Montague, John [ed.].

The Faber Book of Irish Verse.

First Faber and Faber edition. London, Faber and Faber, 1978. 12,5 cm x 20 cm. 400 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name and a beautiful inscription by John Montague to Chuck Kruger on the half title: “Love to Chuck – John”. Occasional markings and annotations in the text.

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[Montague, John] Dorgan, Theo.

Typescript Draft MS for a book of poetry by Theo Dorgan. With occasional manuscript corrections / suggestions / annotations by Dorgan's early mentor John Montague, the Typescript MS was held among the private papers of John Montague in his West Cork Home. The typescript includes poems like "Closed Circuit", "The Promised Garden". Montague is approving several of the poems by simply applying a tick. John Montague made suggestions in pencil on the structure of "Elegy for a Schoolfriend" and more in depth-suggestions on "Nasty Archer", "Her Body","The Width of a Room Between Us", "Return", "Reconciliation", "Sunday Afternoon". When asked about helping to date this early draft of his poetry, Theo Dorgan immediately gets back to us and he places it from memory into the early 1980's. Theo Dorgan was surprised and seemingly chuffed that John Montague held on to this Manuscript and he recalls: "These poems, some in revised versions, make up the backbone of my first published collection, 'The Ordinary House of Love'." Dorgan continues: "I'm happy to say that most of them survived Montague's eagle eye, which was of course a great comfort to me at the time. Still is!" Some of these poems selected had previously been published as broadsheets etc. but the skeleton of the Draft hints already at readying it for publication. Theo Dorgan graciously gives us even more information: "Some of the poems in the eventual book go back to when I was a student, others were definitely written in the second half of the 80s. The bulk of it, however, is in this MS. I base my estimation in part on the fact that what you have is a typescript produced, it appears, on the IBM golfball machine that was the pride and joy of Triskel Arts Centre. That machine was bought in 1980 or 1981, I'm fairly sure of that. I was Literature Officer there, then." Theo Dorgan was part of John Montague's circle of mentored poets, even though in an email-exchange with him about this typescript he mentions that "John Montague worked far more with Thomas McCarthy, Maurice Riordan and Gregory O'Donoghue than he did with me, and in many ways Gregory O'Donoghue was at that stage the most accomplished of us all - the only one included in JM's Faber Book." What followed then in our conversation with Theo Dorgan is a great example why manuscripts, letters, autographs, typescripts and the connections we often make with documents from the past have such meaning in explaining our emotional ties with people who matter to us on our way of forming personality. They are memories transforming into images, floods of empathy and nostalgia for personal moments lost but treasured because they helped us form our values. Presented with the old typescript, Theo Dorgan's emotionality is tangible and he confesses more in an internal dialogue with himself and John Montague than with us: "I'm sorry to say that the reason John Montague worked with those others more than he did with me is because, in my shameful, youthful arrogance, I much preferred to trust my own judgement, and also, I suspect, because I was closest to John in temperament and feared coming unduly under his influence. That said, there was no-one whose good opinion of a poem I valued more, and we were close all our lives after. Very likely it was a case of old stag/young stag ! Montague taught us by indirection, he made his extensive library of modern and contemporary poetry available to us without stint, would wait for us to find an affinity (as, e.g. mine with Robert Graves and Galway Kinnell) and would then, in a long, ongoing conversation, help us to understand what it might mean for our own poems that we felt such affinities. A guided companionship in reading and making, if you will."

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Le Brocquy, Louis / Montague, John / [Dupin, Jacques].

