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Erotokritos.

HOLTON, D., · 1991 · Scrinium Classical Antiquity

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,041)

Bristol Classical Press, Bristol / Caratzas, New Rochelle, 1991. VIII,88p. Paperback. (Rare). ‘The subject of this book, the 10,000-line romance ‘Erotokritos’ written in the Cretan dialect at the turn of the seventeenth century, is in several senses a central one in the study …

Notes Taken from Professor Veitch&Apos;S Lectures from December 11th Glasgow University Session 1865-6

John Veitch; Archibald Craig · 1855 · Rooke Books

£2,900.00 (€3,476.61 | $3,831.95 | ¥611,986)

None, None, 1855-1856. Cloth. A unique manuscript account of Professor John Veitch's lectures at Glasgow University during the 1860s. Hand-written by a student at the time, Archibald Craig In a charming clothbound notebook. With nineteen separate lectured outlined to the s…

Gio Ponti.

Licitra, Salvatore & Stefano Casciani: · 2021 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.83 | ¥35,206)

2021, (36 x 36 cm), 572 pp. English text, numerous ills., hardcover. To study Gio Ponti’s prolific body of work is to appreciate the clear, unifying vision behind a complex creative universe. A synthesis of the arts, his creations expand intuitively with the Italian grandeur and…

Drunk as a Lord. Samurai stories

Shiba, Ryotaro · 2001 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€25.00 ($27.56 | £20.85 | ¥4,401)

Kodansha International, 2001 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 253 pages. Text in English. As new. “Drunk as a Lord” is the life story of a poet-turned-daimyo, who, although he is a man of culture, is also a brazen alcoholic with a vicious bite when it comes to debate. Outwardly a “l…

Life of William Blake

Alexander Gilchrist; William Blake · 1880 · Rooke Books

£1,475.00 (€1,768.28 | $1,949.01 | ¥311,269)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1880. Cloth. The second and expanded edition of Alexander Gilchrist's illustrated biography on the life and work of William Blake. The second, expanded edition.Complete in two volumes.An insightful biography on the life and work of William Blake, b…

La Sirãƒâ¨Ne Blessãƒâ©E

Èmile Ripert · 1920 · Rooke Books

£480.00 (€575.44 | $634.25 | ¥101,294)

Paris, Plon-Nourrit and Co. 1920. First edition. Paperback. The signed first edition of a scarce and obscure anthology by French intellectual Èmile Ripert, containing poetry and war-inspired play The Wounded Mermaid. The signed first edition of the scarce and curious anthology …

Mountain Craft

W. Cecil Slingsby; T. G. Longstaff; Geoffrey Winthrop Young [ed.]; et al. · 1934 · Rooke Books

£45.00 (€53.95 | $59.46 | ¥9,496)

London, Methuen & Co. Ltd. 1934. Cloth. An early edition of this comprehensive guide to mountaineering around the world, with illustrations throughout. The third edition of this work in the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription of "E. Dudley Ward" to the front…

UNPUBLISHED AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT: ALASKAN. "LET THERE BE LIGHT"

MILLER, Joaquin · 1890 · Charles Agvent

$31,250.00 (€28,352.21 | £23,649.85 | ¥4,990,818)

First Edition. Folio (8-1/4" x 11-3/4") consisting of 53 pages numbered to 54 (one page contains two numbers) on lined yellow paper with a few additions at the end on white paper pasted to the yellow pages with a calligraphic title page facing a photographic reproduction of Mill…

Verses

Ernest Dowson · 1896 · Rooke Books

£1,295.00 (€1,552.49 | $1,711.16 | ¥273,283)

London, Leonard Smithers, 1896 . First edition. Vellum. The first edition of Ernest Dowson's uncommon, limited edition collection of poems, in a binding designed by Aubrey Beardsley. An uncommon, limited edition work, with this being one of only three hundred 'small pa…

Holy Living and Dying

Jeremy Taylor · 1843 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.89 | $118.92 | ¥18,993)

Philadelphia, Thomas Wardle, 1843. Leather. A very scarce abridged edition of Jeremy Taylor's notable guide to both Holy Living and Holy Dying, including a preface of the cleric's life. A very scarce edition of Holy Living and Dying; With Prayers: Containing the Comple…

Poems and Drawings

Mervyn Peake; Maurice Collis [Foreword] · 1965 · Rooke Books

£375.00 (€449.56 | $495.51 | ¥79,136)

