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Arrayed in Splendour. Art, Fashion, and Textiles in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Christoph Brachmann (ed) · 2019 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€110.00 ($121.24 | £91.76 | ¥19,363)

, Brepols, 2019 Paperback, 264 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:3 b/w, 111 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503579658. Summary Precious textiles, fabrics, embroideries, and tapestries played an important role in medieval and early modern cultures of representation. The…

Subjects from History: The Decius Mus Series, 2 volumes, Corpus Rubenianum 13.2

R. Baumstark, G. Delmarcel · 2019 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€290.00 ($319.64 | £241.90 | ¥51,048)

, Harvey Miller/ brepols, 2019 Hardcover with dusjackets 2 vols; 778 pages ., 161 b/w ill. + 99 colour ill., 180 x 265 mm, Languages: English. fine condition ISBN 9781912554232. Rubens Decius Mus Cycle is in many ways a first. It provides the earliest example of work for the m…

Researches on Light: an examination of all the phenomena connected with the chemical and molecular changes produced by the influence of the solar rays; embracing all the known photographic processes, and new discoveries in the art [Robert Were Fox's copy]

HUNT, Robert (1807–1887) · 1844 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,774.00 (€1,609.50 | £1,342.55 | ¥283,319)

London Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, Paternoster-Row First Edition of this key scientific study of the action and effect of solar rays on various chemicals used in photography, and generally considered the first history of that art, uncut and entirely unopened in the orig…

[Collected Works in Original Cloth] The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe : with Notices of his Life and Genius . . . In Two Volumes; [offered with] The Literati : some honest opinions about autorial merits and demerits, with occasional words of personality together with marginalia, suggestions, and essays [Association Copies]

POE, Edgar Allan (1809-1849) · 1850 · Fine Editions Ltd

$3,274.00 (€2,970.40 | £2,477.75 | ¥522,878)

New York J. S. Redfield, Clinton Hall, Nassau-Street Three First Editions (second printings of volumes 1 and 2, per BAL; first printing of volume 3) of the first collection of Poe's poetry and prose, edited by N. P. Willis, J. R. Lowell, and R. W. Griswold. Crown 8vo (185 x 113m…

The Reign of King Charles : An History Faithfully and Impartially delivered and disposed into Annals

L'ESTRANGE, Hamon (1605–1660) · 1655 · Fine Editions Ltd

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

London printed by E[llen]. C[otes]. for Edward Dod, and Henry Seile the younger, and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivie-lane, and over against St. Dunstans Church in Fleet-street First Edition First Edition of this rare history of the reign of Charles I to May 1641. Crown folio (…

Leaflets of Memory

Reynell Coates, ed. · 1847 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$180.00 (€163.31 | £136.22 | ¥28,747)

Philadelphia, E.H. Butler, 1847. First Edition Thus. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Truly, a treasured lovely, being an 1847 edition of Leaflets of Memory, the third in its publishing history of 11 such, issued irregularly. This exemplar edited by Reynell Coates, published …

An den Christlichenn Adel deutscher Nation: von des Christlichen standes besserung: D. Martinus Luther. Durch yhn selbs ge/mehret vnd corrigirt.

LUTHER, Martin. · 1520 · Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

CHF 36,000.00 (€38,944.64 | $42,925.06 | £32,485.48 | ¥6,855,396)

1520 Title within nice decorative woodcut border, attributed to Lucas Cranach and woodcut initial on A3. [50] ff. Small 4to (212 x 157 mm). Late 19th century half cloth (one corner bumped). Wittenberg, (Melchior Lotter, the younger, 1520). First printing of the editio definitiva…

D. Caecilii Cypriani Episcopi Carthaginiensis et martyris opera.

CYPRIANUS. · 1550 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€650.00 ($716.43 | £542.19 | ¥114,419)

Lyon (Lugduni), Apud Seb. Gryphium, 1550. 8vo. 466 (recte 456),(13 index),(1),(2 blank); 456,(6 index),(1 blank),(1 printer's mark) p. Half calf over wooden boards 18 cm (Ref: USTC 123042; Schoenemann 1,117 & 119, mentions editions of Sebastianus Gryphius of 1528 and 1544; Grae…

Beginnings of Opera in Europe. Origins, Adaptations, and Cultural Exchange

Nastasia Heckendorff, Michael Klaper (eds) · 2026 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€100.00 ($110.22 | £83.41 | ¥17,603)

, Brepols, 2026 Paperback, Pages: 337, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, 12 col., 7 tables b/w., 2 tables col., 1 musical example, Languages:English, German, Italian. ISBN 9782503583648. Summary This is the first book dedicated to the early history of opera in Europe fro…

Thinking through Rubens Selected Studies by Arnout Balis.

