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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikismall wormholes and bookworm tracks in the margins, in good condition, jacob benignus winsløw, or jacques-bénigne winslow, born in odense (denmark) on 2 april and died in paris on 3 april , was a french physician and anatomist of danish origin, professor at the jardin du roipublished in paris by guillaume desprez, imprimeur & libraire du roi and jean desessartz, bookseller, quarto volume of 740 pages, (4) ffplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storefirst edition, complete of its 4 announced fold-out platesfull calfskin binding, ribbed spine bearing gilded title on a morocco label, marbled endpapers, red edges, printed in 2 columnscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
88 €
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Front free endpaper glued to front pastedown, school library stamp on several pages, a few pages with creases, occasional foxing, bookseller's stamp and some pencil markings on rear pastedownoxfam bookshop henley-on-thames corners and edges rubbed and bumped, spine darkened, a number of small marks on covers, no dust jacketsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
20 €
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Oxfam bookshop henley-on-thames 104 rough cut pagescorners and edges rubbed and bumped, cloth a few minor marks, bookseller's label on front pastedown, pages tanned, but with no annotations apart from owner's name and date on title pagesee oxfam website for delivery information read more
10 €
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A cryptic summons from lady marchamont launches a london bookseller on an odessey through the back alleys and secret corridors of seventeenth-century europeso begins a scholarly game: a game where forces are anonymous, motives inexplicable, but the outcome deadlysee oxfam website for delivery information read morebibliophile isaac inchbold suddenly finds himself slipping from the surface of s london and into an underworld of spies, smugglers, traitors, alchemists and mad priestsoxfam bookshop cheltenham a gripping novel of love, murder and espionage
2 €
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Oxfam bookshop canterbury the odes satyrs and epistles of horace jacob tonson done into english by thomas creech engraved double frontispiece,dedication to dryden,preface,570 pgs 3 pg tonson catalogue  printed for jacob tonson at the judges head in chancery-lane near fleetstreet, and anthony stephens bookseller near the theatre in oxford physical description() pa scarce edition especially with the engraved frontispiece pages very clean no foxing,19 th century binding heavily rubbed,small loss to foot of spine front board slightly loose,ownership stamp to title page see oxfam website for delivery information read more
180 €
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Oxfam bookshop brigg a top ten indie publishers' fiction bestseller for an independent book of the year pick a waterstones best books of the year pick a bookseller book of the year pick this is the story of a hen named sproutand with nomoco's evocative illustrations throughout, this first english-language edition beautifully captures the journey of an unforgettable character in world literatureno longer content to lay eggs on command only to have them carted off to the market, she glimpses her future every morning through the barn doors, where the other animals roam free, and comes up with a plan to escape into the wild-and to hatch an egg of her ownsee oxfam website for delivery information read morean anthem for individuality and motherhood, the hen who dreamed she could fly has captivated millions of readers in koreanow the novel is making its way around the world, where it has the potential to inspire generations of readers the way jonathan livingston seagull or the alchemist have
2 €
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Blue cloth covered boards with gilt insignia and blank embossed embellishment to front, and gilt text to spineblue textual dustjacketshelf wear to top and bottom edges of spinetext block is clean and tight and lightly but evenly tannedbookseller's sticker to front pastedowntop edge coloured blueoxfam bookshop newport this edition of hood's poems is completeit contains poems which have hitherto escaped noticesee oxfam website for delivery information read morevarious scuffs, marks and discolourationthe texts of the poems are those printed by the poet himself, variants being given in the notes, which are also explanatoryendpapers discolouredsuperficial scuffs, marks and discolourationsmall chips, tears, closed tears and wear to edgesa chronological table of hood's life is given
14 €
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Edges of boards scuffedbound in tan cloth with gold design to front and blind design to surround of front, back and spinewith original guard papersin good used condition, the end papers have been replaced with modern paper, retaining the original case and the bookseller's stickersoxfam bookshop sevenoaks illustrated throughout in black and white by birket fostersome minor foxing to pagessee oxfam website for delivery information read moresome marks to boards from use and corners and head and tail of spine bumped published in by david bogue
20 €
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' john senex, was a london surveyor, engraver, bookseller and publisher in the early 18th centuryare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikibeautiful map of the seven united provinces, on two merged pagesthe north sea is here called 'the german sea'this large format map shows the netherlands in with the coast with the ports, estuaries and islands, the still open zuiderzee, the islands of wieringen, urk and eemeloord, ij and haarlemmermeer as inland seas, voorne, schouwen, walcheren, noord beveland and cadsant as islandsin good condition, two combined pages (69 x 95 cm), with sufficient margins, on hand-laid paper, centrefold as issued, old border colouring, verso blankbottom right: 'ifull title in a cartouche with neptune, sea creatures and monsters in the top left: 'the vii united provinces corrected from the observations communicated to the royal society at london, & ye royal academy at parisplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
