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In Haste from Tibet

DAKPA Rinchen & B A Rooke · 1972 · Fortuna Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Travel Book Club (500 grams) lightly sunned spine, unclipped DW, first thus edition after Robert Hale, VG but has small puncture to rear board affects the DW in two places, does not penetrate the book, 174pp with line illustrations, life story of a Tibetan refugee H First Editio…

De la Prostitution Dans la Ville de Paris; Expose Des Causes Les Plus Frequentes de la Propagation de la Maladie Venerienne

A. J. B. Parent-Duchatelet · 1836 · Rooke Books

£475.00 (€569.45 | $627.65 | ¥100,239)

Bruxelles, Etablissement Encyclographique, 1836-1837 . First edition. Leather. The first volume of Parent-Duchatelet's study of prostitution in 1830s Paris, bound with a very scarce first edition study on the spread of venereal diseases in Belgium. Two works, both in the or…

Sailing, A Celebration of the Sport and the World's Best Places to Enjoy It

Michael B McPhee, Lisa Gosselin · 1992 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£5.00 (€5.99 | $6.61 | ¥1,055)

Fodor's Sports, Richard Ballentine, Byron Press, 1992. First Edition, Softcover, Illustrated by: Peg Magovern. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. 9780679023746 Light curl on lower corner, sound binding, clean pages and end-papers. No dust-jacket . Illustrator: Peg Magovern. Qua…

The Knoblauch Aboriginal Art Collection - Volume 1 (Fully English edition)

Knoblauch, A. & B. (text) e.a. · 2017 · Antiquariaat Berger & De Vries

€450.00 ($495.99 | £375.37 | ¥79,213)

Beat Knoblauch and Associates Hardcover, with dust jacket. 30,5x30,5 cm. Content with equal weight to woven and carved sculpture, printmaking and painting. Profusely illustrated, in color, often full-page. 220 p.. -(Some minor shelf-wear to the dj, a smidge of glue to the fornt …

Reportage [ Funny, But Not Vulgar - Down And Out In Paris And London - Homage To Catalonia - My Country Right Or Left - The Road To Wigan Pier ]

Orwell, George · 1998 · Eastleach Books

£300.00 (€359.65 | $396.41 | ¥63,309)

The Folio Society 1998 1st thus. Cloth, F. 5 volumes, [xii]+275pp, xxviii+216pp, [x]+245pp, [xii]+318pp, [x]+211pp, b/w frontis & 16pp b/w plates to each volume, a fine set in the original slipcase as issued. Orwell's non fiction collected together & given the Folio treatment.

Trial of Mrs Maybrick

H. B. Irving · 1912 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.84 | $178.38 | ¥28,489)

Edinburgh, William Hodge & Company, 1912 . First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition of this account of the trial of a famous London murderer, a case that has since been linked to the unsolved identity of Jack the Ripper. The first edition of this account of the trial of Mr…

Veduta Della Caduta Del Fiume Aniene Detta Volgarmente la Gran Cascata in Tivoli - Vue de la Cascade Du Fleuve Aniene Dit Vulgairement la Grand Cascade a Tivoli. (B&W Engraving)

Pietro Parboni (Artist) · 1826 · Wittenborn Art Books

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

[Rome?]: [19th Century Italian Publisher], [1826]. Original B&W gravure. 16 x 11 inches. Very Good. Some foxing in margins, and staining along top and bottom edges, not affecting image. Deckled edges. Light matting. .

A LIFE AND A HALF The Unexpected Making of a Politician

BRYANT Chris · 2025 · Rothwell & Dunworth Ltd

£14.00 (€16.78 | $18.50 | ¥2,954)

Bloomsbury, 2025. 9781526680914 1st edn 1st printing. 8vo. Original red cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (Fine, not price clipped). Pp. 324, with coloured and b&w illus (no inscriptions).

