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[VATHEK] AN ARABIAN TALE, From an Unpublished Manuscript: with Notes Critical and Explanatory

[BECKFORD, William] · 1786 · Charles Agvent

$5,000.00 (€4,536.46 | £3,784.61 | ¥798,435)

London. J. Johnson. First Edition. Recent full period calf (5" x 8") with marbled endpapers and likely original gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label; vii, [i], 334 pages with page 48 misnumbered "84" and with errata leaf and final blank (often missing). Contrary to Beckfor…

Akhnation and Other Sonnets ; Sonnets and Quatrains ; Six Sonnets (3 Vols. )

Jones, Thomas S. Jr. · 1928 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$110.00 (€99.80 | £83.26 | ¥17,566)

Portland, Me, The Mosher Press, 1928. Hardcover. 3 vols. 2 hardcover and 1 softcover books in original cardboard slipcase, tissue dust jackets on green cloth hardcovers, 62 pp. total. A rare two-volume set of the poetry of American poet Thomas S. Jones Jr. (1882-1932), with a th…

Einschränkung der schönen Künste auf einen einzigen Grundsatz, aus dem Französischen übersetzt und mit einem Anhange einiger eignen Abhandlungen versehen. Trans. by Johann Adolf Schlegel.

BATTEUX, (Charles). · 1751 · Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

CHF 350.00 (€378.59 | $417.27 | £315.84 | ¥66,633)

1751 8 leaves, 408 pp., 12 leaves index. 8vo. Contemp. calf, spine with red label gilt (somewhat rubbed). Leipzig, Weidmann, 1751. First German edition of "Les Beaux-Arts réduits à un même principe" by Abbé Charles Batteux, published in 1746. He was professor of rhetorics at the…

Jewish caricature - Eugen von Baumgarten, 1898

1865 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€425.00 ($468.43 | £354.56 | ¥74,802)

“Spiegelbild” (Reflection), drawing with pencil and ink made by Eugen von Baumgarten (1865-1919). Design for an illustration in "Meggendorfer Blätter" from 1898. Signed and captioned in the lower right corner: "Herr Isidor ist so sehr Dichter, daß er selbst auf dem Eise den Mens…

Poems.

DRUMMOND (William), of Hawthornden: · 1790 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London: Printed for J. Jeffry..., 1790. Small 8vo, 157 x 99 mms., pp. viii,326, contemporary tree calf, black leather label (chipped); front joint cracked (but firm), top and base of spine chipped, but a reasonably good copy with the bookplate \"James Nisbet Williams/ Private L…

Singing Rivers

Dorothy Una Ratcliffe · 1922 · Richard Thornton Books

£55.30 (€66.29 | $73.06 | ¥11,667)

John Lane The Bodley Head This is a Fine Copy of this book in original cloth in a Very Good Dust-Jacket with a tiny 3-4mm chip to the head of spine.Not clipped to inner flap.The book has a firm bidning with NO hinge weakness and there is NO leaning or rolling to spine.Contents o…

Oeuvres Completes and Derniers Chansons

Beranger, P.J. · 1847 · Boston Book Company

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.54 | ¥23,953)

Beranger, P.J. OEUVRES COMPLETES, Nouvelle Edition revue par l'Auteur. Paris, Perrotin, 1847 (Volume II) and 1858 (Volume I). Octavo. Two volumes. xl,412; (ii)402pp. +(55)ff. Contains 54 fine full-page steel engravings from Johannot, Daubigny, Charlet, and others, each showing a…

Les Oeuvres de Maistre Francoys (Francois) Villon: les Lais - le Testament - Poesies Divers. Woodcuts by Picart le Doux

Villon, Francoys (Francois) (illustrated by Picart le Doux) · 1945 · Cole & Contreras Books / Sylvan Cole Gallery

$275.00 (€249.51 | £208.15 | ¥43,914)

Paris: Les Editions Nationales, 1945, A beautiful edition of the major works of France's most important late medieval poet. Illustrated with woodcuts by Charles Picart Le Doux. There are 12 full-page woodcuts hors-texte, all delicately colored by hand, and 44 text woodcuts. …

A Collection of European Travel Guides

Gabriel Faure; Henri Ferrand; Nicolas Ries; Robert Hausemer · 1924 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.56 | $429.37 | ¥68,565)

Grenoble; Luxembourg, Editions J. Rey; Editions Luxembourgeoises, 1924-1928. Leather. A smartly bound set of travel guides for European destinations from Editions J. Rey, in the original French. French. Five volumes. Editions J. Rey was a French publishing house known for publis…

Lettre autographe datée et signée au jeune poète artésien Roger Valuet le remerciant d'être son pourvoyeur en tabac et pipes

Pierre MAC ORLAN · 1947 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.14 | ¥26,401)

