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Delle Novelle Di Franco Sacchetti

Franco Sacchetti · 1724 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

Firenze, Not Stated, 1724. Leather. An anthology of the short stories of Franco Sacchetti, one of the most counterfeited works of the century. One of the pirated editions published in the same year as the true first, with the false 'Firenze' imprint, the work likely ha…

L&Apos;Heptameron Des Nouvelles de Marguerite D&Apos;Angoulesme

Marguerite d'Angoulesme · 1879 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

Paris, Alphonse Lemerre, 1879. Vellum. A complete three volume set of the Heptameron by Marguerite d'Angoulesme, in the original French language. French language. Three volumes. A collection of seventy-two short stories inspired by The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. Origi…

The Poems of Master Franãƒâ§Ois Villon of Paris, Now First Done Into English Verse, in the Original Forms, with a Biographical and Critical Introduction

François Villon; John Payne · 1892 · Rooke Books

£89.00 (€106.70 | $117.60 | ¥18,782)

London, The Villon Society , 1892. Leather. A limited edition copy of this collection of poems by François Villon, with a detailed introduction by John Payne. A limited edition. Printed for the Villon Society by private subscription and for private circulation only. This is num…

Contes Et Nouvelles de Marguerite de Valois, Reine de Navarre

Marguerite de Valois; Margaret of Navarre · 1700 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Amsterdam, George Gallet, 1700. Leather. A scarce early edition of the short stories of Marguerite de Navarre, an illustrated collection of thirty-two tales in the original French. A scarce early edition.Volume One only of a total of two volumes.The collected tales of Marguerite…

Gehuwde rotsen. roman

Jan Lauwereyns · 2021 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2021; Nbc - Uitgeverij Koppernik Bv; 240pp.; Lichte slijtage randen omslag. -- Conditie: Goed; De gedachte aan de twee leeft in de rotsen, verbonden met een dik strooien koord. Zo luiden de slotregels van een kleine Japanse parabel, over de archetypische Moed…

Miss America

Walter J. Turner · 1930 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

London, Mandrake Press LTD, 1930. First edition. Vellum. A beautiful signed limited edition of Turner's satirical poem about a woman living in America, published by the Mandrake Press. A limited edition, published at the same time as the first edition. Limited to five-hundr…

Ten Droll Tales

Honoré de Balzac; J. Lewis May · 1926 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head Limited, 1926 . First edition. Cloth. First edition of Honoré de Balzac's classic, controversial Droll Tales, profusely illustrated by Jean de Bosschère in black and white and colour. First edition. Limited to 3000 copies.In publisher&apo…

Spa Decameron, The

Fay Weldon · 2008 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2008; Quercus Publishing; 369pp.; Conditie: Goed; Ten high achieving ladies are gathered together in the week between Christmas and the New Year, at the expensive Castle Spa, seeking, through Botox, aromatherapy and general all round pampering, a new beginnin…

Présence de Virgile. Actes du Colloque des 9, 11 et 12 Décembre 1976 (Paris E.N.S., Tours).

CHEVALLIER, R., (ed.), · 1978 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€55.00 ($60.62 | £45.88 | ¥9,682)

Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1978. X,582p. Sewn. Lower corner back cover and last pages a little bit creased. With signature from Prof. Carl Deroux on free endpaper. Series: Caesarodonum, XIII bis, Numéro spécial. A.o.: M. GIROD: Virgile et l'histoire dans l''Énéide (pp.17-35); M…

The Most Delectable Nights of Straparola

Giovanni Francesco Straparola · 1906 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

Paris, Charles Carrington, 1906. Cloth. A limited edition of this collection of seventy five short stories from the late Medieval period - the work for which Straparola is best known. The title of the work is sometimes translated as 'The Facetious Nights' or 'The …

Les Contes Drolatiques, Colligez Ez Abbayes de Touraine Et Mis En Lumiãƒâ¨Re Par le Sieur de Balzac

Honoré de Balzac · 1855 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Paris, Bureau de la Societe Generale de Librairie, 1855. Leather. A profusely illustrated Doré edition of Balzac"s irreverent Contes Drolatiques, combining Rabelaisian satire with Gustave Dore's characterful engravings. In a contemporary quarter roan binding with marbled p…

The Poems of Master Francois Villon of Paris Now First Done Into English Verse, in the Original Forms, with a Biographical and Critical Introduction

