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Catalogue of an Exhibition of Paintings, Pastels, Drawings and Woodcuts illustrating Col. T. E. Lawrence's Book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom." With Prefaces by Bernard Shaw and T. E. Lawrence

LAWRENCE, T. E. (1888-1935); George Bernard Shaw (introduces) · 5211927 · Fine Editions Ltd

$964.00 (€874.61 | £729.55 | ¥153,957)

London Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square First Edition A superb copy of the rare First Printing of this catalog of art works (later printings are noted at top of front wrapper) accompanying Lawrence's account of his legendary part in the Arab reb…

[Children's Literature] The Little Train

[GREENE, Graham, 1904-1991]; Dorothy Craigie (illustrates), 1901-1971 · 1946 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,399.00 (€1,269.27 | £1,058.76 | ¥223,429)

London Eyre & Spottiswoode First Edition First Impression, second issue, with reviews on front flap (the first issue appeared in plain boards with plain buff dust jacket) of Greene's first children's book. Both issues are scarce and sought-after, and this is the more attractive.…

Vergil, Philodemus, and the Augustans.

ARMSTRONG, D., (a.o.), (eds.), · 2004 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

University of Texas Press, Austin, 2004. 1st ed. XII,361p. Original black cloth with dust wrps. Spine gilt titled. Dust wrps to upper edge a bit wrinkled. After the generous but unwieldy Introduction (24 pages), there are six groups of articles: two on the early poems, three on…

Sparks of Reform: The Career of Francis Jeune, 1806-1868

Leach, J.H.C. · 1994 · Bookbarrow

£15.00 (€17.98 | $19.82 | ¥3,165)

privately published, Oxford, 1994. First Edition, Softcover. Near Fine Condition. 9780907383413 loosely inserted signed compliments slip from the author; b/w. frontis. portrait of Jeune; Undergraduates nowadays who go up to Oxford do so from a very wide spectrum of family backgr…

Don Lind Mormon Astronaut

LIND, KATHLEEN MAUGHAN · 1985 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Salt Lake City, UT: Deseret Book Company, 1985. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0875790046. B&W Photographs; This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and b…

Collectors and Readers. Manuscripts in Czech Libraries of the Rudolfine Period

Lenka Veselá, Jindrich Marek · 2026 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€100.70 ($110.99 | £84.00 | ¥17,726)

, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, 244 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:24 b/w, 42 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503617985. Summary "Collectors and Readers: Manuscripts in Czech Libraries of the Rudolfine Period" explores the often-overlooked role of manuscripts during a tim…

Crossing Borders in the Insular Middle Ages

Aisling Byrne, Victoria Flood (eds) · 2019 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.07 | ¥15,843)

, Brepols, 2019 Hardback, viii + 332 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, 4 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503566733. Summary This volume offers an in-depth exploration of the cultural connections between and across Britain, Ireland, and Iceland during the …

Bronze Coins of Eastern Mount Ossa in the Thessalian Perioikic Region of Magnesia. Homolion, Eureai, Eurymenai, and Meliboia

Anna Magdalena Blomley · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.41 | ¥17,603)

, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, xxviii + 232 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Illustrations:226 b/w, 7 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9780897223959. Summary This monograph examines the Late Classical and Hellenistic bronze coinages of five mints in the Thessalian perioikic region of …

Language Commonality and Literary Communities in Early Modern England. Translation, Transmission, Transfer

Laetitia Sansonetti, Rémi Vuillemin (eds) · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.07 | ¥15,843)

, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 297 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:12 b/w, 2 tables b/w., Language: English. *new ISBN 9782503598147. Summary In the early modern period, the humanist practice of translation of sacred as well as secular texts created new readerships in the v…

Jan Massys : Renaissance Painter of Flemish Female Beauty.

Maria Clelia Galassi ; Maryan W. Ainsworth · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€155.00 ($170.84 | £129.29 | ¥27,285)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2024 Hardback, 239 pages, ENG. edition; 305 x 220 x 20 mm; llustrations: 82 b/w, 223 col., 2 tables b/w., 1 tables col. .*new ISBN 9782503607207. This book rediscovers the Antwerp painter Jan Massys (c.1510-1573) and his artistic milieu. / The painter…

M. Minucii Felicis Octavius. Cum integris omnium notis ac commentariis, novaque recensione Jacobi Ouzelii, cujus & accedunt animadversiones. Accedit praeterea liber Julii Firmici Materni V.C. De errore profanarum religionum.