Cartagena and the Banks of the Sinu

R. B. Cunninghame Graham · 1922 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.56 | $50.21 | ¥8,019)

London, William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. Cloth. The second impression of this charming work chronicling the author's travels through Cartagena. A fascinating narrative of the author's travels through Cartagena, one of the major ports on the northern coast of Col…

Salute the Red Duster . With a Foreword by Admiral Lord Mountevans. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

CAMPBELL Commander A[lexander] B. · 0 · Island Books

£56.00 (€67.13 | $74.00 | ¥11,818)

Christopher Johnson, [1952]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 14 plates; blue cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped dustwrapper, the latter chipped (not affecting lettering) at head of backstrip. Wide-ranging tribute to the Merchant Navy at war…

Natural Analogues in Radioactive Waste Disposal

Come, B & Chapman, N A · 1987 · Eastleach Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

Graham & Trotman - Kluwer Academic Publishers 1987 1st edition. Laminated boards, F. xiv+492pp, b/w tables, not typeset, a fine copy, text unmarked. Radioactive Waste Management Series. A collection of essays & papers on the study of radioactive waste disposal in underground sto…

Osservazioni sulla struttura ultramicroscopica di gonadi di maschi SD di Drosophila melanogaster.

BERTOLINI B. - NICOLETTI B. - · 1968 · Libreria Piani

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Roma, 1968, estratto in-8vo con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 1 - ! ATTENZIONE !: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo di rivista, sia che esso sia stato stampato a parte utilizzando la stessa composizione sia che prov…

Iphis se pend de desespoir de n'avoir pu se faire aime d'Anaxarete (Iphis hangs himself in despair that he could not gain Anaxarete)

Picart, Bernard (1673-1733) · 1733 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€207.00 ($228.16 | £172.67 | ¥36,438)

From the 'Tafereel of beschryving van den prachtigen tempel der zang-godinnen...', also known as 'Le Temple des Muses' published in Amsterdam in 1733, containing histories drawn from Greek mythology, written by A.de la Barre de Beaumarchais with plates by Bernard Picart. The pla…

Nota dendrocronologica sulle travi del Palazzo Minoico di Festos ( Creta, 2000 a. C. ) .

COCCOLINI Gemma B. L. - CORONA Elio - · 1981 · Libreria Piani

€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)

Verona, 1981, 8vo stralcio con copertina posticcia muta, pp. 427/434 con un grafico ed una tavola fotografica. - ! ATTENZIONE !: Con il termine estratto (o stralcio) intendiamo riferirci ad un fascicolo contenente un articolo, completo in se, sia che esso sia stato stampato a p…

The Land of the Midnight Sun: Summer and Winter Journeys Through Sweden, Norway, Lapland, and Northern Finland with Descriptions of the Inner Life of the People, Their Manners and Customs, the Primitive Antiquities, Etc.

Paul B. Du Chaillu · 1899 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, George Newnes, Limited, 1899. Cloth. A smart new edition of this exciting work of travel writing from Paul Du Chaillu. New edition. Illustrated throughout with a folding map, one folding plate, and over two hundred and fifty in-text illustrations, some of which are full-…

Women's Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Translation

LEFKOWITZ, MARY R. & FANT, MAURINE B. · 1992 · Kalamos Books

$17.50 (€15.88 | £13.24 | ¥2,795)

Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press. 1992, 1st Iranian / Farsi edition. (ISBN: 0801844754) Soft cover. Book, " .. this highly acclaimed sourcebook examines the public and private lives and legal status of Greek and Roman women. The texts represent women of all social class…

A History of Everyday Things in England, Part IV, XVIth Century

Marjorie and C H B Quennell · 1920 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£6.00 (€7.19 | $7.93 | ¥1,266)

B T Batsford Ltd, London, 1920. Second Impression, Softcover, Illustrated by: Marjorie and C H B Quennell. Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Paper front cover is missing. Title is that given on the illustrated title-page although the Preface refers to this being Volume II, the Cont…

C.B. C. &Apos;S Review of Revues and Other Matters

Charles B. Cochran [editor] · 1930 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1930. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this illustrated collection discussions on theatre, edited by the influential Charles B. Cochran, with a diary to the rear. First edition. Illustrated with a colour tipped in frontispiece, one monochrome tip…

Key to Knowledge; or, Things in Common Use Simply and Shortly Explained

A Mother; [Maria Elizabeth Budden] · 1830 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, John Harris, 1830. Leather. A scarce educational work for children, a charming volume told through twelve conversations between a mother and her daughters. The eighth edition of this scarce work.An educational work for children, told through a series of twelve conversati…

The Glamour of Egypt

B. M. W. Jesson · 1935 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Heath Cranton Limited, 1935. First edition. Cloth. Scarce first edition of this wonderfully illustrated travel volume on Egypt from Beatrice M. W. Jesson, signed with an inscription to the title page. First edition. Scarce.In publisher's original blue cloth binding.…