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Human Life
Samuel Rogers · 1819 · Rooke Books
£191.99 (€230.16 | $253.69 | ¥40,516)
London, John Murray, 1819. First edition. Leather. First edition, from the library of the late Eric Quayle the noted book collector. This is the rare first issue with "Printed by Bensley and Son" on page 4 , and with the half title as it should be. A small section of Sims Read&a…
Testamento (Original y Traducciones) | Testament (Original and Translations) | Zapovit (Oryginal i Pereklady)
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko [ ] (1814-1861); Julian Serediak (Ed.); [Multiple Additional Translating Contributors], et al. · 1964 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts
$189.00 (€171.47 | £143.03 | ¥30,184)
Buenos Aires, Argentina Editorial Julian Serediak First Edition, First Printing pp. [1-8], 9-56, [57-8]. Slim 12mo., measuring 12 x 16 cm. Publisher's original textured navy-blue cloth over boards with gilt lettering and likeness of Shevchenko embossed to the front board, captio…
Manninagh - A Review of Manx Culture No. 1 May 1972
Douglas, Mona (editor) · 1972 · Bookbarrow
£35.00 (€41.96 | $46.25 | ¥7,386)
Magazine/Periodical Island Development Co. Ltd. Douglas, Isle of Man, 1972. First Edition, Softcover, Illustrated by: Eric Austwick. Very Good Condition. Edited by Mona Douglas the well-known Manx cultural activist, folklorist, poet, novelist and journalist with cover design & h…
P. Papinii Statii Opera ex recensione et cum notis I. Frederici Gronovii.
STATIUS. · 1653 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta
€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)
Amsterdam (Amsterodami)., Typis Ludovici Elzevirii, Sumptibus Societatis, 1653. 16mo. (VIII),424 p. Overlapping vellum 12 cm (Ref: This edition is 'the most significant stage in the evolution of the printed text of the Thebaid before the late nineteenth century.' (Berlincourt, …
A Collection of Novels from Michael Ondaatje
Michael Ondaatje · 1987 · Rooke Books
£120.00 (€143.86 | $158.56 | ¥25,324)
London, Secker & Warburg; Bloomsbury; Jonathan Cape, 1987-2018. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of five novels from Sri-Lankan born Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje. Five volumes. First edition, first impression. Written by Philip Michael Ondaatje, a Sri Lankan-born Can…
CORNELIS CORNELISZ VAN HAARLEM, A Monograph and Catalogue Raisonne.
Pieter J.J. van Thiel · 1999 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS
€289.00 ($318.54 | £241.07 | ¥50,872)
, Aetas Aurea,Vol. XIII , Cloth bound with dusjacket, as new !! 1999. in 4to. 600 pp. of text, 468 illustrations, including 32 color plates. ISBN 9070288966. The monograph of Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem (1562-1638) is presented as an adherent of sixteenth-century artistic t…
P. Ovidii Nasonis Operum
Publius Ovidius Naso · 1683 · Rooke Books
£995.00 (€1,192.84 | $1,314.75 | ¥209,974)
Amstelodami, Ex Typographia Blaviana , 1683. Vellum. Two volumes of this 'variorum' edition of Ovid's works, produced by Dutch classical scholar Bochardus Cnippingius. In a smart contemporary vellum binding. An attractive set comprising two out of three volumes of…
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Omar Kayyam · 1906 · Rooke Books
£1,200.00 (€1,438.60 | $1,585.63 | ¥253,235)
London, Macmillan and Co, 1906. Fine Binding. A very finely bound copy of this famous poem by the Persian philosopher and poet Omar Khayyam. An English language edition translated by the noted Edward Fitzgerald. 'The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam' was the title that Edward …
MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK Extra Illustrated with Autographs, Photographs, and Original Art
DICKENS, Charles · 1840 · Charles Agvent
$15,625.00 (€14,176.10 | £11,824.93 | ¥2,495,409)
London. Chapman and Hall. First Edition. Three volumes (7" x 10-1/2") bound by Riviere & Son in green crushed levant morocco leather, neatly rebacked retaining the original spines, with gilt-ruled covers, gilt-decorated and lettered spines, gilt dentelles, top edges gilt, with t…
TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
ELIOT, T. S · 221953 · Charles Agvent
$2,187.50 (€1,984.65 | £1,655.49 | ¥349,357)
London. One-page letter on both sides of Faber & Faber stationery SIGNED by the poet. Addressed to Anne Munro-Kerr of London's League of Dramatists. In part: "I am not quite clear, I am afraid, as to how we have been dealing with productions of my plays in the French translation…
Poems
CAVAFY, C.P. (CONSTANTINE P) · 2008 · Kalamos Books
$30.00 (€27.22 | £22.70 | ¥4,791)
Surrey BC, Libros Libertad. 2008, First Thus. (ISBN: 0981073514) Soft cover. Ill.: Translated By Manolis Aligizakis. Book, Manolis (translator), George Amabile (Editor) " Translations, like everything else, wear out over time, as language, and those who read or use it, change. W…
Ming Pottery and Porcelain
Jenyns, Soame · 1953 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda
€30.00 ($33.07 | £25.02 | ¥5,281)
Book Good No Jacket 1st Edition Faber and Faber Limited, London English text.; Hardcover (without dust jacket); 16 x 26 cm; 0.8 Kg; 160 pages followed by an addendum with black-and-white illustrations ; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. Overall in good condit…
Claudi Salmasii Viri Ill. Epistolarum liber primus. Accedunt de laudibus et vita ejusdem prolegomena. Accurante Antonio Clementio.
