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The Middle Parts of Fortune; Somme and Ancre 1916

Frederic Manning · 1929 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.37 | $1,849.91 | ¥295,441)

London, The Piazza Press, 1929. Cloth. The limited first edition of Frederic Manning's powerful novel, set in the trenches during the First World War. The novel was written in response to the sudden demand in the late 1920s for literary material dealing with the war. Wherea…

Discourses on All the Principal Branches of Natural Religion and Social Virtue

James Foster · 1749 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.54 | $521.94 | ¥83,357)

London, Printed for the Author and sold by Mr. Noon et. al. 1749-1752. First edition. Leather. The first edition of these collected discourses from Baptist minister James Foster, who achieved a reputation for his religious controversy. The first edition, complete in two volumes.…

Luoghi, ambienti, immagini: il paesaggio in Properzio. Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference on Propertius, Assisi - Trevi, 27-29 May 2021

Giorgio Bonamente, Roberto Cristofoli, Carlo Santini (eds) · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€95.00 ($104.71 | £79.24 | ¥16,723)

, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, 392 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:10 b/w, 15 col., Language: Italian. ISBN 9782503605814. Summary With an investigation into the landscapes and environments - real, topical, imaginary, recalled and traversed by Propertius' elegies - the con…

Hercules to Olympus Part XI, 2: Mythological Subjects Hercules to Olympus / 2 volumes.

Elizabeth McGrath, Bert Schepers, Nils Büttner, Gerlinde Gruber, Fiona Healy, Eveliina Juntunen, Gregory Martin, Jeremy Wood · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€299.00 ($329.56 | £249.41 | ¥52,633)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2023 hardcover with dusjacket, 2 vols, 946 pages.Size:175 x 260 mm Illustrations:450 b/w. Language(s):English. ISBN 9781912554867. One remarkable feature of European culture as it developed in the Renaissance was the accommodation it made with ancien…

Harmony in Bright Colours : Memling's God the Father with Singing and Music-Making Angels Restored

Lizet Klaassen, Dieter Lampens (eds) · 2021 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.41 | ¥17,603)

, Brepols N.V. 2021, 2021 Hardcover, English, 300 x 240 mm, 287 p., incl. Music CD, 30 b/w ills, 220 col. ills, . ISBN 9782503580289. Hans Memling's God the Father with Singing and Music-making Angels formed the upper register of an enormous polyptych painted for the Benedictin…

[Angling] The Rod and the Line : Or, Practical Hints and Dainty Devices for the Sure Taking of Trout, Grayling, etc. [Joseph Delaplaine Bates, Jr.'s copy]

WHEATLEY, Hewett · 1849 · Fine Editions Ltd

$649.00 (€588.82 | £491.16 | ¥103,649)

London Published by Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans Scarce First (and only) Edition of "one of the most original books in the bibliography of angling." (AnAnglersBookcase online) Foolscap 8vo (172 x 105mm): 157,[2],32[ad]pp, with nine bright, detailed hand-colored plates of fl…

First Act : White Mule [and] In the Money

WILLIAMS, William Carlos (1883-1963) · 1945 · Fine Editions Ltd

$349.00 (€316.64 | £264.12 | ¥55,737)

Norfolk, Conn. New Directions [from 1937] First Edition First Printing of the first combined edition, bound from first edition sheets of each novel with separate title pages identical to the originals and no separate general title page added. Short, thick 8vo: [8],293[3]; 382pp.…

[Baseball] The Fairport Nine

BROOKS, Noah (1830-1903) · 1887 · Fine Editions Ltd

$499.00 (€452.73 | £377.64 | ¥79,693)

New York Charles Scribner's Sons [from 1880] First Edition Seldom seen Second Printing (no copy appears in auction records) of this cornerstone of baseball literature. Binding and text duplicate the first printing, excepting date on title page and advertisements (eight pages vs.…

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire -Gryffindor Edition (Harry Potter House Editions)

Rowling, J.K. · 2020 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£165.00 (€197.81 | $218.02 | ¥34,820)

Bloomsbury Children's Books. First UK edition-first printing of this 20th anniversary edition. Book. Mint condition. Bloomsbury, 2020. 20th Anniversary Edition. First UK edition-first printing of this 20th anniversary edition (1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2). Black hardback (red lettering…

Memoirs of the Reign of George II from His Accession to the Death of Queen Caroline

John, Lord Hervey · 1884 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.68 | $363.37 | ¥58,033)

London, Bickers and Son , 1884. Cloth. Lord Hervey's frank memoir of George II. Hervey was a courtier and political writer. It was said he had affairs with many notable figures including Anne Vane, Lady Montagu, Princess Caroline, Francesco Algarotti and possibly Prince Fre…

Hieronymus Romanus. Studies on Jerome and Rome on the Occasion of the 1600th Anniversary of his Death