456 €
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His translation published as the mahabharata of krishna-dwaipayana vyasa translated into english prose between and , by protap chandra rai (), a calcutta bookseller who owned a printing press and raised funds for the project it narrates the struggle between two groups of cousins in the kurukshetra war and the fates of the kaurava and the pa??ava princes and their successorscondition volumes included i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi (vii not included) viii, ix, x, xi, xiiplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websitecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally availableprinted calcutta - kolkata indiatraditionally, the authorship of the mahabharata is attributed to vyasathese volumes are an important translation which gives westerners a glimpse of this ancient indian civilisationthe mahabharata was probably compiled between the 3rd century bce and the 3rd century ce, the original events related by the epic probably fall between the 9th and 8th centuries bceare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikithe mahabharata - mahabharata is one of the two major sanskrit epic of ancient india, the other being the ramaya?aref:wikipedia kisari mohan ganguli (also kour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storewith original red cloth covers, slight bumped corners4th century ce) this vast storehouse of indian knowledge is normally hiddenthese 11 volumes have been translated from the original sanskrit languagethis is the early edition of english translation in these volumesgenerally good conditionthe text probably reached its final form by the early gupta period (cbinding slightly-loose in volume iii & ivganguli) an indian translator first complete translation of the sanskrit epic mahabharata in englishapprox 500 pages each volume
(England)
36 €
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Are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawiki* isaac commelin was a dutch bookseller, governor and historianwithout the loose introductionfacsimile of the original edition by joannes janssonius in amsterdam, volumes with many engravings and mapsbegin ende voortgangh van de vereenighde nederlantsche geoctroyeerde oost-indische compagnieuniform green artificial leather bindings with gilt spine and letter pieceneat set with minor signs of usein janssonius in amsterdam published the collection of thirty travel reports compiled by isaac commelinplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storethe important work on the history of the dutch east india company is illustrated with approxcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available230 illustrations and maps
76 €
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Some minor wear to dust jacket and contains small sticker from bookselleroxfam shop moortown english social services - sir george newman, (britain in pictures series)1st editionused hardcover book in good conditionsee oxfam website for delivery information read more8 colour plates and 21 b/w illustrations
9 €
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bookseller's embossed stamp to fepgold to head of block and rough cut edgesfoxing to edges of block and some pagesoxfam bookshop sevenoaks written by ca couple of plates are loosecourtney lewis, published by sampson low, marston and company ltdin very good used condition, bound in green cloth with oval print to front, gold and green decoration and gold letteringsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea history of george baxter with examples of his work and some of the variations which he made to platesincludes coloured prints protected by tissue and numerous black and white plates
25 €
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bookseller's sticker and a picture of the stars of the film pasted inside the back boardthe film "the wicked lady " was based on this noveloxfam bookshop sevenoaks written by magdalen king-hall, published by peter davies infirst edition third printingin very good used condition,for age, bound in green cloth with white lettering, minimal shelf wearsee oxfam website for delivery information read moremarked "book production war economy standard"owner's names on feprare with dust jacketa good dust jacket, unclipped with"the voice of britain" advertising on rear flap, chips and tears to edges and small piece missing at head of spine
50 €
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Minor shelf ware onlyoxfam bookshop chelmsford dust jacket has been price clipped - but retains the bookseller's price stickersee oxfam website for delivery information read more
117 €
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Good to very good with light edge wear, penciled bookseller note inside front cover volare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikismall octavos, pptwo volume paperback set from the odyssey press (hamburg, ), second impressionplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storecatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
32 €
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5 cm see oxfam website for delivery information read morecollected from the best writers, &c the second edition printed for r goadby, in sherborne, and sold by w owen, bookseller, at temple-bar, london pp, plus two index sections exact status of this edition is slightly unclear - four editions dated appear on estc, of which the "fourth edition" has the same number of pagespages are generally clean and tight - some a few more age-marked than others includes 3 fold-out illustrations (one split at fold) and one other illustrationoxfam bookshop tunbridge wells a new history of england: giving an authentick account of all the various revolutions, and other memorable transactions, that have happened in it from the invasion of julius caesar, to the present timeno pre-title pages - ffep appears to be missing, with slight tears to title pageboards bumped and rubbed at extremities, marked in places, with some losses to top and bottom of spinepage numbers and inclusion of two index sections, suggest that this may be an amalgamation of two editionsname in faint ink on endpaperleather binding, five raised bands and title to spine
