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Title:Polyhistor, Rerum Toto Orbe Memorabilium Thesaurus Locupletissimus
Price:AUD$6,000.00 (about USD$3,854.10)
Item ID:LU00-0033490
Quantity:1
Publisher:Michael Isingrin, Basel, 1543
Edition:Second
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Good
Michael Isingrin, 1543, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Second

30cm x 20cm. [20], 230, [2] pages, 2 double page maps, 18 maps in the text. Full vellum, manuscript lettering, housed in a custom quarter leather clamshell. Text is in Latin. The Second Isingrin Edition with commentary and woodcut maps by Sebastian Munster. A significant work of geography containing "the earliest representation of the north-west coast of America on a printed map" (Burden), as well as one of the earliest printed works to with a ... More Text...
Title:Journals of Two Expeditions into the Interior of New South Wales, Undertaken by Order of the British Government in the Years 1817-18
Price:AUD$6,000.00 (about USD$3,854.10)
Item ID:LU00-0019714
Quantity:1
Publisher:John Murray, London, 1820
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Good
John Murray, 1820, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, First

27cm x 22.5cm. Quarto. xvi, 408 pages, 3 folding maps/charts, 1 folding engraved plate, 5 aquatints (2 hand-coloured), 2 folding tables. Half leather, 5 raised bands, gilt lettering, and decoration, date panel, marbled papered boards, marbled endpapers. Oxley's account of his explorations of the Lachlan and Macquarie Rivers: "the foundation work in the field of Australian inland exploration and the first detailed description of the interior of New ... More Text...
Title:Voyages par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aus Indies Orientales, Volume 2
Price:USD$3,500.00
Item ID:RE00-54824
Quantity:1
Publisher:Wetstein, Amsterdam, 1718
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (Full Leather)
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
Wetstein, 1718, Hardcover (Full Leather), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

CORNEILLE LE BRUN (DE BRUYN). Voyages par la Moscovie, en Perse, et aus Indies Orientales, Volume 2, Amsterdam: Freres Wetstein, 1718. Folio, first French edition, pp. 253-468, contemporary marbled calf boards with morocco labels and gilt ornaments to spine, marbled edges, brown cloth-covered solander box, text in French, extensive illustration by the author. With 152 etched plates, many double-page and ... More Text...
Title:The Traveller's Library (41 Books in 15 Volumes)
Price:AUD$4,500.00 (about USD$2,890.60)
Item ID:LU00-0005837
Quantity:1
Publisher:Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1852
Binding:Hardcover (Half Leather)
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1852, Hardcover (Half Leather), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No

41 Books bound in 15 Volumes (Not numbered, dated from 1852-1856). Uniform Half Leather. Gold tooling to spine. Raised bands. Blind ruled corners and edges. Marbled boards, full edges, and endpapers. Longman's Traveller's Library offered many reprints of Travel books. Some First Editions, or First in their form or translation, Some New Editions, some reprinted with additions from the ... More Text...
Title:L'Institut, Journal General des Societes et Travaux scientifiques
Price:USD$2,500.00
Item ID:RE00-55269
Quantity:1
Publisher:Eugene Arnoult, Paris, 1839
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (Quarter Leather)
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
Eugene Arnoult, 1839, Hardcover (Quarter Leather), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

EUGENE ARNOULT [editor]. L'Institut, Journal General des Societes et Travaux scientifiques ..., 52 weekly issues, Nos. 262-313, Paris: 1839. Quarto, pp. 479, bound in marbled paper boards, quarter leather. These issues include the first reports of the spectacular developments in photography's miracle year of 1839, when Louis Daguerre's achievements in image-making were revealed to the world. ... More Text...
Title:An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects of the Variolae Vaccinae, a Disease Discovered in some of the Western Countries of England, Particularly Gloucestershire, and Known by the Name of The Cow Pox
Price:AUD$3,500.00 (about USD$2,248.20)
Item ID:LU00-0019289
Quantity:1
Publisher:Thomas Richards, Government Printer, Sydney, 1884
Edition:Australian
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Very Good
Thomas Richards, Government Printer, 1884, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Australian

