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Constructing Messapian landscapes. Settlement dynamics, social organization and culture contact in the margins of Graeco-Roman Italy.

Burgers,G.-J.L.M. · 1998 · Antiquariaat A. Kok & Zn. B.V.

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Amsterdam, J.C. Gieben, 1998. 327 pp. 22 b./w. plts on [16] lvs. Orig. hardcover ( gilt lettered red cloth). 8vo. (Dutch monographs on ancient history and archaeology, Vol. 18).Over the last three decades, archaeologists have progressively embarked on field-walking projects all …

Images of War

CAPA, ROBERT · 1964 · Round Table Books, LLC

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.84 | ¥7,985)

NY: Grossman Publishers, 1964. 1st Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Robert Capa. Publisher's full white cloth, black lettering on spine, "WAR" blind-stamped on cover, black endpapers. Illustrated with nearly 150 full or double-page B&W heliogravure illustratio…

OBSERVATIONS BOTH HISTORICAL And MORAL UPON The BURNING Of LONDON, September 1666. With an Account of the Losses. And a most remarkable Parallel between London and Mosco, both as to the Plague and Fire. Also an Essay touching on the Easterly - Winde [sic]. Written by way of Narrative, for satisfaction of the present and future Ages

Sincera, Rege [pseudonym] · 1667 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$2,475.00 (€2,245.49 | £1,873.07 | ¥395,273)

London: Printed by Thomas Ratcliffe, and are to be sold by Robert Pawlet at the Bible in Chancery-lane, 1667. 1st Edition (ESTC R1890; Wing O-92). Modern brown half-morocco with brown cloth board. Gilt stamped title lettering to spine. Blue marbled paper eps. [4], 36 pp. Untrimm…

Ways of Jewish Martyrdom

S. Goldin · 2008 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€94.50 ($104.16 | £78.83 | ¥16,635)

, Brepols, 2008 XVI+399 p., 0 b/w ill. + 0 colour ill., 7 b/w line art, 160 x 240 mm, Languages: English, Hebrew, Latin Hardback. ISBN 9782503525235. Jewish martyrdom in the Middle Ages is a most intriguing social, cultural, and religious phenomenon. It was stimulated by ancient…

Astounding Science-Fiction: May 1938 ("the Legion of Time"; "Three Thousand Years!")

ASTOUNDING (JACK WILLIAMSON; EDWARD E. SMITH, PH.D.; NAT SCHACHNER; KENT CASEY; CLIFTON B. KRUSE; R. R. WINTERBOTHAM; JOHN VICTOR PETERSON; SPENCER LANE - AKA KRUSE; M. SCHERE; THOMAS CALVERT MCCLARY) · 1938 · Books from the crypt

$22.50 (€20.41 | £17.03 | ¥3,593)

NY, Street & Smith. 1938. SingleIssueMagazine. Book, Vol. XXI, No. 3. Pulp magazine. [Edited by John W. Campbell, Jr.] Cover art by Schneeman for "The Legion of Time" (pt. 1 of 3) by Jack Williamson. Includes "Catastrophe!" (article) by Edward E. Smith, Ph.D.; "Island of the Ind…

Handwritten Rental Account Book

1773 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€953.07 | $1,050.48 | ¥167,768)

Not Stated, Not Stated, 1773-1831. Hardback. A unique handwritten account books for rents paid to the Beachborough Estate. An impressive and very scarce handwritten account book, detailing the rents paid to the owner of the book, from Michaelmas 1773 to Michaelmas 1831.The owner…

Haarlemmer duinzang, tereere van des zelfs vermakelyke land-en watergezigten, van Sandtvoordt af tot Haarlem. Versierd met twaalf naauwkeurige afbeeldingen.Amsterdam, Hendrik Bosch, 1728. Oblong 8vo. With an engraved vignette on the title page, and 12 numbered full-page engraved plates by Claes I. Visscher, including an allegorical frontispiece. Contemporary half red roan.

