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Portrait of Carel Utenhove

Passe, Crispijn van de I (1564-1637) · 1600 · Antiquariaat Goltzius

€287.50 ($316.88 | £239.82 | ¥50,608)

Beautiful half-length portrait of Carel Utenhove, humanist from Gent, later also burgomaster of the city. De Passe was his intimate friend since his stay in Cologne. 'Matthias Quad has left an excellent account of Carel Utenhove, relating that he was a linguistic genius. [...] …

If Judgment Comes

NOYES, ALFRED · 1941 · S. Howlett-West Books

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New York, NY: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1941. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by John Alan Maxwell. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is a bit…

Cautionary Verses

H. Belloc [Hilaire Belloc] · 1951 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

Not Stated, Duckworth, 1951. Cloth. An engaging book of light-hearted verse, littered with illustrations, and in original unclipped dust wrapper. A very scarce title, in its original, and incredibly scarce, unclipped pictorial dust wrapper. In original red cloth binding, with c…

Our Village in Two Volumes

Mary Russell Mitford · 1853 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

Boston, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1853. Leather. An insightful collection of social and cultural illustrated literary sketches, in half calf and marbled boards. A charming collection of literary skteches from English essayist, novelist, poet and dramatist Mary Russell Mitford. …

Gysbert Japix, Een keuze uit zijn werk

Breuker, Philippus (red.) / Gysbert Japix · 2003 · Grimbergen Boeken Antiquariaat

€27.50 ($30.31 | £22.94 | ¥4,841)

Bolsward / Leeuwarden, 2003. Hard Cover with dustwrappers. 24x24 cm. Good copy. Tweetalige editie. Fries / Nederlands. Work of the Frisian Renaissance Poet Gysbert Japix. Bilingual edition. l In 2003 werd herdacht dat de Friese dichter Gysbert Japix vierhonderd jaar geleden geb…

Rare Theatre play 1774 | Jacob Simonszoon de Ryk door Lucretia Wilhelmina van Winter, geboren van Merken, Amsterdam Pieter Meijer 1774, 87 pp.

Merken, van Lucretia Wilhelmina · 1774 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€98.10 ($108.13 | £81.83 | ¥17,268)

Rare theatre play by Lucretia van Merken, most famous Dutch poet and author in the 18th century. Text in Dutch. Rare booklet of Theatre play about de watergeus De Ryk. Copy with some stains.[NL] In 1774 werden Van Merken en haar man Nicolaas van Winter tot ereburgers van Leiden …

Arthur Machen's Occult Catalogues

Gilbert, R. A. (editor) · 2019 · Bookbarrow

£150.00 (€179.82 | $198.20 | ¥31,654)

Friends of Arthur Machen & Tartarus Press, Leyburn,. North Yorkshire, 2019. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Purple Cloth). Fine Condition/Fine. One of a limited edition of 370 copies. Black end-papers. Integral golden silk ribbon bookmark. Covers show the signatures in gilt o…

Memoirs of an Infantry Officer

SASSOON, SIEGFRIED · 1981 · Round Table Books, LLC

$85.00 (€77.12 | £64.33 | ¥13,575)

NY: The Limited Editions Club, 1981. Limited Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Illustrated by Paul Hogarth. Limited edition (this is No. 995 of 2000 copies). Publisher's full beige linen cloth with and embossed black bugle on the front cover, black lettering on the spine, bla…

Zeeland - Willem Blaeu, 1640-1655

Blaeu-- Willem · 1640 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€650.00 ($716.43 | £542.19 | ¥114,419)

THE COUNTY OF ZEELAND “Zeelandia Comitatus,” copper engraving published by Willem Blaeu as part of his Atlas Novus between 1640 and 1655. With original hand colouring. Verso: Dutch text. Size: 38 × 49.5 cm. This map by Willem Jansz. Blaeu is still essentially based on Jacob va…

John Gower's Rhetoric. Classical Authority, Biblical Ethos, and Renaissance Receptions

Georgiana Donavin · 2023 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.10 | ¥21,124)

, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 432 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 5 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503595771. Summary This is the first book-length study in decades to offer in-depth readings of a variety of late medieval poems across Gower's trilingual corpus. I…

Leftover Life to Kill; Under Milk Wood; Under Milk Wood (Notes on Chosen English Texts; Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas; Dylan Thomas: Early Prose Writings

Dylan Thomas; Caitlin Thomas; Constantine FitzGibbon; Walford Davies; J. S. Dugdale · 1957 · Rooke Books

£160.00 (€191.81 | $211.42 | ¥33,765)

London, Putnam; J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd et al , 1957-1971. Paperback. A pleasing selection of works pertaining to Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and his wife, Caitlin Thomas, three of which are proof copies. This set offers a lovely collection of works either from or centred around Wel…

CAMDEN'S COMPLIMENT TO WALT WHITMAN. MAY 31, 1889. Notes, Addresses, Letters, Telegrams

[WALT WHITMAN] TRAUBEL, Horace (editor) · 1889 · Charles Agvent

$7,500.00 (€6,804.53 | £5,675.96 | ¥1,197,796)

Philadelphia. David McKay. First Edition. Decorated maroon cloth, frontispiece portrait of Whitman after a sculpture by Sidney H. Morse. BAL 21436. SIGNED by the great poet on the front endpaper and dated "Dec: 16 '89." The earliest inscribed copy noted by Blanck was in November…

Masonic Songs, Oddfellowship Songs, And Other Rhymes, By John Blair, Bard, Lodge Journeyman, No. 8.