27cm x 22cm. [ii], v, 184 pages, 4 colour plates. Half leather, marbled papered boards, gilt lettering. The 1884 Australian reprint of one of the seminal works of medicine, Edward Jenner's pioneering work on the creation of the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. Published in the wake of Sydney's 1881 smallpox outbreak as part of a renewed push in what was a long and unsuccessful campaign by New South Wales ... More Text...
Title:The history of New-England : containing an impartial account of the civil and ecclesiastical affairs of the country, to the year of Our Lord, 1700 ; to which is added, The present state of New-England : with a new and accurate map of ... (Truncated)
Price:USD$2,200.00
Item ID:QB00-1347
Quantity:1
Publisher:Printed for J. Clark, at the Bible & Crown in the Poultry, R. Ford, at the Angel in the Poultry, and R. Cruttenden, at the Bible and Three Crowns, in Cheapside, London, 1720
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (Quarter Leather)
Condition:Very Good
Printed for J. Clark, at the Bible & Crown in the Poultry, R. Ford, at the Angel in the Poultry, and R. Cruttenden, at the Bible and Three Crowns, in Cheapside, 1720, Hardcover (Quarter Leather), Book Condition: Very Good, First

Full Book Title: The history of New-England : containing an impartial account of the civil and ecclesiastical affairs of the country, to the year of Our Lord, 1700 ; to which is added, The present state of New-England : with a new and accurate map of the country, ... More Text...
Title:Cyaniding For Gold
Price:AUD$3,150.00 (about USD$2,023.40)
Item ID:SI00-7383
Quantity:1
Publisher:Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 1939
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Good
Dust Jacket:Good
Angus & Robertson, 1939, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: Good, First

270 pages. 610 grams. Book is in good lightly marked condition with light foxing to endpapers. First Edition. 3 foldouts present, intact and in good order; one page facing the author's note neatly excised and not present. Dust jacket is in good condition, only lightly rubbed. Dust jacket condition preserved within new clear plastic protective non-adhesive removable covering. Size: Octavo (standard book size). 270 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilogram. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Australia; Natural History & Resources. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 7383.
Title:Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England
Price:USD$2,000.00
Item ID:RE00-51719
Quantity:1
Publisher:Arch, London, 1826
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (Full Leather)
Condition:Good
Dust Jacket:No
Arch, 1826, Hardcover (Full Leather), Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

Turner, J.M.W. Picturesque Views on the Southern Coast of England, 2 volumes, London: John and Arthur Arch, 1826. Quartos, first edition, unpaginated with 80 engravings, contemporary polished calf with elaborate gilt-stamped floral decoration, red morocco labels and five raised bands on spines, a.e.g., engravings by George and W.B. Cooke and others. Engravings include 48 plates and 32 vignettes. Front pastedowns ... More Text...
Title:Heads Figures and Ideas
Price:USD$2,000.00
Signed:By Author & Illustrator
Item ID:RE00-54822
Quantity:1
Publisher:Rainbird, London, 1958
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (in Slipcase)
Condition:Near Fine
Dust Jacket:No
Rainbird, 1958, Hardcover (in Slipcase), Book Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First, Signed by Author and Illustrator

HENRY MOORE. Heads Figures and Ideas, London: George Rainbird, 1958. Folio measuring about 19x13 inches or 48x30cm, No. 110 of an edition of 150, unpaginated, blue printed boards half-bound in gray morocco by Zaehnsdorf, with a color lithograph (Cramer 41) tipped onto the reverse of the first title page, signed and dated in pencil by Moore, slipcased. The lithograph, ... More Text...
Title:Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion, Mansfield Park
Price:USD$2,000.00
Item ID:RE00-54386
Quantity:1
Publisher:Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Phiiladelphia, 1838
Edition:Early
Binding:Hardcover (Half Leather)
Condition:Good
Dust Jacket:No
Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1838, Hardcover (Half Leather), Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, Early

JANE AUSTEN. The Novels, Volume 1, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blanchard, 1838. Octavo, second American edition, pp. vi, 387, marbled boards half-bound in contemporary black morocco with gilt lettering to spine, ownership signature on title page. Includes Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion and Mansfield Park, thus lacking Emma, Northanger Abbey and Sense and Sensibility. Printed on double columns. ... More Text...
Title:Volkomen Reis-Atlas van geheel Duitschland, vervat in zeer juiste Kaarten. Op nieuw vervaardigt naar de laatste verbeteringen van Bachine en verrykt met eene Ongemeen gemaklyke Steedewijzer, Benerens eene zo beknopte als volledige ... (Truncated)
Price:USD$1,995.00
Item ID:EC00-181299
Quantity:1
Publisher:I.B. Elwe, Amsterdam, 1791
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Good
I.B. Elwe, 1791, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good

Full Book Title: Volkomen Reis-Atlas van geheel Duitschland, vervat in zeer juiste Kaarten. Op nieuw vervaardigt naar de laatste verbeteringen van Bachine en verrykt met eene Ongemeen gemaklyke Steedewijzer, Benerens eene zo beknopte als volledige Geographische beschrijving van het gantsche Duitsche Rijk

