4901. Pontoppidan, Axel.

Omkring Kobenhavns Gamle Volde Og Stokhuse.

Copenhagen, Bianco Lunos Bogtrykkeri, 1936. 20.1 cm x 26.4 cm. 113 pages. Mange sort / hvide illustrationer (with many black and white illustrations). Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor stain to front cover. Only minor foxing to hardcover, pages throughout and to deckled edges. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

4902. Waldschmidt, Ernst.

On a Sanskrit Version of the Verahaccani Sutta of the Samyuttanikaya.

Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1979-1980. 8°. 10 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of wear.

4903. [Aristotle] Jones, John.

On Aristotle and Greek Tragedy.

California, Stanford University Press, 1980. 8°. 284pages, including Index. Original Softcover. Very Good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes, with his name to the endpaper.

4904. Neuberger, Julia.

On Being Jewish.

London, Heinemann, 1995. 16 cm x 24.2 cm. 283 pages. Original Hardcover with gilt-decorated dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear and slight spots on the edge.

4905. Van Kaam, Adrian.

On Being Yourself: Reflections on Spirituality and Originality.

Denville, Dimension Books, 1972. 13 cm x 20.5 cm. 191 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with minor signs of external wear. Some fading along spine and scuffing on front and back covers. Inscription by preowner. Otherwise clean inside with solid binding.

4906. Dillon, Helen.

On Gardening.

Dublin, A. & A. Farmar Ltd., 2010. 14 cm x 21.5 cm. XI, 243 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4907. Cantor, Jay.

On Giving Birth to One’s Own Mother – Essays on Art and Society.

First Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. 15cm x 22 cm. 177 pages. Original Hardcover with illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Deckled fore edge. Red painted top edge. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very slight discoloration to margins of endpapers and pastedowns only.

4908. de Madariaga, Salvador.

On Hamlet.

First Edition. London, Hollis & Carter, 1948. 15 x 22,5 cm. XII, 129 pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. With very clean anotations in the text.

4909. Strong, E.W.

On Judging History.

Yellow Springs, Ohio, The Antioch Press, 1952. 8°. 16 pages. Softcover. Offprint. Presidential address – delivered before the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Pacific-Division of the American Philosophical Association at the University of Southern California – 1952.

4910. Douglas Ward, Peter.

On Methuselah’s Trail – Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions.

New York, W.H Freeman & Co. 1992. XII, 212 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

4911. [William Geary] Colvert, Brendon K.

On my honour – One man’s lifelong struggle to clear his name.

Cork, Mercier Press, 2011. 20 cm. 160 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4912. Strauss, Leo.

On Plato’s Symposium. [Phaedrus; Pausanias; Pausanias ; Eryximachus; Aristophanes; Agathon; Socrates ; Socrates ; Socrates ; Alcibiades ] Edited and with a Foreword by Seth Benardete.

Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2001. 15 x 22,5 cm. IX, 294 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4913. Aristotle, trans. G.M.A. Grube.

On Poetry and Style.

First Edition / Twenty Third Printing, New York, Macmillan, 1987. Octavo. XXXII, 110 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and some slight stains on cover.

4914. Samuel, The RT. Hon. Viscount.

On Style. Presidential Address 1941.

1st Edition. London, The English Association, 1941. 8°. 16 Pages. Original printed wrappers, stringbound (softcover). Good condition with minor external signs of wear. Pen in margin made on a few pages. [The English Association. Presidential Addresses.]

4915. Boole, George.

On the Analysis of Discontinuous Functions. 16 pages. [Read 20th July, 1846] / Bound with: On a certain Multiple Definite Integral 10 pages. [Read 13th April, 1846].

First Edition of two papers presented to the Royal Irish Academy. [Dublin / Lincoln], Royal Irish Academy, 1845 – 1846. Quarto. pages 124 – 149 from “The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume XXI, Part I, 1846. Modern Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Very rare extract of the original printed paper.

4916. Hamilton, G.V. / Legman, Gershon.

On the Cause of Homosexuality – Two Essays, The second in reply to the first. 1. Homosexuals & their Mothers / 2. Fathers & Sons.

First Edition. New York, Breaking Point, 1950. 8°. 30 pages. Original wrappers. Two stunning views on the causes of homosexuality (Incest and Castration of the Father).

4917. Kherdian, David.

On the Death of my Father and other poems. Introduction by William Saroyan.

