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Varietate delectamur: Multifarious Approaches to Synchronic and Diachronic Variation in Latin. Selected Papers from the 14th International Colloquium on Late and Vulgar Latin (Ghent, 2022)

Giovanbattista Galdi, Simon Aerts, Alessandro Papini (eds) · 2025 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€169.60 ($186.93 | £141.47 | ¥29,855)

, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 792, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:65 b/w, 120 tables b/w., Languages: English, French, Italian. ISBN 9782503606798. Summary The focus of the Latin Vulgaire - Latin Tardif book series lies on the complex and multifaceted problem of late and …

Phillis Wheatley's "on Recollection" in the Gentleman's Magazine: And Historical Chronicle. Volume XLIII. For the Year Mdcclxxiii

[Wheatley, Phillis]. Urban, Sylvanus · 1773 · Kaaterskill Books

$2,750.00 (€2,494.99 | £2,081.19 | ¥439,192)

London, Printed at St. John's Gate for D. Henry, 1773. First edition. Quarter calf over marbled board, marbled edges. [1], [2], 655. [16] pp. Illus. with 29 b/w plates and maps, 5 of which are folding. 8vo. Complete set of 12 issues with supplement. The September issue includes …

1864 Limestone, Alabama CIVIL War Diary Extract Detailing Captures at Gaines MILL & Gettysburg, Homefront Fear and Destruction, Confederate Gossip, and More Written by the Sister of Two Men in the 9th Alabama Infantry, Company F (Limestone Troopers)

GENERAL EDMUND WINSTON PETTUS' SISTER · 1864 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$3,685.99 (€3,344.19 | £2,789.54 | ¥588,675)

Limestone County, Alabama, 1864. Non-Book. On offer is an exceptionally rich Confederate Civil War diary extract, filled with first-hand soldier testimony recorded by that soldier’s a detail-oriented, invested sister, while he was home on furlough in Limestone, Alabama. The diar…

Mystics, Goddesses, Lovers, and Teachers. Medieval Visions and their Legacies. Studies in Honour of Barbara Newman

Steven Rozenski, Joshua Byron Smith, Claire M. Waters (eds) · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€85.00 ($93.69 | £70.90 | ¥14,962)

, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 420 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 b/w, 18 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503599748. Summary The conjunction of medieval religious studies and gender studies in the past several decades has produced not only nuanced attention to medieval…

The Motor Cycle

David Dixon; Arthur Bourne et al · 1946 · Rooke Books

£1,950.00 (€2,337.72 | $2,576.65 | ¥411,508)

London, Iliffe and Sons Ltd, 1946-56. Cloth. A scarce, bound collection of one Britain's earliest motorcycle magazines. Known colloquially as 'The Blue 'un', this magazine is profusely illustrated with examples of motorcycles. Including an issue regarding the…

Cl. Claudiani Principum, Heroumque Poetae praegloriosissimi, Quae exstant. Caspar Barthius ope XVII manuscriptorum exemplarium restituit; commentario multo locupletiore, grammatico, critico, philologo, historico, philosophico, politicoque, ita illustravit, ut Auctor pretiosissimus omni aetati, scholasticae, academicae, aulicae, politicaeque, esse debeat ex commendato commendatissimus.

CLAUDIANUS. · 1650 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

Frankfurt (Francofurti), Apud Joannem Naumannum, Bibliop. Hamburgensem, 1650. 4to. (LXXVI, including title & frontispiece),111,(1 blank),1371,(1 blank),(31 corrigenda),(1 blank) p. Vellum 21 cm (Ref: VD17 3:006469N; Schweiger 2,283; Dibdin 1,470: 'Barthius commentary is not onl…

[Antique print, etching, Piranesi] Ornamenti di Stucco, esistenti nella Volta della Stanza Sepolcrale di L. Arrunzio (stucco decoration on the tomb of L. Arruntius), published 1756-1784, 1 p.

Jean Barbault (ca. 1718-1762), and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778) · 1756 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€254.10 ($280.07 | £211.96 | ¥44,729)

Plate XII from the II out of four volumes collection <em>Le Antichità Romane </em>collecting plates by Giovanni Battist Piranesi, firstly published by Angelo Rotili in Rome between 1756 and 1757. The second edition appeared in 1784. Original wide margins, no traces of binding or…

ALBUMEN CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH

Barton, Clara [1821 - 1912] · 1838 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$357.50 (€324.35 | £270.55 | ¥57,095)

Evanston, Ill: Chas. E. Smith. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Publisher imprint under image. Verso blank. Mount: 6-1/2" x 4-1/4". Photograph: 5-1/2" x 3-3/4" Clara Barton perhaps the best known nurse in American History, primarily remembered today for organizing th…

Eusèbe de Césarée et la philosophie. Christianisme et philosophie en Palestine au tournant du IVe siècle de notre ère

Sébastien Morlet (ed) · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€75.00 ($82.67 | £62.56 | ¥13,202)

, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 267 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:6 tables b/w., Language(s):French, English. ISBN 9782503614762. Summary Eusebius of Caesarea in Palestine, active between the end of the third century and the beginning of the fourth, is the Christian autho…

YEARBOOK / CLASS ALBUM / PHOTO BOOK. Class of '72. University of Michigan

Tschirgi Jr, Matthew [1850 - 1932] - Former Owner. Angell, James Burrill [1829 - 1916] - University President · 1872 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$1,375.00 (€1,247.50 | £1,040.59 | ¥219,596)

[Ann Arbor, Michigan]: , 1872. Original half-brown leather binding, with brown cloth boards; titling in gilt lettering to the spine “Class of ‘72 [2nd compartment] / University of Michigan” [4th compartment]. Front board with Tschirgi's name gilt stamped. Red edgestain. Marbled …