272 pages. Includes 37 color maps, 2 color charts, a couple other folding charts and a 2 page color frontispiece. Wear to the leather ... More Text...
Title:The Temple Dances in Bali
Price:AUD$3,000.00 (about USD$1,927.10)
Item ID:LU00-0020363
Quantity:1
Publisher:Bokforlags Aktiebolaget Thule, Stockholm, 1936
Edition:First Thus
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Very Good
Bokforlags Aktiebolaget Thule, 1936, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, First Thus

31cm x 24cm. 27 pages, 77 plates (24 coloured). Original cloth, new leather labels, gilt lettering. Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) was a Swedish artist, ethnographic researcher, keen theosophist, cosmopolitan woman of the world, and a founding member of Foreningen Svenska Konstnarinnor (The Association of Swedish Women Artists). Kleen studied painting in Germany and France, lived and socialised with the cultural elite in Rome at ... More Text...
Title:Practical Observations on Insanity
Price:AUD$3,000.00 (about USD$1,927.10)
Signed:By Author
Item ID:LU00-0030271
Quantity:1
Publisher:R. Baldwin and Thomas Underwood, London, 1813
Edition:Third
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Good
R. Baldwin and Thomas Underwood, 1813, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Third, Inscribed by Author

21cm x 14cm. xvi, 215 pages. Contemporary papered boards. "In which some Suggestions are offered towards an improved Mode of treating Diseases of the Mind, and Some Rules proposed which it is hoped may lead to a more Humane and successful Method of Cure: to which are subjoined, Remarks on Medical Jurisprudence, as it relates to Diseased Intellect." The third and final revised edition of the major work by ... More Text...
Title:Long Lake
Price:USD$1,850.00
Item ID:DH00-015469
Quantity:1
Publisher:E. P. Little, Pittsfield, MA, 1845
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Good
Dust Jacket:No
E. P. Little, 1845, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

Size: 6 1/4" x 4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Professionally reinforced spine, original embossed brown cloth with gilt-stamped title on spine, 100 pages. A rare book, this is the first publication to focus exclusively on the Adirondacks. Covers worn at extremities with some professional repairs made, notes in ink and pencil on end papers as well as some ... More Text...
Title:Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, At the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals
Price:USD$1,850.00
Item ID:DH00-014975
Quantity:1
Publisher:Printed by Order of the Corporation of New York by W. A. Davis, New York, 1825
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Fair
Dust Jacket:No
Printed by Order of the Corporation of New York by W. A. Davis, 1825, Hardcover, Book Condition: Fair, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

Size: 10" x 8 1/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Full gilt-stamped leather over boards, marbled end papers and text block edges, pp. (v), [2], 408, [2], with all listed illustrations plus two additional, unlisted plates: the scarce Baker's Benefit Society Engraving and a plate with three small, separate ... More Text...
Title:Collection complette des oeuvres de M. de Voltaire [Cramer, 1768-77] [30-Volume set]
Price:GBP£1,485.00 (about USD$1,846.70)
Item ID:B00B-211113VFAQ2440
Quantity:1
Publisher:[Cramer], Genève, 1768
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (Full Leather)
Condition:Very Good
[Cramer], 1768, Hardcover (Full Leather), Book Condition: Very Good, First

A very good set of the first illustrated edition of Voltaire's works. 18th century full English sprinkled calf, smooth spines with wheel and Greek key designs in gilt, titles in gilt to red and black morocco spine labels, gilt tooled edges to boards, text blocked edges stained red . Frontispiece portrait of Voltaire and 42 fine plates by Gravelot engraved by Flipart, Duclos, de Longeuil and others, and 7 other engraved portraits. ... More Text...
Title:The American Boy's Book of Sports and Games
Price:USD$1,750.00
Item ID:RE00-54348
Quantity:1
Publisher:Dick & Fitzgerald, New York, 1864
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
Dick & Fitzgerald, 1864, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

ANONYMOUS. The American Boy's Book of Sports and Games, New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1864. Octavo, first edition, pp. 600, brown cloth boards with gilt, black and blue lettering and decoration in a sporting vein, beveled edges, 600 illustrations including four color plates, gift inscription on free front endpaper. With an early discussion of baseball and its rules in 11 pages, plus a ... More Text...
Title:Vorlaufige Beobachtungen der Schwamme um Regensburg: angestellet und mit vier Kupfertafeln ausgemahlter Abbildungen erlautert
Price:AUD$2,500.00 (about USD$1,605.90)
Item ID:LU00-0031695
Quantity:1
Publisher:gedruckt mit Weissischen Schriften und in der Montagischen Buchhandlung in Commission zu haben, Regensburg, 1759
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Good
gedruckt mit Weissischen Schriften und in der Montagischen Buchhandlung in Commission zu haben, 1759, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, First

