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Art and Science. Volume Two

Stella Panayotova, Paola Ricciardi (eds) · 2019 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€150.00 ($165.32 | £125.14 | ¥26,400)

, Brepols - Harvey Miller, 2019 Hardback, 224 pages, Size:220 x 280 mm, Illustrations:240 col., Language: English. ISBN 9781912554133. TABLE OF CONTENTS VISION, COLOUR AND MEANING Vision and Colour in the Works of Giotto and His Contemporaries - Donal Cooper Robert Grossetes…

Grundriss der Entwickelungsmechanik. Mit 143 Textfiguren.

Haacke, Wilhelm: · 1897 · Antiquariat Bürck

Spedisce da Germania · non spedisce in Russia

€51.75 ($57.04 | £43.17 | ¥9,108)

Leipzig: Verlag von Arthur Georgi. 1897 398 Seiten, 1 Blatt. Original-Leinen mit goldgeprägtem Titel und dreiseitig rotgefärbtem Schnitt. Gross-Oktav, 24,6 cm (Einband etwas bestossen und beschabt, schiefgelesen, Innenfalze leicht angeplatzt, Bibliothekseinkleber und mehrfach …

Le &Apos;Francais&Apos; Au Pole Sud, Journal de L&Apos;Expedition Antarctique Francaise 1903-1905

Jean-Baptiste Charcot; A. Matha; J. J. Rey · 1906 · Rooke Books

£400.00 (€479.46 | $528.42 | ¥84,383)

Paris, E. Flammarion, 1906. Leather. A French work on the 1903-05 Antarctic Expedition led by Jean-Baptiste Charcot, illustrated with detailed folding maps. In the original French.Recounting the 1903-1905 French expedition to the Antarctic, an adventure led by Jean-Baptiste Char…

Hogarth Living Poets

Various · 1928 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.40 | $581.27 | ¥92,821)

London, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1928-32. First edition. Hardback. A scarce set of five volumes from Hogarth's 'Living Poets' series, a nice collection of works by eminent interwar poets. The first editions, first impressions.A scarce set o…

Scientific results of the Elder Exploring Expedition. II. [AND] III (last).

Tate, R. (ed.) · 1893 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€400.00 ($440.85 | £333.71 | ¥70,399)

Adelaide, W. C. Rigby (for the Royal Society of South Australia), 1893-1896. Two volumes (of three) in two. 8vo (21.3 x 14.0 cm). 317 pp. [numbered 69-386]; 38 plates (numbered II-XXXIX), of which seven in chromolithography, and three larger, folded. Very large, partly coloured …

Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M. S. Beagle

J. Lort Stokes · 1846 · Rooke Books

£2,975.00 (€3,565.96 | $3,930.16 | ¥627,597)

London, T. and W. Boone, 1846. First edition. Cloth. The uncommon first edition of Admiral John Lort Stokes' very important first hand account of the last major official expedition to Australia, illustrated throughout. Admiral John Lort Stokes' fascinating first hand a…

With a Grace Not to Be Captured: Representing the Georgian Theatrical Dancer, 1760-1830

Michael Burden, Jennifer Thorp (eds) · 2021 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, x + 198 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, 77 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503583563. Summary If dance on the London stage can be said to have had a 'golden age', it might be thought to be the years between 1760 and 1830. The changes…

communautés menacées au Haut Moyen Âge (VIe-XIe s.)

Geneviève Bührer-Thierry, Annette Grabowsky, Steffen Patzold (eds) · 2021 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€65.00 ($71.64 | £54.23 | ¥11,440)

, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 248 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Language(s):French, German, English. ISBN 9782503591094. Summary Ce volume découle d'une double interrogation: sur la manière dont on peut appréhender les communautés du haut Moyen Âge, qu'elles soient religieuses ou pol…

Bibliothèque Cistercienne [20 tomes] : Vie de Saint Bernard, Vies de saint Robert et de Saint Albéric, Vie de saint Etienne Harding, [etc.]

