The Poet — 14124 libri antichi

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Haller, Albrecht von · 1750 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€470.00 ($518.04 | £392.05 | ¥82,734)

No place, no publisher, Ca. 1750. Printed engraving on a single sheet. 14.7 cm. Framed. Frame size 45.8 x 33.0 cm. = Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) was a famous Swiss anatomist and botanist who studied with Boerhave in Leiden (1725-1727). He was amongst the first botanists who …

Rime, Gentlemen, Please

Robert Farren · 1945 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London, Sheed and Ward, 1945. First edition. Cloth. An uncommon first edition, excellent in its original, unclipped dustwrapper, of this collection of poems by Robert Farren. The first edition of this work. An uncommon title comprising a selection of poems written by Robert Farr…

Déluge

Charles PLISNIER · 1933 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

Les Cahiers du Journal des Poètes | Bruxelles 1933 | 14 x 19.50 cm | broché | Edition originale, un des 500 exemplaires numérotés sur Featherweight, seuls grands papiers après 26 pur fil. Quelques légères déchirures marginales sur les plats plats, une déchirure recollée en tête …

Hyde

Koos Breukel · 1996 · Amstelbooks.com - Photography Books

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.68 | ¥3,521)

Amsterdam: Willem van Zoetendaa. First edition, first printing. 36 pp., 18x15. Condition: New. Mint Without dust jacket (as issued). Hyde is a photographic work by Koos Breukel featuring a series of portraits of Michael Matthews, an HIV-positive poet and performer. The project o…

Fleur Adcock: Selected Poems

Fleur Adcock · 1991 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Oxford University Press 1991 Paperback, 125pp. Fleur Adcock's poetry has been widely admired for its combination of verbal precision and technical control with a wide range of subject matter and tone. This volume includes a selection of early work from her first two collections.…

Tocaia Grande, a Face Obscura : Romance

Amado, Jorge · 1985 · Brookline Village Books

$275.00 (€249.50 | £208.12 | ¥43,919)

Rio de Janeiro, RJ , Editora Record, 1985?. 4a ed. Paperback, bound entire library buckram boards. 505 p. [7] leaves of plates : illus. ; 21 cm. Very good condition, Inscribed by Jorge Amado is one of Brazil’s most celebrated and widely translated novelists. whose work vividly p…

Fables

John Gay · 1813 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

Chiswick, C. Whittingham, 1813. Leather. A smart pocket-sized copy of this collection of fables from English writer, John Gay. Illustrated with eighty in-text images. Collated complete. A collection of fables, including: the lady and the wasp, the lion and the cub, the two owls …

Autograph 1930 | Original autograph, poem of Joseph von Lauff (Josef Lauff), born in Köln 1855, card with signature dated Wiesbaden Dezember 1930, 1 p.

Lauff, Josef (1855-1933) · 1855 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€43.60 ($48.06 | £36.37 | ¥7,675)

Card with blindstamp in relief of coat of arms of Josef Lauff, german poet and theatre playwriter (1855-1933). With poem.Lauff is best known as a dramatist. Beginning with the tragedy <i>Inez de Castro</i> (1894), he proceeded to dramatize the great monarchs of his country, and,…

Clarissimus Vir, Casperius Gevartius Iurisconsultus Archigrammateus Antverpianus Consiliarius Et Historiographus Caesareus. [(Portrati of Gaspar Gevartius (1593-1666)]Original Etcihing

Pontius, Paulus (1603-1658). after : Sir Anthony Van Dyck · 1593 · Wittenborn Art Books

$200.00 (€181.45 | £151.36 | ¥31,941)

17th Century. Etching and engraving on old laid paper. Later impression.. 24 x 16.5cm. platemark. 41 x 25cm. sheet size.. This Latin title translates to "The most illustrious man, Casperius Gevartius, jurist, chief town clerk of Antwerp, imperial counselor, and imperial historio…

Acta Apostolica, carmine heroico descripta.Antwerp, Joannes Grapheus, 1535 (title 1534). 8vo. Old boards.

