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East Wind West Wind
Bertien van Manen 253154 · 2001 · Boekhandel J de Slegte BV
€100.00 ($110.21 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)
de Verbeelding Publishing, 2001, Paperback, 232, 'Bertien van Manen is a recorder of intimacy.' 'To penetrate the privacy of other people's lives would take a great deal of tact anywhere. For a Dutch photographer to have found her way into the intimate corners of Chinese lives m…
EAST WIND: WEST WIND
Buck, Pearl S. · 1968 · Handled With Care
€5.00 ($5.51 | £4.17 | ¥880)
Pan Books, 3rd printing 1968 ; Conditie: In goede staat. Paperback. Pocket. Afvoer bib.
East Wind West Wind.
Manen, Bertien van · 2001 · Inktswart
€110.00 ($121.23 | £91.77 | ¥19,360)
De Verbeelding, 2001. paperback met transparant stofomslag; prachtig; vlekje op boekblok; groot formaat.
East wind: west wind. Tauchnitz 5161.
BUCK, PEARL S., · 1935 · Antiquariaat Victory
€8.00 ($8.82 | £6.67 | ¥1,408)
Leipzig, Tauchnitz, 1935. 262 pp. Hardcover. Spine faded.
Bertien van Manen: East Wind, West Wind
Buruma, Ian · 2001 · Klondyke BV
€100.00 ($110.21 | £83.43 | ¥17,600)
Paperback, inclusief stofomslag; 2001; Amsterdam : De Verbeelding Publishing; 232pp.; Conditie: Goed; Paperback, transperent dust jacket, illustrated with numerous (full page) photographs in colour, picture editing Hans Aarsman, text in English and Chinese, 4to.; Engels; ISBN10:…
East Wind West Wind. Afterword by Ian Buruma. English and Chinese text.
Manen, Bertien van. · 2001 · Fahrenheit 451
€175.00 ($192.87 | £146.00 | ¥30,799)
Amsterdam, De Verbeelding, 2001, 1st ed., 232 pag., coloured photographic illustrations and photo-illustrated card wrappers with flaps by Bertien van Manen, text in English and Chinese, quarto (26 x 20,2 cm.). = As new. Parr/ WassinkLundgren, The Chinese Photobook, p.398. 'Ber…
Wind chart, anemographical map - Johannes Janssonius, 1650
Janssonius-- Johannes · 1650 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge
€2,250.00 ($2,479.80 | £1,877.13 | ¥395,993)
WIND ROSE BY JANSSON, ONE OF THE EARLIEST ANEMOGRAPHIC CHARTS "Tabula Anemographica seu Pyxis Nautica Ventorum nomina sex linguis repraesentans" [Anemographic charts or nautical wind compass representing the names of the winds in six languages], copper engraving published by …
Feathers in the Wind: the mountain and the migration.
Brett, James J., Hawk Mountain Sanctuary Assn., · 1934 · Crabtree's Collection Old Books
$12.00 (€10.89 | £9.08 | ¥1,916)
np, np, nd. G PB. Founded in 1934 HMSA is a non-profit corporation for conserving and protecting wildlife and educating the public in wildlife. This two thousand acre preserve was recently designated a Registered Natural Landmark. In 1793 Jacob Gerhardt moved into the little sto…
MY WILDERNESS; East to Katahdin
Douglas, William O. · 1961 · The Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore
$20.00 (€18.15 | £15.14 | ¥3,194)
Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket Doubleday & Company First Edition Wear with chipping to spine-faded DJ. Very small tears to DJ and top corners very slightly bumped; The Supreme Court justice travels through undeveloped areas in the US, including Maroon Bells in Colorado, th…
A Discourse Concerning the Origine and Properties of Wind. With An Historicall Account of Hurricanes, and other Tempestuous Winds.