Small Archive of personal correspondence between irish-american writer John Montague and irish artist Louis Le Brocquy plus many related items. The core of the collection includes 1. Extremely insightful and important, very personal manuscript-letter from John Montague to Louis Le Brocquy - Inside an envelope addressed by John Montague to Louis Le Brocquy at his french residence 'Domaine des Combes' with Louis Le Brocquy's answer carefully tucked into the same envelope, treasured by John Montague. The densely filled, very personal 4-page-manuscript letter from John Montague, is dated Christmas 1981, written after "a sabbatical [..] on a long tour which led me as far as Los Angeles" and is a strong reflection of John Montague's personal struggles, thoughts and influences as a writer; he talks about his ten years of teaching in the US "after O'Riada's death led to a vacuum" and "enduring the semi-bourgeois limbo of Cork". Montague speaks about the time "after the harness came off" and he "felt quite strange, and after thirty years my stammer returned in painful, nearly uncontrollable force". Montague even touches on his fears about his health and continues "I clocked into a clinic for a rest cure....so far liver excellent, so it is not Sean or Brendan all over again (in any case, loving the stuff, as you do, I can't overdrink; the tastebuds are against it)". Montague dives into comparisons with Samuel Beckett: ""Did you realize that Sam Beckett was under analysis at the Tavistock Clinic for two years ? - The early Beckett is a smart alec; the break comes when he has to survive in post-war France and accept "his own darkness". Montague also touches on his struggle with his mother "Isn't it terrible that we spend up to nearly middle-[a]ge coping with the traumas of youth, with no way round it ? - I have cleared/cleaned/buried & forgiven my mother in my next book "The Dead Kingdom"...." - The letter continues to talk about books, "the Landslide Manuscript", poetry and his work etc. etc. He mentions a Dupin "play" which "will travel in my Paris luggage". Montague also touches on the subject of the Irish Troubles and writes "I have always, by the way, believed that 1916 may have been a mistake as Yeats said: "For England may keep faith - For all is said and done" / Montague speaks about "My own area of Tyrone is blessedly free from all but minor incidents" - Amazing document of confidence and trust between two irish landmark personalities. 2. Louis Le Brocquy's answer to John Montague is dated "New Year's Day 1981"[which should have been 1982]: A. Very personal manuscript Letter - a direct answer to Montague's letter from "Christmas 1981" (1 sheet with both pages filled in ink and signed "Louis") in which Le Brocquy reflects on the tense political situation with Northern Ireland and the overall worldwide tension of a looming war / Le Brocquy writes that he did have a "wild hope that when Charlie took office...that he and Thatcher might between them opted a 'Rhodesian' solution in the North" / Le Brocquy also writes about the eagerly awaited publication of "Selected Poems" of John Montague and he also asks John if "you thought of collecting Esteban's and Dupin's poems in French with your translations ?" - Le Brocquy offers to help with illustrations etc. - Both letters together in an envelope which suggests that John Montague received his letter to Louis le Brocquy back from the Le Brocquy-estate after Le Brocquy's death. / Also included: B. A manuscript postcard with Le Brocquy's "Girl in White" as a postcard-reproduction in which Le Brocquy suggests a project with John Montague and sends greetings to Montague's wife Evelyn and the kids (in envelope from Carros,France) / C. In his function as chairman of Amnesty International, Le Brocquy sends a callout by Amnesty International to John Montague and kindly asks him to support the cause. He sends the callout to John by adding a few manuscript, personal lines of affection (in envelope from Carros,France).

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Le Brocquy, Louis.

Personal copies of an early set of 18 photographs [contacts] of works by Louis le Brocquy, mostly titled and annotated / explained by Louis le Brocquy himself verso. Some of the photographs refer to very early works of le Brocquy. Some have no entries by le Brocquy verso, some have quite extensive information like "Sold to:....." / Also included is an original, very early exhibition catalogue (Louis le Brocquy's personal copy of the catalogue) for an exhibition in Mayfair/"Gimpel Fils" - November 1959. The catalogue has several annotations and underlinings in le Brocquy's hand and included are most of the original photographs of works le Brocquy selected for the printing of the catalogue.

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America / Latin America / North America / USA / Canada - Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 - 1876)

North America - with Vignettes and illustrations of Cossacks, Esquimaux [sic] Inuit Dog-Sledge, Mount Hekla, Beavers, Falls of Niagara, Convoy of Diamonds, Ancient Monument in Mexico, North American Indians, Wapiti Dear.

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United States - Tallis, John / Rapkin, John. (1817 - 1876).

Boston - With Beautiful Vignettes of Boston, the State House and Bunker Hill's Monument.

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Copenhagen - Gottheil, J. / Jessen H. / Tegner, I.W. & Kittendorffs.

Kjöbenhavn - [Copenhagen - with Vignettes of Rosenborg Slot, Runde Taarn, Orlogs Havn, Christiansborg Slot, Kongens Nytorv, Fine Kirke and others].