22cm x 18.5cm. [vi], 59, [3] pages, 4 folding hand coloured plates, engraved title vignette, . Marbled boards, leather label, gilt lettering. Text is in German. Preliminary observations of the sponges around Regensburg: made and explained with four copper plates of painted illustrations by Susanna Sophia Betzin. The first exclusively mycological book in the German ... More Text...
Title:Narrative of a Voyage Round the World; Comprehending an Account of the Wreck of the Ship "Governor Ready", in Torres Straits
Price:AUD$2,500.00 (about USD$1,605.90)
Item ID:LU00-0022367
Quantity:1
Publisher:Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, London, 1835
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Very Good
Sherwood, Gilbert, & Piper, 1835, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, First

22cm x 13.5cm. xvi, 350, [2] pages, 3 plates, 1 folding map. Full leather, gilt lettering. A description of the British Settlements of the Coasts of New Holland, more particularly Raffles Bay, Melville Island, Swan River, and King George's Sound; also, the manners and customs of the Aboriginal Tribes: with an appendix, containing remarks on transportation, the treatment of convicts during the voyage, and advice to persons ... More Text...
Title:Traite des Maladies des Femmes Grosses, & Observations sur la Grossesse et L'Accouchement des Femmes et sur Leurs Maladies, (2 Volumes)
Price:AUD$2,500.00 (about USD$1,605.90)
Item ID:LU00-0030975
Quantity:1
Publisher:Chez Laurent d'Houry and Chez l'Auteur, Paris, 1694
Edition:Fourth and First
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Very Good
Chez Laurent d'Houry and Chez l'Auteur, 1694, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Fourth and First

26cm x 19cm. [xii], 555, [25], [viii], 572, [12] pages, 2 volumes, frontispiece, black and white illustrations in the text. Full brown leather, five raised bands, gilt lettering and decoration to spine and board edges. Text is in French. Treatise on the Diseases of Pregnant Women, and those who have been in Childbirth: Teaching a Good & True Method to Help Women Well in Their Natural Childbirths & the Means ... More Text...
Title:The Napoleon Museum: The History of France Illustrated
Price:AUD$2,375.00 (about USD$1,525.60)
Item ID:PW-18676
Quantity:1
Publisher:Not Stated, London, 1845
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (rebound in cloth)
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
Not Stated, 1845, Hardcover (rebound in cloth), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

From Louis XIV to the end of the reign and death of the Emperor, comprising marbles bronzes carvings gems decorations medallions drawings miniatures portraits pictures prints vignettes state-papers and manuscripts coins medals books etc. Rebound in grey cloth with pale yellow endpapers. Book weighs nearly six kilograms. Size: Large Book - between A4 and A3 (38 x 28 cm). Text is in French. Text body is ... More Text...
Title:De la Démocratie en Amérique ... Orné d'une carte d'Amérique. First Part (Vols 1 & 2, bound as one). Second Ed
Price:USD$1,500.00
Item ID:QB00-1235
Quantity:1
Publisher:Charles Gosselin, Paris, 1835
Edition:Second
Binding:Hardcover (Quarter Leather)
Condition:Very Good
Charles Gosselin, 1835, Hardcover (Quarter Leather), Book Condition: Very Good, Second

Second edition of the first part of this classic analysis of democracy in America, printed the same year as the small first edition of around 500 copies. The first volume’s topic is the institutions of the United States (Institutions des États-Unis) and the second is the functioning of those institutions (Fonctionnement de ces institutions). In a publication note Tocqueville says that because the first edition sold out ... More Text...
Title:Instructions and Directions for Forren Travell ... (Second Ed.) - The first English continental handbook for travelers
Price:USD$1,500.00
Item ID:QB00-1185
Quantity:1
Publisher:Printed by W.W. for Humphrey Moseley, London, 1650
Edition:Second
Binding:Hardcover (Full Leather)
Condition:Very Good+
Printed by W.W. for Humphrey Moseley, 1650, Hardcover (Full Leather), Book Condition: Very Good+, Second

ESTC Citation R202463; Wing (2nd ed.), H-3081; Thomason, E.1374[2]. 140 p. (Illustrated title, title, portrait of Prince Charles). James Howell (c.1594-1666) was an author of political and historical works who traveled widely in Europe and produced this book, which is often described as the first continental handbook for travelers. The full title is: "Instructions and Directions For Forren Travell. ... More Text...
Title:As a Strong Bird on Pinions Free and Other Poems
Price:USD$1,500.00
Item ID:EC00-204578
Quantity:1
Publisher:S.W. Green, 1872
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Good
S.W. Green, 1872, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good

