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Shinsen moyõ no shiori. 新撰模様のしをり (New patterns for bookmarks). Two volumes. Kyoto, Unsodo, Meiji 34 (1901).

ROKKAKU SHISUI (CHUTARO): · 1867 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€1,200.00 ($1,322.62 | £1,001.12 | ¥211,205)

Two volumes comprising 42 double-page woodcut prints with multiple motives or patterns, of which many coloured. The leaves are folded in the Japanese fashion. Two preliminary pages and one colophon in Japanese. Original decorated paper covers. Housed in original cloth folder, wo…

CANCER ; Its Causes, Symptoms & Treatment, Giving the Results of Over Forty Years' Experience in the Medical Treatment of This Disease

Jones, Eli G. M.D. · 2007 · Antiquariaat van Veen

€24.50 ($27.00 | £20.44 | ¥4,312)

New Delhi, Jain, 2007. 2nd reprint 301 pp. Pb . Eli Jones (1850–1933) was a medical doctor in the 19th–20th centuries who claimed to be able to treat cancer. In his life he treated 20.000 people with cancer.He studied conventional medicine and practiced for five years before de…

LOCH NESS MONSTER. Revised edition.

Dinsdale, Tim · 1976 · Antiquariaat van Veen

€7.00 ($7.72 | £5.84 | ¥1,232)

London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1976. 3d revised edition 171 pages. Pb . Tim Dinsdale was one of the most dedicated searchers for the Loch Ness Monster. Between 1960 and 1987, he led 56 expeditions. He brought to his quest exemplary dedication, integrity and personal modesty. I…

I'm OK Apocalypse Aotearoa

Noel Shepherd · 2019 · Book Haven

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,543)

C. P. Books 2019 Paperback, 120pp. Mike Evans lives quietly by himself on an isolated back-country farm in the North Island of New Zealand. After an especially violent storm, he slowly becomes aware that there has been a breakdown of civil society in what to him is the outside w…

Entomologische Monographien.

Klug, Fr. · 1824 · Hermann L. Strack, Antiquarian Book Dealer

€385.00 ($424.34 | £321.19 | ¥67,762)

1824 xiv, 242 p., 10 hand-coloured engraved plates, paperbound (contemporary blue paper covers). Unopened and uncut. Some slight foxing but plates clean. Some wear on paper-covering of spine. Ex library Charles âǜHalyâǝ? (with his name written on front cover in an old hand, pr…

The Lost Continent and Neither Here Nor There

Bill Bryson · 1993 · Book Haven

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

Secker And Warburg 1993 Hardback, 516pp. This volume contains humorous accounts of two journeys, one taken across America, the other a trek across Europe. The Lost Continent is an account of one man's rediscovery of America and his search for the perfect small town. Instead he f…

Expression and Meaning: The Marine Paintings of John Marin

Hunter, Sam; Eaton, Timothy A. · 1998 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

West Palm Beach, FL, Eaton Fine Art, Inc, 1998. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Bound in black cloth with illustrated jacket. In washes of watercolor and slathers of oil paint, John Marin fixed images of the boundless energy of life itself in marine paintings that resonate today w…

Land of the Blind

Jess Walter · 2005 · Book Haven

$13.50 (€12.25 | £10.22 | ¥2,156)

Regan 2005 Paperback 320 In this fiendishly clever and darkly funny novel, Jess Walter speaks deeply to the bonds and compromises we make as children -- and the fatal errors we can make at any moment in our lives. While working the weekend night shift, Caroline Mabry, a weary Sp…

Anatome Mytuli , Belgicé MOSSEL , Structuram elegantem ejusque motum mirandum exponens. Subjecta est centuria Observationum Medicarum.

HEIDE Anthonius de : · 1684 · Antiquariaat W. de Goeij

€676.00 ($745.08 | £563.96 | ¥118,979)

"14. Amstelodami ( Amsterdam ) , Apud Janssonio Waesbergios, 1684, in-12°, (16)nn pp + 199 pp + 16 folding plates, ( complete ) , title printed in red & black, bound in contemporary vellum, marbled paste down papers, marbled edges. Tiny provenance indication on the verso of the …

Original Artwork Entitled "Billy Joel's Park"

ERICSON, RICHARD J. · 1994 · Books from the crypt

$900.00 (€816.56 | £681.23 | ¥143,718)

1994. No Binding. Ill.: Ericson, Richard J. Book, Original, oil on canvas, framed by the artist. 18" x 24". According to the artist, it is landscape of the park in Cold Spring Harbor named after Bill Joel. It is signed, "Richard Ericson" and dated, 4/94 by the artist. From his p…

Far Away Up the Nile

Millais, John G · 1924 · Ariel Books

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,186)

Longmans, Green & Co John Millais (1865 -1931) was a British artist, naturalist, and travel writer. He travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian period detailing wildlife often for the first time. He is noted for illustrations that are of a particularly exact …

Étude du genre Notoedres Railliet 1893 et de l'espèce Acarus bubulus Oudms 1926.