Ingo Schaaf (ed) · 2021 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, xii + 610 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, 15 col., 2 tables b/w., Language(s):English, Italian, German. ISBN 9782503592596. Summary Rome, be it as a concrete space or as a concept and idea, occupies an outstanding place in the thoughts …

Manuscripts, Music, Machaut: Essays in Honor of Lawrence Earp

Jared C. Hartt, Tamsyn Mahoney-Steel, Benjamin Albritton (eds) · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.07 | ¥15,843)

, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, 628 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:7 b/w, 73 col., 38 tables b/w., 76 music examples, Language: English. ISBN 9782503602998. Summary This multidisciplinary volume celebrates the scholarship and career of Lawrence Earp, whose work has profoun…

ARISTOPHANOUS KÔMÔiDIAI iá. Aristophanis comoediae undecim, graece & latine, cum indice paroemiarum selectiorum, et emendationibus virorum doctorum praecipue Josephi Scaligeri. Accesserunt praetera Fragmenta ejusdem ineditarum comoediarum Aristophanis.

ARISTOPHANES. · 1624 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€430.00 ($473.95 | £358.68 | ¥75,693)

Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex officina Joannis Maire, 1624. 12mo. (XXIV),935,(1),56 (recte 60) p. Contemporary boards 14 cm (Ref: Breugelmans 1624,2, with a note on the date, he suggests a date after 1626; Hoffmann 1,254, a very elaborate description; Dibdin 1,299; Smitskamp,…

American Ornithology; or, The Natural History of the Birds of the United States

WILSON, Alexander (1766-1813); Prince Charles Lucian Bonaparte (1803-1857) · 18581877 · Fine Editions Ltd

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

London, Paris & New York Cassell Petter & Galpin [Chatto & Windus] First Edition thus [from 1808] A superb 3-volume British edition of this classic American bird book, the “first major scientific work published in the United States” (Burtt and Davis, p. 333), here in its final s…

Le Barbier de Seville

Beaumarchais · 1772 · Rooke Books

£36.99 (€44.34 | $48.88 | ¥7,806)

Paris, Delarue, c1900. Leather. A smartly bound copy of Beaumarchais' play 'Le Barbier de Séville&apos. Le Barbier de Séville was initially conceived as a comic opera, and was rejected as such in 1772 by the Comédie Italienne. The play as it is now known was written…

Theologia Mystica. Volume Two of Theologiae Misticae. Works of Vincenzo Carafa, Superior-General of the Society of Jesus

Vincenzo Carafa, Vincenzo Caraffa · 1660 · Rooke Books

£1,235.00 (€1,480.56 | $1,631.88 | ¥260,622)

Colonia Agrippina, Not Stated, 1660. Leather. A collection of rather scarce religious works from Servant of God, Vincenzo Carafa, Superior-General of the Society of Jesus. Includes Peregrinus Terrae, Civis Coeli, Itinerarium, and Amor. Bound without Fasciculus Myrrhae. There are…

Rise of Vernacular Writing. The Palaeographical Perspective / L'emersione delle scritture volgari. La prospettiva paleografica. Proceedings of the 21st Colloquium of the Comité international de paléographie latine. Firenze (19-21 February 2020)

Irene Ceccherini, Teresa De Robertis (eds) · 2026 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€132.50 ($146.04 | £110.52 | ¥23,324)

, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: 214, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:23 b/w, 72 col., 13 tables b/w., Languages:Italian, English, French. ISBN 9782503616971. Summary The process that led the various languages of Europe to acquire a written dimension was neither simple nor li…

Discipline, Authority, and Text in Late Ancient Religion Essays in Honour of David Brakke

Ellen Muehlberger, Bradley K. Storin · 2025 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€115.00 ($126.75 | £95.93 | ¥20,243)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 388 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 7 col., 1 tables b/w., Language:English, *New. ISBN 9782503613604. This collection of essays on religious practice in the Mediterranean, Near East, and Middle East (ca. 100?800 …

ut pictura poeta. Author Images and the Reading of Ancient Literature / Autorbilder und die Lektüre antiker Literatur

Ute Tischer, Ursula Gärtner, Alexandra Forst (eds) · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, 378 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:16 b/w, 5 col., 2 tables b/w., Language(s):English, German. ISBN 9782503598666. Summary The leitmotif of this volume is the concept of ?author images?, which is used in modern literary studies to describe p…

Magnification and Miniaturization in Religious Communications in Antiquity and Modernity. Materialities and Meanings

Elisabeth Begemann, Diana Pavel, Georgia Petridou, Anna-Katharina Rieger, Rubina Raja, Jörg Rüpke (eds) · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€110.00 ($121.24 | £91.76 | ¥19,363)

, Brepols, 2023 Paperback, xiv + 230 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:47 b/w, 72 col., 3 maps b/w, 1 maps color, Language: English. ISBN 9782503604794. Summary Human agents might not be the measure of all things. Nonetheless, human bodies, and their bodily dimensions, o…