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Horace · 1722 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,713)

Londini; [London], J. Knapton; R. Wilkin; B. & S. Tooke; D. Midwinter; et al, 1722. Leather. A collection of the poetical odes of Horace in the original Latin, a conclusive collection of his Roman poetry. A collection of the works of Horace, here in the original Latin.ESTC citat…

La Commedia di Dante Alighieri col comento del p. Pompeo Venturi. Edizione Zonforme al Testo Comiano del 1727.

DANTE. · 1815 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£500.00 (€599.33 | $660.57 | ¥105,484)

Bassano: Dalla Tipografia Giuseppe Remondini e Figli, 1815 3 volumes. 12mo, 138 x 90 mms., pp. [3] - 385 [386 blank]; [3] - 360; [3] - 382, attractively bound in contemporary seepskin, spines richly gilt, red and black morocco labels, blue Dutch end-papers. A very good to fine…

Gazette Des Enfants, Journal Hebdomadaire

Leon Guerin [ed.] · 1892 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.07 | $918.19 | ¥146,623)

Harlem, Emrik & Binger, 1892-1893 . First edition. Paperback. A wonderful collection of sixty-nine issues of the charming children's periodical 'Gazette des Enfants', beautifully illustrated with chromolithographic plates. In the original French.Sixty-nine issues …

Collected Poems

Austin Dobson · 1899 · Rooke Books

£50.00 (€59.93 | $66.06 | ¥10,548)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co LTD, 1899. Leather. A selection of Austin Dobson's popular poetry, containing a variety of his best known work, illustrated with a portrait frontispiece. Illustrated with a frontispieceA selection of the poems by Henry Austin Dobson,…

Tvãƒâ¥ Gustavianska Mãƒâ¤Stare

Karl Asplund · 1925 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,987)

Stockholm, A.B. Wahlstrom & Widstrand , 1925. Leather. A scarce impressively illustrated volume on the two Swedish artists Niklas Lafrensen and Elias Martin, with 96 plates of their work. A scarce work.In the publisher's full black morocco binding. An impressive volume on …

Memoires Pour Servir a L&Apos;Histoire D&Apos;Anne D&Apos;Autriche Epouse de Louis XIII Roi de France

Madame de Motteville · 1782 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Maestricht , Jean-Edme Dufour et Phil. Roux, 1782. Leather. A scarce collection of the memoirs of Francois Bertaut de Motteville, which is in effect a history of Anne of Austria In French. Françoise Bertaut de Motteville (c. 1621 – 1689), French memoir writer, was the daughter…

Lawrence le Magnifique: Essai Sur Lawrence Durrell Et le Roman Relativiste

Vladimir Volkoff · 1984 · Rooke Books

£275.00 (€329.63 | $363.31 | ¥58,016)

Not Stated , Julliard/L'Age D'Homme , 1984. First edition. Paperback. A lovely first impression of this French study of Lawrence Durrell and relativism, signed by Durrell to the title page. A superb first edition, first impression of this uncommon work. Vladimir Volkof…

Photographic Album of Georges Deniker, Nicolas Deniker, Marcel Boulot, Emile Etienne, Casanova with at Least One Photo in Peking Taken by Alice Eliza Getty

Getty, Alice Eliza (1875-1946); Georges Deniker (1885-1952); Nicolas Deniker (1881-1942) · 1914 · Wittenborn Art Books

$650.00 (€589.74 | £492.00 | ¥103,797)

Europe and China, circa 1914. Collection of 35 silver prints mounted in an album . 22 x 15.5 cm. One photo in Peking of Georges Deniker by Alice Getty is dated 1914 He was the son of Joseph Yegorovich Deniker (1852-1918), the anthropologist. Nicolas is George's brother and was a…

Angeli Politiani Opera : Quae Quidem Extitere Hactenus, Omnia : Longè Emendatius QuàM UsquàM Antehac Expressa : Quibus Accessit Historia de Coniuratione Pactiana in Familiam Medicam, Elegantissimè Conscripta : Quorum Omnium Ordinem Post Politiani Elogia Inuenies : Addito Unà Indice Memorabilium Copiosissimo . First Edition

Poliziano , Angelo (1454-1494) aka Agnolo Ambrogini · 1454 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,600.00 (€1,451.67 | £1,211.08 | ¥255,499)

Basileae: Apud Nicolaum Episcopium juniorem, MDLIII. Small folio. 19.6 x 30.9cm. Later (18th Century?) full calf with gilt stamped cover, red morocco label, raised bands, and gilt on spine. Gilt oownership stamp on cover: C. DA EGA.. Folio; *4 A-Z6 a-z6 Aa-Kk6 Ll8; [8] 665 [23]p…

Julie Ou L&Apos;Heureux Repentir, Anecdote Historique

Francois T M d'Arnaud · 1767 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.14 | ¥26,371)

Paris, L'Esclapart; la Veuve Duchesne, 1767. First edition. Disbound. A very scarce pamphlet from the works of Francois T. Marie d'Arnaud, in the original French and illustrated with striking engravings. The first and only edition of this work. A very scarce copy, rare…

A Description of a Series of Sixty Small Prints, Etched by William Green, of Ambleside, from Drawings Made by Himself

William Green · 1814 · Rooke Books

£290.00 (€347.61 | $383.13 | ¥61,181)

London; Ambleside , William Green, 1814. Leather. A scarce collection of prints of Ambleside, etched by English artist William Green. A scarce volume containing a series of small prints etched by William Green, largely focusing on the views of Ambleside, a town in the civil pari…

[Antique print, mezzotint, 1695] VICTORIA PUBLICA (firework, de man met een vuurpijl), published 1695, 1 p.

