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Death of a Naturalist [Signed]

HEANEY, Seamus (1939-2013) · 1966 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,624.00 (€1,473.44 | £1,229.24 | ¥259,332)

New York Oxford University Press First American Edition First Printing of the poet's critically acclaimed first commercially published work (preceded by the privately printed pamphlet, Eleven Poems, in 1965), one of only 1,000 copies (bound from sheets purchased from Faber and F…

Sheridan: A Biography

W Fraser Rae · 1896 · Rooke Books

£150.00 (€179.80 | $198.17 | ¥31,645)

London, Richard Bentley and Son, 1896. First edition. Leather. A signed presentation copy of W Fraser Rae's biography of Richard Brinsley Sheridan in two uniform volumes in Eyre & Spottiswoode binding. The first edition of this work. Complete in two volumes. Inscribed by th…

Poetry Greek language 1829 | Pindari Carmina ad optimorum librorum fidem accurate edita, editio stereotypa, Lipsiae (=Leipzig) Caroli Tauchnitz 1829, 264 pp. Book in Greek language richly annotated in manuscript writing.

Pindarus (pindar) · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€98.10 ($108.12 | £81.84 | ¥17,266)

Edition of the works of the ancient Greek poet Pinar in Greek language. Surviving odes of Pindar regarding the Olympian (Olympus), Pythian (Delphi), Nemean (nemea Poloponnesos) and Isthmian (Corinth, Isthmus of Corinth) games. The latin title indicates that the text was carefull…

LIBER, morborum incurabilium causas, mira brevitate, summa lectionis jecundidate exhibens, Medicis atque Theologis apprime ... ad V.D. Guidonem Patinum, Doctorem Medicum Parisiensem .. cum Praefatione ad J.Posthium & J. Obsopoeum... accessit ...B.u.w. 2) Fabritius de Paduanis, Tractatus De Morbis in quibus praesentaneis uti convenit remediis.

SEIDEL, Br. · 1662 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€425.00 ($468.43 | £354.56 | ¥74,802)

Lugduni Batavorum, Apud Petrum Hackium, 1662. Sm 8vo. W. small woodc. vign on title. Contemp. full clf., spine gilt, spine ends w. some dam., headbands intact. Corners bumped. Edges of covers giltruled. [*8, 2*1 [this leaf bound verso - recto], A-P8, Q3 (N6 signed N5)]. (XVIII…

Novels of George Eliot

George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans] · 1891 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Edinburgh and London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1891-1896. Leather. A smart complete set of the novels and short story collection of George Eliot, illustrated throughout. 8 novels bound into seven volumes. In a half red calf binding, with marbled boards, endpapers and fore edg…

One Ear" (Bullfight Series)

Childs, Bernard (1910 -1985) · 1958 · Wittenborn Art Books

$6,500.00 (€5,897.39 | £4,919.99 | ¥1,037,966)

Paris: 1958. Oil on canvas. 32 x 23.5 inches. 81 x 60 cm. Signed and dated lower right. It has his name B. Childs and address 4, rue de l'université on the verso of the canvas and the notation "7.61." Small scratch in the image. There is a label on the "museum grade honeycomb mo…

Renascence a Poem

Millay, Edna St. Vincent · 1924 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$300.00 (€272.19 | £227.08 | ¥47,906)

New York, 1924. 5 of appx. 126 (some say 180-186) copies printed and signed with the initials of the printer. Paperback. Tall narrow sewn wraps (4.25" x 9*.25") 8vo, original plain pale blue wrappers, sewn as issued, uncut. 11 pp + colophon + rear free endpaper. This is the firs…

Causes and Their Champions

HOWE, M. A. DE WOLFE · 1926 · S. Howlett-West Books

$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.71 | ¥4,791)

Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Company, 1926. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. The spine ends and corners of…

Specimen Days

Michael Cunningham · 2006 · Book Haven

NZ$11.50 (€5.76 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

HarperPerennial 2006 Paperback, 320pp. This is one of the most anticipated novels of this or any other year, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours.Specimen Days is three linked visionary narratives about the relationship between man and machine. The first narrative…

Il riposo ... in cui della pittura, e della scultura si favella, de piu illustri pittori, e scultori, e delle piu famose opere loro si fa mentione; e le cose principali appartenenti à dette arti s'insegnano.Florence, Giorgio Marescotti, 1584. 8vo. With Marescotti’s woodcut “et vult et potest” device on the title page (ship in an oval cartouche with motto, and a monogram at the foot) and a full-page allegorical woodcut on art and on fame in an oval cartouche, a woodcut tailpiece, and 6 woodcut decorated initials (4 series). 19th-century gold-tooled sheepskin parchment (ca. 1890?).