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Dresden - Probst, Georg Balthasar. (1732 - 1801).

Prospectus Areae Fori Veteris, Ex Parte Arcis Plateae Dresdae.

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World - Ortelius, Abraham. (1527-1598).

Aevi veteris, Typus Geographicus.

Antwerp, Ortelius, 1590. Original hand-coloured engraving. Plate Size: 44 cm x 31 cm. Sheet Size: 53.7 cm x 38.5 cm. Original map. Very good, actually stunning, condition. Really clean and crisp. Generous margins. Reverse recto carries Latin text.

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Christ, Hans D. / Dressler, Iris / Peters, Christine.

Acts of Voicing.

Leipzig, Spector Books in conjuction with Wurttembergischer Kunstverein/Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul. 2014. 17.5 cm x 25 cm. 555 pages. Original Hardcover. (Blue cloth with an embossed illustration in black on front board. Title in black embossed lettering on spine). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

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Ticknor, Benajah.

The Voyage of the Peacock - A Journal by Benajah Ticknor, Naval Surgeon. Edited by Nan Powell Hodges.

Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1991. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. 366 pages. Illustrated with maps and full-page reproductions of drawngs. Frontispiece illustrated with a portrait of Benajah Ticknor. One further black and white illustration of a ‘Street in Canton’ by Thomas Allom, 1843. Maps drawn by Corinna Campbell. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Very fine, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

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McCullough, William H. & Helen Craig.

A Tale of Flowering Fortunes ['Eiga monogatari'] - Annals of Japanese Aristocratic Life in the Heian Period. Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by William H. & Helen Craig McCullough.

In two volumes. Stanford, California, Stanford University Press, 1980. 17 cm x 24 cm. Volume I – XV, pages 1 to 428 / Volume II – pages 429 to 910. Illustrated with 19 woodcuts from a 17th century edition and 20 diagrams including plans of the capital and the Imperial Palace and several genealogical charts. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition with only minor signs of external wear.

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O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger.

Dreams, Illusion and Other Realities.

Chicago and London, University of Chicago Press, 1984. 16 cm x 23.5 cm. XVI, 361 pages. Illustrated with 16 black-and-white plates and eight diagrams. Frontispiece and dustjacket illustrated with a reproduction of ‘A Mobius Snake/Rope’ painted by R. Williams. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

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Pradt, Abbé de [that is: Dominique Georges Frederic de Pradt].

Europe and America, in 1821; with an Examination of the Plan laid before the Cortes of Spain, for the Recognition of the Independence of South America. Translated from the French of The Abbé de Pradt, by J.D. Williams.

First Edition. Two Volumes (complete set). London, Printed for G. Cowie & Co., 1822. Octavo. X, 432, VI, 112, (4) pages. Hardcover / Modern, exceptional masterbindings, rebound in quarter calf leather with cloth boards, spine caps, gold tooling on spine with 2 gilt lettered leather labels on each spine. Extremely rare in original edition. Excellent condition. Provenance: With very subtle blindstamp of The Reynolds Library, Rochester, NY.

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Day, Samuel Phillips.

Tea - Its Mystery and History - With a Preface in Chinese and English by Lo Fong Loh. Illustrated [by J.F.Weldon].

Vintage First Edition / Original 19th century Edition. London, Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1878. Small Octavo. Pagination: Vintage Portrait-Frontispiece, Fac-simie of Mr. Lo Fong Loh’s Prefatory Notes in the chinese Hing Shoo, or running hand, [II], 92 pages with six full-page illustrations and several vignettes. Hardcover / Original publisher’s decorative cloth with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and front board. Tiny stamp of preowner on endpaper and verso frontispiece: “Agnes Jeffery Cox”. Unusually excellent and firm, overall very good+ or even better condition of one of the rarest and most sought after books on tea. In this condition scarce !

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Coke, Edward / [John Rix] / [John Daynes].

The First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes [Laws] of England or a Commentary upon Littleton, not the name of the Author only, but of the Law it selfe [itself]. [With "A Table to the First Part of the Institutes of the Lawes of England - Alphabetically composed"].

