6601. Pears, Iain.

The Dream of Scipio.

First Edition. New York, Riverhead Books, 2002. Octavo. 398 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Fine condition.

6602. Cole, Peter(ed.)

The Dream of the Poem. Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain 950-1492.Translated, Edited and Introducted by Peter Cole.

Princeton / Oxford, Princeton University Press, 2007. 15.5 cm x 23.3 cm. 548 pages. Original illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

6603. Hughes, Ted.

The Dreamfighter, and Other Creation Tales.

Volume three (of three). London, Faber and Faber Ltd., 1995. 12,5 cm x 20 cm. 150 pages. Original, illustrated Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Creation Tales.

6604. Quinn, Damian.

The Drowning Pool.

First Edition. Belfast, Lapwing Publications, 1991. 15 x 21 cm. 31 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Lapwing Poetry Pamphlets]

6605. Lao She [Shu Qingchun].

The Drum Singers. [The rare english Translation]. Translated by Helena Kuo / Illustrated by Shi Guoliang.

Hong Kong, Joint Publishing Company (JPC), 1987. Octavo. XII, 254 pages. Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6606. Merwin, M.S.

The Drunk in the Furnace.

First printing. New York, Macmillan, 1960. 13,5 cm x 20 cm. VIII, 54 pages. Original Softcover. Stronger signs of external wear. Minor tear to frontcover. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to half title. Occasional markings and annotations in the text. [The Macmillan Poets].

6607. Hill, M.F.

The Dual Policy in Kenya. Being a collection of articles, published in the Kenya Weekly News, between July, 1943, and March, 1944, on the past, the present, and the future of Kenya Colony.

Nakuru, The Kenya Weekly News, no year (c.1944). 14.5 cm x 19.5 cm. 276 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original blue cloth]. Poor condition with stronger signs of external wear. Boards are faded. Corners bumped. Boards show smudges and fading. Tears to gutter between pastedowns and endpapers. Binding somewhat shaky but book block intact. Internally clean and bright with sharp corners.

6608. Dunton, John.

The Dublin Scuffle. With an introduction and notes by Andrew Carpenter.

Dublin, Fourt Courts Press, 2000. 16 cm x 24 cm. XXX, 350 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Rare in this condition and especially in collector’s Mylar.

6609. Wilde, Oscar.

The Duchess of Padua – A Play.

Second Edition. London, Methuen & Co., 1909. Small Octavo. VI, [3], 183 pages. Original Hardcover / Original, very decorative publisher’s cloth with bevelled edges and gilt lettering and ornament to spine and cover. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

6610. South-East Asian and Pacific Conference of Jurists (1965 : Bangkok).

The Dynamic Aspects of the Rule of Law in the Modern Age. Report on the proceedings of the South-East Asian and Pacific Conference of Jurists.

Geneva, International Commission of Jurists, 1965. 15 cm x 23 cm. 192 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition. Namestamp and library stamp (withdrawn) of preowner on titlepage.

6611. Malinowski, Bronislaw.

The Dynamics of Cultural Change – An Inquiry into Race Relations in Africa. Edited by Phyllis M. Kaberry.

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1945. 24.2cm x 16.3cm. xiv, (2) 171 pages. Illustrated with several charts: Chart of Witchcraft Criticism / Historical Baganda Land Tenure / Chieftainship Political Constitution under Indirect Rule / etc. Original hardcover in original dustjacket. In protective Mylar. First edition in excellent condition. Very Rare !

6612. Bew, Paul / Ellen Hazelkorn / Henry Patterson.

The Dynamics of Irish Politics.

First Edition. London, Lawrence And Wishart, 1989. 13 x 21.5 cm. 247 pages. Original softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of preowner on endpaper.

6613. [Gainsborough, Thoms] French, Anne.

The Earl and Countess Howe by Gainsborough. A bicentenary Exhibition. Edited by Anne French with contributions by Aileen Ribeiro and Viola Pemberton-Pigott.

First Edition. London, English Heritage, 1988. 21cm x 29.5cm. 96 pages. Original paperback (softcover). Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

6614. Cope, Sir Zachary.

The Early Diagnosis of the Acute Abdomen. With colour frontispiece illustration of the partial abdomen muscles, and 13 black and white illustrations throughout.

