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Instruction for the Deaf and Dumb; or, A Theoretical and Practical View of the Means by which they are taught to speak and understand a Language; containing Hints for the Correction of Impediments in Speech. Together with a Vocabulary. Illustrated by numerous Copperplates, representing the most common Objects necessary to be named by Beginners./ Plates illustrative of the Vocabulary for the Deaf and Dumb. [Rare first edition, complete in two volumes, incl. the plate-volume].

Watson, Joseph. · 1809 · Fahrenheit 451

€1,450.00 ($1,598.09 | £1,209.70 | ¥255,195)

London, Darton and Harvey, 1809/ 1810, 1st ed., 2 vols., text-volume: XXXVIII,139; 64 (vocabulary) pag., 1 plate with 20 hand-symbols for the alphabet; plate-volume: title-page and 80 engraved plates (printed on recto only), contemporary marbled calf, spine gilt with red title-s…

Kevin Coates. A Hidden Alchemy. Goldsmithing: Jewels and Table-Pieces

Elizabeth Goring , Kevin Coates · 2008 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV

€115.00 ($126.75 | £95.94 | ¥20,240)

Arnoldsche, 2008, Hardcover, 314, Be they Mozart, Italian commedia dell'arte, Shakespeare, Greek mythology or the axioms and theorems of geometry - the sources the British goldsmith Kevin Coates draws on are so diverse that it is no wonder he is often dubbed the `British Leonard…

A Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionary. Two parts in one volume. Tokyo, Z.P. Maruya & Co. Limited, 1886.

HEPBURN, JAMES CURTIS: · 1867 · Charlotte Du Rietz Rare Books (ILAB)

€500.00 ($551.07 | £417.14 | ¥87,998)

Pp. Japanese title, xxxiii, 704, 697-704 (pp. 697-704 duplicate), 705-962, (1). Original cloth, title label on spine, rubbed, cloth splitting at upper margin. With Japanese bookseller label and stamp. Third edition, improved and enlarged edition (first 1867) of this important …

Die Lokomotiven der Bulgarischen Staatsbahnen Dejanow, Dimiter Internationales Archiv für Lokomotivgeschichte ; 41 Bulgarien Eisenbahn Bildband Lokomotive Dampflokomotiven für Normalspur C-Serie Sharp 1868 C-Serie StEG 1887 D-Serie StEG 1878 Bt-Serie Hanomag 1887 1 C-Serie StEG 1890 D-Serie

Dejanow, Dimiter · 1990 · LLU Buchservice

€139.00 ($153.20 | £115.96 | ¥24,464)

, Slezak, J O, 1990. 176, 170 x 240 mm, Hardcover. Zustand: 2. Inhalt: Abkürzungen Einführung Dampflokomotiven für Normalspur C-Serie Sharp 1868 C-Serie StEG 1887 D-Serie StEG 1878 Bt-Serie Hanomag 1887 1 C-Serie StEG 1890 D-Serie (Hanomag 1891) Die Ära der Verbundbauart C-Serie…

[Ouija] [Occult] The Changing Light at Sandover: Including the Whole of the Book of Ephraim, Mirabell's Books of Number, Scripts for the Pageant and a new coda, The Higher Keys [Signed]

MERRILL, James (1926-1995) · 1982 · Fine Editions Ltd

$724.00 (€656.91 | £548.04 | ¥115,614)

New York Atheneum First Edition First Printing of Merrill's long dramatic sequence with voices, collected here in a single volume for the first time. Royal 8vo (237 x 145mm): [8],560,[4]pp, with errata slip laid in. Publisher's finely woven black cloth, upper cover with author's…

Urban Literacy in the Nordic Middle Ages

Kasper H. Andersen, Jeppe B chert Netterstr m, Lisbeth Imer, Bjorn Poulsen, Rikke Steenholt Olesen (eds) · 2021 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,120)

, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, xv + 465 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:46 b/w, 2 maps b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503596747. Summary This volume explores literacy in the medieval towns of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, and aims to understand the extent to which…

Triplets: Comprising the Baby's Opera, the Baby's Bouquet, and the Baby's Own ÆSop

CRANE, Walter, illustrator · 1899 · David Brass Rare Books (ABAA/ILAB)

$3,500.00 (€3,175.66 | £2,649.39 | ¥558,906)