The Fourth Edition, corrected. London, Printed by M.F.I.H. and R.T. Assignes of I. More Esquire, 1639. 20 cm x 28.7 cm. Woodcut – Titlepage of Sir Edward Coke by John Payne, [4], 395 leaves numbered consecutively on the rectos only, resulting in 790 pages plus 30 unnumbered pages of Index (collation complete). Hardcover / Wonderfully restored reverse leather on five raised bands with new spine-label. Original endpapers (restored) with ink annotations and name of preowner “John Daynes”. Several annotations throughout the book. Manuscript ownership inscription of John Daynes and John Rix stud. (dated 1729) to endpaper and halftitle. Signs of old (now restored), Dampstains to endpaper and pastedowns. Some faded dampstains to the outer margins of some of the pages. Paper margins professionally restored. Rare ! After the fantastic restoration this is now a very good condition of this rare version of Coke’s masterpiece on English Law !

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Hale, Sir Matthew.

The Primitive Origination of Mankind, considered and examined According to The Light of Nature. [with extensive contemporary manuscript annotations]. Written by the Honourable Sir Matthew Hale Knight: Late Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of King's Bench.

First Edition. London, Printed by William Godbid, for William Shrowsbery [sic] [Shrewsbury] at the Sign of the Bible in Duke-Lane, 1677. Large Quarto. Frontispiece-portrait (original copper-engraving) of Sir Matthew Hale by dutch print artist Frederick Hendrik Van Hove, [10], 380 pages. All edges painted red (contemporary 17th century speckled red). Hardcover / Splendid recent half-leather with new spinelabel and marbled-paper-covered-boards. Original endpapers and original pastedown with original bookplate/Exlibris of Richard Meade (Ballymartle). Very interesting, contemporary annotations in ink to nearly every paragraph of the pages 1 – 47. The annotations closely cropped with some frequent text-loss to the annotations only (text-loss ranges from only a few letters to full words along each page but the meaning is still conceivable). The extensive annotations reflect not only on Descartes supposition on Epicurus “what colour of evidence have we of the various Configurations of his Atomes”, but also the chapter in which Hale is “Touching the Excellency of the Humane Nature in general” is commented in sections in which the sense of Vegetables is elaborated on as is on the senses: Touching, Smelling, Tasting, Hearing, Seeing. All annotations wonderfully speculative and in a very readable hand. Name of preowner written in ink on titlepage: “Jon. Falkner” [Jonathan Falkner or John Falkner]. Excellent condition after this work was recently beautifully restored by an english master-bookbindery.

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[Chiari, Giovanni] Vascellini, Gaetano.

Statue di Firenze [incluso: "Catalogo delle Statue del R. Giardino di Boboli colla Notizia dei Loro Autori", "Catalogo delle Statue nel R. Palazzo de Pitti", Catalogo delle Statue colla Notizia dei Loro Autori ec." ec.]

Tres Parti (complete) [Tutto dichiarato come prima parte]. Firenze, Presso Giuseppe Volpini Cartolaro, no year [c. 1765]. Octavo. Collation complete. Pagination: Part I (Primo): Frontispiece copper-engraving with Florence in the background, 8 pages of text with introduction by Giovanni Chiari and the catalogue of statues in Boboli Garden, 25 plates each with 4 copper-engravings of Statues in Boboli Garden. Part II (Seconda): Frontispiece copper-engraving with Florence in the background, 8 pages of text with catalogue of Statues in Palazzo Pitti, 41 plates each with 4 copper-engravings of Statues in Pitti Palace. Part III (Terza): Frontispiece copper-engraving with Florence in the background, 8 pages of text with catalogue of Statues [″Catalogo delle Statue colla Notizia del Loro Autori ec. (incl. Michelangelo Buonarotti, Donatello etc.). Hardcover / Original bookblock rebound by Bayntun in Bath in a subtle and charming modern cloth with gilt lettering on new spine-label. Original endpapers preserved. Exceptional condition of this rare 18th century publication with only very faint signs of foxing. Provenance: Richard Meade, Ballymartle (with the Meade Family – crest as library stamp). Rare and beautiful gallery of Florentine statues, with a view of Florence on the frontispieces. All plates created by Gaetano Vascellini (signed in the plate of the three frontispieces). Almost every plate contains four copper-engravings with Florentine statues; other plates illustrate groups of statues inside an oval. Also included are several full page (oblong) engravings of: 1. The fountain of Neptune (Fontana Nettuno); 2. Cosimo I. de Medici’s procession (entrance) into Siena as a ruler (1557); 3. Coronation scene of Cosimo die Medici in Rome; 4. Creazione al Ducato di Cosimo I. fatole dal Senato Fiorentino; 5. Ratto delle Sabine; 6. Base sulla Piazza di S. Lorenzo di Baccio Bandinelli con basso rilievo esprimente Giovanni de Medici Padre di Cosimo //

