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Jean Chapelain

NANTEUIL, ROBERT, · 1595 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€224.25 ($247.17 | £187.06 | ¥39,475)

Oval bust-length portrait of Jean Chapelain (1595-1674), a French poet and critic during the Grand Siècle, best known for his role as an organizer and founding member of the Académie française. Engraving on hand laid paper, sheet size 265 x 185 mm. Enrgaved by Robert Nanteuil af…

Lady Montague

BOLLINGER, FRIEDRICH WILHELM, · 1689 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€132.25 ($145.77 | £110.32 | ¥23,280)

Octagonal bust-length portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (née Pierrepont; 1689-1762), an English aristocrat, medical pioneer, writer, and poet. Stipple and line engraving on wove paper, sheet size 228 x 166 mm., platemark 186 x 124 mm., engraved by Friedrich Wilhelm Bollinger…

Le prelude.

GERALDY, P., · 1923 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€28.75 ($31.69 | £23.98 | ¥5,061)

Paris, Stock, 1923, 133pp. attractive half leather binding, gilt lettering and ornamants on spine, marbled boards, marbled flyleaves. Paul Géraldy was a French poet and playwright whose real name was Paul Lefèvre who was born in Paris , France on March 6, 1885 and died in Neuill…

La Guerre, Madame... edition nouvelle

GERALDY, P., · 1922 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€28.75 ($31.69 | £23.98 | ¥5,061)

Paris, G. Cres, 1922, 130pp. half linen binding, marbled boards. Gilt lettering on spine. Good and attractive copy. Paul Géraldy was a French poet and playwright whose real name was Paul Lefèvre who was born in Paris, France on March 6, 1885 and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on Mar…

Baby Breakdown

Anne Waldman · 1970 · Dodman Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

New York, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1st Edition, 1st Printing, First printing of this good collection from "easily the most exciting poet of her generation". All in VG+, crisp, clean and bright internal order. No inscriptions. Light wear and a couple of minor marks only to smar…

Angels of Pompeii

BLY, ROBERT · 1992 · Kalamos Books

$21.00 (€19.05 | £15.89 | ¥3,354)

New York, Ballantine Books. 1992, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 0345377419) Hardcover. Ill.: Stephen Brigidi. Book, This book is a collection of photographs taken of walls in Pompeii. Some are of angels, while others are of figures or shapes that are not quite identifiable. The photogr…

Fq

Alan Brunton · 2002 · Ariel Books

$35.00 (€31.75 | £26.49 | ¥5,590)

Bumper Books Alan Brunton (1946 - 2002) poet, scriptwriter and performer. He was part of the international recognised experimental theatre group Red Mole. He wrote Fq, a sequence of 144 poems, while he was Writer in Residence at the University of Canterbury in 1998. It was final…

Face Exercises

Melser, Derek James · 1970 · Ariel Books

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Cockerel Print Written by Poet and Philosopher and illus by well known Artist Harry Wong, published by Robert Milne all active in the Wellington creative arts scene of the time. CONDITION Brown bds, unpaginated (32 pages) illus through out. A little damage to bottom of end pages…

Selected Poems

Rupert Brooke · 1917 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$45.00 (€40.83 | £34.06 | ¥7,187)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1917. 1st edition, 1st printing. Hardcover. 75p. A small hardcover book bound in brown cloth. Very good condition. Cloth faintly rubbed and soiled; bottom corners lightly bumped. Owner's bookplate and inscription on front endpaper. Pages tanned wi…

Merovingica.

Büchner, Victor Fridericus. · 1913 · Kloof Booksellers & Scientia Verlag

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Amsterdam: H. Meulenhof, 1913. Later covers Hardcover. x, 111 pp. 14x22 cm. Ex-library copy. Ticket on spine, stamp on title and title verso. Thesis, University of Amsterdam. List of theses included. With bibliographical notes. Text in Latin. Concerning the Meroving (ca. 400-75…

Japonica

Sir Edwin Arnold · 1891 · Kubik Fine Books Ltd.