BOHUN (Ralph): · 1639 · John Price Antiquarian Books
£950.00 (€1,138.71 | $1,255.01 | ¥200,409)
Oxford, Printed by W, Hall for Tho Bowman..., !671. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo, 156 x 97 mms., pp. [viii], 302, including half-title, engraved plates on pages 18 and 19, 24, recently rebound in full antique-style panelled calf, raised bands on spine, black morocco label. A very…
A Collection of Works on South-West Asia and International Relations
Various · 1957 · Rooke Books
£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)
London, Rupert Hart-Davis; Longmans, Green & Co.; Hodder and Stoughton; Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd.; John Murray; Faber and Faber, 1957-1978. First edition. Cloth. A smart collection of twelve volumes of studies on South-West Asia and international relations with regards to indu…
Engeland, east coast and Thames Estuary - Greenville Collins, c. 1693
1693 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge
€850.00 ($936.81 | £709.14 | ¥149,597)
NAUTICAL CHART OF THE NORTH SEA FROM THE THAMES ESTUARY TO THE WASH “The River of Thames from London to the Buoy of the Noure.” Copper engraving on two mounted sheets published around 1693 “at the Postern on Great Tower Hill” by Richard Mount as part of the “Great Britain's C…
Nova 2
Harrison, Harry: Framer, Philip Jose; Silverberg, Robert, Gunn, James; Sladek, John; Anderson, Poul & more · 1973 · Caerwen Books
A$6.00 (€3.69 | $4.07 | £3.08 | ¥649)
Book Very Good 1st Edition Sphere England Nice copy with an uncreased spine. Contents: .Zirn Left Unguarded, the Jenghik Palace in Flames, Jon Westerley Dead short story by Robert Sheckley "East Wind, West Wind" novelette by Frank M. Robinson The Sumerian Oath short story b…
![[Manuscript portolan chart of the Atlantic Ocean, including Western Europe, South America, and West Africa].Porto, 1786. Chart ca. 86 x 68 cm; frame ca. 101 x 83.5 cm. Detailed manuscript portolan chart in ink and paint and/or ink wash in green, yellow, red, and brown on vellum. The chart is drawn within a red washed border and shows the detailed coastlines of the east coast of South America, the west coast of Africa, and the west coast of northwest Europe up to the Netherlands and including Great Britain and Ireland. The coasts are drawn in sections alternatingly in yellow, green, and red ink. Principal regions are added in large decorative script, coastal towns, cities, and capes are added in a small cursive hand. Also depicted are a detailed split graticule indicating longitude and latitude, intricate rhumb lines, islands, dangerous rocky outcrops (marked vegia (= vigia, meaning lookouts)), and inshore shoals. Further decorative elements in the chart are the flags in Brazil (Portuguese coat-of-arms), Algeria (Ottoman Empire?), and West Africa (Dutch flag, upside down); the side view of Elmina Castle in west Africa, two half wind roses, elaborate rococo floral (fleur-de-lis) ornaments at the head of the chart and in South America. The banderole at the bottom of the chart contains the following text: "Manoel Joze Vianna a Fes no Porto" and below the year of production "1786". Framed in a gold-coloured frame and mounted on a cream cloth covered backboard.](https://images.antiqbook.com/books/ashe16/1698397261/manuscript-portolan-1-small.avif)
[Manuscript portolan chart of the Atlantic Ocean, including Western Europe, South America, and West Africa].Porto, 1786. Chart ca. 86 x 68 cm; frame ca. 101 x 83.5 cm. Detailed manuscript portolan chart in ink and paint and/or ink wash in green, yellow, red, and brown on vellum. The chart is drawn within a red washed border and shows the detailed coastlines of the east coast of South America, the west coast of Africa, and the west coast of northwest Europe up to the Netherlands and including Great Britain and Ireland. The coasts are drawn in sections alternatingly in yellow, green, and red ink. Principal regions are added in large decorative script, coastal towns, cities, and capes are added in a small cursive hand. Also depicted are a detailed split graticule indicating longitude and latitude, intricate rhumb lines, islands, dangerous rocky outcrops (marked vegia (= vigia, meaning lookouts)), and inshore shoals. Further decorative elements in the chart are the flags in Brazil (Portuguese coat-of-arms), Algeria (Ottoman Empire?), and West Africa (Dutch flag, upside down); the side view of Elmina Castle in west Africa, two half wind roses, elaborate rococo floral (fleur-de-lis) ornaments at the head of the chart and in South America. The banderole at the bottom of the chart contains the following text: "Manoel Joze Vianna a Fes no Porto" and below the year of production "1786". Framed in a gold-coloured frame and mounted on a cream cloth covered backboard.