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[Heaney, Seamus / Le Brocquy, Louis le] Gilligan, Oscar [Editor].

The Birmingham Six: An Appalling Vista [Special Limited Edition - No.87 of only 100 thread sewn, hand bound in cloth, gold blocked, copies signed by: Louis le Brocquy, Seamus Deane, Paul Durcan, Patrick Galvin, Seamus Heaney, Thomas Kinsella, Francis Stuart]. - An International Anthology of Support [for the Birmingham Six] by 55 Writers and Artists.

Dublin, Literéire Publishers, 1990. Octavo. 239 pages. Original Hardcover with original, illustrated dustjacket. Unusually excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. This is a very scarce book with all the signatures in strong and wonderful condition.

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Snyder, Gary.

Back on the Fire - Essays.

California, Shoemaker & Hoard, 2007. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. 167 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New. Signed by author Gary Snyder on the titlepage. Rare !

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[Bergdorf Goodman] Herndon, Booton.

Bergdorf's on the Plaza - The Story of Bergdorf Goodman and a Half-Century of American Fashion.

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. 15 cm x 22 cm. X, 244 pages. Several black and white photographs throughout. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Exceptional condition. Rare, but even rarer in this condition !

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[McAfee, Mildred Helen] de la Mare, Walter.

Ding Dong Bell.

London, Selwyn & Blount Ltd., 1924. 13 cm x 19 cm. IX, 76 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Inscribed and fully signed by de La Mare to American academic Mildred Helen McAfee Horton on front free endpaper: “Helen McAfee with all good wishes from Walter de la Mare – June 1924”.

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Charhadi, Driss ben Hamed / Bowles, Paul (Recorded and Translated by).

A Life Full of Holes. A novel tape-recorded in Moghrebi and Translated into English by Paul Bowles.

New York, Grove Press, Inc., 1964. 14 cm x 20.5 cm. 310 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Paul Bowles on the halftitle.

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Bowen, Elizabeth.

Seven Winters - Memories of a Dublin Childhood [Tipped-in is a signed letter by Elizabeth Bowen to a Captain Hobart in which she thanks Captain Hobart for his charming letter about her book "Seven Winters" - Hobart has obviously lived in Herbert Place and obviously wrote her from West Africa in 1944. Elizabeth Bowen reflects in her answer on the content of Hobart's letter with some melancholy: "How amusing that you should have lived in No.14 Herbert Place [...] It is a coincidence, too, that you should have been to one of those two Hunt Balls at Bowen's Court. How I wish, as we all do, that those days could come back again. With all good wishes, Yours sincerely, Elizabeth Bowen"]

London / New York / Toronto, Longmans, Green and Co., 1943. Small Octavo. 48 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Ownershp – inscription on endpaper: “Ted Hobart – West Africa 1944” / Besides the original letter by Elizabeth Bowen also a very interesting newspaper=clipping tipped-into the rear pastedown, called

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[Bumpus Bookshop - Binding] Foster, J.J.

The Stuarts: Being Outlines of the Personal History of the Family. Illustrated from Portraits, Miniatures &c. in the Most celebrated Collections.

London, Dickinsons, 1907. 4°. Frontispiece, (10), 250 pages with 34 full-page plates (Portraits). Edges gilt. Hardcover / Excellent full morocco – binding on five raised bands for Bumpus Ltd. Oxford St, probably bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe. With gilt lettering on ornaments on spine and coat of arms on front board. The image shown is identical with our edition. Front board slightly weakened. Otherwise in near Fine condition with only minor signs of wear. Bookplate to pastedown. Spine darkened.

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Krause, Rev. W.H.