1938 in Depth Work Log Book of Episcopal Reverend and Youth Leader Arthur o. Phinney on Running Youth Programs, Church Recruitment and More

ARTHUR OSGOOD PHINNEY · 1938 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,575.99 (€1,429.85 | £1,192.70 | ¥251,695)

Watertown, MA, 1938. Softcover. On offer is a notebook used to record notes on his work, kept by the National Director of a large, Episcopal church-based youth program in the mid-20th century. The notebook belonged to the Reverend Arthur Osgood Phinney (1892-1978). Phinney was a…

1833 Basil Hall Manuscript Letter to His Wife's Mother, Lady Hunter with Addition by Margaret Hall

CAPTAIN BASIL HALL AND MARGARET HALL · 1833 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,155.99 (€1,048.80 | £874.85 | ¥184,619)

RHINE, Europe, 1833. Non-Book. On offer is a quite unusual letter written by both Basil and Margaret Hall with handwriting of both on one document. HALL, Captain Basil [1788-1844]. 9-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches. Autograph letter signed. Two pages, Dated (on the Rhine 20th May 1833. Two p…

La théorie électromagnétique de Maxwell et son application aux corps mouvants. [Offprint: from 'Archives néerlandaises des Sciences exactes et naturelles, T. XXV].

LORENTZ, H.A.- Electron Theory.- · 1892 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€8,500.00 ($9,368.76 | £7,090.23 | ¥1,496,249)

Leiden, E.J.Brill, 1892. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. (Some age darkening.). (The upper wrapper w. the 'Leide, Brill. 1892' imprint pasted to upper cover). (Upper wrapper a few chips to righthand margin but virtually intact; spine material largely missing; lower wrappe…

1878 Handwritten Manuscript Diary of Hard Work and the Rural Pioneer Life

JOSEPH MAREAN · 1878 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,285.99 (€1,166.74 | £973.23 | ¥205,381)

LIBERTY CENTER IOWA IA, 1878. . On offer is an original manuscript diary dated 1878 handwritten by Joseph Marean of Liberty Centre, Warren County Iowa. This is a super account of the day by day doings of Joseph and his wife Mary from Tuesday, January 1st to Tuesday, December 31s…

[Garden Design] [Beekeeping] Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier : beschrijvende alderhande Princelijcke en Heerlijcke Lusthoven en Hofsteden . . . [bound with] De Nieuwe Verstandigen Hovenier, Over de twaelf Maenden van't Jaer . . . [and with] De Medicyn-Winckel, of Ervaren Huys-Houder . . . Den Naerstigen Byen-Houder . . . Den verstandigen Kock

GROEN, Jan van der (c.1635–1672); NYLAND, Pieter · 1675 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,999.00 (€1,813.63 | £1,512.83 | ¥319,253)

Amsterdam Marcus Doornick Early Reprint Sammelband of key gardening and husbandry texts, complete with all plates showcasing seventeenth-century garden design. Three titles in one quarto volume, including Den Nederlandtsen Hovenier, the most influential horticultural manual from…

Proceedings of the XVI International Numismatic Congress, 11-16.09.2022, Warsaw: Vol. III: Medieval Numismatics

Jaroslaw Bodzek, Aleksander Bursche, Anna Zapolska (eds) · 2025 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€137.80 ($151.88 | £114.95 | ¥24,257)

, Brepols, 2025 Paperback, Pages: 373, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:265 b/w, 13 col., 5 tables b/w., Languages: English, French, German. ISBN 9782503616742. Summary The XVI International Numismatic Congress, held in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2022, was a landmark event, …

Pursuit of Happiness in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Thought. Studies Dedicated to Steven Harvey

Yehuda Halper (ed) · 2021 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€110.00 ($121.24 | £91.76 | ¥19,363)

, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 432 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language(s):English, French. ISBN 9782503591438. Summary The articles in this volume explore the teachings on happiness by a range of thinkers from antiquity through Spinoza, most of whom held human happiness to comprise …

Picasso Kunstlerbucher

Armin Zweite, Nina Schleif (eds.) · 2010 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€44.50 ($49.05 | £37.12 | ¥7,833)

, Hirmer Verlag GmbH, 2010 Hardcover, 300pp., 23x29cm., ills. in col. and b/w., very good copy. ISBN 9783777431017. English summary: Picasso was one of the most prolific artists of the 20th Century, including in the decorative art of book design. Between 1905 and 1973, he desig…

Canadian Home Journal Magazine, April 1929

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1929 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.64 | £223.25 | ¥47,113)

Toronto: Consolidated Press, 1929. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Deane, Elsie. 120 pages. Cover illustration of young lady with umbrella and chicks by Elsie Deane. Features: Stylish colour Palmolive ad inside front cover; La Chasse-Galerie - the flying canoe of voyage…

L. Annaei Senecae Tragoediae, cum notis integris Johannis Frederici Gronovii, et selectis Justi Lipsii, M. Antonii Delrii, Jani Gruteri, H. Commelini, Josephi Scaligeri, Danielis et Nicolai Heinsiorum, Thomae Farnabii aliorumque, itemque observationibus nonnullis Hugonis Grotii. Omnia recensuit, notas, animadversiones, atque indicem novum locupletissimumque adjecit; ipsum vero auctoris syntagma cum MS. codice contulit Joannes Casparus Schröderus.

SENECA. · 1728 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€180.00 ($198.40 | £150.15 | ¥31,685)

Delft (Delphis), Apud Adrianum Beman, 1728. 4to. (XXIV including frontispiece),(98),802,(214 index) p. Vellum 27 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 14155522X; Schweiger 2,941; Dibdin 2,399: 'a very elaborate and celebrated edition'; Fabricius/Ernesti 2,136/37; Brunet 5,286; Moss 579/80: 'its m…