ARATOR. · 1502 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,250.00 ($1,377.76 | £1,042.68 | ¥220,037)

(48) ll.Antwerp edition of Arator's Acts of the Apostles in Latin verses. The Italian poet Arator (490-c. 560), subdeacon in Rome, composed these verses in 544 and presented them to Pope Vigile. They were published by Aldus at Venice in 1502, and later in the Bibliothèque des Pè…

AMONG MY BOOKS

LOWELL, James Russell · 1876 · Charles Agvent

$312.50 (€283.52 | £236.50 | ¥49,908)

Boston. James R. Osgood & Co.. Early Edition. Publisher's gilt-lettered brick cloth. First published in 1870, this copy has pasted to the first blank an early oval-shaped photograph of the poet on a 2-1/4" x 3-3/4" paper mount that is SIGNED "J. R. Lowell/13th June 1861." Lowell…

SEVERAL SHORT POEMS

FROST, Robert · 0 · Charles Agvent

$2,500.00 (€2,268.18 | £1,891.99 | ¥399,265)

[New York]. Henry Holt and Co.. First Edition. Single sheet folded once to make a four page pamphlet printing six poems, including "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening." Illustrated with two woodcuts by J.J. Lankes. Crane A8. Limited to 2000 copies printed for distribution at F…

Chrysanthemums and Their Culture

Edwin Molyneux · 1896 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

London, Published by the Author, 1896. Cloth. The ninth edition of this charmingly illustrated work on Chrysanthemums and gardening. Ninth edition. Illustrated with frontispiece and twenty-one figures in-text. A practical treatise on the propagation, growing, and exhibiting of c…

Instructions to Vander Bank

[Richard Blackmore] · 1709 · Rooke Books

£185.00 (€221.78 | $244.45 | ¥39,040)

London, H. Hills, 1709. First edition. Disbound. A very scarce first edition poem celebrating the Duke of Marlborough's military victories. The first edition of this very scarce work. This issue with the misspelling of 'Flanders', as 'Flandres', to the t…

De Rerum Natura. Book III. Edited by E.J. Kenney.

LUCRETIUS, · 1971 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1971. 1st ed. VIII,260p. Paperback. Front cover a tiny bit creased. Paper to tail spine a bit wrinkled. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. 'Kenney has well succeeded in his aim, which is 'to provide the student with the guidance t…

La comédia à "Comoedia", audience du 11 Janvier 1912 : M. Henri Desgrange (directeur de Comoedia) contre M. Julien Torchet (rédacteur à Comoedia). Plaidoiries de Mes Albert Richard et Pierre de Brugière

Henri DESGRANGE - Julien TORCHET · 1912 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.05 | ¥10,562)

S. n. | s. l. • [Paris] s. d. [1912] | 16 x 24 cm | broché | Edition originale. Envoi autographe signé de Julien Torchet au poète symboliste André-Ferdinand Hérold. Une trace d'étiquette sur le premier plat. Agréable et rare brochure. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First editio…

As It Was [and] World Without End. FIRST OMNIBUS EDITION IN DUSTWRAPPER

THOMAS Helen · 0 · Island Books

£128.00 (€153.45 | $169.13 | ¥27,012)

Faber, [1956]. 8vo., First Edition thus, front free endpaper lightly browned; brown cloth, backstrip lettered in white, a very good, bright, clean copy in dustwrapper. The first omnibus edition, collecting 'As It Was' (1926) and 'World Without End' (1931). Helen Thomas tells he…

Gli Animali Parlanti Poema Epico Diviso in Ventisei Canti Tomo Primo E Tomo Secondo

Giambatista Casti [Giovanni Battista Casti] · 1802 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Parigi [Paris], Treuttel e WÃ¼rtz, 1802. First edition. Leather. The first two volumes of Giovanni Battista Casti's famous allegorical epic, the first edition in the original Italian. The first edition of this work in the original Italian, published in Paris in 1802 and sim…

Collected Poems 1897-1907

Henry Newbolt · 1897 · Rooke Books

£30.00 (€35.96 | $39.64 | ¥6,331)

London, Thomas Nelson & Sons, c1907. Leather. A leatherbound copy of this collection of poetry from English writer Sir Henry John Newbolt. A collection of poetry written between 1897 and 1907, with titles including: Drake's Drum, Admirals All, The Bright Medusa, Northumberl…

Rockspring: A Novel

R. G. Vliet · 1974 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

New York, The Viking Press, 1974. Cloth. A smart first edition of this thrilling Western from American writer Russell G. Vliet. First edition. The author's first novel. Set in Texas in the wild 1830s, the daughter of poor white pioneers is kidnapped by three Mexican outlaws…

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