NN · 1874 · Antiquariaat Pieter Judo (De Lezenaar)

€600.00 ($661.28 | £500.57 | ¥105,598)

Lérins, Typographie de Notre-Dame de Lérins Série de 16 ouvrages en 20 tomes, reliés en 6 volumes physiques, 18cm., reliures uniformes cartonnées (dos en cuir rouge avec titre et nerfs dorés, plats marbrés, qqs. traces d'usage), feuilles de garde marbrées, quelques rousseurs o…

Domestic Management; or, the Healthful Cookery-Book. To Which Is Prefixed a Treatise on Debit, As the Surest Means to Preserv Health, Long Life, &C. With Many Valuable Observations on the Nutritious and Beneficial As Well As the Injurious Effects of Various Kinds of Food; Also Remarks on the Wholesome and Pernicious Modes of Cookery. Intended As an Antidote to Modern Errors Therein. To Which Is Added, the Method of Treating Such Trifling Medical Cases As Properly Come Within the Sphere of Domest

[Annabella Plumtree] · 1813 · Rooke Books

£1,150.00 (€1,378.44 | $1,519.22 | ¥242,600)

London, B. and R. Crosby & Co, 1813. Hardback. Unheard of in the original boards, a second edition of this uncommon cookery book and treatise on diet and health, written by the writer and translator Annabella Plumtree. Illustrated with a frontispiece. The second edition of this …

Cape of Good Hope: Caffre War and Death of Hintza. Copies or Extracts of Any Despatches Which Have Been Received from, or Addressed to, the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope, Relative to the Late Caffre War, and to the Death of Hintza: - Also, Copies of the Instructions Given to the Lieutenant-Governor of the Frontier Districts.

G. Grey [ed.]; Mr Burton · 1836 · Rooke Books

£4,950.00 (€5,933.27 | $6,539.25 | ¥1,044,237)

London, Colonial Department, Downing Street, 1836. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce dossier of communications about the Caffre War and death of Xhosa King Hintza, published for members of the House of Commons. A very scarce and important government publication documenting the…

6 Vols in 1 a Selection of Six French Plays, Opera-Comique and Pantomime

Voltaire; Moliere; [F. G. J. S. Andrieux.]; Lucien Arnault; Darlington; [Louis Henry] · 1798 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

Paris, Librairie des Spectacles de Sa Majeste; Chez Bailly; Ponthieu; Mme Huet and Barba; Chez Quoy, 1798-1822. Leather. An interesting theatrical sammelband bringing together six separately published examples of French tragedy, comedy, opera-comique and pantomime by writers inc…

Mémoires De M. Caron De Beaumarchais, [Écuyer, Conseiller-Secrétaire du Roi, Lieutenant-Général des Chasses au Bailliage & Capitainerie de la Varenne du Louvre, grande Vénerie & Fauconnerie de France, accusé de corruption de Juge: Contre M. Goezman, Conseiller de Grand-Chambre au Parlement de Paris, accusé de Subornation & de Faux. Mme Goezman, & le Sieur Bertrand, accusés. Le Sieur Marin, Gazetier de France, & Le Sieur Darnaud-Baculard, Conseiller d'Ambassade, assignés comme Témoins].

Beaumarchais, Pierre-Augustin Caron de. · 1773 · Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel

€350.00 ($385.75 | £292.00 | ¥61,599)

Paris, Ruault, 1773-1775. [3] Bl., 40, 64, 78, 109, 28 S., 4, 24, 28, VIII, 84 S. Mit einem Portraitkupfer als Frontispiz. 25 cm. Ldr. d. Zeit m. ornamentaler Rückenvergoldung. Sammelband mit 10 Beiträgen. - Hintergrund waren Erbstreitigkeiten zwischen dem Autor von "Figaros …

Le jardin des caresses.May and June 1936. 11.5 x 12 cm. Manuscript in French written by the author in blank ink a neat 20th-century hand in one column. Chapter divisions are made in the form of a calligraphic leaf, drawn in the same black ink as the text. Bound in contemporary richly gold-tooled arabesque beige morocco with a flap at the front-edge, covered with gold-tooled green morocco on the inside, purple and white head and end bands, gold and light blue endpapers. Stored in a professionally made beige morocco box (ca. 15 x 15 cm) with a gold-tooled three-line fillet frame on the boards, on the inside covered with light pink silk, title in gold on the spine.