Fresno, Calif, Giligia Press, 1970. 23 cm. 43 pages. Some black and white illustrations. Original illustrated softcover. Good condition with only very minor signs of external wear. There is a stain on first 2 inside pages. Inscribed by the author to Erik Haugaard and his family. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen – Translator Erik Haugaard.

4918. Mallet, Robert.

On the Dynamics of Earthquakes ; being an Attempt to reduce their observed Phenomena to the known Laws of Wave Motion in Solids and Fluids. [Read 9th February, 1846] AND: On the Objects, Construction, and Use of certain new Instruments for Self-registration of the Passage of Earthquake Shocks. [Read June 22,1846].

First Edition of both original papers. [Dublin], Royal Irish Academy, 1846. Quarto. 63 pages with 2 illustrations in the text (wood-engravings) and 3 plates: Plate I – Map of Earthquake Cotidal Lines (coloured) / Plate II – [″Seismic waves” and illustrations of a seaquake] / Plate III – [Seaquake and development of a Tsunami Wave] Modern Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The very scarce original first edition of Mallet’s “groundbreaking” discovery. [From “The Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy, Volume XXI, Part I].

4919. Schweitzer, Albert.

On the Edge of the Primeval Forest & More from the Primeval Forest. Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa.

London, Adam & Charles Black, 1948. 14 cm x 22 cm. 222 pages. Original Hardcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

4920. Elfick, Hilary / Head, David.

On the Edge. With illustrations by Jeanette McCulloch.

Cambridge, Pennings Partnership Press, 2013. 15 cm x 21 cm. 162 pages. With several black-and-white illustrations. Original Softcover. Excellent, close to new condition. Dedicated and signed by the illustrator on separate card. Loosely inserted is a related newspaper – clipping.

4921. Mitchell, John.

On the Line. Fresh and Salt Water Sport Fishing Trips. Drawn by George Stokes.

London, Kaye & Ward, 1969. 9.5cm x 23.3cm. 112 pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4922. Rutherford, Scott.

On the Move in Japan. Useful Phrases & Common Sense for the Traveler.

Japan, Yenbooks, 2000. 15.1cm x 10.6cm. 159 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.

4923. Durney, James.

On the One Road. Political Unrest in Kildare 1913-1994.

No place, Gaul House, 2001. 17 cm x 24.5 cm. 208 pages including numerous black and white photographs. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Minor foxing and stains on edge and endpaper.

4924. [Cohen, Marshall] Wheelwright, Philip.

On the Semantics of Poetry.

Kenyon Review, 1940. 8°. 20 pages. Original brochure. Offprint from “Kenyon Review”. Very good plus condition. Copy of Marshall Cohen, friend and classmate of Stanley Cavell, with Cohen’s name penciled on titlepage.

4925. McDonnell, Robert / [Sir William McCormac].

On the Torsion of Blodd-Vessels [Excellent Association-Copy: Inscribed by the Author Robert McDonnell, Surgeon at Dr.Steeven’s Hospital in Dublin, to notable British Surgeon Sir William MacCormac].

First Edition. New York, G.P.Putnam’s Sons, 1874. Octavo. 6 pages. Original Softcover [original printed wrappers]. Upper corner of binding and first 25 pages cocked. Otherwise in very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Inscription of McDonnell to Sir William McCormac slightly cropped.

4926. [Stevenson, Robert Louis] Hamilton, Clayton.

On the Trail of Stevenson. The pictures from drawings by Walter Hale member of the Society of Illustrators.

London / New York / Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, No Date (c.1915), 18.5 cm x 26 cm. Frontispiece (Edinburgh Castle – From the Grassmarket), 145 pages. Several black and white plates and drawings throughout. Original Hardcover boards and cloth. Deckled fore and bottom edge. Very good- condition with obvious signs of external wear. End papers and pastedowns discoloured. Isolated foxing and more markedly to endpapers and pastedown.

4927. [Michelson, Albert A. / Darwin, Charles / Maxwell, James Clerk] Macmillan, Alexander.

On the Velocity of Light – Small statement of Albert A. Michelson on the experiments of Young and Forbes. In: NATURE. A Weekly Illustrated Journal of Science, Volume XXIV. May 1881 to October 1881. [The Volume also containing a contribution by Charles Darwin: “On the Work of Worms” / Howard Grubb’s “Great Vienna Telescope” / etc.

London and New York, Macmillan and Co., 1881. 4°. XVI, 624 pages including an original full page potrtrait-engraving of scottish mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell. Original Hardcover, recently beautifully rebacked with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Pages 559 to 564 with central tear. Few small library stamps (discarded). Also with a contribution by Darwin in the section “Letter to the editor” (Darwin responds to an article “Leaves injured at Night by free radiation”).

