, and sold by W. Richardson, 1795. 4 volumes. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, and 10 engraved plates (1 folding, 9 full page). Contemporary gold-tooled tree-marbled brown calf, with a red morocco title label on the spine, lettered in gold, a volume number lettered in gold underneath, gold-tooled board edges, blue sprinkled edges.

THUNBERG, Carl Peter. · 1770 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.73 | £1,042.83 | ¥220,005)

[2], xii, 317, [3 blank], [18]; xiv, [2], 316, [15], [1 blank]; xiii, [3], 285, [1 blank], xv, [1 blank], 31, [1 blank]; xix, [1 blank], [4], 293, [1], [17], [1 blank] pp.Second English edition of a famous voyage to South Africa, Indonesia, Japan, and Ceylon in the years 1770 to…

Observations faites dans un voyage entrepris dans les gouvernements méridionaux de l'Empire de Russie dans les années 1793 et 1794.Paris, Strasbourg, Amand Koening; Leipzig, Godefroi Martini, 1799-1802. 2 text volumes and 1 atlas volume. 4to (text) and oblong folio (atlas: 24 x 40 cm). With 28 engravings in the text and 1 woodcut in each text volumes (23 hand-coloured), and 55 engraved plates and maps (43 hand-coloured) in the atlas volume. Text volumes in contemporary and uniform gold-tooled mottled calf. Atlas in matching contemporary mottled half calf.

PALLAS, Peter Simon. · 1741 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.55 | £7,091.26 | ¥1,496,036)

XXXII, 438; XVI, 452 pp. ; 55 ll.Very rare account by Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) of his second expedition to Russia in 1793-1794. This time he studied the southern provinces of Russia, especially the steppes near the Caspian Sea, the northern Caucasus, the Crimea and the Bla…

The Book of Pleasure (Self Love) the Psychology of Ecstasy

SPARE, AUSTIN · 1975 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£318.97 (€382.34 | $421.40 | ¥67,293)

1, Morton Press. 1975. Paperback. Paperback in average to good condition, internally clean but cover a bit stained with small amount of scuffing, can provide photo. Undated edition limited to 100 numbered copies, this copy beomg mumber 49. Morton Press. The Book of Pleasure (Sel…

The Bourne Trilogy: The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum

Ludlum, Robert · 2003 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,439)

BCA. BCA edition. Book. VGC.BCA edition by arrangement with Orion,2003.Three Novels in one book.Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,a couple of marks,nicks and dents on the cover and spine)with Dj(a couple of creases,some nicks and scratches on the Dj cover),both in VGC.N…

Epitaph on George Moore

Charles Morgan · 1935 · Rooke Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

London, Macmillan, 1935. First edition. Cloth. A First Edition copy of this biographical work by Charles Morgan titled 'Epitaph on George Moore&apos. First Edition. Collated complete. Charles Langbridge Morgan (1894 –1958), was an English-born playwright and novelist of En…

Histoire Generale Et Particuliere Des Anomalies de L&Apos;Organisation Chez L&Apos;Homme Et Les Animaux Atlas Contenant 20 Planches Avec Leur Explication, Et Table Generale Des Matieres

Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire · 1837 · Rooke Books

£1,450.00 (€1,738.05 | $1,915.65 | ¥305,905)

London, J. B. Bailliere, 1837. First edition. Leather. The scarce atlas and table of contents to Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire's influential teratological work, with twenty engraved plates. First edition. Atlas volume. Being volume four of a four volume set. With twenty pl…

Life Histories of North American Shore Birds Order Limicolae Parts 1 and 2

Arthur Cleveland Bent · 1929 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.92 | $66.04 | ¥10,546)

Washington , United States Government Printing Office, 1929. First edition. Paperback. Two volumes of this extensive study of the shore birds of North America. Parts 1 and 2 of the Shore Birds of North America, Order Limicolae set, part of a 21 volume work. First editions. With …

Ionica

[William Johnson Cory] · 1858 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

London, Smith, Elder and Co. 1858. First edition. Cloth. The sought after first edition of William Johnson Cory's chief poetical work, 'Ionica', in the original cloth binding. The very scarce first edition of this poetical volume by William Johnson Cory, poet and …

Manuel du Chirurgien d'Armée, ou instruction de chirurgie-militaire sur le traitement des plaies, et spécialement de celles d'armes à feu ; avec la méthode d'extraire de ces plaies les corps étrangers et la description d'un nouvel instrument propre à cet usage

Pierre-François, baron PERCY · 1792 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€680.00 ($749.48 | £567.30 | ¥119,683)

Mequignon | Paris 1792 | 10.8 x 18 cm | Broché | Edition originale illustrée en fin de volume d'1 planche dépliante représentant des instruments de chirurgie (cf. Garrison & Morton 2158.1. V. Rozier 3346.) Notre exemplaire est présenté broché soius couverture muette de papier ma…

In Quator Institutionum Imperalium Justiniani, Commentarii [Commentaries Upon the Institutes (Codex) of Justinian]

Schneidewini, Johannis [Johann Schneidewein] · 1677 · Bison Books - ABAC/ILAB

CA$460.42 (€292.73 | $322.64 | £244.21 | ¥51,521)

Strasburg and Frankfurt Georgii Andreae Dolhopffii Ninth edition Pagination: [blank], [frontis.], [3], [Appendix, 8], 1-1904 (double-columned; two page numbers to a page). Index [94]. Thick 4to. Bound in vellum with yapped edges and a leather spine in compartments, and bears the…

A Book Collector on the Texas Frontier

VEDUNG, SIV · 1990 · Pegasus Books

$17.25 (€15.65 | £13.06 | ¥2,755)

Houston, TX: Texas Swedish Cultural Foundation, 1990. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; 6 1/4 x 9 1/4; xiv, 156 pages; Hard cover is black with silver lettering on spine; faint rubbing to covers. Pages are clean and tight. DJ has some rubbing, scuffing, sunning, bumping, 1/2\" close…

Astrology | Natuerlycke astrology; dat is De verthooninge, van de aert, natuer, ende kracht der planeten, aspecten met haer werckinge in ‘s menschen lichaem. Leeuwarden, Gysbert Sybes, 1659.

Hoen, Theodorus (Hoen, Dirck) · 1670 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€2,725.00 ($3,003.45 | £2,273.37 | ¥479,611)

[Astrology] Full vellum, browned, bookblock loose, 8°, pp.: [20] 220. With two folding tables, a woodcut on the title page and numerous woodcut text illustations. Endpapers worn and waterstained throughout, small wormhole in lower margin, not affecting the text. Extremely rare e…