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Het masker vande wereldt afgetrokken.Antwerp, widow and heirs of Jan Cnobbaerts, [1646]. 4to. With engraved title page by Antony van der Does and 13 engraved emblems and 8 engravings in text by Frederic Bouttats. 18th-century half calf.

POIRTERS, Adriaan. · 1605 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[24], 320 pp.Very rare third impression of the first edition of an emblem book by the Dutch Jesuit Adriaan Poirters (1605-1674). It is often presented as a third edition of Ydelheyd des werelds, another emblem book by the same author, first published in 1645, but it differs cons…

SPECIMEN DAYS IN AMERICA Inscribed by Whitman to his Niece

WHITMAN, Walt · 1887 · Charles Agvent

$56,250.00 (€51,033.97 | £42,569.73 | ¥8,983,472)

London. Walter Scott. First Edition. Original dark blue cloth with a printed paper spine label. Part of the Camelot Series. BAL 21428: Binding A. Most of the material within first appeared 5 years earlier in SPECIMEN DAYS & COLLECT published by Rees Welsh and Company in Philadel…

Peter Pan and Wendy: Retold for Little People

J.M. Barrie [adapt. May Byron] · 1940 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.49 | $129.49 | ¥20,681)

London, Hodder and Stoughton Limited, c1940. Cloth. A lovely illustrated edition of a popular retelling of Peter Pan for young children, with colour gravure plates by Golden Age illustrator Mabel Lucie Atwell. A lovely illustrated edition of J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and Wend…

Selected Works of Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1896 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

London, Chatto & Windus, 1896-1899 . Leather. A handsomely bound set of the works of Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer Robert Louis Stevenson, including the second edition of 'Weir of Hermiston', and thirteen further works. An attractive set of late twentieth c…

Sebastian Van Storck

ALASTAIR; VOIGHT, Hans Henning; Pater, Walter · 1927 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$500.00 (€453.64 | £378.40 | ¥79,853)

London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1927. Walter Pater's "Sebastian van Storck," Illustrated by Alastair [ALASTAIR, illustrator]. PATER, Walter. Sebastian van Storck. With Eight Illustrations in Colour by Alastair and an Introduction by P.G. Konody. London: John Lane, The Bodley…

Portfolio III. An International Quarterly. First Edition

Crosby, Caresse aka Mary Phelps Jacob, aka Polly Peabody (1892-19700, editor; Tal-Coat, Dorothea Tanning, Hans Richter, artists; Kay Boyle, Charles Bukoswki, Stephen Spender, , writers · 1946 · Wittenborn Art Books

$450.00 (€408.27 | £340.56 | ¥71,868)

Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1946. Folio. 16 x 11.75 inches. Sheets loose as issued. Cover with closed tear..26 of 29 plates, lacking 12, 22 and 24. Works by Kay Boyle, Charles Bukoswki, Stephen Spender, Tal-Coat, Dorothea Tanning, Hans Richter. Poet and publisher. She w…

Histoire des Révolutions de Portugal, M. L'Abbé de Vertot, de l'Académie Roïale des Inscriptions & de Belles Lettres. Sixième Edition. Revuë & augmentée par Auteur,

VERTOT (René-Aubert), L'Abbé de Vertot: · 1765 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£450.00 (€539.47 | $594.61 | ¥94,963)

A Londres Chez Jean Nourse, M. DCC. LXV 1765. 12mo, 149 x 85 mms., pp. [xxiv], 215 [218 blank], 218 - 236 [237 sic blank], later 18th century half calf, speckled boards, spine gilt in compartments to a floral motive, red leather label; a very good copy, with the bookplate of …

Q. Horatii Flacci Carmina collatione scriptorum graecorum illustrata ab Henrico Wagnero. Praefatus est Christ. Adolphus Klotzius.

HORATIUS.- WAGNER,H. · 1770 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.07 | ¥15,843)

Halle (Halae Magdeburgicae), Impensis Orphanotrophei, 1770. 8vo. (VIII),XXII,136 p. Contemporary boards 20 cm (Ref: not yet in VD18; Schweiger 2,461; Ebert 10280; Brunet 6, no. 12507) (Details: Woodcut printer's mark on the title) (Condition: Binding scuffed and spotted. Owner'…

Q. Horatius Flaccus ex recensione Heinsii et Fabri, ac cum variis lectionibus Rich. Bentleii.

HORATIUS. · 1719 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€180.00 ($198.40 | £150.15 | ¥31,685)

Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Ap. R. et G. Wetstenios, 1719. 12mo. 214,(2 blank) p. Vellum 12.5 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,407; Graesse 3,354) (Details: 4 thongs laced through the joints. Title engraved by J. Wandelaar) (Condition: Vellum age-tanned. Both pastedown detached. Right margi…

Isabelle

André GIDE · 1911 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

Nrf | Paris 1911 | 10.50 x 16.50 cm | relié | Nouvelle "édition originale", impimée à 500 exemplaires sur vergé d'arches et consistant en le deuxième tirage de ce texte (achevé d'imprimer le 20 Juin 1911). Cette édition postérieure de moins d'un mois à l'originale parue le 29 Ma…

Abram Krol dix suites. Burins 1993-1997

Abram KROL · 1998 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€200.00 ($220.44 | £166.83 | ¥35,206)

