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The Ecuyere of the Nineteenth Century in the Circus with an Epilogue on Four Contemporary Ecuyeres

NELSON, HILDA · 2001 · Pegasus Books

$69.50 (€63.06 | £52.61 | ¥11,098)

Cleveland Heights, OH: Xenophon Press, 2001. First Edition. Softcover. ISBN: 0933316143. NEW. Cover is a blue ground with a color illustration of crowds enjoying the equestrian performance of the circus. Pages are clean and tight; this is a NEW book. Illustrated with b/w photos.…

Bitter Truth : Avant-garde Art and the Great War

Richard Cork ; Jane Havell · 1994 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€75.00 ($82.66 | £62.57 | ¥13,200)

, Yale University Press, 1994 Hardcover, 336 pages, ENG, 295 x 250 x 30 mm, dustjacket, In very good condition!, 330 b&w illustrations, 70 colour plates, index. ISBN 9780300057041. "It is unspeakable, godless, hopeless. I am no longer an artist interested and curious. I am a me…

Griffith Jones and Jessie Matthews

[20th Century Photographer] · 1930 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.37 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

London: Gaumont British, [Ca. 1930s]. Original hand colored real photograph issued as a postcard. 5.5 x 3.5 inches. Very Good. Printed on verso: "Film Partners" Series, 85, Long Acre, London; No. PC 236. Penciled notation and minor wear on verso. Made in Great Britain. Gaumont-B…

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)

GOODALL, Jane · 301989 · Charles Agvent

$1,875.00 (€1,701.25 | £1,419.31 | ¥299,414)

In Flight. A four-page handwritten SIGNED letter on both sides of Goodall's 7" x 10-1/4" personal stationery with a large illustration of chimpanzees at the bottom, addressed to Nancy [Reynolds]. Excellent content describing her travels and experiences being filmed by HBO with c…

INVESTIGATION INTO THE CAUSES OF THE GOLD PANIC. Report of the Majority of the Committee on Banking and Currency. March 1, 1870

GARFIELD, James A · 1870 · Charles Agvent

$18,750.00 (€17,012.48 | £14,193.14 | ¥2,994,140)

Washington. Government Printing Office. First Edition. Publisher's plum cloth, covers ruled in blind, spine lettered in blind; housed in half burgundy morocco clamshell box with matching corners. SIGNED by the future President on the front free endpaper: "Respects of/J. A. Garfi…

The Role of Birds in World War One: How Ornithology Helped to Win the Great War

Nicholas Milton · 2022 · Winkles Books

£12.00 (€14.38 | $15.85 | ¥2,531)

Book New New 1st Edition Pen & Sword History Barnsley 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall The British Expeditionary Force sent to France in the late summer of 1914 has been referred to as 'The Best British Army Ever Sent to War' as it was one of the most highly trained and disciplined for…

Amphibians and Reptiles (New Naturalist 87)

Beebee, Trevor J. C. & Richard Griffiths · 2000 · Bookbarrow

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

HarperCollins (Harper Collins), London, 2000. First Edition, Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. 9780002200837 Building on the solid foundations established by the two earlier New Naturalist volumes on this subject, eminent herpetologists Trevor Beebee and Richard Griffiths have bro…

Unlawful Occasions

Cecil, Henry · 1962 · Bookbarrow

£8.00 (€9.59 | $10.57 | ¥1,688)

Michael Joseph, London, 1962. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. Mrs. Verney was the attractive wife of the tenant of the flat above Brian Culsworth, Q.C.'s chambers in the Temple, but when she came to ask his advice he did not expect to become …

Pauling's model not universally accepted. In: Nature 319 (6049).

Shechtman, D. et al. · 1986 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€300.00 ($330.64 | £250.28 | ¥52,799)

New York, NY, MacMillan, 1986. 4to (28.0 x 21.3 cm). pp. 102-103 in: Nature 319(6049); x, 78 pp. [numbered 85-162]. Full colour soft cover. = One of the papers that formed part of Daniel "Dan" Shechtman’s (b. 1941) works that led to winning the Nobel Prize for Chemistry (2011) a…

Hamilton's Practical Catechism on Singing; extracted from the best authorities, Italian, French & English, illustrated with numerous examples; and respectfully dedicated to Charles, Bishop, Esquire, by the Author Price Three Shillings.

HAMILTON (James Alexander): · 1834 · John Price Antiquarian Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London: Printed and Sold by R. Cocks and Co..., 1834. Small 12mo (in 6s), 140 x 92 mms., pp. [vi], 76, 32 engraved music, 24 [25 - 28 adverts], original cloth, paper label on front cover; lower margins of adverts leaves closely trimmed, but a very good copy, with the near con…

Naval Interest. - Thunderer Committee. Minutes of the Proceedings, 24th January to 13th February 1879, Together with the Appendix. London: George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1879. Folio, 22 Folding Plates, Original Blue Illustrated Wrappers.