Twelfth Edition. London and others, Oxford University Press, 1963. 22.3cm x 14.5cm. (8) 196 pages. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Exceptional condition.

6615. Landor, Walter Savage / Bradley, William.

The Early Poems of Walter Savage Landor. A study of his development and debt to Milton.

London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., (1914). 13.7 cm x 21 cm. 121 pages. Hardcover / Professionally, recently rebound in pale grey cloth, preserving the original wrapper. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. A few notes and marks on title pages in pencil.

6616. Fortey, Richard.

The Earth – An Intimate History. With a new introduction by the author.

London, The Folio Society, 2011. 20 cm x 25.5 cm. XI, 416 pages. With over 100 illustrations. Original Hardcover with original slipcase. Quarter-cloth bound with gilt decoration. Excellent condition.

6617. [Beale, Joseph] Beale, Edgar.

The Earth between them – Joseph Beale’s Letters Home to Ireland from Victoria [Australia], 1852-1853.

Sydney, Wentworth Books, 1975. Octavo. Frontispice, 125 pages plus Genealogical Table of the Beale – family and 5 pages of Index. Illustrated throughout. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent condition.

6618. Fendall, C.P.

The East African Force 1915-1919. An Unofficial Record of its Creation and Fighting Career; Together with some account of the Civil and Military Administrative Conditions in East Africa before and during that Period.

London, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1921. 15 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, 288 pages. 21 illustrations, including frontispiece. Fold-out sketch map near front showing East African campaign area. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering and pictorial on spine. Blind tooling to front board. Deckled edges. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very minor spotting. Some untrimmed pages. Minor closed tear to fold-out sketch map. Open tear to contents page. Interior otherwise bright and clean. Binding firm and strong and square. Preowner’s name on front endpaper.

6619. O’Callaghan, Sean.

The Easter Lily – The Story of the I.R.A. (IRA).

First Edition. London, Allan Wingate, 1956. Octavo. Frontispiece portrait of Jimmy O’Callaghan and Sean O’Callaghan, 219 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of an irish university lecturer and council man. Name on endpaper.

6620. Mathers, E. Powys.

The Eastern Anthology – Anthology of Eastern Love. Eastern Love: Volumes I & II & III: The Lessons of a Bawd and Harlot’s Breviary. English Versions of the Kuttanimatam of Damodaragupta and Samayamatrika of Kshemendra. Volume I: The Lessons of a Bawd of Damodaragupta. Volume II: The Harlot’s Breviary of Kshemendra. Volume III: The Book of Women and The Education of Wives.

3 Volumes in one (complete set). London, John Rodker For Subscribers, 1927. 15.2 cm x 23.5 cm. Pagination: Vol I: Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 92 pages / Vol II: Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 100 pages / Vol III: Colour frontispiece with tissue guard, 152 pages. Hardcover / Beautiful, actually stunning, private full morocco in Art Deco – Style (see images), Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Deckled edges. Top edge gilt. Gilt on spine and red leather hardcover. Minor discolouration and staining to front and rear pastedown enpapers and endpapers. This edition of the Kuttanimatam of Damodaragupta, the Samayamatrika of Kshemendra, the Zenan-Nameh of Fazil-Bey, and Ta’Dib Ul-Nisvan, being Volume I, II and III of the “Eastern Art of Love”, are here translated into English for the first time, by E. Powys Mathers. This edition of 1,000 copies on all rag paper was printed by Messrs. Molyneux, 3 & 4, New Street Hill, London. The copper plate engravings are by Hester Sainsbury and have been printed and hand coloured by Messrs. A. Alexander and Sons, Ltd. This copy is No. 695.

6621. Kott, Jan.

The Eating of the Gods. An Interpretation of Greek Tragedy.Translated by Boleslaw Taborski and Edward J. Czerwinski.

First Edition. London, Eyre Methuen, 1974. Octavo. XIX, 334 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated, unclipped dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Near Fine condition with only minor signs of external wear. Small stain to rear endpaper.

