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M. Antonii Flaminii in Librum Psalmorum Brevis Explanatio, ad Alexandrum Farnesium Cardinalem amplissimum ...Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1558.With: (2) FLAMINIUS, Marcus Antonius. M. Antonii Flaminii De Rebus Divinis Carmina ad Margaritam Henrici Gallorum Regis sororem. Antwerp, Christophe Plantin, 1558.2 works in 1 volume. 16mo (11.4 x 7.7 cm). With woodcut printer's device on both title pages: "Labore et constantia" and a different one on the verso of the final blank page of the second work: "Christus vera vitis". Ruled in brown/red throughout, 2 decorated initials at the beginning of the first work and 3 in the second work. Contemporary brown leather, gold-stamped frame and ornamental centrepieces on both covers, gold-tooling on spine, gold edges with blind-tooled arabesques.

FLAMINIUS, Marcus Antonius. · 1498 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,450.00 ($3,802.61 | £2,877.80 | ¥607,301)

365, [3]; [24] ll.Commentary on the Book of Psalms with religious poetry in an attractive, contemporary binding. The Italian humanist Marcus Antonius Flaminius (Seravalla 1498 - Rome 1550) first published his commentary in 1545. He gives a short summary of each psalm (argumentum…

Uniformes des gardes d'honneur des différens corps dans les sept départemens de la Hollande; formés pour la réception de ... l'Empereur et Roi. ...| Uniformen van de gardes d'honneur, van de onderscheiden corpsen in de zeven départementen van Holland; opgericht tot de ontfangst van ... den Keizer en Koning. Amsterdam, Evert Maaskamp, [1811]. Royal folio (42.5 x 32 cm). With 12 aquatint costume plates (plate size 32.5 x 23 cm), in the publisher's original hand-colouring, with the original tissue guard leaf tipped onto each plate. Recent boards, with the original plain paper wrappers laid down. Kept in a matching green half morocco clamshell box.

[MILITARY UNIFORMS]. · 1795 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€12,500.00 ($13,777.59 | £10,426.81 | ¥2,200,366)

[48] pp.Beautifully coloured copy (with both a wide variety of bright colours and subtle shading) of the rare first (and only early) edition of a series of large aquatint plates showing the uniforms of Napoleon's honour guards (cavalry, infantry and marine) in 11 Dutch cities, w…

Rerum gestarum Brabantiae ducibus historia, nunc primum Latine conscripta ... usque in annum vigesimu[m] sextu[m] supra 1500 restitutae salutis ... Catalogus insignium oppidorum Germaniae inferioris. Emendationes, quibus incuriae typographorum occurritur.(Colophon:) Antwerp, Hadrianus Tilanus & Johannes Hoochstraten, 1526. 8vo (12.8 x 8.9 cm). With woodcut frame on the title page, and some woodcut decorated initials. 19th-century half vellum.

BARLANDUS, Adrianus. · 1486 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€950.00 ($1,047.10 | £792.44 | ¥167,228)

[148] pp.First edition of Adrianus Barlandus’ (1486-1538) seminal Humanist chronicle of Brabant, a landmark in 16th-century Netherlandish historiography and one of the author’s most influential works. The present work offers a sweeping history of the Duchy of Brabant the suppose…

Handbook of the birds of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa: the birds of the Wastern Palearctic: volumes I to IX

CRAMP, Stanley (editor) · 1978 · Cotswold Internet Books

£180.00 (€215.79 | $237.85 | ¥37,985)

Oxford University Press Used - Very Good. VG hardback set in VG dust jacket 1978 onwards set of 9 volumes with colour and B&W illustrations; tightly bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Dust jackets not price-clipped and VGC; volume I has tiny tear to top front…

The road to Oxiana.

Byron, Robert / Moorhouse, Geoffrey (introd.). · 2000 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€22.50 ($24.80 | £18.77 | ¥3,961)

London, The Folio Society, 2000 Bound, decorated cloth with slipcase. 329pp., 16,5x23,5cm., illustr. in b/w., in good condition (slipcover and binding with light traces of use, spine somewhat yellowed, name and date in pencil on first page). In 1933 Robert Byron began a journe…

The Sinclair Family [ 4 parts complete ]

Borer, M [ Mary ] Cathcart · 1937 · Eastleach Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons Ltd 1937 1st edition. Limp cloth, G. 4 volumes, 71pp, 71pp, 70pp, 68pp, title vignette to each volume, grand total of 20 b/w full page illustrations by S Girdwood, cloth rubbed & worn with ink splashes to volume IV, corners curled occasional smudge to the…

Chips - The Diaries Of Sir Henry Channon

Channon, Sir Henry & James, Robert Rhodes [editor] · 1967 · Eastleach Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1967 1st edition, 2nd impression. Cloth, dj, F/VG. [viii]+496pp, 32pp b/w plates showing 42 images, index a fine copy in a slightly edge worn price clipped dustjacket that is almost fine. The diaries of Sir Henry Channon [ 1897 - 1958 ] the American-born B…

JOE FOSS, FLYING MARINE

Simmons, Walter · 1943 · Robert W. Reiner

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

Dutton, 1943. [ ] Stated First Edition. Hardback, small octavo, appx 5 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches, black titles on red cloth covers, 160 pages, ex-library, Good only/no dj. Interior: library slip and pocket rear endpapers, couple of edge tears & corner folds, library stamp on blank back…

THE CHILDREN'S DICKENS - Stories Selected From Various Tales

Dickens, Charles; Illustrations by Gilbert S. Wright · 1915 · Robert W. Reiner

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Hodder & Stoughton, no date (circa 1915?). [ ] Hardback, squarish thin 8vo, appx 6 3/4 x 9 1/8 inches, purple cloth backstrip/purple paper-covered boards with gilt/black title and decoration + color illustration pastedown to front board, 56 pages, VG+/no dj. A little chipping to…

Griechische Töpferkunst. Herstellung, Handel und Gebrauch der antiken Tongefäße.

