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Music and Science from Leonardo to Galileo

Rudolf Rasch (ed) · 2022 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€120.00 ($132.26 | £100.11 | ¥21,120)

, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 440 pages, Size:210 x 270 mm, Illustrations:51 b/w, 40 musical examples, Language(s):English, Italian. ISBN 9782503600802. Summary Music is not only an art (either as the art of composition or the art of performance) but also a subject for scientific …

Fredric March and Janet Gaynor. Scene from the Motion Picture a Star Is Born)

[20th Century Photographer] · 1937 · Wittenborn Art Books

$50.00 (€45.37 | £37.85 | ¥7,984)

London: United Artists, [Ca. 1937]. 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 220. Made in Great Britain. Scarce. A Star Is Born is a 1937 American Technicolor…

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Irène NÉMIROVSKY - (à Benjamin CRÉMIEUX) · 1934 · Librairie Le Feu Follet

€2,500.00 ($2,755.33 | £2,085.69 | ¥439,992)

NRF [Gallimard] | Paris 1934 | 12 x 19 cm | Broché | Edition originale, un des 45 exemplaires numérotés sur pur fil, tirage de tête.  Bel exemplaire complet de son prière d'insérer. Rare et important envoi autographe signé d'Irène Némirovsky : "A Benjamin Crémieux hommage de l'a…

New York City - George Hayward, 1858

Hayward-- George · 1740 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge

€525.00 ($578.62 | £438.00 | ¥92,398)

VIEW OF NEW YORK CITY FROM THE SOUTHWEST “A View of Fort George with the City of New-York from the S.W. 1740.” Lithograph made by George Hayward for David Thomas Valentine’s “Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York” of 1858. Coloured by a later hand. Size: 16,5 x 39…

A cruise in the "Gorgon"; or, eighteen months on H.M.S. "Gorgon", engaged in the suppression of the slave trade on the east coast of Africa.London, Bell and Daldy, 1869. 8vo. With a hand-coloured folding map as a frontispiece. Original publisher's blue cloth.

DEVEREUX, William Cope. · 1813 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.

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

XV, [1], 421, [3] pp. including 2 pp. of adverts.First edition in its original binding; a scarce and desirable work. "The Gorgon was a paddle-wheel sloop dispatched to the east coast of Africa to stop the illegal slave trade in the region. The vessel made its way up the Zambesi …

OUR MANIFOLD NATURE

Grand, Sarah [pseudonym for Clarke, Frances Elizabeth Bellenden. 1854 - 1943] · 1894 · Tavistock Books, ABAA

$825.00 (€748.55 | £624.50 | ¥131,742)

London: William Heinemann, 1894. 1st book edition (NCBEL III, 1054; Wolff 2670). Not in Sadleir. INSCRIBED PRESENTATION copy, marked by the author as "Advanced Copy". Original publisher's olive-green cloth binding with gilt stamping. viii, [2], 271, [5], 20 pp. March 1894 publis…

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table Every Man His Own Boswell the Professor at the Breakfast Table with the Story of Iris the Poet at the Breakfast Table He Talks with His Fellow-Boarders and the Reader Six Volumes

Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1885 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

Edinburgh, David Douglas, 1885-1886. Cloth. A neat, six volume set of Oliver Wendell Holmes' The Breakfast Table series. Six volumes, complete. Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. 1809 – 1894, was an American physician, professor, poet, lecturer and author. Regarded by his peers as …

Spanish Pictures

Rev. Samuel Manning · 1877 · Rooke Books

£170.00 (€203.77 | $224.58 | ¥35,863)

Manchester; Brighton, The Religious Tract Society, c1900. Cloth. A very scarce work by the Rev. Samuel Manning, profusely illustrated throughout by popular artists of the period. Undated, dated using Copac. This scarce work is bound in the publisher's original cloth binding…

Bleak House

Charles Dickens · 1853 · Rooke Books

£695.00 (€833.06 | $918.14 | ¥146,615)

London, Bradbury & Evans, 1853 . First edition. Leather. A smart first edition, first issue, of one of Charles Dickens's most celebrated novels, 'Bleak House&apos. The first edition of this work, first issue. Bound from the parts, with small stamp holes to the gutter. …

Journal of Glass Studies, Vol. 44

Coll. · 2002 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€25.00 ($27.55 | £20.86 | ¥4,400)

Corning, Corning Museum of Glass, 2002 Publisher's paper-covered boards, 319 pages, 27.5 x 20 cm. This volume features a look at glassmaking operations in medieval Tyre, Lebanon, that were uncovered in an extensive excavation. In addition, although Corning, New York, has long b…

Flemish Primitives I. The Master of Flemalle and Rogier van der Weyden Groups.

