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Über das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache. Nebst Episoden des Ramajan und Mahabharat in genauen metrischen Uebersetzungen aus dem Originaltexte und einigen Abschnitten aus den Veda's. Frankfurt am Main, in der Andräischen Buchhandlung, 1816.

BOPP, FRANZ / WINDISCHMANN, K.J. (Ed.): · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€3,200.00 ($3,526.98 | £2,669.65 | ¥563,214)

Small 8vo. Pp. (ii), xxxxvi, 312. Includes a long introduction by the editor. Contemporary paper-covered boards, flat spine ruled in gilt and with title label, r.e., rubbed. Old ownership signature on front paste down. Scarce first edition of this pioneering work to trace the co…

[Original dry-point impression by Mukul Dey. Berlin ca 1926].

DEY, MUKUL (Artist) / [HEDIN, SVEN - PORTRAIT]. · 1926 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€650.00 ($716.42 | £542.27 | ¥114,403)

Original dry-point impression of Sven Hedin, signed by Mukul Dey in pencil, on very fine paper. Size: 15 x 19 cm. Mounted in a passe-partout. The original copper-plate was inscribed by Sven Hedin and appears as a mirror image. Mukul Dey visited Hedin in Berlin in 1926 and we bel…

Helldorado: . Bringing the Law to the Mesquite

BREAKENRIDGE, WILLIAM M. · 1982 · Round Table Books, LLC

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Chicago: The Lakeside Press, 1982. First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full brown cloth, silver lettering on spine, gilt medallion on front cover, t.e.g. Illustrated with B&W frontispiece and several B&W photogrpahs. NB: At the age of 16, Breakenridge joined t…

Last Call : Awaken To Consciousness

James George · 2016 · Book Haven

NZ$23.50 (€11.78 | $12.98 | £9.82 | ¥2,073)

Barrytown/Station Hill Press 2016 Paperback, 256pp. "In his long life as naval historian, ambassador, environmentalist and author, James George has known a number of remarkable people and has lived in some of the world's most interesting countries. The Dalai Lama calls him "my o…

Distanz und Bedeutung. Ovids 'Metamorphosen' und die Frage der Ironie.

KRUPP, J., · 2009 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

Winter, Heidelberg, 2009. 200p. Hard bound. Nice copy. Like new. ''Distanz und Bedeutung' dovetails nicely with the important recent work of scholars such as Barchiesi, Rosati and Hardie, while also acknowledging the seminal contributions of von Albrecht, Otis, Galinsky and oth…

Untersuchungen zum Aufbau plautinischer Lieder.

MAURACH, G., · 1964 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€21.50 ($23.70 | £17.94 | ¥3,784)

Vendenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1964. 89p. Sewn. Pencil annotations and underlinings from WGA. Front cover a bit grimy, with small crease. Series: Hypomnemata, 10. (Rare). 'The author's aim is to explain the structure of at least those cantica which consist of reasonable lon…

The Plays and Fragments. Translated with Explanatory Notes by M. Balme. With an Introduction by Peter Brown.

MENANDER, · 2001 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€72.50 ($79.91 | £60.48 | ¥12,760)

Oxford University Press, Oxford (...), 2001. XXXIV,312p. Cloth wrps. Nice copy. With editor's dedication on free endpaper.: 'Geoffrey with very many thanks for all your help and encouragement Maurice.' 'Peter Brown provides a sharp and wide-ranging, yet coherent introduction. Br…

Specimen Catholicae Veritatis cui Athei, Deistae, Pseudo-politici, circa quamcunque Sectam Indifferentes, Religionis contemtores, dubiae fidei , & critices intemperantioris Autores &c., velamina praetendere nituntur

D'INGUIMBERT Malachia O.Cist. [Joseph-Dominique] · 1722 · Antiquariaat Pieter Judo (De Lezenaar)

€700.00 ($771.53 | £583.99 | ¥123,203)

Pistorii [Pistoia], Apud Johannem-Silvestrum Gatti [34] + 261pp., first and only edition, 27cm., with engraved vignette on title page, engraved head pieces and capitals, text in Latin, modern (early 20th cy.?) hardcover binding (spine in vellum, corners bumped), some occasiona…

Blood on the Saddle

Madison, Hank · 1976 · Bookbarrow

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

Robert Hale Ltd, London, 1976. First Edition, Red Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 9780709158387 black titles spine; "Jim Marsden changed his name to Greg Hallam when he received Jane Ordway's letter telling him of his brother Art's murder. He rode into Kansas determined to locate th…

The Switch

Horowitz, Anthony · 1996 · Bookbarrow

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

Walker Books Ltd. London, 1996. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/Fine. 9780744541236 A boy's casual wish leads him into a dark and mysterious world in this thrilling adventure from the best-selling author of the Alex Rider series. For Tad Spencer, only s…

Not My Father's Son A Family Memoir

Alan Cumming · 2014 · Book Haven

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

Canongate 2014 Hardback, 294pp. Alan Cumming grew up in the grip of a man who held his family hostage, someone who meted out violence with a frightening ease, who waged a silent war with himself that sometimes spilled over onto everyone around him. That man was Alan's father, Al…

Fauna Brasiliense. Peixes. IV. Eleutherobranchios aspiriphorus. Parte A. Physostomos scleracanthos.

