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Ptolemy's Cosmology in Greek and Arabic. The Background and Legacy of the Planetary Hypotheses

Ptolemy, Paul Hullmeine (ed) · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€110.00 ($121.24 | £91.76 | ¥19,363)

, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 479 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:10 b/w, 4 tables b/w., Language(s):English, Arabic.* NEW ISBN 9782503607177. Summary Ptolemy's Almagest (2nd century AD) is the most influential work of ancient and medieval astronomy. This work, however, do…

Antiques from the Garden

Morris, Alistair · 1999 · Bookbarrow

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Garden Art Press/Antique Collectors Club Ltd. Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1999. Second Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Fine Condition/Fine. 9781870673334 Pictorial end-papers; Title pages; list of manufacturers, designers & suppliers; & introduction to front. The author of this te…

[Sermones de tempore et de sanctis]. (Colophon: Zwolle, [Johannes de Vollenhoe], 1479). Small (Chancery) folio (27.5 x 20.5 cm). With one 5-line and hundreds of 2- and 3-line spaces left for initials, filled in with manuscript "Lombardic" capitals in red; manuscript paragraph marks in red; and capitals rubricated throughout. Set entirely in a single textura gothic type (103 mm/20 lines) in 2 columns of 39 lines to the page. Early 18th-century tanned sheepskin.

[SERVASANCTUS DE FAENZA and others] (spuriously attributed to Saint BONAVENTURA). · 1478 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€35,000.00 ($38,577.24 | £29,195.08 | ¥6,161,024)

[1 blank], [340] ll.First edition of a collection of Latin sermons for the entire year, spuriously attributed to the Italian Franciscan Saint Bonaventura (1221-1274), still popular today and still published under his name. The great majority were actually written by his fellow F…

Sixty Years of Church Life in Ayr: The History of the Ayr Free Church from 1836 to 1896

William Baird · 1896 · Rooke Books

£49.99 (€59.93 | $66.05 | ¥10,549)

Edinburgh & London, Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier, 1896. Cloth. An illustrated history of the Ayr free church. From the Preface: "the history of the Free Church congregation of Ayr has been a somewhat chequered and eventful one, with a not inconsiderable interest for even the outs…

L&Apos;Hymne de France Compose Par Pierre de Ronsard

Pierre de Ronsard · 1549 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

Paris, Louis Rouart, C1900. Leather. An early twentieth century edition of Pierre de Ronsard's L'hymne de France. In the original French. A facsimile reprint of the 1549 first edition printed by Michel Vascosan. With the original paper wraps bound in. Pierre de Ronsard…

25 Years of Spring Action: 1922 -- 1947

BARNES--GIBSON--RAYMOND · 1940 · Pegasus Books

$21.50 (€19.51 | £16.27 | ¥3,434)

Detroit, MI: Associated Spring Corporation, N.D.. Soft Cover. Soft cover is stapled wraps of dark blue ground with silver and gold on front. Pages are clean and tight; slightly smaller than the cover. The pages are not numbered; there are 23 pages. Illustrated with over 2 dozen …

In Brightest Africa

Akeley, Carl E. · 1924 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

William Heinemann London xvii, [3], 267, b/w frontis, 62 b/w plates, text figs + maps. . HB. 8vo, orig. brown cloth, gilt. Light rubbing to extremities. Withdrawn from an institutional library with discreet ink stamps at beginning and end; small circular labels to spine. Also wi…

The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Darlington in the Bishoprick

W Hylton Dyer Longstaffe · 1854 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

The Proprietors of the Darlington and Stockton Times; J Henry Parker; J B Nichols and Son; G B Richardson, Darlington, London, Newcastle, 1854. First Edition, Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Full leather binding with raised bands, gilt decoration, bright gilt bloc…

It\'s Still in the Family

BERENSTAIN, STANLEY & JANICE · 1963 · S. Howlett-West Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

New York, NY: Dell, 1963. 1st Paperback Edition; 1st Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB. Illustrated by Stanley & Janice Berenstain. B&W Illustrations; This is a mass market paperback book. The book is in Very Good condition and was issued without a dust jacket. The book covers…

Press Release for the Umbaugh Model 18 (Gyroplane)

BOSH STACK ASSOCIATES PUBLIC RELATIONS · 1958 · S. Howlett-West Books

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

New York: Bosh Stack Associates, 1958. Other. B&W Illustrations; This is a press release with an 8" x 10" black and white photograph and typed sheet explaining all the new features making this gyroplane unique and noteworthy. The photograph is in Very Good+ condition. The accomp…

Full Dark, No Stars: Slipcased Limited Gift Edition #/1750

King, Stephen · 2010 · Pat Cramer, Bookseller

$794.50 (€720.83 | £601.27 | ¥126,887)

Book Tomislav Tikulin, Glenn Chadbourne, Jill Bauman, Alan M. Clark, Vincent Chong New New First Edition/First Printing Cemetery Dance Publications Full Dark, No Stars: Slipcased Gift Edition. A square solid tight clean unread unused copy. Full-color front and back cover artwo…

The Government of the Tongue Richard and the Art of Contentment

[Richard Allestree] · 1675 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

Oxford, At the Theatre in Oxford, 1675. Leather. Two early impressions of Richard Allestree's instructional religious works, one on using the spoken word to promote Christian teachings, and the other on how we to find contentment through god's teachings, bound in full …

The Puppet Masters. Spies, traitors and the real forces behind world events.