4928. [Knight, Dame Laura] Wortley, Laura (Foreword).

On With The Show – Drawings by Dame Laura Knight DBE. Catalogue notes by Caroline Fox.

London, David Messum / The Studio Fine Art Publications, 1988. 16 cm x 21 cm. 64 pages and a further ten unpaginated. c.64 black and white and colour prints throughout. Original Hardcover. Very good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Internal pages clean and bright with only one minor smudging to page 65.

4929. Rybczynski, Witold.

One good turn. A Natural History of the Screwdriver and the Screw.

First Edition. New York, Scribner, 2000. 14,5 cm x 20 cm. 173 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition.

4930. Norman, Haskell F.

One Hundred Books Famous in Medicine.

New York, The Grolier Club, 1995. Folio. XLII, 390, (2) pages. Original Hardcover (cloth) in custom made slipcase. Excellent, close to new condition.

4931. James, G.P.R. [George Payne Rainsford James].

One in a Thousand; or, The Days of Henri Quatre.

London / Belfast, Simms and McIntyre, 1850. Small-Octavo (10 cm x 16). 303 pages. Hardcover / 19th century, decorative half-leather with ornament and original spine-label. Vintage 19th-century bookseller-sticker from “″N. Massey, Cork” on front board. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. Binding a little dusty but overall very good.

4932. Benton, Peggie.

One Man Against The Drylands – Struggle and Achievement in Brazil.

First Edition. London, Collins and Harvill Press, 1972. 14 x 21.5 cm. 223 pages with 15 illustrations and a map. Original Hardcover with original illustrated dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of wear to the dustjacket.

4933. Cantwell, Kevin.

One of those Russian Novels.

First Edition. Los Angeles, What Books Press, 2009. 69 pages. Original Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. With the author’s dedication to John and Hilary Wakeman on the title page.

4934. Smyth, Cherry.

One Wanted Thing.

Belfast, Lagan Press, 2006. 14 cm x 21 cm. 79 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4935. Lewis, Wyndham.

One-Way Song.

London, Faber and Faber, 1933. 15 cm x 23 cm. 132 pages. Original hardcover with original dustjacket in protective mylar. Volume in very good condition. Multiple small tears and missing patches from edges and spine of dustjacket. Browning of volume cover and page-edges. Two inscriptions by pre-owners.

4936. Quinn, Gavin.

One. Healing with Theatre.

Dublin, Pan Pan & The Lilliput Press, 2005. 8°. 200 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector’s mylar. Excellent, close to new condition. No.174 of only 400 copies printed.

4937. Poulson, Joan.

Onetree Journal: Following the Seasons.

First Edition. Pilton, Flarestack, 2008. Octavo. 29 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed by the author and inscribed to John and Hilary Wakeman. Illustrations by Elizabeth Stuart Smith.

4938. Rasmussen, Halfdan & Spang Olsen, Ib.

Onkel Karfunkel. Udvalgte børnerim.

København, Schonberg, 1988. 21.9 cm x 30.3 cm. 31 pages. Abundant in colour illustrations. Original Hardcover. As new, excellent condition. Only very minor stains to cover. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

4939. Hogan, Edmund.

Onomasticon Goedelicum – Locorum et Tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae. An Index, with Identifications, tothe Gaelic Names of Places and Tribes, by Edmund Hogan, S.J. D.Litt. National Library of Ireland; recevtly Professor of Irish Language and History in University College, Dublin, and Fellow of the Royal University of Ireland, sometime Todd Professor of the Celtic Languages, and Member of the Council, Royal Irish Academy; a Commissioner for the Publication of the Ancient Laws of Ireland; a Governor of the School of Irish Learning.

Dublin / London, Hodges, Figgis & Co. Ltd. / Williams & Norgate, 1910. Quarto (20 cm wide x 25.7 cm high x 5 cm deep). Frontispiece – Map, showing the Dioceses and Counties of Ireland AD 1850, XVI, 696 pages. Hardcover / Half-leather with gilt lettering on spine. Stunning, unusually excellent condition.

4940. Clair, Jean.

Onze chansons puériles. Numérotées par Pierre Alechinsky sur une table de multiplication d’écolier.

Caen, L’Échoppe, 1990. 8°. 57 pages. Édition originale, broché / Softcover. Trés bon etat. Un des 800 exemplaires sur verge. Non coupé.

