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A Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, Scotland and Ireland with Lists of Their Works: By the Late Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford

Horatio Walpole, and edited by Thomas Park · 1806 · Rooke Books

£320.00 (€383.63 | $422.84 | ¥67,529)

London , John Scott, 1806. Leather. A catalogue of the works of noble and royal authors of Britain, including Elizabeth I, James II, Anne Boleyn and many more. Illustrated throughout with one hundred and forty-nine engraved portraits (collated complete). Written by the fourth Ea…

DEEP-SEATED The Secret Art of Upholstery / BESESSEN Die geheime Kunst des Polsterns

Olaf Thormann / Thomas Rudi, translation : Xenia Schurmann · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€44.00 ($48.50 | £36.70 | ¥7,745)

, Arnoldsche, 2022 softcover 392 pages ,300 X 210 X 27 mm , 390 illustrations, Text in Deutsch / Englisch. ISBN 9783897906815. BESESSEN Die geheime Kunst des Polsterns Upholstered seating is familiar to all of us as a more or less constant companion in everyday life. Upholstery …

Fables of Esop

Esop; Aesop; Samuel Croxall · 1814 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.66 | $389.80 | ¥62,254)

Gainsborough, H. Mozley, 1814. Leather. A very scarce edition of Aesop's fables, spelt as "Esop" here, a smart edition with reproductions of Bewick's woodcuts. A very scarce edition of Aesop's fables, published by H. Mozley in Gainsborough.Smartly bound in a moder…

William Again.

CROMPTON, RICHMAL. · 1953 · Chilton Books

£10.00 (€11.99 | $13.21 | ¥2,110)

London: George Newnes Limited, 1953. 32nd impression. More stories about the scruffy schoolboy William Brown. Contents: I.What Delayed the Great Man; II.The Cure; III.That Boy; IV.William the Reformer; V.Not Much; VI.William and the White Cat; VII.William's Secret Society; VIII.…

LIFE MAGAZINE JULY 23, 1971

Life Magazine · 1971 · Gibson

$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)

Time Life New York Very Good with no dust jacket; Life Magazine July 23, 1971. World's Favorite Movie Star Clint Eastwood on cover. Articles also include Help for GI Addicts, Forest Fires, Author Hilde Neff, Block Island Races, Artist Thomas Eakins, and more. Filled with great a…

Kamilaroi, Dippel, and Turrubul: languages spoken by Australian Aborigines.Sydney, Thomas Richards (New South Wales government printer), 1866. 4to. With an armorial vignette printed in several colours and gold (the unofficial “Advance Australia” Australian coat of arms), 4 fine full-page wood engravings of plants and flowers. Original publisher's maroon textured cloth.

RIDLEY, William. · 1819 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€1,950.00 ($2,149.30 | £1,626.58 | ¥343,257)

VI, 88, [2] pp.First edition of grammars and vocabularies for three languages spoken by Australian Aborigines, compiled by William Ridley, professor at Sydney University and Minister of the Presbyterian Church of New South Wales. Ridley (1819-1878), an English missionary, came t…

Nineteen years travels through the most eminent places in the habitable world.London, for John Wright & Thomas Passinger, 1682. 8vo. With a folding woodcut frontispiece and 6 folding woodcut plates and 1 woodcut in the text. 19th-century dark brown sheepskin, sewn on 3 recessed cords, brown spine label, Stormont on shell marbled endpapers.

LITHGOW, William. · 1582 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[8], 481, [7] pp.Third complete edition (the first under the present title) of a classic account of three voyages by the Scotsman William Lithgow (1582-1645?), mostly on foot, from Rome to Greece, Crete, Turkey, Cyprus, the Holy Land, Egypt and Malta, continental Europe and Nort…

Scottish Field Magazine, February 1962 - Climbing the Matterhorn/Corrievreckan/Edinburgh's James Bond (Sean Connery)

MURRAY, W.H.; KERR, JOHN; CARRUTHERS, THOMAS S.G.; ET AL · 1962 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.48 | ¥23,948)

Scotland: Scottish Field, 1962. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by McCallum, Scott (cover). 82 pages. Features: The famous whirlpool of Corrievreckan; Grantown-On-Spey; Climbing the Matterhorn - the first British ascent was made by T.S.G. Carruthers and a companion; The Cr…

Chrysanthemums

Thomas Stevenson; C. Harman Payne; Charles E. Shea · 1912 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.87 | $151.96 | ¥24,268)

London, T. C. & E. C Jack Ltd, 1912. First edition. Hardback. A smart first edition of this very scarce botanical work on chrysanthemums, with colour plates. First edition. Very scarce. From the Present-Day Gardening series. Illustrated with eight colour plates. Collated complet…

The Psalter or Psalms of David, After the Translation of the Great Bible, Pointed As They Are to Be Sung or Said in Churches [Together with] the Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons, According to the Order of the Church of England; the Whole Book of Psalms Collected Into English Meeter, by Thomas Sternhold, John Hopkins, and Others; Conferred with the Hebrew, with Apt Notes to Sing Them Withall

Thomas Sternhold; John Hopkins et. al. · 1672 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.36 | $726.75 | ¥116,066)