Oudemans, A. C. · 1926 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

La Haye [Den Haag], Martinus Nijhoff, 1926. 8vo (23.2 x 15.2 cm). 118 pp. [numbered 145-262]; 85 text illustrations. Original printed wrappers. = A seldom-seen, well-illustrated monograph of the acarid genus Notoedres, by the Dutch entomologist Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans (1858-1…

Mykologia. Organ Ceskoslovenského Klubu Mikologockého. Bulletin du Club Mycologique Tchécoslovaque à Prague. Volumes 1 - 8. [All published].

Velenovský, J. (ed.) · 1924 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.57 | ¥44,001)

Prague, Ceskoslovenského Klubu Mikologockého, 1924-1931. 8vo (27.5 x 19.5 cm). Numerous pages and illustrations, including several in full colour. Original printed wrappers. = Includes some fine full colour plates of mushrooms. Edited by the prolific Czech mycologist (botanist, …

[Portrait by Ambroise Tardieu]

Cuvier, Georges · 1815 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,840)

Paris, ca. 1815. Single sheet (21.2 x 14.5 cm) of thick paper. An oval, engraved portrait. Engraved surface ca 15 x 10 cm. = Portrait by the famous French engraver and cartographer Ambroise Tardieu (1788-1841). "Today, he is best remembered for the over 800 engraved portraits pr…

Masks and Sculptures from the Collection of Gustave and Franyo Schindler

1966 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, NY, Museum of Primitive Art, 1966. Softcover. Duochrome illustration on brown wraps with bw text. 40 unnumbered pages. Bw illustrations. "Primitive man faced the mysteries of life with fear, bewilderment and reverence. He could not understand the great forces of nature…

Emmet Gowin : Photographs, 1966-1983 : September 17-November 13, 1983, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Bunnell, Peter C ; Emmet Gowin · 1983 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Washington DC, Corcoran Gallery, 1983. Softcover. White stapled wraps with monochrome illustration. 40 unnumbered pages. Bw illustrations. "Gowin seeks to infuse a wide variety of established artistic values and age-old techniques into his work. This proven set of practices is t…

Architecture and Power in Africa

Elleh, Nnamdi · 2002 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$65.00 (€58.97 | £49.20 | ¥10,380)

Westport, Connecticut and London, Praeger, 2002. Hardcover. glossy cream boards w/ black printing. 177 pgs w/ bw illustrations. "Probes the multiple meanings of two huge and potent "icons of crisis." Elleh's analysis brings together issues of statecraft, indigenous symbolism, re…

Brann's Iconoclast (1 Issue: July 1898, Vol. 8 No. 6)

Gerald, G. B. (editor) · 1898 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Waco, Texas, Mrs. W. C. Brann, 1898. Softcover. Stapled newsprint. pp. 122-144, BW drawings and illus. One single issue of this monthly newspaper, first published by Texas-based iconoclast William Cowper Brann (1855-1898). Alas, Mr. Brann was such an outspoken individual that he…

Luis Quintanilla

Paul, Elliot · 1939 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$29.97 (€27.19 | £22.68 | ¥4,786)

New York, Associated American Artists, 1939. Softbound. BW illustrated wraps. 15 bw reproductions, including covers. A scarce item on this Spanish Ex-Patriate who was sent here by his government in 1939 to paint mural panels for the Spanish Government Pavillion at the New York W…

Original Artwork Entitled "Farm House, Clove Valley Road, Dutchess Co. , Ny"

ERICSON, RICHARD J. · 1983 · Books from the crypt

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

1983. Ill.: Ericson, Richard J. Book, Original, unique watercolor matted by the artist and ready for framing. Mat size is 18.5" x 14. It is signed "Richard Ericson" and dated by the artist, 9/83. The mat shops some aging. From the artists collection. Richard J. Ericson (1922-201…