SALMASIUS,C. · 1656 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta
€650.00 ($716.43 | £542.19 | ¥114,419)
Leiden (Lugduni Batavorum), Ex typographia Adriani Wyngaerden, 1656. 4to. (VIII),72;294,(2 privilegium); 67,(3); 77,(3 blank) p. Overlapping vellum 24 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 840276850; Brunet 6,18777; Ebert 20119; Graesse 6/1,249) (Details: Nice and clean copy. Woodcut printer's dev…
Hermogenis Tarsensis Philosophi ac Rhetoris acutissimi De arte rhetorica praecepta, Aphtonii item Sophistae praeexercitamenta, nuper in Latinum sermonem versa. A Natale de Comitibus Veneto.
HERMOGENES. · 1560 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta
€475.00 ($523.55 | £396.22 | ¥83,614)
Basel (Basileae), Apud Petrum Pernam, n.d. (1560 according to VD16) 8vo. (XVI),(II),414,(2 blank),(29 index),(3 blank) p. 17th century limp vellum 18 cm (Ref: VD16 H 2470; Hoffmann 2,216; Ebert 9507) (Details: For the binding has been used a plain piece of parchment with faint …
3vols Tales of a Grandfather; Being Stories Taken from Scottish History
Sir Walter Scott · 1830 · Rooke Books
£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)
Edinburgh; London; Dublin, Cadell and Co.; Simpkin and Marshall; John Cumming, 1830 . Leather. The Third Series of Scott"s celebrated history for young readers, tracing the Jacobite era from the Union of 1707 to the aftermath of Culloden, complete in three volumes. Uniformly bou…
Oeuvres de J.B. Poquelin Moliere: Edition Collationnee Sur Les Textes Originaux
Molière [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin] · 1875 · Rooke Books
£250.00 (€299.71 | $330.34 | ¥52,757)
Paris, Delarue, Libraire-Editeur, 1875. Leather. A very smart complete collection of works by French playwright Moliere. A collection of works by Moliere, complete in four volumes with two volumes to each.Bound in half morocco with cloth boards.Undated, dated from copies held in…
A Lap Full of Seed
Max Plowman · 1917 · Rooke Books
£750.00 (€899.12 | $991.02 | ¥158,272)
Oxford, B. H. Blackwell, 1917. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce presentation of this volume of poetry, signed by author and pacificist poet Max Plowman. A very scarce presentation copy of this already very scarce volume of poetry. Signed and inscribed to front free endpaper -…
Paraphrases sur les epistres canoniques
Antoine GODEAU · 1640 · Librairie Le Feu Follet
€700.00 ($771.54 | £583.90 | ¥123,220)
Chez la veuve Camusat | à Paris 1640 | 7.50 x 13.50 cm | relié | Edition originale. Un titre-frontispice. Reliure d'époque en plein maroquin rouge à la Du Seuil. Dos à nerfs richement orné. Titre doré. Plat décoré d'un encadrement central de trois filets et d'un filet de pointil…
Angela Carter&Apos;S Book of Fairy Tales
Angela Carter · 2005 · Rooke Books
£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.85 | ¥8,441)
London, Virago Press, 2005. Cloth. An excellent illustrated anthology of Angela Carter's fairy tales, this copy previously owned by her publisher and close friend, Carmen Callil. The first of this collection, comprising stories brought together from two previous collections…
Le Regne animal distribué d'apres son organisation, pour servir de base a l'histoire naturelle des animaux et d'introduction a l'anatomie comparée. Avec figures, dessinées d'après nature.
Cuvier, G. [L. C. F. D.] · 1817 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg
€4,000.00 ($4,408.83 | £3,336.58 | ¥704,117)
Paris, Deterville, 1817. Four volumes in four. 8vo (21.0 x 13.4 cm). 2072 pp. [I: xxxvii, 540; II: xviii, 532; III: xxix, 653; IV: viii, 255]; 15 engraved plates. Uniform contemporary full mottled calf. Spines rich gilt with floral vignettes and ornamental, straight and stippled…