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Natural Selection and Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of Alfred Russel Wallace

Smith, C.H.; Beccaloni, G. (Eds) · 2010 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Oxford University Press Oxford 482, col + b/w photos, line drawings. . HB. Fine copy in d/w. As new.. Collection of essays which consider in depth aspects of the life and work of the co-discoverer of natural selection. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was one of the late ninete…

MY TRIP ABROAD

CHAPLIN, Charles (CHAPLIN, Charlie) · 0 · Charles Agvent

$5,625.00 (€5,103.40 | £4,256.97 | ¥898,347)

New York & London. Harper & Brothers. First Edition. A very early, if not first, printing with no date on the title page and the code "B-W" on the copyright page indicating publication in February 1922. Chaplin's account of what Europe did to the world's most popular movie actor…

The Quest and Occupation of Tahiti by Emissaries of Spain during the Years 1772-1776. Told in Despatches and Other Contemporary Documents. (Complete 3 Volume set)

CORNEY, BOLTON GLANVILL. · 1914 · Tinakori Books

$170.00 (€154.24 | £128.66 | ¥27,150)

London, Hakluyt. 1914, First Edition. Blue Cloth, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book, 3 volumes published 1914, 1916, 1920. lxxxviii, 363; xlvii, 521; xlix, 271 pages, all plates and maps present. Also included is an offprint: The Rule of Don Manuel de Amat. Viceroy of Peru by B. G…

The Pageant of Greece.

LIVINGSTONE, R.W., (ed.), · 1924 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€10.00 ($11.02 | £8.34 | ¥1,760)

Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1924. XI,436p. ills.(B&W photographs and line drawings). Original red gilt stamped cloth. Cloth mottled to front fore edge and a tiny bit to front joints. Head spine a bit damaged. Front joints with two wholes. Ex libris glued to paste-down endpaer. 'I …

Pictures

Mapplethorpe, Robert · 1999 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$125.00 (€113.41 | £94.60 | ¥19,963)

[Not Identified] / New York, NY, Arena Editions / Distributed by D.A.P. 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Black photo-illustrated DJ with red and white lettering; white cloth boards with stamped and black lettering; 200 pp. unpaginated; richly illustrated with b&w photos. "One of …

Two Original Postcards from World War I Germany Featuring Balloons

(EPHEMERA) [WORLD WAR I] [WORLD WAR I BALLOONS] [BALLOON PATROLS][BALLONHALLE VON INNEN] · 1800 · S. Howlett-West Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)

Germany: No Publisher Listed, 0. Other. B&W Illustrations; Two World War I postcards (5.5" x 3.5") in Very Good- condition. Both postcards are not filled in (with the exception of four words inked on one of the postcards). The cards are labeled: Fesselballon vor dem Aufstieg, an…

Letter signed. To Andreas Kronberger, tax collector at Freiburg(?).

AUGUSTUS, Elector of Saxony, 1526-1586. · 1553 · Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

CHF 1,350.00 (€1,460.42 | $1,609.69 | £1,218.21 | ¥257,077)

22 March, (15)70 1 leaf (text 1/2 p.). With address on verso. Folio. Dresden, 22 March, (15)70. Augustus announces that his council will arrive at the abbey of St. George near Naumburg (Saale) on the second Sunday after Easter ("Misericordias domini") and that they will stay for…

BOSTON And SUBURBS. City Hospital

[Boston Local History / Stereoview]. Baker, Leander [ca 1842 - 1925] - Photographer · 1874 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$137.50 (€124.75 | £104.06 | ¥21,960)

[Boston?]: Leander Baker. Ca 1874 - 75. Now housed in a clear mylar sleeve. Yellow mount, flat, rounded corners. Imprint to each side. Verso blank. Separate, square b/w albumen images. 4" x 6-3/4". Modest wear & soiling to card, VG - VG+. Verso with pencil annotation: "City Hosp…

The Movies

Mayer Arthur & Griffith Richard · 1957 · Phoenix Books (Joanne's Used Books)

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.68 | ¥15,971)

Simon & Schuster, 1957. First Edition. Hardback. The Movies by Arthur Mayer & Richard Griffith Simon & Schuster, Hardback in good condition, Dust jacket is in acceptable condition. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight. Cloth cover is clean, dust jacket has dings, nicks, tea…

Merseyside - Bartholomew's Revised "Half-Inch" Contoured Maps, Great Britain Sheet 28

John Bartholomew & Son Ltd. · 1950 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£6.50 (€7.79 | $8.59 | ¥1,372)

John Bartholomew & Son Ltd. Edinburgh, 1950. Revised Edition, Softcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Map is undated by publisher and the date given is estimated only. Single sheet map is cloth backed and has blue card covers. Sheet is folded as for original sale. Scale 1:126,…

