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Les douze Césars. Traduits du Latin de Suétone, avec des notes et des réflexions par M. De la Harpe. Nouvelle édition revue et corrigée, ornée des portraits des douze Empereurs, et de celui de l'auteur, gravés d'après l'antiquité.

SUETONIUS. · 1805 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€50.00 ($55.11 | £41.71 | ¥8,801)

Paris, Chez Gabriel Warée, 1805 8vo. 2 volumes: VI,567;568 p. Woodcut illustrations. 20th century half cloth. 20 cm (Rebound. Round stamp on the title-page of 'Willem Bouteljé, Groningen'. Smal ownership inscription on the title. Front hinges weak) (Latin text with parallel Fr…

My Life. An Attempt at an Autobiography.

TROTSKY, LEON. · 2000 · Chilton Books

£20.00 (€23.98 | $26.43 | ¥4,221)

New York: Pathfinder, 2000. 0873481445. "Written in the first year of Trotsky's exile in Turkey, My Life tells the story of the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917, and of the struggle to consolidate the young workers and peasants government. I recounts the fight to defend the …

A Dress for Diana

EMANUEL, DAVID & ELIZABETH · 2006 · Little Lane Books

A$36.00 (€22.13 | $24.39 | £18.46 | ¥3,895)

UK, Pavilion Books Limited. 2006. Hardcover with dust jacket, 29cm. Book, 208 snowy pp, 1.5 kilo to post. July 29,1981-The Royal Wedding of HRH Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer was one of the iconic moments of the twentieth century. It remains a day embedded in the memory o…

De bello Persico. Liber primus-secundus.Including: De bello Vandilico. Liber tertius-quartus.Rome, Eugarius Silber alias Franck, 1509. Folio. With numerous decorative woodcut initials of 4 to 8 lines. 18th-century paper boards.

PROCOPIUS OF CAESAREA. · 1451 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

€15,000.00 ($16,533.10 | £12,512.18 | ¥2,640,439)

[90] ll.First and only edition of the Latin translation from the Greek by Raffaele Maffei Bishop of Volaterra (1451-1522), a noted humanist and encyclopaedist, of the story of the Persian wars and the wars against the Vandals in North Africa, under the reign of the Roman Emperor…

Israel Potter : His Fifty Years of Exile

Melville, Herman · 1925 · Ariel Books

$46.00 (€41.73 | £34.81 | ¥7,346)

Jonathan Cape First published in serial form in Putnam's Monthly magazine between July 1854 and March 1855, and in book form by G. P. Putnam & Co. in March 1855. The book is loosely based on an autobiographical pamphlet from 1824. Potter had been a veteran of the Battle of Bunke…

City Secrets London.

KAHN, Bob · 2001 · Boekhandel - Antiquariaat Emile Kerssemakers - Member ILAB/NVvA

€9.00 ($9.92 | £7.51 | ¥1,584)

The Little Bookroom, New York 2001, 271pp, Illustrated. Cloth. In very good condition. The travel advice in City Secrets London comes directly from the personal recommendations of those who know the city most intimately writers, critics, artists, and producers. By following thes…

Bilanx exacta Silsianae & Clauderianae Balsamationis...Addita sunt I. Breve extractum in cadaveribus Bilsiana Methodo...II. Anatomiae Balsamicae descriptio ab Authore... III. Attestatio Generalior de hoc subjecto. IV Gutschovii quinque cadaverum conditorum & dissectorum à Bilsio & descriptio. B.u.w. 2) A. CASSIUS, De triumviratu intestinali cum suis effervescentiis, repetitia disputatio. Cui accessit epistola Amici ad Amicum... omnia per modum amicae epistolae communicate Samueli Andreae...

ANDREAE, (Willemsz), Tobias · 1682 · Antiquariaat B.M.Israel B.V.

€750.00 ($826.66 | £625.61 | ¥132,022)

Amsterdam; Neomagi, Apud Adrianum à Gaesbeeck; Apud Nicolaum Placidum, 1682. - 1669. 12mo. 2 parts in 1 vol. W. engr. vign. on title. Cont. full vellum, title in ink on sp. (II, 173, I) blank); II, 70, (=68 pp.). (Ownership entry in ink on title, contemp.). 1) NNBW I, 133/35 ( …

Anglo-Saxon Attitudes

Angus Wilson, Wilson · 1956 · Klondyke BV

€9.00 ($9.92 | £7.51 | ¥1,584)

Paperback; Penguin Books Ltd; 352pp.; Conditie: Goed; 'Angus Wilson is one of the most enjoyable novelists of the 20th century ... Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1956) analyses a wide range of British society in a complicated plot that offers all the pleasures of detective fiction combi…

