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Reize naar de Caribische Eilanden, in de jaren 1780 en 1781; door Cornelius de Jong, toen ter tijd als luitenant dienende, aan boord van s'Lands schip van oorlog Mars onder bevel van den schout bij nacht Willem KrulHaarlem, François Bohn, 1807. 8vo. Two engravings, one portrait of Willem Krul (14 x 8.7 cm), the other engraving depicting Dutch and English battleships (14,5 x 18,5 cm) by Gerrit Groenewegen. Contemporary pasteboard binding.

JONG, Cornelis de. · 1781 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

X, 326 pp.De Jong described his journey aboard the ship Mars, commanded by rear admiral Willem Crul, accompanying merchant ships on their way from Sint Eustatius to the Netherlands. At the time unaware of the outbreak of the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War, they got into a naval engageme…

Mémoire sur trois cartes nouvellement publiées en juillet 1764, destinées a servir de suite a la carte de l'ancienne Palestine ou Terre-Sainte, publie l'année dernière; Sçavoir: 1. Une carte particuliere de la Syrie, ou seulement de la partie septentrionale à la Palestine. 2. Une carte plus générale de la Syrie, qui comprend en même tems la Palestine avec les pays voisins, pour servir à l'histoire des croisades, etc. 3. Une carte encore plus générale & plus étendüe pour la recherche de la situation du paradis terrestre. Paris, Imprimerie Veuve Delatour, 1764. 4to. With a woodcut vignette on the title page, a large woodcut headpiece, and a decorated woodcut initial. Contemporary gold-tooled mottled quarter brown calf.

L'ISLE (DELISLE), Joseph Nicolas de. · 1675 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,700.00 ($2,975.89 | £2,252.52 | ¥475,211)

15, [1] pp.First and only edition of a rare treatise on three maps of Syria by the famous cartographer Guillaume de l'Isle (1675-1726). Namely Carte particuliere de la Syrie comprise entre les villes d'Antioche et Alep (1764), Carte générale de la Syrie, de la Palestine, et de l…

Questions diverses, et responces d'icelles. Divisees en trois livres assçavoir, questions d'amour, questions naturelles, questions morales & politiques. Nouvellement traduites de Tuscan en Françoys.Paris, Nicolas Bonsons, 1576. 16mo. With a woodcut printer's device on the title, several decorated woodcut initials, and woodcut head- and tailpieces. Mid-19th-century gold-tooled morocco by Trautz-Bauzonnet.

[LANDO, Ortensio]. · 1808 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

118 [=178] ll.Extremely rare Paris edition of a work that explores love, nature, and morality through a series of question and answers. The present copy has been beautifully bound by Georges Trautz (1808-1879) and Antoine Bauzonnet (1795-1882), the leading bookbinders of 19th-ce…

From the Battle of Britain to Bombing Hitler's Berchtesgaden: Wing Commander James Jim Bazin DSO DFC

Fenella & Michael Bazin · 2023 · Winkles Books

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Book New New 1st Edition Air World Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall It was Tuesday, 17 October 1939. Britain had been at war with Germany for more than a month and for only the second time the Luftwaffe had dared to enter British airspace - and at last James Jim' Bazin's chanc…

Ouspensky: The Unsung Genius

Reyner, J. H. · 1981 · Bookbarrow

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Allen & Unwin, London, 1981. First Edition, Hardcover. Near Fine Condition/Near Fine. 9780042941226 P. D. Ouspensky was one of the outstanding thinkers of the 20th century. he became convinced at a very early age of the existence of dimensions of reality beyond those which suffi…

Exhumations Stories, Articles and Verse

ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER · 1966 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, NY: Simon & Schuster, 1966. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0416027504. This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some light bumping and rubbing to the …

The Loot of Cities Being the Adventures of a Millionaire in Search of Joy. A Fantasia.

BENNETT, ARNOLD · 1972 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Philadelphia, PA: Oswald Train: Publisher, 1972. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by William Dixon. Cover Art; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages …

The Brights Of Suffolk, England : Represented In America By The Descendants Of Henry Bright, Jun., Who Came To New England In 1630, And Settled In Watertown, Massachusetts. By J. B. Bright. For Private Circulation.

BRIGHT, J. B. (JONATHAN BROWN BRIGHT 1800-1879 ) . · 1858 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.87 | $132.11 | ¥21,097)

Boston [USA] : Printed By John Wilson And Son, 22, School Street, 1858 . 0. Signed first edition. A very good original binding. 8vo. 9.5" x 6.0" x 1.25". pp.xvi/[4pp.]/pp.345 . Well illustrated with frontis, plates, portraits, map, plans, and coat of arms. Original brown cloth w…

Selected Writings : the Choice of Tycho Brahe.