C. Stroo, P. Syfer-d'Olne · 1996 · ERIK TONEN BOOKS

€99.00 ($109.11 | £82.59 | ¥17,424)

, Brepols Publishers, 1996 hardback 308 pages ., incl. 67 colour ill. and 174 halftones, 210 x 297 mm, English Catalogue of Early Netherlandish Painting: Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (CENP 1) . ISBN 9782503505015. This catalogue includes paintings by the Master of Flem…

Joan Jonas Is on Our Mind

Frances Richard · 2017 · Wittenborn Art Books

$100.00 (€90.73 | £75.70 | ¥15,969)

San Francisco: CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, 2017. 8vo. [ca 170 pp.]. Soft Cover. Brand New, in publisher's original shrink wrap. Scarce. The CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco dedicates year long seasons of discussions and public events to a single artist. In 2…

Le Sacre de l'Empereur NapolŽon, histoire et lŽgende.

TULARD (Jean). · 2004 · Babel Librairie

€35.00 ($38.57 | £29.20 | ¥6,160)

S.l., Fayard / RŽunion des MusŽes nationaux, (2004). Un vol. au format gd in-4 (328 x 252 mm) de 195 pp. Reliure d'Ždition de plein cartonnage illustrŽ, dos de percaline satinŽe lie-de-vin, titre dorŽ en long. L'ouvrage s'agrŽmente d'une abondante autant que superbe iconogr…

AMERICA'S STRUGGLE FOR INDEPENDENCE Under the Brilliant Leadership of George Washington

[WASHINGTON, George] (CHAMBERLAIN, Samuel; EBY, Kerr; HASSAM, Childe; HORTER, Earl; LAWSON, Robert; LEWIS, Allen; WEST, Levon; WRIGHT, George; etc.) · 1932 · Charles Agvent

$3,750.00 (€3,402.50 | £2,838.63 | ¥598,828)

[New York]. George Washington Memorial Association, Inc.. First Edition. Title from one of the two printed inserts included with the etchings. Variant titles we have seen include TWENTY MASTERPIECES IN ETCHING [SET OF ORIGINAL ETCHINGS CHRONICLING THE LIFE OF GEORGE WASHINGTON].…

AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM (Juvenilia - 4 pages): "Bank Holiday"

AUDEN, W. H · 0 · Charles Agvent

$9,375.00 (€8,506.24 | £7,096.57 | ¥1,497,070)

Exceptionally scarce 4-page AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a poem written by Auden as a teenager. Published in THE OXFORD OUTLOOK in November 1926 and not published in book form until 1994 in W. H. AUDEN JUVENILIA edited by Katherine Bucknell, from which much of the information below w…

The World in Colours: an exhibition of ceramics with coloured decoration dating from 700 to 1920 belonging to members of the Oriental Ceramic Society

Kerr, Rose; Canby, Sheila; Allen, Phillip; Boulay, Anthony du; Martin, Jean (catalogue entries) · 2006 · Jorge Welsh Works of Art Lda

€95.00 ($104.70 | £79.26 | ¥16,720)

Book Good 1st Edition Oriental Ceramic Society English text; Paperback; 19.2 x 24.3 cm; 0.323 Kg; 104 pages with illustrations.; Signs of wear in the front cover, namely edgewear, slight peeling on the bottom right of the front page and also wear mark on the top right of the fro…

[The Levant Trilogy, comprising] The Danger Tree; The Battle Lost and Won; [and] The Sum of Things

MANNING, Olivia (1908-1980) · 1977 · Fine Editions Ltd

$424.00 (€384.71 | £320.95 | ¥67,707)

London Weidenfeld and Nicolson [through 1980] First Edition First Printings of Manning's second major semi-autobiographical wartime novel sequence, sequel to The Balkan Trilogy, continuing the story of Harriet and Guy Pringle. Publisher's original cloth (French blue, orange, an…

Romare Bearden, American Modernist (Studies in the History of Art Series 71)

Fine, Ruth; Jacqueline Francis · 2011 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$80.00 (€72.59 | £60.56 | ¥12,775)

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, 2011. Hardcover. Gray cloth boards, silver spine titling, [vii] 296 pp. 95 black and white ills. and 105 color plates. Romare Bearden (1911-1988) was a modernist artist renowned for his experimental and socially conscious works. Bearden i…

Baltic Light: Early Open-Air Painting in Denmark and North Germany

Johnston, Catherine et al. · 1999 · Kevin Mullen, Bookseller

$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)

New Haven and Ottowa, Yale University Press : in association with National Gallery of Canada, 1999. Hardcover. Dark blue cloth covered boards with color pictorial, glossy dustjacket. 220 pp. Numerous color plates. During the first half of the nineteenth century, Danish and Germa…

Sight Unseen

Robert Goddard · 2005 · Book Haven

NZ$12.50 (€6.26 | $6.90 | £5.23 | ¥1,102)

Corgi 2005 Paperback, 448pp. Another classic mystery from the â€oemaster of the clever twist. ” On a summer’s day in 1981, a two-year-old girl, Tamsin Hall, was abducted during a picnic at the famous prehistoric site of Avebury in Wiltshire. Her seven-year-old sister Miranda…