6622. Petrie, George / [Douglas Bland Hague Provenance].

The Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland – Anterior to the Anglo-Norman Invasion: Comprising: An Essay On The Origin and Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland.

First Edition. Dublin, Printed by M.H.Gill, 1845. Quarto (26 cm wide x 30 cm high). XIX, 521 pages with hundreds of text-illustrations on Round Towers and Antiquities in Ireland. Original Hardcover with original spine-label of the Royal Irish Academy. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Historian Douglas Bland Hague ( (1917-1990), with his library-stamp to the font free endpaper. [The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy – Volume XX].

6623. Hamilton, Edith.

The Echo of Greece.

First Edition. New York, W.W.Norton & Company, 1957. Octavo. 224 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. The dustjacket frayed but now in protective Mylar. The Volume itself a little dusty on the cover but firm and in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. An important book ! Exlibris of preowner on endpaper [″The Prentices’ Book”].

6624. Cahn, Steven M.

The Eclipse of Excellence – A critique of American Higher Education. Foreword by Charles Frankel.

Washington, Public Affairs Press, 1973. 8°. 45 pages. Softcover. Original wrappers. FINE condition.

6625. Sen, S. R. (Samar Ranjan).

The Economics of Sir James Steuart. [Published for the London School of Economics and Political Science].

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1957. Octavo. VII, 207 pages illustrations. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Unusually excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

6626. Hogan, Desmond.

The Edge of the City – A Scrapbook 1976-91.

London / Boston, Faber and Faber, 1993. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. X, 193 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Some discoloration to endpapers and margins of pages. Ephemera as newspaper review of book loosely inserted. Signed and inscribed by author.

6627. Ottewill, David.

The Edwardian Garden.

New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1989. 27.5 cm x 29 cm. X, 230 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

6628. Lyle, Oliver.

The Efficient Use of Steam – Written for the Fuel Efficiency Committee of the Ministry of Fuel and Power.

London, His Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1947. Large Octavo (16 cm x 24 cm). 912 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with some minor signs of wear only.

6629. Schmidt, Arno.

The Egghead Republic – a Short Novel from the Horse Latitudes. English version by Michael Horovitz. Edited by Ernst Krawehl and Marion Boyars.

London / Boston, Marion Boyars, 1982. Octavo. 164 pages. Original Softcover. Cover Design by Imre Reiner. Some foxing to edges. Interior a little dusty. Otherwise in good condition.

6630. [Marana, Giovanni Paolo].

The Eight Volumes of Letters Writ By a Turkish Spy, Who lived Five and Forty Years Undiscovered at Paris: Giving an Impartial Account to the Divan at Constantinople of the Most Remarkable Transactions of Europe : And discovering several Intrigues and Secrrets of the Christian Courts, (especially of that of France) continued from the Year 1637, to the Year 1682 [plus the Supplement Volume covers the Years 1687 to the Year 1693]. Mixed Edition: Volume I: 24th Edition (1754) / Volume II , Volume III, Volume IV and Volume V in Seventh Edition (1717-1718) / Volume VI is missing (!) / Volume VII and Volum VIII (1718) / Supplement-Volume IX is titled: “A Continuation of Letters – Written by a Turkish Spy….continued from the Year 1687 too the Year 1693. Written originally in Arabick, Translated into Italian, and from thence into English.

Eight Volumes (of 9, including Supplement). Dublin / London, G.and A. Ewing / W.Taylor, 1717-1754. Small Octavo. Volume I: Frontispiece showing Mahmut the Turkish Spy, XXV, 312 pages / Volume II: 276 pages / Volume III: 287 pages / Volume IV: 287 pages / Volume V: 276 pages / Volume VI (missing) / Volume VII: 248 pages / Volume VIII: 280 pages / Volume IX: Frontispiece “Mohamet the Turkish Spy”, VIII, (6), 304 pages. Hardcover / Original full leather of the 18th century with gilt lettering and ornament to spine and boards. Only the first Volume (Dublin Edition) with some stronger damage to endpapers but very good and firm inside. All other Volumes in very good condition. Extremely rare with Volume IX, the nearly always missing Supplement Volume. Provanance: Volume I (Dublin Edition) from the library of John Morrison / Volumes 2 – 9 from the library of Chris Rogers. Both names written in contemporary ink to titlepages.