Elizabeth McGrath, Paul van Calster (eds) · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€99.00 ($109.12 | £82.58 | ¥17,427)

, Brepols, 2024 Hardcover, Pages: 220 pages,90 x 255mm,Illustrations:18 b/w, 88 col. Language(s):English. ISBN 9781915487285. Over the course of his life, Arnout Balis (d. 2021) did a lot of thinking about and around Rubens. A principal beneficiary of this was the Corpus Rubeni…

Divine Conduct, or, the Mysterie of Providence

John Flavell · 1627 · Rooke Books

£1,499.99 (€1,798.24 | $1,982.03 | ¥316,542)

London, R. White, c1678. Leather. An extremely scarce, first edition of John Flavel's Divine Conduct. Bound in quarter leather. The title page is missing. Nonetheless, a very important early nonconformist text. Not seen at auction for the last 30 years. Date, Title and Publ…

On the steps of the throne The King's family and its political and cultural role in the Spanish monarchy (16th-18th centuries)

Santiago Martínez Hernández, Alejandra Franganillo Álvarez, Jonathan Spangler (eds) · 2025 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€99.00 ($109.12 | £82.58 | ¥17,427)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2025 Hardback, 264 pages, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:11 b/w, Language: English, *new. ISBN 9782503602806. The aim of this book is to forge a new critical perspective on the Spanish Habsburgs? family networks by studying the roles performed by p…

Otherness' in the Middle Ages

Hans-Werner Goetz, Ian N. Wood (eds) · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€125.00 ($137.78 | £104.27 | ¥22,004)

, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 478 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:25 b/w, 9 col., 4 maps b/w, 4 maps, Language: English. ISBN 9782503594026. Summary Although 'Otherness' is an extremely common phenomenon in every society, related research is still at its beginnings. 'Other…

Modes Et Ridicules & Exploitation Generale Des Modes Et Ridicules de Paris Et Londres

MONNIER, Henry · 1825 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$9,500.00 (€8,619.07 | £7,189.55 | ¥1,517,209)

Paris: Chez Gihaut Frères, 1825. Two of Henry Monnier's Exceptionally Rare Earliest Suites of Caricatures [MONNIER, Henry, illustrator]. [Modes et Ridicules]. Paris: Chez Gihaut Frères, Editeurs, [1825]. Large quarto (13 5/16 x 10 inches; 339 x 255 mm.). Ten fine hand colored li…

Modern Miscellany Presented to Eugene Vinaver by Pupils, Colleagues and Friends

LAWRENSON, T. E. , ET AL. · 1969 · Round Table Books, LLC

$40.00 (€36.29 | £30.27 | ¥6,388)

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1969. First Edition Thus. 1. Hard Cover. First Edition. With a photo-portrait frontispiece of Eugene Vinaver, a bibliography of the works of Vinaver, notes. Cloth with printed dust-jacket. This is a de-accessioned library copy, but with m…

I doni di Cerere. Storie della terra nella tarda antichità (Strutture, società, economia)

Domenico Vera · 2020 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€80.00 ($88.18 | £66.73 | ¥14,082)

, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, 389 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 0 col., 2 tables b/w., Languages: Italian, French, English. ISBN 9782503581507. Summary Even if his wide-ranging research work is not limited to Roman agrarian history, this is the field in which his…

The Light of Nature Pursued Volumes III, V, VI, VII and VIII

'Edward Search' [Abraham Tucker] · 1768 · Rooke Books

£5,250.00 (€6,293.87 | $6,937.15 | ¥1,107,905)

London, T. Jones, 1768-1778. Leather. A set of five very scarce volumes by Abraham Tucker, under the pen name of Edward Search, in leather binding. Very important texts and all contemporary editions are extremely rare. As these were published separately they are usually seen ind…

Oxonia Depicta Sive Collegiorum Et Aularum in Inclyta Academia Oxoniensi

William Williams · 1773 · Rooke Books

£1,900.00 (€2,277.78 | $2,510.59 | ¥400,956)

Oxford, Not Stated, 1773. First edition. Leather. A smart collection of William Williams' engravings of Oxford University. These architectural engravings are in the style of David Loggan's famed 'Oxonia Illustrata&apos. The plates are untrimmed with exceptional ma…

Tierra del Fuego. [NL-ENG.]

Patrick Bollen; Dree Peremans. · 2000 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

Tielt Lannoo 2000 Bound, hardcover with original dustjacket (protected with removable cellophane), 127pp., 28x23cm., oblong, ills. in b/w., in very good condition (dustjacket with light traces of use, partly removed sticker on 1st blanc page, else fine). ISBN 9789020940404. Ti…

American Notes for General Circulation

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870) · 1868 · Fine Editions Ltd

$199.00 (€180.55 | £150.60 | ¥31,782)

New York D. Appleton First Edition thus Scarce printing of "one of the most famous and important examples of travel-writing in the nineteenth century, documenting simultaneously a particular moment in the development of the United States and what was surely a major turning-point…