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BADEN-POWELL, Robert Stephenson Smyth.

Scouting for Boys: A handbook for instruction in good citizenship. Complete edition, revised and illustrated.

London: C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1908. 8vo (195 x 128 mm). xii, 288 pp., including frontispiece and several illustrations in text. Bound in fine contemporary dark-purple-blue morocco, boards with gilt embossed floral decoration and ruling, spine has 5 raised bands with gilt-lettering and floral decoration in compartments, all edges gilt...

Price: 9,000 €
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CARROLL, Lewis (DODGSON, Charles Lutwidge].

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1866. 8vo (194 x 128 mm). [12], 192 pp., half-title, electrotyped frontispiece protected by tissue guard, and 42 illustrations from the woodcuts by Dalziel after John Tenniel. Original publisher's pictorial red cloth ruled in gilt, covers with gilt vignettes (Alice on front, Cheshire Cat on rear)...

Price: 16,000 €
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CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de.

Nouvelles avantures de l'admirable Don Quichotte de la Manche / Composées par le licencié Alonso Fernandez de Avellaneda: et traduites de l'Espagnol en Francois pour la premiere fois.

Paris: Compagnie des libraires, 1716. 12mo (162 x 93 mm). [16], 447 [1]; [8], 509, [3] pp., engraved frontispiece facing title-page in each volume and 18 engraved plates by Antione Clouzier (8 in vol. I and 10 in vol. II), woodcut initials, head- and tailpieces, errata leaf to each volume...

Price: 1,800 €
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COOPER, James Fenimore.

The Water-Witch or The Skimmer of the Seas.

Dresden: Walther, 1830. 8vo (174 x 103 mm). xii, 207 [1]; [4], 292; [4], 250, [2] pp., including half-title to each volume, colophon at the end of volume III. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spines ruled and lettered in gilt (light rubbing to extremities, worm track to...

Price: 8,800 €
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GALLENSIS, Johannes (JOHN OF WALES).

Summa collationum, sive communiloquium.

Cologne: Ulrich Zell, 1470. Cologne: Ulrich Zell, c. 1470. 4to (210 x 145 mm). 262 unnumbered and unsigned leaves (complete). Collation: [a-z⁸ A-I⁸ K⁶]. Gothic Type in 27 lines. Red-painted lombards. Contemporary South German calf binding over wooden boards with fine single stamps (flower pot, two-headed eagle, krowned Maria initials)...

Price: 65,000 €
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[HOBBES, Thomas, CAVENDISH, William].

Horae Subseciuae: Observations And Discourses.

London: [Eliots Court Press] for Edward Blount, 1620. 8vo (163 x 108 mm). [8] 1-222, [4] 223-324, [2] 325-417 [1], [2] 419-503 [1], [2] 505-542 pp. Signatures: A4 (B-X)8 Y4 Z8 (Aa-Kk)8 (Ll-Mm)4 (Nn-Oo)8, P8 a blank, errata on A8v. Includes separate title-pages for the following sections: A discourse upon...

Price: 2,900 €
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HOMER.

Ilias, Andrea Divo justinopolitano interprete, ad verbum translata... / Odyssea Andrea Divo justinopolitano interprete, ad verbum translata. Eiusdem Batrachomyomachia,

Venice: Jacobus à Burgofrancho, 1537. I. Ilias, Andrea Divo justinopolitano interprete, ad verbum translata. Herodoti Halicarnassei libellus, Homeri vitam fidelissime continens, Conrado Heresbachio interprete... Venice: Jacobus à Burgofrancho, March 1537. Title within woodcut architectural border. [8], [8], [6], 3-277, [3] leaves, including colophon leaf and 2 blanks at end. Signatures...

Price: 4,500 €
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HOMER.

[Works in Greek] Ilias and Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni XXXII, 2 volumes.

Venice: Heirs of Aldus the Elder, 1524. [Works in Greek] Ilias and Ulyssea. Batrachomyomachia. Hymni XXXII, 2 volumes. Venice: Heirs of Aldus the Elder, April 1524. 8vo (162x100 mm), [1-8] 9, 20-26, [1-40], [1-2] 3-277 [1]; [1], 2-251 [1] leaves; signatures (1-7)8 (A-Z)8 (AA-LL)8 MM6; (a-z)8 (A-H)8 I4; titles in...

Price: 10,000 €
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HOMER [HOBBES, Thomas].

Homer's Iliads in English / By Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury. To which be added Homer's Odysses Englished by the same author / Odysses. Translated out of the Greek by Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury. The Second Edition.

London: William Crook, 1676. Homer's Iliads in English / By Tho. Hobbes of Malmsbury. To which be added Homer's Odysses Englished by the same author. London: Printed by J. C. for W. Crook, at the Green Dragon without Temple-Bar, 1676. [12], 384 pp. Signatures: A-Z⁶, Aa-Kk⁶ (A4-6, advertisements; U1 incorrectly...

Price: 4,500 €
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KNIGGE, Adolph Freiherr von.

Ueber den Umgang mit Menschen. In zwey Theilen.