London: George Routledge & Sons Limited, 1899. Walter Crane's "Triplets" Deluxe Edition One of Twenty Special Copies Printed on Japanese Vellum CRANE, Walter, [illustrator]. Triplets: Comprising The Baby's Opera, The Baby's Bouquet, and The Baby's Own Æsop. With the Original Des…

Manet in Merkers. First Edition of the Published Broadside

Rosenberger, Coleman Francis (1915-1986) · 1945 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.70 | ¥15,969)

Washington, DC: The Black Sun Press, 1945. Letterpress on pink paper. 30.5 x 20.3cm. As published in Portfolio One , edited by Caresse Crosby.. Francis Coleman Rosenberger, 72, retired chief counsel and staff director of the Senate Judiciary Committee, died Oct. 19. 1986 at Fair…

A Sammelband of Six Miscellaneous Political Tracts

George Ross; Baron Henry Brougham; Peter Pangloss · 1806 · Rooke Books

£1,200.00 (€1,438.37 | $1,585.27 | ¥253,148)

Edinburgh, W. Bayne; R. Cadell; J. Hatchard; J. Murray; Thomas Dolby, 1806-1830 . First edition. Leather. A sammelband of six political tracts about the political state of Great Britain in the early nineteenth century. Present here are:The vanishingly scarce first edition of the…

Al-salaam alaykum. [= Peace be unto you]. Quanzhou, 990 AH [= 1582 CE]. Folio (ca. 20.5 x 30 cm). Arabic manuscript on paper. Black sini script in nine lines with red verse markers, titles in red, glossing in black. With beautifully illuminated full-page 'Unwan with Chinese influence on designs, in gold, blue, red, green, and black. 18th-century cloth and paper wrappers.

[MANUSCRIPT - CHINESE MUSLIM PRAYERBOOK]. · 1582 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€35,000.00 ($38,574.62 | £29,199.73 | ¥6,159,884)

46 ll.A fascinating example of Chinese Muslim calligraphy and manuscript culture, with prayers in praise of Mohammed written out in the distinctive Sini script used by Muslim populations in China for hundreds of years, here accompanied by extensive glossing in the particularly C…

I quattro primi libri di architettura. Nel primo de' quali si demostrano le buone qualita de' siti, per l'edificationi delle citta & castella, sotto diversi disegni: Nel secondo, quanto si aspetta alla materia per la fabrica: Nel terzo si veggono varie maniere di tempii, & di che forma si convenga fare il principale della citta: & dalle loro piante, come ancora dalle piante delle citta & castella, ne sono tirati gli alzati per ordine di prospettiva: Nel quarto si dimostrano per diverse piante l'ordine di piu palazzi & casamenti, venendo dal pallazo regale & signorile, come di honorato gentilhuomo, sino alle case di persone private.(Colophon:) Venice, in casa de' figlivoli di Aldo (= heirs of Aldo Manuzio), 1554. Folio. With the woodcut printer's device of Aldus on the title page and the verso of the last leaf, 43 woodcut illustrations with architectural and perspectival plans and views in the text, of which 8 full-page, and numerous historiated woodcut initials. Contemporary limp vellum, with the manuscript author and title on the spine.

CATANEO, Pietro. · 1569 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€5,500.00 ($6,061.73 | £4,588.53 | ¥967,982)

[2], 54, [2] pp.Rare first edition of a beautifully produced treatise on architecture and perspectival design, published by the sons of Aldus Manutius at Venice, and beautifully illustrated with large woodcuts. The work is dedicated to Enea Piccolomini, and treats in four books…

The Book of Pleasure (Self Love) the Psychology of Ecstasy

SPARE, AUSTIN · 1975 · Lady Lisa's Bookshop

£318.97 (€382.33 | $421.38 | ¥67,289)

1, Morton Press. 1975. Paperback. Paperback in average to good condition, internally clean but cover a bit stained with small amount of scuffing, can provide photo. Undated edition limited to 100 numbered copies, this copy beomg mumber 49. Morton Press. The Book of Pleasure (Sel…

- : ; II: ; III [Ukrainian-English Cook Book: Practical Advice and Explanations in the Ukrainian Language on How to Cook and Bake in the English Way; II: Old-Country Style Domestic Kitchen Cookery; III; Direction for Health] ; Ukraïns ko-angli s ka kukharka: praktychni porady i poi a snenni a v ukraïns ki movi i a k varyty i pechy na angli s ky sposib

[The Ukrainian Bookstore & The Canadian Farmer Publishing House] · 1950 · Black’s Fine Books & Manuscripts