London, The Keepsake Press, 1965 . First edition. Paperback. An notably scarce trial state of Peake"s intimate combination of poetry and drawing, retaining the xerox wrap, surviving from a handful of rejected sheets subsequently assembled in this form. In the plain grey card wra…

To Catch a Spy: a Toby Peters Mystery

Stuart M. Kaminsky · 2002 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Carroll & Graf 2002 Hardback, 240pp. With a hilarious new Hollywood thriller and in the hire of the urbane, amusing screen star Cary Grant, private investigator Toby Peters continues a madcap career that has cast him as sleuth to such movie luminaries as Humphrey Bogart, the Mar…

Les fables d'Esope phrigien, avec celles de Philelphe. Traduction nouvelle, enriche de discours moraux & historiques, & de quatrains a` la fin de chaque discours. On a joint a` cette nouvelle traduction les Fables diverses de Gabrias, d'Avienus, & Les contes d'Esope.A Amsterdam, Chez Pierre Mortier, 1708. Two parts in one volume, 12mo. With an engraved frontispiece showing Aesop standing on a gallery holding an armillary sphere, hunting horn and spear, surrounded by a mixed crowd (including children), with a group of wild and domestic animals standing and lying below, 117 half-page engravings (6,5 x 8 cm) for the 117 numbered Aesop fables, initials, endpieces. Marbled half-morocco binding.

AESOP · 1481 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€395.00 ($435.37 | £329.49 | ¥69,532)

[12], 297, [7], [4], 287, [5] pp.Rare and beautifully illustrated edition of 117 Aesop's fables in French, each with an extensive discussion of the moral followed by a four-line verse, by Jean Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde. He adds French prose translations of further fables wit…

Haverhill, A Descriptive Poem, and Other Poems.

WEBB (John): · 1810 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£200.00 (€239.77 | $264.27 | ¥42,206)

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Nunn..., 1810 FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 12mo, 159 x 97 mms., pp. [5] 6 - 119 [120 blank], including list of subscribers, contemporary half calf, marbled boards, title in gilt on spine; extremities rubbed and spine darkened, but a ve…

1684 Emblemes by Fra Quarles Illustrated Engravings Grotesque Emblems Francis

Francis Quarles · 1684 · Rooke Books

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

London, J. Williams, 1684. Leather. A wonderfully illustrated example of this book of emblems by Francis Quarles. Francis Quarles (8 May 1592 – 8 September 1644) was an English poet most famous for this work. He was entered at Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1608, and subs…

English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers; a Satire

Lord Byron · 1809 · Rooke Books

£175.00 (€209.80 | $231.24 | ¥36,930)

London, James Cawthorn, c1809. Leather. A forgery of the first edition of English Bards, and Scotch Reviewers, a Satire by Lord Byron. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers is a satirical poem written by Lord Byron. It was first published, anonymously, in March 1809; the opening pa…

Fã-â«Rin: Collected Verses

Giles Dixey · 1948 · Rooke Books

£95.00 (€113.89 | $125.53 | ¥20,048)

Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1948. First edition. Cloth. The signed first edition of a poetic anthology written by Giles Dixey, containing over one hundred charming poems based on his personal experiences. The signed first edition of FÃ-«rin: Collected Verses, a comprehensive poeti…

More Poems

A. E. Housman · 1936 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1936 . Leather. A smart limited edition of A. E. Housman"s final selection of poetry, published posthumously. In the publisher's original quarter calf binding with cloth boards.A limited edition, being copy number one hundred and twelve of three hundr…

Fables from Aesop

James Reeves · 1961 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)

London, Blackie and Son, 1961. First edition. Leather. An attractively bound copy of these retold fables from Aesop, bound by collector and typographer Eric Sweet. The first edition of this retelling of Aesop's fables. In a unique modern rebind of quarter crushed morocco an…

Maison des cent dormeurs

Ania STARITSKY - Jacques IZOARD · 1973 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€2,300.00 ($2,535.08 | £1,918.53 | ¥404,867)

s. n. | s. l. 1973 | 29 x 23.3 cm | En feuilles sous chemise et étui | Edition originale imprimée à 40 numérotés sur papier "citronnelle de lin troué", le nôtre numéroté de 11 à 30 (N°30). Ouvrage illustré de gravures originales en couleurs d'Ania Staritsky qui a également compo…