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My Lives . Francis Meynell . (signed).

MEYNELL, FRANCIS 1891-1975. · 1971 · Chilton Books

£140.00 (€167.84 | $184.99 | ¥29,544)

London : Bodley Head, 1971 . 0370013034. Autobiography of Sir Francis Meynell, recalling his many 'lives', as journalist, poet, publisher, publicist, sportsman and businessman, with descriptions of the many eminent personalities he encountered. Signed first edition with 3 loosel…

The Cradle of the Twin Giants, Science and History.

Henry Christmas · 1849 · Rooke Books

£225.00 (€269.74 | $297.31 | ¥47,482)

London, Richard Bentley, Publisher in Ordinary to Her Majesty. 1849. First edition. Cloth. The very scarce first edition of this thorough, nineteenth-century history of esoteric disciplines and their relationship to the modern sciences by Henry Christmas, in two volumes, with th…

Sixteen Science Fiction Novels and Periodicals

David Meltzer; Ray Luther; Michael Moorcock; Edward E. Smith; Manly W. Wellman; Wade Wellman; Spider Robinson; Brian W. Aldiss; E. C. Tubb; George C. Foster; Judith Reeves-Stevens; William F. Temple; Curt Siodmak; · 1953 · Rooke Books

£495.00 (€593.42 | $654.07 | ¥104,460)

New York; California, Brown, Watson Limited; Ace Books; Hamilton & Co; Warner Books; Granada; et al. 1953-81. First edition. Paperback. A sixteen volume set of first edition science fiction novels and magazines, including works based on the popular series 'Star Trek', …

The Quest: A Quarterly Review

G. R. S. Mead [ed.] · 1909 · Rooke Books

£1,400.00 (€1,678.37 | $1,849.91 | ¥295,441)

London, John M. Watkins, 1909-1918. First edition. Paperback. Twenty-seven very scarce volumes of G. R. S. Mead's theosophical periodical, with articles on a wide array of supranormal subjects. Twenty-seven volumes of this exceptionally scarce quarterly periodical from The …

Christmas Books; David Copperfield; Jane Eyre; Rob Roy; the Vicar of Wakefield; Round the World in Eighty Days; the Innocents Abroad; the Toilers of the Sea; Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor; the Story of an African Farm.

Charles Dickens; Charlotte Bronte; Sir Walter Scott; Oliver Goldsmith; Jules Verne; Mark Twain; Victor Hugo; R. D. Blackmore; Olive Schreiner · 1930 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.90 | $112.32 | ¥17,938)

London and Glasgow, Collins Clear-Type Press, c1930. Cloth. A delightful, neat collection of ten significant literary works by various eminent authors, including Dickens, Bronte and Scott, profusely illustrated throughout. Collection comprised of:Christmas Books by Charles Dicke…

Chemie - einfach alles Chemie verständlich Experimente Grundwissen Chemieunterricht Schüler Lernhilfe Fachwissen Lehrbuch Wissenschaft Chemiepraktikum Übungsaufgaben Chemiekurs,Chemiegrundlagen Chemiestudium Chemiebuch Chemiestudenten Faust, Rüdiger; Atkins, Peter W. Jones, Loretta Chemie einfach alles Chemiker Lexika Anorganische Chemie chemistry Chemisch Handbuch Lehrbuch Organische Chemie Physikalische Naturwissenschaften

Peter W. Atkins, Loretta Jones (Autoren) Rüdiger Faust (Herausgeber) · 2006 · LLU Buchservice

€99.90 ($110.11 | £83.33 | ¥17,585)

, Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2006. 1081, 210 x 280 mm, Hardcover. Zustand: 2. Die zweite Auflage knüpft nahtlos an den Erfolg ihres Vorgängers an: Für die Vermittlung des gesamten Basiswissens in der Chemie ist dieser Titel einfach ein Allrounder. Mit Recht kann man dieses Werk als drei …

Nagasaki, Dejima - Ohata Bunjiemon, 1778

1778 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€2,450.00 ($2,700.41 | £2,043.66 | ¥431,272)

NAGASAKI HARBOUR WITH THE DUTCH FACTORY OF DEJIMA “Hishu Nagasaki no zu” (illustration of the prosperous Nagasaki), woodcut published in 1778 (An’ei 7) by Ohata Bunjiemon. Size: 61,3 x 86,7 cm. The map is oriented diagonally, with straight North pointing to the upper right corne…

Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century, and of many Valuable First Editions, in the Library of George John Earl Spencer... [Vols., I-IV]. [With:] Aedes Althorpianae; or an Account of the Mansion, Books, and Pictures, at Althorp... To which is Added a Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana. [Vol. V]. [With:] Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana... [Vol. VI]. [With:] A Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Cen

DIBDIN (Thomas Frognall) · 1814 · Forest Books

£1,177.13 (€1,411.18 | $1,555.41 | ¥248,409)

London: Printed for the Author by W. Bulmer and Co., (Later by W. Nicol, Successor to W. Bulmer) Shakspeare Press, 1814-23. First edition, 7 vols., complete, small 4to (263 x 165 mm). (I): [6], ix, [3], lii, 383, [1]pp., with half-title, 11 engraved plates on 12 leaves as calle…

Annuaire des établissements français de l'Océanie et du Protectorat des Iles de la Société et dépendances pour l'année commune 1863.Papeete, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, August 1863. With: (2) [FRENCH POLYNESIA - PERIODICAL]. Annuaire des établissements français de l'Océanie et du Protectorat des Iles de la Société et dépendances pour l'an 1864 (title on the front wrapper: Annuaire de Taïti pour 1864).Papeete, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, October 1864. 2 volumes. Small 8vo. With two original photographs in the 1863 edition, both reproducing maps, one showing the islands Tahiti and Moorea and the other showing archipels which were then under French protectorate. Original publisher's printed wrappers.

[FRENCH POLYNESIA - PERIODICAL]. · 1842 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

VIII, 372; [4], LX, 126, [2 blank] pp.Two very rare issues of an administrative annual periodical (in the form of an almanac) on Tahiti, Moorea and other parts of French Polynesia, printed in Papeete (the capital of French Polynesia and Tahiti). In 1842 the French proclaimed the…

Commentaire Litteral Sur Tous Les Livres de L'Ancien Et Du Nouveau Testament

Calmet, Augustin · 1724 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$1,000.00 (€907.27 | £756.80 | ¥159,706)

Paris, Chez Emery, Saugrain l'aîné, Pierre Martin, 1724. 1724-1726. Hardcover. Published as 8 volumes in 9 parts (2 parts to Volume I); missing Volume IV. All volumes: Brown leather/folio boards. Six raised bands on spines with elaborate gilt decoration and titles. Marbled end p…

Concrete and Constructional Engineering Including Prestressed Concrete: Volume LIX (59) - Containing All Issues from 1964

MULTIPLE CONTRIBUTORS · 1964 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$295.00 (€267.64 | £223.25 | ¥47,113)

London: Concrete Publications, 1964. First Edition. Hardcover. 456 pages. Frequently illustrated with black and white photographs and line drawings. Topics include: New Dams in the UK; New Marine and Riverside Structures; Loading Tests on Large Bored Piles in Clay; New Zealand H…

The Wide World Magazine - True Stories of Adventure, June 1928, Vol. LXI, No. 362: Through the Guadalupe Wilderness / to Lhasa in Disguise

BUTT-THOMPSON, CAPTAIN F.W.; BAKER, BEN F.; LIVINGSTON, CARL B.; SINCLAIR, W.E.; DAVID-NEEL, ALEXANDRA; BUSBY, A.D. MEREWETHER; KOHL, EDITH AMMONS; HAWKES, E.W.; FEGEN, WILLIAM W.; BEALS, CARLETON; BROWN, SINCLAIR; STUART-REID, GEORGE E.; ET AL · 1928 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$495.00 (€449.10 | £374.61 | ¥79,055)

New York: The International News Company, 1928. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Inns, Kenneth; Cattermole, Lance. Generously illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. Features: The Devil-Stones - A strange story of West African "fetish" and its uncanny pow…

The Magazine of Art Illustrated

Various · 1880 · Rooke Books

£75.00 (€89.91 | $99.10 | ¥15,827)

London; Paris; New York, Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. 1880-c1909. Cloth. A collection of three heavily illustrated volumes of this insightful art periodical. All three volumes are bound in publisher's original brown cloth. Each decorated with gilt lettering and motifs to t…

A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus (75 Parts in 8 Volumes)

J. H. Maiden; Margaret Flockton · 1903 · The Book Merchant Jenkins, ANZAAB / ILAB

A$4,400.00 (€2,704.62 | $2,981.05 | £2,256.05 | ¥476,092)

William Applegate Gullick, John Spence, and Adam James Kent, Government Printers Sydney First Edition Very Good Condition 30cm x 23cm. 8 volumes. Blue cloth, gilt lettering. A complete set, being 75 parts in 8 volumes, containing over 3000 pages and 304 plates, 12 of which are i…