Some wear to the original covers. Library reference marks inside. Previous owner's name. 16 pages of text; 8 pages of advertisement including Leaves of Grass. Two pages have pencil marks in the margins, pages toned; a good solid copy of a rare title. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 204578.
Title:Les Fleurs Du Mal
Price:USD$1,500.00
Item ID:PL00-001019
Quantity:1
Publisher:F. Ferroud, Paris, France, 1917
Binding:Softcover
Condition:Very Good
F. Ferroud, 1917, Softcover, Book Condition: Very Good

There were 1062 copies of this Limited Edition printed in all, but only 30 copies were top-of-the-line, and this is copy # 3. It is printed on Japan imperial paper or tinted vellum. There are many etchings in the book, and this copy contains 3 versions of each. Some of the etchings also have a fourth etching, which is a colored sketch from Georges Rochegrosse. There are some wrinkles on the spine, and minimal shelfwear, but the book remains in ... More Text...
Title:Le Ricchezze della Riformata Farmacopea
Price:USD$1,500.00
Item ID:DH00-009158
Quantity:1
Publisher:Giovanni Guerigli, Venetia, Italy, 1619
Edition:Unstated
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Good
Dust Jacket:No
Giovanni Guerigli, 1619, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, Unstated

Size: Octavo (standard book size). Text is in Italian. Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. First four pages of text marked with small Library stamps, but very discreetly, spine unmarked, in all other respects in good condition throughout. Edition unstated, but appears to be a very early translation, perhaps a ... More Text...
Title:Exposition Picasso
Price:USD$1,500.00
Item ID:RE00-51805
Quantity:1
Publisher:Galeries Georges Petit, Paris, 1932
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
Galeries Georges Petit, 1932, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

VRANCKEN, CHARLES. Exposition Picasso, Paris: Galeries Georges Petit, 1932. Quarto, catalog for an exhibition, pp. 77 plus 32 plates in gravure, softcover rebound in maroon buckram with morocco label on spine, presentation copy printed for Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Flechtheim. (Alfred Flechtheim is listed in the back as one of the organizers of the exhibit. He was a Berlin gallerist who would be forced to flee ... More Text...
Title:The Cook's Own Book
Price:USD$1,500.00
Item ID:RE00-52838
Quantity:1
Publisher:Munroe and Francis, Boston, 1832
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (Full Leather)
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
Munroe and Francis, 1832, Hardcover (Full Leather), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

A Boston Housekeeper [Mrs. N.K.M. Lee]. The Cook's Own Book: Being a Complete Culinary Encyclopedia, Boston: Munroe & Francis, 1832. 12mo, first edition, pp. xxxvi, 300, full sheep, probably a 20th-century binding, gilt stamped lettering and rules to spine, with endpages replaced and no half-title, reverse of ffep preserving a gift inscription, with another ownership signature on title page. ... More Text...
Title:Mexico
Price:USD$1,500.00
Item ID:RE00-53473
Quantity:1
Publisher:Delphic Studios, New York, 1933
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (in Slipcase)
Condition:Near Fine
Dust Jacket:No
Delphic Studios, 1933, Hardcover (in Slipcase), Book Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

BRUEHL, ANTON. Mexico, New York: Delphic Studios, 1933. Folio, Copy No. 1 of an edition limited to 1,000, unpaginated with 25 collotype plates, tan linen boards quarter-bound in black morocco, rebacked, slipcased. Parr & Badger, V.1, p. 81: "The images are close in style to those made by Paul Strand in Mexico in 1932-4, although Bruehl's pictures do not display the sense of suffering that colors much ... More Text...
Title:The Wonderful Adventures of Little Prince Toofat
Price:USD$1,500.00
Item ID:RE00-54390
Quantity:1
Publisher:McCann, New York
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
McCann, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER. The Wonderful Adventures of Little Prince Toofat, New York: James A. McCann, 1922. Quarto, first edition, pp. [ii], 70, 6 color plates, gray cloth boards with gilt lettering and black illustration on front, childish hand coloring to half-title and last page, small ownership signature on rear cover, illustrated by Robert Lawson. Lawson was the only person ever to win the Caldecott and ... More Text...
Title:Crimean Campaigning and Russian Imprisonment
Price:AUD$2,200.00 (about USD$1,413.20)
Item ID:LU00-0019901
Quantity:1
Publisher:W. & D. C. Thomson, Dundee, 1889
Edition:First Trade
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Good
W. & D. C. Thomson, 1889, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, First Trade