4941. Hillegas, Howard C.

Oom Paul’s People – A Narrative Of The British-Boer Troubles in South Africa, with a History of The Boers, The Country, And Its Institutions. Illustrated with Eight Photographs and a Map of South Africa.

New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1899. 12.5 cm x 19.5 cm. Frontispiece, XI, 308 pages. 8 plates. Map of South Africa at front. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Lettering and pictorial on front board. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Interior bright and clean and sharp cornered. Preowner’s details on front endpaper.

4942. Millard, S.T.

Opaque Glass. A book showing a major portion of Opaque Glass in their various forms. A nomenclature is here promulgated with a view to making uniform the vast production of this type of glass.

First Edition. Topeka Kansas, Central Pres, 1941. 15cm x 22cm. 249 unnumbered pages. Original Hardcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear. Paper browned as usual. Heavily illustrated.

4943. [Oste, Annibale] Gioia, Vera.

Opening.

Bilingual: Italiano, English. Milano, Poggi & Mariani s.r.l., 1986. 21 cm x 24,5 cm. 71 pages. With many black-and-white illustrations throughout the book. Original Softcover. From the library of dutch fashion designer Frans Molenaar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

4944. Roche, Maurice.

Opéra Bouffe. Roman.

Paris, Éditions du Seuil, 1975. 20.5 x 14 cm. 111 pages. Broché. Première Edition, 1975. Bon exemplaire. Couverture un peu usée. Intérieur très propre. Avec bordereau orange One Man Show. [Collection ″ Tel Quel”].

4945. Bruno, O.S.B. (Bruno of Segni; Bruno Astense; Brunonis Astensis; Bruno di Segni).

Opera. [Sancti Brunonis Astensi Episcopi Signiensium et Abbatis Montis Casini Opera in Duos Tomos Distributa aucta et Adnotationibus Illustrata Regiae Celsitudini Caroli Emmanuelis Pedemontii Principis &c. &c.].

Romae, Joannis Zempel, 1789-1791. Folio. C, 634, XXXVII, 688, III pages. Hardcover / Original parchment with gilt lettering on spine Former copy of St.Joseph’s College / Mill Hill Library.

4946. [Bridgman, Percy Williams] Alpert, Harry.

Operational Definitions in Sociology. [Inscribed by Harry Alpert: “To Professor P.W.Bridgman – Cordially, Harry Alpert”].

[New York], American Sociological Review, 1938. Octavo. 8 pages. Original Offprint / Stapled. Very good condition with some minor signs of wear only. From the library of Nobel Laureate, Percy Bridgman. [Reprinted from American Sociological Review – Volume III, No.6, December, 1938].

4947. Kelly, Howard, A.

Operative Gynecology. With Twenty-Four Plates and Over Five Hundred and Fifty Original Illustrations.

Special reprint edition of the original 1898-edition. 2 volumes (complete set). New York, The Classics of Medicine Library, 1992. 19 cm x 26 cm. c.1140 pages. Vol.I – XVII, 563 pages. With 315 fantastic illustrations and 10 plates / Vol.II – XIII, 557 pages. With 277 illustrations and 14 plates. Hardcover / Stunning full leather in protective mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Exlibris / Bookplate of preowner on pastedowns of each volume. Limited Edition: No. 541 of ‘The Classics of Medicine Library’ edition. [The Classics of Medicine Library]

4948. Pellico, Silvio.

Opere Complete. Con le Addizioni di P. Maroncelli.

Napoli, Franc. Rossi, 1848. 14.3 cm x 22 cm. XXI, 529 pages. Original Hardcover with marbled boards. Good+ condition with only minor signs of external wear. Spine shedding, rubbed and separated from book block. Corners rubbed. Heavy foxing to edges. Minor foxing to pastedowns, endpapers and to pages throughout. From the reference library of Hans Christian Andersen-Translator Erik Haugaard.

4949. Stevens, Wallace.

Opus Posthumous. Edited, with an Introduction, by Samuel French Morse.

Eight Printing of the 1957 Edition. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. 17 x 24 cm. XXXVII, 300 pages. Original Hardcover / Original cloth. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes with his name on the front free endpaper.

4950. Murray, Patrick.

Oracles of God – The Roman Catholic Church and Irish politics, 1922-37.

Dublin, University College Dublin Press, 2000. 24 cm. [xi], 493 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Including a newspaper-clipping with a review of the book.