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Thebaid 4. Edited with an Introduction, Translation, and commentary by R. Parkes.

STATIUS, · 2012 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€140.00 ($154.31 | £116.78 | ¥24,644)

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2012. XXXVIII,357p. Original hard bound with pictorial dust wrappers. Spine gilt titled. Like new. 'P.'s volume provides a meticulously researched commentary on the whole of Book 4. P. provides her own revised text with a brief apparatus, using …

Epistulae ex Ponto. Book I. Edited by G. Tissol.

OVID, · 2014 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€26.65 ($29.37 | £22.23 | ¥4,691)

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014. IX,191p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. 'The stated intention of the author was to produce a teaching tool. In this Tissol succeeds admirably. The book is concise and relatively user-friendly, even if readers …

Farewell Britannia: A Family Saga of Roman Britain

Young, Simon · 2007 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£17.70 (€21.22 | $23.39 | ¥3,735)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson. First UK edition-first printing. Book. Fine condition.Weidenfeld & Nicolson,2007.First UK edition-first printing(1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2).Tan hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(two small nicks on the edges of the Dj cover),both in fine condition.…

Old-Fashioned Verses

William T. Hornaday · 1919 · Rooke Books

£77.00 (€92.31 | $101.74 | ¥16,249)

New York, Clark and Fritts, 1919. Cloth. A signed poetic anthology based on the fascinating thoughts and experiences of American pioneering wildlife conservationist William T. Hornaday. The signed edition of Old-Fashioned Verse, a poetic anthology written by American zoologist a…

Panegyricus Cum Notis Integris Arntzenio

Latinius Pacatus Drepanius · 1753 · Rooke Books

£895.00 (€1,072.95 | $1,182.62 | ¥188,871)

Amsterdam, Apud Viduam and Filium S Schouten , 1753. Disbound. A very scarce work of Pacatus Drepaius' Panegryricus, an extant speech, considered the best of its kind. With notes from a number of prominent scholars. Very scarce. With the signatures *-3*⁴ 4*² (-4*2) A-…

Country Works by J.H. B. Peel

J. H. B. Peel · 1973 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London, Robert Hale, 1973-1984. First edition. Cloth. A four volume set of works on the countryside by Peel, with illustrations throughout. Four volumes. First editions. Written by John Hugh Brignal Peel, a British journalist, author and poet, who wrote about farming and the cou…

Poems

Thomas Townshend · 1796 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, E. and S. Harding, Pall Mall, 1796. First edition. Leather. The first illustrated edition of this collection of poetry by Irish poet Thomas Townshend, bound in a half-calf binding and illustrated with several engravings. First Illustrated Edition. Illustrated with fourt…

En Bouteille a Travers L&Apos;Atlantique de Key West (Floride) Au Cap Nord (Norvege) Par le Gulf-Stream

Ernest d'Hervilly [Ernest Hervilly] · 1895 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

Paris, Combet & Cie, 1895 . Cloth. Illustrated throughout, this is an early edition of Ernest d'Hervilly's thrilling novel about a family's voyage across the Atlantic. First published in 1894, this is an early edition of this scarce work.In a green variant of the …

Revaluations: Studies in Biography

Lascelles Abercrombie; Lord David Cecil; G. K. Chesterton; G. D. H. Cole; Stephen Gwynn; James Laver; Et al. · 1931 · Rooke Books

£149.00 (€178.63 | $196.88 | ¥31,443)

Oxford; London, Oxford University Press; Humphrey Milford, 1931. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this collection of biographical reassessments, with essays by G. K. Chesterton, Lord David Cecil, and others, in the original dust wrapper. In the publisher's …

Possible Tomorrows: Five Stories

Isaac Asimov; Kingsley Amis; J. T. McIntosh [James Murdoch MacGregor]; James H. Schmitz; F. L. Wallace; Groff Conklin [editor] · 1972 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd, 1972. First edition. Cloth. A smart first UK edition of this collection of short stories, edited by American science fiction writer Groff Conklin. First UK edition. A collection of five fascinating short novels probing into the possible futures of…

Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry

Thomas Tusser; Walter Scott; Rudyard Kipling; E.V. Lucas · 1931 · Rooke Books

£145.00 (€173.83 | $191.60 | ¥30,599)

London, James Tregaskis & Son, 1931. Leather. A limited edition copy of Thomas Tusser's sixteenth century work on husbandry, handsomely bound in full morocco by Bain and Company. A near fine copy of Thomas Tusser's famous sixteenth-century work on husbandry, agricultur…

Cranford & Our Village

Mrs. Gaskell; Mary Russell Mitford · 1892 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.85 | $165.17 | ¥26,379)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1892-1893. First edition. Cloth. Two smart volumes of these illustrated novels from English writers Elizabeth Gaskell and Mary Russell Mitford. Two volumes. Both illustrated throughout with in-text images from Hugh Thomson, an Irish illustrator…