De volmaakte bootsman, vervattende hoe men uit een gegeven scheeps lengte de voornaamste scheepsdelen zal vinden, de bemasting, het kerven van ’t staande en lopende touwerk, en verder het geene in ’t toetakelen der scheepen van nooden is. Mitdsgaders de takelagie voor verscheide charters van scheepen, welke by de ’s lands oorlogscheepen in gebruik zyn … Zeer dienstig voor alle zeevarende lieden.Amsterdam, Widow of [Gerard] Hulst van Keulen, [ca. 1818]. Small 8vo. With a large folding plate (42.5 x 52 cm) depicting and noting in numbers all the parts of a 17th-century three-master and two smaller Dutch ships at sea engraved by Anthonie de Winter (1652-1707) after Johannes van Keulen (1654-1715). 20th-century green faux snakeskin, sewn on 4 leather tapes laced through the joints, the extended back wrapper closing on the front side as an envelope, marbled endpapers, red edges.

[MOOLEN, Symon van de]. · 1658 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

[4], 124 pp.Very rare edition of a practical maritime handbook for boatswains and other seamen by the Dutch cartographer, mathematician, and astronomer Symon van de Moolen (1658-1741). The greater part of the work had been already published in 1680: De nieuwe Hollandsche scheeps…

[Opera Archive] [Staatsoper] [Playbill] Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Ein Maskenball; Oedipus der Tyrann; Don Carlos; Wozzeck; Aida; Capriccio; Tristan und Isolde; Das Rheingold; Die Walküre; Siegfried; Götterdämmerung; Don Giovanni; Die Hochzeit des Figaro; Eugen Onegin; Die Fledermaus; Electra; Turandot; Der Rosenkavalier; Ariadne auf Naxos; Arabella; Così fan tutte

BERG, Albin; MOZART, Wolfgang Amadeus; ORFF, Carl; PUCCINI, Giacomo; STRAUSS, Johann; STRAUSS, Richard; TSCHAIKOWSKY, Pyotr Ilyich; VERDI, Giuseppe; WAGNER, Richard · 1961 · Fine Editions Ltd

$274.00 (€248.59 | £207.36 | ¥43,759)

Vienna Wiener Staatsoper A fascinating, remarkably complete collection of programs, playbills, and ticket stubs for performances during the 1961 and 1962 spring season at the Staatsoper in Vienna, then under the direction of Herbert von Karajan. For each of 25 performances, the …

Pablo de Segovia: The Spanish Sharper

Quevedo-Villegas, Francisco de · 1892 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$180.00 (€163.31 | £136.22 | ¥28,747)

London, T Fisher Unwin, 1892. Hardcover. White vellum boards w/ gilt printing on burgundy title blocks on spine. xlii, 239 pp.; red tinted block edges, 110 bw drawings w/ tissue-guard frontispiece. Text in English. Translation of Francisco de Quevedo-Villegas's original story; I…

The Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, Complete in Four Volumes

Lord Macaulay; Trevelyan, George Otto, ed. · 1876 · Structure, Verses, Agency Books

$172.00 (€156.05 | £130.17 | ¥27,469)

Leipzig, Germany, Bernard Tauchnitz Edition, 1876. Bernard Tauchnitz Edition. Hardcover. Size: 24mo 5" - 6" tall. Scarce in the trade in this condition, there being currently no additional copies available on-line. An attractive set, complete in four volumes, of the Bernard Tau…

Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the most Antient and Famous University of Oxford, from the fifteenth year of King Henry the Seventh, A.D. 1500 etc. Two Volumes.

Anthony Wood · 1721 · Bailgate Books Ltd

£460.00 (€551.46 | $607.83 | ¥97,074)

R Knaplock, D Midwinter and J Tomson, London, 1721. Second Edition, Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Full Title "Athenae Oxonienses. An Exact History of all the Writers and Bishops who have had their Education in the most Antient and Famous University of Oxford, from th…

The Illustrated London News (Iln), Saturday, May 18, 1940 - Nazi Invasion of the Netherlands / Dutch Machine Gun Crew Cover Photo

BRYANT, ARTHUR; FALLS, CYRIL; BYLES, CHARLES E. · 1940 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines

$299.95 (€272.14 | £227.00 | ¥47,904)

London: The Illustrated London News and Sketch, Ltd, 1940. First Edition. Paperback. Illustrated by De Grineau, Bryan; Davis, G.H.; Turner, C.E.. Pages 645-676. Features: One-page map of the Low Countries' (Holland and Belgium) Traditional Defence - Strategic Inundations (Floodi…