SCHEIBLER, Ingeborg, · 1983 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€17.50 ($19.29 | £14.60 | ¥3,081)

Beck, München, 1983. 220p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Paperback. Lower corner front cover creased. 'Scheibler's manual restricts itself more or less to painted pottery. It is in three parts of about equal length - on uses, manufacture and trade. (...) S. has been…

Winston Churchill on Jewish Problems

RABINOWICZ, OSKAR K. · 1960 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.64 | £223.25 | ¥47,113)

New York: Thomas Yoseloff, 1960. Reprint. Hardcover. pp. [8], 9-231. Index. Footnotes. Reprint of the softcover 1956 first edition. "A dynamic and scholarly study of one of the greatest statesmen of our times whose honorable place in Jewish history has never before been fully de…

Police Ju Jitsu

Moynahan, James M. Jr. · 1962 · Inno Dubelaar Books

$275.00 (€249.50 | £208.12 | ¥43,919)

Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A. Charles C. Thomas Publisher, 1962. 1st. Hardcover. First printing of rare hardcover edition. Pp. xi, 120, 124 illustrations, mostly b&w step-by-step photos demonstrating techniques, octavo format in brown hardcovers, dust jacket. This copy came from…

Survival and Discord in Medieval Society Essays in Honour of Christopher Dyer,

R. Goddard, J. Langdon, M. Muller (eds.); · 2010 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€93.50 ($103.06 | £77.99 | ¥16,459)

Turnhout, Brepols, 2010 Hardback, VIII+307 p., 1 b/w ill., 7 b/w tables, 1 b/w line art, 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503528151. This book, a tribute to an exceptional scholar known for his broad-ranging interests, brings together the new work of students, friends, and colleagues of P…

Book Jackets and Record Covers an International Survey

WEIDEMANN, KURT, ED. · 1969 · Pegasus Books

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.24 | ¥2,795)

New York: Frederick A. Praeger, Publishers, 1969. First American Edition. Hardcover. Cover is red. Pages are clean and tight. Black endpapers. For a library book this appears either as if not circulated much or else handled by extremely careful readers. Illustrated with 460 b/w …

UNIFORM EDITION Of CHARLES DICKENS' WORKS. 12 Volumes, Complete

Dickens, Charles [1812 - 1870] · 1850 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$1,375.00 (€1,247.50 | £1,040.59 | ¥219,596)

Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson & Brothers, No. 102 Chestnut Street, (n. d.). 1st edition thus, i.e. in this set, early-to-mid 1850s. Cf. Gimbel D25. Publisher's original brown half-leather bindings with marbled paper boards. Raised bands, blind stamped decoration and gilt stamped …

the Great Metropolitan

Yosafat, O. · 1954 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€41.10 ($45.30 | £34.28 | ¥7,235)

Yedmonton, 1954. Softcover (paperback). Language: Ukrainian. Condition: not graded in detail, please see the photos. Photographs. Original title: Zhan CHSVV-B. Kazymyra. Velykyi Mytropolyt. Edmonton. The photos show the actual copy offered. Ships from Ukraine by Nova Post with t…

Nuzhdy shelkovodstva i pchelovodstva v rayonakh deyatelnosti Kievskogo obshchestva selskogo khozyaystva (Russian edition)

Anonymous · 1896 · Chystikov Paper and Silk

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.10 | ¥21,124)

Tipografiya G. T. Korchak-Novitskogo (Mikhaylovskaya ulitsa, dom No. 4-B), 1896. Language: Russian. Condition: not graded in detail, please see the photos. The photos show the actual copy offered. Ships from Ukraine by Nova Post with tracking after receipt of payment (bank trans…

Indian Philosophy of Language

Mark Siderits 573925 · 1991 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.22 | ¥11,442)

Springer Science & Business Media, 1991, Hardcover, 199, What can the philosophy of language learn from the classical Indian philosophical tradition? As recently as twenty or thirty years ago this question simply would not have arisen. If a practitioner of analytic philosophy of…

Systematic List of the Trees, Shrubs and Woody-Climbers of the Bombay Presidency

William Alexander Talbot · 1894 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Government Central Press, 1894. Leather. An extremely scarce first edition of this comprehensive compendium of Bombay plants, in a presentation binding inscribed by the author Inscription to front free-endpaper reads: 'To J. B. D. Adams Esq from W. A. Talbot&apos. D…

Encyclopaedia of Textiles/Encyclopedia of Textiles Decorative Fabrics from Antiquity to the Beginning of the 19th Century Including the Far East and Peru: Completely Revised with an Introduction By Renate Jaques

FLEMMING, ERNST · 1958 · Pegasus Books

$81.25 (€73.72 | £61.49 | ¥12,976)

London: A. Zwemmer Ltd, 1958. First English Edition. Hard Cover. NOT A FORMER LIBRARY BOOK. Hard cover is red with gold, blind stamped design on front, gold lettering on spine. Pages are clean and tight; appears as if unused. Lavishly illustrated with 288 pages of b/w photograph…