VIANNA, Manoel José. · 1482 · A. Asher & Co. B.V.
€135,000.00 ($148,787.82 | £112,627.53 | ¥23,759,551)
A very unusual and highly decorative late 18th century Portuguese manuscript chart, showing the Portuguese Empire on both sides of the Atlantic. On the left is colonial Brazil, the map listing more than 100 places along the Brazilian coast up to the Caribbean, including the foll…
The Legend of Michigan Myths, Legends, Fairy and Folktales
NOBLE, TRINKA HAKES · 2006 · Pegasus Books
$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.71 | ¥1,836)
Chelsea, MI: Sleeping Bear Press, 2006. First Edition. First Printing; Hardcover. ISBN: 1585362786. Illustrated by Gijsbert Van Frankenhuyzen. Color ; 9 3/8 x 11 1/4\"; Unpaginated pages; Hard cover has a blue psine with black lettering. Slight rubbing to boards. DJ has light ru…
Mediterranean - 19th century
Anonymous · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge
€425.00 ($468.41 | £354.57 | ¥74,799)
UNIQUE MANUSCRIPT MAP OF THE MEDITERRANEAN "Kaart van de Middellandsche Zee", anonymous manuscript map in brown ink and watercolour on vellum. Drawn by a Dutch hand in the first half of the 19th century. Size: 39 x 52 cm. Centuries of trade and travel had mapped the Mediterranea…
Aviation Engineering (Magazine), with Which Is Consolidated Aircraft Servicing - the Technical Journal of the Aeronautical Industry, June 1931 - New Engine Features / Tests and Calculations on the Medvedeff Monobiplane
SCHOWALTER, C.H.; TEICHMANN, F.; RUFFNER, B.; WOLCOTT, L. · 1931 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines
$199.95 (€181.42 | £151.36 | ¥31,930)
USA: Aircraft Engineering, 1931. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. 42 pages. Features: Interesting Packard-Diesel photo ad inside front cover explains how their engine gains revs when going over mountain tops; Thompson Valve ad commemorates the "Southern Cross", piloted by W…
The Wide World - True Stories of Adventure, April (Apr. ) 1928, No. 360, Vol. LX - the Mitimoni Man-Eaters
O'BRIEN, R.; VERRILL, A.; GALLOWAY, F.; STUART-REID, G.; SHEPHERD, P.; BEALS, CARLETON; HERSCHIN, A.; NOLAN, J.; ET AL · 1928 · RareNonFiction.com - Rare Books and Vintage Magazines
$295.00 (€267.66 | £223.31 | ¥47,108)
New York: The International News Company, 1928. First Edition. Single Issue Magazine. Tresilian; Gale, W.G.; Soper, G.; Sindall, A.W.. Pages 422-504 pages plus 16 pages of great vintage ads. Features: Ten Months Overdue - a stirring account of the luckless voyage of the Liverpoo…
Persian Empire - Gerard Mercator, 1633
Mercator-- Gerard · 1633 · Inter-Antiquariaat Mefferdt & De Jonge
€625.00 ($688.83 | £521.42 | ¥109,998)
THE PERSIAN EMPIRE - SAFAVID IRAN “Persici Vel Sophorvm Regni Typvs”. [Map of the Persian or Sophi (Safavid) Kingdom]. Copper engraving by Gerard Mercator published by Jodocus Hondius in 1633. With original hand colouring. Verso: English text. Size: 35.2 x 50.3 cm. When th…
A beautiful pair of huge, 21 inch. Library Globes.
Cruchley, George Frederick|GLOBE · 0 · Antiquariaat de Roo (NVvA)
€100,000.00 ($110,213.20 | £83,427.80 | ¥17,599,668)
London, G.F. Cruchley ca. 1850 Cruchley's new terrestrial globe from the most recent and best authorities, exhibiting the discoveries in equatorial Africa, the North Pole, and the new settlements and divisions in Australia, New Zealand, California, Texas &, etc.WITH: Cruchley's …