125 €
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Bell had just 10 days' notice before his first puzzle was published, in the weekly edition on 2 januarythe tone is affectionate, humourous and not in the least patronizinghaving set around puzzles between and , bell is credited with helping to establish its distinctive cryptic clue styleour book is in good general condition, its light blue-green cloth covers showing wear consistent with age - general grubbiness, some rubbing of edges & angles, light shelf wear to top & tail of spine, slight dulling of gilt title etc on the spine, some bumping of corners, and darkened page tops - but no frank damageoxfam books & music islington written by a keen ruralist, journalist and farmer, the book "corduroy" () was an immediate best-seller, and was followed by two more books on the countryside, "silver ley" () and "the cherry tree" (), the three books forming a ruralist farm trilogythe three books constitute a threnody for, what was then, a vanishing, pre-mechanized way, of farming and rural lifeat times there is an elegiac strain not dissimilar to edward thomaswhen the times began to lose circulation to the daily telegraph because the latter was running a daily crossword, bell's father suggested him to the editor as the first "setter" even though he had never even solved oneslight foxing on fore-edge, but none seen withininside, the binding is firm with no loose pages; all pages clean and bright; previous owner's name neatly inscribed on front fep; bookseller's label on rear pastedownmassingham, alfred munnings, john nash and henry williamsonsee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe was friendly with many literary and cultural figures, including edmund blunden, fhe wrote the "countryman's notebook" column in the eastern daily press from , and produced over twenty other books on the countryside in corduroy the author's experiences as a farm apprentice in suffolk are describedadrian bell () was an english ruralist journalist and farmer, and the first compiler of the times crossword
24 €
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There is a bookseller's "signed" label on the front of the jacketflat signed by bettany hughes on the title pagebased on meticulous research and new archaeological evidence, this captivating portrait of the momentous life of istanbul is visceral, immediate and scholarly narrative history at its finestfrom the qu'ran to shakespeare, this city with three names - byzantium, constantinople, istanbul - resonates as an idea and a place, and overspills its boundaries - real and imaginedphoenicians, genoese, venetians, jews, vikings, azeris all called a patch of this earth their homefor much of its history it was known simply as the city, but, as bettany hughes reveals, istanbul is not just a city, but a storystanding as the gateway between the east and west, it has served as the capital of the roman, byzantine, latin and ottoman empiresboth book and jacket are very slightly bumped at extremities, and there are few small, light marks on the edges of the page blockat the latest count archaeologists have measured forty-two human habitation layerssee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop henley-on-thames first impression hardcover in dust jacket, not price-clippedas the longest-lived political entity in europe, over the last years istanbul has absorbed a mosaic of micro-cities and cultures all gathering around the corevery good++ / very goodistanbul has always been a place where stories and histories collide and crackle, where the idea is as potent as the historical factin this epic new biography, hughes takes us on a dazzling historical journey through the many incarnations of one of the world's greatest cities
30 €
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Very good clean condition, bookseller's label on front pastedownthis edition edited by philip hendersonprinted in copies at the alcuin press, chipping campden, this copy not hand-colouredoxfam bookshop henley-on-thames original publishers light brown cloth, green/brown dust jacket, gilt titles to spine, top edge gilt, other edges roughly cuta volume in the series verona editions of elizabethan novels, the original is fromsee oxfam website for delivery information read morewith illustrations, chapter headings, tail pieces and initial letters from blocks designed and cut by haydn mackeydust jacket darkened, particularly along spine, bumped along edges, with chips at corners, especially head of spine, but now in a removable protective cover
25 €
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Including indexsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam bookshop henley-on-thames dark grey cloth, green titles to spine, no dust jacketcloth a little rubbed and marked, spine ends slightly pushed, bookseller's label, no inscriptions, light scattered foxing, binding tight and square
30 €
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Also included is the paper bag in which part 2 was packed by the bookseller(a scouting story)are you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiit is an original promo stand-up from casterman publishing house made of thin chipboard and on printed on 2 sides with a kind of veilvolume 1 contains the original version of tintin in the soviet union ()please contact us about how to deliverthis lot also includes a tintin with bobby promo stand-upthe only problem is the shipping of this stand-up, as it cannot be foldedthe postage costs indicated in the auction costs are therefore only for the booksplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storepart 1 also contains the adventures of totor (pvolume 2 contains the guitars of quick and flupke with old gags that were not published in book form beforevan de meikeverscatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
44 €