Middlesex

Jeffrey Eugenides · 2002 · Book Haven

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Bloomsbury 2002 Paperback, 529pp. Middlesex tells the breathtaking story of Calliope Stephanides, and three generations of the Greek-American Stephanides family, who travel from a tiny village overlooking Mount Olympus in Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit, witnessing its glo…

A Poodle in Paris

KALDOR, CONNIE · 2006 · Pegasus Books

$10.75 (€9.75 | £8.14 | ¥1,717)

Montreal, Quebec: The Secret Mountain, 2006. Hardcover. ISBN: 2923163125. Illustrated by Fil a Julie. Color Illustrations; 8.2 X 7.7 X 0.5 inches; Unpaginated pages; Hard cover has blue spine with white lettering. Pages not numbered; 36 pages. Color illustrations. CD in pocket i…

A Poodle in Paris

KALDOR, CONNIE · 2006 · Pegasus Books

$10.75 (€9.75 | £8.14 | ¥1,717)

Montreal, Quebec: The Secret Mountain, 2006. Hardcover. ISBN: 2923163125. Illustrated by Fil a Julie. Color Illustrations; 8.2 X 7.7 X 0.5 inches; Unpaginated pages; Hard cover has blue spine with white lettering. Pages not numbered; 36 pages. Color illustrations. CD in pocket i…

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir of Childhood

MCCOURT, FRANK · 1997 · Sigma Antiquariaat

€34.52 ($38.05 | £28.79 | ¥6,077)

Flamingo 1997 DEDICATED AND SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page 426 p. SOFTCOVER: (Original ill. wrpprs. VERY GOOD) 'When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. W…

You Can't Spell America Without Me: the Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year As President - a So-Called Parody

Kurt Andersen and Alec Baldwin · 2017 · Book Haven

NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)

Ebury 2017 Paperback. Political satire as deeper truth: Donald Trump's presidential memoir, as recorded by two world-renowned Trump scholars, and experts on greatness generally 'I have the best words, beautiful words, as everybody has been talking and talking about for a long ti…

Fisherman's Spring. {Signed by Roderick Haig-Brown}.

RODERICK HAIG-BROWN. · 1951 · Bruce Cave Fine Books

$225.00 (€204.14 | £170.28 | ¥35,934)

First Edition. Toronto. William Collins. 1951. First Canadian Edition. Octavo (8 x 6). 222 pp. Illustrated by Louis Darling. Signed by Roderick Haig-Brown on the half-title. The first Canadian and the first American editions of Fisherman’s Spring were published simultaneously. T…

Count Belisarious

Robert Graves · 1938 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.94 | $72.67 | ¥11,607)

London, Cassell & Company, Limited, 1938. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this historical novel from English poet and soldier Captain Robert von Ranke Graves. First edition. Illustrated with a frontispiece and three maps at the rear of the text. Collated complete.…

Kingswells (Aberdeen) - Lines by a Visitor in 1876 - Privately Printed. Ab15 8pj

1876 · Creaking Shelves Books

£42.00 (€50.35 | $55.50 | ¥8,863)

Not Stated, 1876. Soft Cover. 19p engraving of Kingswells House 1855 opposite title page. Original verse descriptive of Kingswells House and its surrounds - the verses outline a walk around the house and its surrounding pollicies. All original - but binding failed with marks on …

Billion Dollar Brain

Len Deighton · 1966 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.91 | $105.71 | ¥16,882)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1966. First edition. Cloth. A first edition of this Cold War spy novel by Len Deighton. First edition. A Cold War Spy novel, the fourth to feature an unnamed secret agent working for British Intelligence. The unnamed protagonist is ordered to Helsinki by D…

Gardens of Love

No Author · 1990 · Alpha 2 Omega Books

£13.50 (€16.18 | $17.84 | ¥2,849)

Weidenfeld & Nicolson. First edition. Book. Mint condition.Weidenfeld & Nicolson.First edition,1990.Pictorial hardcover with slipcase, both in mint condition.Victoria's secret,vol.3.Illustrated with colour photos.The pages have been scented.95pp. …

John Blaw of Castlehill - Jacobite and Criminal

Johnston, Christopher N · 1916 · Creaking Shelves Books

£24.00 (€28.77 | $31.71 | ¥5,065)

William Blackwood and Sons, 1916. Hardcover. 154p Plates 2 folding genealogical tables. The story of John Blaw who apparently visited France on a secret mission to Prince Charles Edward in Paris. This is explained in two long letters from Prince Charles to his father, the Cheval…

An Expensive Place to Die

Len Deighton · 1967 · Rooke Books

£68.00 (€81.52 | $89.85 | ¥14,350)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1967. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this spy novel by Len Deighton, in the original dust wrapper. This is a first edition of the work, in the original publisher's black cloth binding with the original dust wrapper and decorative endpa…