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The Smithsonian Book of Books

OLMERT, MICHAEL · 1992 · Round Table Books, LLC

$90.00 (€81.66 | £68.12 | ¥14,372)

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 1992. 089599030X. Stated First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. ISBN: 089599030X. Quarter bound in red leather over white cloth boards, gilt lettering on spine, marbled endpapers, silk ribbon marked bound in, printed entirely on glossy st…

Fredric March and Norma Shearer. (Scene from "Smilin' Through")

[20th Century Photographer] · 1932 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.36 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

London: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, [Ca. 1932]. 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 96. Made in Great Britain. Smilin' Through is a 1932 American pre-Code MGM r…

16 Vols Oxford Literary and Critical Editions

Various · 1896 · Rooke Books

£240.00 (€287.68 | $317.07 | ¥50,633)

London; Oxford, Henry Frowde; The Clarendon Press; Humphrey Milford; Oxford University Press, 1896-1933. Cloth. A substantial uniformly bound Oxford-issued collection of sixteen literary and critical editions, spanning Romantic poetry, Victorian prose, and Shakespearean scholars…

The Poetical Works of Matthew Prior

Matthew Prior · 1779 · Rooke Books

£550.00 (€659.26 | $726.63 | ¥116,033)

London, W. Strahan, T. Payne, J. Rivington et al, 1779 . First edition. Leather. Shakespearean scholar Isaac Reed's personal copy of the two volume first edition of this collected edition of Matthew Prior's poetry, with tipped in notes from Reed throughout. The first c…

Het brandende huis. Verhalen uit het tijdloze hier en nu, waar de meisjes zijn & de geest die waait waarheen hij wil

Helen Knopper · 2019 · Klondyke BV

€7.95 ($8.76 | £6.63 | ¥1,399)

Paperback; 1e druk, 2019; In de Knipscheer; 328pp.; Puntgaaf. -- Conditie: Als nieuw; Van Helen Knopper verschenen ruim twintig titels, w.o. romans, korte verhalen, poëzie, en een drieluik over de jaren negentig. Na een lange periode van stilzwijgen maakte Helen Knopper in 2016 …

[Sodome et Gomorrhe] Cities of the Plain [Remembrance of Things Past]

PROUST, Marcel (1871-1822) · 1929 · Fine Editions Ltd

$401.00 (€363.82 | £303.53 | ¥64,035)

London Alfred A. Knopf Limited Edition Part Five (complete in two volumes) of this masterpiece of modernity, "a milestone in the study of human consciousness and a revolution in the history of prose writing." (Literary Encyclopedia) Copy No. 515 from an edition of 2230. Translat…

[A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleurs] Within A Budding Grove [Remembrance of Things Past]

PROUST, Marcel (1871-1822) · 1924 · Fine Editions Ltd

$724.00 (€656.88 | £548.01 | ¥115,613)

London Chatto & Windus Part Two (complete in two volumes) of this masterpiece of modernity, "a milestone in the study of human consciousness and a revolution in the history of prose writing." (Literary Encyclopedia) Translated from the original French by C. K. Scott Moncrieff. C…

[Côté de Guermantes] The Guermantes Way [Remembrance of Things Past]

PROUST, Marcel (1871-1822) · 1925 · Fine Editions Ltd

$1,399.00 (€1,269.30 | £1,058.93 | ¥223,402)

London Chatto & Windus First Edition Parts Three and Four (complete in two volumes) of this masterpiece of modernity, "a milestone in the study of human consciousness and a revolution in the history of prose writing." (Literary Encyclopedia) Translated from the original French b…

P. Ovidius Nasoos Feestdagen, in Hollandts dicht vertaalt door Arnold Hoogvliet.

OVIDIUS. · 1719 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€260.00 ($286.57 | £216.91 | ¥45,761)

Delft en Rotterdam, By Adriaan en Jan Daniel Beman, 1719. 4to. (22 leaves);226,(1 errata) p. Vellum. 21 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 141532653; Geerebaert 122,36; OiN 276; Van der Aa 8/2 1175/9) (Details: Blind tooled back and boards. 6 thongs laced through the joints. A fine frontispiece…

Language Commonality and Literary Communities in Early Modern England. Translation, Transmission, Transfer

Laetitia Sansonetti, Rémi Vuillemin (eds) · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€90.00 ($99.20 | £75.08 | ¥15,840)

, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 297 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:12 b/w, 2 tables b/w., Language: English. *new ISBN 9782503598147. Summary In the early modern period, the humanist practice of translation of sacred as well as secular texts created new readerships in the v…

Publii Ovidii Nasonis Metamorphoseon libri XV. Expurgati, & explanati. Cum appendice de Diis, & Heroibus Poeticis. Auctore Josepho Juvencio e Societate Jesu.