BLAIR, JOHN (1819-1889 . · 1888 · Chilton Books

£100.00 (€119.88 | $132.14 | ¥21,103)

Edinburgh: Scobie & Conacher, 249 High St. / Glasgow: Porteous Brothers, 43 Renfield Street / Dunfermline: A. Romanes, "The Press." / Aberdeen: A Brown And Co, Union Street / Paisley: A. Gardner / Dundee: John Pellow, High Street [no date c. 1888 ]. 0. "In Paper Covers, 2/- ; Bo…

Rural Tales, Ballads and Songs

Bloomfield, Robert · 1809 · Bookbarrow

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

Vernor, Hood and Sharpe, Poultry, Longman, Hurst, Rees Orme, London, 1809. 6th Edition, Hardcover (Grey Boards). Fair Condition/No Dust Jacket. Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823), was an English poet. He was born of a poor family in the village of Honington, Suffolk. He apprenticed a…

Peter Doig

DOIG - Wright, Barnaby & Catherine Lampert: · 2023 · Scriptum Art Books v.o.f.

€35.00 ($38.58 | £29.20 | ¥6,161)

2023, (25 x 26 cm), 128 pp., English, 70 colour ills., hardcover. Doig (born Edinburgh, 1959) is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading artists. He secured his early reputation in the 1990s as a highly original figurative painter, producing large-scale, immersive land…

[Literature 1774-1775] Het verheerlykt Leyden, bij het tweede eeuwgetijde van deszelfs heuchlijk ontzet, in den jaare 1574. In dichtmaat uitgesprooken, in de Gasthuis kerk dier stad (...). Leiden, Hendrik Coster en Heyligert en Hoogenstraaten in comp., 1774. [bound with:] Leyden verrukt, op het tweede eeuwgetijde der oprichting van de Hollandsche Hooge Schoole, binnen haare muuren. Zinnespel. Leiden, Heyligert en Hoogenstraten, in comp., 1775. [3 titles in 1 volume]

Francq van Berkheij, Johannes le · 1776 · Antiquariaat Arine van der Steur (NVvA/ILAB)

€190.75 ($210.25 | £159.11 | ¥33,578)

Half leather, 8°: pi1 *-2* 8 3* 4 A 8 (A1 chi) B-F 8 G 2; [2] 39 [1] [2] 95 [5] pp.; pi 4 A-B 8 C 4; [8] 40 pp.  Also bound with: Het vernedert en verheerlykt 's Graavenhaage, eeuwzang, Amsterdam, de Kruyff, 1776.Le Francq van Berkheij first recited 'Het verheerlykt Leyden' on O…

Harvest-Home Consisting of Supplementary Gleanings; Original Dramas and Poems, Contributions of Literary Friends and Select Re-Publications Including Sympathy, a Poem

Mr Pratt · 1805 · Rooke Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London, Richard Phillips, 1805. Leather. A three volume set of the dramatics works and poetry of Samuel Jackson Pratt 'Harvest-Home consisting of Supplementary Gleanings; Original Dramas and Poems , Contributions of Literary Friends and Select Re-publications including Symp…

Richard Rowlands Verstegan A Versatile Man in an Age of Turmoil,

R. Zacchi, M. Morini (eds.); · 1996 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€82.50 ($90.93 | £68.82 | ¥14,522)

Turnhout, Brepols, 1996 Hardback, XXVIII+208 p., 14 b/w ill., 156 x 234 mm. ISBN 9782503535753. Employing a blend of historical, philological, literary and linguistic methods, Richard Rowlands Verstegan: A Versatile Man in an Age of Turmoil paints a full-bodied portrait of Richa…

Médée. First Edition. (Signed Presentation Copy. Envoi Autographe Signé de L'Auteur à Thadée Natanson. )

Mendès, Catulle (1841 -1909) · 1898 · Wittenborn Art Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

Paris: Librairie Charpentier, et Fasquelle, 1898. 8vo. Original wraps. Rare. Very good.[6], 178pp. 14x20cm.. Catulle Mendès (1841-1909), French poet and man of letters, of Jewish extraction, was born at Bordeaux on the 22nd of May 1841. He early established himself in Paris, att…

Arc-En-Ciel Et Sourcil-Rouge. First Edition. (Signed Presentation Copy. Envoi Autographe Signé de L'Auteur à Thadée Natanson. )

Mendès, Catulle (1841 -1909) · 1897 · Wittenborn Art Books

$150.00 (€136.09 | £113.52 | ¥23,956)

Paris: Bibliothèque-Charpentier, 1897. 8vo. Original wraps. Rare. Very good.[4], 296pp. 12 x 18.6cm.. Catulle Mendès (1841-1909), French poet and man of letters, of Jewish extraction, was born at Bordeaux on the 22nd of May 1841. He early established himself in Paris, attaining …