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Made in Louisiana / The Story of the Acadian Accordion

Marc Savoy · 2021 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

University of Louisiana at Lafayette Press. 2021, Hardcover, good cond., some light wear to dj.. ""Made in Louisiana: The Story of the Acadian Accordion" is a journey through the life of legendary Cajun musician Marc Savoy, recognized as one of the finest builders and players of…

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Francis Jennings · 1996 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€7.00 ($7.72 | £5.84 | ¥1,232)

W. W. Norton & Company. 1996, hardcover with dust jacket, very good cond., 1ste ed., 1st print.. A distinguished historian of early America sees Franklin's influence on the course of the revolutionary movement in a new light. Benjamin Franklin was a man of genius and enormous eg…

Photograph

Penelope Lively · 2004 · Klondyke BV

€4.95 ($5.46 | £4.13 | ¥871)

Paperback; 2004; Peng; 240pp.; Direct uit voorraad leverbaar -- Conditie: Goed; Searching through a little-used cupboard at home, Glyn Peters chances upon a photograph he has never seen before. Taken in high summer, it shows his wife, Kath, holding hands with another man. Glyn's…

No Man's Nightingale

Ruth Rendell · 2014 · Klondyke BV

€4.95 ($5.46 | £4.13 | ¥871)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2014; Random House UK, RH; 320pp.; Leesvouwtjes in de rug. -- Conditie: Goed; No Man's Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. Sarah Hussain was not popular with many peo…

The Affair. (Jack Reacher 16)

Lee Child, Lee Child · 2012 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2012; INGP; 608pp.; Conditie: Goed; From the number one bestseller: the coolest, sexiest, punch-packing Reacher thriller yet. March 1997. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Carter Crossing, Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the mu…

No Man's Nightingale

Ruth Rendell · 2014 · Klondyke BV

€4.95 ($5.46 | £4.13 | ¥871)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2014; Random House UK, RH; 320pp.; Prima exempaar! -- Conditie: Goed; No Man's Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. Sarah Hussain was not popular with many people in t…

Vida de D. João de Castro, quarto viso-rei da India; ... Nova edição.Lisbon, Typ. Rollandiana, 1861. 8vo. Modern orange paper wrappers.

ANDRADE, Jacinto Freire de. · 1500 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€600.00 ($661.31 | £500.56 | ¥105,603)

[8], 341, [1 blank], [2] pp.Important biography of the Portuguese nobleman and fourth viceroy of Portuguese India D. João de Castro (1500-1548), written by the Portuguese Catholic priest and historian Jacinto Freire de Andrade (1597-1657). The work was first published in Lisbon …

Relatione delle missioni, e christianità che appartengono alla privincia di Malavar della compangia di Giesu.Rome, Francesco Cavalli, 1645. 8vo. With a woodcut Jesuit device on the title page and two woodcut decorated initials (two different series). Contemporary vellum, with remnants of a manuscript title on the spine.

BARRETO, Francisco. · 1598 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.73 | £7,925.53 | ¥1,672,040)

[4], 132 pp.A valuable panorama of Christian communities throughout the Indian subcontinent in the middle of the 17th century, written by the Portuguese Jesuit missionary to India, Francisco Barreto. His accounts are based on his own experiences in Malabar, the core region of Po…

Arabia felix: across the empty quarter of Arabia.London, Jonathan Cape, 1932. Large 8vo. With 61 plates, illustrations in the text and a large folding map of the "empty quarter" at the back. Original publisher’s orange buckram.

THOMAS, Bertram. · 1930 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€500.00 ($551.09 | £417.13 | ¥88,002)

XXIX, [3], 396, [2] pp.First edition, published simultaneously with the New York one. The preface was contributed by T. E. Lawrence. Among the many photographic illustrations is one of the earliest portraits of the Qatar royal family (facing p. 298). "In this book, Bertram Thoma…

Zes maanden in Amerika.Haarlem, Kruseman and Tjeenk Willink, 1875. 2 volumes. Large 8vo (25 x 16.5 cm). With 10 tinted lithograph plates by "Emrik & Binger", and 27 wood-engraved illustrations by Édouard Vermorcken in text. Contemporary half brown roan (sheepskin).