OVIDIUS. · 1715 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€190.00 ($209.41 | £158.51 | ¥33,441)

Venice (Venetiis), Apud Nicolaum Pezzana, 1715. 12mo. (VI),640,(13 index),(1 blank). Calf 15.5 cm 'Kind of prize copy?' (Ref: Not in Schweiger, though he mentions other editions; cf. Graesse 5,76; cf. Ebert 15445) (Details: Back gilt and with 4 raised bands. Woodcut ornament on…

P. Ovidii Nasonis Opera. Petrus Burmannus ad fidem veterum exemplarium castigavit.

OVIDIUS. · 1713 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€230.00 ($253.50 | £191.88 | ¥40,481)

Amsterdam (Amstaelodami), Apud Rod. & Gerh. Wetstenios, 1713 - 1714. 12mo. 3 volumes: (LXII),302; 340,(XVII index),(3 blank);370 p., portrait and frontispiece. Vellum 14 cm (Ref: Schweiger 2,631: 'Heinsius Text liegt zum Grunde, ist aber nach Handschriften verbessert. Sehr cor…

Reading the Natural World in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Perceptions of the Environment and Ecology

Thomas Willard (ed) · 2020 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€80.00 ($88.17 | £66.74 | ¥14,080)

, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, xxi + 232 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:7 b/w, 9 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503590448. Summary The environment - together with ecology and other aspects of the way people see their world - has become a major focus of pre-modern studie…

The Oxford book of villains

Mortimer, John. · 1992 · SomeThingz, books etcetera

€9.50 ($10.47 | £7.93 | ¥1,672)

Oxford University Press 1992 Bound, cloth with original dustjacket, 431pp., 16.5x24cm., in very good condition (dustjacket with light traces of use). ISBN 9780192141958. "The world may be short of many things," writes John Mortimer in the introduction to this marvelous volume, …

P. Ovidii Nasonis Opera omnia, in tres tomos divisa, cum integris notis Nicolai Heinsii D.F. lectissimisque Variorum notis. Quibus non pauca, ad suos quaeque antiquitatis fontes diligenti comparatione reducta, accesserunt, studio Borchardi Cnippingii.

OVIDIUS. · 1702 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€340.00 ($374.74 | £283.65 | ¥59,841)

Amsterdam (Amstelodami), Prostant apud Waesbergios, Boom, & Goethals, 1702. 8vo. 3 volumes: (XVI),832,(16); 805,(10),(1 blank); 810,(6) p., 15 plates, 1 portrait, 1 frontispiece & 2 engraved titles. Vellum 19 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 320300935, ppn 320301095 & ppn 320301176; Schweiger…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night Translated from the Arabic by Sir R F Burton

Richard F. Burton (translator); Leonard C Smithers (ed.). · 1894 · Rooke Books

£995.00 (€1,192.67 | $1,314.53 | ¥209,914)

London, H S Nichols, 1894. Cloth. The 'Library Edition' of The Book of The Thousand Nights and a Night. This edition was edited by the friend of the translator Richard Burton, Leonard C Smithers. This is the first of Nichols and Smithers' fine library edition. Pub…

Fifty Comedies and Tragedies. Written by Francis Beaumont and James Fletcher, Gentlemen. All in One Volume. Published by the Author's Original Copies, the Songs to Each Play Being Added. Si Quid Habent Veri Vatum Praesagia, Vivam

Beaumont, Francis and John Fletcher et al. · 1679 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$1,450.00 (€1,315.57 | £1,097.54 | ¥231,546)

London, Printed by J. Macock, for John Martyn, Henry Herringman, Richard Marriot, 1679. Second edition. Leather bound. Full speckled and panelled brown leather covers with 5 raised bands, gilt tooling and applied red leather label in second compartment of spine. New endpapers. T…

The Romance Of The Inward Light by L. V. Holdsworth. with six drawings by G. E. Chambers.

HOLDSWORTH, L. V. [ LUCY VIOLET HODGKIN, LATER HOLDSWORTH, 1869–1954 ] . · 1932 · Chilton Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.69 | ¥16,878)

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, [1932] . 0. First edition signed by the author, plus two small letters also signed by L. V. Holdsworh. 7.75" x 5.25" x 1.00. pp.14/[2pp.]/pp.191 . Original grey cloth covered boards. Spine darkened with bright gilt titles. Edges lightly rubbed and …

Les vies des hommes illustres grecs et romains, comparées l'une avec l'autre par Plutarque de Chaeronée. Translatées par M. Iacques Amyot Conseiller du Roy, & par luy reveuës & corrigées. Avec les vies d'Annibal & de Scipion l'Africain, traduites de Latin en François par Charles de l'Écluse. Plus les vies d'Epaminondas, de Philippus de Macedoine, de Dionysius l'aisné tyran de Sicile, d'Auguste Caesar, de Plutarque & de Senecque. Item les vies des excellens Chefs de guerre, escrites par Aemilius Probus. Amples sommaires sur chacune vie: annotations morales en marge, chronologie, divers indices, & les vives effigies des hommes illustres. Le tout recueilly & disposé par S.G. S.

PLUTARCHUS. · 1612 · Antiquariaat Fragmenta Selecta

€375.00 ($413.32 | £312.85 | ¥66,002)

Paris (A Paris), Chez Jean du-Carroy, 1612. 8vo. 2 volumes: (XXXII),1181,(47 index);1294,(34 index) p. New vellum. 18.5 cm (Ref: cf. Hoffmann 3,214) (Details: Small woodcut portrait of Plutarch on both titles. Every 'Vita' is preceded by a coinlike woodcut portrait) (Condition:…

1946–1954 Major Richard Carr-Gomm Scrapbook and Insider Archive of British Mandate Palestine, the Coldstream Guards, the Household Brigade, and Britain’S Military and Political Establishment

RICHARD CARR-GOMM · 1928 · Katz Fine Manuscripts

$4,250.00 (€3,855.99 | £3,216.92 | ¥678,670)

England, Palestine, British Mandate, London, United Kingdom. Hardcover. On offer is the “Patchwork Book” of Richard Carr-Gomm (1928-2008) , a massive, approximately 300-page volume begun in September 1946 and maintained through 1954. It combines Carr-Gomm’s extensive handwritten…