$165.00 (€149.71 | £124.90 | ¥26,348)

Winnipeg, Manitoba . [Nakl. Ukraïns'koï knyharni] | The Ukrainian Bookstore & The Canadian Farmer Publishing House Fourth Edition pp. 220. 12mo., measuring 14.5 x 21.5 cm. Thrice-stapled, illustrated, light-green card covers. Driver notes that "the text …

Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Japansche Rijk.Amsterdam, J. Müller & Comp., printed by C. A. Spin, 1833. 4to. With a hand-coloured lithographic frontispiece, and 14 hand-coloured full-page lithographic plates, all highlighted with gum arabic. Contemporary richly gold-and blind-tooled brown calf, with the author and title lettered in gold on the spine, blind-tooled boards edges and turn-ins, gilt edges.

OVERMEER FISSCHER, Johannes Frederik van. · 1772 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€4,500.00 ($4,959.59 | £3,754.25 | ¥791,985)

VII, [3], 320 pp.Splendid copy of the deluxe edition, printed on high-quality paper with ample margins, and beautifully hand coloured lithographs. The present copy has been bound by the Amsterdam bookbinder J. H. Peters (dates unknown), who bound several of the most important an…

Art of the Korean Renaissance, 1400-1600

Soyoung, Lee,; with essays by Haboush, JaHyun Kim; Hong, Sunpyo and Chang, Chin-Sung · 2009 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€40.00 ($44.09 | £33.37 | ¥7,040)

Book Very Good Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York English text.; Hardcover (cloth with dust jacket); 22.5 x 27.5 cm.; 1 Kg.; 140 pages with 99 illustrations of which 83 in colour.; Used with minor signs of wear on the exterior of the dust j…

Secret: The Gizeh Pyramids

THOTHNU TASTMONA., · 2006 · Sacred Science Institute

$60.00 (€54.44 | £45.42 | ¥9,581)

Sacred Science Institute, 2006. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall, Hardcover Maroon Suede Gilt, No Jacket, New. ¶ Exact Facsimile Reprint of Original Edition Published: 1954. 131p. With 93 Excellent Plates. Volume I of the 4-Volumed Proposed Work, Secret: The Pyramid & the Lisa (We Have…

Signs of Life. Ancient Egyptian Script, Language, and Writing: Studies in Honour of Orly Goldwasser

Niv Allon (ed) · 2024 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€140.00 ($154.30 | £116.80 | ¥24,640)

, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 252 pages, Size:216 x 280 mm, Illustrations:89 b/w, 14 col., 42 tables b/w., 1 maps b/w, Languages: English, French. ISBN 9782503608631. Summary In recent decades, the Ancient Egyptian realm of pictorial script and meta-textuality has been the focus …

Kanban: Shop Signs of Japan

Levy, Dana (photography and design); Sneider, Lea (commentaries) and Gibney, Frank (introductory essay) · 1983 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€20.00 ($22.04 | £16.69 | ¥3,520)

Book Good Dust Jacket Included 1st Edition John Weatherhill, Inc., New York and Tokyo English text.; Hardcover (clothbound with dust jacket).; 22 x 30.8 cm.; 1.1 kg.; 168 pages with black and white illustrations.; Used with signs of wear on the exterior and interior. The dust ja…

Codierungstheorie: Eine Einführung

Ralph-Hardo Schulz · 2003 · LLU Buchservice

€23.99 ($26.44 | £20.01 | ¥4,222)

, Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Auflage: 2., durchges. A. (12. September 2003). 249, 24,2 x 17 x 1,4 cm, Softcover. Zustand: 2. Das Lehrbuch über Codierungstheorie für Mathematik- und Informatik-Studenten setzt ausser elementarem Grundwissen keine besonderen Kenntnisse voraus. Angespro…

[Makbet = Macbeth in Ottoman Turkish].Cairo, Egypt, Kütübhane-i Içtihad, 1909. 8vo. With practically all text set in Arabic type. Half maroon cloth and brown decorated paper sides.

SHAKESPEARE, William and Abdullah CEVDET (translator). · 1869 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€6,500.00 ($7,163.86 | £5,422.81 | ¥1,143,978)

[5], 153, [2] pp.This extremely rare work marks the inaugural translation of Macbeth into the Ottoman language, also known as Osmanli. The translator behind this milestone was Abdullah Cevdet (1869 - 1932), an Ottoman medical practitioner with Kurdish roots. The work - printed i…