1879 · Creaking Shelves Books

£95.00 (€113.87 | $125.50 | ¥20,041)

HMSO, 1879. Soft Cover. 44p in the original blue book wrapper. The official report of the serious accident which occurred on board H.M.S.Thunderer on 2 January 1879, when the left 12-inch 38 ton gun in the forward turret exploded during gunnery practice in the Sea of Marmora, ki…

Zilla Sasparilla and the Mud Baby

GOROG, JUDITH · 1995 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£8.35 (€10.01 | $11.03 | ¥1,761)

Walker Books Ltd. 1995. (ISBN: 9780744540062). Hardcover. Hardback no D/J in good condition. 1995 1st edition Walker Books. A story with a folk-tale atmosphere by an award-winning duo. As Zilla Sasparilla is making her way along the slippery path by Little Muddy River, one of he…

Tugs and gliders to Arnhem. A detailed survey of the British gliders towing operations during operation “Market Garden “ 17, 18 and 19 september 1944

Hees, Arie-Jan van · 2003 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€125.00 ($137.77 | £104.28 | ¥22,000)

Eigen Beheer, 2003 Hardcover without dust jacket. 288 pages. Text in English. As new, with signed dedication. In September 1944, the largest airborne operation ever, took place over and on Dutch territory: Operation ‘MARKET GARDEN’. Being a combined airborne (‘MARKET’) and groun…

The Story of My Life: An Afghan Girl on the Other Side of the Sky

Farah Ahmedi and Tamim Ansary · 2005 · Book Haven

NZ$13.50 (€6.76 | $7.46 | £5.64 | ¥1,191)

Simon Spotlight Entertainment 2005 Paperback, 256pp. 'I was late to school, and that's all I could think about. I started across the field. And then suddenly a fire flashed in my face and the earth seemed to move beneath my feet. I remember a shower of soil and then nothing. I w…

5 photographies d'époque de l'aviateur durant la Grande Guerre

Alain GERBAULT · 1917 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€1,800.00 ($1,983.84 | £1,501.70 | ¥316,794)

s. d. [17 mars 1917] | 8.40 x 13 cm | 5 photographies | Superbe ensemble de cinq photographies originales, représentant l'aviateur Alain Gerbault et son équipage, au retour de son premier combat aérien, entre Picardie et Champagne, le 17 mars 1917. Trois des photographies compor…

Opera omnia anatomica; continentia spicilegium anatomicum, osteogeniam foetuum: nec non anthropogeniae ichnographiam. Accuratissimus figuris aeri incisis illustrata. Editio tertia.

Kerckring, T. · 1729 · Antiquariaat Schierenberg

€1,600.00 ($1,763.41 | £1,334.84 | ¥281,595)

Lugduni Batavorum [Leiden], Theodorus Haak and Samuel Luchtmans, 1729. Three works in one. 4to (23.2 x 18.3 cm). Frontispiece engraving by A. Blotelingh; title page with woodcut vignette "Tuta sub Aegide Pallas", xx, 303 pp., including titles to the Osteogenia foetuum, in qua qu…

Why, When, and Where. The Consecration of Samuel Seabury.

WILKINSON, J. · 1934 · Chilton Books

£40.00 (€47.95 | $52.84 | ¥8,438)

Selkirk: The Scottish Chronicle Press, 1934. The Consecration of Samuel Seabury at Aberdeen, on November 14, 1784, and how through Suffering, the dispossessed and shattered Church of Scotland made good, and proved her fealty to Evangelic Truth and Apostolic Order. Pp.26/3(list o…

1953 Passover Sermon on the History of Seder Customs Written and Orated in Havana, Cuba by Rabbi Dr. Frederick K. Solomon

DR. FREDERICK SOLOMON · 1953 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,255.99 (€1,139.60 | £950.74 | ¥200,566)

Vedado, Havana, Cuba: Dr. Frederick K. Solomon, Rabbi of Temple Beth Israel in Havana, Cuba, 1953. Non-Book. On offer is an excellent relic of post WWII judaica, being a Pesach sermon, typed, edited and signed by progressive rabbi, Dr. Frederick K. “Fritz” Solomon (originally So…

1943-1944 Diary of a Drafted Seabees Serviceman from Pennsylvania Who Served in Port Hueneme and Fiji While Recording Daily Routines and Significant Moments of War

CHARLES B. LITZ · 1918 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$1,255.99 (€1,139.60 | £950.74 | ¥200,566)

New Kensington, Pennsylvania, Fiji, Port Hueneme, California, Camp Peary. Hardcover. On offer is a first-hand account of Charles B. Litz, a U. S. Serviceman in the Seabees, which was to become one of the most ubiquitous US Navy formations in World War Two (WWII). Litz was born i…

Sneaking Into the Flying Circus. How The Media Turn Our Presidential Campaigns Into Freak Shows

Pelosi, Alexandra · 2005 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€18.00 ($19.84 | £15.02 | ¥3,168)

Free Press, 2005 Hardcover, with dust jacket. 299 pages. Text in English. Clean copy, writing on the endpaper, otherwise nearly as new. Alexandra Pelosi, creator of the Emmy award-winning film Journeys with George and ofDiary of a Political Tourist, makes her literary debut with…