Miranda Ribeiro, A. De · 1912 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Rio de Janeiro, Papelaria Macedo (for the Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro), 1912. Large 4to. (29.8 x 22.0 cm). 504, [viii] pp.; 144 text illustrations, 54 plates; folded table. Later half cloth over marbled boards. Gilt (Volume) title on the spine. = A well-illustrated and deta…

Muskelfibrille und Sarcoplasma.

Retzius, G. · 1890 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,121)

Stockholm, Samson & Wallin, 1890. Folio (37.1 x 29.0 cm). 38 pp.; three chromolithographed plates. Contemporary half cloth over marbled boards. Original printed wrappers bound in. = With a handwritten dedication by the author to the Austrian physiologist and histologist, Profess…

Sur les figures d'équilibre peu différentes des ellipsoïdes d'une masse liquide homogène douée d'un mouvement de rotation. Première Partie. Étude générale du problème.

Liapounoff, A. [Lyapunov] · 1906 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€350.00 ($385.76 | £291.99 | ¥61,601)

St.-Pétersbourg, l'Académie Impériale des Sciences, 1906. Large 4to (33.5 x 25.1 cm). 225 pp. Original printed wrappers. = Important contribution to the properties of spherical liquid masses by the Russian mathematician Alexandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov (1857-1918). "He created the…

[Portrait by J. G. Auerbach and J. E. Haid].

Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von · 1781 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.85 | ¥35,201)

Augsburg, J. E. Haid, 1781. Single sheet (22.0 x 13.4 cm), printed on one side. = A fine portrait of the mathematician, physicist and philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716). After a drawing by the Austrian painter Johann Gottfried Auerbach 1697-1753), made in 1714…

[Autograph Document Signed] Land Tax Receipt Issued by George Madison, 6th Governor of Kentucky, During His Service As Auditor of Public Accounts

Madison, George · 1796 · Kaaterskill Books

$250.00 (€226.82 | £189.23 | ¥39,922)

[Kentucky], 1796. 1 sheet. 7.5 x 4.5 inches. No. 21, dated October 17, 1796 Auditors Office: "Received of Thomas Alexander by Richard Terill, the Treasurers Receipt for One pound, ten shillings, seven pence.. on one thousand acres of third rate land lying on the North fork of Li…

Caillebotte Et Les Impressionnistes : Histoire D'Une Collection

Perrin, Paul · 2024 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$75.00 (€68.05 | £56.77 | ¥11,977)

Paris, France, Hazan Editions, 2024. Hardcover. Blue boards with color illustrations on front and back. 143 pp. Features many color and bw illustrations. Gustave Caillebotte (1848 – 1894) was not only a great artist, but also a visionary collector and one of the most important d…

Mondain: The Transatlantic Paintings

Cooper, Harry (and) on Spronk · 2001 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

New Haven, Yale University Press, 2001. Softcover. A matte softcover book with the title in red down a white and black spine. Pages: (6), vii-xi, (1), 1-263, (1). Profusely illustrated with both black-and-white and color images. "Just before World War II, Piet Mondrian fled from…

IM Schatten Des Freundes. Arbeitsmaterialien Von Franz Pforr IM Nachlass Ludwig Vogels

Heinrich Thommen · 2010 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$195.00 (€176.92 | £147.60 | ¥31,139)

Basel, Schwabe AG, 2010. Hardcover. Hardcover in green and tan with reproductions on the front and reverse. 510 pp with occasional BW reproductions (reference quality). In the shadow of the friend. Working materials by Franz Pforr in the estate of Ludwig Vogels. "Drawings by Fra…

Hans Hofmann: A Retrospective

Wilkin, Karen · 2003 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

Naples, FL, Naples Museum of Art, 2003. Hardcover. Blue boards with white stamped lettering. Color-illustrated dust jacket with black and white lettering. 143 pp. Color and BW illustrations. "The selection of seventy paintings featured here highlight every stage of Hans Hofmann …