31cm x 23.5cm (box size), 17cm x 11cm (book size). [iv], 140 pages, 3 pieces of ephemera. Rebound in cloth with the original wrappers laid on, and housed in a custom clamshell box. A unique association copy of this rare account of one of the most famous battles in British military history from the point of view of a non commanding officer together with his experiences in Russian captivity and his eventual release. Robert Stuart ... More Text...
Title:Geodaetes Practicus: or, the Art of Surveying
Price:AUD$2,000.00 (about USD$1,284.70)
Item ID:LU00-0025751
Quantity:1
Publisher:Wil. Leybourn, for George Sawbridge, London, 1664
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Good
Wil. Leybourn, for George Sawbridge, 1664, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, First

16.5cm x 10.5cm. [xvi], 325 pages, black and white illustrations, 2 plates (1 folding). Rebacked quarter brown leather, papered boards, gilt lettering. The first edition of this practical land surveying handbook intended to be of use to architects, engineers, carpenters, bricklayers, and other craftsmen by English surveyor Vincent Wing (1619-1668). "..probably the first work on surveying to be written for use as a handbook" ... More Text...
Title:Six Months’ Residence and Travels in Mexico
Price:USD$1,250.00
Item ID:RE00-50653
Quantity:1
Publisher:jOHn Murray, London, 1824
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (Half Leather)
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
jOHn Murray, 1824, Hardcover (Half Leather), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

BULLOCK, W. Six Months’ Residence and Travels in Mexico, London: John Murray, 1824. Octavo, first edition, pp. xii, 532, plus 15 aquatint plates (four hand-colored costume plates, 11 plates of landscape and seascape views), folding frontis (View of the City and Valley of Mexico), two folding maps, folding table (distances between cities and towns), contemporary marbled paper-covered boards half-bound in ... More Text...
Title:The Nightless City, or The History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku
Price:USD$1,200.00
Item ID:RE00-54286
Quantity:1
Publisher:Maruya, Yokohama, 1899
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
Maruya, 1899, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

ANONYMOUS [Joseph Ernest de Becker]. The Nightless City, or The History of the Yoshiwara Yukwaku, Yokohama: Maruya & Co., 1899. Octavo, first edition, pp. v, 441, xix (appendix), 3 (sheet music), red cloth boards with beveled edges and gilt lettering, stamped gilt and black image of two ladies of the night on front cover, 20 plates including 5 folding color prints on japan, other color plates, 2 double-page ... More Text...
Title:Woodblock prints book
Price:USD$1,200.00
Item ID:RE00-55475
Quantity:1
Publisher:Matsuki Heikichi, Japan
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Near Fine
Dust Jacket:No
Matsuki Heikichi, Hardcover, Book Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No

MIYAGAWA SHUNTEI. Book of woodblock prints published in Japan by Matsuki Heikichi, circa 1900. Octavo, accordion-fold with 14 double-page color prints (displaying illustrations no matter which side you open the book), cloth-covered boards with a paper label on the front. Prints are 14 x 9.5 inches or 36x24cm. Shuntei (1873-1914) specialized in quiet illustrations of women and children, so the present book is typical of him, ... More Text...
Title:A Guide to the Practical Physician: Shewing, From the most Approved Authors, both Ancient and Modern, The truest and fastest way of Curing all Diseases, Internal and External, Whether by Medicine, Surgery, or Diet
Price:USD$1,200.00
Item ID:DH00-014770
Quantity:1
Publisher:Printed for Thomas Flesher Bookseller, London, 1684
Edition:Unstated
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
Printed for Thomas Flesher Bookseller, 1684, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, Unstated

Size: 14" x 8 3/4". Text body is clean, and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting. 19th century rebind, full leather with tooled decoration on boards, gilt-stamped spine label, five raised bands, pp. [xii], 868, [4]. Rear board is stained, interior has some scattered light staining, dampstaining, edge tears. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 6 lbs 10 oz. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Medicine & Health. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 014770.
Title:Portfolio of Chinese Paintings in the Museum (Han to Sung Periods)
Price:USD$1,200.00
Item ID:RE00-53849
Quantity:1
Publisher:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Edition:Early
Condition:Near Fine
Dust Jacket:No
Museum of Fine Arts, Book Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No, Early

TOMITA, KOJIRO. Portfolio of Chinese Paintings in the Museum (Han to Sung Periods) Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1938. Folio measuring 48x34 cm (about 19x14 inches), second and best edition, pp. 25, 151 collotype plates, 3 additional plates for index in Chinese, tan fold-up folio with green lettering stamped on upper panel and spine, Tomita's text in English. With the bookplate of Henry Trubner, the late curator and author on ... More Text...
Title:Shanghai: A Handbook for Travellers and Residents ... With map and 64 illustrations
Price:USD$1,200.00
Item ID:QB00-1203
Quantity:1
Publisher:Kelly and Walsh, Limited, Shanghai, 1904
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (Original Cloth)
Condition:Very Good
Kelly and Walsh, Limited, 1904, Hardcover (Original Cloth), Book Condition: Very Good, First