MINUCIUS FELIX. · 1652 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Ioannis Maire, 1652. 4to. (38),44,(2),46,140,36,32,212,(23),56 p. Overlapping vellum 20.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 840085141; Breugelmans 1652:10B; Schoenemann I,71; not in Brunet; Graesse 4,534; Ebert 14107) (Details: Title in red & black. Engr…

Septuagint: Multilateral Focus on the Text. Proceedings of the Conference Held in Bratislava, 22-23 April 2022

Helena Panczová (ed) · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€84.80 ($93.47 | £70.74 | ¥14,927)

, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 320 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:3 b/w, 7 tables b/w., Languages: English, Greek, Hebrew. ISBN 9782503610177. Summary The phenomenon of the Septuagint is a matter of interest for several areas of research - not only for Old Testament schol…

Women of the Past, Issues for the Present

Nina Javette Koefoed, Rubina Raja (eds) · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€115.00 ($126.75 | £95.93 | ¥20,243)

, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 242 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:22 b/w, 10 col., 13 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503609478. Summary The roles played by women in history, and even the very idea of what it is to be female, have always been in flux, changing ov…

The BLUE PINAFORE. Volume I.

[Nursing History]. Kelsey, Ethel - Editor · 1925 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$324.50 (€294.41 | £245.58 | ¥51,825)

Oakland, California: Published by the Student Nurses of the Fabiola School of Nursing, 1925. 1st Printing. Original publisher's blue stiff paper stock covers with gold embossing. Yapp edges. Ffep with cute drawing, by Louise Hollis, of a young lady aspiring to be a nurse. 74, [6…

Hudibras. The First Part: Written in the Time of the Late Wars

Samuel Butler · 1693 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, R. Bentley, J. Tonson, F. Saunders, and T. Bennet; R. Chiswell, T. Sawbridge, R. Bentley, and G. Wells; Thomas Horne, 1693-1694 . Cloth. A late seventeenth century edition of Samuel Butler's mock-heroic satirical poem 'Hudibras&apos. Part I lacks title page. Th…

William & Mary: The Story of Mary King and King William, the World's Most Successful Eventing Partnership

KING, MARY & ANNE PLUMEL FOREWORD BY LORD PATRICK BERESFORD · 1998 · Pegasus Books

$33.50 (€30.39 | £25.35 | ¥5,350)

Newbot Abbey, Devonshire, UK: David & Charles, 1998. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0715308440. Illustrated by Kit Houghton. MEMBER OF SILVER MEDAL WINNING TEAM AT 2012 LONDON OLYMPICS! Hardcover is glazed boards. Black spine with white lettering. Pages are clean and tight; thi…

Bargello Palace The Invention of Civic Architecture in Florence

Amee Yunn · 2016 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€165.00 ($181.86 | £137.63 | ¥29,045)

, Brepols, 2016 267 p240 x 240 mmIllustrations:152 b/wEnglish, Latin, Italian. ISBN 9781909400313. This book offers a new, revised building history of the Bargello, the first town hall of Florence. A careful analysis of documents, fabric, and restoration allows us to reconstruc…

[Volcanos] VIII. Account of the Structure of the Table Mountain, and other Parts of the Peninsula of the Cape [Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh]

PLAYFAIR, Professor John (1748-1819) · 1815 · Fine Editions Ltd

$176.00 (€159.68 | £133.20 | ¥28,108)

Edinburgh and London Printed for Archibald Constable and Co. and Cadell and Davies Original article disbound from Volume VII of Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh (not a reprint, facsimile reproduction, or photocopy). Roman numerals preceding title refer to order of …

Dalmatia.

WILKES, J.J., · 1969 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€60.00 ($66.13 | £50.05 | ¥10,562)

Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1969. 1st ed. XXVII,572,48p. Folding map. ills.(B&W photogrpahs and line drawings). Original black gilt titled cloth. (Lacking dust wrps). Series: History of the Provinces of the Roman Empire. 'The author will earn the gratitude of anyone who wis…

Tragedy in Transition.

BROWN, S.A., and C. SILVERSTONE, (eds.), · 2007 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€32.50 ($35.82 | £27.11 | ¥5,721)

Blackwell Publishing, Malden / Oxford / Carlton, 2007. XII,315p. ills.(B&W photographs). Hard bound with dust wrps. Nice copy. 'This collection of essays is bold and unashamedly far-reaching in its approach to the subject of tragedy, a topic that has enjoyed a high status in th…