Hannover: Schmidt, 1788. Zwei Teile in einem Band. 8vo (153 x 97 mm). 2 Bl., VIII S., 6 Bl., 270 S.; 8 Bl., 336 S. Gesamttitelblatt mit gestochener Vignette, Titelblatt zu Teil 2, jeweils ohne das weisse Blatt am Ende von Teil 1. Halbledereinband der Zeit (berieben, Rücken mit kleinen...

Price: 3,500 €
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MANTUANUS SPAGNUOLI, Baptista.

Contra poetas impudice loquentes carmen. De suorum temporum calamitatibus.

Bologna, Rome: Franciscus Plato de Benedictis for B. Hector, 1489. 1. April 1489. 64 unnumbered leaves. Signatures: a⁴ b-c⁸ d-i⁶ k^{8^{. 25 lines, type 1:113R. Colophon on A4v ('Romae die. XX octobris M.cccc.lxxxvii') and on K8r. 4to (195 x 136 mm). Bound in 18th-centruy full vellum, spine with gilt-lettered morocco...}}

Price: 8,000 €
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MORE, Thomas.

Ornamenti eximii, lucubrationes, ab innumeris mendis repurgatae. Utopiae libri II.

Basel: Apud Episcopium F, 1563. 8vo (158 x 102 mm). [32], 530, [46] pp. Signatures: [alpha]-[beta]8 a-z8 A-N8. Woodcut printer's device on title-page, repeated on verso of final leaf, full-page woodcut plan on d3r depicting the island of Utopia, large woodcut initials. Full sheep antique, blind ruled borders, panelled back...

Price: 11,500 €
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PERRAULT, Charles.

Histoires ou Contes du Tems Passé, avec des Moralités. . . Nouvelle édition augmentée d'une nouvelle, à la fin.

La Haye [i.e. Paris]: Coustellier, 1742. 12mo (160 x 96 mm). [6], 137 [1] pp. Signatures: *⁴ A-E¹² F⁸ G² (-G2). Title printed in red and black, engraved frontispiece, 9 engraved vignettes by Fokke after De Sève, bound without the final blank leaf G2. Contemporary French mottled calf, plain spine...

Price: 8,500 €
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PITTS, Joseph.

A True and Faithful Account of the Religion and Manners of the Mohammetans. In which is a particular Relation of their Pilgrimage to Mecca , the place of Mahommet's birth; and a description of Medina and of his tomb there. .

Exeter: Printed by S. Farley, for Philip Bishop and Edward Score, 1704. 8vo (184 x 110 mm). [16], 183 [i.e. 184] pp. Signatures: A-M⁸ N⁴. Title within double-line border, pages 182-184 misnumbered 181-183, a few mispaginations elsewhere. Bound in contemporary calf, spine with raised bands and recent gilt lettering piece...

Price: 14,500 €
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POPE, Alexander; SWIFT, Jonathan et al.

Important Sammelband of 13 works by Pope, Swift and contemporaries.

London: various, 1733. POPE, Alexander. I. An Essay on Man. In Epistles to a Friend, Corrected by the Author, Epistles I-IV. London: printed for J. Wilford, [1733]. [7] 8 5-17 [1]; [7], 6-18; [5] 6-20; [5] 2-18, [2] pp. Half titles for Epistles II & III only as called for...

Price: 6,500 €
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SAINT-PIERRE, Jacques-Henri Bernardin de.

Etudes de la Nature.

Paris: De l'Imprimerie de Monsieur, chez Didot le jeune/ Néé de la Rochelle/ De Senne, 1792. 1790-1792. 12mo (165 x 98 mm). Fourth edition of vols. I to IV dated 1791 (vol. I-III) and 1790 (vol. IV); first edition of vol. V, dated 1792. Vol. I: [4], xxxvi, 648 pp....

Price: 3,900 €
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SHAKESPEARE, William.

Original Leaves from the First Four Folios of the Plays of William Shakespeare, 1623, 1632, 1663, 1685 with an Introduction by Edwin Eliott Willoughby.

London: Isaac Jaggard, Edward Blount and others, 1623. San Francisco: printed by the Grabhorn Press for David Magee, 1935. Folio (370 x 247 mm). [30] pp. With an original leaf from each of the four folios tipped in; and facsimiles of the titles of the four folios. The original leaves...

Price: 7,500 €
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SWIFT, Jonathan.

Travels into several remote nations of the world: in four parts, by Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships. 4 parts bound in 2 volumes.

London: Benjamin Motte, 1726. 8vo (193 x 120 mm). xii, 148, [6], 164; [6], 154, [8], 199 [1] pp., engraved portrait frontispiece by Sheppard after Sturt in volume 1, 5 engraved maps and 1 engraved plate of the automatic writing machine, woodcut head and tail pieces, plus other small decorations...

Price: 5,500 €
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WILSON, Bill.

Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How More Than One Hundred Men Have Recovered from Alcoholism.

New York: Works Publishing Company, 1939. 8vo (229 x 152 mm). viii, [2], 400 pp., including half title. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt-lettered spine and front cover, including the original first issue dust jacket (light rubbing and soiling of cloth, dust jacket with some paper restorations of former tears...

Price: 23,000 €
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