BORGHINI, Raffaello. · 1537 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.64 | £2,919.93 | ¥616,015)

[48], 648 pp.First edition, in the original Italian, of a classic account of the history and science of Renaissance art and artists: “the first art treatise specifically directed towards a lay audience” (Ellis, p. 2). Written by Raffaele Borghini (1537-1588), a Florentine poet a…

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Andrew Lang; Walter Herries Pollock · 1887 · Rooke Books

£395.00 (€473.47 | $521.85 | ¥83,333)

London, Longmans, Green & Co, 1887 . First edition. Paperback. The uncommon first edition of this humorous contemporary parody of H. Rider Haggard's 'She', co-authored by Haggard's friend, Andrew Lang. The uncommon first edition of this work. Likely the secon…

Sir Walter Scott"S Waverley Novels

Sir Walter Scott · 1862 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.74 | ¥62,236)

Edinburgh, Adam and Charles Black, 1862-1863. Leather. A lovely set of Sir Walter Scott's Waverley novels, twenty-four volumes uniformly bound in twelve. Twenty-four volumes bound in twelve, in half calf bindings with marbled boards and gilt detailing to the spines. Inscrib…

Specimen Days

Michael Cunningham · 2006 · Book Haven

NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)

HarperPerennial 2006 Paperback, 320pp. From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of ?~The Hours' comes a new thrilling and thought-provoking masterpiece.?~Specimen Days' is a novel made up of three linked visionary narratives about the relationship between man and machine. The firs…

Theatrum Poetarum Anglicanorum

Edward Phillips; Sir Egerton Brydges [ed.] · 1824 · Rooke Books

£440.00 (€527.41 | $581.30 | ¥92,826)

Geneva, Press of Bonnant, 1824. Leather. A limited edition copy of this biographical and critical work of poetry and poets prior to 1675, from the library of former Prime Minister Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery. A fascinating biographical and critical work of poetry an…

Oeuvres Completes de Moliere

J. B. de Moliere · 1893 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.13 | $858.74 | ¥137,130)

Paris, E. Dentu, 1893. Leather. An extremely charming uniformly bound set complete in twelve volumes of the works of Moliere, the first edition thus with the illustrations by Louis-Edouard Fournier. A complete set in twelve volumes of the works of Moliere, French poet and playwr…

Memorials of St James&Apos;S Palace

Edgar Sheppard · 1894 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.47 | ¥20,675)

London, Longmans, Green, and Co. 1894. First edition. Cloth. A pleasing first edition copy of Edgar Sheppard's fascinating historical account of St James's Palace; copiously illustrated throughout and complete in two volumes. Examining the notable births and marriages …

Autograph Letter from Kate Greenway, to Frederick-Locker-Lampson Written from John Ruskin's House

Greenway, Kate (1846-1901) · 1884 · Wittenborn Art Books

$450.00 (€408.28 | £340.61 | ¥71,859)

Brantword. Coniston, Cumbria: 1884. Als. 2pp.15.4x 9.8cm to the poet of "London Lyrics "for which the artist had provided a "Little dinky." .........................In 1878, with the publication of her unpretentious collection of verses and pictures titled Under the Window, Kate…

English Songs, and other Small Poems. By Barry Cornwall.

[PROCTOR (Brian Waller)]: · 1832 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£350.00 (€419.53 | $462.40 | ¥73,839)

London: Edward Moxon..., 1832 FIRST EDITION. 12mo, 151 x 96 mms., pp. [iii] -xxii, 228, engraved vignette on title-page, and on recto of introduction, e other engraved vignettes, attractively bound in full contemporary polished calf, spine ornately gilt in compartments, olive m…

T'Yorksher Lingo A Dickshonary ov Gooid Owd Tykes' Words.

YORKSHIRE DIALECT. BARON (Joseph): · 1900 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£300.00 (€359.60 | $396.34 | ¥63,291)

London Milner & Co..., no date [1900 - 1920[. FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. 8vo, 186 x 123 mms., pp. [iii - vii]. viii - x [9] 10 - 83 [84 blank], original cloth; title-page very browned, spine chipped at base, with the non-authorial presentation inscription on the front paste-down e…

Twelve Letters and a Bibliographical Essay from Leonard Clark

Leonard Clark · 1954 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.70 | $297.26 | ¥47,468)

Charlottesville, Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, 1954-1968. Paperback. A bibliographical work by Leonard Clark on the writings of Walter de la Mare, alongside twelve signed letters from Clark. Leonard Clark was an English poet, writer, editor, and educator…