COHEN STUART, Martinus. · 1824 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€450.00 ($495.98 | £375.42 | ¥79,202)

8, 366; [8], 332 pp.First edition of a travel book on North America by Martinus Cohen Stuart (1824-1878). Cohen Stuart, a prominent minister of the Remonstrant Church, visited the United States in 1875 at the invitation of the Evangelical Alliance, an international Protestant mi…

CLASS POEM 1915

[MacLEISH, Archibald] · 1915 · Charles Agvent

$3,125.00 (€2,835.28 | £2,365.38 | ¥499,022)

[New Haven]. [Yale University]. First Edition. Printed wraps, 5-1/2" x 6-15/16"; 4 pages with the title on the first page and the poem on the following three pages. First edition of the author’s first separately published work. About 600 copies were printed and distributed to th…

Other Colours: Essays and a Story

PAMUK, ORHAN · 2007 · Kalamos Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

London, Faber and Faber. 2007, 1st UK Edition. (ISBN: 0571236863) Hardcover. Book, Over the last three decades, Pamuk has written, in addition to his seven novels, scores of pieces-personal, critical, and meditative- the finest of which he has brilliantly woven together here. He…

An Arrow's Flight

MERLIS,MARK · 1998 · Kalamos Books

$35.00 (€31.76 | £26.49 | ¥5,589)

New York, St.Martin's Press. 1998, 1st.US Edition. (ISBN: 0312186754) Hardcover. Book, A novel combining elements from the Trojan war and contemporary Gay culture.The siege of Troy has dragged on for ten years, with no end in sight, when an oracle supplies the Greeks with the re…

One Virgin Too Many

DAVIS, LINDSEY · 2000 · Kalamos Books

$6.00 (€5.44 | £4.54 | ¥958)

London, Arrow Books. 2000, Reprint. (ISBN: 0099799715) Trade Paperback. Book, Set in Vespasian's Rome. yet another adventure involving the detecting skills of Marcus Didius Falco (and Helena) "A frightened child approaches Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco, pleading for help. N…

One Virgin Too Many

DAVIS, LINDSEY · 1999 · Kalamos Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

London, Century. 1999, 1st UK Ed. (ISBN: 071267702X) Hardcover. Book, Set in Vespasian's Rome. yet another adventure involving the detecting skills of Marcus Didius Falco (and Helena) "A frightened child approaches Roman informer Marcus Didius Falco, pleading for help. Nobody be…

ESSAIS PHILOSOPHIQUES SUR LES MOEURS DE DIVERS ANIMAUX ÉTRANGERS, Avec des observations relatives aux principes & usages de plusieurs peuples. Our Extraits des Voyages de M***. En Asie.

d’Obsonville, Chevalier Foucher. · 1783 · Francis Edwards Booksellers

£200.00 (€239.73 | $264.23 | ¥42,194)

A Paris Couturier fils ... 1783. 1st Ed. [x] + viii + 430pp. Copper engraved plate, engraved head and tail pieces. French text. Light browning, marbled e.ps., front f.e.p. with sm. waterstain, inner gilt dentelles, contemporary mottled calf with triple gilt rule to edges of boar…

Archaeological researches at Teotihuacan, Mexico.

Linné,Sigvald. · 1934 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€32.50 ($35.82 | £27.11 | ¥5,720)

London, Humprey Milford & Oxford University Press, 1934. 236 pp. Col. frontispiece, 339 b./w. figs & 6 b./w. maps. Orig. softcover (printed wrappers). 4to. (Ethnografical Museum of Sweden, New Series, no. 1).Translated from the Swedish manuscript by Magnus Leijer. - Rather rare…

Constantine. A great Christian monarch and apostle.

CONSTANTINE I (also known as CONSTANTINE THE GREAT). Keresztes,Paul. · 1981 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,080)

Amsterdam, J.C. Gieben, 1981. 218 pp. Softcover. 8vo.Monograph on Constantine I or Saint Constantine, also known as the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. - - Constantine I (27 February c. 272 - 22 May 337), was a Roman emperor from 306 to 337. Born in Naissus, Dacia Mediterra…

Machiavelli. A Biography

UNGER, MILES J. / MACHIAVELLI · 2012 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€32.45 ($35.77 | £27.07 | ¥5,711)

Simon & Schuster 2012 First paperback ed. 400 p, color plate, map, index, bibliogr. SOFTCOVER: (Orig, pictoirial wrpprs. VERY GOOD Niccolo Machiavelli is the most influential political writer of all time. His name has become synonymous with cynical scheming and the selfish pursu…

Experience

Maccarthy, Desmond · 1935 · Bookbarrow

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Putnam, London, 1935. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Desmond MacCarthy was a British literary critic and journalist; he was a member of the Cambridge Apostles, the intellectual secret society, from 1896. Though often thought to be a mem…