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Rainbow Bridge. A Collection of Poems in English and Shetlandic

Renwick, Jack · 1963 · Mare Booksellers

$13.00 (€11.79 | £9.84 | ¥2,076)

No Place, The Shetland Times Limited, Publisher, 1963. First Edition. Wraps. No place: 1963. First edition. Printed wraps. 32 pp. A collection of poetry by Jack Renwick separated into two sections, one in the Shetland dialect and the other in English. This is Renwick's first pub…

Complete Poems.

Henry Constable, María Jesús Pérez-Jáuregui (ed) · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€116.00 ($127.85 | £96.77 | ¥20,416)

, Brepols - PIMS, 2024 Hardback, xxii + 454 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Illustrations:8 col., Language: English. ISBN 9780888442321. Summary Elizabethan poet Henry Constable (1562-1613), a Protestant-born Catholic convert, was long dismissed as a minor poet, a Catholic traitor, …

Parafraze dos proverbios de Salomão em verso portuguez, dedicada ao serenissimo principe da beira nosso senhor.Bahia, Brazil, Manuel Antonio de Silva Serva, 1815. 8vo. With a woodcut vignette on title page and with head-pieces built-up from typographical ornaments throughout. Contemporary gold-tooled tanned sheepskin with a black morocco label on the spine, blue sprinkled edges.

OTTONI, José Eloi. · 1764 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,800.00 ($1,983.93 | £1,501.68 | ¥316,808)

[2 blank], 357, [5 blank] pp.A rare first edition of a translation of the Book of Proverbs into Portuguese verse, with the Latin and Portuguese texts on opposing pages. José Eloi Ottoni (1764-1851) was born in Brazil, but studied and worked in Europe, because he was not satisfie…

De Nicolao Museto (Gallice: Colin Muset) Francogallico Carminum Scriptore

Colin Muset (Joseph Bedier, editor) · 1893 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$175.00 (€158.78 | £132.46 | ¥27,945)

Paris: Emile Bouillon, 1893, First edition of the works of Colin Muset, an early medieval French lyric poet. This publication is also important because it is the minor doctoral thesis of Joseph Bedier, who went on to become the most important medievalist of his generation (his…

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS)

CLARK, Tom · 0 · Charles Agvent

$187.50 (€170.12 | £141.92 | ¥29,941)

On an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of blue paper, the poet has responded to a request for a poem by writing out “Like Real People,” the title poem of his new book, which he has SIGNED at the conclusion. On a post-it note Clark writes, “This is the title poem of my next book -- LIKE REAL P…

Corrinne Ou L&Apos;Italie

Madame De Stael · 1851 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Paris, Charpentier, 1851 . Leather. A new edition of Madame de Stael's most famous work, inspired by Italian poet Diodata Saluzzo Roero. A new edition, originally published in 1807. In a half black morocco binding, with marbled boards.A work by Madame de Stael, also known …

WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOVE

CARVER, Raymond (William HEYEN) · 1981 · Charles Agvent

$231.30 (€209.86 | £175.08 | ¥36,936)

New York. Alfred A. Knopf. First Edition. First Printing of Carver's second major collection of short fiction and his first book to go into further printings. Included is the story "Why Don't You Dance?," basis for the 2010 Will Ferrell film EVERYTHING MUST GO. This copy with an…

Mon Ami Marcel Proust: Souvenirs Intimes

Maurice Duplay · 1972 · Rooke Books

£59.00 (€70.72 | $77.95 | ¥12,447)

Paris, NRF, Gallimard, 1972 . First edition. Paperback. American poet Cid Corman's own personal copy of the very scarce first edition of Maurice Duplay's account of his friendship with Marcel Proust. In the original FrenchThe copy of American poet, translator and edit…

Johannis Bonefonii Arverni carmina.

BONEFONIUS. · 1720 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,840)

London (Londini), Ex officina Jacobi Tonson, & Johannis Watts, 1720. 12mo XI,(1 blank),75,(1 blank) p. 19th century half morocco 15 cm (Ref: IJsewijn p. 135; Graesse 1,486; ESTC T72206) (Details: Gilt short title on the back; title in red & black; woodcut printer's mark on the …

Poems

Samuel Rodgers · 1834 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.75 | $244.41 | ¥39,029)

London, T. Cadell , 1834 . First edition. Leather. A decorative leather-bound first edition containing the poetry of Samuel Rogers, with illustrated engravings by William Turner. A first edition of the work, with smart, full crushed morocco binding with gilt decorations to the b…

François Ponsard. (B&W Engraving)

Lemoine (Engraver) · 1800 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.69 | ¥15,969)

Paris: Lemercier, [1800s]. Original B&W gravure. 15.5 x 10.75 inches. Very Good. Signed in the plate. Scarce. Dramatic poet, he was the leader of the school of common sense which stood in the middle between the classics and the romantics. His first play Lucretia, performed in 18…