Francois Villon; John Payne · 1892 · Rooke Books

£99.99 (€119.87 | $132.12 | ¥21,101)

London, The Villon Society, 1892. Vellum. A limited edition of this collection of the poems of Francois Villon, privately published for the Villon Society. Arranged and introduced by John Payne. John Payne (23 August 1842 – 11 February 1916) was an English poet and translator. I…

IL Pentamerone; or, the Tale of Tales

Giovanni Battista Basile; Richard F. Burton · 1893 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Henry and Co. 1893. First edition. Cloth. The first trade edition of Richard F. Burton's translation of Giovanni Battista Basile's collection of stories, 'Il Pentamerone', part of a limited edition publication. A collection of Neapolitan fairy tales f…

Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated Into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace & Chaucer

Mr. Dryden [John Dryden] · 1700 · Rooke Books

£1,195.00 (€1,432.60 | $1,579.03 | ¥252,180)

London, Jacob Tonson, 1700 . First edition. Leather. An impressive first edition of John Dryden's major final work, translating classical and medieval sources into influential Augustan verse, in a full calf binding. A first edition. Retaining half title. John Dryden's …

Rare Literature 1699 | Polityke toets-steen, Ter drukkery van Jacobus van Hardenberg, t' Amsterdam 1699, 8º octavo edition, [5]+240+[5] pp. Illustrated.

Bokkalini, Traiano (Boccalini) · 1615 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€817.50 ($901.05 | £681.91 | ¥143,904)

Full leather binding, with some stickers of former library copy. Decorative spine with the text: Polity Toets Steen. On the flyleaf stamp of Bibl. Semin. S.J. Prov. Neerl. and stamp of Bibliotheek Theol. College S.J. Maastricht. Also stamp: verwijders, removed from library. Bund…

The Anjou Bible. A Royal Manuscript Revealed. Naples 1340

Jan van der Stock 234934, Lieve Watteeuw 112656 · 2010 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

Peeters Pub & Booksellers, 2010, Linnen band met stofomslag, 335, The Anjou Bible, now kept in the Theology Faculty's Maurits Sabbe Library of the University of Leuven (Belgium) is a superbly illuminated manuscript created at the Royal Court of Naples in the turbulent fourteenth…

Writers / Their Lives and Works

James Naughtie · 2018 · Boekhandel Louis Tinner

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Dorling Kindersley. 2018; Hardcover; mooi exemplaar / fine copy. Pre-19th century. Dante Alighieri ; Giovanni Boccaccio ; Geoffrey Chaucer ; François Rabelais ; Michel de Montaigne ; Miguel de Cervantes ; William Shakespeare ; John Donne ; John Milton ; Molière ; Aphra Behn ; Ma…

Zedigheid vaarwel : een bloemlezing van lichtzinnige literatuur.

Shakespeare, William; G.A. Brederode, David Koning, P.C. Hooft ... [et al.] · 1957 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Samengesteld en vertaald door Lizzy Sara May en Jaap Romijn. Utrecht : A.W. Bruna & Zoon, 1957. Paperback. 154 pp. 18 cm. (Zwarte Beertjes, 57). Illustraties van Jacques Boersma. Omslagontwerp Dick Bruna. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. -…

Contes Et Nouvelles de Marguerite de Valois

Marguerite de Valois; Margaret of Navarre · 1740 · Rooke Books

£370.00 (€443.57 | $488.90 | ¥78,081)

Paris, Depens de la Compagnie, 1740. Leather. An illustrated edition of the collected tales of Marguerite of Valois, complete with engravings throughout each volume. Compete in two volumes.In the original French.The collected tales of Marguerite of Navarre, containing a total of…

Les Contes Drolatiques: Colligez Ez Abbayes de Touraine Et Mis En Lumiãƒâ¨Re Par le Sieur de Balzac Pour L&Apos;Esbattement Des Pantagruelistes Et Non Aultres

Honoré de Balzac; A. Dutacq [ed.] · 1855 · Rooke Books

£975.00 (€1,168.86 | $1,288.33 | ¥205,754)

Paris, Ez Bureaux de la Societe Generale de Libraire, 1855. Leather. The first illustrated edition of these funny tales by Balzac, with 425 drawings by Gustave Doré, in a beautiful Sotheran binding. The fifth edition of this work, the first to be illustrated, in a full morocco …