________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Read’s Rare Book Shop PO Box 15161 Brisbane City East QLD 4002 Austra

 

OFFERED WITH NO RESERVE  is THE 1697 THIRD EDITION OF WILLIAM CONGREVE’S ‘LOVE FOR LOVE,’ CERTAINLY ONE OF THE MASTERWORKS OF RESTORATION DRAMA, AND ONE OF THE GREAT ENGLISH COMEDIES OF THE 17T

 

ANTIQUE 1851 CHEMISTRY TEXT BOOK WILLIAM DRAPER LEATHER BOUND ILLUSTRATED A VERY INTERESTING OLD TEXT BOOK! 7 3/4" x 4 3/4" 408 PAGES PLEASE SEE ALL PHOTOS ...ENLARGE MODE AVAILABLE Check out my other

 

Here are ten books from the 1930's that I am selling as a set. They all contain photos of the city they represent and they unfold in accordian style format. There is information about each picture on

 

Rare & original Japanese woodblock print book set (2 volumes bound as one), WHALES, FISH, REPTILES, & INSECTS, c1700. Volume measures 7 3/4 X 10 1/2 inches (closed) and has 46 pages, 43 of whi

 

OFFERED WITH NO RESERVE is ARE TWO VERY RARE WORKS BOUND TOGETHER, BOTH BY THE GREAT POLISH PHILOSOPHER AND THEOLOGIAN JOHANNES CRELLIUS, AND ENTITLED ‘ETHICA ARISTOTELICA,’ AND ‘CATACHESIS ECCL

 

MYOGRAPHIAE COMPARATAE SPECIMEN: or, a COMPARATIVE DESCRIPTION of all the MUSCLES in a MAN, and in a QUADRUPEDE: Shewing Their Discoverer, Origin, Progress, Insertion, Use and Difference. TO WHICH IS

 

Click on the image for a detailed view. A leaf that is from a late Zand or Qajar prayerbook, Iran, 19th century (95 x 157 mm.): manuscript on paper, with fourteen (14) lines of black Naskhi script, he

 

Handwritten Letter Author Joaquin Miller 1911 Oakland California This is a great handwritten original letter from the Poet of the Sierras, Joaquin Miller from The Hights in Oakland, California. It is

 

This was my family's missalette and I can no longer keep it as I am downsizing. It is a Catholic order of service printed by Greninger and Co. of NY in 1902. Written in German Script the cover is embo