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Added: catalogue of antiquarian bookseller fokas holthuis, entirely devoted to publisher amo, in which the above edition was offered for no less than 750 euros! read morehand-set in baskerville and printed by hein elferink in an edition of 35 copies numbered on the press and signed by the authorare you interested in this item? this item is up for auction at catawikiveerkamp’s unfindable prose debut! de rode cabrioletwith an aantekening by gert jan hemmink)amstelveen, amoveerkamp's illustration-less (and hilarious) prose debut, about a citroën ds 21 convertible, which he could have bought for guilders; he did not and did not regret itsewn with cover(with a naschrift by the authorplease click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the catawiki websiteour weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any storeone of the 28 arabic-numbered copies printed on bütten cvcatawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available
114 €
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bookseller's label (cape town) on front pastedownfoxing on inside and on flapsends of spine bumped and chipped, with small area iof paper loss at top of spine and adjacent top edgeends of spine sunnedwith dust jacket in generally good condition in protective wrapperheavy foxing to edges of text block and some pagesedges of spine and flaps rubbed and wornnot price clipped (9s 6doxfam books & music berkhamsted horatio hornblower's early years in the navy  see oxfam website for delivery information read moreends of spine and corners bumpedshelf wear to edgeshardback book in good condition
30 €
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It includes colour illustrationsthe cover is worn and has damage which appears to be from having been tied in a bundlethe hardback cover has a picture on the front apart from spotting the pages are in good clean condition, including the illustrationssee oxfam website for delivery information read morethe endpapers are yellowedthere is a bookseller's sticker inside the front cover and an annotation datedthe publication date on the title page isunfortunately the one on the spine is damagedotherwise it is in good condition for the ageoxfam books & music beaconsfield what we believe to be a first edition of an antiquarian school storythe binding is soundthere is an annotation inside the front coverthe binding is mainly sound although loose between pages 288 and 289 and before the advertisements at the back
17 €
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There is a large sticker from the original bookseller ("cloth edition at a new paperback price") wrapped around the spine, and a few annotations in ink throughout, but the book is otherwise in very good conditionhe then puts forward an argument for the claim that the strengths of a cartesian position on the subject have been greatly underestimatedgeoffrey madell outlines past and current materialist views and the arguments which have been put forward refuting thesehe examines the four alleged "failures" in the materialist programme - the failure to make sense of intentionality of thought - the lack of a convincing explanation of the autonomy of psychology - the failure of materialism to take the essential subjectivity of experience into account - and the fact that materialism cannot account for indexical thought - thoughts centring on words like "this", "here" and "i"oxfam bookshop preston (please note: photograph is a stock image) this book deals with the materialist view of the nature of the mindsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
9 €
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Oxfam bookshop newport the life story of the british explorer, navigator, cartographer, and captain in the british royal navy who made detailed maps of newfoundland and achieved the first recorded european contact with the eastern coastline of australia and the hawaiian islandsdustjacket missing, although front fold in is presentbookseller's sticker to front pastedownturquoise cloth covered boards with gilt text to spinelight foxing to edges of text block which is otherwise clean and tight and lightly but evenly tannedsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreminor shelf wear to top and bottom of spinesuperficial scuffs and marks, slight discolouration towards edges of boardsendpapers discoloured
12 €
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Additional tipped reference map affixed to title pageneatly inked name and address on front pastedown and front and rear free endpapersbookseller's sticker on tipped sheetcomplete index to streets with postal addressespictorial (maps) endpaperslight foxing to edges of text block and sporadically withinred cloth covered boards with faded gilt text to front and spineinked references on rear of front endpaper, tipped sheet and title page and several other leavesoxfam bookshop newport based on the ordnance survey map, printed with the sanction of the controller of hvarious scuffs and marks, possible water damage to rear boardlightly but evenly tannedscale 3" to 1 milesee oxfam website for delivery information read morestationery officespine faded, wear to edges of boards, corners and top and bottom of spine
15 €
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Superficial marks to edge of text block, which is otherwise clean and tight, and lightly but evenly tannedvarious scuffs, marks and discolouration to boardsbookseller's sticker to front pastedownblue cloth covered boards with black text to front and spine, which is heavily fadedneatly inked name to front endpapersee oxfam website for delivery information read morehe comments on the religious beliefs, political attitudes and social values of the english and critically analyzes and satirizes different institutes of englandoxfam bookshop newport written during his two-year stay in england, these letters are a true reflection of voltaire's ideas and his intolerance for the naive
19 €
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", title page has "not to be had of any bookseller but by application to", label also has "only a limited number are for saleoxfam bookshop chiswick textured red cloth covers with paper spine label, spine darkenedtext clean see oxfam website for delivery information read morechatto and windus title page and 349pp, page edges dusty, top trimmed but side and base untrimmedbefore title, tipped in insert saying "this volume is now to be obtained by messrsoffsetting from label to ffep
160 €