TOUSSAINT, Franz. · 1925 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€7,500.00 ($8,265.99 | £6,257.08 | ¥1,319,975)

[3 blank], [141], [13 blank] pp.Autograph copy of Le jardin des caresses, Toussaint's famous collection of Moorish erotic poems, written and inscribed by the author himself as a gift to a his second wife. The work is considered to be a classic of 20th-century French orientalism.…

American Porcelain: 1770-1920

Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney · 1989 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

Book Very Good No Jacket 1st Edition The Museum of Modern Art, New York English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 24 x 29 cm.; 1.8 kg.; 320 pages with 221 illustrations, including 169 in colour, bibliography and index.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. T…

Telephone Talk, Magazine of the British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel), November - December, 1958

DRUMMOND-HAY, C.R.: EDITOR; LOVE, PEGGY · 1958 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$99.95 (€90.69 | £75.66 | ¥15,961)

Vancouver, B.C.: British Columbia Telephone Company (B.C. Tel), 1958. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by Flett, Agnes; Chesterman, R.P.; Moonen, F.H.. 36 pages. Cover photo of Pat James. Contents: Christmas greetings from Mr. McLean, head of the company, inside front cover…

Parlor game 1649 | Les oracles divertissans (...) Goude G. de Hoeve 1649 TOGETHER WITH Traite curieux et recreatif des couleurs (...) Goude G. de Hoeve 1649, [11]+71 pp and [2]+3-89+[1] pp. Manuscript annotations and ownership notes.

M.W.D.L.C. = Marc de Vulson de la Colombière · 1658 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€599.50 ($660.73 | £500.15 | ¥105,510)

<strong>Rare early copy (only four copies known in STCN) of this parlor game with manay questions and answers in order to communicatie, most often with young ladies. Amusing collections of prophecy's, predictions, games, symbols, esoteric knowledge. Combining the symbolism of co…

French Oil Sketches and the Academic Tradition: Selections from a Private Collection on Loan to the University Art Museum of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Walch, Peter (introduction); commentaries by Barnes, Joanna R. and Marandel, J. Patrice with the assistance of Gustafson, Donna; Laing, Alastair and Latreille, Alain · 1994 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

Book Good Dust Jacket Included The American Federation of Arts in Association with the University of Pennsylvania Press English text.; Hardcover (with dust jacket).; 31 x 23.5 cm.; 1.1 kg.; 191 pages with colour illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interio…

Pièces de théâtre. Recueil de 25 comédies en cinq actes et 13 tragédies en cinq actes, reliées en 4 volumes. Pour la plupart des nouvelles éditions, éditées à Paris par Ruault (12), Didot l'Ainé (5), Duchesne (5), Delalain, Jombert, Prault fils, Compagnie des Libraires Associés, et Monory. À Avignon chez Louis Chambeau (4), à Marseille chez Jean Mossy (4), à Lausanne et Genève chez Grasset (2) et à Toulon chez Mallard.

Voltaire, Destouches, Colardeau, Boursault, Scarron, Montfleury, Dorat, Marmontel, etc. · 1763 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€800.00 ($881.71 | £667.42 | ¥140,797)

Paris, etc., various publ., 1763-1788 38 parts in 4 vols. 8vo (20x13 cm). Contemporary half leather, spines gilt with ribbons; with red and green morocco title-labels; marbled covers. Titles with title-vignette; woodcut headpieces. - 1) NN (Voltaire). Le dépositaire. Lausanne, G…

Travelling in the Eastern Mediterranean, c. 1300-1500. Politics, Agency, and the Production of Space

Eleni Tounta, Nikolaos Chrissis (eds) · 2026 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€135.00 ($148.79 | £112.63 | ¥23,760)

, Brepols, 2026 Hardback, Pages: x + 398, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, 10 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503619651. Summary Travel and mobility for political, military, economic, religious, and intellectual purposes were crucial in shaping the medieval eastern Me…