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Precis historique et litteraire sur Eustache Deschamps, poete du XIVe siecle; par G.-A. Crapelet

Crapelet, Georges-Adrien (Eustache Deschamps) · 1832 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$175.00 (€158.77 | £132.44 | ¥27,949)

Paris: Crapelet, 1832, Crapelet wrote this work as an introduction to the landmark first edition of the works of Eustache Deschamps, a 14th-century poet who, unlike his contemporaries, was vitally interested in daily life. This is a separate edition, with the same type, of whi…

Catalogue d'une collection unique des editions originales de Ronsard. With supplement.

Ronsard. - DE RICCI SEYMOUR: · 1925 · Harteveld Rare Books Ltd.

CHF 100.00 (€108.18 | $119.24 | £90.24 | ¥19,043)

Paris and London: Maggs Brothers, 1925, in-4to, 2 + 15 + [1] (supplement), + 156 +4, illustrated throughout (mostly full-page facsimile title-pages); original ill. wrappers / Cartonnage orig. avec une vignette gravŽe. First edition (later revised and published in English in 1…

Fables Ancient and Modern; Translated Into Verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace & Chaucer

Mr. Dryden [John Dryden] · 1700 · Rooke Books

£1,195.00 (€1,432.60 | $1,579.03 | ¥252,180)

London, Jacob Tonson, 1700 . First edition. Leather. An impressive first edition of John Dryden's major final work, translating classical and medieval sources into influential Augustan verse, in a full calf binding. A first edition. Retaining half title. John Dryden's …

A Moving Target

William Golding · 1982 · Rooke Books

£60.00 (€71.93 | $79.28 | ¥12,662)

New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1982. First edition. Cloth. A bright first US edition of this collection of the essays and lectures of William Golding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first US edition of this work in the publisher's original quarter cloth…

Aventures de Telemaque Suivies Du Recueil Des Fables

Fenelon · 1841 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Paris, Firmin Didot Freres, 1841. Leather. A scarce edition of Aventures de Telemaque with a collection of fables, in the original French language. French language. Scarce edition. The Adventures of Telemachus, a didactic novel recounting the travels of Telemachus, son of Ulysse…

Anil&Apos;S Ghost

Michael Ondaatje · 2000 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Bloomsbury, 2000. First edition. Cloth. A fine signed first edition, first impression, of Michael Ondaatje's critically acclaimed novel following the life of Anil Tissera. The first edition, first impression of this work. Signed by the author to the title page. In t…

Lalla Rookh, an Oriental Romance

Thomas Moore · 1818 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

London, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1818. Leather. A smart eighth edition of Thomas Moore's narrative poems, Lalla Rookh. Eighth edition. Illustrated with a vignette title page and five plates. Formed of four narrative poems with a connecting tale in prose concer…

Viking&Apos;S Sunset

Henry Treece · 1960 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London , The Bodley Head , 1960. First edition. Cloth. A lovely first edition copy of this epic saga Viking's Sunset, illustrated throughout. A first edition copy of this work. This is a copy of the third and final book in Henry Treece's Viking trilogy that follows Ha…

Sidelights on Charles Lamb

Bertram Dobell · 1903 · Rooke Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)

London , Published by the Author , 1903. First edition. Cloth. A first edition copy of this work, Sidelights on Charles Lamb with a frontispiece. A first edition copy of this work. Charles Lamb was an English essayist and poet best known for his Essays of Elia and for the child…

Rockspring: A Novel

R. G. Vliet · 1974 · Rooke Books

£42.00 (€50.35 | $55.50 | ¥8,863)

New York, The Viking Press, 1974. First edition. 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 …

Q. Horatii Flacci Opera

Quintus Horatius Flaccus; H. A. J. Munro · 1869 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Bell and Daldy, 1869. First edition. Leather. A scarce beautifully illustrated collection of poetry from Quintus Horatius Flaccus, in the original Latin language. Latin language. First thus. Illustrated throughout with in-text images. A collection of the poetry of Quintu…

Correspondence between Art Cuelho and Norman Moser

Cuelho, Art · 1977 · Wittenborn Art Books

$200.00 (€181.45 | £151.36 | ¥31,941)