S. n. | Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin 11 Septembre 1947 | 13.50 x 21.50 cm | une feuille | Lettre autographe datée et signée de Pierre Mac Orlan (12 lignes à l'encre bleue) à son jeune ami le poète débutant Roger Valuet.  Traces de pliures inhérentes à la mise sous pli. Pierre Mac Orlan r…

Select Epigrams of Martial

Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis]; William Hay [trans.] · 1755 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.62 | ¥41,139)

London, R. and J. Dodsley, 1755 . First edition. Leather. A wonderful example of the first edition of William Hay's English language translation of the Latin epigrams of Martial. A bilingual edition with text in both Latin and English. The first edition of this work. With p…

Letters of Edward Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble 1871-1883

William Aldis Wright [Ed.] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.81 | $184.96 | ¥29,536)

London, Richard Bentley & Son, 1895 . First edition. Leather. An elegant, Riviere bound copy of this collection of letters between life-long friends, Edward Fitzgerald and Fanny Kemble. The first edition. Beautifully bound by Riviere in half morocco with cloth boards. Comprised …

Sketches from St George&Apos;S Field

Giorgione Di Castel Chiuso · 1820 · Rooke Books

£86.00 (€103.08 | $113.62 | ¥18,143)

London, Robert Stodart, 1820. Cloth. A charming edition of Giorgione Di Castel Chiuso's illustrated works 'Sketches from St George's Field' First series, second edition. Illustrated throughout with in-text illustrations. Giorgione Di Castel Chiuso is the pseu…

A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies: A celebration of Britain's 59 species

Bradley, Jonathan · 2020 · Pemberley Natural History Books

£25.00 (€29.97 | $33.03 | ¥5,274)

Merlin Unwin Books 192, col photos. 236x223mm. HB. Fine in d/w.. There are 59 species of British butterfly and each one deserves a couple of stunning photographs, some interesting facts about its life cycle and a poem dedicated to it. Lifelong butterfly lover and poet Jonathan B…

Great Chicago Stories: Portraits and Stories

TOM MADAY (PHOTOS); SAM LANDERS (ED) · 1994 · Round Table Books, LLC

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Chicago: TwoPress Publishing Co, 1994. 0964170302. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 0964170302. Illustrated by Tom Maday. Great Chicago Stories is a collection of favorite Chicago stories and companion B&W photographic portraits of sixty of the city's nota…

Sergei Esenin. Gravyuri F D Konstantinova 11 Reproduktsii.

ESENIN. YESENIN. F D Konstantinov (engrav.), I G Miamlin (intro) · 1970 · Marijana Dworski Books

£23.00 (€27.57 | $30.39 | ¥4,852)

Leningrad, Khudozhnik RSFSR, 1970. Folder containing 11 (10 loose, one to cover) reproductions (complete) of engravings by F D Konstantinov illustrating lines from Esenin's poetry with 8pp stapled text. Portrait of Esenin to upper cover by same artist. Edges just a little damp m…

Writers and Their Work: No. 124 Elizabeth Gaskell; Writers and Their Work: No. 156 Thomas Love Peacock; Writers and Their Work: No. 15 George Eliot

Miriam Allott; J. I. M. Stewart; Lettice Cooper · 1960 · Rooke Books

£38.00 (€45.55 | $50.20 | ¥8,017)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1960, 1963, 1966. First edition. Paperback. A charming collection of biographies on 3 prominent authors of the Victorian era; Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Love Peacock, and George Eliot. 3 Volumes from the Bibliographical Series "Writers and Their W…

[Antique portrait print, engraving, ca 1599] Alardus Amstelredamus Belga philosophus nascitur an obit Lovany an 1541 (Portret van Allard van Amstelredamus), published ca 1599, 1 p.

Boissard, Robert (c.1570-1601), after Oostsanen, /Jacob Cornelisz. Van (1460/65-1533) · 1490 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€108.90 ($120.03 | £90.85 | ¥19,167)

Portrait of the humanist Alardus Amstelredamus (1490-1541), theologian and poet, active in Leuven. Portrait in oval with inscriptions on the oval frame and on cartouche at the bottom. The top corners are decorated with butterflies and flowers and the bottom corners with flowers …

Sketches from St. George&Apos;S Fields

Giorgione Di Castel Chiuso [Peter Bayley] · 1820 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

London, Stodart and Steuart, 1820. First edition. Hardback. The scarce first edition of the First Series of Peter Bayley's witty London sketches. The first edition of the First Series.  Rebacked, with the original brown boards, with a renewed paper spine and spine label. R…

Christmas Formula and Other Stories

Stella Benson · 1932 · Rooke Books

£135.00 (€161.82 | $178.35 | ¥28,481)

London, Joiner and Steele, William Jackson, 1932. First edition. Cloth. An limited edition signed first edition of this collection of short stories by Stella Benson. With a frontispiece. This is number 11 of the Furnival Book Series. There is a note tipped in stating the 'T…