[TYSENS, Gysbert] & Claes Jansz. VISSCHER. · 1693 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,000.00 ($2,204.41 | £1,668.29 | ¥352,058)

[4], 12 pp.First edition of an Arcadian poem, glorifying the landscapes surrounding Haarlem and Zandvoort, by Gijsbert Tijsens (1693-1732), poet and writer of comedies. The present work is illustrated with 12 landscape engravings by Claesz. Jansz. Visscher (1587-1652), which are…

Les observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables, trouvées en Grece, Asie, Judée, Egypte, Arabie et autres pays estranges.Paris, Guillaume Cavellat (colophon: printed by Benoist Prévost for Gilles Corozet, Guillaume Cavellat), 1555. 3 parts in 1 volume. 4to. With title in woodcut border with Cavellet's device and initials at the foot, each part-title with Cavellet's woodcut device, 1 folding woodcut map (31.5 x 35 cm) showing Mount Sinai, 44 woodcuts in the text (including a portrait of the author by Geoffroy Tory), and numerous fine decorated initials. Overlapping vellum (ca. 1600?).

BELON, Pierre. · 1546 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[12], 212, [1] ll.Third edition of Belon's Observations, the fruit of his extensive travels in Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Syria from 1546 to 1549. Piere Belon (ca. 1518-1564), famous for his works on ornithology, was attached as naturalist to the French embass…

Perspectiva. In qua, quae ab aliis fuse traduntur, succincte, nervose & ita pertractantur, ut omnium intellectui facile pateant. Nunc primum in lucem edita. Opera & studio Joannis Combachii.Frankfurt, Wolffgang Richter for Antonius Hummius, 1614. 4to. With 8 full-page woodcuts printed on both sides of four leaves inserted as plates, and numerous woodcut figures and illustrations in text, several full-page. Modern plain paper boards.

BACON, Roger. · 1585 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)

[8], 189[=205], [1 blank] pp.First edition of a famous work on optics by the English natural philosopher and mathematician Roger Bacon (ca. 1220-ca. 1292). Bacon was well read in Arabic and ancient Greek sources on optics and perspective, a subject hardly studied in Europe durin…

Walter Swennen what the body can do

Tom Mason, Walter Swennen · 2025 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€31.95 ($35.22 | £26.65 | ¥5,624)

, Posture Editions, 2025 Hardback, 112 pages, Dimensions 195 x 130 mm, text Eng/ French edition. ISBN 9789491262661. Walter Swennen (b. 1946) is known for his radical, experiential and associative approach to painting, which is perhaps best summarised as a belief in the total a…

Beschrijving hoedanig de Koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn ...The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826. With: TEUPKEN, Jan Frederik. Vervolg van de beschrijving hoedanig de koninklijke Nederlandsche troepen en alle in militaire betrekking staande personen gekleed, geëquipeerd en gewapend zijn.The Hague, Gebroeders van Cleef (printed by de gebroeders Giunta d'Albanie), 1826. 2 parts in 2 volumes. Folio. With 68 full-page numbered plates (65 hand coloured and engraved, 3 lithographed), a full-page hand-coloured unnumbered engraved plate, and an engraved title page in the first volume. Slightly later black paper, with a black paper title label on the spine, lettered in gold. The work is housed in a modern gold-tooled half black morocco clamshell box with marbled paper sides, with the title and author lettered in gold on the spine.

TEUPKEN, Jan Frederik. · 1813 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)

[1], [1 blank], 10, 110, 20, [2], [2]; 4, [2], 54, 7, [3] pp.First edition of the finest Dutch colour plate work on military costumes, with 69 full-page plates. The work offers a systematic overview of all provisions regarding the uniforms and equipment of the different units of…

Silver of the sea. Tales of unique fish and seafood delicacies.

