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Henri POURRAT - Henri CHARLIER · 1945 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€150.00 ($165.33 | £125.12 | ¥26,404)

Albin Michel | Paris 1945 | 12 x 19 cm | broché | Edition originale imprimée à 750 exemplaires numérotés sur Auvergne. Ouvrage illustré de 66 dessins d'Henri Charlier. Agréable exemplaire en dépit de la page de faux-titre et la dernière garde partiell…

Dialogi septendecim [Ensemble] Dialogi duo

Ianus NICIUS ERYTHREUS · 1645 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€250.00 ($275.55 | £208.54 | ¥44,007)

Apud Iodocum Kalcovium | Coloniae Ubiorum 1645 | 9.50 x 15.50 cm | relié | Edition originale, rare. Un portrait au frontispice. Le second ouvrage est à la date de 1643, à Cologne, chez Ioanne Kinckie, et contient deux dialogues religieux. Reliure en plein velin d'époque. Dos à n…

How to Read [First Issue]

POUND, Ezra (1885-1972) · 1931 · Fine Editions Ltd

$364.00 (€330.25 | £275.47 | ¥58,133)

London, Desmond Harmsworth, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. A spectacular First Printing of this rancorous essay on literary instruction, language, criticism, and much else, including a checklist of recommended writers, beginning with Confucius and down through Flaubert and Rimb…

Divan-i Izzet. Bulaq, Maṭbaʻat Ṣāḥib al-Saʻādah, A.H. 1255 [1840].

KEÇECI-ZÂDE IZZET MOLLA: · 1785 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€2,600.00 ($2,865.74 | £2,168.78 | ¥457,676)

Small folio. Lvs (236). Text in Ottoman Turkish. Contemporary Turkish leather binding with envelope flap, beautifully decorated in gilt with rectangular centrepieces on covers with a design of cross-work in the form of leaves within decorated borders, lightly rubbed, expertly re…

From Somalia with Love

Na'ima B. Robert · 2009 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,015)

Frances Lincoln Children's Books 2009 Paperback, 160pp. Safia Dirie is a teenage girl living in East London with her mother, Hoyo, and two older brothers, Ahmed and Abdullahi. Though she was born in Somalia, she doesn’t really remember it — Safia’s a London girl, through and thr…

Navis carmen.Rennes, widow of Mathurnus Denys, 1695. With a folding engraved plate of a 44-gun ship. With: (2) CHARLEVAL, Charles-François de. Simius carmen.Rennes, widow of Mathurnus Denys, [ca. 1695]. 2 works in 1 volume. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gold-tooled spine.

CHARLEVAL, Charles-François de. · 1667 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,950.00 ($3,251.51 | £2,460.73 | ¥519,286)

34, [2 blank], 31 pp.Ad 1: Rare first and only edition of a Neo-Latin poem on ships and shipbuilding, including several lines on the etymology of the various terms used to describe a ship, which are depicted on a folding engraving. Although elegantly composed, the author seeming…

Poems

Charles Kingsley · 1892 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1892. Leather. A leather bound collection of poetry by Charles Kingsley. This work is in smart, green half morocco binding, with gilt tooling to the spine, with marbled boards and endpapers. This is the second impression of the second edition of the wor…

Memoirs de Madame de Motteville, Pour Sevir a L&Apos;Histoire D&Apos;Anne D&Apos;Autriche. In Five Volumes

Francoise Bertaut de Motteville · 1822 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.49 | $581.40 | ¥92,853)

Paris, Colnet Libraire, 1822. Leather. A scarce set of de Motteville's history of Queen Anne of Austria. Complete in five volumes. Françoise Bertaut de Motteville (c.1621 – 1689), French memoir writer, was the daughter of Pierre Bertaut, a gentleman of the king's cha…

Analysis of Mr. Tennyson&Apos;S &Apos;in Memoriam&Apos;

Rev. Frederick W. Robertson · 1890 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co, Limited, 1890. Cloth. Frederick Robertson's interesting critical study of the poem 'In Memoriam' by Alfred Tennyson. The thirteenth edition of this work. An interesting literary study and criticism on Alfred Tennyson'…

Three Works Published by Black Sparrow Press

James Broughton; Wright Morris; Bradford Morrow; Et Al. · 1981 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)

Santa Rosa, Black Sparrow Press, 1981-1997. First edition. Cloth. A fine collection of three works published by The Black Sparrow Press in Santa Rosa, two of which are signed and one with a signed letter from the author. Limited edition. Bound in the publisher"s quarter cloth. A…

Poems Original and Translated

George Gordon, Lord Byron · 1808 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Newark, S. and J. Ridge , 1808. Leather. An enlarged and revised edition of Lord Byron's culminating work, first published under 'Hours of Idleness&apos. Second edition.Bound in half calf with cloth boards and raised bands. Without half title. Engraved frontispiece.Byr…