A rare copy of the First Edition that includes the folded map in the pocket on the inside rear cover. 4 p.l., xx, 221, [1] p. plates, Index, Advertisements on 26 unnumbered pages, front and rear free endpapers and front and rear pastedowns, folded map (in pocket). There is no publication date but it is generally assigned 1904 based on the date on the map. Copies held in the nine libraries listed in WorldCat are ... More Text...
Title:Confessions of the Boston Strangler (Signed by Albert De Salvo)
Price:USD$1,200.00
Item ID:EC00-181294
Quantity:1
Publisher:Pyramid Books, 1967
Binding:Softcover
Condition:Good
Pyramid Books, 1967, Softcover, Book Condition: Good, Signed by person(s) connected with book

Size: Mass Market Paperback. X-1538. Creasing to the covers and spine, pages have some discoloring; a solid old paperback. This is a very rare, likely one of a kind book signed by DeSalvo himself. Inside the back cover says "This book is Bullshit" and signed Al. De Salvo". The autograph has not been certified but we acquired it from the daughter of a former guard in the prison. Additional photos upon request. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Signed by person(s) connected with book. Inventory No: 181294.
Title:The Anwar-i-Suhaili or Lights of Canopus Commonly Known As Kalilah and Damnah
Price:AUD$1,800.00 (about USD$1,156.30)
Item ID:LU00-0033007
Quantity:1
Publisher:Wm. H. Allen & Co, London, 1877
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Very Good
Wm. H. Allen & Co, 1877, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, First

32cm x 25cm. xviii, 504 pages, colour borders. Publisher's bevelled cloth, gauffered edges. Being an adaptation by Mulla Husain Bin Ali Al Wai'z-Al-Kashifi of The Fables of Bidpai. Translated from the Persian by Arthur N. Wollaston. The 1877 English translation by Arthur Naylor Wollaston (1842-1922) of the Persian version of the Panchatantra, an ancient collection of animal fables. Wollaston began work as a civil servant in the India ... More Text...
Title:The Iliad and Odyssey of Homer (2 Volumes)
Price:AUD$1,650.00 (about USD$1,059.90)
Item ID:LU00-0026676
Quantity:1
Publisher:J. Johnson, London, 1791
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Very Good
J. Johnson, 1791, Hardcover, Book Condition: Very Good, First

27cm x 21cm. xvii, [11], 668; [iv], 583 pages, 2 volumes. Rebacked full leather. The first edition of William Cowper's translations into blank verse. Volume two also containing The Battle of the Frogs and Mice. Recently rebacked retaining earlier lightly rubbed boards. Occasional very minor foxing or soiling. Shipped Weight: 3.8 kilos.
Title:Geography Anatomiz'd; or, The Geographical Grammar
Price:USD$1,000.00
Item ID:RE00-52070
Quantity:1
Publisher:Knaplock et al, London, 1725
Edition:Early
Binding:Hardcover (Full Leather)
Condition:Good
Dust Jacket:No
Knaplock et al, 1725, Hardcover (Full Leather), Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, Early

GORDON, PATRICK. Geography Anatomiz'd; or, The Geographical Grammar, London: R. Knaplock etc., 1725. Octavo, 10th edition, pp. [xviii], 416 (misnumbered but all present, lacking rear blanks), contemporary full calf with a hand-written code on spine, five raised bands, 17 folding map plates by John Senex measuring about 23x20cm (8x9 inches), title page in red and black with margin notes. No copies of this ... More Text...
Title:The Circus
Price:USD$1,000.00
Item ID:RE00-55472
Quantity:1
Publisher:Original Artworks, Island Park, 1990
Edition:First
Condition:As New
Dust Jacket:No
Original Artworks, 1990, Book Condition: As New, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

HENRI DE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC. The Circus, Island Park, N.Y.: Original Artworks, 1990. Folio (about 17x12.5 inches or 43x35cm), Unnumbered copy of an edition of 350, 8 pages of introduction plus 39 lithographs on Arches paper, separated by tissue, drawn after Lautrec by Marc Kniebihler, large margins with an image size of about 10.5x7.5 inches. With the original solander stamped in gilt on the cover and the spine. Tracey Schmitz, ... More Text...
Title:Travels Comprising Observations Made During a Residence in the Tarentaise
Price:USD$1,000.00
Item ID:RE00-53307
Quantity:1
Publisher:Longman, Hurst, London, 1823
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (Half Leather)
Condition:Good
Dust Jacket:No
Longman, Hurst, 1823, Hardcover (Half Leather), Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