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 128p. Ex-library. A hardcover book bound in decorated tan cloth. Edges heavily worn. Label on spine; bookplate, call number, stamps, and card pocket inside. Tissue shet over the frontispiece is de…

Oskar Kokoschka 1966-67

Kokoschka, Oskar (artist) · 1967 · Mare Booksellers

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

London, Marlborough Fine Art, 1967. Unbound. Single card stock sheet folded into 10 square panels. Color reproductions of paintings throughout. A catalog to a 1967 exhibition of art by Oskar Kokoschka, including paintings of Berlin and Manhattan, as well as flower blossoms. Oska…

Raik

Di Palma, Ray · 1989 · Mare Booksellers

$11.00 (€9.98 | £8.32 | ¥1,757)

New York, Roof Books, 1989. First Edition. Trade Paperback. First edition, trade paperback, also issued in a limited signed edition. 100 pp. A collection of 100 poems that explores language and obedience, as well as conflict, through rigid form and experimentation. Ray Di Palma …

Poemscapes.

Patchen, Kenneth, · 1958 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books

$14.00 (€12.70 | £10.60 | ¥2,236)

Highland, NC, Jonathan Williams, 1958. G ex-library PB. "He represents all that a poet should.he has given courage, direction, and inspiration to more poets." Henry Miller. Investigation into what might be termed the techniques of controlled freedom which Patchen has carried out…

Tratado de Astrologia.

DE VILLENA, Enrique (attributed). CATEDRA, Pedro M. ed. · 1980 · The Book Firm

A$130.00 (€79.91 | $88.08 | £66.66 | ¥14,066)

Rio Tinto Minera, 1980. Hardcover. 4to. B/W and col. illus. In Spanish. Light water damage to lower boards and internal pages (pages somewhat crinkled to bottom edges), several small marks to covers, light fading to bottom RH corner of front of dustjacket, and slight sunning to …

Poems Upon Several Occasions, English, Italian, and Latin

John Milton · 1785 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.80 | $224.63 | ¥35,875)

London, James Dodsley, 1785. First edition. Leather. The first edition of John MIlton's poems edited by the literary historian Thomas Warton. The first Thomas Warton edition.ESTC citation number T134607.Page 164 is misnumbered 146.A collection of the poems of John Milton, t…

Lyrics and Narrative Poems

Herbert Trench · 1912 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London; New York; Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, [1912] (Undated, dated from a co. Leather. London; New York; Toronto: Hodder and Stoughton, [1912] (Undated, dated from a copy held by the British Library). Leather. Good. 7.5" by 5". None. A handsome, and uncommon copy of this co…

Maud: A Monodrama

Alfred Lord Tennyson · 1922 · Rooke Books

£79.00 (€94.71 | $104.39 | ¥16,671)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1922. Cloth. Beautifully colour illustrated, decorative-cloth edition of Tennyson's chivalric epic. In publisher's original decorative cloth binding.Prize bookplate of Holmewood School, London, dated 1924.Featuring eight colour plates…

[Autograph letter in French, signed, to Henri Louis Duhamel du Monceau.]Leiden, 10 December 1771. 25 x 20 cm (letter) & 23.5 x 18.5 cm (manuscript). Never bound.With: [MANUSCRIPT]. [FRANCQ VAN BERKHEY, Jean LE]. Memoires, pour servir a ce que l'illustre auteur de "L'histoire generale des poissons" Monsieur M. Du Hamel de Monceau, solicite a l'egard des morues.[Leiden, 1771].A letter and treatise in French, written in dark brown ink on paper in a neat and easily readable hand, the treatise with 9 tipped-in pen and ink illustrations drawn by the author (6.5 x 10.5 to 11.5 x 21.5 cm) and a few small illustrations in the text.

[MANUSCRIPT]. FRANCQ VAN BERKHEY, Jean le. · 1729 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€25,000.00 ($27,555.18 | £20,853.62 | ¥4,400,731)

[4]; “29” [= 30], [1], [1 blank] pp. plus tipped in illustrations.An autograph letter, signed, written in French by the Dutch antiquarian, medical doctor, naturalist, poet and fiery Orangist pamphleteer Johan le Francq van Berkhey (1729-1812) to the great French naturalist, man …

Gower and Anglo-Latin Verse

David R. Carlson · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.24 | ¥16,723)

, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 358 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9780888442260. Summary This study offers a novel paradigm for explaining the late-medieval Anglo-Latin verse, by analyzing the development of the writings of the English poet John Gower (ca. 1330-1…