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On the Shoulders of Giants

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The Vicar of Wakefield. Oliver Goldsmith
SEK 1,600.00
The Lord of the Rings. J. R. R. Tolkien
SEK 800.00
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Tales of the Alhambra. Washington Irving
SEK 850.00
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Ange Pitou. Alexandre Dumas
SEK 1,400.00
Contes, aventures et faits singuliers. Abbé Prévost
SEK 1,200.00
Élite de Poésies Fugitives
SEK 5,000.00
Œdipe, Eryphile, et autres pièces. Voltaire
SEK 2,200.00
Collected Writings. Selma Lagerlöf
SEK 1,000.00
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Œuvres. Claude Joseph Dorat
SEK 1,900.00
The Works. William Shakespeare
SEK 3,200.00
The Spectator. With Early Ford Model T Brochure (c. 1910) Discovered Within
SEK 9,500.00
Œuvres Complètes. Jean Racine
SEK 2,150.00
Œuvres de Regnard. Complete in Five Volumes
SEK 1,500.00
Œuvres Complètes. Pierre Corneille
SEK 2,800.00
Les Mystères de Londres. Paul Féval (as Sir Francis Trolopp)
SEK 4,300.00
Publii Ovidii Nasonis Opera
SEK 4,500.00
The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe. Daniel Defoe
SEK 4,200.00

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A privately printed copy of Våra Minnen, inscribed in 1924 by Prins Eugen.

The book documents the early travels of the princely brothers in the 1880s and includes photographic plates alongside illustrations. It reflects a period when Prince Eu
What does it mean to give an object a part of oneself?

What at first looked like simple bookmarks turned out to be a quiet archive of lived faith: late 19th and early 20th century French devotional cards, small liturgical calendar slips marked &ldqu
Every order that leaves Verba Vetera carries more than a book.

It carries time, care, and a quiet thank you.
Each parcel is wrapped by hand, and every one includes a handwritten note. 

A small gesture, perhaps, but one that reflects how we see book
This is Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particuliére. 

It is a French scientific work printed at the Imprimerie Royale in Paris in 1769 containing engraved plates and maps produced for the systematic study of nature.

The engrav
How does a republic fall apart?

In Histoire des révolutions arrivées dans le gouvernement de la République romaine, Abbé de Vertot examines the Roman Republic not as heroic legend, but as a political system under constant
These volumes belong to Histoire Romaine by Charles Rollin, one of the most influential historical works of the Enlightenment. Published in Paris in the 1760s, the series shaped how ancient Rome was understood as a political, moral, and civic model f
Published in 1898, In the Forbidden Land documents A. Henry Savage Landor’s journey into Tibet at the height of European imperial self-assurance, when travel, knowledge, and authority were assumed to be inseparable.

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