The Tabernacle and Priesthood - Lectures, devliered in Bethesda Chapel, Dublin by the Late Rev. W.H.Krause, A.M. [With the following, remarkable color lithographs on the Tabernacle, The Ritual and Framework of the Tabernacle and the High Priests of Israel: 1. The Tabernale in the Wilderness / 2. The Golden Framework of the Tabernacle & The Coverings / 3. The Ark of the Covenant / 4. The Table of Shewbread / 5. The Golden Candlestick / 6. The Holy Place / 7. The Altar of Burnt Offering / 8. The Altar of Incense / 9. The Laver / 10. The High Priest of Israel on the Great Day of Atonement / 11. The High Priest of Israel in his Robes of Glory & Beauty]

Original, First Edition. Dublin, George Herbert, 1880. Small Octavo. Colour-Frontispiece, VIII, 160 pages with 11 full-page illustrations (including frontispiece). Original Hardcover / Publisher’s red cloth with gilt lettering on cover. The binding in poor condtiion with the bookblock loosened and some minor staining to the some pages and illustrations. Needs attention from a bookbinder. The illustrations are original chromo-lithographs and all are in fresh and bright coloring. This is an extremely scarce book in any condition !

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[Chester Beatty, Sir Alfred] Holme, Charles (Charles Rennie Mackintosh / Charles Voysey and others).

The Studio: an illustrated magazine of fine and applied art. Alfred Chester Beatty's personal set of The Studio; 97 volumes bound in 69 books with the Register for Vols 1-29 [Lacking Volume 61]. With original artwork by James McNeill Whistler and othe rimportant artists of the Belle Époque and Art Nouveau Movement.

97 Volumes (bound in 69 Volumes). London, Offices of The Studio, 1893 – 1929. Quarto. c. 20000 pages with illustrations, photographs, original lithographs, engravings. Contemporary private Hardcover (Uniform deep blue buckram with gilt lettering on spinelabels). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Only a few of the Volumes a little shaky. With the handwritten entry “A. Chester Beatty – 24 Kensington Palace Gardens – W. 8”.

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Architectural Design.

Architectural Design & Construction. Collection of nine (9) Issues: Volume I - June 1931 / Volume II - April 1932 / Volume IV - December 1933 / Volume IV - January 1934 / Volume IV - February 1934 / Volume IV - March 1934 / Volume IV - April 1934 / Volume IV - May 1934 / Volume IV - June 1934.

[London], Blackfriars Press, 1931 – 1934. Folio (25 cm x 34 cm). c. 450 pages of essays including a multitude of vintage advertising on design, interior, furniture, bathrooms, Tiles, Modern Stairways, Reform Glazing, Hand Made Sandfaced Tiles, Trent Vale Brick & Tile / Circular Staircases / Art Deco Kitchen Design / Aga Cooker / etc. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some minor tears to some of the original wrappers. Rare !

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Hastings, Percy / Burne-Jones, Sir Edward / Morris, William / Whistler, L. McNeill and many others.

The Architectural Review : For the Artist & Craftsman. Volumes 1 - 30 (uninterrupted set of the first 30 Volumes published : Volume I (November - May - 1897 ) - Volume XXX (July - December 1911). The complete 15 years from 1897 to 1911 of the Art Nouveau period is resembled in these beautiful first 30 Volumes. With hundreds of illustrations on architecture and design and including several original lithographs by famous designers and artists of the time (Burne-Jones, Whistler etc.).

First Edition. 30 Volumes. London, Effingham House / Caxton House, 1897 – 1911. 23.5 cm x 32.5 cm. More than 8000 pages with hundreds of illustrations and original artwork. Original Hardcover (Green Publisher’s cloth with beautiful gilted ornament and lettering on spine). Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. All the Volumes firm and only very few Volumes with minor signs of external wear and some darkening to the spines. Important Source for the Arts and Crafts Movement //.

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[Peary, Robert Edwin / Huntington, Ellsworth / Churchill, Ellen / Amundsen, Roald / Brigham, Albert Perry / and many others.