Volundur S. Volundarson. · 2011 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

Reykjavik Salka 2011 Bound, hardcover, cloth, 303pp., 24x24.5cm., illustr. in col. and b/w., good condition (some pages a bit wrinkled as if they were slightly infected by humidity: however no damage or moisture marks). Rare!!. ISBN 9789935170118. Silver of the sea is more th…

The Carpentered Hen and other tame creatures: Signed Slipcased First Edition

Updike, John · 1958 · Pat Cramer, Bookseller

$1,549.50 (€1,405.82 | £1,172.65 | ¥247,465)

Book Very Good + Near Fine Signed by Author(s) First Edition/First Printing Harper & Brothers Publishers New York, New York, U.S.A. A square solid tight clean carefully read copy. This copy has some light board edge wear, two board edge bumps, sewn binding not quite as tight whe…

DAVID ADLER [The Architect and His Work]

Pratt, Richard; with Photographs by Ezra Stoller and others · 1970 · Robert W. Reiner

$390.00 (€353.84 | £295.15 | ¥62,285)

Evans/Lippincott/Art Institute of Chicago, 1970. [ ] Hardback, quarto, xii + 227 pages, Fine in VG to VG+ dj (dj fitted w/ protective mylar sleeve). Book itself essentially flawless, tight binding, sharp corners, no signs of any wear or damage & very clean inside and out incl no…

The Greeks: An Introduction to their Culture

SOWERBY, ROBIN · 2006 · Kalamos Books

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

London, Routledge. 2006, Reprint. (ISBN: 041512042X) Soft cover. Book, The Greeks has provided a concise yet wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece. In this new and expanded third edition the best-selling volume offers a lucid survey that covers all the key e…

History of the 17th Lancers (Duke of Cambridge's Own)

FORTESCUE, J. W. · 1895 · The Wild Muse

$594.98 (€539.81 | £450.28 | ¥95,022)

London: Macmillan, 1895. 1st. Full-Leather. 8vo. First edition. Full two-tone full leather. Published London: Macmillan, 1895. 8vo, 7 1/4" x 10 1/4", xv+246pp, illus. tissue guarded color plates, b/w portraits. Finely bound in full black and white leather with gilt titles and co…

The Sentinel of Freedom. Newark, New Jersey. Tuesday Morning, September 18, 1832. Vol. XXXVII, No. 1. Whole Number, 1874

[New Jersey] [Henry Clay] Tuttle, Uzal J., ed · 1832 · Kaaterskill Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Newark, NJ, Uzal J. Tuttle & Co. 1832. First edition. Self wrappers. Unpaged [4 pp]. Illus. with b/w in-text drawings. 20 1/4 x 16 inches. The paper endorsed Henry Clay for President and John Sergeant for VP, against Andrew Jackson with a long article by Charles Voorhies. $5 rew…

Landscape Painting *Signed*

Harrison, Birge · 1920 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1920. 8th edition. Hardcover. Green gilt embossed cloth. xv, 254 pp. 24 bw repros. Illustrated by Inness, Lathrop, A. Harrison, Weir, Dearth, Schofield, Homer, Hassam, Carlsen, C.M. Dewey, B. Harrison, Tryon, Woodbury, Ranger, Dougherty, others…

Carolee Schneemann: I. Early Work 1960 / 1970, II. Recent Work

Castle, Ted and Julia Ballerini · 1983 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$90.00 (€81.65 | £68.11 | ¥14,374)

New Paltz, New York, Documentext / McPherson & Company, 1983. Hardcover. Dark aqua cloth, gilt letters on spine, color pictorial dust jacket, unpaginated, 18 BW and 12 color illus. Title on cover: SCHNEEMANN. A combination of two exhibition catalogues from the Max Hutchinson Gal…

The Matterhorn

REY, Guido · 1946 · Cotswold Internet Books

£12.00 (€14.39 | $15.86 | ¥2,532)

Basil Blackwell, 1946. Used - Good. Good hardback in Fair dust jacket . 1946 new revised edition with B&W illustrations and colour frontispiece; tightly bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine; a few small marks to top edges. Dust jacket not price-clipped with discolou…