Cocus bonus ofte geestelijcke sinne-beelden ende godtvruchtighe uyt-legginghen op alle de gereetschappen van den kock. Bruges, Franciscus Beernaerts, [between 1739 and 1762].With:(2) CROON, Petrus. Cocus Bonus. Tweede deel, ofte geestelycke bemerckingen op de tafel ende spysen maeltyt. Bruges, Widow of P.J. Vincent, [between 1731 and 1769]. 2 parts in 1 volume. 12mo. Ad 1: with an engraved portrait of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria (1614-1662) mounted on the verso of the second flyleaf as a frontispiece. Further with a woodcut ornament on the title page and some woodcut head- and tailpieces. Ad 2: with a woodcut ornament on the title page and a headpiece built up from typographic ornaments. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine with a black title label lettered in gold, simple blind-tooled fillets on the boards, red sprinkled edges.

CROON, Petrus. · 1634 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[1], [1 blank], [18], 207, [1]; "314" [= 312] pp.Rare 18th-century edition of a curious moralistic work by Petrus Croon (1634-1682) who was a Regular Canon of St. Martin ("prieuré du Trone de Sainte-Marie à Saint-Martin") at Louvain, belonging to the Congregation of Windesheim. …

C. 1870 Letters to Aimé Giron from French Clergy Regarding a 24-Statue Altar, Roman Pilgrimage & Behind-the-Scenes Cathedral Speechwriting

A ROBERTS & NOEL ROUX, FRENCH CLERGY · 1870 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$245.00 (€222.29 | £185.45 | ¥39,123)

Paris, France, 1870. Ephemera. On offer is a complementary pair of nineteenth-century French Catholic letters addressed to author and journalist Aimé Giron (1836–1907) , revealing the practical and literary assistance he provided privately to members of the clergy. Written by tw…

Jean Moréas et les "Stances"

Ernest RAYNAUD · 1929 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,800)

Société française d'éditions littéraires et techniques | Paris 1929 | 12 x 19 cm | broché | Edition originale sur papier courant.  Envoi autographe signé d'Ernest Raynaud à Emmanuel Aegerter : "... à l'excellent poète, au prosateur solide et brillant..." Un petit manque en pied …

James Russell Lowell L.L. D. "Hosea Biglow

T (Theobald Chartran, 1849-1907) · 1880 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.62 | ¥19,961)

London: Vanity Fair, 1880. Chromolithograph. 31 x 18.5 cm. (image). 40 x 27.4 cm. (sheet). Dated 21 August 1880. Vincent Brooks, Day & Son (Lithographers). Very Good. Light toning along sheet edges. James Russell Lowell (February 22, 1819 - August 12, 1891) was an American Roman…

La Mort D' Abel, Poëme En Cinq Chants

Gessner, Solomon & Huber, M [translator] · 1808 · Eastleach Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,063)

L Lefort, Rue Esquermoise, Lille 1808 a new edition. Full calf, G. xxviii+187pp, portrait frontis, 4 engraved plates, leather rather worn along the edges & having a rather tired appearance, lettering piece mostly missing, fore edge thumbed, internally a nice copy. Large elephant…

LI BAI LOOKS FOR A TEACHER.

Shiming, Hua / Shih-ming Hua / Xiaoqing, Pan (ill.) · 1985 · Antiquariaat van Veen

€12.50 ($13.78 | £10.43 | ¥2,200)

Beijing, Zhaohua Publishing House, 1985. 1st edition 22 pp. Pb . Serie: Stories about Ancient Chinese Literary and Art Figures. Li Bai (701-762) was a very famous poet who lived during the golden age of the Tang Dynasty. His poems are bold, liberal and romantic. Ther are a gre…

Lucan's Pharsalia. (2 Volumes)

Nicholas Rowe, trans · 1722 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$300.00 (€272.19 | £227.08 | ¥47,906)

London, J. Tonson, 1722. Second Edition. Leather. 2 vols. 287p; 310p. A set of two small hardcover books bound in full brown leather with gilt decorations on the spines. Very good condition. The title labels on the spines are handwritten. The edges are scuffed and the front and …

A Collection of Works by Emile Verhaeren

Emile Verhaeren · 1904 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

Paris, Societe du Mercure de France, 1904-1907. Leather. A uniformly bound collection of the works and poems of Belgian writer Emile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren, in the original French. French. Five volumes. Written by Emile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren, a Belgian poet and art critic…

Sex. Aurelii Propertii Elegiarum libri quatuor. Ad fidem veterum membranarum curis secundis Jani Broukhusii sedulo castigati. Accedunt terni indices, quorum primus omnes voces Propertianas complectitur.

PROPERTIUS. · 1727 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€340.00 ($374.74 | £283.65 | ¥59,841)

Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios, 1727. 4to. (XXXII, including the frontispiece), 489,(1),(109 indices),(1 blank) p. Contemporary calf. 24 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 18661859X; Schweiger 2,830; Dibdin 1,384: 'very valuable'; Moss 1,274: 'A good edition, containing…