Bulletin (formerly Journal) of the American Geographical Society. 13 volumes in total of which 11 volumes are 'The Bulletin of the American Geographical Society' Vol. XXXVII [No.1 (Jan.) - No.12 (Dec.)] - Vol.XLVII, followed by 2 volumes for the year 1916 called the 'Geographical Review'

13 volumes. New York, The American Geographical Society, 1905-1916. 16 cm x 25.5 cm / 18.5 cm x 26 cm. Circa. 11,500 pages. Vol.XXXVII (1905) 790 pages – Vol.XXXVIII (1906) 804 pages – Vol.XXXIX (1907) 788 – Vol.XL (1908) 799 pages – Vol. XLI (1909) 868 pages – Vol. XLII (1910) 1056 pages – Vol. XLIII (1911) 1082 pages – Vol. XLIV (1912) 1055 pages – Vol. XLV (1913) 1079 pages – Vol. XLVI (1914) 1097 pages – Vol.XLVII (1915) 1109 pages – Vol.I (1916) 516 pages – Vol.II (1916) 522 pages. Numerous monochrome illustrations and many wonderful maps (also in colour) throughout the volumes. Hardcover [11 volumes in excellent, contemporary library Buckram, and 2 volumes green cloth with spinelabels] with gilt lettering on spine. Gilt insignia of The Alpine Club on lower spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Text-block edges dust-toned with age. Interiors bright and clean. Damp staining to Vol.XLIII. only / Subtle stamp “Withdrawn from of The Alpine Club Library” on preliminary leafs of volumes.

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Società Rododendro.

Bollettino della Società Rododendro [ogni numero compresa una sezione / each issue including a section: "Sezione Automobilistica" / Compreso il numero unico "Paganella" per l'anno 1905 / With the extra number for 1905 "Paganella"].

Five Volumes (bound in 2). Trento, Società Rododendro / Scotoni & Viiti, 1904-1908. 21 cm x 30 cm. Vol.1-2, 200 pages / Vol.3-5, 240 pages. Monochrome illustrations and photographs throughout both volumes. Beautifully illustrated coloured paper issue covers in Vol.1-2. Fold-out map of ‘Val Nambino, Val Agola e Val Dalgone’ in Vol.3-5. Hardcover / Excellent, contemporary library Buckram with gilt lettering on spine / Illustrazione delle copertine [Art Nouveau] di Tevini e Vitti / [Original, beautifully decorative wrappers with art nouveau cover-art by Tevini and Vitti bound within]. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and some occasional abrasions to the brochure – covers bound within. Interior unmarked. Binding strong and firm. Alpine Club stamps throughout. / Includes many pages with advertising on early car travel / Advertising for “Puch”, “Adler” and “Neckarsulmer” Motociclette / Local Advertising for tourism in the italian Trento [Trient / Alto Adige / Suedtirol] /

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Peters, De Witt Clinton.

The life and adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from facts narrated by himself. By De Witt C. Peters. With original illustrations drawn by [Arthur] Lumley, engraving by N. Orr & Co.

New York, W. R. C. Clark, 1858. 15 cm x 23 cm. 456 pages. Illustrations, including frontispiece, in black and white. Original hardcover professionally repaired and restored with new endpapers but keeping the original brown endpapers as well. Very Good condition but with some signs of external wear. Some foxing. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard. With his Exlibris to the pastedown.

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Culpin, Millais.

Psychoneurosis of War and Peace. [Small Archive] Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Medicine in the University of London. [plus two presentation copies of other works of Culpin]

First Edition of the printed Thesis. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1920. Octavo. 127 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s olive green cloth with black lettering on spine and frontcover. Very minor signs of bumping and very few, really only tiny signs of spotting to cover and edges. The binding and endpapers absolutely firm and especially clean inside. Very good or even better condition of this extremely scarce and important publication. [‘Culpin was among the first who realised that “shell-shock” and the deep effects of fear in war, such as disordered action of the heart, were emotional disturbances, more acute than the anxiety neuroses of peace’ – Source: Royal College of Surgeons] – The book comes together with two presentation copies from Millais Culpin: 1. Spiritualism and the New Psychology – An Explanation of Spiritualist Phenomena and Beliefs in terms of Modern Knowledge. London, Edward Arnold, 1920 Stamped: ‘Presentation Copy’ / 2.: Vintage Offprint from the Clinical Journal: ‘Psycho-Pathology in General Practice’ – ‘With the author’s compliments’.

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