Acta Regia: Or, an Account of the Treaties, Letters and Instruments between the Monarchs of England and Foreign Powers : Publish'd in Mr. Rymer's Foedera, Which Are the Basis of the English History, and Contain Those Authorities Which Rectify the Mistakes That Most of Our Writers Have Committed for Want of Such a Collection of Records. Translated from the French of M. Rapin, As Publish'd by M. Le Clerc. With the Heads of the Kings and Queens, Curiously Engrav'd by Mr. Vandergucht. Publish'd Mont

Rapin, Paul de (1661-1725) ; Rapin de Thoyras,; Jean Le Clerc (1657-1736); Michael van der Gucht (Engraver - 1660 - 1725),; Stephen Whatley (Translator); John Darby; Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, (of Minto) (September 1722 -11 February 1777), provenanc · 1726 · Wittenborn Art Books

$850.00 (€771.18 | £643.28 | ¥135,750)

London: Printed for J. Darby, A. Bettesworth, F. Fayram, J. Pemberton, C. Rivington, J. Hooke, F. Clay, J. Batley, and E. Symon, London, 1726-27. 4 volumes. Illustrated with engraved portraits of the English monarchs. (8vo) 12 x 19.5 cm. mottled calf, edges speckled red.. Bookpl…

Poems on various subjects . . . In two parts [Charles Whibley's copy]

FERGUSSON, Robert (1750-1774) · 178889 · Fine Editions Ltd

$949.00 (€861.00 | £718.20 | ¥151,561)

Perth Printed by R. Morison, Junr. For R. Romison and Son, Booksellers; and Sold by J. Murray, No. 32, Fleet-street, London First Edition thus First Printing of this uncommon edition (published for Morison's Edition of Scottish Poets), with no copies currently on the market and …

Pablo Neruda

[20th Century Photographer.] · 1950 · Wittenborn Art Books

$200.00 (€181.45 | £151.36 | ¥31,941)

Ghent, Belgium: Herckenrath on Veldstraat, ca. 1950. B&W Photograph 24 x 30 cm. Very Good. Image not found on the internet. Provenance: From the archives of the celebrated bookstore and literary salon Herckenrath on Veldstraat in Ghent (Gand) Belgium. Founded by the writer Adolf…

Season It with Bell Buckle

VAUGHN, MAGGI · 1991 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Bell Buckle, TN: Bell Buckle Press, 1991. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Plastic comb binding. ISBN: 0962410039. B&W Illustrations; This is a spiral bound trade paperback book. With cardstock covers. The book is in Very Good+ condition and was issued without a dust jacket. There is …

Modern Architecture : Since 1900

William J. R. Curtis ; · 1996 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€59.95 ($66.08 | £50.01 | ¥10,553)

, Phaidon Press Ltd, 1996 Hardcover, 736 pages, ENG, 250 x 220 x 45 mm, dustjacket (not in good condition) book itself is in very good state, illustrated in colour / b/w , 3rd edition. ISBN 9780714835242. Since its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has b…

MACRINO D'ALBA

Edoardo Villata ; Giovanni Romano ; · 2000 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€45.00 ($49.60 | £37.54 | ¥7,921)

, Savigliano, Editrice Artistica Piemontese,, 2000 Bound, red cloth, 228 pagine; edizione Italiana; 320 x 245 x 22 mm, buono come nuovo ; sovraccoperta illustrata ; illustrazioni a colori/b/n. ISBN 9788873200277. Macrino (a nickname that seems to describe his slim physique), bo…

Birds of Arabia

Meinertzhagen, Col. R. · 1954 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

Oliver and Boyd Edinburgh xiii, 624, 19 col + 9 b/w photogaphic plates, 53 text figs, 35 maps, large folding map in rear pocket. . HB. 4to, orig. buckram, gilt title to spine, top edge tinted. Vg in d/w (light soiling; minor edge wear; not price-clipped; in removable protective …

[Aeschylus] Prometheus Bound

LOWELL, Robert, 1917-1977 [Translates] · 1970 · Fine Editions Ltd

$49.00 (€44.46 | £37.08 | ¥7,826)

London Faber and Faber Limited First Edition First Impression of Lowell's "free, rather politicized translation of Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound." (Literary Encyclopedia) Slim crown 8vo (200 x 117mm): vi,[2],67,[1]pp. Publisher's rose cloth, spine lettered in gilt; white typograp…

Horatio's Boys the Life and Works of Horatio Alger, Jr.

HOYT, EDWIN P. · 1974 · S. Howlett-West Books

$15.00 (€13.61 | £11.35 | ¥2,396)

Radnor, PA: Chilton Book Company, 1974. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0801959667. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book is generally clean and bright. There is a bit of spotting to the front spine joint o…

Jacques Lipchitz

Hammacher, Abraham Marie · 1975 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$28.00 (€25.40 | £21.19 | ¥4,472)

New York, Harry N. Abrams Inc, 1975. Hardcover. Quarto. Hardcover. Green cloth with stamped titles in b&w illustrated jacket. 223 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm. Jacques Lipchitz was one of the giants of twentieth-century sculpture. He drew his themes from the mythologies of many…