Adventures of an Aide-de-Camp

James Grant · 1822 · Rooke Books

£97.00 (€116.29 | $128.17 | ¥20,470)

London & New York, George Routledge and Sons, c1890. Leather. A lovely rebound military novel by Scottish novelist James Grant. James Grant (1822-1887) was a Scottish novelist and a distant relation of celebrated poet, Sir Walter Scott. He wrote around ninety books, including fi…

Harvest-Home: Consisting of Supplementary Gleanings, Original Dramas and Poems, Contributions of Literary Friends, and Select Re-Publications in Three Volumes

Samuel Pratt · 1805 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

London, Richard Phillips, 1805. Leather. The collected works of the prolific English poet, dramatist and novelist, Samuel Jackson Pratt, including the revised edition of his poem Sympathy. Complete in three volumes with a frontispiece portrait of the author to Volume I. Pratt au…

Cleanness; a Good Short Debate between Winner and Waster

SIr Israel Gollancz · 1974 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.74 | $64.75 | ¥10,340)

Cambridge; New Jersey, D. S. Brewer Ltd.; Rowman and Littlefield Inc. 1974. Cloth. Smart set of two 14th-century poems with resourceful translations and detailed notes by Sir Israel Gollancz. In two volumes.Bound in the publisher's original cloth. With unclipped dust wrappe…

Children of Adam from Leaves of Grass. Kinder Adams aus Grashalme. Poems by Walt Whitman, Artwork by Paul Cava /Gedichte von Walt Whitman illustriert von Paul Cava

Walt Whitman 16077, Paul Cava 317118 · 2005 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€49.50 ($54.56 | £41.29 | ¥8,713)

Ed. Galerie Vevais, 2005, Paperback, 166, Limited soft cover edition of 700 copies. Edition Galerie Vevais is pleased to present an illustrated edition of the Children of Adam cycle of poems from the American literary masterpiece , Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman. 'Children of A…

A Lizard and Other Distractions (SIGNED COPY)

Ward, Philip · 1969 · Bookbarrow

£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)

Magpie Press, London, 1969. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Near Fine Condition/Very Good. Signed by Author. Philip Ward, born 1938 in Harrow, England, was founder and Publisher of the "Private Library". ‘A Lizard and Other Distractions’ possess the unexpected unity o…

Maclean's - Canada's National Magazine, April 11, 1959

KATZ, SIDNEY; LEFOLII, KEN; MACLENNAN, HUGH; BLANTON, DR. SMILEY; GORDON, ARTHUR; CLAIRE, JOHN; NEWMAN, PETER C.; BODSWORTH, FRED; FRAYNE, TRENT; ATTLEE, CLEMENT; BAXTER, BEVERLEY · 1959 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$199.95 (€181.41 | £151.32 | ¥31,933)

Canada: Maclean Hunter, 1959. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Franklin. 96 pages. Features: Nice GWG apparel ad (for women) inside front cover; Two-page colour ad for Simmons mattresses; Canada should get out of the Arctic - so says Clement Attlee; White Rose service stati…

Monumenta Paderbornensia ex historia Romana, Francica, Saxonica eruta et novis inscriptionibus, figuris, tabulis geographicis & notis illustrata. ... Editio tertia ...Frankfurt, Leipzig, Christoph Riegel (printed by Johann Ernest Adelbulner [in Nürnberg]), 1713. 4to. With engraved author's portrait, engraved title-page, letterpress title-page with an engraved device, 3 folding engraved maps, 2 folding engraved views, 26 further engraved plates and some small woodcut illustrations in text.Including (with a drop-title): [HORION, J. de]. Paneygyricus, die natali Academiae Theodorianae Paderbornensis.[Frankfurt, Leipzig, Christoph Riegel, 1713]. With an engraved author's portrait, an engraved title-page and one engraved plate. 4to. Contemporary vellum, red sprinkled edges.

[FÜRSTENBERG, Ferdinand von]. · 1626 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€2,500.00 ($2,755.52 | £2,085.36 | ¥440,073)

[48], 309, [19]; [14], 134, [34] pp.Third edition of a famous, beautifully illustrated chronicle of the city and Prince-Bishopric of Paderborn in the northwest German Duchy of Westphalia, written by the Prince Bishop, Ferdinand of Fürstenberg (1626-1683) and first published in 1…

Legends and Lyrics. A Book of Verses

Adelaide Anne Procter; Charles Dickens · 1892 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, George Bell & Sons, 1892. Leather. A nicely bound complete set of Adelaide Anne Procter's complete poetry, with religious and charitable poems, with an introduction by Charles Dickens. Complete in two volumes. A collection of poems and lyrics, the majority of which …