6631. [Eisenstein, Sergeij] Taylor, R.

The Eisenstein Reader.

London, British Film Institute, 1998, 15.5 cm x 23 cm, VII, 211 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

6632. Peters, Carl.

The Eldorado of the Ancients. With Two Maps and Ninety-Seven Illustrations from Original Drawings from Tennyson Cole and from Photographs.

London, C. Arthur Pearson Ltd., 1902. 15 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, X, 447 pages. Includes the large fold-out map “Du Royaume de Congo, du Monomotapa et de la Cafrerie” [Reproduced from a map dated 1719]. Colour fold-out map of “Dr. Carl Peters Zambesi Expeditions” within book. Hardcover [publisher’s original red cloth] with gilt lettering on spine and front board. Gilt embossment to front board also. Top edge gilt. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior is very bright and clean. Name and date of preowner in ink on endpaper.

6633. Laboulaye, Edward (Edouard Rene de) [Édouard René Lefèbvre de Laboulaye] / [Lincoln, Abraham].

The Election of the President of the United States (Professor Laboulaye, the great friend of America, on the Presidential Election).

Washington, Printed for the Union Congressional Committee, 1864. 8°. 14 pages. Softcover / Original Pamphlet. Original brochure. Some foxing. Unopened. Extremely RARE !

6634. [Olney, Peter Butler] McMillan, D.C.

The Elective Franchise in the United States.

New York, P. Putnam’s Sons, 1878. 18.7cm x 12.7cm. 181 pages. Original Hardcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscribed / Signed by the author to american lawyer and politician Peter Butler Olney.

6635. Williamson, Arthur.

The Elements of Civics.

Dublin & Belfast, The Educational Company of Ireland, No date (c.1914) 12.5 cm x 19 cm. 192 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Small inkstain on cover. Slight browning of pages and page-edges. Clean inside with solid binding.

6636. [Swift, Jonathan] Irving, David.

The Elements of English Composition [With an essay on ‘Critical examinations of a passage in the writings of [Jonathan] Swift’].

The Fourth Edition. London, Printed for Richard Phillips, 1816. Octavo. X, 318 pages. Hardcover / Original publisher’s interimsbinding. Binding slightly rubbed. Endpaper with small abrasion (minor tear). Bookseller-sign on pastedown: “Sold by J.Bolster, Bookseller, No.7, Patrick Street, Cork”. From the library of Richard Meade (Ballymartle) / Name of preowner John Meade in ink on titlepage.

6637. [Euclid / Euklid] Simson, Robert.

The Elements of Euclid ; Viz. The First Six Books, Together with the Eleventh and Twelfth. The Errors, by which Theon, or Others, have long ago vitiated these Books, are corrected, And some of Euclid’s Demonstrations are restored. Also “The Book of Euclid’s Data”, in like manner corrected. By Robert Stimson, M.D. Emeritus Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow. The Sixteenth Edition, carefully revised and improved. To which is added, “A Treatise on the Construction of The Trigonometrical Canon ; And a Concise Account of Lograithms”.

Sixteenth Edition. Three Volumes in One (complete). London, Printed for F.Wingrave and others, 1814. Octavo. VII, [1], 528 pages plus two plates 9as called for): 1. A Fold-Out-Plate of “Plane Trigonometry” bound in at page 484 and 2. A Fold-Ot-Plate “Spherical Trigonometry” bound in at the rear of the Volume. Hardcover / Original full leather with gilt lettering and ornament on spine and boards. Poor condition of the binding, boards nearly detached and the overall condition with stronger signs of wear. But this book is mostly interesting for the abundance of doodles by 19th-century Oxford – student Daniel Conner, from Ireland. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

6638. Euclides.

The Elements of Euclid.

Reprint of text. Charleston, Biblio Bazaar, c 2008. 16.5 cm x 23.5 cm. 212 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition. Like new.