Cardozo, Benjamin N. · 1947 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

Edited by Margaret E. Hall. New York : Fallon, 1947. Orig cloth binding. Dustjacket. xxiv,456 pp. Dustjacket chipped & rubbed. Stamp on title-page. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. From the Publisher : Published together for the first time…

WAR OF THE MOTOR GUN BOATS - One Man's Personal War at Sea with the Coastal Forces, 1943-1945.

Chapman, Tony, · 2013 · A Book for all Reasons

£32.00 (€38.36 | $42.28 | ¥6,751)

Practorian / Pen and Sword, Barnsley, 2013, 1st edn., xii, 163pp, 16pp half tone photo ills., navy blue cloth lettered in gilt at spine, coloured pictorial montage dustwrapper, the author's experiences in RN Coastal Forces 1943-1945, in the English Channel, North Sea, Mediterra…

1893 Detailed Manuscript Letter of British Liberal Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore

CHARLES HAMILTON-GORDON, 1ST BARON STANMORE · 1893 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$199.99 (€181.45 | £151.38 | ¥31,936)

England, 1893. Non-Book. On offer is a handwritten and signed letter from Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore (1829-1912) marked Private Confidential. Dated 7 Sloane Gardens, 30 June [18]93, this letter was written to someone who will write a biography of Hamilton…

Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon or Columbia River: Being a Narrative of the Expedition Fitted out by John Jacob Astor, to Establish the "Pacific Fur Company" with an Account of Some Indian Tribes on the Coast of the Pacific

ROSS, ALEXANDER; MILO MILTON QUAIFE (ED) · 1923 · Round Table Books, LLC

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.46 | ¥27,945)

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press, 1923. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green boards, gilt lettering on spine, gilt medallion and border on cover, t.e.g, fore-edge and bottom edges deckle. Illustrated with fold-out map of nort…

The Fur Hunters of the Far West: A Narrative of Adventures in the Oregon and Rocky Mountains

ROSS, ALEXANDER; MILO MILTON QUAIFE (ED) · 1924 · Round Table Books, LLC

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.46 | ¥27,945)

Chicago: R. R. Donnelley & Sons / The Lakeside Press, 1924. First Edition Thus. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full green cloth, gilt lettering on spine, gilt border and publisher's medallion, gilt, on cover, t.e.g, fore-edge deckle. Illustrated with Tissue-Protected en…

From Here to Happiness: Discover the 4x4 Secret of Lifelong Happiness

SHARMA, SUNIL PH.D · 2007 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£16.70 (€20.02 | $22.06 | ¥3,523)

Sunil Sharma (Development) Ltd. 2007. (ISBN: 9780955541803). Paperback, 22.8 x 15.2 x 2.4 cm. Paperback in good condition. 2007. This remarkable book by award-winning mathematician, scholar and entrepreneur, Dr Sunil Sharma, takes you on a journey of enlightenment. Never before …

My Life

Clinton, Bill · 2004 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£22.50 (€26.97 | $29.73 | ¥4,747)

Hutchinson. First UK edition-first printing. Book. VGC.Hutchinson,2004.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small crease on the edge of the spine) with Dj(watermark on the edges of the outer and inner of the Dj cover,sm…

How To Make Love To A Single Girl

Robert M. · 1975 · Amstelbooks.com - Photography Books

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

New York, N.Y.: Berkley Publishing Corporation. Berkley Medallion Edition, first printing. 181 pp., 25 x 19. Condition: Good (G). Scattered light wear and rubbing to covers; stain on the back; small perforation in frirst endpaper; else good. A paperback sex-and-dating guide for …

Loeb Classical Library / Babrius and Phaedrus

B.E. Perry (vert) · 1984 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

W. Heinemann / Harvard University Press. 1984; hardcover; naam voorin; lichte gebruikssporen aan stofomslag / name on first page; light wear on dustjacket. Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those calle…

The green gene

Dickinson Peter · 1973 · The Wild Muse

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.28 | ¥6,387)

Pantheon Books First edition, first printing. Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Pantheon Books, 1973. 8vo., 192pp. Fine in fine, mylar protected dust jacket. CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson is back: An Indian doctor joins the English underground to fight racial o…

Courtauld Thomson

L. A. G. Strong · 1958 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.54 | ¥25,316)

London, John Murray, 1958. First edition. Leather. A smartly bound first edition of this biography of the 1st Baron Courtauld-Thomson. First Edition. Limited edition of one hundred copies. With the armorial bookplate of Courtauld Thompson, Dorneywood, to the first blank. Featuri…

Poems in Two Volumes

William Cowper · 1814 · Rooke Books

£119.99 (€143.83 | $158.52 | ¥25,314)

London, William Lewis, 1814-1816. Leather. A two volume illustrated set of Poems by William Cowper. Bound in half leather and marbled paper-covered boards, with gilt lettering. Volume I is dated 1816. Volume II is dated 1814. William Cowper, 1731 – 1800, was an English poet and…