Librairie-Galerie Graphes | Paris 1998 | 21 x 21 cm | broché | Edition originale sur papier courant. Ouvrage illustré de nombreuses reproductions d'oeuvres gravées d'Abram Krol. Préface de Charles Dobzynski. Notre exemplaire est enrichi d'une belle lettre manuscrite datée et sig…

Oeuvres diverses de Mr Thomas

Antoine Léonard THOMAS · 1764 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€350.00 ($385.77 | £291.95 | ¥61,610)

Jean-Baptiste Giroud | Avignon 1764 | 12.50 x 20.50 cm | relié | Edition originale imprimée à Avignon. Quelques ornements gravés (bandeaux, lettrines et cul-de-lampe). Reliure en plein veau brun moucheté d'époque. Dos à cinq nerfs orné de caissons et de motifs floraux et étoilés…

Wegwyser door de heerlykheid Roosendaal ofte, de Roosendaalsche vermakelykheden met een geestelyk en zedelyk ooge beschouwt en in digtmaat gestelt. Amsterdam, Gerard van Keulen, 1718. 4to. With an engraved full-page portrait of Johan van Arnhem, lord of Roosendaal by J. Baptist, a plate with his engraved coat-of-arms, a large folding engraved bird's-eye view of the House Roosendaal, and 19 folding engraved views of houses, gardens, fountains, bridges and other buildings in Roosendaal and its surroundings, all designed by B. Elshof and engraved by J. Smit. Contemporary gold-tooled sprinkled calf.

OUTREIN, Johannes d'. · 1636 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,500.00 ($1,653.31 | £1,251.22 | ¥264,044)

[40], 88 pp.Enlarged and best edition of a collection of laudatory verses in praise of the House of Roosendaal and its beautiful gardens. The house was in those days the property of Johan of Arnhem (1636-1716), and was famous for its grandness and beautiful fountains, bridges, a…

Consolation to Mira Mourning a Poem Discovering a Certain Governor&Apos;S Intreigue with a Lady at His Court

Unknown · 1710 · Rooke Books

£950.00 (€1,138.89 | $1,255.29 | ¥200,478)

London, Printed and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster, 1710. First edition. Leather. A very scarce first edition of this unusual poem, penned by an unknown eighteenth century poet. The work is a political allegory, exploring the speaker Calidor's attempts to…

Six poèmes barbares. Illustrés de douze eaux-fortes, dont six hors texte, gravées en couleur au repérage par Maurice de Becque.

Leconte de Lisle, [C. M. R.] and M. [J.] De Becque · 1925 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€1,800.00 ($1,983.97 | £1,501.46 | ¥316,853)

Paris, Maurice de Becque, 1925. Folio (34.8 x 26.4 cm). Title leaf in red and brown. Seven finely engraved and hand-coloured plates (tissue-guarded), illustrating poems on separate leaves with engraved, hand-coloured headpieces, and colour-printed pictorial endpieces. The text l…

Extensive file with original letters from Domela to Jef Last and also copies, with correspondence from Jef Last and Hans van Straten.

DOMELA, Harry · 1938 · Antiquariaat Fokas Holthuis (ILAB/NVVA)

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

Ruim 80 kantjes dichtbeschreven of getypte brieven van Harry Domela, gericht aan Jef Last, grotendeels onder zijn pseudoniem Victor Zsajka, hoofdzakelijk uit 1938-1940. Met getypte afschriften, ook van brieven die hier niet in origineel bijliggen (behalve aan Last ook aan Jan H.…

BIBLIA, das ist Die ganze Heilige Schrift Alten und Neuen Testaments, Aus den Grundsprachen treulich wol verteutschet; aufs neue und mit Fleiss übersehen ... und herausgegeben von Johann Caspar Ulrich. 2 vols.

BIBLIA GERMANICA. - · 1755 · Hellmut Schumann Antiquariat

CHF 2,300.00 (€2,488.13 | $2,742.43 | £2,075.46 | ¥437,984)

1755-56 With 2 engr. figured frontispieces and 1 large head-piece by Johann Rudolf Holzhalb; inserted are 150 and 100 num. engr. plates by Weigel after Luyken from his "Celebriores Veteris (Novi) Testamenti iconibus" (1712). 8 leaves, 22 pp. "Heilsamer Unterricht", 6 leaves inde…

Waverley Novels

Sir Walter Scott; Rev. P. Hately Waddell [ed.] · 1877 · Rooke Books

£325.00 (€389.62 | $429.44 | ¥68,585)

London and Edinburgh , William P. Nimmo , 1877-1882. Leather. A lovely twelve volume set of Sir Walter Scott's popular Waverley novels, each with a frontispiece and engraved title page. A 12 volume set, containing 24 works. In half red calf bindings, with marbled boards and…

A Book of Nonsense

Edward Lear · 1854 · Rooke Books

£2,500.00 (€2,997.08 | $3,303.40 | ¥527,574)

[London], [Thomas McLean], 1854. Leather. Illustrated with seventy-three lithographs, this is the very scarce second edition of Edward Lear's enduringly popular work. The very scarce second edition of Edward Lear's popular work of 'literary nonsense&apos. The sec…

Oeuvres de Moliere

Moliere [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]; Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve. · 1835 · Rooke Books

£575.00 (€689.33 | $759.78 | ¥121,342)

Paris, Paulin, 1835. Fine Binding. A copiously illustrated copy of the works of French Restoration dramatist and comic writer, Molière, in an unusual fine binding. Rebound in crushed morocco over chamfered wooden boards, with elaborate gilt and blind stamped decoration, and att…