Big Timber, MT: 1977 to 1980. Correspondence between artist, publisher, and writer Art Cuelho and poet, editor and graphic designer Norman Moser. Both were part of the flourishing "little magazine" scene in the early 1960s. By the 1970s, Cuelho had left California and settled in…

Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray. Original Printing

Gray, Thomas (1716-1771); Richard Bentley, (1708-1782) artist · 1789 · Wittenborn Art Books

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

London: R. Dodsley, 1789. Folio. 25 x 33.5 cm. [10], 2 leaves, 27 leaves, one leaf, 10 leaves, pp. 39-55. New half morocco binding by the artisan binder Sasha Mosalov.. The six poems are printed and foliated on the recto only. 'Odes by Mr. Gray' and the 'Explanation of the print…

Überlegungen zur Entstehung von Vergils Aeneis.

GÜNTHER, H.-C., · 1996 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€15.00 ($16.53 | £12.51 | ¥2,640)

Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen, 1996. 95p. Sewn. Series: Hypomnemata, Untersuchungen zur Antike und zu ihrem Nachleben, 113. ‘Günther’s short monograph, a parergon he tells us arising out of his study of the text of Propertius, is an attempt to sift out some of the solid res…

De liberorum educatione aurei libri sex noviter recogniti Francisci Philelphi. poete. Oratoris. philosophique prestantissimi. Succincto cum iudice [recté indice]: et brevibus marginariis annotationibus obscurarum sensa dictionum aperientibus. Nicolai Bonespei trecensis campani cura superadditis.(Colophon: Paris, “apud Gourmontios” [= the brothers Robert, Gilles and Jean de Gourmont], 1508). Small 4to (19 x 13 cm). With numerous printed so-called Lombardic initials, but also with 2 spaces (with guide letters) left for manuscript initials (not filled in). Set in a roman type with the beginning of the title and one heading in a large rotunda gothic type with decorated capitals. Blind-tooled calf (19th century? in a "Medieval" style).

VEGIO, Maffeo. · 1406 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€9,500.00 ($10,470.97 | £7,924.38 | ¥1,672,278)

CXXVIII, [6] ll.Rare fourth edition, in the original Latin (the first dated edition published in France), of an important and influential pedagogical work by Maffeo Vegio (1406/07-1458), who is regarded by many as the finest Latin poet of the fifteenth-century, here edited by Ni…

Windmills

Hayter Preston · 1923 · Rooke Books

£47.00 (€56.35 | $62.10 | ¥9,918)

London, John Lane The Bodley Head , 1923. First edition. Cloth. A beautifully illustrated study of windmills, with watercolours by Welsh artist Frank Brangwyn. First edition. In the original cloth binding. A charming history and homage to windmills across the British Isles, in…

Poems

Thomas Gray · 1778 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.92 | $92.50 | ¥14,772)

London, J. Murray, 1778. Leather. A new edition of this collection of poetry from English writer and classical scholar Thomas Gray. New edition. With a frontispiece, title page vignette, and two plates. Collated complete. A collection of poetry including titles such as: Ode on t…

Larkinland

Jonathan Tulloch · 2017 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Seren 2017 Paperback, 224pp. ""Arriving in 1950s Hull, Arthur Merryweather finds himself lodging with the landlady from hell, and falling in love with fellow librarian Niamh O'Leary. But just as their love threatens to bloom, the mystery of Mr Bleaney, the enigmatic insurance sa…

Collected Poems.

MARIANNE MOORE. [Andrew Crozier]. · 1951 · Clearwater Books

£50.00 (€59.94 | $66.07 | ¥10,551)

Faber, London, 1st Edition, First Edition, second issue, with a cancel title page and the Macmillan imprint to the base of the backstrip (copies of this issue were printed and bound by Faber for the US Macmillan issue; unsold copies were returned to Faber and a cancel title page…

Oeuvres de Gilbert Avec Notes Et Variantes Et Une Nouvelle Notice

Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert; Mr Amar · 1824 · Rooke Books

£29.99 (€35.95 | $39.63 | ¥6,329)

Paris, Imprimerie de Jules Didot Aine, 1824. Leather. A collection of poetry by the French poet Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert. An nice pocket-sized collection of French poetry from Nicolas Joseph Laurent Gilbert. Featuring a frontispiece of the author. Complete in two volumes b…