1651. Douglas, Sir George.

A History of The Border Counties – Roxburgh, Selkirk, Peebles.

Edinburgh / London, William Blackwood and Sons, 1899. 8°. XVII, 482 pages. Original Hardcover (red blind-stamped-cloth with gilt lettering on spine and front-board). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Including the often missing maps (3 large, folded maps in pockets attached to the inner boards of the binding). Map I: Teviotia Vulgo Tivedail – (Map by Joan Blaeu of Teviotdale,Tweedale& Liddsdale) / Map II: Tvedia cum vicecomitatu Etterico Forestae etiam Selkirkae dictus (Twee-dail with the Sherifdome of Ettrick-Forrest called also Selkirk) by Joan Blaeu / Map III: Ordnance Survey Map of “The Counties of Roxburgh, Peebles and Selkirk”. The Blaeu – Maps with very minor damages only. [The County Histories of Scotland]

1652. Folkard, H.C.

The Wild – Fowler ; A Treatise on Ancient and Modern Wild – Fowling, Historical and Practical.

Second Edition. London, Longman, Green, Longman and Roberts, 1864. 16 cm x 22.5 cm. XXII, 398 pages with 13 steel engravings and 5 woodcuts. Original Hardcover (green cloth with gilt lettering and illustration) in protective Mylar. The binding a little scruffy and the Frontispiece nearly detached. Pages 137 cleanly detached and one more illustration also starting to detache. More importantly, the bookblock in firm condition with the endpapers completly in tune with the binding. A very rare and important book in a still collectable and very much acceptable condition.

1653. Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities.

Old-Time New England – New England Furniture. Essays in Memory of Benno M. Forman.

First Edition. Boston, Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, 1987. 15,5 x 23 cm. XVII, 354 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with minor signs of external wear. Contains a letter to the members of the society. From the library of art historian Claudia Kinmonth, with her library-stamp to the endpaper.

1654. Wakoski, Diane / [Clayton Eshleman].

Smudging: To Smoke or to Protect Against Frost (as an Orchard) by Means of Smudge. [Association Copy] –

First Edition. Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1972. 16 x 24 cm. 153 pages. Original Hardcover with cloth spine. In protective Mylar. Very good+ condtion. Association copy with the author’s signed dedication to Clayton and Caryl Eshleman on the title page: ″ For my good friends Caryl & Clayton – the poems are the life/ the life is the poem – you have always embodied the Duende/ the spirit of the poem for me”. Signed by the author, both on the title page and on the edition page. Number 172 of 250 copies printed. Near fine.

1655. Merker, M.

Die Masai [Maasai] – Ethnographische Monographie eines ostafrikanischen Semitenvolkes. Mit 89 Figuren, 6 Tafeln, 61 Abbildungen und einer Uebersichtskarte [Allgemeine Uebersichtskarte der Wohngebiete des Massaivolkes (heutiges Maasai Mara vormals Olbruggo, Loita, Kisongo) /.

Berlin, Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen), 1904. Quart. XVI, 421, [2] Seiten plus 6 Tafeln (davon zwei farbige Tafeln und eine farbige Faltkarte) im Anhang. Hardcover / Originales Ganzleinen mit dekorativer und vergoldeter Beschriftung auf dem Einbanddeckel und Ruecken. Sehr guter Zustand mit nur wenigen Gebrauchsspuren. Ehemaliges Exemplar des Geographischen Instituts Mannheim. Mit handschriftlichem Besitzvermerk von Otto Hug, Fringa, Deutsch-Ostafrika, Mai 1906.

1656. Wakoski, Diane / [Clayton Eshleman].

The Collected Greed. Parts 1-13. [Association Copy] –

First Edition. Santa Barbara, Black Sparrow Press, 1984. 16 x 24 cm. 248 pages. Original Hardcover with cloth spine. In protective Mylar. Very good+ condition. Association copy with the author’s signed dedication to Clayton and Caryl Eshleman on the title page: “For Clayton & Caryl – who know the meaning of friendship, who permit my greedy need for it, acceptionally, and to whom I turn for exceptional listening”. Number 164 of 200 copies numbered by the author. Near fine.

1657. Willius, Frederick A. / Dry, Thomas J.

A History of The Heart and The Circulation. [Includes wonderful portraits of important doctors / cardiologists].

First and only Edition. Philadelphia & London, W.B.Saunders Company, 1948. Octavo. 456 pages. Original Hardcover in Mylar. Former library copy of the US Air Force. Very good condition with only minor signs of wear.

1658. Fonagy, Ivan.

La ripetizione creativa – Ridondanze espressive nell’opera poetica. [Signed / Inscribed]

1982. Italy, Dedalo, 1982. 14 x 21 cm. 127 pages. Origiinal illustrated softcover in protective Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Signed and inscribed by Ivan Fonagy on the endpaper.

1659. Ó Criomhthain, Tomás.

An tOileánach [The Islandman]. Scéal a bheatha féin a scríobh Tomás Ó Criomhthain. An Seabhac a chuir i n-eagar. [His own life story, written by Tomás Ó Criomhthain. Edited by An Seabhac].

Baile Átha Cliath, Clólucht an Tálbóidigh Teór., no year (c.1945). Octavo. 266 pages. Original Hardcover (without dustjacket). Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of one Donal O’Callaghan (Donall Ó Ceallacháin). With some markings and handwritten annotations in the text by subsequent owner, Reverend P. Walsh.

1660. Wakoski, Diane / [Clayton Eshleman].

The Magellanic Clouds. [Association Copy] –

First Edition. Los Angeles, Black Sparrow Press, 1970. 16 x 24 cm. 150 pages. Original Hardcover with cloth spine. In protective Mylar. Very good+ condition. Association copy with the author’s signed dedication to Clayton and Caryl Eshleman on the title page: “For Clayton & Caryl – friends in this galaxy”. Signed and numbered by the author on the edition page. This is number 238 of 250. Minor discolorations on the cover.