Stanze di cultura sopra gli horti de le donne, stampate nuovamente. Et historiate [avec] Stanze in lode della menta • Stances cultivées sur les jardins des femmes, nouvellement imprimées et illustrées [avec] Stances à la louange de la menthe

Luigi TANSILLO · 1537 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€9,000.00 ($9,919.86 | £7,507.30 | ¥1,584,263)

s. l. • [Venise] 1537 | 14.60 x 9.20 cm | 2 textes reliés en 1 volume | Rarissime édition de ces gaillardises, complète des deux parties parues séparément. Elle est illustrée de quatre vignettes sur bois, empruntées au Decameron de Boccace (Venise, 1531) et subtilement détourné…

An Original Letter to Jacques Des Gachons from H Martin

H. Martin Fils · 1919 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

Xertigny, Vosges, None, 1919 . First edition. Unbound. A delightful handwritten letter from a little-known poet to prominent writer and editor Jacques des Gachons, requesting that the latter read and review his volume of poems. Dated 27/12/1919, this is a very scarce handwritten…

Casparis Barlaei Poematum Editio Nova Priore Castigatior Et Altera Parte Auctior Cum Privilegio

Casparis Barlaei · 1631 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.24 | $858.88 | ¥137,169)

Lvgdv Batav, Ex Officina Elzeviriana, 1631. Leather. A lovely pocket sized collection of poetry. Well preserved, and in a very clean state. In Latin, this work is by the hand of Caspar Barlaeus. An early edition of this work, which was published in Barlaeus' lifetime. A ver…

[Occasional poem, 1796] Op den dood van Harriot Sowden, overleden den 7 october 1796, oud 3 jaaren. z.p. 8º: [4] p.

Themmen, Phoebus Hitzerus · 1796 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€59.95 ($66.08 | £50.01 | ¥10,553)

Dated: 1796, 7 oktober Poem undersigned by Phoebus Hitzerus Themmen, medicinae doctor.This poem deals with the death of Harriot Sowden, 3 years old. On the moment of her death her mother was 8 months a widow, she was hit by a luggage cart broken loose at the flower market. Jacob…

A Collection of Original Drawings for an Unpublished Edition of "Wayfaring Folk" by C. Fox Smith

Albert Cox, Elijah (1876-1955) · 1940 · Wittenborn Art Books

$950.00 (€861.91 | £718.96 | ¥151,721)

Leigh-on-Sea, England: F. Lewis, circa 1940s-1950s. Original color drawings and ink drawings. Two on board 38 x 27cm. and 7 on 2 large sheets. E A Cox was born in Islington, London. He studied at Whitechapel People's Palace and at Bolt Court, and later at the London College of P…

Select Epigrams of Martial. Translated and Imitated by William Hay, Esq; with an Appendix of some by Cowley, and other Hands.

MARTIAL. · 1755 · Forest Books

£161.25 (€193.31 | $213.07 | ¥34,029)

London: London: Printed for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-mall, 1755. 12mo (170 x 100 mm), [4], v, [3], 139 [i.e.239], [25]pp., presentation copy and a relevant autograph letter, both from Edmund Blunden, presentation inscription in pencil on fly-leaf “Douglas Grant from Edmund Bl…

Soho Night and Day (Signed, dedicated to Randall Swingler)

Norman, Frank; Bernard, Jeffrey · 1966 · 84 Charing Cross Road Books

£302.30 (€362.41 | $399.45 | ¥63,794)

Secker & Warburg. First Edition. Collectable - Good Condition. Signed by Author. ~~Signed by Jeff Bernard, dedicated to Communist poet Randall Swingler and his wife Geraldine~~Good+ 1st ed 1966 Secker hardback, original larger format compared to the paperback. Small chipped area…

Nomenclator ex Historia plantarum indigenarum Helvetiae excerptus auctore. Bern, Societatis Typographicæ [colophon: [D.] Brunner & [Albrecht von] Haller], 1769. 8vo. With title-vignette. 19th-century boards, covered with sprinkled paper.

HALLER, Albrecht von · 1768 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[4], 216 pp.First edition of the author's own epitome of his great flora of Switzerland, Historia Stirpium Indigenarum Helvetiae Inchoata (3 folio volumes with about 1000 pages, 1768). The Swiss physiologist, botanist and poet Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) here gives a numbere…

Rare literature 1818 | Het nut der tegenspoeden (first chapter) door Lucretia Wilhelmina van Merken, Amsterdam Wed G. Warnars 1818, 48 pp.

Merken, van Lucretia Wilhelmina · 1774 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€163.50 ($180.21 | £136.38 | ¥28,781)

Rare book with Het nut der tegenspoeden published separately with only the first chapter of the complete book with 900 poetry lines. On the title page the portrait of Lucretia van Merken by W. van Senus.This is the portrait with the visible decolleté, cleavage. Van Merken took t…