Hughes-Wilson, John · 2004 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€12.00 ($13.23 | £10.01 | ¥2,112)

Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004 Bound, cloth with original dustjacket, 479pp., 16.5x24.5cm., illustr. in col. and b/w.,. ISBN 9780297846154. John Hughes-Wilson is a recently retired Colonel in British military intelligence. He reveals how espionage networks are the hidden force …

[Gambling] Rouge et Noir. The Academicians of 1823, or the Greeks of the Palais Royal and the Clubs of St. James's

[DUNNE, Charles, writing as:] PERSIUS, Charles` · 1823 · Fine Editions Ltd

$424.00 (€384.68 | £320.88 | ¥67,715)

London Lawlor and Quick, 9, Old Broad Street, and Stephen Couchman, 10, Throgmorton Street First Edition Expurgated edition of this controversial contemporary indictment of gambling clubs in Regency London, which named some of the more profligate nobility. Not including pages 31…

Dissertatio medica inauguralis de nympha. ... Eruditorum Examini submittit Theodorus Tronchin, Genevensis...

BOERHAAVE, H. (PRAES.).- TRONCHIN, TH. (DEF.). · 1730 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€1,350.00 ($1,487.98 | £1,126.10 | ¥237,639)

Lugd. Bat., J.A. Langerak, 1730. 4to. 18th c. speckled marbled brds., w. original red title shield (some discol.). (20 pp.). (Free endpapers and 2 prelims. with brown watery stain as a result of removal of library stamp; 3 libr. shelf marks in ink on titlepage.). Bound up with …

Geldof in Africa

Geldof, Bob · 2005 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£36.00 (€43.16 | $47.57 | ¥7,597)

Century. First UK edition-first printing. Book. Mint condition.Century,2005.Published by arrangement with BBC.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Large format black hardback(gilt lettering to the spine,small scratch and nick on the edge of the cover) in mint co…

Het gelukkig ongeval. Bly-eindend treurspel.Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje en Dirk Rank, 1721. With:(2) [WETSTEIN, George]. Erik, Prins van Zweden. Treurspel. Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje and Dirk Rank, 1722.(3) [WETSTEIN, George]. Gustavus Adolphus. Koning van Zweden, beschermer der Duitsche vryheit. Oorlogspel.Amsterdam, Heirs of J. Lescailje and Dirk Rank, 1723. 3 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Each work with an engraved frontispiece, the original preliminary ink drawing for the frontispiece, protected by tissue paper guards, and an engraved device on the title page. Contemporary gold-tooled olive morocco, with a red morocco title label lettered in gold on the spine lettered, bound by the so-called Fleur-de-Lis Bindery (The Hague 1729-ca. 1756; Storm van Leeuwen, IIA, pp. 110-117). With the coat of arms of Aaron de Joseph de Pinto in the centre of both boards, tooled onto a red morocco inlay of the same shape, surrounded by richly ornamental borders with the crowned monogram of De Pinto (ADJP) in the corners, the same monogram repeated in 5 of the 6 compartments on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers.

[WETSTEIN, George]. · 1695 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€16,500.00 ($18,186.42 | £13,763.39 | ¥2,904,483)

88; 83; 87 pp.Beautiful copy of the first and only editions of three plays written for the Amsterdam Theatre, bound with the original preliminary drawings for the frontispieces. The first is by Abraham Zeeman (1695-1754), the second by Jan Wandelaar (1690-1759), and the third is…

[Indonesia]. Reclame-Album 1903-1904 uitgegeven door de Naamlooze Vennootschap Algemeen Reclame Bureau "Excelsior" Bandoeng - Java - Nederlandsch-Indie. [Extremely rare limited hotel or ocean liner lobby book full of adverts and information for the Dutch East Indies traveller or expat].

1902 · Fahrenheit 451

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

Bandoeng, Reclame-Bureau "Excelsior", no date (1902/ 1903), 546 pag., b/w illustrations and adverts (partly printed in colours), articles in Dutch, English, French, German, Indonesian (bahasa Indonesia), original brown cloth lettered in gilt and with adverts for Koninklijke Pake…

Andy Warhol. Catalogue Raisonné. Paintings and Sculptures 1964-1969. Volume 2

WARHOL - Frei, George & Thomas Printz: · 2004 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

July 2004, (29 x 25 cm), 850 pp. English text, 1460 colour ills., 130 b/w. ills., 2 volumes, hardcover in carton slipcase. Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is arguably the most iconic figure of twentieth-century art, a highly enigmatic personality who not only altered the definition of a…

The Bishop of Oxford and the Parish of Piddington; or, the People&Apos;S Legal and Scriptural Right to Choose Their Own Ministers.

W. Ferguson · 1853 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

London, B. L. Green, 1853. Cloth. A very scarce work on the legal rights of the parishioners of Piddington to elect their own vicar. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Bookplate to the front paste down. In this work, Ferguson entreats the Lord of Piddington, Oxfords…