Dusart, Cornelis (1660-1704); Gole, Jacob (c. 1660-1724) · 1695 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€726.00 ($800.18 | £605.68 | ¥127,779)

A three-quarter length male figure in profile towards the left, lighting a firework rocket; at left a boy holding a torch, at right another holding more rockets and a male figure looking upon them. Signed lower lef: 'C. Dusart inv. J. Gole Ex. Amstelodami / cum Privilegio Ord. H…

Designs by Mr. R. Bentley, for Six Poems by Mr. T. Gray

Gray, Thomas (1716-1771) and R. [Richard]Bentley (1708-1782 - artist) · 1753 · Wittenborn Art Books

$1,200.00 (€1,088.75 | £908.31 | ¥191,624)

London: R. Dodsley,1753. (Folio) 37.5 x 26 cm (14¼ x 10½"), quarter period roan and marbled paper boards, gilt rules. Second Edition. Author:Thomas Gray (British, London 1716-1771 Cambridge) Designer: Richard Bentley (British, Cambridge, baptized 1708-1782 London) Engraver: T. S…

M Annaei Lucani Pharsaliae, Liber Primus

Lucani [Lucan]; W.E. Heitland and C.E. Haskins, eds. · 1907 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$25.60 (€23.23 | £19.38 | ¥4,088)

Cambridge, England, Cambridge University Press, 1907. Reprint Edition. Hardcover. Size: 16mo 6" - 7" tall. Stated reprint edition of the true First Edition, printed in 1875, and thus scarce thus in this 1907 edition, being his best-known epic poem. Black cloth over boards, shar…

Q. Horatius Flaccus, cum erudito Laevini Torrentii commentario, nunc primum in lucem edito. Item Petri Nannii Alcmariani in Artem Poëticam.

HORATIUS. · 1608 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€460.00 ($507.00 | £383.76 | ¥80,962)

Antwerp (Antverpiae), Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1608. 4to. (XX),839,(1 blank),(46 index) p. (2 engraved portraits, of Torrentius and Horace) Modern half vellum 26 cm (Ref: STCV:6607438; Schweiger 2,401: 'Commentar zeichnet sich durch Kenntniss der Grammatik…

La Vie D&Apos;Un Heros: Agrippa D&Apos;Aubigne

S. [Samuel] Rocheblave · 1912 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.99 | ¥34,810)

Paris, Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1912. First edition. Leather. A signed presentation copy of this vivid biography, chronicling the life of French poet and soldier Agrippa d'Aubigne. A rare first edition. Author's signed presentation copy, with his inscription dated 19…

Selected Poems of Francis Thompson

Francis Thompson; Wilfrid Meynell · 1911 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.81 | $191.57 | ¥30,590)

London, Methuen and Co.; Burns and Oates, 1911. Leather. A very smart collection of poems by Francis Thompson, with a biographical note by his friend, the publisher and editor Wilfrid Meynell. The fifteenth thousand of this work in a quarter vellum binding with paper boards. Top…

Letters Speeches and Tracts on Irish Affairs

Edmund Burke; Matthew Arnold [ed.] · 1881 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.74 | ¥10,337)

London, Macmillan and Co. 1881. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition comprising the writings of Edmund Burke, previously owned by descendants of his associate and literary executor, French Laurence. First edition. This copy bearing the bookplate of the Laurence family, w…

Chambers&Apos;S Cyclopã¦Dia of English Literature a History, Critical and Biographical, of British Authors with Specimens of Their Writings. Originally Edited by Robert Chambers, LL. D. In Two Volumes.

Robert Chambers · 1882 · Rooke Books

£252.99 (€303.25 | $334.24 | ¥53,373)

London, W and R Chambers, 1882. Fine Binding. A beautifully bound copy of this popular nineteenth century reference work. Illustrated throughout, bound in a very attractive dark green calf leather, smart red spine labels and gilt detail. Robert Chambers (1802 – 1871), Scottish a…

Julia Elizabeth: A Comedy in One Act

James Stephens · 1929 · Rooke Books

£46.00 (€55.14 | $60.77 | ¥9,705)

New York, Crosby Gaige, 1929. First edition. Hardback. The signed limited edition of a domestic comedy written by Irish author James Stephens, a friend of James Joyce. The signed limited edition of Julia Elizabeth: A Comedy in One Act, written by Irish novelist and poet James St…