BAKEWELL, R. Travels Comprising Observations Made During a Residence in the Tarentaise ..., in 2 volumes, London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1823. Octavo, first editions, pp. 8 (ads), xvi, 381, 3 hand-colored aquatints; vii, 447, 1 color plate (frontispiece), contemporary three-quarter maroon calf over maroon cloth, gilt lettering inside 4 of 5 spine compartments, rehinged with added endpages ... More Text...
Title:XX Siecle, Art et Poesie Depuis Apollinaire
Price:USD$1,000.00
Item ID:RE00-54545
Quantity:1
Publisher:Cahiers D'Art, Paris, 1952
Edition:First
Illustrator:Calder, Miro, Giacometti
Binding:Softcover
Condition:Near Fine
Dust Jacket:No
Cahiers D'Art, 1952, Softcover, Book Condition: Near Fine, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First, Illustrated By: Calder, Miro, Giacometti

[Periodicals.] XX Siecle, Art et Poesie Depuis Apollinaire, Paris: Cahiers D'Art, June 1952. About 32x24.5cm (or 12.5x9.5 inches), pp. 88, wraps, text in French. With untitled original lithographs by Miro, Calder Henri Michaux and Giacometti. The magazine was a biannual covering post-war painting and other arts, publishing into the 1970s. Good copies have become very scarce. ... More Text...
Title:Histoire Generale des Arts Appliques a L'Industrie, du Ve a la Fin du XVIII Siecle
Price:USD$1,000.00
Item ID:RE00-53475
Quantity:1
Publisher:Levy, Paris, 1896
Edition:First
Binding:Hardcover (Half Leather)
Condition:Very Good
Dust Jacket:No
Levy, 1896, Hardcover (Half Leather), Book Condition: Very Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, First

MOLINIER, EMILE. Histoire Generale des Arts Appliques a L'Industrie, du Ve a la Fin du XVIII Siecle, 4 volumes, Paris: E. Levy et Cie, 1896-??. Folios, No. 392 of an edition of 750, green cloth boards three-quarter bound in black morocco with gilt lettering and floral decoration to spines, all edges gilt, gravure plates, illustrations in text, former copy of the American financier George J. Gould, with his ... More Text...
Title:C. Corn. Tacitus ex Recensione Justi Lipsii nec non I. Isaci Pontani post Lipsium Aliosque
Price:USD$1,000.00
Item ID:PL00-001333
Quantity:1
Publisher:No Publisher Stated, Amsterdam, 1629
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Fair Condition
No Publisher Stated, 1629, Hardcover, Book Condition: Fair Condition

Minor markings on front endpaper. Size: 32mo - over 4" - 5" tall. 539 pp. Text is in Latin. Pages are yellowed and wrinkled, but are tight and clean. Has some curled corners. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 pound. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Non-English Language::Latin; Latin Language; Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 001333.
Title:The Rising Storm: An Analysis of the Growing Conflict Over the Political Dilemma of Roman Catholics in America
Price:USD$995.00
Signed:By Author
Item ID:EC00-203538
Quantity:1
Publisher:Buckhead Publishing Co, Atlanta, 1930
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Good
Dust Jacket:No
Buckhead Publishing Co, 1930, Hardcover, Book Condition: Good, Dust Jacket Condition: No, Signed by Author

345 pages. Moderate wear, discoloring to the covers. The pages are tanned with age, a few with small tears to the outside edges. Previous owner's name stamped inside. Inside the front cover is a signed card with the logo from the author. Evans was the Third Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. Rare KKK memorabilia. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Signed by Author. Inventory No: 203538.
Title:The Philosophy of Physic or the Natural History of Diseases and Their Cure, being an Attempt to Deliver the Art of Healing from the Darkness of Barbarism and Superstition and from the Jargon and Pedantry of the Schools Shewing a More ... (Truncated)
Price:USD$995.00
Item ID:EC00-204595
Quantity:1
Publisher:Graisberry and Campbell, Dublin, 1804
Binding:Hardcover
Condition:Fair
Graisberry and Campbell, 1804, Hardcover, Book Condition: Fair

Full Book Title: The Philosophy of Physic or the Natural History of Diseases and Their Cure, being an Attempt to Deliver the Art of Healing from the Darkness of Barbarism and Superstition and from the Jargon and Pedantry of the Schools Shewing a More Easy and Certain Way of Preserving and Recovering Health, than any Hitherto Known

329 pages + 2 page index. 1804 printing. Wear to the original leather spine and marbled boards. A couple university library marks. The pages have some discoloring and wear, foxing but a completely readable rare book. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Inventory No: 204595.

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