6639. Bielfeld, Baron [Jakob Friedrich von] / W[illiam] Hooper.

The Elements of Universal Erudition – Containing An Analytical Abridgment of the Sciences, Polite Arts, and Belles Lettres. Translated from the last Edition printed at Berlin by W[illiam] Hooper. [With the printed Dedication “To His Royal Highness, George, Prince of Wales”].

Three Volumes (complete set). London, Printed by G.Scott for J.Robson Bookseller in New-Bond Street and B. Law in Ave-Mary Lane, 1770. Octavo. Volume I: XV, 445 pages / Volume II: II, 433 pages plus two pages of an advertising of Books printed for J.Robson plus a large Fold-out- Illustration of musical scores / Volume III: II, 444 pages. Hardcover / Original 18th century full-leather with original spine-labels and gilt elemnts on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. From the library of Daniel Conner (Connerville / Manch House), with his Exlibris / Bookplate to pastedown.

6640. Huggan, Isabel.

The Elizabeth Stories.

New York, Viking, 1987. 14 cm x 21 cm. 184 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Deckled fore edge.

6641. White, Mary Elizabeth Fay Laing.

The Emerald Source.

unknown, unknown, unknown, 22 x 28 cm. 125 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear.

6642. McMahon, Darryl.

The Emperor’s New Hydrogen Economy.

New York / Lincoln / Shanghai, iUniverse, Inc., 2006. 15 cm x 23 cm. XVI, 304 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Contains dedication by the author to previous owner.

6643. Paton Walsh, Jill.

The Emperor’s Winding Sheet.

Toronto, Globe/Modern Curriculum Press, 1974. 21 cm. 240 pages. Including one map. Original softcover. Very good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. Minor staining to edges.

6644. Carnochan, F.G.[Frederic Grosvenor] / Adamson, Hans Christian.

The Empire of Snakes.

London, Hutchinson & Co, no year (c.1935). 14 cm x 22 cm. Frontispiece, 256 pages. 26 illustrations. Discreet colour map attached near front. Hardcover [publisher’s original purple cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good- condition with some stronger signs of external wear. Spine and boards faded. Interior bright and clean with occasional spotting. Annotations on pastedowns and throughout the book. Preowner’s name on front endpaper.

6645. Tóibín, Colm.

The Empty Family.

First Edition. New York / London / a.o., Scribner, 2011. 14.5 cm x 22 cm. 275 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Fine / As New.

6646. Nabokov, Vladimir.

The Enchanter – His Long Lost Novel. Translated by Dmitri Nabokov.

London, Picador, published by Pan Books, 1987. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. 127 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. Jacket painting – F Vallatton, 1913. Author photograph – Philip Halfman. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor inscription by previous owner on front pastedown.

6647. Yarwood, Doreen.

The Encyclopaedia of World Costume.

London, B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1978. 27,5 cm x 22,5 cm. 471 pages. With many black-and-white illustrations throughout book. Original Hardcover. From the library of dutch fashion designer Frans Molenaar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Dedication inscribed in front.

6648. O’Hara. Georgina.

The Encyclopedia of Fashion.

London, Thames and Hudson, 1986. 26 cm x 18 cm. 272 pages. With many black-and-white and colour illustrations throughout book. Original Hardcover with dustjacket. In protective mylar. From the library of dutch fashion designer Frans Molenaar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

6649. Bell, Daniel.

The End of Ideology. On the Exhaustion of Political Ideas in the Fifties.

First Edition. Illinois, The Free Press of Glencoe, 1960. 24cm x 16cm. 415 (2) pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Very good + condition with some signs of wear. Minor traces of foxing to paste downs, endpapers and dustjacket. Text itself in excellent condition. Rare in this condition !

6650. Greene, Graham.

The End of the Affair.

London / Melbourne / Toronto, William Heinemann Ltd., 1951. Octavo. 237 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. This Book also includes the rare original advertising-strip identifying this book as the Book of the Month-Choice of the Daily Mail. Very good + condition with mild foxing as usual. The dustjacket with splits, some fraying and some minor loss to upper spine but mostly complete. Very Rare with the Daily Mail wrapper.