London, Printed by the Assigns of John Bill and Christopher Barker; T. N. for the Company of Stationers , 1672-1673. Cloth. Two scarce 17th-century folio editions of these popular Psalms. Comprising a 1672 Thomas Newcombe edition and a 1673 English Meeter version by Sternhold an…

LIFE MAGAZINE OCTOBER 31, 1938

Life Magazine · 1938 · Gibson

$25.00 (€22.68 | £18.92 | ¥3,993)

Time Life New York Very Good with no dust jacket; Raymond Massey as Abe Lincoln on cover. Articles also include Abe Lincoln on Broadway, American Art and Artists, Bette Davis in The Sisters, Texas Wolf Hunt, Thomas Dewey, and more. Filled with great World War II ads and photogra…

Maclean's - Canada's Weekly Newsmagazine, December (Dec. ) 22, 1980 - John Lennon Cover Photo

THOMAS, DAVID; STARK, T. JAMES; ET AL · 1980 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$149.95 (€136.05 | £113.48 | ¥23,948)

Toronto: Maclean-Hunter Limited, 1980. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. 60 pages. Features: John Lennon cover photo; Winnipeg's Christmas Cheer Board; Gloomy view from Jim Gray of Canadian Hunter in Alberta's Oil Patch; Newspaper groups have become too large, too wealthy an…

The Wider Hope Essays and Strictures on the Doctrine and Literature of Future Punishment

Various · 1890 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.92 | $85.89 | ¥13,717)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1890. Cloth. A very scarce second edition of this collection of fascinating essays on punishment by a wide variety of affluent authors. The second edition of this work. A very scarce work. A vast collection of essays by a wide variety of authors, the ess…

Forgotten Roots of the Nordic Welfare State in Protestant Cultures

Thomas Mohnike, Søren Blak Hjortshøj (eds) · 2025 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€94.34 ($103.98 | £78.69 | ¥16,607)

, Brepols, 2025 Hardback, Pages: 264, Size:178 x 254 mm, Illustrations:3 b/w, 1 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503612638. Summary The Nordic welfare state of the 20th century has been hailed around the world as a model of how to build democratic and egalitarian societies. I…

Educational Handwork (Manual Training): Authorized for Use in the Provinces of New Brunswick, Manitoba and Saskatchewan

KIDNER, T.B. (THOMAS BESSELL); ROBERTSON, JAS. W. (FOREWORD) · 1910 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$199.95 (€181.41 | £151.32 | ¥31,933)

Toronto: The Educational Book Company, Limited, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. 200 pages. Black and white photos. Many line diagrams. Author was Director of Manual Training, Calgary, Alberta. Provides instruction on: Paper-folding; paper-cutting and mounting; Pattern-work and d…

LIFE MAGAZINE JULY 28, 1947

Life Magazine · 1947 · Gibson

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

Time Life New York Very Good- with no dust jacket; Princess Elizabeth on cover. Articles inside also include Dewey Starts Running For President, Princess Elizabeth Chooses a Consort, Soviet Conduct, Dust Bowl Farmer, California Cabin, Cape Cod Art School, and more. Filled with G…

Paradise Lost. A Poem in Twelve Books. To which is prefixed The Life of Milton and a curious Preface by the Editor. SPECTACULARLY CLEAN, CRISP COPY OF A SCARCE MILTON

MILTON John · 1788 · Island Books

£520.00 (€623.39 | $687.11 | ¥109,735)

Printed for J Lackington, No. 46 Chiswell Street, Moorfields, 1788. 12mo., on laid paper, with engraved portrait frontispiece and 3 engraved plates; contemporary calf, expertly rebacked in calf to style, original red leather label (partially legible) laid down, a remarkably brig…

Leviathan: of van de stoffe, gedaente, ende magt van de kerkelycke ende wereltlycke regeeringe.Amsterdam, Jacobus Wagenaar, "1667" [= 1672 (engraved title page)]. 8vo. With an engraved frontispiece, a woodcut vignette on the title page, an engraved portrait of Thomas Hobbes, and a folding table on the classification of sciences. 18th-century sprinkled paper over contemporary gold-tooled calf.

HOBBES, Thomas and Abraham van BERKEL (translator). · 1588 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€3,500.00 ($3,857.72 | £2,919.51 | ¥616,102)

[16], 744, [64] pp.First Dutch edition of the seminal work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), one of the most original political philosophers of his era. Written during his exile in Paris amidst the English Civil War (1642-1651), Leviathan presents the state as a vast artificial mons…

PEOPLE MAGAZINE JUNE 24, 1974

People Magazine · 1974 · Gibson

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

People Magazine New York Very Good with no dust jacket; Joan Kennedy On cover. Articles inside also include Thomas Noguchi, James Earl Jones, Jimmy the Greek, Maria Muldaur, Terrence McNally and more. Filled with photos of all your favorite celebrities and vintage advertising. M…

The Miscellaneous Works of Tobias Smollett.

Tobias Smollett. · 1849 · Rooke Books

£79.99 (€95.89 | $105.70 | ¥16,880)

London , Henry G. Bohn. 1849. Cloth. A comically illustrated collection of some of satirist, Tobais Smollett's works. Complete in one volume. Tobias Smollett was a Scottish poet and author, best known for his Picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Roderick Random and …